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Welcome to an audio-led edition of Unmade, in which we talk to the industry veteran in charge of delivering News Corp's advertising revenues, Louise Barrett. Further down, a good day on the Unmade index for Australia's TV players.If you've been thinking about upgrading to an Unmade membership, this is the perfect time. Your membership includes:* Member-only pricing for our HumAIn (May 28) and REmade (October 1) conferences;* A complimentary invitation to Unmade's Compass event (November);* Member-only content and our paywalled archives;* Your own copy of Media Unmade.Is it time for the news industry to revive the ida of a local premium content exchange? Louise Barrett thinks soThis week saw News Corp run it's D_Coded sessions, the news company's version of Upfronts, with a digital focus.Among the new offerings shared with marketers and media agency executives were ways of making more of News Corp's large logged in audience. Google's long-delayed, but now imminent, deprecation of third party cookies on Chrome may work to the benefit of publishers and media companies with big opted-in audiences.For News Corp that includes adding to the capabilities of its Intent Connect data offering, and the introduction of its ecommerce play Shoppable ScrollX.Barrett's conversation with Unmade's Tim Burrowes also uncovered the information that the idea of a cross industry premium content exchange is back on the agenda. News Corp's MD of client product Pippa Leary previously worked on setting up the APEX Advertising exchange which was a joint venture of Nine and Fairfax Media before those companies merged.With increasing client concerns about programatic fraud and low quality Made For Advertising (MFA) sites, a premium content exchange potentially offers marketers the ability to reach a higher quality audience programatically.In the UK, the Ozone Project, owned by news publishers including News UK, Reach, Guardian News & Media and Telegraph Media Group is well established. Barrett reveals that she and her colleague Leary held talks with Ozone during a UK visit. “I'm a big supporter of pulling something like this together. There are discussions happening. It's a very strong ambition,” she says.Also under consideration is the idea of setting up an academy aimed at educating new media agency staff about the strengths of print publications.Good day on the index for TV and outdoor, as SCA tries to slam to the door on ARN.A solid trading day for Seven West Media, Nine and Ooh Media helped lift the Unmade Index by 0.62% to 536.8 points on WednesdayNine rose by nearly 1% to return close to a market capitalisation of $2.5bn; SWM surged by more than 2.5% and Ooh lifted by 1.85%Yesterday afternoon also saw Southern Cross Austereo attempt to slam the door on ARN Media's takeover bid. The SCA board issued a statement saying the updated bid was unattractive for shareholders and would be costly to execute.Today's podcast was edited by Abe's Audio, the people to talk to about voiceovers, editing and production.Time to leave you to your Thursday. We'll be back with more tomorrow Have a great day.Toodlepip…Tim BurrowesPublisher - Unmade This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unmade.media/subscribe

Nuestro Insólito Universo _ Sothis Sirio. En los cinco minutos de duración que tiene este programa se narran historias asombrosas referentes a cualquier tema. La primera transmisión de este programa se realizó por la Radio Nacional de Venezuela el 4 de agosto de 1969 y su éxito fue tal que, posteriormente, fue transmitido también por Radio Capital y, actualmente, se mantiene en la Radio Nacional (AM) y en los circuitos Éxitos y Onda, de Unión Radio (FM), lo cual le otorga una tribuna de red AM y FM que cubren todo el país, uno de los programas radiales más premiados y de mayor duración en la historia de la radio de Venezuela.

Today, I speak with young adult Kayvion Lewis, author of the recently published Thieves' Gambit. We talk about her writing process and her adventurous spirit is so infectious!  Book Recommended:Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion LewisDaughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan Black Sheep by Rachel HarrisonYellow Face by R.F. Kuang Whalefall by Daniel Kraus Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix Guest author Emily Brightwell, author of Mrs. Jeffries Aims to Win recommends Redshirts by John ScalziOther books:Starter Villian by John ScalziSee my art in The Nelligan Review.Shop my art and upcycled book journals. Giveaway: I am giving away TWO copies of Bittersweet in the Hollow by Kate Pearsall. This giveaway will close on publication day, October 10th, and I will announce the two winners on this post on October 11th. Open to U.S. mailing addresses only. To enter: Follow me on Instagram, click here to leave a comment  and sign up for my weekly Books Are My People newsletter, out each Tuesday with new books releases, paperback releases and more in my Linktree on Instagram. Gain extra entries by sharing this post in your stories and tagging your book-loving friends. Annie Sullivan of SoThis and I went live with book recommendations. Click here to check it out! Esquire article on Blurbs: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a44948120/book-publishing-broken-blurbs-system/Everything MattersEverything Matters is a weekly creepy fiction podcast set in a strange paranormal world. Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showI hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!

Today we are looking at how to stand out. There's a lot of ways but none of them work unless you have authenticity. How can you communicate with personalization and authenticity? Let's find out.Jesse Stein is a experienced tech entrepreneur, having founded Audience.co, SportsMemorabilia.com, Triton Academy, DietSpotlight.com and more.Three Things You'll Learn in This EpisodeLearn how handwritten notes reach your audience.How do you get people's attention?Authenticity always works best.ResourceCheck Out AudienceReal Estate Marketing DudeThe Listing Advocate (Earn more listings!)REMD on YouTubeREMD on InstagramTranscript:So how do you track new business, you constantly don't have to chase it. Hi, I'm Mike Cuevas to real estate marketing. And this podcast is all about building a strong personal brand people have come to know, like trust and most importantly, refer. But remember, it is not their job to remember what you do for a living. It's your job to remind them. Let's get started.What's up, ladies and gentlemen, welcome another episode of the real estate marketing dude podcast. That's what we're gonna be talking about today is standing out and being a little bit different. And our guest today, actually, I can pitch to be on the show all the time, like people are always gonna be on the show. Most people want to sell their shit. But this dude actually sent me an video specifically to me via email, which got my attention, which then we're talking now and we're on the show, because otherwise I wouldn't have looked at it. And it was how he was communicating with me that really got my attention. And I'm like, Oh, shit, this is great. But guess what, he did it on a video. A lot of people send pitches here all the time. And okay, we'll do it through text based email. And then it's the same thing. It's almost like you feel it. It's a regurgitated copy and paste email from some kind of podcast booking agency that always reaches out to me and says, Oh, I have a new guest for you, blah, blah, blah, I'm like, your This isn't authentic. It's Bs, and most of them I delete. But this dude gets a does a video, even trust me by first name, because Hey, Mike, I know, I really want to get on your podcast I've shown us he walked me through his product and all the stuff that he has in his place. And it was engaging. And because he did that, I was like, dude, let's do that show. Otherwise, we might not have done the show. So what we're gonna be chatting about today, is that how do you get people's attention that are trying to stick out? And how do you do that in marketing? How do you do that in real estate? Through digital through direct mail, personalized direct mail, but at the end of the day, here's what works guys. I don't care what the hell you're doing authenticity, authenticity, people feeling like you're one on one communication, people feeling like you're just the only one they're gonna get attention to. So that's exactly we're gonna chat about. So without further ado, I want to introduce the CEO of audience.co. Mr. Jesse Stein. How're you doing, buddy? Great. Thanks for having me. Mike. You want to tell everyone a little quick intro? Who are you? What do you do? What is audience and I got all kinds of questions for you. Yeah, so I started audience bout four years ago, we've been selling in earnest for two years we've got now 1000s of real estate agents on the platform. I started a company called sports memorabilia.com. I bought that as a raw domain in 2005. And with a team of people eminently smarter and more talented than me, which is a common theme in my career. We built it into the biggest autograph store on the internet, a top 500 internet retailer ended up selling it to fanatics. But one of the ways we grew it was through handwritten notes. And we sent handwritten notes to customers. And we realized that the clients that received notes, spent more money with us left better reviews, referred more business, they were easier to deal with. There's just a virtuous circle to sending handwritten notes. But there was no scale to the process, because we were having contractors, people in our warehouse assistants writing the notes, so there was no scale, the handwriting was often terracing. And there was no way to run campaigns, there was no way to really follow up and figure out, you know, when was the last time I sent to notes, a trigger note to and so forth. So I was kind of waiting for someone to do it. And all I kept getting in my physical mailbox, were notes that pretended to look handwritten, but really weren't. I'm sure all of us have received those notes. And I just noticed that the mail that was arriving into my physical mailbox was not making it to my kitchen counter consistently. So we went out, I hired a software engineering team. And we built this incredible software. And we have these amazing robots. And what we did was because of my backgrounds in digital marketing, I got started in digital marketing in 99. Actually, that's when I started my first online retailer, and learn how to build sales funnels and websites and learn how to buy online media and all that way back in the early 2000s. And have built that over time. So I always knew that audience would be a combination of handwritten notes with digital marketing follow up, because when you send the note, that's great. But now you need to follow the user journey, right? You need to follow that prospect on his or her journey from the note all the way through to online so from the mailbox to the inbox, and so what we've builtIs this company where we've optimized every facet of the note itself. So it's on a fixed stock card, it's a bifold. Note, what we do is we create a beautiful graphic for the front of the note, we have a whole graphics team all unique graphics, what we do is optimize for the chances that people will keep and display the note because that homeowner probably isn't interested in listing his role right then and there. But when they are your top of mind, and the key is to get them to keep it that's why we do a bifold. Note, every character of every note we do is written with a real pen by our handwriting robots that use the same pressure slant and flow as a human. They write in 15 Different fonts, they're super cool to look at. They vary up the left and right margins, they even do synonym replacement. So two neighbors in a building or block can hold up notes they got from us. And they look totally different. We do totally different graphics. So what happens is, and we even do a QR code sticker directly on the note. So what happens is it's all trackable. So people reflexively, because of COVID menus, they reflexively take up their phones, and they scan the QR code. And they don't even need to reach out to you. And it can go to a landing page of your of your choice. But what happens is, you the client, the real estate agent get pinged automatically when they scan it. And then what we do this is magic, we find all the accurate email addresses and social handles of everyone we send notes to, and then directly inside our app, it's as easy as clicking and you follow up by email, you follow up and connect with them on LinkedIn, and Instagram and everyone where else everyone knows marketing in 2023 is integrated multichannel. So you can't just do stuff in a vacuum. And so I saw our competitors out there, before I started the company, I saw that they were just doing the notes. And you know, they were naming the company is really old school things that had to do with, you know, handwriting and addresses and stuff. And I never saw it that way. I just see this as an outbound marketing platform. That's why we named it audience. And we also have beautiful maps feature where you can go right in, you can put an address in, and then you can do circle prospecting. And so we automatically detect, when you list or sell a home, we trigger an email to you click, and then you can find all the properties right around this home. So right now I just happen to be on the maps feature. And we found 309 properties around this property and Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and it's as easy as clicking twice. And then you trigger just listed just sold mailers in the form of handwritten notes to everybody around the property you just listed or sold. So we're about two and a half times the cost of printed direct mail. But we're about eight times the response just in the first 30 days. And then the half life on the ROI is really long, because people keep a display and what I mean by that is the agent will get we've worked with so many agents now and there's no no wonder that folks like Chris Heller are investors, Tom ferries an investor, we have all these super happy clients, you can go to audience.co Check out all the all the testimonials. But it's really you know, you talked about it earlier, Mike, it's about being consistently useful and adding value and developing expertise, authority and trust. So a lot of the note templates, we will hold template library, because we've sent millions and millions of notes. They're all about building expertise, offering offering analysis about the market. It's not our notes are not sell, sell, sell. It's delayed gratification. We're working with top agents who are not dabbling in real estate. They're not tau dippers, it's not a hobby. We're working with folks for whom real estate is a career. And so it's all about building that incredible foundation using the notes. And then the digital handshake of crossing over into digital. And it works like a charm. I love it. Suppose we talked about direct mail, my blog last week was about direct mail. So let's unpack this really quick. And let me tell you why it works. First off is i No one's in the mailbox anymore. That's why I want to be there. And he's talking about this from a cold lead generation perspective, which is great when I see it as as a warm, nurturing perspective, too. Because anytime you go handwritten, people know you went out of your way to go with it. Even if it's a machine do it. They don't know that but we do know the fake machines with the fake blue ink. And people know that that cats out of the bag now. So it's about it's no differently when you guys are on the show. And I tell you about video. No one listens to the content that comes out of the video, but they remember how you did the video. And this is the same exact concept, right? So you could get all kinds of different notes but only one of them are handwritten. So it's about sticking outbut more. So I like to personalization quite a lot, quite a bit.Makes a lot of sense. Now, people do save direct mail guys, I used to put my cartoon logo on my direct mail and the old people always save that, which is how we used to chase distressed properties. Back in the day, we used to chase development ops, and I put my little cartoon character at the top and everyone knows like, there's some suit different about this thing. I'm like, I know what the fuck it is. It's my cartoons. Everyone else has been professional. I'm sticking out with a cartoon character. And there's got to be that one thing that makes a difference. Sometimes it's the way you do things that people react to them, not what you do. All right? Personalization. This is no different than than being funny on video. Well, you're being authentic on direct mail. It's direct mail super effective. We have a whole suite of it in referral suite for that reason. But let's get into this. I liked the combo, but I want to unpack the direct mail first. So from a lead generation perspective, and when you're sending letters out to cold people you don't know, right? And if direct mail farming still works today, guys, yes, it takes a lot longer to use. But if you were to personalize your direct mail farming, my guess would be that you would increase your ROI quite a bit, because you're gonna get a lot more reaction to it. Is that basically what you're saying? Yeah, the handwritten notes? And how many do I have to send as a next question? Yeah, great question. So let me unpack that. So with respect to farming versus leaving, versus sphere nurture, so we do a lot of both. So agents all the time send over their sphere. And then we create a whole sphere nurture sequence. And we've even taught the handwriting robots, how to create beautiful, original line drawings. And so on the birthday, for example, I'm holding up a card right now a beautiful line drawing, we can create birthday gifts for folks in your sphere, we can create closing gifts, of course that are much more special than sending that candle or that bottle of champagne. Or the gift card. The gift card is the worst closing gift ever give you never give someone a gift that they could spend and forget about you give them a gift that they'll remember and put in their house every time they pass by it, they subliminally think of your name. Don't buy any more gift cards. Yeah, we automatically trigger on Line Draw original line drawings of the house that they just purchased. That's, that goes to them, for example. So we do a lot of sphere nurture. And we do a lot of geographic farming in terms of average notes per month, clients send roughly 300 notes a month, and they hit each household every other month. Now here's the key. Before we trigger a single note on behalf of clients, we laser target the leads. So we have a proprietary targeting database as well with 200 Plus filters. And so clients come in either just stunned because they come in and they just assume that they're all households are created equal, not at all for us, we take out a scalpel and get totally surgical with the lead generation. So they might say, You know what, I like this golf club course, but club that I only want properties on the course itself, owner age 50 plus equity level 30% Plus, want it so the COO was issued at least seven years ago. So we maximize the chances that that thing is going to be listed. And by the way, our platform is all around driving listings, of course, buyers result too. But everyone knows that he or she that lists persists. So this is all about listings. And then so we said it's kind of like three legs of the stool, you've got the targeting database. So we laser target the leads, and then you have the notes. And then you have the digital marketing follow up. And we've added a fourth leg, which is super cool. And so inside of the app that all of our clients get, you've got all that real time QR code alerts are in there. But also we've added something called Marketing growth engine, which is basically my 25 years of digital marketing background, the distilled reduction sauce of that. And what is it, it's a bunch of original content that is written specifically in the age of chat GPT because everybody can create anyone can create AI based content. These days, we've been using AI to create 10s of 1000s of articles across multiple websites for years now for two years, actually. And so we are able to create, let's say your real estate agent in San Diego, we populate your account with incredible articles with original photos and all you do is copy you click on the link we even include SEO attributes such as meta title, meta description, we even include answers on popular question and answer websites like Quora. So someone might be asking, What should I know before moving to San Diego? Well, you need to be the person to answer that. And so all you do is you go into our app, you copyIf you click on a link, it takes you directly to Quora, you click on respond, you paste and you post. It's as easy as that. And so and then we even include training. And this all comes with the product. And so we've got tons of training. For example, we did a whole objection handling masterclass with Chris Heller, who was, as many people know, the former CEO of Keller Williams, he was their number one agent worldwide. And he won the national objection handling contest. Well, nobody's ever captured content with Chris, at this level, there's drips and drabs of, you know, wonderful podcasts with people like you might, but no one's ever broken it down this way. And so we do that we have amazing content with top agents. And then I reveal all my hacks, anything you didn't know about skyrocketing growth on tick tock or SEO or email marketing, or how to drive more reviews, it's all in there. We also have a private Facebook group, and I do multiple webinars. So it's an integrated marketing platform. So let's get into the digital. You guys heard about the product, if you're interested in you can look them up after this. But I'm more interested in seeing how the digital ties in with the direct mail in this pace. And then I got a couple of other questions before that.So why doesthecompare it to, to me I would like to see like seller distress data in here. So we have a mutual friend named Dustin my business partner before we got on the show here. And you know, he's all about distressed data, right? That's what we do we create seller distressed leads to andI know these guys want to hear you said, Why would I send? I would go after like I look at this a seller lead gen 100% direct mail. There's a reason why investors still use direct mail because it works. The reason Realtors don't do is because it's expensive. But the reality is, is that people save these and people do save them in direct mail touch on the first instance is a great touch to break in the door of a distressed seller. Sowhy is that though?Yeah, well, it also depends on the piece like, it's gonna get open, if it has an envelope like ours with real handwriting and a real 62 cent first class postage stamp. So people, homeowners have antenna behind antenna, they pick up on when something feels spammy. And so even if it's a pre canceled stamp, or they can tell the handwriting is not quite right, or the envelopes too big, we've optimized everything, because I come from a world of digital marketing. So everything's an AV test. So we've opted, so if that distressed seller is receiving a bunch of mail, because of course, I mean, that distressed seller is known throughout the during direct mail world, and is going to get tons and tons deluge of mail, the one that's going to stand out is going to be the envelope, and then they're going to open. So that'll make it to the kitchen counter. But when you open it, it's got to be a fixed stock card, it's got to have a graphic on the front that they want to keep. And the mistake that a lot of direct mailers make is they don't make the piece a keepsake. And you have to be very thoughtful about the user experience. And so once that piece makes it from the physical mailbox into their kitchen counter, how do you optimize for the chances that they'll keep a display? Well, the experience has to be fixed doc note and then never put an image of yourself or a logo on the actual comma. What about a business card? A business card feat it can be good but it can feel salesy. Yeah, in our experience AB testing that it actually performs a little bit worse to put a business card for any type of insert. The Insert vibe is that this is mass produced. And so you want to add a logo, nobody wants a logo or a photo of a stranger on their kitchen counter on their home office desk or on their mantel or on their fridge. And so the name of the game is getting them to keep it because that distressed seller otherwise will chuck it in the trash and forget about you. So what we've done is we've created these beautiful graphics, we have these huge, incredible digital presses that print in high definition, these gorgeous graphics. That's what people keep and display and it feels less salesy. The vibe is that they went out and they bought the you know, they went to a little art store and they bought a little card and then went to a Starbucks and ordered a you know, a venti peppermint tea and wrote a bunch of notes. Then what you need to do, the mistake a lot of direct mailers make is they don't create a piece that is easy to display. And so it might just be a single card or whatnot. We do a bifold note and it's exactly the size where it invites you to keep and display it. The thing ends up on thethat you encounter, you end up being top of mind, no matter what. And so we've really that distressed seller and in the name of the game, of course, is working with someone that has a robust real time database of all those distressed sellers, you can target anything you can target pre foreclosures, foreclosures, or rental leads that are ready to cash out fizz bows, whatever you want, and our targeting database allows you to do that. So let me unpack that really quick for you guys. Theyour envelope is just like your subject line on an email is a good analogy. I guess. If you have real estate market update, I'm unsubscribing from your bullshit. If you have, you know, something like, Hey, your house lost value, I'm opening that up, like the subject line on an email is 40% of the battle on an email. So the subject line, the lettering and the envelope of your direct mail is exactly the same equivalent. Because he's right as like, what's happens is you get all the credit, the credit card companies are perfect example of this, I get offers every day, and I never even opened up the envelope I tear them off, because I know it's a credit card offer. So if your envelopes aren't getting open, people can't see the handwriting. But when you make it feel authentic, I'm always like, is this an invite someone getting married is Who's this from like someone saying thank you like, you're gonna get the attention, right. And you got to remember what direct mail guys, you get a 100% receivership rate that's unlike any other channel, you if you post on Facebook, you're only getting about a 15 18% reach organically. When you post out on emails, you only get a 13% open rate or organically traditionally on emails. But when you do direct mail, you get a 100% Unless you have the wrong address, which you'll know because it'll get returned to you. Sothis is your opportunity to get 100% in front of 100% of people you're trying to reach. And that's why you only get one impression like so you got to think of it from you're going on a first date, you're not going to show up in your pajamas, you're going to dress up right. So it's the exact same concept here, you got to get your foot in the door before you can sell your shit. And the first way you do that is subliminally my guess is what's happening here with these people who receive these mailers like, oh shit, this guy actually went went out of their way to do this for me. So let me take this a little bit more seriously, is that accurate? I absolutely. And let me just add to that if I could. So there can't be any bait and switch of any sort along the way it has to be, you have to deliver on the prompt just like a subject line or a thumbnail on a YouTube video, it has to deliver on that promise. So when they open it, you need to deliver something of value. And so you can a lot of our clients, what they do is create a landing page, a YouTube video, it could be often where they will talk about the market, they'll say thank you for scanning my note, my name is such and such. And I live in your neighborhood and I'm third generation Carolina in or whatever. And so it's like really personalizing it, making sure you add value. And then here's a little secret. I'm not actually about the handwritten note on the QR code on the QR code.What is the Have you seen any difference in response rate to the older generation like people 65? Plus, do they get QR codes? Do they understand how to use them and all that? Previous to COVID? No. But because of COVID Everyone got used to QR code and interesting. That'd be my friend. Everyone has everyone. Everyone has a smartphone. I mean, everyone has a smartphone no matter what generation now. And they just everyone knows how to open up a camera. So it works. It works really well. And here's a little secret is the handwritten note is awesome. It works great on its own. It performs that eight times we've done a lot of AV testing the handwritten note and the way we engineer it, in particular performance beat times better than printed direct mail. But to really get maximum ROI, you use the note as a Trojan horse. So now it's all about evoking reciprocity, right? Where if you've read books on persuasion, it's not the need for human to give back if they've received something is actually irrationally high. So by sending that note, you can sit really high in the saddle, as a real estate agent. And this is the secret is you can you've taken that audience and you've warmed it up now, which is a marketer's Holy Grail. And that's why I named the company audience. It's about taking a cold audience and warming up that audience. Once you have a warm audience, then when you send a cold email, for example, and we supply all the email addresses, not only the primary owners, but if there's a secondary owner we find that email address to then you follow up there's a 12% response rate, on average, not not open rate response rate on a cold email because we do a magic subject line which says Did you receiveIf my handwritten No, then we use AI to create a long email, it's personalized. And it even mentions their address in there, it mentions their neighbors addresses in the email. So that gets a crazy high response rate, then we give you the social handles. So you connect by social. So what what our platform does and what a lot of real estate agents tell us is, it opened the door for them to easily and automatically get good, really good at follow up in digital market. And the note with the door opener, in fact, there are agents that tell us that they were they really dislike door knocking a lot of agents just like door knocking. I don't I don'tblame them in the slightest. Once you send the note though, the door knocking is so much easier they answer. And then it's never about selling. It's about hey, I sent I've sent you a couple of handwritten notes, I fear I'm sending them to the wrong address just confirming that you receive them. So that works like a charm. And for so once you send your direct mail, you have a list and now you're targeting the same people on social are you doing this through the cell phone and email address custom audiences uploads, like on Facebook? And what kind of digital activities are we doing here? Yeah, so always be aware of any company that is supplying phone numbers to you at scale, because in this climate of privacy, they should not be doing that. And they could get you in a lot of trouble. If you then load those up into a dialer and go nuts on calling home cold homeowners. And it also depends on your state. Obviously certainly don't don't text a cold homeowner, you can get into big trouble that last year a cash buyer you have to be the principal in the transaction then you could solicit but what he's saying you could get in a lot of trouble realtors that are cold calling or whatnot, cold calling or tax, you cannot interact unless you're a direct principal, you cannot represent anyone unless you're direct principal. But if you're the cash buyer yourself, and you're legit, you could cold call them. But that's a you can't do it regularly. So this is a good way around that. But further to your question, Mike about creating custom audiences in Facebook, for example. So what we do then, is we I do these webinars, and we have this training videos that teach you exactly how to eat all the meat of the marketing bones in a very easy way requires very little effort. So we give you all the emails I was mentioning of the primary and secondary owners, you take those. And for example, we have integrations with folks like follow up boss and others that you can literally export them directly out of our app. And then you can use those to create custom audiences inside of Facebook. And then all of a sudden, we train you on how to even go to sites like upwork.com and hire someone to create your Facebook ads and go to Facebook ad library and kind of take a look at your competitors. Very easy stuff. What's the ad is a video.It's like the retargeting ad like I would I would probably put up picking, like I put my face on it 100% For sure, for sure. So it's an introduction video, and then they're like, it should be the same video that you just did for the landing page off of the QR code off of your notes. So it's all consistent. So now look what's happening, the homeowners that were ice cold before audience, they're getting your notes consistently. And you want to make sure you send a note every two months. And you want to be very, very consistent in that you stop. I mean, we know that out of the 1000 or so households that we're hitting with audience notes that there will be people who list we don't know who's going to list. So therefore you have to stay top of mind consistently. And the worst feeling for an agent is when someone from their database lists with one of their top competitors. I mean, it's the silliest so with audience, you need to be consistent. And that consistency allows you to then follow up, then you take all those email addresses and guess what, import them directly into your newsletter marketing platform. So if you use MailChimp or your brokerage platform or Active Campaign or Constant Contact or whatever, upload them and then there's starting to get your email newsletters, it's all about consistency and familiarity, which breed trust. So it's never about just one thing. It's never about just the note or the email marketing or the Facebook. It's everything we all know it takes multiple multiple touches. Jay, kinder, you know, I was chatting with him. He's incredible. And I asked him, I said, Scott, what do you do so well, Jamie's one of the top agents in the country raising raising coach and everything else. And he said, Well, I like to think of myself as the Incredible Hulk stomping around in a puddle. I said, Okay, great, great image. What does that mean? And he said, people cannot miss me because I'm everywhere. I'm on bus benches. I'm an email. I send your handwritten notes. I do everything and so that's that's kind of the whole point with this integrated marketingplatform here at audience sounding familiar, folks, we chat about this every week on the show you there is no one thing as a one channelperson anymore. You got to be mom omnipresent. You got to be everywhere.And people, it's a busy world. You know, at the end of the day, this is people given to the one that gives you the most and for real estate, over 80% of people will close with the first person they meet with, you increase your chances of that happening, the more they see you, right. And the reason why this, like what he's seen here is like just direct mail farming, it still works today. It's been around since the dinosaurs roamed the earth. But generally, if you're just taking regular postcard campaign, year one, you'd hit one to three listings, your two is three to five, year three is five to seven. That's a traditional farming campaign, but it's if you take a break at all during those 36 months, you just screwed up the whole campaign. Okay? You cannot. It's almost like, like, you can't leave in the middle of a dinner on a first date. That's the same fucking concept, right? You can't just submit Oh, I gotta go art by Alright, sorry, you don't get a second date. There's, there's no difference with this. Like, if you don't plan on being consistent in anything, it's not going to work. And I would even put this more in the marketing versus advertising category. This is all attraction based like something like this, you could see the ROI is going to come but you don't know when it's going to come. Right but when I'm buying Zillow leads realtor.com Either make money or I don't make money in that term, or in that timeframe of that I have that lead account. So this is definitely the long game. You have to be doing it consistently all the time. I love the digital marketing approach on top of this is how we're doing with all of our brands. We create organic content and we overlay that Reatta contact with our ads and then that's what's working the best real it's like we give value in the people who consume our content. Another way to look at content marketing I like to explain it as the Think of the play action in football for all you dudes out there. We're watch the Super Bowl this weekend right? You hand off you hand off you hand off only to set up to pass right otherwise the play action is not even a thing is it well it's so differently in here you add value you got direct mail every two months direct mail direct mail oh there isn't social. Oh, he's gonna email Oh shit. Fuck this motherfuckers everywhere. Where the flux is guy coming from he must be the best. That's positioning and authority with content that's how powerful that can be. And even if you do this, and you've never sold a house before the people on the receiving end of this content think you're fucking Rockstar.Yeah, that's the difference is like with brand authority, personalization content putting yourself out there. I can make you think I'm a chef. If I want seven days seven videos, watch them You think I'm a chef. That's how powerful branding and positioning can be guys. I love the omnipresent makes sense. makes common sense to me and unfortunately, we've lost a lot of that in the real estate industry.Dude, this is relationship building 101 Is this I'm looking at this as the dating process. I think people understand this when when I walked through the analogy is that note is my like, that's my swipe right?If that's even how that works, right? Oh, fuck. Who is this person? Yeah. Oh, then the emails are my, my my Tapper. Like, I don't know, I don't know how the DD analogies work or the platforms but it's like that's the same concept guys. The problem everybody has is that we're like hey, do you want to go buy and sell your house that's usually how an agent circle prospects they go hey, I'm a real estate agent with a big block Realty and what we're gonna be doing or sorry Hey, I'm a real estate big block Realty and I really like your house. I have a buyer. No you don't you're lying out of your ass who may be interested in buying your house. That should is tired guys. It's so old school.I don't know why the Guru's still teach it but I'm pretty sure it's it's all they know. Things have changed. And you do have to earn business today. And people have options. Fortunately, most of them think real estate's a commodity business. And for the most part, it is the one who stands out as the one who wins in whichever way that is direct mail video.However, maybe, but whatever it is, you gotta be consistent. Otherwise, it doesn't work. Yeah, and it works especially well in this market. So people ask us, Well, you know, how is the current climate of rising interest rates andslowing real estate market and in many areas, how's that affected us? And we say well actually have the opposite effect, because it's gotten rid of a lot of the riffraff so there's a lot of the agents that were just dabbling, or just toe dippers. They've pulled back on their marketingagents, we work with that plot a plot 180 degree role when everyone else is pulling back, like you know, eight 910. They just stomp on the accelerator harder. You take market share, in a reckless way. They invest on they don't they're careful about expenses, but audience is not an expense. It's an investment. And so it's about digging your well before you're thirsty. And then what happens just like an O H just look at these market cycles.is once you the ones that invested and applied the 180 degree rule, they come out way stronger than it already. I just did this earlier today on a training, it happened twice in the last two years. It happened right after COVID Most of the agents went MIA. And that's why so many social media celebrities were born. they've doubled down on marketing. I called it at the time, I said, Look, whoever's gonna be super loud here is gonna fucking be a millionaire. It happened. And then it happened again, when the rates change. Last April, everyone went, everyone stopped. Like I tell you guys, I just said, I just had this like I have, we lost half of our video clients. And both of those situations. And the ones that we kept fucking dominated. The ones that dropped honestly, like, a lot of them are still struggling. We had a transaction coordinator, tied to one of my trainings today. I've known her for a couple years, but um, I bring her on and I asked her a question. She goes, Hey, Mike, oh, my God. She's associate he's a transaction coordinator. So she gets business from real estate agents. And she had some life situations happen husband, and she like that. She went quiet for three months. All right, no one's seen her for three months, and all sudden, she just started creating again. And when she wouldn't cry it she gets up today. And she goes, Hey, Mike. Yeah, business just got crushed in the last three months. But it wasn't until I started getting back doing videos consistently doing this again. And now I just picked up six more agents. When you're out of sight out of mind, you cannot afford to not you cannot afford to run a business and be out of sight. And in this recessionary environment, we'll see what happens if it comes back or not. This is where you got to take market share, man. Yes, it sucks. It's scary. But dude, he just told you the exact same thing I've been telling you for last eight months on this show. And we've never even met before. And I'm telling you case, study after case study after case study after case study after case study. When shit goes bad, you double down? Not disappear. Yeah, yeah, we think exactly the same. And, yeah, I mean, there's, here's what happens when you pause, like you mentioned with that with that woman, when you pause your marketing, and you just decide, okay, I'm gonna see what happens. Let's see where the chips fall based on all this marketing I've done today, you actually send the opposite signal. So you send a signal that either you're not interested to sellers, for example, you send a signal that you're not interested in their neighborhood, you're not interested in their business, or worse that you've gotten out of the business altogether. Like you say, you're out of sight out of mind, you're now a tree falling in the forest that no one ever hears. And in fact, it's even worse, because guess what happens? You've pumped up the bicycle tire, so another agent can take a ride. So now another agent can come in there with similar marketing and people get homeowners get confused. Was it that agent? Was it the other agent? I don't know? And then on to say, was it the guy wearing the tie? Or was it the guy wearing the tie? I don't know which one it was, I gotta go with the guy wearing the tie. Air. Here's how a lot of you are going to be like, hey, what if I'm being annoying? I don't want I don't want to annoy people listen to if you believe you're the right person for the job, it becomes your obligation to let the world know for it anything less. You're a shady dude.If you're not the right person for the job, and you're in the wrong fucking business, go get a new job. Like that's what it comes down to. So when people tell us that same thing, like with video, I'm being annoying. No, what's annoying is when those people start cheating on you with another real estate agent. And it's not their fault that they forgot you're in real estate. It's your fault. You didn't remind them. And it's a big difference, like consistency. And marketing is the only thing that works. It always works over time. Yeah, you can make tweaks and all that. But look at the concept that he's talking about. Look at the concept. I talked about every frickin week on the show. And it's the same thing guys. Like, don't overthink, this isn't rocket science. People give in to the one they see the most whether that's direct mail, video, email, whatever it is the person who's all out there billboards and all that. There's a reason why those people are always the top agents in those markets like you don't, they don't it's not an accident. You're like, oh, is video gonna work for me? Well, have you ever seen an hour work for anyone? I don't know anyone who had video that consistently that isn't like successful. I don't know anyone's doing direct mail consistently that isn't successful. I don't know anyone that's working out consistently that isn't in shape.Like, dude, don't overthink this stuff. Guys. You're running a damn business. You're not a salesperson chasing a check. Your broker ain't gonna make you money, you're gonna make money. Your broker is just going to collect extra money that you make on them. Worst thing you could do firms make more money.No one's gonna save you in this business. You have to save yourself and your face, whether you like it or not. You're that's the brand, your body, your shirt, whatever the hell it is. And if that's not front center, and being the center of all conversation, you're missing the point.That's a great point. A quick anecdote related to what you just said. So there's an agent named David citizens here in Miami in South Florida. He's one of the top agents nationwide. You can look him up. I think he's ranked number 96. Now nationwide, he did $600 million in volume last year. He would be forgiven for notdoor knocking and for not you hustling to an extreme. Well, a couple days ago, I was on the phone with him. And I've heard him outside. He's a very, very happy audience Klein. In fact, he's even an audience investor. And I said, Dude, what are you doing? Are you going for a walk? And he said, No, I'm actually going door to door and hand delivering brownies with a beautiful ribbon, and my wife tied on it with the Davidsons logo on it. I said the only two people that you know, he goes, No, no cold homeowners. So here's a guy, you can calculate his GCI and get a sense for how much money he made last year talk about somebody not resting on his laurels. So exactly what Mike said about consistent, persistent, that wins the day. Yep. Just podcast, you guys. We got 1.5 million downloads. I never advertised it. I never marketed it. You guys come here. We're doing 30 35,000 downloads a month. Thank you guys, please keep sharing it out. But it's because I was consistent. Right? So we're practicing what we preach here, you guys, you have to just focus on one thing, and no, it's not going to happen overnight.No, you're not going to get rich in six months. But what you will do is you start to build a stream of consistency. And when the consistency occurs, the peaks and valleys goes away. And all of a sudden, this stressful business that you once dreamed of becomes fun again, don't overthink it, I just want you to give him some closing thoughts on where they can find you. And we'll get this wrap.Yeah,I mean, just one thing that I'd like to leave on is this sort of zooming out a little bit, and to make sure that you never, ever build your business on rented land. And let me at this is echoing a lot of what Mike talks about in his podcast. But a lot of agents will just develop out the page on their brokers website without creating their own website with original content, much less a podcast like Mike has done, you want to make sure that you are building a business that is completely independent of your brokerage. And by the way, your brokers love this because Keller, whomever, they love ambitious agents who are creating hundreds of articles, and podcasting, and you know, just all over the place speaking at events, and networking, and so forth. But also, this allows you to have a lot more autonomy and freedom, longer term. And if you are making this career, make sure you don't build your business on rented land. Same thing in digital marketing, right? digital marketers know that you cannot build your business around the big Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, use those platforms, absolutely play to their strengths. But build your own website, build your own content, testimonials, build all your wonderful reviews across Google My Business, learn digital marketing, develop a toolkit, you know, all the misfires I've ever had in my career, because I didn't have the right skills and tools to go out. And that's why inside of audience, you get a ton of training. So in terms of like where you can go to learn more, and it's a low pressure sale, you go to audience dot CEO, you book a demo. And the way that we approach things is we present our solution, we deliver a bunch of value, we get you some ebooks that you can take as a gameplan for doing the notes on your own if you need to, or doing digital marketing on your own. And if there's a fit, we move forward. We don't even do contracts because it works so well. And yeah, audience.co Well, man, appreciate it cool product. And thank you folks for listening to another one of our episodes. Remember what he said, you can't ever rely on a business or a cat. Don't ever put 100% of your business on a lead source you don't control. I've seen countless teams get their ass kicked. Once the market shifts, it just happened again. But whether you're relying on Zillow realtor.com, you'd be surprised at how many of these top performing teams don't really have a profit margin. They're losing or breaking even every single month. And it's not because it's just ego guys like so. If you don't have something you control, you're always at the risk of the next shift. Because what'll happen is that the second that lead source changes, so do the interactions with it. So when the market changed, Zillow leads weren't performing what they were before. Therefore, you can never rely on them. When you create your own brand, you can always rely on it because it's your system. So hope you got a lot out of today. Feel free to go ahead and visit our site, visit my software referral suite, you want to stay in front of your database you like what you see here. Well, we'll make content creation very easily through video, email, direct mail, and social media. And if you need the video editing and all that distribution on top of that, we could do that too. So appreciateYou guys have a great, great weekend and stay tuned next week peaceThank you for watching another episode of the real estate marketing dude podcast. If you need help with video or finding out what your brand is, visit our website at WWW dot real estate marketing dude.com We make branding video content creation simple and do everything for you. So if you have any additional questions, visit the site, download the training, and then schedule time to speak with a dude and get you rolling in your local marketplace. Thanks for watching another episode of the podcast. We'll see you next time.Transcribed by https://otter.ai

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For episode #2 of season 2 we are joined by author and journalist Mike Magee. Mike Magee is a well-known name to lovers and practitioners of Tantra to whom he has offered for decades the essential, condensed contents of many Tantras of the medieval period. This book is a fruit of his maturity and vast experience. Containing reliable translations and many Kālī Vidyàs, it is a valuable manual for practitioners and an important source for scholars. Magee has written since the 1960s on matters related to occult and esoteric religions. In 1971 he started a small occult magazine called Azoth, and in 1973 in conjunction with David Hall, and his girlfriend Janet Bailey, started a more ambitious six monthly magazine called SOTHiS. In 1978, he went to India and met with an English tantrik guru (and former student of Aleister Crowley) called HH Shri Gurudev Mahendranath (1911–1992) who was a guru of the Uttarakaula Tantric Order of northern India. Mahendranath gave him the title of a guru and a charter to form a group of students. Magee took the tantrik name of Lokanath. Later this was to become a nucleus for the "Arcane Magical Order of the Knights of Shambhala" (AMOOKOS). This group was highly influential, particularly in the way it brought Tantrik teachings to the West. Kali Magic brings together Mike Magee's decades of experience in translating and elucidating tantrik texts. The first section—Sadhana—explores the ritual worship of Kali through mantra, her various aspects, and her yantras. The second section—Tantras—includes new English translations of the Matrkabheda, Todala, and Yoni tantras, plus two Kali Upaniṣads and abstracts of ten tantras related to the worship of the goddess. With a comprehensive bibliography and glossary of key terms, Kali Magic will be of great value to devotees and scholars of the goddess alike. In the Plus show we discuss some of the rituals in Kali magic in relation to Western Ritual magic. We go through how Kali represents the killing of Ego. Tantra the similarity between sex and death. The importance of waking up. And how Mike sourced the materials found in the book. Show notes: https://shivashakti.com/ https://www.twistedtrunkbooks.com/ https://www.twistedtrunkbooks.com/items https://enfolding.org/books/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mike-Magee/author/B0B86CGGR6 Keep in touch? https://linktr.ee/darraghmason Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spirit-box/message

We're chatting about Google My Business today, and you guys have probably heard of this. I've been hearing nothing but success stories of people all over the place that are using Google My Business and getting listings, getting buyers, getting clients, and it makes a lot of sense. The problem is I don't really know how it works. So we're bringing on a returning guest who's been on here if you guys followed the show, we talked about how to dominate your sphere of influence through Facebook groups and stay in touch with them.Will Penney has been a real estate professional since 1988, Will has overseen the purchase and sale of more than $250,000,000 worth of real estate in Stow, OH and its surrounding communities. Be sure to check out his website for more information. Three Things You'll Learn in This EpisodeHow to use Google My BusinessIs it better than Zillow reviews?How reviews help your businessResourcesLearn more about Will PenneyReal Estate Marketing DudeThe Listing Advocate (Earn more listings!)REMD on YouTubeREMD on InstagramTranscript:So how do you attract new business? You constantly don't have to chase it. Hi, I'm Mike Cuevas a real estate marketing. This podcast is all about building a strong personal brand people have come to know, like trust, and most importantly, refer. But remember, it is not their job to remember what you do for a living. It's your job to remind them. Let's get started. What's up ladies and gentlemen, welcome another episode of real estate marketing, dude, podcasts, what we're chatting about today is going to be something that I've been hearing quite a little bit of buzz about. But I'll be honest with you, I have no idea how it works. So anytime that happens, we bring on guests that are experts in different areas of different aspects of real estate marketing, and then we have them, school us on what we need to know about it. And what we're chatting about today is going to be Google My Business. And you guys have probably heard this, and I've been hearing nothing but success stories of people all over the place that are using Google My Business and getting listings, getting buyers getting clients. And it makes a lot of sense. The problem is I don't really know how it works. Exactly. So we're bringing on a returning guest who's been on here if you guys followed a show, we talked about how to generate dominate your sphere of influence through Facebook groups and stay in touch of them. That was Mr. Will Penny and will Penny is back with another piece of content that he's having a lot of success on. So my kids get it on the show was become a good friend. And he knows his stuff. And he's just sort of tells it how it is. He's blunt. He tells it and doesn't BS people. So I appreciate that and appreciate you coming back on the show. We'll How you doing buddy?I'm glad to be back man. I always appreciate listen to your podcast. And you're right, we have become good friends. I like the relationship we have. So I started listening to your podcast because you all you talk about is relationship marketing, through video and other you know, other tools and our business is about 70% referrals. My little team of five we do about 200 deals a year. We're just south of Cleveland, Ohio. I've been a realtor since 1988 34 years ago when I was 1953. Now so dinosaur on oldest shit. I look about my hair. But anyway, that my 35th year in the business and we just cut Zillow out completely I paid them $40 a month now for a crap zip code just so I can keep my premiere agent profile. Because we got 557 reviews on Zillow on Zillow. About two years ago, I predicted that Zillow would eventually shut down their find an agent page. And the reason is, is that they're going to the FLEX program throughout the country where they're charging referral fees, especially now that they got out of the eye buyer world because that was a complete debacle. Richard Barton missed the mark there. So anyway, I think that's his name, isn't it Rich Barton,some, the guy who started the Travelocity,whatever. So anyway, I figured that they would end up shutting down the Find an agent page, because you can't get you can't ensure that you're gonna get referral fees. If you allow a if you allow consumers to search for agents, it kind of makes sense. They haven't done it yet, but they're gonna. So I had all my Zillow reviews, because we've been all in for reviews for a long time. I've done a bunch of interviews on how to get 500 reviews on Zillow, but I don't have anybody review me on Zillow now. So two years ago, I started looking into Google, you can have a Google profile for free. It's starting to get saturated. So the key is that you need to have a lot of reviews, you need to respond to the reviews. So I just started having my clients review me on Google, then, about a year and a half ago, I, I was made aware of their GLS program, Google Local Services. And basically it's a Google Pay paid ad. So they promote you, you have to get background check. They do. You know they check to make sure you got insurance to check to make sure you've got no weird history. And then they give you a nice little green checkmark saying Google verified and then you have to pay a budget. You can pick the budget, but then they promote you. If someone puts in top real estate agents or top Realtors near me, you show up, you show up. Sothis is Google My Business.It's just Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Google Local Services is a sponsored ad program. They actually have a program called GLS Google Local Services. And you can Google that. And anyway, you can get you can you you can set up your own profile, but then they set up another one for you for the GLS program because that's all paid it's not ordered.So Well, let me unwind this a little bit. You got pissed off at Zillow two years ago, because you saw what was coming down the pipe there. You're going to flex programming and you had a lot of your social proof on Zillow 500 Plus Reviews. So two years ago, you just started figuring out I gotta find somewhere else for my reviews because Zillow is gonna backdoor me. And then you sort of just ended up getting more listings doing this, right.Yeah, because where many listings you generate amonth off your Google My Business? And I want to go from the end of the back?Oh, at least one. Great. And that's you pay for that?Is there any ad costs involved? Yeah.So my, my spend is 1200 a month. So you figure my average commission check even in Ohio is about 6700. And the cool thing is because it's social proof, by the time they call you, they've they've checked you out, I mean, you're you're attracting the type of consumer that values trust, and they value. They value a referral from hundreds of people versus aunt Matilda.So how do you? How many reviews do you have up right now? And Google?I think 212 212.And that's after the last two years of doing it, right?Yeah, but we, we've made getting reviews part of our process since 2010, when I joined Zillow. So we had a warning to everyone, my little public service announcement, my RSA realtor service announcement, do not ask for reviews, unless you get your process under control. Because if you're not answering your phone, or you only text or you like to just respond to emails, or if you, if you, if you delay, like how long it takes for someone to be able to get a hold of you, because you're spending six hours a day watching Instagram reels and you can't get anything else done, then don't ask for reviews because the truth will come out, and you won't like that. So we found that asking for reviews for us is the same as having a body cam as a police officer, you you tend to you tend to pay attention to what you're doing. Because everyone's watching. And when you ask for reviews, they're gonna tell you No, they'll either not give you one because they don't want to be confrontational, or they're gonna give you a really good one because they love you. So the key is to provide excellent service set expectations, communicate, be accessible. It's not that hard. And then, you know, getting reviews on Google is probably in my opinion, the best place to be right now.I get so how many reviews and but you're paying $1,200 a month to get promoted. So when people search tourister that's the local business thing. So they're they're pumping you out in the front, right?Yeah. So what happens is you get you get impressions. So you, you bid for it. It's all auction based, just like Zillow. And I say, and basically you can trust Google. I mean, maybe I'm naively trusting them. But you know, they, they want you to get you the most value for your money. That's how they've remained where they are. So I just have it set up so that they get to choose how much I want to bid so that they give me the best possible value. I'm trusting. I mean, it's a little wizard of oz easy for me, because I don't know what it's all tied to. But I don't know what's behind the curtain. But so far, you know, most of the weeks I don't hit my budget.Yeah. So I got to, let's get into how to ask and how to get testimonials. Because this is always a problem with people. I still have it, I don't think I have it. I know it's in my home office. I still have. I have a binder, it's a paper binder, and it was like this thick. So if you guys can't see this, it's about three inches, I'm making a three inch space between my fingers. I used to get all my I used to get I used to get all my testimonies on paper, and I used to ask them and then write them down. And then I would put the listing sheet next to it. And I would have this like binder ended up being like 15 pounds. And I would go to my listing presentations and I just dropped the binder on it costs $15 to create because there's that many papers. And I put the binder on the listing table or on the table and be like alright, so here's a bunch of my client reviews and all that. And some people would have me leave it but most people would never didn't want to take like a 15 pound book of testimonials. But I'd have their phone number, their pictures and the listing sheet of the property they purchased. And I had to do that early on because I was young. And I was like 27 and my prime and real estate 2829 30. But even then people still are like, Hey, you got to still prove yourself like you got to do what other people say about you is more powerful than what you'll ever say about yourself. And that's why your reviews page is the number one visited page on your site. It is on mine. And there's a reason why every website has a reviews page. It's because of what other people say about you and regardless of what people are thinking about when they're making a decision on on a purchasing decision. One of the thoughts that goes past their mind is like, well, what's everyone else saying about him? And that's what reviews are for. So like, you have to get reviews nowadays. The problem is, is that people get so excited about getting a commission that they forget to insert this into their process. And they don't get the review. Because if you wait too long, are you ever gonna get the review? Will you get the testimonial three weeks after closing?No, no, I text them the day they get the keys. But here's another major problem. And it goes back to what you do for a living. You know, retargeting if you don't even have the energy or the motivation or drive to ask your client to do you a solid and give you a review, yet probably don't have a system in place to stay in touch with them. You don't I mean, it's all tied together. Because the average we are paying no lead generation costs right now. Last summer when I was on talking about my Facebook group. And that business that I have, we we were still spending 1800 bucks a month on Zillow. Well, I can them two months ago, because they were they have flex in our area. They were taking my $1,800 they guaranteed me 2.6 leads a month.What's What's that? Like? For 1800? bucks?Yeah, what's that? 607 100 bucks a lead? I mean, I would walk a whole neighborhood for you for 1600 bucks for two hours and get you two leads. You don't I mean, it's like, it makes no sense. You, the value is just horrible. So I just cut them out. But the reason I was able to cut them out, is because over 70% of our business is referrals from past clients, you know, then we have client events. We do some mailings. You know, that kind of stuff. I'm I'm starting to do more. I'm starting to do more videos. By the way, there's a guy locally, Joe Tato, who is a client of yours, that kid is crushing it on YouTube, thanks to you. He I think that he's, he's, I think he puts he attributes you to his success more, more so than I think anybody so I just want to throw that out to you. Yeah, he's right in my market.Yeah, good. Good. You guys hear that? Like people get to know who you are when you work with us. It's pretty nice.Anyway, the reviews were I used to have that same book. I mean, the thing that people agents don't understand now they go around griping about how hard this business is. They forget that. And I know you're a lot younger than me, I'm 53. But, you know, when I started for the first 10 years of my career, we had no internet. I mean, I got realtor.com in 1997. So that was nine years after I'd been licensed. So we would have to present offers face to face. Well, you know, when I was 25, and I don't say this to brag, I'm just trying to set some perspective on how easy it is. Now, we didn't have a Google back then I had the exact same binder as you did, I had the mylar folders. And I would get someone to write me a letter or a card. And I'd stick the car, you know, the greeting card or the letter in there, I go pick it up from them, and say, Can I stop by four o'clock on Tuesday and grab a reference letter from you. If you don't have a chance to do it, I'll wait while you do it. And I go pick it up, stick it in there. And I bring that over. That's your credit report. That is the that's the currency of your business is what other people think about you we didn't have there was no social proof, you would have to just get letters, or greeting cards talking about how amazing you are, and you had to get a ton of them. Now, you know, with all of the platforms, you can get reviews, I've just found that for real estate reviews, people aren't going to Yelp because they think about food. Although Yelp is trying to promote themselves as a general platform, it's still food. There was a time where I was on Angie's List, and I had 34 reviews or something like that. And I was getting two listings a month for a while. But that kind of burned out. Google seems to be the place to go to get reviews, but you need to back up and make sure that you're providing the kind of service that is going to make them want anyone other than a family member want to give you five star review. You got to you got to step all the way back and fix your business. Yep. And it doesn't take that much, you know. So you just have to answer your phone be available. Everyone says, oh, it's I can't answer my phone. I don't know who it is. Well, you know, for years we used to do that. The only reason you can't do that now is because if you look at the screen time on your phone, and I'm just as guilty. The reason we become inefficient is because we spend so much time watching crap online.Yep, everyone's on their phone nowadays. Walk me through your guyses process and how you're, you're getting these like at what point in the transaction so that people can start making it part of their systems like you this is a checklist item guys so like when you're at the final walk through, maybe you inserted at that time or at the closing, maybe you get your testimony deadtime. But I used to always have a certain time that I would ask for the testimony or get it so that it became habit. And if you don't get into the habit, you stop asking for it. And if you don't ask for it upfront, you're not going to get it later.If it's a buyer, when you give them the keys, say, by the way, would you do me? Can I get weird with you for a second? What? Hey, remember, before I mentioned that, I'm going to ask you for a view, at the initial consultation, I tell my buyers and sellers by the way, if you ever decide to hate me, then the quickest way to ruin my life and make me lose three nights sleep is give me a bad review.That's a great way to put it. So I said that say that one more time at like, cons that's just like a close to that's a really close. Yeah, walk me through thebeginning of the relationship on the listing appointment, I talked to them about how relationships are important. And I say, if you think I'm full of crap, Google me. And you'll see that everything we do revolves around reviews, and our review of our reviews are the byproducts of excellent relationships. So if you if I, if I dropped the ball, I'm telling you right now, the way you get me back, is by giving me a bad review. If you really want to ruin my day or my week, give me a one star review. You know, just go do that. And I can't do anything about it to remove it. So that's what keeps me on my toes for 34 years. That's why we do over a million dollars in GCI with a tiny little team. You know, that's how we have a, we have a recession proof business. Because we've created energy around our tiny little shitty brand in Northeast Ohio. And, you know, at least 150 to 200 people a year find us. So I tell them about I tell them at the beginning of the relationship, the way you're going to reward me is I'm going to ask you for a review at the end. So think about the service that we're providing. I'm confident that we're going to do a good job. But if at any point during the process, you feel like I'm not responsive, or you know, you I've ghosted you, whatever, it won't be on purpose, I just asked you to please tell me because I will correct it, we are completely focused on you having a good experience. And I don't want to guess what a good experience is for you. So I tell them about it at the beginning. And then at the end, I say, hey, remember I said I was gonna ask you for a review. Do you mind if we jump on Google right now and you just give me a quick review. And then if I've got a seller who's closing, then I just text I call them don't ever just text them. People want to feel important. Right? If you call them up, and I say, Hey, Mike, just want to let you know, the deed just recorded. And you say, Oh, that's great. Well, thanks, dude. I really hope that you had a good experience with me. We really tried hard. I hope you feel like I proved myself to you. Oh, yeah, you did. Awesome. Well, hey, do you I hate to be weird, but do you mind? I said, I know, I'm an older guy. But reviews are important. Do you mind if I text you a link and you give me your five star review on Google? They're like, No, go ahead. I'm like, Cool. And then I go into my my notes, my notes on my phone, and I just copy and paste that into a text. And I'll read you, I'll read you my read you what it is. Hang on, this will take just one second or youpull that up. And then like, if you guys are getting to get a video testimony, then you have to do it when you're in person. Because very same thing is like, Oh, if you get a video testimonial, do it at the closing table or at the final walkthrough. It's when they're all pumped and all jazz and it takes three seconds. He's already given the keys. Yeah,yeah, I get. I get a 32nd 45 second video and we use that for retargeting. So here's I've got two texts that I saved in my notes. The first one says, Would you mind this is after a phone call. So you have to set them up at the beginning of the relationship and let them and give them the power that they can that they get to grade you. It really makes a huge difference. Yes. Then at the end, you say you call them and ask them for don't cheat and just send them a text. If you're just texting clients to say, hey, we just closed if you're using that as your main form of communication. I'm here to tell you, you're wrong. It's a belly to belly business. And certain things should not be texted and emailed. You need to call them that's what they'll remember. So then I say would you know can I text you a link to review? Yeah, of course. And it says would you mind clicking this link to give me a good review on Google reviews are really important to me only takes a minute. Thanks again for letting me work for you then the link then if they say yes on the phone. Then I have another one. It says here it is only takes a few minutes to write something up. Thanks again really appreciate it. Reviews are very important in my world happy face, and then the link. That's it. And we've got 212 And then every once in a while have a count if you've got a team listening to this. I have contests if I want to get to a new like to get to 200 we had like 187 and I I'm one of our team meetings, I said, All right, we got to get to 13, we got to get 13 reviews in the next week, I'm gonna give 25 I'm gonna Venmo 25 bucks to the to each review you get for the next 13 till we get to 200. And so I made a fun little thing with it for my agents, my four agents, and they all went out and started busting it to get reviews.I like it, it seems simple, but most people won't do it. And the reason is, because most people aren't running a business, your salesperson, Jason Chuck, and you got to start thinking about these things in your business. Because your brand is going to be very important going forward, especially with this shift coming up, people are start looking at new things, the business is going to be as easy it was the last few years. And as we see the economy shift, as we see the recession coming into taking place, as of right now may 2022. How people are going to be a lot more. What's the word cautious of who they decide to hire, they're gonna look into it a little bit more, especially as the market shifts, it's not easy anymore. And when it does people second guessed to you. So the more content and more reviews you have the better for you. Quite frankly, I just saw stat today from the Tom Ferry conference. francesi posted it and he said 40% of the licensed agents in the United States didn't do one deal last year. Yeah. 40% How many agents are there? There's like 1.2 million or something like that. 1.5. What is it?In 2008. In Northeast Ohio, we had at the Akron area Board of Realtors, we had 2500 and something agents at the end of 2009, it dropped to 12 130. So here, what happens is if you look at the average income of a real estate agent, and they're getting a check every, say, three weeks, and then as this market, you know, it's harder to get offers accepted, you're trying five, six times just to get one commission check now. And you're buying leads. And then what happens is, the reason these agents get out is because their checks get too far apart. And then they have to get another job. So think about that. Now what can you do to secure your position in this industry, it's a recession proof industry, this ball of energy during the worst market we ever had. And my market was better in 2009. And California trust me, because we don't have the highs and lows. We lost 50% of the realtors. But we only lost 20% of the transactions. We went from about 5000 transactions to 4000. So we only so what happens is I went from selling 80 homes to 39 in one year. So even though I was like doing great, we I sold 39 homes in 2009. I went from making about I made about 200 grand a year throughout the 2000s. And then I made 87,000 gross and nine I thought my world was over we had two kids in private schools. Luckily cost of living here's low 2010 was the first year I ever netted over 300 grand my account I went in there when everyone was losing their jobs. He's like, do you know you netted 304,000 bucks. That's what you're paying taxes on? I'm like, Oh, no kidding. But it's because we we only lost 20% of the transactions, but half the realtors. So the agents that are listening to this that are serious about their business, now is the time for you to be strengthening, developing and nurturing relationships.Yep. And make sure you get your damn reviews on every single deal. You close.Yeah, because people like you just said when the market tightens, they're not just calling their wife's friend. You know, I found in 2009 If they were moving out of state or chasing a job or whatever, they were calling them the well known agents, we had the top 10 agents in our county, you know, 12 130 that year, we went from? Well, the top 10 agents sold 14% of the real estate. So the good news is when these markets correct, the top agents get pushed to the top. The bottom agents stay where they are because they don't rely on you know, they usually have a part time job or a spouse, the middle of the agents get just whacked. So now's the time for you to be thinking about what you know, getting reviews, staying in touch with your people posting videos every day so that people don't forget about you. This is the time to do it to to shore up your business before we have this big change. In my opinion.I agree. I'm never gonna say it all the time. I don't spike the football on this closing, I spoke my football and the third closing from the original closing rather than the referral and repeat client. So you only get that through building off the deals you're doing today because today's transactions are just future stepping stones to tomorrow's. So you got to play a long game in this business. Appreciate it dude, this is awesome. Why don't you tell our listeners about where they can find you? Will and I actually have a new tagline for you if you got a second. I was just looking because every penny counts.You're so good. Here's your What did you bump your head? What did you did?Because every penny counts. I just thought of it.No one's ever thought of that beforewe fight for every penny, you do that you were penny loafers. Ah some brandings some branding content here foryou both C and N E Y. Yes.Well, why don't you tell everyone where they can find you website? You guys right as market. Look them up toany great it's p e n n e y real estate.com. You can look me up on Facebook at well Penny p e n n EY or you can you can find me on Instagram at Penny p e n n EY underscore group exp. That's our Instagram thing. Don't be prepared to be unimpressed. I mean, I do. I do what I can most of my business. I stay in my lane. I go, I get my past clients to refer me and I get the reviews to leverage the past clients to get the arm's length people that don't know me. So that's Does that make sense? Yep. So that's what that's what we do. And hopefully it'll be enough.Appreciate it man, thank you for coming back on and sharing this stuff. Wills made his whole career he said 35 years not chasing leads but nurturing and developing and maintaining relationships. And everybody else I know successful in this business has is also successful in relationship development. So what we're saying here guys is like there's not a secret to the sauce, just follow the system, build more relationships, and you'll start selling more houses. So appreciate you guys listen to another episode of the real estate marketing dude podcast. If you have any questions, please feel free to visit our website, especially if you want to get on video, we help you script that and distribute all of your video content so that you could get put on the map and nurture those relationships. So people stop forgetting that you're in real estate. So very simple concept, create a lot of content. But if we're on the right people, then people will come to you because a percentage of them are moving each and every year. It's that simple. So you guys know where to find us if you wanna do that real estate marketing do.com And subscribe to our channel and leave us some reviews. So he goes on next week's episode and thanks for listening to another one. Thank you for watching another episode of the real estate marketing dude podcast. If you need help with video or finding out what your brand is, visit our website at WWW dot real estate marketing dude.com We make branding and video content creation simple and do everything for you. So if you have any additional questions, visit the site, download the training and then schedule time to speak with a dude and get you rolling in your local marketplace. Thanks for watching another episode of the podcast. We'll see you next time.Transcribed by https://otter.ai

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INTRODUCTION: Branch Isole and I are here to teach you about the crucifixion of Jesus and what it means for you. This is especially special as we roll into Easter weekend. Jesus is the core of this podcast and it brings me much joy to spend a couple hours talking about Him. :) He, like me, is a former drug dealer, he's been to jail, he's been homeless, and like myself he understands his mission is to do all he can to help others now that he's been given a second chance. Branch is a poet, a storyteller and the author of 22 books! Branch was born in Osaka, Japan (my favorite country) and has the traveled the world extensively! Branch graduated from Texas State Univ. B.S.Ed., did post graduate work at the University of Houston, M.Ed Adm., and holds an Oxford M.A. Theology degree from Trinity Bible College and Seminary. 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And every last fucking one of you. I love you to the core, my soul. So this week here, we've got branchy Solei back again, and we are here to teach you about the crucifixion of Jesus and what it means for you. And this year, the specially important as we roll right on into this Easter weekend.and look, Jesus is the core of this podcast and it [00:01:00] brings me so much joy to be able to spend a couple hours talking about him. And of course, that's the reminder of my new book, sex, drugs, and Jesus, a memoir of self-destruction and resurrection. It's out. I started taking notes on this book back in 2013, and then it took me two years to finish it.Once I got started around the beginning of the pandemic almost two years ago. So I'm very proud of it. Please check it out. Sex drugs, and jesus.com. I hope you enjoy this episode and happy Easter, everyone. Well, welcome back to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast. Everyone. We have a branch Easter laid back with us for like the fifth, the 1000th time. I don't know. He's like a resident guest at this point. So expect to be seeing a more from him and hearing more from him. The man has like about a thousand books, which you can see it as website Manoj.Oh, publishing.com. I will put all of it in the show notes as I always do. [00:02:00] He's an incredible author. He's an incredible podcast guests. And today we're going to be talking about the sweet baby Jesus as we were coming up on the crucifixion day which is also known as the one day in the year. Some people go to church.Hello, branch, how are you doing? That's how I feel. So I love the Lord and I know you do too. And like, I'm not that I wouldn't say that those of you who only go to church once a year on Easter, you know, I kind of, I would like for this, I would like for one of you to reach out to me and tell me why you only go one day out of the year, is it out of guilt, out of a sense of obligation?Is that your one trip up to the sanctuary to repent? Like they did back in the old Testament. So I would be curious to know and no judgment. I've just always found it to be particularly titillating. What do you think about that brand? [00:03:00]Branch: Yeah. You know, I grew up as a C E Christian, Christmas and Easter. And I don't know whether my parents thought that's all we needed or they were just too busy. You know, that, that was the obligation of the year. I can understand that I am in agreement with you. I'm not sure why, but you know, we all make our choices.At least at least we'll go at Easter, go and, you know, and recognize the importance of that day and, and its symbolism and that connection with the Lord.De'Vannon: Hallelujah tabernacle and praise. This reminds me branch. The when I was at Lakewood church in Texas, before I got kicked out for not being straight, but it's an image that will always be plastered my mind because I got up into this thing in the adult choir [00:04:00] at Lakewood. And the first Sunday that I sang was an Eastern. Good initiation.they haven't got an initiate until the church has always packed. Like big of a church with every seat filled. I was like, so in the fucking zone. And so I rocked out with my cock out was probably part of the reason why I got kicked out,you know you know, I used to shake it for the Lord up in those cars thing. I will loopseveral people. Look, they can find some YouTube videos of their cameras did love me. So anyway, we're not here to glorify me. We're here to glorify Jesus. And so. The show that receipt at this one has to do with the Eucharist and communion. We're going to touch back on that a little bit later in this episode.So the way it [00:05:00] went according to recorded Hebrew history is that Jesus came was on the earth. He did all those miracles starting as, from what we know with turning the water into wine at the wedding in Cana of Galilee, which is why I keep me some red wine on stock at all times to honor my savior.Hallelujah. And then he did these miracles. He worked with people, he stirred up controversy just by being himself. He made the religious leaders mad and angry and he hurt their feelings. And then so they wanted to kill him off. You know, people don't like it. They just want to kill you. This is the way the devil works.And so we see he's now at communion Washington's disciples feed. The breaking, the bridge, drinking the sweet, sweet, and wine or bitter bitter. Why? I don't know, I probably would have served bitter wine considering what was about to happen. And so so Jesus has, is a snitch, a criminal informant, a CAI, a confidential [00:06:00] informant.His name we have learned is Judas, Iscariot and main wish he'll ever be marred. The Bible tells us that at some point, the devil entered into Judas and begin to turn him against The Lord that scripture has always stuck out in my head because that means that Judas wasn't always against the Lord at some point, some sort of thoughts, some sort of emotion, some sort of influence came over him that made him feel this way.He did not counter this influence or question that he went along with it and made the deal to sell what he does out for. The legal was 30 pieces of silver. And you know, I had my own informant back when I was dealing drugs. I wouldn't say gee, now we're in the exact same business when we had our informants, but cops work the same way then as they do now, they want to get to the head of the organization.They get a snitch, a weak link in the chain and they send a man find out where you're going to be on a certain day at a certain [00:07:00] time. Then they come NAB you that much. I do have in common with the Lord. We both got sold out. So what do you think about Judas? Branch: Well, you know you, you made an interesting comment just now about. Being, none of us are originally against the Lord. You know, we come into this life as babes, obviously, and we know nothing, and we are brought up in a family and a community, whatever that may be religious or not. And none of us is against the Lord.And certainly the Lord is not against any of us that are our transition from being ignorant to being neophytes, either on the spiritual path or not on a [00:08:00] spiritual path, you know, is a result of who we are and how we grow. So Judas was not against the Lord to begin with. Obviously he was one of the original 12 disciples.And like you say he was tempted and then coerced or bribed to go against the Lord and then similar or the same kind of fashion we today are often tempted or bribed by the world and things of the world to a go against the Lord, or even worse than a lot of cases is just be indifferent or ignore the Lord.So we have that in common with Judas Iscariot.De'Vannon: Okay. So then this beckons [00:09:00] beckons us back to what, how I always say to pay attention as to why we believe what we believe and why we think what we think and not to accept every thought that comes to us. So it might not be a group of jealous religious people coming to, to NAB your soul, to get you to fill out for 30 pieces of silver.It could be betraying, thought, feeling and emotion. I don't know of anyone out there ever. Just, you see somebody in a wave of disliked comes over you towards this person. Suddenly you just feel like you don't like Felicia or Pam or Jim or whoever. And you even know why you don't like them. You just don't like them.I've heard people say that before that they're like, say they just have this problem against somebody. I'm all like, what'd they do to you? I don't know. I just don't like them. I'm like, well, that's okay. You can just, you know, Branch: Well, you know, we see that in evidence every day in our day and age with just to name a few labels, racist homophobes, [00:10:00] phobes, misogynist, you know, they dislike other people's. Because of their skin because of their color, because of their beliefs or their actions. And yet they have really no foundation for that hatred or that dislike other than in most cases, just the way they were brought up the environment that they grew up with and the biases that they grew up with.You know you might've found an idea certainly in, in the military when you're thrown in with a bunch of different kinds of people, with different beliefs and backgrounds, from different parts of the country you have a tendency, you know, to kind of go with your own to begin with, but it doesn't take long in the military for me to realize.You know, the value that others bring into your [00:11:00] unit or into your company. And a lot of times, you know, we're able to and motivated go look beyond those initial bias that we might've come into the military with. I think it's a real good experience for people to give them an opportunity to grow as people doesn't work for everybody, but certainly worked for the group of guys that I was with back in the Vietnam era.De'Vannon: I think everyone. Wait tables or a few months and go to the military. But for a few months, I think some countries do have like a mandatory military thing. And I really think it makes all the difference. I ain't saying it eliminates all the foolishness and people, cause some people are just going to be foolish no matter what, no matter what, but certainly grant some perspective when you have to deal with bitchy, Karens, and shit, coming in to make unreasonable demands at restaurants and then they won't even tip.[00:12:00]And then you go up to go, then you go to the military and your life is on the line and you're, and you don't have a choice. You're going to participate and get along with people no matter how, unlike you, they are. So you don't have this luxury of being like, well, I just don't like him, so Branch: life, life, life, and tasks can make a big difference in one's attitudes.De'Vannon: right. And You know, when we all grow in tour for different reasons the life and death has made a difference in my attitude. And I'm because I've been exposed to so much of death in my time, which I appreciate. And so I find myself having to make myself be patient people who haven't been exposed. I had to grow up fast like I did, because I went to the military at 17.So, you know, I'm like, okay, you got some more experiences go through. You are mature and your time. I hope Branch: Okay.De'Vannon: [00:13:00] so. Let's see here. So there's this time. Okay. So Jesus went into, I believe it was the garden of gets Semini to pray as he was nearing this crucifixion. And he knows that this is what he was called here to do. He knows this is what it's. Now he's the son of God, God manifested in the flesh, but he had some trepidation leading up to this.And I believe that he chose to be vulnerable and transparent in this moment as a guide for us. Now, he didn't call the Legion. Legions of angels were coming to rescue him when he was tempted by the devil. You know, he didn't exercise his power in a way to save himself specifically. And so he, he toiled with this, you know, we asked the Lord, we ask God, you know, is there like a, is there another way, you know, let this cup [00:14:00] pass for me now. I know God to be very negotiable. There've been times I've been in a lot of trouble and, you know, he chose to bring me out of it. Whereas, you know, others might've been in probably surely would have been ensnared. And who knows. Sometimes we ask God, you know, God will say like one thing in. And we may be like, okay can we do that another way?For instance. So like when I was growing up in church, my profit has evangelists Nelson. You know, when I say prophetess, I mean, someone to whom God speaks like Isaiah, Jeremiah, somebody who's really, really has their ear, the mouth of God gifted in all gifts of the spirit she was and all of their prophecies, you know, like came true.And so, and there's a litany of people who are, you know, across the world who will testify to that. So there's one woman, you know, here in the south, they would stand you up in church. The profits of stand you up and, you know, whenever God gave them a word and they would minister this word on to you. And so she told her that the Lord gave the church [00:15:00] member who she was talking to or had given this woman a vision of who her soul made it. Now evangelists, Nelson and her clairvoyance see other people's visions that God had given to other people, even if they didn't tell her what that vision is. And so, and so she told us a woman, you know, God gave you this vision of your soulmate, but this woman, the church member didn't want this man. She wanted a different person.And so now one would think that God would be like, okay, no bitch. I already told you who the is going to be. That that's my story. And I'm sticking to it, but that's not the way it was. The Lord worked with her in the Lord, shifted in and created her soulmate into this other person that she wanted. And then, then let the other one go. And and so God has. A very negotiable way. Some stuff is from like that stuff. I went through, like being homeless and done all of that, that had to happen. That was like foretell than prophesied. I had dreams about it. [00:16:00] I didn't know what, you know, what, what the bad stuff was, was going to happen, but there's no way that I could have gotten around that.You know, that, that, that was a permanent thing in my life that was fixed. But trouble, other troubles and stuff like that, we were able to negotiate around. So when we talk about it, when we pray, understand you're talking to a being who has a very reasonable mind, you know, and he's, he has all power, he can do anything he wants to do. Okay.You don't want that soulmate if he feels like it'll just give you another one, you know, you know, you can do whatever he wants to all about your faith in what you believe. That woman that charged me would probably had enough faith to believe that God was able and willing to shift it for her. But it's probably played a lot of part into that. And so. Jesus asked, you know, can this cup pass from me? What do you think about what was going on with the Lord while he was, while he was going through in sweating and all of this going on, going through all these [00:17:00] changes.Branch: Well, we have to remember that Jesus was a man, you know, he was man and God. So he experienced and felt and had the emotions you know, the successes and the highs, as well as the depression and the lows from living among men and women in his day and age, so that, you know, he is part. He is the, he is the reflection and the connection for us as humans to the spirituality of God, father and spirit.So in experiencing what we experience as human was, he understands us and he understands, you know, what we're going through and what we're struggling with. That's an interesting statement. He [00:18:00] makes about, you know, when you take this cup from me, that's the one time in Bible scripture that we actually see his humanity in evidence as it applies to both him and to us and in him asking that, you know, that's that human response.I don't want to die. I don't want to give up what I have right now in my life and in the next thought and the next breath he says, but not my will, your will be done. And that's what kind of, what you're describing with within lady is he wants us to recognize God wants us to recognize and acknowledge and have competence that we can accept his will [00:19:00] for us.Because as a loving father you know, he wants what's best for us. Most of the time he wants what's best for us, even more than we want what's best for us. He has our best interest. Always at heart and therefore his actions on our behalf, like the changing of the man for that lady his actions on our behalf can be made to align with our wants, but we have to be willing to make that surrender just like Jesus did not my will Lord, not my will father, but yours be done.So in that moment of his humanity and his response, similar to what our response would be, I don't want to die by so rendering [00:20:00] in order to fulfill his design and his purpose, he chose to. The father's will accept what was coming at the end of that night. And so we've got the surrender of my will to his will.We've got the acceptance of my deaths for his purpose, but that's a great, great example of his humanity. You know, that you bring up about the, the garden of gifs 70 event.De'Vannon: Look, so thank you for that breakdown brain. So look, y'all, it's okay to feel weak. You know, this, this is something that I struggle with is trying to be too perfect and too precise and too good, like all the time. I get a lot of that from military. I get a lot of that from the Pentecostal church, this idea that you must be [00:21:00] perfect and especially in the millet, well, both of them are kind of like if you put one toe at a line, then bad things are going to happen.And in the military is the air force is all about protection. Everything has to be perfect. Perfect. Perfect, perfect. Perfect. From the way you folded your socks to the way you fix a part of him playing at the beach down to the last step, down to the period dot everything. And I was very impressionable in my teens and stuff like that.And I internalize too much of that. I didn't filter it at all. And so I still struggle with being like to right all the time. And then Bible talks to us about the, the, the dangers of trying to be over righteous, you know, and not accepting the fact that you're gonna mess up and that you're going to feel weak.The Bible tells us that in his, in our weakness, that God's strength is made. Perfect. So he's designed us to have this humanity in these weaknesses and these shortcomings, and he's also giving us, given us Jesus to have a way out. So, so it's okay for us to have these garden and get so [00:22:00] many moments, You know, and stuff like that.And, you know, but in this garden, Jesus is praying is like my evangelist Nelson used to say all the time. And the name of her show that she had was called prayer changes things. And so know, Jesus did, did you know his, his, his share of praying and I'm reminded right now, as, I'm talking about the the Mount of transfiguration I don't, I don't really know necessarily that this ties directly into the crucifixion. It was one of those moments when, you know, Jesus was you know, off praying and everything. And he had taken two of his disciples with him. I do believe. And I do believe while he was praying, then they were appeared unto him. I think it was Moses and Elijah, maybe. I think it was those two that appeared to him in spirit. So, so what does this tells us? Jesus needed encouragement. You know, this was the, see his [00:23:00] humanity. There really was no one. Fit on this earth who could like say encourage Jesus, you know, you know, he's pretty much as high as it gets, you know? So the Lord had to sin people from eternity to talk to him is something that I would think about, say like with my evangelists, you know, really high spiritual people in this earth, you know, like who in the hell can counsel them when they're counseling everybody else all the time.And so so even Jesus needed a good talking to, you know, some encouragement. He needed a couple of homeys that look, he didn't have 50,000 friends, you know, I don't care what your social media tells you. You don't have that many true friends. So he, God sent two people to hold peopleto come and cheer him up. Go ahead, branch.Branch: You know, as, as usual you've, you've said [00:24:00] lots of different triggers for me. Yeah. That the, that instance of transformation was evidence to the disciples who were there of his holiness and Moses and Elijah coming to stand there, be with him was a real important vision for a couple of reasons. Number one, Moses and Elijah will be the two witnesses who come during the first half of the tribulation to warn the world.Of what's about to come and the events that are unfolding during that first three and a half years in the tribulation, they will be the two witnesses who come and physical form and stand on the steps of the third temple in Jerusalem, prophesizing about the end of the world. The second thing [00:25:00] that, you know, you said that's important is about the discipline in the military and keeping your socks in a certain way.And everything you do in the military is discipline. Well, you know that, of that word discipline, that's where we get discipleship. So someone who is a disciple is practicing discipline. And for us as believers, you know, our faith is the practice of discipline. In our obedience to the word of God. So all of these things have a connection.You know, one of the great things about learning to read the Bible is you discover literally in sentences and paragraphs in stories. So many aspects of life, that if you reflect on what's being told [00:26:00]and, and expressed, you can see it taking place in your own life. And I just wanted to comment about that. Discipline in the military discipline in any job situation, you know, every career you've got has a certain discipline to it. There are certain rules that need to be followed in order to be successful in that endeavor and discipleship or obedience to the word of God. Isn't the same thing. That's what discipline is all about.It's having self control to listen and see and understand, you know, what you're experiencing and how it applies to your everyday life. So I just want to comment about that discipleship and discipline relationship.De'Vannon: You better preach. Hallelujah, tabernacle and praise. So you mentioned read the Bible and when you said that I, I, I believe that I understood that I should [00:27:00] give this warning to people do not try to rush through and read the Bible in a year and do not read it from Genesis to revelation. I've heard it said that it can actually like hurt your mind to try to read the Bible from front to back.I've I've heard that said I did it. I think I read the Bible from front to back like two or three times. And I tell you though, Do it do not hurt yourself that way. So this is my older self telling my younger self, this advice. If I was talking to my younger self or my kid, or if I could transform one of my cats in the real humans, I've tried, it didn't work.And I would be like, okay, look, look, look a little motherfucker. You don't take this Bible in parts. Now the whole reason you're reading it in the first place is to try to get closer, to know this God that you, that you're thinking about serving, or you decided to serve. Now, you live in an age where you have the internet, so you [00:28:00] can Google things.You don't have. You know, you don't have to go to a library. You know, like I had to when I was a kid. So first thing you want to do is understand the structure of the Bible. The thing doesn't go in chronological order from front to back, it skips around, and then there's some overlap some in some intersectionality in there and understand you're reading a historical book.That's given us snapshots of what writers deem to be important, what God deemed to be important and have collected record from the middle east. You know, like people from back in the day, and we're going to glean the themes and the, from, from the lessons that God clearly wants us to learn through these readings about how other people handled it. I would tell my younger self or my newly trans mutated cat to human kid, that everything is not in the Bible. I'd say a [00:29:00] lot of stuff is in the Bible, but not at a hundred percent of everything. Because the world has changed. It's changing all the time. And I would say go at it in pieces. I might tell you to start in the new Testament before you get in the old Testament, I probably would tell you to start with grace before you talk about all those rules and laws and stuff so that you don't get confused and start to think that you try to, that you have to live like a Hebrew in the old Testament, which is how I was, you know, that's what I would say.So what do you think about that? Branch: Great summary. You know, we need to think of the Bible as sort of the cliff notes version. The Bible, the canonized Bible that we have today is it's a story about one person basically, but it's not a novel and you're right. You don't read it from front to back. It's divided up into two different sections, the old Testament and the new Testament, the old [00:30:00] Testament is about God's relationship with the Israelites, the Jews, and the new Testament is about his relationship.With everyone, but particularly the Gentiles, the Christians, the non Jews, non believers in Christ. There's two different focuses about Jesus, you know, as spirit and as man there's lots of books you left, you made it a good point. There's lots of material. That's not in the Bible. You know, there's the Apocrypha, which is a collection of writings and books that are not in the Bible.We have to remember that the Bible, like you said, is a historical record that goes back about 3,500 years. So there's no way, you know, everything could be in there. The Bible is a compilation of books and letters from people over that [00:31:00] 3,500 year period. And much of it was passed down orally. Especially the Jewish part was oral tradition, not written records.And the Bible books that we have was a compilation decided by a council of church leaders, our elders in the third century, you know, they, they couldn't have everything in one book. So they decided these are the things that are most important to have textualized for people, you know, coming after us. It's just like the encyclopedia.There's no way you can have everything. Not all knowledge can be found in one book. So you take the highlights and you know, the things that can. Have a correlation to other important things. And then that's the tech [00:32:00] we have. So there's lots of things outside of the Bible itself that we can read and gain knowledge from.So think of the Bible as sort of the cliff note version of this history of the world and civilizations, but with the focus on the most important person who has an effect on our lives and that's Jesus Christ.De'Vannon: Right. I concur. And then now as you all the reading through it, it doesn't contain everything, but I'm going to say you, you want to When you come across the part that that might be controversial to you, you want there's these things called commentaries, which is like other people have made within archeological research or anthropological research and different things like that.And they're giving you a more historical context to it. You can get concordance to this, which are these really thick books that actually write [00:33:00] down each word in its original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic pencil, how deep you want to get with it. You don't have to launch it right into all of that from the get go, you know, take your time and just have baby steps that if you come across something that you felt like it might change your life.So you're not straight. And you come across in there where it's talking about, man shall not lie with man. And you've heard people use these scriptures to try to tell you that you're wrong. Okay. Well, we know that the word homosexual, for instance, wasn't added to the Bible until sometime in the middle of the last century.So humans have taken. Some liberties with certain certain phrasiology within here. I think that within the Bible, and I think that that's abundantly clear the Waze wouldn't have a thousand different translations of the same texts. You know, somebody got creative somewhere, you know, I really don't understand why we have to have so many translations, but at the same time I do, because people want to, they have people have different agendas in certain, certain translation.So if the [00:34:00] Bible had been written in Spanish and say, we were going to say El Gato S Moya Flocko, which is how you say the cat is very skinny in Spanish. L means the Gato means cat S means is Moines means very Flocko means skinny. You don't need a whole college of, of spiritual people. That archeology is and everything to give you 50 different translations of that.So, so, so Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. Are not what would be considered simple or like romance languages. They're just not, they're very complex in order to interpret them. It's a very subjective template that you employ, which means that a person's biases, prejudices and the way they feel about shit certainly comes into play.When they are interpreting ancient languages. Now they feel like they're smarter than YouTube, because most people they're not going to go and dig up these old [00:35:00] languages and stuff like that. But I'm going to tell you, you don't have to do it for every word in the Bible, but when you come across certain scriptures that make you raise an eyebrow and make you question yourself, then go and get a second and third opinion by doing further research, which is now readily available at your fingertips on the internet.Don't read through there. And get somebody's take on something or let a preacher tell you something's wrong with you before you go and do your research yourself. I let them influence me that way. And they cause me to doubt myself. They had me thinking masturbation was wrong and wine was wrong. And me secular music was wrong and everything was wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, based on their reading of this Bible.So we got to read it for ourselves and be patient and just take it easy when you're doing it. When you come across something that may or may make you think something's wrong with you, or something's the matter with you, I want you to stop and pray and do further research before you just internalize that. [00:36:00] Now, even though this book was written by people and it didn't have everything in it, there's still power in the word of God. I, when I've been reading through the Bible, there's been times where I may have felt like a chill pass over me and I knew God was healing me or something like that. Or I've had like spiritual experiences.I don't know how God is going to deal with each of you out there. But I do know that if you reach for him, that he will reach back to you and reading your Bible and trying to learn is certainly a way of you reaching out God. So I'm not saying expect chills to pass over you, but what I do pray, so the Lord to manifest themselves to each and every last one of you in a way that you're going to know that it's him and what does cause he did that with me.He got all kinds of things he could do. So I would just say be open-minded to your own unique experiences, because I can't expect somebody to, you know, follow a God that doesn't present himself to them, you know, in some way. And I think that that's fair. [00:37:00]Branch: Hey, man. Couldn't agree more, De'Vannon: Oh, Branch: but I don't know of, we talked about this before or not. I think we probably have, but for those people who want to get into scripture, what read the Bible. Here's my suggestion. And I've made this before. Get a red letter version of the Bible. That's where Christ's words are printed and read star in the book of Matthew.You're going to read Matthew, mark, Luke and John. The four gospel books and all you read is the red letters. Anything that's printed in red, if it skips from one paragraph to the next that's okay. You just read the red letter. And what that will do is number one, it will give you an exposure to Jesus, his thoughts, his words, and his [00:38:00] deeds.Number two, that will help you establish that base of relationship that the advantage just had mentioned. And number three, it will open your eyes to what the Bible is and what its purpose is and how it relates to you in your life. If you just read that part, you'll be able to start from there and establish that relationship with God through Christ.You know, that's been the desire of your heart. We all feel that we're missing something. And that missing part of us is not being spiritually grounded. If you want to get spiritually grounded, I have found, and I often suggest to people who ask me, you know, this is the easiest way to sort of jumpstart that relationship.Red letter version, [00:39:00] just read the red letter text, and then go from there.De'Vannon: Right. And in terms of the, all the different sorts of translations and stuff they have out there.Bible gateway.com is a pretty easy to use website and app. They have it very organized and you can pick, you know, just kind of go through and get something that, that you can understand that it's not. Make you feel intimidated.It's a lot of people don't fuck with the king James version for that reason. You know, however for whatever it's worth, the king James version is maybe like one of the closest versions that actually where the people actually worked hard to give you somewhat, it's a little bit more accurate, you know, although all of them are quite subjective.So, but you got to pick a version that, that, that, that that's gonna appeal to you. You mentioned the word canonized. When you talked about this, I want you to tell people what that means exactly in the, in the way that you're [00:40:00] using it. Because I don't think you mean it like so. Branch: No, no. Yeah, no. The Canon is the label that's used for the Bible. You know, the Catholics have their own version of the Bible. Not that it's completely different, but they've got some things added. Into, you know, their holy book for their catechism, which is instruction. So the cannon refers to the old Testament and the new Testament books, the 66 is sort of the quantified or the, this is the final version for the lay people to read.So Canam simply means that it's the approved version. It's the one that all the deciders got to get. It's like the constitution, you know, when they sat down to [00:41:00] drop the constitution, everybody had an opinion as to what would be in it. And so after all of the back and forth and discussions in the meetings, they all finally agreed, okay, this is what the cost tuition will say.And this is what the bill of rights would say. And they all signed off. So you could say that the constitution was canonized, it was the final version. And so that's what the Canon means is the official version final form.De'Vannon: All right. Good enough on that. So, so do you get sold out in a, you know, Judas does his thing, the guards come, Peter shanks. One of them slices in ear off, you know, as we do. And so Jesus is so nice. He picked his ear up and stuck it back on the, on the food's head. I bet you, that had a lasting impression on that guard.[00:42:00] Now he just received a miracle while he's going to arrest the person who gave him a miracle. So now Jesus is bought before religious leaders of the day and well put putting, you know, it, the religious leaders know exactly what's right, that the man hadn't done anything, but they chose to put the what other people want, what their constituents want over, what they know is right. I'd be willing to say that these people were probably Republicans.I'm just going to allow myself that bit of shade here. Cause it's my show and I didn't do what the fuck I want. And so that wouldn't, you know, it, that religion in front of politics, you know, I think the two of them make strange bedfellows. And so go ahead, branch. Branch: Well, instead of Republicans, we might say hypocrites, you know, that's what Jesus called them. That's what he called the, [00:43:00] the leaders of the Jewish community and the religious leaders of his day. There was the farracies, which were the scholarly. And official religious leaders. There, the Sadducees, which were the sort of the next group down, they work, they were religious people.They're like Christians today versus versus, you know, the priest and the Pope. So the priest and the Pope would have been the Pharisees and the people who attended church would have been the Sadducees. They were also a lot of the merchants in the more wealthy in society of that day. And then you had, you know, all the mass of people who were the workers and the downtrodden and the poverty stricken, and Jesus addresses the leaders, the rich, the powerful as hypocrites simply because they say one thing [00:44:00] and they do another.And so. You know, if you look at our day and age, we have a lot of hypocrites also in our time that say what we should be doing and then turn right around and actually do the same thing. So he called them hypocrites. And not necessarily all Republicans, certainly they're sitting the Democrats, but if we think of them as hypocrites people who are, you know, telling us how we should behave and holding up the Bible as their evidence of how we should behave and then behind closed doors or in our world today, blatantly in the media, in front of everybody, they continue to behave the exact ways that they're declaring that others should not behave.So [00:45:00] hypocrites of Jesus. Hypocrites of our days. Same people, different time, you know, different label and different clothing.De'Vannon: Facts. And the thing is not, it's not be fitting for us to waste emotion, being angry at the hypocrites of the day because these things are ordained of the Lord. You know, if everybody was acting right and everything back in the day, then the crucifixion wouldn't have never happened. You know? So even the evil, they see the Bible says that God creates the evil and the good, you know, but he uses them all according to his purpose.So once we understand and accept that, then we stopped being angry. Like say, when kids die, when crazy shit like Donald Trump happens, you know, you know, when the Corona virus happens, you know, as bad as these things are. Good still comes out of them in some way. But at the end of the day, the Lord is ushering this world towards its inevitable end.But until that [00:46:00] time comes, there are certain things that God wants to happen. And he's using all of these people. I would never want a public high position like that because you know, all authority belongs to God. And if you have something to do with charting policy, that changes literally the course of history and the whole world, you, you know, God was like, just so has its fingers on you.Like, I look at them just like. I think it was on a chess board. So it doesn't matter if you're the president, the vice-president a Congressman or whoever public servant you. I mean uh, you're you have your accountability before the Lord is like very, very, very, very high, you know, in my opinion, because what you do affects like everyone, you know, and nothing you do is done in a corner.And therefore and I do believe the Bible says something about like judgment will start like at the church, you know, you know, it's, it starts with those who have to do with the rendering judgment. And it's so easy to fall into being a hypocrite. The [00:47:00] moment you start to nitpick at somebody else for not living the way you think they should.I do believe that you've become a hypocrite because we all sin every day. And the Lord says all sin is the same. So where the not you stole a toothpick or a woman went to go get an abortion. You, you, you toothpick thief cannot stand there and pull it up. You know, the pictures of the gross babies outside the abortion clinic with a stolen toothpick in your pocket, thinking that it's going to be all right for you when you stand before the Lord.So I'm going to say this again, people, we were not put on this earth to straighten everybody else out. We were not put on this earth, the fuck with other people. Some people go in here and change brands. Some people are just gonna be so caught up in their own insecurities and inferiorities that they just can't help, but try to demean and belittle other people so that they can feel better about themselves, but leave people alone.Our God said it. If you show mercy, you will receive mercy. But if you show judgment, then you will receive judgment [00:48:00] without mercy. So which one do you want? But you can't, you can't do nothing but reap what you saw. And so it doesn't matter how good stuff is for you now. Everything is subject to change.You don't know what tomorrow holds or not even what a day may bring. So you might have money and procedure and position. You don't know that these times are changing so fast. You know, everyone was talking about the cocaine or do you use with, I think Kevin McCarthy and his little friend who decided to snitch last week and the Republican party, you know, and Kevin McCarthy didn't have nothing to say about, you know, You know, Lauren and Barbara and all this crazy ass people, but the mama, they started talking about cocaine or these where he may have been involved.And all of a sudden he's available to speak,not judging you, anyone for having cocaine or these I've done it myself. However, you don't, you don't see me telling people what they're not supposed to do either. You know, I'm leaving everybody alone. So [00:49:00] I'm trying to get into heaven myself. So,oh Lord Jesus. So, so the, so the politicians of the day I knew believed the Bible said that, you know, they didn't want to cause a stir amongst the people. So they just gave them what they want. We do not hold public office. Branton. I don't have the platform that we have to just do what the fuck we want.You know, we have a mandate in our, we have a great responsibility to people. So these leaders weren't praying, they didn't, I didn't read and there we need them prayed, you know, what should I do? You know, or anything like that? They let the voice of the people sway them. They didn't go into their prayer closet.They didn't reach out for the Lord. You know, I didn't see any of that, you know, you know, and these are the things that are shared Jesus onto the cross. So he's onto the cross. They didn't flatter the thorny crown, slap them, spit on him. One person helped him, [00:50:00] everyone else just looked. And so, so so now he's up there on this cross.I believe he has like a murder and a thief on either side of him. He actually wasn't crucified by himself. So, this is where we get this whole cross from. So you see crosses hanging around with people's necks on the back of their fucking cars next to the fish in all of these different Christian symbols and so on and so forth.So what was it, all this Jesus stuff about? Why did he come here one earth? How does seem dying all them years ago? Do anything for me? You know, this is the, this is like the meat of why we're having this whole discussion today and why Easter is such a big deal. Take it away brand. Branch: well, let's back up a minute demand because you said something about the crowd there. And I don't know if we had talked about this before. I don't think so because of the crucifixion, Passover is the [00:51:00] celebration that the crucifixion takes place. There's a weekend three day weekend. We call it Easter. The Jews call it Passover.And what it is is celebrating the. Jews and the Israelites leaving Egypt getting out of bondage would Moses led them out of Egypt towards the promised land. And so Passover symbolizes them symbolizes and recognizes. And it is a celebration to acknowledge that Moses taking the Jews out of bondage in Egypt, when Jesus entered Jerusalem for Passover, Passover happens obviously every year and same weekend.What we call Easter Christians call Easter and in Jesus's day, [00:52:00] virtually everyone in the country who could travel to Jerusalem. Orthodox Jews and practicing Jews would travel to Jerusalem for this festival for the celebration. And when Jesus entered the city he had the entire route into Jerusalem, was lined with people, celebrating his, coming into the city for that celebration jump forward.Two days later, when he's standing before the CEP two agenda, which is the 70 members of the Jewish high order both political and religious, primarily religious, the religious leader for also the political leaders. He's standing before them in sort of a trial situation. And they're condemning. To [00:53:00]death for being a rebel, a zealot who they believe is going to overthrow their authority, because he's got so many of the people supporting him, they think he's going to cause a rebellion and they'll get thrown out of office.And so they have a trial, they condemn him to death, but because they have no authority to actually put him to death, they send him over to the Romans, to just pilot, the governor of Judah and Jerusalem at that time, governor of the province. And they send him over to stand trial a second time, a pilot listens to, it says he's not guilty.Sends him back to the Septuagint and. They refused to hear it. And they sent him back to Pontus, pilot, Pontus pilot says, you know, [00:54:00] I'm not going to condemn him to death. So I'll let you, the Jews decide, you know, what he does. He gets a prisoner out of the prison cell or Rabis and brings him around in the stage and brings Jesus out on the stage and then asks the people who are assembled below, you know, who they should save and who they should put to down.My point is the number of people who were there at that time at the death sentence time was certainly less than the people who were lining the streets two days prior, celebrating Jesus's entry into the city. And you've got to probably imagine that the crowd who was at the was hearing. Was probably made up of some hand-picked people you know, sort of like the religious or political people, getting their shells to [00:55:00] be in the crowd.So when pilot says who you all made it release, but rabbits or Jesus, you know, they all cry out Barabis and that's how it comes to pass that the death sentence is actually decided now because the Jews can kill anyone. The Romans had the duty and the honor to actually put Jesus to death. So there's a, there's the big difference in the crowds and their demeanor towards Jesus. Just kind of you know, the fix was in, so to speak much like we, we experienced today and so. Situations that we are part of, or we are part of as observers, the fix was,De'Vannon: Yeah, shouldn't be being. And Branch: the system [00:56:00] was rigged.De'Vannon: as it was then, so it is now, but it looks, it looks a rig to us, but the Bible says that the lot may be cast in the lap, but its every outcome is of the Lord. His stuff is not random to him. But do you see is not isn't that required for us as humans to understand that every freaking thing, you know, God understands everything and all of the random stuff it's his will.It is so, so Jesus is on the Kraus. Scott hanging out, you know, it's not like, you know, he, then they're challenging him, you know, Hey, if you're really the son of God, you just get yourself down from there, you know, making a mockery of him while he's up there, he's got two homies on the right and the left, one-to-one throwing shade at him.And the other one's like Hey, I believe. And so and so they [00:57:00] mix vinegar with gall, but it on a sponge, they extended up to Jesus' mouth, all these hanging out here on this Crouse. And I think he held him well, was it from the show? I can't remember. I think it was about three hours. So that maybe he wasn't up there on that, on that cross that tells you specifically in the gospels, but it wasn't like.I like that super quick death or anything like that. It was like in my opinion, a long drawn out, slow, miserable death. And so they mixed this vinegar with gall and they put it up to his mouth. He tasted, he spits it out. I think some Bibles might call it wine. I think some might call it like a mixture of concoction.And so I wanted to talk about the difference between a NAZA right and a Nazarene, because I do believe that there are those people who would use a scripture like this to try to further condemn the consumption [00:58:00] of alcoholic beverages. Okay. I want to be, I just want to say that there's nothing wrong. If you want a drink, you a Cabernet Sauvignon or some damn Jack Daniels.I mean, for what it's worth. I mean, the liquor is a derived from fucking plants and all this Scottish shit, you know, but the Bible does warn us against excessive drinking. Again, God's rules and laws and principles are there to help us. When you think about them, they kind of make sense. Common sense.Wouldn't want to over-drink anyway, you get all fucked up. You spend way too money. He may wake up in jail or thinking body parts and shit. And I've been through enough drunken revelry in my life. I think God had the right idea, you know, a sip or two will do. And so So I'm just going to read this. So in the Hebrew Bible, a Nazarite is one who voluntarily took a vow.These vowels are described the [00:59:00] numbers, chapter six, verses one through 21 Nazarite comes from the Hebrew word Nasar meaning consecrated or separated. Those who put themselves under NAZA right vial, which is how like Samson was in the book of judges. That's why he, you know, his strength was in his hair and he wasn't supposed to cut his hair. Those who put themselves under Nazarite vow do so by adding onto themselves a degree of sanctity, as it says for some length of time. So they do things like they abstained from all wine and anything else made from the great vine plant, such as cream of tar, tar, GrapeSEED oil, et cetera. They refrain from cutting their hair. And then they, they, and they, then they do not become ritually impure by contact with corpses or graves, even though it was a family member. So Jesus has raised people from the dead touch, plenty of corpses, you know, turn the water into wine and everything like that. So he was not a, I don't see him as a NAZA right now.A Nazareen is simply [01:00:00] somebody who's born in the city of Nazareth. And so it was fascinating to me when I came across as this difference here. And I really wanted to point that out. But what do you, what do you think about that? Branch: While you're talking about people who are fundamentalists or, you know, like the people we see in Jerusalem and Israel today in the garb, there has Siddiq, is there sort of their sector, their label, and they are fundamentalist Jews. They are you know, practicing old Testament kinds of rituals and lifestyles.And that's like the fundamentalist and any religion, you know, have sort of a set of rules that they adhere to pretty stringently. One thing we have to remember, especially in Jesus' day, but literally up until [01:01:00] at least the 19th century and into the 20th century. Most people drank alcoholic beverages, beer, and wine being, you know, the, the core of alcohol not because they wanted to get drunk, but because the water was not good to drink so much water, they didn't have any purification systems or methods.So all the water that they drank came from Wells and streams and rivers, and most of it was contaminated, you know bacteria, all kinds of things growing in the waterways. So it was not the best health conscious thing to do to drink the water. And that's why people would drink wine and beer because it had been through a fermentation process that helped cleanse that water that was being [01:02:00] used in it.So it wasn't so much. A cultural thing. It was a health issue. And you know, like say this was all up until at least the 19th century and 20th century, most water systems were not running with Predix or pure water. So there was a health factor involved. So if you abstained from drinking beer or wine, except in a ritual or worser situation, that it would be like a fasting scenario where you were, you know, keeping your body from indulging orient by being in something that the common man or the common person did on a regular basis, drank wine and beer. Because they couldn't, or wouldn't drink for water. And so as a fundamentalist, you would only partake in those things that had to do with your worship [01:03:00] service or, you know, your religious traditions or doing it for religious purposes. You wouldn't just go out and drink wine or beer. And that may be what the common person was doing simply so they could be hydrated.So there's a couple of different ways to look at that, but the fundamentalists there, their whole intent is to stick as closely as possible to what their principles and they're gone. And their liturgies describe as a holy life.De'Vannon: Right. And so was the Pentecostals who. tried to drill that into me. You know, that drinking wine is, you know, like the devil and everything like that. And I think they meant well,but at the end of the day, what they told me, wasn't the truth, you know? And it was founded in, in a, in a gross [01:04:00] misunderstanding of the word and how to look at it, which is why I'm such a big proponent of reading and studying the Bible for yourself in, and I'm not really so much for denominations anymore anyway, about growth in those.But but you know, it was a good start, some good training wheels. I love new churches as training wheels, you know, use them as you need to, but you know, you got to graduate from college at some point, you know, I don't see why people shouldn't need a church to teach them how to reach God that he died for the rest of their lives.At some point you should get the. You know, you should, you should learn. So, okay. So he's nailed to the cross. His blood is flowing, so to take the spear, shanks him in like his rib and some water comes down. And so oh, wait a minute. I, wasn't going to talk about Daniel. Cause you've mentioned about taking a [01:05:00] break from wine.So Daniel, there's a book of Daniel in the old Testament. This is probably my second favorite book in the Bible. Second, only to the book of revelation because they talk so much about the same stuff in revelation or these angels and all this stuff going on. And I just love, love, love, love, love. And so angel was gone, the angel Daniel was going through some changes baby.And when he was in Babylon and, and they, and, and they say that he took a break from wine, you know, for like three weeks. To fast for the deliverance of his people. And so I believe that that was stated for a reason, you know, why did, why did the Lord want us to know that he took a break from wine because Daniel was turning up and he was drinking wine for all the reasons brands just said.So we have precedent that it is okay. To have you some wine, he took his fasting break, like you were just saying for spiritual purposes. And that's when the angel Gabriel came and flew to him with his visions and everything. And we have all, all of the [01:06:00] beauty of the book of Daniel. And so so we're up here on the cross.Jesus is bleeding. So branch, if I'm new to Christianity of I'm considering this, but explain to me how this guy hanging on a cross, getting killed and bleeding with this water coming out of the side and mixed with blood. What, what, what does it do for me today? I don't understand, like how does it, what does it do for me?How did they even help me? Branch: wow. Well, the, the innocent, I pulled out one Ephesians one. Verse seven says very simply in the ham, meaning Jesus, we have the redemption, meaning the path of spiritual reconciliation to God, the father, through his blood for the forgiveness of sins. And so [01:07:00] what the blood of Christ does is release us from our sins that we've committed.So in him, we have redemption through his blood for the forgiveness of sins, and that's what that whole blood flowing represents. He gave himself as a sacrifice for us so that we could Or not experience death. And that's what the blood of Christ is. It's covering our sins so that we don't have to die and be separated from God.De'Vannon: So, yeah. So when he says the death, y'all, he means like a spiritual death as opposed to physical. 'cause we all got to die physically once, you know, as the scriptures [01:08:00] say, so in the old Testament, if somebody wanted to be forgiven of sayings, they used to have to go to the priest. And there, you know, it'd be a lot of animal butchering.You know, this is a principle. This is where human understanding. You just, at some point, once God has said something, he's ordained structured, it is what it is. Now. God does not have to explain himself to us. And so us as humans, we got to gain some humility about that and understand who has the power and who doesn't.God is the ultimate. One of authority, not the president, not ourselves, you know, no, nobody but him. He requires a blood sacrifice. This is the way it's always been. I didn't ask him why it is what it is. And so Jesus was the like last sacrifice. So we don't have to do, like they did in the old Testament and take a bull and a Ram or a dove or whatever, and go down there and chop it up for the blood to flow.You know, it's something about when God sees the blood, [01:09:00] you know, it changes, you know, he goes from being angry to cool. You know, that's just the weight that this does, that is just an ordinance that just exists. And so and, and, and the buck stops there. So Jesus, his whole purpose. He's this bloody sacrificing on this cross from this point on no more animal sacrifices needs. We don't have to make a trip to the temple we can. And so when we say we call on the sacrifice that we call on the blood of Jesus, we're not asking him to pour blood all over us. What we're saying is that we would like to take God up on his offer of what the sacrifice represents to forgive us. Now, I was listening to somebody having to do with the war on Ukraine, a lady who was Ukrainian, she was saying, she's not afraid to die.Jesus. She's just afraid to die because she hasn't had a chance to make it to confession yet. Okay. And I'm listening to her and thinking, [01:10:00] I get what you're saying, lady, and I'm here for your strength. You're kicking some serious Russian ass over there, but this concept that we have to wait to go to a confession, to talk to a human before we can get right with God defeats the entire purpose of Jesus. And so by that that's so wholesale, the practice is going back to the old Testament and being like, Well, I can't get right until I leave my house and go talk to this person so they can mediate for me. Jesus, didn't done that. And so he released you from this whole thing. And when I heard her say that I'm thinking, Hmm, wonder she's Catholic.And I don't know, there's other religions out there that still make you go through a person to get absolved of your sins, but babies y'all, don't have to do that wherever you're at. You can just be like, Jesus, I thank you for that sacrifice. I believe that you exist. Please forgive me my sins. And it's done the [01:11:00] moment you believe in you, even if you can't speak, just believe it in your heart.I don't know. I'm just going to be quiet. I just cannot with this whole going to a pre thing to get forgiven, I just can't. I can't. Branch: there's, there's two scriptures. People should keep in mind. Right? Describe and answer all that. You've just said, number one, Matthew seven, verses seven and eight. If you want to know how you get that relationship with God through Jesus Christ started Matthew seven, seven, and eight describes that when you've gone there, then go to Romans 10, 9, 10, and 17.And that will give you what Davanon was just trying to describe. [01:12:00] It gets you, you invited Christ into your life. He's responded and Romans 10, 9, 10, and 17 describes what that woman in Ukraine needs to do instead of waiting to see an Orthodox priest. To get right with God for possible demise. That's how simple a relationship with Christ is.And that's how easy it is to get to God when you pass away. Yeah, there's, there's a lot going on and there's a lot of people, you know, who are confused and frightened about, well, what happens when I die and am I going to get to heaven? And those two scriptures will answer all those questions.[01:13:00]De'Vannon: Yeah. And you know, the Lord hasn't given us a spirit of f

Welcome Pathfinders! The Doorkeepers of the Duat return to Sothis one last time to make their final purchases before bringing down the Pyramid of the Sky Pharaoh! Cast Rick Sandidge is Gamemaster and Host Heather Allen plays Masika of the Bekhen (NG female undine Shaman 15) Jessica Peters plays Hollis Starkweather (NG female elf Wizard [...] The post Episode 188: The One On The Sun Disk appeared first on Find the Path Ventures.

Welcome Pathfinders! The Doorkeepers of the Duat return to Sothis one last time to make their final purchases before bringing down the Pyramid of the Sky Pharaoh! Cast Rick Sandidge is Gamemaster and Host Heather Allen plays Masika of the Bekhen (NG female undine Shaman 15) Jessica Peters plays Hollis Starkweather (NG female elf Wizard 15) Jordan Jenkins plays Sudi Kontar (LN male catfolk Unchained Monk 6/Living Monolith 9) Rachel Sandidge plays Sitra Naham-ra (NG female human Unchained Rogue 15) In game music provided by Syrinscape! Check them out at https://syrinscape.com/ Mummy's Mask theme provided by Ryan Mumford.

Baby girl, I can't imagine what it's like for youI got you pregnant now inside there is a life in youI know you wonderin' if this gon make me think bout wifin' youLike if you had my first child would I spend my whole life witchuNow I aint tryna pick a fight with you, I'm tryna talkNow I aint tryna spend the night with youI'm kinda lost seeI've been giving it some thought lately and, franklyI'm feelin' like we aint ready and it's, hold up nowLet me finishThink about it baby me and you we still kids, ourselfHow we gon raise a kid by ourself?Handle biz by ourselfA nigga barely over 20, where the hell we gon live?Where am I gon get that moneyI refuse to bring my boy or my girl in this worldWhen I aint got shit to give 'emAnd I'm not with them n-ggas who be knocking girls up and skate outGirl, you gotta think bout how the options weigh outWha'ts the way out?And I ain't too proud to tell ya that I cry sometimesI cry sometimes about itAnd girl I know it hurt but if this world was perfectThen we could make it work but I doubt itAnd I aint too proud to tell ya that I cry sometimesI cry sometimes about itAnd girl I know it hurt but if this world was perfectThen we could make it work but I doubt itShe said nigga you got some nerveTo come up to me talkin' bout abortionThis my body nigga so don't think you finna force shitSee I knew that this is how you act, so typicalSaid you love me, oh, but now you flipping like reciprocalsIt figures though, I should've known that you was just another niggaNo different from them other niggasWho be claiming that they love you just to get up in them drawsKnowing all the right things to sayI let you hit it raw mothaf-ckerNow I'm pregnant you don't wanna get involved muthaf-ckerTryna take away a life, is you God mothaf-cker?I don't think soThis a new life up in my stomachRegardless if I'm your wifeThis new life here I'mma love itI'm aint budging, I'll do this by my muthaf-cking selfSee my momma raised me without no muthaf-cking help from a manBut I still don't understand how you could say thatDid you forget all those conversations that we had way backBout your father and you told me that you hate that niggaTalkin' bout he a coward and you so glad that you aint that niggaCause he left your mamma when she had you and he aint shitHere you go doin' the same shitYou aint shit nigga!And I ain't too proud to tell ya that I cry sometimesI cry sometimes about itAnd boy that shit hurt, and ain't nobody perfectStill we can make it work, but you doubt itAnd I aint too proud to tell ya that I cry sometimesI cry sometimes about itAnd boy that shit hurt, and ain't nobody perfectStill we can make it work, but I doubt itThey say everything happens for a reasonAnd people change like the seasonsThey grow apart she wanted him to show his heart and say he loved herHe spoke the magic words and on the same day he f-cked herNow she wide openShe put a ring up on his finger if she couldBut he loved her cause the p-ssy goodBut she aint no wife thoughUh oh, she tellin' him she missed her period like typo'sHe panicking, froze up like a mannikinA life grows inside her now he asking "is it even mine"What if this bitch aint even pregnant dawgCould she be lying?She be crying cause he acting distantLike ever since I told you this nigga you acting differentAnd all his niggas saying man these hoes be trapping niggasPlaying with niggas emotions like they some action figuresSwear they get pregnant for collateralIt's like extortion, man if that bitch really pregnantTell her get an abortionUh, but what about your seed nigga?(What about your seed nigga?)And I ain't too proud to tell ya that I cry sometimesI cry sometimes about itAnd I aint too proud to tell ya that I cry sometimesI cry sometimes about it

Segunda parte del consultorio de bolsa con Roberto Moro. Luis Miguel Ortiz , Fundador Inversión Racional nos presenta su proyecto de educación/formación en finanzas en el Foro de la inversión. Foro Directivos con Christopher Domingo, Director técnico de ciberseguridad en Sothis.

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Welcome Pathfinders! Having finally returned Chisisek to his rightful rest the Doorkeepers set off for the capital of Osirion, the great city of Sothis. Cast Rick Sandidge is Gamemaster and Host Heather Allen plays Masika of the Bekhen (NG female undine Shaman 12) Jessica Peters plays Hollis Starkweather (NG female elf Wizard 12) Jordan Jenkins [...] The post Episode 154: The One In Sothis appeared first on Find the Path Ventures.

Welcome Pathfinders! Having finally returned Chisisek to his rightful rest the Doorkeepers set off for the capital of Osirion, the great city of Sothis. Cast Rick Sandidge is Gamemaster and Host Heather Allen plays Masika of the Bekhen (NG female undine Shaman 12) Jessica Peters plays Hollis Starkweather (NG female elf Wizard 12) Jordan Jenkins plays Sudi Kontar (LN male catfolk Unchained Monk 6/Living Monolith 6) Rachel Sandidge plays Sitra Naham-ra (NG female human Unchained Rogue 12) In game music provided by Syrinscape! Check them out at https://syrinscape.com/ Mummy’s Mask theme provided by Ryan Mumford.

Hello Gut Check project fans and KBMD Health family. I hope you're having a great day. It's your host Eric Rieger soon to be joined by my awesome co host, Dr. Kenneth Brown. It's time for Episode Number 53 and this is a really informative episode about what causes Hemorrhoids and believe it or not, would you maybe listening to this podcast on could be making your hemorrhoids worse? That's right The phone anyhow, how is this possible? We'll just check out Episode 53 it's it's very light but really informative and without wasting any more time let's get to our sponsors. And as always, I'll try until formulated by my partner Dr. Ken otter ideal chock full of polyphenols go to love my tummy calm doesn't matter if you're an athlete trying to protect your gut health. 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I'm Eric Rieger flanked here by my awesome co host, Dr. Kenneth Brown. It's Episode 53 What's up, man? That'sawesome. It's Episode 53. And you rarely refer to me as awesome. That's why I'm gonna use it three times in the same sentence. That's an awesome sentence. Usually it's I'm I'm here with my adequate co host, Dr. Ken Brown.Yeah, I've never said that. And y'all will never use awesome again. That's probably not even true. So what's what's shakin here for Episode 53.And this is exciting because Episode 53 it's gonna be all about hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids and Roy Roy. Yeah, this all came about because I was treating a patient in their mid 20s. And that person asked if it was unusual for me to be treating a person that was they felt that this was an older person's disease. And I said no, actually, I treat a lot of people in their 20s. And I started thinking about it. And I went, you know, I do treat a lot. And that person said, Why is that? And what I have not paused to think about and he goes you should do a show on it. Yeah, and I went absolutely. And as suggested we're doing a show on hemorrhoids. So I am declaring today officially national hemorrhoid Awareness Day. That's veryambitious. I actually you're not you're not gonna believe me, but I actually believe that there is a hemorrhoid day. And there's actually a hemorrhoid month the hemorrhoid days October 19. And hemorrhoid month is November and I don't want to take it away from you. Maybe this could be hemorrhoid30 minutes. Yes, yes. We all know this. Everyone knows that October 19. Everyone knows and it's also national clean your virtual desktop days national Kentucky day. National seafood bisque day 10 National LGBT Center Awareness Day. hemorrhoids gets buried under all that so I'm pulling hemorrhoids out and declaring today national hemorrhoid day.So we're shining the light on him right. I'm changing. Everyone likes to have their hemorrhoids eliminated. Oh,I emailed the national hemorrhoid committee and found out there is not one I made myself president. And by doing so. I voted. I was I filled a quorum and I was able to change it this morning. Today's national hemorrhoid day quit arguing with me. So I'm done. And I'll just go ahead and move on to I like the fact that you use the word quorum and they were using the words hemorrhoid because both of those are kind of hard to spell. Once you give me you were telling me you were second runner up in the deck. cater local spelling bee in 1978 was ityeah much like your impromptu declared hemorrhoid national day I was the only one who showed up and I still came in second.Alright, so before we jump into hemorrhoids man what's going on with your life? What's going on with the Rieger household?We are preparing to actually follow your footsteps we are about to renovate the house and sweeping changes about to move everything out today to the house the one that we just moved into so we're going to really justis upgraded did you do the renovations? Like we did? Did you flood the house first? No choose to renovate it. Wetried to order a freeze and it didn't quite work out. But now in about a week and a half we get started should take about a month. I don't think it's nearly as extensive as what you're doing. But yeah, we'll update some stuff. Mack is back in the throes of offseason basketball. Murray's got her new company up and going gage is back out finishing up his first full year in college. So you know, they're doing well. Howabout you? That's awesome. Oh, the brown households doing well. Lots of tennis going on. I think Lucas is playing on that ITF circuit and both Carl and Lucas have tournaments this weekend. So that's, that's cool. love to see everybody healthy out there able to do that kind of thing. You know, suffering through a little bit of a small neck injury that I now i i appreciate when you can get out there and play the sports that you want to play and have fun the way you want to have fun. Sodefinitely check that what episode was was Wade McKenna,who early on very early. Yeah, that was back in the original students how we even did this that was back in the spoony studio.So his episode was specifically on stem cells from his perspective. He's one of the world's leading experts.You throw a little y'all bro. Yeah, I'll throw a little information out there. Right. So I injured my neck. And which is a really, really common injury and there's typical traditional medicine that people do. And one of our read one of our guests maybe guest number five or sixWade McKenna,he's Dr. Wade McKenna happens to be a world expert on stem cell. So I texted him and said, Get an act thing going on. I want to I don't want to play around with this. I went and made an appointment with him. Super cool guy. Super cool staff absolutely phenomenal out at trophy club. He spent a long time with me. And we went through everything and I'm going to do stem cells. We're gonna see what happens. I hear Joe Rogan talk about stem cells all the time. Yeah. And honestly, there's varying differences with how people respond to it. But if you're gonna do it, you go with the person who's been doing it the longest that does the most the person that that Rogan had on to talk about it was who Wade used to open up his Panama clinic with Neil Riordan. Yeah. Neil Riordan.I'm pretty excited. And we won't spend too much time because this is about hemorrhoids. However, I think it's really cool on that episode, if you go back and check it, you'll learn that lots of stem cell failure is due to people not knowing how to even even the physicians themselves may not be using the best technique for sure there's there'shandling of stem cells doing things but he did on our podcast, he explained how he did research as a residence. He has been doing this autologous bone marrow use with stem cells, which nobody, which people are now just scratching the surface. He's been doing it for a long time and even had the Panama clinic where because the laws were a little bit more relaxed, and he could do some things that he had been doing research on. So I'm excited. So I'll keep everybody updated to what happens because if it if it goes well, and I imagine it really well, I'll be really excited that I can if I look 20 years younger, not that I took 10 bottles of Toronto at one time for the anti aging polyphenols. It's because those stem cells are kicking in but you know, we'll see. All right. This is kind of cool. I didn't even realize this. This threw me off. I'm really excited. Also, on episode 35, we interviewed ron paul Bundy. Oh yeah. Yep. generosity, generosity fee. So Eric and I, my family's out of town. Eric brought his family we went and we participated in one of generosity feeds, making campaigns or what is it? Yeah, wedid the food baking campaign where we packed all of the lunches for over I think that one was 11,000 meals that we did for kids who essentially just don't have a means to eat during the weekends. Yeah,it's it's absolutely shocking. So what Ron on that on that episode explained, is that how many children rely on the school system to get the only meals that they get right? Even in like what you would consider affluent areas, there's going to be people that still need the assistance. And so what they do is they have teamed up with a nutritionist and stuff that devised a very, I guess you would call it healthy, nutrient rich meal. Definitely that is sustainable. And so what we did is we packed rice and beans and seasoning and everything's all they got to do is you just give it to the child when they walk out the door, right and then they get there. We're able to eat over the weekend until the school is able to do it. I think it's a phenomenal thing and the fact that they're in so demand so anyways, it's been a year dude. And party on purpose is up again and we're gonna be sponsors again. So last year we helped sponsor What what? what Tim power setup with Austin down and yeah, it was a year ago. We were justwondering that pandemic stuff. That'swhat we were doing the pandemic, everybody was like this weird thing that's happening what's going on? Yeah, it was one year ago. So we're going to be sponsors, again, a party on purpose. And I would like everybody to take a look at Episode 35. And just see the special work that generosity feeds is doing and robbing Ron club Andy and his passion for it is really amazing. helps a lot of kids who just don't just don't have a voice, and it's pretty awesome. Yeah, so we've had some really sciency shows recently, a couple maybe a little too sciency. And, you know, I'm feeling like we're not doing good justice to the other arts. I went to a liberal arts college. Did you know that?I did know that. Yeah.My mom taught there and I went there. Good. Old Danna college that no longer exists.So you're not going to the reunion. So what what is it about that and it reminded you of your college?Well, I was gonna jump into the science of hemorrhoids. Oh, it's really cool stuff. And I thought, Wait a minute. No, let's, let's bring in some other arts into this. Let's be a full spectrum podcast.Okay. I'm excited.I'd like to kick some history. Okay.Let's find out.Yeah, let's kick some history. So I was sitting there preparing for this. And I'm, specifically I want to talk about the history of the toilet.Ooh, yeah. Okay.I mean, we take it for granted. It's something that in other people's worlds, my favorite thing is when patients come to me and they're like, I don't want to talk about this. But no matter what they're gonna say, I'm like, I talk about this all the time. Yeah. No, you can't say anything, but I'm not gonna go. Oh, yeah. So specifically the toilet and quick trivia quiz. Okay, first documentation of a toilet. Do you have any idea of when it actually took place? When when we when historians believe that there may have been the beginnings of writing about a particular thing that could have been a toilet? I'm just going to guess because of irrigation? Maybe in Rome? I don't know. That was interesting. 3000 bc and Scotland?No kidding.Yeah, that's what they that's what archaeologists believe was the first plausible thing that is a toilet, but it wasn't written about and you're exactly right. You're exactly right on this, but they think that the true record didn't start taking place until 315. Ad by the Romans. Okay.Make sense?Yeah. And this is kind of fun. Okay, because it's gonna play into what we're going to talk about later. All right. But the toilets at that time, were actually public toilets. And they were situated like in a square next to each other. And it was considered a social event to go poop. Oh, with the community.So could that be considered the first buches?They sell beaver nuggets?Oh, my gosh, that explains so much. Because I was looking at these archeological digs. And there was these little carvings of like this little beaver with a hat. And I'm like, Yeah, yeah, the Romans actually started the first buches. But anyways, so they build these, these toilets in public locations where people would gather, and they would socially poop next to each other, right? Men and women, just just kind of part of it. And then there would be a stick attached to your toilet with a sponge on the end with which you would clean yourself.Hopefully, you'rethe first No, yeah, well, hopefully you are. But you're never the first because once it's there, it stays. And then you dip it in water and shake it off. And some historians believe that that is the origin of I'm not making this up of getting the wrong end of the stick. Wow. Well, trivia for you.Yeah, I never knew what was the right end of the stick was thrown out. That's a really good point.So if you're a private pooper, and Tim poop in public, remember that Romans would rather be like, Hey, I'm having a dinner party and a pooping party. So let's all eat and then we will go gather in the pooping room together and use the sponge that we've others have used 1000s of times,the Romans had a lot of ideas, wrestlingthings so thank goodness, during the medieval times, people became way more dignified, I mean, way more dignified. Sure. So they started pooping in private in a pot. Okay, which and then they would poop in their pot and then they would go to the window and they would throw it out on the street.How pleasantthat's what they were doing. Yeah. So, yeah, the medieval times they would throw the contents out there. And then in 1560s, sir john Harrington developed the first flush toilet a pipe that went straight down john Harrington, where john Well, this is funny because sadly his invention would go ignored for 200 years. Wow. That's like one of those things where you're like, you invent something that is really novel and exciting. Yeah, they didn't have social media back then try and promote it. You can take out Facebook ads and know that so john was out there, here, you here, you can poop over here. And, you know, it was documented that he did it. But then in 1775, so 200 years later, Alexander Cummings took his idea put an S shape at the bottom it was a pipe Yeah, and then that controlled the fumes that were coming back out Sure. Which made a world of difference and POW it took off and I mean, it literally took off the poop took off unfortunately, Alexander Cummings didn't think it through too far because then it just went through an S shape and then into a pit. Okay in and so in 1848 everybody was using these toilets and Britain had to Britain actually required that homes be built with an ash room a s h Okay, not bathroom ashra Ashram Okay, where the waste would be collected in a pile of ash. And who knows? If you think you have a bad job where night soil men that was the night soil night soil man would come by and empty your ash roomsay that fast.can't apply for that job. So tell me Eric, what makes you qualified to be in Knight soil man,I'm good at nothing else.Who takes that job? So if you're if you're upset about your job, remember, you could have been paid Knight's oil man. And then of course the one that everybody remembers here. And so you this lead up to it was funny because I always thought this guy invented in 1861, a guy named Thomas crapper patented a series of toilets and then the whole expansion on plumbing took off and this is what you now have in your home you sit in your home. I bring this up because I don't really think that we can talk about hemorrhoids without on national hemorrhoids. I'm going to keep referring to this as national hemorrhoids. I don't think we can talk about hemorrhoids on national hemorrhoid day without discussing toilets because it all plays into it. Okay, so that's my history lesson for you. I don't think we've ever done history before.Not well not about toilets. No, not quite like that. That's interesting. I actually always thought that with crappers first name was john. I didn't know as Thomas crapper. That's funny.Yeah,but it makes sense. No, no, you did say that. But the earlier the first guy was john Harrington. I guess they just overtime they kind of morph those two together. I think it's prettyThomas crapper. Funny. Yeah. Isn't that interesting? I'm gonna head to the john. Yeah. Take a crap. You're right. Right there.Yeah, there.There it is. That's how you want second place indicator spelling. Alright, so now back to the original question. Can younger people get him?Absolutely.So this is really intriguing. I went down some rabbit holes on this one. So as it turns out, recent data is showing that there is a significant increase in hemorrhoids with late Generation Z and millennials. Okay. And the real question is why? Me? There'sonly because we've, we've talked about that long term sitting, can do that there must be something that's drawing people to either sit more frequently or more importantly, sit longer.What do you think you are? 100%? Correct. On a prior episode, we did discuss a funny study. We thought it was kind of funny. We're in 2012. They did a survey in 2012. Right? 75% of the people admitted to taking their smartphone into the bathroom, the other 25 are lying about it. And then Verizon saw that as an opportunity. And they did their own study. And granted, it's from Verizon, June 2015 90% of the people admitted to it.Well, they know where yours they probably definitely know.Yeah, and there's an actual study ongoing right now. It started in 2018. I looked it up on clinical trials.gov where they are looking into the actual correlation to make it more scientific, interesting. And what they're saying is that as we continue to move forward, Generation Z, taking the phone into the restroom is basically built into the DNA. So I did I did a survey this morning, and I took a poll of Generation Z people around me now. Yeah, 100% of them said yes. 100% Use a phone. I believe that other estimates, maybe other regions, not in my area where 95%. But 100% of the Gen Z people that I interviewed, right said that they use their phone that way. Sothis is important, because I think what we need to ask you is how many people did you ask my son? There's wine.But that is 100%. It's a 100%. Yeah. So that's just shows to make sure that you look at the actual study design and data whenever something like this all the time, it's all the more time. So necessarily, the podcast is sponsored by these apps. But my medical practice is sponsored by these apps. Yeah, so I would like to give a shout out for our sponsors, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, tick tock. Yeah, somehow Reddit got left off, but I believe read, it should be on there. So there's all these articles now talking about this. And there's certainly lots of opinion pieces. And there's lots of blogs and stuff where they're interviewing colorectal surgeons and gastroenterologist and asking their opinions. And they what they actually talk about is that it's probably not about the app. It's more about the time sitting on the toilet. And I believe that's part of it. And that's what I want to get into with this guy. Because I believe that there's more going on than that. And I have a theory as to why those apps in particular, cause more damage. You'll notice it like candy crush isn't on there and things like that. When people really spend time they tend to go to those apps and I'm going to explain that later. Okay, so let's start with some basics. Alright. Alright, you fire questions. And well, let's talk you know, just as much about this topic, as I do. So let's just say what are hemorrhoids?It's when vessels of belief can becoming gorged people will probably notice them when they are external. But there are external internal hemorrhoids, you'll probably want to delineate between the two of those typically, oh, it's the number one reason that people notice bleeding, rectal bleeding, correct. They can become painful at different things like that. I don't remember how many vessels it is, can become a gorge two or three, typically, and, but if caught early enough, can be treated by a gastroenterologist and pretty much eliminated.Yeah. 100%. So it is a natural collection of veins. And I remember talking to a colorectal surgeon, I use all the time, Dr. Macaluso, and he goes, Hey, keep in mind that this is an arterial venous connection also. And I only say this because this reminds me of a story what early on in my career, like really early on I was in the hospital, I get called to go see an ICU patient that was crashing, absolutely crashing cirrhotic patient that was crashing, and blood was shooting out of this person's butt. And they were just running bags, and his pressure just kept dropping. He's like, Hey, we can't we have no time to wait, you got to come in here. It's probably variceal his massive bleeding. I scope him up top. totally clean. No viruses. Yeah. And I'm like, well, and he's still bleeding. And I'm like, either he decompressed them. So I'm like, we had an emergency call and flip them around. And this is all bedside and I'm early on. So if what I mean by that is I guess over time, you start seeing more and you kind of, you know, shrug stuff off and go another one of these this was like, out of left field. Like on a like a Monday afternoon. They're like you need to cancel clinic and go to the ICU right now. And so I, I end up scoping this person in blood is throughout the entire colon. And I'm like, I can't find the source. I can't find the source. I'm coming back. And there, I come back. And I retroflex this is before I started treating hemorrhoids. And I'm like, the rectum is just feeling full of blood. Uh huh. And I I said call. Like, I apologize, forgot his name down so many years ago, but I said, Call this guy get them on the phone. He's a colorectal surgeon that had just left the university and had come over and was joined the group that Dr. Macaluso was at. And so I said, Man, I got this guy, whatever he goes, this could be a massive hemorrhoidal bleed. People forget that. It's an arteriovenous connection connection. Yeah. And he's like, Are you comfortable banding it I'm like, I've never done it. And he goes, just treat it like it's a virus. Like it's a variceal bleed. I'm like, okay, anyone describe what a virus sees is their sees when people have liver failure. pressure builds up and actually when the blood tries to go to the liver, it backs up, fills up and then it the spleen gets big, the spleen fills up and then you end up shunting blood. It's all applying up to the gastro esophageal veins. These come up this way. And those veins can dilate and they can actually pop. Oh, yeah. And unfortunately, people will bleed a ton when they actually have that. And so what we do is we go down with the camera and then we do a rubber band ligation on the various hillbillies. So at this point, he's like, I'm gonna come over and see what's going on. And I loaded up a banner. I put one band, and it's like a scene from a movie with the clouds this. Birds start chirping blood pressure comes up one band and I was like, Wow. So that's so although they can be a nuisance in very, very, very rare circumstances, they can be like a really big deal. And that particular time it was a really big deal. Yeah, it's a big deal. So, yes, collection of veins and they weren't like shock absorbers. So all of us have hemorrhoids. If you don't have hemorrhoids. You're an alien. Yeah. Or Ilan musk.He lives Ilan.I don't know. Yeah, I'm thinking he doesn't have them. He's, he's not of this world. He's not of this world. So and they look like shock absorbers. But when you build up too much pressure, then they will fill up. And they're it's a it's a vein that can actually stretch. Yeah. And if too much pressure builds up, then it goes into the extra hemorrhoids, then the extra hemorrhoids get big. And that's when people really notice them because they hurt because there's a line called the dentate line, where you have pain fibers below it. No pain fibers above it. So frequently, I'll get people that will come in when they have an external thing. Yeah. And then we realize well, it's the internal ones feeding the external so if you've ever had an external hemorrhoid it's probably because your internal your internal hemorrhoids have grown and it's created a diversion for the pressure over there. And it hurts bad over there. And you're right, they can bleed edge pain thrombose. incidence, how many people do you think have issues with hemorrhoids?I don't know. How many people I've got no idea. It seems like it seems like it's it's really often for those that we see in our line of work, but that you know, that's that's a kind of a skewed sample size.is a little bit skewed. Yeah.I don't know. I'm just gonna throw a number out there cuz I really have no idea. One in more than 20. I don't know.120. Okay.I have no idea. It's probably bigger than that.Well, this is interesting, because on up to date, which is supposed to be the most up to date thing that I subscribe to I pay service to the incident is a study show that up to 14% of us people had hemorrhoid issues. And that seemed really small. And I realized that I'm skewed on this. And then I started researching more. I went and found that study, it was done in 1989. Wow. The only study that was published on the incidence of true hemorrhoids was done in 1989. Now looking back and other studies where people are mentioning them on colonoscopies and such Yeah, it's way more than that more recent data is that one in three people have issues and that incidence is going up. That's one in three people seeking the care of a doctor interesting. And then I started looking at the number of people that are or the amount of money that's being spent in over the counter medications. It's in the hundreds of millions. So it's gotta be way it's gonna be even more than one in three. I would even say that most people at some point in today's society may have a hemorrhoid issue even if they don't realize that it's a hemorrhoid issue.Yeah, wow. Yeah, I was I was off by at least three to five fold. They'renot close. So like but but you're exactly right. In my world. Everyone has a hemorrhoid. Yeah,I feel like I've rescued because we see, dude.It's like that. That time in Nebraska when I was running the the free STD clinic. And I got interviewed. They're like, how many people have committee? I'm like, all of them. All of them. Everybody does.I was skewed. I didn't realize that there's I'm wearing my silver x suit.So I am a hemorrhoid doctor or I treat hemorrhoids. So everybody seems to have it right. Or at least they funnel to me. I probably should remember that time and I did that free STD clinic. But anyways, alright, so why did I even bring up him? Why did I even bring up toilets? In the beginning, when we're talking about hemorrhoids?Oh, because we're sitting. And on top of that, not only are we sitting, I know this, we're straining, we're gonna applying pressure. So applying pressure sitting for longer. I think when you're reading through your statistics, it sounds to me like the incidence is rising. So now we're going to start looking at what could potentially make us be sitting longer. In a spot where we are increasing our pressure,we think 100%. So what people don't realize is, and it's funny, because this particular patient asked, Do you think that we're seeing more hemorrhoids because of COVID? Because people are sitting instead of? And yes, and then I started thinking about it. I was like, but why is the toilet different? Like how does this support, there's no support hole. So what you've done is they've put a hole there so that the your rectum is now lower, you form a king, the blood pools there And sure, which is why sitting on a toilet scrolling through your abs is one of the reasons why more blood can pool in that area.Okay, so there was some context around that. So essentially sitting on the toilet seat is actually more conducive to forming hemorrhoids more rapidly than just sittingsomewhere flat. Correct. Okay. And then this is one of the things when we talk about the evolution of the, of the toilet. I was really funny because I was googling this. And then what came up was a blog that I wrote in 2011. About the angle of dedication. Yeah, angle that we poop at our Western toilets, actually are not conducive to proving right. And one of my biggest pet peeves is in the older population. They make the toilets very high, so that they can get off of it easy the wrong way to go. Exact wrong way to go. Because as you change from a sitting to a squatting position, yeah, squatting is how we're actually supposed to be moving. Yeah. Which is why if you go to Middle East, certain Asian countries, the toilets are on the ground. Yeah, that's really the way that you should be. Yeah. And they did a study, the blog that I wrote was a Japanese study where they took med students which is I just thought it was a funny study. And they did they put barium paste in these med students. And then they made them poop. multiple different angles. Yeah. So it was like, you're like, there's there's labs that do this where there's like an audience watching and you just kind of like I mean, that's just yeah, we'rethe modern day ash. shovelers arethe descendants of the ash, soil man. What am I call night soil?Well, people really sure it's not a job I'm going for No,it's not but certainly the descendents night soil man.They do now.Dr. Satish Rao who runs the anal rectal lab, and I got in Georgia, he's probably gonna look this up and go, great, great, great. Night soil man. You can read some of the work that he's done on this Dr. Rouse done some most of the work on the anal rectal movement. I remember watching him in a lecture and he showed his lab which is a barium toilet. And then our panel of people that watch on a large screen as a cameras there. And he said john, unfortunately designed it a little bit wrong shift and walk up a couple steps and sometimes people they can't hold the Wow. Because the whole time I mean, I'm just like watching this as a gastroenterologist. I'm like, that is a profoundly invasive thing. When you go I'm gonna go to the doctor, what are you gonna do? I'm gonna I'm gonna go poop in front of an audience. Yes,Ma'am, I'm missing my appointment.Sir, you're 15 minutes late, we're gonna have to reschedule. Oh, shoot. So anyways, squatting is the best. So toilets contribute to it in its own right. Sure. And it's called the angle of dedication. Basically, you have a muscle that wraps around when you stand. It's there so that it kinks it. So that when you're walking around, you have several safeguards. So you don't put yourself right. Internal sphincter, external sphincter and even this thing. And that thing is always tight. The people retells muscles, so as you sit, the angle becomes so as it's, when you're standing, the muscles will tighten. And as you sit, the muscle relaxes, and then it allows for a straighter, straighter shot. Yeah. So that's one of the reasons the toilets are an important part. And then if you spend more time in it, so if you're wondering, the best way to poop, lift your knees up. squatty potty style. Oh, it's fine. Yeah, it's a product, but you can do it with anything, get your knees up above your hips lean slightly forward. And that's the best way to poop. So let's talk about prevention of hemorrhoids.Well, since we were talking about toilet seat whole while ago, I was going to make sure you weren't going to say you should just poop on a flat board. So I'm glad that wasn't one of the solutions. Just sounds incredibly messy. So prevention, find things when number one probably find a way to to consume the foods that allow you to make good stool to come out. Be certain that you're not doing activities that make you want to stay on a toilet longer, walk around smoking, the new sitting.Oh, explain that real quick. smoking's the new settings you through that our settings in settings, the new smoking, sorry, setting, sitting sitting, the new smokingsettings, the new smoking, there was a there's been a handful of different studies, but most recently, I think it was almost two years ago, there was a study where they showed that the comorbidities that people can develop over time was commensurate with how many hours of a day they were sitting and as people begin to sit longer and longer. throughout the day. They had more incidents of obesity, hypertension, just on and on die, diabetes. I can't remember what else lifespan, lifespan latwon lifespan and lifespan if ik quality of life,the quality of life so the your likelihood of dying is equivalent. If used a certain amount of hours a day is equivalent to smoking like a pack a day. Yeah. For like 30 years.Yep. Something like that. Yeah.That's wild. Yeah. Soany and actually, they say that if you did that routinely, you actually couldn't overcome it through rigorous exercise. That's right. Yes. It was almost like there wasn't a way to combat the long sedentary periods of the day or something like that.I remember exactly. You're making me Can you hold on the podcast? Well, Imean, podcasts aren't two hours anymore.We read that study. Back in the early days, Eric and I were doing marathon podcasts were like Joe Rogan gets that many views with three hours. Let's do six hours. Yeah,I decided I didn't want to be a smoker.So you're exactly right. Don't sit too long on a toilet. If you're sitting there for a very long time, then that's just gonna lead to hemorrhoids. And what you're talking about proper diet. So eating fiber, actually 20 to 30 grams of fiber. just published a blog yesterday, on getting enough fiber does have this Yeah. So go to Kenneth Brown, or go to Kenneth Brown, MD. com. You can see these you can see this blog. But basically, it's how to get 20 to 30 grams of fiber and soluble insoluble. The distinction. The distinction is, it's To me, it's a lot of overlap a lot of gray, I think you need both. Basically, if you're eating your veggies, in having some fruit, you're probably you're probably pretty good and getting your fiber. Yeah. So 20 to 30 grams. And then the question that everyone's gonna ask is, well, are there any supplements that I can take for this?supplements for hemorrhoids, for hemorrhoids? I think there is one key ingredient within artron to that has research behind it and the horse just notYeah, so wild. So I just assumed that there would be like five or six that have. So I signed up to examine calm, shout out to them, because they actually go through the effort of doing everything research backed, and they have what's called a human matrix panel, where you can see what the human studies are. Alright, so it's the human matrix. So there's, there may be animal studies. And shockingly, the only one that showed any evidence of decreasing hemorrhoids was horse chestnut, or the extract and horse chestnut called asen. And I'll read exactly what the the one study that actually that they referenced on this is that supplementation of three times a day of horse chestnut, 40 milligrams asen, for over the course of a day in a short period of time with somebody with hemorrhoids was associated with this significant reduction in symptoms, bleeding and improvement in endoscopic evaluation. I didn't even know this. And what they showed is that there's a 32 response in the placebo arm, but an 82 response 82% response in the arm that actually got the horse chestnut, and most benefits were apparent within six days. So it's not like you have to take it forever. Wow. Now, what's really interesting is when we're talking about something like I'll try and steal that may help you go to the bathroom easier, and it's got a horse chestnut in it. I haven't even been having my hemorrhoids. Patients take it because I just really kind of use it for the polyphenol effect on those that do not have bloating. And if you have bloating, I'm gonna recommend it. Right. But now we're looking at a whole new aspect here of horse Jessa being for him, butyeah, I remember when you first found that study, it was just kind of a eureka moment. I, I didn't know that.Yeah. So now speaking of eureka moment, here's mine about this topic. So every other colorectal surgeon and gastroenterologist on all these different blogs or interviews or TV spots and stuff like that. They were there said, well, it's not really the phone that's doing it. It's just the time on the toilet. I want to disagree with that a little bit. And I'm gonna I'm gonna see if you agree cuz this is purely theoretical here. But there's something called pelvic floor dyskinesia, okay? pelvic floor dyskinesia is when the muscles down below. They are not responding the way that you want them to respond. Okay? It's very common in women who have had babies. And so I'll bring people in. And it's typical of the person that says, I get the urge, but I feel like I've not fully evacuated or it takes way too long to get the stool out. Yeah. And that's when I have my discussion about squatty potty and, and lifting your knees up above and leaning forward, making sure there's enough fiber the fiber will bind the stool together so that hopefully, it brings moisture in along with binding it so that it all comes on at once. The typical person that has something like this as they struggle to go and when they go to the restroom, it's small, uneventful stores, you know, they talk about it being just like small rattle millet, rabbit pellets, things like that. So now knowing that pelvic floor dyskinesia is associated with some emotional response, because it's muscles they tense up. And they believe that they are relaxing the muscles when in reality, they're tensing them. So when I examine somebody, I'll go, can you relax your anus for me? And they'll frequently, many times can't do it. I'll be like, contract your anus for me. And they'll squeeze their butt cheeks, but the anus doesn't contract, right? And then when I say try and expel my finger, like you're having a bowel movement, everything clamps down. And I'm like, does this and then I can get them to relax. And that's what Satish Rouse Dr. Satish Rao's whole lab works on is this and there's Laureen forgot her last name. lorien is a physical therapist that specializes in only this, and I spend a lot of patients so we're gonna have her on the podcast at one time to really deep dive into this one top pelvic floor experience, pelvic floor expert. And yeah, because it's not just deputation, it can, it can lead to dyspareunia, which is pain during intercourse, it can lead to spasms in the bladder calledstatus, it can lead to a lot of other things and that without with the poor, and that could be way off here poor pelvic floor tone can lead to the need for like bladder slings and stuff like that, forsure. All of that over time leads to that. So the more you keep doing this, that's what a rectal seal is. Yeah, that's what prolapse happens from and other things. So it's not something that if you're having these issues, so if you're like the twin, mid 20 year old that's doing this, we got to correct these things now, because if you continue to let this happen over time, the muscles start relaxing the nerves start thinking it's normal. And then that happens. So my theory is this. Number one, you're on these particular apps, okay, these apps can be associated with an emotional trigger shares all imagine going into the bathroom sitting down, you hit Facebook, you're trying to go poop, and you realize that you weren't invited to a dinner party, a party. Yeah. And then you start going on, you start scrolling through the pictures. And it's emotionally upsetting. you hop on Instagram and see a very, or Twitter and see a very angry political posts that get you riled up. As you do this, your sympathetic tone goes up, which is the fight or flight, and you will tend to contract muscles. So I would love to do a study on that, in particular, like you get to use your phone in the bathroom, but you can only I'm just I'm have a great idea. We're gonna hold on and I need your help on that. Okay. Okay. So basically, these particular apps in general, put you on the toilet longer, but then you can actually become emotionally invested in what you're looking at. I think you and I should design an app. Okay. How would you do it?probably find something that would make me completely relax. And well, actually, we we know people who have technology to have scientifically backed data to to help one relax, and possibly utilize a mobile device.Yeah, we need a bit. So you're about brain.fm? Yeah, yeah. Dan Clark CEO. Interesting, very interesting. Imagine having we need to set the brain.fm has a patented technology, which is called neural phase locking, where and I'm going to, we've talked to their PhD. Oh, yeah, super smart. And I'm not going to pretend to explain it. But basically, you can increase the activity in a certain part of your brain so that you can focus when you want to focus Mack and sleep when you want to sleep. You can relax, chill,anti anxiety, yeah, antianxiety. We got to sit with him and be like, let's team up.awesome idea.Let's do a pooping app where we're going to stimulate an area and then we'll just we'll combine that with the headspace guy. Have you ever listened to headspace?Is that the guy from New Zealand or Australia?Yeah, it's huge. headspace is huge. Yeah, you know. Hi. Welcome back.Yeah, yeah,we're gonna talk today about emotional stress it just hot Welcome back. I see that you're on the loo.Don't stay here too long.I'm going to talk you through this. Now make sure your knees are up. And you are leaning slightly forward. Please know while this app is running, no other apps can be opened.You are stuck here until you're finished.And at at a certain amount, you will be required to stand up walk around. And then we'll make it so that the only way to turn it off is the sound of a flushing toilet.Yeah. Then that actually is not a terrible idea. Nota terrible idea at all.I'll tell you what was funny though. I got to confess some because I was laughing a little bit earlier before you got to that. In case y'all don't know, this guy, and I hardly ever been This guy does not use social media apps and watching you struggle for what people are looking for in Twitter. And what else did you mentioned Facebook and Instagram. That was awesome. He has no idea what makes you mad when you get on those apps. You're trying to find out.But all I know is every day I get on my MySpace page, and it's just blank. I don't know whypeople don't like me, man, you treat your your laptop like a Solitaire machine.I actually believe that. Well, fortunately, I'm a total nerd. So I would rather actually read some journal articles. Yeah, no, totally.Yeah. 100%.Yeah. And I mean, shout out to everybody that's crushing it out there. Like, you know, Tony yuans. A friend and his Instagram is just chilling. Well, he's,he's actually on it.Yeah. He's doing a good job with that. Yeah. And I admire that. Yes. That's awesome. But yeah, but anyways, I think we should do it. We should get into the app business and figure out how to and obviously we can't afford the headspace guy at this point. But I think what how is your accent? Let's hearno, now it's not very good. I would have to think about thealways starts with Welcome back. Yeah. And it's really cool. very soothing. Welcome back.Very rarely get described with a calling voice. Eric is not really what happened.You were starting to sound like the NPR SNL episode of Alec Baldwin.That's the only thing I do.Alright, so anyways, that's that's my theory, pelvic floor dyskinesia. So if you've ever been on the toilet and realize that you're looking at something that may be emotionally may be an emotional trigger, that may be causing some of the issues. Yes, that's my theory. And that's why I think that the advent of the smartphone is doing that. So now treatment, other than some prevention, so treatment, there's lots of treatment out there. That is a whole separate episode unto itself. Yeah, sure. And to do it justice, we will bring some serious experts in here that do like like a colorectal surgeon that does surgery and understands the anatomy inside and out. But the treatment that I do, that's a whole separate episode, of course, but basically, if you have them, speak with your doctor, I want to say one thing for sure. If you see rectal bleeding, it is never, never, never, ever, ever normal. Even if you're saying, Oh, it's probably just hemorrhoids. Now you need to have it checked out no matter what. Yeah, and as always, our little disclaimer is that this is a medical show, but I'm not your doctor, if you have anything, anything at all that you're concerned about, please discuss it with your doctor. And if this gets one person to go in and talk to their doctor about it, and we can remove a polyp or or you can prevent colon cancer. Yeah, that is a huge deal. And if it is hemorrhoids, you want to get them treated early before they become too big. Because the reality is that hemorrhoids come in different stages. Yeah, so in internal hemorrhoids, they're one through four. So internal hemorrhoids grade one, they pop up, they can bleed some times. But you don't really notice hole at grade two, when you go to the bathroom, they pop out. So frequently, patients will come to me and they're like, I felt something that I was going to the bathroom. And now I don't grade two hemorrhoids, they pop out spontaneously because you're in that position. And once the pressure is relieved, it goes back in grade three, you have to manually reduce it. And grade four, they stay out all the time. So if you're having any of this, if you're having any symptoms like that, the sooner you get it treated, the more likely you do not need surgery surgery, trying to avoid surgery at essentially all costs. The type of treatment I do is called is a modified banding procedure. So if you talk to your parents, and they say oh, I had hemorrhoid banding done, it hurt really bad. It's come a long way and the old way of doing it was to grab the hemorrhoid itself plays a rubber band and Remember when I said earlier that there's that dentate line below it is pain above it is no pain. The way that this works is the type of banding that I do is the reagan ligation right go up above where the dentate line is place a rubber band above the hemorrhoid. And the reason why is so that the vein that is supplying it, you actually create a little scar and it decreases the blood flow. So it isn't so much cutting out the hemorrhoid. It's just over time getting it to calm down. And I treat a lot of these. It's one of my favorite things to do because I get such good response from patients in a very quick amount of time where you do it, they come back and they're like, wow, I'm already better. That's fantastic. It is the safest, least invasive and most effective way to treat these symptomatic hemorrhoids. I got some videos on this. You can go to Kenneth Brown, MD calm and take a look. I'm a big big proponent, but mostly if you're having any symptoms, go talk to your doctor, get your colonoscopy done. We did a whole episode on colon cancer. Definitely. And so that's the really important thing.random question and maybe this will help someone if you're sitting on the fence. What is the possibility or probability that a hemorrhoid will just suddenly resolve itself?So that is a great question. Because remember, in the very beginning was said that they are shock absorbers. Yep. So they can actually increase in decrease. And there's a bunch of risk factors for hemorrhoids sitting a long time. pregnancy is one of them. So I have a lot of women that will say, Well, I got them with my first child, I got them with my second child, and then they and then they go away, because the pressure is relieved, and they can do this. People that modify their diet, they're like, it was really bad. But then I changed my diet, I increased a lot of fiber, and there is a chance that they can go away. So we always recommend first line is to try to do the preventative stuff. Let's change your diet. Let's change your lifestyle with the toilet. And if it doesn't get better and continues, and then we can actually treat them so yes, they can go away. And I think by the time this is why I think that the incidence is really underreported. Yeah. Because by the time somebody actually comes to me, it's never like, Oh, this this happened once a week ago. It's always like, all right, I've been dealing with these for a long time. They seem to keep getting worse. Because of my hobbies. I like to work out jujitsu I get a lot of people that strain a whole lot. It's just the nature of it because when you're straining a whole lot you're gonna have that I get a lot of you know, people that are in vigorous jobs that do that so it's it can happen any age, any lifestyle it can happen some of this is genetic also. So we do know that there is a genetic component where whether it's the elasticity of the veins or not that's all kind of been figured out but so yes, they can go away so by lifestyle modification, maybe even you know, supplementation according to the one study unexamined calm did help.Yeah. Interesting. That's a lot of information about hemorrhoids well, and we never got to it. Wehave spell hemorrhoid. Oh, let's see if we can do this is National hemorrhoid day and we are at the National hemorrhoid day spelling bee with reigning runner up Eric Rieger.were no first place participant in that particular spelling the reigning runner up. He mm r h Lidy All right.Let's do it in true spelling bee format.So hemorrhoid hemorrhoid can you use them to sentencemy hemorrhoids are killing me today. hemorrhoidsgo originof the Spanish origin the emulator IDs which by the way, this is really important we're gonna have to translate everything ever since our Silvia podcasts were huge in Spain right now. Huge Yeah, no toy these Mr. Ortiz? Okay. him Roy which I think would be Latin in origin.It's gotta be hemorrhoid h MMR. h od?Yeah, no, he m o r. Every time I do every time that's what made you lose back in 1978. No,that's not what made me lose.So anyways, I'm trying to make light of something that a lot of people are embarrassed to talk about. That was kind of the goal of today's podcast, but it's super important and easy to fix. so common that now we have 20 year olds coming in worried that they're abnormal and we've got very fit people thinking that's abnormal and it's it's really just something that's part of our society now and treating it and getting it treated early is probably the key to this.Definitely. Well get yourself checked if you see any anal or bleeding when you wipe etc.See the toilet go view so there's a few other diseases that cause bleeding and one of my favorites is ulcerative proctitis ulcerative colitis, I'm a big inflammatory bowel disease fan. We're working on some stuff for our inflammatory bowel disease patients. In the meantime, if you suffer from any bloating or change in bowel habits, remember artron to go to artron to calm and take a look at that now that you realize that there's horse chest in there right there on the label and you have some hemorrhoids I'd be curious to see if it affects them according to this one study and of course KB MD health calm for CBD and broccoli, the biohack combo of artron to CBD and broccoli.For our for on camera like that.Oh yeah, probably not.Yeah. So this is broccoli. There we go.We did a whole episode with the founder of broccoli and their PhD. I just love it when there's like minded people that are sciency and everything and so we'll say I don't know. Let me know if you take all three and your hemorrhoids you better be curious to see.Absolutely. Well, that's gonna do it for episode number 53. Thank you all so much for joining us please like and share. And of course if you know anybody who suffers from hemorrhoids or you do Reach out to your gastroenterologist or your health care provider and they can point you in the right direction.Now if you're in the neighborhood, I'd be happy to talk to you.Alright, take care

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Welcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild a newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started.As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon, fuel your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're gonna find this book on Kindle, Amazon and as always on my website, Sam Knickerbocker calm.Welcome back to fuel your legacy. And this week, we have an awesome guest. It's back in the springtime of 2020. So looking forward to moving on in life hopefully you guys reportFirst Quarter goals nailed down and you're just running. Because the first quarter goes away fast. I mean, I remember 2019 and it just ended before it got started. I feel like and that happens often in our lives. So remember to stay focused on your legacy and what are you doing daily to fuel that is our guest today. His name is Todd Palmer. Palmer is an executive coach, keynote speaker, renowned thought leader and author, CEO. He's just done a ton of different things in his life. something unique about him. If you're watching the video of this on YouTube, then you can see this but if you're just listening on Facebook, or not Facebook, on podcasts, you can't see this, but he has a lot of baseball memorabilia, and I'll let him identify what a lot is. I know there's a level ofyou don't want people coming down to your house and knowing what's inside your house. But he has a lot of it like more items than most of the people inIn this have earned in their lifetime dollars. So a significant amount.This is, to say the least. And that's just a hobby, right that has nothing to do with what he does for work, nothing to do with necessarily his businesses, but it's just a passion of his and I think that's the reason I'm bringing that out as it's important to identify your passions and learn what passions are yours that you're doing just because you want to do them. And then what other things are you doing in your life because there's a lot of things that I do just because I love doing them. And so make a list of that for you and say how often do I do these things that I do just because I love doing them? And are you allowing yourself to get that fulfillment daily or weekly or monthly? How often is that fulfillment coming in so Todd, thank you so much for joining here on on the fuel your legacy podcast? We're excited to hear all of your crazy crazy mindset coachings you know, helping us become better individuals, people, fathers, husbands, wives, daughters, sons, the whole bit business owners. Go ahead andGive us an introduction of who you are, where you came from, really what that transition looked like or that gap from when you went from being kind of in something you thought was going to fulfill you didn't quite hit the mark and transitioning into something where you found more fulfillment.You know, thank you so much for having me here. Today, I'm excited about being able to talk about the importance of legacy, the importance of following something that's going to fulfill us. There's a big difference between the spike of happiness You know, we can have a piece of chocolate feel pretty happy, but to create a life by design that has immense satisfaction, by the time our time. the time we're done here on earth is a very important thing to me. So I grew up kind of a quick down and dirty about me. I grew up on a farm in mid-Michigan, I went to a very small High School at 42 kids in my graduating class.At one of my first big life decisions was an opportunity to go play Division Three basketball, or go to the local community college on a talent scholarship. ForWriting in journalism because I thought I wanted to be a writer, I thought I was gonna be a newspaper reporter to have a passion at the time for writing. And the first flip for me was when I once I got to the college, and they were essentially compensating me with my free tuition to write, I discovered I didn't like it as much anymore. It's like when it was it went from being a hobby and a passion in the academic pursuit to something I was actually like responsible and accountable for there was a big shift.Upon graduating from college, I ended up teaching at a university for three years. And I love that work the light bulb moments of the students and to be able to work with someone to help them had those breakthroughs and understand what was very important to me. Right around the same time, I'd gotten married, and I had a son. And the marriage did not work out for a lot of reasons, which would you probably make a great podcast for someone who has to deal with the joys and sorrows of divorceand from that relationship,I had a son and I had custody of my son, I started raising my son from when he was from the age of two years old. And I was 24.I was working in corporate America, I was doing sales, I was doing sales for products. I was doing sales for services, like staffing and employee leasing. And I just realized for me that in or I couldn't live the life I wanted to as a single dad, going to school, getting my master's degree to continue to teach at night,as well as working during the day and wanting to be a good father. So I made one of the next big life decisions, I had to choose what was my number one priority in life. And I decided, for me, my number one priority was my son,which were then the Epiphany off of that was I couldn't be a good corporate employee, for me, because I wanted to be there for all those once in a lifetime moments from the first soccer game to the first field trip of school. And so I started the journey of trying to figure out what else I can do.With my abilities and skills, recognizing that I couldn't be all things to all people all the time.Around that time,entrepreneurship was just trying to get a little bit of traction in the world Entrepreneur magazine was out ink magazine and I was a voracious reader, reading all these stories of these people started in bootstrap their companies. And I knew at a time another group of people who had started in bootstrap their company, and they were doing what I thought was very well, they they, they, they weren't very high very quickly, and they ended up crashing because they were selling on price. And they didn't build any margin in the business. And they went out but they had a very, three to four-year run. That was I thought, from the outsider's perspective, very impressive. And I thought, huh, like maybe people were listening today identify that, well, they can do that. I can do that.So I wrote a business plan. a business plan was for $140,000 to start a temporary help company in Metro Detroit to plan around to the banks. And crazily enough, the bank said to me, Well, let's say you're a single father, you'dJust came out of a divorce, you have a ton of debt, and we're not going to listen to anybody at all. And it was very humbling. But I just kept talking to people and networking and having conversations about it. And I went and had lunch with an ex-boss of mine who had done well. And he said, Well, no, I'm not going to give you $140,000 Well, here's what I will do. I'm gonna challenge you to come back to me and tell you what the bare number you need is to start your company because I want to invest in you, the company secondary.And that was hugely empowering to get that message from a trusted older advisor to say I believe in you, the planet secondary. So I came back. As for $15,000, I started my company to a company called diversified industrial staffing. And we provided temporary help in Metro Detroit. And I went into that industry because I had worked in the industry in the past, so I knew how to do it, and I saw gaps in the marketplace that I thought I could fill in by day 72 we were profitable. So I gave myself about a 90-day window by day soReady to turn the corner, started hiring employees started growing and scaling the business, but not knowing what I needed to know.Flash forward nine years later, we were you know, we're having some highs and some lows in that timeframe, but doing okay2006 arrives. By September of that year, I was $600,000 in debt. I was two months away from running out of all of my money, including losing the house that my son and I lived in. I was deeply depressed, I was suffering from massive imposter syndrome because I thought I had to be all things to all people all the time. I had a toxic and dysfunctional culture. In my organization. I had employees that I didn't believe in they based on being poor performance of the company. I don't blame them. They didn't believe me. And I hired a coach on a credit card. And we work together. My mindset was awful. I was feeling very defeated by the life I was feeling verymyself my self-criticism, the IDIa bitty negative committee in my head was meeting daily telling me how awful I was doing. And I had a lot of mindset issues going through that. So we talked, we laid out a plan to turn around the company. And from that plan, I ended up having to make some difficult decisions. Because I had a breach of culture and a breach of trust within the organization. I didn't trust anyone who worked for me. So I walked in on September 9 of 2006. And I fired my entire company. So kind of a recap for the listener, I have $600,000 in debt, two months away from going to have all my money taken out of the additional expense of a coach. And I fired everybodythrough a lot of work through a lot of mindset shifting, such as every day, I had to do five positive things because my mindset was so incredibly negative. And I had to report it every day to my coach. What did I do? What like day three, I didn't report it. It's five o'clock phone rings, so I didn't get your text. What you do today. I didn't do anything. I didn't go in.And he read me the riot act. Like this is your business. You said you wanted to fix it.Don't waste my time. If you can't get out of bed by 905 you call me. That's my job. My job is to champion you through this. Because I told you if you work with me, we were into this thing around. I told you, you would not fail. I can only do that work. If you work with me. You've got to communicate and I chose not to. So I did five positive things before going to bed that night and resume the process started hiring people. Game of the process to hire for DNA, not for resume. I was always hiring state staffing industry people in the past. And I recognized that I had to shift how I did everything in the business, the coach was teaching don't just focus on revenue, you've got to focus on the margin business.Just about that time the recession kicks in.And we make the Inc 5000 is one of America's fastest-growing companies for the first six times. So to go from being $600,000 in debt to making the Inc 5006 times was not something I'd ever in my wildest dreams. Thinkhappened. Andfast forward, we pay off all the debt, they find the inflection point in the marketplace where we have increased demand and a diminished supply of people, we fill that gap in the center. In that filling of that gap, we're able to charge more to the customer for what we're doing. Get Paid faster, which pays off the debt quicker. And boom, they're there. There we go. We make the Inc 5000. And it's something thatit's it's just an incredible guy. It's such a great team working with me at the time, people were all focused on going in the right direction. We were doing the 90-day plans. We were doing your annual planning. But you know about five, six years ago, it dawned on me just because I could do something well, didn't mean I had a true love and a passion for the work.And it's funny, it was kind of like the emperor has no clothes syndrome. My whole staff knew it before I admitted to myself and I put together a plan to exit the business.Just two years ago, I started extraordinary advisors where I go around the globe telling people the story I just told your audience and talking about how you know, we have to work on our mindset. To grow your organization to grow your business, you have to grow yourself as a leader first. And, and now I've been fortunate. I've spoken in Toronto, I've spoken South Africa, I've spoken in Monterrey, Mexico, I've spoken all around the United States telling these stories about how entrepreneurs, there's a process to shift your mindset. There's a process to create a life by design.And I just had, you know, I just completed a one year engagement with a client, for example, he said, and the first year I've worked with Todd, my revenues have grown 70% my profits have grown by a factor of five x. So 500% growth in profits is not a bad thing. And he concludes the testimonial video I say, and I love my life, and I love my job.That's now become my purpose and my passion in life. And what it takes me back 30 years ago when I was teaching itThe university in the light bulb moments the students would have when I'm on stage, and someone has a light bulb moment by something I've shared with them. It's so soul-fulfilling. When a client sends something to me and they lean into those uncomfortable moments of, I don't know, my business is going to make it and they plug into my confidence in them. And then they turn the business around, they do the work, I just provide them some guidance. It's so incredibly rewarding that, you know, that I don't ever see myself retiring from coaching and speaking.I love that. It's, it's so cool. I'm excited to dive into a lot of these notes. But I think that that is the that's the journey of life and we are going to face aspects of this journey. And the question is, are we conscious of the journey or are we just allowing the journey to happen without any consciousness of what's happening? And one of the things you said just might work backward here. Like all the things that I love about thisBut before it there, there was a time So have you ever heard of Have you heard of Steve siebold? I have not. Okay, so Steve siebold and he has a book called The Hundred 77 mental toughness Secrets of the world-class. And, and if I remember correctly, his company had the contract with the Navy SEALs to do all the mental toughness coaching for them, like, okay and quality coach, the navy seals. So, for like 20 years his company had that contract. But one of the things that in this book he has like, his thoughts or his thoughts on one of the these hundred and 77, mental toughness secrets, and then he has an action step one of the action steps is to go and ask five people who are close closest to you, and basically who, what they see are your greatest gifts and why. Like, what is the top five reasons that you are guaranteed to succeed as anindividual. I love that's a great exercise. I've written this down. I've got the I will have this on my phone by the end of the day. Yeah, it's awesome. Anyways, I was just thinking, how often are we walking around our lives. We think we're good at something, we're succeeding whatever. And the other people around us, they're either they're too scared to tell us because we're in a position of authority over them. Or they just simply like, they don't want to derail us. They don't want to dissuade us from what we're doing. But really like, everybody around you can recognize that you're not in your passion and you have these very unique skills that if you just use those skills, to serve more people, you'd be happier because that's what like they can see that that's what lights your heart on fire. They don't have to like being told it, they can see that when you're performing a few simple activities. That's what gets you going. Everything else is the mundane stuff you don't enjoy but when you do those two activitiesWe don't accept it ourselves. because like you said, we want to be that everyone that everything man. Well, I think it's it's important for that. So going back to the people, you surround yourself with them, I'm part of a group called to the entrepreneur's organization. I've got a forum that I've been in the same form for 17 years. And when I told my forum mates, it is thinking of leaving the recruiting business and starting coaching, advising business. They were all for it because they said, You're the best coach on our table. You've given us the most knowledge and give back and learning. And ultimately what we did, we did an exercise. So similar. Again, I got to get the Siebel book, where we took a look at how do we define success in our 20s and 30s. And it was typically and which is nothing wrong with this. And listen, I'm a capitalist first and foremost, anybody should work for free. But the piece became like we used to define success as money houses, a wealth of a financial perspective, that was the definition of success. And then I saw a quote from Tony Robbins, and it shifted everything for me. So nowMy version of success to tie into your point is a success is doing what I want where I want with whom I want to do it with as often as I want to go do it. So if I'm, you know, I, I've been working a lot with some some students, and I've got a student that I worked with, he's signing his national letter of intent on Monday for baseball. He's going to go he's got a four year guaranteed ride to get his education. And I've worked with him on mindset. And it baseball is a very, he's a pitcher, and it's very complicated sport for him to get his his athletic abilities off the charts is getting his mindset caught up with it. And I've worked with him as a favor to his dad for free. That is such a rewarding thing because I'm doing what I want. I'm helping this young man, who I really think is a great kid, and he just needs some guidance, where I want we typically go have lunch and I'm happy to pay for it. When I want whatever. It's helping him be helping him at 17 create a life by design. And if he never makes pro ball, that's okay. But he's getting his education paid for he's gonna learn so much in this process and itThat work for me, just fills me up. So whether it's a 1617 year old kid, or it's a 50 year old CEO that, that success for me, but it's so different than what I thought was in my 20s and 30s, when success was gonna turn out to be, yeah, and it's something that that, as you mentioned, other people saw on you before you were alluding to. Exactly, exactly. And, and that's why it's so important to surround yourself. For me. I want to surround myself with people. It's funny because one of my core values is candidness, or candor, rather. And it's important for me to surround myself with people who are willing to just tell me bluntly, what they think about megood or bad, because it doesn't really affect me that much as far as like, what somebody thinks. But if nobody's willing to tell me that they think I'm wrong or that they think I should be doing something different, then I'm screwed ultimately, I I naturally have a confident voice. I naturally come across as like this is fact that it served me very well to have thatThat gait and tone in my my verbiage in my in my business as a leader it serves you but it also if you don't have other strong people around you that can hold you back because then everybody just lockstep follows you rather than saying no, we needed need to do something different you're better in this other area. Let me do that. You go do what you're better. And so I love that aspect of just finding people who are willing to recognize in you your giftedness and and encourage you to chase that sooner in your life. I think that's a really excellent point. I was just with the leadership team the other day 10 leaders in the room. And the CEO had been really the elephant in the room and had was not letting his team do their jobs, because he was just overpowering. So we created a process where we will go around the room to lay out the quarterly plan. And I had leader promise that he would speak last so he could hear and solicit the best ideas that said you've got a brilliant teamYou're paying them a lot of money, and you're holding them back. And you don't even realize it. And we had a real deep dive. It was why I want their ideas. I said, you have to speak last you mean it because the power of the room will drive the organization much stronger. The power of 10 versus the power of one. So we spent a lot of time so three or four people go around the room. CEO chimes in, I'm like, stop it, stop it. But I said, explain everybody upfront that he was supposed to speak less. So then it became a running joke. What it did is it took a lot of the governor's off of the other leaders in the room, you know, the chief marketing officer, it's really an ideas. CEO, I'd never heard them because he thought he had the best ideas, change the dynamic. The business, I think is gonna just take off like a, like the hockey stick of growth, because the leader was able to subordinate his natural instinct to dominate the room because he's usually the smartest one in the room. You get the power of everybody going for because you agreed to speak last. And by the end of it, he was so thankful. He's like, Oh my gosh, this is the best thing.we've ever had people feel buoyant, they feel encouraged, they feel empowered. And basically, all I did was say yes to other ideas. Because honestly, most of them were better than my ideas. Such a such a great opportunity for him to get that feedback from the room that he could have a better organization with the power in the leadership of a bunch of people not having to rely on themselves. Yeah, absolutely. I just know for myself from a perspective of being the leader.I'm aware that I'm just pulling stuff out of my butt most of the time, like, Yeah, let's do this. And I just say it confidently and be like, okay, yeah, let's do it. It's like no, if that's not the way that we should be, like, tell me, but because nobody's offering any advice, we just do it, you know, and we either fail forward or we we launch forward, but it's so it's just a fascinating aspect of humanity, where we have to balance that and as a leader if you're leading in your family, in your faith, and in your fitness wherever your you're leading currently beaware that there's people who have ideas, there's people who have thoughts that you're probably that are probably not being expressed because of, and I hate to use the word fear, but it is a little bit of fearof rejection at the very best. And at the very worst, their fear of losing their job or something a lot worse than that. No, I would, I would say there's an additional pink elephant The room is that fear of criticism, that fear of being shut down. I mean, think about it from a from a small child's perspective, if the parent is constantly dumping on them, you know, your ideas are terrible, you, your kids are naturally born with massive curiosity. And often the parents will call a crush that within the child not even knowing it thinking safety, first, good social protocols with social behaviors, then we do that as leaders with our teams because we essentially have the final say, so we can, it's it's such an art to be able to let your team know that that there is you're free to share ideas. You're free to disagree and there will be in you don't have to worryfear of reprisal or the fear of, of being terminated because ultimately we do control whether they stay or they go, the flipside in today's economy where there are 600,000 more manufacturing jobs, for example, than there are people that fill them. It really is a candidate market. So I'm trying to get employers to recognize like, the number one reason someone leaves a company isn't money, isn't ours is it's you. It's the leader. The greatest the number one source of your next great employee, are your current employees. So if you're a good leader, you buying it and people are going to tell their friends, hey, I work at this place. I work at this place, come work with us. So the leader can shift so much by allowing that that creative tension in the room to allow others to be able to express themselves especially with millennials. I have to tell people this constantly. Millennials are part of their mindset and how they were raised is they like to be part of a team. They like to think they need to be heard, but they realize that you ultimately have the funds but they want their voice in the room. They want their voice out of the decision. They recognize itSomeone else is going to ultimately have that decision. But they want to be heard and they're willing to trade money for freedom and flexibility. So don't demand a millennial is the first one in last one out like they didn't, my generation doesn't work that way anymore. So I think there's a lot of different things that you're talking about today, they can have wide cross appeal, ultimately, for the leader to have a more enjoyable life by design. But the greatest leader can do is build other leaders by teaching them they're part of a company by design, they're able to create titles by design, they're able to do a lot of different things under the surface so that they are enjoying the work they do is that they don't enjoy working for you. They're going to go want to go someplace where they do enjoy the work and the people they work with. Yep. 100% 100%. So moving back even farther into your story, because there's a few things that again, these are key things because there's so many people who are discounting their skills, they're discounting their passions or discounting what they're good at, for multiple reasons, but in your story onhighlight just a few of them.One of them is that we we have this opinion that a hobby and a passion. If we're being compensated for it, then it's no longer fun. Like, I don't understand that honestly, like, why is it that? Like, what do you think is happening in somebody's mind that as soon as they enjoy something as soon as they're being compensated for it, they're like, yeah, this isn't worth getting paid for. I still love it. But it's not worth getting paid for, like, what's that? Why is it that when we have a demand on us, and we have an expectation put on our hobby and passion, it's no longer fun? Well, I think part of it goes into I think our brains need to have a certain place to go to to relax. hobbies are up in those places. So as you mentioned earlier that you know, I have a large sports memorabilia collection, which I do. I've been asked multiple times do I want to get into the sports memorabilia business, and I really don't love the hobby. I have a passion in the skill set for growing leaders, which isNothing to do with my hobby. So I think we as multi multi dimensional creatures on the earth, we can have lots of different hobbies. But I think we also have to figure out what what is our what is our zone of genius. My zone of genius is not autographed by zone of genius is not baseball. I happen to enjoy it. But my I think my zone of uniqueness is growing and helping leaders through my experiences and through some best practices to grow their themselves and to grow their business. I enjoyed writing, but when I felt like when I had the, the freedoms of, of creativity removed, and I was instead, I used to create my own stories at the high school newspaper, at the college newspaper, I was assigned stories and I just wasn't interested in. I remember going back even being a student. I did really well in the classes. I was really interested in the classes I just needed to get through to get out of school. I did the barest of minimum. So that's how my brain worked.No, I love that because I think that there's a recognition there that maybe not everybody's conscious of. And that is that there's, you can be good at a lot of things you can love doing a lot of things. But ultimately,that, for me, it's almost like a sense of duty. I feel like because you said, your zone of genius, right? Yeah. Sometimes, sometimes you have a zone of genius, that really isn't the thing that you received the most fulfillment from. Right. But you recognize that this is a gift that you've been given really, with the purpose to share it with the world. And so it's almost like a duty to share that gift with the world and fully express that. Wow, still have having other areas and then grow to have fun doing your zone of genius. I think I think there's some truth in that. It's interesting. So a lot. We're talking about athletes before we got on the broadcast.You know, we're in Detroit, we've got Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson, both excellent football players, what they what they talk about now that they both they both retired really early, they had many years left in their bodies to give to the game. The saying, Yeah, I enjoyed playing the game. I had an ability and a skill set that compensated me Well, I never loved playing the game. And I don't like being defined as just a football player. I want to do more with myself where you get other guys who, you know, I know. I still play competitive baseball around the country playing Michigan and play in Florida. I play in Phoenix and there are guys who love the game who are passionate about the game and do not have any ability to play the game. They just they just have no ability and they don't have that that you that gift. I think we all have gifts and I think part of is a figure out what our gift is. I've got friends who are who are excellent guitar players. And then I know people who are excellent musicians. There is a gap in their skill set. There's a gap with the marketplace.We'll pay them for, and it's getting to understand there's nothing wrong to recognize it, that self awareness comes into play. Hey, I love to play the guitar. And if someone wants to pay me to play 12 hours a day, I'd be happy to. The reality is nobody wants to pay me 12 hours a day to play the guitar. Whereas other guy can just, he's a virtual. So now if he has, if you have a virtual CIO with a passion for the hobby, a passion for the guitar passion for business, and I know serial entrepreneurs, Richard Branson's owns what 5060 companies, he loves owning businesses. What he doesn't love is he doesn't love operating the business. So again, is that Where's your zone of genius? Where's your unique contribution to the earth? And if you're, if you have a skill that you really love, but nobody really wants to pay for, but want to recognize that's a great hobby, and a great passion, but it's not something that you're able to feed your family on. Yeah, so now we're gonna go we're gonna go one step further here because I love I love where this is going. First off for you, whoever is listening, think about what is your zone of genius. What is yourgiftedness What is your one thing that that really that's what you feel you're meant to bring to this this earth and to share with with other people because I believe everything, at least for me, I try and structure my life around service, love and contribution. Like those those things are high on my list of what I want to be doing with my life are activities where I feel like I can fulfill that. But here's here's the next thing that I want the next limiting belief I find them limiting beliefs. When I'm talking with coaches, and I'm talking with different people.You were a teacher at college and you liked being a teacher you liked the seeing the light bulb go off. I love that I was one of my highest. Well, it was funny because I wasat a retreat a few months back and they asked us to write down a list of stuff that fulfills so I'm going to read a few things that are things that fulfill me and it was funny because if we contrast this list with my wife's list, and I'm doing things that fulfill meAlmost every every day, at least everything on this list happens once a month, if not more often on her list. It's like her list of stuff that fulfills her is smaller. And it also is not happening as often.Yeah, some of the things that really I love doing is leading other people's leading other people to Christ, seeing confidence come in somebody's eyes, personal development, business development, striving for excellence, seeing other people love creating transformation in people and having just conversations with random people. So I love all these, these things that I'm doing.But I used to think, well, I can't get paid for doing those things, right. And most teachers in America in America and I don't know how it is in other countries, but in America, most teachers, they just don't get paid very well. Okay, and I'm gonna I'm putting this in air quotes. If you're watching this because this is huge. People think that theyskill set. Maybe they like playing the guitar 10 hours a day or 12 hours a day. And they think, well, nobody's gonna pay me for it. And I would at least challenge it. Now, I'm not saying you have to go this route. But guess what, in my opinion, Todd is doing nothing more now than he was back then he's still teaching people. The question is, where are you trying to employ your, your giftedness or your talent or your passion? Agree? What's the venue that you're trying to do it? I have, I have clients who are teachers, and they teach at a high school at or a grade school and they get paid 30 $40,000 a year. I mean, it's just like, not very much. Then I have clients who are teaching the same exact content, but they're doing it in an online forum.And they're teaching multiple more students at once getting paid 100 plus thousand dollars a year. And the difference is where are you employing your skill? So maybe it's dancing, maybe it's being a chef, I had a guest on podcast A while back, who's a chef who has rose in the ranks in the hospital andWhat's the word? hotel industry wasn't getting paid what he wanted to get paid, stepped out of that became a just a consultant chef who would come in to an organization and reorganize the chef world in that organization, the food, the food, world, cafeteria, whatever, restaurant, and then he would move. So he was now a consultant chef rather than a salaried chef, and 10 times his income, right? So it's these smaller things is where are you actually choosing to employ your giftedness rather than, Oh, I can't make money at this. I gotta go find something else. No, find out where you can employ it. That's really going to give you the return that fits with your lifestyle. Right. One of my favorite speakers in the last 10 years is a guy named David Rendell. And he has a book called The freak factor and his whole theme, ology is what's you know, we often don't recognize the things that we get criticism for are really our unique ability. His tagline isWhat's weird makes you wonderful. And any any talks about, you know, being a case six, seven. So he's tall wherever he goes, he can't hide himself, right? And people think, wow, there's a lot of advantages to being tall. And then he talks about the disadvantages of being tall. And they talk that he part of his speech moves into talking about how he was guided by his by his his high school and college or his high school in elementary school. And he goes, I was told to, I talk too much. I have too many opinions, and I can't sit still as a kid. So those became my limiting beliefs. Now, as an adult, I get paid to talk, I get paid to move around, and I get paid to share opinions. And then they had great living. So that's that when I saw him, he blew my mind because I'm like, Oh, my gosh, the reinforcement we get is what's, you know, the things that we do are wrong or bad, you know, parents, teachers, things like that. But Dave was so wise to figure out is, what's weird makes you wonderful. So if you're someone like you're talking about who has he has skills,And abilities, your challenges and entrepreneur, your challenges, even a solo practitioners to figure out where can I apply my zone of genius, my unique abilities, which maybe other people told me 15 2030 years ago were weaknesses, which are actually strengths? And how do I apply them in a way that I'm earning the type of living that I want to earn. But the but the other part of it is you have to I found, what you're talking about is you have to be able to demonstrate a very clear return on investment for the buyer. You have, you know, I tell my clients, whatever you spend with me, you should expect to get four to six times return on investment. So that the client who just reported that they they've grown their revenue by 70%, and their profits by a factor of five x are they're thrilled they're getting 500% return on their investment with me. But that's the work that they've done. And so much of the work I've done with them was just like what you're talking about is getting them to figure out what do they do well, what do they do that nobody else in the world can do? How do they charge more for that, but still keep it cost?effective for the marketplace? And then how do they do that over and over and over and over again? Mm hmm. Absolutely. And I think that's, that's where hiring a coach can really add a lot of value into it. And so how many? Again, these are the common things that I come up against, and people are asking me, but how many people do you thinkwho have gotten to your position? Right who have reached the I'm gonna call it success, not just financial success, butoverall, in general, fulfilling their passion? How many of those people do you think started, their businesses started and they're getting the help they needed through some form of debt, whether that's credit cards, business loans, personal loans, so I'm excited when I look at protesting I don't, I'm gonna take your debt even a step further, and I'll get back to the money but but I think we have I for me, I had an internal self esteem debt. I had to prove to the world I could do this. I had to proveI was chasing a ghost. I have a client who recently shared with me that, you know, we probably broke him down against him. So why are you still so unhappy? I just wanted to prove I want to, I wanted to prove to my dad that I'm success is awesome. Let me let's set up a call with your dad. And we can talk about is my dad's been gone for 15 years. Like, wow. So he's he's now dealing with the ghost. So we have an internal debt. And what we fail to realize, I think most entrepreneurs are often self reliant. And we're rugged individualists. I know I was in this very clear in my arc of, of knowledge that that I needed coaching all the way and I had coaching and when I didn't have coaching is when I went down because I wasn't mature enough or savvy enough to have that outside person. Give me that perspective that I greatly needed. My father passed away when I was five years old, and my older brother lived across the country. So we didn't interact all the time and I'm an isolating, I think I've got this down and you are from the generation where we don't talk about our problems.anybody listening talking about your problems? You know, it's it's, there's a community of people out there that will listen. So I created my own debt. So it's almost as if you when you talk about the debt question, so I think we have an internal debt, we have an external debt, we give it to others. So if you've never seen anybody who's had battles with drugs and alcohol, they go, they have to hit what they call bottom. In order to get help. The first step is to ask for help. My journey was no different. Now my battle was with with debt in bad decisions, and self esteem, where other people deal with drugs and alcohol. But if you take a look at the behavior patterns of both categories, they're very eerily eerily similar. Entrepreneurs just focus their, their their issues on growing a business, but their disruptive behaviors with family and time and money are very classically similar. So I think to your question we all have, we all have challenges we all you know, for me, I can't work with a client until they're ready to change. My coach couldn't work with me until I was ready to change he asked me a lot of Are you ready toHave you had enough of this kind of questions we did. That was brilliant. I do that now. And the great thing about it is I've recognized and realized that I part of my life issues in life is I'm never satisfied, which makes me a lifelong learner. So I still have a coach in my life today. He's not a business coach. He's a neuroscientist, and he teaches me how my brain works. So I can stop doing the things that really drive me crazy and drive others crazy so I can do more of the things I enjoy and making others, you know, making the world a better place. So for, I think, the savvy person, the savvy entrepreneur recognizes that coaching is always needed. If you take a look at sports, Tiger Woods as a Swing Coach, Mike trout has a hitting coach, Nolan Ryan had a pitching coach, you know, in sports, it's encouraged that coaching is always going to be a part of your life. So you never take it out. But we go to university, we go to school, and I think goodness, I'm done learning. I'm done having teachers.I'm a big believer that we always have to have either peopleto peer learning, like in an EEO, coaching, like the services I provide, maybe you provide for, you know, that close, close, tight network of mastermind groups, coaching is is part of it. They say it takes a community to raise a child, I argue it takes a community to raise an entrepreneur too. Mm hmm. No, I completely agree. So, you got a little bit into this, but I want to,I would love for you to share even more in detail. But how is the the what are the parallels between entrepreneurial mindset and the 12 step recovery program? That's, you know, no one's ever really asked me that. And I certainly want to I want to preface it by saying I'm not a licensed counselor. I have personally never been through a 12 step program.But I have clients that have people intimately in my life who have so I'm going to kind of do my best to answer the question, but I want to make sure that people know you know, call me you know, reach out on my website, hey, I, you know, I need I need help with drugs and alcohol. That's not my area of expertise. So if you take a look at that,The entrepreneurial mindset as well as the the mindset of someone who's got a substance challenge. Typically, there's there's a, there's a I'm not good enough mindset attached. So we take they take the drugs and the alcohol to numb the feelings numb the pain, and it create a different version of themselves. A lot of entrepreneurs start a business to prove something to themselves because they feel deficient. They feel deficient either internally or they feel deficient inthe messages they received from childhood and how they behave. Then there be those deficiencies and create behaviors, those behaviors then exhibit themselves and some things that worked well. So they I when I was in college, I'd go out and drink and I had a great time. When I'm in my 40s I go out and drink and I feel like like I'm gonna die. I'm really mean to people. So a behavior may be work for them at one point socially, but then it became too much and it didn't work for them socially. Same with entrepreneurship. I'm a rugged individualist, I've grown my business, I've self reliant. I've taken it from, you know, 300,000 to 900,000. I've reached a ceiling of complexity.Well, I'm just gonna keep doing the same things I did 300,000 at 900,000, it doesn't work, the business is different. And you're building yourself a job now you're building yourself a company. And I've had clients say to me, I want to be on the Inc 5006 times like you were it. I said, that's a great goal. But that wasn't why I did what I did, in getting the ocean, why they do what they do. And a lot of times, why entrepreneurs do what they do, is to feed something into fill something with inside of themselves, just like the addict is wanting to feed and feel something inside of themselves. So part of it is to recognize those both categories have fear and self doubt.And often that self doubt turns into self loathing, depending on where they are in the journey. And the a lot of entrepreneurs suffer from imposter syndrome. I did you walk into a room of other entrepreneurs and other successful people being by society and you feel like, I'm not worthy. I don't belong here. I don't want to be a part of a club that would have me in it.PeopleDrug and Alcohol it dependencies feel like, I'm not worthy, I'm letting my family down. They don't know. They think they're hiding it. It's like I thought I was hiding some of my things. There, a lot of the traits and the behaviors are exhibited.Or the underlying algorithm for techies, the underlying algorithm is the same. They're just exhibited differently. So I always tell people like this, that I had to hit bottom in order to change. People say, Well, I want you to come in and change my company and change my leadership team. I can't do that. I have to work with the leader and the entrepreneur, they have to work on changing themselves and how they approach their team, how they approach their business and how they contribute to it. No different than the drug addict or the alcoholic who says, Yeah, it's my failure. The screwed up, I'm fine.Yep, know exactly that with my clients. When I work with them on a financial basis. They often they're like, I just want to talk about money, am I I'm not talking about money, like almost ever. 95% of what I do with my clients has nothing to do with money has everything to do with you.Your legacy, how do you want to be remembered? What are your core values? How do you receive fulfillment? Once we identify some of these basic foundational principles, thennow that that then all the confusion about the money concept where you're putting your money, how I'm talking, I mean, I've had a few clients now where you sit down with them, and they just are unaware of where their money is going. You ask them okay, well, let's let's track this Penny by penny. And turns out they're spending hundreds of dollars on fast food, snacks, drinks, or whatever. One of my clients out over $1,000 on fast food eating out, wow, it's like it. I have no problem. Like, whatever you feel fulfills you do it right. I'm not here to tell you whether it's good or bad. But I am going to challenge you and ask you, is it serving your legacy? Is it serving your core values? And does it really give you fulfillment? If the answer is none of those, thenthen why are we doing and then allow them to choose how they want to continue moving forward, but all of thathas to start with, again, who you are, what's your mindset, all these things and it has nothing to do with the actual manifestation of the activities that the money spending habits. It has to do with the indecision about who you want to become and what you want to leave. I think that's brilliant. I love the fulfillment question because so many entrepreneurs say I just want to be happy. I used to say, I just want to be happy and part of the the generation, you know, go to school, get married, start a family, get a great career and just be happy was kind of that that was how my family believed. And that was drilled into me talking to my current coach, and I was very frustrated one day he's like, so here I have a prescription for happiness.eat chocolate and then go to the gym. Because a spike of dopamine is the only way you're going to be happy. And he goes that he was they actually told me the story about how they did with lab rats and how they disliked them with me, and it made them absolutely insane. He was and he challenged me it's become a platform for what I do know, swap out happiness for satisfaction.Because satisfaction is a journey satisfyingis a hero's journey. And we look at your legacy. When you look back on your life, the only thing we take with is our memories. I mean, we can have all the money in the world, but we can't cheat that it's not going to buy us out of it didn't work for Steve Jobs. It's not gonna work for me. But what is our what is our satisfaction, and you take a look at the baby steps through the start of something to the end of the journey have a satisfying experience. There are highs and lows. It is the hero's journey, where if we're just focused on just being happy all the time, we're going to live a massive sense of disappointment. And if our only measure of having a successful life is cash, cash is a byproduct of other activities. So I think your question of fulfillment is spot on. Yeah. Well, thank you. I think so too. That's why I asked it but I just have loved having you on the guests. having you as a guest on the podcast. If we want to connect with you reach out and look for maybe coaching or conversation what where's the best place to connect with us on social media website? where's the best place to get a hold of you? The best place to get a hold of me is actually on mywebsite and I love the whole theme of the show of legacy because I'm really a legacy play in my life. Most entrepreneurs I think start their business we've talked about for a while to satisfy something with inside themselves to prove something to someone or someone else that they can do something. For me being an extraordinary advisors is my legacy. I've written one book, I so yeah, I guess I live on Amazon forever. But the legacy for me is having rich in conversations like we've had this morning. So I love anybody wants to connect with me on my website, extraordinary advisors, calm, I'm happy to give you a half hour of my time for free, no cost, to have an enriching conversation that's important to you. But my goal is to listen to absorb and then I'll respond so I can be of great service to you. And it's my opportunity to be able to I don't want to bother you. I know it's an opportunity for me to do what I love. It's an opportunity for me to connect with people have enriching conversations, and it allows me a part of my legacy thought process is to pay back all the great coaches and teachers I've had along my journey. A lot of them who never know the impact they've made on me, so please, anybody's interested. They gotvalue out of our conversation today. Please reach out at extraordinary advisors calm and I'm happy to give you 30 minutes. I love that. Okay, so really quickstory time for me. So I was listening to another podcast called entrepreneurs on fire. by john Lee Dumas he does that podcast and 2017 and 2017 I was working my butt off 4050 hours a week trying to make my business work struggling and listen to this podcast and a coach and other coach she lived up in Canada offered a 30 minute coaching call for free and I was just at the right moment where I was struggling enough that I was willing to call you know I was I had set my ego down I'm telling you guys this story so you can do the same right? I set my ego down and I got on the phone call is January two sorry December 23. A few days before Christmas and on this coaching callWith her, and in half an hour, we got to the bottom of that I flat out did not believe I was worthy of success. I didn't believe I was worthy of being a thought and I'm not saying that this is going to be your your story, but this was my story and what a half an hour can do for you.My income, monthly income from 2017 to 2018 quadrupled wow or x my income by simply once I recognize this is simply a worthiness issue. I put I am worthy in multiple contexts into my daily affirmations, and four times my income I'd like a half an hour of Todd's time, I promise you is worth it. If you're gonna get more specific questions answered, I promise you it's worth it. Don't miss out on that. And I can't express that enough because it was a half an hour coaching call that completely changed the trajectory of my life. That's awesome. What a great experience. share that. Thank you so much for sharing thatYeah, no, I love it. So please reach out to him. I'm grateful that I've had an hour of his time but, and you can go back and re listen to this podcast. But really, really think about that. And, and what it means for you and what it could mean for you moving forward, if you just got on a call, and were to identify one thing, one belief that you have that's not serving you. What could that do for your life and not about you and your income, because it's not about me and my income. It's about my wife and my kids and how I'm providing for them and how I'm able to now go back and serve more to help more people because I'm now financially stable. So, like,take the half hour, it's worth it every second of the day, okay. And the link will be in the show notes here. And you can just click the link to his website and go I'm assuming go get registered on your website for that half. Yeah, absolutely. We'll get it set up. Awesome. So here are the last two sections of the podcasts got about three minutes left. Sothis is called legacy on rapid fire. So I'mAsk you five questions and looking for one word or one sentence answers. If you use one word for the first question I'm gonna ask you to clarify. Okay, fair enough. So what do you believe is holding you back from reaching the next level of your legacy today?I think the thing holding me back right now is a lack of awareness in the marketplace of what I'm able to deliver. I love that. Okay, and what what is the hardest thing you've ever accomplished in your life?Oh my gosh, Ithink the hardest thing personally and I don't think I've ever shared this on a podcast is the three year custody battle that I fought by myself as a as a attorney improper to get custody of my son is by far my life's biggest accomplishment. That's cool. So that was that's what was gonna be the next question is what's your greatest success at this point in your life, getting custody of my son raising a great young man. He's a 28 year old account now from a personal perspective, and I thinkMy greatest business success isn't being on the Inc 5006 times it's honoring my commitments to others and paying that $600,000 in debt. I love that. See, that's so cool. It's comes back to what are the values, one of the core things and about an individual and integrity. And that's the great success is when you're getting the satisfaction, fulfillment of keeping your word. It's not what you build. It's about who have you as an individual become. It's the small distinctions I promise you that are separating the people who are leading the world from the people who are following in the world is the small distinctions of how they identify themselves and their inner values and who they've chosen to be. The next question is, what what is one of your secrets you believe contributes most to your success?I think really, one of my biggest secrets is getting rid of the word expectation and replacing it with the word intention.Fantastic. And what are two or three books that you would recommend to the fuel your legacy audience okay.So for me, I'll give you a couple. I mentioned one earlier freak factor from David Rendell. It really helps you figure out who your your your uniqueness is to the world. And it may not be what you think which I was really blown away by.One of the most pivotal pivotal books that I ever read for just pure business was good to great by Jim Collins, and the stories in there. I use his Stockdale paradox story when I speak to audiences. And the last one.Now, I've listened to this book now almost five times on Audible, known for less than two years. It's called the book. The book is better got it right here. It's the it's the subtle art of not giving a blank by Mark Manson. And what I like about that book is it really helps reframe your mindset around every aspect of life. talks about dating, he talks about kids, he talks about himself he talks about business and always driving like your shows.talk about today is what legacy Do you want to have? How do you want to be show? How do you want to show up in the world? And how do you want to be seen? And how is it that you can be exactly where you want to be and be okay with yourself at the same timethat now, maybe I'll get that book from my way. It's, it's, it's powerful. We did a we did a mastermind Leadership Retreat just based around that book. That's it and it's giving yourself that it's a such a permission. And while it's got a lot of blue language in it, I find this humor to be incredibly funny, so it takes a lot to offend me. But I like his, he tells us the story of the band of Metallica and how their original guitarist Dave Mustaine, who then went on to find a very successful hard rock band was still very jealous of not being in Metallica anymore. You compare that to him, he created a band called Megadeth that he went and talked about Pete best, who was the Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr and how they threw him out of the band.before their first album, now he had gone through the journey and how he made peace with that choice and how he was now living his life and didn't have jealousy for the four Beatles. He goes, it kind of goes, I have enough money to live my life comfortably. I can walk down the street, Paul McCartney can. Yeah, so true. like looking at the freedom of life, what you actually have, where Dave Mustaine was complaining about you know, I could I could have bet you I could have been in the biggest band in the world and you threw me out and you didn't let me do this and you didn't you get an alcohol issue. Started Megadeth which is sold 2030 million albums. It's not there. Nobody's ever heard of him. But he's still had that weird jealousy and issues with something that where Pete best is like, you know, life is good. Yeah, that's funny. perception, man. Everything's perception. Okay, here's my favorite question. So I saved it for last I love when surprise for people on this show. But we're going to pretend that you're dead now.Okay, and you are able to comeBack in whatever form you believe in, and view, your great, great, great, great, great grandchildren sitting around a table discussing your life. So this is six generations about 200 years from now. Okay, discussing your legacy in your lifetime. I want to know what do you want your great great, great, great grandchildren to be saying about your legacy in your life and what you brought to the earth?I would want them to saythat he was a lifelong learner.who, through trials and tribulations, discovered his authenticity, his transparency and was able to demonstrate his vulnerability to be at the service of others. Awesome. And if you've been listening to this podcast, which hopefully you didn't just skip to the end, but I think that that is an absolute alignment with who taught is it took him a while sometimes to get there throughout throughout his life to really identify that, but as soon as he has identified it, he's been living that and he's helping other people live the same. So that is it.I love that when it's in alignment, sometimes people answer that and it's not in alignment with the whole podcast like, hey, well, you got some work to do. Absolutely. It's so important. It's, it's human beings, I've discovered you can be a great speaker and not connect with your audience because parts of them don't believe that your your behaviors, your energies and your message are out of alignment with how you come across. So I may not be the world's greatest speaker. But I want people to feel that they're getting the real deal. And people are getting my clients getting or getting a real experience versus just a bunch of catchphrases and a bunch of polish and a bunch of sometimes even Shock Value like this is, I mean, I was literally $600,000 in debt. I literally fired all of my employees. I was literally a single parent who fought for custody for three years. AndI'm doing more than just fine. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And you're addingAnd even financially, that's one area but like you're really happy, satisfied, fulfilled. And you can see that you can see when somebody's completely relaxed and zero stress on their in their life. Sure, for external I mean, we always put have a level of stress we put on ourselves so we can continue to,to produce and excel and grow, which is kind of the lifelong learner thing. We were conscious that we don't know everything yet, which is a good thing. But it's not like we're feeling depressed or anxious about the future. Because that that's taken care of now. It's just pure creation mode. So I love it. Yeah, exactly. Cool. Well, thank you so much. And definitely again, go check out his website, take advantage of the free 30 minute. I hate to say free I just hate the word free because people don't value it as much. This is life changing and it could quadruple your income if you could double your income. If it could help you sleep an extra hour at night because you have a little bit more peace in your life. What is that?Is that worth to you? It's not free because the cost of not doing it is all that time all that pain that you are in not knowing. Right? Well, very well said Sir. Very well said. Okay. Anyways, I'll get off my soapbox. I'm super grateful party, Toddfor having me today. I had a great time. Yeah, thank you and we'll catch you guys next time on fuel your legacy.Thanks for joining us if what you heard today resonates with you please like comment and share on social media tag me and if you do give me a shout out I'll give you a shout out on the next episode. Thanks to all those who've left a review. It helps spread the message of what it takes to build a legacy that lasts and we'll catch you next time on fuel your legacy.

In episode 142 I interview painter/art director for video games Adam McCarthy. We talk about his career in the gaming industry, his recent excursions showing the gallery scene, his painting process, his days as a singer of the symphonic black metal band Sothis, moving from video game artist to art director at a big video game company, managing artists vs. being an artist, and more! Also: the Art Life update and I answer The 5 Questions. Interview starts at about 30:42 Adam's website: http://www.amccarthyfineart.com/ Adam's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/AdamMcCarthyArtwork/ Adam's Instagram: @ac_mccarthy The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar, with mixing and mastering by the amazing Bryan Kilgore of Kilgore Sound; find him on Instagram and Twitter (at)kilgoresound, or his website www.kilgoresound.com Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, including the following platforms: SoundCloud: @darkartsociety iTunes: apple.co/2gMNUfM Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/s?fid=134626&refid=stpr Podbay: podbay.fm/show/1215146981 YouTube: bit.ly/2nNYPre DarkArtSociety.com Copyright Chet Zar LLC 2019

Si te has preguntado alguna vez cómo se analiza un incidente de seguridad en una empresa para averiguar qué ha pasado y cómo contener el mismo presta atención a este caso. Javier Payá compartió en la comunidad Hack&Beers un caso de phishing que tuvo que investigar para poder contenerlo y erradicarlo y que que complementa la charla de Alex Casanova "Cómo defenderse de los malos con Cyber Threat Intelligence". Más información disponible en: https://www.yolandacorral.com/analisis-de-un-incidente-de-seguridad Javier Payá (@Ninjavi_) es administrador de sistemas reconvertido como Ingeniero de seguridad y trabaja en la actualidad como analista de seguridad en Sothis. Sigue Palabra de hacker tu canal de ciberseguridad de tú a tú en: - Suscríbete escucha todos los podcasts en Ivoox http://www.ivoox.com/podcast-palabra-hacker_sq_f1266057_1.html en iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/es/podcast/palabra-de-hacker/id1114292064 o Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1xKmNk9Gk5egH6fJ9utG86 - Suscríbete al canal de YouTube para no perderte ningún vídeo: https://www.youtube.com/c/Palabradehacker-ciberseguridad - Toda la información en la web https://www.yolandacorral.com/palabra-de-hacker - Twitter: https://twitter.com/palabradehacker - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Palabradehacker

This week the boys dip a toe into the world of cringey high school rap!This Good-For-Nothing Town LyricsVerse 1Have you ever heard of chronic depression? I think I’ll use this sessionto admit a little confession, to inform of you mygradual progression, that is a simple regressionDeep into the open arms of unnatural obsessionBut I ask you to excuse my discretion in this jam sessionWell, rap session, but this level of expressionAnd sharing my feelings can bestow upon my listenersAn unexplained sense of aggressionTo me and mine, so if it’s fineI’ll take my time busting this rhymeSorry about that corny lineBut this is my first timeChorusI’m sick of feeling downSick of this life, it’s button downJust take a freaking look aroundAt this good for nothing townWith the most exciting place in it beingA karaoke place with the songs in KoreanI’m sick of feeling downSick of this life, it’s button downJust take a freaking look aroundAt this good for nothing townVerse 2And it’s not that I’m a bad guyI always used to think IWas everybody’s white knightTurns out I’m just a wise guySelf-Deprecating small fryI’m still dominated byThese visions form my pastthat everyone has left behindIf I could get an MRIIf you could see in my mind’s eyeThe monster that, within me hidesGod damn, you’d call the FBITill then I guess I’ll have to try toCut the damn water supplySay my prayers, try to get byUntil some decent help arrivesChorusI’m sick of feeling downSick of this life, it’s button downJust take a freaking look aroundAt this good for nothing townWith the most exciting place in it beingA karaoke place with the songs in KoreanI’m sick of feeling downSick of this life, it’s button downJust take a freaking look aroundAt this good for nothing townGuitar SoloVerse 3Well I guess that’s all you need to knowI hope that you enjoyed the showBut take this in before you goGot a problem? Let it goThe past can get you, I would knowIt takes my pain, makes it growEven decides where I goHell I’m like it’s puppet showAnd this all cliche, I knowIt’s bitchy, whiney, even soThis tortoure Is my status quoBut I’ve only got months to go!And no amount of Tae Kwon DoCrappy paintings by Van GoghTrips out to the picture show!Can change what I intensely knowLife will pick up when I goOr I don’t know myself head to toeOne more thing before I goThis is Alex blood type OChorusI’m sick of feeling downSick of this life, it’s button downJust take a freaking look aroundAt this good for nothing townWith the most exciting place in it beingA karaoke place with the songs in KoreanI’m sick of feeling downSick of this life, it’s button downJust take a freaking look aroundAt this good for nothing townOutroI’m sick of feeling downI’m sick of feeling downBe sure to Follow My Songs Suck on FacebookCheck out Your Man Alex Smith! on Facebook, Bandcamp, Spotify & iTunesCheck out James's other podcast Unfeatured Articles! on Facebook & iTunesAnd check out the other great podcasts from That's Not Canon Productionswww.thatsnotcanonproductions.com

encontre et méditation guidée avec Chrystèle Pitzalis (ducosmosalaterre.com) Web TV * De terre et d'étoiles * Pardon pour la coupure finale qui nous a empêchées de vous dire au revoir... aurait-on voulu nous empêcher de parler ? ;-) Pour voir les autres vidéos avec Chrystèle : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNAWnaZfkJ8&t=6s&list=PLRD1tvSscXesZk393GADL13g0HXiZUAfx&index=1 Retrouvez Chrystèle sur son site : http://ducosmosalaterre.com Sa chaîne You tube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJuVXZJBcubN_529o9smjNA Sa page FB : https://www.facebook.com/osmosetemporelle/ Cette émission est aussi disponible en podcast gratuit sur : http://www.lespodcastsdenewparadigme.com/2016/05/sylvie-ptitsa.html#!/2016/05/sylvie-ptitsa.html La sculpture de Sothis (l'extension de conscience égyptienne que Chrystèle canalise au cours de la méditation) est une création de Stéphanie Pitzalis, la soeur de Chrystèle : http://www.stephaniepitzaliscreations.com/ Pour recevoir par mail toutes les infos de *De terre et d'étoiles*, inscrivez-vous à l'infolettre : https://www.j2st.net ! https://youtu.be/GSFNr1g0TtQ

Charlotte: I started when I was two. Local spots mostly. Then when I was three I booked my first national. Nestléquik. It was hard, because I'm lactose intolerant. Anyway, have you ever heardof a spit bucket? Julian: So this is our homeroom. We have Mr. Browne. Mymom says he's a little weird. Charlotte: Then I was in the chorus of the radio city musichall, Christmas spectacular. I auditioned for Annie onBroadway. I got two callbacks for Molly, but I guess they went in a differentdirection. Julian: Hey, Charlotte! Don't you ever stop talking? Sothis is the cafeteria. The food here is okay for school food. Or do you eatspecial food? Charlotte: Wow! This reminds me of my guest spot on law & order. Julian: So thescience elective is supposably reallyhard. So you probably won't be spending much time here. No offense, but ifyou've never been in a real school before... Jack: Dude, he'...

The-Rink.com co-hosts Jeff “Gatekeeper” Osborn and John “Double J” Jaeckel are joined by Blackhawks superfan and guitarist for the band Demon Hunter, Patrick Judge. They discuss what it’s like to live in Nashville as a Hawks fan and wrap up a disappointing week in Blackhawks land. This episode brought to you by https://PUCKHCKY.comThe crossover of hard rock/metal and hockey.Corey Crawford goes on IR and David Kampf is recalled, as wellAs promising as last week was, this week went right in the toiletCody Franson and Jan Rutta should be back soon, or they keep saying soThis team is the definition of Jekyll and Hyde.The Blackhawks will face the Canucks on Thursday, Oilers on Friday and Flames on New Years EvePatrick Sharp, Richard Panik, Vinnie Hinostroza carousel.More great listener questionsAn oldie but a goodie mentioned late on the podcastPlease subscribe, rate this episode, and even write us a review. Reviews will be read on the air. Also, Please help spread the word to more #RinkRats and visit our sponsor www.PUCKHCKY.com. Use the discount code “THERINK” for 10% off all orders and listen to the all new The-Rink.com PUCKHCKY commercial in this episode