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Cindy Tschosik is a Mental Wellness Speaker and Ghostwriter, the CEO of SoConnected and the Author of Called to Lead; Success Strategies for Women. Cindy has been a long-time thriver of and advocate for mental health. After living through mental diseases and developing tools, practices and habits to help herself maintain mental wellness every day, she nows shares her humorous stories and tools she's developed with her audiences. When Cindy is not on stage or screen, she is ferociously ghostwriting books for mental health professionals who desire to share their experience to help their readers and mental health influencers who are called to share their journey to achieve mental wellness. To keep her tongue sharp and her pencil sharper, Cindy belongs to many speaking and writing associations. She is happiest writing books on the beach and is even happier to be with us today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cindy Van Arnam has faced a lifetime of mountains…starting when her dad passed away when she was 16 years old. For 23 years, she created a “mountain” in every choice she made about her life. From cocaine addiction and abusive relationships, to travelling to foreign countries without a plan, she was always seeking a way to make life hard for herself. She finally understood she was the mountain that didn’t need to be there. Now she helps entrepreneurs fully discover their own limitless power so they can create sustainable wealth through self-mastery.Cindy had a happy childhood, growing up on a chicken farm in Alberta, Canada. Cindy’s dad was her biggest cheerleader, a mechanical engineer turned farmer. He always told Cindy she could do, be, or have anything she wanted in life. Then when she was 16, he suddenly passed away. In grief at losing her biggest fan, Cindy reacted by making self-destructive decisions.Although she had been a straight A student, her grades started failing. After high school she fell in with the wrong crowd, continuing to make bad decisions. She got addicted to cocaine and had a series of abusive relationships.After she’d gone for a week without food or sleep and she was high as a kite, her mom looked at her and asked her, “are you okay?” When Cindy responded that she was not, her mom sent her to stay at a friend’s house, where she detoxed and recovered for three weeks. She never had formal drug treatment. “From there, I decided that I was going to take control of my life…”She decided to leave Canada and start over. “I chose to travel to countries where if you do drugs, it's the death penalty….I lived in Indonesia and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.”She returned home when her mom got sick and almost died. But she fell in with the same crowd again and started making poor decisions again. Cindy then decided to go work on the pipelines in Saskatchewan and get her act together. Moving back to BC, she worked as a bartender until she had to defend herself one night with a baseball bat. She realized she was better than this. When she got home, at 3:00 a.m., she started researching career options. The next day she applied to college and went back to school to study event promotions. Halfway through college, though, she realized what she really wanted to do was to start her own business. She took her power back.Now Cindy specializes in quantum numerology and universal laws. Cindy explains that by just looking at our date of birth, numerologists can tell us the foundation of our personality, some of our key sabotages to watch out for, our biggest challenges, and some of the major possibilities available to us…and how to operate within that mathematical code.I asked Cindy how numerology and universal laws helped her heal her old wounds of drug addiction, emotional abuse, and trauma. “The number one tool I have used is forgiveness and understanding my journey of addiction and poor decisions...I needed to forgive myself.”Cindy’s journey of self-awareness and understanding has made her realize that the decisions she made in her 20s led her to who she is today, so she looks back at that time of her life with gratitude. I marveled at how Cindy has created her life through her incredible self-awareness and innate wisdom about what she is meant to do with her life. "I follow the breadcrumbs in my life and I follow my passion."On Cindy’s podcast, Rebel Radio, she talks with entrepreneurs who want to dive into self-mastery and wealth. She jumped into podcasting almost a year ago, and she’s already in every country except North Korea. Check out Rebel Radio here.

Our guest, Cindy Banyai, is exactly the kind of person we want representing us wherever policy is made. She has the life experience of a working woman raising three kids, runs her own consulting business, and has lived and traveled all over the world. Did we forget to mention she knows MMT and supports the Green New Deal, universal health care, and a federal jobs program to ensure a basic minimum wage, worker protections, and benefits? When Cindy happened upon Modern Monetary Theory, it made sense of much of what she already believed. She had been a longtime proponent of participatory budgeting and says that being freed from economic shackles in policy-making is revolutionary. When people in her district come with complaints, she can truthfully say she knows what to do. She talks with Steve about the conservatives from both parties who place roadblocks in programs like Social Security and then criticize them for having those very complications. They use terms like “accountability,” “efficiency,” and “effectiveness.” Cindy tells us that her consulting firm is all about evaluation:   I eat, sleep, breathe, effectiveness, and efficiency. There is not a single one of these hucksters that's going to be able to put a program in front of me, put a policy in front of me, and say, "We're working on efficiency." If that doesn't have the metrics in it and that doesn't have the right kind of measures to actually get these things accomplished and not just be these stupid barriers for access, then I'm going to call him out on it. And I will probably be the only one doing it. Because I'm going to be the first evaluator elected to Congress.   As parents, Steve and Cindy have a shared, gut-level understanding of the need to fix a broken healthcare system. Cindy’s three-year-old daughter spent her first two years fighting a rare blood disease; while she was in the hospital fighting for her life, Cindy was fighting the insurance companies. She knows that there’s an alternative to medical bankruptcies and treatments determined by somebody else’s bottom line. She has done research and comparative analysis between the Japanese national health care model and the US model. As we move to universal healthcare she wants us to consider adapting features of the Japanese model, including cost-setting by the central government and decentralized implementation at the state level. One of Steve’s favorite components of the job guarantee is the way in which it is a democracy enhancer. It will revitalize local democracy by having it funded by the currency-issuing federal government but locally administered. Communities will determine which jobs to create based on which services are needed. This is an invitation for citizens to become involved in designing their very own local program. The discussion ignites Cindy’s enthusiasm for rethinking the way that we do governance. She talks about participatory governance - and the participatory budgeting component of it - having been a major component of her life’s work and research around the world. She describes the amplifying effects of civic engagement: people are more invested in their community, they meet their neighbors, some develop joint projects or business ventures together. We here at Macro N Cheese cannot endorse a specific candidate, but we can urge our listeners to pay attention and ask questions of your future representatives. We hope everyone finds candidates as well-informed and passionate as this one. Dr. Cindy Banyai is a Democrat running for Florida Congressional District 19, spanning coastal Southwest Florida from Boca Grande to Marco Island. She is a mom of 3 native Floridians, a small business owner, and part of the faculty of Political Science and Public Administration at Florida Gulf Coast University. @SWFLMom2020 https://www.cindybanyai.com/ https://www.news-press.com/story/news/2020/08/14/social-security-florida-protecting-our-seniors-cindy-banyai-congress/3343662001/

Welcome to Blue Valley, Nebraska! We are parking the Waverider and following the story of a promising new hero, Stargirl. Three months ago, Yolanda Montez was the most popular girl in school. She was dating Henry King and had just been elected class president. She was extremely close to her family. When Cindy steals a scandalous picture from Henry's phone and texts it to the entire school, Yolanda and her family are disgraced. Today, she is a social outcast, and her family won't speak to her. She's grounded indefinitely. When Courtney realizes she is a boxer, she approaches Yolanda about taking up the Wildcat mantle. She shares her superhero persona with Yolanda, to win her over, and convinces her to try on the suit. Courtney and Yolanda test out her new powers on a mission to steal the visitor's log from the hospital. While taking dinner to her mom, Beth hears Courtney use Yolanda's name while she climbed up the side of the building. Contact Information If you want to join in the discussion, you can submit feedback via email to tomorowslegends@gmail.com. Please send all feedback on Wednesday following the show. You can also join the Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/tomorrowslegends. And you can follow us on Twitter @tomorowslegends.

Cindy Zuelsdorf (literally) grew up in one of the highest pressure business environments - broadcast television. In an industry fueled by high-touch, face-to-face relationships, she cut her teeth selling tech to companies ranging from NBC to NASA. After decades learning things the old-school way, Cindy discovered sales and marketing automation and began using new systems for repeatability and success.   Fast forward to the present, Cindy - via her agency, Kokoro - helps small businesses across a baffling spread of verticals do the same. Their specialty lies in the rare skill of taking scattered technical platforms and transforming them into a cohesive, finely tuned, time-saving, revenue generating engine - all while keeping the ‘human-to-human’ approach intact. She's all about doing less to gain more and regularly spouts off about the "7 Marketing Basics" and why they work for everyone.   Her company, Kokoro Marketing, serves clients in six countries and many more times zones. When Cindy isn’t busy super-charging businesses, she’s sipping an Americano at Java Johns in downtown Nevada City, California or taking a little hike with her family along the Yuba River. Cindy recently helped start the local Girls Who Code Club in Nevada County in California.   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cindy-Zuelsdorf-970147283160529   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cindyzuelsdorf   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindyzuelsdorf   Find out more about Cindy here: www.7marketingbasics.com   Find out more about Cindy's offer here: https://kokoroinc.com/learn-with-cindy-z

Messy Peace, Gritty Hope: Cindy’s bookHow can we hang onto hope when life is messier than we ever thought? Co-host and author Cindy Felkel shares why it was so important that she revise her book “Rum and Cola For the Soul: Stories Of Messy Peace and Gritty Hope,” and how the journey -- and stories -- forever changed her life and her readers.Show notes:Cindy sat in her driveway crying, “God, why am I revising my book?” The whole journey started after a breakdown after she left teaching. She was so tired, she needed rum and cola for her soul, something to calm her down then something to keep her going. That became a symbol. After she wrote her book, people said they found it discouraging. She had a driving force that said she had to look for what’s missing, then she had a meltdown. “This is the dumbest marketing strategy ever to release a book then to revise it,” she thought, but she wanted to find what she missed. Now it’s released.The original title was “Rum and Cola for the Survivor’s Soul,” but afterwards she thought “that title makes it sound like that is for people with severe trauma.” Cindy says: these are stories for everyone. Messy peace example is Cindy having anxiety, and a person saying, “Oh if you had faith you wouldn’t have anxiety.” However, Cindy can be having a panic attack and still know God is going to help her, and have peace in the middle of extreme messiness. Gritty hope isn’t based on “I’m never going to have problems,” rather, in the middle of working with trauma survivors, she says there is hope beyond the mess that’s right in front of us. So don’t ever say to Cindy, “If you have faith it will all work out.”In the book description, Cindy recounts how she yelled at someone (as a church greeter) to “shut the eff up” when he gave her a pat answer and kept pressing her, exposed deep hurt, then said, “You need to have faith.” It’s a sacred space when someone reveals their hurt. A glib answer doesn’t bring more peace. That’s where we are in the middle of COVID-19. It looks messy for all of us, for a friend who is a single mom, who got time by herself outside for the first time in 8 weeks.How can we have peace? There’s lots of fear -- for finances, future, we all feel that in different ways. Jesus never said, follow me and nothing bad will ever happen to you. In the middle of the storm, He said, “Don’t be afraid.” There's more, He showed that “when you follow me, I’m going to bring something out of this storm.”One of the hardest things for Cindy is that one of her sons plans to be “career military.” He said, “Mom, don’t pray for me to be safe, if I am, I’m not doing my job and not being a leader.” He’s still her baby boy. It reminded Cindy that our greatest purpose is not sitting closed off from the world but doing things that bring meaning and purpose, and there is peace that comes from sitting with Jesus and seeing a much bigger picture of your life.Ephesians 3:16: NLT. “I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit.”God has unlimited resources for us. When we're in Him, He will fill us, yet life will still be messy. It meant so much to me Elaina to read that recently, as a single mom with days stretching before her. “I don’t have the resources for it. God does.” Gritty hope.We spend so much time doing things for God, but He says spend time with me and let me empower you. Cindy discovered this last summer. When she truly sits and reads God’s word, prays for how God sees us, and stays aware of Jesus’ presence in her life, she gains value for who she is, instead of “you need to fit in this mold and shut up.” Jesus wants to empower the good parts of us, and we can value the beauty in othersIn one story in her book, Cindy talks about a Christian homeless woman who will never live in a nice house and have an HGTV show; she enjoys life, she is so encouraging of the people around her, still being exactly where God wants her to be.Cindy’s story that stands out: she loves seeing the stories of Jesus. Favorite: Jesus was at the house of one of the Pharisees having a debate on washing rituals, but Jesus ignores it all. A woman comes in who was known as a sinful woman. How little opportunity she would have had to change. Jesus said, “Go in peace,” go in a right relationship with God. What would she do to make a living after being a prostitute? Go face your mess in a right relationship with God.When she worked in a strip club ministry, Cindy was frustrated with the other volunteers who said, “They could do something else.” Have you ever tried to restart your life after addiction with no education, no family support -- what kind of job are you going to find? Cindy couldn’t even find a job outside of teaching with tons of support!Things are messy but God sees us in a way people may overlook.Stress in Elaina’s life: my daughters and I get on the floor and “hug it out,” like the trolls! There are still worries about facing relationship conflict, finances, but there is peace in the midst of that. It’s not all worked out, but that’s why it passes understanding, just like Cindy values people enough to write their stories.What’s amazing is that Cindy grew up with the teaching that if she followed certain rules, or stayed in “the bubble” of safety through following Jesus, her life would work out. Her move to Rhode Island from the South felt like her family was getting torn apart. Some problems were “acceptable,” like finances, but she wanted her family to be close. When Cindy’s plans for going on the mission field fell apart and she ended up feeling frustrated and resentful, she buried it all. Ironically, 11 years later, she said breaking down and going through trials individually made her family stronger and more resilient, and closer today. God gave her the exact thing she wanted in her heart. It took breaking down the idea that following Jeus meant a comfortable, easy middle-class life. It was so much better her sons questioned when they were younger, it made them stronger.Another time she was planting a tree for her granddaughter, who almost died twice, and there were no answers, but Cindy was scared that planting a tree meant it was a memorial. She yelled at God, “You can’t take my granddaughter!” It was honest, raw and not nice. Suddenly she felt God's presence: “Why do you think you love her more than I do?” Cindy was frustrated “because God loves me yet was not fixing this.”That’s when Cindy wrestled with being resentful about her family’s experience: you can’t manipulate God to get out of hard times, sickness, uncertainty, even death.God is with us. Why do we think there’s a bubble of safety? We have peace that rises above that, no matter what happens or what the news says or what politicians do or say next.Cindy loves talking one on one with people about her book. Intimate and personal. She wants to go around to festivals and meet readers. So write her a message, leave her feedback, she wants to hear from you! She wants to build a community and conversations, and wants to continue that with our Hold My Iced Coffee community.We need the ability to say, these stories aren’t just for one person. Cindy wants to share the beauty of knowing this Jesus. The resurrection means every story of how Jesus interacted with people is still alive. How does he feel about the mess you made of your life? It’s in a story in the Bible. Read it and see how much He adores us?Cindy’s book is beautifully written and brings stories to life; she has compassion for people, especially those who have gone through trauma. And that’s all of us.Whatever is going to happen in this messy world, we can have hope!Book link: Rum and Cola for the Soul: Stories of Messy Peace and Gritty Hope

When Cindy's Dad threw up the white flag & asked his kids to find a care home for their Mom, the entire family stepped up and formed a family caregiving committee. This podcast episode is a conversation with Cindy and her son Cory about the loved ones the committee has and is currently caring for.

1. The meltdown. Cindy describes having a meltdown when she was teaching and someone told her to “have faith.” This led to her writing about Rum and Cola for the Soul. 2. Cindy challenges people to admit that having faith doesn’t mean your life is never hard.3. Cindy talks about the importance of calling people survivors instead of victims.4. When Cindy asked young adults why they weren’t reading her blog, the answers led her to podcasting.5. The burn out from teaching, the frustrations, all the struggles Cindy went through freed her to explore who she really was and who she really wants to be.6. How the story of The Little Match Girl helped Cindy appreciate the importance of seeing people’s struggles.7. The two sides of shame. Anytime our value is based on our performance, we are destined to struggle with shame. The story of the prodigal son shows two sons who didn’t understand how much God loved them.8. The importance of feeling what you need to feel. 9. Learning to listen to the right voice and how this led Cindy to want to live her live celebrating the beauty in everyone’s journey.10. Cindy discusses her core values of individuality and compassion. Understanding what matters most to her has shaped how she wants to live the rest of her life. She is excited about helping people know their journeys matter.

When Cindy and I were first married, I tried my hand at gardening. I planted tomatoes and looked forward to a juicy harvest in the fall. I was amazed at how big the plants grew, but in the fall, the tomatoes were small and few. No-one told me the importance of pruning the plants so all the plant's energy would not go into producing leaves instead of growing fruit. This week, we discover the temple and judaism had become nothing but leaves. They looked great on the outside but were not producing spiritual fruit for God. As a result, God decided to taken them away. Join us as we learn the importance of living a life that is more than leaves.

Cindy is a mother, a wife, a friend, a writer, and a daughter. Cindy was “just your average kid”. She has wonderful memories of her childhood, including Sunday night dinners with her family, playing barbies and kickball in the cul-de-sac, doing chores, and participating in sports. Although typical in many ways, Cindy’s childhood was scarred by sexual abuse at the hands of her father. He began abusing Cindy when she was just five years old. Manipulative and controlling, Cindy’s father prevented her from talking about the abuse by threatening to harm her mom and sister. Cindy kept quiet. Initially. With time, Cindy started to find her voice. “No more, ” she said. Her father's response? Physical and emotional abuse. Although she tried rebelling, this young girl was unable to make the abuse stop. Eventually Cindy became numb. She longer feared her father. Although she wanted to say something, Cindy was terrified that her mom and sister would be harmed. When Cindy was ten years old, she found the courage to fight back against the physical abuse. Standing up to the physical abuse, the sexual abuse stopped as well. Likely, a contributing factor was that Cindy was going through puberty. Her father was only attracted to prepubescent children. Abuse taught Cindy about hiding, shame, fear, secrecy, and sex. It wasn’t until later in life that Cindy began to appreciate the adverse impact the sexual, verbal and physical abuse exacted. Sexual abuse harmed her self-esteem, silenced her voice, and made her cautious. It impacted how she raised her four children. The sexual abuse impacted her intimacy with her husband. Wanting to live her healthiest life, Cindy sought therapy at the age of 19 and began the most crucial part of her healing. It was incredibly painful, hard work, and a long process. Most helpful were trauma therapists. A few years ago, Cindy shared her story of abuse with a group of women. Their responses, from shock, to compassion, to anger, and to disbelief, compelled Cindy to write her memoir, Under the Orange Blossoms. She wanted to break the cycle of silence and knew other victims would benefit from hearing her story. During the process of writing her memoir, Cindy was re-traumatized as she recounted the details. No matter how painful it was to recall and relive those memories, she pushed forward thinking “I am doing this for me and someone else, and hopefully this makes a difference.” Family, her husband, her children, and friends were Cindy’s strength as she continued the healing process. Inspiration came in many forms: surrounding herself with people who feel like sunshine, finding her tribe, mantras, nature, exercise, and reading stories of others who have been through adversity. Cindy meditates daily and gives thanks, focusing on the beauty present in her life. “Forgiveness is key to living your higher self.” Cindy is most proud of finding her voice. The voice that was trapped inside of that little girl. After being programmed to be silent and master secrecy, it was counterintuitive for Cindy to start talking. Brutally shy and not wanting to be seen, her mantra as a young girl was, “Be the wallpaper.” Cindy is proud that little girl is finding her voice. “Everybody has history, some kind of trauma. That is part of being human. If you hold onto this trauma, it can bind you and lead to anger, shame, and loss of control.” We try to shake it off by ignoring it. There’s no secret formula to releasing pain and anger, but letting go is freeing. When Cindy found the words to rewrite her script, it changed her outcome. It took a long time, but it was the beginning of her healing process. Resources Cindy Talks Unexpected Launch

When Cindy is being harassed by her new boss, Jack and Janet meddle and get her fired. Danko's co-host is Kieran Grant.

Lil Bug Love is an inspiring social enterprise, the work of Brisbane based mum, Cindy Barden. Cindy is on a mission to create comfort kits for kids whose mother or caregiver are escaping domestic violence.Cindy found herself in a relationship that rapidly turned to domestic violence. During this time Cindy’s daughter was exposed to the abusive relationship and developed severe anxiety. When Cindy escaped, her daughter was too scared to leave her mother’s side and she was faced with having to give statements to police with her daughter present. That meant her daughter had to hear every horrific detail of the statements, and she had to keep hearing it over and over again as statements were made to a variety of legal and support services throughout the process of escaping and re-building a safe life.Cindy wanted to show her daughter that the painful experience wasn’t in vain, and that their situation will help other children who end up in police stations listening to all the details of the abuse and feeling scared. This is when Lil Bug Love was born.Lil Bug Love kits are housed in a beautiful canvas bag with handmade toys to cuddle, colouring/activity books including blank pages so the kids can express themselves, pencils, pencil case and a set of headphones so they don’t have to listen and can tune out. Cindy believes these kits are simple but powerful and they will reduce the trauma children experience when fleeing domestic violence.Cindy knows she can’t stop domestic violence, or change the way adults treat other adults, she couldn’t even change it for her daughter but from this experience she is determined to help comfort other children who need comforting. Cindy says “By giving kids whose mums are escaping domestic violence a little bit of love and comfort during a terrifying time, we can stop continually re-traumatising them. We can let them feel safe, loved and start the healing process.I know from my own experience that a comfort kit would have made the world of difference to my daughter and reduced her experience of being re-traumatised”.The kit itself is held in a sturdy canvas bag. Many children fleeing domestic violence have to leave with only the clothes on their back and this bag holds their only belongings. Lil Bug Love kits will help children of domestic violence to stop being re-traumatised and enable them to start the healing process.To support Lil Bug Love to create and distribute kits to police stations across Queensland go to the website or Facebook page.

This week the guys staff pick is Uncle Buck. When Cindy and her husband, Bob, have to leave town for a family emergency, there is only one person available to babysit for their three kids: Bob's lazy, carefree brother, Buck . While he immediately gets along with the two younger children, Buck must change his bachelor lifestyle if he wants to be a responsible caregiver for the angst-filled teenager, Tia. Join in as the guys chat about this amazing 80's Classic. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/behindthecounter/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/behindthecounter/support

Neil Landau is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, author and professor. His screen credits include the cult comedy "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" starring Christina Applegate, "Melrose Place," "The Magnificent Seven," "Doogie Howser, M.D.," "The Secret World of Alex Mack," "Twice in a Lifetime," "MTV's Undressed," "The Young & the Restless," "Monarch Cove" and one-hour drama pilots for CBS, ABC, ABC Family (now Freeform), Warner Bros, Disney, Lifetime and Fremantle.Neil runs the MFA in Writing for Television Program at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (his alma mater), where he also facilitates a first-look Writing the One-Hour Drama development workshop in conjunction with Sony Crackle, now in its fifth year.Neil is the author of several bestselling books: "101 Things I Learned in Film School" (Grand Central Publishing, 2010); "The Screenwriter's Roadmap" (Focal Press, 2012, now in ten languages); and "The TV Showrunner's Roadmap" (Focal Press, 2014, now in 7 languages). His fourth book, "TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution," published by Focal Press in 2016, was the first book sponsored by the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) and his fifth and latest book, "TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era" was released in Feb 2018. "When writing its hard to be the creator and critic at the same time" - Neil Landau Pre Show Notes— Want to win a FREE copy of Neal's new book?! To enter all you have to do is;Share this podcast episode on the social media channel on your choiceComment what you learned in the comments (either on Podbean, the episode itself on the website, etc)The winner in North America will have their choice between a physical or pdf copy. If the winner is outside North America, they will win a PDF version.— Quentin Tarantino Writing Masterclass (A collection of advice)This is a video I edited together from various Tarantino writing advice I've heard over the years. Please let me know what you think of it.  MORE FREE STUFF:— Backstage –  Use code dbcast at checkout when posting a casting call for a FREE basic listing— Dave Bullis Podcast Filmmakers Group on Facebook – a FREE filmmaking group I made on Facebook. — Shopping on Amazon? Please use my affiliate link (simply click and shop as normal) as it greatly helps out the podcast. Thank you! Show Notes-- Don't Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead - A teenage girl and her four siblings are left to their own devices when their mother leaves them in the care of an elderly babysitter who drops dead! Christina Applegate stars.-- The Last American Virgin - A shy guy and his bold buddy like the same girl.-- Can't Buy Me Love - Nowhere-man Ronny Miller is secretly in love with Cindy Mancini, the prettiest, most popular girl on campus. When Cindy finds herself in a desperate predicament, Ronny steps in to save the day ... for a price! Cindy must pose as Ronny's girl so that her popularity might rub off on him. But the road to popularity takes an unexpected twist when Ronny becomes so "cool" that his former friends feel the chill, Cindy is left toally out in the cold, and Ronny himself discovers that money might buy you popularity, but it can't buy you love!-- Better Off Dead - After his girlfriend ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane (John Cusak) decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts bring him only more agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares, a family you can't help but identify with and a host of wonderful comic characters, Savage Steve Holland's writing/directorial debut is a masterful look at those painfully funny teen years. — Game Over is the TV pilot I shot several years ago about 5 employees working at a video game store struggling to get to the next level in their lives.Tagline: In life there is no reset buttonThe goal is to get a lot of eyeballs on this so if you know anyone that'd be interested please share this with them.— Game Over – Making a TV Pilot – The blog post with all of the behind the scenes details about making, Game Over.— How NOT to make a TV Pilot – My interview with Alex Ferrari at Indie Film HustleTV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era takes a deep dive into writing for today's audiences, against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving TV ecosystem. Amazon, Hulu and Netflix were just the beginning. The proliferation of everything digital has led to an ever-expanding array of the most authentic and engaging programming that we've ever seen. No longer is there a distinction between broadcast, cable and streaming. It's all content. Regardless of what new platforms and channels will emerge in the coming years, for creators and writers, the future of entertainment has never looked brighter.This book goes beyond an analysis of what makes great programming work. It is a master course in the creation of entertainment that does more than meet the standards of modern audiences―it challenges their expectations. Among other essentials, readers will discover how to:Satisfy the binge viewer: analysis of the new genres, trends and how to make smart initial decisions for strong, sustainable story. Plus, learn from the rebel who reinvented an entire format.Develop iconic characters: how to foster audience alignment and allegiance, from empathy and dialogue to throwing characters off their game, all through the lens of authenticity and relatability.Create a lasting, meaningful career in the evolving TV marketplace: how to overcome trips, traps and tropes, the pros and cons of I.P.; use the Show Bible as a sales tool and make the most of the plethora of new opportunities out there.A companion website offers additional content including script excerpts, show bible samples, interviews with television content creators, and more. ContactNeil Landau-- Official Site -- TwitterDave Bullis— Official Site— Youtube— Twitter— Instagram— Facebook — Stage 32 — LetterboxdSupport the Podcast1. Sign Up for Dave's email list2. Rate the Podcast on iTunes 3. Shop on Amazon with my linkSubscribe to the Podcast— Podbean — iTunes — Stitcher— Google Play Podcast

Can love and independence co-exist? What does it mean to be cursed with cute? And where does the couch fit in anyway? Writer and educator Cindy McGean answers these questions in a Valentine to her husband and frequent creative partner, Sam. When Cindy isn't writing or performing, she teaches elementary school, changing the world one third grader at a time. KISS AND TELL February 10, 2018 Cindy McGean live at The Old Church Concert Hall in Portland, OR Hosted by Lynne Duddy and Lawrence Howard of Portland Story Theater MAY THE NARRATIVE BE WITH YOU®

When the going gets tough, the tough make stuff happen... Been There Better Than That Glynn witnesses a lady show what real class looks like. Producer: Mark Ristich 12 Pageant Queens, 1000 Snakes One Beauty Pageant. 12 contestants. 1000 rattlesnakes. Producer: Anna Sussman A Hard Knock Life Sharon Skolnick was nine years old and an orphan in the Murrow Indian Orphanage, when she was confronted with the opportunity every girl at the orphanage dreamed of. Find out more about artist Sharon Skolnick at here. Producer: Anna Sussman Sound Design: Renzo Gorrio Xiao Xiao When Cindy adopted a four year old girl from China, there was a lot the two didn’t understand about each other. Find out about Cindy’s story (and her books) at CindyChampnella.com. Producer: Anna Sussman Sound Design:  Pat Mesiti-Miller  

In this episode, you will learn about using great design to drive people to your destination from Cindy Harris. Cindy Harris is a graphic designer, painter, and lover of all things art. She began Harris Studios over 15 years ago with the purpose of helping established businesses create an authentic identity through design. Cindy believes in the importance of good design in this world and asserts that design should be a reflection of both who your business is, as well as where your business is headed. Cindy has created unique brand identities and meaningful design work in a host of different industries, including travel and tourism, food and beverage, retail and spas, and events and promotions. In 2013, she was honored with a tourism legacy award for tourism branding and creativity. Cindy is both a designer and an artist, painting is her passion. She is a proud member artist at the Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery in Canadaigua, New York. She has been a juried artist in the internationally acclaimed Finger Lakes Plein Air Competition. When Cindy is not designing or painting, you can find her knitting, reading a book, or taking a stroll around her beautiful neighborhood in the Bristol Hills. A transcript of this episode is available here: http://destinationontheleft.com/cindy-harris/

Cozy mystery author Cindy Brown is slightly silly, but also very serious about writing stories that matter to her. In this wide-ranging interview, Cindy mentions some great writing advice she got from a Star Wars screenwriter and how that has informed her Ivy Meadows mysteries. She also shares some fascinating facts about Annie Oakley. When Cindy was researching her latest book, Ivy Get Your Gun, she discovered that Annie was not only a cracker-jack shot, she was a determined and brave business-woman who was reportedly kind and generous despite her fame in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This reminded me of how much fun it is for writers like Cindy (and me) to weave real life events, people and places into our fictional stories. And of course, we sincerely hope it is as much fun for our readers when they get our books in their hands! You can find out more about today's guest, Cindy Brown, and all her books on her website CindyBrownWriter.com. You can also find her on Twitter @friendlybrown. Links and resources mentioned in this episode Click on any of the book covers to go to Cindy's books on Amazon Cindy's article at the Jungle Red Writers website Article about the accidental shooting at the OK Corral in Tombstone, AZ Annie Oakley's Wikipedia page Press play (above) to listen to the show, or read the transcript below. Remember you can also subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts. And listen on Stitcher. You can also click here to watch the interview on YouTube. Transcription of Interview with Cindy Brown Alexandra: Hi mystery readers. I'm Alexandra Amor, this is It's a Mystery Podcast. And I'm here today with Cindy Brown. Hi Cindy. Cindy: Hello. How are you doing? Alexandra: Very well. How are you? Cindy: I'm good. I'm good. It's a beautiful day, the birds are singing and the terrier is quiet for now, which is kind of a warning he you just like buff me a little bit. Alexandra Okay. So if we hear that in the background we know who that is? Cindy: Yes. I'll introduce you at that point because he'll probably come running over to me too. Alexandra Okay. Cool. All right. Well, let me give our listeners a bit of an introduction to you. Cindy Brown has been a theater geek, musician, actor, director, producer and playwright since her first professional gig at age 14. Now a full-time writer, she's the author of the Agatha-nominated Ivy Meadow series, madcap mysteries set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater. Cindy and her husband live in Portland Oregon, though she made her home in Phoenix Arizona for more than 25 years and knows all the good places to hide dead bodies in both cities. I love that little introduction. That's awesome. Cindy: And it's true. Alexandra: Your Ivy Meadows mysteries have a theater theme. Why don't you start by telling us about your beginnings in the theater? You said you started when you were pretty young. Cindy: Yeah. Well, I was actually a musician, to begin with. And I loved music, I loved being in bands, in symphony. And I was actually...I was good. So, I started actually working professionally at age 14. And one of my first gigs was playing as a pit musician for a little night music for an orchestra for a little night music which is the Sondheim when where Send in the Clowns comes that's the most famous song from there. Alexandra: Okay. Cindy: And I just kind of fell in love with it, so I kept doing music for theater until probably college and then I suddenly realized I kinda wanted to be on stage instead of under the stage. Alexandra: Right. Cindy: I was learning to sing at that point, I hadn't really been singing before. I started out then acting in musical theater. I went from being a musician to an actress in musical theater and then started getting more serious about theater. I love music and I still do.

Cindy Lane Ross has been traveling the world since she was 13 years old, and is looking forward to retirement at the ripe age of 38! Cindy and her husband are teaching fitness classes throughout the world and blogging about their adventures through their travel business, Stash Your Bag. Find out more about Cindy’s personal solo travels and how she always looks forward to some downtime, in this week’s episode!   Key Takeaways: *What’s Cindy’s favorite part of New Orleans? *Who is Cindy? She first got the travel bug when she was 13 years old! *Has Cindy noticed a difference between how she traveled as a kid vs. how she travels, a nearly adult? *When Cindy embarked to Central America, not once did she feel not safe. *Where can people go to get more informed on the countries they want to visit, especially if they have a safety concern? *Register yourself on the tourism board of every country you’re going into. *Cindy offers a quick Paris tip. Don’t throw away your train ticket! The police check! *Cindy says it might be best to get comfortable traveling within the United States first before venturing outside, especially if you’ve never, never traveled before! *When Cindy is on a solo trip, she really uses that time for reflection and relaxation. *Cindy did not want to become a certified diver. She was scared, but her husband pushed her to do it. *What’s Cindy’s favorite solo travel journey? *The world is a much more connected place. It’s so easy to reach out to others and get an ‘on the boots’ perspective of a country you’re about to visit. *Cindy is loving her new meditation app. It’s called Headspace! *Never stop traveling, and always keep an open mind!   Mentioned in This Episode: Transformviatravel.com Transform via Travel on Facebook @GoSoloLive on Twitter Email: Jennifer@TransformviaTravel.com Travelpostmonthly.com Headspace.com Tools of Titans, by Timothy Ferriss   Connect with Cindy: Stashyourbag.com Email Cindy: Cindy@StashYourBag.com Socializeyourbizness.com   Leave a Review: Did you like this episode? Please leave an honest review on iTunes with your feedback! Also, please subscribe to the Go Solo Live podcast on iTunes, to get notified when a new episode gets released. I appreciate your listening to this week’s show. And tune in next week for another great guest.

When Cindy and her husband Randy start watching old home movies from his childhood, Randy begins to notice subtle differences between his memory and reality -- changes that become more apparent as they watch. Cindy tries to reassure Randy, but it soon becomes evident that reality and memory are not what they seem.Enjoy this creepy and twisted tale from Season Three as read by Nelson W. Pyles.

Cindy Ladder was 56 when she decided to take her first solo trip to New York. A 30-year marriage had ended and even though she has two grown boys, Cindy was lonely and wasn’t sure how she was going to move on. Going to New York for the very first time inspired a new meaning to Cindy’s life. She got to see new sights, try new things, and live life to its fullest.   Key Takeaways: *Where was Cindy at in her life when she decided to do a solo trip? *Who is Cindy? *Why didn’t Cindy want anybody to travel with her? *Why did Cindy want to travel to New York or Washington, DC? *What did Cindy’s children say when they found out she was traveling alone? They were shocked! *Cindy discusses the bus trip she took to NYC and the considerations she went to towards picking the bus. *When Cindy eventually got on that bus, she was worried. *Cindy discusses what her first trip traveling alone was like. *Pro tip: The weather in NYC was amazing in October. *Cindy discusses the benefits of traveling with a tour group. *Cindy was excited. She got to ride the NYC subway. The experience was something else! *Despite New York’s reputation for being rude, Cindy says everyone was very friendly and helpful. *What kind of ways does Cindy stay connected with the people she met in NYC? *Cindy was able to find a really good balance between alone time and group time. *Who was Cindy one year ago? How has she changed?   Mentioned in This Episode: Transformviatravel.com Transform via Travel on Facebook Jennifer@TransformviaTravel.com Lamers Tours   Connect with Cindy: CindyLatter@Live.com    Leave a Review: Did you like this episode? Please leave an honest review on iTunes with your feedback! Also, please subscribe to the Go Solo Live podcast on iTunes to get notified when a new episode gets released. I appreciate your listening to this week's show. And tune in next week for another great guest.

When Cindy received divine healing, she asked Father God what she did to receive. He told her that she had child-like faith. In this worship and healing service, Cindy teaches on the characteristics of child-likeness, and what that looked like in her journey of healing.