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ASCO: You're listening to a podcast from Cancer.Net. This cancer information website is produced by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, known as ASCO, the world's leading professional organization for doctors who care for people with cancer. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. Cancer research discussed in this podcast is ongoing, so the data described here may change as research progresses. Brielle Gregory Collins: Hi, everyone. I'm Brielle Gregory Collins, a member of the Cancer.Net content team, and I'll be your host for today's Cancer.Net podcast. Cancer.Net is the patient information website of ASCO, the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Today we're going to be talking about social determinants of health and how they can impact people with cancer. We'll cover economic stability, neighborhood, community, education, food access, and health systems. Our guest today is Dr. Karen Winkfield. Dr. Winkfield is a board-certified radiation oncologist and Ingram Professor of Cancer Research at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and the executive director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. She is also the Cancer.Net Associate Editor for Radiation Oncology and Health Equity. Thanks for joining us today, Dr. Winkfield. Dr. Karen Winkfield: Thank you so much for having me, Brielle. I'm so excited for this podcast. Brielle Gregory Collins: Yes, so are we. Before we begin, we should mention that Dr. Winkfield does not have any relationships to disclose related to this podcast, but you can find her full disclosure statements on Cancer.Net. Now, to get started, Dr. Winkfield, how would you define a social determinant of health? Dr. Karen Winkfield: Yeah, it's such a big concept, right? The social determinants of health, the economic and social conditions that impact and influence the way that people, individuals, and groups actually experience their health status. And so 1 of the ways that I like to define it is simply the way that the CDC and others [do]. These are the conditions and the environments where people are born, where they live, learn, play, work, and age. And so it's an entire social context that people find themselves in that really can impact and influence their health and well-being. Brielle Gregory Collins: Thank you so much for defining that. Now let's talk about some of the specific social determinants of health. So let's start with economic stability. What are some ways financial challenges can affect someone with cancer? Dr. Karen Winkfield: Money is key, right? I always tell folks that wealth equals health, and certainly, health equals wealth as well. I mean, we certainly feel like, man, we are on top of the world when we're feeling well. But unfortunately, in our society, money oftentimes is 1 of the things that helps us drive well-being and health in this country. So just the simple thing we saw with COVID-19 when people lost their job, for instance. Many people also lost their health insurance. In this country, health insurance is tied to economics, right? But economic stability goes beyond just insurance. It's about what is the budget? Do you have a family budget? There is a recent study that suggested that about 21% of individuals in the United States do not have an emergency fund, right? So that means that if, for instance, they were just living and they were working on a budget, if something happened - their car breaks down; there's a flood in their hometown - they have no financial resources that actually are available to them to help them overcome that emergency. And so economic stability is important. It's about where you work, if you are employed, what type of employment, are you a salaried employee, or do you only get paid the hours that you work? Which obviously has huge implications for cancer care, right? So if I am a cancer patient and I only get paid for the hours that I work, for instance, if I have a doctor's appointment that's at 10 o'clock in the morning and I have to maybe take 2 buses and a train to get there, or I have to drive 45 minutes, that's more than half the day that I am going to be there for a cancer visit or an appointment with a provider. And that means that I don't get paid for that, that nobody is covering that in terms of the finances. So it's really important to note that, yeah, it's about savings and things, but literally, the day-to-day, the employment that people have is really critical and the type of employment, what expenses people have. We know that cancer care is the number 1 cause of medical bankruptcy in the United States because a lot of the medicines are expensive. And so that economic piece is really critical to understand and for people to understand going into a cancer journey, number 1, where they are financially and what resources might be available to assist them throughout the course of their treatment. Brielle Gregory Collins: That's helpful to note too in terms of there are places people can turn to, to help with these things. Let's move on to a person's neighborhood, which is another social determinant of health. So how can where a person lives affect their access to cancer care? Dr. Karen Winkfield: Location, location, location, right? We think about that when we're buying a home, when we are thinking about if we have children, what school are they going to go to? It's about the neighborhood. It's about your ZIP code. And there are tons of evidence that suggests that your ZIP code matters more, frankly, than your DNA in terms of your outcomes, your health status. And so why that matters is you think about, "Well, how close am I to health care in general?" Right? And then you layer on cancer care. So, for instance, if I'm living in a neighborhood that is really close by my primary care team, that's great. But what happens if the cancer center, if I have a cancer diagnosis, is 45 minutes away or 10 miles down the road, but I have to, again, take 2 buses and a train, right? So your neighborhood determines what your access to a lot of things that impact health is going to be. So it's not just about the health care facilities themselves, but you think about, "Is my neighborhood safe? Are there places that I can walk? Is my neighborhood walkable?" In the homebuyers' market, they'll actually have walkability scores. Is this a place-- where I'm living, is it easy to walk around? Because we know that health and well-being is certainly tied to exercise, the ability to go out and walk around, but to do so safely, right? If you're worried about whether or not there's going to be violence or if there's a lot of pollution or other things that impacting your ability to walk around your neighborhood, that's important. So geography matters because of proximity to health care, but it also matters with respect to proximity to other things that impact your health, including grocery stores, whether or not there are fresh fruits and vegetables that are nearby. These are all the components of health and well-being that are impacted by your physical neighborhood. Brielle Gregory Collins: Okay. Got it. Thank you so much for explaining that. So community is another social determinant of health. And how does a person's community differ from their neighborhood? Dr. Karen Winkfield: Wow, that is such a great question. And I had to think about my neighborhood that I lived in in Boston. Love, love, love that neighborhood, fabulous green kind of setting. I was 2 doors down from this amazing pond that I could walk around, so walkability plus, right? Not too far from stores, plus. It was beautiful. But you know what? I never felt part of the community. So neighborhood is the physical location, the geography, if you will, but community is about the people, who's around you, who's supporting you. And so one may actually live in a great neighborhood but not have community in that neighborhood. The community might be elsewhere. So maybe the community is their church family, right, or maybe their community are the families that they connect with that maybe their children are going to school with. So the community is, who are the people that you identify with, whereas neighborhood is the physical structure, if you will, of where a person lives and works. Brielle Gregory Collins: Okay. Thank you so much for breaking that down. So community is basically a person's social group, the people that they spend time with. Okay. Got it. So how can community affect a person with cancer? Dr. Karen Winkfield: Yeah. There are lots of influences related to community that people experience. And so the way that I think about a cancer journey is you have to think about the entire cancer continuum, meaning, are there ways to prevent cancer? Are there ways to get screening for cancer? What are the types of treatments that I need to be thoughtful of, right? Those are the entire cancer continuum, from prevention all the way through end-of-life care. That's the continuum. And so you can imagine that there are certain communities, that community influence, that may impact your risk for cancers. For instance, are you a smoker? Many people who are smokers actually smoke because maybe they had a family member who smoked, or their friends smoke, and so they smoke, or they may even just be social smokers, right? They only smoke when they're going out to a bar or after a meal with friends. That's how your community can impact your risk for cancer, because we know that tobacco use is the number 1 modifiable risk factor for cancer. But here's another one that people don't think about, is obesity. Obesity actually is a very modifiable risk factor for cancer. People don't realize that being overweight or obese is actually a risk factor for cancer. So what happens if you're in a community where you guys like to go out and hike or you're very physically active? That's actually a prevention strategy. And so we know that community can impact one's risk for cancer, but what about the behaviors associated with cancer care? Well, I know that, for instance, in some communities, they don't like talking about the C word. They don't like talking about cancer. And so sometimes if you don't talk about things, you may not have the knowledge that you need to know how to protect yourself better, right, not only from reduction of risk for cancer but maybe also even, "Hey, there's screening that I can do. Let me make sure I get my mammogram,” or, “Who am I talking to in my community?" Or, "Hey, you know what? I have a cancer diagnosis. Let me share that with my people, right, so they can learn from my experience." So community, the people that you connect with, the people that you identify with, your social context, that's important because there are ways that you can influence both positively and negatively one's outcomes related to cancer. Brielle Gregory Collins: Okay. That makes a lot of sense. And we also want to talk about education, which is another really important social determinant of health. So how can a person's access to education have an impact on their cancer experience? Dr. Karen Winkfield: Just like we were talking about neighborhood and location, I use that example of people moving into a particular neighborhood if they have children because they want to make sure the school systems are great, right? Why is that? Because we know that getting educated, having a good education-- even if it's just a high school education, having a good education opens doors, right? It opens opportunities. And similarly, having education status actually opens up doors related to health and well-being. So what's fascinating is we don't oftentimes think about how much of our health and well-being is tied into our ability to read, right? In our society nowadays, everything is text or is on online or you've got to Google it. You go to the doctor's office, and they hand you a stack of papers that's 5, 10 sheets long, and you have to fill it out. What happens if you can't read, right? So there are people in this country-- probably 20% to 25% of the United States is functionally illiterate. And so that impacts one's access to care and also can impact one's access to information around their care, around their health care, around their well-being. So information is key, and that oftentimes is related to our education level or our literacy because, unfortunately, there are some places in the United States that one could actually go all the way from kindergarten through high school and graduate and still not be literate. Sounds ridiculous, but that's what happens. And unfortunately, it's 1 of these things where this is why school districts and schools matter. So the education is also related to language. And so as our community becomes more and more diverse - we have a lot more immigrant populations coming in - it's really important to think about language and how that impacts access to care. I was very surprised when I was the associate director of the Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center that the number 2 most common language from an interpreter standpoint was Arabic. Who knew? In North Carolina. So Spanish was the first requested language, the top requested language from the interpreter services. But Arabic was number 2. And that was because we had a large number of Somalian refugees that were coming in who spoke Arabic as their primary language. So you can imagine being in a brand new-country, don't speak the language, and how do you even know how the country runs? Forget it if you have an issue that comes up where you need medical care. And that resonates for me because I remember I was on my honeymoon with my husband, and we were in Spain, and he got sick, and I didn't speak Spanish. And so we had to go to the emergency room not speaking that language. Language matters, and so that's why educational status matters. Whether or not you've had good early childhood education is key, what your literacy rate is, and certainly, having higher education oftentimes makes one more available-- and make themselves more available to the information that's out there on the web or other forms of printed materials that may actually impact one's ability to navigate the healthcare system better. Brielle Gregory Collins: What about a person's access to food and how a lack of access to good nutrition can impact someone with cancer? Dr. Karen Winkfield: Oh, Brielle, you are talking about something that has recently become more resonant for me. It was something I actually hadn't thought about, was this concept of food and food insecurity, until I heard a recent discussion at an annual conference that about 33% of individuals with cancer show up with some form of food insecurity. Now, what is food insecurity? Well, that may mean that you might not necessarily know where all 3 of your meals are coming from in the day, if you eat 3 meals a day, or it may be that you don't have fresh fruits and vegetables or access to that. Everything is canned because there's not a place where you can go and get fresh fruits and vegetables. There are places in this country that are considered food deserts, which means there might not even be a grocery store that's within a 10-mile radius, or even sometimes it's even much, much wider than that. And food is important. Remember, we just talked about obesity being a modifiable risk factor for cancer. So what is the cause of the obesity epidemic that we're seeing in the country? It's not necessarily that people are overeating, although that's 1 thing. But we eat so much processed food, right? We eat so much stuff in cans that has sodium content out the wazoo, or we don't know where our food is coming from or how it's been engineered. And there may be things in the food that we don't control that may actually be causing some of the obesity epidemic. You think about how many calories are in some of the fast food products that are out there. You get a meal, for instance, a bundled meal. That meal can have 1,200, sometimes up to 2,000 calories that a person is consuming in a single meal. But you know why they're doing it? Because it's cheap. If I can go and I can eat for $4 for a meal versus having to kind of go and find food and cook it and all that kind of stuff, sometimes it's cheaper for people to eat food that's been heavily processed and that may have things that are low nutritional value, but it satisfies them. And so they're kind of forced, if you will, to eat that because they may be living in an actual food desert where they don't have access to fresh fruits and vegetables at a reasonable price. And so that's important. So from a prevention standpoint, thinking about food is critical, but so is not being hungry while you're going through cancer care, right? We need protein. We need nutrition to help our body repair. Cancer therapy is stressful, right? Cancer therapy impacts normal cells, and so we need to make sure patients have the access to the foods they need to help their body to recover during their cancer journey so that they can really not only just survive cancer but to survive it well during the process. Brielle Gregory Collins: So it's not just about how much a person's eating. It's about what specifically they're eating and how what they're eating can help them through the cancer process. Dr. Karen Winkfield: Absolutely. Brielle Gregory Collins: Another social determinant of health is health systems. So what are some of the challenges health care systems can create for people with cancer? Dr. Karen Winkfield:  Yeah. This is a very complex issue, right? So health care systems have grown and developed over the last couple of decades to become more and more complex. A lot of it is also driven by the insurance and by the payers, right, meaning what your insurance companies will cover, what Medicaid and Medicare will cover. This is a huge issue for patients because there's oftentimes lack of transparency, frankly, in terms of what insurance will cover related to cancer care along the entire continuum. So let me give you 1 example, for instance, of colorectal cancer. We know that the Task Force just recently reduced the age of colorectal cancer screening from 50 down to 45. And the reason why is there are more and more younger people who are showing up with colorectal cancer, and so important to make sure that we have a screening available to younger people. Well, that's all good and well, but what happens when you don't have availability of a doctor who can actually do a colonoscopy, right? So colonoscopy is the gold standard, if you will, for getting colorectal cancer screening. But there are other things, right? So this is where information is important. So people can get a stool-based card, right, where it's looking for DNA or looking for blood. And that test can be done as well. But there's so many different complexities that it oftentimes is a challenge for people to kind of think through what's going to work best for them. Now, here's 1 of the things around the health care system in colorectal cancer that is a challenge for those of us who are in this space. So if a person goes for a colonoscopy and they're just going for a straight screening, it is covered by their insurance company, right? That screening is. Now, what a colonoscopy does, it takes a camera and looks inside the lining of the colon to see if there might be any polyps or any kind of abnormal growths that are inside the lining of the colon. So what happens if a doctor sees a polyp or something that's abnormal? Well, they go in, and they biopsy it or they remove it. What has just happened when the doctor does that, the provider does that, that has turned from a screening exam to now a diagnostic exam, and the insurance might not cover that. So what's the challenge is that you're going and you're encouraging people to go for screening, but the test itself is wonderful because, look, if a polyp was found and a doctor removes that polyp, that has just now prevented cancer. We know that for colorectal cancer, any polyp will eventually become a cancer, so you need to remove it, and that's why this colon screening is beautiful, because it's both screening and prevention. But our health care system is built in such a way that is complicated, where if you go in for a screening procedure and someone does a procedure that is potentially life-saving that now becomes diagnostic, it might not be covered. I mean, that's a complexity that most people aren't going to understand, and it's hard to explain. So that's just 1 example of how health care systems are messed up with respect to insurance, but we also have to think about the individual institutions. How welcoming are institutions to individuals, right? Is it scary to walk into your cancer center? Is it overwhelming? How is your signage, right? Who's sitting at the front desk? Are the people who are welcoming people, do they look like the community that you're serving? These are all systems-based things that can be done or that can really complicate, if you will, cancer care if it's not done in the right way. And so these are just a few examples. Even we can talk about the fact that there are some cancer centers that don't accept Medicaid. I mean, what is that? That means you're excluding a whole host of individuals because they may have lower income than other people. Does that mean that people who have lower income are not as important as people with more money or have the ability to have private insurance? Shouldn't be that way. But again, health systems issues that can cause barriers and create issues-- especially when we talk about clinical trials, which are part of cancer care. We want people to be enrolled and participate in clinical trials because that's what changes the way that cancer care is delivered in this country. The reason why we are curing some breast cancers, the reason why we are curing other cancers is because there have been clinical trials that have led to discoveries that have allowed us to say, "Wow, this is a new standard of care. We're saving lives." But that means that if you don't have access to certain cancer centers where the clinical trials are happening, you are not able to participate. And so these are the barriers, the systemic barriers, the health system barriers, just a few of them that actually can really complicate care and make it such that individuals who might want to participate in treatments that can potentially change the face of cancer care-- they're not able to do it right now. So we have some work to do in trying to figure out how to open up the access and remove those barriers. Brielle Gregory Collins: Right. Thank you so much for outlining that and for outlining all of these social determinants of health. So now that we've kind of talked through all of these different social determinants of health, how can addressing these social determinants of health help improve cancer outcomes? Dr. Karen Winkfield: The biggest thing that we could do is prevent cancer. That's the way to have the best outcome, right? So if we are to think about location, where people live, their ZIP code as being a driver of health and health status, then that means that we need to start thinking about the context that people are living and saying, "What is it that can be done both from an individual, family, community, and a systems standpoint to help improve health status of different ZIP codes?" You may have seen the maps where people have mapped out a lifespan on a map based on a distance, right, whether it be along a highway or on the subway system, in Washington, DC, looking at the Metro system. And so there's people who are living, like, in the middle of DC, and they have a lifespan of 83 years. But literally, you go up on the yellow line, and you go up to northeast DC, and that drops by 10 years. Where you live should not matter in terms of your health status, but it does. And so, again, by thinking about these social determinants of health, we can say, alright, what are the factors that are impacting access to care, that are impacting one's ability to prevent cancer or to reduce risk for cancers, meaning reduction of tobacco use, reduction of food insecurities, improving how you can walk around in a community or get exercise? What are people's employment status? Do people have to work 2 or 3 jobs just to make ends meet? If so, that means they're going to pay attention less to their health and well-being, right? Those are the sorts of things that we can think through to really help improve health status. Now, the other thing that's really important in terms of thinking about from a cancer perspective is one's ability to get access to screening. So, again, social determinants of health, what insurance product do people have, making sure that people have access to the screenings. And like I said, this colorectal cancer example that I gave you is 1 where, what the heck, you go from screening to a diagnostic just because there's a procedure that's done that really can help prevent cancer. These are the sorts of things that are really vital to make sure that we're addressing. And also kind of thinking about, again, location, how do we get people to and from the places where cancer care is is really an important consideration as well because if people can't get to where the cancer care is happening, then obviously, they're not going to get access to the treatments that they need, or it may delay their care. And we know that delays in care can oftentimes lead to worse outcomes as well. Brielle Gregory Collins: Right. Okay. And finally, where can people with cancer find resources to help them cope with the challenges of these social determinants of health? Dr. Karen Winkfield: So anyone who has a cancer diagnosis is obviously thrust into this massive system, right? It doesn't matter if you're in a local community center where you might meet with a surgeon and then have to travel 30 minutes in the other direction to go and meet with a medical oncologist, and maybe you drive another 100 miles to go to radiation, right? There's that. Or you can go to a big giant cancer center where everything is put into 1 single building. You're popping up and down floors, or maybe everything's on the same floor. Doesn't matter what system you're in. My first recommendation would be let people know what your concerns are, right? Let 1 of your providers know, for instance, "Hey, listen, I'm struggling with transportation," or, "I'm worried about my job," or, "I'm worried about X." Really important to feel comfortable with your care team, right? So that first step in terms of overcoming barriers is, do I feel comfortable with the people who are helping me through this cancer journey? And it's the entire team, not just the doctor. It's the nurse. It's the therapist. It's the entire team that, hopefully, you feel comfortable with so you can say, "You know what? I just need to be open, and I need to share what my concerns are related to X," right? Doesn't matter if it's finances or food or whatever; just talk to your team. And so 1 of the things that I'm trying to do is encourage providers also to ask people, right? So this is bidirectional. So, yes, we're talking right now directly to individuals who may experience cancer, or maybe the family member has experienced cancer. So, yes, please bring it up if you have concerns. But the other piece is providers need to do a better job asking kind of what people's concerns are as well. So that would be the first thing. Many centers will have social workers or other people who can help to navigate people through the system and be able to reduce some of those barriers. The other thing is I oftentimes will point people to wonderful resources online. So, again, not everyone has access to online kind of services. So this is why asking and having conversations with your care team is important because we don't want anyone to say, "Well, I don't have access to the internet," or, "I don't know how to Google," or, "I can't read." So please, please, please don't think that this is just comprehensive. I want to say please talk, right, opening your mouth and having conversations first, but certainly, online, there's some great resources. The American Cancer Society has wonderful resources. They've been providing a lot of transportation services for individuals with cancer for decades. I know that with COVID, some of that kind of was reduced, but it's a wonderful opportunity for volunteers even to say, "I'm going to give back. I want to be there to provide transportation services for individuals going through cancer journey." So the American Cancer Society has lots of resources. The other thing is Cancer Support Community is another online venue. You can pick up the phone and call them. But Cancer Support Community is another opportunity to kind of really have-- these are some resources that are available. And I must say probably 1 of the number 1 resources I tell people to go to is Cancer.Net. And you know why? It's because they actually have a full-on resource page, right? So you can go to Cancer.Net and actually look at the resources page, and they list some of these, including Cancer Support Community, right? So there are lots of different resources that can be available to individuals. It's just a matter of looking, and it's a matter of kind of knowing where to go. So, again, I point people to Cancer.Net because it oftentimes has lots of different places that people can go to, some of which are related to a specific cancer diagnosis, right? So Komen for Breast Cancer is 1, but many of them generic, like the American Cancer Society or Livestrong or Cancer Support Community. So I just recommend people go to Cancer.Net or 1 of those other online resources to help them find what might work for them. Brielle Gregory Collins: Thank you so much, Dr. Winkfield, especially for sharing your time and your expertise today. It was so great having you. Dr. Karen Winkfield: Well, thank you, Brielle. I'm so grateful for this opportunity. I'm so thankful that we're able to talk a little bit about social determinants of health and things that people can do to help reduce some of those barriers to cancer care. Brielle Gregory Collins: Yes, absolutely. And for our listeners, you can find more information on this topic at www.cancer.net/disparities. ASCO: If this podcast was useful, please take a minute to subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you listen to podcasts. This Cancer.Net podcast is part of the ASCO Podcast Network. 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What is hell? Shouldn't it be obvious? Don't our movies and angry preachers make it clear? The quick answer is NOT A CHANCE. Is ‘hell' real? I would have to say YES. But ‘WHAT' is hell? This is not talked about enough nor taught on. Just trusting your ‘pastor' on what they believe is the worst thing you can do. If you think hell is what you ‘think' it is, and then are surprised by other opinions or perspectives, then you have much more to learn. This mini series on ‘What Is Hell' is designed to open up the discussion and lead you into a deeper and wider understanding on the topic. This is not about ‘giving you an answer', but rather to help you realize that hell may not be what you ‘think' it is and therefore perhaps to tease you to dig more into not only what ‘hell' is, but dig deeper into ‘who' God ‘really' is. I hope this is and encouraging topic. **see below for a list of links from Richard Murray on "The Nature of Hell and Judgement series*** Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/3zL742uwEVc Or listen to the audio podcast: https://anchor.fm/still-growing-in-grace Join us for a weekly encouragement and connections. Some weeks we will dig into some great Scriptures, other weeks, just chat with others growing in Grace (Usually airing LIVE on Wednesday mornings) For more topics & content, tune in here: · Michael Zenker's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelZenker · Hope Fellowship, Your Community Church: www.hopefellowshipycc.com · Still Growing In Grace - YouTube Playlist: https://bit.ly/2u6pLE8 · Still Growing In Grace Website: https://growingingrace.ca/ Bill Thrasher: https://www.facebook.com/groups/444411502587439 Richard Murray: https://thegoodnessofgod.com/ Parking Lot Theology with Richard Murray: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKfv-9uArQHKCXZQPsLeEVYe-bt4YN5lj

  I got a reminder, on what it felt like, when having to take inhalation drugs through a nebulizer machine. Honestly, I thought I was over that part of my life. I really thought somehow, I was on the upswing. I forgot, what it was like to not be able to sleep from the after tremors. Side effects from respiratory drugs through a nebulizer.  Those, who do not suffer from severe respiratory conditions, do not understand the seriousness of environmental (smoke) pollution. Last thing I wanted, to once again deal with, is adding more onto an already full plate. If only, people really got to feel what it is like, struggling to breathe. Place a bag over your head. Leave just enough room for air. That's just the beginning of how it feels. Then, the fear of struggling to breathe kicks in. For me, it starts with eye irritation, then coughing, followed by heaviness in the lungs. Then panic sets in. You start to cry, but then realized by doing so, it only makes matters worse. Outdoor pollution (smoke) in the air, most definitely can aggregate anyone who suffers with pre-existing respiratory problems. It's not about complaining. It's about real facts. Environmental pollution (smoke), can cause grave consequences for those with pre-existing respiratory problems.  I have enough on my plate. I was diagnosed late last year, by nuclear testing, with scarring on both upper lungs from double pneumonia. I was already dealing with lower left lung obstruction, due to secondary complications from maximum radiation, oncology therapy. It's not about complaining. It's about educating others about the seriousness of environmental (smoke) pollution. What those with respiratory problems go through, when triggered by environmental factors (smoke) in the air. I am back on secondary inhalation drugs, and another rescue inhalation drug. I use two out of the three drugs through my nebulizer machine. If the environmental factors (smoke) seize. After needing to cough up all the nasty discharge from my lungs. Then, maybe I can catch a break, again. My plate is already beyond full. So why would anyone want to add onto someone's plate? Another individual commented, "If someone is already carrying a heavy load. Why would I want to add onto their load?" That is as well, a very true statement.  My immune system is still hard at work. Trying to help me recover from surgery and other outpatient procedures. I am still at the beginning stages with reconstructive jaw surgery and other factors working against me. I still can't eat anything that involves chewing. I lost all of my teeth in the process during my last surgery, including most of my jaw. That includes, my smile. Why would anyone, want to kick someone down? Especially, when they fight with every last ounce they got... to live. This isn't about complaining. This isn't about seeking attention. This is the real reality of suffering. I'm sorry, if I have offended you. But when you offend one of God's children, by making their suffering even greater. You need to ask yourself, "Isn't their load, already heavy enough? Shouldn't I be of support. Instead of a burden?" Yesterday, like a true zombie warrior. I assume, zombies must feel how I felt over the past 24+ hours. I accomplished making my way outdoors. Just to be able to feel the sun and water some flowers. You have to keep going, no matter how great the struggle.  This morning, I have back-to-back video appointment with my specialists. I have been dreading this day. Who really wants to talk about hospice home care? It makes me feel like a failure. But what it wont stop me from doing, is still living, life. Helping other brave Warriors. Realizing my dreams. Free Yourself...My Journey

As wildfires continue on the west coast, the sky is filled with CO2. Shouldn't we be managing our forests and try to prevent forest fires as part of our climate policy? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On today's Tuesday People podcast we discuss graduations. Why do they stop after college? Why shouldn't there be the same type of recognition for similar moments in life? Shouldn't all meaningful passages we go through end with some sort of celebration of our successful transition? Inspired by a recent graduation at Mitch's Have Faith Haiti Mission & Orphanage, Mitch believes we should give ourselves more credit as adults for starting something, reaching the end of that phase, and - when we do - treat ourselves to a ceremony worthy of a cap and gown!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 055 of That Was Disappointing is Live. Let's get all Julia Child up in this beotch. Today's Theme: Cooking. Add bologna, American cheese, repeat. Our first topic is your go-to dish when you're hoping to make a little whoopee. As in Wham. Bam. Thank Ya Ma'am (or Sir)! Lex is relatively new to the culinary arts, but he's a modern day Adonis in the kitchen. As a matter of fact, he's only burned his Hungry Man once. Our second topic is the terrible things people do to normal dishes. If you put shredded cheese atop your pizza, Kelly thinks you should be placed in front of a firing squad. A little harsh don't you think? Shouldn't we save this punishment for more unforgivable sins like preferring grape jelly over strawberry? Producer Kenny is a monster. Our third topic is what we've learned from our favorite cooking shows. Art's learned a lot of things from Chopped, most of all that Ted has dreamy eyes. It hasn't really benefited him I'm the kitchen, but it's not like you'd have been able to guess that from his waistline. Hiyo! Our final topic is disastrous dishes/meals. Look, we've all clucked up a time or two in the kitchen. Sure, we might not have started the biggest wildfire this side of the Rockies, like Matt, but we all have our cross to bear. You'll be happy to know he's never tried his hand at another risotto. Come listen to the podcast that's receiving rave reviews on the Apple Store. And not just from our wives!

Hey! Some people are kind of annoying, right? Shouldn't we be able to tell them that? We're talking about that and some weird news today, join us won't you? 

All throughout the Gospels, we read of Jesus telling the people, "The Kingdom of God is Like..." or "What shall I compare the Kingdom of God to...?" or "The Kingdom of God is comparable to..." The Kingdom of God was clearly Jesus' main teaching and focus. Shouldn't it be ours as well? Jesus also went to great lengths to teach us about it. Well, in this episode, as we continue our Kingdom Fundamentals book launch promo, we will explore what the Kingdom of God is like... in detail! We give you: 6 Key

Amantha Imber is all about working smart. We spend up to a one-third of of our waking lives at work. That's a huge percentage of our lives. Amanda asks the powerful, yet rarely considered question. “Shouldn't our time at work be a rewarding?”

Should I or Shouldn't I Hunt On My Food Plot. Jason and special guest Scott Bestul discuss the best approach to hunting your food plots.

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In Podcast Episode 122, “More Than Conquerors: The Giant of “Refusing to Forgive” vs. The Lord of Heaven's Armies,” Kim discusses the giant of “Refusing to Forgive.” One of Satan's greatest weapons is convincing us to hold on to the poison of bitterness.   The primary scripture text for this episode is 1 Samuel 17:1-58 with the key verses 4-7, 33.   Additional Verses:   “Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?” “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven! “Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to a king who decided to bring his accounts up to date with servants who had borrowed money from him. In the process, one of his debtors was brought in who owed him millions of dollars. He couldn't pay, so his master ordered that he be sold—along with his wife, his children, and everything he owned—to pay the debt. “But the man fell down before his master and begged him, ‘Please, be patient with me, and I will pay it all.' Then his master was filled with pity for him, and he released him and forgave his debt. “But when the man left the king, he went to a fellow servant who owed him a few thousand dollars. He grabbed him by the throat and demanded instant payment. “His fellow servant fell down before him and begged for a little more time. ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it,' he pleaded. But his creditor wouldn't wait. He had the man arrested and put in prison until the debt could be paid in full. “When some of the other servants saw this, they were very upset. They went to the king and told him everything that had happened. Then the king called in the man he had forgiven and said, ‘You evil servant! I forgave you that tremendous debt because you pleaded with me. Shouldn't you have mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?' Then the angry king sent the man to prison to be tortured until he had paid his entire debt. “That's what my heavenly Father will do to you if you refuse to forgive your brothers and sisters” Matthew 18:21-35 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34a)    Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you. (Ephesians 4:32)     Weekly Assignment Feature:    Commit to draining the poison of bitterness from your heart by choosing to forgive at least one person. Additional Resources:   “Facing Your Giants: God Still Does the Impossible” by Max Lucado   “Goliath Must Fall: Winning the Battle Against Your Giants” by Louie Giglio   "Dear Lord.  Only you know the intensity of the poison of bitterness running through my veins. I understand this poison should not reside in the presence of Your Holy Spirit. Please use Your Word to open my spiritual eyes to the ground Satan holds in my heart, Your plan for my life, and how I can release this poison TODAY in the healthiest manner. Amen." Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. (Joanna Weaver)   13 Steps to Forgiving the Unforgivable by Dr. Charles Stanley.  http://static1.squarespace.com/static/56dee43ee321400514f98522/t/57571790746fb9212258ea6b/1465325456966/2+COUN+401+Mag+2.pdf   Guideposts Classics: Corrie ten Boom on Forgiveness. https://www.guideposts.org/better-living/positive-living/guideposts-classics-corrie-ten-boom-forgiveness   I WANT TO BEGIN A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.    RESOURCES USED FOR BOOK OF 1 & 2 Samuel PODCASTS: “The Wiersbe Bible Commentary: The Complete Old Testament OT in One Volume” “The Tony Evans Bible Commentary: Advancing God's Kingdom Agenda” “Life Application Study Bible” “The Swindoll Study Bible: NLT” by Charles R. Swindoll Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary Exalting Jesus in 1 & 2 Samuel (Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary) by J. D. Greear, Heath A. Thomas “The Baker Illustrated Bible Background Commentary” by J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hays (Editors) "Encouraging Others in Loving Jesus" Facebook Group:   Our Facebook Group is devoted to providing a place for us to encourage each other through all the seasons of life. Follow the provided link to request admittance into “Encouraging Others in Loving Jesus”—https://www.facebook.com/groups/encouragingothersinlovingjesus/ Feel free to invite others who will be good encouragers and/or need encouragement to follow Jesus.   This podcast is hosted by Kim Smith, a small town Country Girl who left her comfort zone to follow Jesus in a big City World. Now, she wants to use God's Word and lessons from her faith journey to encourage others in loving Jesus.   In each episode, Kim will share insights regarding a portion of God's Word and challenge listeners to apply the lessons to their daily lives.   If you want to grow in your faith and learn how to encourage others in loving Jesus, subscribe and commit to prayerfully listening each week.    Remember, “It's Always a Trust & Obey Kinda Day!”   If you have questions or comments or would like to learn more about how to follow Jesus, please email Kim at EncouragingOthersinLovingJesus@gmail.com.   National Suicide Prevention Lifeline   1-800-273-8255   https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/   Reference: Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Tyndale House Publishers. Holy Bible: New Living Translation. Wheaton, Ill: Tyndale House Publishers, 2004.

It's Wednesday morning. You're at work sitting in another unnecessary Zoom meeting that really should have been an email. Hoping to make the next hour of your life more tolerable, you visit your favorite social media sites and begin scrolling. Within seconds you are bombarded with spoilers from the newest episode of Loki. Seriously? It has only been out for like six hours! How is the Internet already full of spoilers?Does this sound familiar? Maybe it wasn't Loki that was spoiled. Perhaps it was a different movie or TV show. But you know the feeling. That feeling of anger and rage and disappointment in your fellow man. How could they do this to you? Shouldn't there be some sort of etiquette when it comes to this sort of thing? We're right there with you, which is why that's the topic of conversation on this week's Stolendroids Podcast. What bothers you most about when people share spoilers? What rules do you think there should be about sharing spoilers? Hit us up on social media and let us know. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we discuss two women who have been in a media frenzy, Ms. ShaCarri Richardson and Ms. Phylicia Rashad. In the last couple of weeks, both women have found themselves being praised for their accomplishments and soon after bashed for what some would call "poor decisions". In our conversation and our #talktometuesday questions to our audience, we wanted to discuss the fact the black women often times have no room for error. It seems as though the world loves us as long as we make no mistakes. We have to work 10x harder due to the fact that we are under a microscope, but why is this? Shouldn't we be extended the same grace as others? Let's discuss.

"Even When Standing On The Truth And What You Believe God Is Telling You To Do, It Doesn't Come Unopposed" - Janice Anderson Janice Anderson is CEO of Moruwa Consulting and is a speaker, trainer, and brand strategist. Janice and her team have created powerful strategies and products that equip leaders with the tools necessary to build, brand, and expand their vision. Most recently, Janice answered her call to serve women in a more public way. Janice is the founder of Significant Life, a community designed to help women live, lead, and serve from an anchored place through MySignificantLife.com In this episode, I chat with Janice about how she was able to recognize when and how God was telling her to move forward into a new path and how you too can stand in your Truth without settling for less or allowing others to stop you. "Leading With Christ, Shouldn't Mean I Settle For Less" - Janice Anderson Time Stamps: 2:20 How standing in her Truth, changed Janice's ability to say YES! 2:44 "Even when standing on The Truth and what you believe God is telling you to do, It doesn't come unopposed" - Janice Anderson 13:50 Brilliance Road map quiz with Nicole Roberts Jones 15:34 "Leading with Christ, shouldn't mean I settle for less" - Janice Anderson 18:17 Janice shares her "wake-up call" from God! 22:36 "I was only limited by what I was willing to go and gather" - Janice Anderson "I Was Only Limited By What I Was Willing To Go And Gather"  - Janice Anderson Links: Mysignificantlife.com brillianceroadmapquiz.com

The Biden team is dropping GPA requirements for the TEACH for America program in an effort to attract more "students of color."  Isn't this rather insulting to minorities?! It seems to suggest Biden doesn't think that minorities can't otherwise qualify for scholarships? Not to mention, do you really want students with poor GPAs teaching American students? Shouldn't we have SOME standards?! Apparently, according to Biden and company, we should not.  Trish Regan examines the issue in today's podcast -- plus, she questions what has happened to the ability of journalists to present BOTH sides of a story in today's corporate media environment. "It's GONE!" She concludes -- arguing that that's a bad thing for America. Subscribe to the show and download today's pod! Plus, get more news directly from Trish by going to https://TrishIntel.com Support the show at https://www.facebook.com/groups/trishreganprivategroup Follow Trish on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/trish_regan/ and, Subscribe to her channels:https://www.youtube.com/trishreganchannel Support the show: https://trishregan.store/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Parents today have never had more reason to be concerned for the safety and security of their children. Former spy turned stay-at-home mom Christina Hillsberg provides a possible antidote for anxious parents in LICENSE TO PARENT: How My Career as a Spy Helped Me Raise Resourceful, Self-Sufficient Kids, a groundbreaking guide to raising resilient, self-sufficient children based on Christina's experience as a CIA analyst. This unparalleled approach to child-rearing provides both an inside look into one of the world's most clandestine organizations and a practical guide for how to utilize key spy tactics to teach kids important life skills—from self-defense to effective communication to conflict resolution. Christina Hillsberg was a single, successful CIA analyst with a burgeoning career in espionage when she met fellow spy, Ryan, a hotshot field operative who turned her world upside down. They fell in love, married, and soon they were raising three children from his first marriage, and later, two more of their own. Christina knew right away that there was something special about the way Ryan was parenting his kids, even if initially their obsession with surviving end-of-world scenarios and their ability to do everything from archery to motorcycle riding gave her pause. More than that, Ryan's kids were much more security savvy than most adults she knew. It wasn't long after they married that she realized the secret to Ryan's parenting success: he was using his CIA training and field experience in his day-to-day child-rearing. And why shouldn't he? The CIA trains its employees to be equipped to deal with just about anything. Shouldn't parents strive to do the same for their kids? As Christina grew into her new role as a stepmom and later gave birth to their two children, she got on board with Ryan's unique parenting style—and even helped shape it using her own experiences at the CIA. Told through honest and relatable parenting anecdotes, Christina shares their distinctive approach to parenting and gives practical takeaways rooted in CIA tradecraft along the way. LICENSE TO PARENT aims to provide parents with the tools necessary to raise savvier, well-rounded kids who have the skills necessary to navigate through life.

• This Series: The first letter to the church at Thessalonica is a relevant letter for our day. These believers were worried and a bit stressed that they had somehow missed the coming of Christ. Today, many believers are worried and stressed that the coming of Christ is not coming fast enough. This study through this intimate letter will help prepare us for the imminent return of Jesus Christ.   • This Week: The most repeated theme in 1 Thessalonians is challenging them to live in such a way that would please the Lord. Shouldn't this be our aim? Our goal? Our desire?   Key Phrase: “We instructed you how to live in order to please God.” 1 Thess. 4:1

CONNECTION & SOUND CHECK. Make sure Dion sounds good this timePROMO & SOFT START: 5-minute on socials, Twitch live w/preshow musicINTRO - we go live, chat, give people a chance get into the streamWOMEN'S UPDATE - not a massive focus this ep, but women have massive match tomorrow night in Grand Rapids v Midwest Utd. STILL A CHANCE for women to reach playoffs, but I can't understand the pathway. Schedule has Corktown to play just one more match, at Muskegon. We have two, this and home v Lansing 7/10U23s - yeah we haven't lost a men's match all year, wassup Detroit sportosNISA CHAMPIONSHIP - Chokanooga hahaLA Force scouting report: 3-4-3ish, inverted wingbacks, cluttered middleIndividuals: Chaney, Gordillo, Villon, OceguedaLe Rouge freestyle: Haven't trailed all season. What it means to win. Should the stakes be this high for this match? Shouldn't we have already won? General appreciation for this squad. Stevie. Cyrus. Maxi. Matt. Nate. Anthony. Pato. Connor. Kevin. James. Roddy. George. The rotating forwards. Trevor motherfucking James.CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: If we're feeling it, we record the next episode, where we thunder on about how great this team has been as long as necessary. If not, we sign off with fuck somewhere. Maybe Indiana, as my home state and the site of constantly embarrassing football sides at our level

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1085/29 Let's say you come into some cash. Maybe you've gotten a raise or an inheritance. You have a decision to make. Do you use it to pay down your mortgage or do you invest it? It's another one of those questions we get a lot. Usually, folks are already leaning toward investing, thinking it always gives a better return. We'll talk about that today. Here's the argument for investingthe money and not paying down your mortgage. Over any given period of time the market will give a greater return than your mortgage interest rate. That probably seems especially true over the last dozen years with bull markets and low mortgage rates. However, the folks at MoneyGeek.com decided to put that theory to the test. They compared mortgage rates with SP 500 returns over a 43-year period. The findings showed that at times paying down the mortgage actually can give a better return than investing in the market. But over shorter periods with that 43-year range, the market often wins. Take the last 10 years. The SP 500's average return of 14.3% is the clear winner over the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate of around 4.25%. It all depends on which period you pick. Between 1997 to 2007, for example, we saw the dot.com bubble burst and the lead-up to the Great Recession. In 10 out of 11 of those years, you'd have been better off paying down your mortgage than investing in the market. In the last few years, another factor has made the mortgage payoff even more attractive, the question of taxes. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 doubled the standard deduction. The result was that 82% of homeowners no longer itemize their deductions and can't take advantage of the mortgage interest deduction. That essentially made holding a mortgage more expensive and increased the attractiveness of paying it off as soon as you can. You may be thinking, But aren't qualified retirement accounts tax-exempt? Shouldn't that lean things in their favor? And of course, they are tax-exempt. A 401(k) and traditional and Roth IRAs are all tax exempt when the money stays in the account. That definitely tips the scales more in the direction of investing in a qualified account. But those plans have contribution limits and one rather large restriction, you must make your contributions with earned income. That means an inheritance, or other found money, would have to be invested in a regular brokerage account that isn't tax-advantaged. In that case, the scales are tipped back toward paying down your mortgage. There are other considerations that may affect your decision. First of all, if you don't have an adequate emergency fund, that's where your surplus money should go first. You need 3 to 6 months living expenses in liquid savings. Once you have that, you can worry about paying down the mortgage or investing. Also, consumer debt pretty much makes the mortgage vs investing debate a moot point. If you're getting hit with 18% or more interest on your credit card balance, paying that off first wins every time. Finally, there's risk tolerance to consider. Investing in the market is often a rollercoaster ride. If you can't handle steep declines or if your investment horizon is shortsay, less than 5 years, though 10 is betteryou shouldn't be in the market. Paying off your mortgage early may not be as thrilling as investing in Bitcoin. But on the plus side, there's absolutely zero risk involved. You're guaranteed a return equal to the interest rate you're paying on your mortgage. On today's program we also answer your questions: Is there a special savings plan that I can do for my grandchild for college? Estate planning and willsI'd like to learn more about setting all that up. I sold some property and now have $100,000. What's the wisest way to invest this? Remember, you can call in to ask your questions most days at (800) 525-7000 or email them toQuestions@MoneyWise.org. Also, visit our website atMoneyWise.orgwhere you can connect with a MoneyWise Coach, purchase books, and even download free, helpful resources like the free MoneyWise app. Like and Follow us on Facebook atMoneyWise Mediafor videos and the very latest discussion!Remember that it's your prayerful and financial support that keeps MoneyWise on the air. Help us continue this outreach by clicking the Donate tab on our website or in our app.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1085/29 Let's say you come into some cash. Maybe you've gotten a raise or an inheritance. You have a decision to make. Do you use it to pay down your mortgage or do you invest it? It's another one of those questions we get a lot. Usually, folks are already leaning toward investing, thinking it always gives a better return. We'll talk about that today. Here's the argument for investingthe money and not paying down your mortgage. Over any given period of time the market will give a greater return than your mortgage interest rate. That probably seems especially true over the last dozen years with bull markets and low mortgage rates. However, the folks at MoneyGeek.com decided to put that theory to the test. They compared mortgage rates with SP 500 returns over a 43-year period. The findings showed that at times paying down the mortgage actually can give a better return than investing in the market. But over shorter periods with that 43-year range, the market often wins. Take the last 10 years. The SP 500's average return of 14.3% is the clear winner over the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate of around 4.25%. It all depends on which period you pick. Between 1997 to 2007, for example, we saw the dot.com bubble burst and the lead-up to the Great Recession. In 10 out of 11 of those years, you'd have been better off paying down your mortgage than investing in the market. In the last few years, another factor has made the mortgage payoff even more attractive, the question of taxes. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 doubled the standard deduction. The result was that 82% of homeowners no longer itemize their deductions and can't take advantage of the mortgage interest deduction. That essentially made holding a mortgage more expensive and increased the attractiveness of paying it off as soon as you can. You may be thinking, But aren't qualified retirement accounts tax-exempt? Shouldn't that lean things in their favor? And of course, they are tax-exempt. A 401(k) and traditional and Roth IRAs are all tax exempt when the money stays in the account. That definitely tips the scales more in the direction of investing in a qualified account. But those plans have contribution limits and one rather large restriction, you must make your contributions with earned income. That means an inheritance, or other found money, would have to be invested in a regular brokerage account that isn't tax-advantaged. In that case, the scales are tipped back toward paying down your mortgage. There are other considerations that may affect your decision. First of all, if you don't have an adequate emergency fund, that's where your surplus money should go first. You need 3 to 6 months living expenses in liquid savings. Once you have that, you can worry about paying down the mortgage or investing. Also, consumer debt pretty much makes the mortgage vs investing debate a moot point. If you're getting hit with 18% or more interest on your credit card balance, paying that off first wins every time. Finally, there's risk tolerance to consider. Investing in the market is often a rollercoaster ride. If you can't handle steep declines or if your investment horizon is shortsay, less than 5 years, though 10 is betteryou shouldn't be in the market. Paying off your mortgage early may not be as thrilling as investing in Bitcoin. But on the plus side, there's absolutely zero risk involved. You're guaranteed a return equal to the interest rate you're paying on your mortgage. On today's program we also answer your questions: Is there a special savings plan that I can do for my grandchild for college? Estate planning and willsI'd like to learn more about setting all that up. I sold some property and now have $100,000. What's the wisest way to invest this? Remember, you can call in to ask your questions most days at (800) 525-7000 or email them toQuestions@MoneyWise.org. Also, visit our website atMoneyWise.orgwhere you can connect with a MoneyWise Coach, purchase books, and even download free, helpful resources like the free MoneyWise app. Like and Follow us on Facebook atMoneyWise Mediafor videos and the very latest discussion!Remember that it's your prayerful and financial support that keeps MoneyWise on the air. Help us continue this outreach by clicking the Donate tab on our website or in our app.

This week on the podcast, Dr. Andy Roark and veterinary practice manager Stephanie Goss give their takes on a topic that deserves more attention - team member's personal pets and the care we give them. The questions specifically asked were: How do we schedule team member's pets for care - do we smush them in where we have time when they need it or do we take spots in the paying client schedule? Do we treat wellness/preventative care visits differently than we do when it's urgent/emergent? Should we treat it differently? Things to consider when discussing with your leadership team or considering your pet benefit scheduling: Are we treating our team like clients? A lot of us value patients like extended members of their families. Shouldn't we be doing the same for our team member's pets? What are some of the external benefits to have team members experience life as a client? And on the flip side, are there internal benefits and what are they? How do we balance providing care for team pets when we offer it as a discount? Do we give vets production? Do we have the team pay full price for certain circumstances? How do we help them realize their pet benefits don't mean free pet care (or do they? Can they?) Links: Upcoming events: https://unchartedvet.com/upcoming-events/ The Secret Sauce To Optimizing Workflow with Senani Ratnayake, RVT. The way we are doing things isn't working. At least, not working well. Some inefficiencies might feel normal to us because we've always done it that way and we don't even realize there might be a better way to move forward. This 4-hour workshop is here to help. Dissect your hospital's workflow with Senani Ratnayake, RVT so you can get out of the woods in 4 strategic steps. Then, talk through what it will take to get your team on board to lean into your strengths and address your weaknesses. https://unchartedvet.com/product/the-secret-sauce-to-optimizing-workflow/ All Links: https://linktr.ee/UnchartedVet Got a question for the mailbag? Submit it here: unchartedvet.com/mailbag

Episode 738 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. I heard that you are preaching through Genesis. Because of that I thought that you might help me answer a question in Genesis chapter 6. My husband and I are reading Genesis and in verse 2, it says, “the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive,” who are the “sons of God” in the plural here? 2. You have said before that God alone makes the choice of who is saved. So my question is, why doesn't God choose to save everyone? 3. In Jeremiah 31, it speaks about the New Covenant. How is the New Covenant different from the old one and does it allude to the idea that another person's sanctification is not my problem, but the Holy Spirit's? 4. I'm concerned with the politicization of the evangelical church. Do you feel that politics is forming our theology? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Today's Offer REVELATION BIBLE STUDY Request our latest special offers here or call 1-833-THE-CORE (833-843-2673) to request them by phone. Want to partner with us in our work here at Core Christianity? Consider becoming a member of the Inner Core.

You’re probably familiar with the terms business strategy or product strategy, but what about people strategy? Shouldn’t we be as thoughtful about how we approach expanding our teams as we are with how we grow organizations and develop new products? In this episode, I speak with Andrew Bartlow, founder, and managing partner at Series B Consulting. Andrew has 25 years of Human Resources and Talent Management experience at organizations across a wide spectrum of sizes, maturity stages, and industries. He is the co-author of “Scaling for Success: People Priorities for High Growth Organizations,” has a master’s degree from the top program in his field, and has been CECP, SPHR, Six Sigma, and executive coaching certified. Andrew and I talk about how to develop a people strategy - how to prioritize the most important work and focus your team structure and roles on doing that work so you’re investing in the right people doing the right activities at the right time in the organization’s life cycle. As a guest bonus, members of the Modern Manager community can get a free 25-minute “coach-sulting” session with Andrew to get advice and recommendations on your people strategy, scaling, or culture development. To be eligible, you must be a member - join the Modern Manager community today. Subscribe to my newsletter to get episodes, articles and free mini-guides delivered to your inbox. Read the related blog article: Align Your People With Your Priorities. KEEP UP WITH ANDREW Website: https://www.peopleleaderaccelerator.com/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bartlow https://www.seriesbconsulting.com/ Book: Scaling for Success: People Priorities for High-Growth Organizations Key Takeaways: Your team needs to ruthlessly prioritize their top three goals that will make the biggest impact. You can move three things a mile or thirty things an inch. Like a waterfall, your team’s actions, culture, and hiring processes should all flow from those top three goals. To determine the highest priorities, use a (1) bottom-up approach to decide as a team the top three things to move your organization forward or (2) a top-down approach where you decide the top three goals on your own and invite your team

Proverbs 29:23 (NLT) Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor. Jonah 4:1-4 (NLT) This change of plans greatly upset Jonah, and he became very angry. 2 So he complained to the Lord about it: “Didn't I say before I left home that you would do this, Lord? That is why I ran away to Tarshish! I knew that you are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. You are eager to turn back from destroying people. 3 Just kill me now, Lord! I'd rather be dead than alive if what I predicted will not happen.” 4 The Lord replied, “Is it right for you to be angry about this?”     Uncontrolled Anger can lead to over-reactions       Proverbs 14:29 (NLT) 29 People with understanding control their anger; a hot temper shows great foolishness. Proverbs 29:22 (NLT) An angry person starts fights; a hot-tempered person commits all kinds of sin. Job 18:4 (NLT) You may tear out your hair in anger, but will that destroy the earth? Will it make the rocks tremble?  Ephesians 4:17-19 (NLT) With the Lord's authority I say this: Live no longer as the Gentiles do, for they are hopelessly confused. 18 Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him. 19 They have no sense of shame. They live for lustful pleasure and eagerly practice every kind of impurity.  Jonah 4:5-6 (NLT) Then Jonah went out to the east side of the city and made a shelter to sit under as he waited to see what would happen to the city. 6 And the Lord God arranged for a leafy plant to grow there, and soon it spread its broad leaves over Jonah's head, shading him from the sun. This eased his discomfort, and Jonah was very grateful for the plant.       Our first reactions to difficult situations are often not our last reactions.       Psalm 37:8-9 (NLT) Stop being angry! Turn from your rage! Do not lose your temper— it only leads to harm. 9 For the wicked will be destroyed, but those who trust in the Lord will possess the land.  Ephesians 4:20-22 (ESV) But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,      Jonah 4:7-9 (NLT)  But God also arranged for a worm! The next morning at dawn the worm ate through the stem of the plant so that it withered away. 8 And as the sun grew hot, God arranged for a scorching east wind to blow on Jonah. The sun beat down on his head until he grew faint and wished to die. “Death is certainly better than living like this!” he exclaimed. 9 Then God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry because the plant died?   “Yes,” Jonah retorted, “even angry enough to die!”     Anger often makes difficulties feel much bigger.   Ephesians 4:23-24 (ESV) and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Jonah 4:10-11 (NLT) Then the Lord said, “You feel sorry about the plant, though you did nothing to put it there. It came quickly and died quickly. 11 But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people living in spiritual darkness, not to mention all the animals. Shouldn't I feel sorry for such a great city?”     4, Anger takes our eyes off of Jesus.       Ephesians 4:26-27 (ESV) Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil.  

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[While Bob & Cheryl Enyart go fishing we invite you to enjoy from the RSR archives our favorite List of Not So Old Things! Photos from today, June 25, 2021.] -- Finches Diversify in Decades, Opals Form in Months,  Man's Genetic Diversity in 200 Generations, C-14 Everywhere: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams present their classic program that led to the audience-favorites rsr.org/list-shows! See below and hear on today's radio program our list of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things! From opals forming in months to man's genetic diversity in 200 generations, and with carbon 14 everywhere it's not supposed to be (including in diamonds and dinosaur bones!), scientific observations fill the guys' most traditional list challenging those who claim that the earth is billions of years old. Many of these scientific finds demand a re-evaluation of supposed million and billion-year ages. * Finches Adapt in 17 Years, Not 2.3 Million: Charles Darwin's finches are claimed to have taken 2,300,000 years to diversify from an initial species blown onto the Galapagos Islands. Yet individuals from a single finch species on a U.S. Bird Reservation in the Pacific were introduced to a group of small islands 300 miles away and in at most 17 years, like Darwin's finches, they had diversified their beaks, related muscles, and behavior to fill various ecological niches. Hear about this also at rsr.org/spetner. * Opals Can Form in "A Few Months" And Don't Need 100,000 Years: A leading authority on opals, Allan W. Eckert, observed that, "scientific papers and textbooks have told that the process of opal formation requires tens of thousands of years, perhaps hundreds of thousands... Not true." A 2011 peer-reviewed paper in a geology journal from Australia, where almost all the world's opal is found, reported on the: "new timetable for opal formation involving weeks to a few months and not the hundreds of thousands of years envisaged by the conventional weathering model." (And apparently, per a 2019 report from Entomology Today, opals can even form around insects!) More knowledgeable scientists resist the uncritical, group-think insistence on false super-slow formation rates (as also for manganese nodules, gold veins, stone, petroleum, canyons and gullies, and even guts, all below). Regarding opals, Darwinian bias led geologists to long ignore possible quick action, as from microbes, as a possible explanation for these mineraloids. For both in nature and in the lab, opals form rapidly, not even in 10,000 years, but in weeks. See this also from creationists by a geologist, a paleobiochemist, and a nuclear chemist. * Finches Speciate in Two Generations vs Two Million Years for Darwin's Birds?  Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands are said to have diversified into 14 species over a period of two million years. But in 2017 the journal Science reported a newcomer to the Island which within two generations spawned a reproductively isolated new species. In another instance as documented by Lee Spetner, a hundred birds of the same finch species introduced to an island cluster a 1,000 kilometers from Galapagos diversified into species with the typical variations in beak sizes, etc. "If this diversification occurred in less than seventeen years," Dr. Spetner asks, "why did Darwin's Galapagos finches [as claimed by evolutionists] have to take two million years?" * Blue Eyes Originated Not So Long Ago: Not a million years ago, nor a hundred thousand years ago, but based on a peer-reviewed paper in Human Genetics, a press release at Science Daily reports that, "research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today." * Adding the Entire Universe to our List of Not So Old Things? Based on March 2019 findings from Hubble, Nobel laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and his co-authors in the Astrophysical Journal estimate that the universe is about a billion years younger than previously thought! Then in September 2019 in the journal Science, the age dropped precipitiously to as low as 11.4 billion years! Of course, these measurements also further squeeze the canonical story of the big bang chronology with its many already existing problems including the insufficient time to "evolve" distant mature galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters, enormous black holes, filaments, bubbles, walls, and other superstructures. So, even though the latest estimates are still absurdly too old (Google: big bang predictions, and click on the #1 ranked article, or just go on over there to rsr.org/bb), regardless, we thought we'd plop the whole universe down on our List of Not So Old Things!   * After the Soft Tissue Discoveries, NOW Dino DNA: When a North Carolina State University paleontologist took the Tyrannosaurus Rex photos to the right of original biological material, that led to the 2016 discovery of dinosaur DNA, So far researchers have also recovered dinosaur blood vessels, collagen, osteocytes, hemoglobin, red blood cells, and various proteins. As of May 2018, twenty-six scientific journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, PLoS One, Bone, and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, have confirmed the discovery of biomaterial fossils from many dinosaurs! Organisms including T. Rex, hadrosaur, titanosaur, triceratops, Lufengosaur, mosasaur, and Archaeopteryx, and many others dated, allegedly, even hundreds of millions of years old, have yielded their endogenous, still-soft biological material. See the web's most complete listing of 100+ journal papers (screenshot, left) announcing these discoveries at bflist.rsr.org and see it in layman's terms at rsr.org/soft. * Rapid Stalactites, Stalagmites, Etc.: A construction worker in 1954 left a lemonade bottle in one of Australia's famous Jenolan Caves. By 2011 it had been naturally transformed into a stalagmite (below, right). Increasing scientific knowledge is arguing for rapid cave formation (see below, Nat'l Park Service shrinks Carlsbad Caverns formation estimates from 260M years, to 10M, to 2M, to it "depends"). Likewise, examples are growing of rapid formations with typical chemical make-up (see bottle, left) of classic stalactites and stalagmites including:- in Nat'l Geo the Carlsbad Caverns stalagmite that rapidly covered a bat - the tunnel stalagmites at Tennessee's Raccoon Mountain - hundreds of stalactites beneath the Lincoln Memorial - those near Gladfelter Hall at Philadelphia's Temple University (send photos to Bob@rsr.org) - hundreds of stalactites at Australia's zinc mine at Mt. Isa.   - and those beneath Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. * Most Human Mutations Arose in 200 Generations: From Adam until Real Science Radio, in only 200 generations! The journal Nature reports The Recent Origin of Most Human Protein-coding Variants. As summarized by geneticist co-author Joshua Akey, "Most of the mutations that we found arose in the last 200 generations or so" (the same number previously published by biblical creationists). Another 2012 paper, in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Eugenie Scott's own field) on High mitochondrial mutation rates, shows that one mitochondrial DNA mutation occurs every other generation, which, as creationists point out, indicates that mtEve would have lived about 200 generations ago. That's not so old! * National Geographic's Not-So-Old Hard-Rock Canyon at Mount St. Helens: As our List of Not So Old Things (this web page) reveals, by a kneejerk reaction evolutionary scientists assign ages of tens or hundreds of thousands of years (or at least just long enough to contradict Moses' chronology in Genesis.) However, with closer study, routinely, more and more old ages get revised downward to fit the world's growing scientific knowledge. So the trend is not that more information lengthens ages, but rather, as data replaces guesswork, ages tend to shrink until they are consistent with the young-earth biblical timeframe. Consistent with this observation, the May 2000 issue of National Geographic quotes the U.S. Forest Service's scientist at Mount St. Helens, Peter Frenzen, describing the canyon on the north side of the volcano. "You'd expect a hard-rock canyon to be thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years old. But this was cut in less than a decade." And as for the volcano itself, while again, the kneejerk reaction of old-earthers would be to claim that most geologic features are hundreds of thousands or millions of years old, the atheistic National Geographic magazine acknowledges from the evidence that Mount St. Helens, the volcanic mount, is only about 4,000 years old! See below and more at rsr.org/mount-st-helens. * Mount St. Helens Dome Ten Years Old not 1.7 Million: Geochron Laboratories of Cambridge, Mass., using potassium-argon and other radiometric techniques claims the rock sample they dated, from the volcano's dome, solidified somewhere between 340,000 and 2.8 million years ago. However photographic evidence and historical reports document the dome's formation during the 1980s, just ten years prior to the samples being collected. With the age of this rock known, radiometric dating therefore gets the age 99.99999% wrong. * Devils Hole Pupfish Isolated Not for 13,000 Years But for 100: Secular scientists default to knee-jerk, older-than-Bible-age dates. However, a tiny Mojave desert fish is having none of it. Rather than having been genetically isolated from other fish for 13,000 years (which would make this small school of fish older than the Earth itself), according to a paper in the journal Nature, actual measurements of mutation rates indicate that the genetic diversity of these Pupfish could have been generated in about 100 years, give or take a few. * Polystrates like Spines and Rare Schools of Fossilized Jellyfish: Previously, seven sedimentary layers in Wisconsin had been described as taking a million years to form. And because jellyfish have no skeleton, as Charles Darwin pointed out, it is rare to find them among fossils. But now, reported in the journal Geology, a school of jellyfish fossils have been found throughout those same seven layers. So, polystrate fossils that condense the time of strata deposition from eons to hours or months, include: - Jellyfish in central Wisconsin were not deposited and fossilized over a million years but during a single event quick enough to trap a whole school. (This fossil school, therefore, taken as a unit forms a polystrate fossil.) Examples are everywhere that falsify the claims of strata deposition over millions of years. - Countless trilobites buried in astounding three dimensionality around the world are meticulously recovered from limestone, much of which is claimed to have been deposited very slowly. Contrariwise, because these specimens were buried rapidly in quickly laid down sediments, they show no evidence of greater erosion on their upper parts as compared to their lower parts.- The delicacy of radiating spine polystrates, like tadpole and jellyfish fossils, especially clearly demonstrate the rapidity of such strata deposition. - A second school of jellyfish, even though they rarely fossilized, exists in another locale with jellyfish fossils in multiple layers, in Australia's Brockman Iron Formation, constraining there too the rate of strata deposition. By the way, jellyfish are an example of evolution's big squeeze. Like galaxies evolving too quickly, galaxy clusters, and even human feet (which, like Mummy DNA, challenge the Out of Africa paradigm), jellyfish have gotten into the act squeezing evolution's timeline, here by 200 million years when they were found in strata allegedly a half-a-billion years old. Other examples, ironically referred to as Medusoid Problematica, are even found in pre-Cambrian strata. - 171 tadpoles of the same species buried in diatoms. - Leaves buried vertically through single-celled diatoms powerfully refute the claimed super-slow deposition of diatomaceous rock. - Many fossils, including a Mesosaur, have been buried in multiple "varve" layers, which are claimed to be annual depositions, yet they show no erosional patterns that would indicate gradual burial (as they claim, absurdly, over even thousands of years). - A single whale skeleton preserved in California in dozens of layers of diatom deposits thus forming a polystrate fossil. - 40 whales buried in the desert in Chile. "What's really interesting is that this didn't just happen once," said Smithsonian evolutionist Dr. Nick Pyenson. It happened four times." Why's that? Because "the fossil site has at least four layers", to which Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart replies: "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha", with RSR co-host Fred Williams thoughtfully adding, "Ha ha!" * Polystrate Trees: Examples abound around the world of polystrate trees:  - Yellowstone's petrified polystrate forest (with the NPS exhibit sign removed; see below) with successive layers of rootless trees demonstrating the rapid deposition of fifty layers of strata. - A similarly formed polystrate fossil forest in France demonstrating the rapid deposition of a dozen strata. - In a thousand locations including famously the Fossil Cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia, polystrate fossils such as trees span many strata. - These trees lack erosion: Not only should such fossils, generally speaking, not even exist, but polystrates including trees typically show no evidence of erosion increasing with height. All of this powerfully disproves the claim that the layers were deposited slowly over thousands or millions of years. In the experience of your RSR radio hosts, evolutionists commonly respond to this hard evidence with mocking. See CRSQ June 2006, ICR Impact #316, and RSR 8-11-06 at KGOV.com. * Yellowstone Petrified Trees Sign Removed: The National Park Service removed their incorrect sign (see left and more). The NPS had claimed that in dozens of different strata over a 40-square mile area, many petrified trees were still standing where they had grown. The NPS eventually removed the sign partly because those petrified trees had no root systems, which they would have had if they had grown there. Instead, the trees of this "fossil forest" have roots that are abruptly broken off two or three feet from their trunks. If these mature trees actually had been remnants of sequential forests that had grown up in strata layer on top of strata layer, 27 times on Specimen Ridge (and 50 times at Specimen Creek), such a natural history implies passage of more time than permitted by biblical chronology. So, don't trust the National Park Service on historical science because they're wrong on the age of the Earth. * Wood Petrifies Quickly: Not surprisingly, by the common evolutionary knee-jerk claim of deep time, "several researchers believe that several millions of years are necessary for the complete formation of silicified wood". Our List of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things includes the work of five Japanese scientists who proved creationist research and published their results in the peer-reviewed journal Sedimentary Geology showing that wood can and does petrify rapidly. Modern wood significantly petrified in 36 years these researchers concluded that wood buried in strata could have been petrified in "a fairly short period of time, in the order of several tens to hundreds of years." * The Scablands: The primary surface features of the Scablands, which cover thousands of square miles of eastern Washington, were long believed to have formed gradually. Yet, against the determined claims of uniformitarian geologists, there is now overwhelming evidence as presented even in a NOVA TV program that the primary features of the Scablands formed rapidly from a catastrophic breach of Lake Missoula causing a massive regional flood. Of course evolutionary geologists still argue that the landscape was formed over tens of thousands of years, now by claiming there must have been a hundred Missoula floods. However, the evidence that there was Only One Lake Missoula Flood has been powerfully reinforced by a University of Colorado Ph.D. thesis. So the Scablands itself is no longer available to old-earthers as de facto evidence for the passage of millions of years. * The Heart Mountain Detachment: in Wyoming just east of Yellowstone, this mountain did not break apart slowly by uniformitarian processes but in only about half-an-hour as widely reported including in the evolutionist LiveScience.com, "Land Speed Record: Mountain Moves 62 Miles in 30 Minutes." The evidence indicates that this mountain of rock covering 425 square miles rapidly broke into 50 pieces and slid apart over an area of more than 1,300 square miles in a biblical, not a "geological," timeframe.  * "150 Million" year-old Squid Ink Not Decomposed: This still-writable ink had dehydrated but had not decomposed! The British Geological Survey's Dr. Phil Wilby, who excavated the fossil, said, "It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft and sloppy as an ink sac fossilised in three dimensions, still black, and inside a rock that is 150 million years old." And the Daily Mail states that, "the black ink was of exactly the same structure as that of today's version", just desiccated. And Wilby added, "Normally you would find only the hard parts like the shell and bones fossilised but... these creatures... can be dissected as if they are living animals, you can see the muscle fibres and cells. It is difficult to imagine... The structure is similar to ink from a modern squid so we can write with it..." Why is this difficult for evolutionists to imagine? Because as Dr. Carl Wieland writes, "Chemical structures 'fall apart' all by themselves over time due to the randomizing effects of molecular motion." Decades ago Bob Enyart broadcast a geology program about Mount St. Helens' catastrophic destruction of forests and the hydraulic transportation and upright deposition of trees. Later, Bob met the chief ranger from Haleakala National Park on Hawaii's island of Maui, Mark Tanaka-Sanders. The ranger agreed to correspond with his colleague at Yellowstone to urge him to have the sign removed. Thankfully, it was then removed. (See also AIG, CMI, and all the original Yellowstone exhibit photos.) Groundbreaking research conducted by creation geologist Dr. Steve Austin in Spirit Lake after Mount St. Helens eruption provided a modern-day analog to the formation of Yellowstone fossil forest. A steam blast from that volcano blew over tens of thousands of trees leaving them without attached roots. Many thousands of those trees were floating upright in Spirit Lake, and began sinking at varying rates into rapidly and sporadically deposited sediments. Once Yellowstone's successive forest interpretation was falsified (though like with junk DNA, it's too big to fail, so many atheists and others still cling to it), the erroneous sign was removed. * Asiatic vs. European Honeybees: These two populations of bees have been separated supposedly for seven million years. A researcher decided to put the two together to see what would happen. What we should have here is a failure to communicate that would have resulted after their "language" evolved over millions of years. However, European and Asiatic honeybees are still able to communicate, putting into doubt the evolutionary claim that they were separated over "geologic periods." For more, see the Public Library of Science, Asiatic Honeybees Can Understand Dance Language of European Honeybees. (Oh yeah, and why don't fossils of poorly-formed honeycombs exist, from the millions of years before the bees and natural selection finally got the design right? Ha! Because they don't exist! :) Nautiloid proves rapid limestone formation. * Remember the Nautiloids: In the Grand Canyon there is a limestone layer averaging seven feet thick that runs the 277 miles of the canyon (and beyond) that covers hundreds of square miles and contains an average of one nautiloid fossil per square meter. Along with many other dead creatures in this one particular layer, 15% of these nautiloids were killed and then fossilized standing on their heads. Yes, vertically. They were caught in such an intense and rapid catastrophic flow that gravity was not able to cause all of their dead carcasses to fall over on their sides. Famed Mount St. Helens geologist Steve Austin is also the world's leading expert on nautiloid fossils and has worked in the canyon and presented his findings to the park's rangers at the invitation of National Park Service officials. Austin points out, as is true of many of the world's mass fossil graveyards, that this enormous nautiloid deposition provides indisputable proof of the extremely rapid formation of a significant layer of limestone near the bottom of the canyon, a layer like the others we've been told about, that allegedly formed at the bottom of a calm and placid sea with slow and gradual sedimentation. But a million nautiloids, standing on their heads, literally, would beg to differ. At our sister stie, RSR provides the relevant Geologic Society of America abstract, links, and video. *  Now It's Allegedly Two Million Year-Old Leaves: "When we started pulling leaves out of the soil, that was surreal, to know that it's millions of years old..." sur-re-al: adjective: a bizarre mix of fact and fantasy. In this case, the leaves are the facts. Earth scientists from Ohio State and the University of Minnesota say that wood and leaves they found in the Canadian Arctic are at least two million years old, and perhaps more than ten million years old, even though the leaves are just dry and crumbly and the wood still burns! * Gold Precipitates in Veins in Less than a Second: After geologists submitted for decades to the assumption that each layer of gold would deposit at the alleged super slow rates of geologic process, the journal Nature Geoscience reports that each layer of deposition can occur within a few tenths of a second. Meanwhile, at the Lihir gold deposit in Papua New Guinea, evolutionists assumed the more than 20 million ounces of gold in the Lihir reserve took millions of years to deposit, but as reported in the journal Science, geologists can now demonstrate that the deposit could have formed in thousands of years, or far more quickly! Iceland's not-so-old Surtsey Island looks ancient. * Surtsey Island, Iceland: Of the volcanic island that formed in 1963, New Scientist reported in 2007 about Surtsey that "geographers... marvel that canyons, gullies and other land features that typically take tens of thousands or millions of years to form were created in less than a decade." Yes. And Sigurdur Thorarinsson, Iceland's chief  geologist, wrote in the months after Surtsey formed, "that the time scale," he had been trained "to attach to geological developments is misleading." [For what is said to] take thousands of years... the same development may take a few weeks or even days here [including to form] a landscape... so varied and mature that it was almost beyond belief... wide sandy beaches and precipitous crags... gravel banks and lagoons, impressive cliffs… hollows, glens and soft undulating land... fractures and faultscarps, channels and screes… confounded by what met your eye... boulders worn by the surf, some of which were almost round... -Iceland's chief geologist * The Palouse River Gorge: In the southeast of Washington State, the Palouse River Gorge is one of many features formed rapidly by 500 cubic miles of water catastrophically released with the breaching of a natural dam in the Lake Missoula Flood (which gouged out the Scablands as described above). So, hard rock can be breached and eroded rapidly. * Leaf Shapes Identical for 190 Million Years?  From Berkley.edu, "Ginkgo biloba... dates back to... about 190 million years ago... fossilized leaf material from the Tertiary species Ginkgo adiantoides is considered similar or even identical to that produced by modern Ginkgo biloba trees... virtually indistinguishable..." The literature describes leaf shapes as "spectacularly diverse" sometimes within a species but especially across the plant kingdom. Because all kinds of plants survive with all kinds of different leaf shapes, the conservation of a species retaining a single shape over alleged deep time is a telling issue. Darwin's theory is undermined by the unchanging shape over millions of years of a species' leaf shape. This lack of change, stasis in what should be an easily morphable plant trait, supports the broader conclusion that chimp-like creatures did not become human beings and all the other ambitious evolutionary creation of new kinds are simply imagined. (Ginkgo adiantoides and biloba are actually the same species. Wikipedia states, "It is doubtful whether the Northern Hemisphere fossil species of Ginkgo can be reliably distinguished." For oftentimes, as documented by Dr. Carl Werner in his Evolution: The Grand Experiment series, paleontogists falsely speciate identical specimens, giving different species names, even different genus names, to the fossil and living animals that appear identical.) * Box Canyon, Idaho: Geologists now think Box Canyon in Idaho, USA, was carved by a catastrophic flood and not slowly over millions of years with 1) huge plunge pools formed by waterfalls; 2) the almost complete removal of large basalt boulders from the canyon; 3) an eroded notch on the plateau at the top of the canyon; and 4) water scour marks on the basalt plateau leading to the canyon. Scientists calculate that the flood was so large that it could have eroded the whole canyon in as little as 35 days. See the journal Science, Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood, and the Journal of Creation, and Creation Magazine. * Manganese Nodules Rapid Formation: Allegedly, as claimed at the Wikipedia entry from 2005 through 2021: "Nodule growth is one of the slowest of all geological phenomena – in the order of a centimeter over several million years." Wow, that would be slow! And a Texas A&M Marine Sciences technical slide presentation says, “They grow very slowly (mm/million years) and can be tens of millions of years old.” But according to a World Almanac documentary they have formed "around beer cans," said marine geologist Dr. John Yates in the 1997 video Universe Beneath the Sea: The Next Frontier. There are also reports of manganese nodules forming around ships sunk in the First World War. See more at at youngearth.com, at TOL, in the print edition of the Journal of Creation, and in this typical forum discussion with atheists (at the Chicago Cubs forum no less :). * "6,000 year-old" Mitochondrial Eve: As the Bible calls "Eve... the mother of all living" (Gen. 3:20), genetic researchers have named the one woman from whom all humans have descended "Mitochondrial Eve." But in a scientific attempt to date her existence, they openly admit that they included chimpanzee DNA in their analysis in order to get what they viewed as a reasonably old date of 200,000 years ago (which is still surprisingly recent from their perspective, but old enough not to strain Darwinian theory too much). But then as widely reported including by Science magazine, when they dropped the chimp data and used only actual human mutation rates, that process determined that Eve lived only six thousand years ago! In Ann Gibbon's Science article, "Calibrating the Mitochondrial Clock," rather than again using circular reasoning by assuming their conclusion (that humans evolved from ape-like creatures), they performed their calculations using actual measured mutation rates. This peer-reviewed journal then reported that if these rates have been constant, "mitochondrial Eve… would be a mere 6000 years old." See also the journal Nature and creation.com's "A shrinking date for Eve," and Walt Brown's assessment. Expectedly though, evolutionists have found a way to reject their own unbiased finding (the conclusion contrary to their self-interest) by returning to their original method of using circular reasoning, as reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics, "calibrating against recent evidence for the divergence time of humans and chimpanzees,"  to reset their mitochondrial clock back to 200,000 years. * Even Younger Y-Chromosomal Adam: (Although he should be called, "Y-Chromosomal Noah.") While we inherit our mtDNA only from our mothers, only men have a Y chromosome (which incidentally genetically disproves the cla

  [While Bob & Cheryl Enyart go fishing we invite you to enjoy from the RSR archives our favorite List of Not So Old Things! Photos from today, June 25, 2021.] -- Finches Diversify in Decades, Opals Form in Months,  Man's Genetic Diversity in 200 Generations, C-14 Everywhere: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams present their classic program that led to the audience-favorites rsr.org/list-shows! See below and hear on today's radio program our list of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things! From opals forming in months to man's genetic diversity in 200 generations, and with carbon 14 everywhere it's not supposed to be (including in diamonds and dinosaur bones!), scientific observations fill the guys' most traditional list challenging those who claim that the earth is billions of years old. Many of these scientific finds demand a re-evaluation of supposed million and billion-year ages. * Finches Adapt in 17 Years, Not 2.3 Million: Charles Darwin's finches are claimed to have taken 2,300,000 years to diversify from an initial species blown onto the Galapagos Islands. Yet individuals from a single finch species on a U.S. Bird Reservation in the Pacific were introduced to a group of small islands 300 miles away and in at most 17 years, like Darwin's finches, they had diversified their beaks, related muscles, and behavior to fill various ecological niches. Hear about this also at rsr.org/spetner. * Opals Can Form in "A Few Months" And Don't Need 100,000 Years: A leading authority on opals, Allan W. Eckert, observed that, "scientific papers and textbooks have told that the process of opal formation requires tens of thousands of years, perhaps hundreds of thousands... Not true." A 2011 peer-reviewed paper in a geology journal from Australia, where almost all the world's opal is found, reported on the: "new timetable for opal formation involving weeks to a few months and not the hundreds of thousands of years envisaged by the conventional weathering model." (And apparently, per a 2019 report from Entomology Today, opals can even form around insects!) More knowledgeable scientists resist the uncritical, group-think insistence on false super-slow formation rates (as also for manganese nodules, gold veins, stone, petroleum, canyons and gullies, and even guts, all below). Regarding opals, Darwinian bias led geologists to long ignore possible quick action, as from microbes, as a possible explanation for these mineraloids. For both in nature and in the lab, opals form rapidly, not even in 10,000 years, but in weeks. See this also from creationists by a geologist, a paleobiochemist, and a nuclear chemist. * Finches Speciate in Two Generations vs Two Million Years for Darwin's Birds?  Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands are said to have diversified into 14 species over a period of two million years. But in 2017 the journal Science reported a newcomer to the Island which within two generations spawned a reproductively isolated new species. In another instance as documented by Lee Spetner, a hundred birds of the same finch species introduced to an island cluster a 1,000 kilometers from Galapagos diversified into species with the typical variations in beak sizes, etc. "If this diversification occurred in less than seventeen years," Dr. Spetner asks, "why did Darwin's Galapagos finches [as claimed by evolutionists] have to take two million years?" * Blue Eyes Originated Not So Long Ago: Not a million years ago, nor a hundred thousand years ago, but based on a peer-reviewed paper in Human Genetics, a press release at Science Daily reports that, "research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today." * Adding the Entire Universe to our List of Not So Old Things? Based on March 2019 findings from Hubble, Nobel laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and his co-authors in the Astrophysical Journal estimate that the universe is about a billion years younger than previously thought! Then in September 2019 in the journal Science, the age dropped precipitiously to as low as 11.4 billion years! Of course, these measurements also further squeeze the canonical story of the big bang chronology with its many already existing problems including the insufficient time to "evolve" distant mature galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters, enormous black holes, filaments, bubbles, walls, and other superstructures. So, even though the latest estimates are still absurdly too old (Google: big bang predictions, and click on the #1 ranked article, or just go on over there to rsr.org/bb), regardless, we thought we'd plop the whole universe down on our List of Not So Old Things!   * After the Soft Tissue Discoveries, NOW Dino DNA: When a North Carolina State University paleontologist took the Tyrannosaurus Rex photos to the right of original biological material, that led to the 2016 discovery of dinosaur DNA, So far researchers have also recovered dinosaur blood vessels, collagen, osteocytes, hemoglobin, red blood cells, and various proteins. As of May 2018, twenty-six scientific journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, PLoS One, Bone, and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, have confirmed the discovery of biomaterial fossils from many dinosaurs! Organisms including T. Rex, hadrosaur, titanosaur, triceratops, Lufengosaur, mosasaur, and Archaeopteryx, and many others dated, allegedly, even hundreds of millions of years old, have yielded their endogenous, still-soft biological material. See the web's most complete listing of 100+ journal papers (screenshot, left) announcing these discoveries at bflist.rsr.org and see it in layman's terms at rsr.org/soft. * Rapid Stalactites, Stalagmites, Etc.: A construction worker in 1954 left a lemonade bottle in one of Australia's famous Jenolan Caves. By 2011 it had been naturally transformed into a stalagmite (below, right). Increasing scientific knowledge is arguing for rapid cave formation (see below, Nat'l Park Service shrinks Carlsbad Caverns formation estimates from 260M years, to 10M, to 2M, to it "depends"). Likewise, examples are growing of rapid formations with typical chemical make-up (see bottle, left) of classic stalactites and stalagmites including:- in Nat'l Geo the Carlsbad Caverns stalagmite that rapidly covered a bat - the tunnel stalagmites at Tennessee's Raccoon Mountain - hundreds of stalactites beneath the Lincoln Memorial - those near Gladfelter Hall at Philadelphia's Temple University (send photos to Bob@rsr.org) - hundreds of stalactites at Australia's zinc mine at Mt. Isa.   - and those beneath Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. * Most Human Mutations Arose in 200 Generations: From Adam until Real Science Radio, in only 200 generations! The journal Nature reports The Recent Origin of Most Human Protein-coding Variants. As summarized by geneticist co-author Joshua Akey, "Most of the mutations that we found arose in the last 200 generations or so" (the same number previously published by biblical creationists). Another 2012 paper, in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Eugenie Scott's own field) on High mitochondrial mutation rates, shows that one mitochondrial DNA mutation occurs every other generation, which, as creationists point out, indicates that mtEve would have lived about 200 generations ago. That's not so old! * National Geographic's Not-So-Old Hard-Rock Canyon at Mount St. Helens: As our List of Not So Old Things (this web page) reveals, by a kneejerk reaction evolutionary scientists assign ages of tens or hundreds of thousands of years (or at least just long enough to contradict Moses' chronology in Genesis.) However, with closer study, routinely, more and more old ages get revised downward to fit the world's growing scientific knowledge. So the trend is not that more information lengthens ages, but rather, as data replaces guesswork, ages tend to shrink until they are consistent with the young-earth biblical timeframe. Consistent with this observation, the May 2000 issue of National Geographic quotes the U.S. Forest Service's scientist at Mount St. Helens, Peter Frenzen, describing the canyon on the north side of the volcano. "You'd expect a hard-rock canyon to be thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years old. But this was cut in less than a decade." And as for the volcano itself, while again, the kneejerk reaction of old-earthers would be to claim that most geologic features are hundreds of thousands or millions of years old, the atheistic National Geographic magazine acknowledges from the evidence that Mount St. Helens, the volcanic mount, is only about 4,000 years old! See below and more at rsr.org/mount-st-helens. * Mount St. Helens Dome Ten Years Old not 1.7 Million: Geochron Laboratories of Cambridge, Mass., using potassium-argon and other radiometric techniques claims the rock sample they dated, from the volcano's dome, solidified somewhere between 340,000 and 2.8 million years ago. However photographic evidence and historical reports document the dome's formation during the 1980s, just ten years prior to the samples being collected. With the age of this rock known, radiometric dating therefore gets the age 99.99999% wrong. * Devils Hole Pupfish Isolated Not for 13,000 Years But for 100: Secular scientists default to knee-jerk, older-than-Bible-age dates. However, a tiny Mojave desert fish is having none of it. Rather than having been genetically isolated from other fish for 13,000 years (which would make this small school of fish older than the Earth itself), according to a paper in the journal Nature, actual measurements of mutation rates indicate that the genetic diversity of these Pupfish could have been generated in about 100 years, give or take a few. * Polystrates like Spines and Rare Schools of Fossilized Jellyfish: Previously, seven sedimentary layers in Wisconsin had been described as taking a million years to form. And because jellyfish have no skeleton, as Charles Darwin pointed out, it is rare to find them among fossils. But now, reported in the journal Geology, a school of jellyfish fossils have been found throughout those same seven layers. So, polystrate fossils that condense the time of strata deposition from eons to hours or months, include: - Jellyfish in central Wisconsin were not deposited and fossilized over a million years but during a single event quick enough to trap a whole school. (This fossil school, therefore, taken as a unit forms a polystrate fossil.) Examples are everywhere that falsify the claims of strata deposition over millions of years. - Countless trilobites buried in astounding three dimensionality around the world are meticulously recovered from limestone, much of which is claimed to have been deposited very slowly. Contrariwise, because these specimens were buried rapidly in quickly laid down sediments, they show no evidence of greater erosion on their upper parts as compared to their lower parts.- The delicacy of radiating spine polystrates, like tadpole and jellyfish fossils, especially clearly demonstrate the rapidity of such strata deposition. - A second school of jellyfish, even though they rarely fossilized, exists in another locale with jellyfish fossils in multiple layers, in Australia's Brockman Iron Formation, constraining there too the rate of strata deposition. By the way, jellyfish are an example of evolution's big squeeze. Like galaxies evolving too quickly, galaxy clusters, and even human feet (which, like Mummy DNA, challenge the Out of Africa paradigm), jellyfish have gotten into the act squeezing evolution's timeline, here by 200 million years when they were found in strata allegedly a half-a-billion years old. Other examples, ironically referred to as Medusoid Problematica, are even found in pre-Cambrian strata. - 171 tadpoles of the same species buried in diatoms. - Leaves buried vertically through single-celled diatoms powerfully refute the claimed super-slow deposition of diatomaceous rock. - Many fossils, including a Mesosaur, have been buried in multiple "varve" layers, which are claimed to be annual depositions, yet they show no erosional patterns that would indicate gradual burial (as they claim, absurdly, over even thousands of years). - A single whale skeleton preserved in California in dozens of layers of diatom deposits thus forming a polystrate fossil. - 40 whales buried in the desert in Chile. "What's really interesting is that this didn't just happen once," said Smithsonian evolutionist Dr. Nick Pyenson. It happened four times." Why's that? Because "the fossil site has at least four layers", to which Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart replies: "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha", with RSR co-host Fred Williams thoughtfully adding, "Ha ha!" * Polystrate Trees: Examples abound around the world of polystrate trees:  - Yellowstone's petrified polystrate forest (with the NPS exhibit sign removed; see below) with successive layers of rootless trees demonstrating the rapid deposition of fifty layers of strata. - A similarly formed polystrate fossil forest in France demonstrating the rapid deposition of a dozen strata. - In a thousand locations including famously the Fossil Cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia, polystrate fossils such as trees span many strata. - These trees lack erosion: Not only should such fossils, generally speaking, not even exist, but polystrates including trees typically show no evidence of erosion increasing with height. All of this powerfully disproves the claim that the layers were deposited slowly over thousands or millions of years. In the experience of your RSR radio hosts, evolutionists commonly respond to this hard evidence with mocking. See CRSQ June 2006, ICR Impact #316, and RSR 8-11-06 at KGOV.com. * Yellowstone Petrified Trees Sign Removed: The National Park Service removed their incorrect sign (see left and more). The NPS had claimed that in dozens of different strata over a 40-square mile area, many petrified trees were still standing where they had grown. The NPS eventually removed the sign partly because those petrified trees had no root systems, which they would have had if they had grown there. Instead, the trees of this "fossil forest" have roots that are abruptly broken off two or three feet from their trunks. If these mature trees actually had been remnants of sequential forests that had grown up in strata layer on top of strata layer, 27 times on Specimen Ridge (and 50 times at Specimen Creek), such a natural history implies passage of more time than permitted by biblical chronology. So, don't trust the National Park Service on historical science because they're wrong on the age of the Earth. * Wood Petrifies Quickly: Not surprisingly, by the common evolutionary knee-jerk claim of deep time, "several researchers believe that several millions of years are necessary for the complete formation of silicified wood". Our List of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things includes the work of five Japanese scientists who proved creationist research and published their results in the peer-reviewed journal Sedimentary Geology showing that wood can and does petrify rapidly. Modern wood significantly petrified in 36 years these researchers concluded that wood buried in strata could have been petrified in "a fairly short period of time, in the order of several tens to hundreds of years." * The Scablands: The primary surface features of the Scablands, which cover thousands of square miles of eastern Washington, were long believed to have formed gradually. Yet, against the determined claims of uniformitarian geologists, there is now overwhelming evidence as presented even in a NOVA TV program that the primary features of the Scablands formed rapidly from a catastrophic breach of Lake Missoula causing a massive regional flood. Of course evolutionary geologists still argue that the landscape was formed over tens of thousands of years, now by claiming there must have been a hundred Missoula floods. However, the evidence that there was Only One Lake Missoula Flood has been powerfully reinforced by a University of Colorado Ph.D. thesis. So the Scablands itself is no longer available to old-earthers as de facto evidence for the passage of millions of years. * The Heart Mountain Detachment: in Wyoming just east of Yellowstone, this mountain did not break apart slowly by uniformitarian processes but in only about half-an-hour as widely reported including in the evolutionist LiveScience.com, "Land Speed Record: Mountain Moves 62 Miles in 30 Minutes." The evidence indicates that this mountain of rock covering 425 square miles rapidly broke into 50 pieces and slid apart over an area of more than 1,300 square miles in a biblical, not a "geological," timeframe.  * "150 Million" year-old Squid Ink Not Decomposed: This still-writable ink had dehydrated but had not decomposed! The British Geological Survey's Dr. Phil Wilby, who excavated the fossil, said, "It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft and sloppy as an ink sac fossilised in three dimensions, still black, and inside a rock that is 150 million years old." And the Daily Mail states that, "the black ink was of exactly the same structure as that of today's version", just desiccated. And Wilby added, "Normally you would find only the hard parts like the shell and bones fossilised but... these creatures... can be dissected as if they are living animals, you can see the muscle fibres and cells. It is difficult to imagine... The structure is similar to ink from a modern squid so we can write with it..." Why is this difficult for evolutionists to imagine? Because as Dr. Carl Wieland writes, "Chemical structures 'fall apart' all by themselves over time due to the randomizing effects of molecular motion." Decades ago Bob Enyart broadcast a geology program about Mount St. Helens' catastrophic destruction of forests and the hydraulic transportation and upright deposition of trees. Later, Bob met the chief ranger from Haleakala National Park on Hawaii's island of Maui, Mark Tanaka-Sanders. The ranger agreed to correspond with his colleague at Yellowstone to urge him to have the sign removed. Thankfully, it was then removed. (See also AIG, CMI, and all the original Yellowstone exhibit photos.) Groundbreaking research conducted by creation geologist Dr. Steve Austin in Spirit Lake after Mount St. Helens eruption provided a modern-day analog to the formation of Yellowstone fossil forest. A steam blast from that volcano blew over tens of thousands of trees leaving them without attached roots. Many thousands of those trees were floating upright in Spirit Lake, and began sinking at varying rates into rapidly and sporadically deposited sediments. Once Yellowstone's successive forest interpretation was falsified (though like with junk DNA, it's too big to fail, so many atheists and others still cling to it), the erroneous sign was removed. * Asiatic vs. European Honeybees: These two populations of bees have been separated supposedly for seven million years. A researcher decided to put the two together to see what would happen. What we should have here is a failure to communicate that would have resulted after their "language" evolved over millions of years. However, European and Asiatic honeybees are still able to communicate, putting into doubt the evolutionary claim that they were separated over "geologic periods." For more, see the Public Library of Science, Asiatic Honeybees Can Understand Dance Language of European Honeybees. (Oh yeah, and why don't fossils of poorly-formed honeycombs exist, from the millions of years before the bees and natural selection finally got the design right? Ha! Because they don't exist! :) Nautiloid proves rapid limestone formation.* Remember the Nautiloids: In the Grand Canyon there is a limestone layer averaging seven feet thick that runs the 277 miles of the canyon (and beyond) that covers hundreds of square miles and contains an average of one nautiloid fossil per square meter. Along with many other dead creatures in this one particular layer, 15% of these nautiloids were killed and then fossilized standing on their heads. Yes, vertically. They were caught in such an intense and rapid catastrophic flow that gravity was not able to cause all of their dead carcasses to fall over on their sides. Famed Mount St. Helens geologist Steve Austin is also the world's leading expert on nautiloid fossils and has worked in the canyon and presented his findings to the park's rangers at the invitation of National Park Service officials. Austin points out, as is true of many of the world's mass fossil graveyards, that this enormous nautiloid deposition provides indisputable proof of the extremely rapid formation of a significant layer of limestone near the bottom of the canyon, a layer like the others we've been told about, that allegedly formed at the bottom of a calm and placid sea with slow and gradual sedimentation. But a million nautiloids, standing on their heads, literally, would beg to differ. At our sister stie, RSR provides the relevant Geologic Society of America abstract, links, and video. *  Now It's Allegedly Two Million Year-Old Leaves: "When we started pulling leaves out of the soil, that was surreal, to know that it's millions of years old..." sur-re-al: adjective: a bizarre mix of fact and fantasy. In this case, the leaves are the facts. Earth scientists from Ohio State and the University of Minnesota say that wood and leaves they found in the Canadian Arctic are at least two million years old, and perhaps more than ten million years old, even though the leaves are just dry and crumbly and the wood still burns! * Gold Precipitates in Veins in Less than a Second: After geologists submitted for decades to the assumption that each layer of gold would deposit at the alleged super slow rates of geologic process, the journal Nature Geoscience reports that each layer of deposition can occur within a few tenths of a second. Meanwhile, at the Lihir gold deposit in Papua New Guinea, evolutionists assumed the more than 20 million ounces of gold in the Lihir reserve took millions of years to deposit, but as reported in the journal Science, geologists can now demonstrate that the deposit could have formed in thousands of years, or far more quickly! Iceland's not-so-old Surtsey Island looks ancient.* Surtsey Island, Iceland: Of the volcanic island that formed in 1963, New Scientist reported in 2007 about Surtsey that "geographers... marvel that canyons, gullies and other land features that typically take tens of thousands or millions of years to form were created in less than a decade." Yes. And Sigurdur Thorarinsson, Iceland's chief  geologist, wrote in the months after Surtsey formed, "that the time scale," he had been trained "to attach to geological developments is misleading." [For what is said to] take thousands of years... the same development may take a few weeks or even days here [including to form] a landscape... so varied and mature that it was almost beyond belief... wide sandy beaches and precipitous crags... gravel banks and lagoons, impressive cliffs… hollows, glens and soft undulating land... fractures and faultscarps, channels and screes… confounded by what met your eye... boulders worn by the surf, some of which were almost round... -Iceland's chief geologist * The Palouse River Gorge: In the southeast of Washington State, the Palouse River Gorge is one of many features formed rapidly by 500 cubic miles of water catastrophically released with the breaching of a natural dam in the Lake Missoula Flood (which gouged out the Scablands as described above). So, hard rock can be breached and eroded rapidly. * Leaf Shapes Identical for 190 Million Years?  From Berkley.edu, "Ginkgo biloba... dates back to... about 190 million years ago... fossilized leaf material from the Tertiary species Ginkgo adiantoides is considered similar or even identical to that produced by modern Ginkgo biloba trees... virtually indistinguishable..." The literature describes leaf shapes as "spectacularly diverse" sometimes within a species but especially across the plant kingdom. Because all kinds of plants survive with all kinds of different leaf shapes, the conservation of a species retaining a single shape over alleged deep time is a telling issue. Darwin's theory is undermined by the unchanging shape over millions of years of a species' leaf shape. This lack of change, stasis in what should be an easily morphable plant trait, supports the broader conclusion that chimp-like creatures did not become human beings and all the other ambitious evolutionary creation of new kinds are simply imagined. (Ginkgo adiantoides and biloba are actually the same species. Wikipedia states, "It is doubtful whether the Northern Hemisphere fossil species of Ginkgo can be reliably distinguished." For oftentimes, as documented by Dr. Carl Werner in his Evolution: The Grand Experiment series, paleontogists falsely speciate identical specimens, giving different species names, even different genus names, to the fossil and living animals that appear identical.) * Box Canyon, Idaho: Geologists now think Box Canyon in Idaho, USA, was carved by a catastrophic flood and not slowly over millions of years with 1) huge plunge pools formed by waterfalls; 2) the almost complete removal of large basalt boulders from the canyon; 3) an eroded notch on the plateau at the top of the canyon; and 4) water scour marks on the basalt plateau leading to the canyon. Scientists calculate that the flood was so large that it could have eroded the whole canyon in as little as 35 days. See the journal Science, Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood, and the Journal of Creation, and Creation Magazine. * Manganese Nodules Rapid Formation: Allegedly, as claimed at the Wikipedia entry from 2005 through 2021: "Nodule growth is one of the slowest of all geological phenomena – in the order of a centimeter over several million years." Wow, that would be slow! And a Texas A&M Marine Sciences technical slide presentation says, “They grow very slowly (mm/million years) and can be tens of millions of years old.” But according to a World Almanac documentary they have formed "around beer cans," said marine geologist Dr. John Yates in the 1997 video Universe Beneath the Sea: The Next Frontier. There are also reports of manganese nodules forming around ships sunk in the First World War. See more at at youngearth.com, at TOL, in the print edition of the Journal of Creation, and in this typical forum discussion with atheists (at the Chicago Cubs forum no less :). * "6,000 year-old" Mitochondrial Eve: As the Bible calls "Eve... the mother of all living" (Gen. 3:20), genetic researchers have named the one woman from whom all humans have descended "Mitochondrial Eve." But in a scientific attempt to date her existence, they openly admit that they included chimpanzee DNA in their analysis in order to get what they viewed as a reasonably old date of 200,000 years ago (which is still surprisingly recent from their perspective, but old enough not to strain Darwinian theory too much). But then as widely reported including by Science magazine, when they dropped the chimp data and used only actual human mutation rates, that process determined that Eve lived only six thousand years ago! In Ann Gibbon's Science article, "Calibrating the Mitochondrial Clock," rather than again using circular reasoning by assuming their conclusion (that humans evolved from ape-like creatures), they performed their calculations using actual measured mutation rates. This peer-reviewed journal then reported that if these rates have been constant, "mitochondrial Eve… would be a mere 6000 years old." See also the journal Nature and creation.com's "A shrinking date for Eve," and Walt Brown's assessment. Expectedly though, evolutionists have found a way to reject their own unbiased finding (the conclusion contrary to their self-interest) by returning to their original method of using circular reasoning, as reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics, "calibrating against recent evidence for the divergence time of humans and chimpanzees,"  to reset their mitochondrial clock back to 200,000 years. * Even Younger Y-Chromosomal Adam: (Although he should be called, "Y-Chromosomal Noah.") While we inherit our mtDNA only from our mothers, only men have a Y chromosome (which incidentally genetically disproves the claim that the fetus is "part of the woman's body," since the little boy's y chromosome could never be part of mom's body). Based on documented mutation rates on and the extraordinary lack o

It should be a moot point. Shouldn't every county in every state across the nation already be a sanctuary state for the Bill of Rights? We really shouldn't need to declare such a sanctuary, but with Marxists on the March, true public servants would want to affirm those rights for the citizens, right? Well, in Collier County Florida, two county commissioners are waffling...Please share, subscribe, and sign-up for mailout: https://www.undergroundusa.com/the-podcast

Josh shares a recent live coaching call taken from his Web Design Club which you can join today! Go to joshhall.co/120 for a special promo to join.In This Episode01:43 - Struggle feedback03:39 - Club testimony06:00 - Breathe06:50 - 1) Finding clients08:30 - SEO tactics12:12 - 2) Content marketing15:01 - Authority building16:40 - Being strategic18:16 - 3) White labeling23:00 - 4) Converting leads27:48 - Shouldn't get 100%29:07 - 5)Scope creep34:13 - Content Collection35:44 - Club member John42:57 - Q&AGet all links, resources and show notes at:https://joshhall.co/120

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  There are lots of different opinions on the best way to support trans youth.   Even among the community of affirming providers, there are lots of opinions of what should or should not happen for youth.   According to standards of care written by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), once a person is 18, they should have access to care through the informed consent model.   Meaning, they walk into a clinic, they say they're trans, they receive education about hormones and what they'll do to their body, they sign some forms and they're good to go.   There are many individuals who feel that this should also be the path for youth. But according to WPATH, youth are required to undergo a comprehensive mental health assessment before they can proceed with hormone replacement therapy (HRT).   Some professionals in the field, as well as within the trans community, feel like this is gatekeeping and creates unnecessary barriers to getting life-saving care.   Others feel that this is a necessary step to assure that trans youth are clear on what they're experiencing and are ready for the changes that will come with HRT.   Why? Shouldn't a person be able to say what they need and we believe them?   Today, we're going to hear from Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper. Laura is a pioneer and had the courage to step up for trans kids years before any of the other gender clinics started doing this work. She was the founding psychologist in the first youth transgender clinic in the United States and is currently the chair of the Child and Adolescent Committee for WPATH and is heavily involved in the revision of the standards of care.   She has a private practice outside of Portland, Oregon, where she works with transgender and gender-diverse children and adolescents and adults for therapy and assessment. She also provides consultation and training to providers and clinics around the country. Internationally she's often a go-to resource for media outlets, including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post the BBC and most recently 60 Minutes.   Check out the full episode to hear about: Why the standards of care for children and adolescents are different than those for adults and why that includes a comprehensive mental health assessment What parents can do to be part of the assessment process to maintain or strengthen their relationships with their kiddos Advice for how to find a clinician skilled in working with adolescents and their families for assessment and therapy Why an assessment is not a final yes or no, but a source of information   Find out more about Laura Edwards-Leeper, PhD: DrLauraEdwardsLeeper.com   Find out more about Mackenzie Dunham: wildheartsociety.org Wild Heart Society on Facebook Wild Heart Society on Instagram   Additional resources: World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)  

We wonder why our relationships can't be easier. Shouldn't love feel like magic? Unlike magical romance movies, our love stories don't stop at a happy ending. Relationships are more than that. What makes a long-lasting, healthy relationship? Lesley Eccles became well-known for co-founding Fanduel, a fantasy sports company, alongside her husband. After years of development in technology, Lesley took a hard pivot into what she's doing today. She dedicated her time toward building a self-care app called Relish. When reflecting on her life and work, Lesley grew an interest in improving relationship management. She discovered that one of the biggest parts of relationship management is actually self-awareness. Now, Lesley helps people understand how they show up in a relationship. Giving even more value, she talks about gaining the perspective of the other people in the relationship to have better communication. Relish supplies suggestions and guidance for navigating relationships, and Lesley is explaining the basics to get everyone started! Show Notes: [01:25] Welcome Lesley Eccles and learn more about her self-care app called Relish. [03:25] How Lesley transitioned from Fantasy Sports to building Relish. [05:28] Learn what pressures inspired the purpose behind her self-care app. [07:55] Who does she believe has the most influence in intimate relationships? [10:56] What happens to relationships when burnout comes? [12:32] Discover which ways she says Relish can be used to keep relationships alive.  [15:11] How does she suggest using a relationship plan for measuring a healthy relationship? [16:46] Learn why Lesley warns to be careful who you take your money from. [19:04] How does Lesley align and organize herself everyday? [20:57] What activities does she do to relax in her life? [22:57] Hear Lesley's advice for anyone looking to make the most of themselves and their relationships. [25:20] Connect with Lesley. Links and Resources: Relish Lesley on LinkedIn Relish on Instagram Relish on Facebook Relish on YouTube

Financial Feminism. As our guest, Jessica Robinson, said, women make money decisions together. Why don't men make such decisions together, rather than maverick-ly? Shouldn't something as important as why, where and with whom we invest be topics discussed with others? Hmmm. So, Financial Feminism isn't about getting money away from men. It's about making sound, … Continue reading Ep. 41 – Jessica Robinson – Navigating the World of High Finance… and Kids →

On June 8, 2021 Amazon quietly launched its shared network called Sidewalk. This service creates a WiFi network using existing Ring and Echo devices that will share a portion of your internet bandwidth. The most frustrating part, unless users opt out their devices will automatically share internet with strangers. Shouldn't Amazon ask for users permission first?In this episode we cover:• Amazon Sidewalk Network• Digital Identification• WiFi SecurityDo you have a question on Cyber Security you want answered? Email podcast@jscmgroup.com with any questions for the host.Have you experienced a data breach? Contact: info@jscmgroup.com

In military battles, it's important to gather intelligence about the opposition. Shouldn't we do the same in spiritual warfare? Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg answers this question and more as we begin a new study in Ephesians 6. Listen...

Forming a successful partnership in business might be the most powerful, yet, most challenging things to do right. This goes beyond simply linking to each others business or handing over the occasional customer referral. I’m talking about two (or more) partners both handling responsibilities and working towards a shared goal for the overall mission. Tara Claeys, founder of Design TLC, has a certain knack for this stuff. She co-hosted the WordPress podcast Hallway Tracks along side Liam Dempsey and is now laying down the roots with a new partner in podcasting, Aubrey Bursch. So I think it goes a little something like this: Aubrey invests her knowledge and experience with Easy School Marketing into the podcast content, while Tara flexes her strengths in design, compassion and years of podcast experience. Together they host Mindful School Marketing, The Go-To Podcast for Independent School Professionals. 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Add on that search wp.com. Thanks for supporting the show. [00:01:49] Forming a successful partnership in business might be the most powerful, yet most challenging things to do. Right. That’s probably an understatement of the year. This goes beyond simply linking to each other’s businesses or handing over the occasional customer referral. I’m talking about two or more partners, both handling responsibilities and working towards a shared goal for the overall mission. [00:02:10] Tara clays, founder of design TLC has a certain knack for this stuff. She co-hosted the WordPress podcast hallway tracks alongside Liam Dempsey, and is now laying down roots with a new partner in podcasting, Aubrey Birch. So I think it goes a little, something like this. Aubrey invests her knowledge and experience with easy school marketing into the podcast content while Tara flexes her strengths and design compassion, and years of podcast experience. Together. They host mindful school marketing, the go-to podcast for independent school professionals. [00:02:40]You’re listening to the Matt report, a podcast for the resilient digital business builder. Subscribe to the newsletter at maryport.com/subscribe and follow the podcast on apple or Spotify or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts better yet. Please share this episode on social media. We’d love more listeners around here. [00:02:56] Okay. Let’s talk to tara and aubrey and why they started this [00:03:00] crazy podcasting thing that they [00:03:02] Tara: [00:03:02] First of all. Thanks for that. Nice mention and hallway chats is really a labor of love that Liam Dempsey and I did for three years. And I think that was it a great experience for us and introduced me to podcasting and it was a complete community donation, there was no business development involved with it at all. [00:03:21] And so, and we loved it and I continue to love it. But As time went on during that three-year period of time, I started niching down my own WordPress agency to do work for mainly schools and nonprofits. And as part of that process reached out and met other people in the school, community, marketing community, Adria among them. [00:03:38] And she and I have been in a mastermind for over a year now. And so we struck up a good friendship and also collaboration, our services sort of overlap. And so the long answer is that we in that. In that relationship that we built as hallway chats was sort of winding down. I really didn’t even miss a beat before reaching out and seeing if Abby would like to do a podcast that that was directed toward our, our common target audience, but also that we could have fun doing as well. [00:04:12]So there is a business development aspect of this for us, as well as a community aspect as well. [00:04:18]Matt: [00:04:18] The, yeah, you’ve obviously have a knack for finding. [00:04:25] Great co-hosts, which is not an easy feat in the podcasting world. It’s one that I have failed miserably at for about nine years as a podcast. It’s like just trying to find somebody who just wants to talk to me for an hour every week. What’s wrong with that. [00:04:39] Shouldn’t be that difficult. It’s very difficult. Aubrey, I’m going to pass the question over to you. Is this your first time into podcasting? And if so, how did you feel [00:04:49] joining [00:04:50] Aubrey: [00:04:50] And it’s been a blast. And I am so thankful every day that Tara actually asked me to do a podcast with her because I was thinking around February, 2020, I was like, I should launch it. Podcast. And I’m so glad I didn’t act on that first impulse because Tara’s kind of taken me under her wing and really like showed me everything that goes into, preparation for a podcast, execution, everything. [00:05:15] And it’s just been a great learning process for me. And also Tara? [00:05:19] is one of the most generous, amazing. Like solid people you’re you’ve ever met. I, as you probably know, Matt. And so we just kind of hit it off in terms of, understanding each episode and what our flow was with the episode. [00:05:34] And so we jumped right in and she’s been just such a great guide and such a great co-host. I couldn’t have asked for a better one and I’m so grateful for the opportunity for sure. [00:05:45]Matt: [00:05:45] I’m looking at the website right now. Mindful school marketing.com seven episodes in you probably have a couple others you haven’t finished and uploaded yet. Has there been one major surprise to you Audrey about this whole podcasting thing, [00:06:00] something more challenging or more exciting than you [00:06:03]Aubrey: [00:06:03] Well, I would say the challenging [00:06:04] thing is I guess when you have a co-host and it’s not a challenge, it’s more like putting together the pieces, right? Like we’ll be talking and we’ll be typing in the chat. Sometimes we’ll be like, oh, like, okay, this is conversation is going. Do you want to ask the next question? [00:06:17] Or should I, and so that I had never, I’ve never, Co-hosted or co interviewed anyone. So that was, I don’t want to say it was a challenge, but it was like a new experience. And just what was it challenging and rewarding? I would say this whole, just the people we meet, it’s just amazing, like the, the little hidden gems that they sprinkle throughout their conversation. [00:06:37] I just feel like, my bookshelf has grown tremendously because we always ask like a question about like, what’s your favorite book? Or like, what book would you Recommend for the high school curriculum or something like that. And we are getting some great books in there and like, there’s, what is it? [00:06:52] The anglers fly fishing, person we add on. That’s just fantastic stuff. Things come up like really good conversations that, in this busy life that we live, it’s so rare to kind of dive deep in like center and focus on, on someone for like 30 or 40 minutes. So it’s been fantastic. [00:07:08]Matt: [00:07:08] I feel like just picture like a smoke-filled bar and me and Tara, just sitting at the bar with our whiskies going, oh, she’s got, oh, that’s what she thinks right now until, until we’re on like episode 20. And, and then Arby’s. The whole demeanor changes about podcasting. This sucks. Why didn’t you tell me to do this, that’s exactly what we’ll hear in about three months, but Hey, everything’s great right now. [00:07:30] Tara, how much of your. Of doing the hallway chats and, and marketing and everything you’ve done up until this point in your career. Did you, how did you funnel into, I’m going to read the byline of the podcast right now, the go-to podcast for independent school professionals. [00:07:45] There’s no messing around. We know what this is about. How did you come to this and what are some tips for people who are struggling to get a premise [00:07:54] Tara: [00:07:54] well, I think there are a [00:07:55] couple of things. Aubrey has a great personality. She’s got so much energy that I think it’s really easy to work with her and to have a team that way. So thinking about going to your question about, choosing co-hosts and Liam and I had a similar kind of, we each covered the basis, I think. [00:08:10] For this podcast, positioning ourselves that way. One of the things that we thought about a lot was the fact that there were really no other women in this space doing a podcast. And that a lot of the people that, that do these jobs, these marketing jobs within schools, private schools, independent schools are women. [00:08:28]So we saw an opportunity there to bring a sensibility that we have as moms, as women entrepreneurs, as women in general too. Should this space. So I think that sets us apart from there. Aren’t that many, to be honest, like enrollment related podcasts for schools like this. So, there was an opportunity there, but I think what we wanted to do was to, to feed our own sensibility that we learned about each other during the, our mastermind. [00:08:56]As we’ve gotten to know each other, is that. We’re both super [00:09:00] interested in. Self-improvement like, we both love all the books about that. Oh, we’re we just are. Really can’t get enough of that kind of thinking , and to have that mindset and apply it to any job, you can, this podcast could be the, anything mindful school marketing podcast, really, because it is about, I there are specific things, certainly that we. [00:09:21] Talk about that are related to challenges that schools face, but in general, to do a good job at anything, you have to be mindful about it. And so it’s been really fun for us to talk to people who, who deal with that. People who work with different personality assessments and continuous learning and self-improvement type stuff. [00:09:43] And it also has helped us. I think we identify. The roles that we play in this podcast partnership based on those types of personalities. So it’s a really, well-rounded I think conversation that we have in general on the podcast. And that’s what I think makes it a go-to podcast is that it’s not one, it’s not one week after another, about Facebook ads and marketing funnels and stuff like that. [00:10:05] It’s it really, we touch on those things, but we also bring into it lifestyle stuff, which is really [00:10:10] great. I think. [00:10:12] Matt: [00:10:12] is this a fair statement? In the WordPress space? And RB, I’m not sure how much you know about WordPress podcasts, but there are many, there are many, sometimes too many, sometimes not enough, but there’s like probably 20, at least reoccurring WordPress podcasts and as exciting and as large as the WordPress market is. [00:10:34]Folks like Tara and I, there’s very few of us who actually care so much about the inside baseball of WordPress to do a podcast. And that is to say that a lot of folks show up on Tara’s old podcast, my podcast, other podcasts, it’s the same person doing the same, routine and there’s nothing wrong with it. [00:10:51] It’s just that the listener, the audience says. I heard her story on this other podcast. I’ll skip this episode or I heard his thing over there. I’m going to skip this episode. Do you feel a little bit of that? Not to put words in your mouth, Tara, this is a long way of getting it. Do you feel like that’s alleviated when you’re doing a podcast like this? [00:11:10] Because it’s so concrete, it’s so precise versus the [00:11:14] hallway chats. [00:11:14]Tara: [00:11:14] I would say what hallway chats was designed to absolutely. Get around that. So we talked to people who didn’t share their story before in this case, I think because we’re not talking to people who are only in that space. We the people who are listening to our show, maybe haven’t heard that story before, because they’re not familiar with that person. [00:11:35] So, in WordPress, there are the WordPress people who, people, the stories who we’ve heard and who are super smart and have great things to share on podcasts. But if you brought in somebody from Squarespace or, some other kind of web world, they would. They may be famous in their world or popular or well-known, but they’re coming into a new environment. [00:11:55] So I kind of see that. I don’t know ABI [00:11:57] if you agree, but we’re not just talking to [00:11:59] people in the [00:11:59] school [00:12:00] [00:11:59] Aubrey: [00:11:59] yeah, I would absolutely agree. I think that’s what makes it really interesting. And I think valuable for people listening are independent school market because they are used to hearing from the same people over and over in the space and by Making our podcast about so much more than just, delivering the hardcore marketing behind and for independent schools, I think that’s really opened the doors to some very interesting conversations and some unique guests that our audience would not hear from [00:12:27] otherwise. [00:12:28]Matt: [00:12:28] Aubrey on the marketing side, pass the questions back to you on the marketing side. Is there anything that you’re doing on a. Or how you think or how you approach or how you edit the show on either a per episode base or just podcasts from a 50,000 foot view. Anything you’re doing specifically on marketing to make sure that I hate to say the word return on investment, because a lot of people in the podcasting space get caught up in that three letter acronym, but is there anything you’re doing hyper-specific on the marketing side to say every episode that goes out is a chance for us [00:12:59] to get [00:13:00]Aubrey: [00:13:00] And please tear, add to this. I would say it’s a lot about brand awareness for us at this point. And we’ve strategically made sure that? we’re sending to an email list. We share it on our email lists. We have our guests share the podcast on their platforms. We use it at least I use it as an entry way also to other speaking engagements too, because it adds to your credibility in the space. [00:13:22] Immediately. Oh, you have a podcast. It’s a great conversation starter too. So, we’ve definitely utilized obviously the social platforms to promote it. And then some of our colleagues have shared it on their lists too, which they have quite large lists. So it’s really been quite easy. I would say to promote at this point just naturally using using the resources we already have. [00:13:44]Matt: [00:13:44] Yeah, my full-time job is at a podcast hosting company and fielding questions from, beginner, podcasters and veteran podcasters alike. And a lot of the questions are around monetization advertisement, sponsorship. How many downloads do I need before Coca-Cola knocks on the door and says, we want to sponsor your podcast. [00:14:01] It’s like, well, get in line with the rest of us. So you’re either going to do direct sales or you’re going to find a creative way to do it. What people often forget is the relationships that you build in the random opportunities that show up because you have a podcast. I can’t even account how many dollars that has added up for me over, eight or nine years as a podcast, or it’s tremendous, very hard to measure, very hard to rely on, but it happens. [00:14:31] It’s almost like if you. Yeah. Like you can do a podcast and nobody can listen, but they just know you do a podcast. And they’re like, oh yes, they’re putting in the work over there. But if you ever stopped doing a podcast, they’d be like, oh, they gave up, oh, why do they give up? Just the mere fact that you do a podcast heightens your investment in. [00:14:50] Tara: [00:14:50] Yeah, that’s an interesting point. Actually, when you say that I’m thinking about it because our podcast is relatively new. We launched with four episodes and we’ve had, about, we’re doing two per month. So yeah. When we [00:15:00] look at the download numbers, it, they’re not huge at this point. And so if you focus only on the download numbers, I think then you’re, it’s going to be harder to translate that to that return on investment. [00:15:11] But what you’ve described, what ABI was talking about, just the, the authority that it brings to each of us and to us as a team is I think not measurable, but really, really helpful. And that’s probably right now at this phase in our. Podcasting career is, is the key. And then once that grows and then the downloads, I think will follow because people will know more about us. [00:15:33] So, and we haven’t delved into sponsorship yet, but that’s on our list. That’s something I don’t have experience with because we didn’t do that on holiday chat. So [00:15:40] I’ll be reaching out to you, Matt, for help when we get to that point. [00:15:44] Matt: [00:15:44] Yeah, well, this is an, it’s an interesting segue, cause I literally have your sponsorship page in front of me. Cause I wanted to talk about this. It’s sponsored by of course the both of you. So you have easy school marketing and design TLC, but this is very interesting because I’m interested to know how you balance and I know you. [00:16:01] I know you’re obviously both not shouldering to have the best call to action up in front of everybody every time. Like it’s my turn this week, or maybe you do a interested to learn like design TLC has a special offer. Take our free website test, right? So you can click and get that. Or easy school marketing has joined our free virtual monthly school leaders, power hour meetups, two vastly different sort of call to actions and values split amongst two. [00:16:26] Co-hosts kind of interesting. Have you seen some good. Return on. I know it’s young, still seven episodes in, but it’s an interesting way to think about it. How did you think about it? And will you go to the [00:16:38] paid sponsorships? [00:16:39] Tara: [00:16:39] Do you want me to answer that Aubrey? So I built the website and we did is, did a sponsorship page. And so it was really, to be completely blunt, it was the natural way to put content on that page was to have us each put our own information because right now, yes, we are funding it and producing it. [00:16:55] And so we are the sponsors of it. We’re not driving traffic to that page. I think. Once we have a little bit more time and downloads under our belt, then the plan is to go to some authoritative companies within the school marketing space and, and, and share some sponsorship package ideas with them. But we are not quite there yet. [00:17:19] And I think That’s something that we need to think about and plan, I always had this issue with, with hallway chats or issue concern. I want to make sure that any sponsorships, I see them also as endorsements. And so, I think you have to be particular about that. And especially in these times that you’re choosing companies that you feel good about having involved this year podcast. [00:17:43] So that’s, that’s a key element [00:17:44]Matt: [00:17:44] When I booked on your calendar, it was like three months out or something like that. You had, you have a pretty good pipeline already of shows. Do you feel like you’re already getting booked too far out ahead? [00:17:55] Aubrey: [00:17:55] Think we’re in the sweet spot [00:17:57] right now. The w w what we did was we [00:18:00] actually intentionally batched as many episodes as possible, and the first couple of months it was a whirlwind, but actually it was really good. And I think good practice for me being new to podcasting. To do that. [00:18:12]And we strategically set the episodes to go the more timely ones, obviously we’ll go before the ones that are more timeless. So I think we’re set and we’re set for the summer, which I think was key to both of us who are looking for work-life balance which we talk about on our show. So we’re living it too. [00:18:30]And then we have a funnel for potential guests that we want to have on. Moving forward into the fall, like, and we’ll start reaching out to them and then creating another batch wave. I think that’s key for us. My schedule is incredibly busy. I know Tara’s is due. So it’s, it’s really planning strategically and then making sure we have the right people in line next. [00:18:50]Matt: [00:18:50] Aubrey as the marketer in you, or does the marketer in you scream to say, look, I got all this content now. Like I can do clips. I can do Instagram posts. I can do top 10 episodes. Like there’s all these things I can do. Is that starting? Are you starting to get the itch for that already? As, as you start to plan and plot going into the fall [00:19:09] Aubrey: [00:19:09] I talk to my clients about all the time. I think we have to look at our bandwidth, and what’s realistic. So what can we do given the time and the energy and the resources that we currently have, and then figuring out strategically. Okay. Obviously I would love to do all those things, man. [00:19:24] I’m a creative by nature and I’m a marketer and terrible tell you I’ll throw a million ideas to Sunday, right? So it’s picking and choosing which ones to use and then, putting those into practice because we can all try to be perfectionist and try to create the perfect podcast plan with the top 10 list and everything like that. [00:19:43] But that’s, it’s just not. It’s not going to be executed well, and it’s either going to burn us out and then we’re going to lose the joy for what we’re doing. So I think that’s the key and that’s how the mindset I’m going into it with. And Tara, please feel free to chime in, but I think that’s really important. [00:20:00] It’s like we’re doing it and we love doing it. And so we want to keep looking, do we want to keep, keep loving doing it? And so, we’re, we have to just be strategic about where our time and energy goes and what, and how we’re going to market, how we’re going to market it. [00:20:14]Matt: [00:20:14] is there an inverse there where the, where. I remember when I, the reason why I started well, the podcasts that we’re talking on today was to try to find a way to grow my, at the time WordPress agency, that I was running day to day. And I use the episodes as leverage in, in sales, not. You’re not a known agency, didn’t have any real brands or logos in the portfolio of recognition. [00:20:37] So the only leverage I had was, Hey, check out these at the time, whatever 50 or 60 episodes, that was an iTunes. If you like what I’m talking about there, maybe we’ll, we should be pretty good for doing business. Have you seen it the other way around where you’re now leveraging this podcast for the business in, in specifically in sales opportunities for people to get to know you a little bit better? [00:20:57] Tara: [00:20:57] Yeah, I think we talked about before this whole [00:21:00] idea of authority and, our tagline is the go-to podcast and there’s a great book called be the go-to that I’ve been reading, as I explored diving into this, this vertical of schools and how to, how’d you approach that it’s a very, it’s a very small market, I think relative, relatively, so becoming known in it. [00:21:21] Requires putting your name out there and in a certain number of ways, speaking at conferences well, COVID, kind of has put the kibosh on that. And and so the podcast is a way. To build that authority. So I think I’m not sure if that’s answering your question, but I do an Abra does when, whenever we do presentations, we mentioned this podcast. [00:21:38] I mentioned it when I’m chatting with clients about about our services prospective clients. And then there are episodes also that have good pieces of information that I think are, are easy to share. As well with existing clients. And I will point them to this episode. This is a great tidbit that we heard about Facebook advertising, check it out, that type of thing. [00:21:59] So yeah, it’s, it’s multilevel something that will help our businesses grow. We hope right. And if not, we’re having fun and we’re sharing great information with people and meeting really cool people. So that’s, I think you have to have that perspective. We committed to a year of doing it and we’ll see what happens and, and [00:22:16] hopefully it’ll go on from there. [00:22:18]Matt: [00:22:18] Remember when you said you [00:22:19] Tara: [00:22:19] We did. Yeah. Each year, one at a time. [00:22:22] Well, like you said, you have to, like, if you can’t commit to a year, you’re you shouldn’t be doing it. So [00:22:27]Matt: [00:22:27] Let’s shift to the, to the business side of the businesses that, that you both run. And specifically in that, in the market of, let’s just say educate, and maybe I can’t bucket this in to this category, but education school, the school department, school systems. I remember when I sold a WordPress hosting for a company called Pagely primarily to higher education, like the sales process. Was like year and a half long, to just to get, Hey, we’ve got this idea. We want to switch hosting to a year and a half later, they finally made the switch. If I was lucky when I was selling websites at my agency, just local school systems, nothing major, but local school systems, same thing, huge long drawn out decision by committee process, I guess. [00:23:11] Rightfully so. Has COVID changed this at all for web and marketing, from what you both see in, in your respective spaces, are people moving a little bit faster or are they a little bit more open to being flexible or is it same thing? [00:23:24] Same day [00:23:25]Aubrey: [00:23:25] COVID change has changed many things in the educational space. Both public and private. And so. The clients that I work with, which are mostly private school heads of school for small and medium sized independent schools. It, I think this time period has, has opened their eyes to the necessity of marketing. [00:23:46]A lot of schools unlike businesses. Well, that’s not true. Some businesses are like this too, but haven’t really expanded their marketing dollars or marketing team. To meet the new needs of what marketing looks like [00:24:00] now. And with independent schools, what a lot of schools saw was that in spring 2020, They sell massive attrition. [00:24:06] And so there was a scrambling during that summer to really market hard. And then a lot of what happened was, some public schools went back virtual and so then the private school sector saw a swing in the opposite direction with enrollment. So I do think there’s, there’s been at least over the past two years, I’ve really seen schools more likely to embrace. [00:24:28] Marketing efforts. And to truly understand that they might have an admissions team of like two, but the marketing is like half a person. Who’s also the receptionist who does like 18 other things. Like they’re seeing the need to really grow, grow that and expand and use strategies that are not necessarily used traditionally in independent schools. [00:24:50]Tara: [00:24:50] Yeah, I would echo that and I work specifically on their websites, obviously. So, I’ve seen. I’ve seen people holding off and also refreshes and updates are tricky because all of the content that they have is from the past year, if they want to update their photos and stuff, all the kids have masks on. [00:25:08] And so how do you deal with that? You have to bring in people over the summer and do different Photo shoots and things like that. So I think schools are trying to balance the reality of the future with the present and the recent past in their communication strategy and in their messaging and their imagery and all of that type of thing too. [00:25:29] So, and, and because we work mostly with small private schools, it’s different than higher ed for sure. Way different. I’ve done a little bit with higher ed and yeah, that is a whole different ball game. One of the. One of the blessings. One of the things I love working with the organizations that I work with is that they are small. [00:25:47] So they actually can pivot really fast. And that really helps them during COVID because they were able to make really quick decisions. And they were the schools that were doing hybrid or doing in person. And so a lot of them had a really great year with enrollment because a lot of families wanted their kids in school. [00:26:04] it’s really makes it easier working with them because they can make those decisions. They don’t have to go through five levels, same way with a public school. Also, you have boards and, and, and just word of education and all of that to go through. So, so they’re nimble, which [00:26:17] is nice. [00:26:18]Matt: [00:26:18] I had some friends that I have young children. They’re not, my oldest will be going into kindergarten this year. But I had some friends that have their kids are older, but they’re in private school like elementary level private school. And they were in, they were in class, I think probably like 90%. [00:26:36] Throughout like this whole COVID thing. Whereas the flip side is like all my friends who have kids in private, in public schools, everybody was home losing their minds, trying to balance this and then the hybrid stuff. And that was, and the thing, luckily I avoided that I think going into the fall, I don’t think I’ll be dealing with that for like a kindergarten level. [00:26:58]But it’s amazing how things like [00:27:00] this. I don’t really have a question here. It’s more of just like a. Noticing this it’s amazing how COVID shook up things that you’d never expect till it, for it to unearth like, like private schools, right? You might all of a sudden find more private schools coming online. [00:27:16] Because of what just happened, where maybe it was reserved for high income, communities. Now you might have somebody like, Hey, it makes sense now to put my kids in private school, because it’s just a different level of service with air quotes in the air. If you’re not watching this, it’s amazing what COVID did to shake up all these different impact, these different industries, [00:27:36] education [00:27:37] Tara: [00:27:37] yeah, for sure. Yep. And also doing more online stuff too. I have some clients that do after-school programming and so they had to completely pivot to offer online learning, offer cooking classes, online, developing whole curriculum. In a totally different way than they were used to doing with videos and all that type of thing. [00:27:56] So pivoting has been a key word and in the past year, and it’s been, it’s been exciting to see some of these smaller businesses organizations accomplish that pretty smoothly. [00:28:08] Yeah. [00:28:10] Matt: [00:28:10] I assume you’re still using WordPress. Aubrey, are you a diehard WordPress [00:28:15] Aubrey: [00:28:15] but I always send all my WordPress questions to Tara. [00:28:18]That’s pretty much it. I my website platform is don’t. I feel like uttering, these words might, hate mail might come my way, but like right now, my platforms on Kajabi, just because I started building out online courses on the backend, but I am not selling Kajabi, nor am I. [00:28:34] Saying that’s your go-to WordPress is much more functional and you can do all sorts [00:28:38] of cool stuff with it. [00:28:41] Tara: [00:28:41] I’ve trained her very well. You can see. [00:28:43] Matt: [00:28:43] I was just about to say that sounds like Tara speaking right through her. [00:28:47] Tara: [00:28:47] Yeah. Yeah. [00:28:49] Matt: [00:28:49] so you haven’t, so you haven’t convinced Aubrey to switch to like lifter LMS and build all her [00:28:54] Tara: [00:28:54] no, her website’s great. And I think, I actually am looking into Kajabi a little bit just to understand what it does, because I think it is a good resource. WordPress is not for everybody and for everything. And I think we learned that more and more now. And so a lot of times. Third-party platforms that are built for a specific purpose, like membership or online courses. [00:29:14], it’s a lot easier. It’s a lot more user-friendly and they don’t have the maintenance to have to deal with. So yeah, I think that’s fine at WordPress is a great solution for the target audience that we serve. And there are a lot of small schools who use WordPress. There are some third-party CMS is out there that that do. [00:29:35] A really great job and they’re really, really expensive. So, some schools use Wix, some use Squarespace. Most of them use the third party system or WordPress. So there is, there is definitely a good opportunity there to, to help schools with [00:29:49] their WordPress websites. Yeah, [00:29:52] Matt: [00:29:52] it’s always interesting to see WordPress users, heads explode when they’re like somebody pays for a CMS. Well, yet, because it works and it [00:30:00] works well. And then that’s what they need at the end of the day. It’s, it’s, it’s amazing. I’ve been interviewing a lot more folks on no-code platforms, bubble web flow. [00:30:09] And there’s another one that’s escaping escaping me right now that is very popular, but that community loves the tools that just empower them to get the job done. And they’re happy to just give up that ownership side of the code to just [00:30:27] have it work and do the [00:30:29] thing that they’re paying for it to [00:30:30] Tara: [00:30:30] I just, yeah, I just talked to a PTA president this morning, whose website I’ve been managing for a while and they had a parent redesign it and. So the licenses are all out of, they’re not on the site anymore and I’m trying to manage it and it’s just kind of a headache. And when you have organizations like a PTA that you have transition in leadership, and then you have loss of information and continuity, something like WordPress. [00:30:54] If you don’t have a con a con. Continuous person managing it like an agency, then you can really be in trouble because all that information gets lost. Whereas if you put it on Squarespace or something like that, sorry to mention that. But I think Squarespace has a great, it serves a great need. You don’t have any of that. [00:31:11] It’s all there. It’s all. Or some or Kajabi or whatever. You don’t have any of that. Plugins to maintain and licenses to update and all that kind of stuff. So there definitely are use cases where WordPress is not the best solution. And I’m the first person to say that as much as I love [00:31:26] WordPress [00:31:26]Matt: [00:31:26] mindful school marketing.com mindful school marketing.com. Get the podcast where everywhere, right? What else? What else can people say? Thanks. Where else can people go to say thanks for joining us on the show today. [00:31:38]Tara: [00:31:38] I’m Tara clays on Twitter. I am a LinkedIn and design tlc.com [00:31:44] is [00:31:44] Aubrey: [00:31:44] Great. And I’m Audrey bursch@easyschoolmarketing.com. You can find me ABI Bursch at LinkedIn. That’s my platform of choice. [00:31:50]Matt: [00:31:50] Go subscribe to mindful school marketing on apple, Google, Spotify, wherever you find your podcasts, leave them a review in iTunes. Build that up. And as soon as they have their pod chaser account, okay. Even leave them a review there. It’s going to be an amazing way to find and discover other podcasts, airport.com/subscribe. [00:32:08] Join the mailing list and we’ll see you in the next episode.

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Kellee Johnson is the Principal of The Ballast Group, an award-winning, integrated communications strategy firm. The Ballast Group helps leaders shape and articulate stories while reaching audiences and channels that matter. They have helped well-known companies such as Hyatt, Kaiser Permanente, Stericycle, Safeway, Target, and Cisco in all aspects of marketing, consumer products, healthcare, and high tech. Kellee founded The Ballast Group after serving as Director of Corporate Marketing for Abbott Laboratories and managing corporate communications for Tropicana, a multi-billion dollar division of PepsiCo.  Kellee's company also excels at positioning these organizations and others as thought leaders, featuring them on the US News, News and World Report, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and other traditional media. In addition to her work at The Ballast Group, Kellee is a mentor for DePaul University's Coleman Entrepreneurship Center and 1871 Chicago, a board member of the Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation, and a former member of the Rollins College Board of Trustees. In this episode… You've done the hard work of starting a great business but still face the struggle to create your story and put it in the news. The thought of it leaves a sour taste in your mouth and makes you think: ‘why do I have to do that? Shouldn't I just wait until my brand gets noticed and talked about organically?' Today's guest, Kellee Johnson, says the chances of getting in the news organically often require you to do something beyond being a fantastic business; you've got to earn it. It starts by knowing how to create your story to make it newsworthy and knowing who to share it with. That's where the PESO model comes in. Learn more about branding, storytelling, and the PESO model to take your brand to the next level on this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast. The host, Dr. Jeremy Weisz, sits down with Kellee Johnson, Principal at The Ballast Group. She explains their six-step process of getting brands on the news using the paid, earned, shared, and owned (PESO) media model. Stay tuned to catch the details about it — and lots more!

In this week's Q&A, I try to imagine what might happen if a microscopic black hole passed through the Earth. How long will James Webb take to become operational, and what will be the Plan B for James Webb if it fails? 00:00 Start 00:46 What if a microscopic black hole passed through the Earth? 05:25 When will James Webb come online? 06:38 What's plan B for James Webb if it fails? 09:16 Do Oort Clouds overlap? 11:29 Could there be a Tatooine out there? 13:50 Does China plan to colonize Mars? 16:22 Does the US take China's space exploration seriously? 19:50 Are there dark matter planets, suns and people? 22:11 What will the US government disclosure tell us? 25:45 Should I get an astronomy degree? 30:19 Shouldn't there be more black holes at the center of the Milky Way? 32:03 Have we measured the speed of gravity? 33:13 Will AI explore the Universe without us? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here.

   Kamala Harris failed her news conference so badly it could have been a national security crisis.  Why do people in high places phone these things in?  We take a hard look at those in power and why they think they are untouchable.    Hunter Biden seems to be the only middle aged white male in America that can use the N word and get away with it.  Shouldn't be a surprise, his dad's mentor was a Klan recruiter.  One "controversial" white rapper is getting millions of downloads calling out all the snowflakes,  we'll play the song for you.     Mexican soccer fans in Colorado are an afterthought after the match is stopped for a traditional chant they have toward opponents that's a gay slur.  Then they pelted the field with garbage and hit an American player in the head with a full beer can.  But you won't here about this... the media are way to focused on a fan sprinkling some popcorn on a Dem Privileged NBA star.    The Royals look like they could lose 11 in a row again and KU releases its basketball schedule. 

You're here. The podcast is here. Is this what you were looking for? If so, listen away. If you're undecided, here's a little glimpse of what happened on the show today. *Last night, Lazlo planned to have a nice quiet night alone but life doesn't care about our plans. *Apple is rolling out this new Legacy contact. When you die, this contact will have access to your iCloud content. Who will you choose? Make sure you think this through. Your first thought isn't necessarily the right choice. *Would you continue to eat food at restaurant after you found a hair in it? *Doomscrolling! Some website went down this morning, the Department of Justice hacked the Russians, Jeff Bezos is sending himself to space, a Texas mother snuck into her daughter's middle school, the mystery of the baby dinosaur in Florida has probably been solved, Burger King is taking shots at Chick-fil-a, and Washington has come up with a great incentive to get vaccinated. *What do you do to boost your mood when you're feeling low? Be honest. *Jeriney thinks the price of her AirBNB next week is too good to be true. *After years of speculation, we discover that Slimfast really does eat gas station food on regular. *How many dates do you have to go on before you know whether or not you life someone? Shouldn't the question be, How many dates do you have to go on before you realize you can't stand someone? *The FBI just arrested hundreds of alleged criminals and the way they did it is pretty smart but also scary. *What movie was so bad that you couldn't finish it? (We learn a neat fact about Lazlo during this discussion when he tells us about a sequel he liked better than the original) *That's it! Time to call it a day! Can't wait to see you back here again tomorrow. Have a great night and as always... -Everybody Wang Chung!! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Clippers and Mavericks went the full 7 games but Kawhi and the Clips come up clutch. Ty Lue's coaching job. Does Luka need help? Can the Clippers go on and beat the Jazz? Breaking down the 2nd round matchups. Discussing the Lakers' exit. Will LeBron win another title in his career? Julio Jones is traded from the Falcons to the Titans... Wasn't the price for him higher? Find out what the Titans gave up to get him. Jon Rahm gets informed of a positive Covid-19 test right after finishing the third round at the Memorial... Why it cost him big. And how come the PGA players aren't all vaccinated? If the PGA asks the fans to be... Shouldn't the players be? And where have all the stars gone at the French Open?!

On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, we bring you the best of Mark Levin on Memorial Day. The rise of Jew hatred and anti-Semitism is frightening. Open borders in Europe have created no-go zones for Jews and Christians in areas of Paris and London and it looks like the United States is following suit. Bigots like the Rep Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the squad stir the pot and inspire anti-Semitism. This hatred can destroy a country and affects all Americans that believe in a Constitutional system. Later, Sen. Tom Cotton joins the show to reaffirm his support for Israel and question why Biden has been so weak in his defense of Israel. Cotton added that similarly, President Obama was also weak with Iran which has vowed to destroy Israel and the US. Cotton surmised that China's preposterous cover-up about the virus originating from a wet market is steadily being disproved as more evidence emerges regarding the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Afterward, the Biden State Department blocked any additional investigation by the United States into the origins of the coronavirus following Dr. Fauci's admission that his organization did in fact modestly fund some of the research grants at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Biden Administration is now covering it up. Later, the media mocked President Trump and Sen. Tom Cotton for suggesting the coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Shouldn't the scientists know about which grants they have issued and to whom? However, eco-Health Alliance in New York did receive a grant and used it for gain of function research on the coronavirus. Fauci's response was dishonest.

On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show, the Biden State Department blocked any additional investigation by the United States into the origins of the coronavirus following Dr. Fauci's admission that his organization did in fact modestly fund some of the research grants at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Biden Administration is now covering it up. Later, the media mocked President Trump and Sen. Tom Cotton for suggesting the coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Shouldn't the scientists know about which grants they have issued and to whom? Hower eco-Health Alliance in New York did receive a grant and used it for gain of function research on the coronavirus. Fauci's response was dishonest. Afterward, Sen Mike Lee calls in to discuss why the innovation and competition act is the wrong way to beat China. Instead of chilling innovation and competition, we ought to decentralize power and champion trust in the private sector. Lee added that Biden's nominee to head the ATF is one of the worst he's ever seen, especially on the second amendment. Finally, Curtis Sliwa, candidate for Mayor of New York City, joins the show to discuss how he will stop the crime in NYC.