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TVC 688.4: Randy West, Wink Martindale's announcer on five game shows for the Family Channel, talks to Ed about Wink's career as a spoken-word recording artists (including “Deck of Cards,” “Heavenly Child,” and “I Stand for Everyone”). He also shares a funny story about Wink and Mary Steck, the cue card lady on Trivial Pursuit, that gives you a window into who Martindale was a person. Wink Martindale passed away on Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2025 at age ninety-nine.

TVC 688.3: Longtime television announcer Randy West joins Ed as TV Confidential continues its special program-length tribute to game show legend Wink Martindale. Randy was Wink's announcer on five game shows for the Family Channel, including Trivial Pursuit, Boggle, and Jumble. Among other topics in this segment, Randy mentions what he believes are the two reasons for Martindale's great success: his roots in Middle America (which Wink never forgot), and his genuine love for people, which particularly showed during Wink's interactions with the contestants on his various shows. Wink Martindale passed away on Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2025 at age ninety-nine.

Bienvenidos a Cepeceros, un podcast en Mode 0 para amantes del píxel ladrillo. En esta ocasión nos acompaña Santi Sabroso, con quien repasamos dos clasicazos como Trivial Pursuit y Hammer Boy. Conoceremos la relación personal de nuestro invitado con ambos juegos y que recuerdos y sensaciones le despierta. Toda la info sobre los juegos y nuestro invitado en nuestra web: https://www.cepeceros.com Ven a charlar con nosotros: https://bit.ly/Cepecerostelegran Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/cepecerospodcast

The Strongest BuckBy: Thomas K. DevereauxEager for adventure, Mark Madison leaves his brother and sister-in-law to maintain the family farm and strikes out for the wild West by working for a wagon train outfit. There he meets Dan, the grizzled, foulmouthed wagon master, who takes Mark under his wing. Thus, begins Mark's education about surviving in this new world so different from quiet farm life.In The Strongest Buck, follow Mark as he faces the adventure he sought, embraces a different culture, makes friends, faces danger, makes enemies, finds love, and discovers where his home and heart truly lie.Thomas K. Deveraux has been married to his wife, Marilyn, for forty-three years. They have a son, age thirty-four and a daughter, age twenty-eight. Their home is in the North Hills area of Pittsburgh. Tom received his MSW degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1980 and has worked as a psychiatric social worker for the past forty years in several hospitals and mental health agencies in Pittsburgh. One of his hobbies is performing in community theater. Tom has appeared in plays such as: Mary, Mary; Detective Story; The Diary of Anne Frank; and Harvey. He is a devoted fan of Turner Classic Movies, and if anyone will agree to challenge him in a game of the Silver Screen Edition of Trivial Pursuit, he is ready for it.https://www.amazon.com/Strongest-Buck-Thomas-K-Devereaux/dp/1638671451https://www.auctoremhouse.com/http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/41725tdah.mp3  

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A few episodes back, our hosts talked about the great unsolved mathematical problems of our time, and Pete teased an interesting story about one such problem that was finally solved not too long ago.  In this first of a two-part episode, we dive into the fascinating  story of Fermat's Last Theorem...   from its inception, to Fermat's bold claim that he had a proof that he couldn't share, to the mathematical greats of yesteryear who took up the challenge to prove it.  Join us for a look into this intriguing conjecture, and its amazing history. Leave us a voice message Find us on Twitter Send us an email

Stuff You Should Know has been one of the top podcasts since it started in 2008. The podcast overviews and simplifies a truly extensive range of topics, from the history of refrigeration to how Saturn works to forensic dentistry and peacocks. Chuck and Josh released over 1,500 episodes, toured the world, and even had a TV show that ran for one season on the Science Channel. They also have a Trivial Pursuit game and they once had their own category on Jeopardy's National College Championship. Chuck and Josh join Google to give a behind the scenes look at how they've become experts in educating us about common things and how they work. Originally published in December 2016. Watch this episode at youtube.com/TalksAtGoogle.

Har du med skakiga ben tävlat i Vi i femman? Älskade du att se På spåret med pappa? Är du pubquizfantast? Idag vill vi höra om dina frågesportsminnen. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Vi verkar bli alltmer förtjusta i frågetävlingar och frågespel. Hitster och När då då dras fram på helgkvällarna, unga som gamla bänkar sig framför frågesportsprogram i tv och kompisar bokar bord långt i förväg för att få plats på något av de många quiz som snart sagt varenda pub runt om i landet arrangerar regelbundet. Idag undrar vi vilka dina bästa, värsta, finaste frågesportsminnen är.Kanske är du en av alla massor av femteklassare som med spagettiben tävlat i radioprogrammet Vi i femman nu i veckan. Kanske vill ingen längre se Alla mot alla med dig eftersom du bara inte kan låta bli att skrika ut svaren innan programledarna ens hunnit ställa frågan klart.Eller kanske minns du med vemod stunderna när du och din pappa bänkade er framför På spåret eller med ilska när mormor vann över dig i Trivial Pursuit. Och hur klarar du sådant? Är du en bra eller dålig förlorare?Programledare: Helene AlmqvistRing oss på 020-22 10 30, skriv till oss på Facebook och Instagram eller mejla på karlavagnen@sverigesradio.se. Slussen öppnar som vanligt kl 21:00 och programmet börjar 21:40.

What do Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Candy Land, and Risk have in common with retirement planning? More than you might think! In this episode, Eric breaks down the surprising financial lessons hidden in classic board games, offering valuable insights to help you navigate your retirement strategy. From the asset management lessons of Monopoly to the strategic thinking required in Risk, these games mirror real-life financial decisions. Just as in Trivial Pursuit, where players must collect wedges in different categories, a well-rounded retirement plan requires knowledge of investments, Social Security, Medicare, and tax strategies. And if you're relying on luck—like in Candy Land—rather than a solid financial plan, you might be in for a rude awakening. Eric also explores how risk management and retirement readiness reviews can give you a clearer financial picture, helping you avoid costly missteps. Here's some of what we discuss in this episode:

Most people would say that Rhonda Farrah has had a difficult and, at times, scary life. As you will hear, Rhonda had a pretty conservative upbringing. She will tell us that she was in fact surrounded by love from her family and even her extended family of aunts and uncles and grandparents who all lived under the same roof. Rhonda was the oldest of her siblings and many looked to her for strength and knowledge.   Rhonda went to college first majoring in Horticulture, but switched to Psychology. As she says, she likes to help things grow and while she loves gardening, she preferred to help people grow and development.   Rhonda, as part of her so-called difficult life spent six years in prison and while there discovered that she had a lump on her breast. She didn't address the lump until she was released from prison. She used a combination of Western and Eastern medicine to complete eliminate the tumor without surgery. Also, fairly soon after leaving prison the sentence and charges she faced were completely expunged. While many told her she should litigate she disagreed and turned to forgiveness instead.   Today Rhonda coaches and teaches women to grow and learn to look within themselves to better understand how to grow and move forward. Rhonda calls herself a lifestyle empowerment alchemist. As she explains, an alchemist changes materials. She helps women to change by learning to look within for answers. As she says, if we look for answers, the best place to find them is within ourselves.   Rhonda offers many wonderful and relevant pieces of knowledge we all can learn to use. I think you will enjoy her story, her progress and her inspirational and unstoppable attitude very much.       About the Guest:   Rhonda M. Farrah, MA, DRWA, a LIFEstyle Empowerment Alchemist, Coach and prominent figure in personal development, has dedicated her years of insights as a psychotherapist to be a guiding light for women facing unique challenges, helping them embark on a transformative journey of Selfdiscovery and Empowerment.   In a world where external issues often command our attention, Rhonda Farrah stands out as a catalyst for inner growth with her mantra, “Fix Your Reflection First.” A beacon of hope for women who find themselves trapped in the throes of personal turmoil, be it in relationships, careers, or daily life.   Through her extensive career and profound dedication, Rhonda Farrah has spearheaded the Fix Your Reflection First method of realizing that both the joys and the setbacks in your life can serve you IF you can look past your immediate emotional response and use your Self-awareness to grow instead of pushing yourself down. Farrah's holistic approach centers on Self-reflection and the restoration of Self-love as the cornerstone of personal growth and Change.   As a seasoned author, Empowerment Alchemist coach, speaker, entrepreneur, spiritual teacher, and educator, Rhonda has cultivated an extensive toolkit designed to assist individuals in addressing the challenges that hold them back and embracing the joys that propel them forward. Working with clients and companies from International Centers For Spiritual Living to the US Open Wellness Team, Rhonda's teachings emphasize harnessing Self-awareness and leveraging life's setbacks as opportunities for growth rather than obstacles.   Rhonda's mission is to Empower women to prioritize their Self-love and Self-awareness, nurturing a profound alignment that positively influences every facet of their lives. Her work fosters a renewed sense of confidence and a hunger for personal growth, igniting a powerful journey of Self-discovery. Having written several e-books, Rhonda has participated as a Contributing Author to America's Heroes, Leaders, Legends, The Power Of The Human Spirit, and America's Leading Ladies Who Positively Impact Our World, featuring Oprah Winfrey and Melinda Gates.   Ways to connect with Rhonda:   Website: https://helpmerhondanow.com Email: rhonda@helpmerhondanow.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhonda-m-farrah-ma-drwa-81097b14 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rhonda.farrah Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/helpmerhondanow_   About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hello and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. I am your host, Mike Hingson, our guest today is Rhonda. And Rhonda pronounce your last name Farrah, which is what I thought. But I always like to make sure I get it right. Well, Rhonda Farrah is our guest, and as you will learn from her, Rhonda is a lifestyle empowerment Alchemist, and I'm intrigued to learn more about that and all sorts of other things. She especially helps women and helps ground them, I think, to summarize a lot of what she does, and we're going to talk about that. I know she talks and and in her bio, I read a lot about encouraging people to really think and center themselves. And that's something that we talk a lot about on various episodes of this podcast, and it's something that I talk about in the new book that is published in August of 2024 called Live like a guide dog, where I talk about and encourage people to be much more self analytical and look at themselves and take the time to do it, because it will create a lot less fear in their lives if they discover that they don't need to be afraid of so many things, but that's not something we're going to worry about as much today, unless Rhonda wants to talk about it, but we'll get there anyway. Rhonda, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're really glad you're here.   Rhonda Farrah ** 02:50 Thank you so much, Michael, thank you for inviting me to be your guest. I love the name of your podcast, unstoppable mindset, because that's, after all, where everything begins, it   Michael Hingson ** 03:02 does. Well, why don't you start, since we talk about starting at the beginning by telling us a little bit kind of about the early Rhonda growing up and all   Rhonda Farrah ** 03:10 that stuff. Okay, yes, the early Rhonda growing up. Early Rhonda. I am originally from the East Coast. I grew up in Connecticut in a largely traditional household and family. I had a stay at home mom. I had dad who preferred mom stay at home. And I am the oldest of three brothers and one sister, and during that period of time, largely through grade three. You want to talk about my early days through grade three, I lived in an extended family, and many people know what that is. It was my parents, myself, my siblings, grandparents, at least one set at a time, aunts, uncle, one, uncle and great aunts, and it was a all under one roof, so there was a lot of love and there was a lot of discipline all at the same time. And it was a household primarily women, and my sense of nurturing and nurturing nurturance began very early with that feminine influence there. It's not that men don't nurture but I had an entourage of all that feminine presence around me, and also being the oldest of my siblings, I took on that while everyone's looking to you, Rhonda, that you're the role model so early on growing up, it was, I would have to say, We were a very conservative family, and I had conservative influences around me, and it actually paved the way for me wanting to. Not only to be in service of to others, but to go ahead and do my studies in psychology, counseling and educational psychology, and to help others be their highest and their best self. And that, that unstoppable mind, as you put it, is when we go within and we understand, how are we attending to the agenda of our soul that going within? So that's that's a brief that's a capitalized version of how I grew up. I like to play girls CYO softball. I was raised Catholic, Roman Catholic, later on, rebaptized a Christian. I honor all paths to God. I consider myself spiritual. I've always been spiritual, whether I realized it or not, and that, you know, that helps with that going within once, one says, Once I said, Yeah, I want to, I want to experience what is going within little Rhonda. And as I grew into an adult, and I got better at it, let's, let's put it that way, I got better at going within.   Michael Hingson ** 06:16 Well, yeah, and I think that's, that's important, and I think that that development of the brain is something that more people ought to do and and don't do nearly as much as as they should live like a guide dog. Is all about learning to control fear, because when I was in the World Trade Center and we had the emergency that we did on September 11, although I had plenty of fear, fear did not overwhelm or, as I put it, blind me. I used it as a powerful tool to help me focus. And the reason all that happened as I really figured out many, many years later and then started to write about it in the era of the pandemic was that I developed a mindset. I knew what to do because I researched what to do. It wasn't a matter of reading signs. Oh, I can read these signs that'll tell me what to do. That works until it doesn't, and it's not nearly the same as knowledge. And so I learned what to do. I talked to the Port Authority, police, the fire department, emergency preparedness people, and learned everything that I could about what was, what was occurring, or what what could occur in an emergency, and what to do in an emergency. And did it enough that it became a mindset for me, so that when it actually happened, although we never thought that it would, when it did, I was able to function because I had conducted a lot of self analysis and thought about, what do I do in this kind of situation? Realized I know what to do. Yeah, it's always possible the building could have just come down around us, and then where would we be? Well, we wouldn't be here talking about it, probably anyway, but knowing what to do was the issue, and we we, selectively or collectively as a society, tend not to do that. We think we can just read signs or Well, if it happens, it happens. But we don't think about that. But we think about so many other things. My gosh, what? What if one politician gets elected? What if another politician gets elected? What if any number of things happen? What if I go to the store and I get robbed and all sorts of things that we don't have any real control over, and we create so much fear because we don't just focus on the things that we can control and leave the rest alone. And I think that that is probably something that leans right into a lot of the things that you talk about,   Rhonda Farrah ** 08:53 yes, and that's you make an excellent point, because there's a point where we need to depend on what's going on within us. We can't depend on the government. We can't depend on the economy. We can't depend on the health care system, the pharmaceutical system. We need to listen to our intuitive self, to our authentic self from within and sure, I've been scared, sure, but with with stuff that happened within my all my own life. However, I wasn't paralyzed by fear. I didn't react. I responded, and that's really important for people to consider. We have so many questions, and especially now in these times, we're in chaotic we're in uncertain times. We're in a mess, basically, but the mess is here for us to learn, to grow and to move forward with that power from within, as I call it, our authentic power from. Then, and we, we all have, it's the power to thrive and not merely survive.   Michael Hingson ** 10:06 Yeah, and we all have the power to work together and to create harmony, if we would, but do it right   Rhonda Farrah ** 10:15 if we choose to. Yeah, it is a choice.   Michael Hingson ** 10:18 But make no mistake, it is a choice, and we can do it if we if we wanted to, and it would be so much more amazing how well people would get along on how much more we would accomplish if we did that.   Rhonda Farrah ** 10:32 That's absolutely correct. Michael, we are oftentimes we get caught up in what is different within us. You know, what are our differences? How about, let's talk about, how are we so similar, right? And that's where the strength comes in. That's where the power of numbers come in with that strength, with that power.   Michael Hingson ** 10:56 Agreed. So you grew up? Did you go to college?   Rhonda Farrah ** 11:01 I did. I attended the University of Connecticut under graduate school. And ironically, I didn't start out in psychology. I started out in horticulture, and was two years it's an agricultural college, actually the University of Connecticut. It was at that time. Now it's in the top 25 in the United States. And I enjoyed school. I enjoyed college immensely, and I always I switched to psychology. And let me tell you why. When I was a kid, I used to watch this show. It was The Bob Newhart Show, and he was a psychologist in this particular part in   Michael Hingson ** 11:52 that show, right?   Rhonda Farrah ** 11:54 And and for you know, unfortunately, several days ago, he made his transition. But when I heard that, I said, wow, look at how long ago. I mean, I admired him. I admired what he did. And I said, No, that's that's what I want to do. So I started out in horticulture, growing, okay, so I just switched to help people grow within themselves, and I am an avid gardener, by the way, and I like all those things with respect to preparing the soil, with respect to pruning, with respect to weeding so that you can grow healthy plants. And I'm a big advocate in growing where we are planted. We always have something to learn, if it regardless of situation, circumstance or happenstance. There's always something to learn wherever we're being planted or plant. There are no accidents, in my opinion, no coincidence, no happenstance. And we call everything forward into our lives to do just that, to grow when we are we are planted to experience joy, to experience sorrow,   Michael Hingson ** 13:05 and a lot of times when we experience sorrow, if we would really stop and think about it, we might find it's not as bad as we think too, right? But that happens, and that's again, it's a growth era and a growth thing to deal with. Yes,   Rhonda Farrah ** 13:20 yeah, absolutely. And you know that paved the way in psychology for me to become what I call a lifestyle, empowerment Alchemist, a coach, author and a speaker and alchemy, believe me, I am no left brain person. I alchemy is the precursor to chemistry. I never took chemistry. I opted for, I think it was environmental science. I was safe when there was a science requirement. I was good with that. But alchemy is indeed the precursor to chemistry, and it's the transmutation of one substance into another. So I learned by my own situations and circumstances. I have plenty of credentials, but my biggest credentials are that I came out on the good side, I'll say, On the positive side, on the Empowered side of some not so good situations and circumstances in my life. So that's why I refer to myself as an alchemist, and I am dedicated to awakening those who choose to be awakened, to opening their hearts, their minds, and most especially, their spirit within them, so that they can live their best life ever.   Michael Hingson ** 14:36 So in in your case, you you you do change things, what? What were some of the the maybe negative things that you had to work through that caused you to decide that you were truly an empowerment Alchemist, a lifestyle empowerment Alchemist, nothing   Rhonda Farrah ** 14:53 is negative unless, unless you think,   Michael Hingson ** 14:57 what challenges? Yes, the challenge. Challenges,   Rhonda Farrah ** 15:00 the struggles, the the adversity. Okay, six years in a woman's federal prison camp, breast cancer, several divorces, financial ruin was thrown in there, and it was like, wow, this is the not so good stuff that's happening, and it took me a while to understand. I called all this forward. I called all this forward for all the reasons why, whether it was poor choices, especially in the case of prison camp, called it forward to learn lessons and to to actually be in a major time out, because it began there that I began to realize my biggest struggle and challenge was I didn't know myself. I'd lost my sense of self. It I was in there somewhere, but I had lost my sense of self, and I needed to be literally extricated, separated from all that was familiar to me, so I could do something about that.   Michael Hingson ** 16:08 Yeah, how long ago was that that you were in the prison camp? No,   Rhonda Farrah ** 16:12 would have been. Actually, I was there when 911 hit. Okay, oh yeah, it's been a while, and I began that prison term of being of service to others, as well as myself, service set loosely in 20 in 2002 1000 in 2000 in 2000 and when 911 hit, I wasn't in a place where it was, you know, bars and razor wire or any of that. But when 911 hit, most I know my family and other people that I knew were saying she's probably in the safest place she can be. Yeah. And I said, Wow, this is actually happening. And I remember that happening. I remember I was actually part of a work cadre. I was teaching wellness classes as well to my fellow inmates, 300 women, and that came a little later, but it was part of a work cadre that went to the Presidio five days a week, five of us, five women, and we did Gardening. We did organization within, let's say, the warden's house that was up there on the Presidio. So I was part of the those that were trusted enough to be out five days a week. I mean, we had to go back, but so I experienced a lot. That was a gift and that was a blessing, and that is what got me through that instance. Just as other instances, I found the gift, I found the blessing in particularly like where I was at all times. But I did find gifts and blessings. I'm an avid runner. I had a track to run on. I a strength trainer. I had what was called a weight pile up there with antiquated equipment and everything else. But yet it was, it was mine. It was available to me. And so the gifts and the blessings come in in sometimes unlikely places, if you are open and receptive to them. And it wasn't about until a year after being incarcerated that I stopped banging the phone against the wall saying, Get me out of here. I had an aha moment. It was that period where I surrendered that I really began to peel away the onion skin that was keeping my sense of self, my true sense of self, self with a capital S at bay.   Michael Hingson ** 19:13 So you, as you said, started peeling back the onion and went on clearly, what was a journey of self discovery, and you began to realize, and I put it in quotes, I made these choices, and I'm the one that can fix it in the long run, in   Rhonda Farrah ** 19:39 the long run, right? But in the short run, I was learning more about myself than I ever imagined. Yeah, because I was separated from all those things that were my comfort zone, I was definitely out of my comfort zone, which is where our life really begins. When you're out of your comfort zone.   Michael Hingson ** 20:02 Yeah, and in so many ways and and, of course, that's the whole point that we get so comfortable on our comfort zone that we never really do look beyond it. And that's a problem, because life is all about so many things that we choose not to explore that would be so beneficial if we did? Yes,   Rhonda Farrah ** 20:26 absolutely, and I was pivoted right back into being of service to others.   Michael Hingson ** 20:35 Okay, by   Rhonda Farrah ** 20:36 teaching wellness classes and by you know there was a camaraderie. It was like women would say, Well, what about what should I do in this situation? What I said, I think you should take this time, because you have this time, literally time to explore from within, you can a lot of women that want to lose weight, they want to have better body image and otherwise. And those wellness classes were not just physical wellness classes I was teaching. It was emotional well, because that's how you get to the physical if you're working from the inside out, going within, then you're gonna have better results well being, rather than Ill being. And I would often say, you know, well, they would say, Well, when I get home, I'll get on a program and   Michael Hingson ** 21:36 lose weight, and yeah, when I,   Rhonda Farrah ** 21:39 when I said, Well, let me tell you what, when you go home, you're going to have to pay your rent, take care of your kids, have a job, and do everything else that you do in the real world without being institutionalized. So I said, there is a gift for being here. It's sad a lot of the times, because we all missed our families, but there is a gift and a blessing if we choose to know that so many women took me up on that some did not, and that's was their right. It's not my right, nor obligation, to want for someone what they do not want for themselves, not at all.   Michael Hingson ** 22:25 We are our own best teachers, and no one else can can do that for us,   Rhonda Farrah ** 22:30 right? That's exactly right, Michael, and it's it was an interesting time in my life. I actually so I was in my very early 40s, and I just turned 66 last last month, and I I never imagined that my midlife crisis, that was act one of my midlife crisis to be incarcerated to be and actually incarcerated to be liberated. I had more freedom getting to know myself and my true sense of self than I ever had at that point again, it wasn't all roses, it was pain, sorrow, emotional, largely, but I went through it. I felt, you've heard the the phrase, um, feel the fear, feel the pain, and do it anyway. Yeah, because it's subside. It's actually empowering to know that we have that power to feel pain, to feel sorrow, yet it will move us forward, or propel us forward. So   Michael Hingson ** 23:49 was that time in prison for you? Kind of the the end of Act One, and then the transition to act two.   Speaker 1 ** 23:57 Well, that was act one of my midlife crisis. Oh, you're master of your midlife crisis. That's my midlife crisis.   Rhonda Farrah ** 24:03 That that was that. But it was so surreal to me. I've never had a parking ticket or speeding violation, and it was like, What is this? So? Hard lessons, hard lessons when you do not trust your intuition. When you make poor choices, when you try to please people, just remember you, you will not come out on the best side of things, but you must go where you need to go to learn what you need to learn. Yeah, kind of like a college. It's an extra. Was an extra grad school,   Michael Hingson ** 24:45 well, and you said something very interesting, because, in reality, if you trust your intuition and you really work and develop that it will help you avoid things that otherwise you might not be able to avoid. But we. Don't tend to do that. And my favorite example of that is the game Trivial Pursuit. How often do you play that game and someone asked the question, and you think, I know the answer, and then you go, No, that can't be the right answer. And it turns out it was the right answer, and you should have answered with it. But, you know, it happens so often in so many ways, with so many things, yes.   Rhonda Farrah ** 25:19 So I mean, I took the best of a not so good situation and it was all right. It served me. It served me to empower me so that I could have that like in my that was a notch in my belt, to let people understand, that I could understand what they're going through because I was there.   Michael Hingson ** 25:47 So what happened when that time was over?   Rhonda Farrah ** 25:51 So I was teaching wellness classes there, and I was supposed to be released in April of 2005 and it got delayed until, I believe it was July of that year. And for 11 months I knew I had a lump on my breast, and I did nothing about it, but go within, meditation, prayer. I was not going to subject myself to the Bureau of Prisons, medical, and I took a risk, sure, but I went within and the intuition said, Okay, you're going to be all right. I call it my godling self, not my mere, earthling self. I didn't run around in this chaotic, chaotic tone and in every area of my life and say, Oh, my God, I got I got to do something about this. And no, I knew, but I knew what I had to do. I had to go within and reinforce that my authentic power would help me get through this? So that act two of midlife crisis is now entering in and I came home. I was living on the Monterey Peninsula, and we had to go to a halfway house for a month or so when they understood I had a lump on my breast, because I told them they couldn't wait to get rid of me from the halfway house. So I went home and I went to my gynecologist. He ordered a biopsy immediately, and in none other than breast cancer awareness month, October, I was diagnosed with nearly stage three breast cancer. And I'm a believer that what happens to us really happens for us. And that's that period incarceration strengthened me to get through this. And I was scared, but I was not in fear mode. I was not immobilized. And of course, biopsy comes back, and everyone's saying, what happened? What was it? And I, my response has always been, well, it's not the best news, but it's not the worst news, right either. And from that point, I met with my friends, would say, we're going to get you another breast. And I go, No, I don't want another breast. I like this one, and I have a nice little war scar right here, and I'm good. I'm good with that. No one has ever complained. So I'm good with all of it, because I'm good with it myself. And I got this feeling that had the best breast dye they called him in the United States, Dr Jeffrey Hyde, and he I was scared because I told my god, I heard about chemotherapy, surgery, radiation. And he said something to me that surprised me from within the Rhonda inside. He said, this can be chemically treated. And I said, What? And I was happy that it could be chemically treated. Okay, so I mean that meant chemotherapy. I was happy, but I was like, How could this be? I'm an athlete. I take care of myself. I don't have any negative vices or anything. And now this is happening and the incidents, so here I am the nurturer. Okay? I nourish others now. I help them be their highest and best self by taking the. The adversity as well as the joys, and making it work for them, if they choose that finding the gift of the blessing. So here I am the nurturer now realizing that incidence of breast cancer in women is due to the fact that women do not nourish or nurture themselves. They're good with everyone else. Okay, they're good, but nourishing others. I wasn't nourishing myself. Couple that with and that had started well before prison. I was a people pleaser. I was a doormat at times, and I just went about my life. And that was that, until I got a major time out in prison camp, and then I got hit with the breast cancer thing, and I decided, well, oh, there's my aha breath. That's my god breath. I decided, well, I'm gonna, I'm going to do this with Eastern medicine. I began the practice of medical Qigong, and I put off going to chemotherapy, and my daughter looked at me as if I was nuts, and she says, I don't know when we're going to get a break. And I go, it's going to be okay. Everything's going to be great. Don't worry, I'm not going to die, because who will be here to run your life? Tell you to brush your teeth and all of that in between. And I mean, I was interjecting some of you into a very serious thing, and that day, I made a promise to myself and to my daughter, I am not only going to live, I'm going to dance at your wedding, and I'm going to see my grandchildren and all that happened. There you go. That happened. I've been cancer free for about 17 or 18 years now, but my point of telling you that is that the medical Qigong professional heat said, go back and get to your oncologist and get an ultrasound, because Western medicine has the best diagnostic tools. I went back to her, my daughter was with me, and she said to me, I don't know what you're doing, but you're shrinking your tumor. And I felt good about that. And then my daughter's head spun around on her neck, and she looked at the oncologist as well as me, and said, Are you buying this shit like that? And I knew then that was another fear of mine. There were enter that fear of surgery, chemotherapy and all of that in between. I knew then, no, you got to go through you go, you'll use Western and Eastern medicine. And I never looked back. I had chemo. They cleaned up the margins a little bit on one of my breasts, and I had 40 blasts of radiation. So I got over that fear. I mean, that's, I'm not a doctor person. I don't I don't like to go to doctors, so I needed to call that forward so that I could understand that I had that power from within me to face even that fear. But once again, I was pivoted right back into being of service to others and doing support groups with women with breast cancer. Cancer.   Michael Hingson ** 33:44 So when did you become cancer free?   Rhonda Farrah ** 33:49 It was the end of March, 2006 Okay, and so what claimed cancer free? What?   Michael Hingson ** 33:56 What did you do? How did Eastern medicine help with that. What? What was involved with the Eastern medicine aspect of it?   Rhonda Farrah ** 34:03 Well, even though I started the chemotherapy, I had very few side effects from chemotherapy, because I continued with the medical dig on. I continued with acupuncture and prayer chanting, so I had side effects. I'm a runner. I was, I wasn't running as quickly, but I was, I was moving along with my dog four days, sometimes five out of the week, and I went. I was very diligent on Thursdays at 11 o'clock. That was my chemotherapy. So I come I combined them, but I was glad I combined them, and I was glad I faced that fear of, Oh, my goodness,   Rhonda Farrah ** 34:52 I need to do this stuff that I don't like to do. Do. So I could have become a victim and said, Oh, poor me,   Rhonda Farrah ** 35:04 we would probably not be having this conversation right now, because it's a little over 35% of women with breast cancer. Yeah, never   Michael Hingson ** 35:12 fake it. Well, yeah, go ahead.   Rhonda Farrah ** 35:15 I didn't choose that. I chose. I chose my own healing once again, and whether I knew it or not, by helping others heal emotionally, most especially, I was healing, and I was becoming more empowered. And I just took this next scary piece of life, adventure of midlife crisis, and I made it work for me, rather than anything less.   Michael Hingson ** 35:46 But that's really the whole point of stepping back and doing introspection in your own life and thinking about it and listening to what you have to tell yourself, because that's where the real solutions come from in most anything that we do, if we but listen. And you know, we don't tend to listen to that inner voice nearly as much as we can or should, and we lead ourselves astray.   Rhonda Farrah ** 36:21 I so agree with that. Michael, you know, we, we have so many questions within understand that the answers are within us. Yeah, that's it, and it is an inside job to live the powered life, to live the life that you want to live. Perhaps the life that you dream about, it comes from here, that comes from the heart, space, the heart, the emotions. And I believe there's only two emotions, fear and love, right? Whatever emotion you're in creates your thoughts, and your thoughts create your external world,   Michael Hingson ** 36:59 and you have some control over how all that really shakes out in the end, we all   Rhonda Farrah ** 37:05 do. We're all our own Guru. That's it. If we only knew that we we all have a godly self, not merely an earthling self.   Michael Hingson ** 37:17 Well, I think, in reality, they're they're one in the same in various ways, but I hear what you're saying   Rhonda Farrah ** 37:23 the and whether you call it, I happen to call it God, because my upbringing it universe, source, spirit, the divine.   Michael Hingson ** 37:31 Well, God's a very powerful word. I have no problem using that. Yeah,   Rhonda Farrah ** 37:35 black people are afraid of the God word. I like the God word. Yeah, definitely. Every time, there it is again, the AHA breath, that's my god breath. It's a confirming breath. So we just confirmed that it's great to say the God word, and   Michael Hingson ** 37:51 it has nothing to do with any specific religion.   Rhonda Farrah ** 37:54 No, it does not.   Michael Hingson ** 37:58 So what happened after Act Two in your midlife crisis, world,   Rhonda Farrah ** 38:10 I was asked in an interview, and I'll get to act three. Adventure number three, I was once asked in an interview, what was the worst date you've been on? So I was videoed, and the long and short of it was, I said, Oh, I thinking about it. I don't date and meet somebody. We get to know one another. They asked me to marry them, and the rest is history. Enter two divorces. You know, pretty close together, five, six years apart, very short lived divorces. And I'll tell you what prison prepared me for, breast cancer, and prison and breast cancer together prepared me for a lot of people don't think prison or breast cancer would be worse than divorce. It wasn't the divorce, it was the betrayal. It was the trusting of someone and then, like being sideswiped, that was it. Sideswiped and lots of tears. I always say, wherever I was, tears and laughter are signs of growth. If one is not laughing or crying weeping, then you're not growing. And growth is essential if you're going to be your highest, best self, if you're going to be an empowered, your empowered self. So the first one was ugly, the second one was ugly, and but I, I, I know I have a formula for living in empower. Life, and boy, did I use it my formula, because, after all, I am an alchemist, is gratitude plus forgiveness equals living the life that you want to live. So I was, first of all, I was grateful for meeting these people, because they taught me again about myself. I was settling, no disrespect to whomever I was married to, but I was settling because, well, I don't want to be alone, and maybe no one will also come and blah, blah, blah. I mean, I went through these gyrations. I'm no stranger to feeling that way, and I'm very vulnerable. I think you know that by now, and I'm good, you can hold me up to the light, and I'm transparent because I'm okay, whereas I wasn't to begin with, and that's about two years ago. My brand changed to fix your reflection first and live your best life ever, because that's why we're not living our best life ever. It's not that everything must go right for us, it's that we can find the gift and the blessing when nothing is going right. My whole life fell apart only so it all together in better ways. So I went from that people pleaser door map to under to thanking those who I was pleasing and had used me as a doormat. Thank you. I got it now. Okay, I got it so when I look in the mirror now, I see the love of my life. Because unless we are able to understand who we are and our magnificence, we will attract much less. Again, no disrespect to any situation, circumstance or event, to any person that I have been with so and the other thing is, if you treat yourself like the love of your life,   42:11 you will attract the love of your life,   Rhonda Farrah ** 42:14 not only in a romantic situation, in every freaking area of your life, you will attract the best of the best,   Michael Hingson ** 42:24 and I gather you've done that.   Rhonda Farrah ** 42:26 Oh, I'm open to love, but I'm not, I'm not with any I'm single and but I'm not, like, not in any dating sites or anything like that, right? I'm I'm working with myself,   Michael Hingson ** 42:40 yeah, well, that's what I'm getting at and yeah, that's   Rhonda Farrah ** 42:44 who I'm with. I'm with myself. Because wherever we go, we take ourselves with us, and   Michael Hingson ** 42:48 somebody might come along at some point that you develop a relationship with, but you're going to look at it differently now than you have in the past. Absolutely, absolutely, which is so cool.   Rhonda Farrah ** 43:06 It's what needs to happen. If it happened to me, then I have the right to say, well, it could happen to you too,   Michael Hingson ** 43:15 and it's not an ego issue. To say you're the love of your life. That's That's not it at all, and and it's important, I think, that people understand that it is that you're you're happy with yourself, you respect yourself. Now, my life was different than yours. My wife and I got married in 1982 and she passed two years ago, almost two years ago. So we were married 40 years and lots of wonderful memories, and I don't know what will happen in the future, although I'm not looking for any anything like the romantic kind of thing to happen, although some people told me I'm crazy and I should, but my response is, you know, Karen is monitoring from somewhere, and if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it. So I got to be a good kid. That's   Rhonda Farrah ** 44:05 it. And it works. And it works because it works for you, and this works differently for everyone, exactly, right. It works differently for everyone, but, and I have to say, and sometimes an audience will go up one side of me and down the other when I say, you know, selfishness is the most selfless thing we can do, right? I think, especially as a woman.   Michael Hingson ** 44:33 Well, yeah, I would say everyone, but I hear what you're saying, but I hear what you're saying. Well, so what do you do today, what, what is your, your your job, or whatever, or what do you what do you do with your life today?   Rhonda Farrah ** 44:49 With my life today, I I have dual duties after divorces. I was heading back to Connecticut. I. All my family's in Connecticut, two grandchildren. And not that I don't love the rest of my family, but, you know, grandkids, yeah, okay, I could do this, and ages 10 and eight, and a friend of mine, that's why I'm in Colorado Springs. Asked me to I've known her for 12 years. I know her through someone else that no longer speaks to me, okay, but that's that's how it happens. That's how people come together to learn lessons and otherwise. And she said to me, I need you to make a pit stop. Here I go, Oh, I kind of knew what was going on. Her mother in law has dementia, and she's totally ambulatory, and she's we high functioning. But as I'm in there somewhere, wherever I was, she's in there somewhere. So I came, I met the woman, and my friend said, Can you give us a year? A year? You want me stay here for a year, grow where you're planted? This is my point of telling you this, and this is why I do what I do. I have another growing where I'm planted. So she said, Can you give us a year? I said, What? It'll be three years, the beginning of October. I'm feeling that this woman and I will make our exit together, because I'm feeling I'm supposed to be here on one direction or dimension. Now I I still do plenty of interviews. I have my own radio television show on transformation network, which I'm inviting you to be on, and you'll hear from me on that. Let me know. Oh, yeah, and I'm catering to several clients. You know, everything is zoom these days, which fine. That's fine with me. So that's what I do. I'm in the process of, right? I've written three ebooks, a contributing author to three books, and I'm writing a book from PTA to prison, my journey in transformation. Now that was just a part of it, but that was the beginning, right? My journey and transformation. We're never too old for transformation. No, I would often joke and say, you know, Moses, he was transformed. He didn't didn't think he could do anything major. That was his mistake. And he did the greatest thing in his late 70s, yeah, the greatest thing for him. And the interesting part is I do mirror work is nothing new. And I go to the mirror every morning and at night sometimes as well, and lots of things developed after I changed my brand to fix your reflection first and live your best life ever. I went, I call it. I came out of the closet with prison and other personal aspects of my life. It's the best thing I ever did, be vulnerable in front of audiences and show them that I'm not immune to anything either. Just because I live and breathe this, which I do and I like it, I'm not stuff still happens to me, happens for me that not so good stuff, but so what I'm doing now is I'm continuing to transmute myself so that I can be A better service to others. That's literally what I'm doing.   Michael Hingson ** 49:05 One of the things that I love to say, and it fits right in with what you're discussing, is when I have the honor of doing these podcast episodes, if I'm not learning as much as, or more than anyone listening or whoever to the podcast that I'm not doing my job. And I think that that's an absolute part of it. We we all need to learn and transform. And I look for the opportunities that come along where people may say something like you've said a number of things that make perfect sense. I'm not sure I've heard today too many brand new things, but the reality is, there aren't that many. There really aren't new things in the world. It's just that either we haven't heard them yet, but they're still there, or we. We've forgotten them, and we need to remember them, or we have heard them, and we do remember them, and it reinforces it. But the fact is, there really isn't anything new in the world. We just have to sometimes rediscover it for ourselves. Exactly   Rhonda Farrah ** 50:14 it's it's the amount of reading I did in prison camp, and if I make notes on the in the sidelines of the pages, and then I go back and I read the same passages and books and everything else, and I'd read what I've written, and I'd say that was a learning experience. And my measure look how far I've come. That that's when self help wasn't called self help. Yeah, now we have self help, you know, yeah, Bob bought the programs and everything, and then never opened them, because, again, it's an inside job. And I believe that with all my heart,   Michael Hingson ** 51:02 right? Yeah, and I think there's, there's merit to that. So you have clients in various places nowadays, yes,   Rhonda Farrah ** 51:12 Canada, Australia. I'm actually the final touches on a group coaching program. It is coaching program for women. I'll take 15 women for 12 weeks, 12 weeks, and if they choose to continue with another 12 weeks, at the end of 412 weeks, we've done a year, yeah, together, and we've accomplished what we want to accomplish, but in bite sized pieces, right? We're building on the first 12 weeks, so I'm very excited about that. And my clientele is, I say 45 and over, but like 5850 and over, because we all having those little crises for our benefit. What?   Michael Hingson ** 51:57 What made you decide, though, to work with people who are essentially 50 and older, as opposed to younger people, because   Rhonda Farrah ** 52:04 I kept getting older. You know, I kept getting older, and my experience has happened to me, and I call it the mid life, and there are so many people going through, maybe not exactly the same thing, but in some cases, yes, the same things. They're going through them, and I, I want to be the light at the end of whatever tunnel they are journeying through, and let them know this is not a train coming at you. Your light is exactly that. It's your light. It's your guidance to move forward, and nothing less.   Michael Hingson ** 52:49 Now you you teach women, and that's fair, but if I were to carry it forward, what about men? Not that you that you're doing that, but don't men also really deal with the same issues they do,   Rhonda Farrah ** 53:03 but they deal with them in different ways, and in many cases, men have it over women because of the way they're dealing with them. Society has ingrained in men. They're the strong, they're the powerful, they're the empowered. Of course, you look at the state of affairs in this world today and you find that, well, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 53:26 and that's, of course, that's the problem is that it's great to be the powerful and the empowered and so on. But if you will, you let it go to your head, and you're not listening anymore,   Rhonda Farrah ** 53:37 right? The what I believe is that that's That's exactly true. If you're not listening to your intuitive self from within, if you're not, you're doing a number on yourself with that whole mindset thing. Yeah, think you can, you're right. If you think you can't, you're right as well. You're right as well. So the I have just had more women approach I've had more women approach me. There's a the they kind of assimilate with me and who I am, you know, I'm Mom, I'm the grandmother, and I'm the sister, you know, the oldest, and I'm in this thing, this gig, called counseling. Now, when I was a psychotherapist, my I turned to right around in 2005 couple things happened. I was released from prison. By the way, my sentence was expunged shortly after that.   Michael Hingson ** 54:46 Oh,   Rhonda Farrah ** 54:48 and so, and many people will also say, Aren't you mad? Aren't you angry? I go for what? For   Michael Hingson ** 54:54 what? Yeah, what good is that gonna do? I forgave   Rhonda Farrah ** 54:58 everybody. And. I came that's was part of my program for being my best self ever.   Michael Hingson ** 55:04 What were you accused of doing? If I might ask the   Rhonda Farrah ** 55:07 money. Money, crime, non violent. Non violent. No drugs, yeah. Money, crime, okay, got it. I mean, I was no milking and all of that. But the interesting part about that is, I served my sentence in prison camp. It used to be a men's prison camp, and Milken was there, and that's where he contracted cancer, and he won his release in $5 million and built the Cancer Center in Los Angeles. So you see, and that's, you know, everyone had me convinced, well, you should sue the government. I go, No, I don't think so. It's like, I need to move on. You know, it's like I'm moving on, and I'm taking the best pieces of that part of my life and this part of my life and these parts of my life, we teach that they can do the same.   Michael Hingson ** 56:04 When I was in my mid 20s, something happened. I became blind because I was born two months premature and given a pure oxygen environment, and that caused the retinas not to develop properly, something known at the time as retro enteral fibroplasia. And if we really want to learn to spell it, go buy my book thunder dog. Um, now it's called retinopathy or prematurity, and you can learn that in Thunder dog too. But anyway, um, I think it was in the mid 20s somewhere I read an article about someone who was born around the same time that I was and blind for the same reason, and they sued their medical people, and just, had just won a major lawsuit and got money and all that. And I was talking to my father about it, and I said, What do you think about that? And he he said, probably something that you can really imagine, he said, and what good would suing really do at the time? They probably had just the information that they had, and medical science had started to hear that retro enter fibroplasia was a condition, but medical science hadn't really accepted it yet. But my father said, Sue isn't going to solve anything. And he was absolutely right. And I thought the same thing. And to this day, I think that's true. I think there are times when there is such a thing as doing litigation for some purpose, but, you know, don't do it for the wrong reason, and don't go off and try to mess up somebody else's life, because I'm sure that those same ophthalmologists and so on in the 70s and 80s would never take the same approach that they did when I was born, or if they had to, because it really meant the life of the child, the parents would get an appropriate warning saying this could happen, which is what does happen. But also, it's been proven that it doesn't take a pure oxygen environment, 24 hours a day, every day to keep a child alive, and even just a few minutes a day will prevent the whole issue of becoming blind. So there are a lot of aspects of it.   Rhonda Farrah ** 58:34 There sure are.   Michael Hingson ** 58:36 But you know, we all are. We're in this same world, and we do need to, you know, to move forward. So what do you think that people can learn from you? We've talked for almost an hour. Summarize some of that, if you would.   Rhonda Farrah ** 58:52 I think people can learn from me that, you know, we're all whole, perfect and complete, even in our imperfections, all of us and I am more like others, and others are more like me than we all realize, because we all have that wholeness, that perfection within each within us, and they can learn to get out of their comfort zone a little before they're taken out of their comfort zone, to live an empowered life, to live maybe a little bit of the life that they've been Thinking about, perhaps dreaming about, they can learn that you know, even with everything that happened to me, I mean, I am so blessed. It could have been a lot worse in every situation that we have just talked about again in the last hour. But there was something within me, and it's within everyone. We are not alone. Alone, no one is alone. To take the best to count the gifts and the blessings, to use that formula gratitude plus forgiveness, not a popular topic, forgiveness will empower us if we go within and say, Yeah, that's the that I think that's the biggest thing, and that they're to get passionate about something, whether whether it's garden or whether it's changing lives, helping people fix their reflection first and live their best life ever. That's what they can learn from me. Find something to be passionate about,   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:50 yeah, the operative part about that is fix your reflection first, do something that you're passionate about. I would add to that, that doing something for negative reasons is only going to hurt you. It's not going to hurt anyone else exactly that's   Rhonda Farrah ** 1:01:06 taking the poison and expecting the other person to die. Yeah, it's not happening.   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:12 It doesn't happen. Well, if you were to Well, go ahead.   Rhonda Farrah ** 1:01:17 No, that's ask me. I want you to ask me another question. Do   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:23 you have a particular one you want me to ask you? No, oh, just checking. Just checking. If you were to to summarize all of this and leave people with one thought that they should take away and remember what? What do you want them to learn from this. I know we've talked about it a lot, and I kind of suspect I know the answer. But if you were to summarize it very briefly, what would you what would you say very   Rhonda Farrah ** 1:01:49 briefly? I would say, once again, you're not alone if you are struggling with a challenge, with something that not so good stuff in your life, reach out, whether you reach out to me, whether you reach out to someone else, reach out and go within. If you don't know who to reach out, to go within and listen and listen, and you'll know who to reach out to. And I have to say that wherever we go, and I alluded to this during the interview, during our conversation, wherever we go, we take ourselves. So those of us who are trying to avoid in life, wherever you go to avoid, whatever it is you're trying to avoid, you're the common denominator. You have still taken yourself there   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:41 and avoiding doesn't help. Facing is a different story than avoiding. Facing   Rhonda Farrah ** 1:02:46 Yes and it's okay. We all have feelings, feels. You want to feel sad, you want to feel angry, feel whatever the hell you want to feel okay. Because if you keep shoving those feelings down, eventually they will erupt at the most inopportune time. And quite frankly, and quite bluntly, I liken it to a toilet overflowing when you have a house full of guests, not a good thing. And finally, I'm inviting our audience to treat life as if it were ice cream and enjoy it before it melts.   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:28 I believe life is an adventure. We should all partake of it and not hide. We may not and shouldn't all do it exactly the same way. Everyone is has got their own way of doing it, but enjoy it, as you said, especially before it melts. Well, Rhonda, if people want to reach out to you, and I hope people will. And you know, you may get some, some guys who who email you, but how do people get hold of you?   Rhonda Farrah ** 1:03:58 I would welcome any questions. I love to hear what is on the heart and minds of others, and you can get a hold of me. At, Rhonda. R H, O, N, D, A at, help me, Rhonda now.com, Rhonda. At help me. Rhonda now.com,   Michael Hingson ** 1:04:18 and as I said earlier, we know what musical groups you grew up with.   Rhonda Farrah ** 1:04:24 Yes, we do.   Michael Hingson ** 1:04:27 But Rhonda at help me. Rhonda now.com and I hope people will reach out and seek the wisdom that you are providing and the knowledge that you have to offer, what a wonderful treasure trove of information and knowledge you are and you have, and I hope people will take advantage of that. Thank you. Thank you. Michael, well, I want to thank you for being here, and I want to thank all of you for listening and watching. Us today. We really value it. I would really like to hear from you. I want to hear what your thoughts are about today. Please email me, whoever you are, wherever you are. You can reach me at Michael H, i@accessibe.com that's m, I C, H, A, E, L, H, I at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, I b, e.com, or go to our podcast page, www dot Michael hingson.com/podcast, and Michael hingson is m, I C, H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, s, o, n.com/podcast, wherever you're listening, I hope you liked today and that you will rate us and give us a five star review. We value your reviews and your ratings. So very much. Really hope that you will provide us with a five star rating. We love it, but we really, most of all, value your thoughts and anything that you have to say about what you heard today, and I know Rhonda will appreciate that as well. So email Rhonda at helpmeda now.com and communicate with her as well. If you know of any guests Rhonda you as well who might be wonderful people that we ought to have on unstoppable mindset. Would love to hear from you. We're always looking for guests. I found Rhonda through a person who reached out to me and said, I know this great person who ought to be on the podcast. And he was right. So definitely, if you know of anyone, please let us know, but give us rankings, five star ratings, and communicate with us, because that's the only way we get a feel of what you like and what you're interested in and and what you're thinking. So please tell us. And with that, Rhonda, I want to thank you one more time for being here, and we appreciate all your time, and hopefully we'll do it again in the near future, and I'm certainly glad to come on the program that you were talking about earlier.   Rhonda Farrah ** 1:06:49 Yes, yes, thank you, Michael, it's been my pleasure to be here.   Michael Hingson ** 1:06:58 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. To learn more about the concept of blinded by fear, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com forward slash blinded by fear and while you're there, feel free to pick up a copy of my free eBook entitled blinded by fear. The unstoppable mindset podcast is provided by access cast an initiative of accessiBe and is sponsored by accessiBe. Please visit www.accessibe.com . AccessiBe is spelled a c c e s s i b e. There you can learn all about how you can make your website inclusive for all persons with disabilities and how you can help make the internet fully inclusive by 2025. Thanks again for Listening. Please come back and visit us again next week.

Avec : Pierre Rondeau, économiste. Juliette Briens, journaliste à L'Incorrect. Et Frédéric Hermel, journaliste RMC. - Après le succès d'audience rencontré cette année, Estelle Denis repart pour une nouvelle saison. Toujours accompagnée de Rémy Barret et sa bande, Estelle Denis s'invite à la table des français pour traiter des sujets qui font leur quotidien. Société, conso, actualité, débats, coup de gueule, coups de cœurs… En simultané sur RMC Story.

On this very special episode of The Great Hang Podcast Myka throws down the gauntlet and wants THE NEWS GONE. There is a game of Trivial Pursuit where the winner decides the fate of the news. Will Tim be able to use all his brain power to keep the fans happy and abreast of the happenings of the world. Or will the evil Myka have her way so that misinformation will flood the streets. We also have a Grammys hot take, and Tim pulls a little advice from Reddit. This is a great episode hope you all enjoy. Great Hang Patreon https://www.patreon.com/GreatHang iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/great-hang-with-myka-and-tim/id1574565430 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/0xpCw3jkplXMxp82ow0NCF?si=dc4814443f324a6d Youtube Episode Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnSkFaHeS4o&list=PL0xj2vuOYlctjiD60eEOk3Hl1bTENyWNl Follow Myka @Mykafox https://twitter.com/MykaFox https://www.instagram.com/mykafox/ Follow Tim https://www.instagram.com/hot_comic69/  

THE VIBE with Kelly Cardenas presents Leigh Steinberg, premier sports agent, entrepreneur, and Chairman and founder of Steinberg Sports and Entertainment, is best known for his work building athletes into stand-alone brands. Often credited as the real-life inspiration for the Oscar-winning film Jerry Maguire, Leigh has represented some of the most successful athletes and coaches across football, basketball, baseball, hockey, boxing, golf, and more. He holds an unprecedented record of representing the number one overall pick in the NFL draft eight times, along with 64 total first-round picks, and represented 12 Hall of Famers. Beyond football, his clients include Oscar De La Hoya, Lennox Lewis, multiple Olympians, and professional teams. With a history of record-setting contracts, he has secured over $4 billion for more than 300 pro athlete clients while directing over $1 billion to various charitable causes worldwide. CNN, Fox Business, Fox and Friends, Lifestyle of the Rich & Famous Born and raised in Los Angeles, Leigh's early life was shaped by his parents—a teacher and librarian. He earned his B.A. in political science and J.D. from UC Berkeley, where he served as student body president during both degrees. His cultural significance extends beyond the sports world; Leigh has been a trivia question on both Jeopardy! and Trivial Pursuit, cementing his iconic status. Deeply committed to philanthropy, Leigh has been recognized for his charitable work with numerous commendations, including honors from Congress, state legislatures, multiple U.S. Presidents, and various civic organizations. His accolades include being named “Man of the Year” over a dozen times and receiving “Keys to the City” in several U.S. cities. He also played a pivotal role in saving the San Francisco Giants, earning him the honor of “Leigh Steinberg Day” in the city. In 2017, he was inducted into the California Sports Hall of Fame. Throughout his career, Leigh has been a prominent media figure, appearing on programs like 60 Minutes, Larry King Live, The Today Show, CNN, Fox Business, Fox & Friends, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. His profile has graced the pages of Business Week, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, GQ, and ESPN the Magazine. As a consultant, he contributed to films and shows such as Jerry Maguire, Any Given Sunday, For Love of the Game, and Arli$$. He also provides expert commentary on sports business through outlets like The Dan Patrick Show and The Herd with Colin Cowherd. A prolific writer, Leigh contributes columns to Forbes, HuffPost, and Daily Pilot and has authored notable works such as Winning with Integrity and The Agent: My 40-Year Career of Making Deals and Changing the Game. Leigh's passion for improving athlete health and safety has led him to host annual Brain Health Summits, uniting athletes, medical experts, and researchers to address traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). These summits focus on advancements in diagnosis, prevention, and mental health support. Additionally, Leigh has championed initiatives in sustainability and community development through partnerships with various organizations. His efforts include launching educational programs for underserved communities, promoting clean energy in sports facilities, and developing outreach projects aimed at creating long-term social impact. His multifaceted projects reflect his dedication to driving meaningful change both within and beyond the sports world. SUBSCRIBE TO MY SUBSTACK https://thevibebykellycardenas.substack.com?r=4nn6y5&utm_medium=ios BUY THE VIBE BOOK ⁠https://a.co/d/6tgAJ4c⁠  BUY BLING ⁠https://shop.kellycardenas.com/products/kelly-cardenas-salon-bling⁠  SUPPORT HIGH FIVES FOUNDATION ⁠https://highfivesfoundation.org/⁠  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - BROOKLYN CARDENAS ⁠https://www.brooklyncardenas.com/⁠

Start, grow, and scale your Haunted Attraction at HauntersToolbox.com In this episode, we discuss many things like Scare Actors, Safety, Timed Ticketing, Wall panels, Haunt Construction, Tent Haunts, Outdoor Trails, International Haunts, and more! Leonard Pickel has over 50 years of themed attraction design and operations experience in year-round and seasonal installations, museums, and dark rides. Creating more than 300 original and innovative dark-themed attractions for major venues worldwide.  A few of Leonard's accomplishments: -1987: created the industry's first turn-key Haunted House “˜kits” and the first adaptation of the “Field Theory” for Haunted Attractions (The Triangular Grid System) -1993 to 2000: Applied his October seasonal experience toward a summer seasonal haunted house with Mayhem Manor® in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. -1994 to 2009: Co-founded Haunted Attraction Magazine, the premier publication for the dark amusement industry. -1997: Formed the Haunted Industry's first trade association, the International Association of Haunted Attractions (IAHA). -2004 to 2017: Launched the first national convention devoted solely to the Haunted Attraction Industry. The Haunted Attraction National Tradeshow and Convention (HAuNTcon®) -2009: Awarded a lifetime achievement award from the International Association of Haunted Attractions and was honored with a question using his name in the Millennium Edition of Trivial Pursuit. -2009: Appeared as an industry expert in several television programs including the Travel Channel special about Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Florida and America's Best Haunted Houses. -1976 to present: Constantly searching for new challenges and striving for new heights in his Haunting career, Leonard has 40-plus years of experience designing all types of commercial Attractions. Contact Leonard Pickel at Hauntrepreneurs.com

Hi, everybody. Welcome to our tricentennial episode! To celebrate this milestone, cartoonist/writer/podcaster/all-around great guy Gregg Schigiel returns to host a game show with our four cohosts as contestants. It's part Trivial Pursuit, part Taskmaster, and 100% fun! Play along at home and join in on the frivolity. For all things Gregg Schigiel, please check out his websites: https://greggschigiel.com https://hatterentertainment.com Browse his t-shirt designs at https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirts?query=greggschigiel. Order his Zooperhero Universe books, PIX graphic novels, and all his other books on Amazon or make sure your local bookstores, comic book shops, and libraries carry his books. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=zooperhero+universe&crid=1G36KTMJUH0O6&sprefix=zooperhero+universe%2Caps%2C63&ref=nb_sb_noss Thank you for listening. Connect with Meanwhile At The Podcast on social media. Don't forget to #livetweet (we're still calling it that)! Share the show, subscribe so you don't miss an episode, and rate us on your podcast apps. Those much coveted five stars are always appreciated. Stay safe out there. NOW ON BLUESKY @MeanwhileATP https://x.com/meanwhileatp https://instagram.com/meanwhileatp/ https://www.meanwhileatthepodcast.libsyn.com https://www.facebook.com/meanwhileatthepodcast Rodney (AKA Art Nerrd): https://x.com/artnerrd https://www.instagram.com/theartnerrd/ https://facebook.com/artnerrd https://shop.spreadshirt.com/artnerrd Kristin: https://www.facebook.com/kristing616 https://www.instagram.com/kristing616 Rich: https://x.com/doctorstaypuft

Straight out the gate and back at it again!  Number 1 for takeoff into SEASON 2!!! On this episode I invite Bill Barlow into the flight deck.  Our in flight beverage this time consisted of a nice cup of Black Rifle Coffee. Bill is a very accomplished author and businessman who has made a name for himself in the Direct Response television industry, or as we all know it "infomercials"  From the Bible on Tape to Juicers to double bladed circular saws if you have seen it on TV, chances are Bill had a hand in it.As we reach cruise altitude, Bill entertains us with his stories of the industry, including how he went to war with "big mattress" and had a rival idea bought out by a unknown board game called Trivial Pursuit.   Additionally we learn about the target audience for direct response television as well as who Dorothy is...As we come in for our approach to landing we drop the gear to discuss another passion of Bills, wine.   This man is quite the wine connoisseur and he has an amazing story on how he got that way!     Check out the links below to follow Bill and check out his book on Amazon!Instagram: @billbarlowmusicYoutube: @billbarlowAmazon Books:  Life's a Pitch then you BuyINTRO MUSIC: Electric Butterfly-  Bill barlow 2025OUTRO MUSIC:Chess- Phononauts 2024Socials:Email: TheXennialAviator@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555711167875Instagram: @thexennialaviatorTiktok:@thexennialaviatorDONATE and Buy me a Beer! I'll give youa shoutout on the next episode! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thexennialaviator

"FASTEN YOUR DROOL CUPS AND READY YOUR VOMIT BAGS...WE'RE GOING TO THE MOVIES! FRIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION...I CALL THIS ONE, DEMON KNIGHT." Ed & Andrew are tapping into their childhood for this edition of the podcast as they're celebrating the 30th anniversary of Tales From the Crypt's feature length debut by giving Demon Knight the Film Effect treatment!! In Demon Knight, a stranger in possession of an ancient key (who's also on the run from a charming but demonic collector) hides at a boarding house in New Mexico where...with the help of its residents...he plans to face off against the collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from seizing the key and starting the apocalypse.. Episode Directory: *Intro  00:00 *Current Events  06:00 *Last Time On The Podcast...  16:16 ----------The Film Effect Treatment---------- *Pre-Dive Top Five 20:37 *First Time Viewings 25:19 *Cast & Crew Run-Through  28:15 *Story Time (How It All Came Together)  31:05 *The Main Course  46:49 *What Works  01:23:52 *What Doesn't Work  01:26:42 *Finger-Lickin' Good Moment  01:30:05 *Trivial Pursuit 01:33:34 *Box Office Receipts  01:37:08 *Critic's Corner  01:38:05 *Movie MVPs  01:40:00 *Final Effect Rating  01:41:42 *RIYL 01:45:48 ------------------------------------------------ *Outro  01:48:16 Website: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com Merch Store: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com/store Email: filmeffectpod@gmail.com Find us on social media! Facebook: https://facebook.com/thefilmeffectpodcast IG: https://instagram.com/thefilmeffectpodcast Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/filmeffectpod TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@filmeffectpodcast

In this episode, Lina dives into two key obstacles that can derail us from our calling, as well as two powerful ways that strengthen our pursuit of Christ. She unpacks how people-pleasing and the pursuit of comfort can waste your life and quickly lead you off the path God has set before you. But there's hope: Lina shares how learning to rightly relate to people and turning to God's ways for true comfort can realign your heart and strengthen your walk with Christ. If you're ready to identify what's holding you back and take steps to get back on track, this episode is for you! P.S. If this episode resonated with you, I'd love for you to grab a copy of my book Still Standing.   ABOUT: Lina AbuJamra is a Pediatric ER doctor, now practicing telemedicine, and founder of Living With Power Ministries. Her vision is to bring hope to the world by connecting biblical answers to everyday life. A popular Bible teacher, podcaster, and conference speaker, she is the author of several books including Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This, Still Standing, and her Bible Study series Mapping the Footsteps of God. In her “spare” time, she provides medical care and humanitarian help in disaster areas and to refugees in Lebanon. Learn more about her at LivingWithPower.org. Follow on Insta: linaabujamra Follow on Facebook: Lina Abujamra

"I DON'T WANNA SCARE ANYONE , BUT I'M GONNA GIVE IT TO YOU STRAIGHT ABOUT JASON. HIS BODY WAS NEVER RECOVERED FROM THE LAKE AFTER HE DROWNED. AND IF YOU LISTEN TO THE OLD-TIMERS IN TOWN, THEY'LL TELL YOU HE'S STILL OUT THERE..." Ed & Andrew are back for another installment in our "Friday the 13th 45th Anniversary Retrospective", where this month they're talking about Jason's introduction as they give Friday the 13th Part 2 the full Film Effect treatment!! In Friday the 13th Part 2, five years have passed since the events of the first film when a summer camp, next to the infamous Camp Crystal Lake, is preparing to open, but the legend of Jason is weighing heavy on the proceedings.. Episode Directory: *Intro  00:00 *Current Events  04:39 *Last Time On The Podcast...  07:54 ----------The Film Effect Treatment---------- *Pre-Dive Top Five 12:26 *First Time Viewings 17:49 *Cast & Crew Run-Through  19:41 *Story Time (How It All Came Together)  21:34 *The Main Course  34:36 *What Works  58:46 *What Doesn't Work  01:02:25 *Finger-Lickin' Good Moment  01:08:10 *Trivial Pursuit 01:11:50 *Box Office Receipts  01:21:51 *Critic's Corner  01:23:20 *Movie MVPs  01:25:16 *Final Effect Rating  01:28:00 *RIYL 01:32:50 ------------------------------------------------ *Outro  01:34:30 Website: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com Merch Store: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com/store Email: filmeffectpod@gmail.com Find us on social media! Facebook: https://facebook.com/thefilmeffectpodcast IG: https://instagram.com/thefilmeffectpodcast Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/filmeffectpod TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@filmeffectpodcast

"WE'RE COP KILLERS NOW." On this edition of the podcast, Ed & Andrew are heading straight into the line of fire as they give the underrated Den of Thieves the Film Effect treatment, in conjunction with the release of the sequel!! In Den of Thieves, an elite unit of the LASD and the state's most successful bank robbery crew clash as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.. Episode Directory: *Intro  00:00 *Current Events  03:51 *Last Time On The Podcast...  09:44 ----------The Film Effect Treatment---------- *Pre-Dive Top Five 15:39 *First Time Viewings 19:43 *Cast & Crew Run-Through  20:31 *Story Time (How It All Came Together)  24:12 *The Main Course  31:14 *What Works  01:05:46 *What Doesn't Work  01:12:37 *Finger-Lickin' Good Moment  01:18:57 *Trivial Pursuit 01:24:42 *Box Office Receipts  01:31:32 *Critic's Corner  01:33:34 *Movie MVPs  01:36:49 *Final Effect Rating  01:39:02 *RIYL 01:43:17 ------------------------------------------------ *Outro  01:45:19 Website: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com Merch Store: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com/store Email: filmeffectpod@gmail.com Find us on social media! Facebook: https://facebook.com/thefilmeffectpodcast IG: https://instagram.com/thefilmeffectpodcast Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/filmeffectpod TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@filmeffectpodcast

If you’re not a musician, you might occasionally think how great it would be to be a musician. If you are a musician, you might occasionally think how great it must have been to be in The Beatles. New Orleanian Bruce Spizer is not a musician. He’s a lawyer and an accountant. But, not only has he occasionally thought how great it must have been to be in The Beatles, he’s written 16 books about them. Bruce is a world-renowned Beatles expert. He’s been a guest on practically every major American TV news show. He’s made countless TV appearances around the world. He’s a Beatles consultant for Universal Music Group, Capital Records, and Apple Corps – the Beatles’ own label – and he wrote the questions and answers for The Beatles edition of Trivial Pursuit. In case you’re wondering why any of this would make Bruce Spizer a guest on a business show, his book sales alone have earned over $3m. One of his books is selling on Amazon for over $4,000, and there are more books in the works. If you live in New Orleans and you like festivals and live music – and if you don’t, you’re probably planning on leaving – you’ll be familiar with the work of Stephen St. Cyr. If you’re trying to place his name and wondering what band he’s in, or whether he’s maybe a celebrity chef, nope, it’s none of that. Stephen is President of a company called Vivid Ink. Vivid Ink makes visual artwork for festivals and events – like stage banners, sponsor signage, practically everything that’s not food or music, at events like Jazz Fest, Sugar Bowl, Hogs For The Cause, Tales of the Cocktail and a long list of others. There are two branches of Stephen’s company – a Baton Rouge office that works with corporate clients, and the more fun New Orleans division - a big building on Poydras Street where a staff of 29 creates all the live event stuff. It’s kind of nice at this point in their respective careers to talk with Stephen and Bruce about the extraordinary successes they’ve both accomplished. But none of this success was handed to either of them. Their own creativity and hard work has made all of this happen. And it doesn’t look either of them are taking their foot off the gas any time soon. Their future achievments may turn out to be as notable as their histories. Out to Lunch was recorded live over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"IF I KNOW MARY AS WELL AS I THINK I DO, SHE'LL INVITE US RIGHT IN FOR TEA AND STRUMPETS." Jocelyn joins Ed for this edition of the podcast to discuss buddy comedies & Jim Carrey's breakthrough year of 1994 while giving Dumb and Dumber the Film Effect treatment for it's 30th anniversary!! In Dumb and Dumber, after a woman leaves a briefcase at the airport terminal, a dumb limo driver and his dumber friend set out on a hilarious cross-country road trip to Aspen to return it.. Episode Directory: *Intro  00:00 *Current Events  08:16 *Last Time On The Podcast...  13:40 ----------The Film Effect Treatment---------- *Pre-Dive Top Five 30:35 *First Time Viewings 35:25 *Cast & Crew Run-Through  39:46 *Story Time (How It All Came Together)  43:24 *The Main Course  52:20 *What Works  01:39:27 *What Doesn't Work  01:45:29 *Finger-Lickin' Good Moment  01:48:37 *Trivial Pursuit 01:53:10 *Box Office Receipts  02:03:31 *Critic's Corner  02:05:32 *Movie MVPs  02:10:44 *Final Effect Rating  02:11:39 *RIYL 02:12:49 ------------------------------------------------ *Outro  02:14:37 Website: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com Merch Store: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com/store Email: filmeffectpod@gmail.com Find us on social media! Facebook: https://facebook.com/thefilmeffectpodcast IG: https://instagram.com/thefilmeffectpodcast Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/filmeffectpod TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@filmeffectpodcast

Host Alex Pierson is joined by the Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter, Mr. Tom Korski to talk about some of the major stories happening in Ottawa...especially since the announced resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 in the sermon series "The Games We Play"

Was SEHR lange währt, wird endlich gut — wir präsentieren die Premieren-Ausgabe des Nerdwelten Quiz! Ben, Hardy und Daniel treten gegeneinander an, um in einer Reihe an Multiple-Choice-Fragen ihr (Nicht-)Wissen zu testen. In der Tradition unserer Trivial-Pursuit-Folgen sind das Fragen aus der deutschen Master-System-Version des beliebten Brettspiels aus dem Jahr 1992, zusammengetragen von unserem Discord-User Pettersson. Die Moderation übernimmt Hagen Gehritz, langjähriger Redakteur und Podcaster bei Gamersglobal und Teil des Retro-Gamer-Teams. Tipp: In diesem Quiz gab es Bilder-Fragen, wir haben wuch die Bilder an den passenden Stellen im Podcast eingeblendet (so euer Podcatcher dieses Feature unterstützt), alternativ gibt's die Bilder auf unserer Homepage nerdweltenpodcast.com Für zukünftige Ausgaben dieses Quizformats freuen wir und sehr über eure Zusendung von Multiple-Choice-Fragen rund um das Thems (Retro-) Gaming an nerdweltenquiz@outlook.de Moderation: Hagen Gehritz Kandidaten: Ben Dibbert, Daniel Cloutier und Hardy Heßdörfer Lust direkt über diese Folge zu diskutieren? Schau doch mal im Nerdwelten Discord Kanal oder auf unserer Facebook Seite vorbei! Auf X (ehemals Twitter) oder unserem Whatsapp-Kanal sind wir ebenfalls zu finden und freuen uns über dein Feedback! Für Unterstützung via Patreon und Steady sind wir sehr dankbar! Dort erhalten Unterstützer Zugang zu monatlichen Bonus-Folgen. Lust auf Nerdwelten Merchandise (Shirts, Tassen, Caps...)? HIER ENTLANG Nerdwelten Musik: Ben Dibbert (Nordischssound) Introstimme: Claudia Urbschat-Mingues Schnitt: Hardy Heßdörfer Produktion: Hardy Heßdörfer Cover-Layout: Dennis Deuster Bilder und Musik-Einspieler stammen aus der Master-System-Version von Trivial Pursuit.

Zip up your vest and look out for dinosaurs—Random Pursuit is back with some silly questions and some very dark ones. At one point, Steven asks “What is wrong with Trivial Pursuit!?” Related: content warning for harm to a pet. Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Brian Warren, Glenn Fleishman, Kirsten Goruk, Sage Young and Shannon Dohar.

When Walt Disney animated the story of Snow White, he created seven memorable, even if short characters - the seven dwarfs. I'm not one of them! Now, I'm not going to ask you to name them; we'll save that for a game of Trivial Pursuit or something. But I always loved that little song they sang on the way to work. And well, they didn't exactly work in an environmentally controlled office building. They worked in a mine all day. Not the greatest place to work! But each day they would merrily march off to work singing, (I won't sing it for you, but here we go.) "Hi-ho, Hi-ho, it's off to work we go." Well, what a great way to approach your responsibilities. I'll tell you, anyone who does that is a giant. I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about a "Prescription For a Weary Worker." Now, I attended a meeting of people who are very busy in Christian ministry, and one woman expressed a feeling that, as it turned out, everybody in the room agreed with. She said, "You know, people are working for the Lord around here, and they get very discouraged or they quit because of one word - weariness." And I watched a lot of heads nodding in that room. Now, there are a lot of men and women who have spiritual responsibility and they struggle with a deep weariness, and it's far beyond physical. They're just tired of pushing, and of being sometimes the one of the few who care. They're tired of little results for a lot of work, and maybe not being appreciated. Some of you might say, "Well, how did you know?" Because there are a lot of us that serve the Lord that start to feel that way sometime or another. Okay, our word for today from the Word of God, Hebrews 12:2-4 - "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and the perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning it's shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him who endured such opposition from sinful men..." And then notice this, "...so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." And then the writer goes on to say, In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood." Okay, there's this weariness that we talked about that some people who are listening can identify with; that deep, emotional kind that saps your physical strength too. And there's discouragement; the kind that results in a mechanical kind of service - just kind of crank it out. And honestly, more and more frequent thoughts of quitting. Weariness, according to Hebrews 12, seems to result from taking your eyes off Jesus. Maybe you're weary because you've been doing God's work in your strength. You know better, but you've gone from God working through you to the crank-it-out weariness of you suddenly working for God. Oh, you're doing the same things, but it's not Him through you. It's you for Him. Or it could be that you've been looking at the results you're getting instead of the Savior you're serving. He gives the results, He gives the rewards - people don't. Is it time to get your eyes back on the Jesus whose love compelled you to serve in the first place? You know, when Jacob had to work seven years to earn the right to marry Rachel, I love what the Bible says, "They seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her." See, love makes the difference. Then you'll be able to join that saint who served the Lord for 70 years and who sang that song, "Since I started for the kingdom, since my life He controls, since I gave my life to Jesus, the longer I serve Him, the sweeter He grows."

Zip up your vest and look out for dinosaurs—Random Pursuit is back with some silly questions and some very dark ones. At one point, Steven asks “What is wrong with Trivial Pursuit!?” Related: content warning for harm to a pet. Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Brian Warren, Glenn Fleishman, Kirsten Goruk, Sage Young and Shannon Dohar.

For our annual pre-Holiday-Special-holiday-episode-about-a-holiday-toy we are jumping into one of the greatest games of all time, Trivial Pursuit (and we're not just saying that because there's an SYSK edition). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"THIS PLACE IS CURSED...CURSED...IT'S GOT A DEATH CURSE!" On a very special "Friday the 13th" edition of the podcast, Ed & Andrew are kicking off the upcoming 45th anniversary of the Friday the 13th franchise by giving the original 1980 film our signature treatment!! In Friday the 13th, a group of teenage camp counselors attempt to re-open an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past, but they are stalked by a mysterious, relentless killer.. Episode Directory: *Intro  00:00 *Current Events  02:56 *Last Time On The Podcast...  05:25 ----------The Film Effect Treatment---------- *Pre-Dive Top Five 11:19 *First Time Viewings 13:40 *Cast & Crew Run-Through  15:08 *Story Time (How It All Came Together)  19:21 *The Main Course  32:09 *What Works  01:00:12 *What Doesn't Work  01:03:29 *Finger-Lickin' Good Moment  01:08:29 *Trivial Pursuit  01:09:15 *Box Office Receipts  01:13:36 *Critic's Corner  01:14:04 *Movie MVPs  01:16:46 *Final Effect Rating  01:17:47 *RIYL 01:19:05 ------------------------------------------------ *Outro  01:20:40 Website: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com Merch Store: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com/store Email: filmeffectpod@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefilmeffectpodcast/support

"THIS YEAR, THERE WILL BE...NO LEFTOVERS!!" For this belated-"Thanksgiving Hangover" edition of the show, Stew from Stew World Order returns to join Ed in giving thanks as they give Eli Roth's holiday horror film Thanksgiving our signature Film Effect Treatment!! In Thanksgiving, after a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the infamous holiday.. Episode Directory: *Intro  00:00 *Current Events  04:49 *Last Time On The Podcast...  09:07 ----------The Film Effect Treatment---------- *Pre-Dive Top Five 12:54 *First Time Viewings 17:07 *Cast & Crew Run-Through  18:59 *How It All Started...  41:37 *The Main Course  43:41 *What Works  01:28:44 *What Doesn't Work  01:32:12 *Finger-Lickin' Good Moment  01:37:12 *Trivial Pursuit  01:40:36 *Box Office Receipts  01:44:58 *Critic's Corner  01:45:56 *Movie MVPs  01:48:03 *Final Effect Rating  01:50:18 *RIYL 01:54:54 ------------------------------------------------ *Outro  01:57:13 Website: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com Merch Store: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com/store Email: filmeffectpod@gmail.com Find us on social media! Facebook: https://facebook.com/thefilmeffectpodcast IG: https://instagram.com/thefilmeffectpodcast Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/filmeffectpod TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@filmeffectpodcast Check Out Stew World Order! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stew-world-order/id1559913522 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6fLcKIHFrYBwMqhFryFMM6 Twitter/X: twitter.com/SWOProductions Website: https://swoproductions.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefilmeffectpodcast/support

On today's Saturday Matinee, we test our knowledge on the origins of Trivial Pursuit.Link to History This Week: https://historythisweekpodcast.substack.com/Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser.Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Serve up a slice of trivia pie as Jay and Shua play another round of 80's Trivial Pursuit while they work off the results of their holiday feast on Enjoy Stuff!   Check out our TeePublic store for some enjoyable swag and all the latest fashion trends Were you able to answer the questions quicker than the boys? Let us know. First person that emails me with the subject line, “I'll take some pie!” will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com  

Serve up a slice of trivia pie as Jay and Shua play another round of 80's Trivial Pursuit while they work off the results of their holiday feast on Enjoy Stuff!

"BLOWJOB SHOTS FOR THE LADIES AND A COSMOPOLITAN FOR EACH OF THE GUYS." On this edition of the podcast, Ed's joined by a returning Corey to break down & give Adam Wingard's The Guest our patented Film Effect Treatment!! In The Guest, a string of mysterious deaths leads a teenager to become suspicious of a soldier who showed up on her family's doorstep and claimed to be a friend of her dead brother.. Episode Directory: *Intro  00:00 *Current Events  05:06 *Last Time On The Podcast...  19:55 ----------The Film Effect Treatment---------- *Pre-Dive Top Five  23:41 *First Time Viewings 27:49 *Cast & Crew Run-Through  30:20 *How It All Started...  32:13 *The Main Course  36:32 *What Works  01:25:00 *What Doesn't Work  01:32:52 *Finger-Lickin' Good Moment  01:38:00 *Trivial Pursuit  01:40:54 *Box Office Receipts  01:48:35 *Critic's Corner  01:51:00 *Movie MVPs  01:53:30 *Final Effect Rating  01:54:03 *RIYL  01:56:26 ------------------------------------------------ *Outro  01:57:26 Website: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com Merch Store: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com/store Email: filmeffectpod@gmail.com Find us on social media! Facebook: https://facebook.com/thefilmeffectpodcast IG: https://instagram.com/thefilmeffectpodcast Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/filmeffectpod TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@filmeffectpodcast --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefilmeffectpodcast/support

My guest and conversation partner for this episode is Anna Pereira. Anna grew up in New Jersey. She tells us about growing up in a home where she was discouraged by her father from going to college. She tells us that while her mom typically exceeded to the wishes of her dad, Mom did insist that Anna should be able to go to college if she wished. And so Anna did, but only stuck it out for three semesters.   Anna then joined the workforce holding a variety of jobs and becoming successful at most of them.   In 2009 she met and married her husband. That story is one I leave for Anna to tell, but suffice it to say Anna's story is an inspirational and fascinating one you should hear from her. Anna's husband is a sports expert as you will learn. A few years after marrying Anna and her husband moved to Portugal for a job and have been spreading their time between New Jersey and Portugal ever since. In fact, not just travels to Portugal but also to other countries around the world.   The Wellness Universe concept was created by Anna to help bring wellness to leaders and others. Through The Wellness Universe, and now Wellness Universe Corporate Anna has reached thousands of people. Her programs are in large part membership-based endeavors that help promote well being and a more positive outlook on life.   Our conversation is not only informative and inspirational, but it also is quite animated in a positive way that I believe will keep you engaged. Please enjoy your time with Anna and reach out to her afterward at www.thewellnessuniverse.com. I think you will see why Anna believes she is truly changing the world.       About the Guest:   Anna Pereira is the CEO of The Wellness Universe, and Wellness Universe Corporate, creator of wellness events, projects, community, programs, author of 4 best selling books, and founder of Wellness for All, donation based wellness programming and leads a woman-owned business, where they believe happy, healthy, healed humans lead to peace globally. She's an inspirational leader, mentor, and connector for business owners who help humans to live and lead their best life. Anna has worked with thousands of wellness business owners bringing their transformational resources to those seeking wellbeing and now taking those people to help transform organizations through the lens of company culture and well-being. Her contribution and impact are well documented through those she has worked with, evident in over 150 written recommendations in her Linkedin profile.  Anna resides between Portugal and her birthplace, New Jersey, USA, with her husband, sports expert, Hugo Varela. The couple has adopted pets (one dog and two cats) and cares for strays and their African Gray is a quite conversationalist speaking two languages. Her relationship with her loved ones and others is top priority. Anna finds balance in being creative, in nature, and at the beach.  She's dedicated to serving her calling and leaving her legacy as a ‘conduit for change' by bringing more health, happiness, and wellbeing to the world with a collaborative spirit and intentional action.   Ways to connect with Anna:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/annapereira1/  https://www.thewellnessuniverse.com/world-changers/annapereira https://www.facebook.com/CirclesOfInspiration IG - @annapereiraofficial Books - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VFFJPN9       About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hi everyone, and welcome to another edition of unstoppable mindset. Today we get to chat with Anna Pereira. And Anna is the founder of the wellness universe, the wellness universe and other things that we're going to talk about. She's written several books, and she has been a very active and engaging person. We've had fun catching up even before we started doing this podcast, because Anna spends her time between Portugal and her home in New Jersey, and where she lived in New Jersey was like just a few miles from where I and my wife Karen lived in Westfield New Jersey for six years, so we hadn't talked about that before. Shame on us, but now we have, and we got caught up. Anna, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here. Oh   Anna Pereira ** 02:14 Michael, thank you so much. I am delighted to be here. Thank you for having me. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 02:18 I'm really glad that we're getting a chance to do this. So tell us a little bit about kind of the early Anna growing up and all that stuff. Might as well start with that,   02:31 such a big question. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 02:33 if we take the hour to talk about that, then we know that there were some interesting events.   Anna Pereira ** 02:39 All right. Well, great. Well, you know, it's so funny, like you said, we were talking about growing up in in very close proximity to each other, probably around those same years, and had no idea that here we are, later again and and it was our wonderful friend Sharon Carn, that actually put us together here. Yeah. So I grew up in New Jersey, and I had a pretty, pretty average childhood, except for the fact that I feel, and I think that with a lot of first generation immigrants, people that came in from a very strict background, my my culture, my background is Portuguese. My parents raised me in a pretty strict household, but I was not a very compliant individual, growing up with a very free spirit and very creative spirit. So with that, I was always very independent. Wanted to do my own thing, and at the same time, there wasn't, like, a lot of, I want to say nurturing or good parenting from the from the angle of, there wasn't a lot of I love using the house, or there wasn't a lot of encouraging me to pursue a more of an academic route in life. When I expressed that I wanted to further my education, I was met with the minds with my father's fear mindset around money, saying, you know, no, you're not going to college. We can't afford it. Instead of saying, let's explore options here, let's get our child who is interested in furthering her, you know, her, her education, the resources that she needs in order for her to pursue her dreams. So everything was kind of met with that. So where was your mom and all that? My mom was there, and she was just basically subserving to my father. Okay, the and it's a great segue to the the conclusion of that my mom was the one who said, no, no, we're going to go enroll you in college. That's what I was wondering. Yes, thank you. So I went to the wonderful UCC over here in in Cranford. So. I went to for a few years of Union County College, and it still wasn't for me. So I never really finished with any degree, as with many union, I'm sorry, county college students and I joined the workforce. But growing up was a mixed bag. I was very artistic, and I was very well championed and respected, and my peers and even teachers and people around me really knew me for my artistic talent. They and I was very much celebrated and encouraged in that area, but there was a lot of areas that I felt were lacking. I was bullied when I was growing up, and again, the lack of nurturing, and if something happened, well, it had to be my fault. And if it was my fault, then there was the shame and the blame and all that put there. So in growing up with all of these stigmas and traumas, only as I became an adult, did I understand what what I went through and how to become more aware of the situations and circumstances which kind of led me to where I am today. But all through that time, it was interesting, because I don't know where the inspiration came from to have adult conversations as a teen with my teachers, my guidance counselor, which with other adults, and they would ask me for my advice or my perspective on things that I I don't know where I came up with things, but that was kind of like the the seeding of where I am now,   Michael Hingson ** 06:46 interesting. You know, one of the things that that comes to mind when you when you say that last bit, is that I've learned, if nothing else in the world, our subconscious minds, our heart, if you will, observes everything that goes on around us, and oftentimes, will tell us things if we learn to listen. So in a sense, I'm not really surprised that maybe you were able to carry on adult conversations because they picked up on that, but clearly you had been observant enough to be able to gather the knowledge to be able to go off and deal with some of those things, and it's so often that people don't do that today. My favorite example of that is playing Trivial Pursuit. When somebody asks a question and you immediately think of an answer, and then you go, Oh, no, that can't be the right answer. It came too quick, and then you give some other answer, but the original answer was the right answer. And we just don't follow our instincts and our heart nearly as much as we probably ought to.   Anna Pereira ** 07:44 I love that you use the word instinct, Michael, I like to use the word intuition.   Michael Hingson ** 07:49 Same concept, yeah, for what I'm talking about here. Yes, it's there, and we just, we don't use it. We, we seem to be taught by others that that's not the way to do things, and it's a problem.   Anna Pereira ** 08:08 I'm laughing so hard right now, authentically, laughing at what you're saying honestly, and people are now. And then you learn. You go through life, and then you learn like I should have listened to my gut. I should have listened to what I was being told, you know? And if we, if we do, listen more into that, and we lean into that space, which is what, literally, I'm all about right now, and the people I surround myself, it's like listening to that, tuning into your heart, tuning into your gut, and quieting the mind, because the mind is really great after you've come to some sort of decision to help you balance that decision. But if you go to your strictly to your mind, well, that just that just gets all up in the way.   Michael Hingson ** 08:54 Of course, it's really going to part of your mind, because the other part of your mind is really your gut that we don't tend to listen to nearly as much as we should agree. How long ago did you leave college? When did you leave?   Anna Pereira ** 09:06 Oh, my goodness, it was, it was quick. It was basically, I went to county college. So I went for like, three semesters or something. I was probably around, like, 19 or 20.   Michael Hingson ** 09:18 Okay, well, I was wondering how, like, how long, so, how long have you been in the workforce? Then,   Anna Pereira ** 09:23 oh, I've been in the workforce since I was 12 years old, if you want to talk about workforce, okay, no, I got it. I got a part time job after school, and then I was working three jobs when I was 19, so I can get my own apartment. So I joined the workforce like early on, and had always worked, and even when I was in college, I was working two jobs along with being in college. So it just kind of my ethic. And honestly, again, from the immigrant perspective, you work hard, you stay out of trouble, and then. You know you'll have an okay life. And so   Michael Hingson ** 10:03 often, even on this podcast, I hear people who talk about being immigrants directly, or first generation with parents who were immigrants, who say that very same thing and who follow that work ethic, and it serves them so well.   Anna Pereira ** 10:22 There's, there's lots of great things to take away from that. I will say, like when I'm dedicated, I'm committed. You know, there's a lot to be said for a lot of the benefits, as they have seen, have benefited them. But I also see how it creates a lot of shortcomings in your life, and I'm trying to reverse some of that, those patterns and that thinking and those beliefs, those false beliefs, as I've gotten older, because that they really don't serve. Not, not every single thing from that point of view, serves   Michael Hingson ** 11:02 no but it lays a foundation. And then the question is, how you work with and how you evolve? Yes, yeah, which, which really makes a lot of sense. But so you had, what kind of jobs did you have after you left college? Then,   Anna Pereira ** 11:17 oh goodness, well, I've done everything from retail to undercover security, to office, to head of a $15 million division for a pet products company. I've had my own businesses. I've had my own clothing lines, I've had jewelry collections. I I've been an entrepreneur, and I still am, and so it's kind of a hodgepodge, and I've taken away from every single experience, a very big learning experience, from the people that I worked with to the jobs that I've held to you know, even when I talk now, I know, for example, when I design product for a pet products company, I know that there's a certain footprint that a department store or a spec or a store, you have to stay within that footprint when you're designing the packaging, because if you design the packaging outside of that footprint, they're not going to bring the product in it. The profit margin is not there to that makes sense to occupy that footprint, right? So there's, there's so many things that I've learned along the way that I bring into my now. But, yeah, I've hold, I've held, like, various, various job. Telemarketer, like, you name it, almost, I've done it. I've done it. Michael, well,   Michael Hingson ** 12:34 let's, let's get real. You live in New Jersey. Bada, bing, bada, boom. Did you ever work with Tony Soprano? Just checking.   Anna Pereira ** 12:42 I did not, you know, just yesterday, where we headed out to Connecticut, and one of the one of the rest stops are named James Gandolfini, rest stops.   12:50 Oh,   Anna Pereira ** 12:51 I was like, That's so nice, yeah. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 12:52 what? I actually have a funny story when we were building our house. Well, we built our house, and the builder was a gentleman and his sons, Joe scalzidonna, and his partner was the financier for the for the group, and his name was Joe Pinto. And they Joe, especially Pinto, I guess, made his money ready. Here it comes in the garbage business. And it means all that that implies. But, you know, they were very nice to us. All of them were, were really great to us and helped us a lot. They they were very concerned about making sure everything that could be done to make the house accessible for Karen was done. And did some some really great things, and had some really creative contributions over the things that we included in the design. So it was wonderful to work with all of them. But, you know, it's an interesting it's, I like New Jersey. We had a lot of fun there. We would go into New York many weekends and go to the theater or just walk around, and so it was a lot of fun. But Karen was a native Californian and always wanted to get back to California. So after September 11, we did move back here, but it's always good to keep in touch.   Anna Pereira ** 14:14 Yeah, I do love it here. I couldn't give up my home when I married my husband back in 2009 um, it was we were here. But then my husband had to leave and go out of the country, back to Portugal to for an opportunity that he had, that he couldn't, that he couldn't refuse,   Michael Hingson ** 14:33 couldn't refuse one of those, huh?   Anna Pereira ** 14:37 But in a good way. And you know, then there was the, this is where it led to me living between two two countries. But I literally, there was no way I could go in my home in New Jersey. I'm sorry. I am a Jersey girl at heart.   Michael Hingson ** 14:49 There you go. Do you guys ever commute back to Portugal now?   Anna Pereira ** 14:53 Oh, yeah, we live between the two and also our global citizens. Like I just got back from San Paolo on I. Friday morning? Yeah, we, I've traveled this so this year, so far, we've been to San Paolo three times, Rio to London to Dubai to Oh, Argentina is   Michael Hingson ** 15:14 all of that for work?   Anna Pereira ** 15:16 Yes, well, both, because both of us are both business owners, entrepreneurs, networking is a big part of our success. So it's work related, not you know more, more with networking and showing up for different things. I came actually here from Portugal to attend an event as a as a facilitator of a master class for wellness. So I was actually in Portugal when I got called back here to come back to New Jersey, so and so. There is no rhyme or reason or where we go, or what when we go, unless it is provoked by a business opportunity or meeting.   Michael Hingson ** 15:58 What kind of work does he do? So   Anna Pereira ** 16:01 my husband is a very interesting person. He is actually a specialist in the sports world. He had played, yeah, he had played professional football in Portugal, which we call soccer. We call soccer Yes. And from that, it kind of ushered him into this amazing career. He used to be a professional goalie. He went from that to sports agent to advisor to sports team owners restructuring teams, to overseeing the whole workings of teams and helping helping an owner to being part of a fund and being owner of teams, as well as intermediate intermediating different deals and negotiations between partners and just all kinds of things he is. He is a sports expert. He's actually been asked last week to be part of a book that has nothing to do with sports. It's about, I think it's a mathematician or an economist that is a professor over at the college in Portugal has asked him to contribute to the book based on his expertise of sports management. So he's kind of like I want to say, and you and I will understand the terminology. He's a businessman in the sports world so   Michael Hingson ** 17:26 well, that's pretty cool. So does he own a team? Yes.   Anna Pereira ** 17:30 So we are in and out of ownership, depending on when you speak with us. Their their group buys and sells teams. They go in, they restructure, they make sure that the team becomes, you know, better than they were, and they create a great investment out of the the team that they're invested in based on, you know, recruiting great, great talent, selling those, selling the players for transfers much more than what they paid, things like that. So right now, we're in between, but something is coming very soon, and I'll let you know when that happens. When it happens. Keeps   Michael Hingson ** 18:06 you busy. Has he ever thought of or ever explored? This is an off the wall question. But what the heck creating any kind of level of accessibility in soccer, either for like people in wheelchairs or people who are blind, because there are people. I don't know about soccer, but I know that, for example, there are blind people who are well, there are blind golfers. I know a couple of blind people who is children in high school actually played baseball, and they have a clever way to do it. And it was and it was competitive. They were parts of regular teams, and of course, there's, you know, other things like basketball. But I'm just wondering, has he ever considered that, or has that ever come up? I   Anna Pereira ** 18:49 love that you brought this up. First of all, Michael, because this was actually just part of a larger conversation of the conference that I came back for. So my husband's wheelhouse is not in that area. However, you can imagine the amount of detail that goes into the inner workings or structure of an organization for the employees and the structure of a sports organization, down to the individual athletes and then to all of the experiences for everyone who's engaged, every stakeholder, every fan, and so I don't know how much he's ever been involved in those particular conversations before, but I will tell you what was so interesting last week, the organization Sega Sports integrity, global alliance is the organization that is addressing this. And last week we had the master class, sorry, a week and a half ago, there was the master class that I was part of, and the next day were panels, and one of the panels really addressed diversity and inclusion. And the the whole event was, was. Focused on female leadership in sport to bring in more women into the leadership. Their goal is to have 30% of the leadership to be women in sport, professional sport, all of it. So they their big focus, because their founder was part of the soccer world, Emmanuel, but they focus on all the other areas of sport, and so they had offensive champion on the panel. They had someone representing golf, someone there representing chess. They had someone representing all of these different areas, basketball, volleyball, from all these different areas of sport and the the Special Olympics and the Olympics were discussed, and there was a speaker there in a wheelchair, and we, they actually addressed this at this conference specifically. So it is a big conversation. It is a big topic. But to answer your question specifically about my my husband, my husband, I don't know how much he's been into that conversation, specifically.   Michael Hingson ** 21:06 Well, it's interesting. I remember this year when the LA Marathon was run, the first winner was the person from well, the wheelchair category. And I learned last year or the year before, in talking to somebody on the podcast that in reality, oftentimes people in chairs will actually complete a marathon course significantly faster than regular runners because they they get those chairs moving. But of course, it does mean that they have the athletic prowess to do it. And equating competitiveness is, of course, a different story. I suppose that ought to be explored. But the fact of the matter is that oftentimes, wheelchairs will will go through the whole 26.3 miles, or whatever, faster than a person just running with their legs. Now, at the same time, I know a woman who is blind who was an international rower. So rowing is not something that requires any real mate, well, any adaptations to work. But she could never be on an Olympic team. She could only be on a Special Olympic team because she was blind, even though what she did and what rowers did certainly could be done whether you're blind or sighted. So you know my my opinion is what we really should do is require that all sports be played totally in the dark, without any lights, and then we'll see who wins.   Anna Pereira ** 22:49 That is, that's an interesting approach. That's an interesting approach.   Michael Hingson ** 22:52 I worked for a company once, and when my wife also worked for the company, and she was in charge of Doc document control for the company. And one of the things I said is, if you really want to have true document control, because some of the people in the company, including the President, would oftentimes go in and steal the gold copy or the master copy of something, and send it out, rather than making a duplicate, which is a no no. But they did it anyway. And I said, well, then to have doc control, just put everything in Braille and then see what they do. But, you know, good doc control. But so it was just an interesting question, and it is a topic that is more and more part of the discussion, the whole issue of having some level of access for people who are who have other disabilities. And I say that because my opinion is, of course, that every person has a disability. Yours is your light dependent. You know, if the lights go out, you're in a world of hurt, although I'm not. And you know, Thomas Edison and the invention of the electric light bulb mainly fixed that it covers up the disability, but it's still there, but it's but it is true that we are at least discussing it more than we used to. And if we take that discussion further and make something happen with it, that will be a good thing, but it is a an interesting thing that we we end up having to face from time to time.   Anna Pereira ** 24:23 Well, I'll tell you what the individual that I was just speaking about that was part of that panel would probably be interesting for you to have a conversation with. If this is something that you're passionate, have a conversation with Michael. Her name is Karen Korb, K, A, R, I N, K, O, R, B and she she was the one that was speaking on that panel, specifically, and and she was in a wheelchair, so that is really something that she would love to dive into. I'd   Michael Hingson ** 24:50 love to chat with her. If you have a way to help us get an introduction, that would be cool. We'd love to have her on the podcast.   Anna Pereira ** 24:56 Absolutely, she's a divine in. Visual. And   Michael Hingson ** 25:01 of course, as I as I tell people often on this podcast, anyone who has an idea for a guest, we're always looking for, for more people to have so love to meet folks. It's fun.   25:12 Absolutely well, so   Michael Hingson ** 25:14 you wrote a book, 25 tools for happiness, one of four, I believe. And you talk in there about the fact that you manifested your husband. That's an interesting topic. Tell me about that, if you would.   Anna Pereira ** 25:27 Yes. Oh, Michael, this is one of my favorite stories. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. Any chance, any chance I get. To number one, talk about my husband. Number two, encourage hope in someone who is of, you know, a middle age and still single. Is, is just, it's just a joy for me so and just, I just wanted to correct that. I didn't write the book. I authored book because I had, and this is why I want to, I want to really make note of this. I had 24 other 25 amazing authors contribute to this book. The diversity of stories in that that particular book is really, really, really amazing. So, God, where do I start? And it happened here, in the hat, in the home in union, New Jersey. And a lot of going back to what we were talking about earlier, about what structured my belief system about myself from my childhood and growing up, and how it manifested through my life, and the type of self love, self awareness, belief system I had from growing up really impacted my general happiness. So one of the things that at this point in my life, I just really wanted to settle down with someone that that I was going to build a life with. And in that introduction to the 25 tool this, it's the wellness universe guide to complete self care. 25 tools for happiness. Book my introduction specifically shares my secret sauce of how my life has literally turned into well, I mean, nobody has a fairy tale. Even a fairy tale has its challenges, right? But of as much of a fairy tale as possible, humanly possible on this earth, one day for no reason at all, and I this is why I believe that we all are connected to the Divine and have this channel, this guidance. I wish I just I was at the second floor of my house. I was at the top of my stairs, and it just hit me like because I had just gone through some really traumatizing experiences with somebody that I was getting involved in business with, and she was it just, was just terrible, terrible experience, one of the worst in my life taught me a lot of things. And for some reason, just that day, I was like, and I was raised Catholic. I don't really go to church. I don't like, I don't believe in strict religious rules, but I believe in my spirituality and who exists on the other side watching over me. I think that they are so I was at the top of my stairs, and I was like, Dear God, universe. You know Mary, Jesus, you know Joseph, Saint Rita, whoever's watching over me, I'm like, please just let me, allow me to release judgment of myself, judgment on others, and what I believed others are going to judge me on. And please just bring me someone that's going to allow me to live my happiness and make beautiful babies with and that's what I asked for. And all of a sudden, just by voicing that out, I release so much off of myself, but hearing myself say those words allowed me to have hope and believe in this and hang on to it and cling on to it. And I did. And nine months later, on october 26 I went out on my first date with with my now husband, but I didn't know it at a time. So october 26 was our first date. And on December 23 2009 we were married, and we've now been married 14 years. If, if I met, my math is correct and and that is, I believe, how I manifested, you know, my husband, because of making sure I voiced it, I committed to that I owned it. And then i i Every day, I reminded myself of what I really wanted, and because for me, happiness, it's not it's not what you're experiencing now, you don't really even know what happiness is until you're experiencing so I can't say I want this for the rest of my life, because you don't know if that's exactly what you will want tomorrow, it can make you very miserable tomorrow. Or whatever's making you happy today, like I might not want to go on a roller coaster tomorrow. You know what I mean, and I liked it when I was 14 or 15, so leaving it open to please just allow me to live my happiness was a very strong statement and resonated with me because I was aware enough to know that there was so much undiscovered territory in the world that I would not know what happiness was until I was there and and now here I am living around the world, experiencing all of these new experiences globally, traveling everywhere that I would have never known existed if I had boxed myself into one scenario or one expectation, or what I thought I would be happy, happiness for me, at least at that time, having the wherewithal to say, just allow me to live my happiness and make beautiful babies with and then beautiful babies was just more of a metaphor of Like, bring me someone who's attractive, who I'll be attracted to, who's and that we can create things together that would be beautiful. And I believe that we're doing that through his work, through my work, and through what we're doing on this earth, and our relationships with our friends and family. I think we're creating beautiful things.   Michael Hingson ** 31:18 So do you have children? No, we   Anna Pereira ** 31:21 have not had children and when the window is closed, but we do, we do talk about adoption when things get a little bit more settled, things are a little crazy with all the travel and the work. But no, we ended up not have being able to have children, not because of, you know, physiological reasons, but because of just timing and travel and time passed. I was 36 when, when we met. So,   Michael Hingson ** 31:48 yeah, well, and so, you know the for us when I met Karen, it was in January of 1982 and so I was basically 32 and she was almost 33 and we I always thought there had to be somebody who would be right for me, and I would know it when we met and when I met Karen, and it was a friend who introduced us, we started talking, and when we hit it off. So it was just great conversations. Great great interacting together. And over six months, we we talked some, and then, well, actually, seven months, and then at the end of July of 1982 we were in a car in Santa Ana, and I asked her to marry me, and she said yes, and we have said ever since we were old enough and mature enough to know what we wanted in a person who we would spend the rest of our life with and as I said, it is we. We were together 40 years, and I'm sure that she's still up there monitoring me, so I will behave but, but you know, it, it was just something that took it was the right thing to do, and she was definitely the right person. We had conversations about children and decided she was in a chair and didn't want to really go through a lot of the physical things, because she said if she had to be pregnant, she'd probably be bedridden for a lot of it, and she didn't want to do that. So we made the decision together that we would spoil nieces and nephews, because the advantage of that is that we could kick him out at the end of the day and shoot him home and do and did. So it worked out pretty well. But I know exactly what you're saying, and you know it when the right person comes along, if you really look at it and think about it, and again, it's like most things, all too often, we don't think about the right kinds of things, or we don't think about stuff enough, and that can be a challenge. Or in our case, it wasn't because we thought about it enough and it worked.   Anna Pereira ** 34:15 I love that. Thank you for sharing that.   Michael Hingson ** 34:18 So it is that's cool. And you know, you you guys will will figure out what you're going to do. And adopting. There's a podcast episode that we did with someone now, almost two years ago, and he and his wife adopted two daughters from China when they were over 40, because she wanted to adopt a child from China. And there were stories behind it, but they adopted, and now the children are, I think, like 22 and 25 or 23 and 25 or so, and he's written a book about their adopted. Option journey. But again, the the issue is that you never know where life's going to take you. And they never thought about adopting a Chinese girl, or he didn't his wife did for for various reasons, but they both became part of the journey, and it was, and it still is, a great adventure for them.   Anna Pereira ** 35:21 That's wonderful. So gives us hope.   Michael Hingson ** 35:24 Yeah, a lot of a lot of kids need adopting too. Yeah, so you went to Portugal and for the first time, and by the way, have you learned Portuguese? Let   Anna Pereira ** 35:40 me just put it this way, my Portuguese is as good as my singing. You don't want me to hear you want to hear me do either unless I am. It's absolutely necessary so,   Michael Hingson ** 35:55 and I assuming people in Portugal have probably affirmed that in some way, so I won't dig any deeper. Yes, but you, while you were there or somehow involving Portugal, you decided to form this thing called the wellness universe. Tell us about that.   Anna Pereira ** 36:15 Oh, thanks. Yeah. So I was over in Portugal, and I really didn't have much to do. I started a jewelry collection and a Facebook page to kind of get, you know, get the word out about the jewelry collection, but much more my my approach was to just share who I was and inspirational messages, because that's kind of what lent to the jewelry collection. They were called circles of inspiration, and they had, you know, words of inspiration and colors that attracted certain things to you. And so my facebook page actually really became the outlet for my inspirational memes and quotes and things like that, just where I shared and I grew a great community organically. You know, I started in 2011 and I kind of quickly grew to about 300,000 Facebook followers. And from there, I was very much networked with a lot of inspirational people, whether they were life coaches or spiritual coaches or counselors or speakers or authors or therapists, they all had something to do with being inspiring or motivating in some way shape or form a group of my followers And so we were networking and sharing each other's inspirational posts, you know, the memes, things like that. And then I was sitting at my kitchen table again, when you're hit with these moments of inspiration, when you go quiet and you listen, you know, it's amazing what messages you receive. And I was sitting on my kitchen table in Portugal in 2013 September 2013 and something told me, you know, there needs to be a place where people who are changing the world need to come as a community, and you're the one to build it. And I was like, Okay, not too big of an ask. I'm like, All right, so I kind of held to myself for a couple of months, and then I went out to one of my friends, Teresa. She ran this, this page called on the road to me, I believe it was, and I told her first, and I got her input, because she was very wise and she was a good friend, and she's like, Oh my gosh, it sounds like such a great idea. And I said, okay, so Well, since that was the cat was let out of the bag, I'm gonna move forward with this. I went to my husband, I said, Look at this, what I'm thinking of doing. Are you behind me on this? Because basically, when I moved to Portugal, he was like, you don't have to work. You don't have to do anything. You just, you know, you just hang out and you do what you want to do. And I was like, Okay, well, I can't not work. I mean, I have an entrepreneurial spirit. I cannot not work. So aside from the the the jewelry collection, which was slow, I mean, the the it was a slow business, so the inspirational side of me really took over. And this building, the wellness universe, was the next project on my agenda. And through 2014 we started growing a Facebook group of practitioners and people who and hobbyist as well. And then in 2015 we launched the first version of the platform, and it was, you know, self funded, membership supported. And so from 2015 january 2015 we've been growing the wellness universe every year. And now it's a basically, it's a directory of practitioners, wellness practitioners, and people who are making the work. A better place. So anyone go and find them through the wellness universe.com but we also have amazing classes and courses. The practitioners who are part of membership are able to host their classes and courses on our platform, the lounge, the wellness universe lounge. But also we work in partnership with those that we know, love and trust to help them also amplify their message through a program, what we call wellness for all and wellness for all programs on the platform are all free to join in donations supported by people who are seeking those courses and classes. And we have a blog, and like you mentioned, we have the books, the four books that we've published with over 65 people that we've created into best selling authors, because some of them have repeated through some of the books. So that's why it's not 100 authors, 25 chapters per book with 25 different authors. And now we've launched wellness universe corporate, and so we are actually delivering wellness solutions through a company culture lens of analyzing, going in and assessing an organization on what their needs are and their culture, through their culture, and then bringing in wellness components to shore up those gaps, while we have the buy in from the leadership, letting everyone know, hey, based on, you know, the assessment the organization, this is what you need, and we're bringing this in. So that's kind of like the very condensed version of the wellness universe, and wellness universe corporate division. And I'm really, really honored and blessed to have worked with some of the most transformational people in the world, like our friend Sharon, and bringing wellness to to places that it may have not been before, and bringing the conversation to stages and and rooms and boardrooms and classrooms and retreats and things like that that may not have experienced it before, which is really, that really, I find is the most fun when I when I bring something to someone and they never heard of it before, like EFT or muscle testing or, you know, you know, you know, you know, trauma informed, you know, sessions, stress management sessions, you Know, Like, what like that really has been so rewarding when people at the end of the day are like, you know, I learned from you last week, or what I read or whatever, or the person that you brought to me or to my organization, and it truly has transformed my life. I found, I found. I just got a story the other day from a woman who read our books, and from reading the stress relief book, she's like, you know, after reading this book, I had, I found the self love to go and get a surgery on my foot that I've been putting off because I feel I was worth the investment of the surgery to relieve myself of this pain. But then I did it after reading your book, and I was like, I literally was in tears. And of course, Michael, as you know, as an author, how often do we actually hear those stories that are so rewarding from the people you know? How do you feel about that? By the way, let me ask you questions. I know that. I know that you're interviewing me, but   Michael Hingson ** 43:20 how it's a conversation. It's fair.   Anna Pereira ** 43:23 Thank you. How great is it when somebody comes back to you and says, Your story has changed my life?   Michael Hingson ** 43:33 Well, let me tell you one of my stories. So the answer is great, of course, but I also know that I can't let that kind of thing go to my head. But let me tell you one of my favorite stories. I've talked about it a couple times here. In 2003 I was asked to go to New Zealand, so as basically a year, and it was about 1516, months, no, 14 months after September 11, and 16 months, I guess. And anyway, I was asked to go and help to raise some funds for the Royal New Zealand foundation of the blind by speaking. And they paid me to come over. And before I had had come over in, actually, early 2002 a gentleman from New Zealand called he said his name was Paul Holmes, and he wanted to interview me. Well, he came, what I learned was to to do an equivalent sort of thing. He is, what you would say would be the Larry King of New Zealand, so very famous and all that. Well, anyway, he came and we chatted and all that. And he said, If you ever get to New Zealand, I want to interview you first before you go anywhere else and talk to anybody else. And I said, Okay, had no idea that anything was going to happen about going to New Zealand. But then the next year. Early in 2003 I was invited, and we set up the trip to go over in early May. So needless to say, being a loyal kind of guy, I emailed Paul Holmes and said, hey, guess what, we're coming over. So we got there on a Wednesday, and he had arranged for the interview to be done that night, New Zealand time at seven o'clock. So we went and did the interview, and the Royal New Zealand Foundation had me traveling all over New Zealand for basically 16 or 17 days. We did 21 different stops, both by flying and by car and all that, in 16 or 17 days. But anyway, so we did the interview and a week and a half later. So it was the second Sunday I was in New Zealand. Now we were on the South Island. We had landed originally on the North Island. Now we're on the South Island. And I was speaking to a group of blind people, and I they wanted to know all about the World Trade Center and all that. And I told them, and then one of them said, we have to tell you a story. And his story went on something like this yesterday. That would have been a Saturday. We took a river rafting trip, and the foundation set it up. These are all clients from the foundation, and said they set it up, and the guy who was in charge of the trip took us out, and we all had a great time. It was wonderful. But at the end, he said, I have to be honest with you guys, I was about to cancel this trip. And I said, why? Or No, I didn't say, I mean, they said, why? And he said, well, because he said I didn't think that blind people could do this. He said I was just all afraid that the next thing that was going to happen by the end of the trip is at least one person was going to fall overboard and drown. But he said, I happened to be watching the telly the other night, and I saw Paul Holmes interview this blind bloke from the United States who was in the World Trade Center. And he said, if he could get out of the World Trade Center, the least I could do was have an open mind about you guys going on this trip. And he said, it has been the best trip I have ever had. Wow. So, you know, I, of course, there was a lot of pride. I love the story, and I know I've taken a fair amount of time to tell the story, but the point is, you never know what seeds you're going to plant. And the bottom line is that my goal in speaking has always been if I can help even one person learn something and inspire one person. I've already done my job. And more important, I've decided a long time ago, if I could help people move on from September 11, and I've done my job, but what a what a great story. And yeah, it has inspired me a lot, and it's one of the stories that continues to propel me forward, knowing that if I can help people and get them to understand about being blind a little bit more and and accepting of people who are different than they then, then it's working out really well. Michael,   Anna Pereira ** 48:22 I am so glad that you shared that story with me, and that is really that speaks the truth and the power of showing up and sharing who you are and impacting someone where they impact the many. Wow. Can you imagine if that guide had called off that trip and didn't give the opportunity, sure people, I'm sure, I'm sure, probably many was their first time. I don't even think river rafting. Oh my gosh, that's great. Thank you for sharing that.   Michael Hingson ** 48:55 It was great. I haven't either. I've been on boats, I've been on cruises, but I haven't gone river rafting, so it's something to do someday. Yeah, well, let me ask you this. You know you talked earlier, especially about your husband and in relationships and networking and so on, networking is certainly a very important thing. So relationships are really essential to having success. Tell me what you think about the whole idea and the intersection of having a relationship and building relationships, especially authentic relationships and success.   Anna Pereira ** 49:37 Michael, I've been talking a lot about this lately. To be honest with you. We were even talking about this last night, the new company that we're forming, we're actually putting together a very strategic team on the back side, and some of those people are new in my world. And one of the people happened to be this gentleman that was introduced to me by my partner. And. Founder of the wellness universe Corp. And his name is Jack, and I've met him online, virtually, you know, on Zoom calls, over several calls, I'm very confident, very comfortable with him. And I really, I really admire him and the work he's done in his life and what he's achieved. So he's already proven that he has been able to create successful businesses, manage successful businesses, exit successful businesses, and things of this nature. So none of that was was was why I wanted to meet with him, but I found out that he was because he lives kind of in the middle of the middle of the country, lives in Milwaukee, so he was coming out to New York and to Connecticut, actually, to for his current company that he's at, to be a part of a conference. And so with that, I'm like, Oh, you're coming out here, Hugo and I are going to be home. I want to come out. I want to meet with you. And what's interesting is he disclosed to me last night that I'm not going to use the words he says, But he said, like when I asked him to meet up in person, you know, he gets off the call with me, and he turns his wave. He's like, you know, what is Anna? Want to bleep and beat me for? And it was so funny to hear him say that last night, because for me, it's about making that authentic connection and meeting someone in person, if I have the opportunity to which I do and investing, knowing that you're investing in a bigger, a bigger project, building a company together, you know, it's, it's not transactional, it's about, it's about a bigger thing and and so I couldn't understand why he felt that when he when he said this To me last night. But then he said, I understand now, like, and I get it like, I get that. I get who you are, and I see who you are, and I see that you just wanted to just meet up, just to see who you know who I am, and for me to see who you are. I said, That's it, Jack. Because his immediate response, as you know, a man who's white in the business world. He felt that probably I was Troy. I wanted to kind of, quote, unquote, interview him in person after all of these months of working with him, you know, remotely, with alongside with him, on through us, building this new team together. But for me, it was all about beginning the foundation to nurturing a relationship that we've had many meetings, many strategy sessions, many of the do, do do phone calls and the what's what phone calls. But I wanted to sit down with this gentleman and have a break bread with him, see what he's about, him to see what I'm about, what my husband's about, and I truly believe, and I say this over and over and over again, and quite unfortunately, because of my position as the founder of the wellness universe, people see the wellness universe as a bright, shiny object. They see me as somebody in a place of power that I can just give stuff out or help them, give them a hand up, but it's it's not always that. It's still the same thing. Relationships need to be nurtured. I need to get to know someone if they're going to represent the brand of the wellness universe and work with us through wellness universe corporate, for example, or they're going to be a member, I have to see who they are in action that's helping me to nurture the relationship so I can work with them and bring opportunity to them, as well as you saw, Michael, as soon as I am completely networking relationship minded, I am all about giving opportunity and sharing the spotlight and giving the microphone over to people who are talented, just as you said before. It reminded me of Karen Korb, you know, I would love to introduce you to her, for her to be a guest because of a specific topic that was struck up while we were having conversation. This is just who I am. I do believe that networking has a bad name. And if you believe in the networking, like from the early days, and it's just about exchanging business cards, which of course, nobody even has anymore, but I mean, you know what I mean, I have one too, by the way. But if you just think it's about showing up and shaking as many hands as possible, and then, like just vomiting all over somebody what you do and how great you are at it, you're never going to get far in business these days, it's about building, nurturing those relationships and sharing and listening to what someone needs and sharing with them whether you're a resource for that need or not, and chances are 99% of the time, you're really not. But by giving them something that they need, they're going to remember you, and you've just created yourself as a value in their life. So by creating yourself as a value in their. Life, you're still nurturing the relationship. It may not have created a business transaction in the moment, but guess what? You're starting to nurture a relationship that will lead to business growth, that will lead to personal growth. I like to approach things that like you said before, if you don't, it was, well, you didn't say this, but it was part of the conversation, in a way, I think was before we started. You know, if I don't like the person, why would I want to do business with them? And I look at every, every person that I come into contact with, like, do I like this human? Am I trying to show up as my best self for them to like me as a human? And then we'll see where the chips fall around that, yeah, and that. That's kind of my whole philosophy around networking and building relationships.   Michael Hingson ** 55:44 Well, you know, one of the things that I encounter a lot when I'm talking to people about coming on the podcast is, well, I don't, I don't see why I would be an interesting guest. Why do you want me to have Why do you want to have me as a guest on the podcast? I don't have anything in the way of a famous story or anything to tell. And I, I love to tell people, Look, everyone has stories to tell. And the fact is that if you're willing to come on and talk about things and and as you know, I really want to cover the topics that you as a as a person, coming on as a guest, want to talk about, but we do have a conversation, and I do like to encourage everyone to come and tell stories, because I've yet to find people who don't have a story to tell, and I believe everyone does. Everyone's adventures in life is a little bit different than everyone else's, which makes the telling of the story worthwhile.   Anna Pereira ** 56:47 Agreed? Oh, agreed.   Michael Hingson ** 56:51 So with the wellness universe, Corp and so on. Tell me a little bit more, if you would, about wellness and how that plays into company culture,   Anna Pereira ** 57:05 absolutely well. I want to thank you for that. I mean, a few years ago, somebody else was because I was in the throes of my initial co founder, exiting the company and pivoting in some great way, and I didn't know really what was going to be. And at the same time, someone approached me, they wanted to create, you know, corporate wellness solution with me, and that started and fizzled out. And then I brought on somebody else that was going to do that with me. And then that started up and fizzled out. So over the past several years, I've been looking for the proper strategic partner that created a holistic approach to the well being of an organization so we can really create impact. Because all of these years, I've been building the community. I quite honestly, have had 1000s of members come through the wellness universe. Right now, we have a little over 100 and something, enrolled members, active members, people who have a membership and pay a membership and have a public platform through the wellness universe that we work with. But there's been 1000s that have come through. And I really wanted to find a way to work with the people I know trust and love, because they have something, something so great to offer the world. And it wasn't just about creating a wellness app or just the wellness component. There had to be something else that we can sink our teeth into. And also allowed an organization to really get behind because what happens is they bring in a wellness app because it's nice to have, and I'm doing air quotes right now, it's nice to have a wellness app, and then the truth behind it is, for a wellness app, the success rate is to have, you know, 4% is the highest engagement on with a wellness app, and that's their success rate. So nobody really uses that. They the wellness apps, and nor do I find it like a sustainable or something that's part of the person to go to through, through their you know, through their work. But if you go into an organization and you do an assessment around what's going on in the company, and you have that buy in from leadership, because they can see exactly where the breakdowns are and where the successes are. And then you bring in the solutions to reinforce the successes and also shore up where they have the challenges, and then you bring in wellness as a component for for the retention of the employee, for the happiness and health of the employees as individuals, then you have an ecosystem that creates success for the entire organization. And. Coming back down to the individual. So it's really important to find this way to holistically serve and it's a delicate balance, because sometimes it's going to create disruption and the changes that need to be implemented, but you have to have buy in from the leadership, and you have to show them this is exactly why you need it, and that's why the company culture, and addressing that through the assessment that we have is really essential to bringing in the different solutions we have, from the corporate trainings and things like that, to the wellness experience, the wellness experiences and stress management type of classes and courses and things. So for me, it was an evolution and a learning curve over the last four years. I think it took for me to find the proper partner, Alex Bowdoin and people first is her company, and that's where she comes from as a HR consultant, expert, and coming together with the wellness universe, and knowing what I know in the people experience, along with the evaluating the practitioners for what they do and how they serve to give a great experience to a wellness seeker, and then merging the two worlds together with the technology and the platforms and the solutions that we bring so then, that way, it's a really in depth, and I want to say all encompassing solution for an organization, for everyone to walk away, go home and feel good at the end of the day, and come back to work more and be more productive and happy in what they do, and know that they are, that they're supported by their organization, for an organization to be proud to bring these solutions to their employees, knowing that they're bringing something that they actually will use,   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:55 and that's really all anyone can ask For. They will do that and make it work. And think about it, they'll be more successful by any standard in the world. I would think   1:02:10 we would hope Yes. So if people want   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:12 to reach out to you and learn more about wellness universe and maybe contact you and become a part of it, how do they do that? Sure, so   Anna Pereira ** 1:02:21 my email is so simple. It's Anna a n, n, a at the Wellness universe, typical spellings, the wellness universe.com, they can reach out to me there, or they can go right to the wellness universe, which is the wellness universe.com, and connect with me there, or on any of my social platforms. I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn. I'm very excited to be a top voice in leadership on the platform, and they can connect on LinkedIn as well by searching. Anna Pereira, you'll see me come up. But I think those are probably the best ways to connect with me. There's, you know, there's Facebook and Instagram and things like that, but if you really want to reach me, I check these platforms, my email, and I check my LinkedIn and my wellness universe. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:12 there you go. Well, I hope people will reach out. This has been fun. It's been exciting, and what a great conversation. I'm glad that we did it and we finally got connected. And thanks, Sharon. Thanks, Sharon, for me, and I hope all of you have enjoyed this as well. So love to hear from you. Love to hear your thoughts. Please feel free to email me. I'm easy to reach. It's Michael M, I, C, H, A, E, L, H, I at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, I, B, e.com, or you can go to our podcast page, www, dot Michael hingson.com/podcast, and Michael Hinkson is m, I, C, H, A, E, L, H, I, N, G, s, o, n, so as I said earlier, love it. If you have any ideas for guests, we really appreciate and value any introductions that you can make. And Anna, we didn't mention it and much, but that's okay. I do. I'm really ramping up speaking again. So if anybody knows of anyone that needs a speaker, love to explore that and and we'll always be glad to talk to people about coming and speaking. If you would please give us a five star rating wherever you're listening to us today, we really value your ratings and your thoughts, and of course, I want to hear your opinion, so please let us know. So thank you once again, everyone for listening. And Anna, specifically for you, thanks again for being here and for being on the podcast. Thank   Anna Pereira ** 1:04:34 you, Michael. I really appreciate the time with you.   Michael Hingson ** 1:04:41 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. 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"THE HORSEMAN COMES...AND TONIGHT HE COMES FOR YOU!" Jocelyn & Andrew return to the podcast to join Ed in celebrating the 25th anniversary of Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow by giving the film our signature Film Effect Treatment on this episode of the show!! In Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people, with the culprit being legendary apparition The Headless Horseman.. Episode Directory: *Intro  00:00 *Current Events  06:12 *Last Time On The Podcast...  12:45 *Pre-Dive Top Five  13:33 ----------The Film Effect Breakdown----------  *Cast & Crew Run-Through  32:46 *How It All Started...  33:41 *Plot/General Film Discussion  46:41 *What Works  01:20:50 *What Doesn't Work  01:29:46 *Finger-Lickin' Good Moment  01:39:21 *Trivial Pursuit  01:42:33 *Box Office Receipts  01:53:51 *Critic's Corner  01:55:22 *Movie MVPs  01:57:49 *Final Effect Rating  01:59:07 *RIYL  02:03:22 ------------------------------------------------ *Outro  02:06:44 Website: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com Merch Store: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com/store Email: filmeffectpod@gmail.com Find us on social media! Facebook: https://facebook.com/thefilmeffectpodcast IG: https://instagram.com/thefilmeffectpodcast Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/filmeffectpod TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@filmeffectpodcast --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefilmeffectpodcast/support

"HEY, YOU WANNA SEE SOMETHING REALLY SCARY?" Ed's joined by returning guest Vern, from "Cinema Recall", to talk about our all-time favorite anthology films & give 1983's Twilight Zone: The Movie our patented Film Effect Treatment on the final "Horrorthon" episode of the season!! In Twilight Zone: The Movie, four famous directors present new versions of horror & science fiction segments that are based on a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.. Episode Directory: *Intro  00:00 *Current Events  03:20 *Last Time On The Podcast...  20:20 *Pre-Dive Top Five  20:49 ----------The Film Effect Breakdown----------  *First Time Viewings  38:17 *Cast & Crew Run-Through  42:02 *How It All Started...  43:49 *Plot/General Film Discussion  53:22 *What Works  02:01:07 *What Doesn't Work  02:08:21 *Finger-Lickin' Good Moment  02:12:42 *Trivial Pursuit  02:16:13 *Box Office Receipts  02:20:08 *Critic's Corner  02:21:15 *Movie MVPs  02:24:36 *Final Effect Rating  02:28:32 *RIYL  02:32:35 ------------------------------------------------ *Outro  02:35:23 Website: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com Merch Store: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com/store Email: filmeffectpod@gmail.com Find us on social media! Facebook: https://facebook.com/thefilmeffectpodcast IG: https://instagram.com/thefilmeffectpodcast Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/filmeffectpod TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@filmeffectpodcast Check Out Cinema Recall! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-recall/id1477731497 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3qhPNVAe5NM2GLPqM90eM9 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClr3UXhAGaT03YymVghmrlw Website: https://www.cinemarecall.net/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefilmeffectpodcast/support

"HE'S ALWAYS BEEN HERE, JUST LIKE HE WHO WALKS BEHIND THE ROWS." Pete from "Middle Class Film Class" joins Ed on this "Horrorthon Hangover" entry to talk corn, religion, and rebellious gingers as they give Stephen King's Children of the Corn the Film Effect Treatment!! In Children of the Corn, a malevolent entity referred to as "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" entices a town's children to ritually murder all the adults, as well as a couple driving across the country, to ensure a successful corn harvest.. Episode Directory: *Intro  00:00 *Current Events  02:24 *Last Time On The Podcast...  06:16 *Pre-Dive Top Five  07:17 ----------The Film Effect Breakdown----------  *First Time Viewings  21:30 *Cast & Crew Run-Through  23:21 *How It All Started...  24:11 *Plot/General Film Discussion  29:37 *What Works  01:04:15 *What Doesn't Work  01:08:51 *Finger-Lickin' Good Moment  01:16:23 *Trivial Pursuit  01:17:18 *Box Office Receipts  01:24:55 *Critic's Corner  01:25:47 *Movie MVPs  01:29:55 *Final Effect Rating  01:30:53 *RIYL  01:32:26 ------------------------------------------------ *Outro  01:34:02 Website: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com Merch Store: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com/store Email: filmeffectpod@gmail.com Find us on social media! Facebook: https://facebook.com/thefilmeffectpodcast IG: https://instagram.com/thefilmeffectpodcast Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/filmeffectpod TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@filmeffectpodcast Check Out Middle Class Film Class! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/middle-class-film-class/id1480337262 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZzT8ligejZe8CJbIE8mr6 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI1lVsk1xjMSBgZK82uAzgQ Website: https://www.mcfcpodcast.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefilmeffectpodcast/support

Disenfranchised by the modern comics industry, Paul Spataro and Bill Robinson now ply the timestream in a never-ending quest to re-discover and re-connect with that unique brand of fun and excitement that can only truly be found in good ol' fashioned r

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"...AND THIS HOUSE WILL BE HERE LONG, LONG AFTER YOU HAVE DEPARTED" On this "Horrorthon Hangover" episode, Ed's joined by Kev & Erin, from The Podcast That Wouldn't Die, to talk all about haunted house films while they give Dan Curtis' sole theatrical release, Burnt Offerings, the Film Effect treatment!! In Burnt Offerings, a family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside - which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.. Episode Directory: *Intro  00:00 *Current Events  06:07 *Last Time On The Podcast...  19:46 *Pre-Dive Top Five  20:27 ----------The Film Effect Breakdown----------  *First Time Viewings  31:15 *Cast & Crew Run-Through  33:25 *How It All Started...  34:31 *Plot/General Film Discussion  38:42 *What Works  01:06:02 *What Doesn't Work  01:15:00 *Finger-Lickin' Good Moment  01:25:23 *Trivial Pursuit  01:29:01 *Box Office Receipts  01:35:08 *Critic's Corner  01:36:22 *Movie MVPs  01:39:26 *Final Effect Rating  01:40:37 *RIYL  01:43:07 ------------------------------------------------ *Coming Soon  01:48:08 *Shoutouts & Sponsorship  01:48:59 *Outro  01:49:30 Website: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com Merch Store: https://www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com/store Email: filmeffectpod@gmail.com Find us on social media! Facebook: https://facebook.com/thefilmeffectpodcast IG: https://instagram.com/thefilmeffectpodcast Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/filmeffectpod TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@filmeffectpodcast Check Out The Podcast That Wouldn't Die! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-podcast-that-wouldnt-die/id1477564319 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4PRyIb1RwESq7YvAfnJMiX Twitter/X: twitter.com/TPodcastTWDie Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePodcastThatWouldntDie YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT0WQcQMxRxcmne7UD2uXow9cxzD5yb8X --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefilmeffectpodcast/support

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I have had the opportunity to meet with many coaches and leadership experts on Unstoppable Mindset. Tünde Erdös in some ways takes these kinds of discussions to a new level. She coaches, but she also has conducted scientific research on some of the aspects of coaching such as Presence. She describes herself as a “scholar and practitioner”.   During our time in this episode Tünde discusses presence, what it is and the value of each of us more actively incorporating it in our lives. She offers insights into how practicing better presence and making better choices will help leaders and, in fact, all of us to live better and be more effective.   About the Guest:   Tünde Erdös PhD in Business and Organizational Management Ashridge MSc. in Executive Coaching, Group and Team Coaching Ashridge PgDip. in Coaching and Organizational Supervision ICF MCC, EMCC Master Practitioner For Tünde: leadership is coaching. And, coaching is leadership. Yet, neither is a profession, not even a vocation, but a pro-vocation. Tünde's pro-vocation is: inviting leaders and coaches to generate social impact that makes meaning beyond the ‘me business'. Because: both leadership and coaching are social impact instruments.   So, she probes: What is the legacy we as leaders and coaches are leaving behind – maybe aware that we are humans in a first place? How are we ensuring that we are at our best in the instrumental roles we embody? How are we making use of the trust that we receive as a gift from those that we want to be at their best too?   Tünde is the founder of Integrative Presence, an ICF accredited coach-leader online-offline deep experiential learning set. That program is based on her internationally acclaimed research which received a Harvard Grant from Institute of Coaching, McLean's Hospital, a Harvard Medical School Associate for its innovative research design using artificial intelligence and human interactions to measure outcomes.   Tünde enjoys role-modelling social impact. She produced the coaching documentary ‘The Light and Shadow of Coaching – In and Beyond Organizations'. The donations fund coach training to empower women in Kenya. The idea is to support women in becoming more entrepreneurial in their communities. For her achievements as an executive coach and social impact activist through coaching, Tünde received the ICF Impact Award through Coaching 2023.   Tünde has authored three books and one book chapter contribution so far, published in international peer-reviewed scientific journals and non-scientific magazines. She is a scholar and practitioner inspired to promote best practice in learning development as well as coaching in, for and with organizations. In doing so, she takes responsibility in developing the profession as a whole.   Ways to connect with Tünde:   www.integrative-presence.com www.tuendeerdoes.com www.coachingdocu.com  Podcast site: https://shows.acast.com/6425e12b4362ac0011921e1f/episodes Social media link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tündeerdös/     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hello and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset where inclusion diversity in the unexpected. Me today, we get to play with unexpected a little bit and other things like that. Part of the first incidence of unexpected in this episode is that our guest, Tünde Erdös is from Austria, little ways away from where I live, but with technology, which I love to pick on anyway, and I hope it doesn't rebel during this podcast, but with technology, everything happens immediately. So it's just like Tünde is next door or in the same room, and that's kind of cool. So she has a lot to talk about, and we're going to make this a fun episode, as I tell people, the only hard and fast rule about unstoppable mindset is we have to have fun, and that means you all as listeners, have to have fun too. So if you're ever not, I want to hear about it. And if you are, I want to hear about that too. Well. Anyway, Tünde I want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset, and thank you for being here with us today.   Tünde Erdös ** 02:30 Thank you very much, Michael. So I was, I was so just on the on the fun side of it. It was so interesting that you said it's unexpected that, because I was like, Wait a second, what would you expect where I should be, and what should be the expected about me, when actually, all life is about unexpected. So thank you very much for introducing fun, and it sounds like energy. And I wanted to say something about a little bit like to contextualize the technological thing that you addressed, because people cannot see potentially, or can can just hear us. And I wanted to give a little bit of context I am sitting in, in sort of a dining room. And I do have a candle lit for tonight, for us, Michael and for our audience. So there is this candle, which is in crystal Shelley's, and I'm looking at it right now in order, as you know, as something that connects me with the world. The technology is also doing, but in a different way. And this, this candle is is doing this connection for me in a very special way, because it's the flame in it is dancing so nicely. Although there is no no air current here, there's nothing, or, I think there is no intercurrent, but it's dancing so nicely that this is how I would like to have our conversation today, dancing with you and dancing with the audience and having fun along the way.   Michael Hingson ** 04:13 Well, that's cool. Well, since we are recording this and video is on, can you'll know better than I will. People see the candle. I'm   Tünde Erdös ** 04:22 going to put it in a place that people can see it. Yes,   Michael Hingson ** 04:27 cool. Well, would you please start by telling us a little bit about kind of the early Tünde, growing up and all that sort of stuff.   Tünde Erdös ** 04:39 Oh, Ouch. That hurts. This.   Michael Hingson ** 04:47 It's good to get to know you   Tünde Erdös ** 04:50 the early Tünde. The early Tünde  is somebody, and I happen to have a picture of me just also to my left. I. I don't know why I'm having this picture. It's I was, I was, I think I am two years old, about, like one and a half or something or two ish and and I keep this image next to me because, for because, for a good reason, because I want to be reminded of that young me versus this adult person that I think I am. And when I'm looking at that image, what comes to my mind is I'm somebody that loves digging into dirt. And actually I'm very kind of like full of dirt in this picture. And I remember that my mother wanted to take this picture of me, and I didn't like that idea of a picture being taken of me, and I was reprimanded. And actually, I think I feel a little bit ashamed because I was putting up a tent for my womb, and she didn't like it. And I'm wearing a hat, which I normally do, and And tonight, I'm not wearing a hat. But actually, even when I was young, I was very much in love with wearing, you know, head covers, like I'm wearing a hood or something. And as an adult, I'm doing the same. I usually wear hats, you know. And I still love being like, having all my my my fingers in every pie sort of thing in that I love complexity, and I love playing with stuff that is not, not easy to deal with, uh, sort of so that's actually who I used to be, and I'm still, still am I think,   Michael Hingson ** 06:43 well, you, you've done a lot, you went through school, you went to college, yeah, and you have a PhD,   Tünde Erdös ** 06:51 yeah. Oh, that's a long journey. Oh, bet   Michael Hingson ** 06:54 it was anything you want to tell us about that part of that journey and how that's helped you become who you are today.   Tünde Erdös ** 07:04 Well, you know, a PhD was never on my agenda. Actually, I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to become an artist because I loved drawing, and I seemed to be very good without attending school or going to any artistic schools, but I happen to have kind of like, yeah, know how to have this natural way of drawing. And I was earning my pocket money with this and and my parents didn't like the idea of me becoming an artist, because they said, We don't want you to end up in the in the streets. So because I I happened to be a good girl, and I always kind of like, you know, I had my own way of doing things, but then my parents taught me, well, be reasonable, be do this, go to school, go to college, go to university, go do that, other things, because you're intelligent, you've got a brain. And I did that, but and I started with law, because I was graduating from high school, and then in Europe, we had Latin back. It was like 1994 and and I loved Latin, and I loved the language, and they the Roman way of life and philosophy and and all that stuff, all that is kind of like ancient and, and almost incomprehensible and, and, and so I said, okay, because I'm good at Latvian and kind of like I'm I'm very logical. So, so that's what I was told, that I was so to go and study law, and I did until and the second half of my studies, I was invited by a criminal lawyer to go and and help him interpret in a small cell, because he had a defendant, And he was dealing with black papers. And that guy was speaking French only, and because I speak a few languages, he asked me, Would you be happy to interpret for me in that cell? And then I we went into that cell, and it was so tiny I couldn't even sit down, because it was just a small table, and they were facing each other. They were sitting facing each other, and I had to stand upright because there was no place. And then they were yelling at each other in that small cell. That kind of like, you know, it came, I was like, as a realization, this, is this what then I'm supposed to do when I'm when I'm in that profession? Is this what law is about, that I just Is this how I'm going to treat people? Is this is what is this about? And I really had a sort of soul crash that that made me kind of like question the the purpose of what I was doing. And I remember that I went home. Right? And my legs were shaking because I needed to vow to my dad, Dad, I'm not gonna pursue this career. This is not me. I cannot do this. And I was having very good grades. So I should have succeeded very nicely, because I was already in my the second half of the studies. But then I needed to go home, you know, to tell Dad, no, Dad, this is not for me. So that's a little bit like a bit me. And then it's that sort of experience continued on and on because I, I was, I still kept being extrinsically motivated in what I chose to do, because the next thing was my girlfriend was coming and saying, okay, Tinder, if, if the law is the thing that you believe is not meant for you, then you are so good with languages, why don't you do and study translation and interpreting, which I did again, yeah, and I finished that, And I was then, and I received a scholarship, and then I went to Brussels, and I was interpreting simultaneously for the European Union, and at the parliament, a European Parliament, and sitting in a booth, and, you know, transporting ideas from one language into the other until, until the moment when I got bored. I really got bored with it, because I thought, like, okay, so I can do this now, and it was no more exciting. And then I realized, okay, I can do this, and I'm good, and I learned it and their skills. Is all good, but I didn't feel fulfilled. And then I remember that by then, I had practiced simultaneous interpreting for 10 years, and I was earning very well, so I couldn't complain, yeah. But then I went home and said to my husband, I think we need to do something about this, because I'm missing something in my life. And and he said, You know what you will look will sit down for for a while. Will take one month I do some research on my own, and you'll do some research on your own, and then we'll sit together again, and we'll see what we have found each and then we'll kind of like talk about this.   Michael Hingson ** 12:13 What was your husband doing at the time?   Tünde Erdös ** 12:16 He's an architect, okay? And a physical engineer, like, into acoustics, and   Michael Hingson ** 12:21 then a creative guy, a   Tünde Erdös ** 12:23 very creative guy, yes, and so am I, but I never really allowed myself to be one. So, so then this is how actually the idea came that, why don't you do he found coaching for me and I found coaching for myself. The only difference was that I wanted to go to a different place for the education that I should receive, to get educated and and I was more into like, you know this, yeah, I remember back. And then I wanted to reconnect with French. And like to always stay in touch with French and speak French a lot, because I really love the language, I love the people, I love the country, and I didn't want to lose touch with with the language. And then he came and said, No, you know what? This is, not you. You know coaching is good, so great that we are on the same page with each other, so that he said, It's good that I seem to know you well enough, he said, back and then, and that you know you seem to know yourself well enough. And then he, then he, kind of like we had this talk around, like, why not do the why not go to INSEAD, which is sort of the best place to be, kind of like it's very famous and highly reputed, at least in Europe and in Asia and and he said, No, look, this is too glossy for you. This is not you. You know what? I found something else in Great Britain. And it's like, it's very clear what they offer. And they, this is not glossy. It's down to earth. And this is who you are. You are down to earth. You are clear. You want to kind of like you really understand things. You want to work tactically. You want to be in the midst of it. You want to have this experience. You're you're not somebody that's glossy. You don't do that stuff. So I got persuaded. But I think it was a very good thing that he persuaded me to go to a business school in the UK, because that's where I really started reconnecting with my creative side. And then that's where it all started up again, actually, like more into the intrinsic motivational area where I really started doing stuff that I love doing, but I was still up there with a PhD because I needed to do my masters. And then I go, went to went on to do supervision, and then I was talking to my supervisor, and I said, What's in. Me next, because it's so much fun to learn and and I really enjoyed the self reflective bit, you know, to learn and discover myself and discover the world. And it feel like, oh, there's so much out there that I do not know. And it's not just a few skills that you learn in coaching. It's really a lot more complex. And it's, it's kind of really it's not just black and white, it's not just all good coaching. Is not just all good it has got its shadow sides. So what can I do? And and at the same time, something happened in my life. I was sitting with a client of mine, and we had a moment of serendipity together, because very early on in the coaching engagement, she said to me, Tunde, why are you why you're saying yes, you're saying yes to me, but why is your body moving backwards? And I was like, what was I doing? So there was a moment where she kind of like noticed something that I had not been aware of. And I must wow that at that moment when she when she had that, she noticed that bit about me. I had accolades like galore. I was ICF MCC accredited at master level. I had my masters, blah, blah, blah, so I I should have, kind of like, you know, this expectation. I should have noticed what my client was noticing, but I didn't. And then it was also crucial. The moment was crucial because she wanted to leave the coaching engagement. And kind of like felt like shameful. It was a moment of shame and doubt and kind of like, what is going on here, and why do I not know? What is it that that that I still need to discover, and how can I actually give back? So in all this moment of shame, I kind I remember that I asked her to, can you, can you just stay for another session so that we can reflect our relationship a bit? Because I would really love to understand what might have gone not so well for you that you feel like you can't trust this process anymore, because she said that she couldn't trust this she didn't know what to trust, because there was so much incongruence between the spoken words and and, and the non spoken words that she was just confused. And that's when, when I got sensitized to the to this phenomenon of synchronicity, nonverbal synchronicity, and how nonverbal synchronicity is more important than than what we speak, the content of what we say, and all the knowledge and all the blah, blah, you know, it kind of it wasn't more. And then I wanted to know, what do we know about this in coaching, and I found that it's a field, it's a blank page that nobody has looked into, nonverbal synchrony in the field. But psychotherapy had done so, and developmental psychology had done so, and other fields had done and physics had done so. So of course, that was the playing field for me. Like, how can I kind of, like, pull up my sleeves and dig in the dirty things of figuring out how relevant nonverbal synchrony is for our practice? And this is how I had come to to doing a PhD. So it was not something that I wanted to do. It was something that had emerged through a critical moment in in my practice. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 18:31 what? So what was the answer to her question about why you were moving backwards, even though you weren't verbally saying that?   Tünde Erdös ** 18:41 Oh, wow. That's like, can you be patient, Michael? Because that's another story. It's, you know, what we figured out together was that when I got hired, and maybe I would say a little bit about the context of the client as well. So that client was a female client, and she received, she was supposed to receive coaching, because the CEO wanted her to be represented on board level, and the board back. And then it was a hydro company. So it was an engineering company, the hydro business, energy production and so and it was all male dominated, and the CEO had this idea to kind of like, for whatever reason, I don't want to judge anything. But yeah, this, this engineer, this female engineer, was supposed to be kind of like, supposed to level up and be represented at word level. And she, he wanted her to receive coaching, to to be ready for that that that role, and to be assertive, and to for that position to be filled successfully, for her and for the others and for the organization, of course. And I remember that when I was hired and we. Had this hiring engagement that the, I mean, we figured it out post mortem, right? So it was, I didn't realize that in the moment when, in the in the hiring moment, but what happened in that moment of hiring was that CEO was saying to me and pointing, kind of like with them, with his finger, saying, You better make this one work. And he was kind of like, you know when, when you have the index finger and you point at something, and it's kind of like to make it clear that something should happen with the index finger towards me. And I did not notice how my body was picking up on the pressure. Because for me, mentally, you know, cognitively, it was clear, of course, well, like, I'll do my best. I mean, of course. I mean, there's no guarantees, but of course, like, I'm here to support and the client and the organization, and I wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't feel that I could do the job. So was   Michael Hingson ** 21:01 the finger pointing an attempt at kind of intimidating. It felt   Tünde Erdös ** 21:06 like and, and my body picked it up as such, got it, okay,   21:11 yeah. And   Tünde Erdös ** 21:13 then I went back to notice that, kind of like when we that we that the body picks up on everything around us, like the the impulses that we received from the environment. The body is is the best instrument that will collect information before the brain can ever process anything. So it's the body doesn't lie. It will not lie, and it will be our most reliable instrument to tell us how we are really doing and that. And I noticed about beside that, I wasn't paying attention to that wisdom, and I was too much in my in my head, you know, I was like, cognitively, yeah, sure, so not for almost forgetting about this element of we are lodged in our body, and it's the senses that actually drive our cognition, first our perception and then our cognition, and then emotions. And I needed to reconnect with this and how, if we are disconnected the body and the mind, how that will show, and that the body will not lie, and and this pressure that was lodged and picked up, which I kind of like did not pay attention to, would show in critical moments, and it would it take me unawares and how important it is to to not just think about what the mind and the mental the processes that happen to us, but what else is there that shapes our being there and and and being in relationship with other people? Because it's this, this, this thing of non verbal synchrony just doesn't just apply to coaching, it applies to any interaction, human interaction. So, yeah, that's what happened. So   Michael Hingson ** 23:13 did that person then continue to have a coaching relationship with you. Did you guys work it out?   Tünde Erdös ** 23:22 Yeah, uh huh, yeah, that's cool, and that's the fascinating thing, because the client didn't really want to go, she didn't want to leave, she just wanted to, kind of like it was her invitation to, can we just be more real? Can? And she was a better coach in that moment than I was. And I think that she picked up on this vulnerability that was I was bringing into the into the relationship. And it was that bit because she was also vulnerable. We had some sort of a parallel process, you know, she was with that expectation that the CEO was having of her to move up the board level. She was just equally vulnerable as I was, and I think it encouraged her to also be more real, and to to go and speak about this, but just accept it for what it is, and accept from the CEO that, oh, we want you to be there. And then, of course, as a soldier, you know, I'm gonna be, and I will be up, and I will, I will take that position, and no questions asked. So, so I think it was a serendipitous moment in how my vulnerability also enabled hers to successfully embark on her coaching journey and then embark on that position. So it's interesting, right? How things come about?   Michael Hingson ** 24:41 How long ago did this happen?   Tünde Erdös ** 24:45 Um, why are you asking the question? Just curious.   Michael Hingson ** 24:51 Just curious. Just   Tünde Erdös ** 24:52 curious. It what it happened? 2017,   Michael Hingson ** 24:55 okay, so, so you've had a lot of coaching. Time since then, which is great, and you've been able to put that in perspective and obviously learn from it and move forward with it, which is great. So you've been able to obviously have a lot of wisdom and and learn from what happened with that event. I mean, you you talk about it, and you tell a really, I think, important story that is important. I think that one of the things that we often think about with therapists, and I think with coaches, all too often, is they have all the answers. And the point is that oftentimes therapists, from a mental or medical standpoint, are supposed to have answers once they get all the information. But it's not a job of a coach to necessarily have the answers, but rather to guide the discussion so that the person being coached, gets the answers. And in your case, you both came up with answers. And I think that's so cool.   Tünde Erdös ** 26:07 Oh yeah, I love how you're making sense of this with both. And you know what? This is, actually, what is, what matters that we it's like this flame here that's dancing, yeah, and this chalice, and this crystal Chalice, it's, it's kind of like there is an impulse, something in the air gives the this flame an impulse to dance around. And I think this is what is happening in coaching, too, that we kind of like are just around, we are there, and we give impulses, and then the client can dance around and with us like it's, it's, they are not alone, and I'm not alone. So the coach is not alone. The client is not alone. There is a context. There is more than just and and depending on the shell is, for instance, the shape of the shell is, it will be a different flame. It will be a different dance, and to be aware like, how we are co shaping each other. And that's not there. In our profession, we are talking about it a lot like, yeah, yeah, with but we are not really practicing it. This is not my perception, at least, and I hope that I'm not getting across as arrogant, but I'm not. It happened to me, okay? And I think it will happen to other people. How we believe that we are there, we are present, but we are not and that's also what we found in the research, then, that coaches are not present most of the time, or too present, sort of,   Michael Hingson ** 27:36 yeah, I think all too often. Well, there's so many ways to say it. One, we take ourselves too seriously. Two, we we're not we're not necessarily in the present. We think we know everything and we don't. And and from from my perspective, when I when I hear people talking about someone who's an expert and so on, it's great to be able to be viewed as being an expert. That doesn't mean, though, that you have all the answers. And the best experts are the ones who themselves recognize I don't necessarily have all the answers, but I'm always learning and moving forward, and that's the most important thing I think, that any of us can do. Yeah,   Tünde Erdös ** 28:17 yeah. And you know what? That reminds me also of an example that I make. May I give an example of another another storytelling bit with another client? Sure it's it's again around something that is unexpected, also, because you brought this unexpected up today that is somehow sticking with me. Michael, I remember one incident when I was sitting with a with another client in my in my office, and I live in a forest, and it's very calm here, and really very calm so and we do have neighbors, and the neighbors next door sort of like have a small farm with and they have chickens and pigs and roosters and etc. And I was sitting with with a client, and it was around lunchtime and and we have reached a stage where the client was reflecting for herself what she should be doing. So we had done this reflection process and just some discovery thing, and then she was about to reflect for herself what to do next, like this action taking bit like, what to do with all the discovery and insights, etc. And I remember sitting there in silence. And it was, you know, you do this crisp silence that is really unbearable, and it's kind of like, and I remember I was sitting there because I felt like, I'm not going to interrupt the client's process. When, suddenly, when, suddenly. But it felt really awkward, because it felt like, oh, oh, oh, shit, sorry for my friend. But I need to say that, because this is how it felt. It felt like how to interrupt the silence, and what would be the appropriate second and moment to interrupt the client's silence, because at one point, kind of like, started to be very long. So what happened? What happened was that the rooster next door started to do   Michael Hingson ** 30:20 kiriki to crow, yeah, to crow.   Tünde Erdös ** 30:23 But the rooster did it in a very special way, like it, it did it in a way as if his throat was, you know, cracking cups, you know, like in a very, very like it was fun as as if it would suffocate. And the client? I, no, no, it wasn't client. I burst out in laughter. It's always so funny. I thought, like, this is, this is really macabre. The whole thing that's macabre because, like, what is happening here, and just a sheer sound of the of the of the crowd, this, this crowing sound was so bizarre. And then then the client started laughing too, and bursting into laughter. And I said, Why are you laughing? And she said, You know what? You know what? I'm so happy that you started laughing because I wanted to laugh, but I was holding it back, because this rooster is so stupid, and you know what, I think I should be doing something stupid in my life for a change. And she meant by doing something stupid, like something crazy, daring, something that was out of the usual, out of the common, which would have been totally the opposite of what she was and how she would normally act and come up with action taking. So this is, again, for me, it's like, because you said, like, we don't know the answers. No, we don't, but something else in the context probably will give an impulse for for us to to have an answer, yeah. And that's what integrative presence is for me about like, how do we integrate other things than just the self or the other? Can we integrate more than than what we believe we should be doing and how like, because you said, like, we should be taking ourselves seriously. Yeah, because we are taking ourselves too seriously, if I had interrupted that silence because it felt awkward for me and I wouldn't have been able to hold the silence, this moment of serendipity wouldn't have emerged for the client.   Michael Hingson ** 32:31 Do you think that it was awkward for her to be silent?   Tünde Erdös ** 32:39 Wow, that's a good question. I do not know. We did not, we did not go into that. I think for her, it was just important that she could have this, she could have this moment of release realization. But it's a very, very good question. Michael, I don't know. I, you see, I could have asked that as well, like   Michael Hingson ** 33:02 but the discomfort, the discomfort may have been much more with you than than with her. She may have been comfortable in the silence, but she obviously came to a conclusion when you started to laugh at the rooster, and then she did as well. So it it does go to show that, that sometimes, again, we don't necessarily have the answer to to say, but when we, when we do things like, as you describe it in the story, the rooster crowing, and you laughing, and then she laughing, that was a very powerful moment. Yeah, which is, which is cool,   Tünde Erdös ** 33:43 yeah, I'm happy to you're saying because you're inspiring me to think further and say, like, if I what would have happened, because now we can take it further. What would have happened if I had noticed what you noticed, that maybe she might have felt uncomfortable in that moment. What if I had addressed that moment   Michael Hingson ** 34:05 Right? See, or she may have been totally comfortable. And you know now it's, of course, too late to know that, but unless you were to go back and ask her, and she thought about it, but still, the answer is still that something occurred that caused you to react, that helped her react, and it definitely lightened the whole experience, which certainly was a good thing. Yeah,   Tünde Erdös ** 34:34 it turned out to be like, yeah. It turned out to be helpful for the client. Yeah, that's yeah. So to take myself out of the equation, because it's not about us normally.   Michael Hingson ** 34:45 Now, when did you get your PhD?   34:48 I got my PhD 2021 oh,   Michael Hingson ** 34:52 what's recent, barely, and what was your PhD in   Tünde Erdös ** 34:59 the. Umbrella. The umbrella concept is business and organization management got it. And then leadership development. And then, of course, this synchronicity, nonverbal synchronicity. Bit,   Michael Hingson ** 35:14 when did you? When did you develop the idea of the integrative presence?   Tünde Erdös ** 35:21 Ah, that was yet another thing like that. Was, it was such a painful moment like it's, it's interesting that you're bringing this topic up, because I was not, I was not expecting, so it was, it was unexpected, something unexpected again. So it was, I was not expecting to create a program around this. I was not expecting to do anything. I was just so much into the into this, into this topic, like, what is the point? Or how relevant is this for our practice, and how can it inform what we already know about presence and still do not know, or what we believe that we know, because there are a lot of theories about what presence should be on, and also to overcome a lot of resistance. Because I did meet a lot of resistance, people telling me, you cannot measure presence. I was told. I said, What a bet like, what a bet like. You can measure anything. It just depends on the take that you're, what take you are, what will be your take on this? How are you going to approach something? Everything is measurable. It just needs the right way of looking at things. So I didn't give up. So I wasn't I didn't listen to the people kind of like putting a resistance to this idea and also critiquing it heavily, which is part of doing research. So I very much acknowledge this, and it was also helpful, because it tested me like, where I am with my with my hypothesis, and where I was with my with my stance, on on into research. But then to answer your question is the data was there, and I must say, I really did a massive project, so something that nobody was expecting to see in the field. I could recruit 184 no 187 coach, client pairs, and I was accompanying their coaching process over time, over eight months, and I could get the coaches to video record their sessions, so that we could really get video data and to analyze the you know, this, the motion energy, the the nonverbal synchronicity between them over time. So I did process research. It was massive. It was really massive. And then I was and eventually, when I was done, and all went well, but there was a price that I paid. Talk about that as well, but when I had the data, I felt like and I we were about to to start measuring it. We couldn't measure it. We couldn't, we couldn't really it was, it was the, you know, it reminded me of the people who started questioning me, we will not be able to measure presence. And I was sitting at the feet of a mountain, and I could not make any sense. And I said, this is not possible. I have had the commitment of so many coaches, so many clients, so many people are watching this project because it had received a Harvard grant. So there was a big obligation to deliver, and I could not make sense of the data until I could take a step back Michael and I said, Wait a second, maybe I'm looking at it from the from the wrong perspective, with looking at it through the wrong lens. And then I contacted someone in Switzerland, at Berne University, a professor, and we're talking about because he was in the field of psychotherapy. I said, like harder. How do you measure nonverbal synchrony. And he said, Well, we do have a validated instrument for that, and if you like, we can, I will help you. You will need an education. You need to, kind of like get educated in how to use the instrument. But then I think that this is going to be able to measure the process data that you have collected, because normally, the way people look at the data, it's static. So you take a sample here at one point, another sample at another point and at an end point, and then you compare the data. But we had several data collection points to compare with each other over time. So and there was a complexity in what we were looking at, several, several factors that we were comparing with each other. So it was this realization, this moment of only whack a mole, do you know, overcome this, this moment of this pain. There, and the moment where I thought it, I got stopped, you know, like, please, I felt like, stop. There is a dead end. I've come to a dead end. There's there's no more. I cannot move forward with this, to release this, to let go and kind of like, just take a step back. It's like, no, it's possible I've just potentially not taken the right angle. So what's the take that it takes to be able to make sense of the data? So that's what I that was something unexpected again, and where I could I could understand again, how fragile, how fragile it is, how we perceive and conceive the world, that things should be this way, and it should be done this that way, when actually nothing should be done in any way. And the more flexible and open we can state the things, the more valuable the contribution is that we can make to the world. Does it make sense to you? Michael, I think   Michael Hingson ** 41:05 so. Um, so you figured out how to measure the idea of presence, then to a degree. But so what is? What is integrative presence?   Tünde Erdös ** 41:21 Well, yeah, exactly. Sorry. Can you see, like, I can, I can hijack everyone with my topic, because I am so passionate about it, yeah, so like, and then we found that in that presence is not what we thought it was, or it's more complex than what we thought it was, in that there are so many elements that play out. And I will be not practical, and I will, I will kind of like, give some examples. It whether or not we can be present. It depends on not just us. Like, let's say, in my field, it's the coaches. And so far, we have talked about presence as something that is inherent to the coach, and that's why we call it coaching presence. It's a coach's presence, but it's not the coach's presence alone. That's why we found that it's it integrates the client. We are so dependent on the other person. We are so dependent and we we kind of like react and respond in different ways to each client. So we get, we get influenced by the other person all the time, and that there is no fooling ourselves into believing that we can we are going to stay clean, that we are going to be a clean slate. This is a myth. This is full Clore, but this is what we want to believe, that if we go and meditate for five minutes, and then there we go into sessions, then we will be clean, and we will be cocooning with the client, and we will have the focus on the client. And this is myth. This is it's not happening because we could see that the coaches cannot do this. It's even if they kind of like at the beginning, they sort of, they sort of tune in, and the presence is there. It can change over time, and they get influenced by what, what? A lot without them becoming conscious of this, that's one thing that gets integrated, yes,   Michael Hingson ** 43:30 yeah, go ahead. No, go ahead.   Tünde Erdös ** 43:34 Another thing that gets integrated is also the environment, like the way I brought the rooster a story, yeah, there is a context. There is an immediate environment, like the room that we are in, the cars, that the room will have, whether or not somebody, somebody is tall or short, or like circumstances that are physical, that are that are that are inherent to the to the physical conditions of the place or the conditions of the person. All these things influence like, for example, I feel totally influenced by by how you cannot see me. I I constantly look at the at the screen to check, because I find myself, you know, like looking everywhere a little bit to be with myself, but then to check in with yourself is, can I see that you, you are with me? So there is this moment, there is we get influence, and I, and I feel fragile here because, because of, like, does it make sense what I'm saying, yeah, like, just just earlier I was saying, Does it make sense what I'm saying? Michael, you remember, like, I just just just a few seconds ago? So it's we are always so fragile, and we don't want to own it, this fragility, this vulnerability, that we get influenced by the physical space, by this immediate physicality, but that they. Was also a distant thing, like, more, uh, there's also a cultural bit, like, we are different cultures. I was I grew up in a different world than you did. You had different experiences. So that will shape your philosophy of life, how you view life, what is important for you, what is what is good, what is bad, what is ethical, what is unethical, so that will be different to how I see ethical and unethical and good and bad.   Michael Hingson ** 45:29 The other part of that, though, is that how our philosophies are shaped, and our backgrounds and so on. That is all correct. But also, if we are honest and if we are looking at ourselves appropriately, it is also an evolutionary process. So meeting with you, talking with you, meeting with other people, and talking with other people can enhance, alter or shift some of our perspectives?   Tünde Erdös ** 46:04 Absolutely, yes. And are we ready to allow this to happen? Because I will give you, because I will give you an example. I had a client, male client, from Saudi Arabia, okay, and we went into the coaching and and like I was coming in with an education from the UK, yeah, I mentioned today that I went to ashwinich Business School, that's where I was educated, right? Etc. And there the idea of the coach is that the coach does not instruct, so we do not teach, right? Which is, this is not, we don't hold the answers. You said, right? But in Saudi Arabia, the coaches do teach. That's in their system. That's a culture that that's in there. If you don't teach them, you don't instruct. They feel lost. They are confused. They feel that they you leave them in the lurch. So so it took a while, really, to to find a common understanding of what coaching is, and and for that, for the client to, for me, to kind of like tune in and do coaching that was valuable for him and that matched, that was fit for purpose, for his learning style. You know, rather than just insist on, this is how estrich taught me to be a coach, and I cannot let go of my philosophy of coaching, because this is because I don't know the kind of like the world will break down or something. To what extent can we let go of all these things that we were shaped by, which is very difficult because, because to be an ethical coach, I assigned, you know, the codes of ethics that I will not teach. So it's not teaching, it's that teaching is something different than coaching. But in that particular case, the client needed a sort of thing. Otherwise he couldn't have, wouldn't have been able to listen at all. I would have lost a client. So it's very complex, you see, well,   Michael Hingson ** 48:12 and the the other side of it is, it's a matter of you taking all of your knowledge and putting the the teaching component of it, which is certainly something different in Saudi Arabia than what you find in Austria or England, but it still comes back down to your job is to coach the person and the techniques that you have To use, whether they include teaching or not, is just part of what you have to do. And, and you know, how much are you teaching in the traditional sense, or how much are you augmenting the coaching process? And, and that's also part of it.   Tünde Erdös ** 48:55 Yeah, it is. It is. Michael, absolutely it is. And this adjustability, I like calling in the adaptability to kind of cultivate a certain adaptability intelligence right around and sometimes just let go of what we believe that should be and but that's also part of being present, because if I cannot let go of my of my belief system that something should be a certain way. Can I be of value, really?   Michael Hingson ** 49:26 Right, right? Well, and, and again, I guess it depends a little bit on what you consider teaching, as opposed to coaching and and so there has to be a way to to meld the two in the situation that you found yourself in, and that's part of your ability as the coach, to adapt and connect with the client, which is important. Um. Which, which I can understand. You said something I'm a little bit curious about. And you said, you know, there are a lot of people think that coach meditates for five minutes and then goes in and, and, and coaches. And that is really true. But what do you think about the whole concept of meditation in general?   Tünde Erdös ** 50:18 Whoa, you are opening up Pandora's box.   Michael Hingson ** 50:24 Oh, because   Tünde Erdös ** 50:27 what is meditation is again, how do we conceive meditation in the westernized world, as opposed to what it originally was and how it has evolved over time? I think that's a very difficult question, and I don't even dare venture into it. I just, I just know for myself so far, and I'm very cautious with with what I'm saying, what I know about it is that there are several ways to meditate. There are several ways to to kind of like, calm the mind, come back to what is now, let go, which is part of how we try to be present or make sense of being present. Stay always here, focused in a certain way. I do, there's a lot of research of meditation and the the effects, the effectiveness of meditation on on the on the brain and on, on, on our peace of mind to be very primitive, yes, like how it calms the Mind. But I think that we are, I think I would, I would not dare to venture out too much, because I think this is a vast field, and it's culturally so charged. Because, like, if you ask a Buddhist, what he in India, how he would see meditation, it's it's different to how we can even digest it, and even when somebody goes in and learns how to become like, to adopt Buddhic meditation styles, when he or she comes back into our culture, in the Western art world, it's like with yoga as well. It's adapted. It's a bit changed. It's different. It's because the context has changed, and maybe that's the point that I wanted to take. I think it's very, very important for me, at least, to always be aware of the context in which I am and which specific style of meditation would fit which context. Because I don't think that we we can really make sense of anything in the world, but please correct me if I'm wrong, and also the audience to chip in at any point on listening to this that how can we ever make any sense of anything without putting it into a specific context?   Michael Hingson ** 52:55 Well, but, but meditation, certainly, there are several different kinds of meditation, yeah, but, but, and I wasn't asking about a particular kind, but rather, the whole concept of meditation is that you utilize it however you do to calm The mind or become more back in touch with your your mind, or again, maybe putting it in the way that that that you talk about, it really becoming more present and, and I'm not in any way suggesting, or wasn't asking for you to endorse a particular kind of meditation, but rather in general, conceptually, meditation is a process that gives you the opportunity, as I understand it, to slow down and separate yourself a little bit from the typical physical things that go on in The world, so that you can become more in touch with yourselves and and so if that is indeed true, and that's what I was, was really asking about, rather than a particular kind of meditation, if that's true, does that make sense? Yeah.   Tünde Erdös ** 54:16 And you know, like, it's really like funny, because I just caught myself red handed. I was just inquiring, have I? Have I missed to be present enough with you when I missed the purpose of your question, I was kind of like inquiring into myself. Wait a second, how come that I I, I could not like I didn't pick up on what you were asking for, and I went into that place about the different styles of meditation. So you see, there is this, how fragile presence is, because I am, I want to be here, and I want kind of like, I think I'm listening to you, but still, there is something that I. Seem to have missed in this moment with you, of what exactly the purpose of your question was. So that's what I'm sitting with, like how interesting this is. And what if I had just taken a breath? You know, if I had taken just a conscious breath? Because when you were asking the question, Michael, I could in my body and I was, I was, I wasn't, I think I wasn't present enough, because my body was saying in my stomach, it was vibrating kind of like a membrane, was moving like a membrane. Because I have a lot of respect for the topic of meditation, and you cannot know this. So this respect, again, is lodged in my body so so much that it created this, this, this resonance, this, this movement of the membrane, and I did not pay attention to this, to kind of like to acknowledge it. Take a deep breath to be able to let go of this, to be there to listen to what you were asking me about meditation. So that's in the here and now, we are having this sense of, how can we meditate? I think in this moment, I could have just taken a breath, and that would have supplies to be more present as a way to meditate. And I didn't,   Michael Hingson ** 56:20 well, okay, but I think we, we we dealt with it, though, we got there. And, you know, I think that there, there are a lot of books written on on meditation and so on, and there are a lot of people who talk about it in different ways. And far be it from me to ever judge which way is right and which way is wrong. I think the ultimate goal of meditation is to get people to slow down and back off a little bit from just being involved 24 hours a day in the world and giving your mind a chance to communicate with you. I think that we all too often, don't listen, and I think that's part of presence to our minds. My favorite example is, there's a game. Are you familiar with the game? Trivial Pursuit? Yeah. So I so often when I'm playing that game with people, and I've been guilty of it, and I'm working really hard not to do it anymore, but, but a question will come up, and somebody will ask the question, and immediately I'll have an answer, or I've heard other people say later they had the answer, but then they think about it for a second, no, that can't possibly be the right answer. But it was. We don't listen to our minds. And one of the things that meditation helps us do, however you do it, is to listen to our our minds and our hearts and our instincts, yes,   Tünde Erdös ** 57:54 in this, this, yeah, this intuitive thing that says, well, it is, it is right, and, and that's, that's a story I could I could tell you stories about this intuition that I'm just in this story. Do we have a time so that I we have a little bit of time left? Yeah. So I'm very happy to tell you the story, something very painful, actually, that is that has just recently happened to me, is, is has been within business development. So I don't know why. I don't know why I'm doing business development, because I, my coach, was saying at one point in that you fell out of love with yourself and you fell in love with the outside world. Again, was saying to me, because at what point while I'm doing fine, sort of I because there's so much social media advertising around and people telling like, you should be doing this and that and and kind of like was caught by this FOMO thing, fear of missing out on something. I got trapped by the FOMO phenomenon, and I started investing in business development because I fell out of love with myself, and then at one point, in a very healthy way, my intuition, I would say, in a very healthy way for myself, my intuition was saying, Tinder, this is not the right thing for you. And also the way people are doing business development and all this marketing thing that's going on this is this, it's it's not the right fit for purpose for you. And I started having this dialog with my with the person that I hired, the expert that I hired, and and we really had big discussions about this, because I was, I kept telling her, Look, I think it doesn't make sense in my case, and with what I would like to market a business that and develop the business for it's not, it's not about one size fits all, because she started telling me that everybody's doing this, and this is the thing that's worth. For everyone, and my experience, it has worked for all my clients, and I said, I appreciate that, but my intention says that this is not a right fit for purpose for me. So why not let go of the one size fits all for everyone and find a creative way for this particular thing that I would like to market here, and it's we are still in the discussion, but it's this intuitive. I cannot prove it that it's the right way, Michael, but my intuition says that, no, don't go down that lane. Stay with you, or it's not right thing for you. But there's so much pressure, outside pressure to believe in what everybody else is doing and what should be done. It's really difficult to hold a place for myself, but   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:46 if it's really but if it's really the right way to go, then she or someone ought to be able to offer something that demonstrates that, and until they do you've got your intuition that's guiding you, and your intuition may very well be right. So the idea, of course, is to be open, to explore all sides of it, but ultimately, you have to be the one to make the decision that makes perfect sense.   Tünde Erdös ** 1:01:15 Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:18 So we've talked a lot about presence and integrative presence and so on. As we do wrap up, what what advice would you give to listeners? What would you like to see them do? What kind of things can you offer to just help people move forward and be better versions of themselves?   Tünde Erdös ** 1:01:40 A few things, I guess, probably something courageous that I would encourage. I would I would encourage people to be more courageous around owning that we don't know, okay, that we don't know, that there's so little that we know and that we are standing on giant shoulders in to be very cautious with what we know. And you see like you could see like, how I was presenceless Today, at one point, I couldn't, could no longer hold a presence with you, and I just slipped. I slipped and I could not, and I needed to acknowledge this, that we are human beings in the first place, and that, and to own it and to work with it, just Yeah, to be vulnerable with this and to start here, start where we are actually, to start where we are, use what we have and to do what we can. And I think this is something that Theodore Roosevelt said, or it can be attributed to him having said this, to always just start where we are and be humble and modest about whatever we have learned, because I've really learned a lot and come a long way, and still a long way to go. Always just start where we are and and be humble about what, what who we are what we already know and always just do what we have, use what we have, and do what we can, stop predicting the future and and start comprehending what's going on now. It's so difficult what's going on in the world with us and in us, like I was, was talking about this, this experience with the business development, for a thing that I want to see marketed, how complex everything is and so difficult to comprehend what's really going on, why not be just starting there rather than talking about what the future will look like? Because what does it? Why do we care about something that we cannot predict and can not control? And instead look at like, what is it? What is that we can control? And and keep asking ourselves, who do I wish to be in what I'm doing? Not so much the purpose and why we are doing the thing that we are doing, and what for all important questions. But most importantly, who do I want to wish to be in whatever I am embarking on? Because, because it's not on any map. We are not on any map. Our true success is, is not on any map. It's it's in how we are conceiving and constantly reshaping the who, in what we are doing and and asking ourselves also when I will have achieved what I want, then what, and then what, because we are we get caught up in I want this, and I want that, and this is my goal, and I want to achieve this. And we are so good at achieving everything and anything is achievable. People keep saying, if we can keep the focus on it and have the resilience to push through, but then what? What will have happened then and what? Would have, will we have contributed so to think beyond the obvious in our lives? I think that that's what I would, I would, I would give away.   Michael Hingson ** 1:05:12 Makes sense to me. Well, I want to thank you for for being here and talking with us a lot. Do you have clients all over the world? Yes, yes. Well, then I then I hope that that there will be people who are listening to this today who will reach out to you, if they want to do that, and they want to talk with you further. How do they do that   Tünde Erdös ** 1:05:36 so they can listen to this stuff here again and again and again and share it in the world. Be grateful that. Be grateful to you, Michael, because at this point, I really also want to be grateful to you that you have been circumspect in seeing me in Europe, you know, picking me out and becoming aware of what I'm meaning to do in the world, and to and and for people to go in and look on the website. And   Michael Hingson ** 1:06:09 so what is your website? That's why I say. How do people reach out to you? So what's the website?   Tünde Erdös ** 1:06:13 It's www, dot t, u, e n, d, e r, d, O, E, s.com, it's my name without the umlaut. That's it, and, and, and just be curious because and be curious about you, Michael, because I, I that's what is more important, is to see like,   1:06:39 how   Tünde Erdös ** 1:06:40 you have contributed to this dialog to flow. I I was really kind of like in awe. Thank you for listening the way you have and having taken me from point A to point B. So graciously. So   Michael Hingson ** 1:06:57 Well, well, yeah. Well, thank you very much for being here and being a part of the podcast today. Most people don't know it took us a while to finally make it work. Our calendars weren't talking to each other very well, talking about not being in the presence the calendars were misbehaving. But we but we did make it work. So here we are, and I really am very grateful that you were able to to come on and be here with us today, and I want to thank all of you for listening. We really value you being here. Hope that you picked up some really good guidance and insights from this, and that you will indeed pass on our podcast information and that that you'll reach out to Tünde. We We really hope that you'll do that. So thank you. I'd love to hear from you. If you want to comment on today's podcast, please feel free. You can reach me at Michael H I M, I C, H, A, E, L, H i@accessibe.com A, C, C, E, S, S, I b, e.com, or go to our podcast page, www.michaelhingson.com/podcast Michael hingson is m, I C, H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, s, O n.com/podcast, wherever you're listening, please give us a five star rating. We love getting your ratings, and love the five star one. So thank you for doing that and and for being here, we will be back soon with another episode of unstoppable mindset, as I've told all of you many times. I also am a keynote speaker and travel and talk about September 11 and other things like that. And if you ever want a speaker, please feel free to email me at the email address I gave you earlier, or at speaker@michaelhangson.com So one more time, though, Tünde I want to thank you for being here and being with us today.   1:08:48 Thank you for the unexpected, Michael. Well done. Thank you so so much.   Michael Hingson ** 1:08:58 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. 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