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Let Your Garvin Grow S2E31 Our Guest this Week Wayne Denner Online Safety | Cybersecurity | Trainer | Speaker and the one and only fan of the show 52 Jokers Wild, we have actually found our first customer that will openly admit to listening to the show and what's more watches it on YouTube, now if we can only clone him a couple of million times. Wayne's Parents were a Fan of The Duke or Good Old John Wayne to the rest of us, so much so they named their bonny lad after The Quiet Man so it might encourage him to be a good lad and get off his rocking horse and drink his milk. Bird Seed is for the Birds Garvin says, When George and Wayne are swapping Bird stories, Garvin nearly starts to listen to them until he realises that it is Big Bird and his chums eating habits as opposed to the HomoSapien variety, not to be deterred he steers the conversation to The Ball Room of Romance of the '80s and '90s and what it means to do the dance, the ritual mating dance, you have to have those feathers in full plume as you strut your stuff across the floor to throw out that line - Ya Wanna Dance?? Strategic Planning 101 for the lads in the absence of social media and Bumble, That was the Reality Show for The Birds and The Bees, The Bees did not want that answer - Would ya ever feck'n Buzz Off with yourself! We all have to Learn to Walk Before we can dance, Garvin it turns out did not learn to walk until he was about twenty, Turns out no one gave him the instruction booklet and accompanying training video before pushing him out onto the Cat Walk Bare Foot and Clueless. Walking - How Difficult can that be? With Gerry Hall and the Nation watching your every step, it seems it is near impossible. George has been Garvinised for nearly two years now and thinks everyone has at some time suffered a Garvin in their Daily Life, the trick is to Nurture it and Let it Grow. In time you will be the stronger for it and you can send it off on its way back into the world to help others.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

When George and Margaret discovered their son was a serial arsonist, they turned him in only to have their friends and business clients abandon them. They leaned on God and with His strength were able to overcome depression and bankruptcy.

Today we celebrate a garden that transformed into a cemetery for our country’s military. We'll also learn about one of America’s oldest gardens that oped on this day over a hundred years ago. We hear an excerpt from one of the founders of the Garden Club of America about rescuing her family daffodils. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about the perfect plant partners in the garden. And then we’ll wrap things up with the writer Daphne du Maurier - she loved gardens and incorporated them into her story.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Curated News The Essential Gardening Step You’re Probably Skipping | Food52.com | Nadia Hassani   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events May 13, 1864 Today Private William Christman becomes the first person to be buried at Arlington Cemetery. Arlington National Cemetery didn’t start out as a cemetery. It was actually a property that belonged to the Custis family - the family of George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted son of the first president of the United States. His biological mother was Martha Washington. Today, many people are unaware of the ties between the Custis family and the Lee family. It turns out that George’s daughter, Mary, married Robert E. Lee. When George died, Robert inherited Arlington House - a place Mary loved dearly. As many visitors to Washington D.C. can attest, Arlington house was situated on a grand hill and overlooked 1,100 acres of land. When the Civil War started, Robert and Mary Lee abandoned the property. Since the Lees didn’t dare return to the city to pay taxes on the property for fear of being arrested, they sacrificed Arlington House to the North. Union soldiers immediately took occupancy and set up an advantageous position on the hill. The burial of William Christman on a remote corner of the property on this day in 1864 marked the beginning of a new chapter for Arlington - it was becoming a graveyard for fallen Union soldiers. Soon the higher ranking soldiers and officers were being buried closer to the Mansion - around what was left of the Lee Family garden - where Mary had tended roses, honeysuckle, and jasmine. Today, there are over 400,000 graves at Arlington.   May 13, 1911 On this day, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York City opened to the public. Today the garden is home to over 200 cherry trees representing forty-two different species. The garden is made up of several defined garden spaces. First, the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden was one of the first Japanese gardens to be created in an American botanic garden and the first Japanese garden to be accessible free of charge in America. Second, the Cranford Rose Garden came to be after being sponsored by the engineering company executive Walter V Cranford. The oldest garden on the property is the Native Flora Garden which started out as a wildflower garden before transitioning to a woodland garden. There’s also a Shakespeare Garden, a Fragrance Garden, and a Children’s Garden. Before the pandemic, the garden welcomed nearly a million visitors every single year.   Unearthed Words Narcissi and Daffodils live for generations. I know some double yellow Daffodils growing in my great-grandfather’s garden that were planted over seventy years ago. The place was sold, and the house burned about thirty years since, and all this time has been entirely neglected. Someone told me that Daffodils and Narcissi still bloomed there bravely in the grass. With a cousin, one lovely day last spring, I took the train out to this old place and there found quantities of the dainty yellow flowers. We had come unprovided with any gardening implements, having nothing of the kind in town, and brought only a basket for the spoils and a steel table-knife. We quickly found the knife of no avail, so we borrowed a sadly broken coal shovel from a tumble-down sort of a man who stood gazing at us from the door of a tumble-down house. The roots of the Daffodils were very deep, and neither of us could use a spade, so the driver of the ramshackle wagon taken at the station was pressed into service. Handling of shovel or spade was evidently an unknown art to him. The Daffodil roots were nearly a foot deep, but we finally got them, several hundreds of them, all we could carry. The driver seemed to think us somewhat mad and said, “Them’s only some kind of weed,” but when I told him the original bulbs from which all these had come were planted by my great-grandmother and her daughter and that I wanted to carry some away, to plant in my own garden, he became interested and dug with all his heart. The bulbs were in solid clumps a foot across and had to be pulled apart and separated. They were the old Double Yellow Daffodil and a very large double white variety, the edges of the petals faintly tinged with yellow and delightfully fragrant. My share of the spoils is now thriving in my garden. By the process of division every three years, these Daffodils can be made to yield indefinitely, and perhaps some great-grandchild of my own may gather their blossoms. ― Helena Rutherfurd Ely, American author, amateur gardener, and founding member of the Garden Club of America   Grow That Garden Library Natural Companions by Ken Druse This book came out in 2012, and the subtitle is The Garden Lover's Guide to Plant Combinations. In this book, plantsman and garden writer Ken Druse presents his time-tested recipes for plant pairings. Some plants are beautiful all are on their own, but some really shine when set beside another plant. Plant pairings are also a wonderful way to complement bloom times or foliage. There is so much to consider. Ken smartly organizes his book by theme within seasons. He covers color, fragrance, foliage, grasses, and edible flowers, just to name a few. In addition, his book shows the power of his plant combinations in real gardens in a variety of growing zones through photography. Like all of Ken’s books, this book is filled with a ton of horticultural wisdom and guidance, in addition to garden lore, humor, and practicality. This book is 256 pages of perfect plant partners for your garden. You can get a copy of Natural Companions by Ken Druse and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $4   Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart May 13, 1907 Today is the birthday of the English author and playwright Daphne du Maurier (“Mor-ee-aya”), who was born in London. She was the middle daughter of a well-to-do family of creative bohemian artists and writers. Her father was a famous actor and a favorite of James Barrie - the author of Peter Pan. Daphne’s writing inspired Alfred Hitchcock - especially her novels Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, and her short story, The Birds. In 1938 Daphne published her popular book, Rebecca. It has never gone out of print. During the pandemic in 2020, Netflix released their movie version of Rebecca starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas. In Rebecca, Daphne writes about the beautiful azaleas that grow on the estate at Manderley. And she says that the blooms were used to make a perfume for its late mistress. Yet, most azalea growers know that this is likely an example of artistic license since most evergreen azaleas have little to no fragrance. That said, some native deciduous azaleas can be very fragrant. In the opening pages of Rebecca, Daphne’s narrator vividly describes the wild and wooly garden of Manderley: “I saw that the garden had obeyed the jungle law, even as the woods had done. The rhododendrons stood fifty feet high, twisted and entwined with bracken, and they had entered into alien marriage with a host of nameless shrubs, poor, bastard thing that clung about their roots as though conscious of their spurious origin. A lilac had mated with a copper beech, and to bind them yet more closely to one another the malevolent ivy, always an enemy to grace, had thrown her tendrils about the pair and made them prisoners.” Daphne du Maurier incorporated gardens into many of her books. Her daughters recall that their mother loved flowers and flower arranging. Their home was always filled with flowers. In Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories, Daphne wrote: “As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded wood felt herself safe…  It was very quiet. The woods were made for secrecy. They did not recognize her as the garden did." In The King’s General, as in Rebecca, the garden feels like a dangerous place at times. “I was a tiny child again at Radford, my uncle’s home, and he was walking me through the glass-houses in the gardens. There was one flower, an orchid, that grew alone; it was the color of pale ivory, with one little vein of crimson running through the petals. The scent filled the house, honeyed, and sickly sweet. It was the loveliest flower I had ever seen. I stretched out my hand to stroke the soft velvet sheen, and swiftly my uncle pulled me by the shoulder. ‘Don’t touch it, child. The stem is poisonous.” Finally, in her work, The Parasites, Daphne showed a different side of herself - her cleverness and humor - with a brief commentary on what it was like sending flowers along with a telegram: “Most people would send their letters and telegrams to the Haymarket. The flowers too. When you came to think of it the whole business was horribly like having an operation. The telegrams, the flowers. And the long hours of waiting.”   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

In this episode, Lisa Williams interviews George Yueh, a man who chooses to live life through the values of Intuition, Courage, Faith, Gratitude and Fun. He is a Peak Experience Coach who helps people breakthrough their mental, emotional and spiritual blocks that holds them back from achieving their goals. He helps people create a life of meaning, purpose, joy, fulfillments, peace and harmony.When George was 16, he survived a car accident that nearly cost him his life. That night he looked up into the stars, feeling divine intervention with a voice that said, “Not Yet…” In that moment, he knew that he was spared to do something important with his life; to be part of something bigger than himself. Years later, he had become a top producer for $2 billion dollar company but felt nothing. He had reached success without fulfillment, life’s ultimate failure. Feeling empty and alone, he fell into depression. It was in this period of his life, with lots of help from Coach’s, Burning Man and years of mental, emotional and spiritual development, he found his purpose. He discovered his calling, to be a Heart Leader and powerful source of human transformation in the world. He’s here help you ShapeShift, from who you think you “should be or need to be” and help you become who you truly are.Links:http://www.shapeshiftcoach.comIG: @shapeshift_coachIf you’d like to learn more about working with Lisa and her team directly, go to lisawilliamsco.com and learn how to hire yourself!

Adam works with a London-based film-maker who admired the qualities and accomplishments of director and producer George Lucas. Adam creates a hypnosis session where he was able to tap into three moments of the early career of George Lucas who is now worth over $5bn after selling Lucasfilm to Disney.  1. The creativity of when George Lucas created the concept of Star Wars, the characters, and the storylines. 2. When he overcame set-backs when pitching and filming the original Star Wars to make sure the movie got made. 3. When George negotiated the rights to Star Wars merchandise and toys which made him hundreds of millions of dollars even though he received a pay cut for the original movie.  

Come one, come Al! After 2020, things were bound to get weird. So we kick off 2021 with the only logical episode: "Weird Al" Yankovic's one and only big-screen starring role, 1989's cult comedy UHF. Lauren Carey of the Beer'd Al Podcast joins the show to talk about the film's legacy, its impact on Al's career, and whether UHF is an effective entry point for new fans. So don't change the channel. And don't touch that dial. This week, the Crooked Table Podcast has got it all on UHF. SYNOPSIS After losing yet another job, George ("Weird Al" Yankovic) wonders if there is any career that can handle his outrageous personality. When George's uncle (Stanley Brock) hands him the deed to a local TV station, George creates a series of television shows based on social satire and hyperactive humor, with the help of his best friend, Bob (David Bowe). However, a rival station's bitter CEO (Kevin McCarthy) tries to destroy George's wacky programming, forcing him to fight back. SHOW NOTES Join the Crooked Table Patreon: Patreon.com/CrookedTable Subscribe to the Crooked Table Podcast on Apple Podcasts! Listen to the Crooked Table Podcast on Spotify! Connect with Crooked Table on social media: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Instagram  |  Tumblr

In the future, every famous person will be a movie star for 85 minutes. UHF continues our 85 Minutes Of Fame season with Weird Al Yankovic's only feature film! George Newman (Yankovic) is a daydreamer whose hyperactive imagination keeps him from holding a steady job. His uncle decides George would be the perfect man to manage Channel 62, a television station which is losing money and viewers fast. When George replaces the station's reruns with bizarre programs such as "Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse", "Wheel of Fish" and "Raul's Wild Kingdom", ratings begin to soar again. Mean-spirited and cynical mogul R.J. Fletcher becomes furious that the UHF station is getting better ratings than his network's programming. Because of gambling debts, the uncle is forced to consider selling the station to Fletcher, who would only too happily shut it down (he cannot legally own two stations in the same town). George and his friends organize a 48-hour telethon to raise the money by selling investment stock from Channel 62 to save the town's new favorite station. So sit back and enjoy the laughs as The Cult Film Showdown turns that TV dial to channel 62! After listening to this episode about UHF, check in with The Octagon, our on-going ranking of the movies covered in The Cult Film Showdown. Subscribe (and review) on your favorite podcast player and Youtube so you don't miss an episode! Follow us on Instagram! There can be only one The on-going list of the top b-movies as rated by the Cult Film Showdown team! Join them each episode as they tirelessly search for the Ultimate B-Movie! FilmSchlock AppealMore Heart Than BudgetWTF MomentsMemorable MomentsCrazy ConceptScore Out of:40-----------------------------40-----------------------------40-----------------------------40-----------------------------40-----------------------------100----------------------------- Ninja III: The Domination37 35 35 32 34 86.5 Miami Connection383836303186.5 Samurai Cop383238323385.5 Frankenhooker333432324085.5 Flesh Gordon Meets The Cosmic Cheerleaders373433323685 Flesh Gordon343637312983.5 Wolf Guy352839323383.5 Deadly Prey393339322383 Frankenstein Island383138213883 Maniac (1934)343138243583 Furious (1984)343140253081 The Apple273038343381 Road to Hell304025263879.5 Raw Force382933233579 R.O.T.O.R.343339252578 H.O.T.S.322930332877 Chopping Mall323429263177 Crank 2: High Voltage292933253475 Deathstalker II343735271775 Frankenstein Conquers The World312732253474.5 Elves312232273674 Flash Gordon341934342773 Screwballs333435281372.5 Loose Screws353234311072 Starcrash313336232071.5 Ninja The Violent Sorcerer342734143471.5 Traxx312630292771.5 Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky342137282371.5 Preppies302737271770 The Doll242940163069.5 Gutterballs282932292269 Space Mutiny313033202368.5 Malibu Express342433222668.5 Gymkata341730263068.5 Santa's Slay262535292168 Tales From The Quadead Zone292631093968 Spookies283132192567.5 Incredibly Strange Creatures...283326163167 Big City Blues262731282166.5 Isle of the Snake People372435142266 Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo293227311265.5 312630172365.5 American Shaolin252730251965 Game of Death II341436183065 Cabin Boy272617293065 Fatal Deviation263234191864.5 One Down, Two To Go272535172363.5 Killer Klowns From Outer Space293018252563.5 Up the Creek271929292463 Cast a Deadly Spell183121312763 Phase IV202925292262.5 Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971)282432152461.5 Terror in Beverly Hills341637251061 Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time302329221860 Class of 1999263117232560 The Weird Man262828142259 Revenge of the Nerds172523371659 Battle Beyond the Stars254017221458 Planet of the Vampires133911302057.5 The Monster Squad213314331457.5 Dracula AD 1972262219242457.5 Spellcaster242425182357

This week’s episode features a more light-hearted tale than we’re used to, thankfully. When George and Kathleen McConnell bought a house for their growing family, they didn’t realize they’d be adopting three other children that they couldn’t see.... #ghostbabies

Lee and Jeff from the MEGA and Tirekicker podcast talk about 6 Wonky 80's movies they know you will like.  Full show notes listed below ----more----   Fortress (1985)   An Australian school teacher and her students are kidnapped. She and the children fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.  Loosely based on the 1972 Faraday School kidnapping of a teacher and her class by Edwin John Eastwood and Robert Clyde Boland. Eastwood later escaped from prison and repeated the crime with another teacher and her class in 1977. The Faraday kidnapping was in turn a real-life copycat crime based on a scene in the Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry (1971) where the Scorpio Killer holds a bus driver and several schoolchildren hostage.          The Faraday School kidnapping occurred on 6 October 1972 at a one-teacher school in the rural town of Faraday in Victoria, Australia, where two plasterers, Edwin John Eastwood and Robert Clyde Boland, kidnapped six female pupils and their teacher for a $1,000,000 ransom. The Victorian government claimed it would pay the ransom. The victims escaped and the criminals were captured, tried and convicted. Eastwood escaped and later kidnapped a teacher and nine pupils. He was again captured, convicted and sentenced. While in prison, Eastwood strangled convicted rapist Glen Davies in what was ruled self-defence. He was eventually released, having served his sentence. The film was initially released directly to cable television by the HBO channel in the United States on 24 November 1985.It contains scenes of graphic violence unusual for TV productions of the time. It was released to cinemas in Australia on 26 June 1986. Played for years on HBO     Megaforce (1982) The story involves two fictional countries, the peaceful Republic of Sardun and their aggressive neighbor Gamibia. Unable to defend themselves from a Gamibian incursion, Sardun sends Major Zara and General Byrne-White to ask the help of MegaForce – a secret army composed of international soldiers from throughout the western world, equipped with advanced weapons and vehicles. The MegaForce leader, Commander Ace Hunter, will lead a mission to destroy the Gamibian forces, which are led by his rival, and former military academy friend, Duke Gurerra. While Hunter composes an elaborate battle plan to destroy Gurerra's forces, Zara tries out to become a member of MegaForce. As she executes the various tests, Hunter's feelings of affection toward her grow. And while she passes the tests, he is unable to allow her to participate in their raid, because her presence, as an outsider, would disrupt the trust and familiarity of his force. Eventually, MegaForce successfully para-drops its attack vehicles into Gamibia and Hunter mounts his sneak attack against Gurerra's forces. Although they manage to destroy his base, they are told by General Byrne-White that Sardun has decided they will not be allowed to cross the border into their country because they consider MegaForce too dangerous a global organization. At the same time, Gurerra has set a trap for them at the team's only means of escape – a dry lake bed where the cargo planes will pick them up. Gurerra sends his tanks to secure the lake bed while Hunter comes up with a plan to attack Gurerra from behind by crossing over a mountain range the enemy tanks had turned their backs toward. The plan succeeds, and MegaForce manages to break through Gurerra's tanks, but one of MegaForce's cargo planes is damaged in the process. Having to abandon their high-tech vehicles (which they program to self-destruct), the team successfully makes it on foot to the last plane, except for Hunter. The commander, instead, makes his own dramatic escape on his motorcycle after it deploys airfoils and a rocket motor and catches up with the cargo plane in midair. Although he has lost the battle, Gurerra shows admiration for Hunter's cunning, and he gives his old friend a thumbs up. Hal Needham later described it as: Kind of a version of James Bond done with a helluva lot of less budget and no Roger Moore, but it was a high tech, good "right wing" film and I thought it was kinda interesting. Those buggies that we built, they were dune buggies and we revamped 'em a little bit, and put the weapons on 'em and all that, and the military sent people out there to look at my weapons and my vehicles and how they run, and how they handle...they were out there in the desert with me for a week watching. And, if you go back and take a look at Desert Storm, there's a pretty good resemblance to my vehicles. They were pretty slick, pretty tricked out, and they had a helluva job putting those together. The film was poorly received by critics, bombed at the box office and was nominated for three Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture.   See the flying bike scene   Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend 1985 A paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa,  and try to protect them from a group of hunters intent on capturing the dinosaurs.   Starring William Katt from TV show the greatest american hero. Sean Young From Balde runner and dune and Ace Ventura Sparked an interest in learning more about actual sightings of dinosaurs. An article in a school magazine wrote about possible sighting in Congo. My imagination was hooked.             Big Trouble in Little China (1986) Truck driver Jack Burton arrives in Chinatown, San Francisco, and goes to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to welcome his green-eyed fiancée Miao Yin who is arriving from China. However she is kidnapped on the arrival by a Chinese street gang and Jack and Wang chase the group. Soon they learn that the powerful evil sorcerer called David Lo Pan, who has been cursed more than two thousand years ago to exist without physical body, needs to marry a woman with green eyes to retrieve his physical body and Miao is the chosen one. Jack and Wang team-up with the lawyer Gracie Law, the bus driver and sorcerer apprentice Egg Shen and their friends and embark in a great adventure in the underground of Chinatown, where they face a world of magicians and magic, monsters and martial arts fighters. The film only gross $11.1M in the box office where it had an estimated gross budget of $25M, but James Cameron’s Aliens came out at the same time and took all of the thunder. Directed by John Carpenter and starred Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall   The movie did so bad that John Carpenter said he would never do another blockbuster type movie again and went to independent film making from then on out. IT has since become a cult classic and has a 78% average rating on Rotten Tomatoes.   Better Off Dead 1985 The teenager Lane Meyer has a crush on his girlfriend Beth Truss. When Beth dumps him to stay with the successful skier Roy Stalin, Lane is depressed and decides to commit suicide. However he gives up and tries to improve his skill of skier to ski the dangerous K12 slope to impress Beth. Meanwhile his neighbor Mrs. Smith receives the exchange French student Monique Junot and her fat son Ricky Smith considers Monique his girlfriend; however, Monique has an unrequited crush on Lane that does not note her. When Lane stumbles upon Monique in a high-school party, he befriends her. The upset Lane challenges Roy in a competition on the K12 slope but then he regrets. However Monique is a great mechanic and skier, and fix Lane's Camaro and teaches him how to ski the K12 slope. Star a young John Cusack Lane Meyer David Ogden Stiers Al Meyer from MASH Dan Schneider Ricky Smith Starred in Head of the Class, but later know writing and producing kids shows like Good burger, Drake and Josh and iCarly. Curtis Armstrong Charles De Mar Who was also in Revenge of the nerds as Booger and later in Moonlighting TV Show with Bruce Willis.   According to Savage Steve Holland, the film is mostly autobiographical. Holland really was suicidal when his high school girlfriend left him for captain of the ski team. Also, he really did have a paperboy named Johnny Gasparini who would harass him for two dollars. According to Holland, when the film came out, the ex-girlfriend contacted him to apologize. Lane's mother's experimental cooking was inspired by Savage Steve Holland's mother, who did the same thing. "My mom would get McCall's magazine, and she would find these recipes and make these things, and have some excuse why they didn't taste good-because she forgot something or she didn't have an ingredient," Holland told Entertainment Weekly. One year for his birthday-not Christmas-she gifted him with some TV dinners. "She was like, 'And I got you these really cool frozen dinners because you like the peach cobbler in this one' or something. And I was like, 'Wow. Really? This is my life.'"   John Cusack hated the movie when he saw an early cut The last line of the credits reads The film's over... you can go now. Badger his bizarre, but genius little brother Opening Weekend USA:  $56,371, 25 August 1985 Gross USA:  $10,297,601 7.1 on Amazon and 77% on rotten tomatoes Had resurgence on VHS and Cable   UHF (1989) George Newman is a daydreamer whose hyperactive imagination keeps him from holding a steady job. His uncle decides George would be the perfect man to manage Channel 62, a television station which is losing money and viewers fast. When George replaces the station's reruns with bizarre programs such as "Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse", "Wheel of Fish" and "Raul's Wild Kingdom", ratings begin to soar again.   Mean-spirited and cynical mogul R.J. Fletcher becomes furious that the UHF station is getting better ratings than his network's programming. Because of gambling debts, the uncle is forced to consider selling the station to Fletcher, who would only too happily shut it down (he cannot legally own two stations in the same town). George and his friends organize a 48-hour telethon to raise the money by selling investment stock from Channel 62 to save the town's new favorite station.         Links from the episode Tirekicker Instagram Tirekicker Twitter Tirekicker Facebook Page Tirekicker Podcast page MEGA (Make Eternia Great Again) Podcast Covert Nerd Facebook Covert Nerd Instagram Covert Nerd Twitter Covert Nerd Website Covert Nerd Merch Proud Member of Eddie and the Starcruisers. For more great content go to the Facebook Page:

This one is frustrating, y'all! When George and Jennie Sodder's home caught on fire on Christmas Eve 1945, they would never see 5 of their children again. There were no remains left in the fire, so the question still stands... what the hell happened to the Sodder children? Buckle up for some conspiracy theories, and see if you come to your own conclusion about what happened, because this case is still unsolved to this day! This is the mysterious disappearance of the Sodder children.

Payton and George take on an interview with real-recent-graduate, fake name "Christian". Transitioning from the construction industry, he's familiar with managing teams. When George finds him comparing two wildly different practices, we start talking mission and vision. Is Christian gonna pursue the lower value practice that needs rehabbing to hit his goals, or the more expensive one with existing cashflow?

Alright, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the mind to George show and you'd figure the podcast name like that. I would know what episode it is, but I have no fricking clue because that's not important. It's the content that's important. And today. I might've done an intro on this episode. I don't know, but I'll just pretend I did it today.We have the man, the myth, the legend, my soul brother, my work husband, my life husband, the only relationship I'm allowed to go pursue actively. My wife's like you go do whatever you want with him. I don't want to know about it. Uh, a business partner, a mentor, a friend, uh, someone who shares in the work with me, someone who guides me and lights me every day.And I am honored. Exuberant to two, realistically excited introduce my boy Stefano. So Steph, welcome to the show. My friend, it's been a long time coming. It's an honor to be here. I know. And just so everybody knows the only time I can pin, like one of my best friends down to get on a call is to get them on a fricking podcast.So I have to preschedule interviews like six weeks out in advance. Like, Hey man, catch up. Like, it's good to see you. How are things. It's been crazy lady, man. I was training this morning and I was thinking to myself, I need to re I need to read that I need to revamp my whole schedule because I'm just not, I'm just compressing my days too much.I actually thought this was fucking funny. He said this, what would George do? I legitimately thinking, what would, how would George, if he felt that he was being compressed in his days and on the I'm efficient and effective? Yeah. I just feel too compressed. And I just literally said to myself, pause is about to do some presses kettlebell prisons.What would George do? So I'll be hitting you up for that. I, you know what, like it's, so it's such a prevalent thing, but like really one of the things I'm on day, whenever you're listening to this, that might be on day 1000 of this thing, but I'm on day 35 actively of Andy Frisella 75 heart. There's nothing in the challenge.That's hard. It's the discipline to carve out the time and protect the time that I've had the biggest, biggest breakthroughs with. Then it's like in the beginning, I'm like, well, I'll just do a two hour workout in the morning. Right. And then I get both 45 minutes, but it's like, no, it's two separate. 45 minutes.And so like having that level of intentionality is carved out some crazy, crazy space clarity, but also the ability in which like, I really do schedule my day and I'm able to get more done and last, because I have these breaks and these pockets of like, just fill my tank, come recharge. And so I get more done in three hours than I was doing like seven before, because I forced myself to split it up in the middle.It's been really, really interesting, which by the way, everybody wondering, um, Stefanos has been monumental for me and many other men. We were on a men's group together too. But one of the things that we talk about a lot is like space containers, you know, protecting that stuff. But before we get into that, I want to know how you learn to protect it.So the first question I ask everybody is what is the biggest mistake that you've ever made in business or life? And what was the lesson and takeaway. The biggest mistake that I've made in business and in life sometimes you're I don't want to say it the biggest, I shouldn't say the big one. Yeah. It's it's, it's, it's a massive one is not assuming responsibility for my role, you know, in, so the example in businesses, I would be in businesses that would just.Succeed than fail, succeed and fallible. That burn build mentality right on month, I'd be making a shit ton of money and the next three months would be nothing. And the next two months and maybe something and the next full months and not much. And it was just, but, but I was never, I was the common denominator in that.And. I would just, instead of remaining with the business, being persistent and evaluating it from a place of what can I do differently? How can I show up differently? It, my attitude is, do I need a skill up? Do I need educate myself more? Do I need to surround myself with different people? Do I need to raise money or created a flux of income in a different way?Instead of asking those questions, I would just blame my business partners or blame the market timing or blame someone else. Yeah. Wasn't showing up in the business and then I would just move on to something else. And that's what I was doing in my personal life. I was not taking responsibility for how I was showing up.I wasn't taking responsibility or ownership for the actions that I was taking, the thoughts that I was having, the belief systems that supported all that, the unattended to history and trauma and unresolved wounding that I had. And it was just easy to blame my partner or easier to blame someone else as well.That's one of the biggest issues that I've found in life and taking responsibility which is. an ego check and it requires a lot of work and effort, and it means working with people like psychologists or counselors or Shaman, healers, and all of that coaches and getting a new perspective on how I was  being and stepping into all, what could I do differently that started changing my path.George:  I asked you to answer for you, not diagnose me and give everybody a synopsis of my, not that different. This is why we get along so well, by the way, because we speak the same language on multiple levels. I think I want to unpack this a little bit staff because we, you and I talk about this all the time and wheneveI get you on a call, but I will give him credit. He responds to my text messages all the time. So I will say that I am the initiator in this relationship, but we'll work on that one.  Stefano: I want to say though, it's not an it's it's I don't think it's as steep as what you may think. I think I initiate, but I'm gonna give it to you. I'm going to give it to you, definitely in the shed and took it. Cause I don't love you. No, because I don't care for you.  George: No, it's cause I'm more insecure than you. That's all check on the ownership. I'm like, we want to talk about ownership. I'm like, I am feeling lonely and empty today. Where's my husband who is going to tell me how amazing I am while also kicking me in the balls if I need it today. And so, no, I love it, but I think, you know what, like. When we think about business, we think about entrepreneurship, right? Like you and I talk all the time. We don't separate into compartments. We're not like, Oh, today at work and today in my marriage. And today when I chunked that workout or today when I got really angry and I dropped all my Australian cuss words, that sound attractive when I say them, but dirty when George says them, you know, when that happens, we don't. Differentiate the compartments and the pockets. And I think what's, so imperatively important about what you said, and you're more eloquent about this stuff than me. Cause I just bulldoze through it is that there are no compartments, but you talked about the ownership of it. Like not advocating our responsibility in it. And like there's check here that comes up everywhere in business. I don't care who you are in business. Like we're entrepreneurs. It's going to go awry. Every day. And even when shit's working perfectly check by check by check, there's going to be something there's going to be a pocket. And what you said is that like learning to take responsibility or step into that ownership, like what does that look like? Tangibly? Like I know, like, right. Like we run it out, it doesn't work. Right. And I'm like, well, it's the ad guy. It's the boom. The boom. But if I hit pause and I go for a walk, I'm like, well, I set them up to fail. I was missing the plan. I advocated the vision. I expected somebody else to do the work. I put a half-ass effort into it.But it took me. You know, 15 years to get there. And so like, what does that process look like for your, like, what are some of the tools or modalities that you use or you would advise somebody on if they're sitting here, like yeah. Like the state of the world is shit right now. I feel like it's all crashing down. I have no clue what to do. And it's like this getting stuck moment. Like, what's your advice for that?  Stafanos: What was things simple as best. And sometimes  we live in a world where we want razzle dazzle, or we want short gratification and we want razzle dazzle. We want it to be dressed up. Yeah.Sometimes the boring, simple things are often the best way to do it. Yeah. I would have tackle a pain point that we're experiencing. So for me, having a very big, because you know what we, what we created well, in terms of practices and habits, they become us. And so having a practice of daily introspection and respect and reflection, but simply at the end of every day ,or at the beginning of every day, And did you do this two times in our days where we generally are a little more quiet and in that silence, we can hear a lot more.And, you know, before you go to sleep and you have a practice of shutting down your devices and I don't always hit the Mark on this, you know, sometimes I'm up late working and I'm on computer and on my phone and dealing with clients and I'd have to do that to me, just having loose boundaries. Right. But now here's me taking ownership of something that I want to step into a little deeper.That I'm able to do because I have a diligent practice where I self reflect. And so, because I self-reflect and I practice it and I get quote, unquote, more proficient at it and better at it. I, in that time of five, 10, 15, 20, 30 minutes, whatever it is, where I'm, self-reflecting, I'm asking questions. Cause quality questions lead to a quality life.How did I behave today in my interactions with them? I compassionate to the, to the spec, to the place that I pointed I wanted to be. Did I hurt people today? Did I honor myself and my needs today? Whatever the questions are, they're important to you. And I reflect on that and that gives me an opportunity to step into ownership, but leads to greater levels of responsibility.It leads to mitigating risk or being. To being able to be effectively responsive to something, as opposed to emotionally charged and reactive, when something goes, quote, unquote, wrong. In other words, we had an idea of how it needs to be, and it doesn't go that way. And then all of a sudden we get so upset and we were, we don't know what to do with ourselves, but when we're more grounded in who we are, we have an ability to say, okay, what's my role here?Cause that's essentially what we have control of. We didn't have control of what other people do. We can influence other people, but we don't have control of them. So we can step into a place of, this is what I'm actually able to control, which is me and how I react bond. And I practice that on a daily basis.Thinking about these things, thinking about the way I've been feeling into any emotions that are attached to that and anything that arises to the service of my awareness and then dealing with that in real time with them. Different tools, whether it's breath, practice, again, simple stuff, whether it's a journaling practice, whether it's, I'm sharing that with someone like I may, I may send you a message and say, Hey, what do you think about this?And having that different perspective in that trains me and it trains the mind, the body and. The entire being to be more reflective and to, to be able to step into ownership, to respond quickly and effectively to when life doesn't often go the way we want it to go. Now, the parallel to that is when we look at what it's happening in the world, I'm not going to make this a geopolitical or socioeconomic conversation.But when we look at what's happening in the world, I think one thing we can all agree on is a lot of confusion, irrespective of what you think is happening or not. There's there's. A fair amount of confusion and unknown, and that sends people into tailspins because people are grounded in their own sense of self.And hi, my I'm the first person to put my hand up when the world started reacting. To what is happening. Um, I was the first ones to get very defensive and give, become very reactive myself. Not in the sense that I got scared for some virus or I was reactive in the sense that Whoa, we're overreacting be like this.And I was getting angry at institutions and people being sheep, and I was being very judgmental and that's not fair and that's not fair on people and that's not fair on me. And all I'm doing is feeding the reactive nature. So it took me a minute to get and B be more. And so I went back to that, that daily reflective practice of how could I be doing loft a little better right now for me and for others? I think when we get accustomed to that, it really helps us. Just granting a different sense of self.  George: Yeah. Yeah. You know, one of the things that you said that stuck out, literally, as you're speaking three bucks, like popped into my brain, but I'm not even gonna go there, but like one of the things that I love and by the way, just so everybody wanders, you finally met somebody that talks just as fast as I do. This is why we also cadence the same, which is why we pace and get along. So yeah, we don't even have to hear the words coming out. We just of each other. Cause we can speak that language. But when, when you said I'll be the first to admit that I missed the Mark. Right. And what I love about that is that like Jim Kwik says this, it's not about striving for perfection.It's striving for progress, like striving for progress. Right. And like in that one flow two and a half minutes of you speaking, there were five, six times where you owned it, like, Oh, I'll be the first to own it. And then I fall back into my practice, I ground back into my practice. And so my question for you is like, when you're in these, you have your routines, you have your days, like you're in flow, right? Like you're comfortable, you're doing it. And then boom, pattern interrupt, right. Trigger response, or. I ditched it today, right? Like I had expectation hangover as your beautiful bride calls it expectation, hangover. And I missed my journaling session. I didn't do it. What's the process like, like how do you catch that? When do you catch that? And then. What do you do to get back on track? Because you know, it smacks me hard when you're like it, it's not about the big things, right? Like, you know, the old me that was like glitz, glam, like Hollywood, Charlie chaplain on the stage of everything I do. And then really. The me that I'm focused on every day is like, I put a lot of work in that nobody sees anymore.And it's really simple for me, like how effective it's been to like, write my thoughts on a sticky note once a day, or read 10 pages of a book or spend 10 minutes in silence, but there's time staff that like, it feels impossible to get there. Like, it feels like the pressure, the weight of the world. Where's the next paycheck coming from? Where's the next sale coming from? How am I going to pay that employee to where like, It almost consumes my body and I'm like, what do I do? Like, you know what I mean? Like every part of me wants to run in freeze at the same time, if you know that feeling. .How do you, how do you get back into that? How do you flow through that? Like what are some of the things that you recommend or, or what you do?  Stefano: So for me, I'm quite a vocal person in terms of expression. Right. And so I, I generally don't, I generally don't keep it inside. And so if there is the times where I'm being reactive often for me, all I need is a very short, emotional outburst of something.And then calibrate it, reflect on, uh, uh, recognize that that's not really the path I want to take. And then move into behaving in different. And honestly, when I said, well, what can we do different next time? And so when I meet that part of me that is quote, unquote ugly or not attractive when I'll meet that part of myself with compassion and deepest sense of empathy.And non-judgment. Unable to move through it in a quicker way, but knowing in a quicker way, in a way that doesn't have me repeating the same old patterns, again, something that's also very useful that most people don't take advantage of is having a partner in their lawful, someone intimate that they share with, because that can be a miracle.That can be a perspective. The thing is our ego gets in the way and we become very quickly offended or we become personally a little boy, a little girl comes out at wounded aspects of self come out. That exiled part of us, that the protector within us, one of our protectors is trying to literally just protect and we become very defensive hopper, defensive,  almost always.So for example, you know, W w we, you know, everyone, to me, everyone's an influencer, everyone's a thought leader that doesn't, you know, every single one was with you have a social media platform or a website or not. You're a thought leader, and you're an influencer you're influencing either your own path at the very least, or you're influencing your environment, whether that's their animals, trees, plants, people, whatever, whether you're the president of a large company or whether you.Have a small family and you live in a country town with a population of 500 people you're influencing what's around you. Right? And so often we come into relationship and intimate relationships to help us heal those parts of us that we haven't really healed. Growing up and that have been quote unquote, emotionally injured.And so with that said, the example I was going to give is, do something on social media and we get a negative comment or a comment it's not even negative. Comment that someone disagrees with us. And in the past for me, I would take it personally. I would get upset. They're attacking me that aren't knowing me. They wouldn't talk like that. If they were in front of me, like I get into this. Yeah. Fucking keyboard warrior. I'd love to see if they were in front of me, what they'd say. Whatever I'm going into my stories. And the reality is I'm just insecure and I don't back myself. I'm not trusting myself.I'm not, I'm not in at a, at a stage of deepened. Self-worth where I can say, Hey, I respect your opinion. You know, a good friend of mine once said to me, You may notice, God, I know you may not have may not. Well, you may not recognize him these days. I don't know. You may, you may or may not use it to me, Steph, what a fucking blessing it is that someone actually comments on what, you know, what, maybe you heard it, but why didn't you just say it instead of insane? Cause you just say it's so much better.  George: Yeah, that was, that was me. I did, I did. I said what a, what? A blessing that somebody trusts you enough would their deepest fears and insecurities to project them in front of you to help them break through them. And it, uh, it's such a, I, you know, I'll be the first owner cause you and I talk about this stuff a lot.And I think it's so powerful. Um, and I think it's so easy to hide in entrepreneurship. It's so easy to hide in business. It's so easy to, to advocate that. Yeah. And there should be, Oh, Oh, Oh, of course. Everything's working. Right. Everything's working. Hence why. You know, it's never enough, right? There's always another finish line.And I think it's so, so imperative, like recently what I've noticed, cause this is the, you know, the full disclosure. So cause nobody would pull this out of me, but Stef cause nobody knows me like this. Now the game is like, Hey, I know I'm about to project on you and I'm choosing to do it anyways. Cause I'm that insecure and triggering this moment.And I don't, I don't put it out there. Right. But I, I noticed that that levels of depth really. Challenge the levels of depth that I have in that self security, right. In that self love in that cell phone or ship, like I was talking to staff before this podcast, like when I go to the gym in the morning, like I've been getting up early, cause it's important to me to be there when my son wakes up.And if my son wakes up at five 45 and I have to get two workouts in every day, well guess what? Three 30 is the only option. That's what works for me. And, well, it doesn't feel like it fucking works, but it works. But I normally wake up at about seven 30 and like, Oh, I already worked out today. Wow. Um, but that, that time that I get in the gym, like I'm modulating a thousand emotions in an hour and a half, and I can tell.Like how I slept, how my day was before based on how solid I feel. And there's times like I'm talking to weights, nobody's at the gym at this time. It's just me. It's a private gym. And I'm like having conversations with myself through the weights of like, I can't believe you feel this way. Like, what is this?Why do you feel this way? I can't even sit here alone. Like, it's, it's so imperative and so important. And I love that you lobbied that back me. I just think it's a reminder. Yeah. You know, for everybody and. You know, I would normally ask you the question. Like, if you could look at social media, like, what would you change about it?Right. I think for me, it's looking at it for what it is, and it's a connection tool to other human beings, right? It's a place for people that, you know, we know from a marketing perspective, why they share on social, right. But we forget when it's opposing to us or it's challenging us, or we're holding a fragile belief that it challenges to its core, that that's our mother, our sister, our brother, our husband, or father on the other side, that's also just as afraid as we are.Yeah, just as afraid as we are. So like, what are your thoughts it's on, on that? Like if you looked at social media, if you could change, like how people see it or this tool we have in the world, given the state of the world, but even the state of just our industry and marketing and digital marketing, like what, what would you change about it?Like what would you want people to see about it? Well, I suppose what I would change at the moment is the censorship that is apparently occurring. I say apparently because I don't have complete quote unquote proof of that, but it seems that there seems to be censorship occurring from the governing institutions that.That owned these social media companies. Yep. That'd be the first thing I would change is I think in that censorship and I get it like the reason or excuse for it, whichever way you want to look at it is that it's, it's misinformation. That's being put out there. So we're removing it. But that doesn't make sense to me when we're talking about human evolution and expansion synonymous with expansion is freedom.And that there is something that's really deeply embedded in freedom of expression, freedom of communication, freedom of being seen, where I just don't think that those platforms have the right to do that. So I would definitely shift that if we could, if that would be possible. And honestly, men. What do you think?What shifts much of anything else I'll tell you? Why? Whilst I see a lot of information lost in translation through the written word. And again, there are many reasons for this. When we look at the development of globalization technology and the way we process and absorb information, we have a very short attention span, like.These things here, these phones, I mean, we're scrolling where we're not able to be fixated generally on one thing for period of Tom Hensville. Our reading is actually a really important practice to have in your day because it allows you to walk out a lot of infants and input and century because it's just coming into your environment.You're sitting in stillness and silence, hearing your own breath is very important. And so that there it's. That's an issue. So take, take, take aside that, take aside out inability to, you know, I might put a post up and in that post, I do my absolute best to convey a message. But if someone is really, really triggered on the other side, And they already have a predisposition towards a particular belief system.The way that message may be interpreted, it's not exactly how was intended now. That's going to happen in any form of communication, but it's accelerated through social media because we're piecemealing information together. Like I have a certain belief and I'm happy to share that if you wish, but other, certain belief or understanding around what's happening in the world today.Now, and I'll actually share it very briefly. How I feel we as a global society reacting to this pandemic of, of this particular virus, I don't think it's healthy. I don't think we've, we've taken the quote unquote right path with it. I'll leave it at that for now. And I can go real deep. We'll do it. We'll do a full other episode on that one.And I'd love to yeah. Now, however, when I see someone that posts a statistic or PO again, I'm not, I understand posting singular. You asked me about social media. What I'll tell you that people post that we piecemeal information together. I do it. You do it. We all do it to some extent. It's part of the culture of social media.And so you put a single study out there, first of all let's study needs to be longer and it needs to be cross-cultural. There needs to be enough of a sample size. It needs to be replicable people. So many people don't understand science, and it's not our fault per se, it's that it's not taught adequately in school.It's another atria education system. And so how we. Perceive connect to information express, et cetera. So what I was getting at was if I see a piece of information that shows us a statistic that says we've absolutely done the right, um, you know, locking everything down. I made it with curiosity, George used to, and sometimes even now, if I have to be real honest, I'd say, ah, well, this spot, but the vast majority of the time, I'm curious because I want to understand what is this person seeing that perhaps I'm not, or could be seen deeper, but we just don't do that, man.We're so fucking reactive because we have a disposition and our identity and everything that we're associated with is attached to that disposition that we can't shift it. Totally. And that's one of the issues with social media, right?  George: Well, I think too, and this might be a very unpopular belief, but I agree, except I agree with like the lack of censorship, everything should be free. Except we were complicit in allowing it. We didn't, we didn't stand for, we loved it. We loved, and you might not have loved it with words of like, yeah. Sensor may ride, but like, you sure show it with the algorithm, like, Oh, let's post on the cars. Let's click on the bikini photos. Let's look at the social media life.Let's not engage with the real let's pretend it doesn't exist. Let's live vicariously through it. And, you know, we're living in an ecosystem that we've created. Right? And like, here's the thing algorithms now are so smart and AI is so smart. Most humans don't train them. Like it is literally delivering to us.What we told it, we wanted now of course, there's human interaction. And I think there's, you know, things suppressed that I agree with you across the board, but there's also this thing that everybody misses that from day one, we gave up our right to privacy and we didn't join a platform. Creative. We said, Hey, we're giving you our data.Give us whatever you want. It's you a world we're living in it. We've been using these platforms for free. For free for years. And we're like, Oh yeah, make it better. Like, give me more info. Like let me connect with more people. And I don't want to pay you a dollar. And then I'm gonna get really pissed that you, my data to fund all of this and do something with it.And so I think I both sides, I think, need to be looked at because just like anything. You know, we've said for years in business, you vote with your dollars and everyone's like, don't support them. Don't vote with your dollar as well in the game of social media, you vote with your attention.  Steafano: So it's an intention to economy. Bicycle is, is in a free, it's a free platform, you know, voting. We did. Y'all you voting with your attention? He's an interesting thing. What if we, okay. And again, this would be tough. What if we will just stop using social media for one month? Every single user that was on social media, across the main platforms, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, tic talk.Now Twitter. What else? LinkedIn. Maybe what it was. We stopped using. So it's become a crux though, right? So I know it would be very difficult to do, but what if the thought experiment we stopped using every single person stopped using it for a month? We could rally to stop using it for a month. What would happen total? Go to experiment question. Yeah, totally.  George: Somehow, somehow before algorithms existed, Martin Luther King had 276,000 people show up. Out a public address, right? Somehow the Dalai Lama and quite a few others had literally a million people travel across countries by foot to get there, by the way, word of mouth marketing is the most powerful marketing that exists on the planet. And it's been proven for, you know, millennia. But yeah, I think when we look at it, one of the lessons I'm learning and I think this is critical for everybody. And you said like, I'm still learning how to check my barometer to be inquisitive versus reactive. Right? So there are certain pieces of information.There's things that come across my desk where my zone of acceptance to my belief system is enough that it fits in without making me uncomfortable. Right. So if I'm at the zero, I have out until about the 20 yard line. Right. And I'm like, if it falls somewhere within there, it's in my zone of acceptance and I'm like, Oh yeah, I can play with that.But the moment you're at the 25 and out it falls into my zone rejection and I I'm working on when it falls into my zone of rejection, not allowing it to run me, knock me off course, being there. And, it's a practice and I think it's a practice everywhere and you nailed it, like one of the things and like you want to tie this to business and marketing.Yeah. I actually wrote an email about this the other day. We have problems that come up. Not because there's a problem, but because we suck at asking questions. Well, you get problems when you don't ask the right questions, you get problems. When you don't give yourself the space to find the clarity and allow wisdom, intuition, and things to flow to process.And so I think, you know, systematically across the board, there's a lot that we get to do. And the inverse of this, though. Is that once you understand, like, in my opinion, and this is me speaking, once you understand that this is what's happening, that we're on platforms that are going to be censored, that we're in an economy and a society that votes with their attention.And it's kind of a crux that also gives you the field. To play on, and then you choose what ethics and morals you bring to that field to either contribute to the problem or to create a solution and something different.  Stefano: Another way of being, yeah, I completely resonate with that. And I think what you're saying effectively is awareness is the first stage and the first step towards transformation, something we talk about every day.And I really liked what you said about. The zero to 20 yard Mark is, you know, within your field of acceptance and anything above that, it's immediately reacting. And so my practice is, uh, you know, how do I maybe extend the 20 or 25? And here's what outside of that I think. And this is where I think people get confused.Cause some people, particularly people that are really stuck in their belief systems say, well, I don't want to. Go beyond my 20 odd month. You know what, maybe you don't actually have to, maybe you can get really clear that you'll zero to 20, right. And we just call it then anything outside of that for you, it doesn't align with who you are.It's not so much making that 20 yards, 30 yards or 50 yards or a hundred yards and compromising yourself and appeasing others. It's just, how are you choosing to be with what's outside of your scope of belief? Because the fucking problem that we have it's. People that, so whenever information is presented to us that doesn't resonate with us, instead of again, either I being curious or standing in our parents say, you know what, bro, that doesn't resonate with me, but here's what I'm going to do. Here's how I'm going to receive it. I'm not going to receive a violently. I'm not going to receive it by abusing you. I'm not going to, I'm not going to get my little wounded boy to come out and get all scared.And then I'm going to attack you and be defensive. I'm going to hide. I'm going to receive that in a healthy way. We're going to have a mature conversation about it. I'm going to present to you, my disposition. I'm going to present you, my vantage points, my perspectives, and maybe we're going to learn something from each other.But instead of doing that, instead of saying, and then having that conversation and it could go for a minute, an hour, a year, whatever, and then say, Oh, wow. Yeah. I'm actually, now that you presented that and I've delved into it a little deeper, I'm going to look into that now. Let's just extend that for a moment to what's happening collectively.Let's just for a moment. Imagine that the pals of be governmental institutions and large corporations and industries that basically lead and govern the way we do life in the world in many different ways. Big tech, big pharma, agribusiness, petrochemical, industry, government, so forth. Let's assume they just said, you know what?We probably do things a little ineffectively and literally, and efficiently we own it. We'll take it. And, uh, let's maybe do things a little differently. Chances of that happening are about zero to fuck-all. Right? Because, because we're so addicted to our way of being, having to be right, because we're so wrapped up in it.And not only are we wrapped up in it, bro. Well, there's so much riding on it. It's, it's, uh, we've created a rod for our own backs in our society, you know, and without getting on a massive tangent, but just while you're flipping through a book there, um, you know, people talk about renewable energy technology and non-renewal energy and so forth.And he was saying, well, we need more wind farms. We need solar and we need this and fantastic. I agree. We need more nonrenewable energy solutions. Or I agree with that. And we can't just go from zero to a hundred. It's the same conversation with defunding the police. Again, another conversation, but we can't just go from there.All of a sudden being in a society, that's basically, it claims to be capitalist, nothing wrong with capitalism, but really essentially is almost a socialist. Communist integrated version of something, right. And then being a nanny state slash police state going to let's just defund the police or, or going from non renewable energy use to renewable energy use.Firstly, you're going to require non renewable energy. These are two to instill the renewable energy tech. There's just so much that we don't think about. Because we reactive. Well, why don't we just step back? I was that rule 80% prep, 20% execution. You use a lot of that in there in the middle can measure five times caught once, right?George: The there's so many decisions perpetuated like metaphors and the military. They're like, I'm ready, fire aim. And I was like, no, no. The Marine Corps is one shot, one kill one, right. Like intention, right? Like success comes at the, at the intersection of intentionality and discipline.Right. Or clarity, intentionality and discipline. And so, you know, like for everybody listening to this, like, This, this conversation like the, the wickets and the, the pillars of this conversation are everywhere in our lives. They're everywhere. They're in our interpersonal relationship. They're in our close relationships or in our business.They literally show themselves in our business, in our marketing, in our media, in our, in our stuff. And I would say that like, you know, one of the best lessons I've ever learned about even one that. That you've helped me immensely with, you know, Scott Carney, the wedge has new book on it's awesome. But like how I do it hold therapy.And you said it earlier and I want to bring it back. You said, when you're falling into your practice, it's about training your mind. And like the analogies that I come up with, it's like, you know, there's such a thing as like muscle maturity. Like if you train every day, your muscles, 20 years later, they respond to very, very differently.But you also. Can't go to the gym after not going to the gym for 12, 12 years or 12 months or even two months, and be like, I'm going to pick up the heaviest weight and not tear a bicep or get rhabdo or something along those lines. And like, I think one of the biggest takeaways that like I always learned from you is that your meticulous.You're meticulous in your practice and not what your practice looks like, the commitment to your practice, the commitment to the small things. And so, you know, you taught me this, so you're like the brain fucking guy. You're the smart one, right? I'm the bull in the China shop. You're the smart pretty one.And we somehow mis matched together. When you start talking about brain chemistry and consciousness and relational alchemy and all this. Um, you know, like I get just as googly out as everybody else does. Right. So, but, but I think in everything that you shared, like my, yeah, it feels like Whoa stuff with, what do I do?What the fuck do I do? Like, okay. I'm aware of staff. I'm aware now. Great. Like, I don't know what's going, Oh, I know you do. I'm getting like, he's like Lucky's clearing your throat. You can take a sip of water. Lot of guns. Huh? People wouldn't like the answer. Oh, I will though. What? They're they're my people.So they probably will, but yeah, but I would go like, go, just go.  Stefano: And it's simple and it's sit with it being a, what does that mean? Literally, literally sit with it. Sit in the fucking middle of your room, your bedroom, your study, lounge room, your wherever you're living. Just sit. And just be in that feeling, don't know numb don't watch TV, don't scroll on your phone.Don't drink booze. Don't work hard to make another hundred thousand dollars that week. Just sit with it. That's it. Just sit with it. And the rest will reveal itself when people say, but I've been sitting with it for a month or three months or six months or 12 months, or. Well, are you sitting with it with non-judgment or you sitting with you sitting with it with simple observation, or are you saying this is good and that's bad because if you're saying this is good and that's bad, and you're segregating what you're experiencing and you're compartmentalizing, which the brain does very well.But if you apply that to here, the monkey mind takes over. And th the, the, the. Juxtaposition paradox oxymoron is that you think you're sitting with it. You think you're processing it, but you're not because there's an undertone of judgment and this is an easy to do. Here's the answer, sit with it. Right.And I've elaborated on it, but it's not pretty. It's not nice. It's not attractive. It's not plated in gold. It's just, you gotta see, you gotta get messy with it and you've gotta allow the messy to come through. You got to allow the joy to come through the revealing, the revelation, the understanding, the awareness, the sadness.Despair. I can get a lot. You've got to welcome it all. And just sit with yeah, one. Just so you guys wonder, like staff has had me say I've actually we do it both. I've had steps that were stuffed too. Um, But like his favorite thing is like, he's a go beat the shit out of a pillow. Like, go get it out, get it out, get it out.And you can only get it out when you felt it. Like, and, and I think about this, like, I think about now, like I look at and like full disclosure, like I'm in one of the toughest situations I've ever been in, in business financially everywhere in my life. And I am the happiest I've ever fucking been like ever, like ever, like, I've just like, let's go.Right. But you went back three years before we knew each other and it was like, Oh, that didn't work panic attack. Don't feel it, go do something else. Don't feel it, go do something else. Call somebody, pretend it didn't happen. Someone at my favorite one. Hey man, how are you? Things are amazing. Yep. Right.Let's go for those of, you're not watching the video. I did like the pop line arm. Right. And so. Um, I think the two things that I, we talk about a lot, but for everybody listening this, like the steps to this are easy. You can't have clarity on something, you can't process something and you can't get through something unless you fully experience it.And like you look at it like it's, um, I actually did a podcast of the day with a Tibet and monk and, uh, it was amazing. And he was on retreat for eight and a half years, like out of the world. And, uh, you know, it basically the same thing. He's like all this bullshit about meditation. Like none of them can teach it.Cause I took a course. He's like, do me a favor. Just try to sit down. And concentrate and see if you can count to 10. Without getting distracted and he's like, watch, you'll get to three. And he's like, your practice is to count to 10. And he's like, and then 15. And he's like, it'll take you a year to get to a hundred.And he's like, and then you can start growing and going. But really what it is, it's that. Presence. It's that sitting with it. It's that absence of distraction. And one thing that you always say, and I'm going to have you elaborate on this, cause this, this is something you've he said to me that I've ripped a hundred times and I give you credit every time, but I've, I've made it pretty, but you just that accent of yours.Right? So the one thing that I always catch you saying, we say these two are men that we help. Every time we talk. Right now there's a whole lot of like, what do I do to help my team? What do I do to help my family? What do I do to help the world? What do I do to help those? And you always say, if you want to deepen your service, you have to deepen your practice.What is that? Does that mean? Can you unpack that for everybody? Like what that looks like and any thoughts on that? Most of the time people want to help others because it's a wound for them. They gain their value outside of themselves. So when they are of service to others, so there's a shadow aspect of this.And most, most of us are in the shadow aspect of it. So serving others or creating something in the world or status or titles or material wealth or whatever it may be, or accumulation of something or being seen in a particular way. Is less for other people and more for our own fragility of ego or the wounded parts of ourselves.And so what it looks like is the people pleasing or appeasing or, um, trying to be seen in a particular way or codependency in other words. Yeah. My self worth is predicated on how you treat me or how you see me or what you say to me or what you give me what you do for me. Yeah. If I do really nice things for you, if I serve the world, why you see me in a particular way, you give me accolades, you shower me with attention, et cetera, et cetera.So you want to deepen your service team in your practice. And what that really means is deepening commitment to yourself, to your own resolve, to healing, those parts of you that are wounded, that maybe you haven't neglected that maybe that attention that you wanted from your dad when you were younger.Um, and you didn't get that and that still playing at you and in your relationships, in your, I don't lie if in terms of you being hyper competitive or you striving and can you keep up making that goal on more and more and more and further away from you because enough is enough ever enough or you've experienced physical abuse as a kid, from someone that you really cared about and that you trusted and you can't trust at the moment.So you paint this. You place, you wear this mask and you paint this facade of your life, where you are at, and it's all about what you're doing for the world, but really you're trying to give yourself something, but you never really giving it to yourself because it's always done through the expression of the means of something else.And that just wears us down, man. It's fucking tiring. It's draining. We build and cultivate resentment for ourselves and for others, we isolate ourselves. We, we, we go back into those stories of I'm meant to be alone. I can't trust anyone. I can never get close. Intimacy, love, and vulnerability is risky. Well guess what?Yes, it fucking is risky. Yes, these relationships are risky facing our stuff. It comes with risk being real with who we are and not pretending it comes with risk. It comes with a risk of rejection and abandonment and humiliation. You know, we talk a lot about. The Maslow's hierarchy of needs. And we focus a lot on the physical, which is we absolutely need that.We need the, the, the shelter, the food, the water, the oxygen we need, but, you know, we need the clothing, but we forget that the human touch to being seen, being heard, being understood, accepted, respected, appreciated, and that being reciprocal. And the only way that can truly authentically be reciprocated is when we're working on our own stuff and we've cleared our past.So that. Present version of ourselves is not a repeat as Joe Dispenza would say, we're just living our past lives in the present moment, but paraphrase that, but we're actually, well, you know, neurologically behaviorally, emotionally, but we're actually choosing for the first time ever. To be real and be ourselves because practice with choosing to be real and choosing to not live in fear and pain.Cause that's what we're essentially, we're doing the, the aspects of the protector within us, a coming out it's time to change the yeah, because what happens is how we behave as adults. Is what we expect is based on what we experienced as children and as children, most of us have experienced some pretty gnarly stuff, you know, in terms of disconnection, abuse, neglect, um, Trauma of some sort in different ways.And we would for the psyche to protect itself and for the psyche to protect the physical body, we would come up with very creative way strategies, protective strategies to ensure our safety emotionally, psychologically, and physically, sometimes it was going numb if we were being physically abused so that our nervous system would not feel the intense pain of being hit.Or sexually abused. Sometimes if it was, if we were told we weren't good enough, we were bullied. Um, we would go to TV or eating to feel better about ourselves. We would want to replace those, those stress hormones of cortisol and adrenaline with dopamine and serotonin and oxytocin and so forth. And if we didn't have the people in our lives to get that from, we would go to other means.So those protective strategies, we carry them on as adults. But the thing is we're lost safer as adults. We just don't think we are. We don't know that we are. And so we keep bringing out these old protective strategies that give us a particular experience. It's very, that resembles that one of childhood, but what it does is it oscillates us and distances us because it actually pushes people away to keep us safe.And so we have to change the God. So that soldier that's our protective soldier. We have to say, Hey, you've been around for 20, 30 years. You need to sit down and have a break. I'm going to bring a new protective soldier in and he's your predecessor. And he's just going to do a little different job. But the only way we can do that is when we start really processing and expressing and moving through that pain that we've experienced.However you do that, whether you join a men's group, whether you are with a soccer, whether you use your own practice, when he disappeared, I work with a monk and you, you know, whatever it is, however you do that. And in all the different ways, we have to clear out the clutter so that we can actually just be free to live.Cause right now we're not free to live. If we're coming from the past, we're dictated to. Deep neurological grooves that have been laid down from when we were young, the hydro patterns, emotional patterns in relationship dynamics that were just, there are just on repeat. Yep. We're gonna change the type men.I got them. I got super emotional. When you said change the guard like that hit me for whatever reason, right? Like in the process of it. And I think too, you said like we're not free to live because of. Acts, but also thinking about what we started this conversation with and looking at social media and looking at our consumption, right?Like I think one of the biggest takeaways here is like, when a gap between you and external stimulus, like wedging it hard and power pause, always like, always like it's okay. Like, and you, some people look at me and like, I used to be the hustler. Like I was, I was 20 hours a day, 22 hours a day. Like, and I could outwork anybody, but.I was basically disconnecting myself to death. That's what it was. And you pick which way you interpret that either I was going to stay that disconnected till I died, or I was going to die because I was that disconnected. There was nothing except work, nothing like my value, my worth, my, my energy, my purpose.And like, it's taken a long time that own ingrained, you know, military stuff on top of childhood stuff. But. You know, for everybody listening to this, like when you, when you think about this, like, I get asked all the time stuff, like, what are the secrets to being happy? What are the secrets to building a bigger business?What are the secrets to having good culture in your team? What are the secrets to having your customers are songs and shit. And I'm like, you, you are the fucking secret. You like, there is no other you and, and leadership. Like, we talk a lot about leadership. We talk a lot, like everybody listening to this as a leader, like you're an influencer, you're a leader.You do it. Yep. Leadership is not words like it has nothing to do. Only 8% of communication is verbal. The rest of it is nonverbal. And most of the time when you're leading effectively, people don't even hear a fucking word that's coming out of your mouth. You could be talking jibberish and they're going toI love you. I'll do whatever I'll ever you say. Right. And it's yeah. It's that? And like something that you embody so well, but I want to like, Hit this in it's like when you think about it, one of my former mastermind members who I love to death Kayvon, like one of the best sales guys in the world, he said, sales is just a transference of energy, right?So is marketing. So is business. So is relationships. It's, it's literally being as grounded in yourself as you can be, which I'm going to ask you a question about that. And then that is the, the transference that attracts and leads and brings people in. And for me, Stephan, I think this is going to be important to hit.Um, I always thought that that meant it had to look a certain way. Right? Like I couldn't share if it wasn't an order or if it didn't look this way, or I couldn't write that email unless I had it all done or I couldn't tell people I had a business or I couldn't, you know, that toxic thinking and that for me, Was probably, and I think for a lot of entrepreneurs, cause we, we do this because there's parts of us that are attracted to ambiguity and uncertainty.That's the only reason that you would be intelligent enough to become an entrepreneur. But we live, we jump into ambiguity and then there's this part where I feel like there's this gray area of like, yes, I made this commitment, but then to fully embody it, it's like it had to look a certain way. And so, I don't know if that's just a, what are your thoughts on that?Like, I don't even know how to frame that as a question. I don't even know what am I thoughts on the whole like, like, yeah. So, okay. I can unpack it now. So when I think about like, what I struggled with so much was okay, I got it. I'm aware. Right? I got it. I'm going to lead. Right. But I can't lead until. It looks a certain way until I've achieved this until I have that number in the bank account until I have that many followers who am I to give a keynote until that many people who am I to launch a podcast?No one wants to hear that, you know, we call it shadows. And for anybody unfamiliar with shadows, we can unpack that somewhere else. But look up Carl Young shadow work, you know, loving those parts yourself. But yeah, for me staff, it was, um, Even when I met you. Like, even when I met you, which by the way it goes, when we met, it was hilarious.Cause we both knew of each other. We ended up having lunch, doing an exercise together, crying together, talking about our dads together. And then we're like, that's you? And I'm like, that's you? Wow. That's awesome. It was, it was, it was serendipitous. But even then I remember telling you. I even remember telling you, like, verbatim, I wouldn't tell you now and be like, yeah, fuck her.I've move in friends for 40 years. Yeah. Um, but I remember telling him like, yeah, man, I'd love to, but like, do I belong here? Can I do this with you? Like, can I run a men's group with you? Can I facilitate with you? Like it even came up after I'd done this work. And I think it's such a prevalent thing that.Cause it's freezing. So I would compress the syndrome basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, well there's your fucking intelligence. Yeah. So no, no, it's essentially, you know, how do we move through imposter syndrome? There's a few different ways where we just do it. Go Knocky, just do it. Knock however you want to pronounce it.But, um, don't know how proud they are coming from Oregon Portland at the moment. But even like, I hear it's kind of slick, but, um, Just do it. So imposter syndrome again is so we judge imposter syndrome, but it's a protective strategy. It's something that it's a technique that we use to keep us playing safe because extending ourselves or showing upon ourselves that may be susceptible to more judgment or critique or possibility of rejection or humiliation or abandonment.That's, that's heavy. That can be heavy. And so. The mind starts chattering. Well, maybe you deserve to do this. Should you really be here? Have you done enough? Just research a little more SIFA, just keep learning, keep growing, keep understanding your ideas. Don't you express them just yet. And that's a very convincing conversation and argument within oneself.So part of it is just doing it and having that, making that first step is really tough. So what can help is being surrounded by people that see you? That support you that are nonjudgmental, whether it's a group in alignment, like a support group in an alignment with your ideals and philosophies. Um, and obviously there's dangers with that as well.Of course, cause you can get stuck in a vortex or of not of being niched in, in what we think and not being exposed to new nuances of being. You know, working with a, uh, again, a coach or psychologist, a therapist, someone that can give you a new perspective, whatever it may be talking to your friends, people that you trust, respect, and Revere that I'm going to judge you harshly for your quote unquote crazy idea that you may have.Right. Right. And that's one of the ways that we can step out of that imposter syndrome. Showing people, the work that you want to do in the world with the ideas that you have that are going to go, wow. And if they are going to, you know, critique it or say, Hey, could you do this better? They're going to do it in a compassionate way.They're going to do it in a way that's actually going to pull you forward. It's constructive. It's not, you're a worthless piece of shit, which reinforces an idea of I'm worthless. I won't even try this. Yeah. I would think there are so many. Fucking grand ideas out there and solutions. Not that we would necessarily implement them because society is so scared of change.But so many of mine, in fact, I'm not even going to say what I'm going to say, because there are already so many amazing solutions out there to collective problems that we have that aren't being utilized for that reason. But I will say I'm lying again. Um, there are so many, there are so many know ideas out there that probably aren't even proposed.Because people are so afraid of being ridiculed because I have that, um, imposter syndrome, they have that lack of belief in themselves. So getting to the core of where that belief comes from and working with that in a psychodynamic emotional place can really help individuals move beyond that. You know what?I'm not going to take action. Cause I'm too scared to. Yeah, I'm scared, but I'm still going to take action. And I'm deserving of this and find examples like finding, you know, we're very good. So, so I just say, well, we really, really great at finding evidence as to why we can't do something to keep us in that safe zone.But how about actively, intentionally looking for evidence as to why your idea or your new way of being, or your thought or whatever it is absolutely needed in the world? Yeah. Yeah. There's always. Both sides of that Evans, just like the state of the world. You can go find a supporting argument for whatever your belief and whatever side you're on.We have the same thing. It's just gotta be checked in and plugged in. Yeah, you you're sitting here lying and I'm over here. Blabbing trying to figure out like, Hey, can you talk about imposter syndrome? It's going to take me two minutes of stuttering to get there, but I'll get there and we'll be there. Oh, man, we're going to have to, and I'm just telling everybody right now, I'm going to schedule like a three hour block with staff when he doesn't have hard stops.And we're going to go in, it's going to be the, I'm going to give a disclaimer at the beginning of the episode because Steph and I have a really deep relationship and what's going to get uncovered in the next one is probably going to be a little. Yeah. If you have me again, legitimately put a three hour block.No, I mean, I'm game. I'm like Joe, Joe, Rogan's going to get tired listening to our podcast. Um, but before, and I have, I have some, one more question for you, but before we do, and I forgot to do this in the beginning, guys, like full disclosure Stephanos is literally like my best friend and it's soul brothers.I was like, Let's talk. Oh, and normally in the beginning, I tell everybody where to find you, but now you want to find him even more. Um, but we made it really easy because good luck spelling Stefano Stephanos right. It took me a year to be able to even put his name in my contacts the right way. Um, so it's really easy for all of you that want to find out more.And staff is a master. He has so much free content and valuable resources for you on his website. And it's www dot grow with staff. S T E f.com. I actually helped put together a breathwork course, if you ever wanted to, like you guys hear me talk about breath all the time, which by the way, if you haven't read breath by James nester, it's such a good read.It's brand new. It's like mind blowing. I haven't read that. You add it right away to your compressed schedule, make some time. Um, and so for those of you wondering, find them it's www.growwithstaff.com and then he is on social he's on my social. You'll see me tag them occasionally it's Stefano Stephanos, but.Um, I want to respect your time, cause I know we have a hard stop, but there's one thing and I wanted to ask you to close with. And so, you know, one of the things here is I think it's really easy right now, and it doesn't matter when you listen to this podcast that there's uncertainty in the world all the time.Right. And I think that uncertainty personally from the growth I've had is coming from how we choose to. How we choose to see it. Right. Cause my wife is like, why are you so stressed? It's just opportunity. I'm like, yep. I'm getting there. I love it. Thanks. Thanks for making me feel insecure, wounded and loved at the same time.Like I just, Oh yeah. But I think it's super, super common right now. And so I just would love like your parting wisdom on like we talked about, you know, self-awareness we talked about. Getting committed to the small things every single day that create momentum and give us kind of like a, a barometer in the water.We talked about deepening our practice to deepen our service. We talked about having a hundred percent ownership of everything that we do. Like we wrote four books in this podcast, right? Jesse. Yeah, Jesse, it's coming actually talk to Jesse about you this morning. Um, and so, um, now that we have that, but like what would be your parting wisdom tying that all together?What are some things that people can do right now? Like, as they listen to this, this is the end of the episode. Like put it into practice, practice this, make a commitment to this and really get these things in momentum in their life. No matter where they are. Yeah, look definitely. I'm a big advocate of physical movement, exercise, training, whatever that looks out for you.Boxing lifting weights, going for a walk on for a run, swimming, walking the dog, whatever it is for you, you know, like definitely. Move your body, not only for perspective, but for reprieve, but also for health and vitality. Um, yeah. And also physiologically, just circle. There's very healthy hormones through your body is going to give you more energy, more power, clarity perspective, all of that.And other thing I would say is, yeah, you hit the nail on the head, man. We live in very unsafe. Right. And you know what. We've lived in uncertain times before I just did a post earlier on what was happening in great Britain in world war two in 1939, children were wearing masks fucking gas masks. So we're, so we're basically everyone in Britain, it was wearing gas masks all the time, just in case, um, Germany would throw tear gas and bombs and like, you know, We we've lived through that.We're going to live through this and this isn't a dig on master or anything like that. It's just a cultural shift that we're experiencing temporarily. So my advice around that is, and in look, I'm really giving myself advice here is look at all the different perspectives. Don't overwhelm yourself because you can go really deep down the rabbit hole.And you've just got to know what to do. Pull yourself out, but just be willing and open to look at the different perspectives you can hold strong in yours. You can be diligent in your perspective. You can say, Hey, I'm really clear. This is my perspective. And these are my boundaries around that. Awesome.And if you want to strengthen your perspective, Get a new perspective because that will actually strengthen your perspective or it may dissolve it or parts of it. And if it does that, it's not a bad thing because it means you're evolving and shifting as well. And so don't get bullied down in everything's.Okay. And don't get bogged down in we're all going to die because there were both extremes one's dystopia, one's complete ignorance and somewhere in the middle there. And maybe not even in the middle, but on another fucking line, another barometer, another spectrum is some, a different level of truth that can expose your own shortcomings and the areas of life that you need to work on, where you can actually feel better.And this is how sum it up. Every state that we experienced is necessary, whether it's sadness, anger, joy, bliss, whatever you name it. We, we kind of one without the other they're opposing forces, we live in a world of polarity. Right. But we do have, this are blue and undesirable States. If we lined up a thousand people and we said, hands up, if you would prefer happiness over sadness, I'm pretty sure unless some of those people have a pathology, not 199 of them are going to put their hand up and say, yes, happiness.No, because sadness has no value though, because it's quote unquote bad because it's just not a desirable state. Allie Shu is in societies that we don't meet. The spectrum of, of experience. We don't embrace it. We don't meet it with openness. So what I would say is, can you experience what you're experiencing with observation and no judgment?That's about as simple as that. And it's actually really hard to do. Okay. What he, what he said. I love it. No, I absolutely love it. It's been an absolute gift. Um, having you for everybody listening, we're doing probably rounds two through 10, the gets isn't going away. I still want to launch a podcast with him, but one of the ways is I'm probably just going to keep him on as a recurring guest.And so you guys better get ready to get woke as

At the end of the last episode, we brought the idea that growth *is* pain. When George explains the possible extent of the pain (especially in the beginning of our growth) we have to ask ourselves: Is it all worth it?

This is The Do It For Yourself Podcast.  Each week I sit down with someone who is doing it for themselves and chasing a dream they just couldn’t suppress.  This is often speakers, entrepreneurs, or athletes.  They all share one thing in common, they are overcoming challenges and never giving up.  Someone who is Doing It For Themselves is not selfish in their pursuit, they are simply chasing a dream or working towards a goal because it is something THEY want to do.  They are not forging down a path because society or someone is telling them it’s what they should be doing. This week my guest is George Bryant.  George is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, father, and much more.  I am really excited to bring you this week's episode as I have been a follower of George's for a long time now. When George was a child, he struggled with abuse.  George was bullied as a child in school and this followed him throughout his life.  By the time George got to high school, he could see the writing on the wall.  He knew he needed to make a change, he knew if he stayed where he was, he wasn't going to go anywhere.  The thought of running away popped into his head, but he realized quickly that he would need money to do that.  Option two would be the military.  He could "run away" but get paid while doing it. George made up his mind to enlist in the military, went to the recruiter's office ready to join but was turned away.  The reason....he was told he was "too fat" and would never make it.  George left the office that day, returned six months later, no longer "too fat" and he enlisted in the military.  Just days after graduating from high school George was on a plane to begin his new journey.  George didn't join the military because it was something he was really passionate about, it was more that he could get out of the situation that he was in, AND get paid for it. George lost the weight to get into the military but this was not the first instance he had an issue with eating.  George had an experience when he was 15 when he went to rent a suit for a dance.  Due to George's size, he needed a different size jacket and pants and he was ok with that, but what George couldn't handle was the comments from his mother.  This made him so upset, that he got sick to his stomach and in some way this made him feel better.  George began to realize that when he was upset, mad, didn't matter if he made himself sick, he felt better.  This began a VERY long journey with bulimia.  George went on to struggle with these habits through the military and it compounded with the working out. While George was in the military he realized that he didn't have the privacy to purge that he had before enlisting in the military and it put him into a cold-turkey stop.  That was up until he began to find himself in extremely stressful situations.  George had a situation that forced him into emergency surgery and put him into a wheelchair for 12 months.  This brought back all of his bad habits with eating a purging.  While going through his recovery, George attempted suicide one night and he realized that he needed to make a change, if he didn't get things together he wasn't going to be able to go back into the military, he didn't save any money and he had no skills.  George made a full recovery and returned to the military from 2006 until 2013. In 2013 George had suffered from over seven concussions and had brain injuries.  It was going to take six months for recovery but George had used all of his allotted time already.  George was so worried to leave the military because he didn't know what he was going to transition to but the doctor who he was seeing had to recommend he be medically discharged.   Prior to being discharged, George discovered Tim Ferris's book the 4 Hour Body, and also found the paleo diet.  In the original book, Tim Ferris says to eat clean for one week, and then you were allowed to binge.  As hard as he tried, George couldn't binge and this helped him control something that was controlling him for so long.  Through this process, George began to cook and post these things on Facebook.  George had no idea what he was doing but he knew that people were looking and so he just kept going.  Because George was gaining some traction on Facebook someone suggests that he start posting things on a blog instead of a website.  After months of posting on his blog, someone suggested he take these recipes and put them in an ebook.  George had no idea what he was doing  Even though he was so clueless about what he was doing, George just kept moving forward, posting, selling ebooks and it was working.  There were some hard lessons that George had to learn, such as paying taxes, but it all worked out.  George began building relationships, his website, and his business.  He was all consumed in this and he was loving it.  Given George’s personality, as you maybe can imagine, this relationship with Civilized Caveman and the internet became very unhealthy.  George was living his life for other people and he was now addicted to social media and this company.  It became too much and he knew that it was time to move on.  George felt wrong selling this because he felt like he would be selling an addiction.  George found a friend and told him that he was giving him to the company and that was it.  After deleting his social media for over a year George went through a long period of healing.  George listened to the people around him in order to improve who he was.  He really took a lot of time to work on himself which has in turn helped him build a successful business of helping others.  George has an amazing story and I am so happy to have the opportunity to share it here on the podcast.   George on Facebook George's Website George's Instagram   Do It For Yourself Instagram  

When George washington needed a flag… he showed his design to a seamstress… and she cut out the stars… sewed the stripes… you know the result.  If George Washington needed a flag today he google "custom flags” and a minute later his Facebook feed would be absolutely littered.  with flag ads.  Cheap flags… Sturdy fl      gs… Rainbow Flags.  Flags that wave batteries not included.  He’d see flags featuring coiled snakes… black stripes…. or stars and bars… but nothing that was exactly right. So next Ole George would jump on Etsy… where he’d find a custom seamstress ready to turn your art into a hand stitched flag.  Didn’t matter that the woman who owned the Etsy Ross storefront had a string of husbands and a sordid affair or two that might have muddied her reputation on Twitter. Didn’t matter.  General Washington needed a flag to rally his militia …. so he'd whip out his Colonial Express card and upload his custom stars and stripes design.  Happily paying the extra $30 for rush shipping.   And after Fedex delivered the long cardboard tube… he’d he unfurled the flag in all its glory… and salute.   Of course the next day  an email popped up asking him to rate the transaction. And as we know from the history books… George Washington gave his flag…. 13 stars.  In the comments he’d write I’d give this purchase 50 stars… if I could. And  the flag that’s been burned.. spat upon kneeled before… and flown over Iwo Jima… Gettysburgh … Berlin… and tomorrow ...your front lawn…… has earned… its 50 stars.   We do drive by birthdays these days.  Happy Birthday America.

“Mama!” we heard George Floyd call to a woman who died two years earlier, a sacred invocation, like a prayer invoking God’s presence because mothers are our first protectors. When George called for his Mama, he called on me too. After our newborn wails after inhaling its first breath, we exhale with relief. We instantly begin to consider their safety with the underlying desire for them to inherit a bright future. Instinctually we become Mama Bears who will do anything in our power to protect our beloved cubs.  George Floyd laying prostrate and gasping for air as he called for his Mama was a heartbreaking call to all White mothers to take a deeper look at our White privilege and the history of systemic racism. Regardless of race, socio-economic status, religion, sexuality, or age, if you are a Mama Bear, no one fucks with our babies…even our grown gentle cubs, who like George Floyd were 6 foot 6 and played college football and basketball. When George Floyd’s precious and beautiful daughter, Gianna announced her daddy changed the world, every mother’s heart expanded with love. We cried tears of sadness because she’d have to grow up seeing images of her father’s despicable death and the cruel fact that he was taken away from her but. But we also cried tears of happiness because her daddy did and will continue to change the world by bringing a global awareness of the need for justice and love for all.  George was laid to rest next to his Mama. I know Larcenia Floyd welcomed him with a big Mama Bear hug like no other. I imagine she said, “You changed the world.”   SHOW NOTE LINKS: Essay- George Floyd Summoned All Mothers When He Called for His Mama Vote Like a Mother Mothers Against Police Brutality CONNECT WITH US! *Dear Family, Podcast Page *Write Now Rachel Website *Rachel's Blog @Medium *Rachel’s Twitter *Facebook *Instagram   PLEASE JOIN: *Dear Family Members, the Private Facebook Group     WAYS TO HELP THE PODCAST: *PLEASE Leave a 5-Star Review and ***Listen and Subscribe via iTunes!!!  ***Listen and Subscribe via Stitcher!!! ***Listen and Subscribe via Spotify!!!   Thank you! Your support means the world to me. Wishing you love, happiness, and good mental health always.

George Papadeas is COO of The HOTH, aka Hittem Over The Head, an SEO and content creation platform founded in 2010. The HOTH set out to prioritize support and created a system that allowed it to work with more than 200,000 businesses and quickly found itself the recipient of a number of accolades and awards, including 3 consecutive years spent on the INC 5000 list. When George joined the HOTH team and began overseeing their operations, his contributions allowed the company to grow from $250K to $2.2 million in revenue per month. Currently, he is focusing on The HOTH’s latest acquisition, FreeUp, the leading solution for the hiring and management of pre-vetted online freelancers.

The story of the York brothers is part of the story of the English throne. I’m so grateful to Thomas Penn for his wealth of research on the relationships of these brothers. We typically think of the Wars of the Roses as a cousins’ war, which at times it was. We think of it as York versus Lancaster, which is part of it. But it’s also the story of the three York brothers, of York versus York, brother versus brother, uncle versus nephew. And I think an important and usually overlooked element of the story is the brother we don’t usually think about: George.When George does show up in the story, he’s typically dismissed as feckless or weak. He’s a malcontent who betrays his brother Edward and then betrays his father-in-law Warwick. He’s most remembered for the method of his death: he’s rumored to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey wine.I think there’s more to George than that. And I think taking a closer look at George might give us a little bit of insight into the choice Richard makes after Edward’s death.

George Papadeas is the COO of The HOTH, aka Hittem Over The Head, an SEO and content creation platform devoted to bludgeoning its clients with awesomeness. When The HOTH was founded in 2010, the SEO space was filled with sketchy service providers who offered poor support and results, leading to poor experiences. With an eye toward changing the status quo, The HOTH set out to prioritize support and created a system that allowed it to work with more than 200,000 businesses and quickly found itself the recipient of a number of accolades and awards, including 3 consecutive years spent on the INC 5000 list. When George joined the HOTH team and began overseeing their operations, his contributions allowed the company to grow from $250K to $2.2 million in revenue per month. Currently, he is focusing on The HOTH’s latest acquisition, FreeeUp, the leading solution for the hiring and management of pre-vetted online freelancers Good Note : Good leadership Bad Note : The importance of direction Jam Room : Remove distractions, sit by a window, create a routine. Band : Delegate the tasks that aren't worth your time. Learning from the best : Look to the people you already have around you and find a mentor. Also, learn about big leaders in your field.

Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website. When George joined this company, he was told that they were already “pretty agile”. This is usually a sign that somethings are not really working well, and this was no exception. When he joined, George found out this was a project manager-driven organization, where project managers tried to get the work done but wanted to reduce the budget at the same time. The anti-patterns followed, and George learned a few important lessons about being a Scrum Master in a project-driven organization. In this episode, we refer to the episode with Bas Vodde, where we discuss organizing product development without projects, and the #AgileOnlineMeetup with Bob Galen where we talk about the self-care Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches must take to sustain their work over the long term.   About George Mathews George Mathews is a Scrum Master at SentryOne for two fully remote teams. Prior to that, he had experience as a Customer Service Representative, Operations Analyst and Finance Technical Analyst allowing him to employ a broad practical point of view as he coaches Agile teams at SentryOne. You can link with George Mathews on LinkedIn.

This is an intro to a new podcast series from George Ezra & Ollie MN. Search ‘Phone A Friend’ to subscribe…When George and long-time friend Ollie both experienced issues with mental health, they found comfort in opening up to one another about what they were going through. Phone A Friend is a podcast that captures their candid and light-hearted chats, with the intention of encouraging the listener to start conversations of their own. In each episode, George and Ollie work their way through a pile of listener correspondence, sharing thoughts and advice on how to keep your mental health in check during uncertain times.New episodes are released every Monday. Search “Phone A Friend” wherever you get your podcasts, or visit smarturl.it/PhoneAFriendPod.Visit Mind’s website for information and support on the subject of mental health. www.mind.org.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is an intro to a new podcast series from George Ezra & Ollie MN. Search ‘Phone A Friend’ to subscribe…When George and long-time friend Ollie both experienced issues with mental health, they found comfort in opening up to one another about what they were going through. Phone A Friend is a podcast that captures their candid and light-hearted chats, with the intention of encouraging the listener to start conversations of their own. In each episode, George and Ollie work their way through a pile of listener correspondence, sharing thoughts and advice on how to keep your mental health in check during uncertain times.New episodes are released every Monday. Search “Phone A Friend” wherever you get your podcasts, or visit smarturl.it/PhoneAFriendPod.Visit Mind’s website for information and support on the subject of mental health. www.mind.org.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is an intro to a new podcast series from George & Ollie MN. Search 'Phone A Friend' to subscribe... When George and long-time friend Ollie MN both experienced issues with mental health, they found comfort in opening up to one another about what they were going through. Phone A Friend is a podcast that captures their candid and light-hearted chats, with the intention of encouraging the listener to start conversations of their own. In each episode, George and Ollie work their way through a pile of listener correspondence, sharing thoughts and advice on how to keep your mental health in check during uncertain times. New episodes are released every Monday. Search 'Phone A Friend' wherever you get your podcasts, or visit smarturl.it/PhoneAFriendPod (https://www.smarturl.it/phoneafriendpod) . Visit Mind’s website for information and support on the subject of mental health. https://www.mind.org.uk

Welcome to the Built in Iowa Podcast! On today's episode we have George Jessen, President and Principal Owner of Heartland Asphalt.Heartland Asphalt is located in Mason City, IA and is a full service asphalt construction company with a small concrete division. Heartland was founded in 1990 as part of a handshake deal George Jessen had with the Fred Carlson Company out of Decorah. In 1997 George led a buyout to get Principal ownership in Heartland. Heartland has 100 employees with a revenue between $30 Million and $35 Million. Heartland serves the North Iowa region and has worked on many popular projects that we drive on today, most recently I-35 re-surfacing north of Highway 20 up to the Minnesota boarder. When George led the buyout in 1997 he leveraged everything he had. He had a 120% mortgage on his house and put all the chips in the middle of the table. George is a leader by example, this was obvious when Heartland won a contract that they could only work on at night. Heartland was short-staffed, so George operated heavy equipment during the night, slept for a few hours then went to lead the company in the afternoon. George's biggest advice is to begin with the end in mind, meaning have a vision and a plan in place when you start something.Enjoy the show!Stop wasting money on sunglasses and join the Knockaround crew and get 20% off.Link to AWESOME Knockaround Sunglasses: http://shrsl.com/1cbyw-1uif-s9zx use the code PODCAST to get 20% off. Heartland Asphalt Website: https://heartlandasphalt.com/Heartland Asphalt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeartlandAsphalt/Head to our website to subscribe to our newsletter! https://www.builtiniowa.co/Built In Iowa Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BuiltInIowa/Built In Iowa Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BuiltInIowa

When George's glamorous writer friend from college visits, Liz shows that she can write, too.   Originally aired on March 24, 1950. This is episode 81 of My Favorite Husband.    Please email questions and comments to host@classiccomedyotr.com. Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/classiccomedyotr.   Please share this podcast with your friends and family. You can also subscribe to our podcast on Spotify, iTunes, and Google podcasts.

Few men have impacted the world as George Müller of Bristol did. He was counted as a main inspiration for legendary contemporaries like C.T. Studd and Hudson Taylor. His witness was even the sole inspiration for the 1859 revival in Ireland, which itself was a large inspiration for the famous 1904 Great Revival in Wales. He lived a long life and before he died, he would care for over 10,000 orphans, print and distribute nearly 2 million bibles, distribute over 3 million tracks and Christian books, support 115 missionaries, pay for the schooling of 81,000 kids,  and create home Sunday-schools which nearly 33,000 children attended. He paid for all this by raising over $150 million (in today’s dollars). But none of this was what George considered his primary ministry. His main goal was to make his life a witness to “a prayer-hearing God.” He did this by relentlessly praying for every need, no matter how minute or gigantic, and recording God’s answers to those prayers as they happened. In fact, he never actually raised a dime of that 150 million dollars by asking for it like regular fundraisers. All of it was miraculously given to him by donors in answer to prayers. He would then publish all the answers to prayer in regular reports for the public. However, he had one exception to this process. He would not publish the report if the finances in the report made certain needs clear. He would wait until all financial needs were met until publishing so that no one would give in response to the report itself. He went to such great lengths to make sure God got glory for these answered prayers that if there was a particularly big need, he wouldn’t even tell his wife, lest she accidentally let slip the need to someone else. Even if someone came to him and told him they’d like to give to the ministry but they wanted to make sure their money was needed at that particular time, George would refuse to divulge if there were any needs and instead tell them to go pray and ask God whether they should give. He did this even in times when there was in fact imminent, dire need. He once told his eventual biographer, Arthur Pierson, “Not once, or five times, or five hundred times, but thousands of times in these threescore years, have we had in hand not enough for one more meal, either in food or in funds; but not once has God failed us; not once have we or the orphans gone hungry or lacked any good thing.” George recounted that often he’d be on his knees praying when the answer to that very prayer would show up. Though he oversaw orphanages that housed over 2,000 orphans, George never once asked a single soul for money for them, but he did ask God unceasingly and God never once failed to answer. HIGHLIGHTS George was "a very bad boy" as Arthur Pierson described his childhood. He was a habitual liar, thief and drunkard by his teens, even though his father had arranged for him to study to be a minister in the German state church. George estimates that less than 1% of his 900 fellow students in his divinity school actually feared God, but it was at a house meeting while attending this school that George first encountered the living God and never looked back. He devoured scripture, reading through the Bible on average of three times per year throughout his 60 years of ministry. When George was in his 70's, he travelled the world preaching. He traversed the globe multiple times, traveling 200,000 miles over 17 years. His main message when preaching was that a Christian's first duty every day was to get happy with God. He himself preferred to stay in hotels while traveling so he could make sure to have uninterrupted communion with God through His Word and prayer.

“Focus on the well being of the people.” - George OmbadoWelcome to episode 48 The CUInsight Experience with your host Randy Smith, co-founder of CUInsight.com. In this episode, Randy welcomes George Ombado, CEO of ACCOSCA, a Pan-African confederation of national associations of savings and credit cooperatives societies. This episode was recorded at the 20th Annual SACCA Congress in Mombasa, Kenya.ACCOSCA has developed programs aimed at improving socio-economic needs of Africa through saving and credit unions, partnering with various government bodies, development agencies and research institutions to contribute towards mitigating challenges facing Africa in the twenty-first century.Listen to this conversation about credit union growth in Africa, and the differences to the more mature U.S. credit union system. George talks about how he’s fashioned the Africa Development Education program after attending DE in North Carolina and shares a great story about Bill and Crissy Cheney helping him get home after his flight was canceled due to snow.George is inspired to see that young people and women are being accepted by the leadership today because these things wouldn’t have been possible ten years ago. He is working to build the regulatory framework in Africa because it builds confidence to have it, whereas, in the U.S, we are trying to get rid of some of it. George has excellent insight into the global credit union movement of today, and you won’t want to miss what he has to say. Enjoy!Find the full show notes at CUInsight.com.Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher How to find George:George Ombado, CEO of the Africa Confederation of Co-operative Savings & Credit Associations (ACCOSCA)www.ACCOSCA.org george.ombado@accosca.orgLinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook In This Episode:[01:58] - George, Welcome to the show![02:38] - George discusses what ACCOSCA is and what they are involved in.[04:41] - They talk about Africa’s DE programs and why they are so invaluable.[06:23] - George went to a DE program in North Carolina and had Crissy Cheney in his class. He used what he learned to set up the program in Africa.[08:22] - They speak about the global board that George has set up.[10:40] - Why does Africa see such growth in credit unions while the U.S considers a decrease?[14:14] - George took the job at ACCOSCA to bring the level of engagement up and to have the ability to help his country.[16:10] - Has your inspiration for taking the job changed over the years?[17:50] - George says his leadership style is hands-on; he likes to empower people and see people get the right opportunities.[18:46] - He feels that his team would say that he pushes to get things done.[19:18] - George talks about planning all the time.[19:53] - The 2020 SACCA Congress will be held in the Kingdom of Eswatini in South Africa.[20:21] - What mistakes do you see young leaders make today?[21:30] - When George gets frustrated, he puts his head

Self Titled, That Armless Guy, George Dennehy lets no challenge keep him down. Left in a Romanian orphanage as a baby, he has pushed aside and not fed. Determined even as an infant, George defied all odds and lived 1.5 in this state, until some angels, The Dennehy's adopted him and moved him to the states. He was a 1.5-year-old who weighed 9 pounds. Embracing music as a youngster, he learned how to play the cello by using his feet. The first one in the world to accomplish that, with only one exception, his music teacher. Who taught herself how to play it with her feet so she could teach him. As he grew in talent he also learned guitar and some basic piano. While playing Iris by GooGoo dolls at a local fair, someone in the audience videoed him playing and put it on YouTube. The video went viral quickly and the GooGoo dolls discovered it and asked him to play the song with them at a music festival. He plays music frequently and uses his talent to serve the Lord in worship, playing in live performances, and in his youth group where he is the youth minister. He's an incredibly motivated and inspirational young man, who now is also a father. I really enjoyed talking with George who is light-hearted and fun, and totally embraces the full identity of who he is in Christ. Be inspired by this interview.   Quick Episode Summary: Welcome, Geroge! Geroge's big family When George got adopted Finding purpose Georges hidden talent The teacher who impacted George the most When George played with the Googoo Dolls When George met his bio parents Pam's biggest takeaways  

George Huguely had it all: a bright future, a scholarship on University of Virginia’s esteemed lacrosse team, and a summer job lined up. When George was brought in to speak with police, he believed it was because of an argument he got in with his ex-girlfriend. But when he told them what happened during the argument, everything changed.

George "Monk" Foreman III is an entrepreneur, professional boxer, trainer/coach, founder of EverybodyFights, and son of businessman and former two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman. He serves as the business manager and Executive VP of his father's business empire George Foreman Enterprises, Inc. He also starred on the E! network's reality series Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive.  He opened a boxing fitness gym in Boston called "The Club by George Foreman III". In an effort to further promote the core beliefs of the gym's culture George eventually changed the name of the gym to EverybodyFights. In 2016, the company received a series-A investment from Breakaway in the form of $4 million and soon after announced the opening of another location in Boston. Since then, Everybody Fights has opened 5 locations and plans to open over 20 new locations by 2020 for growth in other major cities across the U.S.     Podcast Highlights   Who is George Foreman III?    George describes himself as a really sad and quiet child. He cried when he got his first B in school and he didn’t see his next one until he was 17 years old. To George, the real risk is life passing you by and never coming back. If you have the chance to look back at your life in your last moments, the real risk is regrets. As part of George’s boxing career, he had an agreement with his father where his dad would train him, but at the same time George had to train other people as well. After finding some success in his boxing career, George realized that if he could make a reasonable living doing what he wanted to do, which was to teach and instill fitness in others, than that would be a success as well.    EverybodyFights   When George decided to open his gym he put his business plan together in seven days and it was during a brainstorming session with his friend where the EverybodyFights name came from. As soon as he heard it he knew he had a winner, but it actually held him back initially. When trying to lease a space George had to adjust the name to The Club by George Foreman III. It wasn’t until a few years later and the business had found its footing that he decided to change the name back to EverybodyFights because it fit his core message better. Brand is what you make of it. If you execute and your company culture is on point, your message is clear and consistent, and you act with integrity you can make a big brand out of any name.   Another Fitness Club?   At the time there weren’t a huge number of boxing clubs around so the market wasn’t too saturated. As part of his strategy with investors George took a large pay cut to prove his confidence and dedication to the business. Once he had the money in place, he also had to prove the concept to the community and that involved a lot of meetings with the city. When you sign the right deals and have a business with a decent profit margin, you can take some chances and experiment with things. When George opened his first gym he had boxing and yoga under one roof, in addition to pilates and cycling. He also taught a number of classes and within a year his gym became the best gym in Boston. George’s ultimate goal is to make fitness free. He would like to create a way where other co

When George took over the family business, he started on a journey to 10x the value of the business and sell it. Here, he discusses how he did it.https://www.georgebandarian.com/exitcoach