Podcasts about unconventionally

Grant McAuley, (filling in for Mike Johnson), Beau Morgan, and Ali Mac react to Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper going viral after putting out a video on his social media showing how he brushes his teeth, talk about what other unconventional or weird tips and tricks they know and have maybe tried before, and then close out hour three by answering people's questions about anything in the Morning Mailbag!

On this episode of Vinyl Verdict, Adam and Jamie are joined once again by Dan Besser, who this time brings his own pick! Unconventionally, Dan's pick is a maxi-single called Payback Time by the The Dysfunctional Psychedelic Waltons. As far as we can tell, the song was created for an advertising campaign by Levi's Jeans in 2003. The single contains four versions of the song, remixed by different artists. We've never covered the same song, four different ways before, but we did cover singles all the way back in Season 1. Come along with us and have a little fun with Payback Time!

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As we enter Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Dominique is joined by Kristina Keller, author of Touch Your Tatas, to share her powerful journey of resilience, faith, and hope.Diagnosed on Valentine's Day 2024, Kristina's story is both deeply personal and universally inspiring. Whether you're facing breast cancer yourself, supporting someone who is, or simply seeking encouragement, her words will remind you of the strength of faith, love, and hope in the hardest of times.In this conversation, Dominique and Kristina discuss:Kristina's stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis on Valentine's Day.The rare “lace-like” cancer that mammograms missed and the importance of self-exams.Balancing traditional treatments with alternative approaches that provided hope.Her journey through a double mastectomy and learning self-acceptance.How faith, motherhood, and living fully guide her daily life.Kristina's advice for women on early detection and self-advocacy.For more on Kristina, follow her on:Facebook: http://facebook.com/TouchYourTaTasFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/kristinamkeller Blog: https://isaiah3816.blogspot.com/Book: https://a.co/d/famPD7Z This episode is brought to you by:Nature's Sunshine: Get 20% off your first order and free shipping by using checkout code FLOURISHING at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://naturessunshine.com Gruns: Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://gruns.co and use code FLOURISHING at checkout for up to 52% off your first order. Clean Simple Eats: Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://CleanSimpleEats.com and use code FLOURISHING20 at checkout for 20% off your first order.The Real Real: Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://TheRealReal.com/over50 to get an extra $100 site credit when you sell for the first timeLeesa: Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://Leesa.com and use promo code OVER50 for 25% off PLUS get an extra $50 off with promo code OVER50Keep in Touch:Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://dominiquesachse.tv/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://dominiquesachse.tv/book/Insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/dominiquesachse/Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/DominiqueSachse/TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@dominiquesachse?lang=enYouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@dominiquesachsetvHave a question for Dominique? Submit it here for a chance to have it answered on the show! https://forms.gle/MpTeWN1oKN8t18pm6 Interested in being featured as a guest? Please email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠courtney@dominiquesachse.tv⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ We want to make the podcast even better. Help us learn how we can: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.Produced by Dear Media.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Mike Feeney is funny, has fantastic hair, and deserves to be on television. A debate is sparked about which comedians are classically and unconventionally good looking. Bobby contends that Chris Distefano's features are a little off-kilter and no one agrees with him. In trying to name attractive comedians, Colin Jost's fitness came into question. For some reason, Christine believes that she can beat up Scarlett Johansson in a street fight. Mike Feeney is looking for a podcast co-host on his podcast called "Co-Host Wanted." @immikefeeney for clips and tour information. *To hear the full show to go www.siriusxm.com/bonfire to learn more FOLLOW THE CREW ON SOCIAL MEDIA: @thebonfiresxm @louisjohnson @christinemevans @bigjayoakerson @robertkellylive @louwitzkee @jjbwolfSubscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of The Bonfire ad-free and a whole week early.  Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.

Watch the screenplay reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_akiPTQU9g Two strangers meet and sparks fly, but when he accidentally discovers forged paintings at her house, he leaves abruptly. That would be the end of their story except for the fact that he's reported her to the FBI, and their children are marrying one another on Christmas day. https://instagram.com/drjannajones Get to know the writer: What is your screenplay about? It's about two successful fifty-somethings who have had good lives but have avoided relationships because of the pain they experienced when they were younger. Because they are forced to spend time together, due to their children marrying one another, they eventually have to come to terms with the fact that they are flawed humans who care for one another. What genres does your screenplay fall under? The Art of the Matter is a romantic comedy and a holiday adventure. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? Because it is an original take on the holiday movie, blending a Christmas romance with road trip adventure with heartfelt family drama. How would you describe this script in two words? Unconventionally conventional How long have you been working on this screenplay? I've been working on it for almost a year. I did a zoom script reading with you some months ago, and the feedback I got from the actors inspired me. It seemed to mean a lot of them, but listening to it, it was clear I still had work to do on it, and you mentioned a few things that made me think I still had a bunch to think about and rework. I've revised it multiple times since the reading. It may be getting close considering that the script won at this festival. Subscribe to the podcast: https://twitter.com/wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/ https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod

On today's episode Laura chats with her dear friend Amanda Lyon on her decision to raise her children (now teenagers) unconventionally. Amanda discusses her life as a stay at home mom, the plan and path her and her husband chose when they got married, home births, home schooling, not medicalizing her children, and choosing to be fully present in her children's lives everyday over a career. Links:Register for the Workshop: Strong + Nourished: A New Approach to 35+Get Wild + Well-Fed Magnesium!___________Submit your questions to be answered on the show to wildwellfed@gmail.comLaura's Info:Instagram: @wildlyonswellnessWebsite: www.wildlyonswellness.comAmanda's Info:Instagram: @mamalyontamerCourse + Products:Wild + Well-Fed Course -  Listeners get $50 off with code PODCAST Wild + Well-Fed Shop - Coffee, Matcha, and Sea SaltRewild Your Gut Course Interested in becoming a client and working with me?Learn more about the process at www.wildlyonswellness.com or email me at wildwellfed@gmail.com

$1000 Minute advantage (0:07), what the fact (2;00), Peter's cranky because of shady people? (8:45), What's Trending: Nelly in Halifax tonight, NSLC & Costco food courts (22:38), Password To Paradise Winner (30:30), $1000 Minute (33:40), people you find unconventionally sexy (42:00), Foodie Friday: Mince Meat Pie (51:20), Mindbender: Over the last 40 years, the # of people doing this has dropped by 70% (1:01) Follow us on Instagram: @MOVE100Halifax, @ErinHopkinsFM & @PeterAtMove100

In this special episode of Soul Inspired Girl, Laura sits down with her son, Ben, for an intimate and insightful conversation about carving out an unconventional life path. Recorded in September 2024 and released in March 2025, this episode explores what it means to live authentically, make sovereign choices, and embrace the courage to be different.   Ben, now 22, shares his journey of growing up in a holistic, conscious family, navigating life's transitions, and learning to trust his own intuition as he strikes out on his own in British Columbia. Together, Laura and Ben reflect on childhood experiences, alternative health approaches, life in Costa Rica, and the ever-evolving quest for purpose and alignment.   What We Cover in This Episode: ✨ Growing up in a holistic home: food, health, and unconventional choices ✨ The power of community and surrounding yourself with aligned people ✨ Trusting your gut and following intuition—even when it's scary ✨ Ben's experience of living in Costa Rica and why he ultimately chose to return to BC ✨ How childhood lessons shape our adult lives ✨ The importance of embracing uncertainty and walking your unique path   Key Takeaways:

Part 2 of AYCH's Awards for 2024 is here! Listen to Colt, Wenzel and Tanner as they discuss their top games of 2024! Unconventionally! And light spoilers* ahead! *Spoiler warning for Life is Strange: Double Exposure between 49:16 to 51:00 so just skip to 51:00. ----------------------------------- Go listen to Part 1 of our Awards Show (Best Songs of 2024): https://soundcloud.com/aychpodcast/episode-378-best-songs-of-2024?si=512858ca3e9b412b8b445b177d46e616&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing ----------------------------------- Catch up on all of Season 8's episodes here: soundcloud.com/aychpodcast/sets/aych-season-8-2024 ----------------------------------- Check out the entire AYCH Podcast Network! ► Caging Greatness - Nicolas Cage movie review Podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cagi…ss/id1553303334 Want even more AYCH shows? Check out our full catalog playlists! soundcloud.com/aychpodcast/sets ►►► Backlog BoyZ: Video Game Discussion Podcast! ►►► The Instruction Booklet: Video Game History Podcast! ----------------------------------- Twitch/Podcast Archive YT: www.youtube.com/@AYCHPodcast If you like what we're doing here, don't forget to leave us a review! You can also follow us on all of our social media below and tell us how we're doing: -- Bluesky: @aychpodcast.bsky.social -- Instagram: @aychpodcast -- TikTok: @aychpodcast -- Twitch: AllYouCanHear Leave us some suggestions in our Suggestion Box as well! goo.gl/forms/AHetCWQ2m7tHDigg1

"We want to try and live by our values, but run as a fledgling studio at the same time. It's that balance between ensuring revenue comes in and taking on clients aligned with those values." - Pennybridge PennyBridge is an unconventionally professional creative studio based in Palm Beach, Gold Coast, Australia. Founded by Paul Balfe and Kyle Tillman, who merged their individual freelance practices, the studio specializes in branding, packaging, illustration, and various design services. They discuss their journey as generalists in the design industry, the challenges of balancing creativity with business demands, and their approach to maintaining a unique brand identity while delivering high-quality work to clients.Key Takeaways:Embracing a unique identity: PennyBridge emphasizes the importance of leaning into who they are as a studio, which has become their "superpower" in attracting the right clients.Process is crucial: They've developed a refined process that helps them navigate client relationships and creative challenges, often leading to first-round approvals.Balancing generalism and specialization: As generalists, they face the challenge of keeping up with industry trends while maintaining their core strengths.Work-life balance struggles: The team acknowledges the difficulty in separating work from personal life, especially as passionate creatives and business owners.Client selection: They've learned to be more selective with clients, focusing on those who align with their values and work style.Location challenges and opportunities: Being based outside major cities presents both challenges in perception and opportunities to carve a unique path.Continuous evolution: PennyBridge emphasizes the importance of adapting their processes and strategies as they grow and face new challenges.Team dynamics: The founders complement each other's skills, with Paul focusing more on business strategy and Kyle on creative direction.Brand presentation: They've found success in creating engaging brand presentations, including videos, to effectively communicate their ideas to clients.Future planning: The studio is working on developing long-term strategies and relationships with clients to ensure sustainable growth. Creativity For Sale: How to start and grow a life-changing creative career and business by Radim Malinic - Out now. Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFcFree audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/8r2eSAQSigned books https://novemberuniverse.co.ukLux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/ (Use: PODCAST for 15% off)November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

Shiv interviews Devin Mathews, Partner at ParkerGale Capital. Shiv and Devin discuss how ParkerGale invests in smaller companies that many firms would consider ‘too hard'. Learn how Devin and his team view potential challenges as value creation opportunities, and how they prioritize their resources in portfolio companies post-close. Plus, hear how to avoid buying the right company at the wrong valuation, how to minimize investment risk, and the value of setting realistic expectations for your return. If you find the podcast helpful, please leave a rating or review. The information contained in this podcast is not intended to constitute, and should not be construed as, investment advice.

There's been a new trend in Gen Z going around about 'hot rodent boys'. Basically the style that's in at the moment is looking like a scrawny rat. We reveal the things that we also find unconventionally attractive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a Text Message.Kimberly's unconditional desire to self educate lured her across the world to work as a cellar hand in Australia. She then jumped off to Napa to catch one more harvest that year before she landed at Hedges Family Estate in Washington. Countless flights and memorable conversations about the world of wines drew Kimberly back to restaurants. She has  worked in the best of the best in New York—storied places such as Terroir, Hearth, Marseille, Café D'Alsace, Maialino, Marta and Blue Hill at Stone Barns. Check out the website: www.drinkingonthejob.com for great past episodes. Everyone from Iron Chefs, winemakers, journalist and more.

The guys break down the loss of privacy in the age of A.I. and the common argument of "If you haven't done anything wrong then what do you have to hide?" Also, what happened to pocket lint? Why did it disappear all of a sudden? Conspiracy??? (probably not) Are you afraid of the dark, anti-Matt Lauer, and be good to people. They are THOSEGUYSYOUHATE!https://trymintmobile.com/thoseguyshttps://trykeen.com/thoseguys

Their continued war against Google and Apple (that they're losing badly), the guys discuss how these companies hold your memories hostage until you pay. A very strange Happy Death Day! and arguing on behalf of OJ Simpson? Making positive changes, everything is subscription based, and yet another argument. They are THOSEGUYSYOUHATE!https://betterhelp.com/thoseguys

Unconventionally, romance, movies Once bitten Mr. and Mrs. Smith Her Lars and the real girl Punch drunk love Crazy stu pid love Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind Scott pilgrim vs the world Lobster Run Lola Run Lost in translation Silver linings playbook Phantom thread

I'm not giving average ways for you to love yourself, how cliche! Let's dig deeper with these quick tips. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/niani-peebles/support

Join Caroline Stanbury in this insightful podcast as she candidly explores the art of navigating the tumultuous teenage years. Drawing from her own experiences and unique perspective, Caroline shares valuable insights on unconventional approaches to parenting, including how she would raise a baby differently from traditional norms. Get ready for honest conversations and practical advice on understanding and connecting with teenagers, as well as challenging the status quo in parenting.Produced by Dear MediaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

[00:02:59] Unconventional hiring strategy: trust-based recruitment success. [00:05:11] CEO Jeff runs the business day-to-day, while the Matt focuses on product and marketing. Trust is crucial for high-performance teams. Trust is built through interactions and time. Hiring someone in a leadership position requires trust. [00:10:58] Recruiter found experienced operator for venture fund. [00:13:19] Profits interest for celebrities, no shares. Need VP-level protege. Compensation and thoughts on 300k? [00:17:02] Unique advantages attract top talent, not just money. [00:22:24] Culture-driven team with focus on results. Hesitant about expanding meetings and remote work. [00:30:52] Culture impacts meetings. Record them. No agenda, cancel the meeting. [00:31:47] Work culture: meetings, time, collaboration, and trust. [00:37:19] Leadership matters whether remote or in person. [00:39:44] Culture influences performance, but meetings increase with more employees. It's a constant balancing act. [00:41:57] Values and consistency are key to success in an organization. [00:46:24] Work expands to fill time: reduce it. [00:51:07] Set time limits, make decisions, move forward. [00:53:03] Positive feedback on a great idea. In the world of eCommerce, a legendary WhatsApp group is rumored to hold the secrets to unimaginable success. The catch? You must have nine figures in revenue to gain entry. The world's biggest brands have denied its existence for years, until now. Three titans known as "Operators" are leaking the secret contents in an effort to share their wealth of knowledge with people like you. Powered By: Northbeam. https://www.northbeam.io/ Sendlane. https://learn.sendlane.com/operators Fulfil.io. https://bit.ly/3pAp2vu Visit Our Website: https://www.9operators.com/ Follow us on Twitter: Sean (Host) https://twitter.com/SeanEcom Jason (Host) https://twitter.com/JasonPanzer Matt (Host) https://twitter.com/mbertulli Mike (Host) https://twitter.com/mikebeckhamsm Finn (Producer) https://twitter.com/finn_radford Northbeam (Partner) https://twitter.com/northbeam Fulfil.io (Partner) https://twitter.com/fulfilio Sendlane (Partner) https://twitter.com/Sendlane We Rise Together. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/9operators/message

Lyft, Tumblr, Flickr: How does naming strategy impact consumers' beliefs about a brand and their willingness to support it? Read an in-depth recap of this research here: https://www.ama.org/2023/04/25/lyft-tumblr-flickr-how-do-consumers-respond-to-unconventionally-spelled-brand-names/ Read the full Journal of Marketing article here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00222429231162367 Reference: John P. Costello, Jesse Walker, and Rebecca Walker Reczek, “‘Choozing' the Best Spelling: Consumer Response to Unconventionally Spelled Brand Names,” Journal of Marketing. Narrator: Saira Salyani Acknowledgments: Aman Soni Topics: branding, brand names, linguistics, persuasion knowledge, brand personality, sincerity, marketing

We discuss the unorthodox way that Nikola Jokic is dominating the NBA after the Nuggets won their first NBA title last night. Dan Woike from the LA Times puts a bow on the NBA Finals and talks Lakers/Clippers drafts. Dodgers manager, Dave Roberts, joins us

One thing I absolutely LOVE about this industry is that there are so many different ways to do this business. I don't care what your compensation model is, if you do traditional planning, reverse planning, fee-only…. Whatever your special sauce is— the one thing that is common amongst all types of business models is the need to make it scalable. And to me, scaling a business is increasing your capacity so that you can increase revenue, without necessarily adding in more of your time and without sacrificing your margins long term. Meaning, you can build a business that you love. That honors how you want to do life. That brings you joy and happiness and all the things… without consuming every moment. Without you being tethered to your phone all weekend or checking email during the kids' soccer games. You know what I mean. The business that allows you to live out your passion and serve clients in the way you want to that makes you feel good.Today I want to introduce you to a coaching client of mine… Trent. What Trent is doing with his business is so cool, so interesting, and scalable. What I love about Trent's business model is that he took what he loved, eliminated what he didn't, found his groove, and really went for it. I think his story might just inspire you to think outside the box a bit when it comes to building your business and your offerings.--------------------------------LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:Connect with Trent on Twitter here!Connect with Trent on LinkedIn here!Planning Tool Trent mentioned - NewRetirementCustodian Trent Mentioned: AltruistBook Mention: Built to Sell by John WarrilowGet on the Systems to Scale Group Coaching Waitlist Here!Successful businesses don't get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.comLooking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode's webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!

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Buckle down Experiment Nation, because we've got a treat of an episode for you. Today, we have the one and only Shawn Moore, Founder and CEO of Vodyssey, THE NUMBER ONE vacation rental investing education company in the world. Shawn and his team are dedicated to helping individuals achieve a lifestyle of financial freedom by providing resources and guidance that gets you to the top! But here's the kicker - Shawn didn't start out on top. In fact, he lost everything at one point during 2008, and made an even worse decision before that, selling ALL his 52 single family rental properties. But he bounced back stronger than ever by niching down to short-term rentals, and elevating that further into the global investing education that he has today. After 22 years in the game, Shawn has been through it all, and he is clearly qualified to talk about the pitfalls, challenges, and the tactics to make it in the real estate investing world. We got into the nitty-gritty of what separates successful people, and how building your self-identity is key to achieving your goals. And that's just the tip of it, we also dive deep into how his programs educate other investors into really getting started, and narrowing down your goals into a laser-focus precision. If you believe that vacation rentals are a great vehicle towards financial freedom, this episode with Shawn is the validation (and game plan) you've been looking for. Settle in, and get ready to learn from a true practitioner. Watch and listen to Shawn spill all the vacation rental investing knowledge you could ever want, while wearing the coolest cowboy hat to boot. Saddle up and let's build! HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EPISODE: 30:18 How to really build wealth 14:52 What separates successful people KEEPING IT REAL: 2:49 What does Shawn do? 4:07 You're not an investor unless 8:57 From losing it all in 2008 to STR niche 13:10 Marker 14:52 What separates successful people 18:56 If there's something you don't want to do 21:04 Ad 26:54 Building your self-identity 28:24 Do people know how to build wealth 30:18 How to really build wealth 33:25 What is Vodyssey's blueprint 37:19 Leveraging third-party asset management 39:17 Economies of scale with management 42:06 The more clear you are on your goals 45:37 What's next for Vodyssey 47:47 What an owner needs to understand NOTABLE QUOTE (KEY LESSONS): “You're not an investor if you don't actually own investments.” – Shawn Moore CONNECT WITH THE GUEST Website: https://www.lifestyleassetuniversity.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vodysseyofficial/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-moore-393454173 Get Your Airbnb Millionaire Blueprint: https://experimentrealestate.com/#blueprint Get coached on how you can repurpose your existing home or investment property into an Airbnb with me: https://experimentrealestate.com/hospitable-hosts Guesty Unique Link: https://hosts.guesty.com/?=therealestateexperiment Hospitable Hosts book: https://amzn.to/3e4LEhE Apply for an American Express Card with this link: http://refer.amex.us/RUBENKr8et?xl=cp01&mpt=v0 #vacationrentalinvesting #airbnbinvesting #shorttermrentals #financialfreedom #propertyinvesting

This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Latrice Latin. Latrice was a single mother, and law firm owner for over 13 years. She finished law school with one child and had a crazy career ride going from working for a firm to starting her own firm, all while navigating motherhood.Latrice has secured millions in settlements for her personal injury clients over the span of her career.  She works hard for her clients and gets the results that are needed on their behalf. She has recently established a virtual law firm which allows for efficiency and easy access for her clients through the pandemic. She has recently taken on representing misdemeanor criminal clients for low rates to help them keep their records clean.01:30 Meet Latrice 05:30 Running your law firm virtually --- the pros and cons of it!09:57 How to get everything set up?! 17:23 Fulfilling your destiny … even when things are unconventional 25:04 Finding balance as a single mom 28:23 Taking care of mental health and self care … making sure you take the time

Matthew 5:1-12 You Are Unconventionally Blessed I. Blessed in Relation to God II. Blessed in Relation to Others

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*Trigger Warning: This episode contains sensitive discussion topics including infant loss, miscarriage, preterm delivery, and hemorrhaging.*Lizzy has a passion for all things birth and babies as reflected in her amazing 10 kiddos! Her birth stories in order are as follows: an emergency C-section, VBAC, RCS, VBAC, HBAC, VBAC, HBAC, RCS, and a twin RCS. Though Lizzy has chosen to birth differently than most, she has always made sure to do what her intuition has felt is best and what she and her husband felt was right for their family. Through the highs and lows, every decision was made from a place of peace, not fear. We want all women to feel confident in the birth decisions they make. The VBAC Link is here to provide you with the education and resources to do just that!Additional LinksHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull Transcript under Episode DetailsFull TranscriptMeagan: Hello, hello. This is still 2023. I cannot believe it. I am sitting here right now recording and we're just getting into the holiday season thinking that this is going to be airing in 2023 and it's just crazy to me. I cannot believe that 2023 is here. Today, we have quite the stories for you. And guess what? We have a special cohost and it's Paige, our transcriber, and a dear VBAC Link family member. So excited to have you with us, Paige. This story is even close to your heart because this is your family. Paige: Yes, this is my sister-in-law, Lizzy. Meagan: Yes, so exciting. You guys, I can't even tell you. I'm sitting here looking at her notes right here and she has so many stories and they're all different like, crazy, crazy different. But Paige is going to do the review and then we'll get started.Review of the WeekPaige: Yes, I am. So my review comes from an email sent to us just a few days ago which is so exciting. It's from molly and she says, “Hi there. My name is Molly Marshall and I just wanted to reach out and send a review of the pod. I've been listening for quite some time now since I had my first baby in August of 2020 via C-section. It was absolutely the opposite experience that I was expecting to have mixed with a scary pandemic. “After that, I began listening to your podcast just to hear other women's stories who had gone through similar experiences. This made me feel a lot less alone. Once we decided to try for a second baby, I began listening to the pod even more frequently on top of lots of other research and such. Just last week, on Wednesday, I welcomed my second baby boy via successful VBAC. I give so much credit to your podcast and what you're doing because it was the driving force and motivator for me to push for my VBAC and I'm so, so glad I did. It was truly a redemption story and I'm so thankful for the work you're doing. I told so many people about the podcast and I hope to be able to help any friends of mine explore VBAC too if they desire. Please don't stop sharing these stories. It means the absolute world to those of us listening. After my second birth, I just want to scream it from the rooftops that VBAC is totally possible even if feels overwhelming and out of reach. Needless to say, I love your podcast and you've changed my life. Thank you so much. -Molly” Meagan: Oh. When I saw this review come in, I got teary-eyed. I really got teary-eyed. It meant so much and I'm so happy for her and so happy for everyone who's listening. Even if it doesn't end in a VBAC or even if that decision through listening to the podcast isn't to go for a VBAC, if there's any just even slight, one tiny little thing that The VBAC Link can bring to you whether it's empowerment, education, whether it's processing something through learning, whatever it is, that just warms my heart so to hear that review, I love it. Thank you so much, Molly. As always, we're always accepting more reviews to read on the podcast. You can really submit it anyway. She submitted it through an email. You can send it to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or you can go to Google or you can go to Facebook or just send us a message on Instagram. Whatever it may be, we love your reviews. I seriously, I'm not kidding. I wish I could have had– you know the Taylor Swift TikTok thing where the mom is dancing and the kid is recording but it's really recording them? I wish I could have had that because I wish I could really portray the emotion that I was feeling reading this review. Paige: So sweet. Meagan: Oh, it was amazing. So thank you so much. Lizzy's StoriesMeagan: Hello, hello VBAC listeners. This is Meagan here. I just wanted to drop a quick trigger warning in today's episode. It does contain some details and verbiage that may be triggering or alarming to the listening ear. Okay, Lizzy. Lizzy: Hi. Meagan: Hi. Thank you so much for being with us today. I cannot wait to hear about all of your incredible births. And you guys, when I say all, I want to say that she has 10 kids. 10 kiddos. Isn't that amazing? I love it so much. I love being a mom. I don't know if I could do it with 10 kids. It takes a special person, Lizzy. You are incredible and I can't wait to hear about all of these births. Lizzy: Thank you. Perfect. Well, I guess I'll just start from the beginning. I had my first baby in December 2011 and I was horribly uneducated. I didn't even know what the birth process looked like or anything really. My husband is the oldest of 9 kids and his mom is very pro-natural birth. She had her last two babies at home with only her and her husband there and so my husband was very pro-natural birth, but we were still newly married and trying to figure out how to talk to each other. You know, have communication. So I was about 10 days overdue with my first baby. I went into a doctor's appointment and they were like, “Yeah, everything looks good but do you want to be induced? Usually, by now, women are begging me to get the baby out of them.” I was content and pretty happy, but I was like, “Oh. I guess meeting my baby might be a really cool thing,” so I was like, “Sure, let's do this.” I wanted it to be a little less invasive, but like I said, I wasn't super educated. My husband was like, “Maybe we should try to do as little as possible.” I was like, “Okay.” So we checked into the hospital the next day and they broke my water which, I remember it's like a legitimate crochet hook. They came in and opened the package and I was like, “That's a crochet hook.” They're like, “Um, it's a medical instrument.” I was like, “No, it's not. That is just a crochet hook from JoAnn's.” But anyways, so they broke my water, and then I just chilled for lots of hours and didn't have any labor. Nothing happened. So then they came in and they were like, “We're going to put you on some Pitocin to see if we can get things moving.” So they put me on Pitocin and every time I had a contraction, his heart rate started to drop. So then they got really nervous understandably and it had been lots of hours since they had broken my water and they were worried about infection. It was just the classic cascade of interventions, so we ended up doing an emergency C-section. It turns out, well, this is what we assume. I wasn't actually in the womb to know what was happening, but he had this huge dent on his forehead like he wasn't lined up in the birth canal right like his forehead just kept getting caught on my pelvis. But he was 10 pounds, 11 ounces and he was just this big baby. Then that was his birth. I had been told that nursing counted as birth control which is not true. Anyone listening, that is such a lie. Meagan: But so many people think that though. Just FYI, they really do. You're not alone out there. Lizzy: Right? So 3 months later, I was pregnant again. I remember it had been 3 months. I turned to my husband and I was like, “Did I have a period this month?” He was like, “I don't know.” And then I took a pregnancy test and I was pregnant. I was like, “Oh, there we go.” That's when I really started getting into VBACs and birthing and getting educated. I gained a lot of weight with my first pregnancy like 40-50 pounds. So with my second pregnancy, I followed the gestational diabetes diet because when I tested, I wasn't officially gestational diabetic, but I was right on the border, so I was like, “Maybe there's a margin of error and I probably am.” So I followed the diet and I maybe moderately exercised, but probably not. Mostly just dieted. And then I went into labor on my– oh no, that's right. Sorry, I have to remember. There are a lot of stories. Meagan: There are so many, yeah. Lizzy: I also did HypnoBabies last minute because I was like, “Wait a minute. I want to do this VBAC, but I have no education really.” And so I started listening to HypnoBabies and going through that whole program. Then one day, I decided to walk home from church because I was so sick and tired of having this baby in me. I was, I think, a few days overdue. For some reason, we had expected him to come early, but he just wasn't. So I powerwalked as fast as I possibly could for half a mile, three-quarters of a mile until I was so sore, I almost couldn't walk anymore. I got home and I contracted a little bit, and then it all petered out and I went to bed. I woke up the next morning and just was contracting throughout the day, just gradually building. It was the perfect labor story kind of and then that night, I was like, “Okay. It's time to go to the hospital.” We actually called my mother-in-law to come down because we wanted her to help us labor because she was so pro-birth and we just wanted an extra person in our court. My husband was so supportive. We were laboring and it just was going. Every time, I was like, “This is awful. Give me an epidural,” my husband was like, “No. It's okay. We can do this. Just keep breathing. One more contraction and then just face the next contraction.” We really worked through it together and it was a really beautiful experience. My mother-in-law was really awesome. My husband was sitting on a rolling stool while I contracted and every time I contracted, I basically just headbutted him on that rolling stool. He was trying really hard to give me counterpressure, but that's really hard on a rolling stool, so my mother-in-law just stood behind him and braced him the whole time. She didn't say anything. She just was there making sure the process could continue and it was so wonderful for my husband and I to do this really hard thing together. It was so bonding and beautiful for us that that's part of what we love most about vaginal birthing is just the relationship builder it is to be able to go through something so hard and painful together and do that. And then he came out. It was a VBAC and he was 8 pounds, 2 ounces. His was just the classic, what you read about in a textbook how a baby is born vaginally. That was awesome and we were so excited about that. We had done it and there was all of this joy and it was so happy. I healed faster and I felt better. And then I had a miscarriage pretty early on, I think 6-8 weeks. Right after the miscarriage, I got pregnant. I did not watch my diet. I did not exercise. I gained a lot of weight and finally, I was two weeks overdue. Actually, I was a week overdue and they were like, “Hey, maybe we should think about doing something.” I was like, “No.” I was seeing midwives and I was like, “I need to give it the whole two weeks. I have to know that if I wouldn't have waited a little bit longer, if it wouldn't have just happened.” I really pushed them all the way to the two weeks and then I just never went into labor.Actually, that's not true. A few days before, I had hard labor for 3-4 hours and then stopped and nothing else. Except for those couple of hours, nothing had happened. I felt nothing. Finally, I went in and we did a planned C-section. She was 10 pounds, 14 ounces. I think my body was just like, “Um, friend? I'm not sure I can do this. This is a really big baby.”There was that and then on my fourth baby, I learned my lesson and I went back to my diet and my exercising. I went into labor on my own and went to the hospital. I'm a very vocal laborer. I yell and I moan and I say mean things about the baby when I'm in transition. My midwife was getting really nervous because she had never seen me labor. She had been there for my C-section baby, but she had never seen me in active labor. She kept turning to my husband and saying, “Is this normal? Is she having a uterine rupture? How do I know what this pain level is?” My husband was like, “No, no. She's okay. This is just how she does it.” But she was super nervous. She kept pushing me to try different positions and it wasn't my favorite birth. She ended up having me lie on my side with one knee pulled up high to deliver the baby and I just didn't love that position. It wasn't terribly comfortable, but the baby came out and we had a VBAC and everything was happy. That was awesome. And then my next pregnancy was a set of twins. I had a subchorionic hemorrhage and I bled a lot. I would wake up regularly in the morning with blood stains the size of cereal boxes on my bed. Meagan: Oh my gosh. Lizzy: I would call my provider and be like, “Hey, I'm bleeding,” and they were like, “Well, as long as you don't have any cramping, you're fine. Bleeding's okay. Cramping is bad so when the two of them happen together, call us.” But I just was bleeding so much and it was so weird. I remember just feeling like these babies were going to come early. I just had this feeling. I remember counting down to viability because I was like, “Oh good. At least now, I know they can make it if I deliver.”A few days before they were born, I started passing really big clots, and then a few days later– oh, and I had gone into labor and so I went into the hospital, and by the time I got checked in and lay down and had all the cords hooked up, they were like, “You're not in labor anymore.” I felt like an idiot because I was like, “I've already had four kids. I know what labor is,” but they were like, “Make sure you've labored for at least an hour with strong contractions before you come back in.”I felt very patronized and patted on the head and sent back to bed. I just felt humiliated. I went home and I was like, “That's it. I'm not going back unless it happens for two hours because I'm not doing that again.” Getting sent home from the hospital is the worst thing ever. It's happened to me a couple of times and I just hate it. So then a few days later, I started going into labor again. I was like, “Okay.” So I drank lots of water. I lay down on my left side. I took a shower. My husband was trying to get our kids in bed because we had four other kids and they must have known something was up because they were being awful and super rowdy. So finally, we just locked them in their rooms. My husband came to check on me and I was still laboring. I was like, “You know what? It's been two hours. I think we should go.” It was actually funny. I remember going to him after about an hour of labor and being like, “Ugh, I just don't like this baby anymore. This hurts so bad. I don't want to do this anymore.” He chuckled and said, “Haha, it sounds like you're in transition.” We both laughed and then I went back to my room and kept laboring because, in my mind, there was no way you could have a baby in two hours. It just wasn't possible. I went back to my room and he finished up with the kids and then I was like, “Okay. It's time to go to the hospital.” So we called our babysitters which were these three little girls that lived across the street, these sisters that were 9, 8, and 7. They came over and they were sitting in the front room. I was like, “Okay. I need to go to the bathroom. I think I'm having some gas cramps. I'm going to see if I can work something out.” My husband knew because the same thing had happened to his mom when she felt like she needed to go to the bathroom and had a baby. He was like, “Wait. I know what this means,” so he followed me, and all of a sudden, I was like, “This is not right.” I started pushing and I was like, “Oh my goodness, something is coming out of me. Honey, what is happening?”I stood up and the baby fell out. My husband just caught him right before he hit the water.Meagan: Oh my gosh. Lizzy: But I was 23 weeks and 6 days. So he was a pound and a half. His entire body fit in my husband's hand. His head was the size of a clementine. He was just so little. I remember my husband laid down– Meagan: Way preterm. Way preterm. Lizzy: Way too early. I remember he laid me down in the shower and put the baby on my lap. We just all of a sudden were like, “Okay. What do we do now?” He was moving and it looked like he was grunting, but we couldn't really tell if he was breathing or not so we called 911. The amazing thing was as we were figuring out what to do, we just felt so peaceful. We're very religious and we just felt like God was like, “It's okay. It's okay. Now you should call an ambulance.” Meagan: Wow, I'd be like, “Ahh!”Lizzy: I know and that's what I expected, but we both took a deep breath and were like, “Okay, now let's call 911. We can do this.” So we called them and the paramedics get here. We've totally forgotten about our babysitters so these paramedics just come in through the front door. These little girls are like, “Um, what's going on?” They come back to our bedroom and it seemed like it took them forever for me to get on the stretcher and out to the ambulance. I think they were waiting to see if I was going to deliver my other baby because twins usually come pretty fast in succession. I remember laying there being like, “Why aren't you taking me? Why are we just sitting here? My baby is maybe not breathing. Can we get a move-on here?” But as soon as I got my first twin out, twin A out, my body just stopped. I don't know. It just didn't need to contract anymore. It was like it just turned off. They got me in the ambulance. There was a hospital just a couple of blocks from our house, but it was a very small hospital. I think they had a NICU, but it was for 37-week babies who needed help with breathing. It was not well-equipped for this situation. They took me to the OR. They cut the cord and whisked twin A off and tried to get him breathing. It ended up taking about an hour to get him oxygen because they didn't have any neonatologists there. They just had pediatricians. So he was on the phone with the neonatologist trying to figure out how to intubate this pound-and-a-half baby. Meagan: Holy cow. So baby was breathing, but not well, not enough.Lizzy: Yes, that's my memory. Meagan: So they had to really help this baby's undeveloped lungs to breathe and give baby oxygen. Lizzy: Yeah. He was not going to survive on his own. He was not going to make it without intubation. But then I never delivered the placenta so they just sanitized the part of the cord that was hanging out and shoved it back in.Meagan: What! Lizzy: They wanted to keep the other baby in as long as possible, so they didn't want to induce labor to get the placenta out. They were like, “You know what? We're just going to put this back in and see what happens,” because everyone figured that probably within 24 hours, I was having my other baby. They gave me all of the shots. The magnesium, the steroids, and everything. Magnesium is awful. My whole body felt like I was on fire, from the inside out burning. I don't like magnesium, but I understand its purpose. Meagan: Yeah, it has a purpose, but it definitely makes you feel crummy. Lizzy: Yeah. So then they transferred me to a different hospital and they just watched me. They were like, “Okay.” It had been 24 hours and I hadn't had the baby and they were like, “Well, I guess we're just going to check you into–” I think it was labor and delivery and they were like, “You're just going to chill here until you have a baby.” Meagan: Just curious, so they didn't transfer you, right? Lizzy: They did after. Meagan: For baby number two, they transferred you to a better hospital. Lizzy: Yes. Once they had me stabilized and realized that I wasn't having another baby in the time it took to get to the hospital, they sent me. They transferred me. Meagan: Let's get you to a place that can handle a 23-week birth. Lizzy: A micro-preemie, yeah. And as soon as they had Cayden, twin A, stabilized and had him intubated, they transferred him too by life flight because they couldn't help him there. Meagan: Okay, gotcha. Lizzy: So then, I was in the hospital for 11 days before I delivered my second twin. Paige: With four kids at home. Lizzy: Yeah. My husband was working and trying to play mom to four kids. He definitely had the hard job. I mean, I was sitting in that hospital room for 11 days making homemade thank-you cards and making jewelry and I was like, “This is amazing. This is like a mom-cation. This is awesome.” I'd go sit and look at my baby. I mean, it was a little scary, but it honestly was really relaxing. I felt so bad for my husband because he was doing everything and was holding it together really well considering everything he had to do. Paige: And it was over Thanksgiving so we all came and visited you. Lizzy: That's right. It was Thanksgiving. Paige: I remember visiting Cayden and his body was just so translucent, so tiny. But yeah, that waiting place. Meagan: Wow, wow. Lizzy: Yeah. And so then 11 days later, I just went into labor on my own. Well, the other thing they kept trying to decide was which is better? The baby does better in the womb, but if he gets an infection, that's worse. So they kept balancing the, “Do we induce you or let it go?” So they monitored me really closely for infection, but I didn't show any signs and then 11 days later, I just went into labor on my own. I remember my doctor– oh, Dr. Dabling. I've been trying to remember her name for the past three days. I finally remembered it. She was super awesome. We loved her and she came in. She was like, “Okay. I really think we should give you an epidural.” I was like, “This baby's going to be itty-bitty. It's just going to literally fall out of me. That's not going to be painful.” She was like, “Yes, but I'm really worried the placentas aren't going to deliver well and that I'm going to have to go in and scrape them out of you and that will be very painful. I really suggest you get the epidural.”So I did because the idea of people scraping things out of me was sufficient to push me to an epidural. They gave me the epidural and my husband got there. Twin B was born and they immediately whisked him off and got him to oxygen. He was set and stable within a matter of minutes. I delivered my placentas just fine and it was a great delivery. That was that. That was awesome and we were excited that both babies were here, but then four days later, twin B got an infection and died. Meagan: *Gasp* Just a random infection? Lizzy: My understanding, there were a lot of medical terms that I don't understand, but they automatically put babies that young on antibiotics as soon as they're born because they know that infection risks are high. He had been on them for about three days and wasn't showing any signs of anything. It's not good to be on medications you don't need. So they took him off the medication and then within about 12 hours, he was looking really gross. He wasn't looking good and then 12 hours later, he was gone. He was so little. He was 2 pounds. I'm not angry at anyone. I don't feel like it was anyone's fault. I feel like this was God's plan. The fact that Cayden was born at home, twin A, and didn't have any oxygen for an hour and didn't have any of the drugs and is still alive today and his twin brother who was born in a hospital with everything and everything he needed and then died, it just seems so clear to me that God has a plan and that this is what was supposed to happen and so it did. You can try and control things and do the best you can and that's great. God wants you to do that, but in the end, what needs to happen happens. So I came away with a lot of peace and not very much anger. I was really fortunate in that. I mean, it was so painful. It was so unbelievably painful and it was really interesting because we learn that my husband and I grieve in different ways. When my husband grieves, he wants to be around family and be supported and be around people and I just want to hide and be alone. I don't want to talk to anyone. I don't want anyone to tell me it's going to be okay. I just want people to say, “You're right. This sucks. This is so painful. I'm so sorry.” That was hard moving through that, but we figured it out and we're doing a lot better now. Then, we got pregnant again. I was so nervous. I was so nervous that something was going to go wrong and something was going to break or the baby was going to die. I just couldn't. I didn't know what was going to happen and it was very stressful for me. The pregnancy went really well. It was a very smooth pregnancy, but I still had all of these lingering fears that something horrible was going to go wrong. I went into labor and we checked into the hospital. The room they put us in to be evaluated was two doors down from the room that we said goodbye to our little boy. It totally shut off all of my labor. We tried walking the halls to get things working, but we kept running into people we knew from the NICU and his respiratory therapist and it just brought back all of the memories and all of the fears. We just couldn't do it. My labor totally shut off, so they sent us home and I remember as we drove home, I said, “I can't do it. I can't go back to that hospital. There are too many hard memories there.” My husband felt the same way. He said, “What if we do a home birth?” I was like, “Are you nuts? I'm 39 weeks pregnant, 40 weeks pregnant. This baby is coming. We can't do a home birth.” He was like, “Yeah, we can. Let's do it. We'll call my mom. She's delivered babies. We could totally do it.” We were like, “Okay. I guess we're going to do a home birth because we know we can't deliver in the hospital, so I guess that's the only other option.” So we called his mom and we were like, “Hey, we need you to come to help us deliver this baby.” She was like, “I'm sorry, what?” But she was wonderful. Meagan: “Are you serious?”Lizzy: No, I know. She was like, “Okay, well when do you want me to come down?” We were like, “Now. If you could get in the car now, that would be great.” She was like, “Okay.” Meagan: Oh my gosh. Lizzy: Because we had just been to the hospital for labor, so we assumed it was imminent. We were like, “No, really. I think you should head down here because, at any moment, I could go into labor again.” She came down and then it was a whole week. She just hung out at our house. I remember finally one day, I was like, “I need you to leave my house for the day. I can't see you. It reminds me that I haven't had my baby yet. I need to stop ultra-focusing on this and I need you to just– you have a daughter that lives here. Go visit her. Go away for the day and come back. It's not that I'm angry at you. It's all that I'm thinking about.” I finally just went into labor on my own and it was a really hard labor. I was in transition for two hours. It was much harder and much more difficult than my previous labors had been, but then she came. It's actually really funny because it was kind of early in the morning like 6:00 or 7:00 and she came out. Like I said, I'm a really vocal laborer so there was lots of yelling and lots of screaming. My kids were awake. They were watching a movie in a different room while we were trying to have this baby and so she comes out and 15 seconds later, my son walks in the door. He's– gosh, I don't know– probably three or four. I think four is about right and he walks in the door. He goes, “Is that the baby?” I mean, there's blood. There's fluid. We're trying to make sure this baby is breathing. She has just come out. We're like, “Yep, it is. Can you go away, please? Give us a few minutes.” He's like, “Uh-huh. Uh-huh, okay.” So he leaves and 30 seconds later, he comes back with all of our kids and is like, “Look! Mom's had the baby!” And we're like, “Yep, we did. Can you please give us just a few more minutes?” But it was so beautiful and so wonderful. I laid down in my own bed. It felt so healing after our traumatic twin birth and not being able to face the hospital and everything associated with that. To be able to have this successful home birth where we were all together and my kids climbed in bed with me, it just was wonderful and beautiful and everything that we needed. And then we got pregnant again. Meagan: I love it. And then another baby. After a really healing birth, though. That had to have been just so special. Lizzy: It was so special and all of my kids are about 12-18 months apart. I have 10 kids and my oldest turns 11 next month so they are all really, really close which is something else that was really interesting is that a lot of times you hear with the VBACs and with getting pregnant after a C-section, you need to wait 9 months. You need to wait a year. You need to wait 18 months before you even get pregnant or whatever and we just did what we wanted. I mean, you definitely should consult medical professionals with your specific instances, but we felt really good every time we got pregnant like, “Yep. We're ready to get pregnant. Let's do this again. We feel good about this,” so we went ahead and did it even though I don't think any doctor in the world would advocate doing what we've done. But we got pregnant again and my water broke the very first night of our family reunion. This was a week early or so and everyone was coming up for the weekend to our house for a family reunion. That night, my water broke. I was like, “Oh my goodness. Everyone is at our house and we were planning to do another home birth.” So I told all of the moms that as they were putting their kids down to bed, I was like, “I don't think you want your kids upstairs. I'm probably going to be in labor all night screaming, so find someplace farther away so your children will sleep through the night.” So everyone was kind of like, “Why aren't you going to the hospital? Your water has broken. What are you doing here? Why are you having a home birth?” But we were good with it. We were just like, “You know what? This is what we are doing.” I went to bed that night trying to sleep knowing what was coming and then woke up the next morning and I was like, “Wait a minute. I was supposed to have a baby. What happened?” I was hanging out waiting for labor to happen and we hiked a small mountain to have a bridal shower for my sister-in-law, all the while I'm like, “Okay. Maybe this will get it started. Maybe not.” Finally, it had been 18 hours or something, and nothing. Not even really any contractions and I was like, “I think maybe we need to call someone now.” Infections are real as we know, so let's get on the phone with someone. They were like, “Your water broke when?” We were like, “18 hours ago.” They were like, “Will you please come into the hospital now?” I was like, “Yeah. I'll come in.” So we checked in and actually, the doctor I met there was not my normal doctor. My normal doctor was on vacation and getting back the next day. So we had the guy that was just on call and he was actually really supportive. He was like, “You know what? Let's try giving you a little Pitocin, just a little something to maybe get things going and see what happens.” He was totally on board with, “Let's go for a vaginal birth.” But I was feeling a lot of fear. Something about having a vaginal delivery did not feel right to me. I was scared and scared of the pain, to be honest. Part of me was like, “I don't want to. That's so owie. I don't want to do that. If I just do a C-section, they'll drug me up and I'll have a baby.” Which, I knew wasn't true in my brain, but I wasn't really thinking clearly because I knew that the delivery wouldn't be painful, but the recovery would be so much worse. But at that moment, I was like, “I just really don't feel good about this.” I was really torn and my husband was like, “You want to pick a C-section?” I was like, “I think so. Something doesn't feel right about this.”So I finally did. I said, “Can I just choose to have a C-section?” And they were like, “Yeah. Yeah. You can do that if you want to. We'll go prep the OR.” They started the C-section and I could feel everything. It was awful. I kept telling them. I was like, “You guys, this really hurts. I can feel you cutting me.” They were like, “Oh, it's okay. The pain meds are kicking in.” The anesthesiologist kept pushing more drugs. He didn't understand why I was feeling this, why the pain meds weren't working. It turned out that because I was feeling so much pain, I kinked my wrists. I was flexing my wrists because I was in so much pain and it kinked my IV so none of the drugs were getting to me. So when they finally realized that, they were like, “You need to relax your hands.” I did and all of the drugs hit me at once. I remember watching myself floating away from my body while Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds played in the background. I've never been stoned before, but I'm pretty sure this is exactly what it feels like. But yeah, I remember I was like, “Bye Lizzy,” as I floated away from my body and it was all psychedelic. It was really intense and I remember them asking me and then the rest of the C-section was pretty much a blur. They got the baby out and I remember them saying, “Do you want to hold your baby?” I was like, “Nope. I don't even know where my arms are, so please don't put that baby on me because it's just going to fall off of me.” I was so out of it and it was just weird. It took me a long time to come back to even afterward. I didn't hold my baby, I don't think, for a couple of hours because I just didn't feel enough in control of my body that I could do it safely. But he came and that was happy, so that was his birth. And then we got pregnant again with twins. I was so excited. I had prayed for so long. After Levi, our twin, died, I prayed for so long that we would get another chance at twins. I had always wanted twins and I thought that was so cool. I said, “Please, please, please give us another chance except it's got to be a different outcome. I can't do this dying thing. Please send us twins and make them healthy and happy and it's going to be great.” So we got pregnant with twins and I was so excited except I was bleeding again and it was just like the first time. I was so scared. There were huge blood stains, but the bleeding seemed to heal itself a lot faster. It totally went away so I was like, “Oh, great. This looks awesome. This looks like we're in a good spot.” And the rest of the pregnancy went really well. It got time to deliver. Now, I currently live in a very rural town where they have a hospital, but they were like, “We don't have enough blood on sight that if you hemorrhaged, we could save you. We really think you should deliver somewhere else. We like you. We love taking care of you. We'd really love to deliver your babies. You should go someplace else for your safety just because you're a high hemorrhage risk with the number of kids you've had. You're having twins. They're high risk because you've been bleeding. Please go somewhere else.” So we did. We went to a hospital two hours away. We scheduled it and we showed up and got all ready and went into the C-section and everything. I actually asked, “Can I record the C-section on my phone? Is there an extra nurse that can take a video of my C-section?” Because I've always wanted to see myself birth a baby but I always forget to tell people that I want to do that. So we're in the middle of birthing and my husband is like, “Oh, do you want a mirror?” and I'm like, “Just get this thing out of me!” I'm not in the mood to deal with it at that point. I don't know. I've never even watched birth videos of other people having babies because I just want to watch myself. The first time I see it, I want it to be me. So I asked them, “Can some nurse record this?” He was like, “Um, yeah. Sure.” So I totally have a video of my C-section on my phone which is a little disarming to watch actually. Meagan: Oh, I wish I had mine. Lizzy: My kids have watched it and they think it's very cool. I remember as they were doing the C-section, I got so nauseous. I really thought I was going to throw up everywhere. I don't know why or what caused that, but the babies came out and everything was beautiful. I had these two beautiful girls that look totally different and were a pound and a half different in size. I was in the recovery room and all of a sudden, I noticed that all of the nurses were starting to get really agitated. My husband was there with me too and they were like, “We're going to take the babies to the recovery place. We need to help mom. Are you okay with that?” My husband was like, “Yeah. Take the babies away. I'm going to stay here with mom.” They were like, “Okay, good.”I started hemorrhaging really bad. I wasn't sure really at first what was going on, but I could just tell that something was wrong. Everyone was starting to panic. The doctor came back, so they finally told me, “You're hemorrhaging. We're trying to get it to stop. We're going to try some stuff.” I was like, “Okay.” Then they proceeded to punch down on my most recently cut open belly and that was the most excruciating pain I have ever felt. Oh my goodness. It was awful. They just kept pushing and pushing trying to get my uterus to start clamping down again and it just wasn't happening. They told me. They were like, “Okay. We previously discussed that you don't know if you're done having babies or not, so we don't want to do a hysterectomy if we don't have to. We have one more thing we can try, but if not, we're going to have to do that. We've got to stop this bleeding.” So we were like, “Do what you can. But we understand that emergencies happen.” So they took me in and did this crazy– I was so out of it. I was in so much pain and said, “Whatever you do, if you have to take my uterus, will you please just put me under? I'm so done. I can't feel this anymore. I need to be put out.” They were like, “Yes. I promise I will put you under if I have to put you in surgery again.” It's called a uterine artery embolism. They took a picture of my uterus and all of the arteries from above, and they shot contrast fluid into all of the arteries. This doctor had to take a probe, a really long cord, and he went into the femoral artery in my leg. It had to go up around my heart and back down into my uterus. I don't know medicine does these things, but it was so crazy. They take a still picture of where all of my arteries were and he would guide the probe by feeling through my body. They'd take another picture, see what it would look like, and he would push it through until it got to the artery and filled it with the medical equivalent of minimal expanding foam and just totally clogged up that whole artery so that it couldn't bleed anymore. Meagan: Very fascinating. Lizzy: I know. It was a total miracle. Our doctor told us afterward that I think it took him a total of 20 minutes to do it and he said, “I've never done it faster than 45.” This was unbelievably fast and wildly successful. It stopped the bleeding and I was able to keep my uterus, but it was a hard recovery after having the C-section and then getting pounded on after that and then all of the procedures afterward, it was a really rough recovery. And I was older. I had lots of kids. It kind of all compounded and that was the recovery, but the twin girls were here and they were beautiful and so happy. I was able to tandem nurse which was something I hoped I would be able to do and now I have these 10 beautiful children that are just adorable. Meagan: Oh my gosh. I love it. Yeah. I mean, wow. What a journey you have been through. Holy smokes. I am sorry about your loss. That is hard. Lizzy: Thank you. Meagan: I definitely felt the emotion in your story after, but thank you so much for sharing all of these beautiful stories and this journey that you have been on. It has definitely been quite the journey. So many unique things. You mentioned it yourself talking about waiting until you're 18 months after to get pregnant or give birth and things like that. Between your C-section and your first VBAC, you said 3 months. Lizzy: Yeah. Meagan: 3 months. So we know that it's possible. I think the biggest thing is yeah, there are all of these studies and I think that everyone needs to read the studies, educate themselves, and then make the decision that is best for them, but it's really just that. Make the decision that is best for you and for you, your kids are closer and it sounds like you have such a happy crew for sure. But yeah. Are there any tips that you would give to our listeners especially going through such high and low emotions from each birth? Do you have any tips that you would give our listeners? Lizzy: I think I would say that each birth is its own birth. You need to be able to let it unfold the way it needs to without worrying about what has happened previously. Every birth can be so different. I felt a lot of fear after we lost our boy that it was going to happen every single time after and once I realized that this is a new baby. This is a new experience. I just need to have faith that it's going to work out, I think that helped a lot, and just saying, “You know what? Yes. That happened. I hated that. It was awful. I don't want to ever do it again. I'm going to try heading forward believing that this is going to be different.”Not to the point where you ignore bad signs or bad feelings, but just where you say, “You know what? I'm going to let this baby be it's own and not be controlled by the fear of my previous pregnancies.” That was a big help for me to let each baby be their own. Meagan: Oh, I love that because especially with VBAC, we have this past and sometimes they are traumatic. Sometimes they are not. We all have experienced different Cesareans and things, but we still have this past birth and for me, I mean, even with my third, I was triggered because I had similarities to the way the labor started. I had to truly be like, “This is a different baby. This is a different birth. This is years later.” I had to try to stay present in this space and not flash back to three years ago or two years ago. It's really hard to do. Lizzy: It is very hard. Meagan: Yeah, but I love that you said that. Each baby and each birth is individual. Lizzy: And I think the other thing I tell myself a lot is a healthy baby is most important. The end goal is a living baby at the end. As long as I get a baby at the end that's healthy, it's going to be okay. The experience might not have been what I wanted, but the thing I really cared about was the baby. That was the end goal. The end goal was getting the precious, perfect, beautiful baby and every time, I got that. So every time was a win because that was my expectation. Now, I had other expectations too, but would I have rather gotten the perfect VBAC to have my baby die? No. My goal was to have the baby and so you try as hard as you can, do everything you can, and if it doesn't go the way you want it, you still get this beautiful baby and that's what's really the happiest about this. You got the baby. Paige: I think what I look up to the most about Lizzy and her stories is that no, it's not conventional. I don't think there is anybody in the world who has had similar stories quite like Lizzy's with kids that close together. I mean, typically in families that have a lot of kids, it's kind of all vaginal– I mean, I don't know. Right? Lizzy: Yeah. I think it's mostly vaginal births that are very successful. Paige: I think Lizzy's stories are very unique because there are C-section stories sprinkled in there and then a VBAC. We can all relate to that feeling deep within us of being drawn to VBAC and it's like, “I know this is a little riskier. I know this isn't maybe what a doctor would recommend initially.” I mean, hopefully, your practice is supportive. But that calling is in your heart and you go for it because your intuition is telling you that your body can do it. And that's what Lizzy has refined. She has refined her intuition to be able to listen to that, follow it, and recognize that there is this calling to have these babies and bring them to the world in lots of different ways but also to move forward not in fear, but how she feels is appropriate. It's probably not what's going to work for you or for me. I'm not going to have 10 kids, but I can still look up to Lizzy and I've taken so much inspiration from her as I prepared for each of my births because she understands and has such a heart for birth and unconventional ways of birthing in the way that's right for you. Meagan: I love that. Yes. Lizzy: I mean, I've now had four C-sections and I knew after my third C-section that no provider would let me vaginally birth again. Even after two, most of them say no but because I had accidentally had those twins vaginally, it kind of opened that door back up for me, but I knew that once I had another C-section, I was done. I'd never vaginally birth again and there's part of me that still really mourns that. As I think about having more kids, I'm like, “Maybe I should just go off the reservation and have another home birth.”Paige: We talk about that all the time because I've had three now. Lizzy has had four and we're like, “We can do it.”Lizzy: Right? Let's just be each other's midwives and deliver our babies at home in secret. Paige: So TBD what is in the future. We don't know. Lizzy: So part of me does mourn that I'm not going to get that experience again because I think I know that it's not good for my body with the history I've had that it's probably not medically very smart for me to try and do that. But that's okay. You know, because I've been through a lot and I got the baby and that's what matters. I got the baby. Meagan: Yeah. Oh, well thank you so much for sharing all of your stories today and being here with us, taking the time out of your day. I know time is so precious and I just feel that in so many ways you're going to touch someone out there listening just like Molly said in the beginning. In this podcast, every story is going to connect with someone differently, and with all of your stories, I guarantee there is someone out there who is going to connect or has maybe had a similar situation or was told something similar or something. So it's going to be amazing. Thank you so much. Lizzy: Well, thank you for having me on. I love talking babies. Meagan: So do we, obviously. 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. 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Marvin Mitchell has been passionate about his life mission, to show others the path to financial and time freedom. Success wasn't certain when Marvin was a child in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother had him at 15 years old, they lived in homeless shelters for a while and he didn't have support from his father who was in jail his entire life. Marvin knew there was more and was committed to creating a vision for his life that would positively impact others. Now, he is fighting to make sure he creates and sustains multi millionaires through his coaching and courses. He is the owner of a thriving multi seven figure financial firm and has helped 100's of others learn to leverage life insurance to create their own bank and build passive income to exceed their expenses. Marvin is a father, owns over 420 units of real estate, Airbnb business, and a luxury rental company. All together this he just had his first 8 figure year. He believes that in today's economy creating financial freedom is not a should, it's a must!Connect with Marvin:Website : https://compassretirementsolutions.com/Instagram : @marvinmitchellofficialRich State of Mind Links:Website: www.richstateofmind.comJoin our email list to know our services and our prize giveaways:  https://sendfox.com/richstateofmind1Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/Instagram : @richstateofmindpage and @rich_invests_Podcast links: https://linktr.ee/anthanerichiePlease like and subscribe to our channel.See our cool wealth building and real estate T-shirt designs in the links below :Rich State of Mind Store : https://bit.ly/RichStateSupport the show

Marvin Mitchell has been passionate about his life mission, to show others the path to financial and time freedom. Success wasn't certain when Marvin was a child in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother had him at 15 years old, they lived in homeless shelters for a while and he didn't have support from his father who was in jail his entire life. Marvin knew there was more and was committed to creating a vision for his life that would positively impact others. Now, he is fighting to make sure he creates and sustains multi millionaires through his coaching and courses. He is the owner of a thriving multi seven figure financial firm and has helped 100's of others learn to leverage life insurance to create their own bank and build passive income to exceed their expenses. Marvin is a father, owns over 420 units of real estate, Airbnb business, and a luxury rental company. All together this he just had his first 8 figure year. He believes that in today's economy creating financial freedom is not a should, it's a must!Connect with Marvin:Website : https://compassretirementsolutions.com/Instagram : @marvinmitchellofficialRich State of Mind Links:Website: www.richstateofmind.comJoin our email list to know our services and our prize giveaways:  https://sendfox.com/richstateofmind1Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/Instagram : @richstateofmindpage and @rich_invests_Podcast links: https://linktr.ee/anthanerichiePlease like and subscribe to our channel.See our cool wealth building and real estate T-shirt designs in the links below :Rich State of Mind Store : https://bit.ly/RichStateSupport the show

This episode shows that I spend way too much time on TikTok but it also covers important topics like being unconventionally attract and the type of men you should avoid on dating websites and just in general. To me, being unconventionally attractive means that you are not what society typically views as beautiful but, you still look good. It is a never ending journey trying to navigate spaces when this is your reality.

Victoria and her husband living life as nomads traveling the US in their RV and changing lives.

The Cowboys leave New York with a 2-1 record and are 2-0 with Cooper “Gold” Rush! Ray Nickens and Owen DeCicco are back to break down Cowboy victories against the Bengals and Giants. They dive deep into key factors that sealed both victories and evaluate Rush's play in both games. Feet are held to the fire in this episode and it is a must-listen!!!

Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or an established business owner, investing in your financial stability is a must. But doing so takes more than just blindly jumping into conventional solutions. You also have to consider other factors, such as the current status of the economy, the ever-changing market, and your peace of mind.If there's anyone who deeply understands how to navigate such financial undertakings, it's none other than our guest for today, Codie Sanchez. Codie is the founder of Contrarian Thinking and co-founder of Unconventional Acquisitions––two companies that aim to help individuals create long-term sustainable wealth through practical, unconventional means and small, service-based business acquisitions.In this episode of Perfectly Mentored, Codie Sanchez shares her wisdom on small service-based business acquisitions and she and Jason discuss the current state of the economy and business landscape.Topics Covered  Who is Codie Sanchez?  [01:21]Small service-based business acquisitions in the post-pandemic world? [2:56]How can people buy small service-based businesses? [05:02]How long should ready-to-sell business owners stay on board? [7:32] Where can people find businesses that are potentially for sale?  [8:55]What's going on with today's Great Resignation phenomenon? [11:43]The future of the economy? [16:45]Building a recession plan? [21:10]About the Investor Operating System (IOS) [30:43]Want to work with Jason one-on-one? Click HereConnect with Codie Sanchez:InstagramFacebookTwitterTikTokLinkedInNewsletterYouTubeConnect with us:Perfectly Mentored InstagramWatch the Interviews on YouTubePerfectly Mentored FacebookConnect with Jason PortnoyWebsiteInstagramTikTokLike the episode? Watch and support us on YouTube

What's going on guys, welcome back to another episode of Coffee and Van Chats on the Out of Collective Network. This week we sat down with Nico Deportago-Cabrera and we chatted about how he found two wheels and how it changed his life in a way he never thought he [...] The post Coffee & Van Chats – E121 – Nico Deportago-Cabrera becoming pro unconventionally appeared first on Out Of Collective.

Have you ever called 911 before?  Anna had to call it for the first time ever this morning!  (:30) Would you and your spouse consider sleeping in separate beds?  Raven and his wife tried it over the weekend!  (3:57) Being lazy on the weekend is nice, but if you're wearing the same clothes that you did the day before, that's all I need to know about you!  (7:23) School lunches can be tough to put together for anyone, but what if you're a professional chef?  Anna and Raven spoke to the Food Network's Chef Plum about how he puts a lunch together for his kids!  (10:26) Do you use dental floss picks?  Lots of people are addicted to them and after talking to a caller last week, Anna and Raven have started seeing them everywhere…  (13:54) Are you up to date on this week's biggest news stories?  Anna and Raven will get you caught up on what's trending, including the reason that Queen Elizabeth's dogs are in the news!  (17:20) Does your child have what it takes to beat Raven in a trivia contest?  If they can succeed they'll win a $100 Target gift card!  But don't expect Raven to go easy on them…  (20:54) Have you ever wondered what your pet is thinking?  Anna and Raven spoke to animal psychic Laura Stinchfield to get some insights on the inner thoughts of our pets!  (24:05) What do you find attractive in a partner?  Producer Jon is dating, but he has one odd trait that he looks for in a prospective date!  (28:05) Fred has purposely started slacking off at work and is actively trying to get fired so he can collect a severance. He can't stand his job. His wife, Brooke, is horrified and thinks he should just look for another job, not "quiet quit" the one he currently has. It's unprofessional. He says it's how corporate America works. What do you think? (35:14) Samantha thinks she has what it takes to beat Raven in pop culture trivia!  Can she succeed and win the $1600 jackpot?  (43:39)

Vanessa Vitagliano with Dental Warranty is on the podcast to talk about utilizing a warranty to provide peace of mind to your patients (and practice), especially amid these times of uncertainty. Vanessa and Kiera discuss what it's like for both the practice and patient if Dental Warranty is utilized, the benefits the program offers, how it works with insurance plans, and a ton more. Be sure to get an exclusive link below for Dental A-Team listeners to get a $500 discount on Dental Warranty offers! Episode resources: Get $500 off when joining Dental Warranty: go.dentalwarrantycorp.com/DentalATeam Reach out to Kiera Subscribe to The Dental A-Team podcast Become Dental A-Team Platinum! Review the podcast

Time to talk with Gina regarding all things business and dive into her mantra “I am enough. I have enough and I am doing enough”. She helps women leaders “lead unconventionally” and lead their own leadership practices. She is the proud founder of Inside-Out Incubator and she is also an executive coach. Success is personal and it's best to follow your instincts to guide your path. Learn more about what Gina can offer at Inside Out Incubator!Follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bossitclub/ and sign up for the weekly newsletter at bossitclub.comXO,SophiaA Team Dklutr Production

Learn prior to Nathanael Greene's arrival into Charlotte, NC if Continental Army had been operating soundly from a structural standpoint. Find out total troop # in Southern Continental Army by around December 8, 1780. Learn how long it took General Greene's Forces to arrive into their new post. Discover where General Daniel Morgan's Forces went about establishing their encampment including history behind the district itself. Learn about what ensued in final days leading up to end of 1780 involving Patriot & Loyalist Militias. Learn about British Officer Banastre Tarleton's Background including his duties as Cavalry Officer along with a questionable reputation. Discover if Colonel Tarleton himself experienced defeat in South Carolina for the first time prior to 1780 ending. Learn about British Communication Miscues shortly after 1781 began. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kirk-monroe/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kirk-monroe/support

We all know that getting into the NBA is extremely difficult. You don't need to be good; you need to be exceptional. However, what do you do when it seems you will never play in the NBA, and basketball is your first love? That's what my guest Rafael Barlowe faced when he knew his passion for basketball wasn't ever going to be enough to get him into the NBA. After college, he did what most people do; he got a real job. But he hated it. After being laid off from his second job, he found a way to incorporate his love for basketball into his life. He is not a player, but he found a way to use the NBA and basketball to make a living doing what he loves. Rafael is the founder of NBAdraftjunkie.com. He has been to over 22 countries and has worked on basketball-related projects on five of the seven contents. In the last 12 years, he has created his lane as a videographer, skills trainer, and basketball scout. His video projects have led to having numerous NBA and NFL players as clients, and his work has been featured on NBA.com, washingtonpost.com, USAToday.com, CBS.com, and NBA TV #NBADreams #LivingAbroad #WorkingAbroad #ExpatLife #Traveling #FollowYourDream #Businesss --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lifesavacay/message

Harvard MedTech's SVP and Chief Medical Officer, Gerry Stanley M.D.,  joins Coruzant Technologies for the Digital Executive podcast. He shares how is he and his company is disrupting the norm by innovating at all levels and providing autonomy to everyone to be able to succeed.  They are also leveraging technology in the form of virtual reality to improve patient care.

Natalie Keller Reinert took an unconventional route in life, which is one of the reasons she can bring so many places and experiences to life in her fiction. When I read her book, Runaway Alex, I immediately fell in love, so much so that I wrote a blog post about it, and dropped everything to invite her on the podcast. Our chat spans from sharing our love of lizards to what it was like to work for top event trainers and so much more.Whether you've read her books or not, Natalie is an incredibly interesting person with a great story.If you love to read and, like me, have hardly touched a horse book since middle school, I implore you to check out her page-turning fiction! You won't be disappointed. The best place to start is on her website where you can join her newsletter and get access to a free book or two! https://www.nataliekreinert.comFollow her on Instagram here: @nataliekreinertFollow the LiveRideLearn podcast here: @liveridelearnFollow Streamhorse.tv here: @streamhorsetvIf you want a bonus free short story, go to www.LiveRideLearn.com and join the newsletter! I generally send an email out 1-2 times a month with updates from the writing desk, special offers from other authors, and updates on the podcast.Thank you to Streamhorse.TV for partnering with me on the LiveRideLearn Podcast. Check out their Trailblazing Horsewomen show here!Thanks for tuning in!~SarahLove that epic intro song? You can find the song here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3NbcVKKJAhQhSPh4kSewYC?si=u_dkgAlJRmmvn38XdSlJcw It's called So Darey by Bus WindowAlso, huge thanks to Pixelbay for the hoofbeat sound effect!For more information on me or my books, check out www.LiveRideLearn.com. This is also the place to subscribe to my newsletter and receive email updates on the podcast and the memoir, Finding Gideon! I'm most active on Instagram and would love to connect! @LiveRideLearnTo follow me on Amazon, go to www.Amazon/com/author/sarahhicknerHUGE thanks to www.Streamhorse.tv for partnering with me. Don't forget to follow them on instagram: @streamhorsetv or YouTube: @streamhorsetv Love that epic intro song? You can find the song here: It's called So Darey by Bus WindowAlso, huge thanks to Pixelbay for the hoofbeat sound effect!

On this episode of The Cross-Check NHL Show, P.K. Subban's name has come up in trade deadline rumors with an interesting twist. If they wanted, the New Jersey Devils could buy Subban out, making him a free agent at the deadline, but will they? And what does Subban bring to a team as he continues to be hit hard by the aging curve?Next, Andrew Berkshire and Mary Clarke discuss Alex Ovechkin hearing the boos from Alberta on the Washington Capitals recent road trip. While Ovechkin is fair game for his support of Putin in the past, many Russians have decried the recent actions against Ukraine and don't deserve your ire.Phil Kessel also extended his Iron Man streak in an unconventional way by playing one shift for the Arizona Coyotes then leaving to witness the birth of his child. Given the hardships the Coyotes — and Kessel — have faced, this is a sweet thing to do, even if it's a bit cheesy.Finally, Andrew and Mary end the show talking about the newest teaser for Obi-Wan Kenobi and their expectations for this newest Star Wars show.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.Athletic GreensAthletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/NHLNETWORK.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of The Cross-Check NHL Show, P.K. Subban's name has come up in trade deadline rumors with an interesting twist. If they wanted, the New Jersey Devils could buy Subban out, making him a free agent at the deadline, but will they? And what does Subban bring to a team as he continues to be hit hard by the aging curve? Next, Andrew Berkshire and Mary Clarke discuss Alex Ovechkin hearing the boos from Alberta on the Washington Capitals recent road trip. While Ovechkin is fair game for his support of Putin in the past, many Russians have decried the recent actions against Ukraine and don't deserve your ire. Phil Kessel also extended his Iron Man streak in an unconventional way by playing one shift for the Arizona Coyotes then leaving to witness the birth of his child. Given the hardships the Coyotes — and Kessel — have faced, this is a sweet thing to do, even if it's a bit cheesy. Finally, Andrew and Mary end the show talking about the newest teaser for Obi-Wan Kenobi and their expectations for this newest Star Wars show. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Athletic Greens Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/NHLNETWORK.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Which mics are your go-to workhorses? Why do any of you like DJ Khaled (we seriously need you guys to answer this one)? Here are some of the topics that we go over in this episode: Are recording methods just as important as which mic you use? Are "cheap" mics useful? Does sibilance add character to recordings? Do some artists get milked too much by the media?

Join us on this episode to hear teacher and podcaster, Jon Hinthorne share tips on how to be unconventional. It's easy to stick to the norm and do what has worked well in your past years of teaching. However, when you change your own behavior as a teacher and try new unconventional things in your classroom, it can have an amazing affect on your students. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did! If you want to learn more from Jon, check out his instagram @unconventionalteacher and his podcast An Unconventional Teacher! As always, thank you for listening! Make sure you subscribe to our podcast so you don't miss future episodes.