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Join us this week as we tackle the Newtown, CT mass shooting which took place on December 12, 2012. We dive deep into all available information and ask the unanswered questions of this horrific tragedy. On an episode like this, we treaded carefully on this sensitive subject, So You don't want to miss out on this one.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=51933422)

Rachel talks a bit about Monica Lewinsky and shame before jumping into her conversation with this week’s conversation. This week’s guest is Violeta, host of the Pillow Talking podcast. She and Rachel discuss connection, vulnerability, and why pillow talking is an important aspect of any relationship. Episode Notes: Conversation with Violeta begins at 00:10:04 “It was talk for talk’s sake, like many children enjoy ice cream.” - A Month in the CountryFollow Violeta/Pillow Talking:Instagram: @pillow_talking_podTwitter: @pillow_podcast Website: www.pillowtalkingproject.com Listen to “Pillow Talking” on whatever podcatcher you use!Discussed in the conversation:“Couples Therapy” tv showEsther Perel, “Where Should We Begin” podcast“Let’s Not Meet” podcastDiscussed in the intro:“Modern Love” NYT column, podcast, and amazon prime TV showMonica Lewinsky’s TedTalk, “The Price of Shame”: https://www.ted.com/talks/monica_lewinsky_the_price_of_shame“So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed”, by Jon Ronson--------Let’s keep talking! Have a question or idea for a topic? Email winedine@allportsopen.com!Podcast artwork by Yogesh Nankar (Design by Dreamers).Intro and Outro music by John Bartmann.

Are you totally confused by probiotics or not sure which one to choose? Want to ensure you are getting the best bang for your buck and that your probiotic is actually doing something? Curious about how to pulse your probiotics based on symptoms and season? Tune in to hear Ali and Becki go down the rabbit hole on strain-specific research and discuss what to look for in a probiotic, best formulas for desired clinical outcomes, and how to tell if a probiotic is good quality.    In this episode, Ali and Becki go into detail on some of the most widely researched probiotic strains, from lactobacillus to bifidobacterium to saccharomyces boulardii and beyond. Learn about promising clinical outcomes from reduction of IBS and IBD pain, regulation of bowels post antibiotic, prevention of candida overgrowth, and yeast infection and UTI treatment. Plus we discuss thoughts on probiotics formulated with prebiotics as well as some of the new spore-based probiotics and share our current favorite cultured foods to get a daily dose of probiotics!   Also in this episode: 12 Week Virtual Ketosis Program - Only $99 through 9/1!  Episode 230: Dysbiosis through Disconnection Episode 198: So You're On an Antibiotic Episode 174: The Dysbiosis Disease Connection and Ali's Cleanse Episode 60: Dysbiosis and the Microbiome Episode 68: Supporting Your Immune System Naturally (Deep dive on ear infections & antibiotic use in kids) Episode 87: The Gut Brain Axis Episode 131: Candida and SIBO Deep Dive What is the Microbiome? The Role of Probiotics Probiotics and Immune Health Belkaid Y, Hand TW. 2014. Role of the microbiota in immunity and inflammation. Cell157: 121–141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.03.011  Collins, N., & Belkaid, Y. (2018). Do the Microbiota Influence Vaccines and Protective Immunity to Pathogens? 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Restore Baseline Probiotic Targeted Strength Probiotic - use code TARGETPRO18 for 18% off  KidsBiotic How to Take Probiotics With Antibiotics Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07Gobel et al., (2010). ‘Probiotics to young children with atopic dermatitis: A randomized placebo-controlled trial'. International Journal of Probiotics and Prebiotics, 5(2):53-59. Lammers, K.M., (2003). ‘Immunomodulatory effects of probiotic bacteria DNA: IL-1 and IL-10 response in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells'. FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology 38: 165-172. Leyer G.J. et al., (2009). ‘Probiotic effects on cold and influenza-like symptom incidences and duration in children'. Pediatrics, 124:72-179. Maneerat S. et al., (2013). ‘Consumption of Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07 by healthy elderly adults enhances phagocytic activity of monocytes and granulocytes' J Nutr Sci.., 2(2):e44. 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Surgery Today, 35: 869. Bafutto M. et al., (2013), ‘Treatment of diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome with mesalazine and/or Saccharomyces boulardii',Arq Gastroenterol, 50(4):304-9. Berg R. et al., (1993), ‘Inhibition of Candida albicans translocation from the gastrointestinal tract of mice by oral administration of Saccharomcyes boulardii'. J. Infect. Dis. 168(5):1314-8. Billoo A.G. et al., (2006), ‘Role of a probiotic (Saccharomyces boulardii) in management and prevention of diarrhoea', World J Gastroenterol, 12(28):4557-60. Bin, Z., et al. (2015). The Efficacy of Saccharomyces boulardii CNCM I-745 in Addition to Standard Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatment in Children. Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, 18(1), 17–22. Blehaut, H. et al., (1989) ‘Disposition kinetics of Saccharomyces boulardii in man and rat'. Biopharm Drug Dispos, 10: 353–364. Bruggencate T., (2015), ‘The effect of a multi-strain probiotic on the resistance toward Escherichia coli challenge in a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind intervention study'. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 69:385-391. Burande M.A., (2013), ‘Comparison of efficacy of Saccharomyces boulardii strain in the treatment of acute diarrhea in children: A prospective, single-blind, randomized controlled clinical trial', J Pharmacol Pharmacother, 4(3):205-8. Buts J. et al., (1993), ‘Saccharomyces boulardii for Clostridium difficile-Associated Enteropathies in Infants'. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 16:419-425. Lactobacillus rhamnosus & Lactobacillus reuteriAnukam et al., (2006), ‘Clinical study comparing probiotic Lactobacillus GR-1® and RC-14® with met*******ole vaginal gel to treat symptomatic bacterial vaginosis'. Microbes Infect.8(12-13):2772-6. Anukam K.C. et al., (2006), ‘Augmentation of antimicrobial met*******ole therapy of bacterial vaginosis with oral probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 and Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14: randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial'. Microbes Infect. 8(6): 1450-4. Anukam et al., (2009), ‘Oral use of probiotics as an adjunctive therapy to fluconazole in the treatment of yeast vaginitis: A study of Nigerian women in an outdoor clinic'. Microb. Ecol. Health Dis., 21(2):72-77. Beerepoot et al., (2012), ‘Lactobacilli vs antibiotics to prevent urinary tract infections: a randomized, double-blind, noninferiority trial in postmenopausal women'. Arch. Intern. Med., 172(9):704-12. 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In a companion interview to his June 7 talk with Stanford's Michael Snyder, Harry speaks this week with Noosheen Hashemi, who—with Snyder—co-founded the personalized health startup January.ai in 2017. The company focuses on helping users understand how their bodies respond to different foods and activities, so they can make diet and exercise choices that help them avoid unhealthy spikes in blood glucose levels.January's smartphone app collects blood glucose levels from disposable devices called continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), as well as heart rate data from patients' Fitbits or Apple Watches. The app also makes it easier for users to log the food they eat, and see what impact each food has on their glucose levels. Once the app has enough data, January's machine learning algorithms can start predicting the effects of different foods and activities on blood glucose. It can then recommend meals and exercise that'll help users keep their blood glucose in a healthy target range. The goal isn't to prevent glucose spikes completely, but rather to prevent diabetes from emerging over the long term in people at risk for a cluster of serious conditions known metabolic syndrome. That could help individuals live longer, healthier lives. And at a population level it could save billions in healthcare costs.Please rate and review MoneyBall Medicine on Apple Podcasts! Here's how to do that from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:• Launch the “Podcasts” app on your device. If you can't find this app, swipe all the way to the left on your home screen until you're on the Search page. 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Thanks!Full TranscriptHarry Glorikian: I'm Harry Glorikian, and this is MoneyBall Medicine, the interview podcast where we meet researchers, entrepreneurs, and physicians who are using the power of data to improve patient health and make healthcare delivery more efficient. You can think of each episode as a new chapter in the never-ending audio version of my 2017 book, “MoneyBall Medicine: Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare Market.” If you like the show, please do us a favor and leave a rating and review at Apple Podcasts.Harry Glorikian: I've been making the show long enough that you can see a kind of family tree emerging, with branches that connect many of our episodes.That's definitely the case with today's interview with Noosheen Hashemi, the co-founder and CEO of the precision health company January AI.The branch leading to Hashemi started back in June of 2021 when I interviewed Professor Michael Snyder, the chair of Stanford's Department of Genetics.Snyder is a huge proponent of using wearable devices to help people make better decisions about their own health. In fact, the day we spoke he was wearing seven separate devices, including one called a continuous glucose monitor or CGM.A CGM is standard equipment these days for about 3.5 million diabetics in the U.S. who need to know when their blood sugar is too high and when it's time to take more insulin. But Snyder believes that blood glucose data could also help tens of millions of other people who don't yet take insulin but may be on their way to developing full-blown diabetes.Back in 2016 Snyder got a visit from Hashemi. She's a longtime Silicon Valley tech executive and philanthropist who'd been searching for a way to use AI, wearable devices, and big data to get more people involved in medical research. Hashemi told me it took just two meetings for her and Snyder to decide to join forces to co-found January. The company makes a smartphone app that collects blood glucose data from disposable CGMs, as well as heart rate data from patients' existing wearable devices such as their Fitbit or Apple Watch. The app also makes it easier for users to log the food they eat, and see what impact each food has on their glucose levels. Once the app has enough data, January's machine learning algorithms can start predicting the effects of different foods and activities on blood glucose. It can then recommend meals and exercise that'll help users keep their blood glucose in a healthy target range. The goal isn't to prevent glucose spikes completely, but rather to prevent diabetes from emerging over the long term in people at risk for a cluster of serious conditions known metabolic syndrome. That could help individuals live longer, healthier lives. And at a population level it could save billions in healthcare costs.As you're about to hear, Hashemi and I talked about why glucose monitoring is so important and what companies like January can do in the future to make the predictive power of AI available to more people.Harry Glorikian: Noosheen, welcome to the show. Noosheen Hashemi: Thank you, Harry. Harry Glorikian: So, it's great to have you on the show. It was interesting that, you know, the minute Dr. Snyder mentioned the company, I was immediately Googling it. And I was like, oh, I have to talk to this company. I have to understand what they're doing and, and what's going on.And to be quite honest, I've been doing my homework for the past couple of weeks. And I'm like: I think I have to call my doctor and get a ‘script to actually use the product. Just to help everybody get up to speed on this, can you bring people up to speed on where we are with glucose monitoring and health in general? Whether they have diabetes or whether they're just, you know, what, I, maybe someone like me who I hope is a generally a healthy person.Noosheen Hashemi: Sure, absolutely.  Yeah. So from Mike Snyder's four-year multi-omic IPOP research,  we learned that people who are so-called healthy and have healthy A1C levels could actually have huge glycemic variability. He sometimes calls these people with pre pre-diabetes.  I think eight people developed diabetes during his four-year study.There haven't been enough longitudinal studies in healthy people with glycemic variability to suggest that they will necessarily develop diabetes. So to date, there's really no conclusive evidence that healthy people can benefit from balancing their blood sugar. Also, not all sugar spikes are bad and a two-hour bike ride might produce a big spike, but that's fine. It's not the spike by itself that we worry about. It's really  how high the spike is against our baseline, against the population, whether the spike comes down quickly, the shape of the curve, the area under the curve. These are the things that are illuminating in terms of our state of metabolic health.So  at January we really view metabolic health as a spectrum. So we want to support people to figure out kind of where they are on that spectrum. And to try to really help them move up to healthier points on that spectrum. So we don't see it as a moment in time where you are something or you are not something. You are kind of on a spectrum of metabolic health, and we continuously want you to be self-aware and, and really improve your location on that spectrum. Now, something to keep in mind,  and why I think it's important for people to take action on this, is that 84% of the 88 million people believed to have pre-diabetes today, and 22% of the 34 million people that are believed to have diabetes today, are not diagnosed. They are undiagnosed. That's 75 million people walking around with pre-diabetes and don't even know. So, if we don't measure people's health, that doesn't mean they're healthy.  So we really encourage people to be  you know, vigilant with their health learn so that they can, they can act, you know, self-advocate. Be able to self-manage.So we do think that wearables are an easy, useful way to kind of see where things are, but then you need companies like January to make sense of it all. Harry Glorikian: Yeah. I mean  you know, it's interesting because you know, I'll go to my doctor and they'll do that one time measurement. It's like taking your car in and you're like, it was making a noise. It's not making the noise right now, but, you know, try and diagnose when that event is not happening. Whereas with the wearables, I can, I can actually see, you know, my, my heart rate variability change depending on my exercise process. I can see my sleep change if I had one too many glasses of wine. I have to tell you, I hate it because I would like to have more wine than my monitor allows me to have, but you know, you see the immediate feedback, which would let you sort of course-adjust accordingly. And you know, when I, there was a paper, I believe that was published in Israel where there, I think it was 500 people that they looked at and where you could see that every person, they could eat the same foods, but their spikes would be different or how long that spike would be based on genetics, based on their microbiome. And so if you're not monitoring, how will you know that your quote, healthy diet is actually healthy for you? Noosheen Hashemi: You don't.  You definitely don't. And yes, that's study shows variability between people, but also we've shown glycemic variability for the same person. So we had somebody at the office have the same good sleep nine days in a row, and they had a different glycemic response to that. Mostly every single day, nine days in a row, depending on how much they had slept, how stressed they were, how much workout they had done. And most importantly, how much fiber was in there.  So we are radically different person to person, and this is why we encourage people.  No one is going to know you as well as you do. And no one's going to be as interested in your health as you are  as you should be, as you might be. So we really encourage people to learn, learn, be self-aware self-advocate, self-educate. Harry Glorikian: So, help people understand this term metabolic syndrome, you know, and, and talk about how many people, maybe who are pre-diabetic go to full-blown diabetes, you know? Noosheen Hashemi: Okay. Yeah. So  I mentioned that 122 million people have either diabetes or pre-diabetes in America.  88 million plus 34 [million]. And then a larger number of people, if you believe Mike Snyder's pre-diabetes number, that's even a larger number. But metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that leads to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. These conditions are basically high blood sugar—which has been historically measured by A1C  blood tests called hemoglobin A1C, but increasingly it's measured by time and range using a CGM—high cholesterol and triglyceride levels, high blood pressure, high BMI, and high waist to hip ratio. So this kind of fat right in the middle.So the 2002 diabetes prevention study showed that unless there's an intervention, 58% of the people that have pre-diabetes could end up with diabetes. And usually they think of this prevention as weight loss.That's what the DPP programs, diabetes prevention programs, are about.So if you have pre-diabetes the cells in your body don't respond normally to insulin. And insulin is a hormone that facilitates your cells taking up glucose, which is a source of energy for your body. Your pancreas basically makes more insulin to try to get the cells to take up glucose. You sort of get into this terrible vicious circle. So eventually your pancreas can't keep up and then you have this sort of excess sugar sitting in your bloodstream, which is really a problem. And it can really lead to microvascular complications like retinopathy or neuropathy or diabetic nephropathy.So as you know, diabetic retinopathy is the most common cause of blindness in working adults in the developed world. And in diabetic neuropathy, essentially high blood sugar can injure nerves throughout the body. And usually damages nerves in the feet, in the legs and feet, which hear about foot ulcers and amputations coming from this.And of course  diabetic kidney disease. Nephropathy is something that  is the number one cause of kidney failure, actually. Almost a third of people with diabetes develop kidney disease. So you add this with the high blood pressure we can increase the force of blood through your arteries and damage arteries. And then you have excess blood pressure, you knowblood pressure and diabetes together, basically increase your risk for heart disease. So it's really a terrible cluster of conditions to have. And so if you have three of these conditions, three of these five, you essentially have metabolic syndrome. And if you have metabolic syndrome, you're at a higher risk of developing these different diseases. You really don't want to go down this path. The path itself is not great. And then the comorbidities from this path are just worse and complications of course are very painful, costly, and potentially, deadly.Harry Glorikian: And so that's one end of the spectrum, but in reality, even someone like me who tries to watch he eats, who goes running regularly, or tries to go running regularly. I mean, you know, I have sleep apnea because they tell me my BMI is too high. Right. So  but this sort of technology, you know, I could be spiking and keeping a high glucose level, which would inhibit my ability to lose weight, et cetera. So how can more data about blood glucose, and its relationship to diet, help people avoid diabetes?Noosheen Hashemi: Yeah. So for so long, we've been able, we've been told just to avoid refined sugar, refined flour, eat a lot of vegetables, walk 10,000 steps. You'll be fine. Or, you know, weight loss is given as the end goal to cure all diseases. You know, why don't you, Harry, drop 25 pounds? Or how about drop 5 to 10% of your weight? Harry Glorikian: Just like that!Noosheen Hashemi: It's true, weight loss really improves biomarkers. But how many people who get this advice can actually do that? And at the timeframe that they need to. So we feel like that's just not a practical approach to solving a problem.A more practical approach is to really figure out what works for each individual. You know, you mentioned you've dialed your own wine drinking based on its impact. I've done the same. I was, you know, enjoying two, three sips of wine. And then I learned that it would wake me up in the middle of the night. So I stopped having even the two, three sips of wine. So don't feel bad that you can't have your second and third and fourth glass. But basically we offer a multitude of levers that you can dial for your lifestyle. For example, intermittent fasting and calorie restriction together have shown benefits in clinical studies for improving insulin sensitivity, if you do them together. So you can't just fast and then gorge yourself. But if you fast and you restrict your calories together, you can really improve insulin sensitivity. So we let you, we help you using the January program to learn to experiment with fasting and calorie restriction and figure out what works for you. How much of it you can make. You know, slowly  help you essentially build it into your habits and your daily routines to fast. You know, we increase your fasting period 15 minutes at a time. So you may start with January you're eating 16 hours a day and you're fasting eight hours. You may end the program having reversed that.And other thing is we, we really pro promote fiber consumption. So increased fiber intake has been associated with higher levels of bacteria-derived short chain fatty acids, which is a regulator of GLP-1 production. As you know, GLP-1 is an incretin and a recognized regulator of glycemic homeostasis and satiety. So we help you track how much fiber you're eating. We encourage you to eat more, knowing what foods spike you, spike your blood sugar, helps you basically eliminate or reduce consumption of those foods. It tells you how much, how much of those things to eat  or alternatives that kind of honor your food preferences  and food tastes, but have lower glycemic index. If you can't walk 10,000 steps a day, okay. January tells you how much you need to walk, when you need to walk to keep your blood sugar in a healthy range. So you really need data  to, to dial your lifestyle. There are many levers and there are no silver bullets and there's too much to keep in your head. Which is why it's nice to have AI sort of help you kind of make, you know, take it all in to a platform and then synthesize it and give you insights.Harry Glorikian: Yeah. I mean, like,  I've got my, my Apple Watch. I've got my, you know, Whoop band. Right.I don't have as many as he [Mike Snyder] does, but  I know, I think my wife would kill me if I, if I was wearing eight things, but, but it's, you know, it's true. Like it's, you know, each one of these, because they're not holistically designed, give me a different piece of data that then I can then react to. You know, one is probably more of a coach that causes me to push a little bit farther, you know, et cetera. So  I mean, I hope one day we evolve to something that's a little bit more holistic so that the average person can sort of, it becomes more digestible and more actionable. But you know, I do believe, based on my conversation with him and even all the work that I do multi-factorial biomarkers or multi biomarkers are going to be how you manage, you know, yourself much better.But you know, tell me how January started. What is the thing that excited you about what you saw and what attracted you to this role? Noosheen Hashemi: Yes, absolutely. So January's origin story started with me deciding in 2016 to start my own company, essentially, after many years of running a family office, investing in, serving on boards of companies and nonprofits.  I had early success at Oracle  where I rose basically from the bottom of the organization in 1985 to vice-president by age 27. Along [with] Mark Benioff, who at the time was 26. It was quite the time, taking the company from $25 million to $3 billion in revenue. So  you know  a really, really amazing tenure there. In 2016, I started this massive research in, into theses that were getting a lot of attention, you know, big trends over the next decade. And most importantly, what I really knew. You know, the classic kind of [inaudible].  I happened to attend a conference, a White House Stanford University conference on societal benefits of AI and how to integrate sort of ever-changing AI into everyday life and into the real world. It was a healthcare panel that took my breath away. So Faith A. Lee who had organized the conference with Russ Goldman. They suggested that interested parties run off to this machine learning and healthcare conference in LA two weeks. I immediately booked my ticket. And there I met Larry Smarr. I don't know if you've come across him or not, but he was the first quantified self, maniacal quantified self person I had come across. And he had diagnosed his own Crohn's disease way before symptoms had manifested. And so, and then the common theme of this conference, between all of these presentations was that machine learning could essentially fill in for missing variables in research, not just going forward, but going backwards. So I was just hooked and I never looked back.But it was a hard problem. My own husband had been investing in healthcare and warned of like an opaque sector. He was like, “Honey, this is heavily regulated incentives are aligned with acute disease, not with chronic disease, not to mention even anything or prevention. It's just not a market economy.” And he knew how interested I am in market economies. My first love before medicine was economics. So that's a whole different podcast. So he warned that I'd be sort of fighting this uphill battle, but I was not discouraged. I basically kept on researching.I came across the MIT economist Andrew Lo. I don't know if you've come across him, but you should definitely talk to him. He's brilliant. His work showed that so little research had been done compared to what we really need to do in terms of medical research. And he comes up with ways of funding, medical research, he has a lot of innovative ways that we could really change  the whole model of medical and scientific research, but it kind of became obvious to me that the answer was that we needed to get everyone involved in research.So just, just putting things in perspective. After Nixon declared a war on cancer 50 years ago, we now have some therapeutics and some solutions to cancer. We have really nothing for neurological diseases. We're spending over $300 billion just on symptoms of Alzheimer's— don't talk about even the cure or anything like that. We have nothing for aging, which is the ultimate killer. So it was, to me, the answer was obvious, which was, we have to get everyone contributing to research. Everyone should be looking at themselves. And then with the data, we can also learn across populations. And so deep phenotyping of the population sort of in a multi-omic way was the answer.And that's what led me to Mike Snyder. I actually looked for multi-omics. I went to Stanford medical school and I met with the CEO. He said, what are you interested in? I said I'm interested in multi-omics. He said, you have to talk to Mike Snyder. And so  basically what Larry Smarr had done at the [San Diego Supercomputer Center] was to measure everything by himself. But Mike had essentially extended this kind of research to others, not just to himself. So not only sort of diagnosed himself with diabetes before the doctors, but he'd also run the Human Microbiome Project, the IPOP study, innumerable other research using metabolomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, wearables, and so on.So he had spent a lifetime studying how people went from healthy to disease essentially. And he had taken a whole person approach, which is what I was interested in.  And so in his role as chairman of genetics at Stanford and head of precision medicine at Stanford, he was kind of already living in the future. And that's kind of where I thought, you know, all of us needed to go. So our first meeting was supposed to take 45 minutes. It took 90 minutes. And in our second meeting, we agreed to join forces. It was like, it was instant.  It was just instant chemistry. Like the universe just brought us together.And then all of a sudden sort of everything fell into place for me. Looking back at my life, I been getting ready for this actually all along. Caring for my dad who had been diagnosed with cancer too late to actually give him  a surviving chance. My mom  had been misdiagnosed with asthma when she had heart failure. So I had to leave my family, you know, everyone get together and really intervene. Really changed her, her lifestyle in order to save her life. She is thankfully now 91 years old and living fine, but it has absolutely no salt in her life and a completely different, different life. My own health, my own health journey sitting in front of a computer for three decades, more than three decades, as we know that now they call it called sitting, you know, Harry Glorikian: Right, the new smoking. Noosheen Hashemi: The new smoking. My experience running a couple of hardware companies, my love of food, and my skills of kind of scaling companies. You know, all of this came together. I just basically became obsessed with prevention and I felt that, you know, food could play an outsized role.So wearables, you know, give you signals from the body continuously, which is incredible.  But you also need to understand what people are eating and, you know, we can talk about that a little bit later, but we can basically now imagine predicting chronic conditions, much like Larry and Mike had. And then, you know, postponing and potentially preventing them. And if they've already started, prevent them. Harry Glorikian: Yeah, I was lucky enough to be there and help when Evidation Health was getting off the ground and, you know, once we started to see the data coming in, I remember looking at the data. Is that real, like, is that actually happening? And I was like, the first thing I was thinking of was like, how do we design a clinical trial? Like if you're going to actually say that's happening, that trial is not going to be trivial to set up, to make that claim, but you could see it in the data.And, you know  I actually think some of the shifts that you're talking about, if it wasn't for things like the Affordable Care Act, if it wasn't for putting EMRs in place, if it wasn't for some of these shifts that have happened, you and I would still be, you know, battling this system that pays you no matter what. Right? And I think now is technology is a way that that can empower the average person to manage their own health. I'm not going to say optimally, but boy, a hell of a lot better than no information. I mean, at least some information can maybe give you an early warning light of something that you might be able to intervene in.And I don't know anybody that likes being sick. I mean, I don't do well when this thing starts to age a little bit and not function the way that I want it to. So I've tried to try and keep it in as good of a running condition as I can. So it lasts as long as possible. I mean, I'm one of those people that would listen if I just drop dead at 95, like just boom gone. I would be so happy. Right. As opposed to this sort of chronic  dynamic. [musical transition]Harry Glorikian: I want to pause the conversation for a minute to make a quick request. If you're a fan of MoneyBall Medicine, you know that we've published dozens of interviews with leading scientists and entrepreneurs exploring the boundaries of data-driven healthcare and research. And you can listen to all of those episodes for free at Apple Podcasts, or at my website glorikian.com, or wherever you get your podcasts.There's one small thing you can do in return, and that's to leave a rating and a review of the show on Apple Podcasts. It's one of the best ways to help other listeners find and follow the show.If you've never posted a review or a rating, it's easy. All you have to do is open the Apple Podcasts app on your smartphone, search for MoneyBall Medicine, and scroll down to the Ratings & Reviews section. Tap the stars to rate the show, and then tap the link that says Write a Review to leave your comments. It'll only take a minute, but it'll help us out immensely. Thank you! And now back to the show.[musical transition]So you mentioned AI, you mentioned machine learning. Where do machine learning and other forms of AI fit into January's service and you know, what do you do on consumer data? What kind of predictions can you make that wouldn't otherwise be possible?Noosheen Hashemi: Okay. I can first talk about exactly that. What did we do that hadn't been done before. What is really unique? What are we filling? So essentially in one word, it is prediction. You said it. So  as you know, there've been, there have been glycemic prediction models for type 1 diabetes, but type 1, as, you know, is a serious condition, which, you know, precision really matters for type one. It's life and death.But there hasn't been much done with type 2 diabetes. And so we set out to do predictions, for type 2 diabetes. And  the type 1 diabetes models are pretty simple. They basically are an insulin-carb calculus, essentially. But as we dug in, we realized that  you know, carbs are not all the same and that there are so many other factors besides carbs that affect glycemic response, including things like fiber fat and protein, water, and foods. We wanted to understand glycemic index and glycemic load of foods. So our major  machine learning  research projects, we basically did research for two and a half years before we sold anything.  One of the first things that we did was to try to understand the foods themselves. So we essentially built the largest database. Essentially we licensed all the, these curated food databases, and then we labeled the foods that didn't have food labels, because right now the only food labeling you really have is like grocery foods and chain restaurants.So we labeled foods and then, recognizing that glycemic response was better associated with glycemic index than carbs alone, we set out to create glycemic index and glycemic load for all these foods. Then we ran a clinical trial and associated people's glycemic response to the glycemic load of foods they were eating. And then we turned that into a prediction. So, the prediction model.  Why is it so cool? Well, why should you use your body to figure out how many glasses of wine is going to spike you? Why not have the AI tell you that? Why not do that in silico?  It's this weekend, you want to cook for your wife. You want to get her the right fried chicken recipe. Well, check those out in January, check out those recipes in January. If you know what the glycemic response of, of each one of those recipes could be, it really helps you compare foods. For kind of recipes you can comparefood items in your local cafe. You want to figure out what to eat. You don't have to put them through your body to figure out how you're going to respond, put them through the AI to figure out how you're going to respond.And then in terms of, you know, how we're different. I mean, we essentially live in the future. We, we don't  we don't live in blood pricks and strips and blood glucose meters. We kind of live in the CGM, HRM (heart rate monitor) precision foodworld. We've turned food into actionable health data, which is a necessary ingredient you need if you want to understand people's glycemic response. And if you want to be able to predict it, and that is our huge innovation that nobody has. And we have quite a bit of IP around it. There are a number of things that we're using. We're using meta-learning.  We're using  neural networks. I don't know how much I should say about what we're using. Yeah. We have one paper that we've put out, which is really, really, really simple.  But we, we always talk about, what kind of papers we want to put out and how much we should put out and how much should we not put out, but essentially you can look at the people that advise the company and you can see that, you know, we have a lot of expertise around  essentially… Harry Glorikian: But Noosheen, when you're doing this right, you need to, at some point, I think you need a baseline on say me for a certain period of time before the algorithm can then respond appropriately to that. And then doesn't that potentially change over time, time you mentioned the yogurt, the meusli, right.  And how that affects. So it's constantly gotta be in a feedback learning loop.Noosheen Hashemi: Yes. Yes. And the beauty of January is that essentially you don't have to wear a CGM 365 days out of the year. We think that with AI, we allow you to wear a CGM intermittently. So maybe you want to wear it every quarter  to update our models  just to see how things are going, but you don't need to wear it all the time. You can wear it for a period of training and then basically run your simulations in silico rather than through your body. Let the AI do the work. So you definitely should wear it intermittently so we can update our, our models because people do age. People do have inflection points in their health. They get pregnant, they travel, a lot of things change, but we don't think it's necessary for healthy people to wear CGMs all year long necessarily. Harry Glorikian: So now we're talking about consumer behavior, right, for a, for a tech product like this. And if, you know, if you look at some of the data that I've read in some of these papers, you know, the potential market is significant. It's, you know, it's quite large. I mean, if I just said, you know, 15% of the people have pre-diabetic levels of glucose after eating, that would translate to like 50 million people in the United States alone. But the service depends on the CGM, the app, the external heart monitor. It's, you know, users have to be diligent about monitoring and logging food intake and activities during the introductory month. So for a quantified self junkie, I get it. They're all over this.  What's the plan for getting everybody else on to this? Noosheen Hashemi: Well, I think it's all about the user experience. And I think we have a, we have a long way to go as an industry and for us as well.As a company we have, what we imagine to be the user experience is nowhere near where we are today.I'm old enough to remember world before Starbucks. So you would see ads on TV for MJB coffee, which is something you made at home. You know, I don't know if you remember that but Starbucks created a new experience, really a place between home and work where you would stop by for coffee.And so the outrage around the, you know, $3, $4 latteat the time, do you remember that?Well, Starbucks continue to improve the experience. They added wi-fi, they had ethical coffee, they had kind of a diverse employee population. People's initial wonder and worry gave way to this, you know, gigantic global brand. And I think all of that is because of the experience that people had. I think we need to make health a positive experience. We need to—we, including January—need to make health something that people….it's going to be a little clunky in the beginning, just like the old, you know, cell phones used to be. But while we're going through this process, the companies need to work on to improve the experience and people need to be patient with the clunkiness of everything  to get us to a place where these things become much, much more pleasant to use and easier to use, and essentially AI starts reading your mind about what you were eating and what you were doing. That is going to happen. You know, I've gotten so used to my Apple Watch now that I actually love it. It actually is doing a very good job training me. Just at the right time, you know, “Come on, you still have a chance. Let's go.” You know, all the things that it's doing  I'm actually liking it. It's it's enjoyable. Because it Is coaching. And I feel like the answer for mass adoption lives in experience. We need to improve the experience dramatically. Harry Glorikian: It's interesting though, because I I'm play with a lot of these different things and I noticed that depending on how they're designed, how they're put together, it nudges me to do that much more or et cetera. I don't always listen. Human beings don't always do what they're supposed to do for their better good. But  you can see how, when the app is designed in a way to nudge someone the right in through the right mechanisms. And that's the problem, right, is trying to—not the same mechanism works on everybody. So you may have to have multiple approaches that the system tries like AB testing for a website to, to get them to do that.But so, if the average person like me wants to do something like this, obviously I have to get a ‘script from my doctor, which just drives me crazy that I can't just—because I can buy a finger-prick, right, over the counter and poke myself a thousand times and then write down these numbers to see what happens. Which seems a little clunky in my opinion. But I can't buy the CGM that does it automatically. There's gotta be some medical person saying like, we're gonna make more money off this if we do this or do that, or, or it just doesn't make any sense to me.  How do you, how does January come at the expense reimbursement or the insured part of it, or is this just out of pocket for everybody? Noosheen Hashemi: Sure. So right now  government insurance, companies, and private insurance companies cover CGMs for people that are intense insulin users. So people that prick themselves four times a day. And so that's three and a half million out of 122 million people that have pre-diabetes or diabetes. So it's a very small population. And the rest is all cash paid. And it it's really out of pocket. So we have an early access price of $288. And we, you know, we include the CGM, but you can also buy CGMs only from January. You can just, if you just want a CGM, you don't want to do anything else. You're just curious. You want an introduction to this world? You can order a CGM from January for $80 if you want to do that. So if you're one of the 12 million people that are insured by Kaiser—and Kaiser doctors will not write you a prescription, you can go to your doctor and ask them, they won't write you a prescription—come to January. We will give you a CGM. You can be introduced to the program and then, you know, take, take up January from there and experience the magic of CGMs alone. I really do think they are a magical product because they they're showing you for the first time you kind of can see inside your body, which is really phenomenal. Unfortunately by themselves, they're not that effective and they're not that effective by themselves longitudinally. So if you really want to keep track of how you've been doing, what food spiked you, how you can, you know, what kind of exercise, things like that. They don't really have that additional intelligence, but they are magical, they are really magical tools. But, you know, you want an insightful experience on top of that. With the AI that can essentially synthesize this kind of data from your heart rate, monitor from your food, from your glucose monitor and sort of let you know how much to eat, what to eat, how to hack your food, how much to walk, how much, how much to fast, when to fast, how much fiber you're having, not having. That's where we come in. Harry Glorikian: I feel like at some point I'm going to need a big monitor in my house that just tells me these things as I'm walking by. But you know, it, it's interesting. I mean, we are entering the era of real wearables and apps and big data and, and, you know, but here's the question though. Soyou know, Apple just announced what's going to be the update to their iOS and, you know, pretty soon I'm going to be able to push a button and share data with my physician.  Which is funny because I go in his office and I pull up my phone and I'm like, here's my longitudinal. And here's my longitudinal. And I'm like, look, you can take the measurement because you're supposed to, but here's how it looks over the last three months as opposed to the one time when I'm here. Can January's customers export and share the data with their doctor? Noosheen Hashemi: We have a report  midstream at 14 days that you can share  with, with your doctor. But of course we intend to, you know, we have features planned that are going to make things way more easily done, much more easily in the future. We really strongly believe that people should own their own health data. We are huge advocates for people owning their own health data, because there are a lot of people hanging onto your health data and they don't want to give it to you. I'm talking about device makers and others. You're paying for the device, which comes with the data, but they don't want you to have the data. So they're like, “You can have the data and study it yourself, but you can't give that data to other people.” But that doesn't work.We are living in a multi-omics world. Single 'omics by themselves, the single side node biomarkers, you know, “Harry, you just manage your cholesterol. Noosheen, you can't keep two things in your head. Why don't you just manage your A1C? And Mike, you should watch your blood pressure.” That just doesn't work. There are many, many markers that you've just, as you just said, that we need to keep in our heads. We can't keep them in our heads, but that's where AI comes in. We need to feed them into something and people must have the right to own their data and share their data with whoever they want. If it's their coach, it's their doctor, it's their wife or spouse or significant other, their dog. They should be able to share the data that they own.As long as they provision it properly to whoever they want to give it to because you know, someone doesn't want their employer to know X, Y, and Z. Somebody else wants their coach to know that is people's rights. And coming from kind of a libertarian point of view, I really think people, you know, people should own their own data and they should be able to mix it with other data  for synthesis, if they want to. Harry Glorikian: Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, I totally believe in that. I always, I also understand that people may not understand the implications of sharing sometimes.  And that's not clear, but I do believe that the next iteration of where we're going to see this technology go is multifactorial software programs that can take a number of different inputs to give a much more holistic view of what's going on with me, so I can manage myself better share that information. My biggest worry is most physicians I know are—it's not totally like, it's not their fault, right….Noosheen Hashemi: They're so busy, so they're spending 15 minutes a year with you. And during that 15 minutes, you know, they're taking a point in time, you know, to see a snapshot of your health. And your health is way more complicated than that. We're talking about reverse engineering, 5 billion, years of evolution. And you know, they're going to get, see if such an infinite small part of that. We need to be way more self-aware.Harry Glorikian: Well, it's funny because I do have, some of my physician friends will be like, you want me to understand that genomic marker that whatever, like, I can't, I can't get my patient to manage their insulin level!Noosheen Hashemi: I have a lot of empathy for that. They just don't have the time.  I completely fully understand. Which is why I think we should carry more of the, we should have more agency over our health and we should carry the burden a little bit more.Harry Glorikian: So what is wild success for January? Noosheen Hashemi: Well, we want to keep on this path of developing our multi-omic platform. We want to essentially  help people understand themselves deeply and figure out how to dial their lifestyles and sort of tweak and tune their health. This is non-trivial obviously because there's not enough research in food science or enough research on prevention. You know, out of the $3.8 trillion that we spend on healthcare, 2.9% goes to prevention and 10% goes to acute care end of life care. Just think about that. More than three times as much goes to end of life acute care than goes to prevention. And I'm talking about healthcare costs, I'm not talking about research costs in terms of what NIH and USAID and all of those people spend. So there's not enough research that's happening. You know, people's health data is not organized today. I'm sure there are companies who are trying to organize the world's data. You know, the company that tries to organize the world's data is trying to organize your health data. So I think that's pretty smart.  I think today it's still very opaque and it lives in silos, but I think in the future is going to be mixed.  I think today people just aren't fully empowered yet, you know, with the knowledge and with the agency and with the tools they need to really manage their health.Wild success for us means that people, that we're part of this revolution of consumerized healthcare. We're part of the food-as-medicine revolution, the precision nutrition revolution. So we see ourselves coming up with tools that can essentially get amazing experiences in the hands of millions of people.If you can think about a company like Livongo going public with 192,000 patients. Or if you think about everyone that's playing in the metabolic health today, if you put 12 or 13 companies together, maybe they have a million users, or maybe a million and a half users. Where is that compared to 122 million people that have pre-diabetes diabetes and another a hundred million people that are optimizers? They're either wearing a wearable, they belong to a gym, they're on a diet. You have the entire population as your market. And we have very little that has really made a major foray into health. So wild success means having a product that becomes mainstream. Harry Glorikian: So I think what you're saying is January is moving beyond just CGMs and metabolic syndrome, right?Noosheen Hashemi: Absolutely. Yeah, we, we imagine ourselves, we have built an expandable platform. Our goal is to keep doing deep phenotyping. So we will add 'omics  you will see us adding 'omics beyond what we have today. You will see us  get to other cardio-metabolic disease, you know, cardiometabolic disease, essentially going beyond metabolic disease to the rest ofmetabolic syndrome. You'll see us be ahardware-agnostic company. We want to essentially let people wear whatever they want.  Whatever works for them and, and still try to bring that data, synthesize it and make sense of it and feed it back to them so they can take action. Harry Glorikian: Excellent. Well, that's, that's a great way to end the program with. We have so much more to see from the company and what it's going to be able to do with the data and, and, and help  you know, people live a healthier life. Or like I said, with me I'm constantly trying to measure what's going on. It's just distilling it to make it easily consumable to do what I need to do rather than have me learn statistics so that I can figure it out. Noosheen Hashemi: We have to get, all of us need to get better than that. I remember when I first put on my Oura ring, you know, there's, you know, most people  first when they wear their Fitbits, you know, first it was like, how much did I sleep? And then they kind of learned about REM and sort of deep sleep and then slowly. And then Oura came and then it was like, oh, and Whoop had already had heart rate variability, but then, you know, Oura came in with their other markers, you know, restfulness. And efficiency, sleep efficiency and timing, et cetera. And so people are slowly wrapping their heads around this. It takes a little whil. And yes, January gives you a lot of levers. You know, there's fasting, there's fiber, there's calorie management. There's you know, the spikers. There is the activity counterfactuals—I ate this, but had I eaten this other thing, this would have been my glycemic response. Or had I walked X number of minutes after that, this would have been my glycemic response. At the beginning it's a lot, but that's where it goes back to the experience. We must make the experience enjoyable and better, and we must, companies like us should strive to make the experience enjoyable, make them fantastic consumer experiences like Apple products. But remember Apple's 45 years old and we're just getting going with this, But [Apple is] a great role model. Harry Glorikian: Wellyou know, my doctor may not like it, but I may have to get one of these. He's listening to this podcast. I know that he will, because he always comments on them. Noosheen Hashemi: We're definitely doing that. And you know what? You can have Mike Snyder, you can chat with Mike  about your numbers after. That would be a lot of fun.Harry Glorikian: Excellent. Oh, I look forward to it. So thank you so much for participating. Noosheen Hashemi: Thank you, Harry. It was pleasure.Harry Glorikian: That's it for this week's show. You can find past episodes of MoneyBall Medicine at my website, glorikian.com, under the tab “Podcast.” And you can follow me on Twitter at hglorikian.  Thanks for listening, and we'll be back soon with our next interview.

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Erin McCullough is a thought leader, an in-demand speaker and an international teacher that helps people create IMPENETRABLE JOY so that they can be calm, have peace of mind and meaning in their life, NOW! Erin had an Anxiety Disorder that had her holed up in her home for nearly a year. Through that experience she learned how and why that happened and developed strategies to overcoming and preventing it, which is what she now teaches. Erin vowed that when she found solutions to overcoming and preventing anxiety, she would do whatever she could to make sure that no one had that experience, so that has been her mission. Erin spent a decade studying the Mind/Body connection, Visualization and ways to still the mind. Over the decade she has created simple strategies to Overcoming and Preventing Anxiety, Stress, Worry and Overwhelm so that all her clients live a life intentionally in Joy. She has been an entrepreneur for 21 years and consulting businesses and business leaders for 16 years. If you question who you are and what you are meant to be doing in this life, let Erin help you discover your own path to joy. Connect with Erin at https://www.erin-mac.com/ The transcript below is machine-generated and unedited. Brandon Handley 0:41 Hey there spiritual dope. I'm on here today with Erin McCullough. She is a thought leader in the main speaker and an international teacher that helps people create impenetrable joy so that they can be calm, have peace of mind and meaning in their life. Now, Erin had an anxiety disorder that had her holed up in her home for nearly a year, through that experience to learn how and why that happened and develop strategies to overcoming and preventing it, which is what she's now teaches. and vowed that she, when she found solutions to overcoming and preventing anxiety, she would do whatever she could to make sure that no one had that experience. So that has been her mission. There's been a decade, studying the mind body connection, visualization and ways to still the mind. Over the decades, she's created simple strategies to overcoming and preventing anxiety, stress, worry and overwhelm so that all her clients live a life intentionally enjoy. She has been an entrepreneur for 21 years and consulting businesses and business leaders for 16 years. If you question who you are, and what you're meant to be doing in this life, let Erin help you discover your own path to joy. Erin, thanks for your work in through the technical difficulties. As a as I told you, I'm working on this newer platform. But thanks for thanks for joining today. How you doing? Erin Mac 2:05 Oh my gosh, thanks for having me. I'm wonderful. How Brandon Handley 2:08 are you never been better. My whole life has led up to this point. So you know, here we are. Here we are. So I like to start these off with the idea that we are deal sources. We're talking about like a little bit before we got started here that we are all our source and that the universe speaks through us. And that right now in this moment, the universe is speaking through you to one of the listeners today. What do you have to tell that listener? Erin Mac 2:36 Well, first and foremost, I believe it is our birthright to be predominantly in joy all day, every day. And if that's not the experience you're having, then keep listening. We're going to talk about all the things strategies, and you know why we're here what we're meant to be doing. You know, all the things, Brandon Handley 2:59 all the things all the things that I love, I love that you kind of chose joy had to go out and I had to go out and grab my, my joy mug. Oh, no. It's actually like pretty much one of my favorite mugs right as the idea of what you kind of see out first thing I pick up and I carry around, I see I get to see the word joy everywhere I go when I'm drinking out of the mug. So definitely enjoy it. definitely enjoy the word joy and glad that we have the opportunity to talk about it. And I'm also going to be very honest with you. Before I went in, I checked you out a little bit more I was like what kind of fit is this? Right? What kind of fit is this? Because, you know, being a you know, more of a thought leader and all this I suppose like what's the spirituality fit me and you know, so in your mind, though, like the work that you do is spiritual, you know, the the personal development is spirituality work. Is that set? Right? Is that fair? Yeah. Well, let's talk about let's talk about the journey, right, let's talk about breaking through anxiety. Let's talk about, you know, how you found yourself in an anxious position and kind of some of the things that you did to work your way through it. Erin Mac 4:06 Awesome. So you know, my story has kind of like three moments, defining moments, if you will. The first started with the anxiety disorder that you spoke about. It actually came about in talk therapy. I was going to a couple's group counseling with my husband at the time. And in that first session, I had a panic attack and I never had one before so I had no idea what it was. And the counselor picked up on it right away she explained all you know what it was and first she told me what it was she didn't really exactly explain what it was. I figured that out later, but she told me that's what was happening and and from there, you know, she said something's obviously coming up for you. Would you like to do some individual work and In that individual work, you know, I was telling my trauma story over and over and over again. And what my body decided to do was put up the defense mechanism of anxiety. And so it got so bad that as you said, I hold myself up in my home. You know, it didn't, it wasn't an overnight thing and happened gradually, panic attacks, more panic attacks, then, you know, I had one was running, and I was training for a race at the time. And so I felt like I couldn't run anymore, at least temporarily. And so I stopped running. And then I stopped teaching, I was a teacher at the time. And so it happens that way, you know, slowly, it's not just one, you know, wake up, and, and no candu. After about nine months of that, she referred me to a homeopathic psychiatrist, who gave me a remedy after a three hour interview, that in 20 minutes basically cured me from the experience of anxiety. That's the physical chemical piece, right? And I thought, wow, I have a new lease on life, you know, I can go and do all these things. But because of that experience, I was afraid, right. So I decided to move to Hawaii, and move to a small town and have a simpler life, right? Thinking that, you know, then I would never get triggered. And I would just live my life happily ever after in paradise. And unfortunately, while the chemistry piece was handled the mental emotional spiritual piece, not so much. And so I was still there. So in that simpler life, of course, I created anxiety, stress, and all that. So I moved to Hawaii. Immediately, in the first 24 hours, I started a business and I had a client. Within 18 months, I had 20 employees, multiple six figure contracts. And, you know, I was on my way to stress and anxiety. And the second thing that happened that really rocked me to my core was I 10 years into my business of just being frantic and crazy, stressed all the time. A client called in the morning, she was upset, and I would just get so frantic about clients complaining, they got in my car, raced over to a friend's house, backed into a driveway to drop my daughter off, and I sideswiped her husband's car or her his truck with my car. And come to find out later, when I came to pick up my daughter, that her husband was under the truck working on it while I hit it, and he thought it was gonna land on him. And that just rocked me to my core, I thought, This is ridiculous. Like, this is no life, you know, running around like a crazy person all the time. And so then I dove, you know, into self development, got involved with a seminar company did all their seminar staff for them, and started to see that there was a different way to be in this world, and starting to make some changes, that we're having an impact on my life and other people around me. And then about five years later, I found myself in the middle of a divorce. And for whatever reason, it just leveled me, I was in a dark place. And I thought, you know, I'd spent 10s of 1000s of dollars on seminars, reading all the books, you know, trying to do this other life, but I didn't really have any legit strategies to doing life differently. So then a series of things happened. I picked up the book, maybe you've heard of it, the Course in Miracles, and was about a month and two reading. It's a daily passage for about a year 365 passages. And nothing I was kinda like, this is interesting, but not really rocking my world. Then all of a sudden, month two, this crazy thing happened where the word started, like popping off the page. It was like the path is joy. The answer is joy, joy, joy, joy. And I was like, finally after a couple weeks of that, I was like literally threw my hands up in the air. I was like, I got the answer. How do I get there? And a series of things happened. I got an email from a gentleman I met. He was teaching a seminar in a wahoo and I thought I'll fly over for that. I have no idea what it is doesn't matter just need something positive. And I went and it was a day long seminar on a visualization process that he teaches. And I was so excited by it. I came home and I started using it immediately called my broker who had had my business for sale for like nine months with no bites. And I was like look, I just want to let you know my business is going to sell by the end of the month and there's going to be a bidding war. And it was like, okay, and long behold a week later That's exactly what happened. And then I went back and trained this gentleman that I had gone to that seminar, he was having a seminar, to train people to teach his main seminar. And I went and trained for a week I came home, put on my first seminar, and I stood in front of this group of people, and I ditched my notes, five minutes in, because I had this crazy experience where like, everything that I had ever learned, all of my life experience, everything I had ever read, just came together, like at one moment, I went, Whoa, like, this is what I'm supposed to do. Like, I'm supposed to teach people how to find their joy, cultivated daily, and live the life that they're meant to be living now, without waiting for all the things or the, you know, whatever they think they need to have in order to have that, like, that's available now. And I happen to also during that few week period, meet the love of my life in these very random circumstances, which I don't believe in random anymore. And, and so it just all lined up. And that's what I've been doing for the last almost four years. Brandon Handley 11:11 That's awesome. I mean, and it's interesting, right, that you came, you kind of came out of a, from what I gathered was more of a business oriented kind of thing versus this pursuit of joy, right, are you that you're doing now? And I think that I heard you say, on another podcast that, you know, maybe some of this is Woo, but if it is, woo, it's working out for you. And and you're okay with it, right? Erin Mac 11:39 I mean, that's the thing, you know, people always say, Oh, that's kind of woowoo. For me, I'm like, I'm looking at woowoo people, they look pretty happy as all I can say. Something too, and Brandon Handley 11:50 it's pretty amazing. The idea to have, you know, just try some of these things out for the first time. Very go into a very skeptical, right, this vision process that you're doing that you're thinking about, while it seems pretty cool. But then you you go and you try it. And then things start working out. Right. I mean, talk to me a little bit about that. So how did that have that come? And like kind of manifest itself? What was some of your initial reactions when you saw, were even calling it the universe? And what were you calling it? Well, like, what was your know, kind of how, how was that for you? Erin Mac 12:30 You know, it's kind of crazy, because you know, how it's like life. I mean, again, it's like life unfolds slowly. And you don't recognize exactly what's going on. So you look back and go, Whoa, like, look at all these things that happened. That's crazy. It took me a while to even recognize how much I knew that I was feeling better that I knew. And honestly, you know, I just, I thought I knew what joy was, I thought I knew what happiness was. The thing was, is I was on this, like, roller coaster ride of things, right? It was just like I was so 100% bought into the idea that if I had all the things, you know, a stack of cash, and the house and the car and the successful business, and all the things that we're told is gonna make us be happy. I had all those things, and I was so miserable, right? But I didn't even know that it was possible to experience joy. Do you know what I mean? Like I really just didn't even know what was available. Brandon Handley 13:39 So I think it's really interesting that you bring it up, right? I think there's this, you know, Tale of Two Cities type of thing, where you went, and you got all these things, and you did all the things because this is what we're taught. But that's been my experience is like, hey, go through all these things. Because this is what you're taught. Right? And you're not doing it maybe with the same intent that some of these other people are doing it right, you're doing it to a mass and acquire and to be happy and to have status versus what you're doing now, which is to implement, purpose, intent, and service, right, and the outcome that you're headed towards now. Right? If you haven't, I'm sure you've already achieved. I mean, listen, if you landed in Hawaii has some clients on the first day and you know, whatever, you know, a mask pretty quick like that, you know, whatever it is that you're doing right now, I'm assuming is successful, in one way or another, right? And but now it's aligned to who you are with your purpose and there's fulfillment and joy in that and the rest of it just kind of comes naturally, right? It comes as a byproduct of that intent and that purpose versus if you could compare To the way that you are running life before, right? You were miserable. You were like, anxious and you know, knocking people's trucks over on him. Right? And now I'd like you're doing maybe the same work, I don't know. But what's the effort feel like, compared to what you're the effort felt like before. Erin Mac 15:21 I mean, you're, you hit it right on the head, like I am 100% in service of people and myself. And while that may sound selfish, it's, it's, it's kind of where you got to be when you're in service to people in this way, you know, and it's a whole different experience, you know, before it just felt like I was grinding, grinding, grinding all the time, you know, like, it took all these things in order to make success, like I really, you know, there are these ideas that we have from a young age, you know, success looks like this formula. It's right. It's like, it's like, hard work plus luck, right, you know, like this, you know, formula of success. And I was 100% bought into that, too. And now, it's not like that, it's like, it doesn't seem like work. It's not a four letter word anymore. For me, it's 100%. Like, like, when I give to clients, I give to myself, like, it's such a win win. Whereas I definitely didn't function that way in my life before 100%. And now it's like, you know, while I still have to negotiate, you know, time, you know, balance the things out in my life, this never feels like something I've have to do. Like, I'm excited to do it all the time. I feel called to share what I know, because it's had such a profound impact on my life. Brandon Handley 16:51 I think it's interesting to how, you know, on your first seminar, you kind of tossed off to the side and everything you ever knew, kind of fell into this framework. Right, and you were able to just let it freely flow. Right? I mean, what, what looking back, what would you say happened there? Erin Mac 17:15 Oh, I, I was, you know, I think we're guided all the time. I think we have support all the time, from all the things, you know, universe, energy in general, you know, I mean, scientifically speaking, energy cannot be destroyed. So every person who's lived, their energy is here to you know, and, you know, that's why people talk to loved ones that have passed, and, you know, like, they still the energy is still hear it's exist, so why not tap into those things? I think, you know, it happens to me all the time. And I'm not gonna lie, it was freaky. You know, because it's, you know, for somebody who's like a recovered control freak, you know, a bunch of people and all of a sudden, just free flowing. And not to say it was just random all over the place is still stuck to, you know, we had a workbook and things but, you know, to go off the notes, I still do that. And I just, and I, and I recognize, I mean, even sometimes when I'm on podcasts, like, I'll just, I'll wake up in the middle of it and go, Oh, like I, you know, I wouldn't say it's me, I want to say channeling, but it's like, it's taking energy that exists. Like what I'm telling what I tell people and how I'm in service to people and the information that I share with people. Like it's not new to me, like I didn't make this stuff. Right. Right. Right. This is a real learning. Right, right. And when I'm teaching, I see it in the students, it's like, they can hear me on a deep level, even if they're not consciously aware of what I'm saying. They're feeling on a deep level. And that's coming from not me, you know, I mean, I hear it and I can disseminate that information, distill it down. But it's, it's exists, we're all connected to it one way or another. Brandon Handley 19:06 No, 100%, right. Truth resonates. And that's the kind of that that's the experience and you're talking to somebody else. And you're in a room with with these people and and you're having a truth session on the value column, right? It's your truth, this is kind of coming through you. And you're like, I don't even know, I didn't even know I could do that. Right? But then, but then the rest of the room is resonating with you. And to me, that's kind of what it sounds like as happening. And you know, call it channeling. It's funny too, because, like we we still have our limitations on what we'll call it, right? Like, I don't know that. Yeah, I don't know, I call it channeling I don't know, you know, whatever. But you know, what you're doing is you're at least letting yourself open to, to it, whatever, whatever it is, to come through and to to and through you. Right as a kind of a receiver translator as it were. Erin Mac 19:59 That's it. receiver for sure, yeah, yeah. And yeah, and I think we're all we all have that ability. Brandon Handley 20:07 I mean, it's an eight, right. And so, I mean, I don't know how old your kids are, you know, I've got my, my nine year old. And it's so and and my older child to 11. But you know, it's so obvious just how like innately in tuned. The children are, right as as as it is and, and then you can kind of watch it literally be kind of like almost a brainwash, but brainwashed out of them, right, like, you know, just kind of have those senses gold and like, you know, go through like this other thing, and you just kind of watch it, you're like, wow, that's crazy. Because we go through this relearning experience later in life. Are you an Alan Watts fan? I don't know who that is. Oh, my gosh, come on now. All right. Alan Watts. Yeah, Alan Watts. You know, he's a kind of philosopher made. Popular lies, Zen Buddhism. And in the West, West, it's like in the 60s 70s, right? English guy, you really enjoy him. One of the things that he talks about those, it's like, it's like, we're like salted beef, right? We get all salted and you got it. You got to desalinate that beef. And then you're like, you're back to your natural state at a certain point. And that's, again, sounds to me. I like the way you're the way you're going. Right? You're feeling into it. The what was the cure? I mean, because you had the homeopathic guy, right comes and gives you the cure. What was it? Do you recall? Was it like, a miracle pill? You know, help me out here. Erin Mac 21:51 Now Now what? homeopathy is so interesting. It's so distilled down the amount of whatever the substances may come in. Have you ever taken it before? That's like little tinctures, tablet. They're little pills. Yeah, no, tiny, tiny little granules. And, and they taste like sugar. And they have just, I mean, it's almost like they have essence of the thing. And it really is for the purpose of sort of writing your own self, right? So you introduce it to the body, and the body goes, Oh, that's right. We use a function fairly normally, in this stage. Here's the thing that I need. And interestingly enough, when she gave me the remedy, she told me what it was called. And she said, I don't want you to research it. And this is pre internet. It's not pre internet, but it was definitely internet was not a thing. Really. This was like 99, there was no Google. Yeah, it was not, there was no verb called Google it. And so, you know, she was just like, I don't want you to research this. And, you know, just see what happens or whatever. And, you know, and I, I mean, I almost don't want to say what it is because I don't want people with anxiety to think that that's the cure all it's not the cure all, it was just the thing that made me feel better enough to get on the path to recognizing that the work is internal, emotional, spiritual, and then the body follows. Brandon Handley 23:29 It's so interesting, though, right? Because we, we've, we believe the other way around, right? Because we see the things that everybody's doing, but we can't see the inner work, we can't see how they're thinking, functioning, or directing themselves internally to get to that point. So we're like, Alright, well, I'm just gonna go do all those same things. Right? And it doesn't it doesn't work out, right? Because we're not we're not aligning all three of those pieces of ourselves together. We're just like, we're hammering on one at a time. Right? Erin Mac 24:02 Yeah, I mean, I think you know, you see people they have you know, I work with a lot of people who have cancer and other diseases because that's mental emotional, spiritual two, I believe were three equal parts you know, mind body spirit. And if any of those are out of alignment or out of balance, it's going to show up in the other ones right and in a negative way or and that not wanted way. And often we can, you know, we can skip past mental and spiritual right we can we have all kinds of ways to not feel and acknowledge and, you know, the obvious ones are drugs and alcohol, the less obvious ones are things like being super busy, not ever having any stillness in our life, you know, being helicopter parents, you know, the SWAMI we spend all day every day Trying not to feel any. And, you know, and so you can imagine, and we've done it from a young age, like, it's not really our fault. It's, you know, we've grown up to this idea that we're not supposed to have emotions, we're not supposed to feel those things, only very controlled and in very specific ways, depending on the environment, you know, like, can't cry in a business meeting, you know, you know, are you crying out to lose it? No crying in baseball. Brandon Handley 25:32 I know, my first, my first go around, like in the podcast room and coaching space was fatherhood. And a big point of what you're saying there's is especially as Western civilization, men, emotions, come on now. You know, yeah. That's it. I mean, and that's a brilliant question too. Because we don't know, we don't know, one of the one of the tools that I use, often is the blue check wheel, right? Just just has the emotions kind of listed out, I hand it to my clients, I'm like, you know, go through it. You know, take a look at this every day, if you don't know what this one means. Or if you if you think that you do, go double check the definition of that and just see kind of how you're applying it in your life and how you can use it to, you know, acknowledge your situation, because we don't we, I suppose I was like, 40, or something I didn't know, I didn't know. I was, I guess, like, you know what, because I had a, I had a coaching friend, he goes, because Brandon, I'm not hearing anything emotional, or there's nothing emotional. I was like, Oh, let me go check that out. I was like, Well, I Erin Mac 26:32 mean, unfortunately, our society, especially for a man, like you really only allowed to anger is the only like, standout emotion and now, that's just as tragic. But that's changing slowly, as Brandon Handley 26:45 well. You know, I like to call kind of where we are right now in whatever culture like a hippie 2.0 situation. Right? Right. We're kind of like a hippie 2.0 situation where like, okay, like, maybe if we don't deal with all the drugs, it'll work out better this time, right, like, cut it out on like, the illegal substances. And, you know, we can still get to this place, mentally and spiritually, right. And, and, and since we're seeing that, there's, there's the actual benefits are being seen and heard, and, and I think that the pandemic had such a huge influence, because nobody was spared. Right? If anything good came out of level, it's like, it's like, level set everything. So, so for the, you know, for the CEO, or business leader that could normally like hop on a plane and do everything that like, his employees couldn't, he was stuck at home to with the kids having to deal with the zoom meetings. He wasn't getting a you know, he wasn't getting a free ride out of it. Right. And so his mental, her mental health was impacted as well. And they're like, Oh, shit, everybody's gone through this, we'd better do something. Right. So we see, right? I mean, so I think there's some benefit out of this whole COVID situation to huge, right, right, the right mental health space of people, spaces, places and things. So if I am coming to you, and I am like, the client type I am is who you were before you got to this choice spot, right? Um, you know, I've got success, not like, you know, I'm not Whoo, kind of guy, my calendars, you know, tight and all this stuff. What are you what are some of the first things that we're gonna do together? Erin Mac 28:39 First, we're going to acknowledge and begin to make some separation between the story that's been running your life, you know, the story of all the rainbows and sunshine, a story of all the, you know, the yucky, the fit, the unfair, the unjust, the abuse, trauma, all those things, not for the purpose of wallowing in and you know, it just to acknowledge where we started, and maybe what's affecting some of the ways that we see this world, how we perceive people and circumstances, and then take that story and recognize it for what it is the gift that it has been, and will continue to be in terms of showing us where healing and growth can take place. And you know less about all the things all the details in terms of, you know, who and what happened and all of those things. It's really more about what did you decide about you because of that story. Those are the beliefs and then when we recognize some of those beliefs, then we can understand that, you know, that's been playing out in the background, that's the wallpaper so to speak of our lives, you know, where we make decisions from and a lot of the decisions are fantastic. We need not mess with those, but the ones that aren't serving the future that we want to create. Those are the ones we want to take a closer look at. And so then, from there, I have people do a day, I have them write out a narrative of the day in the life of everything they ever wanted to create in our life, you know, all outcome based, you know, all you know, all the fields, you know, touch, taste, see, smell the whole deal. So exciting, you know, ever, like literally for a moment, wake up until moment go to sleep one day with everything in it, all the people, all the circumstances, all the outcomes. And then they use that in a visualization. And they start their day, because that's where I found my joy was in that visualization. Understanding a day in the life now, is it about manifesting? Not exactly. It's really about elevating the emotional experience, because you have that at your disposal at all times. And so we learn that we can our body doesn't forget things. So when I'm in my visualization in the morning, like, My arms are in the air, I'm like, super excited, like, yes, that just happened. And then yes, that happened to and I mean, tears of joy streaming down my face. I mean, it's all the things, I'm 100%. And on every level, I've raised my emotional experience. And then, like I said, the body doesn't forget. So when you have that experience, you can recall it at any time. So when you're going throughout your day, things start to go south, you can put yourself Take a moment, close your eyes, put yourself back into that moment, refocus and move on, versus what most people do is go out, this thing's not working out. And then there's all these other things that aren't working out, there's that thing, and then there's another thing I didn't like, and then this other person, and then you know, and so just got to read the brain and just, it loves to do the same stuff over and over again, and act like it's new. Brandon Handley 32:08 Yeah, it's not. I mean, I think the idea of the brain, right, it's, uh, likes to be an efficient piece of machinery, right? consumes so much energy, the more efficient it can be. And so let's just keep doing this thing, because it's just, you know, hasn't killed us in the past? Right? If we just keep doing this, we will die. And we may not be enjoying our lives. But you know, it, you know, hasn't killed us before. So I enjoy I enjoy the visualization. And and I think that there's a big piece of what you're saying there that a lot of people when you're doing these exercises, don't hammer home, I think, quite enough. And that's something I think you're touching on is the idea of the feels. Right. So my guess is that this is kind of a writing in the present tense exercise. Right? Erin Mac 33:00 Yeah, preferably, you know, again, outcome base, so you want to say in gratitude, right, because of high vibration, it's, you know, I'm so grateful that, you know, all these things are happening in my life, you know, as though they've happened already, as they exist in the now. Right. And they will, in your visualization, they exist as already taken place, and done deal. Brandon Handley 33:25 Right. And I think that, that the idea is that I'm just, I'm just feeling your words now. Because I heard you saying earlier today, the idea is that, you know, what wants to give us the idea that right, so if I can feel it right now, then what's that doing for me? Erin Mac 33:42 Yeah, that's creating, so I can't tell you how to get all the things. I mean, I think, you know, for me, they've come by being in that elevated state. And so, you know, I, what I help with is changing the experience of life, you know, and I think that's a heck of a lot more important than amassing things, you know, if, if I could show you how to change your experience in your life to joy, right now, by doing this visualization, that seems more valuable to me than, you know, telling you how to make six figure seven figures, whatever, you know, to me, other people, you know, they have other ideas, and that's wonderful. And, and I don't proclaim to, you know, claim to be able to help with those things. But I know how to find joy and I know how to cultivate it so that you can have that experience. And that's, you know, that's the first step is to recognize that you are responsible for your experience and when you know this, not in like fault blame shame kind of a way, in an empowering way, then you can just choose and choose and choose. Just keep choosing that thing that makes you feel good now, it doesn't change anything, have goals, do all the other stuff, too. That's amazing. But, you know, given that we only have this moment here, guaranteed why not make this one enjoyable? You know? Brandon Handley 35:16 Yeah, no, agreed, agreed. And, you know, if I'm, if I'm, if I'm a law of attraction guy, if I'm, you know, in that space, right, this is how I would, you know, kind of liken it would, and I don't know who it is, there's plenty of them out there. That's like, you know, the happiness doesn't kind of come later comes now, right. And if you can be happy now, and whatever the circumstance, like you're talking about, then you can make that choice. Again, like you're talking about all the time. You can find joy all the time, and anything and all you've got to do is again, like you're saying, If I go through the morning, and I had this visualization, I'm like, Well, I'm feeling the feels. It's all there for me, everything's great. Ah, and then like, you know, late in the day, I'm not so feeling the feels. And I'm like, Well, wait a second. early in the day, I was feeling the feels. And this was like that kind of anchor point. Right? Let me get back to that for a second. Because I created that moment for myself. Right, versus kind of letting something outside of me create that it was me who did that Creator of all these things, then, here I am. I'm always like, kind of high vibe. And I'm always like, buzzing, right. And then, you know, you're basically sending that out into the universe, right? Like, just kind of this this high vibe. And, you know, if we act as if the universe is a force multiplier, right? We know that like anything, you'd come out and throw out, there's coming back at you like, Well, I better stop, throw a monkey poo, right, like and start the things that I could really use in my life that I want in my life. And then you know, and visualize that and see it, feel it and release it right. I think that's important, too, is kind of just like, release it and not hang on to the idea that it has to happen, right? You're talking about the people that are like, well, this, Aaron, I tried this for three days, and it didn't show up. My life did not change the way you said it was. And I've you know, I've been doing all the things you tell me to do. But I mean, the idea, again, is to go through those fields, have them do the visualization. And release it because again, you're creating your own, you're creating your own space, please in time, let's face that, right. Erin Mac 37:25 Yeah. And I got two things to say about that. One is I want to talk about the difference between happiness, his idea of happiness and joy, because they're different. And I forgot what the other one is. But I'll talk about the happiness, the joy, that one the rest will come. Right. So to me the difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is fleeting, right? It's you get the new car, it's amazing. Eventually, it's just a car, right? It gets you from A to B, and this game of, you know, getting the things to make you feel good, it feels good for like this amount of time, right. And I only know that because I did all those things. I had the houses and the cars and the successful business and the time flexibility, all the things that everybody would want. And I literally kept like going over finish lines. And going, yay, hooray. I'm happy right now. And then, like, when I was doing trap all the stuff of go across the finish line, I would go home after celebrating for like five minutes. I mean, maybe like half hour or whatever, go home and find another race that I could either crush my time in that was longer hard or whatever. Like there was no end to it, like a couldn't win that race ever. Joy, on the other hand, encompasses some of the you know, the exuberance and all of that Not always, but it can include those. But it also has these nuances of like stillness and peace of mind, which is not thinking all the time thing. Or overthinking and calm. Right. And so those nuances are available and so rich, you know, they're either things I didn't know existed. I had no I mean, maybe I'd heard those words before, but I didn't really understand them on a deeper level. You know, and so, those differences are important, because the one you just can't win out. So yeah, get all the things and be super abundant and all the ways just recognize that the journey inside is the one that has purpose and meaning the one on the outside where we collect things. Those are super cool and fun too. They just don't. They don't fill you up as a human Brandon Handley 40:01 I think that I think that those are important distinctions, right? Happiness quick and fleeting, right? and joy is a little bit more kind of like a long lasting coal and Ember of warmth, right? Yeah. But a state of being. Yeah. So let me see here. Two things, two things. So I liken this, what we're doing here is like spiritual speed dating, right? Like somebody's gonna, somebody's gonna tune in, they're like, you know, I'm looking for my next spiritual date. Right? And, and this could be you. So I'm gonna ask you at least one kind of, you know, question is that, uh, you know, let me see here, whoa, yeah. Why are so many people depressed? Erin Mac 40:47 Okay, so call it depression, call it anxiety, call it whatever you want any low level experience, which is anything that doesn't feel good stress, overwhelm, worry, all those lovely words, they're the same thing. They are the experience of the human wanting to control people and circumstances to fit in how they want them to show up, or they don't feel good. And the unconscious recognition at the same time that it is impossible to control people and circumstances and events to fit into your agenda. And so you can see where that those two things butting up against each other would create some confusion. And so that confusion looks like anxiety, depression, you know, all the it's, we have this new, we've touched on it before the belief thing, right? So it's foundational, we made up everybody has them. I've not met anybody yet, who does not have these very core ones that are things like, I don't deserve, I'm not worthy, I'm not good enough. I'm not lovable, you know. And they're all basically the same thing. Like, I'm not good enough. And so those are underlying all of our decisions and how we're feeling about ourselves. And then we interact with other people. Based on those beliefs, we have decided what's right and wrong. So that's how people are supposed to show up for us, and how circumstances are supposed to show up for us. And so we got into this habit of we learned this piece about when this person says something or the circumstance doesn't turn out how I want, then somehow it's their fault, right? So if that person said something, and they're rude, instead of that person said something triggered something in me that did not feel good. What is that? And why is that there? When we look at that with wonder and curiosity and go interesting, because I guarantee whatever is triggering, you is not triggering me. So that's how, you know, it's all you. Brandon Handley 43:06 It's true. Um, you know, if if I was spiritually looking for a date, then then I would say, Hey, what's up? I'm good. And I agree, you know, I don't think there's a piece in there that I disagree with. So So thank you, I think that's a great answer to to it, right? Everybody's still trying to control the outcomes in some way, shape, or form. And when they're not turning out the way they want them to. They're not they're not accepting it. Right? They don't see it. And I think that the idea of approaching these triggers with wonder and curiosity versus like, kind of anger and angst is also really why is this can trigger still here. Right? So it makes sense. And I love it. So and what else I know that we talked about, you know, you're doing the work that you're doing now, but you've got a new endeavor, what are you, you know, what are you leaning into next? Erin Mac 44:00 Oh, my gosh, I'm so excited. I'm working with couples right now. I just finished doing my pilot course, on partnership. And the reason I'm so excited about it is, well, first of all, I truly believe we are here for spiritual development, or you call self development or whatever you want to call it consciousness. And when we recognize that that's why we're here and that all these you know, challenges that come into our life are for the purpose of our growth, then we can, you know, grow and heal and enjoy ourselves, right? Well, what happens when you bring two people together, that understand that there's a process to healing and growing and understand that same process in a way where, you know, in couples, it's like, it's easy to see how escalation can happen because it's like, especially when I've just told you what's going on. Right. So You said this thing, it made me feel bad, you know, right. So instead of, you know, we do this responsibly, so then we go, Oh, you said this thing, I feel bad. There's nothing that you can do to make me feel better, I'm in charge of making me feel better. And then they can support you in that, right? And then instead of escalating it's support, right? So it's not, you made me feel this way. It's, I feel this way, and it doesn't feel good. And, you know, support me in that instead of like, get your beliefs and you know, the things in your life that aren't working out and escalate, escalate, escalate, it's like, no, this is mine, I own it, it doesn't feel good. And then the two of you work together in that capacity. And it's just amazing to watch couples, it's exponential, because not only is their relationship so much better, but think of the impact that will have on their kids, the rest of their family, when they can see two fully functioning adults coming together, helping support each other in their spiritual growth. It's phenomenal. And so that sounds awesome. That Brandon Handley 46:15 sounds awesome. So where does, you know? What, who's your ideal client? Like in this space? Right? So I think we got two types of ideal clients, you got the partners, ideal clients, and then you've got your, your, your standard practice clients, what is what are they? Erin Mac 46:30 So ultimately, you know, being an entrepreneur for like, 21 or two years now, entrepreneurs, like me, for some reason, because I get their craziness, I understand that they are under the gun and responsible for a lot of things. And those, typically, and leaders to write just people have a lot of responsibility. That, you know, like to make all the things work out, you know, like to control all the things, those are the people that I ended up working with, because I get them, I was them. And I still have nuances of that, of course, you know, so working on me, and all that all the things. And then couples who are recognizing that, you know, especially when you're coming together as maybe two, what do they call that the set called the two families come together to blend in? Yeah. Like, I've noticed quite a few couples that are interested in working with me, that have that situation, because it's, you know, it's already challenging being in partnership, but then you bring in the kids and just escalates all the things. And so, you know, any couple, of course, who's having an issue, wanting to communicate in a deeper way or, you know, deepen their relationship in some way. Fantastic. And, you know, it's super challenging when you're bringing in, you know, other kids and into the mix and all that. Yeah, it's Brandon Handley 48:05 hard enough with your own, right. Yeah, for sure. So and where then, where Then should I send people to come and find you, if they're interested? Erin Mac 48:18 I think probably the best place to find me is on Instagram. My handle is Aaron, er, I N m A C LLC. And I post like a weekly video on some sort of strategy or something to think about. And I put like, inspirational memes and my stories. And my website URL is in the profile as well. It's a good way to interact with me, you can DM me, you can private message me or whatever. You know, and I always whenever I'm on a podcast, I offer a free I call it step one to joy call to just get you on the path, you know, maybe I you know disseminate the, the visualization process a little bit further so that you can get started on that and your life or whatever that looks like. And if afterwards, you still want to hang out with me and learn more than great if you don't, no strings attached. It's just my way of being in service. Brandon Handley 49:21 Awesome. And thanks so much for being on today. Thanks for what you do, right? You know, being able to help people make that transition from a Bumble of nerves into something, you know, a little bit more usable and functional in society. I mean, there's the there's a reason why that's your calling. So thank you for being of service and doing that for everybody out there. Erin Mac 49:47 Oh my gosh, thanks for having me. And thanks for having these platforms. It's really important to have these conversations, giving people hope and strategies and just something to think about that's, you know, positive I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you so much. Absolutely. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

Title: The Coming Storm Text: II Timothy 2:1-7 FCF: We often struggle in the Christian life to endure suffering and trail. Prop: Because we are certain to have struggle and trial, we must depend on Christ and His church. Scripture Intro: [Slide 1] Turn in your bible to II Timothy chapter 2. Coming off of a somewhat discouraging message last week, seeing the prevalence of apostasy, we step into this week hoping for a message of encouragement. And Paul delivers. What makes this passage difficult is that Paul writes II Timothy as almost a stream of consciousness kind of letter. This makes dividing it up for analysis extremely difficult. Every phrase and point hinges on another and pulls both from concepts he has and has not yet talked about. This section we are studying can't really be divorced from verses 6-18 of chapter 1, nor can it be easily divided off from 8-13 of this chapter. We find ourselves in the middle of a greater discussion. Fortunately for us (and I do mean us) we can carve out these first 7 verses to give us closer to a 1 hour sermon rather than a 2 hour sermon. Unfortunately that will mean we will need to be keen listeners and observers of all that we have learned and even read ahead a little to know where Paul is going. I'd encourage you to add a read through of the entire book of II Timothy each week. Hopefully this will allow you to see the same threads I do as we make our way through. For today though, we are building from this concept of apostasy and holding fast to the gospel. Paul will again command Timothy with many of the same kinds of things he said in chapter 1. So let's not delay. I am reading from chapter 2 starting in verse 1 and I will read through verse 13. I am reading from the NET which you can follow in the pew bible on page 1342. Transition: So we have a lot to cover today, so let's get to it. I.) The Christian life will be full of struggle and suffering, so we must rely on Christ for strength, truth and endurance. (1-3) a. [Slide 2] 1 - So you, i. We do not always agree with or like the chapter divisions in our bible. Sometimes they help us in one way and hurt us in others. ii. In one sense, the interpretation of this text can be made more difficult by separating it from the previous section. The word “so” at the beginning here points us backward to look for the reason for what Paul is about to say to come from what came before it. If we ignore that, we could step into chapter 2 and miss something. iii. However, with this set off as chapter 2, we do see Paul cycle back to repeat themes he has given us in chapter 1. It seems like this should be the next chapter of what Paul says. iv. Paul, after giving both positive and negative reasons for Timothy to hold fast and endure and take up his mantle, now circles back and reasserts these commands in different words. v. Paul is done talking about himself. He is done talking about Phygelus. He is done talking about Hermogenes. He is done talking about Onesiphorus. vi. Paul addresses Timothy. So… YOU! vii. You is the first word in the Greek sentence, meaning it inherits the most emphasis. YOU Timothy… b. [Slide 3] My child, i. Here we have love again. ii. My beloved. My little one. My heir. My child. iii. Paul's words here soften the strong commands he is about to issue to Timothy. It softens the emphasis on YOU. iv. He does not say this aggressively but with good brotherly, Christian love. v. What follows are four commands to Timothy. vi. The first is… c. [Slide 4] Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. i. He tells him, Timothy… my son… you be strong. ii. He is calling him to be something. iii. In the Greek, this is in the imperative mood but in the passive voice. It is a command, but what is clear, is that the ability to fulfill this command is not found within Timothy. iv. But for we English speakers we could see this if we just continued to read. v. Be strong… yes… but how? vi. In grace. vii. [Slide 5] What is grace? I actually posted a video on CBC scoop and on the Facebook page that I hope you viewed. The ministry is called “for the gospel” which has been established by Costi Hinn, Benny Hinn's nephew who has been called out from his uncle's false teachings and is a believer and preacher of the true gospel. The person in this video identifies four types of grace. Whether it be a gift of general goodness of His common grace to all men, or the special gifts of justification, power, and endurance in His Saving, Sanctifying, and Sustaining Grace given to His people, all of them share the same core. God's underserved favor to undeserving people. viii. And Paul says that this grace is the kind that is in Christ Jesus. ix. This is the first callback to chapter 1. How does God save us? He saves us by His grace. And how is His grace communicated to us? It is granted to us, gifted to us, in Christ. When? Before time began. x. So which grace of the 4 is this talking about? It is somewhat of a trick question, because it is probably talking about all of them. I have a whole bunch of thoughts on why that is true – but maybe we'll save that for the bible study next week. xi. For now – let us understand that if Timothy is going to be strong enough to face all that Paul is asking of him, it cannot be his own strength. It must be drawn from the gifted goodness, justification, power, and endurance of God through Christ. xii. My friends, this is how we too can be strong. God says when we are weak, He is strong. His grace is sufficient. xiii. But there is more… d. [Slide 6] 2 – And entrust i. The word here is deposit. ii. It is to place in someone's care. iii. This is the second command given to Timothy. He is to give, or entrust what? e. [Slide 7] What you heard me say in the presence of many others as witnesses i. So generally, we are talking about the apostle Paul's corpus of teaching. ii. However, he puts some caveats on this that we could gloss over, but we shouldn't. iii. What specifically is Paul saying? iv. Not simply what I taught you – but what? v. What you heard me say and what other witnesses can verify. So, is this expressing doubt for Timothy to convey the proper message? Is Paul saying – hey Timothy, don't trust your own recollection of what I said. Pass on what you know I said because many people heard me say it and can confirm it. vi. So the answer to this is both yes and no. 1. I don't think Paul intends any slight to Timothy or lack of confidence that Timothy will deposit the right message. 2. However, I do believe Paul is demonstrating a principle that we learned in I John. A principle that we struggle with as evangelical protestants. What is that principle? No private interpretation of the scripture. But what does that mean and what doesn't that mean? a. It means that no Christian has a right to declare “My creed, my statement of faith, is the bible!” i. Now that sounds good. It sounds like something we might want to affirm. ii. But in reality, what they are actually saying is… “My creed, my statement of faith, is what I have accepted as the right interpretation of the bible!” iii. After all, a simple question following their statement would be, “What does the bible say about the trinity?” Immediately the person is caught in a dilemma. They may believe that God is three persons in one being. But the bible does not use the word trinity. Nor does the bible overtly say God is three persons in one being. It teaches this… but the only way to get there is by interpretation. It is by hermeneutics. b. However, no private interpretation, does not mean that we are to submit to the largest body of interpreters, nor to every widely accepted tradition. i. The Arian heretics once greatly outnumbered those who were orthodox. ii. Elijah and 7000 were by far the minority. iii. In fact, of all those claiming to be of Christ, many are probably not. iv. How can I say that? I didn't. Christ did. “On that day, MANY will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?” Then I will declare to them, “I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!” v. So, to trust the greater swath of Christendom with how we interpret scripture seems… unwise. 3. So what does this mean for Timothy? 4. Deposit the teachings that are verifiable by others. 5. This is a safeguard for Timothy in two ways. a. First, that he not transmit error. i. In this, it echoes back to chapter 1 where Paul exhorted Timothy to hold fast to the standard of sound words that he heard from Paul. ii. It is worthy to note that in chapter 1 Paul said to hold fast with the faith and love that are in Christ. So, although unsaid here, dependance on Christ is still the means to safeguard himself from error. b. The second safeguard for Timothy is that those who doubt what he says will be silenced. Any who would say, “I don't think that is what Paul taught.” Will have to also stand against all those who heard the same message. vii. So, Timothy is to deposit teaching that is able to be verified by reliable witnesses, to whom? f. [Slide 8] To faithful people i. Does this mean those who are trustworthy or those who are full of faith? ii. Because of what we are discussing here, the teachings of the apostle, it seems that both are necessary. General trustworthiness to accomplish the task seems predicated upon their being full of faith – genuine believers. iii. This runs directly counter to our natural inclinations. iv. Who might we want to teach doctrines of our faith to? Certainly, to those who are unbelieving correct? v. No. Paul tells Timothy to focus on those who are faithful. Why? vi. What is Paul asking Timothy to do? We are getting ahead of ourselves a little, and I don't want to spoil anything. But Paul is going to tell Timothy to come to Rome. vii. It seemed that before, Timothy was called to be the pastor here at Ephesus for the foreseeable future, but now Paul wants him to come to Rome. viii. So why should Timothy invest only in faithful people? g. [Slide 9] Who will be competent to teach others as well. i. Paul is telling Timothy to focus on passing his instruction to those who are genuine believers and trustworthy enough to convey those truths to others. ii. And so Paul's instruction is to make disciples. To replicate himself. To go and find for himself a few “sons in the faith” iii. So that they can be the next Timothy there in Ephesus and so Timothy can be the next Paul in Rome. iv. Inherent in the call for Timothy to come to Rome… is what? h. [Slide 10] 3 – Take your share of suffering i. Paul commands Timothy to take his share of suffering. He is calling Timothy to the belly of the beast. ii. This echoes back to chapter 1 where Paul says to take his share of suffering for the gospel in the power of God. iii. So, once again, the means for Timothy to take his share in suffering for the gospel, is the power of God. iv. Or as Paul chooses to put it… i. [Slide 11] As a good soldier of Christ Jesus. i. The means for Timothy to take up this suffering for the gospel is rooted in the command of the Captain of our Salvation – Christ Jesus. ii. Certainly Timothy would suffer in Rome, but as Paul puts it, this is an axiom for all true believers. iii. To be a good soldier in the Lord Jesus' Army, you will suffer. iv. Suffer in God's power, and suffer under the Lord's command. j. [Slide 12] Passage Truth: What Paul teaches by implication in this passage, is that the work of the Lord and His Kingdom is full of struggle. There is so much struggle that Timothy will have to rely on things that are given to him by God to make it. k. Passage Application: And that is the essence of all three of Paul's commands. Timothy must be strong in the grace of Christ, he must teach the message that was given to him, clinging to it in the faith and love of Christ, and he must take up suffering for the gospel as the will of Christ for him. Ultimately this is so Timothy can leave Ephesus in good hands while going to Paul to be re-commissioned. l. [Slide 13] Broader Biblical Truth: If we look no further than the sayings of our Lord Jesus, we find him predict some things. John 15 Jesus says that if the world hates you, keep in mind, it hated me first. John 16 he says I have told you these things so that you may have peace. In this world, you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. But this same Christ who predicts our suffering, struggle, and trouble in this world, also says in John 15 – I am the vine and you are the branches, without me you can do nothing. Meaning that if we are to make it. If we are to endure – it cannot be without Him. m. Broader Biblical Application: So for us at CBC, the commands of Paul are our commands. We also must be strong to face the coming days. We also must pass on the faithful teachings of the apostles to the extent that we raise up future teachers. We also must ready ourselves to suffer for the name of Christ. Whether in persecution, trouble, difficulty or pain. But it is important for us to realize that to do any of these – we cannot rely on ourselves. It is only in the grace, faith, love, and hope of Christ that we can face uncertain days. Are you prepared to lose everything to keep Christ? Are you prepared to cling to the warmth of His promises as you shiver in the cold? The world may take everything from us – but they cannot take away Christ. Killing us only gives Him to us fully. And taking all we have is taking nothing we will keep forever. It pains us to think this way. But my friends, I fear, that if we do not start thinking this way now… by the time we get around to it… We may not be ready. We must practice now. Is Christ enough for you right now? Is He enough? Transition: [Slide 14(blank)] What Paul implies in these first 3 verses in teaching, he will now make plain in the next three illustrations. And although the commands in these first three verses were overt, he will now give 3 more commands by way of implication. II.) The Christian life will be full of struggle and suffering, so we must be focused, endure in obedience, and work diligently for Christ. (4-7) a. [Slide 15] 4 – No one in military service i. Given the daunting task of these three commands, Paul will now riff off of the imagery of a soldier in Christ's army, and introduce three occupational illustrations for Timothy to consider. ii. Paul begins by saying that no one in military service… b. [Slide 16] Gets entangled in matters of everyday life; i. Paul presents a somewhat comical thought as an illustration. ii. Imagine a young soldier on the field of battle. He has been called out to war, but must stop to take a phone call from his wife, asking him what he wants for dinner. iii. Imagine in the midst of battle a soldier calls timeout to log into his bank account and pay his bills. iv. Such silliness is too much. If we saw it in a movie we would have to conclude it to be a comedy and not a documentary. That is why Paul says NO ONE in military service. This would never happen. v. Why? vi. The nature of war is so far removed from every day civilian life that some soldiers return and express genuine frustration with their friends and family over their concern for such trivial matters. Having been used to the battlefield where the stakes are so high, coming home to folding clothes and attending Christmas plays, hardly seems like something worthy of their attention. vii. Such is the juxtaposition Paul throws at Timothy. viii. He is a soldier in the Lord's Army. And he is currently at war. For him to lose focus and worry about the trivial, at such a time as this, cannot be permitted. ix. And Paul not only presents a logical reason for this not to be, but also presents an incentivized reason for this not to be. c. [Slide 17] Otherwise, he will not please the one who recruited him. i. Now we see the word “recruited” and we think of someone as a military recruiter sitting in an office trying to get young men to be all they can be. ii. However, in a 1st Century context, such a position was unnecessary. The pay of the soldier was good, there was glory in being a Roman legionary, and several were forced to serve in the military. iii. Who then is his recruiter? iv. His captain. His general. That is his recruiter. The one who picked him from a pool of soldiers to fight for him. v. Do you think a general would be satisfied with his hand-picked men who have to stopped fighting because they were just “super invested in a football game right now”? vi. So, Christ is not pleased with a soldier of the cross who is consumed or entangled by the world and all its cares. vii. We are in the world. Therefore, these cares are necessary. But we are not of the world. Anything that will burn someday, anything we will not take with us, must be seen already as expendable. viii. Remember – all we need is Christ. Is He enough? d. [Slide 18] 5 – Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, i. The second occupation is that of an athlete. ii. These are the famed Olympic games. Athletes from all over the Roman empire would gather to compete in these displays of strength and dexterity. iii. And Paul says of any athlete… e. [Slide 19] He will not be crowned as the winner i. Athletes compete to win. There is no other reason to compete. ii. Certainly, exercise and fun are great incentives, but winning is the only reason to compete, especially at this level. iii. And what does the winner receive? iv. A crown of leaves. That's all. No money. No paycheck. v. So, what is the athlete truly competing for? vi. Glory. Honor. Respect. vii. And what is the prize for those who finish the race set before us? viii. The Glory of Christ. We inherit with Him, glory. Paul actually brings this up in verse 9. Again, these contexts are so woven together it is sometimes – impossible to untangle them. ix. But how is the athlete to win? f. [Slide 20] Unless he competes according to the rules. i. But here is the comical illustration. ii. Will a baseball pitcher receive glory for throwing great pitches after it is discovered that he uses sticky substances to make the ball do unhittable things? iii. Will a football player receive glory for deflating footballs so he can throw it better? iv. Will there ever be an athlete that receives glory for winning by cheating? v. No! There is no honor in winning, if you must break the rules to do it. It isn't a true victory. And the only real justice for this, is that you are disqualified. vi. What does this mean in Paul's context? It is by the word and will of God alone that all things consist. He has established the rules. vii. If we are to win, so as to gain the prize, we must cast aside every weight that holds us down, and do as the Lord asks us. We must train hard in His will. That is the only way to win. The only way to attain to the glory of Christ is to continue to trust Him and keep His commands. Afterall, it is only the believing ones who will not perish, but have everlasting life. g. [Slide 21] 6- The farmer who works hard i. The final example is that of a farmer. ii. Specifically of a farmer that works hard. iii. What do you call a farmer who doesn't work hard? iv. I don't know – but I know what you don't call him in a few years… you don't call him a farmer. v. Especially in this society. Farmers did not have the large-scale crop yields that we have grown accustomed to in this culture with our technology. vi. A farmer does not plant and work for sales alone – but to feed himself and his family. He needs to have enough to supply his household, his workers, and still some to spare to trade for goods that he cannot make or grow. vii. So, one thing is true, without doubt, of farmers who work hard… h. [Slide 22] Ought to have the first share of the crops. i. It is certainly a natural and logical conclusion, isn't it? ii. The silly picture would be a farmer working hard, sweating and breaking his back to bring in the crops and then starving to death because he took it to market and neglected to feed himself. iii. No! A farmer who works hard will have his belly filled first and his family cared for. Then he will take the grain to market. iv. And so Paul's third illustration points to another truth of the struggle in the Christian life. v. We labor in this calling. We work hard in this work. But we feast on the first fruits. vi. Is this talking about converts, trained disciples, or something else. For me, it makes most sense in the context – given this is a personal plea for Timothy to be strong and endure – that this speaks more toward Timothy's own spiritual person. vii. As much as I tell you that every week I am drug through the word of God and beat up and tattered and broken. Then my job truly gets difficult as I try to condense all I have learned into 45 minutes so you can try… try to absorb it. As much as that is true… viii. I am a fat and full farmer for it! ix. Yes, I am broken and beaten. Yes I am perplexed and puzzled. Yes I am drug along by my ankles sometimes. But I am immeasurably blessed by it! x. I am gorged on the first fruits of my labor. And then I bring the rich bounty I have left on Sunday – so that you may eat and be filled too. Much like the Lepers in the Syrian camp. I cannot feast on this alone. I must bring it to you to eat. xi. My friends, if you obey Paul's command to teach faithful people the words of Christ… you too will experience this. xii. Does not the jug that dispenses the water to several cups, hold all the water at some point? xiii. If you want to be blessed of God, Study the word in order to teach it. It will be a labor. But it will have great reward. xiv. If you do not believe this, just ask the men who filled in for me while I was away. Ask the men who have been leading Foundations since the beginning of the year. See if they have experienced this. i. [Slide 23] 7 – Think about what I am saying i. The meaning of Paul's illustrations seems clear enough. That this life for Christ will be full of difficulty and suffering. We must be focused, we must endure in obedience, and we must be diligent in our work. ii. But Paul does not explain to Timothy what each of these means for him. iii. So he tells Timothy to think about them. iv. In fact, this is another imperative for Timothy. v. Yes, be strong in Christ. Yes, entrust sound teaching to faithful people. Yes, Take your share of suffering. But also, think on these things. vi. What does it mean to be focused to please Christ our Captain? vii. What does it mean to endure in obedience for Christ our glory? viii. What does it mean to be diligent in our work for Christ's our true Word? ix. This is what Paul tells Timothy to think about – but once again… a familiar thread comes through. j. [Slide 24] And the Lord will give you understanding of all this. i. From where can Timothy expect all this understanding to come? ii. From who else? iii. None other than the giver of every perfect gift, the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variation. iv. Our Lord and our God. k. [Slide 25] Passage Truth: Now more clearly Paul teaches through illustrations that the Christian life is a life full of struggle and suffering. That if Timothy wants to please his Captain, win Christ's Glory, and see abundant fruit, he will need to be prepared to struggle and suffer. l. Passage Application: So for Timothy this means he must be focused on the call, he must endure in obedience, and he must be diligent in the work that is laid before him. m. [Slide 26] Broader Biblical Truth: Zooming out to all of scripture and even beyond to church history – we know that generally speaking, a life lived for Christ is a life destined for pain. It is difficult for us to come to that conclusion given our historical context. But a look into the old and new testaments confirms this to be true. So how can we prepare for such difficulty? n. Broader Biblical Application: Well, church, we must be single-focused. We may see to the affairs of this world, but we must not be entangled by them. We must strive to win the prize, but we can only reach the glory of Christ if we walk in His ways. And we must work diligently if we desire an abundant crop. In short – there is no way but forward. The path ahead is difficult, but didn't we count the cost? Didn't we spy this treacherous path through the narrow gate? Didn't we see that before entering in? Didn't we know that our life would be full of self-denial and submission? But once again our hearts and heads are turned to see Christ at the center of all this. Indeed, it is His pleasure we seek, He is the prize we run for, and His abundant gifts are our sustenance. Conclusion: [Slide 27(blank) How do we apply this text to us CBC? Well, there are 7 commands in this text. 4 that are overtly commands and 3 that are implied from illustrations. Be strong in the grace of Christ. Entrust sound teaching to faithful people who will do the same. Take up Suffering for Christ. Be focused on the mission. Endure in obedience. Work diligently for abundant fruit. Think about these things. I believe the last command is somewhat separated from the rest. It is a command for us to apply the text to our hearts. It doesn't become the text, it is a command to obey the text really. So, that gets us down to 6 commands. That is still a lot. I believe we can further group these commands into two categories. Furthermore, it seems like verses 1-2 set these up for us. 1.) To be strong in the grace of Christ is to take up suffering, remain focused on the mission and to endure in obedience. 2.) To entrust sound teaching to faithful people who will do the same is to work diligently striving for abundant fruit. And I believe we can boil this down even further. What is Paul's 1 command? Discipleship. Make Disciples. Personal and Communal. Timothy must be personally strong in Christ. He must endure, he must be focused, He must be filled with grace. His path to that is through diligence to which He will feast on the first fruit of the increase. But if the church is to continue on mission and obeying the rules, the doctrines and teachings of the gospel of Christ must be passed on by faithful people to faithful people. There must be a communal commitment to diligent work so that we will not only be supplied personally, but communally as well. Some commentators, particularly of a Pentecostal background, see Paul handing down a succession of the apostolic role here. That Timothy is taking the title of apostle. [Slide 28] That is not at all what Paul is teaching. This is none other than the intended role of Christ's Church. Paul spoke of this in Ephesians 4 4:11 It was he (Jesus) who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 4:12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry (what is the work of the ministry?) that is, to build up the body of Christ, (when will that be completed?) 4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God – a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ's full stature. (So, until we are all like Christ. Cool. So, how do we get there?) 4:14 So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes. (ok so stop being duped by false teaching. Then what?) 4:15 But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head. (So the only way to attain the measure of Christ's full stature is to live out what we believe with a motive of love and by this we will grow into it… that makes sense. But who will help me do this?) 4:16 From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body grows in love. (Christ and other Christians. Wow. That is the church!) Do you see that what Paul calls Timothy and those who will continue what he taught to do in this passage, is to be the church Christ designed? To personally and communally grow to the full stature of Christ. And Paul wrote this to the Ephesian church about 6 or 7 years before he writes this to Timothy who is now there in Ephesus trying to do the exact same thing. You'll have to excuse a preacher if he repeats himself my friends. [Slide 29 (end)] This is the essence of the church. We are the body of Christ, working in Christ, to grow together in Christ, into the full stature of Christ. The Christian life is hard. It is a struggle. We need the grace, faith, and love of Christ in us and from us to all His people. This is the way we will finish our race. This is the way we will fight the good fight. For those of you sitting at home watching. Not because you are ill, or shut in, or caring for those who are ill or shut in, or because you simply could not make it today. But you are sitting at home because you have thought that you can get your “church” in by watching online… Listen to me… You won't make it when the suffering comes my friends. You need this. Get off your couch and submit yourself to a local body… SOMEWHERE! And for those sitting here in the pews. You need this too! If you aren't a member yet… you need to be! Membership is submission to one another. Submission to minister and care for each other. Make it a priority! The body is joined together and grown by Christ, toward Christ. We are sustained by Christ. A fitting message for the Supper we will partake in next week. Christ sustains us… He is the only way we will endure the coming storm. Is Christ and His church enough for you?

It's an instant-classic episode of the Dave Hill Goodtime Hour as comedian and author Tom Scharpling stops by to discuss his new book It Never Ends, which you should order immediately or Dave will stab you. To close out the show, a heavily-bearded Nick Miller joins the gang with some face-melting numbers. Recorded live June 28, 2021.Tom Scharpling's It Never Ends is out July 6! Pre-order your copy here.Listen to The Best Show with Tom Scharpling every Tuesday at 9pm ET here.Buy Nick Miller's music on Bandcamp.Watch The Dave Hill Goodtime Hour  every Monday at 8pm EST, now exclusively on YouTube!Support this show by becoming a Maximum Fun member!Buy Painted Doll's new record How To Draw Fire from Tee Pee Records today!Purchase Witch Taint's new album Sons of Midwestern Darkness  immediately.Dave's new stand up album The Pride of Cleveland  is out now on 800 Pound Gorilla Records! Buy it or Dave will stab you.Watch the music video for “Death To Death Metal” on YouTube or Dave's feelings will be hurt.Follow Dave on Instagram (@mrdavehill), Dez on Twitter (@shouthouseradio) and Chris on Twitter (@csgersbeck). Dave is banned from Twitter.Buy Dave's incredible new book Parking The MooseJoin our incredible weekly newsletter. This is basically the greatest newsletter you'll ever sign up for.Chat with listeners at Dave Hill's Facebooking Incident. Everyone is making out here and stuff. It rules.Please listen to our other podcast Dave Hill: History Fluffer. It's totally different from this one and it smells great.Also please listen to our other other podcast So… You're Canadian with Dave Hill on the Maximum Fun Network.

Matt Chia and Ali Irshad sit down with Drs. Meryl Simon Logan and Sree Kanna in part 2 of our series for newly-matched vascular residents embarking on their next stage of training. Show Guests: Dr. Meryl Simon Logan (@ProleneQueen) is a staff vascular surgeon at the Olin E. Teague Central Texas Veteran's Health Care System in Temple, Texas, as well as holding an adjunct assistant professorship at Texas A&M.  She currently holds the rank of Major in the U.S. Air Force, as well as chairs the SVS Social Media Committee.  She completed an integrated residency in vascular surgery at the University of California in Davis and received her medical degree from the Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia.   Dr. Sree Kanna (@VulnerableAorta) is finishing his intern year in vascular surgery at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Originally from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, he completed his medical training at the Dalhousie Medical School in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  He has an interest in aortic surgery and surgical outcomes in indigenous populations, and on his days off describes himself as an experimental cook and a horror movie addict. Relevant Links: VSITE Information: https://www.absurgery.org/default.jsp?certvsite SVS VESAP 5: https://vascular.org/career-tools-training/vesap5 Vascular SCORE Curriculum: https://www.surgicalcore.org/public/curriculum#vascsurg SVS Research Opportunities in Vascular Surgery: https://vascular.org/research-quality/research-opportunities If you missed it, check out "So You've Matched into Vascular...Now What? (Part 1). Host Introductions: Dr. Irshad (@AIrshad_MD) is an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut in Hartford. He completed his integrated vascular surgery residency at the Houston Methodist Hospital, earned his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts in Worcester.  He has special interests in medical innovation, novel devices, complex aortic disease, and diagnostic imaging. Dr. Chia (@chia_md) is in his 5th of 7 years in the integrated vascular surgery program at Northwestern University.  He obtained his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and is obtaining a Master's in Health Services and Outcomes Research at Northwestern.  He is part of the Vascular SECOND trial team at the Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center and is an avid podcast fan. Follow us @audiblebleeding Learn more about us at https://www.audiblebleeding.com/about-1/ and #jointheconversation.

Over the last couple of weeks we've taken on some of the battles in the ongoing culture war. The granddaddy of them all is cancel culture. Michael Hobbes, co-host of the podcast You're Wrong About, told us that there isn't a situation that has been labeled a cancellation that couldn't benefit from a more accurate word to describe what had happened. So and so was fired...such and such was met with disagreement on twitter. Cancel need not apply. He also explained on his own podcast with Sarah Marshall that there were a few pivotal events along the way that led to the term cancel culture becoming the moral panic that it is today. One of them was the 2015 release of Jon Ronson's book “So You've Been Publicly Shamed.” A series of case studies of people who were canceled before we started using that word.   

So much fun during this one, be sure to connect with David over at https://www.davidsandercott.com/ Insta: david_sandercott Brandon Handley 0:00 4321 Hey there spiritual dope I'm on today with David Sandercott a big thanks goes out they were just talking he, he and I were on together probably was about a month ago David and something in the ether chewed up. It's like, you know my dog ate my homework type of thing happened. And so Dave is back here again for a second round. I really appreciate coming back. So Dave is the author of 21 day meditation journey connect with spirit every day in a new way, a life and business coach and speaker, David is also excited to announce it he is now working with small businesses and large corporations. In 1998, David decided to be the shortest high fashion model ever. He also decided that he was going to meditate himself there. In 2001. David was the shortest male model ever to appear in Vogue magazine and the six page spread shot by Helmut Newton alongside supermodel Kate Dillon. Ever since David has been inspired to help others to achieve their dreams, David, thanks for being on today. How are you? Hey, thanks. David Sandercott 1:04 Happy to be your brand. You got the longer older bio there from the website? Is that right? Yeah, Brandon Handley 1:11 I did. I mean, I thought that was actually pretty short one I was I was happy. I was like, wow, you know, you don't have your whole life story there. Thank you. David Sandercott 1:17 Hey, good. I like I like short BIOS, Brandon Handley 1:20 is a good one. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. So well, you know, we start us off with the idea. Let's see if you remember everything that we did last time because it was perfect. The we start us off with the whole idea that source speaks through us for like just kind of this moment and purpose. And right now, you know, sources speaking through you to an audience member, and only the way that it can through you What does that message to that audience member today? David Sandercott 1:50 Wow, that's a great question. Brandon was gonna close my eyes and connect a little bit just to make sure I get it right. You know, I think that message is, you know, above anything is to believe in yourself, to love yourself. And to know that if you have the inspiration in your heart, if you have that reoccurring thought of this thing that you want to do, or that pool to do something, that you have everything you need within you to do that thing. And if you're using the excuse of I don't have the money, I promise you that's not what's stopping you from doing it. You know, you're most people think of capital is money. You know, Facebook, Steve Jobs, apple, they didn't have millions and millions of dollars to start, they started with the capital in their mind, which was an idea. And it's just like, just like them your idea is your true capital. Does that make sense? Does that sound like something they want to hear? I Brandon Handley 2:52 love I love it, man. Absolutely, absolutely. I think I think you know, you're being pulled to do it. And I think that that's something How can somebody recognize that they're being pulled to do it? And it's not just ego telling them that that's the thing? David Sandercott 3:04 Yeah, that's a great question. You know, that's part of the art of life of you know, how to be human is learning how to be a happy human is learning to decipher between that voice that speaks to you that, you know, let's say Bugs Bunny, right, Bugs Bunny used to have the angel pop up and like the devil on one side. And so you have to learn to differentiate between those. And what I can most to tell you is that fear is the is the devil. And, and when it feels good, and your heart opens, you know that that's God, that's the angel. You know, I don't think I can give you some sort of linear way to tell you how to decipher those voices. You have to do it through practice, through learning to love yourself and trust yourself and through meditation and contemplation. But usually it feels good and doesn't involve fear. And then what was the second part of the question? I don't remember I was so that's alright. It was a great question. But how do you decipher? And then the one thing you said that you're being led, you know, how do you know that you're being led? And it's, it's simple. So two things, like one exercise I did is I wrote down 10 goals every day for a year. And it was like, what those what goals of those were left at the end of the year. Those were the ones that were really important. They kept the ones that kept coming up over and over and over again. And again, it's like that in your heart and in your mind, what keeps coming up. What do you keep thinking about wanting to do what inspires you when you think about doing it? And that's, that's the poll that I'm speaking of, and, and to some degree, it's also easy it because it's not that there's not challenges or obstacles, but it's some it's easy, it's easy when it's right. It's easy. Brandon Handley 4:51 So being invoke was right and easy for you. Let's talk about that. David Sandercott 4:57 Yeah, you know, someone interviewed me for that reason. Recently are, you know, we're talking about manifestation, the art of manifestation. She's like, and I bet you that you had some some struggles or some challenges, you know, leading up to getting in vogue. I was like, No, it was so easy and effortless, you know, it was part of it. I think that I was I was so young, that I hadn't had much, you know, adversity in my life maybe. And I just decided to do something. And I decided to meditate. And I decided to visualize, I decided to read affirmations and I decided I was gonna do this thing. And it Honest to God was the most easy and effortless thing I've ever done in my life, I think because it was right, it was divine, it was it was to show me that you really can do anything you put your mind to, if you believe in yourself, and stick with it. Brandon Handley 5:50 You've got a lot of, you know, a lot of good stuff in there, right? I think that everybody feels like it's supposed to be a challenge, right? If it's worth it, it's gonna take work. If it's worth it, you're gonna have to put in the work and it's gonna be hard. And you know, you got to put in, like, you got to grind it out, and this other stuff. But when you do it in that manner, then you know, it's kind of like what you put out, there's what you get back. That's exactly what it's going to take, it's gonna take a grind, and it's gonna be hard and all this other stuff. But it sounds to me like what you did was you said, but here, here's another piece of this, too, that that I think we don't hear a bunch of and like the law of attraction world. If you don't know how to do it, and you just start doing it, then it the patches kind of opens up for you. Is that kind of how it went for you? David Sandercott 6:40 Absolutely. Because that's where I want to say action is the key to success. Now, there's all kinds of action involved, right? There is there absolutely was and yes, that is how it started. All I knew I needed to have pretty pictures of myself. You know, I knew I needed that. So that was that was the first step. I knew I needed to be in great shape. But that's what I loved doing anyway. So there was a lot of work in the gym. But you know what, I? There's nothing I would rather do in my life than that. And then yeah, there was x and you just had to talk to agents. You know, I mentioned I went to New York, and this guy is just Oh, looking. Cute. Haha, you want a bottle? And you that didn't faze me. I was just like, you know, oh, yeah, I'm gonna be a model. Brandon Handley 7:34 So when you're saying that to it when you said action, right, and I forget what I was watching. I was like another, you know, law of attraction, spin off, or the secret spin off for a bunch of people that were in there. And one guy's like, by the way, the word action is at the end of attraction, right? is in attraction. And I thought that that was pretty cool. But what you're also talking about too, and I'm hearing you say is like, you kind of had clarity and purpose and an intention. And you got behind it, you believed in yourself and you just aligned to it. Right? You did. And thank you for the recommendation, right? The dorthea brand, you know, um, you know, acted as if it actually as if it was impossible to fail. David Sandercott 8:21 That's right. That's right. It was it was Yeah, it's such a great book. And so anyways, I mentioned thinking Grow Rich before I read the book thinking grow rich. It told me I could do anything I wanted to do if I believed in myself made a decision to do it and I meditated. So those were the three things I did exactly what you said I made a decision and I think that is where so many people falter that's where so many people that the decision they make is not to make a decision or decision they make is to make an excuse on why they can't make the decision when it was I made a clear cut decision that was gonna be the world's shortest high fashion model. And now I Honest to God could probably get into the Guinness Book of World Records with with everything that I had for doing that you know, that didn't necessarily mean to me though get in the world Guinness Book of World Records You know, that's not it was just get something that only a six foot two you know, Blue Steel type model could do you know, and and that was it that's filled it but I made the decision to do it. So I had to succeed. And then I believed in myself and I followed up with action. So there's the non action action of the daily meditation and the daily visualization was was equally and probably more important than the other daily actions of going to castings meeting people, you know, always be doing something right. And not doing something for the sake of doing something like modeling jobs, photo shoots, you know, etc, etc. Brandon Handley 10:00 Sure, I think there's a lot of sounds to me what you're talking about is there's a lot of people that do these actions from this busy stuff. But there's no there's nothing behind it, right? There's no there's no intent, there's no alignment. There's like, Alright, well, I'm supposed to do these things, this thing, this thing, this thing and this thing. But if it's not aligned to an intention, or purpose or direction, or like this grand vision, I mean, we can call, we call what you had a vision of what you thought was possible for yourself. Right? Like, yeah, I think that I think another thing too, is that people are afraid to have a vision people are afraid to be visionary, because they think it needs to be something greater than it is right? You can, you can have many visions you can write, you can have these visions that these practice visions, we'll call them. Right. But you know, I think what you're talking about, too, is the idea of making a decision. Did you pull that out of thinking grow rich? And sub question, Are you a Bob Proctor fan? David Sandercott 10:59 I did pull it out of thinking Grow Rich, those were the three biggest takeaways make a decision, believe in yourself and meditate that that was the key in all my life that decision making has been key was a huge like Bob. Proctor was really inspiring to me like 15 years ago, I don't really I mean, walked around thinking Grow Rich, and you know, so he, I haven't really been cued into them for a long time. Brandon Handley 11:26 Now, fair enough. And the reason I bring that up, because he brings up the word decision, and the root of the word is like this David Sandercott 11:32 huge array cut off from thinking grow rich. So once I make the decision, there's no other option, you know, you have to pick yourself off from all other options. Brandon Handley 11:46 Well, look, I'm super impressed that you got that out of thinking Grow Rich, like even immediately, because it's a tough read. And if you're trying to read that on your own, without some kind of, I don't know, I want to say guidance, because it's a tough one to read. Like I certainly. And for me, I never I never pulled meditate out of there. Where did you pull that out? I'm like, I'm like, where'd you pull the rabbit out of the hat, bro. David Sandercott 12:08 You know, it's I read it sometimes. And I'm like, and it is in there. And I am convinced that the older of the edition of the book you can get, the better they've taken stuff out over the years. There's this beautiful poem in there. That's not in the original unabridged version anymore. I don't know why. And maybe I'm making it up. But it was just as loud and clear to me in that book was you've got to meditate if you want to be successful. That's just what I saw. And I remember asking Mr. Van Asch, who was sort of like a mentor of mine, and I said, Do you meditate? And he's like, Well, no, but I drive home silently. for like an hour, I do this drive. And that's sort of like my meditate. So he knew what I was talking about, when we're talking about the book, you know? And so I don't know, but I got it out of there. And it is in there. He does say the word meditate, you know, Brandon Handley 13:01 no doubt, I believe you, man, I believe you. 100%. And then you threw out a couple of words earlier there when we're talking about easy and effortless, right? The the idea of more meditation, but you talked about like, you know, kind of divine intervention, right? Like, when do you feel like you really flipped the spirituality switch for yourself? David Sandercott 13:26 Yeah, that's a great question. So I've honestly the effortless way. I said, I'm teaching June 19 is the effortless way. June 19. I'm having a prosper event. But anyways, so again, I the spiritual switch turned on for me. And when I was, Well, honestly, when I was in my teenage, or even preteen years, I remember thinking about wanting to find my higher self like that being my driving force I really wanted, I knew there was something more. And then when I read Think and Grow Rich at that time, that was it, man. I was, I mean, less than a year late after that, I moved to LA. I was meditating an hour a day I was visualizing, but it's, I mean, it was just as soon as I got sober from like, a four year you know, run of being drunk. 22 I just, I was immediately called the Spirit. And that doesn't mean I didn't like break up with it during certain times, or like, neglect it and forget about it. And to some degree, it's if I had a regret that would be there, Brett I had in my life. When my all of my good friends started moving out to LA, I sort of shifted back kind of into the role that I played more with them instead of just sticking to the celibate, spiritual, and just I was a machine I mean, I was I. Yeah, it happened very early on, and then again, in 2011 Brandon Handley 15:00 So I think that I think that it's interesting that you kind of found it you recalled toward such a young agent, I don't I don't think that I think that somewhere around 20 we get called to that, right? It's and it's kind of like, you know, a window of an opportunity, right? And we either heat it then where we don't, right? For those of us that don't, myself included, you kind of go about life in this default mode, right? And you just, you're like, Alright, well, let me go do all these other things everybody else is doing because that's what looks like I should be doing. And then to me again, and just just based off of personal experience, but the other window of opportunity kind of opens up round, you know, when you get close to 40. Right? There's like it still here. Still here, if you want to hang out, bro. Right? Like, I mean, and, and, and spiritualities like that. It's like I listen, I'm hope you had a good time. It's time to get serious again, right? Remember me like? word Have you been man? It's been crazy. So I think it's really cool that you know, you kind of took hold of it. And you talked about the breakups. And the other piece that you're talking about is when your friends show up. It's interesting, right? When you go home, you're like, well, this is who I was when I left. And so people are still expecting me to be that way. And that's probably what it was when your friends come out to visit you like, you're like, Oh, this is the Dave they know. Right. Let me like, let me remind you revert back to something that's acceptable for the people that you know that that kind of what happened? David Sandercott 16:25 Yeah, I just say it was unconscious, you know, to a to a large degree. But looking back now, yeah, I would say what I really want to express is the way not to fall in that trap is to really have a great deal of love and respect for yourself and recognize how what you're doing is working. Now, it was a lot of fun to fall back into that role, because my friends were all kind of like rich or had more money than me and at a beach house and hermoza. And I've seen we had I still I never drink or you know, but I still have a lot of fun with them. But they were all getting master's degrees and establishing careers. And I fell back into the guy who was just along for the ride, you know, not realizing that they're eventually going to get kids and not be able to take care of me get married have kids Unknown Speaker 17:19 out? Yeah, Brandon Handley 17:22 I get it, I get it. But what's interesting, though, too, is that it doesn't sound like you succumb to their way of living though either by feeling like it. Maybe you did. And like David Sandercott 17:35 No, I didn't. I mean, I gave him stuff for Well, a lot of a lot. Not really. But I mean, I'm definitely the guy that people talk to you they don't want to drink so much. Brandon Handley 17:45 I mean, not even just the drinking but like the the you know, the workforce, right, going back into the workforce, getting the education and doing you know, kind of doing that what's the social socially expected norm? Yeah, that's what your friend said, right? They finished school, got degrees, got married, have kids and fell into fell in line. David Sandercott 18:06 They absolutely did it. And it worked for them to the degree they're happy. I'll say this this is coming up for me is like sometimes I give teachers or education a bad rap. But I had a fifth grade teacher named miss a miss Afro carrion, she was, she was great. The rumor was that during lunch, she smelled doobies in her like 1970s docks, and in the in the dots in the corner of the parking lot. But anyways, at the beginning of class, every single day, we recited the road less traveled by Robert Frost. And I have no doubt that that completely impacted me in such a profound way. Because everything I've ever done in my life, was the road less traveled was taken the road less traveled. Brandon Handley 18:49 That's awesome. You know, I'm in agreement with you there, right, like, definitely, probably not as kind as I could be to the education system, but they're certainly the teachers that had a profound impact are the ones that you remember David Sandercott 19:04 that as MIT right, Mr. Ben, he just retired and I made him a video, you know, someone in and I just let him know that you inspired me to start reading angry reading changed my life, you know, I'm not the stuff they gave you in school. Brandon Handley 19:23 What do you what do you think the impact of doing something like that is reaching out to a past teacher? Did he reply to you? What, what are your thoughts there? David Sandercott 19:30 Well, it was sent in like a group thing, like someone put it together. And I don't know, but I know he saw it. And so I had a rubber band ball that was like this big and he took it away from me. And I had went back like five or six years later, and he still had it. And then I asked someone to ask so at his retirement, he still had the rubber band ball that I gave him. So I know he remembered me. And so I'm sure that he was grateful for that message, you know, is great. You know, I was happy to do it because teachers get, you know, they get pooped on a lot to Brandon Handley 20:04 it. And it's the same, um, you know, somewhere, and but, you know, to the idea that some of their for a job and some of their really impact lives and it sounds like you had a few that were there to really impact your life. Yeah, that's right. And, and I think, you know, I'm gonna segue that into kind of what you're doing right? You know, you're you're right now you're teaching some of these practices and principles that you've been able to find success with in your life. One of those is, I think that you initially kind of did a lot of work in the space by helping others to get their first You know, one grand five grand, and now you're working to help them get their first 10 grand, and in their, in their own respective faces. Let's talk a bit about that. What's your, what's your about in that space? David Sandercott 20:49 Yeah. So after I read, Think and Grow Rich for that first time, it was like, I knew that this is what I wanted to do, I didn't know there was a thing called a coach back then, you know, but I knew that that's what I want to do, and mentor people and, and I did it as a wrestling coach. And I had, I had athletes come back to me a decade later, say, you know, that thing that you said, or, or, you know, I read thinking Grow Rich, and it really made a big difference in my life, you know, so I got to start doing it back then. And then I was a fitness trainer, because really, that's something that I was really passionate about sharing. And, and then around mid 2000s 2007 2008, I got into direct sales, which was like building a sales team. And then, you know, network marketing, like you buy something, essentially, and then you teach other people, then you get someone else to buy it and teach them to sell it is essentially how that goes. And that was really where coaching started. And two big things happen there, I helped several people are in their first $1,000 as an entrepreneur, which was extremely rewarding, and maybe even more impactful. It was, I went to New Zealand, essentially, for a long weekend to bungee jump, because it was on my list of things to do, and to see a speaker. And you know, I was gone for five or six days, I came back with $5,000 more in my bank account than when I left, because the sale went through because you know, there was leverage in this business and the system I was in. And so it was like I was on vacation, and I made $5,000. And it was like, That's it, I'm hooked for the rest of my life. No matter what I have to work, it's just something they pay the bills until I figure this all out. You know, I was an entrepreneur for life after that. And so that's where I started. And then again, it took that that business eventually one of the partners joined Scientology, and unfortunately, that whole business went away. And I found myself depressed. I broke my foot in five places I gained 40 pounds. I didn't I didn't have the business identity. I didn't have the bodybuilder identity. I was lost. I literally just wanted to end my life fetal position for weeks. Brandon Handley 22:56 Yeah, let's pause on that for a second. Let's pause on the idea that getting caught up in our identity being what it is that we do. David Sandercott 23:06 Yeah. Well, that's a big mistake. I encourage nobody, I always say at the beginning of my medication classes, you are not your job, you are not your socio economic standings. You are not what you do for a living. Brandon Handley 23:18 So I mean, I guess you're sitting on the couch or in a fetal position, and you've lost your kind of sense of identity is what it sounds like. How did you how did you recover from that? David Sandercott 23:27 Yeah. Well, so I did two things. You know, I got on my knees I surrendered my life to God, I asked for guidance. And I listened and and that was my all means the number one thing and that's that that's what guided me, right. That's what pulled me. The second thing is equal importance that I stopped being a victim, I stopped blaming the outside world, you know, that was part about it is that I had so many opportunities in my life to be in such a better position than I was. And instead of taking responsibility for it, I was blaming it blaming society and blaming other people. I was like, if you notice, one of the biggest trophies in the world right now is who's the biggest victim? I assure you that that is not the game you want to play for happiness and success. You know, it was it was taking responsibility for my all of my, you know, mess ups and life situation current circumstances. Brandon Handley 24:25 Yeah, I mean, that's huge, right? When you can kind of recognize and I'm just kind of taking a leap here. But you can kind of recognize that all of your success or failure is coming from within, and it has nothing to do with what's outside of you. And when you do that, there's so much ownership, right? There's so much empowerment that comes from that because now you can be like, Oh, yeah, that was me. It wasn't me over here too. And, you know, these failures were me. But some of these successes, right? So you know, everything you know, is both both sides of the coin. Um, that's that's fantastic. So You know, we don't have a whole lot of time here, unfortunately but what you know you've got a course coming up right? What is the course called? What are you going to be teaching? What's it called? David Sandercott 25:10 Yet would you 19th is its prosper but prosper prosper virtual event I'll be teaching prosperity consciousness, helping spiritual entrepreneurs, coaches healer to create the mindset, the prosperity consciousness to have their first $10,000 month the first 10k month. Brandon Handley 25:28 Nice. Nice. And we'll share the link to that but the link is what again? David Sandercott 25:38 Ah. I actually bought a URL just for it. But it's like David Sandler comm forward slash brought I Brandon Handley 25:45 think, yeah, well, yeah, David Sandercott 25:47 that's right. You can if you go to david Sandler, God calm That's right. It's right there. Brandon Handley 25:51 Yeah, Paul's Frodo calm? I'll be sure to share that out. Right. And then, you know, this I told you before, this is kinda like a spiritual speed dating court like, right? And and the deal is, is like, there's 30 minutes, right? That's all we've got this, you know, somebody's gonna come on, and they're gonna decide whether or not they spiritual want to date David J. Sandra. So it's not a lot of time. And so one of the questions I'll ask is, is this one of our speed dating questions be? What does? What does it mean to live in the present moment? bachelor number one? Yeah. What David Sandercott 26:24 does it mean to live in the present moment? Well, it means that if you're living in the present moment, you're going to be happy, fulfilled, and at peace, you're going to be okay, with the way everything is, no matter what you're going to be living your life consciously. And that's what we're here to do is to evolve our consciousness and the best way to evolve your consciousness is to be more conscious. And if you're living in the moment, you're being conscious, Brandon Handley 26:53 elaborate on what you mean by conscious. David Sandercott 26:56 Well, being conscious of your consciousness, there's, there's that which can observe yourself think. And there's the brain that can think there's a subject and an object. So keep your attention on that part of yourself that can observe yourself thinking, and really go one step more and observe the observer observing. It's all a play of consciousness, we is all a field of consciousness and and we are that consciousness. So it's, it's coming to know yourself. It's being conscious of the consciousness, and of as yourself as the consciousness. Brandon Handley 27:35 Dave took us on a level guys like this to another level. there's a there's a great feeling when you become the observer to absolutely yeah, David Sandercott 27:45 I always go like this. You say, I want to go like, this is where you want to live life from like three feet three feet back, you know, above yourself. Brandon Handley 27:52 Yeah. Yeah. Well, dude, thank you so much. Again, David, for popping on, always enjoyed the conversation, you both of them. And we'll be sure to share this out. Is there anything that maybe we didn't touch on that you want to share out with the audience today? David Sandercott 28:07 One quick thing, the last question you asked me, I remember the first time we did got me a little bit and it was like, What do you wish for the world? And it was like, you know, Unknown Speaker 28:15 I didn't like my answer. I David Sandercott 28:16 thought about it a little bit and what I would world is the exact same thing that I wished for me, you know, happiness, peace, prosperity and abundance in all areas of your life. Brandon Handley 28:27 Yeah, yeah. No, that's, that's, that's great. That's funny. You remember the question? And I think that this is the part where some people get a little confused in the love thy neighbor as thyself kind of thing. Right? This has gotten me I look at it in the very same way, you know, so what you wish upon your neighbor is really what you're wishing upon yourself. And just in the same token, you just said, hey, what I wish on the world, what I wish upon myself, and when you do that, we look at the universe is kind of this force multiplier. What we put out comes back to us, I mean, right, so yeah, great answer. Thanks. Thanks for thanks for thanks for sharing that. And I definitely appreciate you being on. Yeah, I David Sandercott 29:09 love it. Thanks for having me, Brandon. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

Eerlijkheid duurt het langst, zo blijkt maar weer uit deze aflevering. Teneinde de mediastorm rondom Sywert te eindigen zodat hij de negen miljoen aan een maatschappelijk doel kan geven, winnen we advies in bij spindoctor Julia Wouters. Zij zegt dat Sywert meteen alle kaarten op tafel had moeten leggen. Wie dat wél doet is Ginny Ramkisoen. Zij vertelt een rauw en eerlijk verhaal over de chaos van haar schrijfproces. Ernst-Jan is inmiddels geobsedeerd geraakt door gedecentraliseerd uitgeven en hoopt hiermee op de troepen vooruit te lopen.

Today I talk about player/victim mindsets, what they are, how to stop them, and how they can affect veterinary professionals. Your mindset can have a huge impact on how you manage setbacks in practice and develop as a professional. Oftentimes, vets can inadvertently fall into a 'victim' mindset, stunting their professional growth. This episode can be segmented into several parts: 1- Intro (00:00-00:34) 2- Do you have a 'victim' or a 'player' mindset? (00:34-05:27) 3- How can you change your mindset? (05:27-12:52) 4- Conclusion (12:52-13:58) If you would like your question answered by Dr. Dave then post it to eu.jotform.com/VetXInt/video-submit-form Everyone who has their question answered will win a signed copy of Dr. Dave’s latest book, So You’re A Vet…Now What! Be safe. Be well. Be happy.

Today on So You’re Having a Baby, we sit down and chat with one of our favorites, Debra Fileta. Debra is a licensed professional counselor, bestselling author, speaker, and host of the Love + Relationships podcast––a hotline-style show where people call in to get their relationship questions answered.   We absolutely loved having her on last year, and are so excited she’s back with us today to discuss her latest book, “Are you really ok?,” the importance of getting real about who you are, how you’re doing and why it matters. Thanks for listening!!   To get your copy of Are you really ok?, visit https://areyoureallyok.com/   To find Craig and Rachel’s Parent’s Guide to a New Baby workbook, click here:  https://www.christianparenting.org/articles/books/a-parents-guide-to-a-new-baby/   Follow along on social media: https://www.facebook.com/christianparenting.org https://www.instagram.com/christianparenting_org/   To contact Craig and Rachel, email: craigandrachel@christianparenting.org

Episode Summary Kim Criswell, Broadway and West End star tells us about some of her early auditions to get her equity card, as well as what it was like auditioning for Andrew Lloyd Webber to land the role of Grizabella in Cats. My "Thank You 5” segment is about how memorizing a deck of cards can help you in your acting career. In “Professor’s Corner” this week, three-time Olivier Award winner and Tony nominated choreographer for Mary Poppins, Stephen Mear, gives his advice not only for auditions but for the rehearsal process as well.   Intro to this Episode In this episode of “In The Holding Room” we are thrilled to be joined by the amazing Kim Criswell.  Kim’s Broadway credits include starring as Lucy, opposite Sting, in The Threepenny Opera directed by John Dexter, and appearing in the original Broadway cast of the 1982 Best Musical Tony winner Nine, first as Francesca, then taking over the leading role of Claudia. Other Broadway original cast credits include The First, Baby and Stardust. On the West Coast, she was the original Grizabella in Cats, singing “Memory” at the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles, and also appeared as Lalume in Kismet for Opera Pacific.  She starred in the original West End productions of Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens and The Slow Drag, as well as  the revival of Dames At Sea, and as the Mother Abbess in the acclaimed production of The Sound of Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Critically acclaimed for playing Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre, for which she earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, and for her role as The Old Lady in Robert Carsen’s productions of Candide at La Scala and the Théâtre du Châtelet, she has also won a Helen Hayes Award for her work in Side by Side by Sondheim. She was most recently seen in the US starring as Sally Adams in Call Me Madam at the Goodspeed Opera House, singing the role of The Old Lady in Candide at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, and co-starring with Joseph Fiennes and Charles Edwards in Happy Days in the Art World at NYU’s Skirball Center in New York. Recently, she played the Italian opera singer Mrs. Castellari in the feature film Hysteria (2013) opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, and Jonathan Pryce. In “Thank you 5” this week, I talk about a silly game you can play to improve your ability as a performer. This one game will sharpen your mind and help you with imagination, association, and memorization. 
Stephen Mear C.B.E. is joining us in “Professor’s Corner” this week to offer his advice not only on auditioning, but for the rehearsals process as well.  Honorary Doctor of Arts and three-time Olivier Award Winner, Tony Nominated Stephen Mear has been described by the Daily Telegraph as “The old-style master of the modern chorus line.” Stephen’s prolific career has taken him in all directions from musical theater on Broadway and the West End to opera at the ENO, Paris and the Met in New York. His varied and sought-after talent extends to well know TV programs as well, such as So You think You Can Dance, and The Tracy Ullman Show.   Resources: For all your audition needs including sheet music, tracks, monologues, advice and so much more visit: https://performerstuff.com/ Engage with the show: Facebook: Facebook/IntheHoldingRoom Instagram: In_the_holding_room Website: https://intheholdingroom.com/ Kim Criswell: kimcriswell.net Stephen Mear: https://www.stephenmear.com/

Episode Summary Kim Criswell, Broadway and West End star tells us about some of her early auditions to get her equity card, as well as what it was like auditioning for Andrew Lloyd Webber to land the role of Grizabella in Cats. My "Thank You 5” segment is about how memorizing a deck of cards can help you in your acting career. In “Professor’s Corner” this week, three-time Olivier Award winner and Tony-nominated choreographer for Mary Poppins, Stephen Mear, gives his advice not only for auditions but for the rehearsal process as well.   Intro to this Episode In this episode of “In The Holding Room” we are thrilled to be joined by the amazing Kim Criswell.  Kim’s Broadway credits include starring as Lucy, opposite Sting, in The Threepenny Opera directed by John Dexter, and appearing in the original Broadway cast of the 1982 Best Musical Tony winner Nine, first as Francesca, then taking over the leading role of Claudia. Other Broadway original cast credits include The First, Baby and Stardust. On the West Coast, she was the original Grizabella in Cats, singing “Memory” at the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles, and also appeared as Lalume in Kismet for Opera Pacific.  She starred in the original West End productions of Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens and The Slow Drag, as well as  the revival of Dames At Sea, and as the Mother Abbess in the acclaimed production of The Sound of Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Critically acclaimed for playing Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre, for which she earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, and for her role as The Old Lady in Robert Carsen’s productions of Candide at La Scala and the Théâtre du Châtelet, she has also won a Helen Hayes Award for her work in Side by Side by Sondheim. She was most recently seen in the US starring as Sally Adams in Call Me Madam at the Goodspeed Opera House, singing the role of The Old Lady in Candide at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, and co-starring with Joseph Fiennes and Charles Edwards in Happy Days in the Art World at NYU’s Skirball Center in New York. Recently, she played the Italian opera singer Mrs. Castellari in the feature film Hysteria (2013) opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, and Jonathan Pryce. In “Thank you 5” this week, I talk about a silly game you can play to improve your ability as a performer. This one game will sharpen your mind and help you with imagination, association, and memorization. 
Stephen Mear C.B.E. is joining us in “Professor’s Corner” this week to offer his advice not only on auditioning, but for the rehearsals process as well.  Honorary Doctor of Arts and three-time Olivier Award Winner, Tony Nominated Stephen Mear has been described by the Daily Telegraph as “The old-style master of the modern chorus line.” Stephen’s prolific career has taken him in all directions from musical theater on Broadway and the West End to opera at the ENO, Paris and the Met in New York. His varied and sought-after talent extends to well know TV programs as well, such as So You think You Can Dance, and The Tracy Ullman Show. Resources: For all your audition needs including sheet music, tracks, monologues, advice and so much more visit: https://performerstuff.com/ Engage with the show: Facebook: Facebook/IntheHoldingRoom Instagram: In_the_holding_room Website: https://intheholdingroom.com/ Kim Criswell: kimcriswell.net Stephen Mear: https://www.stephenmear.com/

A 401(k) retirement plan offered by your employer can be a great savings tool, as long as you take advantage of it, and manage it correctly. However, 401(k) questions surrounding employment, retirement, taxes, and the IRS arise all the time, and to clarify potential doubts, Tim Whisler reviews them all to explain the different 401(k) … Continue reading Episode 15 – So You’re Retiring or Switching Jobs: What Do You Do With Your 401(k)? →

Subscribe: Use the Podcast APP found on your phone: Edge God In or Click Here Edge God In Podcast 118: So You're Sayin I Have a Chance? EdgeGodIn.com | Host: Lauren E Miller, M.Ed Championing Human Potential in Christ Download Bible Study Template Support Resources: Stop Letting the World Be the Boss of You! Hearing His Whisper: https://amzn.to/3nNxdya Stress Relief Video Techniques: Click Here https://laurenemiller.com/stress-relief-coaching-expert/ Learning Objective: Learn how to let go of the past and step into the future with Christ. Explore a deliverance prayer for freedom from oppression linked to your past. Learn a tool to help yourself stay in observable data. Scriptures: 2 Samuel 11, 12 | Psalm 32 | Matthew 26:69-75 | John 21: 15-19 Dear Lord, too often I get stuck in the past. Past regrets, "shoulding" all over myself, wishing things were different, how can I possibly move forward with you when I'm constantly looking back? Reveal to me the specific names of the oppressive spirits in my life. Perhaps it's envy? Self-doubt? Abandonment? Rejection? Lack of forgiveness? Confusion? Hopelessness? I want to step into the freedom you died to give me and experience the peace and contentment of where you have placed me in this moment. What do you want me to learn from my past that will help me to experience the depth of your love for me in the present moment?

I realize, I was gone for like 6 months with nary a word, but I just needed a bit of time to sort of push through my own personal depression phase at all the shit that hit me last year, both COVID related and non. No, I didn't catch COVID, but I also haven't really seen almost anyone in over a year. I didn't travel back east to see family for Christmas. I haven't been at a concert in over a year. Hell, I haven't driven more than 20-30 miles in a year. The last time I was in SF proper was March of 2020. So all of that just got to me, and I needed a break for a while. It also didn't help that a bunch of people told me they hadn't really listened to the show in months because they weren't commuting any more, and I was a commute habit, so that was also a kick in the nuts. But, new year, new president, new lease on life. As way of apology, here's a giant megalithic show that should take you a while to digest. (It's over 5 hours long!) I'll probably have a show up on the Patreon in the next few days as well, and we'll see, maybe another new show here next week or the week after that, but I won't go so long again. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Setlist: "Every Generation Got Its Own Disease (acoustic)" - Fury In The Slaughterhouse "Take That Shot" - Blasted Mechanism "Soul Vaccination" - Tower Of Power "Join The Human Race" - Kingmaker "Is There A Pill?" - Richard Hawley "I'm Not Always So Stupid" - The Wedding Present "Back 2 Business" - Pop Will Eat Itself "So Alive" - Love and Rockets "If I Can't Change Your Mind" - Sugar "I Won't Back Down" - Tom Petty "Idle" - The Music "Manic Depression" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" - The Pogues "Courtesy Greetings" - Into It. Over It. "Lightning Bolt" - Death In Vegas "Happy" - Danny Elfman "Emerge" - Fischerspooner "Deadlock" - Scalping "Heave Ho (All My Money On The Double)" - Konrad Oldmoney (ft. FRAWST) "Prisencolinensinainciusol" - MINACELENTANO "Take Control" - The Glitch Mob "Hallogallo" - Neu! "08:16 Home" - Danger "After The Watershed" - Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine "Jessie's Girl" - Rick Springfield "Jessie's Girl 2" - Coheed and Cambria (ft. Rick Springfield) "Taste of Cindy" - The Jesus and Mary Chain "Cindy Tastes Of Barbeque" - Luna "We Take Care Of Our Own" - Bruce Springsteen "My Shadow Girl" - The Mighty Lemondrops "Street Fighter Mas" - Rodrigo y Gabriela "Government Walls" - James "Doom In Full Bloom" - American Football "Love On A Farmboy's Wages" - XTC "Making Plans For Nigel" - Primus "Highway Of Endless Dreams" - M83 "A Sky Full Of Stars" - Coldplay "Californian Soil" - London Grammar "The Resolution" - Jack's Mannequin "Giving It Up" - The Chain Gang Of 1974 "I'm Falling" - The Comstat Angels "Invincible" - Tool "Chronopsychology" - M-Flo "Something To Drink About" - Too Much Joy "Black Metallic" - Catherine Wheel "Hyperborea" - Tangerine Dream "Plea From A Cat Named Virtute" - The Weakerthans "For The Lonely Ones" - Lucero "MakeDarnSure (Country Cover)" - Vacation Room Studio "Dance In Your Shadow" - Kula Shaker "I Don't Believe In Anything" - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones "Ska Pedalada" - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra "I Don't Like Who I was Then" - The Wonder Years "Memphis Woofer Rock" - Ghost of Vroom "You Really Got Me" - The Kinks "End of Forever" - Rival Sons "Gardening At Night" - R.E.M. "Petal" - Chon "Kennel District" - Pavement "Falling Down" - Chapterhouse "Rum Brave" - Murder By Death "Dirty Blvd." - Lou Reed "Hey Lou" - Liz Phair "True Dreams Of Wichita" - Mike Doughty "Evergreen" - MAN WITH A MISSION "Down In Flames" - Semisonic "Babalon" - Andrew W.K. "So You're Saying There's A Chance..." - Four Year Strong "Skinny" - KALEO "Beautiful" - Dragon Ash "Fall In Love Again" - Rag'n'Bone Man "The Humpty Dance" - Digital Underground "Snoopies" - De La Soul (ft. David Byrne) "I Left My Wallet In El Segundo" - A Tribe Called Quest "Legend Has It" - Run The Jewels "Blinded By Your Grace, Pt. 2" - Stormzy (ft. MNEK) "Veridis Quo" - Daft Punk your moment of Fury "1995" - Fury In The Slaughterhouse

This week, Madigan and Keegan discuss the new executive actions that Biden announced regarding gun control, Matt Gaetz, and a new segment called: So You're Vaccinated, Now What?Go to the link in our bio on Instagram to donate bags or purchase hygiene products for Keegan to donate to the unhoused in Los Angeles.Do you have a news story that you want our take on?          Email us at neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.comFind us on social media:      Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist      Twitter: @YANFPodcast      Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on iTunes!** Music: Lee RosevereSOURCES:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-target-ghost-guns-red-flag-laws-new-gun-control-n1263438https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_lawhttps://www.atf.gov/firearms/national-tracing-center

On est back et on reçoit Dre spécialiste, passionnée et consultante en communication qui s'intéresse à la culture des memes. On connaît le blackface, mais qu'en est-il de sa version digitale? GIFs, memes et emojis renforcent le biais raciste des réseaux sociaux et sont harmful pour les personnes noires.  Pour suivre Dre :  Site : drelusional.comIG : @dre.gwenaellePodcast : The French Fries sur Stereo Le crewneck porté par Dre provient de : kisseleart.comSuggestion de lecture : So You've Been Publicly Shamed Livre - Jon Ronson Pour contribuer au podcast : https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/whereweatWhere We At est un podcast engagé dans le développement d'un espace ouvert et sécuritaire pour les communautés culturelles au Québec. Par Annabel McLaughlin, sexologue et psychothérapeute, M.A. (@sexomclove) Jessica Prudencio, créatrice de contenu (@jessicaprdnc)Suis-nous sur IG! @whereweatmtlMusique : Shailah L. Morris (@sshailah)Artwork : Niti Mueth (@nitimueth)

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're talking about the reasons people who went to very prestigious law schools sometimes still fail the bar exam. In this episode, we discuss: Distinctions between law school exams and the bar exam Contributing factors to failing, and which ones can be avoided What are some warning signs you might be on track to fail? How you can right the course if you think you're in trouble How to quickly recover from failing Resources: Private Bar Exam Tutoring (https://barexamtoolbox.com/private-bar-exam-tutoring/) Bar Exam Toolbox blog (https://barexamtoolbox.com/bar-exam-toolbox-blog/) SmartBarPrep (https://smartbarprep.com/) AdaptiBar (https://www.adaptibar.com/) Podcast Episode 42: Memorization Techniques for the Bar Exam (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-42-memorization-techniques-for-the-bar-exam/) Podcast Episode 83: Honing Your Mindset for Bar Exam Studying (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-83-honing-your-mindset-for-bar-exam-studying/) Podcast Episode 118: More on Memorization for the Bar Exam (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-118-more-on-memorization-for-the-bar-exam/) Five Famous People Who Failed the Bar (https://barexamtoolbox.com/five-famous-people-who-failed-the-bar/) So You’ve Failed the Bar Exam? Here Are Four Lesser Known People Who Failed but Survived (https://barexamtoolbox.com/so-youve-failed-the-bar-exam-here-are-four-lesser-known-people-who-failed-but-survived/) Famous People Who Failed the Bar but Did Okay in the End (https://barexamtoolbox.com/so-youve-failed-the-bar-exam-here-are-four-lesser-known-people-who-failed-but-survived/) Download the Transcript (https://barexamtoolbox.com/episode-127-why-people-from-prestigious-law-schools-fail-the-bar-exam/) If you enjoy the podcast, we'd love a nice review and/or rating on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bar-exam-toolbox-podcast-pass-bar-exam-less-stress/id1370651486) or your favorite listening app. And feel free to reach out to us directly. You can always reach us via the contact form on the Bar Exam Toolbox website (https://barexamtoolbox.com/contact-us/). Finally, if you don't want to miss anything, you can sign up for podcast updates (https://barexamtoolbox.com/get-bar-exam-toolbox-podcast-updates/)! Thanks for listening! Alison & Lee

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View the Bulletin for Wednesday March 24, 2021Service Times: 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.All are welcome.Visit our YouTube channel — Click the red “subscribe” box, and then click on the “bell” next to that box to receive Live Streaming notifications. You must be logged into YouTube to activate these features.SPECIAL WORSHIP OPPORTUNITY: Saturday morning service (10:00 a.m.) Participant number will be limited to a total of TWENTY FIVE (23 worshippers, 1 elder, pastor). Saturday’s readings and the sermon will be the same as the following Sunday’s (these services are currently different from one another). REGISTER FOR SATURDAY.First Reading – Isaiah 53:1–3 Who has believed what they heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For He grew up before Him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Second Reading -- 1 Timothy 2:1–7 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. Third Reading -- John 18:28–38 Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor’s headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover. So Pilate went outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?” They answered him, “If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered Him over to you.” Pilate said to them, “Take Him yourselves and judge Him by your own law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.” This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to show by what kind of death He was going to die. So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about Me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You over to me. What have You done?” Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But My kingdom is not from the world.” Then Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice.” Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in Him.”

Stankpop is a Live Kpop Call In show streamed on Twitch every Sunday. The pre-show for next episode (Feb 21st) will be at the normal time of 2:30pm central time. The real show starts around 3pm central time. Tune in live and call in about the newest Kpop music video releases and news.  (2:00) Chung Ha - Bicycle (18:50) KINGDOM - Excalibur (35:35) Lucy - Hero (48:40) TRI.BE - Doom Doom Ta (1:11:55) Soyou x IZ*ONE (feat. pH-1) - ZERO:ATTITUDE (1:43:00) LambC - When My Heart Breaks Watch Live on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisweekinkpop Join our community on Discord: discord.gg/pxhUaTy Twitter: @thisweekinkpop Instagram: @thisweekinkpop Email: thisweekinkpop@gmail.com

Today's episode is all about area control games, and fittingly, the review is on Rising Sun by Eric Lang. We discuss as always what we like and what we think makes good area control games. Some games that we discussed in this episode include TrapWords, Fantasy Realms, Mission Red Planet, Ethnos, Herrlof, So You've Been Eaten, The Staufer Dynasty, Rising Sun, and more! As always, if you enjoy our content, please consider liking, subscribing, and/or sharing our podcast wherever you are listening to this. We can be found on multiple other social media platforms include Instagram and Facebook. (see links below) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamegambit/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boardgamegambit/ Intro Music: [Sitcom Rock Sting] by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Outro Music: [Sitcom Rock Sting 2] by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Host Tim Jennette (Metal Meeple), and co-host George Breden talk about the board games: Scape Goat (published by Indie Boards & Cards) Dragonscales (published by Arcane Wonders) They played the demo to the highly anticipated game Outriders on PC and share their thoughts... ...and much more! Other games and topics briefly discussed in this episode: Kickstarter games (Root Marauder, Everdell Newleaf and Mistwood, So You've Been Eaten, Eternal Palace, Beast of Balance: Rebirth), and also Malibu Jacks, Pokemon Go collab with Pokemon TCG

Are you concerned about the long term impact of some of the pandemic “safety” measures? Feeling more disconnected from nature than ever? Tune in to hear Ali and Becki discuss why the microbiome matters, how our current industrialized society may be doing damage and how getting in the dirt can help!    In this episode, Ali and Becki unpack how disconnection and social isolation can actually drive imbalance in the body and harm to our microbiome. Learn how masking and overuse of disinfectants can contribute to sterility and how we are already set up for dysbiosis via our disconnect from the natural world. Plus learn about emerging research in the area of the “Microbioscape” or the interaction between our microbiome and environment and how getting in nature can help you to reconnect on a whole body level!    Also in this episode: YouTube Videos:All About Probiotics Signs of Dysbiosis & How to Do a Probiotic Challenge Beat the Bloat Gut Cleanse 5 Ways to Cope with a Gut Cleanse Podcast Episodes:Episode 22: Candida Albicans Episode 60: Dysbiosis and the Microbiome Episode 87: The Gut Brain Axis Episode 131 Candida and SIBO Deep Dive Episode 174: The Dysbiosis Disease Connection Episode 198: So You're On An Antibiotic Episode 210: Herxheimer Reactions and Coping with a Cleanse Why the Microbiome Matters Why Disconnection Drives DiseaseSafer Cleaning Products: Branch Basics use code ALIMILLERRD Wine without Glyphosate: Dry Farms Wine use this link to get a penny bottle! Masks and the Microbiome How the Microbiome Influences Gene Expression The Importance of Nature to our Microbiome Prebiotics and Short Chain Fatty Acids Do We Still Need to Take Probiotics?Probiotic Challenge Restore Baseline Probiotic  Targeted Strength Probiotic Beat the Bloat Updates - Get the Ebook for $1.99 with code BEATTHEBLOAT Beat the Bloat Bundle Studies Discussed: Robinson JM, Jorgensen A. Rekindling old friendships in new landscapes: the environment-microbiome-health axis in the realms of landscape research. People Nat. 2020;2:339-349. doi:1002/pan3.10082 Dong TS, Gupta A. Influence of early life, diet, and the environment on the microbiome. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2019;17(2):231-242. doi:1016/j.cgh.2018.08.067 Tasnim N, Abulizi N, Pither J, Hart MM, Gibson DL. Linking the gut microbial ecosystem with the environment: does gut health depend on where we live? Front Microbiol. 2017;8:1935. doi:3389/fmicb.2017.01935 Ruokolainen L, von Hertzen L, Fyhrquist N, et al. Green areas around homes reduce atopic sensitization in children. Allergy. 2015;70(2):196-202. doi:1111/all.12545 Hanski, I, von Hertzen L, Fyhrquist N, et al. Environmental biodiversity, human microbiota, and allergy are interrelated. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012;109(21):8334-8339. doi:1073/pnas.1205624109 Maier J, Jette S. Promoting nature-based activity for people with mental illness through the US “Exercise Is Medicine” initiative. Am J Public Health.2016;106(5):796-799. doi:2105/ajph.2016.303047   Sponsors for This Episode: This episode is sponsored by the Naturally Nourished supplement line: these pure, potent and effective formulas have been hand selected to deliver profound health benefits. We price our formulas 2-5% below market industry standard and competitors and guarantee that our products will always be third party assessed to ensure they are free of mold, toxins, contaminants, and contain the stated active ingredients in dosages noted.  Use code ALI15 for 15% off your first Naturally Nourished Supplement Order!    This episode is also sponsored by FOND Bone Broth Tonics, Your Sous Chef in a Jar. FOND is slow simmered and lovingly tended from simmer to seal. They partner with organic farms and hand-pick and pair ingredients to optimize absorption and taste. Use code ALIMILLERRD to save at fondbonebroth.com.  

In this episode of the Veterinary Career Success Show, Dr Dave Nicol talks to Dr Moriah McCauley, a veterinary graduate from the University of Edinburgh. Dr Dave and Dr McCauley discuss what it's like being a veterinary graduate during covid and discuss the transition between university and practice life. Dr McCauley further opens up about her experience job hunting and working as a veterinary graduate, and shares her tips for how to find a practice that suits you. Want to hear more? Check it out now! Have a question for Dave? Feel free to fill out this form here: eu.jotform.com/VetXInt/video-submit-form. Everyone who has their question answered will win a signed copy of Dr Dave's latest book, So You're A Vet...Now What! Be safe. Be well. Be happy.

In this episode of the Veterinary Career Success show, Dr Dave talks to his old friend, Dr Sarah Vineyard, about the lessons she's learned as a practice owner in California. Dr Vineyard has wanted to be a practice owner since she was 16 and has learnt, first-hand, how challenging (and rewarding!) practice ownership can be. Want to learn more about practice ownership and leadership? If so, this podcast is for you. If you are interested in the Veterinarian position currently being advertised at Dr Vineyard's practice as mentioned in this podcast, you can check that out here: https://lajollacolonyvet.com/dvm/?fbclid=IwAR3T_FI2uvwTCJMnBNLBXbgbtCNI54Z6w7g2tv6530moygCWbEx2nagq0bE And if you have any questions for Dave feel free to fill out this form here: eu.jotform.com/VetXInt/video-submit-form. Everyone who has their question answered will win a signed copy of Dr Dave's latest book, So You're A Vet...Now What! Be safe. Be well. Be happy.

Sales might be the only profession where people commonly have the “this is how I fell into sales story”College roommate had a father in sales. Roommate said he was going to be in sales too…..why would you even go to college?Finished college with Liberal Arts degree but no liberal arts jobsDidn’t think he would be a fit for sales, but he was a nerd and passionate about computers so it seemed to work outSociology stigma in sales and he had it but thinks it is changing - colleges starting to teach sales, guest lecture at MIT & Harvard & BentleyHelping people make a positive change is how the best salespeople operateThe best sellers and sales leaders instill a belief system FIRST, before they focus on the tactics Assumptive close….probably not the bestYour Belief system is the most important part of sales - ATTITUDESandler- Success Triangles If you do not believe you’re there to help people, you will not be successful in the long-termShouldn’t sell to people that you can’t HELPMake the world better through Better work! Make people’s life at work more enjoyable, be more engaged at workMore engaged at work = happier employees = happier relationships at home = better world90%+ of revenue comes from a partner network of business consultantsPI Tools & Talent Optimization platform to enable those changes - But first WHAT IS THE PROBLEM THAT NEEDS FIXING?PI Reference Profile - Captain - Proactive, task orientation, assertive, extroverted - good for sales - flexible but enjoys process tooPI founded in 1959Collaborators - ME- help teams be cohesive, get everyone to feel good, useful when you have a toxic culture because they help the teams gel, long-term affiliations, patience, struggle to deal with transactional sales role, enterprise salesAnybody can do any job.  Question is what is NATURAL for them? It’s more WORK for someone to do some of those other things, like me to do a transactional saleFind something that aligns well with your innate behavioral needsSales hiring - I don’t want to build a Sales Team- I want to build a team of leaders and a LEADERSHIP Development function. They could be used internally or expand outside of the organization@BlackDuck if people hate it and don’t want to be a part of it and you only hire them based upon sales experience. So people quit and you’re set-back⅔ of the sales people he hired quit within a 3 month period - looked to see if he could start using Behavioral Assessment - got attached to PIHe was hiring for experience vs. looking for behavioral fit for a leadership roleGet rid of sales experience as a qualifying factor and your pool of candidates opens massivelyCan create a great salesperson in 6 months. Hard to breakdown bad habitsBest way to start learning how to sell is, make Cold-calls, possibly the hardest job in sales. Get a lot of looks and some of the belief systems.If you can’t get your attitude right, you can’t cold call effectivelyLearn to quickly establish rapport in an efficient wayMost people don’t want to talk about sports or weatherYou can’t make a positive change with somebody if you don’t spend time talking about the business problems and challenges they are trying to solveHow to use Empathy & Humor (self-deprecating) to build rapportYou believe the people you’re calling you can helpBuild empathy- quickly - The Like Switch - build rapport with Russian AgentsThe Empathic Statement- quickly build rapport by showing empathy- greet someone new and Notice something about them and STATE IT…..”SO You….” “So you seem….busy, stressed, frustrated”Empathy = experiencing someone’s emotional state with them or at least a concern for theirs when you match tone that focuses on concern.Working with MBA candidates - they are not envisioning themselves in sales in an end state - they will attempt to found a company or be senior exec- they know they’re going to have to sell to be effective in so many business rolesLou Shipley- CEO of Black Duck - “The first thing the board asks you is how does the sales forecast look”How to bounce back - Extreme Ownership - Jock Willink - Cannonballs, when something bad happens- CELEBRATE IT now you can figure out how to fix itFirst thing as a sales leader when you miss a month- look at yourself and your leadership to see how YOU can be accountable to that resultYou don’t make excusesDon’t want to be in a position where you feel as bad as your worst month or as good as your best monthWhat could I have fixed and done better? Even in a great monthWhat did I do wrong?Mike CEO @ PI - Avid Sailor- “Let the storms show your mastery”You control your ship, your team, what you doOffice Olympics - Captains are Hyper competitiveBehavioral interview and tailor it to the person.  If you suspect someone will be weak in an area- a question about a time when they’ve shown - Look for the emotional response, why they won/lost.Favorite question for sales people- Do you have any questions for me? ASK SOME QUESTIONS- At the most senior level to not seem curious or excited is a way to fail!Curiosity sells you, because people love to talk about themselves and their companyLinks:Success TrianglesThe Like Switch - Jack SchafferExtreme Ownership - Jocko WillinkThe Predictive IndexJim on LinkedIn

This week Chung Ha rides her bicycle while Soyou, IZ*ONE, and PH-1 promote Peps!. For news we discuss UMG and YG's investment into BigHit’s VenewLive as well as updates for YG solo artist promotions. Although the Kpop world is a little quiet due to Lunar New Year, we keep it spicy in State of the Nation as we discuss anime and have a Balance Game fiesta. Links ◆Email - sojutalkpodcast@gmail.com ◆Discord - discord.gg/3rb74x4 ◆Patreon - patreon.com/sojutalk

It's Friday. Get your shit together and listen to the latest episode of The Dave Hill Goodtime Hour as Dave, Dez, and Chris welcome comedian Matt Reed, all the way from Newcastle, UK to the program to take calls from listeners and discuss topics of great importance! Recorded live February 8, 2021.Follow Matt Reed on Instagram.Visit Matt Reed's website.Watch The Dave Hill Goodtime Hour  every Monday at 8pm EST, now exclusively on YouTube!Support this show by becoming a Maximum Fun member!Buy Painted Doll's new record How To Draw Fire from Tee Pee Records today!Purchase Witch Taint’s new album Sons of Midwestern Darkness  immediately.Dave’s new stand up album The Pride of Cleveland  is out now on 800 Pound Gorilla Records! Buy it or Dave will stab you.Watch the music video for “Death To Death Metal” on YouTube or Dave’s feelings will be hurt.Follow Dave on Instagram (@mrdavehill), Dez on Twitter (@shouthouseradio) and Chris on Twitter (@csgersbeck). Dave is banned from Twitter.Buy Dave’s incredible new book Parking The MooseJoin our incredible weekly newsletter. This is basically the greatest newsletter you’ll ever sign up for.Chat with listeners at Dave Hill’s Facebooking Incident. Everyone is making out here and stuff. It rules.Please listen to our other podcast Dave Hill: History Fluffer. It’s totally different from this one and it smells great.Also please listen to our other other podcast So… You’re Canadian with Dave Hill on the Maximum Fun Network. 

Change isn't easy. Especially when it's YOU that has to change. Something that has been on my mind for months now is... What got you here… Won't get you there... So YOU have to change. Over the last 6 months I've doubled down on this and have come up with a 6 step repeatable process to leveling up. Get your notebook and pen ready for this one.

It's February and Dave, Dez, and Chris have had it with this pandemic, so they invite comedian Matt Hoss from York, UK to cheer them up and then have musician Samantha Grace close the show with two mind-blowing numbers. Recorded live February 1, 2021.Check out Matt Hoss's website, his Castival podcast, and follow him on Twitter and Twitch.Check out Samantha Grace on Spotify, and follow her on Instagram.Watch The Dave Hill Goodtime Hour  every Monday at 8pm EST, now exclusively on YouTube!Support this show by becoming a Maximum Fun member!Buy Painted Doll's new record How To Draw Fire from Tee Pee Records today!Purchase Witch Taint’s new album Sons of Midwestern Darkness  immediately.Dave’s new stand up album The Pride of Cleveland  is out now on 800 Pound Gorilla Records! Buy it or Dave will stab you.Watch the music video for “Death To Death Metal” on YouTube or Dave’s feelings will be hurt.Follow Dave on Instagram (@mrdavehill), Dez on Twitter (@shouthouseradio) and Chris on Twitter (@csgersbeck). Dave is banned from Twitter.Buy Dave’s incredible new book Parking The MooseJoin our incredible weekly newsletter. This is basically the greatest newsletter you’ll ever sign up for.Chat with listeners at Dave Hill’s Facebooking Incident. Everyone is making out here and stuff. It rules.Please listen to our other podcast Dave Hill: History Fluffer. It’s totally different from this one and it smells great.Also please listen to our other other podcast So… You’re Canadian with Dave Hill on the Maximum Fun Network.

We are bringing you more emotional insight from Nancy Slessenger in the latest episode of the Veterinary Career Success Show. This time, we are talking emotional blackmail. Ever felt pressured or manipulated at work? An example might be being pressured to work extra shifts. How can you combat this? Dr Dave and Nancy have an engaging discussion about setting boundaries, learning to say 'no', and reaching out to your team. It's well worth a listen whether you are in this position or not. If you would like your question answered by Dr Dave then post it to eu.jotform.com/VetXInt/video-submit-form Everyone who has their question answered will win a signed copy of Dr Dave's latest book, So You're A Vet...Now What! Be safe. Be well. Be happy.

Tim Ferriss Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Personal decisions that improved David’s life:He doesn’t drink alcohol or do drugsHe prefers to work hard instead of taking it easyDavid has tried to perfect 3 skills: writing, talking, and reading“I realized if you don’t love what you’re doing, you can never be great at it. Nobody ever won a Nobel Prize hating what they do.” – David Rubenstein Advice for raising money:If you want people to give you money, you need to give them a good reason for doing soYou should know what you’re talking about and be well-informed on the topicYou should always be polite, give people time to think about their decision, give them a follow-up note after the meeting, and keep them informed about how the investment is doing even if they didn’t investIf the investment isn’t doing well, be transparent about it and give bad news upfront In Washington, D.C. people care more about power than money:“Washington is a place where power really is the ultimate card that means something to people…Money isn’t as important in Washington” – David Rubenstein“I care about books because it opened a new world for me and that’s why I love reading because I can learn so much. Wherever I got in life I got through education and by education I mean learning continuously.” – David RubensteinAdvice to New Parents Who Are Financially Successful: Don’t give your kids too much money and don’t buy them everything they wantMake them do well in schoolDon’t flash your wealth in front of your kids or other people Give your kids money to donate so that they get a taste of philanthropy Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgDavid Rubenstein, Co-Founder of The Carlyle Group, on Lessons Learned, Jeff Bezos, Raising Billions of Dollars, Advising Presidents, and Sprinting to the End | Brought to you by ShipStation shipping software, Headspace easy-to-use app with guided meditations, and Theragun percussive muscle therapy devices. More on all three below. David M. Rubenstein (davidrubenstein.com) is co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm with $230 billion under management.David is chairman of the boards of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Council on Foreign Relations, a fellow of the Harvard Corporation, and a regent of the Smithsonian Institution.David, an original signer of the Giving Pledge, has made transformative gifts for the restoration or repair of the Washington Monument, Kennedy Center, Smithsonian, National Archives, National Zoo, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.David is host of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and the author of The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians and How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers.David is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Chicago Law School.Please enjoy!*This episode is brought to you by ShipStation. Do you sell stuff online? Then you know what a pain the shipping process is. ShipStation was created to make your life easier. Whether you’re selling on eBay, Amazon, Shopify, or over 100 other popular selling channels, ShipStation lets you access all of your orders from one simple dashboard, and it works with all of the major shipping carriers, locally and globally, including FedEx, UPS, and USPS. Tim Ferriss Show listeners get to try ShipStation free for 60 days by using promo code TIM. There’s no risk, and you can start your free trial without even entering your credit card info. Just visit ShipStation.com, click on the microphone at the top of the homepage, and type in TIM!*This episode is also brought to you by Theragun! Theragun is my go-to solution for recovery and restoration. It’s a famous, handheld percussive therapy device that releases your deepest muscle tension. I own two Theraguns, and my girlfriend and I use them every day after workouts and before bed. The all-new Gen 4 Theragun is easy to use and has a proprietary brushless motor that’s surprisingly quiet—about as quiet as an electric toothbrush.Go to Theragun.com/Tim right now and get your Gen 4 Theragun today, starting at only $199.*This episode is also brought to you by Headspace! Headspace is your daily dose of mindfulness in the form of guided meditations in an easy-to-use app. Whatever the situation, Headspace can help you feel better. Overwhelmed? Headspace has a 3-minute SOS meditation for you. Need some help falling asleep? Headspace has wind-down sessions their members swear by. And for parents, Headspace even has morning meditations you can do with your kids. Headspace’s approach to mindfulness can reduce stress, improve sleep, boost focus, and increase your overall sense of well-being.Go to Headspace.com/Tim for a FREE one-month trial with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation.*If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss

Brace yourselves: this episode of the Veterinary Career Success show is all about controlling your emotions during tough situations. We have taken a slightly different format this time, which should make for insightful and dynamic listening. Dr Dave is joined by the wonderful Nancy Slessenger, recruitment specialist and all round expert on emotional intelligence. If you've found yourself floundering in these uncertain times, or you find it hard to process and control your emotions when things don't go to plan, this will be essential listening. Nancy has so much wisdom to share, and this episode provides just a snippet of goodness when it comes to controlling your emotions. Give it a listen! If you would like your question answered by Dr Dave then post it to eu.jotform.com/VetXInt/video-submit-form Everyone who has their question answered will win a signed copy of Dr Dave's latest book, So You're A Vet...Now What! Be safe. Be well. Be happy.

Why mothers need to declutter differently than anyone else. -in dec 2020 140,000 women lost jobs, 16,000 men gained jobs. The balance of the mental load in the home has historically been skewed and put onto the mother. Which means we have less time, energy and overall bandwidth to just “get things done.” Especially right now. We’re figuring out how to school our kids. We’re seeking ways to support them emotionally. And we’re doing it blindly. And we’re doing it in homes that are overwhelming on a regular day. “Regular.” We don’t get huge pockets of time to do this so we need to do it in bite sized pieces (workshop plug) We are making decisions on behalf of, or holding the space for others to make the decisions. So YOU need support in that. When you get support, you can better support others - aka your family.

Learn how Lucas Maxwell teaches students about the importance of recognizing fake news as well as podcasting and Skyping in the library!!! I would like to thank composer Nazar Rybak at Hooksounds.com for the music you’ve heard today.   Editable PD Certificate Glenthorne High School library webpage Blog: Glenthorne High School Library  Episode 61: Bookings Chat  Book: Podcasting with Youth Fake News Quiz (online) Fake News Quiz (PDF) BBC: The (almost) Complete History of Fake News BBC Trending Podcast: In-depth reporting on the world of social media  So You’ve Been Publically Shamed Common Sense Education Snopes (Started in 1994, investigating urban legends, hoaxes, and folklore) Full Fact (the UK’s independent fact checking organisation) Thinkalong: MS Media Literacy Lessons Amy’s collection of fake/hoax websites and YouTube Fake News Creator

So You're a Land Academy Member Now What (LA 1402) Transcript: Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit: Hi. Jack Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill DeWit: And I am Jill Dewit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California. Jack Butala: Today. Jill and I talk about, so you're a Land Academy member now, what's next? Jill DeWit: It's beginning to look a lot Christmas. You don't like that, I'm sorry. It's Christmas Eve. Jack Butala: I mean, I just said there's the reason there's two of us. Jill DeWit: All right. One of us is in vacation mode. Jack Butala: One of us is a happy person in general and one of us is not. You guess. Jill DeWit: Goodness. I promise I will take this topic seriously. I wrote down five notes. I have things I want to cover, but I thought just for a moment, I wanted to celebrate that it's Christmas Eve. Can I have that? Jack Butala: Do you think that all our kids are going to get what they want? Jill DeWit: Oh my gosh. Yes. I know they are. Jack Butala: Have they ever not? Jill DeWit: Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure. But usually they get what they want. It always works out. Jack Butala: You think any of them are in therapy over their parents? Jill DeWit: Oh, I'm sure. Yes. That is a gift that keeps on giving. Okay, this year kids we're giving each of you a bundle of 10 therapy sessions to the counselor of your choice. Jack Butala: Can you buy that? I will buy that. If you can't buy that I'm going to start a company for that, ready for next year. Jill DeWit: Prepaid therapy for your children, for your spouse, for your best friend. Whoever's driving you nuts, buy them therapy. This is a Saturday Night Live skit. Jack Butala: You can buy a subscription legal advice like this. Why not therapy? Jill DeWit: Yeah, why not? Hey, we're doing it for Land Academy stuff now. We're doing bundle, work and bundle consulting things. We're just going to roll in counseling. Jack Butala: That's what this is anyway. A lot of it. Jill DeWit: Exactly. That's awesome. Okay. Jack Butala: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of, which won't top Jill's comments there, posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill DeWit: Anthony wrote, "My understanding is that raw land qualifies you or qualifies for a 1031 exchange." Jack Butala: Any type of real estate does. Jill DeWit: Thank you. "Anyone here ever use this?" Jack Butala: Yes. Jill DeWit: "It seems like you could roll up some very expensive ranch or something and delay the taxes owed on the flips that you've got there." And then John wrote, are there more than one comments or just one? Jack Butala: No, it's just John because he answered the question perfectly. Jill DeWit: So I'm sure there's plenty in there, but we picked you, John. John wrote, "We've done a ton of 1031s, but mostly in the apartment space. The basics you need are define a 1031 intermediary. You have 180 days to close on the transaction, 45 days to identify and then 135 days to close. And there's a specific way you have to identify the properties." Jack Butala: That's right. Jill DeWit: "When you 1031, you need to have a whole intermediary hold the funds. You can never touch the money or it will blow up the exchange." At the end of the day, it's more complex than this, but it can be a great tool for deferring taxes. They do have costs associated, so depending on the profit or may or may not make sense. You can always reach out= if you have any questions. That was very nice of John to share. Jack Butala: At least 1031s, I haven't done one in a lot of years, they cost at least $1,500 to do. So here's the idea, you buy up, in Anthony's case, you buy a ranch, you take $200,000 out of your savings and you buy it and you sell it for 400,000. You don't want to pay taxes on that $200,000 gain at all. So you do a 1031, you identify another ranch and now your money's...

Kick that bathroom stall open and pop in the earbuds another episode of The Dave Hill Goodtime Hour is here whether you like it or not, as Dave, Dez, and Chris welcome tarot reader, psychic medium & professional witch Sarah Potter to the program to analyze listeners' brains and also scare the bejesus out of everyone. Recorded live December 7, 2020.Check out all of Sarah Potter's projects here.Follow Sarah on Twitter and Instagram. (@iamsarahpotter)Watch The Dave Hill Goodtime Hour  every Monday at 9pm EDT, now exclusively on YouTube!Support this show by becoming a Maximum Fun member!Buy Painted Doll's new record How To Draw Fire from Tee Pee Records today!Purchase Witch Taint’s new album Sons of Midwestern Darkness immediately.Dave’s new stand up album The Pride of Cleveland is out now on 800 Pound Gorilla Records! Buy it or Dave will stab you.Watch the music video for “Death To Death Metal” on YouTube or Dave’s feelings will be hurt.Follow Dave on Instagram (@mrdavehill), Dez on Twitter (@shouthouseradio) and Chris on Twitter (@csgersbeck). Dave is banned from Twitter.Buy Dave’s incredible new book Parking The MooseJoin our incredible weekly newsletter. This is basically the greatest newsletter you’ll ever sign up for.Chat with listeners at Dave Hill’s Facebooking Incident. Everyone is making out here and stuff. It rules.Please listen to our other podcast Dave Hill: History Fluffer. It’s totally different from this one and it smells great.Also please listen to our other other podcast So… You’re Canadian with Dave Hill on the Maximum Fun Network.

This is one wild and crazy episode with three friends. Sarey and Dan (You Have Permission Podcast) join me and Mason (a People’s Theology Podcast) to launch a spectacular resource for those going through a faith transition – So You’re Deconstructing. You will definitely want to check out the site and book mark it to… Read more about The Evangelical Youth Group Fantasy Draft

En este episodio hablamos sobre el efecto Madero, el libro So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, cuentas falsas en redes sociales, cuando los troles deciden acabar contigo, una misión a Suecia, las aventuras del Papa en Instagram y experiencias de establecimientos de bailes eróticos. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alicia Tobin (Retail Nightmares podcast, "So You're A Little Sad, So What?" book) joins Jordan and Jesse for a discussion of the intolerable soundtracks at retail jobs that play on a loop and haunt you for decades, the notoriously awful customer that spawned Alicia's Retail Nightmares podcast, and the Scandinavian gummy store by Jordan's house that is inexplicably THRIVING in the pandemic. Plus, we ignite a race to start a Rizzoli & Isles recap podcast that will eclipse all of our other shows combined. Get Alicia's new book – "SO YOU'RE A LITTLE SAD, SO WHAT? Nice Things to Say to Yourself on Bad Days and Other Essays"

This is the free weekly edition of TMBS. To support us on Patreon and receive hours of weekly members-only content, subscribe at Patreon.com/tmbs  Commentary - fighting climate change denial is not about ignorance but about power & profit. Joshua Kahn Russell talks to us about the wildfires, indigenous resistance, the release of Red Dawn Ferris, and Joe Biden on climate change. https://magazine.atavist.com/red-fawn-fallis-standing-rock-pipeline Then, Ben Burgis joins us to discuss he latest in Jacobin, "So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed." https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/publicly-shamed-jon-ronson-cancel-culture   And in the GEM, David updates us on sailors stranded at sea.