Podcasts about Synchronicity

My sister, Tess Lampert, returns to Synchronicity. Follow Tess on Instagram. Get Tess' book on Mezcal and Tequila. Tess' website Palate Trip. /// Christ Consciousness readings are open for December. The Patreon is rocking. Join for bonus episodes, livestreams, weekly tarot readings and more.

Interview Starts at 1:04:05   Mike Clelland joins us again after almost 8 years to chat about what's going on with the owls and synchronicity, and about his new fiction book "The Unseen - a novel. It's a paranormal thriller full of mysteries and secrets. Funny thing is, fiction needs to make sense. We chat about how many people still contact him about contact and owls, how his views have changed over the years, owl lore, the Goddess Athena, and other birds of prey. What do mushrooms, Reiki, crop circles, shamanism and meditation have to do with owls and ET contact?   https://mikeclelland.com/ https://hiddenexperience.blogspot.com/   In the intro we catch up with Antony, our friend from the UK who is back after his trip with us at Contact at the Cabin in Canada, and we chat about the upcoming Eclipse event and talk about all places where we podcasted as Darren is moving out of the city.   Help support the show, because we can't do it without ya. If you value this content with 0 ads, 0 sponsorships, 0 breaks, 0 portals and links to corporate websites, please assist. Many hours of unlimited content for free. Thanks for listening!!   Support the show directly: http://www.grimerica.ca/support https://www.patreon.com/grimerica   http://www.grimericaoutlawed.ca/support www.Rokfin.com/Grimerica   Check out our next trip/conference/meetup - Contact at the Cabin www.contactatthecabin.com Our audio book page: www.adultbrain.ca Adultbrain Audiobook YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@adultbrainaudiobookpublishing Grimerica Media YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@grimerica/featured Darren's book www.acanadianshame.ca Grimerica on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2312992 Join the chat / hangout with a bunch of fellow Grimericans  Https://t.me.grimerica https://www.guilded.gg/i/EvxJ44rk Get your Magic Mushrooms delivered from: Champignon Magique  Mushroom Spores, Spore Syringes, Best Spore Syringes,Grow Mushrooms Spores Lab Buy DMT Canada Other affiliated shows: https://grimericaoutlawed.ca/The newer controversial Grimerica Outlawed Grimerica Show Leave a review on iTunes and/or Stitcher: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/grimerica-outlawed http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/grimerica-outlawed Sign up for our newsletter https://grimerica.substack.com/ SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com InstaGRAM https://www.instagram.com/the_grimerica_show_podcast/  Tweet Darren https://twitter.com/Grimerica Can't. Darren is still deleted. Purchase swag, with partial proceeds donated to the show: www.grimerica.ca/swag Send us a postcard or letter http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/ Episode ART - Napolean Duheme's site http://www.lostbreadcomic.com/  MUSIC https://brokeforfree.bandcamp.com/ - If Felix's Site sirfelix.bandcamp.com - SSU Revisited

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ON THE BEAT WITH THE POLICE, PART FIVE- For the fifth and final episode of an ongoing Album Series, the R4 Podcast reviews The Police's 1983 album Synchronicity! Rock on!Website: https://ridiculousrockrecordreviews.buzzsprout.comBecome a Patron and help support the show!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/R4podcast?fan_landing=trueContact us! e-mail: ridiculousrockrecords@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/R4podcastTwitter/X: @R4podcastAaronInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/r4podcaster/

Happy Thanksgiving! 感恩节快乐！现在就到 flywithlily.com/30 参加我们的30日挑战，让Lily做你一整年的生活、商业、和英语教练！Day 8: What relationships make your life feel rich and full?第八天：你生命中的什么关系让你觉得最丰富？Hello. You're listening to Fly with Lily. I'm your new friend Mish, originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, and I'm currently on the Spanish island of Ibiza because this is where I work with some of my clients. By profession, I'm an energy coach, and in my free time, I love hanging out with friends, traveling, seeing new places, and keeping fit through a gym regime or hiking. My dream is to help as many people raise their vibration through exposure to my work so they can move out of a life of chaos and into a life of synchronicity. Today, I'll be answering the question posed by Lily: what relationships make you feel rich and full? Well, that was pretty easy for me. It's the relationship I have with myself because by focusing on the ways that I can evolve as a person, that I am specifically looking at how to raise my vibration, I get to create and live the life I've always wanted. So that's it, really. Thanks so much for listening, and I'm sending you many good vibes.你好。你正在收听《学英语环游世界》。我是你的新朋友Mish，原籍南非约翰内斯堡，目前在西班牙的伊比沙岛工作。我的职业是一名能量教练，在业余时间，我喜欢与朋友一起度过时间，旅行，探索新地方，并通过健身或徒步保持健康。我的梦想是通过我的工作帮助尽可能多的人提升他们的能量频率，使他们摆脱混乱的生活，过上一种同步的生活。今天，我将回答莉莉提出的一个问题：什么样的关系让你感到充实和富有？嗯，这对我来说相当容易。那就是我与自己的关系，因为通过专注于我作为一个人可以如何进化，我特别关注如何提升我的能量频率，我得以创造并过上我一直想要的生活。就是这样，非常感谢你的聆听，我送给你许多好的能量。单词记忆：1.Vibration (振动) - 快速的粒子或波的振动。2.Synchronicity (同步性) - 事件同时发生，看似有关联但无明显因果关系。3.Regime (体制) - 做某事的系统化或有组织的模式。4.Evolve (进化) - 逐渐发展，特别是从简单到复杂的形式。5.Exposure (曝露) - 暴露于与某物接触的状态。6.Chaos (混乱) - 完全的无秩序和混乱。7.Relationship (关系) - 两个或更多人或事物之间的联系方式，或相互联系的状态。8.Profession (职业) - 有薪的职业，尤其是涉及长时间培训和正式资格的一种。9.Hiking (徒步旅行) - 进行长时间步行的活动，尤其是穿越乡村地区。10.Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡) - 南非的一个城市。Mish 的簡介：Michelle Cachucho - Energy Coach & Integrator.Website - www.riseupin.loveInsta - @rise.upinlove

Ever wondered how to scale your business while actually reducing your workload by 25% or more? We've got you covered.In this week's episode, we'll unravel the mysteries of efficient team building, delegating work to free up time for busy entrepreneurs, and how hiring virtual assistants can supercharge your business growth overall. Imagine no longer having a job you hate, but rather running a business you love.If you're ready to work smarter, and not harder, tune in now to unlock the secrets to scaling your business while maintaining a 25-hour workweek like my guest Melissa Swink.Your path to business efficiency starts right here.Ursula's Takeaways:Intro (00:00)Maintaining A 25-Hour Workweek (04:15)Business Growth And Team Building (09:07)Reducing Workload (11:46)Streamlining And Automating Business Tasks (17:47)Eliminating Busy Work (23:23)Outsourcing Tasks And Delegating Work (26:52)Scaling A Business With Coaching And Team Growth (31:59)Hiring Virtual Assistants For Business Growth (36:10)About GUESTMelissa Swink, Founder & CEO of Melissa Swink & Co., is a business consultant and has a team of virtual assistants who provide administrative and marketing support for small businesses and non-profits.After enjoying a corporate career in process improvement and operations management, Melissa turned her knack for productivity and efficiency into a business. Since 2012, Melissa and her team have helped dozens of business owners, and she is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs create profitable, scalable businesses they love.Melissa isn't a coach - and that's what sets her apart. As a consultant, she focuses on teaching the “how” not the “why.” Her work is all about nuts and bolts, doing what works (and eliminating what doesn't) and driving real, measurable results!Connect with Melissa SwinkWebsite: www.melissaswink.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/MelissaSwinkCo LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/melissaswink Instagram: @melissaswinkco FREE GIFT: Masterclass | How to Hire a Virtual Assistant to Scale Your Business: https://www.melissaswink.com/masterclass About Ursula Mentjes Ursula Mentjes is an award-winning Entrepreneur and Sales Expert. She will transform the way you think about selling so you can reach your revenue goals with less anxiety and less effort! Ursula specializes in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and other performance modalities to help clients double and triple their sales fast. Honing her skills at an international technical training company, where she began her career in her early twenties, Ursula increased sales by 90% in just one year. Just 5 years later, when the company's annual revenue was in the tens of millions, Ursula advanced to the position of President at just 27. Sales guru Brian Tracy endorsed her first book, Selling with Intention, saying, “This powerful, practical book shows you how to connect with customers by fully understanding the sales process from the inside out. It really works!” Ursula is also the author of One Great Goal, Selling with Synchronicity and The Belief Zone, which received the Beverly Hills President's Choice...

It is such a delightful surprise when a synchronistic event seems to pop up out of no where. Something as simple as seeing the same recurring numbers over and over again everywhere (we call them Angel numbers, always good to look up the meaning of the specific numbers you're seeing) or seeing a message on a billboard that seems to answer the exact question you were contemplating in your mind. Or it could be something that really stuns you. Something that feels like it is almost completely impossible and unexplainable. So great of a coincidence that it stops you in your tracks. Yet this is the Universe and guides from the Spirit realm's way of telling you, pay attention! Signs are everywhere and we are guiding you and supporting you all the time. And that you're heading in the right direction.On this Divine Feminine solo episode I delve into the sweet waters of synchronicity. Sharing some of my favorite experiences of it and my understanding of why it occurs, what it means, and how you can begin to open yourself to synchronicities in your life. Join the Women Waken Community on Instagram Here: https://tinyurl.com/522duz2c Feel free to reach out to me to see how we can work together and send your questions, feedback, and requests for future solo episodes here: Whitney Walker, LMFTLicense # 107082www.WomenWaken.comhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/profi...Whitney@WomenWaken.comIG: @WomenwakenYoutube: @womenwaken

"Synchroncity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see." - Carl Jung  I love synchroncity - it's like gold in the bank that never loses it's value, and always keeps be feeling secure and stable, no matter what. - Christine Arylo :)  When I can see the meaningful connections happening around me and for me, my faith reserves fill, anxiety and stress release. I feel held and guided. So when  get a case of the wobbles, or things seem to be going sideways, or I feel stuck, or I am headed to despair about the state of the world, I can find the threads to pull myself back to center and lift above the fray and connect to a higher frequency.   Consider this: In the chaos and uncertainity of our world, it can be really easy to end up with cloudy eyes that make it impossible to see (and believe) the magic. Our normal high-vibe, wise eyes which can see what is real can become glazed over or bewildered by all of the goop from the distorted mainstream world. Gooped up, our internal frequency drops into the tanker, takes us off our path, and gives our energy and chi to the chaos. Wisdom #1: If you don't have something deeper within you, and more real holding you, insecurity is going to invade your internal ecosystem and try to take over.   Which is exactly why we are grabbing a hold of our practical magic wisdom book, volume S, today ... S for Synchronicity and Security.  Wisdom #2: When you can see and feel the synchronicities happening around and for you, you start to see the patterns that can lead you to new possibilities, wisdom & realitites. When you can see possibility + feel the presence of grace + see the magic connections and occurences happening, the fluctations of the markets, the current state of world affairs, the changes out of your influence, start to hold less power over you. They still might cause a flare up, but they won't take you down.  Synchronicity spotting and actively cultivating the environment for synchroncities to emerge are practical magic practices ... they are one way we can feel more secure in an ever shifting world. If we remember to look for them, believe in them, and actively create the ecosystems they can thrive in. Tune into Feminine Power Time Episode #226: Finding Security in Synchronicity: Create the Environment to Keep Seeing & Feeling Your Magical Connection See you there!  Christine  PS: LEAVE A REVIEW ABOUT WHAT FEMININE POWER TIME GIVES TO YOU. (thank you!) P.P.S.. SHARE THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND. Share about a time you embrace and followed the synchroncities. And where you are inviting synchronicity in now. _____ HAPPENINGS, TRAININGS, RETREATS  Feminine Wisdom Way - enrollment opens mid-Novemember every year. www.FeminineWIsdomWay.com  Emerge Visioning Co-Creative 4-week Journey. www.EmergeVisioning.com   CONNECT: Subscribe to Christine's Monthly Wisdom Letters - https://christinearylo.com/wisdom-letter-signup/ Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinearylo/ Feminine Wisdom Cafe - private online community off social media: http://www.FeminineWIsdomcafe.com You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChristineArylo 000003AD 000003AE 00004C04 00004C03 00040F63 00040F63 00007E7A 00007E86 0038EBD6 0038EBD6

John Foster (previously interviewed) recently checked in to let me know he is the subject of a documentary in progress. John also said some of his co-experiencers had been contacted. He includes Fred Zewe, Assistant Director for Nebraska MUFON, among them.  Fred offers highlights gleaned from from personal experience and individual MUFON cases. Waking while being levitated from your bed is an experience that can be hard to reconcile. Knowing something more has happened that you can't remember might be even more difficult.   Fred is also a member of the Experiencer Resource Team. ERT is dedicated to helping experiencers deal with Alien contact. Synchronicity, as is typical with this subject matter, while editing this interview, the Carpenters version of Calling Occupants played on SiriusXM. Lyrics - In your mind you have capacities you know To telepath messages through the vast unknown Please close your eyes and concentrate With every thought you think Upon the recitation we're about to sing Calling occupants of interplanetary craft... UFO encounters and abduction experiences have been reported for centuries. Often described as highly personal and transformative events, experiencers report a wide range of responses. Awe, wonder, fear. They may report having been physically or mentally affected by the experience, such as experiencing missing time, strange sensations, or recurring dreams. Some remember being taken aboard a UFO, subjected to physical or medical examinations and telepathic communication. Additional resources: The Mutual UFO Network: MUFON Find a Local Chapter: MUFON  The National UFO Reporting Center: NUFORC The Center for UFO Research: CUFOR Fred Zewe provides a detailed Power Point presentation on Spaced Out Radio: Link. Read John Foster's response to the comment on his book, Eminent Discovery Volume 2: Living within and beyond the five senses. Amazon Affiliate Link. Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft We are your friends... Klaatu Lyrics.

In today's episode, Brandon decides to jump into his time machine and share an episode from 2019. In it, Brandon talks about synchronicity as an indicator that we are aligning with something larger than ourselves, and he weaves in themes of surrender and acceptance as the quickest ways to realign with the empowered, joyful universal perspective that sees connections and potentials beyond what our ordinary selves can see.   Check out our newly updated page instagram.com/positive_head   Care to play a game with the youniverse? Ask the universe the episode you would most benefit from hearing next and click positivehead.com/game.    Download The Golden Key audio or e-book at GoldenKey.Gift with the Code: POSITIVEHEAD   Text Brandon to receive regular golden nuggets of wisdom at 310.564.0750  

Has it been way too long since Noah Lampert has been on the show? Yes. Did we fix that? Yes. Was it awesome? A resounding yes. You are picking up halfway through if you have not listened to our chat that came out on his pod Synchronicity the day before this released. I'll link that here:https://www.syncpodcast.com/Okay, now let's get into the imaginal world and the process of creating our lives and realities. We get into the fallout of past creations, what it means to really believe it and much, much more. Thanks to the patrons! Ad-free eps for $3 a month (or more if you're generous)www.patreon.com/ryansingerGoofball Run Tour dates and tickets:www.thegoofballrun.comwww.ryansingercomedy.comThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5471727/advertisement

Ryan Singer returns to Synchronicity. This is the first part of a two part podcast we did together. Check out the second part on Ryan's podcast, Me and Paranormal You tomorrow. Also, be sure to check out Ryan's new comedy special, "The Supernatural" now streaming on YouTube. /// Check out all the fun stuff going on the Synchronicty Patreon.

Desmond Child is a musician, songwriter and producer.   He has co-written some of the biggest songs including Bon Jovi's Livin' On a Prayer, Dude Looks Like a Lady with Aerosmith,  Poison with Alice Cooper and so many more.  Other artists he's worked with include The Scorpions, Joan Jett, Katy Perry, Ratt, Ricky Martin, and Kiss. In this episode we discuss the Re-Making Vince Neil TV special, working with Sebastian Bach, failed attempts to work with David Lee Roth & Van Halen and so much more! 0:00:00 - Intro0:00:13 - Remaking Vince Neil 0:03:00 - David Lee Roth & Van Halen 0:07:15 - Re-Inventing Yourself & New Projects 0:16:25 - Dealing with Failure & Disappointment 0:17:53 - Failed Project with Michael Jackson 0:20:45 - Steven Tyler, Jon Bon Jovi & Cher 0:22:20 - Hustle, Luck & Synchronicity 0:24:40 - Bucket List Collaborators 0:26:55 - Dude Looks Like a Lady 0:36:10 - Meatloaf & Bat Out of Hell 3 0:41:35 - Eighties Music & Grunge 0:44:10 - Drugs & Booze 0:45:40 - Working with Sebastian Bach 0:49:10 - Songwriting and A.I. 1:00:55 - Social Media, Skin Cream & Musical 1:02:00 - Outro Desmond Child website:https://desmondchild.com/Chuck Shute website:https://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

People are desperate to escape. And the self-administering of mind-altering substances is the quickest method for your surefire jailbreak from life's doldrums. However, as these poisons are a guaranteed way to stimulate the synapses for easy access into La La Land, sleeping off the hangovers is a bitch. If you wake up at all. But we are weak to temptation, proving that the cheap flight off the reality runway can easily supersede one's better judgment. Because when the harsh hangovers have you regretting the previous evening's bad decisions, it is good to know that there are some sober escapades that won't exacerbate the hopelessness brought on by depleted serotonin in the following days of recovery. And any of us who've squandered six months of heartbeats in one dusk to dawn discourse of yet-to-be-written bestselling novels knows that the valley's depth is significantly more notable than the mountain peak's high. So, when the free coffee and cookies ain't doing it and a case of the coke itches are flaring up, remember one inexpensive alternative that will flip your boredom through a bustling microcosm of ringing bells, slingshot bumpers, and free game lightning pops. Playing pinball is being active, and dodging dangerous obstacles resulting in glorious rewards is good for you! And the more experience you have playing, the better your odds of not just survival, but relishing the thrill of victory. There's no shortage of reflex testing adrenaline pumping drama when you're perilously dangling on a thread of gravity while deft maneuvers generate power surges and lack of focus means death. And your relationship with the machine is everything. Synchronicity means triumph and fear means failure. Arguably, pinball is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Or not. While performance-enhancing steroids will make you a better baller, the hyper-focus of a good Sativa will make you a better pinballer. And remember one very important 90's R&B song when snuggling up to that little glass-covered cosmos—that there ain't nuthin' wrong with a little bump and grind.

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Episode 456: Techno synchronicity Emily Moyer is a nutrition consultant, life coach & storyteller. She is the host and producer of a number of podcasts, both solo and with a variety of co-hosts. She brings to the table a unique blend of unusual life experiences and intuitively directed research, as well as skills in analysis, sychromysticism and translation of trends and ideas in the cultures of alternative cyberspace, the arts, health, sports, and human development. Her content is focused on streaming outside of the box ideas, voices, and concepts for our ever evolving innerstandings. Guest Site: https://www.emilycmoyer.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michaeldecon/support

Is feeling "tired" and "stressed" your normal? Have you lost your creative spark and zest for life, but can't seem to pin down the root cause? James Wilson famously dubbed adrenal fatigue "the 21st century syndrome" because our system glorifies work and machine-like output while devaluing the true needs of our human bodies. We crave nature connection, sunshine, rest, play, creativity and physical movement but paradoxically live in a system that follows the laws of production over intuition. Well, today you'll hear all about the consequences of this lifestyle! Kristen Files, my guest today, is a functional nutritional therapy practitioner and master restorative wellness practitioner who is board-certified in holistic nutrition. She gives us a comprehensive introduction to the adrenal glands, the HPA axis, the hormones that govern our bodies at different stages of life (hello, menopause!) and simple tips for healing hormonal dysregulation. She is a living example that her integrated approach truly works! Kristen's contact information amazing resources can be found at www.forestcreekwellness.com. If you enjoy content on holistic health, you'll absolutely adore the following episodes: 19. Finding Your Purpose, Synchronicity, Coping with Stress & Anxiety, Music to Heal, Celebrating What's Right In the World and Practical Steps for Holistic Health + Fitness with Dr. Cliff Oliver 89. What Does Holistic Women's Healthcare Look Like? Fertility, Contraceptives, Birth, Menopause, Libido and the Humans and Hormones that Make It Happen with The Holistic OBGYN, Dr. Nathan Riley, MD. 93. Making Sense of Womanhood, Modern Life, Rites of Passage and Menopause Truths with Midwife, Author and Healer Susan Willson 125. A Holistic View of The Thyroid, 5th Chakra and Your Voice: Balancing Your Metabolism, Hormones and Life Through Self-Expression with Sydney Ross Singer TIME STAMPS 00:00:00 Episode Begins 00:10:09 Kristen's Wounded Healer Story 00:14:02 Adrenal Fatigue vs Fatigue 00:18:17 James Wilson Adrenal Fatigue 00:26:36 What Are the Adrenals? 00:30:56 What Is Adrenal Fatigue? 00:35:15 Dieting and Adrenal Fatigue 00:40:14 Diet - Where to Start? 00:44:38 ⁠93. Making Sense of Womanhood, Modern Life, Rites of Passage and Menopause Truths with Midwife, Author and Healer Susan Willson⁠ 00:48:56 Is All Stress Bad? 00:51:15 Inflammation and Healing 00:55:56 Mental Health 00:59:57 Hypothyroidism and Adrenal Fatigue 01:05:59 Key Nutrients for Adrenal Function 01:11:15 The North-South Approach 01:16:12 How to Find Kristen Subscribing and sharing your kind thoughts & feedback in a review on iTunes is the ultimate way to support Amy and help Awakening Aphrodite in everyone...so thank you in advance!:) You can find all things Amy at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠amyfournier.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jump on Amy's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠email list⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠where she shares her personal stuff and her newest health and wellness tips and favorite products, classes, course and events updates. For special discounts on Amy's favorite products, visit her ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠estore⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We appreciate and encourage you to reach out and interact with us by leaving a comment, following and sharing the episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@FitAmyTV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on IG and ⁠Amy Fournier ⁠on FB and remember, you can also watch the episodes on YouTube at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Awakening Aphrodite Podcast/FitAmyTV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

Is feeling "tired" and "stressed" your normal? Have you lost your creative spark and zest for life, but can't seem to pin down the root cause? James Wilson famously dubbed adrenal fatigue "the 21st century syndrome" because our system glorifies work and machine-like output while devaluing the true needs of our human bodies. We crave nature connection, sunshine, rest, play, creativity and physical movement but paradoxically live in a system that follows the laws of production over intuition. Well, today you'll hear all about the consequences of this lifestyle! Kristen Files, my guest today, is a functional nutritional therapy practitioner and master restorative wellness practitioner who is board-certified in holistic nutrition. She gives us a comprehensive introduction to the adrenal glands, the HPA axis, the hormones that govern our bodies at different stages of life (hello, menopause!) and simple tips for healing hormonal dysregulation. She is a living example that her integrated approach truly works! Kristen's contact information amazing resources can be found at www.forestcreekwellness.com. If you enjoy content on holistic health, you'll absolutely adore the following episodes: 19. Finding Your Purpose, Synchronicity, Coping with Stress & Anxiety, Music to Heal, Celebrating What's Right In the World and Practical Steps for Holistic Health + Fitness with Dr. Cliff Oliver 89. What Does Holistic Women's Healthcare Look Like? Fertility, Contraceptives, Birth, Menopause, Libido and the Humans and Hormones that Make It Happen with The Holistic OBGYN, Dr. Nathan Riley, MD. 93. Making Sense of Womanhood, Modern Life, Rites of Passage and Menopause Truths with Midwife, Author and Healer Susan Willson 125. A Holistic View of The Thyroid, 5th Chakra and Your Voice: Balancing Your Metabolism, Hormones and Life Through Self-Expression with Sydney Ross Singer TIME STAMPS 00:00:00 Episode Begins 00:10:09 Kristen's Wounded Healer Story 00:14:02 Adrenal Fatigue vs Fatigue 00:18:17 James Wilson Adrenal Fatigue 00:26:36 What Are the Adrenals? 00:30:56 What Is Adrenal Fatigue? 00:35:15 Dieting and Adrenal Fatigue 00:40:14 Diet - Where to Start? 00:44:38 ⁠93. Making Sense of Womanhood, Modern Life, Rites of Passage and Menopause Truths with Midwife, Author and Healer Susan Willson⁠ 00:48:56 Is All Stress Bad? 00:51:15 Inflammation and Healing 00:55:56 Mental Health 00:59:57 Hypothyroidism and Adrenal Fatigue 01:05:59 Key Nutrients for Adrenal Function 01:11:15 The North-South Approach 01:16:12 How to Find Kristen Subscribing and sharing your kind thoughts & feedback in a review on iTunes is the ultimate way to support Amy and help Awakening Aphrodite in everyone...so thank you in advance!:) You can find all things Amy at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠amyfournier.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jump on Amy's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠email list⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠where she shares her personal stuff and her newest health and wellness tips and favorite products, classes, course and events updates. For special discounts on Amy's favorite products, visit her ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠estore⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We appreciate and encourage you to reach out and interact with us by leaving a comment, following and sharing the episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@FitAmyTV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on IG and ⁠Amy Fournier ⁠on FB and remember, you can also watch the episodes on YouTube at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Awakening Aphrodite Podcast/FitAmyTV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

Is feeling "tired" and "stressed" your normal? Have you lost your creative spark and zest for life, but can't seem to pin down the root cause? James Wilson famously dubbed adrenal fatigue "the 21st century syndrome" because our system glorifies work and machine-like output while devaluing the true needs of our human bodies. We crave nature connection, sunshine, rest, play, creativity and physical movement but paradoxically live in a system that follows the laws of production over intuition. Well, today you'll hear all about the consequences of this lifestyle! Kristen Files, my guest today, is a functional nutritional therapy practitioner and master restorative wellness practitioner who is board-certified in holistic nutrition. She gives us a comprehensive introduction to the adrenal glands, the HPA axis, the hormones that govern our bodies at different stages of life (hello, menopause!) and simple tips for healing hormonal dysregulation. She is a living example that her integrated approach truly works! Kristen's contact information amazing resources can be found at www.forestcreekwellness.com. If you enjoy content on holistic health, you'll absolutely adore the following episodes: 19. Finding Your Purpose, Synchronicity, Coping with Stress & Anxiety, Music to Heal, Celebrating What's Right In the World and Practical Steps for Holistic Health + Fitness with Dr. Cliff Oliver 89. What Does Holistic Women's Healthcare Look Like? Fertility, Contraceptives, Birth, Menopause, Libido and the Humans and Hormones that Make It Happen with The Holistic OBGYN, Dr. Nathan Riley, MD. 93. Making Sense of Womanhood, Modern Life, Rites of Passage and Menopause Truths with Midwife, Author and Healer Susan Willson 125. A Holistic View of The Thyroid, 5th Chakra and Your Voice: Balancing Your Metabolism, Hormones and Life Through Self-Expression with Sydney Ross Singer TIME STAMPS 00:00:00 Episode Begins 00:10:09 Kristen's Wounded Healer Story 00:14:02 Adrenal Fatigue vs Fatigue 00:18:17 James Wilson Adrenal Fatigue 00:26:36 What Are the Adrenals? 00:30:56 What Is Adrenal Fatigue? 00:35:15 Dieting and Adrenal Fatigue 00:40:14 Diet - Where to Start? 00:44:38 ⁠93. Making Sense of Womanhood, Modern Life, Rites of Passage and Menopause Truths with Midwife, Author and Healer Susan Willson⁠ 00:48:56 Is All Stress Bad? 00:51:15 Inflammation and Healing 00:55:56 Mental Health 00:59:57 Hypothyroidism and Adrenal Fatigue 01:05:59 Key Nutrients for Adrenal Function 01:11:15 The North-South Approach 01:16:12 How to Find Kristen Subscribing and sharing your kind thoughts & feedback in a review on iTunes is the ultimate way to support Amy and help Awakening Aphrodite in everyone...so thank you in advance!:) You can find all things Amy at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠amyfournier.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jump on Amy's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠email list⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠where she shares her personal stuff and her newest health and wellness tips and favorite products, classes, course and events updates. For special discounts on Amy's favorite products, visit her ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠estore⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We appreciate and encourage you to reach out and interact with us by leaving a comment, following and sharing the episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@FitAmyTV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on IG and ⁠Amy Fournier ⁠on FB and remember, you can also watch the episodes on YouTube at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Awakening Aphrodite Podcast/FitAmyTV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

Are you yearning for a deeper connection with the divine? Do you desire personal growth and a greater sense of spirituality in your life? Neale Donald Walsch has the solution you've been searching for. He will unveil the key to unlocking a profound spiritual connection and guide you towards extraordinary growth through divine communication. Prepare to experience a transformation like never before, as you tap into the boundless wisdom and guidance of the divine realm. Neale's forthcoming book, God Talk, explores a profound question that has captivated spiritual seekers for ages: Can everybody have their own conversation with God? For his 40th book, Neale embarked on a personal journey of self-discovery, unearthing the power of divine communication. The result? A short yet impactful book titled God Talk, where Neale shares his insights and experiences, revealing the joy, freedom, and love that permeate these divine conversations. So how can this book transform the lives of those seeking a deeper connection with the divine? Let's dive in to find out! In this episode, you will be able to: Discover a deeper connection with the divine through Neale's new book, unlocking profound insights and guidance. Experience profound messages from the divine, revealing profound wisdom and guidance for your spiritual journey. Cultivate a powerful spiritual practice centered around connecting with the divine, providing a source of comfort and guidance in your everyday life. Embrace the power of the present moment, allowing you to fully experience and appreciate the beauty and blessings in your life. Gain clarity and alignment with your soul's agenda, unlocking your true purpose and potential for personal growth and fulfillment. Neale Donald Walsch, a renowned spiritual author and speaker, has been a guiding light for those seeking a deeper connection with the divine. His Conversations with God series, which was a long-time New York Times bestseller, has transformed the lives of countless individuals, including myself. Neale's ability to convey profound spiritual truths in a relatable and humorous way is truly remarkable. With his latest book, God Talk, he delves into the art of divine communication and provides practical tools for readers to have their own conversations with the divine. Neale's immense wisdom and down-to-earth approach make him a trusted source for spiritual seekers around the world. I am thrilled to have Neale Donald Walsch join us on Meditation Conversation to share his insights and inspire us on our spiritual journeys. Get ready to embark on a transformative conversation with the divine. The key moments in this episode are: 00:00:15 - Introduction 00:03:31 - Publisher's Request 00:06:57 - Distinguishing God's Voice 00:08:49 - Divine Intervention 00:11:14 - Diversity of Divine Communication 00:15:43 - The Importance of Being Present 00:18:28 - Experiencing Our True Identity 00:20:49 - Finding Gifts in Every Moment 00:23:33 - The Power of Synchronicity 00:25:50 - Being Open to Unexpected Responses 00:33:19 - The Agenda of the Soul 00:35:18 - There's More Going On 00:38:02 - The Source of Life 00:42:29 - The Power of Connection 00:43:53 - The Civil Rights Movement for the Soul 00:52:30 - Gratitude and Appreciation 00:52:46 - Sharing the Episode 00:53:04 - Conclusion and Next Episode Resources Check out Neale Donald Walsch's new book, God Talk, releasing on November 14, 2023. Listen to previous episodes of The Meditation Conversation featuring Neale Donald Walsch (Episode 185 and Episode 279). Learn more about the retreat happening in January at Karagoodwin.com and select retreats to find out more. Use code EARLYBIRD for $58 off.  Explore the six-step process outlined in Neale Donald Walsch's book, God Talk, to have your own conversation with God. Consider the three characteristics of God Talk: joyfulness, speaking of freedom, and always full of love. Reflect on moments in your life where you may have received messages from the divine, whether through thoughts, feelings, or even through other people. Embrace the idea that every aspect of your life is part of the divine experience and can be used to deliver messages and lessons. Practice stepping back and assessing situations from a higher level, asking yourself how they serve your spiritual development. Stay open to the possibility of receiving messages from the divine through various mediums, such as books, podcasts, or even through conversations with others.

Synchronicity is inexcusable evidence, whether or not you choose to acknowledge it, that consciousness is the creator of reality. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/under-the-tree-420/message

It's a wild world out there for creatives trying to make a living. Nicole BZ stops by to share her wisdom on to succeed in a rapidly changing creative landscape. // Free Tarot Readings every day on Tik Tok // BONUS EPISODES now on Patreon

Remember those teenage years when we'd create breakup mixtapes? The potency of those songs, how they could evoke such raw emotions - whether it was Paul Simon's '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' or The Carpenters' 'We've Only Just Begun'. Well, this episode is a homage to the power of music, its unforgettable moments, and the rock legends who've shaped its course. We kick off with a nostalgic trip to when The Police graced the stage at CBGB for their first time - a memory that's now 45 years old. We then switch gears to Robert Plant's recent performance of 'Stairway to Heaven' at a cancer benefit, which Andy Taylor of Duran Duran put together. We move on to delve into the hidden secrets of The Police's Synchronicity album and Paul McCartney's bass contribution to The Rolling Stones' new album, Hackney Diamonds. But that's not all, we also navigate the surprising connections between iconic albums, shedding light on how Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and Mick Jagger lent their voices to each other's music. Impressively, we dive into the influences of our upbringing, reminiscing about the Ramones' third studio album, 'Rocket to Russia', and The The's unforgettable song 'Uncertain Smile'. We reflect on how these unforgettable tunes formed the soundtrack of our youth and school dances. Lastly, we reflect on the emotional gravity of break-up mixtapes and the songs that helped us navigate the stormy seas of heartbreak. So, are you ready to take a walk down memory lane with us? Tune in and let the magic of music transport you back in time!

A novel study out of Switzerland and Germany shows that human beings, under certain conditions, can end up synchronizing biologically — like a metronome.

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The Light Gate welcomes UFO and paranormal power couple, Rob and Trish MacGregor. About The Guests: Rob MacGregor is the author of nineteen novels, fourteen non-fiction books, and has teamed with George Lucas and Peter Benchley. He writes both adult and young adult mysteries, adventure, and science fiction/ fantasy. He is a winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for mystery writing for Prophecy Rock, the first of four novels featuring Will Lansa, whose life is divided between the Hopi Reservation where is father is chief of police and Aspen, Colorado where his mother is heir to a silver fortune. Rob is best known for the seven Indiana Jones novels he wrote for Lucas Films and Bantam Books. Among them is the adaptation of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, which spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He also has written several self-help books on dreams, synchronicity, yoga, and psychic development. In addition, he has explored the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle in THE FOG, and UFOs in Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions, and Synchronicity, one of three books on synchronicity he co-authored with his wife, Trish. In his spare time, Rob teaches yoga and meditation. Trish MacGregor has written dozens of non-fiction books on astrology, the tarot, dreams, and synchronicity. She started out as a freelance magazine writer and eventually became a regular contributor to OMNI Magazine's anti-matter section, which covered UFOs and all aspects of the paranormal. Through those assignments, she met famed abductee Betty Hill, UFO researcher Budd Hopkins, and others. Rob & Trish MacGregor write both fiction and non-fiction. Their most recent non-fiction books are Beyond Strange and Sensing the Future. They also co-authored: Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions & Synchroncity. Trish is the author of The Biggest Horoscope Book Ever and Rob is the author of The Jewel in the Lotus: Meditation for Busy Minds. Trish co-authored Power Tarot with Phyllis Vega and Rob co-authored Beyond the Bermuda Triangle with Bruce Gernon. They live in South Florida with three cats and a noble golden retriever. Their daughter, Megan, is an aspiring writer and artist. LINKS https://themysticalunderground.com/ www.robmacgregor.net www.trishjmacgregor.com https://www.facebook.com/rob.macgregor01 https://www.facebook.com/trish.macgregor.7

The Light Gate welcomes UFO and paranormal power couple, Rob and Trish MacGregor. About The Guests:  Rob MacGregor is the author of nineteen novels, fourteen non-fiction books, and has teamed with George Lucas and Peter Benchley. He writes both adult and young adult mysteries, adventure, and science fiction/ fantasy. He is a winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for mystery writing for Prophecy Rock, the first of four novels featuring Will Lansa, whose life is divided between the Hopi Reservation where is father is chief of police and Aspen, Colorado where his mother is heir to a silver fortune. Rob is best known for the seven Indiana Jones novels he wrote for Lucas Films and Bantam Books. Among them is the adaptation of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, which spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He also has written several self-help books on dreams, synchronicity, yoga, and psychic development. In addition, he has explored the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle in THE FOG, and UFOs in Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions, and Synchronicity, one of three books on synchronicity he co-authored with his wife, Trish. In his spare time, Rob teaches yoga and meditation.  Trish MacGregor has written dozens of non-fiction books on astrology, the tarot, dreams, and synchronicity. She started out as a freelance magazine writer and eventually became a regular contributor to OMNI Magazine's anti-matter section, which covered UFOs and all aspects of the paranormal. Through those assignments, she met famed abductee Betty Hill, UFO researcher Budd Hopkins, and others. Rob & Trish MacGregor write both fiction and non-fiction. Their most recent non-fiction books are Beyond Strange and Sensing the Future. They also co-authored: Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions & Synchroncity. Trish is the author of The Biggest Horoscope Book Ever and Rob is the author of The Jewel in the Lotus: Meditation for Busy Minds. Trish co-authored Power Tarot with Phyllis Vega and Rob co-authored Beyond the Bermuda Triangle with Bruce Gernon. They live in South Florida with three cats and a noble golden retriever. Their daughter, Megan, is an aspiring writer and artist.       LINKS https://themysticalunderground.com/ www.robmacgregor.net www.trishjmacgregor.com https://www.facebook.com/rob.macgregor01 https://www.facebook.com/trish.macgregor.7

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Jason and Eric celebrate the music of 1983 by choosing their personal top five albums from that year. Listen to get the scoop on each album and their history with each. To find their favorite album cuts on your favorite music service, use the link below: Jason's #5: "Saved By Zero" from The Fixx and their album Reach The Beach⁠https://songwhip.com/the-fixx/savedbyzero⁠Eric's #5: "Strike Zone" from Loverboy and their album Keep It Up⁠https://songwhip.com/loverboy/strike-zone⁠Jason's #4: "No Sign of Yesterday" from Men At Work and their album Cargo⁠https://songwhip.com/men-at-work/no-sign-of-yesterday⁠Eric's #4: "Union of The Snake" from Duran Duran and their album Seven & The Ragged Tiger⁠https://songwhip.com/duran-duran/union-of-the-snake⁠Jason's #3: "Send Her My Love" from Journey and their album Frontiers⁠https://songwhip.com/journey/send-her-my-love⁠Eric's #3: "Too Late For Love" from Def Leppard and their album Pyromania⁠https://songwhip.com/def-leppard/too-late-for-love⁠Jason's #2: "I Need You Tonight" from ZZ Top and their album Eliminator⁠https://songwhip.com/zz-top/ineedyoutonight⁠Eric's #2: "Slick Black Cadillac" from Quiet Riot and their album Metal Health⁠https://songwhip.com/quiet-riot/slick-black-cadillac⁠Jason's #1: "Synchronicity II" from The Police and their album Synchronicity⁠https://songwhip.com/the-police/synchronicity-ii⁠Eric's #1: "(You Can Still) Rock In America" from Night Ranger and their album Midnight Madness⁠https://songwhip.com/night-ranger/you-can-still-rock-in-america⁠Follow us on X (Twitter), @GreatestLists, and give us your feedback on this episode's song choice! You can also stream episodes from your browser at our website → https://www.greatestlistspodcast.com/⁠SAVE 15% at HalloweenCostumes.com by clicking this link → ⁠https://www.halloweencostumes.com/?CouponCode=trnhalloween2023⁠Savings will be waiting in your cart automatically. Redeem before Oct 31, 2023.

Have you ever experienced those extraordinary moments when the universe seems to send you just what you need at the perfect time? These aren't mere coincidences; they are synchronicities – miraculous connections that offer guidance and insight.  Many people think they have to leave synchronicities up to chance, but that's not true! You can actually learn to tap into the flow of synchronicity - and use them as a tool for manifesting your desires.  Listen in as we unravel the secrets to tapping into the power of synchronicities and understanding their subtle language.  You'll learn: How to attract more synchronicity into your life. How to understand the meaning and purpose behind synchronicities.  How to know if you're experiencing synchronicity.  And much more!  SHOW NOTES: Got a question for me about spirituality and life? Do you have an experience you'd like to share? I'm excited to let you know that we've set up a community line where you can leave a message with your questions about spirit, manifesting, energy and more - as well as share your feedback and experiences. We'll listen to each and every message and do our best to feature or answer in an upcoming episode! Call our community line at  (720) 282-1393. (Please note: this is not a line for readings or to request readings.) Let's connect!  Get my free mini course, Psychic Dreaming. Join me on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or TikTok Visit DebSheppard.com for more podcast episodes and to apply to have a reading on the show! 

Today, my guest, Anne Kulhanek, and I are embarking on a topic that's often considered a dream come true for many - the art of generating quantum revenue while savoring the pleasures of luxurious travel.Anne does this not only for herself but for her clients too, and she's here to spill the secrets to her success. Whether you're listening from the States or tuning in from somewhere around the globe, today's episode is all about infusing your life with luxury—not just while you're on vacation but every single day in your business.If you're wondering how to unlock the potential of both luxury and quantum growth, this episode is the answer. So, why wait? Dive in and start living the life you deserve and make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality.Ursula's Takeaways:Intro (00:00)Luxury Travel And Personalized Experiences (04:00)Overcoming Business Partnership Challenges (08:06)Overcoming Pandemic Financial Challenges (14:37)Client Retention Strategies (19:16)Business Growth And Travel Planning (24:44)About Anne KulhanekAnne Kulhanek is the founder and owner of Premier Travel, a boutique travel agency located in Luxemburg WI, where luxury travel is defined by you. We help people who are totally confused or are unsure about how to plan for a trip of a lifetime to actually experience a perfectly planned trip and create a lifetime of memories.Connect with Anne KulhanekWebsite: https://www.premiertravels.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/premiertravelvacationsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annekulhanekInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/premiertravels/FREE GIFT: Schedule a 15-minute complimentary travel planning call - https://calendly.com/premiertravel/15min?back=1&month=2023-10About Ursula Mentjes Ursula Mentjes is an award-winning Entrepreneur and Sales Expert. She will transform the way you think about selling so you can reach your revenue goals with less anxiety and less effort! Ursula specializes in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and other performance modalities to help clients double and triple their sales fast. Honing her skills at an international technical training company, where she began her career in her early twenties, Ursula increased sales by 90% in just one year. Just 5 years later, when the company's annual revenue was in the tens of millions, Ursula advanced to the position of President at just 27. Sales guru Brian Tracy endorsed her first book, Selling with Intention, saying, “This powerful, practical book shows you how to connect with customers by fully understanding the sales process from the inside out. It really works!” Ursula is also the author of One Great Goal, Selling with Synchronicity and The Belief Zone, which received the Beverly Hills President's Choice award. Ursula also serves as Past Statewide Chairperson of the NAWBO-CA Education Fund and Past President of NAWBO-CA. She is the recipient of the SBA's Women in Business Champion and a recipient of the Willow...

Today I sit down with the most impressive Owl and UFO researcher Mike Clelland! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jake-robbins0/message

Mark Ireland's father was the prominent 20th century psychic and medium Dr. Richard Ireland, who counseled celebrities such as Mae West and the Eisenhower Family. Mark didn't follow in his father's footsteps until the unexpected passing of his 18 year old son. Desperate for connection, communication and respite from his grief, Mark began a search for messages from the afterlife and discovered remarkable proof of life after death. Mark presents the psychic-medium phenomena, spirit visitations, after-life communication, reincarnation, synchronicity, and near-death experiences which point to the survival of consciousness after bodily death. On his journey, Mark meets with respected mediums who deliver unexpected messages from his son, father, and others who have passed and explores the healing impact that such messages can have on people who are grieving. He shares his interviews with mediums to understand how they see, hear, and feel the information they receive from the spirits of the deceased. Mark has developed a testing program certifying mediums who have a high degree of accuracy in order to help parents, and everyone, heal from the loss of a loved one. During our show, Mark also explains how he tests and rates mediums to certify them. You can contact a certified medium through Mark's organization at findacertifiedmedium.com https://www.markirelandauthor.com

In a world on the brink of transformation, Kerri Hummingbird takes us on a journey of self-discovery and inner medicine. But just as we delve into the depths of our souls, a shocking revelation leaves us wondering: Can we truly embrace our unique journeys without losing ourselves along the way? Tune in for a suspenseful exploration of personal growth and the urgent need for consciousness shift.“You have to take the action to wake it. You can't just sit back in an armchair quarterback life.” - Kerri HummingbirdIn this episode, you will be able to: - Unleash the power of going with the flow and embrace the unknown for a transformative personal and collective journey of growth.- Decode the hidden messages from the universe through synchronicities and uncover the profound wisdom they hold for your life's path.- Embark on a journey of self-discovery and awakening, facing your shadows head-on, and unlocking your true potential.- Discover the urgent need for a consciousness shift and understand its profound impact on personal well-being and the well-being of the planet.- Explore the deep connection between personal responsibility and the Earth, recognizing our interconnectedness and the power of nurturing our planet for a sustainable future.For this episode's full show notes, guest bios and summaries, visit our website: https://www.skepticmetaphysician.com/blog/consciousness-shift/ Resources:Get Kerri's books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kerri-Hummingbird-Sami/author/B00FL0X5VK Guest Info:Website: http://www.kerrihummingbird.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/KerriHummingbrdInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kerri.hummingbirdFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/kerri.hummingbird.samiYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCIvzw9fZaQdLy9jbiCuX2A Support the Show:Rate/review Us Here:https://lovethepodcast.com/SkepticMetaphysicians Purchase Merchandise:https://www.skepticmetaphysician.com/store Buy Me A Coffee:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SkepticMetaphys Connect With The Skeptic Metaphysicians:Website: skepticmetaphysician.comFacebook: @TheSkepticMetaphysicianIG: SkepticMetaphysician_PodcastTik Tok: @skepticmetaphysiciansHypnosis: A Journey to Unlock the Power of the Mindhttps://www.skepticmetaphysician.com/power-of-the-mindDo Religious Doctrines Oppress Spiritual Awakenings?https://www.skepticmetaphysician.com/religionDemystifying The Ancient Science of Ayurvedahttps://www.skepticmetaphysician.com/demystifying-the-ancient-science-of-ayurvedaThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5652646/advertisement

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When we answer a question with "it depends" we are asking for more information about the possible variables that will inform the answer. In this episode, Bill Bellows and host Andrew Stotz discuss how, in the Deming world, "it depends" can trigger improvements in processes or products and services. TRANSCRIPT 0:00:02.6 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz and I'll be your host as we continue our journey into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today I'm continuing my discussion with Bill Bellows, who has spent 30 years helping people apply Dr. Deming's ideas to become aware of how their thinking is holding them back from their biggest opportunities. The topic for today is, in this episode 10, It Depends, Rethinking Improvements. Bill, take it away.   0:00:34.6 Bill Bellows: Rethinking improvement, yes.   0:00:38.3 AS: You're always teasing us with your titles, Bill.   0:00:43.2 BB: I hate when that happens, I hate when that happens. No, I uh, what I would tell managers when I was doing these one-day seminars all over Boeing for year after year after year after year, and the managers would wanna know, so what should I expect from the people afterwards? And I said, or I would warn them, I said, here's what's gonna happen, just so you're ready. I'd say, you're gonna hear a lot more of people saying, "It depends." 'Cause to me, Andrew, "it depends" is the beginning of an appreciation of a system. So Andrew, you and I are going out to dinner and then you say, would you like to have some wine? And I say, sure. Then you say, red or white? And I say well, it depends Andrew, what are you having? Right, I mean, so to me, it depends is an understanding of what Ackoff would call interactions, that I cannot order the wine without knowing the meal. Planning a wedding, we can't order the food without knowing the guest list, can't order the music without going to the guest list. The colors of the flowers depend upon, the color of the tuxes depend upon it. And what is that? It is looking at things, not in isolation, but as a system. So when I tell my students, graduate and undergraduate is, you already manage systems, you already manage interactions.   0:02:09.0 BB: You don't use that word, but you couldn't plan a vacation without looking at things in context. You couldn't run errands on Saturday morning without knowing what time the store is open, what time... So, so I think we have a natural proclivity of looking at things as a system, quite often, quite often. It could be better. But I... So I just throw out, I just, I mean, if somebody asked me a question on a topic I've never heard about before, what I find is, one is I think, well, how would a red pen company, a me organization, a last straw organization look at that? And they'd look at things in isolation. Which reminds me of an Ackoff quote. He says, "getting less of what you don't want doesn't get you what you want." So we're gonna drive variation to zero, and when I was listening to the last podcast, it was talking about this driving variation to zero. You can't go to zero, 'cause Andrew, cloning does not produce identical, twins are not identical. So for those who think you could drive variation to zero, you can't. Get under a microscope and you're gonna see differences in snowflakes. The question behind reducing variation is, is it a worthwhile investment, which gets us into this continual improvement thing.   0:03:32.6 BB: But, so whether we're reducing variation to zero, reduce... Eliminating waste, eliminating non value-added efforts, what Ackoff asking is, he is challenging us saying, getting rid of what you don't want, what is it that we want? And here I had a great quote from a good friend, Dr. Deming, he says, "it would be better if everyone worked together as a system with the aim for everybody to win."   0:04:00.2 AS: He was saying, win-win before everybody was saying it.   0:04:06.3 BB: Well, what I like about that quote is, did the word quality appear in that quote? Did you hear the word quality anywhere in there, Andrew?   0:04:14.8 AS: No, I didn't hear it.   0:04:17.1 BB: Huh. And Dr. Deming was that quality guy, right?   0:04:20.9 AS: Mm.   0:04:22.4 BB: So he's got quotes that don't have to do with quality? [laughter]   0:04:25.0 AS: Yeah, and so that's one of the things that I think people come, when they first come to Deming, they're looking at, they're thinking of quality in terms of tools, you know...   0:04:35.6 BB: Tools, techniques, yeah...   0:04:36.8 AS: And then they find...   0:04:37.1 BB: And so part of the reason that I wanted to throw that quote out is, to reinforce my point, that I look at what Dr. Deming is doing, is providing guidance for how to manage resources, time, energy, money, space, equipment, tools and techniques, ideas, as a system. And the ideas as a system, is the idea that things are interdependent; I depend on you, you depend on me. And I think the better we understand that, you realize is that improved quality, what he would call quality, would come from that, improved safety would come from that, improved profit would come from that. Again, Ackoff would say, you know, profit is the result of how well we work together, which is how well we manage resources and the idea of being deliberately proactive, deliberately reactive, we talked about last time. And I also made reference last time through the term purposeful resource management, purposeful... And then also reflexive resource management, which is the "me organization," the non-Deming organization being reactive, why?   0:05:58.3 BB: I'm not thinking about it. [laughter] I just, why would I be proactive? I'm gonna be reactive. I'm not gonna work on things that are good. I'm gonna focus on the problems. I'm gonna focus on the defects. Whereas in a Deming organization, a "we organization,: I think there'd be, we're gonna be reactive, where it makes sense, it depends. When does it make sense? We're gonna be proactive when it makes sense, it depends. And another term I'm gonna throw out to build upon this purposeful resource management, which I would... I look at management as an activity, we're managing resources, we're thinking locally...   0:06:33.3 BB: Thinking globally, acting locally. And I think everyone in a Deming organization has that responsibility. You don't ask for twice as much resources as you need. So you don't, so you make sure you get things done as you would at a non-Deming company where you ask for way more than you need on everything, because you don't wanna be the bad guy, so you protect yourself. I would believe in a Deming organization, you would ask for what you need. But again, when I'm working on a project in the backyard, it involves going to the hardware store, you know, I'm gonna go there a few times that day. And, but I anticipate that. And in fact, now I get smart and instead of on one visit, and then going back, I'll say, I'll buy, if it's three different things I might need, I'll buy all three.   0:07:19.8 BB: I say it to myself, what am I doing? Managing resources. But a new term, to build upon purposeful resource management, so purposeful resource management is, "I know when I go to the hardware store, I buy more than I need. I can always return it next week and when the project is done." And that's how I manage projects. But I didn't always do it that way. So what I wanted to say is that purposeful resource management is how I currently manage resources. And then when you and I come up with a whole 'nother way of managing resources, I refer to that as purposeful resource leadership. And leadership is about creating a path for others to follow. And you say, holy cow, I should do the same thing, you know, in my part of the organization, again, where it makes sense.   0:08:05.2 BB: So whether that's focusing on an ideal value when it comes to improving integration or managing and improving how we manage interactions, purposeful resource leadership to me is everyone...I mean, someone coming up with a, then again, better way of doing it, and then we spread it around the organization, then somebody else takes the lead on their thing. The other thing I wanted to share with you is, is a quote from, quotes from two friends who spent a good deal of time with Dr. Deming, conversations. I met him twice, never asked him a question. The first time I didn't have a question to ask. And the second time he was health-wise, not in good shape. I just wanted his autograph. And I just wanted to just be thankful for being in the room. But Gipsie Ranney, who was the first president of the Deming Institute, and before that she was a professor at the University of Tennessee and a senior consultant at GM, she told me, she was a mentor for many years, she said she asked Dr. Deming once, she said, "so, um what are people getting outta your seminars?" And he said, he says, "I know what I told them. I don't know what they heard."   0:09:21.1 BB: And I think... And the more I thought about it, it's just I think that's part of the problem. So a big part, of what I was trying to do at Rocketdyne was to make it easy to read The New Economics. 'Cause I think there's, I think yeah, you can read it on your own, but I think the meaning you'll get being guided by others first, and that could be listening to the pod... You know, listening to these podcasts, watching videos on DemingNEXT. I think It's important to realize that there's words he's using that have perhaps a different meaning than you're using where you are at work. I just throw that out. And the other quote I wanted to share was from Bill Cooper. And Bill Cooper is approaching 90, he lives in San Diego, and he's a great guy.   0:10:07.7 BB: And I, I met him 20 some years ago and remained in touch. And he was a senior civilian officer, senior civilian at the US Navy's Overhaul facility in San Diego at a place called North Island, in the early '80s he came across Deming's work and became riveted, along with Phil Monroe, who was a senior military officer. And they went off to do Deming Consulting around the world. And, and Bill said he asked Deming once, Dr. Deming once, he said, "so what percent of people who attend your four-day seminars really walk out understanding what you said?" And his explanation, his answer to Bill was, "very few." And I think that's consistent with Gipsie, because I think you have to step back and realize that there's, there might be something more going on than what you're thinking. And I'm hoping these conversations help to spur that. Now, relative to teamwork, I had a colleague within Boeing, he was at Boeing Corporate, and somebody went by his office one day knowing that he was very fond of Deming's work and Taguchi's work. And the guy sticks his head out and he says to him, "you know the reason I don't like Deming, there's no equations, you know there's no equations.   0:11:30.0 BB: If you had equations, it means something." And so I told my friend, I said, next time the guy comes by and says that, say to him, "do you believe in teamwork? Is teamwork important?" 'cause at that time, within Boeing, Boeing's corporate slogan was "people working together as, as a one global aerospace companies"... But people working together. And I said, ask him, does he believe in working together? And he'll say yes. And then say, "so what's the equation? What's the equation?" And so I wanna share in advance of a, of another session where we get more into this, an example of teamwork. And I think, I think... I think if executives had an understanding of what teamwork is, that it improves profitability, no one would be against it. Now again, I've also come across people who think teamwork means everyone's involved in every decision, and they get turned off by that.   0:12:30.2 BB: And I'm not saying I agree with: everyone's involved in every decision. But what if, Andrew, in terms of a task, let's say you and I have to dig a trench that's 50 yards long. And I give you a shovel. That's a tool. I take a shovel. That's another tool. We start at opposite ends. And let's say we can each dig the trench at one foot an hour. So that means in one hour we're digging two feet, in two hours we're digging four feet. And so what is that? That's one plus one... One hour plus one hour equals two feet. That's addition, right, Andrew, addition. But if you're at one end of the trench and I'm on the other end of the trench, where's the teamwork? [laughter] There's no teamwork in that model. But Andrew, what if I came along with another tool called a pickaxe, and what if I get in there and start softening up the dirt? And then as it's softer, you can shovel faster. That's teamwork, Andrew. Teamwork is that you and I, again I'm changing tools, but what I'm showing is that you and I working together, my work depends upon yours, yours depends upon me. Two of us can be digging three feet an hour. So what's that Andrew? One plus one is three. My wife and I, a number of years ago, were scraping the spray off the ceiling in our hallway, and the work split was, I climbed the ladder and scraped off the acoustic spray. Right?   0:14:07.2 BB: And her job was to be ahead of me spraying it with water to soften it. And I use that example at class because we were doing far more together than the example I gave you. But if her ambition was to get to the end of the hallway before me, then the acoustic spray would be dry long before I got to it. That ain't helping. And so this is an example of would you like to be in an organization where two people are doing the work of two, or two people are doing the work of three, or two people doing the work of four or five or six. Or, or worse than that Andrew, would you like to have two people doing the work, falling behind [laughter] and get into the... 'Cause I also think people think, well, what's the worst case scenario? Two people equals zero? No, falling behind each day.   0:15:00.9 AS: Two people equal negative one.   0:15:02.7 BB: 'Cause they think well, how bad can it be? It can get better and better or worse and worse. And the other thing I'll add relative to the, "it depends" and the answer to every question. I think if you think of in a Deming organization, you're thinking about, "it depends." And so Andrew, if we're in a red... If we're in a non-Deming organization and I say to you, "Andrew, will that report be done by tomorrow?" How would you answer it in a non Deming organization, Andrew?   0:15:34.7 AS: In a non... Yes, sir.   0:15:36.1 BB: You're gonna salute and you're gonna say, "yes sir." All right. And I do this with my students and they'll be quick enough to figure out the answer is yes. Then I'll say, I'll call on a different person and I'll say, "Okay, let's say we're in a Deming organization, a 'we organization' will the report be done by tomorrow?"   0:15:55.5 AS: It depends.   0:15:57.6 BB: And they're like, it depends. It depends on what Andrew? It depends on what time tomorrow. It depends on those other five things you've asked me to do. And you might say, is this a five minute task or a 20 minute task or a two hour task? And so if you're unwilling to answer "it depends," then what's the chance the effort you're gonna apply? And so that's what I find is, I think the beauty of it is not, "it depends" is a smart-alecky response, it's trying to get a better sense of the system. And they, but I also say that I confess of thinking about "it depends" all the time. If my wife, of 40 years, was to ask me, do I have plans for Saturday morning? You know what my answer is, Andrew?   0:16:50.5 AS: For whatever you want, dear, I am free.   0:16:54.2 BB: I do not say, "it depends." [laughter] So it depends is the answer other than when your significant other says, do you have plans for...? And you say, no, I don't.   0:17:07.5 AS: Yes.   0:17:07.8 BB: All right.   0:17:08.3 AS: All right. So I got so many different things that you triggered.   0:17:12.2 BB: Good.   0:17:13.4 AS: The first one I wanted to mention was I have a friend of mine, Bevin in Bangkok, and he helped me edit my book, Transform Your Business with Dr. Deming's 14 Points. And he didn't know anything about Deming, so it's kind of fun to write it and have him going through it. And he actually worked with me side by side in my office and he was reading it and going through and editing and going back and forth chapter by chapter. And then after he was pretty deep into it, he looked at me and he says, I think I just figured it out. Dr. Deming is like is a humanist that cares about people.   0:17:49.8 BB: Yeah.   0:17:51.2 AS: And that was such a... And I think for the listeners and the viewers out there, you're gonna get to a moment where you move beyond tools and techniques into the way you think about getting the most out of a system, getting the most out of people. And that's really where you really get into the meaning to me, the most powerful part of the meaning of Dr. Deming.   0:18:14.5 BB: Well, when you start to think about the potential for one plus one, and then you realize that in a non-Deming organization, you deliver the report by, you know, without understanding the context, you deliver the part without understanding the context. You have the ability to, as we've talked, spoken before, meet requirements minimally, leave the bowling ball in a doorway and... 'Cause I say, Andrew was the task completed? And you're like, yes sir, it was completed. But to do so with the absolute minimal effort and then to realize that that then is creating a ripple effect for the next person. And what we end up doing is a one plus one is a big negative number, or you go off and get the cleaning solution, which is really, really cheap, but it doesn't cut whatever the grease is on the table. And we're saving a lot of money, but we're putting all this manpower. When you start to realize how easy it is to end up in a situation where one plus one is a big negative number, why would you treat people other than with the greatest of respect? And I've had people say, "Well, oh, so it's a feel good thing." I said, are we... Is the result at the end of the day to make... I'm not saying we're in business to make a profit, but I said if we wanna be sustainable, then the better we work together, the more sustainable we are. So, do we wanna be sustainable? And you get what you get.   0:20:00.0 AS: I had some other things that came up. First one is, for the audience out there, you may not know what Bill's talking about when he kept saying Ackoff, Ackoff. But what he's talking about is Russell Ackoff.   0:20:12.5 BB: Russell Ackoff. Yes.   0:20:15.7 AS: And I just wanna go back to an article that he wrote in 1994, and it's titled Systems Thinking and Thinking Systems. But what's critical for our discussion is his description of a system, which is very brief. So let me go through it.   0:20:32.4 BB: Yeah, please do.   0:20:33.5 AS: "A system is a whole consisting of two or more parts, one, each of which can affect the performance or properties of the whole, none of which can have an independent effect on the whole, and no subgroup of which can have an independent effect on the whole. In brief then, a system is a whole that cannot be divided into independent parts or subgroups of parts." Now, I just wanna talk briefly about my... One of my areas of expertise is in the financial markets. And I say something a lot like what you say, when I go into my class and I said it last night in my valuation masterclass boot camp, when you finish my class, you'll be less confident than when you started. If you are less confident when you finish this class, I have succeeded. Well, this is very painful and difficult for people to think about because we're going to school to become more confident. But the stock market is not like physics where we have immutable laws that we can...   0:21:52.2 BB: That's right.   0:21:52.7 AS: Grasp and understand and then watch the interplay of those laws. The world of finance is a messy ball of activity. And the fact is, is that the minute you touch that ball, you have now affected that ball. If you place a buy order, you have just affected that ball. If you maybe place a very big buy order, you've really affected it. Some people could even say that just by looking at that ball of activity, you could influence it. When you face a complex, constantly changing system, then you start to realize that we have so little...to expect definitiveness, I'm just gonna do this.   0:22:49.0 AS: I'm just gonna take care of my department, if... And you're talking about a company, you are ignoring that the system, in this case I'm talking about the stock market, but now let's take it into a factory or into a business or into an office environment. All of these component parts. And if you write an email, a scathing email and you send it into that group of people that is working in a system, congratulations, you have made an effect or an impact on that system. For better or for worse, that system must react to every interaction. It cannot be divided into independent parts or subgroups. And therefore, the typical manager nowadays, that's all they wanna do. "I got my KPIs, that's my subgroup."   0:23:39.2 BB: Yes.   0:23:39.5 AS: We'll take care of that. And they're missing the word that I love in... When I work with management teams, the word I love is "coordination."   0:23:49.9 BB: Yeah. Synchronicity.   0:23:52.2 AS: Yep. So there's a lot there. But I just wanna highlight one other thing. You made me think of a book and earlier I was looking around for that book. So I'm gonna get out that book 'cause my books are right here and for everybody that's in business that's looking at competitive strategy of your business, Michael Porter is the guy...   0:24:14.3 BB: Yes.   0:24:14.8 AS: That's the best of all. But what I can say is that Michael Porter can be a bit dry. And the lady who worked with Michael Porter is a lady named Joan Magretta and she wrote a book called Understanding Michael Porter, a simple, small book to teach all the main things that Porter teaches. But what he teaches, the most important thing is that to develop a competitive advantage in a company, you wanna build that competitive advantage in the supply chain of that business, the flow of that business. And then he talks about the importance of fit, of how different components of that supply chain fit together.   0:24:57.3 AS: That that's the right person running the right part and that they're coordinating their efforts. And when you build that competitive advantage in your supply chain through the coordination of efforts, it's almost impossible for the competitor to copy. A great example is if General Motors, if the CEO of General Motors came in and he says, what I wanna do is start building cars like Toyota. Good luck. It's never going to happen because they've built their whole competitive advantage in their supply chain and it's not something that you can just go out and replicate.   0:25:36.0 BB: Well, to add to that, and I have a...students in one of my classes watch a one hour lecture by Porter. And then I explained to them Porter's five... I think it's a five forces model.   0:25:49.9 AS: Five forces. Yep.   0:25:52.1 BB: And all of that, I think it's absolutely important to know about. What I learned from Tom Johnson, is a retired professor from Portland State University and we'll talk more about Tom in a later session. What Tom pointed out to me that I would have paid no attention to in Porter's model is, in Porter's model it's about "power over." Power over your customers. Where else are you gonna go, Andrew, for Internet? Right? Power over your suppliers, power over your employees. I think and when we get into this "power over" model, so we're gonna go to our customers, start demanding things, put a gun to their head, drive change and they're gonna respond by leaving bowling balls in the doorway when it... So what's missing in that model is... I mean, if the model's based on all white beads are the same, everything which is good, everything is, there is no variation, then it might work. But if you now go back to the humanist, if you've got people in the loop who have vested interest in their survival as an employee, their survival as a supplier, and you go to them and start wrenching them and squeezing them and driving them to...   0:27:18.4 BB: And they respond with things that are thinner and break more often or still meet requirements, it doesn't work out as well. To your point on Toyota, my sense is Toyota has a sense of relationships with suppliers, which is not mutually self destructive. I think there's a better understanding, I think, again, not that I've spoken and gone to visit Toyota's suppliers. But I'm thinking, in order to deliver what they deliver, there's got to be some sense of, shall I say win-win, because if it's win-lose... Boeing, when Rocketdyne was owned by Boeing, you know, severe downturn in the market, there was a lot of pressure within Boeing to improve things and it was a pretty stressful situation. And Boeing was going to suppliers, not only asking them to take back inventory, all those parts you bought from the last six months and we're having trouble selling airplanes. But the reason we want you to take them back, Andrew, is it's not so much that we need the space. We want you to buy them back from us. [laughter] Yeah. Are you okay with that, Andrew?   0:28:44.9 AS: Absolutely not.   0:28:45.6 BB: And I'm thinking, what's gonna happen when you go to that supply chain and say, we're ramping up, we've got customers, and we... Andrew, we need your help, we need your help. Are you there for us? And you're like, remember five years ago? Remember? You get into this rainy day friends kind of thing. It's one thing if we're mutually suffering or mutually benefiting, but anything short of that is not win... I wouldn't define it as win-win. I also want to point out the production viewed as a system, the loop, the loop model that Deming showed the Japanese in 1950. And what I've done in the past is, is I've taken a class and I said, okay, you over there, you are the beginning, the raw material comes to you and then you do your thing, hand off to the next person, off to the next person, off to the next person. Then you over there, I go around the room, and I just show the flow of work from the first person to the last person, last person is a customer. And I say, so, where's the best place to be in this situation? And everybody wants to be way upstream. And you say, why? I say, well, when people start leaving the bowling balls in doorway...   0:30:07.2 AS: What does that mean, leaving bowling balls in doorways?   0:30:10.7 BB: If they start delivering minimally, minimally meeting requirements as they hand off as they hand off as they hand off as they hand off, and that system, the last... The worst place to be is at the end. And I say, but what if what comes around goes around? What if it's actually a loop? [laughter] Now, where would you rather be? Then you begin to realize that whatever goes into the air, I have to breathe, whatever goes into the water, I have to drink. So I think what, going back to the humanist side, I think the better you understand others, and they understand you, this is not done invisibly. So when I'm in a Deming environment, leaving the bowling ball in the doorway, meeting requirements minimally without asking for your permission, you know that, others know that, and then you might call me on it.   0:31:10.3 AS: Yeah.   0:31:11.9 BB: Because instead of black and white thinking - it met requirements, we've got shades of gray thinking - you call me over and you say, "I don't know, you're kinda new here, right Bill?" And I said, "yeah." And he says, let me take you aside. You might be able to tap into the humanist in me. So one is I'd say, I think the better our understanding of what comes around goes around, the better the understanding of what a good friend, Grace used to call boomerang karma. [laughter] But let me also say that Dr. Deming came up with that model...   0:31:49.2 AS: There's a bit of redundancy in that.   0:31:49.3 BB: Say again.   0:31:49.3 AS: There's a bit of redundancy in that. Those words kind of mean the same thing. But yes.   0:31:54.5 BB: Yes. [laughter] That's right. It's like connected as a system. That's what system means. But when Dr. Deming showed the Japanese in 1950 production to view it as a system, and there's an idea of what comes around goes around. And it took me a while to figure this out. If everyone's meeting requirements minimally in that system and you end up with something where there are problems, then if your model is meeting requirements is okay, then it wouldn't dawn on you that some of the problems could be coming from how we meet requirements. And there's a story we'll look at in a future session of a transmission designed by Ford, built by Ford, also built by Mazda in the early '80s. And Ford somehow found out that the Mazda transmission had an order of magnitude fewer complaints, with the shifting of the transmission than the Ford transmission. It was the same design, but one was built with an understanding of managing the variation between the parts and how they work together.   0:33:09.8 BB: Very much as you would do if you're working in the garage, you're gonna get the pieces to come together, not just meet requirements any way. But I thought if Ford operated with a Deming model in everything, and they end up finding out that these transmissions are performing differently, well, if you go back in and check with quality and all the parts meet requirements, you couldn't explain what's going on. And you're left thinking, well, our transmission must have some bad parts. So part of the reason I throw that out is, in the world of improvement, when you shift from this black and white parts are good, what Ackoff would call managing actions, looking things in isolation, you might find that the requirements are met to one extreme or the other. And maybe if we started to mix and match how they come together, there's an opportunity for incredible improvement when you shift your thinking from the black and white...   0:34:10.1 BB: My parts are good, to how they work together. And also, how can you have continual improvement if your mental model, your mindset is things are good and bad, but if we look at things in a relative sense, then we could say our... If we look at understanding as relative, improvement as relative, then there's room for improvement. But if quality is defined as good and bad, there's no room for improvement. And relative to the title, what I want to bring out is, there's a sense among people in the Deming community, people like a few years into Deming, we can go off and improve everything.   0:34:51.4 BB: Now, what we have to be careful about is what does improvement mean? Does improvement mean having less variation? Does improvement mean having lower cost? The important thing is to look at things, right, Andrew, as a system, and then start to ask where can we spend some, where can... I look at it as a resource management model. Where might we spend an hour to save five hours, spend a dollar to save five? And that's what I refer to not as continual improvement, but rather continual investment. And so I look at in terms of managing resources is within an organization, we've got red beads, we've got things that are defective, things that are behind that are not quite good, and we can use a control chart or run chart to manage those, see those ahead of time. And so we have a fire, Dr. Deming, he said, of course we're gonna have fires.   0:35:41.9 BB: Let's put the fire out. We end up back to where we were before, which means the process is...we wanna get it from out of control to in control. But I think the better we are in responding to that, we don't end up shut down for long periods of time. That then gives us the opportunity as you would be as a homeowner... Again, as a homeowner it's the same thing. You end up with a leak, you gotta go fix it, whether it's the faucet, the toilet, but then every now and then you're thinking about, maybe I can improve how the watering system is done. Maybe I can improve how the air conditioner works. Maybe by cleaning the filter more often. And what is that to me, Andrew, paying more attention to the filter, because if I wait six months to change the filter in the air conditioner, now all of that dust is way up inside the coils and I'm gonna spend forever.   0:36:32.0 BB: But if I'm changing that filter on a more regular basis, what am I doing? I am overall reducing the amount of effort spent on this maintenance. And I just wanted to say, I don't look at that as improvement thinking. I look at that as investment thinking, and I just wanna go from, okay yes, we can go past "all the beads are white" and we know that we don't stop at a hundred percent white beads. So that means improvement is possible, it doesn't mean, I'm not suggesting let's go improve everything. What I'm next looking at in terms of, you know, how I interpret Dr. Deming's The New Economics is asking where's the stitch in time saving nine, where's an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? And that I refer to as not improvement thinking, but investment thinking.   0:37:22.3 AS: Yep.   0:37:23.4 BB: And that's what I was trying to say last time. I think reading to your kids is investment thinking, listening to these podcasts is investment thinking, going to a concert, I think everything we do is based somehow on, "I think that's a worthwhile use of my time."   0:37:39.0 AS: Yep. Okay. Let's wrap up. I just want to go back to the title, which was, It Depends, Rethinking Improvements, and what you said is that, if you're working in a Deming organization, it's not gonna be as definitive. When we ask questions, we're gonna get answers like, well, it depends. Everything's a trade off. We need to know...   0:38:03.7 BB: That's right.   0:38:03.8 AS: How many things... We need to know many things, as you said, before deciding what to do because we want to think about the impact of the system... On the system. And also I would argue, and I think you make this point, that this is hard and I think there's a rush to simplification in KPIs and things like that to try to corner people into little areas and little boxes. And that's destroying the system and... Or the potential of the system.   0:38:37.5 AS: And then I mentioned the word coordination, the idea. We talked about Porter and his idea of building competitive advantage happens through the supply chain. His example, one of them that he uses is IKEA that makes flat, it ships everything in flat boxes.   0:38:52.5 BB: Yes.   0:38:53.2 AS: And that has built something in the supply chain that's not easy to replicate. And so, but that also requires fits that you're designing your supply chain around a new way of thinking. And then you've talked about Russell Ackoff and also I discussed his definition of a system that's saying that nothing can be independently... Can act independently. Everything has an impact. I talked about the stock market and how that is an interacting system. And then I just wanna finish up my kind of review of what we've talked about by a discussion, Bill, that I had with my father before he passed away.   0:39:35.4 AS: And my father had a PhD in organic chemistry and he created a career all of his life at DuPont in selling, he was a salesman and a technical salesman. And he raised three kids; my mom was a housewife. And I asked my dad, what was your proudest accomplishment? And he said, I built a trusting family.   0:40:01.4 BB: Cool.   0:40:03.1 AS: And I didn't really... It hit me then, but it just hits me more and more whenever I think about that. My mom and dad never betrayed my trust. I never was in a situation where I could see that they were acting for their benefit and...   0:40:14.3 BB: Yeah.   0:40:16.8 AS: Not considering mine. So now I wanna go back to Toyota. One of the things that makes Toyota successful is that it's the quintessential family business. It is a family business that built certain values in the family business that are ongoing. Because what we're trying to do, and when we talked about Dr. Deming being a humanist, we're trying to build trust.   0:40:42.5 AS: He's telling us to build trust in the system. In other words, don't beat up your suppliers, work with them. Don't beat up your employees and make them fearful. Don't rank and rate your employees. Build a system of trust. And what I realized, I want to just go back to the story of my father, if my father had done something that was selfish only for him and neglected the impact on me and my mom or the family, he would have broken our trust. And it just takes one time to cause a system, like a family system, to be permanently broken, unless there's effort made to try to resolve that. And it's no different in a business. What would you like to add to end up this episode?   0:41:33.3 BB: No. I think that's a good point. A number of things is, and I really like the way you described that, because I thought about that recently as well as, it's one thing to have trust in others, but I think what you're saying is that a Deming organization we have trust in the system. And when you, when you lack that trust, what do you do, Andrew? You look out for yourself.   0:41:57.7 AS: Yep.   0:42:00.4 BB: Because you've learned. You've learned the hard way. You fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. But I think if you have trust in the system, then there may be a new direction. But you say, "I don't know where we're going, I just got the announcement, but I have trust in the system. I'm not gonna get tossed overboard." And I think you're right. When you have trust in the system of the company or of the family, then you know that you're being looked out for. And lacking that, when people say something to you, you're like, "what's their ulterior motive?" And when you start thinking about ulterior motives behind coworkers or friends, then they're really not friends for long when you start wondering about ulterior motives.   0:42:51.6 AS: And that stifles innovation.   0:42:53.3 BB: Oh, yeah. You say to me, Andrew, or you say to me, Bill, hey, what do you say we go do this? The first thing comes to mind is, what's Andrew up to now? But that's the humanist.   0:43:04.4 AS: Yeah.   0:43:04.8 BB: And what I love about what Deming is saying, and when you put psychology in the System of Profound Knowledge, is that it's an understanding that that psychology gets me to think about me and not the system. That psychology, then we're looking at also an understanding that each of us is different, that's the variation piece. Right, the theory of knowledge piece or am I willing to share my theories or hide my theories? But if you're not tapping into the... That people... I mean, the most flexible part of the system, once you pour the concrete, so yeah, the chairs are on rollers and you put casters on some machines.   0:43:40.6 BB: But at the end of the day, the potential most flexible part of the system is the people. And when you turn people into concrete, now you've got trouble. So I just wanna... And I know you've got a favorite Deming quote, so let me share with you my favorite Russell Ackoff quote, and then you could sign us off. And so to borrow from Russell Ackoff, "a system is never the sum of its parts. It's the product of the interactions of its parts. The art of managing interactions is very different indeed than the management of actions. And history requires this transition for effective management, not efficient management, effective management." And that's my closing quote, Andrew.   0:44:25.2 AS: Bill, once again, on behalf of everyone at The Deming Institute, I want to thank you again for our discussion. For listeners, remember to go to deming.org to continue your journey. And if you want to keep in touch with Bill, just find him on LinkedIn. Oh, wow, we have a lot of good discussions there and all of this stuff is posted there. Share your ideas and opinions. This is your host, Andrew Stotz. And I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming: "People are entitled to joy in work."

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