Podcasts about Sunland

Lights go dim, the tokens drop, the carousel spins - it'll never stop. From haunted houses to freakish feats, the bosses roar and shotgun greets. So pump that gun and don't delay, the Midway's mad and here to stay. This ain't no game for hearts too civil… It's the podcast ode to CarnEvil! Why do we know so much about the local “insane asylum” called Sunland? Do jiggle physics apply to ghostly apparitions? Has Rob taken Halloween decorating too far? Did CarnEvil give us the first video game version of Krampus? The listener questions answered in this episode include what insane occupation an arcade game has trained us for and, in a Saw scenario, what arcade attract mode would we least want to be trapped with? Join the Podouken Discord and ask your own questions that could be included in a future episode: discord.gg/k5vf2Jz You can also like, comment, and subscribe to our YouTube channel where we post our listener question segments and additional content: https://www.youtube.com/@podoukenpodcast2716

Send us a textSo maybe Wallichs' "Battle of the Surf Bands" wasn't the best time and place for Wanda to demand a display model record player for her hospitalized pal and makeup man, Sparks, her beloved mutual crybaby over “Where the Boys Are.” But she could take in the teen-bikini scene from the ledge she's climbed up on, kick her heels to the pulsating Watusi beat, and try to make sense of her own exploited girlhood. Why couldn't Wanda—or seemingly any woman—find real love, like her dying Grandma Neva did? Fat chance, with these sales boys who either have no idea they're in the presence of a TV star, or recall this one as having been. . . thinner, somehow?Shouldn't the blonde hairs compulsively plucked from a celebrity's patchy scalp count for anything in this establishment? CREDITS:Catherine Hein's former life took her from 20 years in the entertainment industry to two years in a homeless women's shelter. That's where Wanda, the reigning spirit of this epic two-volume novel of early ‘60s Hollywood, was born.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Learn more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms. Closing credit music for Season 3 is performed by Ben Rifkin. Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.We have double publishing news!!  Season Two's novel, Sunland by Charlie Haas, has been released in print by Beck & Branch with a new title, The Current Fantasy ("Heart, soul, art, and the promise of Giant Vegetables... perhaps the last great untold chapter of the California Story." —Don Wallace).  Purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Current-Fantasy-Charlie-Haas/dp/B0DJ1TJV82/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tuTmk2PLbYrhl35vNF26hNKifzMVNLxUX5sbuZKxIrSaOzMPlYjB5Uys5Y1YQ2ED1dDgQKbH8KqXAWxZaLQCQTt-KHNyPXOjQoh_573_J3WAGlt6ZVeniX-tqsXmWnQ3.CsBj4yVK4jbIFxGRKRiHullCZ9rJF1jsg1L23qgiuZE&dib_tag=se&qid=1728574532&refinements=p_27%3ACharlie+Haas&s=books&sr=1-1Season One's novel, The Drift That Follows Will Be Gradual by Alan Rifkin, has been released in print by Open Books (“A delectable tour de force through our fractured culture—witty, wise, memorable, and touching.”—Richard Bausch). Purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Drift-That-Follows-Will-Gradual/dp/1948598795?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

This episode covers trials at Los Al for the Los Al Oaks and El Primero Del Ano Derby. As well as a pair of stakes races at Sunland the G3 West Texas Derby and G3 Sunburst Stakes. Thanks for listening.

Louie & Sean sit down for yet another episode of BloodHorse Monday.They recap the preps from the past weekend, both at FGNOL A & at Sunland.Sean interviews Elliot Walden of WinStar Farm.Eric Mitchell from BloodHorse stops by to chat freshmen stallions.They close with a preview of the Rebel & Battaglia.

This episode covers 4 stakes races around the country this weekend. The Billy Montgomery Stakes at Louisiana Downs, Pepsi Cola Handicap at Sunland and the Los Alamitos WInter Derby and WInter Championship in California. Thanks for listening

Ayer se publicó el índice de percepción de la corrupción en la que aunque lento el país sigue registrando avances. Esos avances que para gente como uno es poco, para un grupo que sigue adolorido es un lastre difícil de superar. Para mi pasar de 28 a 36 es poco, para el gobierno del puesto 136 al 104 es mucho y para la oposición que gobernó en esos años oscuros es mejor ni hablar de eso.Aunque en el informe no se diga el elemento fundamental para el avance de la República Dominicana en ese indice está directamente vinculado a la designación de Miriam Germán Brito en la procuraduría general de la República.La lucha contra la corrupción no fue un tema relevante en la República Dominicana hasta la marcha verde. La encuesta Gallup certifica el datoDe hecho situaciones como la famosa sentencia de la Sunland en la que se “extraviaron” 130 millones de dólares y que no se puede usar otro verbo porque la sentencia de la suprema corte de entonces no lo permite, no provocó ni un estornudo en la República Dominicana.Danilo Medina preguntó hasta el ultimo día donde estaba la corrupción y ahí se quedaba todo.Ustedes me dirán que ninguno de los cuatro grandes casos de corrupción ha avanzado en un sistema de justicia todavía encabezado por un ex miembro del Comité Central del PLD y es cierto, pero es la primera vez que hemos hermanos de un ex, presidente, ex ministros, ex directores generales, obligados a rendir cuentas.Aquí se ha robado tanto que se habla de la devolución de 6 mil millones de pesos por voluntad de los investigados y la gente no se sonroja.Les voy a citar par de ejemplos:En la operación Medusa, una empresa que se llama Abastesa devolvió 3,900 millones de pesos, un tal CArlos Guzmán, el nombre de cualquiera 722 millones de pesos, Comercial Viarios 722 millones de pesos, constructora Carrasquero, 700 millones de pesos. Divamor, Zualiland, La Parasatta, Rogama, Ropalma y Distribuidora Ropi 722 millones como multa.Del caso Calamar entre devoluciones y multas: Fernando Crisostomo 1,101 millones, José Arturo Ureña 500 millones, Mimilo Jiménez 715 millones, Angel Lockward 200 millones.Hay demasiado dolor acumulado entre gente que se consideró intocable y a quien el ministerio publico le llegó de la manera más certera.Quienes están dispuestos a devolver más de seis mil millones por negociar participaron en actos en los que eso era una chambra. Los que no han negociado tienen dinero para muchas cosas y lo están gastando.

Send us a textIn author Noelle Calabretta's dream-infused and bittersweet new short story, "Sleepless Sheep," an insomniac rice farmer and failed poet who left his long-ago love beneath Mt. Fiji makes a return journey to the woods where she's remained. The story was developed in an upper-division fiction workshop at California State University, Long Beach. A second-year Fine Arts Ceramicist at California State University Long Beach, with an Associates degree in Studio Art, Calabretta is now minoring in Creative Writing, and her work has appeared in Sierra Journal. Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms. Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.Find The Last We Fake's serialized novels in print.  Season Two's novel, Sunland by Charlie Haas, has been released in print by Beck & Branch with a new title, The Current Fantasy ("Heart, soul, art, and the promise of Giant Vegetables... perhaps the last great untold chapter of the California Story." —Don Wallace).  Purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Current-Fantasy-Charlie-Haas/dp/B0DJ1TJV82/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tuTmk2PLbYrhl35vNF26hNKifzMVNLxUX5sbuZKxIrSaOzMPlYjB5Uys5Y1YQ2ED1dDgQKbH8KqXAWxZaLQCQTt-KHNyPXOjQoh_573_J3WAGlt6ZVeniX-tqsXmWnQ3.CsBj4yVK4jbIFxGRKRiHullCZ9rJF1jsg1L23qgiuZE&dib_tag=se&qid=1728574532&refinements=p_27%3ACharlie+Haas&s=books&sr=1-1Season One's novel, The Drift That Follows Will Be Gradual by Alan Rifkin, has been released in print by Open Books (“A delectable tour de force through our fractured culture—witty, wise, memorable, and touching.”—Richard Bausch). Purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Drift-That-Follows-Will-Gradual/dp/1948598795?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

This episode covers a trio of stakes races at Sunland Park. Headlined by the G1 Championship at Sunland as well as the RG2 Shue Fly Stakes. Thanks for listening. 

Send us a textFrom begging Jock Penny's autograph at Coffee Dan's, to blundering into a surf music contest at Wallich's, to brushing past a wisp of her former self outside a flower shop, Wanda is waylaid by memories of better times—the onion rings at Frankie's (“the world's only delicious vegetable”); the awards ceremony where, slid between two beaus at an effortless 103 lbs, she'd been honored for her heartfelt report on the loss of a local movie house (could she ever do works again that honor the daydreams of women in Bell Gardens and Reseda?). All this, as she searches and yearns for the perfect, maybe last, gesture of love to bring her dying Grandma Neva. And whose all-knowing voice is this anyway, interviewing her to reflect on her finest achievements? Catherine Hein's former life took her from 20 years in the entertainment industry to two years in a homeless women's shelter. That's where Wanda, the reigning spirit of this epic two-volume novel of early ‘60s Hollywood, was born.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Learn more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms. Closing credit music for Season 3 is performed by Ben Rifkin. Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.We have double publishing news!!  Season Two's novel, Sunland by Charlie Haas, has been released in print by Beck & Branch with a new title, The Current Fantasy ("Heart, soul, art, and the promise of Giant Vegetables... perhaps the last great untold chapter of the California Story." —Don Wallace).  Purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Current-Fantasy-Charlie-Haas/dp/B0DJ1TJV82/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tuTmk2PLbYrhl35vNF26hNKifzMVNLxUX5sbuZKxIrSaOzMPlYjB5Uys5Y1YQ2ED1dDgQKbH8KqXAWxZaLQCQTt-KHNyPXOjQoh_573_J3WAGlt6ZVeniX-tqsXmWnQ3.CsBj4yVK4jbIFxGRKRiHullCZ9rJF1jsg1L23qgiuZE&dib_tag=se&qid=1728574532&refinements=p_27%3ACharlie+Haas&s=books&sr=1-1Season One's novel, The Drift That Follows Will Be Gradual by Alan Rifkin, has been released in print by Open Books (“A delectable tour de force through our fractured culture—witty, wise, memorable, and touching.”—Richard Bausch). Purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Drift-That-Follows-Will-Gradual/dp/1948598795?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

For our November episode, co-hosts Ted Stank and Tom Goldsby were live at the Fall 2024 Supply Chain Forum, where they spoke with Robert Martichenko, board chair for TrailPath Workplace Solutions, and Sunland Logistics Solutions' CEO Arch Thomason and VP of Human Resources Diane Lowman.With fundamental forces, from population demographics to shifting societal attitudes, shifting the nature of work and the relationships between people and their employers, the challenge of attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining talent is greater than ever. Our guests provide an in-depth case study for how they've partnered to build a Meaningful Employment Environment where trust has been established, fundamental needs are being met, the environment is participative, and the work is meaningful.These are the kinds of relevant projects being tackled by University of Tennessee partners and shared through our extensive networks. Learn more about becoming a member of our renowned Supply Chain Forum today.The episode was recorded live at the Marriott Knoxville Downtown on November 13, 2024. Watch a video of the episode.Related links: Listen to our Season 1 episode featuring Robert Martichenko, "Is Lean Dead?"Read our latest white paper, "Unlocking the Potential of the Gen XYZ Labor Force," released at the forum.Listen to our Season 2 episode with Sunland's Chief Customer Officer Elijah Ray, "It's All About People."Become a Supply Chain Forum member Learn about SCM Academy programs, including upcoming virtual courses on Leadership (Jan. 29–May 6), Finance (March 3–April 27), and Planning (March 17–May 11)Subscribe to GSCI's monthly newsletter Read the latest news and insights from GSCI Text the Tennessee on Supply Chain Management team!

Send us a textUsing old acting-school chops to conquer the dance-away instincts ingrained by her family, Wanda phones at last for the directions to St. Jude's. But the flickering world at Sunset and Vine floods her with ancestral memory--from golden visits to the Hollywood Ranch Market, to the high-rise vistas behind casting couches where she'd fought her way free, to The Brown Derby, The Smoke House, the warm safety of Coffee Dan's. And is that Tab Hunter as Jesus in the revolving glass? Catherine Hein's former life took her from 20 years in the entertainment industry to two years in a homeless women's shelter. That's where Wanda, the reigning spirit of this epic two-volume novel of early ‘60s Hollywood, was born.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Learn more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms. Closing credit music for Season 3 is performed by Ben Rifkin. Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.Double publishing news!!  Season Two's novel, Sunland by Charlie Haas, is being released in print by Beck & Branch with a new title, The Current Fantasy ("Heart, soul, art, and the promise of Giant Vegetables... perhaps the last great untold chapter of the California Story." —Don Wallace).  Visit: https://www.beckandbranch.com/the-current-fantasy. Season One's novel, The Drift That Follows Will Be Gradual by Alan Rifkin, has just been released by Open Books (“A delectable tour de force through our fractured culture—witty, wise, memorable, and touching.”—Richard Bausch). Purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Drift-That-Follows-Will-Gradual/dp/1948598795?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

In the final episode of Season 2, co-hosts Ted Stank and Tom Goldsby speak with Elijah Ray, chief customer officer of Sunland Logistics Solutions about the evolution of third-party logistics, the importance of company culture, employee retention, and creating trust with clients. With nearly four decades of experience in logistics and supply chain management, Ray has contributed to a culture of continuous improvement and big-name brand engagement at Sunland. He is a member-at-large and former president of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. Don't miss this exciting discussion on great workplace environments, thriving business partnerships, creating value for both parties, leading with care, and more. The interview with Elijah Ray starts at 5:40.The episode was recorded on August 15, 2024, during the GSCI Advisory Board meeting at the Haslam College of Business. Related links: US unemployment claims fall in sign of resiliency in job market Inflation dipped in July, Fed expected to cut interest rates Canada rail strike, lockouts slated to start this week Register for the Fall 2024 Supply Chain Forum, Nov. 12–14 in Knoxville Become a Supply Chain Forum member Download our latest white papers for free Subscribe to GSCI's monthly newsletter Read the latest news and insights from GSCI Text the Tennessee on Supply Chain Management team!

Send us a Text Message.Achieving a moment's peace between mind and body in the bathroom of June's trailer after the aborted three-way, Wanda staggers off toward a darker reality ...fully reassembled, although, yes, forgetting her horse ...  But in the shelter of her own dressing room, teen memory is rounding the corner from sewing with the ladies to riding with boys.In what one listener describes as "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" if it were written by a woman, Catherine Hein's historical novel traces the journey of Wanda Fleming, the tenacious, calamity-prone co-host fatale of TV's Daytalk who, in the spring of 1962, must face life without her closest ally, settle on one lover, conquer her eating disorder, and ace a round of Password in order to secure a coveted game-show gig. . . if the world doesn't change too much first.Hein's former life took her from 20 years in the entertainment industry to two years in a homeless women's shelter. That's where Wanda, the reigning spirit of this epic two-volume novel of early ‘60s Hollywood, was born.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Learn more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms. Closing credit music for Season 3 is performed by Ben Rifkin. Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.Publishing news!!  Season Two's novel, Sunland by Charlie Haas, is being released in print on October 15 by Beck & Branch with a new title, The Current Fantasy. Visit: https://www.beckandbranch.com/the-current-fantasy. Season One's novel, The Drift That Follows Will Be Gradual by Alan Rifkin, will be released August 1 by Open Books, where it is already available for pre-order. Visit https://www.open-bks.com/library/moderns/the-drift-that-follows-will-be-gradual/order.html

This week's episode:  "The Playwright,” a remarkable new short story by first-year talent Natalie Goss, about the subdued heart of a young Los Angeles theater reviewer-turned-dramatist who's losing the script.  Goss is a Child Development and Family Studies major now contemplating a minor or possible double major in English. She dreams of publishing a collection of both fiction and nonfiction, enjoys painting when not reading or writing, and hopes to become a counselor for the public school district of Oakland, where she was born and raised.  The story was developed in a lower-division fiction workshop at California State University, Long Beach.Intro and outro music is from the song Slow, performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms. Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker. Publishing news: Season Two's original novel, Sunland by Charlie Haas, is being released in print this October by Beck & Branch with a new title, The Current Fantasy. Visit https://www.beckandbranch.com/the-current-fantasy. Season One's novel, The Drift That Follows Will Be Gradual, will be released in August by Open Books, where it is now available for pre-order. Visit https://www.open-bks.com/library/moderns/the-drift-that-follows-will-be-gradual/order.html Catherine Hein's novel THE CELEBRITY resumes next week.    

The Bright Side shines a light on stories of hope and problem-solving people around Australia.

The Bright Side shines a light on stories of hope and problem-solving people around Australia.

The Bright Side shines a light on stories of hope and problem-solving people around Australia.

In this episode Aaron is joined by Immanuel Martinez, Public Works Division Manager at Sunland Asphalt & Construction,LLC. Although Sunland does some pretty awesome work all throughout Arizona and other parts of the southwest, in this episode Aaron focuses on a project of sunland's that he saw personally last year in the southeast.  Without giving too much away, it's in Miami and features some very fast vehicles. Aaron and Immanuel discuss the intricacies of such specialized asphalt paving. Working with unique materials, tight tolerances and other contractors on site all while being a nation's distance away from the company's HQ, makes for some pretty interesting circumstances. To learn more about Immanuel and Sunland stay tuned for this fascinating episode all about asphalt.  **UPDATE** Dirt Talk is STOKED to announce Ariat as our first official sponsor for the year! They make world-class footwear and workwear that we see on every job site we visit, and their folks are just as great as their products. Dirt Talk listeners can receive 10% off their first order with Ariat by clicking here or visiting Ariat.com/dirttalk. If you have any questions or feedback, email the Dirt Talk crew at dirttalk@buildwitt.com. Stay Dirty!

The Bright Side shines a light on stories of hope and problem-solving people around Australia.

The Bright Side shines a light on stories of hope and problem-solving people around Australia.

This episode covers 6 stakes races this weekend. Three stakes from Sunland including the New Mexican Spring Futurity and West Texas Futurity. Also three from Remington Park headed by the Mr Jet Moore Stakes and Bank of America Championship Challenge. Thanks for listening. 

Der französische Schlagzeuger und Komponist Olivier Le Goas ist seit 35 Jahren aktiv in der internationalen Jazzszene. In seinen Bands spielten schon Größen wie Kenny Wheeler, John Abercrombie, John Escreet und Kevin Hays. Auf seinem neuen Album setzt er mit einem neuen, virtuosen Klaviertrio seine avancierten Rhythmus Konzepte mitreißend um. Für unsere Jazzredakteurin Beate Sampson das Jazzalbum des Monats März.

This year, Sunland-Tujanga hosted it's first Pride Festival. Several political candidates, activists and elected officials came out to support them.

Wow is all I can say about our guest in this episode, Suzanne Jean. Suzanne has spent more than 50 years in the social services arena. Much of that time has been creating and promoting a program called PowerED. She is the Director of Fit4Defense Consulting Ltd which is her springboard for bringing PowerED into schools and classrooms.   As Suzanne will tell us, bullying, especially of children, is significantly on the rise. She has reasons for this increase and will illustrate what is happening in our society that permits this to happen.   I believe this episode of Unstoppable Mindset is one of the most powerful ones I have had the privilege to conduct. Enough from me. I hope you will listen to Suzanne and take her observations and lessons to heart.     About the Guest:   Bullying Stops Here Bullying hurts! It is not merely physical aggression but includes persistent disparaging condescending, demeaning comments and behaviors that cause physical and mental anguish to others. The harm and costs are well documented, examples are illness, addiction, suicide, anxiety, depression, unemployment, and domestic violence. Under the umbrella of Fit4Defense, PowerEd classes work to help children, youth, adults, and seniors build a sense of confidence and self-worth through a variety of discussions, exercises, and self-defense techniques. The 4 in Fit4Defense's name represents "the four As," and this forms the pillars of the program. This training examines how attention, awareness, avoidance, and action can help people to break through self-imposed limitations and habits. Attention: It's about tuning in to the here and now. Observing others and the environment around you. Expanding perception and mindfulness. Awareness: Self-study-discovering what do you believe, feel, need, and want? Gaining skills to effectively communicate this. Feeling seen, heard, valued, and safe. Loving yourself and caring for others. Avoidance: Taking steps to stay safe, not only physically but emotionally. Action: The last resort, is to defend yourself if you are bullied or threatened. How do you stop bullying? You become 100% responsible for your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors and learn how to communicate them assertively   Ways to connect with Milam:   Website and Programs Offered: https://www.fit4defense.ca     About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hello once again, and welcome to unstoppable mindset where inclusion diversity in the unexpected meet. And as I always love to say the unexpected is the fun part about it. And I just learned how unexpected this is. I told her I was going to do this. Our guest today is Suzanne Jean who was on vacation in Maui. Can you believe it? Geez. And we didn't get invited along. And neither did any of you. I think that this is something that we need to discuss in some way. But Suzanne, seriously, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're really glad you're here and that you took the time to do this on a vacation.   Suzanne Jean ** 01:56 Oh, thank you my call and only for you when I get off the beach.   Michael Hingson ** 02:02 You couldn't have to be here. You couldn't have taken the laptop down and done it from the beach. Now there'd be too much surf. Well, well, yeah. Yeah. gotta you gotta do. Got to do what you got to do, right? I think you're the first person that I least recall, who has talked to us from Hawaii. If there's been someone else, I don't recall it. But Well, I'm glad you're having a good vacation over there. And you're in a wonderful place for it. So that's cool. Yeah. Well, tell us a little bit about you kind of as, as I described, I would ask sort of the early Suzanne growing up, what it was like being a kid or what anything like that, that you want to tell us so that we get to know you a little better.   Suzanne Jean ** 02:48 Well, the earliest is and growing up, it was pretty hyperactive, pretty busy girl, always moving. And it was quite interesting. Because I was living in Montreal, I am from Canada, and that's on the east coast of Canada. And I wasn't getting a lot of sleep. And my doctor said you have two choices, you have something called ADHD. And I'm gonna give you two choices. You either go on medication, or you take Tai Chi. And I went no, not Tai Chi, because I had seen people doing this very slow exercise. And I was very hyper. So not wanting to go on medication, I agreed to go down and check it out. And so I went to a Tai Chi class and I hated it. It's the very slow movement. But this woman said to me, Hey, after class, we all go to Chinatown and have a big feast. And it's only like 250 a person don't want to come and I said Now we're talking. So I had some motivation to go back to Tai Chi. And I I found it really did help me and helped me relaxed my metabolism. And it was the first beginnings of being mindful. And fast forward. I came to Vancouver and I went to find a Tai Chi teacher because now this is my, this is my prescription. I and I met this Tai Chi teacher and he said, Why are you doing tai chi? And they said, Because I you know, it's good for me. I'm, it's good for for my well being. And he said, No, you need to come to karate. And I said karate, I don't want to do karate and he said absolutely. You're born to do karate. He said, Come on over. So I said, I'll come to one class. He was also a tai chi. He was a Tai Chi teacher and he was just teaching Tai Chi to to make money to do while he was doing his PhD. So I went to his karate class and I never I walked out the door and bought my GI and I have never stopped. And I am now I just had my 70th birthday. So I've been doing martial arts since I was about 17. When did you move? Oh, go ahead. I continue to do Tai Chi.   Michael Hingson ** 05:18 Good for you, you know, stay loyal? Yes. When did you move to Vancouver,   Suzanne Jean ** 05:25 early 70s. So I moved to Vancouver, and I'm in social services. So I have about 5060 years of community based social service background. And I was working with at risk youth. And I was noticing that we were criminalizing their behavior that the caregivers, people working with these kids couldn't deal with the aggression and the anger and some of those behaviors. And rather than learn how to deal with that conflict, they were just, you know, putting them in jail, they were ending up. And then it's a vicious circle. So I began to become interested in how perhaps I could use martial arts and Self Defense in a way to give those workers more a feeling of security around those kinds of behaviors. And so I began to work doing that kind of de escalation training, and it was quite successful. And I, I began to see how I could build confidence quite quickly, through self defense. So that was the first seeds of realizing that there is some real power here. Because with with the dynamics of bullying, and aggression, and any kind of aggression, it's fundamentally a study of power. And when you can teach self defense and the pillars of the program as they evolved, you can see real substantial change in terms of, you know, giving youth and children insights into their strengths, and their unique qualities and their abilities to be safe. And so it kind of grew from there. I have written a book and and the first chapter of the book, there's a very interesting story, because I was teaching self defense to women, as well as and studying martial arts quite seriously. And I got a call one day, and it was from a woman and she said, your name Suzanne. I said, Yes. She said, I heard on the street that you're okay. And I said, really? No. Yeah, I said, and she says, I'm a sixth grade worker, and we're in trouble. There's a serial killer. And two of my friends have been murdered. And we need self defense. And I, and this took really took me aback, right. I was like, what? And she said, Will you teach us and I said, Well, I'll agree to meet with you, and see if that would be viable. I have no idea at this point. And so she set up a meeting and the meeting was at two in the morning at a restaurant, and I arrived, and there were 50 women showed up for the meeting, in the middle of the night. And we chatted and I had no idea if I you know, I've never done anything like this before. They had no idea. But I wanted to help them. Because they were so sincere. And I said, Look, there's we'll give it a go. I said there's three conditions you show up and you're not wasted on drugs and alcohol, you know, you're in good, fairly good shape, you show up, and that you just give it 100% You give it everything you have. So the woman, Rhonda, the the woman who was organizing the whole thing said, I know the minister at the church, and I'm sure he'll let us practice there. And I think the classes should be 730 in the morning before we go to bed after work. So I was like, again, just like okay, so mostly they could meet the condition of giving it everything but you know, they would come off their shifts, or they were and it was amazing. And to see the sentence of To see the change in them to see them grow, to start to recognize the community and support each other. And realize, you know, if a car if if Sunland felt the car was unsafe to get into, they would they wouldn't do it. They started learning the moves. And it was a remarkable learning experience for me, I was just so impressed with that. It's at least   Michael Hingson ** 10:32 good that they, they did it at a fairly decent hour in the morning, but before they went to bed, that's pretty cool. But 730 In the morning, better than 2am Every day, I'll say. But by the same token, I can see what you're saying that you are teaching them self defense. And probably a lot of them, maybe most of them felt somewhat defenseless right from the outset. And so you are instilling a lot of confidence in these women where they didn't have it before.   Suzanne Jean ** 11:07 Mm hmm. Absolutely. And so as my program, my program is called power, and as I said, you know, it is it is a study of power. And there's four pillars to the program. And the first pillar is attention. And that's around tuning into the here and now and really observing yourself observing others observing the environment around you. And the you know, as they say, where your attention goes, your energy flows, so much of, for young people, so much of the world is in this little box, right? It's in social media, it's on telephones, it's gaming, it's on computers. And they're not looking at words, they're not looking at each other. In, in a way, that's when I saw when I do these classes, and we have discussions, they think it's rocket science, Oh, can we do that, again, that was really great. No, we're just we're having a conversation. But if you think about their world, that kind of attention is not something that's, that's common. It's not common. And part of that also, what I teach is being able to recognize LOA allies and people that can support you in your life. The second pillar is really the heart and soul. And that's awareness. And that is building self study, bringing people to recognize what they truly believe and feel and what they want. And then having the skills gaining the skills to be able to communicate it. So in order to force somebody to say no to getting into a car, right, that could be a threat to them to their lives, they have to care about themselves, they have to take that step where I do care about myself, and I'm not going to take that chance. So having that awareness and that self love loving yourself loving others, that piece is all about the self awareness pillar. So this is not, you know, you think of self defense, you just think of the physical, and I take it to a whole different level, I take self defense to a whole different level, a psychological level. The fourth, the third pillar is avoidance. And that's all the things you do to stay safe. And again, it ties into attention, recognizing what those things are, but and not not safety just from a physical but from a most emotional. So kids do learn street smarts, and they learn that sort of thing. But then they learn a little bit more about how to set boundaries for themselves, how to be emotionally safe. And in the way the awareness piece helps them to communicate that to others and set those boundaries with other people. And then the final one is the action piece. So that's where they have the skills to defend themselves physically and emotionally. If they're bullied or they're threatened. And the action piece is doesn't stop again, with just the physical, it moves into being able to make good choices and good decisions for yourself. So all those four pillars kind of are they're interrelated. But they support they support it pretty good mindset. So the program the classes themselves, involve physical self defense. discussions, self awareness exercises, perception exercises mindfulness, and physical, you know, games, they're pretty well rounded, because it has to be fun, I'm not going to get children and youth doing this unless it's really fun.   Michael Hingson ** 15:18 You mentioned before about the fact that a lot of their behaviors, over the years have become more criminalized and so on. Do you think that the behavior of children and younger people has actually grown worse? Or a relatively speaking or that people perceive that it has? Or is that really something that's happening, much less the fact that now we don't want to deal with it, we just send them off to jail?   Suzanne Jean ** 15:50 Yeah, I think there's elements that really, that make it a little more extreme, like get the gang thing. I mean, we all want a sense of belonging. And if kids can, in a really nurturing community and a healthy community, they're going to find a sense of belonging somewhere else, and the gang is a is a perfect place for it. And so, you know, my job is to really try to prevent, to teach them how to how to have that sense of community without needing to go to those places. And we have to talk to kids, we have to talk to her children. And, you know, sometimes I'm criticize, or you're opening these cans of worms, you're talking about these subjects, you know, sexual abuse and these subjects that we shouldn't be talking about suicide, and I said, No, we need to talk about these things. And we need to talk about how we can feel different, like how we can feel better about ourselves. And so those, that's where they really do appreciate those discussions, you know, because they'll say, Oh, I didn't know, anybody else felt like that. Because they're not texting and you feel like, oh, that's how I feel, right? This is important to know that, you know, or if I do this, it hurts. And what does that feel like? And why do you want to hurt somebody? Right?   Michael Hingson ** 17:20 That's so much of we're losing in the whole art of conversation, I've read articles about how we're, even as adults, forgetting the art of conversation, and we go way out on power trips, and other things like that we don't talk, we don't discuss feelings at all. That doesn't mean that every other sentence has to be about how we feel. But we really should do a lot more conversing and interacting and true engaging than we tend to do these days.   Suzanne Jean ** 17:55 And I'll just do simple lead ins to that, like, I have a sheet of all these feelings, and I'll do what I call a parent shear, where I say, Pick somebody you don't know, and, and choose a feeling of fear that you felt recently and tell another person about when you felt it and why. And that's the exercise. And they love it. Because they're talking about themselves. Right. And it's the lead in for me, obviously, to go into anger and teaching them about anger. Which, you know, again, leads into aggression and violence. And understanding that, and so you're right, it's a wonderful opportunity to bring get to and, you know, I think, for sure, Zoom has brought us all together and certainly through the terrible time of COVID. But having face to face having kids face to face, is where it needs to happen. And the physical self defense obviously has to be   Michael Hingson ** 19:00 tastefully physical, right? But even with Zoom, there are a lot of opportunities to augment the process, although it's not quite the same as physically being there, but you can do a lot with Zoom. You certainly can't do with texting.   Suzanne Jean ** 19:18 Yeah, for sure. For sure. But it is, yeah, it's those groups that I can really build the awareness in.   Michael Hingson ** 19:29 Well, age wise, you and I are pretty similar. I'm three years ahead of you. So not much, but we came up in went to school in the same general era. So one of the things that it seems to me we are facing a lot more now is this whole issue of bullying. I don't remember even being a blind kid in school. Ever been a real victim of bullying? I think there was was one time when one kid did but I never really found that was an issue and I never heard about it growing up. And although I wasn't in the big city, but still, I think I hear about it a lot more. Was your experience the same? And if so, why is it that it is so much more an issue? Or why are we seeing so much more bullying today?   Suzanne Jean ** 20:19 I think it's because we don't have healthy, self confident, confident kids who really know who they are. And, you know, they don't, they don't can't describe their values, they they're uncertain about their strengths are so much I, I pick up so much fear, and so much uncertainty and kids today, they don't, they don't believe the world is gonna, you know, they, the climate change, and all of these different things are a major factor for them in terms of their security. And I think that, out of that comes this this easy place to just put down others to feel better, you know, in any kinds of differences.   Michael Hingson ** 21:07 Yeah, because we, we don't have support systems like we used to, I remember growing up talking with, with other kids. And even more important, talking with my parents, and we talked about feelings, we talked about any issues that we felt sometimes we were a little reluctant, as kids are with parents, but still, our parents knew how to bring things out of us and really have those discussions. And there's so many reasons why it doesn't happen today. How do you get parents to deal with that with kids? Because as you said, the problem is all too often now we criminalize things. And parents haven't really learned that they need to deal with creating more self confident kids. How do we deal with that?   Suzanne Jean ** 22:01 Well, we've got to give them more time. I think that one of the things that, you know, if you look at families, and you look at all the commitments, and two working parents and all the pressures, there's a lot of latchkey kids, that are just coming home, and there's nobody there. And they need to be listened to. And often they don't even want you to solve anything, they just want you to listen, right? But if there's nobody there to listen, I'm very adamant that we have to address conflict and bullying in the schools in the communities. And we have to say, Well, why don't you just say, No, we have to take a stance. I mean, it is a World Health Organization, major issue, now they've declared it, it is so prevalent compared to when you and I were were young. And I think if you don't take a stand and you don't deal with it, then it's just gonna continue. And I believe that it has to be everybody on the same page coming together. Because it's so it's so often people don't want to deal with conflict. And if you can teach people how to steps to deal with conflict in a way that's really positive and has an amazing positive outcome, then they're more apt to try to do it the next time. Right? Right. But if everybody just turns their head, I mean, as there's another story in my book, this was in Canada, um, this boy was being seriously bullied at school and the teachers knew the principal's knew. The parents knew, and they did nothing. And he, his mum arrived at school in time to see him being murdered. And everybody went, right. But there was no intervention. And all of those people, including those boys had, that were bullying needed to be part of something to make that difference. Because a life was taken. And yeah, it's pretty that's an extreme case, but it happens in so many ways. One of the things with the kids, I do this exercise, Michael, and it is the most amazing, I do it in the first session. And I divide the group into three, and they have a big piece of paper and they answer the question, what is bullying? Why do kids bully and what can be done about bullying? And they and the papers moved from person to person, right? So all three groups get to answer all the questions and then they choose somebody to report that. Well, this is the first time that the bully and the bullied are sitting side by side and it's all are often the first time that the bully gets to see what other kids think of them. And they're described as weak as having problems. Problems at home, as like, you know, how. And you I, as an instructor, I can just tell which, which kids or which, right that looks on their faces. Because they don't, they've never seen them that other kids saw them that way. So I, my daughter is an instructor in in a middle elementary school. And she said, Mom, I really want you to come and do this program with me because there's a kid in the program, and he's, he's a real bully. And he's a problem. And they're say, he's going to ruin the class. I'm not, and I don't have the skills to deal with his behavior. So I'd love it if you did it with me. And I said, Absolutely, I'll do. So yeah, the principal and all the teachers had nothing but terrible things to say about this kid. I call them Johnny in the book. And we were doing this exercise. What is it really? Why do people believe what can you do bubbling? And little, this other kid, I was in the group with Johnny. And this other kid looked at me, and he said, you know, you're a bully, don't Johnny. And I thought, oh, here we go. He's gonna escalate. You know, we're gonna have a big scene now. And Johnny looked at me said, I know, but I don't want to be. And my heart just broke. And it was like, after this exercise, he made a 360 change. And he was, because he just saw it. He saw how I love   Michael Hingson ** 26:45 me. But why did he bully in the first place? Oh, he had?   Suzanne Jean ** 26:49 Yeah. The usual has, he was beaten? At home. Right? Yeah, that's, that's how you solve problems. You just hit somebody. But he had never, he had never had positive attention. So he happened to be he was a little Irish boy. And he happened to be so good at the techniques. So suddenly, other kids present, Oh, Johnny, you're really good at that. And I always do this, this demo thing like demo, and everybody shows their stuff. And, and he chose stuff. And, and at the end, the principal came in to see a demonstration at the end of the program, and you shouldn't have seen that kid shine. And and the principal is just like, I don't believe this, you know, and I said, Well, that's, that's the power of awareness. That's the power of awareness. That's holding an app and saying this, I don't, I don't want to be this, I want to be something else helped me be that. And for a lot of kids, it's shining the light, it's shining the light for them. Right?   Michael Hingson ** 27:48 It literally is true that poor Johnny didn't know anything else until you had this, this class in this program.   Suzanne Jean ** 27:57 That's what he knew. That's what he knew. So he was a bully, and he happy and, and, which is another thing they say about, you know, the kids say about bullies as well, they're very unhappy. They're very angry, they're very unhappy. You know, they just want to let they just want to act tough. They just want to, yeah, they're just really weak. It's like, wait a minute, I'm the tough guy. Yeah, so it's, it's, it's the power, it's the power of awareness. So it's changing. It's really, you know, moving those topics through and, and, and then more and more, I've been experimenting with mindfulness, giving them some tools to calm their calm their mind self regulation tools, because there's a lot of anxiety. And I think that also feeds into bullying. And it's, it's that kind of nonspecific, general anxiety. Like, you know, you'd need to be a psychologist, I guess, to get to the bottom of it, but it, it's messy. And it has a lot of weird sorts of characteristics in terms of behavior. But yeah, so I'm doing more of that, like, you know, breathing and slowing it down looking and they really liked those exercises. They liked the body scans and and the little guys will say, Oh, could you do that thing? Suzanne, where you put us to sleep? Yeah, I can do that again. So this program is really eclectic. I mean, it's got all these elements but it as I said, it breaks very nicely into those four pillars of attention, awareness. Avoid Then Senate action and taking a real direct route to trying to put some strategies in place to avoid bullying. So, in the book, in one of the chapters, I talk about how any organization can set up an anti bullying program in school, and the steps to doing that, I have done this. And they can, they can change the culture of their organization, if they put the steps into place. And those steps involve the parents. They involve the teachers, they involve the students, the peers, they involve the bullies. And the administration. So it's, it's a real program.   Michael Hingson ** 30:49 Do the kids oftentimes as they become more aware, how do I put this almost take charge and really deal with the bullies in a in a positive way? And, and become part of the solution? Yeah,   Suzanne Jean ** 31:04 you got it, it changes the culture, they decide what's not okay. And in a really positive way, they they, they start to make that happen? What kind of world do you want to live in? You know, how do you want to feel? Well, and as you   Michael Hingson ** 31:21 said, it's all about belonging, it's about belonging. And certainly, if the, a lot of the kids say this is not good behavior, this is not acceptable. And convey that to the bullies or to the people who continue to behave that way, at some point, they're going to recognize we're being left out.   Suzanne Jean ** 31:45 Yeah. And it's, you know, it's not difficult, it's not difficult to, to put this kind of thing in place. And having fit for defense, having the power ed program in there really takes care of the peer part. Because you can do peer training, you can train those kids to be leaders very easily. I sometimes train them to be navigators to take you know, if kids after they've done the program, they often what happens is, they'll start moving again. And they'll say, ah, you know, I used to play soccer, or I used to dance or I used to, or I want to study a martial art. And it's really hard for them to walk through those doors without somebody helping them. So I will sometimes pay kids on our areas to be navigators and to go with those kids. And go to the first martial arts class, you know, figure out where, what a good place would be sometimes with low income kids, we find funding, and just open those doors and get them moving again. And again, as you say, That's connection back to the community. So that's priceless. In terms of, you know, we're, then then we're at a whole other level in terms of good citizens.   Michael Hingson ** 33:03 Have you can you give us a you know, I love stories, can you give us a couple of stories about bullies who completely turned around and became very successful? And I, you, you gave one, but I'd love to hear, you know, more real success stories and why they're so important, and maybe how that helped other   Suzanne Jean ** 33:25 people? Well, I, I see change often with the, you know, with the really at risk kids, the angry kids who, who kind of, kind of put that down, they they in the course of of this training, they'll they'll put that aside, and they become the ones there's the they're the ones who are in foster care, you know, 13 placements, they're the ones that have have those kind of histories that we would just go, how did they even get here out of the Union survive, right? Yeah. And I have one such girl who I've worked with, who went through the program, and I trained her to be an instructor, and she was very out of control in her youth, and hurt a lot of people and hurt herself and was involved in, you know, addiction and the whole nine yards, and came through it. And she just passed past. She just graduated with her degree in social work. Wow. And about a month ago, I got a call to provide a reference for her for a job. And I was so proud to do that. And it was like that the whole continuum, the whole thrown full circle, right? Because all she wanted to do at that point was to give back to other kids and help help other kids who might have had a life like her. So, at some level,   Michael Hingson ** 35:06 she must have wanted to succeed right from the outset, except just didn't know how to deal with that. And you showed the solution or you showed her away.   Suzanne Jean ** 35:16 And it's not a straight line, obviously. Right? There's, you think it's, you think you're through the woods, and then the next thing, you know, there's something else but but the out the final outcome, and I know that she's, she will just be so wonderful, working with kids, and that's who she's going to work with. So, that's a great story. And then there's, you know, there's, there's the little stories. For, for some kids, it's so normalized to be bullied, they don't realize that they're being bullied. And that's one of the things in terms of the awareness, they realize what it is, you know, they and what their rights are, what they should, should, how they should be treated. And there was this one, I was doing an elementary school, and this little girl came to me and she says, I'm being bullied. And I said, Oh, and she said, It's my, my brother, he's always hitting me, he pulls the chair out from underneath, and I fall, and he hits me, and he slaps me, and he punches me. And he knocks my books out of my hands. And I'm walking to school. And she said, and I'm always scared. And I use bullying me. But she, she had gone to her parents, and they just laughed, and they normalized it oh, oh, he's just a boy. Right? It's just being a brother, right? And it's through the course of of power. He goes, he's I'm being bullied in and I said, Yeah, you are, and what do you want to do about it? And she said, Well, you talk about having a difficult conversation. She said, I want to have a difficult conversation. And I want to tell him what he's doing. And I want to tell him how I feel, and that he has to stop. And so I worked with her. We did, we wrote a script, we went through the steps. She practiced it several times. But I was a little worried that he would get really angry and hurt her. So it would they were in the cafeteria for the difficult conversation. And I was kind of just outside. You know, he couldn't see me, but I could hear it. And she went in there. And she told him and I thought, you know, he's gonna get super angry, he did get angry. But she continued, and she continued to give him as met the message, I love you, you're my brother, but you can't hurt me anymore. This is not okay. And I thought for sure that he was gonna lose it. But he started to cry. And he, he started to cry. And he said, I am so sorry. And then she cried. And they both cried, and they hugged and changed the game. changed the game. Yeah. And that was that would have gone on probably into adulthood. That pain that she was carrying, not only physically but mentally, right.   Michael Hingson ** 38:33 It's still all about having a conversation.   Suzanne Jean ** 38:37 It's about having a conversation. And having the skills and having the support behind you. Like she knew I was behind her to like, so she gave her that little bit of extra. She got to practice, you know, she got to know be clear on what she wanted to say. So that's what are saying, knowing what what it is you believe what it is you want. You have to know that before you can express it to somebody else. Before you can have that conversation in the power elite. These are all really, really I think, Barry's important tools.   Michael Hingson ** 39:17 You sort of talked about a little bit, but why self defense as part of the whole process? And is that a regular part of all the power ed programs?   Suzanne Jean ** 39:28 Absolutely. Because you can learn something in your body much faster than you can learn it in your head. So I can teach a boundary, a physical boundary and then move that to a psychological emotional boundary and have the kids get it faster. From having that feeling. I can teach defense position and build more confidence in kids being able to step back and protect their vital points than I could for in a month a Sunday. is talking about it. Because they can feel what defense is. They can feel their strength, when they hit a focus pad, they can feel how strong they are. They can let that out that energy out. That pent up anxiety. And I can move them into the parasympathetic nervous system. So they start to let go of all that. And, and get rid of the crazy the crazy head stuff, right? Yeah. So it is, yeah. It's a direct route. And if when we're talking adolescents cognitive is not, it's not the best starting point. I mean, their brains aren't even developed for the, you know, by the time until they're 2627. So yeah, I kind of short circuit it, I go into the body into the strength into the temple. And, yeah, that's where it's, it's fast. I can teach lessons fast. And I've just kind of, I'm just kind of put this together as I go along, right? I mean, I didn't have a manual, I wrote the manual. But trying stuff, seeing how it works, evolving it. And I'm still I'm still evolving. As I told you, I'm now I'm adding much more around self regulation and mindfulness and into the program.   Michael Hingson ** 41:32 Have you ever had a situation where you've gone through and done a lot of the teaching that you've done, and someone feels now that I've learned to defend myself and so on that my only way to deal with the bully is through strengthen, go off and deck them or something like that? Or do you find that people really get it and don't need to go that way?   Suzanne Jean ** 41:55 No, it's, it's, it's not   Michael Hingson ** 41:59 acceptable. But I'm just curious, we have found that that happened throughout   Suzanne Jean ** 42:02 now. It's mastery over yourself is true power. Right? If you can master yourself, you don't need to duck the person. You know, there's no need, you can handle it so much. It just takes care of itself when you have that confidence and that strength and that strength. Over You know, your own emotion. Yeah, it just, it takes that response out of out of the mix. And I've never had it happen. And it's also I teach, you know, lots of schools, and it's something that teachers worry about, and I have never had any buddy use the physical techniques outside of the classroom. Even bullies? Yeah, never. And I my deal to is, the instructors say this is, you know, this is really, this is special stuff, and you, you use it wrong, no more, you know, you want to learn this, you gotta, you gotta follow the discipline. So there is a, there is a lot of that martial arts discipline that I bring in their, that they respect each other, they show that respect, they understand what hurting is, pain is. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 43:30 And they, and they learn to feel why all this is important. And I'm thinking especially of the bullies who catch on, and realize what they've done or should do. And they, of course, as everyone does, but they especially it seems to me, become all the better for it.   Suzanne Jean ** 43:52 That's right. And it's always a new day, they can leave it behind, like it's a new day, they're gonna learn new things, this is it, you know, this is how we are we become powerful and how we become happy, and how we make good choices for ourselves and good decisions in our lives and how we get the things that we want. And so, yeah, I have not had I have not had an incident of that.   Michael Hingson ** 44:18 And that is that is wonderful in such testimony are testament to the success of the program by any standard, which is which is really great. And it is so unfortunate that we have to encounter so many bullies, and we live in a world where it's it's so hard because we've got I mean all of our politicians who clearly demonstrate absolutely no respect for each other and are not acting as role models at all. It really makes it hard to view them as leaders because they're certainly not leading by example other than being jerks a lot of the time.   Suzanne Jean ** 44:58 Yeah, And the thing about the the thing about power as well is, and that power of awareness isn't so many of our behaviors and our patterns and our habits, like they're, they're really unconscious, right? They're, they're learned, we learn to be a bully. But they're not, it's not their habits. And when you kind of shine the light with like, with Johnny, that's the beginning of making a positive change. That's the beginning of change. And I think the main success of this program is that I'm super non judgmental in that, like, we're not judging, we're not judging it, we're together, and we're where we're at. And there's not this, you need to be like this, or that, you know, it's just, you know, let's just look at ourselves. Let's look at why we do things and how we do things. And, and let's be curious. And so when the light is shone, it's in that nonjudgmental and the the positive change can happen. Yeah, it just frees it up. It's I don't know, it's it's the magic to me.   Michael Hingson ** 46:18 I think one of the biggest blessings that I got growing up was that my parents, really in cure encouraged a curious mind and encouraged me to be curious, of course, for me, it was more of a challenge, I guess, in one sense, or more of a necessity, maybe as a better way to put it because being blind, I didn't necessarily see things the way other kids did. But my parents really encouraged me to explore, and, and ask questions. And as a blind person growing up much before GPS, and a lot of the technologies we had today, asking questions, was the chief way that I would get information. And I wish more people would do that today. And one of the things I say about blindness, people are always thinking they are experts on blindness. And what I tell people all the time is the biggest problem with blind people or people who say they're experts about blindness is I've never tried it. You know, the reality is, it's, there's, there's a lot to learn, it's not something you're going to learn overnight, but know, or understand or understand. But the reality is that you can learn to be a very curious person you can learn to explore, and good teachers understand the value of, of exploring and talking and, and truly mentally growing to understand as you go along.   Suzanne Jean ** 47:51 Yeah, I think that's really critical. And I think it's, it's where that kind of development can happen. That personal development and growth is through that is through that curiosity and that willingness to kind of, you know, suspend judgment. And kids are so critical of themselves. I mean, you know, it's just everything is like, Oh, this is no good. That's no good. I can't I can't, I can't, I can't. Yeah, you can. You can, you can. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 48:31 You may not be able to do it yet, or you may not know the right way to do it. But you can and yeah, that's the biggest issue. When I was born, my parents were told to send me off to a home for handicapped children, because no blind person could ever grow up to do anything in society. And my parents playing out now disagreed with that. And that started the, the pathway that they they and I went on, and I think yes, yeah, absolutely.   Suzanne Jean ** 49:06 Yeah. It's very special parents, because at that time, you know, there wasn't, there wasn't an open mindedness around any disabilities.   Michael Hingson ** 49:20 It goes back to the basic though philosophy of whether it's disability or not, it still goes back to the basic philosophy of dealing with with kids from a parent's standpoint. It's harder today because there are so many things that can get a kid in jeopardy. And I don't mean that in a negative way, or like bullying, but just in general, and it is so hard to I think it's really hard to be a kid today because there's so many dangerous things that you have to deal with. And it's hard for your parents to deal with, but at the same time, we've got to let our kids explore and grow and We have to figure out or learn ways to help them with doing that. And allow them to grow and ask questions and maybe make mistakes and help them, but be part of their lives all the way around. And I know it's hard, especially with families where you have both parents earning incomes to support the family. But at some point, you got to do some of that.   Suzanne Jean ** 50:25 Yes, you do. And that's what I'm trying to do. With my program, and the program is for all ages, children and mainstream youth, my particular niche is the more at risk kids and those kids don't have families. So I tried to work with teaching them how to create a family of choice. Right. Right. And, but yes, for sure. It's so important. And so that that's being available. I mean, I was talking about these busy lives, right, being just being around just being available for your kids to talk to you. I mean, if you're not there, you're not there. Yeah, yeah. And   Michael Hingson ** 51:17 bottom line is you chose to be parents, mostly. There are some who probably didn't expect it, but it did happen. And if you keep the child, there are all the responsibilities that go with it. And so at some point, you've got to be able to make the time available to, to talk with them and to interact with them and make them feel wanted. And I know that's a lot of what happens to so many kids, they just really feel they're not wanted because the parents aren't around. And maybe they don't know how to express that to the parents to get the parents to understand why they have to do things a little differently, either.   Suzanne Jean ** 51:55 Yeah, they don't show important. They're not a priority.   Michael Hingson ** 52:00 And don't know how to say that.   Suzanne Jean ** 52:02 Yeah. Don't know how they don't know how to express it. But the thing when, when you when I was talking about the anti bullying strategy, when you get kind of everybody in the conversation, it's a great, it's, it's amazing how much people can bring to the table in terms of ideas, right, and commitment. And then nobody's nobody's feeling alone, right? Because they're actually doing something about it. And they're establishing some guidelines, and they're there. They're building an intervention, you have to I said that before you have to intervene, you have to be can't be afraid of conflict.   Michael Hingson ** 52:52 And you have to be very important. Yeah.   Suzanne Jean ** 52:55 Yeah. But having said talked about all of these things, as I said, this program is super fun. Like, it's, there's a lot of play in it, I add a lot of games, and a lot of play. We do. You know, they do slow motion fights, they're 10 feet away from each other, and they do the slow motion fights, and they do, you know, all kinds of tank games and all kinds of building agility and, and strength, then there's, they work with focus pads and full noodles. And there's all kinds of all kinds of things going on. So it's really it is really fun.   Michael Hingson ** 53:39 What is the focus pad?   Suzanne Jean ** 53:42 A focus pad is a hard, well, it's not that hard. It's a target that you use that you hit. Okay, so you learn punches, and but you actually get to snack something. So you get to feel your strength, you get to feel your strength, right, you get to follow through, and you get to exhale and focus your technique on focus, Pat, Better that than on a person. And it's a great feeling.   Michael Hingson ** 54:09 There you go. Yeah, we've, we've talked about parents a lot and so on. What do you say to parents who say, Well, I just don't have any time because we're both working all the time. You know, we've talked about those double income parents, but what what do you say to them?   Suzanne Jean ** 54:24 Create, Create some opportunities, create some special special time? Right? If you're both working like take make Saturday. Family time? Yeah. Where everybody you know, every week you get different person gets to choose what you do, but you do something together every week, right? You have to set you have to make it happen. You have   Michael Hingson ** 54:49 to make it happen. And that's the real issue, isn't it?   Suzanne Jean ** 54:52 Yeah. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 54:55 It's it's got to be a priority. To keep the family together, and I think that's also partly something that a lot of parents haven't learned. And, you know, you said there's no manual for a lot of this, there isn't necessarily a great manual for, for being parents, or at least parents don't seem to want to read the manuals that might help them a lot or, or haven't found them.   Suzanne Jean ** 55:23 Yeah, so one of the manuals for parenting that I got being a parent is that the best form of discipline is natural consequences. Yeah, that if there is a punishment of some kind, it has to be a consequence of that particular behavior. And it has to be within a short timeframe. And it has to be, it has to make sense. And it has to be consistent. Yeah. And so that's with what I teach in terms of setting up interventions with bullying, that there's a natural consequence to things. And that the person that's been harmed and the person that's harming figure that out together, yeah, there you go. And it's a natural consequence. So if you, you know, if you ripped up my scribblers or they still called scrollers.   Michael Hingson ** 56:25 If you punched a hole in my, my mat,   Suzanne Jean ** 56:29 you broke if you broke my earbuds,   Michael Hingson ** 56:36 there has to be a consequence. And   Suzanne Jean ** 56:38 yeah, you're gonna, you know, you're gonna save up your money and buy new some new ear buds. And say, sorry,   Michael Hingson ** 56:46 right, and that saying, Sorry, is a significant part of it, it isn't just replacing the ear buds. It's very being sorry, 21. and a half years ago, I worked in the World Trade Center and an escaped, and for for all the time, since then, I have talked a lot about not being really afraid. And there were reasons I wasn't afraid. But the the biggest reason was that I had created a mindset by learning a lot of things like what to do in an emergency in the World Trade Center. Also, having at that time worked with five guide dogs, I learned a lot of the same kinds of concepts that we're talking about here. There's a consequence for bad behavior. And it's not just when the dog behaves badly. But if I don't handle things in the right way, then I have to make amends and deal with the two because we as a team have to respect each other and make no mistake about it. It is a two creature team, both of whom have feelings. And both of whom might sense when the other does something that isn't supposed to be done. And you do you do have to fix it. But during the during the pandemic, I've realized that we don't talk about how to control fear or anything like that. So we're actually writing a new book called A Guide Dogs Guide to Being brave. And the idea is to teach people also about the fact that fear is not something that as I put it needs to blind you, you can use it as a very positive powerful thing. There's a lot of physical, physiological natural reactions, but you can learn to use fear in a very positive way. And that's, in part the kinds of things you're saying as well.   Suzanne Jean ** 58:30 Absolutely, it is very much the same. And when, when you're doing physical techniques together, and you're practicing those things, you come face to face with, you know, your own protection. And it's an interesting thing, to believe in yourself, you have to trust yourself, you have to trust yourself, and you had to trust your dog as well, right. And it definitely, the fight or flight response is in that limbic brain it's in and it has to, in order to come out of that and be able to think, move breve function. These are the skills that you're building.   Michael Hingson ** 59:31 But it is a two way, but it is a two way street. So the dog has to trust me as well. You know, the purpose of the dog is to make sure that we walk safely, not to know where to go and how to get there and there are a lot of reasons for that. But the dog has to trust me as well. And one of the things that I have said many times is while dogs love unconditionally, they don't trust unconditionally but the difference between dogs or most dogs unless they're really abused But the difference basically between dogs and people is, dogs are at least open to trust and they're at least open to trying to develop a trusting relationship. And we've been taught in so many ways, not to trust, to be fearful to be fearful.   Suzanne Jean ** 1:00:17 And and when you were coming out of the Trade Center were you confident that you were going to make it I was confident   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:27 I was going to make it. But at the same time, I kept an ear open like listening for the first sounds of the building groaning or something like that. So I, I stayed observant. But what happened for us was that the airplane struck 18 floors above us on the other side of the building, so neither I nor anyone else in my office or around me, or as we were going down the stairs, any of the people near me on the stairs, knew what had happened, we figured out an aeroplane must have hit the building, because we smelled in the stairwell, the fumes from burning jet fuel. But we didn't really think, well, most of us didn't really think that we would perish. There were a couple of times that some people started to panic. And we we worked on that all of us knew we had to keep everyone focused and going down the stairs. And we did that. And one of the people who at one point, Panic was my colleague, David Frank, who was in our office that day from our corporate office in California, because he was going to be talking about pricing. We were doing sales seminars for 50 people. They hadn't arrived yet. But David was there because he was responsible for a lot of the distribution and reseller pricing. And David on the 50th floor, said, Mike, we're gonna die. We're not going to make it out of here. And I just snapped at him very deliberately, David, stop at a for sale, and I can go down the stairs, so can you. And what David then did was, he said, I want to walk a floor below you, and shout up to you what I see on the stairs, because I gotta take my mind off of thinking about what might happen. And he and he did that all the way down the stairs. Did I need him to do it? I didn't need him to do it. But when Gates did it, he needed to do it. But you know, what was even better about it was that he became a beacon for anyone within the sound of his voice. Mike, I'm on the 44th floor. This is where the Port Authority cafeteria is going on down, not stopping. And so anyone who heard him knew there was someone on the stairs, who was okay. Now to David, think about that going down the stairs. I've never heard him say that he did. But still, he had to keep 1000s of people focused just by his shouting, as we went down the stairs, which I think is incredibly cool. Because he needed to do it for himself. And it turns out helped so many other people along the way as well.   Suzanne Jean ** 1:02:54 Amazing. Yeah, wonderful story.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:58 It is it is one of those things that, you know, doesn't get talked about much. But it but it did happen. But for me, I didn't worry about it. And as I would tell people now one of our biggest problems in the world is we worry about so many things, rather than just worrying about what we can control, we stop worrying about all the things we can control and just worry about what we can, we would be much less stressed, and much better off.   Suzanne Jean ** 1:03:22 And that's why I'm working hard to build confident, healthy kids. So we can control that we can give them those skills, we can give them the ability to make choices and to feel strong, and to be an entity and deal with their fears. And they have a lot of fears. Like I was saying, you know they're, they're pretty discouraged. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:52 And, and advice aren't helping.   Suzanne Jean ** 1:03:55 And when I first when I first started working in the field, kids, this kind of kids at risk kids, they were much more scrappy, they had more energy, they were you know, they had more resilience, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. And now there's this sense of defeat, depress there. I was I had a recent class and we were talking about anger and triggers what like what, what makes you what pisses you off? What makes you angry? You know, what makes you go from zero to 10 in terms of a trigger, and all all 10 of them, there's 10 of them in the group and they want to Oh, nothing nothing bothers me. Nothing makes me mad and, and oh, no, I don't have any triggers. And we went around the group and there was this one guy was an athlete. He was a rugby player and he says, Come on, man. Like, you know, you're on the field and someone just says you you don't get pissed off, like in the sport. No, I expect that that's just part of the game. So we went all around the group, and in this program, staff bring their dogs to work. And the kids love the dogs. And the dogs come in the classroom all the time. And they love the dogs. So they got that we got back to the to me. And I said, Okay, that's amazing. None of you have any triggers. So it's like, perfectly okay for someone to kick a dog. And they just went ballistic. They were like, No, you can't kick a dog. What did the dog ever do to you? And oh, wow. And I, you know, and they were all 10 of them were chirping away. They were like, Yeah, bla bla bla bla. And I said, I think I, I think you have a trigger. And then some of them were took that and they said, and it's the same with people. Like it's not okay to diss people. It's not okay to just like, you know, just put them down for no reason. And suddenly, this whole discussion was happening with this, but prior to me provoking them, it was like, No, everything's cool now. Everything's cool. Everything's cool. Yeah, no, it's not. No, it's   Michael Hingson ** 1:06:13 not. You just aren't ready to admit it yet. You're just not ready to acknowledge it. But and it's to use the same terminology, sometimes a challenge, but you found the trigger?   Suzanne Jean ** 1:06:27 Yes, I certainly did. Which is, which is great. Which is really kind of funny is when we're, yeah. Anyway, that's a cute story that happened very recently.   Michael Hingson ** 1:06:38 What do you do when you're not doing Power ed, and teaching and so on?   Suzanne Jean ** 1:06:43 I worked in social services. For many years, I ran a couple of agencies and mental health agency and an addiction agency. I built them from scratch and ran them. I then went on to work in quality assurance, which is kind of seeing that organizations maintain a really high level of standards around service delivery, and business standards in social services.   Michael Hingson ** 1:07:11 But what do you do today to relax to get away from all of this, other than making a trip to Hawaii?   Suzanne Jean ** 1:07:16 Can I continue to do martial arts? I'm working on my third degree black belt. And I'd like to achieve this year I still do Tai Chi, I do yoga. I said before, I'm very hyper, I have a lot of energy. I wrote my book. And so I've been promoting the book I've been teaching developing instructors. So my program is that it's a train the trainer, so I trained instructors to run the program. So I've been doing lots of that. I have some grandbabies. I have three grandkids, here you go. And they are joy, a total joy. I'm loving that. And yeah, I think life is good. Life is great.   Michael Hingson ** 1:08:03 I mean, that's that's the way it should be, you know, you can always find negative things, but you can always find positive things. And there's, you know, there's no reason to consider life in a negative way of their lives. It's too much of an adventure, not to want to be part of it.   Suzanne Jean ** 1:08:18 And like you said, Michael, so much to be curious about, even ourselves learning about ourselves still. There's so much it's just I No two days are ever the same. Which is great. Yeah. So Well,   Michael Hingson ** 1:08:36 this has been fun. And we need to let you go back to your vacation. And remember, I told you, we might go more than an hour, we have now gone 67 minutes. So we're doing well. We could probably keep going and you're very generous and kind of your with your time.   Suzanne Jean ** 1:08:53 Well, it's wonderful talking to you. You're amazing. If people want to   Michael Hingson ** 1:08:57 reach out to you learn more about the program or whatever. How do they do that?   Suzanne Jean ** 1:09:00 They can go to my website, it's fit4defense.com, and it's fit with a 4 pillars and defenses spelt with an S. So it's fit for defense.com and they can go on the website and learn all about it. Reach out to me. And if anybody is interested in starting an anti bullying program, I'd be happy to to guide them in that process.   Michael Hingson ** 1:09:29 I need to have you have a conversation with my cat. Oh, she's a wonderful kitty. She likes to get petted while she eats. Literally, she won't eat unless I'm in there petting her and she yells at me until I come in there and then pet her while she eats and she'll wake me up during the night. I've mostly got a little bit of a detente whether she can only do that once during the night and occasionally she tries to do it more than once and I'll wake up enough to say Ah, we didn't once but can't She's acuity and wouldn't have it any other way. It's great to have a cat that's engaged in Alamo who is my ace guide dog. And she get along. So that works out well.   Suzanne Jean ** 1:10:12 That's wonderful.   Michael Hingson ** 1:10:13 But I want to thank Oh, go ahead.   Suzanne Jean ** 1:10:15 It's been a pleasure talking to you. Well, I   Michael Hingson ** 1:10:17 want to thank you again. And I'd like to thank you for listening. Please give us a five star rating wherever you're listening to us. We really appreciate those ratings. And also, feel free to give us comments, you can reach out to me via email by going out emailing Michaelhi at accessibe A C C E S S I B E.com. 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Nearly 50 years ago, Chuck Corbisiero and Bill Cushing grew up across the street from each other. Now the two have gotten together to present a show consisting of Bill's poetry and Chuck's musical musings. The two reconnected at the end of 2015 when Bill presented a reading commemorating his publication in an anthology called Stories of Music. Now their mutual love of music has brought them together to offer a unique look at the world through the marriage of music and writing that the two have called “Notes and Letters.” Bill, an MFA graduate from Goddard College in Vermont, has lived in the Los Angeles area for 20 years and teaches English at area community colleges, has been publishing professionally since 1987 and began poetry as a serious avocation two years later. Chuck, a guitarist who plays Jazz, Blues, Brazilian and various other musical genres, earned his B.F.A. in Musical Performance and Arranging at the City University of New York - The City College during Gil Evans' tenure as Artist in Residence from 1982 to 1983, also plays stand-up bass and worked as Eddy Arnold's guitarist until 1992. He moved to the area in 1991when he began his family. Now their mutual love of music has brought them together to offer a unique look at the world through the marriage of music and writing called “Notes and Letters.” Last March, the two performed during the open mic segment of the Second Sunday Poetry Series held at the Studio Theatre in Los Angeles. Based on that, they have secured their first stand-alone show, which will be held at the Bolton Hall Museum on the afternoon of Sunday, July 24 and is being sponsored by the Village Poets of Sunland; Tujunga. Back together again—for the first time, and available “We'd actually like to put on some events before that date,” Bill said, noting that although they are working on several promotional ideas and projects, there is no hard-and-fast schedule they have to meet. “We are playing it by ear—much like we do our own presentation. We aren't locked into any solidly rigid structure, and even the performances are ‘informal' to a great degree, which is by design.” The two have culled together poems that touch on topics as varied as nature, the city, religion, Peru, and Puerto Rico as well as music itself. Two items on their to-do list already completed are the publication of a short chapbook of the material to be used and the opening of a Facebook page dedicated to posting information as well as prior performances. Both items are similarly named “Notes and Letters.” The book is available online through either Amazon or Lulu Publishing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lisa-tomey/message

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The finale of SUNLAND, by screenwriter, journalist and novelist Charlie Haas, about the brief desert flowering of a group of German artists, musicians, and free spirits who voyage to Southern California, “the America of America,” in 1914 to start the world over. They're fleeing cops, city life, sexual norms, the oncoming world war, and the Internet of their time--the  telegraph, telephone, and movies--in favor of naked farming, altruism, and wild new music. The main characters, a family of four who abandon Berlin in hope of a saner life--middling violinist-dreamer Anna, factory worker Gerhard, prototypical flower child Lilli, and budding tech futurist Benjy--branch out from the fields of San Bernardino to the real estate tracts of burgeoning L.A., at once wrestling with and setting in motion the longings and questions that have beguiled and bedeviled every American generation since.CREDITS:Charlie Haas's screenwriting credits include Over the Edge, Tex, Gremlins 2, and Matinee. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, New West, The Threepenny Review, and Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, along with many other journals. Haas's previous novel, The Enthusiast, was published by HarperPerennial in 2009. Follow his Twitter feed at: @Charlie_Haas.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Find out more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms.Closing credits songs for Season 2 are “Lullaby of Sunland,” composed and performed by Ben Rifkin, and “Trapeze Dress,” composed and performed by Dean Chamberlain. News and touring information about Dean are at therealcodeblue.com.Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.Sound production by Ben Rifkin.

Episode 11 of SUNLAND, by screenwriter, journalist and novelist Charlie Haas, about the brief desert flowering of a group of German artists, musicians, and free spirits who voyage to Southern California, “the America of America,” in 1914 to start the world over. They're fleeing cops, city life, sexual norms, the oncoming world war, and the Internet of their time--the  telegraph, telephone, and movies--in favor of naked farming, altruism, and wild new music. The main characters, a family of four who abandon Berlin in hope of a saner life--middling violinist-dreamer Anna, factory worker Gerhard, prototypical flower child Lilli, and budding tech futurist Benjy--branch out from the fields of San Bernardino to the real estate tracts of burgeoning L.A., at once wrestling with and setting in motion the longings and questions that have beguiled and bedeviled every American generation since.CREDITS:Charlie Haas's screenwriting credits include Over the Edge, Tex, Gremlins 2, and Matinee. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, New West, The Threepenny Review, and Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, along with many other journals. Haas's previous novel, The Enthusiast, was published by HarperPerennial in 2009. Follow his Twitter feed at: @Charlie_Haas.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Find out more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms.Closing credits songs for Season 2 are “Lullaby of Sunland,” composed and performed by Ben Rifkin, and “Trapeze Dress,” composed and performed by Dean Chamberlain. News and touring information about Dean are at therealcodeblue.com.Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.Sound production by Ben Rifkin.

Episode 10 of SUNLAND, by screenwriter, journalist and novelist Charlie Haas, about the brief desert flowering of a group of German artists, musicians, and free spirits who voyage to Southern California, “the America of America,” in 1914 to start the world over. They're fleeing cops, city life, sexual norms, the oncoming world war, and the Internet of their time--the  telegraph, telephone, and movies--in favor of naked farming, altruism, and wild new music. The main characters, a family of four who abandon Berlin in hope of a saner life--middling violinist-dreamer Anna, factory worker Gerhard, prototypical flower child Lilli, and budding tech futurist Benjy--branch out from the fields of San Bernardino to the real estate tracts of burgeoning L.A., at once wrestling with and setting in motion the longings and questions that have beguiled and bedeviled every American generation since.CREDITS:Charlie Haas's screenwriting credits include Over the Edge, Tex, Gremlins 2, and Matinee. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, New West, The Threepenny Review, and Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, along with many other journals. Haas's previous novel, The Enthusiast, was published by HarperPerennial in 2009. Follow his Twitter feed at: @Charlie_Haas.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Find out more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms.Closing credits songs for Season 2 are “Lullaby of Sunland,” composed and performed by Ben Rifkin, and “Trapeze Dress,” composed and performed by Dean Chamberlain. News and touring information about Dean are at therealcodeblue.com.Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.Sound production by Ben Rifkin.

Episode 9 of SUNLAND, by screenwriter, journalist and novelist Charlie Haas, about the brief desert flowering of a group of German artists, musicians, and free spirits who voyage to Southern California, “the America of America,” in 1914 to start the world over. They're fleeing cops, city life, sexual norms, the oncoming world war, and the Internet of their time--the  telegraph, telephone, and movies--in favor of naked farming, altruism, and wild new music. The main characters, a family of four who abandon Berlin in hope of a saner life--middling violinist-dreamer Anna, factory worker Gerhard, prototypical flower child Lilli, and budding tech futurist Benjy--branch out from the fields of San Bernardino to the real estate tracts of burgeoning L.A., at once wrestling with and setting in motion the longings and questions that have beguiled and bedeviled every American generation since.CREDITS:Charlie Haas's screenwriting credits include Over the Edge, Tex, Gremlins 2, and Matinee. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, New West, The Threepenny Review, and Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, along with many other journals. Haas's previous novel, The Enthusiast, was published by HarperPerennial in 2009. Follow his Twitter feed at: @Charlie_Haas.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Find out more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms.Closing credits songs for Season 2 are “Lullaby of Sunland,” composed and performed by Ben Rifkin, and “Trapeze Dress,” composed and performed by Dean Chamberlain. News and touring information about Dean are at therealcodeblue.com.Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.Sound production by Ben Rifkin.

Episode 8 of SUNLAND, by screenwriter, journalist and novelist Charlie Haas, about the brief desert flowering of a group of German artists, musicians, and free spirits who voyage to Southern California, “the America of America,” in 1914 to start the world over. They're fleeing cops, city life, sexual norms, the oncoming world war, and the Internet of their time--the  telegraph, telephone, and movies--in favor of naked farming, altruism, and wild new music. The main characters, a family of four who abandon Berlin in hope of a saner life--middling violinist-dreamer Anna, factory worker Gerhard, prototypical flower child Lilli, and budding tech futurist Benjy--branch out from the fields of San Bernardino to the real estate tracts of burgeoning L.A., at once wrestling with and setting in motion the longings and questions that have beguiled and bedeviled every American generation since.CREDITS:Charlie Haas's screenwriting credits include Over the Edge, Tex, Gremlins 2, and Matinee. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, New West, The Threepenny Review, and Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, along with many other journals. Haas's previous novel, The Enthusiast, was published by HarperPerennial in 2009. Follow his Twitter feed at: @Charlie_Haas.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Find out more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms.Closing credits songs for Season 2 are “Lullaby of Sunland,” composed and performed by Ben Rifkin, and “Trapeze Dress,” composed and performed by Dean Chamberlain. News and touring information about Dean are at therealcodeblue.com.Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.Sound production by Ben Rifkin.

Episode 7 of SUNLAND, by screenwriter, journalist and novelist Charlie Haas, about the brief desert flowering of a group of German artists, musicians, and free spirits who voyage to Southern California, “the America of America,” in 1914 to start the world over. They're fleeing cops, city life, sexual norms, the oncoming world war, and the Internet of their time--the  telegraph, telephone, and movies--in favor of naked farming, altruism, and wild new music. The main characters, a family of four who abandon Berlin in hope of a saner life--middling violinist-dreamer Anna, factory worker Gerhard, prototypical flower child Lilli, and budding tech futurist Benjy--branch out from the fields of San Bernardino to the real estate tracts of burgeoning L.A., at once wrestling with and setting in motion the longings and questions that have beguiled and bedeviled every American generation since.CREDITS:Charlie Haas's screenwriting credits include Over the Edge, Tex, Gremlins 2, and Matinee. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, New West, The Threepenny Review, and Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, along with many other journals. Haas's previous novel, The Enthusiast, was published by HarperPerennial in 2009. Follow his Twitter feed at: @Charlie_Haas.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Find out more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms.Closing credits songs for Season 2 are “Lullaby of Sunland,” composed and performed by Ben Rifkin, and “Trapeze Dress,” composed and performed by Dean Chamberlain. News and touring information about Dean are at therealcodeblue.com.Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.Sound production by Ben Rifkin.

Episode 6 of SUNLAND, by screenwriter, journalist and novelist Charlie Haas, about the brief desert flowering of a group of German artists, musicians, and free spirits who voyage to Southern California, “the America of America,” in 1914 to start the world over. They're fleeing cops, city life, sexual norms, the oncoming world war, and the Internet of their time--the  telegraph, telephone, and movies--in favor of naked farming, altruism, and wild new music. The main characters, a family of four who abandon Berlin in hope of a saner life--middling violinist-dreamer Anna, factory worker Gerhard, prototypical flower child Lilli, and budding tech futurist Benjy--branch out from the fields of San Bernardino to the real estate tracts of burgeoning L.A., at once wrestling with and setting in motion the longings and questions that have beguiled and bedeviled every American generation since.CREDITS:Charlie Haas's screenwriting credits include Over the Edge, Tex, Gremlins 2, and Matinee. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, New West, The Threepenny Review, and Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, along with many other journals. Haas's previous novel, The Enthusiast, was published by HarperPerennial in 2009. Follow his Twitter feed at: @Charlie_Haas.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Find out more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms.Closing credits songs for Season 2 are “Lullaby of Sunland,” composed and performed by Ben Rifkin, and “Trapeze Dress,” composed and performed by Dean Chamberlain. News and touring information about Dean are at therealcodeblue.com.Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.Sound production by Ben Rifkin.

Today we're going to talk about attraction. How about 4500 leads just through Tik Tok? the person who created that is on the other end of this podcast. And he's not even in the United States of America. This is the power of content creation and done consistently.Our guest today, Rob Roper, is also known as the Aussie Mortgage Guy. He teaches financial education to anyone willing to learn and has over 300,000 followers on Tik Tok. Three Things You'll Learn in This EpisodeHow do we deal with the market shift?How to stay ahead of the market.Make sure you aren't missing out on clients.ResourcesCheck Out His Tik Tok pageReal Estate Marketing DudeThe Listing Advocate (Earn more listings!)REMD on YouTubeREMD on InstagramTranscript:So how do you attract new business? You constantly don't have to chase it. Hi, I'm Mike Cuevas a real estate marketing. This podcast is all about building a strong personal brand people have come to know, like trust, and most importantly, refer. But remember, it is not their job to remember what you do for a living. It's your job to remind them. Let's get started.What's up ladies and gentlemen, welcome to their episode of the real estate marketing dude podcast. What we're doing here today, folks is we're going to talk about attraction. How about this 4500 leads organically simply just through tick tock, the person who created that is on the other end of this podcast. And he's not even in the United States of America. This is the power of content creation and done consistently, those of you listening to the show, I've been doing this for six years now. And because of that, I get to be guests from all over the world just like this dude. He is a listener on the podcast, he's implemented a lot of the content that we talked about here amongst other podcasts that he listens to. And that's how we met. If I don't have a podcast, we don't have this conversation. But a podcast is just a form of media no differently than creating content on Tiktok is creating videos consistently. Any and all the above. And if you're not in the business of content creation, you are going to be out of business, I promise you. That's what's happening. And maybe not in Brisbane, Australia, where this guy's from, but at least here in the States. 100%. So without further ado, let's go ahead and introduce our guest, Rob roper. Hello, mate.Well done on the Aussie accent buddy. That was perfect.Thanks for having me on the show, Mike. Yes, sir. Why don't you tell everyone a little bit about where you're at? Where you're from? Yeah, a lot of questions for you. Yeah, so I am a started off as a mortgage broker down in Perth, in Western Australia. And it became very clear to me when I started out as a broker and I was new new to the mortgage broking industry back in May or May or June of 2021. It became very clear to me that the pressure point for a lot of businesses but brokers and real estate agents, in particular, is that how are you going to find your customers and so I went on a bit of a social media journey. And Tik Tok was the platform that I decided I could reach the most virality on. So that's where I put all my energy into. And then yeah, that's where I am today. 45 leads down the track, which is converted to a very, very successful business. 4500 leads. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. 4500 leaves 4500 leads and your mortgage broken. You just started what? 2021?Yeah, yeah. music industry. So. So I was licensed in May. And then I started producing content in June. So fresh off the bat. And my background is actually in education. So I've been a high school teacher for 10 years. And then during that time, also ran my own tutoring business where I have 15 staff that provide tutoring services from grades one all the way through to grade 12. So I had experience in business and marketing. But yes, new to industry in terms of the mortgage broking world back in 2021. So your teacher you like to teach, I'm guessing what was the content strategy? Most people are like, What the hell do I create? How did you figure it out? What did you end up doing? Well, the very first piece of content I posted, crashed and burned. So that took a nice and nice hit and you didn't, you didn't quit? Why didn't you?Well, I quit for a couple of days, I have to admit, a couple of days, I thought that maybe this is maybe this isn't for me. And then I thought you can't just end on one post. Come on, give it another go. So I thought what are the students in my classroom? What do they often say to me when they reflect on an engaging lesson? And really, it just comes down to? Did they walk away from that little 15 minute block? And did they take away knowledge? And can they remember it? And then I thought, What am I doing? I just need to teach in front of the camera? Yeah, so I set up that I set up the camera in front of the whiteboard in my tutoring center. And I just started teaching for 60 seconds about how in Australia, a credit card limit can negatively impact how much the bank will let you borrow for a home loan. So I just shared that information, did it in a digestible way on the whiteboard. And it was it was so bad that I was unaware of how to how to use the TIC tock app at the time. And so you know, the video ended mid sentence like I didn't even wrap the video up well, and it went on to get 70,000 views or something like that over the next couple of days. And then I thought geez, if that's gonna get 70,000 views, maybe I'm onto something here and then that was a little spark which ignited the 60 day challenge that I went on, which was to try and post one piece of content for 60 days. And that's what you did and then all sudden, it just took off and you're like what am I doing what's going on and you're just go along for the ride yet. Exactly.There was a mortgage broker over in Canada, named Enrique. And he had, I think he had 14,000 followers on Tiktok, which was, you know, which was impressive. And so without him knowing he became my, he became my target my challenge, right. And over 60 days, I thought, if I can get to his kind of follower level, it's really proof that maybe I can build out a successful business on this platform. And I think it took me 45 to 50 days, it was around that point, and I got to the 14,000. And then after that, it kind of just, it just kept going. So it probably took six months to get to around 30,000 followers. And then it took another six months to get from 30,000 to 300,000.You're doing this quite a bit. So I'm imagining thatyou sort of have an idea. Are you saying that after six months of consistency, that's when most people see results?Well, big results? I mean, big, big reason. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, look, I think it was within the first week. It was the first six days that I got to 900 followers. And the reason why I remember that is it's the first point that I received a lead. So somebody actually sent through and said, you know, can you help me? Can you answer my questions, which ended up just like a back and forward direct message exchange, but that that lead actually turned into a conversion. So that drew down, I think it was three months later, you know, by the time we went through the process and sorted the loan out and everything. But for me in terms of when the business became viable and Tiktok, it was a weekend because that's when I got first lead that turned into businessat at the six month point I was having to so when I had 30,000 followers, I was having to say no, I had to turn away 95% of the leads that were coming in, because I just I couldn't manage that volume. And it was at that point that I then went, Well, maybe, maybe I've unlocked a little a little a little secret here. And and maybe I figured out that communicating to people on Tik Tok is kind of my, my super skill. So why not continue to do that double down on that? Find some of the best mortgage brokers in Australia because remember, I was only six months new to the industry at that point. You know what you're doing? You're on let's stop right here. Let's stop right there. I just got off the call with somebody.And a lot of people like are hesitant when they come to do on get on video, they're like, well, people are going to trust me. Are they really going to believe me? I've only haven't done a deal yet. Listen, if you want to build your authority, the first thing you do is get on video. This is the exact example I just gave you or 25 minutes ago. I said, Look, I'm not a chef. But if I want you to think I was I would shoot seven videos in Sunland to you each day, by the time that you'd be asking me for my recipe. Exactly, exactly. He's amazing. That's the power of authority and positioning the fact that I think it's all psychological. But I think that when people see you on video, because most people are scared shitless to get on it themselves are like, Well, fuck, this guy's got balls. And I respect that. And he must know what he's doing.Yeah, yeah, it is. It is amazing. That was one of the things that blew my mind was how quickly I became perceived as an expert. And sort of Yes, I was, you know, and yes, I was learning I was I was learning all of these new concepts. And, and when you throw yourself into the public eye like that, it actually does increase your accountability, right? And it does make you go, if I am going to talk about this stuff, I need to know what I'm saying. So that was great for that six months journey. But yeah, it was at that point that I was then like, I'm gonna have to find some brokers all over Australia that can deal with this volume. And that's when I reached out to them, and started creating this trusted finance network. And so now what I primarily do is I get the lead ID and then I transfer that lead out to a mortgage broker that specializes in what that customer is looking for based on their financial information.Theone who controls the leads, controls everything. And when you have a faucet, you can turn on turn off, you have a lot of leverage. And I want you guys to think about that. Like if you still believe you're a salesperson chasing a Chuck, I think you're gonna be the fuck out of this business very soon. Excuse My French but I need to hammer the point down here. And nobody cares about you. You're not that fucking important guys. I'm sorry. But no one knows what you do for a living. We don't remember what you do for a living. It is not your their job to remember you have to get out there and constantly let them know what you do for a living. And if people like you trust me, the business will show up. Everyone lives somewhere. So it's not a matter of time until they're gonna buy a house. Or if they're gonna buy a house. It's a matter of time until they do. And 10 to 15% of our net works at sea as tick tock videos will 10 to 50% of people sell those views. They're moving this year.Yeah, yeah, it's a numbers game. It's math. Walk me through your content streamEnergy. Because people struggle Yeah, all the time. You got your, you wanted to educate your teacher, I think that's extremely important. People don't remember what you do or what you're talking about in video, they remember how you're doing it. And the fact that he put himself in his own environment in front of a whiteboard, being a teacher is probably where he became authentic. So, and that has a big deal to do with how you create content. So I want to give you a couple examples on that. It's not the what you create. It's not how you're doing it that people remember and pay attention to. And if you start doing it awkward, well, you don't get paid attention to. So you have to really find out your content strategy. It's extremely important. We have people that are going to gym, their gym, they're out there, like straight arrow, they don't drink, they're just they own gyms, and they pay their mortgage brokers. So all their contents done in the gym. He's always he's always talking about as a healthy investment. Right? There's a way that you can communicate, to dial in your brand, you guys. I'm a dude and allows me to swear on my show, but it's just really who I am. At the end of the day. People don't remember my boss, Mike Cuevas shows up at 530 When I get home for my kids, from nine until five, I'm the real estate marketing dude. And I speak with my brand, guys. So you have to realize you have a brand. Okay? If you're running a business, you have a brand or you don't have a business.That's That's exactly right. My I am Rob ropac shows up. You know, when I go to the high school, still, Rob Roper shows up when I go home. But Rob Lowe, the Ozzie mortgage guy is the guy who shows up on Tik Tok. And he's the one that you want to have a beer with down at the pub and ask a couple of questions about how to buy a home. And, and being able to create that persona and understandthat that's who I am on this platform is one of the really big drivers to why they feel like they can trust me, and why they feel like that rapport is there. So that was I'm glad you touched on that mark, because that was the first strategy is you need to build out your persona. And you need to understand who your target market is. And, you know, I think that I think another really good important point is to is to make your persona authentic. If you just create a completely fake person, you're never going to be able to hold it, you know, consistently do it, you need to make sure that that fake person is actually just a dial up of a particular part of your personality. And then you can create it with an authentic mindset. So yeah, well said. But once you've got that persona, it's then about Well, well, what strategies can I put in place within that 62nd video, in order to try and push it out to as many eyes as possible. And to start with, I had no idea what I was doing. But over the last 12 months, I've developed some really clear strategies to and it doesn't work every time, you're still gonna have videos that crash and burn. But it increases the likelihood that more people are going to see it and more people are going to engage with it. And then it's going to get those leads, and then convert them into customers down the track. People always ask what's the road? What's the secret? Yes, yeah. Consistency, like there's no secret. Some videos are gonna suck, and you're gonna get turned off. You're gonna get some haters on some video. How many times have you gotten haters on some of your tech talks, and then be like, you're just like, Fuck off, dude, go pound sand who gives a shit? And people get deterred by that. But when you get your first hater, you got to take that as a badge of honor. Because if people are watching your stuff, you're not God. You're not meant to resonate with everybody. And I believe that the more people you turn off, the more dialed your branding strategy. Yes. Yeah, exactly. And the other thing too, is, you know, the most frustrating thing as a content creator with 320,000 followers, is that you can post a video that gets 100 views, but it's actually the most beautiful thing because it means that when somebody has zero followers, they can post a video that gets 500,000 views. And for me, I prefer to be on a social media platform that can have that type of virality rather than being stuck on a Facebook or an Instagram platform where my engagement stats are representative of my follower size because I feel like you can just plateau very easily. There's a ton of people talk talk to him about how important it is to like know the platform and beyond it like I just started tick tock because I'm not on tick tock, but I'm not gonna go on tick tock until I engage and start working on tick tock and I'm going through the process myself, I'm late to the game on tick tock, but I've been busy and have trans and until I was able to go all in and commit to it. Now I'm there and I just started getting pretty consistent on it. So I want you to coach me a little bit here. Show I want you to walk me through because I think a lot of people are going to be in this position. If you're not on tick tock and you don't watch reels then don't make sure it's part of your video strategy period. So if you're not going to create short form video, then don't be on Tik Tok. Or if you're not on tick tock don't try to be because it has to be shit you're already doing. If you're on Facebook, you build your content strategy for Facebook. If you're on Instagram, you build your strategy for Facebook, but the only content strategy or platform that works is the one you use. So you have to you have to know it. It's not so many people. Oh my my real estate coach told me to go out and get a tick tock account. I have this question every fucking day on average calls it hey, I got this tick tock account. Yeah, I just I was told I could just post untilTalking all sudden I'm gonna get 4500 leads, it doesn't work that way. It does not work that way you guys, you have to commit to the platform if you want it to commit to you. So walk us through the importance of that. And through your content strategy. Yeah, look, that's exactly right. So persistence on that is the key. But one of the things that I did at the very start was I had my personal tic tock account, which I had been using for at least six months. So I was consuming and I understood the nuances to the trends. But what I did was I created another account. So a second account, that wasn't my business account. And it wasn't my personal account. And I pretended to be a first time homebuyer which I am not anymore. You know, I've bought multiple properties in my property journey. And I forget what it's like to be a first time homebuyer, so I spent a good month, just trying to engage in content that they might like stuff that's based on like aesthetics, and home decor and that type of content that I thought that they would be into. And once I kind of understood what the videos looked like that they might find interesting, it gave me a better direction in terms of what I could create, that was engaging. So that was one of the first strategies I put in place while I was getting my broking license before I even started creating content. So that was the preparation. But then once I started creating content, I quickly found out that the educational style videos I was producing, gave value to my audience. And that was one of the key things because if they get value, they then want to give it back to you by becoming your customer down the track. But it didn't show the part of my personality that was engaging and, and memorable. Right? Yeah, value is great. But you've got to then come up, come up with content that is either entertaining, or inspiring. And those two types of pieces of content. They're the ones that show your personality. So you want to make sure that your personality is present, because that's how you become memorable. I'm honest, tick tock account right here. And I'm looking at his thing and and he's known as the Aussie mortgage guy, right. And the Aussie mortgage guy that's personality, it just says he's a guy. It gives me the incentive. He's sort of laid back. But the Aussie thing is really tied into, I think, his audience, but he's posting his content in Australia. I was saying that if you posted the Aussie mortgage guy in the States, because people love the Australian accent so much, they will fucking crush it.Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, you know, of my 320,000 followers, I think it was the last time I checked was 36% of them were from the States. So it's, there's definitely, yeah, there's definitely people that consume my content over there. And because some of the content I produce is really specific to mortgages within Australia, but then some of the content I produce is just about saving and different savings strategies you can put in place to reach your savings goal. And that type of general global content is what I find people in America are eating up on my channel, and I quite often get somebody going, Oh, I didn't realize that you could do that with a home loan. And and I say, Oh, actually, I don't think this relates to, you know, Virginia, or wherever, wherever it is that I can tell you from. So yeah, good. That's a good strategy, though. I didn't think about the the whole of the pot in my headline and how that relates to Americans. Yeah, cuz you're in the weeds.Alright, so I'm looking at some of your content on here. And like, everyone, overthinks a lot of this stuff, tell me what type of videos I see you're doing some react stuff? I see you doing just some like you're just answering questions like is that your strategy? You'll be you asked you ask a question and you just answer it, it can it really be that simple. It really can be that simple. And to start with, you have to, you know, really, there aren't too many people who just start out as mortgage brokers and start a tick tock page and become an expert within a couple of weeks, you know, that doesn't generally happen. Usually, you've been a real estate agent, or you've been a mortgage broker, you've been that for a long period of time. And then you're like, I want to start a social media channel. So you should already have a very big bank of all of these types of questions that your customers are asking throughout their journey, their customer journey with you, those questions should be what informs your content at the very start. And so for me, now, once you get the ball rolling, the snowball effect, you know, as you get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, you know, I think I wrote this down just before I came on the show, but in the last 28 days, I've had 3512 comments. So you know, there's a lot of questions in those comments. And those questions help inform the type of content that I create that's specific to what my audience wants to know. So I'm answering questions, I'm finding other engaging pieces of content might be real estate walkthroughs. And that might be a home's up in America even. But it might be really aesthetically pleasing. Or it might be something that's interesting about that home or it might be that a real estate agent is showing the value of a home. All then Jouett that video as they're doing the walkthrough, and I say it's a $1.5 million home, and then I'll show that on a 3.5% per annum interest rate. This is what the repayments would look like. You could also go to a site called answer the public.com which you'll just type inLike your subject, and they'll give you a million different questions. And you're right, like watch those content, like watch the questions that they're gonna tell you what to create. But once you know what what content you want to create, it's just a matter of researching what people ask around. And so when you say this is content marketing, you guys now are you just doing Tik Tok? Are you repurposing any of this content? Are you taking these two reels? What are you doing with that? And are you just solely on tick tock? So I would say 95% of my time is spent solely on tick tock. But what I am doing is just repurposing so re downloading the same piece of tick tock content, really downloading it, so it doesn't have a watermark on it, and then reposting it to an Instagram page. But that Instagram page is probably running it. I think it was 3800 followers. The last time I checked, I checked. So the the engagement on that is is nowhere near that Tiktok what's the right cadence? I know you're posting consistently I'm assuming you're doing every day. But what's the importance of using hashtags, hashtags, and the tax and the lead end of the tax you write into it? You are limited some characters correct? Yeah, it used to be six months ago, it used to be a lot more limited. So they've actually increase the caption substantially. So much so that now when I write a caption, you know, sometimes I put in 15 hashtags, and I've never reached the limit. So that's not a worry anymore. The the text, I don't think is at the bottom, I don't think is that important, I usually try and embed a call to action within that text. But it's my secondary call to action, because I always have a call to action as a sticker within my video, so it's actually plastered on the video separate from the caption. But within the caption, I do definitely put in all of the hashtags. And I make the hashtags specific to my niche. That's really important because with tick tock now becoming one of the most you know, it's, it's, it's getting up there with Google in terms of being used as a search engine, you want to make sure that you're using those hashtags, so that when someone types in mortgage, or someone types in real estate, or your city, that you're one of the ones that come up there, and you will come up there based on how often your videos use those hashtags. Are you saving the same hashtags for each one? Or what's the hashtag strategy? I know a lot of people I don't know the answer to this either. So I'm curious. What how many should you put in there? And then are you always using the same ones? Or do you switch it up? Because the subject matter on in your case is probably like, you know, it's mortgage questions as finance, finance smart. Right? So yeah, let's see. Do you have consistent ones you use over and over? And what's the strategy behind that? Yeah, yeah, so I use probably, like eight or nine or 10 consistent ones every single time. And then I probably add in three or four, which are specific to how that piece of content has changed. For example, if it's a first time homebuyer, I'm trying to hit I'll put in there rent free and budget, there'll be two that I'll add, right? Because that's what they're trying to do. But if I'm looking, if I do a one that's focused on a property investor, maybe first time mom and dad investor, then I'll put invest investing, you know, wealth generation, something like that, or even potentially retirement because some of these people are in their 40s in their 50s. And they're thinking of having that little golden egg for when they retire.I like it.I think it's really good. I think it's, I'm trying to think what other questions I didn't ask you yet. How about the actual text? And how important is that, like, you know, on Facebook, you get old, the old or the AI is so smart. You're gonna read this, if you listen to the Guru's guys, if you hire a bunch of coaches, and it's true, this actually I didn't believe it until I started doing it. But Facebook so smart that their algorithms so smart that they'll read the text in your text, and it's very important what you write in to the text of the post, because, yeah, and same thing, it's, it'll put it in for the right people. So yeah, the question is, what's the importance of that? Are you embedding keywords within the text that are also hashtags? Is there like a strategy there? Or are you just taking the subject and how smart is this thing? So I think what you're trying to do on tick tock, and this is the mentality, for your listeners who are just starting out, it's the mentality, you want your percentage of the video watched to be as high as possible across a as many people as possible, right? You want that percentage to be high. So if somebody wants watches, seven seconds out of seven seconds, that's 100%. If they watch 14 seconds out of seven seconds, it means they've watched it twice. And that's 200%. You know, realistically, it'd be great if we could have 400%. Yeah, they've watched it four times, that would be the goal. Right? So how can you do something on screen that forces that rewatch? Well, for me, one strategy I've used is, let's say I'm going for a walk with my wife and I come across maybe a landscape or something that's kind of interesting. I'll quickly whip out my phone, and I'll take a video for seven seconds, doesn't relate to homes. It doesn't relate to mortgages, it relates to nothing. But then I'm going to overlay a substantial amount of text over the top of that video, so much so that it's probably going to take them at least 16 to 20seconds to read all of the text. And as long as that text is Super Value specific, it's going to force that push out, right. And then and then all of a sudden, it's 200 300%, it's going to push it out to more and more people. And what you can even do, if you find a trending audio, you cut that seven second piece of video down to four seconds, find a trending audio, that's, that's being pushed out on the tick tock algorithm, which you can do by there's a search function in the playlist there, you can search for trending audio, cut the trending audio down to four seconds, overlay it. So now it takes 20 seconds, it's at 500% watch time, I've done some of that. And it's pushed it out to 400 500 600,000 people, that's a great way to get found if you're starting a channel, right, right, because you're just I want to I want you guys to unpack what he just said there. He's, he's not using like, he might put a picture everybody's just using, you're doing a seven second video, essentially, yeah, with text. So it takes them at least seven seconds to read the text. Right. So that means the retention is there. And then algorithm just says if you get good the 100% retention or 200% retention,that the video is gonna get you into more people. So that makes a whole lot of sense. What do you like? Now, let's do the flip side of that, because this gets very pointed. What do you think, though, if, if you're doing a 92nd video, do those typically not perform as well, because of that? They were no. You see, they still can so they still can now if you do a four second or five second seven second video, tick tock in order to push it out on the algorithm is gonna want to see a lot of that video watched. Right? It understand it's only seven seconds. So when you create a 92nd piece, they want people to get to at least the 50% mark. So there's different thresholds in order for them to push that out. Now, tick tock doesn't want to just on there for you page, they only putting seven second videos, nobody would engage in that in the platform, but also want to experience these longer posts. So I've had some longer ones that go for 60 seconds. Usually, I kept my videos at 60 seconds, and then a couple that have gone for three minutes that have reached 500,000. But really, I kept them at 60 seconds, because if you can't say in 60 seconds, it's probably not worth saying. Right? So in 60 seconds, and and you know, I've had a couple of those reach 1.11 point 5 million views. One of them in particular, I've actually pinned it to the top of my tic tock page. It's just a little bit of a skip me going back and forward with an imaginary homebuyer. So I pretend to be a homebuyer and then they're talking to the bank. And I usually do a skit where the bank is unable to help them because they only have their products. So obviously speech speak to a mortgage broker because you know, they can find you any product across any bank.You know, from that 92,000 likes, I think from that one piece of content I got like 250 leads. That's great.Yeah, that is unbelievable, guys.So same eight to nine hashtags. Describe the video. Yeah. Is it better to have a I know, I think I know your answer to this. But I have a question for you is what is your hook at the beginning the video? Yeah, you probably have a formula for it because you got to tease this, like 75% of people regardless of I don't know the stats on Tik Tok, but I know whatever video they watched, they decided they're gonna watch it in the first seven seconds 75% of people. So you could use that hook if that hooks not there for that attention. Word it like you're gonna set yourself up for disaster. So what's your cadence? What's your formula behind that? Yeah, so the formula for any video but in particular those educational videos is three words hook problems solution that should be your goal whenever you go into a piece to hook problem solution. So to start off with the hook, you want to like you said realistically you want to try and hook them within three seconds that that should be the goal on tick tock is three second hook but a lot of my hooks do lasts between five and six seconds on a on a 62nd video. But when I'm whenever I'm delivering the hook there's also the sticker across the top, which in text also outlines the hook and generally what I find it takes me five or six seconds to describe the hook. They've read it within three seconds above me anyway so that's how to get them within the three seconds. So to make sure it's sticking in text above you as well as while you're saying it but this was the little strategy with the hook that unlocked it is speak specifically to one person quite often people are like hey guys on tick tock or Hello everyone or hey, you know, homebuyers know you want to speak you know, if you are x you know, or if you if you and your partner are earning $150,000 per year and you want to buy a first home This one's for you. specific year if your PCs seen if your PCs and looking to buy your first house, pay close attention. Yeah, you're buying your first house and wondering how much it cost because it's everything you need to know. Yeah, exactly right. Now, one step further on that one step further. And this was another one that I that I had, that I have found as unlocked even more audience is rather thanIf it's for you ask if you know anyone in that position. Do you know someone who's looking for that? Do you know someone who's looking to buy their first time? Because if they know someone, and it's themselves, Well, yeah, of course, they know someone, it's them, right. But the luck we've had they have a brother or a sister or a friend, a mom or a dad, who's in that home buying journey means that when you put a call to action within the first, you know, 10 seconds of the video that says, share this video with someone, or share this video with that person, share this video with the person that you're saving with to buy a home, and you have an arrow explicitly pointing down to the part on the TIC tock app where they share it, it's going to increase that likelihood because the TIC tock algorithm is looking at the number of likes, the number of shares the number of saves to favorites, the amount of comments how many times somebody tapped the screen to pause the video, what percentage of the video they watched. So if within that first 10 seconds on a 62nd video, you can get a share a pause on the screen, you know, and somebody's continuing to watch the video and they might have even liked it during that time as well. Boom, you're 80% of the way there. So good, dude, that is like freaking golden. Let me just repeat that. Gino? Somebody's trying to buy a house without any money out of pocket.Yeah, perfect. If so make sure you share this video with them. But here's how it works. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, how long did that take you? What five seconds, five seconds, you got the call to action, you you tied in the call to action? First, you almost you increase the engagement by doing that, and yeah, well done. Very good. And, and don't don't be afraid to do a second call to action later in the in the video. So once you've presented that hook, we're then gonna go into the problem, right? Now you want to highlight a problem that that person you're speaking to has a high likelihood of experiencing. So for me as a mortgage broker, quite often, it's that people's lifestyle, how much they're spending per month coupled with, you know, the amounts they're paying on their personal loans is too high comparatively to their income, which decreases their borrowing power. So I'm going to paint a picture. And quite often what I do is I represent that picture being painted by my avatar client and his name is bad, right? So bad that often is in a situation where it's not quite good enough. So that's the problem, right? Limited borrowing power. The solution is that I give them some actionable strategies to put in place. For example, if you decrease your living expenses per month by this much, this is how much your borrowing power will increase. So that's a solution that they can then take away, there's the value add, they go, Yes, I can put this practice, I can put this into practice in real life. And then the call to action at the end is thathead through to the link in my profile to be connected with one of my mortgage brokers who can support you through this process completely free of charge. Right. So the idea is you call me up, we'll put this strategy in place for you. We'll figure out specific to your income because you're not Beza you don't earn 150 grand a year, you might earn 135 grand a year, right? specific to your situation, we'll figure out what is the best plan for you. And so putting in that second call to action at the end is actually the driver towards my profile, which is then going to get to push them down that funnel actually hit the submit button, turn those followers into leads and then those leads actually into customers.Love it, love it. Alright guys, let's get this wrapped up tons of content here. We're just over a half hour mark, but I think you've answered every question I have. I'd like you to go ahead and tell everyone how they can reach you. How can they learn more Tom, your handle and all the above and we'll get this wrapped? Yeah, awesome, mate. So look up, you can reach me on Tik Tok. It's at trusted dot finance. And what I've actually just created over the last couple of months is a tick tock masterclass. So it's showing people in the real estate industry in the mortgage broking industry, specifically how to build their presence, their brand awareness on tick tock, how to build your following, convert those following into convert those followers into leads, and then those leads actually into customers. So it's an online tic tock masterclass, that's separated into six chapters, there's 64 modules, and all modules are delivered by myself. So they're all They're all video modules. None of it's in a PDF, you know, written format that you got to sit there and read for seven hours by yourself. It's all delivered by me. And it's separated. It's drip fed to students over 25 days. And there's a, there's a very important reason for that each chapter is separated by a five day gap because I give you tasks to complete on your Tiktok page that is designed to actually build your following and gain those customers. Yeah, that's, that's how it works. I'm really excited to be rolling it out worldwide. I'll make you a deal. I'll take your course for the next 60 to 90 days. And you could do a live case study on me for somebody that totally understands video understands content creation that will stay consistent. Yeah, I'll go through your course. We'll do another podcast and 90 days from the time I startBuy, or buy time I complete it. And then we'll do another case study. And then we'll go right through here and show you guys exactly what we what happened. And we'll give you the exact results. I'll create a case study of every single page. And then we can use this as a case study. And then I want to go through this, I want to see how this works. And then when we get done with that will tell you guys what the results were and all of that. And then maybe we can get Rob here to put together a special promo for you guys. And then maybe you guys can follow the same thing, but I'm going to do it with you. So if you're open to that, I would be open for the challenge. And I'll take it, I will document it every day. And then we'll do another podcast and three months from now, it will create a real life case study on the journey of real estate marketing to just starting tick tock, because it's not my platform. I'm no expert at it. And I'm figuring it out too. So I'll follow your exact guidelines. And we'll do it and then we'll report our results right here. You don't for that. That's all down for a man. Absolutely. I launched the course last week, and one of my students who just completed the second chapter, his name's Patrick, he produced his first piece of content on Monday, and I woke up because he's in Canada, I woke up to a message on Tik Tok in the morning. He said, I can't believe it. It's at 5000 views, I never thought that I would get to the point on my first post. He actually did some posts back in February on his personal account that kind of set it you know, 100 views, 200 views. So he sent me a message saying it's at 5000 views. 24 hours later, it's at 140,000 views, and over 2000 likes, and he just simply applied all of that cook problem solution, that educational style format that we discussed on the podcast, like it. Very good, dude. Very well done. Alright, folks, thank you for listening to another episode of real estate marketing. Dude, folks, if you don't want to do this content on your own, we can edit your scripts, your shorts for you, we do as many as you want per month, we actually shoot them all within an hour with you each and every month, and then you will distribute them. So I don't want you to use this as an excuse for not getting involved in a short form content. We could do it all for you. And that's another service that we do at real estate marketing dude. So if you need someone to help kick you in the ass and get you going and just handle the content creation part of it because the thought of turning on your video camera makes you like really jerky. Well, that's what a real estate marketing dude is for. As long as you're willing to commit I'm willing to take you on. But you have to commit otherwise, I don't want to talk to you. So you can visit us at real estate marketing do.com Real Estate markets.com Thank you for listening to our show podcast. Keep the words up, spread this episode, connect with us on all our social channels and now my Tik Tok channel. So if you want to see what I'm doing, tick tock, go ahead and do it. I am starting there. I don't know what I'm doing. But I'm just gonna create a lot of content I know to work. So that's it. Appreciate you guys. We'll see you guys next week. Thank you for watching another episode of the real estate marketing dude podcast. If you need help with video or finding out what your brand is, visit our website at WWW dot real estate marketing dude.com We make branding and video content creation simple and do everything for you. So if you have any additional questions, visit the site, download the training, and then schedule time to speak with the dude and get you rolling into your local marketplace. Thanks for watching another episode of the podcast. We'll see you next time.Transcribed by https://otter.ai

If you want to know about German Shepherds, you want to talk to an expert. In Germany this is called a Körmeister. This person is an authority on breeding. Johannes Grewe is a Körmeister and Avi and I ask some tough questions on the topic of showline and working line German Shepherds. The questions of what makes for a good German Shepherd and what dogs should we be breeding is always at the top of everyone's list. Talking with Johannes is talking to one of the foremost experts on the breed. Johannes has bred, trained, judged and lived with German Shepherds for most of his life. Avi and I get down to the serious issues. It's a long podcast but we cover a lot of topics including the evolution of the angulated German Shepherd, the sports of IPO, IGP, Schutzhund... and so much more. ********** If you'd like to learn more about becoming a dog trainer, check out my 25+ hour online Dog Training Course "Shelter Dog Training": https://robertcabral.com/shelter-dog-training My dog training membership site for every dog owner: https://robertcabral.com ************ Overall, this is one of the most informative videos you will ever see on the topic of working line and showline German Shepherds. Whether you LOVE the breed, are interested in buying a puppy or just want some really great information, this will be a valuable podcast for any lover of German Shepherds. Johannes Grewe's resume is simply amazing... 1964 Member of the SV and OG Dorsten 23 1969 President OG Dorsten 23 1970 Kennel Name "von den weissen Bergen" 1970 Graduated State Police Canine School 1972 Graduated as SV Youth Dog Evaluator 1974 SV Leistungsrichter License 1977 Founded OG Wulfen 1977 Stephanitz Urkunde by Dr. Runawael 1978 SV Forderabzeichen by Dr. Rummel 1981 Immigration to the USA 1981 Member of Schutzhund USA 1981 Resignation as SV Leistungsrichter 1983 WUSV European Champion Ship Belgium 1984 WUSV European Champion Ship Italy 1985 WUSV European Champion Ship Hungary 1986 North American Schutzhund Champion Ship 1987 Founded Sunland Schutzhund Club 1988 WUSV World Championship Germany 1990 Kennel Name "vom Sunland" 1993 Chairperson Regional SchH Championship 1993 Chairperson USA Siegershow 1993 Breeding Award "Born in the USA" 1995 Breeding Award "Born in the USA" 1995 Chairperson Regional Conformation Show 1995 Regional Breedwarden 1996 Breeding Award "Born in the USA" 1997 Chairperson USA Siegershow Served for 6 years at Board of USCA 1997 Appointed as first show judge for USCA Appointed in 2002 as IPO Judge for USCA Appointed as Koermeister for USCA Trial Chairman and director for the 2008 WUSV World Championship Event in Cincinnati Check out Johannes Grewe on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johannes.grewe.39

Episode 5 of SUNLAND, by screenwriter, journalist and novelist Charlie Haas, about the brief desert flowering of a group of German artists, musicians, and free spirits who voyage to Southern California, “the America of America,” in 1914 to start the world over. They're fleeing cops, city life, sexual norms, the oncoming world war, and the Internet of their time--the  telegraph, telephone, and movies--in favor of naked farming, altruism, and wild new music. The main characters, a family of four who abandon Berlin in hope of a saner life--middling violinist-dreamer Anna, factory worker Gerhard, prototypical flower child Lilli, and budding tech futurist Benjy--branch out from the fields of San Bernardino to the real estate tracts of burgeoning L.A., at once wrestling with and setting in motion the longings and questions that have beguiled and bedeviled every American generation since.CREDITS:Charlie Haas's screenwriting credits include Over the Edge, Tex, Gremlins 2, and Matinee. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, New West, The Threepenny Review, and Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, along with many other journals. Haas's previous novel, The Enthusiast, was published by HarperPerennial in 2009. Follow his Twitter feed at: @Charlie_Haas.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Find out more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms.Closing credits songs for Season 2 are “Lullaby of Sunland,” composed and performed by Ben Rifkin, and “Trapeze Dress,” composed and performed by Dean Chamberlain. News and touring information about Dean are at therealcodeblue.com.Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.Sound production by Ben Rifkin.

Episode 4 of SUNLAND, by screenwriter, journalist and novelist Charlie Haas, which unfolds the brief desert flowering of a group of German artists, musicians, and free spirits who voyage to Southern California, “the America of America,” in 1914 to start the world over. They're fleeing cops, city life, sexual norms, the oncoming world war, and the Internet of their time--the  telegraph, telephone, and movies--in favor of naked farming, altruism, and wild new music. The main characters, a family of four who abandon Berlin in hope of a saner life, branch out from the fields of San Bernardino to the real estate tracts of burgeoning L.A., at once wrestling with and setting in motion the questions that have beguiled and bedeviled every American generation since.CREDITS:Charlie Haas's screenwriting credits include Over the Edge, Tex, Gremlins 2, and Matinee. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, New West, The Threepenny Review, and Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, along with many other journals. Haas's previous novel, The Enthusiast, was published by HarperPerennial in 2009. Follow his Twitter feed at: @Charlie_Haas.Host Alan Rifkin's novels, essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely. Find out more about him at www.alanrifkin.com.Intro music is from the song "Slow," performed by Sally Dworsky. Written by Sally Dworsky and Chris Hickey. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and all other streaming platforms.Closing credits songs for Season 2 are “Lullaby of Sunland,” composed and performed by Ben Rifkin, and “Trapeze Dress,” composed and performed by Dean Chamberlain. News and touring information about Dean are at therealcodeblue.com.Podcast art by Ryan Longnecker.Sound production by Ben Rifkin.

Lauren Groff reads her story “To Sunland,” from the July 4, 2022, issue of the magazine. Groff has published four novels, including “Fates and Furies” and “Matrix,” which came out last year. Her second story collection, “Florida,” which was published in 2018, won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. 

Hlustaðu á allann þáttinn HÉR Sagan hér í byrjun er vel þekkt á leikvellinum sem staðsettur er á 2100 All Childrens Way, í Orlando. Gestir hafa séð skuggaverur í tugatali og mörg börn virðast vera að leika sér við einhverja sem foreldrar þeirra ekki sjá. En hvaðan koma allar þessar verur? Verið velkomin á Sunland Sjúkrahúsið…..