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On this episode I do want to apologize, we took a 23min part out because Kyle is not ready to release his next big project and it would be sour for me to do that. Oh it's badass btw I know and seen it! We talked on his different Tesla swaps, the MR2 breaking 7s, World Cup, the WAGO and more. Thank you all for your continued support!

www.iotusecase.com#ENERGIEDATEN #TANKBELADUNG #ANOMALIEERKENNUNGIn dieser Episode geht es um Digitalisierung und IoT im Kontext von Tankbeladung und Anlagenüberwachung. Die Diskussion dreht sich um Retrofit-Lösungen, das Management von Energiedaten und die Nutzung bisher unzugänglicher “Dark Data”. Gemeinsam mit WAGO und AVEVA werden hier Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze zur Optimierung von industriellen Prozessen beleuchtet. Zusammenfassung der Podcastfolge Wolfgang Laufmann, Business Developer Smart Factory bei WAGO, und Hans Otto Weinhold, Principal Solution Architect bei AVEVA, sprechen über die Herausforderungen und Lösungen zur Digitalisierung von Bestandsanlagen. Im Fokus steht dabei, wie Unternehmen mit Retrofit-Lösungen und modernen IoT-Technologien bisher ungenutzte Datenquellen – sogenannte „Dark Data“ – erschließen können.Ein zentraler Use Case ist die Optimierung von Tankbeladung und -überwachung. Hier werden mit Technologien wie dem WAGO I/O-System und dem AVEVA PI System Daten aus bestehenden Anlagen erfasst, sicher übertragen und in ERP- oder Cloud-Systemen integriert. Sicherheitsmechanismen wie Kameras zur Anomalieerkennung gewährleisten dabei ein hohes Maß an Betriebssicherheit.Durch die Kombination von modularer Hardware und flexiblen Schnittstellen wird die Brücke zwischen OT- und IT-Welten geschlagen, was nicht nur die Effizienz steigert, sondern auch Kosten spart und die manuelle Arbeit deutlich reduziert. Kunden profitieren zudem von schnell verfügbaren KPIs und einer verbesserten Datennutzung, die eine fundierte Entscheidungsfindung ermöglicht.Die Gäste betonen, dass solche Nachrüstlösungen es Unternehmen erlauben, Pilotprojekte mit geringem Budget zu starten und bei Erfolg schrittweise zu erweitern. Der Ausblick zeigt, dass WAGO und AVEVA künftig vorgefertigte Lösungspakete anbieten möchten, um IoT-Implementierungen noch einfacher und schneller zu realisieren. Mit diesem Ansatz wird nicht nur die Anlagenverfügbarkeit optimiert, sondern auch die Grundlage für langfristige digitale Innovationen geschaffen. -----Relevante Folgenlinks:Madeleine (https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeleine-mickeleit/)Wolfgang (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolfgang-laufmann-047897144/)Hans Otto (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-otto-weinhold-641b2b192/)Jetzt IoT Use Case auf LinkedIn folgen

Staying warm while RVing in cold weather is the main focus of this podcast episode, where Eric Stark shares essential tips and insights for those who want to embrace the RV lifestyle during the chillier months. He emphasizes the importance of using proper insulation techniques, such as vent pillows and ensuring that all seals are tight, to keep the cold at bay. Additionally, listeners will learn about the necessity of having multiple heat sources to combat extreme temperatures, including both RV furnaces and electric heaters. The podcast also touches on the importance of maintaining your RV's systems, particularly the furnace, to avoid unexpected breakdowns when temperatures drop. Join Eric and Alexis as they dive into their experiences, offer practical advice, and even reminisce about the joys of bakeries, all while keeping RV enthusiasts informed and prepared for winter adventures. Cold weather RVing can present unique challenges, particularly when it comes to staying warm and comfortable. Eric Stark shares essential tips for RVers who wish to continue their adventures despite the chill. The discussion begins with the importance of insulation, emphasizing that while RVs come with some factory insulation, additional steps must be taken to enhance warmth. Practical solutions include installing vent pillows to block cold drafts and ensuring that all potential air leaks around windows and doors are sealed. Eric also stresses the necessity of dual heating sources, recommending a combination of RV furnaces and electric heaters to maintain a cozy temperature during frigid nights. As temperatures drop, having reliable heating becomes crucial—Eric advises RVers to prepare for the worst-case scenario, especially when temperatures plummet to double digits below zero. By applying these strategies, RV enthusiasts can embrace the winter months without compromising their comfort or safety, allowing them to explore even the coldest regions with confidence. Takeaways: Staying warm in cold weather while RVing is crucial for comfort and safety. Investing in quality RV parts, like Wago connectors, ensures better performance and longevity. Proper insulation and sealing in your RV can significantly improve heating efficiency. Always check RVs for leaks and functionality before finalizing any purchase or contract. Having multiple heat sources in your RV, such as electric heaters, is highly recommended. Consider using dehumidifiers to reduce moisture and improve comfort during cold weather. Companies mentioned in this episode: Wago Camco Lippert Barker Wholesale Warranties Links referenced in this episode: thesmartrver.com thesmartrver.com/162 Wholesale Warranties Free Quote YouTube Channel Chapters: 00:00 - Intro to Cold Weather RVing 04:39 - Staying Warm in Your RV 05:45 - Insulating Your RV for Cold Weather 07:54 - Essential Heating Tips for RV Living 15:27 - Furnace Maintenance and Repair Tips 13:53 - Choosing the Right Warranty for Your RV 38:39 - Exploring Bakeries on the East Coast 47:32 - Conclusion and Next...

Heute ist Dr. Mareen Tack zu Gast bei Heldengeschichten. Mareen ist Vice President Corporate Innovation & Exploration bei WAGO. Ihre Themen sind die ganz großen: digitale Transformation, Unternehmensstrategie und eine Startup-Kultur ins Unternehmen bringen. Wie genau sie das bei einem traditionellen Maschinenbau-Unternehmen, wie WAGO, umsetzt, das erzählt sie uns in dieser Folge! Mehr über Dr. Mareen Tack findes du hier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mareen-tack-382102161/ Mehr über Ingenieurshelden findest du hier: ⁠https://ingenieurshelden.de/⁠ ⁠linkedin.com/in/dr-thomas-loebel

Wie läuft Cybersecurity im produzierenden Unternehmen? David Kreft, CISO und Head of Corporate Security & Data Protection bei WAGO teilt mit Niklas seine Erfahrungen und gibt Einblicke in Security Awareness Trainings. Sie diskutieren die Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung, die Rolle der Künstlichen Intelligenz und die Bedeutung von Cybersicherheitsbildung. Außerdem beleuchten sie aktuelle EU-Regulierungen wie die NIS-2-Richtlinie und den Cyber Resilience Act und deren Auswirkungen auf Unternehmen. Wenn ihr das nicht verpassen wollt, hört jetzt die neueste Episode des Human Firewall Podcasts!

Echte technologische Durchbrüche gelingen erst außerhalb der Komfortzone. Aus diesem Grund setzt Karsten Stoll, Senior Advisor bei WAGO, auf Führungsstrategien, die es seinem Team erlauben, den eigenen Fähigkeiten zu vertrauen und konsequent nach vorn zu gehen – auch auf unbekannten Wegen. In dieser Folge des Digital Industry Leaders Podcast spricht er gemeinsam mit unserem Host Nico Stein darüber, wie sich Leadership in der digitalen Ära verändert und worauf es für IT- und Produkt-Entscheidende aus dem Mittelstand wirklich ankommt.   Dabei erfahren Sie: 1. Wie ein tiefes Verständnis für moderne Führung dazu beiträgt, die eigenen Teams effizient aufzustellen. 2. Die Bedeutung von Kundenzentrierung in der digitalen Produktentwicklung.3. Welche Rolle neue Technologien in der Digitalisierung der Industrie spielen.4. Wieso es bei transformativer Leadership auf das Vertrauen ankommt.5. Warum Misserfolge für den langfristigen Erfolg notwendig sind.___________Melden Sie sich bei Karsten Stoll auf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-stoll-25b860120/___________Details über WAGO:Webseite: https://www.wago.com/global/Branche: Herstellung von Elektrotechnik, Herstellung von elektrischer Verbindungs- und AutomatisierungstechnikGröße: Mehr als 9.000 Beschäftigte weltweitGründung: 1951___________Über unseren Host Nico Stein:Nico Stein ist Head of Digitalization & Agile Transformation bei der @Aleri Solutions GmbH, die anderen dabei hilft, ihr Business mit der Entwicklung von innovativen Individual-Softwarelösungen effizienter zu gestalten. Er ist ein erfahrener Projektmanager mit über 10 Jahren Erfahrung in der Leitung von Softwareentwicklungsprojekten für renommierte Unternehmen wie Porsche und Mercedes-Benz.Melden Sie sich bei Nico Stein auf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stein-nico/___________Vielen Dank an unsere Freunde von SAWOO, die diesen Podcast mit uns produzieren!

A quick episode to share some big news in my world and riff on the topic of change — whether or not we actually hate change. (Spoiler alert: I don't think we do, actually.)FOOTNOTESWe're All Getting Older (and why I'm changing names)Hop on the WAGO wagon------------Connect with Lou Blaser on LinkedInSubscribe to We're All Getting Older, a weekly newsletter about growth in the second half of our lives.Work with Lou BlaserSupport the Show. Thank you!

#LIVE #WAGO #PARTNERSHIPwww.iotusecase.comSpecial Podcast Folge @ SPS 2023! Die 116. Folge des IoT Use Case Podcasts wurde live auf der SPS-Messe in Nürnberg aufgenommen. Ing. Madeleine Mickeleit begrüßt dabei drei WAGO-Partner on Stage: Tobias Mühlnikel, CTO und CPO der Edge Business Unit bei Portainer.ioChristopher Anhalt, Vice President Product Marketing bei Softing Industrial Automation GmbHJürgen Kasperek, Leiter der Business Unit Nürnberg bei Actemium (ein Teil des VINCI Energies-Konzerns)Zusammenfassung der Podcastfolge Die Episode handelt von der Bedeutung der Integration und Skalierbarkeit von IoT-Lösungen in verschiedenen Industriezweigen, insbesondere in der Fertigungs- und Automobilindustrie. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Notwendigkeit, sich nicht in einem Ökosystem zu verfangen, sondern Unabhängigkeit und Flexibilität bei der Auswahl von Technologieanbietern und Lösungen zu bewahren. Die WAGO-Partner Portainer, Actemium und Softing beleuchteten dabei, wie Kooperationen dazu beitragen, umfassende und spezialisierte Lösungen für spezifische Branchenanforderungen zu entwickeln, um flexible und skalierbare Lösungen zu implementieren, die eine effiziente Produktionssteuerung und Kostenreduktion ermöglichen:Tobias Mühlnikel spricht über seine Arbeit bei Portainer, einer Plattform für das Management von Softwarecontainern, die in der Automatisierungstechnik immer wichtiger wird. Er hebt die Bedeutung von ganzheitlichen, dynamischen Lösungen hervor und unterstreicht, wie Portainer dabei hilft, Daten von verschiedenen Quellen zu erschließen und verfügbar zu machen.Christopher Anhalt redet über die industrielle Kommunikation und erläutert, wie Softing mit der Entwicklung und Vermarktung von Standardprodukten für IT/OT-Integration dazu beiträgt, Daten aus Steuerungen, Geräten, Sensoren und Aktoren für die IT-Welt bereitzustellen.Jürgen von Actemium, einem Teil des VINCI-Konzerns, stellt vor, wie sein Unternehmen innovative Lösungen in der Industrie für Elektrotechnik, Mess-, Steuer- und Regelungstechnik sowie Automatisierungstechnik anbietet. Actemium sieht sich als strategischer Partner für Kunden in Themen wie Energietechnik, Automatisierung und Digitalisierung in der Produktion.Die drei Gäste sprechen über Use Cases in den Bereichen Smart Manufacturing, Gerätemanagement- und verwaltung, Datenintegration im Automotive-Bereich, Containerbasierte Softwareentwicklung. Beispielsweise geht es um die Akquise von Daten von Maschinen mithilfe von Produkten wie denen von Softing, die als Container geliefert werden. Diese können auf Hardware wie der von WAGO laufen und dann weiter in die Cloud oder zu MES/SCADA-Systemen transferiert werden. Die Verwaltung dieser Software-Komponenten, um sie auf dem aktuellen Stand zu halten und das initiale Ausrollen, ist ein zentraler Aspekt dieses Use Cases.Die 116. IoT Use Case Podcastfolge stellt die Bedeutung starker Partnerschaften und Netzwerke in der IoT-Branche am Beispiel von WAGO heraus. ---Relevante Folgenlinks:Tobias (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasmue/)Christopher (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-anhalt-ab50b1176/)Jürgen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/j%C3%BCrgen-kasperek-1728661b2/)Madeleine (https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeleine-mickeleit/)Jetzt IoT Use Case auf LinkedIn folgen

Die ENERGIEZONE führt mich immer wieder an sehr ungewohnte Orte. In der aktuellen Ausgabe rede ich mit dem WAGO CEO Heiner Lang, der ein unfassbar wachstumsstarkes B2B Unternehmen führt, wächst, tolle Zukunftsaussichten hat und ein gewaltiges Wörtchen mitredet bei der Energiewende. Ob WAGO nun hilft die Elektro Infrastruktur in Wachstumsländern zu bauen, oder in meiner Heimwerkerkiste die beliebten Elektroverbinder bereitstellt - sie haben überall ihre Produkte und Lösungen integriert. Für mich, nach den vielen lahmen Quartalen im Handel, mal wieder eine schöne Gelegenheit einen der Hidden Champions kennenzulernen. Community: https://kassenzone.de/discord Feedback zum Podcast? Mail an alex@kassenzone.de Disclaimer: https://www.kassenzone.de/disclaimer/ Alexander Graf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandergraf/ https://twitter.com/supergraf Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/KassenzoneDe/ Blog: https://www.kassenzone.de/ E-Commerce Buch: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3866413076/ Tassen kaufen: http://www.tassenzone.com

Len Vermillion is joined by Tyrone Visser, business development manager, Linux & IIoT, Wago

In this episode, Sundance Power Systems talks about getting started in 1995 and how the company has forged an unlikely collaboration with North Carolina's biggest investor-owned utility. Sponsored by Scanifly and WAGO.

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Listen as Paul Abernathy, CEO, and Founder of Electrical Code Academy, Inc. the leading electrical educator in the country, as he answers more questions from the Let's Ask Paul Portal over at www.PaulAbernathy.com.In this episode, Paul will tackle the questions submitted by a listener. The topics covered in this episode are about backstabbed devices on TikTok and the new Wago-integrated devices hitting the market.If you are looking to learn more about the National Electrical Code, for electrical exam preparation, or to better your knowledge of the NEC then visits https://fasttraxsystem.com for all the electrical code training you will ever need by the leading electrical educator in the country with the best NEC learning program on the planet.

Listen as Paul Abernathy, CEO, and Founder of Electrical Code Academy, Inc. the leading electrical educator in the country, as he answers more questions from the Let's Ask Paul Portal over at www.PaulAbernathy.com.In this episode, Paul will tackle the questions submitted by a listener. The topics covered in this episode are about backstabbed devices on TikTok and the new Wago-integrated devices hitting the market.If you are looking to learn more about the National Electrical Code, for electrical exam preparation, or to better your knowledge of the NEC then visits https://fasttraxsystem.com for all the electrical code training you will ever need by the leading electrical educator in the country with the best NEC learning program on the planet.

Listen as Paul Abernathy, CEO, and Founder of Electrical Code Academy, Inc. the leading electrical educator in the country, as he answers more questions from the Let's Ask Paul Portal over at www.PaulAbernathy.com.In this episode, Paul will tackle the questions submitted by a listener. The topics covered in this episode are about backstabbed devices on TikTok and the new Wago-integrated devices hitting the market.If you are looking to learn more about the National Electrical Code, for electrical exam preparation, or to better your knowledge of the NEC then visits https://fasttraxsystem.com for all the electrical code training you will ever need by the leading electrical educator in the country with the best NEC learning program on the planet.

Listen as Paul Abernathy, CEO, and Founder of Electrical Code Academy, Inc. the leading electrical educator in the country, as he answers more questions from the Let's Ask Paul Portal over at www.PaulAbernathy.com.In this episode, Paul will tackle the questions submitted by a listener. The topics covered in this episode are about backstabbed devices on TikTok and the new Wago-integrated devices hitting the market.If you are looking to learn more about the National Electrical Code, for electrical exam preparation, or to better your knowledge of the NEC then visits https://fasttraxsystem.com for all the electrical code training you will ever need by the leading electrical educator in the country with the best NEC learning program on the planet.

Die Datenkultur verspeist die Datenstrategie zum Frühstück. Auch zum Abendessen und Mittags. Doch was verbirgt sich hinter diesem Buzzword?Darüber spricht Christian Krug, Host des Podcasts Unf*ck Your Data, mit Nicole Lehmann, Digital Transformation Manager bei WAGO.Wie in allen Arbeitsumgebungen gelten auch bei der Datenarbeit unausgesprochene Regeln in Unternehmen. Zusammen mit sichtbaren Regelwerken und Ergebnissen sind diese Teil der Unternehmens- und Datenkultur. Wenn sich die Nutzung von Daten nicht schon von vorne herein Teil meines Unternehmens ist, dann verursacht eine Bewegung in Richtung datengetrieben oft ein schlechtes Bauchgefühl.Dabei beschreibt die Kultur eigentlich genau das. Das Gefühl mit Daten zu arbeiten und welche Wert daten im Unternehmen haben.Vernachlässigt man auf seiner Reise zum datengetriebenen Unternehmen diesen Aspekt, dass die Menschen sich wohl damit fühlen müssen. So wird die Reise scheitern.Diese kulturelle Anpassung muss Bestandteil einer Datenstrategie sein. Denn am Ende wollen Menschen mit den Daten arbeiten und auf diesen Entscheidungen treffen.Doch wie mache ich diese Kultur sichtbar oder messbar? Nur mit messbaren Resultaten und einem Zielbild kann ich auch hier den richtigen Weg gehen.▬▬▬▬▬▬ Profile: ▬▬▬▬Zum LinkedIn-Profil von Nicole: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-lehmann-11384150/Zum LinkedIn-Profil von WAGO: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wago/Zur Website von WAGO: https://www.wago.com/de/Zum LinkedIn-Profil von Christian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-krug/▬▬▬▬▬▬ Buchempfehlung: ▬▬▬▬Boyan Angelov - Elements of Data Strategy▬▬▬▬▬▬ Hier findest Du Unf*ck Your Data: ▬▬▬▬Zum Podcast auf Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ow7ySMbgnir27etMYkpxT?si=dc0fd2b3c6454bfaZum Podcast auf iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/unf-ck-your-data/id1673832019Zum Podcast auf Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vdW5mY2steW91ci1kYXRhLw?ep=14Zum Podcast auf Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/FnT5kRSjf2k54iib6▬▬▬▬▬▬ Kontakt: ▬▬▬▬E-Mail: christian@uyd-podcast.com▬▬▬▬▬▬ Profile: ▬▬▬▬Link zur BARC Survey: https://bi-survey.com/barc-data-culture-survey-22Link zum Modell von Edgar Schein: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulturebenen-Modell▬▬▬▬▬▬ Timestamps: ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬00:00 Intro01:43 Nicole stellt sich vor04:09 Wie kam Nicoles Leidenschaft für Daten06:37 Was ist Data Culture07:55 Mit viel Emotionen an Daten arbeiten08:33 Zusammenspiel von Daten und Bauchgefühl09:41 Den Wert von Daten erkennen10:54 Datenkultur als Klammer12:07 Wie kam Nicole zur Data Culture14:32 Datenkultur im Unternehmen verändern17:23 Die eigene Datenkultur ist keine Selbstverständlichkeit18:35 Best practices und Frameworks für Datenkultur24:52 Werte in der Daten- und Unternehmenskultur27:55 Verbindung von Werten und Artefakten29:05 Datenkultur darf nicht unterschätzt werden30:15 Immer mit sauberen Datenmengen arbeiten33:02 Zwei Fragen an Nicole

Listen as Paul Abernathy, CEO, and Founder of Electrical Code Academy, Inc. the leading electrical educator in the country, as he answers more questions from the Let's Ask Paul Portal over at www.PaulAbernathy.com.In this episode, Paul will tackle the questions submitted by a listener. The topics covered in this episode include the use of brass fittings at the end of ferrous raceways that protect grounding electrode conductors, how much bend is too much bend in a raceway, and finally the old Wago vs Wire Nut question.If you are looking to learn more about the National Electrical Code, for electrical exam preparation, or to better your knowledge of the NEC then visits https://fasttraxsystem.com for all the electrical code training you will ever need by the leading electrical educator in the country with the best NEC learning program on the planet.

Listen as Paul Abernathy, CEO, and Founder of Electrical Code Academy, Inc. the leading electrical educator in the country, as he answers more questions from the Let's Ask Paul Portal over at www.PaulAbernathy.com.In this episode, Paul will tackle the questions submitted by a listener. The topics covered in this episode include the use of brass fittings at the end of ferrous raceways that protect grounding electrode conductors, how much bend is too much bend in a raceway, and finally the old Wago vs Wire Nut question.If you are looking to learn more about the National Electrical Code, for electrical exam preparation, or to better your knowledge of the NEC then visits https://fasttraxsystem.com for all the electrical code training you will ever need by the leading electrical educator in the country with the best NEC learning program on the planet.

Listen as Paul Abernathy, CEO, and Founder of Electrical Code Academy, Inc. the leading electrical educator in the country, as he answers more questions from the Let's Ask Paul Portal over at www.PaulAbernathy.com.In this episode, Paul will tackle the questions submitted by a listener. The topics covered in this episode include the use of brass fittings at the end of ferrous raceways that protect grounding electrode conductors, how much bend is too much bend in a raceway, and finally the old Wago vs Wire Nut question.If you are looking to learn more about the National Electrical Code, for electrical exam preparation, or to better your knowledge of the NEC then visits https://fasttraxsystem.com for all the electrical code training you will ever need by the leading electrical educator in the country with the best NEC learning program on the planet.

Listen as Paul Abernathy, CEO, and Founder of Electrical Code Academy, Inc. the leading electrical educator in the country, as he answers more questions from the Let's Ask Paul Portal over at www.PaulAbernathy.com.In this episode, Paul will tackle the questions submitted by a listener. The topics covered in this episode include the use of brass fittings at the end of ferrous raceways that protect grounding electrode conductors, how much bend is too much bend in a raceway, and finally the old Wago vs Wire Nut question.If you are looking to learn more about the National Electrical Code, for electrical exam preparation, or to better your knowledge of the NEC then visits https://fasttraxsystem.com for all the electrical code training you will ever need by the leading electrical educator in the country with the best NEC learning program on the planet.

Join Paul for this mobile podcast where he talks about Wago's and his opinions of them. Paul also talks about an upcoming podcast on the changes in section 680.26(B) for the 2023 NEC via a recently overturned emergency nature TIA. If you are interested in learning the National Electrical Code from an industry expert who knows how to break it down into easy-to-understand terms then visit https://fasttraxsystem.com and join the Fast Trax Family

Join Paul for this mobile podcast where he talks about Wago's and his opinions of them. Paul also talks about an upcoming podcast on the changes in section 680.26(B) for the 2023 NEC via a recently overturned emergency nature TIA. If you are interested in learning the National Electrical Code from an industry expert who knows how to break it down into easy-to-understand terms then visit https://fasttraxsystem.com and join the Fast Trax Family

Viele Hobby-Handwerker werden die berühmten Federkraftklemmen von Wago kennen. "Für die Ingenieure ist das quasi der heilige Gral", sagt Firmenchef Heiner Lang. Wer zwei elektrische Leitungen schnell und sicher verbinden will, greift auf die Klemmen des mittelständischen Unternehmens aus Minden zurück. 100 Millionen Stück werden jeden Monat hergestellt. Mittlerweile macht Wago aber nicht nur mit der Federkraftklemme Geschäfte. Die Energiewende ist das große Thema für das Unternehmen. Wago will "Systeme aufbauen, die nicht nur Strom verbinden, sondern Strom managen und Strom analysieren", erklärt Lang das Vorhaben. Das sei seine "Vorwärtsstrategie".Dazu gehört, auch weiterhin in den Standort Deutschland zu investieren – trotz anhaltender Internationalisierung des Familienunternehmens. "Für uns ist der Standort Deutschland ein wichtiger. Nicht nur als Familienunternehmen, sondern auch als Technologiestandort", so Lang. Was für die Energiewende in Deutschland aus seiner Sicht gebraucht wird, erzählt Heiner Lang in der neuen Folge von "So techt Deutschland".+++ Sie haben Fragen für Frauke Holzmeier und Andreas Laukat? Dann schreiben Sie eine E-Mail an sotechtdeutschland@ntv.de ++++++ Weitere Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier: https://linktr.ee/sotechtdeutschland +++Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://datenschutz.ad-alliance.de/podcast.htmlUnsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Viele Hobby-Handwerker werden die berühmten Federkraftklemmen von Wago kennen. "Für die Ingenieure ist das quasi der heilige Gral", sagt Firmenchef Heiner Lang. Wer zwei elektrische Leitungen schnell und sicher verbinden will, greift auf die Klemmen des mittelständischen Unternehmens aus Minden zurück. 100 Millionen Stück werden jeden Monat hergestellt. Mittlerweile macht Wago aber nicht nur mit der Federkraftklemme Geschäfte. Die Energiewende ist das große Thema für das Unternehmen. Wago will "Systeme aufbauen, die nicht nur Strom verbinden, sondern Strom managen und Strom analysieren", erklärt Lang das Vorhaben. Das sei seine "Vorwärtsstrategie".Dazu gehört, auch weiterhin in den Standort Deutschland zu investieren – trotz anhaltender Internationalisierung des Familienunternehmens. "Für uns ist der Standort Deutschland ein wichtiger. Nicht nur als Familienunternehmen, sondern auch als Technologiestandort", so Lang. Was für die Energiewende in Deutschland aus seiner Sicht gebraucht wird, erzählt Heiner Lang in der neuen Folge von "So techt Deutschland".+++Sie haben Fragen für Frauke Holzmeier und Andreas Laukat? Dann schreiben Sie eine E-Mail an sotechtdeutschland@ntv.de+++ Weitere Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier: https://linktr.ee/sotechtdeutschland ++++++Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://datenschutz.ad-alliance.de/podcast.html

Lots of AI, Deepfakes, Microsoft Word, OneNote, Russian Pranksters, FIXS, Wago, Water, Aaron Leyland, and more on this edition of Security Weekly News.    Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn278

This week Dr. Droug talks: Lots of AI, Deepfakes, Microsoft Word, OneNote, Russian Pranksters, FIXS, Wago, Water, Aaron Leyland, and more on this edition of Security Weekly News.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn278

Lots of AI, Deepfakes, Microsoft Word, OneNote, Russian Pranksters, FIXS, Wago, Water, Aaron Leyland, and more on this edition of Security Weekly News.    Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn278

This week Dr. Droug talks: Lots of AI, Deepfakes, Microsoft Word, OneNote, Russian Pranksters, FIXS, Wago, Water, Aaron Leyland, and more on this edition of Security Weekly News.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn278

Die ENERGIEZONE führt mich immer wieder an sehr ungewohnte Orte. In der aktuellen Ausgabe rede ich mit dem WAGO CEO Heiner Lang, der ein unfassbar wachstumsstarkes B2B Unternehmen führt, wächst, tolle Zukunftsaussichten hat und ein gewaltiges Wörtchen mitredet bei der Energiewende. Ob WAGO nun hilft die Elektro Infrastruktur in Wachstumsländern zu bauen, oder in meiner Heimwerkerkiste die beliebten Elektroverbinder bereitstellt - sie haben überall ihre Produkte und Lösungen integriert. Für mich, nach den vielen lahmen Quartalen im Handel, mal wieder eine schöne Gelegenheit einen der Hidden Champions kennenzulernen. Community: https://kassenzone.de/discord Feedback zum Podcast? Mail an alex@kassenzone.de Disclaimer: https://www.kassenzone.de/disclaimer/ Alexander Graf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandergraf/ https://twitter.com/supergraf Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/KassenzoneDe/ Blog: https://www.kassenzone.de/ E-Commerce Buch: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3866413076/ Tassen kaufen: http://www.tassenzone.com

Hello, and welcome to Beauty and the Biz where we talk about the business and marketing side of plastic surgery, and offsetting your overhead. I'm your host, Catherine Maley, author of Your Aesthetic Practice – What your patients are saying, as well as consultant to plastic surgeons, to get them more patients and more profits. Now, today's episode is called "Offsetting Your Overhead — with Jason Pozner, MD". It's common for surgeons to take out a huge loan and do a build out of their dream practice but then the bills to pay for all of it start coming in. They quickly notice when the OR is idle and the exam rooms are empty, that's costing them money. It's an uncomfortable feeling. Should they bring on another surgeon to help cover the costs? Should they hire a nurse injector to bring in more revenues? Should they get more creative? In this Beauty and the Biz Podcast episode, I interviewed Dr. Jason Pozner, a board certified plastic surgery with 30 years experience of learning and training on the world's most advanced plastic surgery procedures, laser treatments and skin rejuvenation treatments. Dr. Pozner is the founder of Sanctuary Plastic Surgery and co-owner of Sanctuary Medical Aesthetic Center in Boca Raton, FL. He has experienced all the above scenarios. From expanding to almost going bankrupt to bringing in others to help (some good, some horrendous) and he finally found a balance that works. Dr. Pozner dropped so many pearls, you want to hear this. Visit Dr. Pozner's Website P.S. This Week Only! If you want better results from your advertising efforts, the solution is to fix your lead gen process. I'll do it for you at a fraction of my usual fees. Watch this video…..

This week's EYE ON NPI is clipped in and ready to roll, with WAGO 2601 Series Super-Compact PCB Terminal Blocks (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/w/wago/2601-series-pcb-terminal-blocks) available in both horizontal (https://www.digikey.com/short/twfw2cjh) and vertical types (https://www.digikey.com/short/7t4fp5b5) and a wide range of widths. These terminal blocks feature WAGO's famed snap-lock levers for quick and secure connectivity with certified current handling that can support your high-current and high-voltage setups and a wide range of wire gauges. Terminal blocks (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/wire-to-board/371?s=N4IgTCBcDaIC4FMBOBbAlgOwIYBsAEARjgPYDGA1gM4gC6AvkA) are super common to find on any electronics product, especially used for power and motor connections where you need high current/voltage capabilities because every day connectors like JST PH's (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/jst-sales-america-inc/S4B-PH-SM4-TB-LF-SN/926657) are only rated for a few Amps and it's common to need 5A or more for power/motor connectivity. Terminal blocks are also inexpensive, easy to use, and don't require custom connectors or crimping: any stranded or solid core wire will fit and work and you can rearrange wire order if necessary. Traditionally, we've used the side-entry-with-top-screw type of terminal block -- Digi-Key has a video that describes all the different types of terminal blocks you may encounter here (https://www.digikey.com/en/videos/c/cui/the-ultimate-guide-to-terminal-block-selection). However, it can be easy for folks to misuse them by not tightening enough, or accidentally inserting outside of the block's "mouth". Also, sometimes they're Phillips screw, sometimes they're Flathead - or folks end up stripping them by over-tightening or having the wrong size driver. These WAGO 2601 Series Super-Compact PCB Terminal Blocks (https://www.digikey.com/short/bnw5b3pz) are a super-fancy upgrade to classic terminal blocks. They're still the 3.5mm pitch of compact terminal blocks, but come with WAGO-quality levels that can be lifted with a finger to open the mouth, and snapped down in a moment. Two through-hole pins per contact give good mechanical stability when hand, selective or wave-soldered onto your board. Wires can be 26 to 16 AWG, and solid core wires can even be push-inserted in as long as they are 20AWG or thicker. (https://wago.priintcloud.com/datasheets/2601-1104/en_US/e75ede034608c38f290f16f29cacc6cc) Each contact can handle 300V and 10A, and the terminals are UL/IEC rated so you can trust their power capacities! In case you're wondering, if WAGO tests to figure out what happens if the ratings are exceeded, may we point you at this entertaining video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg6VPucscxI) where the engineers got to turn the WAGO block into a heat lamp! Best of all, the WAGO 2601 Series Super-Compact PCB Terminal Blocks (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/w/wago/2601-series-pcb-terminal-blocks) are available and in stock right now at Digi-Key for immediate shipment in a range of widths and orientations. Upgrade your design for these awesome terminal blocks to make connections reliable and error-proof, if you order today you'll have any size you like by tomorrow afternoon!

WARTUNG | SHOPFLOOR | FEHLERANALYSEwww.iotusecase.comMit prädiktiver Reinigung und Wartung tauchen wir in dieser Podcastfolge ins Reich der Smart Factory ein – genauer gesagt in ein WAGO-Werk. WAGO – vor Jahrzehnten zum Industriestandard mit seinen Federkraftklemmen etabliert – bewegt nun mehr und mehr den Bereich IoT – einerseits mit der Connectivity, andererseits mit einem Ökosystem aus starken Partnern, wodurch es zum End-to-End-Lösungsanbieter geworden ist.Folge 83 auf einen Blick (und Klick):[14:29] Herausforderungen, Potenziale und Status quo – So sieht der Use Case in der Praxis aus[25:48] Lösungen, Angebote und Services – Ein Blick auf die eingesetzten Technologien[34:08] Ergebnisse, Geschäftsmodelle und Best Practices – So wird der Erfolg gemessenZusammenfassung der PodcastfolgeKunststoffe begegnen uns überall im Leben. Wie ihre Herstellung genau erfolgt, wissen die wenigsten. Diese läuft im sogenannten Kunststoff-Spritzguss-Verfahren ab. Hierbei wird aufgeschmolzener Kunststoff in einen formgebenden Hohlraum eines Werkzeugs eingebracht, unter Druck verdichtet und anschließend als Formteil ausgeworfen. In dieser Podcastfolge geht es um eine Materialverteilungsanlage bei WAGO, bei der dieser Prozess mittels IoT optimiert wurde und die Filter zum idealen Zeitpunkt gewartet werden - Fehlerfälle werden erkannt, Ausschuss reduziert und ungeplante Stillstände vermieden. Denn: Im Herstellungsverfahren selbst und in vor- und nachgelagerten Prozessen kommt es dabei oft zu Fehlern in der Anlage, die zu Stillständen führen und gleichzeitig zu einem enorm großen Potential in Wartungs- und Reinigungsprozessen. Um das einmal genauer zu verstehen, begeben wir uns in Folge 83 in ein Werk der Firma WAGO – die im Werk Komponenten für die elektrische Verbindungstechnik sowie elektronische Bauteile für die Automatisierungstechnik fertigen - und schauen uns an, welche Use Cases es hier gibt, und welchen Mehrwert die Daten liefern.  Dafür sind zwei Experten mit dabei, die die Use Cases genaustens kennen und auch das zugehörige Ökosystem aufgebaut haben, um Lösungen auf die Straße zu bringen – Jan Jenke (Produktmanager / Projektmanager Analytics) und Jürgen Pfeifer (IoT & Cloud Partnermanager). ------Relevante Folgenlinks:Jan Jenke (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-jenke/) Jürgen Pfeifer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/juergen-pfeifer/) WAGO (https://www.linkedin.com/company/wago/) Madeleine Mickeleit (https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeleine-mickeleit/)Weiterführend:Rhebo (https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhebo/) - Erkennung von Netzwerkanomalien #Security  

In dieser Podcast-Folge sprechen wir mit Sven Rasser, Product Manager Digital Twin bei Wago, über die Grundlagen und die Vorteile von digitalem Engineering in der elektrischen Konstruktion. Gesponsert von: Wago

The touch panel has a long and storied history in the industrial automation arena. To better understand the changing roles and capabilities of the not-so-humble touch panel in today's production environments, Keith Larson is joined by John Wozniak, product manager for digital automation projects with Wago. Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/21438616 

Mais um ano e mais uma temporada desse podcast desenterrando os piores filmes natalinos inventados pela humanidade! No episódio de hoje, um bônus: Ju e Mari falam sobre Os Três Cães Mosqueteiros, um filme infantil de qualidade muuuuito duvidosa que retrata a versão canina piorada de Esqueceram de Mim combinado com Em Casa para O Natal. Nesse filme acompanhamos três cachorrinhos brancos que à véspera de natal, precisam colocar suas patas e fucinhos para resolver um grande problema! Quando um casal de assaltantes rouba todos os presentes e as decorações de natal de seus humanos, é hora dos 3 Cães Mosqueteiros entrarem em ação. O sempre faminto Barcos, o mimado e puro Wago e o amante de aventura Arfamis partem para farejar os bandidos até encontrá-los. Mas com chefe da carrocinha no encalço, eles vão precisar de um pouco de ajuda do próprio Papai Noel para salvar o Natal! Nos acompanhe nas redes sociais para comentar sobre os episódios, descobrir os próximos filmes do podcast e garantir que a gente fale dos seus favoritos! Pra isso basta procurar por @entaoenatalpodcast nas suas redes sociais favoritas. Esse podcast é criado e produzido por Juliana de Melo e Mariana Diniz. A edição de áudio é de Euller Félix. Artes de Juliana de Melo. Saiba mais sobre a rede O Podcast é Delas no site: https://opodcastedelas.com.br/

There are fewer and fewer vans available in the US. What to do? We'll also look at "Cheap Chinese Power Stations," bar shampoo, visit some bones and see me in Playboy! For information on the Panama Canal cruise, please follow this link!  FIND US: We're on Facebook (Built to Go Group), Instagram (@collegeofcuriosity), Twitter (@colofcuriosity), and we have a Discord server (invite at top of main page at builttogo.com.)   This is a Wago connector for 4 wires.  Product Review: Bar Shampoo Why carry water when you don't have to?  https://amzn.to/3AXKWdE Resource Recommendation: Magnets  So many uses, so many shapes! https://www.kjmagnetics.com/ A Place to Visit San Francisco Basilica in Lima, Peru is full of dead people you can play with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_and_Convent_of_San_Francisco,_Lima Some links are affiliate links. If you purchase anything from these links, the show will receive a small fee. This will not impact your price in any way. 

Lots of news! Some of it may impact you. We'll also talk about Wago wire connectors, visit Maine, review a subwoofer, play with maps, and have a close encounter with excessive Scoville units.  For information on the Panama Canal cruise, please follow this link!  FIND US: We're on Facebook (Built to Go Group), Instagram (@collegeofcuriosity), Twitter (@colofcuriosity), and we have a Discord server (invite at top of main page at builttogo.com.)   This is a Wago connector for 4 wires.  Tech Talk: Wago Connectors These reusable connectors and excellent way to join wires, especially early in your build. https://amzn.to/3AvO3cN Product Review: Rockville SS8P 400w 8" Slim Under-Seat Subwoofer A nice little unit, easy to install, for only $99 https://amzn.to/3wFn0dG Resource Recommendation: Google Custom Maps  This is NOT the usual Google Maps site. Click the link to see. http://google.com/mymaps Some links are affiliate links. If you purchase anything from these links, the show will receive a small fee. This will not impact your price in any way. 

Today we are joined by Jamie Weaknecht of Club Wago, it was a good conversation about big block modified racing Club Wago Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClubWago Twitter: https://twitter.com/tracktalkpoddf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracktalkpodcastdf/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Track-Talk-with-Dylan-Friebel-111831184078832/ Website: https://dylanfriebel.wixsite.com/freelance/podcast-1 Support the Podcast: https://anchor.fm/dylan-friebel1 Contact: tracktalkpodcastdf@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dylan-friebel1/support

In this month's Contractor's Corner podcast, C&I EPC Got Electric tells SPW how the company has managed to grow in times of economic downturn. Sponsored by WAGO and Scanifly.

IES releases four new ANSI standards. WAGO confirms its leadership in connection technology. McWong International receives LightFair Technical Innovation Award. Orion and SnapCount announce integration of Orion's LED products.

Podcast: Control Amplified: The process automation podcastEpisode: Ethernet switching for the OT worldPub date: 2022-05-27Full featured managed switches from the IT world feature an impressive array of options and functionality—perhaps too many for operational technologists. Unmanaged switches, on the other hand, are relatively unsophisticated devices that cost less, but lack security and redundancy features. In this episode of Control Amplified: The Process Automation Podcast, Keith Larson talks to Charlie Norz, product manager for I/O systems, WAGO USA, about a network switch option designed specifically for the needs of OT applications—and the priorities and skillsets of the engineers and technicians that work with them. Learn more about WAGO: https://www.wago.com/  Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/ethernet-switching-for-the-ot-world The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ControlGlobal, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Full featured managed switches from the IT world feature an impressive array of options and functionality—perhaps too many for operational technologists. Unmanaged switches, on the other hand, are relatively unsophisticated devices that cost less, but lack security and redundancy features. In this episode of Control Amplified: The Process Automation Podcast, Keith Larson talks to Charlie Norz, product manager for I/O systems, WAGO USA, about a network switch option designed specifically for the needs of OT applications—and the priorities and skillsets of the engineers and technicians that work with them. Learn more about WAGO: https://www.wago.com/  Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/ethernet-switching-for-the-ot-world 

Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney as they dive into the last week of Hackaday articles. If you love things that go boom, you won't want to miss the discussion about explosive welding. Ever use the sun to burn something with a magnifying glass? Now you can CNC that, if you dare. We'll take a quick trip through the darkroom and look at analog-digital photography as well as a tactical enlarger you can build, watch someone do terrible things to Wago and Wago-adjacent connectors, and talk about how suborbital chainsaws can be leveraged into a mass storage medium. Not enough for you? Then don't miss our bafflement at one corporation's attitude toward 3D printing, the secret sauce of resin casting, and our rundown of the 2022 Sci-Fi Contest winners. Check out the show notes for links!

A walk around the 2022 Electronex show in Sydney. 00:00 – Electronex 2022 01:13 – Phoenix Contact 01:38 – Tektronix 03:14 – Siglent 04:37 – John South at Emona + New Rigol StationMax Oscilloscope 07:38 – Harbuch Electronix isolation transformers 09:38 – Mantis remote 3D viewing microscope 12:05 – SMCBA talks 15:04 – Wago 16:33 ...

Join Paul Abernathy, CEO and Founder of Electrical Code Academy, Inc., a premier provider of electrical exam preparation training and post licensing electrical code education as he answers a question about the use of WAGO's and backstabbing receptacle devices. For more information on Electrical Code Academy, Inc. visit www.ElectricalCodeAcademy.net to see our programs and try our demos.

Join Paul Abernathy, CEO and Founder of Electrical Code Academy, Inc., a premier provider of electrical exam preparation training and post licensing electrical code education as he answers a question about the use of WAGO's and backstabbing receptacle devices. For more information on Electrical Code Academy, Inc. visit www.ElectricalCodeAcademy.net to see our programs and try our demos.

Join Paul Abernathy, CEO and Founder of Electrical Code Academy, Inc., a premier provider of electrical exam preparation training and post licensing electrical code education as he answers a question about the use of WAGO's and backstabbing receptacle devices. For more information on Electrical Code Academy, Inc. visit www.ElectricalCodeAcademy.net to see our programs and try our demos.

Join Paul Abernathy, CEO and Founder of Electrical Code Academy, Inc., a premier provider of electrical exam preparation training and post licensing electrical code education as he answers a question about the use of WAGO's and backstabbing receptacle devices. For more information on Electrical Code Academy, Inc. visit www.ElectricalCodeAcademy.net to see our programs and try our demos.

INTRODUCTION:I feel like there's no better qualification to have than personal experience when it comes to being validated to speak on a particular topic. My episodes entitled “Community Conversations” highlight individuals from within society who have lived through intense experiences and are willing to be super transparent about everything so that someone else may be helped. There is a certain kind of healing that happens when we hear someone else talking about experiences that mirror our own. Today I am speaking with Madame Jaikaran who hails from the island of Trinidad and we will cover everything from menopause to the church to immigration and everything in between. I really hope this helps someone… INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):·       Raw And Uncut Conversation With A Native Of Trinidad ·       The Need To Get Away From The Islands·       Immigrant Struggles With Geographic And Cultural Transition·       Fearmongering Vs. Love·       The Joys Of Having Two Children Who Are LGBTQIA+·       The Benefit Of Letting Some Doors Stay Closed·       Why Blood Is NOT Thicker Than Water·       Wisdom From Whitney Houston·       The Perils Of Being LGBTQIA+ In West Indian Islands·       The DISCONNECT Between What Churches/Religion Say Vs. What God Says·       How Churches Have Pushed Us And Our Children Away·       An Intense Look Into Menopause  MENOPAUSE:·       https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/menopause/symptoms-causes/syc-20353397 ·       https://www.webmd.com/menopause/guide/understanding-menopause-symptoms ·       https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/what-are-signs-and-symptoms-menopause SDJ MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS (FULL EPISODES):·       $2.99 per month.·       Donate any amount for 30 days of full access.·       $25 per year.https://www.sexdrugsandjesus.com/membership-account/membership-levels/ TRANSCRIPT:[00:00:00] You're listening to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast, where we discuss whatever the fuck we want to. And yes, we can put sex and drugs and Jesus all in the same bed and still be all right. At the end of the day, my name is Davanon and I'll be interviewing guests from every corner of this world. As we dig into topics that are too risky for the morning show, as we strive to help you understand what's really going on in your.[00:00:24] There was nothing on the table and we've got a lot to talk about. So let's dive right into this episode.[00:00:32] [00:00:32] De'Vannon: I feel like there's no better qualification to have than personal experience when it comes to being validated to speak on a particular topic. My episodes entitled community conversations, highlight individuals from within society who have lived through intense experiences and are willing to be super transparent about everything so that someone else may be helped.[00:00:58] There was a certain kind of healing that happens [00:01:00] when we hear someone else talking about experiences that mirror our own. Today. I'm speaking with Madame Jaikaran who hails from the island of Trinidad, and we will cover everything from menopause to the church. To immigration and everything in between. I really hope this helps someone.[00:01:20] Madam Jaikaran, welcome into the sector, drugs and Jesus' podcasts. How fabulous have you with us today? How are you [00:01:29] Madame Jaikaran: De'Vannon Thank you so much for having me. [00:01:31] De'Vannon: I appreciate it immensely. And I'm super humbled by this because you are my cherry popper today. I've never done a. A conversation with somebody who was not a, a podcast host or an author or some sort of expert or whatever, because I wanted to start a series and this is going to be called community conversations where I'm sitting down and talking to people, the homeys and everything from the community and stuff like that, because [00:02:00] there's a lot of healing when people hear that other people are going through the same thing that they're going through, whether they're giving any advice or not, it can break shackles and set people free just to know to tangibly, hear somebody say that they are not alone.[00:02:15] And so due to your transparent nature, I felt like you were the best fit to break the show into this new direction. Um, You know, just talking to people, you know, who are, who are just living life. You know, I think it's a very interesting angle. And so I'm happy to go down this road with you. And so you are the first, you get the Nancy Pelosi.[00:02:45] And so we know you, um, um, uh, are, you know, Trinidadian, you are in the island of Trinidad, uh, into Wago. Um, very, I mean, it's, [00:03:00] it's, it's kind of obvious from the last name. Uh , which is a very beautiful name. You know, it means like you, you, you love people, you hate conflict and stuff like that. I did a search on the name J credit and it's, it's very, very beautiful and, um, So what, so we're going to talk today about some of like the struggles and things like that, that, that we discussed not too long ago when we were at, at lunch and that we were going to really, really go into detail.[00:03:30] Um, talk to talk to me about what it, what it was like growing up in Trinidad and, you know, trying to make it to American. Why you even wanted to come here? [00:03:46] Madame Jaikaran: Well, internet is a lot of the culture is a lot different. It's very, um, we are a tight knit community. I come from a very large family. [00:04:00] So basically if your siblings.[00:04:03] So you have that same structure that you have at home. You have a church that you have at school. It doesn't matter. It's the same structure. It's a Catholic doctrine. You are raised in a very staunch Catholic household where, you know, you try to fit in, but sometimes you don't know in that. What I mean is we've struggled in terms of emotions in our home.[00:04:40] So me wanting to leave that I needed to be able to be more expressive. That's not something that we do in the islands. It's very suppressed. So I needed to get away from that to actually show more emotion. I met my. Husband [00:05:00] intranet. We both had the same feeling that we wanted to go do something different.[00:05:07] So we decided to migrate migrating here was an absolute shock because, you know, we went straight to New York. New York is very fast paced, but coming from a very slow, what you would say rural, we were coming from a very rural mindset to come into the, to the, to America. You know, New York is very fast.[00:05:39] They used, we struggled at first, not just financially, but trying to understand the culture, trying to understand just simple things, the money. That you know, people don't talk about that when you migrate it's you're converting money, you're trying to [00:06:00] financially get yourself back to where you were, where you came from.[00:06:04] You also had to, you know, we didn't understand some of the woods. So some woods in a British setting is very different to American sentence. And also, you know, we were trying to find ourselves as well, too. So now being you're coming back and you're coming from an emotionally barren place in the island to somewhere that everybody can emotionally be free, it was shocking, scary.[00:06:40] And, you know, we just, we were like, what do we do? We don't know how to, I don't know how to get the word out, but we just didn't know how to accept it. So it was a bit of a, it was a bit of a transition for us, but this was the reason we [00:07:00] came was to get that emotional release, to get the acceptance, to understand different things.[00:07:07] It was, it took a few years. It's not something you're going to learn within the first two weeks. No, it took us years to transition, to being an American. Something that you take very lightly. This is something that we had to literally grasp. And for, you know, for people who are coming from different places, it's hard to do.[00:07:36] It's literally hard. There's not a class that tells you, oh, this is what you do in this situation. We got to figure it out, whether it's correct or it's not, we just got to figure it out. But at least. My husband here. It was easy. It was easier for me. It was harder for him, you know, as a man, but for me, there was a little bit [00:08:00] easier.[00:08:01] De'Vannon: Give me, give me a direct example of something that you really struggle with. Figuring out maybe something that didn't translate well from the islands to the states or something that you really had to overcome, no matter how simple or complex, give me an example of something that you had to, maybe you got wrong in the first couple of times you did it.[00:08:22] Madame Jaikaran: Well, one word, um, custodian in the islands. When you work in a bank, you work as the treasury custodian, meaning that you were in charge of the bank money, which is what I did. So I came here and I applied to a bank and I put that I was the treasury custodian. They interviewed me as the cleaner and that was it.[00:08:50] That was something that, you know,[00:08:57] so,[00:09:00] [00:09:01] um, well, I, I looked at the lady in the interview and I just said, no, thank you. Thank you very much, but no, thank you. And I w I walked away and I came back home and I'm asking my husband, I'm like, why would they interview me? Fuck a cleaning job when I was a try the custodian. And that's when he said, well, let's look it up.[00:09:33] One thing, we always thought that we would always use our bridge. Dictionary wrong thing. We looked it up in a Maria Marianne Webster dictionary, American dictionary, and that's where we found it. So now we have to start going to dictionary to understand things that we need. But it's so different. So that was, I think the most critical one for me [00:10:00] was just that it was,[00:10:06] De'Vannon: I've been, uh, uh, go ahead. Finish your thought. No, no, no, no, that was it. Okay. I I've been a janitor before, uh, for a few years at the department of veterans affairs and yeah, it's a difference in between scrubbing floors, cleaning up shit and all kinds of things that people leave laying around then being in charge of the, uh, I say, would say in the game, in the game of Thrones, the master of coin,[00:10:39] I'm not sure to be the master of coin. All right. So, so you mentioned that you experienced like, uh, racism, uh, hatred from black people against Caribbeans. Tell me, tell me what sort of experience you had. [00:10:57] Madame Jaikaran: The first thing is I'll accent. [00:11:00] So immediately whether you see me or not, you're hearing my voice. And at first I had a very, very strong, distinctive accent coming from Trinidad, and we speak quickly.[00:11:13] We, we have this very same song way of speaking. So, you know, I would go from interview to interview and the minute I walk in the door, it's either first I'm black, second I'm female. And third I'm an immigrant. And I noticed going from John. To job, to job, trying to get jobs. I was not successful. I started to, you know, figure out well, trying to figure out what was wrong.[00:11:48] And you know, this is a passage, both my husband and myself, we were going through trying to figure out what exactly was reason, what qualified, you know, we're hard workers. What, why, why, [00:12:00] what if we get into jobs? Well, come to find out. It was really because we're immigrants. People just did not like the fact that we were immigrants, um, interviewing with other black people thinking, well, okay, you know, my foot's going to be in the door because somebody is going, gonna give me a, uh, help out realizing no, they don't want to help.[00:12:22] The minute they hear the accent, they think, okay, you're trying to come here and take jobs away from American citizens and stuff. No, I want them to have the same life you have. I want to pitch in and. I don't care who I'm helping, whether it's a citizen or immigrant as an immigrant, we don't see that line, that division between the citizen, to the immigrant.[00:12:45] We see people. We want to be a part of you. We don't want to be isolated. We don't want to be, you know, left out. So from the time we speak or things that we may do, [00:13:00] they already, you know, you cast us as, oh my God. Oh God. Then they ask you, well, well, where are you from? You know, the small chitchat talk. And if I start saying, well, I am from an island.[00:13:16] Immediately. Oh, that's so nice. And then the, you would start seeing, well, you don't have this, or you don't have that, or you didn't ask me for that, but you're now starting to segregate me because I I'm an immigrant and it's really unfair, you know, the cast Jamaicans the same way they've passed Trinidadian ans, but they don't do it to Canadians.[00:13:43] They don't do it to the British. They only do it to Western islands. And we we've been excluded from jobs from opportunities just because of our accent from origins. [00:14:00] They don't give us a chance. They don't try to, you know, they, they don't care. They don't want to hear it. I've been to one interview where I walk in, I told them I was outside of Leeton and they literally.[00:14:16] Let me interview with the secretary I left from New York, took the train to Connecticut, sat there and was interviewed by the secretary, just went out, just went back home and said, well, like that was a waste just because as I spoke at the front desk, they heard my accent. Not even opportunity to go in and flip up, you don't know what well, if I come with what, what I can do, you immediately, the cast blockers were meaning in past, you know, you segregate us basically as there are white [00:15:00] people at the top black people, and then they're black immigrants.[00:15:05] So we must always see at the bottom. We must never, we'll never give him a chance to succeed. We have to work, work hard, very hard work all the time. We're constantly working. So, you know, it's really difficult. We'll still keep doing what we want to do because of the opportunity we get here. It's still better than where we are home, but we just wish people would open up and understand.[00:15:35] We're not here to take your job. We're here to help and promote this country. [00:15:42] De'Vannon: Well, hopefully more people become more. Open-minded um, I'm very happy to weigh things of the, on politically, the sort of the sort of unrest that we have, uh, the kind of disruption, because it's, you know, people have known this, but now it's so, so, so when [00:16:00] people's faces, now that they've got to be aside.[00:16:03] You know what, you know, what side of the fence they're going to be out of. They are going to be a hater against people trying to come here, fear monger, like Republicans do and say people and take your job, no evidence of that at all. Or are they going to show love bearing in mind that we, that God is not mocked, whatever man, sows, that also will he reap.[00:16:23] And so, um, so I feel like, you know, you know, it's a good thing, you know, all that hard work eventually did pay off. I command, you know, your spirit in the immigrant spirit for never quitting and giving up. That's, what's the one thing I will say that, you know, you know, immigrants, you know, are strong fighters, you know, you know, you've come this far.[00:16:48] You don't have any choice, but to keep trying until you make it, um, You know, as being a member of the alphabet mafia, which is my way of saying the LGBTQ plus community, you know, [00:17:00] that's something that, you know, I in my community are very accustomed with too, you know, doors being closed, you know, y'all want to get married, but we won't make you a cake.[00:17:10] We won't video your wedding. We won't photograph your wedding. You can't use our venue. You know, people, people can be hateful, especially white people can be very, very, very like anti and against just about anything. That's not them. So, and not that other reasons because can't be, but in other people and you know, can't be hateful, but it's something, there is something different about white people, especially white conservative.[00:17:45] People, they just like to just say, fuck you to everybody else. And, um, in, in, in, um, and then, you know, turn around and want to go to [00:18:00] church on Sunday until a woman had to get an abortion when they've just caused all this havoc throughout the week. And, um, so we'll get on the spiritual stuff in just a moment, but now you, you have the good fortune of having not one but two sons who are member of the alphabet, a mafia as well.[00:18:20] What's it, what's it like having the gift of two non straight children? [00:18:28] Madame Jaikaran: Beautiful. I couldn't ask for anything better. I have two beautiful kids, men, me, men. I have two wonderful men care and men too. Amazing men. I, I don't, I just don't know if anybody else will ever have that pleasure of having [00:19:00] two beautiful children.[00:19:03] No, [00:19:05] De'Vannon: no, go ahead, please continue. [00:19:08] Madame Jaikaran: No, I was just about to say, you know, people don't understand what it's like to have kids and then to raise kids and then to see them succeed. And I've seen that my children may struggle once in a while, but I don't think they struggled with identity in that they can enjoy their lives.[00:19:33] Now, a lot of people from the alphabet mafia has made it to where my child. Can walk freely and be free to be themselves. So I go give kudos to everyone. Who's walked before my children in their path and made a better path for my kids. [00:19:58] De'Vannon: What would you [00:20:00] say to someone who, whose family did not accept them?[00:20:07] Um, um, any, um, neither whatever age they are be, they grown now or, you know, like, you know, like your children or any age, what would you say to them? You know, maybe their parents kick them out and stuff like that. Um, which, which still happens. Yeah. [00:20:29] Madame Jaikaran: I would say shame on you. [00:20:31] De'Vannon: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What would you say to the person who got rejected by their family?[00:20:35] Oh, [00:20:37] Madame Jaikaran: I would tell them there's still low. Let that door stay closed. Find on your door, open it, open a new door, go somewhere else. Go where you find love, go where you are accepted. Trying to break that door down is too much energy. Do not put your energy there. [00:21:00] Find other people like-minded and go where there is love, because there's nothing you can do.[00:21:09] A lot of these people, I notice have anxiety because of society. So you have to go where people are like, you will like, you will love you, who you are will accept you. I do not favor trying to change people's minds. I don't care. You don't like me go away. I will find someone else. I want these kids to list.[00:21:39] Literally find love where ever they can. So I know, yes, you heard because you've been up cats, kids I've been thrown out from their families. Their friends have shunned them. Their [00:22:00] jobs have shunned them. There's so much of society that is just disconnected from them. And they're alone. You have to find someone who will love you for you.[00:22:14] I don't know. You know, I don't know what it would be like, how challenging it is and how strong someone is. If they have to go through that, it's an inner Stripe, but I hope they develop a really. [00:22:31] De'Vannon: Thank you for such a beautiful advice. Madam Jacob, I'm going to quote, I'm going to quote Whitney Houston, then I'm going to quote the, uh, the Hebrew Bible.[00:22:41] And then that order. So as Whitney Houston said, you know, during her day that she was smoking her crack and doing her cocaine when she was shooting the body guard, which they had to pause as I understand it because she overdosed, you know, but from their tongue, from her song queen of the night, my favorite line from it, she says [00:23:00] you got a problem with the way that I am, this ain't my trouble.[00:23:03] And I don't give a damn. And then, uh, and then the Bible says that. Better, uh, uh, uh, you know, a friend the near than a brother far, and then there's a friend that sticks closer than a brother. And so what this is saying is if somebody else has a problem with you, then fuck them. It's their problem. You don't have to make it yours and that your true family and your true comrades are the ones that you find in life, not necessarily the ones that you were born into, and now it can be hard for us to silver blood ties.[00:23:39] You know, we're raising families. We see that as a part of our culture, wisdom, wisdom tells us that whoever it is that will not accept you for who you are, be it, your biological family, mother, or brother, father, aunts, uncles, whoever, then it's time for you to get a family of your choosing who will accept [00:24:00] you and not discard you because of persons.[00:24:04] Because the way you were born and then the other kind of personal choice that you may be making, which doesn't even have an effect on them, they just simply don't like things. So, and like, like Madam Jaker and said there's no, there's no sense in trying to change people's minds because they're coming from a place of their own convictions and their own upbringing and beliefs and norms and their mind that they've never challenged and trying to project that on you.[00:24:31] So you're fighting Jim generations in history and years of ignorance. That's manifesting in one single individual. It's much easier. It's not easy, but it's much easier to walk away from people who are hating you and hurting you like that. And find something new as awkward and difficult at first. But they be like, like my Angelo said, like the dust dust from the ashes, you will rise and [00:25:00] it'll be brighter in the morning.[00:25:02] Madame Jaikaran: And that's what I want. As you know, going back to that topic. That's what I want. Whether you're young coming out, whether you're old coming out, it doesn't matter. Blood is not water. It really isn't. It is who is there for you to pick up the pieces when you are your anxiety recent, you're in the middle of a storm.[00:25:27] You don't, you just can't grasp what's going on in life because your mind is recent. You need to be able to call someone to who can accept you. That's what you need at all times. Family will not come all the time, but if you've got some buddy or a group who will be there for you, that's who you need.[00:25:51] Don't chase. Don't keep chasing a tail, which is the family. Family is everything that is caught up to be [00:26:00] anyway. Family has just been a unit. It's just been a tribe. Sometimes you got to leave the tribe. Sometimes you gotta walk alone, you gotta find yourself and you got to be strong. That's what I really want people to learn is strength.[00:26:19] That's what a lot of the, the alphabet mafia needs to have is that inner strength to see, fuck you [00:26:31] De'Vannon: now. Um, and, and fuck you very much. If you want to be a little polite about it. Um, some of my friends, um, are actually. Have like their fingers crossed, like, like when they have kids, like they do not want them to be straight.[00:26:49] Like they really, really, really leave these. And these are straight friends that I have. They're like, please God, let them be gay. They just like, they, they, they want that, [00:27:00] you know, that fun zesty, you know, gay kid, you know, that's like painting his nails and he's like to over at the fuck ever, you know, and everything like that.[00:27:09] And just, you know, having a good old time in life, they, you know, they would just have like so much fun. And, um, I want [00:27:19] Madame Jaikaran: to tell you, I just want just a one comment. Oh, sorry to cut you across. But you know, they're like that. But when that child goes to school, that child no has to deal with the straight kids and the, the, the, the, what is it?[00:27:39] The judgment. From those street parents. So now you have your child, but you know, you like, cause it's cute and everything, but you have to be careful because this poor child is going to be like, so, you know, you have, if you know, you're going to have a [00:28:00] gay kid, have to immediately start honing in on, you have to be more sensitive.[00:28:07] You have to be very careful who they're around because they're still parts of this pockets of this community that want to change that child. They don't want to see the inner beauty of the kid. They see just the outward thing that scares them. They don't want that child around. And no, you know, it's like, I wanna say something weird, but it's like having a boutique kid because it's.[00:28:41] No, you have to have that kid and realize you have a gym and you have to really cultivate this Joan for this jump to grow. I hope I didn't mean to cut you across, but I just wanted to bring that out. It was like a needed to say that. [00:28:58] De'Vannon: I mean, no, not at all. Um, [00:29:00] I mean, not a problem at all. Um, so you're saying that there is, uh, sections of society that would, would maybe try to change the child and stuff like that.[00:29:14] Can you give me an example of what maybe you saw one of your sons go through growing up that would prompt you to say that? What, what sort of struggles in that regard that you experience with your sons? [00:29:25] Madame Jaikaran: Well, they didn't come out to me until very late, so I didn't know, but my thing with them was. Be yourself, enjoy yourself.[00:29:35] You know, you have friends around your friends that are there and, you know, I never saw anything that will hurt them. I didn't see it because, you know, in the, in all community where we live, there were more people of color. There were more brown people. So my children stayed [00:30:00] with, they run with the same crowd.[00:30:02] They were nuts. And inside the nerd community, they could hide themselves. They didn't have to come out to their friends. They didn't have to come out to, you know, other family members like cousins or anything because it were nuts. So they didn't have a really hard time. But the older they got, you know, I really didn't see them.[00:30:28] My oldest one, he didn't have any problems making friends, you know, I don't think, I think he said once he did just tell me once he was riding on the bus and someone made a comment about the gay community and he felt awkward because he, he knew he was gay, but he couldn't say anything, but strangely enough, that's not his circle of friends.[00:30:58] So it wasn't somebody, [00:31:00] he felt he cared much about. It was just, okay, I'm not going to say much because they may hook me on the bus, but he never ran with that. That crowd of people, he just ruined the bus. Some team who had a different circle of friends around him, his friends and my younger one would, they had the same friends.[00:31:24] Those friends literally lifted them. In terms of the accepted it, they knew that they were gay, they accepted them, they felt safe.[00:31:36] So I, I don't it, that might, if the answers it, [00:31:42] De'Vannon: I mean, that's what we were talking about. Finding, you know, a family where you can and, you know, you know, making it work, you know, w with what you've got, um, rather than trying to, to hold on and, you know, and [00:32:00] it's due to stressful blood relatives, you know, the stress of a family can put people in the hospital, they can call them for health.[00:32:08] You know, people arguing, trying to change this person, not accepting this person who they want to love and bring home, you know, families, the families can really, really, really be a hot damn mess, you know, at times in, and then you said that, um, That you don't feel like your sons could have lived in Trinidad as being gay, uh, explain why wasn't going on with the culture down there.[00:32:33] That would make that difficult [00:32:37] Madame Jaikaran: but in Jamaica, they culture is that they do not like gay people. They're afraid of them. They'll beat them. They ostracize them. They believe that, you know, you're just not part of the community. So they look down on you. So instead of seeing what you could achieve or see what you could [00:33:00] bring to the table, they immediately say, well, oh no, I don't want to be around that.[00:33:04] Or I don't want to be around this person. I don't want to be, I'm afraid I'll get something from them. Or, you know, this was, I think what happened at manifested more in the eighties when aids was around, everybody thought anybody who was gay had aids. So right away, they thought. If I touch this desk, I'm going to get eight.[00:33:27] Um, if I sit in the toilet, I'm going to get aids. So they started to hit the gay community. They would run them down, they would stone them. They would throw stuff at them. So just that alone. I don't see those people are still alive. Those people, maybe in the sixties and seventies that we are thinking has not passed on to their children.[00:33:58] Their children would be my [00:34:00] age. They would be in their forties. There'll be in their fifties. Those people have children. So there's three generations that grew up thinking that every gay person had aids and will bring it to the community. So if you will. And you will gain, you will be in torture. You will be in molested.[00:34:24] You will be in stone. You will sometimes turn up dead. That's how bad it was. I wouldn't go home to that because this, the way of thinking is still the same. You've got Catholicism. That's literally still trying to put that choke, hold on. People's way of thinking. So they still think, oh my God. I said, gay guy.[00:34:55] Oh my God, I don't get aids. No, [00:35:00] if it's so they're so closed minded. It's ridiculous. It's very, very, their way of thinking is stagnant. It's still stagnant. So would I. My kids to go home and, you know, deal with the cousins at any level. Yes. But not to have to go through being ridiculed or made you feel bad about yourself or looking down at them.[00:35:34] No, I wouldn't want anybody to go through that. No one should go through it at least of all my kids, because they're mine.[00:35:49] De'Vannon: Oh, absolutely. Um, Madam J crew. And so the hardheadedness of motherfuckers is something that. [00:36:00] That th th that is, that is really, um, unfixable. You know, I think about people who won't get the COVID-19 vaccine, people who want to persecute women who want to get abortions, people who have these set notions and ways and them, and so people who've been rejected for being LGBTQ plus, or having an open relationship or being in a polyamorous relationship or having some sort of something about you that offends people who have a stick of their ass.[00:36:32] It's not, you know, you can't, you know, like, like you're saying, um, Madam, you know, the better energy is to move forward and, and respectfully distance yourself. And it may take time to do you know, we're not saying this can happen overnight, but you know, a plan does need to be put in place because you will spend the rest of your life and end up in the hospital.[00:36:58] A mother, the mother, [00:37:00] the like you won't accept you for who you are or a friend or a church community, or anywhere like that. Now there's places out there that you can go with the way we're connected with, you know, the internet and wifi these days, you know, you live in a rural place, you know, there's, um, you know, there's ways to go on there and get connected with people, even in the gaming community, you know, the Twitch streamers and stuff like that.[00:37:24] People go into the, uh, the gaming Twitch streams and they've voiced their problem and stuff like that. And they find community, you know, in all kinds of ways. And, um, um, and which I'm super excited. Cause you know, I recently learned about that. I'm going to be doing a show with, with a game or a twitcher soon.[00:37:43] And, uh, because I really want to highlight the support that's found in the gaming community. , [00:37:49] Now. Uh, you said, um, well,[00:37:56] uh, talk about the juxtaposition between [00:38:00] raising gay kids versus the conformity of the church, because, you know, you talked about, I believe it was Roman Catholic Catholicism. And, um, how, how was the conflict there and between what the church is telling you versus how you feel in your heart? [00:38:19] Madame Jaikaran: There's a big disconnect.[00:38:21] The Roman Catholic church in the Bible, from what. Says that God accepts everyone. But man, now priests is telling you, you couldn't do only a man can be with a woman. So there lies the beginning of the disconnect, right? So if you try to go to church as a gay person, they won't try to accept you. They're not trying to accept you because they already have it in their mind.[00:38:53] It should be the union as a romantic, a woman. So why [00:39:00] go to somewhere where spiritually, you're not going to be accepted. You're not accepted for who you are and the church doesn't want to change. The church has been set in stone from when it started, where the priest is making the decision is no longer set.[00:39:21] Just read the Bible and you can believe that God is going to accept you. So I have an issue with Catholicism in that it's literally a joke when it comes to things that don't conform to, what man has interpreted to be. So man is constantly saying, well, you have to be, you know, this, you have to be this, you, you basically cookie cutter.[00:39:53] You must be a cookie cutter to what they want you to be. God is telling you there's an [00:40:00] open canvas. You could be anything. I'm still gonna accept you. Who, who whole weeds it, say what God is determining. So that's where I have a problem. How can you raise gay kids in a church, on an environment? The minute they step foot, people are telling them, well, you're going to burn in hell.[00:40:25] You're going to be struck by that. Then you, so imagine as a child, you're hearing this, I stopped carrying my kids to church. I think when they were like six, not knowing that they were engaged, just not believing a lot of things. So no, I have a agnostic kid and one who is, you know, my older one is he's religious, but my second one is not because he already felt like he's hearing people talking about church.[00:40:59] And [00:41:00] when you go to church, there's always the, as I say, the cookie cutter way, but you must conform. And if he's not inside there, where does he belong? Does he sit outside? Where does my child belong? He doesn't feel like he belongs. So why go somewhere? Why push yourself into this place? That's already telling you I don't accept you.[00:41:24] So why do I continue with the Catholicism or imparting, you know, these fable things that they keep saying, I just don't believe it. I don't believe I need to push this on them. They make their own decisions. They, they make their own path in life. They guide themselves accordingly. You just live a good life.[00:41:47] That's basically what God is saying. Living good life. Don't do harm to anyone. And that's what we should all do. But instead we allow a lot [00:42:00] of mind to tell us you have to be this way, or you'll never get that. I don't believe that. What do they put gay people like in a separate the, like in the balcony section or what, what, where do we all go?[00:42:17] Where do they, where do straight people go? The church does not, it does not give us a forum to accept everyone. So I don't believe in it have kind of lost a little bit of my I've lost a lot in the last couple of years in believing in it, because it doesn't text steps, my kids, and that's, you know, the most important thing to me, my family, if you're going to throw my family away, I can't account.[00:42:54] I can't enter those doors again. I just can't.[00:43:00] [00:43:02] De'Vannon: Okay. So, um, I can certainly understand that. So then. So, what I'm hearing you say is that due to the, uh, the off putting ways that church people can be and experiences that you had particularly directed at your children, because you know your children, you know, that they're good people, but somebody is reading a book and getting out of their things that they're speaking against your children and therefore you can't fucks with them.[00:43:32] And so that makes, that makes perfectly good sense to me. One of your kids didn't believe in anything and then the other one is religious. And then so you, uh, having, so you no longer, so you're no longer practicing Roman Catholic? Not really. Not really, or no. Which one? I [00:43:55] Madame Jaikaran: believe, I believe I still believe in God.[00:43:59] [00:44:00] I believe in God. Basically I can say, I believe in God, full stop. You know, I do not believe in what man is saying. So I know there is a God. I just asked for protection for my kids, asked for protection over all of us over everyone. And that's, as far as I go, no, the older one, he believes that there's good.[00:44:26] And that's a great way of thinking. My younger one just says, I don't believe there's anything. You know, we just, you know, there was a big bang and we will create it. How can I change that? He has to change it on his own. I believe in following your path, finding your own information. Finding your destiny. I must not pleased with destiny in front of you because then you're no longer at this time to go down your path.[00:44:57] You're going down my path. [00:45:00] So I leave everything open to them. Religion is open to them, just be a good person, just don't do harm to other people. That's the important thing people need to understand is whether or not you meet a gay person, they are still good on the inside. Whether they are gay, whether they drink.[00:45:21] I don't care. If you believe in that you identify as a monster truck, whatever you are just be good on the inside. And that comes straight from God. It doesn't have to be filtered through a man. And that's where we have a problem is that filtration system that we've got, we have a problem. Rightly so. I believe in.[00:45:48] There may be. I have an unhealthy, that's not a problem, but for right now, I have kind of like taken that off the [00:46:00] table in my household. It's not something that we go to. We don't go to church because I don't believe in simple mockery of just going and recite and stuff and just going, you know, you're just doing it in rotation.[00:46:17] It's like, oh, this stand up, sit down, kneel down this. You're just doing it now by rotation. You've learned it. You keep doing it. You're not learning anything. We still walk out. We walk outside, we're ready to shoot you. We still ready to take care of you. We're ready to curse you right outside the door.[00:46:35] What have we learned? Nothing. So what, why, why should we go there? That's where I'm like, why do I go through that filtration system? That's definitely telling me lots of different things in my head. I don't need that. I need the direct path straight to God. He and I have a conversation. We talk about good.[00:46:58] We talk about bad. [00:47:00] That's it? Nothing else. No one else. It's, it's a simplification of life that I think I've just gotten accustomed to. [00:47:12] De'Vannon: Well, I hear you preaching better than I've heard anybody preach in a while. I met him Jake written because the thing is, and this is a, a strong theme of my ministry is spiritual independence.[00:47:25] And so I'm very much against denominations. Um, I know some people love their denominations and everything like that, but, you know, we can, you know, get into the worship of the nominations and ritual before we realize we have fallen down that rabbit hole. And, um, and I'm against them because. Of all the rituals and everything like that.[00:47:49] And when I used to be in them, you know, looking back I'm like, what, what, why, why was I even doing all of that? What was I really worshiping? What, what was the point? And, um, [00:48:00] so what, what we gotta be careful about is that in our abandonment of physical churches and the nominations, that we don't throw God away with it, which is something that, that I did before as well, whenever I got kicked out of church.[00:48:13] And so, so the mind charisma of the people is to, you know, your most important time, you know, when you were alone with, with, with whatever you believe in, be it God or whatever, you know, if you're not choosing the way of Christ and whatever it is, you know, we're not judging you here for whatever you want to worship.[00:48:33] And so, you know, my encouragement is. To be aggressive about it though, you know, and not leave it floating kind of like in a limbo, you know, if you're going to worship price, you know, and find ways to study him by yourself, you know, reach out to people for advice, you know, and stuff like that, if you need to.[00:48:52] But your most important time is your alone time. So just because the church pissed us off, we've seen our friends and family members and loved ones get hurt by them. [00:49:00] We would do ourselves a disservice to abandon all spirituality because we can get hurt and we can do that sometimes, you know, throw it all all the way.[00:49:08] And I done that before. So, um, you know, as I say, you know, there isn't anything wrong with Christ, but there is a lot wrong with Christian and the church people. And it can be hard sometimes to tell the difference between. You know, between Christ and Christians and church people, but they're not the same.[00:49:26] And so I hope to address that in great detail on my show, moving forward, and then in my blog and in my books and stuff like that, because, um, this is a big deal. It happens a lot. Some of my straight friends will not go to church because of the things that they have seen happened to their gay friends.[00:49:42] And they're like, we just, we can't do it. And so, um,[00:49:49] and so, so that's where you're at spiritually are personally, don't physically go to a church. I was going to a university Presbyterian church here at Louisiana state university that led [00:50:00] you before the pandemic. But, you know, and you know, it's not like, you know, ever since I, I got thrown out of church all those years ago has never really had the same taste in my mouth.[00:50:10] You know, they are a gay affirming church. I do always want to make that point. You know, there are LGBTQ. Churches and denominations Lutheran, Episcopalian, metropolitan community church, some of the Presbyterian churches, you know, they have gay preachers. They CA they ordain trans people. You know, they, and I have all those resources on my website, second drugs and jesus.com you know, knowledge is power.[00:50:35] And like, and like the Lord says, people perish for lack of knowledge, but there's actually churches. And, you know, if you do like the nominations and stuff like that, I'm not saying they're all just inherently evil, but I'm saying that they, they gotta have their place, you know, you know, second to God. And, um, but they are actually the nominations that are totally open to LGBTQ people.[00:50:57] You can be trans, uh, [00:51:00] you can be polyamorous, you know, whatever it is that you do, you can go in there and you're not going to be judged. People are not going to get uncomfortable. And so it's shifting in their seats and all of the bullshit and the dramatic, um, things that happen when you go into conservative churches, you know, they're not the only option.[00:51:18] Madame Jaikaran: Yes. And that's important because you know, for give parents, we need to know, um, kids are safe. We have that, like, it's more of a, a union to understand that people will accept kids. It's just, it's so hot. It's not, uh, an autistic child. This is a child that's gay. That has an alternative lifestyle. They'll lifestyle should not dictate how you treat them.[00:51:58] You should just [00:52:00] how you treat anybody else. It doesn't matter. As I said, you couldn't identify a freaking helicopter. Gotcha. What difference does it make? Just be, you know, accepted. Yes, no, they have some of the churches. Cause there are a few here. Um, And there's like one or two that I've known. I've seen where they say, you know, we accept straight gay, queer, whatever, whatever else.[00:52:27] I don't know all the letters, but you know, they accept everyone. And I absolutely liked seeing that, but guess where they are, they're in the white community, they're never in the black communities. So now I've got to trudge all the way down to the white community. When sometimes, you know, I don't feel comfortable.[00:52:51] I'm not comfortable going there. So that's another thing. So can I really feel comfortable going in an area where there is not [00:53:00] anyone looking like me as a black woman, going into a community that say, well, we accept everybody, but there's always a, but there's always a, but because I'm, you know, a little, um, calm.[00:53:14] We accept this, this, this, this, that, but we kind of, I really don't want black people here cause you know, so do they really accept everybody? No, there's never that one place that everyone feels accepted. It's always a, but, and that's why, you know, it's so hard just to find that one place that you feel accepted, totally accepted.[00:53:43] Totally let your hair down. Totally feel comfortable. Feel like an absolute family. There's just not that place. That's why there's so many, you know, introverts that are gay. They can't come out. They become [00:54:00] nuts. They become isolated. The just there's no community that they could completely envelop themselves in.[00:54:10] And, you know,[00:54:15] Um, I'm sorry. It's like, yes, they do have it. Cause I did he see the van for churches, but then as I said, the churches are not going to accept us now because my sons are black. So [00:54:31] De'Vannon: I guess it ain't one thing it's another, the hearing you explained that, you know, the isolation that you feel, you know, you know, if people, people could feel that way, oftentimes even though they were in a room full of people.[00:54:48] Yeah. And, um, yeah. And so the question is, you know, what can we do with that? You know, that I counsel people to really, really, really, really work on their [00:55:00] spiritual life because. You know, it's a, it's a strong part of who you are and if you don't do anything with it, then a strong part of you is starred and you're going to be out of balance.[00:55:09] Now, when you really get your, your mind and spirit in order, you can be by yourself and never, ever feel alone as your relationship with your higher power, whoever it is, you choose to worship via Christ or whomever, um, grows and strengthens. Um, because we can't, we can't wait and depend on people because that's just not where it's at.[00:55:33] Uh, and, um, so yeah, I don't physically go to church. I like to stay home, read my Bible. I pray, you know, I meditate, you know, I, you know, I come up with ways to get closer to him and that's my greatest prayers to get closer to, to God. And, um, And, you know, if I do go to a church every now and then, which that'll be after the pandemic is over, you know, it'll be just cause I [00:56:00] want to, but it's not like I felt like I have to.[00:56:02] And, um, and so, all right, so then let's switch gears. The last thing that I want to talk about is, is, is, is a women's physical health, because the thing that you, I think we're maybe the most passionate about when we were having our cocktails and conversation on IDEO at the restaurant, was this process of going through menopause, finding out you, you had menopause and it was a big deal you felt, and you feel like they did something that is swept under the rug and not talked about.[00:56:35] So, so preach on menopause and tell it and just then just preach. Just let the Lord do you use you? [00:56:42] Madame Jaikaran: Well, basically I started going into. And like two years ago, and I felt like everything was falling apart. I thought my health was failing. Didn't understand what was going on. Started reading lots of stuff, going to many [00:57:00] different physicians.[00:57:01] I mean, I went from, I went literally pillar to post from GI doctor to, um, ha cardiologist. I, I don't want to take too long, but I went literally the GI cardiologists. I went to the PCP. I went to dermatologist. I went to, to, um, the, uh, neurologist. Because nothing connected. There was nothing connecting these dots.[00:57:34] So I'm waking up with different symptoms. I'm dizzy. I I'm feeling sick. I'm just not feeling like myself. Something's wrong. What's going on? So I'm going from one place to the next I'm going for, nobody's there to connect the dots, not realizing, okay, you're in your forties, late forties going into fifties.[00:57:58] Maybe we could look [00:58:00] at this and see if this is going to be something where you can draw conclusions. So I've done a study stress test at the EKG. I had to do an EGD. I did basically the alphabet. I'm just going, going, going, not understanding, going to the dermatologist. She's pulled out a chunk of my scalp to send it for a biopsy, trying to figure out, okay, my hair's falling out.[00:58:31] What the heck is going on? Literally couldn't, um, couldn't breathe properly. So went up pulmonologist, like, you know, just nothing. Um, I'm thinking the worst. Okay. No one connected the dots at all. I kept reading and I did a sleep study. I just not understand in my body. This is [00:59:00] something that I've been with all year and it has proven grateful, you know, this voyage has been great.[00:59:07] And then I just hit this brick wall. I thought, what the hell is this? Is this some kind of cancer? Is this something nobody to connect the dots everything's coming back. Perfect. Nothing's wrong with you? It's all in your mind, go see a psychologist. I'm like, screw you. It can be in my mind if it's physical.[00:59:26] Okay. Then I start, you know, I start talking to other people and they don't want to have that conversation because they don't want to accept the end of the end of, you know, childbearing. We just think of who my God, I'm old. I'm going to be old crusty. And you know, people are not going to like me. I'm going to be irritable.[00:59:47] But in the interim, I am scared. My older brothers, my older sisters, I have quite a few. I'm asking them. They don't want to have the conversation. They [01:00:00] especially, you know, island people. We don't talk about that. We don't talk about loving someone and we don't talk about, um, Um, you know, female issues, we just don't talk about it.[01:00:13] So where do I go? The gluten, my friends, my friends are Western nations. We don't talk about that, Eva. So ham lost. I have no one to turn to. I'm just reading the internet. I'm thinking they're God, I've got old. I thought I had an array of diseases. Okay. Fast forward to like two years into this. It's not going away.[01:00:37] It's still very bad. Don't know what to do. I've exhausted all the different, you know, doctors I can go to and they keep saying, well, we can't tell you anything until I stumbled upon reading up about menopause symptoms. So I started reading it and it's [01:01:00] not the same thing. Like mine, it's not the same. It's not the same tool.[01:01:04] Okay. I'm like, all right. It could be different according to different people. So now he has that asking a different question. I'm asking my girlfriends, have you experienced this? And if you experienced that well, yeah, well you're going through menopause or don't, don't bring that on me. Don't bring that on me.[01:01:27] Don't talk about the tone. Don't talk that this should be oddity of saying if I tell you, you have, you may be going through this. You think that I'm cursing you with it. I'm like, oh my God. So once again, I go back again and I'm reading and keep reading and I'm trying to understand what is wrong until I said to myself, I think I'm going through medical.[01:01:54] I started done accept that. That was it because I wanted it to be it because [01:02:00] I'm so tired of having multiple. It's used multiple factors. Factions of my life is wrong. Parts of my body just normal, longer conform to how they were just two years ago. I'm like, look, I'm going to accept this. And I started reading it or stopped reading it and reading more and more and more.[01:02:23] I've gone to the doctor and they're like, well, you're still in paramedicals. And I'm like, I can't be, I have to be now in menopause. I have to be in it. I want to be in it. I need to be in it so that I can give whatever disease I have a name. I needed some form of closure, some caption, a title to this multiple organ is used that I was going through.[01:02:53] Eventually I eventually stopped having a period and that's when I [01:03:00] said, okay, I'm in it now. And I had no one to talk to no one to give me advice. No one to say, well, this could be some of the issues. Everybody shuts down the minute we say menopause, it's the biggest, dirty word for women in their fifties.[01:03:23] It's the worst word you could tell them. We feel like, oh my God, I'm no longer sexually attractive. And that, I think that's where we have that. That's where we have a problem [01:03:39] De'Vannon: now. But when you say menopause is a dirty, where do you think that that is specific to west Indians and, and people in the Caribbean?[01:03:47] Or do you, or did you find this across all of the women you tried to talk to? No matter of their ethnic makeup.[01:03:59] Madame Jaikaran: [01:04:00] Mostly west Indian women, mostly women of color, because as you say, we have many, well, they have many preconceptions of different things. So if it's not something that they like, they keep thinking that you're trying to curse them. So menopause. It's like you're becoming way too. Um, what is the word you're becoming way too?[01:04:32] Oh my God. I'm trying to get the word. I said, you're too close. You becoming way too involved in the lifestyle and in that, in their life. So they want to push you back a little bit. They hit that level of involvement when you're trying to tell them, Hey, you know what you're going through could be normal.[01:04:53] No whip, panic, paranoid, but going through stages because nobody's telling us, [01:05:00] and then we're not telling each other. There's no communication. We're constantly keeping it so private. We don't want to talk about it. We're embarrassed, I guess. So it was mainly the Caribbean community that I was having. The biggest pushback of don't bring that on yourself.[01:05:22] Don't say that kind of, don't talk that ship in. This was what people would say. Literally, I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with me. And you're telling me it's tripping it because I think, well, it could be this. So it was really the Caribbean community. And at this point, I love to share about it because as you're saying in your community segments, people may not understand that all these things go wrong.[01:05:52] At the same time when you're going through menopause, it's, you know, [01:06:00] the, I even listened to some of these people on TV, especially the white people they're talking about it and they make it sound like it's such a beautiful transition. It really isn't. It's the full stop at the end of being able to have a child and your body goes crazy.[01:06:20] It goes nuts. So there's nothing nice about it. It's then you sat down in the hot flashes. I mean, I'm sitting down sweating. I can't stop sweating. I just don't understand what's going on. I was never somebody who swept before. So coming from an area where, you know, I'm literally at one point in New York and I'm sitting outside in the middle of winter, it's minus 20 degrees and I'm just sitting outside.[01:06:51] Like a long sleeve top on when Ms. Lauren and I'm right out by, um, I think it was chambers street and I'm [01:07:00] not feeling cold because I'm hot. I'm just hot. It's this overwhelming heat that comes on you. It's not normal. It's just not normal. So when people go through it, it throws us off so badly that we literally can't think we go blank.[01:07:21] We forget things. That's another thing that happens to us. We're very forgetful and it's not, you know, dementia. It's literally your body loses in so many different hormones, creating different things, it's substitute and stuff, and it's just gone crazy. And we don't know what the hell is going on. And nobody's telling us anything about it and black woman, white woman, it's the same.[01:07:52] Cause we just, we just go through this transition period when we're just crazy. That's all I can say about it. We just go [01:08:00] nuts because nothing is working from, for me, it was from swallowing. My heart's racing. It's the Sletten it's you put on a little bit of weight. So then psychologically you're like, oh my God, I am I'm fat.[01:08:19] I'm ugly. I'm losing my hair. My vision is going all at the same time. I mean, how do we handle this? How do we put all this together and still wake up in the morning and not want to kill folks? I don't know how. But bottling it up and not talking about it makes it even worse. So we can never document exactly what white woman goes through black woman, Indian woman, Asian woman.[01:08:47] We can't get a handle on it because it's just not something spoken about. Just been something that's been, you know, brought up to me as far as I'm concerned, these doctors, I have [01:09:00] a feeling cause we're just going from, from one place to the next and the next to the next, I mean, it's ridiculous. I'm sorry.[01:09:11] De'Vannon: There's nothing to apologize for. So what I thank you for that explanation. That's definitely going to help some, some woman out there for the light bulb to come on and for her to, to discover what's happening with herself, transparency is the main themes, the episode and the core of my show. You know, I feel like we can help each other as a community and society.[01:09:32] When we open up about the problems that we're having, rather than trying to act like we're super, super, super people and have our shit together all the time when none of us really do. And so in the show notes, I'm going to be sure to include some sort of link to something about menopause though, do some research and see what I can find.[01:09:52] But, um, but no, um, I think that, that this is, uh, some good [01:10:00] ground that we've covered for this first inaugural community conversations bonus episode. They're going to be featured as a bonus episodes in, um, And, um, and if anybody has any questions about any of this, be sure to email me at, uh, Davanon and sex drugs and jesus.com, which will go in the show notes as well.[01:10:25] And, um, if you have any questions for my guests today, let me know that too. And then I can put you in touch with her. Um, so thank you so much. Uh, Madam J Curran for spending this hour with me, um, I really hope this episode helps someone, um, God bless all the gay people. God bless all the womens and, and you know what, we're all gonna be.[01:10:56] All right. [01:10:57] Yes, let's thank you so much demand. And it [01:11:00] was a blast. It was wonderful. It was amazing closing to you. I really do enjoy conversations with I'm able to open up to be, as you say, very transparent, you know, we don't have anything to hide. It's just, you know, such a nice thing that you're doing for the community.[01:11:18] Madame Jaikaran: Being able to allow people to figure out what they can do in their life and how they can. You're helping people by giving them a purpose to life. Thank you so much. [01:11:33] De'Vannon: Absolutely. Let the Lord be magnified.[01:11:36] Thank you all so much for taking time to listen to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast. It really means everything to me. Look, if you love the show, you can find more information and resources at sex, drugs, and jesus.com or wherever you listen to your podcast. Feel free to reach out to me [01:12:00] directly @ devannon@sexdrugsandjesus.com and on Twitter and Facebook as well.[01:12:05] My name is De'Vannon and it's been wonderful being your host today and just remember that everything is going to be all right.