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"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds.” James 1:2   Alice Churnock, from our Vestavia, Alabama community group, shares her story of suffering from a bleeding disorder for thirty years, which stamped shame and embarrassment on her soul and ultimately led her to intense anger with God as the complications from her disorder led her to difficulties having children.    However, after experiencing an unexpected and abrupt miscarriage, God met Alice, as only a loving and good Father can, and brought her to a deeper faith and ultimately a healed body.  This story will encourage you to know that God can handle your anger and questions, but you must also be ready to listen for His answers.    IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:  - God uses pain and trauma to grow your faith more than He uses the blessings He has given you - the blessings are often a byproduct of the pain.  - God is relational, and in a relationship, there is speaking AND listening by BOTH parties.  - Joy is an inner attitude regardless of your circumstances.   Links:   Covenant Counseling   “One Touch“ by Nicole C. Mullen   Give to StoryTellers Live in honor of Alice and our past storytellers.   Become a Patreon Insider to access bonus content~ including a “Story Within the Story” with Alice!   Register for our Finding God in the Details: A Guide to Discerning His Voice and Discovering Your Story workshop being offered online on July 8th; 9:30-11:30 AM CST *Future date:  In-person August 20th; 10:00-12:45 PM CST Shop for our When God Shows Up Bible Study series. Check out all of our live speaking engagement opportunities on our website.   Sign up to receive StoryTellers Live's weekly newsletter for updates and details on our live gatherings

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When you deal with a chronic illness, it's easy to question God and wonder if He even sees you. Everyone around goes on with their lives while you are left struggling with how to live each day.   This is exactly what today's storyteller, Sheryl Trawick, from our Fairhope, Alabama community, experienced after being diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, an autoimmune disorder where her body was attacking her peripheral nervous system (the control center of her body's communication system).    However, instead of staying stuck in her thoughts of despair, Sheryl decided to pour herself into God - seeking healing verses of Scripture to speak over her body. Through a whisper from the Lord, her faith began to shift, and a miracle of healing began to happen. This a story that is going to remind you of the power found in God's Word!    IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: - Scripture can serve as medicine for the soul as well as the body.  - Peace is only found through the presence of God.  - God is still in the business of performing miracles.   Links:   Sheryl's Bible verses    Listen to a similar story: Ep. 313- Emily Holman: “Filling My Lamp with Oil”   Give to StoryTellers Live in honor of Sheryl and our past storytellers.   Become a Patreon Insider to access bonus content~ including a bonus story from Emily Moore from our Vestavia community!   Register for our Finding God in the Details: A Guide to Discerning His Voice and Discovering Your Story workshop being offered in-person on June 18th, 6:00-8:30 PM CST   *Future dates- Online on July 8th; 9:30-11:30 AM CST and August 20th; 9:15-11:15 AM CST Shop for our When God Shows Up Bible Study series   Check out all of our live speaking engagement opportunities on our website.   Sign up to receive StoryTellers Live's weekly newsletter for updates and details on our live gatherings.

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He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart, yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecc. 3:11   God's timing in the plan of your life is everything. But what do you do as you wait for that plan to unfold? Today's storyteller reminds you exactly what to do: you pray, you seek, and you trust!   Jessica Prier, from our Vestavia, Alabama, community, shares her journey of growing in her faith and in her gifting as she recalls the ways in which the Lord has led her to where she is today. If you're in a season of needing guidance from the Lord, this story is going to remind you to have patience and know He is working behind the scenes to bring good to you and glory to Him.   IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: - God places giftings and talents within each of us early on in life. - Sometimes, God closes a door and opens another one. - God wants to do immeasurably more than you could ask or imagine.   Links:   Listen to Jessica's mother-in-law's story-  Marilyn Prier- Ep. 15: "Giving God the Frat House"    Give to StoryTellers Live in honor of Jessica and past storytellers   Become a Patreon Insider to access bonus content!   Shop for our When God Shows Up Bible Study series, including the newly released Discovering God in Stories of Faith!   Register for the local workshop being offered on April 9th in Birmingham: Finding God in the Details: A Guide to Discerning His Voice and Discovering Your Story   Our 4th Annual Stories of Hope Luncheon is on March 12th!

It's February and we're bringing you some love! Jeanne Anne Love, actually.    From our Vestavia community, Jeanne Anne and her heart transplant story are a perfect nod to American Heart Month—and to the lifelong goodness and faithfulness of her Heavenly Father.    For as long as she can remember, Jeanne Anne suffered heart issues and related illnesses. Though she lived a pretty normal childhood, come middle school, a heart transplant was needed.    As Jeanne Anne walks us through this story, what seem to be minor details suddenly resurface as major moments—and it's exciting! The Lord even brought Jeanne Anne comfort through a supernatural encounter.   Now, nearly 30 years after receiving a new heart, Jeanne Anne is working with heart patients and parenting a child with a cardiac condition. Listen and be encouraged that the Lord is working every detail of your every day.   In this episode, you will learn:   –In all your trials, God is right there with you.   –Be on the lookout for sweet reminders of His love and care throughout your hard journeys.   –You can trust God; He is intimately involved in every area of your life.   Links:    Listen to a similar story: Whitney Hubbard- Ep. 26: “Gaining A New Heart and a New Perspective”   Give to StoryTellers Live in honor of Jeanne Anne Love   Become a Patreon Insider to access bonus content~ including a bonus story from Taylor Gindlesberger of our West Cobb community!   Register for the online workshop being offered on February 6th-  Finding God in the Details: A Guide to Discerning His Voice and Discovering Your Story   Shop for our When God Shows Up Bible Study series, including the newly released Discovering God in Stories of Faith!   Sign up to receive StoryTellers Live's weekly newsletter for updates and details on our live gatherings!

Kelly Connelly, of our Vestavia community, tried to control (and cure) her husband's addiction to prescription painkillers. It seemed like a perfectly reasonable response from a wife. Only, it wasn't working—and life wasn't letting up.   The substance abuse continued, and infidelity and divorce entered the scene, making Kelly's life unmanageable for many years. But that was just it: her life was, actually, unmanageable. And admitting it made all the difference.   Kelly came to grips with her shame, perfectionism, and powerlessness through the help of a Bible-based Al-Anon group. She learned to live hope-filled and happy without “The Happy Ending.” When she began working on “me” and giving control over to the Lord, rich truths bloomed among very poor circumstances.   In the episode, you will learn:   –The Lord will redeem what the enemy has destroyed in your life.   –Shame snowballs and can cause you to feel alone. But you are never alone in Christ.   –When you come to God—and He wants you to—walls come down.   Links:   Listen to a similar story:    Give to StoryTellers Live in honor of Kelly.   Become a Patreon Insider to access bonus content~ including a Q & A from the room after Kelly shared her story. Register for the Finding God in the Details: A Guide to Discerning His Voice and Discovering Your Story workshop being offered on January 29th (live in Birmingham)-and February 6th (Online)!    Shop for our When God Shows Up Bible Study series, including the newly released Discovering God in Stories of Faith!   Sign up to receive StoryTellers Live's weekly newsletter for updates and details on our live gatherings around the country!

Merry Christmas from the StoryTellers Live Team! We hope you are having a wonderful holiday with your family and friends as you celebrate the birth of our Savior. Today's story is a repost that originally aired on 2/1/23 as EP 214 and is also highlighted in our new Bible study, "When God Shows Up—Discovering God in Stories of Faith."   Anna Gualano, from our community group in Vestavia, Alabama, shares her journey of being born with brittle bone disease and living in and through the challenges she has faced. Her inspiring story will remind you that you are uniquely made, your life has immense value, God is consistently purposeful, and He's always working in the waiting.   We know her story will encourage you this Christmas season!   Listen to Anna's original episode -  Ep. 214: "God is Working in the Waiting"   Give to StoryTellers Live Become a Patreon Insider to access bonus content. Shop for our When God Show Up Bible Study series~ including the newly released Discovering God in Stories of Faith! Sign up to receive the StoryTellers Live newsletter for updates~ including details on our new workshop: Finding God in the Details: A Guide to Discerning His Voice and Discovering Your Story

Does your church worship bring people together or divide them? This week on The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott talk with author and pastor Zac Hicks. In an age where worship through music is so critical and critiqued by Christians and non-Christians alike, what should our worship services look like? How do church leaders balance the need to sing hymns and more theologically deep songs with the pressures of contemporary music? And finally, what does this mean for when we are picking music for churches in a cross-cultural context? Zac Hicks pastors and helped plant Church of the Cross in Vestavia, Alabama. He has been a worship pastor in both big and small churches in his career. He wrote the books: Before We Gather: Devotions for Worship Leaders and Teams and The Worship Pastor: A Call to Ministry for Worship Leaders and Teams. Want to start reading the Puritans but don't know where to begin? Their Puritan Treasures for Today series from Reformation Heritage Books makes the works of classic writers like John Owen and Jeremiah Burroughs accessible for modern readers. As a thank you for their partnership with ABWE, Reformation Heritage Books is providing a special discount code. We extend our gratitude to RHB for their support. Learn more at heritagebooks.org/PuritanTreasures, and you can use the code MISSIONSPOD if you order. This week's Overtime episode for Premium Subscribers brings back the worship wars between Alex, Scott, and Brian as they talk about their church worship experiences and the importance it plays in the regular life of the Christian. Get access to that episode and more at missionspodcast.com/premium Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.

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Shelley Gardner, of our Vestavia community, found herself distracted by good things and dodging any downtime. But a series of forced pauses in her life, including infertility and injury, turned into peace and protection from the Lord.   Listen as Shelley reminds us that this life is not our own—and that surrender and stillness serve to deepen prayer and amplify the Lord's voice.   In this episode, you will learn:   – You can trust the Lord even when you do not understand.   – When your plans don't pan out, His plans are perfect.   – He uses your places of brokenness for your growth and for His glory. Ingram Link's story- Episode 67:  “Releasing Financial Burdens”   Check us out on Instagram (@storytellers_live)  and Facebook!   Access more content and become a Patreon Insider   Give to StoryTellers Live

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Verse: "And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life." (Matthew 19:29)   Sajeda Wilson lived decades before opening a Bible. Yet, even from birth, the Lord prepared and pursued her heart in beautiful and surprising ways.   Sajeda, a former devout Muslim who shared in our Vestavia community, led a works-based lifestyle that eventually left her lacking—and looking. Hear how years of reading and research, together with the work of the Spirit, resulted in surrender to Jesus.   In this episode, you will learn:   – The Lord prepares and pursues the hearts of His people. – He is sovereign over our upbringing and uses all parts of our lives to draw us to Himself. – Jesus longs for all people across different cultures, traditions, and religions to know their creator and true purpose in following Him.   Links:   Audiobook by Nabeel Qureshi: Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus   Give to StoryTellers Live   Become a Patreon Insider   StoryTellers Live Listener Survey

When we face the death of our desires—or even death itself—what then? Where now?   Julie Cochran, of our Vestavia community, shows us that in seasons of suffering and surrender, praise can persist.   Following the unexpected loss of her infant daughter, Julie's mindset transformed as she focused on the Word, the Father, and his faithfulness. In this episode, you will learn: A mind renewed by the Word relies on hope and withstands hurt. We name our hard stories "good" when we focus on who God is. Regularly celebrating his faithfulness helps us heal.   Links:  Voyage to the Star Kingdom by Anne Riley Jenn Louthan Interior Design Sarah Beth Hagler Jewelry King Cotton Fabrics Give to StoryTellers Live Become a Patreon Insider  

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We are five days away from the celebration of Jesus' birth! From the team at StoryTellers Live, we pray blessings over you during this season and wish you a very Merry Christmas! Today's podcast is a great reminder of the sovereignty of God's plan and purpose for your life.   Kristen Caudle, from our Vestavia community, shares her journey of delivering four babies as a balanced translocation carrier (a rearrangement of chromosomes in her body) and how this affected each one of her children. Through her story, you will learn about her struggles as a carrier, but more importantly, you will see how sometimes God has uniquely built you for the challenges you will face in life.   IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: As the body of Christ, we were created to intercede for those who are struggling with the words to pray. Sometimes what you don't want is exactly what you need. Don't base your faith on the moments of life as God knows the entire story.   Become a Monthly Ministry Partner Become a Patreon Insider Shop for StoryTellers Live merch! Give to StoryTellers Live!  

In today's podcast, Ruth Bean, from our Vestavia community group, authentically shares her struggles, anxieties, and fears as a mom and how she is learning to trust God with her children. In her story, Ruth will encourage you to rest in knowing God has a perfect plan for your child, and if you're having a hard time trusting Him and letting go, rest assured, you aren't alone! IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: Thinking you have control over your children as they grow up is a facade, and you must hand them over to God. Jesus was rejected in a big way, and often times, our kids will be rejected as well. When you allow little hurts to build up, they can shatter your soul. Graves into Gardens song   Listen to Melanie Shankle's story- Episode 177   Become a PATREON INSIDER   Check out our new MERCH!   Give to StoryTellers Live!

This episode launches season 2 of the Ca$h Kid Podcast. We need to build our knowledge to create smart financial habits. That’s what this season of the Cash Kid podcast will be all about. How to build "Super Financial Literacy Skills." What are students lacking? How does always using a debit or credit card affect our financial habits? Find those answers and more from a high school teacher who works to teach financial skills to juniors and seniors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Transcript Super Financial Literacy Skills “Mr. Buffet, how can I make 30 billion dollars? Start young.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fErzHbEiQIs That’s Warren Buffet speaking at a conference years ago. Start young he says. Wise advice from a man who bought his first stock at age 11. But to start young, we need to build our knowledge to create smart financial habits. That’s what this season of the Cash Kid podcast will be all about. How to build Super Financial Literacy skills. And today, it starts with an interview with a high school teacher who works every day to do just that. I’m so excited to start this new season and new journey with my fellow cash kids. The Cash Kid podcast is underway. Intro tease: So you’ve got some cash. Maybe from an allowance, or that money your grandma gave you for your 7th birthday. Here you go, sweetie. Thanks, Grandma. Whatever it is, what are you going to do with it? Spend it, hide it away… or maybe invest it? Let’s start learning how to make that money grow. Time to learn how to be a cash kid. Joining me today is Mr. Ryan Halla. He’s a business and personal finance teacher at Vestavia Hills High School in Alabama. Welcome to the show Mr. Halla. Ryan Halla: Thank you. Good to be on! Cash Kid: First, tell us a little bit about yourself. Ryan Halla: I’ve been a teacher for a long time. Graduated from Vestavia Hills in 1992. I played baseball at Auburn after that and then played baseball a little while after Auburn. Got into teaching and coaching when I was about 29 years old. Been doing it ever sense. I’ve got two kids. I've been married for 25 years and. Cash Kid: Okay. So what led you to wanting to teach people personal and business finance to high schoolers? Ryan Halla: Well, it actually kind of chose me. One thing led to another, and I ended up getting into the business curriculu. Which I have found to be very useful and very enjoyable. Because I'll be honest with you, a lot of things in school I necessarily say I use today, but I same thing I tell all my kids as far as personal finance goes that they will definitely, definitely use that at some point in their lifetime. Cash Kid: Do you remember what kind of financial literacy material, if you had any or found or given when you were growing up? Ryan Halla: The only stuff I remember when I was a kid was we counted the paper nickels and the paper pennies and things like that. But as far as true financial literacy, I really don't recall. And I don't want to insult any of my teachers because it was a while ago, but I don't recall ever going over that. Cash Kid: Also, about your thoughts on what type of financial literacy is needed in schools today and when you should it start being taught. Ryan Halla: I think basic financial language, as far as, you know, checking accounts and savings accounts and things of that nature, I think that should begin in middle school. Then I think as you progress and you know, because I have a bunch of I teach a bunch of juniors and seniors, they all have jobs. They get real paychecks. So I think at the end of the day, when they get to be maybe a sophomore, you start talking about actually taxes. And, you know, taxes is not fun to talk about anyway. I'm not trying to insult any CPAs, but they I'm not sure income taxes which I’m talking about as far as what comes out of their paycheck you know the FICA taxes and and the state and federal tax is probably discussion and I think they can all use, you know, savings account discussions and checking account discussions. A lot of my kids don't know the difference when a debit and a credit card. Cash Kid: Yeah, we're going to cover that soon in an upcoming episode. Ryan Halla: Uh, good! Cash Kid: Would you say there's a lack of financial skills taught in schools, and if so, why? Ryan Halla: I'm going to say, no, there's not, because I'm teaching it. I would say that I don't really know other people's curriculum, but I do think that as far as Vestavia goes we do a pretty good job of maybe introducing it to them. I think it's I think it's funny, though, because I think a lot of kids don't really understand and having taught for a while, they're like anybody to know they don't understand something. So I think a lot of times they just kind of sit there and pretend like they understand, but they get out in the real world and it's pretty obvious they don't understand. Cash Kid: What are ways parents can get involved to teach these concepts? Ryan Halla: I think parents can just kind of mimic the correct behavior. I know correct is a vague term in this, but I think they can just mimic and show the kids. I mean, kids understand more of what they see than what they hear. So I think if you can tell them and I think sometimes, you know, people with means, I think the hardest thing is to tell a kid, no, kids don't really have a concept of of financial skills because they've just always had. And then when they get out by themselves, they don't really understand where the money went. So I think just just talk and sit down and have a conversation with them and say, and I'm old school. I think allowance is a good idea. I don't really care how much the allowance is because it teaches them the basic concept, basic skills of how to save money, how much things cos. Because also, whether people believe it or not, our main our main purpose is to be an educated consumer in this. You know, we understand how much milk should cost. We don't pay $20 from milk. I think when kids get an allowance to learn that at home, I think they're better suited when they get out in the real, quote unquote, real world. Cash Kid: What do you find your students are lacking when it comes to financial literacy today? Ryan Halla: I think taxes is a foreign concept, every single one of them. Because I've asked that question, I said, how many of you have gotten a paycheck and a lot of them raise their hand. I said, be honest with me. How many of ya’ll were shocked and stunned by how much was missing? And they all were. And that's common. Most people are like that when they get their first paycheck. But I really think that just I mean, it's a basic overall concept of, where money comes from. I mean, I've had kids that thought that when you took money to a bank, you had a vault of your own, that they took your $100 when you deposit put it in there. And then when you went back a week later, they went back to that same vault, gave you that same $100. So I think maybe an idea of how it works and what banks actually do with that money and how to access money. I mean, there's a lot of things there. There's a lot of things that that need to be discussed. Cash Kid: What can be done to help instill greater financial knowledge to the next generation. Ryan Halla: If every kid could listen to this podcast and hear my voice, then that would make everything better. I'm just kidding. Cash Kid: Hahaha… I’m good with that! Ryan Halla: Okay, let's go. Ryan Halla: I just think what I said. And I think parents can get more involved and I think kids need to get more bored. We seem to push a lot of the lot of the blame on parents or schools or whatever it is. But if the kids not willing to be involved or get involved too, in their own learning, then it's really kind of pointless. So I think we've got to figure out a way to get the kids involved and understand that the concepts that they're learning about the financial literacy is because people will talk to you about anything else in the world other than money. Nobody likes to talk about their own money and what they do with it. So I think when people are like that, there is no conversation going on about it. And I think that I think I really think the parents and families could get involved more and have an understanding. Cash Kid: What is your goal for your students when they leave your class? Ryan Halla: I think I think just have a basic understanding. Basically, if they go out in the real world, they can understand that what's what their paycheck looks like. They can understand how much things cost because like a lot of times people have no concept of how much the grocery store, especially nowadays or how much how much gas costs because they have mom or dad or aunt or uncle or grandfather or whoever it is, credit card and they just run that credit card. They don't understand that they just paid $65 for gas. So, just a basic understanding, really very basic understanding of how much things cost, where they can put their money. We touch on investments, but that to me is kind of advanced financial literacy. I think basic is just just managing your money. I just really I don't want any of them to struggle with money is really my goal. Cash Kid: Are there any books that you can recommend to your audience, either for parents or kids to continue their further knowledge? Ryan Halla: Um, one book does come to mind. It's by everybody's favorite self-help guru, Tony Robbins. It's called Money Master the Game. And the main concept he likes is that he talks about his three buckets for investments, and those are there's security of growth. And then a dream bucket and how you move money to each one of those buckets and you fill up one before you fill up the next one because once your security that's kind of emergency fund as Dave Ramsey would say in your growth bucket that's kind of retirement future car whatever you try to save for once those are filled, then you move on to that drain bucket of, you know, if you want to go on that dream vacation, whatever it is. But his language is is pretty simple to understand. I think the book certain parts of it very helpful. Cash Kid: Mr. Halla do you find there’s this generation shift where there’s less cash and never physically seeing the money? Everything is just like in the cloud, basically and how they can affect money management for this generation. Ryan Halla: Correct. Correct. I mean, cash is I always tell my kids, I said, if you can get cash out, get cash out, because cash is easier to see it go down. Like, you know, if you've got a lot of cash in your pocket and that wad starts getting smaller, you understand, Hey, I've spent some money. But if I'm using a card, I don't ever see especially a credit card, because then you're like, well, I still have money in my account. And I have I spent money. So I don't understand. You know, there's I try to throw a lot of statistics at my kids and, you know, statistics like 56% of all Americans have less than $1,000 in savings. And half of those 56% have less than $1,000 that they would need if they had $1,000 expense. So what that leads to is a constant, constant state of borrowing. And I'm not going to bark like Dave Ramsey and say that all debt is terrible, awful, no good. But I do understand the concept that if I can't pay a bill and I need to go borrow money or use a credit card to pay that bill, what am I going to do next month when I've got a new bill and I couldn't pay it? And then it becomes a snowball. It just becomes a bad situation. And that that I guess to answer the previous question, I said that is kind of, what I would like my kids to understand. But I do think that that just swipe your cards because how many times does it say, hey, you know when I was a kid, your mom would say, hey, go get this for me and she would give you $10. Well, you were like, man, if I only spend five, I could keep five. But now the parents are giving them their card. Say, hey, go get it. And now the kid's going in there buying a Coke, buying some chips, and buying some gas with no concept of what that cost because it was on a card. They didn't see the number. They didn't pay attention to it. They just put a PIN number in and moved on. Cash Kid: Yeah, great points. Um, is there anything else we haven't asked you that you would like to share with our audience? Ryan Halla: No, other than I think this is a very great concept to have somebody who is in your position to talk about this, because I think that when kids your kids talk about that's a little different than hearing a 50 year old man talk about, well. Cash Kid: Well, we agree. That’s why we started this podcast to help my generation get financially smart early because there's are definitely opportunities for kids now to start investing and saving earlier. Mr. Halla, we appreciate your time and expertise. Thank you for joining us on the Cash Kid Podcast and boosting the financial knowledge of fellow Cash Kids everywhere. So many great topics and interviews to come. Remember to visit our website at cashkidpodcast.com, leave a review wherever you are listening from, and follow us on Instagram. Cash Kid Out!

Want to meet another fellow "Cash Kid?" In today's episode, we'll meet George Cochran and learn how this Cash Kid started his own dog sitting business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Transcript A Cash Kid Dog Sitter Hey you guys it’s Cash Kid here. Today, your going to hear from another fellow cash kid who started his own business at just 9-years old! He took a passion and turned it into making cash. An interview with him, coming up. The Cash Kid Podcast is underway. (music) Intro tease: So you’ve got some cash. Maybe from an allowance, or that money your grandma gave you for your 7th birthday (Here you go sweetie.) Thanks grandma. Whatever it is, what are you going to do with it? Spend it, hide it away… or maybe invest it? Let’s start learning how to make that money grow. Time to learn how to be a cash kid. (cash register) Joining me today is another fellow Cash kid, George Cochrane. George runs his own dog sitting business and is having quite the success. We are here to learn more about him and his business. That's why we consider him to be a cash kid. George, thank you for joining us on the show. First off, tell us a little bit about yourself. George - I'm the oldest of four kids . They names are Billy, Johnny and Marianne. I was born in Vestavia, Alabama. And yeah, I've been running George's Pet Business for around three years now. We started around COVID, and we've only gone up from this point. Cash Kid - What type of business are you running? George - You probably got it from the name, but I run a pet sitting business where I only charge $10 a day. This idea helps customers who kind of probably want to save money for their trip and don't want to like, we charge like $100 a day for the vet and stuff like that, you know? Cash Kid - So, what gave you the idea for this business and why did you feel it was a need that others would want? George - I love dogs. I've wanted one for as long as I can remember. But right before COVID, it seemed like my family was not going to get one anytime soon. So I decided to create George’s Pet Business to be able to take care of something that you love and also be able to make a little money off of it. So, we started off charging only $5 a day, but we got so much more popular and so we started making it $10 a day. But still, that's a really big step down from the cost of the vet. Cash Kid- So how did you get your first customers? George - Oh, well, some of my mom's friends, they were going out of town and they had a lot of kids and so they'd probably have to spend a lot of money, meals and stuff and all the stuff you get on vacation and stuff. And they didn't want to waste their budget on going to the vet. And so my mom texted them and told them about George’s Pet Business. Cash Kid - Okay, so how do you advertise your business? George - So sometimes I'll go on like iMovie or Cap Cut and make like thirty second long ads and put them on Instagram. Cash Kid - Yeah. So do you get help running your business? George - Yes. Sometimes my siblings and my parents help play with or walk the dog in the early morning, but usually it's my parents who have to walk the dog at like the middle of the night. So, sometimes I'll give them some of the profit. My siblings don't care. They just love to play with dogs and stuff. Cash Kid - So, um, where would you like to see this business go? George - Oh, I would love to learn to, like, trained dogs and have, like, a training school and be able to charge, like, still, like, $20 a day to teach them how to sit and go to the bathroom outside and all that stuff. Cash Kid - Yeah. So what brings you the greatest joy at running a business as a kid? Like taking care of animals, the money, etc.? George - I love taking care of different breeds of dogs, and that's pretty much it. You know and earning money so I can save up for stuff. Cash Kid - Yeah. What advice would you give other kids about how to start a business like this? George -Yeah, this is important. Do not overprice anything. Trust me. If an adult is coming to you after trying to go to the vet and stuff it means she's burned out from spending so much money charge like $5 to $10 a day like I did. Trust me. Don't overprice it. Cash Kid - Okay. What do you feel you've learned from a young age about running a business? George - I think it's important to, like, know your customers and make them feel comfortable that they're, like, dropping their dog off at your house for, like, a week or so. Yeah. Just make your customer feel comfortable. Cash Kid - How long would you like to keep doing this as a kid? George - I mean, I just want to do it as long as I can because I had so much fun with it and we're still just growing and stuff, so we don't want to stop yet. Cash Kid - Thanks George for joining us on the Cash Kid Podcast. And good luck growing your business and passion to take care of dogs. (music) Well, there you have it. Another way a kid is making cash. Do you know a Cash Kid in your area? We’d love to feature them on the podcast. Write to us at cashkidpodcast@gmail.com to tell us about their business and we’ll feature them on a future episode. That’s wraps up today’s episode. We have so much planned so stayed tuned. Cash Kid, out! Disclaimer: The information presented represents the views and opinions of the guests. This show does not intend to provide personal investment advice through this podcast. This content has been made for informational and educational purposes only. To make a full and informed investment decision, we advise you to speak with a financial advisor and for kids, definitely your parents first before investing.

Ready to save some money? In today's episode, we are talking about saving money on the supplies you are already buying. Sometimes the savings are between 15% and 30%, which could have a very positive impact on your clinic. Today, Nick and Michael are speaking with Katie Hamilton from Healthcare Procurement Solutions (HPS). HPS offers a network of over 1400 suppliers and can provide a free pricing analysis for any piece of your practice. Our contracts for medical supplies are exclusive to McKesson. Katie joined Healthcare Procurement Solutions (HPS) as a consultant in early 2010 after graduating from the University of Alabama. Katie loves helping her members identify their biggest business challenges and offering them solutions that make those challenges more manageable. Katie lives in Vestavia with her husband, Sam, and their three young sons, ages 5, 2, and 10 months. Aside from healthcare, Katie is passionate about animals and is involved with several local shelters and rescue groups. In her free time, she enjoys working out, listening to live music, and traveling. Connect with Healthcare Procurement Solutions: https://www.healthcareprocurement.com/ https://www.facebook.com/HealthcareProcurementSolutions/ https://www.instagram.com/healthcareprocurementsolutions/ Have a question or a story we should feature as an episode? Email us at hello@patientcaremarketingpros.com Intro/Outro Music by Devin Smith https://open.spotify.com/artist/4UdQjNXnACFE2VpkEoP8v2?si=pDx5jsgtRFOtwrpMOKOkuQ Stay connected with Patient Care Marketing Pros! Website: https://patientcaremarketingpros.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/patientcaremarketingpros Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patientcaremarketingpros LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/patient-care-marketing-pros/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9nwkAwIyiVvsLTWGoeRbWA

There was some good news and some not so good news from this past weekend. First of all, Alabama commitment Julian Sayin won the Elite 11 camp MVP. Does that mean he may begin to sneak up on that number one spot for 2024? Then there's the issue with Jamil Burroughs. Actually, what is the deal with Jamil Burroughs? Finally, some recruiting discussion from the weekend from guys who visited Alabama (like Vestavia's Jordan Ross) and go to visit other places like commitment Perry Thompson). meanwhile, Jimmy makes a cool declaration about Thompson's Trent Seaborn. Roll Tide!Go to birddogs.com/lockedoncollege and when you enter promo code, LOCKEDONCOLLEGE, they'll throw in a free custom birddogs Yeti-style tumbler with every order.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Don't miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There was some good news and some not so good news from this past weekend. First of all, Alabama commitment Julian Sayin won the Elite 11 camp MVP. Does that mean he may begin to sneak up on that number one spot for 2024? Then there's the issue with Jamil Burroughs. Actually, what is the deal with Jamil Burroughs? Finally, some recruiting discussion from the weekend from guys who visited Alabama (like Vestavia's Jordan Ross) and go to visit other places like commitment Perry Thompson). meanwhile, Jimmy makes a cool declaration about Thompson's Trent Seaborn. Roll Tide! Go to birddogs.com/lockedoncollege and when you enter promo code, LOCKEDONCOLLEGE, they'll throw in a free custom birddogs Yeti-style tumbler with every order. FanDuel Make Every Moment More. Don't miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mr. Charles Phillips, aka Mr. Stav Nation, joins me today and is one of my good friends. We talked a lot about the importance of reading, watching fruitful television, and taking care of your personal finances.Charles is an amazing friend and could host his own podcast on his own.

Jordan Ross of Vestavia high school is one of the biggest recruits in the country this year but he doesn't seem too keen on Alabama just yet. Will that change? Also, Richard Young makes the coveted Jimmy Stein Alabama roster countdown today! Finally shout out to the Alabama baseball team for moving on to the super regionals… But what happened to the rest of the SEC? Roll Tide!Today's episode is brought to you by Birddogs. Go to birddogs.com/lockedoncollege and when you enter promo code, LOCKEDONCOLLEGE, they'll throw in a free custom birddogs Yeti-style tumbler with every order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jordan Ross of Vestavia high school is one of the biggest recruits in the country this year but he doesn't seem too keen on Alabama just yet. Will that change? Also, Richard Young makes the coveted Jimmy Stein Alabama roster countdown today! Finally shout out to the Alabama baseball team for moving on to the super regionals… But what happened to the rest of the SEC? Roll Tide! Today's episode is brought to you by Birddogs. Go to birddogs.com/lockedoncollege and when you enter promo code, LOCKEDONCOLLEGE, they'll throw in a free custom birddogs Yeti-style tumbler with every order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

David from Vestavia calls John to discuss the Hunter Biden probe and attacks on Donald Trump.

Jessica Hose, from our community group in Vestavia, Alabama, shares her journey of battling Lyme disease for nine months and how God led her to His healing power. Through her suffering, she shares how God humbled, shaped her, and increased her need for Him so she could experience His love and power. This is a must-listen story of healing!   IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * What Lyme disease is and the devastating effects it can have on someone's life. * There is no disease outside of healing from God's hands. * If you are suffering from an illness, lean into God, and allow Him to increase your faith and your trust in knowing His plan is perfect for your life. TODAY ON PATREON: Healing smoothie recipes from Jessica!

This is the type of episode Abandoned Albums was created for! In this episode, Keith & Geoff sit down with singer/songwriter John Strohm to discuss his album Vestavia, his experiences in the music industry, and some of his creative challenges.  John shares insights into the creative process, his journey in the industry, and the inspiration behind some of his most notable songs.  If you're a fan of John's music, 90s music, or music in general, this is not an episode you will want to miss! LINKS John Strohm Blake Babies Antenna The Lemonheads Juliana Hatfield Ed Ackerson Polera

The Matt McClearin Show continued on with The Daily News as Conrad shares the latest on a new golf simulator in the Vestavia area, 3 Doors Down's two Alabama tour dates & more!   The Matt McClearin Show airs weekdays from 12-2pm on WJOX 94.5!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Matt McClearin Show began Tuesday's first hour chatting with Barrett Sallee, college football writer for CBS Sports, as Barrett shared what he is looking to learn from spring practices across the SEC.  20:22 - Conrad's Daily News!  Conrad shares the latest on a new golf simulator in the Vestavia area, 3 Doors Down's two Alabama tour dates & more!  39:16 - Matt's ecstatic that Jimbo Fisher already seems annoyed having to field questions about Bobby Petrino. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anna Gualano, from our community group in Vestavia, Alabama, shares her journey of being born with osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease) and living in and through the challenges she has faced. Her inspiring story will remind you that you are uniquely made, your life has immense value, God is consistently purposeful, and He's always working in the waiting.   IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * You can't control the hand you've been dealt, but you can control how you act. * Life is about risks and assessing if the risk is worth the outcome. * The self-image you project is the person people will accept.   Don't forget to RATE & REVIEW our podcast today! Purchase tickets to the STORIES OF HOPE LUNCHEON HERE

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Weight loss in people living with dementia can stem from a variety of causes: the need for more help or supervision; being too sedated to properly eat; pacing and unable to sit still to consume a meal; or refusing to eat. In this episode, I provide approaches for all of these causes and provide strategies if your family member is refusing to eat. If you live in the Birmingham, AL area, Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church will be hosting a gathering for caregivers of people living with FTD to assess interest in a support group. This gathering will be Tuesday, Dec 6 6pm-8pm at 2061 Kentucky Avenue, Vestavia, Alabama. See you there! Make Dementia Your B*tch podcast has been selected by Feedspot as one of the Top 25 Dementia Podcasts for 2022—check it out: https://blog.feedspot.com/dementia_podcasts/ Free VIRTUAL dementia education and support session calendar: https://dementiacentricsolutionsllc.clickmeeting.com/monthly-dementia-webinars Other resources: New! 5 Ways to help People living with dementia who refuse help: https://dementiacentricsolutions.com/caring-for-someone-living-with-dementia-tired-of-fighting-and-arguing/ Have a question? Want more information about my programs? Email me: dr.rita.jablonski@gmail.com Interested in my book? Get your free preview here: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B09SR2ZMM2&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_1984RXHNZ8WBNHR7WSJ2 You can also leave questions here: https://anchor.fm/rita-a-jablonski/message #frontotemporal #dementia #behaviors #alzheimers #dementia #caregiving #behaviors #dementiabitch #Lewy body #Parkinsons #vascular #care refusals #eating #weightloss --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rita-a-jablonski/message

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Hey Friends -  Happy Post-thanksgiving Monday! On today‘s show, we are talking about email marketing for your podcast. However, today's episode is not “selling “ something but using the power of email to promote your latest podcast episode!  A few weeks ago, I got an email from a listener (Liz D. from Vestavia, AL ) asking about email marketing and if they should have one for their podcast. We've discussed email marketing in past episodes, but I wanted to dive deeper into email marketing, specifically for podcasters! Listen in to learn more  :  Do you need an email list? Why not use social media?  Consent and Quality Content for your list  Practical ways to use your email list to grow your podcast audience For the full episode show notes, please go to www.wildfirecreativecompany.com

Behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia is one of the most misunderstood of the dementias. Today's podcast is focused exclusively on this dementia. Learn why it is misdiagnosed and how to handle many of this dementia's specific challenges. If you live in the Birmingham, AL area, Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church will be hosting a gathering for caregivers of people living with FTD to assess interest in a support group. This gathering will be Tuesday, Dec 6 6pm-8pm at 2061 Kentucky Avenue, Vestavia, Alabama. See you there! Make Dementia Your B*tch podcast has been selected by Feedspot as one of the Top 25 Dementia Podcasts for 2022—check it out: https://blog.feedspot.com/dementia_podcasts/ Free VIRTUAL dementia education and support session calendar: https://dementiacentricsolutionsllc.clickmeeting.com/monthly-dementia-webinars Other resources: New! 5 Ways to help People living with dementia who refuse help: https://dementiacentricsolutions.com/caring-for-someone-living-with-dementia-tired-of-fighting-and-arguing/ Have a question? Want more information about my programs? Email me: dr.rita.jablonski@gmail.com Interested in my book? Get your free preview here: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B09SR2ZMM2&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_1984RXHNZ8WBNHR7WSJ2 You can also leave questions here: https://anchor.fm/rita-a-jablonski/message #frontotemporal #dementia #behaviors #caregiving --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rita-a-jablonski/message

Tony Kurre talks about the great Live Wire Wednesday show we have for today, the lineup on Tony Kurre Radio, celebrity birthdays, the closing of Bar 31 in Vestavia, the 40th birthday of the Nick, dating when you're older, looking at signs your neighbors may be swingers, and more!

The mass shootings continue, the flags continue to be lowered to half-staff and we continue to wring our hands about how awful all this killing is. And we continue to do nothing. An Alabama church and its congregants was a madman's most recent target. This wasn't some black church or poor white folks' non-denominational, either, but an Episcopal church in upscale Vestavia Hills, one of the more affluent zip codes in Alabama. Doug Jones, who was briefly a U.S. senator, lives not far away. It has gotten pretty bad when the Episcopalians aren't safe in their own church in Vestavia...Article Link

Yellow garden spiders have a fat yellow abdomen slicked with yellow and black stripes. They weave a tiny white squiggle in the center of their webs. I stare at the faintly milky zig zag as it sways when wind moves the web and stirs the iris sepals it hangs between in my mothers garden. I am biting on the seam of injection molded red plastic in a 1980s baby walker. I ponder the way that Alabama red clay cakes in the grooves of my tennis shoe and poke it with a stubby finger and later a small twig. My dreams were a miasma of detailed childhood imagery. I vividly re-experienced half remembered and seemingly insignificant moments from when I was a toddler in photorealistic detail. When I woke up my phone rang. “Did you have weird dreams?” asked a colleague “Everyone is saying their dreams are weird.”. I had just had my first session of brainspotting on my first day of brainspotting training. You learn brainspotting by having the brainspotting process done to you and by conducting the brainspotting experience on other trainees. The brainspotting training teaches clinicians to “hold” a patient's experience without analysis or judgment. Clinicians are taught to turn off the impulse to try and teach the patient anything. Instead the patient's own experience is what the patient learns from when the clinician can “make room” to let the experience unfold. Unlike cognitive models of psychotherapy, brainspotting does not train you to analyze your experience. It teaches you nothing. Brainspotting practitioners are taught to feel instead of understand so that they can “hold” the experience of patients who are doing the same. Brainspotting began as a branch of EMDR and quickly became its own modality. Developed to treat trauma and PTSD, providers quickly discovered that it works for just about everything else as well. The technique itself is extraordinarily simple; a clinician holds a pointer and a patient looks at it. Despite that, the nuances of the technique can be infinitely complex. Brainspotting helps most people get to know, and get comfortable with the parts of themselves that they are the most out of touch with. How does Brainspotting work? In trauma therapy teaching patients to let go of their cognitive “thinky” brain and experience the “feely” body brain is the name of the game. Our subcortical brain is the oldest part of the brain. It rapidly directs our use of energy for survival into fight, flight, and freeze responses. This process takes place before we intellectually or linguistically understand why we are thinking or what we are doing. Teaching patients to feel their unconscious emotions and their somatic reactions to trauma is the only way to get to the root of how trauma is affecting the brain. Our ego defends us against experiencing the unconscious parts of our being. It is threatened by the fact that parts of us that we do not understand can control us so deeply. The philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote that language was the house of being. He meant to that our words were all we were. Language is implied to be a confining prison. The philosopher René Descartes stated that “I think, therefore I am”. His assumption that cognition was the essence of what made us real underlies most of modern medical science. I wonder how the landscape of existential philosophy would have changed if these philosophers had ever had a brainspotting session. Our ego driven cognition does not want to turn itself off. It does not want to admit that there is a deeper and older part of the brain . Our mid and sub brains are arguably the most important component to our sense of self and understanding of the world. Some times called our lizard brain, they come from our reptilian ancestry and are responsible for our intuitive and unconscious snap judgements. Put simply we are not logic or rational creatures. A large component of our instinctual thinking occurs before we are thinking in words or with intellect. David Grand, the creator of brainspotting, made the point that our neocortex front brain thinks that it is all of us, but we must teach it that we have a mid and sub cortex that are part of us as well. Our brains feel before we think. It is our cognitive neo cortex brain that sometimes forget to be aware of the powerful energy our feeling and intuition holds. The reason that trauma therapy is difficult for patients and providers is that our ego defends us from the experience of the unconscious feeling and emotion. Teaching patients to let go of what they know is hard. Facing younger and traumatized parts of self in the deep brain is not something that our intellect can help us with. Even though we have an intellectual understanding of trauma and how it affects us, that does not help us loosen its effect on our lives. There is not a formula or even a manual for good therapy. Effective therapy helps you find and face the parts of yourself we avoid. What does Brainspotting feel like? Brainspotting is amazingly effective at this. Brainspotting strips away our defenses and plunges our awareness into the deepest and most recessed areas of ourselves. Brainspotting turns our gaze to the places that we most avoid. Brainspotting allows us to repair and rewire the damaged assumptions trauma makes us hold about ourselves, the world and our relationships. Cognitive therapy teaches us to train and flex our intellect. This is one of the reasons that cognitive therapy alone can not take patients to the deep roots of trauma's effect on the brain. Somatic and brain based therapies can teach us to feel ourselves again. It is a common phenomenon that patients “lose” language during a brainspotting session and start to feel a deep emotion and intuitive self. It is normal to realize your body and emotional state is shifting and moving without your permission. Put another way our physical and emotional selves are able to be experienced without cognition interfering. This is similar to the way that is similar to how psychedelics reorient our consciousness. Brainspotting can help us feel the emotional states “under” our lives that we often run from and avoid. It can help us confront and repair emotional damage and unremembered pain. Carl Jung observed that symbols and metaphors are the language of the unconscious. This is perhaps why when we stir the subconscious brain with brainspotting it causes highly mythic or symbolic dreams. The two hallmarks of a brainspotting dream are vividly remembering minutiae from childhood in photo realistic detail and also dreams with highly allegorical narratives. Patients often remember “important” and “deep” dreams that they can't quite explain or put into words. After the dream images from my childhood in my first brainspotting session I began to have dreams about shadowy wolf-like figures in the woods . They peered through the windows of Vestavia home to eye my children. During the brainspotting sessions I felt myself dropping down into a terrifying feeling of inadequacy and inferiority that had always underlaid my life. I hadn't noticed it or confronted the feeling. I realized that wit, education, learning skills and even my career were nothing more than mechanisms for me to turn this feeling off and run from it. Brainspotting was the first kind of therapy that allowed me to not only identify the feeling that controlled my behavior from the shadows, but also to face it and master it. Social workers are often wounded healers. Therapy can become a crutch when therapists won't do their own work. Therapists can become, unconsciously, obsessed with giving others the medicine that they themselves need. Many Brainspotting therapists, like myself and David Grand, began as EMDR practitioners. EMDR takes patients into the deep brain just like brainspotting. The difference between the modalities is that EMDR immediately makes patients analyze and cognitivize the experience of the deep brain. What you get in the room is what you get with EMDR. In a brainspotting session a therapist is simply opening a box in the patients brain. The majority of the processing takes place over several days while the patients brain decides with the experiences in the box that we have decompartmentalized. Brainspotting changed my life. I had been in many types of therapy for years and nothing else had this effect. After Brainspotting I was able to notice when I was reacting based on emotion while hiding in my intellect. I was able to feel the way that my body was reacting based on how I felt. I didnt need to hunch my back when angry. I didn't need to twist my spine when I was sad. Instead I noticed the, previously unconscious, reaction and chose to do it or not. I was able to stop avoiding the problems in my life and deal with the deepest part of the emotional root of my own pain. Brainspotting gives us more time and room in our own head to react to how we are feeling. Brainspotting was the inspiration for the name Taproot Therapy Collective and the direction of my career and practice. Just like the technique itself the effects of brainspotting are subtle but profound. Before brainspotting, I thought therapy was about learning information or knowing something new. After brainspotting I realized that therapy was more than this. Brainspotting changed my life but afterward I didn't know anything new. There was no big reveal or discovery. Brainspotting let me feel how big my own soul was and how much work I have to do in the project of finding and becoming that potential. If anything, brainspotting helped me forget. I forgot my ego and saw how much my own intellect was stopping me from experiencing who I really was. We absolutely do not exist because we think. We exist despite the fact that we are trying to think ourselves into existing. The mystic Simone Weil wrote that “The smart man proud of his intellect is like the prisoner proud of his jail”. Language is not the house of being. It is the house that we are trying, foolishly, to cram being into. We are so much bigger than we can think. Trauma makes us feel and act small but we are all bigger than we are able to know. Outside of our intellect lies a tremendous felt sense of creativity, intuition and a larger more whole self. We do not have to learn anything to find it. All we have to do is stop talking, stop thinking and begin to listen to who we are. “Behold your thoughts and feelings….there stands a mighty ruler, an unknown sage—whose name is Self.” -Friedrich Nietzsche #trauma #PTSD #dissociation #panic #anxiety

Updates on the St. Steven's Episcopal Church shooting in Vestavia, These new proposed gun legislation won't change any of these mass shootings, Update on the proposed gun legislation, Rand Paul is in town, then to Huntsville to support Mo Brooks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A 3rd person has died in relation to the St. Steven's Episcopal Church shooting in Vestavia, Extreme heat predicted for next week with temperature 100 +,  Man bursts into flames while trying to steal gas using a drill. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yesterday's shooting at St. Steven's Episcopal Church in Vestavia, DOW is down 20% so far this year, FDA just authorized COVID shots for 5 year olds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vestavia Hills Mayor Ashley Curry joins us to talk about last nights shooting at a church in Vestavia

Tony Kurre talks about the shooting last night at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, how we've lost our way spiritually in the world, celebrity birthdays, the huge concerts going on right now including an update on Tommy Lee, Father's Day Weekend, and more!

Former State Representative and Chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party, Paul Demarco, talks about the shooting in Vestavia Hills last night

Congressman Gary Palmer shares his thoughts after the Vestavia Hills church shooting last night.

Vestavia High School Athletic Director Myra Miles discusses what happened at the BJCC this weekend during the state basketball finals.

In this episode, we talk about capacity with Vestavia Smith, management trainee by day and serial entrepreneur by night. As a full-time employee, mother and fiance, Vestavia has taken an intentional approach to managing her time, efforts and activities in order to give her best in her personal and professional life. Vestavia Smith is a native of Montgomery, AL who now calls Nashville, TN home. After receiving her Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from Fisk University in 2017, she began her career in the financial services industry and continues to work full-time in the industry today. Vestavia believes the quickest way to a raise is to start a business and has turned her passions for travel, investing, and sleep teaching into additional streams of income. After becoming a “girl mom” in September 2020, Vestavia discovered a passion for all things pediatric sleep after struggling with her own daughter's frequent night wakings when she was 7.5 months old. She completed the My Sweet Sleeper Academy training program in January 2022 and started Sleepkeeper Consulting with the goal of helping other families achieve better, healthier sleep habits and get back to enjoying the early stages of parenting. Follow Vestavia on Social Instagram: @themelanatedsleepkeeper Recommended resources: Atomic Habits by James Clear The Power of the Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy ABOUT THE PODCAST Corporate Creative was established to highlight the intersections between employment and entrepreneurship. We exist to: Build a community of like-minded professionals committed to making an impact both inside and outside of work, Redefine success by emphasizing self-exploration, and Educate and empower individuals to use their passion and skills to grow their brands and businesses. Join the Tribe! Follow us on social media @CorporateCreativePod Interested in financial and career tips? Subscribe to Personal Finance Fridays jadeihendricks.com SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Don't miss an episode! Subscribe on Soundcloud & iTunes Enjoying the podcast show? Leave a review on iTunes. The more reviews, the greater our reach. Go to “Ratings and Reviews” > “Write a Review” and let us know why you love the show. Thank you! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/corporatecreativepod/support

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Trick r Treat Welcome to The Guys Review, where we review media, products and experiences.  **READ APPLE REVIEWS/Fan Mail**Mention Twitter DM group - like pinned tweetRead emails  Trick r Treat Written and Directed by: Michael Dougherty (who has written a ton of other movies like Xmen 2, Superman Returns, the new Godzilla [which he directed, too] and Godzilla vs Kong. Starring:  Anna PaquinBrian CoxDylan Baker First Screened: December 9, 2007Released on DVD: October 7, 2009 Budget: $12M ($15.8M 2021) Box Office: None, was not released in theatres, direct to DVD release. DVD and Bluray sales are estimated $12.3M ($16.2M in 2021) Ratings:   IMDb 6.8/10 Rotten Tomatoes 83%Metacritic % Google Users 87% -No meta critic score, only 2 critic reviews, but both were positive. Variety gave it s 70%, and AV Club gave it s 67%-Metacritic user reviews are overwhelmingly positive, to the tune of 7.9. First time you saw the movie? Plot:The film opens to an old school film highlighting some of the rules of Halloween. Cut to a kid pulling a wagon in front of a car that almost hits them. A couple is walking home and obviously did not have a good time at halloween. The woman blows out the candle as the husband warns her about not doing it too early or she might make someone mad. We watch this from a different point of view, presumably the "bad gay". Husband wants to have sex, but she wants to take the decorations down... She relents and tells him to "put on the tape" as she starts taking the decorations down. As she removes them, she gets freaked out by a guy in a mask watching her, but he is a kid waiting for a ride. She is then attacked by a sheet, and has her throat cut by a pumpkin lolly pop inside the sheet, as her husband sleeps with a porn on. He comes out searching for her, and finds her dismembered body under a sheet, with the lollypop grotesquely shoved in her mouth. (SOUND 1) and cut to intro credits... Which gives some history of what we're about to see, 4 tales, Sam, some character names, Warren Valley, Ohio setting, halloween night, always check your candy, along with some foreshadowing images, Laurie, Mr. Kreeg. It opens back up to a closeup of a bag being drug down the street, occasionally panning up to see, what we find out later, are other characters in the movie. Scene change and a box that tells us "Earlier". There's a halloween party downtown. News caster tells how Warren Valley takes halloween very seriously. IN a costume store, some girls are changing talking about picking up dudes, and theres a kid peeping on them. The girls come out, in sexy princess costumes,while Laurie is dressed as little red riding hood, and one of them hits on the cashier. Next, the kid from Bad Santa is walking down the street, smashing pumpkins. He comes to a house that has a sign saying only take one candy, so he starts taking handfuls. But he is caught. The girls are walking down the street, with Laurie getting advice about being a virgin at 22, like Tucker. They pass the couple from the opening sequence. Maria and Janet show her how to hit on guys. S:-Regarding the woman who wants to take down halloween decorations ON halloween... Who does that?-Again, who has a huge party like that ON halloween...and the girls in the costume store, who doesn't buy their costume until Halloween night at 8pm-The asshole kids walking and smashing pumpkins, how did no adult say anything to him-This one, like hubie halloween, how does it seem like everytown is so small no one drives, they all just walk all over town?-What town throws a halloween party like that? The man and the candy stealer are talking, he pulls a knife, and he carves a pumpkin. He talks about how his dad taught him the traditions of halloween, and that they were started to protect us, but now, no one cares. The boy starts coughing and gurggling. The man tells of another tradition, to always check your candy, as the boy starts violently vomiting. He collapses in the mans lap. He struggles to bring the boy inside, getting bloody vomit on him. Trick or treaters come and we find out this is Principal Wilkins. After they all get some candy and take off, we see Sam, the little boy with the sack on his head also Trick or Treating. The girls get into a van with guys, leaving Laurie. Inside Wilkins house, we see how he laced his candy. He drags the body out back, and we see there are other bodies in the already dug hole when his son starts screaming at him from the window (SOUND 2). Next a dog starts barking at them, so Wilkins throws him a finger. The neighbor comes out, looking for his dog, he hops in the hole and seems one of the bodies isn't actually dead. They have a heated exchange. Billy comes back and yells again, and Wilkins smashes whoever grabbed him with the shovel. Wilkins is then watering a tree in the filled in hole, complaining about his kid bothering him. As he walks inside, the neighbor gets his attention, which he ignores and we see the neighbor being tackled inside his home. He comes inside and is scared by Billy, and they go down stairs to carve the pumpkin. We're definitely led to think Wilkins is about to kill his son. He approaches, and places his hand on his head, (SOUND 3) ...and we see the candy thieves head on a lazy susan and they smile. S:-Wilkins leaving his laced candy out. Seems dangerous.-As willy nilly about killing as he is, and with the bodies in the back yard, I'm surprised Wilkins hasn't been caught. Are we sure this doesn't take place in Opelika and Tucker is the detective?-Never mind how long it would take to dig the hole, i still think it would take a few hours to fill it back in. The trick or treaters from Wilkins house go to a house with an obviously drunk Mrs. Henderson, and a crazy party happening in the back ground. They're collecting pumpkins for something. They approach a house with a TON of carved pumpkins, and a girl in a which costume comes out, who they say is an idiot savant. We meet Schrader and Rhonda. At the halloween party downtown, people are making out and we find a couple in an alley enjoying themselves. When the woman realzies she has blood all over her, and freaks out. She runs screaming for help, and we see the couple from the beginning again, saying she's just drunk. She turns and the man is behind her, a scream and cut to black. She is shown sitting down, and the masked man closes her eyes, and walks off into the crowd. The kids are walking through the woods, and Rhonda gives a very detailed history of Halloween. They arrive at the rock quarry and we learn about the halloween school bus massacre (SOUND 4). A flashback about a school bus with different/troubled/disturbed kids, 8 of them. That day the driver takes a different route, and they pass Sam. He drives the bus to a quarry, it's told the parents of the kids approached the driver and made and offer for him to do the unthinkable. The driver then checks each kid, and they're all chained in the bus. One kids escapes, but doesn't know how to drive the bus, as the driver tries to get to the front, he's tripped and the bus goes over the edge. We see it slowly sinking under the water. The girl tells that the bus was so deep, it couldn't be found or the town didn't want to find it, and that it's still there with the kids. She tells that the collected pumpkins are to be left by the side of the lake as an offering to those who died. Three of the kids descend as Rhonda and the boy are left. Laurie walks seeing all the couples. When her sister calls, she sees the masked man, and she tells her she has a guy for her, we see a dude in a diaper. There is a howl, and it cuts back to the quarry, and Rhonda says "werewolves." As they ride the elevator down, they hear the other kids supposedly get attacked, and their pumpkins get extinguished. Rhonda goes to investigate. S:-The adult party... Who parties like that on halloween?-Even on halloween, if a woman comes screaming for help, people would help. And why didn't she keep running? Why just stop?-Where there any hometown myths/legends like the school bus massacre where you're from? Dead mans hill in Vestavia.-If I were those kids, i would've never gotten out of the elevator. Nope. Rhonda finds the crashed school bus, half out of the water, with the others masks floating in the water. She reaches for a mask and is grabbed. what look to be ghouls start to chase her. She finds the boy she left, having his intestines eaten. As they close in, she slips and falls backwards, passing out. One of the ghouls says "oh shit" she comes too, screams, and hits one of them. They take their masks off, and show it was a prank. Rhonda is crying and freaking out. They go back to the bus to pack everything up, as Macy kicks a pumpkin into the lake. They start to hear childlike giggles and whispers. Back with Rhonda, they hear screaming and Schrader goes to check. He finds a freaked out Macy and hears voices too, and they see the kids rambling towards them. One girl falls and is pulled back. Rhonda is sitting in the elevator with the gate locked. (SOUND 5) The kids close in and the elevator reaches the top, We hear sounds of splatters, and gushes, kids screaming, then nothing. Rhonda and Sam see each other, and continue. Laurie is walking through the woods and is confronted by the masked man. Lauries sister is worried about her, saying she was always the runt of the litter, the masked man attacks, saying, "My my, what big eyes you have", we hear a scream and Lauries cloak comes flying in the party. They run to check on her, but inside the cloak, it's the masked man asking for help. Laurie comes walking out of the woods, saying the man bit her. They seem oddly passive about it, as the man asks for help. They take out his fangs, and take off the mask, and see that it's Mr. Wilkins. He then sees all the other party goes are dead, with their throats ripped out. Lauries sister tells her to be herself, She sits on Wilkins, saying its her first time to bear with her. They all start dancing and undressing, and transforming. With fangs and eyes. They start shedding their skin, reveling harry werewolves underneath. Lauries tells Wilkins, "my my, what big eyes you have" and attacks. As they eat, Sam sits by and watches. S:-I love this sequence. and the acknowledgment of Rhonda and Sam, that she hasn't broken any halloween rules.-I don't wanna die by a werewolf, BUT if I were going to, I'd like it to be by Anna Paquin. It's also funny that when this came out, Anna was playing a vampire on True Blood. Generally vampires and werewolves are enemies.-Also, depending on which werewolf lore you subscribe to, shouldn't the people attacked by them turn into werewolves? We see and exterior of a house, and "earlier". Three trick or treaters cautiously approach and knock. The door slowly unlocks and opens. They hear heavy breathing, and they see glowing eyes and some sort of beast comes after them. We see it was just the little dog with a mask on. Kreeg burns some photos and watches an infomercial. He takes a bite of a candy bar, but spits it out. We see the news cas from earlier, The dog barks, and Kreeg sees his gate has been opened, and someone eggs the window. He grabs a bat, and starts looking for Spike the dog. Outside, he finds Spike eating the finger Wilkins threw him. We see the interaction from earlier in the movie, from Kreegs side. Spike barks at the front door as he emerges telling whoever to get off his property, he sees his whole yard is filled with jack o'lanterns. Spike then barks at and goes up the stairs, Kreeg hears someone running around. He grabs the shotgun over the fireplace he mentioned earlier. As he climbs the stairs, we see Sam run and we hear the dog yelp. He goes down the hallway, and into his room, seeing movement on his bed, and finds a mechanical hand. Just then, a pumpkin catches on fire, and he sees halloween sayings written in blood all over the room. As hes watching, a little hand reaches our and cuts the back of his leg with a candy bar, that has a razor blade in it. Kreeg grabs his gun and shoots, but Sam has disappeared. He falls down the stairs, as it has candy and razor blades on it. As he tries to unlock the door, Sam crawls on the ceiling above him, drops on him and attacks. He crawls to the window and we see him getting Wilkins attention, and Sam attacks again. He rips off the mask and we see Sam has a huge pumpkin for a head, with a skeletal face. He bites Kreegs leg, and Kreeg gets his gun, shooting Sam in the face, sending him flying. Kreeg reloads and shoots Sam two more times before calling the police, who put him on hold, but before he can report it, the line is pulled from the wall. The disembodied hand then stabs Kreeg in the foot, to his bewilderment (SOUND 6) The hand gets the mask and Sam wakes up. His hand reattaches itself and he puts his mask on. Walking towards Kreeg, he takes a bite of a lollypop, and we see the lollypop from the beginning. He stalks towards Kreeg, he reaches for and breaks a glass bottle to keep fighting, but Sam disarms him. As Sam stabs him, he hits a piece of candy on Kreegs chest, the then stops. Takes the candy, turns and leaves, giving one last look. Kreeg realizes what he has to do. In the fire, we see a picture of the school children, and that Kreeg was the bus driver. Fade to black, and "later"... Trick or treaters come to Kreegs door, and he gives them candy. Next door Wilkins kid is handing out candy, wearing his dads bloody shirt. Rhonda is shown to be the person pulling the wagon from the beginning, and the car that almost hits her is Laurie, her sister, and her friends, we see Sam watching Kreeg, and he turns when the woman from the first sequence blows out the pumpkin, breaking the rule. Sam looks at the lollypop and takes off towards her. Kreeg closes the door, but theres another knock at the door (SOUND 7). Roll credits. S:
-Kreeg cocks the shot gun like its pump action-Pretty decent fight scene with Kreeg and Sam-So Kreeg comes down the stairs and hurts his hands getting up, and can't open the front door, but then he can grab the shot gun, shoot it, reload it, shoot it again, AND call the police. -I like all the other subtle references to the other characters in the film. At the very beginning, when the woman is watching the guy with the white mask, you can see the bus children walk past. Also, how at the end they tie them all together with Rhonda, the Laurie, and even better that Kreeg doesn't tell the woman about Sam.  Web: https://theguysreview.simplecast.com/EM: theguysreviewpod@gmail.comIG: @TheGuysReviewPodTW: @The_GuysReviewFB: https://facebook.com/TheGuysReviewPod/ Please, rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts from!! Thank you,-The Guys

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Attorney and Concerned Vestavia Parent Brian Malcolm talks about the continued efforts to get Vestavia City Schools to require children wear masks in school.

Katie Roach, a Vestavia Parent, talks about the petition she is gathering signatures for which is asking Vestavia City Schools to require masks.

Mayor of Vestavia Hills Ashley Curry talks about what can be done about the flood prone areas of the city,

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Tim Melton and Dale Jackson bring you the 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today, give the latest info on a traffic stop in Vestavia that led to a deadly chase, remember the events of 04/27/2011, and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode we do a deep dive with Matthew Whitaker from GK Houses on what makes Birmingham Alabama a unique investment market.    --- Transcript   Tom: Greetings and welcome to the remote real estate investor. And today we have a special episode where we'll be doing a market spotlight today. We're going to be focusing on Birmingham and we have a special guest today and Matthew Whitaker, and I'll be joined with my cohost Michael album. All right, let's do it.   Tom: Matthew, thank you for joining us today.   Matthew: Well, thanks for having me. I'm super excited about being on this new spotlight and excited about being able to present Birmingham to you.   Tom: So Matt, why don't you tell us a little bit about your, your background and GK housing as well?   Matthew: Yes. So I got into investing when I was 23 years old and bought my first house using a home equity line of credit off of a little house that my wife and I, or a girlfriend, fiancé at the time owned and started buying and selling houses and got really excited about it and quit my job, day job. I was doing it on nights and weekends and started flipping houses for a living thought. I was a big shot real estate investor at 23 and did that for about four or five years and pretty successfully we flipped about a hundred houses. I had some partners, I always joke that they had a lot of money and no time. And I had a lot of time and no money and we got married. So we formed a partnership. I was the operating partner that was out there buying and selling homes. We did about a hundred deals in four years. So for a 25 year old kid, that's out there wheeling and dealing. It was the good old days.   And I thought I had the tiger by the tail. And then as y'all know how the story ends in 2008, 2009 becomes the real estate market crash. And as Warren buffet says, when the tide goes out, you realize who was swimming, found any shorts on? And I looked down and I was one of the ones that didn't have any shorts on. So had I owned about 30 rental houses at the time or 30 homes that we were 15 of, which we were trying to flip 15 of, which were already rentals and we just moved everything into a rental portfolio. And so we started managing, we started out managing as a way to sell more homes though. We were kind of on the front end of turnkey world. And it was very new. The idea of selling homes or packages of homes to investors was very new at the time. And so we did that for three or four years and helped put together a big fund of local investors that bought up a bunch of Birmingham houses. But back in, let's see, 2013, we decided that we enjoyed managing more than the kind of deal of buying and selling.   We were more of a, we call ourselves grinders the more of the plotters. And so we enjoyed management. So we, I still invest on the side about, about 30 or 40 houses a year, still personally, with a partner. And, but my, my day job is I'm the CEO of a company called GK houses. And we started here in Birmingham and started, I always tell the story started with those 15 or 30 houses, depending on how you looked at it. And then started just growing that business. In 2013, we managed about 250 homes. And today we've moved out of Birmingham into eight different markets and manage about 26, 2,700 homes. But Birmingham is still my home. It's where our corporate offices it's where all of our back office accounting and all of our corporate team is. And so, um, Birmingham is the market. I know really well and, and still spend a lot of my time investing in   Tom: Yeah, Matthew and GK houses are great friends of rootstocks and a great partner that we love to advocate for. And we actually are double dipping our podcast. We are having a podcast dedicated specifically to property management that is going to be coming out very soon with Matthew as well. But today, where is the market focus? So great partner.   Matthew: I love anytime I get to get on and sing Birmingham's praises, it has come from having a bad reputation for some certain things that happened in the past, but I'll tell you where Birmingham is a great place. And one of the things that people consistently say when they come here is number one, how green it is. So when you watch a movie about the state of Alabama, it's all red clay. And there are areas of Alabama that are certainly like that. But where I live is very green and very hilly. And they're amazed at how progressive, not just politically I'm, I don't want to get into that, but in terms of how it's moving forward. And we're really known for our food scene, our arts and culture scene. So very excited to get on and get to talk about the city that I live and have no desire to move. I get to travel a lot, obviously with my role as the CEO here at the company, but I have no desire to move because Birmingham is such a great place to live.   Tom: Excellent. So the way that this episode is going to flow is we're going to start with some high level quantitative overview of the market. And then we're going to needle into math to talk about some of the specific qualitative of employer's points of interest and, and all that good stuff. So why don't we go ahead and start in our quantitative breakdown, and we're going to make this consistent for all the markets that we talk about first, the MSA. So the greater area of Birmingham, it has a population of 1.313 million, and this was based off of the last census data and map. What are the major cities that consists of the greater Birmingham area?   Matthew: Great question. So Birmingham proper the city Birmingham is about 350,000 people, I think. And then it is made up of a group of municipalities. So one of the things that an investor would need to understand about Birmingham is it's not a County based government, but it's a very city-based government. So it's very fractured in terms of each little, like I live in Homewood, which is just South of Birmingham. And we have our own city government that manages our own school system, manages our own trash. Whereas somebody like a Nashville or a Kansas city would have a County based government. So that 350,000 people is Metro Birmingham. And then we have a bunch of municipalities in the kind of suburbs, so to speak what we call South of town and over the mountain area, which is all South of town. And then that also includes the Tuscaloosa area, which is where the university of Alabama is, which is about 45 minutes from Birmingham Southwest.   And obviously that area has grown a lot with, uh, with the university of Alabama, as most university towns are starting to grow. So that's where they make up that 1.3 million. There's probably 1.1 ish, a one to 1.1 in what I would consider really proper Birmingham. We don't manage specifically down in Tuscaloosa than Bessemer, which is about halfway between Birmingham and Tuscaloosa is the, is one of the other big towns or cities. And then Hoover, which is due South of Birmingham is another. So generally when you talk about the MSA, you talk about the Hoover Birmingham Metro area. And so Hoover and Birmingham are really the two largest communities in that MSA.   Tom: Got it. I'm looking forward to needle again, a little bit on those specific, uh, as it relates to thinking about those areas as investors. So that area has seen pretty significant population growth. According to the information we have with census plus 2.8% over the last couple of years, it has a median household income of $57,500 as a medium household income. This is coming from the John Burns data, and there's a pretty significant amount of units. So when I say units, single family homes, there is 520,000 homes in this MSA where 26% of them are renters. And this is again, John Burns along with some census data. So continuing looking at some of these metrics that we have on Birmingham. So a major uptick in new permits to build single family residence. The last value in 2019 is 3,280, and that is up 17.2% year over year. A couple of other metrics to throw around the entry home value within Birmingham is about $134,800.   And this is coming from core logic. And the median rent, this is 1030 $2. Again, this is core logic where this is coming with a really steady rent growth. We'll actually have all the metrics, all the markets that I've seen as one of the highest that 6.5% increase in rent. The last couple of metrics I'll hit on before we get in to the quality of stuff that we'll talk with Matthew about is the rent tiers. So we see a rent tier, and this is again at John Burns metrics on the lower end of an $827, the mid $1032. That's that same median level and at the high tier $1,408. So those are the bands at which are identified in the Birmingham market. All right. So let's get back in talking about those specific main cities and other cities within the Birmingham market. So are the majority of the rental market, is it just an at Birmingham proper, or tell us a little bit about that. The distribution of rentals.   Matthew: Let's talk about Birmingham, because I think I need to kind of set the scene. So if you're listening at home and you wanted to bring up a map of Birmingham, what you will see is that Birmingham appears to flow from the North Eastern side of town down through the Southwestern side of town. And so one of the reasons for that is there is the start of the Appalachian mountains, just South of town and runs from the Southeast to the North are excuse me, from the Southwest to the Northeast, and then runs all the way up through South Carolina and in North Carolina. And, and so it starts here. And, and so if you think about when Birmingham was built, it was built in the early 19 hundreds, 1920s, and it was built because this was kind of the Pittsburgh of the South. It was a steel based industry.   So you had a lot of wealth here, and then you had a lot of workers to support that steel industry. There's a lot of mining happen up underneath the mountain. And so when you think about the housing stock, the housing stock started kind of from the Northeast and flows down through the Southwest. And that is the older housing stock that was built on flat land. So if you look at the map and you look at places like Bessemer, which I talked about going up, I 20 through midfield and Fairfield, and then the Western side of town is called West End. And then you get to the Eastern side of town, which is, and starting to head North towards the airport, Woodlawn, Terrant Roebuck. You're talking about, East Lake, you're talking about areas that were built a lot of times in the, uh, some of those areas started in the twenties and then were built through about the forties or fifties.   So when you think about investing in Birmingham, you need to kinda know what the age of the home is. And that's kind of the first thing I think is important is when houses are built and 19 hundreds, they were built with the idea, there was no air conditioning. And if you've never been to the South in the summer, it is really hot here. And we're, we're recording this during the summer. So I'm coming right out of the heat and it's a hundred and something degrees, heat index with almost a hundred percent humidity. And, and so that is really hot. So you can imagine the ceiling, sometimes in those homes were 12 feet tall so that the heat would rise. And so when you're investing, you want to make sure that either those ceilings have been lowered, because now you're going to be required to have air conditioning in them.   And if you buy this older housing stock, you just need to know that it's older housing stock. So your repairs and maintenance are going to be a little bit higher. And what you'll probably want to dig into some of those, but let me, I'll give kind of the 20,000 foot view. And then we can dig into some areas. As move Northeast. And as you move North, and as you move further West, you get into more homes that were built in the fifties and sixties. So there was another kind of housing boom, around that time, those are more of your brick ranchers, more of your wood, three bedroom, one and a half, one to one and a half, two bathroom homes. And these, I call these your tanks. I mean, they're built for modern amenities because we started to use an air conditioning back then, but they're very efficient.   They have closets, but they're not huge closets. They're just a very efficiently built house. So you might find a 1200 to 1400, 1500 square foot home in these areas. And they are great rental houses because again, their tanks, they just hold up really well. They're again, they're very modern people enjoy them. The one bedrooms obviously rent a little bit less than the two bedrooms. Anytime you get multiple, excuse me, not the one bathrooms, uh, rent less than the two bathrooms. Anytime you get multiple bathrooms. Very important. Now, one of the interesting things too, is what I would consider the more A-class housing stock is South of town. So imagine in the sixties and seventies.   Tom: Is that Hoover?   Matthew: Yes, you're talking about Hoover. You're talking about Vestavia, Homewood, mountain Brook, and these areas, these homes are hard to buy and make the rental numbers work, but these are all built up on the mountain. So when we say over the mountain, you had more, as technology came in along and building, you are building these homes on the side of mountains. And so the housing stock is much younger as you get more vertical in Birmingham. And now if you're listening to this in Denver, you might fly into here and wonder where the mountains are. There's all rolling Hills, but we call them mountains. And then as you get further North, just like any city, it grew out, right? You're going to get into areas like Fultondale and Gardendale North. You're going to get into areas like Trussville to the East. You're going to get into areas like Hoover and kind of the Indian Oak mountain Indian Springs area, where my wife grew up, where Oak mountain state park is. And then as you go West, you're going to get into Hueytown and pleasant Grove.   Now these are your B plus neighborhoods that are kind of out a little bit further great areas to buy for high appreciation, but there's suburbs there. People are going to be driving into the city to work. And so, you know, just like any town, you can pretty much dictate what the pricing is of the house based on when it was built and what the housing stock was built for.   Tom: I think one of my favorite adjectives for a rental property is a tank property. That just goes on. You didn't mention what cities you said it was in the West or the Southwest. Is that like pleasant Grove and Fairfield or…   Matthew: Yeah, Hueytown pleasant Grove. Our Fairfield's more of that first area that I was talking about that was built more of a C class neighborhood. But when you get into Hueytown and pleasant Grove, you're talking about B plus B plus properties with high possibility for appreciation, a lot of home ownership in those areas. So really if you talk to some of the local investors, those are some of the areas that they like to hit the hardest.   Michael: Got it. Matthew, I've got a question for you. What I want to know is why are people living in Birmingham and are moving there? You know, there's gotta be job, pull job growth. Can you talk to us a little bit about who some of the major employers are and why folks are headed that way?   Matthew: The biggest employer in Birmingham is university of Alabama at Birmingham, the hospital and the university. So when you combine that it is a teaching hospital, it's one of the, in the Southeast, it's probably one of the biggest teaching hospitals. So it has a huge draw. You can imagine from Mississippi, from all parts of Alabama. And so we have a bunch of doctors and students that are learning at UAB. And then of course the school university of Alabama at Birmingham, the next thing that's a huge employer is Alabama power, AlaGasCo, kind of the utility companies that service the state. And then another thing that's exciting is we have two, no, excuse me, three different car automobile manufacturers within about an hour and a half of Alabama. So to the Southwest, as you go towards Tuscaloosa, which we talked about earlier, there is an area down there called McCalla.   It is where I 459, which has kind of the bypass meets back up with I 20. And if you keep on going down, [inaudible] right there. That is where the Mercedes-Benz produces the M class Mercedes. So the SUV Mercedes, and so McCall is a great area to buy rental homes. You're talking about a lot of new builds going on. That is where a lot of, and they continue to add square footage onto that facility to build more M class Mercedes. And that obviously feeds jobs. People traveling from Tuscaloosa and people traveling from Birmingham. If you go East on I 20, you have the Honda Odyssey van is produced in Leeds. So great area. Trustful sees a lot of their executives that come in from Japan. One of my old partners used to rent to all Honda executives, and they would come in from Japan and live here for two or three years, and then go back to Japan.   So, and obviously the having building the Honda Odyssey van, there's a ton of you don't think of just Honda, but you also need to think of all the suppliers that have to support a big operation, like building that Honda Odyssey van, building that M-Class. And then if you go due South, you breach Montgomery and just South of Montgomery, and that's, this is only about 60 or 70 miles South. You find the Hyundai plant, and I'm not sure exactly what build there. I would imagine most of the Hyundai workers work in Montgomery, but you still have some of the suppliers that are supplying all three of those in and around the Birmingham area, just so they can be very centrally located. So we have a, so that's pretty exciting. I mean, Mercedes has been there probably 20 years, maybe a little bit longer, maybe 25 years building that M class Honda came about about eight, 17 or 18 years ago.   And then the Hyundai plant is newer, probably 10 to 12 years. There's just a lot of exciting things going on. Amazon is building a facility now in Bessemer. So there's a big kind of gold rush in the Bessemer area just because they know there's going to be, have to be a lot of people that are going to support that Amazon distribution facility. Birmingham has been doing a great job of investing in the city has built new hotels in and around the downtown area. And we're also building a brand new football stadium too, for the UAB blazers. And it's going to hold things like concerts. And so there's just a lot of money right now being invested in and around the Birmingham area. So really a lot of exciting things going on.   Tom: That's awesome. You know, we already touched a little bit on education, major colleges, but UAB, as well as university of Alabama,   Matthew: Yeah, University of Alabama is down in Tuscaloosa, which is about 45 minutes to an hour Southwest of Birmingham. You have, let's see, you have Sanford university in Birmingham. You have Birmingham, Southern college is also obviously located in Birmingham. Yeah, you Auburn is about an hour and a half to two hours, South East of Birmingham and a place called Auburn, Alabama, which is pretty obvious Auburn in Auburn, but it is almost a when you get to Georgia. And so there's a lot of kind of university life. You see a lot of university students in and around. And of course the medical school at UAB brings a lot of people in. We have rented a lot, especially when we have homes in and around the South. What we call the South side of Birmingham, which is basically South of the entrepreneurial district. We have a lot of med students, dental students that rent with us.   Tom: And is that in the general Southern part? You said Southern part of Birmingham.   Matthew: Yeah, It is. If you kind of zoom in on Birmingham and you look what I would call in between Homewood, if you look where Volkan is, which is a statue that was dedicated to the iron ore industry in and around their five points South, all of that is where a lot of the young people live that are going to those universities.   Tom: Very cool. How about let's touch on transportation? So in looking at it, it looks like it is almost like an X from 65, 22, 20, 59. So it looks like a major central hub of a freeways in the South that all go through Birmingham.   Matthew: It absolutely is a Nashville about two hours to the North. Atlanta's about two hours to the East Jackson. Mississippi is about two or two and a half hours to the West. And then Montgomery is about an hour to the South. So it's very centrally located. Half the people here are Atlanta Falcons fans. The other half are Tennessee Titans fans. And so it is a very centrally located city and very easy to get to. And then in transportation, within the community, most people drive everywhere here. It is not a, unless you just live downtown and work downtown, which is, it's not an overly big downtown area you're going to drive to work. So kind of the main corridor where a lot of the, where it gets clogged during the week would be that 280 as you go South and East is a very heavily traveled road. I 20, I 65 coming from the South and from the South West. And that kind of tells you where the people are, right. It tells you where the people are and what they're doing. And then I 65 South into Birmingham in the mornings is very busy. So Birmingham is kind of spread out just because it, as you moved across the mountain, it does flatten out a bit and it allowed for the city to kind of expand,   Tom: I'm smiling as I'm hearing this, I'm so excited about this series of market spotlight. I'm learning so much about Birmingham and I'm like, so excited dip my toe into the investing market, continuing down. Well, there's also an airport right in Birmingham.   Matthew : Yeah. We've got what we call an international airport. I'm not sure where that international flight flies. I think it flies at The Bahamas, which is good. I mean, everybody's got to go to The Bahamas, right. But what I tell people is we have major flights in from Denver, obviously, and from Atlanta into Detroit, into New York. So it really is a two flight place. We fly obviously Dallas and Houston direct, but unless you're going to one of those kind of major cities, you're really going to, it's going to be a two flight place, which is fine though. I mean, Birmingham so easy to get around. I always tell people, you know, Atlanta is one flight away from everywhere, but you took two hours to get to the airport. Birmingham takes me literally 10 minutes to get to the airport and then another five minutes to get to my gate. And then I can fly to Atlanta and in 45 minutes. So it really saves me. I get placed as faster than people do in Atlanta.   Michael: And Matthew, speaking of getting places, do you all have traffic and understand you're speaking to a couple of California, so we gotta be careful here.   Matthew: Look, I've been in Atlanta on the bypass, the two 85 bypass. And it is really bad. There's only a couple areas in Birmingham that are probably that bad or, or could even like sniff being that bad. That two 80 corridor is really tough in the morning. It may take you an hour to come 15 miles, 20 miles in, but a lot of people do it. Like it's amazing to me. We keep making it wider and wider and wider. And as you know, it also makes it worse before it gets better. And then by the time they finish it, it feels like it needs to be wider. And that's where I would say a lot of the housing growth is going right now is South and East down to 80. So you can see Chelsea down there in the bottom right hand corner of the map. If you're looking at it, Chelsea is a really growing thriving area.   Again, anywhere around McCalla is really growing. That's where they're building a lot of homes. I've got some great friends that are one of the largest builders in Birmingham, and they consistently build in those areas and build in Trussville, which is just East of town. So they're still building in the suburbs. There's not a lot of infill building going on right now. And they continue to sell homes. Even during this market, when we're recording, this is kind of coronavirus world, and they're still selling homes. They're still building them. They still have people that are interested in buying them. So we really feel like in Birmingham, we've got a little bit of a shortage in the housing.   Tom: Yeah. I mean, it's one of the highest SFR applications for building new houses way up there. And looking at the beginning of some of those metrics, let's touch on investor friendly related matters. So is there any concepts of rent control or, you know, legal concerns around unlawful detainers or three-day notices I'd love just kind of, you're taking, you're probably an expert at this as a property manager, as a CEO of a property management.   Matthew: Yeah. Unfortunately, sometimes, unfortunately, fortunately. Yeah. So Birmingham is a very conservative, well, Alabama let's say, cause because most landlord tenant laws are state specific. Alabama is a very conservative politically state. Birmingham is a very progressive city though. And so, but still most of the laws are driven, are state driven, landlord tenant laws. So evicting a tenant is easy technically to get done, but it does take a while to get done. And in Birmingham that's probably the biggest drawbacks to Birmingham is sometimes it takes as many as 60, sometimes as many as 90 days to get someone set out from the time you fall an unlawful detainer to the time you actually set them out. So that is a really long time, even in a place like California. I think that's a long time. The good thing about Birmingham though is again, it is a very landlord friendly laws. The landlord tenant law is very, is it really written landlord friendly. We have very low property taxes, relatively speaking. So as a percentage, it's way less than a lot of the other communities around the country. And look, there is no rent control. I don't ever expect that we might be one of the last places in Birmingham to have that. So it's again, pretty much landlord friendly, but you want to make sure you get a good resident in your home so that you don't have to evict them.   Tom: Makes sense. My other kind of question on, I guess this is sort of landlord friendly. I know some areas have a lot of HOA ways and some of these hos, you know, they have sneaky little rules and the bylaws about being an owner occupant. And is that common in Birmingham?   Matthew: It's not, we managed in places like Nashville and Atlanta where that's very common. So very familiar with that. Birmingham is not that way right now. It could come that way. As the housing stock that's being been built in the last 10 to 20 years, maybe it becomes more rental stock, but right now it is definitely not that way, especially in the areas where investors are buying.   Michael: So it sounds like Matt, from the descriptions that you've been giving, this is a very seller friendly market. It's really a sellers market at this stage of the game. Is that fair to say,   Matthew: Is it is an investor market. It is absolutely. You can definitely sell a house right now, but there's, I mean, it's just a really healthy, it's like very aggressive sellers and very aggressive buyers right now. But yes, if you're selling a home, you could even do a good job. You could make out really well selling homes right now, too.   Michael: Okay. Great.   Tom: Any other thoughts on points of interests? I saw there's the Birmingham barons, AAA baseball team.   Matthew: They are AA, but yes, they are in downtown. They used to be down in Hoover and we moved them. They built a new facility that won a lot of awards in the downtown area. So that is down there much like many of the other communities, some of the things that draw people or we've, we've got a number of local breweries that are kind of fun places to hang out that a lot of people are enjoying doing. We have the food scene's really good here. So last year we had a Frank sta won the James Beard award for the best chef in the country or the best restaurant, excuse me. So we've got an, and then he's got, I always call it the coaching tree, but he's got all these other chefs that he's trained now that have gone out and started their own restaurants.   Tom: Diaspora. What's the name of his restaurant?   Matthew: His restaurant is called Highlands Highlands bar and grill. Nice. And so it's kind of an upscale, kind of a New York style bar and grill.   Michael: Awesome. Man Tom, we gotta make it out there.   Tom: I know   Matthew: That's the one of my favorite places to go.   Tom: Awesome. Michael, do you have any other questions?   Michael: Yeah. Just curious, Matt. So for all of our listeners who were previously unfamiliar with the Birmingham market, hopefully now they're a bit more acquainted with it. What would be your final thoughts if some of those needs, what, what would you want someone's final takeaway to be from, you know, about the Birmingham market?   Matthew: It'd be a long ending, but I think it's kind of important is our average rent somewhere in the $900 range. So you're talking about when you look at Birmingham, I would think more about investing in forties, fifties, and so homes in the forties, fifties, and sixties. If you're looking at investing in C class properties, maybe 60 seventies or eighties, or even some of the two thousands, we have some homes that are in the two thousands. If you're looking for B class kind of high appreciation, lower cashflow, where you're going to find those C class properties are in areas like East Lake was a, which is three, five, 206, zip code Western, the free five, two one one, Inslee three, five, two Oh eight. Midfield is three, five, Oh man. I own a house in Midfield. And I can't think of it. I'll think of in a second, but you're talking about Roebuck, which is three, five, two one five, Center point 35215.   You're going to talking about Grayson Valley area. Now you're starting to get into more B class neighborhoods that would be Trussville, Calera, a Chelsea, Hueytown, Pleasant Grove. So, and you're talking about rents now that are more in the $900 to $1,200 range. That's what we would consider B class, which kind of lines up with the statistics you were giving earlier in terms of just kind of a price brackets. We manage about six or 700 homes right now. And it is a great time to be in the rental business because we're at about 98% occupancy. We're actually north of 98% occupancy, which we've never been before. What we are seeing as a shift from people wanting to live in multifamily, to live in single family homes. So that's pretty exciting for us, obviously because the pandemic and I just don't see that going away anytime soon.   Like people just don't forget about the pandemic after it's over. They're not going to forget about it immediately. So I do think there's a shift to single family rental and in the South, this things may change, but the pandemic doesn't feel as bad as I, my friends tell me, you're experiencing in California where people are experiencing in New York, we are renting homes like crazy here. I know that our cases are up in terms of virus, but it doesn't feel that different than normal life down here right now. So all that may change, but I will tell you things are really good right now. And it's not like people are gonna stop paying rent. Obviously if they lose their job, that may be a problem. But everybody seems to have adjusted to kind of coronavirus world down here pretty well. So that's what I would say is most of our investments are in the C class and B class neighborhoods.   And look, another area I would want to highlight is Northwest, which is Forestdale and Adamsville another great area. One of my favorite areas to invest. If I could buy everything up there, I, I definitely would. And so, but I also want to be a reference for any of your potential clients. So, you know, if they have any questions, we obviously have people, I always say you, you date your real estate agent, but you marry your property manager. And so I want you to know that before we get married with any one of your clients, we want to make sure that they're buying the right thing too. So we don't, we have a vested interest in it's a longterm relationship. We can't just put somebody in any home, regardless of what that home is. So I know that was a long ending, but I thought it was important just to kind of give some numbers and some feedback on what's going on at the grassroots level.   Michael: That was great.   Tom: I love it. That's one of my favorite pieces of advice to give is, you know, leverage your property manager early and often, even in the acquisition process. I mean, it's a teamwork and you know, the earlier you can kind of start to build that trust, uh, so much value to it.   Matthew: Well, our, all our incentives are right. I don't want you buying a bad house because I've got to manage it. Like you don't have to manage it. I know you've got to pay for it, but I'm the one that has to manage it. So I don't want you buying something that's going to cause me a lot of headaches in the future. Just like any business owner. Obviously we want to work really hard and earn our money, but we don't want to do extra work just because we put you in a bad property.   Tom: Awesome. This is fantastic. Thank you so much for your time. This was super interesting. The Pittsburgh of the South. I love it.   Matthew: We used to be called the magic city because we grew so fast. And so now it's starting to grow again and I'm super excited to be a part of Birmingham.   Michael: Matt, before we let you go, if folks have any questions about the Birmingham market, where can they reach out to you? And a little birdie told me also that you've got a podcast of your own.   Matthew: Yeah, no, I appreciate you mentioning it. We actually started a podcast that helps people just like you're, you're trying to help people with Birmingham's specific information. It's called the Birmingham rental investor and they can get that on Spotify or Apple or wherever somebody listens to their podcast. If they want to reach out to us specifically, we again would love to help somebody. We want to make sure that you're getting into the right house. And the best way to do that is to reach out to our support support@gkhouses.com. And what we have is essentially a support ticketing system that we'll get into our sales department and they can help you understand questions about our management services, but most importantly, make sure that you're getting into the right house so you can send them addresses. We'll give you rental reports of what we think that'll rent for. We just want to be a supplier of good information so that you can make the best decision possible. So thank you.   Tom: All right. Thank you, Matthew.   Michael: Thanks so much, Matt.   Matthew: Thank you.   Tom: Thanks again to Matthew, that was super informative. Learning about the Birmingham market. If you have any other questions, other markets for us to deep dive into, please reach out to us. You can hit me up at tom@roofstock.com and as always, this episode is brought to you by Roofstock Academy. It is your one stop shop to getting to the next level, from on-demand online educational lectures, coaching, the SFR playbook, all of that good stuff. So just check us out at roofstockacademy.com and happy investing.    

The Mayor of Vestavia Hills comments on the prospects of his city re-opening with the Governor's revision of her "Safer at Home" order.

Vestavia's Mayor says we need to get businesses up and running again.

Suzanne, from our Vestavia, AL community group takes us into her life journey with God. She teaches us about the unconditional love of our Father, waiting for His perfect timing, and the importance of being honest and transparent with God. Suzanne also vulnerably shares the path she walked when her mother passed away - a beautiful story to hear as we come upon Mother's Day. (Recorded from our Facebook Live meeting during the COVID-19 shelter in place restrictions ) This episode is sponsored by BOULO Solutions: visit boulosolutions.com.  

Natalie, Kyrah, and Josh share their experiences with social media and what they wish their parents would have done or now appreciate what their parents did in regards their interaction with social media. For all you parents out there with preteens and teenagers, you might want to take some notes!  This episode is sponsored by Village Dermatology  - visit villagedermatology.net

Anxiety can manifest itself in many ways - for our Storyteller, Martha, it came in the form of constantly searching for acceptance and identity in the things of this world. Martha shares how her anxiety led her to discovering the power of God’s word and listening to His truth rather than the whispers of the world. (Recorded in Vestavia, Alabama). This episode is sponsored by Boulo Solutions. Visit boulosolutions.com Facebook: storytellerslivepodcast Instagram: storytellerslivepodcast

For years, Ivy wrestled with resentment toward her father for abandoning her family. The pivotal point in their relationship came when she discovered the depths of God’s grace for her which in turn helped her extend grace to her dad. Once she made that choice, Ivy discovered the incredible healing and freedom that forgiveness brings. (Shared at gathering in Vestavia, Alabama)

Suzanne’s recovery from alcohol addiction began with a realization that her drinking was more than a daily habit or a way to unwind. It had become her method of coping with the pressures of marriage, motherhood, career, and life in general. One of the significant lessons she learned is that addiction does not discriminate. Even a suburban mom with a happy childhood, great family, and an upbringing rooted in faith can be susceptible to the allure and power of addiction. The beauty of our Savior Jesus is that His goodness and love are present even when we're in the midst of sin and struggle. We are never beyond God's reach. (Recorded in Vestavia, AL) Sponsor: Holland & Birch  - Visit Hollandandbirch.com

Ingram shares how she's learned to lean on God and trust for His provision during years of financial strain. Budgeting can be a challenging, ever-changing process that requires us to continually exercise gratitude and evaluate where we’re placing our security, pride, and worth. The weight of debt or limited means can lead to stress, anxiety attacks, depression, marital strife, and more. Ingram’s story highlights what it looks like to depend on God when in need, and be satisfied in Him when in want. (Recorded in Vestavia, AL)

During her struggle with infertility, Katie became overwhelmed with the process she described as "totally mind consuming." Through all the ups and downs, Katie began to question where God was in all of it. For some women, conceiving a baby is effortless. But for others, it’s an emotional rollercoaster that only gets more intense with hormones, countless doctor appointments, perfectly timed injections, and more. Katie's discovery of God’s goodness wasn’t in an answered prayer but in His constant presence. (Recorded in Vestavia, AL)

The Sausage King of Vestavia reflects on the career of his friend and former Auburn quarterback Bill Tucker, who as a sophomore saved the day in Auburn's epic 1949 upset of Alabama. As a senior, six weeks before the Shug Jordan era began,Tucker was set to start under center. He started feeling bad. He would never play football again. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewareaglereader)

Being able to show a pregnant woman and/or the father their baby before they make a decision changes everything for a large percentage of people considering an abortion. That’s why two Alabama-based pregnancy care ministries were celebrating recently — one received a new ultrasound machine and the other was gifted the existing machine.  On this week’s TAB News, cohosts Jennifer Rash and Debbie Campbell talk with Julie McLendon, executive director of North Jefferson Women’s Center; Angie Cantrell, executive director of St. Clair County Sav-A-Life; and Lisa Hogan, executive director of Sav-A-Life Vestavia — the oldest pregnancy center in Alabama, about the ultrasound machines, the partnership between their centers and a recent merger. The directors also share about how the Sav-A-Life ministries work overall and how the families they meet are supported throughout the pregnancy and into parenthood as well as how the centers are able to help women and men who made the choice to have an abortion heal from the emotional pain and learn how to forgive themselves.  Following the29-minute interview, TAB staff members and correspondentswillpresent an audio digest of this week’s issue including news, features, Dr. Batson’s Theology 101 column and Sunday School commentaries.  Article Locations:  Lessons from the family table: Why sharing meals matters (32:39) Birmingham couple’s wedding had to be quick so pastor could find a good seat at SBC 1941 meeting(42:54) Explore the Bible Sunday School Lesson (54:54)  Bible Studies for Life Sunday School Lesson (60:44) Find TAB News HERE Subscribe on iTunes HERE  

Scripture: Luke 9:51-56, Part 2 of the "Resurrection, Living the Jesus Life"

On this episode of the show, Nick and Chris talk with Amanda Pullen Hendrix, manager of Birmingham's best movie theater in Vestavia, about ins and outs of converting a theater, hiring staff and angry customers. Then, we talk movies with Amanda! It's a super fun episode! Click play, turn it up and buckle in because we're going to take you on a slow boat to China... Special thanks to Jake Wit

Brett Huber, the Vestavia High School Head Track Coach, and Tim Vakakes, the Jackson-Olin High School Head Football Coach visit with us with some of their athletes.

We talk with the Vestavia High School Head Football Coach, Buddy Anderson, and the Briarwood Christian Head Football Coach, Fred Yancey, along with some of their athletes.

In this episode we talk the transition from junior tennis to college tennis to coaching tennis. We talk the importance of on court and off court training, with emphasis on mental and emotional training. Niba offers unique insight from traveling abroad and how tennis offers lessons for sport and life...

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In this episode we discuss Niba's journey from playing junior tennis in West Africa, moving to South Florida, and playing college tennis at Samford University. She still trains and competes, but spends time coaching her college alma mater and at a local country club in Birmingham, AL. We talk athlete-centered coaching, mentors, heroes, and much more!