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In this heartfelt episode of Serenity Life Motivations, we dive into the sacred art of trusting God's timing in love and life. With wisdom drawn from scripture, personal reflection, and experience as an ordained minister, we invite our listener to look inward, write your desires, and speak life over your journey. Whether you're navigating fear, seeking deeper connection, or preparing your heart for divine alignment, this message reminds you: you're not behind—you're becoming.Tune in for powerful encouragement, practical guidance, and a gentle push to trust, release, and bloom in season. **Support Us:**If you appreciate this content, consider supporting our efforts via CashApp: $MBmobilenotary or Venmo: @Monica-Blackwell-8. **Connect with Us:**- [Listen on Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/serenity-life-motivations-w-monica-blackwell/id1548394011) - [Listen on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/6dLSoFIOmdOOYANiFD5yKi) - [Listen on Google Podcasts](https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy80NmVjMzQ0OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==) - [Leave a Voice Message on Anchor](https://anchor.fm/serenitylifemb) Stay connected with us on social media:- Facebook: @Serenity Life Motivations w/Monica Blackwell- Instagram: @serenity_lifemb**Remember:**“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” —Dalai LamaWishing you a blessed and prosperous day. Enjoy the episode, and come grow with us! #peaceofmind #tranquility #innerpeace #podcastlife #monicablackwell

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**Navigating Family Gatherings: Connection Over Conflict** Have you ever struggled with whether to invite certain family members to a gathering? The prospect of an awkward event filled with potential drama can be daunting. In the latest episode of *Serenity Life Motivation*, I engaged in a heartfelt discussion about these common concerns. Family gatherings should embody love, laughter, and connection, yet they often feel like a battlefield. I recently reflected on the complexities of planning these events and how past disagreements can overshadow the joy of coming together. It was refreshing to acknowledge that these feelings of discomfort are familiar to many of us. As we delved deeper, I considered the true significance of family gatherings. Life is finite, and every moment spent together offers a chance for healing and forging deeper bonds. It's essential to extend invitations—even when uncomfortable—rather than force relationships or avoid conflict. Embracing our family's imperfections can foster understanding and love. **Key Points and Action Steps:** 1. **Acknowledge the Tension:** Discomfort is often part of family dynamics. Recognizing this helps me approach interactions with empathy. 2. **Extend the Invitation:** I am committed to including everyone, even those who make me uneasy. This opens the door for reconnection. 3. **Focus on the Bigger Picture:** Instead of avoiding friction, I aim to appreciate the moments, laughter, and memories that make family gatherings special. 4. **Set Boundaries:** While nurturing connections is vital, I understand the need for boundaries to avoid toxic behavior. 5. **Reflect and Reach Out:** I consider family members I haven't invited recently. What if I gave them another chance to engage? By prioritizing connection over conflict, I hope to create an environment that values togetherness, even amidst imperfections. When planning a gathering, I'll remind myself that real growth comes from shared moments, laughter, and even the awkward silences. Let's be brave enough to reach out and create lasting memories! --- **A Special Thanks to Our Sponsor:** Blackwell's Mobile Notary and Wedding Officiant – George's favorite! Feel free to subscribe to our podcast on your favorite platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts. Follow me on Instagram at @serenity_lifemb and connect on Facebook for updates. --- **Global Reach:** I'm thrilled to see our podcast resonates worldwide! Thank you to our listeners in Indonesia, South Africa, Canada, the USA, and the United Kingdom. Welcome to the family! --- **Your Help Matters:** If someone in your life could benefit from our discussions, please share this podcast with them. Pick three episodes you love and pass them along—you never know who might need a little sunshine today. --- **Our Commitment:** We're all navigating challenges, and your willingness to share can make a difference. Thank you for being part of our community dedicated to spiritual growth and purposeful living. Remember, we love you, but God loves you even more! --- **Support Us:** If you appreciate this content, consider supporting our efforts via CashApp: $MBmobilenotary or Venmo: @Monica-Blackwell-8. --- **Connect with Us:** - [Listen on Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/serenity-life-motivations-w-monica-blackwell/id1548394011) - [Listen on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/6dLSoFIOmdOOYANiFD5yKi) - [Listen on Google Podcasts](https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy80NmVjMzQ0OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==) - [Leave a Voice Message on Anchor](https://anchor.fm/serenitylifemb) Stay connected with us on social media: - Facebook: @Serenity Life Motivations w/Monica Blackwell - Instagram: @serenity_lifemb **Remember:** “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” —Dalai Lama --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/serenitylifemb/support

REWIND Episode #09 How to Live with Integrity In this episode, I venture into and explore something very close to my heart - and head and balls - and that is INTEGRITY. It is my highest value, because, for me, everything else is determined by this. If I don't have that, then all my other values don't really get a chance. Join me as I share some personal stories - including the first one in which as a younger man I fell into a common trap; lying to someone I liked and pulling myself right out of integrity in doing so. I take you through what integrity actually is, how to assess it, and how to understand it on a deeper level so that if we fall out of it we can navigate our way back in. I visit a story about a time my now father-in-law hit me with a daunting question in front of his (Nardia's) family, well before I was even close to being a permanent fixture; “What are your intentions with our Nardia?” * GULP* Tune in to see how I handled this. Quite fucking excellently, I might add. I call on this story often in teaching about integrity because regardless of the answer I shared, what the key point sticks to is - can I be honest here regardless of what that honesty entails? I venture into some of the nature of men and the masculine in how we have this need to test each other, and essentially what we're doing is testing the strength, the dependability of those men we go into battle (hunt) with. If you're a man struggling to understand yourself, wanting to work out what that niggling little feeling inside of you is, or simply wanting to access what's possible for you, it starts and stops with INTEGRITY - this episode is for you. As always, if this lands, please share this episode with a man you know could benefit from it. If you haven't, please leave me a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.    Remember - DO something with the lessons in this podcast. Let me know you're listening and how you're applying it in your life - tag me on socials @mikecampbellmc on Instagram or @Mike Campbell Man Coach on Facebook.   Other content mentioned: Integrity Check-In questions: What was the promise or commitment you made to yourself? What did you choose to do? (Have you been choosing/did you choose to do instead?) What are the consequences? What's the driver? Is this a pattern? What do you need to do to return to/remain in integrity?   Other ways to consume this podcast: On Apple On Spotify On YouTube Read transcript   Get involved: Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Follow on Spotify Sign up for Mike's LEGENDAILY Texts to help you with a daily shot of loving straight talk direct to your pocket Get Your Relationship Shit Together with Mike's Better Partner Project 4 week Accelerator Course in Relationships for Men

Here's a common desire in so many men - “I want to be more confident” which, if not obvious, follows the proclamation “I'm just not confident enough” - or words very close to that effect. They're the words of men focused on a story they have around confidence - that they don't have it and they need to find it. But it goes beyond that, it extends into this idea I have that some people have it, they're doing things I'm not, and because they have it and I don't, there must be something wrong with me. And that story - or line of internal narrative - is what not only perpetuates the belief that we don't have confidence, therefore, don't feel it, but it is the creation of not feeling confident in its entirety. Confidence is a subject we have butchered for so long, like many others in the realm of personal development such as motivation, will power or discipline. What it requires is a deeper assessment, some curiosity to see what is really playing out here. If I want to feel confident in something yet my fear around the lack of confidence - in reality, my insecurity about not looking competent - is stopping me from doing the thing to gain the confidence I get from doing it, I am creating and perpetuating my own misery cycle. This is so common it hurts. And so, that's what I wanted to cover in this episode of the podcast.   In this episode: A while ago I did a short video on my social media channels exploring this idea that most men have confidence all wrong. In this episode, I wanted to take that video and expand upon it. So you'll hear the introduction for the podcast and me introducing the topic, then you'll hear the audio from the original video backed up by an expansion on this idea. From here I'll take you into not only why and how we have confidence wrong, but how to actually gain real, legit, lasting grounded confidence. It's not some magical thing, there is no confidence fairy that will sprinkle you with confidence dust on you one night - it comes down to the stories you tell yourself, caching the BS ones mentioned above, and then in the actions we take. A hint to what is covered - get used to the idea of sucking and becoming more competent. If you can consistently apply yourself to the simple act of improving your competence in what you wish to be confident in, you will become that. Not the other way around. This might be a knock to your balls as I shatter a long term belief about confidence and the fruitless actions of countless men trying to build their confidence. If that's the case - good, I hope it works and that you can receive it with the respect for you that it is intended. This really is just the beginning of this conversation, as it can and does need to go even deeper. Exploring and really uncovering your confidence story, both what and how it is anchored in your psyche and, therefore, how we get out of it. This is central to the first and third pillars of the work in my major coaching program the EVERYDAY LEGENDS ACADEMY. If you want to find out more about that and when the February 2021 intake - find out more here or email me today support@mikecampbell.com.au I have spots filling fast and fact-finding calls with me filling even faster.  As always, if this lands, please share this episode with a man you know could benefit from it. If you haven't, please leave me a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.  Remember - DO something with the lessons in this podcast. Let me know you're listening and how you're applying it in your life - tag me on socials @mikecampbellmc on Instagram or @Mike Campbell Man Coach on Facebook. Other ways to consume this podcast: On Mike's site On Apple On Spotify On YouTube Read transcript (Coming soon) Get involved: Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Follow on Spotify Sign up for Mike's LEGENDAILY Texts to help you with a daily shot of loving straight talk direct to your pocket COACHING: Book your ‘Make My Shit Make Sense' Strategy call with Mike to explore Everyday Legends coaching Academy here.

Ahhhh, the friendzone. That lonely yet connected, comforting yet terrorising, familiar yet frustrating place. Of course, the friend zone isn't the only place we might end up chasing unrequited love - sometimes it's in a relationship that stutters and two people seem to be misaligned. Either way, finding ourselves in the place of wanting someone and them not wanting us back, or them being unavailable to us, can be heart-aching and life-consuming.   That's the subject of this week's podcast episode in a revamped version of a listener Q&A. I have had tonnes of questions from guys in and around this area. Usually from ‘Nice Guys' - guys that are so terrified of rejection, who so desperately need to be liked or their inner world will fall over, so they end up just playing the good nice guy in the hope that people will see them as this and like them.   These guys - of which I am a recovering Nice Guy myself - often end up in glorified friendships, essentially one-sided faux-relationships, with women/people they have feelings for because they were too unsure about themselves early on to say how they felt combined with an almost unbearable fear of rejection, that they just hover in the space of “If I am around enough and nice enough, maybe they'll notice/like/love me.” (It doesn't work).   Previously across three different #AskMike Q&A videos on my social media channels, I have addressed similar questions in this space. Today on the podcast I wanted to bring them together and dive a bit deeper on what's playing out and what to do about it, how to get past that crippling and almost life-stoping focus on unavailable love.   I introduce the overall topic and then each individual video, before expanding on them all with some common themes and lessons for guys who are either in this right now in your life, or recognise that pattern totally unrelated to unrequited love, where you're so narrow-focused on one thing that you can't seem to focus on anything else even though you know you need to.   Mike's Takeaways: I could talk about this all day. I've helped so many guys in situations like this, not just deep in the friendzone - of their own creation - but suffering of Nice Guyitis in all areas of life. The simplest advice - to quote Stifler from American Pie - is to “locate your balls, remove the shrink wrap” and have the conversation. But it's much more than that. In all reality, the key is to focus on something else - in the case of unrequited love - what other love is possible for and available to you. Of course, this last part brings up something central to the Nice Guy that we touch on in the episode - ‘Well, I have to then believe there is more out there for me'   If this resonates and hits home, please tell me. If you are going to take action on the advice in here I would love to hear about it - share your messy action with me. And if you have your own questions for a solo Q&A episode, then send them through to me at support@mikecampbell.com.au As always, if this lands, please share this episode with a man you know could benefit from it. If you haven't, please leave me a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.  Remember - DO something with the lessons in this podcast. Let me know you're listening and how you're applying it in your life - tag me on socials @mikecampbellmc on Instagram or @Mike Campbell Man Coach on Facebook.   Other links: Take my 2 minute quiz - ‘Are you too nice?' Other ways to consume this podcast: On Apple On Spotify Get involved: Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Follow on Spotify Sign up for Mike's LEGENDAILY Texts to help you with a daily shot of loving straight talk direct to your pocket

It's hard to believe that 2023 is almost over. Before the New Year, it's time to reflect on the past year and get ready for the next one. On this special episode, Brian lists off 10 business and 10 personal tasks that you should check off your list to end 2023 on the right note and start 2024 with a clean slate. Episode Highlights 10 End-Of-Year Business Action Items 1. Review your goals How did you do this year? What were you proud to accomplish? Anything you wish you could have done better? The end of the year is a great time to review the goals you made at the beginning of the year and set new ones for 2024. 2. Update your cash flow If you use Profit First, look at each bucket's allocations. If a bucket looks too full or scarce, update your percentages accordingly. Remember: Do not make adjustments of more than 3%, which can put you in a bind later. 3. Review your profit & loss At this point in the year, you should have a good sense of your business's gross income, which makes it an ideal time to review your profit & loss statement. Hopefully, it was a banner year for you! 4. Find your tax return There's nothing like some downtime during the holidays to organize and prepare for tax season. Take some time to find a return to help with some of the next tasks on this list. 5. Max out your Solo 401(k) or SEP IRA If you have a little extra profit this year, retirement accounts are a great way to shelter income. If you have a Solo 401(k), you can contribute $22,500 as an employee in 2023. Additionally, if you are age 50 or older, you can contribute $7,500 in employee catch-up contributions and up to $66,000 in employer contributions. If you have a SEP IRA, you can contribute up to 25% of your adjusted net earnings or $66,000 in 2023, whichever is less.  6. Defer income and incur expenses It's an excellent time to defer income until 2024 and incur expenses you know you'll have at the beginning of the year while it's still 2023. However, remember two things before you take this approach: The business expense must be ordinary and necessary, meaning it's an expense that a business like yours would incur. You don't save money on an expense you wouldn't otherwise buy. 7. Consider “out-of-the-box” expenses When thinking about expenses, consider some that may be “out-of-the-box,” such as employee cell phone reimbursement, educational assistance, or dependent care assistance. Expenses can also include up to $25 per person gifts for clients or holiday parties and some forms of holiday travel if they include business reasons. 8. Update your asset list Did you buy new assets during the year that will affect your tax return? It's important to have an accurate list of assets associated with your business for tax purposes. Also, figure out what equipment you no longer use in the business and consider what equipment you can acquire if you're trying to reduce your bottom line. 9. Review your business structure Evaluate your business structure and the qualified business income deduction for any changes that you need to make, such as setting up a Solo 401(k) by the deadline of December 31. 10. Reflect before 2024 How do you feel about your business? Is it going in the direction you want? How can you bring more intention to what you're doing? Reflecting on the past year and creating some attention for the new year is essential. 10 End-of-Year Personal Action Items 1. Review your goals Just like you did with your business, review your goals for 2023 and take stock of where you succeeded and where you fell short. Either way, you'll have some good information about the changes you can make in 2024. 2. Update your budget Your money and your business are tools to live the life that you want, and the end of the year gives you a solid endpoint to assess whether you matched the goals you set at the outset of 2023. If you didn't set financial goals for 2023, the start of the new year is a great time to use a budget that finally works for you. 3. Create a holiday bucket Consider how much you want to spend this holiday season, which may look a lot different than in past years. Create a separate bucket for holiday spending, then stop spending when that money is gone. You'll thank yourself come January when you don't have huge credit card bills. 4. Spend benefits you'll lose Take stock of the benefits you have that won't roll over to 2024. Whether that's unused vacation days, medical dependent care benefits, or money in your flexible spending account, use your workplace benefits to your advantage. 5. Make any last charitable contributions December 31 is the last day your donations can go on your 2023 tax return. If giving to charity is part of your spending plan, use these three questions to make the most out of your charitable giving. 6. Pump up your 529 account More than 30 states allow for a tax deduction for your contributions to a 529 plan. However, to count for this tax year, contributions must be made by December 31. 7. Max out your 401(k) If you have a spouse who works as a W2 employee, 401(k) contributions made through December 31 count for the 2023 tax year. If you have extra cash and want to boost your savings, consider adding your spouse's last 2023 paycheck to their 401(k). 8. Find your tax return Tax season is right around the corner, so prepare yourself now, while you have some space and mental energy. You can also use this time to assess whether a Roth conversion is best for you. 9. Review your will and trust With end-of-year reflections, you're keenly aware of all the changes in life. Remember, your estate plan is also affected by those changes and needs to match your current situation. Checking your estate documents is especially important if you've gotten married, gone through a divorce, or had children in the past year. 10. Review your insurance documents Just like your estate documents, your insurance policies should also cover your current needs. Review your life and disability policies to ensure they protect your income and those dependent on you. Also, your renters and homeowners insurance should protect any additional big purchases you made during the year, and your health insurance policy should be reviewed for any upcoming changes. Resources + Links The bucket budget: How To Get Control Of Your Spending Without Tracking Every Penny Questions for charitable giving: How To Make The Most Of Your Charitable Giving States that offer a tax benefit for 529 plan contribution Brian Thompson Financial: Website, Newsletter, Podcast Follow Brian Online: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X (formerly known as Twitter), Forbes About Brian and the Mission Driven Business Podcast Brian Thompson, JD/CFP, is a tax attorney and certified financial planner who specializes in providing comprehensive financial planning to LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs who run mission-driven businesses. The Mission Driven Business podcast was born out of his passion for helping social entrepreneurs create businesses with purpose and profit. On the podcast, Brian talks with diverse entrepreneurs and the people who support them. Listeners hear stories of experiences, strength, and hope and get practical advice to help them build businesses that might just change the world, too.

In today's empowering episode, Anna dives deep with the incredible Fabienne Fredrickson. Fabienne is a celebrated speaker, coach, and best-selling author and today she's sharing her wisdom on the feminine and masculine energies in the world of business. With over two decades of entrepreneurial experience, Fabienne quit her corporate life to forge her own path and saw astounding success, filling her practice in just eight months and sustaining a multi-seven figure business for the last 15 years! Together, we'll explore how women can thrive by embracing their unique strengths and authentic femininity, rather than mimicking traditional masculine traits. We'll touch on the transformative power of intuition and the unmatched force of women supporting women. Listen in as Anna and Fabienne discuss: The difficulty of finding female mentors when they first started out The 80/20 rule and how it can help you work better The Law of Diminishing Return Resources Mentioned in this Episode: The Leveraged Business by Fabienne Fredrickson (book) Fabienne's Website: https://boldheart.com/ https://www.instagram.com/iamboldheart/ https://www.facebook.com/iamboldheart/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabiennefredrickson/ Journal Prompts: Reflect on your ability to delegate work and set boundaries. How can you improve these skills? Explore the 80/20 rule and how this fits into your business or career. How can you maximize the time you spend working? What does the quote, “Do less, better,” mean for you? How can you implement this philosophy into your business and personal life? Quotes to Remember: Do less, better. Connect with Anna: Email: agibbs2@kw.com Facebook: @CoachAnnaGibbs Instagram: @CoachAnnaGibbs YouTube: @Annagibbsatkw Coaching: coachannagibbs.com To learn more about the supplements and products Anna uses to improve her overall health and well-being visit: https://plexusworldwide.com/annagibbs

Hi, everyone! I've got another interesting story for you today, but first, I want to ask you a quick question. 講故事之前，我先問你們一個問題。 What did you have for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day last week? Can't remember? That's okay. A lot of people would have trouble remembering all that. 你們上星期每天吃什麼? 忘記了嗎？沒關係。 But do you know what could easily remember all that? An animal called a cuttlefish. 但是烏賊就會記得喔！ Scientists gave cuttlefish a test. They wanted to see if they could remember what they ate, where they ate it, and when they ate it. And guess what? They could! Cuttlefish have great memories! 科學家測驗烏賊記不記得，之前吃過什麼，在哪裡吃的，還有什麼時候吃的.烏賊都答得出來! 牠們的記憶力很強！ People will often forget things. Do you ever forget things? I know I do! And I've got bad news, kids. Our memories usually get worse as we get older. 人類老化，記憶力通常會減退。 Anyway… What were we talking about? Oh, yeah! Cuttlefish! The other cool thing about cuttlefish is their memories stay strong. In the test the scientists gave them, the older cuttlefish did just as well as the young cuttlefish! 但是烏賊不論年老還是年輕，記憶力一樣好！ Cuttlefish have great memories! So don't forget it! ________________________________ Vocabulary 科學家實驗證明，烏賊有超強記憶力，想不到吧？ 1. Memory 記憶。 I didn't know that cuttlefish have great memories. 我不知道烏賊有超強記憶力。 I know that elephants' memories stay strong. 我知道大象可以維持很強的記憶。 2. Remember 記得。 Do you remember your old friends' names? 你記得老朋友的名字嗎？ I can only remember some of them. 我只記得其中幾個。 3. Ask 問。 Why do you ask? 你為什麼問？ Because I can't remember any of my old classmates. 因為我記不起來任何老同學。 4. Question 問題。 Scientists often ask many questions. 科學家經常提出很多問題。 Right, and they try hard to find the answers. 沒錯，他們也很努力尋找答案。 Would you read the words with me? memory記憶 remember記得 ask問 question問題 ________________________________ Quiz 1. What kind of animal is the story about? a. Cats b. Goldfish c. Cuttlefish 2. What did scientists do with these animals? a. They gave them a test b. They talked to them c. They gave them cool hairstyles 3. What did they find out about these animals? a. They can run really fast b. They can eat a lot c. Their memories stay strong even when they are old Answers 1: C 2: A 3: C

XTRAcast is back and Anders is here to answer the important question on everyone's minds: “when do you put your Christmas tree up?” - it's a HOPECAST exclusive! Paul is confused after our last episode so he steps into the confessional booth with Anders and talks about judgement and shame. According to the media we're supposed to be slutty and fun and have no boundaries, but is that ok? Anders never wants to make mistakes or hurt someone else, even if it means being unfulfilled himself. He's so used to considering every possible outcome of every potential situation that he ends up unable to take action. So we Yes Anders It! Find out where we end up! Remember: Do things regardless of people's opinions, not their wellbeing. You can be part of the House of HOPECAST by following us on all the socials @HOPECASTPODCAST and visiting our website at hopecastpodcast.com If you like what we do, please rate and review us. Anything less than five stars is homophobic. DO IT! Follow the HOPECAST Hosts on Instagram: Paul @DrPaulTaylorPitt Yassir @Untangle_The_Tangle Anders @anderscreative Oliver @amarisvitae Nick @evolving_minds_uk Matthew @EllaVeryde Our artwork is by super talented chaotic mess @anderscreative HOPECAST is the queer podcast for everyone, brought to you by the Homos Of Planet Earth. We talk about issues of spirituality, sexuality, wellness and queerness. This episode uploaded with a smile.

This week, Rod will give us a chance to reflect on the tremendous difference a farmer can make if he just thinks differently. It's easy to get distracted sometimes, and we drift further down the river if we don't work to improve. Do you let yourself slip out on the sidelines?   Let's listen and tune in as Rod teaches us how to properly plan for success of 2022 even with all the disturbance that COVID left for us to tend. So, let's continue this conversation in another episode of eye-opening lessons on better ways to manage our farms…

With all of the tools we have at our fingertips nowadays, I find it quite surprising that many of us still choose to send mass notes. Every day, Jacob and I get tons of messages from people requesting something from us— whether that is for us to feature their company, do a product review, etc.— and 95% of those messages get deleted. If you're looking for a response from someone you're targeting, you have to do the legwork ahead of time and work hard to write something powerful enough to cut through the noise and earn his/her attention. Like many of today's savvy marketers, the biggest hurdle is to win our target's respect. Remember: ✅ Do not send mass emails or LinkedIn messages. ✅ Take the time to research the person that you are targeting. ✅ Figure out a way to be relevant for them. I've been personally using these tips for 15 years. Whether it's for a sale, a pitch to an investor, or maybe you want someone to be on your podcast, you'll find these ways to be absolutely compelling.

Today I on the podcast I'm telling you one major mindset that's keeping your business small. HINT: it has to deal with hiring.  I see this mindset struggle all the time in creative entrepreneurs and it hurts my heart so much because they are leaving money on the table! I want to help you reframe your thinking. Verses to Remember Do not despise these small beginnings for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin. (Zechariah 4:10) Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. (Luke 16:10) Subscribe and Review I am honored to show up each week on The Jennifer Allwood Show and bring you inspiring and actionable content. I hope it is truly helpful for you. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is to subscribe to the show and leave a review. By subscribing, you allow each episode to be downloaded straight to your phone which helps our download numbers and makes sure you never miss an episode. And when you leave a review, you help show others the value of what we provide! You can GO HERE to subscribe and review!

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Upon This Rock, #5 Applying the Bible to My Life By Louie Marsh, 2-21-2021 Intro:   A gray-haired old lady, long a member of her community and church, shook hands with the minister after the service one Sunday morning. "That was a wonderful sermon," she told him, "-- just wonderful. Everything you said applies to someone I know." It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; not what we preach but what we practice that makes us Christians.  - Francis Bacon. Unused truth becomes as useless as an unused muscle. - A.W. Tozer Booker’s Law: An ounce of application is worth a pound of abstraction.   Once I gain God’s perspective, internalize the Scripture and begin to think Biblically it’s time to begin seriously applying God’s Word to my life.   1) Application begins with ENGAGING the text.   “18But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18, ASV 1901)   Only here in the New Testament. The verb in the active voice means to shew in a mirror; to cause to be reflected. In the middle voice, to look at or behold one’s self in a mirror. - Vincent, M. R. (1887). Word studies in the New Testament (Vol. 3, p. 309).   Reflecting as in a mirror (κατοπτριζομενοι [katoptrizomenoi]). Present middle participle of κατοπτριζω [katoptrizō], late verb from κατοπτρον [katoptron], mirror (κατα, ὀπτρον [kata, optron], a thing to see with). In Philo (Legis Alleg. iii. 33) the word means beholding as in a mirror and that idea suits also the figure in 1 Cor. 13:12. There is an inscription of third century B.C. with ἐγκατοπτρισασθαι εἰς το ὑδωρ [egkatoptrisasthai eis to hudōr], to look at one’s reflection in the water. Plutarch uses the active for mirroring or reflecting and Chrysostom takes it so here. Either makes good sense.   Robertson, A. T. (1933). Word Pictures in the New Testament (2 Co 3:18).   2) What Is the Mirror? – THE BIBLE   “4In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” (2 Corinthians 4:4, ESV)   What are the results of this engagement? CHRIST-LIKENESS   “18As all of us reflect the Lord’s glory with faces that are not covered with veils, we are being changed into his image with ever-increasing glory. This comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18, GW)   3) How To Apply God’s Word   “24For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.” (James 1:24–25, ESV)     LOOK at it.     REMEMBER     DO     4) How does this life-change happen?  APPLICATION! What is application? ACTING on God’s Word.   “11so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:11, ESV)   “32men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do—200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command;” (1 Chronicles 12:32, NIV84)   To do this I must become a BRIDGE-BUILDER.                                                    Bible text----------------------->APPLICATION

Human’s evolved to be in community with others, to be supported by and be in support of other humans, to build relationships, to problems solve, to hunt and cook and sing and dance and share stories and experiences. We are social creatures. You are a social creature. Yet, when it comes to the stuff that challenges you, the things that hold you back, that keep tripping you up, there is a universal truth that actually negates this point for a very important moment; no one is coming to save you.  No one is going to fix your shit or do the work for you, no one is going to make you do the thing you need to do. And even if they did, it’s not really yours at that point - if they do it, you don’t own it. That is entirely disempowering. One can lead a horse to water. One can attempt to force the horse’s head to the water. But one cannot, no matter how much one tries, make the horse drink it. The horse must do the drinking itself. Hello, hi - you’re the horse. We’re all the horse. We can be supported and helped, we can be guided and poked and challenged into action, but we have to take the actual action.   In this episode: And this is what brings me to this week’s solo podcast episode - whatever it is you’re challenged by, whatever displeasure or struggle you’re experiencing if you are waiting for someone to come and rescue you and do it for you - you will be waiting forever. In this episode I explore this idea, however, I do it off the back of a comprehensive list of questions to support you in getting to that point. What you’ll see in this episode is a list of questions to help you break down and review 2020 and then plan out 2021. So yeah, it’s the end of January already, but I suspect many people listening to this episode (reading this) might not have done something as comprehensive as this. It is never too late to do this stuff, seeing as the date is arbitrary anyway - start today and review back 12 months from this point and then plan 12 months forward from this point. Because here’s the thing - if we don’t review and plan in this detail - we will continue to have lives that are vague, unclear, and frustrating. Once you’ve done that, well, you’ll know no one is coming to save you and you’ll be int he best position to take the necessary steps forward yourself. THEN if you feel the need for some external support, if you think the step you need to take is to then join a community of men and coaches that can help you implement all of the stuff you plan, then the fastest and most serious of you can act NOW - I have three spots left in the February intake of EVERYDAY LEGENDS ACADEMY - as of publishing this. However, it is highly likely they will go quickly - so click below, book an initial application query call and lets you and me see if me and my team can be the guiding hand once you take the step.   As always, if this lands, please share this episode with a man you know could benefit from it. If you haven’t, please leave me a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.  Remember - DO something with the lessons in this podcast. Let me know you’re listening and how you’re applying it in your life - tag me on socials @mikecampbellmc on Instagram or @Mike Campbell Man Coach on Facebook.   Other links:  EVERYDAY LEGENDS ACADEMY - find out more here   Other ways to consume this podcast: On Apple On Spotify On YouTube (Coming soon) Read transcript (Coming soon)   Get involved: Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Follow on Spotify Sign up for Mike’s LEGENDAILY Texts to help you with a daily shot of loving straight talk direct to your pocket COACHING: Book your ‘Make My Shit Make Sense’ Strategy call with Mike to explore Everyday Legends coaching Academy here.

Here’s a common desire in so many men - “I want to be more confident” which, if not obvious, follows the proclamation “I’m just not confident enough” - or words very close to that effect. They’re the words of men focused on a story they have around confidence - that they don’t have it and they need to find it. But it goes beyond that, it extends into this idea I have that some people have it, they're doing things I’m not, and because they have it and I don’t, there must be something wrong with me. And that story - or line of internal narrative - is what not only perpetuates the belief that we don’t have confidence, therefore, don’t feel it, but it is the creation of not feeling confident in its entirety. Confidence is a subject we have butchered for so long, like many others in the realm of personal development such as motivation, will power or discipline.What it requires is a deeper assessment, some curiosity to see what is really playing out here. If I want to feel confident in something yet my fear around the lack of confidence - in reality, my insecurity about not looking competent - is stopping me from doing the thing to gain the confidence I get from doing it, I am creating and perpetuating my own misery cycle. This is so common it hurts. And so, that’s what I wanted to cover in this episode of the podcast.   In this episode: A while ago I did a short video on my social media channels exploring this idea that most men have confidence all wrong. In this episode, I wanted to take that video and expand upon it. So you’ll hear the introduction for the podcast and me introducing the topic, then you’ll hear the audio from the original video backed up by an expansion on this idea. From here I’ll take you into not only why and how we have confidence wrong, but how to actually gain real, legit, lasting grounded confidence. It’s not some magical thing, there is no confidence fairy that will sprinkle you with confidence dust on you one night - it comes down to the stories you tell yourself, caching the BS ones mentioned above, and then in the actions we take.   A hint to what is covered - get used to the idea of sucking and becoming more competent. If you can consistently apply yourself to the simple act of improving your competence in what you wish to be confident in, you will become that. Not the other way around.   This might be a knock to your balls as I shatter a long term belief about confidence and the fruitless actions of countless men trying to build their confidence. If that’s the case - good, I hope it works and that you can receive it with the respect for you that it is intended. This really is just the beginning of this conversation, as it can and does need to go even deeper. Exploring and really uncovering your confidence story, both what and how it is anchored in your psyche and, therefore, how we get out of it. This is central to the first and third pillars of the work in my major coaching program the EVERYDAY LEGENDS ACADEMY. If you want to find out more about that and when the February 2021 intake - find out more here or email me today support@mikecampbell.com.au I have spots filling fast and fact-finding calls with me filling even faster.  As always, if this lands, please share this episode with a man you know could benefit from it. If you haven’t, please leave me a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.  Remember - DO something with the lessons in this podcast. Let me know you’re listening and how you’re applying it in your life - tag me on socials @mikecampbellmc on Instagram or @Mike Campbell Man Coach on Facebook. Other links:  EVERYDAY LEGENDS ACADEMY - find out more here   Other ways to consume this podcast: On Mike's site On Apple On Spotify On YouTube Read transcript (Coming soon)   Get involved: Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Follow on Spotify Sign up for Mike’s LEGENDAILY Texts to help you with a daily shot of loving straight talk direct to your pocket COACHING: Book your ‘Make My Shit Make Sense’ Strategy call with Mike to explore Everyday Legends coaching Academy here.

Your love note this week is a short practice to walk you through beginning to dismantle systems of oppression within yourself. Remember: Do not listen to this episode while driving or operating heavy machinery.Enjoy!Let's have a convo! Take a screenshot and share this episode on Instagram letting me and Nisha know what you got out of it, and be sure to tag me @shiranimpathak so I can respond!Support the sustainability and accessibility of the podcast by making a financial contribution over at: www.ko-fi.com/shiraniJoin the Fierce Authenticity Newsletter Community over at www.fierceauthenticity.com/newsletterFor a complete transcript of this episode or to purchase Fierce Authenticity the book, visit www.fierceauthenticity.com

Whether you are a beginner or experienced ultramarathon runner, you need to be well-prepared for every run you do. Ultra running has its bright side — the uplifting community, the sense of accomplishment, and the goals of becoming stronger. However, there are certain risks involved in the sport, and as an athlete, you need to keep yourself informed. In this episode, Eugene Bingham joins me to explain the dangers of extreme sports and marathons. We share personal stories about the damage it could do to the body — experiences that should serve as a warning to runners. Eugene also discusses things to be aware of before and during races that can endanger us, giving us five specific tips for preparation and self-management. Don’t miss this episode and learn more about the risks of and preparations for ultra running and other extreme sports!   Get Customised Guidance for Your Genetic Make-Up For our epigenetics health program all about optimising your fitness, lifestyle, nutrition, and mental performance to your particular genes, go to  https://www.lisatamati.com/page/epigenetics-and-health-coaching/. You can also join our free live webinar on epigenetics.   Online Coaching for Runners Go to www.runninghotcoaching.com for our online run training coaching.   One-on-One Health Optimization Coaching  If you would like to work with me one to one on anything from your mindset, to head injuries,  to biohacking your health, to optimal performance or executive coaching, please book a consultation here.    Order My Books My latest book Relentless chronicles the inspiring journey about how my mother and I defied the odds after an aneurysm left my mum Isobel with massive brain damage at age 74. The medical professionals told me there was absolutely no hope of any quality of life again, but I used every mindset tool, years of research, and incredible tenacity to prove them wrong and bring my mother back to full health within 3 years. Get your copy here: http://relentlessbook.lisatamati.com/ For my other two best-selling books Running Hot and Running to Extremes chronicling my ultrarunning adventures and expeditions all around the world, go to https://shop.lisatamati.com/collections/books.   My Jewellery Collection For my gorgeous and inspiring sports jewellery collection ‘Fierce’, go to https://shop.lisatamati.com/collections/lisa-tamati-bespoke-jewellery-collection.   Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: Learn about the risks and dangers of extreme sports and ultra running. Gain valuable insight into the things you need to be aware of before and during marathons. Understand the importance of listening to your body.   Resources Death of a runner: The rare condition that tragically claimed a life by Eugene Bingham Desert Runners on TVNZ   Episode Highlights [04:01] The Dangers of Extreme Sports and Ultramarathons Eugene participated in the 2020 Tarawera 100-mile race where an experienced runner died. The runner’s death certificate showed that he had a multi-organ failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and rhabdomyolysis. However, it was difficult to pinpoint the true cause of death since it can be a result of accumulated health conditions. [09:50] What Is Rhabdomyolysis? Rhabdomyolysis, or muscle breakdown, is quite common for runners. As the muscle breaks down, myoglobin from the muscle is released into the bloodstream, clogging the kidneys. It can be difficult to tell when this happens since symptoms can be easily mistaken for simple muscle soreness. This can happen to everyone, not just those who do extreme sports and ultra running. [16:27] Importance of Self-Management At some point, we have to ask ourselves if the damage we’re doing to our body is worth it. There are risks, and you have to be prepared for them.  There is a culture of not quitting unless you’re taken by the ambulance. However, we have to listen to our body before it gets to that point. [20:19] Mental Toughness and Listening to Your Body As we grow, our physical abilities and mental maturity changes. Accept that the body may not be able to take what it could years ago. The goal of pushing your limits is good but keep in mind that you also need to train and prepare yourself. Being mentally tough also means knowing when to stop and rest. [22:53] Ultra Running: 5 Tips to Remember Do not take drugs like ibuprofen and Voltaire.  Drink when you’re thirsty and do not over drink.  Be prepared for a range of weather conditions. The race does not end at the finish line. Replenish yourself after every race. Look out for each other. [28:08] Always Have Support Eugene shares his experience of having hallucinations but was kept safe by his companions. Form connections and friendships with the people you meet in races. They are bonds that last forever. Listen to the full episode to hear Eugene and Lisa share more stories about how people have helped them during races! [38:33] Conditions to Be Aware of We need to be careful about dehydration. Symptoms of hyponatremia (having low sodium levels in your blood) are swelling, nausea, and lightheadedness. Low levels of potassium and electrolyte imbalance can result in tetany seizures. Electrolyte tablets are beneficial — make sure they have all the nutrients you need. Having no appetite after a race is dangerous. We need to replenish our bodies straight away.  [47:10] Risks Are Exponential When you exponentially increase the distance you run, you exponentially increase our risks as well. All races are relative to pace. Never underestimate a race by distance. Take every race like a big deal and don’t become complacent. Recovery after a race is also crucial. Don’t succumb to peer pressure and sign up for a race immediately after. [51:53] Quick Checklist Do not expect that you can do it just because you’ve done it once before. Be aware of conditions such as rhabdomyolysis, heat stroke, hyponatremia, dehydration, seizures, electrolyte imbalances, and breaking ankles. Plan well — note altitudes and paths. Running is just like driving. Driving is considered dangerous but we don’t avoid it; we just take extra measures and precautions to make sure that we are safe.   7 Powerful Quotes from This Episode ‘People need to be really conscious of the risks — they need to be prepared to put the time in. You've got to prepare your body and you've got to know your body’. ‘Having lined up at the start line with someone who didn't make it home — that really reinforces that these are real risks and you have to be prepared for them’. ‘The race doesn't end at the finish. Some of the most dangerous time is after that: when people get to the finish line and drive home, they're tired — you can crash easily’. ‘Sometimes there's a bit of competition, isn't there. But, number one, you've got to look out for each other. You are comrades — you've got to have each other's backs’. ‘It is incredible, those connections you make. Even if you don't see each other again, but yes, you've got that bond. That's forever’. ‘Take those precautions. Just be a bit careful. We want to push ourselves. Yes, we want to be out there. Yes, we want to find new limits, but we also want to get back home’. ‘Respect the distance. You cannot run something like this without respecting it’.   About Eugene Bingham Eugene Bingham is a senior journalist at Stuff, co-host of the Dirt Church Radio trail running podcast with his mate Matt Rayment and an ultramarathon runner. In a career of almost 30 years, he’s reported and produced news and current affairs, winning multiple awards as an investigative journalist. His work has taken him to three Olympic Games, and a number of countries including Afghanistan, the Philippines and the Pacific. No matter where he goes, he always packs his running shoes. He has a marathon PB of 2h 43m and his longest event is the Tarawera Ultra 100-mile race which he ran in February 2020. Eugene is married to journalist Suzanne McFadden and they have two grown-up boys. You can listen to their podcast on Dirt Church Radio. You can also follow and support them on Patreon, Instagram, and Twitter.  Have questions you’d like to ask? You can reach Eugene at his email.   Enjoyed This Podcast? If you did, be sure to subscribe and share it with your friends! Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning in, then leave us a review. You can also share this with your family and friends so they can be aware of the dangers of extreme sports and ultra running. Have any questions? You can contact me through email (support@lisatamati.com) or find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. For more episode updates, visit my website. You may also tune in on Apple Podcasts. To pushing the limits, Lisa   Full Transcript For The Podcast! Welcome to Pushing the Limits, the show that helps you reach your full potential, with your host, Lisa Tamati. Brought to you by lisatamati.com.  Lisa Tamati: Well, hi, everyone, and welcome back to this week's episode of Pushing the Limits. Today, I have journalist and ultramarathon running legend, Eugene Bingham, to guest. And Eugene is the host of the podcast, Dirt Church Radio, which I hope you guys are listening to. It's a really fascinating insight into the world of running and trail running. And he has a really unique style, him and his friend, Matt Raymond, run their podcast. So I hope you enjoy this interview.  Today we're talking about the dangers of extreme sports, not just ultramarathon running, but doing—pushing your body to the limits. While, you know I'm definitely a proponent of going hard and mental toughness and pushing the body and all that sort of good stuff. We also need to know about the downside. We also need to know about the risks. And recently there was a death, unfortunately, at the Tarawera Ultramarathon of a very experienced ultramarathon runner. And so we're going to dive into some of the dangers and some of the things that need to be aware of when it comes to pushing the body to the limits. And so you have an informed consent and an understanding of what you're getting into when you're doing these sorts of things.  Before we head over to the show, though, please give them a rating, review to the show if you enjoy the content. Really, really appreciate the comments and the reviews and if you can do that on iTunes, or wherever you're listening, that would be really, really appreciated. And if you haven't sold your Christmas stocking yet, please head over to my shop and check out my books, Running Hot, which is chronicling all my running adventures in my early days, Running to Extremes. Both of those books bestsellers, and my new book, Relentless - How A Mother And Daughter Defied The Odds, which is really a book about overcoming incredible obstacles, the mindset that's required, the stuff that I learned while I was running and how it helped in this very real world situation, facing a very dire situation within the family. I hope you enjoy those books and if you have read them, please reach out to me, give me a review. Again, if you can, I'd really appreciate that you can reach me at lisa@lisatamati.com.  And just a reminder too, we are still taking on a few people, on one on one health optimization coaching, if you're wanting to optimise your health, whether it be with a difficult health challenge, that you're not getting answers to mainstream health and you're wanting some help navigating the difficult waters that can sometimes be, please reach out to us. And we deal with some very intricate cases. And I have a huge network of people that I work with that we can also refer you out to. I am not a doctor, but I am a health optimisation coach and an epigenetics coach. And we use all of the things that we've spent years studying to help people navigate and advocate for them, and connect them to the right places. And this is a very different type of health service if you like and it's quite high touch and it's quite getting into the nitty gritty and being a detective basically. And I'm really enjoying this type of work and helping people whether it be with head injuries, with strokes, with cancer journeys, thyroid problems, or all these types of issues. Not that we have it or every answer there is under the sun. But we're very good at being detectives working out what's going on and referring you to the right places where required. So if you're interested in that, please reach out to us lisa@lisatamati.com. Right, now over to the show with Eugene Bingham.  Well, hi, everyone, and welcome back to the show. I have Eugene Bingham. I know he's so famous, he actually sit down with me to record this session. So fantastic to have you here. Right? How are you doing?  Eugene Bingham: I'm very well, thank you. And thank you for having me on. Such an honour.  Lisa: Fantastic. Yes. Well, I was lucky to be on your show. And you've been on mine, and we just really connected. So I wanted to get you back on because you've just written an article, which was very, I thought was an important one to discuss. And it was about the tragic death of an ultrarunner last year or this year in the Tarawera Ultramarathon. And while we don't want to go too deep into the specifics of that particular case or we'd like to know what you know about it... Eugene: Sure.  Lisa: ...but wanted to have a discussion around the dangers of extreme sport or ultramarathon running and some of the things we just need to be aware of. So, obviously Eugene and I—neither of us are doctors or any of this should be construed as medical advice, but just as—have to give them out there...  Eugene: Absolutely.  Lisa: But as runners and people who have experienced quite a lot in the running scene, and I've certainly experienced enough drama, that it is something that we need to talk about. So Eugene, tell us a little bit about what happened? And what are you happy to share  Eugene: Sure.  Lisa: ...and what you wrote about in your article, which we will link to in the show notes, by the way. Eugene: Yes. Thank you. Sure. Yes, so I was a competitor in the Tarawera hundred mile race in February, which as you said—when you said last year, it does feel like last year, doesn't it? Oh gosh, it feels like it was five years ago. But it was February 2020, all those years ago. And in that race was sort of about 260 of us lined up. And then that race was a runner an older—oh, he’s 52. So from Japan, a very experienced runner, had run Tarawera previously, had run lots of other miles, and ultraraces. And unfortunately, about a kilometre or so from the finish, he collapsed, and about 34 hours into the race. And although people rushed to help them, and he was taken to retro hospital, and eventually to Auckland City Hospital, he died. And I remember, I remember the afternoon we heard about it, and Tarawera put it up on its Facebook page to let us all know that one of our fellow runners had died and I stopped. It was a shock.  Lisa: Yes. Eugene: You know we do this thing, because we love it.  Lisa: Yes. Eugene: And because we get enjoyment from it. And he was someone who paid the ultimate price.  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: So I—we're a couple of hats, and one of them is a journalist, and so I—but really, what first kicked in was, I really want to know what happened. I really wanted to know what happened. I've had health issues myself, had a few scares and so on. A few wobbles and races, and I thought—just from my point of view, I was really curious to find out. But I also thought it was important to find out for other runners... Lisa: Yes, absolutely. Eugene: ...or say, I listen for others. And so I started to see if I could find out. COVID got the way a little bit and distracted me. But eventually I did manage to track down what happened there. Yes. Lisa: And what was the result of the findings in this particular case? I mean, we're gonna want to discuss a few.  Eugene: Sure. Lisa: I think, in this case, it was a couple of things, wasn't it? But this is without picking—and we're certainly not picking on anybody or any, not race, or anything or saying this is bad or anything. But what was it that you discovered in it?  Eugene: Yes. Lisa: So with that, research.  Eugene: Sure. So initially, I remember the talk was that he might have had a stroke, or there might have been some sort of underlying condition.  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: But I got a hold of his death certificate and it shows that he had multiorgan failure, and acute respiratory distress syndrome, which are both conditions that they can be in multiple causes of those sorts of things. But the one that jumped out to me was Rhabdo. You're gonna make me say that? The proper name for it. Lisa: Rhabdomyolysis Eugene: Thank you. Lisa: I'm an expert in rhabdo. Eugene: So yes, that was the third one on the list. And that was the one that really jumped out at me.  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: Months earlier, I'd spoken to Dr Marty Hoffman, who's in a University of California Davis in the States, and he's sort of recognised around the world. Basically, if there's an ultra—there's a paper about medicine involving ultrarunning, you'll find Marty Hoffman's name on it, he knows this stuff.  So I'd run to him months ago, at the suggestion of a friend, Dr John Onate, and I had a good chat with him. And he sort of ran through the list of what we could be looking at here, but he was really—it was a stab in the dark at that point. But he told me then that they’re hipping no deaths from rhabdo, knowing deaths from rhabdo from ultrarunners.  Lisa: Yes. Eugene: Yes. And no knowing deaths from ultrarunners of the AH, exhausted and just talking it, ‘How can I train you’?  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: So we were kind of that, like, ‘What could it be’? Yes. So when rhabdo appeared on the desk fit, I rang him back and said—I actually emailed him and said, ‘Hey, this is what it says’. And he was very surprised because he keeps track of deaths of ultrarunners around the world. And as he said, there hadn't been one recorded before, doesn't mean there hasn't been one, of course.  Lisa: Yes, it doesn't mean. Eugene: It's just no one, yes, no one knows what causes.  Lisa: And I think a lot of these things will have contributing factors in—completely unrelated but going through the journey with my dad recently it was at the end, he had multiple organ failure.  Eugene: Yes.  Lisa: He had sepsis however, and before that he had an abdominal aneurysm.  Eugene: Yes. Lisa: So it shows the progression like it. What did he actually die off?  Eugene: Yes. Yes.  Lisa: He was born with the failure probably, or zips as chicken or eek scenario. Eugene: Yes. Lisa: So these things, one leads to an acute respiratory syndrome  Eugene: Yes. Lisa: And they all lead on from one to the other when the body starts to shut down, basically.  Eugene: It's a cascade isn’t it?  Lisa: It’s a cascade. That is a very good way of putting it. So rhabdo—and while there is perhaps no documented case of a death from rhabdomyolysis, I don't know if they—I know in my life, I've had rhabdo. I can't even remember the number of times I've had rhabdo.  Eugene: Yes. Lisa: I took away kidney damage from it and the last few years, I've been trying to unravel that damage and undo that.  Eugene: Yes.  Lisa: I'm getting there slowly.  Eugene: Yes, yes.  Lisa: So it is a very as if quite a common thing. Eugene: Yes. Lisa: So we don't know whether in this case that was actual final, what actually did it? It certainly would have been a major contributing factor.  Eugene: Yes.  Lisa: Well, what is rhabdo? I suppose we better explain what rhabdos are. Eugene: Yes. So I mean, well, from your experience, you will know better than me. But I spoke to Dr Hoffman and to Dr Tom Reynolds, who's the race doctor for—one of the race doctors for Tarawera.  Lisa: Yes. Eugene: And they explained it as the muscle started to break down and the myoglobin from the muscle being released into the bloodstream. And then it basically just starts clogging up the kidneys and just causing real damage in your kidneys. The problem with it is the symptoms for sort of sound like a lot of other things and also can just sound like what you might expect running an ultramarathon. Lisa: Yes, the kind of that also. Eugene: Yes, tenderness of muscles, a bit of confusion, and so on. And then even some of the blood tests that you can do to pick it up. So they look for CK—you're much more proficient in the medical world than me. Lisa: Not more. Eugene: But the thing that they test for—it basically there was an experiment at Western States a number of years ago, where they tested bloods of people in Western states and they tested something like 160 runners, all of them had elevated CK levels.  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: So in part, it's just a function of ultrarunning, your muscles are gonna break down to some extent. So that makes it very, very tricky to find out, to discover it. And Dr Hoffman said, ‘Sometimes the first sign that you get that someone's got rhabdo, is they have a seizure’.  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: So it can be a tricky, tricky condition to pick up. Yes, that's really—it's hard, isn't it? It's really hard. Lisa: It is hard and—but when you are going for—and some of these races are 24, 36, 50 something hours, you're going to have some breakdown of muscle and you… Eugene: You are. Lisa: I mean, keeping an eye on the colour of your urine or if you are not producing… Eugene: Yes, that’s an important one. Yes. Lisa: It is probably the easiest thing to think about. Because like you say, the nausea and headaches and confusion and fatigue are all very general parts about running anyway. So keeping an eye on it, like getting a pouch of fluid. What I would find is that in the lower abdomen, and I don't know if whether this is an actual medical symptom or not. But in the lower abdomen, I've developed this pot gap running and, it wasn't fat, obviously.  Eugene: Yes.  Lisa: ...within a couple of hours. It was fluid, and would usually coincide with my kidneys—they’re not producing or producing very little output. So I think there might be a sign that something's going on there.  Eugene: Right.  Lisa: In rhabdo, like, we're talking ultramarathons, but I have seen a case of rhabdo in a half marathon in summer.  Eugene: Yes.  Lisa: Yes. So a mild case, but enough to be taken to hospital. So it's not even just people doing the extreme extreme stuff.  Eugene: Yes.  Lisa: But it is a very—and you have to ask yourself, how much damage are we doing every time we do and I often asked, ‘Why are you not running anymore’? ‘Why are you not doing it anymore’? And apart from life's gotten a bit crazy. Am I? Indeed yes.  Eugene: Yes, yes.  Lisa: Should I have not got the time to be doing offers? I want longevity and while I love ultras, and I love the culture. And I love what I got to do. And I'm certainly not, I mean, I train lots of ultrarunners. I for myself, don't want to put myself at that risk anymore. Now that I'm also 50 and I want longevity. And therefore my health comes before my sporting ambitions now. It didn't when I was younger, but now with—unfortunately, one of the side effects of studying medical stuff for the last five years, is that I'm now a little bit more cautious.  Eugene: Yes.  Lisa: Because ignorance is bliss.  Eugene: Yes.  Lisa: What you don't know, you just go and do.  Eugene: Yes.  Lisa: You don’t actually know the implications and sometimes, you don't actually know the implications until well down the track, like, you use to check. Eugene: Yes. yes, sure. Lisa: That's where I'm sitting at the moment, as far as the sort of the dangers and the risks. I mean, how did you feel as a runner, who—you were in the same race doing the same distance? You're a little bit north of 25 now. Eugene: Jump 47. Lisa: You're 47?  Eugene: Yes. 47, yes.  Lisa: And did this make you stop and think about, ‘Do I want to keep doing this stuff? How do I feel about it’? Eugene: Yes, it sure does. It sure does make your family think of that, doesn't that? I think it reinforces that you need to have really good self management. You need to be well prepared. I spoke to—when I spoke to Dr Reynolds, and I said to him, ‘We had this big conversation about all the cold coloured urine and all that sort of stuff’. That sounds a bit odd, and a little different other conditions that can come about. Yes, and so on. And I said to him, ‘Boy listen to all of that. Do you recommend people run ultramarathons’? And he said, ‘Look. At three o'clock when the medical team is full. And I've got my hands full, I look around, and I go, What the hell have we been doing this for’? But he says, ‘But it's a small proportion that gets badly affected. And as long as you manage your risks, and you're aware of it’, he said one of the things that he's really concerned about is people jumping up the distance too quickly. Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: Or the runner suddenly, ‘Wow, I'm gonna run 100 miler’, because it has become, I think it's… Lisa: The new marathon.  Eugene: I told him, I spent more time trying to talk people out of doing milers than I do in trying to talk them into doing milers. I don't think I talk to any other or talked anyone into doing a miler. It's a very personal choice. I spend a lot of time talking to people out of it, makes me so again. But again, I don't know if that's a good idea, mate.  Lisa: Me too.  Eugene: Yes. And it sounds bad.  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: Try running podcasts. Lisa: I know. You know, my buddy out running. Eugene: Yes. But I just think people need to be really conscious of the risks.  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: And they need to be prepared to put the time in. And that's one of the things that you've identified. You've got to prepare your body. And you've got to know your body. I mean, I took—I've been running my whole life. And I didn't take the decision to enter the miler, lightly, certainly would now knowing what I do know now. And when I say no, I mean, I'd always heard of rhabdo. I'd heard of AIH, I'd heard of dehydrational systems.    And you sort of think about you sort of like, ‘Yes, yes, yes’. But having lined up at the start line with someone who didn't make it home that really reinforces that these are real risks, and you have to be prepared for them. You have to be ready for them. So, I'm not gonna stop ultrarunning, I don't think. But I'm certainly going to be a hell of a lot more careful. And listen to my body.  Lisa: Exactly.  Eugene: Sometimes you can get that. I find one side of ultra running that I struggle with a little bit is the whole kind of ‘You're not going to quit unless the ambulance takes you off the course’ kind of thing. I don't like that. I don’t really like that. Lisa: I totally agree. Eugene: You know, I agree. I love the whole mental toughness thing out of it. Don't get me wrong. That's one of the things that I enjoy about it. But you have to listen to your body. You have to listen to your body. I've pulled out of a 100k race, where I could have pushed on. You know. Looking back, it's like, ‘Yes, I could have pushed on, at what cost’? You know?  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: Yes, it just wasn't worth it. Could I push through and be out there for another hours and hours and hours and hours? Putting myself...  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: Yes, sure. I could have but what was the risk? What could have happened? And what do I get out of it? Instead I actually came away from that race having learned a hell of a lot of lessons. And they prepared me for the miler, actually. Lisa: Yes. And I think that’s some beautiful attitude and in a very wise mind. Some of the things that I did in my younger years or even—I’m talking 40s. Eugene: Yes, yes. Lisa: We're stupid. There is no other word for it. And especially in the 30s, my 30s, I thought I was bulletproof and I could push and I had that mentality, you're going to have to drag me away, framing and I have seen lots of others. And I have nearly pushed my body on a number of occasions to the point of death and I've been very, very lucky not to have died.  I've had tetany seizures, which is where your potassium level and your electrolytes are so out of whack that the whole body cramps and so I'm having a heart attack. I was luckily at that at the point that I head out, I was in Alaska, and I'd been for six weeks out in Yukon with poor nutrition and so on and pushing the body every day. I just come off a mountain when this tetany seizure hit. Luckily, I was two minutes from a hospital, and they saved my life.  Eugene: Wow. Lisa: But that would have been deadly very quickly. I've experienced extreme levels of dehydration in the Libyan desert where we only had like one and a half to two litres of water a day in 40 plus temperatures. And gone to the point where I no longer was in control of my body, and my—not only just hallucinations but the central nervous system starting to shut down. Massive kidney damage, and taking nearly two years to recover from that.  I’ve had food poisoning while running across Niger, and again bleeding at both ends pushing it to the absolute limit I did pull out of that race at 64 hours after 222Ks but that was way too late. I've gotten away by the skin of my teeth. Not to mention going through war zones or military body areas Eugene: Yes. Lisa: Or being in really dangerous situations and that's a whole podcast in itself. But it wasn't worth it. Now I think I was just so afraid of failure I was so afraid of not achieving that, which I'd set out to do that. And I have to think about it now and go I wasn't in—people who are in war scenarios or some survival situation where you have to freakin go to the limit alive. Eugene: Yes. Lisa: But I wasn't in there. This is a—well, Libyan desert ended up like that, but you know what I mean? Eugene: Midnight summer bitches.  Lisa: Oh yes, it’s some stupid shit. It really was. But at what costs? Now, I've had a lot of health issues in the last five to six years and a lot of that comes from—I haven't been able to have children you know and so on and so forth. And these are the contributing factors  Eugene: Sure enough. Lisa: That's the only reason for certain things, but now as a coach and as an older wiser woman, I don't want to see people pushing their bodies to that point where they actually close to dying or causing major damage to the body.  Eugene: Yes, yes.  Lisa: It really is not worth it. Eugene: I mean this pushing the limits isn't there. And mentally, I think there's a lot to be said for having a goal that's going to stretch you when you are going to go for it. But the key is to be prepared, isn’t it? To actually have done the training...  Lisa: The training  Eugene: ...to prepare your body. To test—so that you know when your body's screaming at you, you know it’s saying, ‘Okay, you know what, you know to pull the pen or you know to stop and rest or whatever’. I think there was some good—Tom Reynolds had some five tips which are really good.  Lisa: Yes. Let’s hear them  Eugene: To prepare yourself for an ultra especially ultras but even marathons I suppose  Lisa: Absolutely. Eugene: Number one on his list, and I think he would make this number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is don't take drugs like Ibuprofen and Voltaren and those sorts of things.  Lisa: Super important. Eugene: Do not take them. Yes, super important. The second one is drink to thirst. You know that you can have problems—your own problems if you have too much liquid.  Lisa: Yes, which we’re talking about in a sec. Eugene: Yes. Be prepared for the conditions. Have a plan for a range of conditions. So make sure you've got thermals. Make sure you've got your jackets and sawn and layers that you can take on and take off especially if you're going to some of these remote areas that we go to as ultrarunners.  Number four, the race doesn't end at the finish. Pack warm clothes, get some food ready that you can eat, some liquids. And another thing that he pointed out to me is actually some of the most dangerous times is after that finish line. When people get to the finish line, and drive hard, and they're tired. Lisa: It's so true. Eugene: You can crash easily for a second crash.  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: And number five is look out for each other. and I think that's so important. Sometimes there's a bit of competition isn't there? But number one, you've got to look out for each other Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: You are comrades in this together and you've got to have each other's backs. And there's little relationships that you build up with someone you've never met before. I still remember having a good chat to a farmer from Jordan. I spent a lot of hours with him at Tarawera. Haven't spoken up since, never met him before in my life, but there we were together at Bizmates on the trail. Lisa: Awesome. Eugene: Keeping an eye on each other. Looking out for each other. You make sure they've got their bottles filled at the aid station. You make sure that they're not getting confused or anything like that—just looking out for each other. Simple isn’t it? Lisa: That’s gold. Eugene: And that was the five tips that he gave. Actually, they're pretty good tips. Lisa: They are very good tips, and a couple other ones to pick out like the training. In my early days as a coach, I remember taking an athlete who went from half marathon to running the Big Red Run 250Ks. Eugene: Wow. Lisa: Inside a month.  Eugene: Oh. Lisa: Now on a red mat, that was stupid.  Eugene: YeS.  Lisa: He came over to do 100k to be fair, and he was doing so well. He just decided to carry on and to do the whole thing. And it was an incredible achievement.  Eugene: Oh, yes.  Lisa: However, broken my butt. Like, it never was quite the same afterwards. And he wasn't ready. He wasn't, like, his body wasn't ready. So when you prepare your body, when you're training, you doing these long runs, and you're doing back to back running, and you're doing strength training, you're doing mobility work, all these things are preparing the muscles so that they don't break down so quickly and they don't need—you don't need about rhabdo.  And another big piece of the puzzle is the experience side of things. Because then you can actually start to feel when your body's doing a chick or not. As I run, I used to do like little chickens every half hour or an hour I'd go right I'm doing a control like a pilot would before he flies the airplane. ‘How is everything? How am I feeling? Have I ever drunk in the last 10 minutes? Have I eaten anything? When was the last time I weighed? When was the last time’... Just doing a mental checklist as often as you can.  Now one of the hard things with ultra though is that you start to lose your brain function, so all the blood flow is going away from your executive function up here and you become like a bit of a moron. You’re like, ‘Oh, oh’. Eugene: Absolutely. Solving maths? Impossible. Lisa: Impossible. Or maybe doing a 24 hour race, the one at the Millennium Stadium, and there was some guys they’re testing us just for a laugh, doing Noughts and Crosses as we run around the track and our brain function is a day and night wore on just we weren't even able to add up one plus one anymore. We just completely like, ‘Eh’? He’s got low blood and my brain is not functioning. So what that does mean is that your ability to make good decisions is also impaired. I remember saying to one of my friends who was a paramedic and she was with me in Death Valley, in the second time I did Death Valley. And she says, I said to her, ‘You are responsible for my health’. I was lucky I had a crew in that situation. If you pull me out, you pull me out. I know that you won't pull me prematurely because you know what, it's taken me to get here. But my life is in your hands and I respect that. I respect you. I respect your knowledge as paramedic. If you tell me it's over, it's over. And she will be able to make that decision because I knew from my personality and from my matter that cost me to get there wasn't going to be pulling out anytime soon. So sometimes if you can have in the case where you have a crew have somebody say, ‘This is now getting dangerous’. And it's a fine line. Like I pulled my husband out of a race once, Northburn, a race that I co-founded a few years ago in the South Island. And he was doing the 100k and he actually rang me on the cellphone, and it seem the case, we had a massive storm up in the mountains. It was wild. It was his first 100k, he was in the mountains. He was scared shirtless. He was hypothermic. And I was like, ‘Oh my god, darling, just come home’. You know? So that was—and he could have pushed on.  Eugene: Yes. Lisa: And mentally that cost him a lot because he pulled out, and he didn't push over that hub. So there's this fine line between it should’ve been ours... Eugene: But he lives to tell the story.  Lisa: Exactly, and he's done that, so it wasn’t... Eugene: Exactly, that doesn't matter, you know? We love those stories. I love reading your books. I love reading the things that you've been through. But, my gosh, when you think about the risks as you say and the cost, and that's a common story. You're not alone in there, That's the sport we’re in.  Lisa: Yes. Eugene: It's ridiculous to me. But you know, it's a tough one. And it's, I think that's a really good idea. Having someone who's who's got your back. Someone who you can trust, like you say, they're not going to pull you out you know just because you stub your toe. Oh gosh... Lisa: Just because you’re... Eugene: Exactly. Exactly. Who hasn't? But you can trust them so that when you've gone to that thin line, bang!  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: Come on my area.  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: And I was lucky to have a really good mate who phased me. I went through some hallucinations. Nothing major. But he thought it was—I had my mate. And he was looking out for me. In fact, he laughed at me. Lisa: What did you see in your hallucination? Eugene: Oh, I hit home. So we were running around on an unfamiliar course. We were coming around the back of Blue Lake. Up towards the Blue Lake aid station. So about 120km. And it was just before sunrise. So, you get that funny light.  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: It's still dark, but the light is changing. And I swore coming up to the aid station, I swore I saw a robot sitting off to the side of the trail. And in my photo frame mind, I justified it as ‘Oh, it must be like reading, it must be scanning us telling the aid section that we're coming’. And so I saw it. And said to my mate, ‘James, there’s a robot. It's pretty cool’. And he's like, ‘The what’? ‘The robot there’. And he's like, ‘There’s nothing, man’. And I think it was a tree or something. I don't know what it was. But it's funny how I justified it to myself. So it was fine. And then after the light changed, I got a couple of situations where it's quite unlikely to cause hallucination or is vision going. But I—the ground was just like liquid glass. Lisa: Wow, that’s cool. Eugene: I was like, ‘Oh, should I put my foot down or not’? And James said, ‘What are you doing? Come on’! It was like, ‘What's going on with the ground’?  Lisa: [32:58] inaudible the glass. Well. Eugene: So that was but—people have some great hallucinations, don't know. But the point of that was, I had my mate there. It was never unsafe. And I'm grateful for that. So I think that's a really good tip, Lisa, to have a crew with you. Lisa: I think hooking up. Or if you're in a race where you don't have crew—which most of them are. And that you do hook up with somebody. If you can try and not too many people because then your pacing will be all out. But if you can just hook up with one person or maybe two at the max. I remember running the Gobi Desert in the Sahara with same gash who was in the desert runners movie together and this is great footage and desert runners is playing at the moment on TVNZ if anyone wants to check it out, it’s a cool movie. And yes we're running along holding each other's hands, bawling our eyes out, and but we got each other through both of those messiest days, both in the Sahara, and in the Gobi. And we ran together in India as well but with crews in that case. But that comradeship that we have there was just gold. It just helped.  When you [34:17] escaped shirtless you hit someone the and we did get lost and we did fold our paces and we did have all sorts of dramas and we kept each other going through all those hard times and I think that's one of the beautiful memories for me that I take away from that. And there were other people I've done the things with... And the depth of connection that you have with a human being when you've gone through something like that it's just next level. And that's one of the beautiful things because we’re talking about all our negatives here but it is just like—she’s a very amazing woman that one. She’s done incredible things. Eugene: It is incredible, isn’t it. Those connections you make.  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: The friendships you forge. Even if you don't see each other again, but you've got that bond. That's forever.  Lisa: Yes.  Eugene: Those moments that you shared when you're vulnerable. Lisa: When you're up [35:11] Creek and literally. Guys who didn't even speak the same language or a woman I remember running in the Sahara at one point with a—I was crying, she was crying. She was from South America somewhere, didn't speak a word of English, or another French guy picked me up in Jordan when I was running across there and I'd passed out and he came along, picked me up, got me into the next checkpoint. The French guy and Niger, it's just like, ‘Wow’. The stuff that you help each other through. It's gold, but does this do happen, you know?  Eugene: They do. They do. Yes. Lisa: We have one in the Gobi Desert. We had a young man, Nicholas Kruse was only like 30 or 31, I think. And he was first time doing it. And he wasn't trained enough, I don't think. And he—I think he underestimated the thing. And he unfortunately probably paid the ultimate price. And then you've got also the dangers. I mean, you got cases like with Turia Pitt, the forest fires in Australia, or there are things that could go wrong. Eugene: Yes, absolutely. Lisa: Even in these organisers' races. You have falls where you've hit your head and concussions and... Just because you're in an organised event, do not think that there isn't an element of danger, or that you're going to have to be self-reliant, you cannot. And inside these countries is beyond the abilities of the organisers actually to cover every base. Eugene: Absolutely. Well, even in races in New Zealand, we go to some remote places, and races route is difficult to get. You're not just going to be able to ring up 111 and get an ambulance there.  Lisa: No. Eugene: It's not like that. I've been in a 100k race where—because there have been lots of runners going through this. It was a narrow bit of the trail. And it was really dry there. And runners have been going over this bit of land. And basically, as the day wore on, it sort of started to break down a little bit. And I was just the unlucky one stick on the trail in a way. And I slid down this bank...  Lisa: Oh my god. Eugene: ...and down, down, down, down down, thinking, ‘Uh-oh, when's this going to stop’? Luckily, I hit, I came to a stop on a tree, not badly. And then basically had to scrape my way back up. Now, I was fine. But you know, those sorts of things can happen if I stumbled in a wrong way as I came off the trail and hit my head, whatever. So you are—yes, you will, I mean, it’s not... Well, I mean, when we've been out on a run in a cotton wool, so [37:57] do we. But we don't want to go everybody. But you don't need to be conscious. Lisa: I'll be conscious of it. I think... Eugene: And even when you're training too, when you're training, when you are going out in remote areas. Make sure you tell someone where you're going. Preferably run with some other mates. Maybe think about taking a locator beacon with you if you're going somewhere really remote.  Lisa: Absolutely. Eugene: Have a phone with you, do those sorts of things. Take those precautions. Just be a bit careful. Yes, we want to push ourselves. Yes, we want to be out there. Yes, we want to find new limits. But we also want to get back home.  Lisa: Yes, we want to come home to our families and not die on the way.  Eugene: Yes. Lisa: If we can. I mean, people can take it to the level that they want to go to, but just don't want people going and thinking that everything's safe because it's an organised event or because hundreds of other people have done it, means absolutely nothing. Eugene: Absolutely.  Lisa: I’ll tell you, like how many thousands of people have climbed Mount Everest, but it's still a frickin dangerous thing to do. Eugene: Absolutely.  Lisa: Doesn't mean it's safe just because lots of people have done it. I think like—if we just went through a bit of a list now of some of your things that you'd like from a medical perspective, that you should gone this research on and find out about.  One of them, so we've talked about rhabdomyolysis. Dehydration is the opposite, is well known, dehydration is what we think about more, and that's certainly something that can then can lead to troubles. And you've got hyponatraemia or EAH, so hyponatraemia let's just talk about that one briefly because it's a biggie. Hyponatraemia is a low sodium level in the body. I've had it. Lots of people give this. And it's again, a hard one to diagnose because it is very similar to the opposite problem, which is dehydration. So hyponatraemia you've actually got too much water on board.  One of the signs of this I'm even doing was 100k, one of those Oxfam ones. And because we'd been walking for so long, it was a walking running situation thing. And I got really bad hyponatraemia in that one. I was drinking a lot. I wasn't having my electrolytes, right. And my hands were like elephant hands.  Eugene: Wow.  Lisa: So that's an indication that there's something going on. So look for signs like that, look for swelling, edema. And yes, that could like...  Eugene: Nausea, lightheadedness, those sorts of things as well. Lisa: Coordination, going haywire. And the problem with hyponatraemia is you don't want to just be thinking it's dehydration and then drinking more. So it's an—it's a low sodium. So, your potassium and your sodium are having antagonistic relationships in your body. And you have, for every three bits of sodium that gets pushed out of the cells, three bits of potassium come into the cells. And it's like, it acts like a pump. And it's actually what helps your muscles contract.  So if you get that sodium, potassium, ainger, other electrolytes out of whack, there's a whole lot of things that can happen. hyponatraemia being one of them. In another one being a tetany seizure, which is what I mentioned what I had in Alaska.  Eugene: Yes, so what's that? Lisa: So this is where—in my case, it was a potassium that was really, really low in the body at 1.4. Like it’s deadly... Eugene: Wow.  Lisa: Deadly low. And I'd had in the couple of weeks building up to this actual seizure. My hands were doing this, and I was cramping all the time. And that was so—if you ever start doing that, like this weird thing where your hands are starting to spin. Eugene: So, like dinosaur hands on. Lisa: Yes, so your fingers—for those listening can't see me do my funny thing here. It's the muscles contracting and your fingers are pulling in. So I remember, swimming at some point, and the lead up to this with this was happening to me. I was like, ‘What the hell's that’? And then it would go off again. But there was a sign that I didn't have enough potassium as I found out later. Eugene: All right. Lisa: So then I had, a couple of weeks later, this tetany seizure, and it started with the whole body. Just like every muscle in the body cramping all at the same time, the most painful thing you can ever—like really bad pain, including your face muscles, including your heart, which is the problem.  And in there, the pain was horrific. I thought I was dying, I was. Luckily I just come off a mountain, or was taking shelter in a public library because it was pouring with rain and freezing cold. And this happened in the library. And there was a paramedic in the library who just happened to be fixing a light bulb. He saw me go down.  Eugene: That’s one of the 43:10 [inaudible] moments. Lisa: Yes, that was very lucky. He put a gel straight into my mouth. He just happened to have a gel on him. And that gave a little bit of glucose and stuff too, and managed to release the seizure for a couple of minutes before it happened again. But by then he got me into the ambulance and around to the hospital pretty quick, smart. And they were able to save me. But that could have been deadly. That could have been a massive heart attack on the way out. I've seen that also happen and we were in the outback of Australia with friend Chris Ord. And he had a seizure at mile, coming in at 90 sort, and we've been running in 40 odd degrees heat and he'd been taking electrolyte tablets. So people electrolyte tablets are absolutely crucial. You've got to have them. The ones he was taking didn't have potassium. They had everything else in them but their ratios weren't right. And he ended up—we had to—again incredible pain, whole body seizing, racing him into the hospital Alice Springs.  What I did do and what you can do in a case like that is give him three cans of Redbull—not advertising for Redbull or because generally that’s a shit thing to be drinking. And this case, with what it's got in it and the sugars and stuff that helped. So yes, but that's just a potassium sodium balance.  Eugene: Yes .That's the thing, isn't it? We're missing with our chemistry. We're missing with the body's chemistry. I don't know what it was but I had one race where I just finished and as soon as I finished, I started shaking.  Lisa: Oh, yes. Eugene: Shaking and shaking. I couldn't stop for hours. And it wasn't cold. I wasn't cold. Lisa: Oh, I know what it is. Eugene: Well, what is it? Because... Lisa: I don't know the name of it. But I've had that many times. It's basically where you've just got nothing left in the body.  Eugene: Yes, somebody said to me, glycogen. Yes, just the glycogen is gone.  Lisa: You just got nothing, you got nothing to heat because you know we heating ourselves all the time with our glycogen supplies and our glucose is running out of their body. And you were just on absolute zero basically, taking your blood sugar, I bet you’re in a really, really low  Eugene: Right.  Lisa: And so like, in Death—I’m telling my bloody stories, but...  Eugene: Why not? Lisa: A member in Death Valley. We be head like 55 degrees during the day, I’ve had heat stroke and had all that. And then at nighttime, it was 40 degrees. And I got shivers. I was doing that. I was like this and it was 40 degrees.And I was like, ‘Really, what the hell is going on? It's 40 degrees’. It was a lot colder than it had been, but I just had nothing left in the tank and therefore I was shaking.  And that can be a real danger when you say in the Himalayas, which I've also done and that's where you just cannot warm up. You can't keep your heat going. And these can run into other problems where you just stuck—your blood sugar just keep dropping, and you can end up when—going into a coma just because your blood sugar is too low, and you got hypothermia. Eugene: The other problem that happens. And I've had this a couple of times after ultras is I just have zero appetite, I can't, I just can't face the thought of food. You got to get something into you, you go start replenishing your body, you got to look at soups or something to get some nutrition back into it. Because like you say, it can be dangerous. Lisa: And that's a recovery too, like, if you can get something in it will help you recover a heck of a lot faster even like just generally fully training runs, if you can get something in within an hour. But usually within an hour, you just do not feel, you just feel like vomiting if you eat too much. So you just have to take a little, little, little nibble, nibble, nibble. And something that you're really—usually savoury salty things that you will get have a taste for. So soup or things or something like that. Just trying to eat something in. My gosh, there's a lot to be worried about. Eugene: And that's the thing, that's the thing. These are all things that you need to be conscious of. But you manage your rests, don't you? You can manage them. And what one of the other things that Dr Reynold said, and I think is pertinent today, what just what we're dwelling on the bad things is that these risks are exponential. So he says, ‘Don't think that you run 100k all year, well, then 160Ks, that's only another 60k’. It's an exponential increase, and an exponential increase in those risks as well. So conscious of those things as well.  Lisa: So watch when you're jumping up in this.  Eugene: Yes.  Lisa: And also don't fall into the trap of thinking, ‘Oh, I did it once. Therefore, it's a piece of cake. I could do it either’. I've run into this where I came off the back of a Himalayan one. I just done 222Ks. I thought it was the bee's knees. And then I went and did it just a couple of weeks later and I hadn't recovered properly a 50k in Australia. And the wheels freakin came off at 25k. It wasn't the—I had to be risky for some beer drinking Ausies in the middle of the bush. I'll tell you your ego suddenly deflated.  Eugene: Yes, absolutely, Lisa and it's—I learned that lesson even just with the map just for the marathon.  Lisa: Don’t say that. Eugene: But just for the marathon. I ran my first marathon when I was 21 and I trained for it. And so I found it actually quite easy. I don't mean that—I wasn't fast but but it was I got to the end of it. I can't keep waiting for the wall. The wall never came. I got—I thought, ‘Ah’! So I made the mistake thinking marathon is easy. A piece of cake. Yes, run up on the next one. [49:13] ecruzi hardly did any training.  Lisa: Oh.  Eugene: My bad, so bad. And it was like it was just the marathon telling me, ‘Sunshine’...  Lisa: Respect. Eugene: ‘Respect the distance’. You cannot run something like this without respecting it. And it was a good listen.  Lisa: Good listen. Eugene: Good listen, I'll let my listen. But I let my listen.  Lisa: And in by that token, respect any distance. People often say to me, I'm just doing it, I'm just doing half marathons, or I'm just doing marathons and because I've done lots of ultramarathons they think, ‘Oh, that would be nothing for you’. And I'm like, ‘Hell no’. Eugene: Hell no. Absolutely. Lisa: Every distance has to respect because it’s sort of basic thing for starters. 100 metres is a long way when you're going at Usain Bolt and 5k is really fast when you're going at your maximum. And a team K is an attunity. It's all relative to pace for status. And the second thing is never think because you did it once. Next time, it's going to be sweet. And Eugene has given us an absolute good example of that. And it is. It’s like take every race is that first is a big deal. And you have to prepare your body for it.  And don't—oh, another mistake I made this was awesome. Another embarrassing thing. So you know. Done 25 years of stupid stuff and then when my mum got sick I didn't train obviously properly for 10 months and then I ran across the north on and raising money for charity a friend who’ve died, Samuel Gibson a wonderful man that we lost. And I was so moved. I decided I'm going to run anyway. And I have not been training for 10 months because I've been looking after my mum and I sort of thought out, this sweet, have done this backwards and upside down. I can do this. Oh my God, my ass got handed to me. And I got through it. But oh, hell, it was hell. It was not funny. So prepare. And even though you've done it a100 times doesn't mean you still got it. Eugene: That's right. That's right. Lisa: I assume I don't got it now. Eugene: And that point you made earlier about recovery, too. I did a 100k race and then you had this plan to recover, to take weeks off, got peer pressure. Mates we're doing a 50k. ‘Come on. Come on, man. I don't want peer pressure. Peer pressure’. ‘Okay. You’re already lined up to this 50k race’. Oh boy. And it just set me backwards. It set me back so far, you know?  Lisa: Mentaly too. Eugene: Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. Yes. Yes. So, yes, respect things. Lisa: We've got to respect things. We've got to not expect that our bodies got it just because we've done it once before. Be aware of things like rhabdomyolysis, heatstroke, hyponatraemia, altitude if you're doing altitude, podcasts in itself, be aware of burnout...  Eugene: Hypothermia. Lisa: ...hypothermia, dehydration. All of these things are things that we can and do happen to be seizures, electrolyte imbalances, getting lost, going through dangerous places, breaking ankles, and all that sort of thing. So part, it is, can happen. So, be aware of that. And we're not saying don't go out and have adventures, because that'd be really critical. But prepare for those adventures. Get proper training. Get proper coaching. Know what you're in for. Eugene: It's like driving a car. One of the most dangerous things we do. But we make sure we wear our seatbelts, we make sure our cars have got a Warrant of Fitness and the service, and everything. We make sure there's air in the tires, we make sure there's fuel in the tank, and our bodies have got to be like that as well.  Lisa: Exactly. Eugene: That driving is so so dangerous. You know, so many people a year die on our roads.  Lisa: Yes, more than ultras.  Eugene: Yes, so we don't not drive. We just make sure that when we drive we are prepared and our cars are prepared. Well, that's the same as running. There are risks, not as much as driving. But there are risks, but we just make sure we've got air in the tires, we've got fuel in the tank, that we're serviced, and ready to go when we line up for races. Lisa: Brilliant. Eugene, you've been fantastic today. And now you've got another thing to get to. So I want to thank you for writing that article. And thank you for your honesty and openness about this because it's really important that we do talk about it in our running community and to share the good, the bad and the ugly. So I think it's important. And keep up the great work. Of course, people should go and listen to Dirt Church Radio. It's a fantastic podcast that  Eugene: We have great gear that’s wireless.  Lisa: Honoured to be on your show, mate. And I love talking to you and I love what you do. So thanks very much, mate for being on the show today.  Eugene: Anytime. Thanks, Lisa. That's it this week for Pushing the Limits. Be sure to rate, review, and share with your friends and head over and visit Lisa and her team at lisatamati.com

Ahhhh, the friendzone. That lonely yet connected, comforting yet terrorising, familiar yet frustrating place. Of course, the friend zone isn’t the only place we might end up chasing unrequited love - sometimes it’s in a relationship that stutters and two people seem to be misaligned. Either way, finding ourselves in the place of wanting someone and them not wanting us back, or them being unavailable to us, can be heart-aching and life-consuming.   That’s the subject of this week's podcast episode in a revamped version of a listener Q&A. I have had tonnes of questions from guys in and around this area. Usually from ‘Nice Guys’ - guys that are so terrified of rejection, who so desperately need to be liked or their inner world will fall over, so they end up just playing the good nice guy in the hope that people will see them as this and like them.   These guys - of which I am a recovering Nice Guy myself - often end up in glorified friendships, essentially one-sided faux-relationships, with women/people they have feelings for because they were too unsure about themselves early on to say how they felt combined with an almost unbearable fear of rejection, that they just hover in the space of “If I am around enough and nice enough, maybe they’ll notice/like/love me.” (It doesn’t work).   Previously across three different #AskMike Q&A videos on my social media channels, I have addressed similar questions in this space. Today on the podcast I wanted to bring them together and dive a bit deeper on what’s playing out and what to do about it, how to get past that crippling and almost life-stoping focus on unavailable love.   I introduce the overall topic and then each individual video, before expanding on them all with some common themes and lessons for guys who are either in this right now in your life, or recognise that pattern totally unrelated to unrequited love, where you’re so narrow-focused on one thing that you can’t seem to focus on anything else even though you know you need to.   Mike’s Takeaways: I could talk about this all day. I’ve helped so many guys in situations like this, not just deep in the friendzone - of their own creation - but suffering of Nice Guyitis in all areas of life. The simplest advice - to quote Stifler from American Pie - is to “locate your balls, remove the shrink wrap” and have the conversation. But it’s much more than that. In all reality, the key is to focus on something else - in the case of unrequited love - what other love is possible for and available to you. Of course, this last part brings up something central to the Nice Guy that we touch on in the episode - ‘Well, I have to then believe there is more out there for me’   If this resonates and hits home, please tell me. If you are going to take action on the advice in here I would love to hear about it - share your messy action with me. And if you have your own questions for a solo Q&A episode, then send them through to me at support@mikecampbell.com.au As always, if this lands, please share this episode with a man you know could benefit from it. If you haven’t, please leave me a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.  Remember - DO something with the lessons in this podcast. Let me know you’re listening and how you’re applying it in your life - tag me on socials @mikecampbellmc on Instagram or @Mike Campbell Man Coach on Facebook.   Other links: Take my 2 minute quiz - ‘Are you too nice?’ Other ways to consume this podcast: On Apple On Spotify On YouTube Read transcript Get involved: Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Follow on Spotify Sign up for Mike’s LEGENDAILY Texts to help you with a daily shot of loving straight talk direct to your pocket Get Your Relationship Shit Together with Mike’s Better Partner Project 4 week Accelerator Course in Relationships for Men

How to Build Mental Strength It’s November now - and for certain men, certain groups and organisations that means one thing (among many) - MOvember. Which really brings to the conversation the idea of men growing moustaches in support of men’s health; more specifically testicular cancer, prostate cancer and suicide in men. Of course, Movember isn’t the only charity or organisation dealing with men’s mental health, in fact, I am a board member of one called The MENtour. Our mission is very much about raising men’s emotional literacy. And that’s ultimately what I wanted to (and did) cover in this episode: What is men’s mental health and why do we struggle with it so much? Here’s the big glaring statistic on this issue: roughly 75% of all suicides are men. In Australia is essentially 6 a day out of 8 across the nation. And these stats generally carry over in the majority of the western world. We can look at solutions to dealing with the risk, we have countless awareness campaigns - growing moustaches being a very obvious and highly effective one - and we have more and more, what I call, crisis point options and organisations dealing with men at the brink. But this like so many aspects of being a man, is reactive - it’s waiting until the shit has hit the fan and trying to clean it up, instead of preventing the shit from getting in the vicinity of the fan, to begin with.   That’s what we cover in this podcast - how men can be proactive with their mental and emotional wellbeing - how they can build emotional literacy. We explore how this even happens - why a lot of men not only fear exploring their emotions but what happens when something hasn’t been used for so long - it atrophies. And we then look at what else comes into this picture, such as building genuine resilience and overall mental strength, including the ability to simply talk through shit that needs to be talked through. This is both a perspective on how we view and approach men’s mental health and emotional wellbeing, and some ideas and tangible actions you can implement in your own life today. As always, if this lands, please share this episode with a man you know could benefit from it. If you haven’t, please leave me a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.    Remember - DO something with the lessons in this podcast. Let me know you’re listening and how you’re applying it in your life - tag me on socials @mikecampbellmc on Instagram or @Mike Campbell Man Coach on Facebook. Other links: Movember The MENtour Tomorrow Man Other ways to consume this podcast: On Apple On Spotify On YouTube (coming soon) Read transcript (coming soon)   Get involved: Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Follow on Spotify Sign up for Mike’s LEGENDAILY Texts to help you with a daily shot of loving straight talk direct to your pocket Get Your Relationship Shit Together with Mike’s Better Partner Project 4 week Accelerator Course in Relationships for Men

How to live with Integrity In this episode, I venture into and explore something very close to my heart - and head and balls - and that is: INTEGRITY. It is my highest values, because, for me, everything else is determined by this. If I don’t have that, then all my other values don’t really get a chance. Join me as I share some personal stories - including the first one in which as a younger man I fell into a common trap; lying to someone a liked and pulling myself right out of integrity in doing so. I take you through what integrity actually is, how to assess it, and how to understand it on a deeper level so that if we fall out of it we can navigate our way back in. I visit a story about a time my now father-in-law hit me with a daunting question in front of his (Nardia’s) family, well before I was even close to being a permanent fixture; “What are your intentions with our Nardia?” * GULP* Tune in to see how I handled this. Quite fucking excellently, I might add. I call on this story often in teaching about integrity because regardless of the answer I shared, what the key point sticks to is - can I be honest here regardless of what that honesty entails? I venture into some of the nature of men and the masculine in how we have this need to test each other, and essentially what we’re doing is testing the strength, the dependability of those men we go into battle (hunt) with. If you’re a man struggling to understand yourself, wanting to work out what that niggling little feeling inside of you is, or simply wanting to access what’s possible for you, it starts and stops with INTEGRITY - this episode is for you. As always, if this lands, please share this episode with a man you know could benefit from it. If you haven’t, please leave me a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.    Remember - DO something with the lessons in this podcast. Let me know you’re listening and how you’re applying it in your life - tag me on socials @mikecampbellmc on Instagram or @Mike Campbell Man Coach on Facebook.   Other content mentioned: Integrity Check-In questions: What was the promise or commitment you made to yourself? What did you choose to do? (Have you been choosing/did you choose to do instead?) What are the consequences? What’s the driver? Is this a pattern? What do you need to do to return to/remain in integrity?   Other ways to consume this podcast: On Apple On Spotify On YouTube Read transcript   Get involved: Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Follow on Spotify Sign up for Mike’s LEGENDAILY Texts to help you with a daily shot of loving straight talk direct to your pocket Get Your Relationship Shit Together with Mike’s Better Partner Project 4 week Accelerator Course in Relationships for Men

In this modern day and society, people are very success-driven and thus even bring their workplace to the bedroom. So much time is given to the process of competition that people forget about their well-being. They are sleep deprived and so they have to turn to toxic sleeping pills or alcohol. And when they're at work they need stimulants such as caffeine to make them focus.  Kind of the life our guest has to go through working 80-100hour weeks and achieving her career milestones as a nuerologist.  Our guest today in this episode of the Living Your Dreams Awake podcast is Dr. Romila Mushtaq, known to many as “Dr. Romie '' whom I’ve met at an amazing Mastermind event in Los Angeles.  Dr. Romie is a sought-out brain doctor, mindfulness expert, and leadership keynote speaker who brings together a balanced message of science, business, and wellness to the top organizations. Her work is so powerful and profound that you'll actually love hearing this conversation today. So, get ready to listen through your heart! REMEMBER - Do not be disconnected with your soul’s purpose. This week's tip is to replace your burnt out light bulbs. Do you have burnt out light bulbs or dimly lit areas in your home? It is time to reignite your life but also your energy. Having burnt out light bulbs can represent you urnt out in your life energetically. So get your life. Light up your home and replace your light bulbs to perform for more vibrancy and energy in your life. HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT WE COVER DURING THIS EPISODE: Why would a traditionally trained medical doctor in the U.S. go for something that’s not mainstream? The defining moment that pushed her to change and sent her travelling around the world seeking for teachers on mindfulness, meditation, yoga and “Ayurveda”. What Dr. Romie’s father told her that made her turn on the Survival Mode - The internal fight within and the push to work harder.  The Busy Brain syndrome and how to heal it?  How do you create a Busy Brain?  Integrative and Functional Medicine, what’s it all about? A small glimpse into Alzheimer's disease. A conversation shift to Feng Shui of the bedroom to bring about Rest, Romance and Relaxation. More on BrainSHIFT Protocol. (...plus a look into digital detox) Books that Dr. Romie is listening/reading for inspiration.   LINKS & RESOURCES: PowerHouse Masterclass Book on Alzheimers: The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline by Dale Bredesen   CONNECT WITH DR. ROMIE: https://drromie.com/   CONNECT WITH ME Website

In this episode, we talked about a question submitted to us, which is very timely because we are traveling - What  happens when you go travelling, do you feng shui the place where you will stay? Well it really depends. What is important is that you need to tune in to what kind of energy you want and really look at the place, if it gives you a nice feeling. So join me as I share with you some insights that you can take with you when travelling. Indeed this is a fun Friday, enjoy!  REMEMBER - Do what feels good for you.   HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT WE COVER DURING THIS EPISODE: What are the things you need to look at when traveling? Why is it important to know what kind of energy you want when looking for a place to stay Why is it important to check for the artwork that is placed in your room Why do I recommend not having a TV in the bedroom Why should mirrors not be opposite your bed?  Do you really need to feng shui the place you’re staying? (...it depends)   LINKS & RESOURCES: PowerHouse Masterclass Free training: Unlock the Hidden Energy of Your Home

Welcome to this week’s episode of Dropset Gorgeous Radio! I have an extra special episode for you today! Today is my birthday and I’m super excited for you guys to hear the 5 life lessons that you DON’T want to hear but that you NEED to know. I’m going to share these life lessons with you and then correlate them to either an example in business, in fitness, or in relationships, because I feel everyone can stand to learn how they can apply these life lessons to their own individual personal lives and the relationships that they have with friends, family, and significant others. Fitness is always going to be close to my heart and it’s definitely a personal passion of mine, but business is my main focus in terms of my clear path and my business consulting. I want to make sure I’m paralleling these lessons in different verticals so you can take value from whichever life lesson applies to you in this moment, in this season of your life, and take away a key actionable item that you can work on through these lessons that I’m sharing!    Lesson #1: If it seems to be good to be true, it probably is   Understanding typical/worst results vs. top student/outlier results In business or relationships, keep an eye out for red flags and follow your intuition Lesson #2: It doesn’t have to be hard, but it shouldn’t be easy. You shouldn’t hate what you’re doing, but you should have to put forth effort to get the results you want. Relationships should not be forced or hard, but they do require daily effort Lesson #3: You’re going to experience loss. Importance of knowing progress will always go up and down Focus on your goal and what you can fix and what you can control Lesson #4: There is no such thing as being “self-made”. Recognizing that support is not a bad thing Lesson #5: You can’t help everybody, and you shouldn’t try to.     Understand that people can only receive support if they’re open and willing to receive it    Focusing on impact vs. income   Powerful Quotes to Remember: Do your due diligence and research before making any investments. Take calculated risks and educated decisions.       You should never stop putting effort into something you truly love doing or that you truly want. It doesn’t have to be hard to effective. You can operate from a place of flow instead of a hustle and grind. If it’s not enjoyable, why are you doing it? There’s no such thing as linear progression; there are peaks and valleys. Don’t get caught up in the valleys of loss, so you can keep going and reach a higher peak. Get of your high horse. Recognize and appreciate the support you have and amplify it. If you’re trying to play the long game in your business, know that you cannot help everyone.   For more information about Amber Morningstar follow her on Instagram, click here, or check out her YouTube Channel. For all your supplement needs make sure to browse Tiger Fitness because you're more than just a number here!

Kate Rentz, director, photographer and adventurer Kate Rentz: Kate Rentz is a director and photographer living in Los Angeles, CA.  She's enthusiastic about the outdoors, culture, travel, art, and human connection.  Kate was diagnosed with Lyme Disease in 2015 after suffering for 15+ years going undiagnosed. During those 15 years, Kate experienced extreme pain, insomnia, and brain fog which she complained about in countless doctor's offices. The diagnoses came back varying: Endometriosis,  IBS, and the infamous, "it's all in your head." Kate Rentz found the majority of her healing in Flagyl, herbs, ozone therapy, AND the great outdoors. IG: @katerentz The Weekly Challenge: This is new my friends so I hope you're on board for some change! My podcasts are now due to come out on Mondays and with each episode I will be releasing a "weekly challenge." But what IS  a weekly challenge!? It's something for you to do each day of that week that will contribute to your healing. Remember: Do not beat yourself up, we are simply striving to do this, it is NOT about perfection. Also, please take the challenge and mold it to suit you. The best part (for me): I'm going to do it, too! So, hop on over to my Instagram @sheajackie and follow me to see IF I'm able to do it! Ready for this week's challenge? GO OUTSIDE. Each day, for at least twenty minutes, get yourself out. Whether that means sitting on your stoop and staring at a tree, going for a hike, walking around the block, or going skiing—I don't care what or how. But get outside during the sunny hours and look at some nature. Your lawn? The bird up there? The clouds? Whatever. I'm going to be in NYC this week so it will be an extra challenge. Giddy-up. Listen to this Episode if you are Especially Interested In: Lyme disease Holistic healing Parasites and how to treat them Listening to your own body and how it helps you heal How to get outside when you're totally exhausted What to do when you have flare-ups Resting when you hate resting How nature can heal you References Listed in This Episode: Dr. Melanie Gisler  Wi Spa Flagyl Happy Listening! SaveSave SaveSave

你会爱上一个曾经背叛过的人吗？Can you love the one who once betrayed?别再去打扰一个不回复你信息的人。Do not disturb the one who doesn't reply your message.别把时间浪费在那个口口声声说爱你却不做出表示的人身上。Do not waste your time on the one who always says I love you but does nothing.不爱你的人也不会爱你的其它。The one who doesn't love you doesn't love your dog.最爱你的人是我。难道你还不明白吗？I'm the one who loves you the most. Don't you get it?真正爱你的人不会让你哭。The one who truly loves you won't make you cry.愿意花时间陪你的人值得你珍惜。The one who is willing to spend time with you deserves your cherish.照顾好自己的人才能让自己的生活精彩。The one who takes good care of himself can colour his life.努力的人不一定会升职。The one who works hard doesn't necessarily get promoted.努力的人会让自己的生活变得多彩多姿。The one who works hard colours his own life.欲戴皇冠，必承其重。The one who wants to wear the crown must bear the weight.那些给过你伤痛的人，就忘记吧。Leave those who once hurt you behind.单身的人一直在找另一半。事实是，没那么简单，就能找到聊得来的伴。Those who are single keep looking for their partners. The fact is it's not easy to find the one who can chat with well.你说，那个懂你的人才能填补你心里空白的地方。The one who understands you can fill the empty place in your heart.记着，千万不要忽略在你极度困难时帮过你的那些朋友，也不要再和那些给你带来麻烦让你的生活雪上加霜的人交往。Remember: Do not neglect those who helped you out of the predicament. Cut off the tie with those who made you in trouble and worsen your life.谨以此篇，献给那些年，爱过我的人们。I'm dedicating this writing to those who loved me over the years.

你会爱上一个曾经背叛过的人吗？Can you love the one who once betrayed?别再去打扰一个不回复你信息的人。Do not disturb the one who doesn’t reply your message.别把时间浪费在那个口口声声说爱你却不做出表示的人身上。Do not waste your time on the one who always says I love you but does nothing.不爱你的人也不会爱你的其它。The one who doesn’t love you doesn’t love your dog.最爱你的人是我。难道你还不明白吗？I'm the one who loves you the most. Don't you get it?真正爱你的人不会让你哭。The one who truly loves you won’t make you cry.愿意花时间陪你的人值得你珍惜。The one who is willing to spend time with you deserves your cherish.照顾好自己的人才能让自己的生活精彩。The one who takes good care of himself can colour his life.努力的人不一定会升职。The one who works hard doesn’t necessarily get promoted.努力的人会让自己的生活变得多彩多姿。The one who works hard colours his own life.欲戴皇冠，必承其重。The one who wants to wear the crown must bear the weight.那些给过你伤痛的人，就忘记吧。Leave those who once hurt you behind.单身的人一直在找另一半。事实是，没那么简单，就能找到聊得来的伴。Those who are single keep looking for their partners. The fact is it’s not easy to find the one who can chat with well.你说，那个懂你的人才能填补你心里空白的地方。The one who understands you can fill the empty place in your heart.记着，千万不要忽略在你极度困难时帮过你的那些朋友，也不要再和那些给你带来麻烦让你的生活雪上加霜的人交往。Remember: Do not neglect those who helped you out of the predicament. Cut off the tie with those who made you in trouble and worsen your life.谨以此篇，献给那些年，爱过我的人们。I'm dedicating this writing to those who loved me over the years.

Do you ever think about the shortness of life? This week on the #TomFerryShow I share a story about an amazing experience I had with my sons on a beach in Mexico. I talked to them about the importance of life and how to make the most of the short amount of time that we all have left… Watch this week’s episode to learn: -3 Questions to live your life By Design -How to make the 80/20 principle work in your favor -Why (and how) you should do more of what you love Let me know what you think of this episode in the comments! Remember: Do what you love, with the people you love, for the people you love! Read more: http://bit.ly/2auk3mu ----------- I hope you got some helpful tips and new ideas from this podcast. To ensure you don't miss all my FREE training all you have to do is sign up here with your email bit.ly/TF-VideoTraining ------------ Connect with Tom on his other social channels: Facebook - facebook.com/CoachTomFerry Twitter - twitter.com/TomFerry YouTube - youtube.com/RealEstateTrainingTF Instagram - instagram.com/CoachTomFerry

Show Notes Marching Band! Doing stuff and things: John Oliver, Jim Gaffigan, Pete Holmes Doctor Who poster: http://www.nerdist.com/2013/09/doctor-whos-50th-gets-a-title-and-a-poster/ Pete Homes: New Comedy Boyfriend Pete Holmes Website: http://www.peteholmes.com/ Pete Holmes Twitter: https://twitter.com/peteholmes Pete Homes Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/peteholmes 2 Nerds 1 Podcast: keeps getting better Wanted: YOUR promos! send to dihard.info Remember: Do not give up what you want most for what you want right now! Intro and ending music by the URI Ram Marching Band under the direction of Dr. Brian Cardany.

Show Notes:   Picture is used with permission from Super Serious Show: http://www.flickr.com/photos/superseriousshow/6478010459/ The photographer is Mandee Johnson, www.mandeejohnson.com My fangirl almost funny but really sincere bits: The hardest I ever laughed: Chris Hardwick's unintentional 3 way (Original Chris Hardwick Mashup: http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/tklk05/mash-up-hotel-rooms ) SF Sketchfest Déjà vu: the return of the hotel mirror joke A Nerdgirl's Monologue : (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/386b86125a/chris-hardwick-s-message-to-emma-stone )I had re-recorded this but....Pro Tip of the Day: Make sure you are really recording when you are recording. #sigh Closing: 30 Seconds with Chris Hardwick (The room gets dusty for me #feelings) Ultimately, I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes, the dreamer of improbable dreams. It says so on my podcast business card. Opening music: Ben Folds Five "Do it anyway" (Because I needed to remember this when releasing this....) Closing music: Martha Jones Theme on piano by Murray Gold (Because....#feeelings) Also sampled: Ben Folds Five "Philosophy" I apologize for the highly self indulgent episode. I equally apologize for the horrible execution of this adequately written piece. Well you have to start somewhere. I will be back to my unapologetically enthusiastic self. Thank you for allowing me to experiment. Remember: Do not give up what you want most for what you want right now!