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Hi, I'm Charley, and this is Untangled, a newsletter about our sociotechnical world, and how to change it.* Last week, I argued that the shared reality that the U.S. has long glorified was predominantly white and male, and historically, fragmentation has proven to be a good thing.* I launched my new course, Sociotechnical Systems Change in Practice. The first cohort will take place on January 11 and 12, and you can sign up here. (As you'll see, I've decided to offer a free 1:1 coaching session to all participants following the course.)* Untangled is 40 percent off at the moment, and I partnered with Anya Kamenetz to offer you her great newsletter The Golden Hour for free! Check out her latest on how to talk to your kids about the election. Signing up for Untangled right now means you'll get $140 in value for $54.This week, I'm sharing my conversation with Karen Hao, an award-winning writer covering artificial intelligence for The Atlantic. We discuss:* Karen's investigation into Microsoft's hypocrisy on AI and climate change.* How OpenAI's mythology reminds Karen of Dune. (I can't stop thinking about the connection after Karen made it.)* How Meta uses shell companies to hide from community scrutiny when building new data centers.* How AI discourse should change and what Karen is doing to train journalists on how to report on AI.* How to shift power within tech companies. Employee organizing? Community advocacy? Reporting that rejects narratives premised on future promises and innovation for its own sake? Yes.Reflections on the last weekI interviewed Karen on the morning of the election. I hesitated to share the episode this Sunday but ultimately decided to release it because it's a conversation about big, structural problems, and what we can do about them. The election results affirm for me the pivot I announced a few weeks ago. Namely, we can't solve existing problems or fix broken institutions such that they return us to the status quo. We're (still!) not going back. We have to transform existing sociotechnical systems as we address the rot that lies beneath. We must imagine alternative futures and align our individual and collective actions to them. We have to live these futures today, and then tomorrow. One day at a time,Charley This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit untangled.substack.com/subscribe

Send us a Text Message.Well it's finally here! Somehow we've made it too 100 episodes of We Needed Roads and I'm Neil & I'm  joined by the full We Needed Roads team of David, Jose & Ben as we take a dive so deep into Neil & Bens favourite film Back to the Future that just like the VHS release of the film the episode says 'to be continued' because we talked for over 4 and a half hours about the film and therefore had to be split it into 2 episodes As its our 100th ep we'd like to thank the following people The guys over at Cast me to Hell who had me on as a guest for the first time, Helen & Kobi over at Flixwatcher, Sean at Review it yourself, the guys over at Seismic Soccer, we'll need to get on seismic cinema soon and Stew over at Stew World Order, all great podcasts who've reached out and had us on as guests which we have greatly appreciated A special shout out to Em over at Verbal Diorama who interviewed me and David a few year ago for the film stories website and gave us their pick of podcast of the weekI'd like to thank the guests we've had on our show who have given us their time and insights into their work such as international best selling crime author extraodonaire Charlie Gallagher, the Emmy nominated editor of Killing Eve and Extraordinary Dan Crinnion, Entertainment writer Nik Huggin, and of course filmmaker and director Josh Roush all the way from New Jersey and our friends Sarah from Popcorn Chat and Marie from 2 girls One reusable cup who is basically the 5th member of the team here now!Support the Show.Interact with us on our socialshttps://twitter.com/NeededRoads (run by Neil)https://www.instagram.com/weneededroads (run by David)Fund our quest for a superyachtOur Merch store is open at...https://hawkr.live/weneededroadspodcast/storehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/WeneededroadsAnd leave us comments and 5 star reviews at...https://open.spotify.com/show/0E31ucDQy7Ha5PRdtahAjbhttps://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNjM1MDQwLnJzcw==https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/we-needed-roads-podcast/id1551792756

Hearing about risk is hard. Interpreting risk is even harder, but deciding which risks are comfortable for you is an essential part of birth!Meagan and Julie discuss how to tell the difference between relative and absolute risk, and what kind of conversations to have with your provider to help you better understand what the numbers mean. They also quote many stats and risk percentages around topics like blood transfusions, uterine rupture, eating during labor, epidurals, Pitocin, AROM, and episiotomies.  And if you don't feel comfortable with accepting a certain risk, that is OKAY. We support your birthing in the way that feels best to you!Risk of Uterine Rupture with Vaginal Birth after Cesarean in Twin GestationsJournal of Perinatal Education ArticleWhat are the chances of being struck by lightning?Needed WebsiteHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull Transcript under Episode Details 02:52 Review of the Week06:08 Determining acceptable risk for you and your provider 08:00 Absolute versus relative risk15:21 More conversations need to happen25:29 Risk of blood transfusion in VBAC, second C-section, and third C-section30:37 Understanding the meaning of statistical significance 32:05 “The United States is intervention intensive” 36:27 Eating during labor and the risk of aspiration under anesthesia43:03 Epidurals, Pitocin, AROM, episiotomies, and C-section percentages44:43 The perspective of birth doulas and birth photographersMeagan: Hello, hello everybody. Guess who I have today? Julie!Julie: Hello. Meagan: Hello. It's so good to have you on today. Julie: Of course. It's always fun to be here. Meagan: It really is. It's so fun. When we sit and chat before, it just feels so comfortable like that is the norm still for me even though it has been a while, it just feels so normal and I love it. I miss you and I love you and I am so excited to be here with you today. You guys, we are going to talk a little bit about risk. We know that in the VBAC world, there's a lot of risk that comes up. I should say a lot of talk about risk that comes up whether it be is it safe to even have a VBAC? Is it safe to be induced? What are our real risks of uterine rupture? Is it safe to VBAC with an epidural or without an epidural? What about at home out of the hospital? Is that safe? I don't know. Let's talk about that today. Julie: Let's talk about it. Meagan: Let's talk about it. I think it's really important to note that no matter what— and we're going to talk about this for sure today, but no matter what, you have to take the risks that you are presented and that is given and still decide what's best for you. That risk doesn't mean that is what you have to or can't do. Right? So I think while you are listening, be mindful or kind of keep that in the back of your mind of, “Okay, I'm hearing. I'm learning.” Let's figure out what this really means and then let's figure out what's truly best for you and your baby.02:52 Review of the WeekI do have a Review of the Week so I want to hurry and read that, then Julie and I will dive into risk and assessing. Julie: Dun dun, we're ready. Meagan: We are ready. Okay, holy cow. This is a really long review, so—Julie: You can do it. Meagan: Thank you to Sara R-2019 on Apple Podcasts for leaving this review. I love how Julie was like, “You can do it,” because she knows that I get ahead of what I'm reading in my mind and then I can't read, so let's see how many times it takes to read this review. Julie: You've got this. Meagan: Okay. It says, “A balanced and positive perspective.” It says, “As a physician myself I think it is unusual to find balanced resources for patients that represent the medical facts but also the patient experience and correct for some of the inaccuracies in medicine. This podcast does an amazing job of striking this balance!“I had an emergency C-section with my daughter 2 years ago. Despite understanding that the CS was medically appropriate and my professional experience, I still found the whole experience to be mildly traumatic and disappointing. This podcast was the main resource I used to help prepare for my second child's birth and my plan to have a VBAC. I am now holding my new baby in my arms with so much pride, love, self-confidence, and trust because I had a smooth and successful VBAC.“I am thankful for this podcast which gave me ideas, confidence, strength, and a sense of community in what is otherwise a very isolating experience. I especially appreciate the variety of stories that are shared, including VBAC attempts that result in another C section so that we can all prepare ourselves for the different outcomes. No matter what happens we are strong women and have a welcome spot in this community, even when we may feel alone with our thoughts and fears. Thank you, Julie and Meagan!Julie: Aw, I love that. Meagan: Yes, that was phenomenal. Congratulations Sara R-2019. If you are still listening here, congratulations and we are so happy for you and thank you for your amazing review. 06:08 Determining acceptable risk for you and your providerMeagan: All right, Julie. Are you ready? Julie: Here we go. Here we go. Can I talk for a minute about something you mentioned before the review? You were talking about risk and how it's not a one-size-fits-all because we were talking about this before. We all know that the uterine rupture risk is anywhere between .2%-1% or whatever depending on the study and what you look at. The general consensus among the medical community is .5%-1% is kind of where we are sitting, right? Now, some people might look at that risk and be like, “Heck yeah. That's awesome. Let's do this,” especially when you look at a lower risk than that that it's a catastrophic rupture. Some people might look at those numbers and be like, “This feels safe. Let's go.” Some people might look at those numbers and be like, “This feels scary. I just want to schedule a C-section.” Meagan: No, thank you. Julie: And that's okay. It is okay. However you approach risk and however you look at it is okay. We're not here to try and sway anybody. Obviously, we're The VBAC Link, so we are going to be big advocates for VBAC access, right? But we're also advocates for having all of the information so you can make the best decision no matter what that looks like. But also, I think another very important part of that is finding a provider whose view of risk is similar to your view of risk so that you guys have a similar way to approach things because if you find a provider who thinks that 1% risk of VBAC is really scary, it's not going to go good for you if you think a 1% risk for a VBAC is acceptable. So yeah, I just want to lay that out there in the beginning. Meagan, you touched on it in the beginning, but I feel like provider choice in risk is really important there. Meagan: It is. Julie: For sure. 08:00 Absolute versus relative riskMeagan: It is and also, one of the things we wanted to talk a lot about is absolute risk versus relative. So many times when people, not even just the actual percentage or 1 out of 5 is shared, it's the way it's shared. The way the words are rolling off of the tongue and coming out can be shared in a scarier way so when we say 1 out of 5, you're like, “Okay, that's a very small number. I could easily be one of those 5's.” It's the way these providers sometimes say it.  A lot of the time, that's based on their own experience because now they are like, “Well, I am sharing this number, but I'm sharing a little extra behind the number because I've had the experience that was maybe poor or less ideal.” Does this make sense? Julie: Yeah. Meagan: Sometimes the way we say things makes that number seem even bigger or even worse or scarier. Julie: Right. It really comes down to absolute risk versus relative risk, right? Relative is your risk in relation to another thing that has risk. Absolute risk is the actual number. It's like 1 in 10. That is an absolute risk. You have a 1 in 100 chance of uterine rupture. That is an absolute risk. Your chance of uterine rupture doubles after three Cesareans. That's not true. That's not true. But that's a relative risk. I really like the example that I feel is really common for people to relate to is stillbirth after X amount of weeks. Evidence-Based–Meagan: That's a huge one. Julie: Yeah, it's a big one that gets thrown around all of the time and it sounds really scary when people say it. I love Evidence Based Birth. They have this whole article about due dates and risks associated with due dates and why due dates should really be adjusted and look at differently. They don't say that. They just present all of the data, but what I really like about that is they have a section here about stillbirth and they talk about absolute risk versus relative risk. I feel like that would be a great thing to start with. I'm just going to read it because it's so well-written. They said, “If someone said that the risk of having a stillbirth at 42 weeks compared to 41 weeks is 94% higher, then that sounds like a lot.” Your risk of stillbirth doubles at 42 weeks than if you were to just get induced at 41 weeks. Your baby is twice as likely to be stillborn if you go to 42 weeks. Meagan: Terrifying. Julie: Okay? 94% higher. That's almost double. That is scary. For me, I'd be like, “Uh, yeah. That is super scary.” Meagan: Done. Sign me up for induction. Julie: Right? Sign me up for induction. But when you consider the actual risks or the absolute risks, let's just talk about those numbers. 1.7 per 1,000 births if they are at 41 weeks. Stillbirth is 1.7 per 1000 births. At 42 weeks, it's 3.2 per 1000 so it's a .17% chance versus a .3% chance so you are still looking at really, really, really small numbers there. So yeah, it's true. 3.2 is almost double of 1.7 if you do the math. Sometimes math is hard so that's fine. We have to get out the calculator sometimes, but while it's true to say the risk of stillbirth almost doubles at 42 weeks, it could be kind of misleading if you're not looking at the actual numbers behind it. So I think that it's really important when we're talking about risks and the numbers and statistics to understand that there are different ways of measuring them and different ways of looking at them and different ways of how they're even calculated sometimes. So depending on how you look at them, you could even come up with different risks or different rates which can really sway your decision. We're not talking about a 5%-10% double which is still true. It's still double, but it's just a really small number. Now, I also want to do a plug-in for people who have been in that .3%. It might as well be 100%. I can't even imagine the trauma of having to have a loss like that. I can't. I have supported parents through that. I have documented families like that and documented their sweet babies for them. I can't imagine the pain that goes with that. But I also think it is very important to look at the actual numbers when you are making a decision. Now, maybe that .32% is too high for you and that's okay, but maybe it's not and that is a risk you are willing to accept. I feel like approaching it like that is so much better. If somebody ever says to you, “This risk of that is double” or whatever, I don't know. I'm just going to make up some random stuff here like, “If you drive in your car to school, you have a 1 in 10 chance of getting in a car crash but if you drive on a Wednesday, your risk doubles so now you have a 2 in 10 chance or 1 in 5 chance of getting in the car crash,” so maybe you would want to avoid driving to school on Wednesdays, but maybe you wouldn't. But if you say you're risk is higher of dying in a car crash if you go to school on Wednesdays, they would be like, “I'm not leaving the house on Wednesdays or ever.” I'm not leaving the house today because it's so dog-gone cold and I'm warm in my blanket. I don't know. I feel like looking at it like that. Actually, 1 in 10 is really high for getting in a car crash, but I don't know. I just feel like looking at that is really important for providers telling you, “Oh, your risk of uterine rupture doubles if we use Pitocin so I'm not going to use Pitocin.” Okay, we're looking at a small increase to an already small risk. We know that any type of artificial induction could lead to an increased risk of uterine rupture especially if it's mismanaged, but what we do know is that it's not– I don't want to say that because that might be wrong. When you are presented with the actual numbers, yes. It might double. I don't know what the actual numbers are, to be honest off the top of my head. I feel like maybe it doubles, but if you are already looking at a .2% to a .4% or a .5% to a 1% chance, what's the tradeoff there? What are your risks of just scheduling a repeat C-section instead of doing an induction? Is that worth it to you? What are the risks associated with repeat Cesareans? Are they bigger than that of using Pitocin to induce labor? What is that compared to the other one because there is another that is relative risk? The absolute risk is what the percentage is. I'm not even going to say the number. But if there's a risk of rupture using Pitocin relative to the risks that come with repeat Cesareans, those are risks that are relative to each other, so how does that compare? Because when we talk about it in just that singular form or that singular amount of risk without considering the other risks that might be associated with it because of the decisions we made from that risk– am I making sense here? Then you know, I don't know. I feel like there is just a lot more conversation to have sometimes when we are talking about risk. 15:21 More conversations need to happenMeagan: Yes. There are. There is a ton more conversation and that is what I feel like we don't see happening. There's a quick conversation. Studies show that 7 minutes are spent in our prenatal visits which is not a lot of time to really dive into the depths of risk that we are talking about when we say, “We can't induce you because Pitocin increases–”. This is another thing I've noticed is significantly. You have a serious–. Again, it comes down to the words we are using. Sometimes in these prenatal visits with our providers, we do not have the time to actually break down the numbers and we're just saying, “Well, you have a significantly higher risk with Pitocin of uterine rupture so we won't do that.” When we hear significantly, what do we do? We're like, “Ahh, that is big.” You know? Julie: Yeah. Meagan: We're just not having the conversation of risk enough and again, it's kind of being skewed sometimes by words and emotion. We were talking about this before. I remember we made a post– I don't know, probably a year and a half ago maybe. It seems like a while ago about the risk of complications in a repeat Cesarean meaning you have a C-section and then instead of going for a VBAC, you go for a repeat Cesarean which as you know, if you've been with us, is totally fine and respected here from The VBAC Link. A lot of the time, we don't talk– and when I say we, I mean the world. We don't talk about the actual risk of having a repeat Cesarean, right? Don't you feel like that, Julie? I don't know. As a doula, I feel like our clients who want to go for VBAC know a little bit more of the risk of having a VBAC, but they have not been discussed at all really with the risk surrounding a repeat Cesarean. We made a post talking about the risks of repeat Cesarean and I very vividly remember a lot of people coming at us with feeling that we were fearmongering.Julie: Or shaming. Meagan: Shaming, yep. A lot of people were feeling shamed or disrespected. People would say, “You claim to be CBAC supportive, but here you are making these really, really scary numbers.” Anyway, looking at that post and going into what we've talked about, in some of those posts, we did say things like, “You are going to have a 1 out of 10 chance of X, Y, Z,”Julie: Or twice as likely to need this. Twice as likely to need a blood transfusion or 5x more likely to have major complications. Things like that. Meagan: Yeah. We would say things like that. I remember specifically in regards to miscarriage. It's a very, very sensitive topic, but there are risks there. So a lot of people were triggered. In the beginning, we talked about the way providers say things and the way they put them out on paper and the absolute risk versus the relative and way they do that. We're guilty of that too. Right here at The VBAC Link, we were like, “This is the chance. These are the chances. You are 5x more likely to X, Y, Z.” So know that I don't want to make it sound like we are shaming anybody else for the different ways that they give the message of risk. Am I making sense? Julie: Yeah, and you know what? I feel like sometimes it's just about giving people the benefit of the doubt. We want to give providers the benefit of the doubt just because it's probably something that they've continuously heard and spoken and that's okay because we do it too sometimes. We go on that thing like, “Oh my gosh, maternal death.” I think the risk of maternal death is 10x higher in a C-section than it is in a VBAC which sounds really scary and makes me never ever want to have a C-section again, but when you look at that, it's .00001% to .0001% or whatever is 10x more. It is such a small level of risk, but it is higher. I feel like trying to look at both absolute and relative risk for any given thing together is really, really important. Yeah. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Give us the benefit of the doubt. We are in such an awful cultural climate right now where it's easy for people, especially on social media to jump on the attack train for anybody when we feel triggered or when we feel like people are being unjust to us or to other people and I hate that so stinking bad. Whenever I catch myself with those feelings, I try to take a step back and I've actually gotten pretty good at that, but it's so easy for us to get on that bandwagon of just railing against people who present information in certain ways or railing people without getting all of the information about that person.Before I go off too much on a soapbox in that direction, yeah. I feel like your provider when they are saying those things is probably not trying to coerce you into anything. Our providers, especially our hospital providers are incredibly overworked. They are incredibly stressed. Their time management skills have got to be off the charts because they are so overloaded with everything and they just don't have time to automatically sit down and explain things. But you know what I have found? Most of them, when you stop them and ask questions, they are more than happy to answer and explain. Sometimes, they are just repeating things they have heard all the time or that they have learned at some point or another without giving them a second glance. Do you know what? We all do that too. Me, Meagan, you listening right now. We all do that. We hear things. We regurgitate them. We hear things. We regurgitate them and we don't even think about questioning or challenging those things until somebody else brings it up to us to question or challenge those things. So, don't be afraid to ask your provider for more information or ask them what the real numbers are to those things. I have a really special place in my heart for our CBAC moms because there are lots of things that they are working through, so many emotional things, but I challenge not just people who have had a repeat Cesarean that was unwanted, but people just in all life, when something triggers you online, stop and explore that. Stop and question because that is probably an area of your life that you could use a little healing and work on. It could be a little bit of work. It could be a lot of work, but usually, when something triggers you, it's a challenge to look into it more because there is something that your body and mind have an unhealthy relationship with that needs to be addressed. Julie: Anyways, circling it back to risk. Meagan, take it away. Meagan: I just want to drop a shameless plug on our radical acceptance episodes that we did, so kind of piggybacking off of what she just said. We dive into that a little bit deeper in our radical acceptance episode. It really is so hard and like what she said, our heart goes out to moms that have a scheduled C-section that didn't want to schedule a C-section or felt like they were in a corner or felt like that was the best option, but not the option they wanted. There are so many feelings, but definitely go listen to radical acceptance part one and part two. 25:29 Risk of blood transfusion in VBAC, second C-section, and third C-sectionMeagan: I just want to quickly go down a couple of little risks. Blood transfusion– we have a 1.89% or 1 in 53 chance of a blood transfusion with a VBAC. To me, 1.89% is pretty low, to me, but it might not be to some. I don't know, Julie. How do you say the other? Okay, then blood transfusion in a repeat Cesarean is 1.65% in the second C-section. It's lower. So for vaginal birth, it's higher. I'm not good at math. Julie: No, vaginal birth, yeah. That's true. So 1 in 53 for VBAC versus a 1 in 65 for a repeat Cesarean. Yes, right. Meagan: For a third Cesarean, the chances of a blood transfusion go to 2.26%. Julie: Yes, so it's like 50% higher than if you have a VBAC for the third Cesarean, but it's slightly lower for the second C-section. See? I feel like we could have talked about this before, but I don't know if we say it often enough. When you are talking about overall risk for VBAC versus C-section, when you are looking at just the second birth, right? So first birth was a C-section, what are you going to do for your second birth? The risks overall are pretty similar for vaginal birth versus Cesarean. The overall total risk is pretty similar as far as your chances of having major complications and things like that. But when you get into three, four, five, six C-sections and vaginal births, that's when you really start to see significant changes in those risks. See? I used the word “significant” again, but we're going to talk about where the more C-sections you have, the higher your chances of having complications you have. The more vaginal births you have, your chances of complications actually go down. So when you are looking at if you want more than two kids, that might be something that you want to consider. If you are done with two kids, then that might be something that is not as big of a player in your choices. So yeah. Meagan: Yeah. Then there are things like twins. So when I was talking about it earlier, the word significantly, there was a systematic– I almost said something– systemic. Julie: Systemic review? Meagan: Yeah, see? I can't say it correctly. I can't. Published– oh, I'm trying to remember when it was published. We will get it in the show notes. It talks about the risk of uterine rupture with twins and it does say. It says “significantly higher in women with twin gestation”. That's kind of hard, I feel like because again, like we were saying, some reviews and studies and blogs and all of these things wouldn't say the word significantly. They may share a different one. I'm going to see if I can find the actual– maybe Julie can help me while I'm talking– study. Okay, it says three out of four studies in a group of zero cases of uterine rupture. Notably, the study with the largest patient population reported cases of uterine rupture in both groups and demonstrated a significantly greater risk of uterine rupture in the VBAC group. Meanwhile, the other three studies found no significant difference between rates of uterine rupture among groups 31-33. Nevertheless, the study shows that electing–”Okay, so I'm just going to say. It says, “Electing to have a PRCD reduces but does not eliminate the small risk of uterine rupture.” So what I'm reading here is that in some of them, it showed significantly greater, but then in 3 out of 4 reviews, and I don't even know actually how many people were in each of these reviews, but in 4 reviews, one had a greater risk and three didn't really show much of a difference, but we see that in the very beginning right here. “Uterine rupture is significantly higher in women with twins.” What do you think? If you are carrying twins and you see that, Julie, significantly higher enters into the vocabulary at all, what do you think?Julie: Well, I think I would want to schedule a C-section for my twins, probably. Meagan: Probably. 30:37 Understanding the meaning of statistical significance Julie: I want to just go off on a little tangent here for a second. I think it's really important when we are talking about studies that we know what statistically significant means because sometimes if you don't know much about digging into studies and things like that which I'm not going to go into too much right now– Meagan: It's difficult. Julie: It is difficult. It's really hard which is why I'm not going to go into it because I feel like we could have a whole hour-long podcast just for that. Statistically significant really just means that the difference or the increase or the change that they are looking into is not likely to be explained by chance or by random numbers which is why when you have a larger study, the results are more likely to be statistically significant because there is less room for error basically. A .1% increase can be just as statistically significant as a 300% increase because it just comes down to whether they are confident that it is a result that is not related to any chance or external environmental factors. I feel like it's really important to clarify that just because something is statistically significant doesn't mean that it's big, catastrophic, or a lot, it just means that it's not likely to be due to chance or anything random. 32:05 “The United States is intervention intensive.” Meagan: Yeah. I love that. Okay. There was one other thing I wanted to share. This was published in the Journal of Perinatal Education and it is a little more dated. It's been 10 years or so, but I just wanted to read it because it was really interesting to me. It doesn't even exactly go with risk and things, but it just talks about your chances which I guess, to me– do you know what I”m trying to say? Julie: They kind of go hand in hand. Meagan: To me, at least, they do. So when I read this, I was like, “Well, this is interesting.” I just wanted to drop it here and I think it's more just eye-opening. It says, “Maternity care in the United States is intervention intensive.” Now, if we didn't know this already, I don't know where I've been in the doula world for the last 10 years. Right? You guys, as doulas, obviously, we're not medical professionals, but as doulas, we see a lot of intervention and a lot of intervention that is completely unnecessary and a lot of intervention that leads to traumatic birth, unexpected or undesired outcomes and then they lead to other unnecessary interventions. It's the cascade. We talk about the domino effect or the cascade of interventions, but this is real so for them to type out, “Maternity care in the United States is intervention intensive–”Julie: You're like, “Yeah, where have you been?” Not you, but the writer. Meagan: Yeah, the writer. Yeah. It says, “The most recent national survey–” Now, again keep in mind it is 2024. This has been a minute since this was written. Julie: About 10+ years. Meagan: 10-12 years. Just keep that in mind. But it was interesting to me that even 10-12 years ago, this was where we were at because I feel like since I started as a doula, I've seen the interventions increase– the inductions, the unnecessary Cesareans increase a lot. Julie: Some of them, yeah. Yeah, especially inductions and Pitocin. Meagan: Not all of the time. I cannot tell you that in 10 out of 10 births that I attend, this is the case but through the years of me beginning doula work and what I have witnessed, it's increased. At least here in Utah, it seems that it has increased. It says, “The most recent national survey of women's pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience reports that for women who gave birth in June 2011-2012,” so a little bit ago, “89% of women experienced electronic fetal monitoring.” Okay. Julie: That seems actually low to me for hospital births. Meagan: It does seem low because to me–Julie: I wonder if there had been a ton of stop and drops or something. Meagan: I don't know, but I agree. 89%. I feel like the second you get into the hospital, no matter VBAC or not, they want to monitor your baby. Julie: Strapped onto the monitor, yeah. Meagan: It says, “66% continuously.” So out of the 89%, it says 66% were continuously meaning they didn't do the intermittent every 30 minutes to an hour checking on baby for a quick 15 minutes to get another baseline, they just left that monitor on them which makes me wonder why. Usually, when a client of mine goes in and has that, they're like, “Oh, your baby had a weird decel so we are going to leave the monitor on longer,” and then they don't say anything. They just keep it on there. Maybe that's– I don't know. It says, “62% received intravenous fluids.” Julie: IV fluids. Meagan: Which to me, is also a lot. 36:27 Eating during labor and the risk of aspiration under anesthesiaMeagan: “79% experienced restrictions on eating.” 79%. You guys, we need to eat. We need to fuel our bodies. We are literally running a marathon times five in labor. We shouldn't be not eating, but 79% which doesn't surprise me, and “60% experienced restrictions on drinking in labor.” Why? Why are we being restricted from drinking and eating in labor unless we have other plans for how labor may go? Julie: That's exactly what it is. They're preparing you for an emergency Cesarean. That's what they're doing. That's exactly what restricting non-IV fluids is. It's not only that, but it is preparing you for the incredibly low risk of you having to go under general anesthesia, and then even people that go under general anesthesia have an incredibly low risk of aspirating and that is what it's coming down to. Don't even get me started on all of the flaws in all of the studies that went over aspiration during general anesthesia anyway because they are so significantly flawed that we are basing denying women energy and fuel during labor based on flawed studies that are incredibly outdated and on incredibly low risk during an incredibly already low risk. I mean, you probably don't want to down a cheeseburger while you're having a baby. I don't know. Maybe me. Just kidding. Even I didn't want a cheeseburger, but I wanted some little snacks, and some water to keep you hydrated. Yes. Oh my goodness. Let's please stop this. Sorry. Stepping off the soapbox. Meagan: You know, there is a provider here. I actually can't remember her name. It was way back in the beginning of my doula career and actually, it was in an area that is not one of my more common areas to serve. It was outside of my serving area. Anyway, we were at a birth and there was an induction. I remember being in there with her and the provider, an OB, walks in and is like, “Hey, how are you doing?” He was so friendly and kind and asked some questions like, “How are you feeling? What are you thinking about this?” Then she was getting ready to leave and she turned back and said, “Hey. I just thought about this. Have you eaten anything?” The mom was like, “No.” She was like, “Uh, you need to eat.” Julie: Yeah!Meagan: She had an epidural at this point. The mom was like, “Wait, what?” She was like, “You need to eat.” I literally remember my jaw falling, but had to keep my mouth up because I didn't want to look like I was weird. Anyway, I said, “That's something I've not usually heard from an OB especially after someone's had an epidural.” She was like, “Oh, I am very passionate about this.” She was like, “When I was finishing up school and graduating,” she had to write some big thing. Julie: Her dissertation probably. Meagan: Time capsule, I don't even remember what it was called. Some really, really big thing. She was like, “I specifically found passion about the lack of eating and drinking in labor.” She was like, “I did all of this stuff and what I found was you are more likely–” Here comes risk. “You are more likely to be struck in the head twice by lightning–” This is what she said. “Twice by lightning than you are to aspirate in a Cesarean after having an epidural.” Julie: I love this lady. Who is it? Meagan: I can't remember. I will have to text my client. Julie: Where was it? What hospital? Meagan: It was up in Davis County. Julie: Oh, interesting. Meagan: It was not an area for me. I said, “Whoa, really?” She said, “Yeah. You need to get that girl some food.” I was like, “Done. 100%.” Julie: More likely to get struck by lightning. Meagan: More likely to get struck by lightning twice in the head than you are to aspirate in a Cesarean after receiving an epidural. That stuck with me forever. Literally, here we are 10 years later. Julie: I love that because first of all–Meagan: I don't have documentation to prove that. She just said that. Julie: That is 100% relative risk. Aspirating during a C-section relative to getting struck by lightning twice. So that's cool. What are the numbers? I know that the numbers are super incredibly low and I feel like when you put in context like that, getting struck by lightning twice, I don't know anybody that's been struck by lightning once and who has been alive to tell about it. I know of a friend whose sister got struck by lightning and died when she was very young. I only know one person in my entire life who has been struck by lightning. Meagan: I just looked it up really quick. I don't even know if this is credible. I literally just looked it up really quickly. It says that the odds that one will be struck by lightning in the US during one's lifetime is 1 in 15,300. Julie: Wow. Meagan: Okay. Julie: So twice that is 1 in 30,000. That's a freaking low risk. Anyway, what I'm saying is that I love that OB first of all. I feel like from what I've read about aspiration under general anesthesia during a C-section seems right in line with those numbers and those chances because it's so rare, it's almost unheard of especially now with all of the technology that we have. It's fine because I'm not going to go on that soapbox. I love that. I love that analogy and that we're talking about that because 10 years from now or when our daughters are having babies, they're going to talk about how their poor moms couldn't eat when they were in labor because of the policies just like we talk about the twilight sleep and how our poor grandmas had to undergo twilight sleep when our moms were being born. I feel like that's just going to be one of those things where we will look back and be like, “What were we thinking?” 43:03 Epidurals, Pitocin, AROM, episiotomies, and C-section percentagesMeagan: Okay, I'm going to finish this off. It says, “67% of women who gave birth vaginally had an epidural during labor and 37% were given Pitocin to speed up their labors.” Sorry, but come on. That also may go to show, that we're going to do an epidural episode as well, that epidural maybe does really slow down labor. Maybe it really does impact the body's response to continuing labor in a natural way, so 31% of those people had to have help and assistance. It says, “20% of women had their membranes artificially ruptured,” which means they broke your bag of water artificially with the little whatever, breaking bag water hook thing versus it breaking spontaneously. Julie: Amniohook. Is it an amniohook? Meagan: Amniohook, yeah. “17% of women had an episiotomy.” I don't know. Julie: I feel like those numbers are probably lower now. Meagan: I think that's changed, yeah. “31% had a Cesarean.”Julie: That is right in line with the national average. Meagan: It is, still. “The high use of these interventions reflects a system-wide maternity care philosophy expecting trouble. There is an increasing body of research that suggests that the routine use of these interventions rather than decreasing the risk of trouble in labor and birth actually increases complications for both women and their babies.” 44:43 The perspective of birth doulas and birth photographersJulie: I believe it. Do you know what? Can I just get on another tangent here because I know that you all love my tangents? I really wish that somebody somewhere would do something and I don't know what that something is, to get the voices of birth doulas and birth photographers heard because this is why. Doulas and birth photographers– I've said this before. We see births in all of the places. We have a really, really unique point of view about birth in the United States because we attend births at home. We attend unassisted births. We attend births at home with unlicensed providers. We attend births at home and births at birth centers with licensed providers. We attend in-hospital births with midwives and we attend in-hospital births with OB/GYNs and some of us are lucky enough to attend out-of-hospital births with OB/GYNs because there are a handful of them floating around. We see birth in every single variety that it takes in the United States. I really wish that someone somewhere would do something to get those voices lifted and amplified because I feel like yes, a lot of that is going to be anecdotal, but I feel like the stories there have so much value with the state of our system in the relationship between home and hospital birth, how birth transfers happen when births need to be transported to hospitals, the mental health of the people giving birth, the providers and the care, and all of that. I feel like, like I said, somebody should do something to do something with all of that information that we all carry with us. I think it could provide so much value somewhere, right? I don't know what yet, but if anybody has an idea, message me. Find me on Instagram at @juliefrancombirth. Find me. Message me if you have any ideas. Maybe write a book or something. I don't know. Meagan: I've wanted to do an episode and title it “From a Doula's Perspective”. We could do that from a birth photographer and all that, but it's crazy. It's crazy. Julie: We see it all. Meagan: There was a birth just the other day with one of our sweet, dear clients where the provider was saying things that seemed scary even though the evidence of what was happening was really not scary, went into a scheduled induction, and the way they were handling it, I felt so guilty as a doula and I was like, “This is going to turn Cesarean. This is not good.” Sure enough, it did and it broke my heart because I was like, “None of that needed to happen,” but again, it goes to us deciding what's best for us. That mom had to decide what was best for her with the facts that we were giving, what the doctor was giving, and all of these things. Again, we don't judge anyone for the way they birth, but it's sometimes so hard to see people not get the birth they wanted or desired, or to have people literally doubt their ability because someone said something to them. Julie: Yeah. Meagan: You know–Julie: Yeah. I agree. It's just interesting. Anyways. Meagan: We are getting off our topic of risk, but risk is a hard conversation to have because there are different numbers. It can be presented differently and like I said, it can also have a tone to it that adds a whole other perspective. So know that if you are given a risk, it's okay to research that and question it and see if that really is the real risk and if that's the evidence-based information. We like to provide them here like we were saying earlier. We may be guilty and I hope you guys stick with us if we share some that might be a little jarring on both sides of the VBAC and C-section, but we love you. We're here for you. We understand risks are scary. They are also hard to break down and understand, but we are here for you. I love you guys and yeah. Anything else, Julie?Julie: No. I just want to say be kind to each other. Give each other the benefit of the doubt. Do everything you can to make the best decisions for you. Trust your intuition and find the right support team. We're all just trying to do our best– us at The VBAC Link, you as parents, providers as providers, and if you feel like you need to make a change, make it. Meagan: Make it. All right, okay everybody. We'll talk to you later. Julie: Bye!ClosingWould you like to be a guest on the podcast? Tell us about your experience at thevbaclink.com/share. For more information on all things VBAC including online and in-person VBAC classes, The VBAC Link blog, and Meagan's bio, head over to thevbaclink.com. Congratulations on starting your journey of learning and discovery with The VBAC Link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vbac-link/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Hats Off To This Week's Contributors: @RyanMorrisonJer, @geneteare, @mgsiegler, @spyglass_feed, @saulausterlitz, @ClareMalone, @benedictevans, @mikeloukides, @ErikNaso, @kateclarktweets, @finkd, @mattbirchler, @imillhiser, @jaygoldberg, @ron_miller, @btaylor, @sierraplatform, @eladgilContents* Editorial: * Essays of the Week* AI Leads New Unicorn Creation As Ranks Of $1B Startups Swells * Behold: The Sports Streaming Bundle* 40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl Forever* Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?* Video of the Week* AI and Everything Else - Benedict Evans from Slush* AI of the Week* The OpenAI Endgame* OpenAI Sora– The most realistic AI-generated video to date* I Was Wrong. We Haven't Reached Peak AI Frenzy.* News Of the Week* I tried Vision Pro. Here's my take* The Quest 3 is better than you might expect* The Supreme Court will decide if the government can seize control of YouTube and Twitter* Arm Results Set The World On Fire* Startup of the Week* Bret Taylor's new AI company aims to help customers get answers and complete tasks automatically* X of the Week* Elad Gil on AIEditorial: And The Oscar Goes to SoraOpenAI teased its new video creation model - Sora - this week.In doing so it released a technical report and several examples of prompts and outputs.Cautious to not over-state the end game the company said:We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our largest model, Sora, is capable of generating a minute of high fidelity video. Our results suggest that scaling video generation models is a promising path towards building general purpose simulators of the physical world.All of the videos are incredible, albeit only a minute or less each. My favorite is the Dogs in Snow video:Although the ‘Closeup Man in Glasses' is also wonderful.I mention this because the speed at which AI is addressing new fields is - in my opinion - mind-boggling. Skills that take humans decades to perfect are being learned in months and are capable of scaling to infinite outputs using words, code, images, video, and sound.It will take the advancement of robotics to tie these capabilities to physical work, but that seems assured to happen.When engineering, farming, transport, or production meets AI then human needs can be addressed directly.Sora winning an Oscar for Cinematography or in producing from a script or a book seems far-fetched. But it wasn't so long ago that a tech company doing so would have been laughable, and now we have Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV Plus regularly being nominated or winning awards.Production will increasingly be able to leverage AI.Some will say this is undermining human skills, but I think the opposite. It will release human skills. Take the prompt that produced the Dogs in Snow video:Prompt:A litter of golden retriever puppies playing in the snow. Their heads pop out of the snow, covered in.I can imagine that idea and write it down. But my skills would not allow me to produce it. Sora opens my imagination and enables me to act on it. I guess that many humans have creative ideas that they are unable to execute….up to now. Sora, DallE, and ChatGPT all focus on releasing human potential.Google released its Gemini 1.5 model this week (less than a month after releasing Gemini Ultra 1.0). Tom's Guide has a summary and analysis by Ryan MorrisonGemini Pro 1.5 has a staggering 10 million token context length. That is the amount of content it can store in its memory for a single chat or response. This is enough for hours of video or multiple books within a single conversation, and Google says it can find any piece of information within that window with a high level of accuracy.Jeff Dean, Google DeepMind Chief Scientist wrote on X that the model also comes with advanced multimodal capabilities across code, text, image, audio and video.He wrote that this means you can “interact in sophisticated ways with entire books, very long document collections, codebases of hundreds of thousands of lines across hundreds of files, full movies, entire podcast series, and more."In “needle-in-a-haystack” testing where they look for the needle in the vast amount of data stored in the context window, they were able to find specific pieces of information with 99.7% accuracy even with 10 million tokens of data.All of this makes it easy to understand why Kate Clark at The Information penned a piece with the title: I Was Wrong. We Haven't Reached Peak AI FrenzyI will leave this week's editorial with Ryan Morrison's observation at the end of his article:What we are seeing with these advanced multimodal models is the interaction of the digital and the real, where AI is gaining a deeper understanding of humanity and how WE see the world.Essays of the WeekAI Leads New Unicorn Creation As Ranks Of $1B Startups Swells  February 13, 2024Gené Teare @geneteareFewer startups became unicorns in 2023, but The Crunchbase Unicorn Board also became more crowded, as exits became even scarcer.That means that 10 years after the term “unicorn” was coined to denote those private startups valued at $1 billion or more, there are over 1,500 current unicorn companies globally, collectively valued at more than $5 trillion based on their most recent valuations from funding deals.All told, fewer than 100 companies joined the Unicorn Board in 2023, the lowest count in more than five years, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows.Of the 95 companies that joined the board in 2023, AI was the leading sector, adding 20 new unicorns alone. Other leading unicorn sectors in 2023 included fintech (with 14 companies), cleantech and energy (12 each), and semiconductors (nine).Based on an analysis of Crunchbase data, 41 companies joined the Unicorn Board from the U.S. and 24 from China in 2023. Other countries were in the single digits for new unicorns: Germany had four new companies, while India and the U.K. each had three.New records nonethelessDespite the slower pace of new unicorns, the Crunchbase board of current private unicorns has reached new milestones as fewer companies exited the board in 2023.The total number of global unicorns on our board reached 1,500 at the start of 2024, which takes into account the exclusion of those that have exited via an M&A or IPO transaction. Altogether, these private unicorn companies have raised north of $900 billion from investors.This year also marks a decade since investor Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures coined the term unicorn for private companies valued at a billion dollars or more.In a new report looking at the unicorn landscape 10 years later, Lee said she believes the unicorn phenomenon is not going away, despite a sharp downturn in venture funding in recent years. She expects more than 1,000 new companies in the U.S. alone will join the ranks in the next decade.Unicorn exitsIn 2023, 10 unicorn companies exited the board via an IPO, far fewer than in recent years. That contrasts with 20 companies in 2022 and 113 in 2021.However, M&A was more active in 2023. Sixteen unicorn companies were acquired in 2023 — up from 2022 when 11 companies were acquired and slightly down from 2021 with 21 companies exiting via an acquisition.December numbersEight new companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in December 2023. The highest monthly count last year for new unicorns was 10 and the lowest was two.Of the new unicorns, three are artificial intelligence companies. Other sectors that minted unicorns in December include fintech, cybersecurity, food and beverage, and health care.The new unicorn companies minted in December 2023 were:..MoreBehold: The Sports Streaming BundleIt just makes sense. Sports was the last thing holding together the cable TV bundle. Now it will be the start of the streaming bundle.That's my 5-minute reaction to the truly huge news that Disney, Warner, and Fox are launching a new sports streaming service, combining their various sports rights into one package. Well, presumably. The details are still quite thin at this point. Clearly, several entities were racing to this story, with both WSJ and Bloomberg claiming "scoops" by publishing paragraph-long stories with only the high level facts. I'm linking to Varietyabove, which at least has a few more details, including (canned) quotes from Bob Iger, Lachlan Murdoch, and David Zaslav.Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney are set to launch a new streaming joint venture that will make all of their sports programming available under a single broadband roof, a move that will put content from ESPN, TNT and Fox Sports on a new standalone app and, in the process, likely shake up the world of TV sports.The three media giants are slated to launch the new service in the fall. Subscribers would get access to linear sports networks including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN, ESPNEWS, ABC, Fox, FS1, FS2, BTN, TNT, TBS, truTV and ESPN+, as well as hundreds of hours from the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL and many top college divisions. Pricing will be announced at a later date.Each company would own one third of the new outlet and license their sports content to it on a non-exclusive basis. The service would have a new brand and an independent management teamYes, this is essentially running the Hulu playbook of old, but only for sports content. No, that ultimately didn't end well, but Hulu had a decent enough run before egos got involved.1 Here, the egos are once again being (at least temporarily) set aside to do something obvious: make money. Sports is the one bit of content that most people watch in one form or another, live no less (hence why it was keeping the cable bundle together). And increasingly, with the rise of streaming, it was becoming impossible to figure out what game was on, where. You could get access to most games online now, but it might require buying four or five different services. And again, then finding which one the game you wanted was actually on...More40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl ForeverAn oral history of Apple's groundbreaking “1984” spot, which helped to establish the Super Bowl as TV's biggest commercial showcase.By Saul AusterlitzPublished Feb. 9, 2024Updated Feb. 10, 2024Four decades ago, the Super Bowl became the Super Bowl.It wasn't because of anything that happened in the game itself: On Jan. 22, 1984, the Los Angeles Raiders defeated Washington 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII, a contest that was mostly over before halftime. But during the broadcast on CBS, a 60-second commercial loosely inspired by a famous George Orwell novel shook up the advertising and the technology sectors without ever showing the product it promoted. Conceived by the Chiat/Day ad agency and directed by Ridley Scott, then fresh off making the seminal science-fiction noir “Blade Runner,” the Apple commercial “1984,” which was intended to introduce the new Macintosh computer, would become one of the most acclaimed commercials ever made. It also helped to kick off — pun partially intended — the Super Bowl tradition of the big game serving as an annual showcase for gilt-edged ads from Fortune 500 companies. It all began with the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs's desire to take the battle with the company's rivals to a splashy television broadcast he knew nothing about.In recent interviews, several of the people involved in creating the “1984” spot — Scott; John Sculley, then chief executive of Apple; Steve Hayden, a writer of the ad for Chiat/Day; Fred Goldberg, the Apple account manager for Chiat/Day; and Anya Rajah, the actor who famously threw the sledgehammer — looked back on how the commercial came together, its inspiration and the internal objections that almost kept it from airing. These are edited excerpts from the conversations.JOHN SCULLEY On Oct. 19, 1983, we're all sitting around in Steve [Jobs's] building, the Mac building, and the cover of Businessweek says, “The Winner is … IBM.” We were pretty deflated because this was the introduction of the IBM PCjr, and we hadn't even introduced the Macintosh yet.STEVE HAYDEN Jobs said, “I want something that will stop the world in its tracks.” Our media director, Hank Antosz, said, “Well, there's only one place that can do that — the Super Bowl.” And Steve Jobs said, “What's the Super Bowl?” [Antosz] said, “Well, it's a huge football game that attracts one of the largest audiences of the year.” And [Jobs] said, “I've never seen a Super Bowl. I don't think I know anybody who's seen a Super Bowl.”FRED GOLDBERG The original idea was actually done in 1982. We presented an ad [with] a headline, which was “Why 1984 Won't Be Like ‘1984,'” to Steve Jobs, and he didn't think the Apple III was worthy of that claim...MoreIs the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?Ads are scarce, search and social traffic is dying, and readers are burned out. The future will require fundamentally rethinking the press's relationship to its audience.Clare MaloneFebruary 10, 2024My first job in media was as an assistant at The American Prospect, a small political magazine in Washington, D.C., that offered a promising foothold in journalism. I helped with the print order, mailed checks to writers—after receiving lots of e-mails asking, politely, Where is my money?—and ran the intern program. This last responsibility allowed me a small joy: every couple of weeks, a respected journalist would come into the office for a brown-bag lunch in our conference room, giving our most recent group of twentysomethings a chance to ask for practical advice about “making it.” One man told us to embrace a kind of youthful workaholism, before we became encumbered by kids and families. An investigative reporter implored us to file our taxes and to keep our personal lives in order—never give the rich and powerful a way to undercut your journalism. But perhaps the most memorable piece of advice was from a late-career writer who didn't mince words. You want to make it in journalism, he said? Marry rich. We laughed. He didn't.I've thought a lot about that advice in the past year. A report that tracked layoffs in the industry in 2023 recorded twenty-six hundred and eighty-one in broadcast, print, and digital news media. NBC News, Vox Media, Vice News, Business Insider, Spotify, theSkimm, FiveThirtyEight, The Athletic, and Condé Nast—the publisher of The New Yorker—all made significant layoffs. BuzzFeed News closed, as did Gawker. The Washington Post, which lost about a hundred million dollars last year, offered buyouts to two hundred and forty employees. In just the first month of 2024, Condé Nast laid off a significant number of Pitchfork's staff and folded the outlet into GQ; the Los Angeles Times laid off at least a hundred and fifteen workers (their union called it “the big one”); Time cut fifteen per cent of its union-represented editorial staff; the Wall Street Journal slashed positions at its D.C. bureau; and Sports Illustrated, which had been weathering a scandal for publishing A.I.-generated stories, laid off much of its staff as well. One journalist recently cancelled a networking phone call with me, writing, “I've decided to officially take my career in a different direction.” There wasn't much I could say to counter that conclusion; it was perfectly logical.“Publishers, brace yourselves—it's going to be a wild ride,” Matthew Goldstein, a media consultant, wrote in a January newsletter. “I see a potential extinction-level event in the future.” Some of the forces cited by Goldstein were already well known: consumers are burned out by the news, and social-media sites have moved away from promoting news articles. But Goldstein also pointed to Google's rollout of A.I.-integrated search, which answers user queries within the Google interface, rather than referring them to outside Web sites, as a major factor in this coming extinction. According to a recent Wall Street Journalanalysis, Google generates close to forty per cent of traffic across digital media. Brands with strong home-page traffic will likely be less affected, Goldstein wrote—places like Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Daily Mail, CNN, the Washington Post, and Fox News. But Web sites that aren't as frequently typed into browsers need to “contemplate drastic measures, possibly halving their brand portfolios.”What will emerge in the wake of mass extinction, Brian Morrissey, another media analyst, recently wrote in his newsletter, “The Rebooting,” is “a different industry, leaner and diminished, often serving as a front operation to other businesses,” such as events, e-commerce, and sponsored content. In fact, he told me, what we are witnessing is nothing less than the end of the mass-media era. “This is a delayed reaction to the commercial Internet itself,” he said. “I don't know if anything could have been done differently.”..Much MoreVideo of the WeekAI and Everything Else - Benedict Evans from SlushAI of the WeekThe OpenAI EndgameThoughts about the outcome of the NYT versus OpenAI copyright lawsuitBy Mike LoukidesFebruary 13, 2024Since the New York Times sued OpenAI for infringing its copyrights by using Times content for training, everyone involved with AI has been wondering about the consequences. How will this lawsuit play out? And, more importantly, how will the outcome affect the way we train and use large language models?There are two components to this suit. First, it was possible to get ChatGPT to reproduce some Times articles very close to verbatim. That's fairly clearly copyright infringement, though there are still important questions that could influence the outcome of the case. Reproducing the New York Times clearly isn't the intent of ChatGPT, and OpenAI appears to have modified ChatGPT's guardrails to make generating infringing content more difficult, though probably not impossible. Is this enough to limit any damages? It's not clear that anybody has used ChatGPT to avoid paying for a NYT subscription. Second, the examples in a case like this are always cherry-picked. While the Times can clearly show that OpenAI can reproduce some articles, can it reproduce any article from the Times' archive? Could I get ChatGPT to produce an article from page 37 of the September 18, 1947 issue? Or, for that matter, an article from the Chicago Tribune or the Boston Globe? Is the entire corpus available (I doubt it), or just certain random articles? I don't know, and given that OpenAI has modified GPT to reduce the possibility of infringement, it's almost certainly too late to do that experiment. The courts will have to decide whether inadvertent, inconsequential, or unpredictable reproduction meets the legal definition of copyright infringement.The more important claim is that training a model on copyrighted content is infringement, whether or not the model is capable of reproducing that training data in its output. An inept and clumsy version of this claim was made by Sarah Silverman and others in a suit that was dismissed. The Authors' Guild has its own version of this lawsuit, and it is working on a licensing model that would allow its members to opt in to a single licensing agreement. The outcome of this case could have many side-effects, since it essentially would allow publishers to charge not just for the texts they produce, but for how those texts are used.It is difficult to predict what the outcome will be, though easy enough guess. Here's mine. OpenAI will settle with the New York Times out of court, and we won't get a ruling. This settlement will have important consequences: it will set a de-facto price on training data. And that price will no doubt be high. Perhaps not as high as the Times would like (there are rumors that OpenAI has offered something in the range of $1 million to $5 million), but sufficiently high enough to deter OpenAI's competitors.$1M is not, in and of itself, a terribly high price, and the Times reportedly thinks that it's way too low; but realize that OpenAI will have to pay a similar amount to almost every major newspaper publisher worldwide in addition to organizations like the Authors Guild, technical journal publishers, magazine publishers, and many other content owners. The total bill is likely to be close to $1 billion, if not more, and as models need to be updated, at least some of it will be a recurring cost. I suspect that OpenAI would have difficulty going higher, even given Microsoft's investments—and, whatever else you may think of this strategy—OpenAI has to think about the total cost. I doubt that they are close to profitable; they appear to be running on an Uber-like business plan, in which they spend heavily to buy the market without regard for running a sustainable business. But even with that business model, billion-dollar expenses have to raise the eyebrows of partners like Microsoft.The Times, on the other hand, appears to be making a common mistake: overvaluing its data. Yes, it has a large archive—but what is the value of old news? Furthermore, in almost any application but especially in AI, the value of data isn't the data itself; it's the correlations between different datasets. The Times doesn't own those correlations any more than I own the correlations between my browsing data and Tim O'Reilly's. But those correlations are precisely what's valuable to OpenAI and others building data-driven products...MoreOpenAI Sora– The most realistic AI-generated video to dateERIK NASOOpenAI Sora is an AI text-to-video model that has achieved incredibly realistic video that is hard to tell it is AI. It's very life-like but not real. I think we have just hit the beginning of some truly powerful AI-generated video that could change the game for stock footage and more. Below are two examples of the most realistic AI prompt-generated videos I have seen.Prompt: A stylish woman walks down a Tokyo street filled with warm glowing neon and animated city signage. She wears a black leather jacket, a long red dress, and black boots, and carries a black purse. She wears sunglasses and red lipstick. She walks confidently and casually. The street is damp and reflective, creating a mirror effect of the colorful lights. Many pedestrians walk about.Prompt: Drone view of waves crashing against the rugged cliffs along Big Sur's garay point beach. The crashing blue waters create white-tipped waves, while the golden light of the setting sun illuminates the rocky shore. A small island with a lighthouse sits in the distance, and green shrubbery covers the cliff's edge. The steep drop from the road down to the beach is a dramatic feat, with the cliff's edges jutting out over the sea. This is a view that captures the raw beauty of the coast and the rugged landscape of the Pacific Coast Highway.Prompt: Animated scene features a close-up of a short fluffy monster kneeling beside a melting red candle. The art style is 3D and realistic, with a focus on lighting and texture. The mood of the painting is one of wonder and curiosity, as the monster gazes at the flame with wide eyes and open mouth. Its pose and expression convey a sense of innocence and playfulness, as if it is exploring the world around it for the first time. The use of warm colors and dramatic lighting further enhances the cozy atmosphere of the image.Sora can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the user's prompt. OpenAI SOra states they are teaching AI to understand and simulate the physical world in motion, with the goal of training models that help people solve problems that require real-world interaction...MoreI Was Wrong. We Haven't Reached Peak AI Frenzy.By Kate ClarkFeb 15, 2024, 4:16pm PSTAfter Sam Altman's sudden firing last year, I argued the chaos that followed his short-lived ouster would inject a healthy dose of caution into venture investments in artificial intelligence companies. I figured we'd finally reached the peak of the AI venture capital frenzy when a threatened employee exodus from OpenAI risked sending the value of the $86 billion AI juggernaut almost to zero. There was plenty of other proof that the hype for generative AI was fading. Investors were openly saying they planned to be a lot tougher on valuation negotiations and would ask startups harder questions about governance. Some companies had begun to consider selling themselves due to the high costs of developing AI software. And an early darling of the AI boom, AI-powered writing tool Jasper, had become the butt of jokes when it slashed internal revenue projections and cut its internal valuation after having won a $1.5 billion valuation in 2022. I forgot that everyone in Silicon Valley suffers from short-term memory loss. After a week sipping boxed water with venture capitalists from South Park to Sand Hill Road, I'm convinced I called the end of the AI frenzy far too soon. In fact, I expect this year will deliver more cash into the hands of U.S. AI startups than last year, when those companies raised a total of $63 billion, according to PitchBook data. Altman's fundraising ambitions will surely boost the total. A recent report from The Wall Street Journal said Altman plans to raise trillions of dollars to develop the AI chips needed to create artificial general intelligence, software that can reason the way humans do. Even if that number is actually much smaller, talk of such goals lifts the ceiling for other startup founders, who are  likely to think even bigger and to be more aggressive in their fundraising. Investor appetite for AI companies is still growing, too. These investors claimed last fall that they were done with the FOMO-inspired deals, but they're pushing checks on the top AI companies now harder than ever...MoreNews Of the WeekI tried Vision Pro. Here's my takeThe Quest 3 is better than you might expectPosted by Matt Birchler13 Feb 2024Alex Heath for The Verge: Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is “the better product” vs. Apple's Vision ProHe says the Quest has a better “immersive” content library than Apple, which is technically true for now, though he admits that the Vision Pro is a better entertainment device. And then there's the fact that the Quest 3 is, as Zuck says, “like seven times less expensive.”I currently own both headsets and while I'm very excited about the potential in the Vision Pro, I actually find it hard to fully disagree with Zuck on this one. I think a lot of people have only used the Vision Pro would be surprised how well the Quest 3 does some things in comparison.For example, the pass-through mode is definitely not quite as good as the Vision Pro's, but it's closer than you might expect. And while people are rightly impressed with how well the Vision Pro has windows locked in 3D space, honestly the Quest 3 is just as good at this in my experience. When it comes to comfort, I do think the Vision Pro is easier to wear for longer periods, but I find it more finicky to get in just the right spot in front of my eyes, while the Quest 3 seems to have a larger sweet spot. And let's not even talk about the field of view, which is way wider on the Quest to the point of being unnoticeable basically all the time. I kinda think field of view will be similar to phone bezels in that you get used to what you have and anything more seems huge — you can get used to the Vision Pro's narrower field of view, but once you're used to wider, it's hard to not notice when going back.The Vision Pro has some hardware features that help it rise above (the massively higher resolution screen jumps to mind), but I'm just saying that if you're looking for everything to be 7x better to match the price difference, I don't think that's there.Beyond this, the products are quite different, though. As Zuckerberg says, the Quest 3 is more focused on fully immersive VR experiences, and while the Vision Pro has a little of that right now, it's not really doing the same things. And when it comes to gaming it's not even close. The Quest 3 has a large library of games available and that expands to almost every VR game ever made with Steam Link.On the other hand, the Vision Pro is much for a “computer” than the Quest ever was. If you can do it on a Mac or an iPad, you can probably already do it on the Vision Pro. And I'm not talking about finding some weird alternate version of your task manager or web browser that doesn't sync with anything else in your life, I'm talking about the apps you already know and love. This is huge and it's Apple leveraging its ecosystem to make sure you can seamlessly move from Mac to iPhone to iPad to Vision Pro. And if you can't install something from the App Store, the web browser is just as capable as Safari on the iPad. If all else fails, you can always just bring your full Mac into your space as well. I will say the Quest 3 can do this and has the advantage of working with Windows as well, but if you have a Mac, it's much, much better.This is more words than I expected to write about a CEO saying his product is better than the competition's (shocker), but I do think that Zuck's statement is less insane than some may think it to be...MoreThe Supreme Court will decide if the government can seize control of YouTube and TwitterWe're about to find out if the Supreme Court still believes in capitalism.By Ian Millhiser Feb 15, 2024, 7:00am ESTIan Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court.In mid-2021, about a year before he began his longstanding feud with the biggest employer in his state, Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation attempting to seize control of content moderation at major social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter (now called X by Elon Musk). A few months later, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, also a Republican, signed similar legislation in his state.Both laws are almost comically unconstitutional — the First Amendment does not permit the government to order media companies to publish content they do not wish to publish — and neither law is currently in effect. A federal appeals court halted the key provisions of Florida's law in 2022, and the Supreme Court temporarily blocked Texas's law shortly thereafter (though the justices, somewhat ominously, split 5-4 in this later case).Nevertheless, the justices have not yet weighed in on whether these two unconstitutional laws must be permanently blocked, and that question is now before the Court in a pair of cases known as Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton.The stakes in both cases are quite high, and the Supreme Court's decision is likely to reveal where each one of the Republican justices falls on the GOP's internal conflict between old-school free market capitalists and a newer generation that is eager to pick cultural fights with business...MoreArm Results Set The World On FireFebruary 13, 2024 · by D/D Advisors · in Analyst Decoder Ring. ·Arm reported its second set of earnings as a (once again) public company last week. These numbers were particularly strong, well above consensus for both the current and guided quarters. Arm stock rallied strongly on the results up ~30% for the week. These numbers were important as they go a long way to establishing the company's credibility with the Street in a way their prior results did not.That being said, we saw things we both liked and disliked in their numbers. Here are our highlights of those:Positive: Growing Value Capture. One of our chief concerns with the company since IPO has been the low value they capture per licensed chip shipped – roughly $0.11 per chip at the IPO. That figure continued to inch higher in the latest results, but critically they pointed out that their royalty rate doubles with the latest version of their IP (v9). This does not mean that all of their royalty rates are going to double any time soon, but it does point very much in the right direction. Critically, they noted this rate increase applies to architectural licenses as well.Negative: The Model is Complex. Judging from the number of questions management fielded on the call about this rate increase no one really knows how to model Arm. The company has a lot of moving parts in its revenue mix, and they have limits to their ability to communicate some very important parts of their model. We think that at some point the company would be well served by providing some clearer guide posts on how to build these models or they risk the Street always playing catch up with a wide swing of expectations each quarter.Positive: Premium Plan Conversion. The company said three companies converted from their AFA plan to the ATA model. We will not get into the details of those here, but these can best be thought of in software terms with customers on low priced subscription plans converting to Premium subscription plans. This is a good trend, and management expressed a high degree of confidence that they expect to see it continue. They have spent a few years putting these programs in place and seem to have thought them through. This matters particularly because these programs are well suited for smaller, earlier-stage companies. The old Arm struggled to attract new customers in large part because of the high upfront costs of Arm licenses. Programs like AFA and ATA could go a long way to redressing those past wrongs.Negative: China remains a black box. Arm China is of course a constant source of speculation. In the latest quarter it looks like a large portion of growth came from China which does not exactly square with other data coming from China right now. It is still unclear to us how much of Arm's revenues from China's handset companies gets booked through Arm China as a related party transaction and how much is direct. Investors are confused too. There is no easy solution to this problem, digging too hard into Arm China's numbers is unlikely to make anyone happy with the answers, but hopefully over time it all settles down.Positive: Growing Complexity of Compute. Management repeatedly mentioned this factor, noting that this leads to more chips and more Arm cores shipping in the marketplace. Some of this is tied to AI, but we think the story is broader than that. It is going to be tempting to see much of Arm's growth as riding the AI wave, but this does not fully capture the situation. The AI story is largely about GPUs, which are not particularly heavy with Arm cores. But those GPUs still need some CPU attach, and AI accelerators can sometimes be good Arm targets.Negative: Diversification. Arm remains heavily dependent on smartphones, and we suspect the return to inventory stocking by handset makers is playing a big role in their guidance. When asked about segmentation of their results the company declined to update the model provided during the IPO. We hope to see some diversification here when they do update their figures later in the year.Overall, the company did a good job in the quarter. They still have some kinks to work out with their communication to the Street, but this was a good second step as a public company...MoreStartup of the WeekBret Taylor's new AI company aims to help customers get answers and complete tasks automaticallyRon Miller @ron_miller / 6:36 AM PST•February 13, 2024Image Credits: mi-vector / Getty ImagesWe've been hearing about former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor's latest gig since he announced he was leaving the CRM giant in November 2022. Last February we heard he was launching an AI startup built with former Google employee Clay Bavor. Today, the two emerged with a new conversational AI company called Sierra with some bold claims about what it can do.At its heart, the new company is a customer service bot. That's not actually all that Earth-shattering, but the company claims that it's much more than that, with its software going beyond being an extension of a FAQ page and actually taking actions on behalf of the customer.“Sierra agents can do so much more than just answer questions. They take action using your systems, from upgrading a subscription in your customer database to managing the complexities of a furniture delivery in your order management system. Agents can reason, problem solve and make decisions,” the company claimed in a blog post.Having worked with large enterprise customers at Salesforce, Taylor certainly understands that issues like hallucinations, where a large language model sometimes makes up an answer when it lacks the information to answer accurately, is a serious problem. That's especially true for large companies, whose brand reputation is at stake. The company claims that it is solving hallucination issues.Image Credits: SierraAt the same time, it's connecting to other enterprise systems to undertake tasks on behalf of the customer without humans being involved. These are both big audacious claims and will be challenging to pull off...MoreX of the Week This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thatwastheweek.substack.com/subscribe

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Sabrina's first birth was a traumatic crash Cesarean. She and her baby were thankfully perfectly healthy, but Sabrina was left with no desire to have any more kids. She didn't realize how much her birth experience played into those feelings until she became pregnant with her second. Sabrina found The VBAC Link through another birth podcast and listened every day on her way to work starting at four weeks pregnant! The beautiful stories from Women of Strength gave her the encouragement to go for it. And Sabrina absolutely proved the fight that was within her. After two weeks of prodromal labor, over 48 hours of labor, and listening to her intuition as plans changed during labor which included some help with forceps, Sabrina achieved the VBAC she was fighting for. Even though her labor and birth were physically brutal, Sabrina immediately felt like she could do it all again. Additional LinksNeeded WebsiteThe Lactation NetworkHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull Transcript under Episode Details Meagan: Welcome to The VBAC Link everybody. I am just so happy. I love reviews so much and want to encourage anyone who has maybe been with us for a while or has been listening to let us know your thoughts. Tell us what you think about The VBAC Link. Today, before we get into this review, I wanted to introduce our guest today. Her name is Sabrina. Hello. Sabrina: Hi. Meagan: It's so fun to be here with you today. She jumped on and was like, “Oh, it's so crazy. You were in my ear and now we're here.” Sabrina: Yeah. It is crazy. Meagan: It's so awesome though. I love when our guests come on and they are like, “I've literally been listening to you for so many years. This is so surreal.” It's so fun. It's just such an honor to have you guys sharing your stories because I want you to know that you guys are the reason why this podcast is amazing. Just saying. These storytellers are the reason why The VBAC Link is incredible and all of these professionals come on. They make this podcast what it is. Review of the WeekI'll get into this review and then we'll get into your story. This is from aliaholland. This was back in 2023 and it says, “Love the host.” Oh, that makes my heart sing. Sing and smile, apparently, my heart does a lot of things. It says, “I'm 35 weeks pregnant and planning an all-natural VBAC in the hospital. I've been listening to a few different podcasts but keep coming back to this show. The host is very interactive and nice to listen to. Format is a good blend of birth stories as well as good education.” Oh, that makes me happy and that is exactly what we want to have on the podcast. It is the birth stories and education. If you are out there and you are listening and you are a birth educator or you are a midwife or you are an OB or maybe an anesthesiologist and you work really heavily in the birth world and you think it would be cool to come on the podcast and talk about some education points, we would love that. Always feel free to reach out at info@thevbaclink.com. Sabrina's storiesMeagan: Okay, cute Sabrina. We are talking about two very dramatically different stories today within your own birth stories. I want to just, I don't know if we need necessarily– what's the word– a trigger warning, but at the same time, I think it's really important to talk about how sometimes things just don't go as planned, but then what we can overcome and how we can grow through experiences and have really, really great experiences. I was just telling Sabrina this before she got on. In her note, at the bottom as a reminder to this community, that doesn't mean you failed. I love that message so much because I think so many times in this community, we do feel that feeling. Sometimes we don't even just feel it, we are told that. Sabrina: Definitely. Meagan: Right? We are told. I want to turn the time over to you to share your stories. Sabrina: Perfect. Okay, well I have two little babies. They are two years apart and yes. I'll just start obviously with my C-section story. I went into birth thinking, “I'm young. I can do it. This is easy. This is what I'm made to do.” Everything with my pregnancy with my first daughter was great. Nothing really happened and then at my 32-week midwife appointment, we were listening on the Doppler and her heart actually skipped some beats. It didn't come to anything, but it kind of plays into the story a little later. I was just kind of like, “What's that? Why can I notice this?”Meagan: Abnormalities here. Sabrina: I could hear it so obviously something was going on. We did an ultrasound and everything was fine, so no worries there. My labor started pretty good. I woke up and had that weird feeling that it was coming. My dog was following me around and all of that stuff, so I was like, “Okay. This is the day.” Meagan: Something is happening, yes. Sabrina: The baby is coming. My husband was at work, so I just labored at home. My contractions actually came on right away at 10 minutes apart and progressed like that. He came home probably around 4:00 in the afternoon and we live 45 minutes from a city with a hospital birth at. So I was like, “Okay, we should probably go to the city now.” We go there. I actually had to labor at my in-laws' so that was quite fun because they are asking you, “Do you want water? Do you want food?” I'm like, “I want to be left alone right now.” We stayed there until about 9:00 PM. My midwife was called and she was like, “Oh, you're only 3 centimeters.” I was like, “Okay.” She was like, “We'll see you later tonight.” I was like, “All right.” My husband went to bed. 1:30 comes and I've been walking around for the last four hours.” I was like, “Okay, now.” Meagan: Exhausted. Sabrina: Yes. It has to be time now. I can go to the hospital. She comes. She's like, “Yeah. You're 5 centimeters. We can go now.” Oh, that's my little baby. Meagan: That's okay. Sabrina: We called one hospital that we were supposed to go to and they were actually full. It's a blessing in disguise because we ended up going to a level 1 trauma hospital, so more advanced and actually probably helped with what happened to us. We go there. I'm still feeling good going through the motions. I wasn't progressing very fast. This is where the interventions start. She asks if I want her to break my water. I obviously had no idea. I thought that was normal, so I was like, “Yeah, go ahead.” So she did and then as things do, they progressed quite quickly from there. That was probably at 3:00 in the morning. We got to about 6:00 in the morning and I was ready for an epidural. I was like, “This is way more than I imagined.” I've already been going about this for 20ish hours, so let's do it. He came in. Everything was great. I felt great after that. I was like, “Okay, I can do this.” My contractions went from a minute apart to 10 minutes apart. I was like, “Okay well,” I didn't know any better so I was chilling. My midwife was like, “Okay, we have to do something.” Meagan: They wanted to encourage labor to continue forward quicker. Sabrina; Yeah, exactly. I had no idea, so I was like, “Yeah. Let's do something.” An OB comes in. We do Pitocin. We start it. Everything is going fine. We had a few dips, so they took it off and it wasn't like anything was too concerning. She wasn't recovering great after we took it off either. They said, “We'll put in an internal monitor.” Meagan: Oh, an FSC. Fetal scalp electrode. Sabrina: Yeah, because she wasn't recovering. They didn't know if it was because they couldn't find it with the belly ones or she was moving. I was like, “Okay.” We had it on for a little while and just hung out until she seemed stable, and I was still at 7 centimeters. Nothing had changed. Meagan: But still, that's good. Sabrina: Yeah, it still wasn't fast enough. They come back in and they're like, “We're going to start again.” This was probably 1:30. I'm like, “Okay, let's start it.” They turn it on and probably within 5 minutes, there's absolutely no heartbeat. There are two monitors on. They can't find her. Meagan: So scary. Sabrina: I'm obviously hysterical because I can hear the machine not beeping. There's nothing there. At that point, 15 people ran into the room. This one nurse comes running in. She's like, “OR, right now.” I had no idea this was even an option. We get to the OR and all I remember is that this one nurse introduced herself to me and her name was also Sabrina. She's like, “Okay, honey. Here we go.” I'm like, “Here we go, what? Where's the baby? What's going on?” She's like, “You're under general anesthetic. Your husband can't come in. This is happening right now.” Obviously, I'm bawling my eyes out because I think my baby is no longer there. Meagan: Yeah. Sabrina: Yeah, super traumatic. My husband comes in. He's crying. He's like, “I can't be in here. I can only give you a kiss. This is it. Good luck.” I was like, “Okay.” Meagan: They're kind of taking a long time. Sabrina: It seems like a long time in the thing, but honestly– Meagan: It was probably quicker. Sabrina: They were doing everything. I could feel them putting the iodine on my stomach and everything like that. The midwife was like, “Sabrina, babies are born two ways, vaginally or C-section. You're having this baby. It's going to be fine.” That's really all I remember. Meagan: Knocked out after that. Sabrina: Yeah. Mask on, obviously. You're under general anesthetic. Yeah, I wake up. We didn't know the sex of the baby. I had no idea I had a baby. I wake up and they're like, “Sabrina, you had a baby.” I was like, “I did what? I had what?” They're like, “Yeah, she's with her dad.” I was like, “She? It's a girl?” That feeling is the best feeling I had in the whole world. She was perfectly fine and there was nothing wrong with her heart at all. It just wasn't handling the Pitocin and they got her out quick enough that they didn't have to do any resuscitation or anything like that. Meagan: What were her APGARs? Do you remember? Sabrina: I don't know, but she got to go be with her dad right away. Meagan: Interesting. Sabrina: Yeah. I actually have a video of her screaming that my midwife took. I was like, “That's actually crazy.” Meagan: That is very interesting, yeah. Sabrina: Yeah, so I don't know what was going on. She didn't have any NICU stay or anything. She was perfect. They wheel me out. Obviously, I'm not very coherent. My husband is holding her and he's like, “This is our baby.” I was like, “It's a girl!” He was like, “Yeah, it is. She's perfect.” Everything was great. I ended up having a hemorrhage during surgery. I had to stay for a while. Luckily, I didn't need a blood transfusion, just iron transfusions. Yeah. That was it. I went home. I had the baby on Saturday and I went home on Tuesday. Meagan: Oh, okay. Sabrina: Everything was pretty good and that was my C-section story. Obviously, my midwife was like, “Everything that could go wrong went wrong, but you came out of it fine and so did she.” Meagan: Yeah. Yeah. Sabrina: Fast forward, I didn't want another baby. I didn't think it was trauma, I just didn't want one. I couldn't relate the two until I ended up with our surprise baby. Meagan: I bet. Sabrina: Three weeks before we were supposed to get married. Meagan: Oh my gosh. Sabrina: Yeah, we had a destination wedding planned in Mexico and I had a surprise pregnancy. It really struck me then that the reason I didn't want a baby is that I didn't want that fear happening again. I immediately started research and I was listening to actually a different podcast that you guys were a guest on. Meagan: Oh. Sabrina: Yeah, All About Pregnancy and Birth with Dr. Rankins. Meagan: Yeah, Nicole, yeah. Sabrina: Yeah, you guys were a guest and then I was like, “Oh, I should listen to them.” I was probably 4 weeks pregnant and I listened to every single episode on my drive to work every day. I was like, “This is what I'm doing.” It just gave me the encouragement to go for it. Yeah. We went ahead and we were trying for a VBAC. All of my family was like, “Mmm, are you sure?” “Yep. This is what I want. I don't want to recover with a toddler and a newborn. My husband has to work. What am I gonna do?” I was definitely questioned a lot on it, but something the OB told me after my C-section was like, “You're a great candidate for a VBAC because what went wrong wasn't your fault. There is nothing wrong.” I mean, the too-small pelvis wrong thing that they say. There was nothing there that was bad. It was just her. So his pregnancy was great. I was anemic. I had iron infusions before I labored so if anything was to happen, we would be prepared for that. My midwife was super supportive. I came in at 10 weeks with all of the questions that I heard on The VBAC Link. What about induction? She was like, “We don't induce until 41 and 3.” “What about all of these other things?” She was like, “No. This is what you want to do. You're fine.” I was like, “Oh, okay.” So if anyone needs a midwife up in Canada in Calgary, Alberta specifically, Origins Midwifery is great. Everything went well. My first came early, so of course, when your second one comes late, it's hard. I was 40 weeks pregnant. I had been having prodromal labor for two weeks. Meagan: Oh. Sabrina: I was waking up every night around the same time with contractions and was like, “Today's the day. Okay. Today's the day.” Meagan: That darn prodromal labor. Sabrina: Yep. My husband came home one week before it actually happened and was like, “Okay, let's go.” I was like, “Oh, now they're stopped. Sorry babe.” I was doing the 10,000 steps every day. I ate all of the dates. I ate all of the things just to make sure that I didn't go through this again. I was like, “I'm ready.” Meagan: Yeah. You did all of the things to prepare. Sabrina: Yeah, literally everything I could do, I did. So 40 and 3 comes. It's 1:00 in the morning. I wake up with contractions again. I was like, “Okay, this has to be it. We're overdue now. Let's go.” Yeah. I wake up. I'm like, “Okay.” I wait it out. They're not super strong, but again, they started 10 minutes apart. I had a midwife appointment that day as well, so I was like, “Do I call her right now and be like, ‘Cancel your day or do I wait it out?'” My midwife appointment was in the early afternoon, so I dropped off my toddler and I went there. I was like, “Okay. I'm definitely in early labor. It's been 12 hours now. I'm on a clock. I'm having contractions consistently for 10 minutes. I've tried a shower to stop them. I've gone out of the house. I've tried to scare them away. They're not stopping.” She was like, “Okay, let's do a check.” I was like, “Sure. Let's do a check.” She's like, “Okay, well you are 1 centimeter dilated.” I was like, “Are you kidding?” I've been doing this for two weeks already and now 12 hours of this and I'm only 1 centimeter dilated?” She was like, “Yes, but I can feel the contractions.” I was like, “Okay.” She was like, “So I will see you later.” Meagan: You're like, “Okay.” Sabrina: A week later or tonight later? So we went home. She did do a sweep at that point just to see if it would stretch at all. She said that it did. I don't know what it did, but I went home. I was like, “Okay. I'll just keep going through it.” They hadn't stopped. They were still 10 minutes apart. My husband came home at his normal time. There was no real rush. We hung out and made dinner. It was our last dinner as a family of three and I was super emotional about it. We put our kid to bed and I was like, “I can't sleep. They're already strong enough that I'm not sleeping, so now I've been going at this all day already.”1:00 in the morning comes and I've decided, “Okay. I'm going to have a shower. They're getting pretty strong. I'm going to try to listen to HypnoBirthing tracks.” I wanted to labor at home as long as possible. I called my midwife. I was like, “Okay, things are changing. They are 5 minutes apart.” Again, we live 45 minutes from a hospital. She was like, “Do you want me to come check you or do you think you can keep waiting?” Meagan: That's pretty cool that she was willing to come check you or even come see you. Sabrina: Yeah. I was like, “I don't want you to have to drive all the way here and then drive all the way home and then have to drive to the hospital in a few hours.” I was like, “I'll just keep going.” She was like, “Try another bath. Try another shower.” I sent my husband back to bed and I was like, “Okay. I'll just keep going.” I kept going and I was actually in my daughter's room. She was sleeping in our room. I was over her rocking chair just on my knees with my hands over. This was probably at 3:30 in the morning. I felt this weird change which I learned later was my water breaking, but there was no water. It was a weird feeling and I was like, “Oh, that's really weird.” Yeah, so then I just kept walking around. I had more mucusy discharge so I was like, “Okay. This is not good now.” It's 5:00 in the morning. My husband was still sleeping. I was like, “It's time to wake up.” I'm out here moaning through them. We need to go to the city. We are ready to go. So we call her. She's like, “Okay. They sound different.” I told her about the water. She was like, “Okay, there's no fluid?” I was like, “No. There's nothing coming out.” So she met us there at the hospital. It's 6:00 AM at this point. She was like, “We'll check you.” I'm like, “Great.” She was like, “I don't see your waters, but I can confirm they're broken.” “Oh, okay sure.” She was like, “You're only 4 centimeters.” I was like, “Are you kidding me?” Meagan: Yeah, super frustrating. Sabrina: Yeah. 24 hours of consistent contractions and I'm only 4 centimeters? What? She was like, “Okay, because you're not coping well and you live this far away, we're going to admit you.” I was like, “Okay, fine.” So we got admitted. I was doing all of the walking and everything like that in our room and by 8:00, she checked me and I was 8 centimeters. I was like, “Oh, okay.” Two hours and I am 4 centimeters further along. Great. Let's keep going. So I was at the point where they were so bad. I was so tired and I was like, “Okay, I want an epidural.” The midwife was like, “You just made it from 4 to 8 in a few hours. Keep going.” I was like, “Oh, okay.” I was over the bed, on the toilet, everywhere I could go and now, it was 12:00. I was like, “Okay. I am dying.” Meagan: So tired, I'm sure. Sabrina: Yeah. I'm crying at this point. I need an epidural. She's like, “Okay, let me check you.” She's like, “You're still 8 centimeters.” I was like, “What? There's no way. How did I progress so quickly to here from 4 to 8 and now I'm just stuck?” She's like, “Okay. Give yourself a time. Give yourself a time limit until you can't do it anymore.” I was like, “Okay. I'll go until 2:00. Two more hours. I will just fight through this. At that point, if I'm not any different, call them.” 2:00 comes around and I was like, “Okay, I'm just going to push it a little longer. I really want it.” At 2:45, I was like, “All right, where am I at?” She was like, “You're still 8.” So we called the anesthesiologist in. I had been doing all of the labor positions. I was on my hands and knees. I tried the peanut ball. I tried a birthing ball and nothing was helping.Meagan: Did you know his position? When she checked, could she tell his position at all? Sabrina: Not really, he was just there. That does play in. He does become asynclitic later on which explains even more of why nothing was happening. So then I was just going through the motions. I was like, “Okay. Maybe my body needs to rest. Maybe I just get it and things are going to happen.” I was very upset because I wanted no interventions. My husband was like, “Just do it, Sabrina. You've been at this for a long time.” They come in. It's 3:30 and at this point, I'm throwing up. I was like, “Oh, this is transition.” It wasn't. I was just tired and sick. Meagan: Exhausted. Sabrina: They're like, “Okay.” They gave me the epidural and I was like, “Okay, I feel good. I'm just going to hang out and rest a little bit.” Yeah, then again, nothing happens. I thought I would get some rest and things would keep progressing fast and that was not true. So we were still 8 at about 6:00 PM. My midwife was like, “Okay, if your waters did break at 3:00 AM, you are coming up on a time limit here.” I was like, “Oh.” Meagan: Were you showing any signs of infection?Sabrina: Nothing. I felt good. His heart rate was good. I was just tired and emotional at that point. She was like, “We have to call in an OB.” I was like, “Okay.” She was like, “You have options.” She was like, “You have an option to have a C-section right now.” I was like, “Okay.” She was like, “Or you have the option to start Pitocin.” I was like, “I really don't want that. I really don't want it.” I cried about it for about an hour. My husband was like, “This is a different birth. This is a different baby. If it goes wrong, they can still take the baby out.” I was like, “Okay.” The OB warned me. She was like, “If you start Pitocin and he gets down into the birth canal, you cannot go back and have a C-section. You will be birthing this baby.” I was like, “Okay.” Meagan: If something went awry, they totally could. Sabrina: They would, but she was like, “You're not getting all the way there and then tapping out.” I was like, “It's not really tapping out, but whatever.” Meagan: Interesting, yeah, that they said that. Sabrina: Then she told me, “I do have a high rate of forceps.” I was like, “Okay, I appreciate the honesty.”Meagan: Like a high success rate or do they use them all the time?Sabrina: She uses them a lot. Meagan: That's interesting. Sabrina: Yeah, it was. She was like, “Okay, what are your hard no's?” I was like, “I would not like forceps and I would not like an episiotomy.” She was like, “Okay, but if you need it, would you accept it?” I was like, “Yeah, obviously, for the safety of my baby.” Meagan: Like you would choose that over a C-section maybe that is what she was trying to say. Sabrina: Yeah. We start the Pitocin maybe at about 8:00 PM. I was like, “Okay, here we go.” They're coming in every half hour doing it up. She said that she had no limit on how much she would give even with a previous C-section. I guess some OBs have a limit. Meagan: Yes, they do. Yeah. Sabrina: She said that she didn't. Meagan: Interesting, okay. Sabrina: She was like, “If you want to do this, I am game to do it.” I was like, “Okay. Let's do it.” So we started Pitocin. She came back around 10 and she was like, “You're still only 8 centimeters.” I had been on Pitocin for two hours now. Meagan: This is seriously a positional issue now. Sabrina: Then she's like, “Let's check him.” She's like, “Oh, I think he's asynclitic.” I was like, “Could we have not discovered this–Meagan: Hours ago? Sabrina: This morning. So she was like, “Try the peanut ball some more. If he doesn't move in two hours, you're having a C-section.” I was like, “Okay, fine.” We're going at it. I'm on the peanut ball. I'm switching positions. I must have had a decent epidural because I was able to do all of this on my own. My nurse checked me at 11:30. She was like, “You're 9.5.” I was like, “What?”Meagan: Positional changes. Sabrina: She was like, “You're mindset, this physician. Keep going.” I was like, “Okay. I can do it.” Midnight rolls around. She checked me and she was like, “You're 10 centimeters.” I was like, “We did it. We made it. Now this baby is being born.” It is now two days later. Here we go. My appointment was on Wednesday morning. It is now Friday morning. Let's get it. I was pumped. I'm ready to start pushing. Great. So they gave me guided pushes to begin with. She's like, “You have it. You're doing great. Keep going.” The worst part is in between every contraction, I had to throw up. My husband is holding my leg while I'm pushing then he immediately has to put my leg down and has to grab a bucket. It was between every single one. There was no break. I hadn't been eating because– Meagan: That is, of course, if they don't let you eat. Sabrina: Yeah. It had been two days. I'm just, yeah. It was rough. He makes a joke of it all the time that he was the nurse. He was like, “I pick up her leg. Put her leg down. Grab the bucket. Put the bucket down. Grab the leg.” So pushing comes up. 2:00 AM. She was like, “Okay, well you're pushing effectively, but nothing is really going on. You're coming up to 24 hours on a broken water.” I was like, “Oh my goodness. Just give me more time. I just need– Meagan: Again, no signs of infection, correct? Sabrina: Nothing. Meagan: So yeah, you have 24 hours but baby's fine. There are zero signs of infection. Sabrina: Yeah, there are zero signs of infection. His heart hadn't dipped one time. They were saying that his heart rate was too perfect. Meagan: So it doesn't really need to be a conversation. Women of Strength, just listen to that. If infection is coming into play, then okay, but that just causes stress on you that you didn't need. Sabrina: Yeah, exactly. I think they were just saying it to say it at that point. Nothing was wrong. So then I continued to push and it's coming up 4:00 AM. I've now been pushing for four hours. I'm so tired. I've been up for over two days and literally over 48 hours I've been up at this point. I've had contractions for 48 hours nonstop, no breaks. I'm looking at my husband and I'm like, “I can't anymore. My body can't push. My muscles are weak.” I tried all of the pushing positions with your legs up on your back. I tried the squat bar. I tried with the sheet. I tried over the back of the bed. I tried everything and I can't do it. I'm literally saying to him, “I can't do it. I have no strength left. My body is quivering.” I'm bawling my eyes out and he looks at the nurse. He's like, “Call the OB. She can't. What is she supposed to do? Keep going?” It takes her a while to get there obviously because everyone else was having their babies. She comes in and she's like, “What do you want to do?” I'm just like, “You just need to get the baby out. I don't care what it is at this point. Just take the baby out.” Meagan: You're so exhausted. Sabrina: Yeah. I wasn't even upset about anything, but I was just crying because I had no control over anything at that point. My body was tired. My emotions were tired. I hadn't slept and she was like, “Do you consent to forceps?” I was like, “I consent to whatever you need to do. Just get him out.” She was like, “Okay, I want to do some guided pushes to see if I can help you.” I pushed. She was like, “Your pushing is really good, so something is just not letting him come through.” I was like, “Okay.” Meagan: Did she do any feeling of the head at that point internally? Sabrina: Yeah. Yeah, she was. Then she was like, “I have to go in further to try to turn him a little more.” She tried to stick her whole hand in and I remember the feeling. I was like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop. This is so painful.” She was like, “You can't use forceps if you can feel that.” I was like, “Oh my goodness.” Then they had to wait and call the anesthesiologist to get a top off of fentanyl or whatever. Meagan: Your epidural. Sabrina: Yeah. She comes in. She's like, “Okay. We've got about 15 minutes before this isn't as strong. Are you ready?” I was like, “I guess so.” She was like, “Just because you have the medication doesn't mean it's going to feel good.” I was like, “Okay.” She was like, “It's a lot of pressure.” I was like, “Okay. I'm trying to birth a baby. It's a lot of pressure already.” She was like, “Okay.” She sticks them in and it was not great. It was pretty awful feeling, but she only had to pull twice. She puts in and pulls once. It doesn't do anything. She was like, “Okay, push really hard,” and then all of a sudden, he was born. I remember just the feeling. All of the pain went away. All of the hardness of the birth was gone. I did have to get an episiotomy and I did feel her cut. She didn't tell me she was doing it, but I felt it. That was hard for me because I was just like, “I didn't want that.” Meagan: That's hard. Sabrina: But you have nothing left and you are just getting that baby out. Yeah. He was born at 4:49 in the morning after 49 hours of labor. He was perfectly healthy. He was a big boy, 8 pounds, 7 ounces. Yeah, and everyone thought it was going to be a girl because boys' heart rates are wonky usually and girls like to talk on the phone so they are asynclitic. Meagan: Oh, that's hilarious. I've never heard of that. Girls like to talk on the phone so they come out asynclitic. Sabrina: Yeah. That's what the OB said, the midwife said, and the nurses said. Then the OB comes up to me. She was like, “Those ladies going for VBACs, they're determined. They don't care what they're doing. They just want the VBAC and they'll do anything to achieve it and you did it.” I was like, “Wow, that was really supportive of you.” Obviously, I didn't get a natural, no intervention– Meagan: Unmedicated. Sabrina: Yeah, a no-intervention birth, but I did get a VBAC. This is the funny part. They are stitching me up. Obviously, I have my baby. I'm laying on my back and they have a mirror above my eyes so I can see what they're doing. I was like, “Um, this is a design flaw in this room. I don't think everyone wants to watch.” Meagan: Yeah, I mean, maybe coming out but I don't know about suturing. Sabrina: Yeah, and I didn't notice it was there until they were doing that. He was healthy and everything was fine. Obviously, I had quite a bit of stitching. I had torn plus she had to cut medially so to the sides. Meagan: Mmm, ouch. Sabrina: Yeah, it didn't feel good. She made a comment that was like, “It's just the skin that I cut.” I was like, “Okay, that still sucks.” But yeah. He was born and then the next day, we got to go home. I was telling my husband, I was like, “This is why people have four babies.” This is way better than a C-section. I feel great. Meagan: Aww, I'm so happy. Sabrina: He was like, “What?” I was like, “I feel great. I could do it again.” Meagan: Yes. Sabrina: To me, even though it was very different than I had planned, I achieved what I wanted and I got my baby. I got my VBAC and I birthed him myself. Meagan: Yes, and you made it through a really long, tough labor. I want to actually talk about assisted birth because this is actually a really great question to ask yourself as you are preparing for your VBAC. Something that we go through in our doula practice is asking ourselves what they said. You have options. There is a point where we can use an operative vacuum or forceps or go to the OR. There are going to be pros and cons to both. One of the cons can be damage to baby and damage to mom, especially pelvic floor trauma and things like that. So you have to weigh out your pros and cons there as well and decide if that's acceptable to you or if a Cesarean would be a better route at that point. I encourage you to talk to your providers even before you go into labor about their method of assistance. If you don't– so a lot of the time, midwives aren't the ones doing vacuums and forceps. They'll have, just like in your situation, an OB come in so you can talk to them and say, “Who would be doing this? What is their method?” Obviously, this provider is very forceps-pro versus prone to go to forceps versus vacuum. She apparently uses them a lot. Asking those questions beforehand so you can know and then looking at the information. We actually have a blog which we will put in the show notes today all about operative delivery and the studies and stuff and the risks, the pros, and the cons. I think that is a really important thing to know. Where you were at, you were like, “I would rather do this than that.” Some people are different. Some people are like, “I don't want to risk a forceps or a vacuum and I'd rather have a Cesarean,” so asking yourself those questions beforehand and knowing what your provider's style is beforehand is actually a really, really good thing to think about in case you're in a situation like this. Sabrina: Oh my goodness, yeah. Meagan: You would say that it was worth it for you. Sabrina: Yeah, definitely. Meagan: And baby was good. Sabrina: Baby was fine. I would do it again. That's what my midwife said at my six-week appointment. She was like, “Wouldn't it be crazy how you would feel if you didn't have that?” I was like, “Oh, I'm sure my husband would be going for a vasectomy tomorrow. I would want all of the babies.” It's just so rewarding if you have that goal in mind to achieve it. Obviously, I didn't get what I wanted, but I still had the empowered feeling of doing it. Meagan: Good. Good. So good. And it's not even that you didn't get it. That's so hard. Birth isn't always happening exactly how we want it or envision it. There are some bumps and curves along the way, but the mindset, right? We can be in a space where we are making those decisions and not being told we have to do something, I mean, and Dr. Fox talked about that on the podcast. Sometimes a provider will come in because they're almost obligated to say, “We need to do this,” like maybe your first birth. “We need to go to the OR right now.” But then there are some times where it's like, “Hey, this is what I would suggest but  here are the pros and cons and here are your options.” I think that there is something that is very empowering when a mom is able to really have some informed consent and make a decision that she feels is best for her. Sabrina: Yeah. Yeah, even if in the end you are begging them to take the baby out. Meagan: Right. Sabrina: But yeah, I would totally do it all over again. Even just what she said to me, “Women trying to VBAC are the most determined. You can do it.” I was just like, “Okay. I can do it.” Meagan: You can do it. You can do it. There is something unique about us VBAC moms where we have this– I mean, we all have a mission to have a baby, but I think sometimes, we have a mission to have a different experience. Sabrina: Yeah. Meagan: We want something more. We are working hard and we're doing these things. We're eating the dates and we're going to the chiropractor and we're getting massages and we're curb-walking and getting our steps in and finding providers and listening to podcasts. We're doing all of these things and we want to try to get what we are prepping for. That's okay. That's okay that you want that, but there is some special determination I believe in the VBAC community, 100%. Sabrina: Yeah, definitely. Meagan: Well, thank you so much for being here with us today and sharing your stories. Huge congrats. Sabrina: Oh, thank you.ClosingWould you like to be a guest on the podcast? Tell us about your experience at thevbaclink.com/share. 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This topic is one I get asked about every week, sometimes multiple times a weekI've received both therapy and coaching and both were life-changing. I fully believe everyone should receive both and can benefit from both So here it is: the similarities and differences between coaching and therapy broken down into 4 categories and how to choose the right modality for you In this episode you'll:Hear the definitions of coaching and therapy straight from their governing organizationsLearn about similarities and differences in licensing requirements, scope of practice, personal level of function and client fitExplore the topics necessary to help you make an informed decisionDiscover the role of therapists and coaches in helping you unlock your full potential and achieve your goalsFind practical tips on how to find the right practitioner who aligns with your goals and valuesLearn how to ask yourself questions that will help you choose which approach is right for youGain insights into the broader impact of personal growth on society and how it can create positive changeDisclaimer: I'm a medical doctor and certified coach/hypnotist. I'm not a therapist. I'm sharing my framework of how therapy and coaching PS: If you've been wondering what it's like to work with me as your coach/hypnotist, then the good news is I actually have TWO spots available for one on one coaching for the rest of 2023! Even if your 2023 hasn't gone according to plan, it's never too late to get back on trackClick HERE for more informationConnect with me:Instagram: purposefilterLinkedIn: luyikathyzhangWebsite: https://luyikathyzhang.com/If you love listening to this podcast, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This helps me support more people — just like you — to enjoy the life they want most while they're here.  Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven't done so already, follow the podcast. That way you'll be the first to know whenever a new episode drops and you'll never miss out! Click here to follow the show

Today's podcast episode will cover what you can do over the summer to not only get the rest you need but also feel prepared for the coming school year.  I'm going to share two very specific actions you can take that I truly believe are most important over summer break. Intentional rest1-2 hours of work each weekI believe there's a messy in between that can help you feel rested but also get you feeling confident about going into another school year. These are the two actions you can take to not only get the rest you need but also start the coming school year on the right foot. Happy Listening!Follow1:1 Coaching Application

Rachel is a pediatric dentist who owns her own practice in Pensacola, Florida. She fought for an empowering second birth experience even with an initial diagnosis of complete placenta previa. When her placenta thankfully moved, Rachel was cleared to go for her VBAC and she was all in!Rachel drove six hours to be able to birth with the provider she knew would best support her VBAC. With her doula and supportive family by her side, Rachel achieved the beautiful birth she envisioned. Additional LinksHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsThe VBAC Link Facebook CommunityFull Transcript under Episode DetailsMeagan: Women of strength, you are listening to The VBAC Link and I cannot wait for today's story. Reading this story, there are so many twists. Not even twists I should say, but factors to this story. We have our friend Rachel telling it from Florida so welcome, Rachel. Rachel: Thank you so much. I'm so, so honored to be on this podcast. I can't believe I'm actually getting to share this amazing journey with you guys so thank you for having me. Meagan: We are honored that you are here with us. Yeah. I feel like there are quite a few things within your story. Things like baby's position, placenta previa which we are going to talk a lot about at the end, even dental stuff, close duration, so there are a lot of things where I feel like people can relate to this story. Review of the WeekI will read a review and then we will get right into your beautiful story. Today's reviewer is haley222222. It says, “I can't recommend enough. I found this podcast shortly after my C-section in 2019 with my first and it has helped me so much. My doctor had told me that I was only going to be able to have four children because I was going to have C-sections from here on out. This podcast opened my eyes to the possibilities I didn't have a clue about and I had options.” Oh, I just scrolled, and okay. Here we go. It says, “I was able to find providers that I trusted and who actually believed in me. I prepared for my VBAC and unfortunately, my first VBAC was a stillborn at 26 weeks, second baby boy in October of 2022.” So sorry to hear that, Haley. It says, “Although it was heartbreaking, it was truly an amazing experience and I can't wait to have another vaginal birth hopefully with a better outcome and a baby we can bring home. I am pregnant with my third now and I'm relistening to all of the episodes. I am so excited to do this. I am in the process of hiring a doula and we will be taking a birth course this time around. Thank you so much for creating this podcast and I'm so grateful for all that I have learned.” Well, Haley, thank you so much. Again, my condolences to you on your second and congrats on your third, and thank you so much for sharing your review. Rachel's StoriesMeagan: Okay, we have our friend Rachel. Like I said earlier, she is from Florida. So you are a dentist and you have your own clinic, is this right?Rachel: Yes. I am a pediatric dentist. I only work on children. We have a private practice in Pensacola, Florida which is the panhandle of Florida. It's lower Alabama, kind of LA but it's on that end of the spectrum, not south Florida. Meagan: Awesome. That is so exciting. So, so exciting. Rachel: Thank you. Meagan: Well, thank you so much for being with us. I would love to turn the time over to you to share this story and then at the end, we'll get into that placenta previa and some dental stuff. Rachel: I know, who would have thought that dentistry could be related to C-sections? Meagan: Who would have thought? Really, though. Rachel: I know. It's all related. Meagan: We never talk about it so I'm excited too. Rachel: Well, I guess I'll just get excited about my children journey. Again, I'm just so thankful that I get to talk on this podcast. I listen to you guys every single day when I was preparing for a VBAC and Meagan, what you're doing is changing so many people's lives. Like we talked about, I'm sure recording a podcast can get a little crazy like with any job that we do, but you really are making such a difference in so many people's lives so I really thank you for that. Meagan: Oh, thank you. Thank you. Rachel: Yes. So okay, my children journey I guess what you could say started in Gainesville. My husband and I were living in Gainesville. He was finishing up an orthodontic residency at that time and I was working as a pediatric dentist. I had just finished residency and I was working at a private practice. We became pregnant with our first baby. They said I had a subchorionic hematoma around 7 weeks and said, “Don't worry.” It's a pretty common thing I think. Meagan: It is. Rachel: I came back for a follow-up ultrasound anyway around 10 weeks or so and no heartbeat. We had a miscarriage. They gave me two options, either the misoprostol pill to pass the baby or the D&C.Meagan: Cytotec. Rachel: Yeah, or the D&C. After talking to a lot of people, I just decided to have the D&C. It seemed less emotionally scarring. Anyway, so we did that. Right around that time, the day before surgery, the whole COVID thing in 2020 started and they said that for some reason, dentists were considered non-essential so everything was shut down for the whole month of April. Meagan: What?!Rachel: I had never not worked my whole life. This was the most time I had ever had off ever so it was crazy. I was not working. I had scheduled the D&C. That morning, I had a 99-degree fever or something. My OB in Gainesville was amazing. The whole hospital staff was like, “Oh my gosh. She might have COVID. We can't do the surgery.” Yeah, so crazy. My OB had to vouch for me to say that I didn't have COVID and that we could still do the D&C anyway. I'm pretty sure I was the last elective surgery to have done and then after the date, literally I think it was March 20th, and the day after, they stopped doing elective surgeries and stuff. I was super thankful for that. It's Dr. Erin in Gainesville and she was just awesome. We had a miscarriage. It was a super tough time for me and my husband. I just remember praying and asking God to comfort us because we are Christians and I just really believe that God is close to the brokenhearted. The Bible says, “He's near to the brokenhearted.” It's still hard though because he's not here to comfort you physically. I just remember I was praying and there was this dove that came to our house and lived in our backyard. It was so crazy. For several weeks, he just made a nest on the ground.Meagan: That just gave me the chills. Rachel: It is. I'm telling you, I prayed so hard. He can comfort you but he's not going to give you a hug or something. I don't know. Do you know what I mean? So literally this dove came and lived in our yard. That dove was there. I'm not even kidding you. The day that I found out I was pregnant, the dove just left. We were like, “Where did that dove go? He was living in our yard and now he's not there.” That was the day I found out we were pregnant with our second baby, or our first baby. Meagan: Uh-uh. Wow. Rachel: It was so insane. Meagan: Oh my gosh. Rachel: Yes. That was the first crazy thing. I had wanted a puppy after the miscarriage and we had a really small courtyard so my husband was like, “Well, if we get a puppy, I'm getting a monkey.” I'm like, “No.” I was like, “Well if you really do want a monkey, I can look into finding us a monkey if you'll let me have a puppy.” He's like, “Okay, deal.” Well, he knows not to put anything past me after that because I found a monkey and we literally have a little squirrel monkey. His name is Rocko and we have a Maltipoo whose name is Remi. So the week after we got our monkey, that's when we found out we were pregnant again. I was like, “Now we have a monkey and this puppy and now we're going to have a baby.” That's how life goes. If you know me, that's just how my life goes. It's just like, the more fun, the better. Anyway, so I was pregnant with the second one. I also had a subchorionic hematoma in the beginning and Dr. Erin was like, “Okay, I know I told you not to worry about it last time but seriously it's usually not a big deal.” But you know, you're still worried because you have the same thinking. Meagan: Yeah, trigger back a little bit. Rachel: Exactly. So I was just a little worried about that, but I kept pressing forward. So then fast forward later, everything is healthy. Six months into the pregnancy, I found out that we got a great opportunity to move back to Pensacola which is where I'm from. It's about six hours away from Gainesville. It's near my home town. My parents live here. A pediatric dentist, Dr. Stu Bonnin was selling his dental practice in Pensacola so we decided to merge together and transition. I went there. I was probably about seven months pregnant when we moved to Pensacola. I was starting up. I'm seven months pregnant. I'm starting brand new seeing all of these patients I'm just getting to know. My husband started an orthodontic practice next door which is a dream come true. We have always wanted to do this. The doors opened up to where it could happen. Timing sometimes seems crazy but it just happened that way. I mean, I remember we moved here on December 24, 2020, so Christmas Eve. U-hauls are a lot cheaper then by the way. Our family had COVID so we weren't going to go see them anyway. I remember waking up on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day morning and I was sleeping on an air mattress. We had just bought our house and moved everything in. I'm like, “Wow. What a whirlwind. This is crazy.” So we moved halfway through. I'm a new business owner. So then I started seeing patients at about eight months pregnant. I'm trying to establish rapport with my new patients. I just decided it was in their best interest to work up until my due date. I worked up until my due date. At this point, I had no knowledge of birthing a baby at all which is my fault. I should have researched everything but there was just a lot going on. Meagan: Yeah. Don't put too much pressure on yourself there. Rachel: Knowing what I know now–Meagan: You had a lot of juggling pieces. Rachel: I know. Plus I was like, “I don't want to know how the baby gets here. I just want to know what to do after it gets here,” so I did a lot of Taking Cara Babies, reading how to get them to sleep through the night. I really wanted to breastfeed so I was focused on what to do when the baby gets here. Meagan: Which also is something that a lot of the time we forget to do. Rachel: I know. I know. It's all hard. So I worked up until my due date. I was expecting to be two weeks late for some reason because I was two weeks late as a baby. My husband was two weeks late and we were both first babies. I'm like, “It's going to be fine. I'll probably just be a little late.” A week passed and I had found an OB here. They did the BPP thing, the biophysical profile. Everything had been healthy. Nothing was out of the ordinary. She started talking about inducing me because I had borderline low amniotic fluid. That's the reason they gave me. So I guess amniotic fluid level from my understanding can be anywhere from 5 centimeters to 25 centimeters and mine was a 7. So she's like, “It's borderline low. The baby's not in distress but the older your placenta gets, the more likely that you'll have a stillbirth or you can have babies born with cerebral palsy and complications.”Meagan: Big words, very big words. Rachel: Yeah. I'm like, “Oh my gosh, well I don't want that.” I trust the doctor. I'm a doctor. I feel like I look out for people's best interests. I mean, I know I just deal with baby teeth but I truly want the best for my patients so I know she was probably recommending the same thing. All of that is not untrue, but anyways. Knowing what I know now, I'm just like, “What in the world?” She recommended that I be induced because of the borderline low amniotic fluid and that the longer time passes by, the increased chance of stillbirth. Because I had done zero birth education, I had nothing to really guide my decision-making process and my husband wasn't there because it was all COVID stuff. He couldn't come to any of the appointments so I was making these decisions on my own. I was just like, “Okay. We'll get induced. That's fine.” I only had a month off for maternity leave anyways, so I'm like, “Okay. It'll probably work out that the baby's born more on time.” Meagan: That you'll have some time. Rachel: Yeah, exactly. The day before, I just had this really bad feeling. I called the doctor's office and I was like, “Hey, is there any way we can postpone the induction?” I was really nervous. They were like, “No. This is the only time. We don't recommend that. This is the best thing.” I'm like, “Okay.” I got to the hospital. I started on, is it Cervadil?Meagan: Yeah, Cervadil. Rachel: The insertion pill thing. Meagan: So the pill is Cytotec and then there's the tampon-looking thing and that's Cervadil. Rachel: Okay. I think that might have been what that was. So yeah. I did that. I got to 2 centimeters dilated and they started the Pitocin. So then after the Pitocin, it was a gentle induction. The doctor I went to I guess is known for gentle inductions so that was good. I got to 2 centimeters dilated. Our daughter's name is Heidi. Her heart rate started dropping even this early on. I was only 2 centimeters dilated. Every time they turned the Pitocin up, it would drop. I was just like, “Just take me off of everything. Let's just wait.” The OB came in and she's like, “We've already had nonreassuring fetal heart rates.” I hope I'm using the correct words but I think that's what it is. Meagan: Correct. Rachel: It's just not looking good so we would recommend some kind of intervention at this point. I was like, “What about an epidural?” She was like, “Maybe you could use an epidural. It would help you relax and just speed things along.” So I got an epidural and then Heidi's heart rate dropped again. This just kept happening and I will never forget. There was a younger nurse. The doctor wasn't there. It was 2:00 AM and she came walking in the room. She said, “Hey, so the doctor just told us that we need to prep you for a C-section.” I'm just like, “What? A C-section? Excuse me? No one told me this was a possibility.” I had never even researched what that was. I never even knew that was a possibility. Meagan: A lot of us don't. Rachel: I mean, I'm stupid for not realizing that is a possibility, but at the same time, you're not planning on it. It's just an unplanned surgery. Meagan: Yeah. We go in thinking we're just going to have this baby which we do have a baby but we just don't envision it that way. Rachel: I know. I just truly wanted what was best for my baby. Meagan: Absolutely. Rachel: If it meant a C-section to save her life, then obviously that's what I would do but I was realizing this cascade of interventions was leading from one thing to another thing to another thing and I just was so upset. The OB got there and finally, my husband was like, “Whoa. Okay. What is going on here?” He talked to her and he was like, “Let's just take her off of everything and see how her heart rate is.” We literally asked her. We were like, “Listen, if you think our baby is going to lose oxygen or something dangerous where it's going to save her life to do a C-section, we will do a C-section, but if she is okay and we can work through–” the nurses were changing my position and the heart rate would get better. Sometimes I think the cord can just get compressed or things like that. She literally looked at us. I was really upset. I don't even know what I said. I was just really upset. But she looked at us and she was like, “Okay, yeah. The heart rate looks great. You're doing great. I'm okay with that. Let's just give it a little bit longer.” It was probably another 12 hours that we had done that. Long story short, the same thing happened again and after she gave me time, and at that point, I think I had progressed to 6 centimeters. I was like, “Okay, we're going to have this baby. This is looking good.” Even the nurse said that it was looking good. I think the final thing that happened is that I started running a fever and then when I ran a fever, the heart rate shot up and it was super high. Yeah, she was tachycardic. I'm like, “Yeah, she is not looking good.” At this point, it's been 72 hours. I mean, I have so many fluids. I've been on an IV. So we were like, “Okay, we really need to do this.” I was kind of expecting it at that point even though I was super upset and super sad. I was just kind of waving my little white flag. We did what we could and they prepped me for a C-section. It was the craziest thing I've ever experienced because everything went really well with the C-section. The OB was great with the C-section. All of the team was really fast. I kept saying, “I can still feel some pressure. Give me some more medicine. More, more, more.” I was so numb that my intercostal muscles were numb all the way up into my chest so it was kind of hard to breathe. I knew it was just because my muscles were numb so I was okay with it. It was so crazy because I was so happy. I heard my daughter cry so I knew she was healthy. I knew she was there. It was the best moment ever but at the same time, you're sad. Everybody that has talked on this podcast, you know the feeling of where you're so happy. Your baby is here. You're healthy. There could be way worse other things, but at the same time, it's just that this was not what I was expecting. It's crazy. Anyway, she had to go to the NICU because there was fluid in her lungs so she had to have help with oxygen and then she had to get IV antibiotics because there was suspected chorioamnionitis. Meagan: Because of the fever? Rachel: Yeah, because of the fever. So it wasn't proven, but they go ahead and put the baby on antibiotics before the results get back from pathology because it takes a while so they want to go ahead and get them on antibiotics just in case. It came back and it wasn't chorio so she had unnecessary antibiotics. But I get it. You have to have certain protocols in place. So she had to have that. She was in the NICU for just a couple of days. It wasn't bad. I was able to breastfeed. It was a struggle. You have to really make sure you're on a strict schedule when your baby is in the NICU. You have to go feed them and pump especially when your milk is coming in. So that was hard but we were able to do the breastfeeding which is good. Oh, Heidi had a lot of donor milk in the NICU because it was good that they gave her donor milk. I always joke around. I'm like, “She's going to have the best immune system because of all of the donor milk that she got.” Side note, whoever donates breastmilk, you guys are amazing. I just cannot believe that is a thing, so thank you to whoever donated breastmilk.Fast forward to the follow-up, everything is looking good after the C-section. Heidi is doing great. I'm so happy. I wanted to share this. I don't know if a lot of people have ever experienced this but I talked to my provider. I mean, I really liked her other than she suggested the induction. I just really wasn't that on board but she was like, “Yeah. In the future, you will definitely be a candidate for a VBAC.” But then I got this letter in the mail. I'm just going to read it. It says, “Dear Rachel, The patient/physician relationship is important in providing quality care. I feel your unacceptable behavior toward me and the hospital staff as well as your unwillingness to follow my recommendations for your safety and the safety of your baby has jeopardized our relationship. Therefore, this letter serves to notify you that I will not continue to be your provider.”Meagan: What?Rachel: I was so, so sad because I thought I followed her recommendation. She thinks I put my baby at jeopardy. If she thought my baby was at jeopardy, she should have told me that I should have had the C-section earlier. I just was so sad. I, as a physician, I'm not a physician but I'm a dentist and all of my patients, I try to give them both sides to everything. Not everybody is as informed as I am about teeth. Duh, we all don't know. That's why you go to a doctor for advice. Meagan: That's why you go to a specialist. Rachel: I try to give everybody two sides. I try to inform them and then they make the decision. I don't ever want to force someone into doing something that they don't want to do but also if someone doesn't take my recommendation, I'm not going to say, “Okay, you're dismissed from my practice.” I get that some people just don't feel comfortable treating certain people which is fine. I'm not bitter about that but I was super floored that she would dismiss me as a patient because I didn't take her recommendation to get a C-section in the first place. Meagan: You did and then you had a conversation and she said, “Yeah, I'm totally fine with it. Let's keep going.”Rachel: I had a doula with me, Ashley Andrews, she is amazing. She is my prayer warrior doula. She even said, “I don't think you're out of line, Rachel. I'm really confused.” Meagan: I'm sorry. Rachel: Anyways, not to harp on that but it was really sad. It was really for the best because I started looking at other providers anyway because I knew I wanted another baby. Okay, so here's the good part of the story. Dun, dun, dun. Nine months later, we found out we were having another baby. This time, it was a boy so I found a different provider in Pensacola that was okay with VBAC. It's really hard surprisingly to find someone that is super on board. It really is up to you to do the research and all of that. We have doctors. People think doctors are there to give you a magic pill and everything is solved. Doctors can't do anything if you don't make an effort on your end too. I feel like that's why there is so much diabetes and all of these things because you have to do some kind of work on your end too to educate yourself and realize that you can't just go to a doctor and expect them to fix all of your problems. I realized that and I'm like, “Okay, that's in every situation. I have to become educated myself.” I found you guys. I listened to your VBAC podcast literally every single day at lunch and I would cry on my lunch break. I'm such a loser. Meagan: You are not. These stories are amazing. Rachel: I would listen to these stories and I would just cry. I'm like, “Wow. This is so awesome.” My husband, I love him. He's so sweet. He's like, “You guys should make a podcast for husbands on how to deal with their wives when they have decided that they are going to have a VBAC,” because he's like, “All right, I've already accepted all of this stuff. It's fine.” Anyways, at 20 weeks I was diagnosed with complete placenta previa, not just partial. The placenta is completely covering your cervix. My OB here in Pensacola, the new one, was like, “It's highly unlikely that this is going to move. It's complete. It's very rare.” He started talking about placenta accreta and how sometimes it can even grow into the C-section scar and grow out into your bladder and stuff. I'm like, “Whoa.” I was so sad. I'm like, “Y'all, okay. I guess I'll just have another C-section. This is fine.” But then I was like, “Okay. God, you said in the Bible.” Matthew 17:20 says, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there' and it will move and nothing will be impossible.” I'm like, “God if you can move mountains, I know that you can move this placenta. I know that nothing is impossible for you.” I just started praying. In the meantime, my sister who lives in Jacksonville had this great practice that helped her with her delivery. Full Circle Women's Care, I highly recommend. I also talked to a friend, Saundra Fetner, who had a VBAC with them. I talked to her about it and she was like, “Yes. You need to go there.” I had a Zoom conference or a telemedicine conference with Dr. Adams. She is the owner there, the OB there. She was like, “Okay, yeah. We even have some missionaries that will be in Africa and then fly here and deliver their baby here and go back.” She was like, “If you want to deliver here, that would be fine with me. You just see your provider in Pensacola and then when it gets time, you just make arrangements to stay in Jacksonville until you have the baby.” Meagan: Dual care. Rachel: Yeah, exactly. I was like, “If something crazy happens in Pensacola, then I have the provider here.” I talked to my provider here and he was completely okay with it. He was like, “Well, with the placenta previa, you might want to try to rent a private jet so you can get there really quick.” I'm like, “Okay, that's not going to happen but whatever.” He was okay with it. I didn't care. Dr. Adams by the way, just has such passion for what she does. If you don't have passion for what you do and you don't enjoy it, why are you doing it? She actually had a C-section with her first baby and she's an OB. So she's like, “I understand how medicine is there if you need it, but sometimes you need to let your body do what it was created to do.” I was like, “Oh my gosh, yes girl. Preach, preach. I'm going to come see you. I don't care that I have to drive six hours. I'm going to come here.” I scheduled a follow-up. Granted, it had only been two weeks since I had been diagnosed with placenta previa. Coming to the follow-up, I had another ultrasound and all of that at Full Circle Women's Care. My first appointment, my sister went with me and we were like, “Let's just not say anything. Let's not say that I had placenta previa. Let's just see what they say.” The ultrasound tech looked at everything and she was like, “Yeah, everything looks great. Your baby's healthy. We just might need to get one more little position of the head when you come back.” I'm like, “What?” So then I'm like, “Okay, well you don't see placenta previa or anything going on?” She's like, “No. The placenta is way over here. This is the placenta here. This is your cervix here. There's no placenta previa.” I'm like, “Oh my gosh.” My mom had been praying. My dad, my mother-in-law, Angie. I'm like, “Y'all, you will not guess what just happened.” I sound so crazy but I'm like, “God moved my placenta.” I even had Ashley, my doula, had her Sunday School group. She was like, “Girl, we've been praying for you.” I know that's not the story with everybody, but it's just so crazy. I really do believe that and I'm just so thankful. I had my appointment with Carol, one of the midwives and she's like, “Yeah, everything looks great. You're due around September. We're going to do everything we can to help you have a successful VBAC.” I'm like, “Okay, Carol. You promise I don't have placenta previa?” She's like, “What are you talking about sweetie? Your placenta is far away from the cervix.” I couldn't believe that it was the case. I had this regained energy and excitement. We were back on track. Let's do it. Then a couple of weeks later, I met with Dr. Adams and it's a group so you meet with different people because you don't know who's going to deliver you. Everyone I saw, I'm like, “If you deliver me, I don't care. Everyone is great. Fantastic.” I met with Dr. Adams and she's like, “You know, there's this thing that you can read.” It is a recommendation for TOLAC or how to have a successful VBAC and how to ripen your cervix. She had all of the guidelines there. She was like, “Have you been following the guidelines? Have you been doing your daily squats to open up your pelvis and doing the specific Spinning Babies exercises to get the baby in the right position?” I'm like, “Yeah, I've been doing my squats.” She's like, “Let me see you do 20 squats right now.” This is at my OB appointment. I'm like, “Okay.” She's holding my hands and doing squats with me at the appointment talking to me about what I need to do. Meagan: Oh my gosh, I love that. Rachel: I'm just like, “This is awesome.” Anyway, she really practices what she preaches. She's like, “All right, then let me see you do some squats.” So I did that. Also, going back so for Valentine's Day of last year, instead of giving me chocolates and stuff, my husband printed off the recommendations that they gave me. I'm like, “You don't care about this as much as I do. I wish you could just know what I'm going through.” He's like, “Okay, Rachel.” He printed off the guidelines of how to have a successful VBAC and he highlighted all of the things. This is on the OB's website, How to Have Your Cervix Ripened Before Birth. These were the things you needed to do. At 20 weeks, drink red raspberry leaf tea. At 36 weeks, do acupressure, acupuncture, and chiropractic care. At 37 weeks, start taking evening primrose oil. At 38 weeks, start using clary sage oil and do birth stimulation, sex, and all of that stuff. At 39 weeks, you can do membrane stripping. He's just so funny because he even bought all of these things. He's like, “Are you drinking red raspberry leaf tea? Is it 36 weeks yet because that's when you need to start going to a chiropractor.” That was awesome. I was just doing everything. I wasn't perfect. I tried to eat healthier and all of that stuff. You do what you can but I work full time. At the end of the day, we're not perfect but I tried to do all of those things. I did that. I found a doula in Jacksonville and she helped me through Hypnobabies. It is super interesting because your mind really can help you control pain. It's so crazy. It really can. I even want to look into this for my patients. I think it would be so cool if you could learn to hypnotize. Dentistry is scary, especially for kids so I'm always looking for new things to try. Okay, so we go to Jacksonville. I was due September 29th. I took a week off early from work. We closed the dental clinic down. I had a dentist that's working for me too, Dr. Bonnin and he's awesome. Thank you for working for me on maternity leave. I closed for a week. We just went to Jacksonville. We had a little mini vacay. We took Heidi. I feel like it was so much just to spend time with me and Edwin with my daughter for a straight week in a really long time and focus just on our family. We have had a lot going on up until then so it was a nice little breather away. Meagan: That's such a beautiful way to spend the end of pregnancy. Rachel: I know. Meagan: Sometimes in the end of pregnancy, we're so stressed. We're getting a lot of pressure from the outside world or from whoever. Why haven't you had your baby yet or why haven't you been induced? So it's nice to just be with your family and create this space going into it. Rachel: Yeah, it really was. It was such a blessing that we were able to do that. I didn't have to worry about, “Okay, let me do the last-minute touches on the nursery.” It was just relaxing. So I'm like, “Okay, for sure this baby is going to come soon.” I'm super relaxed. I saw a shooting star. I'm like, “All right. It's going to happen.” It didn't. A week passed so I'm already a week later and then I think I was 41 and a few days. I had the BPP again and they start doing the monitor thing. They just do the heart rate monitor. Meagan: Oh, a non-stress test? Rachel: A non-stress test just to make sure everything is good. They kept saying, “Everything is good but we are going to keep seeing you back.” They weren't letting me go very long. Meagan: It's very standard doing NSTs at 41 weeks, very standard. Rachel: Yeah, okay. They were just doing all of the things to make sure everything was good. But Dr. Adams was like, “I know you want to go into spontaneous labor on your own. If you're not by 42 weeks,” and she was one to wait up until 42 weeks to do an induction. She's like, “We'll do a super gentle induction. We'll start with breast stimulation. We won't even go to Pitocin or anything.” I didn't even want to hear the word induction so I'm like, “Okay.” But she was great because she allowed me all the way up until two weeks to schedule the induction whereas for some people, it just depends on the hospital scheduling and that's where modern medicine is sad because you have to do the schedule and your body's not on a schedule. Your due date is just a guess date. I mean, Jane, the doula in Jacksonville is like, “So what's your guess date?” because it is. We try to do what we can but at the end of the day, sometimes you just have to let nature take its course. Anyway, so I talked to Dr. Adams and everything was good. I was trying to go into labor on my own. My best friend from dental school, Jackie, actually had premature contractions at 32 weeks so her doctor was telling her all of the things she needs to do to not go into labor and I was trying to do all of the things that they told her the opposite. I'm like, “Okay, what did your doctor say? Okay, I need to do that.” It just goes to show you that getting babies on this earth is just hard no matter what way you look at it but if you're educated, it's a lot easier. Hurricane Ian was brewing up and we had to move from our hotel because our hotel was on the beach and they were like, “We are going to have to evacuate the hotel because a hurricane is coming.” I'm like, “Oh, this baby is for sure coming. It's a hurricane.” It didn't. The hurricane came and went. I even drank midwives' brew and all of that stuff. I was 41 and 5 days or something like that. Our daughter, Heidi, got really sick. She contracted something while we were there. She was throwing up. She couldn't keep anything down. My husband was getting a little bit antsy. My husband was like, “I have a lot of stuff I need to work on at home. Why don't you just stay here with your sister? I'll take Heidi home and I'll come back when you go into labor.” I was like, “Okay, sounds good.” He took Heidi home. She actually couldn't keep anything down when he got home. Home was in Pensacola so it was six hours away from Jacksonville. He drove home and she actually had to be admitted to the ER because she had to get an IV and all of that stuff. I'm just like, “Oh my gosh. My daughter is in the hospital.” I feel guilty because I've been focusing on myself and making sure I don't have a C-section meanwhile my daughter is at home in the ER. I was thinking about, “I'm just going to go home. I'll just be induced again.” You just want what's best for your babies. That's why we're here. That's why we try to avoid C-sections when we can but have them when it's going to save our babies' lives. We just want what's best for our babies so I just felt so guilty that I wasn't there with her. But anyway, she was fine. I finally went to Dr. Adams again. It was the first time I had a check. She said, “Okay, you're 2-3 centimeters dilated.” I'm like, “Why am I not in labor right now?” I was 2 centimeters dilated at the hospital a couple of hours in. So anyways, she's like, “You are super favorable. You are 2 centimeters dilated. You're at whatever plus station where your baby is really low.” She's like, “I'm surprised you're not in labor right now. All you're waiting on is for this baby to say, ‘Okay, it's time for me to come into the world.'” I mean, we just don't know. That's why medicine still has some mysteries to it. You just don't know what puts someone into labor. Anyways, she did a membrane strip which was great. Membrane stripping, is that what it's called? Membrane sweep. Meagan: Yeah, a stripping or a sweep. Rachel: She's like, “Okay.” We had the induction scheduled for that Thursday and it was a Monday. She's like, “Rachel, you're going to have this baby. You're not going to have to be induced. We have it scheduled just in case but you are going to go into labor on your own.” I'm like, “I really hope you're right.” I went home. My sister and I went to a coffee shop and we just relaxed for a little bit and then we went home. We were going to see a movie. My brother lives in Jacksonville too. Me, my sister and my brother were going to see a movie together. He happened to be off work. It was crazy. We're getting ready and then I start having some Braxton Hicks stuff but some contractions. Anyways, it really progressed and it started getting uncomfortable. I didn't know. I thought, “Okay.” We contacted our doula. We met her at the hospital. She was like, “Do y'all really think y'all should go to the hospital?” I was having trouble breathing through everything. I was like, “I don't know. It might just be Braxton Hicks.” We got to the hospital. I couldn't breathe through it very well so then Jane, our doula, was like, “Okay. Let's just go to the hospital and get checked.” I'm getting scared. “No, they're going to trap me. They're going to make me stay and I'm going to have to get a C-section again.” She's like, “Rachel, no. That's not true.” I've got my birth posse with me. We go in. They checked me and I was only at a 4. I'm like, “What the heck? I'm such a woosie. I'm only at a 4?” I'm like, “Let's just go back home.” Carol was there, the midwife that I really had a good connection with and she's like, “Rachel, I really don't recommend you going home. I really think that things are progressing quickly. You should stay here and just relax.” Then I talked to my husband too. Meagan: Make your drive. Rachel: As soon as I got admitted to the hospital, Heidi actually got dismissed so he's like, “We've got two babies heading out.” I'm like, “You're such a nerd.” He's like, “Rachel, stay at the hospital. You're being crazy. Just relax. Do your Hypnobabies thing and I'll be there.” I did that and it was crazy. As soon as I zoned everybody out and put my little headphones on– Meagan: And acclimated to the space.Rachel: Yeah, exactly. I had time to get acclimated. I was like, “Okay. This is going to be okay. This baby is coming.” I just relaxed and then things started getting a little cray cray during transition. Yeah. Now I know what people talk about with that. Also, I didn't have an epidural because I'm like, “No. They slow things down. I do not want to get an epidural.” Yeah. So that was great and then the transition thing. Okay, things started getting really serious. My sister was there with me because my husband couldn't be there. I had my sister and a doula. I was like, “Sarah, why did you talk me into this? This is so stupid. I can't believe I'm doing this. This is the dumbest thing ever.” Then Jane was like, “Okay, I think she's ready.” Meagan: Usually when there is intense talk and doubt kicks in, it's like, “I think it's happening right now.” Rachel: Exactly. So then Carol came in. She checked me. I was 9.5. I had a little cervical lip and I was like, “Oh my gosh. No. I cannot believe it.” I was just like, “How in the world?” Carol was like, “Okay, I think your husband is almost here so we can wait to pull the cervical lip out of the way.” I'm like, “No. We are not doing that!” I'm not waiting. He should have been here a little bit ago.Anyway, so we did that. I'm about to start pushing. My brother was there at the hospital. He met my husband out in the hospital parking lot and they were literally sprinting. They were like, “Okay, your baby is about to be born. Here you are.” Luke led him to the exact room. Edwin comes in. He has a backward baseball cap on. I'm like, “They're going to think you're a crazy person coming in here.” They're like, “Is this the baby daddy? Okay, come in here.” I was pushing and I'm like, “Oh my gosh. The baby is going to get stuck,” because I've heard stories that the baby is going to get stuck at 10 centimeters. Carol was so amazing. By the way, she has a British accent. She's from Africa and she's the coolest person ever. She's like, “Rachel, you are doing it. You're about to have this baby.” I'm like, “No way. Are you serious?” At that moment, she's like, “Rachel, you're having this baby. This is happening. It's too late to turn back. He's not getting stuck.” I'm crying. I'm like, “This is the best feeling ever.” He was born. He's healthy. He's here. I'm healthy and this is how things are supposed to happen. It was the most amazing thing ever. You just can't explain it. I'm just like, “Oh my gosh.” I just can't believe that it actually happened and everything was great. The births were such polar opposites. No one's birth is less important than the other. I don't ever want my daughter to think, “Oh my gosh. I was a failure birth, and then baby John–”. His name is John Edwin Richard the Third and then John was a regular birth. It's not about that. It's just how God can take our pain and our failures that we have and turn beauty from ashes. That is what happened. This is how it's supposed to be. It was the best feeling in the whole world. I was just so thankful. I can't believe my husband made it there. I didn't think he was but he did. Meagan: So close. Rachel: Yeah. I was like, “Oh my gosh.” I do want to say that I'm not trying to diss C-sections. You need it when you can but who you have as a provider is the most important thing. I trusted them and I knew that if she had recommended that I needed a C-section I was going to say, “Okay. I know that I've tried everything I can. I'm going to trust you guys.” She even said, “The position of the baby is the most important thing.” Baby has to be in the right position to do that. So anyway, it was just the most beautiful thing ever. I'm just so thankful for everything. Meagan: Oh my goodness. It's such a beautiful story honestly from all of it, from the dove in the yard flying away to moving and driving six hours away. Those are hard decisions sometimes to make and sometimes dual care is really hard too because sometimes you will have providers disagreeing with the other provider so that's really hard. But so beautiful. I could see the emotion and I could hear the emotion in your face. You're so happy. It sounds just so beautiful. Rachel: I know. It's amazing. It's the best. Meagan: Well, thank you. I do want to talk about that placenta previa because it's interesting to go from being diagnosed with complete previa to so far away. That's a miracle. It's so crazy but a lot of the time, we hear diagnoses of full placenta previa so I wanted to talk about what that is. You mentioned accreta too but previa is where it covers the cervix. To diagnose complete previa, it should be directly over the innermost side, so the OS. Directly over the canal of the uterus which is the cervix. So with pregnancies 16 weeks or more when this is happening, sometimes they're diagnosed with a low-lying. Low lying is when it's really, really close or the edge is less than 20 millimeters away from the OS, the cervix. 20 millimeters is 1 inch or 2 centimeters. Usually, most providers when it's 20 or more are totally okay and comfortable with that. One of the interesting things, and I'm curious how you had yours, but a transvaginal ultrasound to diagnose the placenta previa has a way higher chance of it actually being accurate than an abdominal. Did you have an abdominal?Rachel: It was transvaginal, yes. Meagan: It was. Rachel: Yes. On both, yeah. Meagan: See? Look at that. That's so amazing. If someone is diagnosing you with previa on the abdominal outside, you can also request a transvaginal because that can bring higher accuracy. If we get diagnosed and there are placenta issues within the pregnancy, then sometimes they will suggest a 34-36 week induction so that's another thing and then if there aren't any complications, sometimes it's 36-37. So just for those who have been diagnosed. I also want to mention that a lot of the time when we have low lying or something like that, it does move throughout pregnancy. Rachel: Yeah, and usually it does take a lot longer than that. I did so much research too. So yeah, just like what you were saying, and if it does migrate upwards, it never will migrate back down because your uterus is growing up, not down. It all is about where the placenta attaches to the uterus. It's this tissue and you can't help it. It's when the baby is conceived, that it attaches. I had a D&C and a C-section which can increase the risk of it. I had a friend that was diagnosed with it and she even had some bleeding. She almost had to have a C-section but it had migrated more than what did you say it was? Meagan: 20 millimeters, 1 inch, or 2 centimeters. Rachel: Yeah, she said it was 3 centimeters so her provider was letting her go. I'm not saying that everybody's just miraculously moves all of the time but the chances are pretty good that it's going to move. If your provider says that you need a C-section, just maybe give it some time. Everybody is different. Meagan: Yeah. Well, yeah. I think it's just something that a lot of the time we don't talk about, placenta previa. It can be really scary when you hear at 20 weeks, “Hey, you've got this possible placenta previa or low lying and you might have to have a C-section,” so at 20 weeks we're hearing, “I might have to have a C-section,” and it immediately starts making our wheels turn. Rachel: It does. It's crazy. Meagan: And then last of all, I really want to talk about teeth. Rachel: Yeah, teeth. Meagan: Our pearly whites. So obviously, you're a pediatric dentist and one of the interesting things that you have found that we didn't realize is that C-sections can affect enamel. Rachel: Yes, it can. If you think about it, at about six months in utero is when the baby teeth are starting to develop. Anything that happens, if the mom gets a fever or you don't have the certain Vitamins A, C, D, or E which are really important for your teeth to mineralize and you don't have the certain minerals, then your teeth can be a little bit weaker when you are born. All of these things in pregnancy affect the development of your teeth. Right at birth is when your adult molars, so you have four adult molars in the back and the front four on the top and the front four on the bottom. Right at birth is when those molars start to calcify. If you have, and I'm not saying that a C-section increases but it's more of a correlation. It's not a cause and effect. It's a correlation. Meagan: It's a correlation, yeah. Rachel: Yes. That's observed if you have anything that happens right around the time of birth. With a C-section, sometimes the baby might be a little bit earlier. When you are born, you have things that happened at birth. The baby might be a little bit earlier. A C-section brings the baby earlier. Sometimes those things can affect the mineralization process of those six-year-old molars and the front four top teeth and the front four bottom teeth. It's called molar incisor hypomineralization. If you have something like that, it's just a really good idea to see a pediatric dentist. You can put sealants on it. Sealants can protect the adult molars from getting cavities and things like that to strengthen it. Also, being on antibiotics right at birth–Meagan: That's just what I was going to ask. What about antibiotics?Rachel: Yeah. I'm not getting into the nitty-gritty of everything, but certain antibiotics are worse than others. Usually, the C-section has a higher chance of having to be in the NICU and taking antibiotics. That can affect the mineralization process of your molars. That in turn can cause them to be weaker which puts them at higher risk for cavities. It's just so crazy that even a C-section can affect your teeth which is my small little bubble of medicine that I do. Even that can have a role. It's not like if you have to have a C-section, you're like, “Oh my gosh. My kid is going to have cavities forever.” It just puts you more at risk for that just like someone could be more at risk of being overweight but there are things that you can do through your diet and all of that to keep yourself healthy. It's not an automatic thing. There are things you can do. Don't drink juice and eat sugar. There are things you can do to keep cavities from forming. But yeah, at around that time is when everything is forming. It's so crazy. Meagan: It's just good to know.Rachel: It is. It is. Meagan: Even if you've had a vaginal birth with a lot of antibiotics from Group B Strep or something like that, it's good to just be aware. Rachel: Yes. It's not necessarily with a C-section, but with antibiotics and stuff. Meagan: Awesome. Rachel: Oh my gosh. Awesome. You guys are the best. I love you. Meagan: We love you back and we are so honored that you wanted to share your story and touch the world around you.ClosingWould you like to be a guest on the podcast? Tell us about your experience at thevbaclink.com/share. For more information on all things VBAC including online and in-person VBAC classes, The VBAC Link blog, and Meagan's bio, head over to thevbaclink.com. Congratulations on starting your journey of learning and discovery with The VBAC Link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vbac-link/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Janelle is such an inspiration. You can feel her beautiful spirit as she shares her birth stories with us today. She talks about how it's okay if your life circumstances don't allow for the perfect birth setup. Janelle was able to adapt and make peace with where she needed to let go. She was able to achieve the unmedicated VBAC she desired in a hospital setting. She found ways to strongly advocate for herself which also worked with her kind personality.Janelle has such a heart for women as she shares relatable advice about how to create a special experience throughout all of the unknowns of pregnancy and birth. Additional LinksHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsThe VBAC Link Facebook CommunityFull Transcript under Episode DetailsMeagan: Hello, women of strength. We have an amazing episode for you today but first I want to talk to you just a little bit about postpartum depression. Studies show that 1 in 7 new mamas will develop postpartum depression. It's scary and a topic that doesn't really get discussed about a lot. So before we jump into today's episode, I wanted to share a little bit about our podcast sponsor and partner, Happiest Baby. As you guys know from listening to The VBAC Link, this podcast means so much to me. I love every single one of you. I know that's hard to believe because I don't personally know every single one of you, but it is true. I love this community so much and it means so much to me that Dr. Harvey Karp and his company Happiest Baby are such big supporters of VBAC and are supporting our mission. One of their biggest products that people may know or have heard of is called the Snoo. The Snoo is an amazing baby bed that can truly help many mams out there during their postpartum journey, especially if you were like me and have a husband or partner that has to go right back to work and is left with these amazing, cute, snuggly babies but also exhausted. Whether you had a C-section or a vaginal birth, for those few days and let's be honest, probably months, you're just exhausted. I was in pure survival mode. So many people refer to the Snoo as “the mama helper” whose there to help soothe your baby so you can just get a few more hours of sleep. They even have a rental program which I think is pretty awesome so you don't actually have to buy the bassinet. As I started to learn more about Dr. Karp and his mission, I just loved learning that he is so passionate about reducing postpartum depression in parents. They even got FDA approval which I believe is the only bassinet or baby bed that has been FDA-approved. It's also been known for reducing SIDS in babies as well. I asked our community for their reviews of Snoo and I was overwhelmed by the positive responses. I just wanted to say thank you to Dr. Karp for creating the Snoo and helping millions of mamas sleep for just a few more hours at night so we can continue bonding with our babies and having a better postpartum experience. Thank you, Happiest Baby. Welcome to The VBAC Link, everybody. This is your host, Meagan, and we have our friend Janelle with us today. She is going to be sharing with you her VBAC story. She is from Minnesota and has so many amazing tips. Some of the highlights of her birth stories are post-dates. This is one that we talk about all of the time on the podcast, but baby being born after or by a certain day so 41 weeks, is that right, Janelle? Janelle: Yep.Meagan: Someone told you that you had to have an induction and then you declined and then your baby came spontaneously within that time. So really, really cool stuff and then planning for an unmedicated hospital birth with little to no interventions– that's also something that is very possible so if you are looking at how to do that, this is definitely a story you're going to want to listen to. And then financially or physically or even relationship-wise, you don't have to have the ideal birth to have a great birth. So I'm really excited to hear Janelle's story about all of these little details. Review of the WeekI'm going to jump into a Review of the Week and tell you a little bit more about Janelle and then we will get into her story. Today's reviewer is Bethany Sagaert. I am hoping I didn't just butcher your last name, Bethany. I'm so sorry if I did. This was back in 2020 so just a couple of years ago. The subject is “Podcast Was Part of My VBA2C Journey.” It says, “I'm so thankful for this podcast. I listened to so many episodes in preparation for my VBA2C. Listening to other women share their stories gave me the courage to keep working and fighting for my upcoming birth. I just gave birth to my third boy and the birth was everything I could have asked for. I am so thankful for this podcast and blog and refer every expecting mom I know to it in hopes that it gives them the courage and confidence it gave me to give birth the way they want and deserve.”Thank you so much, Bethany for this wonderful review. Just a reminder for all of you listeners, we do have a blog. We have a wonderful website where you can go. You can find a whole bunch of stuff on our blog. We have our resource page. We have doulas if you are looking for a VBAC doula. We have a list of VBAC doulas all over the world. We also have a VBAC course. We now have a mini-course which is really exciting. So if you are wanting to keep upping your game and fill yourself with education, hop over to thevbaclink.com and find all that we have to offer.Janelle's StoriesMeagan: Okay, Ms. Janelle, thank you so much for being here. Janelle is a full-time stay-at-home mama of two girls and after an unexpected Cesarean in 2020, Janelle began the process of planning and preparing for her VBAC. She and her husband enjoy getting outside with their girls, cooking up good food, and playing board games together after all the kids are in bed. Janelle, welcome. Welcome to The VBAC Link and thank you again for being here. Janelle: Yeah, I'm so glad to be sharing my story. Meagan: Absolutely. We know it's going to inspire just like all of the stories on here, so we'd love to turn the time over to you. Janelle: Okay. Well, I'm Janelle. When I was planning for my VBAC, I would always be doing the dishes at night listening to The VBAC Link. It was always my goal to have the VBAC but then the second goal was to be able to share the story. So I'm really glad to be sharing. Meagan: And here you are. So awesome. Janelle: Yeah. Well, I've heard a lot of other moms say every VBAC starts with a Cesarean so I'll start there. Meagan: Exactly where it starts. You can't have a VBAC without a Cesarean, right? Janelle: Right. So with my first daughter's birth, my water broke and I was really wanting an unmedicated, natural, vaginal delivery. The water broke and I got so excited. I thought, “It's going to happen. Things are going.” This was a few days before 40 weeks so I thought I was going to have my first baby right on time. It was going to happen perfectly how I wanted. But then after the water broke, no contractions started. I hadn't really educated myself and really prepared for the labor very well so I didn't know to maybe stay at home for a little bit to try and get things going. I ended up going to the hospital which led to many interventions. I got induced and nothing was really happening. I was dilating a little bit but it wasn't “fast enough” and there was meconium present. There were a few things that I felt were stacked against me and in the end, we decided that it would be safest for me and the baby to get the C-section. If I could go back, I would do a lot of things differently, but that's just how it was. Meagan: Yeah, and it's what you knew at the time. Janelle: Exactly. Meagan: It's what you knew then. That's one of the things about birth is that we grow. We grow as we learn. Sometimes we have to learn “the hard way” in order to make changes for the future.Janelle: Right. I see a blessing in it really that I was able to go through the C-section and then have learned so much in the process of preparing for a VBAC. I never thought I'd say that, that I'm thankful for how the story was but now I am. So anyways, I had the C-section and right away, I was pretty sad about it. I was bummed and I knew I wanted another baby. I was hoping to have another baby. I really wanted a VBAC. From the second I left the hospital. I thought, “The next time I come here, I'm not having another C-section.” I put my mind to it and about a year and a half later I think it would have been– our girls are about two years apart– we got pregnant with our newest baby. I started all of the research. The educational research, the physical research. I tried to prepare emotionally and spiritually. I was just trying to do what I could to prepare. Leading up to it, I had always heard, “You need a supportive provider. You need a supportive provider.” That's the number one thing. But because of some family circumstances, we had some interesting financial goals. Our deductible had already been met because of some surgeries that happened that year, so it really was the best decision for me to be at the hospital. I know some people say, “It'll only be $5000 (only $5000) to get a midwife at home,” but that was a lot to us. Meagan: Yeah. Janelle: That is not pocket change. Meagan: We talk about how in the end, two, three, four, five years down the road are you going to be like, “Okay, that $5000? It probably was worth it.” But at the same time, you have to take into consideration where you are at that time. If it is going to cause stress and angst and hardship, it's probably not worth it. Right? You have other alternatives. You can still make a great birth. Janelle: Right. I was thinking, “This is the main recommendation that everyone has to have a good provider.” I thought, “I don't really have that opportunity.” But I did have the opportunity to have a doula. I said, “This is my situation. I'm getting a doula that I like but I will be at the hospital.” I said, “I'm going to learn what I need to learn for my situation. I'm going to stop complaining about not being able to do it just how I want.” That's when I started the education of how to do this at the hospital because that's where I was going to be. I had some pressures during the pregnancy to have different interventions that I wasn't interested in. One of them, the one I should highlight, is the pressure to be induced at 40 weeks. My baby was measuring a little bit on the bigger side. She came out at a little over 9 pounds so that was the reason that they were interested in inducing. Also because of the previous of Cesarean, they were telling me it was a better chance of things going well for us if I was closer to 40 weeks. But because of my views and what I had educated myself on and what I believed, I did not want to accept that intervention. I told them I wanted to wait. 40 weeks came and went. I was really surprised that it came and went because I was trying to do all of the things but you know what they say. You cannot force the baby to come before they're ready. We were walking. We were hiking every day. I felt the baby. There was so much pressure but nothing was happening. I would wake up every morning and think, “I'm going to end up with another C-section. The baby's not coming. I'm not going to go spontaneously,” but I had some really good support around me. My husband knew how much the VBAC meant to me. Our doula, her name is Kayla. Shoutout to Kayla, I know she'll listen. She was so supportive and she just told me, “Hang in there. Take it day by day. You can always make a decision the next day or the day of.” What are they going to say if I come in and ask to be induced? They probably are going to be happy to have me. So I just kept waiting and then 41 weeks came. I was getting Braxton Hicks for the whole pregnancy but so many. By this point, having feelings down there wasn't really anything new. Meagan: Yeah, not foreign. Janelle: Right. I was just like, “Oh, they're probably Braxton Hicks again.” I was playing that game where I wanted to be in joyful denial because I wanted to progress naturally. I was in this mindset of, “If anything is happening, I don't want to think about it anyway.” We got up and we made breakfast. I was getting contractions at this point but I had never had natural contractions. I had only had contractions that were induced so I didn't really know what was going on. I made the breakfast then I had this urge to clean the front closet which should have been the sign.Meagan: That can definitely be a sign, a surge of energy. Janelle: Yeah, so the front closet was cleaned. We listed a lot of stuff on the marketplace. Things were sold. After we put my toddler down for a nap, I had a chance to think about what was going on. I thought, “These are still going.” I hadn't really paid attention to it. I heard this trick of if you get in the shower and they continue and get stronger, then it's probably labor. But if they go away, then it's probably not. I had done this before. I had gotten in the shower and then I'd get out and they were gone. So I just thought, “I guess I'll do the test again.” So I get into the shower and I feel one. I thought, “Ooh. That was interesting.” Then I get out and they would continue. I thought, “Maybe this is something,” but I wasn't fully convinced. I got to my room and I downloaded the first contraction timer app that I could find. I timed a few. I thought, “Well that's weird, two minutes apart. This can't be it. They say that they're supposed to be five minutes apart at first. What's going on? They're probably two-minute-apart Braxton Hicks contractions of course.”So I screenshotted it and I sent it to my doula. I asked her, “What do we think is going on?” She played it cool and said, “Are you having any other symptoms?” I said, “I just feel like I have to poop but nothing more than that.” She said, “Okay. I'm going to come over to your house.” The plan was to labor at home for as long as possible and then head over to the hospital very late in the game. I asked my husband to bring our toddler to a friend's house because I was starting to have to breathe through some things. I was in that mindset of where I wanted to focus. I was like, “She's got to leave. I have to focus.” Our doula got there. My husband got back from dropping our toddler off. I just wanted to be in our bedroom away from everyone. I was laboring standing up. I was using that breathing technique of four seconds in, six seconds out. And okay. I had just researched and researched VBAC that I had forgotten– I researched positions and how to deal with medical staff but I had forgotten that I should have some breathing techniques. So oddly enough, a few days before labor started, I was watching this YouTube vlog of someone in labor. That is what her technique was and thankfully it stuck with me and worked for me because it was all I had. That is just what I did. I guess it calmed me down and it worked. Meagan: Mhmm, it's really powerful. Our breath is so powerful. Janelle: Yes. So four seconds in, six seconds out. That's what I did the whole time. My doula said that anytime I was ready we could probably go to the hospital because she was watching. She knew that I was progressing and that it was getting close to active labor. That's what it's called, right? Active labor is when it picks up?Meagan: Active phase of labor, yep. Janelle: Oh, transition is what I was meaning. She knew that I was getting close to transition. Meagan: Oh, yep when you're entering into transition, which is in the active phase of labor. Janelle: I was getting shaky and ready but I said, “No, no. We don't want to head in before it's time. I want to have this VBAC.” So she pulled my husband aside. I heard that she told him, “If we don't plan on having the baby at home, we'd better head in. We've got to get her in the car.” They told me, “No, we think it's a good time.” I trusted them but was still a little in denial. Is this it? Should we go in? We drove to the hospital. It wasn't that bad. We live pretty close. Thankfully, my wonderful doula and wonderful husband got us to skip triage which is something we had talked about before. It was a goal that we wanted to be able to skip past triage. It was a little bit rocky because I don't think the hospital staff fully wanted that to happen but my doula pressed. She was like, “Her contractions are two minutes apart. Please just let us go. She wants to have a natural labor. She's in labor, I promise.” So we got back to the room and that was such a blessing to go right back to the room because I think it kept me calmer. Once we got there, I started having more shakes and adrenaline. I started feeling scared. I realized that I was the only one that was going to do this and I realized, “Okay, this is the real deal.” I finally realized, “This is happening today and this baby comes out of me. No one else is able to really help me here.” That was a little bit scary. So during this time, it was pushed on us to get a check in order to Meagan: A cervical exam?Janelle: Yep, in order to get admitted to the hospital. I pushed against that. I wasn't interested. I wasn't interested. But then I got to the point where I thought, “If I got a check, I think that might be something that is encouraging to me if I get that.” I told them that I was okay with it and I was a 9.5. I was like, “I really think it's happening!” I was so thankful that things were progressing. Meagan: That's funny that you were contracting to the point where your cervix is at 9.5 but they're questioning admitting you.Janelle: No, that's what we were telling them. “No, this is real.” Meagan: “This is it. I'm going to have a baby.”Janelle: Right. But I'm glad that I didn't do the check too soon. We were there for a little bit before I said that that was okay. I think that kept me in that labor land. I turned inward and was focusing. Something that I used getting to the hospital was that I kept going with the breathing. I let my husband and doula really do all of the talking and I just shut my eyes. If people asked me questions, I was feeling really free to put my hand up and just continue what I was doing. My doula told me, “You're a very sweet person but it's not the time that you have to be super polite. You don't want to be rude. But this is the time. You are the woman in labor. It's okay if you tell them, ‘One second please' or just put your hand up because you're busy. You're doing something right now.” So I practiced that and being okay with making people wait which was odd for me. I'm not used to being that way. But just to realize that today is my day. Today it's about me and that's okay.Meagan: Exactly. I feel like so many of us moms especially in labor are so like, “I'm sorry. I'm sorry.” We don't want to put anyone out but really, it's okay. They can wait. They don't have to have anything right then. Janelle: Here's a funny part. I guess some people came in while I was nearing pushing. I was feeling pressure and saying, “I think I need to push.” People are coming in and introducing themselves. My doula says that I told them, “It's very nice to meet you all but not right now,” while I was doing the thing. I thought that was kind of funny that those manners came out during such a time. Meagan: Yep. Janelle: But anyways, so 9.5 centimeters. I was super excited. My water broke soon after that. I was confirmed complete about 40 minutes after my water broke. About 20 minutes after starting to push, our baby was born. Meagan: 20 minutes?!Janelle: Yeah, loudly crying. She was a little over 9 pounds and I was just so stunned that it had happened. I was so glad that it had happened. Meagan: Yes! Oh my gosh. That's fast pushing. Janelle: It was. I was up in the position where you lean the bed up and you lean over the back so maybe a modified all-fours type thing. Meagan: Yeah, yeah. Oh, I love it. I love it. Janelle: Yeah, me too. Meagan: That is awesome and you did. You labored as long as you could there at home and then you got there. It's just so awesome to hear the difference where it's like, “Yeah, I don't want that. I don't want that. Okay. Now, I'm okay with that.” That's something I'd like to make note of for the listeners is that it's okay to not want something and say no, and then it's okay to change your mind if that's what you want. Right? Same thing with epidurals and getting an epidural. You can change your mind in labor. It's okay. You're totally warranted in doing that and it can help you when you are the one making the decision. Like you were saying, “I was really glad I didn't check before then because I was in this great labor space and then I was ready and that was okay with me.” Janelle: Exactly. It really, really pushed me along to know that I was 9.5. I think it gave me a boost to say, “Okay, this is happening.” It gave me some confidence. Meagan: Yes, absolutely. You know, every time we have a storyteller, we have them fill out a sheet and the question is what is a secret lesson or something no one really talks about that you wish you would have known ahead of time when preparing for birth? Do you want me to read this or would you like to tell everybody?Janelle: I'll tell everyone. Meagan: Okay, yeah. Janelle: So like I said, when I was preparing for my VBAC, I think I forgot to prepare for some obvious things because I was so focused on VBAC-specific things. So I forgot that music can be really motivating and special during transition. I think if I could go back, I would have thought of certain songs to request during that time. My doula was really kind and she had some songs in mind that she put on for me and they ended up being perfect. They are super special to me now but I think something to remember to plan, just picking a few songs that will motivate you or be special to you during that time because I remember it so clearly, those moments right before meeting your baby. Meagan: Yes. It's something that can help you stay in that space because sometimes transition can be scary or intense. It's always different for everyone but if you have those familiar things, you're doing something and you're doing work but in a familiar space. I personally connect to music so much. I have my whole life. I used to be a dancer. Music connects to me and the same thing for me during birth and even preparing for birth. I would listen to those songs especially when I would struggle. If there was anything scary that had come into my mind or someone had said anything, I would go on and listen to those songs. To have that during that transition period would be so awesome. Like you said, there's probably a lot about your labor that you remember vividly and there are some things you don't remember as vividly but to have those songs and you remember them. You probably remember what you were doing during that time. It's just so powerful. Janelle: Yeah. Meagan: I love it. Thank you so much for sharing your story and your tips. Janelle: You're welcome. Meagan: Are there any other tips that you would like to give our listeners before we go?Janelle: I think the last thing that I would say is I shared about how the situation that my family was in maybe wasn't ideal but some things are just out of your control as far as where you will be laboring. I think I would just remember to focus on the things that I can control. On those days when you feel like you're going crazy anticipating and preparing for your VBAC, I know I felt like I just want to know. I want to know if I'm going to have a VBAC. I want the day to come and I want to know, is it going to be a Cesarean or is it going to be a VBAC? On those days where it just seems like you're kind of, maybe the word is obsessing over it, I was there. I would just take a day off from thinking about it and when it came down to it, I was really able to relax when I realized it was not fully in my control. I can control some things and I'm going to do the best that I can. I really got to the point where I thought, “Even if I have another Cesarean, I've done all of this research and preparation that I feel like I would be able to choose that in a lot of ways and be confident that it happened.” In my first experience, that's what really bothered me. I didn't feel like I got to choose it. I wish I would have done things differently but I didn't have all of that information. Yeah, some things are just out of your control. Meagan: So powerful. Like you said, we can only control what we can control. Sometimes it's hard to not be able to control some things but if we can do our best to stay in there, educate ourselves, and be in that space like you said, even if it ultimately does go to a repeat Cesarean, we're probably going to be looking at that very differently in the end. Janelle: Exactly. Meagan: I know for sure, I didn't even have all of the stuff I wish I had with my second that ended in a repeat Cesarean. It wasn't the birth I wanted, but I was a participant in at least making the final say and that stood out to me. I think that helped my recovery and it was healing for me to do that. And then on top of that, I had things. I wanted to watch my Cesarean in particular. I wanted to feel more like a part of my Cesarean and that was huge. I was able to say those things. “I desire this.” It wasn't within my control and I didn't want that Cesarean. I definitely still felt pressure to have it, but at the same time, once I made the choice, I still was able to try and control some of the things that had happened. It really did. It reflects very differently to me today than I think it would have if I didn't so I love that message. Thank you. Janelle: You're welcome. ClosingWould you like to be a guest on the podcast? Tell us about your experience at thevbaclink.com/share. For more information on all things VBAC including online and in-person VBAC classes, The VBAC Link blog, and Meagan's bio, head over to thevbaclink.com. Congratulations on starting your journey of learning and discovery with The VBAC Link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vbac-link/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

register for HEALING CIRCLE end april 23rd https://www.cprforthesouls.com/circlewatch replay of CEREMONY https://www.cprforthesouls.com/ceremonyI want to thank me for dropping down to working 2 days a weekI want to thank me for NAPPINGI like to thank me for just sitting and doing NOTHINGI like to thank me for journaling 752 consecutive days I like to thank me for learning to live for the small moments and not the grand prize 

The week after Christmas was boring…. saying.At the beginning of a marriage, everything feels new and exciting. You've got romantic date nights planned for weeks, and what may become future annoyances are just endearing little quirks that make you love your spouse even more. But unfortunately, that honeymoon stage won't last forever. Eventually, things are going to simmer down, and you might even find yourself feeling, well, bored. You can start feeling that marriage is more like a routine than a relationship.Fighting the MonotonyLuckily, that feeling doesn't mean your marriage is doomed. All it means is that you might need to devote more time and energy to making things exciting again. Let's talk about what might be adding to the monotony of your marriage:You don't surprise each other.It doesn't have to be anything extravagant, but finding ways to surprise your spouse, whether a gift or a thoughtful act, can keep your marriage fresh. “What do you and your partner need to feel loved?” Make sure your surprises match their needs and personality.Sharing too much or not enough.You need to share more with your partner, OR you are joined at the hip! You need to bond with your partner and be vulnerable. Sharing can be the exchange of information, emotions, and experiences. Try discussing some of your fav shared experiences. It will remind you of great times and give you ideas. On the other hand, you need to be your person. Couples who spend too much time together can quickly start to feel bored. Find new hobbies of your own and have experiences away from your spouse sometimes. Then share about those.Technology is consuming you.Ok, people. Get off your phones!! This is for us as well. To avoid “phubbing,” institute some phone free time each day. Be present!!!Your not putting energy into your relationship.We initially go through our romantic stage, but a few years in, that can start to ebb a little. You need to reinvent and rekindle your relationship constantly. Be more deliberate about giving your marriage the care and attention it deserves, even after the butterflies die.Your not setting goals for your relationship.It's pivotal to establish new goals to strive for. If not, you're bound to feel unenthused about the future. Supporting and encouraging each other – whether solo or as a couple – increases love. “Happiness comes from moving toward what you want, not necessarily getting it.”We are too routine.Having a humdrum daily routine can make any relationship feel boring. Try new restaurants, new hobbies, and new places to visit. Get out of your comfort zone.Help availableThere are a lot of other examples in the articles of why we are bored and how to alleviate the boredom. We will keep you posted on how we are doing.Lemonade moment of the weekI enjoyed visiting family and grandkids. At my aunt's 80th birthday party, I saw many cousins we hadn't seen in a while. Fun dancing! Not boring!!Links this Week Boring Marriage Tips MARRIAGE MONOTONY: REDUCING RELATIONAL BOREDOM ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Five for Friday Show NotesTeaser: Today's Five for Friday will be a bit different. Leading off we will talk about the best pot to use for cooking oatmeal. I bet you didn't see that coming! After the brief cooking lesson, we'll invest the rest of our time exploring a question I received from a reader last week.This week's big idea: Strategies for coaching upHello colleagues and welcome to The Assistant Principal Podcast, I'm your host Dr. Frederick Buskey. I've been growing leaders and future leaders for over 30 years. Through my own experiences, and through working with hundreds of other leaders, I've learned that school leadership is a journey that occurs in three phases:Urgent leaders spend their time completing tasks, but…Intentional leaders invest their time building systems. However…Strategic leaders create time by growing people.In 2018 I founded Strategic Leadership Consulting to help make this journey more enjoyable for leaders like you. Through my daily email, monthly micro-journal, online community, my upcoming book, and, of course, this podcast, I keep you company on this journey and provide you with actionable ideas and tools to live and lead better today and tomorrow.Today's episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of January 16-20, 2023. Monday: Don't waste time fixating on decisions that don't matter (a story of oatmeal)Two things: We sometimes try and force people to grow in the direction we want them to grow, instead of the direction they want to grow. In the big picture, the direction of the growth is irrelevant. The fact that they are growing is enough. So let them decide what size the pot needs to be, or to lead their own growth. I am guilty of fixating on decisions over things that, in the big picture, don't matter. It is a waste of time and attention, our two most precious resources. Tuesday-Friday: Question of the weekI occasionally receive powerful questions from listeners and one of my intentions in 2023 is to do more with these questions by sharing more widely. Here is my first attempt.“I would love to know your thoughts about how you try to lead an organization strategically when your superiors are not leading with the same mindset.  I'm currently struggling to get my manager to see the need to train and listen to feedback from our employees instead of just harping on them for ‘not doing their job.'”Ryan Donlan, an upcoming podcast guest, talks about the idea of leading “up, down, and around.”Leadership is not a hierarchical activity; leadership is a human activity! Way back in episode 20, Dr. Gabby Grant discussed restorative practices and when I asked her about how to begin implementing those practices she said “Change starts from within.” Before we can change others, we need to change ourselves. In the process of changing ourselves, we may create the space for others, including those above, to also engage in changing themselves.You can't make your leaders change. You can provide them opportunities to reflect and help them grow in ways they determine, but only if they make that choice themselves. Although I didn't point this out in the daily emails, I realize now that the only way to get leaders to grow is to invite them into that space and the easiest way to do that is to bring them along on our own journey – if they are willing to walk with us.Three strategies for coaching up: Providing third-party examples of good leadership can facilitate leadership growth within an organization. Podcasts Articles Books (caution) My daily emails! Working on a leadership skill and then processing our growth, or lack thereof, with other leaders provides learning opportunities for everyone involved. Set a leadership growth goal, then share it (and ask for help). Invest some time in your own growth by creating space to reflect with other leaders. Takeaway: You can't force someone to grow. You can only provide space and an invitation and the best way to do that is to start by changing yourself. Invest in your own growth, make it public, ask for help, and invite others to come along with you.That is this week's Five for Friday rendition of The Assistant Principal Podcast. Before we go, I encourage you to make an intentional choice to take something you've heard today and to reflect more deeply or to act on it. If you already have a clear idea of what to do, that's wonderful. If not, let me offer three possibilities: Begin sitting in with your leader at the end of the week and focus on learning about them and from them. Use this time to change yourself, and you will open the door for your leader to do the same. Do you know someone else who withes they could “coach up”? Forward the show link to a colleague and say “you have got to listen to this, I want us to talk about it” And yes, that is one of the strategies we discussed today and if you listen closely it is included as part of our new outro in every episode! Identify the one big takeaway or question from this episode and share it with me. You can share a written, audio, or video message with me by emailing me at frederick@frederickbuskey.com Thank you for including me on your leadership journey. Remember that you can walk more with me by subscribing to my daily leadership email and Quadrant2, my monthly micro-journal. And if that isn't enough, we can walk further together in APEx, my virtual paid community for assistant principals. APEx helps you network with other APs and participate group coaching with me! You can learn more about APEx and my other offerings at my website, frederickbuskey.com.I look forward to seeing you again next Tuesday when we explore intrinsic motivation with Mike Anderson, author of Tackling the Motivation Crisis. This was a great interview and it will give you lots to think about and maybe help you put a critical eye on some common school practices.I'm Frederick Buskey and thank you again for joining me on this episode of the Assistant Principal Podcast. Remember to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode. Cheers!Frederick's Links:Email: frederick@frederickbuskey.comWebsite: https://www.frederickbuskey.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/strategicleadershipconsulting Daily Email subscribe: https://adept-experimenter-3588.ck.page/ff61713840 

You being in control of 100% of your time is terrifying to the old Patriarchal system. But it's a GLORIOUS gift for everyone in your orbit.I was medically diagnosed as Time Blind due to my ADHD and carried the belief I was "bad with time" for 15 years until I decided, I was actually DAREDEVIL and could use my neurodiversity to move faster than time, discover exactly how I did it.Key Highlights of the EpisodeThis episode is extremely actionable and insightful. Here are a few key highlights:Parkinson's Law + how to stop the swelling of your time + energyTop 5 ways you are disrespecting your time and how to stopWhy the energetic that's driving your time can be poison and how to detect what it isHow the energy of Time works and whether you are magnetizing or repelling itOnly two beliefs you need to create PLENTY of timeInvesting your time vs spending your timeAre you using your schedule to shame yourself?To-Do Lists and the best analogy of understanding the weight of carrying over tasks week after weekI'm the Coach for you if you want to be making more HIGH QUALITY money, having lots of HIGH QUALITY time and creating way more spaciousness. I can show you how WHILE saving you years of the journey. Get on my calendar this week here: https://courtneylove.as.me/nextstep

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Tommy Walker's songs are sung in churches all over the world every weekI asked Tommy to talk about how gratitude leads to worship, and worship leads to hope. We had a wonderful conversation that I think will be a blessing to you.Scripture: Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness[a] be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.Philippians 4:6-8 ESVTommy Walker Ministries on InstagramMusic by Tommy Walker(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

This Imperfect Marketing episode is for you if you...feel that you are not enoughthink that everyone knows what you have to sharehave tried a new marketing tactic, only to give up after a weekI had a fantastic conversation with Michelle Vroom, Small Business Marketing Strategist, about our limiting beliefs. She shares how she helps her clients overcome these and how she helps them grow and improve their marketing strategy.We discuss the importance of building a community and organic relationships. Focus on adding value to your community, and business will come to you. Show up consistently and build your know, like, and trust factor. I've said this 100 times, but again: do not compare your beginning to someone else's middle.How have you overcome your limiting beliefs and learned to recognize your worth? Let me know; I would love to hear from you at support@kendracorman.com!Click here to access the transcript and follow along. Related Links:Michelle's WebsiteMichelle's Facebook CommunityKendra's Free Downloadable on Identifying Your Target AudienceEmail Marketing Isn't Dead, Learn Your List Building Style!Social Media as a Publishing Platform with Patty KEmbracing Peaceful Confidence with JenNiching Down in LinkedIn with Brenda Meller Looking to save time or get more information from AI?If you're just starting out with AI or looking to enhance your outputs, my book 'Mastering AI in Communications' is your essential guide. Whether you're a beginner or ready to take your skills to the next level, grab your free electronic copy or purchase it on Amazon right here!Amazon: https://a.co/d/bhblVcGFree e-version: https://courses.kendracorman.com/aibookDon't miss this opportunity to transform your approach and make AI your most powerful tool yet in saving time and improving efficiency!

Do you feeling like you aren't winning right now; In your personal or professional life? Like you are aiming for the moon, and keep landing in the stars but that isn't okay with you.  But I challenge you, as I am challenging myself... are we failing or do we need to just adjust our expectations. Questions to ask yourself:What is substantiable?What is realistic?What will stretch you just a little bit?How did this failed attempt get me closer to a successful attempt?What is enough?Affirmations to help you through the weekI am doing enough even when I don't get it all done. I am worthy of everything I desire.I am doing the best I can with the circumstances I have.I am worthy of being paid and charging what I want to.My time does not equate my worthiness.The dollar amount in my bank account does not equate to my worthiness.How much I accomplish or did not accomplish in my day has nothing to do with my worthiness.It gets to be good for me too. I am planting seeds now for what will grow later. Ready to join the Confetti Worthy Women Membership Community?!Love what you heard? Feel like another woman may resonate with it? Take a screenshot of the episode and post it to your social media stories and tag me, @courtney_wendzicki so I can personally thank you for sharing.+ come hang out with me on Instagram to learn all things biz building, check out podcast behind the scenes and most importantly to empower other entrepreneurial women!!

Jordan Rodriguez gives a two-fer on tips this weekI have your weather update along with reservoir information plus stocking and tournament updatesI will tell you about our trip out to the Oregon coast last weekWe have the moon phase report along with the grade for the week.Thanks for listening. I'll see you on the water!Support the show

This week's Super Full Moon in Sagittarius invites us to examine our lives and our healing journey, where we are and where we want to go, from a new perspective. Listen in and hear:What comfort has to do with this Full Moon - and how it affects our healing journeyWhy your thoughts may be swirling right now - and what to do with that energyHow Mercury is going to affect all of this - and how we can use that in our healingWhat we need to allow right now - and why we usually stop itThe life area that's being guided toward healing during this timeWhy you might feel some brain fog - and what to do if you  doHow you can use the fiery energy of Sagittarius to help you move forward on your healing journeyThe card I pulled for this weekI also shared a journal question for you to use this week.I'd love to hear what you're releasing with this Super Full Moon in Sagittarius! Email me at info@lorilatimer.com or share with me on Instagram. If you'd like help with what you're releasing, you can sign up here for an Illumination Reading, or a healing reading if that's what you need right now.

Trader makes +7.25% gain trading the 15 minute chartsPodcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click HereFind out more about my Online Video Forex Course#456: Trader makes +7.25% gain trading the 15 minute chartsIn this video:00:35 – One of our clients makes +7.25% account gain in the week01:20 – We only look for a trade at the close of a candle01:54 – We don't only trade the longer time frame charts02:55 – Trade what suits you05:05 – Take a look at Blueberry Markets06:11 – Future trading topicsOne of our coaching clients made 7.25% account gain last week, trading only the 15 minute timeframe charts. Let me explain about that and more right now.Hey traders, this is Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach, with video and podcast number 456. Something a little bit different this week, and I mentioned it at the end of last week's video and podcast, and I've had a lot of people saying they're really wanting to know more about this.One of our clients makes +7.25% account gain in the weekI talked about a client who just the previous week made 7.25% on his account. On the previous video, I think I was mentioning he made about 8.5%, I think it was, but he actually had a losing day on Friday when I made last week's weekly video. So for the previous week he ended up, of the five trading days, he lost Friday and made four profitable days Monday through to Thursday, for a total net gain of 7.25% trading with only very tiny risk of a quarter to a half percent risk per trade. And he did that by trading between 45 minutes and one and a half hours per day on only the 15 minute timeframe charts.We only look for a trade at the close of a candleAnd the great thing with the way that we trade is you only look at the candle close. And so you know that if you're trading for 45 minutes a day, he could have looked at four different timeframe charts, or four different closes. And if he was trading for an hour and a half, he had six closes on the 15 minute timeframe charts to look at. So he did that for the five days for a 7.25% account gain, only on the 15 minute timeframes. And when you think about that, that's pretty good.We don't only trade the longer time frame chartsAnd a lot of people think that we trade just the longer timeframe charts. And personally, I tend to trade two hours and above, that's just what suits me. But the great thing is from your point of view, is that our strategy works. And from our client's point of view, the strategy works. And what that means is you have the ability to trade whatever suits you. Just because I'm now explaining about a number of our clients that are now jumping onto 15 minute timeframe charts, doesn't mean to say you should go and do that, but only if it suits you. Likewise, if I'm talking about trades on 12 hour charts or daily's or weekly's, or even monthly's, don't just jump onto those timeframe charts if they don't really suit you. On those, you've got to be prepared for them to be in a little bit longer and just let them do their thing. On a 15 minute timeframe chart, you're going to be expecting really that you have to dedicate an hour or so per day and sit and watch those closes four times within the hour. But it just shows what can be done.Trade what suits youAnd that's the important thing, it's trading what suits you. But also, it's trading what the market's giving you. If you want to trade 15 minute timeframe charts, and you say, look,

i had a birthday dinner and didn't wear a mask Shout outs to the ceramicist brian R. Jones who likes the longer episodes- he makes the stuff at brianrjones.comhe hangs out in a ceramics studio. i attended Alfred University for a single semester and I got him and Steve theretry to calm down and go slowerI revisited the last night for dinner journal, it had been 13 months. Last night For dinner we had left over meatloaf and martini's made with cheap gin but at least there was plenty of it5 oz gin to 1.5oz dry vermouth, garnished with banana peppers. it wasn't very goodme & my wife: Ronin commonsense media sounds like the answer is, sounds fine/ nobunch of ex-govt spies fighting over a briefcasewent over it last time: Elon musk is named after a smell, On the other hand John Hoppin is the name of a less wealthy and less popular smell that doesnt own twitterI'm riding the exercise bike 2-3x per weekI got asked by another parent in San Leandro if it had happened to me recently and for a moment i wasnt sure if they meant the wheelchair or MSi told them that i had the wheelchair almost a full year before i would ride it around in publicit was recommended to me by an occupational therapist at the stanford neuroscience a couple years before thatshe told me it would help me get there- not spend my energy to get therei'm tired of falling and hitting my head and having to get staples in my headReading foreign cuisine cookbooks- Ethiopian smoked milk or waterGoing to dinner at a Moroccan restaurant on SaturdayMy wife wanted to support the idea of journeying to EthiopiaRoger Maris visited JFK in the white house in his capacity as MS Society's national campaign co chairman in 1962Last night for dinner and the night before i had pb&j for dinnerwent to my 2nd kfjc meeting since corona, raided the spliff binWet leg, kyle ransonTook the kids to baseball, made dinner, all by myself but i had help. The burger place closedi was afraid i would lose my licenseDmv workedHayward dmv was coolthe guy had a hat that said oldies car club and the bull was scrunched up like anthrax - he told me i should work thereso i'm afraid tommy lee jones is going to pull me out of line so he can show me some of his techniquesignoring disabled people all the way up to euthanizing them are on a spectrum together (like the way microagression and out right aggression) are both kinds of discrimination Need advice about a wheelchair lift for the car, i know there a re listeners who use wheelchairs, i need to get a machine that takes my chair out of the car bc i dont like someone doing it who is either a woman or older than me.its for the opticsHave you heard the sound of the atmosphere dragging across the EarthI went to birthday dinner in San FranciscoI had a 3 hour mriThen i had rods drilled into my jaw

Listen in podcast appIn this week's episode of Reformed Millennials, Broc and Joel discuss how markets are reacting to an inverted yield curve, Biden’s Call for Canadian Oil and Elon’s Investment in Twitter.Listen on Apple, Spotify, or Google Podcasts.If you aren’t in the Reformed Millennials Facebook Group join us for daily updates, discussions, and deep dives into the investable trends Millennials should be paying attention to.👉 For specific investment questions or advice contact Joel @ Gold Investment Management.📈📊Market Update💵📉The indexes ran to their February highs, gapped slightly above them to force the last remaining shorts to cover and cause some FOMO; then they reversed lower. Breakouts stopped… breaking out over the last few days which signals that the market is stalling and in need of some consolidation. It’s normal to see a reaction after multiple days of rallying from the bottom. The question is which stocks will make higher lows and continue higher and which ones will keep pulling back to new lows. Semis and financials already tested their 20dma. So far, the bounce attempt is very tepid. Retailers broke below their 20dma and are looking the most vulnerable. The latter makes sense. Raging inflation will impact not only people’s purchasing power but also their willingness to spend.The main indexes, SPY and QQQ printed inverse weekly candles. It would not be the worst thing in the world if QQQ pulls back to 350 and SPY to 445-440 and let their rising 20-day moving averages catch up with price.Don’t get overly bearish. This minor pullback in the indexes seems like another sector rotation. The weakness in semis, banks and transportation stocks on Friday coincided with strength in biotech. 63 stocks went up 10% or more last week vs 23 that went down 10% or more (priced over $15, average daily volume of 500k shares).We haven’t cared about inflation since 1981. It’s now bubbling up in every day conversation. It matters and we’re at risk of blowing up a booming economy if the central banks don’t handle this situation with care.I think it’s important to address why we had 4 decades of flat to down inflationGlobalizationTechnology and this is not even close to going away but probably accelerating.Unemployment is sub-4%, cruise lines just had their best week ever and Las Vegas casinos are totally mobbed.I'm not convinced yet that this economy is as bad as it was in 2009.💸Reformed Millennials - Post of The WeekI am in a lot of Telegram rooms dedicated to crypto.A lot of the technical banter goes right over my head, but I am starting to read about more apps and products that I would use myself. The infrastructure layer is here.The other day in the 6th man Ventures Telegram they were talking about a fitness app called ‘Stepn‘ and it immediately made sense to me.Here is their ‘Litepaper‘. The gist: https://stepn.com/litePaperAll this makes me wonder why Nike and the other fitness companies have not yet offered products for the metaverse that work like ‘Stepn’, but maybe they will now that they see this working.What makes all this so extra cool is that ‘Stepn’ is already trading on the exchanges. The early users and adopters and people in the community can own the tokens.In the month that it has started trading the ‘green metaverse’ token has gone from 15 cents to $2.60.I have no idea how to value these type of coins/communities/ecosystems, but this is the new financial and digital world we are living in right now and I am trying to take part in it.At minimum, I completely understand why a whole generation of investors has moved over to crypto.🌊 Canadian Companies To Peruse 🌊Shopthing.com - “No more waiting in lines or frustrating try-ons! Our team of Live Shoppers hunt for the best luxury deals daily. All your favorite brands are available via 24 hour flash sales in our iOS App and IG Stories”Raised $10m CAD Series A March 23rd (launched marketplace app March last year) - betakit article announcing the funding says they have 500,000 users 🔮Best Links of The Week🔮Why Shein Might Be Worth 100b in 4 charts - Business of FashionThe Yield Curve Just Inverted…Now What? - Of Dollars and DataA Checklist for corrections - Compound AdvisorsHow People Think - Collaborative FundNetflix Should Start Adding Commercials? - Ben Thompson This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.reformedmillennials.com

Silk on your dressFingerprints on your neckI'm a prince, I'm a kingI'm the fall, I'm the springI'm your favorite thingIt's a dangerous thingDig deep baby, dig deepI've been waiting for this shit all weekI've been waiting for this shit all yearAnd right now I seem to lack fear soOoh, she eyeing the bottleI pour up a cupShe pushin' the throttleShe swear it's the mollyYou look like a modelBelong in BugattiSo are you my shawty?Tell me girl are you my shawty?

I'm here to answer some of your voicemails on the podcast this weekI. Also I go on about my love of hot sauce and some MxPx related stories.  You ask the questions and I dish the tea. I hope you enjoy this one.  Thanks for listening. ------------------------- NEW MXPX song - Say Yes - LISTEN HERE Listen to the MxPx challenge on Spotify! Gimme some 2 a days!!! MXPX and Podcast INFO BELOW:   https://linktr.ee/Mikeherrerapodcast ------------------------- Have you subscribed to the pod?  Big Thanks to RØDE MICS  --------------------------------------------------- LIFE IN QUARANTINE - THE COLLECTION TEXT LIST - Join our Text list by texting MXPX to 31996 Merch available at www.mxpx.com MUSIC -LISTENER CHALLENGE- Listen to MXPX Self Titled Deluxe Album at least once a day. Use hashtag #mxpx or #mxpxsuperchallenge The MXPX Super Challenge Playlist MXPX - Self Titled Deluxe Edition  Mike Herrera - Moment's Like These: TX Mike Herrera - Superman - LISTEN HERE!  I now have an Artist Series Music Man Stingray from Ernie Ball! You can order straight from the shop on the Music Man website.  A portion of proceeds goes to MusicCares!  MIKE HERRERA SIGNATURE SERIES BASS If you like the podcast- Subscribe, rate and review on Apple. Support what I do at MXPX.com  Leave a message with your question on the Mike Herrera Podcast voicemail. (some could be aired on future episodes of the podcast) 360-830-6660 (US number) 3 min limit per message. Producing and editing by Bob McKnight. @bobandkatieshow

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What's up young dudes? here's the podcast this weekI talk about the future of the podcast, working early, Wagon Wheel is a CIA PSY-OP,and Sexy Former Taoiseach's (don't know the plural)support the pod for the cost of a pint a month or 4 slice pans or a pack of fancy 4 ply toilet paper here : patron.com/shanesbrilliantpodcastemail shanesbrilliantemail@gmail.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/shanesbrilliantpodcast)

Intro: Some of what I have to say will sound like a repetition of last weekI’m okay with that – we need to have it reinforced for us to own it- my intention is to build on what we went over last week• our Scriptures are sacred writings, ◦ but we don’t know how to read sacred writings• we have learned that we read sacred writings"◦ with reverence, receptivity and responsiveness, and self-reflection◦ last week, we read the sacred writings with the Spirit of God- today we learn to read the sacred writings Spirit-to-spirit• so we are moving into a deeper place than last week◦ we are entering a deeper place in God and in what happens in ourselves

Few/a few/little/a little – określenia te uczący poznają bardzo wcześnie podczas swojej nauki języka angielskiego, ale nawet zaawansowane osoby bardzo często popełniają błędy w ich użyciu. Rzeczywiście, wyglądają bardzo podobnie, ale niosą nieco inny przekaz. W odcinku 47 podcastu wyjaśniam te różnice. Dowiesz się, które stosowane są z rzeczownikami policzalnymi, a które nie i co więcej, jakie są różnice między nimi. Na koniec jak zwykle zapraszam na www.monikapodbielska.com gdzie znajdziecie całą wiedzę oraz teksty piosenek i video z piosenkami, w których zastosowane były te określenia. Pobierz ćwiczenia z www.monikapodbielska.com i sprawdź, czy już wszystko umiesz i rozumiesz. Few/a few/little/a littleFew i a few stosoujemy do rzeczwowników policzalnychNa przykładFew people, few books, few films A few friends, a few books.few oznacza po prostu mało – dla rzeczowników policzalnychA few zaś – kilka.There were a few people at the meeting so we could talk. – Było kilka osób na spotkaniu, więc mogliśmy pogadać – ma to wydźwięk pozytywny, dodatni.Jeżeli powiemy zaś: There were few people at the meeting so we couldn't vote anything. – Było mało osób na spotkaniu I nie mogliśmy na nic zagłosować. – Ma to wydźwięk negatywny, niewystarczający. Little i a little zaś odnoszą się, określają rzeczowniki niepoliczalneNa przykładHe drinks little water. – On pije mało wody.AleHe drinks a little wine at parties. – On pije trochę win ana przyjęciach.He has a little money, so let's go party! – On ma trochę kasy, więc chodźmy na imprezę. – Czyli Little oznacza mało dla rzeczowników niepoliczalnychA little oznacza troche I ma to wydźwięk pozytywnyNależy więc zapamiętać, że few i little sugerują zbyt małą liczbę, a a few i a little mają bardziej pozytywny wydźwięk, podkreślają fakt, że czegoś jest więcej niż tylko troszeczkę.Mówimy więc:-Little money - mało pieniędzy (zbyt mało by np. coś kupić)-Few books – mało książek-A little money – trochę pieniędzy ( mało, ale na coś tam starczy)-a few books – kilka książek Jak to można spróbować zapamiętać?Few ma trzy literki, więc bardzo mało…A few ma cztery literki więc to już trochę więcej, zawsze coś…Little ma mniej literek niż a little, więc little oznacza zupełnie mało, a little – o, to już coś zawsze jest… Inne przykłady:- I've got few friends – mam niewielu przyjaciół (oznacza to, że mam rzeczywiście mało przyjaciół, przydałoby się więcej)- I've got a few friends. – mam paru przyjaciół (to nieźle, zawsze mogę się z kimś spotkać)- I have little money - mam mało pieniędzy (nie dam rady kupić nic konkretnego, na nic mi nie wystarczy)- I have a little money – mam trochę pieniędzy (o! to może w coś zainwestuję, lub kupię nowy samochód) - I have a little time today – mam dziś troche czasu (to może pójdę do kina..)I jak zwykle spójrzmy, jak te wyrażenia stosowane są w piosenkach:FewThe Who – It's Hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gV-kTMGUwIAny tough can fight, few can playAny fool can fall, few can layAny stud can reproduce, few can pleaseAnyone can pay, few can leaseIt's hardIt's hard(It's a hard, hard hand to hold(it's a hard, hard hand to holdIt's a hard land to control)It's a hard land to control)Any man can claim, few can findAny girl can blink, few can lieAnyone can promise, few can raiseAnyone can try, but a few can stayAny brain can hide, few can standAny kid can fly, few can land…A fewJay-Z – Suit and Tie – tutaj jest piosenka z tekstemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTPHEJKbqdwI be on my suit and tie shit, tie shit, tieI be on my suit and tie shit, tie shitCan I show you a few things?A few things, a few things, little baby 'causeI be on my suit and tie shit, tie shitI be on my suit and tie shit, tie shitLet me show you a few thingsLet me show you a few thingsWait a minute, you ready, JT?I can't wait 'til I get you on the floor, good-lookingGoing out so hot, just like an ovenAnd I'll burn myself, but just had to touch itIt's so fly and it's all mineHey baby, we don't mind all the watching, hi'Cause if they study close, real close, they might learn somethingShe ain't nothing but a little doozy when she does itShe's so fly (she's so fly) tonightAnd as long as I've got my suit and tieI'ma leave it all on the floor…Toby Keith – A few more cowboys – piosenka z tekstemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BuAZDuzq58If the White House was in Texas, man, we'd get a straighter answerIf they'd let us smoke what we want, we'd have a lot less cancerThere'd be a bunch more daddies, sons could be proud ofWe'd have half the crime, we'd have twice the funWith a few more cowboys, be a lot less outlawsWith a few more amens, be a lot less bad callsWith a few more yes ma'ams and a lot less yes manThis world would be a better place to live inWith a few more cowboysIf we did it with a handshake, we'd save a lot of paperThat'd save a lot of trees we're shippin' overseas to make herIf we stood by our word, took care of our ownBought it made in the USA, we'd keep it here at homeWith a few more cowboys, be a lot less outlawsWith a few more amens, be a lot less bad calls…Jaheim – special dayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFlMdZeSKGEBreakfast when you wake,Along with the candle on a cupcake that I baked,Catering you is much of my oblige,Instead of stress and mirage,You're the beat to my heart,Here's a rose with no thorns on the stem, you're a gem,You're the reason why i've, found 100 ways to,Adore you 3 times a day, morning noon and night,It's for youToday's a special day for you,These are a few, (these are a few, these are a few)Things I'd like to do for you,Today's a special day for you,These are a few, (these are a few, these are a few)Things I'd like to share with youI'm a fool for love today, honest I'll do,Anything you need me to, uh huh,From sun rise to sun set on this ordinary day,You can have it all your way,That's my job, you're a heart throb,Love's the…Little ARKARNA SO LITTLE TIME Song N LYRICshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3pU3EPgULUTook a while to drag me out of bedAim some coffee at my headSaw the clock, I'm running lateIt's an ordinary dayAnd I'm like a dog on heatKnock one out and then fall asleepIt's sad but trueI'd rather be with youDon't you forget about meWhen you're a celebrityIt will be only you and meBefore too longSo little time, so much to doI'd rather spend my days with youSo little time, so much to doI' like to spend one day with youAnd if that day is not enoughMaybe we can stay and touchBut I'm not making plansFor tomorrow, for tomorrowNever comes...Said I've been celibate for yearsNot out of choice there's no - one hereSee I can't give my end awayAnother ordinary dayAnd I'd love to seeA little more of youYour clothes would look betterOn my bedroom…Matt Berninger - Loved So Littlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZOWXXF0N7IWith your pulled-on hair and your punched-up lipsAnd your city-mouse voiceI should have known that we'd get into thisIf I didn't watch the signalsAnd now you lean in the door in your fired-up skinWith your look all freedom, telling me that I'm in for itIf I can't keep upIt's only god or the devil when you're in itAnd I'm always getting caught in the middleIt's so hard to be loved so littleTime to rip out the phoneWhy are people still calling?Don't they know that we're never gonna buy another batshit storyOf bad kids in the gardenBetter bring your fear of flying and your lizard boy brainTo the top of the stairs, 'cause I don't wanna have toCome down again and find you lighting upIt's only god or the devil when you're in…A littleLou bega – mambo no5, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu7h_md33SoLadies and gentlemen, this is Mambo Number FiveOne, two, three, four, fiveEverybody in the car, so come on, let's rideTo the liquor store around the cornerThe boys say they want some gin and juiceBut I really don't wannaBeer bust like I had last weekI must stay deep because talk is cheapI like Angela, Pamela, Sandra and RitaAnd as I continue you know they getting sweeterSo what can I do? I really beg you, my LordTo me is flirting it's just like sport, anything flyIt's all good, let me dump it, please set in the trumpetA little bit of Monica in my lifeA little bit of Erica by my sideA little bit of Rita is all I needA little bit of Tina is what I seeA little bit of Sandra in the sunA little bit of Mary all night longA little bit of Jessica,…Erasure – a little respecthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pwzy-oVx7kI try to discoverA little something to make me sweeterOh baby refrain from breaking my heartI'm so in love with youI'll be forever blueThat you gimme no reasonWhy you make-a-me work so hardThat you gimme noThat you gimme noThat you gimme noThat you gimme noSoul, I hear you callingOh baby please give a little respect to meAnd if I should falterWould you open you arms out to meWe can make love not warAnd live at peace with our heartsI'm so in love with youI'll be forever blueWhat religion or reasonCould drive a man to forsake his loverDon't you tell me noDon't you tell me noDon't you tell me noDon't you tell me noSoul, I hear you callingOh baby please give a little respect to meI'm…

SUMMARY:UNPACKIN' it President, Bryce Johnson, unpacks his thoughts after Week 2 of the NFL Season.TOPICS:Holding Bryce accountableWhere Bryce nailed itShenanigans from the weekI'm Convinced...Peace or panic?One-hit wondersQuestions of the Week See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

SUMMARY:UNPACKIN' it President, Bryce Johnson, unpacks his thoughts on Week 1 of the NFL Season.TOPICS:Holding Bryce accountableWhere Bryce nailed itShenanigans from the weekI'm Convinced...Peace or panic?BackupsWhat is your perspective? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this conversation, Tyler and Dwayne discuss running play segments; the related run and the last run in particular. We cover how to determine the basic spot, based on when the foul occurred. Additionally we cover the special case when we enforce the penalty from the end of the last run.Fight Song - Notre DameQuote of the WeekI don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. -Anne FrankMentioned on the ShowChecklist for End of Last Run EnforcementWas there a Team B Personal Foul? Did the foul occur during a completed legal forward pass play? Did the play end beyond the neutral zone? No change of team possession during the down? If all of the above are true, we will enforce from the end of the last run If not we'll revert back to basic spot enforcement on a pass play. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/rule11)

Effective leadership is important in order for a crew to learn, grow and function as a cohesive unit. ACC Referee Jeff Flanagan makes his second appearance on the podcast to discuss 12 Leadership Flaws that hamper the above goals. Listen in and determine if there are some areas in which you can improve upon as a leader.Quote of the WeekI know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder the next time. -- Michael JordanMentioned on the ShowLeadership Flaws PresentationFight Song - Florida StateSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/rule11)

On this new most spectacular round of the year this month, your fighters of all things dull discuss musicians gone too soon, the deaths of artists who have had the most impact on them.Influential Musicians Gone Too SoonThis is the second round in which one Dull-Fighters springs a topic on the other and the first that SuperJay springs on BatShayne.Our fearless heroes begin with a nod to time and it's slow crawl the first few months of 2020 and give a shout-out to The Jerk.Listen closely and intently and find out for yourself why are their favorite artists gone too soon. Also, listen intently as Shayne interrupts Jay's number 2.Shayne's Most Missed Musicians(Since he so rudely interrupts Jay.)Michael Hutchins of INXS.Layne Staley of Alice in ChainsChris CornellJay's Most Missed MusiciansElvisPrinceTom PettySpeaking of Significant Musician DeathsSoon, we'll talk about Foo Fighters.Today's Toast:The care workers and first responders during the pandemic.Line of the weekI wanna hug somebody's hand.Who are your picks for musicians gone too soon?For complete show notes, go to https://shayne.fun/bt24.Please support us on the Beer Thursday Patreon page! The first 20 Great Human Beings will get access to the Beer Thursday Facebook group at the $5 level.Never miss an episode and help us take you to the top with us be subscribing and leaving a 5-Star review on your favorite podcasting app:Apple PodcastsStitcherGoogle PlaySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/beerthursday)

Due to the length of this weeks show notes I will be posting the full version on my webpage. I would invite you to visit https://leadgrowinnovate.com/ for this show and all other shows full version and complete show notes. I have included some partial notes for this program, full versions will be available on the webpage.We are living in a new age of leadership. An age of innovation and change. We are leading from diminished office space or from home. The vision of tomorrow is hard to see. How do we assist the team to visualize what is ahead?Today I would like to share three steps to assist in team visioning. Being a leader in times of change is never easyAs spoken to last week the ability to inspire and motivate teams in a new direction is going to become very valuable.The use of powerful communication to enthuse and excite teams in a dynamic way towards forwarding momentum will be huge.This can lead to the most amazing changes.The best part about it is that if you do it correctly you do not have to do it alone.Get your team involved and part of the processHave them visualize what they think things will look like in the future.This little process is called team visioning and it is amazingI have been speaking to other leaders recently and we have been discussing difficulties experienced during these drastic workspace changes we have undergoneWe have been talking about challenges experienced and well as the solutionsWe also discussed how we as leaders will need to change and adapt to a constantly changing workplace.As a side note, I have covered this type of mentorship in a past episode as well as in my blog. I will place the links in the show notes for you.This whole conversation and topic we discussed was strengthened by a conversation that we had the prior weekI had stated that I use the concept of “i” too oftenIn the process, I remove the strength and recognition from my team We spoke about the power of “we” and empowermentThis is a subject that I would like to get into further at a later dateDuring this chat, we talked about empowerment Again this week it came up again This time it was me returning the advice given to me the week prior.How could we create a method of empowerment in our teams to generate and lead the change themselvesThese are the three-stage that we came up with By using these three stages we hoped the empowerment of the team would assist in creating a workspace that would be comfortable and effective for all involvedThank you for listening and please enjoy.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

It’s hard to do things on our own, isn’t it? It’s much easier to do something, and keep doing something, if we have others with us, or watching us.For example, how much school-work would you do if you had no other students and no teacher in your class? Having a teacher and other students makes us work harder, doesn’t it?It’s the same when it comes to Meeting with Jesus. If we just try to do it on our own, we will probably forget to do it, we’ll maybe just decide not to do it, and we won’t get the benefit of knowing what others have discovered, and we won’t have a teacher to remind us to keep going.That’s why we don’t have a reading for Sunday. As we saw in the last podcast, we still meet with Jesus on Sunday, it’s just that we do it in church in the worship services. But we also want to meet with Jesus together with our family. Let's think about what role the family has.Families can meet with Jesus through the weekI know it helps when there are two or more kids doing the book together in the same family. Each reminds the other, and each kid wants to keep up with the other. It’s also neat because we can help one another if we get stuck or share what we learned with one another.So, that’s through the week. What about Sunday?Families can meet with Jesus on SundayI suggest setting aside ten minutes on Sunday for Dad or Mom to sit down and just check your answers and that you’ve been doing the work.There’s also a discussion question on the Sunday page that asks you to think and talk together about what you learned in the past week. Maybe your parent can also ask you if you have any questions or what you learned about Jesus that week.The aim is to have fellowship together, to meet with Jesus together as we remind one another of what we’ve read, encourage one another with what we’ve read, and motivate one another to keep meeting with Jesus.Do you see how we can meet Jesus together as a family?

This episode includes a Book Talk, Augmented Reality and the Joke of the Week.Book TalkI talk about one of my favourite fantasy book series, "The Wheel of Time", and review the first book in the series called "The Eye of the World."Resources:Tor.com - Robert JordanThe Eye of the World: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 (Excerpt) Chapters.ca - THE EYE OF THE WORLD: BOOK ONE OF THE WHEEL OF TIME Chapters.ca - THE EYE OF THE WORLD: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, VOLUME ONETech TalkIn the Tech Talk segment I talk about Augmented Reality and the Reality Composer app.Resources:AR RocketShip created in Reality Composer iOS app (YouTube)Reality Composer iOS appGet to know Reality Composer - Apple Support (YouTube)Best AR apps in 2020: Augmented reality comes to your phoneAR Makr iOS appPokemon GO iOS appJoke of the WeekI also tell my Joke of the Week. It's a doozie.If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider subscribing to it in Apple Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcast or from wherever you download your podcasts.Music Credit: The theme music used in this podcast was created by Robbie Lee.

Dr. Anton Krige rejoins us this week to answer my questions regarding best practise on how to train safely during this relatively early phase of the pandemic. We cover not just training, but also ways to reduce stress, nutrition and supplementation, and sleep strategies.Here are some links for the show notes that Dr. Krige prepared for us:“Here are links for listeners to good COVID information in addition to standard PHE, NHS, CDC, WHO & John Hopkins University sites:Dr Peter Attia https://peterattiamd.com/covid-19/Chris Kresser https://chriskresser.com/novel-coronavirus-covid-19-resources/Institute for Functional Medicine https://info.ifm.org/covid-19?utm_campaign=covid-19&utm_source=website&utm_medium=popup&utm_content=resources_learn_moreExamine https://examine.com/topics/coronavirus/?ck_subscriber_id=361852775#supplementsFor great general COVID education that’s well explained but full of accurate facts is Medcram on Youtube - its lung & ICU specialist from the US - it’s excellently delivered with graphics .Recommend everyone limits total reading regarding COVID to less than 30 minutes today to reduce stress & anxiety.Guidance for low carbohydrate approach for endurance athletes:The art & science of low carbohydrate performance - Volek & Phinney https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Science-Low-Carbohydrate-Performance/dp/0983490716/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=jeff+volek&qid=1586449503&sr=8-1The Paleo diet for athletes - Joe Friel - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paleo-Diet-Athletes-Nutritional-Performance-ebook/dp/B0093QBOZ2/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=joe+friel+paleo&qid=1586449609&sr=8-2Recommend Jae Grunke “The Balanced Runner” - she’s doing 15 minute lesson per day during covid on her youtube channel - she’s a magician for curing chronic running injuries & form - completely different approach ( very good blog breaking down top runners’ forms) - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+balanced+runnerHIRT (high intensity repeat training as apposed to HIIT): 7-15 sec sprint - 2 minutes recovery x 5 -6 once a weekI have a whole host of evidence based techniques for improving sleep & reducing stress which massively important for immune function but talks on their own.Finally, a caveat regarding nutritional advice - there is some early animal evidence the higher dose of vitamin A & D, which are usually very good for our immune health, may allow easier coronavirus cell entry. We don’t know yet if this applies to humans & is contentious so therefore I would ensure adequate intake of those vitamins to prevent becoming ill but if diagnosed with COVID would discontinue any additional vitamin A & D supplementation just taking what’s in food. This may change as we learn more.”Show Sponsors:https://www.precisionhydration.com/ - Leaders in triathlete sweat testing and hydration, with multi-strength electrolytes that match how you sweat. Get 15% off your first order With the code OXYGENADDICT15Athletic Greens - Athletic Greens Ultimate Daily is an all-in-one daily supplement with 75 vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and digestive enzymes. Listeners can get 20 FREE travel packs worth over £60 with your first purchase.http://team.oxygenaddict.com - Get 30 days of coaching in Team Oxygenaddict for just £1! Click here to get started!Join us for our Zwift - OxygenAddict Triathlon Podcast Power Hour interval training session, Tuesdays at 7.15pm UK time. Check the Zwift listings for details!Thriva.co - Take health tracking to a new level with your personalised at-home finger-prick blood test. Get 50% off your first test with the code OXYGENADDICT50Our Patrons : Support the show with a monthly or one off donation - thanks so much for your support!Join the Oxygenaddict Triathlon Community page on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/666558563716897/Listen on Spotify: http://bit.ly/OATriPodSpotifyListen on iTunes: http://bit.ly/OATriPodiTunesSome links are affiliate links, which mean that we may get paid commission if you make a purchase via the link, or using the code, at no extra cost to you.

This week we take a look at what you can do to up your game when you're not playing the game.  This topic was inspired by all the great responses we received from you last weekI apologize for the less than ideal audio quality as I lost my track and had to use the master track instead of the three seprate tracks.  Iksar tweet - https://twitter.com/IksarHS/status/1235608866462687233Playhearthstone tweet - https://twitter.com/PlayHearthstone/status/1237123609279119360

For full show notes and interview transcript, check out http://www.geekgirltarot.com/S01Ep09 Card of the Month RecapThe card pulled for November is The Devil. This card draws attention to the unhealthy attachments in our lives, both in the way of physical vices as well as unhealthy relationships. Some of the undertones of the holiday season may draw these issues out to the surface. Remember, the chains around you aren't super tight. You have ways to break free / detach / detox if needed. An add-on to this from the book Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow - look at how adjustment (Temperance) from past changes (Death) might have caused you to become too restrictive of yourself. Now might be a time to let loose and indulge a little! Card of the Week for November 24th - November 30thWe have the Eight of Pentacles reversed telling us to focus on progress rather than perfection. Sometimes we get caught up on other people's finished products to where we forget that they too were beginners and have made mistakes along the way. Don't let "I'm new to this..." keep you from working towards your dreams Psychic Development in Childhood with Elke HannigElke Hannig is an expert in Body Psychotherapy and Tantric & Shamanic Wisdom Teachings. This week she shares with us how the stress we experience we experience as children can heighten our awareness of the world around us to the point where we become clairvoyant or clairfeeling.Website: https://www.elkehannig.deInstagram Profile: https://www.instagram.com/elkehannigbodypsychotherapy/Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/elke.hannig/ Tarot Reading Schedule for The WeekI will be at Enchanted Boutique (White Bear Lake, MN) on Friday November 29th from 11am to 6pm for their Purple Psychic Friday event.You can also either book an email/video reading with me through my website or get a quickie chat/voice reading with me through the Purple Ocean app most evenings.  WHERE TO FIND ME: Instagram: https://instagram.com/geekgirltarotFacebook: https://facebook.com/geekgirltarotTumblr: https://geekgirltarot.tumblr.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/geekgirltarotMy Website: https://www.geekgirltarot.com

 Card of the Month RecapThe card pulled for November is The Devil. This card draws attention to the unhealthy attachments in our lives, both in the way of physical vices as well as unhealthy relationships. Some of the undertones of the holiday season may draw these issues out to the surface. Remember, the chains around you aren't super tight. You have ways to break free / detach / detox if needed. An add-on to this from the book Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow - look at how adjustment (Temperance) from past changes (Death) might have caused you to become too restrictive of yourself. Now might be a time to let loose and indulge a little! Card of the Week for November 17th - November 23rdWe have the Six of Pentacles focusing on the dynamic of giving and receiving. Where are you in this dynamic? One thing to remember is that giving and receiving is not completely one-side. Those who give also receive something out of the exchange, even if it is not immediately apparent. Living the Woo Life with Jen ShinJen Shin is a certified Reiki master, Beyond Quantum Healing Practitioner, podcaster, spiritual seeker, lover of truth, and student of the universe.  Her passion is to speak the truth and help people heal from within. She joins us this week to share her knowledge of Beyond Quantum Healing, a modality that uses altered states of consciousness to help seekers connect with their higher selves.Website: www.jen-shin.comInstagram Profile: https://www.instagram.com/iamjenshin Tarot Reading Schedule for The WeekI am an exhibitor at the Body, Mind, Spirit Expo at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Sunday November 17th from 10am to 5pm. I will be teaching an intro class on reading Tarot from 1pm to 2pm.I will be at Enchanted Boutique (White Bear Lake, MN) on Friday November 22nd from 5pm to 8pm. You can also either book an email/video reading with me through my website or get a quickie chat/voice reading with me through the Purple Ocean app most evenings.  WHERE TO FIND ME: Instagram: https://instagram.com/geekgirltarotFacebook: https://facebook.com/geekgirltarotTumblr: https://geekgirltarot.tumblr.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/geekgirltarotMy Website: https://www.geekgirltarot.com

WTF has Jess been up to?Adjusting to home life now that Doc Holliday (one of my kitties) crossed the rainbow bridge. Also looking at the synchronicity between Doc's death and my dad's death, which happened 2 years ago on Monday.  Card of the Month RecapThe card pulled for November is The Devil. This card draws attention to the unhealthy attachments in our lives, both in the way of physical vices as well as unhealthy relationships. Some of the undertones of the holiday season may draw these issues out to the surface. Remember, the chains around you aren't super tight. You have ways to break free / detach / detox if needed. An add-on to this from the book Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow - look at how adjustment (Temperance) from past changes (Death) might have caused you to become too restrictive of yourself. Now might be a time to let loose and indulge a little! Card of the Week for November 10th - November 16thWe have the Three of Cups telling us that we don't have to face our struggles on our own. Sometimes you need the diverse perspectives of others to get you through a challenge. This card is also one of integration - now is a time to accept and utilize your FULL self rather than one aspect of who you are. Understanding Messages From Your Spirit Guides by Tia JohnsonTia's spiritual journey is one that I (and many others) can relate to. After the death of her grandparents, she sought to become a spiritual healer in order to aid and guide others who were grieving. Her practice evolved to where she helps others with whatever is going on in their current situation so that they can thrive and better understand their own spiritual capabilities. In this episode she shares her wisdom about the different types of spiritual guides that are present and the ways that you can connect with and better understand the messages that your spirit guides may be telling you.Website: https://tiamariejohnson.comInstagram Profile: https://www.instagram.com/tia_johnson_/ Tarot Reading Schedule for The WeekI will be at Enchanted Boutique (White Bear Lake, MN) on Friday November 15th from 5pm to 8pm.I'm also an exhibitor at the Body Mind Spirit Expo at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Minneapolis, MN on Saturday November 16th and Sunday November 17th You can also either book an email/video reading with me through my website or get a quickie chat/voice reading with me through the Purple Ocean app most evenings.  WHERE TO FIND ME: Instagram: https://instagram.com/geekgirltarotFacebook: https://facebook.com/geekgirltarotTumblr: https://geekgirltarot.tumblr.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/geekgirltarotMy Website: https://www.geekgirltarot.com

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WTF has Jess been up to?Samhain kicked my ***. I celebrated my 40th birthday, spent time reflecting upon the upcoming 2-year anniversary of my father's death. Card of the Month RecapThe card pulled for November is The Devil. This card draws attention to the unhealthy attachments in our lives, both in the way of physical vices as well as unhealthy relationships. Some of the undertones of the holiday season may draw these issues out to the surface. Remember, the chains around you aren't super tight. You have ways to break free / detach / detox if needed. Card of the Week for November 3rd - November 9thWe have Death (reversed) calling out how we might be resisting changes in our life and that it is important for us to face the changes and losses in our life so that we can grow. Predictive Tarot with Hilary Parry HaggertyThis week's guest will share her experiences with predictive Tarot. In addition, we discuss some of the roadblocks that new (and some experienced) readers face when approaching Tarot as a tool for prediction-based divination.Website: www.tarotbyhilary.comInstagram Profile: instagram.com/tarotbyhilaryFacebook Page: facebook.com/tarotbyhilary  Tarot Reading Schedule for The WeekI will be at Enchanted Boutique (White Bear Lake, MN) on Friday November 8th from 5pm to 8pm.I'm also an exhibitor at the Second Annual Mid-Holiday Dreams event in Sacred Heart Minnesota which will be on Saturday,  November 9th from 10am to 5pm. You can also either book an email/video reading with me through my website or get a quickie chat/voice reading with me through the Purple Ocean app most evenings.  WHERE TO FIND ME: Instagram: https://instagram.com/geekgirltarotFacebook: https://facebook.com/geekgirltarotTumblr: https://geekgirltarot.tumblr.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/geekgirltarotMy Website: https://www.geekgirltarot.com

WTF has Jess been up to?This has been a week of recovery. Also, shout out to Fox Den Salon and my stylist for the awesome hair artistry from last week! Card of the Month RecapThe card pulled for October is The High Priestess. Learn more about what this means and how this aligns with the Major Arcana card linked to Scorpio Season (Death). Card of the Week for October 27th - November 2ndWe have the 10 of Pentacles guiding coaxing us to examine where we are at with our goals and to look at our connection with our past as well as our future. Tarot Mood with Natalie MerakiFind out the origins behind Tarot Mood - the memes, the deck, and now the Kickstarter! You can also connect with our guest at:Website: www.tarotmood.comInstagram Profile: www.instagram.com/tarotmoodFacebook Page: www.facebook.com/tarotmooddeck The Tarot Mood Kickstarter is open until November 18, 2019 at 9:57am CST. Click here to learn more and pledge now! Tarot Reading Schedule for The WeekI will be at Enchanted Boutique (White Bear Lake, MN) on Sunday October 27th from 12pm to 6pm and on Friday November 1st from 5pm to 8pm.I'm also an exhibitor at the Natural Healing Expo on Saturday, November 2nd and Sunday, November 3rd at the Courtyard by Marriott in Mankato. You can also either book an email/video reading with me through my website or get a quickie chat/voice reading with me through the Purple Ocean app most evenings.  WHERE TO FIND ME: Instagram: https://instagram.com/geekgirltarotFacebook: https://facebook.com/geekgirltarotTumblr: https://geekgirltarot.tumblr.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/geekgirltarotMy Website: https://www.geekgirltarot.com

WTF has Jess been up to?Busy week of work, personal stuff, and then getting emotionally fried with Tarot readings at a psychic fair followed by an intense larp experience. Card of the Month RecapThe card pulled for October is The High Priestess. Learn more about what this means and how this aligns with the Major Arcana card typically associated with Libra Season (Justice). Here we also delve into the card that's linked to Scorpio Season (Death). Card of the Week for October 20th - 26thWe have the Page of Wands guiding us towards spontaneity, passion, and play... which might get us into a little trouble if we are not careful! Working with the Angels with Seryna MyersDiscover how you can build a relationship with your personal angel guide in a few minutes each day. You can also connect with our guest at:Website: www.seryna.caInstagram Profile: instagram.com/serynamyersFacebook Page: facebook.com/serynamyers Tarot Reading Schedule for The WeekI will be at Enchanted Boutique (White Bear Lake, MN) on Friday October 25th from 5pm to 8pm and on Sunday October 27th from 12pm to 6pm.You can also either book an email/video reading with me through my website or get a quickie chat/voice reading with me through the Purple Ocean app most evenings.  WHERE TO FIND ME: Instagram: https://instagram.com/geekgirltarotFacebook: https://facebook.com/geekgirltarotTumblr: https://geekgirltarot.tumblr.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/geekgirltarotMy Website: https://www.geekgirltarot.com

WTF has Jess been up to?Busy week of prepping podcast interviews, spending time with my partners, and trying out the latest version of a post-apocalypse survival & crafting game called 7 Days to Die. Card of the Month RecapThe card pulled for October is The High Priestess. Learn more about what this means and how this aligns with the Major Arcana card typically associated with Libra Season Card of the Week for October 13th - 19thFind out how the Five of Swords can guide you through the upcoming week. How to Trust Your Intuition with Violetta PleshakovaLearn more about how to trust your intuition and obstacles that can keep you from using your inner GPS. You can also connect with our guest at:Website: https://www.violettapleshakova.com/Instagram Profile: https://www.instagram.com/violettapleshakova/Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/violettapleshakova/ Tarot Reading Schedule for The WeekI will be at Enchanted Boutique (White Bear Lake, MN) on Friday October 18th from 5pm to 8pm and at The Center for Intuitive Living (Minneapolis, MN) on Saturday October 19th from 10am to 5pm. You can also either book an email/video reading with me through my website or get a quickie chat/voice reading with me through the Purple Ocean app most evenings.  WHERE TO FIND ME: Instagram: https://instagram.com/geekgirltarotFacebook: https://facebook.com/geekgirltarotTumblr: https://geekgirltarot.tumblr.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/geekgirltarotMy Website: https://www.geekgirltarot.com

On this episode, Josh Turansky sits down with Johnny Hunt to discuss evangelism and church planting. Pastor Johnny has recently taken a leadership role at the North American Missions Board. This new role emphasizes evangelism in the local church. Here the link to the “Where’s your one” campaign. Pastor Johnny Hunt is the pastor of First Baptist Church Woodstock in Woodstock, Georgia as well as the Senior Vice President of Evangelism and Leadership for the North American Mission Board.You can find all things Johny Hunt here: https://www.johnnyhunt.comTranscriptIntro: This is the Church Planting Podcast. Thank you for tuning in! Every week, we sit down with leaders who are shaping church planting efforts. Here's your host Josh Turansky and Clint Clifton.Josh Turansky: Hey, welcome to the Church Planting Podcast. My name is Josh Turansky and I'm joined here by Clint Clifton. Clint Clifton: Clint Clifton is here. Josh Turansky: In studio. Back in your office. Clint Clifton: Back in my office.. Josh Turansky: Hey, so uhmm.. I don't know what episode number this is. But every Wednesday, Clint Clifton: Yeah Josh Turansky: We have an episode that comes out and recently we refresh the website and launched the Facebook page. Clint Clifton: Yeah Josh Turansky: Uhmmm..Clint Clifton: You know in less than one week like 500 people have signed up for the Facebook page that like joined on Facebook page, is that right? Josh Turansky: Yep! Yeah. I paid my friends a lot..Clint Clifton: oh! Is that how it happened? Okay, that's good. And I knew you're rolling it. Josh Turansky: exactly exactly know. So but we would love to hear from peopleYeah, we'd love to hear there's a button at the top of the Facebook page that says email us people can go to the website which is ChurchPlantingPodcast.Org and there's a contact page there's links to the social. Or sites, but it's great to get feedback. Clint Clifton: Yeah, really like that. I mean this weekI got a few emails that were really encouraging and uhmm.. I'd like some feedback that's things you'd like to see more on the podcast or just kind of so advice suggestions. You know, when you do something like this is a one-sided conversation. We're putting a ton of content out and you get very little feedbackBack, so whatever we get back a really meaningful to us. So be sure to send an email that's just make a comment on something you heard or Josh Turansky: What could we cover more in? What questions do you have? Yep? Clint Clifton: Yeah Josh Turansky: good. So again ChurchPlantingPodcast.Org will is the website and then from there you can get to all of our different social rights goodClint Clifton: Yeah, thanks Josh Turansky: On this episode. We're going to be talking with Johnny hunt. Clint Clifton: Yeah, Johnny Hunt!Josh Turansky: the famous.. the Infamous Clint Clifton: Infamous Johnny Hunt. Yeah. He's a. Man, alive wire just you know, very rarely did I get to rub shoulders with somebody who has been in Ministry so long and had such a consistent impact over the years and Johnny's impact is in large part what he's done to develop pastoral leadersMenu system amazing. He's got in everywhere. You see him. He's rolling deep. He's got guys with him and he's had a long Ministry of mentoring young men and know where do I go around the country that I don't meet people that were his interns or that worked with him and they're doing incredible things in Ministry today, so, He's not just a ferocious evangelist and a great apologist and a good spokesman for the kingdomHe is he's a mentor to a lot of guys and that that says a lot to me. Josh Turansky: He is a yeah this interview that I had the conversation with him and you'll hear that in a second but he's very patient because he had a hard time finding where we were going to meet. Yeah, and I really appreciate his tenacity and chasing us down and Clint Clifton: he didn't have a hard time finding it as much as we kept changing itJosh Turansky: Oh, that's right. Clint Clifton: That's right. It wasn't that wasn't his fault. Let's make him make that clear was our fault. Yeah. Josh Turansky: Yeah and his he's got a great assistant that helped him find a way so. This is going to be this is this is a great topic where we touch a little bit on evangelism. We talked about the fact that he's got people that are following him around and being trained by himClint Clifton: Yeah Josh Turansky: uhmmm.. great. Great material anything else you want to highlight with Clint Clifton: I would just say some of the listeners some of the podcasts guests that we have here are not on the podcast because they have planted a great church themselves or anything like that, but they're on the podcast because they're a champion for the church at large and theyAre a fan and a champion of church planting and that's Johnny for sure. I mean his story is he pastored really large church for a really long time and led them to great ministry. He led that church to plant many churches. He's been, you know, not to real category. I mean the Pastor that.. Passion to me for church planting is never planted a church himself and I think that if you're a pastor and you're listening to this and you hear all the talk about church planting are just like that's not me, man.God may use you in a way to mobilize people and plant churches. That's far beyond what you could accomplish as a church planter yourself. So that's a real category one. You should embrace and that's Johnny's contribution to the church planting World Josh Turansky: Strong point. Excellent. Okay, let's jump right into the episode with Johnny Hunt.Johnny Hunt:So you want to lead your church to multiply, but in order to do that, you have to raise up new potential leaders from inside your congregation. But how in the world are you supposed to do that with all the other plate you have spinning? Well, the North American Mission board is created a tool to help you equip the Saints for the work of the ministryIt's called the multiplication Pipeline and it helps you identify and train missional leaders, potential church planters and potential church planting team members from right there inside your own congregation the pipeline starts with a simple assessment tool and a three-year online training system follows to equip missional leadersLearn more about the multiplication pipeline by visiting their website: namb.net/pipelineJosh Turansky: Alright! Here we are. At the SBC convention with Pastor Johnny Hunt you have been a pastor for years and you've got the best smile in the SBC convention. Johnny Hunt: They can't see it.Josh Turansky: and recently you made a transition of leading your church to in this leadership role with NAMB overseeing evangelism. You have this incredible history of raising up leaders, helping guys plant churchesSo let's let's talk a little bit about this recent transition help help people understand. What is your new role? And what what compelled you to take on this role? Johnny Hunt: Thanks Josh. At Woodstock until the end of the year. So I'm helping transition a new Young Pastor Jeremy Morton and it's going fabulousWe're seven or eight months in and I will leave their Lord willing to end of December. And so I've dreamed of year for years of what I'd like to do in the last quarter of my life and two major areas is pastoral leadership, which I've done through Timothy Barnabas for 25 years. I've also mentored two pastors a year at my office for the last 25 years. So that's been a given in my life. And then evangelism, our church is always in every church I've served in 43 years have been leaders in evangelism. So I would like to challenge Southern Baptists to once again put evangelism on the front burner. And so I'm doing dual roles because I'm trying to do less at Woodstock and then I'm doing more with NAMB, but then come January 1 it will be 1 job. Josh Turansky: Wow. Okay, so you were talking a little bit about your involvement interaction with church planting in LA some specific observations that you may tell us a little bit about that story Johnny Hunt: NAMB asked me a few years ago, if I would become lead Pastor for LA Initiative and Woodstock would become lead church so I did, so I began to work with some of our NAMB employees out there. And so what they would like me to do is to go out and bring about eight of the pastor's in close to us and I would take I took over 200 passengers out there to see the work asking to be involved. So we would have like Banquets Town meetings for lunches and we would or even go to the campuses and say to the young Church Planters,Tell us what God's doing how long you been here who you're trying to reach tell us about your ministry. Tell us about your needs because these guys were joining with them and I regret to say this but many of them had been there two and a half years. They went to you meet. We don't know. Sometimes we meet once a month sometimes as every other monthWe're not meeting regular right now and try to get together with the guys. And so so what is your core group like it, you know right now as far as what we can depend on we've got seven I'm thinking, you know, there's 19 million people out here 19 million second largest city next to New York proper and I'm thinking wow and you know, You there's a way to say itSomeone says you can't see the forest for the trees do a reverse play. You can't see a tree for the forest. Sometimes such a mass - that you don't see anybody and so God help me today to see what you see feel what you feel love who you love so I would see that but then when I meet when I say we tell me about you know, what you're doingI mean. Who are you witnessing to? Who is it your real passion about and it seemed like it turn more to demographics distances the people that live in that building, but it was it was all shaped in such a way that it was it was not personal and then on the other hand we would talk to those that were really on the move and it was, Hey pray!Well, we've got these three families in our neighborhood that we're after we've invited him into our home. We're praying. We're carrying through prayer. I shared the gospel of first time with this one, but they had names they were after people we're in the people business and like saying relationship, so, take Matt Lawson at our church there in BurbankI was just with him a few weeks ago. He had neighbors but he would be out in his yard and he would think Boyd a moment make it look I'm speaking and they just walked right by winning look, but then he began to think everyone's walking their dogs. So he took his children out in the yard and he put bowls of water and even some like dog biscuitsI thought it was so cool and in all the dogs would have go to and say, ‘Hey come and join”. I mean everybody around here's got a pet and while they were sitting and drinking the water and all then he would engage them or hey cute sun bear and they begin we've got a little boy and been engaging and they were always thinking of events they could do but to engage people to build relationship because I sent him out thereHe had only spent a half a day in LA in his life. So this is not like I've lived out there that visited their lot gots capture my heart. He Supernatural is called, you know plant Advanced Pittman in Las Vegas 17 years ago 18 now, but Vance was an associate pastor had left a pastoring and I was preaching but I had got it laid Las Vegas on my heart and it was the fastest growing city in America 18 years ago, and I thought we don't have a significant Southern Baptist work out thereOr not enough. Thanks some I shouldn't put it that way. They were some significant changes, but Ian we planted him with three families? That was it has three families from Alabama For Heaven's Sake move into to the. And now, they enjoyed over 3,000 on the weekend of started over 40 churches from that oneSo we have planted over a hundred church at Woodstock and we're not counting like he has to like say if we could there are grandbabies, but if we included those are Church plants probably pushing 300 well in others that we don't planted Paul godhardt out there. I mentored him for a year. So it's been encouraging but we've got to be in the people businessThere's an old song that says God love people more than anything. That's the truth. Josh Turansky: Wow. So just we're just having the numbers come out for the Southern Baptist in regards to baptisms confessions of faith, and the numbers are down and that's a trend that's been going on for almost a decade and you're stepping into this new role emphasizing evangelism and so tell me the story about the origins of this new role. Johnny Hunt: Basically, that is a problem last year to Southern Baptist convention. They were lots and way of resolutions on the floor about hey, let's hold them accountable. They ought to be leading out and evangelism and sometimes gotten a mixed signal owners life way lead this or this NAMB, but the bottom line is the pastor is going to have to lead it. But someone does need to be out beating the drum keeping it in front of us is. We do with I am be or any other Ministry before us so in that context JD Greer begin to talk about who's your one and I had written material back in like 2007 just entitled one and so it resonated in my heart the biblical text and all and I thought this will work and we really we really have itI shared it with 280 leaders yesterday, which was encouraging I was with our. Associational missionary strategist formerly the OMS and basically is the largest gathering they've ever had in the history of their movement. And so it really encouraged me hopefulness, but their boots on the ground across the convention and we've got a major major strategy, but here's what's going to have to happenWe got to stop the bleeding. We are bleeding. We're at a 1940 love. Oh in baptisms, so in continuing to get worse each year. The grace of God will stop the bleeding and then I really do believe we can turn it around and someone might say, well you really believe you can turn around. Oh, no, we can turn it aroundIt's going to be the pastor's of the Southern Baptist convention. So bottom line is I believe it all my heart they'll buy in and if they don't buy in we won't move the needle a moment, but if they do, I think we could see significant change just as we've seen significant change in the wrong directionJosh Turansky: Well, so you have this background of working with one-on-one with developing leaders, which I want to talk with you about in a second. But as you come into this role of leading this Initiative for evangelism, it seems like a very high-level role. But the example of your ministry is very is mentoring one-to-one. So how do you affect change from such a high level into across 4747 thousand churches?Johnny Hunt: Yeah. Yeah. That's a great question. So just like yesterday and really I thought about my message for a year to be with those guys yesterday and it's significant to be in that room because I got a text message last Sunday morning at like 5 o'clock in the morning said, pray for this pastor his mother just died and pray for this pastors follow just at who else knows that state execs can't know it national level can't know it sometimes pastors don't even know it but DOMs know what churches are open what churches are growing. I mean, they really are the boots on ground.They're the ones that are messaging thee local church. They're the ones that can pick up the phone, go worship with them, visit them. So we want to keep it personal so it's really bottom-up still. So if I get with them and convince them of something that's reality. Number one, I love you, I'm for you, You are importantI mean, I don't know that I've heard a lot of people trumping lately that Association missionary strategies were the DOMs are really important. But I believe they can be important to our movement then. Secondly, I've made it a Ministry of training pastors a platform where a lot of pastors come to my Timothy Barnabas schoolsSo I engage with them we say we don't have a green room. I'm always with them. So I'm messaging them, but I'm also there. You know, giving them details of how they can be involved. Then you certainly tomorrow on our platform will give more of a national challenge. But when we go to a city for instance in our Hoosier want or have great music the churches we go to really really are already on the move but want to go to a new level and then we will really message not just for that state but within a hundred-mile radius.My team at the name is going to really I mean just we're going to let those people know who should be in that room. And I'm of the conviction time will tell that will need our AV team to be set up for overflow and simulcast I believe everywhere we go the younger.Josh Turansky: well, can we talk about evangelism philosophicallySo there's a lot of different images that come to people's mind when they hear evangelism. You've got Crusades, you have Street evangelism. In my church. We kind of make a point of saying hey our primary means of evangelism is relational just being normal with people God's put around you. What are you emphasizing as you're talking with pastors? Obviously, one-to-one sounds highly relational.Johnny Hunt: right? Yeah. And really in a way if we're going to really change the trend it's going to be all of the above. But the truth is it is relational. For instance. When we have one of the most beautiful stories of five significant New Testament people converted and seven verses of scripture in 1st John chapter 1 verse 35 through 42, it's here that Jesus undoubtedly leads Andrew to the Lord Jesus leads Philip to the Lord, Andrews goes in his brother, we got to get back to being faithful to share the gospel with our family what we say across the country is families the hardest people in the world witness to that becomes a self-fulfilled prophecy, which they think is an excuse not to share the gospel with a family who under Heaven could love my mother, my father, my siblings more than me are so I want to I want to I want to speak into a live at needs to go back to hell where it came from.Number two, when Philip got converted he went for Nathanie,l who's Nathaniel his friend. So basically, I think it's friends, relatives, work associates, neighbors in the old days and seminary. It was the concentric circles. I'm at Starbucks regular have I ever shared a word we go on first name basis. I give them a gift at Christmas so that is it, it is a relationship, but then there's lots of people got put you in touch with I travel almost every day of my life. I'm on a plane, I'm engaged and I am engaging, sometimes I'm sleeping. But but I want to I want to be relational in our church the most effective witness and visits are somebody comes through and I say, hey stop by our connect desk.I wrote a new book believe it or not. It actually was good and I want to give you a copy of it. They go by and get its tangible expression of our love and appreciation for them, 99% of a give us all the information we want because we've engaged them there and hey first time whatever and then we take those cards and they certainly are the easiest either make an appointment with or to drop by and say hey we simply came by to say thank you for coming however, in my travels people are telling me that churches they go to and fill out cards eight out of 10 of them never follow up. So it don't matter to you have the information if you're not after it, but then we we at Woodstock still do door-to-door visitation and we but it's We Care through prayers exactly what we just did when over 10,000 homes here at crossoverSo it's both an it's Rick gauges and county seats that just had 8,000 people as crusading. 400 professions of faith in like three nights. It's not either/or. I mean we're going to focus on our local churches in different ones, but elect support all thank God for Franklin Graham Southern Baptist. Thank God for Rick. I mean Greg Laurie that we've partnered with and Southern Baptist life 3,000 professions of Faith last year in Dallas. It's a follow up. And we can pick and say 3000 who's going to follow up. I'd like to say this it is no greater burden that we call accountability follow up to 3000 and the fact that we follow it with the one that responds at our church somethingJosh Turansky: Okay. So let's. Get a little bit into the weeds just for the sake of listeners, okay? So in as I think about my congregation looking at people on Sunday, I have most of the people there have a relationship with the Lord. And they enjoy church, but my frustration is getting more people to translate their faith into the day-to-day.So we have a couple of things initiatives, but I just don't feel like I'm getting traction with my congregation. They love the Bible, they Love to Worship, but in terms of Monday morning living out their faith in an Evangelistic way on Mission just don't feel like I'm getting traction. What would what would you say if you stepped into that setting?Johnny Hunt: First of all, I commend you for sizing it up because sometimes people don't even know where their church is. And if you're going to lead them to where you feel they need to be, you need to know where they are and then secondly, the commendation is, you're not satisfied with that. I think we have fallen into lethargy in our denomination because if I were to say to a congregation. Pray about God laying a soloing heart the way we used to pray it is this Lord lay some poor soul upon my heart and love that Soul through me.So it's like Jesus when he talks about we need more workers in the Harvest. He said pray to the Lord of the Harvest that he would send more into his Harvest. Well, if I'm the one praying about Harvest, I think he's going to send me, I mean is it likes going burden somebody else if I've got the burden. Josh Turansky: Right. Yeah.Johnny Hunt: You know, so I'm going to God. If I were in your church right now, I would magnify the Hoosier one. I mean number one, you got our prayer God. Why did we do a prayer guide? Because it's not resources as much as they need a change of heart. Think about this if I stand up and just what you described and I would describe a lot of that it would stock.All right, so I know where they are and they're not really engaging if I were to say to them. I want you to pray over the next week about not just anyone but Hoosier one. Is there somebody God's laying on your heart actually burdened about not just hey, that would be neat if I could witness that person and wind them, but somebody you really burdened about is it a sibling, is it a parent, a grandparent, a cousin, is it somebody you work with, somebody go to school with? All right, so they but the fact that they have to think for week or two to even think of a critical witness to who are they by passing? Really not being ugly, but maybe we need to be jolted in the jolt needs to be you don't know your neighbors, you know, yeah, make it an effort who lives in front of you who lives on either side of you who lives on your street.Have you ever done anything? To engage the people in your street or your neighborhood. So the fact that they don't even have anyone on the radar. It just shows where we are. Josh Turansky: Yeah.Johnny Hunt: How can we turn the trend? We were not even thinking lostness and I someone's asked me to think about it and it is it's good fault in that.Are we even messaging wrong? Like hey, we got so many unreached people. Yes, they are unreached. But guess what? Jesus said they're lost. If you want to go step father. Jesus said that he that believeth not is condemned already. Not that they're going to be condemned. There are t in the state of being condemned just waiting to be cut off so that helped me with my father when I thought you know, if I don't get to Dad soon debt that's going to be condemned one day now dad already has condemned. He's in a state of of headed hell right now instead of he's going to go to hell he is going to hell. There's a difference so it really caught more. So you do the journal and then we give out the card and then we begin to really pray and you know, if they want to put with his first names you can put them on a board, have different prayer meetings where people come and then really celebrate when they come. So what if every one of your congregation was encouraged and listen to this, Josh? When I'm trying to cast this Vision, I'll talk about it tomorrow Lord, Wellington whole convention. When I try to cast this Vision we baptized west of 450,000 people this year. We average in southern Baptists Life 5 million 2000 people and some change in our morning worships average in southern Baptists lifeIf 10% of your congregation 10% of mine 10% of our denomination only 10 Baldy in the Hoosier one just just use that and say we're going after one and be able to say, hey, I'm averaging a hundred. I've got 10 of my people and they were to be successful and win one this year. Not only will be double baptisms in one year.We would baptize morning. We baptized in any given year since we were Southern Baptist convention since 1845 that is not rocket science. If only one-tenth how often do I want a cast vision and be satisfied but only 1/10, you know, hey, I would like you all to be here tonight. I'm casting Vision.How did it go? Hey 10% of them came back. You'd be you'd be home crying asking. Your family too, you know pat you on the back rub your head. Josh Turansky: Yeah. No man, that's powerful.So it sounds like you're referencing some tools and resources are those things on a website or how do people connect with this initiative.Johnny Hunt: WhosYourOne.com Only sees to tour where I'm going to go to the cities all across America over the next two to three years. Lord willing. And we'll be in major cities in a close to hopefully everybody when it's all said and done we're encouraging to come in for. First of all, I think we're not even inspired to win people to Christ. There's something to be said about inspiration but also instruction, so I'll travel would say new song Charles Billingsley or alikes. And they all saying 1520's engage everybody in the congregation and worship and then I'll bring a message of real clear biblical message about where we are. And then the next morning feed you great breakfast all name and then at about 8:30 to 12:00 that we're going to have four in different cities different people some of the best instructors they are, that are doing it that will not only give you material whether it's a Jimmy Scroggins and he says, here’s 3 circles. Or whether it's James Merritt were putting together his four questions. So we're going to give resources but we do still know this, If God does it do a work in the heart give us a passion resources is not the answer but for those who are already passionately doing what they can with what they have. We're going to give them, encouraging resource stand with them. Steve Gaines has put together a three-hour teaching session that he can teach in about an hour. Just flying through it to give you a gist because guys are thinking when I get back home like say for instance if you said you were going to do your, who's your one, we will encourage over about five weeks? Whether it be some testimonies of people that have led people to Christ, messages challenging messages of God, aligning our hearts with his, he came to seek and to save that which was lost. What is the Great Commission these statements? The gospel is good news only if it gets there in time, you know, I don't want the people in the community to not be warned.He's he killed three Ezekiel 33 all the various reasons we ought to. But the main thing is, you know, God break her heart for what breaks yours what breaks his he went every time he wept it was over Nations people. So we think that we can not only give a Clear Vision of how to get there and what we want to do but resource you to do it as well.So we feel like we've answered all the questions but there you can download the devotions free, you can download the the Who’s your one cards. Testimonies there provide videos for you to just share in your church to just really emphasize them. Like one by JD, one by me. This 45 seconds is just emphasizing just one just one and then we're already hearing the stories of a.. in three weeks, I got focused. God’s turned my heart and one one one young pastor called the other day and said alright going to give my testimony. I'm not would not baptize anybody for years. He said in the last three months we baptized. That will turn the trend because most of our churches are small the vast majority have of our church is about vocational but good leaders.Josh Turansky: Yeah,men great. Okay, so we'll link to those resources also in the show notes when this goes out. Let's let's turn to leadership development because this is another passion that you have. And you've been doing this for years. It's not just something that you're talking about from an ivory Tower, but it's something that you've practiced and modeled years and years and years.. Why is this something you care about? Johnny Hunt: Yeah, you know, basically, I am what others have invested in me. I mean when you look back over your life, you know, they say the older you get the more you reflect. The lips love to read the Psalms the Psalms are very reflective and oftentimes, it's David telling a story of his tough time but how he won the victory. I mean, they really are Psalms of ascent. I mean it's once he got out of it, but it tells what he went through so I reflect a lot and I look back on it, I think I can, I'm 23 years old. I don't even have money to go to school and raised by single mom. Dad checked out when I was seven, raised in a project, you know High School Dropout and then God saved me and here comes a guy named Alfred Joiner and I've got a question and he's got an answer. I've got a Bible but it's brand new to me. And he begins to teach me the Bible, he begins to take me out and I'm able to observe him witnessing but he did something I need to do better and he threw me in threw me and he just be out talking to some rough guy and he'd say hey, I'm glad Johnny's with me because Johnny Johnny wants to take a moment to tell you what happened to him three weeks ago.And that really is what witnesses doing is telling what happened to you how you fit into this is God's story. So I look back on that. And so three years,I went never mentioned anything about Alfred now. I hardly ever preached a sermon especially in discipleship. Don't talk about Alfred investing in me and we're still connected even though we're in different states and all and then the person God raises up to say, hey the Lord laid it on my heart to pay for your education, buy you some clothes. I mean, God's met me just like you met Elijah with bread and the water flowed in the brook and God provided for him sent Ravens to feed him with these are the Ravens of my life. They just two legged and. In skin so I mean the develop me so I look back on it and at every point somebody was there pouring into me.So I wrote a lesson out of my heart entitled, The Stewardship of Influence. So here's what I ask five questions. And fifth question is why I lead? who influenced you? when? why? how? Here’s the question? What have you done with the influence? Have I allowed that to be a deposit in me that's given this given a return and so basically I feel that I need to take what they put in me and then do the same thing for others.So my wife and I have practice helping someone to stay in seminary a college ever since we got on our feet because someone did the same thing for us. So we want to do for others what has been done for us. So we did that and then I look at that and I think most people research it shows does not have someone to believe in them.Most don't believe in themselves. If you do believe in someone they will know it and know what they know it. They'll do everything they can to make you proud of them. So I have taking young pastors. Some people always ask me, what did you Santana just teach him. No? Jesus and his discipleship, the key word is he was with them.So I just let them go with me. They got a deacons meeting with me then go to a finance committee. We got my staff meetings. My staff retreats, travel overseas with me. I do some pretty decent expenditure in library that I say you need to read these books or are there some books you want to read and I want to purchase.And then it's as they hear me in daily life. Then when we're together by herself. They begin to say Hey, you made a decision there and I just knew when they asked you to question you were going to say this, but why did you say this? You know how I make decisions? They're able to see how if I do practice Grace in dealing with some hard situations that are brought up and staff.So they learn that way. So after this meeting today, I'm entered a guy probably 10 years ago. He's now Seminary graduate been pastoring for years. So I'm in the gym this morning. Oh my God, I can't believe I ran into you. So we're going to meet after my meeting here and to again continue your mentoring so it goes on and on and on. So these guys, you know remembered her over 50 some years, I did three because I did International students just an international student just graduated from Southwestern Seminary, but when I trained him that was not on the scope, so it's helped them to believe in themselves and which most don't and they know I believe in them. And so I've kept an open line so my phone's inbox always full of emails. Answer calls or texts in from what guys say. Most people won't return your call. Most people don't answer your emails. I personally answer all of my own emails. And so that's why I can't sleep late late at night. And so but I really stayed engaged with them and I think that may be why God helps to platform.I've done so much. I've traveled so many years. I've done State evangelism, Pastors conference, convention, led to Convention, led to pass camera. I've been there but I've been there on a level of knowing them and I'll give you this piece when God began to bless me Jimmy Draper in his 80s now and he just wrote a bookI wrote the forward to it is entitled. Don't quit before you finish great great book, but basically he said to me when I was in my 30s late 30s God. Seems to really be blessing you. Would you really pray about bringing Next Generation with you? But it just kind of like, okay, what the hell does that mean.So I had to make my mind up? Today, I could be in some significant meetings, you know special meetings of the large Church round table or whatever, but I may choose to be with the guys in the two hundred churches for lunch and that type thing the younger leaders and I've done that for so many years.Well, now those young leaders are becoming the nationally known leaders. So now I can continue to network with them and maybe even influence them to be effective in the ones coming behind them. But I've watched God raise people up people can say boy that Jeff Crook is quite a leader in my heart. I can say I've been mentoring him over 20 years. Boy, look how God is using John Cross been with him for over 20 years. Wow, the Devon's done well. Spend a year with him, we continue to mentor the young man that is becoming the map and the pastor of my church. He's started following me and he was 17, 20 years ago, 10 years ago started coming almost schools. Three years ago started saying, well I meet with him like on a monthly basis or so to speak into his life.I didn't know he was going to be the one to follow me. I mean, so yeah, God was raising them up. Josh Turansky: so the push back your get you probably get is I'm a pastor. I'm so busy. How do I have time for that? Johnny Hunt: Yeah. Number one. We all have the same amount of time and it really and I write in this area in leadership is time management and a lot of people just aren't managing their time well.We really have time to do everything, we consider important. I encourage guys that if you got someone you less you always I really really want to do this, but I'm just so busy. I can't get to it. I said you're really frustrating yourself take it off the list because it's not important that you would have done it.You know, I'm date my wife every week. It's important. I'm going to have special times with my children and grandchildren. It's important. I know I need to meet my staff. I want to be very prepared when I preach so you got to do that. So I sleep. I'm not a six and a half seven our guidance all I require but I go to bed at 10:00 and I'm normally up about five so I get into the day people need to know their best time today.My best time today is in the morning. So I give my mornings to the Lord to my research. And that type thing. So this year, I'm producing three books different areas help with a lot of help with some of them, but you can do it, you know if it's a priority and you know how to work with deadlines and yet I want to learn to really practice margins.So when I leave here, got some couple speaking engagements, a week away when my wife next week, speaking engagements.Take July off. But what I do in July I think a lot of reflecting a lot of, write a lot but but only in the margins of the day, you know, I'm an early riser. My wife is a night owl. So I got me a good three or four hours and one for she gets up.So go to work and when she gets up, Hooo! Just been waiting on you.Josh Turansky: So listening to you talk about this. It sounds like you have no regrets of mentoring guys for years and it's been really rewarding. Johnny Hunt: Yeah, 90 year olds were asked recently. If you could do life over again, what would you do different and though we get the more you think about it? Wow, what would I do differently.Here's what they said. I take greater risk. I would reflect more but I would invest more in that which will outlast me. How could you possibly when you talk about your church and how you can leave them? The greatest investment you'll ever make is in them because the day will come that you have a generation your age and you will be much older.And they will continue.. able Hebrews 11:4 through his dad yet. He speaks people will still be speaking that we invested in. I love to quote my dead friends. I mean honestly like to say I want to say it Adrian Rogers said it forever and I want to say it for him now that he's with the Lord. And I quote him I do the same thing with Ron Dan with Ben Hafner, with John Phillips.You know, I heard John so many times when I'd say, I'll never forget here. John saying it hear John say it again through me, you know, so Josh Turansky: awesome. Well Pastor Johnny, thank you so much for giving us 30 minutes of your time investing in future Church Planters current Church Planters on both these things evangelism leadership development those..That's that's right where the rubber meets the road for these guys that are out there. So Johnny Hunt: The real Joy, thank you very much.Josh Turansky: Appreciate it. Narrator: I want to let you know about another incredible podcast that's hosted by today's guest Johnny Hunt. Building a culture of personal evangelism in your church begins with the leader on the evangelism podcast Pastor Johnny aims to equip pastors so that they can equip their churches to share the hope of the Gospel with the world tips and tools and encouragement of a lifetime a lifetime of personal evangelism training you can find the evangelism podcast with Johnny hunt anywhere you find podcasts Apple, Google Play, Spotify. That's evangelism with Johnny Hunt. 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Health & FitnessI’ve been sick this week & haven’t trained any Jiu JitsuHygiene is critically important in BJJTo protect my training partners I sat this week outI’m planning a future episode just on HygieneSpace NewsWe had a big weekI saw Ad Astra with my lady & it was pretty good! Maybe that’s its own episode I’ll waitSpaceX & Elon Musk’s held the 4th annual update on their mission to colonize the planet Mars at an event at the company's facility in Bolsa Chica, TexasMostly the launch vehicle, spacecraft, & all of the technology needed to get us thereWhat was originally called the Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT)Then called the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR)& what is now called Starship & Super HeavyThe MCT & BFR were conceptual designs that never left paper & pixels but were critical steps in SpaceX’s iterative design process, that is uncommon in aerospaceWhereas Starship & Superheavy development is in contrast well underwayWe’re going to start from the bottom of this vehicle & work our way upwardStarting with a completely new rocket engine that SpaceX calls it’s Raptor EngineThe Raptor is an absolute beast & has already raised the bar in a few... Support this podcast

Podcast: You Must Have Patience as a TraderIn this video:00:23 – The importance of having patience00:48 – Examples from this week02:02 – Don’t take trades just to undo your good trades03:06 – Less is more03:46 – What will happen next week?I'm going to explain the importance of patience as a Forex trader and why you should not chase trades. Let's talk about that and more right now.Hey, Forex traders. Andrew Mitchem here from the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 338.The importance of having patienceI want to talk all about having patience as a Forex trader. It's really important. You see, we work in this business, this industry that's online, that's high paced, that's open 24 hours a day, five days a week, and we're always there looking for traits, or that's what most people think they should do. In fact, it's the opposite. You need to be patient, you need to wait for those high quality setups, and often doing nothing is the best thing you can do.Examples from this weekI'll give you a great example. Just this week, we've got leading into the US non-farm payrolls, which is the US monthly job release later today. But up until now, this week's been quite a difficult week to trade, being a lot of quiet market conditions, not a lot of very good price action there.And so for us personally at the Forex Trading Couch, we've had a fantastic week trading the weekly chats. We've got a pound year in trade that's up 3.4 to one right now. It's a 1.7% account gain. Trade's still open, and we've closed on a weekly chart trade from last week, which was an Aussie US dollar trade, 2.8 to one or 1.4% account gain, and also we've got a New Zealand yen trade open at about a one-to-one right now. So just on those three trades, fantastic gains, yet we've done hardly any trading. We've had a few trades on the dailies and other timeframe charts, but it's been particularly quiet, but we're still in very good profit and that's the important thing.This week it's been and last week it's been the weekly trades that are done very well. Other weeks it's different timeframes.Don’t take trades just to undo your good tradesBut the important thing is it comes back to that being patient, don't … think of it this way. What's the point in taking lots of trades this week that end up losing just to do and give back to the market all that good results that you've had from just two or three trades? Why would you do that? It just doesn't make sense. And so patience is key. Wait for high quality setups. Don't feel you have to be in the market all the time in order to be a trader and to do well. It's about the high quality, A, A-plus grade setups, having all those things in your favour according to your strategy.Like I said, you know, some weeks you'll get nothing. A lot will happen. We've had indecision candles, we've had some very big moves, but not really good setups. Other weeks you're just going to get trade after trade after trade, and when that happens, take them. That's the thing. You've kind of got to make hay when the sun shines, to use a phrase like that from my early agricultural days. But it's really important that you do that.Less is moreBut don't go forcing trades. At the end of the day, if you can make two or three percent in a week, it doesn't matter if you made those from a hundred trades or from four or five really good trades. It doesn't really matter apart from I know that if I can make that on four or five really good trades, I've paid less spread, I've had far less work to do, far more enjoyable trading week, less stress, less time, everything else.It's which way you want to go. Do you want to be in the market all the time constantly being stressed, constantly looking for new trades all the time, just being constantly looking for new things,

WTF has Jess been doing?Our host (Jess, aka Geek Girl Tarot) shares her experience with hosting a Tarot reading booth at the first Cedar Valley Pagan Pride and some of the hilarity that ensued. Also, find out about the strangeness that happened when Jess created her first besom. Card of the Month RecapThe card pulled for October is The High Priestess. Learn more about what this means and how this aligns with the Major Arcana card typically associated with Libra Season Card of the Week for October 6th - 12thFind out how The Star can guide you through the upcoming week. Tarot Reading Schedule for The WeekI am not doing in-person readings this week. You can either book an email/video reading with me through my website or get a quickie chat/voice reading with me through the Purple Ocean app most evenings.  WHERE TO FIND ME: Instagram: https://instagram.com/geekgirltarotFacebook: https://facebook.com/geekgirltarotTumblr: https://geekgirltarot.tumblr.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/geekgirltarotMy Website: https://www.geekgirltarot.com

Podcast: Why We Trade Different Time Frame ChartsIn this video:00:29 – The benefits of trading multiple time frame charts01:14 – Being flexible as a trader01:55– Looking at your charts02:19 – Trading examples from this week03:25 – High quality trading setups on the H4 charts03:55 – Live trades taken on the webinar05:05 – Great results from different time frame charts06:02 – Trading like this doesn’t require much time in a dayI’m gonna explain to you today why we choose to trade a variety of different timeframe forex charts. How it helps us and how it can massively help you to improve your trading results. Let’s get into that and more right now.Hey traders! It’s Andrew Mitchem here, from The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast #333.The benefits of trading multiple time frame chartsAnd I want to explain to you about the benefits to you as a forex trader of looking at and trading multiple timeframe charts. So take a step back. Think about the trading, think about the charts, think about the market. It’s little bit like people and the market has different characteristics, different mood swings. It reacts differently to different events. You can never really predicts what’s going to happen. Different forex pairs react differently depending on the time of the day, day of the weeks, sometimes the month, different years. And you never really know which timeframe charts or which pairs are gonna react when.Being flexible as a traderSo, as traders, we need to adapt, we need to be flexible and one other best ways that we do that and also that’s gonna help you to do that. Is to have the ability to look at a few different timeframe charts. Different charts also pick up those different mood swings, different characteristics of the market. They give you the ability to identify high probability setup trades. That if you start to just one timeframe chart. You would often missed out on. So it’s very important that you have that ability to adapt and to look at different timeframes.Looking at your chartsYou’ll notice when you go through the charts. You might find that one timeframe just looks really flat and really boring. Other timeframes on the same pair at the same time will be showing really good setups. Again, it comes back to that characteristic of the pair and the time of day that you trading or whenever it might be the month, etc. So that’s why it is very very important.Trading examples from this weekI give a few examples of how we adapt to those changes and how we profit and benefit from that so it can help you. So just last night, I held my live client’s webinar. Hold them every 2 weeks, 2 hour long, live trading room sessions. The alternate week, Paul over in America holds the US session, but last night it was my turn. Had a great session lots of people on it. I showed my clients over 20 charts setup just from this week. That I’ve either taking myself, I’ve seen people post on our forum site or clients have emailed me showing me the results.Over 20 charts just this week, just from the 4 hour charts. Absolutely amazing the 4 hour charts have been this week. Go and have a look at your MT4 Charts, your trading charts and look at the 4 hour charts across the variety of different timeframe charts from this week. You will find if you have decent trading strategy there been a lot of very very good setups.High quality trading setups on the H4 chartsSo I went through those last night and they said at least 20 of them. They were absolutely amazing charts, high reward to risk, high quality setups and they work beautifully.So the 4 hour charts for some reason work really well this week. And on that session, we talked about how other timeframe charts have not been quite not so good this week. They have not really showing on the setups.

There are some simple ways to make sure that you are scheduling your life to feel fulfilled and accomplished! Step 1 - get our your calendar (paper/phone whatever you use)Step 2 - Make a list of everything that needs to go on your calendar (everything, chores, homework, work, sports, parties, journaling, meditation, sleep, fun - EVERYTHING)Step 3 - Is there anything on that list that you can delegate? Cleaning? Mowing the lawn? Grocery shopping? Picking up the kids? Chores? - I am not telling you that you have to spend a bunch of money here either but I am suggesting that you find ways to have helpStep 4 - Is there anything that you can kindly decline? You all know for me that is generally a kids birthday party. A shower etc (sorry friends but if you know me you know that I care but spending hours at a party like this…. Is just not my thing)Step 5 - Decide how you want to feel - do you want to feel rushed? Tired? Overwhelmed? Relaxed? Fulfilled? Step 6 - Decide which activities will allow you to feel the way that you want to feel? Step 7 - Plan your days accordingly - literally sit down and write out exactly what you will do and when you will do it….. Remember this is not a giant to do list…. This is a way to plan your life so that you can feel the way that you want to feelStep 8 - assess and adjust - as you try this new planning system you will need to be mindful of how it is going and flexible so that you can make changes for the next weekI highly suggest incorporating the family in your decision to do this…. You can even have family meetings to review the schedule…. So literally go get your calendar and start scheduling in a positive way… schedule with intent…. Schedule so that you feel accomplished and happy - not so that your to do list just drains you to the point of a tailspin storm. If you would like more information about energetic time management I learned about Energetic Time Management from Heather Chauvin and Erin Miller If you would like more information about Walmart Grocery Pickup or any other tips on saving money, travel ideas or the best pinterest finds check out Mama Cheaps!As always thank you so much for listening!If you have a friend or even a family member that would love to hear this podcast please share this podcast with them and encourage them to join us!Schedule a FREE Coaching call with Jen - because the help that you might need just may be to find some direction or some support in setting/meeting your goalsConnect with Jen and others on their adventures at Adventures of a New You Accountability GroupFor daily inspiration and support visit Jen on Instagram at Adventures Of A New You For inspiration check out Jen’s Pinterest Jen can also be reached via email at adventuresofanewyou@gmail.com

PAC-12 Back Judge David Ross joins us for a conversation regarding Punt Mechanics and KCI. Learn how he prepares for punt situations even before taking the field. David provides some great insights and tips. All positions can benefit from this conversation. Quote of the WeekI don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation - Bobby KnightFight Song - Auburn Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/rule11)

Surviving the end of the year is a difficult task for many teachers! Just ask a teacher which time in the year is hardest, and you will get the beginning of the year and the end of year tired is like no other teacher tired. So this week on One Tired Teacher, we are talking all about ways to survive the end and actually thrive during this time.From eating chocolate to planning theme weeks, you can make it to the last day of school! Join me as we talk through 7 ways to get you to the end.Links Mentioned in the ShowFree Master Class for Teachers and Teacherpreneurs:Engage Your Audience, Expand Your Reach, Increase Your Sales: Why Teachers and Teacherpreneurs Need to Podcast in Their Classrooms and Teacher BusinessEnd of the Year Theme WeeksSubscribe & Review in iTunesAre you subscribed to my podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode. I’m adding a bunch of bonus episodes to the mix and if you’re not subscribed there’s a good chance you’ll miss out on those. Click here for iTunes.Now if you’re feeling extra loving, I would be really grateful if you left me a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find my podcast and they’re also fun for me to go in an read. Click here to leave a review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let me know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!Listener Spotlight of the WeekI’ve been listening to the OTT podcast from the beginning. Though I don’t teach (in a classroom) anymore, I have found value in every episode. But I must say, this one was special to me-I left teaching academics to teach fitness, and before I made the switch I used to exercise in the classroom for many reasons. Exercise benefits a child’s whole being, and teaching them skills and form early helps to establish lasting habits that can keep them more physically and mentally fit for their whole lives. The episode holds some great wisdom about specifically using yoga to meet these goals. Must listen! ~Dawn

Greg, Wayne, Josh, and Cameron discuss claw machine theft, fast food throw downs, judgement day, and the the origins of the mermaid show at Weeki Wachee Springs. 

Find your voice - Episode 9 -"We came with a suitcase & a dream" - TTagline: "We came with a suitcase & a dream"Uplifted from Zimbabwe T and his family chased the American Dream for a better future.T puts this perfectly when he explains the silent example he learnt from his parents to be a driving force in his life - hard work. Coming from extremely humble beginnings T knew his best chance at changing his own future and that of his families would be to work harder than those around him.Unable to speak english and ridiculed early on by children and undervalued by teachers T began to embrace hard work and the struggle finding true beauty in outworking those around him.Now a successful social worker, bodybuilder and an all round great guy T's future is brighter than ever as he seeks to help inspire others and teach them to never let anyone elses opinions dictate their ceilings of success and to always embrace hard work.T also speaks of the oppresive lifestyle he was part of growing up and the struggles of learning a new culture, language and fitting into society. However having studied closely with T for 2 years there are very few more genuine souls I have come across.I urge you all to support and follow his journey...Thanks for listeningFree Audible book sign up:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?actionCode=AMN30DFT1Bk06604291990WX&tag=are86-21Best book on Mindset by Carol Dweck: Mindset https://amzn.to/2QajMvZSupport the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/findyourvoiceLinks to me:Website: https://www.arendeu.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aren.deu/Twitter: https://twitter.com/arendeuFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aren.singhLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aren-deu-65443a4b/Podcast: https://www.findyourvoicepodcast.com YouTube: http://tiny.cc/51lx6yLinks to guest:Snapchat: CatchafreemanInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/passion4lifting/Transcript:[Music]welcome to an episode of find your voicea movement led by yours trulyAren do a guy who has overcomecrippling anxiety adversity anddifficulty like so many of you in lifewhose main goal now is to help youcombat your excuses take control of yourlife write your own story and mostimportantly find your voice so nowwithout further ado I welcome the hostof the show himself mr. Aren do what'sgoing on people thank you for tuning into another episode of find your voice myname is Aren and as always I am thehost of the showso today's guest is somebody who I metabout four years ago on my social weightjourney so yesprior to me starting property businessand coaching I was actually a socialworker for a very very short amount oftime but about two weeks ago t reachedout again and he was commenting on oneof my earlier episodes and how he foundit very inspiring and then he asked ifhe could be on the show of course wasthe answer but I was intrigued becauseknowing T at university during our twoyears studying a masters he was alwaysthe one in the class that would makepeople smile he was always smiling yetsomewhere deep down I knew there wassome element of struggle some level ofadversity that he had been through butyou could never guess what it wasbecause like I said he was always theone that would make all our classmatessmile he was always easy come easy gohe's really getting stressed and he wasjust a pleasure to be aroundso when he offered to share his story Iwas intrigued because I knew there wasgonna be something that was going to beinspiring and motivating and he didn'tdisappointthis episode was fantastic one because Igot to see my good friend again but twobecause I realized how lucky andfortunate I am and probably many of youlisteners are too so I think it'simportant we jump straight into thisepisode and listen to what he has to sayand really understand that sometimes thegrass isn't always greener on the othersideand that we do actually have anunbelievable amount of things to begrateful forokay so I'm sitting here now with mygood friend T so if you could explainactually firstly how you doing not seembad might not see where I'm glad to behere goodness doesn't he answer that Icompletely forgot to ask him how he wasso I think it's important for thelisteners to you understand a little bitabout your journey and how you progressthrough life so if you could just startfrom I suppose your first memory I kindof let us know the life of T of Katonahokay that's all right mrs. IND thinkingme you know I don't usually speak I'mnot so good at speaking but I know theend of this if I can inspire this oneperson great that's my job here done andI come from very very very humblebeginnings well I say that I'm still I'mstill here humble beginnings now I'm notmade it yet but we are making progressmy parents my mom moved here in 2003beans involved in bad way yes yes andyou know we came here okay with asuitcase and a dream it was a case ofthe economy was on see a great overthere so before you know I yeah what'sthe next big thing and you know this wasthis was their two children at the timeand like most people I found out foundout that working hard was the way totheir you know American dream so tospeak yeah yeah anyone can sayabsolutely um you know the first lessonsthat I want C to share with you guyssome of the islands from a parentshadn't moved here is that you knowyou've gotta work hard you have to workcuz I grew up in a house where you knowI was watching my parents work day inday our worst and continue to work hardday and night to make sure that me andmy sister would not go with the help youknow they were breaking their backs andfreed out I said I had a front row seatin learning you know a hard work I waslike takes yeah you know start from thebottomremember back home there had reallyprestigious jobs but the KVN had tostart from the bottom literally start atthe foundation level okay okay so can Ijust jump in there so yeah back home youhad prestigious jobs was it still notenough in order to fulfill the dreamsthat they had I'm glad to think thatthey probably did it with us in mindokay because the way that the fins wouldgo in I reckon if they continued workingthings would have been okay for them butthen by the time you came to us growingup and working things might not be sogood for us you know something they hadus in mind to build our futures becausewe were gonna have better opportunitiesthat make sense here and you know somepeople choose that's why you see there'sso many people now I'll try that riskingtheir lives day in day out trying to getto the UK or you know these thedifferent countries in the West cuzopportunities are there that's been athome yeah we don't know how lucky we aresometimes we don't and we take thingsfor granted even take things for grantedso it's so easy wake up sahaja lotta Gbut there's someone diapers opportunitythat we wake up every day as well youknow wake up every day dream someone'sdying for this you know yeah we're moreabout our jobs and what we spoke aboutis actually yeah and it's that thing ofwe take things for granted man you knowanyway I digressI'm saying I had a front-row seatwatching what it really takes to be ableto drive but you want an understandingfundamental that in this country you cangive anything you wanted if and only ifyou're willing to make the sacrificesand pull your socks up like I saidpeople are risking their lives trying tosneak and use the abundance ofopportunities that were presented withso the lesson I want to convey to youguys today is that there's nothing morepowerful than that Silas example and forme that sounds example was my parentsthey never told me that you know when wecame here absolutely this is whatyesterday we were just watching yeah Ijust had to watch all thinking okay youknow yeah weekend that is working in mymom is working you know we're justwatching that work as powerfulthere's a quote and I think it saysdon't listen to what they say watch whatthey do and that's what it is and that'swith anything in mind because you get alot of people are just talking the talkand stuffsounds great we really if it soundsbefore the action yeah it's the actionthey can talk it you know gay men butwhen it comes to doing it's a differentstory and for me from that is where Ilearned that parents as parents and myparents yeah but as parents be afraid tolet your kids watch you fail or watchyou start from the bottom and watch yousweat cause we taking inspiration comesevery day we learn Oh strong strong workethic I think that's I think that's apowerful lesson because one of them likeI said to a lot of people my superpowerI believe everyone's got a super fine Iuse that as an analogy or metaphor is Ijust work hard that's itI don't have anything else good I'm notnaturally more talented at somethingelse but I will most likely I work mostpeople because I've seen my mom do itI've seen her with 90 hours a week whenwe were growing up I used to see heraround I'm thinking where's momand it should come from breakage thatgetting changed into our next - she'sback after work yeah and I'm not talkingabout later I'm talking Saturday SundayI'm talking in the six weeks holidays Ithink that's really important I think weshould set an example of the real lifeand not trying to hide things for mykids that's it in order to try andprotect them because actually you couldactually giving them a good thingthere's no such thing as an overnightsensation no such being people you haveto work you know some people are luckyenough to be born in rich families andwhatnot but majority of us we have towork her way upmm-hmm and for me I'd like to say that'sprobably one of the best solid examplesof my life and that's made me who I amtoday because it's me you know yeah I'mnot gonna be product of my circumstancesand I'm gonna be so the master of mydestiny I'm saying that now but backthen it was not like that in the sensorfor example you know when I first camehere I came when I was about 10 yearsold started in year six I'm going toschool not knowing English that wellbecause English is the second languageokay but we do not have to speak it atmuch because we don't need sing ofcourse you know we just have good lessonEnglish enoughso came here and yes 6 min imagine youknow trying to learn English we werepretty much I remember going to schooland those big clumps of bacon and thenthe cheap of the cheaper version is thecheap version because it's not littlethin slices we employ us how would youwant that was a big chunk you say seelaughter retired my gosh but it'sbrilliant because again this is what itwas my character the clumps of bacon youknow wake up in the morning she madebacktry as possible wait you could imagineit was not easy trying sliced bacon asyou put it on that sound good share I'llget to school so I said I do not knowsome of the things that were deemed tobe normal in this country sometimesfrowned uponyeah so break time think I'm a baconsandwich you know remember I rememberhim to Clete onto the bread so hard toprevent the whole me good biteyou know yeah I remember sometimes we'dhave pizza it would have Pete certainlyand I'll bring they left all this nicebox at my Lodge for school Broco Pizzahe and I did not know that this was notthe into the normal button but you knowit was tough for my sisters there shewas younger she started by ryaba starsquare one she couldn't speak that couldbe English as well so we kind of justhave each other have to try and you knowI remember sister go home she'll betrying to read a book to try and learnyou know English I should be holdingthat book upside down you know you juststart I would love a cokebacon sandwich for those kids don'tlisten Island kids kids are cruel yeahyou know meals kids are cruel that's whythere's so much bullying in school rightnow it's only now right now oh no waitif I have to you know go to work withthis is all right this is okay cuz now Idon't put down anyone's approval I'm inthat stage now where certain people'sopinion if it's not constructive itdoesn't bother memoving on then we went to secondaryschool obviously were picking up Englishyou know it's improving improving thelanguage just getting back there so weget to school yeah do the sets in younine I did okay consideringyeah ten will do GCSEs okay no yes Iwill do you mock GCSE means encore theseare marks and - seriouslyBastille did well in them then Iremember there was one Paris eveninggoes one parents evening news in theirparents evening actually my parents werecold from school and the teacher saidcan you kiss community discussion yourson is underachievementright okay like I told your son ispredicted to come by the end of GCSE isto come out with four C's with thiscoming from you know I'm doing well inessence I'm always you know and canimagine you know in my house we'd sayeducation very seriously and it's notjust my house is probably across themost African families most Africancountries cause in Africa education isnot free you know here privilege is aprivilege is a privilege that manycannot afford I rememberat home kids will be sent out fromclassical definitely see theHeadmaster's office or go home if you'venot paid the school fees cause somepeople simply couldn't afford so youcoverton so imagine you come into thiscountry metal education is free andyou're messing about yeah you're nottaking advantage of the opportunity thatis presented to you witness others athome or dying for this opportunity andwhen if they are to get it they wouldflourish in you know you know can weimagine they were really disappointeddo not happy it was a case right you'remixing about you don't take a schooleducation seriously from now on there'llbe no going out no playing out if youwere to play outside you know I wasacting all playing out during the weekanyway I was very impressive on theweekendsI was allowed out on mainly just theSaturday if his Sunday so a couple ofhouse I was allowed on Saturday butbefore I did that I had to do you knowthose PGCC books yeah I had to docertain number of pages of them before Icould go out and I had to get it rightand I used to think why they doing thisto me why me you know all my friends athelp then when I did go out I don't haveto care if you have to be 4i either sixor seven even some other stars blazinghot at 7:00 p.m. you have to be able toseven I don't think it's himself why arethey doing this to me why me you know Iused to moan about it wasn't impressedbut then it's funny now when I go backbecause obviously at that age you knowmore than your parents don't you anotherthing that you know yeah but what I dothere now and the kind of people thatwere staying out so midnight what theywere doing to midnight I'm not comparingmyself to them I'm just saying I'm gladthat my parents did that I'm glad thatthey did that for me becauseso for me as well if I was one of themkids someone invited prison some of themare just doing all kinds of business youknow anyway absolutely predictions Ithink that is an important point thoughthat we should stress because I was thesame so I went to tip it up which iswhere you live now I think I still livethere and I had like best friends andyou think you never gonna get friendsbetter than this and I want to go toThibodeau comp and at that time I wasdoing well academically so my parentswere like okay we're gonna send you togrammar school the helis grammar schoolthen I found out he was all-boys schoolbut that way he's going through pubertyexciting to find the opposite sexattractive and I was like here I go toan all-boys school and I went and Iresented it I resented the decision forages I'm gonna hate it but in hindsightsimilarly yourself now that got me intoa very good university even what mygrades weren't great because I had thatmy CV it also taught me a lot about howyou should conduct yourself in certainsituations not all of it was positivebut also been there I've got some of mybest friends and I'm talking aboutfriends you on the right side of the lawokay when I look back at if I'd runtv.com and I look at my friends therethere were stabbings there was prisonthere was drugs with the community thatI grew up with so I don't know would Ihave been brave enough with and steppingaway from friends who have grown up withor what I've just got involved in that Idon't know we'll never know but I'm kindof grateful that I went my way and lifehas brought me here so yeah Paris Ithink they always try to do the bestthat they know but at that time youdon't see oh man angry I mean they nevereven played football there and as a kidI was like a hotshot footballerapparently and I've got to defeat everyall my dreams I'm kind of crushed inthat moment yeah but then also somewonderful thing and now I kind of thinkyou know what actually my life isn't toobad and I suppose it's perspective andit's a age and as you grow you can youcan spin anything I suppose in a goodway that's and yeah sorry continuewell in that sense I think it man soclose so close you know we are ta 11 wedo GCSEs I come out with two A's B's andC's yeah I don't know how much that Ihad to do with all the extra homeworkthat I had to do because of that meetingbeing cold but I saw so smug towards myteachers thinking oh okay there's yourfour C's you know we came from Revere ohyeah yeah you know that figure ofputting their limitations orexpectations on me you know not pickingI love me yes okay great this was it forme I think actually today today bestachievement I worked hard for thatplease repeat in a school of how manypeople to be the top and you know beanother one from where you start exactlythat's the thing as well Stan journeyknowing you know came here barely beingable to speak a word of English and nowhere I am being told you're the examplestudent you know that was big for me andthat's why to this day is still one ofour biggest achievementsthat we call to college to a-levelsdoing a-levels breaking those I don'tknow teacher see you because doing thehub behaves on son who's come a bit of ajoker yeah sometimes I like to say ajoke sometimes might be inappropriatetimes when I like to crack a joke aboutthis has been interviews where they'regoing to just cracking jokes yeahprobably cause ya know the swamp andsemen college where my mom comes infriends dad came in as well and Iremember as we're going out he was goingout my mom was coming in so I'm stillmom kind of knew what to expectyeah and in there it was some kind ofexactly what the predictions were but itwas no great again he was no quoteshe was no great January exams so youknow that's Jennifer Connelly Wingate'scaucuses in January exams like threemonths either one now and I rememberthere was a law exam I was ready to gosee I thought exam was a 2 p.m. orsomething I don't know what in my mind[Laughter]anyway so you just told me you knowcheck what time you exactly hmmand this time is about half nine whenzone was at 9 o'clockyeah you know I had breakfast heaven orbreakfast yeahso we get to school and we get tocollege which is about half an hourdrive on a good daythis one's not good dangos of the snowobviously so I get they have a half tenand there's about an hour of the examnext is going to be a two and a halfhours I'll run for itI'm not oh please I'm going to be nakedno exam can you please let me go and seethe rest of the example you know cannotrestart it about two hours now and thenI why are you late that's odd the busbroke down those are all round chaos -okay we the only student from thisCollege in that bus yeah but you onlysee the last best results came out I'llgo ahead de you yeah I got a de you auwas a mystery yeah I didn't think I didthat bad but boy come one hey you herewe go again you know I'm gonna go homehow do you go home the best thing to doyeah so there's no nasty surprises whenI get home my parents just know I was ina school dayyou know hopefully bugs ever get homeyeah Judas thank you lot of except tothe end you know it's like go home gethome and again it was just a case of youknow yeah this time there was no rightten is your life your life you do whatyou want is worse that I got me man yeahdisappointment is worse than that guyI'll probably get shouted midair don'tgets around disappoints in the human soI was thinking some stuff okay so I hadto pay for the reasons are my own moneythen resutsI go in a b c in the receipts in thesummer which was great because wafflewas a leg was really the same as he saidJesus is we can revise two weeks beforeGeorge I know Chauncey and so I learnedthe hard way I'm sort of sure in the endI got a BBC fantastically end of the ADAwas which was great which can set me onthe path to unique University and I wentto university went to Manchester did myfirst degreeyou've Community development's it wasgreatenjoyed it then I went on to do somework related to that words and fate ofpeoplemmm-hmm and it was basically aorganization which would be young peoplewho were born HIV and I would like tosay that it's probably the best thingI've ever done in my life imagined jobwise and satisfaction wise cuz you knowyou're making that positive impact onpeople's lives and having said that youknow I am gonna keep jumping back andforth wine yeah I know that start thepodcast was all discussed growing up inthe house were you watching peopleworking hard know what we know this jobin age of fourteen I remember it was apaper round for the local newspaper inthe area and it was about 350 newspapersevery Thursday in November I wake upfirst thing in the morning Wednesdaynightsfirst thing first day morning do about150 use maple before going to schoolcome back get rid of schoolgo to school come back home till eventhe rest of the newspaper sometimes yousaw spit into the Friday as welldepending on how fast there wasn't onenothing and again it was that thing oftrying to get that good work ethicinstilled in me from a young age as wellso once I was you know in college I wasworking as well yeah I was working themin has to be like you know you do themath I was pissed at it see then when Imoved to Manchester also a conventionsee like I do that by state authoritiesgonna work like Clark's and I moved backhome yeah because the other guys I wasworking for they lost their funding andthey had to close down and I'm thinkingman was next because I've got thisdegree but I know that the job prospectsare not great a ride wasn't Mickey Mousedegree and I think you know go back I'mone I've done the same onemaybe frequently that prospectus was abig t fast yeah you know he's just acase of Social Work socialized the nextthing for me that's what and that's whatwe met that's what we meantI remember the first time I see thisSocial Work and being in social workerswere working in and it was back then andI remember it was a case of alsodifferent different environments andthey you need to remember you workingtogether differently when I did myundergraduate it was a case yeah yeahhere the Masters is the case of yourhelp me help youof course and I think I've seen more usis amol that's the big man that's thebig and it was a case of my it was notjust asked he was pretty much the wholebrain sleep everyone just worked so wellto confessand we try to make sure that if someonedid not was not doing so well we try topull them up why didn't his doing thisyou know centrist instead of myosinpowerful is this you know yeah who'sgreat and again it's that thing of forme that's where I experienced real trustI mention your colleagues because I'venot known anything like that before Ithink I'm the same but then there's afew things that that one age willprobably or everyone's had a degreebefore so you wise up a little bit but Ithink also it's a testament that peopleare going to become social workersbecause you guys who are keep in touchwith here and there through that what'sup yourself a little bit more to be asocial worker wanna become a socialworker you've got to be a different kindof person I believe you've gotta havethat level there's gonna be something inyour heart that makes you want to helppeople so the reason you will start thatjourney together was we want you to bethe best I'm socially in the world andchange the world so if we call after ourpeers who are on the same path as usthen that's saying something about yourpersonality and there's nobody on thatcourse I can think of who did that weall literally just held each other upsomebody would tell me what my choicelike come along with me and I love thatcommunity like so yeah you know I havingsaid that you having said that you knowyou said you have to be same kind ofperson to be a social would you besurprised you know bro really there'ssome people that you see I don't thinkit wait you know you'd agree yeaheveryone was great I'm sure thateveryone was great as well as you think[Music]but then when you get in the job thereare some people that you think wherewere you and the cool so becomedesensitized orHuracan people do become desensitizedand sometimes i know that we found thisout that the job is not what we expectedit to be yeah so I think that's probablywhy some people serve turn out to be acertain way whilst on the jobyeah um you know we do the masters andnow you know I'm I'm working the jobworking the job and it's going okaybasically from my story in main thingthe hours of convey is their thing ofother people's expectationsdo not let people's expectations of yourother people's limitations in you becomeyour reality doctor so you know ifsomeone's a sense EE you know yeah youdo so well I don't think you're gonna beable to do this you know that's theirexpectations that doesn't mean it has totranspire it to you absolutelyand sadly it does sadly in some cases itdoes cause a self-fulfilling prophecyyeah if you didn't shout that the badbelievin that they're bad you knowthey'll probably start behaving it'sthat feeling of staying in your own laneI think that's really important people'sopinions they're all facts it's justtheir belief and again their beliefisn't the truth is their truth it's notin fact and I think I've learned thatthe hard way because a lot of stuff I'vebought off for trying to do was based onother people's opinions and I just thinknow the most important opinion is theopinion of myself I mean in movie youhave to it sounds it sounds weird as agrown man and he stays thinking I needto start to look at myself I need tostart valuing myself because somewherealong the journey I stopped doing thatand the way I would I suppose look atmyself what I do myself was based on theopinion of other people whereas now it'slike each Australian if there's a fewpeople in my life who their opinionconcerns me because I respect them and Iwant them to think that I'm doing a goodthing but other than that it's reallyabout myself and that's why we touchedon prior to this episode time why'd youstop that self-talk every morning andhave you stuff that empowers me ratherthan brings me down because a lot of usthumpings get out it wasn't actuallymyself it was the opinions of othersthat I would repeat to myself and say Imust be sure I must be anxious I mustnot be strong enough for must not begood enoughthat's a is the mind is so powerful so Ithink one of the things I want to tryand be with this podcast is always tryand get into younger heads so they don'tgo through that exactly he reallyswitched them young because we instillthat mind saying them from a young ageisn't it yeah definitely you know andit's not thinking of mom always saysdon't let your feet go cold what shewasn't someone else is great I love thatyou know love it and it's not be enoughfor example right now the time is whattime is it11:14 11:40 11:40 in Zim it is 140 okayit's 114 thing right now does that meanthat we're slower then we're not we'rein a different time zone we're notslower than them you know and I said soright you know someone graduated yeahand they just wanted see or wait fiveyears before securing a good job andsomeone became a CEO at the age of 25but died at the age of 50 while someoneelse became a CEO and the age of 50 andleave till they were nine see Obamaretired as president at the age of 55don't know Trump became president at theage of 70 you know so everyone's intheir own time zone and people aroundyou they might seem like they I had afew or some be behind you but everyone'srunning the old race in their own timeso think of not being I just want topoint out quickly for the podcast he'sreading white Instagram right man yaknow but it makes so much sense which iswhy we get along we think the same kindof things so I'm sure your remains to us[Laughter]it's the truth but the problems withsociety in like social media and stuffis we are that in our food go cold Isuppose if you use that because we wantyou cuz we're watching as a people I'mnot gonna sit here and say I don't dothat myself I'm conscious that it's notthe right thing to do six out of theseven days a weekI don't do it but there are some dayswhen you get frustrated cuz you know youwant to be there but then is that thingabout trust in the process and we'reboth average gym goerswe know what it's like to Broadway toadd strength to lose weight and stuffand we know it's a process thing so sothat's really importantor what I switch gears just a little bitwe want to one of the next questionwhich is about routine now I alwaysbelieve whereproduct of our habits and the things wetell ourselves and I think I know myselfpersonally but my routines on point mydays are on point and my goals and whatprogression it moves forward but whenit's not it's completely off so I'mgonna know is what's your kind of dailyroutine that you do now having learnedall the lessons that you've had it sincecoming from Zimbabwe to England andgoing through school and then throughyour social work where you probably seemore stuff than most people what's kindof like your daily routine that keepsyou going okay wake uppeople myself all been just now jokingright so obviously get on the treadmillstraightaway I get 45 minutesfrosted coffee or show a beauty showcoming up in about nine weeks where isthat show they'll be a staff to shareokay in Staffordshire then there'll beanother one two weeks after that instaffing shared stuff and I'm not onepotentially after my Scotland you loveit yeah so at the moment I wake up to gofasted cardio get in the shower thenhave my breakfast and only just you knowbreakfast I can have one to go on my wayto workI'm going to work and probably listen tosongs because before he used to itsounds like the radio and then I realizethat all the stars radio presenters theyirritate mebecause I know guys their job or thechild or the rubbish yeah and most of itis lies but that's what I have to do istheir job isn't it so there is anythingthat's fine it's on the plate presentersare talking I just feature a differentstation with a drink and song at thattime I listen to radio for one now butnow I listen to something quitemotivational you know there's so manymotivational things that you finallyachieve and it takes me not too long toget to work so I put that day's work isfinished and it's just climbed a littlesomething in my mind I've learnedsomething from thatOh do and I get to work do I need to dowhilst at work you know how I can officewhere people are always bringing cakesmy songs for breakfast and all thisdifference and you know the donor so nowand then and I'm they even have a littlelunch boxes lunches you can have someyou're gonna have some you know and nownobody even seems like a drink a cup oftea they don't ask me for one becausethey know that I'm not gonna have onedrink or take and condos weight so I canteens tell me why I don't think intoidea how they're gonna say if you don'tknow cause I've had these conversationswith my colleagues about you know havingthe discipline to discipline and if youare not there wish I was like you but hecan be only yesterday miss get right upin the end until you get there you'renot gonna be able to see it starts hereit starts it starts all starts in thehead do memory right you can't youactually can't and that's what I believeI don't believe that you can't so youcan't you're not there until you believeyou can yeah anyway then of course thegym after work I destroy my work out asmuch as I cango home and have a meal do it be areading after that cuz I've got abouttwo hours to find start getting readyfor bed and have my last meal and go tobed okay that's a typical day and for medon't get me wrong I work a stressfuljob about something I think I think thatsometimes it's the stress would you makeit I'm not really a stress the stress Tperson like that so for me I always tryto remain calm stay chilled andsometimes the people that you know doyou ever like strength unlike what'sthat gonna helpit's not gonna help me isn't Americanthings better it's not then I go see thegym me in the gym is a space where I canshut down you know just focus on why isit fun to meyeah it's a place for me there's timesthat I going what gym about six times aweekI don't want it went you know about sixtimes a week but now is the case ofdiscipline I'm just I'm there whether Iwant to or thatdo I wanna wake up frustrated with myclothes every dayI don't want to see what I have to do Ido because I have seen you know peoplesaying are jungian up dry chicken outdry chicken and veg again how do youenjoy it I'm gonna enjoy I don't mean toenjoy because nobody needs ityeah it's about why I enjoy oh you canseason your chicken me you cannotconsistently so why don't you need toenjoy it so have it yeah that's one thatI like that and the great thing aboutthat is it's transferable by anything oranything because for me I've nevercompeted before these were firstbodybuilding competitions you know andnothing to myself rightit's that pinnacle before I used to goJim it's just real weight you know tryand lift as heavy as I can they camepretty strong but then what's next youknow cuz I catch a point in the gym Ithink you know you know same old stuckhere for how many years not much changesso if we know yeah jump our comfort zonedoing something that's gonna stretchsomething you've never ever done beforeso completes it and it's something I'vealways wanted to do ok right this yearI'm gonna compete this you know is thevery first of December no sir right thisyear I'm gonna compete that racismnothing's happening so sometimes youneed to take action absolutelyabsolutelywhen it comes to do it that's a wholedifferent story some people some peoplefeel like they're doing push-ups oh theygetting bigger by just talking about itoh yeah it's all pumped up the momentand listen to motivational thing andthey're feeling grateful oh but 30minutes per month okay now you're gonnawork and that work there and whatever itis in life so say for instance if youuse my property for example a lot of thestuff I do in this job it's not greatand sometimes people will look at itfrom from their perspective and think ohyou've got the life you can work withyou on that listen when I accept my dayI hate doing these tasks but I have todo it just in order to get my freedomdiscipline equals freedom basicallythat's how I see itsame with the gym so I'll get the smirkremarkso you're always in the gym you'readdicted to the gym first I used to getmy back up a little bit because I didn'twant to be that guy but I'm like okaythat's fineI'd rather be addicted to that then atthe same time similar to your son yesI'd say three or four times a week Ireally want to get to the gym becauseyou just you feel good you feel greatthe other times and what I'm doingsometimes I do to workout today as wellI don't wanna be there but I have to bethen I convince myself and I starttalking the struggle I go through my ownhead to get myself to the gym thatmorning is tough but it has to bedonated to become he's so happy now he'slike it's like when I breathe or when Ieat and drink it's just part of it thisis second natureyeah everyone should do that becauselike we said it's all transferrable intoanything if I can myself up my comfortzone every single day and do that andthen do that with other tasks in my lifeI either private casting ie my propertyor my coaching or whatever then slowlylike with a gym progress it's gonnastart happening isn't ityou gotta start reaching them and lookdoing things such as a meal prep I'venever used a real prayer never use themeal prep and you know the whole resultshave been working our fancy KFC KFC KFCof course I why do I do thatdodge it corny ammonia sometimes all myeat lunch and by the time just beforeeating I'll be starving and I'll havewiping stuck in order Big John'sastray if I were to be John's then goJesus laughter you cannot I work aboutdiet and stuff Engels now I could takesome 2,000 do four days worth of foodand I feel great yeah absolutely and nowit's a habit I believe in dreadmill prepI enjoy heat and deciphering again manmotivation that's all if I say a - timediscipline lasts forever high-degreewonder-percent I think I used to be aperson trainer not seven eight years andI'm Cocorico need to like a coachingaspect I suppose the people were so likemy property and business and stuff andone of the first things I will say topeople when they approach me or can youcoach me for a kind of ability you helpme get get over this hurdle in my lifefor example it's okay do you work out asolution one of the first questionsasked which they probably don't expectfrom the coach because I think you knowyou're gonna give me some system orsomething that you need to do forbusiness and the majority of them say noI'm like well that needs to changebecause the way I do my stuff is that'sthe first thing we look at we focusingon your health which I believe is yourbiggest well you know healthy as well asthat kind of thing and your mind gettingthat right and that's kind of how I lookat it so I think me going to the gymespecially for my boxing okay justbefore meeting you doing the Masters hasbeen one of the biggest disadvantages Ihad when I went to this property game inthis business game because I was like Ijust take that work ethic where I was iworking everyone in the gym and i justbring it into yeah okay i don't know asmuch about property or business as mostpeople but most people start work aboutknowing they work to about half i forexample you have about an hour and ahalf at the dick you know for lunch thenlooking at YouTube videos half waythrough if I just wake up seven eighto'clock but I don't have all that timeand I just work till seven eight o'clockat night very very quickly over a coupleyears I'll call back up if that makesany sense that's kind of what I've doneit that of course yeah okay fantastic sowhat is your biggest fear why is mybiggest fear okay um my biggest fear isI would say to not be able to keep myfamily they deserve what would change intheir day to day would it be that youwant to retire them from work or sendthem on a holiday I mean what kind ofthings in what will change them and thenmoments wake up to what's work thatwould be the main thing the choice didyou have the choice if they do choose togo to work is our choice as long as theyhave to yeah and at the moment is thecase of the clock see I thinks it's cuzknow we spend a lot of our time I workmore about time get home everyone'stired or we the good gets a bed that'syour neo Cynthia as you know spend asmuch time as you deal with them as youdo at work absolutelyfor me I would like for my family to theOpera Z what's the spin because that'sthat's invaluable man thing is for us tospend more time together spend more timedoing something that it does not reallybenefit us you know the initial initialamount of time that it got its that's mybiggest worry cuz it's not for you knowcritics life is a predictoryou know things happen day in day outactually I've seen this call he saidthat we who die while still alive youknow you don't expect it to happen whilethings happen and for me out of reallydisappointed if I if something any fixthat happened and I'm not being able togive my family the life that theydeservethat's what my biggest fear okay goodanswer good answerokay so the next question is aboutmotivation I'd be lying I suppose if Isaid there was a days where I struggledto keep myself away I think I've touchedon this earlier you know gym stuffand I'm pretty soon yourself had thosedays as well I've yet to meet anybodywho doesn't need some level ofmotivation or something that just keepson going on the days where they justdon't feel like doing it so I want toknow is on those days where you feellike maybe you're in a funk or yourmotivations gone and then he's just notclicking in your head and you don't wantto go to the gym I know we touch ondiscipline for example or you don't wantto go to it what is driving you on thatparticular day okay I always think thatsomeone else is working harder that's meby the way up in smoke okay if we are tobelieve this you know the competition'sthat I'm gonna do like I said I don'twanna go to gym every day but I dosometimes I'm in the gym I'm gonnahundred percent I still give iteverything that came on that day yeahyou know I'll finish myself I want to bestanding on that stage and if I've lostit's my cause I worked refused yeah Iwant to lose with my head held highokay there's nothing more that Icould've actually given me okay that'swhat motivates me I don't understandtheir thinking and if I want to thinkthat one day that's gonna be that we maylive so stop being of no wanting to beoutworked it's okay yeah you're gonnalose okay we lose it but do not losecause I do not get oh yeah you knowthat's Jim late but I'm Garcialife in general I just touched up on myknees that like they don't give for myfamilyyes that's what motivates me to stopbeing of man you can't afford to letthat grip slippushy and you know I'm always to youmore the fact that they're waking up agoal to work that day when that day thewake nuts got to work clay yeah that'sthat's my motivation desperate like theyhave to wake up for where that baby thatyou have that makes sure you don't hitthat seems but exactly can I hear thatbecause I understand me my wife youwhile I went on this journey where I wasself-employed and not really normally Iwas literally carrying I had this muchmoney to spare another I need to getremember me I need to pay for a coffeeany I was working my pennies out in abootstrapping but the thing that wouldalways get me out of bed was and I wasput my alarm I just put on for my wifeyeah so I'm like she's haven't talked towork to support this I mean and thatused to keep me going every single daythat's so I hear that okay okay so nowyou've heard the buzzer has just goneoff and we're at the fun part of theshow where I'm gonna put you throughyour paces now the beautiful thing aboutthis is T doesn't know any of thequestions I'm gonna ask him so what I'mgonna do is I'm gonna set the timer for60 seconds okay so we're going to startin three two onethe ability to fly or be invisible rightmoney your fame money Ronnie Coleman orAuto Show Sega on favorite protein shapeflavor banana singing or dancing dancingthat Pixar YouTube YouTube Marvel or DCmodel favorite TV show everwould you rather than on how you woulddie or when you were dying when you loveor moneylove books or movies if you can sit withone person in the world or an hour withme you'll probably be in Iraq your worstfear growing up was snakes what is yourbiggest addictionmy biggest addiction is Jim summerwinter summer your favorite place in thewhole way your zoom speak or languageswill be able to speak to animalssweet harmonies if you could abolish onething in the world for many P racismyour favorite song ever last onesJacob read minds or predict the futureyour favorite superheromy pramantha probably one of mine yeahyeah okay so but nearly there's just acouple of more questions left and thenext one's on reflection so hi insidesome wonderful thing and upon reflectionwe can always think of ways to get towhere we currently are quicker easier orwith less heartache but I also guess thejourney teaches us a lot as well I'm astrong believer in trusting the processand enjoying the process so what I wantto know is if you could go back in timeto that one moment where you reallystruggled and suffered with theadversity so if you use the universityexample and you can just whispersomething in the air of a younger Tknowing what you know now what would youtell yourself when I tell myself beproactiveno one's gonna keep this to you you cando thisno one can race you come on your waysfor you you're gonna do but in so we areactually at the last question then if ina hundred and fifty years time sciencefails to save all of us we're no longerhere and well that exists is a book onthe life of T by the way you can chooseup for the title and on that book it'sit can be as big as you want butsomebody's walking past what will makethat person pick it up right so what Iwant to know is what would the blue sayand what would the total of that booksay about you okay okay something GodseyI mean that I'm always there so someonewho just worked hard to chase theAmerican dream for their family justfinally in Americayeah people's attention but that it'struly the only company okay title titlethe British dream says a guy it's veryhard to get there makethey're gonna be thinking this authorhas no idea where my story my story myright there's not right or wrong answergood answer good answer so that you'veheard it you've heard like anunbelievable story of somebody who'scoming from a place where many of us whoare listening to this now haven't had tocome from I suppose and I studied withtea at University and a lot of this Inever knew myself so it's it's beeninspiring for myself to hear thisespecially when I sit back and I thinkabout when we were doing coursework andI used to struggle with the EnglishEnglish language myself so just to thinkhow hard it must have been for you aswell it just makes you appreciate howfortunate we all are before we leave Iam I always like to ask my guests ifthey could just give us one place wherewe could reach out to you I'll probablysay snapchat realistically okay thesemore than anything that's fine you andyour username infrastructure catcherFreeman catch a Freeman okay fantasticI'll put that in the show notesI'm will probably put your Instagram inthere as well because I find itinspirational there's a lot of greatquotes bill on my Instagram okay butthere's also a lot of their trainingfootage as well and bespoke prior tothis interview as well teas on thetransformation where he's gone from justunder probably 100 kg down to like 7 eie I think at the minute and it'sprobably gonna get lower so it justshows you that if you really trust theprocess in your work hard you can reallyget to where you want to get to and Ijust wanna say thank you for coming downreally appreciate itand tirana home thanks for listening andremember this podcast is absolutely freeso all we ask in return is for you toshare this with a friend and drop us afive star review over on iTunes have anawesome day#JustDeuIt & #FindYourVoice See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Why This Journey of Abundance Began and What's Next!In this first episode of 2019, I will be getting a bit more into my story. I will give you an idea of my life struggles, wins and what I see that's yet to come for Men of Abundance. You will briefly experience my childhood, my experience with Special Forces and other military experiences. You're going to get a recap of why Men of Abundance was born and what it has done for me and others around the world. I will then rap it up with where I see Men of Abundance going. I invite you along for the ride of your life.  Veteran Business of the WeekI will speak on my personal connection with Steve Kaplan in the next episode. For now, just know, Steve is one of the best men and neighbors I've ever known. More on that in the next episode. Check out Trident Adventures if you're in Hawaii or plan on visiting Oahu any time soon. TridentAdventures.com Stephen Kaplan - Owner/PADI InstructorSteve is a recently retired Navy SEAL and all around ocean lover. He spent the last four years as the lead diving instructor for the SEAL Team based here in Hawaii. As a veteran of many deployments in waters all over the world, Steve’s unique perspective, value for life, and wonder for the aquatic world is unavoidably contagious. Of all the extreme sports, from skydiving to shooting, mountaineering to racing, etc.., there is nothing that matches the excitement balanced with serenity that diving has to offer. There’s something to be said about the peace of mind knowing Steve has trained the best of the best and now he has your back. He brings the safest and most thrilling underwater experiences Trident Adventures has to offer to you. Steve has a way of making you feel like the underwater world is your personal playground and all life’s worries wash away. James Beck - Owner/PADI InstructorJim is a recently retired Navy SEAL with over 30 years of experience working in every type of underwater environment this planet has to offer. He has been dive qualified since 1990 and has successfully completed over 5000 dives. He holds military and civilian instructor/supervisor certifications in Open Circuit, Closed Circuit and Semi-Closed Circuit diving, Submersibles, and so much more. He served as director for a Naval Special Warfare Advanced Training Schoolhouse, focusing on Advanced Military Diving, and now spearheads all the PADI certifications with Trident Adventures. Diving with Jim and learning from him is nothing short of legendary. His greatest passion is teaching brand new divers, especially those that are initially afraid of diving. There’s a calmness and sense of security that Jim brings to the table that makes you feel like you can conquer the world.     Support this podcast

In episode #107 we look at what is actualy Damascus, working on big projects in a small shop, Christmas gifts wof woodworkers, punching vs drifting a hole in steel, and much more.Help us grow on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/CreatorsCollectiveHuge thank you to All of our Patrons! Especially Darren Mattes, Caleb Harris of YouCanMakeThisTooYou can listen to us on iTunes, Google Play, SoundCloud and many other placesYou can join us live Thursdays at 10 AM eastern on the Creators Collective Podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_0AZEDUA-UWfoSxLil7gBgWhat’s new/ what are we working on?Zack: wefgrWill: Dresser Video, Walnut bartops, Christmas and macrame, My poor chainsaw 40k subscribersJames: Ball in a block: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXJROmvFB1AInfinate Candle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjXU0v96POYScrol saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C_L9IXuTrMQ&A:What are good Gifts that can be made quickly?The Garage Woodworker: why is it better to forge a hole rather than drill it. I love alec's vids but half the time my ignorance is like why not just drill a hole rather hammer a bit to cut through it.Creators Photo ChallengeDue next time: Bokeh?Joke of the weekI wanted to make sure I remembered everything about my time as a lumberjack, so I kept a log.I don’t trust those trees! Why Not? They just seem Shady!What’s new/what are we watching/reading?Will: KimballCody - FarmertecG660 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfcpYVnxRqkJames: Frank Hawarth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tc3_chMGLQ&index=8&list=LLbMtJOly6TpO5MQQnNwkCHgZack: Secrets of the Forge: Beginning and Intermediate Projects for Blacksmiths https://amzn.to/2UFlXpIFavorite tool/product this week?Zack: MagnetsWill: TotalBoat stuff - 20% off with WMWALKER - Totalboat.com JamestownDistributors.comJames: Auger file: https://amzn.to/2Ca9DXmHostsJames Wright: Wood By Wright https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbMtJOly6TpO5MQQnNwkCHgZack Herberholz: ZH Fabrication https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDdZMJDDpyvI9WJyY7IZP7wWilliam Walker: Wm. Walker Co. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCievvwx_-UU-rP28103rUCwSHOW NOTESIntro and outro recorded and produced by Jason Wright http://withamic.com/

In episode #101 We have Paul Jackman on and pick his brain for the second time. We talk about Shop boots, pallet wood and leg lamps!Help us grow on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/CreatorsCollectiveHuge thank you to All of our Patreons! Especially Darren Mattes, Caleb Harris of YouCanMakeThisToo and John from John Made ItYou can listen to us on iTunes, Google Play, SoundCloud and many other placesYou can join us live Thursdays at 10 AM eastern on the Creators Collective Podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_0AZEDUA-UWfoSxLil7gBgWhat’s new/ what are we working on?Zack: HammersJames: The Table! And more the Table: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8BzzmraAXM&list=PLAbayqjimalHU2GXbsZm12qym1Z1pHZNMPaul: Making a foot Print: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5kKEiU_0OkQ&A:Make Brooklyn​: What kind of boots does Paul recommend for woodworkers in the home shop?Sturgis Custom Creations: any plans to make Christmas presents, and if so what?Sturgis Custom Creations: ​ok then what's on your xmas wish listMike Tabar: ​Paul have you perfected a method of quickly disassembling the pallets? I tried years ago to do it and it was too much work to break them down.Curt Ziegler: ​Know of any "poor mans" metal detector for detecting nails in pallets? e.g. a magnet on a string or something?Creators Photo ChallengeDue next time: Cutting EdgeJoke of the weekI used to work in a shoe recycling shop. It was sole destroying.Tracy Keaton: Why do blondes have TGIF written on their shoes?... Toes go in first.Jim Dockrell​: If a knight in Prague dons his armour, does that mean the Czech is in the mail?Paul Jackman: Why did the boy drop the ice cream cone? He was hit by a truck.What’s new/what are we watching/reading?Paul: Woby Design: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDjSle78ri-xeH0oyfMWisgJames: Allen Pan - Sufficiently Advanced: 4D Chess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wFQPSEPgWc&list=LLbMtJOly6TpO5MQQnNwkCHg&index=1Zack: Jonny Rocker https://www.instagram.com/_jonnyrocker/Favorite tool/product this week?Zack: Isotunes - https://bit.ly/2uD7xKHPaul: Arbortech Turbo Plane: https://amzn.to/2DeOqNJJames: Stanley #112 Scraper planeHostsJames Wright: Wood By Wright https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbMtJOly6TpO5MQQnNwkCHgZack Herberholz: ZH Fabrication https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDdZMJDDpyvI9WJyY7IZP7wWilliam Walker: Wm. Walker Co. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCievvwx_-UU-rP28103rUCwPaul Jackman: Jackman Workshttps://www.youtube.com/user/JackmanCarpentrySHOW NOTESIntro and outro recorded and produced by Jason Wright http://withamic.com/

Are you happy with where you are right now? What is your biggest disappointment in life? Your biggest failure? Has anything positive come out of them? On this episode, I discuss this whole "coolest monkey situation". Also accepting the fact that companies are looking for the cheapest way to make jobs obsolete for humans and if going the college route is still an option. Opportunity comes to those who want it! EnjoyRecaps from this weekI went to Diablos and got my car towed, these towing companies are a bunch bitches. Georgia is cursed in sports but that's where all the beautiful women reside so that's not really an L well for now. Bright ReviewFlu season Follow Us on social media twitter: @joshuaobalogun // @mase_podcastFacebook Page https://www.facebook.com/moreaboutsomethingelse/

Back home from the Oklahoma road trip. Nice to show off the Tesla to the family and meeting some new friends along the way. NewsTesla has discontinued the rear wheel drive Model S 75. This widens the price gap between Model 3 and Model S as they eliminate the cheapest MS.Read more at CNBCTSLA stock was in a free fall this week, making it the second worst performer in the Nasdaq 100. Read more at MarketWatchThe world's largest Supercharger is being built in Shanghai. Maybe 50 stalls!Read more at Teslarati Tesla is hoping to make the Supercharger the gas station of the future... food, coffee and restrooms.Read more at The VergeThat's not a lot of money for a giant like Daimler/Mercedes. Wish they'd do more. Off by a zero.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 24, 2017Tip of the WeekI wasn't aware the vanity mirrors in Model X are so odd. You may not even know they are there. Check out this video (you may need to join the Tesla Owners Worldwide Facebook group to watch. Not sure) Need something to listen to on your commute or next road trip? Audible has over 180,000 titles, the world's largest library of audiobooks. Get a free audiobook and a no-obligation 30 day trial. Just go to AudibleTrial.com/PYR and get signed up today.

This show is packed with information on:Hermit Crabs, Havasupai Horses, Hurricane Irma, and the Top 10 Dog Poisons.Tip of the weekI have a tip for you when traveling with your pets and this may be one that you’ve never thought of. As much as we’d like to think our hotel room has been thoroughly vacuumed, you never know what can be lurking under the bed, tables, and chairs. When you arrive in your room before you pet decides to explore you should look under the furniture to see if there are any pills that have dropped and not been vacuumed up. Could be an over counter medication or a prescribed medication, and both are dangerous to your pets. It is the top reasons pets are poisoned. Top 10 Dog Poisonshttp://pets.webmd.com/dogs/guide/top-10-dog-poisons#1Man and Dog Denied Flight Out Of Irma Over Not Having A Pet Carrierhttps://tinyurl.com/y9q9d9cySouthwest Airlines Flies Out Of Texashttps://tinyurl.com/yd8cedmtHermit Crabs Should Be Left Alonehttps://tinyurl.com/y7g2ys4lShelter Dog Behavior Mentorship with Trish McMillan Loehr IAABChttps://iaabc.org/mentorships/shelter-dog-behavior-2​​Help The Havasupai HorsesGrand Canyonwww.HavasupaiHorses.org

Spreaker Live Show #115 for June 7th, 2017Show Today:-New Podcaster Fears and Frustrations-What is a “podcast?” Am I one or Not on Spreaker?-Is content you only upload to YouTube a podcast?-Is there such a thing as a Live Podcast?-Seems over my head to understand how to podcast!-Listener CommentsShow Duration: 58 minutesHost: Rob Greenlee, Head of Content, Spreaker @robgreenlee - rob(at)spreaker(dotcom)Co-Host: Alex Exum, Host of “The Exum Experience Podcast” on SpreakerSpreaker Retreat in Bologna, Italy next week. No Spreaker Live Show next weekI was on the “Onward Nation Podcast” this week “Episode 507: The strategy of being helpful, with me”http://onwardnation.com/rob-greenlee/Play a 4 minute clip from the show - I explain my background and how I got started in radio/podcasting On the show today:We discuss the Most Common “New Podcaster Fears and Frustrations”Then we chat about last week’s “Listener Comments” Starting a podcast is not always easy, we at Spreaker make it as easy as possible, but even we present frustrations to the process because you must learn how to use the platform. I (Rob) spends a lot of time each week with new podcasters to help them get through these Frustrations and Fears. Every podcaster has some of these fears and frustrations.. I still have them after 13 years of podcasting. “Frustrations with learning all the tools and processes needed to start and operate successful podcast” “What is a “podcast?” Am I one or Not on Spreaker?” “Is content you only upload to YouTube and Do Live on Facebook a podcast?”“Is there such a thing as a Live Podcast?”“I hate it when my volume levels are all over the map in my show” “I am scared to setup an RSS Feed, is Intimidating”“I don’t like my voice and cannot listen to it, no one else will like either”“What is and How do I get quality cover art? “Scared about doing a podcast and no one listens or friends judge me” “How do I do mobile on the road recordings and the setup needed?” “People will hate my show”“Scared to learn all that needs to be learned to podcast”“What will my boss think if he learns I have a podcast?” “What microphone should I get?” “Who and How do I get my show into all the listening platforms?”“How do I get a Skype caller on my show?” Listener Comments: Tamara FordGreat show gentlemen. Alex, I totally agree with you about satellite radio, I'm surprised the services are still alive. I'd NEVER pay for it. I rarely listen to the radio. I stream podcasts on my phone using a few different apps, connected to my car via Bluetooth. I also listen to audiobooks. Linda IrwinI actually up-load everything in 44.1 *.wav so that it will be better when it compresses than if it is double encoded as *.mp3.Linda IrwinI am addicted to coffee, too.

Spreaker Live Show #115 for June 7th, 2017Show Today:-New Podcaster Fears and Frustrations-What is a “podcast?” Am I one or Not on Spreaker?-Is content you only upload to YouTube a podcast?-Is there such a thing as a Live Podcast?-Seems over my head to understand how to podcast!-Listener CommentsShow Duration: 58 minutesHost: Rob Greenlee, Head of Content, Spreaker @robgreenlee - rob(at)spreaker(dotcom)Co-Host: Alex Exum, Host of “The Exum Experience Podcast” on SpreakerSpreaker Retreat in Bologna, Italy next week. No Spreaker Live Show next weekI was on the “Onward Nation Podcast” this week “Episode 507: The strategy of being helpful, with me”http://onwardnation.com/rob-greenlee/Play a 4 minute clip from the show - I explain my background and how I got started in radio/podcasting On the show today:We discuss the Most Common “New Podcaster Fears and Frustrations”Then we chat about last week’s “Listener Comments” Starting a podcast is not always easy, we at Spreaker make it as easy as possible, but even we present frustrations to the process because you must learn how to use the platform. I (Rob) spends a lot of time each week with new podcasters to help them get through these Frustrations and Fears. Every podcaster has some of these fears and frustrations.. I still have them after 13 years of podcasting. “Frustrations with learning all the tools and processes needed to start and operate successful podcast” “What is a “podcast?” Am I one or Not on Spreaker?” “Is content you only upload to YouTube and Do Live on Facebook a podcast?”“Is there such a thing as a Live Podcast?”“I hate it when my volume levels are all over the map in my show” “I am scared to setup an RSS Feed, is Intimidating”“I don’t like my voice and cannot listen to it, no one else will like either”“What is and How do I get quality cover art? “Scared about doing a podcast and no one listens or friends judge me” “How do I do mobile on the road recordings and the setup needed?” “People will hate my show”“Scared to learn all that needs to be learned to podcast”“What will my boss think if he learns I have a podcast?” “What microphone should I get?” “Who and How do I get my show into all the listening platforms?”“How do I get a Skype caller on my show?” Listener Comments: Tamara FordGreat show gentlemen. Alex, I totally agree with you about satellite radio, I'm surprised the services are still alive. I'd NEVER pay for it. I rarely listen to the radio. I stream podcasts on my phone using a few different apps, connected to my car via Bluetooth. I also listen to audiobooks. Linda IrwinI actually up-load everything in 44.1 *.wav so that it will be better when it compresses than if it is double encoded as *.mp3.Linda IrwinI am addicted to coffee, too.

Podcast: Real Trading ResultsIn this weekly video: 00:28 – Coaching sessions in the US 00:53 – Amazing trading results 01:36 – Client from the UK makes 6.5% in 20 days 02:12 – What makes the results so good? 02:46 – Great to meet clients in person as to see how FX is changing their lives 03:45 – Get to Washington DC next week 04:18 – Join my online video course if you’re unable to join us live next weekI want to share with you some results that clients have been making on live accounts in real time in the Forex market. Let's get into that and more right now.Hey traders. Andrew Mitchem here. The Forex Trading Coach. Video and podcast number 227 coming from Raleigh in North Carolina in America.Coaching sessions in the USNow just yesterday I held a free intro session for people looking at jumping into Forex Trading and tonight we're doing exactly the same thing in Raleigh and then at the weekend we're holding some live events here, live training events and then moving onto Washington D.C. next week, so that's what we're up to in America.Amazing trading resultsBut what I want to talk about in this video and podcast is some of the amazing results that clients are achieving. Now I've just been holding a webinar in the US session with Paul Tillman who's a client of mine who lives here in Raleigh and the results are just amazing. We had a guy Javier, who a few weeks ago I mentioned on the videos and podcasts. I met Javier just yesterday. He lives here. He made 18% in the last nine weeks on live account. Paul himself, he's made 4% so far just this week. I‘m up 2.5% and I've been here just trading daily charts. I‘m up 2.5% on my live account so far in just being in America for a few days.Client from the UK makes 6.5% in 20 daysOn the webinar I had a client in England and he said that he's made 6.5% in the last 20 days on live accounts again and these are people who have taken the course. They've studied the course. They've attended the live events. They jump onto the forum site and it's just happening all the time. I met another client last night, a guy called Andrew Terkington who lives here in Raleigh. He's been a client for I think about three months and he had made something like I think he said about 8% in that time on a live account. It's happening time and time again.What makes the results so good?Why's it happening? Why does this happen to clients? Why it's such a great success rate? Well, many reasons. One I'm a real trader. I'm here in America and I'm trading in the afternoon time now. 5:00 p.m. eastern standard time is when I‘m posting my daily charts, so I'm posting that in real time for people to follow. We're holding the live webinars. We've got the live forum site. We've got live chat for clients to talk to each other. We've got software. All these things are basically to ensure that clients have a really high success rate of being successful.Great to meet clients in person as to see how FX is changing their livesIt's just really great to meet these people who have been clients, some for years such as like Paul has been a client for over two years and as you meet them in person and see where they live. See what they're doing and how being successful at the Forex market is actually changing their lives. It's just a great thing to see.Last night I went out for a meal with Javier, with Andrew and with Paul and it's great to be sat with four people together. The four of us sat there together all making money and actually Paul said "I wonder how many people can sit down at a table of four with other successful Forex traders?" Not only knowing people who trade Forex to start with but successful and profitable traders and all four of us are just examples of that, so it was very,

Weekly VideoPodcast: What happens when the going gets tough?In this weekly video: 00:29 – How do you react when trading gets tough 00:43 – I had a bad start to the week but ended up making +1.5% gain for the week 01:35 – I stuck to my plan and strategy 02:25 – Client makes +14.5% account gain in the last 30 days on a live account 03:22 – Trading your system not your account size 04:55 – Major news events so be careful 05:27 – My 8th Birthday Sale is live this week – register your interest using the link below 06:20 – A Global community of Forex traders – come and join usWhat do you do when the going gets tough with your trading? Do you give up, or do you keep going? Let's talk about that and more right now.Hi, Forex Traders, Andrew Mitchem here, The Forex Trading Coach. This is video and podcast number 224. I want to talk to about what do you do as a person and as a Forex trader when the going gets tough?How do you react when trading gets toughBecause it's very easy to just throw everything out and go, "It's not working." Blame the broker. Blame the system. Blame everything when things go tough.I had a bad start to the week but ended up making +1.5% gain for the weekI'll give you an example, just this week I've had quite an average week with my own personal trading through Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It was like "Oh" … I'm fine, I've been trading like 12 years, but I can see people go that stage, "This is not working" or "Do I start to tweak something." "Do I change my method." "Do I add something." "Do I give up." What do I do? It wasn't really bad it was just not a great start to the week.Then, yesterday being Thursday, I had a tremendous day. Great profitable trades and it's made up for all those losses. Got me back to breakeven for the week and now into profit. Right now as I'm talking to you, we're on Friday, and I'm over one and a half percent gained for the week. It's gone from being a really pretty bad week through to a very good week.I stuck to my plan and strategyThe reason it's done that is because I've stuck to my plan. I've stuck to my strategy. I haven't given up. I haven't thrown my toys out of the cot and gone "Oh, it doesn't work." The problem is that so many people especially the newer traders do that too quickly.You have to try and avoid doing that. You've got to control your emotions. Sure no one likes to have losing trades and losing periods of time, but everybody does. You need to be able to accept that and take it and continue because when you‘ve have good periods, as I did yesterday. Yes it's nice to celebrate that and go "Oh wow, didn't I do well." But it's also about not getting that go to your head either and then doing stupid things on the next few days which go and blow all the good work. It's really important to have that balance.Client makes +14.5% account gain in the last 30 days on a live accountAnother example is a client of mine called Xavier who lives over in America. He posted a message on my forum site for clients, and he said, "Over the last 30 days, he's taken 120 trades in total." Which is quite a number of trades but he is a very active Forex Trader. 89 of those trades have lost, and 31 of those trades have been profitable. You could look at that and go "That's not particularly high ratio." A lot of people would say with those 89 losses they might have got fed up or stopped trading. But Xavier has said his up 14 and a half percent account gain, low risk, per trade, but it made 14 and a half percent on the last 30 days of trading. So it's tremendous account gain. You think about that 14 and a half percent in 30 da...

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Podcast: Where You Should Place Your Stop-Loss, and WhyIn This Video:00:20 A Question on Stop Losses 01:29 Connecting your Stop Loss to Market Conditions 02:48 Standardise your Approach, not your Stop Loss 04:52 The Markets this WeekI want to talk about where you should place your stop-loss, and why. So let’s talk about that and some more great trading information right now!Hi Forex Traders, this is Andrew Mitchem here, the Forex Trading Coach and today is Friday, the 6th of March and I want to talk about where you should place your stop loss and why!A Question on Stop Losses The reason for that topic is that I’ve had an email here from Wackyl – I hope I pronounced that right – and the question is, “Would you please tell us about the placing of our stop-losses. I know that most people do it wrong. I’m not sure that the way I am doing it is right!”So that’s the question that’s come through and really, when you think about stop loss, what is it? Well, we know it protects the trade but when you think about it, a stop loss should be placed at a level that means that if the trade that you take goes wrong, goes against you, then it’s no longer valid. So, what that means is that you need to look at your charts, in terms of placing your stop loss.The problem is that most people just place a random, or not so much a random but a set level at random places. So, what I mean by that is people were to say, they’ve placed a stop-loss at 20-pips. Why 20-pips? Who knows! That’s what the Internet or someone tells them they need to place their stop loss at 20-pips or 50-pips or whatever it might be. It’s generally something ending in a zero and that’s the way that most people trade.Connecting your Stop Loss to Market Conditions Now, when you think about the logic behind that, what relevance does that have to the trade setup? What relevance does it have to the current price? What relevance does it have even to the time frame of the chart or even in the pair that you’re trading?You see, if you’re trading on the Euro/New Zealand (EUR/NZD), for example, the movement in that is massive in comparison with a pair such as the Euro/British Pound (EUR/GBP). So, if you took a 20-pip stop loss on the Euro/Pound, that’s a reasonably big stop-loss for that particular pair because it doesn’t move much. However, if you put a stop loss at 20-pips on the Euro/New Zealand (EUR/NZD), that’s like the spread plus a small movement and it’s wiped you out of the trade.So, you need to understand what time-frame chart you’re trading, what currency pair you’re trading; the reasons you’ve taken the trade; why did you take the trade? Look for things within placing your stop loss – things such as the price itself – what level is the price at? What’s the actual number of the price? When you’ve taken the trade, where do you want that stop loss to be? Not just 20-pips but I want to have it protected, let’s say if I’m buying a trade, I want it below the last swing-low or I want it below the pivot point or a previous support and resistance level or a round number or the candle-setup low – if you’re taking a buy trade.Standardise your Approach, not your Stop Loss So, think about your stop loss not in terms of “It’s always going to be 20-pips or it’s always going to be 50-pips”, but for this particular trade and this particular setup, on this pair and on this timeframe, it needs to be here! And, from there you then work out your position size!So, once you understand the pair that you’re trading, the stop loss amount – you can then calculate your position size or your lot size – and I’ve got a great free tool available on my site, if you don’t know how to do that. And what that allows you to do is to control your risk. So, every trade has an equal risk on it – so,

Podcast:In this video: 00:37   Having a good trading plan in place 01:57   USD has been relatively strong all week 03:25   New e-book released this week 04:19   Get the free lot size calculator from my site In today’s video I wanted to tell you why reading the charts, the technical charts are so important to your trading success. Let me share more information with you right now.Have a good trading plan in place for 2014Hi again, its Andrew Mitchem here the Forex Trading Coach. Welcome back to the first video and podcast for 2014. I hope you had a fantastic Christmas and New Year’s break. Now that the markets are back into action it’s just a great time to get back into your trading again. I want to talk about technical trading shortly, but first of all now we are into the New Year and I also want to just talk about making sure that you have a good trading plan in place to start a New Year afresh. So what I mean by that is make sure you understand, number one your strategy but make sure you have a plan of when you are going to trade. What days of the week, what times of the day, what currency pairs, what types of set ups, where your profits are, where your stops are and so have a realistic goal in place and something you can focus on that is going to aid your trading heading into this year. What you don’t want to do is to get to that mid-year and then suddenly find that you are sort of randomly taking trades here and there without any real plan in place so make sure you do that right from the beginning of the year.USD strength this weekI also want to talk about technical trading. On Friday last week we had very bad employment data of the US. The non-farm of payrolls were really bad but then heading into this week, and today being Friday so a week later, on most of the pairs what we have seen is the US actually strengthen. So it goes to show why you need to be looking at your charts. Yes it’s great to have a fundamental view in some respects but it does become an opinion whereas the charts tell you what is actually happening right now what in the market. You see so the non-farm payrolls were bad the US has being relatively strong all week. I’ve been calling weak Australian dollar trades on Wednesday, Thursday and today, Friday and so a day before the employment data of Australia I was already calling short positions so Wednesday I was calling short positions and Thursday before the news came out or well before the news came out I was also calling short positions and the Australian unemployment figures came out really badly as well and so the Australian dollar continued to crash about a 300 pip drop from its peak but having that technical knowledge a day and a half prior to the news I was already calling looking for short positions on the Aussie dollar. In the end that came through also in the technical, the technical came through and fundamentals followed it but technical show well in advance what the outcome of the Australian employment data was likely to be. We’ve also seen the New Zealand dollar peak at around the 0.84 level so its hit the 0.84 resistance level a touch over but it stalled at that level and currently it’s been falling and I’ve been calling short positions on the New Zealand against the US for the last couple of days and right behind me here its continuing to fall. So be really mindful there of keeping a good eye on what is happening on the charts technically.My new E-Book has been releasedAnother thing I want to mention is my new e-book that’s been released. It’s been released this week and I’m releasing one chapter at a time so one chapter per week. The book is called “From Dairy Farmer to Forex Trader” and it’s my story about my For...

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Podcast:In this video:00:30 Don't trade around holidays01:24 The Live Trading Room Webinar Results02:42 Watching the Yen03:35 Do you really want to work till you die?Hi! Another fantastic week of trades! So let’s get into it.Hi, Andrew Mitchem here, the Forex Trading Coach. And as I mentioned, I had a really good week of trades. Cautious Earlier in the WeekI didn’t trade Monday because of the Holiday and Tuesday because I needed to see where the market was going as it started the new week. But Wednesday, I made just over a one percent profit, and yesterday, Thursday, I made a half a percent gain on my account. Now those were all on four hour chart trades and risking only one eighth of one percent per trade, so it’s0.125% risk per trade, really small amounts. Keeping Easter in Mind…Now I tried a slightly less risk per trade this week because of the shorter week after Easter, but still up until today up +1.5% so really pleased with that. What happened on the Live Trading Room Webinar?And yesterday I held a live two hour training room webinar, where we trade live, and it’s for my clients, and we trade live on a real live account in front of everybody to see. And we took three trades live during that two hour session and two of them were on the one hour charts and one was on the four hour charts. We also had a few traders who were on live also that had some trades open and they all ended up closing in profit while we were on the webinar live, so it’s always really good to see that. Now, these webinars are a fantastic place to learn. Because we’re training live in real time, there’s nothing hidden, there’s no trickery. It’s all live from the right hand side of the chart trading in real time. And, that’s why my clients benefit so much from attending those webinars. Of course, the market when it’s quiet, we have questions and answers, and I also spend quite a bit of time looking at trades that I'd taken on Wednesday and Thursday on the four hour charts. And, that’s where I had that one and a half percent profit from. Now, today it’s Friday. Non-farm payrolls get announced at 8:30am EST New York Friday, so I’m always cautious around that time. Look to close out your shorter time-frame chart, so anything really from about a four hour chart or an hour chart and below. Possibly daily charts, weekly charts, those trades that have bigger stop losses. You could look at taking them through that Non Farm Payroll time, but just be careful, if they are in fairly good profit I’d be tempted to close them out before the announcement because really it’s sort of -you’re a bit uncertain when that announcement comes out you could get large spreads and big spikes in one direction or another, so it’s safer to be out of the trades before that announcement. Strength in the Euro this weekElsewhere we’ve seen a lot of strength over the last day or so in the Euro, and quite surprising really but the Euro has sort of pulled back and we’ve had some weakness in the US and a lot of weakness in the Japanese Yen especially yesterday with the Bank of Japan announcement. For example, the GBP/JPY went up around six hundred and thirty pips I think it was yesterday, just massive, massive increases and so huge weakness in the Japanese Yen.Watching the Yen…So, what I’ve been doing that if I was looking at trades on the Yen, I obviously be preferring to take long trades against the yen, so yen weakness, but what I’d like to do is see first of all the pullback, so for instance the EUR/JPY, CAD/JPY, whatever it is you’re trading against the yen, look obviously for the good, strong bullish candle patterns, but first of all wait to see a pullback or retracement and then a opportunity to go long again. That would be my best advice for trading those Japanese yen pairs right no...

Episode 63 Ironman Talkwww.ironmantalk.com This weeks newsResults for: Austria 70.3, Switzerland 70.3, Hawaii 70.3, Bala HIM, Weymouth HIM.The weekends races: Scloss IM distance tri, Eagelman 70.3, One o One. John Blazeman Dies.Macca seems to be doing a lot of racing early season, like the big 4 used to. Hot topic Get out the popcorn and then tell us what the best tri or endurance sport movies are. Let us know when you can get them from.  If you want to add a comment click here: add comment then open the discussion. Age grouper of the weekI listen to your show every week and look forward to hearing about "all things Ironman"I would like to nominate an age grouper of the week. His name is Mark VanAkkeren. He is 27.Yesterday at Honu 70.3, he won the swim with a 24:09 and kept pace with the pros on the bike with a 2:15 bike split. He ended up going a 4:16, and won his age group by 16 minutes or so. He was the second amateur finisher. I know for sure that before the race he was drinking some coffee from "Coffees of Hawaii"I can't think of a better guy to receive this distinction. Maybe you can talk him into coming to epic camp this January.Cheers guys,RobWebsite of the WeekKat Walbert sent us through this weeks website. The website is: triathlontube.com Here’s what they say the website is about: Triathlontube.com collects videos from around the web about triathlon (with a particular focus on Ironman) and related sports, with the goal of providing inspiration, information and entertainment to athletes and spectators around the world. It launched only on May 25th, so please bear with me as I build up the library! And please send advice, feedback, submissions to triathlontube at gmail dot com. Cheers, James.I love this site because I get a mention on it! Thanks Kat. Coach’s CornerJohn and I cover how to get sponsorship as an athlete. We broke it down into six different sections: 1. Who to approach?2. How to approach them? 3. What can you offer?4. What you proposal should contain?5. What to ask for? 6. Maintaining the relationship. John’s written up a piece on this. It will be up when he gets his new website up.  This weeks websites.Austria, Switzerland, Hawaii 70.3: Ironman.comBala HIM: ukresults.netWeymouth: conceptsport.co.ukOne Iron 226: ultra-triathlon.comScloss IM Distance: schloss.deOne 0 One: trioneoone.comQuestions and Answers.We had a few questions. Iron Rust, Ironmen Don’t, Train Hard, Train Smart: Kia Kaha

Continuing with the Final Cut module, for the second weekI was looking for some new production video and audio podcasts on iTunes and was reading the comments when I got curious about this podcast's page. I checked it out and was surprised that there was a comment. The writer was very generous and encouraging and indicated that while he hoped one day he would be able to do some filmmaking, this podcast gave him a look inside the process of learning filmmaking. Just one comment, but I was both humbled and gratified. It doesn't take a lot of encouragement to lift your spirits.I haven't done much since I began to promote the podcast and I know of several things I could do. Frankly getting an episode out each week is often a struggle in time and effort. I have yet to check my stats on Libsyn, my hosting site, to see what, if any number of downloads there have been. Occasionally I check the blogs to see if there are any comments and even rarely do I check my email. I think that's the least I could do. Already I'm making myself busy. I'll do better, I promise.This definitely points out my main goal though, which is to create a journal of my school experience, regardless of anyone else's participation. I don't mean I don't give a damn if no one listens to this podcast, or sends me comments and emails. I've already said how good an experience that is. I mean that my primary motivation, apart from any other consideration, is to create the podcast consistently through the end of my program at CDIA and in the process incorporate the best production values that I can. I don't know how much time I could devote to developing a community, no matter how small, of people interested in talking about my experiences in school, or theirs for that matter, unless it were to happen. I do know that I can learn a lot from creating this podcast and using it to reflect on what I discover each week at school. I'm just as glad that other people can do the same.More stuff about Final Cut Pro editing strategies. Placing shortcuts to menu commands using the Button Bars in the top of every window pane, Timeline, Browser, Viewer etc. Option-J brings up the Button command lists, Option-H brings up the virtual keyboard that displays all the command key combinations. Rendering, which applies a special effect to a selected clip and then writes a file that stores that effect, can be a big time saver, and at the same time a disk hog. You'll need to remove these files from time to time. The wise thing to do is to delete them within Final Cut Pro, as opposed to deleting them from the Finder, otherwise you could get headaches from persistent alerts that media files are missing. Use Command-R to generate a render.By the way, I'll always refer to the Apple Command key as the Command key, not the Apple key as I hear it often referred to in class and by other students. Maybe it's just old school, but I can't think of it as anything else.As far as transitions are concerned, there are four which are recommended for their consistently effective impact:A Straight Cutdissolve Fade to blackDip to Color Finally I discuss a variety of export options, depending on the medium you're sending you film to. Most importantly, from an archival standpoint, send your film to tape (DV tape on your camcorder). Also I mention exporting using Current Settings, Flash for web and Audio to OMF.Thursday night was the Practicum showing. Student projects that created products in their media for local non profit organizations under the direction of a professional filmmaker. Great professional looking work.Finally I mention a recent episode of This Week in Media, show # 53, Learning to Learn. TWIM is produced by Pixecorps.tv. I listen to this podcast weekly, very new media oriented with an emphasis on filmmaking issues. This one is about learning strategies for professionals that help you keep current.Leave a comment or send me an email.