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Send us a textLove is in the air as I talk with the amazing Michele Dunaway, an award-winning, contemporary romance author. Michele Dunaway is a best selling author of 30+ contemporary romance novels, with over 1.7 million books sold globallyMichele always dreamed of writing, and she sold her first romance novel after an editor appointment at the Romance Writers of American (RWA) national convention.Describing herself as a woman who does way too much and never wants to stop, Michele Dunaway writes about love and second chances in small towns that have cookie stores and wineries.Michele recently retired from an award-winning high school English and journalism teaching career. She's a proud mother of two grown daughters. As an avid pet lover, Michele shares her home with far too many rescued cats, who of course completely rule the roost. (You can see those cats on Instagram using #dunawaycats)Michele is represented by Jill Marsal of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency, LLC. Michele's also a former 3. 5 year board member of Novelists, Inc.; a past president and former newsletter editor of Missouri Romance Writers of America; and a past president and former newsletter editor of PASIC. Michele currently serves as the president of the League of Romance Writers, the former West Houston chapter of RWA.Learn more about Michele, below.https://micheledunaway.com/ Visit the Self-Care Institute at https://www.selfcareinstitute.com/ Support the showVisit www.creativepeacemeal.com to leave a review, fan voicemail, and more!Insta @creative_peacemeal_podcastFB @creativepeacemealpodBonfire https://www.bonfire.com/store/creative-peacemeal/Redbubble CPPodcast.redbubble.comCreative Peacemeal READING list here Donate to AhHa!Broadway here! Donate to New Normal Rep here! Interested in the Self-Care Institute with Dr. Ami Kunimura? Click here Interested in Corrie Legge's content planner? Click here to order!
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IANR 2505 020125 Line Up 4-6pm INTERVIEWS (Mary John & Kapil Sharma guest host for Sanchali Basu) Here's the guest line-up for Sat, Feb 1, 2025 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio, a production of Indo American News (www.IndoAmerican-News.com). We are on 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app. By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker. We have 5 years of Podcasts and have had thousands of hits. TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU'LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES. 4:20 pm The Trump administration wasted no time in issuing Executive Orders to curtail illegal immigration, as newly appointed Border Czar Tom Homan ordered deportations to begin. Meanwhile, Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, the former architect of the family separation policy, has sued a non-profit Catholic organization for giving shelter to migrants. These tactics are instilling fear among the migrant communities in cities. Zenobia Lai, the Executive Director of Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative, joins us to talk about the changing immigration landscape. 4:50 pm In this fast moving world, it's often hard to separate your priorities and stay focused on things that are more important to a happy existence. Often we need guidance to show us how to handle the stress of daily living. One such resource is the Universal Door Meditation Center in West Houston at Highway 6 and West Belfort Blvd., where Awakened Zen Master Thich Dieu Thien offers guidance in a serene surrounding. She joins us today, along with three other nuns, to explain the process of clearing out the noise from pure thoughts. 5:20 pm Kapil Sharma recently came back from a two week visit to India I've traveled all around New Delhi tackling the traffic, bureaucracy, and banking but also enjoying the finer points of the city including it's terrific Punjabi food. He gives us a rundown of how the city has changed - like due to the widespread use of the Metro rail system - which will be a treat for those of us who haven't been back in awhile. Also stay tuned in for news roundup, views, sports and movie reviews. TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-NEWS or 6397 or at indoamericannews@yahoo.com Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is available all across town at grocery stores. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 90,000+ hits to track all current stories. And remember to visit our digital archives from over 17 years. Plus, our entire 44 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.
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We all know the importance of a strong immune system, but what if the key to unlocking your immune confidence lies within your gut? That's right, the health of your digestive system plays a crucial role in bolstering your immune defenses. In this episode, Dr. Kara Wada welcomes the brilliant Dr. Vivian Asamoah, a board-certified gastroenterologist specializing in functional medicine, to discuss the powerful connection between the gut and the immune system. Together, they talk about the science behind the gut-immune axis, explore common signs of an unhealthy gut, and discuss strategies for supporting gut health and overall well-being. Dr. Asamoah shares valuable insights from her practice, including a fascinating success story about a patient who overcame debilitating digestive issues through targeted treatment of a yeast overgrowth. Listen now and join us as we explore the fascinating world of gut health and its profound impact on our immune system! EPISODE IN A GLANCE-Gut Health Secrets for a Stronger Immune System-Dr. Asamoah's Journey from Conventional Medicine to Functional Medicine-The Gut-Immune System Connection Explained-Common Signs of an Unhealthy Gut-Navigating Food Sensitivities and Restrictive Diets-Understanding Food Intolerances and Elimination Diets-Exploring Additional Gut Health Challenges like SIBO, LIBO, and Yeast Overgrowth-The Importance of Integrating Traditional Medicine into Modern Healthcare-A Successful Case Study Involving a Patient with Severe Food Sensitivity and Candida Overgrowth-Building Immune Confidence through Diet, Lifestyle, and Stress Management-How to Connect with Dr. Asamoah on Social Media ABOUT DR VIVIAN ASAMOAH Dr. Vivian Asamoah is a board-certified gastroenterologist, hepatologist, and nutritionist with a passion for functional medicine. She completed her fellowship at Johns Hopkins University Hospital and is CEO of Houston Gastro Institute, where she has served the West Houston community for over a decade. Dr. Asamoah is a renowned speaker, educator, and patient advocate, sharing her expertise on the impact of diet and lifestyle on gut health through her popular "Natural Gut Relief" Facebook community and YouTube channel. She is also the host of the weekly Facebook show "Back to Basics," featuring prominent guest interviews. Dr. Asamoah's commitment to personalized, integrated care is evident in her practice, which focuses on addressing the root causes of digestive issues through a combination of conventional and functional medicine approaches. She is actively involved in clinical trials exploring cutting-edge therapies for gastrointestinal conditions. CONNECT WITH DR VIVIAN ASAMOAHLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivian-asamoah-md-6258b694/ Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/drvivianasamoah/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/drvivianasamoah YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbmhQMF6VJyKrmCxFJyKIHA ABOUT DR KARA WADAQuadruple board-certified pediatric and adult allergy immunology & lifestyle medicine physician, Sjogren's patient and life coach shares her recipe for success combining anti-inflammatory lifestyle, trusting therapeutic relationships, modern medicine & our minds to harness our body's ability to heal. CONNECT WITH DR WADAWebsite → https://www.drkarawada.com/ LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/karawadamd/ Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/immuneconfident/ Podcast Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/becomingimmuneconfident/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/KaraWadaMD Twitter → https://twitter.com/CrunchyAllergy TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@immuneconfidentmd SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER → https://www.drkarawada.com/newsletter Get Dr. Kara's weekly dose of a naturally-minded and scientifically-grounded approach to immune system health.
Growing up he experienced in his home both patriarchal and matriarchal rule. His new mentor, Pastor Todd guided him to a better way. In the church, the subject of deacon was key to opening up his understanding. What was life like in a Hispanic culture in West Houston churches? This is Part One of the Osbaldo Valdes Story on The Eden Podcast. Fleeing a church split he was taken under the wing of Pastor Todd in a new church. The Tru316 Foundation (www.Tru316.com) is the home of The Eden Podcast with Bruce C. E. Fleming where we “true” the verse of Genesis 3:16. The Tru316 Message is that “God didn't curse Eve (or Adam) or limit woman in any way.” Once Genesis 3:16 is made clear the other passages on women and men become clear too. You are encouraged to access the episodes of Seasons 1-11 of The Eden Podcast for teaching on the seven key passages on women and men. Are you a reader? We invite you to get from Amazon the four books by Bruce C. E. Fleming in The Eden Book Series (Tru316.com/trubooks). Would you like to support the work of the Tru316 Foundation? You can become a Tru Partner here: www.Tru316.com/partner
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Do you ever take time to look back and marvel how God has provided for you-- Listen to this message on the 20th anniversary of West Houston Bible Church and hear about God's constant provision. Find out three values or guiding principles that have steered this church, all showing God's care for His people. See the sufficiency of God's revealed Word, His provision for our salvation, and the promises for our grace growth to spiritual maturity. Realize that God has a mission for each believer and assures that you have what you need to fulfill that mission.
Do you ever take time to look back and marvel how God has provided for you-- Listen to this message on the 20th anniversary of West Houston Bible Church and hear about God's constant provision. Find out three values or guiding principles that have steered this church, all showing God's care for His people. See the sufficiency of God's revealed Word, His provision for our salvation, and the promises for our grace growth to spiritual maturity. Realize that God has a mission for each believer and assures that you have what you need to fulfill that mission.
Do you ever take time to look back and marvel how God has provided for you? Listen to this message on the 20th anniversary of West Houston Bible Church and hear about God's constant provision. Find out three values or guiding principles that have steered this church, all showing God's care for His people. See the sufficiency of God's revealed Word, His provision for our salvation, and the promises for our grace growth to spiritual maturity. Realize that God has a mission for each believer and assures that you have what you need to fulfill that mission.
Do you ever take time to look back and marvel how God has provided for you? Listen to this message on the 20th anniversary of West Houston Bible Church and hear about God's constant provision. Find out three values or guiding principles that have steered this church, all showing God's care for His people. See the sufficiency of God's revealed Word, His provision for our salvation, and the promises for our grace growth to spiritual maturity. Realize that God has a mission for each believer and assures that you have what you need to fulfill that mission.
Today on the podcast, Eric is joined by Kyle Noonan of Free Range Concepts. The pair dive into how Kyle got into the hospitality business, everything that went into starting up Free Range Concepts, creating The Rustic, working with Pat Green, developing The General Public, how they expanded their portfolio in Houston, Kyle's observations of the different areas in the city, how the different concepts fit those areas, whether we could see either MUTTS or Joe Leo in Houston, potentially growing some of their brands outside of Texas, what Kyle is most excited about in Houston currently, why he prefers reliable over new nowadays, and much more! Follow Eric on Instagram/Threads @ericsandler. You can also reach Eric by emailing him at eric@culturemap.com. Check out some of his latest articles at Culturemap.com: Retro Montrose Pizzeria Scores Coveted Spot on Esquire's Best New Restaurants in America List Inside the New La Griglia: Murals are out, Tableside Touches are in, and More Cozy Neighborhood Restaurant from Common Bond Team Opens Doors on Heights' 11th Street Beloved Mexican Bakery Opens in West Houston with 100 Different Fresh Items Daily Dallas Tex-Mex Staple Reveals Opening Date for Largest Locale to Date in River Oaks Promising, Star-Staffed River Oaks Upscale Mediterranean Restaurant Shutters - with Plans to Reopen
Today on the show Eric is joined by Deets Hoffman of Leaf & Grain. Deets speaks with Eric about his high school sandwich shack dreams, his early culinary career, underestimating the day to day prep of a restaurant, the idea behind Leaf & Grain, what the first year taught him, how things work at Leaf & Grain, when it became clear that they could expand to more locations, coming up with the core menu items, adding dinner as an option for diners in West U., making the concept more family friendly, why the Galleria/Tanglewood area was the right spot for their 4th location, working with Gin Design Group, how the chef collabs came about, and taking things one salad at a time. Follow Eric on Instagram/Threads @ericsandler. You can also reach Eric by emailing him at eric@culturemap.com. Check out some of his latest articles at Culturemap.com: Beloved Mexican Bakery Opens in West Houston with 100 Different Fresh Items Daily Dallas Tex-Mex Staple Reveals Opening Date for Largest Locale to Date in River Oaks Promising, Star-Staffed River Oaks Upscale Mediterranean Restaurant Shutters - with Plans to Reopen Pass & Provisions Star Chef Reunites with Local Foods Owner to Helm Culinary Operations Rising Star Chef Takes His Talents to Hotly Anticipated New River Oaks Restaurant Underbelly's Beefy Burger Restaurant and New Volleyball Themed Bar Open in Spring Branch
On this Salcedo Storm Podcast: John Perez currently sits on the Spring Branch ISD Board of Trustees. He and his wife, Colette, own and run a process safety engineering company in the Energy Corridor located in West Houston. He is running against a freshman incumbent to restore True Texas Red to the House for HD133.
Another fantastic weekend thanks to some awesome programs at the BOA Dallas and BOA West Houston Regionals. Help me put a cherry on these great contests, admire how resilient the Dallas programs are, and how the Houston programs have used their best sections to score historic results. 0:00 Good Morning Again 0:57 Cherry On BOA Dallas 5:13 Cherry On BOA West Houston
Two for one going on for the Nerd-In! Let's take a look at both the BOA Dallas and BOA West Houston Regionals and discuss why the depth at these events will make Finals exclusive real estate. 0:00 Good Morning Again 1:55 BOA Dallas Nerd-In 9:52 BOA West Houston Nerd-In
Travis McShane of Ostia makes his What's Eric Eating podcast debut this week. Travis speaks Eric about his journey that took him from Kingwood all the way to working in New York for Jonathan Waxman. Plus Travis talks about the decision to come back to Houston, why go with an Italian concept when he came back, how Ostia has evolved over the past 3 years, being part of Houston Restaurant Weeks for the first time, why he probably won't do another location of Ostia, and much more! Follow Eric on Instagram @ericsandler, and on Twitter X @esandler. You can also reach Eric by emailing him at eric@culturemap.com. Check out some of his latest articles at Culturemap.com: Bobby Heugel Swoops in to Rescue Suddenly Shuttered Montrose Dive Bar 6 Cool New Asian Restaurants Wow Diners at West Houston's Hottest Shopping Destination Eclectic Museum District Wine Bar and Restaurant Set to Shutter and Relocate to New Home Houston's 10 Crunchiest, Gooiest, and Creamiest Potato Dishes Transcend Simple Sides Game-Changing Market and Restaurant Opens in Historic Eldorado Ballroom Serving Farm-to-Table Fare and Goods Promising Heights-Area Brewery Announces Last Call After 10-Month Run
Eric celebrated his 10 year anniversary with CultureMap! Listen as Eric reflects a bit about this milestone with the Swanky Maven herself Felice Sloan. The pair then discuss some of the latest headlines from the Houston restaurant and bar scene including, the 6 new tenants announced for the West on West shopping center in West Houston, City Cellars closing but soon reopening in a new location, and a look at Eric's top 10 potato dishes. In the Restaurants of the Week portion, Rado Market and Rockhouse Southern Kitchen are featured. Follow Eric on Instagram @ericsandler, and on Twitter X @esandler. You can also reach Eric by emailing him at eric@culturemap.com. Check out some of his latest articles at Culturemap.com: 6 Cool New Asian Restaurants Wow Diners at West Houston's Hottest Shopping Destination Eclectic Museum District Wine Bar and Restaurant Set to Shutter and Relocate to New Home Houston's 10 Crunchiest, Gooiest, and Creamiest Potato Dishes Transcend Simple Sides Game-Changing Market and Restaurant Opens in Historic Eldorado Ballroom Serving Farm-to-Table Fare and Goods Promising Heights-Area Brewery Announces Last Call After 10-Month Run Australian-Inspired, NYC-Based Coffee Shop Brews Up Opening Date for New Woodlands Location
Eric sits down with Gin Braverman to catch up on the last few years of her namesake hospitality interior design studio, Gin Design Group. Braverman shares some of her recent favorite projects such as Jūn, Lymbar, and La Colombe d'Or. They also discuss the thought process behind her designs, breaking into the hotel space, possible expansion to the west coast, and a sneak peek at projects in the pipeline. Follow Eric on Instagram @ericsandler, and on Twitter @esandler. You can also reach Eric by emailing him at eric@culturemap.com. Check out some of his latest articles at Culturemap.com: Beard Award-Winning East End Thai Restaurant Makes Big Move to Rising Second Ward Development Promising Heights-Area Brewery Announces Last Call After 10-Month Run Australian-Inspired, NYC-Based Coffee Shop Brews Up Opening Date for New Woodlands Location 6 Cool New Asian Restaurants Wow Diners at West Houston's Hottest Shopping Destination Prominent Woodlands Restaurant Group Takes Novel Approach with Expansive New River Oaks Eatery Talented Houston Chef Opens First Bakery Serving Exquisite, Freshly Baked Croissants and Pastries in Midtown
Today on the podcast Eric is joined by Mary Clarkson, the pair discuss the latest headlines from the Houston restaurant and bar scene including Street to Kitchen moving to a new development in the Second Ward called The Plant, that same development getting a new concept called Neighbors Pizza Bar from chef Angelo Emiliani, Fielding's Culinary Group heading to the River Oaks area to open their third restaurant, and Omar Pereney opening a retail location for Love Croissants. In the Restaurants of the Week portion, Pastore is featured. Follow Eric on Instagram @ericsandler, and on Twitter @esandler. You can also reach Eric by emailing him at eric@culturemap.com. Check out some of his latest articles at Culturemap.com: Beard Award-Winning East End Thai Restaurant Makes Big Move to Rising Second Ward Development Prominent Woodlands Restaurant Group Takes Novel Approach with Expansive New River Oaks Eatery Talented Houston Chef Opens First Bakery Serving Exquisite, Freshly Baked Croissants and Pastries in Midtown Tasteful New Upper Kirby Crepe and Coffee Shop in Familiar Dive Bar Space Celebrates Sweet Grand Opening 6 Cool New Asian Restaurants Wow Diners at West Houston's Hottest Shopping Destination Houston Power Publicist Rises as New Leader of Chris Shepherd's Southern Smoke Foundation
Thanks for tuning in for the unSeminary podcast. Today we're talking with Tim Hill, executive pastor at Bear Creek Church, located at the crossroads of West Houston, Katy and Cypress, Texas. Every zip code in America is more diverse today than it was ten years ago. And it will be even more diverse ten years […]
March is colon cancer awareness month. Dr. V joins us to discuss colon cancer screening, fiber, constipation, the pelvic floor & more. Dr. Vivian Asamoah is Board-certified in Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition. She completed her fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Post fellowship, she earned her certification in Functional Medicine through The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM.) She is CEO of Houston Gastro Institute, a private practice serving the West Houston community in Houston-Texas, for over a decade. She is an international speaker, educator, and patient advocate. Dr. V as she is affectionately called by her patients, is well-known for her private Facebook community and Youtube channel "Natural Gut Relief" where shares educational information on the impact of diet and lifestyle on the gut. She hosts the live weekly show, "Back to Basics" on Facebook with prominent guest interviews. . . . **This is not medical advice, just medical education. Please ask your doctor medical questions as they pertain to your specific situation. Educational purposes only.** . . . Dr. Carolyn Moyers, DO is a board certified OBGYN and Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine physician, and founder of Sky Women's Health, a boutique practice in Fort Worth, Texas. Welcome to the Sky Women community where we are all stronger together. COME SAY HI!!! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skywomenshealth https://www.instagram.com/thepregnancypaindoc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skywomenshealth Email: hello@skywomenshealth.com Sky Women's Health: Https://www.skywomenshealth.com Address: 1125 S Henderson St, Fort Worth, TX 76104 To become a patient: email hello@skywomenshealth.com or call 817-915-9803. WATCH SKY WOMEN PODCAST here: https://youtu.be/7rzWo-Tq_7w Listen to the SKY WOMEN PODCAST here: ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sky-women/id1541657642 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/79VnnWYtGJwlB7NrjBck7o?si=qWXpiBtPSS6OVOt0ki8EiQ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/skywomen/message
TheoBros Podcast Episode 36. Rudy Cerda is a business analyst for a financial services company. He's a member of Bridgepoint Bible Church in West Houston and is married with 3 kids. You can find him on Twitter as @RudyCerda. Brought to you by Squirrelly Joe's Coffee. Squirrelly Joe's guarantees that your order will be freshly roasted every time and taste amazing! TheoBros get 25% percent off their first order when they use the promo code “theobro” at checkout at squirrellyjoes.com.
TheoBros Podcast Episode 36. Rudy Cerda is a business analyst for a financial services company. He's a member of Bridgepoint Bible Church in West Houston and is married with 3 kids. You can find him on Twitter as @RudyCerda. Brought to you by Squirrelly Joe's Coffee. Squirrelly Joe's guarantees that your order will be freshly roasted every time and taste amazing! TheoBros get 25% percent off their first order when they use the promo code “theobro” at checkout at squirrellyjoes.com.
From the installation service of Dr. Robert L. Dean, Jr. as pastor of West Houston Bible Church, December 10, 2004.
From the installation service of Dr. Robert L. Dean, Jr. as pastor of West Houston Bible Church, December 10, 2004.
Episode Summary: Today, we sit down with Carl Spinnler, the former owner of BluTex, a West Houston-based residential swimming pool maintenance and repair company based in West Houston established in 2012. Carl got his “start” in the industry when he got his first job as a lifeguard at the age of 15, after which he began doing winter maintenance for local commercial pools. A friend eventually reached out to Carl to clean his pool. A decade later, that friend remained a customer of Carl's—along with the many others he has built up over the years as the head of BluTex. Listen in as Carl looks back on his journey from pool cleaner to owner of his own LLC, all the way to his decision to let go of the company in order to begin the next phase of his career. He speaks in particular on his hiring strategy as BluTex began to see considerable growth, and how he was able to successfully exit the business. Here's a Glimpse of What You'll Learn: 01:36 - How Carl got in touch with Pool Chasers 06:07 - Carl's journey in the pool industry 14:27 - Why Carl decided to start his own business 18:31 - Making his first hire at 45 pools 22:27 - The story behind the BluTex name and logo 28:17 - Building the business infrastructure 37:52 - Why and how Carl exited his business 44:33 - Next steps after selling BluTex Sponsors: Leslie's Poolside Tech Connect with Guest: Website Instagram Connect with Pool Chasers: Website Instagram Facebook Facebook Group Twitter YouTube Patreon Key Quotes from Episode: It's a total game-changer if you can hire someone who can do a job better than you can in that position.
What a contest!!! Help me put a cherry on the BOA West Houston Regional Championships by going over results, the importance of showing out at Finals, and why communicating your program upstairs can pay off greatly at such a challenging contest!!!
Meyerland, built on former rice fields in southwest Houston, was one of Houston's earliest master-planned communities promising to bring suburban life relatively close to the city. But the neighborhood has been repeatedly ravaged by floods, with some of the worst damage occurring in Hurricane Harvey five years ago. Even though Meyerland shows us the repercussions of building in the floodplain and many communities throughout Houston are still recovering from Harvey, real estate developers continue to build in floodprone areas with nearly 1 in 8 houses built in the floodplain in Houston now. Development continues to blossom in West Houston throughout the floodplain in areas like Katy Prairie, but this time with newer, better building standards than what was required 50 years ago when Meyerland was constructed. But are the new standards enough to protect homeowners? Looped In hosts R.A. Schuetz and Marissa Luck sit down with Houston Chronicle's county reporter Jen Rice to discuss how Houston's development standards could potentially be putting property owners in flood-prone areas at risk. Read more about it: Houston keeps paving over rain-absorbent Katy prairie, even after devastating Harvey impacts How Harvey transformed resilient Meyerland from modest 1950s homes to raised mini-mansions Post Harvey, 1 in 8 homes permitted are in floodplains Harvey cost many their homes and their peace of mind. 5 years later, the damage lingers. After 3 inches of rain shut down a Katy community, residents want to know what went wrong Support the show: https://offers.houstonchronicle.com/?offerid=125&origin=newsroom&ipid=podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
H-Town Takeover Part II!!! Join me in the Nerd-In for the BOA West Houston Regional Championships. Let's take a look at the schedule, the recent success of many top programs here, and why certain programs could be extra motivated to throw down this Saturday at Legacy Stadium!!
What if I dont want to speak in tongues? What if I cant to speak in tongues? What if I dont believe in speaking in tongues, will I not be a productive Christian?All these thoughts will be explored in the word of God in this extensive in depth teaching. ---------------------All Nations International FellowshipCore Values:We believe God has made of one blood every nation of the world. So we are a multicultural fellowship who worships God with all our heart mind and soul when we gather.We aim to be a fellowship where people can experience a Living God. With an understanding that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, we expect to see healing, salvation, deliverance as Jesus the Christ is proclaimed. Our DNA is world missions, and at the heart of everything we do is our core mission to go to non Christian nations, mainly where the population is 90% or more heathen religion or communist and present the good news of Jesus Christ. It can be summed up as simple as this "you're either a missionary or a mission field". Our first goal its to lead our neighbors to Christ, disciple them till their family is reached, and then empower them to win others.Objective:Now based in West Houston, Texas our objective here is to add value to the body of Christ in 4 ways.1. Inspire local churches in regards to world missions , soul winning and discipleship.2. Establish a world headquarters in a gospel friendly geo political climate.3. Add value to local pastors through using the same power and principles that we're successful in China's underground Church.4. To flame the fire with the pentecostal message in each community through outreach campaigns with local churches. We welcome the Christian community of the Houston greater area to join us, and we respect all branches of biblical Christianity and strive to have the leading of the Holy Spirit and person of our Lord Jesus Christ as the center of all our meetings.Revival Meetings will run through out the year, contact us to join our event mailing list.MY STUFF✩ WEBSITE - http://HoustonRevivalChurch.com/✩ PODCAST: Living Proof with Bishop Castillo - https://anif.buzzsprout.com/✩ BLOG - http://HoustonRevivalChurch.com/BlogSOCIALS✩ Instagram - http://instagram.com/BishopJosephCastillo✩ Twitter - http://twitter.com/JoeyCastillo✩ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/HoustonRevivalChurchGIVING✩ Cash App - $AllNationsTulsa✩ Paypal - http://paypal.me/TheRiverChurchTulsa✩ Venmo - @The-River-Tulsa✩ Zelle- AnifContact@gmail.com Office: 1-918-259-9532Support the show
On this week's episode, Cory reaches out with to a fellow automotive journalist and content creator Sean Tajipour. Sean founded a little car club called West Houston Muscle back in 2009 and it has become quite the gathering over the years. Sean also runs Nerdtropolis which is a pop culture site and it is always awesome when those two worlds collide: pop culture and automotive. Be sure to go find Sean online through the links below. Facebook: @WestHoustonMuscle Instagram: @WestHoustonMuscle Web: westhoustonmuscle.com Web: nerd-propolis.com Sean on IG: @seantaj Subscribe to our YouTube Channel so you never miss a Car Review Be sure to join the discussion on any of our social media pages. Share your stories on any of the platforms listed below. Facebook: @GTGarageTalk Instagram: @GTGarageTalk TikTok: @GTGarageTalk Twitter: @GTGarageTalk Or send us an email at GTGarageTalk@gmail.com You can read more on our website: GTGarageTalk.com Support our Podcast GTGarageTalk.com/support Buy Garage Talk Merch! If you liked that episode and would like to hear more, head over to Patreon.com/GTGarageTalk and sign up on our 1LT Camaro tier and you will be granted access to TheAftermarket, extra content recorded after each new episode. You'll get to hear just a little more about what Cory and guests are like when making an episode of GT: Garage Talk. If that's not enough, browse through our many other tiers and see what perks come with each level. We appreciate you all, we thank you for listening #GTGarageTalk #AutomotivePodcast #WestHoustonMuscle #CarReviews --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gtgaragetalk/message
Is the Tithe a Church Gimmick for Money? Is it an OT Taxation System for Israel? Is tithing unbiblical? Is Tithing under the law? Do churches teach tithing for money? All these topics will be discussed with Bishop Castillo and Clive Pick from UK author of "Open Heaven"This is a teaching you must share with your Pastors so they can hear solid teaching that examines these questions. #CrefloDollar #Tithe #tithing ----------------------Houston International Revival ChurchCore Values:We believe God has made of one blood every nation of the world. So we are a multicultural fellowship who worships God with all our heart mind and soul when we gather. We aim to be a fellowship where people can experience a Living God. With an understanding that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, we expect to see healing, salvation, deliverance as Jesus the Christ is proclaimed. Our DNA is world missions, and at the heart of everything we do is our core mission to go to non Christian nations, mainly where the population is 90% or more heathen religion or communist and present the good news of Jesus Christ. It can be summed up as simple as this "you're either a missionary or a mission field". Our first goal its to lead our neighbors to Christ, disciple them till their family is reached, and then empower them to win others. Objective:Now based in West Houston, Texas our objective here is to add value to the body of Christ in 4 ways. 1. Inspire local churches in regards to world missions , soul winning and discipleship. 2. Establish a world headquarters in a gospel friendly geo political climate.3. Add value to local pastors through using the same power and principles that were successful in China's underground Church. 4. To flame the fire with the pentecostal message in each community through outreach campaigns with local churches. We welcome the Christian community of the greater Houston area to join us, and we respect all branches of biblical Christianity and strive to have the leading of the Holy Spirit and person of our Lord Jesus Christ as the center of all our meetings.Revival Meetings will run through out the year, contact us to join our event mailing list. MY STUFF✩ WEBSITE - http://HoustonRevivalChurch.com/✩ PODCAST: Living Proof with Bishop Castillo - https://anif.buzzsprout.com/✩ BLOG - http://HoustonRevivalChurch.com/BlogSOCIALS✩ Instagram - http://instagram.com/BishopJosephCastillo✩ Twitter - http://twitter.com/JoeyCastillo✩ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BishopJosephCastilloGIVING✩ Cash App - $AllNationsTulsa✩ Paypal - http://paypal.me/TheRiverChurchTulsa✩ Venmo - @The-River-Tulsa✩ Zelle- AnifContact@gmail.com Office: 1-918-259-9532Support the show
5th Day of Restoration Today we are going to take an exciting ride into the fifth day. 5 Is a number of grace, and we see Gods grace revealed to mankind on the 5th day.Step by step walk through the entire book of Genesis with Bishop Joseph Castillo of All Nations International Fellowship. This series is being broadcasted live throughout 2022 and can be found in the archives for sharing and study for free on our youtube channel /LivingProofTV. --------------------- Objective:Now based in West Houston, Texas our objective here is to add value to the body of Christ in 4 ways. 1. Inspire local churches in regards to world missions , soul winning and discipleship. Revival Meetings will run through out the year, contact us to join our event mailing list. MY STUFF✩ WEBSITE - http://AnifTulsa.com/✩ PODCAST: Living Proof with Bishop Castillo - https://anif.buzzsprout.com/✩ BLOG - http://AnifTulsa.com/BlogSOCIALS✩ Instagram - http://instagram.com/BishopJosephCast...✩ Twitter - http://twitter.com/JoeyCastillo✩ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BishopJoseph...GIVING✩ Cash App - $AllNationsTulsa✩ Paypal - http://paypal.me/TheRiverChurchTulsa✩ Venmo - @The-River-Tulsa✩ Zelle- AnifContact@gmail.com Office: 1-918-259-9532Support the show
This week's episode features an interview with Brandon Harrison and Viking Dietrich, co-directors of Griswold Home Care of West Houston, and Steve Turner, the Chief Operating Officer of Griswold Home Care. Brandon and Viking discuss what they looked for when deciding on a franchise opportunity, and Steve explains how the franchisor supports you through the opening process.Learn more about Griswold Home Care online: https://www.griswoldhomecare.com/franchising/
House Talk Radio with Host Wendy & Tony Gambone and Special Guest Brandon Harrison: Brandon Harrison is a Houston native and graduated from the University of Houston with a Business Administration Degree in Finance. He began his career in 2008 at Nextera Energy, where he worked for 4 years on a natural gas trading desk. During this time, Brandon earned experience in the natural gas market by scheduling and trading the commodity. In 2012, Brandon accepted a position as a natural gas scheduler with Dow Chemical. From there, he went on to occupy such roles as Business Development Manager, Asset Manager, Propane Trader, Natural Gas Trader and Power Trader. Brandon resigned from his role at Dow Chemical in March 2021 in order to help launch Griswold Home Care of West Houston. Griswold Home of West Houston is compassionate home care delivered with heart. Whether you or your loved one is in need of assistance with daily tasks such as meal preparation, running errands or help getting to or from a visit to the doctor, we can help. Whether you need just a few hours of companion care a day or you need 24 hour live-in care, Griswold Home Care of West Houston is there. We are a non-medical home care agency located in West Houston offering an affordable alternative to assisted living and nursing home facilities. Our family of warmhearted caregivers are experienced and trained to provide the care our clients need to remain in their home where they are most comfortable. We help those in need, stay in the place they love. Griswold Home Care of West Houston is a locally owned franchise backed by our national brand with a network of over 200 agencies across the United States with experience providing high quality, compassionate care for over 40 years. Give us a call to set-up an appointment for our free, comprehensive in-home care consultation where we will create a personalized care plan to meet your specific needs.
Seismique, in far west Houston, bills itself as both an “art museum” and an “intergalactic playground.” Inside a former Bed Bath & Beyond, more than 40 hallucinogenic, made-for-Instagram rooms house wildly different experiences born of everything from projectors and LEDs to crochet. The dizzying experience is less like a traditional art museum, and more like a concert, an escape room or an amusement park. Today we talk about it with art maven and City Cast contributor Olivia Flores Alvarez and video artist Joshuah Jest. Check out Seismique's website here! Also, make sure to follow our show on your favorite social media outlets, such as Facebook or Twitter! (Don't get shy, toss your opinion in there!) Finally, you should get in the Houston know - join the newsletter... here!
Matthew 5:14-15 (KJV) Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. [15] Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 2 Peter 3:10 (KJV) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 1 Timothy 4:1-6 (KJV) Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. [4] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: [5] For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. [6] If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine (So there must be bad doctrine) whereunto thou hast attained. 1 Timothy 1:3-10 (KJV) As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, [4] Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. [5] Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: [6] From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; [7] Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. [8] But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; [9] Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, [10] For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; Titus 1:9 (KJV) Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. Titus 2:1-2 (KJV) But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: [2] That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. Hebrews 13:9 (KJV) Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart is established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. Jude 1:1-25 (KJV) Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: [2] Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. [3] Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. [4] For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. [5] I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. [6] And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. [7] Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in l
Bishop Scott T. Lewis | The Pentecostals of West Houston 6689 Barker Cypress Rd Houston, TX 77084 Daniel 11:32 (KJV) And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. Isaiah 6:3 (KJV) And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. Hebrews 12:2 (KJV) Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Luke 12:32 (KJV) Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Jeremiah 12:5 (KJV) If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? Romans 8:32 (KJV) …how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? He said, “I will give you all things.” Psalm 2:8 (KJV) Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Colossians 3:1-2 (KJV) If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Matthew 7:11 (KJV) If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Daniel 11:32 (KJV) … but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
After the bodies of 22-year-old Cheryl Henry and 21-year-old Andy Atkinson were found, on August 23rd and 24th 1990 respectively, Houston Homicide Detective Billy Belk was called to the scene to begin the investigation into their murders. Alongside other homicide detectives, Belk scoured the city for leads – first questioning and taking blood samples from all Andy and Cheryl's known friends and patrons of the bars they frequented. Nothing turned up, even after examining robberies and sexual assaults that, like these Lover's Lane Murders, took place in West Houston. Though the initial investigation was painstaking and thorough, it brought with it nothing but dead ends. If you have any information about the Lover's Lane murders of Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson, please contact Houston area crime stoppers at 713-222-8477.Be sure to look for the podcast Mind Over Murder from Kristin Dilley and Bill Thomas, which you can also find on your preferred podcatcher or at mindovermurderpodcast.comYou can donate to law enforcement investigations that need funding or upload your DNA into a database used only for law enforcement investigations at DNAsolves.comIf you don't have DNA data from a consumer testing site, you can get a kit at connect.DNAsolves.comPlease consider donating to the Fort Worth Cold Case Support Group, a non-profit set up in hopes to fund the testing needed to give the families of Fort Worth murder victims justice. You can make an incredible impact on these folks' lives by donating. Please go to: https://haynow.appcapable.com/customerForm?paymentFormId=6169c6306671d56b5e215507&fbclid=IwAR2pnENlLwT7msIXDCF3Bot6fu0T4dLthEoMZOe4QFhDb8JClEv9KORAkv0You can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast......and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastThe Wilmington Morning Star, The Fayetteville Observer, The Houston Chronicle, KHOU 11, The Insight Network, The Transparency Project, The New York Times, The Charlotte News, EndTheBackLog.org, The October 2010 Citizens Against Homicide newsletter, and the book Survivors: The Forgotten Victims of Murder and Suspicious Deaths by Dennis Griffin were used as sources for this series. #JusticeForCherylandAndy #LoversLane #LoversLaneMurders #Houston #HoustonTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Homicide #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast
Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, who represents the 7th District of Texas, joins our podcast to discuss what the corrosion industry can expect from the newly signed U.S. infrastructure package. District 7 is where the longtime NACE International headquarters and current AMPP office complex is located in West Houston. Topics include motivations for the bill and why it got to the finish line in this Congress; highlights of the deal that pertain most to corrosion engineers and contractors; how a person or company can position themselves to earn work; how industry associations like AMPP can help; and much more.
Beth Duhon is, to borrow Tracy King's phrase, the K-5 "ambassador of joy" at Travis Elementary in Rosenberg, TX. This is her fifth year teaching in Lamar Consolidated ISD. Longer bio: Beth Duhon is, to borrow Tracy King's phrase, the K-5 “ambassador of joy” at Travis Elementary in Rosenberg, TX. This is her fifth year teaching in Lamar Consolidated ISD. She has received over $14,000 in classroom grants for a keyboard lab, iPads, and music manipulatives in addition to regularly receiving travel grants for music education conferences. In 2021, she presented “Self-Care for the Music Educator: Not Just a Buzzword” for TMEA and the LCISD elementary music teacher cohort. Previously, Ms. Duhon was a successful horn private lesson teacher, clinician, and freelance performer in the West Houston area for over a decade. She also taught elementary music in Williamsburg, VA and middle school general music in Falls Church, VA before moving to Texas. She was an honors recitalist, principal horn in the wind ensemble and orchestra, cum laude and an inductee of Pi Kappa Lambda from Illinois Wesleyan University where she received a B.M.E. At the University of Houston, Ms. Duhon was a teaching assistant in the music history department, summa cum laude and a student of Roger Kaza (St. Louis Symphony) and Nancy Goodearl (Houston Symphony). She received an M.M. in horn performance. Ms. Duhon met her husband, Jimmy, when they were both performing as instrumentalists at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. They have a ten-year-old son, Mark. You can watch Ms. Duhon's TMEA presentation "Self Care for the Music Educator: More Than a Buzzword" by clicking HERE! You can access the "Self Care for the Music Educator: More Than a Buzzword" supplementary materials by clicking HERE! You can access the F-flat Books THAW replay by downloading the session pack on the website! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/musicast-podcast/support
RetroLogic - Episode 35 Today we'll be chatting about … Chrono Trigger The Legend of Zelda Four Swords Community Questions RetroLogic isn't just a podcast, It's a retro game store! Visit Retrologic.games to check out our growing inventory of Cleaned, Tested, and 100% Authentic Retro Games! And now Merch! Icebreaker - what did you buy? And what did you play? Sam: Big sky trooper in shipping limbo. Might have to settle for refund. Pal SNES lot from ebay (lufa, illusion of time (illusion of gaia), terranigma (!), and Zelda ALttP.) They're likely all in german though. Played: finished DK ‘94, EarthBound per usual, Starting Chrono trigger (steam ver.). Non-retro: Monster hunter, Maneater. John: Primal Rage figures, Ready to Rumble Wireless fighting game, Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World SNES, Bandai Packri Monster Handheld, and Maze Craze 2600. Finished Phantasy Star, Started PS2, Magical Drop II NSO SNES app, and playing DQ1 Dan: Retro Game Stores of West Houston. Battletoads NES, NES Dogbone controller. The price is RETRO Dan's list John's list Sam's list Crossplay Chrono Trigger This day in gaming history Legend of Mana - 21 Years Ago (June 7, 2000) Legend of Mana is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation. It is the fourth game in the Mana series, following 1995's Trials of Mana. Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventure - 17 Years Ago (June 7, 2004) Released for the GameCube. It was the first multiplayer The Legend of Zelda game to be released, requiring two to four Game Boy Advance systems with a copy of the game to be linked up. Old News Yuji Naka left Square Enix in April. Following Balan's Wonderowrld failure https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/06/yuji_naka_parted_ways_with_square_enix_following_balan_wonderworlds_release EarthBound's "Lost Secrets" Have Been Revealed Thanks To The Recovery Of Localisation Source Files. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/06/video_earthbounds_lost_secrets_have_been_revealed_thanks_to_the_recovery_of_localisation_source_files Game Re-leases NINJA GAIDEN: Master Collection PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Windows PC Thursday Jun 10, 2021 Break Community Content Catch our 35th Anniversary of METROID Live Panel as part of Dadfest! Streamed live next Tuesday, June 15th starting at 9pm CST.Featuring: Me, John, Logan from The Reformed Gamer podcast, and Nintendo Dad Tim Off! Retro Rewind Game Announcement coming soon! Question of the week InfiniteBlue — 06/02/2021 Here's a question for everyone: What's a game that had RNG (aka random chance) greatly affect your experience with it, for better or for worse? RNG has been on my mind a lot lately as I've recently finished 100%ing Pokemon Stadium 2. There were countless instances where my strategy would have completely shut down the CPU opponents, only to be foiled by a convenient string of bad luck to give the CPU a cheesy win. On the flip side, that same RNG was enormously satisfying the times when it went my way, giving me a fighting chance using the underpowered rental Pokemon. There were a couple times in the Challenge Cup where a timely critical or miss was the only way to even reach a winnable state. Flightsy — 06/02/2021 For my Kirby's Dream Land letsplay (yes I know I won't shut up about it), for the 1 vitality 1 life run, trying to beat Kabula was practically up to RNG. She fires so fast it's impossible to consciously predict, so I had to rely on muscle memory built up over months and luck. I'd say that effected my experience. Sam: XCOM 2, Crusader kings 2, 3, Fire emblem Iron man mode really forces a different way of playing. They should add that to fire emblem! hambone jonny — 06/04/2021 If this hasn't already been asked, what are some of your favorite “continue” screens? Street Fighter 2 with the character's face all pummeled in comes to mind for me. solo_something — 06/04/2021 That one comes into my mind as well and Kid Icarus running across the sky ridge thing and shooting up at your score 16bitnomad — 06/04/2021 The final fight series was pretty good…dynamite, water, and spikes!! SpiderShan — Yesterday at 5:54 AM Does the one for Zelda 2 count? It was more the laugh than anything else!(Game Over… Return of Ganon) Throwback Thursday Spotlight - Sam Wagers Mini Interview Outro Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Twitter and Instagram @RetrologicGames. You're also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio.You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games
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Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: Learn about the Breakthrough Experience and how it has changed thousands of lives. Discover how to prioritise and determine your top priorities. John shares his secret to retaining Information in the quickest way possible. Episode Highlights [05:00] About John Dr John is an educator, researcher and writer. He has spent over 48 years helping people maximise their potential. John wanted to know what allows people to do extraordinary things. That's why he distilled information from great minds throughout history. He made them into practical things that people today can use. John had speech and learning challenges as a kid. At a doctor’s recommendation, his parents took him out of school and put him into sports. After having a near-death experience at 17, Paul Bragg inspired John to overcome his learning problems. With the help of his mom, he eventually learned how to read. Listen to the full episode to learn more about John's inspiring story! [15:42] How Surfing Changed John’s Mindset Surfing has taught John that people are not going to excel without perseverance and commitment. John converted his determination for surfing into persistence in reading. [17:57] The Breakthrough Experience The Breakthrough Experience is a philosophy and program changing lives globally. This system teaches you how to prioritise and structures life by priority. It breaks through limitations and helps achieve life goals. John teaches people to use any experience, even challenges. These are catalysts for transformation and progress. John has helped people learn how to prioritise to get their breakthrough experience in different areas of life. These include businesses, careers, health, relationships, among others. Lisa relates the Breakthrough Experience philosophy to when her mom had a severe aneurysm. [24:14] John Shares a Miraculous Experience At 27 years old, John handled a family with a son in a three-year coma. The family went to different hospitals in Mexico and the United States. However, they found none to help their son. They then went to John, and he thought of a maneuver to help the child. However, the treatment also came with significant risk. Listen to the full episode to find out how John helped a child get out of a three-year coma. [33:34] Jesse Billauer’s Breakthrough Experience Jesse Billauer, a surfer, decided to go to the Breakthrough Experience after a surfing accident. At the time, he was depressed because he was physically unable to surf. After the Breakthrough Experience, he learned how to prioritise and what his top priority was. Jesse became determined not to let anything stop him from surfing. Jesse developed a way to surf as a quadriplegic person. He taught others how to do the same. [38:58] Herd Mentality in the Sciences New ideas are violently opposed and ridiculed. That's why people fear going against the norm. People who aim to survive follow the multitude. People who want to thrive create a new paradigm. Each person can excel at anything if they focus on that, not on others' opinions. [41:37] How to Prioritise John made a list of every single thing he does in a day over three months. He then placed multiple columns next to that list. The first column contains how much money each task produces per hour. The second column contains how much a job inspires him on a scale of 1-10. He also considered the cost and the time spent on each activity. After doing that, he prioritised the activities that made thousands of dollars. He also focused on ones that scored ten on the inspiration scale. John hired people for the low-priority tasks. This choice allowed him to be more productive in his top priorities. Within 18 months, his business increased tenfold. Listen to the full episode to learn how to prioritise and about investing in your top priority. [56:19] How John Stays Looking Young John is almost 67 years old. However, Lisa describes him as someone who looks like a teenager. John doesn't eat junk. He drinks a lot of water, has never had coffee in his life and hasn't had alcohol in over 48 years. Doing what you love every day also slows down the aging process. [58:03] Some Lessons from the Breakthrough Experience Nothing is missing in you. When you compare yourself to others, you'll try to live by their values or get them to live by yours. Both of these are futile. Sticking to your values and priorities is key to resilience and success. People are different from each other, but no one is better than the other. If you don't empower your own life, others will overpower you. Your mission is something that you're willing to get through any means necessary. [1:06:38] How to Get Your Amygdala Under Control The amygdala is associated with emotions and the "fight-or-flight" response. Because we have neuroplasticity, we can remodel our internal system. Perceiving challenges and feeling shame and guilt trigger an autoimmune reaction that attacks your body. Every time we choose to live by the highest priority, the amygdala calms down. The prefrontal cortex is reinforced. [1:12:03] The Mind-Body Connection Our psychological processes also affect our physiological processes. People are used to blaming external factors. They don't take accountability for the things they experience. John uses the example of when people get symptoms after eating unhealthy food. They don't face the fact that they brought it upon themselves. Our bodies do an excellent job of guiding us. That's why we should learn how to listen to them. [1:18:13] The Journey to Financial Independence There is nothing evil about having money. John believes that you can be a slave to money, or you can be a master of it. Nothing is stopping you from doing what you love to do. [1:21:28] How to Retain Information Teaching what you've learned is the key to retention. Teaching compels your mind to organise ideas and reinforce them. Teach the concepts as soon as you've discovered them. Don't wait until you're an expert on the subject. Resources Gain exclusive access and bonuses to Pushing the Limits Podcast by becoming a patron! You can choose between being an official or VIP patron for $7 and $15 NZD per month, respectively. Harness the power of NAD and NMN for anti-ageing and longevity with NMN Bio. Related Pushing the Limits Episodes 135: How To Make Better Decisions Consistently 183: Sirtuins and NAD Supplements for Longevity with Elena Seranova 189: Increasing Your Longevity with Elena Seranova Connect with John: Website | Facebook | Linkedin | YouTube | Instagram The Demartini Show Demartini Value Determination Process The Breakthrough Experience program Join John's The Mind-Body Connection course Learn more about Jesse Billauer and his story. High Surf: The World's Most Inspiring Surfers by Tim Baker The Time Trap: The Classic Book on Time Management by Alec Mackenzie and Pat Nickerson Brain Wash: Detox Your Mind for Clearer Thinking, Deeper Relationships, and Lasting Happiness by David and Austin Perlmutter The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing by Bronnie Ware 7 Powerful Quotes ‘I'm an educator, a researcher, a writer. I do a lot of interviews and filming for documentaries. I've been spending 48 years now on doing anything I can to help human beings maximise their potential.’ ‘I love studying and learning anything I can from those people that have done extraordinary things and then passing that on.” “I love anybody who's done something extraordinary on the planet in any field. I love devouring their journey.’ ‘No matter what the teacher was trying to do, I just couldn't read. And my teacher and my parents come to the school and said, ‘You know, your son's not able to read. He's not going to be able to write effectively’ because I wrote kind of backwards.’ ‘Well, I'm surfing the cosmic waves now. And in surfing big cosmic waves, radio waves that are big waves. Yes, that's the move from water waves into electromagnetic waves.’ ‘And so the Breakthrough Experience is about accessing that state. And breaking through the limitations that we make up in our mind and transforming whatever experiences you have into “on the way” not “in the way”.’ ‘She said that there was something that took over me, I can't describe it. It was like a very powerful feeling — like I had a power of a Mack truck. And me? I don't know how to describe it.’ About Dr John Dr John Demartini is an author, researcher, global educator and world-renowned human behaviour specialist. Making self-development programs and relationship solutions is part of his job. Among his most popular programs is the Breakthrough Experience. It is a personal development course that aims to help individuals achieve whatever goal they have. As a child, Dr John had learning challenges and could not read and write well until 18 years old. He has now distilled information from over 30,000 books across all academic disciplines and shares them online and on stage in over 100 countries. Interested in knowing more about Dr John and his work? You may visit his website or follow him on Facebook, Linkedin, YouTube and Instagram. Enjoyed This Podcast? If you did, be sure to subscribe and share it with your friends! Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning in, then leave us a review. You can also share this with your family and friends so they can achieve their life goals by learning how to prioritise. Have any questions? You can contact me through email (support@lisatamati.com) or find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. For more episode updates, visit my website. You may also tune in on Apple Podcasts. To pushing the limits, Lisa Full Transcript Of The Podcast Welcome to Pushing The Limits, the show that helps you reach your full potential with your host, Lisa Tamati, brought to you by lisatamati.com. Lisa Tamati: Welcome back to Welcome back to Pushing the Limits. This week, I have Dr John Demartini. He is a world renowned speaker, teacher, educator, researcher, medical doctor. He's written I don't know how many books, countless, countless books. He's an incredible, incredible man who teaches literally thousands and thousands of people every year in his breakthrough experience. The information that you're going to get in this podcast could change your life. So I've given you a fair warning. He's an amazing, incredible man that, and I've talked to a lot of incredible people but this one is really next level, he started out as a big wave surfer in Hawaii, way back in the day. Even knew Laird Hamilton and people like that. Had learning disabilities and could hardly read or write, and yet managed to overcome all these things to become one of the greatest scholars that there is. He's read over 30,000 books. He has distilled the knowledge from people right through the ages, through leaders and philosophers and stoics and scientists. He's an expert in so many different areas. He teaches people in business, he teaches people how to overcome massive challenges in their life. So I really hope that you enjoy this episode. It is going to get uncomfortable in places because we’ll talk about really being accountable, really understanding our own physiology, and just so much more. An absolutely amazing interview. So I hope you enjoy it. Before we head over to the show, just reminder, we have our patron membership for the podcast Pushing the Limits. If you want to join our VIP tribe, we would love you to come and do that. It's about the price of a cup of coffee a month or two. If you want to join on the premium level, we would love you to come and join us. Support the show. Help us get this work out there. We are passionate about what we do. We want to change lives, we want to improve your life, we want to improve the lives of others. And we need your help to do that to keep the show going. So please, head over to patron.lisatamati.com. 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It has been developed over the last 20 years, from 15 different science disciplines all working in collaborating together on this one technology platform that will help you understand your genes and apply the information to your life. So check that out. Go to lisatamati.com and hit the Work With Us button and you'll see their Peak Epigenetics, check out that program. And while you're there, if you're a runner, check out our Running Hot Coaching program as well. Customised, personalised training plans made specifically for you, for your goals. You get a video analysis, you get a consultation with me and it's all in a very well-priced package. So check that out at runninghotcoaching.com. Now over to the show with Dr John Demartini. Well, Hi everyone and welcome to Pushing The Limits. Today, I am super excited for my guest. My guest is an absolute superstar. Welcome to the show. Firstly and foremostly, thank you very much for taking the time out today. Dr John, I'm just really excited to have you. Whereabouts are you sitting in the world? Dr John: I am in Houston, Texas. I'm in a hotel room in Houston, Texas, even though it shows that I've got a library. Lisa: Yeah,I love that background. That is a fantastic background. Really great. Well, greetings to Texas and I hope that everything is going well over there for you. Today, I wanted to talk about you, your work, the breakthrough experience. Some of the learnings and the exciting mission that you've been on for now. For 47 years, I believe. Something crazy like that. So Dr John, can you just give us a little bit of a background on you and your life and what you do on a day to day basis? Big question. Dr John: I'm an educator, a researcher, a writer. I do a lot of interviews and filming for documentaries. I've been spending 48 years now, over 48 years, on doing anything I can to help human beings maximise their potential, their awareness potential, and achieve whatever it is that they're inspired to achieve. So that could be raising a beautiful family to building a massive business to becoming fortunate or celebrity, doesn't matter. It's whatever it is that inspires them. I've been studying human behaviour and anything and everything I can get my hands on for the last 48 years to assist people in mastering a lot. That's what I love doing. I do it every day. I can't think of any else I'd rather be doing. So I just do it. Lisa: It's a bit of a role model for me, Dr John, because I think what you have achieved in this time, the way you've distilled information, I mean, you've studied, last time I looked on one of your podcasts, that was over 30,000 books, probably more now. And you've distilled the information from great masters throughout history into practical things that humans today can actually benefit from. Is that a good assessment of what you basically have done? Dr John: I'm writing right now a 1200 page textbook on philosophers and great minds through the ages. I summarise it. I love studying and learning anything I can from those people that have done extraordinary things, and then passing that on. So yes. Right now, I'm actually, I just finished, I’m just finishing up Albert Einstein, which is one of my heroes. I had a dream when I was young. When I saw that E = mc² drawn on that board, I wanted to find out where that board was. I went to Princeton, and met with Freeman Dyson, who took over his position at Princeton in 1955. Spent part of the day with him and we're talking on cosmology. I wrote my formula on that same board, exactly the same place, because that was a dream that I had since I was probably 18, 19. Lisa: Wow, and you got to fulfill it and actually love it. Dr John: Yeah. Took me a bit of time. So what? But yeah, I love anybody who's done something extraordinary on the planet in any field. I love devouring their journey and their thinking. That's every Nobel Prize winner I've gone through and every great philosopher and thinker and business leader and financially or spiritually, to try to find out and distill out what is the very essence that drives human beings? And what is it that allows them to do extraordinary things? So I wanted to do that with my life. Most of the people I get in front of want to feel like they want to make a massive difference. They want to make a difference in the world. They want to do something that’s deeply meaningful, inspiring. And so yeah, we're not 'put your head in the product glue and let the glue stick' and then pass it on. Lisa: Instead of having to reinvent the world, why not? So Dr John, can you give us a little bit of history though, because you're obviously an incredible scholar,have an incredible mind. But as a child, you struggled with learning and with reading and writing.Can you give us a little, how the heck did you go from being this kid that struggled with all of that to where you are today? One of the greatest minds out there. Dr John: Yeah, I definitely had some learning challenges. I had a speech challenge when I was a year and a half old to four, I had to wear buttons in my mouth and put strings in my mouth and practice using all kinds of muscles. Went to a speech pathologist. When I was in first grade. No matter what the teacher was trying to do, I just couldn't read. My teacher, and my parents would come to the school and said, 'You know, your son's not able to read. He's not going to be able to write effectively,' because I wrote kind of backwards. 'I don't think he's going to mountain and go very far in life, put him into sport.' Because I like to run. And I did sports there for a while. But then I went from baseball to surfing. I hitchhiked out to California and down Mexico and then made it over to Hawaii so I could ride big waves and I was doing big wave and stuff when I was a teenager. So I didn't have academics. I dropped out of school. I was a street kid from 13 to 18. But then right before 18 I nearly died. That's when I met Paul Bragg, who inspired me one night in a presentation. That night I got so inspired that I thought, 'Maybe I could overcome my learning problems by applying what this man just taught me. And maybe someday I could learn to read and write and speak properly.' That was such an inspiration, such a moment of inspiration that it changed the course of my life. I had to go back. And with the help of my mum, I went and got a dictionary out, started to read a dictionary and memorise 30 words a day until my vocabulary. I had to spell the word, pronounce the word, use it with a meaningful sentence, and develop a vocabulary. Eventually doing that 30 we would, we wouldn't go to bed. I didn't go to bed until I had 30 new words, really inculcated. My vocabulary grew. And I started to learn how to do the reading. It was not an easy project. But, man, once I got a hold of it, I never stopped. Lisa: And once you started to read, you didn’t stop. Dr John: I've never stopped. I've been a voluminous reader now. You know, 48 years. Lisa: That’s just incredible. Dr John: I can’t complain. Lisa: So was it a dyslexia or learning disability? I just asked because my mum was a teacher of children with dyslexia and things like that. Was there specific ways that you were able to overcome the disability so to speak? Dr John: Yeah, I just, sheer persistence and determination to want to read and learn. I remember, I took my first, I took a GED test, a general education high school equivalency test. And I guessed, literally guessed, I close my eyes. I said this little affirmation that Paul Bragg gave me that, 'I'm a genius, and I apply my wisdom.' And some miraculous thing made me pass that test. I didn't know how to read half the stuff that was on it. I just went with my intuition and guessed. And I tried to go to college, after taking that test and had the test. I failed. And I remember driving home crying because I had this idea that I was going to learn how to teach and become intelligent. Then when I got a 27, everybody else got 75 and above. I got a 27 and I thought, 'Well, there's no way it's going to work.' But then I sat there and I cried and my mum came home from shopping, and she saw me crying on the living room floor. She said, ‘Son, what happened? What's wrong?’ I said, ‘Mum, I failed the test. I guess I don't have what it takes.’ And I repeated what the first grade teacher said, 'I guess I'll never read or write or communicate effectively, or amount too much. I guess I'll go back to Hawaii and make surfboards and surf. Because I was pretty good at that.' And she said to me something that was a real mind bender. She put her hand on me and she said, ‘Son, whether you become a great teacher, philosopher and travel the world like your dream, whether return to Hawaii and ride giant waves like you've done, return to the streets and panhandle like you've done. I just want to let you know that your father and I are going to love you no matter what you do.’ Lisa: Wow, what a mum. Dr John: That was an amazing moment. When she said that, my hand went into a fist of determination. And I said to myself, ‘I'm gonna match this thing called reading and studying and learning. I'm gonna match this thing called teaching and philosophy. And I'm going to do whatever it takes, I'm going to travel whatever distance, I'm gonna pay whatever price, to give my source of love across this planet.’ I got up and I hugged her. And I said to myself, ‘I'm not gonna let any human being on the face of the earth stop me, not even myself.’ I got out of my room. And that's when I decided with her help to do the dictionary. That was an amazing turning point. Lisa: And I can feel it, the emotion and what a wonderful mum you had. I mean, what a perfect thing to say when someone's down. Dr John: It was the most. If she hadn't said that, I might’ve come back to surfing. I might be a surfer today. Lisa: Which would have been a good thing as well, probably because surfing is great. Dr John: It didn’t make money in those days. I'm in the mid 60s and 70s, early 70s. But,, now, the guys I served with, Laird Hamilton and- Lisa: Wow. He's a hero is amazing. Dr John: Both Ben Aipa, Gerry Lopez, and these guys, those are the guys I served with. And so those guys went on to be incredible. Lisa: I wasn't aware of that. Dr John: I lived at the same beach park in Haleiwa, where Ehukai Beach Park is, near Pipeline, between Rocky Point and Pipeline. Laird Hamilton was dropped off by his mother there and lived there on the beach. I lived up on where the park bench was. We lived right there and I saw him on the beach each morning. He was seven, I was 16. He was going on seven, I was almost 17. We live there at the same place and Bill Hamilton saw him out there and grabbed him and took him in and trained them on surfing and found his mum and then married the mum. That's how I became. I hung out with those characters. Lisa: Legends. You became a legend in this direction and they have become a legend in a different direction. Dr John: Well, there's a book out called The High Surf by Tim Baker. That’s from Australia. He wrote a book on people that rode big waves. And he said, 'I'd like to put you in there.' I said, 'Well, I didn't go on to be the superstar in that area like these other guys.' He said, 'But I want you in there because you became a legend. Lisa: Became a superstar. Dr John: Yeah Lisa: Do you think that there's, you know, I come from a surfing family. My brother's a big wave surfer in New Zealand. I've tried and failed miserably, stuck to running. I was better at it. But do you think there's a correlation between the mindset that you developed as a surfer? Because going in those big waves is scary. It's daunting. It's frightening. It's challenging. It's teaching you a lot. Is there a lot that you took from that for this journey that you've been on? Dr John: Yeah, I didn't surf anything more than 40-foot waves. So I think that was about as good as about as big as you get back in the 70s. At 70s is when I was- Lisa: Oh, just a mere 40, it’s okay. Dr John: Well, 40-foot waves was the biggest thing out in outer reef pipeline was the big thing. They hadn't had tow-in surfing yet. That was just, that wasn't begun yet. So there was that idea, we had to catch those waves. That was not easy because they're too big to catch. you got to have big long boards, and you got to really paddle to get into those waves, and it's usually too late. But I think some of those, I used to surf 11 hours a day sometimes. When you're really, really committed to doing something, that's... Einstein said perseverance is the key to making things happen and if you just stay with something. So, if you're not inspired to do something, enough to put in the hours and put in the effort, and you don't have somebody that you can bounce ideas off of, kind of mentoring you, you probably are not going to excel as much. But I did that. And then I just converted that over into breeding 18 to 20 hours a day, feeding once I learned to read, so I just and I still voluminously read I mean, I read every single day. Lisa: That is incredible. And so you've taken that big wave mindset a little bit over into something else. So obviously, everything you, do you do to the nth degree, we can probably agree on that one. Dr John: I'm surfing the cosmic waves now. And in surfing big cosmic waves, radio waves that are big waves. I move from water waves into electromagnetic waves. Lisa: Wow. Now, you run something called The Breakthrough Experience, which you've been doing now for 40 something years. This is a philosophy and a system and a program that really changes lives and has changed lives all over the planet. Can you tell us a little bit about what you've distilled from all this information that you have in your incredible mind? And what you teach in this course, and how this can actually help people? Today, right now listening to this? Dr John: Well, the breakthrough experiences, sort of my attempt to do with what that gentleman did to me when I was 17. I've done it 1121 times into that course. I keep records, and I'm a metric freak. Every human being lives by a set of priorities, a set of values, things that are most important. Lisa: Podcast life. Dr John: Welcome to it. I thought that was off, but I didn't quite get it off. But whatever is highest on the person's values, priorities, whatever is truly deeply meaningful to them, the thing that is spontaneously inspiring for them to that they can't wait to get up the morning and do.If they identify that and structure their life by priority, delegating the lower priority things and getting on with doing that, they will build momentum, incremental momentum and start to excel and build what we could say is a legacy in the world. And so, the breakthrough experience is about accessing that state, and breaking through the limitations that we make up in our mind, transforming whatever experiences you have into 'on the way' not 'in the way.' So no matter what goes on in your life, you can use it to catalyse a transformation and movement towards what it is that you're committed to. And if you're not clear about it, we'll show you how to do it because many people subordinate to people around them. Cloud the clarity of what's really really inspiring from within them, and they let the herd instinct stop them from being heard. I think that The Breakthrough Experiences is my attempt to do whatever I can, with all the tools that I've been blessed to gather to assist people in creating a life that is extraordinary, inspiring and amazing for them. And if I don't do whatever it takes in the program, I don't know when it's going to be. I've seen six year olds in there write books afterwards. I've seen nine year olds go on to get a deal with Disney for $2.2 million dollars. I've seen people in business break through plateaus. I’ve people have major issues with relationships break, too. I don't know what's gonna be. I've seen celebrities go to new levels. I've seen people that have health issues that heal. I mean, every imaginable thing, I’ve breaking through. I've seen it in that course. And it's the same principles applied now into different areas of life. In any other area of our life, if we don't empower, the world's going to overpower something. And I'm showing I want to show people how to not let anything on the outside world interfere with what's inside. Lisa: And you talk about, it's on the way, the challenges that we have to look at the challenges that we have and ask how is this going to actually help me get wherever I am. And this is something that I've managed to do a couple of times in my life really well, other times not so good. But where I've taken a really massive challenge, I had my own listeners, I had a mum who had a massive aneurysm five years ago, and we were told she would never have any quality of life again, massive brain damage. We know that's not happening on my watch. I'm going to, there is somebody in something in the world that can help with her. And this became my mantra that I was going to get back or die trying. That was that total dedication that I brought to her because of love. When you love someone, you're able to mobilise for the last resources that you have. And that nearly bloody killed me as far as the whole effort that went on to it, and the cost and the emotional costs, and the physical and the health and all the rest of it. It took me three years to get it back to health, full health. She's now got a full driver's license back and a full independent life back and as my wonderful mum again. And that was coming from a state of being in a vegetative state, not much over a vegetative state at least. Hardly any higher function, no speech, no move, be able to move anything. Dr John: That’s a book there. That's a book or a movie. Lisa: It's the book. Dr John: That's a book and a movie for sure. Lisa: Exactly. And this is very powerful. Because I saw this and when you're in the darkness, everybody is telling you there is no hope, there is no chance. And these are medical professionals who have been to medical school, who have a hell of a lot more authority than you. You just go, ‘No, I am not accepting it because that alternative means death, basically, decline and death in being in an institution. And that is not what I'm going to answer. I'm going to find somebody who can help me’ and I did. I found hundreds of people, actually, and this is what tipped me into doing what I'm doing now, is finding world leading experts to give me the next piece of the puzzle for her and for the people now that are following me so that I can help empower people, not to be limited by the people who tell us we can't do something. It's because that means basically they don't have the answer. Not that there is no answer, is my understanding. And they were right. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. But I did it and my mum is alive and she's well, and that book. I really want to empower people with a story. I see that same like they're obviously your passion. What you went through with your learning problems when you were young and your mum standing beside you has actually propelled you into this lifelong journey that I find absolutely fascinating because that passion, and I can see that passion in you, is still very much alive 48 years later because you're doing what your priority is. Dr John: I'm definitely doing what I love doing. It's interesting that your story reminded me of something that happened to me when I was 27. If you don't mind, I'd like to share this. So I graduated from my professional school. I had a bit of a reputation there of being kind of the taking the cream of the crop clients, patients that were turned down everywhere else. I just tackled it, see what we can do with it. And I got a family from Mexico, with a son that fell three stories off an apartment complex onto the ground on his head. He went into a coma, been in a coma for three and a half years. And the mother, they assumed he was dead a few times, but there was still a breath. There were still something. It wasn't a strong breath. You couldn't see it but you could put a mirror in front of you and get a little bit of breath out there. So he wasn't dead. And he had decerebrate rigidity. So his whole body was so rigid that when I saw him, you could lift up his feet and his whole body would rock. It was so stiff. His hands are like this. A classical decerebrate rigidity. And he had gone to, throughout different hospitals in Mexico, where he was from, and nobody checked them. They came to America, they went to the Medical Center in Houston, which is the largest Medical Center America. And they got rejected. No one would accept it. There's nothing we can do. They went out to the professional school that I'd gone to. And they said, ‘We can't do anything.’ But we know this interesting character. West Houston, if there's anybody that would try something this guy might try, who knows? And they sent him to my office. I remember when they came in, they carried him wrapped up in a white sheet, and laid him on the armrest of the chairs on my office. I looked out there and I saw this Mexican man and woman and seven or eight other kids in a family. I'm in this. At first, I didn't know what this was, this thing wrapped up in this sheet. They came down my hallway and I saw him going down the hallway. And like, ‘What on earth is this?’ Then they unveiled him in my exam room. And there was this 58 pound tube in his nose, coma case that was so stiff. It was ridiculous. I mean, he had gauze on his chin and his hand was rubbing on it and to protect the chin from having an ulcer. It had an odor to him in the head. It was just nothing. Just stare. He just sat there. But the mother and father said, ‘No, he's still alive. Please help.’ So I didn't really have much to do an exam with. So I got him, we took him in and did a film of his spine and his skull from the history. We found his foramen magnum, his skull was jammed down on a spinal cord and his spinal cord is up in his foramen magnum. This opening in the bottom of the skull. And I thought that night, when I was developing those films, and I looked at that I thought, 'I wonder what happened if I lifted that skull? If I've got that off? It could? Could something happen?' And I was scared because you just don't do that. He could die just instantly. I sent them over to this health food store to get him some liquid vitamins and minerals and amino acids to try to get nutrients in him because they're feeding him beans and rice with liquid. It was just crazy. So the next day came in. We had four doctors on a preceptorship visiting my office, one doctor that was working for me, one assistant, the seven or eight kids plus him and the mother and father in this little room. It was packed. And I said to him that I saw that on the film something that might have make him, help. I don't know, I can't guarantee it. But if we, if I did a particular manoeuvre, it might open up the brain function. And the little woman held on to her husband and she said, 'If he dies, he dies. If he lives, we rejoice. But please help us. We have nowhere else to go.' Lisa: Yeah. Wow. Dr John: She said that there was something that took over me, I can't describe it. It was like a very powerful feeling, like I had a power of a Mack truck in me. I don't know how to describe it. And I had this manoeuvre that we could do this, what they call the Chrane Condyle Lift, that can actually lift the skull up the spine. And I said to myself, if I'm not willing to have him die in my hands, I can't raise the dead with my hands as a little quote that I learned from an ancient healing philosopher. And I thought, 'Okay, we're, I'm going to take the risk, and just see what happens.' Because, I mean, I don't know what to do. I'm just gonna do it. Because I mean, they've got no place to go and I only took a rip. As I lifted that skull with this powerful movement. He came out of his coma. He came right out of the coma. He screamed, and this whining noise you couldn't. It was not coherent. It was just this whining sound. The whole family went on their knees, they were Catholic. They just went to their knees and prayed. I was blown away. I saw the four doctors one of them ran down the hallway and vomited, couldn't handle it. The other just stared. And here's this boy squirming on the table. I walked out to let the family be with the child for a minute and just sat with one of my doctors. We sat there and just cried. Because we knew that the spinal cord expressed life in the body. But we didn't know what would happen if we took the spinal cord, it just scanned off. Theoretically, it could kill you. But there was some still life in the spinal cord. Anyway, this boy went on to gain 20 pounds up to 78 pounds. We took him off the tube, we got him to move, we had everybody in the family take a joint in his body and move his joints to remobilise him. Sometimes I think we probably tore some ligaments doing it. But we got mobility. And this boy came out of it. And I have a picture here with me of the boy actually graduating from high school. Lisa: You’re kidding me? Why is this not an? What is not? Why have I never heard the story? Dr John: I don’t get to share it too often. I didn't many years ago. I haven't practised in a long time. But all I know is that that was a moment that you just, it's probably like you had with your mum when you saw incremental progress. Lisa: Yeah. Just grind. Dr John: And I think that that's a metaphor. That's a metaphor. It doesn't matter where you've come from, doesn't matter what you're going through, doesn't matter what you've been through. What matters is you have something that you're striving for. And are you willing to do some incremental movement towards that? What else just said is, he's got a diagnosis. Diagnosis means through knowledge, supposedly, but it could also mean die to an agnosis. You don't know. Even the doctors don't know. But the reality is, he came out of the coma. And I had over the next few months, I had some amazing cases of a boy that was blind and couldn't walk, and all of a sudden see and walked again. I had a boy that was paralysed quadriplegic, was able to walk. I mean, I had some amazing stuff happen. When you're willing to do what other people aren't willing to do, you're willing to experience when other people don't get to experience. Lisa: Yep, it is just so powerful. And I'm just absolutely blown away from that story. Because, I mean, I know with my mum who was only in a coma for three weeks, and had stroke and so on, and in the specificity and the things that I've had to deal with. The whole vestibular system being completely offline, she has like a rag doll, having to read, programming her from being a baby, basically, to being an adult, within that three year period with a body that is now like 79 years old. And the doctors going like, your brain can't change that much. And in just going, I'm going to keep going. I'm only listening to people who tell me I can do something, I'm not listening to anybody who tells me I can't do something. And this is something that I've really integrated into my entire life like as an athlete, doing stupidly long ultramarathon distances. I was always told you can't do this, and you can't do that. It's impossible. And I was like, 'We'll see.' I'm going to throw everything in it. And that was my passion at the time have now retired from doing the stupid distances because I've got other missions on in life. But whatever it is, is always the big mission. And then everybody comes up against people who tell you, you can't do it. This is one of the biggest limiting things that I see. Dr John: That's what Einstein said, greatness is automatically pounded by mediocre minds. Lisa: Wow. Dr John: I had a boy, a boy attend my breakthrough experience, who had a surfing accident and became arms and legs not working, He could move his neck. He got a little bit of function slowly into the hand that was about it, just a tiny bit. And I remember a man wheeling him in and having them kind of strapped to a wheelchair. I knew the father and I knew his brother. There were doctors who were colleagues of mine. And they brought him, they flew him literally from Los Angeles over to Texas to come to the breakthrough experience. I remember him looking straight down really depressed, suicidal, because he was a surfer and he was on his way to being a great surfer. If he couldn't surf, he didn't want to live kind of. I remember getting on my knees and looking up at him at this chair, and I said, 'It all determines inside you what you decide. I don't know what the limit you have in your body. I don't know what you can repair. I don't know what you can do. I don't want to say you can't. But all I know is that if you're going to, you're going to have to put everything into it. You're gonna have to have no turning back kind of attitude. There's got to be a relentless pursuit of your master plan to serve.' His name is Jesse Billauer. He made a decision at the Breakthrough Experience that nothing was going to stop him from surfing again, nothing. He is really, in the room was absolutely applauding him. The before and after in that weekend was so astonishing that it was tear jerking. Well, about 17 years ago, 16 half years ago, I had the opportunity to get, I was living on the Gold Coast of Australia. I had many homes in New York and different places. But I had one in the Gold Coast of Australia in Aria, lived in the penthouse of Aria. And all of a sudden, I found in my entrance of my penthouse, which you only can get into with my key somebody from downstairs, put it in there like mail, a DVD video of a surfing movie, called Stepping Into Liquid. And when I pulled that up and put that in there, there was Jesse Billauer, surfing. He found a way of using his head muscles, and designing a special vehicle, a transport system, a surfboard. He had to have somebody take them out into the water and push him. But once he got on a wave his head movements were able to ride and he was riding like 12 foot waves, which is 20 foot face waves. He was doing that. And he was an inspiration. He became friends with Superman who had quadriplegia and they became friends and he created a foundation to do something but he taught people how to go surfing as a quadriplegic. So when the wise big enough to house take care of themselves, you've proven that in your book. What little I've done in my life compared to some of these kind of stories is just astonishing what I see sometimes people do. I mean, mind blowing stuff that people, that determination to overcome that are absolute inspirations. Inspiration is a byproduct of pursuing something that's deeply inspiring and deeply meaningful, through a challenge that people believe is not possible. That's inspiration. Lisa: That's how we grow as a human race. We have these amazing people that do incredible things. And these stories, I mean, these are stories that aren't even out there in the world, in a huge way. There are hundreds of these stories and thousands of these stories and miraculous stories. These are the things that we should be talking about. Because why are we not studying the outliers? Why are we not? When I look at my book, or my story, which I share publicly and not a single doctor that had anything to do with my mum ever asked me, 'Well, how did you do it?' Nobody is interested in why she has not taken the normal path as long gone. Nobody has asked me what did you do? People do. My audience want to know why. The people that follow me, etc. But nobody that was involved in that case. And I see that over and over again. Dr John: It's forcing him to face their own, you might say, belief systems about what they've been taught. There's an educated awareness by the herd and then there's an innate yearning by the master. The master transcends the herd, if you will. You can be a sheep or a shepherd. The shepherd is the one that goes out and does things that the sheep are not willing to do. But then once they do it, they'll rally around it. They are there watching you to be the hero instead of becoming the hero. Lisa: Wow. And why is it in the medical fraternity that there seems to be a very big herd mentality, like no one is scared to step outside of their norms, and they get slammed. I see this in academia and in science as well, where people who have brilliant ideas and hypotheses and studies and so on, they just get slammed because it's outside of the current paradigm. Dr John: William James, one of the founders of modern psychology, said 'To be great…' And Emerson followed in suit, 'To be greatest, to be misunderstood.’ William James basically said that the majority of people fear rejection from the multitudes because that was survival. People that are into survival follow the multitude. People that are in thrival create a new paradigm. At first they're going to be ridiculed. They're going to be violently opposed to Schopenhauer and Gandhi said, but eventually becomes self-evident. And you're either following a culture or building one. The people that do that build a new culture. They build a new culture of idea. Emerson said in his essays on circles, 'We rise up and we create a new circle of possibility. And then that becomes the new norm until somebody comes up and breaks through that concentric sphere with another circle.' It's like the four minute mile. I had a gentleman on my program the other day who is striving to be the fastest runner in the world. He's got bronze and silver medals, but he hadn't got the fastest running. And he's not stopping. He's working sometimes eight to 13 hours a day on this project. I believe that the way he's so determined to do it, and how he works on it, and he doesn't need a coach telling him what to do. He just does it. He's inspired to do it. He'll be the fastest runner, he won't stop till he's the fastest runner in the world. And that’s determination, that to be great at that one thing, find that one thing that you really target like a magnifying glass, on that you become the greatest at that thing. Mine was human development, human behaviour. I want to have the broadest and greatest width of information about that. That's my one thing. But each individual has something that they can excel in, if they just define it, and give themselves permission at it, and say, thank you but no thank you to the opinions. The opinions are the cheapest commodities on Earth that would circulate the most as a use value. There’s ton of those. But those opinions aren’t what matter. It's not you comparing yourself to other people, it's you comparing your daily actions to what's deeply meaningful to you, and the highest priority actions daily, that’s what it is. Lisa: How do you, this is a problem that I face, get to a certain level of success and achievement, and then you start getting lots of offers and opportunities and so on, and you start to lose the focus. You get distracted from the things that are happening in this day and age where the internet and everything that ends up like I get the shiny object syndrome. And say, 'Oh, this is an extremely interesting area of study, and I should go down that path. And then I go down that path, and then I go down that path.' It is adding to the whole picture of a general education. as someone who studied as much as you have, you've obviously encompassed all of these areas. But I think what I'm asking is, how do you find out what your highest priority is? And how do you get a team around you, so that you're not limited? I think there's a lot of business people that are listening to this, me included in this, who has struggling to get past a certain ceiling because the area of genius is one thing that they love and excelling at, and you'd like to spend all of your time doing that. But you're stuck in the groundhog day of admin and technology in the stuff that you hate. And not busting through because financially, you can't delegate to people. You also got to find people that are a good fit for you who can do the jobs, and then also have the finances to be able to break through to that near next level. Can you talk to that about? Dr John: Yes, absolutely. When I was 27 years old, I was just starting my practice. I was doing a little of everything, anything and everything, just to get the thing cranking. I had one assistant that I hired. But I realised I was doing way too many trivial things. And that'll burn you out after a while if you're doing stuff that's not really what your specialty is. I went to the bookstore and I got a book by Alec McKinsey called The Time Trap. I read this book. As I read it, I underlined it and extracted notes like I do. I decided to put together a little sheet for it. I'll share that because it was a goldmine. I made a list of every single thing that I do in a day, over a three month period, because each day I had sometimes different things to do. But I wrote down everything I might be doing in those three months in a day. I just wrote them all down. And I don't mean broad generalities like marketing or this type of thing or radiographs or whatever. I mean, the actual actions. The actual moment by moment actions I do in those categories. I made a list of those and it was a big list. And I looked at it. Then right next that list, every single thing I did from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed, everything — home, personal, professional. I wanted to know what my day looked. I want to be an honest, objective view of what am I actually doing with my day. Because if I want to create my life the way I want, I've got to take a look at what I'm actually doing because if I'm not doing things that give me the results, no wonder I'm not getting there. I made that list, and right next to it, in column number two of six columns is how much does it produce per hour. Which is a measure of actually meeting somebody's need as a service and people willing to pay. How much is that produced per hour? And that was humbling because there are whole lot of stuff that I will do without pay. I was minoring in majors and majoring in minors. I was doing all kinds of stuff that was just cost, no return. I stopped and I looked at that, and that was humbling, and frustrating, and a bunch of stuff went through my mind. I mean, I just, but I had to be honest to myself, what does it actually produce? I extrapolate. If I spent two hours on it, what is it per hour? Cut it in half. If I spent 30 minutes, I’d double the number to get an idea what it is per hour. There's a lot of stuff that was not making anything and there was a few things that were making a lot. The third column I wrote down, how much meaning does it have? How much is it that makes me inspired to get up and do it? I can't wait to do what people can't wait to get. Those are the things I want to target. So I looked at it on a one to ten scale, how much meaning it was. I made a list on a one to ten scale of every one of those items, how inspired am I to do that? And there's a lot of stuff on there that was not inspiring, that I didn't want to do. I thought, 'Hell. I went to ten years of college for this?' I made this list and I put this one to ten thing. And then I prioritised the tens down to the ones. I prioritise productivity down from the ones that made thousands of dollars an hour to nothing an hour. I just prioritise them. And then I looked. There were some that were overlapped, where the thing that was most meaningful and inspiring match where it’s most productive. I prioritise that based on the two together. And that was really eye opening. Then I went to the next one because I realised that if I don't delegate, I'm trapped. Then I put what does it cost? Every cost. Not just salary, but training costs, no hiring costs, parking costs, insurance costs, everything. What is the cost of somebody excelling at doing what it is I'm doing at a greater job than me? What would it cost? On every one of those items? The best I could do? I had to just guess on something, but I definitely did the best I could. And then I prioritise that based on spread, how much it produced versus how much it cost. Then I put another column. How much time am I actually spending on average? The final column, I wrote down, what are my final priorities with all these variables? I did a very thorough prioritisation system there. I sliced those into ten layers. I put a job description, I put a job description on that bottom layer, and hired somebody to do that but bottom layer. It took me three people to get the right person because I had to learn about hiring. I didn't know how about, hiring. I finally got the first person there, and that was free. That allowed me to go up a notch. And then I hired the next layer. What I did is it allowed me to go and put more time into the thing to produce the most, which was actually sharing a message of what I was doing publicly, with speaking. Public speaking was my door opener. I just kept knocking out layers.In the next 18 months, my business tenfold in increase in income and business. I had 12 staff members and five doctors working for me in a 5000 square foot office from under 1000 square foot original office in 18 months. Because I said goodbye to anything that weighed me down. Anytime you do something that's lower on your values, and anytime something hone your value value yourself and the world values you when you value. It's waiting for you just to get authentic and live by the highest values, which is your ideological identity. The thing you really revolve around you. Mine was teaching, so I call myself a teacher, right? So whatever that highest value is, if you prioritise your day and fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you, it doesn't fill up with low party distractions that don't, because it's now you're allowing yourself to be authentic. And it doesn't cost to properly delegate if you get the right people, and you go on and do what produces more per hour, it doesn't cost it makes sense. Lisa: That's the hard part, isn't it? As is growing. Dr John: You do your responsibilities. Go do the thing that knocks down the doors and goes and does the deals and then go and let them do all the crazy work. Like when I was 27, that's the last time I ever wrote a check or did payroll or looked at bills. I never looked at that again. Because that's a $20 an hour job and I could make way more speaking and doing my doctrine. So I thought, 'I'm not doing anything that's going to devalue me ever again in my life.' I've never gone back. 38 years, I've never gone back. Lisa: So systematise. This is a thing here, where I have a bit of a problem, a bit of a chaos, right? Dr John: I'm an ignoramus when it comes to anything other than research, write, travel, and teach. I'm useless. I'm not. I do jokes and say when I'm having I want to make love with my girlfriend. I tell her. I put my arms around I said, 'If I was to organise and have Hugh Jackman or Brad Pitt take care of lovemaking for you on my behalf and things like that, would you still love me?' One time if she said, 'No, I will still love you more.' I'm joking. That’s a joke. But the point is that if you're not delegating lower priority things, you're trapped. Lisa: And this is the dilemma, I think, of small businesses is giving that mix right and not taking on people before you can go to that next level. Dr John: But you go. You go to the next level by taking them on if it's done properly. Lisa: If it's done properly, because I've- Dr John: You want to make sure. That's why I have a value determination process on my website to determine the values of people I hire because if they're not inspired to do what I need to delegate, that's not the right person.You gotta have the right people on the bus, this column says. I have to be clear about what I can produce if I go and do these other things. And me speaking it, and doing the doctoring on the highest priority patients was way more productive financially than me doing those other things. So once I got on to that, I put somebody in place just to book speeches, and just to make sure that I was scheduled and filled my day with schedules with patients, it was a updated day and night. I've never gone back to that. I only research, write, travel, teach. That's it. Lisa: That's my dream. I'm gonna get there. Dr John: I don't do it. What's interesting is I became financially independent doing that because of that. I learned that if I don't value myself, and I don't pay myself, other people aren't going to pay me. If they're waiting for you to value you add when you value you, the world values you. You pay yourself first, other people pay you first. It's a reflection, economically, there. And that's what allowed me to do it. Because financial independence isn't for debauchery and for the fun life, in my opinion. It's for making sure that you get to do what you love because you love it not because you have to do it. Lisa: And having an impact on the world. But if you're stuck doing the admin and the technical, logical stuff, and the crap that goes along with the business. You're not impacting the world like you want to be impacting. Dr John: Weel, the individual that does the administration is impacting the world through the ripple effect by giving you the freedom to do it. Lisa: Exactly. Dr John: If that's what they love doing. That’s not what I love doing. But there are people that love administration, they love that stuff and love behind the scenes, I love doing that. Finding those people. That's the key. Lisa: Finding those people. I's given me a bit of encouragement because I've been in that sort of groundhog days I had to get through the ceiling and get to the next level of reach. Dr John: I finally realised that the cost of hiring somebody is insignificant compared to the freedom that it provides if you do your priority. Lisa: If you get your stuff right, and know what you… Dr John: Because the energy, your energy goes up the second you're doing what you love doing. And that draws business to you. Lisa: Absolutely. I mean, like doing what we're doing. Now, this is my happy place. Dr John: We’re both in our element. This is why we're probably going to slow down. The point is, when you're doing something you love to do, when you're on fire, with kind of an enthusiasm, people come around to watch you burn. They want to see you on fire. Lisa: I mean, they do, they do. And I've seen that in times in my life where I've been preparing for a big race or something, and I need sponsors. I just go out there. At the start, I didn't know how to do a sponsored proposal, I didn't know how to do any of that fancy stuff. I just went out there and told the story. And by sharing the story, people were like, 'I want to get on board with this. That's exciting.' People would come on in and and when you don't know, one of the things that I've found in life is the less you know, sometimes the more audacious you are. When you actually h
On this week’s episode, it’s a case that was TAILOR MADE for Space Case. You knew we’d talk about it, you WANTED us to talk about it, so here it is; what the hell was going on with that tiger that was loose in West Houston? For the last week or so, this was the […]
Chris's dad encounters a spirit at his job, the media is corrupting our brains and the Pentecostals of West Houston are getting us hyped to go to church. This episode is crazy.
Steven Deyo is the Vice President of West Houston Electric, and leading their current expansion from Katy, Texas to Los Angeles, California. He shares how his family-owned and operated, third-generation company has made the transition from commercial new builds to residential. He also highlights how they are identifying and capitalizing on new opportunities in the market. Growing Up in the Trades Steven grew up working in the company as a kid. At 10 years old, he asked his dad for an interview. He began as a tech, became a journeyman, and worked his way up into a leadership position. In addition to twisting wires as a profession, he is also a guitarist and songwriter. These aspirations coupled with the budding opportunity in our increasingly electricity-powered society inspired him to expand the family business to Los Angeles. “I came out here and became a California-licensed electrical contractor… knowing there's a lot of technology coming with solar, and electric cars, and their future, I definitely thought it would be a good idea to have my contracting license out here and continue the business in TX, so we are able to develop in both cities, in LA and Houston.” Identifying Opportunities Steven was only a one-year-old when his parents won the bid to wire George W. Bush Senior and Barbara Bush's home in 1991. Since then, they have had a storied roster of high-end customers. However, because of these high-profile homes, their reputation grew and demand across neighborhoods began to rise. This catapulted them to pivot their business in order to focus on residential. They saw this as an opportunity for long-term relationships with their customers, troubleshooting common problems, ensuring important safety upgrades, and providing precise, careful service within each unique home. Of course, there were tensions and growing pains that come with every transition, but Steven credits their success to his family's work ethic. He emphasizes the lessons that going out and doing these jobs with his father taught him, and how this leadership from the top down helped them establish clear processes that would help their team and serve their clients best. “I definitely learned about gathering a team and partnering with the right people to make it happen. It's a lot of processes that are going into getting new customers and developing our market. So, over time learning from the companies that we work with that help us to make it happen, doing podcasts, also listening to podcasts like this one, this let me gather a lot of content and learn from industry experts... I try to attend trade conventions, expos where I can learn, I'm part of coaching groups where they teach us this material, Blue Collar Success Group is one that I'm having success with.” Building a Culture Building a culture begins with hiring the right people. Steven acknowledges that it is tough and challenging, but these key pillars help make it happen: Know what you're looking for in an employee.Follow up with people.Always be recruiting and looking.Maintain an organic presence on digital and online platforms.Provide incentive-based pay for technicians and team. Your company values also have a profound impact on your culture. Steven credits hard work, integrity, communication, and serving each customer as if they were the only customer for shaping the customer and employee experience at West Houston Electric. Expansion Driven by Technological Boom Steven shares that the expansion to Los Angeles is a different, separate entity from West Houston Electric, but will share the same processes and values that make their original location successful. Some of the trends that inspired them to expand and capitalize on consistent developments in their industry were: The increasing adoption of the Internet of Things and smart homes.Older homes in need of electrical renovations and code compliance.LED lighting.Security systems.Electric cars.Energy conservation and sustainability: generators, solar systems. Steven's advice to those pursuing growth and expansion during this time is to surround yourself with people who will hold you accountable. “Be clear on your goals and partner with people that can help you be accountable to those goals and check on them regularly.”
In this episode, we visit the Katy Magnolia Cemetery in West Houston in a search to find the grave of a rumored witch who was buried there many years ago. On her gravestone is an epitaph that is supposed to bring bad luck to those who read it aloud. We found what we were looking for and more...
As with life, you can't really predict anything. No natural disasters could save you from the possibility of acquiring damage. That is why it is important to think about insuring your properties in case calamities happen. Keith gets down to the details about flood insurance – what you need to know about it and how to go through it. He shares some personal experiences with Harvey that will give you time to reflect on the possible consequences you may meet along the way. Furthermore, he gives a great overview by covering flood insurance from the perspective of lenders as well as the state. — Listen to the podcast here: The Pros And Cons Of Getting Flood Insurance Flood insurance is a topic that’s near and dear to my heart for a few reasons. Number one, my wife and I went through our own flood insurance claim on our primary residence back in April of 2009. No named windstorm, no Harvey, no Rita, none of that. Just a freak springtime thunderstorm that sat over West Houston and dumped a tremendous amount of water. That’s one reason. The next reason is the flood policy through the https://www.floodsmart.gov/ (National Flood Insurance Program). You’ll buy it through State Farm, Farmers, Allstate or whoever, but it’s relatively cheap. They sell the policy and they will administer any claims. It’s all backed by FEMA, the https://www.fema.gov/ (Federal Emergency Management Agency). That’s why it’s cheap. It’s a government subsidized. This is one case where as an investor you have to take advantage of the subsidy and the relatively low price it would cost your borrower to have the flood insurance. In my daytime and my real life, not just on TV, I'm a licensed insurance adjuster. I hold property casually, that is. I hold licenses in four states and reciprocity through a whole bunch of others. In the last few years, I've adjusted several commercial and industrial flood claims whose settlements total in excess of $160 million. I've seen some flood claims and what it can do and have handled a lot of other people’s money during that process. The moral of the story is after Harvey, I now demand flood insurance on all of my notes. People say, “It’s not in a floodplain.” Back in 2009 when my house flooded, we were fortunate enough to have good neighbors across the street from us who only took on a little bit of water in one corner of their room. We had a young baby at the time. The neighbor said, “Come on over.” We waded across the street. We were talking with the neighbors and they asked if we had flood insurance. I said, “Yes, I've always had it. My dad beat that in my brain. If you’re going to live in the Houston area, you better have flood insurance. There’s no getting around it.” I asked them if they had flood insurance and they said, “No, we don’t because we don’t live in a floodplain.” I pointed to my house across the street and I said, “Neither do we.” If you live in a low-lying area or near the coast or river, you should go ahead and expect that those flood policies are going to cost more. The likelihood of a 100-year event or a 50-year event damaging a property is pretty high. If you’re not in a flood zone, it is relatively cheap and you can go to the National Flood Insurance Program to find out more or call your agent and then talk to them about it. I'll treat this like any other real estate investment. We bought the house in early 2006. It was 1,500 square feet. Nice little ranch-style home in Spring Branch area of Houston. It had an 8,500-square foot lot, 1,500 square feet of living space. We paid $120,000 for it. We lived in it for a few years before we flooded. That's the beauty of insurance; whether it be flood property or not, funds do not matter as a...
For many of us who speak for a living our business and careers depend on making powerful presentations. For others you might have to occasionally make a presentation in front of a group of co-workers or clients. How do you go from a good speaker to a great speaker? We kicked off the show today with Houston Business Journal's Money and Law reporter Suzanne Edwards for our 2nd installment of a local Houston economy update. We discussed the recent changes in the oil market and what that means for West Houston and the Energy Corridor. We talked about major energy companies cutting jobs and what resources our available to help transition into related industries or find work. We also discussed how the changes in the oil market have changed the local credit market. We were then joined by executive speech coach, Patricia Fripp. Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE is an award-winning keynote speaker, business presentation expert, sales presentation skills trainer, and in-demand speech coach to executives and celebrity speakers. Meetings & Conventions magazine named her "One of the 10 most electrifying speakers in North America." She delivers high-energy, high-content, and dramatically memorable presentations. Kiplinger's Personal Finance identified Patricia Fripp Speaking School as one of the best ways you can invest in your career In addition to being an award-winning professional keynote speaker, executive speech coach, sales presentation trainer, and author... Patricia Fripp is also the adoring sister of guitarist Robert Fripp of King Crimson. You can find out more about Patricia Fripp by visiting her wesite at: www.Frip.com To Find out more about Suzanne Edwards you can follow her at: @HBJSuzanne You can listen live by going to www.kpft.org and clicking on the HD3 tab. You can also listen to this episode and others by podcast at: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/moneymatters or www.moneymatterspodcast.com #kpft
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