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On a Monday Drive, Josh tells why the stars are aligning for the ACC in the NCAA Tournament, breaks down Wake Forest's decision to decline the NIT, reacts to North Carolina being put into the NCAA Tournament as the last team in, attaches letter grades to the committee's NCAA Tournament decisions in Graham's Grades, and voice of USA Baseball, Daron Vaught, joins the show to discuss how far High Point can go in the NCAA Tournament and how far he would be willing to walk, instead of Ubering, in Unusual Questions.

On today's show: We are coming to you live from Wellington Waterfront for Homegrown! Harrisons Rural round up: Wellington Edition Arlo wants tickets for homegrown so we challenged him to manu! Arlo Manu’s for tickets….. and some besties! Tap that live for Homegrown Ticket We set a listener a challenge for more Homegrown Tickets! Ubering locals on a Croc Bike First to bring us a framed photo wins! We received a framed photo of what…? 5 star Fact Kings is in town! With his new song How well do you know each other Exclusive quest Love ya! Sean, Steph & Harrison x Follow us on insta @Edgeafternoons

Updates on Ubering on company time and did Ally narc in the restaurant?Why is Ally staying in the spare bedroom.

Ubering on the job and Scott hates the three words, "Submit A Ticket"!

Riding Shotgun With Charlie #220 Matthias Quellenberg San Diego Firearms Academy   In 2022, I went to GunProm, hosted by San Diego Gun Owners. It was a huge event with over 750 attendees, the biggest 2A dinner I've attended. I was there with John Petrolino and we didn't really know many folks. We were put at the table with Matthais. We talked all night and exchanged contact info. The next day, he messaged me via Instagram and said he's seen the show, but didn't put it together after seeing me. The next week, Petrolinio messages me and says he's been messaging Matthias. I asked who and he replied “The German.” The name stuck.    In 2024, GRPC was held in San Diego, where he lives. We were able to film a show at the end of GRPC. Everyone was talking about “the wall” and I thought it was some sort of Pink Floyd tribute. Alas, it was the border wall. When he asked where we were driving, I replied “the wall.” We had to make sure we didn't cross into Mexico. I don't have a passport. He was packing.    Matthias grew up in Germany and served in the army. That was his first exposure to shooting and firearms. If it was a choice and an option for the citizens, he would have been a gun owner. But it's very elitist in Germany. The first gun he got to shoot was a Walther P1, the predecessor to the P38. He did boot camp, specialized training, then some office work, and ended up in the Ministry of Defense, similar to the Pentagon here. Then he became a boot camp instructor.    He met an American woman and they had a long distance relationship. Eventually, he made it to Boston. After they got married, he was able to get a green card and he applied for a License To Carry right away. They moved to California and settled in San Francisco. He found out there were only 2 carry permits issued in the city when he got there. In the same time, Fresno County issued over 6,000 permits.    Then life brought them to San Diego. Doing some research, he found out you needed to list your guns and serial numbers on your license and you could only have three guns on that carry license. He looked for an attorney who may want to pursue suing the state about this and ended up talking with the lawyers from the Peruta case. The lawyers thought they may be able to pair the cases, but it didn't fit their strategy.    Back in 2020 while he was Ubering, he would talk with his riders and gun owning came up. They were looking for guidance and opinions. Realizing that there could be a market, he became an NRA certified instructor and started San Diego Firearms School.    We got into talking about teaching gun classes. He teaches a couple classes a month. The next step for him is to get certified by the sheriff's department to be an instructor. In California, you have to take a short test to get the firearm safety certificate, which you need to purchase a firearm. Then you have to do a shooting qualification to be able to take the 16 hour course needed for the CCW permit.     Matthais won tickets to the GunProm back in 2022. That's when he started to see that there are so many more people involved in firearms and the bigger gun community in general. He's good friends with Desi Bergman (RSWC #217) and they both do lots for San Diego County Gun Owners. He even presented for one of their seminars.    I had a great time with Matthais. He's a great guy and he's out there busting his tail to make things happen. He's very active on Instagram, so follow him.  If you end up in San Diego, get an Uber driver with a German accent, and his good dog, Lucky,  there's a good chance it's Matthias!   Favorite quotes: “We don't have gun rights. Guns is not a thing in Germany.” “Within a week of me getting a greencard, I got my first gun and I applied for a License To Carry.”  “At the time, you can only have three guns on your license.” “So many people were asking me questions and looking for help and guidance.” San Diego Firearms School Website https://sandiegofirearmssc.wixsite.com/home   San Diego Firearms School Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sandiegofirearmsschool/   San Diego County Gun Owners https://sandiegocountygunowners.com/   Gun Owners Radio https://www.gunownersradio.com/ Second Amendment Foundation https://secure.anedot.com/saf/donate?sc=RidingShotgun    Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms https://www.ccrkba.org/     Please support the Riding Shotgun With Charlie sponsors and supporters.    Dennis McCurdy Author, Speaker, Firewalker http://www.find-away.com/   Self Defense Radio Network http://sdrn.us/   Buy a Powertac Flashlight, use RSWC as the discount code and save 15% www.powertac.com/RSWC   SABRE Red Pepper Spray  https://lddy.no/1iq1n   Or listen on: iTunes/Apple podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/riding-shotgun-with-charlie/id1275691565

For our last episode of 2024, we're celebrating the new year and fresh beginnings in our brand-new studio with a fun, candid, and slightly chaotic catch-up. For this special episode, we're flipping the script —our producer Rosie is in the hot seat as she grills us with questions we definitely weren't prepared for. From playing “Who's Most Likely To…” (who's Ubering a block instead of walking?) to discovering who really knows the other better, we're sharing laughs, surprises, and a secret or two. Plus, we answer our must-asked listener questions about our friendship, favorite beauty and fashion items, and wellness tips. Whether you've been with us since the start or are new here, this episode is for you! Happy new years from the Lipstick on the Rim team!  From her early days at Elle to launching one of the most coveted indie publications, CULTURED Magazine, Sarah Harrelson has established herself as a key tastemaker at the intersection of art, fashion, design, and architecture. In today's episode, we dive into how she stays ahead of trends, what's hot now in fashion, beauty, and home decor, her favorite restaurants, and her insider tips on where to travel next. Plus, Sarah shares why print magazines are far from dead, how she keeps her finger on the pulse of fashion, art, and design, and reveals the one lip product every cool girl is dying to get her hands on. (P.S. It comes in just one shade of red, and we need it immediately!)  Mentioned in the Episode: Shop the episode: Tracy Anderson Workouts BURN LA Workouts Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind by Andy Dunn Blue Ribbon Sushi Restaurant Il tramezzino Restaurant  TV Shows we're watching: Slow Horses Nobody Wants This The Perfect Couple Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story Outer Banks The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Gilmore Girls And Just Like That… Pretty Woman  A Sony Music Entertainment production.  Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us at @sonypodcasts  To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey Money and Wealth listeners, here's a show we think you'll love.  Step into the financial end zone with "The Financial Quarterback® Podcast with Josh Jalinski," your weekly playbook for help in mastering the financial game, protecting your wealth, and securing your retirement. Each episode dives into crucial topics like retirement planning, financial strategies, and estate planning, offering straightforward, actionable advice to shield your wealth from higher taxes and market risks.  In this episode: Are taxpayer-funded sports stadiums a financial blessing or a burden? Josh dives into this hot-button issue, exploring the true economic impact and cultural significance of iconic arenas like Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park. He scrutinizes whether these massive public expenditures truly benefit the communities they claim to uplift, or if they merely line the pockets of billionaire team owners. From Milwaukee to Buffalo, Josh breaks down the promises of job creation and neighborhood revitalization, challenging the role of politicians in facilitating corporate welfare.Plus, in "Extra Points," Josh and his team debate the practicality of Ubering versus driving to a game and explore how stadium naming rights play into the larger financial picture.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey Best Bets listeners, here's a show we think you'll love.  Step into the financial end zone with "The Financial Quarterback® Podcast with Josh Jalinski," your weekly playbook for help in mastering the financial game, protecting your wealth, and securing your retirement. Each episode dives into crucial topics like retirement planning, financial strategies, and estate planning, offering straightforward, actionable advice to shield your wealth from higher taxes and market risks.  In this episode: Are taxpayer-funded sports stadiums a financial blessing or a burden? Josh dives into this hot-button issue, exploring the true economic impact and cultural significance of iconic arenas like Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park. He scrutinizes whether these massive public expenditures truly benefit the communities they claim to uplift, or if they merely line the pockets of billionaire team owners. From Milwaukee to Buffalo, Josh breaks down the promises of job creation and neighborhood revitalization, challenging the role of politicians in facilitating corporate welfare.Plus, in "Extra Points," Josh and his team debate the practicality of Ubering versus driving to a game and explore how stadium naming rights play into the larger financial picture.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this week's edition of Wiggins America, Ryan discusses Kamala Harris' inability to answer questions. He is then joined by Old Roy to discuss "Kamalanomics" and the impact that the fed has dropped rates by half a percentage point. They then discuss a memorable story from Ryan's "Ubering" days. Ryan wraps up the show sharing his thoughts on the first assassination attempt on Trump and how amazing it is that he survived.

“My birth stories are my testimony…I have never trusted God more with any situation in my entire life other than with the lives of my children and bringing them into this world.”Shelby's story is one of faith, trust, and surrendering. Shelby joins us today from Indiana sharing her wildly traumatic Cesarean story due to a placental abruption and her peaceful, healing home birth. Shelby was on vacation at a cabin in New York at 34 weeks when she woke up to regular contractions and heavy bleeding. She rushed to the nearest hospital, was put under general anesthesia for her Cesarean, was transferred via a separate ambulance from her baby to a hospital 3 hours away, and had a 23-day NICU stay in the height of COVID 800 miles away from her family and community.She and her husband were certain they would not have any more children. But as they fought for healing through faith-based counseling, their hearts yearned for another baby and a chance at a healing birth experience. She completely surrendered, found holistic prenatal care, and created a birth space for herself where she knew she felt safe. She was brave and vulnerable, and her second birth was everything she hoped it would be. As Meagan says at the end of this episode, “Get educated. Love yourself. Have faith in you and your body and your baby. You are amazing. You are a true Woman of Strength.”How to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull Transcript under Episode Details Meagan: Women of Strength, we have our friend, Shelby, here with us today sharing her HBAC story. In addition to her HBAC story, she's got some other unique things that I think are going to be important for us to talk about today. One is placental abruption. That is something that is definitely a reason for a Cesarean and one of those absolute needed reasons for a Cesarean. We are going to talk a little bit more about that and then we are going to talk about faith and how faith in whatever faith looks like to you, it's so important to cling onto that. Shelby has some messages about that. Then we really want to talk about physiological birth. We hear it. We see it online. I mean, if you go on Instagram and you go into the birth world, you're going to see it almost 100% guaranteed but what does that really mean? We're going to be diving in with that today. Shelby, you are in– where did it say, Indiana? Shelby: Indiana, yeah. Meagan: I have to look at my notes. Indianapolis, Indiana. She's in Indiana so Women of Strength, if you are coming from her area, definitely listen up as well. Okay, so we have a Review of the week and this is by birthing confident. It says, “Invaluable information. I love this podcast. As a mom planning a VBAC and a VBAC-trained birth doula, the information shared on this podcast is invaluable. I have become so passionate about helping all women know their birth options and avoid unnecessary C-sections. I think this podcast is great for all expectant mothers” and I 100% agree with that. This podcast is for anyone and everyone because like she said we are wanting to help people avoid unnecessary and/or undesired Cesareans. We have a ridiculous Cesarean rate. It is through the roof. I would love to see it start dropping and I don't know if this podcast truly is going to impact the Cesarean rate the way I would love it to, but I do believe that it's a starting point. It's a starting place for you guys to learn your options for birth after Cesarean and to learn how to have a better Cesarean experience if you have one because that's also a really important factor that I think a lot of people forget about. Not only do we share just VBAC stories, but we do share healing, beautiful CBAC stories and repeat Cesareans. Thank you so much, birthingconfident, for your review. As always, please if you haven't yet, leave us a review. You can do so on Apple Podcasts. You can message us. You can rate us on Spotify and all of the places that you listen to your podcast. Meagan: Okay, cute Shelby. Welcome to the show. Shelby: Thank you. I'm so excited. Meagan: I am so excited. So let's dive in. I am actually really excited to talk a little bit more about placental abruption as well and hear about your experience. Shelby: Yeah. I don't think I even knew it was a thing honestly before it happened to me. I think it's something that people don't really talk about and it's probably a good thing because it's really scary but also, it would have been good to maybe know what was going on. I know it wouldn't have changed the outcome, but yeah. I just had no idea that was even something that could happen. With my first pregnancy, it was very run-of-the-mill. Everything was good and I was planning on birthing at a birthing center in Indianapolis so I was still going for that natural, unmedicated birth. I didn't really know anything that went into that as you do with your first and I feel like you do the typical making the baby registry and doing all of these things that don't really actually help you with your birth. Not that I would have gotten the chance to even try anyway. I feel like I just definitely didn't really have much knowledge and I think the problem is that you don't know what you don't know which is why I literally recommend this podcast to all of my friends who are even pregnant with their first baby because I'm like, “Just learn the things. Learn all of the things.” We took a very basic birthing course through the birthing center and it was just virtual, like four sessions and it was not super helpful honestly but we also didn't get to implement it. The pregnancy itself was just very normal. I mean, I have pretty much all of the symptoms which is the worst like really horrible rib pain and nausea and heartburn and all of the things. What was crazy though, this was in 2021 and I actually got COVID while I was pregnant also. Everyone I've talked to thinks that's probably why I had a placental abruption.Meagan: That's interesting to know. Shelby: Yeah. I had it in about my 5th month of pregnancy in September and I was due in January. It was horrible for a week but then I recovered and I was back to working out. I was totally fine. I didn't have any blood pressure issues after that. Everything reallly seemed okay. We decided at 33 weeks that we were going to go to New York which is really far away from Indiana on vacation for Thanksgiving to gather with all of my husband's family. My midwives cleared it. Like I said, I was working out. I was healthy. I was fine. The trip was going super well. I was working out while we were there. I was doing barre obviously so I was doing safe things. Fitness is a really big part of my life but also, it's not something I added in during pregnancy. It was just normal for me. Meagan: I used to take barre too. I took barre and was teaching barre with my second TOLAC. It's a very low impact but very, very good for strength and cardio. Shelby: Yeah, and my husband and my father-in-law were doing them with me so we have some really awesome videos of me at 34 weeks pregnant working out with my husband and my father-in-law doing barre. But yeah. Everything was going well and anything that was slightly risky which really even wasn't, I wasn't doing. They did this office chair floor hockey where they were pushing each other around in office chairs and playing hockey in a building and I didn't do it. I sat on the sidelines and observed. I was being really what I feel like was cautious. Meagan: Responsible. Shelby: Right, yeah. We even took family pictures on Saturday and everything, I have pictures of us smiling and laughing and then literally the next day we had a baby which was crazy. I start having Braxton Hicks contractions at 20 weeks. For both of my pregnancies, I just feel like I start having them really early so they are not shocking for me. But that Saturday, I remember several times looking at my husband and being like, “These feel a little stronger than I remember them being,” but with your first, you don't know anything. I kept mentioning that to him but they weren't super regular and there were no other signs of anything, just Braxton Hicks contractions. Then that night when we went to bed, I couldn't really sleep. I was laying there by myself the only one awake. We were all staying in this big cabin together which was great. My husband and I were in our room. At 4:00 AM– this is so funny to me now that I know what labor is actually like. At 4:00 AM, I started timing contractions and they were less than 5 minutes apart when I started timing them. I'm like, What was wrong with me?So after an hour of them being like that, I woke my husband up and I was like, “I think you should go get your mom,” because she is actually a midwife which was good. Meagan: Oh, convenient. Shelby: She was in the room next to us. Yeah. I was like, “I think you should go get your mom because this is not right.” They were not just less than 5 minutes apart. They were pretty uncomfortable. She came over and checked things out. I know now that she definitely knew that something was going on but she was really good at keeping her cool. She was like, “Why don't you go shower and try to relax?” When I went to go to the bathroom and shower, I started bleeding. Like I said, I knew nothing about labor, so I was like, “Oh, well maybe I am in labor” which was really scary because I was only 34 weeks but it was a lot of bleeding. I was like, “Well, I don't know what's normal,” but I know that obviously, my mother-in-law knew what was going on. She was like, “It's okay. We'll have Chad (my father-in-law) just go start the car and we'll go in and get everything checked out.” So we were in the middle of the Adirondacks which is literally nowhere. We had a 25-minute drive to the nearest hospital and this hospital, I mean we were probably the only people there. It was 5:30 in the morning maybe. They didn't have an OB there. They didn't have a surgical team there. They were all at home so we come in and the front desk lady is like, “What's your occupation?” She's typing like a sloth. I was like, “Girlfriend, I am bleeding and I am in full-on labor. Can we just go inside?” So that was crazy. She's asking me to sign stuff and I'm telling my husband, “You have to sign.” At this point, contractions were pretty back-to-back and they were super strong. I could tell I was bleeding with every one. I could feel it. They got me back into the ER and the poor nurse. I know that this was probably so scary for her, especially with an OB not even there but she was asking me, “Have you felt her move recently? I can't find a heartbeat.” I was like, “I don't know. I'm in labor. I don't know if she's moving or not.” Every time I'd have a contraction, she'd just be like, “Oh wow, that's a lot of blood.” I'm like, “Thank you. I know.” Meagan: You're like, “I can feel it.” Shelby: Yeah, it was wild. By the time the OB got there, she checked. She said I was fully dilated and effaced. Meagan: Holy cow. Shelby: This was maybe 2 hours. It was not long. Now that I've been through a full labor, I'm like, that is crazy. My body had to have just been in panic mode like, We have to get this baby out right now.She checked and something that was kind of cool was I knew that my baby was head down. She had been from 20 weeks. She was perfectly always in the same spot because I could always feel her kicks really high and one of the times the OB checked, she goes, “Oh, and she's breech so we're just going to have to go.” I was like, “She's not breech. Check again. She's not breech.” She checked again and she was like, “Oh, you're right.” I was like, “Yeah.” So the nurse brings in all of the scrubs and stuff for my husband to put on and as he's getting dressed and everything, he's fully ready to go. He's all excited because he wasn't really super scared. Meagan: He didn't understand what was going on. Shelby: Yeah, but also, he's like, “I'm going to meet my baby today. This is so cool.” And the literal most gut-wrenching thing of my life was when the OB was like, “No, we don't have time. It's going to be under general. You can't come.” She wheeled me out of the room and I looked back and saw him standing there fully dressed just like yeah. It was awful. In that moment, I wasn't even worried about myself and I wasn't worried about the baby. I was just like, He's going to be traumatized from this. This is horrible. They took me back there and I'm in labor holding onto the top of the bed. I was only in there probably for a minute, but it is scary. The whole room is white and there is somebody over here counting instruments. They stick a mask on your face and you can barely breathe and then the next thing you know you wake up in recovery. I woke up as the only person in this room. There were maybe two guys sitting at the desk but that was it. Nobody else was there. They didn't say anything to me. Nobody told me if she was okay. I knew nothing. Yeah. I was just laying here. Eventually, my husband came in and he showed me pictures of her. He was like, “She's okay. She's on oxygen but she's doing all right.” But yeah. It was totally crazy. Then they moved me to– I don't even know. It probably wasn't actually a postpartum room. I don't even know if they have those at this hospital. I feel like they probably try to send everybody everywhere else. Then basically, they told me, “Hey, you have 10 minutes if you want to go see her and try to hold her before the ambulances get here to transfer you guys,” because there wasn't a NICU there and they probably weren't even– they couldn't have cared for her. I think as soon as we got there, they must have called Albany Medical Center because it's 3 hours away. She was born at 7:30 in the morning. I started timing contractions at 4:00 AM. We didn't leave until after 5:00. The whole thing was so fast. I'm getting ready to get out of bed and get in a wheelchair to go see her and they didn't warn me how much pain I would be in and they didn't really help me get out of bed either. As I went to stand up, I leaned back a little and after you've had a C-section, I almost passed out. Meagan: Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Shelby: Yeah, so I get in this wheelchair and I get in the room where she is. She's got the oxygen mask on and she's got all of these tubes and all of the things and you could tell in the pictures I was barely with it. What I remember bothering me the most is I had obviously been intubated so I felt like there was stuff in my throat because it was so swollen. My mouth was all dry and I got to hold her for a couple of minutes but it didn't even feel real. Then the NICU team got there. She was on one ambulance and I was on a different one and my husband was in a car so we were all separated for 3 hours to Albany. Halfway there, my ambulance– so hers left first, and halfway there, we passed hers pulled over on the side of the road. I started panicking. There was no communication between the two ambulances. Meagan: Oh my heavens. I'm dying right now. Shelby: Yeah. The EMT, bless her heart, was amazing. She was like, “It could be anything. It could be one of the monitors isn't hooked up right and they're just stopping to do that or they need to change out an oxygen tank and they can't do that while driving.” She helped me calm down a little bit. She probably shouldn't have said this, but we got closer to Albany and she said, “We don't need to panic.” I don't remember if she actually said this but she said, “Unless they pass us again going fast.” I kid you not but we were 5 minutes out from the hospital and her ambulance went by us with lights and sirens on. I had maybe seen her for 10 minutes before this and she couldn't contact the other ambulance. So just traumatizing, all of it. Thankfully, when we pulled into the hospital, the first thing that the guy on the baby's ambulance did was come over and say, “Everything is okay.” It was just something. They had a lead or something come off so they needed to stop and take care of it so it wasn't a big deal but it made it feel like a big deal. We are in New York still for all of this. We get in there and I have to get settled in the postpartum section and she has to get settled in the NICU and then finally, hours later, I was still bleeding a lot so they were trying to take care of that. They were doing the fundal rubs and I remember texting my mom and I was like, “If they do it again, I'm going to punch someone in the face,” because it was so awful. They were saying, “It's because the EMT didn't do them on the ride over that you are bleeding so much,” so they kept coming over and doing them. It was so awful. So then we had a 23-day NICU stay in New York, just my husband and I because no one else could even visit us because it was 2021 in New York which was pretty bad for COVID. Once I was discharged after 4 days, technically, the only visitors allowed were my husband and I with our NICU bracelets to see her. Even if they had someone come, they couldn't even come into the hospital. We didn't really want to leave the hospital because we wanted to be there with her. We were Ubering to Target. We didn't have a car because we flew there. We are Ubering to Target and thank goodness they had a Ronald McDonald house there so we were staying there and they supplied a lot of dinners and housing which was the biggest blessing in the world. I literally don't know what we would have done otherwise. Getting discharged without your baby is super horrible and she was only 4 pounds, 10 ounces so she was really little and nursing just never took off for us. I didn't get to try for a while even because she was being tube-fed and she could barely stay awake because she was so tiny. Every nurse that you'd have would tell you their tips and tricks which is great but not helpful when every 3 hours you are being told something different. We tried so hard and eventually got to the point where it was like, “Let's just get home. We are 800 miles from home and if it takes a bottle, that's fine. We just need to get home.” Yeah. After 23 days, my amazing mom drove to New York because we didn't even have a car seat. It was all at home. She picked us up and drove us back home. Meagan: Oh my gosh. Shelby: Yeah, so then you are coming home with this little 5-pound baby and you are like, “How are we even allowed to do this? She doesn't even barely fit in the car seat.” It was so crazy. After that, we were really unsure if we'd have more kids. Especially right after, we were like, “I don't know if we can do that again.” My husband and I always wanted lots of kids and a big family. That has always been something that we wanted so after that first experience– and you do a quick Google search of placental abruption and they say, “Once you've had one, it's 15% more likely that you'll have another one.”You're like, I can't go through that again. That was horrible. I knew that if we got pregnant again, I was like, I'm going to feel like a ticking time bomb. All of these also quick Google searches tell you that it can happen as early as 20 weeks. Thank goodness we made it to 34 but I'm like, If that happens at 20, baby is probably not going to make it. Meagan: That's a scary thought. That's a really scary thought. They really have advanced the medical world so much to a point where even when babies are born really, really preemie, there are higher chances than there used to be, but the thought of that in general is just too much to think about. Shelby: Oh yeah, and my mom who drove to New York to get us– which is probably part of the reason they discharged us. She's a NICU nurse so she actually knew how to feed this litle 5-pound baby who was still causing us feeding issues and all of the things, but I've obviously heard from her too the stories of the really early babies. I mean, even 29 weeks and I was like, It's just too much. But we also knew that we couldn't stay in that place because we both were not in a good place with it. My husband was obviously so traumatized for different reasons and I was too. It was just a lot. We started seeking out some faith-based counseling basically like spiritual reconciliationing kind of to work through it all because I knew even if we weren't going to have more kids, I could not just live with that raw the way it was. Meagan: Both of you needed to process that. Shelby: Yeah. We were just praying for the release of that and we even prayed over our poor baby because I was like, She's probably holding trauma from that too. The losses that I was experiencing were also losses for her. She missed out on the golden hour and a peaceful entry into this world. It would drive me crazy thinking that her first moments in this world were with people she didn't know and it was bright in the room and being hooked up to machines. I was like, That was probably so scary for her too. We could tell for a long time, probably her first 7 months that she was so sensory. I mean, just screamed and hated the car seat, hated transitions, hated bedtime. I mean, it was basically non-stop screaming for 7 months. I was like, You were supposed to be in the womb for 6 more weeks and instead, you were in the NICU with lights and sounds and all of the things. We just started praying really hard over all of it and speaking to some really trusted friends who worked through trauma with people. I started listening to The VBAC Link. This is probably when it started obsessively. I was doing Amazon deliveries just for fun on the side. I could take the baby with me so I'd put her in her car seat. This was eventually when she stopped screaming in the car seat so it took a while. I would put my AirPods in and while I did all of these deliveries, I would just listen to back to back to back episodes forever and for months. I think honestly that was probably what started getting me thinking even about more kids. I started learning about VBACs and how really the odds of having a VBAC are not that horrible and that it's really not any riskier than a second C-section and I was like, I really don't want another C-section because that was– I mean, I couldn't even roll over in bed by myself. My husband told me, “You don't usually need me, but that was the one time you actually needed me.” He was like, “Honestly, that was really hard to see you in that much pain and struggling that much.” I was like, “Yeah. I couldn't even pee by myself.” Meagan: Oh, I remember my husband literally helping with my second. He had to hold me up in the shower. I was like, “I just can't stand the whole time in the shower. Can you just hold me up and shower me?” I remember feeling so vulnerable and I was frustrated because I'm like, This isn't my personality. I'm very independent. Why is this happening? Yes. Shelby: Independent and strong. Yes. But also in my fashion, I was walking to the NICU by myself very slowly by day two. I'm like, What was wrong with me? But also, we didn't have a choice. I was about to be discharged. We had to figure something out. Thankfully, I didn't need to stay for 4 days, but because I had nowhere else to go, they were like, “You can stay all 4 days if you want.” I was like, “Okay, great.” But yeah, so I just started learning everything and consuming as much information as I could about physiological birth and about VBACs and there really isn't a ton of information about placental abruption. There are risk factors which I had none other than COVID which no one talks about yet because it had just started, but I didn't have high blood pressure. I obviously didn't do drugs. Meagan: You didn't have multiples. It was a singleton. Yeah. Shelby: It never happened before. My placenta was in a good location. Meagan: Your membranes hadn't ruptured. Shelby: Yeah, my water never ruptured with her so it was crazy. But around when she was probably 9 or 10 months, I couldn't even believe it, but I told my husband, “I'm not totally opposed to having another baby.”He was like, “For real?” We talked about it and we prayed about it a lot and I told God over and over again, “If I get pregnant again, this is going to be the biggest test of my trust in You ever because I know that if I try to worry about it, I'm going to go crazy. If I try to control the outcome which I can't, I'm going to go crazy.” So it basically was like, “If it happens, I'm just going to have to trust you with it fully. No holding back.” Actually, before we were even pregnant, started shopping around for providers. Meagan: That is key. That is so important. Shelby: Yeah. We do have one hospital locally that has midwives and birthing pools. I was like, “Okay, that sounds like a pretty good option for a VBAC.” We went to talk to them– well, I went by myself. I had my list of questions ready. I walked in ready to not take any crap because I also knew a lot about what they were probably going to say and they said, “Yeah.” First of all, they wouldn't call it a VBAC of course because nobody wants to do that. Meagan: TOLAC.Shelby: That was the first thing. I was like, “No. I'm going to do this.” Yeah, so they were like, “We'll allow you to try.” I was like, “Okay.” They were boasting about their VBAC rates and it was 60%. It was not very high and I was like, “Umm, okay. That's not that awesome, but all right.” They started listing off the things you have to do because I had all of these questions ready because I knew. So you have to have an IV hooked up. I was like, That's annoying. I was like, “Can you at least have the hep lock?” They said, “Yeah, that would be fine.” Then they said, “But you have to have continuous monitoring.” I was like, “Okay. I really, really don't want continuous monitoring,” and they try to make it sound better like, “Well, it's waterproof and it's mobile so you can still move around with it,” but I also knew about the statistics of continuous monitoring and how a lot of times they indicate things that aren't actually an issue and then especially if you are a VBAC patient, they're like, “Well, time for another C-section because baby's heart rate is dropping.” Baby's heart rate is supposed to fluctuate as they are descending. Meagan: Just like ours. Shelby: There was that and then they also said, “You can labor in the water, but VBACs aren't allowed to push in the water.” I was like, “Doesn't that defeat the purpose?” Especially if it's a VBAC patient, we should be doing everything we can to ease the labor. Why would you make them get out right when they are feeling like they need to push? They were like, “Oh, well it makes the OBs uncomfortable.” I was like, “Well, the OBs aren't delivering this baby so I don't really care what makes the OBs uncomfortable.”So they made me schedule out all of my prenatal appointments and I went to one of them but I told my husband, “I just don't want to have to fight for it. I know I can. I know that I can go in there and say ‘No thank you' and be confident in myself, but I don't really want to.” So I had never ever even considered a home birth. I don't even remember how, but we somehow heard about the only home birth midwife in our area and I scheduled an appointment with her. I didn't even get established with her until I was 19 weeks. I pushed out the OB care for a really long time when we found out we were pregnant because I knew we didn't really love them. So I just didn't go for a long time. I felt like everything was good. I felt like I was pretty in tune with everything. But yeah, I skipped a little bit but when we got pregnant with our second, it was a lot more immediate where I started praying about it all like, Okay God. This is for You because You are the only one who knows how long this baby is going to gestate and you're the only One who knows if it's going to end how we hope it does. I started praying. This is something. I started praying really specific prayers. I believe that God cares even about the little things which really aren't little things in this, but I prayed that my placenta would be in a good spot and I prayed that my placenta would be strong and that it would make it all the way to term and I prayed that this baby would make it all the way to term. Literally every little concern I had, I pretty much sat in the shower every day and just spoke it aloud. I was like, God, I know that You are a God of healing and restoration and I know that You can do that for me. I believed that through this birth, He was going to heal the trauma from our first because I was like, that feels like this is how it has to go at this point. We went and we met this midwife. She didn't doubt for a second. She didn't say anything that was like, “I'll let you try.” She was like, “You sound like a perfect candidate for a VBAC.” I told her that I had COVID and she was like, “Well, that's probably why your placenta ruptured.” She told me that the placentas she had seen throughout COVID and recently, she was like, “They are not healthy and they are not sustaining a lot of them until the end of pregnancy or if they are, they don't look good by the time they get there.” She wasn't surprised. But yeah, she said, “You sound like a perfect candidate. I think you can do this.” At every appointment with her, we'd sit there for an hour and we'd talk and she totally respected all of my wishes. She'd ask me if I wanted to do something. I'd ask her for information and then she'd let me decide either way which was cool too. With our second pregnancy, we didn't use a Doppler until I was in labor. I could feel her moving first of all so I knew that she was well but we actually started using a fetoscope which was really cool. You can't start using it until after 20 weeks so we had to wait for a really long time to hear her heartbeat but our toddler would watch us do it too. It was really cute because she would walk around with this fetoscope around her neck and she would go put it on daddy's belly and say, “I'm listening to Daddy's baby,” or she'd put it on her belly and it was really sweet. Yeah, we took a full 180 with this pregnancy. I had learned so much at this point that I was so confident in my body and in my instincts and all of it. We didn't find out the gender which with our first one, we found out at 8 weeks with the blood test. We didn't find out gender. I didn't do much prenatal care. We didn't do genetic screening anyway with the first one either because that didn't really matter to us. But yeah, I didn't even do an ultrasound until we were 32 weeks or something. We waited a long time because I had learned a lot about ultrasounds and how we actually don't know as much about them as we might think we know. Meagan: Might think we know. Yeah. Shelby: I read about how sometimes the techs are like, “Oh, they're moving away from it,” because they can feel it and I'm like, “We're not going to do that.” We waited and just had the technician who worked in our midwife's office which was perfect because we could tell her we wanted a very minimal one just to check basically the heart and vital organs and the brain to make sure everything was okay. She would pause the screen and take the measurement she needed and take the Doppler off and everything so it was very minimal. I was like, “I don't really care if they have 10 fingers and toes. We'll figure that out later. Just check the important stuff. Don't tell us the gender.” We did that and she basically was like, “Everything from as far as I can tell looks good.” That was pretty much all we did. My lifestyle was still very active and I was eating as best as I could. I didn't really feel like I had anything that was anything of concern which was perfect. I remember at my 30-week appointment, my midwife looked at me. We hadn't really talked about specific expectations I think for the birth because I didn't really know what I needed or what I wanted but she looked at me at my 30-week appointment without prompting and said, “I think what you really need from me in this birth is for me to just be there and for you to just do your thing.”Meagan: I love that. Shelby: I was like, “That's actually perfect. That's exactly what I want,” because at that point, I had listened to hundreds of birth stories and watched hundreds of birth videos and shown them all to my husband. Everything I was learning, obviously I was soaking it in but if there was anything I felt was pertinent to me, I was showing to him too. He really benefited from that because we went into birth also with him not being afraid. He would watch birth videos with me and he'd be like, “Wow, that's amazing.” That's one of my things. Knowledge is power and educate your husbands too or whoever is going to be with you at your birth. Physiological birth especially, they should be comfortable with it. They should know what it looks like and how it progresses and how to best support you in that. That was huge for us. I made him watch a lot of birth videos and he wasn't even weirded with it by the time it came around. But yeah. She said that and I was like, “Yeah, you know, that sounds great.” We made it all the way to 40 weeks and I just felt completely at peace the whole time. I wasn't worried and I was like, “She's going to come when she's going to come.” Another thing they had told me at the hospital was, “We only let VBACs go to 41 weeks and once you go past 41 weeks, you have to have a C-section.” I was like, “I'm not going to do that. I don't even know what my typical gestation is because I haven't made it term.”Meagan: I was going to say, you didn't even make it to 40 weeks. Shelby: Yeah, so my midwife was like, “Well, if you get to 42 weeks, we'll do an ultrasound and make sure everything is okay,” but she wasn't putting a timeline on it which was so great. I did a lot of courses. I stay at home with my daughters so I just listened to a lot of courses. I did the Christian HypnoBirthing one, our midwives did a course. It was really cool. They got us all together at one of their houses and went through a course with us and our spouses with all the moms who were about to have babies. I also did the Free Birth Society course which I was kind of so/so on but I was like, “If I want to know how to home birth, I just want to know about everything. I want to know about the complications that could happen and what you should do in those situations,” so even though I wasn't planning to free birth, I still wanted to learn all of the things. That was one of the things that I did and I was just listening to constant everything. When we made it to– I guess it was two days before my due date, so July 29, I was having fairly consistent contractions in the evening and so we were all excited. We're timing them and we were texting our moms but then they stopped the next morning which was a Sunday before church so we were getting ready to go to church but then I lost my mucus plug in the shower. I was like, “Okay, just in case something is going to happen, we should probably watch online.” We stayed home, watched online, and nothing was happening all day. We knew that we shouldn't get our hopes up but also you make it that far and you're like, “I'm just ready.” Our church had a picnic that night at a local water park so I was like, “Well, nothing has happened all day. We might as well go because we didn't go to church.” We went to this picnic and we were doing the mini playground with our 1-year-old at the time who is water crazy. I think I jumped to get into one of the tubes and felt something kind of funny then around 8:30 PM, I had a really strong contraction. I was like, “Okay. That was unusual.” I went to the bathroom and had bloody show so I went back out and got my husband. I was like, “We've got to go home.” On the drive home, contractions were 8-10 minutes apart. I showered and we called the midwife and our photographer and my mom and grandma who were coming to get my daughter and the dogs because we didn't know how it would go so we didn't want anybody else there who needed care obviously. Meagan: Well and your last labor was actually pretty dang fast. Shelby: Right, yeah so I was like, “I don't know how this is going to go.” My mom came and helped us clean up the kitchen which is where we were going to put the pool and everything. The midwife and her student arrived at around 10:30 PM. At this point, I was between the coffee table and the couch on my knees holding a comb and my husband was pushing on my back. I labored just in that one position for a long time and that felt as okay as it can feel. Then at around midnight, the midwife heard one of my contractions and was like, “That one sounded a little different. Let's get in the pool.” So I got into the pool and that was instant relief. I was able to sit between contractions and try to relax then after a little while, I was too afraid to feel. We did zero cervical checks. I didn't want to know. I was like, I just want to go. After a while, it was so cool how in tune she was with it all. She goes, “Why don't you see if you can feel your baby's head?” I was like, “Are you serious?” So I reached up and I could feel her head. I was like, “Okay. That gave me a little bit of encouragement to keep going.” I would say probably about an hour after I got into the water, my body started pushing. I didn't push voluntarily once. It was wild. I felt something at one point. We were about to change positions again. I had been in the tub for a little while and they were getting the bedroom ready. I was like, “Hold on, something just happened.” I reached down and a big hand-sized bulge of my amniotic sac was sticking out still full of fluid.Meagan: Yeah, I've seen that. It's so cool. Shelby: I told my husband, “Do you want to feel it?” Meagan: It's like a water balloon sticking out of your vagina. Shelby: Yeah, then the midwife was like, “Okay, we're not going to move. We're going to stay here. Obviously this position is good.” I held a comb in my hand the whole time and I had my husband push on my back because with both labors, I have had total back labor. I don't know why. I just have. I mean, she said I pushed for less than 40 minutes which was crazy. I felt her head come out but we didn't know it was a girl yet so that was fun and then I tried to slow down because I knew that sometimes you need a push or a contraction between and you don't want to get pushed too hard and tear but I couldn't. My body literally just pushed her all the way out in one push. That fetal ejection reflex is definitely a thing. So at 2:14 AM was when she was born and my first contraction was at 8:30 PM. I caught her by myself in the water and pulled her up. She had her cord on like a backpack. It was around both arms and her neck so I had her head out of the water but I could barely get her up. The midwife came over and untangled her and I mean, my husband and I just sat there for probably over 5 minutes before we even checked what the gender was because we were just in awe. We didn't even care. We were like, “Whatever. It's fine either way.” So when we finally looked, we saw it was our girl and we already had a name picked out, Elowen Ruth so we got to hold her for a long time but obviously, my midwife could tell that I was bleeding a lot so she had me get out and I had planned not obviously to do Pitocin unless I really needed it especially before baby was born but it was a lot of bleeding. I tried one of our tinctures first and it didn't really slow it down. So we did some Pitocin. She just did it. I didn't even notice. I was sitting there holding my baby and I was like, “You can't make this moment not perfect.” So we did some Pitocin and delivered the placenta. Then we went out and just sat on the couch and my husband made a snack plate and we all– the photographer and the midwife and her student and my husband and I just sat there talking about the birth and eating snacks.Then after a while, my husband got to hold her while I got cleaned up. I did end up having a lot of bleeding.Meagan: I was just going to ask if the bleeding resolved or did it continue?Shelby: I mean, it stopped pretty well. I didn't end up having to go get checked, but about a week later, my mom and when I took the baby into her first appointment at our nurse practitioner, I wasn't even there for me and she was like, “We are running iron labs on you because you look super pale.” I was really anemic and we didn't know so I think that probably was something. Now I know for the future, if I have a lot of bleeding again, I need to get it checked out really fast because I think it really slowed down my healing. Other than the initial pain of a C-section, my vaginal birth recovery was much more difficult. I could barely walk or stand for 4 weeks. I could not believe it. I remember going to my appointment and I was like, “Is this normal?” The birth went so well. I know it was fast but I think it was because my iron was so low. My body just couldn't heal. I did end up having a little bit of tearing but we didn't stitch it or anything. It healed pretty well on its own. It was super painful when I would have to pee and all of the things but eventually, it healed up on its own. But yeah. I mean, we got to sleep in our own bed. Well, I mean, the husband and the baby got to sleep. I could not. That high we were on, my midwife told me, she was like, “Okay. She's probably going to sleep for the next 5 or 6 hours and you should try to also.” I laid there and I was like, “There is no sleeping. There is none.” After that, she's like, “It's time to nurse 24/7.” Meagan: Of course. Shelby: She's 9 months today and we are still breastfeeding which is huge because with my first, I exclusively pumped for 8.5 months and that was so hard. I was so determined. I also took breastfeeding courses leading up to this baby because I was like, “We are going to make this work because I do not want to pump again.” I love nursing. I have to leave for an Army training here in a couple of weeks and I'm planning to take her with me and still nurse her at night time. I'm like, “We're going to make this go as long as we can.” Yeah, I mean, it was wild but so good. Meagan: Wild but amazing. Shelby: Yeah. Meagan: Did you find it healing? Because sometimes I feel like when you have a harder postpartum where you're like, “I'm not walking as well and I'm feeling gross with the iron,” that can be defeating and frustrating. But did you find that healing or were you like, “I would still take this over the other?” Shelby: Oh absolutely. I mean, I definitely had times where I would just break down not only because of the hormones but everything else. With my husband, I'd be like, “I did it. Why is this so hard?” I had prepared for postpartum. I made sure we had help lined up for our daughter and for meals and for everything so I was really able to take the time I needed. I think if I hadn't done that, I don't know what would have happened honestly because I needed it. I couldn't even sit on the couch. I had to be laying down in the bed or I was in pain. Meagan: Dang. Shelby: I think preparing for it definitely helped and the birth itself made it all worth it. Now, I'm like, Yeah, that was really hard for a couple of weeks but that experience made up for it for sure. Meagan: Worth it. Shelby: Overall, with the recovery, I'm like, Man, that was really hard with the C-section. it was two really hard days with the C-section but everyday is a little better. With my vaginal birth, I was like, Man, everyday is gettig worse. It's hurting more. But it was still really good. Meagan: What was it that was in pain? Was it your pelvic floor? Was it your abdomen? Shelby: It was probably my pelvic floor honestly and also because I think I had torn and she came so fast and there was no slow stretching, I mean– Meagan: Fetal ejection. Shelby: From the first one, it was crazy. I think it really was pelvic floor. I remember one of my friends describing it as she just felt heavy. I was like, “Yes. That is what it is.” It just felt heavy and it ached. Yeah. That was hard. I mean, even being in the shower didn't fix it and that was how my husband and I had planned to bond postpartum was showers together and stuff and I would be in there and I'm like, “I cannot stand up. I have to go back to bed.” Meagan: Too much pressure. Shelby: Yeah, for sure. Meagan: That makes sense. Okay, so let's talk about faith and getting yourself through a really, really rough first birth and you finding that faith. Do you have any advice for the listeners to gain faith in their ability?Shelby: Yeah. I mean, for me it was just knowing that God created my body to do this. No matter what had already happened, my body knew how to birth. I think what helped was I was like, Okay, it's already gotten fully dilated and effaced in my first labor. Maybe not gradually or the way it should have, but I was like, I've kind of already done it. I didn't get to the pushing but just knowing that I was designed to do it and through a lot of prayer and speaking and speaking, “God, you created me to do this. You gave me this baby to grow and to birth,” and just the knowledge is the same thing. Learning about how your body was made to do this is just huge and like I said, just praying those specific prayers for me was so important and proclaiming the promises that God has that He is a healer and a redeemer and He cares about our birth stories. He totally does. That was part of His plan from the beginning. I think for me personally, my birth stories are my testimony. I feel like until these two babies, I really was like, Oh, I grew up in the church and I don't really have a cool story which is fine but also with these babies, I'm like, I have never trusted God more with any situation in my entire life other than with the life of my children and bringing them into this world. For me, that was something I didn't really realize until recently too. That same friend was like, “I think this is your testimony.” I was like, “You're so right.” Meagan: That's cool. Shelby: It totally brought beauty from the whole experience. From the first one, you are like, Why in the world did this happen to me? What good could possibly come of this? We're traumatized. My baby is having sensory overload and I'm not at home. It was all of these things and then realizing that I shared about my story and I was able to connect with so many other moms who were like, “I had an emergency C-section” or “I had a really scary birth story” and now when I hear that a mom had a baby, my first thought is, How did her birth go and how is she doing? Did it go the way she planned and is she hurting? Those are my first thoughts instead of, Oh, is the baby okay? Okay, the baby is okay. It's made me really passionate about postpartum moms and at some point, I'd love to do something with that not while I have a 9-month-old and a 2-year-old but just knowing that there can be beauty that comes out of every story because in the moment, it totally did not feel like it with our first baby. Meagan: Right, yeah. That is the case a lot of the time. It feels like there is no beauty at all anywhere in that story and then you go and you listen to these stories and there is beauty in every single story and growth in every single story. There is learning. I think there is just so much to take from these stories. Then I wanted to go over physiological birth. There's a women and infant's blog or website and it says, “A normal physiological birth and birth are defined globally by midwife organizations as a birth that is powered by the innate human capacity of the birthing person and fetus.” The innate human capacity. “This means that there are no interventions performed that disrupt the normal physiological process in the absence of complications that warrant interventions supporting the physiological process of labor and birth has the potential to enhance birth outcomes and experiences.”I do believe so wholeheartedly that there are sometimes here. You had a real thing happening, a real medical–Shelby: Right. Thank goodness for the medical system in that situation, you know?Meagan: Yes. Thank goodness for intervention in that situation but that doesn't mean that we always have to just get all handsy with birth. It does show the benefits of supporting and fostering physiological birth of individuals include reduced Cesareans, increased breastfeeding success, improved birth experience, and reduced cost of care. Now, this world is very cost-minded especially with insurance and all of those things, but in the end, if you look at the reduced amount of money that we are spending when we are not paying for all of the interventions that happen during birth– and they don't always happen. We know that this is not a blank statement where it's like, “Every birth ends this way,” but usually when there's one, there are more. That adds up. Right? In the end, it's like, is that experience worth another experience? Even if you're in the hospital, you do not– you can totally have a physiological birth in a hospital. I love that so much. Some people don't feel safe out of the hospital. Shelby: Right. That's physiological birth. The key is being where you are safe because your body cannot progress as it needs to if it doesn't feel safe. I majored in animal science and I think about how animals won't have their babies if they don't feel safe. I think that we are mammals and our bodies are the same way. If you feel safest at home, awesome. If you feel safest in the hospital where you know you can get care right away, awesome. Yeah. You definitely just have to make that decision for yourself. Meagan: Yeah. I had a client who really wanted a home birth really, really badly. She decided not to, but decided to labor at home as long as possible and she was laboring and she was laboring and she was laboring and I was like, This labor. Something is off. Something is off. It was going but it wasn't really going and through chatting with her and doing a fear-clearing and fear-release to see if we could get over to that next stage, she never said, “I want to go to the hospital.” She didn't say those words but everything else that she was saying to me, that's what I heard. I said, “Why don't we go to the hospital? If we end up coming back home, that's okay but let's go and let's just see how things are going.” She was like, “I don't know,” because she was steering off of her plan in her mind of laboring at home. I said, “Okay, cool. It's going to be your decision.” About 25 minutes later, she was like, “Yeah, let's do it.” I'm not kidding you. The second she got into that car, it was a game changer. Shelby: Oh my gosh. Meagan: Because her mind was like, I'm going. She immediately felt better and safe. She didn't realize that's where she felt safer. We went. We had a total physiological birth. In fact, we didn't know if we were going to make it. She had the baby on the bed and the doctor was not there. Shelby: There's so much mental work that goes into it and everything. For me, knowing that I was going to my house. I hate packing and knowing I didn't have to leave and go somewhere, that was how I felt safe but I know a lot of people who are like, “No, I want to be in the hospital.” I'm like, “Great. Do it. Just make sure you are informed.” Meagan: Make sure you are informed. That is the ending tidbit here to this story. Be informed. Take a VBAC class. We have our VBAC class online. If you have any questions online, you can always email us on Instagram or in our email at info@thevbaclink.com. Hire a doula if you can. Hire a provider that you really, really trust to support you. Find that birthing location. Get the information. Learn what is important to you because what's important to you is going to stand out that day that you are in labor. Get educated. Love yourself. Have faith in you and your body and your baby. You are amazing. You are a true Woman of Strength. Shelby: Yes. So good. Thank you so much. Meagan: Thank you. ClosingWould you like to be a guest on the podcast? Tell us about your experience at thevbaclink.com/share. For more information on all things VBAC including online and in-person VBAC classes, The VBAC Link blog, and Meagan's bio, head over to thevbaclink.com. Congratulations on starting your journey of learning and discovery with The VBAC Link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vbac-link/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

The gang is back together! Ben, Jamie, & Lydia sit down for a wild episode of The Gray Area Podcast. Find out how clueless men are about some of the everyday things women use. And remember to stay bricked at all times! Enjoy the episode and thanks for watching! ***PLEASE RATE US 5 STARS*** ***PLEASE LIKE, COMMENT, & SUBSCRIBE ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL*** Follow us: Instagram: www.instagram.com/thegrayareapdcast Spotify: @sixthirtynetwork Tik Tok: @thegrayareapodcast Tik Tok: @TGApodcastclips YouTube:  @thegrayareapdcast  Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 09:00 Everyday women things men are clueless about 36:27 Joe Rogan Burn the boots 37:27 Our love for comedy 42:38 Men stuff women don't know 44:38 Things women have invented 46:05 Bringing back modesty 49:03 Getting shamed at chipotle 50:50 Ben's bad history at picking up lunches 57:47 Pay attention to your health 59:32 Channel progress 1:00:41 The Olympics was weird 1:01:30 Losing a medal because of your junk 1:03:06 Getting bricked up 1:05:10 Bullying Lydia 1:06:30 Yelp for your ex 1:08:04 Bullying Lydia again 1:10:00 Nurses yay or nay? 1:14:53 Ben is a Cancer 1:16:16 Female post nut clarity 1:18:05 Ubering your own hookup home 1:19:45 Movies & Tv Shows 1:21:39 Reading Tik Tok comments 1:25:34 Outro

Are taxpayer-funded sports stadiums a financial blessing or a burden? Josh dives into this hot-button issue, exploring the true economic impact and cultural significance of iconic arenas like Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park. He scrutinizes whether these massive public expenditures truly benefit the communities they claim to uplift, or if they merely line the pockets of billionaire team owners. From Milwaukee to Buffalo, Josh breaks down the promises of job creation and neighborhood revitalization, challenging the role of politicians in facilitating corporate welfare. Plus, in "Extra Points," Josh and his team debate the practicality of Ubering versus driving to a game and explore how stadium naming rights play into the larger financial picture. Can't get enough of the Financial Quarterback? Click 'Subscribe' to never miss a play. New episodes touchdown right here! Loving the playbook? Drop us a 5-star rating and share your thoughts in a review. Your feedback fuels the game plan!

One-on-one pod today, we're back from The Newport Folk Festival in Providence, RI. Chris is in New York and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about lost luggage, Ubering to Boston, a recap of our weekend in Rhode Island, Beck covering Dyland, dry-aged hen, bringing your Stanley to a bar, initial thoughts on the Olympic Opening Ceremony, Serbia did not win after all, Clipse outside, the Starbucks by the airport, and a gun that shoots salt at bugs. twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jordan is back from another New York visit where the only real highlight was Katz's Deli, which led to the inevitable comparisons to Langer's, and final judgments are revealed in the long debated battle of the delis. Then, the fellas discuss and rank their favorite Summer fruits and vegetables, and where they've been loving them around town. Plus, the sick truth about the Gjelina six hour brunches, taking the subway vs. Ubering, Benny Blanco and Bubbles at a cheese party, having a family screws things up sometimes, Jordan ate a viral bagel, and the boys crown the absolute best Summer ingredient.

Welcome to another episode! Hope y'all are well! Please stay hydrated... be drinking the water if you're in a hot state or country.

Summary In this episode of Uber Tales, Josh shares a story about picking up two guys late at night who had just escaped from a chaotic party. The host initially felt sketched out but ended up driving them to safety. The guys were extremely grateful and tipped Josh well. The takeaway is that Ubering can be a lifesaver in desperate situations, and tips are greatly appreciated by drivers. Takeaways Ubering can be a lifesaver in desperate situations Tips are greatly appreciated by drivers Late-night pickups can lead to interesting and chaotic stories Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Setting the Scene 01:19 Late-Night Ubering and the Theme of Lateness 06:52 Waiting and the Arrival of Two Guys 09:33 The Story Unfolds: A Chaotic Party and Escape 13:13 The Cold and Dangerous Night 21:49 The Ride and Gratitude 25:07 The Importance of Tips 28:15 Delights and Gripes 34:18 Conclusion and Farewell

In this episode I'll be telling you 3 True Uber Horror Stories.  What happens when you dont do your homework and double check that your uber driver matches with the app? What happens when you are now at the disposal of a complete stranger driving you off course and ignoring directions taking you deeper and deeper into the middle of nowhere? Ubering shouldnt be as scary as it is but these 3 stories are about as creepy as it gets when it comes to ride sharing.  These stories are told with rain and haunting ambience. I hope you enjoy them. These stories are meant to relax and unsettle you.  ________________________________________________________________________________________ `SUBMIT YOUR SCARY STORY` ►[ Subreddit] -  https://www.reddit.com/r/boozeandboos/  ►[Email] - drivethrutheatermedia@gmail.com ________________________________________________________________________________________ Listen to all Episodes in Podcast Form : Spotify : ►https://open.spotify.com/show/43BJPjVXSUjpEKEdrS5KK3 Itunes : ►https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/booze-and-boos/id1702763010 ________________________________________________________________________________________ Huge Shoutout to Zack G. For helping Find & Edit these stories.  Follow His FB Page :  https://www.facebook.com/inspirefear  (Zacks Author Page) Buy His Book!   https://a.co/d/d2BHQCP  ( Zacks Book )  ________________________________________________________________________________________ ►[ Intro & Background Ambience] -  https://www.instagram.com/gensen_yt?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== ►[《 Background Music

Lords: * Jonah * AC Topics: * When was the last time you listened to a song backwards? * Decentralized manufacturing * Are there other terms like "foodies," to describe those who are super into universal bodily functions? * The Bathroom Line, by Jesse Thurston * Playtesting legos Microtopics: * Pet Rock Dot Site * Whether rhythm is a kind of sound. * A rhythm synthesizer that produces control voltages. * All the things you could hypothetically like about New York City. * Crowded speculative real estate. * Canada's role as a fire hazard. * The power company in charge of all the wildfires. * What happened to Smokey the Bear. * Stopping for lobsters crossing the highway. * Whether Smokey the Bear died in his sleep. * Putting the oven on self clean and it cleans your whole house. * Bringing back Satanic Panic to make backmasking cool again. * Constructing a cliff that echoes backwards. * Musique Concrete. * The kind of people who would make an album in Csound. * Admitting that your music is hilarious. * Conlon Nancarrow's works for player piano. * Black MIDI. * Knowing that you should be adding a constraint to your assertion but not knowing what it should be. * If Conlon Nancarrow had only entered cryosleep. * Loading up a song in Sound Forge. * Squid Salmple. * Bluetooth: it works every time! * Virtual modular synthesizers with cool cable physics. * The etymology of backmasking. * If Wiktionary is so good, why isn't there a Wiktionary 2? * Franchising your rhythm box. * Doing each other's administrative work. * Doing a labor swap to get fresh eyes on your project. * Ubering to the trail head. * Imagine: paying rent for an office. * Poopsocking it on this family show. * The Armory. * Going back in time and having $14 million. * Selling your forehead as advertising space. * Joseph Circuit City Smith. * This man needs your help to remove his porn logo forehead tattoos. * Aspirational snake eye contacts. * Your contacts contact. * Antique sword knife bookmark charm sword knife pendants knife charms for bookmarks. * Going to the breathing club and breathing really hard. * The Hearty-Starty. * Trying to joke about a thing that turns out to just be a real thing. * A Facebook group for people who love shitting. * Blinkos and all the nuances of the ways they love to blink. * A whole world just for smelling. * How your heart doesn't stop every time you sneeze. * Green text vs. other colors of text. * The r/bluetext subreddit that's all about links to other web sites. * Nutty Gum and Fruit Spleggings. * Finding the one while in line to poop. * Going to college for like a year and one of the best things about it was the bathroom graffiti. * A chalkboard in the physics department's bathroom stall. * Help I'm trapped in the bathroom grout. * Peeing while trying to think of a poem. * Peeing your pants in the bathroom. * Don't Backmask Me, Bro. * Finding someone in a bar who wants to playtest your experimental game for three hours. * The movie Yesterday except for inventing Legos. * Following instructions as a way to fidget. * Trying to solve a difficult programming puzzle when someone comes up and starts biting you in the ass. * All the ways someone can be onboarded onto an experience. * Free HTML5 Games Tagged Idle. * Top Three Clickers. * Roguathia. * Waiting until you have more SP to select upgrades.

More and more kids are getting to school in different ways. But instead of taking the bus or having their parent drop them off... they are taking Ubers or Lyfts instead?

The squad is BACK! Tune into our episode with Steve Villegas aka ‘Sad Eyes' as he walks us through how he booked On My Block, S.W.A.T. working with David Ayer, Shia Labeouf, being a DAD and so much more!

Heather discusses puking while watching the movie Trolls, Ubering as a woman, the new P. Piddler lawsuit, and Wendy Williams. Live Show tickets at Heathershawcomedy.com Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/heathershawcomedy SPONSORS: Lussi Brown Coffee Bar Go to LussiBrownCoffee.com and use promo code 'HeatherShawIsKidding' for 10% off your first subscription order! Follow Lussi Brown on Instagram @lussibrowncoffeebar The Other Autism Podcast https://other-autism.com/ Follow the host of The Other Autism podcast on Instagram @kristen.hovet

With a 90% startup failure rate and many Fortune 1000 companies unknowingly being on the brink of irrelevance, obscurity, and decline, “Rebooters” are needed now more than ever. In short—leaders need to think about Ubering themselves before they get Kodaked! I have interviewed to hundreds of CEO's over the years, many sharing their stories on how they rebooted themselves and their organization to adapt to and thrive in the future. Strategically, Rebooting your organization focuses in on three key area of transformation: People, Platform, and Passion. Operationally it requires infusing organizations—especially large ones—with the speed, thrill and attitude of a hectic entrepreneurial startup, combined with the urgency, focus and results of a disciplined turnaround. As an operation partner, board member and serial CEO, I have led my share of reboots (and turnarounds), and often look to organizations like the TMA (Turnaround Management Association) for support. With 10,000 members and 58 chapters globally, the TMA is a helpful resource for struggling companies when they need it most—from industry titans to scaleups. When CEO's ask me, about the difference between a Reboot and a Turnaround, I advise them that: you reboot an organization before you need it, before it's too late, before the ‘turnaround guy' shows up. To unpack this and more, we invited CEO Scott Stuart for this episode of The Reboot Chronicles. With 30 years of restructuring experience, Scott has some pointed stories and tips, from his front row seat watching companies fall and helping them climb back out of the muck. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rebootchronicles/message

Apple's Vision Pro goggles have sold out but Bryan and producer Greg don't find the product too appealing. Juveniles who were hitting pedestrians while driving were arrested. KNOW IT ALL: 1) Foster care under the spotlight in WA state. 2) Kansas City Chiefs fans found dead in someone's backyard had taken lots of illegal substances. 3) An early spring is on the way according to the groundhog in Punxsutawney. // Man arrested for Ubering a 14-year-old from Mt. Vernon to Michigan. // New inflation numbers are out. Some ridiculous politicians are saying that retail stores closing due to crime is racist. 

Producer Brett forgot he was going to Vegas on Double Threat's normally scheduled recording day and then as it turned out he also had an unavoidable conflict on the rescheduled recording day but no worries because he has a great plan for the episode! You're gonna love it!! Everything's fine!!! SUPPORT DOUBLE THREAT ON PATREON Weekly Bonus Episodes, Monthly Livestreams, Video Episodes, and More! https://www.patreon.com/DoubleThreatPod WATCH VIDEO CLIPS OF DOUBLE THREAT https://www.youtube.com/@doublethreatpod JOIN THE DOUBLE THREAT FAN GROUPS *Discord https://discord.com/invite/PrcwsbuaJx *Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/doublethreatfriends *Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/doublethreatfriends DOUBLE THREAT MERCH https://www.teepublic.com/stores/double-threat TOTALLY EFFED UP T-SHIRTS https://www.teepublic.com/user/dttfu SEND SUBMISSIONS TO DoubleThreatPod@gmail.com FOLLOW DOUBLE THREAT https://twitter.com/doublethreatpod https://www.instagram.com/doublethreatpod DOUBLE THREAT IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/double-threat Theme song by Mike Krol Artwork by Michael Kupperman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this year's Wishbone Brawl at Goat Hill Park in Oceanside, Calif., women won't just play with the men, they'll play against them. This Saturday, Nov. 11, at a 4,500-yard municipal golf course where the motto is “World Class for Working Class,” what has become one of the greatest events in golf will open the gates at 9:30 AM, there will be a range clinic at 11 AM and the tournament tips at Noon. Tickets are $50 for adults, kids are free and dogs are welcome. There will be food, drinks and parking is somewhat limited, so carpooling or Ubering is encouraged. All proceeds will benefit North County Junior Golf Association and Goat Hill Park's Junior Caddie and Leadership Academy. This year's Brawl will consist of bona fide professionals and elite amateurs, they'll dust off persimmon woods, pick up junior caddies, and they'll play in front of roughly 1,000 adults, 300 kids and 100 dogs. “It's kind of a homemade backyard hang-out scene,” says John Ashworth, caretaker of Goat Hill Park. “Winning and losing doesn't really matter, it's just about having a blast, getting the whole community together and doing something special for the kids.” It's Xander Schauffele, who has seven PGA Tour wins, an Olympic Gold Medal and is currently No. 6 in the world, teaming up with Chris Riley, who won a PGA Tour event and partnered with Tiger Woods in the 2004 Ryder Cup. They're playing against Geoff Ogilvy, who won the 2006 U.S. Open, and Colin Featherstone, a local and current Korn Ferry Tour player. And then there's Jasmine and Janae Leovao, 19-year-old twins who grew up at Goat Hill Park and are now sophomores at Long Beach State where they recently helped the 49ers win back-to-back tournaments. “I think the twins could win the whole damn thing,” says Peter Beames, who once played on the European Tour and has written books on golf instruction. “They're that good and they're not afraid.” For a deeper dive on this year's Wishbone Brawl, we've prepared a Fire Pit Podcast in which you'll hear from Ashworth, Beames, Featherstone, the Leovao twins and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey, y'all! I took a trip to Orlando last weekend and am excited to recap it on the podcast! I tell you about the Jonas Brothers concert (including my favorite songs and an interesting intermission time), Ubering for the first time, the Avelo Arlines flight we took, our Disney boardwalk experience, a rooftop bar night, a light-up Ferris wheel moment and more! This episode is packed and I hope you love it! ⭐  follow me! ⭐ Follow the podcast on ⁠Instagram⁠!  Follow the podcast on Twitter! get my ⁠merch⁠! check out my ⁠website⁠!  follow my ⁠Pinterest⁠! ⁠email me⁠! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cestlame/message

6:05- Tesla driver seen in road-rage attacks serving 5-year prison term // Pasadena mom hit with $3K bill for injured daughter's ambulance ride // Car flies off the bridge // UBER is Now Offering to Mail Consumers' Return Packages for $56:35- Billy Ray, Oscar nominated writer, producer, and director joins the program // More with Billy Ray, Oscar nominated writer, producer, and director joins the program

On this episode of Money Grows on Trees: the Podcast, host Lloyd Ross delves into the concept of Leading vs Lagging Indicators. The key point highlighted is the importance of focusing on specific actions rather than directly focusing on the result. Lloyd emphasizes that many people tend to prioritize lagging indicators such as weight loss or finding love, instead of focusing on the leading indicators that lead to those outcomes. Love is described as a lagging indicator, meaning that it requires positioning oneself to meet someone compatible before falling in love. Lloyd suggests that dating is the leading indicator of love and urges listeners to take action by going on multiple dates to increase the probability of finding someone with similar values. Money is another lagging indicator, often causing a struggle for those who prioritize it. Your Millionaire Money Mentor emphasizes that putting money first leads to little success, and instead, suggests focusing on developing skills and taking action to earn money. Weight loss is discussed as another lagging indicator, highlighting that the leading indicators of weight loss are healthy eating, exercise, and self-care. The importance of friendship is also emphasized, mentioning that friendship is a lagging indicator resulting from actively seeking social opportunities. Throughout the episode, Your Millionaire Money Mentor provides examples of both lagging and leading indicators in various contexts, such as inflation in the economy and the importance of developing skills for generating money. Lloyd urges listeners to prioritize leading indicators by focusing on actions and skills that can lead to success. Remember to share this podcast episode with a friend, send them the link, and leave a five-star review on Spotify. Remember, understanding the concept of Leading vs Lagging Indicators can significantly impact your mindset regarding money, success, and wealth. So tune in to this episode of Money Grows on Trees and discover the power of focusing on leading indicators in your life. Money Grows on Trees Team

On this episode of Money Grows on Trees: the Podcast, host Lloyd Ross delves into the concept of Leading vs Lagging Indicators. The key point highlighted is the importance of focusing on specific actions rather than directly focusing on the result. Lloyd emphasizes that many people tend to prioritize lagging indicators such as weight loss or finding love, instead of focusing on the leading indicators that lead to those outcomes. Love is described as a lagging indicator, meaning that it requires positioning oneself to meet someone compatible before falling in love. Lloyd suggests that dating is the leading indicator of love and urges listeners to take action by going on multiple dates to increase the probability of finding someone with similar values. Money is another lagging indicator, often causing a struggle for those who prioritize it. Your Millionaire Money Mentor emphasizes that putting money first leads to little success, and instead, suggests focusing on developing skills and taking action to earn money. Weight loss is discussed as another lagging indicator, highlighting that the leading indicators of weight loss are healthy eating, exercise, and self-care. The importance of friendship is also emphasized, mentioning that friendship is a lagging indicator resulting from actively seeking social opportunities. Throughout the episode, Your Millionaire Money Mentor provides examples of both lagging and leading indicators in various contexts, such as inflation in the economy and the importance of developing skills for generating money. Lloyd urges listeners to prioritize leading indicators by focusing on actions and skills that can lead to success. Remember to share this podcast episode with a friend, send them the link, and leave a five-star review on Spotify. Remember, understanding the concept of Leading vs Lagging Indicators can significantly impact your mindset regarding money, success, and wealth. So tune in to this episode of Money Grows on Trees and discover the power of focusing on leading indicators in your life. Money Grows on Trees Team

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Check out these fun things: Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/calebhammer⁠  My socials: ⁠https://linktr.ee/calebhammer⁠  Do you want to be in a Financial Audit and you're in the Austin area? Email castingcalebhammer@gmail.com Sponsorship and business inquiries: calebhammer@creatorsagency.co  _______________________  Timestamps: 00:00 Lots of jobs 01:40 Saving money aside for taxes??? 02:56 How do you think your finances are? 03:34 Lots in, lots out... 04:20 Predatory private college... 06:00 Buying a home with her FRIENDS?!?!? 10:30 Credit cards 13:43 Financing through Affirm 14:40 Ubering for all transportation 15:48 NO SAVINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 17:14 You need to save money!!! 18:39 It's called SACRIFICE 19:59 You need to pay your mom back... 21:00 Is there anything invested?? 22:00 Risky single stocks 24:30 You're far behind... 28:15 Hammer Financial Score --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/calebhammer/support

Tim discusses visiting crumbling American cities for fun, Ubering to the writer's strike and  why the New York Times is writing about Ukrainian solider fashion. Pre-Order ‘Death By Boomers' By Tim Dillon

Danika and Nathan are back in studio to talk biopics, how they would act as news anchors, and Ubering to a hike.   Follow the show!    And the hosts: Danika Thibault Instagram / Twitter Nathan Hare Instagram / Twitter   Email us at forgiveuspod@gmail.com   

It's the Oscar and Robb Show and they discuss some changes in the air. They love the new plumbing show and talk about careless Ubering and 5 star ratings. We say goodbye to a Canadian troubadour and we quiz the youthful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Untold Stories from the Backseat! Here we will chat with local rideshare drivers and dive into what it's like to pick up strangers. Ubering home has never been this exciting! Ubering home with Amy. Amy Cole is a longtime resident of College Station, a devoted wife and mother, and probably the reason I... Read More → The post Ubering Home with Amy – Episode 1 appeared first on Podcasts for Aggies - AGCJ366.

Comedian CJ Landry tells us about growing up in Houma Louisiana and growing up in a small town where you see your childhood bully and ex girlfriends mom on the same block. What it was like moving to a city for the first time and doing comedy in a laundromat. How he made $800 dollars for his side hustle of "donating sperm" at the sperm bank. We dive into what CJ thinks of the Alamo & San Antonio as well as how he feels about monuments. CJ grew up eating all the Louisiana delicacies that can be fried and he shares his love for these foods that will eventually give him a heart attack. We breakdown Naked and afraid and the TV show "Alone" and what it is like to stand there naked in front of a girl. We talk about what it was like for CJ living in Los Angeles during the 2021 protests in 2021 and Ubering people around. What was the breaking point of leaving Los Angeles for greener pastures in Austin Texas. Enjoy! Follow and check out CJ on social media at @thecjlandry.

On today's episode, we are continuing my story from my W2 life all the way to building a successful real estate business. In part one of my story, we talked about losing my last W-2 job on February 26, 2019. The second part we talked about the mental breakdown and emotional journey that resulted from that loss. Today I want to talk about how I went from that point to real estate and getting my real estate license. I remember calling Andrew, who is now my team leader, and asking him about real estate. When he asked about banking, I told him the story of losing my job and how I had always been interested in being a mortgage lender. Real estate always interested me, but I never saw it as an option. Andrew filled me in on the good and the bad—what he loves and doesn't love about real estate. He had seen my gifts with people and relationships, as well as sales, and he thought there might be an opportunity for me in real estate. I saw it as something that I would love to do down the road…someday. I thought I'd look at getting licensed but get another W-2 job in the meanwhile. I went through this lull from February through June. I applied for a ton of jobs and had a ton of interviews with many banks in the area. I even talked to my old bank about a job and while they brought me in for several interviews, they always went with other candidates. I did everything I could to find another W-2 job—I had five to ten interviews a week. I was just trying to survive. I was concerned that we would lose our house and just not survive. My wife was working at the company that had just fired me and was due that September with a baby. There was a lot of pressure and stress. It was amazing the negative comments I got about not being able to provide—rude and obnoxious comments. I remember the haters and the doubters too well…but now they motivate me and I'm thankful for them, because they motivated me to prove them wrong. In June, my wife and I processed everything and felt like God had something different for me—I didn't know what the plan was, but I knew I trusted Him. I looked up the real estate classes and decided to sign up. The classes went from June to August, and I continued applying for jobs and interviewing in the meanwhile. I remember the last interview I had—I really thought I was going to get the job, but an internal candidate came in at the last minute and they gave the job to them. That was when we decided I would stop applying for jobs. I finished the classes, studied for the exams, and passed the state and national exams to be a Realtor. I remember Andrew telling me that if you want to be successful in real estate, you must put the effort in and be all in—that it was hard to be a part time Realtor. He encouraged me that if I wanted to do it that I should do it full-time and do anything I could to make money now. I literally was doing anything I could to make a dime—Ubering, DoorDash, Lyft. I would have to be really desperate to go back to that, but I was willing to do anything I could to provide for our family. Looking back, I can see how God provided for us and took care of us. We were able to pay our bills and keep the house. I felt like God wanted me to do real estate. Once I decided I was going to do real estate, I went all in, but that's a story for the next episode. So that was the lull I went through from February to June where I officially decided to do the real estate classes. In August I got licensed. On the next episode I'll talk more about that. Thank you for listening to my story and I look forward to seeing you on the next episode. Resources Free social media coaching calls are back! To schedule your free social media coaching call go to: https://calendly.com/realestatesurvivalguide/social-media-strategy-for-realtorsPodcast edited by Kenny...

OLD-SCHOOL ASSESSMENT MEETS MODERN CHALLENGESThis episode of the Fearless Mindset Podcast is the first part of our conversation with Aaron Mauldin, Owner of Katalyst Training Group and KTG Consulting. Aaron dives into his expertise in training management and executive protection and how he assesses and optimizes his clients' protection programs.He also shares his real-world experiences on how he helped his clients improve their security, protected HVAs, and defined security policies and procedures so that organizations can be better equipped to handle the challenges of modern-day executive protection. GOLDEN NUGGETSSometimes, full-time employees are the cause of problems - Aaron: "What happens is it was management because they didn't understand what EP operations are, the logistics, the customer support, and how for a proper detail to actually do their job. They were controlling the vehicles or they're making 'em stay at other hotels and now they're Ubering back and forth instead of having the vehicles allocated to grab them an hour early. When I went in, the hardest thing was discussing with the individual that hired me, given an assessment, that they are the problem."Defining the difference between security policies and procedures - Aaron: "Risk assessment is the foundation, the base of every protection detail. So you can write the SOPs—and policies and procedures and SOPs are two different things. The policies and procedures, there's an education point too, are dictated by the corporation or the family office or the security company, meaning that Aaron, if you fly for over six hours, you can book first class or you have to allocate this way when you're doing receipts or yada yada yada, where SOPs are your actual operating procedures when protecting that client."  Get to know more about Aaron:LinkedIn | WebsiteTo hear more episodes of The Fearless Mindset podcast, you can go to https://the-fearless-mindset.simplecast.com/ or listen to major podcasting platforms such as Apple, Google Podcasts, Spotify, etc. You can also subscribe to the Fearless Mindset YouTube Channel to watch episodes on video.

Big Lead @ Noon // Power outages and wind last night // Woman hit over the head with a rock waiting for a bus near Piroshky, Piroshky // GUEST:  News Nation Correspondent Ali Bradley on the border crisis after migrants tells her they're Ubering to the border from the Tijuana airportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Season 3. Ep 25. Dan's old aging body and his hard life, Stallone's divorce and other celeb gossip, the health of the human race's fate, the helmet debate, adventures of Ubering, and much more! 

We are joined by our friends Blyz and Sean Clay as we discuss Ubering to Maine from Philly, monkey shootings and top tier escort sites. 

Alex thinks Ubering drunks is his spiritual calling, Adrian gets emotionally patriotic over all the wrong things, Congressional Jan. 6 hearing gets a 20 share for sweeps week, China eyes eastern Russia, former Clinton-Epstein facilitator commits suicide by simultaneously hanging and shooting himself, and dropping your car insurance could save you $2 million.

Jake, Mike, Ali, and Eric bring you topics such as everyone's disdain for Mondays, oil cap alignments, CASH 4 CLUNKERS, security updates from the parent company that disrupt normal operations, red sheet rechecks, a broken Miata, and an exploded Explorer. Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Cast, IHeartRadio, YouTube and many other streaming platforms! Twitter and Instagram @Customer_States, Email us at CustomerStatesPodcast@gmail.com to send us a voice memo, Listener Mail, topic idea or picture, or to get your very own #SellTheBell and our Customer States… Stickers! Check out our website at www.CustomerStatesPodcast.com! Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/CustomerStatesPodcast, YouTube by searching Customer States… Podcast, and help support us at Anchor.fm/customerstates --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/customerstates/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/customerstates/support

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Lucky number 29! The boys have been out clubbing on Monday nights recently while the Pope is eating pizza and tweeting while pooping. Do you have a joke guy? Ask Tom's dad for his, maybe he'll be willing to share. The boys argue whether pizza is better dining in or taking out and also discuss whether or not they would be an Uber driver. Tom asks Beef to come up with 3 movie titles as he sketches out their new movie poster. The Boys wrap up the episode with another segment of "Tough Pills to Swallow". 

This is a clip from :The Untold Story of Braelyn Greenfield - Episode #192 w/ B. SimoneB.Simone's rise to stardom has been quite the journey. From her humble beginnings in Dallas, TX she has transitioned from an internet sensation to a businesswoman, entrepreneur, and household name. From Wild N' Out and Martin Lawrence's sold out tour to launching her B. Simone Beauty line, she has been able to connect to develop across a multitude of sectors. We sit down to discuss:- Why following her artistic passion instead of going the traditional route we're taught and programmed to pursue was a breakthrough for her.- The process behind BEING and how to unlock truth ABOUT WHO YOU ARE.- Her INFAMOUS “9-5 Comment” and it's connection to PURPOSE and the IDEAL LIFE.- Affirmations and Manifestation : How the laws of attraction TRULY work.- The SAUCE behind her B-SIMONE BEAUTY LINE (the patience, vision, and execution behind the brand).- Her NON-NEGOTIABLES in DATING.- How having a 7-FIGURE MONTH IN BUSINESS had an effect on her mentally and relationally.- Her ideas on influencer marketing and culture.And so much more!*** LAUNCH YOUR BUSINESS CORRECTLY WITH NEHEMIAH DAVIS' FAST LAUNCH BLUEPRINThttp://www.fastlaunchblueprint.com*** Join the Podcaster's Blueprint***http://www.podcastersblueprint.comBecome a part of our Patreon Family : https://www.patreon.com/DavidNeverSleeps⁣⁣Join David's Morning Meetup For Just $1⁣http://www.themorningmeetup.com⁣B. Simone on IG : https://www.instagram.com/thebsimoneDavid on IG http://www.instagram.com/sleepis4suckersAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Book formatting is one of the last things authors think about when creating their book. However, it's absolutely vital since that's where readers spend all their time. My guest today is here to help us get a handle on this critical area of success for your book. Jody Skinner is a proofreader, book designer, and avid reader. As founder of both Skinner Self-Publishing Services and Smidgen Press, she is living her best book-nerd life now. Both companies keep her hopping, from coaching first-time authors in the end stages of publishing to bringing old books back to life for the modern reader. A proud military spouse, Jody loves meeting new people, Ubering her three teens, and drinking just one more cup of Earl Grey. Puns are always appreciated. In this conversation, Jody helps us get a better handle on book formatting. She tackles such questions as: How important is attractive and professional-looking formatting to a book's success? What kinds of formatting programs are available to everyday writers? Why should we consider using the Vellum app? Check out the links below to connect with Jody on social media, buy her book, and discover more about Vellum: Try Vellum for 99 Cents Learn More About Jody's Self-Publishing Company, Skinner Self-Publishing Services Find Out More About Smidgen Press Purchase Jody's Book on Amazon Connect with Jody on Instagram Follow Jody on Facebook Check Out Smidgen Press on Facebook Discover Smidgen Press on Instagram *** Are you looking for a community of enthusiastic, generous writers to help you build better habits and grow your writing business? Check out our Daily Writer Community.  Check out our Daily Writing Prompts, which will help you break through creative blocks, brainstorm new ideas, and get back into a state of flow. Writing prompts are a fantastic creative tool for creative writing, journaling, teaching, social media posts, podcasting, and more! Connect with Kent:  https://DailyWriterLife.com  Facebook: https://facebook.com/kent.sanders  Instagram: https://instagram.com/kentsanders  LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kent-sanders  Twitter: https://twitter.com/kentsanders