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Often when we are trying to make a sale we get totally focused on the value we can bring to the prospect and their business. Seldom do we consider the ramifications our new product or service will have for the people and their work flow. That's right; our new “whatever” is disrupting the business even as it is providing new value. In short we are talking about change and change management. So, don't get stuck in a rut as Scott and I welcome change strategist, Jenny Niemela to discuss Integrating Change Management into Sales and other fascinating factoids on Episode 669 of the Winning at Selling podcast. Integrating Change Management into Sales - from Special Guest - Jenny Niemela Bill Hellkamp – See my LinkedIn profile and send me an invite Visit my website: http://www.reachdev.com/ Scott “Professor Plum” Plum – See my LinkedIn profile and send me an invite Visit my website: https://www.mnsales.com  

Today's World News Brief is hosted by Mike Fredenburg (with a modicum of interaction from Bob Siegel). Mike has done a great deal of research into the Ukraine situation and has a unique perspective. He shares facts seldom heard!   Click on your podcasting platform below to subscribe to World News Brief: Apple  | Google | Spotify | TuneIn | Amazon | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Deezer | Android |

Today's World News Brief is hosted by Mike Fredenburg (with a modicum of interaction from Bob Siegel). Mike has done a great deal of research into the Ukraine situation and has a unique perspective. He shares facts seldom heard!   Click on your podcasting platform below to subscribe to World News Brief: Apple  | Google | Spotify | TuneIn | Amazon | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Deezer | Android |

Today's World News Brief is hosted by Mike Fredenburg (with a modicum of interaction from Bob Siegel). Mike has done a great deal of research into the Ukraine situation and has a unique perspective. He shares facts seldom heard!   Click on your podcasting platform below to subscribe to World News Brief: Apple  | Google | Spotify | TuneIn | Amazon | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Deezer | Android |

A new track by DJ Habett from the album "It felt like another fever" (2025-03-22). Tags: Ambient, Seldom, Signal, Horizontal, Mesmerizing, Epic, Glide, Shimmer, Ladder CC(by). Production notes: Sampled from an absurd 80s band. Easy to master, second take. Morning before.

A new track by DJ Habett from the album "It felt like another fever" (2025-03-20). Tags: Electro, Seldom, Abstract, Lame, Attic, Drift, Surface, Mor CC(by). Production notes: Trying to emerge from the sampler. Easy. Laidback. The sample is tough o decrypt. Bad mastering ?

Dirty thirties begin, baby!Podcast art by Joey Rizk

Many patients with epilepsy are unable to acheive optimal seizure control with medical therapy. Palliative surgical procedures, neurostimulation devices, and other nonpharmalogical treatments can lead to a meaningful reduction in seizures and improved outcomes. In this episode, Teshamae Monteith, MD FAAN, speaks with Daniel Friedman, MD, MSc, author of the article “Surgical Treatments, Devices, and Nonmedical Management of Epilepsy,” in the Continuum® February 2025 Epilepsy issue. Dr. Montieth is a Continuum® Audio interviewer and an associate editor of Continuum® Audio and an associate professor of clinical neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida. Dr. Friedman is a professor (clinical) of neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Director of NYU Langone Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at NYU Langone Health in New York, New York. Additional Resources Read the article: Surgical Treatments, Devices, and Nonmedical Management of Epilepsy Subscribe to Continuum: shop.lww.com/Continuum Earn CME (available only to AAN members): continpub.com/AudioCME Continuum® Aloud (verbatim audio-book style recordings of articles available only to Continuum® subscribers): continpub.com/Aloud More about the American Academy of Neurology: aan.com Social Media facebook.com/continuumcme @ContinuumAAN Host: @headacheMD Guest: @dfriedman36  Full episode transcript available here Dr Jones: This is Dr Lyell Jones, Editor-in-Chief of Continuum, the premier topic-based neurology clinical review and CME journal from the American Academy of Neurology. Thank you for joining us on Continuum Audio, which features conversations with Continuum's guest editors and authors who are the leading experts in their fields. Subscribers to the Continuum Journal can read the full article or listen to verbatim recordings of the article and have access to exclusive interviews not featured on the podcast. Please visit the link in the episode notes for more information on the article, subscribing to the journal, and how to get CME. Dr Monteith: This is Dr Teshamae Monteith. Today, I'm interviewing Dr Daniel Friedman about his article on surgical treatments, devices, tools, and non-medication management of epilepsy, which appears in the February 2025 Continuum issue on epilepsy. Welcome to the podcast. How are you? Dr Friedman: I'm well, how are you? Dr Monteith: Thank you for your article. Dr Friedman: Thank you for the opportunity to talk today. Dr Monteith: Why don't you introduce yourself? Dr Friedman: So yeah, so I'm Dan Friedman. I am a professor of neurology here at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and I am the director of the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. I'm primarily an adult neurologist and I treat teens and adults with hard- difficult-to-treat epilepsy, including surgical treatments for epilepsy. Dr Monteith: And I know you see a lot of patients because I did my residency there. And so, when you graduate, you get a lot of it, like I think many, many residents. What inspired you to choose epilepsy as a profession? Dr Friedman: I came to neurology through my interest in neuroscience. I was a neuroscience undergraduate. I was very interested in the brain and brain function. Particularly, I was interested in how neurons communicate and organize to entrain and rhythms and that encode information. And through that interest and through my experiences in the laboratory, I actually became interested in how they do that in pathological circumstances like seizures. And so, I started reading about epilepsy, and then when I started seeing patients with epilepsy, you know, I decided this is the specialty for me for a lot of reasons. One is it combines inpatient and outpatient care. You get to establish long-term relationships with patients. For many of my patients, I'm probably the doctor that they see most often. You see people across the lifespan. And what I'm going to talk about today is for some people, you actually get to cure their disease, which at the time I was coming into neurology was something pretty rare. Dr Monteith: Yeah, that's great. Why don't you tell us, what were you thinking when you started writing the article? What did you set out to do? Dr Friedman: What I really wanted to do is to educate neurologists out there about the options that they have for their patients with epilepsy, especially those with difficult-to-treat or drug-resistant epilepsy, and give them the tools to communicate those options. Especially for them to understand the rationale, why we choose the interventions that we do as epileptologists, how to appropriately refer patients and have them be partners in that discussion with patients and families. One of the things that we have known for a long time is that the time to referral for things like epilepsy surgery is too long. You know, the average patient with drug resistant epilepsy who undergoes epilepsy surgery waits about twenty years. And for patients who could have curative therapy, you know, become seizure free, that's a lot of life years lost. If we can get patients to that potentially life-altering therapy earlier, that'd be great. Dr Monteith: Yeah, that is really impactful as you think about it. So why don't you tell us what the essential points of your article? Dr Friedman: The central point of my article is really that when patients have drug-resistant epilepsy, which means that our available anti-seizure medicines are not controlling their seizures to the degree that they need, there are other treatment options. Some of those are what we call curative, which means that they could stop their seizures entirely; and some of them are palliative, they could reduce the frequency or severity of seizures and improve quality of life and other outcomes. The other thing that I wanted to highlight was, in addition to these types of therapies, there are other tools we have at our disposal that can improve the quality of life and safety of our patients with epilepsy, including devices for seizure monitoring. Dr Monteith: And how do you define drug-resistant epilepsy? I feel like that could be a moving target. Dr Friedman: The International League Against Epilepsy actually set out to define it about a decade ago, and they defined it as patients who fail at least two appropriately selected anti-seizure medicines due to lack of efficacy. Then they're still having ongoing seizures. What does that mean? So, that means that the medicine that was chosen was appropriate for the type of seizures that they have, whether it's focal or generalized, and that it didn't work because of a lack of efficacy and not because of side effects. And we know from multiple studies that once patients fail two medications, the likelihood that the third, fourth, fifth, etcetera, medicine will control their seizures becomes smaller and smaller. It's not impossible, but the rates fall below five percent. And so we call those patients drug-resistant. Dr Monteith: So, it sounds like despite newer therapies, really things haven't changed in ten years. Dr Friedman: Yeah, unfortunately, at least when the concept was first investigated back in 2000 by Quan and Brody, they found that a third of patients were drug-resistant. When they went back in the mid-2010s to relook at these patients, despite the introduction of many new medications, the rate of patients who were drug-resistant was essentially unchanged. There may be therapies that are emerging or in development that may have better odds, but right now we don't really understand what makes people drug resistant and how we can target that. Dr Monteith: But you do raise a good point that this is about efficacy and not tolerability. And at least for some of the newer medications, they're better tolerated. If you stop the medicine because you had some side effect, that might change how that person has classified better-tolerated treatments. Dr Friedman: It's true. And better-tolerated treatments, you can potentially use higher doses. One of the things that is not in the definition of drug-resistant epilepsy, but as a practicing neurologist, we all know, is that the patients have to take the medicine for it to be effective. And unfortunately, they have to take it every day. And if the medicine makes them feel bad, they may choose not to take it, present to you as drug-resistant, when in reality they may be drug-sensitive if you got them on medicine that doesn't make them feel bad. Dr Monteith: So why don't we talk about patients that are ideal candidates for epilepsy surgery? Dr Friedman: The ideal candidates for epilepsy surgery… and I'll start by talking about curative epilepsy surgery, where the goal of the surgery is to make patients seizure-free. The best candidates are patients who have lesional epilepsy, meaning that there is a visible MRI abnormality like a focal cortical dysplasia, hippocampus sclerosis, cavernoma in a part of the brain that is safe to resect, non-eloquent, and where you can safely perform a wide margin of resection around that lesion. It helps if they have few or no generalized tonic-clonic seizures and a shorter duration of epilepsy. So the ideal patient, the patient that if they came to my office, I would say you should get surgery right now, are patients with non-dominant temporal lobe epilepsy of a few years' duration. So as soon as they've shown that they're not responding to two medicines, those are the ideal patients to say, you would have the most benefit and the least risk from epilepsy surgery. We know from studies that patients with temporal lobe epilepsy do a little better with surgery. We know patients who have a visible lesion on MRI do better with epilepsy surgery. We know that patients who have infrequent secondarily generalized seizures do better. But all patients with drug-resistant epilepsy should be considered for some form of surgery because even if they're not candidates for a curative surgery, there may be some palliative options, whether it's surgical resections that lessen the severity of their seizures or neurostimulation devices that reduce the frequency and severity of seizures. Ideal candidates, the ones that you would push through sooner rather than later, are those who have the likelihood of the best outcomes and the least risk of neurocognitive decline. Dr Monteith: So, you mentioned that there may be other candidates that still benefit, although maybe not ideal. You mentioned neuromodulation. What other interventions are available? Dr Friedman: For patients who are not candidates for resective surgery, there are several neurostimulation options. There's vagus nerve stimulation, which has been around the longest. It is a device that is implanted in- under the skin near the clavicle and has a lead that goes to the left vagus nerve and delivers stimulation, electrical stimulation to the nerve. For reasons we don't fully understand, it can reduce the both the frequency and severity of seizures. Seldom does it make people seizure free, but the reduction in seizure frequency for many patients is associated with improved quality of life, reduced risk of injury, and even reduced rates of SUDEP. We also have two intracranial neurostimulation devices we use for epilepsy. One is the responsive neurostimulator. So, this is a device that- it has leads that are implanted directly into the seizure focus and sense electrocortical brain activity and deliver electrical stimulation to attempt to abort abnormal brain activity. So functioning kind of like a cardiac defibrillator for the heart, but for seizures in the brain. And because these devices have two leads, they can be used to treat people with more than one seizure focus---so up to two---or be used in patients who are not candidates for resection because their seizure focus is in language cortex, motor cortex, things that would be unable to resect. And the RNS has somewhat better efficacy in terms of percent reduction in seizures compared to the VNS, but obviously because it's an intracranial device, it's also a little riskier. It has more potential for neurosurgical adverse effects. There's also a deep brain stimulator for epilepsies, the same exact device that we use to treat movement disorders. We can implant in the thalamus, in either the anterior nucleus of the thalamus or now, for some patients, into the central median nucleus of the thalamus, and deliver open loop stimulation to treat epilepsy and reduce the frequency and severity of seizures as well. Unlike the RNS, you don't have to localize the seizure focus, so you don't need to know exactly where the seizures are coming from. And you could treat patients with multifocal epilepsy with seizures coming from more than two locations or even generalized seizures. Dr Monteith: So, it sounds like there are a lot of options available to patients. I think one of the things I find challenging is when we have patients that may have some cognitive dysfunction, especially in the hospital, and they've had some seizures that are very obvious, but then there are these, maybe, events that you wonder are seizures. So, what is the utility of some of these seizure detection devices? Dr Friedman: The development of seizure detection devices started out primarily with the observation that a majority of cases of sudden unexpected death and epilepsy, or SUDEP, occurred following tonic-clonic seizures. And there was a need to be able to monitor for convulsive seizures, especially that occur at night when people were otherwise unattended. And so, the first generation of devices that were developed came on the market, essentially detected convulsive seizures, and they alerted caregivers nearby who are able to come to the bedside, provide basic seizure first aid, turn people on the side. And theoretically all this---this hasn't been shown in studies---prevents SUDEP. And so, the ones that are currently available on the market are focused on the detection of convulsive seizures, mostly generalized tonic-clonic seizures, but some devices can also detect other seizures with very prominent motor components. What we don't have yet available to us, and what people are working on, are devices that detect nonconvulsive seizures. We know that patients who have focal impaired aware seizures are often amnestic for their seizures. They don't know they had a seizure if family members aren't there to observe them. They may never report them, which makes treating these patients very difficult. How do you quantify disease burden in your headache patients, for instance? You say, how many headache days did you have since we last met in the clinic? Your patients will be able to report on their calendar, this many days. Well, imagine if the patients had no awareness of whether or not they had a headache day. You wouldn't know if your therapy is working or not. In epilepsy, we need those types of devices which can tell us whether patients are having seizures they're unaware of, and that may be more subtle than convulsions. Dr Monteith: Oh, that'd be great for headache, too. You just gave me an idea, but that's the next podcast. So, you mentioned SUDEP, really important. How good are surgical interventions at reducing what we would think the prevalence of SUDEP? Dr Friedman: For me that is one of the primary motivations for epilepsy surgery in patients who are drug-resistant, because we know that if patients who are candidates for epilepsy surgery have high SUDEP rates. Estimates range from six to nine per thousand patients per year. If surgery is successful, their mortality rates go down to the general population level. It literally can be lifesaving for some patients, especially when you're talking about curative epilepsy surgery. But we also know that the biggest driver for SUDEP risk is tonic-clonic seizures and the frequency of those tonic-clonic seizures. So even our palliative interventions, which can reduce the frequency and severity of seizures, may also reduce the risk of SUDEP. So, we know in study- observational studies of patients with VNS and with RNS, for instance, the rates of SUDEP in patients treated with those devices are lower than expected for the drug-resistant epilepsy population. Dr Monteith: Let's talk a little bit about some of these prediction models. And you have a lot of great work in your article, so I don't want to get into all the details, but how do you use that in the real world? Do you communicate that with patients? How do you approach these prediction factors? Dr Friedman: There are two places where, I think, clinical prediction tools for epilepsy surgery have a role. One is, for me, in my clinic where I'm talking to patients about the risks and benefits for surgery, right? You want to be able to accurately communicate the likelihood that the surgery is going to give you the desired outcome. So patients and their families can make educated decisions, be weighing the risks and benefits. I think it's important to be realistic with patients because surgery, like- you know, any surgery is not without risk, both acute risks and long-term risks. You're removing part of the brain, and, you know, every part of the brain is important. That's where I use prediction tools. But I think it's also important for the general neurologist, especially trying to triage which patients you are going to be aggressive with referring to a comprehensive epilepsy center for evaluation. Where you may use your limited time and capital with patients to counsel them on surgical treatments. Where a healthcare system with limited resources prioritizes patients. So, there's a significant need for having prediction tools that only take the input that a general neurologist seeing a patient in the clinic would have at hand. You know, the history, an MRI, an interictal EEG. Dr Monteith: I guess part of that prediction model includes adverse outcomes that you're communicating as well. Dr Friedman: Certainly, for me, when I'm discussing surgery for the patient in front of me, I will use prediction models for adverse outcomes as well that are informed by the kind of surgery we're proposing to do, especially when talking about things like language dysfunction and memory dysfunction after surgery. Dr Monteith: So, you mentioned a lot of great advances, and certainly since I was a resident, which wasn't that long ago. Why don't you tell me how some of these interventions have changed your clinical practice? Dr Friedman: Thinking about epilepsy surgery, like other surgical specialties, there's been a move to more minimally invasive approaches. For instance, when I started as an epilepsy fellow fifteen years ago, sixteen years ago, most of our surgeries involve removing a large portion of the skull, putting electrodes on the brain, doing resections through big craniotomies which were uncomfortable and risky, things like that. We now do our phase two or intracranial EEG monitoring through small burr holes in the brain using robotically placed electrodes. For many of our patients, we can actually treat their epileptic focus with a laser that is targeted through a small catheter and MRI guidance. And patients are usually home in two days with, you know, a lot less discomfort. Dr Monteith: Well, that's great. I didn't expect that one, but I do think that translates to many areas of neurology. Really just this idea of meeting their goals and personalizing their care. My last question is, what out of these advances and what you know about the future of epilepsy, what makes you the most excited and what gives you the most hope? Dr Friedman: I think there are a lot of exciting things in epilepsy. Last count I heard, there's something like over a hundred biotech companies developing epilepsy therapies. So that gives me hope that people are still interested in meeting the unmet needs of patients with epilepsy. And some of these therapies are really novel. For instance, there's a trial of stem cell treatments for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy that's ongoing now, where inhibitory interneuron progenitor cells are implanted in the brain and kind of restore the brain circuit disruptions that we see in some of these epilepsies. There are combinations of drug and device therapies or gene therapy and device therapies that are in development, which have a lot of promise, and I think we'll have much more precise and targeted therapies within the next decade. Dr Monteith: Awesome. I really appreciate our conversation, and thank you so much for your wonderful article. I learned a lot reading it. Dr Friedman: Thank you. Dr Monteith: Today I've been interviewing Dr Daniel Friedman, whose article on surgical treatments, devices, tools, and non-medication management of epilepsy appears in the most recent issue of Continuum on epilepsy. Be sure to check out Continuum audio episodes from this and other issues. And thank you to our listeners for joining today. Dr Monteith: This is Dr Teshmae Monteith, Associate Editor of Continuum Audio. If you've enjoyed this episode, you'll love the journal, which is full of in-depth and clinically relevant information important for neurology practitioners. Use this link in the episode notes to learn more and subscribe. AAN members, you can get CME for listening to this interview by completing the evaluation at continpub.com/audioCME. Thank you for listening to Continuum Audio.

In this episode, we welcome guest Adrian Swinscoe, an author, researcher, and advisor on customer service and experience. Adrian challenges the underlying management beliefs that you should try to manage revenue, cost, and profitability and explains how you can create better organisational outcomes by focusing on your employees and customers.The discussion also covers the shortcomings of chatbots, artificial intelligence, and the desire to control “the customer experience”.It is all about inputs and outcomes. Listen in to find out more.

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This week on The Whiskey Trip, Big Chief heads to northern Ohio to visit his good friend and the undisputed king of all things maple—Kevin Holy, founder of Seldom Seen Farm and now the visionary behind Seldom Seen Whiskey Company. Kevin shares the story of his family's bold new adventure into the world of distilling with Seldom Seen Whiskey Company—DSP-OH-20142. With years of experience aging maple syrup in bourbon barrels, he's now taking that mastery and crafting his own finished spirits—blending tradition, passion, and a touch of maple magic. As the conversation flows, so does the whiskey. Big Chief enjoys a Giant Texas Distillery Maple Finished Cask Strength Rye, while Kevin savors a Penelope Havana—both infused with the unique character of his maple syrup bourbon barrels. Each sip tells a story, rich with the essence of hard work, patience, and craftsmanship. This episode is about more than whiskey—it's about the relentless pursuit of a dream, the art of the American farmer, and the magic of turning nature's sweetness into something unforgettable. So pour yourself a glass, settle in, and join us for another unforgettable ride on The Whiskey Trip. Cheers!

Have you been struggling with unresolved trauma, fear, or emotional pain? In this episode, I'm talking with Odette, a Plant Medicine Guide, Spiritual Ally, and Psychedelic Integration Coach, about how plant medicine can help you heal on a deep level. Odette shares her personal story of how, at the age of 52, plant medicine helped her uncover and heal emotional wounds she didn't even know she had. Here's what we'll talk about: How to find the right guide or facilitator when working with plant medicine to ensure your safety and healing. Seldom discussed crucial approaches when you first try plant medicine. Ways to find healing and deep self-forgiveness. Practical ways to release fear and embrace self-love during your healing journey.

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Have you ever wished you could affect the next generation for Christ, but you've never been given the opportunity to teach them? No one has asked you to teach a class or speak at youth group. You feel you have something to offer, but no opportunity is given to you. You might have more opportunity than you realize; it might just look different than what you are expecting.Join me for today's Daily Word & Prayer learn more.Scripture Used in Today's MessageMark 3:13-15Have you read my book, "Takin' it to Their Turf"?If not, you may request a copy on my website, www.TomthePreacher.comWe send a copy to anyone who donates to our ministry, but if you can't do so, simply request a copy by sending us an email. Who do you know that needs to hear today's message? Go ahead and forward this to them, along with a prayer that God will use it in their life.To find Tom on Instagram, Facebook, TiKTok, and elsewhere, go to linktr.ee/tomthepreacher To support Tom Short Campus Ministries, click herehttps://www.tomthepreacher.com/support************ Do you want to have all your sins forgiven and know God personally? *********Check out my video "The Bridge Diagram" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Kjwrlind8&t=1sCheck out my website, www.TomthePreacher.com, to learn more about my ministry and sign up for my daily email. And make sure to request a copy of my book, Takin' it to Their Turf, when you visit my website.Check out my videos on this channel to learn how to answer tough questions challenging our faith.

For years, mattresses and pillows carried a warning tag that said “Warning: Do Not Remove This Tag Under Penalty of Law”. Although they have softened the language a bit, there is still a warning. So why does anyone care if you remove the tag on your own pillow? This episode begins with an explanation. https://www.livescience.com/33039-why-do-mattresses-have-do-not-remove-tags.html As important and natural as sleep is, it is a problem for almost everyone to either fall asleep or stay asleep at least some of the time. Fortunately, sleep is something that has been studied a lot. Joining me to share the latest research on how to improve your sleep is Aric Prather, a world renowned sleep scientist and author of the book The Sleep Prescription: Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest (https://amzn.to/3OKZWC7). You may think you have heard all the sleep advice there is, but I assure you, you haven't heard all of what Aric has to say. Listen and you could find yourself sleeping much better tonight.  What makes someone assertive? Generally, those are the people who seem to know what they want and are able to communicate it clearly. Most of us have been in situations where we wish we were more assertive and said what was really on our mind, but we just weren't able to do it. Here with some advice for everyone who would like to be more assertive is Randy Paterson author of The Assertiveness Handbook: How to Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships (https://amzn.to/3GNDJ4C).  Seldom does an employee complain that they get too much praise and recognition from their boss. The complaint is usually just the opposite. Yet if an employer is smart, he or she might want to be freer with praise and accolades for their workers when it deserved. Listen as I explain the benefits compliments and positive feedback for both employees and employers. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0048174 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! INDEED:  Get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT to get your jobs more visibility at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING  Support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast.  Terms & conditions apply. AURA: Save on the perfect gift by visiting https://AuraFrames.com to get $35-off Aura's best-selling Carver Mat frames by using promo code SOMETHING at checkout! SHOPIFY:  Sign up for a $1 per-month trial period at https://Shopify.com/sysk . Go to SHOPIFY.com/sysk to grow your business – no matter what stage you're in! MINT MOBILE: Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month at https://MintMobile.com/something! $45 upfront payment required (equivalent to $15/mo.).  New customers on first 3 month plan only. Additional taxes, fees, & restrictions apply. HERS: Hers is changing women's healthcare by providing access to GLP-1 weekly injections with the same active ingredient as Ozempic and Wegovy, as well as oral medication kits. Start your free online visit today at https://forhers.com/sysk DELL: It's your last chance to snag Dell Technologies' lowest prices of the year before the holidays! If you've been waiting for an AI-ready PC, this is their biggest sale of the year! Shop now at https://Dell.com/deals PROGRESSIVE: The Name Your Price tool from Progressive can help you save on car insurance! You just tell Progressive what you want to pay and get options within your budget. Try it today at https://Progressive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

00:00:30 Intro 00:09:34 Arkham Horror LCG Midwinter Gala 00:12:00 Star Wars Unlimited 00:15:43 Altered 00:16:55 Toy Hall of Fame Winners 00:20:30 Oh Christmas Tree 00:25:18 Gas Can Rant Part 2 00:27:27 Taste Buds 00:32:02 Gametoppers LLC 00:33:38 Battalion: War of the Ancients 00:53:15 Thunder Road: Carnival of Chaos 00:58:04 Portal Games 00:59:10 Yro and Castle Combo 01:11:46 The Lie 01:17:17 Miniature Market 01:19:44 Outro Hope those that celebrated the recent holiday had an enjoyable and were able to get some board gaming in with the family during that time. Seldom do we get two similar games to the table at the same time, but we did for this episode. Both Yro and Castle Combo are very similar in style and mechanic, so it was nice for us to be able to compare to games against one another. The new Thunder Road expansion is out and this expansion takes you out of the wasteland and into the Demolition Derby arena where more chaos will reign. Maybe that is why they called in Carnival of Chaos. Since there is no finish line, it is nice that there is a “timer” to help end the game and not just wait on elimination of everyone but one player. Finally, there is a look behind the curtain as you will experience the pain that Marty goes through in trying to explain a game to me. We have all had the experience where the game isn't clicking or you are explaining the game and you get nothing but blank stares back. Well, you get to experience it in RDTN style during our discussion of Battalion: War of the Ancients. Thanks for listening and see you during the anniversary show next time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nothing gets my blood flowing more than hunting upland birds in November and accidentally flushing a snowshoe hare. Each fall, early season snowshoe hare hunting catches me off guard. Seldom am I ready for those first wild flushes that mark the beginning of hare season. Snowshoes are commonly found in the same places as ruffed grouse and spruce grouse. To top it off, they will test your shooting capabilities to their fullest. You think shooting a ruffed grouse busting through the alders is tough? Try hitting a snowshoe hare that's just as fast but sprints across the ground. Increase the odds of adding a hare to your game bag before the snow comes with these tips.

Ours is an unapologetic world. Seldom does anyone take responsibility for damage done. While we might not like the words, let’s look at how remorse and repentance can play a role in our personal and societal transformation. The post Making Amends appeared first on First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis.

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  Today is Election Day and if you're like most people, you're probably breathing a sigh of relief. If nothing else, an end to the constant blitz of electronic ads and mailers will be something that just about everyone will celebrate. As overwhelming and mind numbing as these ads have been, however, it's vitally important […]

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This podcast features the song "Give them All to Jesus" (The Partain Family) as well as part 2 of the message called "Why God Seldom Gives Up on People" given by Pastor Stephen Pope from the pulpit of Calvary Baptist Church(Union Grove, NC)

This podcast features the song "God is Worthy (The Morrison Sisters) and "Covenant Keeper" (The Morrison Sisters) as well as part 1 of the message called "Why God Seldom Gives Up on People" given by Pastor Stephen Pope from the pulpit of Calvary Baptist Church(Union Grove, NC)

“Way God Seldom Gives Up On People“ was given by Pastor Stephen Pope from the pulpit of Calvary Baptist Church on August.18.2024. Thank You for Listening For PRAYER or Questions please respond. contact@cbcuniongrove.com Call 704-327-5662 300 Indian Trail Rd, Union Grove, NC 28689

It's the essence of strategy and the basis of everything—culture, hiring, IP, marketing, sales and client service—Segmentation. Most firms get it wrong. Here's how to get it right. The post Segmentation: The Marketing Foundation Firms Seldom Get Right appeared first on Rattle and Pedal.

In this, episode, we're diving deep into the complex world of perfectionism, especially its impact on creativity and leadership. Our distinguished guest, Sanela Lukanovic, Co-Founder of Seldom, Senior Leadership and Life Coach, shared profound insights on how perfectionism can be both a driving force and a debilitating obstacle for leaders. Sanela discusses the paradox of perfectionism, spotlighting how it often stifles creativity and innovation in leadership roles, yet can be crucial in specific tasks. She opens up about her personal journey of separating self-worth from achievement and the pitfalls of comparing oneself to others during career transitions. Sanela Lukanovic brings her expertise in executive coaching to the table, emphasizing the importance of self-compassion in managing perfectionism. She shares her own evolution from a perfectionist corporate persona to a more authentic, self-compassionate leader. Sanela also offers actionable advice on how leaders can nurture their teams without succumbing to self-criticism and burnout. Together, we explore the damaging effects of negative self-talk, the subconscious nature of self-criticism, and the necessity of aligning with one's core values. Whether you're struggling with career decisions, battling perfectionism, or simply looking for inspiration to lead with more confidence and purpose, this episode is packed with wisdom and practical tips. Don't miss this enriching discussion on how to transform perfectionism from a detriment into a tool for genuine growth and leadership excellence. Tune in now! Time Stamps: 00:00 Chose economics over psychology due to advice. 04:49 Childhood ambitions versus adult career and self-doubt. 08:43 Corporate success didn't bring lasting happiness or fulfillment. 10:13 Career change seekers often struggle with self-comparison. 13:22 Ask, "Do I want this and why?" 16:54 Intentionality in balancing potential success and sacrifice. 21:34 Perfectionism misunderstood, hindering rather than aiding excellence. 23:27 Perfectionism hinders decisiveness; affect on leadership. 27:09 Perfectionism stifles creativity; leaders must be flexible. 30:19 Overworking leads to burnout and self-stagnation. 35:50 Self-criticism isn't productive or beneficial. 38:40 Abandoning perfectionism for bravery and peace. 40:29 Balance self-compassion with pursuing excellence for growth. 43:26 Thank you for reducing our self-criticism. Connect with Sanela: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanelalukanovic-executivecoach/ Website: https://www.selfdom.life/ Follow Elena: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenaagaragimova/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elenaagaragimova/ Listen on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shift-with-elena-agar/id1530850914 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UKh6dWcuQwJlmAOqD8wij --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elenaagar/support

In this chapter, Solomon is discovered by Dr. Miller and after a tense standoff, accepts her invitation into a life in town. William nurses Michael back to health after his brush with death. Crispin has to adjust to a new home and a new roommate. Still infuriated after the events at the Cascade, Saline requests a meet with Michael and discovers a gruesome gift on the steps of Powerline Tattoo.Cast:MC - Mistress Winter (@gmistresswinter)Crispin - Kat Kellie (@katthedungeonmom)Michael - Juicy Garland (@juicygarland)Saline - Abby Marie Carter (@abby_marie_carter)Solomon - Extell (@extrilltheking)Production Team:Parent Group - Tabletop Talespinners NetworkCreative Director - Emma KocarProducer - Mistress WinterSocial Media - Juicy GarlandMusic Credits: Scott Buckley (www.scottbuckley.com.au)Tabletop Audio (www.tabletopaudio.com)Pixabay (www.pixabay.com)Discover more content for All Our Faults and the Tabletop Talespinners Network at linktr.ee/tabletoptalespinners ★ Support this podcast ★

The goat cheese called for in this recipe is not the one most people are accustomed to: the creamy, snowy-white fresh cheese that comes in the shape of a log or pyramid. Here you want aged goat cheese. Seldom as hard as Parmigiano, it should crumble between your fingers. In taste it is more assertive and pungent than the fresh. Look for aged goat cheese in specialty food shops.This soup comforts. Even though it is hearty, it sets the stage beautifully as a first course to be followed by grilled or roasted meat or poultry, and a green salad. Or make a meal of it with good bread.

Join Joe McDonald as he explores the powerful transformation described in Steps 10 & 11 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this session, Joe talks about embracing the victory already won and recognizing that there's no longer a fight—just an acknowledgment of the one who won it.“There's only victory. And I already know who I am and whose I am, so I got nothing to fight. It's already won. I just got to give the one who won it credit. Does it make sense? So then it says we'll see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes. How many of you had that broken off of you, and you really are living that now? Seldom interested, but even when people bring it up, you're like, ‘yeah.'”Joe's insight highlights the effortless change that occurs when living in alignment with spiritual principles, and the profound sense of peace that comes with it.Join us as Joe McDonald reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. For more content, please like, comment, and share. Also, join us live every Thursday night at 7 p.m. Arizona time for the full step experience on our YouTube channel.Join us for more inspiring recovery stories and transformative insights.Check out our website at: www.positionofneutrality.orgYouTube:http://www.youtube.com/@positionofneutrality721Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PositionOfNeutralitySpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3mGbAbcacTs83RhMsv6FmY?si=6531e7adfdbb480eRSS: Position of Neutrality | RSS.comTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@interactivestepexp?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc#PositionOfNeutrality, #JoeMcDonald, #BrianReinhart, #WayneGiles, #EricReinhart, #DeniseMcDonald, #JoeTeaches, #Steps10AA, #Steps11AA, #BigBookAA, #RecoveryJourney, #AddictionRecovery, #12Steps, #SpiritualAwakening, #InnerPeace, #Healing, #PersonalGrowth, #RecoveryCommunity, #Mindfulness, #Resilience, #OvercomingAddiction, #SpiritualPath, #RecoverySupport, #SobrietyJourney, #HelpingOthers, #AddictsRecovery, #FaithInRecovery, #NewBeginnings

Join Joe McDonald as he delves into Steps 10 & 11 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering a unique perspective on the spiritual journey. In this session, Joe discusses the concept of “spiritual inebriation” that comes from service and how it contrasts with the temporary escapes many of us once sought.“Seldom interested, but even when people bring it up, you're like, ‘yeah.' How many of you—any drinkers in here? I've got to ask. A few drinkers—good. My peeps, I love them. How many of you were starving, just really hadn't eaten in a while, but you weren't going to eat anything because you had a few drinks and knew it would wreck the buzz? As you grow in the spirit and start experiencing the spiritual inebriation that comes from service, you'll find that although the world may sometimes call your name, it's not nearly as tempting because you don't want to wreck this buzz. Does that make sense? All right, so that's the miracle of it. You ever hear people around recovery, and they almost make you nauseous? ‘Oh, that's a miracle, the coffee's a miracle, the cake's a miracle, you're a miracle.' I don't know—if you'd shut up, that'd be a frickin' miracle.”Joe's raw and humorous approach sheds light on the deeper transformation that occurs in recovery, where the spiritual life becomes more fulfilling than any temporary escape ever could.Join us as Joe McDonald reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. For more content, please like, comment, and share. Also, join us live every Thursday night at 7 p.m. Arizona time for the full step experience on our YouTube channel.Join us for more inspiring recovery stories and transformative insights.Check out our website at: www.positionofneutrality.orgYouTube:http://www.youtube.com/@positionofneutrality721Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PositionOfNeutralitySpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3mGbAbcacTs83RhMsv6FmY?si=6531e7adfdbb480eRSS: Position of Neutrality | RSS.comTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@interactivestepexp?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc#PositionOfNeutrality, #JoeMcDonald, #BrianReinhart, #WayneGiles, #EricReinhart, #DeniseMcDonald, #JoeTeaches, #Steps10AA, #Steps11AA, #BigBookAA, #RecoveryJourney, #AddictionRecovery, #12Steps, #SpiritualAwakening, #InnerPeace, #Healing, #PersonalGrowth, #RecoveryCommunity, #Mindfulness, #Resilience, #OvercomingAddiction, #SpiritualPath, #RecoverySupport, #SobrietyJourney, #HelpingOthers, #AddictsRecovery, #FaithInRecovery, #NewBeginnings

Seldom in life do you get the chance to meet someone who has a powerful story of overcoming fear, adversity, and tragedy. Even less frequent do you meet someone who can deliver that message with life changing impact. Dustin Rivenbark is a determined motivational speaker who is taking his passion for motivating youth and young adults, using stories of inspiration and unwavering faith to the young adults of today in order to better prepare them for tomorrow.     CONNECT WITH Dustin Rivenbark Website: https://dustinrivenbark.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dustin_rivenbark/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dustinaimee.rivenbark     JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST FOOD INSECURITY   Join the fight against food insecurity here in the U.S. with an online donation. $25 will provide food and life essentials for 10 vulnerable families. DONATE TODAY at https://www.mtsoutreach.org/ to fight hunger!    Food Insecure Households For many families in the U.S., the past several years have been difficult. Higher food prices, economic instability, and other factors have made providing for a family even harder. 1 in 8 households in the U.S. is food insecure. That means these families don't have enough money or resources to buy enough food for everyone in their household. As recently as 2022, 7.3 million children lived in food insecure households. Also, 16.9% of children live in poverty.   SNAP Benefits More than 22 million U.S. households use SNAP benefits to help with food costs, as of April 2023. Sometimes known as “food stamps,” SNAP is the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. People who receive SNAP benefits can use it to buy groceries, seeds, and plants for food. SNAP cannot be used to purchase hot food or household items like cleaning supplies, vitamins, or diapers.   CONNECT WITH Cedric Francis Website: https://www.lead2greatness.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cedricbfrancis X (twitter): https://twitter.com/cedricbfrancis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leadtogreatness/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedric-b-francis-a0544037/

In this episode, Linda and Richard tell a story about a beloved leader who taught them, by example, to always put people first. They then share a method for setting "Relationship Goals" and conclude with a metaphor about "staying on the porch after you storm out and slam the door."

Starbucks' coup in stealing Brian Niccol from Chipotle to serve as CEO had the restaurant industry abuzz this week. Seldom has the restaurant industry been as enthralled by an executive change. Or maybe we should say never. Has there ever been a high-level appointment that matched the sizzle of this one? This week's episode of Restaurant Rewind aims to answer that question. We look at the two high-level stunners that struck us as the only other contenders for being remembered as the most intriguing leadership transfer the business has ever seen. Trying to guess which two they might have been? Here's a hint: One happened 40 years ago, and the other about 30. Better yet, just hit Play for a sample of the drama those two appointments sparked. You'll also learn a little about Niccol that didn't come out in the torrent of coverage his recruitment generated.

Seldom do we hear about the financial repercussions of murder on surviving family members.  Instead, the focus has always been on societal expenses. This episode focuses on the usual expenses homicide survivors face.  Knowledge is power.

Are you working on your own website copy? Is DIY where you're at in business right now? Not only do I totally get it, but I am here to help you write better SEO-friendly website copy for FREE in this podcast and blog.    As a professional copywriter, I GET that sometimes words are HARD to come up with. Evean as someone who is SELDOM at a loss for words, I still need a few tricks up my sleeve when I am STUCK.   Here are 3 tips to help you get unstuck and write WAY better website copy (even if you feel stucker than stuck.)   Read the blog here! Learn how to craft stellar copy AND an SEO Strategy that makes the Google bots sing inside The Organic Marketing Framework    SEO Cheat Sheet Download the Content Strategy Repurposing Cheat Sheet Here Ready to get your website copy AND your SEO strategy DONE in a day? Snag a spot for a VIP Copy Day! Book your discovery call here! Join the Facebook Group Email info@faithhanan.com Book Your SEO and Keywords Strategy Call

"Send us a message! (questions, feedback, etc.)"We're really excited to welcome a guest who has been really helpful and influential in our lives, even though we'd never met before the podcast interview. Sharon Hersh is a therapist and author, whose book The Last Addiction: Why Self-Help is Not Enough was one of the first ones Stacey read when our lives changed in 2009.In addition to being a therapist, author, and college professor, Sharon is also a recovering alcoholic. She has openly shared her story of addiction, recovery, and lessons learned about connection vs. isolation.The conversation we had is NOT just for people with addictions. It's also for those who love people with addictions. It's for people who desire escape from and control over life's painful realities. In other words, it's for all of us.Sharon is the author of several other books and a sought-after speaker. See the links below for her other resources and social media presence.Sharon's websiteSharon's books on AmazonSharon's Facebook pageSharon's Instagram page Awaken websiteRoots Retreat Men's IntensiveRoots Retreat Women's WorkshopAwaken Men & Women's support meeting info (including virtual)

Miracle Morning author Hal Elrod shares a story about how committing to a daily personal development plan took his business from utter ruin to big-time success.Source: Hal Elrod's "The Miracle Equation" Keynote Speech (2023)Hosted by Sean CroxtonFollow me on Instagram

Seldom does one person affect an entire industry the way Eric Bischoff has. When Ted Turner owned World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the early ‘90s he had a few different old-school bookers in charge like Ole Anderson and Bill Watts. But when Turner changed things up and tapped a third-string announcer with a sales background as the new executive in charge of WCW, everything changed for the Atlanta-based promotion. Bischoff's first major move was asking for a primetime spot to go head-to-head with the World Wrestling Federation (today's WWE). That was unheard of in the industry and quickly Monday Night Nitro was started on TNT. And the “Monday Night Wars” were underway.

 Seldom do you find stars that have been at the top of the industry for 30 years. Booker T Huffman is one of those few. He came to national fame in the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as one half of the team Harlem Heat alongside his brother Stevie Ray. After years of tag team action, Booker T was given a singles push in WCW and it propelled him to five world championships. And that was all before he went to WWE. Then in WWE, Booker T faced all the greats including The Rock and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. In this episode, we talk at length about one thing that Booker T is remembered for that really wasn't a match. That was when Booker T and Austin tore up a supermarket in a brawl. It is a clip from wrestling history that fans still talk about today.

New faces are showing up in the strangest places, and other familiar folks are free agents.  Seldom has the world of pro wrestling gone through this much transition in such a short time, but as the wrestling wars rage on, fans and wrestlers continue to have a lot of options, and we're here to talk about it! This week, Mike McGuire walks you through some of the latest headlines, including a once lauded WWE prospect now following the path of a former WWE Champion.  Meanwhile, some big names may be exploring their options, while fresher faces look to forge their own paths. On the business side of things, a surprising turn in the Vince McMahon lawsuit.  Does the US Department of Justice asking the accuser to pause her lawsuit mean something criminal may be pending, or is it merely a precaution during an investigation? This week, join Mike as he and The Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer go through the week, including the stunning return of MJF to AEW, Will Ospreay's current direction, the comments made by Trevor Lee regarding Gable Steveson, Ethan Page's arrival in NXT, and more. Plus, Mike and Dave discuss the possibility of TNA and WWE working closer behind the scenes than what we are seeing on television. You can now hear McGuire on Wrestling on the radio!  The show airs before Monday Night Raw, every Monday afternoon at 4PM MT/3PM PT/6PM ET!  If in Southern Alberta, listen at 88.3 CKXU FM, or online at www.ckxu.com! Thank you for your support of McGuire on Wrestling.  To join the conversation for free join our Team MoW - McGuire on Wrestling Facebook page! To support the shows, please consider a 5* review, leave a comment, and tell a friend! Check out our show bios, leave a tip, and visit the merch shop at www.mcguireshow.com

Is there something more than this life? This world is full of crises, conflicts, difficulties, and troubles, but this world will not last. No matter your age, your earthly life is slowly slipping away. This is why Jesus encourages us not to store up treasures on this earth but to invest in heaven. In this 250th episode of Candid Conversations, Dr. Michael Youssef joins Jonathan for a father-son conversation about his new book, Heaven Awaits. This book is written to help you understand the future promise of heaven in Christ Jesus. Explore what the Bible says about heaven and envision the wonders and glories awaiting those who believe in Christ. Heaven is real, far more real than your earthly experience right now. To ask Jonathan a question or connect with the Candid community, visit https://LTW.org/CandidFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/candidpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/candidpodTwitter: https://twitter.com/thecandidpodTRANSCRIPT: This transcript recounts Candid Conversations with Jonathan Youssef Episode 250: Understanding the Future Promise of Heaven: Dr. Michael Youssef[00:01] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Today, we have a very special guest in Dr. Michael Youssef. And he comes on our program because he's written another book. And we have you on quite often because you write a lot of books.[00:17] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Thank you. And I'm glad to be in your Dr. Youssef show now, Dr. Jonathan Youssef.[00:23] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: And we have to change the title.[00:24] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Congratulations.[0:25] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Thank you very much. You have written a book on heaven. This is your first book on heaven as far as I'm aware. Tell us about why.[00:39] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF I've thought of heaven since I was a young man. I've never really been away from that thought. But also I am seeing so much confusion, so much confusion—not just in the world at large, which you can understand the devil sold us a lie in order to deceive people, but the churches are now confused, pastors are confused about heaven. And the world basically entered into their hearts, into their thinking, and everything is about this life, this life, this life, which is a very tragic situation that we find ourselves in as a Church of Jesus Christ. And my biggest concern is to alert and wake up the bride of Christ as to their greatest day, and it's yet to come.Where you're going to spend eternity is so important. In fact, the very first story I open up the book with was back in 1977. In February of '77, my wife and I and two little ones came here from Australia. But we've done a lot of research finding out where we're going to live, what the country is about, what the culture is about, and so on, and this is just for a place we're going to live for two years, which we did, in Pasadena.And how much more should we be doing those same preparations and research for where we're going to be forever? I mean, just think. People can't fathom that. Because they can't fathom it, they take it out of their mind forever and ever and ever. [02:34] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: —Gives you a little bit of a buzz, doesn't it, just the thought of it. Yeah, because everything we know comes to an end. This is the only thing I think we can consider has no end.[02:44] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Exactly. And the point I make even in the early part of the book is that there is only one ticket that takes you to heaven, and that is the ticket that's stamped with the blood of Jesus. I say there are a lot of fake tickets out there. that have been handed by Satan through Hollywood, through false churches, through false teachers and false preachers. [03:12] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Or your own mind.[03:13] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Or your own mind. But those are the tickets that are not going to get you to heaven. Only the one that's stamped with the blood of Jesus Christ. On what basis do I have the confidence that I'm going to heaven? The blood of Jesus Christ, period. My ticket's stamped with that blood. [03:26] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: That leads us to the next topic, which is let's talk a little bit about the misconceptions out there, and you can blend the two—but coming from the Hollywood mentality. Are those the same as what you see in churches that have lost their way? Are they different?[03:53] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Slightly different, but they lead to the same hell.[03:57] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Right. They go to the same place. [03:58] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Because Hollywood and the New Age movement, even with this lady who supposedly died and went to heaven and came back and she was interviewed by Oprah, and she said to her, she said, “Jesus told me He's not going to judge anybody. Live any which way you want.”And then Oprah said, “Well, if I think Jesus is as cool as I think He is, He would have said that to you.”[04:21] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Contradicting Himself? [overlapping voices][04:26] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Yeah. And so the fact that everybody is going to go to heaven is absolute lie from the pit of hell. But then you go into the other side of things in some traditional churches and some mainline churches who said if you're good you go to heaven. Well, I'm good. Sure, I'm not perfect, but I'm good, so everybody sees themselves as good. [04:50] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: According to whose standard, right?[04:51] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF And they are contradicting the Bible, because the Bible said no one is good. I had an email came third-hand to me. A guy said, “I love that statement on page 47,” and I still remember it because he said, “You said only bad people in heaven. The only good person in heaven is Jesus.”And those are the redeemed people who recognize they're sinners and they cannot make it to heaven without Jesus. And that's what really I meant by it. But he said, “That just gave me such confidence and comfort to know that I'm redeemed by the blood of Christ and that's the only way I'm going to heaven.”And so I'm so glad so many people are now sending me comments and saying how much this book has encouraged them in their walk with Christ. And the whole reason—not only to refute all these falsehoods—but another reason for writing the book is I want to put people on the right track to realize that heaven is not, well, in the by and by when I die, but heaven is now. Heaven influences my thoughts, decisions, investments, and money—where I put my money. Is it in heaven or is the inflation going to eat it up? And so all these are very important decisions.C. S. Lewis made a statement years ago that impacted me, has been for nearly fifty years since I read it. He said, you know, they talk about “Oh, he's so heavenly minded, he's of no earthly good.” I've heard that so many times, even back in the sixties, seventies, and he said if you examine history, you find that only those who were heavenly minded were of any earthly good and he goes on to give examples. I mean, I think Lord Shaftesbury, who impacted the culture in England probably like very few people said, “There was not a day went by without me thinking of heaven.” And that's what caused him to be a reformist. Wilberforce fought for forty years to outlaw slavery. That's because of the thought of heaven.And so anybody who says, “Well, heaven is just going to be distracting from what you're doing now,” absolutely lies.[07:15] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: No, it's a driving force.[07:16] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Exactly. And I tell people all the time, unashamedly, I work, and I work harder at seventy-five than I did when I was forty-five or twenty-five, and simply because I live for one thing: hearing those words from Jesus's lips, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”[07:36] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: There's also the misconception that it can be earned, you can do enough good works. Not necessarily about being a good person, but that the works are sort of counterbalancing you in this either sort of a karma sense or a works righteousness from a theological mindset.[07:56] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF This is as old as my ancestors, the ancient Egyptians.[08:00] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: It might be as old as the Garden.[08:03] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Probably. But I remember even growing up in Egypt and studying Egyptian pharaonic history and seeing some of the pictures that go back five thousand years, and the scale. And the scale was held by one of the gods.[08:20] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Like a weight scale.[08:21] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF A weight scale, yeah. And you see here's your good deeds versus your bad deeds and you've got to make the good deeds outweigh the bad deeds. But again, another lie from the pit of Satan's hell. And we need to be absolutely certain that people understand that you're not going to heaven based on anything you've done, but it's based on the grace of God that He has given you through Jesus Christ. Period.Then the rewards in heaven are a whole different story. And that requires faithfulness if you want to be rewarded. There are five crowns in the Bible it talks about. Faithfulness, there's a crown for those who love His appearing. There's all kinds of crowns. And those are not crowns we will just kind of put on our heads, but the crowns that we will take and lay at the feet of Jesus in our gratitude and thanksgiving for saving us.[09:23] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: I think a lot of people like to imagine and picture what heaven looks like. Fill in some of the gaps for people who have maybe an incomplete view. There's the picture of the sitting on a cloud playing a harp, wearing a robe, singing nonstop, just being bored.[09:47] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Right. It's medieval art.[09:49] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Exactly.[09:51] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF The cherubic, fat kids—[09:53] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Yeah, we'll all be fat babies.[09:54] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF And absolutely it is absolute falsehood. And I'm not even big on these so-called heavenly tourism. Why do I listen to somebody who says they died and came back when I—Paul himself, when he was taken into heaven, he said, “I'm not allowed to even talk about it.” And when I have the real deal, I have Jesus, who tells me exactly what heaven is like.[10:23] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: That's all you need.[10:24] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF And that's what I do in the book, Heaven Awaits. I stick with the Word of God. I see people go off the rails when they deviate, and so my focus is the Word of God. I'm always having people on social media ask me, am I a Calvinist, and I Arminian, am I a dispensationalist, a postmillennialist, a premillennialist. I'm none of these. I'm a Bible-believing Christian—that is, if it's in the book of God I'm going to believe it and preach it, but not try to be a follower of a man theory. I follow Jesus and I try to focus on that until the Lord takes me home. I will not deviate from it, no matter how much the pressure is put on me.[11:14] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: All right, so let's fill in some of the pictures for people. Let's talk about our bodies. There's a lot of concepts. We can even take a step future back, the idea of soul sleep or … Fill in a little bit of those gaps for us. [11:35] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Sure. Well, this is again following some man's theory, theological theory.[11:43] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Or misinterpretation of texts.[11:46] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF But you know when you think about this, so much thing about the end times eschatology now is driven by a theory that was devised by a man in Plymouth, England, in 1825 by the name of John Nelson Darby. Most of them would not know this, but that's what they are. They are doing only following somebody, you know, chart. I follow the Bible. I stick with the Word of God. And there is no soul sleep in the Bible. The Bible talks about sleep of the believer. This is to indicate that it's temporary. Jesus died, but we sleep. He took our death so that when we die, we only sleep—it's a temporary thing because immediately our soul goes into heaven, according to 1 Corinthians chapter 15, and Paul says it's not going to be floating souls in heaven. When the disciples of Jesus were in the Mount of Transfiguration, they didn't see the soul of Elijah and the soul of Moses; they saw them in a glorified body. In fact, Peter was so ecstatic, he wanted to hang in there for a long time. [13:02] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Let's camp here for a bit.[13:03] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Yeah. And so these are glorified bodies in heaven. When we die, there is a body that's prepared for us in heaven. It's a body like Jesus's body after the resurrection. And those are bodies that are totally righteous and holy, and therefore, we would be able to see the face of God when Moses couldn't see the face of God, but we will. Because we can never see the face of God in this body.[13:34] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Those bodies are indestructible and not ravaged by the effects of the Fall and sin.[13:42] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF In fact, I think it's the mercy of God that Moses did not see the face of God. He would be incinerated because in this sinful body we can't do it. But in the glorified body that is immediately prepared for us as soon as we enter heaven in a glorified body, we will be able to see and do and have no physical limitation, no pain, no suffering. And all of those promises in the Scripture are very clear. [14:12] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: I don't remember reading it in the book, but I mean there's a sense that there will be gardening and working and building and we'll be active. We're not just sitting around.[14:25] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF No. In fact, John said in Revelation “and the servants to serve Him.” And the Bible says that we're going to reign and rule with Christ. Think of the universe, and our God is sitting on the rim of the universe right now, ruling and reigning, and we're going to be participating in that. It's mindboggling. Sometimes I let my mind soar, but then I bring myself back to reality.[14:48] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Levitate for a moment.[14:49] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF But yeah, it's incredible when you think about it. We will be working. We will be serving, and we'll be doing great things for God. We're praising Him, of course, thanking Him. I just try to imagine that moment and I get so overwhelmed I want to go.[15:05] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Let's talk a little bit about fears and perspectives, the things that can kind of creep in and the enemy can try and steal—[15:14] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF One of the things that also is prevalent, particularly among those so-called “progressive” churches or liberal churches, I'll never forget thirty-five years ago I was having a discussion with one of those so-called “liberal”—ministers in one of those churches and we were talking about heaven. And he said, “How arrogant of you to think that you're good enough to go to heaven.”I said, “That's exactly the falsehood that you believe, and that's you think a person is going to heaven based on his good, how good he is or she is.” But I only have the confidence because Jesus promised it. And that is really the most important thing that we need to emphasis. People don't think that we are just full of ourselves. We think we're better than everybody else. We're going to heaven and you're not. No, no, no, no, no. I'm only assured of heaven because Jesus said so. He promised it. And God keeps His promises.[16:16] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Despite my sinful nature, despite—[16:20] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Yeah. In fact, it's because of my acknowledging of my sinful nature and my need for salvation.[16:25] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Yeah. To your point, it's not good people in heaven; it's bad people in heaven who had the goodness of Christ because He covers us.[16:31] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF We're born again. [16:32] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Yeah. And let's move to that because you have a chapter on what does it mean to be born again and looking at Nicodemus. Talk to us a little bit about—Because the question does remain, well then, who is in heaven? And I know we talked a little bit about that earlier, but let's fill that picture out.[16:49] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Those who are born again. What does it mean to be born again? That's very important. That's the message I take to evangelistic events and when I preach. It's a very important message. Because to be born physically means you're alive physically. And so to be born spiritually, it means you are spiritually alive. How come? Because every one of us, every human being who is ever born of a woman was born spiritually dead. I mean, physically alive, running around, but spiritually dead. Not comatose, dead, dead, dead. And so when the Holy Spirit opens our eyes and then we spiritually become awake and alive, that's born again. That's when you become born of the Spirit. Jesus said you're going to be born of the Spirit of God because God has to do something on the inside of us to change us.And I remember that day like yesterday when my whole life changed. My views of everything just changed overnight. Of course, it's taken me sixty years of walking with Christ to grow in the knowledge and so forth, but that day was the beginning when I knew that it was totally transformed by the power of God and I became conscious of sin and confession of my sin and the closeness with God and the thirsting for righteousness and all of that.[18:19] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: I remember as a boy when you would preach on heaven you would always talk about that this life was like a dress rehearsal. And it's interesting because you were talking about you remember the moment when you became spiritually awake, but in the sixty-odd years, you've grown in your sanctification, you've grown in your knowledge and love for the Lord. They talk about the theological concept of the already and the not yet. Like you said, there's a concept now in my mind and an understanding of the reality of heaven, and I'm now living in preparation for that, and that's what the Christian life is preparing you for.[19:00] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Well, just as, you know, I sought to set an example for you and your siblings, I had others who set that example for me. My grandfather and my mother, they set the example of their being motivated by heaven, and therefore, they have done so much on the Earth because of their motivation of heaven. And so I am so grateful for their example, and I sought to also set an example, not just for you as my family and children, but also to congregations and people that I minister to. I told one of our pastoral care ministers one time, I said, you know, I have been privileged to teach for now fifty-two years since I was ordained to show people how to live for Christ. I don't know how the Lord is going to take me home, whether it's going to be sudden or not, that's in His sovereign will. Either way He does it is fine by me. But if He privileged me to have a slow death that I pray that I will be able to teach people how to die in Christ. I taught them how to live in Christ, now how to die in Christ is very important.[20:21] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: We can't have a conversation about heaven without having a conversation about hell. And thankfully, you do have a chapter in your book that delves into that. Let's go there.[20:40] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Okay, well, as you know, I have never preached on hell without tears. Sometimes I mean broken down completely, not just shedding a tear or two. And the reason I do that and the reason—actually it's out of my control; if it was in my control, I wouldn't cry—but the reason I do is because I know hell is real. Just as heaven is real, hell is real. It's a place, and there is going to be suffering, the Bible called that the lake of fire. The Bible talks about the worms that do not die, and the fire that would not die, and the gnashing of teeth. And the descriptions, a dark place where you feel falling all the time but there is no bottom. And it goes on and on and on. I try to put those descriptions that Jesus gave us, not—[21:27] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Not your own mind or some philosopher.[21:28] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF —or fantasies of other people. It's what Jesus said. And the Bible makes it clear: hell was prepared for Satan and his angels. That is for whom hell was prepared. Unfortunately and sadly, there are so many who follow Satan who will end up with him in that lake of fire. And I have dedicated my life and whatever years I've got left, or days, it doesn't matter, I am dedicating them to warn people why should you perish? Why should you follow Satan, who takes you straight into that eternal life of torment?You say, “How do you know that?” Well, Jesus, again. He talked about Lazarus and the rich man. This is before His own resurrection, before His own opening paradise for the believers, where they were still in a waiting, holding pattern, as it were. But even then, before Christ's resurrection, they were in two different places: one is a torment and pain and suffering and burning of the tongue, and the other one is a joy in what they used to call the bosom of Abraham. And so the conversation goes on, the man cries out from Hades to Abraham and he said, “Please send Lazarus,” the guy whom he didn't even pay a minute's notice, he said, “Send him with a drop of water in his finger to just cool my tongue and give me relief.”Had he said, “We have a huge gap between us. We cannot cross to you and you cannot cross to us.” And that is what really makes me cry and weep, because once you cross over to the other side, there is no return. No matter how much you try and say, “I repent, I change now.” No, no, it's too late. It's like the days of Noah—and Jesus said that—it's like the days of Noah. And he kept warning, 120 years he's been preaching—it's so difficult for me even to comprehend. And there's, “No, no,” and made fun of him. And then in the end, of course, when the flood came, “Okay, we'll get in.” No, no, no. God shut the door.God will shut the door one day, and so my longing, the longing of … the longing of my heart (and I do this in the book, especially that last chapter) is I'm pleading with people, come to Christ now. The opportunity is now. The moment is now. The hour is now. Don't put it off. And in the end, it's like Ezekiel says. If you warn people and they get into trouble, you're innocent. And that's what I want to be, a watchman who's innocent. But if I didn't warn them and I know danger was coming, then I have their blood on my hand, and I don't want that to happen. I don't want blood on my hand.[24:29] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Let's just sort of, as we conclude, who's the book for and why should they buy it?[24:37] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Actually, this book is for everyone. Seldom do I say that because there are some books specifically. But this is for the believer, to encourage them and uplift them; for the non-believer to be forewarned and give them a chance to turn to Christ. So really, a believer will read it and be encouraged, but then give it to somebody who needs to know about the plan of salvation and hopefully then you—[25:00] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Someone who has a false view of heaven.[25:01] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Exactly. And then you, who will give that book to somebody else, will be receiving the reward, even more than me who has written, because you have been an instrument of God of handing this warning to people and telling them to wake up while it's time.[25:21] JONATHAN YOUSSEF: Yeah, yeah. Well, the book is Heaven Awaits: Anticipate Your Future Hope, Your Eternal Home, Your Daily Reality by Dr. Michael Youssef. Dad, thank you so much for returning and gracing us once again with your presence on Candid Conversations.[25:38] DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF Thank you Dr. Jonathan Youssef. Thank you for your ministry. I appreciate it. 

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