Podcasts about us olympics

Text Kristen your thoughts or feedback about the showMeet Viva Kreis - a trailblazing young athlete and passionate advocate for women in sports. From her eighth-grade project on Wilma Rudolph to playing professional handball in France, Viva's journey is nothing short of inspiring.In this episode, Viva shares how she landed interviews with WNBA stars at the age of 14, her deep love for sports history, and the motivation behind her book, She Did That: Amazing Female Athletes from A to Z. Viva focuses on the power of pursuing your passions and shares her excitement for what is hopefully a spot on the 2028 US Olympics handball team.Whether you're an athlete, a sports fan, or someone chasing big dreams, this episode is packed with insight, inspiration, and a reminder that no goal is out of reach.Tune in and get ready to be inspired!Learn more and connect with Viva on her website and Instagram @Viva_LasVegas.Get her book on Amazon: She Did That?!: Amazing Female Athletes from A to Z*** Freebie alert! Build Your Lead Management Fairytale Workflow with 17hats Say "goodbye" to inbox chaos and "hello" to streamlined lead management that saves time and boosts your business. This free guide will walk you through how to build a lead management workflow with 17hats'.

In today's episode of The T&T Podcast Tyler and Torrez discuss: Recapping US Olympics Basketball, Previewing the NFL Season, UFC 305, & Torrez's Upcoming Fight Thanks for listening and don't forget to subscribe and share the show with others! Give our social media platforms some love by clicking the following link: https://linktr.ee/tandtpodcast --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thetandtpodcast/support

In today's edition of Sunday Matt, your favorite producer talks about all the things people are talking about: the dumpster fire that was Trump's interview with Black journalists, the dumpster fire that is the Christian response to a woman boxer, and the dumpster fire that often rages in my head as I try to sort through the most ridiculous timeline in history.If you want to call in to the Bonus Show, leave a voicemail at (530) 332-8020. We'll get to your calls on Friday's Bonus Show.LINKSQuoirCast on PatreonQuoirCast on Patheos

Does Joel Embiid fit on the US Olympics hoops team - or is he just not suited for the international game. Plus, Tony shows his work on 'shower beer math'. Samson and Adnan join to give their Top 5 Movie Soundtracks of all time and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1:00- We talk about the US Olympics and preview those games. We then preview DBacks-Nats. 

The Podcast That Rocked for July 30th, 2024. Gojira wins Gold Medal, Green Day get political (again, it's not new), Lamb Of God hometown show, and more. The Podcast That Rocked | Every Tuesday 8PM EST on https://www.youtube.com/@rockednet Discussion Topics: -Gojira win Olympic Gold for Opening Ceremony performance -Which American metal band should represent at the next US Olympics? -Spiritbox bassist Bill Crook passes away -Lamb Of God hometown show in Richmond, VA -Green Day open The Saviors Tour in Washington DC with Trump Mask -Upcoming tours, albums, weekly advice, and more Hosted by: Luke = https://www.instagram.com/rocked_net Alex = https://www.instagram.com/voiceofalex Rowan = https://www.instagram.com/bl3at0r The Podcast That Rocked is a podcast discussing news in the world including rock, metal, alternative, punk, indie, etc., including: -Concert/festival coverage -New album releases -Industry stories -Bad jokes and impressions (sorry in advance)___Gojira Win Olympic Gold | The Podcast That Rocked

Jim Rutledge & Molly Brown are finally re-joined by their long-lost co-host Matt Hamilton, who's coming back in hot from thirst and sunburnt fishing vacation. Jim starts the show telling people to keep the Dream Team's name out their mouth when referencing the 2024 US Olympic men's basketball team. Matt shares his story about getting an unorthodox speeding ticket while on vacation, and Molly fesses up to getting pulled over herself earlier today! What Matt Missed includes out-of-context audio of disrespectful Olympic curling takes, keeping the same energy for Jordan Love as Tua, and a Bears players comp between Aaron Rodgers and Caleb Williams. In today's Minute to Win It, Jim quizzes Matt & Molly on the members of the "real Dream Team" -- the 1992 US Olympics men's basketball roster.

The Revival Tripod was back Tuesday Night!The Boys got to talking about the MLB Trade Deadline for both the Mets and Yankees. They talked US Olympics and the amazing Women's Rugby win. Ended it with Giants Training Camp talk.

Episode Notes Elizabeth Ramsey is the Executive Director of the Team USA Athletes Commission. Team USA is working toward a fully independent athletes' commission, as recommended by the Congressional Commission on the State of US Olympics and Paralympics. She has an important viewpoint to add to the conversations on athlete representation and how increase the power of the athletes voice in figure skating. This is also a great episode to dig into as we watch the Paris Games! Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-IXRwYopUtIpXG4YucUjJRUIMLlo-0PWLaiK8wDRLTc/ ]kS Athletes Commission Independence Website w/ sign-on letter for US Athletes https://www.usopc.org/teamUSAAC-independence Team USA instagram @ TeamUSAAC and Twitter @ TeamUSA_AC Youtube https://youtu.be/49DTRnkLXSE?si=Z3Cl54naWLkj-PLw Commission on the State of US Olympics and Paralympics https://www.csusop.org/ You can reach me with comments or suggestions for topics and people I should talk to, by email at fsfuturepodcast@gmail.com or on Instagram and Twitter @futurefspodcast If you appreciate the podcast, you can also support my work with the Tip Jar at https://futureoffigureskating.pinecast.co Support The Future of Figure Skating by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/futureoffigureskating Find out more at https://futureoffigureskating.pinecast.co

Hour 2 - List: US Olympics. Medal Count. Tommy Pham. Tyus Jones. Top 25 Coll. NFL Training camp

With the Paris Olympics underway, we hear about Beacon -- the therapy dog that's helped the USA Gymnastics team cope with the pressure and stress of competitive sport. His handler and owner, Tracey, tells us his friendly face and intuitive nature make him perfect for the job -- and that some of the gymnasts even talk to him.Also: the first horse rider from the Arab world to qualify for Olympic equestrian eventing tells us it's a huge honour to represent the region's history.How a new type of IVF is helping protect the future of threatened southern white Rhinos.A woman who travelled solo across Africa on a motorcycle says the three month journey made her feel alive.We're in Denmark to learn about a project that helps people with mental health issues - by prescribing a course of museum visits, concerts and other cultural activities.And we find out about the Olympic couples competing in the city of love.Our weekly collection of happy stories and positive news from around the world.Presenter: Jannat Jalil. Music composed by Iona Hampson.

The Morning Footy crew welcome in US Men's Olympic left back John Tolkin to discuss the opening match against France, the lack of clinical chances, how the mentality in the team is changing, the atmosphere at the Olympics, and the team chemistry is getting on. The group also discuss the veteran presence on the backline and his future growth as a player. And finally, Tolkin addresses his previous social media controversy. Morning Footy is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow the Morning Footy podcast on Twitter: @CBSSportsGolazo, @susannahcollins, @nicocantor1, @NotAlexis, @CharlieDavies9 For more soccer coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Watch UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, Serie A, Coppa Italia, CONCACAF, NWSL, Scottish Premiership, Argentine Primera División by subscribing Paramount Plus: https://www.paramountplus.com/home/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on the podcast is 3:31 1500m runner Vince Ciattei! Vince runs for Under Armour's Dark Sky Distance based out of Flagstaff, Arizona! If you're not familiar with Vince, you will be soon. He's been on an absolute tear as of late. Vince won the 2024 Trials of Miles race in 3:50.56, track personal record and #7 U.S. all-time indoors, and in April, he earned his second USA Road Mile title at the Grand Blue Mile, setting a course record and just missing the world record with his 3:56.97. This past week at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Ciattei finished fourth in the 1500m, running 3:31.78, a massive PR. In 2023, he won Monmouth Mile in 3:52.56, and in September, he finished 4th at the New Balance 5th Avenue Mile, setting a personal record of 3:50.3. In 2022, the rising star captured his first national title at the 2022 Grand Blue Mile in Des Moines, clocking 4:04 (4:03.2), and in July, he defended his Fleet Feet Liberty Mile in 4:04. In 2021, he won the Fleet Feet Liberty Mile in Pittsburgh, tying the event record (3:59), finished third at the Downtown Yakima Mile (3:56), and was a 1500m finalist at the U.S. Olympic Trials. At Virginia Tech, Ciattei was the 2018 NCAA 1500m and indoor Mile runner-up and with his Hokie teammates, also won the NCAA Indoor Distance Medley Relay and the National 4x800 Relay Championships. In high school at Perry Hall, he won Maryland state titles in the Mile & 3200m (indoors) and 800m & 1600m (outdoors). In today's conversation, Vince takes me through the raw emotion of being one spot off the Olympic team, lessons from his career, and much more! Tap into the Vince Ciattei Special! You can listen wherever you find your podcasts by searching "The Running Effect Podcast." If you enjoy the podcast, please consider following us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and giving us a five-star review! I would also appreciate it if you share it with your friend who you think will benefit from it.  S H O W N O T E S -THE PODCAST ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClLcLIDAqmJBTHeyWJx_wFQ -My Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/therunningeffect/?hl=en⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -My Newsletter: https://therunningeffect.substack.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dominic-schlueter/message

Hour 1 We are live from the Travelers golf tournament in Cromwell, CT. Gio had a handicapped room at the hotel and he was worried that someone would need that room and he shouldn't be in it. Rory McIlroy bailed on the Travelers because he had a miserable Sunday at the US Open. The ratings for the Masters were better than the US Open, which Boomer did not think would happen. Bryson DeChambeau is not on the Olympic team, which Gio doesn't care about because he's never paid attention to Olympic golf. One year Mike FRANCESA was broadcasting from here and he left mid-show because it was too hot. Craig Carton played in Boomer's tournament yesterday and was -23 according to him. Jerry is here for his first update of the day and starts with Willie Mays passing away at the age of 93. Keith Hernandez reacted during the Mets game and he was choked up. Boomer got to meet Mays on two occasions and said he was a very sweet guy. He was a 24 times all-star. The Mets fell behind 6-2 to the Rangers but won the game, 7-6. The Yankees beat the Orioles as Brendan Burke was on the radio call. Aaron Judge got hit on the hand by a pitch but x-rays were negative. The Edmonton Oilers won and will head home for a 6th game in the Stanley Cup Finals. In the final segment of the hour, PGA golfer Corey CONNERS joins us from the Travelers.  Hour 2 The Mets came back down 6-2 in Texas and beat the Rangers 7-6. The Mets offense has been tremendous of late. They have won 7 straight. A caller said his daughter is afraid of Grimace. Sal Licata hates the Grimace angle of the Mets winning. We also talked about Rory McIlroy bailing on the Travelers because he stunk at the US Open. Jerry and his son played golf up here yesterday and Jerry did not play well. Jerry returns for an update but first Gio tells us that his father-in-law is coming to town and he likes to do a lot of stuff. Jerry starts with Willie Mays passing away and we hear from Reggie Jackson. Chris Russo also talked about his passing. He was a 24 time all-star and served in the military as well. The Mets winning streak hit seven with a win in Texas. Edwin Diaz got his second save in a row. The Yankees beat the Orioles, but Aaron Judge was drilled in the hand by a fastball. X-rays were negative. Nestor Cortes was pissed off about Judge getting hit. Jerry said there was almost a brawl between parents at a little league game between a team from NJ and a team from Long Island. In the final segment of the hour, we talked to a caller who said nice things about us.  Hour 3 We are live from the Travelers golf tournament even though they don't give us guests. Amanda Balionis was scheduled to call in but she ditched us. She probably didn't want us asking about Rory McIlroy. Boomer said she was taking beautiful Instagram pictures. Boomer thinks she's a great interviewer. Joe La Cava, the famous caddy, also decided not to come on because of Rory questions. Boomer said the public relations people probably tell them not to do interviews. Jerry returns for an update and starts with the death of Willie Mays at the age of 93. We heard the call on his classic World Series catch. PGA golfer Akshay Bhatia joins us as Gio is a big fan. In the final segment of the hour, Phil Simms joins us to promote something with the Giants celebrating 100 years. We asked Phil what he thought about Bill BELICHICK dating a 24 year old but he wouldn't answer.  Hour 4 We are looking through the Giants that are in the Hall of Fame, wondering where Phil Simms will fall on the all time list of 100 greatest Giants. Boomer said the Rangers that won the Cup aren't remembered as much as they should be. They are, of course, by fans, but not by the masses. Jerry returns for his final update of the day and starts with the passing of Willie Mays. We heard a reaction from Keith Hernandez. Steve Levy reacted that he's 'gone too soon' at the age of 93. Craig Carton calls in to wonder why he didn't win Boomer's golf outing when he shot a -23. The Moment of The Day involves Al ‘squatting his dog'. The show ends with autograph signings, discussion of food portions and some frivolity regarding Jerry's wardrobe.

We are live from the Travelers golf tournament in Cromwell, CT. Gio had a handicapped room at the hotel and he was worried that someone would need that room and he shouldn't be in it. Rory McIlroy bailed on the Travelers because he had a miserable Sunday at the US Open. The ratings for the Masters were better than the US Open, which Boomer did not think would happen. Bryson DeChambeau is not on the Olympic team, which Gio doesn't care about because he's never paid attention to Olympic golf. One year Mike FRANCESA was broadcasting from here and he left mid-show because it was too hot. Craig Carton played in Boomer's tournament yesterday and was -23 according to him. Jerry is here for his first update of the day and starts with Willie Mays passing away at the age of 93. Keith Hernandez reacted during the Mets game and he was choked up. Boomer got to meet Mays on two occasions and said he was a very sweet guy. He was a 24 times all-star. The Mets fell behind 6-2 to the Rangers but won the game, 7-6. The Yankees beat the Orioles as Brendan Burke was on the radio call. Aaron Judge got hit on the hand by a pitch but x-rays were negative. The Edmonton Oilers won and will head home for a 6th game in the Stanley Cup Finals. In the final segment of the hour, PGA golfer Corey CONNERS joins us from the Travelers.

00:00-14:02- Trackside's Kevin Lee joins. Lee breaks down the Indy Car moving to Fox deal, the impact it could have on the racing community, and more. 14:02-35:01- Marc and James Boyd break down the Fever's win over the Dream last night. The guys also discuss Caitlin Clark's comments on some of her fan's comments involving race, misogyny and more.   35:01-50:21- The Athletics Nicole Auerbach joins the show. Auerbach shares the latest on the US Olympic Swim Trials, the pool itself in Lucas Oil Stadium, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The US Olympics team and the WNBA do not have the same focus nor should they.

Nike unveiled this year's Olympic uniforms, and some eyebrows were raised over some of the track and field offerings. Jason talks about sex and women's sports. 

We just wrapped up a super-fun chat with none other than Bob Alejo, the new assistant strength conditioning coach for the Los Angeles Angels MLB team. Get ready to be a fly on the wall as you gain exclusive access to the life and experiences of this esteemed sports professional. From his time at CSU to his stint with the US Olympics, Alejo's journey is as insightful as it is inspiring. We discuss the nuances of working with college athletes versus the pros, and underline the significance of intent and perspective in a satisfying career.Timeline:2:08 College vs. Pro athletes – the life of a strength coach10:00 The human side of “training” athletes – there are reasons beyond “training” that affect an athlete's performance14:03 In sports, can you be too strong? Can you carry too much muscle mass? 15:03 Yes, you can work on strength too much, but being “too strong” is never a problem.16:08 You don't want to train for strength that it detrimentally affects skill acquisition or maintenance23:58 Alejo's view of Shohei Ohtani27:42 Dr Ricci talks about the data from our collaboration with the UFC PI and Nova Southeastern University32:41 Never let strength and conditioning interfere with training for the SPORT33:56 How often do you think an athlete should do HIIT per week?35:32 How often should athletes in the “podium” sports (i.e., run, bike, swim) do HIIT?37:06 Polarized training – 80:20 ratio of low-intensity vs high-intensity work; there are always exceptions to the rule. Karla Antonio: female national class USA Cycling Masters Champion – doesn't follow classic periodization; does up to 4-5 HIIT sessions per week; doesn't follow the classic 80:20 polarized training; consumes a little over 3 g per kg of CHO daily (which is much lower than published guidelines); consumes 3 g per kg of protein daily (much higher than published guidelines).45:04 – It is ok to sometimes substitute skill training (which is HIIT) with something ‘easier' such as stationary cycling52:51 – Trap bar deadlift – better than the squat? Alejo begs to differ.58:10 – “Stay in your lane.” Why we shouldn't use this as an argument.59:34 – Bob Alejo wrote a scathing article against the “stay in your lane” bullshit. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7106984751936270337/64:42 – There's a difference between “asking a question” and questioning someone. Bob Alejo is currently the Assistant Strength Coach of the LA Angels MLB team. His past accomplishments include:2019-2022: Senior Associate Athletic Director for Performance and Student-Athlete Welfare at CSU Northridge. 2017-2020: Director of Sports Science, Power Lift. 2011-2017: Assistant AD/Director of Strength and Conditioning, NC State, overseeing the strength and conditioning for the entire athletic department while coordinating the day-to-day efforts of the men's basketball team. During that time, the Wolfpack men's basketball team earned two trips to the Sweet Sixteen in four NCAA Tournament appearances. 1993-2001 and 2009-2011: Director of Strength and Conditioning, Oakland Athletics, which included the “Moneyball” period. During those 12 years, he was responsible for all aspects of the organization's year-round physical preparation at both the MLB and minor league levels. 2010 Season: Strength and Conditioning Consultant, San Jose, Earthquakes. 2005-2008: Director of Strength and Conditioning, UC Santa Barbara. 1984-present: Alejo Athletic Performance Consulting. 1984-1993: Assistant, Associate Head, Head Administrator/Strength and Conditioning, UCLA, working with 23 men's and women's teams. During that time, the Bruins racked up 25 national championships and produced more than

Description Durant cet épisode, Coach Frank discute avec Stephanie Radziszewski Ph. D. de violence psychologique, de culture sportive, de négligence, et climat de performance. Stephanie Radziszewski est diplômée d'un doctorat en psychologie communautaire de l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle effectue actuellement un projet de recherche postdoctorale sous la supervision de Sylvie Parent à la Chaire de recherche Sécurité et intégrité en milieu sportif à l'Université Laval. Son projet vise à évaluer l'implantation du mécanisme « Je porte plainte », responsable du traitement des plaintes de violence en contexte sportif au Québec, en collaboration avec le Regroupement Loisir et Sport du Québec. Les intérêts de recherche de Stephanie concernent les enjeux de pouvoir, notamment l'impact des structures sociales sur de tels enjeux et la prévention de leurs conséquences potentielles. De plus, elle s'intéresse aux méthodes qualitatives, à la recherche action participative ainsi qu'à l'évaluation de programme. Pour nous rejoindre par courriel: info@tresbonpoint.com Pour en savoir plus sur nos services: https://tresbonpoint.com/contact NOTES D'ÉMISSION Est-ce qu'on peut faire réfléchir les gens un regard critique sur leur propre pratique (1:00) La violence dans le sport, comment est-ce que tu es devenu à t'intéressé à ce sujet? (2 :30) Réalisations de la violence dans le sport. (4:21) Article : “Maltraitance des enfants et liens avec les expériences de violence interpersonnelle dans le sport : une étude auprès d'un échantillon d'adolescents canadiens.” (5:49) La violence psychologique, la violence physique, la violence sexuelle et des aspect négligents. (9:47) Comment est-ce considérer la violence et la négligence? (13:27) C'est quoi le concept de la performance? (20:12) Les normes sociales et qu'est -ce qu'on valorise. (23:00) Les stratégies acceptables dans la boîte d'outils de coach pour motiver les autres. (28:35) Est-ce qu'il y a des différences marquantes dans la fréquence et la nature de la violence selon les sports ou les niveaux de compétition? (31:18) Qu'est-ce qui ressort des arbitres dans la violence du sport? (36:09) Le courage de parler dans ces environnements. (43:38) L'environnement et le climat que tu crées. (48:06) Autres mesures ou politiques qui ont été efficaces pour réduire la violence dans le sport. (52:35) La règle de deux, où on est par rapport? (55:14) Qu'est-ce qu'on peut dire aux gens qu'on est peut-être trop fragile ou sensible? (59:05) Si tu pouvais mettre une citation sur un jumbotron dans un aréna ou un stade, ça serait laquelle et qu'est-ce que tu aimerais que les gens comprennent? (1:08:10) Mot de la fin et comment rejoindre Stéphanie Radziszewski sims@fse.ulaval.ca (1:09:16) PERSONNES ET ORGANISATIONS MENTIONNÉES Stéphanie Radziszewski Stephanie Radziszewski - Chaire sur la sécurité et l'intégrité en milieu sportif (SIMS) (ulaval.ca) Sylvie Parent Sylvie Parent - Accueil - FSÉ - ULaval Herb Brooks Herb Brooks - Wikipedia Miracle on Ice [Miracle on Ice | MNopedia](https://www.mnopedia.org/event/miracle-ice#:~:text=The Miracle on Ice is the name given,their unlikely win inspired and united the country.) Kerri Strug Kerri Strug: The gymnast who battled through pain for a taste of Olympic glory (olympics.com) Béla Kàrolyi Who is Bela Karolyi? US Olympics trainer and his wife had 'beaten, starved and abused' female child gymnasts | MEAWW Jacques Forest Jacques Forest | Répertoire des professeurs - UQAM Serial Winning Coaches (18) (PDF) Serial Winning Coaches: People, Vision, and Environment (researchgate.net)

The focus is on force plates in this episode as Eric is joined by Drake Berberet, the VP of Performance & Brand at Hawkin Dynamics. With over 10 years of experience in educating and training athletes from youth sports to the professional levels, Drake has worked with business executives and athletes in the US Olympics, NFL, NBA, MLB, UFC, and the NCAA as he provides data-driven insights for performance and health. Prior to Hawkin, Drake was the Applied Sport Scientist for the University of Illinois Men's & Women's Basketball teams for 2 seasons. Support Our Sponsor: Marc Pro

The highest-ranking woman in American sports, Sarah Hirshland is CEO of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, where she leads the organization responsible for fielding the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams and overseeing the Olympic and Paralympic movements in the U.S. Sarah joins Adam to share her journey and her best lessons learned along the way. Sarah and Adam discuss leadership, career development, working in sports, navigating crises and failure, lessons from Olympians, and much more.  

Chris' childhood was marked by unfortunate moments due to his father's severe PTSD and alcoholism resulting from his three tours in Vietnam. Despite the difficulties, his mother's unwavering support and their church community helped them through it. Books became his solace during those challenging times, as making friends was difficult given the circumstances.He attended Olive Branch Elementary School in Chesapeake, Virginia. Chris graduated early from high school and college simultaneously through a program in North Carolina. He also worked as a lifeguard during the off-season and took college courses. He moved to Raleigh and joined an acting troupe as a fencer while training for the US Olympics. How did he step into the advocating for Cannabis? Let's join Chris' journey in this episode of State Lobbying Heroes!

Episode OverviewGetting stuck in your business is common - we have all been there, and many of us are still there. But how do you get unstuck? One way is self-accountability. For the very disciplined, this can work.For many, group accountability is more likely to work. This is where Tanya shines. In the interview, she goes through the GRIT model for accountability. Goal RhythmIterate logTeam She also covers the importance of consequences and how group accountability works.Tanya's background Tanya dove head first into the marketing world and have collected over fifteen years of international/US experience with companies such as Nike and the US Olympics. She then started her first company at 25 and grew it to over $1 million in revenue in the first year. Since then, she has founded, bootstrapped, sold, and invested in five companies. She enjoys running and traveling; she has been to over 42 countries.She is currently on a mission to improve the success rate of small businesses. This mission is the genesis of OwnersUP, a platform for owners to team up and scale faster.Links459 - Show NotesTanya's websiteTanya's LinkedInCloud Consultants CollectiveScaling BlueprintSendSparkJoin our newsletter Connect With PaulOn LinkedInOn FacebookOn Twitter: @PaulHiggins555On Instagram: @paulhigginsmentoringEmail: Paul@paulhigginsmentoring.com

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This application streamlines the process of finding guests for your show and also helps you find shows to be a guest on. The PodMatch Community is a part of this and that is where you can ask questions and get help from an entire network of people so that you save both money and time on your podcasting journey.https://podmatch.com/signup/devannon  TRANSCRIPT: Dr. Lisa Smith[00:00:00]You're listening to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast, where we discuss whatever the fuck we want to! And yes, we can put sex and drugs and Jesus all in the same bed and still be all right at the end of the day. My name is De'Vannon and I'll be interviewing guests from every corner of this world as we dig into topics that are too risqué for the morning show, as we strive to help you understand what's really going on in your life.There is nothing off the table and we've got a lot to talk about. So let's dive right into this episode.De'Vannon: Hello everyone, and welcome to episode number 92 of the Sex Drugs In. Podcast. Thank you so much for joining us today. Dr. Lisa Smith is a professor, a hypnotherapist, an author, and an advocate who has helped many, many people over the past 20 years to overcome all kinds of sexual trauma and P T S D and physical and mental and emotional abuse and all kinds of stuff.Y'all Now, in this episode, Dr. Smith and I are gonna be focusing [00:01:00] particularly on child molestation elder. Victim grooming, religious implication, and various things like that in the sexual arena. This episode touches on serious issues within our society that are severely understated. So I hope y'all get a lot out of this episode and share it with somebody you know.Hello, are you beautiful people out there? And welcome back to the sex drugs in Jesus podcast. Yes, Jesus is your friend. He's my friend. And if you don't believe in anything at all, then maybe you will one day. Today I have with me Dr. Lisa Smith. She's an author and advocate and professor. This woman has over 20 years of experience as a counselor and a hypnotherapist.She considers herself to be an advocate for the masses of those suffering from trauma and abuse. She's professor of psychology, criminal justice, and Human services. Girl, how you doing today, ? Dr. Smith: I am beautiful. And that is [00:02:00] my mantra. Hello, beautiful people. So I am doing really good today and I'm very grateful to ha to be on your show.De'Vannon: Well, thank you for setting us out an hour of your life, Dr. Smith. You know, all the resources we burned through in this life and that we can create more of time. time is one of those things that we just can't get back any more of. And so for you to set aside an hour of your irreversible resource, you know, irre, replenishable resource with Little O Me, you know, it is not taken for granted.I appreciate you mentally. Dr. Smith: Thank you so very much, and I appreciate you for spreading this important message because I don't think we have this conversation enough with all the conversations we could be having. I think this is one we definitely need to have a lot more of, especially when you're talking about trauma and [00:03:00] sexual.De'Vannon: So y'all, well, you might be questioning what trauma will we be talking about today? Cause we talk about a lot of trauma on this show for the day, we're talking about sexual victimization of everybody from Little Childrens all the way up to old people. Before we hopped on this Zoom meeting, Dr. Smith was telling me about the sexual assault of elders, like in her state.She's in Florida. And I was like, okay, well fuck, I never thought about people trying to like do sexual things to incapacitated old people. And, but you know, we're gonna talk about that, you know, you know, later on here. So tell us, you know, so tell us about your, your educational training. You know, you are a doctor.Where did you study? What did you learn? Dr. Smith: Absolutely. Well, I live in Florida, but I am a New Yorker, so I studied at the, in, in CUNY City University of New York at City College. I'm shouting out my alma mater. I also received my [00:04:00] doctorate. I got my bachelor's in my master. There and I received my, my doctorate from Walden University.And then I also have a criminal Justice Masters from Johnson and Wales University. And one of the things I am is the advocate for sexual violence because most of my training has been with trauma, trauma with foster to care kids, trauma with young girls as well as boys. I work with juveniles who were trying to move from the prison system out of the as in diversion programs.And they have a lot of sexual assault history. But I'm a hypnotherapist. I've been a hypnotherapist since oh six. I've worked in a lot of social programs. And what I find is that sexual trauma is most prevalent. So let me give you the stats. One in four girls, one in six boys. But I believe that that is much higher simply [00:05:00] because these are the people that we know have reported.And as you and I know, many people don't report. They tell their story, but they don't report. And so for, especially for the males, those who are themselves, sexual assault victims as well as predators in the juvenile justice system, you find a lot of both, right? Because they were sexually assaulted and they modeled that behavior.So in 2006, I I was working in a. Delinquency program and I was asked if I would be interested in hypnotherapy, which I had not considered, but the subconscious is where we hide or code that trauma through our sensory memories. So it, it was apropo for me to be able to use that technique to actually hit the trauma much quicker than you will in talk therapy.Most of the time it can take anywhere from one to [00:06:00] six meetings, but usually about three meetings with me and that trauma is exposed and you can start moving f from that. So that's, that's my background. And I, like I said, I'm a professor as well. I teach at University of Arizona Global Campus in the human services programs.We have a bachelor's, master's, and PhD there where I work with graduate students. So that's my background. De'Vannon: There's nothing wrong with that. You know, I'm a, a hypnotist as well. I went to school for that and learned you know, all about it. And I, I was gonna pair it with my massage therapy certification that I have it.In the process of learning hypnotherapy, I realized just how how much help I needed myself, and then I decided that I didn't need to be doing that on anybody else. And I, and I turned my training inward and used it to heal me and Dr. Smith: so beautiful. I love De'Vannon: that. , like Dr. [00:07:00] Smith is saying, hypnotherapy is real.And she's not talking about make people quack like ducks on stage or see if they're afraid of cotton and all, all this crazy shit. You see, like on talk shows, we're talking about a therapeutic approach and it's often paired with like psychologists and sociologists or social workers rather, and things like that.And it is totally done in a clinical setting. The education is accredited. Look it up, people. Hypnotherapy is real. There's all kinds of mental health services out there. Maybe hypnotherapy can work for you if nothing else has. So Dr. Smith also wrote a series of books. There's a couple for parents, a couple for kids.The titles are interesting. The first one is called Chad Keeps a Secret. The other one is a yes. Aaliyah can't tell her secret. Yes, those are the ones for parents. It's called the blaming and shaming of defenseless victims in America's rape culture. And y'all, the statistics and things we're talking about today are for the United States of America.We're not talking [00:08:00] globally. And then the other one is overcoming trauma. Is there anything you'd like to say about these four books that you have contributed to the world? Dr. Smith: Absolutely. So the children's books are so that we can start talking to children about sexual violence simply because, Most children under the age of eight will be approached by a sex offender.And many of them don't know what to do when they're asked to keep a secret. And so Chad Keeps a secret, was named by my, my niece Chad Bozeman had just died. And she thought that it would be important for her to name the character Chad in his honor. Now, of course, Aaliyah can't tell. Her secret has everything to do with Aaliyah.Just be clear. The, the characters in it are Aaliyah and [00:09:00] Robert, right? Because I don't want us to know that as a community. We slept on Aaliyah. We knew what was happening with r Kelly, and we did nothing. So this is homage to her. So that people are aware that yes, your teen too can be in a sexual situation that she is not consenting to.And even though we have what we call Romeo and Juliet laws that oftentimes people are not aware that 36% of sex offenders are juveniles or they're consenting with older adults. So those are five to nine year olds. And then we have the the blaming and shaming of defenseless victims in America's rape culture.Why is that? Because we use this theory Now, this is a theory that I devise, you'll find it in my book. That book is specifically [00:10:00] for parents, teachers college student. I wanna know more about how we encourage rape culture in this, in the United States, how we deny, or what we call denial, which is part of dis theory, d i i S, we deny we do not act, which is inaction and information suppression.So basically what we do as a community, as a friend is oftentimes we say, no, that couldn't have happened. Most of the time we are not saying, I believe you. I wanna help you. What can I do to help you? We deny we don't provide action, we don't report, and then we suppress the information. So we have a large number of undetected sex offenders out and about making their way to another vulnerable victim, whether that be a child, a teen, or an adult.So those are my books. They're [00:11:00] available on Amazon, but they're also available on my website. Which is a crime reporting website right to consent.com. And that's the number And that is report? De'Vannon: Yeah. And that's the number two. And I'm gonna put her website, it's right, the number two consent.com. And I'm gonna put all that in the show notes along with her social media and everything like that.I'm curious, what, what got you particularly passionate about this subject matter? Did something happen to you when you were younger or someone you know? What sets you on this Dr. Smith: trajectory? Ironically, there four girls in my family, three have been sexually assaulted. I have not been sexually assaulted, but when I was nine years old, my.Cousins were kidnapped and taken to Saudi Arabia because their father wanted to practice Islam from the origins. And when I saw my cousin [00:12:00] again she was 12 years old. She was a child bride, and she had a baby. And so for a long time I was afraid of the Islamic faith. I didn't know much about it.But I learned a lot about what my cousin would went through. Not only was she sexually assaulted in her marriage as a child bribe, but she was de she, she also faced physical violence. So like I said, the, my, my quest is, , how do we reduce the numbers, eradicate the issue because that was so personal to me.And I have my other cousin who was also married at a, a young age, but she was able to consent the, the sister of my cousin at the time. So, you know, that for African American [00:13:00] girl was a startling revelation. Should I say that this was accepted practice in another part of the world and that child brides can be found in so many places in this c in this world.De'Vannon: Tell me what, what is, how do you feel like the Me Too, the me Too movement compares with what you've studied here and what you've written about? Dr. Smith: Well, I think that the Me Too movement. Kind of piggybacks off of what I call the, the kids too movement, because many of the young people in, not young, but older people in the Me Too movement was sexually assaulted as children, as teens.For many of these women and men, their first sexual this first sexual, [00:14:00] I don't wanna say event, was forced or forcible rape or sexually violent. It wasn't consenting. And so when you say Me Too, the question is what does me, what's the foundation of Me Too? Are the women and men saying that I was a child when I was first sexually assaulted under the age of 10, right.Prepubescent ages, or was I a teen under the age of 18? Right. And so, . The reason why I say that's important because if you are sexually assaulted as a child, you are depending on your race and, and gender, you are. If you're African American, you're 35 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in again.And the sexual assault repetition [00:15:00] is increased when you're under the age of eight. So sexual assault can happen again in your teens and many times the people in Me Too have been sexually assaulted more than once. . Okay. And that's why I think it's significant because depending on your age, will determine the likelihood or your vulnerability of being sexually assaulted again in the future.And that's why I think we need to start having these conversations much, much earlier so that children know how to talk to an offender because the parents aren't gonna be there to save them, if that makes sense. De'Vannon: Right. And we'll talk about those parents in a, in a minute, cause I've got my opinions on, on, on parenting when it comes to the topic of sex.But what, what would you say, I'd like you to give a word of comfort to people out there who have been victims [00:16:00] of sexual assault, either once or multiple times, but, and they may be thinking like, why does this keep happening to me? What am I doing wrong? Why is it my fault? What would you say to them? Dr. Smith: Well, one is the, the fact that we don't talk to our kids and teens about sex.In fact, we usually, if we're talking about sex education classes, they don't come around until the child is in their teens. But what about all those other stages and ages? One is about vulnerability. The other is about what do I do if I'm in this situation? And we don't have those conversations if we're not having conversations about sex.And sometimes that's religious based, right? And sometimes that's cultural based and taboo. But if we're not having these conversations, then how does this child know that I can be in this scenario and how am I going to out of this scenario unharmed. Right. [00:17:00] And and, and that's what I think is missing, right?How is a child victim? How is a one child more likely to be victimized than another child? Right? And, and, and the question is, is how savvy are they when they are approached by someone who, let's just take teens, for example. If you've never had sex and you don't know what to expect and nobody has told you what to expect, even if you say no, somewhere along the line that consent, because we have a lot of issues with consent in this country, that consent may be disregarded.Right? And why is it disregarded? Because we have a culture in which there's this that no doesn't mean. , right? We have movies that show No, no, no, no, no. And then acquiescence, right? So we have these these cues that we're [00:18:00] giving teens as well as young children that just because you say no, that does not mean that you have agency over your body and that the person who is wishing to violate you has more power and control over you.Okay? The other is that what scenario is that child gonna be placed in, and how savvy are they to maneuver their way out of it not to be harmed? And so that's what I believe the issue is. We need to talk about it more often. We need to provide scenarios to young teens as well as children, so that in the event they are approached, they know how to act and respond.And they know that secret keeping is not part of the equation. De'Vannon: Can you give us an example, either from your experience or one of your books as to how a child or somebody who's about to be a victim or has been can act and respond?Dr. Smith: [00:19:00] Absolutely. So in one of my books the blaming is shaman of defenseless victims.I have a boy at the time, he was five years old. His cousin had approached him 11 years old. Grandma goes to the grocery store, his cousin's supposed to be in the house, right? Because 93% of people who are most likely to victimize your child, they're known, they're acquaintance, they're a family member.And let's be clear, so he's in the home with his cousin, she's 11. Okay? And they play this game of touch, right? And, and pleasure. . So he doesn't know as a five year old that this is something that he shouldn't engage in, but it feels good to him. So he allows it. It's a secret. Grandma's not here. So we're gonna keep this secret.And this goes on for up to a year. Every time grandma leaves, they are both touched, they both touch each other. Right now, if we were [00:20:00] to do a rape kit, there's no evidence, right? But yet this is still happening. So how does a child combat that one? , they need to know body boundaries. They need to know that even if this is your cousin, this should not happen.There needs to be a conversation that nobody should touch your body outside of washing it. Right. Because there are times where older adults and older siblings are responsible for taking care of their younger siblings, but that child needs to know that their body shouldn't be touched in a certain way.Those conversations for that five-year-old didn't happen. And so now we see him as an adult. He has a lot of sexual addiction. He also modeled some of the behaviors as he was growing into a teen. And so he looked for, for other girls that had some sexual assault history because [00:21:00] it was easier for them to consent, if you will.Right. I have lo loads of stories where I had someone contact me on Instagram. Four year old daughter is being anally raped by her dad, but the courts don't believe her. The cops don't believe her. She's gone to C P S C P S refused to do a refused to do a wellness check and a, and a bodily check.They just took the report and because she has drug abuse history, they did not investigate. Right. So my. , my advice to her was go to the hospital. They're required to do a check after she comes from her father because it's court appointed that he sees her every weekend [00:22:00] after she comes from her father to get that report.And a doctor providing that report can easily be taken to the courts to say there's some anal fissures, which she, which they did fine. And there's lacerations around the anus. So, so as I said before the goal is not for your child to be victimized or for a, a child to experience this. The goal is to keep them safe, but it's happening.So what do we do now that we have to be reactive instead of proactive? Well, De'Vannon: that brings me to my issue with parenting. So like growing up here in the south, in good old Baton Rouge, Louisiana. , you know, they didn't talk about the s word, you know, they didn't mention sex. They kinda left it to the church into the school, which is like nothing.And so and, and like, and like you're saying when the, the talk, the sex, the birds and the bees does [00:23:00] happen. A per a person's a teenager or whatever, they already got hard dicks and you know, and everything's already been happened by then. But we started experimenting with each other's body parts when we were like in kindergarten, you know, we were already curious at that age.And so I learned about sex from like red shoe diaries on Showtime and real, you know, real fucking Right, right. And so, I agree with Dr. Smith. The only way to safeguard your child against a sexual predator is to establish boundaries as soon as that child is gonna be being outside of your sight. You know, because you cannot control what the hell is gonna happen to your child when they're not there.Education is the only way in keeping that door open. The sex talk is not a one time thing. It's supposed to be an open dialogue that that kid can always come back to you and be made to feel comfortable and safe and not weird. And then if something [00:24:00] does happen, then that bridge is already built. You know, here in the south it's like, it was like the big parents and little kids, you know, the adults over here, the kids over here, they always had this gap between us.And so I never felt like I could go to an adult with any fucking thing. And so, right. You know, when I was 15, I was the older boy in my church and they, the choir director was like 21, 22 and he took an interest in me and we were dating or whatever, and we'd meet in the back of church and make out the adults I guess acted like they didn't know or whatever.And this went on for months and he was running around trying to intentionally give people H I v aids is what he was doing. And so, wow. As an adult, looking back on it, And the, and it, it had to be fucking clear, you know? I'm like, why the fuck didn't any of the adults in this, in this church say anything?They just let me, let this, let this [00:25:00] 22 year old man do whatever the fuck he wanted to with my 15 year old assDr. Smith: Can I bring my criminal justice background in here first?first. They're, they're equally as liable nowadays. Now that the laws are changing, parents as well as guardians are starting to be held accountable for stuff like that. But when we talk about consent laws and age of consent and ability to consent to a certain type of sexual relationship 14 used to in, in, if I'm not mistaken, in Louisiana.14 used to be the age, but they pushed that up if I'm not mistaken, to 16 and that, and it's been 16 probably for decades. Right. So if you're saying that this happened at [00:26:00] 15, that man could have, cuz he's a man after 21, after 18. Right. That man could be responsible. And many of the laws now are changing that they are allowing people to report abuse.That was depending on the age. Of course, if you, if you were a child, you have a lifetime of reporting. But if you were like you, you, a teen, usually some only allow 10 years. Some might allow 25 years. It depends on the. If that makes sense. So that's my criminal justice history. But the fact what, what I need, need the people out there to know is most of the community knows the sexual predator and knows the sex offender.Right. And I'll just throw a question out there. Which one of your family members was suspect that your mama told you Stay away from? Right. Stay away from him or tell [00:27:00] her because they up to no good. Right. Most of the time the community knows first why. is it that they don't engage? It's cuz let's be clear, it has everything to do with who is the person responsible for this victimization?Are they a pillar of the community? Is it a pastor, is it a deacon in the church? Is it a authority figure? Is it a head, a principal at, at the school? Is it a teacher? A lot of times parents will not report because they don't want one, their business to get in the street. And two, they don't wanna be the parent that was not paying enough attention to their child to have and, and victimization occur.Right? So that's denial, inaction, information suppression, dis theory at the top. [00:28:00] Correct. De'Vannon: And you know, parenting is, is not like a cute thing. But it is treated cute. You know, whenever you hear somebody say, they usually don't wanna have a kid. , it's really to the benefit of the parent. You know, you don't really have a child for the child's sake, you know, the kid does not exist until you create them.You create them for your own entertainment or for your own pur purposes, or you want something to love. It is completely selfish to have a child. I don't mean that in a judging way, I just mean it in a truthful way. Not going to adopt a kid that's already here is a little bit different because you're trying to help somebody in a fucked up situation.But the whole point is once the kid gets past the cute rosy phase, you know, you know, there's actual like a lifetime of accountability and it's like a job to be a parent, you know, and everything like that. And it is not just this cute thing, you know, cute kid. You want it to help save your marriage or to help you feel good about yourself or to help you have something love.You know that that person. A, a living ball of emotions and con [00:29:00] consciousness and decisions and things and, and yeah, I, well, I'm saying all this is say, I don't think a lot of people think very deep into the weight of parenting and they get caught up in the emotion of fulfilling the American dream. And then when all of these mm-hmm.things come up, they fall short because they really didn't think about what the hell they were getting into when they decided. Dr. Smith: Right. And, and here's the thing. If that person who's victimizing your child happens to be within your family, families break up for this, right? If it's a father who is victimizing their daughter or their son, , what does that mean to split up the household, right?If it is a nephew or a c a a, a favorite cousin who's victimizing your child, what does that mean to the family as a unit? What parent wants to [00:30:00] turn in their son or daughter, right? What family wants to deal with the fact of sexual assault? And I get it, however I'll give you another case. Girl is 16 years old.Her, she's in her aunt's house. Her pa, her sh her family is there because they lost housing. And it's not uncommon for aunts and uncles and nieces and nephews and cousins to be living in the same house at grandma's house. But at night, she was expected to sleep on the couch. So her uncle would come in, have his beer, feel her up.Go home, go and get in bed with his, with his, with her aunt and sh and her mom slept in another room with her younger siblings. And that was a every night occurrence. But when she brought, she brought it to me. I'm a mandatory reporter, so I have to report this. One of the first things I do is contact her mom.And her mom cusses me [00:31:00] out. I'm gonna make her lose her housing. Her sister's not gonna talk to her anymore. And I, me, the counselor is gonna cause her to be out on the street. I can't tell you how many times people have cussed me out to keep their child safe. I've had a father tell me he was gonna come up to.My job and whip my ass and he don't know me cuz I'm like, listen, I'll give you what you looking for. I get off at five o'clock and I have no problem meeting you. I don't bullies. I'm sorry. Not I ain't your wife and I ain't scared of you. Yes, I absolutely will report this, but I won't be by own myself either.Okay. I'll not be by myself. So call me again. I will give you what you looking for. De'Vannon: He said he ain't about that life. You ain't about that life.[00:32:00]Dr. Smith: I'm not the one. Absolutely not. I, I know that this is a thankless job, but the question is, well, what child in your family do you wanna be harmed? How do you wanna mess with their sexual identity? Because let's be clear. Sexual assault. I'm not talking about sexual orientation, I'm talking about sexual identity.I'm talking about the way they experience pleasure. I'm talking about the way their ideas of sex after they've been violated. I'm talking about how they feel about their own body, their own agency over their body, and how long that's gonna last, right? Is it gonna last into their twenties? You best believe it.Is it gonna last into their thirties, their forties and fifties? You best believe it. We've got 60 and 70 year olds who had sexual charma, and I'm still the first one they told. Hmm. Okay. And what did that mean for the way they, they [00:33:00] received touch, right? Did they find pleasure? Were they out of their body?Are they still numb from something that happened so many decades before? . Right? That's what I mean about sexual identity. You and I, we love sex just as much as the next one because it's pleasurable and it's orgasmic. But what does that mean for a child who's just entering that sexual world and they've been violated and victimized?How will they experience sexual pleasure in the future? And why are we as a community so careless about the fact that we are creating these damaging individuals? Sexual addiction isn't a joke, but let's be clear. There is a link between those who are sexually addicted and sexual assault. Okay. And the way in which promiscuity plays out in their life.[00:34:00]Is that a bomb dropper? De'Vannon: No. I'm just thinking about some people that, well, you know, some people that I know. You know you know, and wondering, you know, what the possible link, just ask them. Dr. Smith: Ask them. I, I, listen. Sexual addiction is linked to sexual assault or victimization or violation in the youth, in their youth.And many of them have repressed it so deep that they don't know that they're being triggered every time they're in a sexual, sexual situation. De'Vannon: So do you find that people who've been sexually assaulted are not emotionally present, they're just kind of like doing the act of sex or what, what, what do you.[00:35:00]Dr. Smith: So there I, yes, I'm gonna say yes to that because there are people who the violence was so frequent that they left their body right, and so they're emotionally lo numb. It's what we call dissociation, right? And we leave our body if we are in threat, right? But if it happens so frequently, then we are no longer emoting properly.So if you are in, for example, if you are in a car accident and you felt that you were going to die, right? You dissociate, meaning that you go into a shock and you freeze. But in that freezing, you disconnect from that emotion, those emotions that may prevent you from reacting and responding. So then we respond.Physiologically, but we are not aware of why we're doing it. Our body mobilizes us and that happens a lot. [00:36:00] So when we are sexual, when, when, when we are sexually assaulted, and that brings sexual violence, right? It is painful. It is harm. Hurtful. It is. And, and you, you stop having control over your own body regardless of the age you dissociate.And it doesn't mean that you return. So for many people, they don't experience that pleasure. They have to have this real intense either roughness. It's the same thing with substance abuse issues. Many people who have substance abuse issues use that as a form of escapism to escape the fact that there's all this trauma in their background.Okay? And they can't. Prevented because they're constantly being triggered by sensory experiences, smell, taste, touch here. Okay. And all the [00:37:00] time they're triggered. It brings them right back to that place because like I said, there are some people who are can, can absolutely cannot move past the trauma. And sometimes talk therapy doesn't allow them to do that.And some people don't even get any kind of therapy, so they just go on. But they're still in that state and they've made a decision. Every time we make a life threatening choice, we make a decision. Sometimes it's an eight year old making that decision. Sometimes it's a 12 year old making that decision.Sometimes it's a 25 year old or a 65 year old making a decision. But we do make a decision about our lack of power and control. De'Vannon: So I have a question about the gays. So when I was in my, it's the gays , right? But when I was in my mid twenties, I, I used to be heavily involved at Lakewood Church in [00:38:00] Houston, Texas, you know, under Joel, Joel and Victoria Osteen.Once they found out I wasn't quite as straight as they would've liked me to be after questioning who I'm dating and stuff like that, I was fired from volunteering and basically told that I was a threat to the children that I was working around just due to my sexual orientation. And so, since the church has this belief that gay men want to lurk around the church to fuck their little boys, I'm, I'm curious if you've seen this in your practice, cuz the church acts like every child molester has to be a gay.Dr. Smith: Okay, so first I wanna say I apologize immensely that that happened to you. As you were saying it, my heart was dropping and I had a little ping. Okay? They are wrong. As soon as I see their psych degree, I will revisit this, but they are wrong, and they had absolutely no [00:39:00] right to tell you that you are a predator.Let's be clear, gay does not equal predation. Let's start there. If y'all didn't hear that before, gay does not equal predation. More importantly, when we start looking at the research, the research says that if you are a sex offender or a predator, you most likely have a. , okay. It has absolutely nothing to do with sexual orientation.It has everything to do with your sexual proclivities. What are you attracted to? There are some male as well as female, and it does not necessarily mean that it is a gay relationship, a bisexual relationship, a transgender relationship, an intersex relationship. Let's get it all out there. Or pansexual, I can go on.This is [00:40:00] about are you attracted to a certain type of minor? Are you attracted to prepubescent? Are you attracted to pubescent? Are you attracted to a certain kind of individual? Now there are those who were born that way, has absolutely nothing to do with sexual orientation. More importantly, if Joe Stein can show me his psych degree.I listen to him, absolutely listen to him. But the days of homosexuality as a disorder in ERA have long passed. Okay? The D S M does not recognize homosexuality as a disorder, right? So let's be clear. Religion often takes a stance that's not validated by research science [00:41:00] or any other human behavior, okay?The fact that many people think that a gay man or a lesbian woman can influence their child in such a way means that they have very little information about the way in which a child not adopts, but is born into a certain sexual orientation. . Okay. So you being a gay does not influence me To be gay does not influence others to be gay.You might serve as a model, meaning that you might be someone that a young gay boy can come and talk to about experiences because they themselves are gay. Okay? But it's not to say that you would somehow, because you were interacting with this child, rub your gayness [00:42:00] off on them, if that makes sense. Okay.It is bullshitand you know when people come up with this or if, when people perceive these incorrect and ignorant thoughts, it's not a threat. That you, it's not that you are a threat, it's that they are a threat because they go around preaching this to others and it's totally and completely inaccurate. But I always tell people, well, as soon as I can see your psych degree, then I will listen to you.But outside of that, if you've sat in as many psych classes and hypnotherapy classes as I have to be not only just to get the degrees, then you might have something to say, but I'm certain that it's not gonna be what they're saying. So again, I apologize for that because [00:43:00] they are authority figures and people listen to them as if their words and thoughts are truthful and factual.Mm-hmm. , and that's bullshit. , whatever they came to you with, that's bullshit. But I'll tell you what, nothing in this life happens for a reason you weren't supposed to be there. And who knows what, what they might call Joe Osteen and his wife in the future, right? Because oftentimes we don't see them work acting godly.But that's another show, right? , that's another show. And more importantly, what would Jesus say? Jesus will probably let you through the Pearl gates quicker than they, than will let them through the pearl gates. And that's just my 2 cents. De'Vannon: Hallelujah. [00:44:00] Tabernacle and praise on that. Well, that's all I'm gonna say.I appreciate your, your kind words and when I was researching you, this word grooming kept coming up. Yes. , what does it mean in the sense of children or, or grooming that this, what is this Grooming? Dr. Smith: Yes, grooming is such a powerful word. The horrible thing is that a or a offender or a predator, most of the time a predator will groom a family, meaning that they will gain your trust and that trust will can span years, right?Because one thing about offenders is they, they wait, they wait to build the trust between the parents so that the parents releases the child to the predator or the offender's care. So they can isolate and withdraw that child so that the grooming process can start. And [00:45:00] that basically means give the child to trust them, give the child gifts, give the child's praise, attention, affection so that the molestation and the penetration can happen.And so basically what happens over time, and it can take days, weeks, months, is that that family trust, that predator or offender, they bring wine to the family functions, okay? They're usually in the house. The parents trust them. And so when that predator says, let me pick your child up from soccer practice.Let me pick your child up from basketball practice. Let me pick your child up from Girl Scouts there. There's the trust. The parent trusts them. That child's in the car. And so that predator or that offender will use touch or they'll expose them to child pornography or naked pictures of themselves. [00:46:00]And if that child doesn't know what to do, that offender or predator will go a little bit further.So they might touch just above the dress, just up the skirt. And if that child says nothing, then that predator or offender knows they can go a little bit farther by touching the butt. And each time they may give candy because the gifts are usually cheap. They might give kisses. They might buy a new pair of shoes or a new toy to get access to the body, and they will wait, wait.And the more that child doesn't fight, the further they will go the next time. You're talking about? Yes. That's grooming. Hmm. That's grooming. De'Vannon: So grooming is like hunting. This is like, yes. An intentional, perfect word. This is a hunt, , [00:47:00]Dr. Smith: pray. They're looking for their prey. They're looking for the weakness in the family unit, and they're looking for the opportunity to isolate the child.Yes. Predators. No. Pray. Yes. They're looking for an entry point study. Long study wrong. De'Vannon: Do you think that these predators. are probably looking for like either weak-minded parents Dr. Smith: or Absolutely. Or a parent that just has too much to do. We have, we come, our culture has parents out of the house, long hours at a time.Children come home sometimes to empty houses and they're governing themselves. I was a latchkey kid. My parents, my mom didn't get home till at, well after five o'clock. Sometimes she left the house to go to work when I was getting home. So we had no [00:48:00] one there at night. This happens often, often, okay. Or that grandma might leave this child with their, that grandma might leave this child with the offender in the house.It might be a sibling, right. It might be a a a uncle. Right. And they might be le a babysitter. Babysitters oftentimes. And people think that because they're little boys and the babysit, if the babysitter is allowing, is having sex with your 10 year old, that's sex offending, that's criminal, that's a felony.Doesn't matter that he's a little boy. It matters. Is it criminal?De'Vannon: Good lord. My mind is [00:49:00] just like spinning. So let, let me, let me take us back to the church. What is your opinion on the Catholic Church and these altar boys and the way they molest them? So, Dr. Smith: snap, these are Survivor. This the Survivor Network Network of those assaulted by Priests is a huge network that's online.You can find it. Okay. What is my take about it? The, the Catholic Church, not just the bishops, but the community. There are communities of older adults who were sexually sodomized, okay. Sodomized by priests and nuns. It's in my book, okay? It's in my book, that it was sanctioned by the community, meaning that the bishops didn't automatically move a priest.They kept what they called pedophile files. The same thing [00:50:00] happened with the Boy Scouts of America. They kept the files and they moved the priest around. So community members and their children knew these priests had absolutely no right, but they left them in place, and when the complaints got big enough, then they would move them to another parish and allow it to happen again.And so if we start holding people who knew accountable authority people or people in authority who knew and did nothing, if we start including them in the lawsuits, then we would see this diminish that you can't move predators around you because you leave a new group of people vulnerable to these assaults.So that's what I think about it. I think they should be jailed. I think that if they're not jailed, they should get [00:51:00] rehabilitation. Because listen, When you sexually assault a child, you don't get a lot of time. It's only recently they started getting time. Some people got 90 days, some people were out in a year, and then they went and got jobs someplace else.Okay? There are some people who serve absolutely no time at all. Sandusky, who ran, who who, who brought that scandal to Penn State. He had a whole foundation centered around his predation and what happened as a result, he got, he, he, of course, he's in jail for the rest of his life, but in comparison to the number of kids he's sexually assaulted, he got a year per kid, right?When we look at some of the major cases, there are people, institutions that know. That's why I said this theory is not just for the victim or the predator or the offender, it's also for the institution. How many schools have [00:52:00] moved around a predator? . Okay. Colleges. I mean, the thing about NDAs is that you hide the fact that this conversation, it's the suppression of information.This conversation cannot be had by the people involved, and so nobody knows about it. That institution doesn't get a smirk on their record. There's no issues with their reputation, and nobody knows about it. So that person gets moved to another university because if there's an nda, that means that they can't talk about it when they're providing a reference.Okay? We engage in a lot of NDAs, and so this is what gets my hackles up because there are so, so many law enforcement agents who are like on college campuses, I am not going to pursue this cuz I don't wanna [00:53:00] mess up this boy's. Career. And so that boy gets a slap on the back and he gets to go on with his life again.When I go back to sexual identity, he gets to use those same techniques someplace else. Because if you are not punished, how does your behavior decrease or decline? Right? That's a basic psychological principle. A rewarded behavior will reoccur. So if you don't go to jail and there's no consequence for your actions, why wouldn't it reoccur?We've just rewarded you. So that's what I think about not just priest, but nuns. who also engaged in this practice in Catholic schools and Boy Scouts. If you were ever in Boy Scouts and many of these other organizations like Coaches , the University of Michigan and the US Olympics. [00:54:00] I can go on with this.NDAs lead to information suppression. Is De'Vannon: there anything like that in the I want, I'm gonna, that is after the interview is over, I'm gonna probably have me like, I don't know, a glass of vodka or something to help this all. Like, settle down. I didn't know much of what you're telling me today. Now let, let, let's talk about this elder abuse in Florida because this shit here y'all, when I think about elder abuse, I was thinking maybe they were taunting them in some sort of menacing way or hitting them.I, it never crossed my mind that somebody would be doing something sexual to some incapacitated elderly person. What in the fuck ? Dr. Smith: It happens at a, on a great scale. So here in Florida, we have a lot of [00:55:00] assisted living facilities in those assisted living facilities. You can have people who can walk those who can't.But the thing about assisted living facilities is that families often stop visiting, right? So that patient might not have anybody who comes to visit them in six months. Maybe one person will come once a year, and so a predator or an offender may see that as an opportunity. And if that, , if that elderly client is off, often uses me medication that keeps them in a comatose state, they are often victimized.And it's, and, and it happens. We know of people in comas who end up pregnant, but when we talk about elder abuse, we're talking about let's, let's say that, that a client has aphasia. Aphasia means, which is exactly [00:56:00] what came, ha, came out with Bruce Willis today. Aphasia means that they have trouble speaking and if you can't understand them and someone has sexually assaulted them, they can't tell you what happened, right, because you don't understand them.Right? There are some people who can speak, but usually stroke patients, they can't speak very. . Okay. So they can't tell you that something has happened to them, right? And so that person visits them when, no, when the staff is small and people aren't really around and paying attention, or when they're supposed to be doing something, they have access, right?Not only do they have access, but they can isolate by simply closing the door, right? By simply closing the door when there's not a lot of staff around to see what they're up to. And so that can happen with just fondling and molesting them while they're taking them to different services, like getting an [00:57:00] M R I or things like that.And that's what we're finding is taking place with elderly, right? So if it's not penetration, it's fondling and molestation, or it's, like I said, penetration in actual sex. De'Vannon: So if, so, if somebody in a coma ends up pregnant, what is the protocol? Do they then get the d n a test on every male staff member, or do they kind of sweep it under the rug?I guess it varies Dr. Smith: per place. They can absolutely get DNA n a evidence, right? Because if there, there shouldn't be semen, right? They can get DNA n a evidence if it is happening frequently, because if it happened before, that doesn't mean it's gonna stop happening when this individual is pregnant. But more importantly they're going to look at the, the people who have access [00:58:00] and then like I said, they're going to see when and when this person had, where this person had access and for how long.Right? And usually if they're the only ones in a room, , right? There's only a few people who are assigned to that individual. Mm-hmm. , right? And then it starts becoming investigation because if oftentimes there's others, there's others, right? And so you just start by eliminating the people that it couldn't be, can't be women, right?However, the men, this, this, this client comes in contact with, but with elderly abuse, you're not gonna find that, because of course they're past the menopause, but there are lacerations, there might be marks. And that's how they're finding out about it. Can a De'Vannon: woman give birth to a [00:59:00] kid if she's still in a coma when the term is Oh yeah.Dr. Smith: Absolutely. A reproductive cell. Her, her reproductive organs are still working and it has happened. It has happened. De'Vannon: How in the fuck can you imagine waking up out of a coma with a kid? You be like, oh, hell no. Where the Dr. Smith: fuck , I can't, I can't imagine being someone who's coming in to check to see that and finding out that this woman came in and was not pregnant and now all of a sudden she is.Yes. And d n a nowadays, you know, that's e that's easy to get now. Sweet Jesus. De'Vannon: And so, exactly. All right, so the last thing we're gonna talk about are like treatments. Before we talk about treatments for the victims, I wanna talk about treatments for the perpetrators because everybody's gonna, yes, everybody's gonna take their tiki torches out and their goddamn machetes and wanna butcher them and [01:00:00] burn them at the cross.I leave the judgment to y'all. I fear God, I gotta stand before him myself. I am not gonna be yet another voice in the crowd saying, burn him at the stake or her, because you hateful bastards got that covered. So, , , look, it gets on my nerves, you know, every time there's a child molester here, I, when I, when I lived in an apartment, I got sick of getting those goddamn postcards with this dude's face thing.He's a molester. I'm like, Nobody's perfect. I'm not excusing what they did or allegedly did, but there's got to be some recourse, some sort of help. You know, everybody can be redeemed, you know, if Jesus had a murder, murder and a thief hanging with him at, at Calvary Cal, you know, at Calvary, so, you know, at Calvary, so what hope that someone have, if they have molested a child or an adult or been been the perpetrator in a sexual situation, you know, they may feel guilty, they may beat themselves up, but [01:01:00] everybody can change.I don't care what's going on. So what do you think? Dr. Smith: Absolutely, absolutely. So we use several different techniques. The most severe that I believe and some Some pedophiles ask for, this is medical cra castration. But that doesn't really solve the urge, right? That doesn't really address the attraction, right?Because there are those, what we call minor attracted persons. These are people who are attracted to minors. There's that urge. Now there are those who don't act on it. And so that's not criminal, right? That attraction is still there, but how do we treat it? And we use what we call desensitization, right?And so we desensitize them. We use cognitive behavioral therapy because now we have to deal with the cognitive loop. The thought loop [01:02:00] about this. And, and like I said, there are a large number of people who were sexually assaulted by someone at an early age, and they received pleasure. And so now that they're older, I have had people tell me, you know, I married someone who looks just like the person who assaulted me, simply because sexually they're.Magnetized because they were so young. That was their first sexual experience. They equated it with an orgasm and it gave them pleasure. And so now they have this type and people call that a sickness, but it happens. There is somebody out there who's gonna tell you, yes, Smith, this absolutely happens. I and, and there are those who have babies for their offend by their offenders.And so cognitively we have to reduce or [01:03:00] we have to teach them to make new decisions about their offending. Right. And so not everyone who's been sexually assaulted is a predator, an offender or will be, but there are those who are and can be. So we have to. The thought processes, the way in which they experience pleasure, the desensitization of that.And that can be anything. Absolutely. Anything sensory. What do you smell? I smell the cologne. So anytime I smell that cologne, that cologne stimulates me in such a way, even though it's destructive, even though it came outta trauma. Right. Or I hear certain music, certain words that he would say or she would say to me, those things have to be addressed.And a lot of times they're hidden in the sensory memory. That doesn't come out during talk therapy. You have to do a series of sessions with that [01:04:00] individual to get to that which is stuck in the subconscious. And to get to that which is stuck in the subconscious, is outta your awareness. So you have to use certain techniques to do so.De'Vannon: My my with a tangled, well, we weave. Dr. Smith: Yes, it absolutely is. De'Vannon: Well, what I'm excited about is whether somebody's been a victim or they've been the perpetrator, there's help available if you want it. Dr. Smith: Absolutely right. Because we can reduce the urges so that that person is not a criminal. But for those who have not acted on these urges, how do we, how do we reduce that cognitive loop and that physiological response?And there's ways in which we can absolutely do that. Hmm. De'Vannon: Hold on. Y'all help is on the way. Help is on the way. [01:05:00] So y'all, so y'all, Dr. Smith's website is right to consent.com. You can find her on Facebook. The LinkedIn, Dr. Smith: TikTok, Instagram, I'm everywhere. De'Vannon: Okay, I'm here for the TikTok. Yes. And and I'll put all this in the show notes and everything like that.So thank you so much for this, for this, for this deep and troubling and moving it truthful information that you've given us today. I'm gonna have to have you back on. Okay. You can Dr. Smith: anytime you need me. Yeah. De'Vannon: Y'all, Dr. Smith's gonna be a standing guest on the sex drugs in Jesus podcast because of what a oppressing issue this is.I fear that it probably won't be going away overnight, so I kind of wanna stay on top of this as new information develops. You know, we're gonna be you know, in touch with you. So are there any last words [01:06:00] of advice or encouragement or whatever you'd like to say to the people out there?Dr. Smith: Absolutely. If you have been sexually assaulted regardless of the age, or you are a parent and you wanna educate your children, the conversation is where you start having the conversation and communicating. There is absolutely so many different areas. YouTube has a lot of self-hypnosis for those who've been sexually assaulted.But more importantly, you know it was not your fault and that self-care is so, so vital in the way you move past the trauma that you've experienced or that your child may have experienced, or if you're trying to keep your children safe. So thank you so much. I am so grateful for the opportunity to talk to you, and I just asked that if you come across someone who has been sexually assaulted, the only thing you can say is, I believe you, and how can I help you?[01:07:00]De'Vannon: and that's the T right there. Y'all look, look forward, look, look, look out for Dr. Smith being back on our show Again, thank you so much for expressing all that you have expressed today. God bless you. Thank you.Thank you all so much for taking time to listen to the Sex Drugs in Jesus podcast. It really means everything to me. Look, if you love the show, you can find more information and resources at Sex Drugs in jesus.com or wherever you listen to your podcast. Feel free to reach out to me directly at Davanon Sex Drugs and jesus.com and on Twitter and Facebook as well.My name is Davanon, and it's been wonderful being your host today. And just remember that everything is gonna be all right. 

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Bob Beaudine is the Author of '2 Chairs ? The Secret that changes everything.' Many people, including me, have had their life changed by this book! It’s a great reminder to start everyday with God! Bob is the CEO of Eastman & Beaudine, a leading executive search firm in sports/entertainment. Bob has helped shape the leadership teams of some of the world’s most innovative businesses- NBA, Baseball, Hockey, Tennis, Rodeo, PGA Tour, US Olympics, NASCAR, Professional Bull Riders & Horse Racing. He has interviewed & coached Senators, Governors, Generals, CEO’s, University Presidents, Top Athletic Coaches and Studio Presidents. He is sought out by many top universities, business & sports/entertainment organizations to speak at conferences. He has recently made appearances on The Today Show, CNBC, Fox Business News Primetime with Dave Ramsey, Business News Network in Canada, ABC Good Morning Texas, Fox Good Day, & CBN News. Listen in to his story, which he tells with contagious enthusiasm!Support the show: http://historymakersradio.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bob Beaudine is the Author of "2 Chairs - The Secret that changes everything." Many people, including me, have had their life changed by this book! It's a great reminder to start everyday with God! Bob is the CEO of Eastman and Beaudine, a leading executive search firm in sports/entertainment. Bob has helped shape the leadership teams of some of the world's most innovative businesses- NBA, Baseball, Hockey, Tennis, Rodeo, PGA Tour, US Olympics, NASCAR, Professional Bull Riders and Horse Racing. He has interviewed and coached Senators, Governors, Generals, CEO's, University Presidents, Top Athletic Coaches and Studio Presidents. He is sought out by many top universities, business and sports/entertainment organizations to speak at conferences. He has recently made appearances on The Today Show, CNBC, Fox Business News Primetime with Dave Ramsey, Business News Network in Canada, ABC Good Morning Texas, Fox Good Day, and CBN News. Listen in to his story, which he tells with contagious enthusiasm!

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This week, the guys welcome 5-time gold medalist and all-time US Olympics legend Bonnie Blair into The Garage. We look back on her time in the Olympics, from having no expectations in Sarajevo in 1984, to being the best speed skater in the world in the 90's. You don't want to miss this firsthand account of life as an Olympian, all over Garage Beers of the Week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 51 of Sport Unlocked, the podcast dissecting the week's sports news issues with interviews and insight from Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja. Vote for us in the Sports Podcast Awards via https://www.sportspodcastawards.com/categories/10 On the agenda on January 14, 2022: The Novak Djokovic deportation latest. Andy Murray's agent, Matt Gentry, joins us from Melbourne ahead of the Australia Open on the damage caused to tennis by Djokovic and the Covid visa exemption status saga. Gentry also discusses Murray's future after returning from injury - after many expected the 3-time Grand Slam winner to retire - and why the Scot won't accept lucrative Saudi offers to play exhibition matches in the kingdom. Also on the pod: Analysis on the African Cup of Nations week one and the refereeing mess-up, Manchester City's annual financial report, the Olympics doping case being prosecuted by American authorities and remembering investigative journalist Andrew Jennings, who died this week. Send any questions to the team on Twitter @SportUnlocked Check out videos from the interviews on Sport Unlocked's YouTube channel, Instagram or Twitter pages Music No Love by MusicbyAden https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenCreative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/_no-loveMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/JgXz25Tw5d4

Robert Leach, MD, former Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Boston University, 12th President of AOSSM, and Editor Emeritus of AJSM, shares his interest in rock climbing, how the society has changed over the last 50 years, his involvement as the US Olympics head physician, and more. 

In this episode, Dennis Manoloff reacts to yet another heartbreaking Browns loss, his weekend in Columbus and what the US should be doing. Produced by: Jordan Powell     The Press Play Podcast Network Follow us on Twitter: @pressplaypods For sponsorship plans and more information, please email admin@pressplaypodcasts.com To listen to all our shows and learn more about our network, please visit www.pressplaypodcasts.com

Addie Bracy is a professional trail runner, coach, author and Certified Mental Performance Consultant. She's also a 2:35 marathoner and is a three-time US Olympics trial qualifier. In this episode of Run with Fitpage, Addie discusses the importance of mental training for runners, dealing with stress and anxiety, and a lot more with our host Vikas Singh.Episode Summary:00:00 - About this episode01:24 - Welcome Addie to the show!01:30 - Beginning of Addie's athletic journey04:16 - Moving from marathons to ultramarathons09:47 - How should people approach mental performance in addition to nutrition and training?12:40 - The importance of setting realistic goals - does journaling help?17:01 - Role of daily life stress on performance and how to manage them?19:46 - Managing your performance with chronic anxiety21:29 - About heart-rate variability23:06 - Breathing techniques and strategies to help you win over stress and anxiety25:34 - About Addie's book - Mental Training for Ultrarunning29:38 - Overcoming setbacks33:15 - Addie's advice to runnersGuest Profile:Addie Bracy is a Mental Performance Expert and a trail runner. Apart from the Olympic Qualifiers, Addie has won three USATF National Championships, and been selected to compete internationally on 10 USA teams. In 2017, she was a scoring member of Team USA's Gold Medal team at the World Championships for mountain running. Over the last ten years, Bracy has worked with athletes at the high school, collegiate, and post-collegiate levels. Addie is also a coach with over ten years, and her training methods include mental training as a significant aspect. Connect with Addie on,Instagram: @addiebracyAbout Vikas Singh:Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale and Reliance before coming up with an idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better.For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below:Instagram: @vikas_singhhLinkedIn: Vikas SinghGmail: vikas@fitpage.inTwitter: @vikashsingh1010About the Podcast: Run with FitpageThis podcast series is built with a focus on bringing science and research from the endurance sports industry. These may help you learn and implement these in your training, recovery, and nutrition journey. We invite coaches, exercise scientists, researchers, nutritionists, doctors, and inspiring athletes to come and share their knowledge and stories with us. So, whether you're just getting started with running or want to get better at it, this is the best podcast for you!Learn more about fitness and nutrition on our website, www.fitpage.in or check out our app Fitpage on iOS and Android.This podcast has been recorded via Zoom.

World News in 7 minutes. Wednesday 8th December 2021.Transcript at: send7.org/transcripts Please help to support the podcast by giving what you would spend on a cup of coffee just once a month at send7.org/supportToday: China US olympics boycott. Myanmar Rohingyas sue facebook. Pakistan Sri Lankan murder. UAE work change. Burundi prison fire. Niger strong jihadists. Russia US talks. France Saudi Khashoggi arrest. Chile gay marriage. US Chewing gum for COVID? Send your opinion or experience by email to podcast@send7.org or send an audio message at send7.org for us to broadcast. Please help to support the podcast by giving what you would spend on a cup of coffee just once a month at send7.org/supportWith Stephen Devincenzi.SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) tells the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, this podcast is for you. Transcripts are totally free and can be found at send7.org/transcripts. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated stories in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they listen to SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it. For more information visit send7.org/contact

Beauty guru Fatima Olive is filling in for Ali. Ralph Lauren for the US Olympics and Fendi x Skims are among the most recent fashion collaborations. Fatima gives last-minute Halloween costume ideas and advice. Plus. a quilted puffer jacket and a sweatshirt dress in Whose Look is it.

What are your goals worth to you? How much time, energy, and money are you willing to spend to reach those goals and be the best version of yourself? In this episode, Andrew Simmons speaks with Dr. Jake Swart Physical Therapist and president of Athlete's Potential- a specialized physical therapy for amateur to elite athletes. Andrew and Jake discuss the art of acknowledging what value you hold in different areas of your life, and how "buying into" the values can help realize your goals. Dr. Jacob Swart is a physical therapist, coach and athlete. In addition to receiving his doctoral degree in Physical Therapy from Ohio University, Jacob is also a certified strength and conditioning specialist and CrossFit Level 1 coach. Prior to physical therapy school, Jacob completed an internship at an athletic performance enhancement facility where he helped develop specific training programs for various levels of field, court, and strength athletes as well as helping general population reach their health and wellness goals. Since that time, Jacob has worked with the men and women of the United States Air Force, current and former NFL players, US Olympics, multiple collegiate sports, CEOs, and desk jockeys alike. ​ He is passionate about using his advanced background in strength and conditioning in conjunction with his training in manual therapy, performance dry needling and joint manipulations to help his clients reduce their risk of injury and perform at an optimal level. His goal is to help people get out of pain, optimize performance, and ultimately, become the best version of themselves. When Jacob is not working, he enjoys exploring Atlanta with his wife, Jessica, and Bulldog King Louie, sports of all kinds and hiking the many trails Georgia has to offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/definingendurance/message

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Welcome back mis amigos!  Have you or a loved one been to physical therapy and left disappointed?  Tune in to listen to a pioneer physical therapist who uses traditional training combined with other related fields that revolutionize how we recover from injury and pain. Topics we cover include… Short-comings of traditional PTRelated professions of PTRehab vs. performance Holistic physical therapyHow weight centric care damages usIntroducing Our GuestDr. Jacob Swart is the President of a performance based physical therapy company in Atlanta, GA called Athletes' Potential. As a company, it is their mission to prove that if you have a body, you're an athlete. They have helped thousands of people in the Atlanta area get back to living  the healthy lifestyle they deserve and they are just getting started.  In addition to receiving his doctoral degree in Physical Therapy from Ohio University, Jacob is also, a certified strength and conditioning specialist and CrossFit Level 1 coach. Prior to  physical therapy school, Jacob coached at an athletic performance enhancement facility where he helped develop specific training programs for various levels of field, court, and  strength athletes as well as helping the general population reach their health and wellness  goals. Since that time, Jacob has worked with the men and women of the United States Air  Force, current and former NFL players, US Olympics, multiple collegiate sports, CEOs, and  desk jockeys alike.  He is passionate about using his advanced background in strength and conditioning in conjunction with his training in manual therapy, performance dry needling and joint manipulations to help his clients reduce their risk of injury and perform at an optimal level. His goal is to help people get out of pain, optimize performance, and ultimately, become the  best version of themselves.For full show notes remember to visit our website for links and more. If you like this episode, then download the show wherever you listen to your podcasts at Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Google and hit that subscribe button so you won't miss another episode. Big Ask: Leave a Review! Please, take a few minutes and leave me a review on your podcast app. Each review helps other listeners find the podcast, which provides me with the ability to continue bring you unique content. So spread the love. Loss for words? Just write what you like about the show.  If you want to work with us, schedule an appointment. You can email us at info@orozconutrition.com or call 678-568-4717. Our website is currently under construction.Once again, I greatly appreciate you for listening and supporting my show. Remember, it really only takes One Small Bite to start transforming your life.   Remember - Chop the diet mentality; Fuel Your Body; and Nourish Your Soul

Ãnna & Jessi start the show with a SEXY update about The Dope Girls official IG account! The girls also read stoner stories from the likes of Johnny Bravo as well as play a passionate game of weed you rather. Sophia Massad's "Dope Soph Corner" segment is about the heart wrenching story of Sha'Carri Richardson being suspended from the US Olympics for smoking cannabis. Don't forget to submit your own stoner stories to us on instagram. Thank you to our sponsor FIRELEAF Dispensary!

  How much history do you know when it comes to the involvement of African Americans within the US Olympics? With the involvement, how do you think it played an influence on future athletes? All sports shows are not made equal. What do you get when you two male sports fanatics and an intellectual female that does not watch sports in the same room with a microphone?​ "Sports talk in the key of life." You get an hour of entertaining, free-flowing, but somewhat balanced sports talk. You get Simplee Sportz w/ hosts 1Mic and RG. "Simplee Sportz with 1Mic, RG, and Simplee Bree" will be on all platforms as they discuss the latest news and games across the board, so get ready for some heated debates and thought-provoking sports talk. With two new segments to hit the show, "1 VS 1," and "Mic-Isms," we're sure you'll find the show quite entertaining to say the least.

KANYE, PLEASE DROP DONDA-  Big Homies House E:74 #Donda #olympics #Chiraq #kanyewest We had the homie XO in the building, and this week we keeping it sweet and to the point! Its back to school season, and we're taking yall to class ! A Brand new week with the Homies, so lets tap in!! We discuss was Pardi scary for talking about DaBaby and Tory online but not pressing them in real life? Is your girl allowed to twerk on her gay homeboy??? Can you date someone with ZERO ambition, and whats the difference between a H** and a P********* !!!!???? iTS TIME, TO TAP IN!!!!   ALL PODCASTS AUDIO AVAILABLE HERE:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-big-homies-house/id1520022230   For EXCLUSIVE BEHIND THE SCENES FROM THE SHOW. CLICK HERE: https://onlyfans.com/yamcamcandy This weeks Homies are  @_xoimher TIMESTAMPS:  5:00 - Was DaBaby Wrong For Bringing Out Tory At Rolling Loud? 11:36 - Can Your Girl Twerk On Her Gay Guy Bestfriend  16:48 - Do You Need To Get A Girl An Outfit For A First Date  20:40 - Why Are Black People So In Love With The Image Of A Black Man Wearing A Suit ? 24:54 - Is It A Red Flag For Someone You're Talking To, To Not Have Any Ambition  27:24 - Why Does Every Woman Want To Be An Influencer  42:53 - Do You Tell Your Friend, That Your Mutual Friend Is Talking Shit Behind Their Back? 49:12 - Would You Let Your Close Friend Sell Coonchie  52:38 - Hoes vs Prostitutes  57:40 - Dear JoJo: Would You Break Up With Someone Who Has An STD? 1:01:55 - Would You Leave Your New BF/GF If You Found Out They Had A Terminal Illness??   Big Homies House, Olympics, US Olympics, Tokyo 2020, Tokyo Olympics, DabABY, DABABY CANCELLED, Rolling Loud, Lolapalooza, Donda album, Donda, Kanye West Donda, Kanye, Meezy

Wednesday, August 4, 2021: Today on the 4&3 Podcast, Faithwire's Dan Andros breaks down today's top stories along with Tré Goins-Phillips.*NYC becomes the first city to mandate proof of vaccine in order to dine indoors, do other basic societal things*The CDC decides to make its own law, extending eviction moratorium*Christian sprinter Sydney McLaughlin smashes world record, wins gold *US Olympic wrestler Tamyra Mensah-Stock wins gold, praises God and the United States

Dave Shoji, former UH Women's volleyball coach and Olympic father, talks the US Olympics and the performances of the Shoji brothers and Micah Chrisenson this year. Casey Kiernan of AM Hoops Podcast talks the NBA and tomorrows draft and his take on the top prospects coming into the league. Chris Monter of Monter Draft News talks the NBA Draft as well as some guys past the top four of Cunningham, Mobley, Green and Suggs to watch out for.

The guys talk US Olympics news.

The guys talk US Olympics news.

The guys talk US Olympics news.

July 27: Aaron Rodgers has officially reported to training camp, but Sara Perlman (@saraperlman) and Drew Dinsick (@whale_capper) explain why they are still fading the Packers. Mary Kay Cabot from the Cleveland Plain Dealer stops by to talk about the Browns season outlook and what can be expected of Baker Mayfield, Odell Beckham Jr. and Myles Garrett. Drew and Sara discuss a tough Tuesday for Team USA a the Tokyo Olympics, as Simone Biles withdraws from the Women's Gymnastics team event. And in Edge of the Day, Drew is taking Caeleb Dressel in the Men's 100M Freestyle event while Sara is on the Over (6) in the first five innings in tonight's Red Sox vs. Blue Jays matchup.

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The fellas start this episode with Tyrin recapping his wedding experience in Hawaii. After that they speak on the Bucks winning the NBA finals and how trash the men's US Olympics basketball team is. From there, they talk about new music from Gambino and Isaiah Rashad as well as a rap beef between Royce 5'9 and Lupe Fiasco. Other topics include Space Jam 2, the Sport Illustrated covers, and how terrible chicken breast is. Thanks for listening !

While watching the Olympics to keep track of the three Milwaukee Bucks players taking part in the games, Ti Windisch, Rohan Katti, and Adam McGee couldn't help but notice the flaws within the team construction of the USA team that lost its first group play match against France on Sunday morning. The three Gyro Step Podcast Network hosts thus tried their hand at putting together better rosters, and would love to know who listeners think did the best job! They first took a look at what Jordan Nwora, Jrue Holiday, and Khris Middleton did in their first Olympic action though. The Gyro Step Podcast Network is on YouTube for occasional live video content and other projects, subscribe today! GSPN is proud to call Blue Wire's network of podcasts home. You can follow Rohan and Ti  and the Gyro Step itself on Twitter, and send either of them a screenshot of you listening or rating and reviewing the pod to get in the Gyro Group discord! You also can (and should!) follow Adam, Jordan, and the Win In 6 podcast on Twitter as well! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Cam Akers suffered an achilles injury and is out for the season. What options do the Rams have? Is a reconciliation with Todd Gurley a possibility? Eric Dickerson stops by to talk about it. Also, even with the Opening Ceremony just days away, olympic officials are saying that the games may still be cancelled.

Fresno Co. DA will fill DUI charges against Kingsburg City Councilmember, Jewel Hurtado. An alternate to the US Olympics gymnastics team has tested positive for COVID. An update on the claims of voter fraud in AZ shows... nothing. A moment on Joe Perry and Trump.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fresno Co. DA will fill DUI charges against Kingsburg City Councilmember, Jewel Hurtado. An alternate to the US Olympics gymnastics team has tested positive for COVID. An update on the claims of voter fraud in AZ shows... nothing. A moment on Joe Perry and Trump.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

More stupidity regarding COVID and US Olympics. Craig and Birdman discuss what really needs to happen. Oh, and remember, TERM LIMITS for Congress. Please visit our sponsors and show them some love. www.birdman.media www.blackbirdanthem.com https://www.youtube.com/user/craiglieberman Patriot Edition is proudly brought to you by: http://www.seal1.net https://obsidianarms.com https://electronictransfer.com

This is the 56th episode of the podcastFootball:Euros.Brief PED tangent.Summer transfers.Away goals change for UEFA.Copa America Update.Basketball:NBA Playoffs & Ben Simmons.Should Hawks sign John Collins to a max?Organization changes in Boston, Portland, Indiana, and Dallas.US Olympics team.NBA Draft Lottery.We hope you enjoy the episode and tune in for more coming soon. Follow us on social media:The Podcast: Twitter: learnthegamepod, IG: ltgpod.Ogen: Twitter: _Ogen, IG: Ogen_Abiru: Twitter: toni_abiru, IG: toni_abiru.Bola: Twitter: Bolarinwa_, IG:bolarinwao

The boys are back and we get into the final games of the conference semi's and the beginning of the Conference Finals in the NBA. We discuss the foreign substance talk in baseball and the potential game of the year between the Nats and Phillies. We discuss the woes of Ben Simmons as Mark goes off on his much needed tangent. The US Olympics are right around the corner which means USA basketball teams on the men's and women's side has been announced but of course there's drama behind one of these teams. Also Raiders defensive-lineman Carl Nassib has come out as gay and is the first active openly gay player in the NFL and we give our props and support to him as well. We hope you enjoy today, and hope you guys continue to support as the weeks go on.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Barry Edwards and Merle Garrison discuss... June 25th... and still no UFO disclosure Career/Self Improvement Barry's 15 minute video: How to automate your social media posts with Buffer - https://bit.ly/2UsW1Sr How teamwork, preparation and character lands more sales than simple elbow grease. Free Speech | Andrew Doyle |The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast | Season 4 Episode 32 -- https://bit.ly/3vWsfCK Andrew discusses his new book, “Free Speech and Why It Matters”. The hate crime law in Parliament, the attack on free speech and its importance, Twitter attacks, creativity, and Titania McGrath's story. Current Events 48 charged at ‘Redneck Rave' in Kentucky -- https://bit.ly/2SmK2oZ Condo collapse should serve as urgent alert that old Florida structures need auditing -- Miami Herald Trump Going To U.S.-Mexico Border As Kamala Avoids Going, Biden's Border Crisis Worsens - https://bit.ly/3w1dOgx Biden's touts new crime prevention strategy focused on gun control. Murder rates souring in Chicago and Lightfoot blames guns - https://fxn.ws/2SqN8bp The Lighter Side Big score for women: Transgender hurdler is barred from competing in the US Olympics trials after she fails to prove she can meet the testosterone requirements

Mahala Landin, Broker in Charge of The Rachel Kendall Team, talks with Kyle Lubrano, VP of Operations - Risk Management for Player's Health. Youth sports is very popular in the Triangle, but many wonder what kind of sport they should put their child in, is it safe, and how do they find the best league or studio. Kyle is very familiar with athletics as she was a collegiate athlete, coach, and has worked on many committees for the US Olympics and Paralympics. Listen to learn what to do first when getting your child started in sports!Get to know Player's Health:- Website: https://www.playershealth.com/- Phone: 612-324-6979Get to know The Rachel Kendall Team:- Website: https://rachelkendall.com/about/team/- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRachelKendallTeam/- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therachelkendallteam/- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-rachel-kendall-team/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/rkteam- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/rachelkendallteam- Phone: 919.782.4505

Jason & John Show, Thursday, June 24, 2021, Hour 2 (w/"The Rundown" on Trae/Ja, Tom Brady & Kevin Durant) in Seg 2: J&J discuss the US Olympics and Basketball Team See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rishad is an author, speaker and advisor whose key skill is getting people to see, think and feel differently about how to grow themselves, their teams and their company. He does this through distilling 40 years of global learning and wisdom and communicating in a way that is provocative, pragmatic and inspirational. Rishad works closely with leadership of companies to increase productivity by unleashing the potential of the talent. He does so within hours with no need for long winded engagements and costs. Rishad's is the author of “Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data” published by Harper Collins. Additional writings can be found on the Re-Inventing blog. Rishad is noted for his keynotes which are customized to every audience since Rishad uses no presentation materials, notes or multi-media. He has spoken at tech companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter, major brands like Walmart, CVS, Procter and Gamble and H&R Block and Associations like US Olympics, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Association of National Advertisers and Outdoor Advertising Association. Rishad was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five “Marketing Innovators". Rishad is a Senior Adviser to the Publicis Groupe, the world's third largest communication firm with 80,000 employees serving most recently as its Chief Growth Officer and Chief Strategist. Rishad has a BS in Mathematics from the University of Bombay and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rishadtobaccowala Twitter: @rishad --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

The voice of the Quakes, Ted Ramey, covers a variety of topics this week including the SF Glens USL soccer venue coming to Treasure Island, FIFA considering Levi's Stadium as a site for 2026 World Cup matches, the U.S. Olympics qualifiers, and the upcoming Quakes season that begins mid-April.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The voice of the Quakes, Ted Ramey, covers a variety of topics this week including the SF Glens USL soccer venue coming to Treasure Island, FIFA considering Levi's Stadium as a site for 2026 World Cup matches, the U.S. Olympics qualifiers, and the upcoming Quakes season that begins mid-April.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are you inspired? When a crisis arises, inspiration disappears - but as our colleague Andy Stefanovich explains, the human energy crisis has been around for a long time. Listen as he explains what he does, and what he advises his CEO clients to do, to lead with passion and purpose. Through partnering with Andy as a Consultant for 20 years, he has changed the way we help leaders integrate business AND people strategy to leverage disruption for optimal growth while having a lot of fun while doing it. Advising Executive Fortune 100 and start-ups leaders on how to leverage disruption and change, Andy has provided strategic leadership for companies like Disney, Capital One, Fidelity Investments, The US Olympics, and the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. Andy truly forces executives to look at more stuff, gain a different perspective, lead an inspired life, generate ideas, purposefully disrupt conventional patterns, and ultimately, drive innovation forward. His book, “Look at More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth and Change”, was a Washington Post bestseller. 

Transfer of resources between currently existing generations. There is a clear link with the previous time scale, for a collective solution will mean that the cost of those currently drawing benefits is paid by those currently in employment. But there are further ramifications. Should the assets of the older generation pass to the younger generation or not? One tradition, going back to JS Mill and supported by Bill Gates snr is that the inheritor has done nothing to earn the wealth which might be morally dangerous for the individual, and harmful for society in stultifying enterprise. Gates pointed out that the US Olympics team is not selected from the children or grandchildren of those who won gold medals in Los Angeles - so why should the same apply to wealth and enterprise? The alternative view is that inheritance taxes should be abolished as theft. Again, different societies have adopted different approaches, with England opting for primogeniture and testamentary discretion, where countries with the Napoleonic code have partible inheritance and no or limited discretion. Why are there such differences, and what impact do they have on social mobility and inequality?A lecture by Martin Daunton 16 FebruaryThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/inheritGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege

On Episode 33 I speak with, Youtuber, podcaster, fitness tech reviewer, sports software engineer and triathlete, Matt LeGrand. Matt became a state championship runner in High School before going on to work with the US Olympics, Nike and Runners World. In this interview Matt talks about his experiences as an athlete and shares his insights and recommendations on the fitness gear, exercise diets and training techniques that he has found has proven most effective. Hosted by Anthony Casey.All episodes also on YouTube. Songs: Nowe - Burning https://youtu.be/AWv6Cr-RJaMWaited - RYYZNhttps://youtu.be/jJg0_gG-nCc

Barbara Jordan has traveled the world as an elite athlete, coach, instructor, and broadcaster.  As a former collegiate All American, National Champion and medalist as a USA Softball Team member and coach, Barb is experienced in skilled learning and teaching.  As a victim of predatory violence, Barb channeled her experience and knowledge gained through years of athletic participation and coaching into studying and teaching the skills of vigilance training. Always Bev provides the platform through which Barb is able to share her passion of educating others on the importance of personal safety and keen awareness in everyday life. Her commitment to preventing violence against females and her astute teaching in delivering the message of trusting your intuition and recognizing warning signs, has already positively affected many lives. Barb welcomes the opportunity to share her knowledge with you. Barbara has taken the lessons and heartache from her sister’s tragedy on the road to foster a nationwide effort to promote life skills necessary in all we do, so females especially are never placing themselves in vulnerable positions. In addition to the personal safety courses she teaches throughout the country — both in person and now on webinars — she has founded ‘Always BEV’ a foundation who’s name honors her sister Beverly, and encourages all to ‘Always BE Vigilant’ . Since 2018 she has made a passionate commitment to educate women on predatory behavior and how to avoid being a victim of such a crime — educating participants on safety skills that can influence and empower individuals in a positive way.Most recently, she also started a podcast that tells the story, but more so expands on the ‘Ripple Effect’ of which crimes like these often extend within family, friends and other acquaintances — how life changes in an instant — and most important, providing lessons to live more safely.Barbara, who has taught thousands of women and young females to create a plan of action, especially through daily routines, recognizes that in today’s world, there are daily assaults that victimize and sometimes end the lives of women and teenagers throughout the country. She is a social impact hero, working to make an important change.Learn more about Barbara and her impactful mission at:alwaysbev.com - ALWAYS BEVAlways Bev- The Ripple Effect PodcastAlways Bev - The Ripple Effect podcast (player.fm)Barbara Recommended the book: The Gift of Fear by Gabin  de Becker.

They say elections have consequences. One group in particular who lives on the precipice on who gets sworn-in, come this January are DACA recipients. Over the summer, we interviewed Argeo Cruz, a DREAMER, and an athlete. He said his story with us about wanting to be on the US Olympic team as a runner, a dream that was cut short. We revisit that conversation in this episode which originally aired on July 22, 2020.

Collecting data & predicting sporting outcomes is most famously recognized in the Hollywood hit "Moneyball." We interview a man who works for the US Olympics & he does this same thing to help our country win gold medals. Check it out!

My plan in a nutshell is to create a central location where our future police officers, doctors, technicians, engineers, biologist, politicians, presidents, firemen, nurses, dentists, etc.! All me and grow together socially equipped, culturally aware, educationally advanced, as well as recreationally advance! Because some of them may be going to the NBA, MLB, or US Olympics team! Point being we will all have #OneCommunity #OneVoiceYOUR HOST! : #CD

@mildmanneredtimid | @kalysay @kushparm @rianjalimusicmmtyabish@gmail.comSHOUT OUT TO RIA SINGING AT THE NETS V PACERS.Kush did an intro - and then Kunal took over the intro and Kush deleted his.A discussion of our production schedule.Indians = Smaller brains + Smaller d*cks = British Conspiracy.Modi can't fly through Pakistan.Delhi air quality went down because of Diwali.India allowed people into Kashmir (hint, they're pro-right).Goa gov't porn site connection. What kind of name is Eliot Anderson?Bappi Lahri and why artists want to work with Indians suddenly.A bakery owner was killed because he wouldn't give a customer a plastic bag.DON'T HURT PETS.Quick discussion on domestic abuse.The merits of Badminton. Shout out to cocks.Apparently, Indians have been making the US Olympics gymnastics teams - who knew?!How to correctly pronounce Himalayas. Also, cashmere.BOK CHOY MUKBANG.Topic: Are you offended being called brown?Topic: Brown people using the N-word.Update on our restaurant episode.The weird food combinations Indian moms create. Kush has had enough.The chili chicken story.Ria is FAT.

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com SwimAtlanta standout Amanda Weir qualified for her sixth straight U.S. Olympic Trials with her performance in the 100-meter freestyle this past weekend.The 33-year-old Brookwood grad posted a time of 55.93 seconds, qualifying for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb. Next year’s Trials are June 21-28.Weir first competed in the Trials in 2000, shortly after her graduation from Brookwood. The former world record-holder has made three U.S. Olympic teams and has won four Olympic medals, three silvers and a bronze.#Podcast, #DailyHoroscopes

We discuss the Champions League, no VAR use at Swansea, the UWSNT lawsuit, & more. Stories discussed this episode: Matt's Megs (3:36-21:25) - CL review & preview Christian's Corner (22:24-38:25) - No VAR use at Swansea - Scholes retires after 31 days - Babel comments on VVD Dave's Domestic Dive (39:06-59:27) - 100 lower division clubs asked USSF & FIFA for pro/rel - Jason Kreis new US Olympics coach? - USWNT sued USSF for equal pay Listener Questions - none this week Visit the Bros Talking Soccer website: https://www.brostalkingsoccer.com/ Our Other Projects: - The Soccer Tavern (youtube.com/c/TheSoccerTavern)

USA Gymnastics is filing for bankruptcy as a result of the Dr. Larry Nassar lawsuits by former gymnasts. Who needs to be held accountable for these girls' pain? Are the bankruptcy laws being used to avoid paying out? Should the rest of US Olympics have to pay for whatever can't be paid by USA Gymnastics? Isn't it our responsibility to take care of these girls?

Tanya Alvarez is Co-Founder and CEO of OwnersUP, a platform which advances a solopreneur’s business through accountability, goal setting, and community. We discuss: How Tanya’s need for constant accountability led her to create a coaching business [1:57] Why testing hypotheses is crucial to overcoming initial business challenges [6:45] Aspects to observe during different business stages that will help you unearth potential recurring revenue [8:24] How to balance when you are too close to your business [11:43] Becoming an entrepreneur: taking the best of a bad situation [12:50] If you want to know the future, ask a teenager [16:07] Over the past fifteen years, Tanya has accumulated marketing experience with international and US companies such as Nike and US Olympics. She started her first company at the age of 25 and grew it to be a profitable company from credit card debt to over $1mm in gross revenue in the first year. Since then, she has founded, bootstrapped, sold and invested in several companies. Learn more about Tanya at Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ownersup) . Brief Description of Gift OwnersUP is your 24/7 personal sounding board and accountability partner, a group of 4 other like-minded business owners who support you to grow and succeed. Join for 1 free month. URL for Free Gift www.ownersup.com (http://www.ownersup.com/) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn 42Shares

Some of the best athletes in the world. Founders and CEOs. Authors of bestselling books, internationally known fitness gurus, even reality television stars. For 62 episodes now, we on the #WeGotGoals team have had the good fortune to interview some pretty impressive individuals. We’ve learned so much about what’s powered them to the top (and we hope you have, too!). But the more goal-getters we talked with, the more something dawned on us. Nearly every single one of them had a failure story, a way they fell short en route to what they viewed as their biggest high. What’s more, they nearly all volunteered to share it with us in a conversation about what was most essential to their achievements. So co-hosts Jeana Anderson Cohen, Maggie Umberger, Kristen Geil and I took a moment to do another guest-less but host-ful episode--we’ll be recording one of these every month or so from now on--to discuss what these failure stories taught us about resilience. Resilience--something Cohen admits she’s “kind of obsessed with” lately--amounts to the ability to recover quickly from difficulties, adapt to shifting circumstances, and thrive despite, or perhaps even because of, setbacks. What enables some people to emerge triumphant from situations that would crush a normal human? Our guests offer us clues. Some leaned on a support network, others took the opportunity to reflect and refocus, and a few stayed laser-focused on a bigger, long-term goal. All, it seems, had incorporated their failures into the narratives that made them the high achievers they are today. We talked through some of the failures that stood out for us over the past year-plus of episodes. For me, it was when Dr. Ari Levy failed his medical boards--then retook them, and now owns a successful practice, SHIFT. Or when Kathrine Switzer nearly got pulled off the course at the 1967 Boston Marathon, but chose to finish instead, and make history. Cohen contrasts these with the story of Lee Kemp. The wrestler made the U.S. Olympic team in 1980; then, the country boycotted the Games. That failure was beyond his control and irreconcilable, and still fuels the way he lives his life today. The setback that stood out for Geil was Jessica Zweig, who’s now the founder and CEO of the SimplyBe agency. Before that, she co-founded Cheeky Chicago--and from all outward appearances, was hugely successful. But inside, she felt so conflicted she eventually became physically sick. For Umberger, Stephanie Johnson’s tale of applying for Survivor for17 years straight--and ultimately getting kicked off before the merge--highlighted the way success and failure aren’t always necessarily black and white. And Maaria Mozaffar, who failed the bar exam five times before moving on to succeed as a civil rights attorney, author, and activist, showed just how powerful persistence can truly be. In the midst of reflecting on what we’d heard from our guests, we shared our own failure stories--career aspirations gone awry, opportunities missed, times we felt like fish out of water. I think we’d all agree those experiences shaped us and led us to where we are today (a spot we all seem pretty pleased with). And, we discussed the ways we’ll continue to build self-care and coping skills into our daily lives so we can nurture our resistance and boost others up along the way. A few things we brought up: The book Grit, by Angela Duckworth The Mind Body Soul challenge on the Sweatworking App Ira Glass on the taste gap Have a failure story of your own? We’d love to hear it. Share it with us in the comments, or--better yet--record a voice memo and send it to cindy@asweatlife.com. You could be featured on #WeGotGoals in the future. Listen to the full episode anywhere you get your podcasts—including, now, on Spotify! If you like what you hear, please help us spread the word by leaving a rating or a review. And stick around until the end of the episode, where you’ll hear a goal from one of you, our listeners. --- [0:00] Jeana: Welcome to We Got Goals, a podcast by ASweatLife.com on which we talk to high achievers about their goals. But this week we are talking about past episodes of Goals and most notably about failure and resilience. I’m Jeana Anderson Cohen, with me I have Cindy Kuzma, Maggie Umberger, and Kristen Gial. Woman 1: Morning Jeana. Woman 2: Hello. Woman 3: Hi. Jeana: So I know that we all have a lot of episodes that were our favorites. And a lot of guests who were highly motivational and have gone through a lot of things. And we wanted to take this time on this week’s episode to talk through those guests. So Cindy, can you tell me about a guest who failed, got back up, that resonated with you. Cindy: Oh my gosh, well I mean the first thing that really struck me when talking about this topic was, I kind of thought back through all the episodes, and pulled out some of the notable failures and there's so many and just that pure volume is really encouraging. Because we have some darn impressive people on the show and almost every single one of them has a failure story and some of them are huge failure stories. It’s just a part of success. And that in and of itself was just something that stuck me when as I was thinking about this. One of the individual failure stories that spoke to me a lot was way back to, I think it was maybe episode 5 or 6. Dr. Ari Levy, now he’s a physician, he owns his own medical practice. Sort of a holistic health practice here in Chicago, Shift.  But he failed his medical boards the first time he took them. And what really struck me about that story was that he realized that it wasn’t. You know it’s one thing to kind of fail when you take a step too far or when you’re really ambitious. And you’re aren’t quite ready for the next challenge. But he realized he failed because he didn’t do the work. He didn’t study enough, he didn’t prepare, he didn’t dedicate the time. And so he had an extra layer of shame and guilt on top of his just plain failing the medical boards. And then with that comes all the questions of what’s going to happen to my career, am I going to lose my job, am I ever going to be a successful physician when I can’t even pass this exam. What he did next, that struck me again was despite that shame and guilt, he really leaned on his support network. And we all need to do that when we fail but sometimes it's extra hard when we kind of realize that we contributed to our own failure. We're so still deserving of that support and we need to reach out to people, kind of get past ourselves, get past that shame and guilt. And connect with the people who care about us regardless of whether we failed because we tried our best and just couldn’t make it or whether we failed because we realized that we maybe could have tried a little bit harder. And then, you know, he harnessed his support system and needed them to take the next step. Which was to retake the exam. And, you know, he had to study when he was like planning his wedding so he really had to rely on the support of people like his fiance, now his wife, to help guide him through that. The end result we know now is he passed, he has a successful practice. Just I took so much from that difference between being disappointed in an outcome and being disappointed in yourself. There are differences between those but you can come back from either one of those. Jeana: And I mean talk about having to get over yourself in order to move forward. Like, what you’re saying in leaning on somebody. It requires you owning up to and really acknowledging those mistakes or failures. And I think that also resonates with me because in general when we mess up we want to quickly get back on our feet and just do the right thing or try to right the wrong without maybe acknowledging, like okay this is was a mistake, what do I have to learn from it. And he probably, you know, took that time to really like learn something from it versus just going forward, powering on, almost like getting up too quickly, I guess without without taking the time to internalize and figure out what there is to learn from the mistake, the stumble, the failure, whatever you want to call it. So yeah I resonate with that as well Cindy. Cindy: Jeana, was there a particular story that stood out to you? [4:21] Jeana: Well I think sort of bouncing off of Ari’s story, Lee Kemp is sort of on the flipside. Ari  knew that his failure he sort of had a part in. He could fix it himself and he caused it in some way, himself. And he took power over that. On the flipside there is Lee Kemp who qualified for the US Olympics and the United States subsequently boycotted the Olympics, the year that he qualified. So to him it was completely out of his hands. He did the work, he tried his hardest and he was totally powerless in that situation. And if you go back and listen to the episode, today he is still not over it. Because of the fact that he couldn’t do anything to rectify it. He’s taken power of his life in a lot of other ways. He’s taken power of his life in speaking to people and he’s really channeled that energy into doing good for the world. But he wasn’t able to go back and undo it. And he wasn’t able to get that original goal. And I think that’s the interesting part of it. Is that sometimes you can go through something hard and still achieve your original goal. And sometimes you go through something hard and you have to change course because there is no other choice. So I think that’s sort of the comparison and the contrast here. Lee Kemp is an amazing athlete, he’s an amazing father, now he’s an amazing coach, speaker and author. But those weren’t probably things that he thought would be his path. At the beginning, at the onset. Cindy: That’s interesting. It’s interesting to think about what resilience means in that context. And what does it mean to kind of let go and accept that past outcome. I mean clearly he has moved on and had incredible success but as you say, there is still a piece of him that still feels that loss. And how do you kind of rectify that? And does it matter ultimately to your future success? Is there some value maybe in hanging onto a little bit of that past regret to fuel you, I wonder. I don’t know, what do you guys think? Maggie: I think this is a really cool example of how success, failure, it’s not black or white. That’s one of the biggest takeaways that I think I’ve gotten from a lot of our guests. Is that there are points of success and points of failure. And sometimes, they’re intermixed and intertwined. And it’s just part of life and it’s almost like the story that you create around it that is what fuels you to go forward. And it isn’t the action or the thing that happens it’s the thing that happens next. And how you handle, how you react to whatever does happen. Kristen: My story that resonated with me is a little bit different than the one that you guys put forward. I was really drawn to Jessica Zweig’s story in episode 40 and her failure wasn't so much a business failure or you know not reaching a certain goal she had set. But it was the fact that she was suffering from a chronic illness so severe that she had to have surgery. And on the inside that's what was happening but on the outside she looks like a highly successful person to everybody else. And I think about that contrast a lot because I'm pretty sure that's something that everyone in this room has experienced it one point or the other. It's that old saying about how like a duck looks so calm floating on water but then underneath its feet are like furiously peddling. And you can't see all the churning and all the work that's happening to try and just keep that duck afloat. And so Jessica, to give a little bit of a background if you haven't heard this episode. She was running Cheeky Chicago. She had a great brand. She had a great team. She was very well known throughout Chicago and was doing amazing. But inside she was really suffering and she was putting herself through the ringer. And ended up really needing to take a step back and take time off. And eventually, she ended up leaving Cheeky Chicago and eventually she started her own personal branding company, SimplyBe. But that’s just something that I think about a lot. It’s just she looked so successful to everybody else, she looked like she was the epitome of one of the goal setting, high achievers we talk about. But inside she felt like she was failing and just that contrast is something that I think affects a lot of us more than we realize or more that we are comfortable talking about. Jeana: I mean that's so true with the the world that is social media now. That we're only showing the highlights or mostly showing the highlights. Or even when we talk about the struggles, we talk about them from you know the lens of a really pretty photo that presents what the struggle is going to be built beneath it. And I think everyone, everywhere can relate to that on some level. Whether it's you're the person who is feeling those feelings of like ahh, I'm really struggling even though I’m going to post this beautiful photo. Or you're the person kind of scrolling through your social channels and you're feeling like why am I the only one that feels left out of this perfect world. Maggie: I think the thing about all of this is it makes it hard to feel like anybody else has failed. Because people don't talk about about their failures as much. So when we’re posting our highlight reels. And we’re guilty of this to at A Sweat Life. When we’re posting our highlight reels. It’s hard to know what else is happening. So I think the world around us and we as well, need to be better about saying what we are going through. And what failures it took or how many failures or the mountain of failures that came before to lead to whatever it you’re showing people. Because we owe it to each other to be honest about the experience that it took to get to whatever mountaintop your shouting from. [9:58] Cindy: And I think equally important too is to kind of give some shout-outs along the way on the mountaintop. There was recently an article on Runner’s World, I didn’t write it. But a runner, an elite runner talked about the fact that she was having a relapse of her eating disorder. And she posted in the middle of it. And she’s like this is unusual. Usually you hear the after I beat this, everything is great now. I went through struggle but here I am on the other side. Which is I think, critical. We need those messages. We need hope and we need to know that even when people are successful, they have gone through struggles along the way. But we also need to be able to stand with each other in those struggles a little bit more, I think. And some openness along the way and showing people what it's actually like in the moment. That if we had a little bit more of that, it would be interesting to see how that affected everyone's viewpoints on all of this. So we can maybe get a glimpse of those legs paddling while the duck was still in the water and not just when it was, you know, flying through the air sitting on the shore. Maggie: Going back to that idea of failure/success not being black and white. One of the stories that we've gotten to share, Kristen was when you interviewed Stephanie from Survivor. She worked so hard, she had this crazy story of trying to get on Survivor. That was a huge goal for her. She applied 17 times and eventually got on the show only to be voted off without getting to the very end. And I think about the stories that we hear. Sometimes these big massive failure stories that turn into success. That's not always a really massive failure or a really massive success on either spectrum. It sometimes just part of life that feels off or feels kind of good. And I think one of my stories of failure is one of those where it was kind of a success but kind of a failure. I don't really know. It's just kind of like how I interpret the way that I left my first job and moved into my second one. Cindy: I'm intrigued Maggie, talk more about your own failure story. Maggie: Well, so when I originally thought I was going to go into advertising. I felt like I had this really cool story of going into my first career where I was not initially asked back for the interview and I kept calling the ad agency saying I would really like this interview. I think that would really do great things at this company. And they eventually called me back as sort of a last minute, someone cancelled. Okay I guess we'll bring her in and then they ended up really liking me and bringing me on board for this program. And I was like oh my god, this is going to be the launching point of being the underdog and then doing great in this career. And then I kind of missed the mark and I was like not doing the things that I thought I was going to be able to do. I had the opportunity to work on a global account where there were not a lot of other planners. And I really wanted to show that I was so good at what I was doing that oh my god she should be promoted to senior planner right away. It was like the opportunity to do really great and then I just was like in over my head. I didn't get to produce the work that I wanted to when I was there. And I battled kind of with myself. Am I not cut out for this because I'm not smart enough for this or is this not really my calling that I thought it was. And so I kind struggled with like, how much do I just keep treading water to do this thing that I set out to do. Or is not that I'm not smart and that it's just I'm kind of pushing my energy in the wrong direction. And so I kind of toyed with that for like a year. Of just feeling like stuck and not sure why and not sure if I quit, if quitting really was quitting and giving up. Or if it was changing course because that's what I felt like I was more called to do and I chose to shift the course. And I still think about that time in those days when I was working really hard but not feeling like I was producing good work and it sort of does feel like a failure. I was like I really wanted to leave a better mark on that time. And it didn't pan out that way but I wouldn't have traded that decision for anything because I am in a much better place now. And so I know that I learned a lot from that. But I haven't really told that story or thought about it until we started thinking about these other failure stories and that black and white. And so I kind of for the first time really acknowledged that kind of feels like a failure but it also feels like a success. So it's like this weird balance for me. [14:26] Kristen: Maggie, our stories are super similar. So I'm going to jump in here too. The job that I was at before this, I was hired as an in house copywriter. So I was working on digital marketing stuff for a company that made travel mugs and water bottles. And it was great, and comfortable and right in my wheel house and I felt like I was doing good things. And then of course something happens and the company gets acquired. And everything changes as soon as your feeling great. And the decision they made was that all copywriters would be located in Hoboken, New Jersey. So I had a few options at this point. I could move to Hoboken which was never really an option. I could take a layoff or my manager really wanted to keep my around. She was like well we have positions opening in this office working on displays. Which like literally that means the things that you see in drug stores and grocery stores that hold our water bottles and travel mugs. And they needed people to be like helping create the displays and work with manufacturers and procurement and supplies. And I was like alright, I'm a reasonably smart person. I should be able to figure this out. How hard can it be if all these other people in the office are doing it too. And I started and it was awful. I had the most anxiety going into work every single day and opening my email would give me anxiety. And I just absolutely hated every single aspect of it. To the point where I would not do anything because I was too afraid to take a step in the wrong direction. And so I would just ignore emails and put off responding to them. Or I would leave a meeting and deliberately not do the action items that I was supposed to. And that went on for a little while and eventually I was like this is not working. I am taking this layoff. Get me out of here. And even though it felt like such a failure at the time, I definitely called my dad crying and upset that I felt like how could I not get this? I'm a smart person, this should not be that hard. It just wasn't even what I wanted to be doing. So eventually I took that layoff and it was the best thing. And that's what led to me doing this podcast. I reached out to you guys about working on the podcast when I was in that period and eventually it set the stage for me to doing some freelance work and building my skills as a writer. And led me here eventually. I feel like it's not really a failure. It was more like a test drive that you could back off from pretty easily. So that god I am not working on displays. Maggie: Kristen, I never knew that part of your story. And working with you now, I just think like oh my god she's so good at her job. I never would assume you would feel like you were bad at your job and I think that's the point of conversation that we don't always have with our coworkers, with our friends. We have a view of someone else and that's just the story you tell yourself and you just don't know the whole story, you don't know the whole picture. So A, thank you for sharing that. And it's just cool because I'm sure everybody has that moment of like ugh, they're perfect or ugh they do everything right to their bosses, to their friends, to their family. And we just don't have the whole story ever. Jeana: I also think it's interesting because Kristen and I. Or mostly I [...] Kristen's sister. So Kristen's sister is entering her career, first time, first job within a similar position to Maggie. Where she was entry level, not really. I mean everyone goes through work before they get to their first job. But I wanted to dole out a piece of advice to Kristen's sister, Rachel, before she figured it out for herself. Because I think everyone deserves to know this before they find it out themselves that you're going to feel bad at your first job, no matter what. You're going to spend months, maybe years feeling like your not as smart as you were before. Feeling like someone else can do it better and just feeling beaten down. Based on what I've seen other people say, based on my own experiences. And I feel like people need to tell college graduates this more. I don't think it's maybe the best graduation speech. But I do think graduate, entry-level employees deserve to know that there not going to feel maybe like their best selves for a little bit. Because they will be surrounded by other people who can teach them and that's the opportunity, is to learn and look at that as the opportunity to find new information. To maybe be humbled a little bit. But it's so hard to do because you come from a world where you're maybe in leadership roles, where you're the best at everything you do, you were the top of your class and suddenly you're surrounded by people with ten years of experience beyond what you have. And that's tough but it's also an opportunity. Cindy: And I think it's interesting in creative fields too because you also get into this, I've heard [...] of this American Life talk about it before. When you're quality standards, you kind of recognize what's good and what isn't. And you realize you're not actually capable of producing something good yet. That you can watch something, you can listen to something, you can read something and recognize this is quality work. And then you can look at what you're doing and you're like this is, this is not there yet. But you don't really know how to bridge that gap and there's going to be quite some time before you get the experience required to get to the level of quality that you know is what is demanded of you or what you really appreciate about other people's works. So I think that's an extra layer of challenge that I think we all face as we continue to go through our careers too. And appreciate the work of our peers and mentors and people we look up to in our fields. [19:57] Jeana: It also takes recognizing your own progress too. And just looking back and saying here's where I was, here's what I was doing and here's the work I'm producing now, wow that's better. If I look back and read a piece I wrote in college, I had no voice at all. And now I read what I write and I enjoy my own voice. Which is a silly thing to say but I like reading my own work back now. Which is fun. Cindy: What I think is interesting about both of your stories Kristen and Maggie is that point where you have to define success for yourself and how do you know when you're letting yourself down versus when you would be better served to move in a different direction. I think that takes some serious self-reflection and I don't know, Jeana have you been in a situation where you had that kind of a struggle and how did you kind of deal with that? Jeana: Have I ever? So I think there are a couple of key points in my career where I felt knocked down. And knocked down is probably the best way to put it. Early on, my first interview I was dead set on working in PR and advertising but I didn't, I don't think I really knew what it was or what I would be doing in particular. I ended up doing social media for large brands for the bulk of my sort of agency life. Which was super fun but over sort of the time I spent in agency world, I always felt like I wasn't a fit. I felt like I was a fish out of water. And what I've learned is that a fish out of water either must change to fit the world or the world must change to fit the fish. There is no other way that that story can end. So I wasn't ready to change to fit the world, so I left it. But I did spend a lot of time in the agency world learning from it. Learning to be better at the work I put out, learning to be more of a perfectionist, learning to take my time on doing good work and really learning what good client-facing work and PowerPoints looked like. Which sounds silly but we actually do produce a lot of PowerPoint decks at A Sweat Life. And I thank I thank you very much agency world for that skill but the cultural thing was never right for me so I sort of had to make a choice to leave that world and focus entirely on A Sweat Life where we can form our own culture. Cindy: That's such a sophisticated view and it's really I think if you can make that shift while you're in the while you're in the middle of a situation, how powerful is that? It makes me think of about Katherine Switzer, which is another kind of failure story that stood out for me. You know, think about this, she was the first woman to ever officially run the Boston Marathon and the way she tells the story, she signed up with her initials K.B. Switzer not because she was trying to fool anyone. Even though there had never been a woman officially running the marathon before she checked the rules it didn't say woman could run it. She didn't think she was really doing anything wrong and then she signs up for the race, she gets there, everyone around is nice. She starts the race and then mile two the race director comes at comes at her at her, leaps at her out of a truck and is like "What are you doing? Give me that number!" I'm sure it wasn't quite so clean even. And if you can imagine, you thought you were following the rules and then suddenly someone came along and was like you did everything wrong and the shame and the guilt that she felt in that moment, really made her almost want to quit. And she almost did. But she really quickly realized the opportunity that okay actually I need to finish this race of people believe that women can do it  and then soon after. That moment changed her whole life. Those photographers went viral as things could in, you know, the 1960s. And you know, she has since then become a true activist. And her entire life, now she's in her seventies. She has been one of the figureheads for the entire women's running movement. So it seems like the more quickly you can distinguish between the parts of if that are true failure or the parts of it that are kind of beyond your control and the parts of it that you can take and apply to something else in your life, the more success you can have in the long run. Jeana: And just building off of that point, Cindy. You know, Maaria Mozaffar who is a political activist failed the bar five times. So she had this vision of this is what I want to do and I think that's something that a lot of our guests have had. It's like this intuition and this gut feeling of this is right and this what I want to be doing. And then any failure along the way is just a little hurdle to get over, a stumble to get over but that is worth it. And the converse side of that we're talking about is when the failure presents itself that shows that like maybe I'm in the wrong place. I've got to shift direction. There's like that intuition, gut telling you to move somewhere else versus whatever those stumbles are along the way. It's just making me stronger to get to that vision. Have you experienced either one of those, like that intuition telling you yes or that intuition telling you maybe no? [24:48] Cindy: That's interesting. That actually leads into my failure story a little bit. Because what I think of as one of my bigger failures in the past few years was the failure to give myself an opportunity that I felt like I should have. I am a freelance writer and I've collaborated on one book before. And I had someone approach me about writing a book of my own that had to do with running which is my favorite topic. And you know I was really excited about it. And I talked about it. And I worked with this person. And you know it got to the point where I had to make a decision and I got advice from other people. And I kind of, you know, wasn't sure because of some things that had to do with the business aspects of it. And I ultimately ended up turning that opportunity down. For reasons that were, some of them were really solid at the time and some of them probably were more related to fear and self-doubt. And, you know, I kind of walked away from it, I felt fine about it. And then they got someone else to write this book. And then when I saw the book come out, I had really severe emotional gut reaction that I was not expecting. It really caught me off guard. I suddenly started to feel like I had walked away from an opportunity that I would never get again. That it was just you know a totally wrong decision and that I had just blown it. I hadn't even given myself the chance to see what I could do with it. So again, you can't go back and fix the past. But what I learned from that was maybe I needed to trust my intuition a little bit more. That even though there are people telling me okay, you have these solid business reasons for not doing this particular thing. But sometimes your gut just has to kind of win out over that. And it also taught me that I really wanted my name on the cover of a book. And so you know, I took that and I pursued that and I collaborated with a new collaborator and now I'm working on a new book that will have my name on the cover and hers. And it's something that I'm really proud of and excited about. And I can't wait to see it come out. So, you know, it took some hard work and some tears to get there but I did feel like I was able to access that. And it did it was like a course correction and it taught me to that it maybe I did need to trust my intuition a little bit more and sometimes it's hard to do. Maggie: That is like the epitome of resilience to me. We talk about resilience in the face of things happening to you and how do you recover, come back from them. And we talk about resilience when you make a mistake and then you have to kind of course correct from that. And then there's the kind of resilience where, you know, you don't act and then you have to kind of navigate the waters around what did or didn't happen after inaction. And I think these are all three different things that happen in our lives all the time but resilience is that thing. It is the ability to grow from it. To notice that time when you're in that churn, when you're in the struggle and not just passively think okay this will soon be over, this too shall pass. But to find the moments that you can learn from, to forgive yourself, immediate forgiveness for whatever has to be, whatever you have to do to feel right for yourself and by yourself. And then to move forward into a more positive place. And that can happen in a short amount of time, it can take years like with Lee Kemp. All of these stories, it's different ways that resilience comes about. But all of our incredible guests have this gut that I think is super strong. And I think that is the essence of resilience to me. Kristen: Yeah, and to really hammer home one of the points that you just made. Jeana and I were talking yesterday about our failure stories and you know, what we were going to talk about on podcast today. And I was telling her, like my memory must just suck because I don't know what I'm going to talk about. Like I can't really think of a failure to choose. And I know I've definitely failed but I'm having a really hard time remembering specific instances. And she looked at me and she was like that's because your resilient. And that's a really interesting interpretation. That I honestly felt like a light bulb had gone off over my head. It was like oh, it's not that I've never failed. It's just that my perspective has shifted. And maybe resilience isn't something that you recognize in the moment or that can even happen right away. It's definitely a time intensive course of action. So Jeana, I know you've been reading about resilience a lot lately. And learning a lot about it. [28:52] Jeana: I'm sort of obsessed with it. So I'm going to read one sentence: "A pair of researchers found that resilience was defined most as the ability to recover from setbacks, adaptable to change and to keep going in the face of adversity." And that was reported in the Harvard Business Review. And what's most important about that is that it's all of the things that Maggie just talked about. It's setbacks, it's actual failure. It's things just not going your way. So I think failure can be defined in a lot of buckets. Choosing to see it as failure is one thing, choosing to see it as a course correction is another thing. I think I've always chosen to see anything going wrong as an opportunity. Which might just be my internal optimism but it also be resilience. Which you can also [...], which is very interesting. So Angela Duckworth wrote the book Grit, and she wrote a lot about gritty parenting, how to be more gritty yourself and how to just define your own grittiness. Her book Grit is worth a read. Resilience in general though is a big, big link to happiness. People who can go through setback and failures and find a way out tend to be happier, science shows that. And resilience is linked to happiness because it also tends to be linked to habits and outlooks that lead you to be happier in general. I know we did a full happiness mantra on the sweat working app linked to resilience. And we created what call the resilience toolkit. If you want to do this exercise at home, you can create your own sort of endorphin building practice that can help you mentally as well as physically pull yourself out of that moment of failure. And there are a couple other things that you can do we'll link to that sort of mantra building in the show notes too. Maggie: And I'll just tack onto the last thing that you said Jeana. When you mentioned how it's resilience is linked to happiness because sort of the habits that you build. And I think there's another link to American Psychology Association that says that resilience is ordinary, not extraordinary. Because it happens everyday. So it's like creating the habits that you can trust. That you, that you will that work for you. Whether it is you know, just a workout everyday, a workout in the morning or workout at night, whatever routine fits your model best. That you can lean on when you need it. And it's like creating the tools like you're saying to build yourself back up when you're faltering. Because those ebbs and flows of life are constantly happening. And I should practice what I preach because I will let those ebbs and flows kind of affect me on a daily basis or on a weekly basis. That I think that's a place for me where I can start to hone those skills a little bit more is finding whether it's a mediation in the morning, or a walk without my phone. Taking the time, carving it out that would really help me build those habits and kind of insert resilience here. Cindy: Right, because it's really easy when things are going well for you to kind of forget the habits that create your sort of coping reserves, right? And all resilience is, is having coping reserves that are greater than the challenges that you face. And recognizing that when those challenges outstretch your resources and your ability to handle them, that you need to reach out for help. But building those habits in every day and remembering to do that, even when we're feeling good I think is a great way to build up our stores of resilience. So that we can not only help ourselves but that we can help those around us when they're challenges outpace what they can handle at that moment too. I will say that listening to the stories of failure and resilience on We Got Goals and talking about them with you all has been just a treat and a really fantastic way for us to all think about and build our resilience too. So thank you all for sharing your failure stories and for being a part of this podcast today. And this podcast in general. Jeana: Thank you Cindy. Kristen: Thanks guys, it felt good. Maggie: I'm about to go take a walk without my phone. Cindy: Bold move Maggie. Thank you again. Jeana: And stick around listener, after this you'll hear from a real life goal-getter taking about their goals and maybe their resilience. Cindy: Hey goal-getters, Cindy Kuzma here. We have a special treat for you. Just like we have been having these past few weeks. It's a real-life goal from one of you, our listeners. If you'd like to record a goal and have it be featured on this very podcast. You can record an audio memo on your phone, on your computer, however you'd like to do it. And email it to me at Cindy@aSweatLife.com. You could be featured here on We Got Goals in the week ahead. Thank you so much for listening and here is one of your goals. [33:45] Kelly: My name is Kelly and I'm from Chicago. A big goal I've achieved in the past year is a career goal for myself. I left a full time job back in August working in the hospitality industry and I have a big passion for fitness and health. So I wanted to start my own company and I did so back in December. It the ultimate fitness experience and I actually have my very first client event next week. So I think a big part of that was being in a career for the past nine years, I was just ready for a big change. And I have this big passion for fitness and health. And I also want to help other people. So you've seen my kind of my contact list of my career skills from event planning and working the hospitality industry. I decided to combine the two of hospitality and [...] fitness and health in that industry. Because I think everyone deserves to take care of themselves and just make a better life for themselves. So working on that together and now the future is just adding more clients to the list and making a career for myself working on my own and maybe building a team in the future. So really excited about it, really excited about these career goals that I've put into this. You can find me on Instagram at KellySnyder_FitLife or FitLifeExperience is company and FitLifeExperience.com is the website which is actually still being built. But it will be up and running. And definitely find me on social media. Cindy: This podcast is A Sweat Life Production and it's another thing that's better with friends, so please share us with yours. You can find us wherever you get your podcast including it now on Spotify. While you're there, if you could leave us a rating or review we would be so grateful. Special thanks to Jay Mono for our theme music, to all of our hosts for being our guests this week on this hostful episode and to TechNexus for the recording studio.

Jennifer Hill speaks with the President of nThrive, Rhonda Vetere, about what it took for her to get to the C-Suite and to create sustainable success. Rhonda discusses the attributes that leaders have, and the importance of taking care of yourself first before you can effectively lead a team. rhondavetere.com Rhonda has worked across industries as a global executive and change agent at nThrive / Pamplona Capital Management, Este´e Lauder Companies, AIG, HP Enterprise Services, Barclays / Lehman, Bank One / JPMorgan Chase, CompuServe, UUNET, MCI, and Worldcom. She has lived and worked internationally – in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Mumbai, and across India – and has managed teams of up to 20,000 people. Vetere is also the co-author of an HP special edition book, “Enterprise Service Management for Dummies”. With an ability to support mergers, create synergies across lines of business, and leverage her onshore/offshore experience, Rhonda is a results-oriented, client-focused executive and delivers value by driving technology improvements for cost and performance to drive the right business outcomes. From her experience as Chief Technology Officer at Este´e Lauder Companies, Rhonda has deep domain expertise in technology and data. Her role included global leadership across 162 countries and running the technology & operations team. She spearheaded the transformation of the IT capabilities foundation into a digital environment at record industry pace, without business disruption, around the world – while saving $28 million a year. Rhonda has been recognized with for her leadership and influence, notably with a 2017 Stevie Award for Excellence in Transforming Business (competing with over 1500 CIOs and CTOs), and has been featured in renowned publications, including Forbes, Huffington Post, Thrive, Moneyish, CNBC, Women of Influence, Financial Post, Triathlete Magazine, SWAAY Magazine, and more. She contributes her perspective and knowledge through serving on boards for professional, educational, and athletic institutions, including the US Olympics and Paralympics, The Canadian Cloud Council, Longwood University, George Mason University School of Business, SWAAY Magazine, Miss Fashion Week, and Xcelocloud Inc. A dynamic leader both at work and play, Vetere is constantly training for and competing in events – over 65 so far, including triathlons, half-marathons, marathons, and IRONMAN triathlons (single-day races that consist of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride, and a marathon 26.22-mile run). She is a member of the New York Road Runners (NYRR), plays golf, and encourages her friends and associates to pursue active, healthy lifestyles as an integral part of career success and improving performance. Rhonda (still!) enjoys traveling for work and fun, and mentoring professionals, athletes, and students. She appreciates the opportunity to engage with others, empowering women and girls to seize their moments and share their passions with the world.

A former digital ad agency exec turned entrepreneur, shares her tried and true techniques gleaned from her years in digital marketing. Now, as an entrepreneur, she’s adapted this experience into five steps that will help any small business build a solid social presence. Listen in and learn from our own Content and Strategy specialist how to plan, create, launch and grow your brand online without breaking the bank.   Social is now the foundation of any company’s digital footprint. With the digital landscape changing and evolving daily, trying to keep up can be a daunting process. Running a small business is enough of a struggle. And our very own Leverage Content and Strategy specialist, Ann Marie Almariei, has worked with many big brands to plan, create, launch, and grow their presence on the social landscape. When Ann Marie decided two years ago to take the next big step in her career to launch her own brand, her past experiences helped her realize how important her knowledge was — not only for her own company, but for other entrepreneurs and small businesses she found herself working with along the way. Small businesses don’t have the resources to hire an agency for a six-figure social strategy. So she decided to hack the big agency process and create a series of workshops and micro-strategies to help simplify the process. The following techniques can help any small business build a solid social foundation, prioritize resources, and begin building a meaningful brand presence from day 1. And without breaking the bank. Know where your opportunity is. The big biz approach: The process generally begins with discovery, starting with an exhaustive review of the main competitors social platforms. What are they doing well? What are they not doing well? Where are their opportunities to improve? Followed by an audit of consumer conversations that are already happening in the space. What do consumers talk about? Is the sentiment positive or negative? What are the popular hashtags being used? Which platforms dominate the conversation? Where can your company be part of this conversation? Once the research is complete, findings are summarized in a competitive audit, social listening report and SWOT analysis (more on SWOT below). This is normally a one to two month process and can be costly. The small biz approach: Knowing your competition is always important — regardless of the size of your business. Do your own competitive audit by looking at your top three competitors plus one company who’s tangential to your space but doing it really well (a lot can be learned here, both from the good and the bad). Take time to look at their social platforms and see what their customers talk about. Even if your company has been in business 10 years, this is always a worthwhile exercise. It helps to stay relevant and adapt your business to your customers as their needs change. Use your findings to do a SWOT analysis. The SWOT is helpful in identifying white spaces within the social landscape that can help your business.   Plan before you execute. The big biz approach: Once the discovery process is complete, the business goals and opportunities identified are used to develop a strategy. This strategy becomes the North Star that sets the tone for the social channels. Sometimes the strategy is altered depending on the platform. Each platform presents many different opportunities based on functionality and user behavior. The strategy should not only be based on your business objectives — it needs to add value for the user. Within each platform strategy is a content strategy. It consists of a high level approach to the type of content to be created, how often it’s posted, and how it will help reach goals and metrics. ‘Content pillars’ are often created to give guidance on the topics and within these pillars a few different ‘content series’ that can make a regular appearance on the feed and become brand-ownable assets. The platform strategy, content strategy, pillars, content series’ and goals are usually packaged into a playbook or guidelines that are used to implement against. The small biz approach: First thing, reserve your brand handles across all platforms. Keeping the handle consistent — this might require deviating from your name slightly (for example, ‘Leverage’ could become @GetLeverage or @LeverageProductivity). Next, identify where your biggest opportunities are. Platforms where your target audience are highly active should be given priority and launched first. It really is ok to have channels that are inactive — just make sure you direct visitors to an active channel where they can engage. Once you’ve identified your primary platform(s) try to commit a small amount of resources to plan how to get the best return on investment (ROI). Here’s how… Look at the platform’s key strengths and user behaviors. Find an overlap where your brand can bring value to the audience. That’s your sweet spot. If [Instagram = beautiful photos] + [Your business = farm to table food], your social sweet spot would likely be visually sharing beautiful food, recipes and behind the scenes of the farms used to source ingredients. This particular part of the process can be fun and benefits from getting a bit creative. Recruit some of your social media savvy friends and family for help or reach out to the leverage team and we’ll get you started. A mini platform playbook that outlines your pillars, content series and a few creative templates can make a big difference getting those first platforms up and running. Once it’s gaining traction and your resources allow, expand into your secondary platforms. Get creative with your execution. The big biz approach: Brands are investing bigger portions of their marketing budget into social media production, making it difficult for smaller brands to break through the clutter. Their robust social media guidelines can include in-depth tone of voice, character inspiration, catch-phrases and editorial guidelines — plus photography, illustration, iconography and video guidelines. This process can be exhaustive with guidelines well over 100 pages. The small biz approach: This doesn’t need to be exhaustive for a small business. Choosing some guidelines for your voice and look/feel can help establish your company’s brand presence. Think of your brand as a person. What kind of person would be speaking to your audience. Who would they relate to? Assigning some key personality traits and maybe even attaching a celebrity persona to aspire to can help. Keep a cheat sheet handy when creating content to inspire the tone. Choose a few creative executions that can serve as templates with brand colors, elements and logo treatments to establish a visual look and feel. Don’t get too cookie cutter in your approach, or users will tune you out. Outsourcing creative help to establish some basic tenents for your social guidelines doesn’t cost big bucks and will be extremely helpful as your social footprint expands.   Get in there and mingle. The big biz approach: Being an active part of the community once you’ve launched is important (platforms may even ‘demote’ you in content feeds if you don’t). Because of this, most companies and big brands hire full-time community managers who post, comment and share across platforms… being present and active just as a human would. Many of the recent changes we’re seeing across platforms make organic reach more difficult, so brands invest in paid media to get the additional reach they need to get in front of their audiences. The small biz approach: Being an active part of the community for a small business can be challenging. Even more reason to prioritize to only your priority platforms. Posting, monitoring and engaging with your audience is something all businesses need to do regardless of size, so deciding where to invest time and money is important. Here are a few things to consider: Use existing resources: Identify a person on your team who can take an hour each day to participate in channels. They can answer queries, respond to comments and engage with the audience. It’s also easier for them to adapt their voice to your brand because they are closest to it. Hire someone part-time: A part-timer can monitor the channels and keep your brand active and engaged. They can jump into conversations can add value — even expand your organic reach. Leverage trending topics: Talk about things happening in the news (organic reach is possible when stories are topical and relevant). For example, look at the trending hashtags on twitter. What are people talking about? Contributing a piece of content that makes you relevant (and even better, useful) can go a long way. Don’t overthink it — you have to be timely and you can get scrappy with the execution. Here are a few examples we like: During the season finale of Game of Thrones, the US Olympics saw an opportunity and had this tweet up almost instantly: Always be a work in progress. Social is a fickle beast. I hope you will go in armed with the knowledge that this is the consumer’s party and the playlist is going to keep you on your toes. We can teach you a few go-to moves that will help you fit in. Then wait for those moments where you’ve got some killer moves to show off and jump into the spotlight. Be willing to adapt, change and learn as you go. React, refine and revisit. Just remember, you don’t have to do it all. Just be strategic about where you think the big wins will be and start small. Who’s ready!? This post was written by Ann Marie Almariei Ann Marie is the Founder and CEO of will-it.com, an estate planning technology focused on the ‘who gets what’. She is the organizer of ‘Social for StartUps’ a local meet-up in Boston, MA where regularly speaks and holds workshops for other entrepreneurs and small businesses. She is also a Creative and Strategy Specialist with Leverage and available to members for coaching calls and projects. Ready to Join the Community of Business and Productivity Enthusiasts? Start engaging with our network, join our FREE online Slack community and click here to be added to our insiders list!

Tanya Alvarez is the Co-Founder, and CEO of OwnersUP is a platform which advances solopreneurs business through accountability, goal setting, and community. Over the past fifteen years, Tanya has accumulated marketing experience with international & US companies such as Nike and US Olympics. She started her first company at the age of 25 and grew it to be a profitable company from credit card debt to over $1mm in gross revenue the first year. Since then, she has founded, bootstrapped, sold and invested in several companies.OwnersUp - Website & TwitterTanya's Recent Book RecsHow To Fail At Anything and Still Win BigHow To Raise A Perfect DogSuper BetterMy Book Recommendations: Boundless Top Reads on AmazonPodcast Information: #BoundlessPodSupport: Become a Patron For $3 a MonthShow Notes: Tanya AlvarezJoin the conversation: #boundless VIP facebook group

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, California Democratic Representative Ted Lieu, compares Trump's “brazen” and “suspicious” obsession with WikiLeaks, to Nixon's White House scandals.Then, on the rest of the menu, the US Olympics chief resigns in the wake of the USA gymnastics abuse scandal; a series of leaks exposes the New York Times newsroom is openly revolting against its editorial page editor; and, a long-lost portrait of a Nigerian princess dubbed, the “African Mona Lisa,” sold at auction in London for $1.7 million, exceeding estimates and setting a record for the artist.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table to investigate the armed white nationalist militias preparing to muster this Saturday near Charlottesville to intimidate a pro-immigrant law firm; and, the Cincinnati lawyer representing the dozen neo-Nazi white supremacists from the deadly march in Charlottesville last year, says he took the case because he believes, “white people must save and preserve their civilization from Jews, immigrants and minorities.”All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine, Justice Putnam.Bon Appetit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” -- The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/1/1745677/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays

Viral sensation Sophina DeJesus, a former UCLA gymnast joins “Listen In With KNN” host Kelsey Nicole Nelson for an action-packed episode! Sophina does not shy away from discussing the current state of US Olympics and the sexual allegations as well as discussing her pride in her Afro-Latina identity. Kelsey and Sophina also countdown to the 2020 Olympic Games as well as discuss the current state of sports in LA. All this and more on #ListenInWithKNN

Eddie Tancredi loves to win. And he loves to cook. So when he discovered that he could cook to win competitions, he was all in. For the last 12 years, he's rotated between the culinary competition circuit - competing against heavyweights like The Food Network's Bobby Flay - and cooking in the world's best restaurants. His last gig was as Executive Chef and Managing Partner of Adega restaurant in Cleveland's hottest downtown building, The 9. Oh yeah. And he was on the freaking US OLYMPICS team for cooking. Where he won a bronze medal, by the way. As if that wasn't enough, he also won the American Culinary Federation Chef of the Year in 2013 after knocking the socks off judges with his red hot skills. For now, Eddie's taking a brief break from the heat to turn his attention to entrepreneurship. This year, he launched a line of spices under his new brand, ETC: Eddie Tancredi Culinary, and has plans to release his signature dressings in the next few weeks. We get into Eddie's path - from burning steaks as a teenager to attending the West Point of culinary education, The Greenbrier. He also takes me through what it takes to pass the Master Chef exams, compete as a culinary Olympian and generally make it to the top of the pack in an industry full of egos. I also asked him about the most underrated tool in the kitchen and what spices you should be using to crank up your kitchen game. Full show notes: wecouldmakethat.com/eddie

Upbeat with Tom Hayes and Ess Telling Ess's Story  Stephanie Mullen Has Just recently stepped into the in famous world of Composing.Like alot of Composers she began her creative journey of writing when she was just a child. Discovering who she really was in the year 2000 she had gotten her first brake, As a back up singer for EEK A MOUSE .  Stephanie began touring the US and even played at the US Olympics in 2001 with people like Julian Marley, Anthony Greggory Isaacs , Anthony B, Steel Pulse, Common Sense, Johns Browns Body, Groundation, Pepper, Micheal Rose, Isreal Vibrations Ect.... The list goes on  Through out the years Stephanie discovered the Dance music seen, And got her feet wet in writing and singing to house music. She soon began writing Downtempo and Electronic music with reggae and trip hop influences. Stephanie who now is known by Ess Playes Several instruments and is self taught  she incorporates the Guitar ,Percussion, Drums,and Vocals to the Music and Beats that she composes.

Tanya Alvarez is a Miami native of Colombian heritage. After graduating from Wellesley College in 2000 with a BA in International Relations, Tanya dove head first into the marketing world and has collected over fifteen years of international/US experience and an extensive resume including companies such as: Nike, US Olympics, and Diners Club International. By 2004, Tanya finally spread her entrepreneurial wings to start her own company in New York City, BlinkAds, an online international performance based marketing agency which was acquired in 2012. Since then, Tanya has founded, built, sold and invested in companies for the past 10 years. Tanya is currently on a mission to improve the success rate of small businesses. This mission is the genesis of OwnersUP, a platform for solopreneurs to team up and grow faster. For more show notes, head over to http://www.uydmedia.com/how-to-team-up-and-grow-faster-with-tanya-alvarez/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Week in Hockey, heard each Sunday from noon-1PM on WCCO. This week we talk Wild with D Clayton Stoner and Bob Kurtz, chat US Olympics with Jenny Potter plus a look at the WCHA.