Podcasts about Venn

This time, we consider how our three authors (Jung, Vallee, and Pasulka) think and talk about the overlap between the Venn diagrams of religious revelation and UFO encounter. There's a surprising number of similarities between the two, and we have a lot of fun considering that. Hope you like it. See you in a couple of weeks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Personal injury attorney Charles Sanders takes us through the legal process involved in spinal "soft tissue" injuries. About Charles "Chuck" Sanders Charles is passionate about helping the injured fight for their rights against insurance companies. Early on in his career, while working as an insurance adjuster and claims counsel for numerous insurance companies, Charles saw first-hand and personally experienced the unfair and deceptive tactics big-name insurance companies employ against injured claimants-even their own insured clients. The best way Charles Sanders describes accident and injury law is as a Venn diagram. "Imagine, if you will, two intersecting circles. One circle represents the law. The other circle represents medicine. Where the two meet in the middle is the epicenter of "personal injury law." Resources: rosesanderslaw.com Show Sponsor Haven Medical

If a Museum Curator explored your Organisational Culture, what would they display? The Occupational Philosophers | Episode 123 - Jenny Theolin Jenny Theolin is a Stockholm-based designer, facilitator, curator, photographer and author. She spent her twenties and early thirties running an independent creative practice in London before taking her studio back to Stockholm. Since 2009, she's run Studio Theolin, designing learning experiences, keynotes and culture programmes for organisations including Volvo Cars, the European Parliament and the London Stock Exchange. In 2023 she wrote, curated, designed and personally financed Dare to Facilitate: 320 pages, 120 dares and 39 contributors across nine countries. Along the way, she's built exhibitions out of ideas most people would dismiss, including a lolcat art show that raised over £4,000 for a dogs and cats home and a global campaign for Comic Sans's 20th birthday. If that's not enough, she's also the founder of the Museum of Organisational Culture. The conversation starts with how someone who does almost everything makes sense of it (her answer: making ideas happen, and getting shit done). From there it's the importance of aggressive curiosity and the Museum of Organisational Culture: a growing collection of donated objects that make an organisation's invisible culture visible, from a staff T-shirt to the office fruit bowl that vanished in the pandemic. Behind it sits Curatology, her method for reading organisational culture the way a curator reads a collection, in five steps: C.U.R.I.O. - Choose, Uncover, Reflect, Interpret & Offer. Then there's her marvellous book, Dare to Facilitate, her exhibitions and how she designs events from the invitation onwards.  John and Simon hope you enjoy the show as much as they enjoyed making it. It's the reason they started this show - interesting, cool and creative people who have taken the path less travelled and kicked arse! Timestamps 00:00 – What's caught your curious eye: vertical drinking and the V&A East Storehouse 00:04 – Meet Jenny (and the intro that made Simon and John feel inadequate) 00:07 – Sweden's missing summer and being aggressively curious 00:12 – Dinner party questions: tufting, ceramics, photo lunches and building your own communities 00:22 – The Venn diagram: making ideas happen 00:27 – The Museum of Organisational Culture and curatology 00:37 – A protest T-shirt and the vanishing office fruit bowl 00:40 – Dare to Facilitate, and a game of "dare or dare" 00:47 – Designing learning from the first invite, and why little learning happens in the room 00:56 – Thought experiment: musée or not musée? 01:05 – The LOLcat exhibition 01:10 – Rapid fire, what's next, and where to find Jenny Pre-order Jenny's book!  The Museum You Carry (pre-order): https://www.museumoforganisationalculture.com/the-book  Live links  Jenny Theolin Studio Theolin: https://www.studiotheolin.com  The Museum of Organisational Culture: https://www.museumoforganisationalculture.com  Dare to Facilitate: https://www.studiotheolin.com/shop/p/dare-to-facilitate-buy  The Curatologist (Substack): https://thecuratologist.substack.com  Toolbox Toolbox: https://www.toolboxtoolbox.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennytheolin/  People & Work Mentioned V&A East Storehouse: https://www.vam.ac.uk/east/storehouse/visit  Abracademy: https://abracademy.com  Hyper Island: https://www.hyperisland.com  BBC on Jenny's LOLcat exhibition: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-21166326  Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/439667/the-boy-the-mole-the-fox-and-the-horse-by-charlie-mackesy/9781529105100  Museum of Broken Relationships: https://brokenships.com  Cup Noodles Museum Osaka Ikeda: https://www.cupnoodles-museum.jp/en/osaka_ikeda/  Crocodile Harry's Underground Nest & Dugout: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/crocodile-harry-s-underground-nest-dugout  The National Poo Museum: https://poomuseum.org  The Occupational Philosophers Website: https://www.occupationalphilosophers.com  Substack: https://occupationalphilosophers.substack.com  John — Bowland Consulting: https://www.bowlandconsulting.com  Simon — https://www.simonbanks.com.au Standout Line "There's a museum for absolutely everything apart from the place where we are most of our working lives."   As always: Stay curious, play more, have fun, make stuff, and as you leave the door, date life.

Apple Pie Playground with Valerie Title: What is your divine child's ikigai? What gets you up in the morning? If it's your alarm clock, let's talk. What Is Your Divine Child's Ikigai? Sacred Geometry, Blue Zones, and Finding Your Reason for Being Valerie leads a solo hour on Apple Pie Playground exploring the Japanese concept of ikigai, tracing its sacred geometry and Okinawan Blue Zone roots before guiding listeners through a live four-column exercise to measure their own passion, purpose, mastery, and profession. Welcome To The Divine Playground Valerie opens Apple Pie Playground by welcoming listeners back to what she calls the place where divine children play under the Tree of Life. She explains the Kabbalah's structure of a mother principle, a father principle, and a child, describing the child as representing the emotional or astral body, the part of consciousness that carries emotion, imagination, and passion. She notes that the phrase get your head out of the clouds actually references that same astral nature of daydreaming and imagining. Valerie invites listeners to spend the hour indulging their inner child, dabbling in imaginings of a better world, and thanks BBS Radio for bringing everyone together on the playground. She frames understanding the divine inner child as more than nostalgia for childhood memories, setting up a discussion of how ancient spiritual traditions treated that inner spark as something sacred and worth deliberately awakening within the body. Gnostic Roots Of The Sacred Child Valerie turns to Gnostic practice, explaining that devotees worked to incarnate what they called the sacred child, or divine spark, into the physical body, a process meant to pull Christ consciousness into the vessel and awaken what she calls the inner sun within. She ties this to ideas from earlier shows about a universe and a central sun existing inside the human body. She says some call this receiving the Holy Spirit and others call it reconnecting with source consciousness, framing them as the same experience described differently. Valerie argues humanity has lost its essential connection to source through what she calls dark design, and that reconnecting is intentional, mission-critical work accomplished through daily devotions, rituals, and meditations. She recommends a YouTube and Spotify teacher named Morg, spelled M-O-R-G, praising his integration of Kabbalah, Gnosticism, biblical and Christian studies, and encouraging listeners to simply pick a video of his and get started. A Date In History Before turning to her planned topic, Valerie flags something from the news she feels went largely unnoticed: President Trump's speech at the United Nations this week, delivered on September 22nd. She recalls that the same date in history marked President Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, a stern warning that in 100 days the government would consider enslaved people in hostile Confederate states to be free. Valerie draws a parallel between Lincoln acting as commander-in-chief during wartime and Trump addressing the United Nations while presiding over a military she describes as in active combat, under what she says some call martial law. She wonders aloud whether the UN speech quietly drew a line in the sand for a liberated humanity, and whether a hundred days might bring freedoms not yet imaginable. She acknowledges she may be reaching, but urges listeners to consider world events through a more mystical or metaphorical lens. Introducing Ikigai And Sacred Geometry Valerie pivots to the day's chosen topic, ikigai, a Japanese concept she describes as more intricate and debated than she expected, essentially a debate about happiness. She explains that ikigai, or one's reason for being, is typically illustrated with a Venn diagram combining four questions: what is your passion, your purpose, your mastery or skill, and your profession or service. Answering these, she says, builds an internal sense of life's worth and self-realization. Valerie highlights that the Venn diagram takes the shape of a vesica piscis, which in sacred geometry is the foundation of the Flower of Life, a pattern she says animates the cosmos. She suggests that practicing ikigai connects a person to the same creation energies embedded in that geometry, linking a simple word for contentment to a much larger cosmic design, and promises to unpack what ikigai actually means and where it comes from next. Lessons From Okinawa's Blue Zone Valerie traces ikigai's roots to Okinawa, a so-called Blue Zone she says is home to a remarkable concentration of centenarians, and credits much of that longevity to daily ikigai practices. She describes hara hachi bu, eating until only about eighty percent full, along with constant gentle movement such as walking, bending, sitting on the ground for meals, and living by the rhythm of sunrise and sunset rather than the clock. She notes that traditional Okinawan culture has no real concept of retirement and that people tend medicinal gardens for home remedies. Valerie then explores Shintoism's concept of kami, the belief that all things carry divine spirit, which extends a person's reason for being toward serving community harmony, or wa, rather than the self alone. She describes moai, small childhood friend groups that stay close for life, as a fading but treasured practice, and closes with the Zen Buddhist view that everyday life itself is the greatest teacher. A Four-Column Ikigai Exercise With time running short, Valerie leads a simplified, live version of the ikigai Venn diagram, asking listeners to grab paper and draw three lines to make four columns labeled Passion, Purpose, Mastery, and Profession, filling each from the bottom up. For every column she poses three candid questions, such as how clear one's greatest passion is, how much of the week goes to others' demands, how easily a loved one could state one's life purpose, and how ready one feels to retire regardless of age, asking listeners to score each answer as a percentage. She explains that columns with stronger percentages at the bottom than the top suggest a life built on solid footing, while the reverse suggests a structure unlikely to stand. Valerie frames the exercise as a starting point for further reflection during the week ahead, then thanks BBS Radio and her listeners before the pre-recorded announcer closes the show and invites everyone back the following Sunday.

Denne episoden av Oppdrift handler om de viktige nervene våre.Vi snakker mye om nervesystemet for tiden, og det er fantastisk, for vi påvirkes av nervesystemet hele tiden.Vår flotte gjest - Therese Clemetsen - er en av landets mest erfarne behandlere innen stress- og traumebehandling, og har mye spennende på hjertet i denne episoden.I denne episoden får du:Hvorfor trygghet starter i kroppen og nervesystemet, ikke i hodet.Enkle og morsomme verktøy du kan ta i bruk med en gang.Koblingen mellom kropp, følelser og adferd, så du merker når du blir aktivert og kan roe deg selv ned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hvor mye karbohydrater trenger du egentlig? Vi diskuterer ketogent kosthold og forskjellen på å spise for vektnedgang og for å prestere. Bør du karbolade før et løp eller Hyrox, selv om du ikke er toppidrettsutøver? Kine og Espen deler sine vurderinger av mat, energigeler og koffein før konkurranse, og hva som kan gå galt når du prøver noe nytt i siste liten. Vi tar også opp frykten mange har for å være for dårlig til å delta i konkurranser. .

For an Introduce Yourself show, a systems librarian discusses the many facets of his professional identity and the points of intersection for librarianship and information technology in his job.  Guest: Thomas Waters, Library Systems Technologist at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast September 18 2026. Playlist "... in the center of the Venn diagram between librarianship and information technology."

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Gavin Newsom tells CNN's Jake Tapper on a fishing trip that he won't run for president if Kamala Harris does. Larry O'Connor on why Tapper's advice is a problem for a possible debate moderator, what Newsom's "Venn diagram" comment says about Harris' donors and staff, Harris' $8 million Malibu home, her AI statement after Barack Obama's, and her "AI is kind of a fancy thing" clip. Raise your hand as a Social Security voter: https://AARP.org/SocialSecurityVoterBecome a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back to Untangled. It's written by me, ​Charley Johnson​, and valued by ​members​ like you.This week I'm sharing my conversation with ​Nick Pyati​, a former senior strategy leader at Microsoft and the founder of ​Belari AI​. Nick spent nine years doing strategy for a company whose ground shifted every few months, and then all at once when ChatGPT landed. We disagreed about how much of the work AI will eventually do but on what strategy is and why most companies are getting it wrong, we landed in the same place. I hope you enjoy it — I certainly did!Untangled HQGet on ​the waitlist​ for the second cohort of Stewarding AI: How to Build Responsible Principles, Workflows, and Practices. Here's what one participant had to say about the first cohort:Deep DiveWhat is an ‘AI strategy'?Nick and I talk about a lot of things:* What Nick learned about setting strategy at Microsoft in the months after ChatGPT, when planning horizons compressed from a year to a few months.* The three approaches to AI Nick sees right now, and why the companies that have done nothing about AI may be best positioned.* Facilitation as a strategic practice, and what the human conversations do that most analytical approaches to strategy can't.* What AI is doing to knowledge work, and how companies are commodifying what once set them apart.But the question we kept circling back to was this: when a company's context changes, how does it rebuild the link between that context and the way it works? Every team works inside a context — the people it serves, the competitors it faces, the technology available to it, and all of the interpersonal dynamics and ways of doing things that amount to culture. And every team has a set of habits, beliefs, and capabilities that fit that context.But then the context shifts. A new competitor arrives, customers start wanting something else, technology changes, etc. The habits, beliefs, and capabilities that made the team successful stop making sense. Yet they keep doing the same thing! Why? Because, as Nick argues, it served them well for years. Re-establishing the link means first recognizing that the old way of doing things is no longer serving you. High performing teams across companies, non-profits, and government will paradoxically have the hardest time because they have so many positive examples validating their current approach.And here we are. AI changed the context for everyone everywhere all at once. Your staff are working differently. The people you serve, and the board you answer to, expect something different from you. Somewhere a competitor you haven't heard of is rebuilding the work from scratch. A context that felt durable now feels more like quicksand. As Nick notes, every company in every industry now has the problem Microsoft had in the months after ChatGPT, when planning horizons shrank from a year to a few months and the historical trend line stopped being a guide to, well, anything. Strategy, then, is whatever it takes to re-establish the link between how a team works and the context it now sits in.But strategy is also a big bet. Yes, Microsoft is data-rich and analytical, but Nick says almost none of that data decided the big questions. When your context is regularly changing, forecasting or trend analysis isn't much use. Strategy stops being an analytical question because the future can't be known. Instead, strategy becomes more about imagination, conviction, and sense-making; about what the team can believe in, and how the team adapts together without fragmenting. I've written recently about ​imagination​ and ​sense-making​, so what makes for a good big bet?Nick thinks of it as a Venn diagram. The bet has to be plausible — supported by what the market is doing, with a real story for why this team has a comparative advantage. The team has to be able to get conviction around it. They have to believe in it. And the bet has to be big enough to be worth the risk, because of the fifteen good ideas on the table, maybe three will ever pay off at a scale that justifies the investment of time and resources.Companies and organizations aren't making big bets mapped to the future they want to bring about. They're focused on the same question every company has asked of every IT rollout before this one: where can we plug this in? What can we automate? And when you ask these questions of a technology that can reshape how the whole business works, you get a scattering of small bets with no idea underneath them. I wrote about the mechanism behind this in ​The Copycat Economy​. When a technology is poorly understood, organizations copy each other rather than think for themselves — DiMaggio and Powell called it mimetic isomorphism. Every company is doing what its peers are doing, which is why their ‘AI strategies' all look roughly the same.When your ‘AI strategy' maps the technology to existing work, another differentiation problem pops up. The models are the same for everyone. Unless a company is using them in some thoughtful, tailored way, whatever it produces with them is essentially what everyone else can produce with them. That model is what a company turns itself into when it automates the work its people were doing. The idiosyncratic humans on staff, with their peculiarities, big unconventional ideas, and their weird accumulated knowledge of how things get done here, were the entire source of anything novel the company had to offer. As I argued in an essay on ​why data-driven organizations are the least prepared for AI​, this knowledge is tacit and relational — it lives in bodies, in trusted relationships, in a team's accumulated sense of how decisions get made versus how they're supposed to get made. The knowledge isn't in the text, so it isn't in the model.Every time a CEO or Executive Director highlights the ‘efficiencies' generated by cutting their workforce, Nick said you should interpret that as: you lacked the imagination to know what to do with those people now that you have the capability. I agree! It means that they started from the question “what is our AI strategy” and simply bolted the technology on to what they already do, as the context changed beneath their feet. The better question is this: what future are we trying to create, what do the people we already have make possible, and where — if anywhere — does AI help? Answer that and you have a bet.More soon,CharleyWork With Me​Here are 3 ways I can help:* ​​​​​​​​​Advising:​​​​​​​​ I can help you navigate uncertainty, make sense of AI, and steward change in your system.* ​​​​​​​​​Organizational Training:​​​​​​​​ Everything you and your team need to cut through the tech-hype and implement strategies that catalyze true systems change. (For either Stewarding AI or Systems Change for Tech & Society Leaders)* ​​​​​​​​​1:1 Leadership Coaching:​​​​​​​​ I can help you facilitate change — in yourself, your organization, and the system you work within. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit untangled.substack.com

In this episode, we sit down with Julie Zukof, VP of Brand Marketing at Lucky Strike Entertainment — the umbrella brand behind Lucky Strike, AMF, Bolero, and the Professional Bowlers Association — to talk about one of the most interesting brand stories happening in culture right now. Julie brings a background spanning advertising agencies, brand strategy, wellness, and in-house marketing, and she breaks down why bowling is having a genuine cultural moment, how Lucky Strike is building an entertainment ecosystem that goes far beyond the lanes, and what the rise of IRL and screen-free experiences means for every marketer paying attention to where consumer behavior is headed. She also gets into how to balance nostalgia with evolution when marketing a legacy brand, why Gen Alpha is becoming the consumer insight conversation every marketer needs to be having, and what she actually looks for when building a marketing team. If you are thinking about brand experience, community building, or how to keep a legacy brand culturally relevant — this one is packed with transferable lessons.Key Takeaways:// People want to participate in brands, not just buy them. The most powerful brand experiences right now are the ones that create genuine participation — bowling leagues, pop-ups, partnerships, ecosystems. Consumers are no longer satisfied being passive buyers.// Screen-free experiences are up 500%. The same pattern that caused community to decline in the TV era is now playing out with phones — and brands that offer genuine IRL connection are seeing a direct surge as a result. Experiential is not a trend. It is a response to a real cultural shift.// Nostalgia plus experience is the most powerful Venn diagram in marketing right now. Gen Z is the most nostalgic generation ever studied. Brands that sit at the intersection of something familiar and something worth showing up for in person are winning across categories.// Gen Alpha is already making purchasing decisions — and most brands are not ready. Kids are telling their parents where to go for birthday parties, weekend plans, and experiences. Understanding how this generation consumes media and makes decisions is one of the most important consumer research conversations happening right now.Learn More About Lucky Strike: https://www.luckystrikeent.com/____Join the MHH Collective! The MHH Collective is a community for marketers and business owners to connect, ask real questions, and grow their careers together. Join for access to live Q&As with industry experts, a private Slack community, and ongoing resources: https://www.marketinghappyhr.com/mhh-collectiveSay hi! DM us on Instagram and let us know what content you want to hear on the show - We can't wait to hear from you! Please also consider rating the show and leaving a review, as that helps us tremendously as we move forward in this Marketing Happy Hour journey and create more content for all of you. ⁠Join the MHH Collective: ⁠Join now⁠Get the latest marketing trends, open jobs and MHH updates, straight to your inbox: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our email list!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow MHH on Social: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook

In Episode 23 of Season 7 of Data Debrief, Catherine Dowden-King and Kyle Winterbottom unpack Tuesday's conversation with Greg Freeman, CEO and Founder of Data & AI Literacy Academy, and the gap between organisations that have given everyone a Copilot licence and those that are actually using AI to change how the business operates. As Catherine puts it, a Sunday league player and a Premier League player are both "playing football" – but nobody's confusing the two.They also get into the week's headline that AI has a "greater than 10% chance" of wiping out humanity, why a growing anti-AI mood outside the data bubble matters for leaders trying to drive adoption, and why a landscaper turned content creator might be the best human-in-the-loop example going.They also discuss:Why September is the real new year for data leaders, with budget season and event chaos hitting at once.Why the "AI will kill us all" headlines are irresponsible without the evidence to back them up.How to tell the difference between a credible warning and a researcher looking for a headline on the way out the door.Why 70% of Facebook comments on an AI-generated event poster are people refusing to attend, and what that tells leaders about the mood outside the bubble.What a year five "meet the teacher" evening on WhatsApp groups has in common with the AI conversations happening in boardrooms.Why the toilet-door graffiti of the 1970s and today's comment sections are the same human behaviour at a scale our brains can't cope with.How Catherine explains agentic AI at the dinner table with trains and tracks, and why it still doesn't land.Why "AI" is used to mean automation, machine learning, LLMs and agents interchangeably, and why that confusion matters.What "buttonology" means, and why both hosts are stealing the term.Why training and education are two different interventions, and why most organisations only do the first one.What Greg's three personas – the asker, the conversationalist and the process redesigner – reveal about where most employees really are.Why AI maturity scales measure who can drive the machine rather than who's transformed their thinking.Why organisations want competitive advantage but are investing in local productivity, and why the two aren't the same thing.Why picking four or five core use cases beats a Venn diagram of everything you could possibly do.Why leaders must ask "have you actually understood this?" before accepting AI-assisted work.Why people treat LLMs like Google when Google gave you sources and LLMs give you a decision.Why the absence of sponsored results in LLMs makes people less likely to question what they're served.Why the context layer, not the tool, is where the real value in AI sits.What a founder's blanket ban on "Claude content" reveals about the perception problem holding back adoption.Why whether AI sits with the CIO or the CDO comes down to whether it's seen as a tool or a transformation.Why culture has to allow people to rip up a process and fail before any of the redesign talk becomes real.Why cutting graduate intake could leave businesses with a succession crisis in a few years' time.How the Dodgy Gardener quit his day job by pairing ChatGPT garden designs with advice from tradespeople in the comments.Why attention is the digital currency of the future, and why B2C businesses will create roles to work out how to win it.

MAPS Abs and Butt: https://mapsabsandbutt.com Code: LAUNCH for 40% off. Includes Butt Building Diet Guide, Women's Supplement Guide, at-home dumbbell version, and a free second program at checkout (Muscle Mommy or Muscle Mommy 15).   In this episode the guys break down why the cross-bench dumbbell pullover is one of the most forgotten and underrated exercises in the gym — covering how it trains a fundamental human movement pattern tied to throwing mechanics, why it fixes shoulder problems that nothing else touches, how it builds like a compound lift despite being an isolation movement, its unique benefits for thoracic mobility and rib expansion, and why it was a staple of old school bodybuilding for a reason. They also cover Adam's negotiating style and how radical honesty built Mind Pump's long term partnerships, a deep dive on Shilajit and the studies showing testosterone increases in healthy middle aged men, bone mineral density improvements in postmenopausal women and upregulation of extracellular matrix genes, the addiction economy Venn diagram showing 1 in 8 young men watch pornography, gamble and game every single day, the LifeLog and Facebook connection, gratitude practice and how Adam is using sauna time to rewire his relationship with wanting more, why electricians are now one of the most in-demand and highest-paid careers in the country, and Caldera Lab's new eye serum clinical study results. Then they coach live callers submitted through mplivecaller.com.   Mind Pump Fitness Coaching: https://mindpumpfitnesscoaching.com 1.9 NASM CEUs   SPONSORS   Organifi (Shilajit gummies): https://organifi.com/mindpump Code: MINDPUMP for 20% off.   Caldera Lab (Eye Serum): https://calderalab.com/mindpump Code: MINDPUMP for 20%    LMNT (electrolytes): https://drinklmnt.com/MindPump Free sample pack with any purchase, no code needed. 1,000mg sodium, no sugar.   LINKS   Submit a live caller question: https://mplivecaller.com Mind Pump Store: https://mindpumpstore.com Maps Fitness Products: https://mapsfitnessproducts.com Instagram: @mindpumpmedia   0:00 - Intro 2:43 - The cross-bench dumbbell pullover — the best exercise most people have never done 6:52 - Why it trains a fundamental human movement pattern and fixes shoulder problems like nothing else 12:43 - Builds like a compound lift, improves thoracic mobility and strengthens the rib cage 20:39 - Adam's negotiating style — radical honesty and The Godfather lesson 29:42 - Shilajit studies — testosterone, bone density and gene expression 32:24 - The addiction economy — 1 in 8 young men watch porn, gamble and game daily 39:21 - LifeLog, Facebook and the same-day launch conspiracy 45:55 - Adam's sauna gratitude practice and rewiring the relationship with wanting more 54:19 - Electricians are now one of the highest paid and most in-demand careers in the country 1:11:02 - Caller: Jason (California) — firefighter paramedic, major car accident, 2 months out 1:25:25 - Caller: Shannon (Washington) — 62-year-old trainer, chronically lean, needs to eat more 1:48:33 - Caller: Jennifer (South Carolina) — lifelong endurance athlete, 135lb bench at 52, needs to reverse diet  

Introduction to Mental StrengthDiscussing the importance of mental strength, Shara and Ginger explore Amy Moran's book, "13 Things That Mentally Strong People Don't Do." They emphasize that mental strength is not binary but exists on a spectrum, where anyone can improve their capacity to regulate emotions and behave positively despite circumstances. The first habit of mentally strong people they introduce is that they do not engage in self-pity.Self-Pity TrapMentally strong individuals avoid self-pity, recognizing that indulging in it only prolongs suffering and hinders growth. They acknowledge pain without allowing it to define them, learning to reframe their perspectives and focus on resilience. By fostering hope and understanding their control over their mindset, they can navigate life's challenges more effectively.Circle of ControlThe Circle of Control emphasizes focusing energy on aspects of life that can be managed, such as personal choices and efforts, rather than wasting time on uncontrollable elements like others' opinions or external events. By drawing a Venn diagram to distinguish between what can and cannot be controlled, individuals can better allocate their mental strength and energy. It is vital to recognize when one is worrying about external factors and to consciously redirect focus towards controllable elements.Changing PerspectivesShifting from self-pity to a mindset of learning is crucial; instead of asking, 'Why is this happening to me?' one should consider, 'What can I learn from this?' Incorporating spirituality into this reflection can deepen understanding, as recognizing personal shortcomings may lead to growth and self-control. Practicing gratitude is also emphasized as a vital tool in fostering a positive perspective.Practice GratitudePracticing gratitude is powerful, especially when navigating pain and challenges. Paul emphasizes that in every situation, we should find joy and recognize God's presence, acknowledging that our struggles highlight our need for Him. While we may experience hurt in relationships, focusing on gratitude helps us remain anchored in the present and appreciate the love and blessings around us.Power of WordsThe impact of our word choices significantly shapes our mindset and ultimately our lives. Expressing negative superlatives or consistently engaging in self-pity can alienate others, while adopting a hopeful outlook fosters stronger connections. Using affirming statements, like 'I am hopeful' instead of 'I can't,' empowers us to embrace faith and healing.Conclusion and Next StepsVictor Frankl's wisdom emphasizes that while we cannot always change our circumstances, we have the power to change ourselves and grow from our experiences. The importance of limiting self-pity and focusing on what we can control is highlighted, along with the need to recognize and address our emotions without letting them define us. Ultimately, we must cultivate mental strength by acknowledging our struggles, practicing gratitude, and shifting our mindset to one of hope and purpose.Follow us on IG at MoralSupportPodcast or our personal social media accounts.https://www.facebook.com/ginger.labathttps://www.facebook.com/sharamckee/

Most speakers are told to be visible: post more, show up more, build a personal brand. Susanna Reay thinks that's backwards. In this episode, framework thinking expert and author Susanna Reay makes the case for framework first, visibility second: the idea that without a clear, ownable structure behind your ideas, all that visibility just evaporates the moment you leave the room.Susanna walks through the difference between a personal brand (built on personality) and an authority brand (built on intellectual property), why the best frameworks borrow "safe but new" shapes the brain already trusts, and the five core structures she uses with clients: the linear roadmap, the circular model, the pyramid, the Venn diagram, and the two-by-two matrix. She also unpacks her own Framework Thinking Triangle, built from visual recognition, impact detection, boundary setting, and transfer integrity, and explains why she deliberately avoided forcing it into a clever acronym.Expect practical rules on naming (five letters or under, no repeated letters, don't force it), the neuroscience of why visual frameworks are 65% more memorable three days later, and a genuinely useful tangent on how colour choices in branding aren't just aesthetic, they're strategic.Connect with Susanna: frameworkthinking.uk or on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannareay/Chapters:00:00 Why Frameworks Fail01:02 Framework First Branding04:12 Umbrella Framework Metaphor07:41 Authority DNA And Energy10:28 What A Framework Is13:54 Simplicity Design Thinking15:51 Frameworks On Stage20:20 Make It Visual23:11 Five Visual Framework Types28:14 Iterate Your Framework32:51 Acronyms And Naming39:21 Book Showcase And Branding43:34 Colour And Consistency49:28 Connect With Susannah51:48 Show Updates And WrapFAQsWhat is a framework, according to Susanna Reay? A framework is a structure that brings ideas together in a way that's simple for others to understand. A good framework is simple, clear, unique, and specific to a defined space, rather than a long list of steps that functions more like a process diagram.What is Susanna Reay's "framework first, visibility second" principle? It's the view that experts and speakers need to establish their intellectual property and structure before focusing on personal visibility. Without a clear framework, ideas don't stick with an audience after a talk ends, no matter how visible the speaker has been.What is the SPARK process? SPARK is Susanna Reay's trademarked process for authority building: Self, Premise, Art, Reach, and Kudos. It starts with self, meaning personality, passion, and prowess (the "three Ps"), which she says most people skip when trying to imitate other speakers' styles.What are the five core IP families for building a visual framework? Susanna Reay identifies five recognisable shapes: a linear roadmap (A to B), a circular model (mastery through repetition), a pyramid (layered progression, as in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs), a Venn diagram (overlapping pillars of thought), and a two-by-two matrix (two axes of transformation, as in the Eisenhower Matrix).What is the Framework Thinking Triangle? It's Susanna Reay's own framework, developed iteratively from an original two-by-two matrix into a triangular structure. It has four elements: visual recognition (top), impact detection (bottom left), boundary setting (bottom right), and transfer integrity (centre, representing whether ideas travel beyond the room without the speaker present).Does a framework need to spell out a word or acronym? No. Susanna Reay says a framework always needs a name and title, but its internal elements don't have to form a word. When a word does work (like SPARK), she recommends five letters or fewer with no repeated letters, since anything longer becomes harder for the brain to hold onto.Why does Susanna Reay recommend visual frameworks over verbal ones? She cites research suggesting a presentation is 65% more memorable three days later when it includes a visual, and that the brain processes visuals roughly 65,000 times faster than text. A visual framework also travels intact when shared, unlike a spoken message, which tends to degrade the more it's retold.Connect with John:Known, Booked & Paid Blueprint: presentinfluence.com/kbpbSubscribe to the Serious About Speaking newsletter on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=6882642444815519744Find me on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/professionalspeakingpodcast/Find me on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@professionalspeakingFind me on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@professionalspeakingpodcastFor speaking enquiries or to connect with me, you can email john@presentinfluence.com or find me on LinkedInYou can find all our clips, episodes and more on the Present Influence YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PresentInfluenceThanks for listening. 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Why the Ikigai Diagram Everyone Copies Left Out the One Thing That Actually Makes It Work Most entrepreneurs know Ikigai's 4 circles - but miss the 5th. Discover the hidden element that transforms goal setting from aspirational to sustainable. In this episode, Tracy breaks down how self-improvement habits fail without this critical missing circle, and why authentic success requires more than passion + purpose + profit. Learn the neuroscience-backed framework that elite performers use to align personal development with real results. https://YourSuccessDNA.com Tracy argues that Western culture reduced ikigai to a four-circle Venn diagram about finding the right job, while ignoring moai, the Okinawan social-support structure that makes sustainable purpose and longevity possible. Drawing on Dan Buettner's Blue Zones research and the Okinawans Centenarian Study, it explains that long-lived populations share tight social bonds and don't pursue meaning alone. A moai is described as a committed group of 5-10 people who show up consistently for decades, providing relational accountability, mutual aid, and identity affirmation. The script contrasts moai with transactional mastermind groups, links moai to reduced fear and stress responses and improved persistence, and claims isolation causes burnout even with strong routines. It closes with a call to build a moai, join a newsletter, and text one honest sentence to someone today. 00:00 Ikigai Diagram Myth 01:26 Meet Moai Support Circle 02:52 Moai Changes Your Brain 03:46 Not A Mastermind 05:38 Mutual Aid Safety Net 07:01 Self Help Isolation Trap 08:48 Vulnerability Builds Moai 10:29 Identity Crystallization 12:33 Find Your People 15:32 Whiskered Wisdom 16:37 Final Thoughts Ikigai, self help, personal development , Blue Zones, Dan Buettner, Okinawa, Sardinia, Nicoya, Moai, fifth element of ikigai, Longevity, Burnout, Accountability, Social support, yuimaaru, psychology, health, personal growth, success habits, entrepreneurial success, habits for success, habits improvement, mindset habits, mindset success, productivity improvement, self improvement mindset, success mindset habits, goal setting, self improvement Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Das Hohe Venn wird noch monatelang brennen. Was das für Folgen für die Umwelt hat, erklärt Moor-Experte Holger Sticht vom Bund Naturschutz.

NRW-Schulministerin will mehr Alltagsnähe im Unterricht. Harry und Meghan wollen zurück nach UK. Von Katrin Schmick.

When a developer ships AI-generated code that quietly starts misfiring, the technical team moves on. What's left is a customer experience problem, a reputation problem, and a relationship problem. All of which land in the lap of the one person who wasn't even in the room when the code got written. This episode gets into why that's happening more often than anyone wants to admit, and what fractional CMOs need to understand to stay ahead of it. Casey looks at the specific failure mode that shows up when vibe-coded solutions hit real-world conditions. Not hypothetically. A real incident, a real client, leads getting hammered with text messages in the middle of the night because an API endpoint moved and the code had no way to back down gracefully. The argument running through the whole episode is that understanding when a developer is doing something wrong has quietly become part of the fractional CMO's job, and the ones who don't see it coming will eventually pay for it.   Key Topics Covered: Where AI coding benchmarks actually stand right now and why the numbers matter to CMOs Why AI legal review is a mistake and AI coding is a legitimate tool The triple Venn diagram of predictable growth: strategy, talent, and leadership Agentic AI and what it means to have a capable agent pulling reports from a broken CRM The real cost when vibe-coded integrations fail without graceful backoff Second-order consequences of AI development and how to think about them Practical questions every CMO should ask developers before a custom-coded solution goes live Tools for keeping locally-hosted AI solutions secure, including Tailscale   Take the First Step Toward Growth with CMOx  Booking a call with our team is super easy, stress-free, and all about YOU. Whether you're exploring options or ready to scale, this no-pressure consultation is designed to understand your needs and guide you in the right direction. 

Datenanalyse zeigt Niedrigwassertrend bei Flüssen. Neurologische Dysfunktion bei DFB-Star Musiala. Von Katrin Schmick.

Moore sind Feuchtgebiete, können aber brennen, wenn sie austrocknen. Der kohlenstoffreiche Torf an der Oberfläche entzündet sich leicht. Darunter entstehen Schwelbrände. Beim Löschen dieser werden Schadstoffe in die Umwelt freigesetzt. Reuning, Arndt www.deutschlandfunk.de, Forschung aktuell

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Brand Hohes Venn: Aktuelle Lage. Erntebilanz: Werden Lebensmittel jetzt teurer? Mehr Bußgeldverfahren: Kinder fehlen in der Schule. Von Katrin Schmick.

In this episode, Lisa deepens the conversation about self‑relationship, anger, innocence, and sustainable change, showing how the way we respond to ourselves in moments of rupture becomes the foundation for intentional weight loss. She explores how anger is often misinterpreted as danger or withdrawal of love, how childhood experiences shape our internal reactions, and how reparenting allows us to hold both frustration and connection at the same time. Lisa expands the framework of values‑aligned behavior, and long‑term intention, emphasizing discernment rather than judgment. She closes with a powerful teaching on innocence, energetic release, and the “superpower” metaphor.Topics Include:Anger, Love, and Internal SafetySomatic DualityReparenting and RepairValues‑Aligned Behavior[2:30] Lisa explores how we respond to ourselves when we do something that makes us mad. She names the importance of acknowledging anger without withdrawing love. Lisa distinguishes guilt (behavior) from shame (identity).[7:14] Lisa reflects on how childhood experiences shape adult interpretations of anger. She explains how children often internalize anger to not risk the withdrawal of parental love or safety. She highlights how this conditioning becomes an obstacle in intentional weight loss.[12:57] Lisa teaches that healthy relationships include rupture and repair—not perfection. She reframes conflict as safe, necessary, and strengthening. Lisa explains that internally, repair looks like: “I'm pissed, and also I still love you.”[15:51] Lisa expands on placing emotional burdens somewhere that isn't self or other. She connects this to 12‑step language: give it to God (or universe, higher power) explaining that this is not spiritual bypassing; it's energetic regulation.[20:12] Lisa shares a breakthrough moment of being allowed to feel anger toward God/the universe. She describes a client session where frustration and surrender coexist in the body. She ties this to radical acceptance explaining that you don't have to like it to accept it.[25:01] Lisa revisits the Venn diagram and appetite suppressants. She explains why choices must align with long‑term goals, not short‑term avoidance. Lisa discusses the illusion of “someone will save me” and the necessity of self‑responsibility.[31:35] Lisa discusses the three categories of people who take GLP-1s, explaining why GLP‑1 is not the “exit,” only a tool that quiets food noise enough to find the exit yourself.[45:21] Lisa reframes “I don't have a choice” as incomplete: “I don't have a choice if I want the long‑term outcome I've chosen.” She uses money, sleep, and dessert as examples of choice vs. alignment. She restores agency and safety by returning choice to the system.[53:42] Lisa explores how anti‑diet messaging can feel judgmental and fear‑based diet culture. She invites listeners to examine the energy of the internal voice: does it feel shaming or supportive? Lisa shares stories of overdoing that capture innocence rather than guilt. She explains how innocence doesn't mean harmlessness, but it changes the internal narrative. [1:08:27] Lisa introduces the “superpower” metaphor: powerful abilities that feel out of control until learned. She references Frozen, The Incredibles, and Spider‑Man as examples of unregulated power. She reframes past behaviors (dieting, restriction, coping) as innocent attempts without guidance. She closes with: It is your responsibility, but it is not your fault.⁠Join Us on Patreon!⁠ ⁠LISA IS NOW ACCEPTING: One-on-One Clients!⁠⁠⁠Purchase the OOTC book of 50 Journal Prompts⁠⁠⁠⁠Leave Questions and Feedback for Lisa via OOTC Pod Feedback Form ⁠⁠Email Lisa: ⁠⁠lisa@lisaschlosberg.com⁠⁠⁠⁠Out of the Cave Merch⁠⁠ - For 10% off use code SCHLOS10Lisa's Socials: ⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠⁠

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The Art of Asking Great Questions (and how not to lose it) The Occupational Philosophers | Episode 119 - Larry Robertson  Larry Robertson is an author, innovation advisor, and Inc. Magazine columnist and founder of Lighthouse Consulting, where he's spent three decades helping organisations successfully manage growth. He's a graduate of Stanford and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management; he was named a US Fulbright Scholar in 2021, (a rare distinction for someone working outside academia). If that's not enough, he's also an Adjunct Professor!  In his work, he's watched the world drift away from real questions and toward statements dressed up as questions, which, unsurprisingly, is the subject of his fourth book, Great Question: The Art of the Ask. This episode dives into what that lack of curiosity can cost us. Importantly, the book explores what we get back when we relearn the practice of noticing, intellectual humility, and the "adjacent possible" as a way of seeing what's one step from where we already are. It also unearths the bigger question of what it means to be human.  Larry is possibly the world's nicest man, and Simon and John hope you enjoy listening to the show as much as they did recording it. There are so many gems here.  Timestamps 00:00 – What's caught your curious eye and Simon's favourite artwork story 00:08 – Larry's curious eye: yellow finches, and the joy of seeing 00:13 – Dinner party questions: The big question Larry keeps circling back to 00:20 – Larry's Venn diagram, and his to-ask list (with an assist from Mary Oliver) 00:25 – Where the new book started: the pattern across his first three books 00:29 – The 25-year observation: statements replacing real questions 00:32 – Four things a question is: an invitation, a frame, a behaviour, an identity 00:37 – Noticing versus the practiced noticer 00:40 – Stuart Kauffman and the adjacent possible 00:43 – Slow looking, the National Gallery, and Claire Bown's "The Art Engager" 00:47 – Training medical students by having them diagnose art 00:50 – Intellectual humility: the Hero's Journey, three levels, and the mantras for practicing it 00:58 – Warm data versus cold data, and reframing the data-centre problem 01:02 – Why the book matters: mattering, meaning, and being a questioning species 01:07 – Jeopardy! Possibly the world's best ever thought experiment 01:13 – Rapid fire: the manifesto addition, plus book and film recommendations 01:18 – What's next for Larry, and where to find him Live Links Larry Robertson Website: https://lrspeaks.com/ Great Question: The Art of the Ask (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Great-Question-Getting-More-Really/dp/0983757461 Lighthouse Consulting: https://lighthouse-consulting.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larryrobertson3rd/ Column — Inc. Magazine: https://www.inc.com/author/larry-robertson People & Work Mentioned World Peace Game Foundation (Robin Klingler): https://worldpeacegame.org/ Stuart Kauffman, theoretical biologist and originator of "the adjacent possible": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Kauffman Claire Brown — The Art Engager / Thinking Museum: https://thinkingmuseum.com/ Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education: https://pz.harvard.edu/ Centre for BrainHealth, UT Dallas (art-based medical student training): https://centerforbrainhealth.org/ Temple Grandin: An Open Door (documentary): https://www.templegrandindocumentary.com/ The Occupational Philosophers Website: https://www.occupationalphilosophers.com Substack: https://occupationalphilosophers.substack.com John — Bowland Consulting: https://www.bowlandconsulting.com Simon — simonbanks.com.au: https://www.simonbanks.com.au Standout Line "What will you realise soon that you already know?" As always:  Stay curious, play more, have fun, make stuff, and as you leave the door, date life as always, stay curious, play more, have fun, make stuff, and as you leave the door, date life. 

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30-minütige Sondersendung zu den Walbdränden: Lage, Ursachen, Folgen und Kosequenzen. Von Martin Günther.

Der Kampf gegen die Flammen in Hürtgenwald und im hohen Venn. Die NRW-Spiele in der dritten Liga. Von Martin Günther.

Hvem vant partilederdebatten i går? Hvorfor slutter Donald Trumps pressesekretær, Karoline Leavitt. Med Hanne Skartveit, Shazia Majid og Astrid Meland. Produsent Magne Antonsen. Ansvarlig redaktør Gard Steiro. Kontakt redaksjonen på giaeveroggjengen@vg.no. Giæver & gjengen gir deg de viktigste nyhetene hver dag på drøye 20 minutter når du skal hjem fra jobb. Hør «Mediebobler» hver lørdag om feilene pressen gjør og dilemmaer VG står i. Alltid på Podme.

How can you tell where the real innovation in publishing is happening right now, and why is it emerging from the indie side first? How do you market your own book when you've spent 35 years marketing everyone else's? John Bond talks about Going Indie and what he's learned about authors who last. In the intro, my thoughts on writing with AI, Charles Dickens and encouragement for the 3-year-old dancing to K-Pop at the wedding, UK copyright law, The end of an era — Hugh Howey; Notre Dame, Paris; Today's show is sponsored by Bookfunnel, the essential tool for your author business. Whether it's delivering your reader magnet, sending out advanced copies of your book, handing out ebooks at a conference, or fulfilling your digital sales to readers, BookFunnel does it all. Check it out at bookfunnel.com/thecreativepenn This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn John Bond is the co-founder of Whitefox, a premium publishing services agency, and has over 35 years in traditional publishing, from bookselling to marketing and management. He's also the co-author of Going Indie: Publishing Your Book Your Way, with James Silver. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes Why 2012 was a watershed moment for publishing in the UK Whether the snobbery around self-publishing has finally gone How to co-write a book with someone, and why there's no formula The pride swallowing involved in getting endorsement quotes for your own book The shadow economy of indie sales that no industry chart measures The hallmarks of writers who build a long-term career You can find John at wearewhitefox.com. Transcript of the interview with John Bond Jo: John Bond is the co-founder of Whitefox, a premium publishing services agency, and has over 35 years in traditional publishing, from bookselling to marketing and management. He's also the co-author of Going Indie: Publishing Your Book Your Way, with James Silver. So welcome back to the show, John. John: Thank you, Jo. Thanks so much for having me. Jo: You were last on the show in 2022. You've been on a couple of times, but just set the scene. Tell people a bit more about you and your long background in publishing. John: I suppose I could say I started as a marketing manager at Penguin back in the early 1990s in London, and that role eventually evolved into running sales and marketing, as it often does. I did that at Penguin and at HarperCollins. Then I ran one of the publishing divisions at HarperCollins, including 4th Estate, and published Hilary Mantel and Jonathan Franzen and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and others. I left that in 2011 and set up Whitefox in 2012, and it's a classic startup story. It was somebody I worked with at HarperCollins. We sat around a kitchen table, came up with an idea for a business, which was Whitefox, and that's grown into the creative agency that it is today. Jo: So back then, did you think, “I can do this better”? Was that the impetus, “I can do publishing better than Penguin and HarperCollins”? John: No, I thought we would solve a problem. There's something very attractive about that whole startup mentality and beginning something from scratch. I mean, I was in my early 50s. I'd had a long career in traditional publishing. On the plus side, I knew a lot of people, and I thought I could get meetings, people would reply to my phone calls or my emails. On the downside, I didn't necessarily have the energy of a 20 to 25-year-old. I knew a lot of people and I knew quite a lot of things, and I also knew what problems something like Whitefox could solve. We set up with this idea that if we could galvanise and organise the diaspora of freelancers in the publishing space and make them available to anybody that wanted to make a book, that that would be quite a powerful thing. These incredibly creative, wonderful people who were below the radar and were not particularly valued or managed or utilised properly. I thought if we could access that and make that available not just to traditional publishing people who know about these people, but to individual authors, businesses, brands, people that wanted to make a book, and if you added a layer of our expertise from traditional publishing, that could be quite powerful, I suppose. That's what I was thinking back then. Jo: It's funny, though. You said these wonderful freelancers who were not particularly valued or managed or utilised properly. That could also apply to a lot of authors in traditional publishing. John: Totally. Totally. But if I'm honest, I don't think I was thinking about that. What's really evolved since we started, even in that 2011, 2012 period, is so much has happened to independent writers, indie authors. The whole ecosystem has become much more vibrant, and what is accessible to those writers is much greater. I'd like to think we've played a part in that. What that's done is put power back into writers' hands, and that quickly became apparent in the business as a byproduct of what we'd set up. Jo: Yes, and 2012 I do think in the UK was a pivot point, because I got into self-publishing in 2006/2007 when the Americans did with the beginning of the Kindle and the iPhone. Really the American ecosystem grew first. I happened to be in Australia, and so I think I was able to escape the negativity of the vortex in the UK, which took a number more years to embrace self-publishing as a force to be reckoned with as opposed to an embarrassing thing in the corner for vanity press. Do you see 2012 as a changing point in UK publishing? John: I think we'd just come out of the Kindle moment, hadn't we? There were all sorts of conversations going on about how that was going to change things forever. I think no one quite knew what the upshot of that was going to be, but we knew that it was incredibly disruptive. In 2012, Penguin, as it was then, before Penguin Random House, had offered to buy Author Solutions for $115 million, presumably seen as some kind of defensive measure as to what the market was going to evolve into. I think it felt like a real period of change. In the UK, James Daunt took over running Waterstones, and he was then ultimately going to run Barnes & Noble. It felt like a bit of a watershed. I think we were lucky in that sense, that maybe in the UK and in London, what we were creating coincided with an opening up of opportunity and creativity, and people wanting access to more tools to be able to do things themselves. Getting this idea that you invest in your own talent and what that could mean for your ability to do things quicker, better. Some of it was happenstance, but lucky for us. As you say, we then became aware that in a sense a lot of these things had come to fruition earlier on the US side. In London, that whole idea of setting up something that wasn't a traditional rights-owning model, but where you wanted to be working with people creatively, felt actually really exciting and timely. Jo: And when you started to work with independent authors, probably a couple of years after that, you started to work with a lot more indie authors and things really started to change in terms of the business side. Did you feel any of the snobbery from the traditional industry? Like you mentioned, you have a lot of contacts, a lot of connections. I came to your wonderful launch party and there were just people from all over the industry. I wondered if you got any kickback, or if anyone raised their eyebrows a little bit at who you were choosing to work with? John: Oh, definitely. And I would say I really think that's gone. You may think differently, Jo, but from my perspective, I think there has been such an evolution in the nearly 15 years that we've been going. So any of that residual snobbery, looking down your nose at people that were going DIY, producing multiple books, learning from every single publication. We've spoken about this before. I remember you sat on the panel of a FutureBook conference in the UK, which was run by a trade magazine, with this idea of looking at the, in quotes, “digital future of the business.” It felt like there were a lot of things being talked about, but not a lot of action on the traditional side. I suppose some sort of awe that there was some magic going on with people who were making a success of self-publishing. But then quite a lot of people looking down their noses at things that shouldn't get through the gatekeepers. I do think that's gone. Or if it's not completely gone, I can see it on the way out of the door, because there's no room for that when agents are struggling to sell books to publishers because publishers are looking at the next indie author, the next Freida McFadden, the next Sarah J. Maas, the next Rebecca Yarros. So whoever it may be, or wherever they're publishing, whatever they're doing now, wherever they may be, knowing that a lot of those people will already be publishing and be on not their first, second, third or fourth, but potentially their 10th or 11th book. It's a race to see who can help those authors, as a traditional publisher would see it, amplify what they're doing. I think the idea that there's an us and them, if it did exist then, which it certainly did in certain publishing quarters, is gone. I used to go to those conferences, like the FutureBook Conference, and certain publishers would talk about publishing, and when they meant publishing, they meant a really tiny area of quite literary, traditional imprints. That's what publishing meant. They didn't even mean publishing to mean educational publishing, or children's publishing, or academic publishing, and certainly not Kindle or POD or whatever. So I think that's had to change for very good, sound, commercial, economic reasons. Jo: Yes, you're right. I definitely have heard, as we go to similar events sometimes, and you do hear agents used to talk a lot more about finding books very occasionally in a slush pile, or doing courses so you could meet people and do pitch events and all this. Now it's often build an audience on BookTok or whatever, and sell lots of books, and traditional publishing as an amplifier, as you said. That's how I always hear them pitch it now, the question of— What can traditional publishing still do when indie authors can do so much? It does seem to be, well, we can amplify you, we can get you into traditional press, we can get you in traditional bookstores, we can help you with film and movie deals, that kind of thing. So that's really interesting, because that's actually changed quite a lot. They don't now seem to say, “Oh, well, we can make sure we pay you,” or, “We are editorial success as such.” John: I think they don't say editorial success or quality or indeed marketing, because that was what used to be said. I think there's an understanding that a lot of indie writers are better marketeers of their own books than traditional publishers, and if you go into the publishing machine, then you'll get your slot. It lasts for a certain period of time and then that moves on to another book. Whereas obviously if you're writing your own book and you're marketing your own book, you're able to do that yourself 24/7 wherever you are in the world, and you will know more about your readers and your audience and how that evolves than a traditional publisher would. What they probably mean now is, as you said, as much as anything, distribution, or even physical distribution. Because to be part of that process, I think that is still where a large conglomerate is able to wield some muscle, with this idea that if you physically want to see your book in bricks and mortar retailers in X outlets around the world, that's potentially easier to do if that is your aim, via a traditional publisher. So it is constantly evolving, because it used to be that marketing was the silver bullet, and I don't think that's the case anymore. Jo: No. We'll come back to marketing, shall we? Struggling with marketing. So let's get into your book. You recently co-wrote Going Indie with James Silver, Publishing Your Book Your Way. Obviously you already knew a lot about indie authors, so I wonder, what did you discover in the process of researching the book and the interviews you did? And I was one of your interviews. Did anything come up that surprised you, since you're already pretty embedded in the world? John: I would say some of it was reinforcing what I knew. So how everything is so intertwined, how in some ways unlinear everything is. People are doing lots of things in a different order to the way that traditionally writers would perceive this relay race of a manuscript gets passed to an editor, an editor passes on. That's just not how it is or needs to be anymore. I still think there is—not even a misconception—but I think there's a received wisdom that when you're talking about self-publishing, you're talking about fiction. The majority of books that Whitefox produces are not fiction, they're non-fiction. Some of them are quite mainstream, some of them are quite niche. That idea of connecting to your audience and your followers, and being slightly more scientific about how you find readers in your non-fiction niche, I think is still unspoken about in a way, in that genre fiction tends to be what people automatically assume the conversation is about. This probably doesn't surprise you, but I was pleasantly surprised to have it confirmed to me quite how much swapping and sharing there is of skills and knowledge in that space. I'm not saying indie writing is egoless at all, but there's quite a lot of sharing of knowledge and what works, and collaboration, which I think is great to see. Again, if you've, as I did many years ago, come out of corporate conglomerate publishing, traditional publishing, there's less of that by the very nature of the kind of organisation. And look, we just talked about marketing a little while ago. I do think this whole idea that the cutting edge of experimentation, it's not traditional publishing, it's indie writers. They are looking at not just how to find readers, but how to fulfil orders, how to make commercial sense of what they're doing from the absolute outset and get-go of what they're doing. And just how now the lines are blurring between what would be classified as traditional digital publishers and the writers who are doing their own thing, or doing their own thing on behalf of a few other writers. Those lines have completely blurred. There used to be this traditional hardback, paperback, X number of books a year, a year after hardback there's a paperback. This is the model we have been doing for centuries, and people doing things on their own. I think that's blurring massively, and the Venn diagrams of people's areas of expertise are just overlapping massively. Jo: Well, I think you're right there, and certainly the hardback special editions with sprayed edges and foil. A lot of us now are doing that first and not putting out the other, or putting out the rest of it at the same time. I dare say probably there are more indie authors with sprayed edge hardbacks than there are traditionally published authors. John: I'm sure that's right. And what's interesting is if you go to a traditional book printer, they are loving the direct communication with writers, that's not coming through traditional channels and traditional relationships. It's great business, it's interesting. I think that's something that's even developed in the last couple of years, that cutting out of some of the middle men required. Jo: Yes, and in terms of supporting freelancers and small publishing houses and printers and stuff, the other thing I've heard is that indie authors pay upfront, or they pay quickly, compared to some of these big publishers who are asking for long lead times and steep discounting. So actually a lot of these independent businesses are doing better under indie author work than they were under traditional. John: I think that's right, and that's what I mean also about the sharing of information and this collaborative idea of sharing creative knowledge. I mean, I'm making it sound like a kind of 19th century cooperative, which it isn't. I'm not suggesting that for a second. It's this idea that there's a lot of people learning a lot of things and there's a keenness to share some of that information, because if you've developed your own readership for your unique creative product, some of those learnings are very exciting. The printers I've spoken to love working on those kinds of things, because they are also being challenged to come up with new ways of developing ever more innovative physical product. Jo: Yes, I think it's a fun, creative time for sure. Things like Kickstarter, which you came on and talked about crowdfunding years ago, and I've obviously done. I think, what am I on now? Seven? I've just done my seventh. John: Wow. Jo: It's so much fun. But now what's happening is traditional publishers are arriving on Kickstarter and all that kind of thing. So we really see a blurring. Let's come back to your book, so Going Indie. You co-wrote it. Now obviously there are lots of positive sides of collaboration, but in terms of any challenges with collaboration and co-writing and the writing process of doing this? Because I've done this several times and I've found it very challenging. So tell us about the collaborative writing process. John: We thought a lot about it before we took it on. What I would say, having done it, is I am assuming there is no formula for how you do this. At Penguin I worked with a married couple who were crime writers, and they wrote books together. They merged their names so it appeared to be one name. I could not tell you, and they didn't share what that process was, whether they were writing different chapters or … I don't know. So I can only speak from my own experience. James is an established journalist. He's great with deadlines. He was very good at chivvying me along when I needed to be persuaded to hit the deadlines that I'd promised. I write blogs, I write newsletters, I write content for our website, but this is my first book. I've never written anything of this length. So in a way it started with the structure. It started with this idea that we would play to what we perceived as our respective strengths in terms of writing. We absolutely were not each writing every third word or anything like that. It was a process of trust in different parts. I thought, James had done some research and will be better at writing that. He deferred to me on areas that he took to be my areas of expertise. We did every interview for the book together. We went over the notes from those before they became part of the interviews for the book. And some of the book's elements are diagrammatic, so those are very easy to collaborate on. I think we tried to be professionally, creatively constructive with each other. So it was raising an eyebrow rather than shouting at each other if we didn't agree about something. A lot of it was down to the editing, and I don't know what your experience was like with a co-writer, but a lot of it came down to: here is something which is quite baggy. How do we, between us, make this as tight as we possibly can? I don't mean copy editing or proofreading. I mean the actual sort of, how do we get this into a pithy, usable, practical but discursive book? We didn't ever set out for this to be a pure reference book at all. We wanted to take a snapshot of what was going on. So a lot of it was genuinely trying to do some research and get people to feed into what was going on from lots of different perspectives, which is why we wanted to get mainstream traditional publishers, we wanted to get agents, we wanted to get indie writers, we wanted to get people who have all sorts of experiences and perspectives. That's what makes it what it is, which is, here's what we think are some of the interesting discussion points of what's going on now. Jo: It is a fantastic snapshot. I think it's really interesting—and obviously you also have seen my book, Successful Self-Publishing, which is on its fourth edition—this is one of the difficult things with snapshot type books. So have you already thought about that? I know this one has just come out, but have you thought, “Oh no, in five years we have to do it again”? John: Well, I think we thought we're going to have to address AI, which we do in the book, and we really tried to caveat that with saying, look, so much may change so quickly, and here we are talking about what we know now. We obviously tried to set the context for where we are now, and we tried as much as possible to make something which would last as long as we can. I think what we did think was, we have tried to make it as international a perspective as possible. But at the same time, we are a London-based agency, and a lot of the views will be from people based in the UK. So I think what I would like to explore is something that looks at potentially somewhere like the US, where I think there'll be different people that would perhaps have different perspectives on different things. So I think we thought about potentially there being future iterations of the book, but not yet. Jo: Not yet. This is the challenge with non-fiction, of course. On that, I would say what you just said around the US and stuff, the successful UK authors all use the same systems as the US. So I wouldn't say that the US … I mean, we all have the US companies we all use. I say Kobo is obviously Canadian, but I would say that we use the same ways of doing things. Obviously you might interview a different author, but … John: That was all I meant. I meant interviewing. Because we've interviewed agents and authors and publishers and they are largely UK based. So it was the idea that maybe there are some perspectives on things rather than systemic. Jo: Differences. John: Yes. Just that. Jo: So then I guess another challenge, we've kind of nodded to it so far, is marketing. So let's talk about the challenges of getting this book out in terms of publishing and marketing. Because you've been on the inner circle side, trying to do that for other people's books, but your own book, this is a whole nother thing. So tell us about that. John: Well, how do you do it, Jo? I mean, honestly, I've loved some of it. I get how you become completely obsessed with your book and trying to make sure that you can get it into the hands of the people that you want to get it into the hands of. We've got some great endorsement quotes, which was a task that, how can I say this? I would call it pride swallowing. The idea that you really try and get people to say nice things about your book and, if they don't reply, you think, “How much do I pester them? How much do I annoy them by asking them again nicely?” And the absolute sheer unadulterated joy when they come back with something positive that you can use and utilise in some way. So that whole process of waiting for feedback, I suppose, and hoping that people are going to like what you've done and help you spread the word for it. We had a launch event, we've given books away. We've published the book as ebook and POD. I think one of the great things about that is it's enabled us to be completely adaptable and make changes right up until the last minute. That drove everybody in my team completely crazy because we were making changes up until the last minute. So, is the book definitely going to be available on publication date? What's it going to do? You know, all of that kind of stuff. Also, just getting this idea that I suppose you can never stop. Is that a very obvious thing to say to a writer? It probably is. You just can't stop, because if you go, “Right, well, I've done it,” complacency is the enemy. Just as soon as you've got that quote, or someone said that they're going to give you an opportunity to talk about it on a platform, it's just another day and you've got to keep thinking about how you can spread the word and tell people that it exists. Jo: Yes, well, I think that's right, and particularly non-fiction, which unless it's very timely and you must get it out right now. But other than that— Most books you just have to keep marketing for years. Then just as you say, when do you stop? Well, you kind of never stop unless you want to, unless you want to retire and just give up, basically. Dean Wesley Smith, who's a big writer in the US and a kind of a mentor of mine in past years, he talks about it as this massive sea of books. And when a book arrives, he pictures it coming down and landing on the water. So the day you launch, it's landed on the water, and then it begins to sink. Then there are all these other books coming down. It's like this rain of books, and your book is sinking as soon as it lands. And your job is to keep it afloat somehow. John: Keep it afloat. Jo: Yes. John: I think you're right, and it's such an interesting perspective for us, who work with a lot of people who have one book. You know, they've spent 10 years writing it. It's their life story. It's their memoir. It's their self-help book. It's their book that accompanies them on their speaking journey, or whatever. Then there are the people who are writing constantly and can't stop writing because they're exercising that creative muscle all the time and wanting to get better, and wanting to improve and learn and understand why this works and why that hasn't worked. Just getting a glimpse into what it must be like for that person for whom writing is not a hobby. I kept saying to myself, “This is not something you're doing as a hobby.” I want this book to be of value to people, and if I'm investing that time and effort into something that I want to get out there, you've got to commit to whatever it is you need to do to make sure you're not sinking. Jo: Yes. John: I will now not be able to get that image out of my head. Jo: Yes. I know there's people listening who don't have a mind's eye, which I always find fascinating, but for those of us with a mind's eye, you can now picture that and you will never forget it. The other thing, I guess, is that, having done a lot, over 40 books now, the inevitable thing is you cannot keep pushing all of those books back up to the surface. So when you do get the bug as such of writing, the most interesting thing for all of us is always the next book. It's always like, ooh, the next thing I'm doing, I'm very excited about. So you do have to pick your battles on marketing. So have you got the bug, do you think? Are you thinking of other books in general? Because as you said, you must be, I guess, in your 60s. John: I am. Jo: You could retire. John: I am. You were talking about that long career. I could. I mean, I really love doing it, and I would love to do more. I think one of the things that surprised me was just how many ideas came up while we were doing the book about tangents that one could take it. I have no desire to write a novel. I don't want to do that. I wouldn't be very good at that. I do think there are some interesting spaces around where there's a kind of intersection of creativity and learning, and how you can develop books that would help people who are trying to achieve different things in different sectors of publishing. So without getting too granular about it, this book doesn't really address brands who want to become publishers, and I think that is something that our business has developed into working with, not just individuals, but businesses and brands. I think there's definitely spin-offs of this book which are not about repeating what we've done so far. And this whole idea of what you've been doing for a long time, what we've been doing since 2011, 2012, it's evolving now at such a speed. I mean, who would have known what was going to come out of TikTok? As you talk about TikTok to Shopify, that whole kind of new ways of finding readers, of taking books to market. As you said, Kickstarter, crowdfunding. There's all sorts of things that I think will emerge, because in a funny sort of way traditional publishing at the moment feels quite conservative with a small c. I mean, the bestsellers. Dan Brown is number one in the bestseller list this week in the UK as I speak, who has been a bestseller forever. And obviously new writers come along the whole time, but the market feels a little bit as if it's waiting now for innovation. I think if that innovation's going to happen, it's probably going to happen in the indie space before it happens in mainstream publishing. So people are coming to us and thinking, does that represent a trend? Does that represent something which could be a way of looking at something a little bit deeper, doing some research around and creating something which is not a long book, not a massive thesis, but something which is indicative of something which could be useful for people. Jo: Just coming back on the Dan Brown is in the bestseller list. I think this is completely to do with the way that traditional publishing measures things. For many years, more than a decade, probably since the beginning of Kindle, certainly the beginning of Kindle Unlimited, there is a shadow economy, I call it, or a parallel economy. I would say that almost zero of my own personal sales are measured by any industry standards. Anyone who makes any money from Kindle Unlimited or Kickstarter or Shopify, or selling direct in any form, or selling books at conventions, none of this is measured by any traditional things. As you know, the New York Times list, for example, does not include Amazon sales in their bestseller list. So you've got indie authors in the UK who are incredibly successful who have to decide, say, someone like LJ Ross, for example, decides, “Okay, I'm going to set up a proper imprint with Gardners or whatever so that I can get in bookstores so that I can hit a Sunday Times list or something.” So I would say that seeing things like Dan Brown on a bestseller list has almost no meaning in the shadow indie economy. John: No, you're absolutely right. We're not even able to see audiobook sales. Jo: Yes, audio. Any kind of borrows, like Spotify. John: No, you're completely right. I suppose I was making a broader cultural point, that it doesn't feel like there's an enormous amount of innovation going on or risk taking within what I would call mainstream trade publishing. And there doesn't seem to be the need to be, because there will be more consolidation. Small companies will be bought by big companies, so there's growth through acquisition. There's still a hope that something will take off that is a surprise, and there's still an enormous reliance on established brands who, even through the traditional metrics of how you measure them, are probably selling less, but still at the top of the pile. I suppose that's what I was meaning. Jo: Yes, and I agree with what the industry looks at as signals. It's just, as we said, a lot of these signals are invisible. So coming onto innovation, at London Book Fair this year there were a lot of sessions on AI, and you mentioned AI briefly, and there is a chapter in Going Indie on generative AI. And of course there's a lot of negativity and drama and lawsuits and this, that and the other. But at the same time, at London Book Fair, a lot of traditional publishers talking about using it, and of course they always say, “Oh, we use AI only in marketing and business, not with the creative or editorial.” Everyone makes this distinction. What are your thoughts on what's happening and where's it going with AI? Is a lot of this stuff not happening in public and just going on behind closed doors? John: I think so. We do have a chapter in the book on AI. We've generated summaries of every chapter using AI, which we explicitly said in the book as well. We've got our Ten Commandments of what we think are useful guidelines. I think that there has to be an enormous amount being done, whether it's experimentation or speeding up for efficiency's sake, or things that slow you down, within mainstream publishing. There has to be more than just the guardrails around the creative process. And clearly when we're talking about metadata, book description, cover copy, presumably royalty calculations, presumably if you're trying to grow your newsletters. There has to be an enormous amount of activity going on. We're driven by the market, so we do not commission. Writers come to us and they either want to work with us and we want to work with them, or that doesn't happen. So we're in a sense seeing what the market is seeing, and that is a whole range of things. As I've said before, there's a lot of sweeping generalisations out there, which if you look back to that Kindle moment, we were talking a little while ago about what was going on in 2010/2011, about the enormous broad brush strokes that were being perceived as a result of Kindle. Kindle has affected some areas of publishing, it's affected some not at all. I think it will be absolutely fascinating when the sweeping generalisations stop and there becomes, I suppose, even more transparency. The thing that people are looking for, isn't it? A little bit less opaqueness as to what is really being done. Because everybody's being so careful about what they say they're doing and what they're not doing. I suppose ElevenLabs is the one where people are openly engaging on the audio side. I mean, everyone is being so careful and cautious. Jo: Me too. John: What do you think? We spoke a bit about AI within the book, and I'm interested to know what you think. Jo: Well, I've obviously been openly talking about it since 2016. I openly talk about using it, and I've got my Patreon community where we talk about how we're using it, and tips on how to use it. But then, because I have been writing and publishing since 2007, 2008, I'm very strong in my creative voice. I'm very strong in my understanding of what I consider to be my level of output, and what I publish under my own name is what I publish under my own name. John: Totally. Jo: So the problem is for people who are less confident, I think, in what they're doing creatively perhaps. I know some people feel like they're scared it will take over or something. When you're as strong-minded as me, it's not taking over anything. John: It's not going to take over anything. And the other side of the coin is how many people are finding Whitefox using ChatGPT. Jo: Mm. John: I'm thrilled that we are emerging, through very detailed briefing of AI, as something that is worth engaging with. Jo: Positive marketing. John: Yes, exactly. As you say, I think there's a lot of negativity, and I think it will settle down eventually. I think less hysteria. Jo: Yes, hopefully sooner rather than later. So as we come to an end, you've been in the publishing industry a long time and seen a lot of people who have disappeared, but also those who've lasted. I wondered if maybe you could comment on those who last, because I definitely feel like I'm in my 50s now, and I want to keep doing this. I'm pretty obsessed with— What are the hallmarks of people who have a long-term career? So reflections on that. John: Oh, that's such a good question. I think there's some common characteristics and themes. So I think authenticity, I think this idea of being continually curious. I think there are people who can't help but create, and this idea that once you've sort of expelled once, that's enough. I think there's people that just can't stop creating, whatever you do with it. But this idea that the more you do, the better you get, the more you evolve and keep an open mind. I think there's definitely entrepreneurial writers who love this idea of keeping their readers engaged, and how that conversation is something that evolves and that collaboration evolves, is fascinating. I think if you love that, and you listen, there's always an opportunity to keep building on what you do. I love the writers who we work with. I can think of a writer who we're working on his fourth novel at the moment, and he is a bundle of positivity. No matter the trials and tribulations, the things that have gone wrong, his expectations definitely not being met with his first book. He definitely has this idea that he wants to keep writing, he wants to get better, and he is getting better. It isn't a journey that has a beginning and an end. It's something that will continue for as long as he wants to write. Every single book that he has published, he has learned and gained confidence, gained a network of connections that he's utilised himself now to not make the first half a dozen mistakes he made on the first book. Who knows where it will end up? But certainly the satisfaction he's getting, and the sales he's getting, are growing as he becomes savvier and quicker to make the right choices and decisions. So I think that's my honest answer to that. I think there are definitely people who think, “Phew, I have really wanted to do this book. Now I can rest easy. I've done my book.” Then there are people who really, whatever their objective, whatever the definition of success is from the get-go, just can't help creating. I do love that and respect that. I don't think our book falls quite into that category, because I think it's a slightly different thing. I think there are people who are still making a success of what they do and redefining that as they go on, and who are really open to ideas and input from different people and are not closed off. I love working with those people. Jo: So where can people find Going Indie and everything you do online? John: Well, Going Indie is available online at all good bookshops. It's available at Amazon and anywhere you buy books online as ebook and POD. Our website is wearewhitefox.com, and you'll find information about not just our book there, but a lot of other things that we're doing on that site. Jo: Brilliant. Well, thanks so much for your time, John. That was great. John: Thank you so much, Jo. It's been a pleasure. The post Going Indie, Publishing Innovation, And The Challenges Of Book Marketing With John Bond first appeared on The Creative Penn.

The Venn diagram between Flashback Summer and Sad Girl Summer is overlapping! We read Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. For our discussion we were joined by a very cool sad girl, Theresa Okokon (@Ohh.Jeezzz), the author of Who I Always Was and cohost of Stories from the Stage. By the way, if you haven’t gotten around to reading this one before–it is actually good and we are actually spoiling the heck out of it. You’ve been warned. (And if you have read it: then you know you should have a box of tissues handy for this episode.) Readers advisory: Here. Footnotes: Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia Newbery Medal Acceptance speech “Katie Ledecky ‘breaks' Olympic male gold medalist in practice” by Nick Zaccardi Coming up next: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke.

Let us know what you enjoy about the show!Krystal Joy Brown is a Broadway actor and multidisciplinary artist, and her life right now is a bold mix of performance, producing, directing, writing, and grad school work in creative coding and physical computing. We talk about why a creative career doesn't have to be linear, how “figuring it out” can become paralysis, and what changes when you stop asking how it all connects and start letting the Venn diagram form on its own. Along the way, she shares the reality behind visible success: grief, depression, imposter syndrome, and the quiet discipline of doing the next right thing.We also get real about neurodivergence. Krystal opens up about ADHD, an autism diagnosis, masking, overstimulation, and how radically honest relationships and safer spaces to fail can transform your mental health. We end with inner-child care, daily choices, and a reminder she hears from her younger self: don't forget there's also magic.If this conversation helps you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review. What part of yourself are you ready to stop hiding?If you are enjoying the show please subscribe, share and review! Word of mouth is incredibly impactful and your support is much appreciated! Support the show

What Your Business Is Actually Built For (And Why You Don't Know It)! Your Business Was Made For This? Discover It Now! Supersize Your Business Annual Challenge Day 220! Pop in here every day for a dose of different business building perspective! https://facebook.com/supersizebusiness Supersize Your Business (free) Skool link: https://www.skool.com/supersize-your-business-1654/about #supersizeyourbusiness #supersizechallenge #supersizeyourbusinessannualchallenge #contribution #give #dowhatyoucan #supersizeyourbusinesschallenge #spirituality #spiritofyourbusiness #businessspirit #secretadvantage #spiritual #culture #purpose #7whys #reasonforbusiness #beyondmoney #intention #mindset #insidejob #invisibleforce #success #nature #outside #abundanceofnature #naturestrategy #timelesswisdon #wisdom #readup #grow #yourpurpose #madeforthis #geniuszone #sweetspot Find your competitive advantage by mapping what you love, your skills, and your talents. Use this method to clarify your focus. Many entrepreneurs struggle to define exactly what makes their company special. This video breaks down how to use a simple Venn diagram to isolate your competitive advantage. By visualizing where your passions intersect with your specific skills, you can stop guessing your strategy and start building on a solid foundation. This process is designed for business owners and founders who need to clarify their market position. Understanding your business core skills is the first step toward long-term growth. Once you see the overlap between your talents and what you love, you can align your daily operations with your most profitable activities. This framework helps you filter out distractions and focus on the unique business model that actually works for your specific situation. Subscribe for daily business strategy breakdowns, and comment below with which part of your business model you find hardest to define. 0:00 Unlocking Your Competitive Advantage 0:58 Identifying Your Strategic Intersection 2:28 Refining Your Brand and Community 4:20 Sustaining Impact and Growth

This week on Two Parents & A Podcast, we've got a very special guest!! This conversation could not be more top of mind for us: earlier this week we talked about how much more risk tolerant we USED to be (ex: we once loved helicopters.. now we won't get on one hahaha). Because as new parents, we're focused on one thing: how do we live to 100 (no like actually literally??) so we can spend as much time with our kids as possible?! Enter Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson: veterinary epidemiologist, healthy aging researcher, and co-founder of fatty15 (a proud TPAP sponsor!). Dr. Stephanie's research with Navy dolphins (yes, the Navy has dolphins?!) led to the discovery of C15:0 as the first essential fatty acid identified in over 90 years, and the origin story is SO fun (bc who doesn't love dolphins).  We get into the science behind aging well: what healthy aging actually means (preserving the best of who we are for as long as possible!), what a "geroprotector" is and why scientists call it the holy grail, and Dr. Stephanie's top priorities for healthy aging (diet, movement and sleep before ANY supplement). Then her top 3 supplements worth taking, how to get C15:0 naturally through your diet vs. supplementing, and how it impacts all of us: adults, breastfeeding moms, and kids (the whole milk convo was fascinating!!) And after ALL that science, Dr. Stephanie's #1 rec for parents for healthy aging this week is still: get outside with your kids and run around. Socialization, exercise and better sleep, all in one!! Hope everyone has a great weekend :-) LOVE YOU GUYS! Timestamps: 00:00:00 Welcome back to Two Parents & A Podcast! 00:00:51 Meet Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson, fatty15 co-founder and C15:0 researcher 00:05:50 What actually IS healthy aging?! 00:09:18 What's a geroprotector?! (spoiler alert: the holy grail of healthy aging) 00:10:52 The foods with the most C15:0 (good news: butter and cheese!!) 00:13:01 What else contributes to healthy aging?! (sleep, socializing & your HEARING?!) 00:17:50 Top 3 priorities for healthy aging according to Stephanie 00:25:56 The top 3 supplements worth taking according to Steaphanie 00:37:07 How C15:0 impacts kids (and the whole milk debate!) 00:42:40 We were all told fat is BAD: the biggest misconceptions 00:45:37 Founding fatty15 00:49:26 The ONE thing tired parents should do this week for healthier aging 00:50:42 Thank you for listening! #twoparentsandapod --------------------------------------------------------------- Find our guest: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/fatty15 TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@fatty15 Website | https://www.fatty15.com/TWOPARENTS Follow Two Parents & A Podcast: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twoparentsandapod TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@twoparentsandapod Follow Alex Fugman: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/alexfugman TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@justalexfugman Follow Harrison Fugman: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/harrisonfugman TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@harrisonfugman --------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to the pod on YouTube/Spotify/Apple: https://www.youtube.com/@twoparentsandapod https://open.spotify.com/show/7BxuZnHmNzOX9MdnzyU4bD?si=5e715ebaf9014fac https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-parents-a-podcast/id1737442386 -------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you to our sponsors this week: *fatty15: You can get an additional 15% off their 90-day subscription Starter Kit by going to https://www.fatty15.com/TWOPARENTS and using code TWOPARENTS at checkout!  -------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by: Just Media House – https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the #DoorGrowShow, Jason and Sarah Hull break down one of the most expensive mistakes property management business owners make: hiring based solely on what the business appears to need instead of what the owner actually needs. They explain why this common approach leaves entrepreneurs overwhelmed, wearing the wrong hats, and trapped inside businesses they no longer enjoy running.  You'll learn how a simple time study can reveal where your energy, focus, and profitability are being lost, why every new hire should solve both a business problem and an owner problem, and how reallocating your time toward high-value activities creates sustainable growth.   You'll Learn [00:00] Why Most Property Managers Hire the Wrong Way [03:18] The Hidden Cost of Bad Hiring Decisions [08:25] Using a Time Study to Find Your Next Hire [13:05] Balancing Your Needs With the Business's Needs [18:12] Why Every Business Owner Needs an Assistant [22:20] Stop Doing Low-Value Work [26:15] Freeing Yourself to Focus on Revenue Growth [29:10] Building a Team That Creates Freedom Quotables "One bad hiring mistake is usually a 10 grand minimum mistake." Jason Hull  "You cannot build the right team around the wrong person." Jason Hull  "Every team member should be born out of a time study." Jason Hull  "The point of having a business is you should get more fulfillment, more freedom, more contribution, more support." Jason Hull Resources DoorGrow and Scale Mastermind DoorGrow Academy DoorGrow on YouTube DoorGrowClub DoorGrowLive Transcript Jason Hull (00:00) Okay, we are Jason and Sarah Hull, the owners of DoorGro, the world's leading and most comprehensive coaching and consulting firm for long-term residential property management entrepreneurs. For over a decade and a half, we have brought innovative strategies and optimization to the property management industry. At DoorGro, we are on a mission to transform property management business owners and their businesses.   We want to transform the industry, eliminate the BS, build awareness, change perception, expand the market, and help the best property management entrepreneurs win. Now, let's get into the show. All right. So today's topic, we're going to talk about how to make the decision as a property management business owner to hire. How to effectively decide it's time to hire and how not to screw this up. So we're not going to get into the whole hiring process. We've talked about that a bit on some other   Episodes. If you'd like to hear more about that, reach out to us or check out our other episodes. But today we're going to talk about how to make the right decision of who to get and when to hire and who you need in the business. Cool.   one bad hiring mistake is usually a 10 grand minimum mistake. And anybody that's gone through hiring a lot of team members, you know. Like I've hired lots over the years, and it's been some of them can be pretty painful when you make a bad move. So you want to make sure you make good decisions. So   So here's how most people do it, which is wrong. How most people do it is they look, what does the business need? And they're like, the business needs a maintenance coordinator, or the business needs this. And they just continually keep giving the business what it needs. And so this I call kind of the solopreneur way of hiring hiring. They think the way a solopreneur thinks, they think I do everything. Now I need to hire somebody to do these other pieces that the business needs. And they start building a team based around.   What the business wants.   every team member, should exist if they are taking something off of your plate because you do everything initially. Now, sort of, they're like, well, you know, I'm doing the maintenance stuff, so I need a maintenance coordinator. And that's kind of works. But the problem is if you continually build your team based on what the business seems to be asking for and what it needs, and you're not taking care of yourself, you end up with an entire team.   And you're still miserable in your own business. And this is pretty much most business owners at NARPAM. This is most of the people in the two to 400 door range. So I'm calling you out. So if you are a member of NARPAM and you have between two to 400 units and you are still wearing hats you don't enjoy in your business, I promise you you have the wrong team. Why? Because I know for a fact you cannot build the right team around the wrong person. And so if you're still wearing hats you don't enjoy,   Meaning you are showing up as the wrong person in the business, doing stuff that you don't like doing, that's not your favorite thing, and you've built an entire team around you, you have the wrong team. All right. So how do we fix this? Well, first you have to know that that is your case. So sometimes you talk to people and they have no idea. They don't realize. They go, no, I have a great team. My team is awesome. I I really   So it's hard to fix a problem if you don't recognize that it's the problem. It's almost like when you have a plumbing leak. It's hard to fix that leak if you're not sure where the leak is coming from. So we need to identify where the issue is and then rip the walls open. If we just start ripping the walls open and looking for the leak, it's   just   pretty expensive and inefficient. So we need to recognize, hey, there's a problem leak here. And then we need to identify where is the leak and what is the actual problem. So I'd say that's the very first thing. And sometimes that's also really hard for people to do. Especially when they're attached to their teams. Like, no, I love my team. How many times have we heard that? I love my team. I have to my team's great. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So but they might be great. You might have great people, but they are not   Your ideal team because you're still involved in stuff. So usually what we do is we have them do a time study. This is how we figure out five different currencies: time, energy, focus, cash, and effort. These are the five things that you have to invest in the business that the business has to invest. These are your resources and   In order to hire a new team member or bring somebody else in, you have to make sure that if you're going to reallocate these resources, you've got to do it in a way that's really effective. Otherwise, this could be dangerous. So a lot of times I'll share the analogy so people understand how important this is. if you've ever seen Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones, he's running from this giant boulder. He's carrying this gold statue. He's trying to like   Get out of there, and this boulder's rolling down the hill at him, and he's trying to get out of there as quick as possible. Otherwise, squish, Indiana dies, right? So, this is a great analogy for business. So here's how I look at this. Imagine this picture. There is an entrepreneur running from the boulder. What is the boulder? Expenses. It's always moving, it's always coming after you. And sometimes that boulder picks up speed or grows as the business grows.   And so that's expenses. Indiana Jones running, that's sales and revenue generation and generating cash like for the business. The gap in between Indiana Jones running and the boulder, which is expenses, is cash flow. If the business runs out of cash flow, the business is essentially dead. The business dies. Or it goes into debt, which it's just eventually going to die. So we want to make sure that we are.   Constantly generating revenue. The speed, the slope of this path is the speed of which the business grows. And so if we want to grow really fast, we spend a lot more money. There's a lot more expenses. Everything's moving a lot faster.   And so this is where hiring can cause some big problems, or rolling out new tech can cause big problems because we get distracted and we're no longer focused on revenue generation and that has to stay the main thing. So you've got to keep running and you can't stop and unless you're able to somehow dramatically reduce expenses. So it slows down or it's less scary. But you've got to keep running. So we do a time study, and this helps us figure out time, energy, focus, cash, and effort.   Where am I currently investing all this? And is it giving me what I want? Is this according to my highest priorities and what I need? So this is the lens we look at for you. So imagine a Venn diagram with two circles. Circle on the left is you. Circle on the right is the business. Most entrepreneurs build their team, build their systems, build the business, only focusing on the business. And so they end up neglected and they end up more and more miserable. And they end up with a business that becomes like almost like a   master to them. You're like a slave. If you ever felt like a waking up and you're a slave to your own business, you've put too much attention on the business and not enough on yourself.   What happens if your expenses catch up to Indiana Jones? Squished. Right? He gets squished. And as a business owner, it's not a great thing to feel squished. But there is something that probably should be squished. And that's pests. Yuck. So moving into a new place is exciting, but setting up utilities, that's a big pest, isn't it? Yep.   That's where Utility Profit comes in. It's a free tool that property managers share with their tenants during move-in, and it completely takes a headache out of getting the utilities set up. So it's less stressful for you and for them. So here's how it works: tenants get a personalized page with their utility options that are already mapped out for their specific address. Things like internet, electric, gas, you name it, they pick what they need, they set everything up, and it's all in one place.   No Googling, no back and forth with landlords saying, hey, who's the electric company here again? Never heard that one. And for property managers, it's white labeled, so it feels like part of your own onboarding process. You get notified once your tenants' utilities are set up. It's one less thing for you to follow up on on your probably never-ending list of things to follow up on. It's completely free for everyone. There's no contracts and it takes only minutes to get started. So check out   Utility Profit because movement day should feel like a win, not a checklist nightmare with a big pest. Perfect. All right. Thanks to Utility Profit for sponsoring today's episode. All right. And check them out at DorGro Live. That's coming up in October. Yeah. In Austin, the ninth and tenth. So if you're interested in checking out Utility Profit, you can just do a quick search. They should come right up, Utility Profit, or you can see them at   Dorboro Live. Okay. So getting back to what we were just chatting about, Venn diagram, you, the business, we need to shift the attention to you. We have to make sure every new hire is taking something off of your plate because you are doing everything in the business in the beginning. And so if you do a time study, you'll be able to see where am I investing time? What is that time worth financially? Where is my focus currently? Is this helping me reach my goals?   And then we look through a lens for the business, which is the six core functions, which is lead gen, nurture, conversion, delivery, lifetime value, and financial. And so then we're looking what does the business need most? So what does the business need most and what do you need most? And the overlap is where you make your best decisions. So every team member should be born out of a time study.   Basically, when we have our clients do a time study, one of the big factors is energy. It's like, is this a plus sign for you or a minus sign? Does it give you life or energy, or is it taking it away? And if it is a minus sign, we need to find somebody that this would be a plus sign for them and bring them in. And so you're able to give your minus signs to somebody else that enjoys doing it. And this is how we free you up from the business and how we make sure we're hiring somebody that makes sense. And this person   should be helping the business improve your cash flow situation, which means if you're the revenue generator, you're the salesperson or you are your own BDM, that means we're freeing up your time doing minus signs that are also financially draining and getting you to spend time doing revenue generating activities. And that's a really awesome trade. You're basically trading and giving up a little bit of money to go be able to make more money.   And then it's a smart decision to make because that's what the business maybe needs as well, is more lead gen, more nurture, conversion. Those first three functions are sales. So this is how we make the decision to hire. So every new hire, I think, should be born out of a time study. Every new tech or new system you roll out should be born out of a time study. Because otherwise you're just adding expense, you're just adding stuff, you're just adding people, and it's not actually giving you more fulfillment, more freedom, more contribution.   More support. And this is the point of having a business is you should get more of what I call the four reasons:   Usually the first person that we recommend that people hire is what? An assistant. Which is wild because a lot of times we'll see a business owner with an entire team and what don't they have? An assistant. And sometimes they'll even have team members. Yeah and he doesn't have an assistant. And I went, Ew, why? What's what's really funny is a lot of times as business owners, because we're hiring and getting what the business needs and not taking care of ourselves.   We will even see team members that have assistance. we have a property manager and an assistant property manager. And yet the business owner is still involved in a lot of things and doing really low level financially ineffective tasks that are like low level, that your time probably as a business owner should be calculated based on what the top line revenue of the company is, divided by like 40 hours a week, divided by, you know.   50 weeks in the year. So basically divide it by 2000, your your annual revenue. That's what your hourly rate should be sort of judged by. And so, you know, if you're a million-dollar business owner, your hourly rate is like probably like 500 bucks an hour or something like this. And you might as well just double it, just for perspective. But you the goal is to get you to a place where you are worth that amount of money. And you're not doing five dollar an hour tasks that maybe or even less that maybe AI could do.   Maybe $10 an hour tasks that a good VA in a foreign country could do that's really seasoned. Maybe $20, $25 an hour tasks that a decent US-based team member could do. And so you want to make sure that you are doing stuff that makes sense for your business. Otherwise, you are losing money.   it's it's hard to argue when you go, Well, you're spending 70% of your time doing tasks that cost twenty dollars or less. And then they go, it's kind of hard to argue with that. Then it starts to become very, very clear that yeah, we need to make some shifts in the business. Yeah. If if I ever hear hear a business owner and I ask, Who's your main salesperson? Who does the business development? And they're like, That's me.   Cool, what are you spending most of your time doing? If they don't say that thing, there's a problem. Because sales is the lifeblood of the business. They're like, I want to grow. Cool. Who's your salesperson? Me. Cool. What are you spending your time doing? Maintenance, coordination, leasing, inspections, well, like posting notices. Cool. So if you're great at doing sales or you have a team member that's great at doing sales, your whole job is to free up that person's time. If it's you, free up your time.   To allow you to spend more time doing sales. Otherwise, that's kinda like buying a Ferrari, paying for it, and then you're using it to plow a field, as I usually say. That does not make sense. It doesn't make sense at all. Literally does not make financial sense.   All right. Cool. So that's today's episode. So if you've ever felt stuck or stagnant and you want to take your property management business to the next level, reach out to us at doorgo.com for a free training on how to get unlimited free leads. Text the word leads to 512-648-4608.   Also join our free Facebook community just for property management business owners by going to doorgrowclub.com. And if you want tips, tricks, ideas to learn about DoorGro's offers, subscribe to our newsletter by going to doorgrow.com slash subscribe. And if you found this even a little bit helpful, don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review on wherever you saw this. We'd really appreciate it. Until next time, remember the slowest path to growth is to do it alone. So let's grow together. Bye everyone.

Lisa deepens the trauma‑informed conversation around intentional weight loss by introducing two foundational visuals from her coaching curriculum—the Health Pie Chart and the Weight-Health Venn Diagram. She begins with a small moment of intuitive self‑listening to illustrate how “listening to your body” shows up in everyday life beyond hunger and fullness. Lisa then teaches the holistic health pie chart, the dieting pie chart, and the balanced pie chart to show how weight fits into a broader definition of health. From there, she breaks down the Venn diagram, clarifying the difference between choices that change weight but harm health, choices that support health but don't directly change weight, and the nuanced middle where both can coexist. Topics Include:Listening to the bodyHolistic health pie chartWeight–Health Venn diagramTrauma‑informed intentional weight loss[1:00] Lisa describes putting her necklace back on as an example of listening to her body's subtle cues rather than relying on logic or rigidity. She expands the definition to include emotions, intuition, inner child, and soul‑level impulses that guide everyday choices. Lisa explains emotional language and encourages honoring impulses even when they don't make logical sense.[5:37] Lisa introduces the health pie chart as foundational to understanding holistic health and the energetics of food. She outlines the seven domains: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, environmental, and physiological health. Lisa introduces the dieting pie chart where weight becomes 95% of the focus, sacrificing mental, emotional, and social health. She explains weight as 2% of the pie showing how weight can be part of the conversation without dominating it. She clarifies weight neutrality emphasizing that peace comes from being able to see the number without making meaning of it.[18:05] Lisa introduces the weight–health Venn diagram to clarify the difference between weight‑changing behaviors and health‑supporting behaviors. Lisa describes childhood conditioning where weight and health were conflated, and how unlearning that distinction changed everything. Lisa lists weight‑focused behaviors that may lower the scale number but harm holistic health.[23:49] Lisa describes suppression vs. connection and why suppressing hunger contradicts her value of listening to the body. She explains starvation's placement showing how extreme restriction lowers weight but destroys holistic health. Lisa lists health‑focused behaviors that support holistic wellbeing but don't necessarily lower weight immediately.[29:33] Lisa explains social health noting that social connection, permission, and flexibility are part of holistic health. She explains food freedom showing how reclaiming permission to eat previously forbidden foods can be deeply healthy. Lisa names the purpose of the Venn diagram to show that weight and health are not synonymous, and that sustainable change requires understanding both.[57:45] Lisa emphasizes that some choices support holistic health without producing rapid or immediate weight loss—and that this distinction matters for sustainable change. She explains that the Venn diagram exists to show that weight and health are not synonymous, and that sustainable, trauma‑informed change requires understanding both categories clearly.[1:03:05] Lisa closes the episode by reminding listeners that intentional weight loss must be grounded in safety, bio‑individuality, and emotional honesty, and that peace comes from choosing behaviors aligned with both health and self‑trust—not from chasing rapid weight change.Join Us on Patreon! LISA IS NOW ACCEPTING: One-on-One Clients!⁠Purchase the OOTC book of 50 Journal Prompts⁠⁠Leave Questions and Feedback for Lisa via OOTC Pod Feedback Form ⁠Email Lisa: ⁠lisa@lisaschlosberg.com⁠⁠Out of the Cave Merch⁠ - For 10% off use code SCHLOS10Lisa's Socials: Instagram⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠

Coaching is all the rage it seems - there are so many, and all kinds. They want to come alongside to support and empower us. And we still have dedicated therapists out there who are ready to help us as well. But what's the difference? When do you want one over the other, or maybe you want both. Coaching and therapy serve different purposes, and that's what today's episode is all about. It's like the Venn diagram we learned about in school. Different with maybe a bit of overlap in the middle. Let's look at both and you can make your own informed decisions.Thanks for being part of the UY conversation.If you'd like to receive ongoing inspiration via email, and/ or if you want to attend our monthly FREE webinar, email us at: unabashedyou@gmail.com. The Unabashed You website has a page for each guest of photos, quotes and a blog with embedded audio at unabashedyou.com. You can find the show on other podcast platforms.Want to lend your support and encouragement? We invite you to follow, rate, review and share.Social media (direct links):FacebookInstagramYouTubeIf you have questions or comments email us at: unabashedyou@gmail.com.We build upon on website visits, social media and word of mouth to share these episodes. We appreciate growth knowing these conversations help you think, celebrate who you are, and move you in some way.So be encouraged and continue to listen, read and be inspired.

Send us Fan MailWhat if wellbeing isn't something to be achieved, but something to be cultivated and experienced when the way you live aligns with what you value most?In this episode, we explore Ikigai, the Japanese concept often translated as “a reason for being.” While the Western version is frequently presented as a Venn diagram combining what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for, the traditional Eastern understanding is simpler, yet at the very least just as expansive. Ikigai can be found in meaningful work, but also in simple rituals, moments of presence, service to others, time in nature, and the ordinary experiences that make life feel deeply alive.We examine the meaning of wellbeing and follow the questions beneath our ambitions. Why do we want success, recognition, security, or achievement? Root-cause analysis often leads us toward two fundamental desires: so I can be happy and because this is connected to something I love.Purpose emerges when we contribute to others through the expression of our highest values. It isn't always a grand mission written across the sky. Sometimes it's getting quiet enough to notice what matters. Sometimes it's planting for the sake of planting, finding bliss in stillness, or doing something worthwhile even when resources are scarce and life is hard.We'll also explore why stillness can make us more effective, how living in greater alignment with nature can support wellbeing, and why original thinking carries both responsibility and consequences. Inspired in part by Bronnie Ware's The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, we confront one of life's most haunting questions: Are we living in a way that's true to ourselves, or merely following the life other people expected us to live?This episode is about creating possibilities that feel alive, finding meaning in what you've been given, and applying Ikigai not as an abstract idea, but as a daily practice.We may even investigate whether tuxedo cats are genuinely more intelligent than other cats, or whether that's simply propaganda circulated by tuxedo-cat owners.Visit us at:www.theselfhelpantidote.com

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Thomas Lah welcomes social psychologist Sarah DiMuccio to talk about the human side of AI transformation. They dig into why AI adoption triggers anxiety across every role, seniority level, and demographic: it isn't resistance to a task, it's a threat to how people see themselves professionally. Sarah explains that companies are investing heavily in AI technology while investing almost nothing in enablement, treating adoption as something that happens automatically once the tool is switched on rather than a genuine redesign of how people work. That gap shows up as “quiet checkout,” a form of disengagement Sarah argues is more damaging than outright sabotage because it's invisible to leadership and never gets addressed.The conversation turns to what actually builds trust and follow-through: naming the fear directly instead of talking around it, leaders modeling experimentation in front of their teams, and co-creating AI use cases with employees rather than imposing them from the top down. Sarah introduces her framework for future-ready leadership, a Venn diagram of AI fluency, strategic agility, and relational intelligence, arguing that leaders missing the relational piece may retain talent short-term through “golden handcuffs,” but they lose the honesty, experimentation, and judgment that AI-era competitiveness actually depends on.

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Jamie Metzl asked AI to distill thousands of years of human wisdom into 10 commandments. What it reflected back says more about us than the machine.Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1338What We Discuss with Jamie Metzl:AI is a mirror, not a prophet. For his latest book, The AI Ten Commandments, Jamie Metzl worked with GPT-5 to mine humanity's scriptures, wars, myths, and philosophies for ten universal principles — not to worship AI or replace religion, but to hold up a mirror and stress-test the rules by which we're already living.Radical transparency about AI co-authorship cuts both ways. Putting GPT-5 on the cover felt honest to Jamie, but with public sentiment soured, the same disclosure that read as bold a year ago now reads to many as an admission of cheating.Pressing the button gets you "the total average of crap." Jamie cut 40% of the draft, rewrote the whole book, and hired two human editors — proof that good AI-assisted work comes from relentless human editing, not from outsourcing the thinking.Humans aren't on the verge of obsolescence. We represent nearly four billion years of embodied evolution, and the claim that machines will soon do everything better sells short the majesty of being human; the real frame is a Venn diagram of overlapping strengths.Stop building second-rate humans and second-rate machines. Don't fear replacement — ask how to help your humans be the best humans and your machines be the best machines, and use AI to stress-test the rules by which you're already living.And much more...And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors: Lufthansa Allegris: Go to Lufthansa.com and search for "Allegris" to learn moreEarnIn: Download EarnIn on the App Store or Google Play, type JordanHarbinger under PodcastDripDrop: 20% off: DripDrop.com, code JORDANBooking.com: Book your getaway now with booking.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.