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Nobody said getting wiser, better, or stronger would be accomplished without hard work. In fact, the Stoics specifically said the opposite.Turn the words into works

Before stepping in front of a live audience on Real Time with Bill Maher, Ryan turned to five Stoic reminders to calm his nerves. In today's episode, Ryan takes you behind the scenes and shares highlights from his conversation with Bill about why Stoicism is having a moment. Watch Ryan's segment on Real Time with Bill Maher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reT_s3jxYBUWatch Overtime with Bill Maher: Ryan Holiday, Andrew Cuomo, Kristen Soltis Anderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUvynycoi3s

Skip the banter: 00:06:10 (give or take a min depending on ads)Robert Hansen, known as the Butcher Baker, became one of Alaska's most notorious serial killers after targeting vulnerable women in and around Anchorage and taking them into the wilderness. For years, disappearances, prior allegations, and warning signs failed to bring serious scrutiny, even after 17-year-old Cindy Paulson escaped Hansen and gave Anchorage police a detailed account of her abduction. As investigators connected the murders of women including Sherry Morrow, Paula Goulding, Joanna Messina, and Eklutna Annie, evidence began pointing back to the quiet local baker with a private plane, a hunting background, and an aviation map marked with remote locations. Allison walks us through the Robert Hansen investigation, the failures that delayed it, and the evidence that finally forced authorities to reconsider what women had been telling them for years.Over 150 bonus episodes waiting for YOU: https://www.patreon.com/crimeandcoffeecouple Our Amazon Shop (stuff we like that we share on the show): https://amzn.to/48mohHX All our links (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Merch, etc):https://linktr.ee/crimeandcoffee Facebook Group to discuss episodes:www.facebook.com/groups/crimeandcoffeecouplepodcast/ References available at https://www.crimeandcoffeecouple.com a few days after this podcast airs. Case Suggestions Form: https://forms.gle/RQbthyDvd98SGpVq8Remember to subscribe to our podcast in your favorite podcast player. Do it before you forget!If you're listening on Spotify please leave us a 5-star review, and leave a comment on today's episode!If you're on an iPhone, review us on Apple Podcasts please! Scroll to the bottom of the page and hit the stars ;)Ma and Pa appreciate you more than you know.Reminder:Support us and become a Patron! Over 100 bonus episodes:https://www.patreon.com/crimeandcoffeecouplePodcast Intro and Outro music:Seductress Dubstep or TrippinCoffee by Audionautix http://audionautix.comCreative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Back with us today is Courtney Bramlett of The Good Sower. Courtney specializes in helping companies develop marketing strategies and, just as importantly, put those strategies into action. Today, we're answering the question: What is the first marketing system a design firm should build? We'll talk about the connection—or sometimes the disconnect—between your marketing efforts and your overall business strategy, and why your marketing systems should support where you actually want your company to go. If you've ever felt like you're doing a lot of marketing but aren't sure it's moving your business forward, this conversation is for you. Listen in as we explore how to build a more intentional and strategic approach to marketing your design firm. Topics Mentioned: Marketing Challenges Marketing Strategies Marketing Systems Key Thoughts:  Good marketing is an investment of time and money. One of the biggest challenges is to start marketing without a clear strategy or desired outcome. Predictable and scalable strategies for business and marketing create growth and provide visibility even in a downturn. Focus on strong local visibility before worrying about national visibility. Contact Michele: Email: Team@ScarletThreadConsulting.com Facebook: Scarlet Thread Consulting Instagram: @ScarletThreadATL Website: scarletthreadconsulting.com LinkedIn: Michele-Williams Contact Courtney: Email: courtney@thegoodsower.com Website: https://www.thegoodsower.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/courtneybramlett_ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-bramlett-revenue-driver/   References and Resources: Work with Me The Designers' Inner Circle - Become a Member Today    CFO2Go Metrique Solutions

How do you keep climbing when there's no guarantee your work will pay off? Sportswriter Seth Wickersham joins Ryan to talk about the Springsteen lyric that inspired his new book Be On That Hill, the role luck plays in success, and what keeps ambitious people showing up when the work gets hard.

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What if some of your church's greatest opportunities for ministry are sitting in the pews—with the skills to repair a roof, wire a building, or help a struggling neighbor? Rev. Dr. Scott Yakimow joins Tim Ahlman to discuss how the church can recognize and encourage the everyday callings through which Christians serve their communities.Recorded May 11, 2026. References to Crosspoint's planned launch, CUAA developments, and upcoming convention decisions reflect the conversation at that time.Support the show⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️Care about the future of the LCMS?Join the LCMS Current! (LCMS Current Events Newsletter)⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️To learn more, visit uniteleadership.org

Ten years after taking a knee, Colin Kaepernick looks back on the decision that changed his life and cost him more than $150 million. In today's episode, he sits down with Ryan to discuss navigating the backlash, keeping the focus on the message behind his protest, and what, if anything, he would do differently.Colin Kaepernick is a Super Bowl quarterback, civil rights activist, and author of The Perilous Fight. He is the founder of the Know Your Rights Camp, Kaepernick Media, and Kaepernick Publishing, and Lumi Story AI. He has been awarded Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award, the Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award, the ACLU Ralph Ellison Award for Defenders of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the Arts, Business, Science, and Sports, the ACLU Eason Monroe Courageous Advocate Award, and numerous others for his work in athletics and advocacy. Buy a signed copy of Colin's memoir, The Perilous Fight: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/the-perilous-fight?_pos=1&_sid=b8f67a3dc&_ss=rBuy The Perilous Fight on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Perilous-Fight-Colin-Kaepernick/Follow Colin | Instagram, X, TikTokKnow Your Rights Camp: https://www.knowyourrightscamp.org/

Do you write down the important things you read? Do you take the time to understand those “helpful pieces of teaching” and what they could mean for you?Turn the words into works

Can shining a red light on your face really improve acne, wrinkles, inflammation, or wound healing, or is red light therapy just an expensive skincare scam involving a slightly alarming mask? How could ordinary visible light affect cells beneath your skin, and should you trust the products filling your social media feed? Melissa and Jam investigate photobiomodulation, mitochondria, collagen, blue light, FDA clearance, and the research behind this increasingly popular wellness trend. The answer is more scientifically interesting, and more complicated, than either of them expected. Support this podcast on Patreon Buy Podcast Merch and Apparel Check out our website at chemforyourlife.com Watch our episodes on YouTube Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife Timestamps 00:00 — Is red light therapy real or a scam? 03:41 — How light transfers energy to molecules 06:24 — Is red light therapy actually infrared? 08:03 — How deeply can visible light penetrate your skin? 09:34 — What red light may do inside your mitochondria 12:00 — Oxygen transport and other possible mechanisms 13:39 — Could red light trigger collagen production and healing? 16:26 — What scientists know—and still don't understand 20:45 — Red light, blue light, inflammation, and acne 30:03 — The major problems with current red light research 33:20 — What FDA clearance does—and doesn't—mean 35:20 — How to evaluate a red light therapy device 40:04 — So, should you buy a red light mask? 44:06 — A new series idea: Is it a scam or is it chemistry? References from the Episode: Thanks to our monthly supporters Sara Hull Dog Day Dan Bri . Summer Alden Amanda Raymond Kyle McCray Justine Ash Vince W Julie S. Heather Ragusa Autoclave Dorien VD Scott Beyer Jessie Reder J0HNTR0Y Cullyn R Erica Bee Elizabeth P Rachel Reina Letila Katrina Barnum-Huckins Suzanne Phillips Venus Rebholz Jacob Taber Brian Kimball Kristina Gotfredsen Timothy Parker Steven Boyles Chris Skupien Chelsea B Avishai Barnoy Hunter Reardon Support this podcast on Patreon Buy Podcast Merch and Apparel Check out our website at chemforyourlife.com Watch our episodes on YouTube Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to Episode 325 of Autism Parenting Secrets.This week, I'm joined by Nadia Elkhatib, host of the Biohacking Autism podcast.Nadia holds a master's degree in computer science and spent her career in Silicon Valley tech, bringing that same engineer's mindset to more than twenty years of helping her son Jimmy.Measure. Test. Adjust. Repeat.Nadia believes parents need to become the CEO of their child's health. That doesn't mean doing everything yourself. It means owning the strategy, understanding the data, recognizing patterns, asking better questions, and building the right team around you.Rather than continually chasing symptoms, Nadia has increasingly looked to longevity and biohacking for a more foundational answer:How can we help the body do its job better?That has led her to focus deeply on metabolic health and nervous system regulation.We also explore why caregiver health can't be overlooked. The better you function, the better equipped you are to make decisions, lead the journey, and show up for your child.And Nadia gets a firsthand look at another form of biohacking as we review her All-In Parent Assessment and identify opportunities to make an already strong parent even stronger. The secret this week is… You CAN Biohack Autism You'll Discover:Why biohacking puts parents back in the driver's seat (5:33)Why the buck ultimately stops with the parent (8:10)Why it's time to stop chasing symptoms (12:03)Why starting with what you can control matters (28:49)Why you can't bypass caregiver health (57:56) About Our Guest:Nadia Elkhatib is the host of Biohacking Autism, a podcast about real solutions for people with autism and the ones who love them. She holds a master's degree in computer science and spent her career in Silicon Valley tech, bringing that same engineer's mindset to raising her son with severe autism: measure, test, adjust, repeat. She is now building a private Biohacking Autism community where members get her ongoing research and current protocols, along with access to leading autism, longevity, and biohacking experts. Every episode of the show runs on two tracks: practical protocols for the person on the spectrum and healthspan and longevity for the moms, dads, and caregivers supporting them.biohackautism.com References in this Episode:Biohacking Autism PodcastDave AspreyDr. Neil Nathan Additional Resources:To learn more about personalized 1:1 support go to www.elevatehowyounavigate.com If you enjoyed this episode, share it with your friends.

Marcus Aurelius loved to read and tried to always have a text from a philosopher or a playwright or a historian with him. But, as it is for all of us, we don't always get our way—sometimes life intervenes.Turn the words into works

Good leaders ask great questions—so this week, in our (first-ever!) call-in episode of the Maxwell Leadership Podcast, Mark Cole answers your real-world leadership questions. Find out how to stay influential (especially in an age of AI), tackle people problems behind data indicators, and persevere when opportunities seem elusive. Key takeaways:  The most powerful tools in a leader's arsenal—relationship, trust, discernment, and values—can never be outsourced.  Strong teams are built by leaders who confront problems head-on instead of avoiding them.  Leadership is measured by influence, not position. Have questions for a future call-in episode? Join our Maxwell Leadership Podcast Social Community here to submit your question! Take the next step in your growth journey and become a Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Member. Click here to speak with a Program Advisor today! References:  Watch this episode on YouTube!  Join the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team 

It's that time again! We've got another chaotic season of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives to unpack, and I'm breaking it all down from my perspective as a former Mormon wife. We're diving into why Taylor Frankie Paul needs to get off the show, that wild comment from Mayci's older sister, McCall, and the ways Mormon programming played into the end of Layla and Mason's relationship. I'm also sharing my thoughts on the Zac and Jen baby blessing drama and why I think they're still struggling so hard in their untraditional dynamic.   REFERENCES  McCall DaPron dancing video Girlscamp: Homecoming live show tickets ⁠here⁠ Try Desire here, code GirlsCamp for $100 off Try Earlybird here, code Hayley20 for 20% off Join the Girlscamp: After Dark Patreon account ⁠⁠here⁠ for two bonus episodes per month and more. For more Girlscamp content follow along on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. For ad inquiries please email girlscamp@saucemediagroup.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Order The Perfect Portfolio here -----  Every new investment comes with a compelling story. In this episode, Peter shares a four-question process for deciding what truly deserves a place in your portfolio—and explains why a sound decision can still feel wrong for years.    Listen now and learn: ► How to put a higher evidence bar between you and the next hot investment ► What separates meaningful diversification from simply owning more stuff ► When complexity earns its place—and when it creates more ways to make a mistake ► A better way to judge investment decisions when the results tempt you to change course   Visit www.TheLongTermInvestor.com for show notes, free resources, and a place to submit questions.   Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (⁠https://thepodcastconsultant.com⁠)   Disclosure: This content, which contains security-related opinions and/or information, is provided for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon in any manner as professional advice, or an endorsement of any practices, products or services. There can be no guarantees or assurances that the views expressed here will be applicable for any particular facts or circumstances, and should not be relied upon in any manner. You should consult your own advisers as to legal, business, tax, and other related matters concerning any investment. The commentary in this "post" (including any related blog, podcasts, videos, and social media) reflects the personal opinions, viewpoints, and analyses of the Plancorp LLC employees providing such comments, and should not be regarded the views of Plancorp LLC. or its respective affiliates or as a description of advisory services provided by Plancorp LLC or performance returns of any Plancorp LLC client. References to any securities or digital assets, or performance data, are for illustrative purposes only and do not constitute an investment recommendation or offer to provide investment advisory services. Charts and graphs provided within are for informational purposes solely and should not be relied upon when making any investment decision. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The content speaks only as of the date indicated. Any projections, estimates, forecasts, targets, prospects, and/or opinions expressed in these materials are subject to change without notice and may differ or be contrary to opinions expressed by others. Please see disclosures here.

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 Are we doing the work we know we should be doing? Or are we letting hour after hour, day after day, simply drift past us? -- Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and the founder and CEO of Good Inside, a parenting platform that gives parents practical tools for raising emotionally healthy kids. Named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME, Dr. Becky is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be and host of the chart-topping podcast Good Inside with Dr. Becky.

A fever dream ripped straight from a 12-year-old girl's nightmare, House (1977) has some surprising origins, but no one can deny that director Nobuhiko Ōbayashi put his own spin on the story. Assembling a team of young new actresses and all the best camera tricks, this horror flick set out to make something spectacular, and it's become a cult classic over the years. In fact, it may or may not have even inspired one of your favorite emo songs — and it definitely inspired *us* to create a reality TV tagline for each teenage girl. Listen in as we break into song and workshop our Real Hausu-wives of the Japanese Countryside on a new Spooky Tuesday. References:https://www.slashfilm.com/2168242/steven-spielberg-jaws-success-creation-cult-classic-70s-horror-movie-house-hausu/

This week, host Margaret Walls investigates the world of weather forecasting with Jeffrey Shrader, an associate professor at Columbia University whose recent research examines inequalities in forecast accuracy among countries across the globe. While the accuracy of weather forecasts has improved steadily over the past few decades, low-income countries experience notably less reliability in their local and regional weather predictions. Shrader explains how factors such as topography and proximity to the tropics impact the ability to get a read on the weather, while lack of investment in weather-observing infrastructure exacerbates such inequalities. In the course of breaking down his findings, Shrader gives an overview of the public-private partnership behind US weather forecasting (including how the context and outcomes may be poised to shift with recent policy proposals) as well as the changes that national and global leaders can implement to improve the complex weather forecasting system. References and recommendations: “Global Inequalities in Weather Forecasts” by Manuel Linsenmeier and Jeffrey Shrader; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-77630-w “Weather Forecasts Become More Important for Reducing Mortality as the Climate Warms” by Jeffrey G. Shrader, Stephan Thies, Laura Bakkensen, Manuel Linsenmeier, and Derek Lemoine; https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2523372123 “On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets” by Sanford J. Grossman and Joseph E. Stiglitz; https://www.jstor.org/stable/1805228 “Princess Mononoke” film; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke “All the World” by Liz Garton Scanlon; https://parents.simonandschuster.com/9781481431217 “Balanced Weather” blog from Alan Gerard; https://balancedweather.com/author/wxinms1/ “Balanced Weather” substack from Alan Gerard; https://substack.com/@balancedweather Subscribe to stay up to date on podcast episodes, news, and research from Resources for the Future: https://www.rff.org/subscribe/

The car making a left turn at the start of this episode was never filmed. Cosmos 3 generated it. Ming-Yu Liu, who leads the Cosmos research at NVIDIA, explains how one model can describe a video, generate one, and produce robot actions.He walks Tim through the architecture. A vision language model reasons one token at a time; its weights then initialise a bidirectional diffusion generator for video, audio and action, and a shared temporal position scheme lines up signals that run at different rates. Ming-Yu treats "world model" as a set of tools, not one definition: forward dynamics, inverse dynamics and policy, trained together under a capacity limit so that each helps the others. He also explains why plentiful first-person human video carries over to robots, which have far less data of their own, and why a Cosmos model post-trained on the DROID dataset is a good starting point for pick-and-place policies.The most practical thread is testing. A neural simulator does not need accurate success rates. It only needs to rank policy A above policy B the way the real world would, so a team can narrow down which checkpoints deserve a real trial. Cosmos Dreams applies that closed-loop idea to driving and robotics, and Ming-Yu argues that humanoids around children and pets make safety matter even more than it does for cars. The conversation ends on the Super, Nano and Edge sizes (Edge targets Jetson Thor, Orin and DGX Spark) and where to find the open weights, code and data.This episode is a paid partnership with NVIDIA.Learn more about Cosmos: https://nvda.ws/4cJoY1SExplore Cosmos Lab: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/cosmos-lab/cosmos3/---TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 A road that was never filmed00:02:28 Inside Cosmos 3: reasoning and generator towers00:05:02 World models: dynamics, policy and one clock00:08:59 Learning robot skills from human video00:11:06 Ambiguous tasks and system 2 planning00:12:53 Neural simulators for policy verification00:16:41 Cosmos as a starting point for robot policies00:19:00 Cosmos Dreams and robot safety00:22:04 Super, Nano and Edge model sizes00:24:24 Open models, the Cosmos repo and feedback---REFERENCES:tool:[00:00:13] Cosmos 3 (NVIDIA Cosmos Lab project page)https://research.nvidia.com/labs/cosmos-lab/cosmos3/[00:18:27] NVIDIA Cosmos GitHub repositoryhttps://github.com/NVIDIA/cosmos[00:22:05] Cosmos3-Edge model cardhttps://huggingface.co/nvidia/Cosmos3-Edge[00:22:15] Cosmos3-Super model cardhttps://huggingface.co/nvidia/Cosmos3-Super[00:22:16] Cosmos3-Nano model cardhttps://huggingface.co/nvidia/Cosmos3-Nano[00:22:50] NVIDIA Jetson Thorhttps://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-thor/[00:22:52] NVIDIA Jetson Orinhttps://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin/[00:22:53] NVIDIA DGX Sparkhttps://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/[00:24:42] Cosmos 3 collection on Hugging Facehttps://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/cosmos3other:[00:01:07] Cosmos-Dreams closed-loop simulators (NVIDIA SIGGRAPH 2026 blog)https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/siggraph-news-2026/paper:[00:08:54] Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AIhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02800[00:17:43] DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Datasethttps://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12945---RESCRIPT: https://app.rescript.info/share/e2385948cf465f0d6a2c0930150fc3ab

Every empty bed in your garden is either growing something for you or growing weeds and losing topsoil. Cover crops are how you make sure it's the first one. In this episode, we get into why cover crops work in both in-ground beds and raised planters, which ones perform best when you sow them in fall, and which ones are worth a spot in your rotation come spring. We'll look at nitrogen-fixing legumes like crimson clover and hairy vetch, soil-building grasses like winter rye and oats, and fast-growing summer options like buckwheat that can turn a bare bed around in a matter of weeks. Then we'll cover how to actually terminate a cover crop, whether that's mowing, crimping, tarping, or letting winter do the work for you, so it feeds your soil instead of becoming a weed problem of its own. Let's dig in! References and Resources: Get your sustainably grown coffee and support the show at LarrysCoffee.com/JustGrow! University of Maryland Extension — Cover Crops For Gardens: umd.edu/resource/cover-crops-gardens University of Maryland Extension — Offing Cover Crops for Weed Suppression: Featuring the Roller Crimper and Other Mechanical Contraptions: umd.edu/resource/offing-cover-crops-weed-suppression University of New Hampshire Extension — Cover Cropping for the Home Garden [fact sheet]: unh.edu/resource/cover-cropping-home-garden-fact-sheet University of Missouri Integrated Pest Management, Missouri Environment & Garden — Cover Crops Improve Garden Soil: missouri.edu/meg/2014/9/Cover-Crops-Improve-Garden-Soil Oregon State University Extension — Buckwheat Makes a Good Summer Cover Crop for Gardens: oregonstate.edu/news/buckwheat-makes-good-summer-cover-crop-gardens Cornell Cooperative Extension Vegetable Program, Cover Crop Guide for NY Growers — Buckwheat as a Summer Cover Crop for Weed Suppression: org/blog/buckwheat-as-a-summer-cover-crop-for-weed-suppression UF/IFAS Extension Duval County — Cover Crop Termination: What Do I Do When It's Over?: ifas.ufl.edu/duvalco/2025/09/15/cover-crop-termination-what-do-i-do-when-its-over Purdue University Center for New Crops and Plants Products — Hairy Vetch: purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/vetch.html USDA Agricultural Research Service — Crimson Clover Cover Crop Fact Sheet (PDF): usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/60100500/FactSheets/FS04e.pdf Just Grow Something: https://justgrowsomething.com Gardening Courses: https://justgrowsomething.com/courses Just Grow Something Merch and Downloads: https://justgrowsomething.com/shop Just Grow Something Gardening Friends Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/18YgHveF5P/ Check out how you can become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JustGrowSomething Feed my coffee habit: https://buymeacoffee.com/justgrowsomething Amazon storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/justgrowsomething Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week, Jesus tells the story of workers who put in very different hours and somehow receive the exact same pay. Fair? Not exactly. And that's the point. Peter Walsh and Rob Schwartz explore what this parable reveals about our tendency to keep score, decide who deserves what, and turn someone else's blessing into our grievance.Questions for ReflectionThemes & ApplicationThe conversation connects the workers who negotiate their wage with Peter's earlier question to Jesus: We have left everything to follow you, so what will we get? Where are we tempted to approach God with the same kind of spiritual accounting system? The workers hired late in the day have not necessarily refused to work. They tell the landowner, “No one has hired us.” How might this challenge the stories we tell about people who have been overlooked, excluded, or fallen behind?The first workers receive exactly what they were promised. Their anger begins when they see the landowner give the same amount to someone else. Why can another person's blessing sometimes feel like something has been taken from us? Personal ReflectionHave you ever found yourself thinking, I worked harder, I paid my dues, or they don't deserve that? What was underneath that reaction?The episode discusses the biblical image of the “evil eye”: seeing another person's good fortune and turning it into our own grievance. When have you experienced that reaction in yourself? What might help you see differently? Think of a time when you felt overlooked, passed over, or chosen last. How does the image of the landowner repeatedly returning to the marketplace affect the way you understand that experience?Broader Spiritual ConsiderationsPeter argues that the story ultimately isn't about calculating the proper wages of the workers. It reveals a God whose goodness exceeds our systems for deciding what people deserve. How does that change the way you understand divine justice?“Is your eye evil because I am good?” What would it mean to read this as a question Jesus asks each of us? Can God's goodness actually expose something unhealthy within us?Peter and Rob notice something peculiar: strictly speaking, everyone in this parable ends up receiving the same thing. What if the kingdom isn't ultimately about reversing the hierarchy, but dismantling the hierarchy itself? References & ResourcesVocabularyDenarius — A Roman coin commonly associated with a day's wage for a laborer.Transactional Faith — An approach to one's relationship with God based on an exchange: If I believe, behave, sacrifice, or serve in the right way, God owes me a particular reward.Grace — God's freely given love and forgiveness; not something earned according to merit. Evil Eye — A biblical expression associated here with envy or begrudging another person's good fortune. Day Laborer — A worker hired and paid one day at a time. Books and AuthorsThomas G. Long — Peter draws on Long's interpretation of the parable, particularly in discussing justice, the character of God, and the language behind the landowner's questions.Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game — Rob uses the story of Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics to illustrate how systems can overlook people because they are measuring value according to limited or faulty criteria. (Watch the Trailer) (Read the Book)Images & ConceptsLady Justice — Discussed as an image of impartial, “blind” justice and contrasted with the parable's vision of God's generosity.Learn more about St. Mark's at https://www.stmarksnewcanaan.org

Know your numbers, fix your cash flow, and build a business that works for you. Schedule a free call with us. Steve was in a wrestling class recently when the coach said something that stuck with him. Just do stuff that works.In this episode, he takes that idea into business and makes the case that most owners already know what works. They just keep getting pulled toward everything else. The new brand, the shiny tool, the flavor of the day. Meanwhile the real constraint sits there unsolved and the business stays stuck.So what does doing stuff that works actually look like? Steve breaks it down._______________________________________Disclaimer:The views expressed here are those of the individual Coltivar Group, LLC (“Coltivar”) personnel quoted and are not the views of Coltivar or its affiliates. Certain information contained in here has been obtained from third-party sources. While taken from sources believed to be reliable, Coltivar has not independently verified such information and makes no representations about the enduring accuracy of the information or its appropriateness for a given situation.This content is provided for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon as legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should consult your own advisers as to those matters. References to any securities or digital assets are for illustrative purposes only, and do not constitute an investment recommendation or offer to provide investment advisory services. The Company is not registered or licensed by any governing body in any jurisdiction to give investing advice or provide investment recommendations. The Company is not affiliated with, nor does it receive compensation from, any specific security. Please see https://www.coltivar.com/privacy-policy-and-terms-of-use for additional important information.LinkedIn | YouTube coltivar.com

We should not get to do everything we want. We should not be surrounded by “yes” men and women. We should not think we are superior to others or exempt from constraints. Watch the full conversation with David Epstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngKTRs6ghQ8David Epstein is the author of the #1 New York Times best seller Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. His book, Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better, is out now!

Ryan knew running 50 kilometers through Rome would require more than just being in shape. So he turned to Luke Tuttle from the blog Ultra Running Destinations for firsthand advice on how to prepare for everything the run might throw at him.

If you've had migraines for years, there's a good chance you have a cabinet full of supplements you've tried because someone, somewhere, said they might help. Magnesium. B2. CoQ10. Fish oil. Maybe a migraine blend with eight different ingredients packed into one bottle. But taking more supplements doesn't necessarily mean you're getting closer to the reason your migraines keep happening. In this episode, Debbie breaks down three common approaches to migraine supplements and explains why supplements can absolutely support your body without ever being the entire migraine strategy. In this episode: Why the form of magnesium matters more than most women realize Why Debbie avoids all-in-one "migraine" supplement blends The supplement most people overlook when thinking about inflammation Why taking more supplements isn't always better The difference between using a supplement as a tool and expecting it to fix the entire problem Mentioned in this episode: Women's Migraine Freedom™ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womensmigrainefreedom Migraine Breakthrough® Assessment: https://pages.debbiewaidlcoach.com/breakthroughcall-social-7269 Before you buy another supplement, take a look at what you already have and ask yourself one question: Do I actually know why I'm taking this? Then come back for episode two, where Debbie tackles migraine food rules - including why some of the foods you gave up years ago may not need to stay off your plate forever. Resources: FREE DOWNLOAD: Toxic Migraine Triggers Guide Get the complete guide showing you the hidden inflammatory triggers fueling your migraines, including toxins in your medication, environment, and everyday life. https://dwvirtualguide.com/free-guide Connect with Debbie: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DebbieWaidlCoach/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debbiewaidl.coach/ Website: https://pages.debbiewaidlcoach.com/ Email: freedom@debbiewaidl.com Disclaimer: The Migraine Freedom™ Your Way Podcast and information provided by Debbie Waidl and guests is presented solely to provide helpful information, education, and entertainment on the subjects discussed. The use of information or resources mentioned on or linked from this podcast is at the user's own risk and discretion. This podcast is not intended to diagnose or treat any medical condition. For diagnosis or treatment of any medical problem, consult your own physician. Debbie Waidl and In The Balance Health Coaching, LLC are not responsible for any medical conditions or liable for any damages or negative consequences from any treatment, action, application, or preparation to any person reading or following the information presented on this podcast. References are provided for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of any websites or other sources.  

Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy leads audio research at Mistral AI. He joins Tim Scarfe for a deep technical tour of Voxtral — and explains why the frontier of deployed voice is still a cascade of specialised models rather than one end-to-end system.IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MISTRAL AI:---This episode was produced in partnership with Mistral AI.Mistral AI: https://mistral.ai/---The conversation opens on architecture. Voxtral Chat feeds a 3B Ministral text trunk with continuous embeddings from an audio encoder, passed to the decoder as direct token input rather than through cross-attention as in Whisper, so the model can answer questions about emotion, timing and who spoke when without an intermediate transcript to lose them. The real-time model becomes a dual-stream decoder that consumes audio and emits text at once, at a target delay down to 160ms, with slower streams in parallel for anything that can wait for more context.On generation, Pavan explains why Voxtral TTS predicts continuous latents rather than discrete codec tokens, traces the lineage from SoundStream through EnCodec to Mimi's split of semantic and acoustic codebooks, and places FSQ and flow matching in it. Tim presses on the priors underneath: why a mel spectrogram instead of raw waveform, what noise augmentation buys, and when acoustic overfitting becomes somebody's fine-tuning problem. Then the failure modes. Diarisation is emitted autoregressively inside the transcript rather than by a separate head, which makes streaming diarisation fragile — less context, late speaker changes, invented extra speakers. And because the architecture commits to what it has already predicted, one out-of-distribution mistake compounds into looping or skipped segments, which is what DPO corrects: the negative supervision pre-training and SFT cannot give.The last third is the argument Tim keeps returning to. Customers running voice agents over millions of sessions describe scaffolding, not a solved problem, with a sharp drop outside the top few languages. Cascades survive because each component stays separately adaptable, observable and constrainable. And voice alone is cognitive debt: absorbing information and deciding in one serial stream is harder than glancing at a menu. Voice becomes ubiquitous beside a screen, not instead of one.---TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 Cold open00:00:46 Why Mistral moved into audio00:09:27 Inside Voxtral: trunk, encoder, dual streams00:20:22 Speech that works in real time00:30:52 How a voice becomes tokens00:39:59 Flow matching, FSQ and the new codec00:52:51 When speech models lose the speaker01:03:23 Correcting hallucinations with preferences01:12:12 Controlling synthetic speech01:20:06 Why cascades still win01:29:25 Speech in the wild01:33:46 Audio models as interfaces01:37:54 Why voice still needs a screen---REFERENCES:paper:[00:01:42] Mistral 7Bhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06825[00:09:38] Voxtralhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13264[00:14:41] Whisper: Robust Speech Recognitionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04356[00:19:11] Voxtral Realtimehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11298[00:21:52] Delayed Streams Modeling (Kyutai)https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08753[00:30:52] Voxtral TTShttps://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25551[00:32:38] SoundStream neural audio codechttps://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03312[00:34:59] Flow Matching for Generative Modelinghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02747[00:37:03] EnCodec: High Fidelity Neural Audio Compressionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13438[00:37:42] Moshi and the Mimi codechttps://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00037[00:39:05] Finite Scalar Quantization (FSQ)https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15505[01:03:33] Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18290dataset:[00:46:14] Mozilla Common Voicehttps://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasetsorganization:[00:50:47] Hugging Facehttps://huggingface.co/

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Episode Description:Jon Morrow's story begins with a diagnosis that was supposed to be a death sentence.Born with spinal muscular atrophy, Jon was diagnosed at six months old. Doctors told his mother he would likely die by age two. Instead, she fought for him. She fought to keep him alive. She fought to get him into public school. She fought through pneumonia, broken ribs, hospital visits, and a world that did not expect much from him.That expectation became one of the central forces in Jon's life.In this From the Archive conversation, James talks with Jon about what it means to live in a world where people expect you to survive, but not necessarily to achieve. Jon explains how his mother gave him a radically different definition of disability: everyone has something they cannot do as well as someone else, but everyone also has something they can do better than most.For Jon, that thing was his mind.He learned to write, program, think, sell, and communicate. He used assistive technology, including a sip-and-puff wheelchair and a lip-operated mouse, to work on a computer. He graduated from college, received job offers, and then ran into a brutal financial trap: if he earned too much money, he risked losing the Medicaid benefits that paid for his care.So Jon changed the rules.He wrote for free. He built relationships. He worked for Copyblogger without immediate pay, knowing that one day he would ask for help. He wrote viral posts. He moved to Mexico to reduce his healthcare costs. He asked for the favors he had earned. And within months, he built a consulting business that turned into Smart Blogger.James and Jon also talk about his father's real estate business, raising $50 million for land deals, the crash that wiped everything out, and the pressure Jon felt when both of his parents needed support. The conversation then moves into blogging, guest posting, courses, coaching, and the economics of turning expertise into an online business.But the deeper subject is not blogging. It is agency.Jon argues that any limitation can be overcome, though not always easily and not always without cost. His framework begins with belief: surround yourself with stories of people doing extraordinary things until extraordinary starts to feel normal. Then find the price of what you want. Understand the sacrifice before you begin. And finally, create enough urgency that you cannot drift forever.For Jon, the “gun to his head” was the fear of ending up in a nursing home. That fear gave him the energy to work 16, 18, even 20 hours a day after moving to Mexico.The episode is about disability, but it is not only about disability. It is about building a life when the default path will not work. It is about finding the counterpunch. It is about choosing contribution over helplessness. And it is about becoming unstoppable by refusing to let the world's expectations become your own.Editorial Note:This is a From the Archive episode. References to Jon's business, Unstoppable, Smart Blogger, Medicaid, healthcare costs, assistive technology, brain-machine interfaces, and online publishing reflect the original recording period.This episode discusses disability, depression, severe illness, traumatic injury, healthcare access, financial stress, fear-based motivation, and nursing-home fears. It should be framed as Jon's personal story and philosophy, not as medical, legal, mental-health, or financial advice.What You'll Learn:What spinal muscular atrophy is and how it affected Jon's life from infancy.Why Jon's mother refused to accept the expectations doctors and schools placed on him.How Jon learned to define disability as something everyone experiences in different ways.Why expectations can become one of the hardest parts of living with a disability.How assistive technology helped Jon work, write, and build a business.Why online communities can matter when patients live longer than doctors expected.How Jon used his wheelchair as an unexpected advantage in sales and fundraising.What Jon learned while raising money for his father's real estate projects.How the 2010 real estate crash forced Jon to reinvent his career.Why Medicaid's income limits trapped Jon financially.How writing for free helped Jon build skill, reputation, leverage, and relationships.Why Jon moved to Mexico and how that changed the economics of his care.How a Copyblogger favor turned into his first wave of consulting clients.How Jon built Smart Blogger through consulting, courses, coaching, and audience growth.Why Jon eventually reorganized the business so he could return to writing.What Jon means by “reconstructing reality.”Why he recommends filling your mind with stories of people who have done impossible things.How to think about the price of any major goal.Why sacrifice is unavoidable, but negotiable.How negative reinforcement can create urgency.Why fear, when handled deliberately, can become fuel.Timestamped Chapters:[02:00] The Tribe You Don't Want to Belong ToJon talks about a private Facebook group for adults with his disease and what it feels like to be one of the oldest people with his form of spinal muscular atrophy.[03:41] Expectations, Disability, and AchievementJames introduces Jon's work as a writer and entrepreneur, and Jon explains how low expectations can become one of the hardest parts of disability.[04:31] What Spinal Muscular Atrophy MeansJon explains the motor-neuron disease that gradually took away his ability to move while leaving his ability to feel intact.[05:14] Diagnosed at Six Months OldJon describes how doctors told his mother he probably would not live past age two.[07:01] “I'll Fight It for Him”Jon tells the story of his mother's response to the diagnosis and how she fought for his survival, schooling, and care.[09:18] Life From the Neck DownJames describes Jon in the studio, and Jon explains how he drives his wheelchair with a sip-and-puff system.[11:09] The Lip-Operated MouseJon describes the TetraMouse, the assistive technology that allows him to use a computer with his lips.[13:30] Unwanted Tribes and Shared KnowledgeJon talks about connecting with other adults who have his disease and how patients can discover things doctors have never seen before.[15:42] Inventing Better AccessibilityJon describes his idea for a portable lift to make airplane transfers safer for wheelchair users.[18:29] Achievement as Survival StrategyJames identifies Jon's insistence that limitations do not remove the possibility of action.[19:24] The Medicaid Income TrapJon explains how Medicaid covered his care but limited how much money he could earn.[20:52] The Cost of Feeling UselessJon talks about how systems that remove work and contribution can destroy self-worth and health.[22:06] Everyone Is Disabled in Some WayJon remembers learning the word “disabled” in kindergarten and the way his mother reframed it.[24:02] Finding What You Can Do BetterJon explains how his mother and teachers helped him build confidence around writing, computers, and his mind.[25:30] Twelve Job Offers He Couldn't AcceptJon explains why he had real opportunities after college but could not take them without losing medical coverage.[26:12] Writing for FreeJon begins writing articles online because paid work would threaten the benefits he needed to survive.[26:46] Raising Money in Real EstateJon explains how he helped his father raise money for land-development deals.[29:13] The Real Estate ModelJames and Jon break down the economics of buying farmland, rezoning it, and selling it to developers.[32:04] Raising $50 Million, Then Losing EverythingJon explains how the crash wiped out the deals, cost his father everything, and forced Jon to find another path.[34:08] Blogging Becomes the Escape RouteJon starts writing for blogs, becomes a popular contributor, and begins saving favors instead of taking payment.[35:28] The Viral PostsJon talks about “On Dying, Mothers, and Fighting for Your Ideas” and “How to Quit Your Job, Move to Paradise and Get Paid to Change the World.”[36:08] Moving to MexicoJon explains how relocating to Mexico reduced his healthcare costs and became his escape from the Medicaid trap.[37:40] A Minivan to MazatlánJon and his mother pack everything they can into a minivan and drive from Charlotte to Mexico.[39:10] Negotiating a Beachfront CondoJon explains how he contacted every owner in a resort building and negotiated the rent down.[40:19] Cashing In the FavorsJon asks Copyblogger to tell its readers he is accepting consulting clients.[41:00] The Power of Free WorkJames and Jon unpack why working for free can build skills, reputation, trust, and future leverage.[42:04] The First Consulting OfferJon offers $99 blog critiques and gets 300 clients in 24 hours.[43:15] From Consulting to CoursesJon raises his rates, builds recurring revenue, and begins creating products that teach people how to write guest posts.[44:17] $35,000 in 24 HoursJon launches his first course, sells tens of thousands of dollars in a day, and has his PayPal account frozen.[45:05] From Boost Blog Traffic to Smart BloggerJon launches his own site, builds a 13,000-person pre-launch list, and grows the business rapidly.[46:17] Seven Figures and 23,000 StudentsJon describes Smart Blogger's growth through courses and coaching, plus the student success stories that keep him going.[47:46] Returning to WritingJon explains how the business pulled him into management and why he reorganized it so he could write every day again.[50:09] Personal Development Without the FluffJon says he wants to write about struggle, pain, poverty, and contribution in a way most personal development avoids.[51:05] The Car AccidentJon tells the story of the crash that shattered his legs and kept him in and out of hospitals for about a year.[57:03] Bionics, Brain Chips, and the FutureJames and Jon talk about exoskeletons, brain-machine interfaces, and the accessibility technology Jon follows closely.[01:00:38] Any Limitation Can Be OvercomeJon says the major takeaway is that limitations can be overcome, though not always easily.[01:01:11] Reconstructing RealityJon explains the first step: train yourself to believe extraordinary achievement is not only possible, but normal.[01:04:00] Marinating the MindJon recommends spending more time with inspirational stories than with negative inputs.[01:05:15] Find the PriceJon explains the second step: understand what the goal will cost before deciding whether to pursue it.[01:07:37] Sacrifice Is Negotiable, Not OptionalJon explains that if one sacrifice is non-negotiable, you may need to choose a different path or sacrifice something else.[01:09:40] Put a Gun to Your HeadJon describes the third step: create stakes serious enough to force action, while making clear he is using the phrase metaphorically.[01:11:09] The Nursing Home FearJon explains that his fear of ending up in a nursing home gave him the urgency to build his business.[01:13:08] Six Months Without the BeachJon remembers moving to Mexico and working 16 to 20 hours a day without even going down to the beach.[01:14:00] Helping as Many People as PossibleJon says his goal now is less about money and more about helping people through Smart Blogger and Unstoppable.Additional Resources:Jon Morrow — Personal WebsiteSmart BloggerAbout Smart BloggerJon Morrow — Smart Blogger Author PageUnstoppable“7 Life Lessons from a Guy Who Can't Move Anything but His Face” — Unstoppable“On Dying, Mothers, and Fighting for Your Ideas” — Copyblogger“How to Quit Your Job, Move to Paradise and Get Paid to Change the World” — ProBlogger“Here's How Jon Morrow Writes” — CopybloggerTetraMousestickK Commitment ContractsCure SMA: About Spinal Muscular AtrophySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Skip the banter: 00:09:57Carly Ryan thought she knew the teenage boy she had spent months talking to online, but the relationship was built around an identity that did not exist. As investigators began looking at the people behind Carly's online conversations, they uncovered a much larger pattern of deception and grooming. Allison tells Carly's story with a closer look at the warning signs, investigative evidence, and assumptions that complicated how the case was understood.Over 150 bonus episodes waiting for YOU: https://www.patreon.com/crimeandcoffeecouple Our Amazon Shop (stuff we like that we share on the show): https://amzn.to/48mohHX All our links (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Merch, etc):https://linktr.ee/crimeandcoffee Facebook Group to discuss episodes:www.facebook.com/groups/crimeandcoffeecouplepodcast/ References available at https://www.crimeandcoffeecouple.com a few days after this podcast airs. Case Suggestions Form: https://forms.gle/RQbthyDvd98SGpVq8Remember to subscribe to our podcast in your favorite podcast player. Do it before you forget!If you're listening on Spotify please leave us a 5-star review, and leave a comment on today's episode!If you're on an iPhone, review us on Apple Podcasts please! Scroll to the bottom of the page and hit the stars ;)Ma and Pa appreciate you more than you know.Reminder:Support us and become a Patron! Over 100 bonus episodes:https://www.patreon.com/crimeandcoffeecouplePodcast Intro and Outro music:Seductress Dubstep or TrippinCoffee by Audionautix http://audionautix.comCreative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode Andrea Samadi explains the concept of sleep stress — a wearable-device measured how physiologically activated your body remains during sleep — and places it within a neuroscience-based movement and recovery framework. She reviews the autonomic nervous system (sympathetic vs. parasympathetic), how WHOOP estimates sleep stress from heart rate and HRV, and why trends over weeks matter more than single nights. Using her six-month data, Andrea shares how recovery habits and removing alcohol coincided with an 89% drop in nightly high sleep stress. The episode ends with practical steps and a seven-day experiment to help you observe and reduce nighttime physiological activation by changing daytime behaviors, sleep environment, and training timing so your body can better recover and adapt. When Sleep Isn't Rest—What “Sleep Stress” Reveals About Recovery: The Story Behind My 89% Drop in Sleep Stress Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we bridge neuroscience, social and emotional learning, and human performance so we can create measurable improvements in our well-being, achievement, leadership, productivity and results. I'm Andrea Samadi, and if you've been following along through Season 16, you'll know that we have been building what I call The Brain's Operating System for Human Performance—a neuroscience-based framework designed to help us understand how the different systems of the brain and body work together to influence how we learn, adapt, connect, lead and ultimately perform. We are currently in Phase 3: Movement, Learning and Cognition, where we have been following a central pathway: Movement → Adaptation → Performance Movement creates a stimulus. But movement alone does not make the brain or body stronger. We must be able to recover from that stimulus before adaptation can occur, to give us our desired outcome of improved performance. This is why our recent bonus episodes have moved beyond exercise itself and into the recovery signals that help us understand whether our bodies are successfully handling the demands we are placing upon them. In Bonus Episode 3[i], we explored the hidden story behind my resting heart rate. My data showed that it was not merely a measure of fitness—it was also reflecting the total load my body was carrying. During the higher-stress months of January and February, my resting heart rate remained elevated at approximately 56–58 beats per minute. As I placed greater emphasis on sleep, hydration, Zone 2 movement, sauna, meditation and recovery, it gradually fell to 54 and then 53 beats per minute. The lesson was that a lower resting heart rate signals that the body is working less during rest, and recovering more efficiently. The idea is to learn what your baseline is, and see how you can improve this number for a more efficient RHR. In Bonus Episode 4[ii], we explored restorative sleep and learned that sleep quality is not measured by duration alone. Deep sleep supports physical restoration and repair, while REM sleep plays an important role in memory, learning and emotional processing. Because longer REM periods tend to occur later in the night/morning time my regular 4:00 AM wake time may give me less opportunity for that REM-rich portion of sleep—which is the tradeoff I'm choosing--since waking early allows me to exercise. Two additional hours in bed would not guarantee two more hours of REM, but they could create a greater opportunity for more REM sleep. The lesson was not to choose sleep over movement or movement over sleep. It was to protect enough sleep while still making room for movement, so the brain and body have the opportunity to adapt. Throughout these bonus episodes, I'm sharing patterns from my WHOOP wearable device[iii] data—not because everyone's numbers should look like mine, but to demonstrate what can happen when we measure consistently, look for trends and test small changes. The goal is not comparison. It is to help each of us better understand our own baseline and use that information to improve our habits, recovery and results. While examining my own sleep data for these recent bonus episodes, another question came to my mind. It was while looking this sleep stress score. What if we are sleeping—but our physiology remains unusually activated throughout the night? How would we even know if this was happening? This is another measurement I can see with this wearable device. What if our eyes are closed and we are technically asleep, but the body is still working harder than usual? What if our sleep isn't giving us the rest and recovery that we need. This brings us to today's question: What is Sleep Stress? One of the most valuable metrics I have been tracking this year is not simply how long I sleep or how much deep and REM sleep I achieve. Those are all important to me, but something stood out with these sleep scores to me, this year. It is the amount of time my body spends in a state of elevated physiological stress while I am asleep. When I examined my most recent six-month trend, I noticed something that kind of stopped me in my tracks. My average time in WHOOP's high sleep-stress zone (monthly score from January 2026 till now) initially rose from 21 minutes to a peak of 35 minutes (around April/May) where I noticed my sleep scores were terrible with International travel, but I can't blame everything on just the travel and times zones. I knew I was off track with rest and recovery. How much I was off, I'm not sure because Whoop confirmed my scores with the times zones might have been inaccurate, but either way, even if my sleep stress peaked at let's say 25 minutes, it still showed me that I was doing something to keep my body stressed out while I was sleeping. As I paid attention to rest and recovery, the scores began to improve in May, June, July, August…until now. 35 minutes of high sleep stress went…to 18…to 14…to 5…and finally to just 4 minutes of sleep stress each night. That is an approximately 89% decrease from my six-month peak. The data cannot tell me that one specific behavior caused this change. But it does suggest that my body has become progressively less physiologically activated while I was asleep. And this helped me see recovery in a new way. Sleep duration tells us how long we slept. Sleep stages estimate the type of sleep we experienced throughout the night. Sleep stress gives us another window into how physiologically activated the body remained during that sleep. In today's BONUS EP 5 we will explore: What Sleep Stress measures The sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the nervous system Where Sleep Stress fits into the Movement Loop What I noticed in my six-month results What the results show—and what they cannot prove How you can monitor nighttime physiological stress And practical tips to help your body settle and recover Let's begin with the nervous system and what's working behind the scenes while we are asleep. The Autonomic Nervous System To understand Sleep Stress, we first need to understand the autonomic nervous system and how ACTIVATION and RECOVERY work together. We covered this topic on a very early EP 59[iv] with Suzanne Gundersen on “Putting the Polyvagal Theory into Practice” and then again with educational neuroscientist Dr. Lori Desautels and Michael McKnight[v]. You can review those episodes if you want a deeper dive here. The autonomic NS is the part of the nervous system that regulates many of the functions that happen automatically, without requiring conscious thought. It helps manage: Heart rate Blood pressure Breathing Digestion Temperature regulation Energy use And our physiological responses to changing demands in our life experiences Two of its primary branches are the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system helps mobilize the brain and body when we need energy, alertness or action. It is often called the fight-or-flight system. We need this sympathetic activation to wake up, exercise, concentrate, solve problems, respond to challenges and perform under pressure. When sympathetic activity rises, heart rate may increase, breathing may become faster and energy becomes more readily available for action. That is exactly what we want when climbing a mountain, completing an intense workout, delivering a presentation or responding to an immediate challenge. The problem is not activation itself. The problem may arise when the body has difficulty shifting out of that activated state after the challenge has passed. The parasympathetic nervous system supports the restorative side of this process. It is often described as the rest-and-digest system because it helps the body conserve energy, digest food and create conditions that support rest and recovery. When our parasympathetic NS is activated, heart rate generally slows and the body becomes less physiologically activated. But the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are not simple on-and-off switches. They continually interact throughout the day and night. Healthy regulation depends on our ability to move flexibly between activation and recovery as our life circumstances change. I'm sure you've heard people talking about how they “regulate” themselves, or take themselves from a high stress state, to lower stress state usually through intentional breathing, (I've just started to add this technique), physical movement (my go-to way to get back to myself when I have time) and some people use sensory grounding to get themselves out of anxious loops. American neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman suggests the physiological sigh as a breathing technique “to reduce stress and anxiety in real-time, while they are still engaging in life.”[vi] He does say that this pattern of breathing is something that we all engage in when we are in deep sleep (our dogs do it too), a double inhale, followed by an extended exhale. He says it works well to reduce stress because “it offloads a lot of carbon dioxide all at once.” Until I started to look at this sleep stress number, I didn't realize that even during healthy sleep, our autonomic activity fluctuates. Deep sleep is generally associated with greater parasympathetic influence, while REM sleep can include more variable heart rate, breathing and sympathetic activity. This means that brief periods of increased physiological stress during sleep are not automatically signs that something is wrong. The more useful question is: Can my body move flexibly between activation and recovery—or is it remaining unusually activated for extended periods? What Does WHOOP Mean by Sleep Stress? WHOOP estimates physiological stress using signals that include heart rate and heart-rate variability, or HRV, compared with your personal baseline. Its Sleep Stress view shows the proportion of the night spent in low, medium and high physiological stress zones. This is an important distinction: A wearable does not directly measure your thoughts or emotions. It cannot know whether you are worried, excited, digesting a late meal, fighting an infection or recovering from a difficult workout. It also does not directly measure the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the nervous system. Instead, it uses cardiovascular signals to estimate how physiologically activated your body appears relative to what is normal for you. Elevated nighttime stress can potentially be influenced by: Mental or emotional strain Alcohol Illness or an emerging infection A late or heavy meal Intense exercise close to bedtime Accumulated training strain Dehydration Heat or an uncomfortable sleep environment Travel and disrupted routines Hormonal changes Certain medications Or sleep-disordered breathing Sleep Stress should therefore be treated as a signal to investigate, not a diagnosis. One elevated night may not mean very much. The greatest value comes from observing your own patterns across several weeks and comparing those patterns with your behaviors, environment, training and health. Where Sleep Stress Fits in the Movement Loop Our original Phase 3 framework was: Movement → Adaptation → Performance But we can now expand this pathway: Movement → Physiological Load → Recovery → Adaptation → Performance Movement provides a challenge to the brain and body. That challenge creates physiological load. Recovery gives the body an opportunity to respond to the load, repair what was challenged and build additional capacity. That process is adaptation. And the capacity created through adaptation supports future performance. Sleep Stress sits within the recovery stage of this loop. It helps us investigate whether the body is successfully downshifting from the demands of the day or remaining more activated than usual during the recovery window. This does not mean that every increase in nighttime stress prevents adaptation. The body is dynamic. Exercise, digestion, illness, temperature and different stages of sleep can all affect nighttime physiology. But if elevated Sleep Stress becomes a repeated pattern, it may indicate that the body is carrying more load than it is currently absorbing. This is why Sleep Stress belongs in Phase 3: Movement supplies the challenge. Recovery determines how effectively we absorb it. Adaptation builds capacity. And capacity supports performance. What My Six-Month Results Show When I examined my 6-month Sleep Stress results from March 17 through September 12 when I was writing this episode, I first looked at six consecutive monthly windows: March 17–April 15: 21 minutes of average high Sleep Stress April 16–May 15: 35 minutes May 16–June 14: 18 minutes June 15–July 14: 14 minutes July 15–August 13: 5 minutes August 14–September 12: 4 minutes The pattern was not a straight decline. My average high Sleep Stress initially increased from 21 to 35 minutes. That April-to-May period (with International Travel) was the highest point in the six-month window—a 67% increase from the preceding month. The nightly graphs also show more frequent and more substantial periods in WHOOP's high-stress zone during that time. The data cannot tell me exactly what caused the increase. It may have reflected accumulated emotional stress, training load, disrupted routines, sleep timing, travel, temperature, or several factors interacting at once. But after that 35-minute peak, the direction changed: 35 → 18 → 14 → 5 → 4 minutes That is an approximately 89% reduction from the peak. This was not the result of one isolated night or a single unusually good week. It was a progressive decline across four consecutive monthly windows. When I switched to WHOOP's full six-month view, however, I initially noticed what appeared to be a contradiction. My six-month average was 16 minutes in the high-stress zone—60% higher than my preceding six-month average of 10 minutes. How could my current Sleep Stress be improving so dramatically while the six-month comparison still showed an increase? The answer is that a six-month average is a lagging measure. You can see my 6 month data in the show notes. This graph includes the elevated spring period, particularly the April-to-May peak of 35 minutes. Those earlier nights continue to pull the six-month average upward, even though my more recent results are much lower. The percentage of each night spent in WHOOP's different stress zones makes the recent change especially clear. During the April-to-May peak: 6% of my sleep was in the high-stress zone 27% was in the medium-stress zone 67% was in the low-stress zone By August 14 through September 12: High-stress sleep had fallen to 1% Medium-stress sleep had fallen to 10% Low-stress sleep had risen to 89% This may be the most meaningful finding in the entire six-month trend. I did not simply spend less time in WHOOP's high-stress zone. A much larger proportion of my night shifted into the low-stress zone. From spring into early summer, my high Sleep Stress had already begun to decline as I was focused on my health routine it kept dropping—from 35 minutes to 18 and then 14 minutes. I was living my life as usual. Three observations help explain what I think this pattern means. Observation One The Spring Peak Was Worth Investigating The 35-minute average represented a 67% increase from the preceding monthly window. The nightly graphs also show more frequent and more substantial periods in WHOOP's high-stress zone during that time. Something was placing a greater physiological demand on my system, but the screenshots cannot tell me precisely what it was. The increase could have reflected emotional stress, training load, disrupted routines, sleep timing, travel, illness, temperature or several factors interacting at once. This is why wearable data becomes more useful when it is paired with context. The number shows us what changed. A behavior log helps us investigate why it may have changed. Observation Two The Improvement Began Before August My Sleep Stress did not suddenly improve in one week. After the April-to-May peak, it declined across four consecutive monthly windows: 35 minutes fell to 18, then 14, then 5 and finally 4 minutes. That suggests an ongoing recovery shift rather than one isolated good night. By the latest monthly window, 89% of my sleep appeared in WHOOP's low-stress zone, compared with 67% during the spring peak. My body appeared to be spending progressively more of the night in a lower state of physiological activation relative to my baseline. Observation Three One Change May Have Strengthened the Trend Then, on August 7, I changed one thing. My movement, training, sauna, hydration and sleep practices remained relatively consistent. The clearest variable I intentionally changed was this: I stopped drinking alcohol. The timing matters. My July 15-August 13 average, which contained only the first week of the alcohol-free experiment, was already down to 5 minutes. Because most of that monthly window occurred before August 7, alcohol removal cannot explain the entire decline. But after I removed alcohol, my Sleep Stress remained at its lowest level and fell again to 4 minutes. During the same period, my HRV increased, my resting heart rate decreased and my overall recovery improved. These measures are related rather than completely independent-WHOOP's Stress Monitor itself uses patterns in heart rate and HRV. Still, when several parts of my recovery picture begin telling a consistent story after one clearly defined change, the pattern becomes more compelling. The data does not prove that removing alcohol caused every improvement. The most responsible conclusion is that my recovery had already begun improving and alcohol removal may have helped reinforce and sustain that progress. My Biggest Aha Moment My biggest realization was this: I was not improving my sleep only by changing what I did at night-such as cooling the room, using a sleep mask or limiting phone use before bed. I was improving my nights by changing my days. This is exactly what Dr. Kristen Holmes suggested we do on EP 4054. Everything we do during the day contributes to the total load our bodies must process: The emotional stress we carry The timing and intensity of exercise The food we eat The time we eat it Alcohol Hydration Light exposure Travel Work demands And whether we create moments of recovery between those demands The night can become a physiological reflection of everything that came before it. For years, many of us have assumed that being exhausted guarantees a good night's sleep. But exhaustion and regulation are not the same thing. We can be deeply tired and still physiologically activated. The goal is not to exhaust the body until it shuts down. The goal is to help the body transition from meeting the demands of the day into the conditions required for recovery. How Can YOU Measure Nighttime Stress? WHOOP provides a specific Sleep Stress view, but you do not need WHOOP to begin observing your recovery patterns. Depending on the wearable or device you use, you may be able to track: Sleeping heart rate Resting heart rate Overnight HRV Respiratory rate Skin-temperature deviation Sleep disruptions Restlessness Blood-oxygen trends And recovery or readiness scores The most important consideration is your personal baseline. Your HRV, resting heart rate and respiratory rate should not be judged against someone else's ideal number. Begin by learning what is normal for you. Then look for: Sudden deviations Repeated elevations Changes lasting several nights Connections with specific behaviors (I noticed that sleep stress was ALWAYS there after no more than 1-2 glasses of wine) And whether multiple measures change together (I noticed that after a long hike, if I chose to have a drink that night, even one glass of wine, sleep stress would be there the next day). There was no escaping what elevated it for me. Even without a wearable, you can begin tracking subjective signs of recovery. Each morning, ask: How many times did I awaken? Did I feel restored when I woke up? Was my mind calm or racing before bed? Did I wake with tension, a racing heart or unusual warmth? How was my energy, mood and focus the following day? You can then compare those observations with factors such as: Alcohol Meal timing Exercise timing Emotional stress Illness Travel And changes in your sleep environment The purpose is not to become anxious about every fluctuation. The purpose is to find patterns that help you make better decisions. It did help me to have a wearable to notice just how consistent my sleep stress was with certain behaviors. Can you measure Sleep Stress without a wearable? Not in the same way. Without overnight heart-rate and HRV data, we cannot calculate WHOOP's Sleep Stress score—and we may not consciously feel that our physiology remained activated. That was true for me. I did not feel stressed while I was sleeping. I needed the data to show me that my body was experiencing something my conscious mind could not detect. Without a wearable, we can still watch for indirect clues: repeated awakenings, morning fatigue, an elevated morning pulse, daytime sleepiness or a bed partner noticing snoring, gasping or restlessness. A sleep diary can help connect those clues with our daytime behaviors. The wearable did not create the stress. It made an invisible physiological pattern visible. How Can We Lower Sleep Stress? There is no single method guaranteed to lower nighttime stress because the underlying cause may differ from one person to another. The following ideas are best approached as individual experiments. Examine Alcohol Alcohol can make us feel sleepy, but sedation is not the same as restorative sleep. Try reducing or removing alcohol for several weeks and observe what happens to your Sleep Stress, HRV, resting heart rate, awakenings and morning energy. Look for a trend rather than expecting every night to improve. This isn't the first time I've removed alcohol while creating certain conditions for my body to perform at its best over the past 7 years of this podcast, and prior. I remember first hearing Dr. Daniel Amen talking about how alcohol isn't a health food, and that he suggests no amount to be healthy for the brain. When I first heard him say this, I did think, “Oh come on, Dr. Amen, say it's not so” because I don't eat junk food (we'll cover this topic next) so I would almost look to find some research that would allow even just small amounts. You can hear what Dr. Huberman[vii] suggests on his riveting episode on this topic, and I'm sharing that my reduction with sleep stress was significant enough for me to decide that cutting it out of my diet would be a permanent decision. This is a personal decision though and what might be significant for me with my results, might not be what you notice. Finish Eating Earlier A large or heavy meal close to bedtime may keep the body active through digestion. Experiment with finishing dinner earlier and leaving a consistent interval before sleep. Then observe whether your nighttime heart rate, Sleep Stress or restlessness changes. I've always had dinner around 5pm and don't eat anything after 6:30pm (except the occasional hot chocolate). Create an Evening Wind Down The brain and body need a transition between daytime demands and sleep. Your off-ramp might include: Dimming the lights Reducing stimulating content Reading Meditation Slow breathing NSDR Gentle stretching A warm shower or bath Writing down tomorrow's priorities Or following a consistent bedtime routine The purpose is to give the nervous system repeated cues that the demands of the day are ending. I like an Epsom salt bath when I'm home to transition from a work day, to night time. Balance Training With Recovery Exercise generally supports sleep and long-term health, but timing and intensity can affect individuals differently. If you repeatedly notice elevated nighttime stress after late, intense workouts, experiment with completing those sessions earlier. You might replace a late high-intensity session with walking, gentle mobility or recovery work and then compare the results. I did notice that on days I go to the gym after work, I do have higher stress that next morning. It's not always easy to fit everything in early mornings. Practice Regulation During the Day Do not wait until bedtime to address accumulated activation. Small recovery periods throughout the day can include: Brief movement breaks Time outdoors Slow breathing Space between meetings Short periods without digital stimulation Meditation Recovery does not begin when your head hits the pillow. It is built into the rhythm of the entire day. Optimize the Sleep Environment Examine the physical conditions surrounding your sleep: Is the room comfortably cool? Is it dark? Is it quiet? Are notifications turned off? Are pets or other interruptions waking you? Does your bedding help regulate temperature? Has travel disrupted your routine? Sometimes the source of elevated nighttime activation is due to your environment. Pay Attention to Possible Health Signals A sudden increase in nighttime stress—especially when accompanied by changes in resting heart rate, respiratory rate or skin temperature—may occur when the body is fighting an illness. Persistent changes deserve attention, particularly if they are accompanied by loud snoring, gasping during sleep, chest symptoms, unusual shortness of breath or significant daytime sleepiness. A wearable cannot diagnose sleep apnea, an infection or another medical condition. Its role is to help us notice when something has changed and decide whether further evaluation may be appropriate. A Seven-Day Sleep Stress Experiment This week, select only one or two variables to change. Your experiment does not have to involve alcohol like mine did. I honestly just stopped enjoying it, so it was an easy variable for me to pick. Don't ask me to give up coffee though. I won't be participating in any caffeine reduction experiments. Choose one variable that may be influencing your nighttime physiology, keep everything else as consistent as possible, and watch the trend—not one isolated score. You might: Avoid alcohol Finish dinner earlier Move intense exercise away from bedtime Create a 20-minute evening wind down routine Practice five minutes of slow breathing Or make the bedroom cooler and darker Each morning, record: Time in high Sleep Stress, if available HRV Resting heart rate Respiratory rate Number of awakenings And how restored you feel on a scale from 1 to 10 At the end of the week, ask: What changed? What remained consistent? Which behaviors appeared to help my body settle? Which behaviors were followed by greater nighttime activation? Do not try to produce a perfect score. The goal is to identify a pattern you can repeat. Review and Conclusion To close out this BONUS EP4, where we explored Sleep Stress—not as another score to chase, but as a window into what the body may be experiencing while we sleep. We learned that Sleep Stress estimates how physiologically activated the body remains during the night. It is different from sleep duration, which tells us how long we slept, and sleep stages, which estimate the kinds of sleep we experienced. To understand this metric, we looked at the two primary branches of the autonomic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system mobilizes energy so we can move, focus, respond and perform. The parasympathetic nervous system supports conservation, digestion, restoration and recovery. Neither branch is inherently good or bad. We need activation to meet life's demands, and we need the ability to downshift when those demands have passed. Healthy regulation is not the absence of stress. It is the flexibility to move between activation and recovery. We also learned that WHOOP does not directly measure either branch of the autonomic nervous system. It uses patterns in heart rate and heart-rate variability, compared with our personal baseline, to estimate physiological stress. That makes Sleep Stress a useful signal—but not a diagnosis and not proof of what caused a particular change. This metric fits within the recovery stage of our expanded Movement Loop: Movement → Physiological Load → Recovery → Adaptation → Performance Movement creates the challenge. But the challenge alone does not build greater capacity. The body must be able to absorb the load, recover from it and adapt. When I examined my own six-month results, I saw my average high Sleep Stress rise from 21 minutes to a spring peak of 35 minutes. It then declined across four consecutive monthly windows: 35 → 18 → 14 → 5 → 4 minutes That represented approximately 89% reduction from the highest month The proportion of my sleep in WHOOP's low-stress zone also increased from 67% during the spring peak to 89% in my most recent monthly window. My recovery had already begun improving before I had cut out alcohol on August 7, so alcohol removal cannot explain the entire decline. But when I kept the rest of my routine relatively consistent and removed alcohol, my Sleep Stress remained at its lowest level. At the same time, my HRV increased, my resting heart rate decreased and my overall recovery improved. This does not prove that one behavior caused every change. But it gives me good reason to believe that removing alcohol helped reinforce an already improving recovery pattern. And that brings me to the most important lesson from this experiment: I did not improve my recovery by asking my body to do more. I improved it by creating better conditions for my body to recover from everything it was already doing. So tonight, instead of asking only: “How many hours will I sleep?” Think about-- “What am I doing today that will help—or prevent—my body from settling tonight?” Because the night does not begin when we close our eyes. It carries the accumulated effects of how we moved, trained, ate, worked, regulated and recovered throughout the day. Movement creates the stimulus. Recovery allows us to absorb it. Adaptation builds our capacity. And greater capacity prepares the brain and body to perform tomorrow. I'll see you next time for Episode 407, where we will revisit Jason Wittrock's work through a current and carefully defined lens. We'll examine his experience with nutrition and fasting as the perspective of an applied practitioner and personal case study, while comparing those ideas with current evidence surrounding nutrition, blood-sugar stability, metabolic flexibility, recovery and performance. Because if recovery determines how well we adapt to a challenge, metabolism determines whether the brain and body have the energy required to power that adaptation. And the brain and body cannot sustain performance without the energy required to power the system. I'll see you next time. REFERENCES: [i]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast BONUS EP 3 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-hidden-story-behind-your-resting-heart-rate/   [ii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast BONUS EP 4 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/is-your-4-am-hike-costing-you-rem-the-movement-vs-sleep-trade%e2%80%91off/   [iii] whoop.com   [iv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EP 59  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/suzanne-gundersen-on-the-polyvagal-theory-in-practice/   [v]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast “The Future of Educational Neuroscience”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/lori-desautels-and-michael-mcknight-on-the-future-of-educational-neuroscience-in-our-schools-and-communities/   [vi] Dr. Andrew Huberman Breathing Techniques to Reduce Stress and Anxiety. The Physiological Sigh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZKIupBUuc   [vii] Dr. Andrew Huberman https://www.hubermanlab.com/subtopics/effects-of-alcohol-on-the-brain-and-body  

Stephanie Ruhle has spent her career with a front-row seat to some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world. In today's episode, she talks with Ryan about what they often misunderstand about success, what happens when having everything still isn't enough, and the cost of staying at the top.Before becoming a journalist, Stephanie Ruhle spent 14 years working in finance. She later joined Bloomberg Television, hosted The 11th Hour, and now hosts Money, Power, Politics with Stephanie Ruhle on MS NOW.Watch Money, Power, Politics with Stephanie Ruhle on MS NOW! Watch Stephanie Ruhle interview Ryan at The 92nd Street Y: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGXvQqurY-YFollow Stephanie Ruhle on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephruhle/?hl=en

Today, on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, let us be full of love.-- Chief Joseph Pfeifer was the first FDNY chief to arrive at the World Trade Center on 9/11. He watched the first plane hit the North Tower, took command of the initial response, and that morning, he also lost his younger brother, Lieutenant Kevin Pfeifer.

In today's bonus episode, Gen. Dan Caine reflects on being one of the first pilots in the air on 9/11 and what that moment taught him about courage, leadership, and service.General Dan Caine is the 22nd Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has flown more than 100 combat hours in F-16 aircraft. His total flight hours are 2,800. Throughout his career he was awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star Medal with bronze oak leaf cluster and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal.

Dr. Prathit Kulkarni, lead author of a recent state-of-the-art review on acute and chronic bacterial prostatitis, joins host Dr. Erin McCreary to discuss this complex disease state. They walk through diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment, and more. You won't want to miss this episode! References: 1. Kulkarni PA, Cortés-Penfield NW, Brehm TJ, et al. State-of-the-Art Review: Diagnosis and Management of Acute and Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis. Clin Infect Dis. 2026;82(1):1-13. doi:10.1093/cid/ciaf483 Learn more about the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists: SIDP - About Instagram: @SIDPharm ( https://www.instagram.com/sidpharm/) or @breakpointspodcast_sidp (https://www.instagram.com/breakpointspodcast_sidp/) https://www.instagram.com/breakpointspodcast_sidp/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sidprx LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/sidp/ X: SIDP (@SIDPharm) / X SIDP welcomes pharmacists and non-pharmacist members with an interest in infectious diseases, learn how to join here: https://sidp.org/Become-a-Member

In this episode Dan (@timely_moments) sits down with Joe (@seikoded), AJ (@ajbarse). In this episode they have a much needed post summer station break catch up, discuss some recent releases and even talk about watches, cameras, gear and later summer adventures that have kept them from the mic! References for this episode are below.Dan - @timely_moments / timelymomentsphotography92@gmail.comBuy me a brew - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pmgwgzwbq7q?l=fr Joe - @seikodedState of the Collection - https://www.youtube.com/@sotcwatchAJ - @ajbarseAnalog Explorer Podcast - @analogexplorerpodcastThe Bellingham Podcast - @bellinghampodcastSuppressed Suns - https://suppressedsuns.com/Reacher Season 4 - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B0H8N1B289?ref_=atv_dp_share_cu_rOlight Oclip Pro EDC Torch - https://amzn.eu/d/02ZI6cNp

It'd be wonderful if every great novel was easy to get into, if every philosophy was made accessible, if every history tome was readable and clear. Sadly, they are not.Turn the words into works

Welcome to Episode 324 of Autism Parenting Secrets.This week, I'm joined by Sarah Kernion, founder of INCHSTONES and mother of three children, including two with profound, non-speaking autism and whole body apraxia.Parents see things others simply can't.You are with your child across thousands of ordinary moments. You notice subtle changes in behavior, connection, sleep, digestion, regulation, communication, and development.Those observations aren't insignificant.They're clues.Yet it's easy to discount what you see when you're sitting across from a doctor, therapist, teacher, or other professional with years of training and expertise.Sarah makes a powerful case for a different posture.You don't need to know more than the experts. But you do need to recognize that you bring something to the table that no one else can: an extraordinarily deep understanding of your child.That means becoming more than an advocate. It means becoming an intentional observer, noticing patterns, documenting what you see, asking better questions, and trusting yourself enough to bring those observations forward.We also explore the importance of asking not only "What is this?" but "Why might this be happening?"And Sarah shares the idea at the heart of INCHSTONES: progress isn't only found in the big milestones we're conditioned to look for.It's also found in the tiny moments of connection, growth, and development that are easy to miss when we're focused only on how far our child still has to go.Those inchstones matter. The secret this week is… Your Ability To NOTICE Is A Superpower You'll Discover:Why your observations about your child are incredibly important clues (3:53)How to show up differently in conversations with practitioners (10:21)Why becoming a better observer changes your role in your child's care (21:07)Why asking "Why might this be happening?" can reveal more (31:36)Why inchstones deserve to be celebrated alongside milestones (39:02) About Our Guest:Sarah Kernion is the founder of INCHSTONES, host of the Inchstones podcast, and a national advocate for families raising children with profound autism.She is the mother of three children, including Milly and Mack, who both have profound, non-speaking autism and whole body apraxia.Through honest storytelling and conversations with leading researchers, physicians, and fellow caregivers, Sarah explores the intersection of science, advocacy, and the lived reality of raising children with the highest support needs.Her work invites parents to notice the small moments that often reveal the biggest truths because inchstones, not milestones, change lives.www.inchstones.co References in this Episode:Meadow HealthAdditional Resources:To learn more about personalized 1:1 support go to www.elevatehowyounavigate.com If you enjoyed this episode, share it with your friends.

It would be nice if they got it. If they understood why they did it. How they hurt us. What it meant to us. And maybe they will…someday.--

Not all the Stoics were leaders, but all of them were readers.Turn the words into works

Roman Ugarte helped incubate and build Grok Bot, the popular new knowledge-work agent from SpaceXAI. A small, isolated team took it from first line of code to a working internal product in four weeks, and to a hugely successful public launch just three weeks later. Before Grok Bot, Roman led Growth at Cursor, where he helped scale the company from 15 people to over 1,000 before its acquisition by SpaceX.In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:1. The origin story of Grok Bot2. The key decision to build it from scratch instead of adding it to Cursor3. Why the team personally onboarded nearly 300 of its first users4. The two early product decisions that made Grok Bot so successful5. Their “colleague-pilled” product philosophy6. Roman's advice on moats, and what has allowed Cursor to keep winning in the most competitive market in the world—Brought to you by:WorkOS—Make your app enterprise-ready, with SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and moreMercury—Radically different banking, now with Command—Episode transcript: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-we-built-grok-bot-in-a-month—Archive of all Lenny's Podcast transcripts: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/yxi4s2w998p1gvtpu4193/AMdNPR8AOw0lMklwtnC0TrQ?rlkey=j06x0nipoti519e0xgm23zsn9&st=ahz0fj11&dl=0—Where to find Roman Ugarte:• X: https://x.com/romanugarte_• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanugarte• Website: https://x.ai—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Introduction(02:09) The origin story: building from scratch in one month(08:40) Why Grok Bot was built as a separate product(11:20) Manually onboarding a couple hundred people(14:29) Hiding internal mechanics from users(18:41) Timeline from beta to public launch(19:14) Unshipping features and simplifying(23:50) Early use cases and feedback(26:50) Product philosophy: “Grok Bot can now”(30:02) Cloud-first architecture(33:12) The fresh-start advantage(35:54) The vision: a true team of AI colleagues(39:20) The “colleague-pilled” framework(42:36) Work versus personal: one product or two?(47:14) Long-lived agents, persistent memory, and the computer abstraction(51:04) Grok Bot as an always-on infovore and chief of staff(53:35) How fast the team moves and what preserves the startup feeling(58:20) SpaceXAI pillars(1:00:44) The first 90% vs. the last 10%(1:03:30) Moving fast at scale(1:06:40) How Cursor kept winning in the most competitive market in the world(1:10:04) Company values: “deleting the product” and “just do the thing”(1:11:45) Moats: discovered, not planned(1:15:11) Tips for new users and power users(1:18:00) Lightning round and final thoughts—References: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-we-built-grok-bot-in-a-month—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. To hear more, visit www.lennysnewsletter.com

Today we're playing a new episode from Law The Podcast. Lex and Greg discuss the mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder case, Australia's growing prison population and overcrowding, and the increasingly restricted role of character references in sentencing. You can subscribe to Law The Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Hosts: Lex Lasry AM and Greg Barns SC Editor: Michael Tankard Produced by: Bravecasting Media Original music by Justin Humphries - Phoenix Sound Studios Email the show at lawthepodcast@gmail.com

This month we are featuring a feed drop of one of many incredible podcasts on the RQ Network: Remnants, which is currently releasing its second season. Remnants is a weekly, thrilling, dark fantasy, audio drama filled with mystery and has just launched on the RQ Network. When we die, the remnants of us return to the First and Last Place. Our fate is decided by Sir and his new Apprentice, who read our remnants to determine whether they should be re-shelved or discarded. But what are the criteria? What happens to discarded souls? How are new lives for the re-shelved determined? And why, after untold stretches of existence, has Sir decided that he needs help to do it? Remnants explores the boundaries between right and wrong, examining humanity from its brightest and best to its darkest and most frightening, and all the grey in between. The Apprentice soon discovers that when we judge others, we often expose truths about ourselves. Remnants is from Eira Major the same brilliant creator behind the Spirit Box Radio and Not Quite Dead. Introduction and outro by Anusia Battersby. Listen to Remnants on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or listen wherever you get your podcasts, or to learn more about Remnants check out its official website. Credits: Written and Created by Eira Major Content warnings: - Coarse language - Implications of child neglect and endangerment - Descriptions of a fascist regime - Descriptions of violence - References to sex - Implications of murder For ad-free episodes, bonus content and more, join members.rustyquill.com or our Patreon.Pre-order FROM THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER, a Magnus novel releasing October 27th: rustyquill.com/novel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Slow down. Pause. Take a breath. Because one day, you'll realize you rushed through too much of your life, too much of your loved ones' lives.

Seneca lived through illness, exile, and the brutal reign of Nero. In today's episode, Ryan shares three of the most powerful ideas Seneca learned from those experiences and why they can change the way you live.

Ryan thought running 50 kilometers through Rome would be the hard part of the family trip to Italy but he was wrong. In today's episode, he shares how the rest of the trip went completely off the rails and what happened after his family got home that made every travel disaster along the way seem small.

In Rome, Ryan could barely go for a run without passing a place connected to Stoic history. In today's episode, he shares moments from his family trip, from visiting the places where the Stoics lived and worked to running a 50K route through Rome's ancient Stoic sites.

Trump-Venezuela Oil Deal An oil agreement involving Venezuela's estimated 65 billion barrels of oil. Examination of potential benefits for U.S. energy access, jobs, and long-term gasoline prices. Concerns about dealing with the Venezuelan government, competition issues for private energy companies such as Chevron, and the federal government's ownership stakes in private businesses. Government Equity Ownership and Socialism Debate A serious discussion about the federal government acquiring equity positions in companies. Comparison to government involvement in industry and warnings about government control of private enterprise. References to prior investments in companies such as Intel and broader concerns about economic policy. Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico Criticism of Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Tallarico. Focus on past comments regarding capitalism, climate change, and social justice. Discussion of energy policy, oil and gas production, and political ideology in Texas. Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Coverage of Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and his participation in an Islamic convention occurring near the anniversary of September 11. Discussion of individuals allegedly connected to the event and concerns about 9/11 conspiracy theories. Examination of El-Sayed's past public statements and social media posts relating to 9/11 and U.S. foreign policy. Commentary on ideological divisions within the Democratic Party. References to prominent Democratic figures and debates over the party's direction, socialism, foreign policy, and activism. Please Hit Subscribe to this podcast Right Now. Also Please Subscribe to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson and The Ben Ferguson Show Podcast Wherever You get You're Podcasts. And don't forget to follow the show on Social Media so you never miss a moment! Thanks for Listening YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VerdictwithTedCruz/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/verdictwithtedcruz X: https://x.com/tedcruz X: https://x.com/benfergusonshowYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VerdictwithTedCruzSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.