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Learn To Manage Diabetes Through Diet and Exercise, It Can Be Accomplished with Pim Jansson Are you a diabetic? Maybe borderline diabetic? We discuss how diet and exercise can help most control their blood glucose. When you have high blood glucose you are playing Russan Roulette with your body. Its no a matter of if you will damage your body, but more how fast and what organs are being damaged first and the worst. Its time to make some changes About Pim Pim is a Nutritionist MSc, a Certified Cravings Coach, and the founder of the Smart Diabetics Academy. For over 20 years she has been helping her clients get well with sustainable diet and lifestyle changes. Last year she decided to start focusing on helping type 2 diabetics who are struggling with blood sugar control no matter what they do, and those who cannot seem to be able to stick with a specific diet for any length of time.   The three pillars of diabetes reversal are: real unprocessed foods that do not spike blood sugar, proper meal timing, and a healthy relationship with food. When the three are combined, magic can happen and diabetes and diabetic complications can be reversed. These are the easiest ways to get in contact with me: Email: Pim@smartdiabeticsacademy.com Join the Facebook Group: https://smartdiabeticsacademy.com/facebook Book a Complimentary Coaching Call: https://smartdiabeticsacademy.com/call www.feedingfatty.com Full Transcript Below Learn To Manage Diabetes Through Diet and Exercise, It Can Be Accomplished with Pim Jansson Sun, 5/16 5:03PM • 1:01:21 SUMMARY KEYWORDS eat, cravings, people, sugar, blood sugar, diabetics, spike, drink, happen, bit, ice cream, brain, diet, problem, insulin, day, carbs, thought, metformin, water SPEAKERS Terry, Pim, Roy Barker   Roy Barker  00:02 Hello and welcome to another episode of feeding fatty. This is Roy. This is Terry. So we are chronicling our journey through wellness that includes diet, exercise, mindset, balance, energy, a lot of things that we have delved off into over the last six months having a bunch of great guests on so yeah, part of it is you know, just going through our journey what's up with us but from time to time we do have other professionals in the space on with us and today is no different. Terry, I'm gonna let you introduce Pim.   Terry  00:34 Pim Jansson is a Nutritionist MSC, a certified cravings coach and the founder of the Smart Diabetics Academy. For over 20 years she has been helping her clients get well with sustainable diet and lifestyle changes. Last year, she decided to start focusing on helping type two diabetics who are struggling with food, blood sugar control no matter what they do, and those who cannot seem to be able to stick with a specific diet for any length of time. The three pillars of diabetes reversal are real, unprocessed foods that do not spike blood sugar, proper meal timing and a healthy relationship with food. When the three are combined, magic can happen and diabetes and diabetic complications can be reversed. Pam, thank you for coming. Welcome to the show.   Pim  01:26 Thank you so much.   Roy Barker  01:27 Yeah, I'm thinking, I'm thinking strike three. I'm out. So I'm just gonna step away from the mic.   Terry  01:33 We're having one of those days. Yeah.   Pim  01:38 Everyone does.   Roy Barker  01:39 Yeah. Unfortunately, we string a bunch of hours together.   Terry  01:44 Okay, sorry. Couple of weeks.   Roy Barker  01:47 Yeah. Oh, yeah. So first off, tell us how you got here. I mean, how did you kind of, you know, find yourself in this space?   Pim  01:56 Oh, I think. So. If I can go back, like way back, I think, yeah, I actually been thinking about this, because people keep asking me, I'm like, I don't know, I've always been interested in it. But when I was six years old, I, a new girl moved into the area where I live, and she was type one diabetic. So I think that that's where, you know, when you're aware of a disease that no one else has, because no one else had it. When I was a kid, I'm that Oh, yeah, it was a novelty was like what is that always the sugar sickness. So you start picking up on it there when I was a teenager, people all over the place started popping up with type two diabetes, which wasn't the same, but I didn't really know what the difference was at the time. But when you're aware of something, you kind of, like, if you speak about something, you keep seeing it everywhere. So I think I just started picking it up, because I knew what they'd be this was I knew her what my friend had to do, as she always walked around with this sugar tablets in her pocket, just in case you would pass out that sort of the things. So I think I've always picked up on diabetes. And that has probably sparked my interest with a diet as well. So I was always into diet, and always been interested in diabetics, but a little bit scared of it. Because it's so serious people actually die from that.   Roy Barker  03:20 Yeah. And I think some of us that some of us that have been lucky to skate through even though we have it's not that bad. I guess I don't want to maybe we don't respect it enough or have the the proper amount of I don't know, we'll say fear. But we guess respect is it we just don't. You know, it's like, it's okay. We can start tomorrow   Terry  03:45 until something happens, right? I mean, what what does it take? Yeah.   Pim  03:51 normalize it. Everyone has it? So I'll be okay. Yeah.   Terry  03:57 Yeah, there are medications for that, you know,   Roy Barker  03:59 and we just watched they were watching something the other day that I mean, it just, you know, when they went through and listed all of the things, you know, it's, I think they're now referring to it as well, I guess they're referring to Alzheimer as type three diabetes, because it's such a precursor for it. But then what, and you can probably name them but loss of sight, loss of limbs. liver, I guess his liver kidney failure. Yeah. I mean, just there's nothing that that's good. Nobody. There's never anybody has never pointed out anything good. That's come from it.   Pim  04:40 No, I think I can agree on that. And the problem is that, I mean, blood sugar, obviously, you have blood supply to your whole body. So when you have high blood sugar, it's gonna affect your whole body. Yeah. So it's just like a lottery. But what's going to fail first, unfortunately, yeah, that's very, very sad.   Terry  04:59 And it's different. For everybody, I mean, nobody knows.   Roy Barker  05:03 Exactly. Yeah, we were we were actually watched a good YouTube video not long ago that was talking about how part of the problem is to is that, again, you may can explain this much better. But it's like the, the, something that gets locked up in our muscles, the I guess the sugar or the the glucose gets trapped in our muscles and it doesn't release and then it kind of builds up like the, you know, it's somewhat toxic. Not only is it bad in its own right, but you know, then when you go work out, and you kind of release some of that, then you can feel like you have toxins and things running through your body too.   Pim  05:44 Yeah, I'm not sure about that one. Actually, I know, we spoke about that before. And I was like, yeah, I'm gonna look into that. And then I didn't. But but it's very, very interesting. So I mean, I know why it would be locked up, because insulin is obviously a storage hormone. And what happens in type two diabetics is that before you get a deficiency of insulin, you are chronically high insulin for many, many years. So most type two diabetics probably probably have too much insulin, which means that you want your cells want one to release anything, whether that be glucose, or, or fat. So that's why diabetics often have fat, except for the liver that actually produces glucose, due to low blood sugar and kind of perpetuates the problem. So yeah, things are kind of going wrong. But why that toxic effect is that I'm not really sure. And I'm still gonna look into it.   Terry  06:43 When you have a smart diet, smart diabetics Academy, so what do you when when somebody comes to you to talk about their type two diabetes? What? What's the process? What kind of process Do you go through?   Pim  06:59 Okay, so most people who come to me then usually have already looked into a low carbohydrate diet, because that's what I'm working with. So I very rarely get someone who's on my standard American diet, just finding me. And then oh, maybe this is good. So what we do is we're kind of looking at what they are eating currently. And we try to tailor that to be a diet that doesn't spike the blood sugar. So the problem I see with many type two diabetics who tried to go low carb is that they misunderstand what a low carb diet is. They think it's just low carb, but also low fat. And that's never gonna end. Well. Yeah, to start. And then I see people, oh, I had a sip of orange juice, or I just had a cracker here. And the thing with those is that, yeah, they might just contain four, five or six grams of carbs. But it's really hard to count how many carbs are in a sip of orange juice, or how you react to a cracker because the wheat cracker that has been processed, can just spike your blood sugar, it's like everything goes out at once with it. And if you had had six grams of carbs from, let's say, a cold, bold potato, you wouldn't have got the same response. So we can't just count the carbs. As you know, I also focus on what sort of foods you're eating. So I don't recommend any diabetics to eat wheat, or sugar, or anything that is a very high glycemic index, those kinds of foods.   Roy Barker  08:39 You brought up something as well about the, you know, kind of the combination of what you're eating, but also how much how many carbs you eat, and when you do it, because I know, sometimes when I've talked with people, and you know, this is something I've learned over time is that, you know, my doctor initially said, hey, look, I want you to stay between like 40 and 60. carbs, he wasn't like trying to, you know, put me down to zero, but stay within that range. But what what, you know, you find out over time is that you can't eat 40 carbs for your supper, you can do you know, all of them at one time, because then it's just like throws you way out of whack. You've got to try to spread those out over the day. And I would assume that the probably the more if you need to eat a lot, you eat more first thing in the morning, and that way you could kind of burn them off through the day. Is that correct?   Pim  09:37 Yes, to some degree. So I recommend all my clients to not eat more than 10 grams of carbs per main meal. Because that way, you pretty much know what's going to happen with your blood sugar. It's very, very safe. As time goes along and the blood sugar comes down and stabilizes. Then we can start adding more carbs if they want to. It's completely up to them. But What we want to do initially is just get blood sugar stable, sometimes it's stable, but high because your body adjusts, and it has a higher setpoint for your blood sugar. So your body think that maybe 100 120 130 is normal, and it will strive to keep that level for quite some time. But when that stabilizes and goes down, then we can start experimenting with adding a little bit more if we want to, on average, how   Roy Barker  10:27 long does that that little hangover there last? Is it like a week or a month? Or?   Pim  10:33 I can't tell you because some people literally fix the blood sugar in a week. Other people, it might take two months.   Roy Barker  10:42 Okay, so the only reason I asked is, you know, we have tried to eat more plant based. And it's, it's odd, because the one thing I've noticed about trying to be more plant based is very, very consistent, where, you know, when I was doing more what I would term low carb, our protein, I still would have wild spike, not wild, I guess. But you know, I can still have very predictable spikes. And, you know, it's funny because we used to, I could do good, like going to bed, you know, maybe I'd be at 125 110 or whatever. But when I would wake up in the morning, you know, I'd be in 161 at a time in that spike range. But one thing I noticed about this plant basis, whatever I went to bed with, I woke up with that the next morning, it's very strange thing.   Pim  11:33 Yeah. Okay.   Roy Barker  11:34 So Oh, I'm sorry, I but what I was gonna finish on that was what you were saying is that it was like I moved it to a certain point. And then it couldn't I couldn't get past that. But now it makes sense with what you're saying is that, well, maybe my mind has been at a certain level for so long that my body was trying to produce glucose to keep me up there. So maybe I could have just we should have just kept going a little bit.   Pim  12:05 Somewhere, but is your level now?   Roy Barker  12:08 Oh, my gosh, I don't even want to. I think I knew it would break the meter.   Pim  12:14 Okay, where was it? When you were consistent with the   Roy Barker  12:18 last times I was doing it? I was about 160 pretty consistently.   Pim  12:23 Okay, so yeah, that's when you were eating more meat with your vegetables, etc.   Roy Barker  12:29 Yeah, I was just up and down. I mean, I could be more in the 110s 120s. But then, like I said, in the mornings, I would notice a 161 80 was never much over 180 that would usually be the highest. Yeah. But it would happen in that morning. You know, when I got up and then, you know, as I went through the day, of course, I was able to lower it with movement and just watching what I was eating.   Pim  12:58 Yeah, and you're not medicated.   Roy Barker  13:02 Yes, I am. But you know, I'm on Metformin. But I just, you know, actually, I actually quit taking it because I just it wasn't, it doesn't help. It wasn't helping any. There was no difference in my blood sugar with or without it. And I had talked to the to my pharmacist about his, uh, you know, I was actually joking with him one day, I'm like, sometimes I think that Metformin was actually spiking my dad gum glucose levels because it just, you know, because I would take it later in the evening. I don't think I was taking it right. I should have been matching it up with my last meal, but I wasn't but you know, it's almost like it was spiking me up overnight. Yeah. Oh. Oh, hello, Pim.   Terry  14:09 So and that was on the plant based right. What's that now? Oh,   Pim  14:15 connection there.   Terry  14:16 We we lost you when you were starting to talk about Metamucil Orman and then that was it.   Pim  14:22 Okay. So let me start that again. Sorry about that. No, you're fine. My internet is a little bit rough. Sometimes we moved out to the countryside very recently. So I'm still learning what is going on here? Yeah.   Roy Barker  14:35 Oh my God, we can give me an Amen. Oh my god.   Pim  14:40 So Metformin is actually one of those drugs that should be able to deal with the high morning blood sugars. You might have heard about something called the dawn phenomenon, which is the home morning blood sugar. So what is happening is that you have a lot of hormones that obviously they have a circadian rhythm. So They will increase at certain times of the day or decrease, excuse me, and one of them is cortisol. And you will get some a little bit of adrenaline and those kind of things in the early morning to help you raise your blood sugar so that you wake up in the morning and you have energy to do whatever you need to do. The problem in diabetics is that they don't produce or they don't respond to the insulin that should counteract this to keep it at a normal level. So that's why you get this spike in the morning. If you were kind of 160 consistently with the plant based diet, you probably wouldn't notice it, because it's still it's already up. So that's probably why you see the swings when you go from a lower carb up to, you know, up to 160. But if that is kind of your max, and it then goes down, I would say that it's actually better if you can stay at 110 for the rest of the day. So for me should be able to help with that if you take Metformin in the evening, because what it does, it's what it has three functions, basically. So one of the functions is that it prevents the liver from No, it doesn't prevent, it kind of minimizes the amount of glucose the liver produces and secretes. So that's one of them. And the second one is it makes you more insulin sensitive. And then obviously, most, a lot of people taking Metformin get some sort of gastrointestinal problems. And that's because it doesn't reabsorb the sugar. So like literally goes through. And when you eat too much of it, it draws in a lot of fluid into your intestines. And that's why you might get a little bit upset at me. So I'm surprised that it didn't help you at all with the hi morning blood sugar as it really should have. But what you can try to do is shifting the time of your last meal and eat earlier so that you fasted for longer. For some people, if that doesn't help, you can try to maybe eat a little bit of protein right before bed like just some people take a tablespoon of peanut butter. Personally, I would probably go from less carbs in the protein and just, you know, half an acre or whatever, if you can do that.   Roy Barker  17:19 Yeah, yeah, I've tried that, actually, to no avail as well. The other thing I was going to tell you that we were doing with the plant based as well was the intermittent fasting. So we would eat dinner, you know, like about six or seven. And then we weren't eating anything again until noon the next day. So it was to me, I think that fasting was good because I'm an I'm a night eater, and that is my problem spot. Is that nine or 10 o'clock at night, you know, I want to Well, I'll need anything, you know, we go up to go to Taco place, we can go to ice cream, we can get a candy bar, we could do popcorn and watch. Popcorn is my thing. So you know. And that to me, it's just a habit. That was a bad habit that I fell into. And then you know, now I kind of want that. And so what we've been trying to do say, I'm wanting that, I think because I feel like I need the energy. I feel like my body's running down. And so instead of just listening, it's like, Listen, go to bed, it's time to go to bed and get some sleep not get started   Terry  18:29 do more stuff. He would get into bed and just start off all of these ideas. And I'm just like, Ah   Pim  18:41 that's fairly common. The nightie thing so yeah, it's probably I don't know if you're doing it right now, but that's probably something that you want to cut out.   Roy Barker  18:53 Yeah. Yeah.   Pim  18:55 Yeah, go on.   Roy Barker  18:56 No, I just gonna say that's one thing I think that the fasting helped with is just being on that regiment because I'm not, you know, there are those people that can buy the skinny cow ice creams and they can eat one of those little bitty sandwiches and life can be good for them and I'm not that way if I eat one of those on end six of them because they're just that good and they're small. So you know, I'm not the kind of person that can do a little bit I'm always better just total restriction and not having it   Pim  19:31 Yeah, so yeah, I'm the same. And I've struggled with this for most of my life. You know, been working as you know, diet advice, a personal trainer, that sort of thing and giving other people advice and I could never really manage my own diet what I managed the food part really well. But sugar is my downfall. So anything would sugar would just go for it and I would need it after every dinner I had etc. so upset hear you. But there are ways of dealing with it if you are prepared to deal with,   Terry  20:08 you have to seal off dinner with dessert. That's,   Roy Barker  20:11 yeah, that's a funny thing. Because as a as a, as a younger person, I wasn't that way. It's only, you know, maybe the last five or 10 years, that it's like, okay, when we eat something, we need to follow it up with something sweet. I mean, like to the point of, I'd leave the house and go, you know, drive 15 minutes up the road to go get a candy bar or whatever. Yeah,   Pim  20:38 I've done that. I know what it's like. It's not good news. But in that case, it sounds to me like, because I can remember, like, one of my first memories was from when I was like, six years old or something, and climbing to find the cookies that my mom had hidden in the cupboard, because she knew I would eat them if I knew that they were there. So I just have a few so that she wouldn't notice. And I think I got away with it. But she's never said anything, are you. So in your case, it might just actually be that it's a really bad habit that you've gotten used to, and that you can actually easier than most of my clients and myself reverse that kind of thought process and your behavior and make it something different. If you want it,   Terry  21:27 how do you? How do you do that.   Pim  21:30 So I use a few things. So one of the things that you want to do so you have, I usually talk about the reptilian brain, which is like the lower brain or the brain that just reacts on instinct, and that is the one that wants you to eat. It's the one that is on autopilot. So when you teach it something, whatever it is, it will learn that and you won't have to think about it. And that's why all those six mini ice creams disappear without you thinking about it. Because you have learned that that is a really good thing for you, it gives you a huge reward in the reward center in your brain. It just lights up like a Christmas tree. And life is joyous and fun. Everything is great until after you finish them. And the same thing, when you brush your teeth, you don't really think about it, because that's also program. So we need to take control with the prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain that is doing all the planning or the logical stuff. So if you say that, I want to stop doing this behavior, and I'm going to do it this way, then you need to let your prefrontal cortex be in control because as soon as it is engaged, the other part is going to take over. And it's just going to be like, Oh, we've got six ice creams, here, I'm gonna eat them all. And you just go and do it. No problem. Same thing, when you go shopping, you're so used to going to the shopping aisle where you find that special chocolate or that freezer with ice cream or whatever it might be. So you need to make a conscious decision to start with. But then when you get the craving. So I don't know if you heard about the habit loop. So it's literally you get something triggering you whatever that is. So it might be going to the shopping mall or the supermarket or it might be having dinner. So I can relate to this one. Yeah, I know you can as well. So having dinner, for example, would have been my trigger. As soon as I had dinner, that would create a thought in my head, like, Oh, where's my dessert? Now I need something sweet or something like that. Along those lines. There's nothing dramatic or strange about it. And then because I have that thought, I think, no, I need to go and get something sweet, because that's what I was thinking. So we need to kind of interrupt this habit loop somewhere. And the trigger is always going to be there. Because you can't stop eating dinner, you're going to have to eat. So what you need to do is when you notice that you have this thought I need something, that's where you need to interrupt in this case. So what I choose to do is observing what's happening. So the best thing, I don't have it here, but I usually show when I have a diary where I just write down this is what I was thinking, this is how it feels in my body. So for me, it's usually I start salivating. Some people get like attention in the whole body almost shaking was, like fascinating to me. And they might get like tension in the solar plexus or something like that. And then you kind of observing it from the outside rather than being emotionally involved in the whole process, which means that it's really easy for you to just, when you write it down, it's like it's just words, and it's almost like it's not about you anymore. But when you do that you can kind of look at the craving and like what is that it's kind of a non event. Yeah, it's just there. It's It's nothing and I don't need to do anything. So I choose to do nothing because that's very easy to easy to do. It's the most practical thing to do. Some people might choose to respond to it differently, they might get and drink a glass of water, walk around the block, do some push ups, whatever it is, as a response to these thoughts and these physical signs that they get. And that way, interrupt it and start doing something else.   Roy Barker  25:16 You just replace it with something else.   Pim  25:18 Exactly. So in my case, I want to replace it with doing nothing because I don't want to respond to my cravings. And the cravings will still be there, but I will. It's like, they just kind of fly by like this. And I see them but I don't react to them anymore. So I know that they're there. Yeah, but I'm not reacting to them anymore.   Roy Barker  25:36 So you know, it's funny you say that about the reptilian the reptilian brain because it's, it's, it's hard for people to understand unless they have this feeling. But sometimes it's almost like, you know, you get the snack, you eat it. And then after a while, you're like, Oh, I just had a snack. And why did I go do that? And, you know, when we when we first started fasting, it was kind of a funny thing. We were sitting here doing some stuff one night, I actually got up went to the kitchen, and I opened up this bag, and it was a good snack. Actually, it was a we call those dried chickpeas. Yeah, as some dried chickpeas. But you know, I had my hand open them had my hand in the bag, and pulled out a handful before it snapped, like, Hey, I'm fasting. I'm not supposed to be eating. I was able to put them back. But, you know, it was just, I think it's just it. But it demonstrates what an unconscious act that truly was. There was no thought in it. It was just like I was programmed. And didn't give it any thought to walk over there and find something to eat.   Pim  26:47 Yeah, and then you should actually take a step back from there. What triggered you to do that?   Roy Barker  26:52 Yeah, it was just boredom. Yeah, yeah. Because we kind of talked about it after that, you know, we were sitting around, I was doing something I just needed a break, I needed a reason to get up and walk away. And, you know, that's what I've used that for, you know, I think for all these years, it's a break. Or if something's getting difficult, sometimes you need to step away and think about it for a moment. So go get snack, and   Pim  27:18 and that's the thing, I never thought that I was an emotional eater. So for me, I looked at people emotional eating, that was people that they were eating when they were upset, or, you know, sad or being bullied or whatever. But that's not me. But I'm eating when I want to procrastinate. And when I'm bored, yeah, those are my two emotional triggers. And when I kind of realized that those are emotions of od, I'm actually an emotional eater, and I didn't know   Terry  27:49 you're paying with the rest of it.   Roy Barker  27:52 It's hard, because I feel like I'm all of those. Because if it's happy, sad, won't be a celebration, hey, let's run up to the Mexican food restaurant and get something to eat or   Terry  28:03 while you're fascinating,   Roy Barker  28:05 yeah. Or if you had a bad day, if I go, let's go get some. So yeah, but it's the other thing. It's, it hasn't helped me a whole lot. But a couple things I've realized about myself though, is that going out to eat is a celebration. And you know, the last time we went out we had Mexican food we we set out on the patio and we ate we left and we felt bad. And I was just telling Terry that I only wanted to go up there for the celebration to sit out on the patio to get some fresh air for us to talk to be away from the house. And you know, I said we what we need to do is learn to be able to go and do that and just make healthier choices. While we're there. I mean, they those people have, you know, grilled chicken, they have taco salad, I mean, there's all sorts of healthy choices. You don't have to eat all the chips and tortillas that they bring you but you know again, it's like when you get there it's like when you get there it's the habit the habit takes over. And so you know I told her next time we do that we're really gonna have to think hard on the front end before we get there like this is what we're ordering. We're telling them no chips, we're ordering some chicken or you know, salad lettuce, whatever he to me, but just be very, I guess, planned. And not only planned, but just kind of diligent of sticking to it.   Pim  29:38 Yeah, and that's something that before I'd started working with diabetics, I was working with food addicts and emotional eaters, so we using a lot is planning so if I have massive cravings today for something, I never allow myself to get into those cravings. But what I can do is plan to have it tomorrow when tomorrow comes A First of all, I've trained my brain to let my own prefrontal cortex be in control, which is a really good thing, because a lot of the time, we don't really want to do that because it's uncomfortable. And then when tomorrow comes, I might not really want that thing anymore. Yeah, in the beginning, I would eat it just because I had said that I could eat it, whether I wanted it or not. But at some point, you can realize, we do a lot of, you know, being present when you're eating actually tasting it, how far, how much can you eat of that food before it actually doesn't taste good anymore. Because this thought, for me is about three, four bites. It tastes really good. And then it just tastes like sugary and it doesn't have that appeal anymore. And at that point, you really should stop there. So when you do that, you can kind of get away from it. But as a diabetic, you might also have to include what sort of food choices you should we make? Because you can't just say yes, tomorrow, I'm gonna have three tubs of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, because that's terrible for your blood sugar. Yeah, so you in your case, you can still obviously do that.   Roy Barker  31:08 Well, so that's easy. That's easy for me. I can say no, Ben and Jerry's because we have Blue Bell. So.   Pim  31:17 So I don't know blue about   Roy Barker  31:21 it's, it's like, very creamy. It's if you had that you wouldn't, he would shun Ben and Jerry's from now on. So   Pim  31:30 I don't even want to try it.   Roy Barker  31:33 But well, so it brings up an interesting point, because I feel, and I let Terry, you know, sometimes we think of ourselves different than what we really are. But I feel like I'm pretty resolved. In most areas, make a decision stick with it. I don't feel that wishy washy about stuff. But it's like with food. I cannot get that. Just that resolve, because it's funny, you know, you say you will put it off? Well, I will probably have an internal argument, one, put it off till tomorrow, when we could just run up there and get it today. And I will sit there and talk myself in you know, may try to put up a quick defense, but then not just like run over it and be like, whatever, we're gonna go do it. It just it it's kind of you know, it's a little bit aggravating. And it's a little bit embarrassing, because it's like, why can't I have just a tiny, tiny bit of self control when it comes to food like that.   Pim  32:37 So that's your lower brain is always going to put up a fight. I mean, even when you're done this for a very long time, occasionally, it will just you will have that nagging here now, maybe you should just do that, and maybe a little bit,   Terry  32:51 the angel and the devil.   Pim  32:52 Yes, absolutely. So that's always going to happen because you have this pathway in your brain. And it's always going to be there, we can't erase it, the only thing we can do is create a new pathway in the brain where you react differently. And the more times you're doing it, the stronger that pathway is going to be. So the more likely you're going to do that on autopilot. But as soon as you want to, if you've really, you know, if you're really upset, or whatever it is strong emotions that you want to escape from, you are going to want to just revert back to the strong pathway that has been threaded for many, many years. And that's where you need to not focus so much on I can't have this because when you tell yourself, I can't have this, you just I want it. So instead, like try to focus on, I want to be in control. And if what you doing the only thing you're committing to, is to always plan 24 hours ahead. That is your commitment. Your commitment is not not eating the food and commitments only to do that. And if you can get that program into your brain that I am going to be in control, I can have whatever I want. But I'm committed to always planning 24 hours ahead, and you can follow that you're going to be pretty safe. Okay.   Terry  34:20 That may be exactly what we need to do. Because sometimes it's just like off the cuff, you know,   Pim  34:25 yeah. And I'm going to tell you, I have found so many times, most of my clients have failed so many times and I had a client recently, just because you said it and we plan she was going to go on holiday. She's like, yeah, I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna have one meal with the suit and blah, blah, blah. And then the day after we spoke Is that why should I wait? And she just went off rails. I didn't hear from her for two weeks. She just been eating badly for two weeks. And there's something this happened to a lot of People and it's not that you're weak or anything, it's just that the lower brain is taking over. And you don't know how to handle that. And we need to make those mistakes, I think along the road, you need to fall off the wagon a certain amount of times before you get there. Because that pathway is not strong enough yet, the only thing you need to focus on is that for every single time you make the right choice, and you can allow the craving to be there and not just push it down, that would be stronger. And you will be one step closer to not reacting the wrong way, if you like, unlike saying the wrong way, but the way that you   Roy Barker  35:36 will prefer no more healthy in a more healthy manner. Yeah,   Pim  35:39 exactly. So we need to celebrate the wins every time you can allow the craving, you can see it fly by, like, that's a win, that's one step closer, are you gonna have to do that many, many times. And along that way, of course, you do not fail every now and then.   Roy Barker  35:58 So what about the importance of both water and exercise in this because I don't notice it as much lately, but used to I would notice, if I got out took a little walk after dinner or after I ate, you know, I could tend to drive my, my sugar down, it would be better. Now sometimes. After reading this the other day, sometimes Now I understand why there may actually be a little bit of a spike, you know, after that if I push too hard. And if it depends, like if it's just a walk, it'll usually go down. But you know, maybe going to the gym, I might actually drive it up just a little bit, but talk about the importance of both water and exercise.   Pim  36:40 Okay, let's start with the exercise. So what you have observed is absolutely true. So when you're walking, you're not using a lot of energy. So your body's not going to see that as some sort of stress. So you're just going to use up the sugar that is in your blood, which is brilliant. If you have a problem controlling your blood sugar after eating, you can just go for a walk and it will go down quicker. The more intense exercise is a stress on the body and your body perceives that as we need energy, we need a lot of it now. So we labor will start releasing a lot of sugar to make up for what you're going to use. So this is completely normal. It happens in everyone, obviously, again, as a type two diabetic is going to be hard if you're not exercising as hard and what as long, it's going to be hard to kind of go down to baseline quickly. Maybe for some people it does, but not for everyone. So what you can do is if you go for a hard workout is that you've just added with like 20 minutes walking or something so that you don't stop pure exercise just then go lay on the sofa. Okay. Yeah, you want a bit of a cooldown period to just clear the blood, and that's going to go there. So this is not dangerous spiking, I wouldn't say because what you do is your muscles are also using a lot of sugar, which is great because then they have the capacity to suck it up from your blood and help you stabilize your blood sugar long term. So both intense and low intensity exercise both are important and can be used so I wouldn't say like Don't be scared of going for intense exercise. Just make sure that if it stays up for more than a couple of hours, you probably have a problem. But if it goes down again, you're probably fine. Okay, so I didn't know how long it stays up for you when you do.   Roy Barker  38:37 Yeah, no, no, I'm not that crazy. You know, I'm not when I get on the way it's it's not like you know,   Terry  38:44 he is crazy.   Roy Barker  38:47 You know, it's just not like that intense but I can just tell the difference between the walking and you know, doing some weightlifting but what I think now that you mentioned that maybe what I should do is split my walking easily I walk to warm up and then do the weight lift and then go home. So maybe now just split it walk a little bit before do the weights and then walk a little bit after and that might help.   Pim  39:10 Yeah, I think that sounds like a good plan. With regards to the water, I'm not so I mean, being dehydrated is obviously not a good thing. If you are struggling with a lot of high blood sugar, you're probably going to be more thirsty because you want to dilute all your fluids so that the concentration of sugar isn't as high and obviously then you're gonna weed out and etc. But I when I was studying for my degree in nutrition, we had a kidney specialist and he was them. He was telling us that we are actually over drinking and we should start listening more to our bodies when we are thirsty. Interesting. Ah. So I think For some people, that signal doesn't necessarily work correctly. And that might be a problem. But forcing water down when you're not thirsty, and if you, if that just leads to you having to go weird out straight away, you're probably over drinking. So listen to your body, and also see how it reacts when you're drinking, so that you kind of get a balanced because when you go to, you know, when you just flush it out, you're going to get rid of a lot of electrolytes and other things that might eventually give you a headache or whatever. So, yeah, okay. Yeah. I think,   Roy Barker  40:40 yeah, that's funny, because, you know, I guess here the mandate is, like, my eight glasses a day. So it'd be like, I think four bottles of water, you know, is about what they say the recommended intake is, but I have seen, and we just saw something the other day that they were talking about percent of body weight. And of course, you know, for somebody like myself, that's heavy, or the amount of water that, you know, they were suggesting was just   Terry  41:15 was crazy. No way it would be drinking up to sundown. I   Roy Barker  41:19 mean, it would be like, I don't know, I sit down, I figured it out. But it's like 10 or 12 bottles of water one day, and I was like, wow. Yeah, I mean, that's you could almost drown yourself drinking that much.   Pim  41:29 Yeah, I mean, thinking that much, it's actually not great for you. And as I said, you could get salted deficient, which could lead to cramps and other problems in your body that you don't necessarily want to deal with. And that's, I'm the opposite to you. And that's why I actually remember that this kidney doctor was saying this. Because if I drink, let's say, how many ounces would that be? Three to four per day is kind of my normal, unless it's really hot outside. And that's it. And I have been like that my whole life. And I told you about my diabetic friend we used to spend, because she moved after a few years, and she moved out to the countryside. So I used to be there for a few weeks every summer. And her parents phone, my parents to ask if I never drank anything, because they were really worried about me. And that was, you know, 35 years ago, or whatever. And I still don't have any problems with my kidneys. So I'm doing fine. And I've never been a big drinker. But I'm trying to listen to my body. But if you're someone who's always like drinking soda, and everything has to be flavored, you probably want to try and get off of that and learn to drink water.   Roy Barker  42:44 Yeah, and that's me, I just, I don't like the water. It's not my first choice. because like you said, I'd rather have you know, coffee in the morning, and then maybe a soda. And I've even tried the, you know, the flavor packets, and that works for a little bit. But then it's like, again, back to the soda. It's almost like a treat, especially if I'm not eating sugar. That's like the one little treat I get, and then No, he drink one in the afternoon today. And then next, you know, by the end of next week, it's like now I'm drinking three in the afternoon. But the one good thing is we she does buy those, like a half a bottle of Coke. So it's not like the big tall 16 or 20 ounce or which it's good for somebody like me because there was a time. This has been years ago, maybe 1010 years ago or so. I can't even tell you how many because I'd have two or three of those big 44 ounce drinks from the local drive in I might have two or three of those during the day and then have four or five cokes you know out of the refrigerator at home it's It was crazy Oh my gosh. But I just saw you know and I got in the habit of always having to have a drink in my hand either at home if I'm in the car especially if I'm in the car I've got to have something to you know drink and I just need to make that switch to need to make it and stay on water it's just hard I can do good for a while and then you know I kind of start falling off of it because I just don't like it that much.   Pim  44:20 So what about if you only have water in your car? That's gonna be good but   Roy Barker  44:25 no that's what I've that's what I've done before is just said look, no, you know, no more soda pops or anything like that. You just have to have waters the only choice and it's, it works. It's just disappointing.   Pim  44:41 Yeah, and that's where you can work on the cravings and just allowing them to be there like this. No big deal. Actually, why do I need that? But if you feel like I you just kind of slowly want to wean off. You could just maybe decide that if I'm going to drink a can of soda I need to before I'm allowed to do that I need to drink the equivalent amount of water. Yeah. So you drink the water first and then you get your soda?   Roy Barker  45:05 Yeah, yeah, I like that. Definitely need to do that and do that with coffee in the morning, too. You know, I, I'm, I'm just all over the place, I'll get in a good run, and you know, like, get up and drink a bottle of water. First thing in the morning, before we have the coffee. And then, you know, I think we'd actually tried that for a while was to, you know, have a cup of coffee and then have a bottle of water have half a bottle in between. So just but again, this is the bigger, you know, issue with me is the consistency because I can do that for a day or two, maybe even a week or two. It's the week, you know, it's the week six 810 12. You know, those those, that's what I just seem to struggle with so much. I mean, when I it's not like I can just fall off the wagon. I mean, I fall off and get run over by the thing.   Pim  46:01 I know a few people like that. So then you have to ask yourself, what is happening when you're falling off? Like, why does that happen?   Roy Barker  46:12 Yeah, you know,   Terry  46:13 dress,   Roy Barker  46:14 yeah, probably that build up of just stuff. And, you know, that's, to be honest, I guess we're gonna be honest here. We'll put it all out there, even though we're kind of over on time, but it's, you know, I have been searching for, you know, what is going on? Because I can tell you, I could write a book on how to do this stuff. I know how to do it. I don't know how to do it, right. But I just don't. Or we do it good for a week, you know, I think we can easily make what, two, three weeks, we'll do very well. And then stop. I mean, it's and it's not always bad stuff. I mean, like, you know, at the end of the year, we were doing good. Really good. And then Terry was gone for about two or three weeks, it just kind of upset the rhythm of things. So it was easier for me to, you know, swing by the hamburger place and get a hamburger because I don't cook. So anyway, it just kind of upset the rhythm, you know, then I fall off and it's not her fault. Please don't take it that I'm   Terry  47:19 never leaving.   Roy Barker  47:22 I'm not blaming her. I'm just saying it's a it's an upset and the pattern, the rhythm. And then. And then I don't know, I think other thing, other times it's been that things just seem to build up. It's almost like, maybe the not having the stuff is what builds up that pressure to where you just have to go like get something to eat, you know?   Terry  47:44 Yeah. And I'll try to, you know, not bring, not bring home, anything snacky you know, just Whole Foods, especially with us trying to do this plant based diet. Just try not to try not to and of course, one of the first things that I'm asked when I come home, got anything snacky   Roy Barker  48:07 you know, I go up or unload the groceries or I can look through the   Terry  48:12 truth comes out. And Daddy, we're being chivalrous.   Roy Barker  48:19 I want to see want to see what, what goodies. Yes. It's   Pim  48:27 sorry. No, no, no. But that's probably because you're using willpower to not do it. So what I was saying that when we suppressing your cravings with willpower, they're going to come back with a vengeance. And that happens to everyone. So if you imagine like trying to, if you had like a beach ball or something, you're trying to push it on the water, if you let go of that, it's just going to explode and come back up. And that is exactly what is happening. When you're like, No, I'm not gonna have I'm not gonna have that I'm not allowed to have that. I'm not not not not. But instead actually do the thing that I told you. What, what, what's the trigger? What was I thinking? And how does that feel in my body if you write that down. So I like having two commitments that one of them is to plan 24 hours ahead. And the other one is to always write down everything that with regards to your cravings. And me included and pretty much all my clients have a resistance to writing it down. We do it three times. And then we think I can do that in my head and then never works. Now, you really need to actually have pen and paper write it down so that you can look at it for some reason it works. But if you try to do it in your head, it's like whatever. And it doesn't really work.   Roy Barker  49:42 Well now be good time for me to start that because, you know, journaling is the same way, you know, over the years I have fits and starts with doing it and this time, you know, I think it's been three months pretty much Yeah, you've been really good. I've been consistent at least getting a page down. So now I'm not be the time to to try that again.   Terry  50:02 And while you're I mean, we've been incorporated meditation and to some everything that we've been doing over I don't know how long a month month, five weeks   Pim  50:13 looks good. But the thing is that it doesn't need to take you long it takes a minute. You just write down. This is what happens. I ate dinner. I was thinking I need to have something. I felt salivation in my jaw. Five seconds later, the craving was gone. Let's say it doesn't have to be complicated. It's super simple. You just need to get it.   Roy Barker  50:41 Right it mine's gonna be had dinner. And why can't I talk? tyrian to go into the ice cream. Cheese.   Terry  50:50 Do you think we need to go down and get some ice cream or chocolate bar? Do you need a chocolate bar? I'll go get you one.   Roy Barker  50:59 Good, good. It was, I guess was it Friday night? Thursday or Friday night. I was just like, dead. And I was like, let's get an ice cream. And she's like, let's just think about that for a little bit. And she never said no. But she finally pushed me off until it's like once bedtime now it's like   Pim  51:19 well done. Yeah.   Terry  51:21 I'm not always like that. Because I can cave with. With the best mom, you know?   Pim  51:27 I'm sure most people do. Yeah. Yeah.   Roy Barker  51:31 Well, we're gonna try that we're gonna, we're gonna plan. And I like that. Nothing. We're gonna play in 24 hours. So it's not that we can't have something. It's just if we really want it. It'll be on tomorrow's menu. Yeah, and write down those feelings that are around when those cravings really pop up.   Pim  51:50 Yeah. Awesome.   Roy Barker  51:53 That's a great idea. All right, I can commit to that. I can commit. Good.   Terry  51:57 Thank you.   Pim  52:00 I love helping people with this. It's so simple. And still we have so much resistance actually doing it. So it's not easy to achieve. But it's really simple to do. Yeah.   Roy Barker  52:10 What do you have any other any other tips you want to leave on? No, we're way long. But do you have any other tips you want to leave us with? Before we get out of here   Pim  52:18 might just if you are struggling with you know, emotional eating or any thing of that kind, the first step is always to be aware of what's going on. So start kind of being honest with yourself about what's going on in your head, and try to find those thoughts. Because sometimes we don't even we're not even aware that we have them. And they never fancy. It's just like, I want chocolate. So what's that? Yeah, we don't know why we happen. We just happen. It's our brain is just trying to get us into it. So start there. And then take the next step from there.   Roy Barker  52:53 Okay, good advice. So do you have a Is there a tool or a habit that you use in your daily life, it could be professional or personal, it's just something that you do that adds a lot of value to your day.   Pim  53:09 My best tool is what I just taught you actually, that adds a lot of value. Because when you can, when you're not emotionally engaging in those cravings, you, you have a different focus, and you get so much more energy and you get so much more done, because you can focus on what you're doing, rather than thinking about food. 24 seven. So that's actually my best tip. I've tried, you know, with morning journaling, breathing exercises, all those kind of things that might help. But in the end of the day, if I have food cravings and thinking about food all day long, I'm so inefficient.   Roy Barker  53:47 Yeah, you know, I think the breathing you bring up too, because we just talked to somebody the other day, this was more about stress management. But that's another thing I think it might be a good thing to try is when you really have those cravings, just to step back and take a you know, two or three deep breaths before you write it down. Because that's something I'm finding with them. The more I get into meditation, it's that breathing in the control of that it just for me, personally, it's very grounding, and kind of read centers made to get, I guess, to get my mind right and start thinking about, you know, the way I need to be thinking and not be all emotional or crazy about stuff. So   Pim  54:29 yeah, it allows you to take a step back and use your rational part of the brain to actually engage. So that's awesome. Our reptilian brain must be huge. Not really. Like programs everything and then   Roy Barker  54:46 place it on repeat. It must outrank my other party. I don't know. I'll have to get it under control. All right, you can tell everybody you know Who do you like to work? With How can you help them? And then of course, how can they reach out and get a hold of you?   Pim  55:05 Okay, so typically, I'm actually working with people who wants to be on a low carb diet, but this struggle to stay on track because of cravings. And usually they've been doing this for years before they come to me, because we are optimists. And we think that we can do it when we're going to crack it the next time, the next, etc. But that doesn't happen. So I work with both type two diabetics now, and people who are not type two, so I'm actually working with both. But if you're a type two diabetic, we always start with the diet and start with that. And then we move on to, you know, working on the mindset or the the mind work to rewire your brain so that you don't respond to the cravings that way. And that's, that's what I see that's, that's where everyone fails, no matter what diet you're on, you will fail if you are an emotional eater, if you're a food addict, and if you respond to these cravings, and that's 90% of the population. So if you have ever thought failed a diet you are going to have to work on, if you want to change your diet. If you happen to eat the way you do, then God bless you. And I hope that you're doing well with what you're eating. And so yeah, um, any sort of food addiction, I don't work with people who have like binge eating disorders, and that's kind of psychological thing on more, I'm a coach. So I'm working with people who want to change. And even you might think that you can't do it. Like me, I never thought I can do it. But I'm actually in control. Now. I'm not 100% sugar free myself, yet. I'm still working on my mindset a bit to get there. But I have come such a long way. And it's so rewarding to be with help others and some of my clients, I think they're much better than me. But there you go. So yeah. If you want to kind of discuss with me whether you want my help, or just want to ask something, and whether I can help you with like a specific condition, or whatever it is, is probably best if you want to book in for a free call with me. And you can do that at smart diabetics academy.com/call. And if you just have a small question for me, you can send me an email at Pim@smartdiabeticsacademy.com, or I also have a Facebook group for diabetics. I'm gonna admit I'm not super active. I'm there. I'm there every week, I do answer every question. But I might not check in every day and the group is still kind of small. But if you want to come in there, you want to ask questions, I will answer them. So you can find me there as well. And that smart diabetics academy.com/Facebook, super simple.   Terry  57:51 It's hard to keep up with all that. Social media media.   Pim  57:55 Yeah, I prefer to speak to people because if I have five minutes with someone, I can help you more than I can help someone one, you know, during an hour trying to make it in text on Facebook or something. It's, it's, it's a very, very weird way of communicating. When you're working, especially when you're working with emotions, you need to kind of speak to someone and see their reaction and kind of throw that ball back and forth a bit. So   Roy Barker  58:22 it's not that I like that approach to I'm like you I'd rather talk and Well, most issues, pick up the phone, get it done, like, back and forth. Yeah, yeah.   Pim  58:32 It's so much more efficient. So even if you don't, I mean, I really do want to help like everyone. So even if you think I may maybe not help pay for a coach or whatever, if you still think, you know, I might be able to help you in 10 minutes book, a call is fine. Okay, it doesn't matter. You don't, you're not signing up for anything. It's just, if I can talk to you for 10 minutes and make a difference. I'm happy. And I have had clients like that. Even a guy he came back after six months. And he said, You know how we talked before. And I couldn't get a handle on this. After we spoke, I haven't touched sugar or bread at all. And I don't know what happened during those 14 minutes that we spoke, something clicked and he just he could just do it on its own. And in that case, you wouldn't even have needed me. And I know that he couldn't hire me at a time because he was about to lose his job. But then he came back and he just said, Hey, do you have paper? I'm gonna give you $50 Okay, thank you. Sometimes you just eat, you know, all you need is half an hour. And that can actually change your life or you don't need a coach ongoingly so   Roy Barker  59:41 that's another great example of paying it forward and just put it out there and it comes back to you. So yeah, I appreciate that.   Pim  59:48 Very much. Awesome. I mean, I appreciate his $150 coming into my account, sure, but even more so just that he got back to me and he let me know that actually This conversation that we had, it changed my life. And that's like, I get goosebumps all over my arms when I hear like, Oh my god, I did it. Yeah, without doing much. He just needed that little switch in his brain. And that's so awesome.   Terry  1:00:14 Well, that was a lot. Yeah, that was a lot.   Roy Barker  1:00:16 Yeah. All right. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day. And we'll be sure to include all the websites and everything in the show notes. But yeah, y'all reach out to him. If you need some help, we're going to take her advice. She's a good role model for us. So we're gonna try the journaling and the scheduling, and see what kind of a difference we do it.   Terry  1:00:39 We will report back. Yep.   Pim  1:00:41 Thank you so much. I'm pleased to report back and reach out if you need any more support or help in that regard. And I'll be happy to talk if we're so appreciative. We really appreciate it.   Roy Barker  1:00:52 Yeah. Thanks. Well, that's gonna do it for another episode of Feeding Fatty Of course, I am Roy. You can find us at www.feedingfatty.com. We're on all the major podcast platforms as well as all the major social media platforms. video of this interview will go up on our YouTube channel when we release it as well. So until next time, take care of yourself and take care of those around you   www.smartdiabeticsacademy.com www.feedingfatty.com

Listen. Find a problem. We were in a hospital once when I broke my back. It was a family and doctor-owned hospital. It was family so, my wife and daughter were there and, my daughter was ten at the time. She said hey I would like a milkshake. They said we don't have any milkshakes. So They called down, and they had a chef at this kitchen. So they made her a milkshake. The next day they had milkshakes on the menu for the kids of the family. They fixed that little problem. I think that it's fixing problems and looking for solutions, and then it is just listening to the people around you. You put them in your sphere for a reason. You hire your attorney. You get your bookkeeper. You have to listen to the people around you. Then you ultimately have to make the right decision. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message

To Hell with the Constitution, THEY ARE COMING FOR YOUR GUNSBiden Administration Urges Supreme Court To Let Cops Enter Homes And Seize Guns Without A Warranthttps://www.spreaker.com/user/9922149/to-hell-with-the-constitution-they-are-cThe U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear oral argument in Caniglia v. Strom, a case that could have sweeping consequences for policing, due process, and mental health, with the Biden Administration and attorneys general from nine states urging the High Court to uphold warrantless gun confiscation. But what would ultimately become a major Fourth Amendment case began with an elderly couple’s spat over a coffee mug. Meanwhile: "I Don't Have Any of the Facts on Colorado, But We Definitely Need a Gun Ban" says Joe BidenSpeaking from the White House Tuesday afternoon, President Joe Biden admitted he doesn't know or have all of the facts about the shooting that took place in Boulder, Colorado Monday night. Regardless, he called for additional infringement on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans. Which Leads to Biden calling on the Senate to pass gun control measures 'immediately' after Boulder shootingBiden also urges Congress to ban 'assault weapons'Biden said he didn't "want to wait another minute, let alone an hour," to act on gun violence.He urged the House and Senate to ban "assault weapons," as he said he did as a senator."I got that done as a senator. It brought down mass shootings, we can do it again," Biden said. "We can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again."So They are COMING FOR YOUR GUNShttps://youtu.be/fIuD5OCMhA0#MagaFirstNews a Part of GoRightNews.com with Peter Boykin join him at https://t.me/RealPeterBoykin 3/23/21

So… They’re finally out of the house. You done good, you raised ‘em right, and they’ve moved out and moved on. How are you feeling about this success?

This started as Road To Nationals checking in with Craig Polston, but we also had some good questions that athletes have approached him with, so it's a bit of a Cat 4 Questions as well. Question 1: How much intensity should I maintain over the winter? Question 2: Is it all Z2 base building? Question 3: When do I start doing intervals? Question 4: When should I start / stop lifting? Email your questions to Brendan@EVOQ.BIKE Some quotes: And then middle ground tempo is super beneficial. And people should look back at like the old Coggan sharp, like the adaptations you make from that, when when you're doing it for 40 minutes, 60 minutes, it's not easy, but you're not killing yourself. It's a very interesting ride. After lifting, I expected to just be, you know, not feeling good. But my legs felt totally opened up. I didn't even need to warm up, I got out and thought: man, this feels great. You're not going to get burnt out and crush yourself and overtrain as long as you're resting. When you prescribe training, you have to be realistic with with it. If you give somebody a tempo ride, and they go and do that, the next day, they're gonna want to keep it to endurance because they're a little tired. If you give people two endurance rides, they think: this is too easy! So They go out and smash with their buddies one day, and then they kind of do endurance the next day. They miss BOTH days optimization and then in reality, what they actually go and do too much. So tempo rides can actually help you pull things back, Whereas on paper, sometimes it might LOOK like too much at first, but if there isn't an Rx, people just go hammer; they get antsy. He's in the gym all year long. Thanks for listening, tell a friend! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYP_TsdWWXQ

Why do people go to a car lot on a Sunday. SO They don't get bothered. They have done their research online possibly but they want to touch, feel and see the car without having to say: Just looking. In real estate when wanting to sell your house, where do people go to get all the information they want without having to say: Just looking Its hard to get the information you are looking for online without having to be bothered. Simple House Solutions has made it easier, email into questions@simplehousesolutions.com with any question you want answered and we will do a video and posting it for our audience. This way they can get all the info they need to sell their house without having to say: Just looking. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/simplehousesolutions/support

It appears that xCloud continues to be a win for console owners with news coming from Xbox that the service won't compete with consoles and have it's own exclusive games. To quote an MS spokesperson "... we remain committed to an approach with game streaming that is complementary to console and have no plans for cloud-exclusive content at this time."In Other Video Game News:Half Life: Alyx might just be the beginning No, cancelling your Stadia Pro won't take away your discounted gamesAmazon might be announcing a game streaming service next yearPokemon is trying to pull a MetallicaThe Oculus Link is awesomeWhat We're PlayingColby: Ruiner, Jedi Fallen Order, Remnant: From the Ashes Cliff: Jedi Fallen Order, Remnant: From the Ashes Dylan: Pokemon, Hunt Showdown, Sea of ThievesQuestionsVinny: What is the video game that you feel represents your childhood? Not the game itself represents your childhood, but when you look back on your childhood and video games, what games pop up into your head.Princess Megan: If no one's asked yet, what is your favorite Thanksgiving tradition? Eating too much? Watching the parade or football games? Playing video games with friends and family? Or something elseEddie: What is your Mt.Rushmore of Thanksgiving sides ?Eddie's Other Name: What games are you thankful for this yearJoeColeslaw: Let's just say one day you power on your console to see a game installed that you have no idea it was bought. The money came out of your account, but you had a room for it ( both in your account and in your hard drive ) What game this year what would you be thankful for, and not mind taking advantage of? In what game are you instantaneously calling customer support to get a refund?Mansocks: What is your favorite dog breed?Cheap/Free GamesEpic Game Store: Rayman LegendsHumble Sonic Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/sonic-bundle-2019?hmb_source=navbar&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=tile_index_2Troll CornerTrolls Can't Shoot People in Fallout 76, So They are Nuking Them

Sara went to Japan! Ben stayed home and read comics!Fallout 76 paid subscribers have formed a peasant-trashing aristocracyhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/11/07/fallout-76-paid-subscribers-have-formed-a-peasant-trashing-aristocracy/Fallout 76 Players Can't Shoot Pacifists, So They're Nuking Them Insteadhttps://kotaku.com/some-fallout-76-players-are-griefing-pacifists-with-nuk-1840035172Sonic The Hedgehog - Official Trailer 2https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/11/12/sonic-the-hedgehog-official-trailer-2Google Confirms All The Stuff Stadia Won't Have At Launchhttps://kotaku.com/google-confirms-all-the-stuff-stadia-wont-have-at-launc-1839839278Unplayable at times, magical in others: Stadia's dream is still in the cloudshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/reviews/unplayable-times-magical-others-stadias-dream-is-still-clouds/The Uncharted Movie Has Been In Development Hell For So Long That Mark Wahlberg, Once Cast As Nathan Drake, Is Now Playing Sully Insteadhttps://kotaku.com/the-uncharted-movie-has-been-in-hell-so-long-its-turned-1839839310Microsoft Xbox X019: Age of Empires IV, new Rare and Obsidian games, xCloud on PC, and morehttps://www.pcworld.com/article/3453836/microsoft-xbox-x019-pc-age-of-empires-iv-rare-obsidian-games.htmlSources: BioWare Plans A Complete Overhaul For Anthemhttps://kotaku.com/sources-bioware-plans-a-complete-overhaul-for-anthem-1839892415Players Find Holy Grail Of Majora's Mask Speedrunninghttps://kotaku.com/players-find-holy-grail-of-majoras-mask-speedrunning-1839861856SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3 PROTOTYPE FOUND!https://www.sonicstadium.org/2019/11/sonic-the-hedgehog-3-prototype-found/PS5 controller ‘shown in patent images'https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps5-controller-shown-in-patent-images/Final Fantasy VII Remake details Turks, Avalanche, Cloud abilities, Chocobo & Moogle summon, more; Aerith and Barret visualshttps://gematsu.com/2019/11/final-fantasy-vii-remake-details-turks-avalanche-cloud-abilities-chocobo-aerith-and-barret-visualsGo to www.audibletrial.com/Gorgecast for your first month of Audible free, AND for a FREE audiobook!PATREON: www.patreon.com/thegorgepodcastKO-FI: www.ko-fi.com/thegorgeDiscord: discord.gg/qScvJZBig Gay Nerds: @biggaynerdsBackground music: Visager: www.visager.bandcamp.comINTRO: @zak235Ben's Twitter: @TheGorgePodcastSara's Twitter: @RadioinactivityE-mail: thegorgepodcast@gmail.comSupport the show (http://patreon.com/thegorge)

In the last couple shows we’ve been talking about UPSELLING and making some dough! We talked about: The math behind upselling 5 Reasons why your people are not consistently upselling (links in the show notes) Today, we are talking about the EASIEST upsell! It would require minimal training Minimal script 8 out of 10 customers say yes to! // WHO:Matthew and Hengam Stanfield are the owners of two restaurants in San Antonio. Their background is in engineering. They tripled their restaurant sales in less than 5 years with 0 prior restaurant experience. They believe every restaurateur deserves owning a restaurant that does not own them. // Need help with your restaurants marketing strategy? Let’s chat. Email us at: MakingDoughShow@gmail.com// LET'S CONNECT: SUBSCRIBE to our Youtube Channel: https://bit.ly/2sif5kX SUBSCRIBE to our Podcast: https://anchor.fm/makingdoughshow FOLLOW us on Instagram: https://bit.ly/2SLRp42 CONNECT on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2D0a3QA // Got questions? Submit your questions for a future Q&A episode at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/ #RestaurantMarketing The easiest upsell is the 2ND Drink! Upselling the 1st Drink: Describe the beer, or wine This would require our servers to know the description of each of our beers and wines Know what it pairs well with This would require our servers to know what beer and wine pair well with what dishes and why Samples The drink cost Some folks don’t drink no matter how great our people sell! Hearing No’s Upselling 2nd drink: No need to describe the beer or wine! No need to know what it pairs well with! No need to give any samples! The customer clearly drinks beer and wine! How to sell? As soon as the customer has around 1 inch left Smile, give eye contact and just ASK: “May I get you another one?” 8 out of 10 people will say yes to the 2nd drink! DOUGH MAKING PLAN: Ask your servers to tell you the difference between the 1st vs the 2nd drink! So THEY come up to the conclusion of how easy it is to upsell the 2nd drink! Track how many beers/ wine you sell per week AVG. Do the math: AVG 50 beers at $5 a pint weekly = $250/ week x 52 = $13,000/ yr If we sell 25 beers more at $5 = $375 x 52 = $19,500/ yr #WinWinWin TRACK, REWARD! Email me and let me know of your results! I’d love to celebrate with you SUBSCRIBE - next show we are talking about the biggest mistakes our servers make when it comes to upselling Back to work and make some DOUGH

Lately Reparations have been the main subject on the evening news . America and congress owed the Negro Americans reparations. Money won’t give us generational wealths. But land will definitely give us generational wealth. That’s why they took the lands from us in the fist place. In the words of Micheal King AKA Martin Luther King . Through act of Congress millions acres of lands were giving away as subsidies to the European who were coming to America. As a economic floor for them build and create generational wealth for Their children. Like the Irish , Jews , polish, Italian, white South African, German , Spaniard And English. We need to focus more on land than money. We should put the Negro farmers at for front of this conversation. They were the ones who thought. The European how to farm those lands throughout the SouthEast , SouthWest . Midwest,and the NorthEast. Abraham Lincoln did not free no slave . All he did was redistribute the wealth from the South to the North. Now the time have come for us to reclaim those lands that was taken from us. We have to take them to court to get those deeds back from those people. It’s our time now to give our children a chance to have generational wealth. So They won’t have to beg people for a job when They can go create their own. Call in Let’s discuss --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnrosemberg/support

It's Popcorn Talk Network's Meet the Movie Press, hosted by Forbes's Simon Thompson and friends! They will discuss the ever changing landscape of movie news and trade reporting. With discussions on everything from Marvel casting to landing exclusive stories on major Hollywood tent-poles. Demetri Panos and Ashley Menzel (@AshleyGMenzel) join Simon. Follow @ShowBizSimon for Simon Thompson! Movies Avengers: Endgame News Avengers: Endgame Review Avengers: Endgame box office Bond 25 News - Casting etc ‘Salem’s Lot’ Movie Coming From James Wan and Gary Dauberman Netflix Oscar Eligibility Remains Intact as The Academy Votes Not to Change Key Rule Disney is Killing Multiple Fox Films, Heavily Scrutinizing Others Lionsgate’s ‘Chaos Walking’, Starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, is “Unreleasable”, So They’re Spending Millions More on Reshoots The Tolkien Estate Won’t Endorse the New ‘Tolkien’ Biopic Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thepopcorntalk Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/PopcornTalk/ ABOUT POPCORN TALK: Popcorn Talk Network is the online broadcast network with programming dedicated exclusively to movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary. Popcorn Talk Network is comprised of the leading members and personalities of the film press and community including E!’s Maria Menounos. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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I’m coming to you on location from the 17th annual investor summit at sea. This annual event is like no other. Every night, I’m seated with a new group of investors at my dinner table. One of the frequent questions that I ask people at my table is “What are your goals?” The typical story goes something like this. They have a full-time job. They like what I do, but I’m ready to change careers in favour of something with passive income. So They’ve started buying a few rental properties. They haven’t figured out how to scale up beyond a few properties. Each of the properties are a lot more work than they anticipated. They don’t have the investment capital to buy a larger multi-family project by themselves. In talking with a number of people at length over an extended period of time I’ve noticed a few trends. I can broadly put the investors on board the summit at sea into four major categories. there are the beginner to intermediate investors who are still working as employees in their day job and moonlighting with a small rental portfolio, trying to figure out how to transition from their current life to one where passive income has replaced their employment income. There are investors who have decided to become the full-time operator of the business. They have traded their day jobs for the role of a small business owner. They have recognize that owning a portfolio of properties is not a passive endeavor. It takes a lot of work. They have reached the limits of scalability not only based on capital but based on time. They’re still on the hamster wheel, running faster than ever before with a larger number of the small projects. Number three there are full-time investors and developers who have decided to focus on larger projects. He’s larger projects or afford the possibility of hiring dedicated full-time staff in all of the critical roles that are necessary to operate the business on a daily basis. The focus of time and energy goes into managing the project but not the day-to-day operations. The time and energy is put into growth of the portfolio. Once the projects are complete and they are on auto pilot the dedicated staff manage the daily operations with little to no intervention from the business owner. If at some point in the future I decide to take my foot off the gas and either slow down or stop growing the portfolio, it will be a flow of residual and passive income. My role as the business owner focuses on making sure the right people are in the right roles. I’m focused on building the organization. This is not that different from a senior role in corporate America. The fourth and final group have figured out that managing all these projects is a ton of work. We have decided to focus their time and energy on selecting a handful of high-quality operators who they trust the building management portfolio. And that you to invest passively in private syndications. These are the same types of projects and investments that large family offices of the wealthy and ultra wealthy invest in.

Today Nathan throws out a surprise topic for us to discuss. We talk about the questions people should ask when determining whether a brokerage is for them or not. We want to know what you love best about your brokerage. In the comments tell us what your favorite part is! RTRE_Ep_48  Audio length 29:24 RTRE 48 – What to Ask When Choosing a Brokerage [music] [Chris]:Welcome to re:Think Real Estate, your educational and hopefully entertaining source for all things real estate, business, news and tech.  [Christian]: I am Christian Harris in Seattle, Washington. [Nathan]: Hi, I am Nathan White in Columbus, Ohio. [Chris]: And I am Chris Lazarus in Atlanta, Georgia. Thanks for tuning in.  [music] [Chris]: Everybody and welcome back to re:Think Real Estate. I am Chris Lazarus here with Nathan White and Christian Harris. Guys what's going on guys? [Nathan]: Hey what's happening? I am trying to stay warm in the polar vortex here but it's only one day people so don't panic, it's not a week long. [Nathan]: How cold is it there right now? [Christian]: It's about 7 degrees. It's the end of January we're recording this.  [Chris]: It's gone up a little bit since we talked last. Our entire state shut down for a little bit of rain so Georgia is closed now [laughter]. [Nathan]: And if it even gets flurries in Georgia it's like the apocalypse like it's hysterical. [Chris]: Well I mean no joke we are 5 years to the date from Snowmageddon. Like the time hop came up on Facebook “5 years to the date from Snowmageddon today”. And last time that happened I ended up having to walk 11 miles on icy roads back to the house because my car wasn't getting me there. So…Yeah I mean Georgia does not know how to deal with that stuff. [Christian]: It's legit. [Nathan]: Like 2 inches of snow or just a little ice? [Chris]: It wasn't 2 inches but it was like a maybe a quarter inch of snow on top of an inch of ice.  [Christian]: Ice will…Ice will mess up your day so… [Chris]: Yeah ice did it.  [Nathan]: When you were talking about ice I saw that you were talking about something. [Chris]: No yeah so… [Nathan]: What are we gonna talk about? [Chris]: Nate is gonna surprise us with today's topic. [Nathan]:[censored]. [Chris]: Nate what are we talking about today? [Nathan]: So you know we've talked about this before but I am gonna go to the…you know we're in a public group. I think all 3 of us are on it. The…the Inman coast to coast and somebody earlier this week posted again about how to choose a brokerage. And I want to say maybe it was Tanya or somebody. I forget who put the…the questions to ask out there.  But did you guys see that about an agent going to choosing a brokerage? Because some of this I agree with, some I don't agree with at all so I thought it might be good to go back and talk a little bit more about this. Maybe we have some new agents since we started doing this that you know are in that struggle bus of “Hey I am stuck here” or “I don' know what to do. I didn't…I didn't choose right”. And so these questions…These questions [background noise] Whats that? Sorry. [Christian]: Did you just say struggle bus? [Nathan]: Yeah. Struggle bus. [laughter]. [Christian]: OK I just wanted to make sure I heard that right. OK. [Nathan]: Yeah so if you guys check your email I just sent you that.  [Chris]: Yeah I am looking at it right now. [Nathan]: Right so like if you look through some of this like I don't know if I agree with all of this. Of course I never agree with everything, right. [Chris]: You never agree with anything. [Christian]: You're super agreeable. What are you talking about? [Nathan]: I am so… [Chris]: You're the “Yes man”. [Nathan]: Oh my God you all are ridiculous. [laughter] [Christian]: I am…I looked over this a little bit… [Chris]: I am seeing this for the first time. Let's talk through it. [Christian]: So you're talking about…You're talking about kind of the generic agent guide to choosing brokerage that is out there? [Nathan]: Yeah. [Chris]: Yeah. We're not gonna say who it is put out by but there's a guide out there. Alright so first step in this guide research. What's this? “Pull MLS numbers for at least 3 years for the office. Volume, transaction count, map the transaction if your MLS offers that feature. Know how far from the office they are.”  I don't know. If you're a new agent, you don't have access to the MLS.  [Christian]: Yeah. So what I found in general is that whatever brokers you go to in you're quote interviewing with them they're going to spat out the stuff that makes them look best right? [Chris]: Yeah. [Christian]: So if they're agent heavy they're gonna be like “Oh we dominate the market by agent numbers”. If they're you know actually killing it in volume or, you know, gross sales that's what they're gonna…that's what they're gonna highlight.  So you know the thing is if you're a new agent how does the brokerage production help you? I mean it…it doesn't directly. Now it might indirectly because OK maybe there is a lot of experienced agents that you can shadow or piggy back on. But just because they're productive doesn't mean it will help you do yours. They're busy. You know and now they're hinting like if you have in mind “OK I am gonna do open houses.” OK you're gonna need an office that has listings , you know. Now you don't need it in there they're not here. You can call other agents and brokerages if they're willing to collaborate… [Chris]: What they do that? [Christian]: Well it's not…it's not a culturally…I don't know. Some do. You know if they have a more collaborative mind set. I mean I all about that but not…Most franchises don't have that. Might be more in the “Protect your own” mind set. So…They'd rather not do an open house rather than have someone from another broker do their open house. [Chris]: That should never happen. Not in my state. [Nathan]: Well you know here's another one on here that really tripped me up. This is a value aid and establish. “Why the office of the brokerage you're interviewing with is or isn't successful.”  How do you define success in a brokerage? [Christian]: Right what are your metrics success? [Nathan]: Right I mean. [Christian]: Numbers and profitability but you're not gonna know the profitability numbers. [Nathan]: Right. I mean you know our brokerage doesn't do a gazillion transactions but I believe the ones that we do do are very high quality. So, meaning from…you know from a client experience. So again I don't know you know if that counts or not. It's like saying “Oh I am hearing another party say look at agent reviews on yelp or Zillow”. I mean [censored] I am not interviewing like…That's not applicable to me I guess so I struggle… [Christian]: But when it comes to researching a brokerage what would you say? I mean I don't think these are super valid because they center around like on traditional like sales like…Do they do a lot of business? And that than quantifies whether they're a good brokerage which I think has nothing to do with is a good brokerage or not. Maybe.  I mean I guess you could kind of determine market saturation or market share but again as a new agent is that really gonna help you I mean unless you're in a small town and there is a dominant brokerages and a bunch of other small ones that don't do anything. I mean here in Seattle there's tons of brokerage and they all have their…they're all getting those things. They're all doing sales. You know it's not one, It's like crushing it you know. [Chris]: Well I think it all depends because everybody's definition of success in real estate is different.  [Christian]: Yeah. [Chris]: You know I was speaking to one of my agents about this the other day because as we bring in agents you know depending upon where they are in their life cycle they may have different goals. Like some of our agents are retired from one career. Do we expect that those agents are going to hustle and grind and built a massive business working hundreds of hours every month just for a few years? Probably not. You know those people are probably getting into this to do a few transactions a year, have a place to come, learn, hang out, interact with people and have fun.  And then we have some other people that are getting into this for the exact reason I just mentioned. They want to grow something big. And it's not our job as the brokerage to define what that success is. That's up to them. Our goal is to provide the infrastructure, the culture, the support necessary for them to build what they want to build. At least that's my philosophy on it and you know…go ahead. [Christian]: Yeah I mean that's a good point is that there's not one definition of success as an agent. You know there's gonna be the younger people that don't have family and nothing better to do but grind it out for 80 hours a week. Other ones that are mostly, you know, full time, stay at home parents or something that are gonna do occasional job, you know. [Chris]: Absolutely. So this question that they ask in here, this bullet point I think is excellent which is “Ask the broker about his or her story as an agent, team lead, sales manager or broker owner. To what do they attribute their success? And you want to under…you want to uncover his or her core beliefs about what makes a successful agent”.  I think that is an excellent point. When you're…when you're looking for finding out what firm you want to work for it's gonna be the team of people that you're surrounding yourself with and knowing their core values. If they're not transparent about it. If they're transparent about it you should know their core values you know within you know the first round of interviews with them. But if they're not asking questions like this would be fantastic as an agent looking to find a right…a different brokerage.  [Nathan]: Yeah I agree. That's…That's a helpful question in there. Some of the ones like I said I struggled with. That one is good. I was talking to somebody the other day and they said “What about getting this person to come in and be a manager”. And I was like “Yeah but the problem with them managing is they don't actually have any history”.  I have a big struggle on my struggle bus that there Mr. Harris [laughter] for people who coach or who lead that don't have any history or is very minimal. And so how do you…Say somebody is running this office or brokerage X and they go in and they're recruiting and you ask them you know “How's your history” and they go “Well you know I stopped selling 10 years ago now I just coach”.  I kind of look at somebody like [censored]. Like that's not even relevant now. 10 years I mean that's like 100 years in real estate world so I don't think you would be helpful. I think you have to be current and I think you need to be somewhat of a producing broker to a degree or one that is heavily involved with their agents' development and still maybe…I don't know you guys would probably tell me I am wrong since I am the agent you all are the brokers but you know you only have to do a couple transactions a year just to stay fresh I would feel like. But to tune out I think it would be a mistake.  [Christian]: Yeah I think that's kind of a good point in regards to like I was listening to…I had something in Inman Connects New York livestream this morning and someone was talking about the difference between the focus of the brokerage and the agent or specifically in that context the team. And the brokerage model, traditional brokerage model is head count. They focus solely on head count.  Now you may do that through you know training or some other low thing to lure agents in. But [cough] I think part of the brokerage responsibility is when you're interviewing an agent flashing out “What are your goals for the expectations? Can we match that?” Or you know. Now maybe most brokerages don't care. We're smaller so I think we can kind of customize or at least make sure it's gonna be a good fit. Because one of these questions in here is ask if you can ride along, you know basically shadow an experienced agent. Because I mean that's a great way for a new agent to learn.  Now Chris I know you have like a required mentor program which is great but that's one of the…as many awesome things to see on offers that's one of our weak spots is that we're not huge and so we don't have a lot of agents that can you know that have enough business to be able to “Hey we have a new agent can they shadow you on your listing today?” Like… [Chris]: It took us a while to get to that. [Christian]: Yeah it's gonna take a while. [Chris]: Yeah.  [Christian]: But I think that's good because I did…the one agent I had lost and you know there's nothing I could have really done about it is just the nature of how big we are was they wanted to, you know, shadow someone's business. Someone who is you know doing a lot of business. And we just don't have a ton of agents doing you know huge amounts of business everyday. You know so they left so they can mentor under someone who was. And I totally get that, you know. Hopefully it won't get to the pace where, you know, that won't be an issue. But we're small, new and scrappy so you know your strengths and you know your weaknesses. [Chris]: Yeah I think that I saw here a description of the office culture, head count, tenure of the agents, breaking it down into head count and turning it over rate, the agent or broker's involvement in the local, regional NAR leadership. The broker agents' involvement in state and national associations, outside or NAR and the broker and agent involvement in local community school boards, charities.  I think that's a pretty good description of an office. Like if you can as a broker owner…If I am sitting down having a conversation with somebody these are things that I know and can recite you know in my sleep about who is doing what because these are things that we promote. But, you know, having an office that encourages involvement…A lot of offices don't do it maybe because they're afraid that when they put their agents around other agents the other agents are gonna try and recruit them.  That's not necessarily the case because there are a lot of agents that I get around that I don't want to recruit. Being in those positions. But it's still important that when we're in this industry that we do our best to support our industry and that when we are serving our communities we are doing the best to support our communities through local charities and organizations.  So having a company that supports that stuff goes to describe how their culture operates and it puts the priorities in perspective you know and just know that with turnover rate it's not always…Sometimes that needs a description. Because for us right now we're releasing agents 2 to 1 because we have become a lot more selective in who we are hiring than who we are letting go. We are letting a lot of licenses laps that are non-performers and that's one of the reasons that our productivity has gone from like 300k per person to like 1.1 million per person. So there are other things in there that need to be picked and taken into account. [Christian]: Yeah and I would say that that focus on culture is because big I mean it's really easy to quantify your split or you [cough] some of these other things that agents tend to focus on like how much money are they gonna be taking home. Now what that doesn't take into account is well “Is the brokerage is gonna support me? Am I gonna flourish there? I am I gonna hate it when I am working around. Am I gonna hate doing the work you know into the office you know. Are you gonna be part of something bigger that you're on board with?”  And I think all that closely ties into like the brand of the brokerage. What are they known for? Are they involved? Do they encourage agents involvement? And really if you hone that as a brokerage and you have a line with your agents and that's what they're drawn to you're not gonna be afraid of losing them because a big franchise down the road that doesn't have, you know, a healthy culture like that or doesn't…Isn't known for something other than name recognition of their franchise. Like there's nothing there for them. Like they're gonna love who they're asked you know what you provide. You know it's really hard to quantify that cultural experience, that feeling of satisfaction of knowing “Doing what I am doing, I am involved, I am helping, I am part of the listing and not just you know a number on the spreadsheet”. [Chris]: Absolutely.  [Nathan]: Well you know if you look at this document I mean it's great but I really think they could have skipped all the way to the bottom and point 4 like the bullet points there I think is perfect. “Do you fully understand what a brokerage is offering here?”. What I find most agents even when they switch to another one still don't understand what they're getting offered. “Do you trust the broker?” You would be working with them. I think that's important. “Do the claims of the brand line up with everything that is isn't offered to agents and clients.” “Do the principals and beliefs align with those of brokers and managers?” That's huge. “Does the brokerage provide what you need now in the future and for the development?” Like to me that sums up the only questions you need to answer almost but above the other stuff. Yeah. [Christian]: And I think it kind of makes sense. I mean I think it could be more concise but I mean those are kind of the…These are bottom line what you wanna make sure you're getting and all the questions up above will help you get to those answers.  [Nathan]: Right I mean those are the…That's the guts of my struggle bus for those people. I…And the reason I say like when you don't want people to make a switch…I've got a colleague who just made switch to another brokerage. And when she left her original one she thought you know  “Hey you know I understand everything”.  She went to the new one and 6 months down the road she went “I didn't really understand the numbers”. And I was like…you know I don't want to use her name but “Hey Sussie how did you not of all people”. Like I expected her to really understand the numbers and she didn't. I think she actually might have paid more at the new brokerage that she went to. You know because she originally left brokerage number 1 because her fees were so high. She goes the second one. Didn't know the math well and ended up paying more.  [Chris]: Sure. [Christian]: Well I think that tied into the “Do you trust the brokerage”. I had an agent who…who I think had made up her mind you know that she was gonna leave. You know it implements new monthly fee because we're losing money on not producing brokers…not producing agents. And I am like “Kate you may think that you're gonna pay less over here but let's talk about this”.  And you know after talking about it and she talks to some other people about “Oh I didn't realize that I had to be a member of the NAR which is another $600 every…” whatever, “I didn't realize that they also did desk fee” and blah blah blah and than I was like “OK you actually have it really good here”.  You know and so…and maybe you know putting some of that back on media and brokerage. Can you get the value there and so she thought she would find it somewhere else. But half the time you know they end up leaving thinking the grass is greener. And than “Oh hey they were sold at fallen stolen goods” you know. You don't realize it until after you leave. After you go somewhere else.  [Nathan]: Right. Right they don't understand it. [Chris]: I got that from a couple of agents. They left and now they want to come back and they were on like one of our old legacy plans and they don't get that option anymore. And that they're like “Oh [laughter] wow this is gonna cost me more?”. Like “Yeah yeah we're doing a lot more now. You had it good. You lost”. So I mean that's another thing for agents. If you're thinking about making a move see what your broker can do.  If you're moving…there was an article that came out a little while ago about why agents make a move. And a lot of brokers think that number 1 is because of the cost. But it's not. I think one of the number 1 reasons is the number 1 and number 2 but it was “Is the broker in their corner? Does the broker have their back?” And then the other one was “What is the culture like at the office?” Because if a lot of…for the most part brokers are gonna make relatively smaller amounts of money. And it's all gonna depend on what they're offering and what their expenses are but you know we're gonna make our profit margin. Hopefully. That's the goal. And if… [Christian]: Wait you're profitable? That must be nice [laughter]. [Chris]: We're investing a lot of it back into the company. But we are making what we need to be making off of them so that we can invest it back into the company and our agents see that but the second thing is culture. Are you working in an environment that you feel that you have the people around you supporting you?  And those 2 were the biggest reasons that agents make jumps. It's not because of the desk fees. It's not because of the NAR fees. It's not because of the monthly fees. Sometimes it is but usually that's when we see people going from very high splits to something that is a little bit more along the lines of the Indie broker margin. Kind of the Indie broker model. Where we have a little bit more flexibility there and we lose the franchise fees. But other than that it's culture and is “Does the broker have my back? Is the office there to support me?” [Christian]: I definitely have to agree with that. I think a lot of agents lead with the cost but I mean in the grand scheme of things I mean there's not…If you're productive I mean what you're gonna end up paying isn't that different over you know a year. You know but it does come down to that culture and that…what was that other thing you said? [Chris]: Culture and support. [Christian]: Culture and? Support yes. Yeah that's huge because I have had agents that come over you know who come over because they're like “How available are you? I can't get a hold of my broker when I have questions for 2 days.” And I am like “That's ridiculous. What are they doing? It's their job”. [laughter]  You know and so it being smaller and not having so many agents and you seeing my primary job and been in the office to support agents you know I mean that's big you know. And just a tip. If you had an office you're not really sure what their culture is, if you want to get a good gage of it pay attention to how they respond when an agent leaves. If they're nasty and two faced get out of there. Get out of that office.  And that was my first office. Like day to day it was OK. It wasn't openly hostile but as soon as you know…Someone who you know agent X was quote “friends” with and helping out one day and they left and the next day they're “Oh that person I knew blah blah blah they're terrible”. And you're gonna be like “What aren't we all in this together? What's this brand loyalty to a franchise that doesn't have your back? Like what do you care as an agent whether or not another agent left?” Like you know like they're being personally, like a personal slide against you know the agent that another agent left.  [Nathan]: Man the colleague that I was talking about earlier when she left her original team you know they went [laughter] Death Con 4 on her. I was like “You don't want to be in a place like that”. Like… [Christian]: It shows your true colors either as an agent or you know as…Like if I hear that as a broker I squash that. I am like “No we are collaborative, we are all on this together. I want what's best for them and if they feel going to another brokerage gives them what they need he no pep talk. I want to support them in there”.  [Nathan]: That makes me think of Tracey Chambers, who is my first team lead. I was…the team lead at the office at Callow Aims [phonetics] and I will applaud her. When I told her I was leaving she said “Nathan I wish you all the best and if you ever want to come back here know the door is always opened and I will welcome you with open arms and if you have any questions feel free to call me”. I still call her. She was awesome and that tells you a lot about her.  [Christian]: And speaks to character and that's what's gonna be the biggest differentiator and the difference between agents. It's not skills, not experience, it's character. Are you gonna do the right thing? [Nathan]: I don't know if we answered any questions actually on this list of things. But I think it's important to talk about again from just an agent perspective because again as a new agent and maybe even within the first year or 2 you just don't know all the questions to ask. And it's…and a lot of it is ambiguous because you can't put value on certain things.  [Christian]: Yeah I think it's a good starting point. I mean I have had one agent who came in with questions and I loved it. You know it would be like “Hey these are some questions I have” and I think they kind of got them offline or you know another brokerage they were interviewing or something. And I am basically like “That question doesn't matter because of this. This question is irrelevant because of that. That's a good question. Let's talk about it.”  You know. So it could be a good place to start but like you said as a new agent you're not really sure what you need to be asking. What questions mater or not. [Chris]: Yeah so I mean we…I think the last time we talked about you know choosing a brokerage and how the brokerage works. That was like early early last year, right around when we just launched. [Nathan]: First 5 episodes maybe. [Chris]: Yeah yeah something like that but I think regardless of where you are in your career if you are new or if you are a seasoned veteran I think the message is you need to understand if there is…if your office is toxic, if your office is not fun to work in, if your leadership is undermining management, if your…if you're not receiving the right support the message is there are brokers out there where that does not exist.  There are brokerages that do have proper support, that do have a good culture and that are fun to work at. And I think that a lot of the brokers who have quotas that they need to meet on the recruiting side I think that those…their attention is in the wrong place and that the broker owner does not have enough time to dedicate to the support of the office.  So that's my message. If you're in a position where you're not sure what's gonna happen with your career, if you're not happy with the people that you're working with my message is just go out and try and meet a few brokers because there are places that do exist where that's not a problem. [Christian]: Yeah. [Nathan]: Yeah I mean I agree. That sums it up about as good as you can get. If you got questions you know what you can do? Email us. We'll answer them [laughter]. [Christian]: I am interested and see what questions…you know…Yeah comments, you know. Leave comments. What are the questions? You know what are the questions that agents should be asking or brokerages should be asking to their agents to make sure it's a good fit?  [Chris]: And email us and tell us what you think about your brokerage. Why is your brokerage a great place to work? I think that… [Christian]: Yeah that's good. [Chris]: What do you like most about your brokerage? We don't want to hear the bad things. We hear the bad things all the time. Let us know what you think is the best part about your brokerage? I think that just about sums it up for this episode of re:Think Real Estate. Thank you so much for tuning in for this impromptu topic brought you by Nate. Thank you Nate. We'll catch you next week.  [music] [Chris]:  Thanks for tuning in this week's episode of the re:Think Real Estate Podcast. We would love to hear your feedback so please leave us a review on iTunes. Our music is curtesy of Dan Koch K-O-C-H, whose music can be explored and licensed for use at dankoch.net. Thank you Dan. Please like, share and follow. You can find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/rethinkpodcast. Thank you so much for tuning in everyone and have a great week.  [music]  

Keith and Austin were expectiong TWO guests but they didn't show up. So They just talked to each other again.

Back from the savage wastelands of the catocalypse Batman (Jeremy) and Tanner (Underoos) must journey to protect the sacred crystal skull of knowledge… So… They meet a new Indiana Jones? And a Janitor.. that, um… something about movies. Look, it is … [read more>>]

--{ After the IMF You've Nothing Left: "International Monetary Fund has So Many Scams, A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Fleecing the Lambs For Nothing Backed Currency it Offered Solution, Becoming very Rich, Leaving Behind Destitution, It Pretends to Regulate International Exchanges, Giving Itself More Power with Self-Made Changes, Loaning Out to Countries, So They can Invest In U.N. Scam Business, Charging High Interest, Power Over the World, Seems We've All been Sold To Private Profiteers Demanding Payment in Gold" © Alan Watt }-- Ancient Cultures and Climate Change - International Monetary Fund and Funding Quotas for Member Countries - Philippines to Join IMF - Reputation Creation and Management - Controlled Media - Hedge Fund Insider Trading - Cerberus to Sell Bushmaster Co. - CIA Tortured and Sodomized Terror Suspect - Private Central Banking and Fractional Reserve System - Scam of Money and Debt - Synthetic Hormones in Food Supply. Sharing Information with Others. Perfectly Conditioned Public - Workplace Banter of Sports. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 18, 2012 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ Herd Worships "Celebrities with Perversities": "Savile, Untouchable Until He was Dead, Fear Silenced Victims Some of Them Said Too Big to Touch, Friend of the Queen, And Charles with Whom He Oft was Seen, Many More Big-Wigs Remain in Shade, Ensuring by Threats or Cash Offers Made, That Top Police Inquiries will Fade Away, Leaving Pervs to Rape Another Day, You Live in Their System, They Occupy Most Ruling Positions, Posts on High, Giving You Your Reality, Disney Version, So They can Continue with Their Perversion" © Alan Watt }-- International Meetings of Private Organizations - US-Canada Beyond the Border, Integration of Laws - Catholics Can't Teach Pro-life in Canadian Catholic Schools - 'Human Life' Redefined - Third-World Manufactured Goods - Asian Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers - Jimmy Savile and Pedophile Ring - Destruction of Culture - Psychopathic Types get Up the Ladder - Biometrics Adopted by Australian Banks - EU Awarded Nobel Peace Prize - Care System Failed to Protect Dutch Children--Pedo Ring. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Oct. 12, 2012 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ What's Happenin' Man? "It's a New World Order, Age of Transitions, Lots of New Normals Jockeying for Positions, Post-Industrial, Post-Family, Post-Democracy Too, Our Masters via Agencies Run the Human Zoo, Millions Using Noise, So They don't Think, Lots of Flashy Entertainment as They Go Extinct, Cancers Escalate, Young Dropping with Strokes, Infertile Men Produce No Virile Healthy Folks, It's Going as Planned, Just Like Sci-Fi Novels, An Incredibly Wealthy Rich, Poor in the Hovels, Helped by Surrealism of Hollywood Entertainment, HAARP, Smart meters, ELF, and Brain Entrainment" © Alan Watt }-- Fabian Socialism, Marxism and Darwinism - Current Stage of Authoritarianism - Model State of China, One-Child Policy and Forced Abortions - Scotland, School Lunches - Promotion of Hedonism, Outbreak of Madness throughout Society - Glucose-Powered Brain Chip - London, Visiting Student Has Car Blown Up by Anti-Terrorist Unit - ICANN and Domain Names - Bank of England opens Texas Office - Single European Banking System in 2013 - Cell Phone Apps Created for Stalking - Drones, Precision Bombing and Propaganda - Syngenta Biotech Charged over its Bt Corn Killing Cows - Agenda of Cultural Destruction - Military Drone Bases on US Soil. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - June 15, 2012 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ The Goals of All Souls: "Oh Yes, The Royal Society of International Affairs, With CEO Membership with Massive Shares, Has Directed the World for a Hundred Years, Grabbing Resources Globally, Inner Circle Steers, With Think Tanks Advising Governments Worldwide, Disclosing Bits of Info, The Rest They Hide, Their Part in History, If the World Knew Would Cause an Uproar, An Unholy Stew, For Wars They Fomented to Grind Nations Down, So They'd Give Up Sovereignty to a New Crown, To Integrate Fiscally Under a World Bank, After Causing Depressions Many They Sank, Masses Must Be Ruled by Winning Elite, Working a Century in Darkness, No Mean Feat" © Alan Watt }-- The Daily News: What are They Doing to Us Today? - Media's Use of Fear - Canada Passes Omnibus Crime Bill - Elite's View of the Ordinary People, A Great Beast - Edward Bernays - Walter Lippmann - "Progressive" Transformation of American Culture - CFR-RIIA Bringing in Global Governance System - Amalgamation of Countries through Treaties - Merger of Far East/Pacific - Creation of EU, Surrender of National Fiscal Sovereignty - Buildup of Post-WWII Germany - Blurring Lines between Gov. and Corporations ( = Fascism) - CFR's "Council of Councils", CIGI - Standardized Information - DARPA-Google. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - March 13, 2012 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

This week it's just a catch up episode between the boys. They suddenly realize that almost 2 years have passed since they have been working. Where has that time gone? So They start to discuss the possibilities of what is in store for the next 2 years? Have a listen and enjoy the work week!

--{ On Wisdom Dote on Whether to Vote: "Democracy, The Masses' Sleeping Pill, Promises to Solve Each Social Ill, Never have Such Speeches Been Made By Establishment Fronts and the Well-Paid, We Live in Doublethink of Hell & Bliss, Future Utopias versus What Really Is, Orators are Rolled Out for System's Election, Often Using Old Scripts which Evade Detection, The System's Goal is Fearsome, Neurotic, May Give Peace or Gruesome War Chaotic, With Taxes and Firstborn We Appease This Insatiable Monster, Down on Knees, With Flags Bedecked He Puts on the Show, Teeth Chatter, Knees Knock Down Below, Deity Likes Con-men, He has Oft Supped With Exploiters of Humanity, Mean and Corrupt, Yet, He's Wrapped in the Flag, the People Dote, So They'll Suffer More Years After They Vote" © Alan Watt }-- News isn't about Telling the Truth - Public Expect Media to do their Reasoning for Them - Elastic Band of Democracy, Only Right Citizens Have is to Vote. History of Factory Towns, Slavery, Miners' Strikes and Strikebreakers - "Matewan" movie - Harland County, Kentucky, USA. Scientific Tyranny and Elimination of "Useless Eaters" - Cultural Changes Sanctioned from the Top Down - Yelling Newscasters - Spies on Every Street - Mass Communications Surveillance Worldwide - Lockheed-Martin - Use of "Unobtrusive" Cameras and Monitoring - Training into Compliance to Authority - Psychiatry and Diagnosis of "Disruptive" Disorders - Quality Control System of Schooling, Certification. U.S. Postal Service Cutting Jobs - Privatization of Mail and Deliveries. Well-Financed Global Warming Agenda. Auto Production Moves to China and India, Corporations Funded by the West. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Feb. 24, 2012 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ Who's the Boss of Wizard of Oz? "There's No Contact Between People and Gov., Strange Decrees Float Down from Above, Never Long Resting On Stones They Lay, Immediately Enforced with Threats to Obey, In Higher Academia They're Told the Plan, Being Imposed Globally On Every Human, But Don't Dare Utter Personal Objection, Backs Will Turn to Signal Dissention, "The Proles don't Count" Orwell Said, They're Happy in Trivia, Land of the Dead, World Managerial Class, All on Track, Good for Careers, There's No Turning Back If the Proles Knew, They'd Chill to the Bone, So They're Kept in Fantasy and Left Alone" © Alan Watt }-- World Government Already Here - Conology through Repetition and Straight Faces - Redistribution of Wealth - The Climate Change Scare machine - Free Carbon Allowances for Billionaire Jet Owners - US Free Trade Deals - Socialist Holland - Smart Meters Emitting Microwave Frequencies - FBI Make-Work Program of Creating Bogus Terrorist Patsies--Who Benefits? - Plan of Destabilization and Wars in Middle East. Religions, Sects, Secret Societies, Symbology of Number 12 - Depiction of the Deity in the Image of Man - Ancient Mythology. China to Take over Role as Policeman of the World - Privatization of Military, Buildup of Private Security Business - Bachelor's Degree, Early Universities, Study under a Master - Freemasonic Degreed System, Chequerboard. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Oct. 14, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)