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Send us a textThis episode is your reminder that you don't have to feel ready to move forward.I share a story I've never told on the podcast before—what it felt like to decide to go back to work after 10 years of being a stay-at-home mom, after kidney failure, after thinking I'd never have the capacity to work again. I kept telling myself I needed to feel ready. But the feeling never came. What came instead was a quiet nudge: You get to choose.If you've been waiting for the fear to go away before you take the next step…If you've been stuck in overthinking, perfectionism, or chronic fatigue…If you've been telling yourself, “Once I have more time/energy/confidence, then I'll start…”This episode is for you.We'll talk about:What “not ready” actually sounds like in your lifeHow your nervous system plays a role in delaying actionThe difference between feeling safe and creating safetyThree powerful coaching questions to move you forward todayI'll also guide you through a grounding moment to help you connect back to your body and practice choosing readiness—right here, right now.You're not supposed to feel ready. You just get to decide.→ Loved this episode? Book a free fatigue recovery consult here: Talk to Shelby Let's talk about what's keeping you stuck and what's possible when you stop waiting.→ DM me “READY” on Instagram @shelby.living.vibrantly to start the convo.

Send us a textWelcome to celebrate Poe this is episode 382 - Poe's Pit and Pendulum.Ghost soundGlad you're there Mr. Poe.  You know in the previous episode we discussed the Raven. I would like to take a similar look at what I personally feel is one of your Best stories - the pit and the pendulum - although the black cat, the mask of the red death, the fall of the house of usher, and especially the telltale heart have to be up there with it in terms of popularity todayI found that most interesting, Mr. BartleyWell let's start out by simply asking what kind of literature would you call the pit and the pendulum?My work The Pit and the Pendulum is a quintessential example of Gothic literature, employing several key elements of the genre to evoke fear, suspense, and psychological torment. The story takes place in a dark, oppressive dungeon during the Spanish Inquisition, a setting that is emblematic of Gothic literature. The dungeon is described as mysterious, claustrophobic, and perilous, with features like the yawning pit and the descending pendulum designed to instill dread. This setting creates an atmosphere of gloom and doom, heightening the reader's sense of unease.Please continue Mr. Poe.The narrative revolves around the protagonist's imminent death, with each torture device symbolizing different aspects of mortality. The pit represents an abyss of unknown horrors, while the pendulum symbolizes time's inexorable march toward death. These elements underscore Gothic literature's preoccupation with mortality, decay, and existential dread.Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Poe.

What is the difference between the kind of person who climbs Mount Everest and the kind of person who doesn't? I break down an interesting new research study that studies the difference between those who do hard things and those who don't - turns out there's 2 types of people in this world: State vs. Action oriented people Action oriented people are more resilient, self confident, feel less anxiety, and achieve more in life - turns out you can go from being a State oriented person to Action and achieving all that you want by starting todayI share expert supported top tips and tricks to become an action oriented person and stop feeling stuck - start achieving the life you always dreamed of today@drconniewang, @justaquickpinch

Leave a review! Breastfeeding didn't come naturally for me—and maybe it hasn't been for you either. In this episode, I'm opening up about the pain, the pressure, the unexpected joy, and the slow, emotional process of weaning. Whether you're in the thick of cluster feeds or wrestling with the decision to stop, you're not alone. Let's talk about the unspoken parts of breastfeeding—and why it's okay to feel both grief and gratitude at the same time.

In this bite-sized episode, I'm diving into one of the most powerful tools I've found in parenting: working with your baby's natural rhythm instead of forcing a rigid routine.I'm not here to give you strict nap schedules or set times. This episode is all about understanding your baby's circadian rhythm—their internal body clock and how aligning with it can make sleep smoother, reduce emotional meltdowns, and bring more ease to your day.Here's what I'll cover:What circadian rhythm actually is and why it matters for your child's sleep, digestion, and moodThe signs that your little one's rhythm might be off (like early wakings, nap battles, and bedtime chaos)Why rhythm offers more flexibility and peace of mind than routine ever couldThree simple ways how you can support your baby's rhythm todayI want you to feel less stressed, more connected, and confident in tuning into your child's needs because when they feel safe in their rhythm, everything becomes easier. Sleep improves. Behaviour softens. And parenting feels lighter.You don't need to do it perfectly. You just need to start paying attention to the natural flow of your baby's day—and yours too.→ Join the waitlist for the Thriving Together Membership ($27/month) to grow your self-trust and parenting confidence with ongoing support, deep-dive resources, and a like-minded community.→ Interested in one-on-one help? Explore the Sleep Godmother Program for 3 weeks of tailored support.Would like to access tailored 1:1 sleep support but don't know where to start? Jump on a FREE sleep clarity session with Jen here https://sleepthrivegrow.com/For more information on this topic, head to the show notes: Episode 59 Show NotesAnd I'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode! Come and connect with me on Instagram at @sleep_thrive_grow.And click the +Follow button to never miss an episode. New episodes are released every Tuesday!To find out more about how I can support you, visit my website here. Until next time, Thrivers

Selling on Amazon is rough, being an agency is even harder.Here's how my journey beganThe first client I signed 6.5 years ago is still with me todayI got them off a LinkedIn post and within 48 hours they signedThey were stuck at 4k a month in salesWithin 90 days I got them to 83k a month in salesYears later, they are doing 1-mil a month in salesHere's how I did it:A lot of catalog workI loaded about 100 template files to Amazon in under 90 days for one brand.Why? Because they had UPC issues, and 84 products to launch.I cleared every single UPC issue (hijacked by the Chinese)I registered 5 of their brands, build brand stores, and setup the SEOI was almost in tears trying to fix the template issues and hired an assistant by week 2. I really doubt I made money on this client in the first 90 days. But I gave it my heart and soul.It's become a rallying cry for me. And this client has become a loyal part of my 400 brand portfolio.Today I manage 800+ million on GMV on Amazon.P.S. I had 0 design skills and made a brand store then shot a YouTube clip about how I made a brand store and it got 250,000 views on YT generating me more clients than any other activity I've ever done. If I can do it, so can you! (Make content)#AmazonSales #EcommerceGrowth #AmazonSEO #PPCStrategies #MyAmazonGuy → Use Data Dive with code MAG for exclusive savings!↳ https://2.datadive.tools/subscription/subscribe?ref=otkxnwu&coupon=MAG-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Join My Amazon Guy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28605816/Follow us:Twitter: https://twitter.com/myamazonguyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevenpopemag/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/myamazonguys/Please subscribe to the podcast at: https://podcast.myamazonguy.comApple Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-amazon-guy/id1501974229Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4A5ASHGGfr6s4wWNQIqyVwTimestamps:00:00 - Introduction to My Amazon Guy00:17 - Challenges Faced by Initial Client00:43 - Strategies Implemented for Growth01:16 - Client Success Story and Methodologies01:49 - Offering Free Amazon Brand Audits02:12 - Main Image Optimization and CTR Hack02:41 - Importance of Traffic and Conversion03:16 - Understanding Customer Avatar03:30 - The Power of Specific Marketing03:50 - Success of My Amazon Guy Agency04:04 - OutroSupport the Show.

In the past couple of years, I've been able to accumulate a substantial amount of wealth which I am extremely grateful for. There are a number of reasons I was able to do this however one of them stands above them all. In this podcast, I'm going to share the exact thing that caused me to become rich & attain the wealth I have todayI hope you find it helpful. If you do, consider subscribing :)Thanks,Charlie

更多卡卡老师分享公众号：卡卡课堂 卡卡老师微信：kakayingyu001送你一份卡卡老师学习大礼包，帮助你在英文学习路上少走弯路成功学盛行的时候，经常会听到这样一句话：“我的成功你可以复制。”这句话虽说本身有一定道理，但是忽略一个很重要的细节：时代在变化。我们每个人都是时代的产物。如果现在让马云做阿里巴巴，不一定做得起来。如果现在让雷军做小米手机，说不定就会被市场淘汰。一个人的成功，有些东西可以复制，有些东西是无法复制的。而真正能复制的是什么呢？在我看来，真正能复制的，是一个人在面对失败时所汲取的教训和经验，并结合当下的时代，总结出一套适合自己的路。今天分享一句来自于靜·科爾说过的话。Jean Kerr(1922年7月10日 - 2003年1月5日)是爱尔兰裔美国人。她是美国的作家和剧作家。Quote to learn for todayI think success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure.我认为成功没有规则，但你可以从失败中学到很多。

Welcome to a special episode with your hosts Annie Perry and Alicia Bryan as we uncover and remember the ancient star civilizations of Lemuria and Atlantis!We're exploring: Founding Ancient Lemuria & where those star families come from in our galaxy Everyday life in Divine Feminine Lemuria (MU)Water consciousness and their connection to 10-12D Crystalline Lemurian DNA and the archives under Mount Shasta The allowance of Atlanteans and their experiment on earth Ancient Atlantean technology and creations The Fall of Atlantis and Lemuria Atlantean DNA and their karma being brought to resolution todayI'm glad you're here, don't forget to subscribe and share with a friend. You can find out more about my current offering by clicking the link below, visiting www.wellspringofficial.com or joining me on Instagram @iamthewellspringCONNECT WITH ME: Wellspring Official https://www.wellspringofficial.com/wellspring-linksInstagram https://www.instagram.com/iamthewellspring/ Donate/Buy Me A Coffeehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/annieperry27   DISCLAIMER: Information in this podcast is meant to be informative and is not professional mental health advice. Please seek professional help if you are experiencing anxiety, depression or any other physical or mental health medical conditions. Please use discernment and care when implementing any spiritual or physical practices described in this podcast.  Some names may have been changed to protect privacy.  All original ideas, voice and cover artwork is protected under copyright laws.  Music: Electronic Downtempo Emotional Music | Earth by Alex-Productions | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx0_M61F81Nfb-BRXE-SeVA Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_USFor those interested in: Ascension, Human Design, Gene Keys, Spirituality, psychic, ascension, manifestation, quantum healing, psychology, inner child, consciousness, galactic, galactic family, Pleiadian, Arcturian, Sirian, Psychic channel, galactic federation of light, esoteric, Lightworker, started, astrology, tarot, reiki, star family, chakra, energy healer, energy, energy worker, spiritual podcast, masculine energetics, feminine energetics, new earth, energy updates, channeled messages, channeling, wellness. 

Lyrics Hey, hey glory child, heyHey, glory child, don't you worryStuttering and shaken out of fearBeauty's never given in a hurrySo condescending, leave your questions hereHey, glory child, don't you worryI can see your skeleton so clearDoubting's only made your visions blurryYou're better off just looking in the mirrorShow me a better way, I wish you couldShow me a better way, I wish you wouldCome home todayYou could come home todayI am shooting stars, don't you see me?Watching over your every mistakeDigging out of graves is never easyHanding you my shovel here to takeAlways playing catch-me-if-you-canGingerbread, you heard I'm sweet to tasteClose your eyes, let go, and count to tenI'll keep track of every moment wastedShow me a better way, I wish you couldShow me a better way, I wish you wouldCome home todayYou could come home todayDear God, make me a birdSo I can fly far, far, far awayDear God, make me a birdSo I can fly far, far, far awayDear God, make me a birdSo I can fly far, far, far awayWarm winds on a space ride (space ride)When I call your phone on a late night (late night)I recall your soul had a taste like (taste like)Gardens, flowers, Warm WindsThe clouds below your feetQuit clipping on your wingsSometimes you hate to leave somebodyWhat's happening to we?Warm winds on a space rideWhen I call your phone on a late nightI recall your soul had a taste likeGardens, flowers, Warm WindsThe clouds below your feetQuit clipping on your wingsSometimes you hate to leave somebodyWhat's happening to we?Warm winds on a space rideSometimes I call your name out loudJust to make sure it's youSometimes I crack my veins openJust to see if it's blueYou clean me upThe clouds below your feet (clean)Quit clipping on your wings (our wings, yeah)Sometimes you hate to leave somebody (you'll see)What's happening to we?Warm winds on a space rideWhen I call your phone on a late nightI recall your soul had a taste likeGardens, flowers, Warm WindsThe clouds below your feetQuit clipping on your wingsSometimes you hate to leave somebodyWhat's happening to we?Warm winds on a space rideSometimes I bite my lips and close my eyesJust to pretend it's youLong live lonely thoughts on Thursday nightsThat's when I think of youWe were all 13 once (once)Long live tramp stamps and Pepper Ann (Pepper Ann)You will never judge me for that (uh-uh)You will always love me for that (uh-huh)What's happening to we?Warm winds on a space rideWhen I call your phone on a late nightI recall your soul had taste likeGardens, flowers- --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/juljina/message

Lyrics LookOh, look at what you've done now to meDead tired and orneryI'm leaving today, todayThinking of the way I used to spend the timeI can see that I have overpaidPast is passed and rather than regret the oldI can live it back the other wayJust lookOh, look at what you've done now to meFree floating temporallyI'm leaving today, todayI avoid the messiness of miseryPlaying in dimension number fourI can get away to any time I likeSpace-time's any time and many moreLive the dream with a time machineYou've been waiting foreverBut you can make ever wait for youDo what you want to doLive the dream with a time machineYou've been waiting foreverYou'll have time enough to spend some time aloneWaitI await for all eternityWith standing modernityIs where we must stay todayNow I know the nature of no urgencyNow I know why now is never goneFleeting in this mode of making memoriesKeeping up this pace of keeping onLive the dream in a time machineYou've been waiting foreverBut you can make ever wait for youDo what you want to doLive the dream in a time machineYou've been waiting foreverYou'll have time enough to spend some time aloneAll aloneTime aloneTime aloneLive the dream with a time machineYou've been waiting foreverLive the dream with a time machineYou've been waiting foreverLive the dream with a time machineYou've been waiting foreverLive the dream with a time machineAhh, ahh, ahh, ahhLive the dream with a time machineYou've been waiting foreverLive the dream with a time machineAhh, ahh, ahh, ahh --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/juljina/message

Where the heck have I been the last 6 months? Not doing the podcast. I decided to update you all on what I have been doing, challenged by, and how I plan to move forward. No promises to end of continue the podcast. This one is unscripted and unedited, something I wanted to experiment with todayI do have some book recommendations at the end. :) Love you all! Happy holidays and looking forward to connecting with you (outside of this podcast) in the new year!

This week on the podcast I speak with former world no. 65 and coach of Coco Gauff when she won the US Open title in 2023. We discuss: His pro careerDecision to retire after a road accidentTransition to coachingWorking with Coco Gauff and Brad GilbertAdvice for junior players todayI hope you enjoy! FabioThis podcast is sponsored by ASICS. ASICS is a Japanese company founded in 1949 with the purpose of giving more people the opportunity to experience how sports and movement can have a positive impact on mental well-being.To learn more about ASICS visit their website here: https://www.asics.com/nl/en-nl/sports/tennis/Find us on Social Media:Instagram: Instagram.com/FunctionalTennisTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@functionaltennis YouTube: Functional Tennis PodcastThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Scripture Reading: Acts 2:37 - 2:47 37 Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “What should we do, brothers?” 38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.” 40 With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation!” 41 So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added.42 They were devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Reverential awe came over everyone, and many wonders and miraculous signs came about by the apostles. 44 All who believed were together and held everything in common, 45 and they began selling their property and possessions and distributing the proceeds to everyone, as anyone had need. 46 Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts, 47 praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.Main ThemesTHE RESPONSERepentanceThe crowd is persuaded by Peter. Contrite over killing their own graciously God-given king, the crowd asks what to do. Peter summons them to repentance, as in the prophets, and to call on Jesus' name in a baptism involving such repentance. God's promise to them is the Holy Spirit. The biblical prophets summoned Israel to “turn” or “return” to the Lord. Similarly, in Acts 2 individuals need to turn from wickedness to righteousness, that is, change their lifestyle. Early Judaism heavily emphasized the value of repentance.The crowd is described as having a deep emotional response to Peter's message (“struck to the heart”), producing a favorable behavioral response. We need not assume exaggeration on Luke's part. He provides two other occasions where, by contrast, the emotional response provoked deadly hostility (Acts 5:33; 7:54). I think that we are so used to our current Christian world, we simply assume that joining a religious movement involves repentance. This was not the case at the time (and it is not the case today with many non-Abrahamic religions). Gentiles did not speak much of moral repentance in light of religion. Joining a new mystery cult simply supplemented one's previous religious experience.Because God's “kingdom” was his reign, those who turned to embrace his reign were accepting a new king. Genuine faith in Jesus as Lord requires acknowledgment of his lordship and beginning to adjust to its practical demands.BaptismJust as John the Baptist preached a baptism symbolizing repentance, so now does Peter. Jewish people traditionally applied immersion baptism only to Gentiles (more on this later). Peter here demands a conversion no less radical than that of a Gentile converting to Judaism, but from members of his own people who must likewise turn to Israel's God and the divinely appointed king, Jesus. After reading this passage in acts, we might ask: Is forgiveness tied to baptism or repentance? Are both required? “Forgiveness of sins” is explicitly associated especially with repentance in Acts and in Luke. Most importantly, Jesus' final command to the disciples in the Gospel of Luke was that of preaching repentance.Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” Luke 24:45-49One could debate to what extent forgiveness of sins is also associated with baptism (i.e., the act of baptism itself as distinct from repentance). Some of the arguments are based on the grammar of the text we just read. Those arguments are complex and, frankly, beyond me. Besides, grammar alone is hardly dispositive of the issue. If we surveyed texts in Luke and Acts relating to forgiveness, we would find that forgiveness is more often associated with repentance than baptism, and repentance is never missing when baptism is mentioned with forgiveness of sins. Nevertheless, we cannot ignore the fact that for Luke baptism is not dissociated from repentance. At least under normal circumstances, one does not separate the two.As I remarked above, we live in such a Christianized age, we are not surprised by facts that ought to surprise us. The fact that Jesus' followers used baptism as the initiation rite is actually quite unexpected. Ritual lustrations were common throughout the ancient world. Various temples had their own rules mandating ritual purity. The early Jewish practice of ritual washings was widespread long before the time of the Jesus movement. Christian baptism seems a bit different, though. John's baptism in the Synoptic tradition was initiatory and eschatological, a baptism of repentance in light of the coming kingdom of God. The Qumran community practiced initiatory baptism, but unlike for early Christians, the initial baptism at Qumran was apparently viewed only as the first among many. The closest Jewish parallel to John the Baptist's and early Christian baptism was proselyte baptism, a specific and extremely potent form of ritual purification. Proselyte baptism provided a clear, symbolic line of demarcation between a proselyte's Gentile past and Jewish present, much like the baptism suggested in Acts.In Jesus NamePeter calls his audience to be baptized in Jesus' name. Jewish people were known for “calling on the Lord's name,” and the more specific application to Jesus would be striking. (Again, this reveals a high Christology.) But what does the phrase mean? Baptism “in Jesus's name” distinguishes this baptism from other Jewish immersion practices noted above, with respect to its object. That is, it clarifies the convert's new allegiance.We should also note that for Luke, baptism in Jesus's name does not involve a ritual formula uttered over an initiate but the new believer's calling on the name of Jesus. In Luke's writings, the verb to baptize (βαίτίζω) appears in both passive and active forms. However, in the formula “in the name of Jesus,” it appears only with passive uses of the verb. Put simply, I do not baptize you, you are baptized. This indicates that the formula has to do with receiving rather than giving. This is not to argue that early Christians would not have cared who supervised baptisms. The Promise of the SpiritLuke recalls earlier teachings about the Spirit through his terms “gift” and “promise.” By noting that the promise is for others, he makes the proper response for the present crowd (namely, repentance and baptism in Jesus's name) and the gift of the Spirit paradigmatic for all subsequent believers. By alluding to “far-off” Gentiles by way of Isaiah's language, Luke also reiterates the promise of the Spirit for the Gentile mission. By concluding that the gift was available to “as many as God calls,” Luke clearly echoes the end of Joel 2:32, completing the quotation interrupted in Acts 2:21.It will so happen thateveryone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered.For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive,just as the Lord has promised;the remnant will be those whom the Lord will call.SUMMARY AND EXHORTATIONVerse 2:40 (“[w]ith many other words he testified”) probably means that Luke skips through many supplementary proofs and arguments provided by Peter. Instead, Luke's narrative moves quickly to the final exhortation and emotional appeal: “Save yourselves!” This restates briefly the speech's central idea. The immediate referent of “save” here is Joel's prophecy in Acts 2:21: whoever calls on the Lord's name will be saved. Therefore this salvation at least includes deliverance from God's eschatological wrath and destruction, available through Christ. For Peter's hearers to save themselves from the generation's wickedness was not, as some later Gentile Christian interpreters would have it, a summons to leave Israel and their Jewishness; rather, it was a summons to leave their rebellion against God, like a repeated prophetic summons to Israel in the Old Testament.Peter's term γενεά (genea) means here a temporal “generation,” not (as some would interpret it) “race” (γένος). By calling the generation crooked here, Peter is appealing to the Old Testament, particularly Deuteronomy 32:5. Peter's point is an exhortation not to harden their hearts as their ancestors did in the wilderness.Peter thus continues the preaching tradition followed by John the Baptist, underlining the continuity of salvation history and of the saving message.3,000We discussed baptism earlier, so I will not discuss the religious significance of 3,000 people being baptized. Nevertheless, we should briefly consider the mechanics of this. Could so many people even be baptized in a day? (The text could easily be understood to mean that 3,000 came to believe in Jesus, regardless of whether the actual baptisms would have taken several days to perform. But let's assume the harder, albeit simpler reading of the text.) To accommodate the thousands of worshipers the temple hosted daily, the Temple Mount had plenty of baptismal pools. Even the Roman historian Tacitus was familiar with the claim that the temple held many pools.“Baptizing” in this period involved mainly supervision while the people coming for purification immersed themselves. Like John the Baptist, the disciples could have supervised mass baptisms, without having to physically lay hands on each person. Once verbal instructions were issued, mass immersions in response to Peter's command could have occurred.One more question: is 3,000 converts in one day a believable number? At feast times such as Pentecost, Jerusalem could host as many as half a million people, with an estimated thirty thousand from the Diaspora. The Temple Mount was large enough to hold tens of thousands at one time, perhaps up to four hundred thousand (according to some of the larger estimates). Even if some of these estimates are too high (although they might be correct), thousands of hearers and a rapid mass movement of three thousand conversions are not at all implausible.Another reason to believe Luke's account of converts is that Luke seems quite honest about audiences' reactions to hearing the gospel. After each sermon in Acts, Luke reports people's acceptance or rejection (2:41; 4:4; 5:33; 7:54; 8:6, 36;10:44; 13:44, 48-50; 17:32; 22:22; 28:24, 29). Reporting rejections does not seem to fit a false narrative of ineffable success.The First ChurchVerse 42 begins a summary section describing the Jerusalem community of disciples, or what I may refer to as the first church. Before we discuss whether this first church is meant as a model for the rest of us, let's just focus on the text. What is the community engaged in? Prayer, learning from the apostles, signs, eating together, and sharing of possessions. Let's discuss these in further detail.SummariesAs a quick side note, what do I mean by a summary section? Speaking of situations in broad terms (i.e., summarizing) is typical of ancient historiographical works that were based on research and the use of sources. In other words, here Luke condenses a wider collection of information than he can afford space to narrate.The Ideal CommunityIn the ancient world, just like today, tales and dreams of ideal communities that shared all possessions were not unusual. The language employed by Luke is reminiscent of Hellenistic language for the ideal community. However, Luke and his audience are probably not thinking of Gentile sources. Instead, there is a nearly unmistakable connection between this first church and the Old and New Testament emphases on caring for the poor. For example, recall a passage like Deuteronomy 15:7-11:If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the Lord your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition. Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs. Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be regarded as having sinned. You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt. There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open your hand to your fellow Israelites who are needy and poor in your land. Deuteronomy 15:7-11Consider also the following verses in Deuteronomy:One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security. Deuteronomy 24:6When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security. You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security. If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering. You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the Lord your God.You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages. You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin. Deuteronomy 24:10-15There are countless verses about helping the poor in the Psalms. Broadly speaking, the psalmists express the idea that the one who helps the poor will be blessed (e.g., Psalm 41:1-2). Jesus spoke repeatedly about helping the poor and about their blessings to come.So, this first church is surprising and unsurprising. Surprisingly, it describes a nearly unbelievable setting filled with love and generosity. Unsurprisingly, this has been the goal Moses, the Prophets, and Jesus spoke about. One could hardly expect otherwise.If one believes that Pentecost was a sort of reversal of the curse at Babel, then the church's unity in these verses builds upon that reversal. TeachingThe apostles' teaching provides a crucially important link to Jesus' ministry. The early church devoted itself to the apostles' teachings, which is to say they devoted themselves to Jesus' teachings passed on by the apostles. Luke is emphasizing the continuity between the mission of Jesus and his church.What might this teaching have looked like? Moral teaching was not unusual in the ancient world. For example, we could picture the lectures in a philosophic schools. However, considering the Jewish background of the apostles and other (approximately 120) Jesus' followers that received the Spirit during the Pentecost miracle, the teaching probably looked like the Midrashic exposition familiar in the synagogues. Or, put even more simply, it would have looked like Peter's speech: lessons and admonitions expanding on scriptures.Fellowship (Koinōnia)The first church engaged in “fellowship,” the Greek word being koinōnia (κοινωνία). I mention this bit of Greek trivia because the Greek word often appears in churches and Christian college campuses to describe events and meeting places. It has become part of the modern Christian lingo. The word means exactly that, a partnership, community, or “sharing in” something. The term can refer to the sort of harmony created by shared purpose and working together. In a commercial context, the word could mean sharing profits.In light of early Christian teaching, much like sharing possessions, fellowship is not a surprising fruit of Pentecost. Remember what we read in the Gospel of John when Jesus prays for the believers:“I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony, that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me. The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one—I in them and you in me—that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me. John 17:20-23In verse 46, we read the believers met by common consent. The term translated as such is rare (appearing nowhere else in the New Testament or Septuagint). Although I do not want to read too much into it, I think it does show a strong form of unity.Breaking BreadIn the text, breaking bread and fellowship are side by side, giving the impression that fellowship included sharing meals. We may surmise that these common meals were at the expense of those who were sharing their possessions—those who could afford the food. More importantly, what do we mean by breaking bread? Certainly our modern experiences with the Eucharist or Lord's Supper (the wording will change depending on the Christian tradition) affects how we read this passage. We should, however, keep in mind that, as the most basic staple, “bread” could easily stand for food in general. The passage is probably conveying the idea of eating together, not exclusively the breaking of literal bread. Recall the original Lord's Supper (Luke 22), in which bread and wine were shared, but just like they were shared at other meals. They were notable components in a meal involving many other components. If anything, the bread and wine were special in the fact that they were not—they were the most basic and always-present elements of Jewish meals.One could read the text to say that the early Christians were simply taking bread together, like the sacrament with which we are so familiar. That is not the most likely reading. (I am not trying to make a broader point about the sacraments. I am simply trying to clarify what the text means.)As we read this text, we should remember that a host who shared a meal with guests was thought to have formed a bond of relationship that was not taken lightly. Providing food and partaking of what was provided were important social obligations. To eat with someone was, at least to some extent, to befriend them. Considering that this early church was made up of people from all over the known world, and rich and poor, this sharing of meals was nothing short of revolutionary.Prayer and WorshipPrayer was the prelude to Pentecost, but it did not stop there. At the end of chapter 2, we see that prayer is a continuing part of the Christian community life.On a related note, we find that they praise God together. The word Luke uses for praise is found many times in the Septuagint. It is almost always associated with praise carried out in the temple. Consider, for example:They brought the ark of God and put it in the middle of the tent David had pitched for it. Then they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God. When David finished offering burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, he pronounced a blessing over the people in the Lord's name. He then handed out to each Israelite man and woman a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. He appointed some of the Levites to serve before the ark of the Lord, to offer prayers, songs of thanks, and hymns to the Lord God of Israel. 1 Chronicles 16:1-4What did that early worship look like? Again, considering the background of most of the people involved, it probably looked like (not necessarily the same as) the Jewish liturgy and reading of the Psalms. Nevertheless, early Christians would have rejected the idea that the Jewish liturgy in the temple was the required or even best way to pray and worship.SignsIn verse 43, we have one of many miracle summaries in Acts (e.g., 5:12; 8:7; 19:11-12; 28:9). We are also told how people reacted. “Reverential awe came over everyone . . . .” In the Greek, the imperfect tense is used. Awe (or fear) was coming over everyone. This suggests a continued phenomenon rather than a one time event.What is this “awe” or, literally, “fear” that they felt? The text suggests a newfound attitude of paying attention to God, his work, his commandments, and his very person (i.e., who he is).Meeting at the TempleUndeniably, homes became the dominant meeting places for Christians. Yet, notice that in this first church, they meet both in the temple and in homes. Some suggest that Christians used public meeting places to evangelize, but houses to disciple the converts. That very well could be the case, but in the case of Acts 2, worshipping at the Temple does not seem like a tactic. Instead, at this point, the temple serves a positive function—it right and proper to worship at the temple. The revival of spiritual temple worship here would evoke for Luke's biblically informed audience grand precedents. In the Old Testament, renewal of temple or tabernacle worship accompanied revivals in Israel's history. The early Christians thus had good reason to expect (and experience) a renewal of temple worship, whether or not the authorities saw fit to cooperate with their agenda. (Many Jewish people expected a new or renewed temple in this period.)Lessons for TodayI am going to do something a little unusual for this Bible study. Generally, I try to stay close to the text—focusing on the cultural and linguistic issues. My goal is to explain what the text really says—what it meant to the author and original audience. The implications of the text, particularly for our lives, I touch on lightly and briefly. As some have let me know (and there is nothing wrong with that), this has the effect of hiding the forest for the trees. I spend much of the time discussing details like grammar, and I never get to the “good stuff.”Well, today, I do want to pause for a brief moment and consider some questions. In particular, I have three in mind. First, does charity matter? Second, should we preach like “Acts 2 Peter”? Third, should our churches resemble the “Acts 2 church”?Does Charity Matter?I do not wish to repeat myself, but the Old Testament and Jesus' ministry have a heavy emphasis on charity. Helping the poor is part of the Jewish law. The Psalms say that helping the poor will result in blessings. Jesus says that helping the poor will result in exaltation.Then when Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. He said to them, “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor because a person more distinguished than you may have been invited by your host. So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.' Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place. But when you are invited, go and take the least important place, so that when your host approaches he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up here to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who share the meal with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, don't invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid. But when you host an elaborate meal, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. Then you will be blessed because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” Luke 14:7-14It is this Bible-wide emphasis on caring for the poor that climaxes in the depiction of the first church. And, I think the undeniable truth is that this emphasis on the poor has been crucial for the vitality and expansion of the church. Listen how Craig Keener describes how early thinkers, Christian and pagan alike, noticed the early church's attitude towards the poor:Justin claims that former pagans, converted to Christianity, continue to share their resources in common and with the needy (Justin 1 Apol. 14). In the late second century, Tertullian remarks wittily that Christians readily share everything in common except their wives—the one thing, he complains, pagans were most willing to share (Tert. Apol. 39.11– 12). In antithetical contrast to the apologists' idealized portraits, Lucian ridicules worshipers of “the crucified sophist” as despising “all things indiscriminately” and reckoning everything as “common property,” hence easily cheated. Celsus critiqued Christians for their effective appeal to “the socially objectionable classes” as well as to “the unhappy and sinful.” Other sources also attest to Christians' continuing commitment to share their resources in the second century and beyond.In short, I think charity is both a means of blessing in this life (I mean for the giver, not the recipient) and one of the primary means by which we show the kingdom of God in this world. Regarding blessings, allow me to make a wildly inflammatory statement: the answer to many of our personal problems is a lack of charity. Are you experiencing depression? Go help the poor. Are you having trouble with your wife? Go help the poor. Are you dissatisfied with your job? Go help the poor. No, I am not saying that helping the poor will make your problems go away, but I am saying that helping the poor will provide you with a certain perspective and patience that will help solve them. Charity is simply that crucial and life-changing. And, do we want our churches to be lively and vibrant? We must help and welcome the poor. What are the limits to charity? Yes, a line must be drawn. My suggestion is we discuss that once we think we are getting close to the line.Should We Preach Like Acts 2 Peter?In Acts 2, Peter makes a perfect presentation of what we generally call “the gospel.” Peter stood up and told them (paraphrased), “Listen! The scriptures spoke of a day when the Spirit of God would be poured out on all people. As you can see and hear (because of the Pentecost miracle), that day is today. That also means that the end is near, call on the name of the Lord and you will be saved. Who is the Lord? Jesus. How do we know? He did miracles among you. Also, you killed him using dirty tactics but God raised him from the dead. The scriptures spoke of one who would not see decay—that's Jesus! The scriptures also spoke of a king who would reign forever, who would be exalted. That's Jesus! He has been taken up to heaven as King and Savior. He will not lose. Save yourselves! Repent!”Obviously, I do not disagree with Peter one bit. My question is not whether Peter is right. I believe he speaks of true things. My question is whether we should present that truth the same way, and whether his argument would be compelling today.If you are thinking I am about to start a discussion about how sensitive people are today, and how offended they would be by Peter's speech, do not worry. I am not convinced people have ever been different (e.g., more or less sensitive), but be that as it may, I am more interested in the argument itself.Peter's argument depends partly on the audience's personal experience with Jesus. It depends much more, though, on scripture that the audience believes to be true. Peter does not even need to argue that scripture is truthful.Would we find a similar audience today? In my opinion, yes and no. In the United States, we live in a time of great apostasy (or at least of many people leaving the churches). People are leaving the Christian faith by the hundreds of thousands. In 2007, religious “nones” were only about 16%. Now that number has nearly doubled (29%). Perhaps many of these people still believe the Bible to be true, much like Peter's audience, and we can call them back to God based on that. But about a third of Americans (coincidentally, also 29%) believe that the Bible is simply fables. What then?I have two suggestions. First, like we will read of Paul preaching in Athens, we must meet them where they (the audience) are. We must explain why the gospel is true and good. Second, and this will lead into my question of the early church, we must help them experience Jesus. How? The church is the body of Christ. I think that unbelievers should truly encounter Jesus in the community of his followers.Should our churches resemble the “Acts 2 church”?Why do I ask this question? Partly because many churches claim to be Acts 2 churches. This is particularly common with nondenominational churches (this is not an attack, simply a statement of fact), but even some more traditional, denominational churches advocate for this.We must begin by asking what do we mean by an Acts 2 church. Here are some answers I found to get us started:Their Four KeysThe church in Acts 2 has four priorities: studying good teaching, hanging out, sharing meals, and praying (verse 42). That's a great start, but many churches today don't even do that, not really.Their MiraclesAmazing supernatural things occur. People are amazed (verse 43). Today, most churches don't encounter miracles or anything supernatural. They forgot how or never learned. And for many who do walk in the power of the Holy Spirit, their focus is on the experience, not on people's reaction. Their emphasis is backwards. The purpose of “signs and wonders” isn't to gratify themselves. It's to show God's power, pointing outsiders to him, not delighting insiders.Their FinancesThe kicker is that they pool their resources; they even sell their possessions to give to everyone in need. The church takes care of their own (verses 44 and 45). Too many churches today do not even care for the needs of their members; they expect government or some other organization to. And I've never encountered a church that shares all their material possessions. That's just un-American!Their PatternThey continue to hang out—every day—and share food. They are delighted (verse 46). I don't know of any church family that meets every day, but the Acts 2 church did.Their ResultsBecause of all this, others esteem them and they grow (verse 47). Too often today's churches don't have the respect of society but quite the opposite. Too many churches aren't growing; they're not even maintaining; they're dying. However, none of the things the church did in Acts 2 are commands for us to follow. The passage is descriptive; it shows what the church did and the outcome they enjoyed. It may be a viable model for us to follow.Unfortunately, many churches today don't even practice these four key actions; supernatural results are rare; and sharing everything is virtually nonexistent. Is it any wonder why churches aren't respected by society or growing? Perhaps they're doing church wrong and not more closely following the Acts 2 model.—Peter DehaanBeing an Acts 2 Church in the 21st CenturySome churches are known for their music programs, others for their children or youth ministries, while yet others for some sort of “niche” that appeals to a large audience. While all such ministries can be good and helpful for both reaching your community and encouraging the church, it's interesting to look back at what the first church devoted themselves to. In Acts 2, after Peter's Jewish audience heard the gospel proclaimed, they responded with repentance and faith, were incorporated into the church through baptism, and they devoted themselves to a common faith and a common life.It's no accident that the first devotion mentioned was to the apostles' teaching. We too should be devoted to the apostles' teaching. But what is their teaching? In Acts 2:22-26, Peter preaches the good news concerning Jesus' life, death, resurrection, and exaltation as Lord and King. In Acts 4, Peter and John annoy the Jewish leaders because they were “teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead” (v.2). Then the Jewish leaders charged them not “to teach at all in the name of Jesus” (v.18). Then in Acts 5, the apostles' teaching is referred to as “the words of life” (v.20-21). But again, the Jewish leaders “strictly charged them not to teach in this name” (v.28). Nevertheless, after they were released, Luke says of the apostles:And every day in the temple and from house to house they did not cease teaching and preaching that Jesus is the Christ. (v.42)I trust you get the idea of what the apostles' teaching entails.Still, there is a little more going on in Acts 2:42 then first meets the eye. You see, faithful Jews were to be devoted to Moses' teaching. By devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching, the early church understood that they were under a new authority—King Jesus, the new and better prophet than Moses. The apostles' teaching is nothing other than all of Scripture, now interpreted through the lens of Jesus. This is, after all, how Jesus himself viewed all of Scripture (Luke 24:44-49). All Scripture is inspired by God and points to Jesus.For this reason, we should want what we do together as a church to be Word-saturated (all of Scripture) and gospel-centered (interpreted through the lens of Jesus). In light of this gospel commitment, here are four areas in which we should encourage our church to be devoted to the apostles' teaching.Personal DevotionsIf our churches are to be devoted to the apostles' teaching, then our members need to be personally devoted to the apostles' teaching. . . .Sunday SchoolYour church may or may not have Sunday school. At High Pointe, we call it Life Classes, and we offer topic specific classes. . . .Small GroupsPerhaps your church has small groups that meet throughout the week. These groups should also be Word-saturated and gospel-centered. . . .Worship GatheringsIt is a great joy when God's people gather to declare our joint allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ. . . . .—LifewayChurch As It Was Meant To BeIn many respects, the contemporary church in America looks more like a large corporation than like anything described in the New Testament. Even church leaders sometimes bear a closer resemblance to CEOs and corporate executives than to humble, tender shepherds. Sadly, the good news — that a sinner can find forgiveness for sins before a holy God by placing his trust in and committing his whole life to Jesus Christ—is often eclipsed by “success”-oriented programs and an interest in the bottom line. As a result, many churches have become nothing more than entertainment centers, employing tactics that effectively draw people into the church, but are incapable of truly ministering to them once they come. …So, what's the blueprint? A logical place to start is at the beginning with the first church—the church at Jerusalem. It began on the Day of Pentecost . . . . Back to the Blueprint: Bible Study, Fellowship, and PrayerActs 2:42 gives the blueprint they followed: “They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Those are the vital elements that make up the actual function and life of the church— and all of that in just one verse! Here's an obvious starting point: A church built to the Master's plan will begin with the right raw material—a saved congregation. Verse 41 identifies the church as being made up of “those who had received [Peter's] word,” and “were continually devoting themselves.” The church at Jerusalem was filled with true Christians — those who continually adhered to apostolic teaching.…While the early church didn't have a New Testament, they had God's Word in the form of the “apostles' teaching.” The church at Jerusalem was committed to receiving that Word. Doctrine is the basis of the church—you can't live out what you don't know or understand. . . . Don't ever allow anyone to stand in the pulpit who isn't committed to leading the congregation through a deep, penetrating study of God's Word. The central focus of the early church's fellowship was the breaking of bread — the Lord's Table. It was the most fitting symbol of their fellowship since it reminded them of the basis for their unity—salvation in Christ and adherence to apostolic doctrine. . . .We eat and drink in remembrance of Christ's self-sacrificing love that took Him to the cross. In your fellowship, make it your habit to practice the same kind of love Christ demonstrated toward you. Practically speaking, you can always give your life to those God brings across your path. Do you habitually pray for fellow believers? Are you encouraging them, edifying them, meeting their physical needs? Do you love them enough to confront them when they are sinning? Those are the marks of true Christian fellowship. It is church as it was meant to be. Acts 2:42 says the believers continually devoted themselves to prayer. Sadly, the same devotion to prayer is often neglected today. Churches can pack pews by offering entertainment, but when a prayer meeting is held, only a faithful few trickle in. . . .Built to Scale: Wonder, Love, and JoyWhat happens when true believers remain under biblical teaching, in a spiritual fellowship, and in devotion to prayer? Acts 2:43 says, “Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe.” “Awe,” the Greek word for fear, speaks of a sense of reverence. It is reserved for special times when people are struck with wonder because of something divine or powerful that defies human explanation. Your church ought to be able to instill awe in your community. . . .—Grace to YouI think we can pick up on a couple of things. First, everyone picks and chooses. Some emphasize signs, some leave them out. (Of course, there are theological reasons for this.) In the second example I quoted, we see a nearly exclusive emphasis on learning—on words. Is that what we see in Acts 2?The community of believers in Acts 2 is the culmination of the salvation story, at least in this life. It has learning but it has has doing; it has giving and receiving; it has love and generosity. Whatever we decide we should carry forward to today's church, I think we cannot forget that the first church was like family.

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Welcome to Episode 57 of The Things We All Carry.  TodayI bring you the final part of my interview with Bryan. In the previous episodes, Bryan discussed various calls and traumas and effects from both of them. From the graphic and all to real calls he ran as a volunteer to experiencing the worst day of firefighter can have.  Bryan discusses his realization that his career has taken a toll on him, both physically and emotionally. He shares the "whys and hows" about how he finally gets to help he needs. He's open about his resistance to, and his inability to be forthcoming in a few attempts at therapy and how it limits his chance at any real or actual recovery.  We discussed the insights he's earned and learned along the way. And he shares both his failures and successes. Bryan will tell you point blank that he is far from finished figuring it out. He won't hesitate to point out that this thing we all call life is simply a work in progress. 

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How do we live a healthy lifestyle? A holistic life leads to health and well-being, according to many, including my guest, Oliver Rolfe. A decade ago, Oliver's life changed forever. In fact, everything in his life changed when he was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis, along with seven damaged discs in his spine. Starting with himself, Oliver knew that to be on top of this disease, he needed to be mentally stronger, physically more able, and have the ability to manage his emotions. Oliver changed everything and feels so much better for it now and in a more contented place.Today, Oliver is far more in control of his body, his mind, and his emotions.Having spent many years under the care of some of the most well-regarded doctors, surgeons, professors, rheumatologists, allergists, nutritionists, numerologists, healers, etc. Oliver learned first-hand from these experienced professionals, as well as experiencing everything first-hand daily.Otto collaborated with renowned experts including psychologist David Moxon, who has spent the last 30 years mentoring and educating people within the fields of health and psychology; international numerologist Ann Perry assists people globally and specializes in the Master number 11; Darren Rolfe, CEO of Steps Together, an addiction and rehabilitation group that focuses on drug and alcohol addiction (including overall well-being); International medium and healer Sara Leslie, has assisted countless people with her knowledge and intuition. They have created a complete guide for your holistic health.

Here's everything you need to know to become a successful music producer.▶️ Get the gems you need to start creating beats and earn a passive income. Watch the free workshop, it's less than 30 minutes. The Producers Blueprint ▶️ https://www.aspireproducerslab.com You may ask,, what all can a music producer do with his or her skills?Are you limited to just selling beats online?What other options exist for producers making dope songs and beats to earn extra money?What career opportunities do music producers have available today that they can take advantage of?I'm excited about sharing this info with you because it's great being a music producer, especially today.Not only can we lease our beats to our fans, but we also have the opportunity to have our music and beats in movies, commercials, reality TV shows, and more.With the skills of a music producer, your opportunities are unlimited. In this episode you'll learn:▶️ How selling beats online on your own beat store can be a very lucrative opportunity and business ▶️ How producers have benefited in the music industry from creating melody and beat sample packs▶️ Why music licensing is one of the most popular ways producers are getting paid todayI hope this platinum episode adds value. - Treboey

Hello and welcome to the not so travelling introvert. TodayI'm going to talk about dealing with difficult people or more to the point, howto tips for dealing with difficult people. No matter where you go in the worldworld you will find difficult people and difficult to you might be what's notdifficult. For me, difficult can mean various things and while we go out in theworld and maybe we socialise and socialising is a beneficial activity that mostpeople look forward to, it can also come with a lot of stress as there are manydifficult people that you have to deal with out there in the world. Just aboutanything you do will require dealing with humans and some of those humans willbe difficult at some point from colleagues at work to the people you cross onthe way.While fulfilling simple everyday errands like groceryshopping. Dealing with difficult people is frustrating, stressful and can bedownright eggsofting, so there are things that you can do to help deal withthem. And so I want to talk about six tips on how you can make it easier todeal with difficult people. Don't have high expectations. Don't expect anythingfrom anyone but yourself.You can't control others no matter how destructive ordifficult they may be. So lowering your expectations decreases your stress andallows you to keep control where you can. If you expect nothing then you don'tneed to waste your time worrying about what ifs. Stay calm and recognise thefans. Unfortunately, some situations will require you to work with or be arounddifficult humans.Avoiding them will not work in these situations, so insteadfocus on the facts and data and always draw attention to that. Don't add youremotions to the situation and be as calm and direct as you can be. Using factsand data to your advantage puts most difficult humans to rest as their onlytrying to cause a fuss and don't have supporting facts to help. You can alsopractise assertive communication. So assertive communication can be direct andclear about your boundaries while also being respectful of the needs of othersas well.This helps difficult humans understand that while you haveboundaries, so do other people. And so you should respect other people'sboundaries as much as you should hope that they would respect yours. Anotherthing you could do is maybe find common ground. Many times there are situationswhere you can find that common ground that makes it easier to cope with adifficult human. For example, when you're completing an important work assignment,both parties have the goal to get the work done and hopefully get to the workdone well.So putting your differences aside and focusing on that goalis one of the best ways that you can hope to get the work done successfully.Another thing you could practise maybe is ignoring their demands or negativeresponses. Difficult humans want to get under your skin and cause a reaction.So don't allow this to happen. Simply ignore them and don't give them thatpleasure to gain control over you and your emotions.Overall, their opinion or idea of you is really none of yourbusiness or important to where your life is going. This is only a temporarymoment of your life and you have control over your body and mind not torespond. Sometimes the best response is none at all and you can avoid defensiveand negative behaviour. Don't respond poorly. Take responsibility for thesituation and your actions and reflect on the more you reflect on that otherperson's behaviour, the worse the interaction will...

Hello and welcome to the not so travelling Introvert. TodayI want to talk about inspiration. Every now and then I get asked about whoinspires me, why do I do the things that I do? And to be honest, I don't have aspecific, specific person in mind. There's not someone I want to be or someoneI admire per se.And maybe it's because I don't really understand the admirepart. I don't know. But inspiration is different as far as how I findinspiration to do the things that I do, or for new podcast episodes, forexample, or a cross stitch pattern or whatever it might be. Inspiration happensall the time in everyday life. But sometimes we get so bogged down in the grindof stuff and just getting through each day, you know, go to work, eat, comehome, eat, sleep, repeat that we lose the access to avenues for inspiration.And that can be a bad thing. Finding inspiration can be thekey to success in any area of your life. It can help you develop new ideas,overcome challenges and stay motivated. And if you don't have a way of lookingfor inspiration, then life can become very stuck. Inspiration can come frommany places.It could be a book, a movie, a song, a person. Maybe youhave a hobby that you're passionate about, or a cause that you care deeply for.Finding ways to spark inspiration or finding things that inspire you, can helpyou achieve goals in really random ways. So I want to talk about six reasonsthat will help you understand why it's important to find inspiration. So let'sstart with new ideas.If you're feeling stuck, inspiration can give you the pushyou need to come up with new ideas. It can help you see things from a differentperspective, maybe create or develop creative solutions to problems. Let's sayyou are a writer struggling to create new ideas for stories, for a book thatyou're writing. You could try reading books in a genre that you don't usuallyread, or watching movies from different cultures. That could help you seethings in a new light and then come up with fresh ideas for your writing.Having inspiration can help you overcome challenges. Whenfacing a difficult situation, inspiration can give you the strength to kind ofkeep going. It can remind you of your goals and why they are essential to you.If you are dealing with a personal challenge, you could look to someone who'sovercome a similar obstacle. Reading that story, watching them speak, listeningto them speak, watching a movie about them, can give you hope and ideas of howyou too can overcome that challenge.Inspiration can help you stay motivated. Losing motivationwhen things get tough is so very common. But if you have something to lookforward to, it can help you to sort of just get through those tough times.Inspiration can give you a reason to keep going even when things are tough.Inspiration can help you find your purpose or a purpose. Ifyou're unsure what you want to do with your life, inspiration can help youdiscover a purpose. It can show you what is possible. Help you see the impactthat you could have on the world. Maybe your goal is to start your ownbusiness.When reading about successful or maybe even unsuccessfulentrepreneurs, note what it takes to repeat their success or avoid theirfailures. It can give you inspiration and motivation at the same time. Also,inspiration can help you connect with others. When you're feeling inspired,it's so much easier to connect with others. Inspiration can help you findcommon ground and build...

TodayI had the good fortune to sit down and have a 1 on 1 with Jim Dowd. Jim Dowd is an American former professional ice hockey center who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for ten different teams over the course of 17 NHL seasons. Dowd, who won the 1995 Stanley Cup with his hometown New Jersey Devils, was the second New Jersey high school hockey player to make it to the NHL. He is also a frequent guest on NHL Live. He is also recently certified in performance and mindset coaching where he'll be working with different athletes from all different walks of life to add value to through mindset, training and nutrition. To learn more or to get connected with a member of our team, click the links below and we would love to speak. #business #finance #savings #investing Watch and Enjoy! ✅ SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE ✅ https://www.youtube.com/c/EPICFinancialStrategies/featured?sub_confirmation=1

Today's episode is SPICYYYY! But I also think it will be really impactful too! TodayI want to challenge you with THREE QUESTIONS that will SHAKE UP your perspective on WHAT'S HOLDING YOU BACK. So often we are operating under false beliefs based around what other people told us was possible for us, and I am here to remind you that everyone is gifted a DIFFERENT vision, so we have to ask ourselves some new questions.As mentioned in today's episode:If you want to feel ENERGIZED, and have CONVENIENT products that will help you keep your HEALTH on the FRONT burner even during a CRAZY BUSY SEASON…Come check out today's sponsor of the show: Organifi! Organifi is  my go to for Organic superfood blends, plant based nutrition & supplements! I mentioned that their Pure, Green Juice + Protein are my absolute favsssss &&& dahhh nuhh nuhh, you get 20% off ALL products as a listener of the show by heading to: www.organifi.com/Kacia Use code “KACIA” for 20% off any items in their store!  Also— are you on my FREE PUMP UP INSPO TEXT LIST yet? I send out inspo texts every Sunday evening and then randomly throughout the week! To join just text a flame emoji to  (512) 548-2728 and join for free! Oh & PS– are we connected on Instagram yet? Come say hi! My personal account→ @kacia.ghetmiri The Podcast Account  --->  @empowerHER.podcast

Highlights from this episode:  Ottawa's price gouging investigation, supply chain task force report and special guest Jane Dummer We open the show with a discussion about the Thanksgiving Holiday - best gravy ever, and Sylvain's love for the hot new trend, butter boards!  On a more serious and helpful level, Sylvain has joined joined the BOD of Second Harvest with our season one guest Lori Nikkel.  Why and what is ahead for Second Harvest?A reminder to the listeners that we'll be together live podcasting from the Coffee Association of Canada's annual conference, The Road Ahead, November 14th - will put a link in the show notes  - run, don't walk to get your tickets todayI'm just back from Las Vegas and the big NACS show and share my experiences - a look at the convenience store industry and I had the opportunity to speak with S1 guest and friend of the show Cara Keating from Pepsico - former president of the Canadian business  - now chief customer officer of Frito Lay North America - a graduate btw of University of Saskatchewan so we know she is hard working in addition to being super smart - and breaking news will be a guest on the show later in the seasonBig report just out from the federal government  - National Supply Chain Task Force - I know the lab supported the report, you are thanked specifically in the report, a whole cast of characters testified - RCC, CFIG, Sobeys, tell the listeners about the report and perhaps a summary of its findings - it would seem when it comes to the supply chain actors the total is not greater than the sum of its parts Loblaw driverless trucks signal the beginning of a new age - you see a more interesting road ahead for the food industry - say more…. Alright lets get to our great interview with Jane Dummer and hear what she has to say about the state of food innovation in North America  …and so Canada's three big supermarket chains will face a parliamentary inquiry into whether they have been exploiting surging inflation to boost their profits, adding a fresh chapter to the big grocers' protracted public relations struggle. The House of Commons agriculture committee voted unanimously in favour of a motion to summon grocery executives to Parliament Hill to explain why “large chains are making profits” while shoppers face the worst food retail inflation in four decades .   f you enjoyed this episode your probably listening on a major podcasting platform,       About JaneJane founded her consulting company in 1996 with the mission to develop client focused solutions from the pod to plate. A well-respected thought leader in the food industry with credentials as a Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Science degree from University of Guelph (Canada's leading food university), Jane is the Real Deal. Jane and her team's education, expertise and industry knowledge maximize their capacity to strategize, innovate and communicate customized solutions to accelerate business growth from the pod to plate. With over 60 successful projects, Jane and her team partner with North American food and beverage companies in the agriculture, nutrition and health sectors to build creative solutions that deliver results. A speaker, author and writer, Jane is a frequent guest and commentator in the media circuit with over 250 insightful interviews, presentations, articles and blogs. Here are my social links:LinkedIn https://ca.linkedin.com/in/janedummerTwitter - https://twitter.com/janedummerInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/janedummer_rd/Website - www.janedummer.comAbout UsDr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph's Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded. Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. Google Scholar ranks him as one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability.He has authored five books on global food systems, his most recent one published in 2017 by Wiley-Blackwell entitled “Food Safety, Risk Intelligence and Benchmarking”. He has also published over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles in several academic publications. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, including The Lancet, The Economist, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC, Fox News, Foreign Affairs, the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star.Dr. Charlebois sits on a few company boards, and supports many organizations as a special advisor, including some publicly traded companies. Charlebois is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Business Scientific Institute, based in Luxemburg. Dr. Charlebois is a member of the Global Food Traceability Centre's Advisory Board based in Washington DC, and a member of the National Scientific Committee of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in Ottawa.Michael LeBlanc  is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice.   He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience, and has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career.  Michael is the producer and host of a network of leading podcasts including Canada's top retail industry podcast,       The Voice of Retail, plus  Global E-Commerce Tech Talks  ,      The Food Professor  with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois and now in its second season, Conversations with CommerceNext!  You can learn more about Michael   here  or on     LinkedIn. Be sure and check out Michael's latest venture for fun and influencer riches - Last Request Barbecue,  his YouTube BBQ cooking channel!

Hey everybody, we are going a different direction today. Welcome back. I'm excited that you are here. TodayI wanna talk about the surprise benefits of doing the deep subconscious work, because there are surprises that people get. Unexpected things can happen, so I wanna share with you some of the wins that my clients have gotten in my group program, as well as one on one work. Because what I have found is that in my group program, people get so much added benefit out of that because things that they never considered are brought up by other participants, you know. Questions, insights, life experiences, and light bulbs just pop off all the time in the group program. It's a 10 week program. It's actually, as this episode is released, we're about three weeks into it. It will, be the first of the year when I run it again. So you want to be on my email list so that you know when that rolls out or you can just message me on social media and let me know that you want to be in the group program when that rolls out. But here let's just let's roll with this.  [00:02:32] So one of the unexpected benefits that my clients get is they truly truly cannot grasp what it means to be neutral about their past until it happens, and what that literally means for their life. So take one client, for example, came to me for stress and tension in her neck. She always had tight muscles in her neck and she wanted to take care of that. She felt it was emotional in nature. Now, when she and I connected, she had not shared with me that from time to time, she would have what felt like a panic attack. Now she wasn't diagnosed with these, but she would just “get triggered” by something and hyperventilate and feel overwhelmed. So we do this work because, if you've ever read Dr. John Sarno's book, “Mind Body RX”, then you will know that he says that chronic discomfort in the body is caused by repressed rage. We did this work together and once we went through a process of forgiveness, there was peace. This is the one thing that surprises all of my clients. They truly had never in their life experienced true peace. Now, what was the unexpected benefit of doing that work? Because there was a component of everything that involved this individual's father. As a full grown adult, there was fear and trepidation around even visiting her father because of everything that had happened and the expectations around the current behavior that was happening. After we did this work, she was able to spend time with him, accepting him for who he was with no expectations and to be at peace completely free of fear, free of any resentment, any frustration. And, shortly afterwards, there were some changes in his health and she was able to be present with him to be at peace with their relationship to reconcile that relationship. And when he transitioned, she had closure. She had closure. [00:05:18] Another unexpected benefit, if you've listened to the podcast, if I think it's episode 11, it might be 10, it's the interview with Justina, and she talks about how her son after we did the work for the first time, jumped up into her arms, hugged her and said, I love you. He was never, an affectionate; I shouldn't say never affectionate, but he, he was not a touch affectionate child. Her hugs were not how he connected with her. And when she let go of what she was dealing with, he, I mean, we did another interview back in February and he just, he loves on her all the time. Put a price on that for me. Because I know so many entrepreneurs and business owners and business leaders who do what they do, because they are determined to break the generational pattern of what they grew up in. Whether it was poverty, a stressed household, financial insecurity, whatever those things were, and then you get into this cycle of being so dedicated to your business the one thing that you, wanted to do was be able to be present with your children and now, you don't know how to do that because you feel guilty when you're not in the business. You feel guilty when you're with your kids, because you're thinking about the business, those kinds of things. So yeah.  [00:06:50] I've had clients unexpectedly lose 10 to 15 pounds, no dieting, no suggestions for weight loss, but when they drop the weight of the emotion and the beliefs that they were carrying around, the weight fell off. So let me see, what's another unexpected one. I'm going off a memory here. So you have to bear with me just a little bit because a lot of these things overlap. Another person, I think I mentioned it in a recent episode, we we're dealing with people pleasing, right? People pleasing. Oh, my gosh. Talk about a complete pivot in change in life. This person is now traveling the world, running a business that they love. An independent location business, and is no longer in corporate. And when you. See the photos, like the social media post you can see the change in the face. That's another thing. Oh my gosh. I have worked with clients where we do a session; at the beginning of the session, I'm just gonna toss some numbers out here to give you an example. At the beginning of the session, let's say they're 40 years old at the beginning of the session they're tense, they're stressed, they're carrying the weight of all this emotion. They look. 50 55 years old because they're all of this stuff just on the inside it's just putting so much weight on 'em. And at the end of the session, they can look 30, 35 years old. They literally gain back years of their life in a single session. Now, can I predict when that's gonna happen? No, but it's just one of those beautiful, unexpected things.  [00:08:42] People have come to work on something to do with business and find that their marriage just, it rekindles. Something shifts, something changes, and things just start to fall into place. These are things that you can't necessarily put a finger on. You can't put a price on them. And they're super, super impactful. One of my recent clients was just in this real head space. She has a great high ticket offer, but she would get in her head from month to month. You know, this client's rolling off. I gotta get another new client in. How did… So we, worked through the things that were connected to these thoughts, and feelings. I use conversational hypnosis a lot. And when I say conversational hypnosis, I'm not talking Ericsonian metaphors and stories and those kinds of things I'm talking about triggering the subconscious mind and pushing the subconscious to solve its own problem. In a sense, what I'm doing in the session is, I'm guiding the client a much better way to think in terms of problem solving so that they can unravel their own knots. I'm just kind of like pushing and guiding them there. So the things that were coming up in these sessions ended up not having anything to do with money, but, let me tell you the things that have shifted and unfolded and unlocked for her are unbelievable. People that she has known for years, now all of a sudden it's like, oh, what are you up to? I love what you're doing. Let's see how we can partner together. How can we work together? How can I take what you're doing and bringing it in, and she is signing clients effortlessly on a monthly retainer at 50% higher than what she was when we were working together. It was just that simple. And she is in this extremely rewarding trusting, allowing, letting it be an easy place. [00:11:10] So anyway, if that sounds like something you want, hit me up, let me know. You can get on the email list by going to Pennychiasson.com and signing up for the mindset myth, sign up for the mindset myth. That will get you on my email list. And I will let you know when the next workshop is rolling out in January. I can't wait to see what unfolds with this group of highly successful people, because I was blown away with what happened in spring. Each group tends to be unique and aligned in its own way, and I just really look forward to being able to share with you some of the takeaways that people have to give you more examples of what's possible when you simply tame your inner dialogue. When you take care of what it is that's creating this voice that causes you to feel less confident than you should be. Let's work on it. Because you're here to make an impact. And if you're allowing your subconscious thinking to hold you back, you're not stepping into the full potential of the service that you could be offering the world. And I'm here for it, man. I am here for you, and ladies. I use man colloquially. But anyway, I guess that's showing my age and the time that I grew up in and, there's always areas for us to work and improve. I'll see you next week. If you want to listen more to Justina's initial transformation, listen to her first guest episodes here. To learn more about how our hypnosis work affected long her business and relationships in the long term, give this episode a listen.

GROW Greatness Reached over Oppression through Wisdom Tomorrow is coming quickly, let me get ready TodayI've got to fix me and that around Me

West End Church of Christ - Bowling Green, KYwww.westendchurch.comSunday Sept. 11th - 16th 2022Come and visit!Song:  In Jesus Name (God of Possible)I speak the name of Jesus over youIn your hurting, in your sorrowI will ask my God to moveI speak the name 'cause it's all that I can doIn desperation, I'll seek HeavenAnd pray this for youI pray for your healingThat circumstances would changeI pray that the fear inside would flee in Jesus nameI pray that a breakthrough would happen todayI pray miracles over your life in Jesus name, in Jesus nameI speak the name of all authorityDeclaring blessings, every promiseHe is faithful to keepI speak the name no grave could ever holdHe is greater, He is strongerHe's the God of possibleI pray for your healingThat circumstances would changeI pray that the fear inside would flee in Jesus nameI pray that a breakthrough would happen todayI pray miracles over your life in Jesus nameIn Jesus nameCome believe itCome receive itOh, the power of His Spirit is now forever yoursCome believe itCome receive itIn the mighty name of Jesus, all things are possibleI pray for your healingThat circumstances will changeI pray that the fear inside will flee in Jesus nameI pray that a breakthroughWould happen todayI pray miracles over your life in Jesus nameI pray for revivalFor restoration of faithI pray that the dead will come alive in Jesus nameIn Jesus name

Social media and the constant comparison is a large part of today's culture. We don't realize how subconscious a lot of our thoughts about our bodies can become and often times how dangerous it can be. We can start to fixate on how our body looks and pick out all the flaws. Instead you  can start living a life PROUD of the body you have and how much you have achieved with it and the memories. In this episode, I share with you my personal experience with struggling with negative body image, the impact social media accounts can have on us, and tips to overcome a poor body image day and the self-comparison game. It all starts within our mind and accepting our body for what it is now and will be in 20 years. I hope this episode inspires you to reflect on your body image, and believe and change how you view your body. If you are always looking outside of yourself, you will miss all that's amazing on the inside :) Here is the list of affirmations you can say each day to feel confident, and empowered in your own body:I love my body for all that is does for meI am grateful for my body's strengthMy body is healthy, my mind is one of a kind, and my love is pure My weight may fluctuate, but my value never will The most beautiful parts of me cannot be seen by the eye I choose to make choices that respect and honor my body todayI encourage you to choose a self-love affirmation to say to yourself each day this week! If you feel like you are struggling with body-image, know that I totally understand and would love to help you make that mental shift towards feeling confident in your own skin by taking care of first your mind, then your body and all its' capabilities, Join my coaching program by applying with the link below. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Growth Over Fear Podcast. If you haven't done so already, please take a minute to subscribe and leave a quick rating and review of the show! I appreciate you SO much!Sending you love, health, and all good vibes! xoxo, Sarah If you want more from me, be sure to check out... Instagram: @sarahtmwellnessStart your fitness and health journey with me: Apply here for coaching!

Day 14 - its been 2 weeks I'm back to original programmingLast episode was a little detour I'm feeling good So happy that i'm 2 week of not smoking weed I still like weed, but now i don't want to smoke it I don't want to get to far ahead of myselfBut i think the only thing that might tempt me to smoke is when i'm with friends that like to smokeWhich is more rare because as we get older we tend to hang out less with friends I plan to do a drug test todayI'll report back the results next monday Some things i've noticed with not smoking weed I feel good But my resting heart rate is tending higherI use a fitbit to measure I wonder if there are compounding variablesI have been eating a little bit laterI'll try to eat earlier in the day to see if that helps

TodayI spoke to Brett Hunter Allbright and Mud Flood Memes about a gang of stuff.

One simple question to help boost your willpower and feel more in control of your food (and choices) todayI'm doing a free 5-Day Kickstart starting on Monday 4th April showing you how to stop comfort eating, feel more in control of your food and kickstart your fitness.https://frucifit.com/5-day-free-kickstart40/Helping Wiltshire ladies 40+ get fit and ditch the yo-yo dieting

My loves, I made it to 50 times hitting the upload button, each time cringing from the truths I revealed. I talked about the hardest things in my life- my father's death, my mommy issues, my broken relationship and my failure, my difficult relationship with my family, and everything I was afraid to- really all the meant to be things about my life that made me and that I needed to be the person I am today. Only this perfect combination could create the me that I am today. If I was uncomfortable about something, I made sure to leave it in. I lived my whole life worried about what "others" would think- and I saw where it got me. And didn't.Most people never dare to stand alone in their truth. They'll spend their lifetime swerving around, beating around the bush, restless, living in some purgatory of their own making.... just waiting-waiting to ask out the girl they really likewaiting to join that bandwaiting to travelwaiting to pursue their dreamwaiting to say what they need to saywaiting to feel, waiting to claim their love, waiting to show SOME emotion. You know you don't have tomorrow, right?Like if you really think about it, you're banking on something that's not guaranteed- you DO understand that, Right?Listen, I get it. I was there too. That's why I tell this story todayThat's why I share my truth todayI think it's human nature to shy away from discomfort. Most of us shy away from the truth. We also shy away from emotion, from feeling, from hard work, from discomfort, from painReally the only thing you need to shy away from in this life is regret-every moment you are alive you are either living fully or turning it into regret- ouch. You had the opportunity didn't you? You had breath. But You chose Less. Choose love. choose yourself. choose this moment. Because honestly, this moment and You, are all you have, and when you use both of them fully, you garner your Self, and when you garner your Self, you garner the world.

The day I met John O'Leary, my life won. His personal story is hard to believe, yet the lessons he shares from his story are priceless. John has a wisdom about him that his rare to find, probably because he has a perspective that few of us can have. Join us as we talk about:The power of choicesWhat it takes to live an inspired lifeThe strength of a woman (his mom)The masculinity of leading with heartWhat our world needs to todayI promise, you will be glad you did. Enjoy.About JohnIn 1987, John O'Leary was a curious nine-year-old boy. Playing with fire and gasoline, John created a massive explosion in his home and was burned on 100% of his body. He was given less than a 1% chance to live...and has he ever. Today, John is a two-time bestselling author of On Fire and In Awe .  He is also a world-class keynote speaker, host of the Live Inspired podcast, and, best of all, a husband to his wife Beth and a father to four children.Learn more: https://johnolearyinspires.com/Social: @johnoleary.inspires

 Happy Social Saturday, Today's breath is “Breath Counting” which improves Concentration and settles the mind. To do it inhale, exhale say "1," then we will do the same counting up to 5Let's do this together: inhale  exhale 1Inhale , exhale 2, inhale  exhale 3, inhale, exhale 4, inhale  exhale 5Continue doing the breath counting breath while I share our nudge for the day.   Today's nudge is: I'll help someone todayHelping others in turn helps yourself. Trust me on this one. I do it for a living. Reach out and connect with someone in need, even if they simply need your friendship and kindness. Or, offer to help someone with some work. Be a listening ear to someone who needs to be heard. Help someone who is overwhelmed with tasks and lighten the burden.  Let's say it together three times while tapping our thumb to each finger on each word:I'll help someone todayI'll help someone todayI'll help someone today  Have a great Social Saturday! 

 Happy Thoughtful Thursday, Today's breath is Triangle Breath which Calms, reduces anxiety and quiets the mind. To do this breath visualize a triangle in the air in front of you. You will move your head in the shape of a triangle like your nose is drawing a triangle in the air.  Inhale base while you move your head left to right, hold your breath as you move your head up one side, exhale your breath down the other side of the triangle. Let's do this together: Inhale the base, hold while you go up the right side, exhale as you go down the left sideTwo more times: Inhale the base, hold while you go up the right side, exhale as you go down the left sideLast one: Inhale the base, hold while you go up the right side, exhale as you go down the left sideContinue doing the triangle breath while I share our nudge for the day.   Today's nudge is: I choose love todayIt is your choice to love or hate. Even the most unlovable people could use your love. Act with your heart not your head. Speak with loving kindness to all you encounter. Smile and act with love. Your love will be contagious. What you put out you will get back, maybe not immediately, but eventually. Try it. Let's say it together three times while tapping our thumb to each finger on each word:I choose love todayI choose love todayI choose love todayHave a great Thoughtful Thursday!

WX: jessica66001,获得卡卡老师的英语学习干货分享关注公号：卡卡课堂获取更多福利我们很多人羡慕奥运冠军拿到金牌的那一刻，很少人知道他们是通过多少次失败的训练才达到我们最终看到的辉煌。台上十分钟，台下十年功，是一句真实刻画很多成功人士的经典句子。“铁人”迈克·泰森是无可争议的重量级拳王，斩获头衔时年仅20岁。很多人把泰森的成功归因为“遗传学”。然而，一天8到10个小时，如果加上心理内容一天10到12个小时、一周6天总计50到60小时的训练时间，比很多人在办公室工作的时间还要长，这听起来可一点也不像遗传学。究其原因，擂台上的强大更多是与训练方案以及个人努力有关。让那个全世界都震撼的十四岁跳水冠军全红婵，虽然确实有很好的天赋。但是多少人知道她在拿金牌之前有着多么刻苦的训练？她的教练对记者说，湛江的跳水训练场地是露天的跳水台，风吹日晒，训练环境可以说是全省最差。有很多孩子受不了这种苦，没训练多长时间就离开了，但全红婵不但能坚持下来，反而能不断提高对自己的要求。她是同龄人中训练最刻苦、最努力的一个了。她每天要400跳。每一跳都拼尽全力。之后，还要200跳后空翻。一个动作失误，就回去加跳10次。面对记者的镜头，她说“把我累的……”我们都会被台上惊艳的他们所震撼，但我们更应该明白，成功有多么辉煌，失败或是磨练就有多么的惨痛或是艰辛。这一切都是成正比的。今天分享一句来自霍普金斯说过的话。Quote to learn for todayI am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.-Anthony Hopkins翻译别人评判我的往往是成功的次数，而并非失败的次数。而我成功的次数和屡败屡战的次数是成正比的。-安东尼·霍普金斯

WX: jessica66001,获得卡卡老师的英语学习干货分享关注公号：卡卡课堂获取更多福利我们很多人羡慕奥运冠军拿到金牌的那一刻，很少人知道他们是通过多少次失败的训练才达到我们最终看到的辉煌。台上十分钟，台下十年功，是一句真实刻画很多成功人士的经典句子。“铁人”迈克·泰森是无可争议的重量级拳王，斩获头衔时年仅20岁。很多人把泰森的成功归因为“遗传学”。然而，一天8到10个小时，如果加上心理内容一天10到12个小时、一周6天总计50到60小时的训练时间，比很多人在办公室工作的时间还要长，这听起来可一点也不像遗传学。究其原因，擂台上的强大更多是与训练方案以及个人努力有关。让那个全世界都震撼的十四岁跳水冠军全红婵，虽然确实有很好的天赋。但是多少人知道她在拿金牌之前有着多么刻苦的训练？她的教练对记者说，湛江的跳水训练场地是露天的跳水台，风吹日晒，训练环境可以说是全省最差。有很多孩子受不了这种苦，没训练多长时间就离开了，但全红婵不但能坚持下来，反而能不断提高对自己的要求。她是同龄人中训练最刻苦、最努力的一个了。她每天要400跳。每一跳都拼尽全力。之后，还要200跳后空翻。一个动作失误，就回去加跳10次。面对记者的镜头，她说“把我累的……”我们都会被台上惊艳的他们所震撼，但我们更应该明白，成功有多么辉煌，失败或是磨练就有多么的惨痛或是艰辛。这一切都是成正比的。今天分享一句来自霍普金斯说过的话。Quote to learn for todayI am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.-Anthony Hopkins翻译别人评判我的往往是成功的次数，而并非失败的次数。而我成功的次数和屡败屡战的次数是成正比的。-安东尼·霍普金斯

WX: jessica66001,获得卡卡老师的英语学习干货分享关注公号：卡卡课堂获取更多福利我们很多人羡慕奥运冠军拿到金牌的那一刻，很少人知道他们是通过多少次失败的训练才达到我们最终看到的辉煌。台上十分钟，台下十年功，是一句真实刻画很多成功人士的经典句子。“铁人”迈克·泰森是无可争议的重量级拳王，斩获头衔时年仅20岁。很多人把泰森的成功归因为“遗传学”。然而，一天8到10个小时，如果加上心理内容一天10到12个小时、一周6天总计50到60小时的训练时间，比很多人在办公室工作的时间还要长，这听起来可一点也不像遗传学。究其原因，擂台上的强大更多是与训练方案以及个人努力有关。让那个全世界都震撼的十四岁跳水冠军全红婵，虽然确实有很好的天赋。但是多少人知道她在拿金牌之前有着多么刻苦的训练？她的教练对记者说，湛江的跳水训练场地是露天的跳水台，风吹日晒，训练环境可以说是全省最差。有很多孩子受不了这种苦，没训练多长时间就离开了，但全红婵不但能坚持下来，反而能不断提高对自己的要求。她是同龄人中训练最刻苦、最努力的一个了。她每天要400跳。每一跳都拼尽全力。之后，还要200跳后空翻。一个动作失误，就回去加跳10次。面对记者的镜头，她说“把我累的……”我们都会被台上惊艳的他们所震撼，但我们更应该明白，成功有多么辉煌，失败或是磨练就有多么的惨痛或是艰辛。这一切都是成正比的。今天分享一句来自霍普金斯说过的话。Quote to learn for todayI am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.-Anthony Hopkins翻译别人评判我的往往是成功的次数，而并非失败的次数。而我成功的次数和屡败屡战的次数是成正比的。-安东尼·霍普金斯

This past week brought lots of news from the girls gymnastics team with Simone Biles pulling herself out of the group and individual round competition due to mental illness.  This news story got me thinking about how this story relates to being a caregiver.  NY Times Article - Published July 27, 2021Updated July 30, 2021, 7:50 p.m. ET When she twisted fewer times than she had planned in the vault, she knew she was not herself, having lost her usually uncanny sense of where her body is in the air and failing to complete the kind of daring skill she is known for.Biles, the most decorated gymnast in the world, walked off the mat and left the competition, saying she was not mentally prepared to continue. “At the end of the day, we're human, too, so we have to protect our mind and our body rather than just go out there and do what the world wants us to do,” she said. “With the year that it's been, I'm really not surprised how it played out.”Think about how much practice and dedication it takes for gymnastics competition.    As caregivers, we dedicate our time and energy by managing the household, finances, working our job or business plus doing all the caregiving tasks.Athletes  practice multiple times a day plus practice proper nutrition and sleep. What about you?   If you go back to episode 42 and  episode 28, I share my morning routines and the benefits of having a morning mindset.   Getting up early isn't easy but it pays huge dividends when it comes to your health.   You can't be at your best if you don't pay attention to your nutrition, hydration, sleep and exercising your mind and body.  I think about what these athletes have to  give up.    Instead of focusing on what you give up.  Think about it as delaying your time.  Simone's Mom told her your dreams are just delayed when she didn't make the USA team to go to the London Olympics.  You can still have the dream.  You may have to slow down, but it can still happen.  As much controversy and negative feedback Simone is getting, I personally am glad that mental illness is being talked about.   When's the last time you told yourself I just can't focusI just can't function todayI am in a fogI just can't work today or I can't caregive todayThese are all signs of caregiver burnout or compassion fatigue.     Get this free resource:  caregiver stress.It's important to take a break.    If you're in the hospice stage, it may be a nap, a walk or a drive for an hour.  If your loved one is dealing with a chronic illness, it's a long haul and you NEED to take respite care for yourself.  In Episode 40 is more details of respite care.Ask for help.  It's important to do what Simone did and say no, I can't do it.  Your health and mental well-being are the most important.  My action step for you is to reflect on your health and well-being.    On a scale of 1-10.  10=great and 1=worst.  Where are you at?  What can you do to improve your health, your mental well-being, and your situation?Taking care of yourself is NOT selfish.  It's necessary.  Commit to yourself.  

Compassion, not criticism is the key to building resilience to deal with difficult times. In today's session, I will take you through three self compassion practices that will help you to overcome stress, to deal with stress, dealing with the uncertainty that we are living with today and help you build resilience in the long run. If you like what I have to say, make sure that you sign up for my podcast "Nourish Heal Connect" where I share with you some nuggets about self care about nourishment, about connecting with yourself on various topics related to physical and emotional health. Click on the link and sign up to be notified of the new podcast episodes.https://aninditarungta.lpages.co/podcastIn this session, I share with you1:07 How self compassion practices to help deal with your inner critic3:20 How you should deal with circumstances beyond your control3:36 Give yourself a self compassion break5:50 How journaling can help you to take control of your emotions7:18 I am not the only one feeling like this!8:04 Why treating yourself as a friend is so powerful9:10 How would treat a friend who is in pain?10:30 Write a compassionate letter to yourself todayI’m counting down the days until my brand new course launch and I can hardly WAIT! "Boost your emotional health: Build your radical self care practice".This course will take you on a guided journey towards feeling more motivated, empowered, and calm so that you can show up for yourself and your family by building and sustaining a self care practice during stressful times and beyond.I can’t wait to share it with you!!Make sure that you join the VIP waitlist and get first access to the course PLUS an amazing free VIP bonus once the course is launched!https://aninditarungta.lpages.co/vipwaitlist/

WX: jessica66001,获得卡卡老师的英语学习干货分享速度的力量生活中，我们很多人都会执着于完美。当然，这并不是说追求完美不好。而是，过渡执着于完美，你可能永远都会慢别人半拍。我们做一件事情，是不是要有100%把握，才决定要不要干？错！当你有100%的把握时，时机可能早已经被他人抢走。如果你掌握了70%的信息，你就已经做了70%的分析，70%的自信，就可以开始行动！为什么是70%？因为一切都需要速度，光想不做，沉溺于推理的思考，而不去行动，最终，你只能与改变自己命运的机会失之交臂。只要认清机会，就需要立即行动。回头再看，你会感谢当时的自己。所谓的万事俱备，只欠东风。那个东风永远等不来，只能自己造。这就是速度的力量！今天我们分享一句来自于前福特，克莱斯勒汽车公司总裁：李.艾柯卡说过的话。New Words:regret [rɪˈɡret] v. 感到遗憾;惋惜;懊悔;n.痛惜;懊悔;遗憾;He was to regret that decision for the rest of his life. 他终生都将后悔作出了那一决定。She looked back on the past without regret. 她回首往事毫无遗憾。drive [draɪv] v.驾驶;开车;驱动，推动He was driving on the wrong side of the road. 他开车行驶在道路逆行的一侧。Quote to Learn for TodayI have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.-Lee Iacocca翻译一直以来，我发现，有百分之七十五以上就开始行动，结果通常不会让我后悔。是那些等待一切完美，万事俱备的人，才真让你抓狂。-李.艾柯卡

WX: jessica66001,获得卡卡老师的英语学习干货分享速度的力量生活中，我们很多人都会执着于完美。当然，这并不是说追求完美不好。而是，过渡执着于完美，你可能永远都会慢别人半拍。我们做一件事情，是不是要有100%把握，才决定要不要干？错！当你有100%的把握时，时机可能早已经被他人抢走。如果你掌握了70%的信息，你就已经做了70%的分析，70%的自信，就可以开始行动！为什么是70%？因为一切都需要速度，光想不做，沉溺于推理的思考，而不去行动，最终，你只能与改变自己命运的机会失之交臂。只要认清机会，就需要立即行动。回头再看，你会感谢当时的自己。所谓的万事俱备，只欠东风。那个东风永远等不来，只能自己造。这就是速度的力量！今天我们分享一句来自于前福特，克莱斯勒汽车公司总裁：李.艾柯卡说过的话。New Words:regret [rɪˈɡret] v. 感到遗憾;惋惜;懊悔;n.痛惜;懊悔;遗憾;He was to regret that decision for the rest of his life. 他终生都将后悔作出了那一决定。She looked back on the past without regret. 她回首往事毫无遗憾。drive [draɪv] v.驾驶;开车;驱动，推动He was driving on the wrong side of the road. 他开车行驶在道路逆行的一侧。Quote to Learn for TodayI have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.-Lee Iacocca翻译一直以来，我发现，有百分之七十五以上就开始行动，结果通常不会让我后悔。是那些等待一切完美，万事俱备的人，才真让你抓狂。-李.艾柯卡

WX: jessica66001,获得卡卡老师的英语学习干货分享速度的力量生活中，我们很多人都会执着于完美。当然，这并不是说追求完美不好。而是，过渡执着于完美，你可能永远都会慢别人半拍。我们做一件事情，是不是要有100%把握，才决定要不要干？错！当你有100%的把握时，时机可能早已经被他人抢走。如果你掌握了70%的信息，你就已经做了70%的分析，70%的自信，就可以开始行动！为什么是70%？因为一切都需要速度，光想不做，沉溺于推理的思考，而不去行动，最终，你只能与改变自己命运的机会失之交臂。只要认清机会，就需要立即行动。回头再看，你会感谢当时的自己。所谓的万事俱备，只欠东风。那个东风永远等不来，只能自己造。这就是速度的力量！今天我们分享一句来自于前福特，克莱斯勒汽车公司总裁：李.艾柯卡说过的话。New Words:regret [rɪˈɡret] v. 感到遗憾;惋惜;懊悔;n.痛惜;懊悔;遗憾;He was to regret that decision for the rest of his life. 他终生都将后悔作出了那一决定。She looked back on the past without regret. 她回首往事毫无遗憾。drive [draɪv] v.驾驶;开车;驱动，推动He was driving on the wrong side of the road. 他开车行驶在道路逆行的一侧。Quote to Learn for TodayI have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.-Lee Iacocca翻译一直以来，我发现，有百分之七十五以上就开始行动，结果通常不会让我后悔。是那些等待一切完美，万事俱备的人，才真让你抓狂。-李.艾柯卡

Bonhoeffer 1945 and TodayI don’t know about you, but I know life seems more complicated to me today than it was years ago. What used to be apparent black and white issues have turned into an insane amount of grays and purples and browns. It reminded me of third-grade art class when we were first allowed to play with paints and shown how to mix colors. Blue and yellow could make the loveliest shades of green. Like every other ADD child, of course, I figured if two colors mixed was good, why not three and four and five. You know the result, that ugly shade of mud which was irredeemable. Unfortunately, when I am talking about life being complicated, it isn’t as easy to understand as paint mixing. When what we learned was good ends up being not so good, or even harmful, confusion kicks in. If a right isn’t right, and wrong is what we were told was right, how are we act? When what was cast in stone in front of the courthouse from ten commandments is now forbidden to be on public property, who is making the rules, or maybe more importantly, who has changed the rules, and why?In college, I was taught that there were different views of ethics, the two primary ones being Absolute and Relative. Absolute Ethics emphasized what was always true, no matter what. Relative Ethics emphasized that ethics changed based upon the situation. The classic illustration given was based upon lying being bad. If lying is evil, what do you do when the Gestapo comes to the door and asks if you are hiding Jews in your attic. If you tell the truth, they will surely be shot. If you lie, you have violated God’s prohibition against lying.Today we will talk about a man who actually faced those issues, in that time with the Gestapo and Hitler and churches as messed up as church gets. His name was Dietrich Bonhoeffer. To find out more, let’s ask an actor who has played Bonhoeffer all over the world in the play Bonhoeffer 1945.Welcome actor/playwright D. Paul Thomas to Church, Hurts And.www.ChurchHurtsAnd.orgwww.bonhoeffer1945.com

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I am heroically bathed in the gulfs of gloryI sail beyond the sunsetI push onward until I touch the hem of heavenly realms I'll move heaven and earth to strive, seek, and find my abiding strength. I pursue excellence with every breath I breathe.I venture beyond the place of fear and tears I master the menacing shades of shadowI am forever found unafraidthe master of fate, commanding my soulremove your pity, I am the chosen onebottle my glory and capture the suni am the boundless essence of godheadi am the virile element if molded strength i am the noblest face and handsome at heartI am the sweeping solitude of spanning truthyou can have your grave, I am living a legacyI am the possessor of earth and everything in itI am the unbowed head of couragemy nature is fashioned to my unconquerable soulI am grappling with and destroying wretchedness rejoicing trumpets lead me to heights above skiesI am seeking glory before the hereafter I am the birthright of immeasurable qualityI am the unwinding fate of the chosen onedeep within i carry the rhythm of paradiseI am the advwnture clad risk taking prophet of todayI am beautifully furbished with ideal treasure my potential stretches from the east to the westI am the golden standard of the chosen oneI weild the power of 1,000 sailing ships of warI am the backbone of unfathomable fameglory seeks my companionshipI open the door and court my unfailing existence I am the blooming success of fiery growth I turn inward and discover my greatest treasuremy truest nature boldly fights at my sideI am my greatest allyover the waves and past the windI am the epic poem of a hero's journeyI cover the distance with assaulting speedI am the way of the warrior the mighty the valiantthe chosenmy bravery soars into the day like each morning's dawnI am the searing stare of glorious fire

My husband and I went on a diet to reduce fat for a year and after a while we realized we were getting too skinny. When I turned to seeking guidance in our eating to have optimal health, there were so many conflicting views I just ended up being confused! In the garden of Eden everything was created for the use of man. I realized I can turn to God and I can choose to intuitively listen to my body and feed it what it needs and wants.A strict mental diet is a conscious choice of movies, shows, books, music, thoughts, and people I surround myself with. Our choice is a gift of agency. FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) can really cause us to make choices that don’t serve anyone. Shift from fear to love.It feels good to take care of myself. Discipline comes from the root word disciple. I am a disciple of Christ in all I consume. God’s ingredients in, God’s ingredients out!My new declaration: I am grateful and happy with the way my body is, when I adhere to the strict diet that I consciously chooseToday I give myself permission to evaluate and change immediatelyI am a disciple of Christ in every areaI am intuitively listening to what is right for me todayI choose only what serves meI am living in loveI love vibrantly!I serve in my divine callingI live in abundance and safetyI make immediate changesMy intuitive choice creates instantaneous changeI am strict and disciplined in all my dietsFood is my medicineClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook Group. Check out the NEW! Daily GPS Planner. It’s a Gratitude Journal and Planner in one! There is space to write your Inspired Shortcuts, record all your thoughts and impressions from The Daily Gratitude Call and even pages to help you stay focused on your Path of Purpose!To have a 15 minute conversation with Wylene Benson and gain new perspective on an area you desire to change, schedule a time on her calendar by going to this link: askwylene.comTo work more closely with Wylene, email her and click here to learn more about her new book The Seven Gateways – Your Map to Integrity in Life and Business that so many have discovered to be the key to living a life of purpose, fulfillment and happiness!Support the show (https://wylenebenson.com)

I doubt your intentions are to make me feel any better todayI even doubt tomorrow will be as easy as it was I've changedYou've changedIt's not the sameTell me what's the difference if I go back to normal again?Right away

Second to none, I wouldn't seriously get involved in a thingBored of all the talking, you know it didn't change muchI doubt your intentions are to make me feel any better todayI even doubt tomorrow will be as easy as it was

I had a conversation with my nephew last night. He’s in the process of changing his profession because he says his work is ‘soul crushing’. I’m so grateful for the lessons I’ve learned to be able to honor the bits of inspiration I receive, the points of light along my path, and I am grateful he is learning this lesson very early in life.There are moments of complete darkness and we know if we keep going we’ll find the light. Like attracts like. We see the light in others as we see it in ourselves.Lara suggested that what we consider to be light, is darkness to God because of His exponential light that we cannot even comprehend. We all have access to the light of Christ. We can shine that light as we allow our own perfect light to shine forth.Today I give myself permission to shine the light of ChristWithin me lies light equal to GodI am a strong lightI am stepping on my path todayI am becoming my own light in ChristI see beyond darknessI shine my light powerfullyI align with my new destinationMy path is easyMy burden is lightOthers paths are easier because of meI am lightI am in the protection of the lightClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook Group. Check out the NEW! Daily GPS Planner. It’s a Gratitude Journal and Planner in one! There is space to write your Inspired Shortcuts, record all your thoughts and impressions from The Daily Gratitude Call and even pages to help you stay focused on your Path of Purpose!To have a 15 minute conversation with Wylene Benson and gain new perspective on an area you desire to change, schedule a time on her calendar by going to this link: askwylene.comTo work more closely with Wylene, email her and click here to learn more about her new book The Seven Gateways – Your Map to Integrity in Life and Business that so many have discovered to be the key to living a life of purpose, fulfillment and happiness!Support the show (https://wylenebenson.com)

My path of integrity that communicates what is significant to me. Sharing what I learn is how I really ingrain it within myself and make it a part of me. We are meant to edify each other.You can make every moment significant together. The significance comes from within us. One person can lead that significance.Significance literally means: worthy of attention. Discount is a lack of consideration or to disregard someone or something. Either we see something or something as worthy of attention or not. The steps toward shows significance.Today I give myself permission to consciously decide what is significant for me todayI give permission to others to be SignificantI am significantI am designed to be significantI am edifying othersMy teachings become part of meI am confident in my significanceI am open to changeI see people’s significance through Christ’s eyesClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook Group. Check out the NEW! Daily GPS Planner. It’s a Gratitude Journal and Planner in one! There is space to write your Inspired Shortcuts, record all your thoughts and impressions from The Daily Gratitude Call and even pages to help you stay focused on your Path of Purpose!To have a 15 minute conversation with Wylene Benson and gain new perspective on an area you desire to change, schedule a time on her calendar by going to this link: askwylene.comTo work more closely with Wylene, email her and click here to learn more about her new book The Seven Gateways – Your Map to Integrity in Life and Business that so many have discovered to be the key to living a life of purpose, fulfillment and happiness!Support the show (https://wylenebenson.com)

I’ve been doing a study of charity for the past few weeks. It’s like this deep, vast well of information. Christ is charity. Assurity is eyes on Christ. My assurity is in Christ. Everything else is changeable. He is my center and grounded source.Robert recognized that Heavenly Father watches over us in confidence. Comfort. The way he is writing his book he feels that he has Charity because he had hope. There is synergy in faith hope and charityThere is peace in Christ knowing he helps us let go to step into faith.Today I give myself permission to feel the Assurance of the LordTo choose new is to choose ChristI go to sleep & wake up in peace with ChristI have Christ’s assurance I am enoughI am a loved good and faithful servantI live in Christ’s assurance todayI am on Christ’s timeI am always part of the OneI am seen and loved by GodI let go of the need to save myself and go to God for forgivenessI trust that the Atonement is enough for meClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook Group. Check out the NEW! Daily GPS Planner. It’s a Gratitude Journal and Planner in one! There is space to write your Inspired Shortcuts, record all your thoughts and impressions from The Daily Gratitude Call and even pages to help you stay focused on your Path of Purpose!To have a 15 minute conversation with Wylene Benson and gain new perspective on an area you desire to change, schedule a time on her calendar by going to this link: askwylene.comTo work more closely with Wylene, email her and click here to learn more about her new book The Seven Gateways – Your Map to Integrity in Life and Business that so many have discovered to be the key to living a life of purpose, fulfillment and happiness!Support the show (https://wylenebenson.com)

Clean air, clean water, and healthy food. Family and peace. Because of what is happening it seems like that won’t be what we can always expect or take for granted. I have faith that the strength of the American people and spirit can overcome.Now, not the future or past. We all have the basics of living now. Fear is an illusion of the past or future as Phil pointed out.Dogs and kids are so forgiving even though they are so emotional. Immediate forgiveness and love. Become like a little child being okay with an emotional moments.Today I give myself permission to be present in all the blessings I enjoy nowI have the basics of living alreadyI have clean, fresh air, water, and healthy foodI am abundantly blessedI am obeying laws to receive greater freedoms and abundanceI receive exactly what I need todayI can always give my past to the LordI am complete and perfect nowI have bounteous, plentiful basicsClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook Group. Check out the NEW! Daily GPS Planner. It’s a Gratitude Journal and Planner in one! There is space to write your Inspired Shortcuts, record all your thoughts and impressions from The Daily Gratitude Call and even pages to help you stay focused on your Path of Purpose!To have a 15 minute conversation with Wylene Benson and gain new perspective on an area you desire to change, schedule a time on her calendar by going to this link: askwylene.comTo work more closely with Wylene, email her and click here to learn more about her new book The Seven Gateways – Your Map to Integrity in Life and Business that so many have discovered to be the key to living a life of purpose, fulfillment and happiness!Support the show (https://wylenebenson.com)

If I think there is only one way of doing something I will keep pushing it and it brings frustration. Yesterday, I had an experience where I let it go and it was easy for everyone. We have to let go in order for new things to come into our life.Charity was our topic for our Lord’s Way to Wealth mastermind call yesterday. Part of charity is saying, “I am inviting you in because I see the greatness in you and what you can provide.” Rather than trying to do it all yourself.When you are open to receive you are having charity for yourself. When you are willing to follow direction you are having charity for others.Today I give myself permission to receive the miracleI am open to receive the miracleI am open to the windows of heavenIt’s easyThe Lord’s way is easyI am doing enough by following my daily inspired shortcutGod’s way is the fastest wayI’m doing it todayI am becoming the best I can beGod’s abundance is showering my life like rainI allow God’s gifts to flowI hold Christ’s handI am having charity for myselfClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook Group. Check out the NEW! Daily GPS Planner. It’s a Gratitude Journal and Planner in one! There is space to write your Inspired Shortcuts, record all your thoughts and impressions from The Daily Gratitude Call and even pages to help you stay focused on your Path of Purpose!To have a 15 minute conversation with Wylene Benson and gain new perspective on an area you desire to change, schedule a time on her calendar by going to this link: askwylene.comTo work more closely with Wylene, email her and click here to learn more about her new book The Seven Gateways – Your Map to Integrity in Life and Business that so many have discovered to be the key to living a life of purpose, fulfillment and happiness!Support the show (https://wylenebenson.com)

I think it’s safe to say that 2020 has not started the way that you thought it would. It’s a crazy time, and if you set goals for 2020 at the beginning of the year - there’s a good chance you’ve had to throw them out the window (or at least pivot or adjust course). And whether this year has turned out to be one of unexpected blessings and a transition you’ve taken in stride, or a year that’s been a real struggle and a challenge - it’s not too late to refocus. As of the recording of this episode, we’re right at the halfway point of 2020. As long as the last 6 months have felt in some ways, we still have 6 months ahead of us to make the most of this crazy year. Will you choose to be reactive and take what life throws at you for the second half of this year? Or will you choose to make these next 6 months the best of your life. The choice is yours, let’s talk about 20 tips to help you finish this year the right way.If you need help with getting clear on your goals and your purpose, follow the link in the show notes to download our Free PDF - The 5 Steps You Need to Achieve Your Big Goals to make 2020 your best year yet by clicking below for your free download:https://www.insideoutsp.com/5-steps-to-achieving-big-goals Set a goal, or set an intentionReflect on the first 6 monthsWhat did you struggle with? What did you do well?Refocus on what mattersGet clear on your WHYPrioritize your healthFocus on sleep and stress managementPrioritize your relationshipsAsk for help or find a mentor in an area you need helpSeek accountabilityBe okay with changing goals and changing plansPractice gratitudeLet go of controlLearn a new skillLook for ways to serve and give backGet creativeDo something challengingSet boundariesTake imperfect actionDon’t overcomplicate thingsDon’t try and do it allStart living as the person you want to be TODAYI hope this was helpful for you guys. I know how hard it is to stay grounded and stay grateful when our plans change or when things don’t look the way we thought them up in our head. BUT, that doesn’t mean it’s too late to still make the most out of this year, and have an incredible year. Don’t fall into the trap of people saying that they can’t wait for 2020 to be over or that they hope 2020 just disappears. Don’t wait until 2021 to get ‘refocused’ - the time is now. In our challenges is often where our greatest growth lies. Use challenges and setbacks as an opportunity to grow in ways like never before. It’s not too late to make this your best year - we are not tied to our circumstances.If you need help with getting clear on your goals and your purpose, follow the link in the show notes to download The Strategic Goal Planning Playbook to make 2020 your best year yet.If you haven’t yet, make sure to join like minded men in the our Men Made For More Facebook Group - designed to offer Performance Coaching to Help Men Get Strong, Feel Confident, and Level Up Their Life.

I’m really feeling the healing power of God and the healing power of experience. Because of a heart attack it created space for me to become who I am today. I know the outcome will be exciting.God knows what is coming and maybe my experience eight years ago was to prepare me for today. Many times we get to retake the test. Now we have new tools, knowledge, and perspective.Cleansing can often come with die-off, detox symptoms as we heal and cleanse. Often the mess, the problem looks bigger as we are clearing out.Today I give myself permission to I love myself for who and where I amI am forgivingI am a different, brand new person todayI easily let go of anything not serving meI am walking in the lightI am cleanI am refreshedI am filled with the light and love of heavenClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook Group. Check out the NEW! Daily GPS Planner. It’s a Gratitude Journal and Planner in one! There is space to write your Inspired Shortcuts, record all your thoughts and impressions from The Daily Gratitude Call and even pages to help you stay focused on your Path of Purpose!To have a 15 minute conversation with Wylene Benson and gain new perspective on an area you desire to change, schedule a time on her calendar by going to this link: askwylene.comTo work more closely with Wylene, become a North Star Navigator! click here to learn more about her new book The Seven Gateways – Your Map to Integrity in Life and Business and the life-changing North Star Navigator Course that so many have discovered to be the key to living a life of purpose, fulfillment and happiness!Support the show (https://wylenebenson.com)

每个人心中都住了个孩子 今天是儿童节，International Children's Day.这让我不禁想起一句名言。“我们每个人心中都住着个孩子”。就算是铁娘子撒切尔见到自己的爱人的时候，也会展示自己孩童的本心。有人说内在小孩是我们的“真我”，因为那个自己，永远是快乐，积极，眼里充满了生命之光的。他会本能地对一切充满好奇，无惧困难与挫折，对一切也充满爱和善意。虽然今天是专属儿童的节日，但可爱的宝宝们，不管你们年龄多大，都一定要呵护好住在心中的那个小孩，爱你们呦！ Quote to learn for todayI think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. 翻译我想每个成年人的内心是一个孩子，我们只是逐渐说服我们必须表现得和大人一样。

每个人心中都住了个孩子 今天是儿童节，International Children's Day.这让我不禁想起一句名言。“我们每个人心中都住着个孩子”。就算是铁娘子撒切尔见到自己的爱人的时候，也会展示自己孩童的本心。有人说内在小孩是我们的“真我”，因为那个自己，永远是快乐，积极，眼里充满了生命之光的。他会本能地对一切充满好奇，无惧困难与挫折，对一切也充满爱和善意。虽然今天是专属儿童的节日，但可爱的宝宝们，不管你们年龄多大，都一定要呵护好住在心中的那个小孩，爱你们呦！ Quote to learn for todayI think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. 翻译我想每个成年人的内心是一个孩子，我们只是逐渐说服我们必须表现得和大人一样。

每个人心中都住了个孩子 今天是儿童节，International Children's Day.这让我不禁想起一句名言。“我们每个人心中都住着个孩子”。就算是铁娘子撒切尔见到自己的爱人的时候，也会展示自己孩童的本心。有人说内在小孩是我们的“真我”，因为那个自己，永远是快乐，积极，眼里充满了生命之光的。他会本能地对一切充满好奇，无惧困难与挫折，对一切也充满爱和善意。虽然今天是专属儿童的节日，但可爱的宝宝们，不管你们年龄多大，都一定要呵护好住在心中的那个小孩，爱你们呦！ Quote to learn for todayI think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. 翻译我想每个成年人的内心是一个孩子，我们只是逐渐说服我们必须表现得和大人一样。

Repentance and faith in Jesus Christ have been taught by every prophet. How do I call people to repentance? Seeing what is out of alignment is a call to correction and repentance. And it is absolutely necessary that Christ is there to make up the difference.Fear comes from Satan and usually a partial understanding. As we push through the initial fear we can receive peace as we carry through to the promises of prophets.There is immortality not only in the life after, but as well in the legacy we leave behind. Are you following your divine calling and purpose? We can secure our own immortality because of our influence and memory that lives beyond our years.Today I give myself permission to push through fear to the promisesI am a divine man/ woman of GodI am stepping into my full influence and capacityI am enough to change the worldI am taking action on the perfect step todayI am embracing the power of my influenceI am receiving everything and everyone to assist me on my journeyI am immortal as I influence beyond my mortal yearsClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook Group. Check out the NEW! Daily GPS Planner. It’s a Gratitude Journal and Planner in one! There is space to write your Inspired Shortcuts, record all your thoughts and impressions from The Daily Gratitude Call and even pages to help you stay focused on your Path of Purpose!To have a 15 minute conversation with Wylene Benson and gain new perspective on an area you desire to change, schedule a time on her calendar by going to this link: askwylene.comTo work more closely with Wylene, become a North Star Navigator! click here to learn more about her new book The Seven Gateways – Your Map to Integrity in Life and Business and the life-changing North Star Navigator Course that so many have discovered to be the key to living a life of purpose, fulfillment and happiness!Support the show (https://wylenebenson.com)

Khoa, a chemist by day and a bboy by night, discusses his approach to creativity and learning, and how hip hop has shaped his life. Follow @Instagram: noiseofthebrokeboysTwitter: BrokeBoysNoiseListen to the Audio on all Podcast platforms. All The Links Here: https://linktr.ee/NoiseOfTheBrokeBoysA broke degenerate hooligan documents conversations about being a Bboy, Breakin', Hip Hop, Dance, Art, Music, Creativity, Innovation, and the slow subtle crumble of society in audio form.----more----[Music]this episode of noise of the broke boysis brought to you by tardiness ring ringring hey is that your alarm are yousupposed to be somewhere right nowoh you're too cool to be on time becauseyou have a hundred followers on socialmedia okaysorry carry on those of you that do havesomewhere to be but decide to stillexercise tardiness despite not having alegitimate excuse I'm here to say headover to your local shopping departmentand head to the time telling devicesection of the wide selection of watchesand wall clocks choose a few of yourpreference to purchase head over to thecheckout counter to make your finalpurchase go ahead and grab a containerof extra strength adhesive while you areon your way take the items home and oncethere use the adhesive to glue thewatches to your arms and the wall clocksto your body and use the remainingadhesive to adhere your eyes open andyour lips closed have fun with yournewfound love of chronometer Xandadhesives the next time be moreconsiderate of other people's time andnow onto the show[Music]in today's episode I sit down with ab-boy I've known since high school weattended rival schools and met in acall-out battle between the b-boys ofour respective schoolshe is a UC Irvine alumni and currentlyworks as a chemist I love goofing aroundwith this guyand I'm excited to bring him on the showplease enjoy this episode with my goodfriend qua hello everybody welcome topatient zero of the online infection ofcorona virus yes you heard that rightthat's crow no virus not corona virusalthough this guy might have that aswell but chrono as in time he's got atardiness problem but anyways yet todayI have a special guest he is my friendqua the chemist or he used to go byquality but he was a biter so he changedhis name he is a b-boy he is a actualchemist and he's also a douchebag howare you doing my friend what's upnothing much again my apologies forbeing late today very very cleverimpromptu fake ad as well so what's updude you've been living out here for aminute right so we're out here in LAyou've been out here since college rightcuz you went to UC Irvine oh yeah that'sright you studied chemistry out here orsomething right mmm that's right so yeahI studied um first I studied biologythat I realized I hate memorizing shitso I decided to get into chemistrybecause I thought organic chemistry wasactually surprisingly interesting andkind of fun to do at that time which iscontradictory to what everybody aroundme was saying everyone used to say likeman fuck okay that shit sucks dickthat's the reason why I don't even wantto do chemistry anymoreso but then I was against the green Isuppose in this case so I wouldthat chemistry and then after Igraduated I found a job in the area andwas testing out food oh that's rightyeah you were like a food tester yeah ohman so it was you who is putting allthat freaking coronavirus in the food orwhatever they don't mean a thing I don'tknow I'm just making sure though oh no Iput it in the Modelo virus virus thatPBR viruswell dope dude so yeah so you are achemist and you are also a b-boy so youmoved out here and you've been a b-boysince high school right I think I metyou man what were you probably like afreshman or something so or maybe that'scorrect we met during high school Iofficially started back in middle schoolI I just saw my friend at the Buddhisttemplate I go to every Saturday and mmmhe was one of the I don't know you everheard of Turtle Wax crew back then andSacramento hurdle wax crew I don't knowyeah it's like they I mean that justsounds like someone's racing cars thatnight turtle wax is the stuff that makesyour car real shiny that's right yeah sothat was like his crew back then whatI'll call it rice rocket I went out hedrove a rice rocket back then chewedyeah and it was probably busted too itwas like one of those you know one ofthose messed up like CR X's with like anice body kit but it doesn't matcheverything else is like like the colorof the car is different than the colorof the eye of the body kit oh yeahthat's definitely player those back inthe back in those days did you have arice rocket oh no I couldn't even affordone okay all I had back then was just anice reliable Camrya silver cat we solid color all aroundso okay so okay soand so you've been breaking since middleschool in that I guess for reference youare how old you're almost thirty rightalmost 30 so I'm 29 right now so it's abit about living over 16 years since Istarted breaking it's a long time it'sit's it's so weird to me because likewe're like I mean maybe it's justgetting old I guess in this scenebecause like I remember being the youngperson in the scene and now I'm likelegitimately the old person in the sceneand I'm like oh crap dude what the heckit's kind of weird to just to look atthat cuz you go to like a an event orwhatever a breaking event and you seeyou know 12 year olds and stuff 13 14 1516 all the way up to like 20 year oldsand I'm like dang dude I'm 10 yearsolder than all of you guys so I guess itget it just goes to show you that thisis such a young a young dance a youngculture but you know as we're allgetting older and it's getting morepopular I think we're gonna see more oldpeople older people in the scene soanyways so like what got you intohip-hop cuz you you are from the samecity that I'm from which is Carmichaelmm-hmmin Sacramento which is not necessarilyknown for its hip-hop it's a richhip-hop culture it's not known for itsrich like urban scene it's not knownlike it's known for some cows some oldpeopleand that's probably it I don't know whatelse is it's got a good school districtI guess yeah we definitely do have someof that but yeah so what would what gotyou into to HIPAA I mean I guess yeahyou said you're in the Buddhist templeyou saw someone breaking but is thatwhat hooked you into and then how didyou go back home and then figure out howto do this oh yeah so after I saw myfriend doing like a couple of flares anddude even doing a 90 on concrete and Ishouldn't was hella cool so I want tolearn how to do that so the onlyresource I had back then was I went onto my 56k dial-up internet and I waslooking for b-boy tutorials onlinemm-hmmand I notice always talk to people whichis like kind of frowning apart likelooking at people looking at a b-boytutorials however I was like the onlyresource I had at the time so I justread into these message sports and whateveryone probably knew as b-boy got hardback in the days so that's how I firstgot started and I just startedpracticing flares and windmills in myliving room what some really shittycarpet where you get carpet burns andyou have a big living room so it's likeyou got some room for sure it'sdefinitely like enough space to I getsome breaking in I know your your housewas like freakin big at least that onebig entryway is like really big is thatwhere you did itum that's what I did in my later yearsbut in the beginning actually ya know Ithink by the living room was so prettybig yeah well cause like I'm justcomparing it to my parents living roomand like there wasn't much because itwas more long than it was like yours iswide in all directions my parents waslike shorter in one direction so theyhave the couch there and so I give youtried windmills you definitely kickedthe couch but I know yours I don't thinkyou would hit anythingyeah no you had big room yeah I don'tknow yeah there's definitely my plentyof space in the living room but when Iwas like a super newbie back then Iwould I wanted to try learnon a smooth floor so I had this reallysmall like tile section between theentryway door and the living room so Iwould say it's like maybe just a 5 feetby like I don't know 10 feet rectangleof tile saw we just tried to win thoselove that mmm so that's why I firststarted learning uh windows and that'swhat got me even more into it so it'slike I realized oh I can do this shitmaybe I could try learn some other movesokay and so then 16 years later you'restill into it you work in full time inyour chemistry thing or what what isactually your exact job title so I wentthrough a series of different careerchanges so I work over three years ithas a food chemist and then I realizedthis doesn't pay very well I need tolook for a new job okay but you knowbeing like 2425 a time I don't know whatto fucking do I don't have a strongpassion in this career to be a broke boyyes exactly I would be a broke boy if Ididn't work so all I care about wasalright how do I get more money and Ididn't know what to do at the time so Ijust went on a job board so that's Ilook for anything relevant to my skillsso I found this one small company Ilooked for a chemist it said chemiststhis much salary and assistant projectmanager I was like what the hell is aproject manager sounds pretty cool okayso you manage projects and I guess likein the industry what is the industryexactly because it's not food anymoreright so right now I I work for abiotech company diode that makes mediafor you to develop vaccines or they alsomake stuff to freeze your eggs or makeyour sperm swim faster so I work forthat kind of company right now and I domore of the project management stuff nowrather than the laboratory work wait sothat just made me think of a sperm bankthe is there do you have like a sectionof the building you are kidding that's asperm bank that's like you got dudescoming in they're like hey hey hey guesswhat I got you know that's a goodquestion I don't know we have like areservoir of like semen in thelaboratory or something to put them torun their tests I wouldn't doubt itthat's hella funny okay so you're overthere mix and freaking people's semenall day that's what's upb-boy so you're mixing semen by day anddoing windmills by night that's what'supthat's hella tight' but so okay so whatgot you into chemistry though so becauseyou you were into breaking first and allof a sudden you wanted to get intochemistry and I don't know was that wasthat something you were alwaysinterested in you know as much as I wantto provide like what do you what I calla LinkedIn response which is like a veryoptimistic professional soundingresponse about to be like very genuineand learn about it I have to say I justwanna look for something that will makeme money in the future and chemistryjust seemed like something about morefeasible where hey I can do this shit Ican't say I love it but it's interestingenough for me to keep going with it asat that time like I wasn't sure what toreally do because I grew up in a familywhere as we know like a lot of Asianfamilies especially with Vietnamesefamilies we have a kinda like a I guessa pre-arranged kind of life stage oflife stages where okay you're gonna goto school study biology you're gonnabecome either a pharmacist or a doctoror an ale person nail painter yeah whatis their timeOh nail salon specialist you know salonspecialist is that in your career pathat all I'm not I was like trying to findmy mom so I wouldn't consider it likeyou know no no I'm gonna get into thatyou go mixed semen instead now now Imanage key for the mixed semen no cakesand shit like that's the soap so you'relike hey all you Pezover here you mix my semen for me andthey're like oh yes siryes project manager especially is heylet's get this shit done on time ah I'mabout to get some corporate shaking frommy bossoh yeah he's gonna throw his semen atyou you're not doing your job o'clockhere's my semen now wipe it up and gogive it to your peons oh no I'm justtrying to do my job mandamn dude all right that's tight but Iguess kind of going back to like when Iwas like 18 or younger stages so I nevergot to exercise a lot of my owndecision-making back then so I was justrelying upon the whole okay I'm justgonna follow this preset life stagessystem because there's like guaranteesecurity and money and I realize when Iwas showering for a pharmacist so I it'skind of boring it's kind of a link Imean I'm not gonna knock on that kind ofjob because that makes hella money and Irespect people that go through the wholepharmacy school and go through all drugdealers oh yeah exactly yeah you don'twant to go the drug dealer path that'swhat's up um so the reason I was I'masking about chemistry and stuff andbreaking is because I know that you'veall you grew up in like a situationwhere there was like you were kind ofguided towards a certain path but Ithink breaking most people that get intobreaking are like kind of going againstthe grain usually so I'm curious ifthere was like if any like pushback fromyour parents to not break oh all thetime I remember like when I was in highschool I would try to session at home inthe living room and the living room dayyou saw before and I remember my stepdadwould always tell me to stop doing Jeffthe gymnastics as he would college[Laughter][Music]yeah just what this purpose I guess wecould just use that voice yeah and therewas your mom's voice like oh that'ssupervening me I can't even do thataccent ah she would just tell me likejust just focus on my studies enough badboy kick I give you spanking like thatno your mom's only nice I like her yeahbut um yeah I just never my parents justdidn't support it cuz um my stepdadwould hear me like flopping everyone youhear a lot of thud or he walks out ofhis office and he's just like tappingthe ground like dude you flop bro you'reonly ten but your abiders - yeah hewould basically be doing this so Ididn't really get like a whole lot ofsupport earlier on but I like doing itbecause I thought it was cool so I justkept on doing it and then eventually Iforgot how the story went but I guess myfault my mom finally recognized that heycarla has some dope shit and now insteadlike discouraging me she's not braggingto all her friends about me that's rightso she eventually turned around and Iwas like alright all this rolling on theground is is kind of cool but go be apharmacist but you can roll around onthe ground afterwardsI guess callaghan unspoken compromisebecause she saw that oh hey quadgraduated from college and he did prettywell he got a jobI mean he's still breaking so I guessshe saw some nitrous you can see thatthe breaking didn't really kill my Iguess career path from her eyes youwouldn't call her that yeah yeah and sheprobably also recognized that it's likesomething that you love doing and thatit you know it is a creative outlet toyou and that has a lot of benefitI mean that I think I'm comparing it toto my parents who my mom is an artist mydad is a general contractor and Mikecarpenter furniture makers well heactually made this table so they're bothlike creatives and so they were alwaysyou know looking at breaking as I meanthey would say oh don't break your neckdon't you know crash too hard orwhatever but they always looked at it aslike a good thing because it was like acreative outlet to me and my brother andso they were pretty supportive of itother than don't break your neck don'tdo them head spins but everything elsethey're like yeah that's cool so Iimagine maybe your mom started seeingthat as wellyou know because chemist chemistry andbreaking it seems like such differentthings to me and that's I think why it'sso fascinating to me that the this isthis is your reality is that you havethis very like technical skill set andthen this very creative skill set andI'm very curious about like how those tocoincide could collide with each otherdo you see any kind of overlap with itin terms of like maybe mentality oranything I mean I imagine there's a lotof creativity in the work that you dobut it's just not so apparent to someonewho's stupid like me you wouldn't see ityou know I don't know shit aboutchemistry I got an A in chemistry warmactually I set the curve in that classyeah that's really impressive and onlife you look for people below the curveyeah no I was like uh I'm a chemist dudeand then I'm like okay you gave everyoneI'll just smoke back there and the smokein there like oh dude he's gonna be sucha good chemist and then I'm like nahfuck this shit I'm gonna go study somemath or whatever I don't know mmm bangyou know actually that's a really goodquestion about tying in like I guess thechemistry background went breaking thinghonestly as of right now II kept them pretty separate in thisfight like some sort of unconsciousparallels that probably happen I justnever really gave that much thoughtabout it well here's here's somethingthat maybe you can consider is like forme uh you know I'm an engineer I studiedmath and structural engineering inschool and so I have a very like you'llhave like a very set process I mean it'svery math oriented and so when Iapproach breaking I have kind of like aprocess of doing it in a way you knowwe're not necessarily formulaic althoughit might look that way it's it's morelike so when when you get good at mathright you you're not just memorizinglike a bunch of formulas or somethingyou're understanding the process of howlike numbers work and how you know andvariables and stuff and so what you dois you know how to manipulate you know amathematical equation right or just amathematical statement you know how toalter it because you have all thesetools at your disposal and so I approachbreaking kind of in the same ways whereI like try to learn all these new toolsso that when I come into break I canpull pieces of it and kind of get me towherever I want which is the same thingas math really like if you're trying toget you're trying to turn an equationinto something that's usable so you'reapplying all these different tools soyou know whatever this formula youlearned back in the day or this otherlike substitution you can do these areall little tools you use to alter theequation which I know is somewhatsimilar in chemistry so I I don't knowactually no I now that you bring that upthat kind of like I guess woke upside of my brain that actually have somefeedback on this so I do agree I do seeone parallel at least where I think youcan relate to this square we had like acomplex problem and if we want to beable to figure it out we just break itdown to the simplest of basic form of itand I think that I you I definitely usethat a lot more recently with when Ineed to fix my foundation and breakinglike I realized fuck my footwork lookslike shit right nowand if I want to break it down I alwaysdid no no you're right it looked likeshit for a longest time and it wasn'tuntil like I don't know maybe roughly atleast over two years ago I started totry to fix it and the best way to fix itI guess supposed to break it down onestep at a time because like if I justlook at a six step my own six attackthen yeah I'm like man it looks likecrap yeah I just I just break it down tolike individual steps on how to make itlook crispy yeah yeah exactly and Ithink that's the same with math is likeyou have this equation here and you canmemorize thatbut what's probably more important is ifyou learned how that equation wasderived the process of which and so whenI compare that to a sixth step you havethe Move six steps sure and I you knowyou learned that but then if your sixthstep looks like shit what you should bedoing is looking at each of those sixsteps and figuring out how to make eachof those six steps look better and in away now you have six moves rather thanone move right and so now instead ofdoing a six step you're doing just stepsand you can alter the steps as you asyou want and I think it gives you somuch more depth to your dancing and ifyou apply that to like literally everystep you have I think at least for me Ifound that footwork you're no longerthinking about it in terms of six step 7step 8 step twine whatever all thesestupid steps I don't think of it likethat anymore I just think of it as likea certain movement like I'll move my hipthis way inmy foot that way or whatever on my legor I'll have my head up higher have itlower have my arm reaching out more soit's you know in you combining thosemoves together and then yeah that lookslike a six step but I can also alter itnow it becomes like a you know a twinestep or whatever and so yeah that's thethat's the correlation I have with thetechnical background and in the creativebackground no you're absolutely rightabout that like it was until recentlywhen I've realized the importance oflike committing for example the hook inyour sixth step okay I just thought likeoh it's just a part of the six step butI realized now you gotta make that hooklook really good for that stick stuff tobe really good yeah yes well it it'slike every every piece of the move hasthe ability to make a statement so ifyou want to make the statement at thepart where you're hooking your legaround you want to make sure that thathook looks perfect or at least the wayyou want it so cuz that's gonna be thisthat's gonna be the exclamation point onyour on your sentence right or you knowlike like if you're stepping forwardlike one of the one one of the ways theydo it is like I think it'll be it's likeit's basically a step out but you kindof stick your butt up in the airmm-hmm from a sixth step all you'redoing is just accentuating that one stepyou're still sticking your hips uphigher so you can see it but that sothat now that's the exclamation in thein the sentence so I don't know I thinkhaving a good a good balance ofexclamation points and subtle movementis what really makes it's so interestingthe dancing so interesting I agree Ijust feel like it I guess if you want tocompare it to like if you want to reachup to a broader audience overcharged alla nice pretty picture but we can't drawthis pretty picture without having anice knowing how to draw a nice squarenice triangle a nice nice circle or elseyou have like all these bluff tight-asscircleugly-ass warehouse guys look like shityeah it looks like dope so like okay soin terms of creativity like whatcreatively inspires you in this dancehmm you know honestly the whole createevery part was the one I struggle thehardest with like for the longest timeit wasn't until maybe again like roughlytwo years ago at the same time when Istarted fixing my foundation am Ibreaking that's when my creativityfinally started like flourishing back inthe days hate to admit that I most of mycreativity was I really creativity wasjust watching my friends Freddy's ideaswere just basically biting Oh always beboth to be while fighting shit he's abiter so that was like me back in thedays and then it wasn't until like whenI saw like fixing my foundation when Ican finally learn how to creatively addon stuff so I guess the more of thestory being that it's really importantto really build the basic b-boyfoundation first because that's how tocreate these creativity starts flowingas cliche as that sounds but that shitis true and I wish I learned that likemany years back and I think that wouldhave like expend my growth a lot fasterearly on but moving forward going backto the creativity part and I'll say allof it is just like just starts withworking with my friends whoever Isession with and then anytime someonehas a cool idea we just try to build offof that yeah yeah it's definitelyhelpful to have like a bunch of a groupof people to kind of bounce ideas off ofa lot of times when I train with mybrother well me and him are like reallygood at this cuz we just will dosomething and it's like a you know ashitty movinglike say he does a shitty move and I'llbe like oh can you do this after it andthen he'll try it but he'll do it shittyor whatever and then it wasn't quitewhat I had in my mind but then what hedid actually looks better than what Ihad in my mind or whatever and so thenwe were just like oh that was tight justlike clean that up or whatever and samething for me I'll do a move and I'll belike yo what should I do after this orwhatever and so we just bounce ideas andI think the the part that makes itreally interesting is kind of the Lostin Translation thing because he mighthave an idea for what I'm trying to doand he'll try to say it and I won'tquite understand it but I'll go I thinkI understand let me try it and it'scompletely the diff the wrong thing butit's like he'll see it and go oh thatwas tight actually shit try to do thator whatever so I don't know yeah I justplay it's just playing around reallyit's playing around and and not caring Ithink is the two most important thingsfor me at least I'll actually no I agreejust I guess being in a relaxed state ofmind really does it really is importantfor the creativity part especially Idon't know you have I'm sure you hadthese kind of moments where and eitheryou're in a shower or you're taking youryour your work shits and all of a suddenwhile you're taking a shit you're likeoh I have a dumb idea like it doesrelaxed State oh yeah yeah yeah yeah nouh definitely like you have some weirdideas in the weirdest times yeah cuz Imean it I think what's what's reallyimportant for creativity is to likefully immerse yourself into the momentinto it I mean they call it like a flowstate where like ideas are just flowingand so it's like you're hyper focused inthe moment of you know trying to dosomething and and so I think the timeswhen I'm most creative is when I getthat flow state and I'm hyper focused onjust music and you know just caught upin my own head trying to dosomething in but also not being afraidto just go with the flow you know ifyou've if your body is saying do thisjust try itI mean don't get injured or anything butlike see what happens yeah and thenmaybe maybe it's still maybe it's wackI don't know but actually I was gonnaask you about the whole flow State thingso that's like one of the topics I'vebeen trying to explore a lot morerecently and I've experienced that flowstate where things just likeeverything's you should have just turnsinto going that moment like I guess whatI'm trying to figure out and ask fromyou is how do you obtain this flow statea lot more consistently becausesometimes like you I'll be at practiceI'm like trying to take deep breaths andtry to calm myself but I can't alwaysobtain that flow state consistently so Ijust want to ask you from what's on yourend uh well so yeah I've actually beenreally interested in this topic as welland so I've been listening to a fewpodcasts that have experts in the fieldthat have you know they're like what arethe scientists that study the brainpsychology as AI neurology they're allyes something like that but basicallythey're studying what the brain lookslike in that state so they'll get liketest subjects to like get into thatstate and then they're looking at what'sgoing on in their brain and likefiguring out what was the best way toget them there and I mean I think ithasn't been conclusive of what it is butthey have a few things that help and Imight get this wrong but I guess maybeit's better if I just speak fromexperience what I find is that yeah it'skind of like a meditative exercise in away is like you gotta calm yourself andbecome high like again hyper focused ina certain moment which you know is is ameditative state you're you're notthinking about what anyone else is doingif anyone's looking I mean it's almostlike you're in a room by yourself rightand you're there you're on the ground orwhatever and you're not thinking aboutanyother than music for instance for me forme it's it's the easiest one you know Ihave this music going and it you knowit's like my favorite music or whateverand it's an empty room it's just me Ifind myself getting into that state alot easier because they're there I'm notthere's no one around me to like youknow to give me some kind ofsubconscious stretch distraction yeahyeah I'm not trying to like perform forthem or whatever so not that you can'tdo that with other people around I meanI do that all the time too but you justit's a little bit harder because youhave this thing in the back of your mindthat oh there's these people here orwhatever you can't be crashing all overthe place oh but yeah so like I thinkyeah if you I think the things thatapply to meditation also apply to like aflow State for creativityI don't know I'll have to send you someof the podcasts I've listened to aboutit because it's it's a very interestingsubject and it's not fully understoodbut there are a lot of methods thatpeople have figured out and it's notjust and it's not um it's not only foryou know typical arts things like youcan get into like a float a creativeflow State for really anything andthat's I think that's how a lot of themost the coolest accomplishments havehappened is when people get hyperfocused on something and they date youknow they'll come up with cool ways todo it I mean I have a I have a theorythat Elon Musk is like really good atthis because that guy just has somewild-ass ideas all the time and thenhe's also good at executing them so youknow I feel like he just gets into thiscrazy State of Mind where he's coming upwith all these ideas and then he goesokaylet me reach into my deep bass pocketwith all this money and now let's makeit happen you know and then got a rocketthat's going all over the place andstuff so well yeah kind of continuingoff of that how it's just kind ofcuriouskind of a side question did you startdrinkingmatcha recently because of thel-theanine properties it has the whatElvis theanine l-theanine I have no ideawhat that isI drink it cuz it's good that's goodyeah yeah I don't know yeah it cuz ittastes good and it's I mean like I likecoffee a lot but sometimes coffee giveyou like a headache and stuff and likematcha has some caffeine in it and Idon't know it's I guess it's not soharsh in terms of like caffeine spikeyeah the caffeine spike so I'll drinkmatcha like more often now but I don'tknow I don't know what what isl-theanine with l-theanine it's acomponent in commonly found in matchatea and I've read this recently whereBuddhist monks in Japan which workmatcha tea for the healthy earningbecause l-theanine is supposed to belike this meditative component thathelps your brain relax a lot more soit's supposed to help them with theirmeditation sessions and I started Iguess reading about how to like calm mybreaking down a lot better because I goI go to jams and so you know consciouslyI know that I feel hella nervous and I'mtrying to like take deep breaths andcalm myself and I've been trying to doresearch on how to like optimize thewhole relaxation process you know Istarted buying like the l-theanine selfamazed to see that kind of helps and Iwould say it made my sessions a bitbetter in recent days and be more so Ijust thought that maybe you starteddrinking matcha green chief what else doyou need no but maybe that maybe that'smaybe that's what's been helping me Imean I didn't watch it pretty often soand I drink a lot of tea too so ifthere's any of that l-theanine and likeregular ass tea to you know just regulargood green tea then maybe that helps meI don't know I'll have to look into thatcuz I've never heard of thatI mean shit if it helps then that's dopeI don't know for me I think for me I'vealways just not cared so much about whatother people think soI think that helps me a lot when I go tolike an event I mean obviously that'snot a hundred percent true because I docare I don't want to crash I don't wantto look like shit but I also recognizethe fact that if any of that does happenit's not the end of the world so thatlike helps me a lot and also theexperience you know I've been doing thisfor so long it's kind of like I knowwhat to expectso I've been in this situation you knowI've been dancing in front of people forlike most of my life so it's you knowjust remembering that this isn't I'm nota newcomer to this so I can just jump inand make it happen I think that helpscall me the most you know so do you likeconsciously perform these kind of mentalexercises you want to call it that uh Iguess so ya know I mean there's momentswhen like say you're in a crazy battleand you're just getting blown the fuckup that I think that's when somethingreally sparks up in me because you knowlike back when I used to do martial artss like when you're against someone who'sreally good who's just lighting you upyou know they're like kicking and shitand you're like oh dude this guy's gonnaknock me out or whatever um you get thislike fear in your body and like once youhave a fear you're like I'm definitelygonna lose I'm gonna get fucked up andyou have to like turn something on totell yourself you know no you're notgonna get fucked up you can do this youcan handle it you know what I meanbecause you don't you don't want to getyourself in the defeat state of mindwhen you haven't been defeated yet Imean even if you get knocked out youhaven't really been defeated you want toget back up you know and train getbetter come back at itpercent later on you know yeah so it'sit's it's always been a thing for me todo to to not be defeated by anything andso yeah I think something maybe switcheson in my mind to go itI guess I've kind of trained this iswhere what I like what triggers in mymind is like it is kind of like afeeling of this guy is trying to takesomething from me this guy's trying tolike you know I don't know kidnap myfamily or whatever take some shit fromme you know like I turned some kind oflike thing on in my mind where it's likein a way life or death which then makesme go okay all this scared this is goingaway all this fear is going away cuz Idon't have I have no time for that rightnowyou know I can go back and reflect onthis later but at this moment there's notime for this and so training that Ithink has helped me a lot not that I I'mlike super good at it or anything but Ithink I've gotten a lot better at itjust because it's I'm more conscious ofit so that you like start training yourmental state a lot more recently uhmaybe not super recently I mean withinthe last probably like six or sevenyears it's I think what I've mostlytrained myself in thinking is like whenthat happens and you start having like afear or a doubt in your mind toautomatically go no that's not gonnahappenin fact I'm better than this I got thisI've been in the situation many timesand you know let's just handle this youknow I you know and again yeah this guyis trying to take something away from mewhich then triggers like I don't know ifit's some like primal thing inside likehumans where you know like a maybe it'slike a fight-or-flight kind of feelingso then you get this adrenaline spotso that now you you're more equipped tohandle that situation but yeah I thinkjust training yourself to think aboutthat at that moment that it like thattrigger so when you hit that fear levelautomatically there's a trigger to go nowait that's not gonna happen I mean itdoesn't happen all the time but I I'vegotten better at making that happenprobably in the last six or seven yearsI sounds like you're just challengingthese I guess irrational fears areirrational yes or oral or I don't knowit's I think because I think as humanspeople we all have these instincts inourselves and we just need to know howto trigger them and like you know in inthe situation of a dance battle I thinkmaybe we're all like it maybe doesn'tget naturally triggered all the time foreverybody because you're not really indanger you just freakin somebody spin iton their head or with some shit andyou're like oh I'm just getting blown upor whatever you know but but if you canI guess trigger that to fightfight-or-flight kind of mentality ormaybe not flight fight you're triggeringthe fight in you you get that adrenalinespike I can handle this I'm not gonnarun from it yeah I don't know that's apretty interesting point I think I mightstart taking notes on this yeah I youknow one of the things one of the thingsthat always crossed my mind when I dothis is and I think it helps a lot is isI imagine my grandpa who was in theJapanese internment camps I imagine howhe probably felt as soon as that startedhappening because he was probably likeyou know oh shit everything's gettingtaken from me fuck this you know it's ayeah it's like a firefight mentality atthat moment so I try to think of thatand that gets me better intostate of mind like okay someone's tryingto take something from me let's let'sfight for this you know so I don't knowthat helps me a little bit yeah actuallythat's that's actually a reallyinteresting point I guess try to makethat conscious continual decision yeahthe fight rather than just caving intothe oh fuck I'm getting roasted I'mgetting smoked kind of moment yeah it'sit's hard to though because I also don'ttake myself too seriously so likesometimes if I'm getting blown up I'mlike oh shit that was a tight ass movethough and so I'll like be cheering andthen I'm like oh dude wait what is thefuck are you doing you got it you gottalike battle this guy's so yeah I don'tknow yeah I guess fighting thatlaid-back nough Stu is a little bitchallenging too so I don't know but Idon't have a huge issue with thelaid-back nice just because you knowdancing should be fun so if you're agood if you're laid-back and it's fun Ithink you're doing it right if you'renot having fun then I think you're notdoing it all rightoh no I totally see that if you'rehaving fun and that shit's likecontagious with everybody in the roomyeah uh so um other than breaking do youhave any other creative hobbies mmmother than breaking I would say I don'tknow if cooking counts it's like acreative hobby yeah I think so nice atleast my cooking I don't know how tocook so I'm like oh I want this to tasteuh you know acceptable so let's throwsome soy sauce in it cuz it soy sauce isgood it's a sugar or something all righthopefully this shit tastes good actuallyyou're right though I guess if you learnsome some basic foundations of cookinglike what happens if your food is toosalty use that a little bit of sugar tolike balance it out so I guess in a wayyou're kind of making creative decisionsoptimize your cooking for that momentyeah I mean I've like never learned howto cook properlybut the way I always do it is I justlike taste it and then I go okay this islike a little bland I should add thisand like I'm familiar with flavors ofyou know different spices and stuff so Igo okay this probably would taste goodif I threw a little bit of this on itand then I just freaking do it and if ittastes like shit then whatever I'llstill eat it yeah I of a freestyle justcook okay Cole probably be like this isnasty so you got to eat it okayI mean I've eaten worse I mean what yeahone of my favorite foods is freakinKraft macaroni and cheese with tuna init so you know oh that's the standard iskind of low so I never had thatcombination before I used to eat it allthe time because my grandma would alwayscook it for us cuz it's like I don'tknow the cheapest freakin meal that youcan make for like a bunch of kids youknow it's like at that time probablyKraft macaroni and cheese was like 50cents and tuna can was like 50 cents orwhatever so it's like a dollar and youmake the whole thing and you can feedlike three kids or four kids or whateverdo you know you're right crap is hellacheap I used to live off of that duringmy college days dude I still eat itand it's because I legitimately like itand it's probably because I ate it as akid and it probably tastes disgusting toeverybody else but I like it but ya knowso yeah anyways my standard of cookingis very low and so if I messed up somefood I'll probably still eat it just Imean unless it's just burnt to shit orsomething which which that's happenedbefore you know genic toast dude nothat's some ghetto shit I mean yeah it'ssome ghetto shit just like this podcastbut ya know I think cooking has a lot ofcreativity in it I mean if you thinkabout all the stuff you can do with foodand how people learn how to do thatI don't know I don't know any other waythey could have figured it out otherthan just playing around with shit youknow what I mean like who knew how tomake what caramel what do you do likeyou cook butter and sugar and like yougot to cook it a certain way and itbecomes that you know and it tasteddelicious who knew that that wouldhappen and when you cook it that way Idon't know they probably just threw itall in a pan and started doing it youknow or whatever I don't know yeah Idon't know how like some people come upwith some of them most wild things likewho knew that people would come up withlike haggis for example yeah I'mstuffing some sheeps stomach with randomstuff or like I guess I don't know howpeople would pick open a durian from atree and just break it nope just spikyfruit and break it open and start eatingit like there's a spiky ass heavy fruitthis looks dangerous it's not likesomething that would kill me if it fallson my head and it smells like throw-uplet's eat it yeah no oh man this isactually a really funny thought becauseI was always like there's so manyfreaking poisonous things in the worldlike how the hell did we figure out notto eat you know that one specificmushroom without trial and error bro youknow some cavemen are just like yo goeat that shit real quick and then likethe dude dies and they're like oh Iguess we can't eat that one like howelse do you figure that out you knowthere's some poisonous ass shit you knowfor sure and there's some foods where ifyou don't cook it the right way thenit's poisonous to you which that's evenwilder to me because then that was likeyo go eat that mushroom real quick oh hedied hey let's try it again but let'scook it hey bro eat this cooked mushroomoh you're alive don't we can eat it ifwe cook it seriously what the hell Idon't know how that happened but that'sit if I had a time machine I'd love tolike go back inside and just see thatmoment when the caveman was like you eatthat much quicknah that's crazy I don't know how peopleeven come up with just even like thisokay like I don't know if you ever usefish sauce during cooking yeah and itdoesn't smell too great it's notsomething that you would drink out ofbut it make it gives that amazing mommyin your food when you add it into yourcooking and I don't know how people comeup with like oh no drying a bunch ofanchovies or I get a big-ass barrelright like that's how they cook it orthey make it it's like a bunch of fishjust in a barrel with what like vinegaror something I don't know like hellasalt so I'm Sonia and I don't just clickall the drippings and that just becomesyour fish sauce and yeah it's crazy howsomething with such a strong pungentsmell can make your food like wow andactually some of it is made with likesquid or something right or some kind oflike non fish oh I'm pretty sure some ofthem put like a squid or something youknow I wouldn't be surprised yeah Idon't know that's crazy how people thinkof this stuff back dead yeah I mean fishsauce in general I'm like I wonder ifwhat they did was they just like triedto pickle the fish and they fucked upand they're like yo we're not gonna eatthis fish but this sauce smells kind ofgood let's throw it in our food let'sthrow it in our bland ass food to makeit taste better or you know what maybethey did pickle the fish and the fishwas good but they ran out of the fishand then they're like oh we still need ayou know we need to eat all we have isrice let's pour this fucking sauce on itso it tastes better I mean but that'screativity right they're like dude youknow we fucked up pickling let's try tosee what happensso that's dope so uh how have you takenany like cooking classes or you justkind of figure it out on you on your ownI know Vince is kind of like a he cookshe cooks a lot and I don't he I don'tthink he take took any classes but hewatches a lot of YouTube videos andlearns how to cook from YouTube no Ijust only took like one semester cookingclassduring high school just to get startedand I just learned from my mom growingup so it's all just like informallearning here and there and I justbasically copy off for YouTube videosnowadays just yeah I can't like kind offigure out like this sort of patternbetween like a lot of those videos sothat's how I got startedyeah that's tight so have you ever likecooked a big meal like a Thanksgivingmeal or something for a bunch of peopleit was just kind of a hobby I guess uhbiggest call people I made food for wasyes for my R&D department in my currentcompany and every Ally doing a potluckso I just made like hella Vietnamesespring rolls and as a prettylabor-intensive because you have to likeyou got to cook the pork you got to cookthe shrimp now you got to cut thevegetables now you have to roll everyindividual roll and I probably roll likeI think maybe 40 rows 40 doesn't soundlike much no it takes hella long yeah soI'll show you when you fuck one up andyou're like oh can't make can't give himthis one you gotta keep going if I didthat you know what I would have done isI would have had all the ingredients andthen I would have just had the littlerolls and be like yo just take that dipit in the water and then you roll ityourself you motherfucker I doing thisfor youhey I've made all this food for youthere's a little picked up grabinstruction how to roll your own food doyou not want even do that I would justgo like yeah watch me real quick Booproll all right you're on your own dudeI'm out peace I'm gonna go eat somethingelse oh yeah that's a good way to goabout it have have people figure it outyeah have them figure it out becausesomebody had to figure it out okay socook so cooking um do you have any otherhobbies um that's not a hobby which is Idon't actively practice it I do likedrawing or paintingI took one dose it was a group on takingclasses so are those paint Knights ohyeah yeah like where you drink you getdrunk or whatever in paint yeah exactlyexcept the one I had didn't really havedrink spa I mean usually salon does winein Cape nights and9 - wine bye anyways because I've alwaysdone pain during high school I was likewhy am i first creative outlets - so Iwould say yeah I'm in - I'm not gonnasay I'm takasi or anything but that'sthat's not a creative outlet that I hadin the pastthat's Heights oh so have you done anypaintings recently I would say likeabout two weeks ago okaydid went to like one of those paidnights okay that's pretty dope to justreally explore the something that I'vedone in the past yeah yeah yeah I usedto paint all the time my mom she'sreally into acrylic painting she and sheused to be into like oil painting nowshe does a lot of watercolors too butyou know from a young age she taught mehow to paint and so uh I used to paintall the time so I did this probably 10years ago I made this one I don't knowthis was recent because I started thispodcast and I was like oh I need africkin logo I think I got drunk andpainted this and then that one I don'tremember when I painted that that wasmaybe like a year ago I don't know Idon't really paint too often thoughthose ones over there damn those propthose are oldest fuck actually those areprobably ten years old - and then I havea lot of even older stuff at my parentshouseall right I like painting but I justdon't have a lot of time to do it it'skind of messy - and like back in the daywho I used to do is I would throw acanvas on my bed and I would paint on itcuz I didn't have like a you know aplace to like paint mm-hmm so just usemy bed dad like she has like think sothere's like I have these old sheets andstuff they have like paint all over thembecause I would paint on my beddank cuz I didn't give up here do thissome real bro yeah I live this life dudeI still have those sheets by the way andI actually use themso that's some real broke bullshit butyes I used to paint all the time andyeah I would actually do it a lot moreoften if I had more time more recentlyI've been into mic music production andit's mainly because it's a skill setI've never had before other than I kindof knew how to play piano a little bitbut I'm not good at or anything um soI've been getting more into that butpainting has been a part of my lifesince I was a kiddrawing too and I used to do uh ceramicsas well but I haven't done that in avery very long time actually you've beenexposed to art for like your most ofyour life dead there's a lot ofcreatives in my family I mean my momagain is an art an artist and she's aart teacher and then my dad you knowhe's you know he makes a lot offurniture and so in a way it's he's anartist with wood my grandpa on my mom'sside he's kind of the same way he's acarpenter he made a lot of friends hereand stuff so uh you know and he he's avery creative person because he wouldyou know he could you know he he has thebroke boy mentality to you I mean but Imean he he because he lit he came fromlike war times and stuff he's from fromGermany he was an immigrant in Americahe came here with like not much moneyand stuff so he had to make shit happenso in lieu of not having money to dosomething it was like he had to figureout a way to do it you know and so yougot to have some creativity creativityto make that happen so I've just beensurrounded by that a lot in my life so Idon't know I think that's probably whyI'm so interested in so many creativeoutlets and maybe see the creativity inother things that aren't traditionallylabeled as creative endeavors but youfeel like a lot of those past creativediverse kind of help shape your I guessyour minds framework and when youapproach to breaking because I rememberyou would tell me you bepracticing in your living room just onthe floor just figure out how to go frompoint A to point B differently ya knowit definitely does because I meanthere's an argument to be made thatcreativity is itself just a skill youknow not just in this specific topic orwhatever it's a skill because in a wayyou have to turn a piece of your mind onin a certain way and apply that toanything just like you would have to dowith with like any kind of skill interms of you know building somethingwith your hands you need to you need tohave certain skills to do that rightsame thing I think with creativity isyou need to have you need to have skillsto turn on this piece of your brain todo it and I think if you can do it wellin one thing say breaking I think youcan also probably do it well in otherthings and that's why I think it's beeneasy for me to pick up a lot of things Imean mainly I mean because I started asan artist a painter and I then I gotinto breaking and I think a lot of thoseskills transferred into breaking sobreaking I mean not that it was easy tolearn because it takes a lot of skill tolike pick up on the the the athletics ofit but once I got to that point and theAthletics became easy I think everythingjust started making everything startedclicking more together because now Icould apply this creative creativitythat I've always you know been a it'salways been a part of my life into thisnew thing and the same thing with musicproduction and you know not that I'mgood at it or anything but like ilearning more about music theory andstuff it's just giving me more tools toplay with and then that part of my brainthat lets me play which is creativityboom it just happens i think and so soyou feel like a lot of those actuallyit's kind of started making yourcreativity muscles like get buffer andbufferyeah I guess yeah it's uh yeah I don'tknow it it's is such a weird thing to mebecause cuz yeah people will ask me likewhat how how the hell did you do thisand it's always just it's creativity tome is a broke boy mentality it's likealright here you have these tools nowwhat can you do with it and a lot ofpeople would be like oh I need moretools to do something but I feel like abroke boy would be like well I need todo this so alright all I have is thismicrophone this empty thing of coffeeand this piece of paper let's make afucking podcast bruh you know what Imean so it's like just make it hat thatit's just like make make it happen youknow and then as you refine your toolsmaybe get more tools you come back makeit better make it better make it betterI don't know I guess it kind of fallsAnette on the whole problem solving kindof mindset yeah holla dad it is aproblem-solving mindset for sure it itvery much is because um you know I thinkif you looked at any art endeavor let'ssay a painting you have this picture inyour mind let's see what let's see whatI can do a lot of times you startdrawing or painting or whatever and itcomes out a little differently than whatis in your mind but then you go ohactually I like this let's play aroundwith this a little bit more boom let'skeep playing around and so you're it'sit's like a process of playing and doingat the same time in a way you know Idon't know creativity is a veryinteresting subject to me and that'swhat that's that's why I like talking toother creatives and that's why I madethis podcast to talk to other creativesto kind of more understand that processyou know I'm not like an expert on it oranything I mean I would say I'm not aexpert at allI just know my own process and I thinkthat other people's processes can helpme better refine my own process andhopefully help other people to ifthey're listening so anyways I thinkthat's a good discussion we're hittingthe one hour mark at this point so wecan probably close the show up prettysoon um let's see I got a bunch ofquestions here uh is there anything elseyou want to say before we close out theshow no I'm pretty much good to goactually um well thank you guys forlistening let me set this show up so wecan turn it off because it's a littlebit bad you two bronies hit the jackpot[Laughter]thank you guys for listening um this hasbeen noise of the broke boys with myfriend clawis there any way what's your Instagramand everything where do people where canpeople find you so people can find me atmy Instagram called a quality sesh sothat's KH o al ity SE sh t seshwhat a sesh it's just a short version ofthe word session so that if scream wasintended just to capture all my practiceclips or my breaking clips thoughbecause I it just become kind ofcumbersome of the switch back andforward to my own Instagram accountI decided users that's my primaryInstagram account so I'm pretty surepeople are just clicking around clickingon following my old account and I justnever really likedcheck or update it so you want to followme pleasebut a quality sesh follow him qualitysesh alright thanks for having forshowing up man thank you for having meand fuck you for being late alrightthanks for watching thanks for listeningsorry the show sucks peace[Music][Music]you[Music] 

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BBoy Ace, a west coast pioneer in Hip Hop, sits down to discuss his origins, work ethic, and thoughts on the culture of hip hop and breakin'. Follow @Instagram: noiseofthebrokeboysTwitter: BrokeBoysNoiseListen to the Audio on all Podcast platforms. All The Links Here: https://linktr.ee/NoiseOfTheBrokeBoysA broke degenerate hooligan documents conversations about being a Bboy, Breakin', Hip Hop, Dance, Art, Music, Creativity, Innovation, and the slow subtle crumble of society in audio form.----more----[Music]this episode of noise of the broke boysis brought to you by outside have youdeveloped a fear of the Sun because youstay inside all day commenting onYouTube videos or maybe you've developedan addiction to posting about howawesome your life is on social mediabetween your day job as an overpricedthrift store clothes model and sidehustle selling your new rap mixtape talkto your doctor to see if outside isright for you five out of five peoplethat have tried going outside have seenpositive results ranging from but notlimited to talking to actual peoplefeeling Sun on their skin moving theirbodies and not caring about the latestcelebrity gossip happiness is justaround the corner and through a doortalk to your doctor about going outsidesome participants going outsidesufferance of your injuries and evendeath from but not limited to hit by buscoronavirus being eaten by wolvesthe Californio them from tencel arekilling and kidnapped by terrace and nowonto the show[Music]in today's episode I talked to the WestCoast pioneer innovator and franklylegendary b-boy and hip-hop figure myfriend and influence b-boy ace pleaseenjoy the episode hello everybodywelcome to the show today I have the manthe myth the legend the teacher thepioneer the father the fiance futurehusband and b-boy he's been dancingsince the beginning of time so very longtime 91 yeah how long since 1991 1991well man you know what's interesting isthat I was talking to someone recentlywas that breaking kind of started aroundlike mid 70s right is that about whatyou think yeah that's that's at leastwhat I've heard so you've been breakingfor probably more than half of thelifetime of hip-hop that's like reallycrazy to even think of that it's such ayoung dance such a young culture that ina hundred years when it's still aroundpeople are gonna look back and go likewhat was happening in the beginningbecause it was like there's so muchfluctuation in and that this era righthere is like really what helped kind ofdefine it to be whatever it ends upbecoming well the thing that'sinteresting to me now is because there'sbeen absent flows to where it starts topstarts stops but from 91 on it's beenconsistent mhm it's been going there'sthere's been no stop yeah so it's gainedas MoMA as much momentum as there's everbeen and it's been a consistent thing sosince this time that that I began youknow and there were some started youknow who it was going a littlebefore I started but it's you know manyhave stopped but the whole thing is keptgoing so that that's a beautiful part ofpop that yeah yeah yeahfor me you know I got started I had nointerest in dance I didn't startoriginally as a b-boy interesting Ioriginally started as a house dancerWest Coast Oh a West Coast house yeahwhich is different from the house thathouse now yeah yeah that that is knownit's like a mixture of New Jack with alot more yeah upper body movement I seeso you know there was there was New Jackand like that was fun mm-hmmbut for me I didn't really have aninterest in doing that my brother was areally good at New Jack he was littleyeah and he tried to show me and Icouldn't do it like a lot like you knowlike I struggled even with somethingthat was less complicated okay but Ididn't have an interest in it so I waslike I'm cool on it yeah no big dealI want no part of it then the person whoended up being my teacher I and crazilyyou know it's crazy to say but to thisday one of the greatest dancers I'veever seenAaron L Coloma Oh from Palm Springs okayhe was a house dancer yeah he used topop when he was little and he went intoNew Jack and then he went into house andsuper talented and he saw my brother whowas really good at New Jack and hewanted to teach little kids to be to begreat house dancers yeah yeah yeah sohis intent was to teach my brother andso that's how I met him and I broughthim to my house to teach my brother yeahand while he was waiting for my brotherhe was just moving and that was thecraziest thing I ever saw yeah life likeit was literally like poetry in motionhmm I was tripping how old are you atthat time oka hot 16 some along thoselines I believe I was a sophomore inhigh school okay second half and I sawhim move and I just couldn't believethat somebody can move like that yeahlike I had never really seen anythinglike that and seeing it in person is acompletely different experience hmmso I was bugged out and I just kind ofknew that that's what I wanted to dothat's cool yeah it was it was harassedhim I literally harassed him for acouple weeks thank you to teach meWow and he wouldn't because he told mehe said do you understand like you can'tdo new jackand that's like basic arithmetic yeahhouse is far more complicated so it'skind of like doing pre-algebra yeah yeahhe's like you want to jump steps youwant to go straight to precalculus yeahalgebra whatever it is without evenknowing basic arrhythmia don't even knowhow a plus sign yeah you can't even justmake your lower body coordinate muchless upper body and lower bodysynchronized beautiful movements okaybut I was undeterred okay it was I sawit and from there like I just knew I hadto have it okay and so I just kept afterit yep I kept bugging him and finallyone day all right all rightI'm gonna teach you one step you'regonna learn that step and then you cometo me with that step and I'm gonna teachyou another step and I was like dealokay deal that's a good deal yeahbut I had to work for that one step yeahyeah and but he but he realized I wasnot going to stop mm-hm andfrom there it was a rap I I was 24/7with itwake up move act is practicing try andtrying to coordinate this uncoordinatedbody of mine yeahdirt at school during nutrition duringlunch after school at practice at hishouse before bed it was crazy I was amaniacyeah I was a maniac but I wanted to be Iwanted to move like he moved and I knewI was far off I was I was not you know Iwas realistic about where I was at himwhere he was at but I wanted to getthereyes quick as possible so I was 24/7 withit soothing yeah to the point where heliterally had to pull me aside at somepoint and tell me that you know yourmother your mother misses you yeah yeahyeah yeah love that love yourdetermination but you gotta sleepsometimes the guys are getting a littlea little annoyed that you'd never stopyeah and I was hurt I was hurt yeah likeI literally avoided didn't see him for awhile taking different routes to classreally yeah yeah yeah and literally wasthat like after a week we cross pathsand he kind of cut me off and was like aman like where you been like and he'slike don't take it that way you knowlike we're not saying stop you know theguys you know just just take a couplebreathe you know like breathe for ya youknow but yeah it's so that began my longjourney at the beginning I was gettingpretty good at house you know after agood little whileand then we went up to an event calledFilipino weekend up in Delano just pastBakersfieldyeah and that's you know the the groupwe were with was boys and style bis andso we were going up there and you knowwe were going to meet with the rest ofthe group and we're under the assumptionthat a group the soul brothers which isfamous house moved from LA we're gonnabe there and you know wanted to battlethem yeah yeah and they end up never endup showing up our cuz one of the crewmembers cousins from San Jose a groupcalled dangerous image came down andlike they were gonna be with us yeah andthey were a choreography group okaythat also braked because San Jose wasbig into braking amount of time and weall got bored and somehow it ended upbeing a battle between dangerous imageoh and you guys and B is okay except forthey braked him we didn't so you knowthey were they were really good yeah andthat the main guy from their group was awalks guy mm-hmmthis guy Alan hmm and he did walks evenhe was really good he notmerry-go-rounds and all that but he hadreally good walks yeah yeah hence theinspiration yeah when we started thevery next day we stopped Houston and webe started breaking is that quick it wasan instant like - it was like watchingmagic you know like really that thepower precision grace of you knowhigh-level break-in yeah it was like wowlike okay that that that is you know itwas inspiringso yeah we you knowwe started break-in Aaron L was breakingbut he was popping uh and you know andhe used to do that back in the days andsince he was such a good dancer and socoordinated he picked up like oh he wasan amazing popper like amazing but yeahthat that became our road and since ourmain inspiration from the opposition wasa walks guy mmm bis became a walks yeahwe we did spins we did you know all thespins but we care deeply about walksyeah that's that's kind of crazy becauselike definitely you guys like it it'slike walks and for people who don't knowwalks it's like the float how do youexplain yeah well that that you're onyour hands you're walking on your handslegs are off the ground and you're kindof going in let's ignore loading yeahit's like a pocket of air is underneathyour body and you're just walking aroundon your hands and there's so manyvariations of it but yeah yeah and youguys innovated those moves which iscrazy that like I guess before you evenbreak you saw someone else like kind ofwell I mean there were guys in the pastyou know like we didn't really know himtoo much except for when we startedbreak-in since there were no examples ofbreaking like we saw it in personmm-hmm and then when we wanted to startlearning we're you know just a fewbreak-in yeah you know beat Street likethose were our only examples of breakinbecause there was no YouTube there wasno footage it was what you saw in personother than those couple movies that wereon some VHS tapes you know and of coursethere were guys you know in B Street andbreak-in that that did you know somehigh-level walks you know there's buckfor of course oh you know here is hisTurtles he's super fast you know amazingbut not not a lot of and then of coursein break-inthere's handyman you know amazing youknow his amazing walks but that thoseare only a couple variations that wereshown on tape not the rest we were justgoing and figuring it out yeah and youknow hearing from some of the oh geezfor master movements you know giving usideas on things that they had done orseen or heard about you know so theywere kind of just giving us some inputtry this oh there's a walk like this allthere's you know but they couldn't do itthey were already done but that leasewere given us the ideas and kind of aframework of what you know just somethings to try and work on uh-huh andfrom there we were just working at ityou know like determined to get good atthat no yeah you know and then of courseit ended up leading you know afterseveral years to higher level walks I meand my brother were teaching the guysfrom 101 up in Pasadena and you knowthose were guys like brick Rand dabstones which at the time his name wasthere because you know they used to tagso okay and did you ever do it I wasnever in attacking oak I just straightinto Jane into dancing yeah I wentstraight from like sports into danceyeah you know but yeah you know so thoseguys you know we we taught those guysand then had the scene was just you knowgetting a little yeah so what inspired Iguess your creativity within that danceI mean I guess obviously going fromhousing to to breaking and I mean Iimagine a lot of a lot of that hadinfluenced your style I mean becausehousingor at least the housing from back thenwas very kind of kind of jumpy and rightwell yes I believe LOI well very flowybut you know and there was differentstyles in in house you know it was notsame movements there were guys that hada very rigid hard-hitting style therewas others they had flowing there therewas a lot of popping elements oh yeah init so so even in in the West Coast housethere there was a lot of different looksyeah you know that that kind ofdifferentiated each you know dancers ownparticular persona yeah you know and theway they moved so you know when westarted moving into break-in we were itwas mainly power based mm-hm we did somestyle but from what we had seen becauseour experience was very little and therewas no footage there was not a lot ofdifferentiation in style so I kind of wekind of did it just to say we had stylejust to kind of check that box but it itwasn't at least for myself I was nothighly inspired to do style because Ifelt like it was in a box from what Iwhat I had seen the experience it wasn'tuntil the tapes of storm and them thatkind of made their way over here thatlike the realization that oh you can doso much with it it's it really is justlike house yeah like it really is youknow style is really as far as your mindyour creativity your persona yeah yeahlike yeah levels personality silly sillythingsyeah that end up looking dope you knowlike there was just that thatrealization that oh like there's nolimits there's no like yeah like it'sdance just at different levels and yeaha different way but it's still dancejust just like house so from their styleit you know I was all about that youknow like it it became a very fun and anever-ending puzzle that to this day Iwork on yeah yeah it is a puzzle I meanwhat drove me to breaking actually issomething similar is that it there wasno limit you can come come into it andjust kind of have fun with it dowhatever you want make it work you knowreally like if you had a dumb idea tosee to try to make something work justroll around on the ground see make tryto make it work you know some of themost amazing steps that happen are byaccident definitely you know just fromthe attempt of something new you youprovide yourself with an opportunity todo something that you know maybe itworks and that's amazingor it doesn't work out but it turns outto be a better step yeah because it wassomething that your body justautomatically had that on a DNA levelyeah that you were not aware of you knowwith your own consciousness but on amore subatomic level yeah your bodyalready had it yeah in tow and was justready for you just for you to give itthe opportunity yeah I'm completelyconvinced that every move in braking wasfrom someone just falling down and goingoh let me try to control that and do thesame thing though but you know and justmake it look cool you know well wellyeah I mean it it you know it's aconstant thing to where you're trying tolike expand or go into neutral unchartedterritory yeah you know when we firststarted like you know for me the thingthat keeps me coming back is I know I'llnever have this bad boy figure it outyou know but it's so fun just becauseI'm I'm always searching for things likesomeNo you know like like as if I was abrand-new b-boy who it was firststepping onto the floor for the firsttime and I have that same thoughtprocess and what I love is the guys youknow Rob and Cujo and all the other guysyou know that that run in our circlehave a similar mind frame yeah of playmm-hmm you know like what we do is veryserious but we play like children youknow like it's it's something thatbrings joy that's something that we youknow approached like the first timewe're not afraid to give each otherinput or to to move in a weird positionyou know just because yeah there'ssomething exhilarating about about thatjust playing around and just planningyou know something pull one actuallytold me is that the reason he likes theword b-boy rather than somethingdifferent like be men or the adult orwhatever is that really you have yourown adult responsibilities but when youcome to break you are letting your innerchild to come out to play and that's whythe word b-boy or b-girl is moreappropriate than something like a B manor B woman just because you're lettingyour child come out and have fun and I Ithink anybody who is I don't want to saydoing it properly because not to demeananyone else but at least for myself tome that's doing it right yeah it isallowing yourself to be freeand I think when you you knowparticularly associate with childrenthere's a freedom that they have that asadults we lose many at least many loseon various levels they they lose theirfreedom they lose their they have thesepreconceived notions that oh well I'm anadult now yeah and so I need to respondthis way or I need to give thisI need to do you know and that's not thecase that you know you could absolutelybe a responsible person a caringindividual that handles all the variousresponsibilities of your day-to-day butstill be that child to still carry yourinner child in various parts of yourlife I mean I still I still watch animeand cartoons oh yeahto this day yeah yeah you know it's it'sa you know it's funny I had this thingwith my yeah I'd said the other day wewere watching something it had to dowith you know fairy tales type stuff inand for a second she seemeddisinterested I said okay you know let'sturn this off I'll watch this later andshe's like oh no don't be like thatshe's like it's just you know I'm not achild I didn't want I said well why doyou you know like why why do you have tolose your imagination just because we'rea certain age why why do you have togive up your imagination why do you haveto give these things up like we handleall the things we need to handle youknow like they're not hurting you thatthere is there is nothing wrong withhaving an imagination and creativity andholding on to that that childlike partyyourself and and I think it helps usconnect and you know even with our ownchildren you know why like I think ourchildren are more connected to us andlove us all the more because weunderstand them just you know on somelevel just a little bit different thanmaybe a Parenthood isn't holding on to apart there yeah their inner child yeahthis is like a subject that's prettydear to me because you know my mothershe's an artist and she's you know shewas working with a lot of people thatwere you know under they had a lot ofproblems drug abuse all sorts of stufflike that so she was running thisprogram where she would teach them artkind of as a therapy and they werefinding that when these people reallyhadn'tdone anything creative in their life fora long time and once they started doingthat creative these creative things itstarted like sparking up a change intheir life for the better so that theywere more willing to get their lifetogether and so it was like somethingthat they were just lacking as a humanin their life and so it made me reallythink that or believe that creativity isjust like this fundamental thing thatthat humans need and I mean and I thinkit's deeply connected with like play youknow this is our way we play well I meanlike of course people and is one thingyou know being able to play laughtermm-hmmyou know of course the scientificstudies you know yeah yeah how laughterand being able to tap into things thatbring us joy mm-hmm you know life ishard before you know particularly foradults a lot of responsibilities to beable to take a moment for yourself to beable to put all of that on pause and tobe able to let go of everything in tapinto something that is that fulfills youthat brings you fulfillment brings you ajoy you know and different people findit in different ways you know andcertainly you know dance does that forusbut yeah it's a it's an important thingto be able to find things that bring youmeaning that bring you joy that thatallow you to play and create you know inone form or fashion mm you know whenpeople talk about me and dance and youknow like I guess I still look fairlyyoung you know I'm 45 now but you knowmost that speak with me think I'm muchyounger and it's just because I thinkit's because I allow myself I make somefor myself you know there there's adifferent side different purpose whetherit be taking care of myself you knowdance has done a lot for me you know theway I take care of myself the way I eatsleep the way I you know take time forexercise stretching and and that's allfor my dance yeah you know so for medance has been you know a true blessingjust because I would have to find themotivations you know to somehow pull anddo those things on my own but you know Iwould have to generate it somewhere elsebecause for me my motivation for doingall of those things has to do with myperformance as a dancer and you knowit's funny I was talking about storm asyou know motivation one of the things Iliked is I'd seen him on many occasionsbut never spoke with them because he wasalways surrounded by so many people somany other dancers they had admirationfor him yeah because of course it'sdeserved but I never wanted to meet himin that way because even though I haveall the admiration in the world for howhe influenced me I don't think any oneis better than me I don't think I'mbetter than anyone else but I don'tthink anyone else is better than memm-hmmyou know we're humans yeah you know thatinspire each other but I didn't want himto see me that wayto where everyone's like tugging at hiscoattails yeah so so even though I hadopportunities I never spoke with him andthen one of the times at one of the freesaw sessions I had seen him with theguys from soul control with which arelike my little brothers Charles and Cujoand they were sitting and just talkingwith them and I was like amazing yeahbecause those are my guys and I couldjust sit down and talk uh-huh you knowand I got they introduced me to him andI had the opportunity tobe able to let him know that I reallyappreciated what he had done for mehelping me I inspired me and helped meto understand yeah that that it reallywas like dance you know and made stylefun about a week later he was up northfor an event up that way and Charles wasgoing up there to hang out with them andand kind of take care of him show himaround drives him and had invited me tocome I went up there and so from there Igot to be around him more and just talkyou know and with and humanized walkedwell yeah yeah not not just about dancejust about whatever oh yeah and you knowlike I think one of the things heappreciates is when people just treathim like a normal personyeah yeah like you know he understandsthat that he's had impact but he heknows he's a normal guy too you know andwants to have stimulating conversationwith people who who treat him just likeany other person and we had that youknow and to this day we do I was talkingwith him the other day and we'rechopping up over some other stuff youknow but we were able to build on thatand then when we finally danced togetherlike we we hadn't you know we just hungout and talked hmm philosophies onwhether it be life b-boying to dance theway we saw it and we saw things verymuch the same and then it wasn't untilthe very end of the weekend that we wereover at mega man's house and it was Ithink his lady's birthday and we were inall in the living room big wood flooryou know okay and we started off lockingand we were having fun that way and thenI said oh now I feel like breakingand we we started breaking he went outthe guys were going out he went out andthen there was a time I was gonna go Iwas gonna go out and I went out and Ithink he like he just wasn't he didn'tthink that I could I guess dance on thelevel I was dancing huhso I got up and he was about to go outand he kind of had like a uh like andthen he pushed somebody else out andthey went out instead and then it's likeand then he ran something through hismind and then of course right after thatperson finished she went out anddestroyed it yeah but me and him musthave went like 20-something around ohwowyeah like we were just having funYelp plane and and I didn't know it atthe time you know cuz I was just havingfun exchanging and it ended up becominga thing where a lot of the guys werewatching and meet me and storm wereexchanging to you know just playingand I remember Gerald rest in peace youknow one of our other Gerald caster lowhe had come in and said yo Charles wantsto go like like you know we're waitingon you guys and I was like oh storm wegot to go and storm had told generallike yo tell Charles we'll be out in alittle while and then he looked at mesaid yo ace let's keep goingand then we just kept going for or awhile longer and when we left you knowhe was like really happy you know I meanI knew I was happy but he was havinghe's like yo ace like I haven't dancedlike that in like I can't even tell youhow long you know and I was like get outof here bro like you know like you're ina different country like every week youknow surrounded by amazing dancersuh-huhno no no you know it's different youknow like people either are in likelooking like look at me like too high orthey're trying too hard to impress meyou know like instead like just six hesaid me and you we were just kind ofhaving a conversation you know and andthat's the whole thing about dance danceis a conversation you know like likehe's like you were doing somethingthat's giving me ideas and I was goingout and doing something then you weregetting ideas and he like he said youknow that that I haven't had that in areally long time yeah you know wheresomebody just had a conversation with meyou know and he said like for me thatthat just blew my mind and like I saidyou know we well we're kind of I don'tknow to me kind of like kindred spiritslike you know like we see things a lot alot the same way and you know I feelblessed that I have people like Robynpuja you know like we're all kind of inthat you know like I try to surroundmyself with people that are like-mindedyou know that you have thatopen-mindedness and and if they don't Itry to cultivate it yeah yeah you knowand help them to understand that becauseat least for myself that's where I foundthe real joy in dance is in the exchangein the conversation in being open-mindedto new ways of moving and takingsomething and flipping it yeah you knowon its side on its back on its headwhatever it might be you know cuzthere's no one way of looking at thisthing like you know and the beautifulpart is we will never have this thingfigured out and it's what keeps mecoming back yeah because when I come outto a dance floor when I go to a practicethere's an exhilaration that I have noidea what's gonna happen today yeah yeahand that's amazing uh-huh you know Ilike I gave up the preconceived notionoh this is what I'm gonna do this I havea few ideas like oh I want to try thistoday on that I just give it up becauseI found that when I go out withpreconceived notions that oh I'm gonnado this this this and this you think toomuchthat's what it becomes well I mean inthe end like we talked about thatsubatomic level how you go in and you'regonna do this move and it doesn't workout and sometimes it works out betteryeah because your body on a subatomiclevel new nope we're doing this yeahwhen you try to work against your bodywhen you work you know like your body'sgonna win and you could just come outall kinds of ugly you like you know likeat some level you have to give in towherever your body's at on that day likeoh I'm will work on this if it if yourbody says nope we're doing this insteadyou got you like you're best offtrusting because in the end your yourDNA knows better yeah for me like whatI've always done is and what I've beentrying to do a lot more is like when Itrain I'll train you know differentsequences of movements that I think workwell together but when I actually danceyou know perform or battle or whatever Itry to just not think of anything I justtry to focus on music try to focus onwhoever I'm battling or whatever I'mperforming at just focus on the momentand just let my body do whatever it'sgonna do because I've spent all the timein practice working through differentcombinations that I think makes sensethat I trust that my body's gonna knowwhen to do that or when not to do thatso if I just focus more on music andjust let let it happen it just feelsmore natural to me it probably looksmore natural to and then hopefully thosecombinations I have been practicing maketheir way out in some form and you knowI'm happy with that too so it soundslike that's maybe like what you do aswell yeah I mean I have ideas you knowlike I think it's it's it's at least formyself good to go out like okay I wantthese things to come out at some pointin time you know yeah like anda lot of the muscle memory will kick inyeah it is moving yeah you know ifyou've put together certain combinationsand certain movements you know they'regonna come together at some pointthey're gonna execute just becauseyou've done these different things butof course there's a spontaneity to ourdance and you know working in with musicand all that you know and of course Ifeel that music is important I feel likeI think there's some people that thatplay too hard to the music to where theystart to kind of lose themselves thatand when you hit him you know and and toeach their ownyeah every single beat you knowsometimes when people work every singlebeat then they they kind of lose I guessa certain moment like for me like I'm inthe flow of the music the way I dance Istay in the flow in the pocket of themusic and then I accent different partsthat I want really to stick out or standout and being in that wave the rest justgoing and flowing through the rest ofthe music you know and there are somepeople who are amazing hidden everyevery single beat for me I I see a lotof hit or miss with that though toosometimes it's a super amazing momentthat's etched in the history of timethat's enough well there's others thatit was like I kind of lost the messageoh yeah like they're trying too hard todo every single thing and it's like okayI don't they stay in the story you'reactually trying to portray now yeahbecause I mean at least for me I feellike when we're you know when I go outand the dancers that I seem to gravitatea little bit to a a little bit morethey're they're moving and they'retelling some sort of story you knowto make you know beginning a middle andan end you know and just for me the onesthat every single be every single timelike I said there there are somespectacular moments you know some roundsthat will always be remembered but thenthere's also some times that you areleft walking away soon I didn't reallyget what they were trying to tell me youknow just me you know that just the wayyou know I see it so so it's definitelya catch-22 and it's a difficult thing topull off and only a certain few arereally at least to me that that I'veseen that really pull that off and makeme say oh wow okay they're like thatthat they pull it off more times thannot yet they have a higher ratio youknow higher percentage of being able topull it off what what is one of the Iguess highlight moments that you've seenI guess in all your history of the dancewhat's something that stands out I meanobviously your story with battling stormis probably a highlight but what aboutother things maybe something that youmay be a battling with we were we weresharing you know yeah it was aconversation yeah of course that was ahot like you know like I've just had youknow with the moments there's there'sjust so many you know I mean just nojust sharin in the community seeing allthe different generations of dancers youknow come through and give their givetheir party inspire in their way andthen being able on our end to be able topartake in and share with them like asyou know whatever practice that I'm ator event if I see something that I feelcan be helpful to another dancer youknow I'll usually make my way over andjust kind of throw it out theresay you know like this is take it orleave it you know you don't youcertainly don't need to use this butthis is this is something that I seethat I think can help your dance but youknow like like I hope you don't takethat you know the wrong way yeahbecause we've always been a firmbeliever you know me and the guys havealways been firm believers in in helpingbring bring the next dancers or evenveterans like it doesn't matter likeI've had guys that have come to meyou know so many like you know and sayhey you know I know people look at uslike legends you know but like we wewant to grow to like you know what likedoesn't mean that that we don't want tolearn yeah you know and I knew what thatkind of meant like that they werelooking for help and for me like I'llhelp anybody who has a decent heart youknow so I my response has always beenlike well yeah of course like if we'renot learning and growing what are wedoing here you know like anyone whothinks they have this dance figured outyeah they're out of their mindyeah and they've stopped growing yeahyou know that that that's two things cuzthe moment you think you have anythingfigured out growth is done like there isno more growth the moment you think youhave it figured out you're wrong youdon't have it figured yeah because it'san endless thing but if for those whoare you know lucid or out of their mindenough to think that they do havefigured out and oh I'm on this level sothe growth is done like it you stop soso anyone who who has ever like a like Isaid I offer it up you know to to anyonejust really I'll walk over you know andoffer it up so if somebody were to askme you know in many who are consideredlegends of coursemany you know they've been my studentsyou know and others that have made theirlegend status on their own but just arestill on the path of growth if they'veever had a question or wanted to learnsomething I'm all for it you knowbecause yeah like we don'tlet's keep growing let's keep doing ityou know feel free to ask me anytimelike I love it you know it'sever-changing thing I mean hip-hop Iguess if you look at it throughout itshistory every couple years it's adifferent thing and so if you're not Iguess you know evolving with it you'realso you know you're losing yourself alittle bit you know kinda you know asfar as ever evolving it on some levelit's fads - oh yeah you know on somelevel things come and go so you knowit's cool to pay attention and to keepgrowing but if it's something that thatcalls to you - cuz in the end you stillhave to be true to who you are as anartist yeah so there's a lot of thingsthat I see that like look great but Idon't feel they're for meso I continue to grow in the ways thatmove me you know because if we'reconstantly worrying about what somebodyelse is doing and what's in right nowthen we're never really gonna findourselves you know like we're nevergonna find who we are as a dancer and tocontinue to build us like to buildyourself as an artist so but if so youknow it's good to pay attention becauseif you see something that says wow likeyes I want to use that and incorporatethat into my dance because I think thatthat will take what I want to do and youknow change you know take my art where Iwant it to goyou know like we talked about at one ofthe last practices a vision a vision foryour dance you know you may not be ableto do everything that you want to do butI think any any great artists has hadsome sort of vision for what they wantto do like some grand scheme like Ohlike that's kind of crazy you know andyou may not be able to do it now but ifyou have when you have that vision youknow you kind of start doing differentmovements and different exercises andstretches and whatever else whateverelse it might be to kind of work towardsthat goal you know to work towards thatvision you know and then of coursethere's a whole lot of play that comesalong that that will change your visionaround but but I feel like you know allthe great artists have to have some somesort of vision you know even if itchanges along the way you know to have avision and to work towards a vision youknow and not be to be cognizant ofwhat's around you but not consumed towhere you have to do what they do toknow like okay you know that's dope andI recognize that's dope but that's notyou know I'm gonna continue to do what Ido and take the parts that I really wantthat I feel will take me towards myvision yeah yeah the thing that me andVince do a lot is we'll see what otherpeople are doing you know what the fadreally is and rather than try to do thatwe'll go okay if someone does thatagainst me in a battle like what am Igonna do well ya know I mean I know youcan respond to it well especially ifyou're looking for battles you know theresponses to to questions you know oryeah to be able to respond and kind ofyou know in a battle you knowthis is what is generally out there yeahthis is gonna come and you have aresponse you know those are just goodbattle tactics to be able to have aresponse within what you did well yeahwhat I do yeah you know but but youalready have answers to the questionexactly you know so yeah those are thoseare things that are very important andthen of course like you said you knowand then things like battles and stufflike that that's a that's a wholedifferent you know it's its own elementand conversation and being able to Imean of course you have to do what youdo but be able to like even the way wepackage what we do you know ourmovements and and the packaging anddelivery of what we do can be the energyin which we do what we do it's verydifferent yeah you know like yeah youknow it but I think one of the importantthings is that it comes from a genuineplace you see a lot of actors you knowin the scene to where yeah it's that'snot really who they are it's not agenuine part of their dance actor I'venever heard someone say that but that'swhat it is yeah it's acting you know andthe ones who like are best at what theydo I think more times than not things docome from a genuine place yeah that'swhy it receives more credit like thennot because people can fill somethinggenuine behind their movements and atleast for the ones to me that that standout and over time like they still likenot just when in a jam and not just whenin an event but being admired being ableto be understood as a pioneer of whatthey do and to be like to drawinspiration from otherto where because they just see somethingthat is more genuine in in in theirmovements than the typical person whoexecutes things and wins that Jamthere's a lot of people who win gemsthat are not maybe and never really beremembered you know I'm sure there's somany people you know when you look backyou're like who won this gem who on thatJam and not remember them whereasthere's people like Rob Silla or a Cujoyeah that have lost more gems than theother one and you remember there but butthey will when when their name is talkedabout people know and are like wow likethat guy is amazing I'm glad you broughtthat up because I have the same thoughtabout it is because there's so manybattles I remember vividly because youknow either I was there I saw footageand I was like this is a crazy amazingbattle and I can't remember who won youknow that battle or who won the jam oranything about it other than the battleand who was in it I could tell youexactly what each person is wearing orwhatever in the battle but I'm like Ihave no idea if they even won the gym Idon't even know where the jam was youknow what I mean yeah and I could careless to be honest but that battle therewas crazy and it's cemented in my brainas like one of the coolest things I'veever seen you know and so it just goesto show you that the jam is not thedefining thing it's and the win andwinning a jam is not the defining thingit's it's like the moments that you'recreating the moments that you create theway you inspire and an hour inspire byothers and the way you inspire otherswith dancing from a genuine place youknow just yeah though though manydancers have come to me over the yearsand said oh what do you think I shouldwork on and what would you recommend forthis you know Ana's like okay you knowwe'll onewhat is your end goal are you looking towin a jam or are you looking to beremembered mmmyou know because those are twocompletely different things yeah yeahyou know and then I usually bring up theanalogy of things like Cujo and Rob andstuff like that you know and that thatwhen people bring up their name they'realways like people now automaticallyknow who they are yeah you know andthey're inspired and think like wow likeyeah he dances like nobody's businesslike I don't even know how he came upwith that you know whereas there's manyothers that that are amazingthey you know they are they execute youknow mm-hmm well maybe they just haven'tfound their Oh something that makes thatstands out but solely yeah it's wherethis belongs to this person like nonobody dances like this guy you knowwhen somebody tells me like Oh ace youknow like I don't know I don't think Idance like okay I suppose maybe becauseI don't think too much about my owndance I just enjoy the process always inprocess and you know and I just there'sa just a genuine joy in dance but whensomebody comes to me and says oh manlike yeah like when you dance like Iknow it's you like nobody dances likeyou I mean like you bring that brings mea joy and satisfaction because that's myend goal I don't know if I'm if I'mdoing it you know and on to what levelyou know but for me I want the freedomof being me I want you know when I danceI'm trying to just find me all the timeyeah you know and and it's a continualthing because we're ever-changing we'reever-growing you know like the me ofninety-one should not be the me of nowmm-hmmyou know I should be a different me soeven even when I go out and dance todayI'm searching for my truth today who ami today you know and just being open toif that'sdifferent you know I think for the mostpart it's going to there's gonna be afeel of who you are but but new aspectsof yourself yeah you know and I don'tknow for me that that's what II thought about creativity as an artistit's not to just hold on to you know tofind yourself but doesn't mean you haveto be the you of three years ago or lastweek or you know like that person wasamazing at that time love it cherish itand move on move on because you can'tever recreate those moments thosemoments were wonderful at that time butif you're stuck there you know it'snever gonna be the same you know you cando the same combination it's never gonnabe exactly the way it was at that momentin time on that day and you know andyeah I had to learn that a long time agotoo you know I had this some differentamazing moments you know that that justcame about and I tried to recreate themand worse worse sessions ever justbecause that moment had passed you knowand the moment I came to the realizationthat you gotta let go you know andunderstand that that was a beautifulmoment at that time but that is overyeah and and trust like we talked abouton a DNA level that whatever your bodyis telling you and wherever you're at atthat point in timetrust it go with it as long as you feelyou're notimitating or copying somebody else youyou're kind of finding your way andfinding your truth for that day that'swhere the beauty lies kind of embracingthe view of right now and moving with itof course because I know buddy's justgonna change and being a completelydifferent person but you can finddefinitely new elements of yourself youknow if you're open to it and for methat that's what makes you knowbeing an artist so much fun it isfinding these new parts of yourself likeevery single day yeah yeah so if youwere to go back in time to the 91version of you and tell that version ofyou I guess some advice what would youdo what would that be oh god you know II'm not really sure about what I wouldtell myself back then because I'veenjoyed the process the whole way youannounced observe you know like you meanobserve myself of old or observe you nowgoing back in time to see the 91 versionof you would you say anything or no oryou just observe or just well you knowit that's a double-edged sword toobecause yeah it might change well youknow like for me I've enjoyed thejourney yeah the journey is fun it's allabout you know like it's all about thejourney like you know the beauty oftoday like I've had so many amazingmoments throughout my life but I thinkit's because I understand that I'm onlygiven today I don't like iived at thispoint just because I woke up everysingle morning and said well I stilllove it so I'm gonna do it like that'sitI've never in my wildest dreams wouldhave imagined that going on near 30years that I'm still you know 45 yearsold still busting still still breakingyou know stay still dance in period at45 you know when I was a teenager youknow 16 year old you know a 16 year oldkid started we thought somebody who youknow busted for nine years was like whoaat that he's so gee like that's coollike nine years yeah like in here yeahmore than tripled that yeah you know and[Music]yeah like that's it's just crazy to eventhink that that we would still be denserand andlevel like you know that that's you knowone of the things that me and storm weretalking about the other daywas the the joy of dancing still at highlevel having high expectations forourselves and saying I never ever wantold man props like I'm sorry I dancebecause when I dance you know like I dothe things I do I take pride in my dancelike I love the process but make nomistake about it when I'm on a dancefloor with other dancers I want them tounderstand that I'm a bad man yeah thatthat when I do things that I do thingsthat that they can't do even youngeryeah like you know doing walks clotheslike you know certain Power Movecombinations that I can do it 45 that itthat some of the younger cats can docats don't do walks like me and Cujoyeah yeah yeah they just don't it's it'snot the same the the west coastmerry-go-rounds Deadman's all thedifferent high level sky turtlescarousels whatever you want to call themlike all the different variations wewalk around that we glide around a roomwith our body fully extended we're nothopping in one place you know and I knowa lot of people they don't know theydon't understand you know and on somelevel yeah it's weird and arrogant butthe walks that are out there are on anelementary level in comparison to theway that me and Cujo dueled is like ohit's a lost art I think I mean a lot ofit absolutely it absolutely is andpeople will never understand it untiluntil they try it when they when theystart down the journey of doing it theway me and Cujo do it they understandthere they have a what that hell momentlife you knowone of the homies gastro fromGuadalajara he was down here in LosAngeles dude is so strong super superstrong has amazing walks the wayeveryone else does him mmmhoppy well you know no problem knock itout the box I started taking him undermy wingyou know Cujo was trying to show himselfand then he started showing up andwanting to practice with me in Seoul Itook him under my wing and started toteach him the way me and Cujo did do andlike I said can do it the way everyoneelse does it like nobody's business andhis can hold his body straight out likenobody's business very strong butlearning how to do it the right way theway we do it West Coast walks hestruggled struggled struggled struggledand he was like I'm so tired brothank god this is so hard bro like youknow like month you know good monthworking with him regularly strugglingyeah and finally he started to get it atthe end but this was like like a regularthing that I was working with himimparting my knowledge telling him don'tput your hand here and get your hipsover here faster do this you know alongwith all of his already previousknowledge and he struggled with it andhe's starting to finally get it at theend but then he had to go back toGuadalajara and I told him practicepractice practicebecause high level walks is not likeregular moves yeah like if I were toassociate it regular like most movesthat you get it it's like once you getit you get it it's kind of like aone-night stand with high-level walksthat's a marriage you're in a long-termcommitment you better keep at it becauseshe will get up and walk and leaveshe will leave you and I told him thisabout six months you know to a year likebetween there went to vacation you knowwhen on vacation in Mexico was downthere and got a lotta met up with himand his crew and he told me I'm so sorrybroI lost him like I didn't I didn't listento you I didn't practice them andthey're gone and so I told him okay youknow I'm gonna teach you again like youknow and we'll work at it this timestick with it I have to see his accountto see where he's at but it just showsit just it's an example of how just howdifficult high-level walks are the wayCujo and I do them really are and I takea lot of pride in that and I can stillmean Cujo both can do all of our walksyou know different combinations thatwe've done from the past we can still dothem at a high level in our 40s yeah andfor me I take a lot of you know like themoment I I can't dance the way I want todancethen maybe maybe I'm gonna stop I don'tknow like I haven't gotten at that pointyet yeah you know but but I don't wantold man props you know I don't wantsomebody to say oh man you should haveseen ace back in the days like oh likeyou can't you can't tell can't see youcan't see it now you know but he used tobe really good yeah you know the thingthat brings me most joy is when a dancerwho doesn't even know me comes over tome and says hey yeah like hey what'syour name like where are you from likedude you're really good and then when Itell them who I am and a little bit ofmy history for them to have that youknow more like like I love that you knowbecause those props from a really gooddancer you mean more oh I mean you knowmore times than not it's a really gooddancer you know somebody I say all thatguy's pretty good you know and then theymake their way over and reciprocate thatsame love and admiration saying hey whoare you like you know when you walk overto somebody that you just don't evenknow and say I kind of have to know whoyou are like I think highly enough ofyour dance that I want to know who youare and then you know then to find thehistory later you know like and then ofcourse the admiration is much deeperonce they find out like well you're thisperson you're a kudos teacher you'rethis person's teacher you're four howold are you yeah all 45 what you knowlike like for me that is yeah there's asatisfaction and enjoy because just asan artist I want whoever it is it givesme respect or respects what I do I wantit to be from a genuine place like ifit's not there I don't want it becausethen that will feed by motivation towork harder to get back to where I needto be yeah like you know and there's youknow like I understand there's good playpeople come from good places whenthey're being nice but there's alsosomething that handicaps the otherperson whether it be kids or girls orwhatever it might bemm-hmm the reason why we've got into thepeople who have gotten good it's becausethere's there's a need of wanting to beappreciated to be recognized to bevalidated by others that they admire youknow there's a hunger you know not tosay people don't fulfill their own cupby like you know being an artist butthey're I firmly believe that you knowand I think that that we all want to berecognized by others we admire you knowwe want to be validated and for thatperson say that dude is good you knowlike III really you know like what thatfor the person I admire admires what Ido yeah Wow like okay that's you knowand that feeds our hunger that feeds ourflame you know so whatever it is Ialways want it to come from a genuineplace you know and like I say meansstorm we're laughing about that likedude like I call it quits you know likeif I can't do what I do and and feelgood about my dance when I step on adance floor like I don't want anyonegiving me pity props I don't wantsomebody saying oh that was you knowpretty good good job don't do it walkawayyeah like oh you still got it yeah likeit's not that you still got it it's likeit never left it was always here and itgot better so that's that's what you'regoing foralways I'm looking to grow I'm lookingto be a factor I'm looking to inspireyou know myself and others you know likeand I think a lot of really greatartists have this about themselves tothat they are their own biggest criticyeah you know like yeah I know I like wetalked about having a vision you knowlike I know what I want to do and I youknow it's something that that's been adouble-edged sword because I've alwaysbeen hard on myself to I could dosomething incredible and it didn't workout the way I wanted to and I kind ofwalked away like walked out of thecircle like it wasn't amazing you knowwe're where others are like you knoweven pump you spoke about popo used totell me to he had to kind of help mewith that too yeah where he's like dudewhat are you doing like you didsomething amazing and you walked awaywith your head down like he's like don'tthat like you know play you know whetherwhat it would like nobody else knew thatyou messed up like in your own head youmight have messed up yeah but nobodyelse knew that I was like I'll tell youthat right now nobody else knew that theonly way they knew it is you walked awaywith youso that was you know that was somethingthat I'm good you break very preciselyto and so like I can imagine where youmeant to put your foot exactly in thisspot but you missed it by an inch andyou're like oh I messed up but literallyno one can tell that you didn't put itan inch backwards where it was supposedto be and you missed it so you'd get upand go like oh crap I messed that up andthen they're like I don't know that wascrazy disappointed and that's you knowthat that's kind of been my you know myblessing and my curse because becauseI'm always out there searching for myown perfection it it pushes me I striveyou know I've worked I've always been aworker like I said I had two left feetyou know people will see me they're likewhat what do you mean you know but thatwas terrible mm-hmm I was terrible Iworked for everything that I had I'veI've had to break down use trained usemy mind you know more than the averagedancer because I had to like I've alwayshad to break down yeah an understandingof a step a combination of power movebody positioning like where I should beat a certain point in time so when I'mable to t like one I could a teacherit's helped me to really be a goodteacher to others because I myself couldnot do without having a full grasp orunderstanding you understand theintricacies of making them move yeah andI you know I think you can make moveswork but I think for me where it's beena blessing too is you know I've beenable to continue to grow and find moreefficient ways of doing things because Ijust because I can do something doesn'tmean I feel like that's the only way andthat there's not a better way I'm alwayssearching to see if there's a better wayI'm always questioning myself like yeahI feel it this way but I'm open to thepossibilities that I can do it better orthat there is a better way you knowbecause where I where I did something atthat point in time yeah it was effectiveyou know but yeah there's more you knowand we found a bunch of new ways whetherit be power moves or style of saying youknow what if you put your foot downfaster here you put this knee down youknow like and then we tried we're likeyeah that does work like dope and thenjust a whole new range of possibilitiescome in constantly you know so yeah it'samazing man I love it well I think withthat being said we could probably inthis show we've been going for an hourand 15 minutes already kind of timeflies by right yeah well yeah man Iappreciate you having me on you knowlike just being able to speak about allthe possibilities and the culture andour artistry mm-hmm you know cuz cuzthat's what we are you know I I alwaysappreciate the opportunities for to justconversate ya know it's important tokind of spread the ideas that we allhave and just put it out into the worldand see what other people have to sayabout it and just you know I guess theZulu nation each one teach one is it'simportant it's important in hip-hop todo that well yeah it's it's going to youknow like we're only a moment in time weare just a piece of of all of this so ifwe keep it to ourselves where does allthat knowledge go after after we're doneafter we leave you know like like I saidwe're only promised today so even withsomebody who has good intentions ohmaybe later I'll get around to it youknow like they're not promised that timeso you know yeah being able to sharewith each other is a vital part of anysociety yeah and as we said this dancehip hop is still in its infancy in a wayand that it you know there's so muchhistory that's you know beyond us soit's good to get these ideas out now andjust because you know we don't knowwhere the scenes gonna go from here andI mean it's it's it's exciting to seewhat is in store for the future anddefinitely yeah so well thank you forcoming on do you have any last-minuteshoutouts or anything you want to say orany plugs or anything which oh well justyou know the guys you know my brotherswhether it be master movements soulcontrol you know my my variousinspirations around the world you knowmy teacher airnow Coloma you know likeforgiving me just an opportunity youknow and even when he sees me now youknow he says and you were like the lastperson I ever would have thought wouldhave made hey you know yeah an impactbut look II look at you after all theseyears you know but but nobody canmeasure your heart your desire your playyour you know and many of the greatdancers I see around the world startedwith similar themes to where it was hardfor them at the beginning but nobody canmeasure their heart so you know if youhave a want for something do it for youyou know in the end always do it for youand have fun doing it the whole waythrough don't let anyone tell you whatyou can ordo I had that from the very beginningand many others have also we can dowhatever we put our mind to and I won'thave fun along the way here to herealright thanks you guys for listening[Music][Music]you 

Guest OverviewBorn and raised in a small isolated California town, influenced by what she describes as a ‘consistent, persistent, and gentle' math teacher father and the ‘artistic and creative' mother, serendipity led her to discover her love of the history of science at Wollongong University in Australia and then commit her life to be a historian of science - is this weeks guest Pamela H Smith. Pamela is a Professor of History at Columbia University and Founding Director of the Center for Science and Society where she leads the Making and Knowing Research Project. In Part two we discuss how Pamela established the Making and Knowing Research Project, its purpose and we discuss the origins of her most recent launch - The Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France. A Digital Critical Edition and it's English Translation. That might sound dry to many but this is a remarkable sixteenth-century manuscript that contains over 900 recipes for making art objects, medical remedies, and materials for the household and workshop. Pamela explains how the craft workshop practices record extensive first-hand experimentation with natural materials and provide unique insights into the material, technical, and intellectual world of the late sixteenth century and bring a better understanding of how and why nature was investigated, collected, and used in art in early modern Europe. It sheds light on the origins of the natural sciences in the creative labors of Renaissance artists and artisans' workshops. The digital critical edition is an open-source resource is available for anyone to experiment and follow the recipes and directions. We also cover her views of education, failure, persistence and the need to create a more evolved and sustainable economic model. Please enjoy and share this extensive exploration and mind-expanding journey through history of science with Pamela H Smith. What we discuss:Pamela explains the Making and Knowing project and the fusion of disciplines to study the connection between craft and scienceThe emergence of the Royal Society and the first project of interviewing artisans to identify general principlesActive Science vs Certain Science The parallels to the creative class of todayI ask Pamela about her thoughts in imitation and she explains the development of Intellectual property and propriety forms and the nature of our economy. We discuss theory and practice and persistence and the culture of fearing failure.Pamela describes the development of The Digital Critical Edition the verbatim translation of the French Manuscript of over 400 pages of artisanal recipes and makes this open-source and available for the public and artisans. The recreation of the objects that have been created by her students.Interest in the human hand and it's capacity in nature. We discuss the aims of Pamela to facilitate and create a new maker sensibility in today's world and how this could create a new economic and sustainable model based on handwork and craft. Pamela cites examples from India.We also discuss the imperative of embracing new economic models, the need to celebrate diversity, the importance of persistence. Social Links Digital Critical Edition Linkedin

I have a desire to be clean and clear in all areas of my life…mind, body, soul, environment, finances, etc.God created the earth, and then He gave Adam dominion over it. He set up the systems that perpetuate the cycles of life and abundance, then gave man the responsibility of maintaining it.I think we have done very well in our modern advances in using what God gave us to create even more efficient ways to heat our homes, get ourselves from one place to another, etc. In other ways, I feel we have gone backwards. We have neglected and even forgotten how to use some of the abundant resources God put in our charge.Adam had dominion over the whole earth. I have dominion over my home, my body, my business and my family. I must ask the question: “How am I doing in my dominion?”When we think of cleansing choices, many things come to mind:cleaning our homepurging our lives of cluttereating cleanexercise cleaning the toxins from our blood and musclesyard workorganizingPhil on our call suggested cleansing the temporary storage in our minds with a brain dump.I have a page in my planner that is just for this. I call it ’emptying my vessel’. The only useful vessel is an empty one. You cannot put something into a vessel that is already full.One of our live callers, Mary talked about doing a body cleanse and the discipline it takes to stay committed for a period of time to doing something good for you that is out of the ordinary. She saw parallels of the body cleanse in relations to the emotional cleanse she has experienced the past couple of months grieving for her father who passed away.Consciously cleansing in one area creates change in all areas. By changing one thing, you can expect that everything will change!I am clean and clearI am an empty vessel, ready to be filledI am open and ready to receiveI am in a state of constant cleansingI am intentional in cleansing my body, mind, heart and soulI receive abundance from God and maintain dominion over my stewardshipI am given dominion over my life, home, body and my part on the earthI am cleansing myself dailyI am disciplined and intentional in my thoughts and actionsI am clean in mind, body, home and lifeI am cleansing my thoughtsI am exhibiting purity in all my actionsI am present and listen intuitively for the perfect area I am ready to cleanse todayI am grateful I am giving and receiving freelyI am freely receiving, freely giving and freely releasing the outcomeClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook Group. Check out the NEW! Daily GPS Planner. It’s a Gratitude Journal and Planner in one! There is space to write your Inspired Shortcuts, record all your thoughts and impressions from The Daily Gratitude Call and even pages to help you stay focused on your Path of Purpose!To have a 15 minute conversation with Wylene Benson and gain new perspective on an area you desire to change, schedule a time on her calendar by going to this link:

Ok guys, how many of you are curious about what people talk about in therapy? Of course that next to impossible because of privacy laws but I wanted to find a way to open the door, just ever to slightly, to give you a glimpse inside my office. TodayI sit down with a former client of mine. Her name is Tessa and she is a successful women who is so freaking brave because she is sharing her story about a lifetime of anxiety and recent willingness to get help. I hope this story inspires you to take a step towards wellness and consider seeing a therapist.

Ok guys, how many of you are curious about what people talk about in therapy? Of course that next to impossible because of privacy laws but I wanted to find a way to open the door, just ever to slightly, to give you a glimpse inside my office. TodayI sit down with a former client of mine. Her name is Tessa and she is a successful women who is so freaking brave because she is sharing her story about a lifetime of anxiety and recent willingness to get help. I hope this story inspires you to take a step towards wellness and consider seeing a therapist.

TodayI found an old bookon my shelvesI opened the pagesand smelled the smellsand for a momentmy mind forgot its place and timeas I walked into a cabinso many miles and years away—there was a fire onand the kettle played its tune.The sun was shiningand my family was therewaving me down to the beach—I can’t tell youhow incredible it isto be there nowwriting to youfrom the cabin of my youth. Other Poems Read Today:"I Remember, I Remember" by Thomas Hood“The Slow Room Of Decades” by Prince Neptune xx Atticus@atticuspoetry www.atticuspoetry.com

You can now find us on Google Music, Spotify and Itunes and many other podcast places … leave a review! It's episode 27 of Season 1. On this week's show we have a symbol, a sleepwalker, a routine, a raven and 2 dead boys. I Need Help to Identify This Shape written by area51express and performed by Jack Sanders (Story starts around 00:01:16)Artist - area51expressStory- HereNarrator - Jack Sanders My Sister Was Sleepwalking written by dark_affinity7 and performed by Erica Leticia (Story starts around 00:09:39)Artist - dark_affinity7Story - HereNarrator- Erica Leticia Twitter Death and ButterfliesAn insect themed horror anthology.https://bit.ly/32lcMxYPlease back this project before your time is up on Fri, November 15 2019 Routine written by Meera and performed by Sinister Sweetheart (Story starts around 00:17:10)Artist - MeeraStory - HereNarrator - Sinister Sweetheart Facebook Twitter The Raven written by Edgar Allen Poe and performed by Sir Soothing Voice (Story starts around 00:18:50) Artist - Edgar Allen PoeStory - HereNarrator - Sir Soothing Voice Two Dead Boys written by an Unknown Poet and performed by Jack Sanders (Story starts around 00:28:18)Poem - Ladies and gentleman skinny and stout I'll tell you a tale I know nothing about The admission is free so pay at the door Now pull out a chair and sit on the floorOn one bright day in the middle of the night Two dead boys got up to fight Back to back they faced each other Drew their swords and shot each otherThe blind man came to see fair play The mute man came to shout hooray The deaf policeman heard the noise And came to stop those two dead boysHe lived on the corner in the middle of the block In a two story house on a vacant lot A man with no legs came walking by And kicked the lawman in his thighHe crashed through a wall without making a sound Into a dry creek bed and suddenly drowned A long black hearse came to cart him away But he ran for his life and is still gone todayI watched from the corner of the table The only eyewitness to facts of my fable If you doubt my lies are true Just ask the blind man, he saw it tooNarrator - Jack Sanders Executive Producer & Host: Jack SandersCreative Director - Sir Soothing VoiceMedia Director - Sinister SweetheartEditing - Jack Sanders / Sinister SweetheartMusic - https://www.purple-planet.comWebsite - https://scarecrow-tales.pinecast.coScarecrow Tales Fan DiscordMerchandise - https://www.teepublic.com/stores/scarecrowtalespodcast?ref_id=8993Patreon -https://www.patreon.com/ScarecrowTalesPodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/scarecrow_talesFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/ScarecrowTalesPodcastScarecrowtales@gmail.com Audio program ©2019 - All Rights Reserved - No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of Scarecrow Tales The copyrights for each story are held by the respective authors.Support Scarecrow Tales by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/scarecrow-talesFind out more at https://scarecrow-tales.pinecast.coCheck out our podcasting host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free, no credit card required, forever. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-0149cf for 40% off for 4 months, and support Scarecrow Tales.

One of the best time-saving tips I know is to leverage other people’s learning. I am so grateful to those who take the time to gather knowledge, test it, and then make it available to others.There are free useful tips available to us everywhere! Advice from people we trust, Youtube, our own intuition. We can daily be asking for the most useful tips through our Daily GPS ritual.There is definitely value that can, and should be, purchased. However, don’t overlook the simplicity of free. A woman took advantage of my free offer to have a 15 minute call and she discovered that what I offered for free was more beneficial that the advice and treatment she had paid over $1 Million dollars for.What question do you have? Ask it to the Universe, to God and listen for your answer. The answer may surprise you. Whatever it is, I guarantee it will be simple.Today, I Give Myself Permission to Leverage ‘Simple and Free”I am great at leveraging simple and free solutionsI have the gift of discernmentI know my source of reliable informationMy faith, coupled with inspiration is all that is requiredI have wisdom from past experiences that serve me in my choices todayI trust my heart and move forward confidentlyI allow my life to be simple and easyClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook GroupTo have a 15 minute conversation with Wylene Benson about a new perspective on an area of your life you desire to change, contact her directly at this link: askwylene.comSupport the show (https://wylenebenson.com)

I have had the same squeaky swivel chair in my office for 6 years. It is a very loved piece of furniture because it is where I sit to do my Daily GPS. I call it my Creating Chair. I have a very positive sentimental connection with this chair.There is another piece of furniture, that for years I had a very negative sentimental connection with. My Dad built me a chest of drawers out of scraps from his wood pile. He gave all of about an hour to the project. For years, I felt like he didn’t love or care for me, or he would have taken more time and built it out of something that he felt was worthy of his love for me.This was all before I learned about giving myself permission to have a different experience. Just a few years ago, I gave myself permission to consider creating a new, more positive sentimental connection with this chest of drawers, and with my Dad.It was amazing how when I made the choice to see it differently, instead of feeling anger at my Dad, I felt love and gratitude. He took one precious hour out of his busy work day and used his skill of creating something useful out of unorganized matter, to give his daughter four perfectly functional drawers of space.I saw that chest of drawers follow me to my new home as a newlywed as a space for sewing paraphernalia. I saw that same chest of drawers move to hold tools in our garage, and then later, with a fresh coat of paint, it became a chest of drawers in my own daughter’s home as a newlywed.Three generations have touched this now loved piece of history and memory. And I am grateful for the positive sentimental connection it still brings between me and my Dad.Things are alive, they are made up of energy. They contain the essence of those who have touched them in some way. A fragrance, a piece of music, or a physical object, all carry with them, a means of connection to a former memory or relationship.Many of us hold a sentimental connection with our previous home, before we were born on earth, with a former family and Father in Heaven who we can connect with anytime through prayer and meditation.There are sentimental connections with past experiences that we can see have led up to our current state of being. Gratitude is often present with these moments of reflection, especially when our eyes of understanding are opened and we see how perfectly everything worked together.I Give Myself Permission to Create Sentimental ConnectionsI am the catalyst for my future sentimental connectionsI choose positive sentimental connectionsI give time to reflection and feel gratitude for all the connections that have led me to where I am todayI let go of the need to control the outcome and instead, allow connections to happen naturallyI desire sentimental connectionsI am open to sentimental connectionsI anchor in, deeper connections by recognizing and expressing gratitude for themClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook GroupTo learn more about working more closely with Wylene Benson, contact her directly at this link: Contact WyleneSupport the show (https://wylenebenson.com)

Find your voice - Episode 19- "How to control your thoughts and manage depression" - Alex Roberts #19Tagline: "Do what you want to do, not what people want you to do "Alex Roberts, was a recommended to me by a friend and little did I know he was actually a neighbour...well almost! Despite sharing the same postcode, love for personal training, fitness, heath and mindset we also shared a lot of personal stories in this episode.More so from Alex who bravely who showcases his vulnerability by openly talking about depression, anxiety and his struggles with grief and the loss of his father. A genuinely humble guy who has achieved success by just being himself and helping people on a daily basis. His approach to self talk has inspired and motivated me, and he hits on so many key aspects during this interview that we can all implement and take on board to enhance our levels of happiness and mindsetA shining example that what you see, isn't what you always get and the importance of never judging a book by its cover.I thank Alex for his openness, his bravery and for being an all round great guy. I urge you all to support and follow his journey as he is a great person to know and connect with.Thanks for listeningFree Audible book sign up:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?actionCode=AMN30DFT1Bk06604291990WX&tag=are86-21Best book on Mindset by Carol Dweck: Mindset https://amzn.to/2QajMvZSupport the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/findyourvoiceLinks to me:Website: https://www.arendeu.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aren.deu/Twitter: https://twitter.com/arendeuFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aren.singhLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aren-deu-65443a4b/Podcast: https://www.findyourvoicepodcast.com YouTube: http://tiny.cc/51lx6yLinks to guest:Website: https://www.alexrobertsfitness.co.ukFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlexRobertsPersonalTrainingInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aliro898/Have an awesome day#JustDeuIt #FindYourVoice[Music]welcome to an episode of find your voicea movement led by yours trulyAren do a guy who has overcomecrippling anxiety adversity anddifficulty like so many of you in lifewhose main goal now is to help youcombat your excuses take control of yourlife write your own story and mostimportantly find your voice so nowwithout further ado I welcome the hostof the show himself mr. Aren do what'sgoing on people thank you for tuning into another episode of find your voice myname is Aren and as always I am thehost of the show so I'm extremelyexcited to be bringing you Alex Robertsto the show today and Alex is somebodywho was actually recommended to me via afriend now alex is a personal trainersimilar to myself we have similarinterests but what really struck a chordwith me when I spoke to Alex prior tohim coming on this episode was he'sbattled with anxiety over well anddepression now I can't diagnose myselfin depression because I've never beenclinically diagnosed with it but when itcomes to ins ie a novel one boy can Irelate so it was extremely interestingto hear his side of this and I supposewhen many of you follow his journeyafter this which I'm very soon you'regonna want to do you're gonna see hissocial media profile and think wow isthis the guy on the episode because likemany of us we judge a book by its coverand Alex when you see his cover onInstagram you wouldn't necessarily thinkthis is an individual who perhapssuffers in the way that he explains onthis interview so I think withoutfurther ado we're gonna get straightinto this and once again I just want tothank everyone for their amazing supportwe've now hit well over 100 reviewsthank you so so much for thatokay so firstly I just want to thankAlex for coming on the show today howyou doing today I'm fineyou good where is good fantastic yeahI'm not you're coming you sure it'salright that's good stuff so I know Alexbriefly we've spoken obviously on socialmedia that's where we connected we'reactually neighbors we don't live too farfrom each other actually five minutesliterally yes so I think it's importantfor the listeners who are listening tothistoday to get to understand a little bitabout yourself so a little bit aboutyour story and basically what's broughtyou here in your life situation todayI've recently been doing my own sort ofvideos and songs are in depressionmyself I've never really experienced anymental health problems at all until Ilost my dad four years ago now yeah fouryears ago I didn't had a single problemdidn't really suffer from anxietydepression or anything but it seemed tobe that significant sort of traumaticmoment and brought brought a number ofproblems okay as such so yeah I'd saythe 1 4 Matic man was obviously losingmy dad which then spiraled on to anumber of other things later down theline a first sort of new heir sort ofmental health problems was funnilyenough when out in New York theChristmas okay after I'd lost my dadI was literally walking down one of thestreets going towards Grand CentralStation and I'm I just felt so likeoverwhelmed it was said he was sostrained and that felt anything like hadjust overwhelmed and I was just likeBestway describing he was trapped insidemy own head rocky do you Jonesy no Imean I sort of trapped in my own headand I was I was just really overwhelmedfor no particular reason at all andthat's when that's um the main sort ofdefining defining time where I sort offelt and knew but I was suffering fromsort of mental elf right and this wasfour years ago yeah how old are you knowif you don't want me that's for 27 soyou're 27 so around the age of 23 wasyou so just for the listeners nowobviously I know you're a personaltrainer you've been doing personaltraining for how many years five or sixfive six years so you actually apersonal trainer at this point as wellyes okay so in terms of we'll jump backto where you are now so in terms unlikeyour general life going up to say 23before this moment happened what kind ofstuff was you do was it was you alwaysinto the training the model those intertrained not not so much to mine okay sothe mind absolutely not I don't thinkmany of us know whatno I'm not yeah not a thing I was verysporty I play good level of rugby playerafter County fantastic I was atuniversity very very very carefree okayI'd say I really didn't give it yeahabsolutelyvery carefree very still I'm out goingto an extent now but slightly a bit morereserved let's say we're very bubbly Iwas on track with with Union stuff butyeah in terms of tuning into the mind orso into is my intuition if you if you'dlike and then when you had that tragicmoment when you lost your dad that'swhen I started realizing order in asecond it's one thing training our bodyit's another thing yeah yeah laterpercent and have you so what have youdone then since then cuz obviouslyyou're similar to me in that respect soI we touched on it briefly before thissometime personal training myself rightyeah and I understand the importance ofyou know looking after yourselfphysically but more so now I train everyday more for this ya know Mike andpeople don't get that people might thinkis for aesthetics or for a six-pack orsomething it's truly not yeah it's trulytwo combines ie not have that V anymoreyeah is that something that you do aswell so I think now yeah training isvery much a part of me improving mymindset as well now it's probably themost essential thing for me nowso I know it's a difference when I don'ttrain serotonin levels drop in except Iknow some big differencelack of energy that's not now was thethat was the main one for me cuz I had aweek off my own training a couple ofweeks back and I was just tired andwaking up tired going to bed tired itwas just yeah boy it's one of them likebut then you start self sabotagingyourself don't you for not draining themwell in reality your body needs to restbut yeah I mean it's very important forthe mindset nonetheless and the morepeople can recognize that yeah thebetter creasy's yourself were you've gotgoal you've got a target point you gottayou've got a goal point focal pointmm-hmm so in terms of briefly you meantlike the mental health thing would youcall it anxiety and overwhelm or wouldyou actually call it depression have youbeen diagnosed or is it something thatyour yeah I mean oh yeah well I sufferedwell still suffer from anxiety now okaybut I had my main by that bad episodelast January I have nowhere rightabsolutely out of nowhere so obviouslywhen I lost my dad I was quite low andBobby that will be the best time verynumb okay maybe didn't understand asmuch as I should have done what wasgoing on maybe so I sort of known to thefeeling's boffing last January that thatwas a real scary moment or a scary pointI think my sleep started to go and onceyou sleep starts where you don't dealvery well with all our suffering withinsomnia this was about two weeks so Ijumped on some medication friends are indepression and slowly slowly start tolift okay and it was quite amazingreally because we've in the space of ayearI don't it's mad mad to think about abought Mustang right I traveled over Iknow another free countries childanother three countries changedworkplaces again and I'm not saying thiswas from the tablets whatsoever but Ialso think another defining thing Ibought some of Tony Robbins he's contentokay a big mindset guy guru and I boughthis content and did that for three orfour weeks and that was a bit of a gamechanger as well that's brilliantso in the space of six months to a yearand switched from literally rock-bottomI mean when I say rock-bottom I was Ihad to move to my mom's for about twoweeks would you say you were eversuicidal I had thoughts I've never hadnever come tried to commit now I didhave thoughts but I would never do okayI know but never done it but and yeah Igot to that I got to that sort of verylow pointjust lying on a sofa watching the TV andhe was he was a terrible terrible part Ithink my mom was really shocked as wellthat I've gone from that to that pointin course here it was crazyWow and I was helpless to it mmm it feltlike I couldn't do anything like nowobviously in hindsight you can recognizeyou were in this kind of slum yeah yeahso in that particular moment would youoblivious to it like how you acted rightokay not clear okay couldn't do a thingit's crazy it was literally at zero Wowand it was a kind of Tommy Tory Robinsorry Tony well and it's fully enough sowatch these pearl he's got he's got aprogram on that let's call them I am NOTyour guru yeah and I watched that everyday for like five days I'm going to crya lot yeah I was crying there's onescene with it with the lady who hadsuicidal woman yeah yeah that's whatpulled me out of it okay the suicidalwoman when she said like I can't cope nomore a car and that was a turning pointI vote no more of this now yeah yeah gotmyself back into work so obviously atthis point I was in Irelandokay I'm self-employed or wasn't earningI'm off work I'm in January a reallybusy periods of all these sports allthese sports are going on yeah yeah butyet just completely overwhelmed feltlike I was way out of controlWow didn't have a clue what was going onhow to tackle it so this six-monthtransition now you've got you've got theMustang you've gone travelling you'vesort of lifted yourself back up againyeah sort of finding your way againyeah is that a recent event now are wetalking is that now her armhow's your position right now goodstrong fantastic strong I mean from lastJanuary to this January's been verystrong okay and so on food threat thisyear and just find that then so Ifollowed Tony Robbins I follow a lot ofpa yeah because I have to how I put foodin my mouth how I lift weights I have toalso put stuff into my mind yeah Bagonon that sort of stuff whatever it iswhoever you you know you resonate with Ithink you should put it into you yeahyeah because otherwise you startwatching the news your thoughts arecompletely the wrong way yeah in withthe way that I wouldn't recommend if youwant like a strong mindset yeah so sothat's itand so what I want to know now isobviously you're in a good place nowtouch briefly on the gym stuff what'syour daily habits like now because I'mthinking there's probably a thousandpeople listening to this who canresonate with what you've just gonethrough the anxiety that feeling of justbeing in a rock yeah and I believe thatmotivation doesn't last forever and itcomes down to a level of discipline tokind of just get over those bad daysyeah so what kind of routines do you doon there like a daily basis I mean I trymy best to sort of get up the same timeevery day quickly c'est quoi best 7Harper 7 mmm saying you've got thatsolid routineI normally have breakfast as normal Iwon't so I'll prep the food for the dayahead or the on coming days because I'dnormally have gaps ok in between clientsI can pop em and prep all the food yo Dit's fresh then as well of course I'mfortunate enough that I can come backhome and get obviously so I've got astress with crap not saying it's a badthing to prep into brilliant things yeahabsolutely I don't do that anymore Icould do so close myself yeah I can justcome pop back so they're not all go towork do like my morning sessions maybestraight through into the afternoon thentrain and maybe come back then a fewmore you need depends on what theDiaries looking like okay nighttime Idon't really have caffeine past 2 3o'clock ok I cook caffeine off I'm nottoo picky with food late at nightdoesn't it doesn't really bother me yeahas long song again and that caloriesthat any impaired a thatreally matter fury at 11 o'clock or notmore so more freedom like yeah I like tosleep like yeah yeah say yeahthen I'll obviously do what I was goingon meeting where the chat with friendsgirls whatever whatever's on the agendaI don't normally train in evenings okaynot normally I'd normally have itwrapped up by get out of the way freep.m. yeah training do you listen tobooks do you read books do you do anygratitude or goal-setting or anythinglike that yeah it's funny enough for allyou're gonna see this is mad as welloh I'd actually vote when I was in thisrow yeah or as I was just coming out ofit last year I droped some goals downand every single one was it happened itwas AMA I wrote it down on piece ofpaper and stuck on the side of my bed onthe cupboard and one was buy a new cardsaid Range Rover originally why don't Iupped it out a lot but that was one Igot a new car yeah trap wait this is soweird since it said travel to freeanother three countries you've neverbeen to yeah we're not in trouble I wentto Dublin I went to Budapest I went toZurich Switzerlanddamn what was the other Craig this isthe craziest one I think once said mootmove Jim places because it will changethe game this was these worldwide okayAndyI did that you spoke about the lid yeahplastic my mindset was gone from thereto learn so I wasn't particularly happyat work yeah mr. just was not helpingmatters whatsoever yeah but it was justweird and every single one that I wrotedown yeah yeah and I didn't refer backto him all until one day I just lookedhim before yeah yeah well this is thething so I'm very big on personaldevelopment like I pride myself on mylast job think I read like 50 books orsomething okay and the first ever thisis this is why we were quite similarwhen I was 25 I was working in London atthe time and the first persondevelopment guru I ever found was 20Robbins yeah so I was listening to hisstuff I mean one of these tapes hementions writing it down and theimportance of goals and I remember Ithat particular point I wrote downI think it was like two three cause acommon belief there Birnam the phase 2and it was 2 1 buy a house and two tobuy a golf always wanted a golf croquetyou could never afford one like mom anddad blessing they brought me a fiatpunto which is like the best time everyeah it was all we could afford and isyour first car loved it to bits but inmy head was always like if I can get agolf kind of made it yeah and at thattime again in a row tip I forgot aboutit until about two three years later andI'm getting a Scirocco cuz they've justcome out a stroke I look hard beforeyeah they are amazing my kind of thefault of sure up so ever so I'm meant toget involved it's just kind of like inmy eyes a bit man upgrade yeah and I'vegot buying my first investment hold andso it was weird because I rememberfinding my books women burrows moving asa what's this and I'll pretend it's mygoals and that's why every time I'vedone it it has worked so now one of mykind of practices on every morning is towhat my goals now nothing you've justproven that yes yes because what happenssubconsciously you're almost seeing theopportunities out there and you'reprobably driving more towards a 100percent so yeah yeah I mean I writegoals down and what was everything wastalking about I meditate 39 ok yeah it'swhen I was struggling in that bad pastI've seen tell okay can ask what yourmeditation process is I just use a anyYouTube app that I really can we're richone for grieving cried she just loved itI mean this loads so simple it's asimple matter of I'm just thinking forthe listeners get on YouTube the stuffsout there type in minute yeah yeah forhowever long you can do it yeah yeah anduntil you fall asleepreally that's why also you do at nightyeah I do it at night I don't reallytend to do a probably a good ideabecause if you're anything like me butI've got to sleep and I'm worrying aboutother things I've got to do the nameyeah that's how the brain works so it'svery seductive at night isn't it yeah soI tend to do it at night and sometimes Iwon't use it if I'm quite chilled I'lljust go straight to sleepit'll depend yeah yeah so your foodobviously you're a personal trainer andI'm probably the worst person trying togive food advice because I used tosuffer with binge eating I would be veryflexible with my diet so if I fancysomething I'm just gonna eat it becauseI don't have been doin it later yeah somy diet is a bit like I do get responseson Instagram but how are you eating thisagain to me it's all about calories yeahyou know what goes into your body youbarely enough effectively European Kyeah yeah body composition so have yougot any particular foods that you eat oragain um now I mean so up more flexwe're gonna try and cut down like soobviously I've been bulking for Trump onsome mass a while now I finally hit 15stone plus now so I think I'm back downto 15 stone now was 15 stone fight fourweeks agoyeah I'm 15 stone now so I'm quiteregimented leave it now as I cut downwhen I'm trying to bulk up I'm not asrecommending I'm still in terms of thefoods I mean I'll keep the same foodslike every I'll change them up every twoweeks so if a breakfast still be oatswhey protein powder and not salt Ana'smilk yeah then two big meals of likechicken noodle stir-fry and the last methat we salmon I'm right and I'll be thesame for two weeks and ostrich eat ofwire okay it seems to be workingyeah and then obviously hydration isasleep yeah I have loads I only drinkwater really water and tea I couldpretty much have the same food I supposeon all the time my only thing is when Ifirst died I took a everything thatyou'd consider open commas here a badfood yeah and then what was happeningwas I did that for about 18 months I wasso strict and the moment I stoppeddieting because I gave up boxing all ofa sudden mate I was in like 10,000calories a day to that to that reallyhonestly to the point last um what wouldbe here I'd be out with the missus and Icouldn't buy the car back because I wasjust like glued up like the nightprofessor horrible and what used tohappen was I used to beat up for twodays Friday Saturday sometimesabsolutely hate myself swear at myselfin the mirror and I used to go to thegym three times a day up until thefollowing Thursday and then what I do isI use down to like 1800 so I'm wonderingin overtraining and then all of a suddencome Friday again when I go out for adrinkI'm drink and obviously then you loseall your common sense and I've do the10,000 Kelly thing again slow so I'lluse this thing called my fitness parkwhich yeah mate he was like this justlike you all the time so I've got overthat too hypnotherapy and why I did itand then that's why now I'm veryflexible in my process of said that youpercent my diet is like nutrient-densefood you know that the stuff that youyears they're talking about but then thelast day if I want a biscuit or achocolate you're gonna see me do itbasically okay so yeah it's interestingyeah yeah why were we accessible it's umit's crew shoulder yeah I mean I wish Ihad more of a nutrient-dense style atyourself I just think there's also anargument for sustainability as well yeahyou've got other diets sustainable andyou've got to enjoy it because that'sgonna have mental implications if not aswell if you're not enjoying your food init everything looks back to the point ifyou're not enjoying your food you're notgonna sustain it yeah therefore yourbody's not maybe where it's supposed tobe or where you want it to be thereforethe mental problems coming it's all it'sall interlinked of course everything'sinterlink to it and just on the mentalhealth thing there that you that you'reon about so would you say that'sprobably the biggest adversity thatyou've been through during that time andfor the listeners because I'm surethrough our life we're all gonna losesomebody very close to us and go forthat sort of patch in our lifewhat were the lessons that you learnfrom it and how did you fully get overit god Jerry's the 100 percent thebiggest adversity I've never experiencedanything like that my entire life noteven when the day my dad passed okay Ididn't feel as bad right as I did lastJanuary the emotional pain was just as asailor's overwhelming do you think itwas a build-up from I think every whathappened was rock so I went see acounselor like last and late last yeargoing into early this year because I'venever I never had a proper bereavementcounseling and I still had loads ofstuff underlined and I think that's whatthe bill that was okay so imagine havingthat much emotional pain build-up forwhat three years and just explode analpha to correlate shape yeah it's justit's just gone explode in the air yeahand I tell you in terms of the lessonslearn I think the bereavement counselordefinitely helped me to understand asinteresting the stuff and the lessonsthat I learned were the grief has notimelineit's now got a time line there's noproper way to grieve yeah yeah it's okayto feel back you've got it you've got tofeel these emotions you've got to feelthe emotions and not subdue them okaysee if you subdued him you have anepisode like I did and that's I wouldn'twish that wish that were my worst enemy[Music]another lesson was probably I learnedthat I'm strong a lot stronger than afault of I thought you were yeah yeah toget through that I mean there's not muchto phase me now to be honest if I cancome over that they're in the fin andand this is one of the things I've triedto do with this podcast as wellis I don't want somebody to go throughwhat you've just been through you knowto lose their parent and then go throughthe pressure what I wanted to do isrealize the last point you said that wasjust amazing it's but stronger than wewe know we are and that we think we'recapable of and I think the only way youfind that is by going through someadversity or yeah I should never know orshould I be no no this is where I love Ilove the gym and I love people that areinto the gym because when you go to thegym you don't go there to have like aluxury time you go there you put yourbody in distress yeah provided how youtrain and then you you're almost tryingto grow in that moment and I urge peoplenot just to do that in the gym to dothat through life as ah yes why I got toprobably speak in sessions when most ofthe time I choke oh you go you're goingto like help you absolutely opt thatdoes I mention that the other thingthat's been really good especially foryourself with anxiety as well I thinkthat's brilliant and the first few timesI've been there and they've asked me tosay something I'm just looked out everywannabe luck don't say it's in numberone public fear though isn't it it isand I thought in my head if I canconquer that I can conquer anything andI wonder way there now and I think liketwo weeks four actually won the bestbeat of the day coach me if you ask methree months already left yeah you knowchances that's amazing though man yeahso hence white but you're doing the samethings like you've had to come out ofthis sort of dark hole and you've doneit and you've said some amazing thingsthey're like it's okay not to feel greatgrief has no timeline and I think comingfrom a male and most of you know if youcould follow Alexpaid so like Instagram in great physicalshape you're training people you'regoing to come across as a sort of alphamale or suppose yeah yeah cause there'sa vulnerability in what you're sayingand I think as a guy I think we need toobviously it's best that more yeahbecause we have this thing like bravadolike our culture our weaknesses and Ithink especially meant to have one ofthe things I'm working on this year asare is really trying to raise awarenessfor mental health yeah because my momsuffered with it support people withmental health and I think people areyourself it make other people who may bein a similar situation to yourself thinkif alex is it 100 yeah yeah now youwon't believe the amount of people thathave told me to have gotta do you won'tbeliefs add isn't it like I honestlythink most of the human race has it tosome probably got it some degree yeahwhere some people just say you how abouta few years I've had people just comeout yeah about it for about ten yearsright but I'm the on the surfaceeveryone's got masks everyone's got amess yeah some of the strongest peopleare no wood on the surface successfuland they've come you have beenabsolutely struggling for 10 years it'scrazy my anxieties but today I'm strongyeah yeah and this is this is what I tryand be as transparent as I can on mysocial media with everything I doso ridership there something's goneabout try and say not to sound likedepressing because I don't want to comeacross as a depressing life yeah andit's almost like guys it's okay not tobe okay yeah or to have a shit day whereyou just feel like you're in the funkbut I get those days but if course he'sgone wrong like I probably had the bestday before and I wake up the next dayfeel absolute shit for note-for-note nothat's that's unfortunate the horriblething about yeah anxiety and stuff it'sit can just creep up on you forabsolutely no reasonhence why it did two years off well yeahthis was exactly and I'm overwhelmedfeeling as well oh there's there's beenoverwhelmed moderately than has beenoverwhelmedcompletely with everything that youcan't control anything you you can'teven function under the day-to-dayroutine if you ask me a question I replya very about ten-secondlater Wow it's a serious very seriousthing very serious thing and you'reworking on it now though yeah I think ofmy massive yes inroads to it to behonest and I honestly put that down tothe bereavement counselor okay so you'drecommend anyone going through that toat least talk whether it's with thecounselor you know some people have astigma attached to that but I think talkis probably one of the most important100% I mean I wouldn't see a really goodwoman called Elaine at Walsallbereavement center which is free yeahyeah free of charge so I mean that thesystem she's got there she's very she'svery very good I mean it just made meunderstand my emotions more Jamie andcosy I think the trouble with anxietyfeel completely alone with it down yeahand you think the only one in the worldyeah yeah absolutely ten times worseyeah see people need to understand thatyou're not the only one going through itand that in itself makes hugeimprovement because you feel sort oflike the most worthless one in the roomis not make sense so yeah it's nice andother people are soft it's nice to knowin a way people are suffering as well ashorrible as that I know what I mean bythat though I know it's nice to knowthat people have the same infusionproblems yeah and I think if we lickabout twenty said earlier that'sprobably the problem with society todayespecially when you're hearing aboutkids with like depression or kind ofsymptoms they go I don't like socialmedia and seeing this perfect life thateveryone's portraying yeah that's notthat's not it it's like somebody mightpost every brand new car or they mightpost a holiday but there might be indebt there might have had a bereavementthe day before so anything would havehappened absolutely and if what happensis we see that as a snapshot now you gotto remember 99.9% of people on in theworld are already gonna post highlightsthem on this follow us has greatreception we've see the good sideabsolutely and and that's kind of likethe gift and the curse I think withsocial media which is and again anotherreason I do this issay look yeah you got fantastic stuff onyour histogram you can learn a hell of alot about fitness and personal trainingand stuff but there's a real person hereand you could probably learn morevaluable life lesson yeah yeah by thisinterview that since 100% I think Ithink the kids of our generation nowthat didn't set up to fail that garbsI'm sure they've got no chance becausethey're coming to a world where they'vebeen handed this this phone here thistablet here yeah and I think I waslistening so glad you know simon Sinekyeah yeah yeah I was listening to someof his stuff I mean he's basicallysaying there's no way like kids now canhandle the dopamine fix of what they'relooking at the big good hormone fixbecause they're they're obsessed of itthat as soon as air phone pings afterhappy it's crazypick it up when they don't want you tobe happy about his own when you thinkabout it the grand scheme of things it'sjust but I was just I was drivingthrough some place near Warsaw a fewweeks ago and I was just looking and Iwas like the kids coming out of schooland every single one on the street wason the phone I'm not talking aboutone in ten every single one of them wason the phone and a fuck I just referback to when I just call I was runningaroundI mean running around and doing justcrazy stuff like I look at them now andI think that you just been cell phoneit's not their fault I don't think it'stheir fault it's not their faultI think leeches are allowing some phonesinto lessons are they now it's like yousaid potentially setting them up to failisn't it I think we're kind of like agood generation where we lived beforethe phony era but also now we get tobenefit I suppose from like a workperspective yeah so I fell into the trapinitially of like say like Instagram youknow you looking who's engaging my postand stuff yeah I do now and I probablysaid for the last four months iswhenever I write a post unlike what theFacebook I use quite a lot I just turnedmy phone off them and I only ever gotback to reply what I don't do is scrollthrough Facebook and like other people'sstuff will follow other people's stufftoo much yeah is it all supportive butbecause I don't want to put my mind inthat in that moment or no rage yeahagente really thinking yeahI'm doing enough or I'm not enoughbecause someone's always doing this sojust on my own something you have to bea bit selfish that look this is what Iwant to say if you resonate with itfantastic if you don't mind past it butI just want to get off my chest so areyou social media especially prayerthat's a way I just talked it to myselfand it's kind of like my journey yeahyeah I can be like oh yeah you shouldsay that then how much I've got grownsince yeah if that makes senseand that's helping massively because Ireckon if I was constantly on Facebookand I've done it where I'm just watchingeveryone and everyone's buying new carsand doing crazy things and I'm like youalmost been inferior a little bit yeahbut as you said those points wouldfollow up at the same time how do youknow that person is in hasn't taken ahuge loan to pay that you just put onthe Instagram of the face but of courseyeah they haven't been given thathaven't won the car you didn't it mightbe one those free optionsyou're never know any plug youautomatically think are their doing wellthey're doing it right that's the phrasenew reality probably haven't got muchself worth custom I've been given thecar so Duty absolutely and I think themost important thing is probably likehappiness that how happy are they reallyoh yes well of course this is this isthe issued so it's all falserepresentations what they do is take iton face value isn't it yeah this is itas you say it's the the pros and cons ofsocial media media but I think now whatwhat annoys me is that I have to usesocial media for business for businessat the same time I hate it yeahBono's gotta be done 100% that's that'swhere oh yes stuck between ever to letgo of social media and just try and finda way that you can live with it yeahbecause it's only gonna get worse yeahof course I mean we spoke about voicehence the podcast yeah everything'sgoing to probably voice-activatedapparently there's a massive statistic Idon't know if the top of my head thatmost people when they search into likeGoogle or Syria or something and I'mprobably talking about youngerdemographic yeah they dovia voice so that's how much is changingI mean that we're probably still used totyping stuff and it's it's incrediblereally I mean it's incredible how muchwe've developed break I just wish youknow their whole mentor half side andthat sort of it was developing at thisyeah we said yeah it's um it's very veryscary for them yeah I don't know if yourclients on any one set stuff or yeah I'mpretty much to go to guy oh yeahfantastic yeah pretty much do you be agood great advocate but very very verymuch so and i've i've had people likei've pulled people a depression i pulledthem have things by just doing what I doreally don't rely telling going from myexperiences etc regardless from youngerthan them or not doesn't matter haveanother different experience absolutelybut you have massively change peopleit's mentally physically got more thebest periodsyeah what you do what you do but I meanI'm not gonna name names I don't know soenough like I mean there was one guytrained is literally where I was interms of rock bottom he didn't lead thehouse that he didn't leave the house andhe hadn't trained in how long and Ipretty much pulled him out of it he wasin this last year I think he was in itthey're not then I didn't know hedropped before he was it fell a bit lowand poor mentally before I did so I Ifell into I fell into it I got back outof it and pulled him okay sort of out aswell which is commendable because it'sprobably the hardest thing just puttingyourself out yeah and I just rememberinglike I was trying to I was trying to getinto work but couldn't write I was tellhimself yesterday I'm going back in andfire comes to it and I can get back inand I remember I'm just saying you justtake your time etc so eventually gotback in and now he's here and of a threeor four stone down fantastic at work hada baby oh wow I love that me had a babyyeah yeah loves these training so goodstuff good on you mateso yeah he's on it now yeah I thinkbecause obviously I did my qualificationI think about eight years ago my lastfew clients I stopped at the back end oflast year they used to say the trainingand everything yeah it's fine whateverbut they say we enjoy like the mindsetporks and stuff that I used to give himlove that side of it because you don'tknow what people what stresses have goton the life and you don't know what inthat hour our slot or whatever you haveyeah you don't know how much you'llbenefit directly because people I'lltell you after G that you don't evenknow what you do yeah you don't see noyeah you don't see it yeah do you know Imean and that's a special thing I thinkthat's a special thing about the job Iagree if you can change someone's lifearound like that it's pretty bit there'sno better feeling better than earningmillions for some companies latelyabsolutely you're gonna see not much ofoh yeah so would you say that's yourkind of motivation now like movingforward or I mean what what keeps yougoing now on a daily basisthat in itself only percent that I meanI think you have to get to know people alittle bit more don't you their personalgoals what the one thing you can startto build that rapport yeah and once youstart to build that rapport it meanseven more to you doesn't it because youlied the pass and you become be the bestdigital yeah my similar so you'rerocking up into work and it's not evenwork Jeremy you doing it for them andlet's just see the seem so grateful yeahyou made me want to go back there yeahthat's a big finger isn't it I mean ifyou can if you can do that that's prettyspecial I think of course but if you canstart to retune people's minds andrelationships with food exercise withthemselves it then impacts on thepersonal life and other stuff like thatyeah you create a butterfly effect yeahpositive because I think if you if youcan start to improve that that there'sgonna be good things that'll topple overabsolutely from that closing the hardestworkers in the room in the gym andnormally the heart the most successfulpeople financially your family wiserelationship probably if you take thatlevel of discipline and work ethic intothe world it's all a discipline isn't itunder the most disciplined people aremost successful people and if you canprove that in the gym probably one thehardest I agree scenarios are going tobe ok I always look at someone and ifthey're physically in good shapeyou know you've got some good level ofdisappeared another half hours yard workI know you've had to probably go tosocial events and not eat what everyoneelse is eating or drink what everyoneelse a drink lot you've had to makesacrifices so I fully appreciate thatyeah a lot of people don't understandthat they'll call those sort of people agym free cause yes absolutely yeahwhen you think about it now the matter Ialways you've probably have to do tochange a physiques and our bodies andit's incredible incredible amount yeahbut a lot of people don't understandthat and there are a hell of a lot oflazy people yeah yeah hell of a lot oflazy people which I can't understand Idon't understand how they've got to thatyeah how about that stage whoever itstuning from a young age or Parenthood orfell in with the wrong crowdI don't know yeah do you know I mean soI don't know it's one of the pillarsthat are you so I was in corporate firstI went straight into business one of thethings that I wanted to do was to workwith people on a one-to-one basis so yesI love the person training I do it moreand I sort of mindset basis as well lieespecially property and stuff but canhelp them yeah develop and one of thefirst things I'll say before I startworking with them is you gotta get a gymplandon't be talking to liver yeah one thingfor you to do before you do anythingelse is work on yourself first so all ofthem will have to do some level ofphysical activity now whatever that isit doesn't need to be lifting weights itcould be yoga ISM going for runswhatever they want to do but you have todo some level of activity yeah yeah Imean that almost be any discomfort inorder to grow yeah and always do thatface because then I think like you saidif they're if they can work really hardto give 100% on that they're nothingokay that's a great trait with thatcould work with that person's gotworking yeah yeah whereas if they'veturn around but no I just want to learnabout this or making money but Iwouldn't do this I'm not okay I'mprobably not the right code for you yeahbecause my coach is gonna be holisticit's gonna be about everything yeah yeahand I think you'll be great at thatI think obviously as your businessstarts to expand in your personaltraining you could potentially I don'thave your own franchise I don't knowwhat your goals are but because you haveboth aspects of it I think you're veryreally well yeah yeah it is a good thingto tap into niche it's all interlinkedisn't it and it's only gonna get it'sonly gonna get moreprevalent in society a hundred percentso what's your fear now death right okayI spoke to my Cantrell about thisbecause she was like when when you losepeople close to you rather than extendedfamily or someone who's not particularlyclose to you you realize mortality cuzuntil then you're immortal our ninjaknow I mean you don't fit nothing youreally think cuz I it doesn't reallycross your mind you're invinciblethrough more so that death scares meokay now yeah that scares me and I thinkyou just you've hit the nail on the headthere because if somebody hasn't gonethrough death listening to this podcastthey're gonna think nice not reallyresonating somebody who's been throughit it almost comes in your head on adaily basis so I think everyoneeveryone's going to lose some worth somestage that's just the way the worldworks you know we haven't worked out howto survive forever and I lost aboutseven people within 18 months no friendsor familybut prior to that I'm not really lost noone so for me is like here soul and soulhas lost their granddad or the grandmaand I feel sad but that was it it wasvery short-livedwhereas now yeah that whole death thingI suppose it does scare me because Ithink I don't know if this is my lastday hence why I try and like bust my assand work as much as I can to make surethat if I was to leave today I've leftthe world in a better place yeah if thatmakes sense so is motivation it is rightit is you become more instantly you feellike most things scarier and what was itkind of saying now she was likeobviously once I lost my dad I felt likeI needed to do everything fast needed tobuy have sat down rah-rah-rah all ofthese things because she doesn't knowhow much time you've got and that'sthat's unfortunate thing of this wholerealizing mortality send you in a rushyeah that's where the anxiety sets inyeah whatever nothingness by then thatresonates with me so much because I feelI've got so much to do so many people Iwant to help and I'm like I could begone tomorrowand it scares me yeah so you're tryingto rush into it everything yeah and Iknow that's probably not the right placeI I follow of course it's not yeah butwe know we know this for your towerwe'represident absolutely well yeah thatthat's what she was saying if she feltlike oh my dad died at this age am Igonna die at this age now yeah I'vegotta do this I gotta do that harsh inorder to this yeah and in reality you'vegot all the time in the world reallyyeah but in that moment in thatchanneling yeah we exact it in your headyeah but you can't get out of its it's aparent and that's the UMthat's mortality isn't it do you followGary Vaynerchuk a little bit yeah wellhe started to grind on me after was ityes he's a mob like Jota but one of thethings he says he's really good is hesays you should be impatient in there inthe micro I either short-term or patientfor the macro for the long-term whichwhen I think about it and why he says itmakes sense so it's like yes you shouldwork absolutely like 100 percent everysingle day as if it's your last day butstill know your goals that you want toachieve and stuff are gonna take longera bit like I suppose bodybuilding forexample yeah you're now on a cot forexample to get t-they it's not gonnahappen no matter how hard you traintoday you're not going to get to thatbody today yeah even if you've had thebest I ever today something happen butwhat you can do is absolutely crush itright now and then tomorrow repeat nextday repeat and then all of the suddenyou will you will get there as well yeahso like that's one thing he says thatreally resonates with me yeah but likeyou said when you get that level ofanxiety and it it overwhelms you it'sdifficult to think you're like you'renot thinking there's no claritybasically your thoughts yeah yeah andwhat what people need to realize likeyou're in control of these thoughts youcan still control them you've justyou've gone down a path where you thinkyou can't control them do you know Imean except every four is well withinthe control we just don't know it likewhen you're in that bad patch yeahthat's right and that's what I learnt aswell and that was with the bereavementcounselor yeah yeah that's powerful butlike you are in control of your thoughtsit's just a belief that you're not thatmeans you're leaving that you're notwhen you are should we were before wewere beforebefore we had events and one not so manyI think about it a lot we were kids thethoughts we have you're invincible youknow we were going toKaizen our heroes why can't we have thatan absolutely because somewhere alonglife somebody's told you you can't dosomething or you've fallen down andrather as a kid where you keep gettingback up you've actually said you knowI'll stay down we're just going theopposite way yeah yeah that's a problemin it and it does take certain thingslike these events traumatic events andother events in your life that obviouslymake up your thoughts do you know itmeans in your beliefs your beliefs arethe one you start believing certainthings about the world and yourself thatcomes out in your actions and yourbeliefs are just a combination of thethoughts yeah cause this is why you'vegot a control everyone everyone's gotdifferent millions of ways it's not justus yeah of coursetrust me when you get to a deepconversation with someone you reallyknow what the thinking about you theyactually thinking that you know I meanso you know we're not alone with thatthat's what we've got and you are youare in control you've just got to tryyour best to control them it's a goodaffirmation tough so I do affirmationsin the morning as wellso I say stuff like I'm no longeranxious I'm not shy yeah yeah I thinkyou have to consciously make the effortwhich is a viewfinder so you have toconsciously make yeah yeah because ifsubconsciously I'm I'm not in I'mpotential everyone has to do this yeah Ican't see how you can you cannot do it Ithink everyone does do it but we assumethe people at the top like you knowyou're Dwayne Johnson you're Kevin Hartcelebrities they don't do it but theydid Wayne Johnson suffers yeah dad yeahreally badly rock is that everyone'sIdolit's amazing mean yeah and you are youare approaches of your your thoughts youare you are your thoughts on powerful meyeah but like people need to understandyou can't control them yeah if you wantto if you just let them spoil problemsisn't it absolutely yeah but whatthey've got understand if you do have aday like that that's fine push it intothe car but that's all and as well areyou better start to continue to beatyourself up for another few weeksthat lifestyle enough disease we've realsaturations and without you behind somehorses or absolute making up these theseproblems yeah which is what humans tendto do we can we can sabotage ourself asmuch as you want but we don't tend to doto us so why should we do it toourselves but we Dukes it's easyit's true though innit nice I'm notgonna say to you what's going on in myhead about I won self-sabotage myselfthen say the same stuff to you it'sdeeper nasties or what to do yeah yeahisn't that weirddo you know what I mean what so why whywhy why do we think it's right to do itto us ourselves he's probably the mostimportant at the end of the day I'm yessir if you think about it logically weare actually the most important peopleto ourselves yeah so yeah but it's it'seasy and it's easy to say to yourselfit's no one's gonna question okay we'regonna go in three two onewhat did you eat for breakfast squats ordeadlifts squats the ability to fly orbe invisible fly if your favourite cheapmeal Peter when your fame money yourproudest moment getting into the camhere everything your favourite food foryears number one health to staydisciplined biggest Fitness to me thereare certain foods that convert backyeah definitely achieve your number onegoal this year travel more your favoriteTV show ever sons of anarchywould you rather know how you will dieor when you were dying when yourfavorite hobbies Jim if you could sitwith one person in the world for an houryou would it be oh my dinero your worstfear is a child dinner for your favoriteplace in the world okay if you couldabolish one thing in the world whatwould it bemurdering your favorite song ever deathmatchorder number read boys or predict thefuture three times your favorite superEurope Batman why his minds oh yeahwho's badasses yeah he's IV I'm finallyyour biggest sprint organization okayfantastic so the next question we'realmost at the end actually it's aboutreflection so not really exactly whatyou don't know because obviously nowyou've worked on your physical healthyour mental health you're in a muchbetter place so nobody exactly what youknow now if you could go back to a timewhere you were struggling or maybe ayounger version of yourself and youcould whisper something in that person'sear just to kind of make their lifeeasier I suppose growing up what wouldyou say it will passit will pass 100% it will pass me I'llget bad you've got you've got to gothrough this to grow and it will passvery difficult to see the time yeahimpossible to sing yeah yeahwhat it will party will pass a lot thatthis isn't last forever yeah nothinglasts foreveryeah so I'll have to send you a podcastafter this made their little EastBhagwat similar kind of thing and theguy on it he was talking about chaos andhow he just flipped the script in hismind to say he enjoys the chaos becauseof high resilience and how much strengthhe's gonna build from it and how muchknowledge whereas a lot of us were kindof trying to avoid pain and stuff wherehe's that bring me down because I knowin six months time I'm gonna be muchyeah yeahyou almost let it enter right buddywe're actually at the last question nowso the last question I always ask myguess is if in a 150 years time sciencefails to save us all and all that existsis a book on the table and that book isabout you and it's about your life andall of the great and wonderful thingsthat you aspire to do you want to do youknow you've done it but in order to makesomebody pick that up what would onethat I will say and two what would thesummary at the bat tell us about you tieit would be something along the lines ofnever give up the summary of my likewhat yes I think about this wait there'sthere's somebody gone to a book storeand they're looking at all these booksand they've turned it around now youneed to make them want to pick it up tobe like oh that's quite interestingactually that sounds interesting so alittle bit about yourself maybe thethings you want to achieve how do youwant to be remembered but I just wantedto say that you'd want to meet as manypeople as you can make a positiveimpression with everyone you come intocontact with never give up on anythingyeah until it's completely done and justkeep trying to live in the momentkeep trying to live in the moment that'sthe only one you can control and justkeep do what you want to do not whatpeople what you have to do do what youwant to do because there ain't no timefor nothing else really absolutelyreally I think I'd pick it up yeah yeahyeah definitely me I appreciate so thankyou for that that brings us to the endof the show now but before we leave andI close it off I just want you to givethe listeners a chance to obviouslyconnect with yourself so I will put allof this in the show notes anyway so youcan literally click on it by any appthat you listen to this one but where'sthe best place to contact you mobile oremail okay I don't know if you want toput your mobile direct down here yeah myInstagram okay choose your Instagramyeah yes let's go for it yeah it's a liro eight nine eightokay fantasticup or down the shoulders or you wantlike snapchat Facebook anything likethat or a more I don't really use okay Iuse Facebook obviously just type in AlexRoberts okay then there should be anaked man obviously yeah that's theprofile of course you person did butyeah those two platforms okay 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Find your voice - Episode 17- "Wonderfulness of Life" - Louise Blyth #17 Part 1Tagline: "Be the captain of your fate and master of your soul"Louise Blyth, is an incredible lady who has experienced losing the love of her life, George Blyth tragically from cancer. With cancer now affecting 1 in 2 families it is a common occurrence so many of us face in our day to day life. But unlike any other story Louise world took a massive turn upon the sad death of her spouse and soul mate.Experiencing a supernatural event during his last few days Louise beliefs, perceptions, outlook and whole world had been turned around where she found herself finding, what she describes as "the greatest love all of us could ever know"A 2 part special episode, this incredible story does not lean on an emotional tale which will have you in tears of sadness, despite its tragic theme. Instead, tears of happiness seeing someone recover from grief and finding a bigger purpose and understanding of her being in the world takes over the story's narrative and leaves you feeling rather refreshingly happy that in such a sad circumstance someone can continue their life in a positive, fulfilling way.Now a widow of 2 children, Louise has created The Wonderfulness of Life which focuses on, Happiness being a choice and a state of mind.I am sure you will all agree this story truly warranted two episodes and if anyone can take anything positive away from this, it is to cherish all the moments we have with our loves ones and find blessings in whatever cards we are dealt in life.Thanks for listeningFree Audible book sign up:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?actionCode=AMN30DFT1Bk06604291990WX&tag=are86-21Best book on Mindset by Carol Dweck: Mindset https://amzn.to/2QajMvZSupport the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/findyourvoiceLinks to me:Website: https://www.arendeu.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aren.deu/Twitter: https://twitter.com/arendeuFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aren.singhLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aren-deu-65443a4b/Podcast: https://www.findyourvoicepodcast.com YouTube: http://tiny.cc/51lx6yLinks to guest:Website: https://www.thewonderfulnessoflife.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-blyth-207a7a49Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderfulness_of_lifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/louise.Blyth83Have an awesome day#JustDeuIt #FindYourVoice[Music]welcome to an episode of find your voicea movement led by yours trulyAren do a guy who has overcomecrippling anxiety adversity anddifficulty like so many of you in lifewhose main goal now is to help youcombat your excuses take control of yourlife write your own story and mostimportantly find your voice so nowwithout further ado I welcome the hostof the show himself mr. Aren do what'sgoing on people thank you for tuning into another episode of find your voice myname is Aren and as always I am thehost of the show so before I begin thisannouncement I just want to say amassive massive massive thank you toevery single one of you who havelistened to this show I also want to saya massive thank you to anyone who haspreviously listened to his show and lefta review because it's your reviews thatI've helped us get into the news and notworthy on iTunes now this is no smallfeat this is actually an incredibleachievement and the more I research itthey're more proud I actually feel butmore importantly I'm so proud of myguests and I'm so grateful that theywere able to share their journey but I'malso so happy to have such loyallisteners like yourselves to reallysupport this movement and that's exactlywhat it is it's a movement it's abouttrying to inspire people try and put apositive beacon of light into the worldand really try and get everyone to livetheir best life combat their excuses andreally change their perception andmindset so without rambling on too muchwe have a really really excitingtwo-part episode coming up for you nownow this is actually our first evertwo-part episode and conscious of yourtime which is obviously our biggest andmost important commodity I'm gonna jumpstraight into this one okay so I justwant to start by thanking Louise for hertime and coming onto the show today toshare her story which I'm sure you'reall gonna find absolutely inspirationalso Louise how are you doing todayI'm good thank you I'm good fantasticfantastic so I just want to say thankyou I appreciate you and I'm reallylooking forward to this one so this wasactually a recommendation from somebodyelse you may haveone heard previously on a podcast it'sepisode number fourteen and it's my betdaily Rylan it's something that I urgeall of you to check out because it wasactually within the first four hours itgot the most number of listenstraightaway so it's a great hit and I'drecommend you all going back to thathowever moving on now we have anotherfantastic guest in Lewis so Louise Ithink it's really important for thelisteners to understand your story andunderstand a little bit about yourselfas well if you if you wouldn't mind ifyou could just kind of give us aninsight into yourself a little bit aboutyour journey and what basically bringsyou here today yeah no worries so and ifI'm completely honest I never thoughtthree even four years ago that I wouldbe someone that would be sat beinginterviewed on a podcast talking aboutthe subject that I'm going to bring tothe table today which is lossbereavement and life after livingthrough sort of that kind of trauma soso my story is from nottingham fromrobin hood that's where i kind of growup grew up and spent my childhood had afantastic childhood my parents reallysort of put myself over the first I waskind of one of those people at schoolthat was not really super cool but alsoI hope not too much of a mega geek andyou know you did did the normal stuffkind of growing up going into nightclubsprobably too young being carried out ofnightclubs after having drink too muchso my friends before say probably tooyoung and went away to university at 18where I studied French and actuallylived abroad for a year when I was 19which was quite young and that was Isuppose my first experience if I'm beingbrutally honest of life if that makessense so in terms of really realizingthings around loneliness relationshipsbeing able to kind of go it alone and dothings for yourself because essentiallywhen you're on your own in a foreigncountry you have no one else to rely onother than yourself and I and so thatwas that was really really kind of bigexperience in my life and graduated inin 2006 probably like many so you reallyexpect it about what life had to offerme and had one of these huge plansaround what I thought I was gonna be andwhat car is thought I was gonna driveand what house I wanted to have hadn'tmet kind of anyone special at that pointthere's been a few a few boys but no onewho'd kind of really made me sort of situp and take notice and in 2006 I wasaccepted on to a training scheme agraduate training scheme and that waskind of a supposed to start of where mylife really really started to change soI I started there in September and on myfirst day in fact before my my first dayon the induction day I met George who Iwould fall in love with and marry so wewere part of a group of about 30 peoplehe will join together and we had a greattime it was like being at university youknow me we were there training togetherliving together all became really reallygreat friends but he was the guy thatkind of more than anyone else you knowwas not never first I on any level I youknow I remember thinking oh my gosh thisguy's so confident you know he's reallysort of sure of himself but we justbecame really great friends and we usedto would talk all the time and then itwas that that Christmas so this is theSeptember when we started our job and itwas that Christmas when we actually kindof had our first kiss so he'd he'dreally really raison he said when hefirst were in the business oh well I'mgonna be I'm gonna be in Edinburgh soI'm gonna have a hub burn a party andwe're all gonna come to Edinburgh andhave this holiday party and I rememberthinking oh my god who is this guy likethey're so confidentso anyway true to his words you knowfour months later there we all were sortof twenty or so others at his flat in inEdinburgh and that's kind of whereGeorge and I had our first kissNew Year's 2006 2007 and after that youknow my life my life changed in aninstant I know for people that arelistening that of maybe you know you'vemet someone that they know that theywon't spend the rest of their life withwhen you meet that special person youknow really it is everything that you'veever hoped for it is kind of like themovies and the songsand it's it's truly beautiful it's areally amazing experience and we knew weknew from the outset that we hadsomething special I think that often youdo you know it was more than just afriendship it was a kind of deeprespectful sort of love it was it was itwas powerful you know and so we kind ofwent on living our lives together youknow as what happens when you meet theperson that you want to spend your lifewith you know you stop being you stopbeing as our lives became more and moreintertwined so we we lived apart welived togetherwe vented together we bought a housetogether his kind of his career wentfrom kind of great amazing as he kind ofcharged through the ranks from corporateperspective we were engaged in 2010 wewere married in 2011I felt pregnant we had off this babyquite quickly which was just a hugeblessing and we it gave birth to of thisson in 2013 so for all intents andpurposes we were the couple that thathad it all we were probably the peopleand I hugely recognize this that peoplelook to in kind of discipline oh howthey got this you know like they'vethey've met young they've both got goodjobs they're doing really well hopefullythey thought we were nice people youknow we had we had a nice house we drovenice cars we had a you know we had wedecided we wanted to have a baby and itjust was easy we got pregnant and I hadno problems with my pregnancy so youknow we were on to a good thing life waslife was really really great and then wedecided to have another baby and I gotpregnant very easily again and shortlyafter office and was born we moved houseso we relocated back to Nottingham surebecause by this point we're living downsouth because that's like the street sirI paid gold and then whilst I waspregnant with our second son George justhad this overwhelming feeling which Ican come back to and talk about somemore and as we kept kind of maybe deeperinto the interview there that we had tomove that we had to move back to myhometown andum so we we bought a house when I wassix months pregnant and moved after ourson was just born to me with an 8 weekold baby at that time that's when Georgestarted to be presenting with symptomsthat just weren't you know wasn't welland we couldn't get to the bottom of ithe was wrong he constantly had a cold hewas always tiredhe was really rundown he had low reallyreally low energy levels and because ofthe stage and the circumstance of ourlife in that we had two incredibly youngchildren Zoey at this point you know wehad a three-month-old baby and atwo-year-old son and you know justNewhouseGeorge was commuting to London from ourhouse and Notting Michelle it is a bigcommute you know said not you know notfor the faint-heartedwe just continually put it down to thefact that this is what life is in yourseason and you know you try and haveyeah we're rundown you know this ishaving kids everyone whinges about thetiredness and the exhaustion which is ayou know it's part of the territory ofyou know you don't live with yourchildren but it just didn't sort of seemto get better and there was thiscontinual niggle that was there andessentially basically we pursued it andto cut a long story short of how weactually came to this conclusion wedecided to send George for a colonoscopywhich is a process where you basicallyhave a camera put up your bottom it'snot that unpleasant so he went off andhad this procedure and I mean this iswhat our life was like at this point intime our and so he decided to have thisprocedure in London because he rememberhim saying to meyou know I'm so busy at work what I cando is I can go to work and then I can dothis after work and I can come back andI can still behave at that time wegenuinely didn't think that there was abig you know big big reason to beconcerned all of the health careprofessionals had said to us there's nota reason to be worried he's so younghe's 33 it's definitely not gonna bebowel cancer and basically that day thatyou had the colonoscopy which was thethe 9th of December 2015he called me I was at home literallykind of quite literally walking aroundthe Christmas tree and my little boyanswer and with a little Senate nurse weputting all my fairy lights out thinkingwow you know life's amazing this is grayand he called me and that phone call wasthe moment that just shattered my lifebecause having your husband ringing andsay the words I've got cancer ah it wasjust it felt like a time-space continuumand I yeah it was just hideous and Iremember saying to him oh my god shecan't know this already how do you knowlike it can't be which was actually theroute that I went domine when he told uswas exactly the route that all of ourfriends went down afterwards when weactually had to then tell them the newswhich was just as difficult as himhaving to tell me and I know now thatthat's the kind of psychologicalresponse in terms of you know plausibledenial you want to commercialise withwhat you're hearing and you want somehowto be like this isn't true this thiscan't be the case this isn't us you knowdo you not know who we are today and Iremember you know being on the phonewith George and crying and him saying tome it's fine like he'd managed to havethe force I mean this is the kind ofincredible guy he was he'd had theforesight to call my parents tell myparents what happened before he ran meso he could say to me after he told meI've got cancer your mum and dad are onthe wayyour mum doubt of coming over andthey're gonna be here any minute andthey're gonna be they're gonna be herethey're gonna scoop you up and I'm on myway back from London it was just so soso kind and so thoughtful which was justwho he was to his coreso that was December 2015 and our livesin that instant you know I often jokedwith people and say I sing the song fromFresh Prince of bel-air oh it's probablyshows the kind of generation that I amit was you know this Oriole upside downbecause in that instant it was my lifewas flipped turned upside down and yeahit was just everything that we knewabout our life was thrown thrown on thefloor but then that you know that wasn'tthe end that was the beginning of a newlife and a new existence which went onfor 11 monthsso we then lived in a season of stagefour bowel cancer so when George wasdiagnosed he had metastatic bowel cancerwhich is basewe can circle of lingo for the fact thatthe cancers bad and it spreads todifferent parts of your body and inGeorge's case it spread to his liverwhich is not good news obviously it'sone of our major organs that you need tofunction so George then lived through Ithink it was eight rounds ofchemotherapy followed by six weeks ofreally intense radiotherapy followed bya season of kind of watch wait let's seewhere this where these horrible cellskind of come back then he did a hugehuge surgery in the summer which issomething called the liver resectionwhich is essentially where you getchopped open and all of your liverthere's got cancer and chopped out whichis kind of just the most epic surgeryyou can imagine before he did that hecycled around London and raised a lot ofmoney for bowel cancer UK and then hesaid I remember him saying to hisoncologist you know just before he hadthis liver surgery I'm gonna I'm gonnado more bike riding and then this sortof all looking at him like he wascompletely mental eight weeks to the dayafter he'd had his liver resection hecycled from London to Paris releasedmore funds for Bar Council UK and thenshortly after returning home from thatboat ride he started complaining againfeeling unwell and we you know wegenuinely thought that we were on thesort of positive track with this diseaseand literally eight weeks the day afterhe'd stood in front of the eiffel toweryou know holding his bike you know inthis kind of really momentous epicphotograph that I've got of him he wasdead so he he went downhill incrediblyquickly and peacefully passed away onthe 18th of November 2016 so I was 33and I had a three year old and a tenyear olds and yes it was incrediblyincredibly hard yet was incrediblybeautiful and a moment of glory that Inever expected at the moment of hispassing so I suppose that was a realgame-changing moment when he died whichwas just absolutely beautiful andthere's no other word to describe itwhich is I suppose why my story's a bitdifferent because I think probably mostpeople are going to be expecting me tosay and then it was himyes and then it was all for and I lovethis season of grief and and it has beenand it was all of those things but itwas equally really beautiful because oftheir the way in which George died andwhat happened to all of this at themoment of his death which I'm sort ofreally excited to talk some more withyou about say and just stunned that lastbit and which we will touch on just in afew moments time I can tell that youwere going to have that response justfrom the way you were explaining yourjourney and everything that you've beenthrough so but when I think of concernwhat it's done to my family it becomes amore of an emotional thing and it'squite like even when you talk about itlike demeanor and everything changeswhen you say you can see that you'veactually found the silver lining in thisin this journey that you've had to takeand I just find that incredible so I'mlooking forward to hearing just a bitmore about that have balls and knowabout how it was one not only incrediblyhard but also incredibly beautiful Imean I'm taking notes here because Idon't want to miss anything and I'm surelisteners I probably think ask her thisask her this because it's so fascinatingbecause what you've literally describedis a fairy tale story and it's kind of astory that I suppose when we grow upthere's there's a thing and I was I wasdoing a speech recently and I was sayinghow you know how we go to school andyeah you get your results and then yougo to secondary school then you have theI love is then you go to university thenyou get married and you have kids andthen you retire at 65 it's almost likesomewhere in a in our subconscious Isuppose we reprogram to believe we'rejust going to lift or 65 wheneverything's just gonna fall in placeand then what happens it comes in boomit hits you how is he so hard yeahthat's why people struggle and I justthink yeah it's a I'm grateful thatyou're sharing this story because itwould just wake people up yeah I'm veryfortunate that nothing like that hashappened to my wife or myself at thismoment but I do try and live as if thatcould happen tomorrow oh yeah it wouldthat the nightmares that couldpotentially happen so oh you mentionedthat you've been travelling for a yearas well not obviously generate so wheredid you travel so I didn't travel so Ilived I mean sorry you lived you liveyeah yeah yeah and I said friendshipUniversity and I lived in fret in FranceI actually lived I need to be honest I'dlove to go back now as a 35 year old anddo I did then I lived in the noirWeinbergwhich at the time as a 19 year old hebasically like drinking wkt blue it wascompletely lost of me as like a kind ofcultural experience but it was part itwas part of my my studies in terms ofwhat I had to do to kind of learn thelanguage but yeah that was that wasinteresting and it's been reallyfascinating actually as I've taken sometime particularly this last year becauseI've been taking some time out of workto actually I'm writing a novel actuallyso I'm writing the story of what whathappened to is in that in detail becauseI'm really mindful that to try and relayit in you know an hour even in two hoursit doesn't do it justice which is whyI'm writing the story of exactly youknow all of the twists and turns and thebeauty of what unfolded but essentiallyyou know I've really realized that thatexperience that I had in France wasreally formative and actually wasequipping me with skills that I wouldneed kind of in the moment of George'sdeath and it was also interesting inthat some of the corporate experiencesthat I'd had as well so often you knowpeople always saying it's very clicheisn't it you know when you're having adifficult time people often say stuff toyou like you know this all happens for areason or you know it's in difficultywhere you learn and you know what Ihugely believe in both of those pointsbut actually when you're in thathardship and you're in that season ofstruggle and people say that to you ifI'm being brutally honest sometimes itfeels like a slap in the face becauseyou just you just feel kind of like wellyou don't know what is to be in thesituation I'm in and how do you knowthat I've been positioned for such atime as this but I think you have to Ithink you have to come to thatconclusion yourself I don't think otherpeople can kind of impart that wisdominto you and it's taken me to livethrough the experience of my husband'scancer and his death to wake up to lifedoes that make senseand I now look at all of theseexperiences that I've had the good andthe bad and go wow like I was being liketrained I was being because I waspositioned into that set ofcircumstances the reason why thathappened was to serve me later and whenyou start to reflect that in that wayyou often see that you've done that youdid do some really great learning in meseasons of struggle and they and theyhave served to make you a more full kindof person that can then cope and be moreresilient in times that will be eventougher may be that you face in thefuture say yeah this interesting I justlove that I just love your perspectiveon things and I think because I believeeveryone gets these potential lessonsand I call it potential lessons becauseyeah it's what they take from it reallyand yes that you mentioned resilience aswell and yeah I I've hadI mean I'm day two you know and I feellike I've had some ups and downs as wellin my life which I'm sure every singleperson has yeah the grass is nevergreener on the other side yeahabsolutely yeah I mean that's one of thereasons for this podcast but I'mgrateful now especially in hindsight ofall the adversity and everything thatI've been through because now whensomething trivial happens say forinstance in my day job or you got a flattire or something that would normally Isuppose dress me out five six years agoyeah yeah it just doesn't faze mebecause in the grand scheme of things doyou know what I mean you you snotabsolutely 100% yeah I'm interested inthis novel Azure which i think is gonnabe fantastic because like you said wecan't touch on everything within thisshort amount of time but I think justfrom listening to the opening 15-20minutes people are going to be veryinterested in hearing more about thismyself included and I think you're notalone in what you've experienced but I'msure that you're very unique in terms ofhow you've change your perspective and Ithink if you can hopefully help otherpeople who have maybe been through asimilar situation to maybe look at it inthe way that you said so I want to goback to that bit where you mentioned howincredibly hard it was oh but then alsoincredibly beautiful if you yeah yeah solet's talk about the hardship and thestruggle first I think you have you seethat fully fully understand that thenunderstand the beauty if that makessense you have to source it in thedarkness to feel to feel the light whichsounds quite cheesy but I think it's youknow that's kind of essentially the theheart of this story and you know thatmoment that if we go back to the momentthat I described to you earlier when youknow George was diagnosed with cancer itwas hideousand I often say to people actually thatis when my life changed and that is whenI started to grievebecause that was the moment that ourlives changed forever at that point wewere obviously still hoping there Georgewas gonna live to tell the talebut even if he had lived to tell thetale he would have been living to tellthe tale with the with the scar ofcancer and I think this is the part ofcancer that is so widely misunderstoodpeople want to treat it like a diseasethere is a heart problem or anorthopedic problem which is you know yougo to the hospital you have somemedicine and you get better and yourlife's all okay again and actually thereality of cancer at any stage that youget it is that it alters the check thatyour mindset and the course of your lifeforever because it fundamentally makesyou realize your own mortality in a waythat you've never had to realize itbefore and it also therefore because ofthat makes you live your life verydifferently it makes you live your lifein fear it also makes you live your lifewith joy because you appreciate and havesuch a broader perspective for theamazing and wonderful variety of whatyou see in everyday life because it isyou know that is where you live and inin the everyday not in the holiday thatyou've got planning for six months timeor the night out that you're reallylooking forward to a couple of weeks andand cancer really has a way of sort ofshifting your perspective and I think Ithink this shift of perspective isuniversal but obviously I think from myown experience is not fertile for anyoneelse he's impacted by this disease butwhat's interesting is you know once youkind of take some time to let the newssettle which you have to do and you getnews that big you know I remember forGeorge and I we had the classicfight-or-flight response and we actuallychose flight so we ran away essentiallyto the yorkshire dales which was whereGeorge's mother lived and basicallyspent sort of two or three days almostin hiding trying to figure out what wewere gonna do so yeah we we ran away tothe oxidase and there we sort of liketried to look at the situationpragmatically so both of this had sortof a spaceman entrained in the corporateworld because of the circumstances inwhich wewhich was on this kind of managementtraining scheme unit we'd both beenthrough quite vigorous corporatetraining so we've done all of the youknow separate the people from theproblem how do you make a decision allof that kind of stuff and actually wekind of said you know what we've got tokind of implement some of these skillsthat we've been taught in terms offacing this this beast that is cancerand that and that's kind of what wechose to do so when we actually sort ofapproached it as if it was almost acorporate problem and and I and I feellike I'm I'm I'm even laughing as I saythis because it because essentially thisis what we had to do we had to look atit as not a black dark disease that wasgonna claim our life we had to look atit as a unwanted guest that maybe movedinto our house which is how it fell andthen it was kind of like what what we'regonna do in this and once a guesthow are we gonna how are we gonna makeyou feel part of the family and then wedon't really want them to be here butaccept the fact that they are gonnaprobably eat our table now for theforeseeable future and we can't makethem leave they're only gonna go whenthey want to you know so we we looked atyou know what we could do and one of thefirst things actually that we did wasand it was George's this is alldifferent by George not by me was hesort of said well I'm not having cancerand I remember saying to him what areyou talking about you know you've gotcancer like we can't we can't get rid ofit just like that and say no what I meanis I'm not I'm not calling it cancer I'mnot I'm not going to be named as havingcancer because there's a lot in the nameI mean there's even a you know there'sthe beautiful Shakespeare quote of youknow if Rose has anything else you knowI can't I can't remember it and thebaton but it's about you know if it wascaught if it was still called over butit was cannot call the rose but it stillsmells so sweet and that same that samethinking and that same mindset is sotrue cancer because the problem is isyou say cancer to people and peoplethink death because people are so scaredof death and actually the reality thesedays is one and two people will getcancer and also lots of people havecancer and go on to live reallybeautiful long lives also have cancerand live really successfully with cancerfor a good number of yearsbut we all have this fear you know it'sessentially the Millennial tuberculosisthat you get cancer and it's literallylike then the Grim Reaper is their dooryeah so George George said to me fromthe from the outset I don't want cancerI'm not gonna have cancer I'm gonna havea project name so we we we were sort oflike I was like okay so it was it waslike a awesome cheesy episode of TheApprentice we were driving north and hewe were there thinking of names andevery name I came up with which I can'tremember any of the names I actuallycame up with he he was beating ofdallying no that's awful that's that'shorrendous I kind of thought I can'thave this then he said out of nowhereInvictus what about Invictus andhonestly when he said that name it wasliterally like a thunderclap in the carit was amazing like it shot wavesthrough my heart and I was like that'samazing I was like why do we both knowthis name a week googled it and we'relike oh it's an aftershave and then wewould you know laughing joking whichagain is another you know like that is areal great way of building resilience soit sounds so awful and crude to say butto try and find the fun and the smilesand the everyday humor in amongst youknow this car crash that is your life isso important because you're stillyourself when you still find the samethings funny and you like eating thesame sweets and the same places eventhough you've got cancerI remember we're in fits of laughter bekind of like you know why on earth haveyou chosen an aftershave advert this isjust really cheesy but then when we wentfurther into it we found out thatactually the original naming conventionsare coming from this amazing poet and byErnest Hemingway which actually I nowhaving a frame on my wall at home andthe line the closeout line of the poemis this really sort of like thunderousclothes which basically says I'm thecaptain of my fate and I am the masterof my soul and those words we were justlike they were literally like boom toour hearts we were like yes okay this isit now we we are not having cancer sowe're having sort of project and victorsand that was the start of is Isuppose time to refrain what washappening to is but that also didn'tmean that what was happening to uswasn't horrible you know like there'slots of cancer there is hideous there isabsolute sleep deprivation becauseyou're so anxious about everything thatyou you go to bed and you can't sleepand you're wide awake you wide awakethere's there's an easier because ofthat because you're so exhausted you'reand you're trying to keep the show onthe roadyou can't remember sometimes the mostsimplest of things there's the the hugeimpact that it has on your daily life Imean essentially I was still onmaternity leave you know we had an eightmonth old baby so I was supposed to bethe one that was being looked afterbecause I was up at night you know stillwith a baby that didn't really know youknow day from night if I'm beingbrutally honest yeah and you know then Ihad to switch roles into this personthat wasn't just caring for atwo-year-old and a eight month old itwas also caring for a guy he was theretwo three who had cancer which for himwas just as difficult as it was for mebecause he was the the dad he was thefather figure of the family he wanted tobe able to provide and support his wifeat his children and the reality of thecancer treatment that he had was there Imean he had really really top-drawerchemo which was like I remember themsaying the hospital is it's pretty muchlike we're putting bleach in your veinsand he had it every 11 days so he didn'thave much downtime between treatment youknow he'd go on it he'd go on his go andhave his infusion and actually he thenhad to come home with a with a bottleattached to him which is a type ofchemotherapy that lots of bowel cancerpatients if anyone who's had bowelcancer is listening will be familiarwith and you then basically take thepump it's called a pump home with youfor three days so that was you know thatwas a man mindful in itself because wehad to explain to our kids what wasgoing on that they couldn't jump ondaddy and it wasn't ever that we keptanything secret from our children butyou know our oldest child was two yearsold you know how do you explain to a 2year old dad daddy's got cancer thathe's got this medicine on him I meanactually and that is what we explainedto him and we had to explain what thewords meant to him but you know theydon'tat that age they don't understand whatit means they it means nothing to themyou know for all intensive purposes forthem it was like daddy had a bottle ofCal Poly attached to him you know theydidn't get the severity of it and it wasreally tough and it brought up a lot ofstuff for me around you know what do Ido in terms of work so obviously I wasoff work on maternity leave I actuallywent back to work because I felt so muchpressure because I was thinking you knowI don't we'd have no idea how long thiscancer journeys gonna go on for and eventhough both of our employers were justthe most supportive employers B couldhave ever asked foryou always have that niggle in the backof your head that actually if this goeson for six years seven years are theystill going to be this supportive andlist understand a and I remember sayingto George you know I've got to go backto work George because we might be in aposition where we're only rely you knowwe're relying upon my salary and youknow you can't work which he neverreally wanted to face into so I wentback to work and even when I talk aboutit now I genuinely don't know how I didit I went back to work with aone-year-old just three year old and ahusband with cancer and was kind ofdoing my job as well as commuting toLondon and you know running a house youknow it was absolutely exhausting andexhausting in a way that makes your souleight you know it wasn't just it wasn'tjust sort of tired of the way thatpeople say I'm tired you know it wasexhausting and it was the relentlesssort of tsunami of it all because theway that cancer works is you kind of itis it's a long boil disease you know itisn't a disease there you know it goesit doesn't go away like an orthopaedicyou know injury like I said previouslyand it and it's it's always theresimmering in the background and everynow and again you get these huge wavesthat crash over you and they sometimesabsolutely come out of nowhere and it'sabout then how you how you protectyourself and what you what you do - Isuppose build that resilience and that'swhat we learn in that 11 monthsessentially initially it was like wewere all at sea we have no idea what thehell we were doing and gradually as theyearwent on we built that resilience muscleand we learned the techniques aroundwhat is it that's gonna help us and weknew that there were certain things thatfor us as a family he with the thingsthat work but that took some time tofigure out it wasn't like the next dayafter George I can't sir we went yeahthis is this is what we have to do thistrick is it yeahno no so it was so hard it was so sohard so hard yeahfirstly what a wonderful person hesounds like and I just in yourrelationship the way you were justfeeding a feature then you had thiswhole story behind Invictus Sol Invictusfor me initially yeah Paco Rabanne it'sthe which is what I remembered but alsothere's a film money as well yes andit's happened to feed on conquerable soWowyeah you actually said it in this momentthat's what I was feeling and I wasgetting almost goose thinking yeahthat's it how you guys have done it andit just shows the power of like thehuman will and the importance that wordsbecause just by changing that nameyou're not you're not necessarily sayingto listeners here listen let's brushcancer under the copy and pretend it'snot here what you're saying is okay weacknowledge it's here and some dayswe're facing it but we're gonna justface it in a more positive way to helpus move forward and I think that'sreally really yeah the way you've donethat and in terms of exhausting I meanwe all sit here myself included andwe'll have a 14 hour day or a 12 hourday we've been asked to do some overtimeand we feel you know what I'm tired I'mtired and here you are with no actualchoice with your back against the walljust showing how powerful the human mindand body in sync how much we're actuallycapable of doing and that also goes sexywhen you mentioned George who did thatrunning I mean who in their right mindif you think about it from a logicalperspective things after being choppedup I'm go go go raise money wait youknow you know what there are what Iwould say is I follow some reallyinspirational people on Instagram andparticularly love the the three womenand who created the you me Big C podcastand Rachel blance or sadly passed awayin September last year and I follow Ifollow the girls actually that do thatshow on Instagram and they ones a cancersurvivor one one is living with stagefour cancerthey are always out exercising andactually what I would say is it heyfor you to realize that your body isfragile and that you have to look afterit to want to look after it sometimesand actually the irony is is that Georgeactually was a fitness fanatic evenbefore he had cancer so he was on thesepeople that would go to gym gym and Iwould always be like what are you doingbut I had to say since he has had cancerand obviously lost his life to cancerit's made me go as well you know yourbody is so precious you have to lookafter it you have to be mindful of whatyou're putting in it in the way in whichyou're using it in the way in whichyou're nurturing it because it's it'sprecious to you and it's your onlyrocket ship you're not going to getanother one so you have to look after itand I think incredibly there is thismindset amongst the cancer community ofI am gonna do the stuff that like youknow that we run a 5k or run a marathonbecause almost as well you know everyoneknows the healing benefits of fitnessit's it's proven right so there is thismindset of just you know well I am whatI want to do this mentally even morethan I've ever wanted to do it so I doyou think it's crazy but I also thinkyou know not taking anything away fromGeorge because it was incredible what hedid but I also think you'll find thatthere are lots of people who areimpacted by cancer that also have thatabsolute mindset of no I'm gonna go forit I'm gonna raise this money I'm gonnago and do this and I think you're rightand I think but this is kind of what Iwant this podcast to do is not letsomebody have to suffer with cancer seesomebody also for with cancer to reallyunderstand what they're actually capableof because we're so much we're livingjust in the comfort zone all the timeand health and fitness is one of mybiggest passions so yeah I've alwaysbeen into it but then when I went touniversity was it was more about vodkacommands and hangovers sure yeah it wasthat kind of stuff for generallyspeaking up when I was about 25 I thinkthat's when cancer came into into myfamily only affected my own cause yeahand one of the things I started doingthen was really taking my health andfitness seriously so I blogged onpersonal training since then I'vetrained over like three 400 clients andI always know my analogy is I know thecircumstances for instance similar toGeorgia where you can be healthy you canbe doingright and then it's just not meant to beI can just come for what I always tryand do is just put the odds in my favorand I always tell all my clients justput the odds in your favor you know whenyou lift some weights or you do any sortof CV exercise cardiovascular you'reyou're you're reducing the chances of ofillness and that's kind of what I do soevery single morning without fail andunless some literally on my deathbedsorry or I'm traveling I'm training andI don't have to enjoy it but for me youknow it's 4% on my day just afteryourself and you touched on somethingthere by what you put into yourself andI think it's important for the listenersjust to know it's not just physicalconsumption like food and water it'salso what you say in your monitor yeahabsolutelyso the project Invictus that kind ofstuff is it's empowering and if you canjust so I just think there's this Icould talk about what you said now foranother five hours because I'm surepeople are going to pick up on thank youthank you for sharing all of that what Ineed to move it forward just slightlyotherwise we'll have a six hour podcastbut what definitely can get you back onso nice obviously change quite quitesignificantly now yeah yeah and it'ssomething that you obviously you'renever prepared for what is a day likefor yourself now and what I want to askmore in particular is obviously life'staught you so much so quicklyalready are there certain habits ortraits that you maybe do on a dailybasis that you think people listeningcould potentially benefit from yes so Imean the part of the story that haven'tgot into and maybe isn't one for thedates move maybe at halftime is the whatactually happened when George died whichin which I suppose was the absolutebeautiful firework finale to this wholeyear so if you imagine this 11 monthswhen George had cancer was like us itwas a slowly learning how to overcomeadversity and build resilience in a waythat I'd never had see before and thenwhen we realized that you know the endwas nigh when he was told there wasnothing that they could do and he wasgoing to die but weyou know how long it was going to be andwhat that what may or may not look likeand how painful it may be and all thoseother things that was the moment whereif I'm really honest and being reallyreally vulnerableI hit absolutely rock bottom because Ikind of when I don't know what to do nowyou know like all of this other stuffthat we've taught ourselves this far interms of you know finding three thingsevery day to be thankful for doingexercise you know renaming things tomake them feel more palatable you knoweating well to make sure we're we knowwe're making our bodies feel as great aswe can sleeping where we can in amongstnear the chaos of TV and children all ofthose things that other sort of thingsif you pick up any book on on resilienceand how to and how to kind of you knowbuild and and and work that muscle theyjust didn't work and I I remember justthinking oh my gosh like what what do Ido and it was it was awful and it meantthat we were both in a reallyemotionally low state which as I'm sureagain lots of people will identify withwhen you're in that place what happensis you lash out or the people that youlove the mostso we're in this hideous set ofcircumstances which was you know we knewthat George was gonna die and we hadwhat was probably the biggest row Ithink we ever had of our whole marriageour whole relationship because I wasreally angry at him and actually youknow what I was actually angry about himwhat I thought I was angry about him wasnot what I was angry about at him at allI was actually angry at him because hewas dying and that's what I now realizewith hindsight you know I was at I wasangry about him about something thathe'd said to us mom or not said to hismom but that wasn't you know and I'vegone back and rabbit reaction man thatwasn't the reason the reason I'm socrossed with him was because I was angrythat he was leaving me that he was gonnadie that he was not going to be here tobring up my kids that I was gonna haveto do life on my own in a way that I'venever ever expected to and that night Iwent out I literally ran out of thehouse into my car it sounds Hollywooddramatic and it actually was a littlebit that way and I got in my car and Idrove it was dogevening it was raining and I didn't knowwhat to do and I just felt lost reallyreally lost and in that moment Iremember thinking in my head where am Igonna go who do what who should go andsee if it goes to my mom and dad I couldgo see like my aunty best friends who'sthe person that I need that who do Ineed and I was I was sort of trying allthese people in my head to see if theyfitted with it the way I thought in myheart and none of them felt that theyworked and actually at that point intime was seeing a psychologist and Ithought do I bring her like do I go seeher I couldn't even bring myself to gosee my psychologist he was the personthat really you know I employed to sortof be the person I could take all thesethings to so I decided it in that momentthat I needed to go to a church and thenI was kind of like right really go to achurch and if I'm honest again I thinkit was rooted in some level of utopianmemory that I've got from childhoodprobably movies like home alone whereKevin goes to church and yeah has thatlike magical moment when he's missinghis mummy you know I was right I'm gonnago to church and tried that and to go toa church on this like rainy Octoberevening at about I think it must havebeen about five o'clock everywhere I waslocked her and I was so angry oran Ican't tell you how angry I amI was literally raging so I remember Ipulled my car over on a hard shoulderand I and I said at least she got out mycar and I screamed and at this point intime I was not a person of faith sothere is a purpose behind me telling youthe story and so I pulled over my carand I literally got out of my car it wasraining I was screaming and I literallyit was like I was boxer in a ring that Iwas a mad okay and I literally screamedat the universe if you are real if youare real you have to bleep bleep bleepbleep show me there was a lot of swearwords yeah I was crying I was crying somuch you know I couldn't even reallyspeak I was coughingit was awful I got back in my car andGeorge text me two words that just saidcome home and then I just wrote backokay he wrote back I'm not planning ordying anytimeSene and i just hysterically burst intotears and went home now that that momentwas a absolute another kind oflife-altering moment but it wasn'tlife-altering in that exact moment ifthat makes sense because then whatunfolded in this or three weeksfollowing on from me going out andhaving this moment where I went for itand said to God you know you are realit's now or never because I don't knowwhere else to turn it and God had neverbeen someone a force and an energy thatI had ever looked to previously but Iwas I felt like I had nothing left in mycup I had no place else to gohe was the only viable option left forme to go to and what then happened andwhat unfolded around George's deathwhich we maybe don't have the time todiscuss today was just supernaturallyunbelievably beautiful he died the mostglorified beautiful miraculous deaththat was completely driven by sort ofthe Holy Spirit just moving in andtaking residence in his room okay peopleI'm just gonna play the out role now forthis part of the show but the nextepisode should be available straightaway on your feed whether you using iOSor Android and I hope you enjoy thisjust as much as you've enjoyed thisfirst part of this incredible story fromLouise I know the next part certainlygave me goosebumps especially when shespoke about the supernatural stuff thatshe experienced and I hope you enjoy ittoo and once again thank you for allyour support and if you do get a chanceto leave this interview at the end ofthe show I'd certainly appreciate itthank you so much and remember thispodcast is absolutely free so all we askin return is for you to share this witha friend and drop us a five star reviewover on iTunes have an awesome day See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In our series in the book of Daniel, chapter 9 goes back to a time when Daniel had (another) new boss and a really bad mood. The solution, Daniel finds, is to do a thing we don’t want to do. The title of the sermon is: NO MORE "ONE DAY THEY." Listen well. If you can’t get the audio on your device, visit the main podcast page at http://revandersongraves.podomatic.com/ The podcast is on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/anderson-graves-podcast/id918990482 --Anderson T. Graves II is a writer, community organizer and consultant for education, ministry, and rural leadership development. Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Bailey Tabernacle CME Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He writes the popular blog: A Word to the Wise at www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com Email: BaileyTabernacleChurch@comcast.net Friend me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves Follow me on twitter @AndersonTGraves Click here to support this ministry with a donation. Or go to andersontgraves.blogspot.com and click on the DONATE button on the right-hand sidebar. Visit the ministry’s website at baileytabernaclecme.org Support by check or money order may be mailed to Bailey Tabernacle CME Church P.O. Box 132 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 354037 #Awordtothewise, #baileytabernacle, #BTCME, #preachingdaniel, #todayI, Daniel, Babylon, darius, angel, Gabriel, messiah, community, sin, confess, revelation, repentance

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Find your voice - Episode 8 - Memoirs of an Anxious Mind - Cos KyriacouTagline: "To HIM its just a game, playing with my mind. An easy target for HIM, he always seems to find. He always seems to be there to put me in my place, lurking and scheming like a puff of smoke up in my face..."Cos is a talented Poet who has found his voice by utilising the power poetry in speaking about his depression and anxiety. Riddled with many trials and tribulations growing up Cos has battled with suicidal thoughts from time to time.Now determined to conquer his mindset working on his health, thoughts and gifts he is looking to help those struggling with mental health illness more.Alongside this, Cos is also a qualified Accountant and Personal Trainer and this is just some of his hidden talents. He kindly shares one of his poems, HIM, in this podcast and I am sure once you hear this you will follow him over on his instagram channel to learn more about him and hear so many more powerful poems.Thanks for listeningFree Audible book sign up:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?actionCode=AMN30DFT1Bk06604291990WX&tag=are86-21Best book on Mindset by Carol Dweck: Mindset https://amzn.to/2QajMvZSupport the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/findyourvoiceLinks to me:Website: https://www.arendeu.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aren.deu/Twitter: https://twitter.com/arendeuFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aren.singhLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aren-deu-65443a4b/Podcast: https://www.findyourvoicepodcast.com YouTube: http://tiny.cc/51lx6yLinks to guest:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cmklifestyle/ (Personal)Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindfullfitness/ (Movement#JustDeuIt & #FindYourVoice[Music]welcome to an episode of find your voicea movement led by yours trulyAren do a guy who has overcomecrippling anxiety adversity anddifficulty like so many of you in lifewhose main goal now is to help youcombat your excuses take control of yourlife write your own story and mostimportantly find your voice so nowwithout further ado I welcome the hostof the show himself mr. Aren do what'sgoing on people thank you for tuning into another episode of find your voice myname is Aren and as always I am thehost of the show so like many of myguests I get really really passionateand excited to try and support them andI suppose that's the beautiful thingabout this show because it's real peopledoing real things just like me and youI'm really trying to make a differenceand today's guest is no differenttoday's guest goes by the name of Kosand I do apologize in advance but Ican't pronounce their surname but you'regoing to get all of that in the shownotes but what's important about thisindividual is what they've been throughin their life and I suppose even moreimportant than that is how they'vetackled their adversity they've tackledtheir mental health their depressiontheir feelings of suicide and reallycome out on the other side and now whatthey're doing is making an impact tohelp other people and that's just mykind of person and I'm sure it'sprobably your kind of person too so Ithink it's important that rather thanyou listen to me whoo yes once again Ihave a cold I think that's gonna be atheme of this show let's jump straightinto this interviewokay so firstly I just want to thankcause for coming on to the show todayand for all you listeners who are heresupporting our movement so my friend howyou doing today good morning I'm goodnot as early as you Baba fantastic youlike to hear you well we've had a bit oftechnical issues and it is slightlyearlier than normal so excuse our voicescool so you've heard the introductionI've explained cause his story but whatI want to know well I think what thelisteners want to know is more aboutyourself from you and I think it'simportant that they can get tounderstand your story youjourney and how you basically progressthrough life and ended up where you aretoday so if you wouldn't mind my friendif you could just give us a rundownbasically of the life of cause the lifeof course easily hey I think it's bestto start where I am now and then kind ofgo through how I got here so I'm aqualified charted accountant soundsriveting ah no he says exciting as itsoundswhoo guys recently qualified in Decemberand in the new year I've gone part timeto kind of tramp pursue my own endeavorsin life so starting from the beginning Iwas stopped when I was born because I'mquite old now or in my own eyes I'm oldbut I don't like to use the word sufferbut I've had anxiety my whole life andnow been listening to your your showshaven't they been amazing by the way Iappreciate that thank you just listen toyour different guests you know strugglesthey've had to go through and obstaclesthey face for me I've always felt itdifficult to kind of ask for helpbecause I've had I've had such a goodlife in something upbringingand the situation I'm in I've hadamazing parents I've never had to askfor anything not that was slow in anysense but I was given everything Ineeded clothes water the essentials andthat but from an early age I just felt Iwas different kind of like I had thesevoices in my head I used to think it wasit was good it was someone else I reallydon't know what it was and I find thiswent through life with it at school Inever really felt like I fit in whereason the outside poori it probably seemedlike I was that guy good at his workgone along with people but I kind ofquiz my anxieties I threw myself into mywork so I think into studying into beingthe best I can in that sense so I justdidn't feel comfortable socializing Ididn't feel comfort with myself and thensaw some much easier CSIS etc I left forsix oneI changed sixth one then and that's whenI started to spiral a bit looking backnow it's funny because I can see all mycatalysts I can see why I feel the way Ididwhere is at the time I just had no ideawhat's going on I'm just in my own mindso for me what gets me a look is changeand uncertainty and new things andespecially socializing in in newenvironments so change into a new sixthform with people I didn't know newsubjects just threw me off completelyand it might sound stupid some peoplebecause this is such a simple thing butfor me the biggest fact thing anyone canhandle is their own mind and that'ssomething I've always struggled with yesI might not have had big thermal in mylife a lot of people have but a lot ofpeople live in with their own minds andtry about that every day and people needto appreciate thatit is hard for a lot of people mm-hmm soyeah went to I went to six-month pickingup from then and firstly was extremelyhard for meI was probably on the debts ofdepression where it's back then I thinkwe know what the pressure was so Ididn't really see as that I just felt itwas me so my family helped me through alot I got through a levels my secondyear beta it was great because I wasmore comfortable in my environment andthen applied for university got goodgrades and got into UCL to studyeconomics and I think at UCL was thefirst time I really but I understandwhat the pressure was I start to gothrough it so I'm still living at hometraveling to London every day and justdidn't feel like I fit in they're alwayscomparing myself to others that I wasn'tgood enough to be there and then Istarted getting suicidal food so I standon train tracks and my mind we kill himto jump and yeah I in my mind I've - Iknow myself cuz I've never had thosethoughts before and I'm in the past I'venever when I've heard people who commitsuicide or taken her own life I've neverunderstood it but in that moment and nowI've been through it that's the onlyplace you see confort is by not beinghere not being with your mindWow is that is that kind of a thing thatyou've you've convinced yourself that itwould just be better off yeah a hundredpercent it's like you explore differentoptions so when I start to feel anxiousor when I'm gonna extremely the prostateI start to looklook at the fact that across the greenon the other side so I was at UCO and Iwas saying to my momI'm gonna quit I'm just gonna get jobI'm gonna apply to a different Union I'mgonna do this I'm gonna do that I alwaystry and wash one away because then allthat anxiety all that all that hurt willbe gone and over you place intosomething new so that's the first time Istarted seeing a counselor Britt at UCoh and while I was at UCL I write toanother university again seeing that thegrass is green on the other side justwant to get out of it so I startedstudying for my exams at UCL it's aboutApril time and then I've gotconfirmation that I was given anotherplace at Royal Holloway University I'vebeen sorry okay and I thought to myselfyou know what it's not worth the toiletturn won't burn through I'd literallywrite vice for all my exams the weekly Iwas gonna sit there but I decided that'sit I'm not sitting them because I justwant this this kind of cloud to be overso I quit or I gave up UCL andstraightaway I just felt that count hasbeen liftedI felt so good then I was like you knowwhat this is what I need like my nextuniversity is gonna be amazing I'm gonnafind so yeah that summer was great andthen September moved up to roll away tostop my new course and in the same thingstarted comparing myself to others newsituation a lot of social anxiety Ididn't go out a lot in my first year andlike I'd hear people in the kitchendrinking and stuff and I just be in myroomjust with my own thoughts Wow and I'mglad today I have amazing friends andamazing flat I'm still in touch with andthat's friends with your good may aswellfears off so she helped me through a loteven if she doesn't know it and bygetting my first year of uni I wasthinking I need to apply to another uniit's gonna be better on the other side Ineed to take my course something to dothis I applied for a job and luckily youknow I was convinced to stay I lost myfirst year went on to the second yearand that is the biggest term like mylife is the second year I just spiraledout of control just in myselfamong thoughts just not being able tocall or be in social situations withpeople my first day my room up my mum mysister would always come and visit me tomake sure I was okay because they wereextremely worried about me of courselike I used to lock myself in my roomthen and research how to end my lifebecause it's the only way I can see anend to it and I knew how wrong that thatwas and the the only thing that stoppedme from ever doing it then was yes myfamily like what we do to them but I'mactually getting emotional saying thissorry man please take your timebut yeah the most it's really silly butthe thing that stopped me was I wouldn'tend my life right and my parent wouldhave to look after me and like her in astate where I think people looking aftermyself yeah sorry man no no I can onlyimagine what what you're going throughbecause my level of desire is nothingcompared to your level of depression andwe spoke briefly before we had thisinterview that you know it took the best8 years of my mom's life away and Ithink unless you live with somebodywho's going through or somebody it's sodifficult because from the surface Imean you look at your Instagram you lookat yeah the way the way you conductyourself your poetry which you're goinglater on in the interview it's just likethis kind of depression you know youjust know isn't no more that is itnormally is somebody you can relate tobut it's it's amazing how some it's notsomething so simple but something likeyour mind can just completely just yetturn your world upside down and it's oneof my favorite quotes ever and Iprobably say to myself at least six orseven times a week not because I do itbut because it just helps with thingsinto perspective and it's comparison isthe thief of joy you said that you hadins ie from a very young age and I meanI'm 32 now and I'm kind of peeling backthe onion layers using an analogy ofwhen I started getting anxiety and Ithink yes having reflected and lookingback at myself I'm able to find certainmoments in my life like when I was sixor seven I was atshit I was actually quite anxious thenand then maybe that's really kind ofsnowboard have you been able to in yourcurrent situation not be able to lookback and find these key triggers or haveyou always just known yourself to beanxious no a hundred percent if I knewone who I knew now about myself I couldhave controlled a lot of what happenedto me and not let it happencould you elaborate so my anxieties mycatalysts are changed like newsituations where that's a new job newUniversity a new subject I'm studyinguncertainty so I'm a perfectionist as Isaid before I used to put myself into mywork and just try and excel at that soif I'm not the best at something I startto get anxious might sound stupid butthat's just the way I am so it's notstupidso you've always had this in psyche yeahand now you knowing what you know nowyou've said you can obviously look backand think I could have changed stuffwhat kind of things I mean I'm thinkingpractical things here for somebody who'smaybe a little bit younger thanourselves who's going through thismoment they're just constantly anxioushave changed like yourself and being inthese kind of environments what wouldyou kind of say to them now the onenumber one thing does has helped me themost about anything is talking about itso talking about how you feel because Iwould often just keep everything balledup inside me and whereas today I'm openas hell honesty oh are you guys to swearon this podcast may you can do whateveryou want thank fuck for that that's finesome people might not like that but youknow sometimes it's one of the only waysyou can express it sometimes one or twoepisodes myself sonot a problem mate so yes second year ofuniversity extremely down I went to sawa doctor there who prescribed me afterdepressants and I'm back then I hadnever taken a tablet in my life not evena paracetamol just nothing I was justagainst putting foreign substances in mybody so I got prescribed down to theirpresence I went and got them but I didnot take them and I came back home forChristmas and I was just so so bad oneday my dad leave she just got me in thecar drove me off the sorry and when hemom didn't say hello to any of myhousematesjust went in my drawer guys I depresswe drove all the way back home to NorthLondon and I started taking them andthey helped me massively they're therethey're a tool for helping you they'renot a magic pill that's gonna makeeverything go away could you have to putyou have to put other things in yourlife that's gonna help you get throughbut they definitely help just balanceout the chemicals in your brain and theway you think think mm-hmm and so Istarted taking them must I've seen atherapist as well and then I startedgoing to the gym again so I was injuredat the time I got really depressed theymy substitute but I had a fun injuryokay that's unique yeah so I couldn'treally lift weights and so as soon asthat healed in the new year that's likea gym again I started feeling good Istopped them seeing my therapist eventhough he advised me to carry on and Ifinished my second year third year wasgreat really enjoyed it when I almost Ihad finished uni over to 1/2 percent offat first which again I beat myself upagain about don't beat yourself up todayI by the time I was in tears thatliterally so fun and and then yeahapplied for a job took me eight monthsto get a job and I had no idea what todo with my life was planned foreverything in anythink mmmgot over Owen into accountancy and thenstart here and then things that Ispiralling down again so and evenprobably even deeper depression I had inmy second year and the extreme thatsuicidal thoughts I just didn't knowwhat I want to do with my lifeespecially working full-time andstudying and studying for something youdidn't you didn't really want like Ididn't know if I wanted to be anaccountant up in all this effort into itwhat am i what am i giving to otherpeople what I'm given to the world bybeing an accountantthat's just how and I just didn't see medoing anything else so I I said to mymom not gonna quit and the Khan teachI'm gonna quit and do this and quit anddo that and my mom bless her she she'shelping me a lot but I know howfrustrating it is she understands fullyjohnstad 3 but I know how frustrating isto try and help someone who nothingseems to help themselves and you can seethe same things happening again in termsyou wanted to just change again to a newsituationso I stopped taking as the presents whenI was at Union swell after that Sigmaperiod and I was at work I cited themagain I'm slicing the therapist againand a major thing that helped me getthrough if I did not do this I would nothave qualified to try to count and I maynot be alive today I'm being honest withyou I told him what I told myself aboutmy depression so I went spokes inmanagers I went spoke the partners inthe firm and they were so so good aboutit honestlythat's brilliant like they helped memassively they put things in place forme and I felt I could go and talk topeople about it more mm-hm so yeah itwas tough as hell and I qualified aboutthis December just gone so I'm currentlyin the process of coming up mad for thepresents fantasticI'll be off them in about two weeks I'vedefinitely felt some side effects butthey start to wear off and I'm feelinggood about life now and the mostimportant thing about anything thatbeing through mum I don't like to usethe word happy up being through it I'mkind of I'm glad for which taught me andso six months ago if I was doing thispodcast review I know I was in tears alittle bit before but I would not beable to talk about this with withanybody whereas now I don't give a fuckI put it on Instagram I talk abouttrying to speaking about their feelingsespecially especially as a man today inthe society there's so much manypressures a lot of stance what about 100percent mate it's a it's an ego maybesurprise thing I don't know what it iswith guys we don't realize thatvulnerability is actually a truestrength and I spoke about thispreviously again I'd recommend if youcan listen to Lewis Howes I think he'sgot a book the mask of masculinity andit's a fantastic book because I think asguys you're doing something there thatis something that we don't do and I'mnot stereotyping it but how many of usreally talk about stuff when we feel ohbecause it's a bravado thing isn't it wecan't show weakness we can't show thatwe're feeling down or low and I thinkthe reason I was really interested ingetting you on this show is or becauseyou've touched on something there so wespoke about the social enterprise thatI'm working on with mywe're going to get back to mental healthand awareness the first question askedthough was what do you want like if weraise awareness is it money is it likematerialistic things what kind of thingswould make you guys feel better and shesays somebody should talk to you andthat brings us to the whole thing thatwe spoke about prior to this episode isI'm gonna open up just centers I'm gonnahire them for the day get people who aregoing through it people who haveovercome it to just maybe talk about itand I know that might sound like such asimple thing from the outside but you'vetouched on it now as wellthe world needs to speak it's thesimplest of things look us I say toeveryone I don't see anxiety as anillness this is my this is my personalopinion yeah everyone has anxiety butjust different levels of a spectrumdepression is the lowest of the low thusthat that's an illness that's somethingyou can you need to case of our but thedifference between me and the guyssitting next to me the only differencebetween us is I can talk about it now Italk about it that's the only differencethe guy still has anxiety 100% differentmaybe different levels different aspectsin his life but he just doesn't talkabout it that's the difference and bytalking about it which you've been doingmore openly now and some of it's throughyour poetry is all which is fantastic aswell have you genuinely seen like ashift in like your overall moods and didthe severity of your laws as well Oh100% like if I have a load they know ifI don't know they in the past I comehome and I keep all my stuff where it'sI come home now and thank what my sisteris my rock honestly I would not behonestly hands-down I would not be aliveabout her today and she has she's notbeen through depressiontouchwood and thank God but even so ashard it was for her to help me she wasjust there to listen even if she didn'tunderstand she was just there to listenand put small things in place to me forme and so yeah I remember this one timeat university when I was when I was homefor that Christmas when I was really badI had an essay to write and I told her Ijust can't do it I'm gonna quit but sheliterally sat down with me and made mewrite for five minutes at a time when wego and have a break and come back onwrite for five minutes so that's amazingyeah she's been amazing and you'refortunateto have that because there's so manypeople out there you may not necessarilyhave that kind of support network aswell yeah because like you've touched onit's an illness and it's because it'snot physical because it's not like yourthumb for example or yeah you knowsomebody's leg broken or something it'sit's internal and again because peoplearen't speaking what we're doing iswe're masking everything with it with itwith a smile or Facebook post orInstagram post but deep down we'verarely know what somebody's goingthrough exactly it's just scary and Ithink I think living with it is scary soI can only imagine what you're goingthrough so again I just want to saythank you for for really sharing thestory no problem I just want to say umthank what I've not been in the pressdate for about two and a half years nowyes I live with anxiety but I am knowingthat press date and I'm I will fight mymy utmost not to go back there and helpanyone else to come out absolutely andI'm not I'm not in a position to giveyou any advice having not been throughwhat you've been through but yeah thenthere's a simple quote we use it for ourfor our business that me or mom aregoing to start it's okay not to be okayyeah I don't know it sounds simple butit's so important that we understandthat because myself I mean I don'tsuffer with depression but I will wakeup on it on a Monday or a Tuesday itcould be any day of the week and I willbe in an absolute funk and I'm like whydo I feel like shit like nothing's gonewrong like you know my health is they'remy wife's happy my mom's finethere's nothing actually happened inthat day I've slept well but then youknow what you just you just feel reallylow and you got like no motivation andstuff and I used to beat myself up aboutthat because I just think I've got somuch stuff to do I need to change theworld I need to do this at least getmyself up now it's kind of like Iliterally say that quote to myself it'sokay not to be okay and all I'll do ison that particular day or do stuff likeI'll go to the gym I'll try and keep mynutrition as well as possible becauseobviously that helps your mind andeverything I try and speak with my wifeor my brother or my mom in the day justto kind of cheer me up and I might stillbe in a bit of a funk to the end of theday but the next day it all washes overrather than me dwelling on it and thenhating myself like throughout the weekthat kind of makes sense so it'sfantastic that it's been like two and ahalf years and there for yourself comingoff it but if you ever do find yourselfperhaps going a bit lower just knowthat listen mate you've come out of itso many times yeah kicking and fightingyou're doing great that it will be okayand you'll be alright you next thing Iappreciate I know and and such know whatyou said I've learned that saw so ondays from the rule of and you you won'tknow why but you just have to take sometime out for yourself and on those dayseven today I've made wake up and I mightfeel a bit low I know I know deep downthere is something causing that maybenot the day before maybe not on that daybut a week my ass something I didn'ttackle where it was on my to-do listwhich is still bugging me yeah orsomeone I didn't talk to or someone Isaid something to which is bugging mebugging me now and why I feel low so Ipersonally I think there's always a rootcause somewhere it's not always easy tofindmmm there's always something that'sthat's led you to feel that way I thinkyou're right there somebody elsementioned this actually I think it wason Episode three and it's about findingthat that deep meaning and I thinkbecause we're so most of us wake up inthe world whatever is on our phone or Iemail a job it will it will dictate ourdate we very rarely get time to sit backand actually reflect upon our life ourcircumstances in our situations and Ithink if we could do that probably haveless of those days because it isprobably a cumulative effect of thingspropping up and then you've got thislevel of like I don't know burden oranxiety or something that will kind ofjust hit you on one day and you'resitting there thinking what's going onhere but it's actually like you saidpossibly something that's that'shappened a few days ago that's powerfulso the funny thing is it's like there'sno like magic secret is there they'renot I mean if there was then the worldwouldn't struggle a bit like Fitnessyeah if we had the magic pill nobodywould be obese and it's kind of findingI suppose did you touched on it earlierhis voice you've got this toolkit nowyes the the antidepressant tablets helpyou control the chemical imbalancethat's going on but you've also got atoolkit of stuff that you've probablyhad through your therapist yeah thosewho probably gives you different toolsthat you can literally bring out as andwhen you need them because that's kindof how my mom explains it as well ahundred percent like I'm kind ofreinvent the tools they gave me to workfor meso something that I do massively when Ifeel extremely anxious I don't if you'veseen on my Instagram or that bar splitpage into and I'm one on one side Iwrite my negative feelings and emotionsand on the other side I write a healthypoint of view and it just helps meconceptualize how I'm feeling it kind ofbrings you out of my brain onto paperand kind of I can actually write down adifferent way of or view in it mmm yeahyour Instagram is brilliant and you'regonna get the oddest friend requests bythe way because I've asked my mom tofollow your Instagram because some ofyour stuff is like I can't get some ofit like I get like 80% of it send mebecause I've lived with my mom my momwas like my best well she is my bestfriend and and I'll sin what he's donelike taken away from her life so it'skind of I know that if she can read yourmessages and listen to your poetry Imean you know huh no gtv sorry yourstories your Instagram stories it willhelp and it resonate with her so yeahI'm obviously gonna put all the linksfor the listeners as well to know yoursocial medias at the end of it because Ithink it's really important that you'veseen someone who's yeah you you're notfully 100% over it at the minute butyou're dealing with it and you'redealing with it in the best way and eachtime you're getting better betterequipped and hopefully somebody who'sprobably earlier down the journey theycan benefit from yourself and this isthe whole point of this podcast is thatthey can learn from your your experienceof suppose and hopefully change theirlife for the better sooner exactlythat's that's the thing like I am NOTI'm not perfect I'm not free to stormyou never will because life justfrustrate you all the time I've come andbut the only thing I can do is just tryand help people through how I try tohelp myselfmmm and you are so yeah just try and beas real as I can on Instagram you knowlet people know how much it days becauseInstagram is a is a fake world really itisn't it's a highlight reel is which iswhy I appreciate like your content sokeep that going buddy I'm gonna switchthe pace a little bit now so I know someof the stuff that you do on a dailybasis but I think it's important for thelisteners who have heard about yourstory to understand what your dailyroutine is like so I'm a big bigbeliever that we are the results of thethoughts we tell ourselves and reallyhabits and so what's your daily routinefrom the moment you wake up to themoment you go to sleep well or every dayis different and I'm not gonna I can'tlie to you hmmI don't have a daily routine I'm stilltrying to work out myself in terms of Iknow what what would work well for mebut I haven't put it in place so I'velistened to one of your podcast one ofyour early ones about the guy who usedthe miracle morning that's right yeahchin very good friend yeah I knew thatwas a great podcast by the way thank youso yeah I bet the miracle morning thingwas last year and I started putting alot of things into practice in themorning not felt great and but thenexams came around again from my accountsand I just fell off it well I havecertain things I do during a week ratherthan a daily routine a daily routine issomething I'm working on in 2019 okay Ineed to incorporate meditation I need toincorporate leaving my phone out of myroom in the end of the day because thatjust adds to anxiety mm-hmm so thingsthat I do on a weekly basis to try andhelp me and relieve my stress is numberone you probably see a lot on InstagramI love my Costa Coffee yeah I love goingthere by myself taking a book readingmaybe writing some poetry just sittingthere watching the world and just beingcomfortable in my own thoughts I love myalone time now and another big thingdaily is Jim obviously so I usuallythrough that after work and it literallyjust puts me in a difference day ofnight it's almost like meditationabsolutely almost like meditation andyou're just there with your own thoughtsmusic in or not and you're justconcentrating on pushing the way upyou're not thinking about your pastdecisions you made you not think aboutthe future you're just in that momentthere and then so that helps memassively another daily routine mealprep obviously every morning but yeahI'm I'm still learning I'm stilllearning about routines and I will haveit together soon but like you've toucheddown there even myself my routinechanges from like year to year becauseyou always you're almost tweaking it soI've done the whole waking up at 4:00a.m. and then working my ass offbut then what would happen is at twoo'clock in the afternoon you not crashand let's sleep for like an hour and ahalf because I'm absolutely knackered sothen I was like this is pointless and sothen I mixed it up and now it's likeI'll wake up at 6 or 7 it depends onbasing my day so if you'll get an earlypodcast or I forgot like an investormedium or something like that then I'lltweak it but generally speaking I don'treally care what time I wake up becauseI believe it's what you do in the daybut you've got some great habits inthere like like the gym the meal prep Imean that you're feeding your bodyyou're feeding your mind there so it'sabout utilizing your time and takingchunks out of the day where you canreally be productive in terms ofwhatever your end goal is and a greatbook that I've read that is gonna helpme put that my favorite Wiens practiceis called the room of the rhythm of lifeby Matthew Kelly the rhythm of life okso I know you you follow my mindfulfitness page yeah yeah I do I'verecently just started following thatyeahthat's that's in the making and mytherefore mindful fitness is stemmingoff that book really so what walks aboutin that book is you have essential meansin life to survive so you have you haveoxygen you have a young Ward so you needthose things or you will diebut what people often neglect is theirlegitimate needs and there's four ofthese and we collect them because we'retoo busy day today which is sofast-paced in our lives and but thosefour needs our physical needs sonutrition and exercise emotional needswhich is relationships with people wherethat's going to get coffee with a friendtalking someone haven't talked in a longtime then you have your spiritual needsa bit harder to define for me it's justbeing being comfortable yourselfspending some alone time with throughmeditation going for a walk in natureand the fourth one is intellectual needswhich is knowledge and learning newthings and we often neglect a lot ofthose and one trying to do is encompassthose in my life and try and help peopleencompass those in this because when oneof those things are off that's when youranxiety will spike yeah yeah that's sointeresting that's powerful I'm gonnaI'm gonna attach that book actually therhythm of life by Matthew Kelly you saidyeah yes brilliant Kay I'll add that toobviously you're you've got to Instagrampages as well would you at the bottom soI'll have a look at that I appreciatethat buddy thank you look into thatfantastic okay sothe next question is about adversity andwhat I want you to do is if you could goback in time and think of a time thatyou faced great adversity but youpersevered through it so just oneparticular time and I want you toexplain how you won obviously theadversity to how you got through it andthree what are the lessons that youtaught you at the end of it oh JesusChristget your thinking cap on okay my figuredyou know you know I said to you beforethis podcast you sent me the questionsin that and I was gonna happen littleread about them you haven't read all ofyou know what last night yeah I upgradedmy iPhone on Saturday and it deletewhatsapp conversations lost by a 10o'clock and I was like sheets messagesjust suck up do it which is why I thinkthis episode so far is so intriguingfascinating because everything you'resaying is if you know it's not youhaven't scripted it out it's literallyjust you speaking from the heart so Ialways find that more authentic thereason I do give the questions thatbefore is just because some peoplesuffer with is ie exactly okay well youhear anyway the question has been askedjust have a have a few moments again anydead time and stuff I can always edit ithow so I'll probably cost me becauselike a particular situational momentbecause there just been so many my lifeand I've had to come out of wellprobably my latest one is justqualifying as a child accountant loadsof adversity faced there whether it waswork just not seeing myself was goodenough in septal workout producing theknowledge that I have and just comparingmyself to others that within my firmsort of thing and yet having to go backon antidepressants was a big blow for meit helped me massively enough if anyoneis taken out to the presence there'sabsolutely nothing against them I was ona about 20 milligrams a citalopram ifany of you listeners know just stop givethem the information and I've been onthat for about three years since I likemy jobthere's no comment and slowly slowly Iwas prescribedten just before Christmas so 10milligrams taking one every day for twoweeks and then I take one every otherdayfor two weeks and now I'm in a processof just taking two tablets a week forthe next two weeks and I'll be off themand yes I defects for anyone gran outthere there are massive side effects soI did feel a lot more rumination comeinto play so just kin stuff very a lotmore emotional and very snappy er peopleclose to me I love my family so Iapologise to them on here I'm sure Iunderstandyeah and very very tired and lethargicbut now honestly I feel amazing honestlyI really do feel good brilliant mateokay so the next question it's we'regoing to get to happiest if I show youso today it's a memory but but the nextquestion is what is your biggest fear mybiggest fear is probably going back intoa depressed state massively that's mybiggest fearand the fear of that I think helps mekeep keep out of it and is that throughyour daily discipline like the stuffthat you doing the stuff you you'resaying to yourself 100% like things Isay to myself just be more open andtalking now and actually feeling like Ihave something comments to pursue like Ihonestly believe I've been through whatI've been through for a reason aseveryone will probably say but I'm onthis earth not not to be an accountantlike I love my job and I love the peopleI work with but my true calling is justto help people help themselvesjust bring me talking about experiencesand everyone can do that and you will doyou helping me and I've gone through itmyself even just some of the stuff yousay you know it's making so much moresense but we are a result of the thingswe tell ourselves then just on thatpoint I think that's really importantit's something I'm trying to get my momand anyone on all going through thatsimilar situation to do as well becausea very very quick example a little bitabout myself is yeah suffering withanxiety and be shy I've always basicallywalked looking at the floor kind of likewith a hunchback if you can kind ofimagine that so my hands in my pocketand I've never really making eye contactwith anyone and I'm just kind of walkingand I remember recently I think it wasabout two weeks ago we went for somefood and I saidmy friends I hadn't seen for about sixmonths and he goes have you gottentaller and I was like what like pubertywhen a long time ago me and he was likeno you've gotta be like taller and I waslike well I've always been this tall soI'm like I'm just six foot eight sixfoot and I was kind of like just thesame height as in and you kind ofshocked and what I realized was so I'vebeen doing like affirmations and tellingmyself stories every single morning ispart of my morning ritual and one of thethings is I am confident I am no longershy I am and I would say well theseempowering words to myself and withoutrealizing it without even thinking aboutit my physical body had changed which Ijust find fascinating that's somebodywho I've known for like the best part of16 years had come up to miss it manyou've just grown a few inches but it'sbecause my demeanors changed now mychest is proud and that there's no levelof arrogance or anything in that it'sjust I'm just confident knowing myselfand I'm not this shy anxious person whoscared the world or what people will sayabout me I'm comfortable in my own skinand the other thing about you is you'regoing to the gym and you're gettingbigger so that's probably right myfoodstuffs I do try and eat outbrilliant so we spoke about your fearwhat is your motivation then what keepsyou going even on the days when you'rein a funk for example lucky gentlemanwhat keeps me going is knowing I'm herefor a bigger reason than myself mmmdeep down when I still help him myfamily around me helping friends helpingpeople I don't even know and that reachout to me not try not good as much as Ican but just believed I found somethingcaught truly believing and anyone outthere like I know how hard it is to notknow your purpose it like be being a jobor be a plan for job in a union not knowwhat what a fuck you want to do of yourlifeyeah and it doesn't matter how would youget it I believe one day we'll justspark like if you asked me a year agowhat when I do I have no idea andwhereas things have just lightssparking and you know pulling into placeand that will happen for you it's justabout whether you're you're willing totake the risk to go and pursue thosedreams that's all it is I love that thatis so true and I think I always urgepeople now so even like my youngerbrotherI urge people to just try new things anddo different things because 12 monthsago May being a podcast host wasprobably the last thing I'd ever want todo other than it'll be an out of a planeI mean and I'm at I'm actually debatedwhether I'm gonna do that in the nextyear or so jumping out the plane safelyshould we say yeah trying anything crazyobviously with it with all this rightpeople around but it's weird how you howyour passion just develops my actualpassion now is like you said it's makingthat true impact it's making thatdifference in life so yeah the beautifulthing with that is is forcing me to comeout of my comfort zone hence doing apodcast hence putting myself out thereon social media and doing this podcastopening that business with more mommiesit's crazy to think that I would havebeen doing this because I just didn'tthink I would so I think you've hit thenail on the head there people shouldjust go out there take that risk trustthat it will fall into place because Itruly believe it won't but at the sametime everyone's journey is different sojust because it's falling I think inplace for somebody out there he doesn'tnecessarily mean it's going to be thesame for you it could be at 22 or itcould be at 50 but don't don't comparebasically what I'm trying to say exactlybecause I've people might look at me andsay oh he's a qualified accountant hesaw it for life now I'm just I've chosento go part-time comma salary you knowmoney doesn't money you need itunfortunately you need money but I'mfocused on my happiness right now whenI'm going part-time to to actually gofor what I truly want to do okayfantastic so there you've heard thebuzzer and we are now in the fun part ofthis show so this is a quickfire 60seconds where I'm gonna be asking costsall sorts of wonderful and weirdquestions and the beautiful thing is hehasn't read the show notes so you haveno idea what I'm gonna ask him andthey're not the same questions as alwaysI do like to mix it up a little bit butso please are you ready buddy I'm readyokay we're gonna start in 3 2 1okay the ability to fly or be invisiblefly money or fame fame singing ordancing singingNetflix on YouTube that thinks Marvel orDC I don't watch evil okay Batman orSuperman Superman favorite TV show everoh Jesus Christ soprano would you ratherhow you will die or when you were dyingwhen I would die love or moneylove books or movies books if you couldsit with one person in the world for anhour who would it be my sister yourworst fear growing up getting older whatis your biggest addiction Instagram ifyou could abolish one thing in the worldwhat would it be depression yourfavorite song ever compete J : Drake anysongs French or Spanish Spanish pizza orsteakthey comedy or horror comedy and thelast one which is completely randomwhich is wizards which is the funnything is I wrote these like a long timeago so I'm looking at it myself to getwhat okay brilliantthe answer about your sister as well Ithink I think she's gonna love to hearthis back I'm sure you tell her anywayon a daily basis but if you're anythinglike me sometimes I shy away fromtelling the people I love the most Icare for him so much and it's probablysomething that I should do as well butso we run to the one but last questionand this one's always about reflectionbecause I always believe hindsight is awonderful thing and upon reflection wecan always think of ways to get to wherewe are quicker easier or we lessheartache and we wouldn't be the peoplewe are today if it wasn't for theprocess I've been through so what I wantto know is if you could go back in timeto that one moment where you reallystruggled and suffered with adversityand you could just whisper something inyour ear knowing exactly what you knownow what would you say say to yourselfoh I probably tell myself to tell peoplehow you feel and because yeah it'sextremely hard even by looking back andeven the you for today it's hard toexpress how you feel whether that'sbecause you're gonna be mocked on socialmedia your friends won't understandbecause of different maturity levels ahyeah just be just just talking about howyou feel just talk about it I love thatand I want to get you to do if you don'tmind one of your poems now I thinkbecause you've been through it youcouldn't you can hear the passion inyour voice as well are you just beforeyou start this are you thinking aboutdoing books or ebooks or anything onthatOasis I want to release a bookpoetry book and also I'm in a process oftrying to gather to do like spoken wordevents okay um so I wanna go and performpoetry and and yeah it's funny how Ionly started writing I used to writepoetry a lot for Mother's Day cards uhmy mom she's probably got loads of poemswhich is quite handy because every timemy sister would ask me what we shouldget my mom article I'll just write whatlast year I went to Cyprus and mygranddad was writing poetry in Greek Ohwhat just about turmoil he's beenthrough in his life and stuff I wentover to Cyprus by myself actually justto save my grandparents for a coupleweeks and I thought you know what maybeI should try writing down stuff as wellso it's the one I'm gonna read is thefirst one I wrote in Cyprus some of someof them when I write them I can kind ofI don't feel this way anymore but cankind of go back to how I felt and writethe emotions down which is yeah yeahwhich is quite good for me and so yeahthe one I'm gonna read this the firstone ever wrote when I started writingproperly and it's called him him love itlet's go all right so here miss just thegame playing with my mind an easy targetfor him he always seems to find healways seems to be there to put me in myplace lurking a scheming like a puff ofsmoke all up in my face and I are closedmy eyes praying that he'll go but in themorning he's still there he always seemsto show he follows me constantly like ahovering dark cloud I turned to look atmelook at him in the face sometimes and hesmiled was also proud what did he wantfrom me what about done a question everyday my whole life he seems to have takenand he's here to stay but one day itseems to click and I look all aroundhe has no physical presence so how canhe be so profound that's when I realizedI'm living in the past and future withmy other thinking mind an easy targetfor him he'll never ever find Wowthat is powerful yeah and there that'sthat's about depression may that's atalent there you know you've got may gotmany talents you work out well you'vegot the accountancy going for you you'vegot this poetry going for you yeah andif your aim is to like change change theworld for the better and help people whohave been through similar situation toyourself like you know it's going to beexcited understand I mean people likeand we've never actually met in personbut with people like you is voice allabout as well I appreciate that and it'sthe reason I love doing this is becauseafter after speaking with somebody Ialmost feel like a new level ofconnection if that make sense so it'slike I see you like as a friend now Imean I've probably spoken to more indepth about personal stuff than I dowith some of my friends and butgenuinely like my hand is here if younever need it if ever there's anythingthat I can help you with in the futureif ever there's times that you feel andor anything because it is about justhelping each other up because there'sgoing to be times where I might needthat for example yeah 100% you know I'mhere absolutely hit me a messageabsolutely I appreciate it and you justkeep doing what you're doing because Ithink you're gonna you gonna inspire somany people and like I said my mom'sgonna be fun in you hopefully today Ididn't tell you yesterday so alrightI'll look up no pages yeah she typesquite funny I was always left for thembecause she taught me like the onefinger thing and it doesn't always makesense but I just think it's importantbecause I think any age any demographicsor whatever it is your message is justtrue we are at the last question now forJenny and this is a question that Iasked all of my guests and it's if in150 years time science is unable to saveus and we are no longer about and allthat exists is a book and this book isabout the story of your life it's astory that you've written moving on fromnow up until the day that you sadly passaway what I want to know is firstly whatdoes a blurb say about you I a summaryto make someone you really want to pickthat up and think actually I'minterested in this person and secondlywhat would you call the title of yourbook OhI think my book would have to be apoetry book rather than biography andthe title of the book I think would bememoirs of an anxious mind and the blurI don't think would say too much at allit would just say I don't even know apoem perhaps that could kind of sum upyour yeah a poem that sums up or just aman in his mind just an anxious mindfull stop just something plain andsimple and the poetry and the poems willspeak for themselves about thesituations about the feelings andemotion that's powerful I think you alsolisten to episode one I thought youmight have not been getting this by herewhy keV and the beautiful thing withKevin's as well because he's my boxingtrainer he's a lovely chap but he alsodoes poetry as well yeah and I just findit I find it fascinating because likekeV you do poetry and I listen to acouple of years as well and we're in theprocess of kind of resurfacing himbecause he's got him in like normalbooks and I'll say maybe you could selfpublish it get it out there because Ijust feel like really hit yourheartstrings so it's powerful buddy it'sbeen an absolute pleasure I just want tothank you for your time again andapologies for the stuff in the morningobviously it took us about 30 minutes toget skies it's got going but at leastyou managed to find your voice yeah theshameless plug there from the morningbut what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna putlinks to all your social medias that Iknow but if there is anything else oranywhere else you want people to findyou because I think it's important thatpeople can follow your journey andpeople can learn from you learn from youyou can maybe help them if you wouldn'tmind where's the best place to find youthe best place for me is probably mypersonal Instagram page which is cmklifestyle and then my other page whichis up and running and I want to stop ita lot more up there as my businessexpense is mindful fitness spelt withdouble L and actually spoke incorrectlyby accident but actually actually worksreally well now and you know there'sactually a funny turn on Instagram youcan only one person can have a name inthe worldyeah for a name so mindful fitnessdouble-l was taken so I originally hadto call it mindful doc fitness and Ifound the woman she was in a miracle anda person who had mindful fitness and thename and I said to my friend I'm gonnamessage her and ask her if I can haveher name like we can switch and wouldlike don't be silly she's not gonna dothat so I sent her a long message I seethem two at the MS they're like Iliterally spilled out my heart out toher and asked if we could swap names umand I've got a message the next morningand she said she'd be happy to for $50so I sent over fifty dollars a night andshe's got mindful dot fitness sofantastic yeah see that it's all of itsall about sliding into DMZI love that okay um are you active onany anything else or should we juststick to Instagram for now Instagram fornow and then I'll be expanding prettysoon fantastic and obviously once peoplecan finally find you on thereyou're quite active in terms of yourstory so they can obviously fun of yourjourney I'll be finding your journey mayit's been an absolute pleasure speakingto you this isn't going to be the lasttime you speak but obviously offline ifI can help you in any way and vice versaI'd like like you're helping me you'rehelping my mom as of today and you'll behelping many other people as well so Iwant to say thank you to you and to thelisteners at home thanks for listeningand remember this podcast is absolutelyfree so all we ask in return is for youto share this with a friend and drop usa five star review over on iTunes havean awesome day See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;” -Hebrews 6:18-19For me, Hope is in my connection to God, Prayer. My prayer is an expression of hope that there is a power beyond me. When I was about 6 years old, I had a favorite doll. One day while I was playing with her, the arm popped out of the socket and it was like the end of the world to me. I remember sitting on the corner of my bed, sobbing. My mom somehow knew I needed help and she came in and popped the arm back into the doll’s body. I still remember and can even now physically experience the devastation at the perceived loss and hopelessness of the doll ever being made whole again. And I can still physically feel the joy of the restoration of the doll to her former glory.This experience illustrates how I feel when I am going through something beyond my control. It takes child-like faith akin to hope, to believe there is an answer. When it comes, it is like the sun coming out from behind ominous clouds.Hope is seeing and recognizing tangible blessings within the glimpses and visions of what is coming.When we think of Hope, we usually think of putting hope in something outside of our control (because we feel out of control). I loved what Mary on our call today said: “There is hope for me. I believe in me.” We can have hope within ourselves!Consider this progression of Hope: Desire >> Hope >> Trust >> Faith >> Action >> KnowingIf we have no hope, take a step back to simply having a desire for hope. If we have faith, take it a step forward by taking action which creates tangible evidence of your faith. When we have tangible evidence, it is no longer faith, we KNOW!It’s good to have Hope. Even better is to have the courage to trust enough to take faith-filled action. New Ideas to Consider:I am capableI believe in meI have hope in the future and I am taking faith filled action todayI carry the power of hope with me as I move forward in faithI am in a stage of complete, absolute faith, I am patiently being consistent in my daily routines and connecting with GodI am receiving the resources and blessings I desireI graciously know these blessings are on their wayThere is no worry, fear or panic, there is a state of absolute knowing and feeling God’s divine love. Support the show (https://wylenebenson.com)

TodayI am joined by an absolute superstar in the endurance world, Emma Pallant. Starting her career as a distance runner, Emma enjoyed early wins in Cross Country and Track and Field,  where she won several medals at the European and World championships. After barely missing the 2008 Olympics, she had her sights set on the 2012 Olympics at home in London, but was forced by an injury to pull out of the Olympic trials and end her track career. Instead of giving up on sports however, she found a new love for triathlon and soon began to dominate the field by winning Gold at the Duathlon World Championships in 2015 and 2016, as well as Silver at the 2017 Half Ironman World Championships.   Check out my blog maxweigand.com for the shownotes and a free ebook on mastering willpower and discipline! Sign up here for a FREE coaching session with me to learn how I can help you master your habits and achieve your goals! Connect with Emma: Instagram Twitter Triathlon Coaching

Old Time Radio 1938 - Murder Castle Link: http://otrrlibrary.org/l.html Welcome Listeners! TodayI have an Old Timey Radio episode just for you :D I'll be taking you back to 1938 to Murder Castle, which is the first episode I'm doing that involves old school radio horror that you just wouldn't normally see. This curation is based of Andy Tate who recommended this episode. My goal is to bring them to your ears and master the quality of the audio the best that I can. If you like the episode let me know, if you hate it, also let me know XD that way I can work on it. Will be working harder to bring these episodes up to scratch regarding audio quality. So grab a hot beverage and get ready, for something...different. If you get a chance, you can help the channel grow with an iTunes review: goo.gl/Bw4kXP Thank you so much for listening! ~~~~~ #Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/StoriesFablesGhostlyTales #Twitter: twitter.com/StoriesFablesGT #Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCjtTN-6a_PS38eO90wzcNew Website: storiesfablesghost.wixsite.com/storiesfables

Nuestro compañero @javtweet está de visita en el nuevo mundo y se nos ocurrio hacer este episodio desde Nueva YorkNew York, New YorkStart spreadin' the news,I'm leavin' todayI want to be a part of it, New York, New York...These vagabond shoesAre longing to strayRight through the very heart of it, New York, New York...I wanna wake up in a cityThat never sleepsAnd find I'm king of the hill, Top of the heap...My little town bluesAre melting awayI'll make a brand new start of it, In old New York...If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhereIt's up to you, New York, New York...New York, New York...I want to wake up in a city That never sleepsAnd find I'm A-number-one, Top of the heap,King of the hill, A-number-one...These little town blues They are melting awayI'm gonna makeA brand new start of itIn old New YorkA-a-a-nd if I can make it there, I'm gonna make it anywhereIt's up to you, New York, New York...New York...Nueva York, Nueva YorkEmpiecen a desparramar la noticia,Me largo hoy mismo,Quiero formar parte de ti,Nueva York, Nueva York...Estos zapatos viajeros,Extrañan recorrer,Su corazón mismo,Nueva York, Nueva York...Quiero despertarme en una ciudad,Que nunca duerme,Y darme cuenta que soy el reyEn la cima de todo...Mi melancolía de este puebloSe va esfumando,Voy a hacer un excelente comienzoEn la vieja Nueva York...Si puedo hacerlo allí,Puedo hacerlo en cualquier parte, Esa es tu responsabilidad,Nueva York, Nueva York...Nueva York, Nueva York...Quiero despertarme en una ciudad,Que nunca duerme,Y darme cuenta que soy número Uno,En la cima de todo,El Rey de la montaña, El número Uno...Las melancolías de este pueblitoSe van esfumando,Voy a hacer Un excelente comienzoEn la vieja Nueva York.Si puedo hacerlo allí,Puedo hacerlo en cualquier parte,Esa es tu responsabilidad, Nueva York, Nueva York...Nueva York...Pueden seguirnos en twitter en:https://twitter.com/bimbalablanca https://twitter.com/Javtweet https://twitter.com/JossGreeno en nuestra página webhttp://llavealingles.com/Feed: http://feedpress.me/llavealinglesUn podcast de PodcastSm.com

Nuestro compañero @javtweet está de visita en el nuevo mundo y se nos ocurrio hacer este episodio desde Nueva YorkNew York, New YorkStart spreadin' the news,I'm leavin' todayI want to be a part of it, New York, New York...These vagabond shoesAre longing to strayRight through the very heart of it, New York, New York...I wanna wake up in a cityThat never sleepsAnd find I'm king of the hill, Top of the heap...My little town bluesAre melting awayI'll make a brand new start of it, In old New York...If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhereIt's up to you, New York, New York...New York, New York...I want to wake up in a city That never sleepsAnd find I'm A-number-one, Top of the heap,King of the hill, A-number-one...These little town blues They are melting awayI'm gonna makeA brand new start of itIn old New YorkA-a-a-nd if I can make it there, I'm gonna make it anywhereIt's up to you, New York, New York...New York...Nueva York, Nueva YorkEmpiecen a desparramar la noticia,Me largo hoy mismo,Quiero formar parte de ti,Nueva York, Nueva York...Estos zapatos viajeros,Extrañan recorrer,Su corazón mismo,Nueva York, Nueva York...Quiero despertarme en una ciudad,Que nunca duerme,Y darme cuenta que soy el reyEn la cima de todo...Mi melancolía de este puebloSe va esfumando,Voy a hacer un excelente comienzoEn la vieja Nueva York...Si puedo hacerlo allí,Puedo hacerlo en cualquier parte, Esa es tu responsabilidad,Nueva York, Nueva York...Nueva York, Nueva York...Quiero despertarme en una ciudad,Que nunca duerme,Y darme cuenta que soy número Uno,En la cima de todo,El Rey de la montaña, El número Uno...Las melancolías de este pueblitoSe van esfumando,Voy a hacer Un excelente comienzoEn la vieja Nueva York.Si puedo hacerlo allí,Puedo hacerlo en cualquier parte,Esa es tu responsabilidad, Nueva York, Nueva York...Nueva York...Pueden seguirnos en twitter en:https://twitter.com/bimbalablanca https://twitter.com/Javtweet https://twitter.com/JossGreeno en nuestra página webhttp://llavealingles.com/Feed: http://feedpress.me/llavealinglesUn podcast de PodcastSm.com

Exploring Your Education and Mindset to a Life of AbundanceYour education is what you make of it. Where you get your education and who you get it from is not as important as the mindset you have going into the experience. When you explore the abundance of educational opportunities available to you and your children, you will certainly find a program that fits the needs of your family. Especially when you get the entire family involved in the adventure of education. Randy Harris and I talk about the importance of exploring the education of your family. "Education is more of a mindset"Meet our Feature GuestRandy Harris believes that life is an adventure. He is married to his beautiful wife, Leah. They have 2 amazing boys, Jameson and Donovan, and will be adding a 3rd child this fall. Randy and Leah enjoy hiking, camping, traveling, and creating meaningful experiences for their family. Randy has been an educator and a coach for the past 14 years. He, along with some innovative colleagues, have created a fresh approach to education called The Adventure Academy, which blends creativity, family, and education. Randy's mission is to bring families together by creating educational adventures that engage the entire family from the comfort of your home. He believes that the greatest teachers a child will ever have are right within their own family. Randy, as well as The Adventure Academy believe that Real Learning takes place in the context Real Life. Time Stamped Show Notes(click a time stamp below to time travel directly to that point in the conversation.) 6:00 So, where are you at in the World? 7:22 Attitude of Gratitude 9:14 Let's get Personal 22:50 Kick in the Gut Moment 26:30 Enough is Enough Moment Paying it Forward 34:30 37:28 Action Steps you can take today. 39: 20 What daily habits make the biggest impact in your life? 41:00 What are you reading or listening to right now and why? Start your 30 day Audible trial and get Your http://www.audible.com/t1/30trial_at?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R (Free Book)  43:00 What would you say to those who want to live a life of abundance? Connect with our Feature Guest https://www.facebook.com/groups/1879832902235884/ (Facebook.com/adventuraacademy) Adventure Academy.org Wally's Take Away: As I have said many times now, Education is very important and your real education is realized outside the classroom. That's just as true for your kids as it is for you. And you should always be learning along side your children. Teach them what you know. And let them see you don't know everything either, by learning new things together. What I'm Grateful for todayI'm so grateful for my beautiful wife. I just can't say that enough. Trayce is my rock. Resources Mentioned:Book: Mindset Carol Duet Bible Tony Doungy John Wooden Podcast: https://gooddadproject.com/podcast/ (The Good Dad Project podcast) http://livingjoyfully.ca/podcast-2/ (Exploring Unschooling) podcast Sponsors and Affiliates, Helping you live your Life of Abundance and helping me keep the mic on.Are you thinking about starting your own business? Need more ideas, guidance, training and mentorship? FREEDYM is by far the best and most complete Lifestyle Entrepreneur education site I've ever seen. And I've seen many. http://affiliates.freedym.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=382_5 ()With a http://affiliates.freedym.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=382_1 (FREEDYM Membership), you will have everything you need to succeed… in one place. Say goodbye to constant upsells and pressure to buy more. All of our training is by real-world lifestyle entreprenuers. 100% proven advice with no fluff and no filler. 24/7 access to our online mastermind group… filled with thousands of smart, ethical entrepreneurs to connect with and get answers to your questions. Get this http://affiliates.freedym.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=382_5 ($1 Trial Offer) because I'm a member. Support this podcast

I got this question in my inbox:  Hi Nadia, it's me again and todayI want to share my lesson: I am beginning to understand, that I set myself up for unhealthy relationships and working conditions eg. jobs.Something inside of me was missing. I can see the huge gap.I have been walking around with a hole in my heart. I am healing and closing it, so my heart can actually catch the love sent out to it from others. Yet I don't understand, what in the world has hurt me so much and why I did not start facing it earlier. I want to be clear on myself. How are we honest with ourselves best? How do we listen to our own thoughts and emotions in a way, that we actually remember ?

【晚安】盛夏.荼蘼Summer Days In Bloom【Maximilian Hecker 】Paralyzed by ancient delightAnd riding for a fall todayI am dressed in style, so eager in mindBut furthermore distracted by youAnd it's like I lose myselfin dreaming of summer days in bloomOh, I've got no clue how I could fight thatall that I am is worth a dimeWorth a dimeThis liquid lunch will not stop my punch-Drunk quality to doze while I runIt is thirty-nine degrees in my mindIt's thirty thousand miles more to goCause it's like I lose myselfin dreaming of summer days in bloomFor I've got no clue whatever happenedAll that I am is worth a dimeWorth a dime

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I see the sunriseI see the sunrise, feel the day lightMy time is commingI see the sunrise, Should it feels niceTo be ride on topHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can be ride on topHou hou houI see the sunriseGarra be the oneWho make it all rightI go straight this wayRise up todayI`ll getting my moneyDon`t you stop, Don`t stop meI can fly yes i know it, Let me rise upHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can be ride on topHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can fly so highWowCheck out my flowBase Beat You MeYou can`t stop thisCatch me in unexpected placesYou know what i meanHoooo, UauauaaaUarapara, I can be ride on topHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can fly so highI see the sunriseI see the sunrise, feel the daylightCatch my ride on topHou hou hou, I see the sunriseGarra be the one, Who make it all rightI go straight this way, Rise up todayI`ll getting my money ,Don`t you stopDon`t stop me, Rise upHou hou houI see the sunriseGarra be the oneWho make it all rightI go straight this wayRise up todayI`ll getting my moneyDon`t you stop, Don`t stop meI can fly, Yes, i know itLet me rise upHoooo ,uauauaaaUarapara, I can be ride on topHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can fly so high