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Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here!We tackle the latest developments in World of Warcraft, from the Mists of Pandaria Classic beta to upcoming retail game features like the Lorewalking system and combat assistance features.• Weekly events include Shirai and Gobfather world bosses plus Battlegrounds bonus event and Comp Stomp brawl for maximum honor• Mists of Pandaria Classic beta enters second week with level 90 unlocked, player farms, and Black Market Auction House• Fondly remembering MoP's zones, music, raids, and class features like Symbiosis and Void Shift• Patch 11.1.7 "Legacy of Arathor" will include a new Arathi Highlands faction campaign with unique rewards• Lorewalker Cho introduces Lorewalking system with three storylines exploring Zalatath, Arthas, and the Ethereals• New player-friendly features include Combat Assistant and Single Button Assistant to help with ability rotations• Overcharged Delves adding affixes, rare enemies, and new rewards to six delve locationsThank you all very much for listening. Do check out all of the socials down below. Constant stuff happening over there, as well as the Etsy shop with multiple things going up there each and every day.Hope you all enjoy and hope you relate to any of these stories. And I will speak to you all in the next episode!Want some 3D printed Merch, find it here!https://pigandwhistletales.etsy.comSupport the show here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/supportpatreon.com/Pigandwhistlehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistleSocials :Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/pigandwhistletalesYoutube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAOi6rHO3x90lOmmb82Jv1wWebsite : https://www.pigandwhistletales.com/Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/pigandwhistletales/Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PigAndWhistleTalesTry out Buzzsprout yourself! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1154066Listen to the podcast on other platforms:https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-gabriel-nsa902LrQVw/https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-1315927https://open.spotify.com/show/5ZTkLtQvRSm4PStUfZquWkhttps://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3032607The Music at the start is from Tony Catch they do many amazing cover songs for games you can find the link here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHiF0dAkbpPMtQSwvAxcapQSupport the showSupport the show here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/support patreon.com/Pigandwhistle https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistle

Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here!We explore whether WoW players have become too entitled after 20+ years of content updates, examining forum discussions about player gratitude and the divide between PvP and PvE communities.• Weekly news: Current world bosses are Shirai in Hallowfall and The Gob Father in the Undermine• Wrath of the Lich King Time Walking is the bonus event this week• Player ingratitude has become prevalent, with many consuming content quickly then complaining• PvP is not a "side project" but an integral part of WoW since the beginning• The Trading Post system provides free cosmetics yet still receives complaints• Classic vs Retail debate centers on gameplay complexity and nostalgic perspectives• Gameplay in Classic is simpler (repetitive spell rotations) while Retail offers more complexity• Personal preference determines which version feels "better" - neither is objectively superiorFollow me on Twitter/X for updates about episode schedules, check out my TikTok and YouTube for gameplay content, and browse new merch on Etsy.Hope you all enjoy and hope you relate to any of these stories. And I will speak to you all in the next episode!Want some 3D printed Merch, find it here!https://pigandwhistletales.etsy.comSupport the show here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/supportpatreon.com/Pigandwhistlehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistleSocials :Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/pigandwhistletalesYoutube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAOi6rHO3x90lOmmb82Jv1wWebsite : https://www.pigandwhistletales.com/Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/pigandwhistletales/Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PigAndWhistleTalesTry out Buzzsprout yourself! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1154066Listen to the podcast on other platforms:https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-gabriel-nsa902LrQVw/https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-1315927https://open.spotify.com/show/5ZTkLtQvRSm4PStUfZquWkhttps://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3032607The Music at the start is from Tony Catch they do many amazing cover songs for games you can find the link here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHiF0dAkbpPMtQSwvAxcapQSupport the showSupport the show here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/support patreon.com/Pigandwhistle https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistle

Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here!The fragmentation of World of Warcraft across multiple versions and hundreds of servers creates an illusion that the game is dying, despite a healthy player base estimated at 3-6 million players.• Weekly world bosses include Shirai in Hallowfall and the Gobfather in the Undermine's Cage of Carnage• Battlegrounds and Pet Battles are this week's bonus events with increased honor and XP• The weekly brawl is Cooking Impossible, requiring 30 ingredients• Mythic affixes are Ascended and Tyrannical for increased boss difficulty• Retail WoW offers more engaging PvP compared to Classic's "rock-paper-scissors" system• Classic WoW's slow pace can be boring for players who prefer more stimulation• The game isn't dead but feels emptier because players are spread across 200-300 different servers• The Undermine zone captures goblin entrepreneurial culture but rates a "generous 6/10"• The new drive system is interesting but may need adjustments for older zones• Story mode for raids is an excellent addition for players who don't raid regularlyCheck out all socials and the Etsy shop where a unique weapon from World of Warcraft that can split into two blades will be available in the next couple of days. Hope you all enjoy and hope you relate to any of these stories. And I will speak to you all in the next episode!Want some 3D printed Merch, find it here!https://pigandwhistletales.etsy.comSupport the show here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/supportpatreon.com/Pigandwhistlehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistleSocials :Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/pigandwhistletalesYoutube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAOi6rHO3x90lOmmb82Jv1wWebsite : https://www.pigandwhistletales.com/Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/pigandwhistletales/Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PigAndWhistleTalesTry out Buzzsprout yourself! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1154066Listen to the podcast on other platforms:https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-gabriel-nsa902LrQVw/https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-1315927https://open.spotify.com/show/5ZTkLtQvRSm4PStUfZquWkhttps://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3032607The Music at the start is from Tony Catch they do many amazing cover songs for games you can find the link here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHiF0dAkbpPMtQSwvAxcapQSupport the showSupport the show here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/support patreon.com/Pigandwhistle https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistle

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Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here!Ready to explore the future of World of Warcraft with us? Discover how new class concepts like the Prismatic Tinker, Bard, and Astrologian could revolutionize gameplay and refresh your Azeroth experience. We start our adventure at the vibrant Pig and Whistle Inn in Stormwind, where we keep you updated on the latest happenings, such as the formidable world boss Shirai and the whimsical Cooking Impossible brawl. Grab your favorite drink and join us as we reveal insights from a Blizzard survey that could redefine your journey in the game. Together, we dissect the originality and integration of these fascinating concepts, fueling our anticipation for what they might mean for upcoming expansions.But that's not all—our exploration goes deeper as we imagine the possibilities of wielding titan magic as a Celestial Lancer or blending technology and magic with the Artificer. From the elemental magic of Battle Mages to the resourceful Leyweaver, we uncover the creative and strategic depth these classes could offer. We also delve into the potential challenges they might face, drawing comparisons to existing class identities. As we share our personal favorites, like the Tinkerer and Spellbreaker, we invite you to ponder which of these groundbreaking ideas would enhance your gameplay the most. Prepare to be intrigued and inspired as we envision the next chapter of World of Warcraft together! Hope you all enjoy and hope you relate to any of these stories. And I will speak to you all in the next episode!Want some 3D printed Merch, find it here!https://pigandwhistletales.etsy.comSupport the show here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/supportpatreon.com/Pigandwhistlehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistleSocials :Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/pigandwhistletalesYoutube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAOi6rHO3x90lOmmb82Jv1wWebsite : https://www.pigandwhistletales.com/Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/pigandwhistletales/Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PigAndWhistleTalesTry out Buzzsprout yourself! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1154066Listen to the podcast on other platforms:https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-gabriel-nsa902LrQVw/https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-1315927https://open.spotify.com/show/5ZTkLtQvRSm4PStUfZquWkhttps://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3032607The Music at the start is from Tony Catch they do many amazing cover songs for games you can find the link here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHiF0dAkbpPMtQSwvAxcapQSupport the showSupport the show here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/support patreon.com/Pigandwhistle https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistle

In this week's 5 Yrs Ago Flashback episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Post-show (11-13-2019), PWTorch's Kelly Wells, Tom Stoup, and Frank Peteani cover ACH quitting via Twitter, Yim vs. Shirai in a ladder match with a surprise guest, changes to men's matches in WarGames, and more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wade-keller-pro-wrestling-post-shows--3275545/support.

Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here!Prepare yourself for an exhilarating journey through the World of Warcraft's future as we unlock the secrets of the 2025 roadmap. Uncover the mysteries surrounding Shirai, the Atrocity of the Undersea, and prepare for new adventures with Siren Isle and Plunderstorm in patch 11.0.7. We unravel the secrets of patch 11.1, dubbed "Undermined," which promises groundbreaking changes with its new zone, raid, dungeon, and a revolutionary ground mount system that could redefine gameplay. Our exploration doesn't end there, as we speculate on the upcoming patch 11.2 and the potential impact of a swift expansion reveal that could set the stage for one of the best expansions yet.Retrace the steps of Pandarans, monks, and pet battles as we reminisce about the beloved Mists of Pandaria expansion. Experience the thrill of mastering monk gameplay and relive the captivating scenarios like Theramore's Fall. While retail WoW continues to soar with its continuous updates, we also reflect on the classic realm's triumphs and tribulations. Despite the challenges of revitalizing the magic of Classic's initial success, the Season of Discovery shines as a beacon of hope amidst concerns about player base fragmentation. Join us in this riveting discussion as we celebrate World of Warcraft's legacy and its promising future. Hope you all enjoy and hope you relate to any of these stories. And I will speak to you all in the next episode!Want some 3D printed Merch, find it here!https://pigandwhistletales.etsy.comSupport the show here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/supportpatreon.com/Pigandwhistlehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistleSocials :Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/pigandwhistletalesYoutube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAOi6rHO3x90lOmmb82Jv1wWebsite : https://www.pigandwhistletales.com/Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/pigandwhistletales/Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PigAndWhistleTalesTry out Buzzsprout yourself! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1154066Listen to the podcast on other platforms:https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-gabriel-nsa902LrQVw/https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-1315927https://open.spotify.com/show/5ZTkLtQvRSm4PStUfZquWkhttps://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3032607The Music at the start is from Tony Catch they do many amazing cover songs for games you can find the link here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHiF0dAkbpPMtQSwvAxcapQSupport the showSupport the show here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/support patreon.com/Pigandwhistle https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistle

In this week's 5 Yrs Ago Flashback episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Post-show (10-30-2019), PWTorch's Kelly Wells, Tom Stoup, and Nate Lindberg cover Candice LeRae vs. Iyo Shirai, Dakota Kai & Tegan Nox vs. The Kabuki Warriors, major WarGames announcements, and more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wade-keller-pro-wrestling-post-shows--3275545/support.

Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here!What if farming transmogs and mounts could offer you a serene escape from the frantic pace of FPS games? That's just one of the intriguing aspects we'll explore in this episode of Pig and Whistle Tales from Azeroth! Join us as we kick things off with the latest World of Warcraft news, including updates on the War Within dungeons, the formidable world boss Shirai, and this week's exciting brawl, Fact House. You'll gain insights into the Warband system, a topic of curiosity and concern for many players, especially those eyeing older content. We'll shed light on its current focus on reputations and the work in progress to make it more seamless for previous expansions, enhancing your gaming experience.As we journey further into Azeroth, we'll unravel the motivations that keep players engaged with current content and the allure of achieving accolades in the game's prime. Whether you're a nostalgic player reminiscing about the slower pace of past expansions or someone who relishes the rush to the top, there's something here for everyone. We also reflect on how gaming dynamics have evolved and why it's essential to savor the present offerings at your pace. To wrap up, I extend heartfelt gratitude to all our listeners and urge you to stay connected through our vibrant social media channels. Let's keep this community thriving by sharing the podcast with friends and fellow adventurers! Hope you all enjoy and hope you relate to any of these stories. And I will speak to you all in the next episode!Want some 3D printed Merch, find it here!https://pigandwhistletales.etsy.comSupport the show here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/supportpatreon.com/Pigandwhistlehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistleSocials :Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/pigandwhistletalesYoutube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAOi6rHO3x90lOmmb82Jv1wWebsite : https://www.pigandwhistletales.com/Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/pigandwhistletales/Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PigAndWhistleTalesTry out Buzzsprout yourself! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1154066Listen to the podcast on other platforms:https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-gabriel-nsa902LrQVw/https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-1315927https://open.spotify.com/show/5ZTkLtQvRSm4PStUfZquWkhttps://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3032607The Music at the start is from Tony Catch they do many amazing cover songs for games you can find the link here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHiF0dAkbpPMtQSwvAxcapQSupport the showSupport the show here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/support patreon.com/Pigandwhistle https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistle

Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here!Ever wondered why your druid's passive abilities can't compete with those of other classes? Or why gearing up in "The War Within" feels like a chore? In this episode at the Pig and Whistle Inn, we guarantee you'll gain valuable insights into these pressing issues and more. We kick things off with an in-depth look at the new world boss Shirai, the atrocity of the undersea, and the Burning Crusade Time Walking event. The Cooking Impossible brawl is highlighted for its unique and entertaining battleground challenges. We also break down this week's Mythic affixes—fortifying, entangling, and bolstering—and offer tips on how best to tackle them.But that's not all! We address the common complaints about the gearing process in "The War Within," comparing it to previous expansions and debunking myths that have been circulating in the forums. We examine the multiple avenues available for obtaining gear, emphasizing that the current system has made significant strides in accessibility, even for players with limited time. Whether you're frustrated with passive damage mechanics or the grind of gearing up, this episode promises to provide clarity and actionable advice. So grab a pint and join us for a comprehensive discussion on the key aspects of World of Warcraft! Hope you all enjoy and hope you relate to any of these stories. And I will speak to you all in the next episode!Want some 3D printed Merch, find it here!https://pigandwhistletales.etsy.comSupport the show here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/supportpatreon.com/Pigandwhistlehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistleSocials :Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/pigandwhistletalesYoutube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAOi6rHO3x90lOmmb82Jv1wWebsite : https://www.pigandwhistletales.com/Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/pigandwhistletales/Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PigAndWhistleTalesTry out Buzzsprout yourself! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1154066Listen to the podcast on other platforms:https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-gabriel-nsa902LrQVw/https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/pig-whistle-tales-from-azeroth-1315927https://open.spotify.com/show/5ZTkLtQvRSm4PStUfZquWkhttps://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3032607The Music at the start is from Tony Catch they do many amazing cover songs for games you can find the link here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHiF0dAkbpPMtQSwvAxcapQSupport the showSupport the show here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1196870/support patreon.com/Pigandwhistle https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PigandWhistle

Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply.In this episode we analyse national and corporate transition trends in Asia. We have invited a distinguished guest to discuss this topic: Prof. Dr. Sayuri Shirai. Dr. Shirai is an Advisor for Sustainable Policies at the Asian Development Bank Institute. She is also a professor of economics at Keio University. We discuss areas such as adaptation and mitigation in Asia. We also cover the phase-down or phase-out of coal-fired power plants. Additionally, we explore corporate climate disclosure and transition planning.ABOUT DR SAYURI SHIRAI. Sayuri Shirai has been the Asian Development Bank Institute's Advisor for Sustainable Policies since 2022. She is also currently a professor of economics under Keio University's faculty of policy management since 2016. From 2020-2021, she was a senior advisor to London-based EOS at Federated Hermes, which provides environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related stewardship services on firms and public policy. She was a full-time member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan from 2011-2016, participating in making decisions on monetary policy and other central banking matters. She also taught at Sciences Po in Paris from 2007–2008 and served previously as an economist at the International Monetary Fund. She has published extensively on topics such as central bank digital currency, monetary policy, global finance, and ESG investment. She is also a contributing writer to the Japan Times and a frequent Japanese and international media commentator on Japan's economy and global monetary policies. She holds a PhD in economics from Columbia University. FEEDBACK: Email Host | HOST, PRODUCTION, ARTWORK: Joseph Jacobelli | MUSIC: Ep0-29 The Open Goldberg Variations, Kimiko Ishizaka Ep30- Orchestra Gli Armonici – Tomaso Albinoni, Op.07, Concerto 04 per archi in Sol - III. Allegro. |

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Ikigai ist ein Konzept aus Japan und beschreibt, wie man seinem Leben Sinn und Freude geben kann. Es geht dabei nicht um Großes und Außergewöhnliches, sondern es können kleine und alltägliche Dinge sein, für die es sich aber lohnt, morgens aufzustehen.**********An dieser Stelle findet ihr die Übung:00:26:52 - Meditation mit Main Huong Nguyen, um das eigene Ikigai zu finden**********Quellen aus der Folge:Hajek, A., Imai, T., Zwar, L., & König, H. H. (2024). Translation and Validation of the German Version of the Ikigai-9. Societies, 14(3), 39. Okuzono, S. S., Shiba, K., Kim, E. S., Shirai, K., Kondo, N., Fujiwara, T., ... & VanderWeele, T. J. (2022). Ikigai and subsequent health and wellbeing among Japanese older adults: Longitudinal outcome-wide analysis. The Lancet Regional Health–Western Pacific, 21. Wilkes, J., Garip, G., Kotera, Y., & Fido, D. (2023). Can Ikigai predict anxiety, depression, and well-being?. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 21(5), 2941-2953. **********Dianes und Main Huongs Empfehlungen:Mogi, K. (2018). Ikigai: die japanische Lebenskunst (Vol. 1). DuMont Buchverlag. **********Mehr zum Thema bei Deutschlandfunk Nova:Gehirnforschung: In den Flow kommen: Das Ziel muss messbar und erreichbar seinGesunder Schlaf: Lebenssinn lässt uns besser schlafenInhale, exhale: Warum Atmen mehr ist als Luftholen**********Den Artikel zum Stück findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.**********Ihr habt Anregungen, Ideen, Themenwünsche? Dann schreibt uns gern unter achtsam@deutschlandfunknova.de

How do you define success?  Today on the podcast, I bring on Tirzah Shirai, entrepreneur and visionary leader. Tirzah founded BlinkBar (the “Starbucks” of lash extensions) and, using both manifestation practices as well as hustle & grit, grew the company to $30M in just 5 years. But she soon realized that most successful people - including herself - aren't actually living “the good life” people think they are. So Tirzah left it all, tapping into spirituality and higher guidance to provide her with real connection, peace, and a soul-aligned life. She's now on a mission to help other women and entrepreneurs do the same. We chat: How Tirzah received the vision for creating Blink Bar Her approach to manifestation in the early stages of BlinkBar (vision boards & intentions!)  The tactical steps Tirzah took to start BlinkBar (with less than $1,000 and no outside funding)! How she quickly grew the company to multiple locations in LA and $30M in revenue Tirzah's view of business as deeply spiritual and her approach to receive ideas from the spirit realm The impact of COVID on her business and personal life and what happened next Divine intervention?: when Tirzah left BlinkBar and decided to redefine success for herself Moving from ego-driven goals to surrendering and trusting a higher power for guidance Soul contracts and the importance of aligning your purpose on earth with your soul's mission The notion of free will and its connection to higher states of consciousness The shift toward integrating spirituality in the business world. Navigating the change in entrepreneurial mindsets towards balanced living. The intersection of spiritual fulfillment and financial abundance. Healing one's relationship with money and finding success within. How to start shining YOUR light now! I hope this beautiful, soulful conversation serves you as much as it did me. Xx Julia -- Connect with Tirzah: IG: @theblinkbar ⁠@venusianschoolofbusiness Website: www.thevenusianschoolofbusiness.com Follow/connect with me (Julia)! IG: ⁠@dreamyourlifenow⁠ Email: julia@dreamyourlifenow.com W: ⁠www.dreamyourlifenow.com

How do you align rapid business success with spiritual alignment? Can having massive business success bring you the spiritual freedom you desire? In this episode of the Crown Yourself Podcast, Kimberly Spencer brings back Blinkbar CEO, Tirzah Shirai, as she launches her next venture, the Venusian School of Business. Tirzah's debut episode, "From Zero to $30 Million in a Blink" on the Crown Yourself Podcast (formerly called "The Princess and the B") focused on her meteoric rise in building Blinkbar to five locations in California. They discuss the challenges and transformations Tirzah faced, including revealing for the first time, the impact of the COVID-19 shutdowns on her business and her awakening to a more purpose-driven approach...and an announcement three years in the making. Tirzah talks about balancing masculine and feminine energies in business, the importance of alignment with one's purpose, and her personal practices for maintaining balance. The episode also touches on Tirzah's new role as a mother and how it has influenced her perspective on business and life. About Tirzah Shirai: Tirzah Shirai birthed a $30M business from nothing and is now radically redefining success. Blinkbar was started out of pure necessity after she hit a lull in paychecks as an Award-Winning Film Director and had less than $1,000 to her name. The company quickly grew from $0 - $30M in 5 years as she applied her skill for storytelling with her ability to paint a big vision and develop a strategy to get there. Tirzah experienced growing from almost nothing and a childhood of poverty to a quick rise of amazing successes in both the business and film world. This put her in rooms with other high-achievers who were “hustling” their way to a dream. And it was through that proximity that she realized, that most successful people are not living the good life everyone thinks they are. The difference between those who were happy and those who weren't? It wasn't the business they built, but who they were while they did it. Since then, she's committed to changing the world to make abundance more available by helping others build businesses and make money in a meaningful way. She's taking her business, branding, and benevolence background and turning it into an educational experience the entrepreneurial world has never seen before. Through a combination of spiritual practices (the “woo") and strategic planning (the “work”), she's helping others who burn with a desire to share their gifts with the world through business. And with all of these spiritual shifts, she's lit a new fire and let what she previously built begin to burn so that she can start completely anew. Tirzah experiences the most happiness in her life when she embraces her role in motherhood and practices leaning back into her already existing feminine power rather than striving for status. Her only hope is to help others feel that same happiness through the energy they bring to going after their dreams. Venusian School of Business: https://www.thevenusianschoolofbusiness.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/venusianschoolofbusiness/ Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tirzah-shirai-a062ba19b/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-puITk-7RTnEtUgm3d0Jsw Links + Mentions: "From Zero to $30 Million in a Blink with Blinkbar Founder and CEO, Tirzah Shirai" "Blink Bar": "00:00:00 - 00:01:37" "Venusian School of Business": "00:05:56 - 00:07:59", "01:05:05" "Amazon": "00:10:00 - 00:11:14" "Good Morning America": "00:21:35 - 00:22:34" "Traction" (book): "00:28:29" "15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership" (book): "00:28:29" Mary Magdalene The Christ Dream What You'll Learn in this Episode: Tirzah Shirai's journey as an entrepreneur and her experience scaling BlinkBar from Zero to $30 million The launch of the Venusian School of Business and its focus on aligning your spiritual purpose with your business Tirzah's transition from a fast-paced business owner to a more purpose-driven path The concept of flow and the importance of integrating masculine and feminine energies in life and business Tirzah's personal experiences and insights on finding a balance between masculine and feminine energies The significance of acknowledging our spiritual nature and its impact on our lives and businesses Tirzah's non-negotiable daily practices and unique exercises for building spiritual strength A rapid-fire question round exploring Teresa's favorite character, morning and evening routines, and her definition of queendom Tirzah's approach to crowning herself and embracing challenges in alignment with her spiritual beliefs Invitation for listeners to connect with Tirzah through the Venusian School of Business and its offerings

Hello wonderful souls! Join me in a heartfelt conversation with the incredible Tirzah Shirai. In this week's episode, I sit down with Tirzah and discuss our journeys toward aligning personal, spiritual and professional growth. Together, we explore the winding paths of our personal, spiritual, and professional growth, unraveling the profound lessons learned along the way. Tirzah shares her inspiring journey from starting in poverty to creating a $30 million business, to realizing that success can have a deeper, immensely satisfying internal meaning. Our conversation delves into concepts of embodying both masculine and feminine energies and how the transition from external markers of success to internal feelings of contentment has played out in each of our lives. We also touch upon the importance of overcoming personal fears and cultivating gratitude to expand one's light body, a topic that is increasingly relevant given the transitional epoch humanity is currently navigating. This episode provides insights into how you can redefine success for yourself, align with your purpose, and bring forward your unique gifts into the world - all while operating within the realms of high-level business. In the spirit of the season, I extend warm wishes to you and your loved ones. May the coming year bring boundless joy, success, and profound discoveries on your unique journey. ---

If you're feeling trapped in a cycle of endless work and unfulfilled accomplishments, then you are not alone! You may already be taking on more responsibilities, seeking external validation, and sacrificing your well-being in the process. Instead of finding fulfillment and purpose, you may be feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, and dissatisfied with your professional endeavors. By infusing intuition, heart, and soul into your work, you can break free from this cycle and experience enhanced personal fulfillment and professional alignment. About Tirzah Shirai:Tirzah Shirai started a business out of pure necessity after she hit a lull in paychecks as an Award-Winning Film Director and had less than $1,000 to her name. Though she started Blinkbar out of need, she quickly grew the company from $0 - $30M in 5 years as she applied her skill for storytelling with her ability to paint a big vision and develop a strategy to get there. Tirzah is a YPO member, featured in Forbes, Good Morning America, and NYT. Tirzah experienced growing from almost nothing and a childhood of poverty to a quick rise of amazing successes in both the business and film world. This put her in rooms with other high-achievers who were “hustling” their way to a dream. And it was through that proximity that she realized, that most successful people are not living the good life everyone thinks they are.What is the difference between those who were happy and those who weren't? It wasn't the business they built, but who they were while they did it. Tirzah has now stepped away from a 30M company to focus on the Venusian School Of Business, a place for light-seeking entrepreneurs to step out of the antiquated journey of entrepreneurship to create a purpose-centered business that calls you to align your potential and tap into a wellspring of abundance in a way that feels good along the way. In this episode, Dean Newlund and Tirzah Shirai  discuss:Infusing intuition, heart, and soul into professional endeavors to heighten fulfillment and success.Overcoming societal expectations and aligning with the true purpose for unparalleled fulfillment and achievement.Addressing the disconnection between the modern workplace and society to foster a more harmonious and productive environment.Embracing intuition, heart, and soul in the business world to unlock untapped potential and drive innovation.Realigning and reinventing in response to societal changes to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving business landscape. "I've always been a very spiritual person, but until 2020, my spiritual and type A hardworking worlds were very separate. They collided, and I realized I'll never be able to untangle this mess again.” —  Tirzah Shirai  See Dean's TedTalk “Why Business Needs Intuition” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEq9IYvgV7I Connect with Tirzah Shirai:  Website URL: thevenusianschoolofbusiness.com  | Wearehoneymilk.com Connect with Dean:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqRK8GC8jBIFYPmECUCMkwWebsite: https://www.mfileadership.com/The Mission Statement E-Newsletter: https://www.mfileadership.com/blog/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deannewlund/X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/deannewlundFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/MissionFacilitators/Email: dean.newlund@mfileadership.comPhone: 1-800-926-7370 Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

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This episode we talk about the first recorded instance of Buddhism--or at least the worship of the Buddha--in Japan, and we look at some of the politics and issues surrounding its adoption, as well as some of the problems in the story we have from the Chronicles.  We also look at what legend says happened to the oldest Buddhist image and where you can find it, today.  Hint: It is in a place that once hosted the Winter Olympics! For more check out our podcast website:  https://sengokudaimyo.com/podcast/episode-85 Rough Transcript:   Welcome to Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan.  My name is Joshua and this is episode 85: The Buddha Comes to Japan. Last couple episodes we've talked about Buddhism.  We talked about its origins in the Indian subcontinent, with the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, aka Shakyamuni, the historical Buddha, and how those teachings spread out from India to Gandhara, and then followed the trade routes across the harsh deserts of the Tarim Basin, through the Gansu corridor, and into the Yellow and Yangzi River Valleys.  From there the teachings made it all the way to the Korean peninsula, and to the country of Baekje, Yamato's chief ally on the peninsula. This episode we'll look at how Buddhism came to the archipelago and its initial reception there.  For some of this we may need to span several reigns, as we'll be looking at events from early to late 6th century.  This is also about more than just religion, and so we may need to dive back into some of the politics we've covered up to this point as well.  Hopefully we can bring it all together in the end, but if it is a bit of a bumpy ride, just hang with me for a bit. So let's start with the official account in the Nihon Shoki, which we already mentioned two episodes ago: the first mention of Buddhism in the Chronicles.  The year was 552, or the 13th year in the reign of Ame Kunioshi, aka Kimmei Tennou.  That winter, during the 10th month—which was probably closer to December or January on a modern calendar—King Seongmyeong of Baekje had a special gift for his counterpart, the sovereign of Yamato.  By this time there are numerous accounts of gifts to Yamato, generally in conjunction with the Baekje-Yamato alliance and Baekje's requests for military support in their endeavors on the peninsula, generally framed in the Yamato sources as centering on the situation of the country of Nimna. In this case, the gift was a gilt-bronze image of Shakyamuni Buddha, several flags and umbrellas, and a number of volumes of Buddhist sutras.  King Seongmyeong sent a memorial explaining his intent:  “This doctrine” (aka Buddhism) “is amongst all doctrines the most excellent.  But it is hard to explain, and hard to comprehend.  Even the Duke of Zhou and Confucius had not attained to a knowledge of it.  This doctrine can create religious merit and retribution with appreciation of the highest wisdom.  Imagine a man in possession of treasures to his heart's content, so that he might satisfy all his wishes in proportion as he used them.  Thus it is with the treasure of this wonderful doctrine.  Every prayer is fulfilled and naught is wanting.  Moreover, from distant India it has extended hither to the three Han, where there are none who do not receive it with reverence as it is preached to them. “Thy servant, therefore, Myeong, King of Baekje, has humbly dispatched his retainer, Nuri Sacchi, to transmit it to the Imperial Country, and to diffuse it abroad throughout the home provinces, so as to fulfil the recorded saying of Buddha: ‘My law shall spread to the East.' “ Upon receiving all of these things and hearing the memorial, we are told that the sovereign, Ame Kunioshi, literally leapt for joy.  He thanked the envoys, but then put the question to his ministers as to how they should proceed.  Soga no Iname no Sukune, holding the position of Oho-omi, recommended that they should worship the statue of the Buddha.  After all, if all of the “Western Frontier lands” were worshipping it, then should Yamato really be left out? On the other side of the argument were Mononobe no Okoshi as well as Nakatomi no Kamako.  They argued against stopping the traditional worship of the 180 kami of Heaven and Earth and replacing it with worship of some foreign religion. With this split decision, Ame Kunioshi decided to have Soga no Iname experiment, first.  He told him to go ahead and worship the image and see what happens. And so Soga set it up at his house in Oharida, purified it, and, per Buddhist tradition, retired from the world.  He had another house, in nearby Mukuhara, purified and made into a temple.  Here he began to worship the Buddha. Around that same time, there was a pestilence—a disease—that was in the land.  People were getting sick and some were dying.  This was likely not unprecedented.  Healthcare was not exactly up to our modern standards, and while many good things traveled the trade routes, infection and disease likely used them as pathways as well.  So diseases would pop up, on occasion.  In this instance, though, Mononobe no Okoshi and Nakatomi no Kamako seized on it as their opportunity.  They went to Ame Kunioshi and they blamed Soga no Iname and his worship of the Buddha for the plague. Accordingly, the court removed the statue of the Buddha and tossed it into the canal at Naniwa, and then they burned down Soga no Iname's temple—which, as you may recall, was basically his house.  As soon as they did that, though, Ame Kunioshi's own Great Hall burst into flames, seemingly out of nowhere, as it was otherwise a clear day. Little more is said about these events, but that summer there were reports from Kawachi of Buddhist chants booming out of the sea of Chinu near the area of Idzumi.  Unate no Atahe was sent to investigate and found an entire log of camphorwood that was quote-unquote “Shining Brightly”.  So he gave it to the court, where we are told they used it to have two Buddha images made, which later were installed in a temple in Yoshino; presumably at a much later date. And then the Chronicles go quiet for the next couple decades, at least on the subject of Buddhism, but this is the first official account of it coming over, and there is quite a bit to unpack.  For one thing, the memorials and speeches once again seem like something that the Chroniclers added because it fit with their understanding of the narrative, including their insistence that Yamato was a fully fledged imperial state, and there is some fairly good evidence that King Seongmyeong's memorial is clearly anachronistic.  But there are a few other things, and conflicting records on things such as dates and similar. So first off, let's acknowledge that there are too many things in the main narrative in the Chronicles that are just questionable, such as the sovereign “leaping with joy” at the chance to hear about Buddhism, and the fact that King Seongmyeong's memorial apparently quotes a part of the sutra of the Sovereign Kings of Golden Light, known in Japanese as the Konkoumyou-saishou-ou-kyou, but that translation wasn't done until 703, during the Tang dynasty, by the monk Yijing in the city of Chang'an.  While it would have been known to knowledgable monks like Doji, who may have been helping put the narrative together in 720, it is unlikely that it was in use during the 6th century, when the memorial is said to have been written. In addition, there is question about the date that all of this supposedly happened.  The Nihon Shoki has this event taking place in 552, well into the reign of Ame Kunioshi.  However, there are at least two 8th century sources, roughly contemporary with the writing of the Nihon Shoki, the Gangoji Garan Engi and the Jouguuki, and both of these put the date at 538, a good fourteen years earlier, and in the era of Ame Kunioshi's predecessor, Takewo Hiro Kunioshi, aka Senka Tenno.  The first of these, the Gangoji Garan Engi, is a record of the founding of the first permanent temple in Japan, Gangoji, aka Hokoji or, informally, Asukadera, which was founded by Soga no Iname's heir, Soga no Umako.  More on the temple itself, later, but for now we want to focus on the historical aspects of this account, which mostly corroborate the story, talking about Soga no Iname's role in receiving the image and enshrining it, as well as the early conflict between the Soga clan and their rivals.  The other source, the Joguki, focuses on the life of Shotoku Taishi, aka Prince Umayado, who will become a major subject of our narrative at the end of the 6th and early 7th centuries.  Not only is he considered the father of Japanese Buddhism, but he had strong connections to the Soga family.  Today, most scholars accept the 538 date over the 552 date when talking about Buddhism's initial arrival into the islands   If the Chroniclers did move the event from 538 to 552, one has to wonder why.  This isn't a simple matter of being off by 60 years, and thus attributable to a mistake in the calendrical sexagenary zodiac cycle of stems and branches, so there must have been something else.  One suggestion is that the date conflicted with the chronology that had already been set for the sovereigns.  538 is during the reign of Takewo no Ohokimi, aka Senka Tenno, but what if succession was not quite as cut and dried as all that?  What if Ame Kunioshi no Ohokimi had his own court and was in some way ruling at the same time as his half-brothers, Magari no Ohine and Takewo no Ohokimi? They were from different mothers, and thus different factions at court.  Ame Kunioshi was young, so it was possible that there were rival lineages attempting to rule, or even some kind of co-ruler deal hearkening back to more ancient precedent.  Some even theorize that Magari no Ohine and Takewo Hiro Kunioshi were simply fictional inserts to help span the period between Wohodo and Ame Kunioshi. Whatever the reason, this theory suggests that it would not have happened in the 13th year of Ame Kunioshi's reign, but that his reign started in 526, rather than 540.  An intriguing hypothesis, but one that begs the question of whether everything in the reign would then need to be shifted to account for that.  Given that there are a few attributable events noted that fit with outside sources as well, that doesn't seem quite as plausible without some very conscious efforts to change the timeline. Another thought is that the compilers weren't sure exactly when this event happened, but given Ame Kunioshi's reputation and long reign, they chose his reign to place it in because it just fit.  I suspect that this happened more than once, with people more likely attributing past events to well-remembered sovereigns.  If this is the case, then when searching for a date they may have just chosen one that seemed auspicious.  In this case, 552 CE was, in some reckonings, an important year in Buddhist history, as there were those who say it as the beginning of the age of “mappou”, the “End of the Law” or perhaps the “Latter days of the Law”. This definitely is an intriguing theory, and resonates strongly.  For most of Japanese history, the idea that we are in this period of “mappo” has had a strong influence, and to a certain extent it is kind of an apocalyptic view of things.  The idea of mappo is that while the Buddha was alive, his teachings were fresh and available to all living things.  However, after his death, his teachings had to be remembered and passed on.  Even with the advent of writing, the meaning and understanding of his teachings, and thus an understanding of dharma, would also atrophy.  Different translations, changes in meaning, and just bits and pieces lost to time would mean that for the first 500 to 1,000 years, the Buddha's disciples would keep things well and the meaning would be protected, but in the next 500 to 1,000 years things would decline, but still be pretty close to the truth.  Then – and this is when the period of “mappo” starts - things would really start to decline, until finally, about 5,000 to 10,000 years later—or about 1,000 to 12,000 years after the time of the historical Buddha—things would break down, factions would be fighting one another, and eventually everyone would have forgotten the dharma entirely.  It was only then that there would come a new Buddha, Miroku or Maitreya, who would once again teach about the dharma and how to escape suffering, and the whole cycle would start again. The year 552 would have coincided, according to some estimates, with 1,000 years since the time of Siddhartha Gautama, and so it would have had particular significance to the people of that time, particularly if you counted each of the first two Ages as 500 years each, meaning that the word of the Buddha, that his teachings would spread to the East, would have been completed just as we entered the latter days of the Law. Regardless of the time—and, as I said earlier, 538 is the more accepted date—the general events described – the statue, the offer of Soga to experiment, and the resulting events - are usually agreed to, although even here we must pause, slightly and ask a few questions. First off, was this truly the first time that Buddhism had ever shown up in Japan?  The answer to that is probably not.  There had been many waves of immigrants that had come over to Japan from the peninsula, and even if only a small handful of them had adopted the new religion before coming over it is likely that there were pockets of worshippers.  Later, we will see that there are people in Japan who are said to have had prior experience as a monk, or who had their own Buddhist images.  These images were probably used by people in their homes—there is no evidence of any particular temples that had been built, privately or otherwise, and so there is no evidence that we have any active monks or nuns in the archipelago, but who knows what was going on in communities outside of the elite core?  There were plenty of things that were never commented on if it wasn't directly relevant to the court. Furthermore, with all of the envoys that had been to Baekje, surely some of them had experience with Buddhism.  And then there were the envoys *from* Baekje, who no doubt brought Buddhist practices with them.  So there was likely some kind of familiarity with the religion's existence, even if it wasn't necessarily fully understood. The second point that many people bring up is the role of the sovereign, Ame Kunioshi, or whomever was in charge at the time that the first image came over.  While the Nihon Shoki attempts to portray a strong central government with the sovereign at its head, we've already seen how different households had arisen and taken some measure of power for themselves.  At the end of the 5th and into the early 6th century, the Ohotomo and Mononobe houses were preeminent, with Ohotomo Kanamura taking on actions such as negotiating dealings with the continent and even manuevering around the Crown Prince.  The Mononobe wielded considerable authority through their military resources, and now, the Soga appeared to ascendant.  It is quite possible that the idea of the sovereign giving any sort of permission or order to worship Buddhism is simply a political fig leaf added by the Chroniclers.  The Soga may have been much more independent in their views and dealings.  To better understand this, let's take a look at the uji family system and the Soga family in particular. Now the Nihon Shoki paints a picture as though these noble uji families were organic, and simply part of the landscape, descending from the kami in the legendary age, with lineages leading down to the present day, although there is some acknowledgment that the earliest ancestors did not necessarily use the family names until a later date.  For much of Japanese history, the concept that these family, or uji, were one of the core building blocks of ancient Japanese political and cultural spheres is taken as a matter of course.  However, in more modern studies, this view has been questioned, and now the prevailing view is that these families are somewhat different.  In fact, the uji are likely just as much an artificial construct as the corporate -Be family labor groups. According to this theory, early on people were associated with local groups and places.  Outside of the immediate family, groups were likely held together by their regional ties as much as anything else.  Names appear to be locatives, with ancient titles indicating the -hiko or -hime of this or that area. Some time in the 5th century, Yamato—and possibly elsewhere in the peninsula—began to adopt the concept of -Be corporate groups from Baekje.  We talked about this back in Episode 63, using the Hata as a prime example of how these groups were brought together.  More importantly, though, was that each of these -Be groups reported to someone in the court, sometimes with a different surname.  These were the uji, created along with the -Be to help administer the labor and work of running the state.  They were essentially arms of the state itself, in many ways.  The kabane system of titles emphasizes this, with different families having different ranks depending on what they did, whether locally, regionally, or at the central court.  Some of these titles, like -Omi and -Kimi, were likely once actual jobs, but eventually it came to represent something more akin to a social ranking. There have been some questions and emails asking for a bit more in depth on this, and I'd really like to, but I'm afraid that would be too much for now.  At the moment I want to focus more on the uji, particularly on those at the top - the uji with the kabane of either Omi or Muraji, as these are the ones most likely to be helping to directly run the government.  They even had their own geographical areas within the Nara basin, and elsewhere, that were uji strongholds.  The Hata had areas near modern Kyoto, the Mononobe clearly had claims to land around Isonokami, in modern Tenri, and the Soga clan had their holdings in the area of modern Asuka and Kashihara city.  At the very least, that is where Soga no Iname's house was—in Mukuhara and Oharida, both located in the modern area of Asuka, which will become important in the future. It wasn't just the landholdings that were important, though.  Each uji had some part to play in the functioning of the government.  In many cases it was the production or control of a particular service, such as the Hata and silk weaving, or the Mononobe and their affinity with all things military.  For the Soga, they appear to have had a rather interesting portfolio. Traditionally, the Soga family is said to trace its lineage back to Takechi no Sukune, the first Oho-omi back in the time of Okinaga no Tarashi Hime and Homuda Wake no Ohokimi—see episode 46 for more on him.  That lineage is likely fabricated, however, and the earliest actual evidence for the family may be from the Kogoshui, where we are told that Soga no Machi was put in charge of the Three Treasuries.  These were the Imikura, or sacred treasury; the Uchikura, or royal household treasury; and the Ohokura, the government treasury.  This seems like quite the position of responsibility, and it would fit with some of what we see later as the Soga are involved in helping set up Miyake, the various royal storehouses across the land that acted as Yamato court administrative centers for the purposes of collecting goods and funneling them to the court, as well as keeping an eye on the local regions.  Although here I feel I would be remiss if I didn't also note that the “Three Treasuries”, or “Sanzou” is one way to translate the Tripitaka, and given the Soga's role, I don't think I can entirely ignore that point. So the Soga family had experience with administration, and specifically they were dealing with a variety of different goods produced in different regions.  If that is the case, then their authority did not necessarily derive from the standard uji-be constructed familial connections, but rather they were deriving positional authority from the central government itself.  This may seem like common sense to us, but in the world of ancient Yamato, where family connections were everything, this may have been something new and innovative—and very in keeping with various continental models of administration.  It is quite likely that the Soga were dealing with some of the latest innovations in government and political authority, which would also have opened them up to the possibility of new ideas. In addition, their position meant they likely had wide-ranging contacts across the archipelago and even onto the peninsula.  The Soga themselves have connections to the peninsula in the names of some of their members, such as Soga no Karako, where “Karako” can be translated as a “Son of Kara” or a “Son of Gaya”, possibly referring to their origins, and Soga no Kouma, where “Kouma” is a general term for Goguryeo, and so quite possibly indicates a connection with them as well.  On top of that, there is a now-out-of-favor theory that once suggested that Soga no Machi might be the same as Moku Machi, an important Baekje official in the late 5th century.  While that has been largely discredited, the fact that “Machi” is possibly of Baekje origin cannot be entirely overlooked. Then there are a series of notes in the Nihon Shoki, particularly surrounding the area of Shirai, in the land of Kibi.  These start in 553, just one year after Soga no Iname's failed attempt to launch a Buddhist temple, at least according to the Nihon Shoki's record of events.  It is a relatively simple note, but it mentions how Soga no Iname made a man by the name of Wang Jinnie the “Funa no Fubito”, or “Recorder of Ships”, and put him in charge of the shipping tax—all at the behest of the sovereign, of course. Later, in 555, Soga no Iname went with Hozumi no Iwayumi no Omi to Kibi, where they consolidated five districts, or agata, under the administration of a single administrative Miyake in Shirawi.  Later, in 556, he would go back to Kibi and establish a Miyake in Kojima, putting in place Katsuraki no Yamada as the Tazukai, or “rural rice field governor”.  That same year he and others went to the Takachi district in Yamato and established the Miyake of Ohomusa, or “Great Musa”, for immigrants from Baekje and then Womusa, or “Small Musa”, for immigrants from Goguryeo. In 569, the person that Soga no Iname had put in charge of recording the ships, Wang Jinnie, had a nephew, Itsu—or possibly Danchin, depending on how you read it—go out to Shirawi to take a census.  This is the same Shirawi that Soga no Iname had helped establish in 555.  Itsu becomes the Shirawi no Obito, and in 574 we see Soga no Umako, Iname's heir, heading out to Shirawi with an updated register for Itsu. So, in short, the Soga family clearly is doing a lot of government administration, and particularly of the Miyake, which is the extension of the court authority into the rest of the archipelago.  On top of that, look at how often the names that are coming up in conjunction with what they are doing are referencing immigrant groups.  Even the Hozumi family are known at this point for their work on the peninsula, and we see the Soga heavily involved with the Wang family and their fortunes, not to mention Greater and Lesser Musa and the Baekje and Goguryeo individuals there.  Wang Jinnie will have even more of a part to play, but we'll hold onto that for later. Given everything we can see about how they are operating, is it any surprise that the Soga would advocate in favor of Buddhism?  I'd also note that, while other clans have clear connections to heavenly ancestors and kami whom they worshipped, it is unclear to me if the Soga had anything similar.  There is mention in the 7th century of the creation of a shrine to their titular ancestors, Takeuchi no Sukune and Ishikawa no Sukune, and today there is a shrine that is dedicated to Soga tsu Hiko and Soga tsu Hime—Basically just lord and lady Soga.  But there isn't anything like the spirit of Futsunushi or Ohomononushi, let alone an Amaterasu or Susano'o. Why is that important?  Well, prior to the 6th century, a lot of clans claimed authority from the ritual power they were perceived to wield, often related to the prestige of their kami.  One of the ways that Yamato influence had spread was through the extension of the Miwa cult across the archipelago, and there were even members of the Himatsuribe and the Hioki-be, basically groups of ritualists focused on sun worship, which upheld the royal house.  The Mononobe controlled Isonokami shrine, where they worshipped their Ujigami, Futsu-mitama, the spirit of the sound of the sword.  And then there were the Nakatomi, who haven't had much to do in the narrative so far, but we know that they were court ritualists, responsible for ensuring that proper rituals were carried out by the court for the kami to help keep balance in the land. The dispute between the Soga and the Mononobe and Nakatomi is presented as a struggle between a foreign religion and the native kami of Japan—leaving aside any discussion, for now, about just how “native” said kami actually were.  This is, in fact, the primary story that gets told again and again, that the Mononobe and Nakatomi were simply standing up for their beliefs, sincerely believing that if too many people started worshipping foreign gods then it would supplant the worship already present in the islands. And that may have been a genuine fear at the time, but I would suggest that it was only a small one.  What seems more apparent is that we are really looking at just an old fashioned power struggle.  Because what all of the information we have about the Soga distills down to is: they were the new kid on the block.  The Soga were the up and coming nobility.  They had connections with the continent and various immigrant groups.  That gave them access to new ideas and new forms of resources.  The Mononobe were built on a more traditionalist line.  They had been around, ever since at least Wakatake no Ohokimi, playing a significant role in things, alongside the Ohotomo.  The Mononobe were at their apex, claiming descent through their own Heavenly Grandson, and having held sway at court through numerous reigns at this point.   They represent, in many ways, the old guard. Worship of a fancy new religious icon—effectively a new kami—threatened to give the Soga even more power and sway.  They already had control of the three treasuries, if the Kogoshui is to be believed, and likely had a rather impressive administrative apparatus.  Soga no Iname had also ended up successfully marrying off two of his daughters to Ame Kunioshi, making him father-in-law to the current sovereign.  If he added to that a spiritual focus that people came to believe in, that would only enhance the Soga's power and place in the hierarchy. And what better way to taint all of that, and neutralize these upstarts, than to blame this new god for the plague and pestilence that was killing people.  We see it all too often, even today—when people are scared and when there are problems, the easiest people to scapegoat are the foreigners and the outsiders.  Those whom we do not see as “us”.  It was probably easy to turn the court against Buddhism, at least initially.  They threw the image in the canal and burned down the temple, and no doubt they were pleased with themselves. But that was merely the opening salvo, and as we'll see in the coming years, the Soga family were hardly done with Buddhism.  One can argue whether they were truly devout or if this was merely for political gain, but the Soga family tied themselves to this new foreign religion, for good or for ill, and they wouldn't be pushed around forever. When next we touch base on this topic we'll look at Soga no Iname's heir, Soga no Umako, and his attempts to start up where his father left off.  He would again clash with the Mononobe, and the outcome of that conflict would set the path for the next half a century.  It would also see Buddhism become firmly enmeshed with the apparatus of the state.  As this happens , we'll also see the character of Buddhist worship in the archipelago change.  Initially, the Buddha was treated little differently from any other kami, and based on the way it is described, probably worshiped in a very similar manner.  However, as more sutras came to light and as more people studied and learned about the religion—and as more immigrants were brought in to help explain how things were supposed to work—Buddhism grew in the islands to be its own distinct entity.  In fact the growth of Buddhism would even see the eventual definition of “Shinto”, the “Way of the Gods”, a term that was never really needed until there was another concept for native practices to be compared against. Before we leave off, there is one other story I'd like to mention.  It is tangential to our immediate discussion of Buddhism and the Soga, but I think you may find it of interest, nonetheless.  This is the story of just what happened—supposedly—to that first Buddhist icon that was tossed into the Naniwa canal. Because you see, according to tradition, that gilt-bronze icon did not stay stuck in the mud and muck of the canal, nor did it just disappear.  Instead there is a tradition that it was found almost a century later.  The person who retrieved it was named Honda no Yoshimitsu, and from Naniwa he traveled all the way to Shinano, to the area of modern Nagano, and there he would found a temple in 642.  Another reading of his name, Yoshimitsu, is Zenko, and so the temple is named Zenkoji, and you can still go and visit it today.  In fact, the main hall of Zenkoji is considered a national treasure, and it was featured prominently during the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.  It is a popular attraction for tourist both in Japan and from abroad, and if you get a chance I highly recommend going to see it.  On the street leading up to the temple entrance are many traditional shops that still sell various foods and traditional arts and crafts, and there are many intriguring features.  For example, there is a narrow walkway underneath the main temple that is completely dark, where you are meant to feel along the wall to try to find the key to enlightenment, a kind of physical metaphor of Buddhist teaching. And of course there is the icon that Honda Yoshimitsu is said to have fished out of the canal. According to the temple, the icon still exists, and many worshippers believe it to be the oldest extant Buddhist icon in Japan, even older than the icons at Horyuji.  However, there is one catch—nobody is allowed to see it.  Shortly after it was installed in the temple, the statue was hidden in a special container, or zushi, and it became what is known as a hidden Buddha.  This is a tradition particularly prevalent in Japan, where some Buddhas are hidden away and only brought out on very special occasions.  Some cynics might note that those occasions are often when the temple needs to raise funds.  As for this hidden Buddha, however, it has not been seen more than a handful of times since it was locked away in the 7th century. Despite that, we know what it looks like—or at least what it is supposed to look like.  The image is said to be a triad, and though the Nihon Shoki claims it was an image of Shakyamuni, the central figure of the Zenkoji triad is actually the figure of Amida, aka Amithabha, as in the Pure Land sect of Buddhism.  Amida Nyorai is flanked by two attendants.  We know all of this because a copy of the Zenkoji image was made in the Kamakura period, and that image, said to be a faithful recreation of the original is also kept at Zenkoji.  While the original is kept hidden in the back, the replica, which is thought to have all of the miraculous powers of the original, sits in front, and is therefore called the Maedachi Honzon, basically the image standing in front, vice the original, the Gohonzon, the main image. Except it gets even better, because the replica is *also* kept hidden away most of the time, and only revealed on special occasions, known as Gokaicho, or “opening of the curtain”, which occurs once every seven years. The Zenkoji triad became extremely important in later centuries, and copies were made and installed in sub-temples throughout Japan.  Even today you may find a Zenkoji-style triad here or there, each one considered to have a spiritual tie back to the original, and some of them even have inscriptions confirming that they are, indeed, Zenkoji style triads Of course, the big question remains: does the original image actually still exist, and is there any chance that it actually is as old as it claims to be?  There really is no good way of knowing.  Zenkoji is not offering to open up the zushi any time soon.  We do know a few things, however.  We know that the temple has burned down at least 11 times over the years, and the Gohonzon was rescued each time, or so they say.  There are some who claim that it still exists, but perhaps it is damaged.  If that is the case, how did they make the replica, though? There was an inspection during the Edo period.  There was a rumor that it had been stolen, and so an Edo official was sent to check on the status.  They reported that it was still there, but crucially they never described actually laying eyes on the statue.  In one account where a monk did open the box it is said that their was a blinding light—kind of like the Ark of the Covenant in Indiana Jones but just overwhelming; no faces were melted, at least none that were reported. The monks of Zenkoji, when asked how they know the image is still there, will point to the weight of the container, which, when lifted, is apparently considerable.  They say that is how they know it is still there.  Of course, a melted lump of metal might be the same weight as it was when it was full statue, as long as it didn't lose any actual mass, so it is hard to tell if it is still in good condition. Even with all of that, there is the question about the veracity of the original objects lineage to begin with.  Did Honda Yoshimitsu really just find *the* original statue?  And even if he did, how would he have known what it was?  Was there an inscription:  To Yamato, from Baekje, hugs and kisses? I've yet to see anyone directly compare the purported replica with other statues, but I suspect that would be the route to at least check the age, but nobody seems to be saying that the style of the replica is blatantly wrong for a 6th or 7th century icon from the peninsula or by peninsular craftsmen.  Then again, there were plenty of local immigrants in the Naniwa area who could have potentially crafted an image.  Indeed, the area around modern Nagano even has traces of Goguryeo style burial cairns, possibly from immigrants settled out there to help with early horse cultivation, and so there is even the possibility that there were locals with the connections and skills to craft something. If you really want to know more, there is an entire work by Donald McCallum, titled “Zenkoji and Its Icon”, on not just the icon but the entire worship that sprang up around it and caused copies to spread throughout the archipelago. And that's where we will leave off for this episode.  In the next couple of episodes I want to finish up some of the secular history of this reign, and look a little bit outside of Yamato and the evidence in the Chronicles as well. Until then, thank you for listening and for all of your support.  If you like what we are doing, tell your friends and feel free to rate us wherever you listen to podcasts.  If you feel the need to do more, and want to help us keep this going, we have information about how you can donate on Patreon or through our KoFi site, ko-fi.com/sengokudaimyo, or find the links over at our main website, SengokuDaimyo.com/Podcast, where we will have some more discussion on topics from this episode. 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NXT 2.0 se estableció, hace ya algunas semanas, y a pesar de su frenetismo nos enseña que funcionan varias apuestas. La llegada de gente del Performance Center en su tirada inicial (Breakker, Hayes, D'Angelo, Waller, Nile, Jade...), sumada a los veteranos (Grimes, Knight, Strong, Shirai, KLR, Kai...), ha conseguido desarrollar un producto que es cambiante, que es creciente y que aporta frescura con los A-Kid, Tiffany Stratton, Wendy Choo y cía. NXT Stand & Deliver será la gran toma de contacto para todos ellos y, sobre todo, la gran prueba de fuego después de WarGames. Hablamos del show con @PowerOfInk y hacemos la previa del PLE del sábado con @NeverGiveUp__93. Suscríbete en iVoox (pestaña 'Apoyar') o Spotify (UHEP+, https://anchor.fm/uhepextra/subscribe) para escuchar episodios exclusivos para mecenas. 🎁 Discord: https://discord.gg/G79hvUCRSR 🔵 Twitter: @SrAlexGomez 🟣 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/siralexgomez

Adam and the Dadley Boyz review last night's episode of NXT 2.0 and discuss...Ray & Shirai win the Dusty Cup!Robert Roode vs. Bron Breakker!Who qualified for Stand & Deliver?Ciampa gets revenge on Tony D'Angelo!Who trashed Diamond Mine's dojo?!ENJOY!Follow us on Twitter:@AdamWilbourn@MichaelHamflett@MSidgwick@WhatCultureWWEFor more awesome content, check out: whatculture.com/wwe See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listen and subscribe at www.JustProWrestlingNews.com Like the show? Support the show and get bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/justprowrestlingnews I'm Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Wednesday, March 23, 2022. This update is brought to you by the Wrestling Mayhem Show. Check out the new episode right now wherever you get your podcasts. (STINGER: WWE) An unexpected twist on the road to NXT's Stand & Deliver special. Io Shirai & Kay Lee Ray won the women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic last night. They beat Dakota Kai & Wendy Choo to take the cup. But instead of preparing to go after the NXT Women's Tag Titles, KLR and Shirai said they want to cash in their win for a title shot against NXT Women's Champ Mandy Rose at Stand & Deliver. Rose is already scheduled to defend against Cora Jade. That match is now official. It'll be Rose defending in a 4-way against Jade, Shirai & KLR at Stand & Deliver. A brand new match was added to Stand & Deliver: Gunther vs. LA Knight. Gunther beat Duke Hudson last night. Two more individuals qualified for the North American Championship ladder match at Stand & Deliver. Solo Sikoa beat Roderick Strong…and Grayson Waller beat A-Kid. They join Santos Escobar…and the champ himself Carmelo Hayes. The fifth participant will be decided next week in a 3-way between Strong, A-Kid, and Cameron Grimes. The Creed Brothers beat the Grizzled Young Veterans. After the match, we got a video of a group of masked, hooded individuals vandalizing The Diamond Mine's locker room. Bron Breakker beat Robert Roode. Then, got laid out by the NXT Champ Dolph Ziggler. Tony D'Angelo beat Dexter Lumis. Then, got laid out by Tommaso Ciampa. Also, Elektra Lopez beat Fallon Henley. The Kickoff Show for Night 1 of WrestleMania on Saturday, April 2 will air on the USA Network, starting at 6 PM Eatern. It'll also be shown on Peacock. (STINGER: AEW) Sting is in action on tonight's Dynamite. He'll team with Darby Allin and The Hardys to take on The Butcher, The Blade and Private Party. Also tonight…Adam Cole vs. Jay Lethal. Chris Jericho & Daniel Garcia vs. Alex Reynolds & John Silver. Bryan Danielson & Jon Moxley vs. Varsity Blonds. Red Velvet vs. LEGIT Leyla Hirsch. MJF will speak. PLUS, the return of CM Punk. Blake Christian got his first win in AEW. He beat Rohit Raju on last night's Dark. Also, Jay Lethal beat JD Drake…and Powerhouse Hobbs beat Fuego Del Sol. (STINGER: Impact) The field is set for the return of the Ultimate X Match at Impact's Multiverse of Matches show during WrestleMania week.. It'll be Trey Miguel defending the X-Division Title against Vincent, ‘Speedball' Mike Bailey, Rich Swann, Willie Mack and Jordynne Grace. GCW will return to New York's Melrose Ballroom on Saturday, June 18th. Mexico's AAA promotion announced the card for its TripleMania show on April 30th. The scheduled main event is Rey Fenix & Hijo del Vikingo vs. the Young Bucks. There will be four matches in the Ruleta de la Muerte Tournament: Psycho Clown vs. El Canek…Último Dragón vs. Pentagón Jr….L.A. Park vs. Villano IV…Rayo de Jalisco Jr. vs. Blue Demon Jr. Also announced: Pagano, Bandido & Taya Valkyrie vs. Cibernético, Andrade El Idolo & Deonna Purrazzo. Sammy Guevara & Tay Conti are also on the card. That's JUST Pro Wrestling News for Wednesday, March 23rd. Our next update comes your way tomorrow morning, so be sure to subscribe to this feed. We also thank you in advance for leaving a glowing rating or review.. I'm Matt Carlins. Thank YOU for listening. ~~~Full run down at www.justprowrestlingnews.com ~~~ • • • • • wwe #wrestling #prowrestling #smackdown #wwenetwork #wweraw #romanreigns #ajstyles #NXT #raw #njpw #wwenxt #SethRollins #TNA #johncena #RandyOrton #wrestlemania #ROH #WWF #summerslam #tripleh #aewdynamite #professionalwrestling #aew #allelitewrestling #aewontnt #DeanAmbrose #nxt #KevinOwens #wwesmackdown 

Listen and subscribe at www.JustProWrestlingNews.com I'm Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Wednesday, March 9, 2022. This update is brought to you by the Wrestling Mayhem Show. Check out the new episode right now wherever you get your podcasts. (STINGER: WWE) Dolph Ziggler is the NEW NXT Champion. He won the title in a 3-way main event on last night's Roadblock special. Ziggler's tag team partner Robert Roode got involved late in the match. Roode sidetracked former champ Bron Breakker - opening the door for Ziggler to hit Tommaso Ciampa with a superkick and pin Ciampa to win the title. It is the first singles champion for Ziggler since 2018. Imperium's Marcel Barthel & Fabian Aichner are still the NXT Tag Team Champions…but they now have two clear challengers waiting in the wings. Imperium was set to defend the titles against the Creed Brothers last night. But the Creeds were scratched after they were found laid out in the infamous NXT Parking Lot. MSK stepped in for the Creeds. But during the title match, the Creeds returned, a big brawl ensued and the match was thrown out. The final of the women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. It'll be Io Shirai & Kay Lee Ray vs. Dakota Kai & Wendy Choo. Kai & Choo got another upset win last night. They beat Cora Jade & Raquel Gonzalez. Toxic Attraction's Gigi Dolin & Jayce Jane - the NXT Women's Tag Champs - attacked Gonzalez' knee during the match and Kai & Choo were able to take advantage and pin her for the win. In the other semifinal last night, Shirai & KLR beat Kacy Catanzaro & Kayden Carter. Getting back to Cora Jade - she later attacked the NXT Women's Champ Mandy Rose in the Toxic Lounge, where Edris Enofe & Malik Blade were filling in as Rose's attendants. Grayson Waller won a Last Man Standing match against LA Knight…thanks to some help from Sanga. Fallon Henley beat Tiffany Stratton…after interference by Sarray. A-Kid - a former Heritage Cup Champion in NXT UK - will make his NXT debut next week. There will be four qualifying matches to decide the challengers for North American Champ Carmelo Hayes in a ladder match at Stand & Deliver. That starts next week with Cameron Grimes vs. Santos Escobar. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin accepted Kevin Owens' challenge to appear on a special “KO Show” at WrestleMania. It'll happen on Night 1 of Mania on Saturday, April 2nd. (STINGER: AEW) A title match and the fallout from Revolution are set for tonight's Dynamite. Sammy Guevara will defend the TNT Championship against Scorpio Sky. Face of the Revolution Ladder Match winner Wardlow awaits the winner next week. Thunder Rosa will face LEGIT Leyla Hirsch. The winner gets a title shot against AEW Women's Champ Dr. Britt Baker on next week's Dynamite. Also tonight, Chris Jericho will address Eddie Kingston…after Kingston beat Jericho at Revolution. On last night's Dark…Scorpio Sky beat Sonny Kiss…Red Velvet beat Kiera Hogan…Nyla Rose beat Skye Blue…Ruby Soho & AQA teamed up to defeat Diamante & Emi Sakura…The Butcher & The Blade beat Dark Order's Colt Cabana & Alan “5” Angels…Private Party beat Lee Johnson & Brock Anderson…Top Flight beat The Wingmen's Peter Avalon & Ryan Nemeth. (STINGER: Impact) Trey Miguel will defend the X-Division Championship at the Rebellion pay-per-view in a 3-way. Impact announced the match Tuesday but did not reveal Miguel's challengers. The next holder of the vacant NWA Junior Heavyweight Championship will be decided on Night 2 of the Crockett Cup on March 20th. It'll be a 4-way title match: Austin Aries vs. Colby Corino vs. Darius Lockheart vs. Homicide. (STINGER: New Japan) Second-round matches in the New Japan Cup tournament begin Wednesday. FOUR second-round matches are set for Thursday: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Bad Luck Fale…Jeff Cobb vs. Satoshi Kojima…Tetsuya Naito vs. Gedo..and YOSHI-HASHI vs. Kosei Fujita. Big Damo - the former Killian Dane in WWE - will make his New Japan debut at the Strong Style Evolved tapings in Tampa/St. Pete on March 20th. That's JUST Pro Wrestling News for ______. Our next update comes your way ____, so be sure to subscribe to this feed. We also thank you in advance for leaving a glowing rating or review.. I'm Matt Carlins. Thank YOU for listening. ~~~Full run down at www.justprowrestlingnews.com ~~~ • • • • • wwe #wrestling #prowrestling #smackdown #wwenetwork #wweraw #romanreigns #ajstyles #NXT #raw #njpw #wwenxt #SethRollins #TNA #johncena #RandyOrton #wrestlemania #ROH #WWF #summerslam #tripleh #aewdynamite #professionalwrestling #aew #allelitewrestling #aewontnt #DeanAmbrose #nxt #KevinOwens #wwesmackdown 

Listen and subscribe at www.JustProWrestlingNews.com I'm Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Wednesday, March 9, 2022. This update is brought to you by the Wrestling Mayhem Show. Check out the new episode right now wherever you get your podcasts. (STINGER: WWE) Dolph Ziggler is the NEW NXT Champion. He won the title in a 3-way main event on last night's Roadblock special. Ziggler's tag team partner Robert Roode got involved late in the match. Roode sidetracked former champ Bron Breakker - opening the door for Ziggler to hit Tommaso Ciampa with a superkick and pin Ciampa to win the title. It is the first singles champion for Ziggler since 2018. Imperium's Marcel Barthel & Fabian Aichner are still the NXT Tag Team Champions…but they now have two clear challengers waiting in the wings. Imperium was set to defend the titles against the Creed Brothers last night. But the Creeds were scratched after they were found laid out in the infamous NXT Parking Lot. MSK stepped in for the Creeds. But during the title match, the Creeds returned, a big brawl ensued and the match was thrown out. The final of the women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. It'll be Io Shirai & Kay Lee Ray vs. Dakota Kai & Wendy Choo. Kai & Choo got another upset win last night. They beat Cora Jade & Raquel Gonzalez. Toxic Attraction's Gigi Dolin & Jayce Jane - the NXT Women's Tag Champs - attacked Gonzalez' knee during the match and Kai & Choo were able to take advantage and pin her for the win. In the other semifinal last night, Shirai & KLR beat Kacy Catanzaro & Kayden Carter. Getting back to Cora Jade - she later attacked the NXT Women's Champ Mandy Rose in the Toxic Lounge, where Edris Enofe & Malik Blade were filling in as Rose's attendants. Grayson Waller won a Last Man Standing match against LA Knight…thanks to some help from Sanga. Fallon Henley beat Tiffany Stratton…after interference by Sarray. A-Kid - a former Heritage Cup Champion in NXT UK - will make his NXT debut next week. There will be four qualifying matches to decide the challengers for North American Champ Carmelo Hayes in a ladder match at Stand & Deliver. That starts next week with Cameron Grimes vs. Santos Escobar. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin accepted Kevin Owens' challenge to appear on a special “KO Show” at WrestleMania. It'll happen on Night 1 of Mania on Saturday, April 2nd. (STINGER: AEW) A title match and the fallout from Revolution are set for tonight's Dynamite. Sammy Guevara will defend the TNT Championship against Scorpio Sky. Face of the Revolution Ladder Match winner Wardlow awaits the winner next week. Thunder Rosa will face LEGIT Leyla Hirsch. The winner gets a title shot against AEW Women's Champ Dr. Britt Baker on next week's Dynamite. Also tonight, Chris Jericho will address Eddie Kingston…after Kingston beat Jericho at Revolution. On last night's Dark…Scorpio Sky beat Sonny Kiss…Red Velvet beat Kiera Hogan…Nyla Rose beat Skye Blue…Ruby Soho & AQA teamed up to defeat Diamante & Emi Sakura…The Butcher & The Blade beat Dark Order's Colt Cabana & Alan “5” Angels…Private Party beat Lee Johnson & Brock Anderson…Top Flight beat The Wingmen's Peter Avalon & Ryan Nemeth. (STINGER: Impact) Trey Miguel will defend the X-Division Championship at the Rebellion pay-per-view in a 3-way. Impact announced the match Tuesday but did not reveal Miguel's challengers. The next holder of the vacant NWA Junior Heavyweight Championship will be decided on Night 2 of the Crockett Cup on March 20th. It'll be a 4-way title match: Austin Aries vs. Colby Corino vs. Darius Lockheart vs. Homicide. (STINGER: New Japan) Second-round matches in the New Japan Cup tournament begin Wednesday. FOUR second-round matches are set for Thursday: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Bad Luck Fale…Jeff Cobb vs. Satoshi Kojima…Tetsuya Naito vs. Gedo..and YOSHI-HASHI vs. Kosei Fujita. Big Damo - the former Killian Dane in WWE - will make his New Japan debut at the Strong Style Evolved tapings in Tampa/St. Pete on March 20th. That's JUST Pro Wrestling News for ______. Our next update comes your way ____, so be sure to subscribe to this feed. We also thank you in advance for leaving a glowing rating or review.. I'm Matt Carlins. Thank YOU for listening. ~Full run down at www.justprowrestlingnews.com ~ • • • • • wwe #wrestling #prowrestling #smackdown #wwenetwork #wweraw #romanreigns #ajstyles #NXT #raw #njpw #wwenxt #SethRollins #TNA #johncena #RandyOrton #wrestlemania #ROH #WWF #summerslam #tripleh #aewdynamite #professionalwrestling #aew #allelitewrestling #aewontnt #DeanAmbrose #nxt #KevinOwens #wwesmackdown 

Your hosts Jon Kevan and Lauren Erdelyi sit down with Dr. Jennie Gubner, professor at the University of Arizona School of Music, and Dr. Yumi Shirai, professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine, who together are leading the development of a graduate interdisciplinary program in applied intercultural arts research. This episode discusses intergenerational relationships, caregivers and their experience working with older adults, and the important connection between music and touch. To learn more about the University of Arizona Innovations in Aging graduate program, visit innovationsinaging.uahs.arizona.edu.

AEW HOLIDAY´S BASH:#1. ADAM COLE VS ORANGE CASSIDY Rematch am 05.01. Pinnacle wieder vereint #2. WARDLOW VS "CAPTAN" SEAN DEAN Lambert shootet weiter Baker´s Christmas Party OWEN HART CUP tbs CHAMPIONSHIP SEMI FINAL: #3. NYLA ROSE VS RUBY SOHO #4. GRIFF GARRISSON/w BRIAN PILLMAN JR VS MALAKAI BLACK AEW RAMPAGE + AEW DYNAMITE (NEW YEAR´S SMASH MATCHCARD Clips von Hardy & Jurrassic Express Deeb ist noch nicht fertig mit Shida #5. PINNACLE VS STING & DARBY ALLIN & CM PUNK NXT:Ciampa & Breaker Fehde noch nicht beendet... STREET FIGHT: #1. RAQUEL GONZALES VS DAKOTA KAI Jade will auch ein Wörtchen mitreden Gacy sagt SRY We are All Australians ! #2. CREED BROTHERS VS GRIZZLED YOUNG VETERANS Stark & Shirai doch Buddys ? Lumis Der Schrecken #3. TRICK WILLIAMS/w CARMELO HAYES (C) VS DEXTER LUMIS Titelvereinigung bei New Year´s Evil Styles in da House Alles nur ein Traum #4. VON WAGNER VS EDRIS ENOFE SCHAMANE VS GENERAL ? #5. IO SHIRAI VS ELEKTRA LOPES Under the Mistletoe Brian Kendrick is BACK Matchcard NXT WEEK #6. TONY DÁNGELO VS PETE DUNNE

I januar 2018 kom det oppslag i verdenspressen om at yakuza-bossen Shigeharu Shirai var blitt arrestert i Thailand. 74-åringen hadde klarte å skjule seg for politiet i mange år, men ble avslørt av et bilde som gikk viralt på Facebook. Shirais radmagre kropp var nemlig dekket av tatoveringer. I dag ser nærmere på saken og på betydningen av tatoveringer i den japanske mafiaen.

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Predictions for NXT: WarGames PPV - Sunday, 12/5 on Peacock and WWE Network ***Two WarGames Matches: Team Old School (NXT Champion Ciampa, Gargano, "Bruiserweight" Dunne & Knight) vs. Team New School (NXT North American Champion Hayes, Breakker, D'Angelo & Waller) // Team Raquel (González, Shirai, Jade & Ray) vs. Team Dakota (Kai, Toxic Attraction's NXT Women's Champion Rose & NXT Women's Tag Team Champions Dolin & Jayne) **NXT Cruiserweight Championship Match: Strong (c) vs. Gacy *Hair vs. Hair Match: Grimes vs. Hudson --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ben9314/message

Gonzalez, Shirai, Jade and Ray go to war with Toxic Attraction and Kai Roderick Strong opens Cruiserweight Championship opportunity to Joe Gacy Duke Hudson looks to finish the job in Hair vs. Hair Match with Cameron Grimes Old School v New School --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/down-4-the-count/message

SiriusXM Canada Host/Producer Bilal Vakani and Second City's Daniel Shehori preview WWE NXT WarGames 2021. The new generation looks to stake claim to NXT 2.0 as the team of Bron Breaker, Tony D'Angelo, Carmelo Hayes, Grayson Waller march into NXT WarGames vs the NXT Originals Tommaso Ciampa, Johnny Gargano, Pete Dunne, LA Knight. In a match that makes more plot holes than sense. Gonzalez, Shirai, Jade and Ray go to war with Toxic Attraction and Kai at NXT WarGames. This match could expose how raw Jade and two thirds of Toxic Attraction truly are. Roderick Strong opens a Cruiserweight Championship opportunity to Joe Gacy. Could this be the end of the 205 weight limit? Duke Hudson looks to finish the job in Hair vs. Hair Match with Cameron Grimes. In a feud that has been ok but we are ready to be done with. Grimes seems the better choice to explore the consequences of losing more than anything else. Kyle O'Reilly & Von Wagner look to end Imperium's reign before it starts. The battle of two teams that will likely not be in the tag team title picture long in NXT 2.0. Also has AEW completely surpassed NXT at this point? Who from NXT 2.0 will find themselves on Raw, Smackdown or fired in 6 months?

Listen and subscribe at www.JustProWrestlingNews.com I'm Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Wednesday, November 10, 2021. This update is brought to you by the Wrestling Mayhem Show. Check out the new episode right now...wherever you get your podcasts. (STINGER: AEW) AEW begins the final drive toward the Full Gear pay per view on tonight's Dynamite. AEW Champion Kenny Omega and Hangman Page will meet for a contract signing ahead of their title match on Saturday night. Also tonight...Bryan Danielson vs. New Japan's Rocky Romero... FTR's Dax Harwood vs. Pac. AEW Women's Champ Dr. Britt Baker, Jamie Hayter & Rebel vs. Tay Conti, Anna Jay & Thunder Rosa... And Lio Rush & Dante Martin vs. Matt Sydal & Lee Moriarty. Martin pinned Frankie Kazarian on last night's Dark...thanks to a timely bit of outside interference by Rush. Also on last night's Dark, Sydal & Moriarty beat 2point0. The Gunn Club beat Dark Order's Evil Uno, Alex Reynolds & Colt Cabana. Austin Gunn surprised Uno with a rollup - and grabbed the top rope - to steal the pin. Austin Gunn still has a perfect record in AEW. Ricky Starks & Powerhouse Hobbs beat Dark Order's Alan 5” Angels & 10. Angels took the pin. Thunder Rosa, Kris Statlander and Ryo Mizunami beat Emi Sakura, Jamie Hayter and Rebel. Rosa pinned Rebel. There was some post-match tension between Statlander and Ruby Soho ahead of their second round match in the TBS Championship Tournament. Christian Cage, Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus beat Matt Hardy, The Blade & Isiah Kassidy. Jungle Boy forced The Blade to tap out to the Snare Trap. Darby Allin pinned QT Marshall with the Coffin Drop. Plus, Too Fast Too Fuego beat Nick Comoroto & Aaron Solo, who took the pin. (STINGER: WWE) On last night's NXT… Pete Dunne pinned the North American Champion Carmelo Hayes in a non-title match. The end saw Johnny Gargano reach up from under the ring and grab Hayes' foot. That distraction set up Hayes for the Bitter End. Toxic Attraction beat Io Shirai, Kacy Catanzaro & Kayden Carter. Gigi Dolin pinned Carter. Shirai's former tag team partner, Zoey Stark, confirmed on Tuesday that she suffered a major knee injury...and is now recovering from surgery to repair a torn ACL and meniscus. Getting back to last night… Joe Gacy got a win over Boa via disqualification. This was what you'd expect until the lights in the arena started flashing. This apparently affected Boa because he grabbed Gacy with a choke hold and wouldn't let go, leading to the DQ. Kay Lee Ray pinned Sarray. Solo Sikoa pinned LA Knight to win a 3-Way that also included Grayson Waller. The Creed Brothers beat Kushida & Ikemen Jiro. Xyon Quinn turned down an invitation from Elektra Lopez to join Legado Del Fantasma. NXT's War Games pay per view is now set for Sunday, December 5th. Makeup and special effects artist Jason Baker told the news outlet Metro in the United Kingdom that he and Windham Rotunda - the former Bray Wyatt in WWE - are “starting a film at the end of the month.” (STINGER: New Japan) New Japan announced the teams for the upcoming World Tag League tournament. The current reigning IWGP tag champs, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr., are in. So are the Guerrillas Of Destiny...Hiroshi Tanahashi & Toru Yano...Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma...Hiroyoshi Tenzen & Satoshi Kojima...Yuji Nagata & Tiger Mask...Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI...Tetsuya Naito & SANADA...Great-O-Khan & Aaron Henare...EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi...Bad Luck Fale is back, tagging with Chase Owens...and Minoru Suzuki will tag with another returning name, TAKA Michinoku. The tournament begins on Sunday. Juice Robinson told Sports Illustrated's Justin Barrasso his current contract with New Japan will expire in February. (STINGER: ROH) On this past weekend's Ring Of Honor TV...Bandido successfully defended the ROH World Championship against Alex Zayne...and Josh Woods beat LSG to retain his Pure Championship. Major League Wrestling and The Crash will co-promote an event in Tijuana, Mexico on December 3rd. Finally, a pair of deaths to report. Angelo Mosca - a legendary sports figure in Canada - died on Saturday. He was 84. And Judy Bagwell - mother of former WCW star Buff Bagwell and yes, a former WCW Tag Team Champion - passed away at the age of 78. That's JUST Pro Wrestling News for Wednesday, November 10. Our next update comes your way tomorrow morning, so be sure to subscribe to this feed. We also thank you in advance for leaving a glowing rating or review.. I'm Matt Carlins. Thank YOU for listening. ~~~Full run down at www.justprowrestlingnews.com ~~~ • • • • • wwe #wrestling #prowrestling #smackdown #wwenetwork #wweraw #romanreigns #ajstyles #NXT #raw #njpw #wwenxt #SethRollins #TNA #johncena #RandyOrton #wrestlemania #ROH #WWF #summerslam #tripleh #aewdynamite #professionalwrestling #aew #allelitewrestling #aewontnt #DeanAmbrose #nxt #KevinOwens #wwesmackdown 

Hi there! Today I am arts calling my friend Becca Diamond. We discuss what life is like for a working voice actor, a creative's work ethic, an origin story of Disney movies, and much more! Becca Diamond is a voice actor living in Los Angeles. Becca has a BFA in theatre performance and can be heard on the Off-Broadway soundtrack Puffs: Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic. Since moving to LA she has been fortunate enough to work on all sorts of shows and projects some of which include: Animal Actors, a stage show working with live animals at Universal Studios Hollywood, two different podcasts on the Parcast Network and most recently she has done four shows on Club House. Other credits include VO for companies such as Netflix, WebMD, Plus Products, United Healthcare and most recently as Shirai in the anime TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls on Funimation! Becca's sharing her voice work adventures on IG and TikTok! Instagram @shinebrightbeccadiamond/ TikTok @becca_vo Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro at cruzfolio.com. Check us out for more podcasts about creativity and other stuff too! Make art. Much love, j

Listen and subscribe at www.JustProWrestlingNews.com I'm Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Wednesday, June 30, 2021. This update is brought to you by the Wrestling Mayhem Show. Check out the new episode with special guest Katie Arquette right now wherever you get your podcasts.. (STINGER: WWE) There's a new NXT North American Champion. Isaiah SWERVE Scott took the title from Bronson Reed in the main event of last night's NXT. Hit Row provided a key distraction and Scott finished off Reed with a 450 Splash. The match was made during the show. It also seems to be worth mentioning that Reed recently worked a match on Main Event. Io Shirai & Zoey Stark are the new #1 contender for the NXT Women's Tag Team Titles. They won a triple threat on last night's NXT - beating the teams of Raquel Gonzalez & Dakota Kai and Shotzi Blackheart & Ember Moon. Shirai pinned Kai with a moonsault. Shirai & Stark will challenge Candice LeRae & Indie Hartwell for the women's tag titles on next week's Great American Bash special. Also announced for the Bash...LA Knight will defend the Million Dollar Championship against Cameron Grimes. If Grimes loses, he must become Knight's BUTLER! Xia Li & Boa beat Mercedes Martinez & Jake Atlas...I guess. Xia kicked Mercedes and went for a pin. It appeared Mercedes kicked out, but she rolled to the floor right after that and the ref called off the match. Roderick Strong had his first match since he opened The Diamond Mine. He submitted Asher Hale. Johnny Gargano attacked NXT Champion Karrion Kross...backstage...in the ring...and finally in the parking lot. Only Kross would not stay down and choked out Gargano. NXT announced it's bringing back its Breakout Tournament...starting in two weeks. (STINGER: AEW) AEW Dynamite is back on Wednesday night for the first time since the middle of last month. Just added to tonight's show: Jungle Boy vs. Jack Evans. Already announced...Miro defends the TNT Championship against Brian Pillman Jr. Sammy Guevara vs. MJF. The AEW Tag Champs the Young Bucks have a non-title match against Eddie Kingston & Penta El Zero Miedo. AEW Women's Champ Dr. Britt Baker tags with Rebel against Nyla Rose & Vickie Guerrero. AND Chris Jericho will be on commentary. On last night's Dark… Frankie Kazarian submitted JD Drake with the crossface chicken wing. The Blade pinned Sonny Kiss. Blade and The Hybrid 2 were looking to beat down Kiss after the match...but Orange Cassidy and Chuck Taylor came to the rescue. Joey Janela eventually showed up too, but Kiss wasn't too thrilled to see him. Private Party & Jack Evans beat Dark Order's Evil Uno, Stu Grayson & Colt Cabana.....and Powerhouse Hobbs beat Marko Stunt. (STINGER: ROH) A Pure Title match is now official for Ring Of Honor's Best In The World pay per view. Mike Bennett will challenge for the gold currently held by Jonathan Gresham. Before then, Gresham has a defense against Fred Yehi on this weekend's ROH TV. (STINGER: New Japan) New Japan is back on Thursday...with a FREE show on New Japan World. Three singles matches on top of that card: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. YOSHI-HASHI...Hirooki Goto vs. Satoshi Kojima...and Tomohiro Ishii vs. Yuji Nagata. This is all setting up a NEVER 6-Man Title Match on Friday between those two sides. On last night's NWA Powerrr…Kylie Ray pinned Melina with a superkick...and Jennacide pinned Lady Frost. The advertised TV Title match between champion Da Pope and Sal Rinauro never happened. Rinauro hurt himself during a brawl with Colby Corino. That's JUST Pro Wrestling News for Wednesday, June 30. Our next update comes your way tomorrow morning, so be sure to subscribe to this feed. We also thank you in advance for leaving a glowing rating or review.. I'm Matt Carlins. Thank YOU for listening. ~~~Full run down at www.justprowrestlingnews.com ~~~ • • • • • wwe #wrestling #prowrestling #smackdown #wwenetwork #wweraw #romanreigns #ajstyles #NXT #raw #njpw #wwenxt #SethRollins #TNA #johncena #RandyOrton #wrestlemania #ROH #WWF #summerslam #tripleh #aewdynamite #professionalwrestling #aew #allelitewrestling #aewontnt #DeanAmbrose #nxt #KevinOwens #wwesmackdown 

It's merchamania time as we put our Wrestlemania picks up against wearing an embarrassing wrestling shirt in public. Plus dream bathrooms, the smell of blood, BBM True Heart, UK gambling, The rookie curse, The Shirai sisters, Ebessan, Hayabusa, Sasuke, AJ styles and an extra special message at the end of the show you should definitely not skip! 

Dave LaGreca & Bully Ray break down several key points from the 1st night of NXT TakeOver: 'Stand & Deliver' & AEW 'Dynamite' from the week, including Walter vs Ciampa, Shirai vs Gonzalez, and Chris Jericho's promo; also, the guys are joined by The Miz on the road to Wrestlemania this weekend. 

Listen and subscribe at www.JustProWrestlingNews.com I'm Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Thursday, April 8, 2021. A special welcome to those of you listening on TheWrestlingRevolution.com. If you want to bring our updates to your website...email us: desk@justprowrestlingnews.com. (STINGER: WWE) Tonight is Night 2 of NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver. Finn Balor defends the NXT Championship against Karrion Kross. Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly will clash in an Unsanctioned Match. We'll see a Cruiserweight Championship Unification Ladder Match: Santos Escobar vs. Jordan Devlin. Shotzi Blackheart & Ember Moon defend the NXT Women's Tag Titles against Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell. Bronson Reed will challenge Johnny Gargano tonight for the NXT North American Championship. It's Night 2 of TakeOver: Stand & Deliver. Reed won the 6-man Gauntlet Eliminator on Night 1 of TakeOver - pinning Isaiah “Swerve” Scott to seal the win. Io Shirai's more than 300-day reign as NXT Women's Champion is over. She was dethroned by Raquel Gonzalez in the main event of Night 1 of TakeOver - a match that saw Shirai leap from the TOP of the entrance stage. MSK are the new NXT Tag Team Champions. They won the 3-way for the vacant titles. The Grizzled Young Veterans' James Drake took the pin. WALTER beat Tommaso Ciampa to retain the NXT UK Championship. Pete Dunne opened the show with a win over Kushida. On the pre-show, Zoey Stark upset Toni Storm. We mentioned WALTER's win over Ciampa last night. We'll see WALTER in action again today - another defense of his UK Title...against Rampage Brown. That's the main event of the NXT UK Prelude special. Also on that show...Tyler Bate vs. Noam Dar. That's a #1 Contender's Match For The Heritage Cup Title held by A-Kid. Plus, UK Women's Champion Kay Lee Ray & Isla Dawn vs. Emilia McKenzie & Meiko Satomura. WWE President Nick Khan says there are big expectations for WrestleMania on Peacock...following the success of Fastlane.. (Nick Khan Fastlane Subs) Nick Khan speaking on The Colin Cowherd Podcast. A few more notes from that interview. Nick Khan said Ronda Rousey and Becky Lynch will both be returning to WWE in the not-too-distant future. He said WWE sees potential for growth in Latin America, specifically Mexico...and he said once WWE goes back on tour, “There's no going back.” Bayley was asked why she does NOT appear to have anything to do at WrestleMania. (Bayley No Mania Match) Bayley speaking with TalkSport's Alex McCarthy. (STINGER: AEW) More than a year after the match was first mentioned, AEW will finally deliver “Blood And Guts” - The Inner Circle vs. Pinnacle...on Dynamite...at Daily's Place...on Wednesday, May 5th. Chris Jericho issued the challenge on last night's Dynamite. Later, Pinnacle attacked Jericho backstage...and dragged him to the ring. The rest of The Inner Circle were locked in their dressing room. Wardlow was looking to finish off Jericho when Mike Tyson entered the arena. He got some punches in on Shawn Spears. The rest of Pinnacle made a run for it....and then, Tyson and Jericho publicly made amends - following up on their brawl on Dynamite a little less than a year ago. Tyson will be back on next Wednesday's Dynamite as the special enforcer for a one-on-one match between Jericho and Pinnacle's Dax Harwood. The Young Bucks couldn't pull the trigger during the 6-man tag team main event - Matt Jackson spared Kenny Omega multiple times...to the point that their partner Jon Moxley got sick of waiting and hit Omega with a pair of Paradigm Shifts. That's when the Bucks turned on Moxley and finally sided with Omega and the Good Brothers. Pac and Rey Fenix get their shot at the Bucks' tag team titles on next Wednesday's Dynamite. Also next week, Darby Allin will defend the TNT Championship against Matt Hardy in a Falls Count Anywhere match. Allin had a successful defense last night against JD Drake. Also last night, Tay Conti beat The Bunny. And Taz offered Christian Cage a spot in Team Taz. This is the first BIG day of independent shows surrounding WrestleMania week in Tampa. Josh Barnett's Bloodsport 6 is tonight...with Barnett vs. Jon Moxley in the main event. The late night For The Culture show has Rich Swann vs. 2 Cold Scorpio...and Lee Moriarty vs. Lio Rush. Also, Day 1 of the Acid Cup. The field includes Moriarty, Laredo Kid and Tony Deppen. A quick note from Japan - All Japan's Champion Carnival begins on Friday. That's JUST Pro Wrestling News for Thursday, April 8. Our next update comes your way tomorrow morning, so be sure to subscribe to this feed. We also thank you in advance for leaving a glowing rating or review.. I'm Matt Carlins. 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Matt Maher (aka Imp) recaps the March 31st 2021 episode of WWE NXT!TakeOver: Stand & Deliver takes place next week. Tension rises as the go home show has NXT stars delivering their final stands! Shirai & Gonzalez brawled throughout the entire show as the NXT Women's Champion kept coming back like a maniac.Plus a main event Battle Royal to determine the North American Championship Gauntlet for Night 1 of TakeOver: Stand & Deliver!Go to Wrestling Headlines for the latest wrestling news, columns and podcastshttps://wrestlingheadlines.com/LOP Radio on RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/lords-of-pain-radioFollow Lords of Pain:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/lordsofpain/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lordsofpain/Twitter: https://twitter.com/lordsofpainSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lords-of-pain-radio/donations

Listen and subscribe at www.JustProWrestlingNews.com I'm Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Thursday, March 25, 2021. A special welcome to those of you listening on TheWrestlingRevolution.com. If you want to bring our updates to your website...email us: desk@justprowrestlingnews.com. (STINGER: WWE) Title matches and more announced during last night's NXT for the two-night TakeOver: Stand & Deliver. Night 1, on Wednesday, April 7th...will see WALTER defend his NXT UK Championship against Tommaso Ciampa. WALTER is already set to defend the UK Title the following day...against Rampage Brown on the NXT UK Prelude special. New NXT Tag Team Champions will be crowned on Night 1. It'll be a 3-way for the vacant titles: MSK vs. the Grizzled Young Veterans vs. Legado del Fantasma. Johnny Gargano will defend the North American Championship at TakeOver. Determining his challenger will be...a process. On next week's NXT there will be a 12-man Battle Royal. The final six men in that match will advance to a Gauntlet Eliminator match on Night 1 of TakeOver. The winner there gets Gargano on Night 2. Night 2 will also see an NXT Cruiserweight Championship Unification Ladder Match between Santos Escobar and Jordan Devlin. The main event on last night's NXT was a face-to-face between Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly. Those two will meet in an Unsanctioned Match on Night 2 of TakeOver. Earlier in the show, Roderick Strong said both Cole and O'Reilly can “go to hell”. Jessi Kamea was pulled from a match for the NXT Women's Tag Titles. Mercedes Martinez took her place alongside Aliyah, but they could not beat Shotzi Blackheart and Ember Moon. Aliyah took the pin. Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell declared they want the next shot at Blackheart and Moon. Bronson Reed pinned LA Knight. Raquel Gonzalez & Dakota Kai beat NXT Women's Champ Io Shirai and Zoey Stark. Gonzalez pinned Stark...and then, after the match, she laid our Shirai with a chokeslam on the announce table. Today's NXT UK has Ilja Dragunov vs. Sam Gradwell in a no disqualification match. WWE confirmed Wednesday it will move its ThunderDome to the University of South Florida's Yuengling Center...starting with Raw after WrestleMania on Monday, April 12th. Two new inductees to the WWE Hall Of Fame announced Wednesday - Kane and The Great Khali. (STINGER: AEW) AEW Champ Kenny Omega opened last night's Dynamite - snuffing out Matt Sydal's hopes of earning a title shot, pinning him with the One Winged Angel. Omega returned later in the show...after the Lucha Bros. & Laredo Kid beat the Young Bucks and Brandon Cutler. Omega attacked Laredo Kid. Then, he gave the Bucks one last chance to share a Too Sweet with him. The Bucks refused and walked out. That left Omega alone to suffer a double superkick from the Lucha Bros. Darby Allin pinned John Silver to retain the TNT Championship in last night's main event. Sting was on hand to keep Dark Order in line. After the match, there was a wild brawl - with Sting, Allin and Dark Order joining forces against Matt Hardy's faction. Silver tweeted after the show that his “shoulder is messed up”, but the “doctor doesn't think it's too serious”. Also last night, Tay Conti upset Nyla Rose - pinning her after hitting her hammerlock DDT. Rose and Vickie Guerrero were poised for a post-match attack, but AEW Women's Champ Hikaru Shida ran out to even the odds. That's when The Bunny entered the fray...and attacked Shida and Conti. AEW announced a new reality show starring Cody and Brandi Rhodes is coming to TNT. AEW will run the first non-televised “house show” in its history - during WrestleMania week. It'll be held at Daily's Place in Jacksonville...on Friday, April 9th. (STINGER: Impact) Impact is moving the date of its Rebellion pay per view to Sunday, April 25th. There was a late change to the Chained Ropes Match promoted for last night's MLW Fusion. During the show, FILTHY Tom Lawlor pulled out of the match with “suspicious” injury. So, it was just the Von Erichs - without ACH - beating Dominic Garrini and Kevin Ku. That's JUST Pro Wrestling News for Thursday, March 25. Our next update comes your way tomorrow morning, so be sure to subscribe to this feed. We also thank you in advance for leaving a glowing rating or review.. I'm Matt Carlins. Thank YOU for listening. ~Full run down at www.justprowrestlingnews.com ~ • • • • • wwe #wrestling #prowrestling #smackdown #wwenetwork #wweraw #romanreigns #ajstyles #NXT #raw #njpw #wwenxt #SethRollins #TNA #johncena #RandyOrton #wrestlemania #ROH #WWF #summerslam #tripleh #aewdynamite #professionalwrestling #aew #allelitewrestling #aewontnt #DeanAmbrose #nxt #KevinOwens #wwesmackdown @wrestlinginc @heelbynature @mattcarlins

Listen and subscribe at www.JustProWrestlingNews.com I'm Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Thursday, February 25, 2021. A special welcome to those of you listening on TheWrestlingRevolution.com. If you want to bring our updates to your website...email us: desk@justprowrestlingnews.com. Results from last night's AEW Dynamite and NXT are straight ahead in this update but first… (STINGER: AEW) A BIG announcement from AEW earlier in the day Wednesday. It announced the signing of Paul Wight - better known as the Big Show. AEW says Wight will join the commentary team alongside Tony Shiavone for a new YouTube show: AEW Dark: Elevation. It was also mentioned on Dynamite that Wight is licensed to wrestle in AEW. Wight is set to appear on next week's Dynamite. The new weekly show will debut on Monday, March 15th at 7PM. Also on Wednesday, Tony Khan tweeted that a second AEW show for TNT or another WarnerMedia outlet is still in the works for sometime this year. Lance Archer is in the 6-man Ladder Match at Revolution, where the winner gets a shot at the TNT Championship. Archer beat Rey Fenix in the main event of last night's Dynamite. Another spot in that match will be decided on next Wednesday's Dynamite - when Dark Order's Preston “10” Vance faces the Acclaimed's Max Caster. We also got two new matches announced for Revolution on Sunday, March 7th. Orange Cassidy & Chuck Taylor vs. Miro vs. Kip Sabian...and a Tag Team Casino Battle Royal - with the winner getting a shot at the AEW Tag Team Championships. It took TWO Beast Bombs, but Nyla Rose was able to beat Dr. Britt Baker last night. Rose advances to the U.S. final in the Women's World Championship Eliminator Tournament - next Wednesday against the winner of Riho vs. Thunder Rosa. No one is safe on Dynamite! First, The Young Bucks' DAD was attacked and bloodied backstage by Chris Jericho and MJF. Papa Buck was taken away in an ambulance. Sting dragged a body bag out on stage to confront Team Taz - and revealed an unconscious HOOK inside. Darby Allin rode a zipline from the upper deck down to the ring...and Darby and Sting ran wild on Team Taz - Sting laid out Cage with a Stinger Splash and a Scorpion Death Drop. Before that, Cage and Ricky Starks did beat the Varsity Blonds. Hangman Page beat Isiah Kassidy. Page got an assist from Dark Order's John Silver and Alex Reynolds. After the match, Matt Hardy vowed revenge against Dark Order, and got an immediate start on that...by tossing Alan Angels off the stage. Jon Moxley blew through Ryan Nemeth. AEW Champ Kenny Omega was only seen in a brief backstage segment - in a workshop - apparently helping to build something related to the Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match between him and Mox at Revolution. (STINGER: WWE) Adam Cole promised an explanation...for his recent attacks on Kyle O'Reilly and Finn Balor - but we didn't really get on. Instead, we got an emotional and apparently remorseful Cole at the end of last night's NXT. Don't worry. Cole did eventually show his true colors. But first, he was interrupted by Roderick Strong. Who was himself interrupted by Balor - who ran through Strong to get at Cole. Cole and Strong worked together to get the better of Balor. Then, Strong clotheslined Cole. Only problem is...Strong seemed to regret it. That allowed Cole to draw him in for a low blow, rip the Undisputed Era chain off Strong's neck...and hit him with a superkick. Earlier, WWE announced that Kyle O'Reilly will be out of action for 4-6 weeks following Cole's attack on him last week. Dexter Lumis submitted North American Champion Johnny Gargano in a non-title match last night. Io Shirai is set to defend the NXT Women's Championship in two weeks...against Toni Storm. Shirai beat Zoey Stark in a non-title match last night. The No Disqualification Match between Karrion Kross and Santos Escobar was more like a handicap match - as Kross battled all three members of Legado Del Fantasmo, starting in the notorious NXT parking lot...before making their way back inside the Capital Wrestling Center...where Kross finally put away Escobar. A tag title match on today's NXT UK. Gallus defends against Pretty Deadly. Also, Xia Brookside vs. Nina Samuels. The loser will become the winner's personal assistant for a month. WWE officially announced the largest class of recruits in the history of the Performance Center on Wednesday. Some of the names have already debuted on NXT TV - including LA Knight, the former Eli Drake. Others were widely reported and rumored - but only now confirmed by WWE - including Taya Valkyrie and Blake Christian. (STINGER: New Japan) The last stop on New Japan's Road To Castle Attack this morning. The main event this morning is Junior Tag Title Match - El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori defending against El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru. Tetsuya Naito is BACK on the card for the first time since he was sidelined with a knee injury early last week. He'll be part of a 6-man tag. He's set to challenge Kota Ibushi for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship on Sunday's Castle Attack show. That's JUST Pro Wrestling News for Thursday, February 25. Our next update comes your way tomorrow morning, so be sure to subscribe to this feed. We also thank you in advance for leaving a glowing rating or review.. I'm Matt Carlins. Thank YOU for listening. ~Full run down at www.justprowrestlingnews.com ~ • • • • • wwe #wrestling #prowrestling #smackdown #wwenetwork #wweraw #romanreigns #ajstyles #NXT #raw #njpw #wwenxt #SethRollins #TNA #johncena #RandyOrton #wrestlemania #ROH #WWF #summerslam #tripleh #aewdynamite #professionalwrestling #aew #allelitewrestling #aewontnt #DeanAmbrose #nxt #KevinOwens #wwesmackdown @wrestlinginc @heelbynature @mattcarlins

We are joined by mother, referee and superstar Joshi wrestler Mio Shirai. Does she give her child the 5-count when they are misbehaving? What were her tours of Mexico, the US and France like? She learns the word 'grumpy' when we talk about Aja Kong. She also shares her opinion on Asuka and her sister Io's success in the United States. Danny and Yappy help with the translation during the interview. Please have a listen. Mio Shirai Contact https://twitter.com/MIOiceribbon https://twitter.com/mioshirai0214 Ice Ribbon Contact https://twitter.com/IceRibbon_eng https://twitter.com/ICERIBBON_jp http://iceribbon.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/iceribbon https://www.instagram.com/iceribbon_official/ https://ch.nicovideo.jp/iceribbon Ice Ribbon Merch https://iceribbon.shopselect.net/ The Joshi Pod Contact https://twitter.com/TheJoshiPod https://www.instagram.com/thejoshipod/ https://www.instagram.com/dannyakg/ Theme Song Provided By http://www.soundcloud.com/interbeingjmk https://twitter.com/justinmknipper

Kimberly interviews former director turned “accidental entrepreneur,” Tirzah Shirai, who created what she calls the "Starbucks of the lash industry,” by setting the standard for natural beauty while practicing conscious leadership as CEO of Blinkbar and scaling to over $30 million, in less than five years, with a plan to expand globally in the next five. Originally from what she calls the “Texas of Canada.” Tirzah is the CEO and founder of Blinkbar, a lash studio that specializes in masterfully-crafted lash extensions with customized application techniques, quality products, and best-in class customer service. Her clients include the Kardshians, as well as nearly every instagram influencer in Los Angeles. Tirzah Started out as a film director who wanted eyelashes for her actresses on camera that would accentuate their eyes and look natural even in their close-ups. She calls herself an “accidental entrepreneur,” having tested the Blinkbar concept back in 2012 after seeing a need to be met in the lash industry and founding the company only a couple years later. In just a few short years, Tirzah and her team (whom she highly praises) have grown Blinkbar to 5 locations in California in Calabasas, hermosa Beach, Sherman Oaks, West Hollywood, Santa Monica, and are expanding globally in the next five years. Tirzah set the standard for lashes by becoming “the Starbucks of Eyelash extensions” and has successfully scaled and positioned BlinkBar as a leader in the lash industry due to their consistency, excellent branding, and smart business strategy. A personal note from Kimberly…. While I have had many a glorious guest on The Princess and the B in our 30-episodes thus far, Tirzah wowed me beyond words. Having known her in a past life, in both of our Hollywood careers, I have had the pleasure of watching her transform from film director into the leader of what I know will be a billion dollar brand. Which left me, in my ever-increasing quest to learn - how the heck does she do it? In NLP, there is a concept called modeling. Meaning, when you see someone getting astounding results you “model” or “try on” how they organize their perceptions of the world. So you “try on” the beliefs, habits, qualities, thoughts, and all the things of the person so as to create a simplified model of their experience that we can then teach to ourselves and others. This episode did just that for me. Not only does Tirzah deliver a masterclass on how to hire, grow, and consciously lead a team, but she shows how to do it while maintaining that glorious feminine-flow of ease. Since this episode, I've… Started reading the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership (and if the first chapter doesn't have you cheering, I don't know what will) Read the Blinkist version of “Traction” and started implementing it with my own Queen Team Let go of 2 team members because of my commitment to conscious leadership Had several tough face to face conversations (that needed to be had) Started doing the 5-minute journal every morning and evening (it's amazing, especially as a mompreneur to get laser focused for the day!) Received ridiculous clarity on my “ROCKS” for Crown Yourself. My biggest learning from Tirzah was something her coach taught her, that the CEO is really the Chief ENERGY Officer, and that the energy of the leader ripples into all areas of the business...And, that I need to get more 2-hour massages. Ummm, can someone call, Heather Harris please? In this episode, you'll learn how directing a movie and directing a team are very similar (5:00), why jeans are like eyelashes (7:00), what being happy has to do with following your gifts (10:00), how traditional education can hurt the entrepreneurial spirit, the two school systems that could foster entrepreneurism (12:00), why you should stop apologizing for owning your power and your gifts (14:30), how Tirzah traded the word “failure” for “learning opportunity,” (16:00), why you must always hire people with high self-worth (17:30), what's the difference between your “zone of genius” and your “zone of competence” (18:30), how you can spend 90% of your time in your zone of genius (20:30), why you must spend your time in your genius zone (23:00), the activity that you should do RIGHT NOW for the next week that will 10X your success (24:00), why it's an amazing time right now to be a female leader (26:00), how men could learn from female CEOs'(29:0, why DOING LESS makes you a more effective leader (32:00), how to avoid burnout and honor the bad days when growing your business, what your number #1 priority needs to be as a leader (38:30),why you need to put rocks in before the sand (40:00) and so much more. In LA? Experience the Blinkbar lash revolution for yourself. Book your appointment here: https://theblinkbar.com/ Watch Blinkbar expand from Southern California to a global brand on Instagram @theblinkbar GET TIRZAH'S BOOK + JOURNAL RECOMMENDATIONS… The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer and Diana Chapman Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman The Five Minute Journal: A Happier You in Just 5 Minutes a Day by Intelligent Change OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS… Listen to Dr. Kate Northrup's Interview on James Wedmore's Mind Your Business Podcast on Feminine Flow and Productivity for Women: CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THAT PODCAST Is your business making over $13 Million a year? If this is where you are now or where you want to go, check out the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO). (You are most like the five people you spend the most time with, after all. Set this as an intention to become a member.) Looking for an alternative to traditional education to inspire the entrepreneurs, future founders, CEO's, and Da Vinci's in your kids, check out these two school systems, as recommended by Tirzah. Acton Academy Waldorf Education If this episode motivated you like it did me, then let's have a chat to increase your performance in ALL areas of your life. Remember, how you do anything is how you do EVERYTHING, which is why I would love to meet with you 1:1 for a 90-Minute High Performance Consult. Using the certified high performance coaching curriculum created by Brendon Burchard combined with NLP and mindset re-programming, together we'll get you the clarity, confidence, and competent strategies to set you up to make this year the best yet. REGISTER HERE + BOOK YOUR CALL NOW. Growing your business takes daily bold acts of courage to scale and stop from self-sabotaging. It requires that you kick fear off of your throne, and lead with authenticity, vulnerability, and love. 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Time Codes: 00:00:29 - Introduction 00:02:43 - Listener mail! 00:07:10 - Red Colored Elegy 00:42:32 - The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1 01:14:32 - Wrap up 01:15:27 - Contact us Shea and Derek are back with their February manga episode. This month they look at two titles that, in many ways, are diametrically opposite in terms of style and audience. They begin with Seiichi Hayashi's Red Colored Elegy, the softcover edition of which has just been released from Drawn and Quarterly. This is the story of two young artists cohabiting and the struggles they endure with their families, they work, and their relationship with one another. But there's much more going on in this narrative, as the guys abundantly point out. This is an experimental work that was originally serialized in Garo during the early 1970s, and Hayashi's variations in visual style, along with his employment of nonconventional storytelling techniques, are what make this such an intriguing and significant work. After that, Shea and Derek discuss the first volume of Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu's The Promised Neverland (VIZ Media). It's a fantastical, and even futuristic, series about a community of orphans who learn that their comfortable life is undergirded by demonic forces. Both of the guys appreciate Demizu's art, and they're intrigued by the series' premise. At the same time, they wonder about some of the choices the creators made toward the end of this first volume, especially regarding narrative focalization. But they're both interested in seeing how things develop and if, indeed, Shirai's storytelling choices turn out to be effective as the plot unfolds. VIZ Media released the second volume of the series earlier this month, but the guys weren't able to get copies of that text in time for this recording (despite reaching out several times to the publisher's publicity department).