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In today's episode of The Love Revival Podcast, we're pulling back the velvet curtain on the one thing that makes a woman completely unforgettable to men — and no, it's not about how she looks, what she says, or how hard she tries.It's about Feminine Embodiment.The energy that magnetizes without effort.The vibe that turns heads without even trying.The state that makes men lean in, obsess, and pursue deeply… because they feel you on a soul level.If you've ever wondered why some women seem to have men wrapped around their finger — and it's not because they're the “prettiest” or the “nicest” — this is the episode that explains why.In This Episode You'll learn:What feminine embodiment actually is (and why most women don't have it)How to stop chasing and start receivingThe 3 energetic shifts that make you irresistibleHow to move from overthinking to overflowing pleasureWhy magnetism is an energy, not an effortThis episode is your permission slip to drop the performance and become a woman who is so in her body, she doesn't need to prove a damn thing.

Law and order was a major concern of voters going into the 2023 Election – to be fair, it's usually on the minds of voters going into any election campaign, but particularly the last one. Voters had had a guts full of doing things a different way. Of policing by consent, of giving authority to the gangs and then seeing them take over towns. We had guts full of seeing young kids ram raiding, of seeing neighbourhood crime increase. You saw numerous community Facebook pages showing kids as young as 10 being driven around by older people, breaking into homes, stealing what they could find. People were sick and tired of it, and they were sick and tired too of judges letting young punks walk away from their crimes and their responsibilities. They wanted the authorities to ensure consequences were in place when offenders broke the law. The coalition partners may have their differences, when it comes to law and order though, National, Act, and New Zealand First were, and still are, singing from the same song sheet. They all wanted to go hard in direct contrast to Labour who wanted to and did empty the prisons. Under Labour, incarceration rates plummeted from 213 people per 100,000 in 2018, which is near the highest in the OECD to 149 per 100,000. Although victims of crime increased by 12%. So unfortunately, treating people kindly, nicely with compassion didn't seem to be working terribly well. Labour's reforms were part of an overall goal to reduce the prison population by 30% by 2033. In one area where it achieved success, it achieved that 10 years early. In the 23 campaign, then Prime Minister Chris Hipkins saw that the writing was on the wall and in a stark illustration of pragmatism over ideology, showing that power to him was more important than Labour's principles, he scrapped the target as part of the policy bonfire. But it was too little too late. Labour was voted out, the Coalition voted in, and now tougher sentencing laws have been passed by Parliament. The changes kept the discounts that judges can apply during sentencing to 40% – which still sounds an awful lot. It also scraps repeat discounts for youth and remorse and absolutely – that makes sense. How many times can you be bloody sorry? How many times can you say, oh, look, I'm sorry, I was only 16, I was only 17, I was only 18, I was only 19. I have absolutely no doubt that the dreadful upbringings that many of these offenders have contributes to the reasons why they offend, but how many times do you get to play that card? It is awful. It's unspeakable. It shouldn't happen. But you can't keep saying sorry and getting away with it and having it apply. There are three new aggravating factors: penalizing offenders who target sole charge workers, good, those who aid and abet young people, good, and those who live stream their crimes, double good. The changes also encourage longer sentences for people who offend on bail, in custody, or on parole, and implement a sliding scale for early guilty pleas, so an offender can only get a 5% discount if they change their plea to guilty during the trial. This is common sense that absolutely discourages bad behaviour. But as Julie-Anne Kincaid, the Law Association Vice President told Mike Hosking this morning, the changes are all very well and good, but we're running out of places to put the lawbreakers. “Our prisons are full. We have these new things coming into play, which are designed to make prison sentences longer and people to be imprisoned longer, as well as 3 strikes coming into play on the 17th of June this year. And these will lead to an increase in our prison population, which is already at breaking point. “It costs $150,000 about to keep a person in prison for a year in New Zealand. So that's 10 more people in jail for one year each is $1.5 million, and that would pay, I'm sure for a palliative paediatric doctor to come to New Zealand.” It absolutely would. There are so many ways we as taxpayers could spend $150,000. If I had $150,000 per person, I would love to use that money to rehabilitate them. To rehabilitate especially the young punks, so they didn't cause any further harm and pain. Prison, I think we can all agree, isn't where rehabilitation happens – that has to happen within the person themselves. They decide, all of a sudden they grow up. Age seems to happen, and that's when offending stops. They fall in love, they have children, they decide they don't want the kids being brought to see dad or mum in the prison. So they decide to grow up and change their ways. They decide that they are worth more and deserve more than being some dumbass fall guy for the gangs. But, where is that rehabilitation going to happen? Where are the rehabilitation programs that work? Can we all sit around waiting for the muse to strike some young punk? Because it seems to be an epiphany that they have – this is not working, this is stupid. Doing the same thing over and over again is dumb. I'm worth more, I'm going to go out and have more. We can't. And we cannot let people get away with their crimes because that really starts to rip the fabric of society, not just strain it, but tear it. The people who are doing good get increasingly furious, increasingly brassed off, increasingly intolerant – and you can't blame them. How many times do you see people walking out of the supermarket with the trolleys loaded high when you have been agonizing over how much you have to spend, and trying to feed the family with that? So they have to be punished. Ideally, they don't commit the crime in the first place, you nip it in the bud. And that's where I guess the social investment policies come in, but they take time. I think we're just gonna have to put up with overcrowded prisons for a while, because I don't know about you, but after six years of attempts to do things differently —I don't know how they thought that reducing the prison population was suddenly going to make society safer, it didn't— I want to see good old-fashioned justice and retribution. Little bit of hellfire and brimstone for a couple of years, no matter the cost, I'm okay with it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Start off with an old-school Kids' Sports Update before getting to the movie.Yor, The Hunter from the Future: A caveman with a backstory, such that there is one, similar to Lonestar in Spaceballs wanders around the Turkish countryside causing mayhem. He meets women. They fall in love with him. Other cavemen come along and destroy shit. Then SUDDENLY, there's space ships and laser beams. Apparently Yor is actually from an advanced civilization! And his civilization is fighting another civilization of bad guys who want to create a world of androids. There is no time travel. This is all happening on the same planet at the same time and no one noticed. Whatever. Yor, The Movie with the Wordy Title final grade: Steve: I wanted to like this one, but Antonio Marrrgggeriiitttiii's attempt to take a four-hour mini-series and pare it down to a 90-minute movie probably lost a lot of the plot. Tarzan/Flash Gordon mash-up was too convoluted. 1.8/5.0Brandon: The first 60 minutes of this movie had nothing to do with the last 30. There wasn't any attempt to tie the Star Wars-y stuff to the caveman stuff. Yor wasn't even from the future. He was just from a different part of the same beachfront property. 1.9/5.0Cocktail of the Week:The Cosmic Caveman1 oz Bourbon1/2 oz Mezcal1/2 oz Blue Curaçao1 oz Pineapple Juice1/2 oz Fresh-squeezed Lime Juice1/2 oz Honey SyrupAngostura Bitters1/2 oz Over-proof RumCombine everything except the rum in a cocktail shaker. Shake to combine and chill, then strain into a rocks glass. Garnish with a lime wheel laid on top. Pour over-proof rum onto lime wheel/chunk and light the rum on fire. Cocktail Grade: ChatGPT is clearly in the tank for Big Blue Curaçao. Looks like toxic waste. Doesn't taste great. You don't make enough money to support ChatGPT's liquor budget. Really gave Steve some tummy troubles the next morning. 1.3/5.0------------------Contact us with feedback or cocktail/movie recommendations to:boozeandbmovies@gmail.comX: @boozeandbmoviesInstagram: @boozeandbmoviesThreads: @boozeandbmovieswww.facebook.com/boozeandbmovies

Lesley Logan dives into financial independence with Steve Selengut. Discover actionable insights on managing your portfolio, minimizing risks, and building income-producing investments. Steve shares decades of expertise to help you achieve financial security and freedom.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:The meaning of income independence and why it matters.Breaking down portfolio basics for beginners.How to use diversification to minimize financial risks.The value of income-producing investments like dividends and bonds.Why emotional decision-making can hinder financial growth.How to vet financial advisors and ensure alignment with your goals. Episode References/Links:Steve Selengut's Website - https://theincomecoach.netRetirement Money Secrets by Steve Selengut - https://a.co/d/caqcgnTVetting An Investment Advisor - https://beitpod.com/articleGuest Bio:Steve Selengut is a 40+ year professional investment manager, advisor, RIA, and IAR who now coaches both individuals and fellow advisors on creating what he calls “income independence.” He wrote Retirement Money Secrets, his second book, which uses a conversation-style narrative to guide readers from chasing market value to building sustainable portfolio income. A former private investment manager for 44 years, Selengut personally oversaw around 325 individual portfolios in the U.S. and abroad. Drawing on a “department store” metaphor, he treats each portfolio asset like “merchandise on a shelf,” taking strategic profits while reinvesting for consistent growth. Selengut retired from day-to-day portfolio management in 2022, devoting himself to a coaching practice that frees investors from market-driven stress and uncertainty. He remains one of the few investment authors who have directly managed other people's money. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.DEALS! DEALS! DEALS! DEALS!Check out all our Preferred Vendors & Special Deals from Clair Sparrow, Sensate, Lyfefuel BeeKeeper's Naturals, Sauna Space, HigherDose, AG1 and ToeSoxBe in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar Resources:Watch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable Pilates Follow Us on Social Media:InstagramThe Be It Till You See It Podcast YouTube channelFacebookLinkedInThe OPC YouTube Channel Episode Transcript:Steve Selengut 0:01  It doesn't matter what the stock market is doing. It doesn't matter what interest rates are doing. It won't impact your income, your ability to live your life the way you want to financially. Lesley Logan 0:14  Welcome to the be it till you see it. Podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained 1000s of people around the world, and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity, and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and be it till you see it. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Lesley Logan 0:52  All right, Be It babe. Here's the deal. We're gonna talk money. I say it straight up on the interview. It's good stuff. Don't be scared. He is going to say words you may not know or you've only heard of, and you usually nod along when you hear about it, but he doesn't talk nearly as fast as I do, so he's gonna absolutely inform you in the best way about how to manage your retirement, how to not even to your retirement, how to manage your portfolio so that you can retire. This is a whole different conversation than what I've had in the past about money investment. That's a new way of looking at it. Honestly. I've never heard of it before, so I have a lot of, I have, like, notes that I'm like, okay, I gotta go research this. Gotta research this. I already have committed to doing the Be It Action Item. And the reality is, it's like, I want you to have whatever you want in this world, and money isn't a bad thing, right? Shitty people with money can be a bad thing, but you're an amazing person who listens to this podcast. You deserve to have portfolios that support you, so that you can support the people that you love, because I know how generous you are. You know, they actually have proven that when women have money, they actually put it back into the community. They support other people. And so I want you to have as much as you want and more than that, so you can continue to do that and be the amazing person you are and have the impact you want to make on this world. But first, let's educate ourselves. So here is Steve Selengut. Lesley Logan 2:15  All right, Be It babe, we're gonna talk money, and I think I'm just gonna stay it right there. Do not fast-forward, skip this episode. I know no one like money, but we have to talk about money and being it till you see it. If you've ever been like, I just want to be good with money. I'm so excited for our guest today. His name is Steve Selengut and he is actually going to help us, really, he's going to demystify all this stuff that you hear. I mean, we hear negative stuff about the economy, we hear negative stuff about the stock market. And I'm really excited because Steve's going to help us understand not all bad things are bad, and how they can be good, and also how we can really take a charge of our money and our retirements the way he has for so many. So Steve, will you tell everyone who you are and what you rock at?Steve Selengut 2:53  Sure. Thank you. Good to be on your program. My name is Steve Selengut, like you said, and I guess I'll leave it with what I was for about 45 years. I was professional investment manager where I made all the investment decisions for about 135-145 families, and ran about $110 million for them. Our objectives were always to put them in a position where they were, what we used to call it, income independent, that their portfolios generated all the income they needed to get their lives done, whatever that happened to be, whatever they wanted to do, you know, depending on themselves. Now I'm an income coach. I sold my business last May 23. Lesley Logan 3:45  Wow. Steve Selengut 3:45  A little more than a year ago, and started a coaching business. So now I teach people had to do that. I can't actually do it for them anymore, which is fine for me. Fine with me. I look at their portfolios and I try to put them on a path to what I call income independence. And it's something, it doesn't matter what the stock market is doing, it doesn't matter what interest rates are doing, it won't impact your income, your ability to live your life the way you want to financially. Okay? So that, I think that's a big thing. I mean, I've enjoyed being in that situation for a long time, and I know a lot of people are also there, but I also know there are hundreds of people out there that are really, you know, coming towards the end of their career, and they're saying, you know, I don't think I can replace my six figure income from my investment portfolio?Lesley Logan 4:44  Yeah, yeah, no. I mean, that's one of the reasons I like to talk about this. Is because, first of all, so many people aren't taught about investment portfolio. I think the word portfolio might even need to be deconstructed for some of our listeners. And by the way, if that's you, don't be embarrassed. This is not taught in schools. They don't teach this. And I happened to when I was working for a high-end fitness company as a Pilates instructor, my trainer was like, oh, did you get on the 401(k)? And I was like, we have a 401(k)? And he's like, you have to get on there and you should just ask, like, they'll match the max. Just do that. And I was like, okay, that was my money advice in my 20s, was with my trainer at work. And then when I did reach out to someone who could help me, because someone said, oh, this person's helping with me with my portfolio, I was like, okay. I found out after six years of them doing it, that they had me as if I was an 80-year-old. There was no aggressiveness. A snail is more aggressive than what they were with my, so then I got really frustrated, because I'm like, I don't know enough to know that someone's screwing up with my money. And so I think we all would love to be income-independent. But also some people, especially after the pandemic, even though we're several years out now, some people had to rely on their retirement, so they're kind of starting over. So can you, first of all, break down what a portfolio is and then also kind of talk about, if you're someone who's where the income in (inaudible) is so far away, what are some things you need to know or should be thinking about?Steve Selengut 6:11  I can try. A portfolio is really all your investment accounts, your IRAs, Roth IRAs, 401(k)s, speaking of 401(k)s, you'd be surprised how many people don't even realize they're investing in the stock market. 401(k). They just think it's a 401(k) is the investment. But all of those things put together your personal accounts, if you set aside money for your kids already and education stuff like that. That's all part of your investment portfolio. Lesley Logan 6:41  Okay. Steve Selengut 6:41  Doesn't include your fancy jewelry and your cars and your stuff like that. Lesley Logan 6:46  Okay. Steve Selengut 6:46  So there's two types of securities, two general classes of assets that would be in a portfolio, and those are equity-based, where you own an interest in a company that would be a stock. You know? Anytime you want to share a stock, you are an owner of that company. They may not treat you like an owner, but you are. And then there's the other class of securities or securities you're in, mainly because they produce income, and those can also be dividend stocks, which produce some income. Some funds do as well, but what's inside is usually bonds, preferred stocks, mortgages, things of that nature, that are really, they're there. Your main purpose is to get income from them. So the combination of the two, like you alluded to, was, you know, when you're younger, it's okay to have more of an exposure to the ownership side of things, stocks, than when you get to be, you mentioned, those people that are 80, well, I'm only a few, six months away from that. Lesley Logan 7:57  No way. Stop. You guys have to be watching YouTube right now. No way.Steve Selengut 8:01  But, you know, you, at my age, my account still contains 35% in the stock market, but mainly because the kind, the way I invest in the stock market is also in income-producing securities that just happen to be invested in stocks, and the type of securities that I use are not very well known. You'll never find any in your selection universe for a 401(k), for example, but a lot of people have discovered their use in IRAs and things like that, because they're actually managed to produce income and to give it to their shareholders. Whereas stocks, the company's management is there to make a lot of money and to grow its influence and size, not to give a lot of money back to its shareholders. Mutual funds are there to gain market value. That's their primary objective, because people feel good when their bottom line is high. And the same with ETFs, their focus is on growing the market value. The dilemma, as you again, you mentioned the crisis around COVID, when the market really crashed for a couple of months, fortunately or unfortunately, when we get done with this conversation, you will agree with me that if it stayed down longer, it would have been better. You know? So, you know, so that kind of thing happens, but when you're focused totally on market value, that becomes very painful and very scary, because when the market value goes down, you know, that's what you're, what you're all about, whereas in my eyes, when the market value goes down, I recognize that the securities I have are going to pay the same income, irrespective where the market or interest rates are going. So I see it as an opportunity to add to those securities at a lower price, therefore increasing my income percentage.Steve Selengut 8:34  That makes sense to me. Like, you know, someone we work with, they're like, okay, it's an election year. Here's what you can expect. It's gonna go down. It always does. Doesn't matter who's in office, of go down, and then that's when we can invest more, because you can get it for a lower and I was like, oh, okay. Steve Selengut 10:23  Okay, that's, that person has the right mindset, a similar mindset to the one I have as an income investor as so that's what a portfolio is. That's what its content is. And everybody says they talk on radio shows and stuff, but all the uncertainty is way up here. It's so high.Steve Selengut 10:44  Is there ever certainty? Lesley Logan 10:45  I know. Steve Selengut 10:46  There's never, ever certainty. Lesley Logan 10:49  There isn't. I know. And everyone's out there like pretending like the past has certainty in it. If we all looked back at how we're feeling, it was pretty uncertain. I've heard you talk about how a portfolio is a department store or like, a shopping center. Is that what you mean we have these different area, like, different types of things that can go in the portfolio. Is that what you mean by a department store or a shopping center? Steve Selengut 11:13  You're good. Exactly, exactly. You have to, my mindset, I, and I guess we have to realize there are thousands of different types of stocks, all different sectors, healthcare, every different imaginable sector, then there is international. We are, regardless of what anybody tells you, a global economy. You know, we rely on China, even though they're angry at us all the time, and we're the same with them. It's a global economy, and you have to position yourself with this portfolio so that you own a little bit of everything. You have a presence in each place. It's difficult to do if you're just doing individual stocks, because it requires a lot of money to have all those different things, right? But when you use income-focused funds that I use, which are called closed end funds, and we can get into more with what they are, but you can get them in all shapes and sizes, all sectors, all focuses, income or equity. So that's what I use. And like you said, I think of them as merchandise on the shelves in my department store, you know, and I set a target markup which I'm comfortable with that profit, and I'll sell that merchandise because I know I have this unlimited supply of others to replace it with on my shelves. And that's exactly how I do it. I say, okay, I got a 5% markup. That would be nice if you had that in department stores, by the way, instead of 15, a 30% markup, 5% markup, somebody wants to buy it for a 5% profit, I'll take the profit and I'll add something else, and I just do that over and over and over, and I just replace them all, because once you are experienced enough to judge their quality, their amount of risk involved in different types of securities. You get comfortable with this. I call it a selection universe. Lesley Logan 13:10  Yeah.Steve Selengut 13:11  Comfortable to the extent that it doesn't matter which one you use, which product you put back on your shelf.Lesley Logan 13:17  Yeah. And I like the visualization of it, because I think, and you know, you guys, it's okay to hit pause, look something up, you know, and come back to this, because it can be overwhelming. But also, if we think about a department store or a shopping center, no one actually goes to a shopping center that has five shoe departments. They want a shopping center that has, oh, it's got the shoe department, it's got the pro, I'm going there because I can get the grocery, I can get groceries, I can get gas, I can get these things, and so more people are attracted to that. It can do really well, because, in case you don't need shoes, you're still going to the shopping center. There's still going to be something doing well. Am I describing your analogy correctly? Steve Selengut 13:50  Yeah, yeah. And what is the biggest thing that brings you to a shopping center or an individual store? What brings you there? Lesley Logan 13:59  Something you need or. Steve Selengut 14:00  Yeah, but, sale. The sale.Lesley Logan 14:04  The sale. Yes.Steve Selengut 14:05  There's another part of this analogy, when prices are down their bargains, the same stock market. When the price of Microsoft goes down as short a time as that thing's been in business, unlike Exxon or some of the other healthcare companies, every time it's gone down in price, it's always been an opportunity to buy it and then to be able to sell it. Most people don't sell. Lesley Logan 14:30  Yeah. We can get into that. So you mentioned risk, and I think, like one of the things that makes it difficult for some people, some listeners, to kind of get involved in their portfolios more is like the idea that you don't know enough to know what you're doing. Steve Selengut 14:48  Right. Lesley Logan 14:48  And also to kind of learn, you said, you should get experience with the risk of it, the experience could cost you money. And I think some of us, going back to certainty, were like, ah, I have this money, though. So I would just rather hold on to this than "lose" because if we go off of what you've said, if we actually stick with what is known is that the longer you're in there, it always ends up up guys. So it's almost feels like you're learning on your own dime, and you can lose a lot of money. And I think people get scared.Steve Selengut 15:17  That's the way. That's true of most people's entry into the marketplace, and when they get started, and that's a lot of what eventually leads them to a financial advisor to help them with that, especially when the size of their investment gets bigger, and it's scarier if you were to lose it, like, you know, oh my God, as you get older, how am I going to rebuild if I get these losses. In the book that I wrote after I sold my business, it's called Retirement Money Secrets, it spends a lot of time on six principles of investing, and four of them are risk minimization tools. When you're looking at a security, it doesn't matter if it's one of those regular stocks in the New York Stock Exchange or on any of the markets. You're looking at any security, you want to judge its quality. You want to come up with a way of determining what its quality is. And what I look at is things like, how long it's been in business. Is it profitable? Does it pay me a dividend as an owner? I mean, the chief executives getting $12 million a year. If I'm not getting the dividend, that doesn't seem right to me. I'm an owner. Lesley Logan 16:30  Yeah. Steve Selengut 16:30  I'm paying his salary, theoretically. Lesley Logan 16:33  Yeah. Steve Selengut 16:33  So that type of thing. So there are things you can look at to determine the quality. How long it's been in business is a big one. Then the next one is diversification. When I set up a portfolio, even if AI is crazy hot right now, you don't want a portfolio that's all in AI. I mean, Buggy Whips used to be the biggest thing, you know, years ago. So, you know, you just, so you have to diversify. Yeah, I have AI, but I also have everything else. So diversification is a second way to minimize your risk. The third way is to make sure everything you own pays you income. There's two reasons for that. First, you deserve it, and secondly, it's a clear way of knowing if there's something wrong with the company. No corporation wants to cut their dividend, that's why they're so reluctant to start paying dividends in the first place. But what if something happens? They have to cut it. It's a sure sign that they're in trouble. So that's why we want to have something that pays a dividend, because we want to know when they get in trouble. And if they cut their dividend, they can't keep it from us. And it's the same with bonds and things like that. They have to pay that regular interest every six months, and if they don't, everybody's going to sue them and they're going to be gone. So income is a very important thing for that and for the fact that you then have the wherewithal to take advantage of opportunities in the market, because you have income coming in, many people make the mistake of automatically reinvesting their income into the same securities. It's a big mistake, because then they don't have that luxury of having money that they can put back into Microsoft when it goes down, or put back into Exxon when it goes down, that type of thing, or pay a bill, buy Christmas presents, whatever. Those are the big three. And then the fourth one, and this is where most people fail miserably. It's a function of emotions. They fall in love with securities that go up in price. They just totally fall in love. They get convinced, I'm just going to keep adding to this one and adding to this, always goes up. It's wonderful. It's so green on my whole portfolio looks beautiful because this one security, or these three securities, are up so much. But then they go down. Then you have a COVID, then you have a dotcom bubble. Were you?Lesley Logan 19:05  Oh, I was around. I wasn't investing. I was alive. But I do remember, I do remember the year where the Super Bowl commercials were all dotcom commercials, and they were terrible. They were awful. And then when they and then they collapsed, and everyone was pissed, yes.Steve Selengut 19:21  Well, I remember the first Super Bowls when Green Bay was, the very first ones.Lesley Logan 19:27  Oh, the very first Super Bowls. There was no ad.Steve Selengut 19:29  My first, my first market correction, big one, was the crash of '87th. You know, it's interesting about the crash of '87 because it wasn't AI and it wasn't high-tech, but it was the first time when they started using computers in the stock exchanges. In the very, very old days, you never had a day where, where a million shares were traded in one day. The Dow was, I don't even know, was at 1000 back in '87 you know? But what happened was they started to put in these programs where people could trade on like a signal would come off, you know, this one went down that triggers a cell. And to me, I was pretty certain little I knew about automation, but it was just a computer loop, because if you you say, okay, you're going to sell, it goes to this level, and everybody sells. And then the mob hears about it, and they start to sell. It goes to the next level, the next level, next level. Lesley Logan 20:29  Right. Steve Selengut 20:30  And it was across the board. Everything was down. It wasn't just tech, it wasn't just this everything. Lesley Logan 20:36  It was just that, you know how the birds, like, they take off, they all fly together. It's kind of like everyone kind of goes, oh shoot. I must, everyone freaks out the same time, because somebody like. Steve Selengut 20:46  Everybody freaks out the same time. And that's how the stock market, everybody does freak out at the same time. Lesley Logan 20:51  Well, that's how the depression was. Everyone went to the banks to take somebody out at the same time.Steve Selengut 20:56  Run on the bank, right? Yeah, those days there was no protection. Lesley Logan 21:00  Yes. Steve Selengut 21:00  You didn't have all those controls and protections that we have now in our bank accounts and our.Lesley Logan 21:06  I just listened to an episode about Sam Bankman-Fried of how did he do what he did? And like, people lost their life savings. And whenever I hear of them, I'm like, you put all of your life savings in one thing? Like, not that you're deserving. No one is deserving of that. But also, I'm just like you put your life savings in one thing? And what's interesting is, whoever took over, they've actually been able to replenish and pay people back, which I think is amazing that they're very lucky. But I love that you brought up these different risk minimizers, because it does mean, like, things can go up and things can go down, and you're gonna be okay. But there's a part of my brain, and that is like the listener in here, going, how much time does this take every day? Because, how much time do I have? Because if I have a job and I've got, like, if someone wants to be it until they see it and be in charge of all these things, how much time do they need to spend on looking at their portfolios, or do you suggest they don't?Steve Selengut 22:01  Oh yeah, no, absolutely. If you're going to run your own portfolio, you better be there to, you can, well, there's two ways of looking at it. There's two streams of income that you can have in investments. The one is the regular distributions, bonds, stocks, whatever pay. And you get that on a regular basis, and maybe once a month, you see how much your cash position is, and you decide what to reinvest it in. So you can be pretty passive with it. And that's one stream of income. And right now in closed-end funds, I mean, even in those that are invested in the stock market, this is what I'm talking about, the spreadsheet with all these things on it. There's 100 of them that I look at and that I own that are yielding over 99% and they've all been tested for, like, quality diversification income, and I do the profit-taking myself. But if you could have a diverse portfolio like this made up of diverse portfolios themselves, you can be very passive, if you choose to. And you know, the income is going to come in at 9% and let's say you've got a million dollars. So that's what 90 grand a year you're going to make. Is that going to be enough for you? You make that decision, you know? So if it is, yeah, you can be as passive as you want to be, but then you have somebody like me who hasn't quite seen all of the world yet, and I'm determined that, while I can still walk, I'm going to see the world, the whole world. So I need more than just that base income is what I call as base income. Yeah, I need more than that, and I know how to get that, because I'm looking, I know how the market works, but I don't know when things are going to happen, because nobody does, but it's a cyclical beast, right? I mean, if you think back and you look at a chart, you can see that it goes up and down and up? Lesley Logan 24:01  Yeah. Steve Selengut 24:02  Highs and lows are not predictable, but you can tell if you're at a higher level or at a lower level, right? You can just look where you are. So depending on where you are, how I do my decision making, I buy less of things if the market is high, I buy more of them if the market is low. Lesley Logan 24:22  Got it. Steve Selengut 24:22  I'm looking to sell more when the market is high. I'm looking to buy more when the market, so all those things go into my thinking. Lesley Logan 24:30  I like that you pointed out based on what you want to make from your investments, can determine the level of your participation in it? Steve Selengut 24:42  Yes, exactly. So with me, I want I set these targets on my profits, just like my store, if it's just looking at the income, you're more like a bank with a very high level of earnings on the savings in the bank. You got this diversified portfolio spitting out all this income. You you don't need to do much except reinvest it selectively. But I want more than that. So what I want to do is I'm going to look at my prices, and if I have somebody comes into the store and I get my 5% markup, or even a 2% you know, when prices are down, I'll take it, and that builds up my capital every time I make a couple bucks. That way I can also reinvest it, add new securities, add to existing securities, and increase my level of income. Lesley Logan 25:34  Yeah. Steve Selengut 25:34  So for example, like right now, when you have an account statement like a fidelity or Schwab, they give you every month they tell you your estimated income for the next 12 months is this, so I know how much mine is for the next 12 months, but I also know that so far as of today, I've made nearly five months additional income by trading the securities in my account. So that tells me, Sandie, if you want to go to Japan next year, yeah, no problem.Lesley Logan 26:08  Yeah. I know, Sandie is your partner. And also, have you seen you can go on a two-year long around the world cruise? I already looked. It has internet, so you could totally do what you're doing. You can see the whole world. My husband and I did the math, because I was like, well, how much does this, I heard the price, which can sound like a lot, but I was like, well, just divide it by. Steve Selengut 26:28  200,000 something like that. Lesley Logan 26:30  Yeah, yeah. So then you divide it by like, 24 months, or whatever it is, and you're like, it wasn't much more than my mortgage.Steve Selengut 26:37  It's a whole lot cheaper than doing it the way I have, by individual trips. You know, a week in Southeast Asia, two weeks in Australia and in separate times. You know, when you're going here, if we added up all that we'd spent, going to all these places we better be a whole lot more than that.Lesley Logan 26:53  I know. I told them. I said, okay, I don't know if we'll ever not have dogs, because I don't know if I could leave my pet for two years. But if we ever got to a place where we had no pets, even if I've seen the place already, what a cool way to spend two years of your life. I hope you do that. I guess my next question for you is just, if someone's feeling overwhelmed, they're with you. They're like, okay, this guy, Steve, he gets it. I understand most of the words he's saying. I'm sure most people don't realize that they're like, stocks could just like income-produce for them on top of what they're already doing, where do they start? How do we take the overwhelm off?Steve Selengut 27:26  Okay. Well, you know how they say there's an app for that? Lesley Logan 27:30  Yes. Steve Selengut 27:30  There's a book for that. Lesley Logan 27:31  Okay. Steve Selengut 27:32  And that's why I wrote the book. It's a conversation between, really, my wife and I and this couple we meet on one of our trips in Amsterdam, and they've come into this trip by selling a chunk of their assets to fund the trip and we've come into it by paying a couple months income to do it. And we talked about how we got from A to B, and how they can get from where they are to where we are without really changing anything, because most people have the same securities in their model portfolios or their funds, or whatever they have in their 401(k)s, and these closed in funds that I have that deal in equities pretty much own the same things. It's just the focus of the managers of the fund are in line with my interest. My interests are income production. So I have these guys, hundreds of them, working directly for me, right? Because they're running these portfolios and they're giving me income, and then I am selling their poor souls every now and then for profits, but, you know, I buy them right back again soon, not immediately, but eventually. So that's the thing. You got to educate yourself. Like you said, in this country, most people come out of high school, they can't even balance a checkbook. They come out of college, and they don't have a clue unless they're majors, right? But there are certainly many books that you can read. I know the textbooks that I read in college, and I did take business courses, so yeah, I knew a little bit. You can learn about what stocks and bonds are. I mean, some of the people that are listening to you and I talk today don't know the difference between one and the other, or what they mean, what you know they're and that's unfortunate. You got to know that. You really need to know that before you can say to somebody, I'm going to trust you to manage my money. You don't know what he's doing. You've got to know and you've got to give him some direction. You've got to tell him, I'm not particularly concerned if you buy a stock that goes up and makes me a lot of money, unless you actually capitalize on that, because when it goes down, you don't look so smart anymore, you know? Lesley Logan 29:49  Yeah, I find it fascinating the idea of doing it myself, and also like I'm not in that place of my life where I'm there yet. So I've educated myself to a place where I ask questions of my person and they have to know them. And. I've been really impressed with this person I've worked with recently because no stuttering, definitely had it, got me the information, did better than the things that I asked. And the more I educate myself, the more questions I have. So every meeting we have, and he'll meet with me as much as I want, I'm like, okay, I have more questions that you're still securing your job, because I'm learning more. And so until I am able to do it myself, and that day will come, I just have a lot going on my own business, and I want to make sure that something is happening. But it is true, we have to educate ourselves, and we can't be scared of it. And I love that your book is like a conversation, because I think that that takes the overwhelm off. I read The Psychology of Money a couple years ago, and that was really helpful information from that guy, because he was just like, hey, the type of person you have to be to make a lot of money is not so good at keeping it. And he explained that. I was like, oh, that's very fascinating information. You know? Steve Selengut 30:55  Interesting. That's interesting. The education, the learning what you do, the amount of time you spend again will depend on back to where we were. How much money you really want to make. If you could be happy with this amount of money. Fine. Otherwise, you have to do other things. You have to take charge and trade those things to make really significant. And I mean, really significant.Lesley Logan 31:16  Yeah, I'm really excited for what you're doing, your book and stuff like that, because I do think that people need to hear what's possible. I also worry about people who are just relying on their 401(k) or their IRA. I think it's nice and it's important, but also it might not be enough, especially because we're living longer, thankfully, we're living longer and hopefully healthy. But that doesn't always mean so. Things happen all the time. There are disasters that are outside of your control, and so I do kind of worry about people. So I think educating people like you do, having you on it, is really important, because being it until you see it, you could have all these dreams of being this amazing boss who owns this awesome company, but at the same time, there's money behind everything comes back to that money. It's the energy that fuels things, and so having an understanding of how it works and different ways you can work it, I think it's so cool. I've never heard of something. I've never heard of it. I've never dove deep on the idea of the income producing, like getting those dividends, and using that as a measuring stick in that way. I mean, it's obvious once you said it, but it's not something I thought abou because I just thought, well, I want to be aggressive. I want the money to grow. I want these things. But also, like, how cool that you coach on that income-producing investment. Steve Selengut 32:32  What would you say your income is in your portfolio?Lesley Logan 32:36  Right now? (inaudible) What's it produced in the last month? Or what's it valued at right now? Steve Selengut 32:43  No, no. Market value doesn't matter. Lesley Logan 32:45  Okay, then I don't know that answer today. I have a meeting next week. Steve Selengut 32:48  Right. Most people don't ask that, and most people who have advisory people, and normally an advisor is getting about 1.5% not him personally, but the company that he works for. So when I used to tell people when I was managing their money, I was telling them that I would make it a point to make more in profits each year than they were paying me in fees. That was the objective as far as that goes. I'm taking care of the fees by making you actual more capital to replace it. I wrote an article recently about vetting an investment advisor. Lesley Logan 33:29  Cool. Steve Selengut 33:30  And that was one of the things that I said, you know? Number one is look at his portfolio first and if what he's got you in is not in his personal portfolio, find out why. I mean, your objectives may be different, but if your stuff sounds more speculative than his stuff, you don't want to take advice from somebody who doesn't have as much money as you do. Lesley Logan 33:52  Yeah. Steve Selengut 33:52  So the young guy just getting started, he's not the one you want as your financial advisor. And I learned that quick when I started, because I had my first two clients to get started with. I don't think I got another client for six or eight months, you know. So there are things to do when you're with your advisor, and one of the things is, take a look at his portfolio, make him assure you that he will take at least enough profits to pay his fees, and that he will produce at least 4% in income on your portfolio. And why do I say 4% because if you ask for advisors as you approach retirement, the key number is you'll have to use 4% of your market value each year to pay your expenses in retirement, unless you're like you and I, where we're going to make enough money while we're working that it's going to provide more than the amount we were making when we were working. Lesley Logan 33:52  Yeah, yeah. Steve Selengut 33:53  That's our objective. Lesley Logan 33:54  Yeah. Steve Selengut 33:54  But normally, people are going to spend about 4% of their market value. So since you're telling me that that's what's going to happen, I want you to make me at least 4% so that means you're going to make me 4% plus one and a half percent every year in income. You can grow the portfolio with the rest of the portfolio all you want, but that's the income I want you to start producing now.Lesley Logan 35:22  I like this, okay, that article you wrote, I would love to link to it, or you can, you know, put it behind a lead magnet. I think it's such a cool way for people to be armed with that because they don't have that information.Steve Selengut 35:34  It's on LinkedIn. Lesley Logan 35:35  It's on LinkedIn. Steve Selengut 35:36  It's on my profile or my articles. Lesley Logan 35:38  Okay, cool, cool. Steve Selengut 35:39  It's the last article I wrote. Lesley Logan 35:41  We will link to your LinkedIn for sure. We're going to take a brief break, and then we're going to find out where people can find you, follow you, work with you and your Be It Action Items. Lesley Logan 35:49  All right, Steve, where do you hang out? LinkedIn, sounds like and you said you advise people or you coach them. How can people connect with you? Steve Selengut 35:56  Theincomecoach.net I have two Facebook groups. One is called The Retirement Income Independence Coach and the other one is called Closed End Funds for Retirement Income and Equity Trading.Steve Selengut 36:05  Cool. You are busy for someone who is retired. Steve Selengut 36:14  Yeah, right. I get that a lot. I'm busier now schedule-wise than I was when I was managing money, because that was a, you know, couple hours in the morning, couple hours in the evening. Now it's all day long, with podcasts, writing a book, coaching, meetings and so on. Lesley Logan 36:33  And speaking of your book, Retirement Money Secrets, where can people order that? Can they get it wherever books are sold? Can they get it at your website? Where should they (inaudible)? Steve Selengut 36:33  Wherever books are sold, they can get it. The audiobook is only available on Amazon. All the other forms can be gotten anywhere. Lesley Logan 36:39  Yeah, well, you guys, it's money. You should probably read it instead of listen to it, because you want to be able to highlight, research, all that stuff. Amazing. Okay, you've given us a ton of amazing stuff already. But for the person who is ready to take some action, bold, executable, intrinsic, targeted steps people can take to be it till they see it. What do you have for us? Steve Selengut 37:06  Bold execution things is the one that I just asked you to do. Take a look at your portfolios and look at the actual income production, where it says dividends received this year or amount you can expect to receive this year with the portfolio just as it is, and see what that is as a percentage of your portfolio. And then the second action thing is, either yourself or your advisor approach them and say, I want that number to be about between four and 5%.Lesley Logan 37:06  I love it. I'm gonna take you up on that before I even do this recap, because I have a meeting with my advisor. So already scheduled. It's to go over, it's to go over my rest of my year. And am I supposed to be spending a little bit of money? Am I supposed to be investing in a certain way? How can I make that tax write off a little bit different? So I got a big meeting. I'm going to add this to it. I know that, especially for those of you who are over 40, you've got a lot going on. It can be just really overwhelming. But honestly, the more you educate yourself, the more these terms and words don't seem so crazy. And you can start with where you're at. And if you're going to start with an advisor, you can read Steve's article on how to vet them, and you can demand that they do that. And you know what? That's kind of why they have a job. So they can certainly rise to the occasion if they can't go find someone else. Until you want to be like Steven, do it yourself, which is impressive and amazing. Thank you so much. Until next time everyone, Be It Till You See It. Lesley Logan 38:43  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. 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Part 3 - "The Original Hallmark Christmas Movie" If you like Hallmark Christmas Movies, boy, is today's story for you! A girl down on her luck moves to a new town. She meets a wealthy businessman. They fall in love. The rest is a "happily ever after." Yet, in this story, we find Christmas and are once again reminded that the Gospel is for everyone! 12.15.24

Two of cups looks like a simple card. Man meets woman. They fall in love. But as Ellie shows, nothing in the Rider Waite deck of tarot is as simple as it seems. Basic definitions and key symbols of the card are explained in full. 

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Kohelet famously teaches us that there is a time for everything under the sun. Does that extend to both moderation and extremism? Is there a time for moderation? Is there a time for extremism? What do our sources have to say about how we might think about the different appeals of moderation and extremism? We will consider two sources. The first is a famous love story between Rabbi Akiva and his wife Rachel. It feels like an extreme story. They fall in love, get married, and then spend two periods of 12 years apart from each other so that he can learn Torah and be a great scholar. She wants this, encourages it. The second is a teaching from Maimonides about how we should eschew extremism. Shoot for the mean. The greatest rabbi in the Talmud, Rabbi Akiva, seems to live a life that is at variance with the wisdom of our greatest medieval sage, Maimonides. How do we understand this creative tension, and what does it mean to us today?

When Jared Spool first visited Product Momentum a few years ago, he talked about the struggle designers feel when they're directed to add new features to a design without first understanding the problem to be solved. “Great designers don't fall in love with their solutions,” he advised us. “They fall in love with their problems.” … The post 129 / Strategic UX: The Path to Outcome-Driven Design, with Jared Spool appeared first on ITX Corp..

In which the Mister and Monsters join me in reviewing ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004), which we caught on the TCM app but you can buy/rent from several platforms.  Written by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth and winner of the 2005 Original Screenplay Oscar, this film is directed by Michel Gondry.  The story follows Joel (Jim Carrey), a painfully shy man who meets a free spirited young woman named Clementine (Best Actress Nominee, Kate Winslet).  They fall in love but eventually their relationship withers and dies.  Clem decides to have Joel completely erased from her memory and when he finds out he opts to do the same out of hurt and spite.  In the process, he realizes the error and tries to come up with a way to stop it but it might just be too late.  A powerful script with brilliant acting and sublime directing by Gondry make this a MUST WATCH.  The film clocks in at 1 h and 48 m and is rated R.  Please note there are SPOILERS in this review. Opening intro music: GOAT by Wayne Jones, courtesy of YouTube Audio Library --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jokagoge/support

"They fall in love with you and then beg you to buy. That's my selling style.” Today, Brandon (@kingketo) shares with us the three books that can help improve sales skills. He emphasizes the importance of asking questions, creating a prize frame, and developing a selling style that focuses on building relationships with customers.Welcome to the Victory Talk Podcast hosted by Brandon Carter. Uncover the strategies for financial growth, physical strength, and a winning mindset as Brandon shares his multi-seven-figure business experience and brings in millionaire friends to drop their knowledge. No fluff, no sponsors, just raw advice. Get ready to seize victory and enjoy the show!Timestamps:(1:33) - #1: How to Win Friends and Influence People(2:44) - Ask questions about the person(4:07) - #2: Pitch Anything(5:36) - The importance of not being pushy in sales(6:15) - #3: The Way of the Wolf(7:15) - The selling style of getting people to like you

What happens when a group of men read romance novels? Emotional intelligence and awarness of their toxic behavior. Colton is a famous country singer, Gretchen is an ashamed heiress turned immigration lawyer...can I make it anymore obvious? They fall in love! Listen to hear all about this meta romance.

It is December - and that means it is time for A Very Netflix Christmas! We "Watch it Once, Riff it Once" - Catering Christmas Grab a beverage of your choice and celebrate the holiday season by exposing yourself to the grindhouse of yearly holiday films. But you wont be alone! Time the start of the stream with the countdown in this episode and have us join you commenting and riffing along the way. Summary of the film. Lady starts a catering business in a small village with an overly saturated market of caterers. In order to survive she needs to nail the biggest catering gig of the year - some foundation's holiday fundraiser (I'm not going to look up the name of the foundation). Along the way she meets a charming man who takes pictures solely of charismas ornaments. They fall in love, but does she make it in a field of who knows how many caterers between her villages and the village two towns over? You'll have to watch to find out!

This film is great. Yeah, we're shocked too. The world's best handsome writer has a mum that's dead now and meets a lady who's mum isn't dead but it feels like it. They fall in love and its genuinely touching. Join two men gushing over a Hallmark romcom. Support the show

How can we balance masculine and feminine energies to create more harmonious and loving relationships? Dive deep with Kelli as she shares real-life examples and impactful advice on emotional integration and balancing energies for fruitful relationships in today's episode.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:Kelli's journey in depth psychotherapy and relationship dynamics.Understanding and balancing masculine and feminine energies.The evolving gender dynamics in relationships.The pillars of successful relationships: chemistry, compatibility, communication.The importance of self-value, boundaries, and emotional understanding.Episode References/Links:Kelli Adame WebsiteKelliAdame.comLoveBravelyAcademy.comKelli Adame Handles Follow Kelli Adame on IG @kelliadameFollow Love Bravely on IG @lovebravelycoGuest Bio:Relationship Expert // Trained + Educated as Depth Psychotherapist and Relationship Coach. I'm an expert in helping women, men and couples navigate modern love and relationships. I specialize in the understanding and application of balancing Masculine and Feminine Energies, Communication, Dating well and building successful relationships and marriages. I help high-achieving women navigate the journey from single and dating to successfully married. And I help married individuals/couples improve the marriage they have. I equip, educate and encourage my clients to help them achieve their relationship goals.  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. Get your free Athletic Greens 1 year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 and 5 free travel packsGet your discount for some Toe Sox using the code: LESLEY Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  If you want your feelings cherished, and you want your thoughts respected, then what was your partner gonna get? Right? So ask yourself, was it more important for you in your, in your romantic relationships to have your feelings cherished by your partner or to have your thoughts respected by your partner? Lesley Logan 0:01  All right, my loves, okay. So I've been really interested in this topic, and I want you to know this is already going to be a two parter, we're going to have her back. And I thought it'd be really interesting because I think it can be if you if you are on social media, you'll see things like people (inaudible) paint your feminine energy, paint your feminine power, and like just owning that. And I, I like would look at those things and kind of like go roll my eyes, which is, I'm just be really honest, I'd roll my eyes because I lived in LA. And I would be at restaurants. And I would be working in coffee shops, and there'd be people around me spouting like being in the divine feminine and like, the words coming out their mouth just did not actually make a complete sentence, which actually would be able to live on this planet Earth and a relationship with anyone. So I felt like yeah, I love all that you're saying. And also, that's not reality when you're in a relationship with someone. And so I always wonder, like, how do we have this like, amazing, feminine energy, but also, I run a business. So obviously, I'm gonna be in my masculine energy, um, don't worry for like, what are these things? Lesley, our guest today, Kelli Adame is going to explain them to you. But I was like, How do I do that? Because is it a light switch. Am I like, turn it on off? And is it a is it a? Is it a spectrum? Is it a balance, like, what is it? And so I've always wondered. And then I was on a plane listening to my friend's podcast, and I heard this woman and I was like, Oh, my God, I finally understand it. And it doesn't sound crazy. And it doesn't sound like it's impossible to have. And it sounds like we have to have both. And we have to learn how to have both. And then it's like, Oh, interesting. So many of us have been raised to be in this masculine energy and to really own it. No wonder we struggle with being in our feelings and feeling our feelings and to be it till you see it. Like you can't, it's not just about doing and in fact, before killing I hit record, sometimes it's about being like just being so we have a really good episode for you. We're gonna talk a lot about masculine feminine energy. And also how like in a relationship you have four people. And I thought that was really fascinating. And I'm excited to recap this with my Brad, my husband, because it's really interesting. Also, like, Kelli and I had like whole hour long talk when I got off. So I already have a second episode planned with her. So we'll get her recorded on the topic of healthy masculine energy. Because I think it's important for you to spot that and others. And also, if that's the energy you decide that you want to lean into more what that looks like for you. But let's just get into today's episode with Kelli Adame.Lesley Logan 2:52  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan 3:37  Alright, Be It babe. I'm really excited about this. This is the first time I've actually seen this woman on my screen. But I had her in my ears while on a plane. And I was listening to another podcast and like, Oh my God, I've always wanted to know more about this masculine feminine energy. I've always wanted to understand how it works in relationships or just in life. And she was just just phenomenal and make me at ease. Because sometimes I feel like people get a little woowoo on this. And I'm I'm a white girl. So Kelli Adame. Thank you so much.Kelli Adame 4:07  I'm like a reformed, I've been deep into the whoo and come out and I'm balanced. So I relate. I understand that journey. But I'm with you.Lesley Logan 4:15  Like I told somebody, something happened yesterday. And my husband is like because like, we had this whole situation in our neighborhood. And I actually ran into the neighbor who like took the situation out of control. And I explained to them in like nice calm, where it's like, this is why I didn't respond to your question in that moment. And this is why you didn't need that information. And here's the information now. And they were so good with it. And I texted another neighbor who knew and she's like, Oh, the healing powers of the Aquarius and the full moon. That's what's happening here. And I was just like, Yep, sure. I don't like is it great? Yeah, it's not it's fine with me. I'm just glad that that's done but I told Brad. He just yeah, of course she'd say that.Kelli Adame 4:54  Yeah, you know what's really funny about that as a starting point is that I when I was In my 20s, I was a part of this women's community where I did a ton of healing. And it was very woowoo there were some amazing things, you know, and healing that happened there. But what happened was, I basically realized that all of these women, none of them had successful relationships with men. So there was all this beautiful healing, but they were so they had all this, you know, self awareness, and they had all of this actualization, but they were like, single, and didn't have any clear way of understanding about how to like, navigate that journey. And I was like, baffled by that. And I knew for me that I wanted that, ultimately, that I wanted, you know, like a good, monogamous, committed man to love and pursue and cherish me and to build a life together. And I wanted that, and it's fine if you don't want that, but I did. And they had no idea how to help me get that. And it's one of the things that became part of like, I got to figure this out. Because if I'm all healed, and amazing, but all alone, like that's not that's not my vision. That's not my end vision. You know what I mean?  Lesley Logan 6:02  Oh, Kelli, that's so cool. So, Hi, Kelli, thanks for being here. (Kelli Adame: Hi. Sorry. Jumping in.) I know, we really jumped in. Um, okay. So that makes sense. Because before we were recording, you're like, Yeah, I kind of like stumbled into this. So that kind of is like your curiosity led you here. Can you tell everyone a little bit who you are and what you're doing?Kelli Adame 6:22  Sure. So my name is Kelli Adame. And I am trained and educated as a deaf psychotherapist, sent to graduate school to do that. And in that journey, and in my graduate research, I fell into this study of what became largely focused around masculine and feminine energy. And we'll dive into all of that, and how that happened. But basically, in my graduate research, I was really struck by a lot of Carl Jung's work, which was like, He's a famous psychoanalyst, a lot of people are aware of him. And he said that anywhere in a society where a lot of individual people are suffering from the same personal pain, he says, There's something from the collective unconscious, it's trying to make itself known. And it's akin to this, like, if you have pain in your knee, it sends a signal to your brain that says, like, oh, like, that hurts, there's something out of alignment, right? That pain is asking for your intention, because it's telling you something's out of alignment, and then we try to figure out what it is, right. So that's the same principle in terms of approaching relationship. It's like, if we're struggling in relationship, and there's pain or their struggle, or there's suffering there, there's something that's inviting us into something that we're not aware of. And so I thought, Okay, well in the modern Western world, for all of our advances and all of our progress, and, you know, I see people still really struggling, especially at my peer level, who were really struggling to make relationships work, they were, you know, kicking butt and taking names professionally and, you know, operating in their genius and on the self-healing journeys, but like, I saw very few people that were really crushing it in terms of romantic relationship. And so I didn't really have a lot to look to. So anyways, I thought, Well, why are we so out of alignment with that, like, if we've progressed in all these other ways? What are we missing? And so that just became this discovery that took me down all these rabbit holes. And one of the things that discovered that I discovered that was just transformational in my own life, and has become a cornerstone of my work is a deep and integrated understanding around masculine and feminine energy and how to apply it and embody it in a real way. Not just talking about it. esoterically but like, how do I actually communicate? What does it look like? You know, so anyways, all that so did that. And I originally thought I would do a lot more trauma work. I have a lot of trauma background, I have a lot of background addiction. And I got certified in hypnotherapy. I did two years of like a pastoral ministry training, like, okay, that's certified as a relationship coach, like lots of training. You're learning I'm going in. I'm a learner. It's one of my top five strengths. Gallup strengths. Lesley Logan 9:02  Yes, my husband and I that's actually Gallup strengths is why we had when you hooked up the first night because we said what are your top five strengths and we use that we share it and he's like, you want to get out of here and we totally had a great night. Learner is not in my top five but every one of my assistants is one and thank goodness for you guys.Kelli Adame 9:21  learner. I know I love it, right? So but I'm like, have all that now that I'm trying to like, share because so then I basically went into I ended up pretty quickly going into private practice for gosh, it's been like nine years. And I it really immediately I was very blessed and immediately was successful. And I've had just a very high referral, faith practice for nine years and honed a lot of all of that learning with people and help them have a lot of transformation. So women men I work with a lot of man that's also been so amazing to have a lot of insight and understanding about men, couples, you know, and I think really friendships are amazing because they become this amazing container for healing and for growth. Lesley Logan 10:03  Yeah. Okay now soI have so many things I like want to like noodle around. So first of all, for the person who's listening who's only heard of masculine feminine energy from the person wearing all white with a beautiful light on them and the crystals everywhere? Can you explain what we're talking about? So we're all on the same page with what that is? And like, can we embody both energies? Like, is it possible to have both andKelli Adame 10:34  100% 100%? So I want to try to make it as like applicable as possible, right? I don't. So I'm going to try to be very clean and clear about it. So essentially, in the simplest of terms, all human beings, despite their gender carry masculine and feminine energy, right, Carl Jung talks about the Animus and the Anima, that like a man has also an aspect of his soul that is feminine, and vice versa. And so but when you when the idea is that you want to understand it, so that it becomes applicable in your life? So if we look at it today, if I were to say, so I carry both masculine and feminine energy, right? So do you see it as my husband, absolute as your husband, so essentially, when you're in relationship, there's four of you.Lesley Logan 11:15  And you're bringing the astrology, astrological signs,Kelli Adame 11:21  You bring in all the temperaments, and like what you are in the Enneagram. But we're just keeping it, keeping it simple. So the reality is, let's just define it a little bit. So you understand, in principle, what I'm talking about when I say energy, so it's like any human being who's working, right. So if I'm thinking, if I'm pursuing, if I'm doing productive, if I'm doing something, if I'm initiating, if I'm leading, if I'm thinking, if I have ideas, if I'm making money, if I'm setting a goal, if I'm functioning in any feminine school, if I'm in work, I'm functioning in masculine energy. So masculine energy says, like, I think I want, it goes after what it wants. It's very rational-oriented, feminine energy is essentially its complement. So its energy is more passive than active, it's about receiving more than it is about giving, it's about being authentically connected to your emotions and your feelings, and allow and giving them space to be integrated and honored. And we talked about how that marries with the masculine side of things. It's connected to sensuality, and sexuality and beauty and, you know, all the things that inspire us, really. So the idea is you want if you, you know, my perspective is, ideally, we want to have a healthy like, inner marriage of those, right? Sort of like the yin and the yang, same idea where you're balancing both of those energies within yourself. So that you know, so like, I love my work. And I know when I'm functioning in masculine energy, and that's great, but I really had to learn how to connect with and embrace the feminine aspect of my life. And the reason that's important is because in our current culture, and this is certainly was true for me. You know, I was raised by a corporate businesswoman. Love my mom, she's amazing. She broke glass ceilings, and did amazing things. But she was not really available to me in her feminine energy and a lot of ways later, actually, ironically, after she retired and stuff that shifted, but all that to say I was raised to be really function in that masculine form. So it's like this is this is why a lot of women I work with are high achievers are perfectionist. You know.Lesley Logan 13:30  I'm feeling like I'm being like therapies right now. Yes. All those things. Yes. My father, like I love my parents, love you guys are listening. But like when they told me as a kid, like there will always be someone stronger, faster or prettier, richer than you. So you're only as good as like today's best work. And tomorrow's a new day. Correct? masculine energy. Nailed it. Got that?Kelli Adame 13:50  Yeah, we like we're kicking ass in that light. Okay, but when you but when I asked women today, I'm like, Well, tell me how you feel about X, Y and Z. They'll immediately bridge together the other hemisphere of the brain and tell me what they think. So they say they'll say, so they'll give a thought and I go, that's not a feeling. That's a thought. Okay, that's how do you feel? They don't even What do you mean? How do I I don't even know how I feel.Lesley Logan 14:15  Like are you sad? Are you like, where do you feel that I'm like, What?Kelli Adame 14:19  Are you my body? Oh, yeah, well, no, because you're like, I'm up here. I don't What do you mean? Yeah. Yeah.Lesley Logan 14:24  Where am I supposed to feel it? Because I can think that I'll get there.Kelli Adame 14:31  And, you know, listen, what's so amazing is that like, so we get into all these. The thing that's also beautiful about this work is that it has to be connected to other other pieces of understanding and sort of like, you know, the roots of a tree. There's a lot of things connected to it. If you just take masculine feminine energy by itself, isolated, and you don't teach like a lot of the other things that I teach, it can't be as transformational. It can't be as integrated. So what I mean by that, for example, is sort of what we're talking about, like we grow up in our family system. And we are in our families. And those are the very first human beings that we have relationship with. And for better, for worse, they download and become the baseline of our reference of what relationship as I talked about that being like your relationship blueprint. And so how you observe the dynamics between your your parents are the people who helped raise you, how they spoke to you, how they, you get conditioned and shaped by that environment, and that is your baseline, that's normal. And then you that's like your programming that gets downloaded. And then you go out in the world and you're like, Okay, I'm gonna go take that programming. And do you know what I've learned to do from this environment, we also learn to adapt to survive those environments, right? Because I've never met anybody who's whose childhood was perfect. Have you?Lesley Logan 15:46  No, no. Although I think when we were kids, but like, they have a better childhood, they have what I want. Like, you know, at least those of us who are like, Yeah, this is not, I don't think this is right, I'm gonna go there. That was my, I thought, my best friend had the best childhood, I thought she had the best parents, the best family. And unfortunately, she's no longer with us on this world. And it's because she actually thought she didn't have that. And it's just that was like, when that happened. It happened last year. So she was, um, just shy of like, 39. And it's like, oh, wow, it's so crazy. Like, we look at other people, and we just go, they have the, they have the life that I'm wanting. And really, we don't know, half the story. So now, so it's like, yeah, I understand what you're saying. And no one has ever had a perfect childhood, everyone will have flaws in it. And I guess it's like, the journey that we're all supposed to be to feel those things.Kelli Adame 16:36  Oh, totally. Totally. I think so. I mean, if you have the desire to change and the courage to do the work, right. I mean, the willingness.Lesley Logan 16:43  Yeah, yeah. Kelli Adame 16:44  That's the thing. And for the people who want to do that, they're our tribe right between you and me, that's like, you know, and I love everybody, you could be exactly where you are, accept you with no judgment. And if you're trying to take this journey, like, I'd love to be able to support you and be of service, right, that's my heart, I think that's yours, too. From everything I can see about, about all the beautiful things you do so so all that to say, it's like when we grow up in this environment, and then we're adapting to survive that environment, then that becomes our conditioning. And, you know, this gets into this idea of parts work that I do, too, which is where you develop these parts, that, you know, like I developed maybe like a performer part, which is that, like, if I get good grades, and if I do really great and I perform well, then I get like love and, and, you know, acknowledgment from my family, from my parents, and wow, that feels really good. So let me keep doing that. So now I'm going to keep performing now I'm going to keep achieving now I'm going to keep in that it's going to be my love language, so that I'm going to grow up and I'm going to start dating men, and I'm going to be putting out there like, Hey, look at all these great things I can do. Look at all these things I've achieved. (Lesley: Look at how great I am. Hello.) Look at how great I am. I have a client and she's, she talks a lot about her PhD. And I can tell her identity is really tied to like, she's like, like, I am a great catch. And I have this PhD and I you know, I've done all these things, and I go listen to me, you are amazing. And everything that you did to turn that around that PhD is amazing. And that is not where your value comes from. And PS I have yet to hear a man go to another man like, Have you seen her PhD? Have you seen all the degrees on her wall? Like, that's what I'm looking for? I'm looking for a girl with lots of numbers on the end of her. You know what I mean?Lesley Logan 18:26  Though, so I do know what you mean.Kelli Adame 18:28  And that's not just I mean, I'm saying like, I have graduate level education, go get it. Just don't tie your identity and your self-worth to that.Lesley Logan 18:39  Yeah, I think that that, like, it's, I think that's really, gosh, it's kind of like, you never know when that could get taken away. You know, like, especially like during the pandemic, so many people lost their jobs or not even lost their jobs, but unable to do the jobs. And they didn't actually know what they were, because they were so tied up in the identity of the job. And or if they like we had I had a guest on, he was a stay-at-home father. And when his daughter like when they took her to college, she thought he had like another day with her and she's like, okay, bye, guys. And he just like did not know who he was. If you did not have a child at home to be at the state home father, and it's like we people get so wrapped up and then look what they do and not and that's not what you're saying is like who we are and like what we the value we bring. Yeah.Kelli Adame 19:28  Yeah. And I think a lot of us have to kind of fight to untangle that and figure now, for a lot of us, certainly for me that came from the conditioning of my you know, it was like never an option that I wasn't going to college like my mom was like scheduling family trips when I was like in the fourth grade to go visit colleges while we were visiting national parks. It was like this happened it was you know, and I remember graduating undergraduate, like, you know, when I got my bachelor's and people would ask me all the time, like what do you what do you want to do? And I had this epiphany like What do I want to do? And it was just this moment where I was like, I've never even asked myself, What do I want to do? Because I was living so much of my life for what I thought my parents wanted, or expected of me, or what I thought was gonna garnish approval. Like it was like a like what do I want.Lesley Logan 20:16  So I was so that oh my god, that's a question everyone write that down. And like, that's your journal entry for today? Or it's like what I journal about, you could just actually, that could be the question of the prompt every day, are you? I don't again, I don't want to like whittle it down masculine, feminine to like anything like specific but like, is the like what I want to do a more of a feminine approach, feminine energy approach versus like, I feel like, I actually feel like our entire world is like all of us being the masculine energy. Yeah, interesting. And that's not to get onto the world, I don't want to actually dive in and be the person who talks about like, what masculinity is. But like, it really feels like no one actually knows how to be masculine in this world. But we're all in this masculine energy.Kelli Adame 21:01  So this is what I'm saying. Like, we could probably do it (inaudible) (Lesley: I'm excited about this.)Kelli Adame 21:08  Good. I know, this is my jam, I love it. So it's fascinating. So what's cool about the field of depth, psychology is it looks, it's a subset of psychology, it looks at the way nature culture and the individual, like the individual psyche, and the collective psyche. So you can look at things happening with a personal journey. But you could also look at what's happening in a culture where a lot of things are shifting. So there's obviously a lot of what you're talking about is relevant today. And it's tricky to talk about, you know, a little bit sometimes, because I want to be respectful of everybody. But I also like I can only share what I know is truth that I've experienced working with hundreds and hundreds of people and what I've studied and what I know, but essentially, we are out of balance within ourselves, men and women. And I think that we are on one hand starved for authentic, feminine energy. And I kind of, you know, like, I'm definitely like a first wave feminist. And I think that the feminist movement was amazing and sensitive, opened all these doors for women to pursue all of our gifts and abilities in the world and society. And the world has benefited when our best friend's is an amazing surgeon, she's a doctor. And I remember that whole going through that whole journey with her. But I think that also what happens is we didn't go okay, but at what cost did that come? Because we basically said, Hey, you can go do anything a man can do and you can go shift into that energy and go to work and get degrees and do whatever you want to do. But what happened to is we stayed overly focused with women in that masculine energy and sort of that feminine energy, like, got out of balance. Lesley Logan 22:45  And also it sounded like we didn't invite men to like, by the way, you could also embody your feminine energy and like, look at all like, obviously, like, I'm like trying to picture like my parents generation actually, like talking about energies. And like, I feel like it's a privileged conversation, because I feel like if yes, don't have food on the table, then like, yeah, does it really matter?Kelli Adame 23:07  What's primal survival? I mean, whether you're a single or in a relationship, and marriage and family, like it's like Maslow's hierarchy of needs, you have to have a roof over your head, you have to have food, you have to have practical thing. But I think that you know what I mean by that, you know, specifically is that and it is you're you're right, because I was blessed to not have to worry about financial means growing up, right. But I did, I felt emotionally neglected, like I there was, I was like, it was like your feelings? No, no, no motions, quit crying. We're not doing that. Get it together, go do what you got to do. Go to your grind. Lesley Logan 23:47  When I actually think that that was like, you know, those emotional, those emotions. We were told, like, Don't be emotional. You can't be hysterical. Oh my god. So like, society, whether it's at home or at school, and then heaven forbid, you finally got the job. And you're so lucky to be born a year you're born because now you can have this job. But don't you dare cry at that job, and don't actually show too many emotions. And if you're too nice, people will walk all over you. So like, yeah, I read all theseKelli Adame 24:15  Mixed messages. Yeah. How am I was supposed to untangle that. Yeah. And you know, and this is what this is why it was so fascinating. My journey, right? Because I look at my mom and her peers. And, you know, my grandmother was a stay at home mom in the 1950s. And my mom was like, Yeah, I'm gonna make my own money and be able to have my own choices and, and good for her and she had to battle men that were trying to sleep with her and people that thought we didn't want to give her credit. She was a woman and all those things that I love and honor respect my mom for, but she was sort of overcompensating for what was happening. What she saw happened with her mom. And so her my godmother, her best friends, they were all like, you know, power suits, like crushing it, and they would say to me, get an education go travel Europe, do you don't even think about getting married until you're in your 30s You have plenty of time, right? And I believe them with why wouldn't I? But that turned out not to really be the truth for me. And I think true for a lot of women because I work with them. So I have all these women. And this was partly my journey, where we went out and did all those things, and attained our independence. And I know that I could be self-sufficient. I'm educated all these things. And there was a part of me that like, but gosh, I would really love to find love and to find, like my partner and to build a life together and have some babies and have it like, I'd like to have it. All right, you see, I can have it all. But nobody was showing me how to do this other high like, oh, well, it's just gonna happen.Lesley Logan 25:40  Oh, yeah, no, it doesn't.  Kelli Adame 25:42  That's not the world we live in anymore. Yeah, it's a different. So I'm also very clear with women, I'm like, Look, you can have it all you can have a career and you can, like, bust out that masculine energy in those ways. But you just if you also, PS want a loving, successful relationship, if you want to be equally successful in this area of your life, or you want to have babies or you want to have a family, you have to be intentional about that you a have to have some clarity, don't think it's just going to fall into your lap. Right? Because the social norms and the dating and you know, courting norms of like, our grandparents' generation is not where we are anymore. Men can order sex like pizza. Women can be financially independent, right? It's a choice now. But you have to really be intentional, if that's what you want to create. And does that make sense? Lesley Logan 26:27  Oh, and it makes so much sense. Because I have many, many of the female clients I had, they are all able to support themselves, and they have their own homes, and they can do their own IVF treatments, and they would love to have love. And there's a little bit resentment because they feel like they were kind of duped by society telling them like go for the job, get the thing and then you can always find love later. And yes, and I think like, Yes, I don't think it was wrong for them to go for the job. I think that that is I want to be very clear, because like, I guess it's really important that women have the ability to be independent. Lesley Logan 27:00  If we're not going and it's not an order, yes.Lesley Logan 27:02   And,and but also it doesn't have any. So it's a binary. It's not like, Okay, I go for the job. And then I can become feminine. And I get the man it's like, or the woman or whoever you want to get Yeah. But like yeah, like,Lesley Logan 27:14  All of us are not actually being taught how to be in our feminine. It sounds like the we. It seems like so natural to be a female. So you just have feminine energy. And actually, like, as you have said, both parties, I mean, we have both, so we need both. But no one's teaching that everyone's teaching us how to be in masculine and go go go and no one's actually saying how to be still and like, feel your emotions and feel your feelings? And, and so it doesn't really matter how much time or money you have if you don't have to be in that space. So I guess I have because like, I'm sure you have like 17 hours of of like trainings on this. And it's not as simple as like a light switch of like, but how do we become more in our feminine energy, like how we invite not only ourselves as a female listeners listen to this, but like, also the partners like my husband, listen to this episode, and we're gonna talk about you.Lesley Logan 28:06  I think he feels his feelings sometimes way more than I do. Like, sometimes, like, I can just watch him like being in the moment and feel the energies and like, share his feelings. And I'm like, wow, how did you just do that?Kelli Adame 28:21  Yeah, totally. Well, you know, it's interesting, because, look, same thing. And like I have, I think I think I have high masculine and feminine energy. And I think so does my husband. So he's very emotionally intelligent. So he can be really in touch with his emotions. And he's hyper rational. And he's like a thinker. And he's, you know, he's a civil engineer. And he's also a pastor. So he's like, a, right, he's crazy. And he's his, his journey has been pretty amazing in its own right, because he had his own masculine journey of healing of where he had to go through as a man. And so I think you can also talk about this with us talking about, you know, I think what men go through too. And by the way, like, you know, this, a lot, all of this can apply to same sex relationships. It's just that most of the women I work with, and most of what my experience has been, is working with people who are like, looking for opposite. So that's the only reason I'm using that language. But um, so basically, it's like, again, there's so there's four of you no matter what. Yeah, right. Your, your masking moment has nothing. And there's a spectrum, right, like for everybody, and technically you want the polarity to create because basically, it's like, did you ever in like Junior High science class, take them two magnets. And if they had the same electro magnetic polarity, and you brought them close to each other, and they were the same charge, like you couldn't force them together, they would repel. Right? But if one was negatively charged, one was positive charge, you could bring them together or they would just, it's the same thing if we are made of energy and the way that we show up in the world like there is something to that polarity, and we can choose it at any given moment to some degree, so the idea is, in your, when you're working you're masculine period, people are not paying you for your feelings. They're paying for your, they're paying for your competency and your production and your brilliance and all that. But in your romantic relationships, you have to sort of decide how you what you want to experience and how you want to embody that, right. And I think part of what part of that is, you know, you get to negotiate it within each relationship. But in general, I tell people, you want to choose a primary position, you can switch lanes, you can put the blinker on and switch lanes, right. So my husband can talk to me about his feelings, and I can talk to him about my thoughts and my ideas. But I we don't we don't signal conflict with each other by competing for the same position at any given moment. Does that make sense? Lesley Logan 30:52  You know, that is so interesting, because I have, like, I'll notice, like, if I'm going through something, if my husband is also going through something, and it doesn't feel like we can actually solve the problem. But if exactly, if he's going through something, and I can like stand firm, then he can feel his feelings go through that. Yeah. And then, and then vice versa. So it's almost like, Am I making sense of what you're saying? Kelli Adame 31:18  Yeah, it's totally, because you can kind of yield to support one another where you are when you are? Yeah, of course. But if you're both trying to get the exact same needs met all the time, you're going to neutralize chemistry, you're going to invite conflict, you're going to, you know, like repel each other. Yeah. And not really know why.Lesley Logan 31:36  It's kind of like what I think like, I remember hearing someone say like, a marriage is never 5050 It's like, 9010 it's like someone's saying the 90 and someone's gonna attend the important thing is a switch places and like someone how that happens. And Brene Brown, you know, said in one interview, she said, like, you know, if I'm not doing well, my husband can pick up more of a slasher and vice versa. But if we're both going, Hey, today, I'm at 40%. We're both of 40%. Like, neither one of us can help the other one, then what are we going to what are we gonna let go up? What are we gonna do? Because we got to, we're, if we both can't be down, otherwise, there's gonna be more conflict, and everything's gonna fall apart. And I feel like that's what you're saying. And that's like, My, how my brain is kind of interpreting?Kelli Adame 32:17  Yeah, yeah, well, it's a balance, too, because it's like, there's three things you really need to like, you know, have to have a successful long term, monogamous relationship, you have to have chemistry, it's either there or it isn't right. Otherwise, your friends, you gotta have compatibility, which means that you essentially, in the in like the big rocks, you want the same things. Like if one of you wants 10 kids, and one of you wants no kids, all other things being great. That's a deal breaker, right? If one of you wants to, like, live in an RV and travel over the world, and somebody wants to, like live in San Diego and never move, like, potential deal breaker, right? So and nobody's wrong for what they want. But that's just a matter of like, you can't be incompatible and then be resentful, because somebody's not doing what you want to do. Those are things you have to be clear about. So chemistry, compatibility, and, and communication. And in my experience, most people need help with communication. I haven't met anybody that right. So there's a lot of work I do around communication. And part of that is like understanding what are my needs? And how do I communicate lovingly and respectfully to get those needs potentially met? And it's not a demand. It's not a command, but it's also not self-abandonment. I'm also not going to just not say anything, but part of that is this goes into the feminine energy. How do I know what I need? Well, as particularly, it's true for all people, but as a woman, I would say, What am I actually feeling? Step one. And then you have to sort of like acknowledge that it's okay to feel that feelings, by definition are irrational, but they are just as valuable as rational thoughts in the human experience. So you can't just be like, ah, emotions are like lame. I'm not going to feel them. Because you can repress them. You can act out over them, you can have addictions to numb them out, but they will at some point come for a reckoning, if that makes sense. Yeah, that's what people get in bed, some people get into, you know, you know, will they will get into like therapy with me, or counseling or work through something and then be like, why that was, like, 20 years ago, I thought I was over that. But it's like, right there. And like, Yeah, cuz it never got integrated, you have actually never honored it and allowed it, you know, the place to get expressed and honored and neutralized, in order to really move beyond it. And so those things are sitting under the surface and driving a lot of our behavior, right. So the idea is, for me to be authentically integrated in my own masculine feminine energy. I know I know what I think know what I want, but also what am I feeling? And what do I don't want? Like what doesn't feel good to? Instead of like, just thinking through that lens of what do I want? What do I think I need but to take a minute and check in with yourself and learn how to lean in to go like what would feel good to me. So I tell women like is a good practice like don't do Do something, ask yourself, Does this feel good to me? And if it doesn't, the answer's no, thank you. We're also so conditioned to say yes, and to just do it. But then we can be resentful about that, then we can be passive aggressive about that, then we can feel like, well, you owe me because I did this. No, you weren't, you weren't clear with you first. Does that make sense? That's the whole thing. To be in healthy relationship, you have to be able to take personal responsibility for your behavior, your actions, your words, but you also have to know what you're feeling. And that's a that's a lot of what a lot of women have to learn like, Okay, well, what am I really, I just had a session earlier today, which is like, gosh, it's like, so hard, because I was so conditioned to just, like, get depressed with my feelings, or just avoid my feelings, or just get busy, you know, and now here I am, my father's died. I'm like having this, you know, all this emotional stuff come up, and I have no idea how to deal with my emotions. And there's this backlog of years of stuff that I haven't, you know, worked through. So, you know, it's it's emotional intelligence, like, what am I feeling? And women in our physiology, we need to feel good in order to do good. Yeah, male physiology is opposite. They need to do good in order to feel good. So like, for my husband, he wants to do things to feel like he's winning, or he's accomplishing a task, or he's doing something that makes me feel good. Right? Then he feels like he's winning. I need to feel good, in order to go do good. So this is the other challenge. And problem with us being over functioning and masculine energy as women in our culture, is that I'm doing doing doing doing. And I'm doing good, but I'm not feeling good. Like your body can take the hits in your 20s in your 30s. Yeah. But you start to get older, because I've worked with women and all those generations. It's like, your body's like, I, I can't keep taking the hits. Like you're gonna have to deal with some of this stuff. Does that make sense? Yeah.Lesley Logan 36:59  Yeah, it does. I feel like, I really wish I had taken advantage of my 20s and 30s mark, because I feel great at 40. I know I look right for 40. But sometimes I'm like, Who's that feels different? I actually am not recovering well, from that. I don't just take recover from that. Okay. noted.Kelli Adame 37:21  Oh, my gosh, I know, I'm like I literally just had to start wearing reading glasses. I was like, what is happening?Lesley Logan 37:26  Like, this is crazy. I should have read my books when I was younger.Kelli Adame 37:32  But you know, it's like, you know, you love yourself where you are. And I think your 40s is an amazing place to be I'm with you in that. So it's, you know, but I think it's just it's one of those things where us, we have to learn to have create the space, maybe that we were never given, right? This is where like, a lot of times in therapy, you're going through a re parenting process, you're giving yourself the things maybe that you weren't given. And maybe your parents didn't get with you because nobody gave it to them. You know, I'm, I'm of the belief like everybody's doing the best they can. And it's not that we want to blame, you know, our, our parents and our childhoods for everything. But we do want to understand the cause and effect. Why do I operate the way I operate today? Why do I do what I do? And a lot of times we don't even know what that is, unless we're working with someone else that can help us in that process. A lot of stuff sits in the shadow we don't.Lesley Logan 38:23  Yeah, I totally understand. Like, I mean, my, like, people have like, asked, like my husband, I like, Oh, I'm gonna have children. And I said, Well, no, but you'd understand when I met my husband. I was five years, five years younger than my grandmother was when I was born. So in my upbringing, I was big on parents age. Yeah. Lesley Logan 38:46  Oh, yeah. I'm like, and so I like so I understand that like, medically and the way the world is, I could have but like, that's just not the way that my brain saw it. And also, then, like being able to look at like, what it was like to grow up having a mom who was super young with a grandmother who is super young, and then how they were parented. It's like, of course, I, of course, this is how I see the world a little differently, because they all do the best I can how best can a 16 year old raise child like let's just be really completely honest.Lesley Logan 39:18  Totally. And then how best can a 21 year old raise a child who were in a world where at the time, they just did not even know what postpartum depression was. So there's just a lot that we're all working through. And I think what's really cool is we live in a world now where there's a lot more information. And also we are we are in a, at least for those of us who are in the States or in Western societies, we are in a safe place to be able to lean into our masculine and get worked on and make a living for ourselves and make choices but also, we owe it to ourselves and like the people around us and the next generation if you are a parent to explore this other side so that they can have an even better opportunity. Like maybe they can actually enter the world with both and owning both. and like, feeling their feelings, you know?Kelli Adame 40:02  Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is kind of I feel like, it's almost like helping. We have like the masculine energy down as women. It's like reclaiming the feminine and fully integrating. So sometimes I might or like, I had a woman recently that was teaching in a mastermind and she was like, she's like, Kelly, I just got it. She was like, I literally just got it. She was like, you I was like that she's like, the what did she say? She said something like, you know, the, like the she's the angry feminist. But she said, like, the feminist part of me was just like struggling with what you were saying, like, I don't, you know, and she was like, and then I got it. And I was like, No, you're the prize. Like, it's about loving yourself first, and valuing yourself and teaching and inviting a man in his mat into his masculine energy in a way where he will want to pursue you cherish you protect you love you in a way that puts your feelings about his feelings when it matters. And there's a way that that allows you to feel safe and feel loved in a way that you've never felt before. And that that was her whole thing. I've never felt the strength and the safety of a man who loved me, I either it was with men and watch men take advantage of my mom and my grandfather, or I was married to a narcissist. Like I have no idea what it looks like to have good, healthy, masculine energy. So I think there's multiple reasons why we function and masculine energy. And that's another one we haven't even talked about. Some of it's the conditioning. And some of its like our culture. And some of it is also like, it's the way we protect ourselves. Yeah, right. Like, if I, if I'm the one giving and leading and initiating and planning and doing everything, there's a sense of control for me, and I get to feel safe in that. So if I'm, you want me to feel vulnerable, and you want me to share my feelings, and you want me to ask, you know, and allow a man to lead and receive from him like, That's too scary. Lesley Logan 41:50  I can't, but also, it sounds like, you have to be around a man who has good awareness about both his masculine and feminine energies as well, because otherwise, he can't just be all in his masculine, that's not going to make you feel safe to be in your feminine, like, they have to be able to understand those things as well. And I think it also good masculine energy, which you just like said, like, it's not just about them being masculine, it's about them. Yeah, making you feel safe, and putting your feelings above them. Kelli Adame 42:19  Just to clarify, right, because there's a lot of like, this is where we get, like, you know, like, there's masculinity, and there's toxic masculinity, and there's all it is like, I'm just talking about the principle of what healthy masculine energy looks like, embodied in a man it looks like a man who will lead provide protect, cherish women children in the planet, because he has he gets purpose from doing that. Does that make sense? Yeah. So like, you know, I like to say, in a generalized way, when when women get married, they give up like total independence, because you can't be a partnership and be completely independent, right, you have to die to something. So women, we died to some of that hyper independence and say, and men die to that like irresponsibility, the selfishness of like putting myself first and doing whatever I want to do. So there's something that's different. And there's, there's a difference, there's a difference in and I've worked with a lot of men, and I've worked with men that because the other the other thing that's happened is that when when, when women over function and masculine energy, you're going, what happens with men is you're either going to in, you're either going to evoke conflict with them. So if they're trying to hold their masculine energy in a healthy way, but you're challenging that masculine energy with yours, what are they going to do? Right, so it's sort of like, if you think you're sick, you're drawing your sword. You don't even know you're doing it. Most of the time, you don't even realize no,Lesley Logan 43:45  It's part of a natural behaviors that you're doing, or Yes. Kelli Adame 43:49  And it's what you kind of learned to survive and what's gotten you as far as you've gotten in a lot of ways in your life. So the idea is like, laying down that sword and learning how to also respect and trust, his energy, and his energy is about pursuing and cherishing and loving your feelings above his own. If you're with a man who consistently wants you to cherish his feelings above yours, that's going to be a painful place for you at some point. That doesn't mean there aren't moments where my husband respects my thoughts and ideas, and I don't, you know, support his feelings. But that's, I'm talking in a primary way. If and I've been with men like that, where I was like, giving and nurturing and loving and sharing all how amazing I was hoping he was going to choose to me and he was like, This is great. He's taken it, but he was I was feeding into that selfish nature nature. Yeah, I was over feet. I was over-giving in a way that made him more passive. And what happened was you I ended up in like a parent child dynamic where I was mama given all this greatness, you know, money, time, body energy, and he was like, Oh, this feels good. This feels good. I'm gonna take all this amazingness from her, but there was no part of him And that valued me appropriately and felt like he had to earn access to have me because I gave him everything hoping he was just gonna value and choose me.Lesley Logan 45:09  Yeah, it's such a balance. It's such an interesting thing because and I love that you brought up like what a healthy version of that looks like because they're loving. They're letting go of being irresponsible and like, it's all about me and doing whatever I want. And they're like, actually, their purpose is to protect the family. The house the planet.Kelli Adame 45:29  Yeah, children. Yes. Yes. As opposed to being selfish. Peter Pan.Lesley Logan 45:34  Yes. Yes. Oh, this is very good. Okay. I mean, my goodness, I feel like we've not even like scratch this.Kelli Adame 45:40  And it's because, listen, if Peter Pan has a lot of fun, we've all been with a Peter Pan. Yeah, he's a great playmate. But he doesn't want to grow up. Yeah. And he doesn't make a great life partner, you end up having to carry a lot of the load, and you will eventually feel resentful,Lesley Logan 45:55  and you're in your masculine.Kelli Adame 45:58  That's what I'm saying. So if you're over giving, so that's the other thing masculine energy gives first, feminine energy gives back once it's been given to you. So it's still a dance,Lesley Logan 46:11  Everyone. Did you hear that? I feel like that was something my dad told me. Give it up.Kelli Adame 46:17  It's not a sexual. But do you get what I'm saying? I do. I did. I do. I did. It's so funny. I think I did this on Danny Danny Digs podcast in the Injil, the best life podcast because we were talking about how I had spoken at a relationship conference with like, 3000 people. And I like, you know, made a gesture like this. And I was like, what? Like, it made everybody do this. And they were like, what? I know you just made a penis. What's it doing? You know, it's giving. Okay, like this? Yeah, okay, he's made a vagina wasn't doing. And they're like it's receiving and like, it's not doing anything. It's waiting to receive. Oh, yeah, there's a beautiful metaphor and that the other I like, I also love the metaphor, like, I don't know, if you dance or if you like partner dancing like ballroom, I'm a big Latin dancer. So like I dance salsa dancing for years was just so extraordinary for me, healing in a lot of ways, but it's a really beautiful any kind of partner dancing, that you watch that you see, that's just amazing. When you watch a couple do that. And if you've done it, you know what it feels like? It only works because one person is leading and the other person in that moment is following. If you like when I first started dancing, I would do what's called back leading, and I would get yelled at by my instructor. So I would start to dance. And I would start leading. And it's like, he's you're fighting me, like I'm trying to you gotta follow me. And I was like, I, I It's like instinctual for me to lead. And so I had to learn how to trust and follow and not know what was happening. And as I learned how to surrender into that, it was magical, right? And so it's a very, it's a very similar, it's like, it's a beautiful metaphor for like that dance, because this is what it is. It's a dance of masculine and feminine energy, like giving and giving back, and respecting and appreciating and loving and cherishing. And does that make sense?  Lesley Logan 48:15  There's like the, you describe this dance, because it's not like a light switch, we're not like, and I'm turning off the masculine and I'm turning on the feminine, like the lights, you know, like,Lesley Logan 48:25  It's, yeah, it's a it's a dance. It's an ebb and flow. And it sounds like we have half of every person has to be present in their body to really able to understand what is needed when they're in a relationship versus like, when they're at work versus like, when they're on their own. Like, if you're single listening to this, like, you know, I'm like, what a great place to play with, like getting into your feminine now before like, you end up in a relationship. And then you're trying out this thing.Lesley Logan 48:54  Women when we date in that from that place, you're gonna gravitate toward men who are sitting more and like and negative feminine energy, they're passive. They don't want to commit, they're Peter Pan, they could be a con man, that could be a narcissist. They could be all of that makes sense. I listen to all those podcasts for those who have been combative people and you always hear they're like, super, like they run their own business. They're doing all the things they're like, so you know, like they're and you're like, how did that happen to them? Oh, interesting. Kelli Adame 49:22  Yes. So part of being embodied in feminine energy is saying no, to what doesn't feel good. And to having clear boundaries, and to learning how to vet out other people in the sense of you're dating men learning as a lot of what I teach, like, how do I distinguish a good man from a bad man? How do I distinguish with healthy masculinity and with selfish little boy and like nobody? And again, sometimes, again, going back to the family blueprint, sometimes we subconsciously map to things right. So I have a father who I deeply love and I always loved and wanted, I think his approval a lot in my life. But he was a fireman, and he was Hispanic. And so he was very emotionally unavailable to me. Does that make sense? So then I would date men who were great and charismatic and handsome and just like my dad. But then after a while, like, Oh, you're emotionally unavailable, I'm I must be home. Right? Like, Oh, right. And so this is what happens. But nobody goes out. I wasn't out hunting for like, I wasn't looking for, you know, are you emotionally available? Okay, want to date you? You know, it was like, right? You don't it's never in the beginning at everybody. You're dating there, you know, PR department, you in the beginning, you're dating, so they want you to see, and it takes time to discern, but a lot of us are so first of all, we're like dopamine addicts, because of technology in our phones. We want instant gratification. So delayed gratification and patience to like vet people out like we're not as great at So something we got to kind of be careful about. Yeah. Does that make sense? Oh, yeah. And if you, if you sleep with somebody right away, it's for a woman in particular, you'll bond to him through oxytocin in a way that you can't see him clearly. So now you have oxytocin bubble going.Lesley Logan 51:02  I have to tell you how i i have to tell you how I like worked my way around this. So because I'd read like, like A Lady Think Like a Man kind of book. Yeah. And like, my friend read it. He's like, he's, like, I'm sure he's a narcissist. But like, it doesn't matter. It worked. So here's the thing, because it said, like, Don't give out the benefits before 90 days. If I work for for I have to wait 90 days. And that's like 90 days, like, I don't know, I want to be with someone 90 days. But if it does, it's not good. So anyways, when I met my husband, he was going through divorce at the time, don't worry, everyone should not in the picture papers were filed like it was. So it was clean and clear. And I was only five months out of like a relationship of five years, it did not go well. And so like neither one of us are really able to date but he was hot. He was like, Hey, you want to get to here? And it's like, you know what, he is not dateable right now, so I will go home with him. But I'm not gonna give him my phone number because then I'm not going to worry about him calling me and I don't have to, I'm gonna, like, block all that I'm not gonna get attached. And then he'll find me when it's time and then we'll date and that's exactly whyKelli Adame 52:05  I love it. Let's see, what's crazy about that is you still activated his, like hunting nature for lack of a phone number. And he though there was a scarcity piece of Lady fi. And so this is the thing about men too. They fall in love with women when they're away from them. Oh, so women don't women think like I need to be right on top of him. So he doesn't like find another girl like no, he you need to value yourself enough to do exactly what you did. And be like, if you want me, you can come find me. Because I also need to see that you're willing to pay the price. It's sort of like this. I tell him all the time. It's like, you know, if you're a $200,000 Bharati, right. And there's a man who's like, Oh, that's my dream car. Oh, my gosh, he goes to the car lot. He's like, I want this car. And he asked the salesman, like, how much is it like $200,000? He's like, I don't have that. Like, will you take 50,000? No, you can like Honda dealerships down the road. Like I know. Right? Yeah. It's like, hard. No, what happens is, you are too and $1,000 monitor. I was ready. But you let a man drove it around for a few years for free hoping he's going to pay full price. Yeah, no. It's human nature that we will always value something that we've had to work to achieve. Yeah, I have a medal from running a marathon. And it's one of like my, you know, kind of prize but because I liked it one girl, I was like,Lesley Logan 53:22  I just did a half and then I'm like running anymore.Kelli Adame 53:27  It's like, if I so I love this metal. Because it reminds me of the whole journey of what I went through in order to achieve that goal. It's a symbol of that. It's not. If I if somebody had given that to me, and I hadn't run the marathon, I'd be like, I don't need this like thrift store. Like, what am I going to do with it? Yeah. Do you get what I'm saying?Lesley Logan 53:45  I do so and I'm just like, loving. I love that story. I feel so validated because he did he like, emailed me the next week, like on Facebook. And he's like, how do I know your number? And I was like, Well, I know how you didn't, didn't give it to you. And then like, and then we we didn't date. And in fact, I have like my friend was like, You should invite him to your birthday party. Like I don't text him. He can text me. And she was like, Lesley.Kelli Adame 54:08  You let him get lead initiate first. Yeah.Lesley Logan 54:11  So I was like, I was like, she's like, You should invite him

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As kids, we often think we know what we'll be when we grow up. And some people do. They fall in love with a particular field and pursue it. Others find themselves meandering a bit more, as opportunities present themselves and interests twist and turn. Perhaps your journey in life and business looks similar.To talk about taking untraditional paths, I (Kyle) interviewed Mark Duran, the CEO and Co-Founder of Student First Technologies. Mark and I discussed both the joys and the hard work of moving off a set path onto one you didn't foresee.“Be really honest with yourself. Why do you want to start a business?” -- Mark DuranWhat You'll LearnUntraditional pathsExpanding equityChoosing your work to learnValue of 5 year commitmentsPatience pays offSolidify your basics firstKnow and feed your whyRecommended ResourcesBooks: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim CollinsA Fine Line: How Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools by Tim DeRocheThe Go-Giver: A Little Story About A Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg and John David Mann Connect with Mark DuranMark Duran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Student First Technologies, which offers customized technology solutions to empower organizations that support School Choice. Their passion stems from the belief that every child deserves access to quality education, and the groups supporting quality education choice deserve software and processes built to make it happen.studentfirsttech.com mark@studentfirsttech.com X (Twitter) || Linkedin - Mark Duran || Linkedin - Student First Technologies Connect with Daniel Fuller, Kyle Maloney and FullStack PEOA turnkey HR for emerging companies, FullStack PEO removes the human resource, compliance, and payroll headaches from a company's to-do list. FullStack also produces the Savage to Sage podcast, co-hosted by Partner and VP of Business Development, Daniel Fuller and Senior Account Executive, Kyle Maloney.Linkedin - Daniel || daniel.fuller@fullstackpeo.comLinkedin - Kyle || kyle.maloney@fullstackpeo.com

This week Storm and Rachael talk about baby's first words. Any guesses what Otis said first?They fall in love with pregnancy pillows, and the Mum Squad query the weird and wonderful mysteries of pregnancy, from blue umbilical cords to difficulty breathing.Psychotherapist Lucy Beresford also gives advice on intrusive thoughts, and what to do if you have sudden, worrying ideas about your baby.Like, subscribe, share and join the Mum Squad by submitting your voice notes to Storm over on Instagram @stormhuntley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The year is 1926, and a quiet community on the island of Australia is recovering from the death and grief caused by a war that swallowed the world. It is in this setting that one man meets a woman. They fall in love. Their small family begins living on an isolated isle off the coast, guarding a lighthouse. Away from the eyes of anyone they've ever known, left to their own devices, they will make a decision and cross a line to a place from which they can never return.  The man and woman: Tom and Isabel The book: The light between oceans by M.L. Stedman   And you're listening to LIT Society.   LET'S GET LIT!   - View the video podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/@litsocietypod   Find Alexis and Kari online:  Instagram — www.instagram.com/litsocietypod Twitter — www.twitter.com/litsocietypod Facebook — www.facebook.com/LitSocietyPod Our website — www.LitSocietyPod.com.    Subscribe to emails and get free stuff: http://eepurl.com/gDtWCr   

Return To Eden by Richard TaylorReturn to Eden is the second book in the Eden Trilogy, linking Eden Lost with origins in the Philippine-American war (1868-1901). It is followed by Almost Eden set in and after the Vietnam War. Each book has a generational link, carrying forward family mythology, characteristics, and historical precedents.Return to Eden resumes in 1941 with Joe Armand—Joshua's son from Eden Lost—in Manila to purchase a ship for his father's shipping empire. While there, he goes to the grave of Isabella, his father's lover in Eden Lost, and meets Luci Blake, an American Red Cross nurse. They fall in love as Pearl Harbor is attacked and the Philippines are attacked and invaded by Japanese. After several failed attempts to evacuate Manila, Joe and Luci are separated and with Japanese police hot on their trail, forced to escape into the jungles north of Manila. There they reunited as members of a Philippine guerrilla force, praying for MacArthur's promised return.Joshua's search for his son, Joe, compels his return to Manila as the war ends. There he confronts his undying love for Isabella, as he finds Joe and his wife Luci with their daughter, Isabella, or Izzy. Izzy carries family tradition forward into Vietnam and afterward.Return to Eden is sometimes a brutal story, but is heartwarming and illustrative of how true love can persevere the most difficult challenges of life. It also highlights the relationships between Americans and Filipinos that carries through all the Eden Trilogy.Return to Eden was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award and a finalist for Georgia Author of the Year.Reviewed by US Review of Books, Hollywood Book Reviews, Kirkus Reviews, and Amazon.Colonel (US Army, Retired) Richard Taylor writes of love and war. “Prodigals: A Vietnam Story,” an autobiography, was published by Casemate in 2003 and the manuscript was a winner at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference, then a featured selection of the Military Book Club. “Homeward Bound: American Veterans Return from War, a comprehensive veterans history, was first published by Greenwood Press (ABC-CLIO) in 2007, then republished by the Naval Institute Press in 2009 as a featured selection of the Association of the US Army. It was one source for the PBS four part series “American Veteran” in 2021. His current hits are the Eden Trilogy—Eden Lost, Return to Eden, and Almost Eden.https://www.amazon.com/Return-Eden-Richard-Taylor-ebook/dp/B09FYNT9L8?ref_=ast_author_dphttps://richardtaylorbooks.com/http://www.urlinkpublishing.com   http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/5423url.mp

What you'll learn in this episode:   How Thereza helps art collectors enter the world of contemporary jewelry. Why contemporary jewelry shouldn't be a niche, but a part of the larger art and design scene. How Thereza defines contemporary jewelry, and how she became interested in it. How she selects artists for her art and jewelry gallery, Thereza Pedrosa Gallery. Why even delicate art shouldn't be hidden away. Why quality matters just as much as aesthetics in a piece of jewelry.   About Thereza Pedrosa   Thereza Pedrosa (Rio de Janeiro, 1985) is an art historian, independent curator and gallery owner. She graduated in Conservation of Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari University in Venice with a thesis on art works on paper belonging to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. She continued her studies and obtained a MA in Management and Conservation of Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari University in Venice with a thesis on the use of niello in contemporary European jewelry. In 2009 she collaborated as assistant registrar at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, cataloging all the museum's works on paper. Her work led to the exhibition Revealing Papers: The Hidden Treasures of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, for which Thereza was the scientific coordinator (Lucca Center of Contemporary Art). Since 2011 she has been working as an curator, creating exhibitions, catalogues and projects for artists and galleries in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France and the Netherlands. In 2012 she founded the blog Beautiful People Live Art, dedicated to art, design, architecture, photography and art jewelly. In 2019 she established with her business partner Elinor Garnero a contemporary art gallery with a focus on art jewelry, the “Thereza Pedrosa Gallery”. In 2021 she joined as an expert the examining committee of the Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence. She brings a genuinely international perspective to her curatorial activity also thanks to her residencies in Switzerland, Germany and, since 2015, the Netherlands. Additional Resources: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery  Instagram Facebook LinkedIN Photos Available on TheJewelryJourney.com Transcript: For Thereza Pedrosa, no form of art is more important than another. At her gallery, contemporary jewelry, sculpture, paintings and other fine art are all given equal standing, and she's helped numerous art collectors discover jewelry for the first time. She joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about why contemporary jewelry is still unknown to most art collectors and why that should change; how she balances raising children with owning a gallery; and what she discovered at this year's jewelry fairs. Read the episode transcript here.  Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is the second part of a two-part episode. If you haven't heard part one, please head to TheJewelryJourney.com.    Today, my guest is Thereza Pedrosa of Thereza Pedrosa Gallery. Thereza is speaking to us from Asolo, which is right near Florence. It's supposed to be a very lovely medieval village. She and her partner and friend, Elinor Garnero, founded the gallery in 2019. Welcome back.    I was wondering about this. If you have people who come in and say, “I like this painting,” or “I want a painting,” and then they look at the jewelry, do they walk out with the jewelry, or do they walk out with both? How does that work?   Thereza: Yes, it's happened a couple of times that someone came inside because they saw the paintings. When you are walking in the street, it's easier to see the paintings from outside than the jewelry. So, they come to see the paintings and discover we have contemporary jewelry, but they don't know about it. It happened a couple of times, where they may buy a painting and also a piece of jewelry. It happens more often that they open their minds to the field of contemporary jewelry, and they come back later to buy jewelry. Normally, if they come inside the first time just thinking about paintings, they are not ready yet to move to contemporary jewelry, but they come back. They fall in love with it. They come back to discover more, and then they can start buying contemporary jewelry.   Sharon: Would you call yourself a collector, somebody who collects?   Thereza: Yes. I don't know how many pieces I have in my own collection, but I sure love to collect myself. I cannot resist. I'm an art lover, and I love to collect paintings, sculptures, books and contemporary jewelry, absolutely.   Sharon: Are they different from each other, the art people who come in and just want a painting versus a jewelry person who comes in and looks at the art? Are they different kinds of personalities or people?   Thereza: I don't think they are different kinds of personalities. Normally, they are people that, like me, love art and design in all forms, especially people who love paintings and discover contemporary jewelry. What happens more often is that they just didn't know the field before. They didn't know contemporary existed. What happens often with these collectors is that they come inside, and they are like, “Oh, I love art. I love sculptures. I collect them. I never knew about contemporary jewelry. I never thought art you can wear existed.” They are excited to discover it.   This is how I was. I always loved art and paintings and sculptures, and I grew up in an artist family. I grew up with my walls surrounded by art all my life. For me, when I got involved in contemporary jewelry, I was like, “Wow!” I love art. I love to have art pieces in my house, but contemporary jewelry is a piece of art I can wear when I go out of the house. It's amazing.   Sharon: Do you consider it that? Do you consider contemporary jewelry art you can wear?   Thereza: I do.   Sharon: You do?   Thereza: Yeah, I do. For me, yes. I also consider them art pieces. There are many jewelry artists, but they make sculptures. If you see this object, you can imagine it big and it would still be amazing. They just decided to make them small and wearable, but they are still art pieces. For example, in my house, I like to keep some pieces of contemporary jewelry around the living room on shelves we have around the house, just off the coffee table because I have two small kids, but in places at least a little higher. I keep one piece here and one piece there because they look like small sculptures. They are interesting to see even when you are not wearing them.   Sharon: That's interesting. People have suggested to me that I frame some jewelry when I'm not wearing it, but I've never thought about it. The first time somebody said it to me, I thought, “Well, that's really stupid.” I didn't understand what they were talking about.    Thereza: Sometimes people come to my house and say, “Oh, my god, you keep this piece here. You should close it in a safe or something,” and I'm like, “This is an artwork. It was made to be seen and to be enjoyed. It was not made to be hidden away. If I need to have something in a safe, if I never look at it or see it or enjoy it, then I cannot own it. What is the purpose for it?” The jewelry in my collection is the same thing. I like to enjoy the pieces, even when I'm not wearing them. I cannot wear 20 pieces at the same time, so I like to see them around me. They make me happy.   Sharon: You've been in a lot of different countries. You've been in the Netherlands. Where else? I know you've been in a lot of countries, selling and creating.   Thereza: I was born in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro. I grew up in Italy. I lived for a couple of years in Switzerland and a couple of years in Germany. Actually now, I live in the Netherlands. It's been almost eight years that I've lived in the Netherlands. My art gallery is in Italy, but I actually live in the Netherlands.   Sharon: Oh, wow! Do you find that the different cultures and places you've lived or studied influences what you do?   Thereza: I think yes, for sure, even if I don't think about it on purpose. For sure I think of it in a more international way. I don't really feel myself as Italian or Brazilian, and I have big difficulties when someone asks me, “Where are you from?” I'm like, “What are you asking me? Are you asking me where I was born? Are you asking me where I grew up? Are you asking me where I was living before I moved to this country?” It's always hard for me, but I like to take the positive sides of everywhere I was living and growing up.    What I like most is to see my kids growing up internationally. My kids are six and four, and they speak four languages and have friends from all around the world. They have friends from Tokai, from China, from Germany, from France, from the U.K., the U.S., Canada, anywhere. We go out on Sunday to have lunch together with some friends. They come to our place or we go to their place, and my kids can try food from India or Tokai, or different festivities, a different region, a different tradition. I think that's the best way for them to learn that we need to respect everyone and hope they will respect us. There is no color of skin or religion or culture that is more important than the other ones. We are all different and we are all the same, but sometimes it is difficult to teach that. If they can live it, I think it's the best way to grow up with this concept.   Sharon: Do you expose them to a lot of art, more than usual? Do you take them to art galleries? I don't know what there is in Italy. How do they learn about art?   Thereza: Some of my friends think we are little bit crazy. When we were expecting my first son, they told us, “Oh, you should put away everything that can break.” Now I'm sitting in my kitchen in Iceland, and I can see here I have a glass sculpture that is full of small, fragile pieces. When friends come over, they are like, “How can you keep that thing there with two small kids around?” I think if you teach them to respect the artworks, they can grow up with them around. I grew up with them around. My parents always had paintings and sculptures around the house. They never put them away because we were children, and I tried to do the same with my kids.   I would like them to enjoy that we have these pieces at home. With a marble sculpture or a bronze sculpture, they can touch it and feel the difference between the materials. I love it when they talk about these pieces and they go around the house and say, “This is my favorite painting,” or “This is my favorite sculpture,” or “I like this one because it's cold,” or “I like this one because I like the shape of it.” I love abstract art, so the paintings we have at home are all abstract, but my kids go around and say, “Oh, I see an ice cream in this painting. I never saw that ice cream before.” Then I start seeing things they see. Obviously, we like to go with them to museums. I go to art fairs sometimes and they can come with me. It's a pleasure to bring them around to contemporary jewelry fairs as well.    Sharon: You went to Schmuck this year. Do you go to Schumck every year?   Thereza: This year was the first year we were participating as a gallery because the gallery's only three years old. We opened it in 2019. Then Corona came, and Schmuck was not there for a couple of years. Before that, I went to visit three times, I think. I visited the last couple of years before Corona came because I was busy with my babies. They were really small, but I went. In 2014, 2015 and 2016, I went. I took a break with my babies for a couple of years, then I opened up my gallery, and this was the first year of participating as a gallery.    Sharon: Did you find new artists there or new work by artists you have? What did you find? What was interesting to you?   Thereza: Everything was different for me because that was the first year I was not free to go around so much as the other three years. I needed to be in our exhibition during the day all the time, so I didn't have much time to go visit other exhibitions. But it was wonderful to meet many artists of the art gallery that we don't get to meet often. If we organize a solo exhibition at the gallery, normally the artist comes for the solo exhibition, but otherwise we don't get to see the artists from other countries so often. I didn't have time to count how many artists of the gallery we met last week, but I think almost 20 of them were there. It was very nice to meet everyone in person.    I met artists of the gallery I had already met other times before and we are friends, but I also met some artists of the gallery that we represent that I'd never met in person before. Finally, we got the opportunity to meet in person. That was also really nice. We got new pieces to bring to the gallery from some of them. It's always a good excuse to meet in person to receive some pieces for the gallery. I also met some artists that I invited to be artists of the gallery. I'm really happy to have had all these exchanges.   Sharon: The people that you asked to be artists, they're people that you don't have now, but you saw they had work you were interested in.   Therbeza: Yes. I invited some artists I already knew I wanted for the gallery, but I just didn't have time to invite them yet. Then I met them in person. In person is always better to talk and invite them to work with the gallery. It's a pleasure. It's better than just writing an email.   Sharon: Was that a chance to see work you usually don't see, besides meeting artists? Was it work you don't see?   Thereza: Yeah, every time you visit Schmuck, you have the opportunity to discover an artist you didn't know before. You study and you try to keep in touch with everything, but there are always some artists you don't know or have yet to discover. It's always wonderful to go there because in one week, you see so many different things, displays, artists' pieces. It's really, really interesting.   Sharon: I've been wanting to ask you about this. There was a long and very interesting interview with you that Art Jewelry Forum did, and you used the word “authorial jewelry.”   Thereza: Well, with authorial jewelry, I don't know if it's a mistake in the translation from Italian. It really means alto jewelry. I think it's also used in English sometimes, but in Italian we use it to divide art jewelry from design jewelry. Alto jewelry is more about artists that also made jewelry, instead of contemporary jewelry artists that work only in the field of jewelry.   Sharon: What holds your attention about art jewelry as opposed to art? What keeps you going with art jewelry? What do you like, and why do you stay attracted to it?   Thereza: There are a lot of things I like. One of them is how many different media contemporary jewelry artists can use to make jewelry. You often find some artist who uses materials you never thought before could be used to make jewelry, and sometimes you see something that looks like one material, and then you go to see what it is and it's a different one. It always surprises me in a good way when I'm surprised with the aesthetics of a piece, the quality of the piece, but also the materials that are unexpected and different from what I was thinking or expecting   Sharon: Is that what you look at? Besides the fact that it has surprised you, do you look at the quality and the craftsmanship and the way it's done?   Thereza: Absolutely. That's really important. It's important to look. The aesthetic is important in a piece because that's what you see, but then there's the quality of it, the durability of it. You don't want it to be broken in one week. It needs to be well-made, it needs to be wearable and it needs to be of good quality. Especially for a young artist, sometimes they don't finish a piece, or they just want to have many pieces done and they don't finish them properly. No, it's really important to finish them properly for the quality of the piece, but also the wearability. It's important that you try the piece on until it works, it doesn't hurt and it doesn't break. That's important because it's an art piece, but it's also jewelry. It needs to be wearable; otherwise, it's a sculpture. Jewelry needs to be wearable for me.   Sharon: No, that's really important. You're right; a lot of young makers don't understand that it has to be something you can wear. Thereza, thank you so much for being here today and telling us about Schmuck and your gallery. Asolo is—what did you say? A couple of hours, less than a couple of hours from Florence?   Thereza: It could be more. It's actually one hour from Venice. It's in the northeast of Italy, 50 minutes from Pauda and one hour from Venice.   Sharon: You're right in the middle of things, then. Thank you so much for being with us today. We really appreciate it.   Thereza: It was a pleasure. Thank you, Sharon.   Sharon: We will have photos posted on the website. Please head to TheJewelryJourney.com to check them out.   Thank you again for listening. Please leave us a rating and review so we can help others start their own jewelry journey.

Two people meet. They fall in love. Marriage. Kids. A life together. The typical love story. But one is greater and that's the love of Christ for you! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pastordwaynenbbc/message

A beautiful coming-of-age love story; the story of Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan. They fall in love and will do anything for each other. But sometimes the fates are envious of such a love. My book recommendation for this week is one that you would have heard about as a movie. Do drop a rating if you like what you hear on this episode of Forgotten Books. Contact me on : Instagram - @thegreedyreader Website - www.thegreedyreader.com YouTube - The Greedy Reader

Marriage is an interesting process. Boy meets girl. They fall in love. They get married and then they make a home together. The live in the same house, up close and personal. Turns out, it’s kind of the same deal with God. Join Berni Dymet as he looks at how we can get close to God, from a different perspective. Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/adp/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Greg Thompson is a writer-producer known for Bob's Burgers, Glenn Martin D.D.S., and King of The Hill.Greg Thompson on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860188/Greg Thompson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregthompMichael's Online Screenwriting Course - https://michaeljamin.com/courseFree Screenwriting Lesson - https://michaeljamin.com/freeJoin My Watchlist - https://michaeljamin.com/watchlistAutogenerated TranscriptionsGreg Thompson:Try to pay attention to the voices of the show. Know the show. Watch, watch every episode. Um, you know, when we were hired on King of the Hill, I, I'd watched King of the Hill, but I hadn't seen everything. But, you know, I methodically started plowing through hundreds of episodes at that point. I think maybe 200 episodes had happened by the time we, we joined it. So, and that's just kind of an education and you internalize the voices of the characters and, and it, it helps you. It helps you know what to pitch. You'reMichael Jamin:Listening to Screenwriters. Need to Hear This with Michael Jen.Hey everyone. Welcome to Screenwriters. Need to hear this. I'm Michael Jamin and I got another special guest today. This is my old friend. I'm gonna, this is my friend Greg Thompson, and I'm gonna give you a proper introduction, Greg. So sit down, just relax. Let me just talk to the people for a second. Um, so Greg is a very successful TV writer and he started on bunk, a show called Bunk Bread Brothers. We're gonna run through some of, through some of the credits. I'm heard of Bunk Bread Brothers, then fired up, which was interesting. This was the heyday of nbc. This was when, uh, the character she lived instead of a clock. She was, she was a church mouse, wasn't she? GregGreg Thompson:. Yeah, she was a church MassMichael Jamin:WhoGreg Thompson:Is second, second season. She moved into a shoe, uh,Michael Jamin:.Greg Thompson:It was Sharon Lawrence with, uh, Leah Remedy.Michael Jamin:Ah, Sharon Lawrence with Leah Remedy. This was back in the heyday of NBC shows like, uh, musty tv. And then a show called, I'm gonna run through some of your credits. Maggie, big Wolf on campus, then one of your bigger credits. 30, uh, third Rock from the Sun. Great show, then Grounded for Life. Another great show. Everyone hates Chris. Everybody hates Chris. Everybody hates Chris. Another great show. I'm in Hell. We're gonna talk about that. King of the Hill. You were there for many years. Glen Martin, dds. I never heard of that one, but I was involved in it. then Now, most recently you were writer, what are you executive, co-executive producer on Bob's Bergs.Greg Thompson:So I, I'm, I'm down to consulting producer. Technically I was we'll talk, I was co exec. I was actually executive, I was actually executive producer to be, to be most technical. Well, yeah, we all got promoted up to executive producer after aMichael Jamin:Certain And what happened? Why did you get bounced down to co exec? I mean, a consulting producer.Greg Thompson:I decided to rank fewer, fewer days a week. So I, I've, I've, am I, do you still want me on the show?Michael Jamin:Yeah, I'm, now I'm jealous of you. How many days a week are you working?Greg Thompson:I only work two days.Michael Jamin:Oh. And of those two days, how many days are you really working? ?Greg Thompson:I don't know. Probably four. Cuz it filters into other days andMichael Jamin:Yeah,Greg Thompson:It does over it also. Yeah.Michael Jamin:We're gonna talk about that. But I wanna get into the beginning, Greg. Cause I, I, I, so we met in the Warner Brothers Writers Program, writers workshop, or whatever it was called. Yeah, we did. And you were, were supposed to be you and your partner. Our Abrams were supposed to be the competition that me and Seavert were facing. And, but very quickly we realized we weren't, we weren't gonna, we weren't gonna make good enemies, friends and love.But, but I gotta say, Greg, you've always been, and I know I've never, probably never said this to you personally, but you were, it may seem odd since we don't talk that often, but you were definitely one of my closer friends, closest friends in the industry, because I always feel like I, I feel like we're not in competition. I can always be, I can confide in you to tell you what's going on with my career. I never feel like I'm gonna get stabbed in the back. You always got my back. I got your back. So you, you've always been a great friend. And that's why as I thank, thank you for doing the show and helping everyone Oh, tell your story.Greg Thompson:You're, you're very welcome. You, of course, it's of course it's mutual. Um, and I'll just say at the Radcliffe or at the, uh, pardon me, the Writer's Warner Brothers Writer's Workshop, um, I was, uh, so intimidated by you and Seavert. I, uh, you like you, we were kind of sited. We were seated in kind of a big o and you were, you guys were like across the room and you already, you already had credit. You had a credit on Lois and Clark, which was like, you know, incredibly impressive. We didn't have credits.Michael Jamin:That's what you were, that's what you're, because there was no other reason to be intimidated by us. So we never said anything like, IGreg Thompson:Think, I don't know, you just, you looked, you looked the right part. Sea had this kind of scowl on his face all the time, which, which was very untrue to his personality. But he just looked, uh, super serious. Like, like heMichael Jamin:WasGreg Thompson:Interesting figuring it all out.Michael Jamin:Turns out neither of us. It was a prestigious program. And, and it didn't help either of us. It didn't help. It definitely didn't help. But it didn't help you did itGreg Thompson:Other than Well, it, it did get us, it did lead us to an agent, which then, which then led us to our first job. So it actually did help us, even though the Warner Brothers, the studio was not interested in hiring us,Michael Jamin:Right? So after,Greg Thompson:After watching us work,Michael Jamin:As I tell our audience to catch 'em up, um, so yeah, we worked together. So we never worked together. We were just, we became friends on that. And then later, then later we shared a bungalow. We both had overall deals at CBS Radford. And so we shared a bungalow. We'd have lunch together. Remember we'd hang out in your office and just talk about ideas. Bounce Yeah. Each other that think an overall deal's great. That was fun. And then later was, no, king Hill was before that.Greg Thompson:King Hill was beforeMichael Jamin:That. Right? And then later Radford, our overall deal. Then later we hired you guys on, on Glen Martin. And you guys saved our butts. You and your partner Aaron, saved our butts. And then how did I Thank you. I almost, I almost thanked you by destroying your career. . I only remember you guys, you guys came in, was it, it was season two, right? Of Glen Martin.Greg Thompson:Yeah. Season two. Yeah.Michael Jamin:We, we brought you in. We had the money. We wanted very, we wanted season writers. And you guys came in, you always delivered great drafts, which is, is, I always say, this is all you want from a writer. Can you turn in a good draft? And you guys always did. And then there was talk of spinning off Glen Martin to a spinoff. And I remember we were like, Hey, we'll do this show. And then you could run the other show or which one, one or the other you guys could run. And you're like, eh, we got this other offer to go to this cartoon called Bob's Burgers. You don't wanna go to Bob's Burgers,Greg Thompson:,Michael Jamin:You wanna stay here? . And then, and thank God you took that offer, cuz I would've felt terrible like ruining your career. Cause that they spinoff never happened. . And then Glen Martin was canceled and it jumped off just in time to go to,Greg Thompson:There was an idea that Glen Martin was gonna jump to Fox or something, andMichael Jamin:There was a lot of lies floating .Greg Thompson:Yeah. It was probably Michael Eisner was planning these thoughts.Michael Jamin:Um, right. I forgot Fox. Fox didn't, Fox had no, had no knowledge of that. They weren't on Greg Thompson:. But, uh, yeah. But yeah, I think we all thought the puppet animation genre was gonna explode. And, and I have to say, it's really funny. It's still, when I look at, I've dug up some old Glen Martin's. It is really funny. I mean, it is, it was an underrated show under watched certainly, but also underrated.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Yeah. It was, we did some good stuff. You guys wrote some great episodes. But then, so you got the offer because Bob's Burgers co-create by Jim Dore. We both work with on King of the Hill. So he reached out to you guys. How did you have this Bob about, and why didn't he reach out to us? ?Greg Thompson:I didn't probably You were working. You, you're busy. Um, weMichael Jamin:Were busyGreg Thompson:Developed by Jim DotR. I should make sure I say that properly. Created by Lauren Bouchard, developed by Jim DotR. Um, yeah, he was just staffing up. And actually he, he had hired two other guys, uh, before us. And then there, um, and gosh, I'm blanking blanket on their names. Sorry. Um, but they had a pilot going, and their pilot got picked up to production. So they had to drop out of Bob's burger's mm-hmm. . And, and then that opened up a slot and Jim, Jim called us to, to come interview for it. And we saw the That's been, and, and you guys, you guys let us out of our Glen Martin deal early by the way. You, you did us a favor that not everybody would've done.Michael Jamin:That's that is true. Now some people wouldn't. But, but I think most,Greg Thompson:I most, I think most would good, good people would,Michael Jamin:Good people let you out. Our contract. Um, and so, and how many that was 2008, you've been on that? Oh, no,Greg Thompson:That was 2000, 2010. We went over there, 10, I think we, we went over to Glen Martin. We were there for actually second half of the first season through most of the second season.Michael Jamin:Oh, that's what it wasGreg Thompson:Like Glen Martin. Yeah. So I think we wrote It'sMichael Jamin:A amazing song. You've been on Bob's Burgers. It's crazy. Like that's, that's job security.Greg Thompson:Yeah, I was thinking, yeah, it's, it's 12 over 12 years now. And I, I'm wearing, um, I'm wearing the first piece of swag we ever got on Bob's. I don't know if it's visible on camera or not. This, this, uh, old hoodie, which is now just in taters. It's 12 years old. AndMichael Jamin:Do you, is it hard coming up with stories that at the, for 12 years?Greg Thompson:Yes. Yes. Very hard. Um, also because unlike The Simpsons, which is kind of branched off into the peripheral characters, they'll do a episode about APU or whatever they used to. Anyway. Um, Bob's stays with the, the family. Right. And, and doMichael Jamin:You, how, how does the musical numbers work? How do you guys produce, you know, how do you write and produce that?Greg Thompson:Uh, well, I, Lauren is extremely musical. Lauren Bouchard very musical. So he always had, you know, a big interest in that. And he can, he can write and play. And then there are, you know, there are, uh, musical people, you know, uh, uh, on the show.Michael Jamin:Who writing the lyrics for that? Do you write some script or what?Greg Thompson:Well, we do, yeah. Yeah. Most of the writers will write some lyrics. I've written. Yeah, I've written some lyrics. And that's, you know, don't write the music occasionally. You might like take a stab at a tune for something silly, but yeah. And that's, that's like, and that's, that's like funMichael Jamin:For the music as wellGreg Thompson:Then. Yeah. Yeah. You do like the, um, yeah, we're like members of ASCAP or BMI or something. Yeah. And, um, yeah, there's actually been, um, two Bobs Burgers record albums that have come out. Didn't that sub pop?Michael Jamin:Were you with the movie as well,Greg Thompson:Though? Yeah, I mean, to a limited degree. It was, the movie was, was really written by, by Lauren and Nora Smith, who's also the, you know, his number two, she's also Show Runner. Um, and then, but all the other writers pitched in on Story and, and jokes and, you know, we looked at lots of cuts. And so we, we were, we were part of it. Uh, we're, we have credit, but, um, but they did the, uh, heavy lifting for sure.Michael Jamin:And, you know, you're kind of like the last writer, Guild of America. Cartoon , one of the last, right. I mean, you're covered by the writer Guild, right? It's not ascap. I mean, notGreg Thompson:Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, it's a, yeah, it's a, it's a writer's guilded show. Yeah. And I guess, like, I don't know, not to tell Tales Outta School. I think Disney is still trying to, you know, put shows on the air on, you know, Disney now owns 20th Century Fox Television. Um, still try to get, you know, II covered shows, which that's a, a guild with fewer, bene fewer benefits for your, your viewers.Michael Jamin:It's nonstarter now. It's like, it's, I, it's, it's the animation.Greg Thompson:Oh, is it really? Yeah. Okay. Things are tough. Okay. I didn't realize that.Michael Jamin:How did you, now you didn't start you, what was your career for the, for people who are listening, what was your career before you got into writing? I'll start from theGreg Thompson:Beginning. Um,Michael Jamin:Year was 1948.Greg Thompson:. I was, I was 12. The, uh, that wasThe, I I would just say in brief that like, I always loved television growing up. I loved movies and television. Uh, and I, I became a writing major in college, uh, creative writing major, which wasn't, wasn't a good idea. Uh, but at all that time, it never occurred to me that there were people that wrote television . I never looked at the credits. And so it never occurred to me that there would be a career doing screenwriting. Um, and so after I got outta college, I went into, I moved to New York and I got into, uh, book publishing and was a, worked in marketing for a few different publishers. Uh, book and magazine publishing. And that was go, that was my career. That was what I was doing. I was gonna be kind of a business person. And, you know, in, I wore a suit, uh, took the subway.Um, and then I went to business school to get an MBA thinking, well, that's the next step of my, my, uh, tremendous business career. And that brought me out to LA afterwards to work at the LA Times. Um, and, uh, uh, Aaron Abrams. So you bet you, before my friend, uh, had split up with his wife, he'd moved out to LA to be a screenwriter, and then his marriage had blown up. Um, so he had an empty bedroom. And I moved in with him to begin my job at the LA Times. And Aaron was trying to be a screenwriter. And so for the,Michael Jamin:From college,Greg Thompson:Uh, yeah, we kind of, we did an equivalent of the, uh, we, we did a little, uh, summer school publishing bootcamp kind of thing. Um, interesting. One summer after college, like a six week program, a little like the, the sitcom writing workshop in a way, but for people interested in publishing. Um, and so just like a summer school thing. So I met him doing that. We, we hit it off. We had, you know, kind of this instant, instant rapport. Um, and, uh, I thought he was hilarious and everything. And so I wasn't surprised when he eventually decided that he was gonna try to be a screenwriter. So then I move into the, I move into his, uh, terrible, messy apartment. Um, and, and I see like he is got a bunch of scripts. I'd never seen a script before. Uh, you know, it's kind of, it was pre-internet.You couldn't like, download scripts. It's like, oh, wow, this is weird. So that led me to reading scripts, talking to Aaron about what he was doing. Uh, you know, he very generously would ask me to read things he was working on and ask if I had any ideas or thoughts. Uh, and, and then, and then, and then Aaron suggested we were, we were having some conversation about the, uh, actually the NFL player's strike, uh, of the eighties. And he said, I always thought that would be an interesting movie. Um, so, uh, then he said, do you wanna try to write a movie about that with me? So together, we basically hammered out this, um, comedy that did not become the, was it a Keanu Reeves movie, but was The Replacements. Ours was called Substitute Heroes. And it was much like The Replacements. And, and that was the first thing we wrote together. And that ended up, um, we ended up selling that for a guild minimum to some place.Michael Jamin:Hey, it's Michael Jamin. If you like my videos and you want me to email them to you for free, join my watch list. Every Friday I send out my top three videos. These are for writers, actors, creative types. You can unsubscribe whenever you want. I'm not gonna spam you, and it's absolutely free. Just go to michael jamin.com/watchlist.Greg Thompson:The substitution Heroes, where did you sell it? Football comedy. Yeah.Michael Jamin:AndGreg Thompson:Where did you want? And it ended up selling to like, uh, some producers for Guild minimum, um, low budget minimum, which was I think like $26,000 or something like that. Or maybe, maybe more. Uh, but that was, I, you know, obviously that would be thrilling even now to sell a movie for, you know, a little bit of money. So it was very thrilling to, to me and, um, and Aaron. And so, and then at the same time, like I'm working my LA Times job, and I wasn't enjoying that a ton. You know, I was in like this, I don't know, weird little group called Market Planning. And we'd do these like analyses of like Orange County advertising market and stuff that no one would ever look at. Um, and, uh, and the LA Times was a place, I always remember this. They would do casual Friday, one day a month.So you had to, you had to remember what Friday remember? Casual. Casual. That was before we were casual all the time. Yeah. Right. So you had to remember what Friday of the month was, casual Friday. So you could not wear your suit. Um, and then for our, uh, Christmas party, we had a, like an annual Christmas party. You'd have to come in an hour early that morning. And the, the Christmas party would be like, between the hours of 7:00 AM and 8:00 AM , or 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM I, I forget when work started , at least in my department, that's,Michael Jamin:You have to get up to your party. Some party.Greg Thompson:It wasn't . Yeah, no, it wasn't, it wasn't festiveMichael Jamin:.Greg Thompson:So it was that there was that kind of, it was that kind of play. So meanwhile, you know, then I'm like, you know, thinking, oh, well this, this screenwriting thing's working out great. I'll do that instead. Um, you know, and I think, you know, like, you know, we are getting a lot of meetings and I think, you know, in Hollywood, like a meeting sounds exciting. Yeah. It'll almost inevitably lead to nothing. But still for a moment you feel like, you know, you're driving on a lot, you have a pass, they're waiting for you, you sit down, someone brings you out water, you feel important. And, and it's, the people you're meeting with are almost always just filling their schedule to feel important. Yes. So you go in there and together, all of you feel important, and then you leave. ItMichael Jamin:Sounds like you're, you've listened to my podcast. Cause I've said these words many times.Greg Thompson:OhMichael Jamin:Yes, go important, but go on. Right. Then go. What happened?Greg Thompson:Uh, so then, um, I, I remember Aaron was like, he had this, um, he played like beach volleyball, uh, in this like league or something like that, even though he was terrible. ButMichael Jamin:I don't, I don't believe that part of his story,Greg Thompson:But, well, I'll say he was on a beach volleyball team. Whether you could describe it as playing, I don't know. But I think he was trying to beat girls. And so, but he, but there were a couple like TV writers in his, in the beach volleyball group, and he said, these guys are all doing great. They all have like, big houses. Uh, they're so successful. We should like, let's forget movies. Let's try to write television. So we started working on, uh, some spec scripts, as you know, I'm sure you've probably talked about that at different times. And, uh, you know, we wrote an Ellen, you know, and a spec is your sample to get hired onto a show. We wrote an Ellen that I thought was great, uh, that I still remember what it was about. It was about Ellen dates her assertiveness instructor and then can't break up with him because she's not assertive enough. Which,Michael Jamin:Funny.Greg Thompson:Well, well, for one thing, I, I don't know if there is such a thing as an assertive assertiveness instructor , I think it felt, it felt right to us in 1994 or so. Um, but, you know, but we thought, okay, we've nailed it. We've written one spec, now we're gonna, now our career will begin in television. And everybody hated it. And I mean, you've probably experienced this, or people experienced people who've felt this way. They fall in love with their spec. They think their spec is great. It's really the, the first spec they've written. And they become very, very attached to it. Not attached to every part of it. Every, every element. They're not receptive to notes. And I, I think I was certainly that way about this, this one, but the, uh, the feedback was so uniformly negative. It was like, okay, well let's , I think we have to write another one. So we wrote a Larry Sanders uhhuh, uh, a Larry Sanders spec, which went much better. It was just a much better show for us. It was more in our sensibility. It was. So, uh, that's the one that, uh, we ended up using to get into the, uh, Warner Brothers sitcom writing workshop.Michael Jamin:Yeah. And that, the rest, now Aaron, Aaron Abras was this, you know, we were both friends. One of the sweetest guys you ever met. And then he tragically died halfway through your career. And then I remember, I mean, it was just awful, but I remember either calling you or writing to you, and I was like, listen, cuz you had to reinvent your career at that point. You were, you had a writing partner that you relied on and you bounced things off. And then you had to become a solo writer. And I remember reaching out to you saying, listen, if, like, if you wanna, if you might need to write new samples, if you want help breaking a story or anything, like just call me receiver. Well, happy. But, but you never did. What wasGreg Thompson:That like? I re I re I I, I, I do remember that, and I still grateful for that. Uh, but you and Stever both reached out and were were terrific during that time. Um, it was, it was fortunate for me that I was on Bob's burgers. We had done, Aaron and I had done a season on Bob's, so, uh, it hadn't even aired yet. Um, but it was, I'm trying to think when it got it. Season two order, I guess it didn't get that until it had aired for a few, a few weeks. Um, once Bob's began airing and the show got picked up for another season, which was a little nip and tuck, cuz the ratings were a little, um, or touch and go rather, uh, uh, the Lauren and Jim offered me, you know, the opportunity to come back as a solo writer. Uh, so I, I did not have to produce those other specs. I did have to write a pilot that Aaron and I had been contracted to write. So I had to, I did have to finish the pilot. We'd outlined it, but we hadn't written it yet. And, um, I had to, I had to write it. But when you, that was, so that was the first thing I wrote.Michael Jamin:And was it like, even now, do you hear his voice? Like, do you think, what would Aaron do here? Or, or are you like, you know, now this is, are you, you know, areGreg Thompson:You Yeah, no, I I I, I still totally do. Uh, I mean, he was, he's such a funny guy and, you know, it was, you know, he used to say like, you know, the, unfortunately the funny person of the writing team died. So the, the, the guy who's like, does little, I don't even know what my specialty was, kind of doing things Aaron did, but a little less well founded. Uh, and, um, but yeah, no, I'll, I'll sometimes if I'm, if I'm writing and if a, a joke will occur to me, and I'll think that is an Aaron kind of joke, right. You know, that that's, that's his sensibility. So as much as I can cha uh, channel, uh, Aaron's voice, I, I I try to, um, he was, you know, just a unique voice.Michael Jamin:I imagine it would be honestly be a little paralyzing that first, at least the first couple of scripts you're like, I'm, I'm, I'm flying solo here.Greg Thompson:Yeah. Uh, and I, you know, I don't know how it is with you and Seaver, I think, you know, you, you do work separately at times. I know. Um, but, uh, every, everything Aaron and I had written, we'd written together in the same room. You know, we might go off and work on a scene by ourselves for a while and then share it, but mostly it was like kind of taking turns at a keyboard while the other guy was there in the room. Yeah. Uh, looking, you know, looking over the shoulder. So it was, uh, it was, you know, a pretty, um, uh, uh, close writing situation. So yeah, I just, um, I, I, I would do a couple tricks of, I would, I remember the, when I was writing the pilot, uh, it was like, okay, I'm gonna write the scenes that I think are easier to write first.Mm-hmm. . And so I wrote scenes out of order just to make progress. Right. Uh, and so then when you make a little progress, you begin to feel better, you begin to feel more confident. Um, right. And, and I also, and I still do this, I'll, I'll write a scene maybe with some, some of the dialogue at all caps, which is my way of saying this is not the dialogue. This is an approximation of what has to be said here in this moment. Uh, just to get through it, just to get through it so I don't get stuck. Um, yeah. Uh, because yeah, I mean, Erin and I would, we'd, we would try to do as little rewriting as possible, just maybe outta laziness. So we would kind of get a lot of consensus on everything before we wrote, uh, or as, you know, as we worked our way down the page. But as a, as a solo writer, I just couldn't do that. It was like, Nope, I'm, I'm gonna have to do more revisions, I'll have to do more passes. Um mm-hmm. . So that's what, that's what I started doing.Michael Jamin:And now does it just feel comfortable on your own or, you know, I, it's interesting,Greg Thompson:You know, I know it, it, it does and it doesn't, it always feels a little in like, you know, right now I'm, you know, trying to come up with story ideas to write one and looking at the calendar and looking at how much time I have, and I think, oh God, am I gonna have enough time to break it? And, uh, you know, holidays are coming up that's gonna cut into time. Uh, so I, I always have a little bit of panic, and I think I'm known for this on the show of being fairly neurotic about scripts, worried I won't put it together. Uh, cuz you know, there's so many, so many, Michael, you know, there's so many jokes in the script, it's like several hundred by the time you're done. And it's like, oh, how will I think of all those jokes?Michael Jamin:It's that, that's the part that's intimidating to me. It's the getting the story out. Well,Greg Thompson:Yeah, no, I mean, the story, you know, obviously the most important part. Um, but, you know, every element is hard. And so it's whatMichael Jamin:Now how mu like how is it run, how is it differently working on Bob's workers than it was either at Glen Martin or Kim King of the Hill for you? You know, the process.Greg Thompson:Uh, I'd say Bob's Berger's, it's much more, uh, you kind of become your own little executive producer of your episode all the way through production, you know, and basically, most of the times you will be coming up with the idea of your episode. You will be pitching it, you will be running the room, uh mm-hmm. as you, you know, put, uh, break the story. Uh, you know, then you're updating, you know, Lauren, the, and Laura, the showrunners. But you're, it's, it's kind of on you. It's, it's not, it's not like, and there will be people breaking stories simultaneously, which I guess was what we had at King of the Hill too. Yeah. Uh, a a few small rooms, um, but it isn't like probably most of television today still where it's everybody around a table, the whole staff breaking one story at a time. Right. With, you know, walking through the beats on a, on a board, kind of assembling it all, everybody, the staff, everybody together. It's, it's more individual. Uh, you, you, we kind of have more rope to, you know, make magic or get in trouble.Michael Jamin:And now you're doing, you're consulting, which is so interesting, just a couple days a week. Um, yeah. What, how's that for you working out? Everyone talks about what?Greg Thompson:It's,Michael Jamin:It'sGreg Thompson:Perfect. It's simultaneous with, it's simultaneous with C so it's, it's, it's hard to separate the two in a way. So it's, so far it's been people are beginning to come back to the office, but for the last two and a half years, it's been all Zoom.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Uh,Greg Thompson:And uh, I would say like, if I didn't have to like write scripts occasionally, it would be fent it would be so easy. I mean, not easy, but, but it's always like, you know, if you could sit back and give people pitches on their episode all day, and it's like, well, here's my idea. If it works, terrific. If it doesn't work, well , you know, it's not my problem. It it is. ButMichael Jamin:Do you think you'll stay there for, for a, for a while longer? What do you, what are your plans? Do you have any?Greg Thompson:I I, I, you know, I've just kind of taken it year by year. Uh, the, um, we'll see, um, I don't know. It's, it's still been a fun thing and, and most of the staff is the same staff as when we first grouped up 12 years ago.Michael Jamin:No one's, no one's leaving back, back when we started, um, uh, you know, we, you could jump shows, you might work on a show for a couple years, then jumped to another show. But now with the market, you'd be crazy to leave any show if you're on a show, you stay there and you hang on for dear life.Greg Thompson:I think so. I think so. I think that's been true of Bob's and, you know, uh, Wendy and Lizzie Molino, two of to have really, you know, very funny writers on, on Bob's. They did, they left only because they developed their own show, uh, the Great North. So, but despite that, they still have a hand in Bob's and write an episode a year. So nobody really wants to let go of Bob's.Michael Jamin:Yeah. And then, uh, yeah. Do you, are you developing at all? Have you tried to develop in recent years or,Greg Thompson:You know, I, past the first year, no, I haven't, I haven't tried to develop, and that's, you know, I have to say that's a little bit of laziness on my part. Like, you know, why do I wanna develop myself out of a job, this great job on Bob's? Uh, yeah. And, and also it was like, you know, we, Aaron and I, Aaron and I think did like eight or nine pilots, only one produced, but it was always really hard and, uh, a distressing experience. You'd, you'd, you know, we'd go in full of, full of ambition and hopes and dreams of how this next pilot was gonna be great. And then, and then you'd get so ground down by the process, we'd be miserable and hate, and hate our pilot by the end of it. Michael Jamin:People don't under no understanding, uh, of how the industry actually works. That's what I'm trying to educate them. But like we say the same things, like if we didn't have, if we were on full time staff, we, we wouldn't have to develop, we wouldn't run out to develop. It's only because staffs, the orders are so much shorter that you kind of have to, if you wanna make a living, you gotta sell what you gotta,Greg Thompson:Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, tell provision's changed, changed it that way. So so, you know, I'm a little embarrassed. I haven't, you know, tried to develop in the last decade, but I don't know, I'm just,Michael Jamin:So what, what advice do you have? Do you, I mean, are you bringing on any young writers or what advice do you have when you see a young writer join the show?Greg Thompson:Uh, well, boy, I don't know. I guess it would be the advice. Uh, I'd give any young writer, you know, just try to, try to pay attention to the voices of the show. Know the show, watch, watch every episode. You know, when we were hired on King of the Hill, I, I'd watched King of the Hill, but I hadn't seen everything. But, you know, I methodically started plowing through hundreds of episodes at that point. I think maybe 200 episodes had happened by the time we, we joined it. So, and that's just kind of an education and you internalize the voices of the characters and, and it, it helps you, it helps you know what to pitch. So, you know, we'll, we'll have, obviously, like a new writer will often like, pitch an episode idea that we've kind of already done. And, you know, it's hard to catch up with everything, but you have to try.Michael Jamin:Right.Greg Thompson:And just, I guess trust that you're, trust that you're there for a reason and that your ideas are good and, you know, do your best.Michael Jamin:Right. Right. But it's a pretty supportive environment there, it sounds like.Greg Thompson:Oh, it's great. Yeah. No, it's, it's really a nice group of people. Um, you know, you've been on many staffs and I was on many staffs, and I think my experience was almost always good. Uh, I hope yours was too. But you know, the, I think we probably all have both had the experience of being in a room where you're sitting in the same, you're around a table, same table every day. You're not only that, but you're seated in the same seat every day. Mm-hmm. , uh, same person to the left, same person to the right. And, and sometimes there will be people who will make a point of only laughing at, uh, somebody's, somebody several people's pitches, but never several other people's pitches.Interesting. Trying to, right. Yeah. I mean, uh, and, uh, it, it is a little bit of a, and this is, you know, it was rare to have this experience, but, you know, maybe did once or twice, um, pe writers are trying to get their jokes in. Uh, they would rather have their joke in than a funnier joke from somebody else. So there is that, there is that bit of competition. And I'm not saying I would have the funnier joke that no one would want in or anything like that, but, uh, uh, it's, it's this natural, um, selfishness, self-preservation, I guess. Yeah. Of like, right. I must, I must have a certain number of jokes in the, in the episode, or I'm not, I'm not earning my, my morsel of meat Yeah. Today. Yeah. So, um, so there, you know, there is a competitiveness. And I think, I think some shows, I think very could be bad miserable places. Um, Bob's was a fantastic place. Everybody was great. Right. Everybody was supportive. Uh, everybody was funny. Uh, everybody is funny. So many great writers. So it's been a, a fantastic situation.Michael Jamin:And how, and you say you were, you're involved heavily in the production. So you'll watch the animatics, you'll give notes on the air, or do you watch all the automatics or just the ones you, you produce?Greg Thompson:Uh, we watch all thematics and colors. Uh, but the animat, you know, for your own episode, you, you will be, you know, more involved in notes and revisionismMichael Jamin:Just forGreg Thompson:People. And the,Michael Jamin:The a animat are the rough, uh, before like crude sketches of the, uh, cartoon, the animation. And then you give notes on that. And then, then it's more like for blocking, which before the character should do and what kind of shot you have. And then later they color it in and, you know, that's, then you, you give notes on that as well. But you, are you also at the record? Are you, um, recording the actors?Greg Thompson:Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, we've done that a few different ways. In the beginning of the show, it was the, uh, Bob's was unique in this, in that they, you'd have multiple actors in, you know, on, on Mike, uh, at the same time. And it would be a simultaneous recording, so you'd have overlap mm-hmm. , uh, and improv. And that was kind of a hallmark of Bob's. And then in, uh, as c happened, we had to kind of break that apart and actors were recording in their homes, and so we were getting them one at a time. Right. Um, and so now it's, it's kind of a little combination of,Michael Jamin:But are you direct in a way, the actress yourselves or someone else? One of the store runners directingGreg Thompson:Lauren, Lauren was the director for like the first 10 years mm-hmm. every episode. And then during Covid we began to direct our own episodes. Right. Uh, but now we're actually in the process of having one writer direct all the episodes, uh, uh, with the, uh, a writer producer will direct all of them. And just so there's kind of a, a unified voice coming from the directing booth. Right. Um, and then Theri, the writer is also there to give notes and suggestions.Michael Jamin:Roll their eyes. You're doing it wrong.Greg Thompson:Yeah. I'd say, no, that's not, that's not, it's goes. So, yeah. And uh, I'd say Lauren is kind of constantly tinkering with the process, trying to improve it, even after like 12 years you think it would, things would be, okay, this is how we do it, this is how we'll always do it. But no, it's still being, aspects of production are being reinvented and tinkered with all the time.Michael Jamin:It's a great show. Cause it has such a sweetness to it, such an earnestness to, uh, who knew, who knew it was gonna be sort of giant.Greg Thompson:It does. It does. Uh, and I know early on, like, um, you know, Aaron and I would pitch, uh, coming from a, well, I guess working on every other show, we pitched a lot of, like, stories that involved conflict between the family, you know, uh, that was a little maybe sharper than Lauren wanted to do. Yeah. He didn't want, you know, his thing is he doesn't ever want the characters being mean to each other. Right. Anything perceived as mean. And so, like, you know, like, oh, if you're watching most sitcoms, it's like, oh, I don't know, everybody's, everybody does this all the time. You know what, so, but he wanted something sweetie.Michael Jamin:Yeah. And it's a good instinct. When we, we, when we worked for, uh, Chris Lloyd who, you know, he ran Frazier for many years, and then later we worked for Man Practice. He used to say the same things. He, he would say Velvet Gloves. So when the characters slapped each other, they had to be wearing velvet gloves. So you never wanna hit too hard. Everyone saw too hard, you know, I was like, oh, that's, that's smart. I'll start using that wordGreg Thompson:. I won't do it, but I'll use the word. Yeah. Um, yeah. And, and, and certainly like, you know, one thing with the internet, now, you can see what everybody thinks of every episode and on Reddit. And do you guysMichael Jamin:Do that?Greg Thompson:Uh, Twitter? Do you go? Yeah. Yeah. DoesMichael Jamin:That change the way you write future episodes?Greg Thompson:I think a little, um, like we did an episode once where the family was on a game show, which is kind of an unusual episode for us. It was pretty early. And they end up kind of getting cheated out of their prize at the end of the game show. It's kind of a, they're kind of ripped off. Mm-hmm. and the ending, we thought, no, it's a great ending. It's, you know, it's, it's perfect. It's funny, it's, uh, it's television viewers hated the bels that that had happened to the Belchers that they'd been, it, it felt like an unsatisfying ending to many, many, many viewers. And they would keep bringing it up. In fact, they still bring it up, uh, online as, as a, an episode ending. They don't like, uh, and you know, I think maybe because it was an unearned, they hadn't really done anything wrong and they ended up being, you know, kind of robbed. So I think we, we avoid, we try to avoid lessons where they, or episodes where they just have complete egg on their face by the end. Right. There has to be some kind of little, little victory or something learned, something positive that comes outMichael Jamin:It. Yeah. That's interesting. It's interesting you take that few, cuz I never sire kind of does. I, I'm really kind, I stay away from, I don't want to hear about the reviews. I don't want to hear about what the viewers think, just wanna, you know, do my thing and cross my fingers. But it's, you know, different.Greg Thompson:I mean, that's probably healthier. But if it's an episode that I wrote that's airing, um, I just devour Twitter.Michael Jamin:Do you really?Greg Thompson:Trying to, trying to, uh, oh, yeah. No, I, I I definitely try to cherry pick , you know, any positive comments.Michael Jamin:We went on, geez, this is about a year ago, Sierra and I went on, I don't know when we went on YouTube to like, see what people were saying about Glen Martin. We hadn't watched the show in years. And, and then there's some guy from his basement, some young guy talking about the show and he nailed it. He, he was as if he was in the writer's room. Like he understood the show better, better than we did. And it was just hilarious to hear him take it apart. I was like, man, this guy,Greg Thompson:I think, did you send that around? Did you send that around to the writers? I kind of remember reading something that I thought, yeah, this guy's, this guy's good, thisMichael Jamin:Guy's, he was like a spy me. So much Funny .Greg Thompson:Yeah. Yeah.Michael Jamin:Wow.Greg Thompson:That, oh, it was a funny, it was a funny show. Does that air, I mean, does that, how does that, as a quick aside, is Glen Martin accessible on anyMichael Jamin:Platform? I think, yeah, I think it's on YouTube where you can watch it all for free. So we don't get any, I mean, we have some points and we don't get any of it. I don't think you make money by showing,Greg Thompson:But it'sMichael Jamin:For free.Greg Thompson:Did some, I mean, did some kid upload it or is it, is it like they're all this, whoever owns it, put it, putMichael Jamin:It on Michael Eisner there as a whole, like maybe we get enough used, like he can even sell it again somewhere. I'm like, you know, yeah. Sell it somewhere. Let's, let's bring it back. But I don't think we've pushed band to bring it back. I can't, we reboot Glen Martin. I don't think there's anything there. Oh, that's funny.Greg Thompson:Oh. Oh,Michael Jamin:Well,Greg Thompson:Uh,Michael Jamin:Greg, is there any place, is there anything you wanna plug? Do you wanna talk about your next season? Should people follow you anywhere? Is there anything you wanna get off your chest before eight?Greg Thompson:Oh, well, God, I'm not really on Twitter. No. I mean, I can't, it's, I'm unfollowable on social media cuz um, I don't know. Just, uh, I guess keep watching. Uh, uh, I kind of forget where we are production-wise. I never know what episodes about to air. Yeah. Cause as you know, the, the production schedule in in animation is very long. It's almost don'tMichael Jamin:Without nine months with you guys in almost a year.Greg Thompson:Well, it can be, you know, if, especially if you know, the order changes. Right. And, andMichael Jamin:How manyGreg Thompson:Episodes do you get, you know, after production. But it's a longMichael Jamin:Time. What, what is your order this year? Like 22?Greg Thompson:Uh, I think it's 22. I think it's, yeah, Bob's is one of the last, you know, shows that still gets a 22 order. Uh, and it does less so now, but it did, you know, repeat a lot too. So there was residuals involved. Um, so, but fortunateMichael Jamin:It worked out.Greg Thompson:Um,Michael Jamin:,Greg Thompson:No. Let's see what I, I, I, uh, I would merely plug, uh, your,Michael Jamin:My Plus this in my Pod . All right. Everyone that well,Greg Thompson:Are you still doing the videos as uh, what? Oh, I was just asking if you're doing the video, the video, uh, podcast things as well. Yeah.Michael Jamin:These will air, yeah, they air they'll be on YouTube as well, and we run clips across media. Okay. People can, you know, they can get it everywhere. They can. Yeah. Continue following.Greg Thompson:Okay. It'sMichael Jamin:All part of that. Yeah. It's all, but that's, yeah. I, I, I, this has been fascinating hearing your story as far as I'm concerned, but ,Greg Thompson:But Greg,Michael Jamin:Thank you forGreg Thompson:I, I, uh, well, thank you. I hopeMichael Jamin:You're a good dude.Greg Thompson:Uh, thank, thank you for having me, Michael. I, you know, I'm a, I'm a huge fan of yours, uh, and, uh, yeah, honored.Michael Jamin:Oh God, this is my honor. But alright, everybody, thank you so much to great comic comedian, writer Greg Thompson. And, uh, yeah. So what, let me tell you what else is going on over here. So keep, if you guys wanna sign up for my watch list, that's my free newsletter where I send out daily tips for screenwriters and creative types at Michael jam.com/watchlist and keep following us here. And, uh, yeah, we have different content on YouTube. Our YouTubes at Michael Jam, writer and, uh, Instagram. Keep follow My Instagram, the TikTok Act. Michael Jam writer. 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How to sell your company is one thing, but there are a lot of better podcasts for those details, and while we do go into some of the technical details for basic sales in this episode, we dive way deep into a bigger question that rarely gets asked, is WHO are you WITHOUT the company? And what will you do AFTER the sale? With your money, your time, purpose, relationships, etc.   In this podcast, Ryan and Kota cover some strategies to use when you're wanting to sell your business, lessons learned from the exiting process, and even bigger lessons from what came after.   Most people think when they “sell a company”, it unlocks the NEXT LEVEL and solves all their problems! (Expensive cars, mansions, private jets, models, laying on exotic beaches with umbrella drinks!) This isn't always the case, and is in fact, RARELY the case.   The fact is high level achievers love to achieve. They fall in love with the GAME, and you don't win anything by sitting on the sidelines with a margarita. It might be nice for a reset (which is useful and NECESSARY), but most true players never unplug forever, they just reset and get back in the game.   But before you get to that stage, you first have to build a successful business that investors are going to want to buy. Not every business is sellable! We discuss the differences, and how to structure the company so it will be more attractive to a buyer.   Ryan and Kota also discuss: - What to do after you sell the company that you worked so hard to build. - How selling your company to the wrong buyer can really HURT! Diligence checks go both ways, make sure you know who you're selling to, and what their plans are for your company.. - Understand the process of selling your company (legal documents, payouts, and more!) it doesn't have to be complicated, and at the small scale is probably much easier than you think.

Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson audiobook. "Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest" is a narration of his life story by Abel, a Venezuelan, to a comrade. Once a wealthy young man, he meddled in politics to the extent of provoking a revolution... which failed. Escaping into the tropical forests of Guyana Abel takes up gold hunting, then journal-writing, and fails at both. Now with no aim for his life, he drifts until he takes up residence with a remote Indian tribe. Soon he learns of a wood the Indians avoid, as it is inhabited by a dangerous Daughter of the Didi, who, they say, slew one of them with magic. The fellow was in fact hit with a poisoned dart by accident, but his dying belief that she had caught the dart and hurled it at him survived him. Intrigued, Abel visits the wood repeatedly, and eventually encounters Rima. She indeed is something magical. She seems to have a pact with nature: animals don't molest her, she speaks in a melodious birdsong (as well as Spanish), and she even makes her garments of spider silk. When Abel is bitten by a venomous snake that acts protective of her, she and her "grandfather" Nuflo nurse Abel back to health. Both Abel and Rima are wonderments to each other, someone unlike any other person they have ever encountered. They fall in love, a love that is stymied by Rima's inability to understand the feelings Abel creates in her. On a long trek to discover Rima's origins, they find that her unique people no longer exist, but they finally confront the magnetism that is drawing them together. Finally they find joy, and make plans... until Rima is murdered by the Indians. And then it is time for vengeance! 

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In India, 1942, Aisha takes refuge in a village, where Hasan, an Indian independence activist, offers her food and shelter. They fall in love and have a child, Sana. Five years later, Najma finds Aisha and orders her to retrieve the bangle. Aisha leaves it with Sana and attempts to flee to the new nation of Pakistan with her family, but Najma finds and stabs her. Hasan and Sana are separated in the chaos. Kamala is able to interact with Aisha, who asks her to guide Sana before dying. Conjuring a projection of stars to lead Sana to her father, Kamala realizes she was destined to reunite them. Returning to the present, she finds that Najma's strike had opened the Veil of Noor, but it vaporizes anyone who interacts with it. Najma transfers her power to Kamran before sacrificing herself to close the Veil. Sana and Muneeba find Kamala and the latter accepts her daughter's powers. Meanwhile, Kamran seeks refuge with Bruno. After being attacked by a DODC drone, Kamran destroys it, but the ensuing explosion obliterates the store below them. Email us: hosts@whatsourverdict.com Follow us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsourverdict Twitter: @whatsourverdict Instagram: @whatsourverdict YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UC-K_E-ofs3b85BnoU4R6liA (https://youtube.com/channel/UC-K_E-ofs3b85BnoU4R6liA) Visit us: www.whatsourverdict.com

This week we recap episode 5 or Ms. Marvel title "Time and Again". Summary: In India, 1942, Aisha takes refuge in a village, where Hasan, an Indian independence activist, offers her food and shelter. They fall in love and have a child, Sana. Five years later, Najma finds Aisha and orders her to retrieve the bangle. Aisha leaves it with Sana and attempts to flee to the new nation of Pakistan with her family, but Najma finds and stabs her. Hasan and Sana are separated in the chaos. Kamala is able to interact with Aisha, who asks her to guide Sana before dying. Conjuring a projection of stars to lead Sana to her father, Kamala realizes she was destined to reunite them. Returning to the present, she finds that Najma's strike had opened the Veil of Noor, but it vaporizes anyone who interacts with it. Najma transfers her power to Kamran before sacrificing herself to close the Veil. Sana and Muneeba find Kamala and the latter accepts her daughter's powers. Meanwhile, Kamran seeks refuge with Bruno. After being attacked by a DODC drone, Kamran destroys it, but the ensuing explosion obliterates the store below them. Visit us online: https://thereadercopypodcast.libsyn.com/ (Check out The Reader Copy Podcast website) Our iTunes page: https://goo.gl/MikhDd (Listen to more episodes) Even More Stuff: https://goo.gl/4iDTXn (Check out our Instagram) https://goo.gl/cVFw7r (Follow us on Twitter) https://goo.gl/RsnXc1 (Like us on Facebook) Show music provided by http://www.morgandavidking.com/ (MDK - Hyper Beam)

In 1942 India, Aisha flees from assailants and takes refuge in a village. Hasan, an Indian independence activist, offers her food and shelter. They fall in love and have a child, Sana. Five years later, Najma tracks Aisha and orders her to retrieve the bangle. Aisha leaves the bangle with Sana and attempts to flee to the new nation of Pakistan with her family, but Najma tracks her down and stabs her. Hasan and Sana are separated in the chaos. Kamala finds herself able to interact with Aisha, who asks her to guide Sana. Conjuring a projection of stars that leads Sana to her father, Kamala realizes that it was she who had mysteriously reunited Sana and Hasan in the past. Returning to the present, she finds that Najma's strike had opened the Veil of Noor, but it vapourises anyone who interacts with it. Najma sacrifices herself to shut the Veil, transferring power to Kamran before dying. Sana and Muneeba track down Kamala and the latter accepts her daughter's powers. Meanwhile, a DODC drone attacks Kamran, who has moved in with Bruno, and Kamran unleashes a blast of power from his hands onto the drone, inadvertantly causing it to destroy the shop below them.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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'The pastoral loves of Daphnis and Chloe'by LongusUsage Public Domain Mark 1.0#Creative #Commons #License#publicdomainTopics #librivox, #audiobooks, #romance, #Greek, #AncientLibriVox recording of The pastoral loves of Daphnis and Chloe by Longus. (Translated by #GeorgeMoore.)Read in English by #Anamika; #Rapunzelina; #BonitaDominguez#Daphnis and #Chloe is an #Ancient #Greek #prose #work, probably written during the second century EC, by #Longus. It tells the #story of two #young #people, Daphnis and Chloe, both #abandoned at birth along with some #identifying tokens. A #goatherd named #Lamon raises the boy #Daphnis as his son, and a shepherd called #Dryas finds #Chloe, and also decides to raise her. They both grow up as neighbors herding the flocks in the island of #Lesbos. They #fall in #love with each other, but have to go through many #adventures and #hardships, including #abduction and #pirate attacks, until they find their happy ending. (Summary by #Leni)Search our data bass https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/tale-teller-kidstm-tale-teller-club-1Xgre0P-Ukh/ Have some fun with our new show Immersionwww.tale-teller.clubSearch our database herehttps://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/tale-teller-kidstm-tale-teller-club-1Xgre0P-Ukh/#searchGet immersed in words and video here www.tale-teller.club/immersion#story #freeaudio #freebooks #storytelling #taletellerclub #immersion #interactive #classicnovel #classics #history #historic #familyfriendly#costume #perioddrama #historicfiction #pasttimes #oldendays #traditional #historic #dramatic #filmic #goldenera #fashiondrama #costumedrama #history

Real Life Spiritual Life with Frank Farrante + Jill Trenholm   People admire us for our accomplishments. They fall in love with us because of our vulnerability - FF   Join me in this juicy chat with  Frank Ferente and his partner Jill Trenholm as we explore spirituality, conscious partnership and real life spirituality   How spiritual work has become subjective Irony of spiritual path Shifting out of negative self talk and into love Franks' journey from ego to service  in having a film made all about him. How an ordinary man can transform his life and discover meaning and fulfillment. How to drop confusion and overdoing it and live a simple spiritual life. How to live without expectations in partnership The power of connection    Join Awakened Life Tribe FaceBook Group Frank Farrate's website  Jill Trenholm's website My stepmother's story of incubators in Coney Island in the 40's 

James Lott Jr chats with the author of a page turner of a book,All Sorrows Can Be Borne, Loren Stephens! Inspired by true events, All Sorrows Can Be Borne is the story of Noriko Ito, a Japanese woman faced with unimaginable circumstances that force her to give up her son to save her husband. Set in Hiroshima, Osaka, and the badlands of eastern Montana and spanning the start of World War II to 1982, this breathtaking novel is told primarily in the voice of Noriko, a feisty aspiring actress who fails her audition to enter the Takarazuka Theater Academy. Instead, she takes the “part” of a waitress at a European-style tearoom in Osaka where she meets the mysterious and handsome manager, Ichiro Uchida. They fall in love over music and marry. Soon after Noriko becomes pregnant during their seaside honeymoon, Ichiro is diagnosed with tuberculosis destroying their dreams.Noriko gives birth to a healthy baby boy, but to give the child a better life, Ichiro convinces her to give the toddler to his older sister and her Japanese-American husband, who live in Montana. Noriko holds on to the belief that this inconceivable sacrifice will lead to her husband's recovery. What happens next is unexpected and shocking and will affect Noriko for the rest of her life.Eighteen years later, her son enlists in the U.S. Navy and is sent to Japan. Finally, he is set to meet his birth mother, but their reunion cracks open the pain and suffering Noriko has endured.With depth and tenderness, All Sorrows Can Be Borne is a harrowing and beautifully written novel that explores how families are shaped by political and economic circumstances, tremendous loss and ultimately forgiveness.

A beautiful young woman who rejects every guy she meets because they don't meet her insane standards for perfection meets a guy on a dating app who is smart, funny, and kind but heavier and balder than the old pics he posted. Confined to the digital realm by quarantine -- and eager to prove to her friends that she isn't shallow, she allows herself to get to know him in a way she never would have in the outside world. Of course the huge mansion he lives in doesn't hurt. They fall in love over Zoom, but when she discovers he's not the person she thought he was financially or professionally, she rejects him, resigned to go back to her lonely life, until a real world emergency turns her world upside down and changes her priorities forever. Now that you know what, 'Just Swipe', is all about, let's hear the story behind it from the film's director, Elizabeth Blake-Thomas. This exclusive interview is found in 'The Light Edition' of AwareNow Magazine: www.awarenowmagazine.com Featuring: Elizabeth Blake-Thomas Interviewed by: Allié McGuire Music by: Sol Rising Produced by: Awareness Ties

Do you fall in love with your own ideas? I see leaders make this mistake frequently. They fall in love with their own ideas.  In… Read More > The post 3 practical ways to improve your ideas and get buy-in first appeared on Ali Merchant.

Denver 1918: A young journalist meets a soldier waiting to go the war in Europe. They fall in love. Then she falls ill; Katherine Anne Porter's autobiographical story about the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918.. Reading worksheets based on extracts from Pale Horse, Pale Rider. With links to the original text:. English language level: Upper Intermediate/Advanced (B2 and above)

Denver 1918: A young journalist meets a soldier waiting to go the war in Europe. They fall in love. Then she falls ill; Katherine Anne Porter's autobiographical story about the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918.. Reading worksheets based on extracts from Pale Horse, Pale Rider. With links to the original text:. English language level: Upper Intermediate/Advanced (B2 and above)

A fortune telling goat crosses paths with a pig snouted queen of horrors. They fall in love, thusly producing the Cauldron Born!

15. Christmas Coupon Joe watches the garbage that is Christmas Coupon (2019). Ivan was a hockey player. Alison was I have on idea. I think a professional ice skater? They fall in love. It doesn't matter. This movie is one of the worst I've seen. Watch it if you want. Good luck. Joe forgot to do the Christmas movie tropes in this, the fifteenth episode of JOE WATCHES 60 CHRISTMAS MOVIES IN 60 DAYS! Ensure Joe's wellbeing by checking on him on Twitter @joemoc.

Sonya grew up in Brisbane. But at 26 she decides to move her life to London. Within days of arriving, she meets a beautiful woman at a bar in Soho. They click instantly. They fall in love, get married and build a life together in their adopted city. The only thing missing is… a baby. But after 5 years of trying, it doesn't happen for them and they decide to call it a day.    Not long after Tess and Sonya find themselves on holidays on the Greek island of Crete. And that's when their life changes forever. Because that's when they meet HER. She has black hair and her socks are white despite playing in the dust. Apparently she's been living in the ruins of an old palace by herself. They can't just leave her there… can they?

Sonya grew up in Brisbane. But at 26 she decides to move her life to London. Within days of arriving, she meets a beautiful woman at a bar in Soho. They click instantly. She's Dutch and her name is Tess. They fall in love, get married and build a life together in their adopted city. The only thing missing is… a baby. Not long after Tess and Sonya find themselves on holidays on the Greek island of Crete. And that's when their life changes forever. Because that's when they meet HER. She has black hair and her socks are white despite playing in the dust. Apparently she's been living in the ruins of an old palace by herself. They can't just leave her there… can they?

Ladies, check back for the next episode when we will answer these two questions: how well do you know your man? How well does he know you? How would you describe the man who means so much to you that most days you talk, text and plan things together during this pandemic? Is he still part of the work force or has he retired? The next 30 days is about today's men in their 30's, 40's, and 50's. Not much will be covered about men in their 60's and older because I lack experience with older men other than they like a woman who can cook. They fall in love easily, are generous with their time but not much else. When they introduce you to their grown children, you know they're serious and most likely in love with you. These men are a good catch if you fall in love with them which will take more time on your part. These men will be patient and hope it happens. It is selfish on your part to keep them waiting for and on you while you drain their bank accounts. This is no longer about love but greed. Many men have been taken to the cleaners by greedy women. If you are receiving financial help from a man in a long distance relationship and playing this game - shame on you. If you are in a pretend "marriage" for financial reasons with a man who is in love, double shame on you. How would he know you are dishonest and cheating on him - long distance? He wouldn't. Thank you for listening.

Highlights from the conversation:In the comic book world, there are thousands of characters but only a handful rise above. My theory is they've done a better job of telling their story. We can identify with them.Great characters have a strong story. Their strengths and their weaknesses are almost mirror opposites of each other.Perfect is boring. Perfect is inauthentic. Perfect is unrelatablePeople do not fall in love with corporations. They fall in love with personalityOur purpose in life is to find our true voice and be comfortable with thatWhen you have your story, you have to think about – I stand for these things and I stand against these things More about Chris DoChris Do is a loud introvert, an Emmy award-winning designer and director, CEO and founder of The Futur—an online education platform that teaches people how to make a living doing what they love.Mr. Do has given talks and conducted workshops on: Marketing, Sales, Negotiations, Pricing & Budgeting, Mindset, Content Marketing, Community Building, and Personal Branding.He has taught Sequential design for 15 years at the Art Center College of Design. Additionally, he has lectured all over the world including: Entrepreneurs' Organization, Adobe MAX, Digital Design Days, Awwwards, The Design Conference, Birmingham Design Festival, Creative South, AIGA national conference, Motion Conference, MIT, Bend Design Conference, VMA Design Conference, Graphika Manila, Create Philippines, Rise Up Summit, RGD Design Thinkers, Cal Arts, LA Art Institute, Otis College of Design, UCLA, MGLA, CSUN, Post Production World, Adobe Video World and SDU.Find Chris here: Website | LinkedIn | YouTube | Instagram Show NotesPeople:Jose CaballerCompanies and organisations:The FuturBlindMarvel ComicsDC ComicsMiscellaneous:Pocket Full of DoThe Futur Pro GroupBusiness Bootcamp How can you help?There are four ways you can help us out.Give us your thoughts. Rate the podcast and leave a comment.Share this as far and wide as you can - tell your friends, family and colleagues about us (caveat: if you own a family business, these may all be the same people)Tell us how we can create a better podcast - tell us what you liked, didn't like, or what you'd like to hear more (or less) ofTell us who you'd like to hear on the podcast. Suggest someone that you think we should interview. One More Question is a podcast by Nicework, a purpose-driven company helping people who want to make a dent in the world by building brands people give a shit about.One of the things we do best is ask our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 13 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators we encounter and share useful insights, inspiration, and facts that make us stop and take note as we go about our work.Hosted by our founder Ross Drakes.Subscribe iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google PodcastsMusic by: @dcuttermusic / http://www.davidcuttermusic.com

Welcome to episode 52! We took a look at an incredibly popular anime movie, "Your Name." In which two people regularly switch bodies. They fall in love in the process. And then it gets complicated. Check it out on Blu-Ray/DVD. "Dimension" and "Place on Fire" by Creo are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

How an old Irish warning about drinking too late made its way into a fun Irish song. Tartanic teaches you how bagpipe tunes are named. And if your actions are cruel and controlling, then you may not be the righteous person you think you are. That's the idea behind my next single. Welcome to Pub Songs & Stories. This is a Virtual Public House for musicians to share the stories and inspiration behind their music. I am Marc Gunn. Today's show is brought to you by my Gunn Runners on Patreon. You will get behind-the-scenes music and podcasts as a member. Subscribe to the podcast and download free music when you sign up at PubSong.com. #pubsongs #amazinggrace #tartanic WHO'S PLAYING IN THE PUB TODAY 0:30 - “Mairi's Wedding” from Scottish Songs of Drinking & Rebellion Learn more about the history of “Mairi's Wedding” on Wikipedia. 2:26 - WELCOME New Single: “Peggy Gordon”. You can hear more about that song on show #174 of Pub Songs Podcast. It was released on July 2, 2021 New Single: I have a new single coming out on Thurs, July 29. It's called “By Amazing Grace”. I'll tell you more about it in a bit. MG website updated as a blog… again. Name on My Soul now Flower of Scotland. 7:55 - TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS. Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. We're going to Scotland in 2022. Join the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ 8:41 - UPCOMING SHOWS JUL 15: Celtfather Live @ 8 PM ET. Get your tickets. JUL 16-18: JordanCon, Atlanta, GA JUL 30: Ironshield Brewing, Lawrenceville, GA @  7:00 – 10:00 PM. AUG 5: Coffee with The Celtfather on YouTube (Season 9 returns on Aug 5) @ 12:00 PM Eastern AUG 13: Tucker Brewing Company, Tucker, GA @ 6:30 - 9:30 PM. SEP 2-6: Dragon Con with Brobdingnagian Bards, Atlanta, GA SEP 16-19: Gen Con, Indianapolis, IN. You can find my complete calendar on my website. 9:51 - I'm very pleased to introduce you to Giacomo the Jester aka Carl Asch. Giocomo was performing once again at Sherwood Forest Faire this year. I featured him in 2017 on Celtfather Music & Travel. He was on episode #214. But I first found out about him in about 2000. He plays in a band called Empty Hats. They released a wonderful song on MP3.com called “The Hat Came Back”. It was such a fun song, when I got to the faire, I knew one person I HAD to have on this podcast. He told me how his band and this song came to be. 10:31 - STORY FROM GIACOMO THE JESTER 11:55 - “The Hat Came Back” by Empty Hats from Empty Hats 14:30 - STORY FROM MARC GUNN I have a new single that will be released on July 29. It's called “By Amazing Grace”. I wrote it for the In the ‘Verse podcast I did with Mikey Mason. You can listen to episode #13 here. The song is about toxic masculinity. Being masculine and strong are fine. But when masculinity is used as a weapon to belittle and control women or anyone, that's when it's a problem. Just like in the Firefly episode, “Heart of Gold,” where I got inspiration for this song. “By Amazing Grace” turns the tables. It's about a man who meets a woman. He woos her. They fall in love. Then his true colors are revealed. He's actually a monster bent on controlling people. When you meet people like that, there are two things you can do. You can allow them to control you or you stand up to them, fight back, teach them that there is a better place than toxic masculinity, one where people are equal. So she fights back with the reminder that real men are those who treasure and support the women they love. 18:22 - “By Amazing Grace” from Selcouth (featuring Andrew McKee of Brobdingnagian Bards and Jamie Haeuser) 22:29 - Adrian Walter is the drummer, dancer, and front man of the bagpipe band Tartanic. If you let him—he'll pick up guitars and penny whistles or a didgeridoo—but heavy medication has aided greatly to quell this urge. 24:48 - STORY FROM TARTANIC 29:22 - “BallZ/Ringworm” by Tartanic from Uncivilized 33:45 -- New Irish & Celtic Song Lyrics. I updated the lyrics for all of the songs I sing in this show. You will find lyrics and chords so you can play along with me. Just click the song title to find the lyrics or follow the link in the shownotes to find more Irish & Celtic song lyrics. 33:55 - “Big Strong Man” from St Patrick's Day 36:16 - SUPPORT WHAT YOU LOVE If you enjoy the music in this show, please show your support. You can learn more about my guests by following the link to them on the website. Sign up to our mailing lists. Buy music or merch. Follow us on streaming and tell a friend. Pub Songs & Stories is based on the value-for-value model. If you get pleasure from this show, you can buy my Virtual Public House CD or send me a few bucks to keep it going. Or best of all, Join the Gunn Runners Club on Patreon. Your support pays for the production and promotion of my music and this podcast. Follow the link in the shownotes. Special thanks to my newest patrons: Amelia P, Ron L, Rod N If you have questions or comments, email me or Chat in the Celtic Geeks group on Facebook. Post a review in Apple Podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe or post a review on Apple Podcasts. I'd love your feedback. 37:49 - “Wherever I May Roam” from Selcouth Pub Songs & Stories was produced by Marc Gunn. The show is edited by Mitchell Petersen with graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. You can subscribe in your favorite podcatcher or listen on my website where you can subscribe to my mailing list. I'll email you regular updates of new music and podcasts, special offers, and you'll get 21 songs for free. Welcome to the pub at www.pubsong.com!

Buyer fatigue: Why you should still own an Albuquerque home (Transcript Snippet): "Tego: What's what's going on with home buyers right now. Tracy: Sure. So buyers in general are getting fatigued, right? They're out looking at houses. They fall in love with the house. They can't sleep all night. They've got an offer in on it, but then there's 10 other offers in on it. And they get the call that they didn't get their offers selected. And so they go back out and look at houses again, fall in love with another house. They put another offer in there's a bunch of offers on it. They don't get the house, right? So this is happening. We had at our team meeting this week, you know, one client got their house under contract as a buyer that was their fifth offer that they had made right on the house on a house. And it was finally, they are, we're the ones selected, but we're seeing buyers say, I'm just going to wait it out. Tracy: I'm going to wait for the market to slow down. I'm gonna take a break and not, not look at houses and just give up. And we were like, don't have buyer fatigue. I know it's hard and it's frustrating, but we need to remember what about having a home and owning a home is important to go. We know there's lots of financial reasons why home ownership is important. Right? I get to go through the list. Yeah, not right now, but there we'll go through them, but let's talk about the other reasons, right? What are the other reasons besides the financial benefits of home ownership, right? You have pride in your community. When you own a home, you can make the house what you want. You can paint your bedroom purple. If you want. You can invest in, in an outdoor living area that you've always wanted or a big garden, and know it's yours. You can do all these things and have that pride of ownership. You can be making memories in that home. You know that, you know, your family's going to have memories there and you're not going to be having to find a different place to rent, whether it's an apartment or a house go through this list real quick. Oh, sure. I'm just going off my own Tego: You're just going to off the top of your head. But these are just, just some things to think about a reason for home ownership, I guess the best way to put it. And, and you know, when you think about, I know a lot of people out there understand this, this whole conversation around the big why, right. You know, the big, why is the thing that motivates us, right. Th the big, why is a thing that gets us up in the morning? And, you know, there's a book by a really great book by Simon Sinek talking about, you know, discovering your, I think it's called discovering your why. And it's the thing that motivates us, but we can bring it down to the whole idea of, Hey, there's a reason why you want to own a home. Right. It could be as basic as I need a roof over my head and I don't want to run out. Right. I don't Tracy: Want people banging on the other side of the wall when I'm trying to sleep or something. Tego: I don't want to pay, you know, the landlord's mortgage instead of my own mortgage. Right. Could, could be as simple as that. Obviously there's great reasons to be a renter too. And we're not saying there's anything wrong with it. We're just saying that, you know, there, there are some big advantages to own home ownership. So, you know, one of them, Tracy is just accomplishment that it, you know, it kind of shows it reflects your success, right?  https://welcomehomeabq.com Tracy & Tego Venturi Venturi Realty Group Keller Williams 1119 Alameda Blvd NW Albuquerque, NM 87114 (505) 448-8888 info@welcomehomeabq.com

How to overcome self-sabotage When you meet someone who has been consistent over many years with their fitness, you will find that they don't do anything crazy. No 1200 calorie diets. No fasting for 72 hours. No restricting carbs. No juice cleanses. The only people who do these things are people who are super impatient and looking for fast results. I am going to use drug addicts in recovery as an example: When first getting clean, many recovering addicts get their lives back very fast. They get their license back. They get their kids back. They fall in love and get married. They start working nonstop. They become outwardly successful before they are able to work on the issues that made them use drugs as a coping mechanism in the first place. These folks usually don't stay clean. The ones that do stay clean are the ones who take things slow. They work on the fundamental issues that created this reliance on drugs. They build a FOUNDATION. It's the same with fitness. If you are looking to stop self-sabotaging, you can't look at this like a temporary solution. This is a lifestyle, which may mean that you see results slower. You may need to workout 3 times a week instead of 6. You may need to eat a balanced diet with some treats that you enjoy instead of trying to eat salads for every meal. Make it sustainable, make it enjoyable, and you will find that you are able to maintain it for years and years. Get My Free Calorie Calculator ► https://bit.ly/3bhachS Apply For 1-1 Online Coaching ► https://bit.ly/2HNfCXj Email me ► Jeffreypachtman@gmail.com - Find me on... Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/jeffreypachtman/ Podcast ► https://anchor.fm/jeffrey-pachtman Tiktok ► https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffreypachtman?lang=en ---- There's a lot of misinformation in the fitness and nutrition industry, that's why I am here. I am here to take all of the guesswork out of weight loss, mindset, habits, and nutrition to make it super easy and simple for you to reach your goals. What's up guys? I'm Jeffrey Pachtman. A chef, nutritionist, and personal trainer who coaches average everyday people online. I break down and simplify the SCIENCE of fat loss and nutrition to make it easy for anyone to digest. We are going to eat a LOT of tacos

The Review Queens break down a one star review for the literary classic, 50 Shades of Grey, and a one star Yelp review for the Central Park Zoo.  They fall in love with Shenice and wonder if that was a bear's leg… or a bear's arm. **Submit a 5-Star-Review for the show on Apple Podcasts and email a screenshot of your review to hello@reviewthatreview.com to be entered in the RAFFLE!  You know you need a Review That Review fashion pin and a deluxe ballpoint pen.   http://lovethepodcast.com/thereviewqueens (CLICK HERE) to submit your review! (05:58) Lodge A Complaint (12:18) How We Asses That Kvetch (12:59) 50 Shades of Grey Review (27:14) Meryl-Go-Round (31:38) Central Park Zoo Review (40:13) My Royal Highness ***** Leave us a voicemail at 1-850-REVIEW-0 WATCH CLIPS onhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfhCAcirZKQb9E2NxI5BiJg ( YouTube)! Visit our website for more:http://www.reviewthatreview.com/ ( www.ReviewThatReview.com) @TheReviewQueens | @ChelseyBD | @TreyGerrald --- Review That Review is an independent podcast.  Executive Produced by Trey Gerrald and Chelsey Donn with editing and sound design by Trey Gerrald.  Cover art designed by LogoVora, voiceover talents by Eva Kaminsky, and our theme song was written by Joe Kinosian and sung by Natalie Weiss. Support this podcast

Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) are joined by May (age 6) to tell the legends and truth behind of the Founding of Rome.----more---- We start with Aeneas escaping from a burning Troy. The gods tell him that it is his job to find the area where Rome will later be founded. Aeneas has many adventures, including visiting the underworld. He stops off in Africa where he meets Dido, the beautiful Queen of Carthage. They fall in love. Dido wants Aeneas to stay. However, the god Jupiter, reminds Aeneas that he needs to find the place where Rome will founded. Aeneas leave. Dido is furious. She curses Aeneas and his descendants and then kills herself. Later the Romans believe that the wars between Rome and Carthage are because of the curse that Dido made. Aeneas eventually finds the area near where Rome will one day be built. He settles there in some towns called the Latin people. Later one of the Kings of the Latins is thrown off the thrown by another man called Amulius. The old Kings daughter is a priestess. She has two children by the God Mars – Romulus and Remus. Amulius is worried that the boys will one day want to take his throne. So he abandons them by the river Tiber to die. However, the two babies are rescued by a she-wolf. The She-wolf takes them back to her cave and feeds them her own wolf milk to keep them alive. Later a shepherd finds them and raises them as his own son. As the boys grow up they realise who they are. They make a plan to get rid of the evil King. They are successful and they put their old grandfather back on the throne. The brothers now decide to found their own city. They find a place with seven hills and a river which looks good for a city. However, they argue about which hill to put the city on. Romulus wants to build it on the Palatine Hill. Remus wants to build it on the Aventine Hill. They argue and Remus is killed. Romulus now gets his way and the city of Rome is built on the Palatine Hill. We then discuss if these legends are true or not. We talk about how the Romans believed that they were true and that is important. The stories are probably not totally true. However, it is true that Rome was founded on the Palatine Hill and previously had been different Latin villages. So there is some truth in all the stories. PATRONS CLUB If you liked this episode you might like to join our Patrons' Club. We have exclusive episodes there and you can help choose an episode or be in an episode like May. You can join at www.patreon.com/historystorytime.

Episode Notes This week in 1958... It was a classic love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love. They get married. But in this story, the girl was Mildred Jeter, a Black woman. And her new husband was a white man named Richard Loving. This was in highly segregated Caroline County and interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia.

Make a donation to Unity Center of Norwalk "Inspect What You Expect" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (5/30/21) You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk Last week's message from Rev. Shawn "Change Happens…when we commit to a spiritual practice." Hey U-nity, When we commit to a spiritual practice, lots of changes take place. Some are subtle and some are like dynamite going off without your permission. New Thought writer Emilie Cady (Lessons In Truth) wrote of an experience we call “chemicalization.” Chemicalization is what happens when we introduce new ideas to old ways of thinking. Often our lives go SMOOSH in one way or another. What is the spiritual practice you have committed to? Have you committed to a life where you actually desire to hear the Voice of Spirit guiding you in thoughts of Love and Intelligence? Or have you made the illusion of a spiritual commitment, but are still busy telling yourself and God what is wrong with you and the rest of the world that is revolving around you? If you have done the second, are you puzzled as to why life is still so hard? That may sound judgmental, but I know from personal experience the difference between the two and I know that when I truly desire my relationship with God and as a God-being my life is easier. When I assume that God is on my side and I am willing to follow the guidance for love, forgiveness, peace and joy, then I am confident that Good is present no matter what seems to be going on. Now, sometimes, when I make that commitment to Love, everything unlike it appears. People may become more erratic and unkind than before. Suddenly there is a shortage of money. My face breaks out. My hair falls out. I gain weight. People I love get sick and people I love die. Or I get diagnosed with illness. Or, the person I hated the most wins the lottery. They fall in love. People I have held judgments towards suddenly seem to be happy when they don't deserve to be happy…especially since I'm the one who made the spiritual commitment! Maintain your spiritual commitment and assume you will begin to see God active and present everywhere, including in places you least expected it. (Like in the people you don't care for.) You will begin to see how your old judgments can't keep God's good away from anyone. When we commit, or recommit, to a full-on spiritual practice change is going to happen and we must assume that this change is Good and “God is active and present in my own and everyone's life.” Become glad that you are suddenly awake and noticing how life is active and an event that affects everyone for Good. Spiritual commitment doesn't mean that life isn't going to happen; it means that we will know what to do with it when it does. Let's give thanks that we in Unity are making this spiritual commitment together. We're all doing it to different degrees, but we are doing it. We have learned that it is safe to do it because God isn't a whimsical old man, but a loving, intelligent presence, active and present in our mind and in our life. Hold on to that thought and make the full commitment so that the full change takes place. It is a change that is Good. Let's affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!” Grateful for the change, Rev. Shawn

Today, I have Blake Albertson of B&B Lawncare to discuss success, happiness, and fulfilling dreams. This guy is so freaking awesome he succeeds at an early age. Listen to him as he shares clever insights about business and life. By the way, we talk about aliens too. Sssshhhh..     Topics Covered 1:04 - Introduction to Blake Albertson 1:19 - We talk about Soccer... Who doesn't like soccer? 7:38 - I am not a priest, nor a saint but, I'd like to let you know that putting God First in my life is the best thing I've done in my existence. 9:21 - Whatever you want to do in life, live your dreams. Please do it. No one can stop you if you want to fulfill your dreams. If you want to be a painter, go and paint. If you want to be a rockstar, go and make a video and upload it on YouTube. Your life your rules. 18:21 - The definition of success is you're able to be free and do what you want to do when you want to do it. 32:21 - One thing we learned is "Nobody Cares" whether you're successful or not. Everybody is always thinking "How" they could solve their problems, and they don't care who you are. But as long as you take good care of them, that's how you bring them into your brand. 38:55 - Yeah, we talk about Aliens and shit. Haha!     Key Takeaways "Use it to your advantage of you're solving people's problems. That's it. If you never get a customer to call you, you can never get them to invest emotionally into your business. It's hard to build a brand when nobody's even knows anything about you. They don't know about your quality of work. Like the perfect customer only comes when you solve their problem initially take really really good care of them. They fall in love with you and everything you believe in and your company and your company culture. And then, that's how you bring them into your brand." - Blake Albertson.   "How are you such a positive and resourceful and responsible person that negative energy doesn't pull you down? You are so positive that negative energy dissipates in front of you, and you pull it up. You're pulling people up. You're encouraging other people, you become such a positive, radiant, vibrant alpha, that you change the energy in the room, it doesn't change you." - Keith Kalfas.     Connect with Blake Linkedin Website YouTube Facebook Instagram Connect with Keith Facebook Instagram  YouTube LinkedIn Website   Other Helpful links! Here's the KAJABI software I run my internet business on Click Here Get my new landscaping book here. Click Here If you liked the show, please leave us a well-written, positive 5-star review. You may click here. How I Charge for landscaping jobs Click Here Save up to 55% On Quickbooks

A post-apocalyptic, comedy audio play about falling in love in a world that doesn’t want you to. It’s the year 2099 in The Free People’s Republic of New Kettering. A world without gender, sexuality and race, but also a time of no freedom, democracy or hope. Robin, a lifelong litter picker, is getting along with their mundane life quite happily. Until they meet Alex, and everything changes.They fall in love (which is against the law), they have sex (which is REALLY against the law), and they have a huge decision to make. Fight their robot overlords in a bid to be together, or run for their lives…Winner of the 2020 Take Off Award for New Writing, Oh For F*cks Sake (I’m In Love With You) is a brand new play from East Midlands writer and director Samson Hawkins. Samson is currently Resident Director at Eton College, an Associate at New Perspectives and a Leicester Curve Resident Artist. His recent credits include radio play We are in this Love Story which starred Sarah Gordy and was produced by Rural Arts and the BBC.

In last week's episode we talked about the fact that too much is just right. Inherently though, there are amazing women out there who are thinking, "I can't leave my corporate job today. I have to save some money, I have to take care of a sick parent, etc. I need to be successful in this job for another year, how do I do that, Katrina?" In other words, "How do I make it in the corporate world when I'm too much?" Ultimately if you can bring the entrepreneurial mindset into the corporate world, you will be able to survive in that environment while you are taking care of the life situations that demand your attention and time right now. You see, if you are too much in the corporate world but just right in the entrepreneurial world, you need to merge those worlds. There are two reasons that you need to do this: 1. It empowers you to be who you truly are. You can be your true, authentic self and fit in to that entrepreneurial environment that the corporate world shifts to when you bring that mindset into play. You can give your gifts, your talents, and you don't have to worry about justing to fit the mold. 2. An entrepreneurial mindset is what large corporations need to embody if they want to thrive in the world. Entrepreneurs innovate and iterate. They fall in love with their customer, not their products. Because they have this mindset, they grow successful businesses. Corporations are too large and complex to allow for this agility and this constant innovation, but that doesn't mean they don't need it. They do! So ultimately, you must bring the entrepreneurial world into the corporate world. At Legend Leaders, we go into corporations and do just that. We teach executives how to think and act like entrepreneurs. If you want this injected into your corporation, let us know! Be Legendary!

Episode 19 - Descendants of the Sun Yoo Si Jin, a special forces captain, meets surgeon Dr. Kang Mo Yeon at the hospital after stopping a motorcycle thief. They fall in love, but their relationship was much harder to sort out than they initially thought. Descendants of the Sun - ©KBS2 Thank you and respect to all the soldier in the world putting their lives on the line everyday. And to the families of the brave men and women, stay strong, stand together and thank you.

Tell me if you've heard this story before? A person gets into hospitality out of necessity at an entry level position. They fall in love with the industry and through hard work they move themselves up the chain. Well Chastity Rivera-Santiago lived that story as well. Hear how she's been dealing with having her career stalled due to COVID and what ways she's been able to put a smiling face on at home. Her story is one that will be relatable to a lot of people in the industry.

Mynx reveals her greatest love: Francois Truffaut, the famous auteur of New Wave Cinema. They fall in love as they make a film, but an insanely jealous producer ruins everything yet again.  richlyspun.com

It's time to go back to the 60s, when men were men, women were women, and sex was only referenced with vague hand gestures and sideways glances. This week we dive into the soundtrack to 2003's Down With Love. Renée Zellweger is a self help guru whose book is liberating women's sex drives the world over. Ewan McGregor is the dashing reporter hellbent on exposing her as a massive phony. Together, they fight crime! Wait, no... They fall in love. Or maybe not. Who's to say? At any rate, the soundtrack features standards from Frank Sinatra and Xavier Cugat, a healthy dose of Michael Bublé, and even a song by Renee and Ewan themselves. (It's a treat!) So mix yourself a martini and join us in the smoking lounge... SHOW NOTES: Down With Love is available to stream here "Here's To Love" - Ewan Mcgregor & Renée Zellweger Please don't tell Michael Bublé about this episode INTRO: "Dance Rocket" by Jesse Spillane OUTRO: "Everyday Is A Holiday With You" - Esthero Have a soundtrack you'd like us to cover?  Follow us on Twitter @OSTParty and let us know! Or email us at OSTPartyPod@gmail.com

The Rock n Roll Archaeologist does some actual digging with the help of two veteran journalists, Bryan Reesman and Jeff Slate, as they discuss two recent re-releases from the rock n roll golden age, 1965's POP GEAR and 1973's That'll Be the Day.Without a doubt one of the most ambitious pop group films ever produced, POP GEAR features Britain's top 16 groups and solo acts of the day, from The Beatles to The Animals to Herman's Hermits. Directed by Frederic GoodeThat'll Be the Day. Jim MacLaine is 18-years old and studying for his advanced level exams, beginning to find his work increasingly irksome. He packs a suitcase, hitches a lift to the coast, and starts a new life with a new job. While working at a fairground, he's invited to a university dance by his old friend Terry, where he meets Terry's sister, Jeanette. They fall in love, marry, and when their first child is born, Jim seems content. But it is not long before he once again walks out in search of freedom and irresponsibility. Directed by Claude Whatham.Jeff Slate's music has appeared on the BBC and in shows like Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill. Jeff writes about music for the New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Rolling Stone, NBC News, and many other publications, contributed liner notes to the 50th anniversary edition of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and is the author of The Authorized Roy Orbison, a biography of the legend, with Orbison's sons. In 2018, Jeff wrote the liner notes for Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series, Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks.Jeff is a regular visitor to SiriusXMs Volume, has appeared on Jonesy's Jukebox, and numerous podcasts -- such as Roadie Free Radio and the Rockonomics Podcast, as well as numerous Bob Dylan- and Beatles-themed shows -- and local TV and radio shows. He has been profiled in publications around the world.Veteran entertainment journalist BRYAN REESMAN has interviewed countless pop culture luminaries from around the world. He has test driven a Corvette with Rob Halford, visited Lemmy's apartment, and been an on-camera interviewer of celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Hugh Jackman. He has contributed to the New York Times, Playboy, Grammy, American Way, MSN Movies, and over 100 other media outlets and written extensive liner notes for rock icons including Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and AC/DC.A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Bryan is the author of the biography "Bon Jovi: The Story" (Sterling). And of course he is the host of Pantheon Podcast's own “Side Jam”!https://jeffslatehq.comhttp://www.bryanreesman.comhttps://www.kinolorber.comThis show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

The Rock n Roll Archaeologist does some actual digging with the help of two veteran journalists, Bryan Reesman and Jeff Slate, as they discuss two recent re-releases from the rock n roll golden age, 1965's POP GEAR and 1973's That'll Be the Day.Without a doubt one of the most ambitious pop group films ever produced, POP GEAR features Britain's top 16 groups and solo acts of the day, from The Beatles to The Animals to Herman's Hermits. Directed by Frederic GoodeThat'll Be the Day. Jim MacLaine is 18-years old and studying for his advanced level exams, beginning to find his work increasingly irksome. He packs a suitcase, hitches a lift to the coast, and starts a new life with a new job. While working at a fairground, he's invited to a university dance by his old friend Terry, where he meets Terry's sister, Jeanette. They fall in love, marry, and when their first child is born, Jim seems content. But it is not long before he once again walks out in search of freedom and irresponsibility. Directed by Claude Whatham.Jeff Slate's music has appeared on the BBC and in shows like Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill. Jeff writes about music for the New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Rolling Stone, NBC News, and many other publications, contributed liner notes to the 50th anniversary edition of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and is the author of The Authorized Roy Orbison, a biography of the legend, with Orbison's sons. In 2018, Jeff wrote the liner notes for Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series, Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks.Jeff is a regular visitor to SiriusXMs Volume, has appeared on Jonesy's Jukebox, and numerous podcasts -- such as Roadie Free Radio and the Rockonomics Podcast, as well as numerous Bob Dylan- and Beatles-themed shows -- and local TV and radio shows. He has been profiled in publications around the world.Veteran entertainment journalist BRYAN REESMAN has interviewed countless pop culture luminaries from around the world. He has test driven a Corvette with Rob Halford, visited Lemmy's apartment, and been an on-camera interviewer of celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Hugh Jackman. He has contributed to the New York Times, Playboy, Grammy, American Way, MSN Movies, and over 100 other media outlets and written extensive liner notes for rock icons including Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and AC/DC.A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Bryan is the author of the biography "Bon Jovi: The Story" (Sterling). And of course he is the host of Pantheon Podcast's own “Side Jam”!https://jeffslatehq.comhttp://www.bryanreesman.comhttps://www.kinolorber.comThis show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

Happy 2020! Here's an episode we recorded last month where we had unrealistic expectations on how much Austin could edit while he was traveling! Austin, Sarah and J.C. go into the magical world of Jacques Demy's Rochefort. They fall in love with this French musical and then listen to a band called...I have my notes here...the "Dead Kennedys." Hmmm.    Intro 0:00 -- 25:36 The Young Girls of Rochefort 25:36 -- 43:18 Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables 43:18 -- 50:33 2point4 Children / Outro 50:33 -- 54:53   --Leave your own henge ratings at TheArtImmortal.com --Be sure you leave an iTunes review   Twitter iTunes   Join us next time as we discuss more random things. Until then, email or tweet us your thoughts, leave a review on iTunes and other crap every podcast asks you to do. (But we love that you do it!)   Artwork by Ray Martindale Opening tune and clips by Adam Lord

When it comes to selling a home, there is one major mistake most people make. What is this mistake? It's simple: Most people fail to prepare their homes for the market before they list. Every single seller I've spoken to wants to maximize their equity and sell for top dollar, but their actions aren't consistent with their goals. Very rarely do these same sellers follow through by adequately preparing their property. Buyers will offer higher prices when they have an emotional connection to a property, and these emotional connections don't happen by mistake. It takes a well-staged, decluttered, and depersonalized home to capture the attention of potential buyers in our market. They fall in love with the space because they can imagine themselves living in it. If you haven't prepared your home ahead of time, it's pretty unlikely this will happen. The good news is that preparing a home for the market doesn't mean you have to do a complete rehaul of every single room. All it takes is some strategic adjustments. “The time it takes to prepare a property is well worth it when you consider the results these preparations will bring.” Making minor repairs, giving the walls a fresh, neutral coat of paint, and thoroughly cleaning each room will make a massive impact on your success. Each of these things will boost your chance of earning top dollar, while simultaneously ensuring that buyers will have a strong first impression when they step foot in your home. And if you go the extra mile by hiring a professional stager, you'll be in an even better position. Stagers know what it takes to present a home in its best light. Homes that are staged and feel move-in ready also sell more quickly than homes that aren't. So, in short, the time it takes to prepare a property is well worth it when you consider the results these preparations will bring. If you want top dollar, don't make this major mistake. Make sure you prepare your home before you list. If you have any other questions or would like more information, feel free to give us a call or send us an email. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

The Ugly Truth About Motorsport - TRDC SHOW Ep #23. Enzo Mucci This episode of The Race Driver Coach Show answers or at least contributes to 90% of the questions we get asked. It is all about one ugly truth that so many people ignore or trap that they fall for - When a driver gets carried away with the passion aspect.  They fall in love with the Hollywood story line of becoming a world champion or professional race driver, this is OK in small doses but all too often you can tip the scale too much towards passion and become deluded, distracted or down right miserable. Passion is needed but it is also responsible for so many drivers losing their love for the sport and losing all hope. This video is here to remind you of this trap and to help you get back on track, in more ways than one. Covered here is advice for: New drivers Drivers on the way up World Championship drivers Anyone who is striving to achieve their dream.

I am so excited to have Margit Crane on the podcast today!  She is fun and hopeful and full of really helpful information for ADD/ADHD children and the grown ups who love and work with them. From Margit's bio: Confused and frustrated, people are drawn to Margit's bright-eyed optimism, her natural communication style, and her no-nonsense, real-world solutions. They fall in love with her humor and compassion, realizing that she is their strongest advocate and biggest fan. Clients feel heard and understood, and they trust her to support each of them, together as a family and, separately, as individuals. She blends an uncanny and authentic understanding of children and teens with adult wisdom and experience, and a long career as a trailblazer in the field of Attention Deficit Disorder, school success, and child-parent dynamics. Margit and I spend time discussion what ADD/ADHD is and what it isn't, when to consider if our child is a ADD/ADHD, and what the steps are to connect and hold space for these special kids.   Resources mentioned: Getting Schooled - a free ebook from Margit that helps parents navigate their child's school experiencewww.wrightslaw.com - articles, legal resources. support How to find and follow Margit: http://margitcrane.com/Facebook - Gifted with ADDTwitter - BrilliantADHDPinterest - Gifted with ADD   :::::::::: ****Limited time offer**** About MAZLO --- click here to check out the offer mentioned on the show.  If you are interested in checking out the Calm and Connected Parenting Program FOR FREE send an emaill to casey@joyfulcourage.com.  Put "Mazlo Coupon" in the subject line!!   And don't forget to join the Joyful Courage Tribe in our community Facebook group - Live and Love with Joyful Courage. ::::::::::

Frank joins the army but is so undisciplined that he is discharged honorably. Back home he meets Cheryl. They fall in love and marry and she has a calming effect. He works hard, goes to college but becomes briefly hooked on prescription drugs for stress. He works for a biomedical firm that moves them to Georgia where the owner prays for Frank one day. He's transferred to South Carolina, and a preacher comes to their house, invites them to church to hear evangelist, Phil Kidd. The last night they go and Frank is convicted but not saved. The pastor and evangelist visit again and Frank submits to Christ. His dad professes faith before he dies. Frank forgives his mother and is now in ministry.