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Lessons Learned in 2020 and The Impact They’ll Make in the Future 2020 has been a trying year. The pandemic impacted the entire world, making massive changes to work settings and schools. Many businesses shut their doors for good while others adjusted their hours of operation. What are the lessons we’ve learned so far and how will it help us survive in the years to come? Linda Yates, the host of Int-HER-rupt, will help guide us through what we’ve learned. Insights from 2020 Linda saw the importance of having great mentors and sponsors in becoming successful. Many people can miss key opportunities because they don’t have these critical people in their lives.  Not only do we need people who have gone before us, we need to look for people in the organization we can also be a mentor to. Early in her career, Linda worked as an admin assistant. It was a new working experience the interim director of the division she was working for became her mentor. Linda came to her for help and instead of dismissing her, the director believed in Linda and offered advice. For example, this new mentor taught Linda that technology can automate their process.  Linda’s mentor taught her to believe in herself.  Self-confidence can help you become more assertive. not only towards work, but in life in general.  In the previous episode, Linda’s guest Sally Glick shared some important insights on how to overcome interruptions.  Sherry Chris, one of the first guests of the show shared how interrupting herself has become a key factor towards success. When you feel like you’re in some rabbit hole, it’s important to interrupt yourself.  It’s true that 2020 has been a tough year for many people but if you’ve gotten stuck in your bubble, it’s time to interrupt yourself and think about the possibilities that 2021 brings.  Confidence is critical in understanding what’s possible for you in leadership. Gain and keep a seat at the table.  It’s important to feed your mind with the information that will make a direct impact on your success. Seek to learn from the experience of others to help you move forward.  Another lesson Linda learned was to honor the differences between herself and others. We all have different experiences and learn different lessons. Expect to see the best sides of people as you learn about them.  Communicate with the entire team. They are your family in the organization and you need to support them.  From Michelle Johnston’s episode, Linda learned how to see the good in every individual. Seek to complement and highlight the strength you see in other people.  Look back at 2020 in its entirety and see how you survived it. That alone should tell you how strong and empowered you are.  “Lessons Learned From 2020 and What They'll Mean for the Future” episode resources Do you have more stories to tell? Talk to Linda Yates here. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios. Check out other podcasts by the TSE Studios including The Sales Evangelist and more.  This episode is sponsored by The Sales Evangelist, helping new and struggling sellers close more deals and smash their quotas. Int-HER-rupt Podcast is produced by the team at TSE Studios,  If you haven’t already, please subscribe to the Int-HER-rupt Podcast so you won’t miss a single interview. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. You can also leave comments, suggestions, and ratings for every episode you listen to.  Audio created by Ryan Rasmussen Productions. 

Our guest, Lisa Marchiano, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, certified Jungian analyst, and podcast co-host of This Jungian Life based in Philadelphia, PA.Lisa shares how depth psychology can enliven your human experience, deepen your connection with your instincts, and help you become a more complete version of yourself.We discuss finding your inner locus of control, creating a relationship with the infinite, the significance of dreams, and what the current moment will require from all of us, among other topics.====================Important References In This Episode:www.ThisJungianLife.comDream School by This Jungian Lifewww.LisaMarchiano.com====================Book References In This Episode:"The Master and His Emmisary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World" by Iain McGilchrist"Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth" by Robert A. Johnson"So That's What They're For!: The Definitive Breastfeeding Guide, 3rd edition" by Janet Tamaro"McElligot's Pool" by Dr. Seuss"Vasilisa The Beautiful" collected by Alexander Afanasyev in "Narodnye Russkie Skazki" (Russian Fairy Tales)====================We are grateful to our supporters and appreciate this opportunity with you!If you believe our podcast has ever helped you, please share it with someone you know, rate/review us, and be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.Connect with @risinglaterally on Twitter and Instagram.Connect with @therealarjunsachdev and @yourfriendjayb on Instagram.

October 16, 2020 If there was a coffee or mustard stain on your shirt or pants would you bother to be embarrassed? Because of the masks we’re wearing how many of us are worried about having a clean snot canal? What? They’re honest questions! I heard a quote yesterday. Because of the pandemic our lives have changed but not the days. We wake up expecting to do things. By 4pm we haven’t budged on anything. 8pm rolls around and we’ve forgotten what we were supposed to do so we go to sleep to wake up to a new day. My tax accountant knows of this new age of procrastination. October 15th was the extended due date and multiple amounts of people were endlessly calling him for a second and third chance. Is it my imagination or has the single burger at Wendy’s gotten smaller? Wanna know something else that people haven’t heard or are totally ignoring? There were 25 hundred new Covid-19 cases reported in North Carolina yesterday. It’s a new single day high. Eight months into this pandemic and we still can’t get our heads out of our ***. On this podcast episode I’m gonna do everything I can to help turn this mess into a positive. The heart is only so strong. Our legs can only carry so much weight. Are you ready to face a tougher question? One that’ll probably turn you off and force your instinct to march to a different page? Is our faith in God so unstoppable that we physically believe that we’re untouchable? 25 hundred new Covid cases in North Carolina in one day. My father would grab me by the nap of my neck and latch onto my hair so I couldn’t get away and sternly shout, “What part of this aren’t you understanding? I’m looking for an answer not an excuse! Where along the line did you suddenly make your decision making greater than common sense?” 25 hundred. Personally this isn’t how I thought the rapture would play out. Are we living the existence of the making of what could be the Anti-Christ? Why did I take it there? Did I really need to bring up what so many children feared while growing up? Church for me in 1970 wasn’t about unbelievable worship bands and God being nice. Up in Montana we grew into a pair of shoes that put the fear of the Almighty into our decision making. We heard about the end of the world over and over again. The accountability at hand honestly has nothing to do with conspiracy theories and or spiritual beliefs but rather a personal decision to challenge ourselves to be real and stay real. To be aware and not falsify the facts. There’s no such thing as flying pigs. But I’ve fallen witness to the flying squirrels of Montana. They say Old Faithful at Yellowstone is probably gonna stop. In 400 years or more! There’s a positive in your everyday world. Everyday! Your positive is located in your choice. You have the power to make a physical choice to be or not to be positive. Uncertainty isn’t new. It’s been here since the beginning of time. How you choose to deal with it determines the presence of your positive.

October 16, 2020 If there was a coffee or mustard stain on your shirt or pants would you bother to be embarrassed? Because of the masks we’re wearing how many of us are worried about having a clean snot canal? What? They’re honest questions! I heard a quote yesterday. Because of the pandemic our lives have changed but not the days. We wake up expecting to do things. By 4pm we haven’t budged on anything. 8pm rolls around and we’ve forgotten what we were supposed to do so we go to sleep to wake up to a new day. My tax accountant knows of this new age of procrastination. October 15th was the extended due date and multiple amounts of people were endlessly calling him for a second and third chance. Is it my imagination or has the single burger at Wendy’s gotten smaller? Wanna know something else that people haven’t heard or are totally ignoring? There were 25 hundred new Covid-19 cases reported in North Carolina yesterday. It’s a new single day high. Eight months into this pandemic and we still can’t get our heads out of our ***. On this podcast episode I’m gonna do everything I can to help turn this mess into a positive. The heart is only so strong. Our legs can only carry so much weight. Are you ready to face a tougher question? One that’ll probably turn you off and force your instinct to march to a different page? Is our faith in God so unstoppable that we physically believe that we’re untouchable? 25 hundred new Covid cases in North Carolina in one day. My father would grab me by the nap of my neck and latch onto my hair so I couldn’t get away and sternly shout, “What part of this aren’t you understanding? I’m looking for an answer not an excuse! Where along the line did you suddenly make your decision making greater than common sense?” 25 hundred. Personally this isn’t how I thought the rapture would play out. Are we living the existence of the making of what could be the Anti-Christ? Why did I take it there? Did I really need to bring up what so many children feared while growing up? Church for me in 1970 wasn’t about unbelievable worship bands and God being nice. Up in Montana we grew into a pair of shoes that put the fear of the Almighty into our decision making. We heard about the end of the world over and over again. The accountability at hand honestly has nothing to do with conspiracy theories and or spiritual beliefs but rather a personal decision to challenge ourselves to be real and stay real. To be aware and not falsify the facts. There’s no such thing as flying pigs. But I’ve fallen witness to the flying squirrels of Montana. They say Old Faithful at Yellowstone is probably gonna stop. In 400 years or more! There’s a positive in your everyday world. Everyday! Your positive is located in your choice. You have the power to make a physical choice to be or not to be positive. Uncertainty isn’t new. It’s been here since the beginning of time. How you choose to deal with it determines the presence of your positive.

Do you remember the declaration from last week’s episode of the Believe & Speak podcast? It was a good one! If you missed it, go back and review Episode 41. Last week’s declaration started with “I can.” As you know, the word “can” refers to an ability. This week continues with a similar assurance of your abilities—abilities you have because of the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ. Picture yourself as a jar that begins each day empty. You need to be filled before you can pour anything out. Right? Nothing comes out of an empty jar. So, where do you go to be filled? What will you allow into your jar? Because what goes in will come out at some point. Paul prayed that the Philippians’ love would overflow more and more, that they would keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. He wanted them to understand what really mattered. Why? Phil. 1:10 says so that they could live pure and blameless lives. Wait! What? They could live pure and blameless lives NOT because of what they did, but because of what they understood. Paul knew that if they were filled with the fruit of righteousness they would overflow with love. When we understand what Jesus did for us and what he offers to us through the Holy Spirit, we absolutely can live pure and blameless lives. Love flows out of those who are pure and blameless because their jars are filled to overflowing with the love of God. Longing to Belong: Discovering the Joy of Acceptance is now available for purchase on Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Walmart.com, Booksamillion.com and Christianbook.com. It’s also available for download to your Kindle or from the Apple store for your iBooks app. Or visit my website to purchase a copy at shawnamariebryant.com This week's scripture: Philippians 1:3–11

A new MP3 sermon from Trinity Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Pastors: What They Are and What They're For - Pt 1 Subtitle: Topical Speaker: Timothy Raymond Broadcaster: Trinity Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 10/11/2020 Bible: Titus 1 Length: 40 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Trinity Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Pastors: What They Are and What They're For - Pt 1 Subtitle: Topical Speaker: Timothy Raymond Broadcaster: Trinity Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 10/11/2020 Bible: Titus 1 Length: 40 min.

Listen along to Cathy Crossno, the first birth mom guest on What They’re Worth, talk about the decision to choose adoption for her daughter nineteen years ago. Cathy talks about it all — the pregnancy, hospital stay, forming a relationship, guilt, shame, and God’s hand and forgiveness in the whole thing. We really appreciate her vulnerability, honesty, and reflection as she shares with us the hardest decision she ever made, along with the beautiful relationship she now holds with her daughter. You can find Cathy on Instagram @chasingcrossnos

Ariel and Joseph dive into their backgrounds and reveal their superhero origin stories. We take a look at the pre-order debacle for next-gen consoles and examine the consolidation of gaming studios under Microsoft. It actually makes us Microthink. Ha! You thought I was gonna say Microhard. Come on, we’re classy here! Linktree Referenced in this episode: Sony Apologizes For PS5 Pre-Order Clusterfuck And Says More Consoles Will Be Available This Year Xbox Series X Pre-Orders Have Been A Debacle So Far Microsoft Now Has 23 First-Party Studios, Here's What They're Making Listen here: Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts SoundCloud Follow us! Twitter

Finneas publica 'What They’ll Say About Us', una canción inspirada en el movimiento Black Lives Matter, que proyecta un futuro esperanzador y que él mismo produce. Hoy la escuchamos en 180 Grados junto a otra de las canciones del debut de Baby Queen, 'Rapture', lo nuevo de Declan McKenna y 'Veneno', el artefacto con el que Grises anuncian que el 18 de septiembre publican nuevo disco. MATILDA MANN – Happy Anniversary, Strange DECLAN McKENNA - Rapture TEMPLES – Paraphernalia IDLES – Grounds MAGA – Desde Otro Lugar ANNI B SWEET – Buen Viaje GRISES –Veneno CRYSTAL FIGHTERS –In Your Arms (Mr K & Ley DJ Remix) FINNEAS – What They’ll Say About Us BABY QUEEN - Medicine THE STRUMBELLAS – Young And Wild SOPHIE HUNGER – Liquid Air EL MEISTER – Doce de Cada Diez LOS ESTANQUES – Nací Santo SANTO DRAMA feat. MIGUEL RIVERA – Modernas y Difuntos PALACE – I’ll Be Fine Escuchar audio

The 3rd perek of Eruvin - beginning with a mishnah that ranges many topics. A joined meal to establish an eruv, also for Eruv Techumin (to extend one's city environs by another 2,000 amot). What about a meal made on maaser sheni?! You sell that produce, and use that money down the road (I'm Jerusalem). [What's What: They cycle of maaser sheni and maaser ani in the shemittah cycle]. What about someone who swore off food? That oath doesn't include water or salt, by definition. Note that establishing an eruv can made over wine, even if the person to use the eruv is a Nazir, who can't have wine (that's fine), or a Yisrael over terumah (machloket). And extending the techum through a "beit ha-pras" (when you don't know where the bodies are buried) - a kohen can go through to eat the eruv meal, in between the graves... The Gemara on the textual formula of the mishnah, instead of its content: Don't take the text too literally, when it comes to a statement of "all" - even when it gets more precise, to make exceptions. The example here is positive time-bound commandments from which women are exempt (except for when they're not) - and the inverse as well (the positive non-time-bound commandments from which women are also exempt). But the notion that the Gemara would treat the language of the mishnah as less than precise is very surprising. Perhaps the question really is what counts for food for the seudah that makes an eruv. What about brine (which is neither salt, nor water, but both, and more of a good than either alone). The Gemara gives us the key manner of deriving interpretation: mi'ut ribui mi'ut. Amplification and specific restrictions... And amplification again. Likewise, klal u-prat u-klal. The logic may not be intuitive (or second nature!), but as long as you're relying on one of the accepted methodologies, you're set.

On this week's show Duncan reviews Proxima, Luke and Tobi discuss What They've Been Watching including Upgrade plus this week's film news and on the extras what happens when we slow everything doooown Watch this week's Show on Wycombe Sounds YouTube channel 12 Hour Avenue https://www.facebook.com/12houravenue/ Email Monday Movies : mondaymovies@wycombesound.org.uk For more information: www.wycombesound.org.uk Monday Movies is broadcasted live on a Monday Night on Wycombe Sound the multi-award winning local radio station for High Wycombe.

Your visit to a forgotten cemetery turns into a night you’ll never forget. What? They just want to play. Join the official Scary Story Podcast website at https://scarypod.com/join

On this week's show Duncan HAS BEEN TO THE ACTUAL CINEMA! and as always is joined by Luke, and Tobi to discuss What They've Been Watching, Duncan reviews Russell Crowe in Unhinged and this week's film news and on the extras is Duncan working for the papers? #SoloBaby Watch this week's Show on Wycombe Sounds YouTube channel 12 Hour Avenue https://www.facebook.com/12houravenue/ Email Monday Movies : mondaymovies@wycombesound.org.uk For more information: www.wycombesound.org.uk Monday Movies is broadcasted live on a Monday Night on Wycombe Sound the multi-award winning local radio station for High Wycombe.

On this week's show Duncan, Luke, and Tobi discuss What They've Been Watching, this week's film news and on the extras more music talk Watch this week's Show on Wycombe Sounds YouTube channel 12 Hour Avenue https://www.facebook.com/12houravenue/ Email Monday Movies : mondaymovies@wycombesound.org.uk For more information: www.wycombesound.org.uk Monday Movies is broadcasted live on a Monday Night on Wycombe Sound the multi-award winning local radio station for High Wycombe.

On this week's show Duncan, Luke, and Tobi discuss What They've Been Watching, this week's film news and on the extras we turn our attention to Duncan and Music Watch this week's Show on Wycombe Sounds YouTube channel 12 Hour Avenue https://www.facebook.com/12houravenue/ Email Monday Movies : mondaymovies@wycombesound.org.uk For more information: www.wycombesound.org.uk Monday Movies is broadcasted live on a Monday Night on Wycombe Sound the multi-award winning local radio station for High Wycombe.

On this week's show Duncan, Luke, and Tobi discuss What They've Been Watching, this week's film news and on the extras has Tobi gone solo? Watch this week's Show on Wycombe Sounds YouTube channel 12 Hour Avenue https://www.facebook.com/12houravenue/ Email Monday Movies : mondaymovies@wycombesound.org.uk For more information: www.wycombesound.org.uk Monday Movies is broadcasted live on a Monday Night on Wycombe Sound the multi-award winning local radio station for High Wycombe.

On this week's show Duncan, Luke, and Tobi discuss What They've Been Watching, this week's film news and on the extras A brand new chat show? Watch this week's Show on Wycombe Sounds YouTube channel 12 Hour Avenue https://www.facebook.com/12houravenue/ Email Monday Movies : mondaymovies@wycombesound.org.uk For more information: www.wycombesound.org.uk Monday Movies is broadcasted live on a Monday Night on Wycombe Sound the multi-award winning local radio station for High Wycombe.

In this episode, Teri welcomes Heather Utzig, the Co-Founder and CEO at Pragmatic Voice, a tech innovation company that combines big data, analytics, tech & creativity to drive businesses.Heather has an extensive background in healthcare having worked for companies like Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly & Co with her efforts focused on the rapid growth of their sales and sales teams. She was responsible for managing over 130 field sales and sales managers in the area of Brain Health and Sleep efficacy. Her team won the most awards for sales success. She was awarded the Summit Award for outstanding leadership. She has also been a successful entrepreneur and has helped a lot of people launch businesses in catering, construction, healthcare, etc. She has owned and sold successful businesses, and worked with several technological platforms and implementation projects with companies over the past 10 years. Key Points From Heather!The voice applications they have been developing at Pragmatic Voice, specifically the ones geared towards helping surgeons keep track of instruments in the operating room and so much more.Her Introduction Into VoiceShe was developing a technology with one of her companies and she had requested voice to be developed for it because it was around medical instrumentation in general (they worked with medical instrument service providers and were looking at how to prevent infections through the touching of the instruments so voice would ensure that a lot of the processes were hands-free and mobile).In the process of having that voice application developed, she met her co-founder and learned a lot about voice from him.What They’re Doing In The Healthcare SpaceFrom her healthcare background, she has always considered how voice can be applied to solve the problems in healthcare.The fact that there is a lot of human connection in healthcare, especially when it comes to doctor-patient interactions, makes voice very crucial in ensuring that there’s more effectiveness in the delivery of healthcare.Pragmatic works with healthcare companies, facilities, and even physicians to help them place their applications into voice, and advice them on how that is related to HIPAA (privacy) and other areas. They have developed several voice applications in relation to that.One of those applications is Instrument Voice which works inside a hospital, surgery center, or doctor’s office where there is instrumentation that needs to either be repaired, maintained, sterilized, or logged.Anyone working with the instruments within a healthcare setting can look at an instrument’s history, ask questions, pull out manuals, see videos, and even request repairs through the voice app. Pragmatic is streamlining that whole process to make it easier for the healthcare providers.They also have Instrument Wiki, an application that enables doctors, hospitals, and manufacturers to collaborate on information to help each other out in working with their instruments and assets in the hospital.The applications are built on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, with their own proprietary open-source database technology.Most hospitals have had a problem in unifying their biomed and sterilization departments, and Pragmatic’s applications, because of their ease of use, can help in bringing a couple of departments in the hospitals together to work in an easier way. Their PresenceThey have been working with some hospitals in New York and they are working on refining several things with plans to go to full scale market in the next month.Links and Resources in this EpisodePragmatic Voice WebsiteInstrument VoiceThe Comprehensive Flash Briefing Formula CourseVoice Technology in Healthcare Bookwww.TheVoiceDen.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I speak with the great Jim Bovard, about his recent article "Will the Political Class Be Held Liable for What They've Done?" the question of holding the state accountable for its crimes against the rest of us.Jim has been chronicling the abuses of the US state for decades, and has written for numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, Playboy, the New Republic and USA Today. His books include:The Farm Fiasco (1989)Lost Rights (1994)Freedom in Chains (1999)Terrorism and Tyranny (2003)Attention Deficit Democracy (2006)

Edenicity vs. pandemics, earthquakes, locust plagues and more. It's like 17 disaster movies rolled into one. But in this case (spoiler alert!) the hero is the city.ResourcesEdenicity Reference DesignUri Friedman, New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet, The Atlantic, April 19, 2020Garrett M. Graff, Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next. politico.com, 05/07/2020https://www.sundirected.com/can-solar-flares-cme-emp-damge-your-off-grid-solar-power-system/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_locustJoe Palca, Maybe The Way To Control Locusts Is By Growing Crops They Don't Like, kunc.org, Aug 19, 2019Jen Stout, Plague or plenty? Why the locust is also a prawn of the sky, http://www.bugsfeed.com/locust, March 17, 2016Support the show (https://teespring.com/stores/edenicity)

Jen and Corri have 6 kids between the two of them.. and have found themselves (like so many parents during quarantine) struggling with how to balance being working moms, and suddenly HOMESCHOOL TEACHERS! What???? They talk to real-life homeschool mom Leah Hecht, and professional tutor Megan McNulty (The Tiny Tutor) and ask...  How much time a day should they spend in "teacher" mode? Is it ok to use lots of screen-time for learning? Why are there so many links?? Will Jen lean into the homeschooling and stick with it long-term? Do we have to do this all summer!??? And...they learn the GOLDEN RULE of homeschooling. 

Patreon.com/GoodMorningLiberty Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Ed Markey team up to propose monthly payments of $2K during pandemic https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/08/politics/bernie-sanders-covid-payments-kamala-harris/index.html (CNN)In response to the worsening economic crisis facing the country, Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Bernie Sanders of Vermont along with Ed Markey of Massachusetts will introduce a bill aimed at establishing a rebate payment program that would deliver $2,000 dollars to US residents including children until the Covid-19 pandemic has ended. Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/05/07/experts-knew-pandemic-was-coming-what-they-fear-next-238686?cid=apn You might feel blindsided by the coronavirus, but warnings about a looming pandemic have been there for decades. Government briefings, science journals and even popular fiction projected the spread of a novel virus and the economic impacts it would bring, complete often with details about the specific challenges the U.S. is now facing. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support

While most businesses are paralyzed by the Covid-19 Corona virus, there are those that will re-open bigger, better, and stronger than before this thing hit.What can you and your business be doing RIGHT NOW to prepare when things start to open up? Here are my observations and predictions regarding your marketing for your business.(Note - this is the audio from a webinar replay.)Chapters: 01:29 The state of the world right now03:09 What "They" are saying & some predictions04:21 Covid phrases to stop using right now05:56 A bad Covid-19 Ad (real world example)07:27 Marketing predictions after Covid-19 ends09:57 What you can do RIGHT NOW to be positioned for success14:22 Do not turn your sales funnel into a rabbit hole15:39 My free gift to you More marketing resources from Tim:Leave A Review & Subscribe On iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-market-anything/id1495561926Tim’s websites: https://www.MarketAnything.cohttps://www.TimBurtMedia.comhttps://www.SpeakerTim.comhttps://www.FreeGiftFromTim.com#marketing #covid #coronavirus

Ep 17   Repetition! Repetition! Repetition! Welcome to episode 17 of Crayons and Tantrums. Today we’re talking about repetition and young children, but specifically we’re talking about todays current learning/education structure for children. Today’s episode is called "Return to What They know - Repetition & the Young Child" So, here’s the thing I think in a time like this, when the routines of children were changed right from under them, what’s most important is their well being.  When we talk about schools, education and what happens next for your children, lets shift the conversation towards what children need now and what can we give them to make them feel safe, comfortable, loved and ready to learn.  Let's talk about it.  Grab your headphones or pop in your earbuds because Episode 17 starts now! Don't forget to check in every Wednesday for a new episode. Come hang out with me on Instagram or Pinterest (@monicajsutton), so we can hold each other accountable on understanding your child's behavior and development and how to best approach the daily ups and downs.  Chat soon! Follow @monicajsutton on social! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/monicajsutton/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/monicajsutton/ Have comments or thoughts about the episode? Share on Instagram using the hashtag #crayonsandtantrums. Show Notes: https://monicajsutton.com/episode-17

Pod-Crashing Episode 52 Programming Let’s lay it on the line. I’m not a Trouble Maker or Firestarter but I’ve always been a walker of my own way. I can openly admit that during the thirty three years I invested in Terrestrial Radio I drove a lot of decision makers and leaders over the edge. I truly love those that took that time weekly if not daily to sit me down in their nicely designed programming offices and calmly said, “I like how you try but every so often we need to pull you back. I’d rather have that on my team then someone that makes no attempt at being truly seen and or heard.” Does that mean without that brilliant programming staff and collection of radio consultants that I’m a rule breaker and ball buster on the digital platform? Well… after this episode you’ll have a clearer picture of why people have been known to say, “There are several different ways people host and post their podcasts. You know exactly what you’re going to get when you tap into the source of sound. You can’t say that about Arroe.” I’m absolutely without a doubt 1,000 percent all over the place! But rarely does anyone stop to ask why. They just accept that I’m a weird guy. It all begins with how I program podcasting. What? I know. Drop the vocal tracks. Clean it up. Post the monkey and watch the fans visiting the vocal zoo try to feed the animals. Yeah ok but that’s not me. I look at podcasting the same way I see programming a radio station. It’s not right or wrong in a world still discovering its shape and identity. First let me clarify a serious point of direction. The only reason why I never took the required steps to grow into a pair of radio programming slippers is because of the enormous amount of people that literally knew me best. The experience was like the old Cheech and Chong bit. Look! What is it? Looks like dog dung. What? Yeah! Taste. What? They knew I’d drive people totally insane with unheard of expectations and that’s not fair to a creative mind and spirit. Come on… In 2020 there’s a huge chance you’ve heard and created podcasting and have developed your own opinion as to whether it is or isn’t for you. It really is the Wild West and there are a lot of performers that aren’t in the mood or mindset to reset their sense of freedom. It’s gung ho or no go. I totally grasp the concept of putting everything on the hook and seeing whatever fish is willing to bite in an ocean so large science won’t even touch it. I first began programming podcasts in 2015. Watching how listeners were popping in for lengthy periods of time listening to several episodes at once I knew I needed to provide a variety of guests rather than focusing on music and movies. The mission was to bring more lifestyle into the Unplugged and Totally Uncut picture. People Magazine is brimming with every sort of interview. We needed to be part of that circle of content. At the time I was hosting three different podcasts. Each one had its own personality but in order to get more reach I needed to cross-pollinate the episodes. Which meant it was time to figure out who was tapping in and why. While creating an umbrella effect of podcasts I still needed to find focus for listeners that didn’t want to see camera people teamed up with musicians. So that introduced another podcast that was streamlined to bringing those conversations on demand. Paying close attention to what’s posted is a full time job. View From The Writing Instrument is about authors, songwriters and anybody else that depends on using words to get their art out there. As the program director I had to exercise caution in the way of never putting two published books up back to back. The bigger bang was coming from the presented variety. My side of the business of podcasting was to study how each episode was performing. It the manuscript writers were hauling butt then I had to think about giving them their own podcast. I talk to a lot of doctors and have yet to give them their own space. The hits are there but is it worth being a standalone podcast? I host another podcast titled Like Its Live. It lives up to its name. Every conversation is posted unedited like its live. I took a chance on listeners wanting something that wasn’t edited. To be on the edge just as I am when I pop out an odd ball question with a huge hole of dead air at the end. These conversations are later edited and placed under different umbrella podcasts. The Lyrics From Billy’s Forest won’t ever make it to Unplugged and Totally Uncut. There are certain motivational episodes that would push listeners away like a bad Country song. The same is true with the episodes found on Creativity The Addiction. Unless it has something to do with what the main umbrella is trying to project then it can’t go up for the sake of having something new. Programming my podcasts was a huge gamble in 2015 mainly because the early years for me were about locating a platform that would push what I do out there a little further than most. I didn’t want to be compared to anyone. It had to be its own image or I’d walk away. That meant trusting the gut and tucking in the chin. The programming logs are totally taken from the way terrestrial radio does its game. When you pull back and look at the entire picture a new episode on all the podcast features something new going up every hour. Sixteen different podcasts. One of them always has a new feature. They all fit under the biggest umbrella labeled Arroe Collins. Programming hours are extremely important. The only hours for Unplugged and Totally Uncut are 7 10 1 4 10pm View from the Writing Instrument 8 11 2 5 11pm The Choice’s hours are 9 12 6 and 9pm Whereas Like it’s live is midnight til six in the morning. So what’s the moral of the story? Play with it til you break it. Pick it back up. Glue it together then get ready to break it again. Crafting your sound and image doesn’t just happen. It requires chance and a lot of work. Make it yours. Unique and worthy. Don’t stop at what you think a podcast is. Living it like it’s the greatest thing on the planet. Or like Gene Simmons says nobody will believe it is.

Pod-Crashing Episode 52 Programming Let’s lay it on the line. I’m not a Trouble Maker or Firestarter but I’ve always been a walker of my own way. I can openly admit that during the thirty three years I invested in Terrestrial Radio I drove a lot of decision makers and leaders over the edge. I truly love those that took that time weekly if not daily to sit me down in their nicely designed programming offices and calmly said, “I like how you try but every so often we need to pull you back. I’d rather have that on my team then someone that makes no attempt at being truly seen and or heard.” Does that mean without that brilliant programming staff and collection of radio consultants that I’m a rule breaker and ball buster on the digital platform? Well… after this episode you’ll have a clearer picture of why people have been known to say, “There are several different ways people host and post their podcasts. You know exactly what you’re going to get when you tap into the source of sound. You can’t say that about Arroe.” I’m absolutely without a doubt 1,000 percent all over the place! But rarely does anyone stop to ask why. They just accept that I’m a weird guy. It all begins with how I program podcasting. What? I know. Drop the vocal tracks. Clean it up. Post the monkey and watch the fans visiting the vocal zoo try to feed the animals. Yeah ok but that’s not me. I look at podcasting the same way I see programming a radio station. It’s not right or wrong in a world still discovering its shape and identity. First let me clarify a serious point of direction. The only reason why I never took the required steps to grow into a pair of radio programming slippers is because of the enormous amount of people that literally knew me best. The experience was like the old Cheech and Chong bit. Look! What is it? Looks like dog dung. What? Yeah! Taste. What? They knew I’d drive people totally insane with unheard of expectations and that’s not fair to a creative mind and spirit. Come on… In 2020 there’s a huge chance you’ve heard and created podcasting and have developed your own opinion as to whether it is or isn’t for you. It really is the Wild West and there are a lot of performers that aren’t in the mood or mindset to reset their sense of freedom. It’s gung ho or no go. I totally grasp the concept of putting everything on the hook and seeing whatever fish is willing to bite in an ocean so large science won’t even touch it. I first began programming podcasts in 2015. Watching how listeners were popping in for lengthy periods of time listening to several episodes at once I knew I needed to provide a variety of guests rather than focusing on music and movies. The mission was to bring more lifestyle into the Unplugged and Totally Uncut picture. People Magazine is brimming with every sort of interview. We needed to be part of that circle of content. At the time I was hosting three different podcasts. Each one had its own personality but in order to get more reach I needed to cross-pollinate the episodes. Which meant it was time to figure out who was tapping in and why. While creating an umbrella effect of podcasts I still needed to find focus for listeners that didn’t want to see camera people teamed up with musicians. So that introduced another podcast that was streamlined to bringing those conversations on demand. Paying close attention to what’s posted is a full time job. View From The Writing Instrument is about authors, songwriters and anybody else that depends on using words to get their art out there. As the program director I had to exercise caution in the way of never putting two published books up back to back. The bigger bang was coming from the presented variety. My side of the business of podcasting was to study how each episode was performing. It the manuscript writers were hauling butt then I had to think about giving them their own podcast. I talk to a lot of doctors and have yet to give them their own space. The hits are there but is it worth being a standalone podcast? I host another podcast titled Like Its Live. It lives up to its name. Every conversation is posted unedited like its live. I took a chance on listeners wanting something that wasn’t edited. To be on the edge just as I am when I pop out an odd ball question with a huge hole of dead air at the end. These conversations are later edited and placed under different umbrella podcasts. The Lyrics From Billy’s Forest won’t ever make it to Unplugged and Totally Uncut. There are certain motivational episodes that would push listeners away like a bad Country song. The same is true with the episodes found on Creativity The Addiction. Unless it has something to do with what the main umbrella is trying to project then it can’t go up for the sake of having something new. Programming my podcasts was a huge gamble in 2015 mainly because the early years for me were about locating a platform that would push what I do out there a little further than most. I didn’t want to be compared to anyone. It had to be its own image or I’d walk away. That meant trusting the gut and tucking in the chin. The programming logs are totally taken from the way terrestrial radio does its game. When you pull back and look at the entire picture a new episode on all the podcast features something new going up every hour. Sixteen different podcasts. One of them always has a new feature. They all fit under the biggest umbrella labeled Arroe Collins. Programming hours are extremely important. The only hours for Unplugged and Totally Uncut are 7 10 1 4 10pm View from the Writing Instrument 8 11 2 5 11pm The Choice’s hours are 9 12 6 and 9pm Whereas Like it’s live is midnight til six in the morning. So what’s the moral of the story? Play with it til you break it. Pick it back up. Glue it together then get ready to break it again. Crafting your sound and image doesn’t just happen. It requires chance and a lot of work. Make it yours. Unique and worthy. Don’t stop at what you think a podcast is. Living it like it’s the greatest thing on the planet. Or like Gene Simmons says nobody will believe it is.

Pod-Crashing Episode 52 Programming Let’s lay it on the line. I’m not a Trouble Maker or Firestarter but I’ve always been a walker of my own way. I can openly admit that during the thirty three years I invested in Terrestrial Radio I drove a lot of decision makers and leaders over the edge. I truly love those that took that time weekly if not daily to sit me down in their nicely designed programming offices and calmly said, “I like how you try but every so often we need to pull you back. I’d rather have that on my team then someone that makes no attempt at being truly seen and or heard.” Does that mean without that brilliant programming staff and collection of radio consultants that I’m a rule breaker and ball buster on the digital platform? Well… after this episode you’ll have a clearer picture of why people have been known to say, “There are several different ways people host and post their podcasts. You know exactly what you’re going to get when you tap into the source of sound. You can’t say that about Arroe.” I’m absolutely without a doubt 1,000 percent all over the place! But rarely does anyone stop to ask why. They just accept that I’m a weird guy. It all begins with how I program podcasting. What? I know. Drop the vocal tracks. Clean it up. Post the monkey and watch the fans visiting the vocal zoo try to feed the animals. Yeah ok but that’s not me.I look at podcasting the same way I see programming a radio station. It’s not right or wrong in a world still discovering its shape and identity. First let me clarify a serious point of direction. The only reason why I never took the required steps to grow into a pair of radio programming slippers is because of the enormous amount of people that literally knew me best. The experience was like the old Cheech and Chong bit. Look! What is it? Looks like dog dung. What? Yeah! Taste. What? They knew I’d drive people totally insane with unheard of expectations and that’s not fair to a creative mind and spirit. Come on… In 2020 there’s a huge chance you’ve heard and created podcasting and have developed your own opinion as to whether it is or isn’t for you. It really is the Wild West and there are a lot of performers that aren’t in the mood or mindset to reset their sense of freedom. It’s gung ho or no go. I totally grasp the concept of putting everything on the hook and seeing whatever fish is willing to bite in an ocean so large science won’t even touch it. I first began programming podcasts in 2015. Watching how listeners were popping in for lengthy periods of time listening to several episodes at once I knew I needed to provide a variety of guests rather than focusing on music and movies. The mission was to bring more lifestyle into the Unplugged and Totally Uncut picture. People Magazine is brimming with every sort of interview. We needed to be part of that circle of content. At the time I was hosting three different podcasts. Each one had its own personality but in order to get more reach I needed to cross-pollinate the episodes. Which meant it was time to figure out who was tapping in and why. While creating an umbrella effect of podcasts I still needed to find focus for listeners that didn’t want to see camera people teamed up with musicians. So that introduced another podcast that was streamlined to bringing those conversations on demand. Paying close attention to what’s posted is a full time job. View From The Writing Instrument is about authors, songwriters and anybody else that depends on using words to get their art out there. As the program director I had to exercise caution in the way of never putting two published books up back to back. The bigger bang was coming from the presented variety. My side of the business of podcasting was to study how each episode was performing. It the manuscript writers were hauling butt then I had to think about giving them their own podcast. I talk to a lot of doctors and have yet to give them their own space. The hits are there but is it worth being a standalone podcast? I host another podcast titled Like Its Live. It lives up to its name. Every conversation is posted unedited like its live. I took a chance on listeners wanting something that wasn’t edited. To be on the edge just as I am when I pop out an odd ball question with a huge hole of dead air at the end. These conversations are later edited and placed under different umbrella podcasts.The Lyrics From Billy’s Forest won’t ever make it to Unplugged and Totally Uncut. There are certain motivational episodes that would push listeners away like a bad Country song. The same is true with the episodes found on Creativity The Addiction. Unless it has something to do with what the main umbrella is trying to project then it can’t go up for the sake of having something new. Programming my podcasts was a huge gamble in 2015 mainly because the early years for me were about locating a platform that would push what I do out there a little further than most. I didn’t want to be compared to anyone. It had to be its own image or I’d walk away. That meant trusting the gut and tucking in the chin. The programming logs are totally taken from the way terrestrial radio does its game. When you pull back and look at the entire picture a new episode on all the podcast features something new going up every hour. Sixteen different podcasts. One of them always has a new feature. They all fit under the biggest umbrella labeled Arroe Collins. Programming hours are extremely important. The only hours for Unplugged and Totally Uncut are 7 10 1 4 10pmView from the Writing Instrument 8 11 2 5 11pmThe Choice’s hours are 9 12 6 and 9pmWhereas Like it’s live is midnight til six in the morning. So what’s the moral of the story? Play with it til you break it. Pick it back up. Glue it together then get ready to break it again. Crafting your sound and image doesn’t just happen. It requires chance and a lot of work. Make it yours. Unique and worthy. Don’t stop at what you think a podcast is. Living it like it’s the greatest thing on the planet. Or like Gene Simmons says nobody will believe it is.

Pod-Crashing Episode 52 Programming Let’s lay it on the line. I’m not a Trouble Maker or Firestarter but I’ve always been a walker of my own way. I can openly admit that during the thirty three years I invested in Terrestrial Radio I drove a lot of decision makers and leaders over the edge. I truly love those that took that time weekly if not daily to sit me down in their nicely designed programming offices and calmly said, “I like how you try but every so often we need to pull you back. I’d rather have that on my team then someone that makes no attempt at being truly seen and or heard.” Does that mean without that brilliant programming staff and collection of radio consultants that I’m a rule breaker and ball buster on the digital platform? Well… after this episode you’ll have a clearer picture of why people have been known to say, “There are several different ways people host and post their podcasts. You know exactly what you’re going to get when you tap into the source of sound. You can’t say that about Arroe.” I’m absolutely without a doubt 1,000 percent all over the place! But rarely does anyone stop to ask why. They just accept that I’m a weird guy. It all begins with how I program podcasting. What? I know. Drop the vocal tracks. Clean it up. Post the monkey and watch the fans visiting the vocal zoo try to feed the animals. Yeah ok but that’s not me. I look at podcasting the same way I see programming a radio station. It’s not right or wrong in a world still discovering its shape and identity. First let me clarify a serious point of direction. The only reason why I never took the required steps to grow into a pair of radio programming slippers is because of the enormous amount of people that literally knew me best. The experience was like the old Cheech and Chong bit. Look! What is it? Looks like dog dung. What? Yeah! Taste. What? They knew I’d drive people totally insane with unheard of expectations and that’s not fair to a creative mind and spirit. Come on… In 2020 there’s a huge chance you’ve heard and created podcasting and have developed your own opinion as to whether it is or isn’t for you. It really is the Wild West and there are a lot of performers that aren’t in the mood or mindset to reset their sense of freedom. It’s gung ho or no go. I totally grasp the concept of putting everything on the hook and seeing whatever fish is willing to bite in an ocean so large science won’t even touch it. I first began programming podcasts in 2015. Watching how listeners were popping in for lengthy periods of time listening to several episodes at once I knew I needed to provide a variety of guests rather than focusing on music and movies. The mission was to bring more lifestyle into the Unplugged and Totally Uncut picture. People Magazine is brimming with every sort of interview. We needed to be part of that circle of content. At the time I was hosting three different podcasts. Each one had its own personality but in order to get more reach I needed to cross-pollinate the episodes. Which meant it was time to figure out who was tapping in and why. While creating an umbrella effect of podcasts I still needed to find focus for listeners that didn’t want to see camera people teamed up with musicians. So that introduced another podcast that was streamlined to bringing those conversations on demand. Paying close attention to what’s posted is a full time job. View From The Writing Instrument is about authors, songwriters and anybody else that depends on using words to get their art out there. As the program director I had to exercise caution in the way of never putting two published books up back to back. The bigger bang was coming from the presented variety. My side of the business of podcasting was to study how each episode was performing. It the manuscript writers were hauling butt then I had to think about giving them their own podcast. I talk to a lot of doctors and have yet to give them their own space. The hits are there but is it worth being a standalone podcast? I host another podcast titled Like Its Live. It lives up to its name. Every conversation is posted unedited like its live. I took a chance on listeners wanting something that wasn’t edited. To be on the edge just as I am when I pop out an odd ball question with a huge hole of dead air at the end. These conversations are later edited and placed under different umbrella podcasts. The Lyrics From Billy’s Forest won’t ever make it to Unplugged and Totally Uncut. There are certain motivational episodes that would push listeners away like a bad Country song. The same is true with the episodes found on Creativity The Addiction. Unless it has something to do with what the main umbrella is trying to project then it can’t go up for the sake of having something new. Programming my podcasts was a huge gamble in 2015 mainly because the early years for me were about locating a platform that would push what I do out there a little further than most. I didn’t want to be compared to anyone. It had to be its own image or I’d walk away. That meant trusting the gut and tucking in the chin. The programming logs are totally taken from the way terrestrial radio does its game. When you pull back and look at the entire picture a new episode on all the podcast features something new going up every hour. Sixteen different podcasts. One of them always has a new feature. They all fit under the biggest umbrella labeled Arroe Collins. Programming hours are extremely important. The only hours for Unplugged and Totally Uncut are 7 10 1 4 10pm View from the Writing Instrument 8 11 2 5 11pm The Choice’s hours are 9 12 6 and 9pm Whereas Like it’s live is midnight til six in the morning. So what’s the moral of the story? Play with it til you break it. Pick it back up. Glue it together then get ready to break it again. Crafting your sound and image doesn’t just happen. It requires chance and a lot of work. Make it yours. Unique and worthy. Don’t stop at what you think a podcast is. Living it like it’s the greatest thing on the planet. Or like Gene Simmons says nobody will believe it is.

Predicting the general atmosphere of the last days, and some of their characteristic elements, our Lord offers both comforts and commands to his people, telling them, -In your patience, possess your souls.---We answer five simple questions---Who- The Lord is speaking to his disciples.--When- About their attitude and conduct in the last days.--What- They need to possess their souls- to get and keep their souls so as to gain eternal life.--Why- Because the particular pressures and provocations of these seasons might shake God's people.--How- They must do this in patience- with steadfast endurance, rooted by faith in Christ.

Hi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! This week we’re talking about pirates and sadly, not those of the Caribbean variety.  The internet is littered with websites that sell (or claim to give away) pirated copies of books and addressing this situation can be a long and daunting process.  In this episode we talk about what kind of websites your book could end up on, what it is that the people that run them are after, and how to get your book taken down should pirates get ahold of it … this unfortunately involved a lot less of the ‘bribe them with rum’ tactic that we had hoped. We Make Books is hosted by Rekka Jay and Kaelyn Considine; Rekka is a published author and Kaelyn is an editor and together they are going to take you through what goes into getting a book out of your head, on to paper, in to the hands of a publisher, and finally on to book store shelves. We Make Books is a podcast for writer and publishers, by writers and publishers and we want to hear from our listeners! Hit us up on our social media, linked below, and send us your questions, comments, concerns, and if you’ve been spending your days in quarantine baking, tell us what you’ve made and stay safe everyone! We hope you enjoy We Make Books! Twitter: @WMBCast  |  @KindofKaelyn  |  @BittyBittyZap Instagram: @WMBCast  Patreon.com/WMBCast     Rekka (00:00): Welcome back to another episode of we make books a show about writing, publishing and everything in between. I'm Rekka, I write science fiction and fantasy as RJ Theodore. New Speaker (00:10): And I'm Kaelyn. I am the acquisitions editor for Parvus Press. New Speaker (00:13): So I know I've made a big Kaelyn. Kaelyn (00:17): Yeah, I mean I've done that for awhile, but, uh, is there any specific reason - Rekka (00:21): The day that I got the Google search term alert that my book had shown up on a pirate site, that's how I knew I'd made it. Kaelyn (00:28): It is a, it is a little bit of a marker in your career, isn't it? Rekka (00:32): Bingo square. I mean, like, it's not like I'm not gonna do anything about it, but, uh, you know, before I turn around and forward that email to my publisher and say, Hey, just so you know, please go take care of this. Um, I did bask in the having arrived-ness of that moment. Kaelyn (00:48): Yeah. It's, um, it's, you know, what did they say? SNL, Sesame street. Those are the big markers in your career. Rekka (00:54): I haven't made that one yet. I haven't done any of those pirated website, so I'm not, today we're talking about pirates, but not the awesome kind, not the kind in my books, the kind to take my books. Kaelyn (01:08): The kinds who take books and um, you know, put them on the website for all to, to read without paying for them, which as I think we've, you know, if you've listened to any of our previous episodes, we obviously come down very strongly against. Rekka (01:21): We don't like it . Kaelyn (01:29): Yeah. Kind of against that for various reasons. This was, a listener sent us this question, you know, asking about, um, pirates pirate websites, what you can do to prevent that from happening and what to do if it does happen. So, um, no, I think that's a pretty, there's a as much of a comprehensive walkthrough Rekka (01:38): Yeah. I mean, yeah, the problem itself is pretty simple. It's the solution that's kind of a bear. Yeah, exactly. Kaelyn (01:50): So anyway, uh, take a listen and um, as always, we hope you enjoy it Speaker 3 (02:08): [inaudible] Kaelyn (02:11): Well, I think we're getting this remote recoder thing, kind of uh, we're doing okay, right? Rekka (02:14): Hey, we're not coughing and we have no difficulty breathing, so it's a good song. We're a step ahead of a lot of other people at this point. Kaelyn (02:24): So, Hey everyone, uh, welcome back. We are, um, again recording remotely. Rekka (02:32): We are trying to uh, batch up some episodes. It's not that hopefully in the future you will say it, but the play gold meet lasted two weeks. Kaelyn (02:41): First of all, if it's a plague, it doesn't last two weeks. New Speaker (02:44): No, no, no. I'm sure it's fine. I'm in two weeks from now, we'll all be laughing about this. New Speaker (02:49): Um, by definition I think plagues must last longer than to be - New Speaker (02:54): Fine. You know, it never argue with an editor. They've got receipts in and the sources and stuff. Kaelyn (03:01): Well also when I was in grad school, I was a TA for a professor who specialized in history of medicine. So I had to TA a class, God, I think like three or four times. That was the history of plague and epidemic, Rekka (03:16): fFine, whatever. Or you're a semi expert on the subject. Kaelyn (03:19): Oh God, no, not at all. Rekka (03:21): We'll get out there and heal some people. If you're so smart. Kaelyn (03:22): We'll do. Okay. Rekka (03:26): Um, but anyway, yes. So we were, this is another one from the batch that we recorded, um, before my second surgery. So hopefully the world is a much better place as you're listening to this. Kaelyn (03:36): Well, the other side of this now. Yeah, but you know what doesn't make the world a good place? Rekka (03:42): Piracy. Kaelyn (03:43): Pirates. Rekka (03:44): See, I really subscribed to the romantic notion of pirates. I really want them to be good hearted people at their core that just work on the outside of regulation and law yet see that occasionally have like really exciting chase scenes with the law enforcement, but everyone ends up okay, Kaelyn (04:07): Well here's the thing about pirates Rekka and they're not really great people. Now don't get me wrong, in the early days of piracy, there was a lot to respected, possibly even admire. There was a, they were one of the first groups to have socialized medicine. Rekka (04:22): Right. Who were bringing it all the way back around. Kaelyn (04:27): And the concept of, um, worker's comp. If you were, uh, injured aboard a pirate ship and let's say you lost a hand, you were afforded a higher percentage of recovered booty. Rekka (04:38): Booty. Kaelyn (04:41): Now, that said pirates. Definitely were very into the pillaging, raping and maiming and above all stealing. Rekka (04:49): Yeah. Kaelyn (04:50): And in our modern day, that is what pirates continue to do now. So why are we talking about pirates? Well, this one actually comes from a listener who, uh, sent us a message and asked if we had any tips or tricks to dealing with people stealing your book. Pirates, putting it online without paying for it. Rekka (05:12): So obviously we're specifically talking about eBooks. Kaelyn (05:15): We are specifically talking about eBooks. If it would be really weird if they went out and bought physical copies of your book and then sold them online at that point, that just makes them a bookstore. Rekka (05:24): Right? So that makes them what a second hand bookstore. But no, you're right. So it's hard. The reason that, um, ebook piracy is so much stronger than print book piracy is because yes, those print books are, um, individual items that can only be resold or given away once. Um, yes, if they buy your book and then give it away physically, they are a library. If they buy your book and sell it, they are a bookstore and we like those people. We like both of those categories - Kaelyn (05:53): Those are great people. Rekka (05:54): Yes. But yeah, it's um, ebook, they get one file and they can give it away an unlimited number of times and that's a problem. Kaelyn, why is it a problem? Kaelyn (06:05): It's a problem because then you're not making money off the book. Now I'm going to head on - Rekka (06:09): Who's not making money off the book? Kaelyn (06:10): Everyone who was involved in the book that should be getting money from it is now not making money off the book. Right. Um, I'm going to head off this discussion right here by saying that there are a lot of people who will say that people who are going to go online and find pirated book versions of your book would not have bought it in the first place. Rekka (06:29): And this isn't actually 100% true. Kaelyn (06:32): It's not completely wrong. But yes, there is definitely a certain crowd of people that scour these websites, which by the way, we will not be naming any of them in this episode. The scour these websites, and that is how they consume books. They only get pirated copies online. And in those cases, yes, those people probably would not have bought the book no matter what. Um, that said there is a large segment as well that could go by the book and just wants to get it online for whatever reason. Rekka (07:04): Or just let, let me see if it's free first and then I'll buy it. Yeah, I'm using it as part of their budgeting system for their entertainment. Um, there is an anecdote, I don't recall who it was, but someone, an author, I think self-published uploaded their own book to a pirate site and inside it had the first two or three chapters and then at the end and explanation of why pirating costs that author their livelihood and a link to their website to go buy the book. Yeah. And apparently the response on the pirate site was, wow, that sucks. This book is really good. Now I have to go buy it and finish it. And a lot of them did. But chances are you aren't controlling this situation and someone else has uploaded a listing that matches your book's title and your author name. Kaelyn (07:58): So let's, as Rekka is kind of pointing to, let's talk about how and why your book may end up online. How's pretty easy? Somebody gets a hold of the digital file, assuming that they are able to get a hold of the digital file, puts it online for people to download. Who are these people and why are they doing this? Well, the answer is a pirates people who are trying to make money off of, um, giving your book away. Now, I'm saying giving your book away. But a lot of times that is not actually what's happening. And that is for one of two reasons. If you find that your book is showing up on a pirate website, there's a very good chance they don't actually have your book. New Speaker (08:39): Right. They are, they pulled some information off Amazon. Maybe they got a couple of the preview chapters off of there. They dump it in. And what they're actually trying to do is drive traffic to their website. Um, it could be primarily ad based, you know, some create websites that are just trying to get people to go there so that they can charge for ads. Right. Um, sometimes what they're trying to do is get you to sign up for a subscription for these supposedly free pirated books. Um, some of these are paid subscriptions. In some cases they just want your email address and information because that's also a very valuable market. Rekka (09:15): Yeah. They can sell that and they're not selling it to people who, um, who are going to do responsible things with that information. Kaelyn (09:22): Yeah. Conversely, if we go to even the further nefarious side of this, uh, they could say, okay, great, you signed up for free, here's the file, download it and that is a virus. Rekka (09:34): Yup. Kaelyn (09:35): Um, or that is some kind of, uh, key tracker or encryption breaker that is now going to take all of the information that it could possibly get from you. Rekka (09:45): I mean, I think it's a pretty reasonable piece of advice that if you're going to a website that is doing things that are unlawful, maybe don't trust downloads from that website. I mean, that's just me. Yeah. Kaelyn (09:57): That, um, that seems pretty sensible. Look at it this way. There is nobody out there who is going, you know what I really want to do? I want to give books away for free. I'm going to set up a website that is totally legit, completely above board where I'm going to steal people's books and put them on here so other people can read them. So the first that I'm going to set up a legit, totally above board website that steals books. Rekka (10:14): First of all, those two things don't happen in the same vacuum. Kaelyn (10:23): Yes, yes. And also some of you are going, wait a second, this sounds familiar. Yes, you're correct. That is called a library. Rekka (10:32): Yes. If you cannot afford to buy the book, go to the library instead. Here's a really, really, really, really cool fact. Libraries pay for the books that they buy. Yes, they do not return books, which is excellent for the author and the publisher also. Um, they have them in digital print and audio have available. So you can get the book in whatever format you want for free and you are actually supporting the author. Like if you, if you say, look, I really love this author. I read everything by them. I, you know, I hope they do well. I just can't afford books. Library. Please go to the library. Authors love it when they find out their books are in libraries and the library, if a book is popular, we'll buy multiple copies. Yup. It's amazing. It's almost like this is the way it was designed to work. Almost like the, I suppose the idea the whole time. Yeah. Oh yeah. So that is, that is the a hundred percent best alternative. If you meet a free book, absolutely. We support that. Go get it from the library please. Kaelyn (11:32): Yes. So all of them, uh, you know, just common sense. Should it imply here that any thing you're going to, to get something illegal could have some sketchy elements to it. And don't get me wrong, this is illegal. You are not, this is not something, you know, we're don't talking about books here that, um, you know, are part of the, uh, the common domain at this point. Rekka (11:54): But Kaelyn, information wants to be free. Kaelyn (11:58): This isn't information. Rekka (11:59): Right. This is IP. This is someone's property. Kaelyn (12:02): Yes. This is intellectual property. And you could say, I mean, now granted, you know, we both work in genre fiction. I'm talking, you know, we're not just talking about novels and uh, and fiction books. Um, you could say, well, somebody wrote this great book about how to, you know, build your own computer and I want to do that. Well, here's the thing. Somebody wrote that book and they did it for a reason. They put a lot of time and effort into it and the, there's no, you're not entitled to that person's knowledge and ability. Rekka (12:33): I mean, folks already complained that, you know, ebook prices cost so much and print book prices costs so much, but the fact is that it's still lower than the rate that they would give that book away if it was only being given away once. Like if an author wants to make a livable wage, they need all of the sales of the book at that price because the author doesn't even get a, you know, chunk of that. They get a sliver. Kaelyn (13:00): Well, and I'll take that a step further if you want to. You know, if you think the cost of a how-to book is too high, go take a class, see how much that costs. Hire somebody to come do it for you and see how much that costs. Rekka (13:13): Or buy a pre-made. Kaelyn (13:15): Yeah. These are people's skills and knowledge and intellect and time and time. They've worked hard to build and cultivate these things. This is a product the same way a farmer selling apples is selling a product, right? Um, so a lot of those lines up there is a very good chance that if you ever publish something, it is going to end up on a pirated website. And we at Parvus, I've had this happen a couple of times. The first time it happened we were almost a little happy. We were like, wow, we've made it on the map. Somebody actually stolen one of our books. Um, and then we were like, Oh crap, we better deal with that. So your book has shown up on a part at website. What do you do now? I am going to qualify this entire spiel of what is to come here. By saying that depending on aware the website is hosted in the world, I mean not just like, you know, what shady part of the internet. Rekka (14:14): Okay. Kaelyn (14:15): There may be very little you can do. Rekka (14:19): Right. Um, however, we are fortunate that a lot of, uh, cloud based servers and such are, are being used for hosting now and many of these are owned by corporations that will honor a take down request. Kaelyn (14:32): Yes. Now I'm going to use China as an example here because, uh, I then a cursory examination of this will show you that a lot of this comes up in China because, um, trade agreements and IP agreements and there's a lot of problems with China in general. Um, uh, reproducing. Yes. Things, let's call it that. Rekka (14:56): And I've run into this in the manufacturing world too. Kaelyn (14:58): Yes. Well that's what I was saying. Even in the manufacturing world, there is a lot of problems with dealing with things being stolen and remade in China and having no course to address this because China is not party to a lot of the international agreements that would give you recourse to address this. Rekka (15:19): Yup. Kaelyn (15:20): Um, okay, so that said, you find, you know, your book has shown up on an elicit website. The first thing that you can do is contact the website directly and just tell them, Hey, you've got this thing on here, this is mine. You've stolen it. Um, you know, if you're through a publisher, the publisher, you know, we've had to do this at our best, um, and demand, do they take it down? Okay. So then you're wrong. Well, how on earth do I, how do I do that? If a, you know, a lot of these, these kinds of websites aren't going to have the click here to contact us. Kaelyn (15:58): But, uh, so there's a great website out there called whois.com. Um, and what this is what this website is. It is just information about websites online and you can put in a website address and it's going to give you all of the information that it can about this particular website. Uh, the hosted platform, the domain, the registrar, everything. So the first thing you can do is go in and find the email address associated with the master account for the website and email them directly. Now who is, does do a thing where you can pay them to have that information, uh, privately blocked. And the reason for this is, you know, let's say like you've got a website and you don't want people to just be able to go find your email address in plastered everywhere. So it's gonna say something like privacy@gmail.com or privacy with some numbers at gmail.com. You can still email that what the address and it just redirects to the actual email address. The idea is just that you can't see it, Rekka (17:06): Right. So if you were trying to, um, you know, as an individual mask, as much of your private information as you can, when you register your domain name, it's cheaper to pay for a domain name privacy than it is to like register a PO box and have an address that isn't your home address and you know, that sort of thing. So yeah, this is a totally legit use of, um, privacy Kaelyn (17:31): I'd go so far as to recommend it setting up a, um, you know, an author website or something. It's probably not a bad thing to have. Um, okay. So, you know, people are probably at home scoffing going like, yeah, like they're gonna listen to that. Um, here's the thing. If what you're doing at that point is you're not really threatening them with legal action or you're not threatening them with the fact that they're giving away your book, you're threatening them with their website, you're threatening a business, a line of income at that point. Um, because, and the success rates here, you know, of course vary wildly, but one of the things you're doing is threatening their line of business. And how much of a response are you going to get for this? No way to know it. And again, a big part of this could depend on where this person is physically located in the world. Rekka (18:30): Yup. And if they're smart enough to make sure their host is also physically located there, um, you know, sometimes you're going to find these eBooks on legitimate bookstores. Like, um, people have found that their Kindle unlimited books show up in Apple books because someone has copied it and listed it for sale because they know that being a Kindle unlimited book, that authors not watching that book on Apple and then usually they find out because Kindle unlimited got mad at them and Amazon sent them a nasty note about it. So, um, when it's a legitimate ebook store, you're going to have a much easier time. But, but it's the pirating sites we're concerned about. Kaelyn (19:08): Yeah. Most of these are not legitimate sites. Um, so, all right, let's say you have not gotten a response back. You've threatened, you know, like whatever you need to throw in an order, you feel to get their attention. If they don't respond, the next step up now is to contact their hosting service. Now, as record said, a lot of places are cloud based. Now there's a lot of people who use hosting through Amazon or Google or any number of hosting platforms. Um, getting in touch with the hosting platform is going to have varying degrees of success. Um, part of it is that if they are using one of the larger hosting services, it's gonna probably take a while for someone to get around to looking at this. Um, conversely, if they have their own hosting set up, if this is a server that they've got set up, you know, in the back room at their house, and this is a 100% real thing that can happen. I mean, this is not hard to do at all. It's not expensive to go online, buy the necessary equipment and get it set up. It does not require a lot of overhead. It does not require a ton of power and you can keep a lot on those servers, especially when you're doing some, when you're talking about something like books, which are primarily text-based files. Rekka (20:29): Yep. A couple of megabytes each at the most Kaelyn (20:30): Maybe, if that. Rekka (20:31): Yeah. With pictures. Kaelyn (20:33): Yeah. With some pictures assuming that they have pictures because some of these, you know, Rekka (20:37): They'd probably strip a mountain, just deposit the text. Kaelyn (20:39): Yeah. This is where, you know, something else you would notice on a pirate sites is a lot of this is just a dump of plain, barely formatted into a document for you to download. Rekka (20:50): Yup. Kaelyn (20:51): Um, so if they are hosted through a major service or a cloud based service, you have some chance of getting some attention and some action there. Um, again, it could take a while and even then, depending on what it is, the hosted service may be somewhat limited in what it can do. So if that fails, the next question is, okay, what can I do after that? This is when you go to the registrar and you, um, Oh, registrar is a service that allows you to officially register your domain name. And these are, these services are actually regulated. Um, they're regulated by the internet corporation have assigned names and numbers and that is a long fancy way of saying that these are the people that give out IP addresses. Kaelyn (21:47): Um, these are the ones that when you know, for instance, when we went to get our website set up for, uh, this podcast, uh, WB cast.com we went through GoDaddy. GoDaddy is the registrar here. Um, they are regulated by an overseen by ICANN. This uh, internet corporation have assigned names and numbers, um, who oversees a lot of different registrars and make sure that they're keeping things above board and collecting all the right paperwork from the people who register and all that stuff and collecting the taxes. Exactly. The taxes and the fees are the real law. That's the good part there. Uh, now like you probably have heard about like, Oh, a is this domain name taken? You know how much you pay for these? The registrars are the ones that, um, like in the case of GoDaddy, they're notorious for buying, uh, domains and it's sitting on them and reselling them and uh, you know, that that's a legitimate thing you can do. Rekka (22:50): That's their business model. Yep. Kaelyn (22:52): Yeah. The next step up is to contact this registrar, um, and complained to them directly. In some cases you can call them and say, Hey, look at, you know, this, and if you're wondering again, how do I get this information and the hosted information for that matter, again, on who's who is.com, we'll have all of this in that search result. What you'd need to do at this point is to threaten or to actually file what's called a D M C a request the digital millennium copyright act. And what this is supposed to be doing is exactly what it sounds like. Something is violating my copyright of my book. This at this point is supposed to be a last resort and you need to that in any correspondence or conversations with the registrar at this point that you have tried everything else and you've exhausted all of your options. Kaelyn (23:56): You're now to the point that you have to go to the registrar to complain about this. Um, if you're to the point where you have to do this, you can find templates online suggesting you know, how to format this, what information to give them. And um, you know, how to direct this and who to direct it to. Um, Scribd has a good template for this. So there is one final, last step. It's not the same as actually getting this stuff scrubbed, but that has to go directly to the search engines to go to Google and to get them to do list. The search results. Do you list the search results? It's not making it. So the book is taken down, but it is making it so it is either harder or impossible to find. Right? So those are the stepwise parts here. Um, Rekka (24:51): And we'll link in the show notes. There's a really good article on the digital reader that covers a lot of this. And so we'll put those links in the show notes. We got a bunch of links for this episode. I'm just talking about the effect of piracy, the costs of piracy, that sort of thing. And um, and the, these are step-by-step you can follow along, um, in the digital reader's article, which is, which is really good. So, um, you know, you don't have to keep rewinding and writing down what she said, but, um, we always have transcripts too, but um, yeah, so it's, it's long, it's involved, but um, is it worth your time? Kaelyn (25:29): Well, you decide. Um, again, I will, I really want to emphasize that this is not an easy process. Even if the person is, let's say you're in America and this, uh, website is also hosted in America. It's still not an easy process to deal with all of this. Rekka (25:48): You got a D cross all your T's and dot all your I's to even get your email acknowledged. Kaelyn (25:53): Yeah. Now there, there used to be a service called Blasty. Do you remember Blasty, Rekka? Rekka (25:59): I've never heard of it. Kaelyn (26:00): Blasty was, um, it was, uh, I guess technically like a software bundle that you'd pay for and you'd put all the relevant information in and then it would basically do all of those steps for you. Rekka (26:13): Mmmhmm. Kaelyn (26:14): Uh, blasty does not exist anymore, unfortunately. Uh, they in last year had some very strange stuff happen with them. I still don't entirely understand. There was all of a sudden accusations of corruption and, uh, illicit payments being made and various things and then they just kind of disappeared. Their website is even gone. Um, which is a shame because it was kind of a good way to handle this if you were willing to pay for the service. Um - Rekka (26:41): Well there are services that will still handle sending your DMC notices. Kaelyn (26:46): Yes. Rekka (26:46): Um, they're going to be expensive, but it's because it's so tedious and because you have to stay on top of these things to make sure it actually gets handled. So, you know, if you're getting to the point where you really feel that the book sales that the piracy is costing, you are worth paying for a service to handle this. Um, which is not going to be until people know who you are to be looking for you anyway. Because what happens is these pirate sites, they pirate your books because they know that people are searching for your name and your title. Kaelyn (27:16): Yes. But in some cases, um, it's a, it's a volume game with them. Uh, they're gonna throw as many books as they can get their hands on onto one of these sites. Um, the, again, just if you're ever considering looking at or going to one of these websites, first of all, don't, but second, think about the people sitting on the other side of this. They are not doing this out of the goodness of their heart. Yes. Um, Rekka (27:47): they're not doing it because due to unforeseen circumstances, they could not complete their library degree. Kaelyn (27:52): Yeah. They're actually, what did that be? Something. Rekka (27:57): These are all rogue library scientists that just couldn't finish. And - Kaelyn (28:01): I was unfairly kicked out of life, my librarian program for giving away too many books. Rekka (28:07): I gave away too many books if they didn't like it. Kaelyn (28:09): So now I'm on the other side of the law. I will never stop, be stopped from giving away books. Um, there was a story. Um, but the people who are doing this are not doing it because they are rogue librarians out there giving away books and stories and information because they love to, they have ulterior and often to furious motives at best. They either want you to want to get your email and information or they want you to click on pages so they can make money from the website. That is the best case scenario Rekka (28:47): Yeah, that that's the least harmful case. Yes, it gets worse from there. Kaelyn (28:51): It gets worse. And I mean, viruses, identity theft, they are absolutely selling your information. Don't delude yourself into thinking they're not. So stay away from these websites for a lot of reasons. One - Rekka (29:07): Because you're a good person and you want to support authors and publishers Kaelyn (29:11): Yeah, because they suck and the people that run them suck. And you should not be stealing people's work and putting it out there for the world without them being properly compensated for it. If you want books and you cannot afford them request them from your library also, there's this great thing you can do with a Kindle and eBooks. You can share them. Rekka (29:31): Yup. Some of them to front some of them. Kaelyn (29:33): Yes. But like sometimes you can, you can loan them to friends. Um, there are other ways of getting these that are not jeopardizing not only the writer's livelihood, but also their ability to produce and create in the future. Rekka (29:50): Yep. And I will say for, you know, there are areas where it might be like distant from a good library or something. All you need is a membership to a library. And usually the only thing you need for membership to library is to be a resident of the same state. So if you can sign up for a library in your state, even if you can't walk in because it's not that close, once you have that membership, you can take it to I think, Libby or overdrive. And um, that's how you get the eBooks. And I mean, your library might have their own service, but basically it's usually Libby or Overdrive and then you can search under, you know, quote unquote under your library for the books you want. But it's coming from a large pool of books that are out there. And sometimes they're all checked out because that's how libraries work. But you can just get in line for that book and you can read it and when it comes available. Yep. Kaelyn (30:39): So that's, uh, that's kind of the, the story with pirates. Um, unfortunately they are not all ambling around doing bad Keith Richards impressions wearing a lot of very heavy eyeliner. I hey, don't get me wrong. I enjoy it. I enjoy it. Rekka (30:59): Um, yeah, I prefer the black sails. Uh, pirates these days, even though pirates of the Caribbean did inspire my novel trilogy. I will say that, uh, the black sails series, if you haven't watched that, go watch that. If you want, if you want to get involved with pirates, go watch that. Um, leave the pirate sites alone. Um, yeah, I will say, you know, you have some hope if you find your book on a legitimate site or a site with a legitimate host. Um, there has been some advice in the, and Kaelyn, you know, alluded to this at the very beginning of the episode, um, in the self publishing community that says, um, Hey, these were never your, uh, your readers anyway. Don't worry about it. Just be happy that your book is out there getting exposure. Um, I disagree with that. Um, I think self publishing authors are probably going to start disagreeing with that too now that it's getting more competitive and um, it's not quite the, you know, boom days that it used to be. So, um, I think it's worth your time to try and get them removed. Um, it's also legally a good thing to be doing to defend your copyrights. Yeah. Because if you don't defend your copyrights, then you know, the law sees, starts to see things differently than you might imagine they would. Kaelyn (32:19): There is, um, you know, the, and this is very subjective what I'm about to say. Uh, there is the case to be made that let's say down the line, you do actually end up in court over something, be it related to this or not. And the question comes up, well, you saw that people were this stuff before, didn't you? Well, why, why is it bothering you now? Why didn't it bother you then? Right now that said, this is a very time consuming and often mentally draining process. Um, so the, it is completely understandable to throw your hands up in the air and say, I just don't want to deal with this right now. Rekka (33:01): So you might be wondering, Oh my God, is my book already out on pirate sites and Oh my God, do I have to spend every morning crawling pirate sites in order to see if my book has popped up? Because what will happen is if you have a like peer-to-peer piracy site, they might take it down one day and then five minutes later or the next day or a week later, it's back up. So how do you know, um, some of them are behind a paywall, like we mentioned some of these pirate sites or subscriptions. So the only way to know what's in their data bank is unless they make the DataBank public, but you can't download unless you logged in. Um, the only way to know it would be to pay and it's, you're not going to do that. You don't want to support that. Um, but what I do, and I know Parvus does for their authors is set up a Google search term alert. So just put your author name in and your titles of your books and then you get an email. Kaelyn (33:51): We keep the Google search term alerts for numerous reasons. Basically, you know, we - Rekka (33:56): And sometimes that's how you find up the find out that a review is posted. You know, Kaelyn (34:01): you know, if Rekka's name suddenly starts popping up in conjunction with, um, you know, things like police arrested, Rekka (34:08): Hey, now she's not a lot of faith in me. I just learned this is a, um, this is a moment, hang on, I gotta I gotta recover from this. Kaelyn (34:19): It's okay. They have a Google news alert set up for me too. I'm really the one that they're waiting for - Rekka (34:22): Yeah, you're the one that's going to get in trouble first. Kaelyn (34:25): It's associated with a terms like "bizarre incident" and "neighbors say" Rekka (34:30): And explicable. Kaelyn (34:33): Yeah, no, of all of the people associated with Parvus, I am far and away the one most likely to end up on the news. Rekka (34:39): Yeah. Kaelyn (34:43): The New York post. Rekka (34:45): But anyway, yeah, but so what I'm saying is, is set a Google search similar and forget it, you know, move on. And what's going to happen is you are going to get notifications of things like reviews and it's just as a quick aside, if it's a negative review, that doesn't mean you have to respond to it just because it came to your inbox through a Google search alert. You're just going to leave that - Kaelyn (35:06): Go back and listen to the reviews episode. Rekka (35:08): Don't do it. Just don't do that. But yeah, so that's a possibility with um, with those search term alerts. But they are good for helping you learn when someone has listed your book. Um, because pretty much that's the only way I learned since I'm not going to be found on a pirate site, even though I love pirates, but just not that kind. You were on a pirate site, huh? Thought some was on a pirate site. Yeah. Yeah. But I found out through the Google search term cause I wasn't good. No, I meant I personally, my personal habit not to spend any time downloading from pirate sites. Yes. Kaelyn (35:41): I was going to say flotsam was absolutely on a pirate site. That was one of our first real, uh, I was the one. You were the first one we found and then we found Vick's and, we, and we were like, I wonder what else is on here? Oh shit. Everything. And that's, you know, that's the thing is that so many books end up on these things. There are people whose jobs are only two. They just, this is their lives. They just scour websites, scrape the internet, try to come up with this stuff. I've put it on a website Rekka (36:14): Do you think when they were young and someone asks them what they want to be when they grow up, they thought I'm going to be part of the book protectorate. Kaelyn (36:21): Pirate. Rekka (36:23): Pirate? Kaelyn (36:23): No. What? They said - Rekka (36:25): They probably said pirate and now instead that they're they're calling and defense. No, I'm saying the person whose job it is, this is their career. Their paid position is to go in and send, take down notices. Kaelyn (36:37): I like, I like that. I always should get them a badge. Official book protector. Rekka (36:42): Yes. Member of the protector. It, yes. I like it. Yes. Um, okay. So uh, I think that Rekka (36:50): Hopefully that answers the question. I mean what do you do to prevent it? You don't, yeah, there's really nothing you can do because the Stephen King books are there. Like you can't be big enough to be too big for this. You can't be small enough to be too small for this. Kaelyn (37:04): No such thing as the size of an audience or the size of a publisher that is going to prevent this from happening. Right. So, um, uh, I think we mentioned it earlier, uh, Jason Kimball had, uh, sent us that question, so, you know, thanks Jason. We always like questions and answering them on this show. 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So thanks again for listening and we really appreciate you and we hope your books never show up on pirate sites.  

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Episode 213 welcomes all things Spring with an episode about some Leprechaun movies. You know what’s worse than a leprechaun hiding in your house? Leprechauns hiding behind a pay wall! That’s right, the franchise of Leprechaun movies cost extra money! We’ll spend that gold elsewhere, thank you! But your thoughtful hosts found other movies that include evil leprechauns! There’s plenty of fun to have without going to a bar! What? They’re all closed until further notice? Listenership just went up! Find us on Instagram, where we are @chewingthescenery or easily find us on Facebook. Chewing the Scenery can be found on Soundcloud, iTunes and Stitcher. Please rate, review and subscribe- it really does help listeners find us! #horror #horrormovies #horrornerd #horroraddict #horrorjunkie #monsterkid #bmovie #scarymovies #monstermovie #podcast #chewingthescenery #zombies #zombie #VHS #moviemonsters #freepodcast #denver #colorado #everydayishalloween #halloween #horrorpodcast #leprechaun #leprechauns #leprechaunorigins #stpatricksday #saintpatrick

What kind of movie do you make about computer hacking before Windows '95 is out? Well, apparently this one! Hackers is a cult classic of incredibly mind-boggling proportions. Our lovable heroes spend the whole movie screwing with each other and committing a gleeful number of crimes in an attempt to "Hack the Planet." What does hacking the planet entail? Apparently surfing through the 3D realized 1995 era internet at speeds of 3! Johnny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie have a chemistry that will make you say "What? They got married after this thing?" Matthew Lillard dances around in a Jean-Paul Gauthier nightmare. Fischer Stevens is here in the hammiest performance of his unfortunate career. Honestly... this thing is a TON of fun and totally worth checking out! And we hope you'll stick around for our prequel, sequel and remake for... HACKERS! Official Site: PrequelSequelRemake.com/hackers Subscribe: PrequelSequelRemake.com/Subscribe Twitter: Twitter.com/PreSequelCast Facebook: Facebook.com/PrequelSequelRemake Instagram: Instagram.com/PrequelSequelRemake --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/prequelsequelremake/support

Our readings start with Exodus 9 which features a continuance of the struggle between Pharaoh and his magicians in the blue corner, weighing in at a combined weight of 550 pounds, and Moses and Aaron in the near corner, weighing in at around a hair under 300 pounds. Yes, it's a handicap match, but it is Pharaoh and his boys that are ultimately on the underpowered side. Job 27 sees Job continue his painful discourse and Luke 12 contains many powerful teachings of Jesus, including His cure for anxiety. Today we begin a three part series on spiritual gifts. Because this podcast follows the Robert Murray M'Cheyne plan, which was designed during a non-leap year, we will have an extra day in February to work with. Thus for the next three days, we will focus on 1st Corinthians 12-14, and on the 29th, we will discuss 1 Corinthians 15 - the resurrection chapter of the Bible. The next time we go through 1st Corinthians, our focus will be much more on the love chapter - 1st Corinthians 13. But, as a nod to the extreme importance of 1 Corinthians 13, and as a foretaste of our future discussion on the passage, I'd like to turn to our friend Pastor Charles Spurgeon to help us frame our discussion of spiritual gifts in their proper context: Two things are in the text [of 1st Corinthians 12-13]. There is, first, a good way. And, second, there is “an even better way.” First, the good way is for each individual Christian to “desire the greater gifts.” Paul was referring to spiritual gifts—gifts we ask God for, gifts we may expect the Spirit of God to bestow on us, gifts that can be used in the church of Christ, gifts we desire to possess that we may use them to the glory of God. A certain way may be good, but another way may be even better. Gifts are good, but love is better. We should desire spiritual gifts, but above all we should seek love—the best love, the noblest love, the greatest love—that is, love to God, love to fellow believers, and love to the church of God. This is “an even better way.” We should seek this love, first, because we need it. I do not know if we need all the gifts, but I am sure we need this love. Next, we should seek this love because we can have it. There is no limit to God’s love. Perhaps even though we covet earnestly the greater gifts, there may be some gifts we will never receive. But all can have love. We need to get more love, also, because we will then be more useful. I am not sure any of us would be more useful if we had more gifts. Not every gift makes a person useful, but I am sure divine love makes us useful. A gift is often barren, but love is always fruitful. We need to get more love so we will glorify God. How little glory God often gets out of great gifts! Gifts may be prostituted to the vilest purposes, but love always brings glory to God’s holy name. Remember, also, that though we are to desire great gifts, we will lose them one day. But if we have this love, we will keep it, and it will keep us. This divine love gives us the foretaste and pledge of glory. The person who is full of the majestic grace of divine love truly is blessed. Spurgeon, The Spurgeon Study Bible: Notes (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2017), 1551. The Bible never gives us a direct and inspired definition of what a spiritual gift is exactly, but there are enough teachings in the Bible on the topic that we can come up with a pretty good definition ourselves, based on what the Bible teaches. I'll list a few, and then give you mine: [Spiritual gifts] are gifts of grace granted by the Holy Spirit which are designed for the edification of the church. Thomas Schreiner from his book: Spiritual Gifts, What They are and why They Matter. A spiritual gift is a God-given ability, distributed to individual Christians by the Holy Spirit that allows him/or her to work through their lives to help the church execute its mission on earth. Dr. Roger Barrier https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/how-to-identify-and-effectively-use-your-spiritual-gifts.html A spiritual gift is an expression of the Holy Spirit in the life of believers which empowers them to serve the body of Christ, the church. Lifeway's Gene Wilks: https://www.marinerschurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DOC-Spiritual-Gifts-List-LW.pdf “[Spiritual] gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.” Pastor Tim Keller Spiritual gifts [are] the abilities given by the Spirit which express our faith and aim to strengthen the faith of others; they are abilities by which we receive the grace of God and disburse that grace to others. Pastor John Piper: https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/spiritual-gifts I completely agree with all five definitions above - they are all solid, and each one captures a slightly different nuance of the Bible's teaching on gifts of the Spirit. Note how the focus is on who the giver is - the Holy Spirit - and the focus is on what the purpose of the gifts are - the building up of the followers of Jesus. Almost every definition above makes mention of those two dynamics, because Paul's teaching on spiritual gifts makes those two points crystal clear. Here's my own personal definition: "Spiritual Gifts are various supernatural empowerments of grace given to Christians by the Holy Spirit to be used for building up others and pointing them to Jesus." The main things I add to my definition is that spiritual gifts are SUPERNATURAL - they are not natural talents, but rather supernatural abilities. This doesn't mean that Christians have super-powers, of course, but that the power-source for these abilities is not human, but of the Spirit, thus making it supernatural. I also suggest that spiritual gifts should point people to Jesus and build them up because it seems to me that this is what Paul is driving at in Ephesians 4: 11 And he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, 12 equipping the saints for the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ, 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into maturity with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness. 14 Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit. 15 But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into him who is the head—Christ. 16 From him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part. Ephesians 4:11-16 The Spiritual gifts therefore work to build us up/edify us and also work to point us upwards towards (and into) maturity in Christ. I'll close our discussion on these gifts today with: Three Foundational Truths About Spiritual Gifts: 1.Everybody in the Body of Christ has a spiritual gift. Every saved believer in Jesus has been empowered with at least one special, supernatural ability to serve others and glorify God. 2. These gifts are distributed by the Holy Spirit as He wills. Paul makes it very clear in 1st Corinthians 12, below, that these abilities from God are directly given to believers by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the giver of spiritual gifts AND is “active in them,” indicating that He is not only the initial gift-giver, but also the gift-activator, and the gift-sustainer. 3. These gifts are given for the benefit of others. According to Paul, who repeats this truth multiple times in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14, spiritual gifts are not primarily given for self-edification, but for the building-up of others in the Body of Christ/church. This is why Paul challenges the Corinthians, who were zealous for the operation of spiritual gifts, “So also you—since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in building up the church.” 1 Cor. 14:12 Note that Paul did NOT chastise the Corinthians for being interested in spiritual gifts – not even the controversial gifts like healing, miracles, prophecy and tongues. In fact, Paul says things like this, “I thank God that I speak in other languages more than all of you.” 1 Cor. 14:18, and, “Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, and above all that you may prophesy.” 1 Cor. 14:1 Though Paul orders the Corinthians to have orderly parameters on the operation of spiritual gifts, he never disparages ANY of the gifts, and he implores the Corinthians multiple times to desire the operation of spiritual gifts among them, especially the gift of prophecy. It is NOT immature to be interested in spiritual gifts – it is actually commanded that we be desirous of these graces in our midst. Primary Scriptural Foundation for Truths #1-3:  1 Corinthians 12:7-11:  “7 A demonstration of the Spirit is given to each person to produce what is beneficial: 8 to one is given a message of wisdom through the Spirit, to another, a message of knowledge by the same Spirit, 9 to another, faith by the same Spirit, to another, gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another, the performing of miracles, to another, prophecy, to another, distinguishing between spirits, to another, different kinds of languages,to another, interpretation of languages. 11 But one and the same Spirit is active in all these, distributing to each person as He wills.” This is the amazing story of God’s grace. God saves us by His grace and transforms us more and more into the likeness of His Son by His grace. In all our trials and afflictions, He sustains and strengthens us by His grace. He calls us by grace to perform our own unique function within the Body of Christ. Then, again by grace, He gives to each of us the spiritual gifts necessary to fulfill our calling. As we serve Him, He makes that service acceptable to Himself by grace, and then rewards us a hundredfold by grace. Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges

Our readings start with Exodus 9 which features a continuance of the struggle between Pharaoh and his magicians in the blue corner, weighing in at a combined weight of 550 pounds, and Moses and Aaron in the near corner, weighing in at around a hair under 300 pounds. Yes, it's a handicap match, but it is Pharaoh and his boys that are ultimately on the underpowered side. Job 27 sees Job continue his painful discourse and Luke 12 contains many powerful teachings of Jesus, including His cure for anxiety. Today we begin a three part series on spiritual gifts. Because this podcast follows the Robert Murray M'Cheyne plan, which was designed during a non-leap year, we will have an extra day in February to work with. Thus for the next three days, we will focus on 1st Corinthians 12-14, and on the 29th, we will discuss 1 Corinthians 15 - the resurrection chapter of the Bible. The next time we go through 1st Corinthians, our focus will be much more on the love chapter - 1st Corinthians 13. But, as a nod to the extreme importance of 1 Corinthians 13, and as a foretaste of our future discussion on the passage, I'd like to turn to our friend Pastor Charles Spurgeon to help us frame our discussion of spiritual gifts in their proper context: Two things are in the text [of 1st Corinthians 12-13]. There is, first, a good way. And, second, there is “an even better way.” First, the good way is for each individual Christian to “desire the greater gifts.” Paul was referring to spiritual gifts—gifts we ask God for, gifts we may expect the Spirit of God to bestow on us, gifts that can be used in the church of Christ, gifts we desire to possess that we may use them to the glory of God. A certain way may be good, but another way may be even better. Gifts are good, but love is better. We should desire spiritual gifts, but above all we should seek love—the best love, the noblest love, the greatest love—that is, love to God, love to fellow believers, and love to the church of God. This is “an even better way.” We should seek this love, first, because we need it. I do not know if we need all the gifts, but I am sure we need this love. Next, we should seek this love because we can have it. There is no limit to God’s love. Perhaps even though we covet earnestly the greater gifts, there may be some gifts we will never receive. But all can have love. We need to get more love, also, because we will then be more useful. I am not sure any of us would be more useful if we had more gifts. Not every gift makes a person useful, but I am sure divine love makes us useful. A gift is often barren, but love is always fruitful. We need to get more love so we will glorify God. How little glory God often gets out of great gifts! Gifts may be prostituted to the vilest purposes, but love always brings glory to God’s holy name. Remember, also, that though we are to desire great gifts, we will lose them one day. But if we have this love, we will keep it, and it will keep us. This divine love gives us the foretaste and pledge of glory. The person who is full of the majestic grace of divine love truly is blessed. Spurgeon, The Spurgeon Study Bible: Notes (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2017), 1551. The Bible never gives us a direct and inspired definition of what a spiritual gift is exactly, but there are enough teachings in the Bible on the topic that we can come up with a pretty good definition ourselves, based on what the Bible teaches. I'll list a few, and then give you mine: [Spiritual gifts] are gifts of grace granted by the Holy Spirit which are designed for the edification of the church. Thomas Schreiner from his book: Spiritual Gifts, What They are and why They Matter. A spiritual gift is a God-given ability, distributed to individual Christians by the Holy Spirit that allows him/or her to work through their lives to help the church execute its mission on earth. Dr. Roger Barrier https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/how-to-identify-and-effectively-use-your-spiritual-gifts.html A spiritual gift is an expression of the Holy Spirit in the life of believers which empowers them to serve the body of Christ, the church. Lifeway's Gene Wilks: https://www.marinerschurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DOC-Spiritual-Gifts-List-LW.pdf “[Spiritual] gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.” Pastor Tim Keller Spiritual gifts [are] the abilities given by the Spirit which express our faith and aim to strengthen the faith of others; they are abilities by which we receive the grace of God and disburse that grace to others. Pastor John Piper: https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/spiritual-gifts I completely agree with all five definitions above - they are all solid, and each one captures a slightly different nuance of the Bible's teaching on gifts of the Spirit. Note how the focus is on who the giver is - the Holy Spirit - and the focus is on what the purpose of the gifts are - the building up of the followers of Jesus. Almost every definition above makes mention of those two dynamics, because Paul's teaching on spiritual gifts makes those two points crystal clear. Here's my own personal definition: "Spiritual Gifts are various supernatural empowerments of grace given to Christians by the Holy Spirit to be used for building up others and pointing them to Jesus." The main things I add to my definition is that spiritual gifts are SUPERNATURAL - they are not natural talents, but rather supernatural abilities. This doesn't mean that Christians have super-powers, of course, but that the power-source for these abilities is not human, but of the Spirit, thus making it supernatural. I also suggest that spiritual gifts should point people to Jesus and build them up because it seems to me that this is what Paul is driving at in Ephesians 4: 11 And he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, 12 equipping the saints for the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ, 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into maturity with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness. 14 Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit. 15 But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into him who is the head—Christ. 16 From him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part. Ephesians 4:11-16 The Spiritual gifts therefore work to build us up/edify us and also work to point us upwards towards (and into) maturity in Christ. I'll close our discussion on these gifts today with: Three Foundational Truths About Spiritual Gifts: 1.Everybody in the Body of Christ has a spiritual gift. Every saved believer in Jesus has been empowered with at least one special, supernatural ability to serve others and glorify God. 2. These gifts are distributed by the Holy Spirit as He wills. Paul makes it very clear in 1st Corinthians 12, below, that these abilities from God are directly given to believers by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the giver of spiritual gifts AND is “active in them,” indicating that He is not only the initial gift-giver, but also the gift-activator, and the gift-sustainer. 3. These gifts are given for the benefit of others. According to Paul, who repeats this truth multiple times in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14, spiritual gifts are not primarily given for self-edification, but for the building-up of others in the Body of Christ/church. This is why Paul challenges the Corinthians, who were zealous for the operation of spiritual gifts, “So also you—since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in building up the church.” 1 Cor. 14:12 Note that Paul did NOT chastise the Corinthians for being interested in spiritual gifts – not even the controversial gifts like healing, miracles, prophecy and tongues. In fact, Paul says things like this, “I thank God that I speak in other languages more than all of you.” 1 Cor. 14:18, and, “Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, and above all that you may prophesy.” 1 Cor. 14:1 Though Paul orders the Corinthians to have orderly parameters on the operation of spiritual gifts, he never disparages ANY of the gifts, and he implores the Corinthians multiple times to desire the operation of spiritual gifts among them, especially the gift of prophecy. It is NOT immature to be interested in spiritual gifts – it is actually commanded that we be desirous of these graces in our midst. Primary Scriptural Foundation for Truths #1-3:  1 Corinthians 12:7-11:  “7 A demonstration of the Spirit is given to each person to produce what is beneficial: 8 to one is given a message of wisdom through the Spirit, to another, a message of knowledge by the same Spirit, 9 to another, faith by the same Spirit, to another, gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another, the performing of miracles, to another, prophecy, to another, distinguishing between spirits, to another, different kinds of languages,to another, interpretation of languages. 11 But one and the same Spirit is active in all these, distributing to each person as He wills.” This is the amazing story of God’s grace. God saves us by His grace and transforms us more and more into the likeness of His Son by His grace. In all our trials and afflictions, He sustains and strengthens us by His grace. He calls us by grace to perform our own unique function within the Body of Christ. Then, again by grace, He gives to each of us the spiritual gifts necessary to fulfill our calling. As we serve Him, He makes that service acceptable to Himself by grace, and then rewards us a hundredfold by grace. Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges

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NASA astronaut Army Lt. Col. Anne McClain, is accused of spying on her ex-wife's finances by logging into her bank account ... from Outer Space! What? They have wifi in space? Reporters Abbie Bennett, Eric Dehm, and Host, Phil Briggs dig deeper into this story and share a few stories about the crazy s#%! their ex's have done.   

On Episode 2 “ What They saw at Southie High” Host Nakia Monet and Coy talk about Jimmie being an informant and working with Jackie, Decorcy being in between two tough places and the Charlestown Boys going on another heist ! #Boston Set in 1990s Boston full of corruption, criminals, and racism; City On A Hill is a historical fiction based on this dark underbelly! Every week, we're breaking down the truths, fictions, themes, and characters within the episodes. Feel free to join us live in the chat or comment and rate on your podcast app to let us know your thoughts or if there's anything we've missed. Stay tuned and subscribe for Boston insight, special guests, segments, and more on the CITY ON A HILL AFTERBUZZ TV AFTER SHOW! In early 1990s Boston, violent criminals, corruption, and racism are part of the norm. Hailing from Brooklyn, District Attorney Decourcey Ward seeks change and forms a surprising alliance with a hardened FBI veteran. This unlikely duo take on a family of armored car robbers from Charleston. The case evolves into the change that Boston needs by altering the city's criminal justice system. Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV "Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTV Buy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Dark Phoenix Saga begins here!!! Well actually it began back in the late 70s. But we here at 3rd Degree Byrne want you to enjoy the saga like it is happening right now. You know, like if a movie was made about it. What? They made a movie about it? Twice? Did they get it right? I didnt think so! Seriously, if you want something done right around here, you get the Russos or HBO to do it. Now, back to the Dark Phoenix Saga! What you have here is the beginning to an event never before seen at 3rd Degree Byrne. A multi-part EPIC!! Ok, weve done the multi-part X-men thing in the past, but this is EPIC!!! We will cover X-Men 135 in our first Dark Phoenix episode. And because it was so important, we brought in some interns to do the heavy lifting. Thats right, listeners and frequent email and Facebook stalkers John Hijatt and David Thompson will guest star in each episode as we cover the Dark Phoenix Saga to the bitter end. Tim Elliott and Brian Hughes are still around as well. They go back in time, to a younger age and talk about their initial experience with this issue. Drinking game: Take a drink each time someone mentions the name of a convenience or Drug Store. Two drinks if they mention “Spinner Racks”. Get those drinks ready folks, because 3rd Degree Byrne is about to show you fire, and life incarnate, as they begin coverage of “The Dark Phoenix Saga”.Feedback for this show can be sent to: gottagetbyrned@gmail.com3rd Degree Byrne is proud to be part of the TwoTrueFreaks Internet Radio Network http://twotruefreaks.com/main.php Two True Freaks! is a proud member of BOTH the Comics Podcast Network(http://www.comicspodcasts.com/) and the League of Comic Book Podcasts(http://www.comicbooknoise.com/league/)!! Visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/3rdDegreeByrne/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/byrnepodcast THANK YOU for listening to 3rd Degree Byrne!

The Horror Queers are playing their way into the world of video game adaptations with the 2014 film Fatal Frame. "What? They made a movie out of Fatal Frame????", you ask? They most certainly did! Unfortunately, it never saw a North American release. Lucky for us (and you), it's streaming for free on YouTube! Sure, it is more of an adaptation of the video game franchise's themes than its plot, but the Camera Obscura does make a cameo! Is this the best video game movie ever made? Depending on whether or not you see Pokémon: Detective Pikachu this weekend, maybe!Joining the boys to discuss this atmospheric tale of Japanese lesbians, ghosts and cursed photograph (the "fatal frame," if you will) is Jenny Nulf, the Director of Programming for the Austin Asian American Film Festival! Her knowledge of Japanese culture and creepy ghost girls brings a necessary outside perspective to the episode.Laugh along as Joe butchers every single name (seriously, he gets them wrong even after he's been corrected), takes a pot shot at Madonna(!) and does some sort of ga(y)mer impersonation (discussing video games isn't a good look for Joe). Plus, Trace commandeers the weekly game (invoking Joe's wrath), the group discusses the film's murky stance on lesbianism and also try to figure out why it has 17(ish) endings.Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on Twitter using the hashtag #HorrorQueers> Trace: @tracedthurman> Joe: @bstolemyremote> Jenny: @jennyleighx33Support the boys on PatreonCheck out the online articles on Bloody Disgusting See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Dark Phoenix Saga begins here!!! Well actually it began back in the late 70s. But we here at 3rd Degree Byrne want you to enjoy the saga like it is happening right now. You know, like if a movie was made about it. What? They made a movie about it? Twice? Did they get it right? I didnt think so! Seriously, if you want something done right around here, you get the Russos or HBO to do it. Now, back to the Dark Phoenix Saga! What you have here is the beginning to an event never before seen at 3rd Degree Byrne. A multi-part EPIC!! Ok, weve done the multi-part X-men thing in the past, but this is EPIC!!! We will cover X-Men 135 in our first Dark Phoenix episode. And because it was so important, we brought in some interns to do the heavy lifting. Thats right, listeners and frequent email and Facebook stalkers John Hijatt and David Thompson will guest star in each episode as we cover the Dark Phoenix Saga to the bitter end. Tim Elliott and Brian Hughes are still around as well. They go back in time, to a younger age and talk about their initial experience with this issue. Drinking game: Take a drink each time someone mentions the name of a convenience or Drug Store. Two drinks if they mention “Spinner Racks”. Get those drinks ready folks, because 3rd Degree Byrne is about to show you fire, and life incarnate, as they begin coverage of “The Dark Phoenix Saga”.Feedback for this show can be sent to: gottagetbyrned@gmail.com3rd Degree Byrne is proud to be part of the TwoTrueFreaks Internet Radio Network http://twotruefreaks.com/main.php Two True Freaks! is a proud member of BOTH the Comics Podcast Network(http://www.comicspodcasts.com/) and the League of Comic Book Podcasts(http://www.comicbooknoise.com/league/)!! Visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/3rdDegreeByrne/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/byrnepodcast THANK YOU for listening to 3rd Degree Byrne!

On this Valentine’s special of What They’re Worth, the podcast is honored to host special guest April Dinwoodie. April is a transracial adoptee, podcast host, and adoption advocate and educator. Of all the many beautiful things she is, she is transparent and honest, sharing about the complex but beautiful nature of love in foster care and adoption. There is no way to listen and not learn a little more about how we can love authentically and sacrificially for the kids who are certainly worth it. Visit April's Site: https://aprildinwoodie.com/

Happy Thanksgiving ya Turkeys! Brandon and Olivia talk about Thanksgiving Plans, What They’re Grateful for, and Olivia puts Brandon on the Spot to Practice the Flight of the Concords Song: Father and Son. Special Appearance by Colonial Ghost. All Day All Night does not condone What Colonial Ghost Says. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alldayallnight/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alldayallnight/support

The Harlan County Historical Network held an Armistice Day Centennial Celebration at the Harlan County, Kentucky Courthouse. The program included the Appalachian Challenge Academy who presented the colors. The Harlan Boys Alumni Choir who sang the National Anthem and America the Beautiful. The first speaker you hear is Will Miller, Chairman of the Harlan Historical Network, Will Miller. Rev Tim H Mills, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Harlan addressed the crowd as the Principal Speaker on the theme, “What They did and what We do Matters”. Retired United States Army Major Marye C Boggs introducer and read the poem “In Flanders Field”. Taps was performed by Jeremy Bell followed by a Prayer for our Nation led by Rev Josh Haywood, Pastor of the Harlan Baptist Church.

The Harlan County Historical Network held an Armistice Day Centennial Celebration at the Harlan County, Kentucky Courthouse. The program included the Appalachian Challenge Academy who presented the colors. The Harlan Boys Alumni Choir who sang the National Anthem and America the Beautiful. The first speaker you hear is Will Miller, Chairman of the Harlan Historical Network, Will Miller. Rev Tim H Mills, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Harlan addressed the crowd as the Principal Speaker on the theme, “What They did and what We do Matters”. Retired United States Army Major Marye C Boggs introducer and read the poem “In Flanders Field”. Taps was performed by Jeremy Bell followed by a Prayer for our Nation led by Rev Josh Haywood, Pastor of the Harlan Baptist Church.

This is “What They’re Worth,” a podcast exposing the truths of everyday people who are willing to enter the beautiful mess of foster care and adoption. Today's episode is our first ever! Join us as we overview our purpose here on, "What They're Worth" and share our hearts and some of our stories regarding foster care and adoption.

Do you teach Scent Work classes and/or provide private consultations? Then this episode is for you. We discuss a variety topics many instructors oftentimes overlook. Such as how you can help ensure your students (both canine and human) are successful in your classes and consultations, what you can do to feel fulfilled and happy with what you do as an instructor and common pitfalls to avoid. ----more---- Scent Work University is an online dog training platform focused on all things Scent Work. SWU courses and webinars are not only for those who are interested in competiton, but also for those dog owners who are simply looking for something fun and engaging to do with their dogs. Check out Scent Work University today! Interested in another dog sport, or looking for help getting your dog to learn some manners? Dog Sport University is sister online dog training platform, give it a peek and see what it has to offer you and your dog. PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Welcome to the All About Scent Work Podcast. In this podcast, we'll be talking about all things Scent Work. This includes the behind the scenes look for how trials are conducted, what your instructor may be going through, training tips and other helpful information that we can provide. In this episode, we'll be talking about what it takes to be a good Scent Work instructor. This will include tips for success, pitfalls to avoid, things that some people don't consider, and just understanding how influential you really are. Before we start diving into the podcast, let me just quickly introduce myself. My name is Dianna Santos, I'm the Owner and Lead instructor for both Scent Work University and Dog Sport University. These are online dog training platforms that are designed to provide high quality instruction, incredible convenience and flexible learning options. We offer online courses, webinars and seminars. So if you have any questions about those, you're always more than welcome to contact me. All right, without further ado, let's dive in. In this episode, I want to talk about what goes into that being a good Scent Work instructor. This can be a touchy subject because initially people are going to assume, "Well, that all depends on the type of instructing that you're going to be doing as far as the school of thought." And I don't want to dive into those weeds. There are lots of different schools of thought as far as how it is that you should go about teaching Scent Work, what I want to discuss is how it is that you can go about being just a good instructor as in a good teacher. And this can be subjective, absolutely, I don't proclaim to be an authority in this matter. A lot of this is going to be common sense and making certain that we do not get lost as instructors in forgetting what it feels like to be a student, and also realizing just how much clout we have. How heavy our words are as well as our actions and how much influence they can actually hold over our students, both actual students, past students and potential students. Even people who may not have signed up with us yet, but may be viewing our information that's on social media for instance. So I hope that it makes sense kind of where this podcast is going, this isn't a debate about how it is that you should be teaching Scent Work. It's more of the manner in which you carry yourself when you're teaching Scent Work. Now, some of these things are going to apply across the board, they're going to apply regardless of the subject matter that you are teaching when it comes to dog training. But I think with Scent Work, we have to be even more especially aware of the potential pitfalls because with this activity it is inviting a certain class of dogs that are going to require a certain extra level of attention. Meaning dogs that are reactive and dogs that are fearful and dogs that have stranger danger and you may also just be incorporating this into your behavior modification programs. With that in mind, you have to, as an instructor, know how to keep everything safe, know how to ensure that your students both canine and human are progressing the way that they should, and know also how to keep expectations reasonable. All of that is really super important and there are things that I think that we do as instructors maybe outside of the actual class or private lesson that can actually hurt that effort, and that we can create an aura that is just not attainable in reality. And I'm hoping that with this podcast we can at least be more aware of those potential pitfalls, so that we can maybe temper the way that we talk about things, or at least put them in more of a realistic light, where if someone were to read it and to say, "Okay, this person achieved this with that dog in this situation." And maybe myself and my dog will not be able to achieve that, but that doesn't make us lesser than. That doesn't mean that we're failures, but we are going to achieve X, Y, and Z, which are our goals. Like it's an important thing to realize that when you have the title instructor people are going to listen to you more, your words carry more weight. You are important within the community as a whole, so we just have to be really careful about those kinds of things. So I'm gonna break this up into a couple of sections, I'm going to try to keep this so it doesn't go on forever. This is a very large and whole encompassing kind of subject matter, but I want to try to focus it to a couple of key things. The first is that in order to be a good Scent Work instructor, again, this is in my opinion, you have to know who your clientele is and you have to be really honest about that. The potential buckets of people that I could see it could be your potential clients are people who are just looking to have a good time with their dog, they're not looking to really achieve anything else as far as competition. They're not doing it for any other reason than "I just liked to have some fun with my dog. Maybe, I want to give them a job so that they don't like destroy my house, but other than that, it's just this is an extra activity to do." So that's one bucket of people. Another bucket of people are people who are interested in competition, they either just found out about it and maybe they're doing other dog sports, but they are seeing you because they want to achieve something. They want to achieve titles. They want to perfect certain skills. They want to be successful in competition. I don't know of many people who are interested in competition and want to pay money to an instructor so that they don't get results. That's typically not how these things work. So that's bucket number two. Bucket number three are people who are doing Scent Work because they want to give an outlet to their dog, and oftentimes in the context of a behavior modification program. Someone who has a reactive dog, a shy dog, a dog who they need to help build confidence or a dog who has stranger danger or it could even be a dog that just used to be able to do a lot of things, but now they can no longer do them because of age or physical limitations. So may not even be a behavioral thing and maybe more of a life change because they had a physical injury for instance. So these bucket of people have very specific wants and needs and desires and you are supposed to help them achieve those things. Now, with bucket number three, some of them may very well also wanted to compete and some of them very well may also want to just have fun with their dog. As an instructor, you have to know who it is that you are appealing to and who it is that you're helping and who it is that's reaching out to you for help and whether or not you can help them. That's not to say that as an instructor that you would not have clients who fit in all three buckets, meaning that you have some clients who just want to have fun, some clients who want to be competitive, and some clients who are working on behavior mod or they're trying to give their dog a physical outlet in an activity that maybe they used to do agility but now they've retired. Of course, I think that a lot of Scent Work instructors have a variety of clients from all three buckets, where the trouble lies is where you're trying to apply the same type of approach that you would for a competitive client that you are with a client who's just trying to have fun or even worse still, you're trying to put the same level of expectation on the client who has a behavior modification case, as you would for a client who is trying to be competitive. When you know that that team will have to take a much longer period of time to potentially compete and you also know there's a really good possibility that they never will be able to compete. This is something that I see happen a lot, where people will contact me and say, "I've been working with a trainer for a while. I had a couple of questions," and they layout all these things that they want to do, say, okay, and why can't you do this with your trainer? Like, "Oh, my trainer is great. They like them, blah, blah, blah. I just don't feel like we're going where we need to." Okay, but why? Because first of all, I don't want to obviously take someone else's client, that's not okay. But I also just wanted to figure out what the disconnect is. And the person is saying, "Well, my trainer has said that we need to do X, Y, and Z so that we can achieve said goal." More often than not when they are, there's trouble, it's because they want to trial. "And I just don't feel like we're getting there. We've been doing this for put in time a month, three months, six months, whatever. And I just don't feel like I'm getting any closer and I feel as though my trainer is getting frustrated with me." I said, "Okay, well can you give me a little bit more background about your dog?" And then sure enough the dog has a slew of other issues behaviorally, which is not bad on the dog at all. But from the outset, from what I'm seeing and what I'm hearing, it doesn't sound as though competition would be on the priority track for this team. It would be more of, "Well, let's address some of these other behavioral things first and then maybe once all those things are figured out and the dog has the skills and you have the skills, maybe then we can talk about competition." So I will send them back to the other trainer with that news and say, "Okay, well, you know, maybe you guys just need to readjust the way that you're approaching this. Maybe focus on this, this and this, and focus on having a good time and you make sure that you're jotting down your successes, and I'm sure you and your trainer will do a really great job with this. You guys sound like you're on the right path. You guys are doing great." And I'm happy to report that the very few number of times that that's happened, the trainer will reach out to me saying, because I always CC and everything else because I'm not trying to steal anyone's clients, that's another big thing to be a good instructor, don't steal other people's clients. But I'll CC them on the email and they will respond to me, "Thank you very much. Appreciate it." This happened two different times with one person, it was just a miscommunication between them and the client. So this helped them figure out, "Okay, we need to be on a better wavelength to figure out what you need and what I can offer you." For the other trainer it was just an eye opener of, "Oh, I had no idea. I thought that this is what they wanted." So it's trying to push them that way, but apparently they need to work on this other stuff first. And it's not that either of these instructors are bad, they're not, they're great people, they're accomplished, their students like them, they just were looking for clarification because things didn't seem to be working out. Which as a good dog advocate, you should do, I mean, I don't care who you work with. If you're working with them for any period of time and you're not getting the results that you thought, then you should probably get a second opinion. It doesn't mean that that first person is bad. It's just being a good dog advocate. So all of this to say that in order to be a good instructor, you have to know the client that's in front of you and how it is that you can help them. This can be really challenging when we're talking about in-person group training classes and I know there's some people rolling their eyes going, "Oh, you're just saying the only online works." And that's not true at all. I think honestly that in-person group training classes are excellent training tools, if people could do a combination of these in-person group training classes, maybe even a couple of privates and online, I think that's actually the way to go because it just gives you the full picture. But where I see on an instructor side that it can be really challenging is when you have a class that's filled with all these variety of people and you haven't really thought of how it is you can address each of their needs without singling one out or without making another one feel as though they're being singled out, or without making another one feels as they're falling behind and all these. It's a challenge, it's hard, it's difficult. There's no real good formula to it as far as do this and you're guaranteed to be successful, it's all about really how it is that you design your classes, the length, how they're run, what the expectation is for the class and how it is that you approach it with the people. So when I used to do in-person group training classes, all the dogs are being crated and the expectation from the very, very baby class to even my most advanced classes was that the people obviously want to be checking-in on their dogs, make sure their dogs are fine, and after the first week or two of the dogs are either working or they're sleeping. But they are there to learn by watching the other dogs to figure out what's happening in this space to see why it is that we're setting things up certain ways. It's a learning thing the entire time for the people and to almost celebrate the differences of dog-to-dog, and almost to celebrate the differences from team-to-team. We will be very transparent as far as who was interested in competing and who wasn't. And it wasn't a, "Wow, you're great at competing and I'm just this lowly little person who just wants to have fun. I'm not important and you are." It wasn't anything like that. But it was the highlight the differences and the differences are okay, but we want to make sure that everyone is getting something out of this. Now I'm not saying that that's perfect, I'm not saying that someone couldn't improve upon that, but that format worked for my clients and it also created a level of partnership and a bond between all of them where they would root for each other's dogs, where they would root for each other. The ones who people knew were competing, they'd ask how they did during the weekend, and it was just a nice way of kind of building a little mini community within the class itself. A good instructor should be cultivating that, of allowing these people to join the community of the dog. That should be the whole goal and not having these little tiny islands of individual people and dogs who never communicate with one another, and it's all very competitive and gross and yucky. That can happen a lot in group training classes where people are comparing, your students are comparing each other to one another and it just gets really gross really quickly, and that's across the board. That's not just in Scent Work, that's you see it in your basic obedience classes too. "Well my dog didn't sit as fast as that dog", and so on and so forth. You want to try to avoid those kinds of things as best as you can, so as an instructor you have to know how to cultivate a good atmosphere within your class and even if you're working with someone one-on-one, you want to be able to do that too. You have to build up that relationship, particularly for working with a dog who has any kind of behavioral issues or physical issues. You're going to have to make adjustments so that that dog can be successful. Somehow manipulating the space, manipulating the search, manipulating the exercise, maybe breaking it down to further pieces, whatever the case may be so that they can be successful. And particularly in a group training class that has to be done in such a way that that person doesn't feel as though your "dumbing things down for their dog", which you aren't, but that can be the perception. And you also want to make sure the other people in the class like, "Oh, now they're going, everything's going to be really boring now." I mean, again, you just have to think how can this go wrong and how can I avoid that? So that's the biggest thing that I see with people who are teaching Scent Work is obviously you want to keep things safe and everything else will go into a little bit about that in this podcast, but it's just designing it so that you're fulfilling the needs of the people who you're working with. This is where you have to be honest with yourself. For me personally, I am not the type of instructor who cares about having people shaving off seconds off of their total search time. I prefer to focus on the dog doing well as far as being able to complete the task, being an independent hunter and having that relationship with the person where the person is listening to the dog as far as what is the dog is saying as they're hunting. I don't care about placements, like that's not a gauge for me personally as a competitor, but it's also not a gauge for me for my students, I don't care, I just don't. So if I had someone come to me as a student who wanted me to solely focus on that, I'm not that instructor. That's not who I am, and I've had two people, not in Scent Work but for Barn Hunt when I used to teach Barn Hunt, that's what they wanted to do. They wanted to get High in Trial every single time. And I'm like, "I'm not the person to work with, sorry." And they were both shocked and they were like, "What?" They were friends. It's just not what I focus on, like it's I care more about your dog doing well as far as doing the activity, as far as completing the task. I don't care if you get High in Trial, "But we do!" like, "I know, but what I'm saying is that, I can't provide you with those guarantees." Number one, I don't think anyone can, but number two, if things start going down the rabbit hole of your dog isn't getting High in Trial. I'm uncomfortable as far as how it is that I would then fix that, I don't want to get into any of that because it's just not what I do. There are instructors who can absolutely zero in on, we can figure out the exact skills that you and your dog would need to help better ensure that you could be closer to the high in trial rankings. I mean, no one can guarantee you that you're going to get High in Trial every single time. And if they do, then maybe you should look elsewhere, but it's just understanding who you are as an individual. So for those two people, they had every intention of paying me as much as I wanted to charge them and just guarantee us. I'm like, "That's not what I do, I'm sorry," and they worked with someone else and that's totally fine, but what we need to realize just as instructors is who we are as people and what it is that we're providing, and making sure that we can indeed provide what it is that our students are asking us to provide. That also goes into making sure you're being careful with how you advertise yourself and evaluating. I mean, if you find yourself, you have a booked schedule hopefully and you have lots of classes and you have privates and consultations and everything else, and you find yourself dreading anything where you're like, "Ugh, I live in the east and I really hope it snows today so I can cancel my class." If that happens, then something's wrong. You may want to reevaluate things so that it can be something that you don't dread. And that leads us into how it's important in being a good instructor of doing good self-care, of making certain that you are balancing all these different things you have to do. I think that it is false that to be a good instructor you have to have achieved the highest titles and if you were doing a dog sports-specific instructing like Scent Work. You must have gotten or you must have earned X title in order to teach. I don't think that's true. There are people who are excellent instructors which means that in from my terminology, so just so we're clear on this, an instructor in my estimation means someone who is very good at teaching people and training dogs and both together to where the dog and the person can actually understand what is being taught to them. There are people who are very good at teaching the people, but not very good at training the dogs. There's people who are very good at training dogs, but terrible teaching people. In my estimation to be a good instructor, you have to be a total package. You have to be able to do both and it's difficult, it's very hard, don't get me wrong. So now that we have a better understanding what my definition of instructor is, there are instructors who do not like to compete, there are instructors who maybe competed before but don't feel like competing anymore. There are instructors who just don't have the time to compete or the resources to do so. That doesn't mean that they're bad instructors, that's not a disqualifier. So I know that it's very alluring to say, "Well, if I receive, if I earned the highest title, then that will just be a guarantee that people will want to work with me." Then let's be blunt, the higher the title that you have, the more people are gonna say, "Well, you achieve that. You must know what you're doing." Sure. But that's not a guarantee, there are plenty of people who have achieved the highest titles across the board, not just instructors just anyone, and you would actually watch them work a dog and be like, "Wow, really?" "Okay. I mean that's fine, but I don't feel like I can learn anything from you." So what I'm hoping that people understand is if you want to be a good instructor you have to know who you are as a person and not put yourself into situations where you're going to be burning yourself out, where you're going to be making it so that it is so impossible for you to do what you need to do to serve your clients best. This is speaking from experience of being someone who's pretty much on the fence about competing. There are times I like it, there are times I don't and I really couldn't take it or leave it. It's just there. I think it's a good test for training but it's not like a need, it's not like, "Oh, I have to go and do this." It's just like, "Okay, well if I get around to it then I'll go and do a trial and we'll see where things are." It doesn't make me a lesser than instructor than someone who's out every single weekend campaigning, it's just different. The other thing that I really want to nail down in this podcast is that there shouldn't, even though there is a perceived but there shouldn't be different tiers of instructors depending on who it is that you work with or who it is that you're focusing on. What I mean is, is that I had a colleague come up to me during a workshop that I was speaking at, and it was during a break and she was asking me a question about the organization that I worked with and she's like, "I don't really understand why it is that they offer this high champion award." So I was explaining it, whatever. And she said, "Well, I just think that it's odd that they would already be pointing out dogs that are already champions." I was like, "Well, there's a lot of work that goes into it and it's celebrating people who putting the time and the training and everything else. It's still a dog has to do well at that trial in order to earn it. And it's just basically any dogs who have already earned a championship would be eligible for that award, to figure out depending on how they did it, that particular trial." What she said next has always stuck with me, "Well, I guess I should just stick to the type of trainer that I am. I focus on people and dogs who just may need help, and not those champion types", and she walked away and I just looked after her and it's stuck with me all these years later because there really is at the heart in the community this delineation between "pet people" and "dog sport people" and I just don't think that's true. I mean, we talked about earlier in the podcast, those buckets of people, but that doesn't mean that as an instructor you can only work with one of them. Like that's the misnomer of, if you're going to be working with people who care about competition, then you are not allowed to work with people who just want to have fun with their dogs. "Clearly, you would have no idea what those people would want." Well, that's not true and it also doesn't apply the other way. If you were focusing solely on people who just wanted to have fun with their dogs, or as you were focusing on people who just wanted to do competition, that somehow you're better or worse than another instructor. That's not true either, so this is something that I think is. It's an ugly underbelly of our industry of instead of celebrating your achievements up to a point when I get to that in a second, and also what you could provide, a lot of it is trying to say, "Well at least I don't do that." It's like, "Well, who cares? I'm not trying to work with whatever that is. I'm trying to work with you, and I want to work with people who are inclusive." So in my opinion, because Scent Work is such a broad community as far as the types of people who may be interested in hiring you for your services if you are an instructor. You're going to be limiting yourself, if you put on those different hats of "pet people only", "competitor person only", whatever else. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't know your clientele, you should. If you don't have any idea how it is you be able to help that person, then please don't advertise to them. But don't look down on people who aren't in the camp that you're working with, I hope that makes sense because it's a huge problem and all it does it perpetuate more of the cliquiness that's within just the dog community overall, which would be really nice if that went away. So I want to talk about some of the things that I found have been helpful when I was teaching in-person group training classes when I was doing Scent Work. I touched upon some of these things already, but the big thing was to really think through what it is that I wanted the class as a whole to achieve within a given session. So a session would be like a six-week class where they're starting and where I wanted them to go as a group, and then how individually their goals may line up with that. So as an example, I had a class of, I believe it was eight or nine dogs and it was a beginner class. So the goal overall is for the dogs and the people to have a basic understanding of what Scent Work is all about. Hopefully getting them to the point where I follow the training. We go from having food in boxes, so hopefully going from that point to where now they are finding food that's placed on top of little tins, throughout an interior space. Hopefully, you know that's the goal anyway. With this individual class, there was one dog who had a severe level of fear, a severe level of timidity and shyness and no confidence mean crawling on the belly to come into the class. I mean, just really bad. The goal for this dog is just to have them comfortable in the space and explaining all of that to the other students and incorporating them in that process by having the person who had that shy dog, go out and just, we would have maybe two or three boxes in the room. And the treats would be in front of the boxes because the dog was so worried if the treat was inside the box, they would just fall apart. So to have the person come in, let the dog take the lead, and if the tried, they ate the tree off the floor, then they give them a jackpot and everybody else would do very quiet, "Yay!" I mean we're talking super quiet. But by having them be involved, meaning the other human students, they breathe more because the first run they all held our breath which made the dog like, "Oh my God, no one's breathing." So that doesn't help. It offered them a level of empathy for this team, they were all genuinely rooting for this team. It provided support for the handler of the dog that was working and it also ignited in the dog the joy of having other people cheer for her. By the end of that six weeks, she was confidently working the space with multiple boxes, we have confidence problems where a box of had treats in it, had an empty box on top of it and she would move the empty box out of the way. She was a little too worried about it, she'd go for it and then she would have it her mother and say, "Can you just change this a little bit for me?" In the beginning, we may and then we would just wait her out and she was able to do it and she would just light up when people could now clap for her and go, "Yay. You're great," like it would be a little bit more boisterous as far as the crowd was concerned. She loved it. She was fantastic and it helped all the other students understand the power of the activity itself. This dog handler down the line may very well be interested in competition. Her goal right now was to get it so her dog wasn't terrified with life, that's all she cared about and they achieved that and she saw the changes at home, she saw how the dog would actually asked to play. She would go up at home and she would boink the boxes that were up on the table and she'd be like, "I would like to play my nose game now." All of that helped all the students and because she was starting at one level which was several stages below where their dogs were starting, just because of the confidence issues. It almost took off some of the pressure from them, if their dogs happen to be struggling with something, like even the confidence problems, they'd be like, "Wow, you know, my dog did so well with this that, but they're really having a hard time with this. I'm just going to wait them out, if that dog can do it, so can I." And it just provided them more patience, which everyone needs and it was this really great bonding experience with all these students. There was different levels of handling ability as far as their ability to just walk within the space of staying focused during the search of being able to handle at leash or a long line, and being a good instructor is knowing what it is you want to focus on and to not destroy your student, particularly in front of everybody else. By always pointing out when something is wrong, but you have to use those positive reinforcement kind of approaches. So that you're building them up to, you don't have to address everything in every single run, there may just be certain things that you focus on. Again, these are people, they have lives, they have work, they have other things going on. If you're bombarding them during a one and a half minute run of 30 things that they need to do, they're not going to do any of them, they're just going to feel really defeated and gross, and they're going to go back to their seat and they're just going to be really gloomy. Being a good instructor is being able to tick off all those boxes of, "I see what they're doing, I see that these five things are going really well, I see these five things have improved, and I see these five things need improvement. What's one from each of those columns that I can bring up?" So they can have one thing that they check off is great, one thing that's improving and they should be proud of, and one thing they can work on. What's the most important thing in that run right then that they can do when they can walk away with and they can practice outside of class? The other thing that I find personally has helped as an instructor is trying to take some of the pressure off of people as far as it comes to being perfect in class. So again, for that very shy dog, there would be exercises that we will be talking about and she would only be able do half of them. She'd be able to do part of the setup and then you would see her kind of unravel and be like, "Oh no, you're fine, we do a recovery searching, it should be all set." The expectation was as long as she tries, that's all I care about. You can then work on this at home for the next seven days until I see you again. We don't have to jam this all into one hour. So to be a good Scent Work instructor, in my opinion, you have to be able to be that flexible, you have to set your client's expectations so they're not sitting their dog up to fail and they're not seeing themselves up to fail. You have to outline what it is exactly that they're supposed to be doing when they're not with you, they have all those days and hours that they could be doing stuff. You can't get everything done in one class. So being able to juggle all that is really important. So one of the big pitfalls that I see as far as being a Scent Work instructor is not understanding the clout that you have with what it is that you say or do. What I mean by this is, if you are constantly posting, particularly on social media about all of your accomplishments in competition for instance. And you have current, former or perspective clients who are seeing that, but they're just seeing it in a bubble where you're not explaining, "Oh by the way, this dog and I worked on these things for a year and a half, was really super intensive. It wasn't just a straight line, there was a lot of hills and valleys and we took some detours and whatever else and we're still working on X, Y, and Z, and then we also achieve this stuff." If you don't have all those qualifiers in there, you're putting out to the world, "I have achieved all of this by pure magic and I am the best thing since slice bread and if you want to be as good as I am, then you better achieve this as well." That's problematic because again, understand specifically with Scent Work, it is open to a wide swath of people. For a dog sport, it is almost a gateway dog sport where you can have people who've never even heard the term "dog sport" before but they may fall into Scent Work for any number of reasons. And if they see on social media that you're just buried in ribbons and titles and trophies and everything else and you have a very young dog. They go, "Well then my dog should be able to do that too," and they rush off the trial and then they fail, and they get really frustrated and they get angry and they get demoralized, and they don't understand because all that lead up wasn't included. It wasn't included that you work with that dog almost like a campaign like it is an insane amount of work that you've put in to achieve that. Maybe it was the dogs breeding, maybe it was a combination of all these things. On top of that, you also do this for a living. I'm not saying that you have to have an asterix behind what you do, but understand the clout that you're carrying when you post stuff, because I can tell you as a fellow instructor, as one of your colleagues, it is heartbreaking to try to piece together the relationship of a handler and a dog who have completely fallen apart because they didn't understand all that other stuff that would into it. They rushed into trial, they failed and now they think that there's something wrong with them and their dog, and it takes forever. If you ever can to try to piece it all back together again and it's totally avoidable, if we just focus on this is an innate instinct, absolutely. But it's still a skill and there are absolutely dogs out there who need to learn how to learn, who need to learn the skills so that they can work at the most basic problems. There are other dogs who can fly through foundation competition, and they get stuck in the middle levels because they don't have those skills yet. And that's okay, you can work on it. There's no rush. So I'm just hoping that people who are instructors just realize who's listening to them, and when they see all the dazzle and the wonderful posts that those people are the ones who then run into the room, they grabbed their odor kit that they haven't practiced with in a year. They throw some hides around and they say, "Okay dog, go find it." And when it doesn't find them all, all 20 hides in 10 seconds, they get frustrated. You just have to be careful. So for me personally, I am very good at self-deprecating, I don't have much of an ego. Actually, I don't think very highly of myself at all. So if things don't go well, I'm more than happy to post about them. If I'm doing some training with my dog and he's struggling with something, I'm happy to post that too. I'm happy to post about, "Oh, you know we're working on this, we're working on that." If we compete, yeah, sure, great, we did this. Oh, but we didn't get this and this and this and this is why. It just helps people realize that I'm a human being and it also reduces some of the expectations for me because what happens if you go on this big blitz, right? Everything is perfect and awesome and now all of a sudden you know you're up against even better competition than maybe you were and now you're not. You still get your titles, but now all of a sudden you're not getting every single ribbon under the sun. It's just you have to be thoughtful about these things, just be careful. Lastly, just to round this out, in my estimation to be a good Scent Work instructor, you have to have a very distinctive view on how to keep things safe. Particularly, when we're talking about group classes. You're asking dogs to use hunting and for a very high valued resource that you are only building value in. There are lots of opportunities for things to go wrong, there's lots of opportunity if you're not careful for a dog to be placed into conflict. There's a lot of opportunity for a dog to be put into conflict not only with other dogs, but even with the instructor, with their handler, things can get really icky really quick. But even outside of that, the way that you design your searches can absolutely break a dog, and I'm not overstating this. Depending on the type of dog that you're working with. Like for instance, that very shy dog. If I had presented her with a horrendously difficult problem for her. Because I was concerned about the rest of the class and I wanted all of them to progress at a certain rate. She could have shut down and could have turned off to the entire activity, and then also could have ruined the relationship she had with her owner. You have to be able to recognize those things and obviously avoid them. And as an instructor, if you're a good instructor, you know how to help guide your students so they are not inadvertently doing that with their dogs and they're practicing. And that's where capping off those expectations are really important. Harping on those expectations, helping them break things down into small attainable goals, pacing themselves, being just very fort right at the very beginning. "This is why we're doing it this way, all will be well. The journey is the important part and this is what we're trying to avoid. We don't want X, Y, and Z to happen. We don't want your dog to shut down, we don't want them to hate odor, we don't want them to not trust you, we don't want them to lessen their confidence, we want the opposite of all those things." So to be a good instructor, you have to know how it is that you're designing your searches in your classes, in your sessions, as well as if you're handing out homework, what they should be doing at home. To achieve those things, to ensure that you're not setting people up to fail. Knowing the difference between offering a learning problem and offering a trick question, in my opinion, trick questions have no place in dog training period. A learning problem is allowing the dog to develop a skill, a trick question is just what it sounds like. You're setting something up going, "Aha, there's no way you're ever going to get that!" What's the point? There's no point to that. The last thing that I would say that someone would need to be a good instructor is knowing when you don't have the answer, is being humble to refer out to someone else if you need to or to consult with someone else or to work with someone else. You don't have to know everything. That's okay. You're not expected to know everything. If you did, then you probably wouldn't be a dog training instructor. You would be some celestial being that would fix a universe and all will be well. There's always going to be someone else who knows more than you, which is fine. But if you come across something that you just don't know how to deal with, be honest with yourself and be comfortable doing one of those three things. I've done all three throughout my career on a variety of different things, not just with Scent Work, but just dog training overall. And also understanding that there may be times when you just may not mesh well with a client just personality wise, but it could also be expectations, it could be any number of things. That's when you need to have good relationships with your fellow colleagues, your fellow instructors. So you can let that person go somewhere else and obviously have a really bad client, I'm not saying that you should, you'll be like, "Oh, hey, Sally and Sue, here's this terrible client. Enjoy." I'm not saying that, but if you have someone that is perfectly fine, they pay their bills, they try hard, but the two of you are just missing one another. Having those relationships with fellow instructors will allow you to refer this client to them which helps you in the end. I know that doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense because you're losing that business, but that person will like you for it because you didn't just leave them high and dry. You're cultivating this relationship with this other instructor, which is great. And it's a really good possibility that instructor is going to run into the same situation and maybe they have someone they think will be good for you. Also, the person that you referred, I doubt they live on an island. So they probably know people, friends or family, they may refer those people to you so it's just having a little bit of foresight. I think that is the big underlying thing as far as what it takes to be a good Scent Work instructor, foresight of who it is that you're working with, who it is that you're advertising to, who it is that you can best help, how it is that you can actually have them achieve the goals that they're setting, how it is you can help them set those goals, what ways you're going to help cap off their expectations or set them so that they are realistic. How is it that you're going to present yourself so that you are portraying the right information and you are setting the right expectations for even people who may not work with you yet? How is it you can prevent problems from happening down the line, and how is it that you can conduct yourself so that you are good within the community of fellow instructors, competitors, and just dog owners? So those are the big things that I think a lot of us just don't think about when we're instructing. It's hard being an instructor when you actually get going, it's a hustle and then all of a sudden it's a day and you're running from thing to thing to thing, you're almost on autopilot but sometimes you just need to take a step back and just evaluate everything and making sure that we're checking off all of our boxes, that we're doing what we need to do and that we are meeting our clients expectations and needs and we're doing it in the right way, and we're doing it for the right reasons. So I hope you found this podcast helpful, happy training, and we'll look forward to seeing you soon.

Hey hey Our People! Welcome to Episode 28 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! You are going to love this episode. Our hosts are distracted by cardboard characters and plastic cups! What? They explore a few pleasures of life they might feel guilty splurging on. And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Episode 28 titled: Guilty Pleasures Sponsor note: You can find our sponsor The Social Way on Instagram at @thesocialway.co Facebook at facebook.com/thesocialway.co Website at www.thesocialway.co Email at hello@thesocialway.co

So far, I've looked at MeWe and Mastodon in my review of alternatives to Facebook. In this outing, I look at a mission-based network - The Full Circle Project - which I'm evaluating using these key parameters, as with all my reviews:Brief introduction - What THEY say - Positives - Negatives - Ease of sign-up, use & connection with others - 'Money' Munson's verdict

For the next few episodes, the Choir Ninja podcast will focus on Voices From Houston, lifting up the directors in south Texas as they recover from Hurricane Harvey. This first episode in the series feature a replay of an interview that originally aired back in 2015. This interview is exactly what you need to start the new school year! A truly wonderful sit-down interview with Texas native and Houston-area high school choral director, Adrian O. Rodriguez. Listen in on how you can start your year off right by building an empowered music program through creating trust and staying relevant! Listen: Highlight to Tweet: “I realized that being with those friends in choir, that community, that’s where I wanted to be.” - Adrian Rodriguez Show Notes: The moment you knew you’d dedicate your life to music         When Adrian was a sophomore in high school, he felt pressured to follow his parents and go into a “more academic” career like a lawyer or doctor. Self-doubt set in, and he contemplated leaving chorus. Then his father encouraged him to try out for TMEA All State Choir. He was accepted. During the festival, Adrian was approached by clinician Betsy Cook Weber, who gave him her business card and encouraged him to apply to the University of Houston. He eventually attended the University of Houston, and owes his success to the support of his father and his mentor Dr. Weber. Later in high school, he took over rehearsal for the chamber choir in his director’s absence. He found out there how much he loved making music with his peers. Worst musical moment When Adrian was in college, he lost himself. Because of “impostor syndrome” he was doing musical things to impress others, because he didn’t consider himself as talented as those around him. He was pursuing performance, even though he was in Music Ed. He came to the realization that he didn’t like being in a practice room by himself and loved being with others. The proudest musical moment As an upperclassman in college, Adrian got the chance to direct a chamber ensemble of his peers. Your “Forte” Adrian recently gave a talk at TMEA entitled “From Passion to Action: Building Empowered Music Programs.”  He speaks about his open and vulnerable relationship with his students. He addresses four things on the first day of school with EACH class: What THEY want to learn, what TEXAS expects, what the PRINCIPAL expects, and what HE believes they should learn. Adrian gets it all out on day 1 and creates an unbelievable trust relationship with his kids. Most excited about right now Adrian is excited for his second year (he says his first “real” year) at his high school in Austin. Advice for your younger self Commit to be relevant to your students and create an education that is meaningful to them. Bio: Adrian O. Rodriguez currently serves as the Director of Choirs at Stephen F. Austin High School (Sugar Land, TX). In addition to conducting five choirs, he is the music director of the musical theatre program and teaches Advanced Placement Music Theory and Honors Music History. Rodriguez received his Bachelors of Music in Music Education from the University of Houston (2011) and, after finishing his thesis, will have earned his Masters of Music Education from the Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ). As an active choral clinician and consultant in Southeast Texas, Rodriguez has worked with a variety of school, church, and community choirs and has been invited to present the Texas Music Educators Association (2015) and the Texas Choral Directors Association (2014). His academic interests include: empowering pedagogical practices, community and culture in school music programs, and building choral sound. Rodriguez is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, National Association for Music Educators, Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Choral Directors Association, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Resources/links Mentioned: Your students are worth the investment, with Dr. Amanda Quist Natalie Weiss – Breaking Down the Riffs On presence and keeping secrets, with Betsy Cook Weber Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action Choir Nation group on Facebook Email Patreon - Support the podcast! Sponsored by: Sight Reading Factory (Use promo code “NINJA” at checkout for 10 free student accounts!) My Music Folders (Use promo code “NINJA” at checkout for “last column” or best pricing - usually reserved for bulk purchases only!)

Kory likes Dunkirk. Nathan...not so much. What??? They don't agree for once?!? Yes it's true. Christopher Nolan's new epic war film has divided Nathan and Kory for the first time in Filmventure history. Listen to find out why! They also talk D23 news and Comic-Con trailers! Episode 56 is also the first episode to utilize Filmventure's new movie rating system! Wow... 

Click above to listen in iTunes... VERY surprised about what I learned while wandering the booths at Affiliate Summit West... What's going on everyone? This is Steve Larsen and you are listening to Sales Funnel Radio. Welcomes to Sales Funnel Radio, where you'll learn marketing strategies to grow your online business using today's best internet sales funnels. Now, here's your host, Steve Larsen. A few days ago, I was talking to Russell and I was like, "Dude, my first, not the interviews, but just the podcast, at the very beginning of this podcast, I'm not a huge fan of them." I hadn't really found my voice yet, hadn't really found the way I speak and my style yet. I was like, "Dude, I might just delete some of them." He looked at me real fast and goes, "No." He's like, "You cannot delete those." I was like, "Why?" He goes, "Because it's part of your journey man. You even told me around podcast number 60 on marketing your car. That one, that's when it started changing for me. I was like, "Oh yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense." Anyway, those of you guys who have stuck with me this far, you've listened to a few of those podcasts in the beginning. I'm really loving getting more interaction from you guys. It's been a lot of fun to speak with a lot of you guys, and talk with a lot of guys. I just launched, actually, talking about cool little things just going on right now, little updates. It's been awhile since I've done a podcast, but I just launched called funnelfeast.com. It's a picture of a sales funnel, or just a normal funnel. It's got a fork and a knife trough it, and then just a big bite taken out of the side of the funnel. Basically I get enough of you guys asking me, "Hey, how do you build this? How did you build this? How do you build this?" I thought I might as well start streaming live when I'm building a sales funnel. Now I don't always make it through, but I try to show just the hardcore building parts. Lot of little tips and tricks, and hacks that I use, stuff like that... It's been cool to watch. I mean I think I had like 300 of you on the first one, and this next one has blown up like crazy. I just did Jeff Walker's product launch funnel, and went through and built those pages. Of course get to share the funnel out to you guys. Just trying to provide value. Hopefully you guys like that. Anyway, hopefully I can see a few of you guys on there later. Been a little bit busy though. I was gone for about five days, and Russel had me over at Vegas. I was at the Affiliate Summit West Conference, and I'm not really a Vegas guy. I don't really care about gambling. I think it's dumb. We studied the little formulas in college about what actually gambling is, the actual math formulas behind it. I was like, this is the dumbest thing on the planet. Why would I ever gamble? I'd rather see if a funnel works and lose money that way than on gambling, but to each is own. I just look around like, "Dude, I don't care about this." Everyone's like, "Oh, you're going to Vegas. Woo hoo." I'm like, "Well, you guys are going to think I'm weird, but I don't mind just staying in my hotel room just working." I guess that goes to show I'm a little bit of a workaholic. Hey, I thought I would share with you guys some of the lessons I learned while I was at ASW, the Affiliate Summit West. There's thousands of people. These are all the affiliates, the hardcore affiliates on the internet. Like I said, thousands of people, tons of vendors. I don't know, there were probably 70 vendors. Lots and lots of companies go there. They set up a booth and everyone walks around. There's big high level speakers speaking, so obviously Russell spoke while he was there. Really fascinating to walk around and start talking to people. We had really interesting people come to the booth. Some people who have used click funnels and love it, and then people who hadn't heard of it at all. That was the two different categories. There's no middle ground, it was like, I have click funnels and I love it. It's amazing. The other category was like, I don't even know what you guys do. Well, it's only two years old so not shocked there... It was really fascinating. Some of the people that came by, just so self-righteous. Some of them, they're like, "This is what I do, and I'm so professional." You're like, "Oh man. Your customers don't love you. I can already tell you because you're being too professional. I can see that from the outside right now. I don't want to do business with you." Why? Because it makes me think that I have to be all professional and polished 100% of the time just to use your guys service. I thought that was a really powerful lesson there. The other thing that I thought was interesting was, I was walking around, I'd walk up and I'd start talking to people, and it was fascinating, we all talked about it. The rest of us, the Click Funnels staff that was there, we talked about it all together. It's incredible to me how hard it is for people to explain what they do... I mean, I was walking around these different companies ... I can't even remember the name of ... Maybe I shouldn't say names on it, but it was company after company after company. I don't know if they had just hired some people who'd never heard of their company before, and they were just trying to fill booths, space and get people there from their company and represent and wear their swag, or if they just truly ... It was a common thread. I was walking around, it was extremely loud because there's so many people there. If you're talking face to face you feel like you're yelling, so you're basically yelling for the full eight hours every day. That was cool for sure, but I was like, "Hey what do you do?" People would sit back and they'd be like, "We, what I," and there'd be all these little false starts. I was "You really don't know your spot in the business system, the business ecosystem. You don't know what you do. You don't know what value you're actually providing to people." I was thinking, how should we do this for Click Funnels or even for my own self. How would I say this? How would I pitch what I do to companies? It put a theme for the remainder of the event in my mind. I'd walk around, and I started asking a question. When people walk up, they'd be like "Hey, how's it going? My name's so and so." I'd go, "What's up? My name is Steve." I'd immediately ask them, "Hey, what do you sell?" I didn't want to say, "We are this, and we provide this," and you start talking about yourself immediately, that's garbage. No one ever wants to hear about that... When I did that in door-to-door sales, I did door-to-door sales for two summers, and I'd go out, if I start talking about myself immediately they'd be like, "Okay, why are you knocking on my door, telling me that? You're interrupting my space to tell me about you?" I'm just thinking about what you ... Does this make sense? I'm just trying to tell you guys, as you go through, make sure you understand what you do and be able to sum it up. The easiest way to get to a point ... I don't care if you don't build funnels. I don't care if, whatever it is that you do, go find somebody ... My mom still calls it funnel clicks. She has no idea what I do still, which is fine, but as soon as I can go explain to her, and I can explain to certain people around me what I do clearly, and have them get that a-ha moment, like, "Oh I get it." I got to get them to have the a-ha, very quickly... Russell calls it the epiphany bridge I think. You got to get people to say that quickly. They'll be like, "Oh, oh I get it." There's a great book called Pitch Anything. I can't remember the name of the author, but the author says in there that, there's really several different brains in our head. The first brain that you got to get through, he calls it the croc brain. This is the ancient part of our brains. The part of the brains where, as soon as something pops up we go, "Oh crap. That's something new. Can I eat it? Can I mate with it? Will it hurt me? Should I join with my tribe with it?" It's those internal instincts that you make, judgements right off the bat without even trying. Internal human instincts... When you go up and you start talking to somebody you got to get your message past those people, past the croc brain as he calls it. Get it past the crock brain. Get the message past ... Almost like a gatekeeper. I did tele-marking, phone sales for awhile too. I did all sorts of sales before I started doing sales funnel, which is why I think I took to it kind of quickly. I did that on purpose actually. It was kind of cool... Anyway, as a telemarketer we would call the first person, whoever answered the phone, so they'd call and I was selling for a company called IvanX... I don't even think they're around anymore either. That was years ago. They'd answer the phone and be like, "Hey what's up? I'm looking for Kevin." They'd be like, "What?" They'd be able to say to the receptionist. If they answered the phone and I was like, "Hello I'm calling from IvanX. We'd like to talk to you about a special offer today." They wouldn't even say anything. They'd just hang straight up... We'd have to do things that would get us past the gatekeeper, into the business owner's office. Get that phone ringing. Get past the gatekeeper. We can think about that gatekeeper, think about that first person as the croc brain. There's things that you've got to do to get past your market, and get your message past the croc brain. So many people I've seen, they'll jump out and they'll go, "Hey, what do you sell?" "I sell this, and they're marking solutions that will help you reach your clients better, so that you can better automate your message and receive a better ROI. Keep people inside your funnel and ultimately lead them down the path of success." You're like "Oh, nobody talks like that." Nobody talks like that. Talk normal. "Hey, what do you do?" I would just ask people that. "Cool, what do you sell?" They'd be like, "All right," and it'd immediately get them talking. Some really good books out there that say whoever talks the most is the one who's going to end up buying something, because they talk themselves into right? I walked up, and I said, "Hey, what's up? I'm Steve. What do you sell?" They'd say, "Hey, well I don't sell anything right now." It's not my job to just start barfing all over them. It's my job to start asking questions and be like, "Cool. What do you sell?" Or "What are you selling right now? What's the hottest thing on your plate?" I never answer that with an actual statement. It's got to be a question... Start applying what I'm saying right now, apply it to sales funnels, apply it to your marketing. Think about a squeeze page that pops up and it says, the front page pops up and it says, "We are a global enterprise running a marketing," It's like, man you can't do that crap. It's got to be really specific, and it's got to them plugging into ... Who, I think it's, is it Frank Kern or I can't remember, but he says ... Or Dan Kennedy, I can't remember, but he says the whole job of the marketing is to join the conversation that is already happening inside of your prospects head. People would come up, and the easiest way to do that is just start asking a few questions. That's why quizzes at the beginning of funnels work so well. Regardless of what they answer, it doesn't matter... You're just trying to get them involved in the conversations. I love quizzes. There was a few podcast episodes I did that was about quizzes and how to use them effectively. I think I added a template in there for you guys, along with some of the most high-converting quiz funnels out there. I toss those findings in that. I think I did. If I didn't, please somebody, let me know, and I'll toss them next time. I'm pretty sure I did. Anyway, I know this is kind of roundabout, but there's a huge point to this. People had no idea how to speak and talk about what they do. People would walk up and go, "Hey, what do you guys do?" They'd be asking us, they'd be standing at the Click Funnels booth. I'd be like, "Hey, what's up? My name's Steve. You know what, what do you sell?" That's how I would answer that. If they ask me a question, I'd just ask one right back. I'd be like, "Well, right now I'm selling," I don't know, it could be anything. "Right now I'm selling dating software." There was lot of people who were doing that there. I'd say, "Cool. How are you guys currently getting your clients?" That's what I would ask them next. I don't just jump right in and say, "Oh, you're selling something? Well we are clearly, we are clearly the answer for you." No one wants to hear that because they know you're just blowing smoke up their butt. There's a lot of options out there. You got to play the game... Play the game... Sales is a game, business is a game... That's how I look at it, and it makes it even more fun than it already is. I would say to them, "Cool, what do you sell?" Eventually I would say a statement like this, "You know, people in your industry are typically using our software to make auto-webinars." That's when they'd go, "Oh, interesting." As soon as they did that I knew that I had them for the next five minutes. I was like, "Who's your top competitors?" I'm literally funnel hacking them, funnel hacking their top competitors with them. They just don't know that that's what I'm doing. They'd be like, "Well, our top competitors are getting all their clients like this." I'd be like, "Cool. I mean, are you doing that?" "No." I'd be like, "Why? Let me show you. Here you go." That's when I would stand side by side with them. I'm not squaring up with them, I'm not directly facing them. I step to the side and I stand side by side with them. There's a great book called, The Definitive Book of Body Language. Absolutely fantastic. I used it like crazy during door-to-door sales... You'll see in there, I mean you never square up personally with somebody unless you're going to fight them. If you're talking to a loved one, you don't square up with them. You stand on the side of them, side by side. I would stand side by side and pull up a computer, and be like, "Well here. Tell me the URL." I'd focus the attention on the tool. They'd start going through and they'd say, "Hey, well go to such and such dot com," and say, "Cool." Then I'd pull up a black click funnels page on the other side and I'd say "Hey, let's start going through this. If these guys are doing so well, my guess is that you're probably not going to want to just go make up something online. You probably want to model what they've done. Is that probably right?" They'd go, "Yeah." I'm just leading them down the path of funnel hacking... Anyway, guys I don't want to keep ranting, but I think you get the point. Know how to speak about your stuff. There's several people I've ask, "Hey, well what are you selling?" They'd be like, "I sell everything?" "You sell everything? Okay. Well who's your market?" They'd be like, "I sell to everyone." What?... They were dead serious. That happened several times. That's the reason I'm making this podcast. Is this a natural, is this a regularly occurring phenomena. If you're selling everything to anyone, that means you're selling nothing to nobody. There's a reason why you're coming to me, and it looks like you've been wearing the same clothes for 10 days. I'm not trying to be mean, but you guys know what I'm saying, right? There's a few other people who have been talking to me on Facebook, saying the exact same thing. They'll be like, "Hey, what do you sell?" "I sell such and such." "Who do you sell it to?" "I sell it everyone. I sell it to anybody." That right now, I'm telling you right ... I don't even need to see your funnel. Your response right there just kiboshed your sales, destroyed them. By me seriously just tweaking your front end message, I know I'm going to make this convert because you have a great product. That guy over there is making a butt load of money, so why aren't you? Oh, because you think you're selling to everybody... It's like, "No, that's not true." I don't try to sell click funnels, or the funnels that you guys see the free funnels. I'm not trying to sell that crap to everybody. It's only certain people I know who are going to look at that and go, "Oh, cool," or people I know that I will be able to educate and put them through a big multi-day sequence that will train them how to do this stuff. I just finished a cool one, by the way on real estate. We'll see how that one goes. You guys will see my post about it. Anyway, long rant there, but know how to talk about your stuff, and know that when you're selling it, it's more about you just answering questions, or asking questions I mean. Ask, ask, ask. Just ask tons of questions to people... Eventually they'll look at your stuff, and go "Okay, so what do you do?" That's how you know you've been successful with it. If I have to tell somebody, "Oh, you know Click Funnels is only $100 a month. The top tier one for all the cool ninja stuff is $300 a month." If I have to say that, and they didn't ask me, that means I failed. That's what the rule was on door-to-door. When I was doing door-to-door sales, I'd go spot to spot to spot, the blazing heat, and it's pest control, so it's got to be hot. The bugs are there, we're in the right spot. Anyway, I go knock on the door and I'd be like, "Hey, we're in the neighborhood. My boss sent me over here." I'd just act like I don't care. "My boss sent me over here and honestly we got time for one more. I'm supposed to find somebody. I can give it to you for like 60% off if you want me to do it right now. Otherwise, I'll just go to the next person." They'd be like, "How much is it?" As soon as they'd ask that, I'd be like, I would never answer it. I would never answer directly. I would say, "You know what? It depends actually." You don't want to go just straight to the end. You want to lead them down a conversation. You want to show them how it's logical that they should buy right now. Take the emotion and use it to your advantage. People think sales are dirty, but this is how sales work. You have all done that. None of you biologically, but closing, everyone thinks they're being logical during closing. That's the whole ... Anyway I'm getting way into sales tactics... Gosh guys, use the same things inside of your sales funnels. These are not ... If you think you're having a conversation with somebody throughout the entire funnel, that means you're doing the funnel right. If you are sitting there and you're like, you're being a little coropratey on them, your conversions are going to suck. Unless, actually I can't even think of an unless. Every time I've ever sold anything high ticket, or even low ticket, that's always been the case. Everyone wants to be dealt with as a human being not as a corporate. No one falls in love with corporations. Anyways guys, I'm ranting right now, but I hope you get the point of the lessons I was trying to say here. Know what you sell and how to talk about it. Know that when you sell ... The easiest crash course sales course I can give to you right now is that you should not be talking more than the other person. Just ask them a lot of questions, and start to show them how it gets in there. When they ask you how much, and when they start to ask selling questions like, "Well does it work with this?" Those are cues. That's them saying, "Okay, I'm starting to see how this could work for me. I'm starting to see how this could work for me. Let me start seeing if it really can though. XYZ," and they start asking ... Anyways, you guys get it. Hey, if you guys want to, I'm going to continue to build a few sales funnels online. Typically, I've been doing it Saturday mornings at like eight or nine in the morning, mountain standard time. I'm going to go ahead. Just watch the Sales Funnel Broker Facebook page, or even my personal Facebook page. I'll keep posting the links out there. You can check out funnelfeast.com. I got the replays of some of the previous ones, and when I can, when I'm allowed to, I'll drop in the share funnel link for you guys, so you can just download them straight into your account. Also, you can jump on the email list if you want to. It's just so I can let you know when the next episode is up, or that I'm going live. Anyways guys, hey, thanks so much. Get out there and crush it! Be the best spokesperson about your stuff by not speaking about it a lot. All right guys, I'll talk to you later. Bye. Thanks for listening to Sales Funnel Radio. Please remember to subscribe and leave feedback. Want to get one of today's best internet sales funnel for free? Go to salesfunnelbroker.com/freefunnels to download your pre-built sales funnel today.  

On this week’s episode, Brian and Lauren discuss their favorite moments and guests that have appeared on the show during Season One of StudioPress FM. In this 25-minute episode Brian Gardner and Lauren Mancke discuss: Their favorite episodes of Season One The most downloaded shows Most memorable guests and topics What they’re looking forward to in Season Two Listen to StudioPress FM below ... Download MP3Subscribe by RSSSubscribe in iTunes The Show Notes Follow Brian on Twitter Follow Lauren on Twitter The Transcript The Season One Recap of StudioPress FM Voiceover: Rainmaker FM. StudioPress FM is designed to help creative entrepreneurs build the foundation of a powerful digital business. Tune in weekly as StudioPress founder Brian Gardner and VP of StudioPress Lauren Mancke share their expertise on web design, strategy, and building an online platform. Lauren Mancke: On this week’s episode, Brian and I discuss our favorite moments of Season One of StudioPress FM. Brian Gardner: Hey, everyone. Welcome to StudioPress FM. I am your host, Brian Gardner, founder of StudioPress. Today, on this very last season episode for Season One, I am joined, as usual, with Lauren Mancke, vice president of StudioPress, mom of one, soon to be three. Looking forward to just wrapping up Season One. Lauren Mancke: Yeah. Thank you for joining us again this week. We’re closing out Season One and we will be doing this week a little different. We have no guests. It’s just Brian and I talking about some of our favorite moments on the podcast so far. Brian Gardner: Typically we like to go somewhat scripted, where we prepare questions for those that we’re talking to, but Lauren and I, this morning, we’re going to just completely wing it. We have just some general idea of what we want to talk about for this closing episode. It won’t be long. It’s hard to believe it’s been 16 episodes already. I know that for you it might feel a little bit longer because you started editing the first handful of them or first half of them and then we turned that over because you have more important things to be doing, but can you believe, 16 already? Lauren Mancke: No. It’s really flown by. Brian Gardner: I remember when I did No Sidebar, it seemed like it took just forever to edit the shows. I wasn’t structured when I set it up and it felt like it was hard to find ideas and guests and things like that. I’m almost forcing us to close the season down because we have a lot of stuff we have to do before the end of the year, but I don’t want to, because I’ve been having so much fun. It’s been great talking to the members of the community. When I sit down and try to think of who do we want to talk to next or what series we want to have, I’m loaded with all of this, these ideas, these people. There are so many people. I want to do two episodes a week, which of course isn’t realistic. There’s just so many people to talk to and so many topics to cover. For me, it’s been fun so far. Lauren Mancke: Yeah. We’ve already got some great people lined up for next season, so it’ll be good to take a little bit of time off and get that all organized and lined up for next January. Brian Gardner: I almost feel like we have a legit show here, where we actually follow a format and we have a good audience. We get at least a few thousand listens on every show, if not more. I don’t know. I feel really good about what we’ve done. It’s our first full-time gig together, doing the podcast thing. What do you think so far? Have you felt like this has been a successful journey? Lauren Mancke: Yeah. I’ve really been happy with who we’ve gotten a chance to talk to and hearing everyone’s story. It’s really cool how so many people have that same sort of, they were doing something else and they found WordPress and then they built this whole thing. It’s great to hear everyone’s different take on that journey. Brian Gardner: The good thing about WordPress and the cool fascinating thing I find is that even though we have generally that same story, we all come from just much different backgrounds. We also are in the middle of just different types of expertise, where some people come in as designers, some people come in as marketers, some people come in with a technical or programming background. You’ve got a designer who was sitting at a bored day job and then you’ve got like a technical guy who was working for the man and wanted to do his own thing. There are so many different levels of skillset and just expertise that’s being represented within the WordPress space. It’s fun to watch just how many people from how many different avenues of life are coming together in this whole open source project. Lauren Mancke: For sure. So many different types of personalities, too. It’s not just the same type of person. You’d think all these WordPress people would be maybe slightly nerdy or whatever, but it’s not true at all. It’s so many different types of people, and they’re all really cool. Brian Gardner: Yeah. Even within the short spurt we did here at the end with the designers, even the designers that we talked to like Bill Kenney at Focus Lab and Jason Schullermega and Megan Gray, even within just one segment of that audience, you’ve got people with different personalities and flavors. Bill works and owns a creative agency and Megan’s by herself and Jason’s doing a startup. Yes, there’s a lot of resonating stories, but even within a certain sub-niche of the WordPress designer ecosystem, there’s just so many types of different people represented. That wasn’t boring because everyone brought something unique to the conversation. Hopefully, designers and people who don’t design and do other things even were able to pick up something from that as well. Lauren Mancke: In WordPress, I think, when you mentioned the guests specifically, it makes me remember all the different things that make each one of those people unique. You got Bill, who is very, very good at being efficient and I love that about him. He has so many ways of doing that and that’s his focus. He can tell other people about that. Then you got Jason, who is; he’s just a family guy. That’s his passion and you can see that with everything he does and everything he talks about. Those are just fun and unique things that everyone who works on WordPress, they can be their own person and tailor their job and their company around those skillsets that they have. The Most Downloaded Shows Brian Gardner: You know one of the things I think for me that I found for me interesting as a metrics guy and somebody who looks into that kind of thing? There were certain episodes that I thought would have been more popular than others and vice versa. When I would go in and see the analytics and the number of downloads and so on for each one, there were a few that surprised me where I was like, “Okay, this one’s probably not going to do as well, maybe because of the audience. It isn’t such a widespread thing or an ‘interesting topic.'” Then those were the ones that got the most distribution and those that were shared the most. It’s funny how you can draw up a game plan. Nine times out of 10, things go the way you want, but then once in a while you get that one where I’m like, “Wow. That was the one I almost didn’t even suggest doing and it was the one that was in the top three or whatnot of most listened to shows.” That just goes to show, you never know. Lauren Mancke: What were some of the more popular shows that we had this season? Brian Gardner: You’re going to make me look that up, so I’m going to make you talk while I go look that up. Lauren Mancke: You know, we can edit this, so we can break for a second. Brian Gardner: I know. All right, so I was able to pull up the analytics. Sadly enough, three of the bottom four episodes were the first three, which were my story, your story, and the redesign of StudioPress. I don’t know if that’s an indicator of the fact that it was new, and not as many ears were on the show, or if people were just don’t find that interesting. Lauren Mancke: Yeah. Let’s go with the first. Brian Gardner: I’m going to go with that one. Top to bottom, I’m just going to spitball these out here quickly. A Beginner’s Guide to SEO That Works is the number one show. We did that with Rebecca Gill at Web Savvy. I had a feeling that that one … SEO is a topic that a lot of people want to talk about. Lauren Mancke: I thought that was a very informative episode. Lots of good nuggets on that one. Brian Gardner: Yeah. I actually took the show notes to that and the transcript, and wrote up my own little iteration of that. I think I talked about this back then, that I was going to try that a couple of times with these and try to use that from a curation standpoint, a re-purposing content, and so I pulled some of the best things that Rebecca had to say and wrote a blog post about that, and tried to rank for, I think it was a Beginner’s Guide to SEO or something like that. I think last time I checked, that was on page three of Google, so it kind of sort of working. Yeah, there was definitely a lot of stuff that came out of that that was good. Number two, and this does not surprise me just because I know that Matt and some of the folks at Automattic were helping with the distribution of this, and that was the show we did, How and Why It’s Okay to Make Money with WordPress, which of course we just talked about just all of the different types of people within WordPress, so that makes sense because that would appeal to everybody. The next one was How to Scale a Freelance Business. That, I believe, was the one that we did with Bill Erickson. Then How to Build an Online Education Business, now this is the one I was referring to earlier that I didn’t think was going to strike a chord as much, just because it seemed a little bit more of kind of a sliver segment specific to doing an online education because that’s not what we’re all in the deal here for. We did that with Tonya Mork. That was a good one. Great information. She’s got a ton of knowledge. She’s worked 20, 30 years in her field, so she has a ton of expertise that she brings to the table, so that was one a little bit surprising. The How to Sustain a Profitable Creative Agency came next. The Importance of Entrepreneurial Mental Health with Cory Miller. That was probably my favorite episode that we recorded just because it kind of dove a little bit more into just the personal touchy-feely stuff, which I’m a huge fan of. Again, a lot of these were within 1% to 2% of downloads, so it’s not like certain episodes crushed other episodes, but that’s a quick recap. Then of course you and I, and our whole stories, are down there at the bottom, pulling up the caboose. Lauren Mancke: Nobody cares about us. I’m just kidding. Brian Gardner: Which is why we have guests on the show. Lauren Mancke: Yes, exactly. Brian Gardner: Because they’re the ones people will want to listen to. Their Favorite Episodes of Season One Lauren Mancke: I think the Cory Miller episode was very good as far as the content. I think all three of us were tearing up on that one. Brian Gardner: Yeah. I wish I would have seen Cory’s talk at WordCamp Denver just because, and I’m sure it’s on WordPress.tv, but that is something that I think without a doubt every single person who listens to the show struggles with in some regard. Some better than others. I’ve had my seasons of even within the last six years, after we merged the company, of really struggling, especially early on. This was before we brought in the mid-level management and brought in people like you, who came in and really helped do a lot of the stuff that I do. I remember, I think it was within the first year, we came together as partners in Boulder. I had a meltdown and I was like, “Look, guys, I’m just completely fried.” I remember Brian Clark said to me … He says, “Just take the next month and a half off. Do nothing.” I was like, “What?” Like, “No, I m a creative. I can’t do nothing.” It’s one of those things where it creeps in and life gets in the way and clients get in the way. Hard work and stuff like that do pay off, but the whole entrepreneurial mental health thing is something that I think far too many people don’t discuss or don’t have an … It doesn’t even have to be talked about across the internet via a podcast. You got to have a couple of people in your life who even if it’s a Skype call … I know Cory a lot of times has tweeted things out saying, “Hey, I just got a message from a friend and it meant the world.” Just things off radar, offline. Just check in with the people, whether they are people who you work for, who work for you, or people like Jason, who are just peers within the community. That stuff matters, so I’m glad we had a chance to talk about that. Lauren Mancke: Yeah. I think when you’re working on the internet, it’s easy to get lost in that. You’re connected to everyone, but you’re also connected to no one if you’re just in your own little bubble and you’re not really able to sit down and talk with people face to face or, like you said, even on a Skype chat or something like that, so it’s an important issue. Brian Gardner: All right, so let’s talk about some of the other episodes. I’m just going to look down and just see. I know we talked, as I mentioned earlier, Brian and Jennifer, husband and wife team. They own their own agency and we talked a lot about … You weren’t on that episode because I think you had mom duty that day, but that was a good episode because it talked about work and family balance, which is in a way relevant to the mental health thing, where as creatives and those who do stuff online, we have access to the internet 24/7, and so it is difficult at times to balance work and home life. I struggle with it sometimes. There are times where I literally have to just shut my laptop and tell Shelly, “Do not let me open this because I need to go play catch with Zach because that’s important, because I don’t want him growing up thinking the computer is more important than him and so on.” For you even, you’re a mom and have two more on the way, and all of that. I mean, what’s that going to look like for you next year? Lauren Mancke: Well, I thought that episode would have been good for me to be on because I ran a creative agency with my husband, so I know a little bit about that. I even notice my son isn’t even two and a half yet and he’s already … He’ll come in and sit at my desk and say, “I’m working. I got to get on a conference call.” He picks up. He puts on the headphones and he pretends that he’s on a conference call. I’m like, “I don’t know that I want that to be my legacy with my son.” So spending more time with family is definitely a priority. Brian Gardner: Yeah. Going back to Jason and the episode that we had with Tim, that was the one thing, over the last few years, of things that I see online that I get envious about, is the ability that some people have to do that and make that so important. By all means, I don’t shun my family. Shelly is at home all day long, so we get to talk to each other. I’m home at 3:00 o’clock when Zach comes home, so we do have our time together, but Jason, of anybody I’ve ever seen online, puts more importance on his family, his wife, especially his daughter. I can’t imagine the bond that they’re going to have throughout their life because of how much importance he placed on the balance of work versus time with them. It’s fun and sometimes, like I said, I get envious of the fact that people are able to do that, maybe not so much as I wish I could, but yeah, it’s important too to balance that out because relationships, marriages, mother-daughters, father-sons, those types of things, in my eyes, big picture, matter way more than what we do for our jobs. Anyway, that’s the kind of thing that I think just everybody needs to hear, that it is important to balance work and life. All right, so another one of my favorite episodes was when we had Shay Bocks on and talked about food blogging. That also is something that I thought would have been a little bit more less heard because of the fact that it was very niche-specific. I think it resonated with a lot of people because people took things that she said out of the food blogging discussion we were having and those are the things that could have been easily applied to any other niches. So I think even thought it was a food blogging episode, a lot of the stuff that Shay talked about, things that we discussed, could have certainly been used across the sphere. Food blogging to me is interesting because it’s one of the … It sort of came out after real estate, which is sort of not really been that big a thing anymore, but the food blogging industry has exploded. You know, Will, your husband likes to cook and you like to take photography and you’ve done a couple of food-oriented themes on StudioPress. I can’t believe how popular that still is and how many people still … Foodie has regained number one status on theme sales on StudioPress. With the exception of two, maybe three months over the last almost two and a half years now, it’s been number one every single month. Shay and I talk probably at least once a month just about stuff in general and she’s always like, “I’m waiting for the ship to sink.” I’m like, “Don’t.” I’m like, “Embrace the fact that …” Shay has done something of a big lesson for all of us. If you do something that works, instead of trying to replicate that somewhere else, really hone in on that. She’s really crafted her business around the idea of food blogging and she re-branded her company, called Feast Design Company. How more relevant of a brand name than to work within the niche? That is also something I think has been fascinating for me to see, is people within our community really identify where they belong and then really attack at that point. Lauren Mancke: Shay is also just a great person. It’s really great to see her succeed and all of her success. She’s just a wonderful, wonderful human being. I think too, also, food blogging, people … We’ve talked about focus on family. I mean, that’s a trend. People are spending more time, I think, focused on their family and eating and community and all of that, so I don’t see food blogging going anywhere any time soon. Brian Gardner: Yeah. People always eat. There’s always going to be the internet and the will to make money. For people, not so much Shay, but the people who use Shay’s themes per se, that’s the dream, right? Living the dream, we talked about that with Jason, is to take your passion, something … In this case it’s something that you do at home, so you could literally be hanging out with your kids and working at the same time, and even having them help. I recently redesigned a website called Simple as That Blog with Rebecca Cooper. She’s got to a really, really big website. She’s got four kids and she’s a great photographer. She does a lot of her DIY craft and recipe type of things with her kids. She uses them as props. They get dressed up and they do things. For her, it’s a really creative way to do that work-family balance thing because she includes her kids with her work, and so therefore there’s no … I don’t know. Just disconnect between the two, and so I think food blogging is just another example of where that can be done. All right, so the episode that I actually wasn’t sure we would be able to do, mainly because I know Matt sometimes is a little bit slow on email as he should be … I’m sure he gets thousands of emails a day and from probably people way more important than me. I reached out to Matt Mullenweg to talk about WordPress and making money. He wrote back within like a day or two. I was very surprised and very pleased that he was very open to talking to us about that. It was a great episode. We talked almost an hour, I think, on that one, and probably could have kept going. The premise of that show was very obviously how to make and that it’s okay to make money with WordPress open source community. We did a couple of episodes on that. Also I remember we did one with Carrie Dils. With Matt, we talked about just the WordPress ecosystem and different ways that we can make money with WordPress, that it’s okay to make money with WordPress, and the fact that he even endorses the fact that it’s okay to make money with WordPress because I think at this point, the community as a whole has identified that WordPress is a business in a sense. Even though there’s a free version of it, even though it’s an open source piece of software, there’s a full blown ecosystem, as we talked at the beginning of the show, just all the different ways that people use WordPress and can offer WordPress as a business, either as a service or like what we do with commoditized type things with selling themes and plug-ins and so on. It was fun to talk to the guy, right? The guy who founded all of it. I was a little bit star struck, as I always am every time I talk to him. It’s a little bit difficult to … I don’t know. Feel like we were pulling our weight in that conversation, but what did you think about that show? Lauren Mancke: Oh, we’re totally BFFs now, so it’s all good. Brian Gardner: You guys on HipChat or Slack together? You just ping each other with ideas and whatnot. I like to think of Matt as like the mini Richard Branson because he’s always … At this point in his life, he’s probably got tons of money and he’s out travelling around. He’s out in Bali or in Antarctica. I forget that he’s probably 30-something now or late 20s or whatever, but to me he’s always going to be a kid. I don’t know. The whole thing is a great story. Just imagine how many people, their lives have been changed by what he’s done. Mine, yours, everybody who listens to the show, everyone in our company. It’s kind of crazy if you think about that. Lauren Mancke: Yeah. I think he’s around my age, but yeah, he’s definitely prolific and I too am a little envious of his schedule. He gets to go everywhere and do all sorts of fun, cool things. Brian Gardner: Again, I think that goes back to the point of, if you have some crazy idea, sometimes you just need to execute it. Like, what if he never decided to fork b2 back in the day. We all have that question in our life. What if I never left my job or what if I never asked people if they would buy a WordPress theme or any of that stuff? I think the moral of the story here is that sometimes you do need to take that risk and just do that thing, as George Costanza did in Seinfeld back in the day. Do the opposite, right? Because if what you’re doing isn’t working, maybe the opposite will. That was a great episode, by the way. Lauren Mancke: I always get tuna on toast. Brian Gardner: Ah, there you go. Seinfeld, one of the best shows ever, if not the best show ever. What They re Looking Forward to in Season Two Brian Gardner: All right, so moving forward, we are going to take break here. We ran that through our guy in charge of the podcast network and said, “Hey, we’ve got a lot of things we’re working on.” We will not be discussing any of those here on the show because they’re just fun, internal projects that will make a big splash and a big difference next year to everyone listening to the show. What are the types of things you want to do as we probably open back up in January of next year, after the holidays? Who are the types of people we want to have? Anything specific you want to see happen? Lauren Mancke: Well, I know we have Dan from Dribbble lined up, Dan Cederholm. I’m excited about that one. He actually came up to the Northbound office a few years ago when ConvergeSE was going on. That’s a conference in Columbia, where I live. It was great to meet him and Rich, and spend time with him. It’ll be fun to have him on the show. Brian Gardner: Now one of the things I want to do and throw out there is, we would love to hear from you guys, those who are listening to the show. At the bottom of the show notes, we’re going to put mine and Lauren’s Twitter handle. If you have any ideas or suggestions or people, if you want to nominate people, we are definitely open to hearing from the community. I know you and I are both creatives and designers, and so we err a little bit more on the side of that, in terms of show. I do want to make sure that we don’t forget our nerdy friends who are developers and programmers, and bring those types of people in as well, and talk to them because I’m sure they have a ton of wisdom to share with our audience. I’m trying to think of who else I would want to have on the show. I know that we have a little Google doc where we keep track. I want to get outside a little bit of just the general WordPress space and just find some really big entrepreneur type people who happen to use WordPress, but it’s not their business. I know people like Paul Jarvis is a guy that I want to bring on the show, possibly Jeff Goins. From my perspective, those are a few of the people that I plan to hit up. Maybe we’ll see if we can get a guy like Chris Brogan on just to talk some sense into us all and whatnot. We’ll have to think about that over the coming weeks, who else we want to have on the show. Lauren Mancke: Yeah. We’d love to hear from the audience, of suggestions. That’s a great idea, Brian. Brian Gardner: Hit us up on Twitter, @laurenmancke or @bgardner. We’ll put the link in the show notes. Even if you don’t even have a suggestion for the show and just want to say, “Hi. Thanks for putting together the podcast,” we would love to hear some of that feedback as well, good or bad. Let us know. We will wrap the show up. This is our 17th episode, I believe, which still amazes me. Sorry for those who really like the show and want to hear next week. We won’t be here because that will be Thanksgiving week. Actually, you know what? This will air the day before Thanksgiving. Nonetheless, people will be out shopping. No one wants to listen to us anyway. December is really a time for that family and stuff that we talked about. We will be back in January of 2017 with Season Two of StudioPress FM. On behalf of Lauren and I and all of us within our company who touch the StudioPress brand, we thank you very much for your support as customers, as listeners and those who spread the gospel of StudioPress. Thank you very much and we will talk to you next year.

This week the guys get in touch with their emotions as they recall those movies that made them feel all sorts of feels. Also included, Aaron dies, Jacob cries, and David introduces a new segment. What? They can't all rhyme.

Doug Murray returns to give us the first of a three-part story arc about a helicopter pilot in what will be his final storyline on the book. It's The 'Nam #49, "What They're Fighting For," brought to you by Doug Murray and Herb Trimpe. Plus, in the "added feature" portion of the episode, I take a look at the second (and last) "5th to the 1st" piece by Dough Murray and Michael Golden from Savage Tales #4, "The Sniper. Plus ... listener email!

How to Build An Effective Social Media Strategy for Your Blog Today is day 8 in our 31 day challenge and it's a really important one that I know many of you will get your teeth into. You're going to do a social media audit on your blog to assess how your social media accounts are going and to plan a way forward to use them more effective. You can listen to todays episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In this Episode My confession with social media and how I'd let some of my social media accounts slip Some suggestions for working out which social media accounts you should be focusing upon Some suggested questions to ask yourself today about one of your social media accounts as you conduct your audit The challenge to create an editorial calendar for your social media account How making appointments with myself to make sure I implement what I plan Tools mentioned in todays podcast include: Canva Picmonkey MeetEdgar Buffer Further Reading There are so many posts on the ProBlogger blog on the topic of social media but here are a few that you might like to check out: How to Socialize Your Blog Posts for Maximum Effect How to Build an Efficient Social Media Workflow to Increase your Traffic Facebook: Boost Your Organic Reach with These Tips Case Studies of Popular Pages (and What They’re Doing to Get Great Engagement) Not on Instagram? Your Blog Could be Missing Out 7 Powerful Tips for a Winning Twitter Sales Strategy And here's a few others from other sites around the web Hubspot: The Social Media Content Calendar every Marketer Needs Buffer: How to Create and Schedule a Social Media Marketing Plan Inc.com: How to Choose the Best Social Media Sites to Market Your Business Tell us How Your Social Media Audit Went Today I'd love to hear how you found todays challenge in comments below. What social media accounts are you most active on? How could you improve what you do with your social media accounts? What's one thing you'll do differently with your social accounts going forward? Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hello and welcome to the ProBlogger Podcast episode 8 and day 8 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, where your challenge today is to do an audit on one of your social media accounts and to come up with a plan for the future of that account. Including the creation of an editorial calendar. Show notes for today's episode are at problogger.com/podcast/8.  First, a word from our sponsor, 99designs, the best place for a new blog or an older blogger to build their brand. If you're looking to launch your blog or a project that needs some high quality but affordable design work done, then 99designs is where you should head. Start your next design project at 99designs.com/problogger and $99 upgrade for free. Hi. It's Darren here from ProBlogger. Welcome to day 8 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Today, we’re going to talk about social media. My challenge to you is to choose one of your social media accounts, to do a bit of an audit on, to do some analysis, to ask some tough questions. Most bloggers are pretty active on social media but it's pretty easy to just drift along with it and not use it as effectively as you could. In fact, it's pretty easy for it to start hurting your blogging as well, whether it be using social media as a distraction away from blogging itself, whether it's just getting off target in terms of the topic—letting automation get in the way of useful tweeting—or standing to use social media in a more dated way.  This is the case for me. I recently realized that I'd let ProBlogger’s social media accounts sleep a little. Social media has always been important for ProBlogger and it's always sent...

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Vulcan death grips, death from above, and the death of the open source business model. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes. A Hill Staffer checks his phone as Capitol Hill police take aim on the grounds of the Capitol. Congressional API on IFTTT Government shutdown and API abandonment Red Hat Storage is one way to replicate your important big data in the cloud Bill Gates admits that Ctrl Alt Delete was a mistake Wikipedia article on Control-Alt-Delete SGI Vulcan Death Grip = Left CTRL + Left SHIFT + F12 + / on the number pad Practice safe USB charging Target practice: F-16 drone flying at 40,000 feet, Mach 1.47, and doing barrel rolls pulling 7Gs Meanwhile, Gunnar needs to power off his Walkman and Palm Pilot on US Airways, for now HT Matt Jamison: Linux Kernel Development: How Fast it is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who is Sponsoring It (2013 Edition) Gunnar bait of the week courtesy of Mike Olson Board Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera: “So here is the conundrum facing enterprise infrastructure software companies: You can no longer win with a closed-source platform, and you can’t build a successful stand-alone company purely on open source.” Red Hat Summit Call for Proposals now open! RHEL 5.10 released! RHEL 6.5 beta released! New RHEL packaging provides stacking, instances, portability Satellite 5.6 released! Open demos available now! Dave and Gunnar are liking the Red Hat Consulting internal podcast by Ian Tewksbury and Krain Arnold Be like Ian and Krain: Get yourself a modcluster t-shirt and the party invitations from famous people will follow Red Hat and HP win VA Scheduling contest SCAP Security Guide welcomes ORNL as contributor! SCAP Security Guide builds now in Koji! Cutting Room Floor The Onion reviews the movie “Gravity” We Give Thanks Matt “Jamo” Jamison for the Linux Foundation report pointer! Ian Tewksbury and Krain Arnold for a great podcast!

Podcast #15 is...wait a minute! What? They give away the ending on the cover of the DVD?! Those fools. Well, since The Top 100 Project is all about ruining every inch of a movie for you, we’ll let it slide. Chaplin’s AFI swan song is Modern Times. Did we like it more or less than his previous masterpieces, The Gold Rush and City Lights? How does the story stack up to the reality of today? And just how much face-dirt is required to make the lovely Paulette Goddard the rabble-rousing gamin she’s supposed to be? Those issues and a lot more can be found by clicking on the link and opening your eardrums...