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Our setting for this episode, Sheffield's Endcliffe Park seems like many other popular green spaces, but it has a hidden history: its waterways once helped fuel the Industrial Revolution in the ‘Steel City'. We discover how Sheffield's past intertwines with trees as local urban forester, Catherine Nuttgens, explains how nature and the city have shaped each other through the centuries, and why people here are so passionate about trees. We also meet Stella Bolam who works with community groups and schools to plant trees, and learn about the nearby Grey to Green project that's transformed tarmac into a tranquil haven for people and wildlife and tackles climate change too. Don't forget to rate us and subscribe! Learn more about the Woodland Trust at woodlandtrust.org.uk Transcript You are listening to Woodland Walks, a podcast for the Woodland Trust presented by Adam Shaw. We protect and plant trees for people, for wildlife.  Adam: Well, today I am in Sheffield, known of course as the Steel City renowned for steel production during the 19th century Industrial Revolution. But despite that historical heritage, woodland and green spaces were, and still are, the lungs of the city and seen as vitally important. In fact, it is now, according to Sheffield University, the UK's greenest city, with 250 public parks and over four and a half million trees. That's more trees per person than any other city in Europe and in 2022, Sheffield was named as a Tree City of the World. And I'm meeting Catherine Nuttgens at Endcliffe Park. That's a 15 hectare open space opened in 1887 to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. And interestingly, it isn't in the middle of the countryside; it is two miles from the city centre, the first in a series of connected green spaces, known collectively as Porter Valley Parks, all of which lie along the course of the Porter Brook. Well, although it really is coming to spring, we've been hit with some rather unseasonable snow, and I thought we were going to start with some snow sound effects, but actually this is a very fast-moving river that I'm standing by and I am meeting Catherine. Hello. So, Catherine, just explain a bit about who you are first of all.  Catherine: OK. Yes, I'm Catherine Nuttgens. I used to be the urban lead for the Woodland Trust, but I've just moved into independent work as an urban forester, an independent urban forester.  Adam: Fantastic. And you have. We've arranged to meet by this. I was gonna say babbling brook. It's really much more than that, isn't it? So is this the river? The local river.  Catherine: This is the River Porter, so this is one of five rivers in Sheffield. And it runs all the way up the Porter Valley, which is where we're going to be walking today.  Adam: Let's head off. So I have no idea where I'm going.  Catherine: Going that way. OK, yes, let's go. Let's go this way.   Adam: OK. You sound already confused.  Catherine: I was going to look at that. I was going to look at that tree over there. Cause we planted it. Is it still alive?  Adam: We can go have a look at that. It's still alive.  Catherine: Which tree? This tree? Here it's just so a total aside for everything that we're doing.  Adam: We're already getting sidetracked. You see, if a tree was planted.  Catherine: So yeah, I mean, this was one of... my old role at Sheffield Council was being community forestry manager and our role was to plant trees around the city. So one of the things that we planted were these War Memorial trees and it's very hard if you plant a tree to not go back to it and say, how's it doing? Is it OK? This is it, it's looking OK.  Adam: This looks more than OK and also it's still got three poppy wreaths on it from Remembrance Sunday. And a dedication, lest we forget: to all the brave men and women of Sheffield who gave their lives and those who hereafter continue to give in pursuit of freedom and peace. 2018 it was planted.  Catherine: One of the reasons I want to check it: it's quite a challenging place to plant a tree as there's an awful lot of football here. So the ground is really compacted, I think it's a red oak.   Adam: A red oak.  Catherine: That should be the right tree for this place. When they go in, they need so much water and it's 60 litres of water a week when it's dry, so keeping them alive, especially when the ground is so compacted is quite a challenge. It's something that happens all around the country is that people think ‘I've planted a tree and now I can walk away'. But actually the real work goes into sort of making sure trees have got enough water. So that they can, you know, for at least the first sort of two or three years of planting. So that they can survive to the good.  Adam: Brilliant. Alright. Well, look, we've already got distracted. We we've, we haven't even started. We've gone the wrong direction. But anyway, your oak is doing very well indeed.   Catherine: I'm sorry. It's it's, it's good.  Adam: So tell me a little bit about where we're going and why, why you've taken me on this particular trip.  Catherine: Sheffield is actually the most wooded, well, it's the most treed and wooded city in Europe. There are more trees per head in Sheffield than there are in any other city in Europe. So I thought the Porter Valley is quite good because there's quite a lot of cafés on the way. So that's quite good. But also it was a great way of describing about how the, how the landscape of Sheffield has kind of shaped the city and how how kind of people are shaped by the landscape also. The landscape is, you know, is is shaped by the people and, and here's a real case in point, because although it all looks very beautiful now and as we go up the valley  you'll see, you know it, it gets more rural. Actually it's all artificial. This is a post-industrial landscape.  Adam: So I mean when you say that, I mean this is this is a creative landscape this, so that I don't really understand what you mean. I mean they didn't knock, you didn't knock down factories. This must have been natural ground.  Catherine: Well, it was natural, but basically Sheffield started Sheffield famous for iron and steel, and it's also on the edge of the Peak District. So there's there's these five very fast flowing rivers that actually provided the power for the grinding holes are places where they made blades and scissors and scythes and all these different things. And so along rivers like this one, there were what were called the like, grinding hulls, the little factories where they they use the the power of the water to sharpen those blades and to you know, to forge them and things. As we go further up, we'll start to see how the Porter kind of has been sort of sectioned off. It's been chopped up and made into ponds. There's what we call goits that go off and they would have been the little streams that go off and power each, each grinding hull along here.  Adam: I mean you you say Sheffield is the most wooded city in the UK per head, and yet it hit the headlines a few years ago when the council started chopping down trees. And it wasn't entirely clear why, but the the local population were up in arms. So why was that? Is was that an aberration, or was that a change in policy?   Catherine  No, I mean people call Sheffield, the outdoor city. People in Sheffield have always been really connected to their trees. But I think when we got to the, you know, for the street tree protest, you know, the vision was beautiful, flat pavements and there were just these annoying trees in the way that were lifting all the paving slabs and everything. We thought what we need is lovely flat pavements, all the people that are complaining about trees all the time, they'll be really happy. But obviously that wasn't the case because people actually do quite like the trees. So what happened here was that the the council decided to send to send a crew to fell in the middle of the night, and then so they knocked on. Yeah. It was, yeah, honestly. Yeah, it was mad so. The the policemen came, knocked on people's doors, said ‘sorry, can you move your cars? Because we want to cut down the trees.' And now obviously if a policeman knocks on your door in the middle of the night, you know, it's it's pretty scary. So the ladies that they did that to said no, I think I'm going to sit under this tree instead. And it was just mad. Just think, what are they doing? Because it was in the Guardian, like the morning, it got international by the sort of lunchtime. And it was if, if you wanted a way to create an international protest movement about trees, so that's the way to do it. So. But I mean, that was the thing Sheffield is, so it's not an affluent city, but people do stuff in Sheffield, you know, something's happened, someone's doing a thing about it, and they're really good at organising. And in the end, thank goodness the council stopped. If there are things going on in your city, dialogue is always the best way, and consulting and co-designing with the public is so important because it's that's what these trees are for. They're here to benefit people. So if you're not discussing kind of the plans with the people then you know, it's not it's you're not properly doing your job, really.  Adam: And you said there's lots of choice of places to go with trees in and around Sheffield. And the reason you've chosen this particular place is why? Why does this stand out?  Catherine: Well, I think I mean, first of all, it's quite it it, it is a beautiful valley that's kind of very accessible. We've got, I mean here the kind of manufactured you know the Porter has been Victorianised, it's all got these lovely little rills and things. Little rills. You know where little rills kind of maybe that's the wrong word, but the kind of.  Adam: No, but I do. Teaching me so many new words. So what is the rill?  Catherine: So you know, just kind of little bits in the the stream where they've made it, you know, kind of little rocks and things.  Adam: Like rocks. Yeah, that is beautiful. They're like tiny little waterfalls. It's wonderful. I love it.  Catherine: So here for example, I mean looks lovely like these ponds that we have. I mean there's always there's things like the, the kingfishers and and there's the kind of Endcliffe Park Heron that everyone takes pictures of. And there are often Mandarin ducks. I think we passed some Mandarin ducks earlier on, didn't we? But this is actually. This is a holding pool for what would have sort of, how would the grinding hull that now has gone. So it's actually a piece of industrial heritage. Yeah, it looks, I mean, it has now all been kind of made nice. In the ‘30s some of these pools were were kind of put over to and probably in Victorian times as well. They're actually swimming areas. They converted them into swimming.  Adam: I mean the water, I mean, you can't see this if you're listening, but water's super muddy or or brown. It's not appealing to swim in, I'll just say, but OK, no, no one does that these days.  Catherine: No. Well, they they do up at Crookes, actually. There are people going swimming that that's a, that's a fishing lake. So it's much deeper, but it's a little bit.  Adam: Are you a wild swimmer?   Catherine: Yeah. Yeah. Let's go out into the peak a bit more and out into the the lovely bit.  Adam: Ohh wow, you said that's the way to. I mean, I can't get into a swimming pool unless it's bath temperature, let alone.  Catherine: It's lovely in the summer. I'm not a cold swimmer, right? But I do love it in in the summer. It's not. I mean, that's what's great about Sheffield, really. And that, like, there's so much nature just within sort of 20 minutes' walk. I mean, some people just get on their bike and go out into the peak and whether it's you're a climber or a wild swimmer or a runner or just a walker, or you just like beautiful things. You know? It's it's it's kind of here.  Adam: And there is an extraordinary amount of water, I mean. It's, I mean, you probably can hear this, but there seems to be river on all sides of us. It's so we've been walking up the Porter Brook, which you can hear in the background and we've come across Shepherd Wheel a water powered grinding hull last worked in the 1930s.  Catherine: Come this way a little bit. You can see the there's the wheel that they've put together. So inside. I'm just wondering whether we can through a window we can look in. But so so Sheffield say a very independent sort of a place. The what used to happen is the the little mesters there were they hired. They were men.   Adam: Sorry that's another word. What was a mester?  Catherine: That is another word. A mester. That is. I mean. So I think it was like a little master, so like a master cutler or whatever. A little master. But but in in there there were there were individual grinding grindstones right with the benches, the grinding benches on and they hired a bench to do their own piece work. So so it was very independent, everyone was self-employed and you know they they. So the wheel actually sort of was important for probably quite a few livelihoods.  Adam: We've come up to a big sign ‘Shepherd's Wheel in the Porter Valley'. Well, look at this. Turn the wheel to find out more. Select. Oh, no idea what's going. You hold on a sec. Absolutely nothing. It's it's it's, it's, it's, it's a local joke to make tourists look idiotic. Look, there's another nutter just turning a wheel. That does nothing.  Catherine: And actually an interesting well timber fact is that up in North Sheffield there's a wood called Woolley Wood there and all the trees were a lot of the trees are hornbeam trees. Now hornbeam is really good, as its name might suggest, because it it was used to make make the cogs for for for kind of structures like this, because the the wood was so very hard and also it was quite waterproof. There's actually when the wheel bits were replaced here they used oak. But one of the I think one of the problems with oak is that it's got lots of tannins in that can actually rot the iron work. So so actually. There's kind of knowledge that's been lost about how to use timber in an industrial way and and.  Adam: So if you happen to be building a water wheel, hornbeam is, your go-to wood. I'm sure there's not many people out there building water wheels, but you know very useful information if you are. All right, you better lead on.  Catherine: I think we can head unless you want to go, won't go down that way or go along along here much. There we go. We'll cross. We'll go this way. I think. Probably go down here. Yeah, this has got a great name, this road. It's Hanging Water Road, which I'm not sure I would think. It must be a big waterfall somewhere. I'm not sure whether there is one right so. It's just a a good name. So yeah, so this is more I think going into more kind of established woodland. Still see we've got the two rivers here.  Adam: So tell me about where we're heading off to now.  Catherine: We're going up into. I think there's a certainly Whitley Woods is up this way and there's one called Bluebell Woods, which would indicate you know, ancient... bluebells are an ancient woodland indicator, and so that would suggest that actually these are the bits where the trees have been here for much a much longer time. I think there's still kind of one of the things that they try and do in Sheffield, is kind of bring the woods back into traditional woodland management, where you would have had something with called coppice with standards. So the coppice wood was cut down for charcoal burning cause. So the charcoal, these woods, all these many, many woods across Sheffield fuelled all this steel work. You know they need. That was the the heat that they needed. So charcoal burning was quite a big industry. And and the other thing is that's good for us is that actually having kind of areas of open woodlands, you know, open glades and things, it's really, really good for biodiversity because you have that edge effect and you know, opens up to woodland butterflies and things like that.  Adam: We're just passing an amazing house built on stilts on the side side of this hill, which has got this great view of the river.  Catherine: There's. Yeah, there's some incredible houses around here.  Adam: Where? Where so which where are we heading?  Catherine: We'll go back down that way.  Adam: OK. All right. You may be able to hear it's not just the river, it is now raining. And actually it's all making the snow a bit slushy, but we're on our way back. We're going to meet a colleague of yours. Is that right?  Catherine: That's right. Yeah. So Stella Bolam, who. She's a community forestry officer who works for Sheffield City Council. She's going to be joining us. And yeah, she worked with me when I was working for the council and is in charge of planting trees with communities across Sheffield.  Adam: OK, so Stella, hi. So, yeah, so. Well, thank you very much for joining me on this rather wet day on the outskirts of Sheffield. So just tell me a little bit about what you do.  Stella: Yeah, of course. So our team, community forestry, we basically plant trees with people. It's our tagline, I suppose, and so we we work with community groups and schools to plant those trees and provide aftercare in the first three years, two-three years.  Adam: Aftercare for the trees. Yeah, yeah.  Stella: Yes. Ohh obviously for the people as well I mean.  Adam: What sort of? Give me an example of the type of people you're working with and what you're actually achieving.  Stella: Yeah, yeah. So I can tell you about a couple of projects I did. When I first joined a couple of years ago. So one was in an area called Lowedges, which is quite a deprived area of Sheffield. In the south of Sheffield. And we worked with a couple of local groups that were already formed to build, to plant a hedge line through the park. It's quite long. It's about 2000 whips we planted, and we also worked with a group called Kids Plant Trees, who advocate nature-based activities for children, which obviously includes planting trees, and we work with a couple of local schools. So we map all the trees that we plant and so for our records.   Adam: And how did you get involved in all of this?  Stella: I a couple of years ago I changed careers.   Adam: You were a journalist. Is that right?  Stella: I was a journalist. Yeah.   Adam: What sort of journalist?  Stella: I did print journalism and that.   Adam: Local through the local newspapers?  Stella: No, I worked in London for at least 10 years. I worked in London. I moved up to Sheffield and I was a copywriter.  Adam: Right. So a very different world. So it wasn't wasn't about nature. You weren't. You weren't the environment correspondent or anything.  Stella: It was very different. No, no, not at all. It's human interest stories, though. So I've always been interested in in people and communities, and that that's the thing that I've tried to embed in my work in forestry as well and trying to sort of help people connect to nature and understand that that connection a bit more.  Adam: You've moved around the country and we've been talking about how important trees are to people in Sheffield in particular. Is that true? Is that your experience, that it is different here?  Stella: Yes, they're very passionate about trees and that can go either way. So you know there's people that love them and people that are actually quite scared of them.   Adam: Scared? Why? Why scared?  Stella: Yeah, I think because a lot of people don't understand trees and they think they're going to fall over. They say things like, oh, look at, it's moving in the wind. And I sort of say, well, that's natural, that's how they grow, right? But obviously I wasn't taught that at school. So people don't have that general understanding about trees. So I try to sort of, I suppose, gently educate people if they do say negative things. Because I obviously do love trees and you know, I think they give us so much,   Adam: And you said you work with a lot of schools.  Stella: Yeah.  Adam: Do you feel young people have a particularly different view of nature and trees than older generations? Do you see any distinction there at all?  Stella: Yes, I think though, because of the climate emergency we're in, I think kids now are much more attuned with what's going on with you know, are the changes that are happening in our climate. So we do incorporate a little bit of education in our work with schools. So we talk to them about trees, why they're important, and we'll often let them answer. We won't tell them they'll put up their hands and say, well, because they give us oxygen or, you know, the animals need them. So I didn't know anything about that when I was at school. So I think that's probably quite a major change.  Adam: You must know the area quite well, and there's lots of different parts of woodlands in and around Sheffield, so for those who are visiting, apart from this bit, where would you recommend? What's your favourite bits?  Stella: Ohh well I I like the woods near me actually. So I I live in an area called Gleadless and Heely and there's there's Gleadless have have got various woodlands there. They're ancient woodlands and they're not very well known, but they're absolutely amazing. But the other famous one in Sheffield is Ecclesall Woods. Yes, it's very famous here. It's kind of the flagship ancient woodland. It's the biggest one in South Yorkshire.  Adam: And you talked about getting into this industry in this career, you're both our our experts, both women that that is unusual. Most of the people I I meet working in this industry are men. Is that first of all is that true and is that changing?  Stella: It is true. Yeah, I think it's currently about I'm. I'm also a board member and trustee of the Arboricultural Association, so I know some of these statistics around the membership of that organisation and I think there's. It's between about 11 and 15% of their members are women. So yes, it is male and it's also not very ethnically diverse either. I think it is changing and I think I can see that sometimes even when I'm working with kids. And you know, young girls who are you can see they're like really interested. And I sort of always say to them, you know, you can do, you can work with trees when you when you're grown up, you can have a job working with trees. And like a lot of sectors, I think traditionally men have dominated. And I think a lot of women sort of self-select themselves, edit them out of their options, really, cause you you're not told about these things. I mean, I'd never heard of arboriculture five years ago.  Adam: We've we've just rejoined the riverbank. It's quite wide. So this is the Porters River? Porter Brook been told that so many times today I keep forgetting that the Porter River, no didn't quite get it right. Porter Brook. Is it normally this high? I mean it's properly going fast, isn't it? Think that's amazing.  Stella: Yeah. So I was going to just have a chat with you a little bit about a project called Eat Trees Sheffield.  Adam: Yes, OK.  Stella: Yeah. So this is a project that was initiated by an organisation called Regather Cooperative, but they also are massive advocates of supporting a local sustainable food system and as part of that, it's harvesting apples. And they make a beautiful pasteurised apple juice from apples locally.  Adam: From an actual planted orchard?  Stella: No so well, they actually have just planted an orchard, but no, they basically accept donations from the community.  Adam: So if someone's got an apple tree in their garden. They they pull off the apples and send it in.  Stella: Yeah, well, they have to bring them in. Yeah. And they have to be in a certain condition that they're good for juicing, but yes. And then they get a proportion of the juice back the the people that have donated get some juice back.   Adam: A fantastic idea. Fantastic.   Stella: Yeah. And then they obviously sell the juice as part of their more commercial offering. But yeah.  Adam: That's wonderful. So if you, if you've got a couple of apple trees in your garden, and you live around the Sheffield area, what's the the name of the charity?  Stella: It's called Regather Cooperative. So, we're trying to create a network of people that, basically, can be connected to each other and build skills to look after these orchards because they do need looking after and valuing. They're very important, so yeah.  Adam: Yeah, sort of connects people to their very local trees. It's interesting. I have a a very good friend of mine in London. Who does sort of guerilla gardening. And on the the street trees has just planted runner beans and things coming up so so you know it just grows up. You can see people walking down and going oh, are those beans hanging off the trees? and you she you know, just pops out and grabs some and goes and cooks with them. And you know I'm not. I always think. I'm not sure I'd want to eat some some stuff from this street tree because God knows how. What happens there? But I I love the idea. I think it's a really fun idea.  Stella: So it's just it's been nice meeting you.  Adam: Well, same here. So we're back, we're back by the river.  Catherine: By the river all along the river.   Adam: All along, so yes. Final thoughts?   Catherine: Yeah. So I mean, it's been so great to have, you know, have you visit Sheffield today, Adam. Like, it's always such a privilege to to show people around kind of the bits of our city that are so beautiful. Well, I think, you know, just this walk today in the Porter Valley and the fact that there's so many trees where there used to be industry is something that Sheffield's had going for it I think throughout the whole of its history. The the woodlands were originally so important to be the green lungs of the city - that was really recognised at the turn of the 20th century. But now if you go into the city centre, there's projects like Grey to Green, which is basically where they used to be a very, rather ugly road running round the back of the city centre, which has now been converted into 1.5 kilometres of active travel routes, and there the space has been made for trees. So instead of roads now there's kind of special soil and trees and plants and grasses and things like that. They're like, they look amazing, but also they help to combat climate change. So when the rains fall like they have done at the moment, the trees slow down all the flow of the water going into the River Don, it stops Rotherham from flooding further down. But it also helps well it also encourages people to visit the city centre and enjoy the shade of the trees and, you know, takes up some of the pollution that's in the city. And I think it's, you know, this kind of new kind of thinking where we're actually not just looking after the woods we've already got and letting it grow. Actually making new spaces for trees, which I find really exciting and you know, hopefully that's going to be the future of not just Sheffield, but lots of cities around the country.  Adam: That's a brilliant thought to end on. Thank you very much for a fantastic day out and I was worried that it would be really wet and horrible and actually, yet again it's been quite pretty, the snow and it's only rained a little bit on us. Look, a squirrel.   Adam: Well, I hope you enjoyed that visit to one of Sheffield's open wooded spaces, and if you want to find a wood near you, you can do so by going to the Woodland Trust website woodlandtrust.org.uk/findawood. Until next time, happy wanderings.  Thank you for listening to the Woodland Trust Woodland Walks with Adam Shaw. Join us next month, when Adam will be taking another walk in the company of Woodland Trust staff, partners and volunteers. 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Madison is known as a Tree City for its efforts to care for urban trees. Keeping a diverse mix of healthy trees in the city requires constantly planting new ones every year as well as maintaining those planted years ago. City trees in Madison have to be able to withstand freezing winters, sidewalk salt, power lines above, concrete all around, and the occasional car crashing into them. Not to mention insect pests like Emerald Ash Borer.   For all trees put up with in our urban environment, the benefits they deliver are enumerable: shade, shelter, beauty, fresh oxygen, homes for animals, planet cooling. But who speaks for those trees? City Forester Ian Brown does. City forestry staff advise on what and where trees get planted and how we, as a city, can care for some of the city's oldest residents. Today, we're peeking behind the curtain of Madison's City Forestry department.  Also on the show: 

In this episode we get to hear from Jared of Tree City Solventless, based out of OR. We talk about his journey from cannabis consumer, to working at dispensaries and the development of his brand over the last several years.  He tells us his practices naming phenotypes of genetics he's "hunting" through, why he prefers rosin and much more!   www.thehashishinn.com Instagram: @thehashishinn  www.patreon.com/thehashishinn   Presented by:  Rosin Evolution www.rosinevolution.com THI710 - SAVINGS CODE to save 5% & SUPPORT the podcast    

This week on Living Planet — How human activity transformed the mighty Araguari River. We also visit Uganda's capital, which has been designated as a 'Tree City of the World', but also deals with extreme air pollution. Are trees enough to clean its air? And in South Africa, there's a tree so big, it's home to hundreds of birds and bats, and it even has a cave within it!

Jeremiah lends his expertise to the recent talk of inflation, how it is and will effect the market with a potential interest rate hike at play as well. Including cost of living, rent, food, and more. As the Biden administration scrambles with just days to avert a rail strike that threatens to deal a devastating blow to the economy, the White House is facing pressure on multiple fronts as it weighs the political ramifications of a shutdown.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join WRBI News Director Tom Snape, and the rest of the WRBI Crew, for enlightening conversations with fascinating people in Southeast Indiana. Brew up your favorite beverage, relax, and listen every weekday morning at 9:30.

Spring is now fully well sprung and the Bureau runs through all the spring news releases from upstairs, including: The Queen City is a Tree City, the Public School Board needs a by-election, spray pads are turned on, bugs are gonna die. Plus, a look at an administration recommendation to try to use federal transit money to fund a new aquatic centre. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.

In this bonus episode I talk about Arbor Day, Tree City, USA and how we educate the public daily in ways many people wouldn't immediately imagine.Questions or comments?themunicipalarborist@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/the_municipal_arborist/Don't forget to click the link for ISA CEU's:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CSFWK57 

Evergreen Park is now "Tree City USA" and we have one of the folks who worked hard to get that distinction for the village. Gavin Yeaman explains why the village plants so many trees and how the trees along your street are selected. We learn about a few offerings for residents that we didn't know about. Mayor Kelly Burke and EPCC President Sara Klein also take on some local doctors in head-to-head trivia. Plus, local artist Dan McCabe makes us a custom mug to fill with beer at Open Outcry! Brought to you by The First National Bank of Evergreen Park!  Find the account that is right for you AND get your FREE EP Podcast Car Magnet there today! Get the latest news and information concerning everything going on in and around Evergreen Park and stay connected to your neighbors! New On-Demand Podcasts release on Mondays, with weekend specials on some Fridays. Every week Evergreen Park residents join their neighbor Chris Lanuti at a 9-foot homemade basement bar. Listen, interact & get all of your free subscription options at theEPpodcast.com​!

Mumbai has added yet another feather in its cap by winning the global title of 'Tree City Of The World' by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations jointly with Arbor Day Foundation. Mumbai received this recognition for its "commitment to growing and maintaining urban trees and greenery in order to create healthy, resilient, and happy cities" says BMC's garden department. Tune in with Sachin Kalbag - executive editor of the Hindustan Times and RJ Rohini to know more about this news.

Governor Hutchinson addresses Morrilton Civic Alliance at UACCM; contested races defined in Perry County; thunderstorms are the focus today in Severe Weather Awareness week; Morrilton named Tree City, U.S.A.; Winborn wins MHS Ayer Queen crown; 1A State Tournament gets underway today in Morrilton; we talk with Joseph and Marty Krutz of Big Cuppa about the upcoming Munchin' on Main festival.

The small city of Sanger, which is about a twenty-minute drive east of Fresno, is recognized as “The Nation's Christmas Tree City.” But where did the name come from?  Reporter: Soreath Hok, Valley Public Radio 

In 2018, Savannah received a grant to create an urban tree nursery to grow their tree canopy, mitigate the increasing impacts of climate related flooding, do workforce development, and engage the community. We interview Savannah's Director of Sustainability Nick Deffley, University of Georgia Marine Extension's Coastal Resilience Specialist Jill Gambill, and program apprentice and now owner and operator of Corinthian Gardens, Robert Hartwell. We learn how the program has gone and the life changing impacts it has had.ResourcesUrban Tree Nursery Program webpageGreen Infrastructure to Green Jobs presentationSavannah's Office of SustainabilityUGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea GrantSavannah Tree FoundationCorinthian Gardens (Robert's business)Loop It Up Savannah (kids that decorated the tree pots)

Owen Sound is planning to become a Tree City of the World, a designation made by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization.Shawna MacIvor, a volunteer with NeighbourWoods North tells us about why they wanted to be involved; Mike Richards and Mayim Bialik will be the new hosts of Jeopardy! Pop culture writer Stacy Lee Kong fills us in on what fans are saying about the choice; Infectious disease specialist, Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti comments on the new provincial guidelines with respect to testing, self-isolation and possible outbreaks; More and more colleges and universities will be requiring staff and students to be vaccinated. Udo Schuklenk, a professor at Queen's University and the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics, offers his perspective on the decision; Ontario businesses are calling on the provincial government to institute vaccine passports. We hear more from Daniel Safayeni of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce; Mike Shoreman will spend three days travelling by 140 kilometres across Lake Ontario by paddleboard. His goal is to be the first person with a disability to cross international waters by paddleboard. He tells us why he's undertaking the arduous trip.

I Trust Self is a family based company. We here to show love and respect to the world! This is a turn for the best actually a win for the crew. Thank Everyone The Three 'F' (Family) (Friends) (Fans) Host @sheenatamikah @clack58_blkbennjerry @vantheman973 @dollasignison Guest A Great Ones : Lo aka Marcus Smith Guest #2 Big Mike (LOL) Guest #3 Shoota aka IG page DaShoota Artist from Knightdale aka Tree City --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itrustselfpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itrustselfpodcast/support

The City of Madison celebrates Arbor Day, 2021. The Mayor, Forestry Department, and Streets Division plant a tree in honor of the day and to promote Madison as a Tree City.

The City of Madison celebrates Arbor Day, 2021. The Mayor, Forestry Department, and Streets Division plant a tree in honor of the day and to promote Madison as a Tree City.

Tim Milburn and Cameron Cryder are here to talk with Johnny Hampton with Tree City Church!Read More →

No scripts No notes No preparation! (Almost no Editing) Just firing from the hip giving you our raw hot takes on the Tree City Session 2 live stream. Some of our feelings have changed with time, but just let this reaction episode bring you back to that November night on the Tower Bridge in Sacramento. We discuss to what degree was the stream a live performance, ask if Jon Mess'ed up on NASA, fight about if any of the songs were stronger than the album version, and Rob learns the difference between funk and soul. Enjoy

Welcome to Greensburg, IN, know for a tree which grows from the top of the courthouse tower, giving the town its nickname, "Tree City". There have been trees growing continually since the first tree was noticed in the 1870s. The town was laid out in 1822 and the post office was opened in 1823. Greensburg had the unfortunate distinction of being a "sundown town" for decades after race riots against African Americans in 1906 and 1907. Sundown towns did not allow people of color within the town limits after sundown, and was a common practice in many states at least through the early 1960s. Greensburg has several notable residents including Gilbert Van Camp, founder of G. C. Van Camp & Son, and Carl Fisher, entrepreneur involved in the development of Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Miami Beach. We hope you enjoy your time in Greensburg!

We talk with Ben Rosett this week and then we talk about everything under the sun (especially ABC's LOST). This is probably our greatest episode yet btw.

Gold may be a good gift for a significant other, but is it an ideal investment? Kent Owings, a Financial Advisor with Tree City, challenges you change his mind! Fellow advisor, Alexandra Lundgren, joins the conversation to talk about gold investments, gyms reopening, and the ability of businesses to adapt to life during a pandemic.   Kent Owings, Financial Advisor Alexandra Lundgren, Financial Advisor www.treecityadvisors.com www.therealmoneypros.com Live Mon-Fri, 6-7pm on 670 KBOI www.kboi.com

Birmingham is one of only fifty-nine cities around the globe to be awarded the status of 'Tree City of the World'. This is an international framework for a healthy, sustainable urban forestry programme, an award that's all down to the passion of Birmingham's citizens for trees. Helen Mark meets tree planters young and old from near and far; tree wardens, who are kind of like traffic wardens, but for trees (and just as fierce: really, don't mess with their trees); an academic who runs the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (he really loves trees) and an arboriculturalist who gets to work at 6.30 every morning in his mission to extend Birmingham's canopy cover. Helen finds out why the city's tree-focussed ambitions go well beyond just planting trees. All these people know you have to take care of trees for their whole life, not just plonk them in the ground. They also know that urban trees suffer more than those planted in the countryside, so they need extra tenderness. Helen also finds herself in a once-famous garden that has re-wilded itself. Once the immaculate BBC show garden of TV gardener Percy Thrower, this patch of tree-laden wilderness-heaven is in a secret corner of Birmingham's Botanical Gardens. She thinks on the whole, he'd approve of the trees. Although maybe not the weeds. Recorded in early March. Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

James Grimm from Idaho's only wrestling promotion WrestleClub, joins the Unprofessionals during these trying times to talk some wrestling. James shares his start in the business as well as what he has accomplished so far and hopes for the future. We also talk SLC's AEW Dynamite that we were all present for, Part 1 of Chris Benoit's Dark Side of the Ring documentary and empty arena matches. Listen, enjoy, and stay Unprofessional.

Sanford was recently designated a Tree City "of The World" bumped up from Tree City USA! Learn why. Elizabeth Harkey, the city's Arborist also shares how the city is recognizing Arbor Day this year at a public event to be held on Monday, February 10, 2020 in conjunction with honoring African-American History Month.

We were in the studio for Tourism Tuesday - Front Royal/Warren County edition - with Felicia Hart, Director of Community Development & Tourism for the Town of Front Royal and her guest, Melody Hotek from Front Royal Tree Stewards. Melody told us about the work Front Royal Tree Stewards perform across our community; we talked about their upcoming Arbor Day event in partnership with Community Earth Day happening on Saturday, April 27, 2019; plus Melody explained the Tree City, USA designation granted to the town for the last 20 years. Felicia talked about the importance of being positive about our community when tourists are asking questions (in person and on social media) about our area; she told us about a few upcoming events and told us about several travel writers who will be visiting Front Royal in the coming weeks and months.

AG Craft Beer Cast 6-30-18 Guest: Rich Bentrewicz "Tree City Vodka"

Two friends at the end of the world search for a ticket out. This is a special episode of SM9K. We participated in the Tree City 50 Hour Challenge to make this film. Pabst Blue Ribbon was a sponsor of the event, not of this podcast. Watch the film here: https://vimeo.com/260684162

This is the first episode of our newest podcast "Life's So Dope." In this episode; Kidd, Intellect & MCO discuss their recent projects, Target Practice & The SkyKing Chronicles. The three artists reveal their inspiration and the influences they had while working on their respective projects. Special guest, BC joins in on the conversation as the gang also touch on the generational gap in hip-hop, with controversial "rapper" 6ix9ine being an example of how that gap has manifested . Head to www.treecityrecords.com to subscribe to our mailing list and stay up-to-date on all podcasts.

The story about three high school friends - one of whom is dead. This is a special episode of SM9K. We participated the Tree City 50 Hour Challenge to make this film. Listen here. Watch Dead Ed here https://vimeo.com/203730026 Originally Uploaded 3/31/17

Gary has traveled far and wide in the states and will tell you the best way to get the best music and experiences is on the ground level. His newest album "Secondary Characters" is inspired by the many people and places he's met along the way.     Check out today's interview where Ben sits down with Gary to talk about stories from the road and hear some great tracks! We hear "Favorite Star", "The Crawl", "Tree City" and "Number One No-One".   Don't miss Gary headlining the Madison Street Festival October 7th at 2PM and that night at Mad Malt's Brewery at 7PM. He'll also be playing a benefit concert for Breaking Bounderies, supporting victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma, at Yellowhammer Brewery Oct 22nd.

Gary has traveled far and wide in the states and will tell you the best way to get the best music and experiences is on the ground level. His newest album "Secondary Characters" is inspired by the many people and places he's met along the way.     Check out today's interview where Ben sits down with Gary to talk about stories from the road and hear some great tracks! We hear "Favorite Star", "The Crawl", "Tree City" and "Number One No-One".   Don't miss Gary headlining the Madison Street Festival October 7th at 2PM and that night at Mad Malt's Brewery at 7PM. He'll also be playing a benefit concert for Breaking Bounderies, supporting victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma, at Yellowhammer Brewery Oct 22nd.

The City of West Palm Beach has become known for it's amazing year round downtown events. Mary Pinak, City of West Palm Beach Community Events Manager, has been at the creative center of every Downtown West Palm Beach event for the last 28 years. THE INTERVIEW: In this episode of City Voice, Mary Pinak talks about downtown events and dates. My favorite part of this episode is hearing Mary tell the inside back story of where Clematis by Night and Sandi The Christmas Tree came from and how they got their names. Episode Links: West Palm Beach Community Events Calendar and Information Clematis By Night Want to be a part of it all and become a Sponsor?

We were joined in the studio by Melody Hotek from the Front Royal - Warren County Tree Stewards. We talked about all the great things their organization does for our community including maintaining our Tree City, USA designation, educational sessions and working with local government for planning, pruning and maintaining our tree landscape. Their upcoming class, "All About Trees" starts on September 6. For more details, download their flyer here: All About Trees 2016 Flyer or visit their website: www.treesfrontroyal.org. You can also pick up applications at the kiosk next to the Gazebo or at Samuels Public Library.

It looks like my email yesterday struck a chord with a few of you… On this episode Russell talks about his juicing diet that he and his team are doing for one of his Inner Circle members. He also talks about why he has decided to shut down his Ignite Program. Here are a few things to listen for in today's episode: Russell explains why he is shutting down his Ignite program. Why he is only focusing on his Inner Circle program and how many people he is letting join. And how you can sign up to be a part of the Inner Circle and why you should. So listen below to find out how you can be a part of Russell's Inner Circle. ---Transcript--- Hey, everybody. This is Russell Brunson, and welcome to “Marketing in Your Car.” All right, everybody. Hope you're having an amazing day today. I'm heading in to the office and we have sun shining. It's beautiful. I think it's still cold, but the sun's up, so it makes you feel like you're … Makes you feel better, so that's exciting. Anyway, I'm really excited for today. We actually started a company-wide juice fast yesterday, so one of our … We have a new person named G from over in London. When I was in London I met her, and then she joined the Inner Circle, and she's working on a juice cleanse product and a bunch of stuff like that. I was like, “Basically, we needed some results,” and she's like, “Well, I've got a lot of people I've done it for, but I don't have any videos.” I'm like, “All right. I'm going to drop everything on this side. I'm going to get my entire company to do it, and we're going to become your testimonials.” It's kind of cool. Everyone, this week, is on a week-long juice fast and documenting the process and creating cool video content for her, for her new upcoming launch, which will be fun. Just one of the fun things we do for our Inner Circle members that's cool. Anyway, day one was actually really fun. It was interesting. I do weird stuff all the time, as you guys know if you've listened to this podcast for any amount of time. I'm drinking and eating and trying all sorts of weird stuff. I actually really enjoy juicing. When I juice, typically it's hardcore. I don't put any fruits or berries or those wussy things that make them taste good. I just go straight for the hardcore. I'm using cucumber, fennel, celery, and some lime for some taste and that's what I drink. Most people think it's disgusting but I love it. It's glowing green, so you drink it … I feel like I'm drinking ooze from Ninja Turtles. I feel my whole body just, boom, exploding with alkalinity and power and energy. Yeah, it doesn't taste that good. It doesn't taste bad, and in fact I like it a lot. I've become very accustomed to that, so I like it. If I give that to the average person the first time, they'd just be like … It's like it's a kick in the face or something. Is someone honking at me? I don't even know. Anyway, that's what we're … I feel like someone's honking at me but I can't figure out who. I like pretty strange stuff. My taste buds are acquired to weirdness because of it. Most of them aren't, so we have this place called Tree City here in Boise and so I paid for a week of juicing, so they're going in and we grab … Basically they give you six bottles of juice you drink all day. There's one that's called the Vitarrific, which is pure greens and ginger and really strong, which I think is awesome, but most everyone in the office is gagging on it and trying to keep it down. It's pretty funny. Then there's a coconut one, there's one called CAB, which is carrot, apple, beet, which is really good. There's coconut, there's almond milk. Anyway, it's really, really good. Yesterday was fun. I was drinking them thinking it was like drinking candy and most of these guys are dry heaving. They're in the bathroom every five minutes. It was awesome. Anyway, I love putting my team through crazy stuff like that when I can. That's what we're doing over here. Yesterday I sent out something that got a lot more attention than I thought. A lot of you guys know for the last two or three years we've been running two coaching programs, our Ignite program and also our Inner Circle program. As they've grown way bigger than I ever had initially thought or hoped … Initially we thought we were going to get maybe fifty people in Ignite and twenty-five in Inner Circle, but it's grown to the point where we've got almost two hundred in Ignite and Inner Circle now we're about seventy, which is crazy. The other thing I'm looking at is how much time it's taking from me, and it's just been really hard as it keeps on growing. My thought was, “Do we keep growing it? Do I shift focus from other things to just keep expanding this, or do we change it and shrink it?” With ClickFunnels growing as amazingly as it has, it doesn't make sense for me to keep adding more things on that side. We actually, yesterday, announced that we're shutting down our Ignite program. Everyone who's in, we're going to continue to fulfill over the next twelve months of their contract. We're just not allowing anybody new into the Ignite program. That's happened on that side, which means those hundred and eighty people, there's nowhere else for them to go now. On the Inner Circle side, again, we're at seventy-something people. I thought, “You know what? I think realistically I could run three groups.” I really enjoy running those groups. It's the coolest entrepreneurs. People get such big results. Everyone who's in those groups are doers who are having success. We basically got two and almost two and a half groups filled up. I sent an e-mail yesterday saying when the third group's filled, it's done. I'm locking the doors, and the only way we'll ever let people into the Inner Circle again is if someone drops out. As you guys probably know, it's not a cheap program. It's twenty-five grand a year. What's cool is that most of our people, after the year's up, have been re-signing up, which just makes me feel awesome, obviously. I've been trying my best to serve everyone at the best level I can and it just means a lot to me when people do come back. That's what's been happening. Yesterday I sent an e-mail saying I think it's seventy-four are filled, so that means there's twenty-six spots left. Within an hour we had over a hundred applications, which was awesome. Randy and Derek on my side are going like crazy today, trying to get back to everyone and get in touch with them. I'm pretty sure those spots are going to sell out really, really quick. If you're listening to this, listening today and you're interested, this is the last shot. Every year I join a Mastermind group. You need to be in one. Ideally you should be in mine if you can. I hate to be … Obviously I'm biased, but I've been in probably eight or nine different groups and ours is by far the best, for a couple reasons. First off, the facilitator's pretty sweet. I know him, he's a good guy. Second off, just the quality people we have has been amazing. It's such a huge honor for me that that is the group we've put together. It gives you guys, if you're in there, the ability to be surrounded with just amazing, amazing people. Other masterminds that I've been in, usually I come in and I'm the smartest dude in the room, which I hate that, because it's just … I feel like I'm the one facilitating the whole time, where this time, in our groups, I honestly feel … There's times I sit back and I'm like, “I can't believe I'm getting paid to be part of this, just to be in this room. I'm learning so much from everybody else.” It's just a huge honor for me. If you're going to be in one … Again, everyone should be in at least one a year, otherwise you're crazy. If you want to be in ours, now's the time to get in there. All you have to do is go to RussellBrunson.com. Yep, I changed it over to RussellBrunson.com, so that when people ask … I was always telling them this long URL before. Now, if you're interested, go to RussellBrunson.com and you can apply there. I would apply in … There's a phone number on the thank you page. If you're serious, call that number, because they got insane amounts of apps. If you're listening to this six months or a year down the road, I would still go through the process, even if we're sold out. I might guess that each month, one or two spots will open up for people who have … Their year's up and for whatever reason they don't renew. The only way to get in is to be on that waiting list. That'd be the other thing, if you're later on down the road. That's what's happening. It's interesting. I look at my business, my life. I really… The only thing that I want to be doing is obviously ClickFunnels, I want to focus eighty percent of my time there. I want to work really close with a hundred entrepreneurs, which is the Inner Circle. Then I want to be working on my own little things. That's what I'm doing now and it's pretty exciting. Anyway, I'm definitely, definitely excited for it. I'm excited to meet the last twenty-six people who enter into the Inner Circle. Our first meeting's coming up in January and it'll just be fun to get to know a new group of people. Yeah, so I'm excited. We have a couple other really cool announcements coming up. I can tell you guys because it's official now. I can't remember if I told you guys yet or not, but we've got the signed contract, we've paid the down payment. For Funnel Hacking LIVE Event, Marcus Lemonis from “The Profit” is coming to speak, which is so exciting. That's pretty cool. We'll have more info on that hopefully next week or so. That's just something I'm fired up about, as you can tell. Yeah, it's pretty exciting. With that said, I don't have too much more for you guys. I just wanted to let you know that that's what's happening with my coaching stuff. People were freaking out, like, “Are you really retiring?” I'm like, “Well, kind of. Not retiring, but retiring from Ignite program, and Inner Circle we're just locking it down. A hundred people will be in at a time, and that's it.” One of the other Masterminds I joined was supposed to be a small group, and it ended up getting a hundred people. Instead of breaking it up and doing the actual work, they just bundled everyone into one big group. I was at a Mastermind meeting with a hundred people, and I'm like, “You can't, in two days, effectively work a hundred people in a group.” Our sweet spot's about thirty-five people, so that's basically how we have it broken up. There's three different groups. We meet thirty-five at a time, and we can actually get some work done and do some cool things in that kind of a format. That's how we run ours. What else, what else? I think that's it, you guys. I'm almost at the office. If you haven't applied yet, go apply. RussellBrunson.com. If you're already in the Inner Circle, then you're in. Congratulations. You've locked it in. Don't let your spot slip away to somebody else. Anyway, that's about it for today, you guys. Have an amazing day. I'm excited to go try to take over the world in my little way. Hopefully you're doing the same thing as well, and we will talk again soon. Bye.

It looks like my email yesterday struck a chord with a few of you… On this episode Russell talks about his juicing diet that he and his team are doing for one of his Inner Circle members. He also talks about why he has decided to shut down his Ignite Program. Here are a few things to listen for in today’s episode: Russell explains why he is shutting down his Ignite program. Why he is only focusing on his Inner Circle program and how many people he is letting join. And how you can sign up to be a part of the Inner Circle and why you should. So listen below to find out how you can be a part of Russell’s Inner Circle. ---Transcript--- Hey, everybody. This is Russell Brunson, and welcome to “Marketing in Your Car.” All right, everybody. Hope you’re having an amazing day today. I’m heading in to the office and we have sun shining. It’s beautiful. I think it’s still cold, but the sun’s up, so it makes you feel like you’re … Makes you feel better, so that’s exciting. Anyway, I’m really excited for today. We actually started a company-wide juice fast yesterday, so one of our … We have a new person named G from over in London. When I was in London I met her, and then she joined the Inner Circle, and she’s working on a juice cleanse product and a bunch of stuff like that. I was like, “Basically, we needed some results,” and she’s like, “Well, I’ve got a lot of people I’ve done it for, but I don’t have any videos.” I’m like, “All right. I’m going to drop everything on this side. I’m going to get my entire company to do it, and we’re going to become your testimonials.” It’s kind of cool. Everyone, this week, is on a week-long juice fast and documenting the process and creating cool video content for her, for her new upcoming launch, which will be fun. Just one of the fun things we do for our Inner Circle members that’s cool. Anyway, day one was actually really fun. It was interesting. I do weird stuff all the time, as you guys know if you’ve listened to this podcast for any amount of time. I’m drinking and eating and trying all sorts of weird stuff. I actually really enjoy juicing. When I juice, typically it’s hardcore. I don’t put any fruits or berries or those wussy things that make them taste good. I just go straight for the hardcore. I’m using cucumber, fennel, celery, and some lime for some taste and that’s what I drink. Most people think it’s disgusting but I love it. It’s glowing green, so you drink it … I feel like I’m drinking ooze from Ninja Turtles. I feel my whole body just, boom, exploding with alkalinity and power and energy. Yeah, it doesn’t taste that good. It doesn’t taste bad, and in fact I like it a lot. I’ve become very accustomed to that, so I like it. If I give that to the average person the first time, they’d just be like … It’s like it’s a kick in the face or something. Is someone honking at me? I don’t even know. Anyway, that’s what we’re … I feel like someone’s honking at me but I can’t figure out who. I like pretty strange stuff. My taste buds are acquired to weirdness because of it. Most of them aren’t, so we have this place called Tree City here in Boise and so I paid for a week of juicing, so they’re going in and we grab … Basically they give you six bottles of juice you drink all day. There’s one that’s called the Vitarrific, which is pure greens and ginger and really strong, which I think is awesome, but most everyone in the office is gagging on it and trying to keep it down. It’s pretty funny. Then there’s a coconut one, there’s one called CAB, which is carrot, apple, beet, which is really good. There’s coconut, there’s almond milk. Anyway, it’s really, really good. Yesterday was fun. I was drinking them thinking it was like drinking candy and most of these guys are dry heaving. They’re in the bathroom every five minutes. It was awesome. Anyway, I love putting my team through crazy stuff like that when I can. That’s what we’re doing over here. Yesterday I sent out something that got a lot more attention than I thought. A lot of you guys know for the last two or three years we’ve been running two coaching programs, our Ignite program and also our Inner Circle program. As they’ve grown way bigger than I ever had initially thought or hoped … Initially we thought we were going to get maybe fifty people in Ignite and twenty-five in Inner Circle, but it’s grown to the point where we’ve got almost two hundred in Ignite and Inner Circle now we’re about seventy, which is crazy. The other thing I’m looking at is how much time it’s taking from me, and it’s just been really hard as it keeps on growing. My thought was, “Do we keep growing it? Do I shift focus from other things to just keep expanding this, or do we change it and shrink it?” With ClickFunnels growing as amazingly as it has, it doesn’t make sense for me to keep adding more things on that side. We actually, yesterday, announced that we’re shutting down our Ignite program. Everyone who’s in, we’re going to continue to fulfill over the next twelve months of their contract. We’re just not allowing anybody new into the Ignite program. That’s happened on that side, which means those hundred and eighty people, there’s nowhere else for them to go now. On the Inner Circle side, again, we’re at seventy-something people. I thought, “You know what? I think realistically I could run three groups.” I really enjoy running those groups. It’s the coolest entrepreneurs. People get such big results. Everyone who’s in those groups are doers who are having success. We basically got two and almost two and a half groups filled up. I sent an e-mail yesterday saying when the third group’s filled, it’s done. I’m locking the doors, and the only way we’ll ever let people into the Inner Circle again is if someone drops out. As you guys probably know, it’s not a cheap program. It’s twenty-five grand a year. What’s cool is that most of our people, after the year’s up, have been re-signing up, which just makes me feel awesome, obviously. I’ve been trying my best to serve everyone at the best level I can and it just means a lot to me when people do come back. That’s what’s been happening. Yesterday I sent an e-mail saying I think it’s seventy-four are filled, so that means there’s twenty-six spots left. Within an hour we had over a hundred applications, which was awesome. Randy and Derek on my side are going like crazy today, trying to get back to everyone and get in touch with them. I’m pretty sure those spots are going to sell out really, really quick. If you’re listening to this, listening today and you’re interested, this is the last shot. Every year I join a Mastermind group. You need to be in one. Ideally you should be in mine if you can. I hate to be … Obviously I’m biased, but I’ve been in probably eight or nine different groups and ours is by far the best, for a couple reasons. First off, the facilitator’s pretty sweet. I know him, he’s a good guy. Second off, just the quality people we have has been amazing. It’s such a huge honor for me that that is the group we’ve put together. It gives you guys, if you’re in there, the ability to be surrounded with just amazing, amazing people. Other masterminds that I’ve been in, usually I come in and I’m the smartest dude in the room, which I hate that, because it’s just … I feel like I’m the one facilitating the whole time, where this time, in our groups, I honestly feel … There’s times I sit back and I’m like, “I can’t believe I’m getting paid to be part of this, just to be in this room. I’m learning so much from everybody else.” It’s just a huge honor for me. If you’re going to be in one … Again, everyone should be in at least one a year, otherwise you’re crazy. If you want to be in ours, now’s the time to get in there. All you have to do is go to RussellBrunson.com. Yep, I changed it over to RussellBrunson.com, so that when people ask … I was always telling them this long URL before. Now, if you’re interested, go to RussellBrunson.com and you can apply there. I would apply in … There’s a phone number on the thank you page. If you’re serious, call that number, because they got insane amounts of apps. If you’re listening to this six months or a year down the road, I would still go through the process, even if we’re sold out. I might guess that each month, one or two spots will open up for people who have … Their year’s up and for whatever reason they don’t renew. The only way to get in is to be on that waiting list. That’d be the other thing, if you’re later on down the road. That’s what’s happening. It’s interesting. I look at my business, my life. I really… The only thing that I want to be doing is obviously ClickFunnels, I want to focus eighty percent of my time there. I want to work really close with a hundred entrepreneurs, which is the Inner Circle. Then I want to be working on my own little things. That’s what I’m doing now and it’s pretty exciting. Anyway, I’m definitely, definitely excited for it. I’m excited to meet the last twenty-six people who enter into the Inner Circle. Our first meeting’s coming up in January and it’ll just be fun to get to know a new group of people. Yeah, so I’m excited. We have a couple other really cool announcements coming up. I can tell you guys because it’s official now. I can’t remember if I told you guys yet or not, but we’ve got the signed contract, we’ve paid the down payment. For Funnel Hacking LIVE Event, Marcus Lemonis from “The Profit” is coming to speak, which is so exciting. That’s pretty cool. We’ll have more info on that hopefully next week or so. That’s just something I’m fired up about, as you can tell. Yeah, it’s pretty exciting. With that said, I don’t have too much more for you guys. I just wanted to let you know that that’s what’s happening with my coaching stuff. People were freaking out, like, “Are you really retiring?” I’m like, “Well, kind of. Not retiring, but retiring from Ignite program, and Inner Circle we’re just locking it down. A hundred people will be in at a time, and that’s it.” One of the other Masterminds I joined was supposed to be a small group, and it ended up getting a hundred people. Instead of breaking it up and doing the actual work, they just bundled everyone into one big group. I was at a Mastermind meeting with a hundred people, and I’m like, “You can’t, in two days, effectively work a hundred people in a group.” Our sweet spot’s about thirty-five people, so that’s basically how we have it broken up. There’s three different groups. We meet thirty-five at a time, and we can actually get some work done and do some cool things in that kind of a format. That’s how we run ours. What else, what else? I think that’s it, you guys. I’m almost at the office. If you haven’t applied yet, go apply. RussellBrunson.com. If you’re already in the Inner Circle, then you’re in. Congratulations. You’ve locked it in. Don’t let your spot slip away to somebody else. Anyway, that’s about it for today, you guys. Have an amazing day. I’m excited to go try to take over the world in my little way. Hopefully you’re doing the same thing as well, and we will talk again soon. Bye.

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The post Episode #70 – Random Ramblings From Russell On His Way To Jujitsu appeared first on DotComSecrets.com Blog - Weird Marketing Experiments That Increase Traffic, Conversions and Sales.... Four life lessons that Russell learned this week, that you can implement to, hopefully, make your life a little bit better. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey, everybody. This is Russell Brunson and I am doing a special Marketing in Your Car from inside the Mommy Mobile. Yes, I am inside my wife's car and I am ready to do a great podcast. I have no idea what direction we are going to go today on this podcast. Usually I have a theme I want to think about, but I have a lot of cool stuff happening and I am excited, so I am going to just start rambling. Hopefully something cool will come out of it and you will get some value out of it. First, right now I am on day seven of my modified juice fast and I feel amazing. I want to talk about this because I think I just stumbled on something new. I am not sure if it is totally healthy and I may very well die in the near future from it, but I think it is awesome. This is what I am doing. When I walk up in the morning I do my Bullet-proof hot chocolate which is the Mormon version of Bullet-proof coffee. It consists of chocolate, organic grass-fed Kerrygold butter, MCT oil, cocoa powder, and some Stevia. I blend it up and that is my breakfast in the morning. When I do this, I am not hungry and I feel pretty good the rest of the day. It is pretty awesome. The second step is that I have been juicing and I was making a gallon of juice per day. This was fun, but all my juices kind of taste nasty because I just juice everything I can find in one huge gallon jug. I carry it around all day and keep drinking it. I don't mind it, but it is kind of gross, so I went to a place called Tree City here in Boise. They have this juice cleanse. Every day I go in the morning and they have six juices for me to drink throughout the day, so I have been drinking those. At night, just because everyone else is eating and I feel guilty (I don't feel guilty, actually; I just get hungry) I usually eat some eggs. I don't eat carbs, but just eggs. I have done this now for almost a week and I feel awesome. I am not as tired; I have energy; I am not craving food. Well, I am not going to lie. When I do crave something in the middle of the day, I have been eating Quest Nutrition Bars. From a nutritional standpoint, they are the best protein bar you can get in the world. From a taste standpoint, it is like eating candy. I could live on Quest bars alone. You can go to their Web site, QuestNutrition.com, and look for the cookies and cream one. Man! It is like eating Oreo cookies, but a thousand times better. They are all super high protein and very low carbs. This is what I have been doing. Second, I am actually driving right now to Jiu Jitsu. This week has been so slammed and so crazy. Typically, when I am this busy I cancel my Jiu Jitsu. Today my wife said, “You really should just cancel it.” I said, “You know what? No! This is the thing I look forward to.” This is the reward at the end of the tunnel for me. It is going to beat up dudes. I don't know why, but it is so appealing to me. This is what I want to do. So many times we cut out the part of our life that brings us a lot of happiness because of work and other things. I was thinking about this in the case of many of us. Everyone has the things they like to do, right? Many times life gets in the way of those things. We need to make it more of a priority and say, “Look, this is what I do.” For me right now it is Jiu Jitsu. Twice a week I want to do it, I am going to do it,

Four life lessons that Russell learned this week, that you can implement to, hopefully, make your life a little bit better. ---Transcript--- Hey, everybody. This is Russell Brunson and I am doing a special Marketing in Your Car from inside the Mommy Mobile. Yes, I am inside my wife's car and I am ready to do a great podcast. I have no idea what direction we are going to go today on this podcast. Usually I have a theme I want to think about, but I have a lot of cool stuff happening and I am excited, so I am going to just start rambling. Hopefully something cool will come out of it and you will get some value out of it. First, right now I am on day seven of my modified juice fast and I feel amazing. I want to talk about this because I think I just stumbled on something new. I am not sure if it is totally healthy and I may very well die in the near future from it, but I think it is awesome. This is what I am doing. When I walk up in the morning I do my Bullet-proof hot chocolate which is the Mormon version of Bullet-proof coffee. It consists of chocolate, organic grass-fed Kerrygold butter, MCT oil, cocoa powder, and some Stevia. I blend it up and that is my breakfast in the morning. When I do this, I am not hungry and I feel pretty good the rest of the day. It is pretty awesome. The second step is that I have been juicing and I was making a gallon of juice per day. This was fun, but all my juices kind of taste nasty because I just juice everything I can find in one huge gallon jug. I carry it around all day and keep drinking it. I don't mind it, but it is kind of gross, so I went to a place called Tree City here in Boise. They have this juice cleanse. Every day I go in the morning and they have six juices for me to drink throughout the day, so I have been drinking those. At night, just because everyone else is eating and I feel guilty (I don't feel guilty, actually; I just get hungry) I usually eat some eggs. I don't eat carbs, but just eggs. I have done this now for almost a week and I feel awesome. I am not as tired; I have energy; I am not craving food. Well, I am not going to lie. When I do crave something in the middle of the day, I have been eating Quest Nutrition Bars. From a nutritional standpoint, they are the best protein bar you can get in the world. From a taste standpoint, it is like eating candy. I could live on Quest bars alone. You can go to their Web site, QuestNutrition.com, and look for the cookies and cream one. Man! It is like eating Oreo cookies, but a thousand times better. They are all super high protein and very low carbs. This is what I have been doing. Second, I am actually driving right now to Jiu Jitsu. This week has been so slammed and so crazy. Typically, when I am this busy I cancel my Jiu Jitsu. Today my wife said, “You really should just cancel it.” I said, “You know what? No! This is the thing I look forward to.” This is the reward at the end of the tunnel for me. It is going to beat up dudes. I don't know why, but it is so appealing to me. This is what I want to do. So many times we cut out the part of our life that brings us a lot of happiness because of work and other things. I was thinking about this in the case of many of us. Everyone has the things they like to do, right? Many times life gets in the way of those things. We need to make it more of a priority and say, “Look, this is what I do.” For me right now it is Jiu Jitsu. Twice a week I want to do it, I am going to do it, and everything else has to fall to the side because I am going to do it; that is, outside of my family. With work, many times it fills the space you give it. If you have eight hours a day, it will fill eight hours. If you have 20 hours a day, it will fill 20 hours. Anyway, make sure you tie in those things you really want to do. The reason we became entrepreneurs is that we wanted to do a bunch of stuff. We wanted more time, more money, more freedom, or more whatever. However, we then shackle ourselves down with our businesses to the point where because of our business we cannot do the stuff we want to do. It is kind of interesting. There is another life lesson for today. What else? Oh, the next thing is ClickFunnels. We are almost done with our initial beta. I cannot tell you how excited I am. I literally built an entire membership site last night in 20 minutes from start to finish to everything. It used to take a ton of time. There is one limitation: You can only do a membership site the way we have it. If you want a fancy membership sites with a lot of other stuff, you have to use WishList Member (that's a plug for Stu, my man!). However, if you want a basic membership site, man! In 20 minutes, start to finish, I had a membership site that I could start selling. We were going through sales funnels that fast, automated Webinars; I am going through and creating all of these right now. Even if I never sold a single license to ClickFunnels, it will change my business forever. Now we can sell it and share it with everybody else in the world which is very, very exciting. It is going to be awesome. We also just hired a full-time accountant which is a crazy thing. She has been coming in. This is the first time in my business where I have had someone do tons of in depth, not analytics, but almost like an autopsy. It is like doing an autopsy of our books, digging deep and trying to figure out everything. Where is the money coming from? Where is it going? Which of our offers are profitable? Which are not profitable? Right now everything we do kind of gets lumped together, so at the end of the month we are thinking, “Yeah! We are profitable!” I have been learning one thing from my favorite show The Profit. Today, by the way, is the season finale. It is interesting because he goes into companies and tries to find where the profit is on each of the things they are selling. He gets rid of all the low-profit stuff and tries to sell more of the high-profit stuff. Last night's episode they were in a pie company. This pie company had an 80% margin on their key lime pie and they had a 10% profit margin on everything else. However, everything else took up 90% of the store. He got rid of all of it and transformed the store to 100% key lime pie and nothing else. Boom! All of a sudden it became profitable. It was interesting like that. One of my big takeaways is looking at all of my funnels. We have a lot of them. Our support has to be in all of them and there are things happening and costs associated with each of them.   Which ones are actually making us money and which ones are not? We are trying to identify this, to drill down, and to figure out which products are profitable and which ones are not? We are also looking at advertising sources. We used to group everything like, “Here are solo ads; here is Facebook; here is whatever.” We are digging deeper to figure out everything about our business. We have always been pretty good at numbers, but now we are getting very, very good, stripping out everything that is not profitable and focusing on the good stuff. It is sad. We are shutting down Web sites, funnels, and pages that I love, but they are not making money or they are costing too much in time, energy, support, and headaches. It does not make a lot of sense. Anyway, I am at Jiu Jitsu now. I am going to go in here. The dude I am going to roll with is way tougher than I am. I am going to try to beat him up today. That is my goal. My goal, actually, is to not get tapped out today from him. He is a stud, but it should be pretty fun. Hopefully out of this you got something. If not, then just wait until next week and I will have some more good stuff. I appreciate you guys. Look for ClickFunnels.com. It is coming out soon. We are not far from the public release. Like I said, this will change our industry forever. It will change my business forever and I am sure it will change yours, as well. That's it for today. Thanks, and we will talk to you soon.

Four life lessons that Russell learned this week, that you can implement to, hopefully, make your life a little bit better. ---Transcript--- Hey, everybody. This is Russell Brunson and I am doing a special Marketing in Your Car from inside the Mommy Mobile. Yes, I am inside my wife’s car and I am ready to do a great podcast. I have no idea what direction we are going to go today on this podcast. Usually I have a theme I want to think about, but I have a lot of cool stuff happening and I am excited, so I am going to just start rambling. Hopefully something cool will come out of it and you will get some value out of it. First, right now I am on day seven of my modified juice fast and I feel amazing. I want to talk about this because I think I just stumbled on something new. I am not sure if it is totally healthy and I may very well die in the near future from it, but I think it is awesome. This is what I am doing. When I walk up in the morning I do my Bullet-proof hot chocolate which is the Mormon version of Bullet-proof coffee. It consists of chocolate, organic grass-fed Kerrygold butter, MCT oil, cocoa powder, and some Stevia. I blend it up and that is my breakfast in the morning. When I do this, I am not hungry and I feel pretty good the rest of the day. It is pretty awesome. The second step is that I have been juicing and I was making a gallon of juice per day. This was fun, but all my juices kind of taste nasty because I just juice everything I can find in one huge gallon jug. I carry it around all day and keep drinking it. I don’t mind it, but it is kind of gross, so I went to a place called Tree City here in Boise. They have this juice cleanse. Every day I go in the morning and they have six juices for me to drink throughout the day, so I have been drinking those. At night, just because everyone else is eating and I feel guilty (I don’t feel guilty, actually; I just get hungry) I usually eat some eggs. I don’t eat carbs, but just eggs. I have done this now for almost a week and I feel awesome. I am not as tired; I have energy; I am not craving food. Well, I am not going to lie. When I do crave something in the middle of the day, I have been eating Quest Nutrition Bars. From a nutritional standpoint, they are the best protein bar you can get in the world. From a taste standpoint, it is like eating candy. I could live on Quest bars alone. You can go to their Web site, QuestNutrition.com, and look for the cookies and cream one. Man! It is like eating Oreo cookies, but a thousand times better. They are all super high protein and very low carbs. This is what I have been doing. Second, I am actually driving right now to Jiu Jitsu. This week has been so slammed and so crazy. Typically, when I am this busy I cancel my Jiu Jitsu. Today my wife said, “You really should just cancel it.” I said, “You know what? No! This is the thing I look forward to.” This is the reward at the end of the tunnel for me. It is going to beat up dudes. I don’t know why, but it is so appealing to me. This is what I want to do. So many times we cut out the part of our life that brings us a lot of happiness because of work and other things. I was thinking about this in the case of many of us. Everyone has the things they like to do, right? Many times life gets in the way of those things. We need to make it more of a priority and say, “Look, this is what I do.” For me right now it is Jiu Jitsu. Twice a week I want to do it, I am going to do it, and everything else has to fall to the side because I am going to do it; that is, outside of my family. With work, many times it fills the space you give it. If you have eight hours a day, it will fill eight hours. If you have 20 hours a day, it will fill 20 hours. Anyway, make sure you tie in those things you really want to do. The reason we became entrepreneurs is that we wanted to do a bunch of stuff. We wanted more time, more money, more freedom, or more whatever. However, we then shackle ourselves down with our businesses to the point where because of our business we cannot do the stuff we want to do. It is kind of interesting. There is another life lesson for today. What else? Oh, the next thing is ClickFunnels. We are almost done with our initial beta. I cannot tell you how excited I am. I literally built an entire membership site last night in 20 minutes from start to finish to everything. It used to take a ton of time. There is one limitation: You can only do a membership site the way we have it. If you want a fancy membership sites with a lot of other stuff, you have to use WishList Member (that’s a plug for Stu, my man!). However, if you want a basic membership site, man! In 20 minutes, start to finish, I had a membership site that I could start selling. We were going through sales funnels that fast, automated Webinars; I am going through and creating all of these right now. Even if I never sold a single license to ClickFunnels, it will change my business forever. Now we can sell it and share it with everybody else in the world which is very, very exciting. It is going to be awesome. We also just hired a full-time accountant which is a crazy thing. She has been coming in. This is the first time in my business where I have had someone do tons of in depth, not analytics, but almost like an autopsy. It is like doing an autopsy of our books, digging deep and trying to figure out everything. Where is the money coming from? Where is it going? Which of our offers are profitable? Which are not profitable? Right now everything we do kind of gets lumped together, so at the end of the month we are thinking, “Yeah! We are profitable!” I have been learning one thing from my favorite show The Profit. Today, by the way, is the season finale. It is interesting because he goes into companies and tries to find where the profit is on each of the things they are selling. He gets rid of all the low-profit stuff and tries to sell more of the high-profit stuff. Last night’s episode they were in a pie company. This pie company had an 80% margin on their key lime pie and they had a 10% profit margin on everything else. However, everything else took up 90% of the store. He got rid of all of it and transformed the store to 100% key lime pie and nothing else. Boom! All of a sudden it became profitable. It was interesting like that. One of my big takeaways is looking at all of my funnels. We have a lot of them. Our support has to be in all of them and there are things happening and costs associated with each of them.   Which ones are actually making us money and which ones are not? We are trying to identify this, to drill down, and to figure out which products are profitable and which ones are not? We are also looking at advertising sources. We used to group everything like, “Here are solo ads; here is Facebook; here is whatever.” We are digging deeper to figure out everything about our business. We have always been pretty good at numbers, but now we are getting very, very good, stripping out everything that is not profitable and focusing on the good stuff. It is sad. We are shutting down Web sites, funnels, and pages that I love, but they are not making money or they are costing too much in time, energy, support, and headaches. It does not make a lot of sense. Anyway, I am at Jiu Jitsu now. I am going to go in here. The dude I am going to roll with is way tougher than I am. I am going to try to beat him up today. That is my goal. My goal, actually, is to not get tapped out today from him. He is a stud, but it should be pretty fun. Hopefully out of this you got something. If not, then just wait until next week and I will have some more good stuff. I appreciate you guys. Look for ClickFunnels.com. It is coming out soon. We are not far from the public release. Like I said, this will change our industry forever. It will change my business forever and I am sure it will change yours, as well. That’s it for today. Thanks, and we will talk to you soon.

Former teacher Jonathan Dearmen is profiled in Vanessa Roth's new film: American Teacher. Dearman is a lifelong San Francisco resident who has worked in real estate and education for the past twenty years. As a lifelong learner and educator, Jonathan has worked on education non-profits and school boards while running his family-owned real estate business since leaving the teaching profession in 2002. Jonathan is now looking to combine two of his passions, education and music, in a community project for young people in his neighborhood. Denizen Kane is a poet and musician born and raised in Tree City. He is one of the founders of I Was Born With Two Tongues (1998-2003), an Asian American spoken word quartet and Typical Cats, a Chicago-based hip hop collective.  His recorded works include LPs with Two Tongues (Broken Speak, AIR Records 1999) and Typical Cats (Typical Cats, G4 2000; Civil Service G4 2004) and solo albums (Tree City Legends Vol. 1, G4 2002; Vol. 2, G4 2005; Brother Min's Journey to the West, TTB 2009).  His poetry has been featured in the Asian Pacific American Journal, the Columbia Review, Echoes upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings, and Screaming Monkeys, and on three seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam.  Ethel Long-Scott, Executive Director, Women's Economic Agenda Project. For more than 40 years, in jobs as varied as grassroots community organizer, social issues advocate, political campaign strategist and non-profit CEO, I have pushed, poked, prodded and worked cooperatively with the political, economic and civic establishments on a mission to increase social and economic justice.