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Today I'd like to take a step back from methods and techniques of music marketing to explore a mindset and principle that will help you maximise your organic reach on any social media platform. After many frustrating years of marketing on social media, from a business, artist and consumer standpoint; my biggest issue was not understanding the fundamental principle of how these platforms operate and why they would reward you with a great organic reach. In this episode of Your Music Industry Podcast, I explore what I've defined as 'The Immutable Law of Marketing Your Music on Social Media' and breakdown how this could work in the context of some platforms including Facebook and Instagram. Could this simple tip be the best way to market your electronic and dance music? Show Notes: www.yourmusicindustry.com/post/immutable-law Keep in touch: Daniel@YourMusicIndustry www.YourMusicIndustry.com Your Music Industry podcast is brought to you by Daniel Fish from Liverpool, UK. Copyright © 2020 Daniel Fish, Liverpool, UK. All rights reserved.

Travel Gluten Free Podcast Episode 83 Gluten-Free Travel Skincare, Body Care and Cosmetics   Welcome to Spring Into Health! A series podcasts dedicated to health, healing and auto-immune disease.   Lemongrass Spa  - My Favorite Skincare Line   Today I'd like to share with you my favorite skincare line - Lemongrass Spa. I interviewed Karen Smith, a skin consultant for the line on episode 55, I’d highly recommend you listen to that episode if you haven’t yet.    I met Karen at the Nourished Festival in Denver last year and tried Healing Elements at her suggestions. She said this was the best cosmetic lotion for dry skin. I have really dry skin and have yet to find a skin cream that keeps me moisturized for 24 hours. To my surprise, Healing Elements did the trick! Additionally, I found out that not only are all their products natural and free from over 100 chemicals, the business is female-owned and all (but one) of their products are 100% gluten-free!    I bought a few items and ended up becoming a consultant for Lemongrass Spa. Full disclosure: ordering from Lemongrass Spa links on this page financially supports the TGF show. You get safe, amazing gluten-free cosmetics and in return, get to support the information you love!   Spa Products that are Eco Friendly   Did you know the average amount of chemicals in your skincare? This is scary, there are, on average, 25 chemicals in each of the cosmetics you use on a daily basis! That’s right, you are putting an average of 25 chemicals onto the largest organ in your body - your skin. Two offenders with the highest amount of toxins are lipstick at 33 toxins and sunscreen and body lotion at 32 toxins.   Why is eco-friendly, non-toxic skincare important to me? I have cancer in my family on both sides, low thyroid, and celiac disease. I’m swapping out my skin and body care essentials I own now for lemongrass spa products.   Great Idea to Beat COVID Boredom!   COVID has created a crazy, unpredictable time and space in our lives. You may be wondering what to do with your time? Treat yourself to a DIY Spa Day - don't you deserve it? Absolutely! Grab some mommy appreciation time, have a romantic spa night with your partner or have a fun spa night with your kids with products from Lemongrass Spa!    New Lemongrass Spa Products for Spring   Lemongrass Spa has great new duos and skincare sets which include a Lemongrass Mama Gift Set, great for the new or experienced mom! Who doesn’t love spa essentials for a gift?    New spring body care essentials which I’m excited about! Lemongrass Spa products bring you such a yummy sensory party that you’ll want to lick yourself! My lab Lily loves to lick me when I use Lemongrass Spa - she gets that from me.   Strawberry Lemonade Skincare One of my favorite drinks, Lemongrass spa has brought the fruity refreshment of strawberry lemonade to a yummy gift set.  Lemon Fresh Gift Set - Includes Lemon Sorbet Foaming Liquid Soap, Strawberry Lemonade Body Polish and Strawberry Lemonade Hand & Body Lotion Duo 4 pc. $42 save $5.   Lemon, Citrus, and Sorbet, Oh My! Lemon sorbet foaming liquid soap  I carry mine around in my purse with a small fun-sized foaming soap bottle from Lemongrass Spa so I don’t have to use toxic bathroom soap. Spring Cleaning Essential Oil Bundle Comes in a super cute pail with Sweet orange, organic lemon, and organic tea tree oil, all great choices for disinfecting and cleaning your home without harmful chemicals. Lemon lip butter to soothe and moisturize your dry summer lips and brown sugar lip polish to exfoliate your lips.   Dynamic Duos Essentials for your everyday body and skin and hair care! Regular size PLUS a 2 oz. travel size. New for spring: Hairspray, Hand sanitizer, Aloe gel. Limit is 5 for Hand Sanitizer!   My Lemongrass Spa Favorites   Rosewater facial mist, not just for your face, I spray this all over my body! NEW Grapefruit Bergamot Gift Set includes Hand & Body Lotion Duo, 4 oz. Hydrating Body Spritz and 8 oz. Body Polish in the sweet aroma of a citrus blend of fresh bergamot and sparkling pink grapefruit. My favorite shampoo and conditioner cherry almond scent. And if you like Pina Coladas, I’d definitely recommend Island Coconut Gift Set to feel the essence of a tropical getaway at home with the exotic aroma of fresh coconut, juicy pineapple, and creamy vanilla. Includes Hydrating Body Spritz, Body Polish and Body Icing. $40 save $5.    Next Up for My Lemongrass Spa Buy   Sheer Minerals are Tinted moisturizers in fair, light, medium and tan, Microdermabrasion cream to assist my skin is looking fresh and Hydrating facial polish to keep my face moisturized.   For Your Favorite Mama on Mother’s Day   Lemongrass Littles Gift Set, perfect for baby and mama on the go! Baby lotion 2 oz, Healing Elements Balm Stick and Head-to-Toe Prebiotic Wash 2 oz.  and Lemongrass Mama Gift Set in lavender vanilla which smells amazing. I have the lavender vanilla massage bar which is a perfect addition to this set! Gift Set includes body balm, freshening spray, healing elements stick, and body oil with a cute purple gift bag - drop a gift set off to a special mom you love or yourself!   Gluten-Free Travel Bodycare Sets   Two new travel sets! Both only $14.   NEW Travel Skincare Set: Beautifully Balanced Includes trial size Tea Tree Bar Soap, Tea Tree Cleansing Gel, Tea Tree Face Crème, Repair Water Gel, Charcoal Detox Facial Mask, packaged in a zipper logo bag with instruction card. NEW Travel Face Care Set: Anti Aging This travel-sized anti-aging face kit contains a set of five trial-sized products in a clear cosmetic bag. Features Botanical Cleansing Gel, Vitamin C Serum, Botanical Face Crème, Hydrating Facial Polish and Hydrating Eye Crème. Aloe Vera Cooling Gel Duo This is two of our pure aloe vera gel 8 oz + 3.3 travel sizes. The duo is a Mother's Day Special Edition, available through June 1 at 9 am MT/ 11 am ET. Clean Slate Gift Set w/Travel Bag for Men A gentleman deserves soft and healthy skin at home or on the go with the Clean Slate Gift Set. The Gift Set includes a Lotion Duo, a Bar Soap, an After Shave Splash and a Deodorant in a gray zipper bag. Our Clean Slate Collection will keep him handsome and fresh from head to toe. Cedarwood and bay rum is mellowed with amber and citrus, reminiscent of the local barbershop’s clean shave. 8 oz + 2 oz lotion duo, bar soap, 4 oz aftershave splash, 2 oz deodorant stick.  Cherry Almond Shampoo & Conditioner Pair 2 oz travel size Stimulate your senses, while cleansing, softening and conditioning your hair with this 2 oz Cherry Almond Shampoo and Conditioner pair. Great for all hair types, this invigorating duo is handcrafted with natural aloe vera, coconut oil, and d-panthenol to soothe the scalp, leaving hair refreshingly clean and touchable smooth. One 2 oz bottle of Shampoo and one 2 oz bottle of conditioner.  Travel Skincare Set: Naturally Radiant This travel-friendly set contains a set of five trial-sized products in a clear cosmetic bag. 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Today we celebrate Easter Sunday. A day meant to reflect on our Lord's resurrection from the dead. We're not alone in this celebration. Even now, we join together with countless Christians strewn across the unique world that God has made. And although not united by location (even you and me), we are united with each other and all people who call upon the name of King Jesus in order to be saved. Today I'd like to take you on a bit of a journey. My aim is to expand our understanding of what Easter is all about. So over the next 30 minutes or so, we're going to connect our understanding of some of the most important concepts in the Scripture (concepts like heaven, God's presence, and His desire to meet with us) WITH Easter, with the death burial and resurrection of Jesus.

This flash briefing is all about West Seattle in Washington (WA) State. For more info, visit: http://www.Sea-Town.com/welcome-to-west-seattle If you own an Amazon Echo device, you can enable this daily audio content by simply saying "Alexa, enable West Seattle Daily Skill" or click here - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082NR5KM4, login to your Amazon account and click the "Enable" button. ---- Today I'd like to talk to you about Meditation, Yoga & some tools for calming your inner anxiety. In case you're week is a bit of a blur, it is Wednesday. Thanks for joining us for West Seattle Daily, Episode #056, brought to you by Sea-Town Real Estate. I'm your host, Christian Harris. We have a special guest today ~ Haley Derge, who is actually our office manager at my brokerage. But she also practices meditation, is an avid Yoga, as well as teaches Yoga classes here in West Seattle. Today she is going to talk to us about her journey with yoga & mindfulness practices. Hi everyone, thanks for listening & I’m really excited to share my tools with you on how I’ve been coping through all this craziness. I recently moved to West Seattle from Milwaukee, WI in June 2019. Shoutout to the midwest! After graduating college from UW-Madison, I found myself struggling with western medicine & felt quite lost in my connection with the world. Yoga had always been considered a good workout, but nothing more. After finding a studio that felt like home in Milwaukee I decided it was time dive deeper into eastern practices to search for healing. I completed my 200 hr teacher training with an emphasis on alignment based yoga practices. Through this training I learned how to practice safer and how to be an advocate for my future students. Fast forward ~ I’m here living on Alki beach teaching yoga to various corporate clients & studios around the Seattle area. I recently started hosting pop-up free yoga classes through zoom. We need community more than ever right now & I’d be honored if you join me for some movement. You can follow @hrderge on instagram or I have a facebook page dedicated to all things yoga @haleyraeyoga These are beginner classes and the whole family is invited! What a fun way to break up the day? If your looking to dive deeper into the spiritual world of yoga while quarantined I’d highly recommend these books: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself Book by Michael Alan Singer When Things Fall Apart Book by Pema Chödrön Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom Book by B. K. S. Iyengar Starting a new habit is hard, especially meditation. It’s been a roller coaster ride for me. Using an accountability method such as a friend, teacher, partner is helpful if you have that available to you, but there are so many amazing meditation apps that can help. I personally like the Calm app, but I would recommend trying a few different ones and see which one fits you best. Every teacher has different perspectives to offer & it’s best to keep searching until you find one that feels good. Currently I’m working through the series How to Meditate with Jeff Warren on the Calm app, & I’m impressed with his easy explanations of meditation & mindfulness. One of my all time favorite Youtube Meditation videos is Guided Meditation (Awakening The Mind) by Alan Watts. When I first started meditating, I was under the impression that meditation would completely dissolve my thoughts. & I quickly learned that meditation is not the lack of thoughts, but the lack of attachment to said thoughts. “We so often create experiences in our head by attaching emotions and feelings of right or wrong without any awareness. If we continue to come back to the present moment we make space for things to truly just be. We aren’t attached to a certain outcome because we are in the present moment - enjoying it for exactly what it is.” I believe meditation is the ultimate investment in self-care. Giving yourself the space to check in with your internal environment & just notice what comes up. Without Judgement. Just be there breathing, noticing, letting go with each inhale & exhale. It’s a magical practice of self love. If you’re interested to learn more about where I’m teaching you can reach me at haleyraederge@gmail.com or follow her on instagram @hrderge and @haleyraeyoga on facebook. Feel free to ask any questions I’m more than happy to help :) Thank you Haley for sharing one of your self-care practices! Thanks for listening everyone - be sure to reach out to Haley if your interested in learning more about meditation or yoga!

  Hello everyone, Mike Stokes Wilde alive education here. Today I'd like to talk about sheltering in place, and how to find the positive, good parts of the crisis that we find ourselves in. In my last episode I spoke of, you know how to stay, how to thrive how to how to stay in a good mindset. And those lessons are still valid. Now. It's important to do your best to step out of the sheeple mentality the the mainstream, emotional narrative, man Extreme narratives are always emotional. They're very rarely rational. You know, we do need to worry about our elderly and our vulnerable population. But the statistics show that coronavirus is not worse than any of the other threats that we face in our day to day lives. They are for some of us, but not for others. So that's that's still important thing you know, and again, you still want to be a good person, and do your best for your, your fellow human, but also not get caught up in the emotional narrative that this is somehow only bad. So I'd like to talk about a couple of the upsides. You know, typically, our society is so outwardly focused, and so focused on material gain that we can't see the obvious good things in front of us. So a simple example that many of You're probably heard about is the reduced deaths due to air pollution because of the slowed economic activity. And then the obvious, slowed impact, slowing impact of the climate crisis, the climate, human induced climate destabilization crisis, the slow burn crisis that is much more of a greater existential threat to our lives. In the long term, then the novel coronavirus is to us. It's almost like we have to go a little bit against our animal nature, which is to react to the crisis in front of us. You know, that's how we evolved. We evolved to survive in the face of immediate threats, tigers and lions and gorillas in mammoths and hippos and all kinds of Dangerous beasts that were around us during our early years as humans. And it was a very successful strategy. But as we became more dominant over all the species on Earth, then those strategies are helpful. And they're actually super important. Like it's important to honor your emotional wisdom. It's just sometimes misplaced, especially when we have some early traumas in our life that we replay over and over again. I'm trying to think of a good example for that. I could just say that for myself, my fear of being ostracized by the group, many of us have that same fear. You know, the old saying goes that the second greatest fear He's deaf. And the number one fear is public speaking. And that's because public speaking is a potential social death. So our emotional bodies tell us that social death is worse than physical death. Because in many cases, when we were growing up in social bands, if we were kicked out of the social group, be that our pre human ancestors or be that our small bands of humans that came before us. If you were kicked out of the group, then you are pretty much dead, your chances of survival were, you know, very, very low. So the interesting thing that's happening now is we're all you know, the social distancing is making the group the bigger social group a little less prevalent. A, of a motivating factor in our lives so. So it's actually a wonderful opportunity to take some extra time to go inside. And to really delve into the depths of your own psyche. I study a bit of young in psychology and dream analysis. And over the years, what I've noticed is, you know, young would say that, you know, take all the symbols that you learn, and then when you're looking at a patient, just throw out all of the symbols that you learn and then deal with the patient in front of you. And when you're trying to sort of make sense of your own dreams. It's it's kind of the same thing. Really, what matters is is the emotional importance that you put on the symbols in your own dreams. So, I often find when there's big shifts in my own consciousness that they come around a home that I'm living in, and my home sort of changes shape, depending on where I'm at, emotionally and psychologically. So I remember many years ago, I was contemplating being a leader of a large training organization and, and the rooms of this house which is vast in my own house were vast and expansive and majestic and mansion like and and interestingly enough, I was struggling with going the direct path that they had in front of me. So I sort of entered through a side back entrance when I came into this house. But my recent dream that just actually happened last night I was focused, I was seeing this amazing re model of my home that was a lot of stone and, and just really beautiful, rustic work and my partner had a huge huge impact on it. And so the reason I tell this, you know, anecdotal story about myself is that the same things are happening for you. Right now there is an internal shift happening in you. And you're facing things that you don't normally have to face. Now, you know, if you're in solitary confinement is, you know, it's used in prisons, but it was also used by shamans and shaman trainers, to cause the trainee to crack through their normal consciousness and to find their higher potential their higher self. So in a way, we're all in a Shimano rite of passage right now we're we're first forced to go a little bit more internal. Now, here's the here's the thing that I think is probably just the basic point of this whole. The short little talk is, if you take the social distancing and the increased isolation In you just numb yourself out with Netflix in YouTube and, you know, mystery novels and romance novels or whatever your particular thing is, you're not going to get very much out of this. But if you take this internal time as a time to dig in, you know, I, I'm a huge proponent of digging as deep as you can. Like I've said in previous talks, that's very important that if you the the size of the change that you want, really equals the size of the support that you need. So it's actually probably better in this time where we can't really spend a lot of time with our teachers and mentors and people like that, to go a little bit light on your personal transformation route on your personal growth route. If you have, you know, if you have online conferencing and your setup and you're communicating with your support, you know, with your teacher or your mentor, and then that's fine, you know, go ahead and Do that. That being said, there there's, there's always less, less really powerful connection when you're, you know, doing it virtually, you know there is a real physical field that happens when we are in close proximity to one another. And when we're interacting with one another on an emotional level, so so that being said, the big lemonade that you can make out of these lemons is to go internal and really repurpose your life. You want to take you know, recycle, repurpose, reinvent, take all of the things, compost, all of that old stuff, take some time to really dig into what's important to you. You know, write it down. We recently are in a big transition moving from one location to another, getting closer to the land closer to our dream of living self sufficiently and sustainably and having a little bit more insulation from the vicissitudes of the world economy. And so for us personally for me and my partner, my daughter, it's I don't want to bore you with our process, but what I want to focus on, so we're going through our process, but whatever, whether that's relevant to you or not, what I want to say is that you are having a spiritual experience, whether you're aware of it or not, you're having a transformational psychological experience, whether you were of it or not, there is a field of consciousness that we all tap into. You know, Jung called it the collective unconscious, some people call it the field, there's a lot of different things. I don't want to try to convince anybody of that if you're interested in being convinced there are many people books that are written about synchronistic events between people at the same time around the world. A great example is when World War Two, peace was declared at the end of World War Two people who had no idea no neat newspaper would would just walk out into the streets because they felt something because the whole world was on a new, a new trajectory. So, here in rise, the the sort of the, the rub of the of the spiritual warrior, the conscious, the conscious warrior, you have to see, you have to be aware of the field that you're in. And right now we're in a higher anxiety field. The field of the entire human species is anxious, more anxious than it normally is, and it was already anxious. And there's the levels of uncertainty are spilling over into people's emotions and those emotions, not Rational ideas, not information. those emotions are what translate into actions and choices. So those emotions are, you know, they're causing people to make. Not very good decisions. So your job at this time is to really go inside not to make a bunch of huge changes. But to go inside and slow down. You know, make sure you got your basic needs met. But you know, most of us, at least in the westernized countries, I don't see the Western countries in the more wealthy countries. We have our basic needs met, not everyone, but many people do. And so if you are in that camp where you have your basic needs met, then start to dig into use this time to dig into what's next for you, and not what's next for you. So the first thing you got to do is acknowledge the field of anxiety. See the anxiety that's yours and start see the anxiety that you adopted? Start to let that go. And then start to sort of tap in ground. You know ground your feet into the ground, put your feet into the earth get get a little bit more grounding around your home, you know, this would be a great time to do spring cleaning. You know what, what spring cleaning does. So a cluttered house is a cluttered mind is a cluttered emotional body is a fragmented spirit. So, when you can clear out your space, your spirit will become less cluttered and more free. So if you're struggling of what to do in this time of sort of spiritual renewal, in this time of psychological renewal, I use those terms interchangeably. Because they really are when we say spiritual we mean psychological they're they're too intertwined to be separated in in the way we think. Some people like to draw a dividing line between psychology and religion, but there's no dividing line and there's never been a dividing line in psychology itself. deepest roots are in mythology and religion. So, you know, it's it's useless to divide them and it's actually detrimental. The more you can integrate your religious and psychological ideas and beliefs, the more you can have a holistic, full, wise perspective on the world. So let go or practice releasing, you literally put your hand in your body on the ground if you need to release the tension that is flying around in the air and ground into your inner space ground into your physical space. Use this time to make your physical space the most powerful space that you can make it. So that's really it. And inside of that, you know, take some time to record what you find. And re sorry I got distracted here I'm trying to finish something on the recorder take some time to reevaluate yourself. in your life, and, and in use the natural separation to create a healthy boundary from the dysfunctional forces in the macro society. The macro society is dysfunctional. That's why it's killing ecosystems. That's why there's war. That's why there's all these things. Now some of those things are inherent, you know, to the group dynamic of humans, but you as an individual do not have to follow that full group dynamic. You can be an outlier, you can be the shaman on the hill, you can be the enlightened politician, you can be the enlightened CEO, you can be the enlightened clerk, you can be the person who brings his own or her own powerful stabilizing energy to the world. But you do have to step a little bit outside of the group mind to get there. Group mind is incredibly powerful and incredibly dangerous. So by all means, utilize the group mind for its benefit. That's when you're attaching yourself to small groups of enlightened people that's very important for your support. But don't just take automatically the group mind that's given to you, and begin by filtering out more and more the mainstream interpretation of what's happened and not not embracing things that will just feed the insecure parts of yourself or just feed your ego, but really allow yourself to be challenged and to be opened and grounded. So those are the keys if you can allow yourself to be challenged if you can allow yourself to be owned, open, but at the same time, keep grounding yourself. Keep literally if you don't know what that means, just take your shoes off and walk on the ground. Clean up your kitchen, clean up your living room, do your dishes, balance your checkbook Take care of the basic necessities make food in advance and deserve it. All of those things are grounding activities. Eat more fiber. All of that will ground you so ground and open and go inside. And I wish you all the luck in the world. I wish you a powerful and freeing journey. And remember that you know, pain free is not the goal. But being unreactive in the face of pain and wise about the way you deal with it is the goal. Those who seek to be pain free do turn into monsters. So that's not where you're going. You're trying to go to a place where pain is a part of the joyful life that we live in. And we do our best to not let it control us. I don't want to leave on the pain note. Pain is just a part of the process. The pain is is it's a small part. It doesn't need to be a huge part of your life. If you've got tons and tons of pain all the time. in your life, you are somehow addicted to it, and you need to let it go. If this trauma this world psychological anxiety ridden state is wreaking havoc on you then you need to reassess your relationship with pain and trauma and try to see them for the teachers that they are a pain in a trauma only becomes worse when the teacher behind the trauma is not listened to. So listen to the teachers in your life around yourself, open yourself up, go deeper, write down some of the stuff that you discover. And then take that into some sort of support structure which you create virtually or after social distancing is over to then help you manifest it in reality, you need support. I'm not saying to go internal and then forget about people. You are a social creature. You just need to learn how to harness the emotional social force and not let it dominate you so that you dominate it and it doesn't dominate you. Have a wonderful day. I hope this was very valuable and make turn lemons into lemonade and share the wealth. If you found this valuable, please click the notification button and subscribe. Have a wonderful day. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

Today I recorded my raw thoughts on the current situation (we all have them) and how to make the most out of it. How to do things better next time, that's the question. I think we need this kind of discussion at any level, not only from the government, business or startup perspective but also within smaller or bigger teams. I hope you don't mind a solo episode as I haven't done one in a while. Today I'd like to talk about whether we should all think about if we need to recalibrate our business goals. Enjoy todays episode and make sure to subscribe and leave a comment. www.venturepoland.pl

The website I was referring to in the episode is https://www.worldometers.info/  They have another page on the age distribution of Covid which is really helpful.  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/   Here is the transcription of the episode. Hello, everyone, Mike Stokes Wildlife education. Today I'd like to talk about the corona virus. Obviously, everyone's thinking about it. And I think there's two things that are very important. There's a website. I don't think I have it in front of me. But it marks out the statistics of what's happening around the world, like how many people die from the flu last year, which was, I think, approximately 20,000. And how many people are more and how people die and all the different giant measures of what's happening on the macro scale and on planet earth today and the coronavirus is, in all probability statistically going to be negligible in its overall effect of death and illness on the planet relative to other things. Elon Musk has been chastised for saying that you're more likely to die in a car wreck than you are from Corona virus, but statistically, he's correct. So, as much as I think it's important to protect yourself, and to not give other people, rotavirus, especially elderly, there's wonderful statistic from that same website, which I'll try to post in the show notes, the website, and it showed the mortality rate for the corona virus from 00 to over 80. And basically, no there's been zero fatalities, if your infant up to nine years old and then it progressive goes up like a point 5% to 1% to 2% every decade. And then by the time you get into your 70s, it jumps dramatically to 7%. And then in your 80s, it jumps dramatically to 14%. So it is very dangerous disease for the elderly, not so dangerous for the young and healthy, and no danger at all for anyone under nine years old. Now, those kids can be vectors that bring it to people who are vulnerable, so you still want to be careful. So that's number one. And I think that underlines a a big issue that is very important if we're trying to thrive in a world filled with challenges and turmoil and problems. And that is that we are primarily emotional creatures as much as we like to think of ourselves as rational. That's just not who we are what we the emotional or emotional needs. Nature is what kept us thriving and surviving. All these years throughout evolution, we developed our emotional radar in order to help us survive. And it's very useful in a small band of humans or a, you know, a small band of chimpanzees, our closest relatives that are still living on the family species tree. But in these larger societies, emotional reactions can hinder us rather than help us. The biggest mistake that most people make around making decisions around things like the corona virus or others is that we believe ourselves to be rational. I have a close relative who is constantly harping on the idea of how to separate emotion from rationality. The problem is, is that he believes that he's irrational He is rational and not emotional in his decision making process. But, but he's not. Because he fundamentally doesn't accept the fact that mostly he's emotionally driven. So once you accept that you're emotionally driven in that your first response to the coronavirus is going to be an emotional one and not a rational one, then you can start to backtrack and be like, Okay, I'm reacting emotionally. So now what would actually be more of a rational approach? So the the instinct, the initial reaction is helpful when a cheetahs chasing you to get out of the way, but that initial reaction in a more measured approach doesn't really work. So, in essence, you want to practice enlightening lighting up your prefrontal cortex, and sort of suppressing or sort of calming down the center of your amygdala, I think is what it's called. I'm not 100% Your point is, is to acknowledge that you're, you are going to react emotionally to this global pandemic. And it is a global pandemic because many people are going to die especially vulnerable people, but not necessarily you. It probably not you, most likely not you, you might not even get sick depending on how old you are. So that's one part of the corona virus that I wanted to talk about. The second part is is this just came to me and I think this is really great opportunity. You know, I've, I don't want to be a vector of the corona virus. I don't want to give it to the vulnerable population, so I don't want to get it. And if you look at the research, the latest research is that the corona virus can survive for 48 to 72 hours on solid surfaces. The exception being copper, it can only survive for four hours on copper It only survived 24 hours on cardboard. The point is, and then it can go undetected and a human for seven days without any symptoms. So it's it's everywhere. And it's it's going to be everywhere. And the interesting thing is, is that if you really pause and you stop and start to observe the people around you, most people won't change. Most people, especially in democratic societies, like the United States will continue to shake each other's hands, they will continue to touch all kinds of surfaces, they won't sanitize their hands, they won't do the regular washings. But what you can do is you can use it as a mindfulness practice. So touching your face is it's so basically the the most common way you transmit any type of virus or flu or cold is by touching something and touching your face, whether that be somebody's hand, or whether that be a surface. So you touch it, you touch your face, and then it's in So by being mindful of how you use your hands will really help. And it'll also give you a new body awareness, which is a phenomenal thing to have. If you're struggling with mindfulness around touching your face, then by all means wear a mask because you won't be tempted to touch your face if you have a mask on. Now, that's the real benefit of wearing a mask. The benefit of wearing a mask isn't because someone's going to spit the virus in your face. It's because you won't touch your face. So on the same note, if you wear gloves in, then you're gonna also be less likely to touch your face. So wear gloves. So those are the most common vectors. Yeah, the important thing is to try to think statistically around these things rather than emotionally. And you know, the mainstream media is emotional. It's that's why we watch it is because it sort of taps into an old part of us that needs to react. In order to feel alive, feel engaged and to feel like we're somehow in control. But if you pause back and let go of that, and just look at the basic facts, the basic facts are is that, you know, it's a community that you take into account the seven day incubation period, and the 72 hours on most surfaces, it's, it's gonna affect almost all of us and it's coming. It's just coming. And it's probably coming to you at some point unless somebody miraculously creates a vaccine, which there has not been an incentive to do until now. So so that's one thing to not be a vector. And if you're elderly to stay or elderly or you have disease to stay safe, you don't have to hole up in your house. Although, you know, that's a good thing. If you feel like you're having symptoms, pull up in your house. But you do have to be mindful about what you touch and touching your face. So if you can't control touching your face where I'm asked to wear gloves, it's pretty simple. And then you have to begin to be conscious about, you know, you want to have a relationship with viruses and bacterias. This is something that I think it's super important for modern society to see all viruses and bacterias as enemies, which they are absolutely not. If we didn't have the beneficial bacteria in our gut, we die. beneficial bacteria in our gut and in our armpits and on our skin, and on our scalp and all over our body, do all kinds of wonderful functions. For us. There's, there's even been studies that show that if you have really diverse, rich, beneficial bacteria in your gut, you have more willpower. The point is, is that we need to transform our relationship with bacteria and viruses and not see them all as bad but see it as a, it's kind of like a dance with other living creatures in the same way that we feel like we're dominant. And above the animals and plants on Earth, we need to have more of a humble relationship with them. One way that I've heard it said is that bacteria and virus rule the earth, they are the true kings and queens of the planet. And we live by their grace. If they, you know, go insane and take over, then they can take us out in a heartbeat. So we need to learn how to live with them in a conscious way. So one of the ways to live with them in a conscious way is to become more mindful of your body movement. And with all the other mindfulness techniques, it helps. So if you were to sit down and meditate, if you were to do yoga, if you were to do conscious movement, any of those types of techniques will help you become more mindful of how you move your body. Especially when you're stressed. We have lots of things thought forms in your head, you tend to move in ways that are mindless, that's when you pick something up and then put it down and you don't remember where you put it down because you went into a mindless, so it's not mindless, it's basically too much mind. So when they say, when they say mindfulness, it's basically taking your mind out of a thread that you're just spinning around, to bring it back into your body. So you're connected to the movements that you're making and those movements either being physical, or the breath, which is another physical movement. So use this as an opportunity to be more mindful. A couple of words on immunity. It's always a good idea to strengthen your immune system. I'll just give you a couple of things that I do personally, and that I think are beneficial for everybody. I do not do pharmaceuticals. I instead choose herbs and foods. My personal choice For immunity support is a bulk Rishi T, bulk ROP and Chaga and astragalus. Also sometimes elderberry. Those are the main ones that I use these use these days. chamomile is also a very good immune builder. And there's lots more you know, you can use your favorite. Find your favorite supplemental person to do that. I would say just several things on immunity building, you have to address your fundamental stress levels and you have to address your fundamental activity levels. And, you know, immunity is a state of balance in the body like Hatha Yoga Sun Moon yoga, it means to be in a state of balance in your body. So, the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems are constantly backing and forth the sympathetic nervous system engaging when you're stressed and you need that energy to move forward and the parasympathetic nervous system when you Need to calm and relax and rest. So you need to work on finding a balance between your sympathetic and your parasympathetic nervous system. In modern society, almost all of us are overly jacked on our sympathetic nervous system, too much stimulants, too many stimulating activities too much stimulating visuals, so we need to come more into the parasympathetic mode. When you activate your parasympathetic mode, your immunity grows, and the immunity grows in the same at the same time it really grows. This is going to be kind of geeky for some of you that aren't really into it, but I now use a whoop. I'm not doing any promo for whoop, I just personally like it. Don't get any money from them. I use a loop and the reason I use a whoop is because they're very good on the heart rate variability measurement and heart rate variability goes up when you're in better cardiovascular health better overall. All health and when your immune system is in balance, so when you start getting sick, your heart rate variability drops. And when you start getting well your heart rate variability rises. So I've been very much enjoying tracking my heart rate variability and really being honest with myself and seeing that when I have a late night sugary snack right before bed, my heart rate variability drops and I have a lower resting and recovery rate. When I'm about to get some sort of flu or virus or cold, again, I heard really drops as my body's trying to fight it off. So as you're doing your immune building activities, be that hanging upside down and inversion swing or yoga or meditation, or running or biking or surfing or hiking or whatever your chosen thing is that most resonates with you. If you Have a way to track it. And measure yourself. You know, there's an old saying that says, what gets measured gets managed, and most people other than professional athletes, and you know, really fitness enthusiasts don't really measure their overall wellness. So I recommend a heart rate variability, measurement. There are other ways to do it. I'm just not really familiar with ones that work other than heart rate variability. And again, you don't need to do that. I just find that or I think it's a tried and true principle that measuring something will tell you whether the, what you're doing to your body's actually working, that it's very important to be honest with yourself and realize that if you're committed to health and fitness and vitality, that you're constantly experimenting on yourself, and unlike a scientist, you usually don't evaluate the results and you usually don't go back and really check what didn't work, other than sometimes just giving up Usually, sometimes it's sort of like oh, that sort of felt better. And when it feels better we keep going sometimes if we have enough motivation, so the more ways that you can measure your, the way that the things that you're doing are affecting you the better. Last thing I would say in closing is many people try to change too many things at once, like add five new supplements to your regimen, or try to, on New Year's Eve, try to you know, work out six days a week or whatever it is, you try to take on too much change or too many different types of change. So what I really know to be the most sustainable way to achieve long lasting change is to change one small thing at a time. So add one small supplement to your regimen. Add one small exercise to your routine, add one small cardio activity, add one new type of meditation and sustain those for you know for a month. I think it takes them minimum of 30 days, you know the best way, be hard, but the best way to really achieve knowledgeable results of your own experiments on your own health is to sustain something for half a solar cycle or a full solar cycle before you evaluate whether it's really working or not. So I hope that's been helpful. Just to review, remember that you are entirely emotional, your first reaction is probably not the way to go. You need to sort of back off, meditate, relax, hang upside down, do some yoga, go for a run, and then reevaluate, and then know statistically that you're likely not in much danger unless you're very elderly or very ill, and then also know that I don't think I said this earlier, but you're going to be dealing with other people's emotional reaction and it's very hard to go against the social pressure tide. So don't try to convince Others have your newfound peace inside of the crisis, let them have their crisis. Because you're probably gonna lose that battle. And then they're gonna think that you're snotty or something like that. So just just, you know, fight your side of the battle, find your allies who are willing to come with you. And this this more measured rational approach of building immunity and not infecting others and staying calm about your own statistical probability of dying or getting mortally sick from this disease. It's an unknown, and the unknown is always scary. I guess I have one more thing to say. The there going to be real financial repercussions to this there already are. But those are not really from the virus itself. Those are all from the psychological reaction of the mass culture on planet Earth. So we're not looking at a pandemic that's going to destroy the world economy. What we're looking at is a real reaction to a pandemic that could really tank the world economy. But that's all perceptions. So you don't have to be one of those people. You should be looking for opportunities to help other people and for opportunities to fulfill needs and to solve problems that will generate wealth and abundance for you and for others. 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There are many people focusing on the technical details of how to save life as we know it on Earth.  But the technical solutions will always fall short.  What is needed now is a spiritual revolution that puts the interconnected-ness of all life at the center of religion and rejects tribalism as the core tenant.  In this episode, I cover the main new ideas and beliefs that must be embraced if we are see A vital future for human kind.   Transcript   Hello, everyone, Mike Stokes Wildlife education. Today I'd like to talk about the most important issue of our time. And I'm the topic that I'm calling this podcast YouTube episode is how to save life on Earth as we know it. So the first thing that I have to say, because I want to speak to those of you out there that may feel like a friend of mine does in that life on earth is going to be just fine and it's really about humans in our life on Earth. That is going to be the real challenge. So what I'm suggesting is there's a way to hopefully mitigate a lot of the negative impacts of human life on Earth. So that we can retain some semblance of the natural world and the way of life that we are used to anyone who's been paying attention ever since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and even before that, the dawn of agriculture but primarily the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, we have begun to destroy the networks of life and the networks of ecosystem that have been on Earth. We simply have taken it for granted now that's Everybody knows that. Some people deny that that's important and obviously, I'm I'm not speaking to them because, frankly, you really have to have your head in the sand and be not thinking critically. But thinking dogmatically. If you believe that the collapse of biodiversity and ecosystems around the planet is not a problem. You know, even if you are not really focused on the climate crisis, and for God's sakes, for any of you that are out there, please call it a crisis. It's not a change. Climate change make wasn't as a term that was invented by a conservative think tank to try to minimize the importance of the climate crisis that we face. I got a little sidetracked there. Basically, the catastrophic collapse of all of the ecosystems on earth is happening at a faster pace. Other than when we had asteroids hitting the planet, the change is faster in biological terms than any other single event throughout biological history on Earth, or the billions of years that life has been evolving. So here's the crux of the point. The point is, is that really the only way that we are going to save life on Earth as we know it to save our life is to have a new spirituality have a new religion, there. So religions are everywhere and everyone has their own particular view of religion and spirituality. And there is, you know, obviously a small subset of the population that consumes themselves non religious and non spiritual and purely empirical. But even that segment of the population tends to turn politics and economics into a kind of religion. So really the only way that we're going to be able to thrive or even survive in the midst of this transformation that this catastrophic change and collapse, which is building every year, is by having a new religion, a new spirituality. And here's the problem, that it doesn't exist yet. Most people adhere to a religion that's 2000 plus years old. Now that religion was consistent with the scientific understanding of its age of 2000 years ago, or more. And those precepts and principles were appropriate. For that timeframe for that scientific understanding, here's the thing that most people don't get. The religions of those times, were completely consistent with the scientific understanding of the day. Now, the miracles and the faith that our spoke of, we're still created in a context of, of a scientific understanding of the world that was of that era. So our new religion and our new spirituality is needs to be focused on two things. One is the sacred beauty and importance of holding up the interdependency of all life on Earth. That has to be number one. And then number two, is to hold up that sacred interdependence of all life, in the context of the vastness of the universe, in a Infinite size and infinite smallness and wild possibilities, that we're only beginning to scratch the surface of its its quantum nature, which so many people use in a very self serving way. But that's not the point. So the point is, is that our new religion and our new spirituality has to be based around two fundamental principles. One is is that all life is sacred. And the interconnectedness specifically the interconnectedness of all life should be held sacred, above all else, that interconnectedness. Now that doesn't mean that thou shalt not kill any life form. That's not how Nature, the god nature works. nature as God is an interplay of all things. And instead of putting God above putting man above nature, we put man in his place as part of nature. So, man, what needs to happen is a new religion that holds man as a co equal participant with the rest of nature. Now, man has this extra ability to foresee forecast and manipulate things in the future. Some animals have that to a limited degree, but we have that to a very high degree. So our we are in a special place in the tree of life. That power to manipulate has been misinterpreted by the old religions as Beat standing somehow above nature. So, what we need now is a new religion in which in a new spirituality, which holds our ability to manipulate the rest of nature as a fundamental stewardship role of stewarding ourselves, this artificial idea of somehow that nature and Spirit are separate, that needs to go away. Spirit and nature need to be seen as one in the same. Now that doesn't mean that you should follow every impulse that you have, because then you're going to fall prey to you know, bad habits and all kinds of vices that will ultimately lead to making bad decisions and more destruction. That does mean is that means that since you are nature since nature You are indivisible, then you must take into account your effect on the whole. Now here's another very important point, the, the old religions, were all centered around these very small tribal groups starting either in the Middle East or in India or China or in the Americas or in Africa. Every single one of those religions were centered around how my group is the chosen group, that all has to disappear to, there can be no one chosen group there can be no one idea about God and nature that is separate from the others. They all have to be consistent. So any belief structure that isn't consistent with All men and women, all humans are co equal participants in the web of life, and that all men and women, the beliefs of all men and women need to be the fundamental beliefs need to be in harmony with one another. There's always room for parochial differences. But the fundamental idea that one, we are all interconnected in the web of life and that web of life is sacred. And we have a spiritual responsibility to care for the web itself. Rather than just an individual, my garden or my tribe, or my brother, or my sister or my child, it has to be a we have a fundamental obligation to do the best we can for all living things. Now, that doesn't mean we need To be a monster and kill individuals, while we're, while we're striving to make the whole good, but it does mean that we need to consider the whole good first in our choices that we make. So, the technical solutions is what people focus on today, we have elevated economics and politics to in some instances, equal footing with spiritual and religious ideas. The fundamental problem with that is is that we are not rational beings. We are fundamentally emotional, tribal, spiritual beings can do nothing but see the world around us. As the world that is aligned with our deepest fundamental beliefs, so we have to start having the conversation we have to start leaning all of the big populations in the world towards an idea of spiritual unity, that you don't have to jettison your old religions, you do have to modify them. If there's anything in your old religion that says, my religion is right and your religion is wrong, when it pertains to these two fundamental factors, every religion has to agree that we are interdependent life forms on Earth, that our interdependent life on earth is intertwined with all living things. And that intertwined nature needs to be honored and respected. Above all else, not above being a good person and being kind and caring and compassionate, those are part of, of living a life that is seen as interdependent. So you don't have to jettison compassion and kindness. But what you do have to do is jettison the idea that man and nature are somehow separate. So any interpretation of spiritual beliefs that sees man and nature as separate, needs to be let go. And that's, unfortunately, many people aren't going to accept that. But those people will either destroy life on Earth as we know it, or they will be destroyed or they will become irrelevant. There's really no in between. They can be a small it's fine for those people to stay in our world. They just need to be a small subset that does not wield real economic, ecological and political power, they must have small amounts of power that are only related to their small parochial interests, because that truly is all they focus on. So, if you hold on to any site type of belief, that somehow you are separate from nature, that somehow you are above nature, you are part of the problem. So, the first thing to do is to let that go and what in whatever means you need to do that, if you need to go into a deep meditation or if you need to do scientific research, whatever it is, you have to embrace this idea that we are all interconnected that the the life the sum total of life on earth is us. It is not separate from us. And then, another key factor that we must Elevate is the idea that ecology ecosystems in their oldest form are our teachers. So the oldest, most pristine ecosystems on Earth, we need to study them. as sacred teachers, we need to follow their example of how they became what they are, and how they have sustained what they are over time. And we need to model ourselves in our society around those principles. And one of those principles is is maximum dial biodiversity within a certain bio region that has a stable balance between different entities. So the the tragedy of life on earth is the mass loss of biodiversity on Earth. It's been is the big story that no one's focusing on no one that most people aren't focusing on the, the wealth that has brought us to where we are, is directly correlated to the mass amount of biodiversity that has been stabilized on planet earth during the last hundred thousand years well during the last billions of years, but has allowed us to evolve into what we are over the last million years. So that brings up a fundamental concept if you're holding on to, or if you know someone who's holding on to an idea that somehow the truth is something that you need faith to follow. That is going it's ultimately not going to save us there's a way that it can save us that can Save life as we know it. And that is that that faith has to be a faith in our ability to work together to find solutions, and to serve this common good, in which we honor all life forms in the internet, specifically the interconnectedness of all life forms, the wisdom of ancient ecosystems, and then combining that with the vast universal possibilities of, of all of the combinations of matter and energy that exists throughout the universe. You know, there is a possible scenario where we technologically turn ourselves into a technical ecosystem in which everything that happens on earth becomes a technical man manage to thing like a greenhouse. But in that moment, we lose our biology. In that moment, we lose the sacredness of our life and become a social technical entity, we literally lose the foundation of our spiritual natural nature and will become an evolved into something else. Personally, I don't want to go down that route, I would much rather see the natural ecosystems of the earth take their rightful place, as the elders in our society, who are to teach us how to move forward in a way that has us retain our nature, rather than being cast into a techno sphere where we all are beholden to some imperfect leaders, and societal norms, which control our fates. And that's really where we're headed. We're really headed to a place where nature no longer We're our nature is destroyed and we become source or some sort of techno, eco political entity. So the the scary bigger picture is is that right now we rely upon an unconscious natural feed of our subconscious which holds all that we find dear and amazing about human beings it is the fundamental nature of who we are and that will be lost. And so we have to create a spiritual religious structure that calls all of us to begin to shift from this place of tribal identities and ancient religions that that really focus on our tribal differences to a cohesive spirit spiritual religious group. That cohesive spiritual religious group can have a huge amount it can be a federation of spirituality so you can have a huge amount of leeway. It need only honor a few basic principles. And I'll say them is simply and precisely as I can want, all life is this interdependence of all life is sacred. All life in and of itself is sacred regardless event of economic value. And under in parentheses under that, that does not mean that you do not take life in any form, because that is simply not the way nature works. It works in a balance. And that does not mean that you become a moral and that you don't follow your heart and your moral judgments because your moral compass and your heart and your judgments and the mythologies of all time, are a product of nature, mythologies and religions are true in this sense. They are true That they reveal the deeper subconscious spiritual meaning of your life. And then you can attach your individual tribal symbols on top of that. But that's not the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth is that every one of these seemingly conflicting religions hold a key thread of truth. And those key threads of truth or what we need to focus on, not the differences, the differences will always be a source of tension, and they should be managed, not embraced. So that's number one. Number two, is, is that the nature of reality in the grand cosmic scheme of things, is truly infinite, and is truly most likely unknowable and will never fully be known by the man of mind. By the mind of man. We are limited in our cup capacity, we there's already much talk about how AI is going to overtake our understanding of all things. And we need to prepare for that day and be ready to deal with those consequences. That is a whole other scary topic, which I'm not going to talk about here. First, we have to figure out if we can truly survive on earth, and then we'll be able to well, concurrently we need to figure out how to manage AI so that it doesn't take over the decision making process of humans. Because again, like I said, we run the risk of turning into a techno sphere in which our fundamental natural spirituality is lost, and we become technological beings. Now, the pundits and the critics will say, like, oh, that'll never happen. But Mark my words, it is happening already. And the only thing that will protect it is a deep spiritual value of the independent sacredness of life and how It, how it lives on earth separate of ourselves, the more we go down the path of trying to manage all nature, the more we will destroy ourselves and we will destroy it. So, number one, interdependence of all life is sacred, to the infinite vastness of the universe is a fundamental part of the equation. We are part of an infinite universe with infinite possibilities, there are infinite possibilities. And an addendum to number two is we need simply to learn how to honor the wisdom of ecosystems, the wisdom of the interdependence of all life, at the same time, that we are learning and discovering new mysteries of the universe. So we hold both of them up with equal, not even equal, I would say that for us to retain our fundamental essence of spiritual religious, that that which we believe ourselves to create us and to call us human, we have to hold the interconnectedness of all life, the natural systems on the earth higher in higher regard than the techno sphere, that techno sphere needs to take second place. Along with that we do not need to be a moral. It's not about being a moral. It's about seeing and understanding that the morality, which you experience deeply as right and wrong, some people don't experience that morality, I'm not speaking to them. They are a whole other problem which will deal with in different topics of conversation. But for those of you that experience a morality that are not trapped in a victim ideology, that morality is a product of your nature, the billions of year old life that has come before you that has evolved into You it brought with it a set of symbols and unconscious values. Those didn't. Those are not granted by some ethereal separate entity that we call God. That's a separate thing outside of ourselves that blasted us with this separate consciousness or blasted us from the outside with some alien consciousness. None of that is real, what is real? Now there may be elements of the universe and there may be elements of alien material and matter and life that has come into our world, but those are not primary. They are secondary. Primary is what we are as Earthlings is our primary relationship to the earth that Earth being our mother, you know, we've all heard that. But the more we embrace truly the idea that the earth is our mother and we shall protect her selfless giving mother we shall protect her with all that we have from a spiritual religious place, not from a political or economic or selfish place. It has to be an altruistic place that sees the whole, and sacrifices the self for the whole, all religious and spiritual evolution demands individual sacrifice. So that in and of itself would be the moral foundation that the Earth has bestowed upon you. The earth is saying, thou shalt transcend your individual greed, for the greater good and that greater good can no longer be the try. It can no longer be the nation, it can no longer be the family, you can hold the greater good and all of those things hold those greater goods, but those greater goods need to be consistent with the greatest good of life on Earth, which is that all life is sacred and all life is interdependent. And then The wisdom of ecosystems is above all else, our guide to how to live in a way that sustains and is truly sustainable. So this idea of sustainability has gotten so mucked up and and turned into corporate propaganda and catchphrases for people who want to justify spending tons of money on consumer goods while they bring plastic reusable bags to the store. Sustainability truly is, it is no longer just sustainability. Sustainability has to be generative. It has to generate more life than it takes. Because we are in such a downward spiral of taking life taking biodiversity, destroying the foundation of what we are in, we have to recreate this idea of sustainability to be one of generation and I specifically don't say regeneration because we will never regenerate to where we were. We will generate a new normal if we survive a new norm. That calls forth a new vitality a new thriving in these new old growth ecosystems to take charge of the natural environment in which we become the Stewart's there is no reason that we don't have armies of people inside ecosystems and in destroying ecosystems which do everything in their power to create an interdependent life between those ecosystems and people. That's what we don't do. What we do is we take from the ecosystem, thinking falsely that it is the only way for people to thrive, it is completely not the only way to survive. One of the greatest examples of that is fair wild. So fair wild is going around the world and creating sustainable, truly sustainable ways. Obviously, there's going to be some impact on the land but truly sustainable ways to increase the biodiversity while harvesting medicine while harvesting products that does not destroy ecosystems on which they rely moving. Back in a sense to a relationship of each bioregion where each community had a sacred responsibility to enhance the life of each bioregion. When it comes to tribalism, this is the only valid tribalism. The only valid tribalism is that each individual community takes responsibility for its bio region and creates a way of living an economy, an economy that is based on a spiritual practice, which gives back to the land at the same time that it gives to the individuals into the community. So the third principle is that ecological wisdom stands above technological wisdom. I think that's enough for now. The the differences between different belief structures people always get stuck on this You must not focus on them. You must only focus on these three, to begin with these three fundamental principles, that the interdependence and sacredness of all life, that the wisdom of the ecosystem should be held as the path forward, and that we as stewards of the earth should co create vitality and abundance with these ecosystems, not against them. And that is entirely possible and simply, the only challenge is is a lack of imagination, the infinite possibilities of the universe and the infinite combinations of matter. And our combined with our creative intellect, mix. It's limitless, the possibilities. Thank you. Thank you for listening. If you please send me questions. If you've gotten value out of this, please support scribe and have a wonderful day and hit the notification bell. notification, vacation vacation. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

Hello, and welcome to the traveling introvert. Today I'd like to talk about having enough time to play. I am trying to new thing this year where I am working for set amount of hours per day in a very focused manner. And then there's going to be other time that I can use however I choose. And I was talking with a friend today about their plans for the year. And they also mentioned the fact that they work in it and they spend a lot of their time managing their company, and they went to an event. Now last year, we've actually got to spend time playing with tech instead of managing tech, and how they didn't realize how much they missed playing with tech. Because I think a lot of the time when you start a business or you start doing your thing, you're generally playing or you're playing on behalf of somebody else. And when you play for yourself, it's okay it's kind of a low stakes and low risk when you're playing for someone else on behalf of somebody else. ends up being very, you know, there's a lot at stake possibly in you, you you pay more attention, and it's less play and more implementation. And then you end up like managing the thing. And so the play is no longer there. But do you do anything in its place to keep play in mind. And so we were talking about the fact that how play is important for innovation and creativity. But you can't play unless you give yourself the time, and headspace and availability to do so. So we were talking about how our lives are going to be different this year. And what we're, instead of talking about what we're planning to put in and all the things that we're planning to do, we actually ended up talking about all the things that we are going to take out, to leave a space to breathe for other things. And I think this is a wonderful thing because it's the start of the year. And people aren't about planning or looking back at the last decade or year and planning what to do and all the things to stuff into your calendar for the next three 6, 12 months or beyond. And that's great and all. But now we should take that time to reflect and think, Okay, well, last year I planned all of this stuff. Did I do it? No, do I feel bad about it? Maybe? Is it worth me feeling bad about it? Probably not. Because more often than not, we over schedule ourselves. We only have 100. And I think it's 67 or 77 hours per month that we can fill that stuff. And really, we should be aiming to fill about 50% of it with stuff bit personal work, to leave room for error, flexibility stuff happening, but also to have time to sleep, eat, breathe, and to play. And to play you must have that time and flexibility and that space and not be overworked and overwhelmed all the time. And that's when sometimes you get the best ideas. Have you ever realized that you get a lot of ideas when you're in the zone doing something else, like having a shower, you're doing something very automatic, like cleaning yourself, which you probably do every day. And that's when your mind rooms free and you have these ideas. Some people have installed sort of pieces of paper, not paper, like whiteboards in the in the showers that can write down their ideas when they have them, because that's when they get the awesome ideas. And there is a reason for that because you're on autopilot and you're free thinking and you're just like, you know, scrubbing yourself and getting some some soap and detonated editor. And your mind gets to let go and not be focused on a thing. And it's not quite the same as meditation. Meditation is a very different thing, and it is actually very focused in a certain way. But when you're just autopilot. That's wonderful. So think about the last time you let yourself autopilot and what happened, what ideas you had and the other part of playing is giving yourself a chance to try something you haven't done before or try something you have done before but in a different way. So like my friend was saying they work in tech, but they never got a chance to like play and they got to make this musical jukebox thing. And, and he was excited about it and used it and all sorts of things afterwards. So think about what you do and how you can turn on its head or look at from a different point of view, or talk to somebody else and find out what their point of view is, and how you can play with things. That's where innovation comes in. That's where joy comes in. And that's where you get your best ideas. take a pause and think about that. So thank you for listening. This was Janice from the career introvert, helping introverts shine. I look forward to answering any of your questions, please email me at Janice@carrerrintrovert.com. Have a great rest of your week. Book recommendation for this episode is Pause by Rachael O'Meara    

Hello, and welcome to the traveling introvert. Today I'd love to talk about safe havens for eating and drinking as an introvert. A lot of the time, you might want to go out and enjoy a good meal or have a nice cocktail. And it has to be said not all restaurants and bars are created equal in that kind of realm. I know a lot of people have complained that they want to go to a restaurant, enjoy a meal by themselves and get treated like second class citizens because of it. Either they get put in a corner somewhere or they don't get the table that they requested. Or they basically get ignored by staff or on the opposite end of the scale. They get hustled and moved on quickly by staff because they want to turn over the table. And because there's any one of you instead of two of us at the table they They want you to hurry up your meal, whereas you might just want to sit and enjoy and savor the food that you are paying for. So, as an introvert, and trying to find spaces where you where it's okay for you to go and eat by yourself, because that's the other problem, the social norm makes it awkward for you to go and eat by yourself. There was a time when I booked a train in California to go on a wine run. And I was going by myself. And they were very much like, Oh, well, we might see you at somebody else on the train right now. I want to enjoy this beautiful view, by myself at a table by myself. I do not want to have to interact in awkward conversation with somebody I do not know. I'm paying money to go on this trip. And it became a bit of a to do and luckily it was low season so it wasn't that bad. But still, I was made to feel that I was in the wrong for wanting to enjoy my ride. So areas or places That are comfortable for people to sit and go and eat alone or have a drink alone. Many people have said coffee shops most of the time coffee shops you can go in, order your food or drink sit in the corner read a normal bother you and it will be fine and it doesn't feel awkward. But to go to a restaurant and sit down necessarily fine dining, but sit down restaurant, the menu and and you may feel awkward if you're by yourself. One place however, that seems to inadvertently cater to introverts or somebody who wants to just go and dine by themselves and not be bothered. His hotel bars, hotel bars and restaurants. And this is fascinating. And it seems to be because people are transit within a hotel and it was looking to make friends that kind of tired. They've been traveling or their business and they're at a meeting and they're coming in to have a drink and chill and wine down. Eat and leave Eat and go over paperwork or read a book or what have you. But very rarely Will someone came up to you and try and hassle you along or want to talk to you. So airport, no airports also. bars, hotel bars and restaurants seemed to be a really good place for you to go. If you're an introvert and you just want to enjoy a nice meal without getting harassed or feeling uncomfortable because you are by yourself in a hotel you almost expected to be by yourself or you know with somebody else but that's fine. There's no it is normal or abnormal. And so that is a great thing. Dear listeners, I would love to know if there any other spaces that you have found that have been welcoming to you coming in sitting and reading a book, or doing a crossword or just coming in and enjoying a meal by yourself without you feeling that they didn't want you there or they wanted to move you along. I would love to hear from you. I'm trying to think also airports, know when, but it was a funny place like airport lounges. If you sit at the bar people will talk to you, if you just sit away from the bar people will not talk to you. So there's that that halfway point of like, okay, I might want some conversation, or I'm gonna go sit in the corner and do my thing. So that's very, very interesting. And the Uber, the Uber, right, but that's a whole other conversation probably. But I know that Uber we're trying to roll out something and I think there's in certain cities where if you don't want your driver to talk to you, you can you have that option. You have that control, because Uber drivers are not taught customer service the way sort of restaurant is might be. So that's another interesting topic of like, how do you shut down your Uber driver in a nice way that hey, I don't want to talk. It's not you. It's I just you know what to sit here and recharge. Thank you for listening. This is Janice from the careerintrovert.com helping you build your brand and shine as an introvert. If you have any questions, please email me at Janice at the career introvert dot com and have a great rest of your week.

Today I'd like to answer some of the questions that I'm asked on LinkedIn and my Protégé Programme. The first question comes from David. David describes a common dealmaking trap. David has built up a good rapport with the seller before asking him about a business value. The sellers response was that he needed to speak to his wife. Since then the seller has been evasive. How can you jump-start a stalled acquisition? That's exactly what you'll discover in this week's podcast. You'll also learn… What to say to an entrepreneur that has an unrealistic valuation from a broker How to value a business on the numbers How to buy a business with a minority shareholder remaining in the deal   Follow or connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn https://bit.ly/2S3Xzxw Watch our YouTube Channel The Dealmaker's Academy https://bit.ly/3b86OFI Visit us online at www.thedealmakersacademy.com Episodes of Business Buying Strategies are available on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher and Breaker. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be construed as legal, financial, tax or business advice. The information is for entertainment only and you should always engage suitably qualified professional advisors. Jonathan Jay, the guest presenters and The Dealmaker's Academy Ltd do not take any responsibility for your actions and decisions as a result of this podcast.

There are more ways than one to lose fat efficiently and depending on your lifestyle and personal motivation, what works for one, might not work for you. Today I'd like to share with you 3 of the most efficient ways that I personally utilise myself and recommend to the majority of my clients when they're trying to reach a successful, healthy and lasting weight loss. Take part in the conversation by leaving a comment on the blog at www.conversationswithzahra.co.uk

Shownotes: What does customer service mean to you and your business? Is it a team that you hire to answer complaints or queries? Is it a group that you hire to have someone be on standby in case something happens? Customer service isn’t just all about focusing on whether the buy-and-sell concept is fulfilled. Customer service is making sure that your customers feel valued for purchasing from your business. Hello and welcome to The Traveling Introvert. Today I'd like to talk about customer service and what it means to you. The reason that I want to talk about this is for a couple of reasons. I've had one fairly large company that I was buying my product. It's a subscription product and I had been buying it for a good three years. I found a different product that I wanted to try and I tried it out. I kind of liked it better, the price was better, the things that I needed it to do at the time were better. I went ahead and stopped my subscription of the old company, and that was it. I didn't get an email that said, "Sorry to see you go." I didn't get any of their customer support reaching out and like, "Hey, I noticed that you were thinking of canceling. Can you let us know why?" There was no exit interview. There was nothing. There was radio silence from this particular company. And it surprised me because they're very well known in remote work. They're very well known for being a great company and yet, as someone who's been using their company from earlier on in the day, I got nothing. So, I reached out and I said, "Hey, you might not care, I'm just someone who barely spends any money with you, but it would have been nice just to get an email so that you noticed that I wasn't paying anymore." Again, I didn't get a response. And now, I don't think I'd ever go back even if they ended up changing their product and doing it in such a way that was a good fit for me, I'm not sure I would ever use them again because now I just feel like a number, and not even a number. People notice when their numbers go down. Then, on the second hand, there was another company, again a very large company, that reached out to me and said, "Hey, we think you might be a good fit for this thing we're doing. I'd love to get on a call with you." I'm like, "Ah, really, me? Little old... I mean, sure, I guess," and I got a little excited about it. I started researching on the thing that they wanted me to be a part of and I found some information, but really not that much. I know someone who had been involved with them and so I asked them some questions, but there really wasn't a lot out there for me to gather myself if I didn't have a friend. So, they said that they wanted to have her call me. The call was scheduled for 20 minutes. So, I'm on the line and waiting. I'm a little bit nervous. I have a list of questions from what I've gathered. The person is late to the meeting, and they were five minutes late. They did not message, but also they did not say sorry when they got on the line. They just asked me if I had any questions. They didn't even try to explain anything to me or pitch anything to me, they were just like, "So, do you have any questions?" My response was, "Well, you haven't really given me a lot of information. Please tell me about this thing that you want me to be involved in." As I said, this call was scheduled for 20 minutes. This person took five minutes to explain their product. I then went ahead and asked the questions that I had on my list, and a lot of the questions were very much like, "Well, what happens with this information?" or, "Okay, well this happens and then what if I stop contributing or whatever happens?" and, "How long is this process?" A lot of the answers I got during this interview was, "Oh, I don't know. Well, I'm not sure. Oh, I'll have to figure it out." And this wasn't someone that was new to the company because I had checked on that. This person had been with the company for a long time. I don't know if they weren't expecting the questions, or I wasn't giving them the right... I don't know what it was, but they didn't seem to know the answers to my questions. Now, we're about 12 to 15 minutes in and this person is like, "Oh, well, yeah, you can email those questions and I'll email a response back to you. I'm going to have to go now." I said, "But, the call was scheduled for 20 minutes and I have some more things that I'd like to ask and would like for you to explain a little bit more." Her response was, "Yeah, but just email them to me and I'll email you a response. I've got to go now, bye," and that was 16 minutes of the 20 minute conversation where they were trying to get me to do something. So, I waited with bated breath for this email to come through, and I got the one email, and I haven't responded yet, and I haven't heard from them since. This is a huge, global company. Customer service is key, people. Just following up, and it doesn't have to be aggressive following up. It could just be like, "Hey, here's this information and if you have any questions," and follow up a couple of days later. It's the really simple things that make the difference. For example, I did an interview in a podcast, totally forgot about it, and a month later I received this beautiful box with information and it was a gift box. I'd totally forgotten about it but it made me feel special. That little bit of customer service goes a long, long way. Listeners, please email me at janice@thecareerintrovert.com and tell me a time when you have had awesome customer service and what that meant to you.

Today I'd like to talk to you about Open Space Leadership, or how to get everybody running your practice. Open Space Leadership is practiced by strategic leaders in participation age companies, and really by any good leader anywhere. It encourages distributed leadership because it allows and actually requires every one of us to lead in some way. Open Space Leadership is the act of throwing out an idea, concept, need, or data point and inviting everyone and anyone to jump in, participate in solving it, and to share and the rewards.

Welcome back to another episode of Exceptionally Average; the podcast that shares the real and inspiring stories of "normal", everyday people. Today I'd like you to meet Merissa Forsyth; a woman on an incredible mission. She's the inspirational founder & CEO of the Pretty Foundation, and today she wants to share her story with you. In 2012, Merissa quit her high-flying corporate career in marketing to launch a charity that focussed on the early education and prevention of body image issues in young girls. We talk everything from how the heck you even begin to start your own charity, to the scary stats that young girls face in today's society. Want more? Of course you do! You can follow @pretty_foundation or find them at prettyfoundation.org (I can highly recommend the Charlie's Tales books if you have a little miss in your life). And as for me, you can find me @exceptionallyaveragepodcast on instagram.Got a story for me? Slide into my DMs, or shoot me an email exceptionallyaveragepodcast@gmail.com

Listen to a new episode of Speak English Now Podcast, your favorite material for practicing your spoken and heard English. You will also learn about lifestyle and culture, language, vocabulary and how to improve your English more effectively. Transcript: Hi, everybody! I’m Georgiana, your online English teacher. My mission is to help you to speak English fluently. Speaking English is way easier when you use the right material and techniques. In the first part of this episode, I'm gonna talk about lending and borrowing something and how to get a loan from the bank. And in the second part, you’ll practice your spoken English with a question and answer mini-story. All right, let's get started! Today I'd like to talk about loans and the related vocabulary. Loans have always been a feature in all countries, societies, and cultures. Person A has some money, and person B needs money. Then person A can lend money to person B. When we talk about lending, we don't talk about giving. Giving means permanently, without a time limit. For example, if I say "I'll give you the car," it means that the car won’t be mine anymore, it'll be yours. When someone gives a loan, it's under certain conditions. That is, he agrees to give money under certain conditions. You can say, "give a loan," or more formally "grant a loan." (END OF THE EXTRACT).   Read the TEXT here: speakenglishpod.com  

Shownotes: As time goes by, many things now get charged for a price, and that includes being a guest on a podcast. It can be compared to guest blogging, there are certain sites that charge a certain amount if you want to promote a book, event, or a site of your own in a channel with a large audience. This happens because the hosts use a large amount of money to maintain their sites, and not all potential guests show up or fulfill their obligations. Have you ever paid to be a guest on a podcast? How did it go? As a listener would you like to know when someone has paid to be on a podcast?  And then there are companies like Forbes. Hello and welcome to The Traveling Introvert. Today I'd like to talk about something that's come up recently and it is pay to play, and to some people, this might be triggering just because of the fact that they're like, "Oh wait, but pay to play. Isn't that something you can't do? Isn't that something to stop networks from taking over?" So the reason why I want to talk about pay to play is because there are some podcasts that now will charge people to be interviewed or be on that podcast, and some people are very open about it and some people are not so open about it, and there is a split amongst the podcasting community on whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. On one hand, it helps weed out people who might be wasting your time. There's a lot of time that's spent by podcasters setting up the interview, doing all the research, waiting for someone to come online and then they don't turn up for the interview and they may or may not reschedule, and that is time wasted by the podcaster. On the same note, it could be that this particular podcaster has a huge reach and if you go on that podcast, it's almost like going on Oprah, if once Oprah says, "This is a thing.", the place sells out so you are buying basically advertising and so why would you not pay for that? On the other hand, there is the camp that thinks that if you are going to pay for play, then you should state so very clearly and be upfront about it. The idea is someone should want to talk about something, not necessarily just go on to sell. It should be a conversation, it should be a growth, it should be a learning and so there is a divide on the pay to play. Now the thing is pay to play is not just with podcasting. It's also with companies like Forbes for example, they have a a council that you can be on, they approach you, they tell you how wonderful you might be as a good fit to be on this council like board and how you can, you are able to go and you can write articles and be quoted and they'll put articles together with best practices and that sort of a thing. But you do have to pay a yearly, basically a yearly subscription fee to have access to a, being able to be published on Forbes and to have a badge that states that you are a member of the Forbes Council. So these are all things that give you exposure but they want you to pay for them and you are basically paying to advertise. And so there is definitely a split between the process of what might be seen as pay to play and what might be seen as advertising. And it might just be the mindset of how you go about it or it could be the, well you're not being upfront about it. Because definitely for the Forbes Council, if you try and look online about it, there isn't a lot of information. They reached out to me a couple months ago to be on board one of these councils and when I was trying to find out information how much content was out there and how things, their process was, it was just very murky. I can't find a lot of information online. There were a couple of people who did put that information out there, but it's not very well stated. When you see a particular, you'll say it's a contributor for Forbes, but it doesn't say that that contributor has to pay sort of a monthly or yearly subscription to be able to post on Forbes. So it's very, very interesting how that works. I would love to know audience your opinion on pay-to-play, whether it be something for like Forbes or something like when you're being a guest on a podcast. Where do you draw that line? Where is it advertising and where is it paying to get ahead from somebody else, which is kind of what advertising is. Is there a wrong or a right way? It just depends how you look at it. I would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you for listening. This was a quick one. This was Janice from thecareerintrovert.com helping introverts launch their podcast with minimum overwhelm. I would love for you to write in, email me at janice@thecareerintrovert.com if you have any questions or any topic you would like me to cover on the show.

Today I'd like to talk to you about why victory and defeat have no place in your practice. We want to get rid of the idea that victory and defeat even have a place in your practice in any way, shape, or form. Every situation in life, we deserve only one response. Fascinating. Whether it's a victory or defeat, respond first with, fascinating. Then, respond with, how did it happen? If the person who was defeated in some way started with fascinating, how did that happen? Immediately, they're trying to figure out how to keep from repeating that again. And if someone who thinks they want it, they perceive it as a victory.

Surcharging and Cash Discounting are hot topics in our industry right now. I've already published a lot of content about these. Today I'd like to help sales people and business owners decide whether these are worth a try...

Sales and marketing are like yin and yang and we all agree that money has to be spent in order to drive growth of any organisation. But when it comes to trade shows something just went wrong and it seems like only few do it right. Today I'd like to share with you some of my ideas on how to stop wasting money on exhibitions and trade shows in the technology world. Enjoy.

Shownotes: Interviews are one of the most nerve-racking parts of the job application process, especially for an applicant who’s also an introvert! The small talks with the interviewer can get us really nervous and end up getting awkward, but there are ways to avoid that. In this episode, I’ll be sharing some tips for the introverts to help them ace this interview and make a really good impression! Hello and welcome to the Traveling Introvert. Today I'd love to talk about strategic ways to get through and interview, and prepare for an interview more than anything. So, this is the before you get to the interview stage in person, these are a couple of things I think will be really, really helpful. Now, one thing is to arrange your day strategically. The thing is, normally we're rushing rom place to place, and we get to the interview and we're a little overwhelmed already and we're nervous. And stuff is going on, and you're thinking about what to say and how to say it. I highly recommend that you plan to have a cushion of alone time, recharge time, balance time, both before and after the interview. So, you can recharge. You'll be better if you're fully charged for the interview. So, I highly recommend you do that. Even if it's just 30 minutes alone, where you can meditate, where you can read a book. Not going over your notes. What you should be doing is nothing that involves the interview, or gets you worried about the interview. It's just whatever it is that you need to stay calm and focused, and to recharge. This strategy ensures you'll have maximum energy during the interview, which, you know, is crucial when you're speaking to people about yourself. The next thing I'd say is small talk. We don't like it, but we know we have to do it. And so in an interview, or even just before an interview, it's really important to set the tone and vibe with your interviewer, so you will have to make that small talk. What I've learnt is that I've come up with a couple of questions in advance so you're not thinking and scrambling. Maybe you can ask about seasonal activity, or discuss hidden gems in the area that they're in, like a good place to eat, or something of that nature. Don't use normal ones like, "Oh, so how was it to get here?" Or the weather. Don't do that. Use it as a way of maybe figuring out something about your interviewer's personality. It's a good idea to remind yourself that the ultimate purpose of the interview small talk is to build a rapport with your interviewer, and make them like you. So, it's not a waste of time, you just have to be strategic about it and plan what you're going to ask and why. And the other thing is we all know first impressions are key, but also the last thing you say, the lasting impression is also key. So, think about it in advance. Smile, the handshake, the body language that you use is really important when you're first meeting your interview, along with those key questions that you're using for small talk. Because normally they're like, "Oh, how was it getting here?" And you can answer, and engage in conversation. But make it a little deeper. That will work in your favor. Similarly, you want to end on a high note. So, most interviewer's try and summarize their thoughts quickly, so that after you leave the room, they can figure out exactly what they're thinking. And they're less accurately going to remember what you said at the start, unless it as a clanger. So, you want their last impression of you to be as awesome as the first, because that's normally when they're taking notes, or having a conversation. Make sure you have a big smile, say it was great to meet you, great for the opportunity. A firm handshake, end on a high note. That's what I recommend. So, those couple of things that you need to think about when you're thinking about the interview. Now, the other thing you need to think about is you should mirror the body language of the person who's interviewing you. Of course they're going to know you're doing this, because that's what they're trained in. Don't go overboard. But you want to match the interviewer's tone. And the reason I say that is because a lot of introverts can come across as standoffish and bored, distant, unenthusiastic, and lots of other negative words. And that might not be the case. We might just be internally thinking and scrambling, and look that way. So, to make sure that your interviewer doesn't have this impression of you, just subtly copy the interviewer. If they use a lot of gestures, also use gestures. Think about the tone. Is it professional? Courteous? Telling jokes? Whatever it is, try and meld with that. So, those are my tips on sort of pre-interview techniques to stop you getting too nervous and too worried about what you're going to say. Have little notes in advance as well, of things you could talk about, as well as the highlights of your career. Thank you for listening, this is Janice from the Career Introvert. I look forward to helping you with your business and your career moving forward, along with your introversion. Thanks for listening.

Welcome to Speak English Now Podcast. With your host Georgiana. The podcast that will help you to speak English fluently with no grammar and no textbooks. Hi, everybody! I'm Georgiana, your online English teacher, and founder of speakenglishpodcast.com My mission is to help you to speak English fluently. Today I'd like to talk about introverts and extroverts, and at the end of the lesson, you'll be able to determine your personality type. And you'll learn how English grammar changes through a small point of view. We're going to meet Tom, a guy who doesn't like to be around people much. So... how was your week? I hope everything went well. I've already recovered from the effort of decorating my house. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can listen to episode #088. Remember that you can find the text of this episode of my website speakenglishpodcast.com   Let's start!   What is extroversion? Extroverts are usually the life of the party. With their outgoing and magnetic personality, they easily draw people to them. So, if you want to know if you're an extrovert just think about how much you enjoy being and interacting with other people. Do you enjoy chatting and having long conversations with all kinds of people? Do you get bored when you're home alone? If the answers to most of these questions were "yes," then you are probably an extroverted person. That is, you are a very sociable person. And apparently, there are more extroverts in the world than introverts. Can you guess what Tom Hanks, Oprah, Johnny Depp, Madonna, and Jim Carrey have in common? That's right. They are all extroverts. And... do you know how to tell me the opposite of extraversion? Well, this one is easy. The opposite word is introversion. If you like having your inner space, spending time alone with your stuff, then you are an introverted person. By the way, make sure you don't confuse the term introversion with shyness. A shy person is someone anxious about interacting with people, especially strangers. However, an introverted person simply prefers to spend less time with other people. In my case, I enjoy going out, and I have a lot of friends, though from time to time I need some alone time. If you're an extrovert, you're probably asking yourself just how an introvert survives alone.  Well, as an introvert when I'm at home I enjoy cooking something healthy and watch my favorite TV show on Netflix, other days I just read an interesting book. And what do I do when I'm not at home? Well, I usually love going for a long walk as much as possible. It's a great way to relax and I often listen to an audiobook or a podcast. And no. I don't listen to the Speak English Now podcast. :) Although if you want to improve your English, you should definitely give it a try. Anyways, the bottom line is that I consider myself moderately introverted. What about you? What's your personality type? Are you an introvert or an extrovert? I'd really love to know. Famous people who are/were introverts: Michael Jackson,  Monroe, Britney Spears, Julia Roberts, and Lady Gaga.   READ the TEXT here: speakenglishpod.com

Welcome to Speak English Now Podcast. With your host Georgiana. The podcast that will help you to speak English fluently with no grammar and no textbooks. Hi, everybody! I'm Georgiana, your online English teacher, and founder of speakenglishpodcast.com My mission is to help you to speak English fluently. Today I'd like to introduce you to American history. After all, if you really want to consolidate your English, you'll have to learn more about American culture and society. And what better way to start than with George Washington the first president of the United States? George Washington was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental First Army that fought the British when the country was not yet established. During the American Revolution, Washington led the colonial forces to victory over the British and was considered a national hero. He became the first president of the United States in 1789 in the first American elections. He was also elected for a second term in 1793. Therefore, he was the only president to win 100 percent of the electoral votes. In the United States, people celebrate George Washington's birthday on the third Monday in February. Like that people always have a day off even if his birthday falls during the weekend. Many people want the holiday to celebrate the birthday of another president, Abraham Lincoln, who was also born in February. Therefore, different U.S. states have renamed the day Presidents Day.     READ THE TEXT HERE: speakenglishpod.com  

How's your communication? All your relationships good right now? Finances in order? Yeah... most of us struggle with the same things. Today I'd like to persuade you that taking care of things right now with any accompanying discomfort will give you far more of what you want later on in business and life.

Does it ever feel like you'd get so much more done if it weren't for how much work people have you do to make commitments? Today I'd like to help you understand whether the development team you're on is using commitments in a way that makes sense, or will stress people out and put the software project at risk! Since most teams I have worked with aren't really agile, I'm concentrating on helping you understand the risks with commitments between the wrong people which often happens in "traditional" software development companies. Whether your a programmer, in UX, or maybe operations - commitments that are too strict, or too unrealistic, put your job and the success of the project in danger. First I will teach you some insights I've learned about how commitments can cause agile teams to grow toxic. Afterwards, I'll give you some actionable tips on what you can do to cope with traditional (non-agile) teams that require unrealistic commitments. I hope this information helps you select the best project for your career, or if you're on an unhealthy team - protect yourself so you have the best chance of being successful! You can also watch this episode on YouTube.  Related resources: The Secret of Scrum Nobody Talks About An Agile Budget Keeps You From Being A Code Monkey What REALLY Gets Software Developers Promoted? How Agile Teams Grow Toxic! Ep. 3 Forecasting Why Do So Many Programmers Lose Hope?   Visit me at JaymeEdwards.com Find me on Facebook at JaymeEdwardsMedia Find me on Twitter as @jaymeedwards

Today I'd like to try something different. I've linked to an audio resource about a topic for listening practice, a blog post for reading practice, and some questions to think about. Basically, I'd like to know what you think about working from home, and what your ideal office would look like. What is important to you? Do you like to be oaroundother people? The show notes for this episode, where you'll also find the other links, are here: https://englishwithkirsty.com/podcast/episode155

Hi, my name's Doctor Warrick Bishop, and I'd like to welcome you to my podcast channel. Today I'd like to discuss energy drinks. We all know they're incredibly common. We see them advertised. We see them in shops and we see not only sportspeople but young adults and teenagers consuming these beverages regularly. Well, what are they? What sort of things do they contain? What benefits might they offer? What risks might they carry? And what's a little bit of the history to these drinks and their arrival on the global market?

Today I'd like to invite you to listen to my interview with Bartosz Kunka who is the inventor of C-Eye. A device that helps people affected by severe health problems like TBI, stroke or hypoxia and as a result they are not able to communicate with the doctors, their relatives or even express their emotions. In the interview we will discuss how the device works, how Bartosz came up with this idea and how difficult it is to actually introduce C-Eye to the market, or people who need it the most. I hope you will learn a lot today, I surely did when I recorded this interview. Experience, comment, share and enjoy!

As we move into this new year, people often set new goals. Today I'd like to challenge you not just to set goals, but to think about the things you need to leave behind in order to move forward. Sometimes we make plans to move forward but we are still carrying the baggage of the past. Let's move forward operating in our best potential. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tisha-talks/message

In the first couple of episodes, I've talked with travelers who are doing it on thier own. Today I'd like to introduce you to a couple I met at TBEX (Travel Blogger Conference) in New York that have learned how to use their individual strengths to start a great travel partnership. In this episode, I'll talk with Sarah and Shannon Miduski of Obligatory Traveler about: The appeal of Panama for a first travel experience Using Miles and Points Spending power and defusing via too many credit cards Stacking other loyalty programs and using gift cards Petting a Penguin in South Africa (Two Oceans Aquarium) Where is the best ice cream? United States and the World Bushwhacking on an Uncruise Juneau, Glacier Bay, Sitka, Gut Bay National Park stamp book Audio Tour of Philadelphia Story behind the Barnes Foundation in Philly and the Rocky Statue Find show notes at https://www.travelfuelslife.com/podcasts

Today I'd love to talk about the number one thing that I think is stopping people from starting an online business. There is just so many people watching dozens of YouTube videos, reading articles about how to avoid mistakes in a specific online business model, but they simply don't start. The reason they haven't started yet (maybe you find yourself in that group as well) is they're afraid of failing and they're not realizing that the only thing that's moving them towards success is the work they put in and the actual results in the end of the day. I hope this opened your eyes just a little bit. f you're a beginner in affiliate marketing, I highly recommend you check out my free course - 5 step-by-step training videos on how to start generating passive income from affiliate marketing - www.reviewsleague.com/letsgetstarted For more valuable content be sure to follow me there: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mattaffiliate/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mattproaff/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattproaff LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-pro-... Have a splendid day!

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Meg Harrison, Black Wing FarmsUse KSCO20 as a code at checkout to get a 20-percent discount on your purchase. This is probably what will become the first of several appearances (over months) by Meg Harrison, founder of Black Wing Farms and an expert on using flower essences to solve behavioral problems in animals. If you have ever used Bach Rescue Remedy for yourself or a pet, you've used a flower essence. When Brittany first appeared at our home, she suffered from severe separation anxiety and ended up having to be near me all the time and go everywhere I went over a period of months. At that time, I tried one of Meg's flower essences and could never tell how much it helped. Didn't hurt, but was Brittany actually less anxious? Hard to tell. (Today I'd start an anxious dog on CBD oil and go from there). I have two thoughts about what Meg sells: 1) It works and 2) It doesn't work. I don't think she makes up her many success stories, but where I saw Brittany's rear legs improve within hours of her first CBD dose, I am not sure what flower essences did for her. But I have an open -- even hopeful -- mind about their efficacy. Something I don't really have for homeopathy. If flower essences can live up to the claims, I'd use them in all my transport situations. And rescues. I haven't done extensive testing and I'd like to find a tester with no preconceived expectations about flower essences if I can do a trial. Brittany, by the way, lost her separation anxiety over a period of months and is now comfortable being alone for hours at the time. From her website: 44 years ago, Meg Harrison, founder and owner, was using flower essences for the treatment of alcoholic teens. Then she had a revelation in the aftermath of a horrible horseback riding accident when the horse's owner used flower essences on Meg and her horse to great effect. Since that time 25 years ago, Meg has created a wide range of products to help with the mental, physical, and emotional needs of animals. Uses of these products were well proven in the wake of the Southern California wildfires of 2003 where her products helped to calm and stabilize traumatized pets and farm animals who were lost, injured, or abandoned during the fast-moving blazes. At this time Meg decided to market her products and became BlackWing Farms. In 2005, Meg then went to Louisiana and volunteered (eventually to be hired by the Humane Society of the United States) to help care for the animal victims of Hurricane Katrina (and while there also weathered Hurricane Rita). Again the value of her flower essences was proven as time and again they effectively helped to calm and treat the animals in the care of the Humane Society of the United States and the Louisiana SPCA. Since then the products of BlackWing Farms have been requested by various distributors including Jeffers Pet Catalog, as well as the animal rescue organizations, Best Friends Animal Society, ASPCA in NYC, Animal Farm Foundation, the Humane Society of the US, The Gentle Barn in their rescues and longterm care of slaughterhouse animals. Within the last 10 years, we also began to market a line of sprays for use by people to affect mood. This product is a direct descendant of the flower essence concept used by Meg 40+ years ago and are formulated using flower essences and essential oils. Here is the bio Meg provided: Meg Harrison, author and flower essence expert specializing in animal behavior, has successfully helped thousands of behaviorally-challenged animals using proprietary formulas blending essences, carefully chosen essential oils, and homeopathic remedies. Working with trainers, health care practitioners, rescuers, and shelters nationwide; she is able to facilitate positive change in the vast majority (93%) of cases, no matter how difficult or emotionally damaged. Experience includes: rehabilitating rescues from puppy mills, hoarding cases, court-ordered seizures, research labs, captured Mustangs, feral cats,

Often in my counselling room I’ll come across people saying the exact same thing: that they wish they’d seen the toxic truth of their partner earlier, before investing their time, emotions and energy into a relationship with them. I’m always interested to listen to these kinds of stories. Every story is complex, and they’ve been on an emotional rollercoaster, but there’s always a common thread between these stories that emerges: the evidence of their partner’s toxic behaviour was there from the beginning, they just didn’t see it. Today I'd like to explore these behaviours with you.

Hi, everybody! I’m Georgiana your online English teacher. My mission is to help you to speak English fluently. Speaking English is way easier when you use the right material and techniques. In the first part of this episode I'm gonna talk about lending and borrowing something and how to get a loan from the bank. And in the second part you’ll practice your spoken English with a question and answer mini-story. All right, let's get started! Today I'd like to talk about loans and the related vocabulary. Loans have always been a feature in all countries, societies, and cultures. Person A has some money, and person B needs money. Then person A can lend money to person B. When we talk about lending, we don't talk about giving. Giving means permanently, without a time limit. For example, if I say "I'll give you the car," it means that the car won’t be mine anymore, it'll be yours. READ the TEXT here: SpeakEnglishPod.com  

Today I'd like to share some of my family history with you. This episode is about the cousin of my great-grandfather, Jan Oko. He had the same name as me and was also fascinated by languages. On my blog, you can find a full transcript of this episode and some exercises to review grammar and vocabulary: https://wp.me/p4D8ou-RjIn the podcast, I used the file Hoerspielwerkstatt_HEF from freesound.org.

You need a goal. And a system. What if you don't need a goal to do what you need to do? Let's talk about what a goal is good at, and not good at, and get you ready for the rest of the year! Welcome to the second half of 2018. This is the perfect time to look at the goals you set in January and be real with yourself. Are you truly working on them? Have you made progress? What do you need in order to work on them? Today we're going to talk about what to do AFTER you set a goal...and we're going talk about some advanced-level stuff - maybe you don't need a goal at all. A few weeks ago a Starship Captain said, “You know, I can't really think of a goal. I feel like my business is going in the right direction, if I just keep doing the work I know to do.” YES! That is what it's all about! See, a goal is not the POINT, a goal is just a tool to help you get what you want. A goal should: Inspire you to kickstart work you haven't done before (or get more consistent with the work) Clarify the direction you want to go, so all your actions can line up to what you actually want Make it obvious what you need to do and what you need to commit to, to make it happen. This is why not reaching your goal is sometimes just as productive as reaching it. You can learn from a goal you don't reach. Maybe you learned that your timeline or expectations were wrong. Maybe you learn you don't actually want that goal. Maybe you learn you need a different business model, or you need to work on totally different projects. The GOAL of a goal is to bring you that clarity, to help you learn the lessons in your business. I wrote a whole book about, and lead people through the process, of setting a goal and breaking it down into a plan because I've found that having a set goal, and then working towards it, is the fastest way to learn from your business. Setting a goal AND creating the plan makes you: Get specific about what you need to do Organize your time so you can do the stuff Try stuff you might otherwise put off Create systems so you can be consistent in all aspects: making, marketing, photography, shipping, etc For MANY of the makers and artists and essential oil educators that I work with, setting a goal and then breaking it down into a doable plan is the first time they've gotten serious about their business. It's the first time they've really looked at what they even want, and what they're willing to do to get there. Without a goal it's easy to just keep reading articles, researching, wondering why people aren't buying, and then go read another article. With a goal, you have to take action (or you realize you haven't been taking action!). And here's the cool thing about all this - after a goal gets you taking action, getting organized, creating systems for getting things done...you don't always need a goal to keep going. In fact, the system itself can keep you reaching your next goals. In his book How to Fail at Anything, Scott Adams, writes that systems are better than goals. Systems of action, applied overtime, bring about better results that one of goals. When you don't reach a goal, you feel bummed, but when you're working a system - every day that you do the work, you can feel great and accomplished. What's a system? Posting on Instagram is a system. My podcast, with it's transcript and free downloads and blog posts and youtube videos and audio version on iTunes - that is a system. I don't have a goal to put out a podcast, I have a system that gets it out consistently Now, I disagree with Scott, because I think he doesn't address a major issue in accomplishing anything - activation energy. Activation energy is the energy that it takes to START something. What I've found in working with hundreds of women in creating the business they want is that a big, exciting, motivating goal can help you over the hump of activation energy. It can inspire you to spend that energy and move forward powerfully and quickly. A system isn't that inspiring :) But after you're over the activation energy, a system is what you need in order to keep moving forward. A system about when you work, what you work on, how things get done. Today I'd like you to look at where you wanna go in your business and your goals for the rest of the year - where would a system help make it easier? I made a worksheet last year about staying consistent that will help you spot these places for systems. Listen in and get your free worksheet at TaraSwiger.com/podcast215

Hi, my name's Dr. Warrick Bishop, and I'd like to welcome you to my consulting room. Today I'd like to speak with you a little bit about stents. Stents are the scaffold that go into arteries to open up those arteries. They're deployed by being laid over a balloon. The whole device; the stent and the balloon are passed into that narrowing.

Today I'd like to speak with you with something that comes up in my consultations on a regular basis and that is the patients ask me: Does stress cause heart attacks? It's a pretty reasonable question. The broad answer is they probably do.

Many things can go wrong with your home purchase that can slow the closing process down. Today I am joined by Evan McDonough to give you five things that you should be aware of to keep your closing on track.Want to Buy a Home? Search All Homes Want to Sell a Home? Get a Home Value Report I am joined today by Evan McDonough of Family Mortgage to talk about pitfalls that can prevent a home closing from happening on time and how to avoid these common missteps as a buyer.There are a few important precautions all buyers should take as they embark on their home search. Today I'd like to list five things, in particular, to keep in mind if you're about to begin this process yourself.1. Maintain your credit score. Lenders will first pull your credit score during the pre-approval process, but will also monitor it throughout the transaction. So avoid taking out unrelated loans or making major purchases during the home buying process. It's important to keep your credit score consistent as you apply for financing for your future home. I recommend that you consult with your lender about the specific variables that could impact your score.2. Maintain your current employment status. Believe it or not, you have to have the same job during your pre-approval as you do at your closing, so do not change your job. We have to verify employment within ten days of closing for every single client. Even if you get a new job lined up, do not quit your current job. Doing so will stop the loan process.3. Make sure assets in your bank account can be verified. Do not put actual cash into your bank account, because where that cash came from cannot be verified. If you have cash in your home, do not put it into your account right before closing. Talk to your lender about how to verify your assets.4. Read and sign the closing disclosure. Four days before the closing date, you will have to sign a closing disclosure. Making sure everything is in order with your closing disclosure is critical, because this will indicate whether you're set to close on time. While working with your lender, ask them if you are on track to have your closing disclosure signed, because that will indicate whether you’re on track to close on time. If you’re selling your current home before closing on the new one, make sure your lender gets your sale of home closing disclosure. If you have this document prior to or on the day of closing, make sure you give it to the lender. This will enable them to fund the purchase and give you the keys on time.“Do not put actual cash into your bank account, because where that cash came from cannot be verified.”5. Watch out for wire fraud.Wiring scams have become a significant issue in our market. You may receive false instructions via email from a scammer posing as someone legitimately affiliated with the transaction. Before wiring any funds, verify that the instructions are legitimate. Call your agent, title company, or lender to make sure they were truly the ones behind the email you received. Picking up the phone and having a conversation could help you avoid a mistake that could potentially compromise your home purchase. At the end of the day, verify everything verbally. If you have any questions, pick up the phone and talk to your lender or agent to make sure before you don’t do anything to potentially compromise your major purchase.If you have any additional questions for Evan about lending, you can contact him by calling (561) 625-2660 or by email at evan@familymortgage.com.And, as always, if you are interested in buying or selling, please feel free to contact me by phone or email. I look forward to speaking with you soon.Evan McDonoughFamily Mortgage(561) 625-2660evan@familymortgage.com

Today I'd like to speak a little bit about how we keep you in normal rhythm if you've had atrial fibrillation. Normally we have to make that decision to try and keep a normal rhythm based on a couple of things.

Podcast Episode 24 Transcript Welcome to The Teaching Space podcast, coming to you from Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Hello, it's Martine here, and welcome to Episode 24 of The Teaching Space podcast. Today I'd like to talk about how I use Asana to manage my teaching workload. Asana and Trello Actually, I'm not just going to talk about my teaching workload. I use Asana to manage my entire life. I use it in combination with some other apps, but ultimately Asana is the hub of everything. So I've tried pretty much every task and project management tool out there. After lots of trial and error, I settled on Asana. But I must give an extra special runner-up style shout-out to Trello. Trello is a really good project management tool. I think Asana is a little bit more complex, but also a bit more powerful. So if you're looking for something slightly more simple then go with Trello, it's very visual and does similar things but in a different way. Asana - A Brief Overview In this episode I want to talk about a few of the principles I use to manage both my teaching and home workload, even though Asana is my tool of choice, these principles could be applied to any project management tool quite easily. But I will just tell you a bit about Asana in case you've wondered what it is and how it works. This is a very brief overview. You can find Asana at Asana.com;it is a web and app-based freemium project management. When I say freemium I mean there is a free version and you can pay to get additional features. Have to say, the free version is excellent. The paid version has some nice features, but they are the sort of features that might appeal to somebody with a large team of staff and a large business. So for a teacher or trainer, even if you are self-employed, the free version of Asana is likely to do the vast majority of things you need. For example, I work with a virtual assistant. and she's part of one of my Asana projects for the podcast, and I assign a task to her via Asana in that way.  Virtual and Physical Workspaces So you can, with the free version, work with a team if you want to. You can set up multiple workspaces with Asana. So I have a workspace set up for home and that covers everything from my meal planning to my business activities that I do when I'm not in my day job, my teaching job, and then I have a different workspace for my teaching job. For me, those two separate really nicely. They're about my physical location, so when I'm physically at home I'm doing things that are like meal planning and doing the podcast and that sort of thing, and then when I'm physically in my day job office, I use my other workspace. I hope that makes sense. I don't think I explained that particularly well. But my workspaces are essentially based on my physical location. You might find it works better for you to have just one workspace, and I can totally understand that, because if you have one workspace you can get a very big picture overview of what your commitments are. Asana's Organisation  Depending on how your Asana is set up, everything is separated into projects, tasks, and sub-tasks. If you have an email address that's your own domain, for example, I have @theteachingspace.com, so my email address is hello@theteachingspace.com. If you have that setup you can get an extra layer of organization, which is teams. So it goes: teams, projects, tasks, sub-tasks. You can't see this, but while recording the audio I'm doing some quite vigorous hand gestures just to really explain to you what I mean. Calendar Integration  As I mentioned just before, one of the great things about Asana is, you can work with colleagues, staff, whatever your setup is, and delegating tasks is nice and easy. Asana also integrates with your Google calendar. That integration isn't as good as I'd like it to be, but I do have a workaround, which I'll mention to you in a moment.  You can also view your tasks within Asana in a calendar view, which again, can be nice and helpful. For me, the best view on Asana is called My Tasks, and what that is is an overview of all your projects, and your tasks are pulled in to that particular view with due dates, and you can reorganize them in there. That's the thing that I am constantly looking at. So that's my very brief overview of Asana. I understand it's quite a visual thing. You can find the video at theteachingspace.com/24. My Seven Tips  These are my seven tips for managing your workload through Asana or an alternative project management tool. 1. Everything Goes In Asana If something's not in Asana, it doesn't exist, it does not happen. One of the main reasons people fail with project manage tools is they simply don't use them properly. If you don't put every task you have to do into your project management tool, things aren't going to work properly. A question I'm often asked, and it's related to this principle, is, "What do I do with events? Do I put events into my project management tool?" The answer is no, all of my events, meetings, appointments, that sort of thing, they go into my Google Calendar. If there is work to be done in preparation for those events, then I will create a project or a task, whatever's appropriate, in Asana, and I will tie in the due date to the date of my appointment. But my rule of thumb is, events go in Google Calendar, tasks go in Asana. 2. Always Have Asana Open To Update And Check Always have Asana or your web based project management platform open in your browser, constantly update and check it. In the same way that if you don't book your tasks into your project management tool, if you're not checking it regularly and ticking things off, it's not going to work. It should be the place that you go first thing in the morning, last thing at night, and you're constantly checking in throughout the day. 3. Use My Tasks To Organise Your Day Number three is an Asana specific one, use the My Tasks view to organize your day and to overview what you've got coming up in the near future and the distant future. This is an underutilized view in Asana by a lot of users. So if you already do use it, check out My Tasks and make sure you're using it in the most efficient way possible. 4. Create Workflows and Templates For Frequently Repeated Processes. This is going to work for any project management tool. I used to do this in Trello, I do this in Asana. I'm going to give you an example. When I create a podcast episode there are lots and lots of different steps, and some of those steps are done by me and some of them are done by my virtual assistant. So what I do is I create a long list broken up into subheadings of each task that needs to be done, and every time I'm dealing with a podcast episode, I copy and paste that process into a new task. This saves so much time. So be thinking about whether there are any processes that you repeat that could benefit from having a workflow or a template like this. 5. Facebook Groups Number five is a little bit controversial, but bear with me. There are lots of Facebook groups dedicated to specific project management tools and techniques. It's a great idea to join some of these in order to get tips and tricks on how to use your chosen tool as effectively as possible. 6. Say "No" More Often By having all of your tasks in your project management tool, you have a really good idea of what needs to be done today, over the next week, and in the future, and you should have a good idea of how long these things are going to take. Because they're all in one place, when someone asks you to do something and you can see you simply don't have time, it becomes a lot easier to say no. Practice with me now, come on, "No." It is a word I don't say often enough, but I'm working on that, I am learning. That is definitely a benefit of using a tool like Asana. 7.  Use Asana or Your Project Management Tool of Choice With Other Tools Trello is a great example, it integrates beautifully with other tools. Asana I'm currently using in conjunction with HourStack, which you'll find a hourstack.io. HourStack enables me to use the time blocking technique for managing my workload. I'm trialing it at the moment. It is a paid product, it's about $6 a month, something like that, but I'll make sure there's a link on the show notes, if you would like to check it out. So integrate your project management tool with other tools to make it even more powerful. Your Project Management Tools I'm really interested to hear from you if you use Asana or if you use a different project management tool, or if you don't use a project management tool but you really want to. I'm giving serious thought to putting a course together aimed at teachers and trainers probably about Asana, but I do have the experience of Trello as well, so that's an option too. But if it's something you might be interested in, then drop me a line, I'd love to hear from you. Probably the easiest place to chat to me is in our Facebook group, that's The Teaching Space Staff Room, it would be great to see you in there. Wrap Up Right, that's all from me today. I hope you've enjoyed the episode. Before I go, pretty please could I ask you to consider leaving a positive review on iTunes about the podcast? Because what that does is, it enables more teachers and trainers to find The Teaching Space podcast, and I would be forever grateful. Thank you so much for tuning in. I hope you'll join me next time.

Today I'd like to cover a few cardiovascular risk facts that you may find interesting. Fact #1 is related to alcohol. Everyone's ears prick up when you mention alcohol and cardiovascular risk. Well the question is, does abstinence improve your risk of avoiding a heart attack?

Today I'd like to share a couple of blood pressure points with you. A few little hints and tips. So, a couple of questions and let's see how it goes.

Today I'd like to give you a little bit of an update on the Lipid Guidelines from 2013 American Cardiology and the American Heart Association. I guess the thing that I want to try and convey is from those guidelines, who do we really think benefits from cholesterol lowering?

Today I'd like to talk about a topic that's a little bit sensitive at times. Today I'd look like to talk about bringing children to your consultation. So, talking about parents with their children can be a bit tricky, as you might imagine. And they can be a subject that needs to be dealt with with care and understanding.

Yesterday was Mother's Day... a day to celebrate the strong amazing women in our lives who have helped raise us, teach us, and have loved us more than life itself. Today I'd like to share with you an inspiring article written by Rachel Marie Martin. Her blog is FindingJoy.net. The article is called "20 Mom Things I Wish I Had Done More Of". Keep in mind there are many points that can pertain to your life even if you aren't a parent.     Links Mentioned in this Show:   Rachel's Article: 20 Mom Things I Wish I Had Done More Of Rachel's Blog: FindingJoy.net   Episode #95: Take Time To Savor Your Little Ones Episode #96: Dear "In A Minute" Mom   Share this Episode: CarlaRaeArneson.com/episode161 Share this Podcast: LifeMadeSimplePodcast.com   Simplicity University: SimplicityU.com   Free Guide:  "9 Ways to Simplify Your Life"   Or send a text to 44222 with the word 9SIMPLIFY   Free Download: "5 Steps to Organizing Your Home"  Or send a text to 44222 with the word ORGANIZE   Website: CarlaRaeArneson.com Facebook: Facebook.com/CarlaRaeArneson   Submit Questions: CarlaRaeArneson.com/AskCarlaRae

Today’s podcast is about how you can create the marriage you want by embracing who YOU are! Yes I said “Embracing who you are!” You, sweet sister, are a lovely, amazing woman, and you bring some pretty phenomenal qualities into your marriage relationship. Today I'd like to remind you of that and show you a very simple way to use your God-given gifts to make your marriage more of what you want it to be. If you need more inspiration, click -- HERE -- to download your FREE Marriage Makeover Guide. And check out my private Facebook Group: The Happy Wives Community

Today I'd like to teach you some common expressions with the word "think." You'll learn: inclined to think shudder to think can't think straight think nothing of (doing something) and many more! Lesson text: https://www.espressoenglish.net/10-english-collocations-with-think  1000 Collocations E-Book: https://www.espressoenglish.net/1000-english-collocations-in-10-minutes-a-day/ 

Today I'd like to talk to you about a new concept that we’ve developed which we’re calling the Corporate Governance Network. Over the last two years, through our consulting business – Towers Business Development Pty Ltd – we have conducted a series of workshops on behalf of the AusIndustry (a department of the Federal Government) on the Role & Responsibilities of Company Directors.

Today I'd like to chat with you about why everything about you is worthy of love. I'll share some of the recent difficult and beautiful moments in my health journey, and the steps I took to transform a challenging experience by practicing acceptance and kindness towards myself. This episode was recorded live from a Facebook broadcast in The Podcast Cafe: an online community where "This Is Not What I Ordered" listeners gather and connect. I spend time thinking with listeners who submitted comments while tuned in to the broadcast, some of which came courtesy of one of our earliest guests, Tara Cameron (Episode 4). Together, let's reflect on treating every part of yourself kindly—even the parts you may not be a fan of—and bringing a welcoming spirit to all that arises in you. You can read the full show notes at www.thisisnotwhatiordered.com

Today I'd like to try a new segment called drinking stories with special guest Colton! In the series we share drinking stories, drinking experiences and just a whole lot of fun and excitement! Tune in for more, let me know if you enjoy it call into anchor. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stu-swenson/support

Want to sell your Lexington Home? Get a FREE home value report. Want to buy a Lexington Home? Search all homes for sale.Today I'd like to speak about the importance of home warranties. Not a lot of people know, but they can be valuable to both buyers and sellers. I'll be explaining why this is true today.The warranty that we recommend to our buyers is the HMS Home Warranty that is offered by Berkshire Hathaway. If I'm listing a home, I also like to recommend that my sellers also purchase a warranty for the home buyers. This is a nice gesture, and it's a major benefit for a buyer to purchase your home. It gives a buyer peace of mind, and that's extremely valuable in this industry.One thing that sellers can do is purchase a home warranty up front and they will then be covered during the listing period. The sellers will only have to pay for the warranty once the home is closed. This essentially means that the sellers get a free home warranty.This warranty covers all mechanical components including plumbing, electricity, hot water heaters, etc. Warranties don't cover pre-existing conditions, so you can't buy one and then have your roof replaced with it.These policies aren't too expensive (they start around $500) and we don't make any money by selling them. We just think it's a great idea for our buyers and sellers.As always, please don't hesitate to contact me if you need help buying or selling homes in Lexington!

Today I'd thought I'd give you a peek into the internal struggle I went through when I got hired for my first "big-time" gig, and then got fired around a year later. I think the lessons I learned along the way can be helpful to you- whether you're an aspiring pro drummer, or just want to be a great drummer on your own!Get FREE drum mixing tutorials, drumless backing tracks, and a 14-day click track training program at ProDrumAcademy.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello everybody! Today I'd had that chance to sit down with Bob Burgess Make Green Go Green. Health and wellness is very important to Bob, and after being overweight himself, and struggling to get everything under control, he pushed through and now help others with their journeys. Find out more from Bob: www.makegreengogreen.com/bobburgess For more from the NH Business show, check us out at : www.NHBuisnessShow.com chrisPastrana.cardtapp.com All NHBS social media accounts: https://clyxo.com/nhbusinessshow

Podcast Episode 3 Transcript Welcome to Episode 3 of The Teaching Space podcast. Today I'd like to share with you seven books that have made me a better teacher. My Reading Habit I should add, at this point, that I read between 2 and 4 books a month. I'm an avid reader but I wouldn't be able to read this much if I didn't listen to audiobooks. I consume all books via audio, with the exception of maybe one or 2 a year. It's an extremely efficient way to read. The downside of this is that there aren't many decent teaching books on Audible which is where I get my audiobooks from. So the books that I'm going to share with you today are about general personal development. I hope you find them interesting.  Here goes: (1) Finish by Jon Acuff My first book is Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done by Jon Acuff. I struggle to finish things. I'm a chronic starter so this book really appealed to me. While Jon Acuff's book is actually aimed at entrepreneurs rather than teachers, it includes some highly relevant, sometimes surprising strategies, for actually getting stuff finished.  The biggest takeaway for me from this book was the fact that perfectionism is one of the main barriers to finishing anything. We explore perfectionism in teachers and trainers in episode one of the podcast. (2) Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo Next up is Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo. Teaching is, of course, far more than simply presenting. But we could do a lot worse than following the example of top TED speakers like Sir Ken Robinson. This book shares the public speaking and presentation secrets of many of the world's best TED speakers. It's definitely worth a read or listen.  (3) How to be a Productivity Ninja by Graham Allcott My next book is How to be a Productivity Ninja by Graham Allcott. Teachers and trainers are some of the busiest people I know, so this is a must-read. I'm going to read you out the blurb from Amazon because it captures the book perfectly: "In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don’t cut it when it comes to overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings. Thankfully there is a better way: The Way of the Productivity Ninja. Using techniques including Ruthlessness, Mindfulness, Zen-like Calm and Stealth & Camouflage you will get your inbox down to zero, make the most of your attention, beat procrastination and learn to work smarter, not harder." (4) Presence by Amy Cuddy Book choice 4 is Presence by Amy Cuddy. If you have not watched Amy Cuddy's famous TED Talk "Your body language may shape who you are", you absolutely must! Following on from this talk, in her book, Cuddy shows us we need to stop worrying about the impression we are making on others and instead change the impression we make on ourselves. Cutting-edge science reveals that if we adopt behaviours reflecting power and strength we liberate ourselves from the fears and doubts that obstruct us. So by redirecting our thoughts actions and even our physiology, we are freeing ourselves to be our very best. This is powerful stuff and really useful for working with students as well as working on your own self-confidence. (5) Out of our Minds by Sir Ken Robinson Book number 5 is Out of Our Minds by Sir Ken Robinson (one of my personal heroes!) I'm going to sum up the book with a quote from Sir Ken. He's so eloquent that it's all I really need to read to convince you to read this book: "It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential—in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities—we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative." - Sir Ken Robinson (6) Getting Things Done With Work Life Balance by David Allen Next up is Getting Things Done With Work Life Balance by David Allen. This book contains a detailed explanation of Allen's GTD system. One of the biggest takeaways for me was the idea of having one trusted place to put all of your ideas and your to-do items so you don't have them scattered around in various apps and on scraps of paper.  While I don't follow the entire system of GTD there are elements of it that I still use today in my own approach to productivity. This is a very interesting read. (7) Mindset: the New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dwek My final book is Mindset: the New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dwek. In this brilliant book, Dwek shows how success in school, work, sports and the arts, and almost every area of human endeavour, can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. In other words, our mindset. This book (Mindset by Carol S. Dweck) is transformative for teachers and learners alike. There you have it. Those are seven books that I believe have made me a better teacher. I hope they are of interest to you too.  Book Club? I have been thinking about starting a book club in my private Facebook group The Teaching Space Staff Room. Wrap Up That's it for me today. I hope I've given you something to think about.

Today I'd like to take you inside my Finish Strong Challenge so we can talk about the benefits of SMART Collaborations. If you are struggling to be seen and attract a steady stream of customers online, it just might be time for you to start working with key influencers in your industry as a way to gain more exposure. Today we will expore3 essentials to reaching out to potential partners, speakers and media publications in the interest of working on a collaboration project.

Hey everybody, welcome to Meiguo Shushu Shuo Yingyu (美国叔叔说英语). Today I'd like to talk about jujube (枣). Some people have asked me about the name of this fruit in English. Is it red date? Chinese date? Well, both of those names are ok, but the much better name is "jujube". It is a delicious fruit, and a fun name to say. Right now is the right time to eat some jujube in China. They are delicious, nutritious, and good for your health. The jujube is native to China, and it grows all over the country. Have a great autumn everyone, and I hope you love jujube as much as I do! Thanks for listening to Meiguo Shushu Shuo Yingyu (美国叔叔说英语).

Do you find it hard to be honest with others about some aspect of developing software? Or maybe you find others are withholding truths, and you wonder why? Today I'd like to share some ways I have been dishonest earlier in my career, and I now see are common in our industry. Not Admitting Being Unfamiliar With Something In short time, we can gain a lot of knowledge about technology and software development processes. If we're not careful, this leads to a "big head" or inflated ego, and we can feel embarrassed if we haven't heard about "the new hotness". If we're honest with others when we don't know something, they trust us more to be transparent, and they know they can share things they are excited about without us shutting them down in an attempt to be seen as the expert. Saying "Yes" To Work You Don't Understand It is often that on software projects we are asked to estimate work based on the information another has captured for us. If we don't fully take the time to understand it, or have a self-inflated sense of our level of skill, it doesn't take much to agree to work when we shouldn't. I learned to say "No" more strongly and honestly about 5 years ago, and it has helped me on numerous occasions. When I didn't do this, I would often put myself under extra pressure, and have to reset expectations with the other party who is now upset that I can't deliver what they expected. Not Admitting We've Overlooked A Process Step Software development is inherently complex and often requires many moving parts to be changed in a very specific sequence to accomplish work. As humans, we will inevitably make mistakes. Under pressure, I have failed to be honest with others that I simply forgot a step in my desire to be seen as the expert. I have become MUCH better about being honest about this now, but it is very common in more junior technologists. When we take responsibility for forgetting something, we build trust with others who know we will hold ourselves accountable for our actions. Making Generalizations About Others In our desire to be seen as the expert, we can sometimes have just a few interactions with another person and then paint them as incompetent or lacking in skill to others. This thinly-veiled attempt to make ourselves appear smarter than we are casts doubt in all but the most unsophisticated of people. If the person you made a generalization about meets the person you said this to, they will find out that you are quick to judge and make inaccurate statements on a whim. Just don't do this! Not Being Honest About Your Level Of Contribution We work hard to produce quality deliverables and value for our team and customers on software projects. And few things feel better than a customer or someone else at the company saying "great job!" But I have not always been as forthcoming about the work others did to support me in successes, and since getting better at this my ability to motivate others and build trust has gone up tremendously. When you check yourself when receiving a complement and remember to include others who were part of the success, you build a positive emotional connection between you and them, and deepen the trust and loyalty necessary to keep a strong team together. You can also watch this episode on YouTube. Visit me at JaymeEdwards.com Find me on Facebook at JaymeEdwardsMedia Find me on Twitter as @jaymeedwards

Do your projects move forward with many assumptions that turn out to not be true as things progress? Today I'd like to share how learning of a team failure produces better software when you plan to exploit this ability. The overall assumption that most projects operate under is that the project will be successful. However there are several smaller assumptions upon which this one is built. Often these smaller assumptions need to be verified to make decisions that keep the overall state of progress moving in a sustainable direction for the product. Assumptions About The Skill Of The Team If the team isn’t as skilled as assumed, projects will take significantly longer and more brittle to change. Assumptions About The Quality Of The Release If the team hasn’t put the appropriate quality checks in place, changes assumed to have a certain level of quality that don’t cause rework. Assumptions About Full Understanding Of Scope If the team is assuming requirements are complete, they look at scope change as failure. Assumptions About Value Of Features & Changes If the team is assuming changes being released are valuable to customers, but there aren’t measurable ways to know whether that’s true, waste could be being released. Doing Less At One Time Is THE KEY To Learning Through Failure Overall, the key to learning that we’ve “failed” in some way and need to adjust direction based on what we’ve learned FASTER is to do less at one time! Doing Less Between Releases Minimizes Risk If we make a mistake to a small change, the impact of that change should be smaller than releasing a large change. This minimizes the impact of rework or breakages. Doing Less Between Releases Motivates Realignment If a team iterates on a backlog that hasn’t been significantly changed since the project starts; the business has low motivation to realign. If a team is taking action on the feedback of rapid releases, the business must be more responsive. Doing Less Between Releases Improves ROI For every day that development continues without a release, there’s no return on investment. By releasing more frequently, the team has the opportunity to provide value to the customer with less capital. Doing Less Between Releases Improves Skill If we do a production release every 6 months, how good are people going to be at it? Doing less between releases forces the entire team to practice release practices more often. This results in a team with higher delivery skill. Fail Faster By Having Artifacts That Provide Feedback Having tools and processes that give us the state of a change at any time lets people know a failure to some process has occurred early. This enables people to take action on issues as they emerge and catch them before the change makes it out to customers. Fail Faster By Using Cross Functional Teams The lag time that occurs between separate departments for disciplines needing something and sub-contracting “as a service” causes releases to take longer. If we want to fail faster, we need to have all the people needed to release the product dedicated to it and working together so there is no lag time to service outside of the immediate group. Fail Faster By Holding Retrospectives Have a meeting to talk about what went well and what didn’t over the past release (Scrum) or several releases (Kanban). This is an easy way to learn earlier that the team is failing to follow processes that are working for the project. Fail Faster By Releasing To A Limited Audience Rather than learning that there’s an issue with a release from a large number of voices from your customer base, have a system in place to release to only a small subset of total customers. This is known as ring releasing or canary releasing. Fail Faster By Having a Measurable Pass/Fail Many projects release a large number of features. If some KPI changes positively, it is difficult then to know which of those features or changes caused the positive change. Use A/B testing to verify that investments actually impacted a KPI. Fail Faster By Focusing On Valuable Outcomes Most projects have a large number of features. Rather than keeping everyone busy “burning down” a large list, figure out how much money the business is losing by NOT having each story (cost of delay). Work on the highest cost of delay ideas with FOCUS since those are the most economically viable! Fail Faster With Justin-In-Time Scoping If a team does detailed requirements on a large quantity of work, it creates psychological attachment and wastes money. Teams should instead only get the details of the top items on the list periodically. Fail Faster With Monthly Budgeting If we assume that we’ll learn we need to change what’s built every release, we need to re-budget every release with project % complete accounting. Rather, budget monthly to provide the capital needed to take action on changes to customer needs with less pain. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.  Related resources: How To A/B Software Development To Find What Customers Value   Visit me at JaymeEdwards.com Find me on Facebook at JaymeEdwardsMedia Find me on Twitter as @jaymeedwards

Are you confused or frustrated by the amount of energy spent discussing sexism in the workplace and how men are to blame? Today I'd like to offer some insights and opinions that might help men make smarter decisions about how we treat people to make sure we're not damaging our careers and making it difficult for people to work with us. Disclaimer: These Are MY Personal Opinions First a disclaimer. I'm a heterosexual man and these are just my opinions after many years working in the industry that I've observed and experienced. I'm not qualified to talk about what makes the workplace safe for women, but I can share how my own shortcomings and observations of other men's behavior makes it hard for everyone. Purpose: Get You To Think More Seriously About This Issue  The purpose of this video is not to tell you what the solution to all of these issues is, but to get you to think about how software developer bro culture affects all of us. My hope is that this will lead to you spending some time researching the issue to reach your own conclusions with intention. What's It Like To Work With "Bros"? First I'd like to share what it's like to work with other "bros". On an all male, or male-dominated team like I've been on several times, unchecked aggression, free exchange of ideas regardless of how they make people feel, and shaming are prevalent. The people who do this don't always intend for this outcome, but as the team grows and these behaviors are left unchecked, it becoming "the norm" is the result. Men Can Feel Threatened By Women's Support Of Each Other  I share a story about how a man approached a group of women discussing their lives in the park while my wife was at Yoga teacher training in Boulder. He made the crude joke "what is this the man hater's group?" which underscores how men feel threatened by women's support of each other. Because we can often feel it is a sign of weakness to support each other, we can lash out and say and do stupid things when we are uncomfortable. Men Fear Losing Relationships If They Show Vulnerability I also read a brief passage from "Daring Greatly", a New York Times Best Seller by Brene Brown, speaker, PHD, and researcher on shame and vulnerability in modern culture. In the passage, I describe the real struggle men feel when they don't have a safe place to express vulnerability. I've included a link to the book at the bottom of the page. The conclusion I draw is that men can become afraid of losing relationships that are important to them if they show vulnerability. Misery Loves Company So why do men continue to behave this way? One reason is the concept of "misery loves company", or the phenomenon where men engage in behaviors and ways of relating that make them feel worse about each other just because it feels good to be part of a social group. Standing up for ourselves to not engage in this behavior and instead hold ourselves to a sustainable, higher standard is the first step in rejecting this attitude. Domination Focus Will Limit Your Career Progress We also behave this way because we're modeled from a very early age to dominate others. However, domination will severely limit career progress as we move from company to company, or team to team, as our "bubble" of acceptable behavior is broken and we're forced to interact with wider, more diverse groups of people. Lacking Empathy Can Cause Others To Abandon You A lack of empathy will ultimately cause others to treat us with low respect. When things inevitably go south in any shape or form on a project, and leadership looks for someone to blame, if you treat others like objects of your will and not people you will be at the top of the list to take the fall. This is another form of short-term thinking and it doesn't take long for your career reputation to catch up with you - making a sustainable plan for growth much more painful than necessary. Compromising Work/Life Balance Makes You Easier To Replace In our quest to advance in our careers, we unfortunately often compromise work/life balance with the expectation that this will help us get ahead. In reality, though it might result in a short term promotion or advantage, we actually make it EASIER to replace us with younger, naive employees that will do the same when we inevitably grow tired. Men can do a better job than this and stand up for a fair balance of work by refusing to contribute to the workaholic mindset. Industry Veterans Owe It To Younger Colleagues To Improve Culture Since we will be working with the next generation as we progress, we owe it to our younger colleagues, regardless of their gender or ethnicity, to improve the tech culture. If we accept software developer bro culture as the default way teams interact, we are simply destining ourselves and others to a short career filled with disappointment as we're not prepared with the social skills and empathy needed to progress. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.  Related resources: Daring Greatly (Amazon)   Visit me at JaymeEdwards.com Find me on Facebook at JaymeEdwardsMedia Find me on Twitter as @jaymeedwards

Do you want to try something new that requires other people to support you? Today I'd like to help you understand how to earn trust for your software development ideas. Honestly Evaluate Your Current Skill Before you begin to win trust for a new idea, you need to be critically honest with yourself about how skilled you are with implementing the idea. It’s fun to try new things, and we’re never “good” at them when we do them for the first time, but we should be careful not to “over-sell” our abilities. Consider A Time-Boxed Research Spike To Determine Effort You might want to consider using a time-boxed research “spike” to explore the true effort to try an idea, and to learn more details about what you just don’t know enough about yet. A time-box is simply a fixed period of time during which discovery of the idea or problem will take place before re-visited again. Make sure you set the expectation with others that the conclusion of this spike will not be everything needed to move forward, but that it’s a chance to regroup and decide how much additional time to spend. Establish Your Role In Collaborating Critically important to getting your skills used so you can win trust with others is to establish your role when working with them. This isn’t the same as your job title or the skills you contribute to an effort or team, but rather what role you play in serving another. Role 1: The “Expert” The first role is the “Expert”, where you essentially swoop in, do the work, and vanish. Though this can be tempting for the person doing the work as you are essentially “not bothered” but the person you’re working with, you miss the opportunity to get feedback and really deliver excellent work that meets both your needs and draws from both your skills. Role 2: The “Pair Of Hands” The second role is the “Pair Of Hands”, which is somewhat the opposite of the “Expert”. In this role, the other person directs your every move, and it’s common in companies with a command-and-control structure or where micromanagement is the norm. This can provide more control to the other party, but it misses out on their ability to have more feedback from you while doing the work. Role 3: The “Collaborator” The third role is the “Collaborator”, which is what you want to try and shoot for with anyone for which you want to gain trust. In this style, the two of you do the work together and have an opportunity to both contribute ideas, provide feedback, and make progress. It may help to share these definitions with others to get them to understand the value of the collaborative style. Align Motivation For Ideas With Others It’s crucial that you align the purpose for the changes you wish to make to the motivation of the other party when “selling” the change or idea. You won’t know this without really knowing the person and their struggles, and so you should consider following my advice from other videos to get to know people on a more authentic, personal level. This will give you the ammunition you need to make sure the other person “gets” why the change is important – to THEM. Use Incremental Wins Towards A Larger Goal Though the idea you have might be of immense benefit in some way, it’s quite possible that the work involved, and changes to the mindsets of those effected, is too much to take on in one go. To get around this, slice up a large change into small increments and only “sell” the first piece. When you’ve successfully delivered this change, it will get easier to win support for future changes. Eventually you’ll get permission to make a larger change in one go. Plan Your Detachment From Success It can be tempting to be seen as the expert or guru around a particular change you helped make on a team or at a company from your ideas, but if you want to continuously innovate in your career, it’s better not to. Plan how you will detach from the success you make on a project or with a company so you are not a bottleneck that must be the “go to” person for that change from then on. You will want to explicitly bring others into the fold, make sure they are trained and understanding the change as well as you do, and able to step away when the change is complete so you can pursue your next big idea. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.  Related resources: "Flawless Consulting" (Amazon) How To Be A Servant Leader On Software Projects Minimum Viable Product - Letting Software Customers Help You Profit   Visit me at JaymeEdwards.com Find me on Facebook at JaymeEdwardsMedia Find me on Twitter as @jaymeedwards

Are you feeling worried that you won't get what you want out of your career? Today I'd like to share 5 ways to cope with the anxiety of software development. Overcoming Past Failures The first way software development can cause anxiety is when another party you're working with, or perhaps even you, have experienced failures in the past. If you can learn to be OK with having to prove yourself again, and that others may look at you with scrutiny because of what went wrong before that was totally outside of your control, you'll find greater peace. Battling Forced Commitments The second way software development can cause anxiety is when someone is obligated to a commitment for which they were unable to influence the terms. A common example of this is when a software developer estimates work for another. Do whatever you can to help leaders understand the value in the creative ways individuals solve problems, and commit to less without involvement from the person who will actually do the work. Overcoming Impatience In our quest to achieve our goals, we can often become impatient. When we rush to reach our career goals and dreams, we don't enjoy the journey and often make poor decisions in our haste. If we can calm down and savor the moment when we achieve a goal, we won't jump to start the next one without actually slowing down to enjoy what we just worked so hard for. Permitting Yourself To Heal I've personally had many tragedies in my life and failures on the job, and when I don't take vacation or whatever time is needed to fully heal - I'm never at my best. Permitting yourself to take time off to heal is crucial to doing your best work and enjoying software development. If you want to feel less anxiety, you must take care of yourself and put your needs above whoever at the company has expectations for you. If they don't understand, tough! Your health and well-being are more important than trying to keep yourself "together" if you're experiencing anxiety because you need to take care of anything going on in your personal life. Rejecting The Scarcity Mindset In our society today the perception that we don't have enough money, a high enough social media score, aren't attractive enough, or won't get the opportunities we want can result in crippling levels of anxiety. Rather than let this completely FALSE mindset effect us, we need to be realistic about the abundance of opportunity available in this industry. The sooner we can take a step back and realize just how many options there are outside our current situation, and have the courage to explore these while embracing uncertainty - the sooner we can calm down, try what might be more fulfilling, and steer in a direction that's better for us. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.  Visit me at JaymeEdwards.com Find me on Facebook at JaymeEdwardsMedia Find me on Twitter as @jaymeedwards

Are you looking for a way to get people with different disciplines to work together better when developing software? Today I'd like to talk about the journey to cross functional development teams and some of the considerations on your way to integration. What Is Cross-Functional Teamwork? Cross-functional teamwork is simply taking people who used to be in separate teams or departments and putting them on the same team. To get there people go through a series of phases or stages. Phase 1: Ad-Hoc The first phase is what I call “ad-hoc”. Someone at the company has done some work that would typically be thought of as associated with a discipline (Operations, QA, Support, UX as examples), but they don’t think about how all the things associated with that discipline should be handled. Phase 2: As-A-Service The second phase is “as a service”, or what most people in medium to large companies often experience. This is where there is a dedicated department that does Support, Operations, UX, or QA; as examples. When a product team needs help with one of the skills of these separate teams, they use their expertise as a service. But these teams are still independently managed and measured. Phase 3: Embedded The third phase is “embedded”, and what most people think of when they hear terms like DevOps, Embedded QA, or Embedded UX as examples. Folks who were on a separate team are now integrated with the product team itself. They are dedicated to using their skills to achieve a single outcome for the business such as a product or deliverable. Embedding Sometimes Uses An Office / Center Of Excellence During the embedding phase, it’s common to see companies create a center of excellence, or office, who’s purpose it is to help make sure good practices are followed by those embedded in the teams. A “Project Management Office” is a common example of these. An important consideration is, does the person leading this new office have the skill with coaching, documentation, patience, and establishing measurable outcomes necessary? Leading Center Of Excellence Requires Additional Skills Also during the embedding phase, it’s important that all of the people working together on a cross functional team now share in the risks and rewards. If we’re going to expect people to work together towards a shared outcome, and not look out only for themselves and do work in silos, we need to spread the results of everyone’s actions across the team members. Phase 4: Infused / Integrated The final phase of cross-functional development teams is when the skills that used to be primarily sought by a dedicated member of the team around a discipline (again, Operations, QA, UX, Support as examples) are disseminated across team members. This is hugely beneficial since multiple team members can now provide help with more than one discipline, and it avoids bottlenecks due to individuals who are thought of as “the person” for a particular skill being unavailable. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.  Related resources: Continuous Delivery - Are You Missing The Big Picture?   Visit me at JaymeEdwards.com Find me on Facebook at JaymeEdwardsMedia Find me on Twitter as @jaymeedwards

Are you asking team members or maybe your entire company to change the way some aspect of software development is done? Today I'd like to share why software development change initiatives fail all too often. The first thing people are most familiar with around a change is the communication. This can often happen in a meeting where leadership or a project manager states “what” the change is. Though this is a necessary part of the process, it’s bare minimum. The second thing people are familiar with is “how” the change occurs. What training, documentation, and other materials are needed to equip people with the tools or assets they need to make the process change? Next, you’re probably familiar with how interested most teams and companies are in governance. That is, how do we know how many people are making the change, and how successfully? Though it’s important when doing software development that change initiatives are accompanies by measurable goals or metrics, the biggest piece of the puzzle still needs to be tackled. To have the highest chance of a successful change, we must answer the question “what’s in it for me”? But from the perspective of each INDIVIDUAL we’re asking to make a process change or a tool or technology change. Before we can do that, we need to know people on a personal level. And to do that requires spending TIME with people and getting to know their unique circumstances, history, and life struggles and goals. When asking someone to make a change that in no way benefits them, often the best chance of success is to motivate them with some sort of reward. It’s a companies way of saying “we’re sorry you need to do extra work or work differently, so here’s something we want to share to show how we take into consideration to burden this adds to your workload”. In all other cases, understanding each person’s motivation, and what outcomes they might want to be supportive of a software development change initiative, is most often the key, CRITICAL factor in the success or failure of widespread adoption. People change most successfully when the reason for the change is not just communicated, not just understood, but aligned with their own goals! You can also watch this episode on YouTube.    Visit me at JaymeEdwards.com Find me on Facebook at JaymeEdwardsMedia Find me on Twitter as @jaymeedwards

Today I'd like to introduce you to an important member of our team, my daughter Megan.Selling your home? Get a free home valuation. Buying a home? Search the local MLS.I’m delighted to introduce you to a very important member of our team and a very important member of my life. Of course I’m talking about my daughter Megan, who has a big role on our team that she performs wonderfully in.Megan is here Monday through Friday (and when I’m not here on the weekends) and I rely on her quite a bit. She does a lot of things for us, including uploading photos and information to the MLS and distributing that information via our online marketing. She also takes phone calls, keeps agents in the loop about different properties, and so much more.Megan is an essential part of our team. She is in charge of our day-to-day operations as well, including managing the office and dealing with vendors on a daily basis. We’ve got a lot of great vendors so if you’re ever in need of someone to look at your plumbing, your electrical, your A/C, or anything else in your house, we have got you covered. Our vendors are extremely well-vetted and we’ve had nothing but positive experiences working with them over the years.If you have any questions for us or have any real estate needs whatsoever, give us a call or send us an email. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

I love when I see a woman merge her love of design with spirituality in her business. Today I'd like to introduce you to one of these women, Mari Sierra.  I first met Mari at Erica Jago's yoga retreat in Yosemite. Mari led us through a Five Rhythms dance practice as well as a workshop to connect to our five senses. At the time, she was newly married and spent much of her time working with start up companies in San Francisco.  Flash forward a couple years, and Mari has now led several of her own retreats around the world, moved back where she grew up in Mexico, left a partnership that was no longer serving her or her husband and studied for months at a dance intensive in Berlin.  What changed? How did she make a leap to follow her heart, even if it took her in an unexpected direction? In this episode Mari shares: Her story of leaving her marriage and business to follow her heart and become a nomad  Her experience of dance and how she uses it to cultivate a deeper state of spirit flow The intention behind La Mar, her yoga retreat created with Erica Jago Second and third chakra studies - How to tap into your sensuality, creativity and will power Archetypes and the future female - how we can use female archetypes to learn more about ourselves How she overcomes her fears Rituals and practices to connect to self, sensuality, and the earth The upcoming LA MAR yoga retreat in Sayulita, Mexico! Links in this episode: Mari's website La Mar Yoga Retreat July 16-22, 2017 Rising Women Leader's Live Lead Launch Free Webinar - May 24 Mari Sierra is a curious explorer of the mind-body connection and our collective evolution. She designs learning experiences for groups around the world, to explore the depths of the creative mind through yoga, meditation, dance, ritual, mysticism and self-expression. Her passion is to inspire people to inquire within, to open sensitivity to the subtle energy body, with nature elements and the principle of interconnectedness. Originally from Mexico city, she experimented with a myriad of dance schools, shamanic and yogic practices, then moved to San Francisco to work in design and social innovation, where she facilitates creative sessions with technology companies, coaches, and visionary leaders to find the song of their hearts and realign their work with higher intentions. 

Last week I got on a call with a new friend. She's a woman in her thirties and she's involved with several MLMs. She asked if I could help with traffic for one of the programs she mentioned. And I said - probably not and gave her a bunch of reasons why those specific MLMs weren't a good fit. Next thing I know... She launches into a 15 minute presentations to show me why these products are amazing and why I should a) join her in business and b) find a traffic source that works. You can guess what happened next. I lost all interest. Today I'd like to share with you the mistakes she made which made it virtually impossible to "close" me. Follow these guidelines to make your product and yourself interesting to other people. Violate my guidelines and forever be ignored by your best prospects.

When you are a hard working entrepreneur sometimes that passion becomes a pain and you fall out of love for your business. Today I'd like for us to explore 5 things that you can do to love on our business right now. [1] Create A Space to Create Amazing [2] Say Thank You With A Great Gift or Great Offer [3] Create A Business Investment Jar [4] Acknowledge Your Daily Accomplishments [5] Set Your Daily Business Revenue Goals

From what I've seen since talking to small business owners, most businesses fail for 2 simple reasons: The business owners quit   The business owners sabotage their success and thus quit be default So, what can you do to not only stay in the game, but also play full out in this game we call business? Today I'd like to share that with you. 1. Know the minimum amount you need to earn in order for you to be satisfied. This is not a number that will make you ecstatic.  This is the minimal amount of money you need to live a simple and satisfying life. 2. Set clear expectations for your journey towards success. You started your business because you wanted to help people. 3.  Everything takes longer than you think. Businesses are like remodel projects - they take twice as long as projected and we have to invest double the money into it. 4. Stop focusing on the things that won't really get you to where you want to go. We all want to get masterful at our craft.  After all, sharing our gifts with the world is what we started our businesses for in the first place. People who should listen to are entrepreneurs

Happy New Year! And welcome 2017! I don't know about you, but I am so excited to be entering the energy of this new. Over the past couple weeks I have been feeling a sense of freshness, new opportunity, and a feeling that I can only describe as 'having a clean slate'. Even as I write this and I feel it, I know this sensation is much deeper, but those are the words that come forward to verbalize it. So I'm curious, what are you feeling as you step forward into this new year? Are you too feeling the sense of freshness, new opportunity, and possibly a clean slate? Well . . . I think many of us are. My numerology friends tell me this is because we are entering a '1' collective year, a year of new beginnings and fresh starts. I like that. It feels in alignment. Today I'd like to share with you one of my favorite new year rituals! . . . A New Year Oracle Reading. This is a ritual I do each year around the first of the year. It offers wonderful insight into what I can anticipate in the coming year. Tune in and discover how you can do your own 2017 oracle reading and discover what is in the cards for you this year! p.s. I reference a link for the reflection questions and the sheet to record your reading . . . here it is: http://loriaandrus.com/whats-in-the-cards/

Personal Rainwater HarvestingSometimes it's nice to get out of the studio and get up-close and personal to water.Today I'd like discuss small personal rainwater collecting where apartment dwellers and small patio garden growers can create a more sustainable lifestyle. These 60 gallon containers not only collect rainwater, but can be used as a sort of IV drip bag for your planter beds while you're away.Visit us on Facebook (Mr. Wayne on Blog Talk Radio) and watch the LIVE video stream while we broadcast from my own backyard.

Personal Rainwater HarvestingSometimes it's nice to get out of the studio and get up-close and personal to water.Today I'd like discuss small personal rainwater collecting where apartment dwellers and small patio garden growers can create a more sustainable lifestyle. These 60 gallon containers not only collect rainwater, but can be used as a sort of IV drip bag for your planter beds while you're away.Visit us on Facebook (Mr. Wayne on Blog Talk Radio) and watch the LIVE video stream while we broadcast from my own backyard.

Today I'd like to spend a few minutes talking about the many meanings of home, and how setting the right tone at home can help make some great improvements in your life.

 Questions about your Portland Real Estate career? Send me a private email Today I'd like to introduce myself and share a few things about my business. I grew up surrounded by the real estate business. My family was involved in building and developing large scale communities, and I always knew that I wanted to do something with real estate. Just after college, I got into new home sales. I did that for about six and a half years, but at the end, I was selling too many homes. I simply outgrew the business in that market, so I moved into the resale market for a couple years.  Finally, three years ago, I decided to go all in with real estate and opened Green Group Real Estate. Our first year, we did seven million dollars in production. Last year, we were up to $24 million in production. So far for 2015, we are a little over $26 million in production. We are on pace to sell about 60 million dollars in real estate for 2015.If you look at how long it usually takes real estate agents to reach that level of production, you can see that the Green Group is experiencing rapid growth. People often ask me, "How did you do it?" It's simple: I followed systems and models from Keller Williams. Keller Williams is the number one training organization in the United States. I also surround myself with leaders who are doing more than I am. They are great people with big visions. I aspire to be like them, so I take whatever methods they are using and make those methods work for me. That's where the systems and models come in!My goal with this video blog is to provide you with all the information on how I've built my business. I'm passionate about giving back and helping real estate agents achieve their goals, so please, don't hesitate to reach out to me with any questions!

It's easy to sit around and opine about how much better the world would be if government would just get out of the way. The problem is we have very few case studies to draw from. Today I'd like to look at one of those cases, this one from India. From there we'll move over to Finland where they've decided to abandon their century-old welfare state for a "Universal Basic Income." If that sounds a lot like a negative income tax, that's because it's basically the same thing. Every man and woman in Finland would get a check every month from the government (about $900) and would be allowed to spend that money however they prefer. In return, the entire bureaucratic labyrinth of agencies and oversight would be abolished. Now I am no fan of a guaranteed income, but I will admit that if I have to choose between that and what we have now, I think I'd have to side with something similar to a UBI. Today is an episode of grey lines. Rarely is the world of choices as clear as some would make it. What I hope is that you'll finish today's with a better understanding of the pro's and con's of the choices you make and consider the idea of moving closer to liberty even if it means accepting a lesser form of tyranny. JasonSupport the show.

Today I'd like to talk about the importance of trading the trade and NOT the Market - If you're a beginner, watch this!

.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } There are many great Placer and Sacramento area homes for sale. Click here to perform a full home search, or if you're thinking of selling your home, click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation so you know what buyers will pay for your home in today's market. You may also call me at (916) 529-5342 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation to answer any of your real estate questions.Today I'd like to give you a brief real estate market update in order to give you a clearer picture of our local market.In Sacramento County we had 2,620 homes for sale, which was an increase of 8.8% over last month, but a decrease over last year at this time. 1,905 homes are pending for sale, which is an increase of 10.3% over last month, and a 24% increase in home sales over last year.The average price per sq. ft. in Sacramento was $184, which is an increase of 6.7% over last year.Our average days on market was 34.The sale to list price ratio is sitting at 98%, and the median home price is at $290,000.Now let's take a look at Placer County There were 1,222 homes for sale, and 560 homes actually sold. More good news is that 665 homes are pending for sale right now, which is nearly a 30% increase over last year.Average price per square foot is $202, which is a 3% increase.Average days on market is right at 37, and the average sale to list price ratio is right at 97%.The median homes price is currently $403,000 dollars, which is up from $380,000 last year.In most areas, we have less than a two month supply of homes, which is putting us in a strong seller's market. This shouldn't scare away buyers though, because interest rates are still sitting at historic lows. However, they're not going to get any lower, so you should buy as soon as possible if you've been thinking of buying.Please don't hesitate to reach out to us if you need help buying or selling in Sacramento. I would love to serve you!

.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Looking to buy a Greensboro home? Search all homes for saleSelling your Greensboro home? Get a FREE home value report Today I'd like to speak about some of the more common mistakes that homeowners make when trying to buy a home.One big mistake is not getting pre-approved right away. People will often get excited and start searching for homes that are way out of their price range. Narrowing your home search from the beginning is important, and speaking with a lender about what you can afford to buy will help you accomplish this. Another mistake is not getting the proper inspections before you move into the home. Your home is likely your largest asset, so why wouldn't you want to protect that investment with a home inspection?Buyers also sabotage their own sale sometimes by making offers that are much too low, or being nit-picky about repairs. My advice is to repair the things that are important to you, and let the rest go. A few hundred dollars is not something that you want to lose a home over. I also suggest acting quickly in this market, because if you take too long to make an offer, the home may already be sold. We can help you avoid many of these pitfalls by having a one on one buyer consultation, where we will walk you through the process of buying a home. If you're thinking of buying or selling in Greensboro, please don't hesitate to give me a call!

Today I'd like to discuss some everyday issues and suggest how they effect us.  Some may appear to be far removed from us personally, but when we think about them, we realize that we are paying a high price in more ways than one.  Listen in and call in now toll-free 888-773-4496.  Look forward to hearing from you.

.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } There are many great Madison, WI area homes for sale. Click here to perform a full home search, or if you're thinking of selling your home, click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation so you know what buyers will pay for your home in today's market. You may also call me at 608-205-1321 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation to answer any of your real estate questions.Today I'd like to talk to you about some challenges we are seeing in the mortgage industry from a buyer's perspective. Today we are here with trusted mortgage professional Bill Quigley of Network Funding. He has a few tips and insights about the mortgage lending world that he would like to share with us today. First, we want to talk to you about how remarkably fast Bill and his team are at repairing credit. Recently, he had a Madison buyer couple come to him who were already turned down by 2 lenders due to credit issues from past marriages. Bill was able to take them to his proprietary credit repair partner, who guarantees to repair credit in 30 days. Instead of not being able to qualify for a home, they are actually closing in 2 weeks. A lot of times, it takes people months to repair their credit, so the fact that they were able to do it in 30 days is absolutely incredible. If you've had credit issues in the past, don't give up. We are solution-oriented business people who just want to help.Now, let's talk about interest rates in Wisconsin real estate. They are still hovering right around 4%, near all-time lows. The Fed has been keeping rates low for some time now, but change is coming. They are easing up on their purchasing, which will cause rates to eventually rise. The good news is that you can lock in an incredibly low rate now. If you are thinking of buying a home in the next year, locking in a rate now may save you thousands of dollars in the future. Figure out your budgets and what you can afford, then come to us and we will help you lock in that low interest rate. There’s no telling what the future holds for interest rates in Madison, but the present says that now is the time to lock them in. If you have any questions for us, please feel free to reach out. We would love to help you out!Bill Quigley NMLS# 288189 | Mortgage Lender | Network Funding, LP NMLS# 2297 | 2417 Parmenter Drive, Middleton, WI. 53562 | 608.831.4663 | 608.836.1527       | * Bill@MadTownMortgage.com  | www.MadTownMortgage.com |

Introduction to the Me Being Crafty podcast. Today I'd like to share my story around creativity and being a creative person, and let you know what the Me Being Crafty podcast is going to bring.

What use is an F-call? In a previous discussion I talked about decibels. The take home from that was that a decibel represents a ratio between two things. The gain of an antenna over the gain of a standard reference antenna, or the power loss between the start of a coax cable and it's end. I also mentioned that there are several other things with dB in them. Today I'd like to introduce the dBm, or Decibel milliwatt. It's a unit used to compare and contrast different levels of output. Unlike the Decibel, which is a ratio, the dBm is an absolute unit. It is referenced to a Watt. In audio and telephony, it's relative to a 600 ohm impedance, but in our RF patch, it's relative to a 50 ohm impedance. So, how do you use it, what does it mean and why is it useful? Let's look at some large and small numbers. If you look at an FM broadcast radio station, it typically uses 100 kilowatt, a 1 with 5 zeros. If you look at the received signal power of a GPS satellite, you might get 0.2 femtowatt, or 0.000 and 12 more 0's followed by a 2. Using those kinds of numbers side-by-side is a hand-full, prone to mistakes, and there are better ways. Instead of using Watts, we could also express the output power of an FM station as 80 dBm, and the GPS satellite signal strength as -127.5 dBm. Those numbers are much easier to work with. Think of it as 80 dB gain over 1 milliwatt. When you're dealing with ratio's, to string them together, to look at say the loss of the output coming out of your radio, through a connector, through the coax, through another connector into an antenna with a certain gain, using decibels, you can simply add the losses and gains up and get a number at the end that represents the total loss or gain of power leaving your radio and making it into your antenna and being emitted as a radio signal. Why is this useful? Let's say a connector has .04 dB loss at 28 MHz. 20m of RG58 has a loss of 1.6 dB. A 10m loop antenna has a gain of 2.1 dB over a simple dipole. How would this perform? Simply add and subtract. 2.1 dB antenna gain, less .04 dB connector loss, less 1.6 dB coax loss, less .04 dB connector loss, leaves you with .42 dB gain over connecting a dipole directly to your radio. If you have radio that transmits with 5 Watts, it puts out 37 dBm. If you connect it to the system we just invented, the total output of your radio is 37 dBm plus .42 dB gain, or 37.42 dBm. The effective radiated output of your radio is now 5.5 Watts. If you replace the RG58 with RG8, your antenna system changes from .42 dB gain to 1.95 dB gain, just by removing the 1.6 dB loss from the RG58 and replacing it with 0.7 dB loss from the RG8. The radio, again at 5 Watts, would effectively radiate 37dBm plus 1.95 dB gain, making 38.95 dBm, or 7.9 Watt ERP. Again, doing maths with loss and gain expressed in dB's and dBm's are simple addition and subtraction. If you do this for a 100 Watt or 50 dBm radio, the RG58 based antenna would be 50.42 dBm or 110 Watt vs, 51.95 dBm or 157 Watts ERP. Remember, all we're doing is adding and subtracting dB losses and gain to our transmitter output. If that blows your mind, you could now simply add the gains and losses between your radio, the coax, the antenna, the free-air path loss, the receiving antenna, their coax and their radio and actually calculate what an S5 report might mean when you get it for a DX contact. Or you could calculate how much antenna gain you needed for a QRP moon bounce. That's why it's useful. dB and dBm, they're your friends. I'm Onno VK6FLAB

Today I'd like to answer a question I've been asked many times. The question is: where do I get time to practice everything I do? Indeed, autogenic training, yoga, meditation, martial arts, Chi Kung, reflexology, tea ceremony, gardening, music, and so on. This is quite a list of activities, especially since I was going full time to medical university and learning English on my own. Yes, I did. I also learned shorthand in the meantime, which helped me a lot to write down all my lectures word by word. We did not have technology at that time, as we have it today.   First of all, let's separate two types of learning.  As babies, we learn to walk, to talk, to do all basic things we need to learn. Later we learn to read, to write, to ride a tricycle, to play games etc. This is initial learning. Once we learn to read and write, do we keep learning? Of course we do. We may not spend extra time for that, unless reading and writing is a part of our further education and perhaps part of our future career . But we constantly learn something new about our own language. I can guarantee I can take almost any native English speaker and find some words in the English dictionary that they don't know. If you don't believe me, take a tour inside the hospital and try to name every medical device you see there. Not in Latin, in plain English. Or go to the music store and name every piece you see there. Again, in plain English. We just don't need all that vocabulary in our every day life. But we can definitely learn a lot. And we do. This is ongoing learning...   Want to know more? Listen to my Podcast. DOWNLOAD  

Today I'd like to discuss one of the most popular practices, and that is Meditation. Indeed, everywhere we go, we hear the word meditation. Yoga and meditation, sitting meditation, walking meditation, just meditation, or whatever meditation that could be. Meditation became a generic term to describe the whole variety of practices that came from different religions and philosophies.      Therefore, to say "I am practicing meditation" is like saying "I am into fitness" without specifying what kind of fitness: jogging, body weight, weight lifting, other kinds of resistance or weight training, zumba, aerobic dancing, cycling, cardio kick boxing, etc. So saying I am doing meditation is just letting somebody know that you are practicing some kind of mental, emotional or spiritual fitness, whatever your program is. But that's about it. There's no word meditation in Yoga, Martial Arts, Buddhism, Daoism etc.   Download

Last time we started talking about the Path of the Water, about how soft but strong the water is. Today I'd like to talk more about this in a context of martial art application. First of all, lets define Martial Arts. I am not talking about any specific style now. What is Martial Art in general? It is often seen by many as set of hand-to-hand combat techniques designed to allow one person to defeat another person in a competition. It can be done in a form of wrestling, boxing, various styles of strikes, joint locks, weapons etc., or combination of all of the above.    Well, while there's nothing wrong with some competition, this is not what I am talking about. I am not talking about competeing and winning. Nobody wins a real fight, there are only survivors.   Download  

Today I'd like to talk about the Path of the Water. I mentioned the path of the least resistance a couple of times in my previous podcasts. How to determine where is the line separating justifiable resistance from excessive force?   I often hear people talking about "being like water" in the context of complete non resistance. But is it really so? If water was such a non-resistant substance than tsunami would not present any danger to people, and it would not cause any devastation like it does sometimes. And we cannot blame the ocean for not being like water. So, is water really that yielding and soft?.. Listen to the podcast to hear the full story   Download  

Today I'd like to discuss a topic that tends to push my buttons. Art vs. Craft. Who defines what is art and what is a craft? What is the difference? And why is a four year old selling her finger paintings for nearly 10 grand each in a NY museum? Be sure to call in I'd love to hear your opinion on the topic.

Today I'd like to discuss a topic that tends to push my buttons. Art vs. Craft. Who defines what is art and what is a craft? What is the difference? And why is a four year old selling her finger paintings for nearly 10 grand each in a NY museum? Be sure to call in I'd love to hear your opinion on the topic.