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We Like Shooting We Like Shooting - Ep 674 August 3, 2026 Presented by This episode of We Like Shooting is brought to you by: Foxtrot Mike (Code: WLSISLIFE) C&G Holsters (Code: WLSISLIFE) Midwest Industries (Code: WLSISLIFE) Rost Martin (Code: WLSISLIFE) Bowers Group (Code: WLS) Otis Technology (Code: WELIKESHOOTING15) Flatline Fiber Co (Code: WLS15) Giveaways!! GAW   Text Dear WLS or Reviews +1 743 500 2171 Public   Show Titles   Gear Chat Goals 2026 GOALS 2026 Supplementary Research: Gear Chat segment on Goals 2026. In 2026 the firearms and technical gear industry continues to emphasize modular designs, improved battery life for electronic optics and lights, and integration of suppressors with quick-detach systems across major manufacturers. New product cycles often align with SHOT Show announcements in January, with many items reaching retail availability later in the year. thefirearmblog.com SB Tactical SBA6 Stabilizing Brace SB Tactical is adding another entry to its A-Series lineup with the SBA6, a collaboration with New Hampshire-based Die Free Co designed to expand the minimalist platform that made the SBA3 an industry standard.The SBA6 accepts MIL-SPEC carbine receiver extensions and ships now in black, with Flat Dark Earth and Olive Drab Green following later this year.The design direction is deliberate.Where the SBA3 prioritizes compact dimensions and reduced weight, the SBA6 builds out the platform with a full rubber arm cuff and improved ergonomics. SB Tactical has partnered with Die Free Co, a company founded by veterans known for the Kung Fu Grip, to release the SBA6 stabilizing brace. It expands the minimalist A-Series lineup as a model positioned between the compact SBA3 and the reinforced SBA4, emphasizing improved ergonomics and support while accepting MIL-SPEC carbine buffer tube extensions. The USA-made brace ships immediately in black, with FDE and ODG color options scheduled for Q4 2026. Availability: Ships now in black from SB Tactical dealers nationwide (FDE/ODG in Q4 2026) Special: Full rubber arm cuff, 5-position adjustability, integral ambidextrous QD sling socket, MIL-SPEC carbine extension compatibility Haga Defense (Nick) Saraid Top Notch AR-15 Charging Handle Introducing the Saraid Top Notch — the first vertical charging handle for the AR-15 platform. By relocating the handle to the top, it eliminates side protrusions that cause gear snags, interfere with forward assists, or complicate manipulations near optics and slings. The Saraid Top Notch is a monolithic, latchless vertical charging handle machined from a single piece of 7075-T6 aluminum billet with Type III hard anodizing. It weighs 1.1 oz, is made in the USA, and features spring-ball retention, aggressive grip texture, reduced gear interference, and an unobstructed sight picture. The patent-pending design is receiver-friendly and compatible with iron sights and low-mounted optics. Availability: Add to cart available on hagadefense.com (no explicit stock level, release date or additional retailers stated) Cost: $150.00 Special: Monolithic single-piece 7075-T6 aluminum billet construction with latchless spring-ball retention and patent-pending vertical design DopeSpin (Nick) DopeSpin Ballistic Dial DopeSpin DopeSpin is a pocket-sized standalone ballistic calculator using a point-mass 3DOF solver with G1 and G7 drag models. It accepts standard rifle and ammo inputs (muzzle velocity, BC, zero, sight height, twist, density altitude or full weather) and outputs elevation and wind holds in MIL or MOA, including spin drift, aerodynamic jump, and atmospheric effects. The device features a tactile clicking ring, circular OLED display, Velcro mount, clamshell case, 8+ hour battery with USB-C, unlimited rifle/ammo profiles, and dedicated modes for shooting, competition stage cards, moving targets, and profile management. Availability: Available for purchase on dope-spin.com (add to cart, implies in stock) Cost: $199.95 (sale/regular price listed on product page) Special: Tactile clicking ring input with circular display for ‘Spin to distance, read hold' operation in Shoot, Compete, Mover, and Profiles modes Thefirearmblog Ruger PC Carbine with Custom Walnut Stock and Aimpoint Micro H-2 The post presents a customized Ruger PC Carbine (9mm pistol-caliber carbine) featuring a custom walnut stock by Cinematic Arms paired with an Aimpoint Micro H-2 reflex sight and a Magpul drum magazine. The build demonstrates the platform's integrated Picatinny rail and modular design as an ideal canvas for customization, balancing a classic wood aesthetic with modern functionality. The Aimpoint Micro H-2 is described as a 2 MOA dot sight with 12 brightness settings, long battery life on a CR2032, weighing 3.3 ounces and submersible to 15 feet. Special: Integrated Picatinny rail and modular design enabling custom walnut stock while retaining modern red-dot capability and Magpul drum magazine compatibility thefirearmblog.com Springfield Armory Echelon Alpha An Echelon, but More Affordable?Springfield Armory Unveils the NEW Echelon AlphaThe Springfield Armory Echelon is the pistol of choice for a lot of shooters because of its wide package of accoutrements and modern features.The only gripe that some shooters raise is that the more tricked out variations might be too expensive for their budget. Springfield Armory announced the Echelon Alpha, a 9mm striker-fired pistol built on the Central Operating Group with a serialized stainless steel chassis. It features a recontoured billet machined slide with Melonite finish, 4″ hammer-forged barrel, optics-ready Variable Interface System, and ships with one stainless steel magazine. The design emphasizes purpose-driven ergonomics with a small grip module and reduced overall dimensions compared to the standard Echelon. Availability: Unveiled July 14, 2026; three initial models (standard, low-capacity, CA-compliant) offered directly via Springfield Armory Cost: $599 (standard and low-capacity); $649 (CA-compliant) Special: Variable Interface System for direct optic mounting combined with recontoured slide, captive recoil system, and single stainless steel magazine shipment Bullet Points Guncadindex Weapon Picatinny Camera Optic by @BallOEnergy CAD model set for a 25 mm Picatinny riser and chest-rig assembly that mounts a modified KIRFEIHT industrial borescope camera (Amazon $23.99 with 32 GB card) to allow target identification and engagement around corners or over berms. The riser uses two embedded 5 mm × 25 mm hex bolts with nuts secured by UV epoxy; the chest rig accepts 1.5 mm or 1/16 in wire as a hinge pin. Cable is cut to approximately 4 ft and spliced after feeding the camera backward through the riser; light is permanently disabled by removing the button and cutting the yellow wire. Compatible with example Glock 17 chassis; released 1 Aug 2026 as downloadable STL files. Availability: Home defense or trench warfare for identifying/engaging targets around corners or over berms without exposure Cost: 25 mm riser; accepts 1.5 mm/1/16 in wire hinge pin and two 5 mm × 25 mm hex bolts; uses modified KIRFEIHT borescope camera with ~4 ft cable; STL files total ~2.9 MiB Special: Pro: Low-cost commercial borescope integration ($23.99), fully 3-D printable CAD files. Con: Requires extensive user modification, epoxy, splicing, and centering with tape; does not meet verification standards; no performance data stated GunCAD Index Expansion Chamber Calculator V1.0.0 (Windows) by Practical Tactical This tool is in response to a recent request from @TheNewNewDeal regarding best practices such as suppressor expansion chamber length and others. T… Expansion Chamber Calculator V1.0.0 is a Windows .exe application by Practical Tactical that lets users input variables/parameters to generate suggested lengths for suppressor expansion chambers. It was created in response to a request regarding suppressor best practices and is intended to be expanded with additional tools for baffle spacing and other suppressor design calculations. The tool is provided as a downloadable .zip; after extraction the .exe is run locally. It is described as a muzzle device (suppressor, compensator, or other) that in the US may require ATF Form 1. Availability: Suppressor design / muzzle device calculation for practical shooting, competition, or Form 1 builds (best use case not further specified) Special: Provides suggested expansion chamber lengths from user inputs; expands toward baffle-spacing tools; requires local .exe run after .zip download (no explicit pros/cons listed) Gun Fights Play the best Price Is Right-style GunBroker game on the internet. Gun Fights Live DisplayFollow the game, prices, and reveals as they happen.Open the live display BangRank A live cast ranking segment for anything and everything in the gun world, powered by questionable certainty, strong opinions, and audience voting. BangRank Live VotingScan or open the link to rank along with the show.https://welikeshooting.com/rank   The Agency Brief Agency Update 1. AGENCY BRIEF: STREET SWEEPER / USAS-12 DESTRUCTIVE DEVICE RECLASSIFICATIONWhat this really was: In 1994, ATF took lawfully owned shotguns and shoved them into the NFA “destructive device” category. No vote in Congress. No new statute. Just an agency ruling that turned specific 12-gauge shotguns into the same legal category as grenades. The targets were the Striker-12, the Street Sweeper, and the USAS-12. The Striker and Street Sweeper used revolving cylinders. The USAS-12 was a semi-auto, magazine-fed shotgun. They all fired ordinary 12-gauge shells, the same kind of ammunition people put through hunting pum

Have you ever wondered why your dog follows you everywhere, from the kitchen to the bedroom and sometimes even the bathroom? You are definitely not alone. The so-called "Velcro dog" is something many dog owners know very well, but there is more behind this behavior than simple affection. In this episode of Dog Works Radio, we discuss why dogs follow their people, how reinforcement and daily routines can encourage the behavior, and why breed tendencies, boredom, insecurity, and attachment can all play a role. We also discuss the difference between a dog that simply enjoys being near you and one that may struggle when you are out of sight. Most importantly, you will learn how to encourage healthy independence without damaging the relationship you have built with your dog. If your four-legged shadow seems to follow every step you take, this episode will help you better understand what your dog may be communicating and what to do next. Other Episodes You Will Love ·     How to Get the Best Results out of Dog Training  Support the Show This episode was recorded on the Shure SM7B and a Rodecaster Pro II Like this episode? Share it with your dog training friends! Love this episode? Say thanks in true dog training podcasting style by leaving a review. FREE! Grab our 7-Day Real-World Dog Training Plan Take our Understanding Drive Behaviors quiz to see exactly what drive your dog is in and how to begin to train for it. Join the On-Air Dog Training Coaching waitlist for a chance to be coached on the air by Dr. Robert or Michele Forto and get your dog training questions answered in real time. Sign up now for 20% off our Group Coaching Program and learn how to build the best relationship possible for your dog. Take your dog training to the next level by enrolling in our Peak Performance membership. Follow Dog Works Radio for more dog training tips: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn   ©2009-2026 by Dog Works Training Company® All Rights Reserved.

Mike and Eli document rounds 3-5 of the 2026 Ireland trip at Seapoint, Ardglass, and The Island.  Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Fairways and Fundays Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC 

Avec Karim, Julien, Matt et Teddy !Pour ce dernier Postillon de la saison, on parle de vacances, d'un ingénieur suisse qui s'inspire de la nature, du Velcro, du plus petit os du corps humain... et de plein d'autres trucs cool !Enjoy ^^— Marcus

Mike and Eli document their opening rounds of the 2026 Ireland trip at Portmarnock and Royal Dublin.  Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Fairways and Fundays Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC 

Right before getting on the plane to Ireland, we make predictions, answer questions, define success, and try to prepare for the biggest golf trip of our lives.  Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Lagoon: Get 15% off at lagoonsleep.com/scratch Kudos to Mizzen+Main: use code SCRATCH20 at mizzenandmain.com for 20% off your first purchase Kudos to Swaggerty's - https://www.swaggertys.com/  MUSIC CREDITS: "Faceoff" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Summer Noir" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Reason" Karoake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk5JYEFcGnU&list=RDMk5JYEFcGnU&start_radio=1  Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC 

Send us Fan MailCable dressing turns into a fight fast, but the real question is how to keep installs clean without hurting performance, PoE reliability, or warranty compliance. We compare old school lacing and zip ties to modern Velcro and cable comb tools, and we explain why data centers now demand neat, traceable bundles. • why cable dressing triggers strong opinions on job sites • how cable management changes from telco wax string to zip ties to Velcro • why over cinching can deform cable and increase crosstalk risk • how standards differ from manufacturer warranty requirements • why PoE heat pushes smaller bundle sizes and better planning • how outdated Cat 6A “randomize everything” advice still spreads online • what makes data centers stricter than typical commercial installs • how estimating cable dressing time up front balances speed and craftsmanship • the shift from copper to fiber in data centers and what that changes • hand dressing versus puck systems and why repeatability matters • how numbered cable comb tools can improve panel landings and rework If you're watching this show on YouTube, would you mind hitting the subscribe button and the bell button to be notified when new content is being produced? If you're listening to us on one of the audio podcast platforms, would you mind leaving us a five-star rating? If you find value in this content, you click on the QR code right there. You can buy me a cup of coffee. You can even schedule a one-on-one call with me after hours, of course. You can even buy Let's Talk Cabling merchandise. Support the showKnowledge is power!  Make sure to stop by the webpage to buy me a cup of coffee or support the show at https://linktr.ee/letstalkcabling .  Also if you would like to be a guest on the show or have a topic for discussion send me an email at chuck@letstalkcabling.com Chuck Bowser RCDD TECH#CBRCDD #RCDD

Today we have two fantastic fasteners facing off. It's Zippers against Velcro. Both keep clothes closed, both combine form and function, but only one can seal the deal for the win. Representing Team Velcro we have actor, singer, writer and Story Pirate Emily Olcott. And for Team Zipper, it's actor, comedian and musician Tim Platt! After you find out who won the debate, head to smashboom.org to cast your vote for the winner of your heart.Click here to read a transcript of this episode. Want to support the show? Join Smarty Pass to listen to ad-free episodes or donate!

In this inspiring episode of Reading With Your Kids, we blast off from a tiny Minnesota town all the way to the International Space Station—and then settle into the balcony of a creaky old movie theater. First, Jed chats with astronaut Dr. Karen Nyberg and her co-author Anne McCallum about their beautiful picture book A Quilt of Stars: Astronaut Karen Nyberg Stitches a Dream. Karen shares how her childhood love of sewing and her dream of space travel came together when she actually sewed in space, using Velcro, Ziploc bags, and a makeshift sewing nook on the ISS. She describes the powerful "overview effect" of seeing Earth without borders and how that perspective shaped both her life and this book. Anne talks about discovering Karen's story, the global quilt project that collected over 2400 star-themed blocks from more than 30 countries, and how this book can spark family conversations about dreams, perseverance, and our shared humanity. Then we head from orbit to the projection booth with author Brad Barkley, who introduces his YA novel The Real Life of Zara Keig. Zara is a 16-year-old still grieving her mother's death, hiding out as a projectionist in a rundown theater that only shows old black-and-white monster movies. As she navigates first love, loss, and a distant dad, the book gently explores grief, mental health, and figuring out who you are—for both teens and parents. Jed and Brad highlight how co-reading this novel can open honest, heartfelt conversations in families.

What does it actually look like to disciple children in everyday life? In this episode, Jessie Cruickshank sits down with Natalie Werking to explore how parents and churches can partner together to nurture lasting faith in the next generation. They discuss why simple, everyday faith conversations matter more than having all the right answers, how discipleship changes as children grow, practical "Velcro habits" that weave spiritual practices into daily routines, and why creating space for curiosity and questions is essential. Whether you're a parent, pastor, or ministry leader, this conversation offers practical encouragement and a hopeful vision for helping children discover and follow Jesus.Pre-Order Jessie and Julia's book Becoming Good News: Reimagining Discipleship Through Identity, Story, and ScienceORDER Jessie's book, Ordinary Discipleship: How God Wires Us for the Adventure of TransformationFor more great stuff, check out: Ordinary Discipleship by Whoology: https://whoology.coFollow us on social media:https://instagram.com/ordinarydiscipleshiphttps://facebook.com/ordinarydiscipleshipFollow Jessie on social media:Instagram: https://instagram.com/yourbrainbyjessFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.s.cruickshank/Twitter: https://twitter.com/yourbrainbyjess ORDER Jessie's newest book, Ordinary Discipleship: How God Wires Us for the Adventure of Transformation → https://a.co/d/51j86DGFor more great stuff, check out: Ordinary Discipleship by Whoology: https://whoology.coFollow us on social media:https://instagram.com/ordinarydiscipleshiphttps://facebook.com/ordinarydiscipleshipFollow Jessie on social media:Instagram: https://instagram.com/yourbrainbyjessFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.s.cruickshank/Twitter: https://twitter.com/yourbrainbyjessJessie Cruickshank is a disciple-maker, wilderness guide, and ordained minister. She has trained thousands of people how to survive when their life depended on it and earned a Master's degree in experiential education at Harvard to learn how the brain works to help people train more effectively.The key to discipleship is not more information, but learning how to create intentional environments where people can learn and grow. By working with the brain and treating individuals as whole persons, you too can discover how God wired our brains for transformation. You already have all the tools you need, it is time to activate them in you and your church.

Mike and Eli recap their July 4th rounds & then hit a legendary set of questions for the Mid-Year Mailbag.  Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Titleist: titleist.com Kudos to LMNT: drinkLMNT.com/chasingscratch MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Summer Noir" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Reason" Karoake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk5JYEFcGnU&list=RDMk5JYEFcGnU&start_radio=1  Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC 

Are you a NEGATIVE RESPONDER? Notice the very firsts word that come out of your mouth when someone asks how your week is going?If it is not good news, you are not alone. And it is not a personality flaw. It is negativity bias, and every single one of us has it. But here is the thing. Left unchecked, it quietly shapes how you communicate, how you lead, and how the people around you feel every single day.In this episode, Phil and Pen introduce one of their favourite concepts: Responsitivity: when response meets positivity, and the intentional choice to catch your default negative response before it leaves your mouth and choose something better instead.From the science of why our brains are wired like Velcro for the bad and Teflon for the good, to the moment a team leader says, "Great, but it didn't have to take that long, did it?" and watches the whole room deflate in an instant, this episode is full of real-world examples that will make you see your own communication habits in a completely new light.And here is a stat worth sitting with: you are six times more likely to be disengaged at work if you believe your manager focuses more on what you do wrong than what you do right. The drip, drip, drip of negative responses is not just uncomfortable. It becomes the culture.In this episode you'll discover:What negativity bias actually is, where it comes from, and why it is so hard to overrideWhy deflecting a compliment is not humility. It is negativity bias wearing humility as a maskThe Teflon and Velcro principle and what it means for how you give feedback, lead teams and handle relationshipsSix simple awareness tools to catch your default response and shift into ResponsitivityBy the end of this episode, we want you to notice the very first word that comes out of your mouth in your next conversation. Because those small, ordinary, completely unremarkable moments are drip, drip, dripping your communication style, your leadership and your culture every single day.Stay tuned for the next episode where Phil and Pen go further into the practical tools to bring Responsitivity to life in your conversations, your team and your organisation.

The Gemara in Masechet Shabbat brings the ruling of Rabbi Yohanan that when one puts on shoes, he should put his left shoe on before his right shoe. He notes that Tefillin are worn (by righthanded people) on the left arm, indicating that the left side, at least in some respects, is given precedence over the right side. Rabbi Yosef, as the Gemara cites, disagrees, quoting a Berayta establishing that the right shoe should be placed first. The Gemara concludes that the proper thing to do is to accommodate both opinions, by placing the right shoe before the left shoe, and then tying the left shoe before the right shoe. At first glance, this "compromise" seems difficult to explain. If one places the right shoe first, but then ties the left shoe first, he does not accommodate either position. Why, then, is this the preferred sequence? The Bet Yosef brings those who explain that when Rabbi Yohanan points to the precedent of Tefillin, his intention was to show that when it comes to tying, the left side is given precedence. Tefillin is tied to the left arm, thus indicating to us that tying on the left should come before tying on the right. Therefore, even Rabbi Yohanan agrees that the right shoe should be placed before the left shoe, and his point was simply that the left shoelaces should be tied before the right shoelaces. This is the ruling of the Shulhan Aruch. It should be noted that the Tefillin are not actually "tied" around the arm; they are wrapped around the arm. It thus follows that this Halacha applies not only to tying shoelaces, but to all kinds of fastening – such as if one's shoes are closed with a zipper or Velcro. Moreover, when one wears a long-sleeve shirt, he should first button the left sleeve before buttoning the right sleeve, as this, too, is a kind of fastening. Although one should insert his right arm into his shirt when getting dressed before the left arm (as we've discussed in previous installments), the left sleeve should be buttoned before the right sleeve – or, if one wears cufflinks, the left cufflink should be closed before the right cufflink. Interestingly, the Lebush (Rav Mordechai Yaffe, c. 1530-1612) offered a different explanation for why the left shoe should be tied before the right shoe. He notes the story of Abraham Abinu rescuing the city of Sedom after it had been captured by the four kings, and when he returned from battle, the king of Sedom offered Abraham all the property which he had retrieved. Abraham refused to take any possessions of the evil city of Sedom, and he proclaimed that he would not even accept a "thread or a shoelace" ("Im Mi'hut Ve'ad Seroch Na'al" – Bereshit 14:23). The Gemara (Sota 17a) teaches that in reward for Abraham's refusing to take even a "shoelace," the Misva of Tefillin was given to his descendants. Thus, the Lebush writes, a special connection exists between shoelaces and the Misva of Tefillin, and it is for this reason that we tie our shoelaces in a manner that is based upon the Tefillin, granting precedence to the left side. According to this explanation, this procedure is required only when tying shoelaces, and not when tying or fastening anything else, such as shirtsleeves. Regardless, the commonly accepted explanation is that which the Bet Yosef cited, and therefore the left is always given precedence when tying or fastening garments, such as when buttoning shirtsleeves. Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Jerusalem, 1910-1995) addressed the question regarding shoes which have laces on both sides; meaning, on each foot, there are two sets of laces that must be tied, one on the right side of the shoe and one on the left side. When tying each shoe, which side should be tied first? This would depend on the question of whether Halacha requires only tying the left shoe before right shoe, or giving the left side precedence in every act of tying. According to the first perspective, the requirement is merely to tie the left shoe first, in which case for each shoe, we revert to the standard rule granting precedence to the right side, and tie the right laces of each shoe first. According to the second perspective, then even when tying each shoe, the left side is given precedence. Rav Shlomo Zalman was more inclined to accept this second possibility, that the left side should be tied before the right side. The Rama writes that if one wears shoes without laces, then he simply places the right shoe before the left shoe. Rav Haim Cohen of Aleppo (d. 1655) wrote that when wearing shoes without laces, the proper procedure is to put the right foot in the shoe but not completely, and then put the left shoe on completely and, thereafter, finishing to put on the right shoe. However, the Poskim did not bring this practice, and the accepted procedure is to simply put the right shoe on before the left shoe. (It is known that the Hafetz Haim made a point of wearing of shoes without laces, as he did not wish to waste the time it would take each time he put on or took off his shoes to tie and untie the laces.) Summary: The proper procedure when putting on shoes is to place the right shoe first, without tying it, and then place the left shoe, tie it, and, at the end, tie the right shoe. When it comes to any sort of tying or fastening, the left side is given precedence, and thus one should tie his left shirtsleeve before his right shirtsleeve, or close the left cufflink before the right cufflink. If one wears shoes without laces, then he simply puts the right shoe on before the left shoe.

A visit to Pinehurst, a meet-up at River Bend, and a dual experiment.  Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Titleist: titleist.com Kudos to Footjoy: footjoy.com  Kudos to Mizzen+Main: Use promo code SCRATCH20 for 20% off your first purchase at mizzenandmain.com MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Summer Noir" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC 

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Sometimes you have to move forward in order to move forward.  Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Titleist: titleist.com Kudos to Vuori: vuoriclothing.com/chasingscratch for 20% off your first purchase Kudos to LMNT: DrinkLMNT.com/chasingscatch  MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Summer Noir" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC 

Mike and Eli issue a clarification from last episode; Mike stops answering Eli's phone calls; Eli tries to keep a streak alive; author Steve Kamb joins the show to talk about How to Try Again.  Interested in Steve's book? Get details here: HowToTryAgain.com  Want to add to the Wall of failure: HowToTryAgain.com/fail For a chance to win 6 free months of Nerd Fitness training, email book receipts to LGLG@stevekamb.com Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Mizzen+Main: use promo code SCRATCH20 for 20% off your first purchase at mizzenandmain.com  Kudos to Lagoon Sleep: get 15% off your first purchase at lagoonsleep.com/scratch MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Summer Noir" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC 

Mike and Eli put the Bearshark uniforms on again and start playing for real; Mike plays a tournament; a quick minute with Dr. Bob Rotella. Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Titleist - Titleist.com Kudos to Footjoy - Footjoy.com MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Summer Noir" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC

Algunos descubrimientos accidentales terminaron valiendo millones. Desde el Velcro hasta el Play-Doh, e incluso una ciudad subterránea en Turquía descubierta en un sótano, el mundo está lleno de tesoros sorprendentes que esperan ser descubiertos. Únete a nosotros mientras exploramos las fascinantes historias detrás de estos hallazgos accidentales, cada uno de ellos un testimonio de la ingeniosidad humana y las vueltas inesperadas del destino. Prepárate para sorprenderte con los increíbles viajes de descubrimiento que han moldeado nuestro mundo de maneras que nunca imaginamos. ¿Quién sabe? Quizás tu propio gran descubrimiento te esté esperando a la vuelta de la esquina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A darkness stirs in the depths of the station.CONTENT WARNINGS! Swearing, rude humour, dark horror, warYOUR PLAYERS! Becs Watson plays Rio, Helen Gaffney plays Velcro 89, Jen Blundell plays €heddar and Sara Keep plays Lucy.THE GAME! Orbital is a game by Jack Harrison. You can buy it on itch.io.CONTACT US! Roll Plus Heart are on Facebook @RollPlusHeart, Mastodon @rollplusheart@dice.camp and Bluesky @rollplusheart.bsky.social. You can also email us at rollplusheart@gmail.com. More information about us, the show and the games we have played can be found at rollplusheart.co.uk.PATREON! We have a Patreon, featuring bonus audio content and regular merch subscriptions. Sign up from just £1 a month.KO-FI! If you'd rather just donate directly to the show, you can do so on a one-off or regular basis via Ko-Fi. Our merch is now also sold via Ko-Fi!SOCIAL MEDIA! Sara: @SaraKeepArt. Becs: @Starling_Dust.OTHER CONTENT! Jen and Sara also play on the actual play podcast Quest Fantastic, and Jen hosts the film review podcast Jen and the Film Critic. Becs sells beautiful art via Ko-Fi and streams art, games and co-workings on Twitch.CHARITY LIVE STREAM! Becs, Helen and Sara will be joined by special guests on the 28th June 10:00-18:00 GMT on Bec's Twitch for a special charity live stream for International LGBTQ+ pride day! Join us...Join us...join us!OUR MUSIC! Our theme music was composed by David Shaw (Instagram and Twitch @DSComposing and Facebook @composerdavidshaw). Music mixing and mastering was by Mark Anderson.All other music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound and Zapsplat.Show editing by Jen Blundell and Helen Gaffney.

This powerful message invites us to explore the biblical concept of endurance through a fresh lens—not as mere survival, but as purposeful stickiness. Drawing from Hebrews 12, Romans 5, and James 1, we discover that endurance is the spiritual Velcro that keeps us attached to God and His people through every season of life. The sermon unpacks five transformative truths: endurance keeps our hearts, heads, and hands open to receive God's strength (illustrated through the Parable of the Sower in Luke 8); it shapes how we see the world by helping us grasp the bigger picture beyond our immediate circumstances (2 Corinthians 6); it surrounds us with the right kind of people who strengthen our faith (Colossians 1); it keeps us spiritually clean as we pursue righteousness together (1 Timothy 6); and ultimately, it makes us more Christlike with each passing day (2 Peter 1). This isn't about white-knuckling our way through hardship—it's about recognizing that suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope that never disappoints. We're reminded that we were never designed to figure this faith journey out alone, and that the struggles we face aren't obstacles to our growth but the very means by which God refines us into the image of His Son.

Send us Fan MailWe come back live after a short break and jump into rapid fire field questions that hit the real pressure points in structured cabling work. We talk about protecting quality, protecting profit, and building a career that keeps up with the pace of the low voltage industry. • planning cable bundles before the first pull so racks stay clean • keeping the telecom room controlled so patching does not undo your work • choosing Velcro for serviceability and avoiding overtightened ties • using ANSI style rack unit and port numbering for small installs • avoiding estimating traps like missing labor factors and wrong averages • budgeting mobilization time and project management hours up front • catching scope gaps early and treating change orders like leverage • separating certifications from competence while staying a continuous learner • treating closeout as a day one process with documentation and test results • learning project management skills after you have real field reps • understanding pathways, bend radius, fill ratios, and why they matter • explaining to management that quality prevents expensive rework • balancing fiber growth with copper realities for PoE and edge devices • earning leadership opportunities through solutions, clarity, training, and accountability If you ever have any questions, DM me and I'll help answer those for you for your studying. Support the showKnowledge is power!  Make sure to stop by the webpage to buy me a cup of coffee or support the show at https://linktr.ee/letstalkcabling .  Also if you would like to be a guest on the show or have a topic for discussion send me an email at chuck@letstalkcabling.com Chuck Bowser RCDD TECH#CBRCDD #RCDD

Eli returns to the scene of the crime to face an old foe; Mike takes on an 8th grader; Josh Nichols comes by to lay out the full details of our individual practice plans.  Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Titleist - Titleist.com Kudos to Vuori - vuoriclothing.com/chasingscratch 20% off your first purchase Kudos to LMNT - drinkLMNT.com/chasingscratch  MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Summer Noir" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC

We talk honestly about motherhood as a spiritual and emotional experience, from raising a “Velcro” teen to repairing a relationship that once felt strained. We name the quiet thoughts many parents hide, unpack the pressure behind them, and share tools for parenting sensitive kids whose intuition is waking up early. • laughing at the chaos of real life and trusting what wants to be shared • loving a teen who wants to be together everywhere • asking our kids for consent before posting • oldest kids getting different versions of us as we grow • shifting a tense relationship by changing our perspective in the present • surviving the intensity of Generation Alpha girls and what they teach us • reparenting ourselves while we parent our kids • saying “I don't want to be a mom” and hearing what's underneath it • ADHD motherhood, executive dysfunction, and the weight of daily mental load • seeing the problem as a broken system rather than a broken mom • supporting kids through spiritual awakening with grounding and connection Feel free to send me a message on Instagram and just say, you know, if this is something that you'd be interested in, or, you know, send your friends my way or this podcast Support the showSend Kate a Voice Message on SpeakPipe: https://www.speakpipe.com/thespacebetweenpodConnect with Kate on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/kateikert/

In this week's episode, host Scott McInnes has an insightful conversation with Stephen Baer, founder of Engagency, as they explore the core principles behind building resilient organisational cultures that thrive on trust, purpose, and people-centered leadership.    In this episode, you'll learn:  The true drivers of employee engagement and retention  The role of middle management in fostering a culture of trust  Strategies to communicate purpose and strategy effectively  Leadership behaviours that inspire and empower teams  The impact of organisational culture on financial performance  Practical tips for small organisations to deepen connection    Key Takeaways:  Why the "Velcro vs. glue" analogy is essential for understanding employee retention  Insights into why 79% of employees are disengaged and how to change that  The importance of investing in middle management training and emotional intelligence  How trust and vulnerability in leadership can transform company culture  Real-world examples from Microsoft and Home Depot illustrating leadership's impact on performance  Practical steps for leaders to connect with even the most privacy-focused employees  The secret to storytelling and recognition that boosts engagement internally    Timestamps:  00:00 - Introduction and episode overview   01:23 - Why do people stay or leave organisations? The trillion-dollar engagement question   02:41 - Building organisational loyalty with glue vs. Velcro analogy  03:56 - Why engagement metrics haven't improved over years  04:26 - The three critical components of business success: purpose, strategy, people  05:57 - The importance of investing in middle management and leadership training  06:46 - Cultivating a feedback-rich environment for younger generations  08:43 - How leadership tone from the top influences culture  09:36 - Examples of leadership transformation at Microsoft and Home Depot  11:46 - The power of trust: From conflict to high performance  13:17 - The role of failure as a learning tool in companies like WD-40  14:43 - Leadership styles and cultural impact: Nadella vs. Balmer, Blake vs. Nardelli  16:59 - The importance of authentic leadership and empowering employees  18:08 - Creating psychological safety and facilitating open conversations  21:17 - The role of purpose in engaging both employees and customers  22:19 - How purpose and values cycle through the organization to drive loyalty  24:42 - How organisations can craft authentic purpose  26:27 - Connection versus engagement: which drives better loyalty?  27:36 - The three pillars of emotional engagement: greeting, knowing, growing  30:07 - Connecting with non-involved employees and maintaining empathy 31:58 - Using storytelling to reinforce culture and recognition  34:15 - Practical tips for small organisations to enhance connection and culture  35:32 - How to reach Stephen Baer and further resources    Resources:  Stephen's Book: https://stephenbaer.com/#book-section  Patrick Lencioni - Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide: https://www.tablegroup.com/product/overcoming-the-five-dysfunctions-a-field-guide/  Connect with us:  LinkedIn  |  YouTube  |  Instagram     Connect with Stephen Baer:  LinkedIn |  Website | Podcast  

We recap a massive weekend starting with Eurovision 2026 in Vienna! Delta Goodrem delivered a powerhouse performance of "Eclipse," finishing an impressive 4th. On a somber note, we reflect on the tragic shark attack at Rottnest Island over the weekend that claimed the life of a beloved local spearfisherman. Plus, Nat recounts her fashion nightmare at the Oasis Ball where her sequin dress acted like Velcro!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Progress can take many forms. Lenny cue the 5.2 music.  Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Titleist - Titleist.com Kudos to Mizzen+Main - use code SCRATCH20 at mizzenandmain.com for 20% off your first purchase Kudos to Lagoon - go to lagoonsleep.com/scratch for 15% off your first purchase MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Summer Noir" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC

What do you do when your newborn hates being swaddled and nothing on the market works? If you're Liz Hilton, you invent something better. A mother, designer, and entrepreneur with a background in 3D knit technology, Liz took a very real newborn sleep problem and built a solution from scratch in her garage. That solution became Swaddelini, a swaddle designed to contain babies while still allowing natural movement. Parents rave that it gives their baby a snug and secure fit that helps their baby feel calm and sleep longer without overheating, and many describe it as the best swaddle they've ever purchased. The secret is patented Hug Technology that delivers continuous comfort reminiscent of a parent's embrace, inspired by therapeutic garments originally designed for children with special needs. Unlike traditional swaddles that lock babies in tight, the Swaddelini's seamless, 3D knit construction helps soothe the startle reflex, calms fussy babies, and encourages longer, more restful sleep while still giving babies room to move. And practically speaking, parents love that there are no Velcro, zippers, or complicated wrapping involved. What started as a homegrown fix for her own son has grown into a 10,000-square-foot American factory with a team of 12. In this episode, Liz shares the journey from frustrated new mom to founder and CEO, and what she's learned about newborn sleep along the way. Episode Highlights:  Liz takes us back to August 2017, when her newborn son refused every swaddle on the market. With a background in 3D knit design, she did what any resourceful mom would do and built her own. We talk about what those early days looked like and how a garage invention turned into a full-scale American manufacturing operation. Not every baby wants to be wrapped up tight, but they still need the comfort and security of a swaddle. Liz breaks down the science behind her patented Hug Technology, why containment and movement don't have to be opposites, and how that insight is helping thousands of families get more sleep. Liz didn't just build a product. She built a workplace that her employees call the best job they've ever had. We talk about what it means to run a values-driven small business, manufacture in the US, and make the world a better place one swaddle at a time. Resources: https://swaddelini.com/ https://www.instagram.com/swaddelini/ https://www.instagram.com/holding_mother/  

0:00 Camel toe discussion 0:04 Chick out – Jeff in 0:07 Jeff's daughter flipped him off to his face 0:09 Letter – Rudy's Hot Dogs 0:10 Kristi's dream – dancing with Bob while he drank martinis 0:14 Letter – BOB & TOM hot dog channel 0:24 Letter – saw The Beach Boys live; Sam and the Pharaohs opened 0:29 Letter – never microwave food 0:30 Letter – in-laws still using Electrolux vacuum after 60 years of marriage 0:34 Letter – dogs do not pee in pools; dog poops in ocean 0:35 Letter – dog gets out of pool to pee 0:37 Jeff's mom peed on his leg in the lake 0:47 Letter – when will Jess prepare hot dogs? 0:49 Letter – wedding first dance was “Stumblin' In” 0:49 Letter – itemized bill for living at home 0:52 Letter – worker dropped Dairy Queen Blizzard 0:53 Tom does not care for soccer 1:03 Sports 1:09 “Locomotion” song discussion 1:10 SWR – most basketball half-court shots (“Dr. Buckets”) 1:25 New car smell discussion 1:26 Tom says he has never stolen anything 1:27 Woman stole bottle of wine; police discovered it hidden on her person 1:29 100 hot dogs stolen from a high school 1:30 “I Would Eat 100 Hot Dogs” – Pat Godwin 1:44 Jeff has had one car repossessed; Pat had two 1:46 Jason's EV cameras allow people to leave messages 1:48 Study – people want to have more fun 1:48 75% prefer TV and dining out for entertainment 1:54 Josh jokes with Tom about living too cautiously 1:55 Josh wants a Skee-Ball machine 2:07 Phone – Dr. Buckets 2:26 In Studio – Jess 2:31 Little Tikes car now available as EV 2:35 Man stole items using a large tricycle 2:46 Today in History 2:48 Ace owns two pairs of Velcro sneakers 3:10 Secret Service officer arrested for indecent exposure 3:11 Josh jokes about bizarre public behavior 3:14 Tom's toilet brush discussion 3:23 Zoom – Alli Breen 3:24 Letter – girlfriend suspicious about gym visits 3:25 Letter – boyfriend's roommate breakup situation 3:27 Letter – boyfriend discovered past relationship hookup 3:29 Letter – talking to guy on Twitter; she would have to drive 3:31 Letter – girlfriend wants him to attend church instead of playing video games 3:36 Letter – found jewelry receipt in boyfriend's car but received no jewelry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Week off? Nah. We're back with some bonus content - we answer a few listener questions about the last few episodes and then talk with actor Timothy Simons about how he got into golf, Veep, Hollywood Program Height, Celebrity Tournaments, his first full bag fitting at TPI, and whether he's a Bear or a Shark.  Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Titleist - Titleist.com Kudos to Shot Pattern - https://shotpattern.app/chasingscratch  MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Faceoff" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/

What if the body already knows exactly how to heal… but modern life keeps interrupting the process? In this profoundly emotional and paradigm-shifting conversation, Darin sits down with Australian wellness expert, author, and speaker Andi Lew for a sweeping exploration of trauma, birth, attachment, nervous system regulation, chiropractic philosophy, purpose, intuition, breast implant illness, and the forgotten wisdom of the human body. From the way we enter the world through birth, to the emotional wounds that shape our identities, to the systems that disconnect us from nature and ourselves, this episode is ultimately about one thing: reclaiming your innate intelligence and reconnecting to what it truly means to be human. What You'll Learn Why symptoms like fevers, coughing, and rashes may actually be signs of healing The body's innate intelligence and how modern medicine often suppresses it How trauma and emotional suppression shape physical health outcomes The connection between birth practices, attachment, and nervous system development Why "cry it out" parenting may create emotionally disconnected adults How posture, movement, and chiropractic care impact longevity and vitality The hidden reality of breast implant illness and medical gaslighting How trauma can unconsciously drive cosmetic enhancement decisions Why purpose, creativity, and service are essential for healing How reconnecting to nature, vulnerability, and authenticity changes everything   Chapters 00:00:03 – Welcome to SuperLife and the mission of reclaiming sovereignty 00:00:33 – Sponsor: plastic toothpaste tubes, toxins, and environmental impact 00:01:06 – Endocrine disruptors and hidden exposure from everyday products 00:01:35 – Bite Toothpaste Bits and sustainable wellness solutions 00:02:47 – Introduction to Andi Lew 00:03:03 – 30 years teaching holistic health and wellness 00:03:24 – Symptoms as signs of healing—not dysfunction 00:03:51 – Chiropractic philosophy and the nervous system as master controller 00:04:07 – The hidden dangers of the cosmetic industry 00:04:19 – Introducing "Treasure Chest" and breast implant illness 00:04:49 – Trusting nature and reclaiming innate power 00:05:08 – Instant connection and unscripted conversation 00:05:43 – Why storytelling itself is healing medicine 00:06:35 – Indigenous wisdom, dreamtime, and human connection 00:07:00 – Education, service, and sharing wisdom with the world 00:07:30 – The courage required to share your voice 00:08:03 – Aging naturally and embodying wellness principles 00:08:47 – "Connected" and the body's innate healing intelligence 00:09:11 – Why vomiting, fevers, and rashes may be healing responses 00:09:53 – The danger of suppressing symptoms instead of listening to them 00:10:15 – Norwegian researcher: "The body never makes a wrong choice" 00:11:08 – Inflammation as intelligent communication from the body 00:11:32 – Emotional healing through chiropractic care 00:12:14 – The shocking story of abuse ending after nervous system treatment 00:13:09 – Purpose, excitement, and why "your cells sing" 00:14:01 – Courage, the heart, and following what excites you 00:14:47 – Childhood rejection of pharmaceuticals and synthetic medicine 00:15:11 – Discovering chiropractic philosophy and innate intelligence 00:16:10 – Reactive medicine vs proactive wellness 00:16:35 – Birth, attachment, and nervous system programming 00:17:15 – Vaginal birth, microbiome transfer, and stress adaptation 00:18:03 – Elective cesareans, fear conditioning, and birth trauma 00:18:29 – The disturbing origins of modern birthing positions 00:19:03 – Lotus birth and allowing natural cord detachment 00:19:43 – Returning the placenta to the earth and the cycle of life 00:20:09 – Dependency culture and forgetting our innate power 00:20:34 – "Cry it out" parenting and neurological consequences 00:21:18 – Babies "feigning death" and nervous system overwhelm 00:21:40 – Emotionally unavailable babies becoming disconnected adults 00:22:06 – Attachment parenting and human brain development 00:22:23 – Sponsor: Manna Vitality and frequency-based wellness 00:24:18 – Questioning inherited systems and reclaiming connection 00:24:53 – Darin reflects on premature birth and separation trauma 00:25:59 – The unconscious programming created in childhood 00:26:53 – Mothers instinctively regulating babies through movement 00:27:29 – Synchronizing heartbeats, breathing, and body temperature 00:28:19 – Breastfeeding, immunity, and sacred connection 00:28:39 – "If breastfeeding offends you, put a blanket over your own head" 00:29:16 – Society disconnecting us from natural immunity and instincts 00:30:00 – Jaw alignment, breastfeeding, and healthy aging 00:30:47 – Chiropractic care, posture, and visible signs of aging 00:31:29 – Humans as reflections of nature itself 00:32:04 – Reclaiming connection to nature and innate wisdom 00:33:13 – Motherhood, surrender, and slowing down 00:33:37 – Lactation consultants and forgotten ancestral wisdom 00:34:01 – Co-sleeping, hormones, and nervous system healing 00:34:27 – "Velcro babies" and learning presence through parenting 00:35:15 – Why babies teach adults to slow down 00:36:00 – Purification, attachment, and emotional regulation 00:37:03 – Darin reflects on Andi's embodied wisdom and energy 00:38:20 – Leaving Australia with two suitcases and a calling to serve 00:39:08 – "Hurrying up to slow down" 00:39:40 – Creativity, AI, and reclaiming imagination 00:40:21 – Permission, dreams, and pursuing your true calling 00:41:07 – Trauma, identity, and self-liberation 00:41:59 – Bruce Lipton, epigenetics, and changing gene expression 00:42:38 – Perception shaping biology and reality itself 00:43:02 – Darin's emotional reaction to Andi's April Fools joke 00:45:04 – Introducing "Treasure Chest" and breast implant illness 00:46:16 – Childhood trauma and the decision to get implants 00:47:05 – Feeling disconnected from femininity and identity 00:47:46 – Depression, anxiety, and unexplained physical symptoms 00:48:43 – Six surgeons, medical gaslighting, and ignored intuition 00:49:28 – "Women know their bodies" 00:49:53 – Beauty standards and the historical control of women 00:50:35 – The disturbing origins of breast implants 00:51:15 – Trauma, healing, and turning pain into purpose 00:52:01 – Why leaning into discomfort creates liberation 00:53:08 – Accountability, surrender, and refusing victimhood 00:53:55 – Darin reflects on Andi's energetic embodiment 00:54:59 – "You are not your age—you are your energy" 00:55:23 – Botox, emotional masking, and relationship disconnection 00:56:34 – The systems designed to keep humanity disconnected 00:57:19 – Edward Bernays, propaganda, and engineered consumerism 00:58:16 – Selling unhappiness to create endless consumers 00:58:39 – Human imagination, intuition, and untapped potential 00:59:09 – Dreams, synchronicities, and alternate perceptions of reality 01:00:15 – Near-death experiences and reclaiming health after explant surgery 01:00:59 – Returning to the "divine organic state" 01:01:26 – Breast implants as inflammatory drivers and systemic shutdown 01:02:09 – The body walling off toxins through scar tissue 01:02:29 – "If I don't get this out of me now, I'm dying" 01:02:50 – Waking up after surgery and "coming back online" 01:03:24 – The extraordinary healing intelligence of the body 01:04:05 – Closing reflections on reconnection, healing, and human potential     Thank You to Our Sponsors Bite Toothpaste: Go to trybite.com/DARIN20 or use code DARIN20 for 20% off your first order. Manna Vitality: Go to mannavitality.com/ and use code DARIN12 for 12% off your order.     Join the SuperLife Community Get Darin's deeper wellness breakdowns — beyond social media restrictions: Weekly voice notes Ingredient deep dives Wellness challenges Energy + consciousness tools Community accountability Extended episodes Join for $7.49/month → https://patreon.com/darinolien     Find More from Andi Lew Website: andilew.com Instagram: @andi.lew Podcast: Well To Do Book: Treasured Chest     Connect with Darin Olien: Website: darinolien.com Instagram: @darinolien Book: Fatal Conveniences Platform & Products: superlife.com New Show: Roadmap to Happiness Key Takeaway "The body is not broken. It's constantly communicating, adapting, protecting, and trying to guide us back into alignment. But modern life has disconnected us from that wisdom. Real healing begins the moment we stop suppressing the signals, start listening deeply, and reconnect to nature, purpose, vulnerability, and the innate intelligence already living inside of us."

How do you turn a weird cloudy liquid into something stronger than steel? This week we're telling the story of Kevlar: the chemistry breakthrough that led to bulletproof vests, firefighter gear, reinforced tires, and so much more. Along the way we talk polymers, hydrogen bonding, accidental discoveries, and the chemist who almost went to medical school instead. Support this podcast on Patreon Buy Podcast Merch and Apparel Check out our website at chemforyourlife.com Watch our episodes on YouTube Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife Timestamps 0:00 – Story time setup: bulletproof gear and the chemistry behind it 1:30 – Meet Stephanie Kwolek, the chemist behind Kevlar 4:00 – DuPont, polymers, and the early days of synthetic fibers 6:30 – Why Stephanie stayed in chemistry instead of medical school 8:30 – The gas shortage problem that sparked the search for Kevlar 9:50 – What polymers actually are 10:20 – Benzene rings, resonance, and rigid molecular structures 11:30 – The strange watery solution that almost got ignored 13:30 – The accidental breakthrough that created Kevlar fibers 14:20 – Why Kevlar is so unusually strong 16:30 – Hydrogen bonding and “molecular Velcro” 18:40 – How Kevlar chains organize into massive strong sheets 21:30 – Why Kevlar behaves almost like a metal 24:00 – Stronger than steel, lighter than steel 26:30 – Melissa's theory about the mysterious cloudy solution 27:00 – How Kevlar became bulletproof vests 28:00 – Why “detours” in life aren't always failures 32:30 – Other surprising uses for Kevlar 35:00 – “Mistakes” that turned into good things (personal stories) 44:00 – Wrap-up + chemistry storytime appreciation Support this podcast on Patreon Buy Podcast Merch and Apparel Check out our website at chemforyourlife.com Watch our episodes on YouTube Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife References from the Episode: Thanks to our monthly supporters Kelly D. Bri Summer Alden Amanda Raymond Kyle McCray Justine Ash Vince W Julie S. Heather Ragusa Autoclave Dorien VD Scott Beyer Jessie Reder J0HNTR0Y Jeannette Napoleon Cullyn R Erica Bee Elizabeth P Rachel Reina Letila Katrina Barnum-Huckins Suzanne Phillips Venus Rebholz Jacob Taber Brian Kimball Kristina Gotfredsen Timothy Parker Steven Boyles Chris Skupien Chelsea B Avishai Barnoy Hunter Reardon Support this podcast on Patreon Buy Podcast Merch and Apparel Check out our website at chemforyourlife.com Watch our episodes on YouTube Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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EECP Therapy and Stroke Recovery: Can a Cardiac Treatment Help Grow New Blood Vessels? When I first heard about EECP therapy in the context of stroke recovery, I was skeptical. It’s a cardiac device approved in Australia for stable angina and congestive heart failure. Stroke is not on the label. So why are we talking about it on a stroke recovery podcast? Because the mechanism is fascinating. And the research, while still emerging, is pointing somewhere worth paying attention to. In this episode, I sat down with Jack Clifford, a heart disease patient who discovered EECP therapy and began exploring its potential beyond its approved indications. What started as a cardiac conversation quickly became one of the most scientifically interesting discussions I’ve had on the show. What Is EECP Therapy? EECP stands for Enhanced External Counterpulsation. The treatment involves a set of pneumatic cuffs fitted around the calves, thighs, and buttocks. These cuffs inflate and deflate in precise synchrony with the heartbeat, inflating during the heart’s resting phase (diastole) to push blood back toward the heart, and deflating just before the heart contracts. The result is an increase in blood flow and a specific type of fluid shear stress on blood vessel walls. It’s that shear stress that makes things interesting. The Biology: Arteriogenesis and Angiogenesis To understand why EECP therapy might be relevant to stroke survivors, you need to understand two terms: angiogenesis and arteriogenesis. Angiogenesis is the sprouting of entirely new capillary vessels — the body builds small blood channels where none existed before. Arteriogenesis is different: it’s the remodelling of pre-existing, dormant collateral vessels into functional bypass channels. Think of it like upgrading a dirt track into a highway. The track was always there; the body just wasn’t using it. When blood flow is obstructed, whether by a blocked coronary artery or a stroke, the body can, under the right conditions, activate these collateral pathways. The shear stress produced by EECP therapy appears to be one of the triggers that stimulate arteriogenesis. By generating repeated waves of increased blood flow, the treatment creates the mechanical signal that tells blood vessel walls to grow and remodel. This is why cardiac researchers originally developed EECP for heart patients. But it raises a legitimate scientific question: could the same mechanism support blood flow recovery in the brain after stroke? What Does the Research Say? A 2026 meta-analysis published in the QJM: An International Journal of Medicine examined 15 randomized controlled trials involving 506 participants, looking specifically at EECP’s effects on functional outcomes in stroke patients. The results showed statistically significant improvements, with EECP outperforming control conditions on standard functional recovery measures. This is preliminary evidence, not a settled clinical consensus. The studies are relatively small, the methodology varies across trials, and EECP remains off-label for stroke in Australia. But for a therapy with a well-understood safety profile and an existing approval framework, 15 studies and 506 participants is not nothing. It’s enough to warrant serious discussion. What I Discussed with Jack Clifford Jack came to EECP as a patient, not a researcher. His experience with heart disease led him to explore the therapy, and he’s spent considerable time understanding the evidence base and connecting with practitioners. He’s not a clinician, and neither am I, but what we can do together is examine what the research actually says, what the mechanism actually is, and what questions remain unanswered. In our conversation, we discussed: How Jack first encountered EECP therapy and what led him to investigate it further The difference between approved and off-label use, and why that distinction matters What the shear stress mechanism actually looks like in practice The existing network of EECP practitioners and how stroke survivors might access the therapy The questions both of us still have about where the research needs to go Important Disclaimers   EECP therapy is approved in Australia by the TGA for stable angina pectoris and congestive heart failure (ARTG Entry 376470). Stroke is NOT an approved indication. This article and podcast episode are not medical advice. Speak with your treating physician before pursuing any treatment. This episode is not medical advice. It is a conversation about an area of emerging research that I find scientifically credible and worth understanding. The goal is to help you ask better questions, not to tell you what treatment to pursue. Where to Learn More ecplocator.com a directory of EECP therapy providers eecpbook.com is a dedicated resource on the treatment and its evidence base recoveryafterstroke.com for stroke survivors looking for a broader community Research cited: Zhao et al. (2026). Enhanced external counterpulsation for ischaemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcag010. Therapy and Stroke Recovery: Can a Cardiac Treatment Help Grow New Blood Vessels? Bill Gasiamis sits down with Jack Clifford to explore EECP therapy, a TGA-approved cardiac treatment that may stimulate the growth of new blood vessels. Together, they examine the emerging research on angiogenesis, arteriogenesis, and whether this off-label approach holds promise for stroke survivors seeking to improve blood flow to the brain. Highlights: 00:00 Introduction – EECP Therapy06:06 Recognizing Health Issues and Seeking Help09:50 Hospital Experience and Heart Health12:12 Decisions Against Medical Advice16:28 Exploring Alternative Treatments18:06 Understanding Enhanced External Counter Pulsation (EECP)21:58 The Mechanism of EECP27:03 Personal Transformation Through EECP30:29 Lifestyle Changes and Holistic Health34:35 The Impact of Stress on Health38:30 The Journey of Writing a Book43:29 The Role of EECP in Heart Health48:21 Raising Awareness for EECP Therapy56:05 Exploring the Future of EECP Therapy Transcript: Introduction – EECP Therapy Jack Clifford (00:00)Mine was really severe. 100 % blocked in my widow maker, the left anterior descending. I’m 95 in my left coronary artery and in my right main, I am 80%. And I’m still that way today, but I can run a sub seven mile. Bill Gasiamis (00:16)Welcome to the Recovery After Stroke podcast. I am your host, Bill Gassiamus. Before we get into today’s interview, I need to share something important. The topic we’re exploring today involves a medical device called an EACP, Enhanced External Counterpulsation Machine. In Australia, EACP is registered with the Therapeutic Goods Administration for the treatment of stable angina and congestive heart failure. It is not approved for stroke. What we are discussing today is emerging off-label research, not a treatment recommendation. Everything in this episode is for informational purposes only. This is not medical advice. Please speak with your treating physician before pursuing any treatment, therapy or intervention discussed here. With that said, let’s talk about something that genuinely fascinated me when I started reading the research. Your body has the capacity to grow new blood vessels, not just small capillaries, but to remodel dormant pre-existing channels into functional bypass routes. Scientists call this arteriogenesis. There’s also angiogenesis, the sprouting of entirely new Both processes matter deeply for stroke because stroke is fundamentally a blood flow problem. Now here’s where it gets interesting. A cardiac therapy developed for heart patients, not stroke patients, trigger exactly this kind of vascular remodeling. And in 2026, a meta-analysis published in the QJM across 15 randomized controlled trials and 506 participants found that EECP produced statistically significant improvements in functional outcomes for ischemic stroke patients. Now, that’s not proof. That’s not a green light to go and get an EECP, but it is worth a serious conversation. My guest today is Jack Clifford. Jack is a heart disease patient who discovered EECP therapy while managing his own cardiac condition and who has since spent considerable time investigating its potential. beyond cardiac care. I should tell you, I was skeptical going into this conversation, but I’ve learned that skepticism without curiosity isn’t really skepticism. It’s just closed mindedness. So I read the research and then I sat down with Jack. So if you find this episode valuable, I’d love for you to grab a copy of my book, The unexpected way that a stroke became the best thing that happened at recoveryafterstroke.com/book. And if you want to support the show, you can join Patreon at patreon.com/recoveryafterstroke. And I want to thank everyone who is supporting me on Patreon, especially the people that have been around for a long time and the people who have just recently signed up. I very much appreciate it. And now here’s my conversation with Jack Clifford. Bill Gasiamis (03:19)Welcome to the podcast. Jack Clifford (03:22)Thanks, Bill. Great to be here. Bill Gasiamis (03:24)Let’s give the listeners a bit of a background understanding of why you’re on the podcast. You’re not a stroke survivor, but we have something in common as ⁓ somebody who has been unwell before myself and you in the past. Tell me a little bit about your journey to the podcast So we just kind of give people an understanding as to how it is that somebody who’s not a stroke survivor. Jack Clifford (03:34)We do. Bill Gasiamis (03:51)how we ended up chatting together? Jack Clifford (03:54)Yeah, absolutely. So the quick version here is ⁓ I was on the brink five years ago of having ⁓ unsentable emergency triple bypass surgery. And ⁓ I chose a different path, which we’ll get to. ⁓ But you you have some level of placking if you have a stroke, typically, depends on the stroke, but that’s typically the case. And in my case, I had placking in my coronary arteries. So it resulted in heart disease. Mine was really severe. 100 % blocked in my widow maker, the left anterior descending. ⁓ I’m 95 in my ⁓ left coronary artery and in my right main, I am 80%. And I’m still that way today, but I can run a sub seven mile. I can do some things that a guy that’s as blocked up as that should not theoretically be able to do. ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (04:49)All right. Tell me about life before the injury. What kind of work did you do? How did you go about life? What was generally a day like for you? Jack Clifford (04:59)Yeah. So I’m retired military guy. Um, so, you know, been in the military most of my life, um, retired about 10 years ago, a little over that. And, um, so I’ve always been a pretty fit guy. It wasn’t, you know, it wasn’t a fitness issue per se. Um, and, uh, I, I, I had kind of lost some of my self care because my wife had been going through some real significant medical issues that really required my full attention for quite a while. And because of that, really stopped taking care of myself in the ways I had in the past for about 10 years. And when we had just moved to Florida, I started trying to take care of myself again. And that’s when I discovered all these problems. Bill Gasiamis (05:44)So what does not taking care of yourself look like though? Jack Clifford (05:47)Gotta be in a couch potato and being on my computer way too much research and for ⁓ trying to help my wife get better and hold down a job at the same time and raise a family and all these other things that took the priority off of me in that sense that one should be taking care of themselves, meaning exercising, meaning eating the right foods, so on and Recognizing Health Issues and Seeking Help Bill Gasiamis (06:09)You know, caregivers tend to die before the person they’re caring for much more often. And it’s cause of that reason, right? Because time is really taken up by especially full-time caregiving with somebody’s in the house and they need caregiving. need care. The caregiver tends to neglect themselves in every way, shape and form and tends to ⁓ make it about the other person. And then the other person. Jack Clifford (06:14)I’ve seen that and heard about it. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (06:39)seems to be doing okay, but the caregiver is struggling and doesn’t ask for help and doesn’t go and doesn’t go and get looked after. And then things tend to catch up with them and they become the ⁓ sickest person in that relationship. Jack Clifford (06:55)It’s like that whole put your oxygen mask on first on the airplane type thing, right? Like, you know, we can’t we can’t give what we don’t have to give Bill Gasiamis (07:01)Uh-huh. Yeah. So you, did you notice, did you notice the steady decline in your health? Did you kind of go, I’m not feeling right. I’m a feel a bit sluggish like 10 years down the track, or did it just creep up on you? then you got to this point. Jack Clifford (07:15)It really crept, it really crept. I, you know, like I had initially exercise induced angina, but it wasn’t much exercise that induced the angina. And then it very quickly progressed to trying to walk and getting out of breath and, know, at very basic walking speeds, just moderately paced, you know, anything anybody would do out in your neighborhood. ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (07:39)Did you know that you had an angina? Jack Clifford (07:41)I did, yeah. I didn’t have a big heart attack episode like some people have. I’m 100 % blocked. There’s no heart attack to happen, right? Because the stuff is, I’m so blocked that it’s just a pure blood flow issue. A lot of people don’t understand that that 50 % blockage is a huge risk for a heart attack because you’re gonna burst a plaque and then go from 50 % to 100 % like that. But you know about collaterals. And if you have collaterals in place, the blood’s not getting flowing this way, you’re gonna recruit some lead oval collaterals to be able to just get by with your activities of day living. But if you don’t push yourself, you don’t know that you don’t have enough blood flow to do these other things. Bill Gasiamis (08:22)Okay, so you got to the point where you were so unwell as far as the blood vessels around your heart were so unwell, they were so blocked that angina led to another escalation or something happened that got you to the point where you realized, okay, things are not good. Now, tell me what angina is exactly and what it’s like to have it. How do you experience it? Jack Clifford (08:39)Yeah. yeah, yeah. I’d love to talk about that. Bill. at its most basic, it’s a supply demand mismatch. So, you know, the blood flow that’s supplying your heart ⁓ is adequate for X, Y, or Z activities of daily living. You know, walking around the house, doing the dishes, you might have enough blood flow for that, but you don’t have enough blood flow to go run a mile or even walk potentially, you know, or Hospital Experience and Heart Health but it’s all about supply demand mismatch. And that’s about just the size of the pipes, you know, if they’re clogged up, how clogged up are they? And, know, ⁓ that’s, really it. So, and what it feels like is it’s scary because it feels like a heart attack. all like, what does a heart attack feel like? Well, there’s a thousand different sort of, ⁓ descriptions of it. ⁓ you know, radiating down your arm or nausea or something in your back, but. you know, if it’s right over your heart, it’s unmistakable. And that’s at least my presentation of angina. And I think it was a pretty typical one is, you know, I have this weird kind of deep pain. initially, when I, when I started, you know, run, trying to run and got it, I thought, ⁓ you know, I just pulled a chest muscle weirdly over my heart. You know, I’ll stop and let’s see if it goes away. I come back, you know, no, same thing. Okay. Still not better. Let’s do it again. Another couple of days later, so on and so forth. I was just kidding myself, but I didn’t know anything about the horror at that point. hadn’t had to research all this stuff and do all the deep dive. Bill Gasiamis (10:16)That’s the same crazy logic that stroke survivors put to, I’m feeling weird. I’m dizzy. I’m going to go and lie down. I’m going to rest. It’ll be better later. ⁓ I’m too busy. I’ve got to go to work. ⁓ I’ve even had stroke survivors where somebody’s telling them you maybe you’re having a stroke, you know, just tongue in cheek and they’re like, yeah, no, probably not. ⁓ it’s the same crazy logic that we say about things that are unfamiliar to us that we cannot potentially. Jack Clifford (10:25)Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (10:46)link to something so serious because we have no knowledge, we’re ignorant, right? Jack Clifford (10:47)Yeah. Well, yeah, I think that’s really part of the key there is like most times with something as sudden as what you’re talking about or what I’m talking about in my instance, because it was pretty, pretty sudden, you know, weeks and months. ⁓ We went from being these, you know, healthy people that felt like we were on top of the world to all of a sudden not. you you didn’t have a frame for what not looked like. ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (11:14)Exactly. Yeah. That’s such an important comment. We don’t have the frame for what not healthy looks like and therefore you don’t know what you don’t know. So you don’t take any action. You just brush it off. Okay. I hear you. All right. We got to the bottom of the stupidity behind a lot of my decisions as well to avoid going to hospital for a week, et cetera, the first time. ⁓ So you end up Jack Clifford (11:24)Exactly. That’s it. Bill Gasiamis (11:43)being really unwell on this particular date. Kind of what is that day like? Explain us. Jack Clifford (11:46)Yeah. Yeah. Decisions Against Medical Advice So I got tight. I, I, I’ve been a biohacker for a while. So that’s probably the only reason I’m here talking to you because I went off the beaten path really far off the beaten path to get to the place where I know what I know and I have to share what I have to share. ⁓ because I’ve been trying to help my wife get better for some significant issues, including a really bad traumatic brain injury. And some other things and doctors didn’t have the answers for those so we had to we had to kind of biohack our way out of some things I was comfortable back. I’m saying that to say my wife got me a Chili pad for my bed because you know been trying to biohack sleep for a while and the colder environments to sleep are you know better to some degree at least in theory ⁓ and so Yeah, correct Bill Gasiamis (12:32)Chili meaning cold, not spicy. Jack Clifford (12:37)Yeah, correct. A chili pad as in the cold. So it’s a device that just, you know, cools your bed off. And so I crank that down to 55. She got it for me for Christmas. So Christmas day Eve, I’m like hopping into bed, like I’m going to sleep really well tonight, you know, and I woke up at four AM like, Oh, you know, I thought that was the big one because it felt that way. I a dead sleep woke me up with, with intense chest pain. And I knew something was going on, you but I was kidding myself. I hadn’t talked to family about it. You know, I hadn’t shared anything about what was going on with anybody. So at this point I’m like, oh my goodness, you know, and I could be dying and have not had, you know, just been an idiot the whole time. So I rushed to the hospital and I didn’t have a heart attack. I just made it so cold that I made my heart work and that supply demand mismatch was happening all night long in my sleep. Bill Gasiamis (13:15)Mm-hmm. Jack Clifford (13:31)And so it got to this, you know, a giant, creeps up, you know, it’s like, can feel it. And then if you push it, you’re like, can really feel it. Well, you know, I woke up out of a dead sleep going from not feeling it when I went to sleep to, to feeling it to the extreme when I woke up. Um, but that’s when they gave me the, uh, the, uh, nuclear stress test with a treadmill test, right in the hospital. And it was, it was really bad. They can’t quantify your blockages with that, but they can tell you that, you know, you’re You’re kind of screwed. And I was like really screwed. Like it was 47, but they said I was one of the worst I’d ever seen. ⁓ yeah. So I had all weekend to think about it, you know, cause I was a Friday, fortunately, and they could, they weren’t going to do the heart catheterization until Monday and the doc, you know, I was signing consent forms for them to do bypass surgery and it was pretty clear that the odds of it getting stented was not really good, but that’s what you hope for. Right. And most people are like, we’ll just get a step. once then in you’re fine. And ⁓ in my case, it wasn’t looking likely. And my mother had had bypass surgery five years before that. And I watched her cognition after the bypass surgery just declined to the point where she’s in memory care now. And she had gone from being this vibrant book author of multiple books and you know, she was a hypnotherapist and she’s helped a lot of people in her life, done a lot of amazing things, but ⁓ she never. she never really came out of the bypass surgery as her whole self and pretty quickly was just completely not herself at all. ⁓ So I wasn’t ready to come back. Now she’s 76. Bill Gasiamis (15:03)How old? How old’s your mom? Yeah. I know with people that are older, ⁓ heart surgery can lead to cognitive decline and there is a link there. There is a number of it’s well researched. It’s a risk. ⁓ not one that you’re probably aware of and that they talk about much, but it definitely is a thing. so, okay. You’re, you’re you go to the hospital. They realize, ⁓ the Jack Clifford (15:15)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (15:37)charts are not looking good. ⁓ They do the tests. They suggest that what they can offer you is bypass surgery. your, and you’ve got a weekend, think about it and you, and you go home, do they go, do you go home with medication and joining the medications to keep the blood flowing with anything? What do they do? Jack Clifford (15:51)Mm-hmm. Where’d you go? Yeah, such a blessing. No, no, because I was leaving against medical advice so they weren’t going to help me, right? And I actually said to the doc, said, you hey, I’m new here because I just moved a couple of months ago to Florida. And I said, can I come see you? And I didn’t have a cardiologist. I didn’t need one before this. And he says, if you live that long, just walks out. So I was on my own at that point. There was no resources of institutional medicine. I had to go find resources myself. Exploring Alternative Treatments Bill Gasiamis (16:28)Wow. Things are pretty wild in Florida. If you live that long and he walked out. Jack Clifford (16:30)Yeah. Yep. That’s exactly what we said. It’s a very sobering moment for me. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (16:35)And you walked out. Yeah, and you walked out. Far out, man. So what’s the thinking behind walking out of that? Because I understand ⁓ that there are very few things that, like my situation was different, right? But I’ll give you kind of my thinking behind the, I’m gonna walk out routine. It’s like, there is a part of me that sort of says, I don’t need to subscribe to all that medical stuff, all the nonsense. I wanna try and avoid the medications. I wanna do all of that. Jack Clifford (16:41)Yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (17:07)That means I’ve got to do some work to get to that point, right? I’ve got to make sure that I’m eating well. I’m sleeping well. ⁓ I’m exercising. ⁓ I’m not overweight. I’m not smoking. I’m not drinking. Like there’s a responsibility that goes with, don’t want to take that medication. Right. And one of the other things is that, ⁓ if it wasn’t for the medical industry, I would not be here recording this, ⁓ podcast. Yeah. So there’s this big thing, which is. Jack Clifford (17:31)Yeah. Double-head sword, right? Yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (17:37)They’re not fixed. My brain is not getting fixed unless they go in and take out the faulty blood vessel and potentially risk all the complications that, that I got the ones I got, but also the ones I didn’t get, which many people get, which is far worse deficits than what I visible on me. So, ⁓ I’m, you know, I’ve never met anyone in my time who hasn’t Understanding Enhanced External Counter Pulsation (EECP) who has been through the medical ⁓ system, who hasn’t benefited from it in a way that’s sort of sustained their life, supported their life, lengthened their life. Like everyone that I’ve interviewed has always gone through the medical system and has saved them, supported them, helped them, right? And you’re going to, the first place to get help you’re going to is a hospital, right? You ring up and you go, I’ve got to go. Jack Clifford (18:22)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (18:31)to the hospital because I’m feeling like I’m having heart attack. You get there, they confirm it, and then the place that you go to for help is the place you walk out of. What’s the thinking? Yeah, yeah. You have the angina, the blockages. Yeah, you got all of that. Jack Clifford (18:41)Well, I didn’t have a heart attack. That’s a really important nuance point. you know, I’m sitting in the hospital all weekend. there was nothing at risk in an emergent moment for me. My heart wasn’t, you know, I wasn’t going to lose heart muscle if they didn’t do something. Like my mother’s instance was different. She had a heart attack. She probably needed the bypass surgery. It was really hard on her, obviously, like we talked about, but in my case, I had time, but they didn’t treat it like I had time, right? Bill Gasiamis (18:54)Okay. Okay. Jack Clifford (19:10)They treated it like, we’re gonna go in and take care of this thing for you rather than you have time to explore other options when I knew in fact I did. So it might be that getting bypass surgery is the right move for some folks, but it also might be the right move for you and me. We’ve already discussed that you take care of yourself so you never get in that situation. And yeah. Bill Gasiamis (19:32)Yeah. And this is not a interview about do as I say, this is not that interview, right? What this interview is like one person’s experience and what they did. That’s it. We’re not giving medical advice here. We’re not telling you what decisions to make. We’re not telling you any of that stuff. This has got nothing to do with advising anyone to do anything, but what it has got to do with is what either you discovered Jack Clifford (19:45)Yeah. Right. Bill Gasiamis (19:58)or you knew before and put into action or what you discovered after you left the hospital that weekend. So take us through the next sort of phase of I’m taking responsibility for this and I’m going to take advantage of something that is documented scientifically and proven. Jack Clifford (20:03)Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. And you know, like, so I’ll go into that phase, but, but I just want to share this thing because, know, you, you pretty much already told me when you first heard EECP, you like EECP what? Right. And most doctors are EECP what? Basically every patient is EECP what? And it’s, it’s just, it’s really not going to lie. really bothers me because this, this, this therapy is, is so well-documented. It’s, it’s, it’s FDA approved. It’s not controversial. Bill Gasiamis (20:25)Mm-hmm. Jack Clifford (20:43)⁓ it just anyways, okay. So, so, so yeah, so I leave the hospital and the only reason I knew about a EECP was because when my mom had her heart attack, I listened to a podcast by Ben Greenfield. He’s a pretty, you know, pretty high-level guy, right? And that had been, that was like 2015. And I just heard mention of it. was like, it was maybe like two minutes of the, of a 60-minute podcast at most, but I was like noted. So I looked into it from my mom. The closest provider was two hours away and you got to go 35 times and my mom isn’t going to drive. 35 times, you four hours round trip. It wasn’t gonna happen, so we moved on, but I just sort of knew about it. And when I say knew about it, I didn’t know, Bill, like what it actually did or how it worked. I didn’t look into it at that level. just, you know, like assessed the situation. I was like, okay, there’s something out there. That’s it. Okay, yeah. It stands for enhanced external counter pulsation. And you want me to go into a little bit about how it works? Yeah, okay, so. Bill Gasiamis (21:27)Hmm. And what is a ⁓ CP stamp? What does it stand for? Yeah, yeah, let’s do that, yeah. Jack Clifford (21:42)So EECP involves lying on a bed. From the patient experience, you’re lying on a bed. You have ⁓ cuffs wrapped around your calves, your thighs, and your hips. And inside those cuffs, there are little air bladders. Bill Gasiamis (21:55)those cuffs, are they like blood pressure cuffs? The Mechanism of EECP Jack Clifford (21:58)Yeah, like big giant Velcro blood pressure cuffs. Yes. Bill Gasiamis (22:02)Okay, so like they’re much bigger than a regular cuff, which is just over the bicep. Okay. All right. Jack Clifford (22:04)Yes. Yes. Correct. yeah, just that’s the right way to think about it. you you cinch them up, you’re getting really snug in this thing, but it looks like a giant pantsuit, you know? ⁓ And you lie on the bed and then you get a three lead EKG on you. It’s here, here, in here. And then in between heartbeats, the machine… inflates compressed air into those bladders at 1.3 psi to start with, which feels like kind of a gentle massage. And then the pressure can be increased in increments of 0.1 psi all the way up to six, which feels like the exact opposite of a gentle massage. However, if you go slowly, your body accommodates to that pressure and that pressure feels different, both over one session and over multiple sessions, meaning you might not get to six your first session, that’s unlikely, but as you do repeated sessions, you’ll increasingly get closer to six earlier in the treatment and be cumulatively more hours at those higher pressures. And what’s happening is all the blood, not all the blood, a significant amount of blood from your lower body is being pushed up in between heartbeats and it’s causing this phenomenon called sheer stress in your vascular systemically. And wherever there’s pressure differentials in the body, it’s giving a stimulus to grow. It’s saying the pipes are not big enough, you gotta grow. We’re trying to put through more than is gonna fit. The body’s like, wait a second, it’s not big enough. But growing things in the body takes time. And so you need those repeated sessions. Like I mentioned, T.R., before we started recording, it works just like cardiovascular exercise, but at levels humans can’t do on their own. ⁓ And so, yeah. Bill Gasiamis (23:52)That’s important to talk about. so just for a moment, we’ll talk about that. Like it works like cardiovascular exercise. So the idea with cardiovascular exercise is that what, does cardiovascular exercise do that’s similar to EECP? Jack Clifford (24:04)Sure. If you’re out running, when you hit that stride on your feet, you’re doing that same thing, right? You’re ⁓ sending blood up, right? And then your circulation, your heart’s beating twice as fast maybe than it normally is, or substantially more than you’re just sitting here heartbeat is. And that’s because the heart is responding to the environment around it and saying, I gotta get… a lot more blood, a lot more places. So I gotta work a lot harder. you know, is maintenance. So collateral blood flow. have alternate routes that we can use that lie dormant throughout our body. And those collaterals, if they never get used, they honestly, they get weaker and they close off, but they also can be reopened, you know? And then you can grow more of them. And… Bill Gasiamis (24:38)And what’s the result of that? Uh-huh. Okay, so there’s blood vessels that get less ⁓ blood flow because people are sedentary or people aren’t doing the type of exercise that would activate those blood vessels, for example. And then what in theory, not in theory, and then what happens in cardiovascular exercise, the body goes, we need more blood flow, let’s open up. Jack Clifford (25:12)Exactly. Bill Gasiamis (25:26)other areas where normally blood flow wouldn’t be required or doesn’t go. And EECP kind of mimics that mechanism. Jack Clifford (25:27)Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, but not kind of, it’s really important just to note, cause I don’t want, I don’t want any of your listeners thinking, well I’m just going to go run more. Right? I mean, by all means do that safely. You know, the dose always makes the poison with everything, but, but don’t think that you can, you can just go do this. You can do it to a limited degree with exercise, but you’re not going to grow, you know. that I didn’t have that before. And I like it because it shows you like the world of the possibly or it might be a little unsightly, but it’s feeding my brain. EECP has changed my cognition in addition to my heart, you know, my pelvis and my kidneys and my liver. you know, like it’s, it’s optimized blood flow systemically. Um, yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (26:19)Okay, so let’s go back to the cuff, the cuff that we put on and then what happens. Jack Clifford (26:24)Yeah. Yeah. So, so you just lie on the machine. Typically you do 35 hours on a machine for a course of treatment and one hour a day is a typical, you know, five days a week. That’s just typically you’re going to the doctor. There’s lots of other variations of that, but that’s the typical course. And that’s the most well-researched course. And, ⁓ you know, over time, usually about halfway through those 35 sessions, if you had angina, you’re going to notice a difference, but Personal Transformation Through EECP you know, they use this to treat dementia. It’s a well studied in dementia. There’s a recent study in the US that was profound, a year-long study, a hundred demented patients, roughly a hundred non-demented or a hundred treated patients. Everybody had dementia and a hundred CHAM patients, placebo. The demented patients that got an EECP, they all got better when we know dementia, people get worse in a year, right? They all got better, all of them. And yeah, so that’s like, you know, similar phenomenon erectile dysfunction, similar phenomenon kidney disease, similar phenomenon stroke recovery. So, you know, these are studies. I’m not making it up. It’s just literally like really well documented. It’s not. Bill Gasiamis (27:33)studies that we can get a hold of and put in the show notes, link to the show notes. Jack Clifford (27:36)Yeah, go to to EECPLocator.com and all these studies are there. ⁓ Yeah. So what I did is in the U.S., I, you know, it’s really hard to find. so I couldn’t find it. I had to, I had to call around and like, I could find a few doctors, none of them near me, but a few of them that would had machines, but they would only use them after everyone had failed stints and failed bypass and they had nothing else to offer them, which makes no sense. But that’s how the insurance reimbursements work. Bill Gasiamis (27:41)Okay. Jack Clifford (28:04)That’s the only time they’ll actually pay for it. So that’s what they say it’s good for, but that’s not what it’s good for. That’s just what they can get money for, I guess. but, so I had to drive three hours and take a chance on a doctor and stay in a hotel to get my treatments. And it was really difficult. I mean, I ended up buying one of these machines and got it at my house and I’ve just been using it for the last five years. So, you know, 35 hours was great, but I was pretty bad off. Now I got about 700 hours and, uh, you know, more hours is just greater stimulus to the body to grow vasculature, right? And I mean, I… Bill Gasiamis (28:38)how do you know that you’ve grown? I know there’s this ⁓ feeling or this change that happens in the person. ⁓ Like you said, dementia, ⁓ people who experienced dementia have a better outcome later or a change in the way that they’re brain working, et cetera. can you see the, is there a way to see the difference between the blood vessels and Jack Clifford (29:02)You can’t, you can’t image, could image on a, on a cardiac pet would be like the only imaging or I guess, you know, if I went back and did a stress test again, you would, you would be able to see, cause it’s not quantifying specific arteries. It’s, quantifying the total volume, but I tried that they were, actually wouldn’t let me, they said it’s not safe because you have it at a stent or a bypass. So I went back to the same place that I got it, you know, and I was like, literally they put me through the imaging machine. gave me the dye and then they got Lifestyle Changes and Holistic Health I went to go on the stress test and the same doctor was there and he refused to tell me to go. So I like, wanted to say, hey doc, let’s go for a run. Cause like, you’re not going to keep up with me, but you know, so I, I didn’t bother with that, but I’ve got my own, you know, I did my own little stress, stress test with a treadmill, right? I started, I was getting chest pain. I found out where I can induce angina and I try and say just below it, you know, so I know where it is, right? I was 2.2 miles an hour. That’s not a fast walk. And then after the first 19 sessions where I was staying in the hotel, I got up to 2.7. That’s a really big difference even if it doesn’t sound like a lot. And then I got my machine and I kept going. And then within a couple of months, I was starting to do a running stride. And I could keep that up, no angina. I know where angina would come in. I had time calculations and everything. And then eventually, now I can run. comfortably 6.5 mile an hour pace for quite a while, know, push it up to 14 miles an hour for 30 second sprints and you know, like all kinds of stuff. So, ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (30:38)How long before you break the two hour barrier for the marathon? Like was recently done. Maybe, maybe the more blood vessels, the more blood flow. Maybe you can get there. Jack Clifford (30:42)⁓ I got zero interest in that. Yeah. I think so though, I think those Kenyans should be ⁓ hopping on these EECP machines and they’re I mean, they’re already amazing but. Bill Gasiamis (30:58)Well, you want the Kenyans to just completely own marathon running for the rest of eternity. It’s unbelievable what they did. Right. Like I imagine that there is something else going on there, but I imagine blood flow, oxygenation, more blood vessels. Like it’s got to potentially be a thing. reckon if you do a check between the last guy, me, who’s going to like 50 hours before you get to the other side and those dudes, there would Jack Clifford (31:03)Yeah, yeah, it’ll just be a Kenyan Yeah. ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (31:27)definitely be a difference because they’re exercising all the time, right? Jack Clifford (31:31)Sure, yeah, they’re pushing the collaterals as wide open as, know, whatever, whatever a human can do on their own, they’re doing it to the max to, know, the same phenomenon that EECP is doing for folks lying down. You know, they’re doing it to whatever the max you can without the machine, I would say. Bill Gasiamis (31:48)So this is a bog standard human body task. Like it just does that all the time. I have heard the blood vessels can reroute in the brain when somebody experiences a blockage and then, and it’s not useful at the time of the blockage, obviously, and it causes potential cell death when somebody has a stroke. But then later on. Jack Clifford (32:11)If there’s too much blood, the revascularization, yeah. Bill Gasiamis (32:14)Yeah, so EECP can kind of occur naturally and then it can support as much of the surrounding tissue as possible so that it doesn’t all die off. ⁓ So what you’re talking about is just encouraging EECP ⁓ to happen more than it would normally happen by ⁓ inducing it through this device where people ⁓ get sort of strapped in and then Jack Clifford (32:23)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (32:43)the machine runs, what does it run like a program? Explain how that works. Jack Clifford (32:47)Literally, it’s just air pressure. got different pumps to pump the calves, the thighs and the hips up. And then it’s really just about the timing, right? It’s got to hit it at the right interval of your heartbeat. So it’s at the right place in diastole where your heart is at rest. that timing is very, crucial. And that’s really… Yeah, it’s not, it’s very old technology. The machine I have was built in 2009. You know, they have new machines that are portable now that I’m working with some of the manufacturers to actually, you know, make these available in the U S because there aren’t any in the U S but they do have portable machines that don’t require a bed. You could get treated on your couch. You could get treated, you know, on your own bed, uh, lying on the floor, I suppose. Um, so, you know, we’ve, we’ve really like technology hasn’t Bill Gasiamis (33:19)Wow. Jack Clifford (33:42)slowed down. just China’s like taking this thing and you know, have a basically every Chinese hospital has several of these machines and they treat patients in the, in the room with us. It’s, part of their standard of care for all kinds of different, different diseases that they’re treating. You know, and it’s adjunctive to just about everything. There’s nothing that you couldn’t do EECP with, right? ⁓ yeah. Bill Gasiamis (34:03)Okay, okay, so. How do you experience your body differently now? And actually, let’s go back actually, how long has it been since you came across this, decided to get the first treatment, implemented yourself ⁓ at home and then how do you feel different now? Jack Clifford (34:08)Oof. Yeah, it’s been five years and four months now. And every since like, this is this is a little hard part to quantify, because there’s been a lot of brain changes to from this, right? So so I don’t even like feel like my 47 year old self who was in the hospital, that feels really like somebody else to me. You know, it’s a version of me, I suppose, but I can’t really relate to that person. Because I like a small example. The Impact of Stress on Health I used to sleep eight to nine hours a night. That was my normal, my whole life. I was generally like the guy that would come in the latest. You could come to work. was the guy that came in the latest. You And now I get up at two 30 most mornings and I’m like, like rare to go with energy. I’m, you know, I’m working out doing resistance training. I’m reading, you know, I wrote a book, I’m writing another book. I’m writing a book on rectal dysfunction as it relates to this phenomenon, because that’s a whole other, you know, case study. and I work a full-time job and I just have an incredible amount of energy basically all the time. My mood is way better. My sense of touch is really different now. I give a lot more hugs because it feels really good. ⁓ My sense of smell and taste and… You know, hearing, you know, I used to like have to go to the bathroom at night sometimes, you know, wake me up to go to the bathroom. Long gone. Bill Gasiamis (35:47)So at the same time though, it sounds like also you might have changed other things as well though, right? So what else have you changed in the meantime? Jack Clifford (35:55)sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It hasn’t just been EECP. Absolutely. you know, really good supplement routine. ⁓ Pretty extensive, but, you know, managing my lipids, for example, I take a thousand milligrams of niacin twice a day. I’ve been able to bring my triglyceride to HDL ratio to kind of an optimal one-to-one, using fish oil and some other things. ⁓ And, you know, I… I really stay away from carbs for the most part. I like to eat keto, but I like it to be what I call clean keto. So I’m not like pounding keto ice cream or all these things that are, you know, they taste good and yeah, they’re keto, but they got all kinds of oils in them that aren’t really good for your body. ⁓ And, ⁓ you know, I’m big into moving and being active and, you know, having an engaged social life as much as possible as well. I mean, I think that’s a very underrated thing. That’s actually an area I struggle in because I’m working so much, but you even this helps just, you know, getting to know people even online. But, ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (37:04)It sounds like you haven’t re it doesn’t sound like you’ve reinvented the wheel. Like everything that you say is things that people take for granted that if they implemented would improve their life before EECP. We’re talking about EECP today, right? But just those things alone would make a massive difference to somebody’s experience. And that’s kind of the message that I’m trying to kind of get into the Jack Clifford (37:17)Totally agree. I thought it a good Sure. Bill Gasiamis (37:30)⁓ minds and hearts of the stroke survivors who I interview and who listened to the podcast. My book, I’m going to, we’re going to talk about your book in a sec, but I’m going to talk about my book. My book, when I wrote it, I thought I discovered all these things that people, should know about that no one knows about, but it’s not true in here is mindset. ⁓ there’s a chapter about emotional intelligence. There’s a chapter about nutrition. There’s a chapter about sleep. There’s a chapter about community. Jack Clifford (37:32)Yeah. Yeah. No, please. Bill Gasiamis (38:00)⁓ that’s just the five that I can just rattle off the top of my head right now. And you’ve already mentioned that in the last few minutes, that’s exactly the things that you mentioned. And people take it for granted how much that improves your overall health. Right. The Journey of Writing a Book Jack Clifford (38:13)That’s so true. And also what’s wrapped up in the wrapper of all of those things that are threaded together is stress, right? ⁓ If you do all of those things, right, you’re lowering stress. How did I get heart disease at 47 when it happened to my grandfather in his late 60s and my mom in her mid 60s and it happened to me at 47? And we know it didn’t happen at 47. It was years earlier and I realized it at 47. Stress, you know? Like I was the guy that took on a lot. Bill Gasiamis (38:38)Hiding earlier. Jack Clifford (38:44)and had some traumatic things happen in my life and whatever, and I don’t need to go into that. But I always felt like it was all rolling off my back. Like, you know, I’m fine. know, like I didn’t, and there are reasons why I felt that way. ⁓ However, at the end of the day, I know that I wasn’t processing. There was so much I did not process. And I didn’t learn how to like have really good boundaries and that, you know, begot more stress because of those lack of boundaries and, but stress, right? You know, like, but if you have good good social life and healthy people in your lives, that takes stress off. Eating the right food takes oxidative stress off your body. You could go on and on, but I think stress is gonna kill you before anything else. Bill Gasiamis (39:17)you Yeah. I love that you said that. I love what I love that. That was the answer that you gave when I said, what else did you do? Because it’s not just, you know, it’s like, I’m going to eat well, but smoke, you know, I’m going to eat well, but drink excessive amounts of alcohol. Like, no, it doesn’t work. You know, you can’t do that. Yeah. can’t do. Yeah. Small. Jack Clifford (39:42)No, you gotta do it all in concert. It’s the layers, right? Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (39:49)numbers, know, the percentages they add up, you know, 1 % here, 1 % there all adds up and you get a result at the end of it. Okay. So, so you’re you’ve gone, I’m going to see if I can grow new blood vessels to support my heart. And what you’re found between the time that you went to hospital around five years ago to now is that the angina has Jack Clifford (39:55)Yeah. Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (40:17)⁓ improved, they’ve gone away. The heart has improved, I beg your pardon, the blood flow. And have you had a medical examination since then to do other comparison? Jack Clifford (40:28)Yeah, I have. Yeah, I’ve got a cardiologist. I haven’t seen him and I’ve talked to him the other day because I talked about the book, but I haven’t gone to see him because he’s a plane flight away. But I’ve been worked up for the crowded intermediate thickness. You might be familiar with that as it relates to stroke. okay, well, they just measure your crowded arteries and look at the placking in your crowded arteries as a proxy for your systemic plaque burden. And flow mediated deletation, is they totally occlude the… the arm with a blood pressure cuff and then see how quickly you can refill it after, you know, like, it’s like five minutes of this, your hand is completely numb. And those all, you know, workups were good and that was after a couple of years of treatment. You know, I tried to have that stress test, like I mentioned, but you know, now I just see my primary care, you know, he’s a good guy and he runs on my lipid panels and, ⁓ you know, so I’m definitely monitored, but. What I haven’t done is gotten re-imaged because I don’t want to put extra dye in my system. Sure, somebody wants the images because they don’t believe me, but I’m not trying to sell anybody anything here. I’m just trying to spread the word on something. If somebody doubts my honesty, they can, it’s fine. Bill Gasiamis (41:38)I know what you mean, Jack. I know what you mean. I and I asked you because yeah, I would love to see that before and after. would love to see the blood flow. What’s happening, watch change. would be amazing. story to tell, but I also went out of my way if I could to avoid having more dyes and all that kind of stuff injected into my body. I totally get it. It’s okay. Yeah. ⁓ Jack Clifford (41:49)Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (42:01)Okay. So you wrote a book about it. Like, what was the idea behind the book? What were you thinking? Show us the one that you got there with the old book cover. And then I’ll include the new book cover in this image as we chat. Jack Clifford (42:06)yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. So I started writing this book, in, know, ⁓ November timeframe, ⁓ after I mentioned to you, so my, my friend came down, ⁓ and stayed with me for 13 days and he had had some stroke damage five years before that was, you know, his whole right side, he just had like numbness and then pain. And then, you know, it this weird cascade of symptoms so bad, you know, sometimes he couldn’t sleep from it. And so All the time he took off work he could he came and he used the machine three times a day and then he left pain free and like nothing else had worked and then this worked and I didn’t per se expect that I but I was like, you I know it does stuff. It’s helpful. But anyways, when I saw that, you know, I really started digging even more because before that I was like, well, Jesus is amazing. But maybe it’s just me, you know, and and anyways, so, ⁓ so then I, you know, I just started writing the book one day and The Role of EECP in Heart Health You know, my mom was a book author and I always wanted to write a book. didn’t really have anything particular to write about and all of sudden I do. So I’m like, you know, let’s see what happens. And, uh, and you dig into the research more and more, and you’re just like, increasingly frustrated by how everyone has known about this. And yet, you know, they don’t promote it. They don’t talk about it because it’s inconvenient. You know, and I’m going to get a little, try not to get like soapboxy here, but Bill Gasiamis (43:36)Do it, do it, go for it man. Jack Clifford (43:37)Okay, okay, because, you know, cardiologists will say it, some of them, the ones that are honest, they’ll be like, like mine. He says, I was making obscene amounts of money, giving people bypass surgeries instance. And then I was given the same people bypass surgeries instance, a couple years later. And, you know, and then he stumbled upon some answers and EECP is one of them that helps his patients stay well. And, you know, he makes a lot less money. because of it, because he doesn’t go in and do these interventional approaches. And, you know, EECP, the most you could pay somebody is like $100 an hour, and you’re going to tie up a patient room for 35 hours with a tech, it doesn’t make any sense. I go pop a stint and you make 10 grand in two hours and never see you again. You know, like it just, I get it from, you know, I want to own a portion of Ferrari and have a lake house and a winter house, but You know, like, I don’t know how you live with yourself. You said go for it, man. I’m going to go for it. you know, and my son’s about to graduate. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Fair enough. I’m good with it. Yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (44:38)But come on, come on, Jack. Yeah, you go for it. I’m going to push back. I’m going to push back as well. You go for it. I’ll push back. There’s yeah. Which is cool. Right? That’s what I want. I want to have a conversation and I don’t want to control the narrative, but the guy that goes in needs a stint today has a blockage. Like that’s life saving. That does work. What I am afraid of that happens sometimes when people go in and they’ve got a blockage and then they get ⁓ even even a stroke blockage. Right. in carotid or a vertebral artery. What happens is sometimes people go in and they get told you need a stent. Fair enough. You’re about to have a heart attack. You’re about to have a major stroke. If we don’t put one in, you’ll have a, that’s necessary. The challenge is, that that person sometimes doesn’t learn the lesson of what got them into the situation where they need a stent. Jack Clifford (45:22)Good. Exactly. sure. Yeah, by all means. Like emergency medicine is great. And we’ll put that in the emergency medicine category of cardiology, right? Why aren’t they offering you, why aren’t they saying, Hey, you’re at risk for a whole lot of other things just by this happening. Why don’t you come 35 times to this EECP machine and you know, like, or why don’t we have centers Bill Gasiamis (45:36)Yeah. Yes, and then later… Jack Clifford (45:55)all over. I found exactly one place in Australia so far that I’m not focusing on Australia right now. I do plan to take EECP Locator International, but right now the access points in the US are abysmal. 70, 80 % of the people in the United States could not get to a center. There’s no access point that’s at all realistic for them to get to. And yet these machines are not that expensive. They’re the price of a Decent not that great car. ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (46:24)we’re starting to see them in, I don’t know, health spas or something like that, where people will go, they’ll get yoga, they’ll get this, they’ll get that, they’ll get infusions perhaps and all sorts of other things. And there’ll be a machine or there’ll be a suit that people can put on and they can go through one hour. Jack Clifford (46:29)Yeah, that’s good. That’s great. Yeah, although I do want to say that the Normatech, like the compression boots that they have and some of those things, when they don’t use the pressures that EECP uses up to 6 PSI and they’re not sinking it in between heartbeats, it’s helpful, but we’re not talking about things that can do the same thing in the body. It’s on the right path and I’m not digging it as being worthless because it’s not, but it’s just not the right thing. Bill Gasiamis (46:47)Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that’s kind of what we’re seeing. And to go back to your point is because the medical profession does medical profession stuff. this is not, it’s not that it’s not medically kind of aligned. It definitely is. But when you’re told that the way you solve a problem is through putting a stent in and then never talking to that patient again, to tell them how to avoid to get a stent in that’s Jack Clifford (47:31)Yeah, that’s your job. Bill Gasiamis (47:34)what they do, like they’ve been trained to do that forever. And that’s what they do. And that works and it saves the life. But what it doesn’t do, which I also have a challenge with this, it doesn’t teach the lesson. What it reinforces is that if I have something wrong with me and I go to a doctor, they’ll fix it. So next time it goes wrong, I’ll just go to the doctor and they’ll fix it again. And I didn’t have to change my life. Like this even bloody advertisements that do that. They Jack Clifford (47:51)just I’ll go and he’ll fix it. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Bill Gasiamis (48:03)They hijack that part of the person’s brain and they say, you know, have you got reflux, heartburn, that kind of stuff? Don’t let reflux and heartburn get in the way of eating the foods that you love. Just take a tablet. You know, that’s the same kind of thing, right? And that’s why the medical profession doesn’t do that because they’re not trained to do anything other than sell their thing. And their thing is what they went to work, to school for. Raising Awareness for EECP Therapy Jack Clifford (48:17)Yes. Bill Gasiamis (48:30)20 years to be able to administer. But every so often you come across an amazing doctor, surgeon, et cetera, who says, I can’t do anything more for you, but maybe somebody else can. Those guys are better than the doctor who says, we can’t do anything else for you and then send you off their way. That next sentence, but maybe somebody else can, I don’t know who they are. That is. Jack Clifford (48:43)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (48:57)I think a great thing to say this is where I think EACP kind of fits in that now that I’m here and things are not good. Jack Clifford (49:05)I totally agree. I totally agree. And yeah. And you, so you, you mentioned like the wellness spas and whatnot. And here’s the thing in 2015. So, you know, somewhat recently the FDA approved EECP for a brand new indication, general circulation, right? In healthy people. Like it’s right on the FDA indication. And also in one case in increase in VO2 max, but rough, that’s roughly saying the same thing. ⁓ yeah. Bill Gasiamis (49:32)for healthy people, was that part of it? Jack Clifford (49:35)Yeah, it said unhealthy patients and healthy people didn’t call patients. So, so, ⁓ but, but, know, the litmus test for that is, is your doctor say you’re healthy enough to undergo circulation enhancement? If the answer is yes, you know, it doesn’t matter if you got all that other stuff or not, you know, we’re just not treating you for it. We’re not saying ECPs is fix for this, your erectile dysfunction. It might help it. You know, what’s not saying it’s, it’s the fix for your stroke, but it might really help your stroke, recovery, but. Bill Gasiamis (49:47)which Jack Clifford (50:03)Anyhow, so like you can, you know, I don’t know about in Australia, but in the United States, you could get an EECP machine and create a viable business model off of helping people as soon as people actually know about it and what it does, right? I’m trying to solve the access issue in the United States by aggregating demand, right, as one of the solutions. So I have a website, eecplocator.com. And if people… ⁓ tell me that they like EECP to be available in their area, when I get like five to 10 patients in one area, we’re gonna find a way to get it to them. ⁓ The how is, you there’s a bunch of different possible ways we can get EECP to them, but at the end of the day, you know, like people need this treatment. They really, really do. Bill Gasiamis (50:50)Yeah. We’re not talking about anything ⁓ out there. Like this is not an out there thing. This is definitely common. Now I, I don’t know how I haven’t come across it. I’ve all these years after all these years now I’ve just because of our conversation right now, I just did a Google search and I typed in EECP machine Australia. And the first thing that came up was an Australian government department of health, disability and aging. Jack Clifford (50:57)No, it’s that. Bill Gasiamis (51:20)document from the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which talks about a mid-trade Australia EECP system model, external counter pulsation system stationary. So it seems like they have a… Jack Clifford (51:36)Like they’ve approved it, sounds like they have some approved devices. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (51:38)Something like they’re at least looking at it. Let me see what that says. The inclusion of the kind of device in the AI community is subject to compliance with conditions placed in post. Yeah, it sounds like it’s been through some regulated body in 2021. Jack Clifford (51:52)Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yep. There you go. Bill Gasiamis (51:57)This device is intended to provide external counter pulsation therapy and is indicated for use in the treatment of stable angina. Jack Clifford (52:06)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (52:08)pectoris and congestive heart failure. There you go, my friend. Jack Clifford (52:10)Yeah, it works great for people with art failure. It really does. Bill Gasiamis (52:14)Dude, father-in-law had heart failure. He passed away from heart failure just a few, about a year and a half ago. ⁓ Now, I don’t know, I’m not saying anything, but we’ve never heard of this before. Today’s my first time where I’m really going to deep dive about this thing with you. ⁓ So what are the challenges that you face? what are the, what is it? ⁓ The barriers that you face? Jack Clifford (52:20)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (52:44)when you’re speaking to people about this or how people finding out about it, how do you help people like Jack Clifford (52:50)It’s just an awareness piece. It’s an EECP what? And then, you you get in with some physicians and then you got to duke it out a little bit. Not with all of them. There’s plenty of physicians, you know, I’ve talked to the physicians that have machines and are doing the right thing for society and still making plenty of money. ⁓ They’ll just tell you, you know, I’ve talked to some cardiologists and just they kno

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Please excuse Lazlo while he takes his morning drugs. What's something you learned too late? James Comey is indicted, and the guys go on a rant about the royal family. President Lincoln was throwing around a major penis. We've all dated someone who we thought would stab us. Lazlo knew it was over when he had to get rolled oats. Stream The Church of Lazlo podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!

Josh Nichols re-joins the show to explain the "This is It" Practice Plan; Mike plays Old Town; Eli has doubts.  Mike & Eli go into a mental coaching session with Josh Nichols.  Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Titleist - Titleist.com Kudos to Vuori - save 20% off your first purchase at vuoriclothing.com/chasingscratch Kudos to Footjoy - Footjoy.com Kudos to ShotPattern - save 20% off at shotpattern.app/chasingscratch MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. Cable Management / PC Speakers ... Boao 3 Pieces Cord Protector Wire Loom Black Tubing Cable Sleeve Split Sleeving for USB Charger Cord Cover Audio Video Cable, Each Size 10 ft 3/4 Inch, 1/2 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JPV4NRJ Split-Sleeve Wire Loom for High-Temperature Automotive Harness and Home Cable Management, 25ft - 1/2 inch Braided Cable Management Sleeve Cord Protector, Self-Wrapping Split Wire Loom https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4LD8FP3 PreSonus Eris 3.5 Studio Monitors, Pair — Powered, Active Monitor Speakers for Near Field Music Production, Desktop Computer, Hi-Fi Audio https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C88ZB3D9 Wood Hangboard Rock Climbing Holds - Sturdy Hang Board for Climbers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X58S696 POWER GUIDANCE Hangboard Rock Climbing Holds Finger Strengthener for Pull-up Grip Arm Training Indoor and Outdoor Double-Sided Non-Slip Portable https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VTG6RZN Cosmos 1 Pc Green Screen Backdrop 43 in / 110 cm Diameter Foldable Portable Photography Background Green Screen Chroma Key Backdrop for Photography Photo Video Studio, Live Streaming, Video Meeting https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQNRWL7K Key Points: New Monitor Setup: Ordered a new 49-inch curved monitor. Current setup involves a steering wheel that needs to be moved for gaming and work. Detailed process for switching between gaming and work modes. Cable Management: Discussed different brands of wire loom: Boao and teziicus Store . BOA is cheaper and see-through, while teziicus Store is more expensive but better quality. Explained the use of split sleeve wire loom for easier cable management. Tips on using heat shrink tubing and a heat gun for a better seal. Mentioned using Gorilla Glue for expanding and sealing large dongles. Recommended sizes for wire loom: three-fourths inch for larger cables, one-fourth inch for smaller cables. Labeling and Organization: Emphasized the importance of labeling cables using a label maker. Suggested using specific tape for patch cables and placing labels a few inches away from the plug for easy identification. Mentioned using twist ties for temporary cable management and Velcro for more permanent setups. Additional Tools and Tips: Used binder clips and paracord for temporary setups. Mentioned using power guide holds for rock climbing practice during calls. Discussed the potential for a dual monitor setup to avoid moving the monitor frequently. PC Speakers: Noted the shift from traditional PC speakers to studio speakers. Mentioned entry-level studio speakers costing around $99. Highlighted the need for a subwoofer for better bass. Discussed bass shakers for haptic feedback in racing games. Workspace Cleanliness: Emphasized the importance of keeping the workspace clean and organized. Mentioned using a green screen for video calls, hung from the ceiling for a flat surface. Conclusion: Encouraged listeners to keep their workspaces clean and organized for better productivity and aesthetics. Provided practical tips and tools for effective cable management and workspace setup. Closing Remarks: Wished listeners a good day and encouraged them to record their own episodes. Additional Notes: Mentioned the use of a standing desk and the challenges of dual-use with a steering wheel setup. Discussed the potential for a separate office table for gaming and work to avoid frequent adjustments. Host's Personal Note: Acknowledged the change in format for better show notes and clarity for listeners. Provide feedback on this episode.

JD is missing, presumed dead. We can only assume that all his bad decisions have finally caught up with him. But never fear true believer, we have Adam Carnevale from the hit podcast series 'D&D is for Nerds' to join us instead. Today we examine the friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man and see how we could re-design that amazing and spectacular wall-crawler. We take the first suggestion of attempting to get a sponsorship from Velcro and really run with it. From the Val-Crow to the Valentine Crow Man, we do our best to avoid getting sued by the general public, Charles Xavier and Val Kilmer's estate before turning on a dime to try and get that lucrative cigarette sponsorship money. Spiders are scary, we do not know why Peter Parker themed himself that way. Is he stupid? Excelsior!Links to everything at https://linktr.ee/plumbingthedeathstar including our terrible merch, social media garbage and where to become a subscriber to Bad Brain Boys+ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you recognize the sound of a Velcro rip and your heart starts to pound the minute you hear that familiar hum, we need to talk. You likely bought a home blood pressure monitor to feel safer and healthier, but now you might feel like a slave to a rubber tube and a plastic screen.In this episode, we are looking at how a responsible health habit turns into a psychological nightmare in the form of fixation and obsessive fear. We discuss why blood pressure anxiety happens, often in the complete absence of an actual medical issue. Let's talk about how you can start living your life again without being tethered to a machine.---Want to talk about this episode?I'm hanging out in the Disordered Community space:https://disordered.fm/community------What we covered in this episode:The Paradox of Stress and Vitals: How the act of worrying about your blood pressure is exactly what drives the numbers up.The Certainty Trap: Why checking for reassurance only leads to more uncertainty and more frequent checking loops.The ACT Lens: Learning to accept the reality of health uncertainty rather than trying to perform behaviors to make the fear go away.Metacognitive Beliefs: Examining why you think worrying about your vitals is protective and learning to treat these thoughts as mental events.Detached Mindfulness: Using tools like the Blue Tiger exercise to recognize when you are being hooked by a scary thought.Rebound Anxiety: Why it feels reckless and scary to stop checking, and why that feeling is a normal part of the recovery process.Recovery from blood pressure anxiety is not about reaching a perfect, guaranteed number. It is about changing your relationship with your physiology so you can move your energy back toward the things that actually matter in your life.For full show notes on this episode:https://theanxioustruth.com/342Send in a question or comment via text.Support The Anxious Truth: If you find the podcast helpful and want to support my work, you can buy me a coffee.   Other ways to support my work like buying a book or signing up for a low cost workshop can be found on my website.  None of this is never required, but always appreciated! Interested in doing therapy with me? For more information on working with me directly to overcome your anxiety, follow this link.Disclaimer: The Anxious Truth  is not therapy or a replacement for therapy. Listening to The Anxious Truth does not create a therapeutic relationship between you and the host or guests of the podcast. Information here is provided for psychoeducational purposes. As always, when you have questions about your own well-being, please consult your mental health and/or medical care providers. If you are having a mental health crisis, always reach out immediately for in-person help.

Mike & Eli go into a mental coaching session with Josh Nichols.  Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Lagoon Sleep - save 15% at lagoonsleep.com/scratch  Kudos to LMNT - DrinkLMNT.com/chasingscratch MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC

Send us Fan MailWe answer rapid-fire questions that separate pretty cabling from high-performing structured cabling systems, from tie-wrap pressure and bend radius to the real reasons links fail certification. We also get practical about project realities like crushed schedules, scope creep, testing expectations, and the skills that keep techs and PMs valuable as AI and fiber adoption grow. • choosing Velcro or tie wraps without crushing the jacket • quick bend radius checks that prevent hidden damage • diagnosing certification failures beyond “clean” terminations • protecting pair twist and performance over rack cosmetics • balancing speed and quality with mid-project checkpoints • avoiding new PM mistakes around handling limits and testing types • stopping scope creep with documentation and change orders • when to stick with one manufacturer for headroom and warranty • angled patch panels versus flat panels and rack space tradeoffs • running a real site walk with ladder flashlight PPE and access questions • where AI hits first and how field work changes later • why copper and fiber both stay relevant plus the top future skills Make sure you come back next Wednesday night. Support the showKnowledge is power!  Make sure to stop by the webpage to buy me a cup of coffee or support the show at https://linktr.ee/letstalkcabling .  Also if you would like to be a guest on the show or have a topic for discussion send me an email at chuck@letstalkcabling.com Chuck Bowser RCDD TECH#CBRCDD #RCDD

Episode web page: https://bit.ly/3Odmj7r Epsiode description In this episode of Insights Unlocked, Nathan Isaacs sits down with Stephen Baer, author of Stickology: How to Build Unbreakable Connections with Employees and Customers for Life, to explore why engagement is the true engine behind business performance—not just a feel-good initiative. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience across gaming, corporate leadership, and behavioral science, Stephen introduces a powerful framework for understanding connection in organizations: “Velcro vs. glue.” He explains why most companies rely on fast, surface-level engagement that fails under pressure—and what it takes to build deeper, more resilient relationships with both employees and customers. Stephen also unpacks the critical link between employee experience and customer experience, sharing why disengagement shows up long before metrics drop—and how leaders can spot early warning signs. From designing for belonging in product and UX to embedding purpose into everyday decisions, this conversation offers a practical roadmap for creating organizations that truly “stick.” Along the way, Nathan and Stephen discuss the role of leadership, the importance of coaching over managing, and why not all friction is bad—highlighting how thoughtful, human-centered moments can actually strengthen trust and loyalty. You'll learn: Why engagement is a business strategy, not an HR initiative How employee experience directly impacts customer experience The difference between “Velcro” and “glue” organizations Early warning signs of employee and customer disengagement How to design for belonging in products and experiences What “good friction” is—and why it builds trust How to turn purpose into everyday operational decisions A practical 30-60-90 day approach to improving engagement Episode links Stephen Baer's website (https://stephenbaer.com/#home-section Stickology book (https://www.amazon.com/Stickology-Unbreakable-Connections-Employees-Customers/dp/9699592532) Stephen Baer on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenbaer/ Nathan Isaacs on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanisaacs/) Learn more about Insights Unlocked: https://www.usertesting.com/podcast

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Eli finds a new weekly competitor; Mike plays the Cardinal with an LPGA Tour pro. Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Titleist - want to join us at our San Diego event? Register here: The 4th Annual Mantooth Kudos to Mizzen+Main: Use code SCRATCH20 for 20% off your first order at mizzenandmain.com  Kudos to Fit For Golf: Go to fitforgolf.app/chasingscratch for 25% off any subscription and a 7-day free trial MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC

Hey Team! We've all had those moments where we walk away from a conversation and immediately spiral into a "self-regulation hangover," wondering if we said too much or if we were just being "tolerated" rather than included. Feeling like maybe this whole friendship thing maybe just isn't for us. This week, I'm talking with Caroline Maguire, a veteran social skills coach and the founder of the Social Excellence training program. She holds a Master's in Social Emotional Learning and is one of the few experts who approaches social skills as a "muscle" that can be built, rather than an innate talent you either have or you don't. Her first book, Why Will No One Play with Me?, became an instant staple for neurodivergent families helping children struggling with social skills to make friends. And with what she learned from that book she is now bringing to her upcoming book, Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults: A Guide for the Anxious, Uniquely Wired, and Easily Distracted. In this episode, we're looking at the mechanics of friendship through a neurodivergent lens. We talk about the importance of proximity and "shared interest fuel" in bypassing the awkwardness of small talk. We also touch on the "rejection lens" and how our history of being bullied or marginalized can often color our current adult relationships. Caroline also walks me through some of her most practical frameworks, including the "Ice Cream Scoop" method for building trust and why having a "third place" is essential for creating low-pressure social friction. If you'd life to follow along on the show notes page you can find that at HackingYourADHD.com/285 YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/y835cnrk Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HackingYourADHD This Episode's Top Tips ADHD impulsivity often leads to "oversharing," which creates a "self-regulation hangover" of shame. The shift here is to view sharing as taking one "scoop" at a time, waiting for the other person to match your level of intimacy before offering more, which protects your trust and your energy. Our brains naturally hang on to negative social stories like Velcro while letting positive ones slide off like Teflon. Recognizing this biological bias allows you to challenge the "rejection lens" and realize that a friend's lack of a text might be about their own hard time rather than a reflection of your worth. Making friends isn't a 1-2-3 prescriptive step; it's about "social friction" and proximity. By prioritizing showing up at the same place consistently, you allow people to get used to you, which lowers the barrier for entry into community and future friendships. Remember, deep friendship doesn't happen instantly and takes work. Don't be discouraged if you're first attempts don't work out, keep at it and build up those friendships over time.  

Mike and Eli travel back to River Bend for the first major of the year.  #LGLG Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Titleist MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC

Sometimes you gotta go back ... to actually move forward.  #LGLG Want bonus content? Join the Velcro: patreon.com/chasingscratch  Kudos to Titleist MUSIC CREDITS: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100414 Artist: incompetech.com/ "Meaningful Change" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Amazing World Time Lapse" purchased via PremiumBeat.com The Lincoln Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLFqtV7dGY  "Epic Battle Speech" is by Wayne Jones "C Major Prelude" is by Bach "Air to the Throne" is by Doug Maxwell "Connect The Dots" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Latest Scandal" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "The Old Tale" purchased via PremiumBeat.com "Philosophy" by Eskimotion purchased via PremiumBeat.com Mixed by Lenny Sterner Copyright © Drupelets Media LLC  

(Exodus 4:27-31) Moses and Aaron reconcile and bring the voice of the Lord to the people. Nathan VanHorn reminisces about his old band.