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What To do When Your Doctor Gets Sued ... Medscape conducted research in which doctors from various specialties were questioned. They were asked if they have been sued. Interestingly, 60% of individuals who answered this Medscape poll have been sued at least once. And if the doctors were at least 60 years or older, that number increased to 80%. In this episode, we will discuss an important topic: "What Happens When Your Doctor Is Sued." I will be recounting my own experience with my first case. Today we are taught and reminded that doctors aren't obliged to be perfect, nor are they expected to be. We're just required to give the patient our best effort. I want to inform you that if the physician got sued, it doesn't make them bad. Connect with me on today's podcast as I discuss "What Happens Doctors Gets Sued." Text LUNCHLEARNPOD to 44222 today or sign up at www.listentodrberry.com to join the mailing list. Remember to subscribe to the podcast and share the episode with a friend or family member. Listen on Apple Podcast, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud, iHeartRadio, Spotify Sponsors: Lunch and Learn Community Online Store (code Empower10) Pierre Medical Consulting (If you are looking to expand your social reach and make your process automated then Pierre Medical Consulting is for you) Dr. Pierre's Resources – These are some of the tools I use to become successful using social media My Amazon Store – Check out all of the book recommendations you heard in the episode Links/Resources: Website Instagram Twitter DrBerryPierreTV Dr. Pierre's Health checks Social Links: Join the lunch and learn community – https://www.drberrypierre.com/joinlunchlearnpod Follow the podcast on Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/lunchlearnpod Follow the podcast on Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/lunchlearnpod – use the hashtag #LunchLearnPod if you have any questions, comments, or requests for the podcast For More Episodes of the Lunch and Learn with Dr. Berry Podcasts https://www.drberrypierre.com/lunchlearnpodcast/ If you are looking to help the show out Leave a Five Star Review on Apple Podcast because your ratings and reviews are what is going to make this show so much better Share a screenshot of the podcast episode on all of your favorite social media outlets & tag me or add the hashtag. #lunchlearnpod Download the MP3 Audio file, listen to the episode however you like.

My good friend Destenee just signed a major agency deal as a model.  While we were happy, some people attributed to the success to genetics without realizing the hard work that goes into it.  The same can be said for any success.  No matter how high you rise, there will be some who just won't give you the credit you deserve....and that's ok. In this episode, we'll discuss: Why you shouldn't celebrate too long The beauty of your own lane Why some will never support you What To do when you don't know what to do

What TO say to a military spouse: "Thank you." "You're awesome!" "I don't understand what you are going through, but I am here for you!" "What a gift you are giving your children." "Murphy's Law will happen, and we are here to help when it does."

Join the Great Man Within Facebook Group for Men: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatManWithin We’re about to head into some dark territory. Depression and suicide are some of the heaviest topics known to man. …and ironically, I suspect you will find this to be one of the most enjoyable, humorous and informative interviews we’ve ever done. And that’s all thanks to the magic of our special guest, who I’ll introduce in a few moments. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that in 2018, 48,000 Americans lost their lives to suicide. That number is expected to potentially double during last year’s pandemic era. Every 9 minutes, a person takes their life…which means by the end of this episode, 5 or 6 more people will no longer be with us. Chances are very good that you know someone who’s either taken their lives…or have someone close to you who’s considered it. Chances are nearly 100% that you know someone who deals with some form of depression, whether they’ve revealed it to you or not. Having an open, candid dialogue about these darker subjects is essential to create safe environments for those who feel like their depressive or suicidal thoughts are unsafe to express…for fear of judgment, not being understood or triggering someone else’s discomfort. 
One of our principles of being a Great Man is to create environments where we and those we care about can thrive. That includes creating safe spaces for the people in our lives who struggle with depression and suicide to be able to open up to us, feel seen and heard and supported. Our special guest today, Frank King, does an incredible service in equipping us with practical guidance on how to do exactly that…all while having a few laughs along the way. Who is Frank King? Frank is a mental health comedian specializing in depression and suicide Performed with the likes of Jim Carrey, Dennis Miller, Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O’Donnell and Adam Sandler 6-time TEDx talker and coach for how you can land your TEDx talk Corporate keynote speaker He himself has Major Depressive Disorder and Chronic Suicidal Ideation and has come so close to taking his own life that he says, in his own words, “I know what the barrel of my gun tastes like.” In This Episode: What NOT to say to a person who has revealed their depression to you What TO say to a person who has revealed their depression to you What TO say to a person who reveals they are suicidal 3 staggering statistics on how many people contemplate, attempt and succeed in suicide How the Pandemic caused “Situational Depression” to explode onto the scene Frank’s 5-step self-care process that helps him fortify his inner foundation Resources Referenced in this Episode “A Matter of Laugh or Death” (Frank’s TEDx Talk): https://youtu.be/aBUXND5BD4M Hire Frank to Speak: https://www.thementalhealthcomedian.com 6 Things That Will Kill Your Chances of Getting a TEDx Talk (Free PDF): https://www.yourtedxcoach.com “Guts, Grit and the Grind” Free Audiobook: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/1nH4mhj/audiobook Mental Health Resources: MentalHealthFirstAid.org Text or call Frank (If you are on the edge and need support): 858-405-5653 Another Episode on Depression, Suicide and Men’s Mental Health Episode #98 of The Great Man Within Podcast: Calling for a Men’s Mental Health Revolution w/Sam Webb

This week we travel to Eastern Kentucky to the town of Morehead in our quest to explore cool independent bookstores in our region. Morehead is home to a little over 7,000 residents and Morehead State University. The university as well as the regional medical center in town give the community a diverse makeup. And it's location inside Daniel Boone National Forest and the head of the Sheltowee Trace Trail make it a tempting destination for folks who like to hike, hunt, fish, and soak up nature. Our guest, Susan Thomas, is a managing partner and owner of CoffeeTree Books and the Fuzzy Duck Coffee Shop which have been a family business for over 20 years. It has morphed several times and is now housed in the town's old single screen movie theater on Main Street. They have transformed the space to include a coffee shop in the old concession area, event space at the stage, and a business office in the old projector room, not to mention everything you would expect to see in a bookstore. But they have been creative with their space and have included a store within a store. CoffeeTree is also a destination for locals looking for supplies for fiber arts like knitting. They carry high quality yarns and classes for knitters. Susan is a knitter herself and wanted to offer products she used to have to travel over an hour to purchase. And while there weren't initially many knitters in Morehead, Susan and others have nurtured a whole crop of townspeople anxious to learn and create. Susan tells us why books and yarn aren't the strangest store within a store concept in town, why she has an affinity for books about bees, and why moving back to her hometown after 16 years in Nashville is a decision she hasn't once regretted. Books mentioned in this episode: 1- The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 2- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 3- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 4- Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald 5- The Storied Life of A J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 6- The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald 7- Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin 8- Outliers by Malcom Gladwell 9- The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad by Mike Birbiglia and J. Hope Stein 10- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr 11- We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker 12- Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston 13- Good Talk by Mira Jacob 14- Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia 15- The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage, and a Girl Saved by Bees by Meredith May 16- Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler 17- The E Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What To do About It by Michael E. Gerber

This week we travel to Eastern Kentucky to the town of Morehead in our quest to explore cool independent bookstores in our region. Morehead is home to a little over 7,000 residents and Morehead State University. The university as well as the regional medical center in town give the community a diverse makeup. And it’s location inside Daniel Boone National Forest and the head of the Sheltowee Trace Trail make it a tempting destination for folks who like to hike, hunt, fish, and soak up nature. Our guest, Susan Thomas, is a managing partner and owner of CoffeeTree Books and the Fuzzy Duck Coffee Shop which have been a family business for over 20 years. It has morphed several times and is now housed in the town’s old single screen movie theater on Main Street. They have transformed the space to include a coffee shop in the old concession area, event space at the stage, and a business office in the old projector room, not to mention everything you would expect to see in a bookstore. But they have been creative with their space and have included a store within a store. CoffeeTree is also a destination for locals looking for supplies for fiber arts like knitting. They carry high quality yarns and classes for knitters. Susan is a knitter herself and wanted to offer products she used to have to travel over an hour to purchase. And while there weren’t initially many knitters in Morehead, Susan and others have nurtured a whole crop of townspeople anxious to learn and create. Susan tells us why books and yarn aren’t the strangest store within a store concept in town, why she has an affinity for books about bees, and why moving back to her hometown after 16 years in Nashville is a decision she hasn’t once regretted. Books mentioned in this episode: 1- The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 2- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 3- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 4- Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald 5- The Storied Life of A J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 6- The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald 7- Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin 8- Outliers by Malcom Gladwell 9- The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad by Mike Birbiglia and J. Hope Stein 10- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr 11- We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker 12- Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston 13- Good Talk by Mira Jacob 14- Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia 15- The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage, and a Girl Saved by Bees by Meredith May 16- Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler 17- The E Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What To do About It by Michael E. Gerber

How To Be More Social Media Savvy!Listen up as Caralee guides you through exactly how to use social media to your business' benefit to scale, communicate and implement growth in your business through social media!Social media isn't going away any time soon, so use it to your advantage!Listen in to hear all of the inside tips and tricks on how to scale by...

Mindful & Intentional is brought to you by Idenati   10 reflections to wrap up the year: The ecology of human experience (2:20) Sovereignty of mind (5:08) Claiming control of attention (7:40) What NOT to pay attention to (11:14) The Stoics (13:08) What TO pay attention to (14:10) Time (16:44) Time is money (18:53) Space (20:00) After why, comes how (21:42)

What To expect From Anime Podcast Going Forward: More Korean Comics(Manhwa) and Chinese(Manhua) Plus more diverse Japanese Collection. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theanimepodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theanimepodcast/support

I ALWAYS GIVE YOU LOVE, TODAY IT’S GONNA BE TOUGH LOVE.- The truth is we need to pull out the weeds before they take over the garden- We need to know WHAT’S wrong otherwise we risk struggling for years- Constantly wondering why it’s not working out for us   Once we’re aware of what NOT to do, it makes us more aware of WHAT TO do.   YOU DON’T HAVE WHAT IT TAKES IF YOU TAKE A LONG TIME TO MAKE DECISIONS Entrepreneurship requires that you move fast. And so if you take a very long time to come to a decision – you don’t have what it takes. The time it takes you to make up your mind is time you could be learning from your failures, or successes, by taking massive action.     "Success is based on movement. The only way you fail is when you stop moving." - Brian Mark     Ready to Grow Your Fitness Biz? Apply to Work with Brian Join the Facebook group for Successful Online Trainers This is the place for you if you're looking to grow your business and dominate the market     In this Episode We Will Discuss About: - We’ll be able to see growth and progress in our fitness business each week - Our success will bring more success and it will start to compound - We’ll feel aligned, positive, and happy with our own progress      Connect with Brian: Facebook - http://facebook.com/Bmarkfit/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bmarkfit/

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. [John 3:8]. Listen to Pastor Oti as he shares on What To...

The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows]. (John 10:10 AMP). Listen to Pastor Oti as he shares on What To...

The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows]. (John 10:10 AMP). Listen to Pastor Oti as he shares on What To...

What To and Not To Do at an Open House. This weeks episode we talk about an open house. What to do and not to do when you are planning on visiting an open house. From etiquette to what you should be looking for, we go over what you will see and who will be there. We also quickly go over who is the agent present at an open house and why it might be best if you have your own buyers agent lined up before you head in.

"How To" books and "What To" guides are all the rage.   "If I could just figure out how to do _____, everything would come together for me."   "If I could just get my hands on _____, this would all be a lot easier."   Most guys chase this elusive dream to the ends of the earth while ignoring the most valuable resource they have right in front of them... the people in their life.   If you're tired of chasing the bright shiny objects. If you're done with buying endless courses and seminars. If you want to leverage your already-existing relationships to their full potential. This is the podcast episode for you.   In it, you'll find out: Why the "Do-it-Yourself" mentality might be holding you back How to turn your mentors into your clients Why not all coaches are a joke The quickest way to find success in life and business Why building your network should be your main focus right now What to do when you have nothing of value to offer to the people you need help from How to find your own hidden superpowers Why going with the biggest name in a niche might be a giant mistake for your business What most people get wrong about "Strategic Partnerships" Why business relationships are just as important as personal relationships The biggest thing people do wrong when picking their business partnerships And more Listen now.

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What TO post on Social Media. You're crafting your brand, so you want to show people who are. Keeping that 93/7 split going heavy on things in the community, family, events, and other things are a great way to go. Sprinkle in Real Estate to keep that part of your life and business at the top of everyone mind. Not everyone is the same, so don't think you have to have a similar profile as others in the business. Also make sure you respond to everyone commenting to keep an engaged audience.  Join us a media company who focuses on Real Estate. Join the conversation at info@realestateontherocks.com

On this episode we dive deep into Chad’s experience presenting at the North West Math Conference about the way he uses math games in his classroom. Then we crack up about the news in “Wait, What?”To see Chad’s presentation slideshow, head over to www.schooledyapod.com and check it out!

Newark Water Wars Followup , Epstein Rabbithole Psyop and more. WHAT TO buy for people who have everything when you don't want to spend too much. Gloria Stewart on Facebook, Psyops and movie studios money laundering for Dems. Blessed to Teach Q drops: Bill Maher consistently wants to keep the focus on Trump. Why? Newark Water competing with Flint for most toxic.If you can't shower in it, it's bad. Bottled water can't help that. People finally waking up. Why are we paying for what should be free? It's not being purified. Money isn't being spent on the upkeep...Then where is all the money for water going? Who cares? How good is your water? Time for people to start paying attention. You are still free (if you wake up and stand up) with all the latest real news --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What TO do and What NOT to do on camera so you look more natural, plus a valuable tip to save time in recording and editing your videos!  Watch these episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/UCEgfa-ovLqX5uUo5MRnNBjA?sub_confirmation=1    Want to launch your own show? I can help! I have a team of podcast editors and marketings and we help entrepreneurs like you launch their show - all you have to do is record your episodes and get them into dropbox, I take it from there and guide you along the way. If you are interested in podcast launch and/or management services, check out https://StartYourShow.com/launch   For details from this episode and more resources visit: https://AlyciaDarby.com Email the host at Alycia@AlyciaDarby.com © 2019 Alycia Darby All Rights Reserved.

How can you bring a new level of presence to your relationship? And what if this new level of presence could also help you find a sense of well-being in any moment? And how can you make sure you’re being yourself - instead of trying to be what somebody else wants you to be? This week, our guest is Julie Henderson, author of The Lover Within and Embodying Well-Being, and the creator of Zapchen Somatics. Zapchen is a Tibetan word that suggests something naughty, or improper - and for Julie Henderson it’s a practice of how sometimes things that are unexpectedly simple can have profound results. The practices and principles of Zapchen Somatics are a direct approach to embodying well-being, which Julie refers to as "feeling as good as you can...in spite of everything." As always, I’m looking forward to your thoughts on this episode and what revelations and questions it creates for you. Please join us in the Relationship Alive Community on Facebook to chat about it! 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Just visit SimpleContacts.com/alive20 and use the coupon code “ALIVE20” at checkout for $20 off, and enjoy the easy way to replenish your supply of contact lenses. Resources: Visit Julie Henderson’s website to learn more about Zapchen. Pick up your copy of Julie Henderson’s book, The Lover Within. FREE Relationship Communication Secrets Guide - perfect help for handling conflict and shifting the codependent patterns in your relationship Guide to Understanding Your Needs (and Your Partner's Needs) in Your Relationship (ALSO FREE) Visit www.neilsattin.com/julie to download the transcript, or text “PASSION” to 33444 and follow the instructions to download the transcript to this episode with Julie Henderson. Amazing intro/outro music graciously provided courtesy of: The Railsplitters - Check them Out Transcript: Julie Henderson: Most people don't know how to be present. So, they don't know how to be present in relationship to someone else, so they make something up. They make it... They make some kind of a guess. And then, they do that and see if it has the effect that they want. I would like to say that my... One of my two inside cats has come into the living room and is sniffing the sun, that's nice. So, what it is to be present? Most people are not encouraged to learn how to do that. That's central to everything. So, I would say, notice... Well, notice that you are. That might be a surprise to a lot of people, in fact, just to do that, but it's a huge step for most people to notice that they are, and just to experience how they are, when they are noticing that they are. [chuckle] It's kind of a strange, strange way of talking about things, but it's... Almost everybody is born knowing how to be, but they are often taught from an early age not to be because it bothers their parents. Neil Sattin: Yeah. So... Julie Henderson: When we are being, frequently, we are loud, if we're kids. Yeah. Neil Sattin: Yeah. Julie Henderson: So, you were going to say? Neil Sattin: Well, that was the exact thing. I was going to, hopefully, get you to point out. What are these ways of being that come naturally or innately that we would be conditioned not to do? Julie Henderson: Well, it varies from person to person. Don't you see? There are... It almost always involves... When we're young, it almost always involves spontaneous movement, spontaneous noise really because often we are being noisy before we know how to talk. And so, when we are both noisy and active, dancing around, or... Yeah, dancing around, often. Young people like to experience being by moving, and lots of times, parents don't like that because it's... Parents are tired, parents don't know how to be themselves anymore because they have to go to work and stuff like that, so they encourage their children not to be loud, not to be moving, not to be having a good time being. That's the main difficulty, I would say. We are taught not to be. Not to be present, certainly. What is it? I'm trying to think how I would say, What do we mean "present"? Noticing, in various ways, what it feels like to be present, what it feels like to notice that we actually are. I don't know, maybe it's old, but it all sounds a little bit who cares, but I find it absolutely necessary. Julie Henderson: And it's not so hard, except that when we are grownups we have often spent a lot of time learning not to be present, not to notice that we are really this being of presence. And so... Neil Sattin: Yeah, there are some things that are clicking into place for me. For instance, yeah, when we were young, let's say before we're even verbal, we have very limited ways of communicating with our parents. And if I think about my experience of being a parent, I was recognizing a lot of what seems like discomfort and unease in my children and trying to address it in a way that hopefully brings peace and happiness to them. But what I'm hearing, or what's clicking into place, is that through that process there's inadvertently really... What happens is the ways that our organism innately wants to communicate and express and just kind of deal with being a body, existing in this realm, that we might become either alienated from those ways, or like you were just saying, told that we can't do those things. We can't express, can't make noise, can't be unruly, can't jump around. This is common, I think, for a lot of us to go through that experience. Julie Henderson: Very, very common, very common. Neil Sattin: And so then we find ourselves as adults trying to make sense of the world, and trying to make sense of our relationships. But at that point there's a communication system, the communication that emerges from within us, and in many ways we're alienated from that. We're alienated from the messaging that comes from within that tells us about how we are. Julie Henderson: Yep. We have learned to ignore what's actually true and to come up with something that's acceptable, or we have been taught is acceptable. And then we try to bring that into a relationship with people that we find attractive. Neil Sattin: Right. No wonder it gets confusing. Julie Henderson: No wonder it gets very cranky. [chuckle] Julie Henderson: We try so hard to get it right so that that person will love us, and by and large it really doesn't work. Neil Sattin: Right. Or it works for a little while, and then it starts to get confused, or there's all this tension and bumps that could happen. Julie Henderson: Yep. Neil Sattin: Yeah. Julie Henderson: I think eventually there's a... What... A resentment that arises in us spontaneously because we are not being who we are. And we may not even recognize that that is what is going on, but that we are trying to be what somebody else wants us to be, and that's uncomfortable. Neil Sattin: Right, and I'm getting the sense that when you talk about being who we are, in some respects you're not talking about being... Like being who we are as an expression of your preferences, or your likes and dislikes. It's something on a deeper level than that. Julie Henderson: Oh yes, yes, yes. One of the things that I have found people take to, even given the invitation and the possibility of trying it out is to, I say... When you say I, where is it coming from in you as a body, is it coming out of your head, is it coming out of your chest, is it coming out of your belly? And I just invite people to notice where that “I” is that they are talking about is located. And very often, very often, especially with Westerners, it's in their head. So then I would say, "Okay, well, if you were to move that voice into your heart, would you say the same thing that you just said, when you were being in your head, in your brain? And often, often they're just really startled that the rest of them, starting with the heart in this particular instance, is not feeling or responding to being the same as we have been taught to do by being located in our head, especially if we went to school a lot. Neil Sattin: Right. There's a lot of head instruction when you're in school. Julie Henderson: Yup, yup. I remember for myself, when I first went to. I was at Cal as a freshman, the University of California, Berkeley, and I was sitting in a classroom and suddenly I was noticing that it was not my head that was engaged here, it was my whole body, ideally speaking, but I didn't get that far that suddenly but just noticing that I could be more of myself, so to speak, and that that was very attractive. Neil Sattin: And was there something particular about that class that created that experience for you? Julie Henderson: I think it was in English class but I don't remember because what studies stayed with me was that recognition and whatever we were talking about in the class was not it, was not the relevant recognition. Neil Sattin: First let me just say that I find your work, at least to the extent that I've been exposed to it so far, to be both fascinating and comforting and it's just, for me, like such a curious blend of all these different practices and techniques and ways of looking at experience that even in just my simple introduction to your work, that they've made an impact and in particular, I'm thinking... Julie Henderson: May I say that's very nice to hear. Neil Sattin: Yeah, yeah, of course. And in particular, I'm thinking right now about one of the first conversations that we had and just to give you listening, a little background, my introduction to Julie was through her book, The Lover Within, which had been given to me by a friend and reached out in a number of different ways to try and connect with you, Julie, and then when we finally connected and started talking about your work, you were like, "Oh there's been so much since then. And let me send you a few things," and you sent me, among other books, which we'll get to in a little while, you sent the Hum Book. And that was where I started actually was by reading your book about humming, and in the time since then I've used humming as a way of bringing myself back to presence, a lot actually. I'm curious if you can... Julie Henderson: Oh, it's a treat. Neil Sattin: Yeah, can you talk a little bit about the practice of humming, and also what is it about humming that's so restorative, in your opinion? Julie Henderson: Well, there are 75 different ways of answering that. [chuckle] One of the... One of the ways would be to say, "When we hum, we are touching our whole body." If we are relaxed enough to let the hum go through the whole body, which most people aren't, to begin with, but eventually. When we are touching our whole body from the inside, and what drives me wild with joy, just to think about it, and to talk about it, is that we are touching... We are touching the cellular presence of being a body, and offering it nourishment, because of the oxygen that goes with the hum, and the encouragement to be a body that goes with that kind of inner contact with ourselves. And it's very relaxing, for one thing. I'm sure you've noticed that. Neil Sattin: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Julie Henderson: But it is... Yeah? Go ahead. Neil Sattin: And when you talk about how it... How you're actually touching the cellular structures within you, I just want to give the people listening a sense of what you're talking about. As a visual, you describe someone, I think bowing a violin, and in the presence of a pane of glass with a bunch of sand sprinkled on the glass, and that by making the sound, everything on the glass dances. And then, when the sound stops, it comes to rest in a coherent pattern that comes from the vibration. And so, through humming, we get to send this coherent pattern through our entire body. Julie Henderson: Yes. Neil Sattin: And experience that, the results of that resonance. How long should someone hum to experience that, do you think? Julie Henderson: How long do they want to hum? [chuckle] Neil Sattin: I love it. And is there a quality of the hum that you... So, when people are like, "Well, I've hummed before. I don't think I've experienced what they're talking about." How do you get at that particular kind of humming that has such a deep effect? Julie Henderson: I would say, be the hum. Mostly, if somebody says, "Well, I hummed and nothing happened," something like that, it's because they weren't there. They weren't there as the hum, for the hum, following the hum, so of course it didn't have the same effect. I think a lot of times it just doesn't occur to somebody to be present in the hum, and as the hum. And you can go... Well, I've got to tell you, the first time I had the good sense to do this that I'm about to say, it was just stunning to me that I could, for example, I could hum in my chest. And then, the hum, if I relaxed a little bit and changed the location of my attention, if I would take my attention into my belly then, for example, then the hum would automatically go there, and down my legs, and into my feet and toes, and so forth. Wherever I placed my attention, that is where the hum will go, and feel good. Feel good. Julie Henderson: So, one of the things that happens is that if you are humming into your chest, for example, where in your chest? If you have learned about the mediastinum by studying this or that, then if you hum into the mediastinum, the tissues there which we often... When, for example, we feel unloved, if we notice that the tissues in the mediastinum, if they are contracted, automatically we will be feeling unloved because that is the way we have of protecting ourselves from being alone or feeling like everything is too hard, or whatever our practices of that sort are. So, if we locate the mediastinum, that wonderful, wonderful set of, excuse me, set of tissues that surround and support the heart, and a lot of the... A lot of the feelings that we have about how we are arise in the cells that surround, that fill the mediastinum and surround and support the heart. That's a wonderful thing to do, really wonderful. Neil Sattin: Yeah. I'm reminded of how, at the very beginning of your book, Embodying Wellbeing, there's a foreword from Paul Ekman. And some of you listening may know of Paul Ekman because he studied micro-expressions in the face and your ability to tell what someone is really feeling or thinking by studying their micro-expressions. And then, he further went on to talk about how, if you could reproduce those expressions in the face, you could create emotions. And then, just to give everyone the background here, because I found this so fascinating, Julie ended up being in contact with him. And you can correct me if I'm wrong, Julie, but he studied you in his lab, and was amazed that not only were you able to create different emotional states, seemingly at will, but also you weren't bound by having to change your facial expression or the way you were breathing. Neil Sattin: There was something you were doing that was allowing you to experience joy, and rage, and sadness, and all of these things, just through how you were... Well, you tell me, because I'm so fascinated and curious to know. [chuckle] What were you doing? Julie Henderson: Because my body knows how to do that. Neil Sattin: Yes, great. Great. Julie Henderson: As I am a body, I already know how to do that. And if you look at that very first part of Embodying Wellbeing, where the basic, basic, basic exercises are, those are things that kids do spontaneously. And if they are not suppressed from doing them, they will grow up with that capacity, inherent in themselves as being a body, and they will be able to do what I can do. Neil Sattin: And so, let's just talk for a moment about what it means to embody well-being. because we've brought up presence, we've talked about embodying, and I'd like to converge that into what the heck are we actually talking about? Embodied presence, what does that mean? Julie Henderson: You want to talk about embodied presence, or embodied wellbeing? They're not quite the same. They go together, but it's... It will be helpful if we choose one to begin with. Neil Sattin: Where's a good place to start? Julie Henderson: Well, whichever one for whoever is wanting to try it out, whichever one is easy for you. For example, for me, it was easy because both of my parents were actors and they would be preparing for roles and they would be feeling various feelings and stuff, so it was not an uncommon experience for me and I could try things out, I was not suppressed from doing that. Let's see. Julie Henderson: It all seems so straightforward to me, at the moment. Yeah, either way, well being or presence, it doesn't matter, you start by bringing your attention into your body as sensation and let yourself take in the qualities of those sensations and that will tell you what you are at that time inclined to feel. So if then you want to feel well-being, which is a very nice thing to do, it's sort of like tweaking. What do you want to invite yourself as a body to do so that well-being arises, that would be the question from a grownup point of view. And if you have access to what it has been like for you to be a kid, a child, it's very easy if you have permission from your experience to [chuckle] laugh and to think of something that attracts you, that you like, that you are glad that you know about and let your body sense in to those sensations and, yeah, just enjoy them, just enjoy them. Neil Sattin: When I think about being in relationship and how much energy goes into trying to solve problems. Then what occurs to me is that the first thing that has to happen in order for you to be trying to solve a problem is you have to imagine that there is a problem and that sense of there being a problem is probably coming from some sense of discomfort within you. And one of the lovely other insights that your book, Embodying Wellbeing, starts with is this idea that you don't have to wait to fix the problem, if there even is a problem, to feel good, to embody well-being. Neil Sattin: And I'm imagining, because I haven't fully experienced this yet, honestly, but I'm imagining what it could be like for people in relationship to be so aware that they say, "Okay there's a problem right now. First thing I'm going to do is I'm going to hum and then maybe I'm going to laugh and yawn or jiggle my body," and I'm just kind of cherry picking a few of the techniques that you mentioned at the beginning of Embodying Wellbeing. And I'm going to see what that does to my state of being and the way that I feel before we even try to solve anything. Julie Henderson: Yup. Neil Sattin: And it's such a profound degree of... Well it's funny, I was about to say control, but that word control feels so like not the right... Julie Henderson: Try choice. Neil Sattin: Yeah, there, perfect. Julie Henderson: Try choice. Neil Sattin: Yeah, so the ability to choose what our experience is in the moment. Julie Henderson: And to play around with... Suppose you feel like there's something wrong and you don't know what it is exactly, suppose then you choose to do some or one or two or three or four of these things that help us to move towards well-being before you worry about it and see if it's still there. Neil Sattin: Right and what if it is, what if it is still there? Julie Henderson: Well, then you may also have more clarity about what it is that you would like to have different. Neil Sattin: Right. because so often we're just reacting from a place of, "I'm uncomfortable I want to feel better." And the illusion in those moments with a partner especially is that the way to feel better is for you to change, the other person to change. Julie Henderson: Yeah, "be different for me darling". Neil Sattin: Right, exactly. Do you have any suggestions for a practice that might be a good invitation for two people to do together, maybe even in a moment of tension between them but maybe even before a moment of tension it could be, they practice it with [chuckle] when there's less at stake or something like that. Julie Henderson: Well before they decide that they're going to feel bad because they don't like what's happening, that would be nice. There are... Horse lips is perfect and I guess probably most people have long gone past practicing horse lips. [chuckle] Neil Sattin: Horse lips? Julie Henderson: Horse lips. [laughter] Julie Henderson: You can do it that way, or you can do it with more relaxed lips, so it's like. It won't do it for me at the moment. I'm getting it wrong. [chuckle] Julie Henderson: Yeah, there is a way if your lips are really, really relaxed, that they vibrate and flap instead of making the buzzy sound and that's a lot of fun. Neil Sattin: Yeah, kind of like this? Julie Henderson: Yep, that's horse lips. Horse lips because horses do that, God bless them. When they are excited or interested or just playful, they will do that. Neil Sattin: Yeah, and I'm noticing right now that... Well, okay, so it feels silly to have done that. Here we are, we're in an interview and thousands of people are listening to us and... Julie Henderson: Oh my God. Neil Sattin: I know, exactly. Julie Henderson: I didn't do it. [chuckle] Neil Sattin: But it feels like silly and good. Julie Henderson: Well, it is the beginning of a willingness to move towards well-being even if we were taught not to be silly. Neil Sattin: Right, that is so funny. Just hearing you say that, it makes me think of those moments when we are abdicating our choice to feel good and in particular those like tense moments with, it could be with our partner, could be sitting in traffic, whatever it is, but those moments when we choose to stew, or choose to be angry or choose to be fearful and I'm saying this right now and I can even hear myself in a different frame of mind being like, "I'm not choosing this," it's like, "It's overtaking me." But yet if in that moment if someone said, "Oh well, just like do horse lips," a favorite one of my wife Chloe and I is to speak in gibberish. But it's like, it can take a serious amount of effort to actually make yourself do that in a tense and triggered moment because there's so much that wants to resist. Julie Henderson: Well, I tell you what. It is really something worth trying, to say, "I am feeling like I want to be pissed off about something and I'm going to try feeling good first, then I can be as pissed off as I want to be." If I still want to be because if I'm allowing myself to feel well and happy first, then the whole organismic context, the attitude that is held in the cells and all of the ways that we are put together as a body, when we are feeling good as a body, then it's unlikely that we will want to feel pissed off. We may have an objection still, but we don't have to go into a contracted state of being. I mean we can, we always have that choice. It's just that we don't... It's not necessary that we go in that direction. Neil Sattin: Right. And even then you get to bring the element of choice to how you handle your objection versus just... Julie Henderson: Absolutely. Yeah. Neil Sattin: Losing choice because you're in a contracted state. Julie Henderson: Yep. Neil Sattin: So I can already imagine the next little bit of conflict that comes up between me and Chloe, I'm going to be like, "Just excuse me for a moment," and go into the next room and do some horse lips and laugh and hum and then come back and be like, "All right, let's try this again. Let's have this conversation again." Julie Henderson: Mm-hmm. Neil Sattin: Can you talk about the difference between well-being, feeling good in that way, and pleasure? Because I think at least in part, the desire for pleasure and mutual pleasure is another aspect of what brings two bodies together. Julie Henderson: Yep, often enough, unless they've already been taught not to do that. Then they have to practice letting themselves enjoy being for its own sake rather than some screwy version of getting things right. Neil Sattin: Yeah. So maybe, where would we start with like where's our introduction to pleasure? Julie Henderson: Well, we're born moving into pleasure by being when we're babies, and then we can do that but some parents are very encouraging of that and then it stays that way, and then we get to... [chuckle] Then we get to learn that we don't always like everything that's happening and we get to practice not liking it. And that's one of the things that kids are very good at, and then parents don't understand why they are choosing to scream and holler. Neil Sattin: Yeah. So if I'm someone who... Like I don't think this is me, honestly, but at the same time I do think it's really important for us as adults to kind of re-learn pleasure so that it's free from the cultural constructs, the ways that we've been taught are the ways we should and shouldn't experience pleasure, and to actually experience it from the inside out. So we're not trying to re-enact something that we think will give us pleasure, but... If this is making sense. So I'm wondering, is there an exercise for you that comes to mind that's about kind of re-awakening this experience? Like a very kind of raw experience of pleasure in our experience in our bodies? Julie Henderson: Well [chuckle], first be a body. If you isolate yourself in your head, for example, which many people in the West are brought up to do... If you let yourself... Well, I'm trying to think... The easiest thing really is to notice something that you like and let yourself rest in that and feel the bodily sensations of that. And as you do that you will be feeling pleasure. Neil Sattin: Yeah. It's almost like you're saying experience what it's like to like something. Julie Henderson: Mm-hmm. Let yourself experience what it's like. Let yourself experience that there is something that you like. Some people feel like that's... Well, some people would say, "Oh that's just the kid thing," or, "I have to have something that I like to like." I think, yeah, if we give ourselves... For example, if you will plant some flowers or if you will plant a tree... I mean, here where I live, I have a house that I thoroughly enjoy having living in and six and a third acres of forest. It would be very difficult for me to feel bad. I'd have to really work at it. Neil Sattin: Yeah. So there's something... Julie Henderson: And I have cats. [chuckle] Neil Sattin: Yeah. So there's something to knowing yourself that well to know what you, what you like and what you don't. Julie Henderson: Yeah. And to practice noticing what we like rather more thoroughly than what we don't like. It is important to notice what you don't like, but it's better to notice more often what you do like so that you don't get stuck in not liking. Neil Sattin: Yeah, and that makes me think of your concept of appropriate touch, which is something I'm really curious to hear more about from you because it seems like... When I think about the sexual paradigm that we're all born into, the ways that we learn to experience pleasure with each other. And actually, I don't want to say born into, it's more like, "This is what our culture is created," and we're seeing a lot of this manifest right now in the Me Too movement and recognition that a lot of people are feeling violated in the name of at least one person's pleasure others are feeling super violated and disrespected, and so I'm curious to where this brings a couple so that they can experience each other and awaken pleasure and awaken touch with each other in a way that is appropriate. That's the word that comes to mind for me. So can you talk a little bit about what that means for you, appropriate touch and how that enters the picture? Julie Henderson: Okay. If I were to talk about it just as me, rather than me in relationship to somebody, I would say it's interesting. I would first ask my body, ask myself as a body if there was some touching that it would like, that I would like and whether that would be, for example, to go outside and lean up against one of the trees or whether it would be asking one of the cats to sit in my lap and purr, or because there's... At the moment there's nobody else living in this house except me. It's just me. Only me. [chuckle] Julie Henderson: One of the things, one of the things that's very, very helpful. If there are two people that are either confused about how to approach touching each other, or just wanting to be very tender and slow with something. If you sit back to back so that you can feel your heart from behind and you can feel your heart touching the presence of your partner's heart. That's a very, very helpful thing to do. It's very respectful and it's very tender. Neil Sattin: So okay, I'm going to ask maybe a sort of crass question. Julie Henderson: Crass on sweetheart. [chuckle] Neil Sattin: Okay. How do you get from back-to-back to front-to-front? Julie Henderson: Well, not all at once. [chuckle] Take your time and sit side-to-side. Sit side-to-side on the ground, so that your thighs are contacting each other and hold hands, I would say. I think that would be a lovely thing to do. You can also do that lying down, which is nice. If you do that lying down and then reach across and hold each other's hearts, so if I am lying down with my friend, Tony, and we are side-by-side, the whole side of the body touching each other, and I reach across and put my hand on his heart, and he reaches across and puts his hand on my heart, that's a very full embrace really. And it's easy to maintain for a short time or a longer time, without trying to make it sexy. It can easily become sexual, if both people are wanting to do that, and if they feel safe to do that, but they don't have to do that. Neil Sattin: And what are the energetics that are going on when this is happening? What are the energetics that are happening within a body and then between bodies? Julie Henderson: You mean what is, how is the body expressing its experience of what's happening? Neil Sattin: Sure, and I think this also goes in a little bit to your ideas about what is happening energetically, in those more subtle levels as bodies interact with bodies, and hopefully, present bodies interacting with present bodies. Julie Henderson: Well, if the body is not being present, there will be very little if any contact actually. If you mean, by energies, if you mean the sensations that arise in and around the body, when it is not... What? When it's not staying inside its skin. If it lets itself move beyond its skin, then what you would be experiencing would be some of its energy. Otherwise, the energy is felt as movement and sensation when it's inside the body. Neil Sattin: So if I wanted to taste the energy, the beyond the body experience, what... Yeah, how does one approach that? [chuckle] Julie Henderson: Well, I would say, first feel... Aha, my bird clock is about to say it's noon. Squeak, squeak. First, it would be a question of recognizing, learning to recognize what those, the sensations of the energy, of being that body, and check it out from one place to another. You know like what does it feel like to be your liver, for example. Bring your attention out of your head into your liver, and feel what the sensations of being a liver are, and just go around the whole body and try them out. And then, if you have the background, you can follow the circuitry, the circuitry of that body, which lots of people have been to classes to learn how to do that. And it's not always the case that the teaching includes noticing that those branches of energy movement, they do not stop at the skin. Julie Henderson: So you can follow the... I'm trying to think a bit. There are many, many of these ways of... Especially the Chinese. They're very good about teaching people to perceive the movement of these channels, and you can follow them from each of the chakras, and each one, each chakra has more or less numbers of first a location within the body, and then these channels that go out from each of the bodies, each of the... Neil Sattin: The chakras. Julie Henderson: Yeah, each of the chakras, yeah. And when you follow them, they will come to the edge of the body, and you just don't automatically stop there. You let that channel and the movement of energy through that channel extend beyond the skin. And the more you have practice doing that qi, the more access you have to feeling your awareness and presence beyond the body. And then, not only your own but others. Neil Sattin: Why would someone want to do this? [chuckle] Julie Henderson: Well, some people would like to do it because it's fun. Neil Sattin: Right. Fun and cool, yeah. Julie Henderson: Yup, and then it's an exploration for many people. They discover that they can do that and then they say, "Well, I wonder what goes with that? If I do that, what will I discover?" There are many, many, many, many things that people discover about being a body that are beyond the body. Neil Sattin: So that brings me to two questions. Earlier you mentioned something depending on our background. And it's funny to me, in some ways, that I feel like we've done this interview backwards because typically we would have started here, but I would love for you to give our listeners just a sense of your background. Like where does all this work come from for you? Julie Henderson: Depends on which aspect of it we would like to look at first. I guess the earliest would be that both of my parents were actors, and they were, at least until I was 12, they were frequently preparing for roles. And so I had a lot of support in feeling things and feeling, and I just relaxed about doing things that are a little odd. And that was enhanced when I went to Cal, to the university, because although I started out studying chemistry, I rapidly discovered that what I really wanted to do was to learn to act, so I did that. And after I graduated from the university, I spent a lot of time studying and I learned a lot from that. I'm trying to think... Round about the same time, I met my first Tibetan teacher, and from that time, until just the last few years, the main influence on me was my Tibetans. Julie Henderson: And, most recently, one of... Well, about a year ago, my closest teacher died. And so, I have spent time being aware of him, completely without restriction on his presence. So, he's been very, very vast, I would say, very vast. And his son, who is still being a body, since I don't have any children, and I was trying to think, I want to try and find a way of preserving this house and land for people to practice in and support themselves with, and I was going to ask my main teacher's son if he would like to have it as a place to come in California when he was not... When he was moving around a lot. And he thought, "Well, here's a nice thing." I was... I did not, and have not for some time, had his telephone number. Julie Henderson: So, I was saying to myself, "Well, let's see. Who... Cornelia doesn't have his telephone number, but Philip has his telephone number. I will ask Cornelia if I can have Philip's telephone number, so that I can call Philip and ask him if he would give me access to Drukchen's telephone number just long enough for me to ask him this question, and then I would erase it from my mind." And so, as I was formulating that plan in my mind, this Tibetan placed himself in my mind, and it's very straightforward that it actually feels like a physical happening. Julie Henderson: So, I told him, "I was trying to get your phone number to ask you if you'd like to have access to this place as a refuge when I have died." And he said, "No," very straightforwardly, "No, because I want what you do to have its own lineage. I don't want it to be attached to me. I want it to be what you do and for people to learn from what you do, and not think it's about me." So, I said, "Okay," and that's the plan. I still don't know what I'm going to do with my property, but probably I will live another 10 years, and then, maybe, I will know. Neil Sattin: Perhaps that will... Julie Henderson: Is that making any sense? Neil Sattin: Yeah. And perhaps the answer of what you will do, perhaps that will come to you similarly. Julie Henderson: Oh, yeah. I just know that it's not going to be from him. It might be his son. I mean, his father, who as I say is being great space, I would say. He's being great space. So, maybe it might come out of great space. That's quite possible. Neil Sattin: And there's something about the Tibetan lineage or your teachers that you mention in your books, that their method of instruction is very experiential. Julie Henderson: With me, certainly it is. There are... In the Tibetan culture, there are at least several ways of approaching what they teach that are different parts of adjunct lineages. And this one, the ones that they hooked me with, my ones, is very... It's not about something in a book, it's about the direct experience of how they are, and being influenced by how they are. Neil Sattin: So... Julie Henderson: They don't teach everybody that way. Neil Sattin: I see, I see. From my perspective, it feels really important given all the things that we've talked about over this past hour because so many of them sound so simple as a concept and yet you don't really get to experience it until you experience it, until you try and see what it actually does for you, with you. Julie Henderson: Yeah, that is very true. Neil Sattin: And the name of your work, you've called Zapchen, and we haven't talked about that at all, this entire time. What does Zapchen mean? Why that word? Julie Henderson: Well, it is a Tibetan word and it has a number of meanings. It is often a word that is associated with children in Tibetan. So sometimes it means that they're being playful, sometimes it means that they're being naughty, and when it applies to grownups... Let's see, at one time I asked one of my secondary Tibetan teachers, "What's Zapchen? What does it mean really? What does it mean in Tibetan?" And he looked a little startled because actually it turns out it's a naughty word. [chuckle] Julie Henderson: You wouldn't just go out and say Zapchen, Zapchen because most Tibetans would not use that word, especially proper women. One time I was having a... My teacher and his wife and his son were in San Francisco and spending some time and they were going to be teaching in San Francisco and in Berkeley so that was very nice, and we were having lunch and they were speaking Tibetan. And I don't know squat all, really about Tibetan, it's a very difficult language, but in the middle of the conversation, Drukchen, the son was talking to his mama, and used the word Zapchen and she giggled and he smiled naughtily himself and that was the closest I came until I had the opportunity to talk to this Tibetan monk when I was in Nepal and I said, "If it would be okay, would you tell me what Zapchen means?" Julie Henderson: And he smiled and looked a little sheepish, and then he said, "Well, if I were a married man and I had to go on a trip away so that my wife was at home, and she went to the... To the... What? To the... To the... " I don't even know... My brain is draining. "To the place where you buy beer and spent time with another man, that would be Zapchen." So that's the only understanding, it's a complicated word. Neil Sattin: So then I gotta ask, "Why did you... " Julie Henderson: Ask us. Neil Sattin: Yes. Why did you choose it for your work? Julie Henderson: Well, long before the story that I just told you, when I was still living in Australia, I spent time teaching out in the country, and there were some Tibetan monks, but there also was very high, a high Lama who were there and they found out that the name of what I was doing there was Zapchen and they laughed about it and I said, "Well, what is it about it that's funny?" And I still don't know quite the answer to that question but it was clear that it was a naughty word and... I'm trying to think. The very, very, very first time that I decided to use it I really don't know why. I mean, but of course it had to do with my Tibetan teachers but why did I choose that? No, I don't know. I guess I just liked it. Neil Sattin: It's another part of the mystery, I guess. Julie Henderson: I guess. [chuckle] Neil Sattin: Well, Julie, I so appreciate your time and your wisdom and your offerings today, and your work, as I mentioned, is so fascinating and I think so deceptively simple, at least in terms of what we've talked about, I know it gets deeper and more complex and you've been doing what you do for decades and so it would be ludicrous to think that we could distill all of that into an hour long conversation but I so appreciate that you've been willing to show up here and give us a starting point for Zapchen... Julie Henderson: My pleasure. Neil Sattin: In your practices. What is the best way for people to find out more about your work, if they are interested in finding out more? Julie Henderson: Well, they can call me. [chuckle] Julie Henderson: It depends really on what they want to know. They can read the books. The books are pretty good. Neil Sattin: Yeah, the books are great. Julie Henderson: They can find people like your way. There's a woman in Vermont who teaches not just what she has learned from me but from part of that she teaches. There are people in Chicago. There are people in Arizona. And lots of people in Germany and Austria and Australia. I don't know actually what is inherent in your question. You mean, if they would like to learn more or... Neil Sattin: Yeah, yeah, and I think what we can do is we can have some links on, in the transcript for this conversation, we can make sure that we have links to your website. And I think that's probably a good starting point for a lot of people, and then I know that if you... Julie Henderson: There are people in Germany who would like to be able to get a copy of the script. Neil Sattin: Yes, we will ensure that that happens. And for those of you who are listening right now, you can download a copy if you visit neilsattin.com/julie, J-U-L-I-E, or you can always text the word Passion to the number 33444 and follow the instructions, and that way you can download the transcript to this episode. And, Julie, I'm wondering if, since probably we have a mix of people who are listening to this, we have people who are just being introduced to you, and I know that your students are going to be excited to hear your voice, and I'm wondering if there's just anything that comes up for you, as sort of a final encouragement or offering for everyone who's listening and has been tuning in. Julie Henderson: I would say it's a very good grounding. It's a very good starting place and the people who have worked with me, let's say 10 years or more become very good teachers and frequently tell me how much they appreciate what they've learned from me and that they can share it with other people in a way that's accessible and helpful. It's just nice to hear. Neil Sattin: That's great, yeah. And I was speaking earlier with one of your long-time colleagues and students, Laura. Julie Henderson: Laura. Neil Sattin: Laura Lund and she mentioned that there are at least probably 500 practitioners worldwide of Zapchen and then if you include the people that they've taught probably thousands of people who have been impacted by your work. Julie Henderson: That would be nice, that would be nice. Neil Sattin: Well, I so appreciate your time again today and thank you so much for joining us and maybe we can have you back on one of these days to talk about some more of the finer points, but this definitely feels like an excellent starting place for us in embodying well-being. Julie Henderson: Right, I think so, I think it is. And if people are interested enough to try it out, I think they would probably then discover that they have questions that they'd like to pursue. And the books are good for that or if they become very interested they could be in touch with me. Neil Sattin: Great, thank you. We will ensure that they have your information through your website in the show guide. Julie Henderson: I don't know that anybody goes to that website anymore. Neil Sattin: I went. [chuckle] Julie Henderson: Okay. Well, go then do it. Neil Sattin: But if there's a... Julie Henderson: It worked for you. Neil Sattin: Yeah, somehow, somehow it did.  

What To do with the highs and the lows in business and in life

Your personal mission statement is about the contribution you want your life to make in this world.  Values define who you want to be.  Mission declares what you want to accomplish with your life. If you have listened to the last episode on values and taken action on it...you’ve taken some time to think about and hopefully write down your personal values… In that episode I recommended that you take some time to think about how you want to be remembered by the most important people in your life in terms of the guiding principles that affect how you interact with people — how you live your life. Who you want to be. Your personal mission statement takes that a step further now. You’re values answer the question of how you want to be remembered in terms of character. Now think of the same relationships categories in your life and ask yourself what you would want the key people in your life to say about what you did in your life — your contributions, achievements, and experiences. ROLES What would you want your spouse to say what you accomplished with your life? What would you want your friends or business associates to say about what you contributed to this world? What would you want your kids to say about the experience you left behind on this planet when you’re dead and gone? I think the first time I did something significant about this was after I went to a Stephen Covey seminar in the mid 90’s.  Covey talked about looking at my life through the lens of the different roles and relationships I have.  He suggested that the place to start understanding life purpose is to get clear on my purpose for each key role in my life. Here’s what I wrote down back then. My spouse - My spouse is the most important person in my life. I will treat my spouse with love and respect at all times. My children - My children inherit the future. I will provide them with every opportunity within my means to develop them to their fullest potential. My friends - My friends are my devoted support structure. I will not neglect my friends but will always be there for them, as they are for me. My business associates - My business associates look to me for leadership and guidance. I will set the example of honesty and integrity in all my business relationships. My God - My God is the highest priority in my life. I will strive to live my life in a way that is honoring to Him. My community - My community is where my family lives, works and plays. I will be involved in making my community a better and safer place for all who reside here. Some people find that defining a purpose statement for each of the key areas of their life like this is the easiest way to start on the journey to living life with a clear mission behind everything you do.  If you haven’t done this yet, you might try that approach. Think about each of the important people in your life and imagine how each would want to describe their thoughts and feelings about what you have accomplished in your life. Think about the key roles you play in your life. A student, friend, sibling, son/daughter, partner, employee, and so on. What impact do you want to have on others in each of those roles? What impression to you want to make? When you are at the end of your life looking back what would you feel really good about accomplishing in each of these key roles of your life? You may start with a written purpose statement for each of the roles you fulfill.  If you just stay there for a long while that could serve you very well. Eventually, you might want to develop one single statement of purpose for your life as a whole.   And in fact, some people find its best to start there with one statement rather than statements for each role in your life.  Some do both.  There’s no one size fits all to this.  It’s a very personal thing.  What counts is that you find the system that works for you to have great clarity on the purpose that drives what you do in your life.  The mission that will make your life matter. If you want to move from purpose statements for each role in your life to one life mission statement look at all the purposes phrases you list for each role of your life and look for themes that may inform you of the overarching purpose for your life. HEROES In my journey of seeking clarity on my life mission over the years another helpful system I’ve discovered is to think about my heroes. Who has impacted you in the most significant, positive way? Was it a friend? A teacher? A relative? A peer?  Make a list of your personal heroes.  Then list the qualities, accomplishments and values you most admire in them. I don’t remember all the heroes I listed when I first did this exercise years ago.  Some heroes stay the same and some change over time as we learn and grow and meet new people. Some heroes are alive, some are historic figures.  Some are people I actually know and others are people I have just read about.  As I reflect back on my heroes over the years, they all have certain qualities and accomplishments in common.  All my heroes are courageous leaders who did and said things to positively influence millions of people around the world.  They all left some type of multigenerational positive impact.  They all left a pattern of success that they taught or that others could learn form and follow to become more successful, more fulfilled, more effective. And that’s one of the reason why our family mission statement starts with to courageously lead generations of people.  And that’s one of the reasons why my personal mission statement is to develop and implement self-perpetuating leadership development systems that draw millions of people around the world to understand, live by and promote God’s universal systems for success. Hopefully as you identify your heroes and write down the characteristics and accomplishments that you most admire in them, you will get valuable clues to help you develop your own powerful statement of life purpose. THE PERFECT DAY Another way to get at understanding your life purpose is to envision and build the specifics for your perfect day, your perfect week, month and ultimately life. This is an exercise that starts to initiate you dreaming again. Moving you from your current situation to where you want to be, fully activated in your life purpose. The goal is to become passionate and committed, knowing you are in the process of living out your ideal life purpose. Here’s how The Perfect Day Exercise works: Spend twenty minutes just imagining what a 24 hour day would look like where you were fully living out the ideal purpose for your life. Write down hour by hour what your perfect day would look like.  We’ll include on the Perfect Day Worksheet in show notes. Be as specific as you can about your feelings, what your environment looks like, smells like, and people that you are around. What time you wake up, travel, eat, meet, every aspect is to be as detailed as possible. Write down how you would feel inside as you go through your day. After you’ve gone through this initial brainstorming process outlined there, you’ll take all the information and write as a narrative story called “A Day in My Perfect Passionate Life” authored by you. If you want to go the extra-mile, write a narrative for your Perfect Week! Take the Perfect day and write out a perfect week by repeating the Perfect Day process for seven consecutive days. Watch out this could become motivating ! LIFE MISSION DISCOVERY QUESTIONS So this last system is a set of questions that will help you begin to think deeply about the passions, abilities, values and dreams that are deep within your heart and will provide clues to discovering your life purpose. Find a time and place where you will not be interrupted. This is something that would be a great guide for an hour or two or even a half day of solitude and silence. Write down your answers to each question. Write the first thing that pops into your head. Write without editing. It’s important to write out your answers rather than just thinking about them. What meaningful activities make you lose track of time? What do you care deeply about? What makes your heart sing? What lights you up? What energizes you? What’s wrong with the world that drives you crazy? What makes you weep or angry at the wrongness of it? What are you naturally good at? What do you usually get great results from doing? What do people typically ask you for help with? If you had to teach something, what would you teach? Imagine you are now 90 years old, sitting on a rocking chair outside your porch; you are blissful and happy, and are pleased with the wonderful life you’ve been blessed with. Looking back at your life and all that you’ve accomplished and all the relationships you’ve had; what matters to you most? List them out. Who inspires you most? (Someone you know or have learned about…family, friends or authors, artists, leaders, etc.) Which qualities inspire you, in each of those people? What do you value most in life? What character qualities do you want to be known for at the end of your life? If you could get a message across to a large group of people, who would those people be? What would your message be? What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life? If you had all the time and money you need to accomplish anything, what would you be doing with your life? After you have taken some good time alone to write down your answers to these questions, review all your answers and then start writing some statements or phrases that capture the themes you see in your answers. The act of even starting to write your personal mission statement is transformational because it causes you to declare your life priorities and you’ll be amazed at how your behaviors start changing to support what you say is important. WORDSMITHING YOUR MISSION STATEMENT A personal mission statement can take many forms, from bullet points to a paragraph to a sentence.  But I’ll give a bit of guidance here on what I’ve found after helping thousands of individuals, families and companies develop mission statements as what I’ve seen is the most effective structure an ideal mission statement. Don’t get hung up on the form or even getting the exact right words as you are starting to do this.  Just start writing statements that capture the essence of the answers you’ve given to these key questions.  I’ve seen people end up in their first drafts with several bullet points that they are really excited about.  I’ve seen some early drafts that are a long paragraph or even a few paragraphs.  Ultimately, I’ve found it’s ideal if you can boil it down to one simple sentence that is compelling and easy to remember. Ideally, a personal mission has 3 parts: WHAT do I want to do?  List key action words or phrases that indicate what you want to do. WHO do I want to help? List everything and everyone that you really want to help. What is the RESULT? Identify the key outcome you see for your life…the value you will leave in this world.  How will the WHO from the second part benefit from WHAT you do? What difference, what result do you want your life to make? PROCESS SUMMARY Review your answers to the 12 Life Mission Discovery Questions and/or the 8 Purpose Factors that we discussed in the previous family round table episode on this topic. Review your answers from the Heroes exercise or the Perfect Day process.  Look at all your answers and categorize key words and phrases regarding WHAT you want to do. Then the key words or phrases that reference WHO you want to help.  Then list the words or phrases that describe the RESULTS or value for society that you want to leave behind at the end of your life.   SAMPLE CONCISE MISSION STATEMENTS MICROSOFT MISSION To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. WHAT: To empower WHO: Every person and every organization on the planet RESULT: To achieve more LEVI-STRAUSS MISSION To market the most appealing and widely worn casual clothing in the world. We will clothe the world. WHAT: To market the most appealing and widely worn casual clothing WHO: The world RESULT: Clothe the world. LONNIE’S PERSONAL MISSION (first drafted in 1996) To develop and implement self-perpetuating leadership development systems that draw millions of people around the world to fully experience God and His enduring systems for success. WHAT: To develop and implement self-perpetuating leadership development systems WHO: That draw millions of people around the world RESULT: To fully experience God’s systems for success. LONNIE AND SHELLEY GIENGER FAMILY MISSION To courageously lead generations of people to become devoted friends and sold-out followers of Jesus! WHAT: To courageously lead WHO: Generations of people RESULT: To become devoted friends and sold-out followers of Jesus! KYLON AND TELIAH GIENGER FAMILY MISSION To lead generations of people to take extreme ownership, achieve their full potential, live gratefully and love unconditionally. WHAT: To lead WHO: Generations of people RESULT: To take extreme ownership, achieve their full potential, live gratefully and love unconditionally.   TAKE ACTION Now it’s time for you to take action to create another system for your success. Download the systems for developing your personal mission. Then take some time answering the key questions that will help you begin to define your personal life mission.  Go ahead.  Take this foundational step to designing the life of your dreams...a life full of fulfillment and purpose! Resources: Download the Roles and Relationships Purpose Exercise if you want to start this journey of living a mission driven life by first identifying the purpose for each of the important roles and relationships you have in your life. Download Your Heroes Exercise to help you think about the qualities and accomplishments that would be most important for your life. Download  The Perfect Day Imagination Exercise and take some time to expand your dreams for what might be possible in your life. Download this Mission Statement Made Simple System and thoughtfully answer these 12 questions that will pull from your deepest core what is really important to you in your life.  Then create a draft mission statement using the guidance on the last page.  Once you have done this, you are now in the good company of the smallest percentage of people who make the biggest positive impact on this world! Thank You! Thanks again for listening to the show! If it has helped you in any way, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the page.   We'd also really appreciate any feedback or questions that might guide what we talk about in future episodes. Additionally, reviews for the podcast on iTunes are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show and we read each and every one of them. 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Active FM — So what's the difference between Glam and Boyfriend jeans?Are we able to turn old clothes into the look or can we make old clothes look amazing!!! Did you know this season you can rock a boyfriend jeans with a blazer and heals? You can even swag it up.Come and find out more about amazing fashionista What To and What not to.

"The fear is not going to do anything for you. That surface level response needs to take a hike." http://chrislocurto.com/when-going-with-your-gut-is-holding-you-back/ On today's show we have four phenomenal questions from our podcast listeners! We hit social media and creating a greater tribe, social anxiety and networking, surface level responses, distance communication with your team, how to bring perspective to leadership, and when having a remote team is detrimental to your business. WOW. We have a jam packed episode today. Let's dive in! Here's what you'll discover: http://chrislocurto.com/when-going-with-your-gut-is-holding-you-back/ - Strategies for video advertising on social media - Tactics to create loyal customers - Social anxiety and what it has to do with your Root System - Why networking does not come naturally for some - What TO do and what NOT to do in distance communication at work - Bringing new perspective to your leadership team - When a remote team is detrimental to the business

This podcast will be about Dress to Impress for job interview. Hope you enjoy!!! 1. Opening-music Podington Bear-Boop 2. Introduction-A monologue style introduction introducing your hosts and what you will talk about on your show 3. Segway-Could be musical or a sound effect 4. Topic 1: (What NOT to wear on an interview) 5. Vocal Segway--"We are going to move on and talk about..." 6. Topic 2: (Dress to impress Fashion) 7. Musical Segway 8. Topic 3: (What TO wear on an interview) 9. Closing remarks, thank the audience, guests, what will be on the next show 10. Closing- musical Podington Bear Boop 11. Credits Music: "Boop (Instrumental)" by Podington Bear (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/none_given_1790/Boop) Boop by Podington Bear is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. Based on a work at http://soundofpicture.com Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://soundofpicture.com or contact artist via email. Sound Effects: Title: Drum Roll About: Drum roll sound effect from a drummer. drum roll please! Recorded by Mike Koenig soundbible.com Title: Daydreaming About: Tinkle hi pitch chime obsidian needles. like a magic wand or metal wind chime. could also represent a daydream or flashback. Recorded by Lisa Redfern soundbible.com

What if all the “truths” about bodies are actually the myths?  And what if trying to create our bodies from myths is what is keeping our bodies in a state of dis-ease?  Join Donnielle as she explores some of the common myths of bodies…like…sugar is bad for bodies.  What???? To contact Donnielle – Donnielle@accessconsciousness.com

Our guest, the Mad Fientist delves deep into advanced IRA strategies. Find out why you should have one and which one will best fit your needs. Brandon shares the same goal as many of us, to retire at a young age and avoid paying as much tax as is legal! How you handle your IRA’s can be a big part of achieving both goals. Traditional IRA A Traditional IRA is not taxed upfront but at the point of withdrawal. The money grows tax-deferred. Upon withdrawal after age 59 1/2, the money is taxed as income. For 2016, you can contribute up to $5,500, $6,500 if you are aged 50 or older. Roth IRA A Roth IRA is taxed upfront and not upon withdrawal after age 59 1/2. For 2016, the contribution limits are the same as for a Traditional IRA. 401k Many people have a 401k through their employer. A 401k is similar to a Traditional IRA. The money goes in tax-free. When you leave your job, whether it’s to take a new one or to retire, roll that account into a Traditional IRA. This simplifies things so you aren’t trying to keep track of several accounts, and it gives you more control over fees. You may not even know how much you’re paying in fees for your 401k, and if you take the time to find out by reading the prospectus, there isn’t much you can do about it anyway because your options are selected by your employer. And investment account fees can cost you a lot of money. Americans pay over $6 billion dollars in investment fees per year. Vanguard makes rolling over your 401k easy, and they have very low fees. Why Traditional Over Roth? When you’re in the prime of your career, you’re being taxed at a higher than you are likely to be in the future. You want the tax advantage of the Traditional IRA during your highest earning years because once you give up those tax advantages, they’re gone forever. Will tax rates be raised in the coming years? Yes, probably. But new loopholes will be added too and as long as there are people like Brandon around, we will know ways to take advantage of them. Is it a risk? It is, but it’s a calculated one. Roth IRA Conversion Ladder Both types of IRA’s are used at different stages of life to reap the most tax benefits possible. Brandon has a method for this, the Roth IRA Conversion Ladder. You contribute to a Traditional IRA during your working life because it’s likely that your tax rate is higher now than it will be after retirement. After you leave your job, you will have less taxable income. During this time, you slowly roll the Traditional IRA to a Roth. This rollover counts as ordinary income so to do this tax-free, convert a dollar amount equal to your tax deductions and exemptions. During this time, you live off your capital gains and dividends because they are taxed at 0% so long as you’re in the 10 or 15% tax bracket. For 2016, anyone making less than $9,225 is in the 10% bracket, and anyone making between $9,226-$37,450 is in the 15% bracket. LLC As we learned in our Natali Morris episode, it’s the people who earn salaries from an employer who take the hardest tax hit. The reason a bunch of LMM listeners are rushing out to start LLC’s! Unsurprisingly, Brandon has a way to super hack your LLC to mine even more tax benefits. We did a little calculating during the episode, and if you paid yourself $80,000 a year via dividends from your LLC, you would only be liable for $5,000 in taxes! If you were making $80,000 from a salaried job, you would pay over $19,000 in taxes! What To do With $3, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BioPharma EH&S Podcast Episode No. 12.  Saturday, March 5th, 2011 and we have so much to talk about today, so I’m going to get right into it. First off, I’ll briefly cover what we talked about last time in episode number 11 Main topic for today :“Creeping Featurism in Environmental, Health and Safety software”, which I’m quite certain sure will stir up some controversy. Last time in Episode 11 we discussed the topic of “The Evolution of EHS Compliance and Operational Risk Management Software.”  Unfortunately I don’t have time to cover all the details today, but basically we covered the history of compliance software systems and tools, and where the future of EHS software is heading.  If any of that sounds like something that might interest you, I would suggest you go back to episode number 11 and listen to the whole thing. Let’s now get into our main topic for today which is “Creeping Featurism in Environmental, Health and Safety software” As many of you know, this past week I was in San Antonio, Texas at the National Association for Environmental Management’s Management Information Systems conference.  At this conference, there were numerous presentations by companies that have recently gone or going through the process of implementing an environmental, health and safety management information system.  In general, the presentations were good and the organizers did a great job of keeping everything on track, but as with most conferences, the best part of the conference was the excellent conversations in the hallway with your peers and colleagues, and the opportunity to meet new people.  However, as I thought about the presentations more, in some respects, I would like to see a presentation style similar to the DEMO conference.  Most of you listening to this podcast probably have never heard of DEMO, but DEMO is conference that is held twice per year, where technology developers are selected to showcase their latest technologies in front of venture capitalist, the technology media, and other technology interest groups.  DEMO is a pay to present type of conference and their presentation requirements are fairly unique – there is no Powerpoint allowed, and you have to use a “live” system not an install that on a local machine, and you get a very short amount of time to show what your system does – I believe it’s six minutes.  This style of presentation places a lot of pressure on the solution providers to make sure that their systems are clean, fast, and easy to explain.  “Bloatware” will not survive this kind of presentation style.  I will put a link to the DEMO conference website in the show notes. However, backed to the conference in San Antonio, based on the presentations of the environmental, health and safety software that I saw, I have the following observations. First off, everybody seems to want a “comprehensive” systems that will do everything.  They want it to handle everything from accident reporting to industrial hygiene, from carbon footprint reporting to sustainability reporting.  But despite what the solution providers will tell you, this dream system doesn’t really exist, at least not in an off the shelf version.  Solution providers tend to be reacting to perceived customer needs and keep adding module after module.  While this may provide the impression of comprehensiveness, I might mention that with all this increased “comprehensiveness” comes a significant increase in “complexity” of user interfaces.  Based on the seven or eight systems that I saw during my two days in San Antonio, most of the user interfaces were very, very cluttered. The second observation or take home point was, and as I believed as one of the speakers stated, make sure that your people understand that an environmental, health and safety management system, or EMS, is not about the software or your management information system.  In other words – an EMS is not equal to MIS.  The software is just a tool to support your EMS. The third observation was, understand that “configuration” does not equal “customization”.  Much of the costs of implementing an environmental, health and safety software solution arise when the company insists that the system have certain features that are unique to their company.  If you want to keep costs down and ensure rapid implementation - get a system that is easily configurable and works “off the shelf”.   As soon as you start demanding customization, expect the costs to go up significantly and the time for implementation to get much longer. And finally, the fourth observation was that these comprehensive systems are pricey.  If I recall correctly, at the closing presentation, based on a survey of its members, the typically budget for an EH&S-MIS system was somewhere between 100 thousand to 500 thousand per year. So there you have my four observations 1) Everybody wants a comprehensive system that is off the shelf, 2) EMS is not equal to MIS, 3) configuration does not equal customization, and 4) comprehensive systems are pricey. So if you’re considering selecting and implementing an EHS-MIS, I’d like to propose that you ask yourself several questions. The first question you need to ask yourself is “Where’s the value?” When scoping out a system keep a laser like focus on the value rather than the features or comprehensiveness.  Make sure that you are creating something that serves a real business outcome and not creating “bloatware.” From my perspective, companies are attempting to track too many things that really don’t advance the value of the company.  And when I talk about “value” I don’t necessarily just mean economic value.  In one presentation, I believe the presenter indicated that when they scoped out the user requirements they initially came up with 24 health and safety tracking requirements, and 34 sustainability requirements.  Ask everyone “where are the value added measurements?”  Which of these measurements are critical for reducing operational risk, improving the profitability of the company, or reducing significant amounts of pollution or wastes? Ask yourself “What is the end user really willing to do?”When scoping out user requirements for an environmental, health and safety management information system be very careful when listening to the end user.  In other words, don’t listen to what they tell you - watch what they do.  Instead of asking what they want, ask what they are they willing to spend their valuable time and money on.  The end user always, always wants ultimate flexibility. They want corporate colors and font, the ability to move the field input box from the left to the right, the ability to sort environmental, health and safety data by every possible way, draw every possible graph, and add custom fields at their leisure.  Please understand, that while all of this is very doable, it does come at a cost.  So, instead of asking about what features or requirements they want, ask them if they are willing to stay at work till 7:00 each Friday night of every week entering this data.  I’m quite certain that you will get your answer very soon.  Reducing complexity will improve data integrity. Ask yourself “How can we reduce complexity?” Instead of always thinking about what features we should add, think about what we should remove instead of what we should add.  Don’t get sold on all those pretty graphs that only impress yourself and your team.  Instead think about flexibility.  If you want those pretty graphs does the system have the flexibility to dump the data to Excel and then you can spend your personal time at night creating the graph in the official corporate colors and fonts. What single requirement do we need to do very well?Look at what the biggest EH&S challenge facing your company is, and fix that problem in a meaningful way.  Don’t worry about tracking the difference between potable and non-potable water usage when you’re having 60 occupational fatalities per year.  Fix the bigger issues first. Ask, How long is the implementation? At the conference, one company indicated that they were 2 ½ years into implementation. What? To me that equals lots of time in meetings and paying a team of consultants many, many billable hours.  Consultants love this kind of stuff, because it means job security to them. Ask, Who is on the selection and implementation team?EHS, IT, and Purchasing on the decision team - that’s a bad combination. What about operations? What about finance? Ask, What defines success? When embarking on any software project understand that there’s risk involved – risks of cost and schedule overruns, and risk of creating a system that never get adopted by the end users.  According to the Standish group, in the United States, only 16.2% of software projects are completed on time and on budget.  In larger organizations, only 9% of software projects meet those goals.  According to the Standish group, the average cost over run is 189% of the original cost, and the average time overrun is 222% of the original time estimate.  According to their report, the 3 major factors that determined the “success” of the project was user involvement, executive management support, and clear statement of requirements. What will our future workforce be like? Understand the future of your workforce and current trends, not the old.  The future of environmental, health and safety professionals that will be entering the workforce in the next 10 years are very different than the “decision makers” of today.  They are smart, comfortable with technology, used to rapid change, demand instant feedback, and are very mobile.  They have practically grown up with a smartphone such as a Blackberry, iPhone or Android in their hands, and are deeply involved in Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and LinkedIn.  Their needs, their demands will be very different from ours.  Figuring out ways to increase user engagement with this generation of environmental, health and safety professionals will be challenging for even the best of us. In closing this part of the podcast, I’d like to say that EH&S software, can be beneficial to any company, but be you need to be very clear about your expectations.  In addition, always, always look to simplify processes, rather than making more comprehensive.  Otherwise, your risk of failure rises significantly.  Sometimes a simple and affordable environmental, health and safety software solution that works off the shelf is best. O.k.  The does it for the discussion on “Creeping Featurism in Environmental, Health and Safety software. If you have any comments or feedback – I loved to hear it.  You can call our listener voicemail feedback line at 206-337-4769 and leave an audio comment.  You can also stalk us on twitter at twitter.com/Affygility, or follow us on Facebook by just searching for Affygility Solutions and giving us a “Like. You can also email us your comments at podcast at Affygility.com. Alright, let’s now talk about some upcoming events.The first event is the Society of Toxicology meeting on March 6th through 10th in Washington, DC.  Dr. Joe Nieusma, Senior Toxicologist with Affygility Solutions will be attending this event, so if you would like to meet with Joe let me know. Next, on March 11th through 15th, I will be attending South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas.  I’ve been looking at the schedule of sessions and events that will be happening at South by Southwest and it is amazing.  This event has nothing to do with environmental, health and safety, but more to do with interactive technologies. Then I should also mention, that coming up in April, we have several new webinars starting and you should look at our schedule at Affygility.com.  These webinars have been very well attended and we have received a lot of positive feedback on them.  In addition to our very popular webinar on Advanced Topics in Potent Compound Safety, we also have a webinar on Dermal Exposure to Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, Global Harmonization System, Hazardous Wastes for Hospitals, Clinics, and Medical Laboratories.  Again, if any of that interests you, I would suggest that you go to Affygility.com and look at our full schedule.