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Phil and Jake are joined by returning guest "Million Dollar" Matt Hock (from Space Cadet & The Explosion) to rank ice cream trucks and the New York City borough of Brooklyn on the List of Every Damn Thing.Get Space Cadet's record “Lion On A Leash” on Wiretap Records, listen to them on Spotify, and follow them on Instagram (@space_cadet_band). Maybe even see them play live.If you have something to add to the list, email it to list@everydamnthing.net (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook).SHOW NOTES: Here's the classic Eddie Murphy ice cream truck bit that taught us everything we know. Mister Softee is a soft-serve truck that drives around in the mid-Atlantic states. While trying to explain the business benefits of soft-serve, Phil refers to the movie The Founder, which is about McDonalds. One of the central issues in the movie is the original founders of McDonalds want to have real ice cream shakes but storing ice cream is very expensive due to the refrigeration. Soft serve ice cream is much cheaper because it doesn't need to be refrigerated while in transit or storage. A meager amount of research leads us to the stance that trucks (aka lorries) are different from vans. The racist version of “Turkey in the Straw” that Phil refers to was recorded in 1916, just a few years before Harry Burt created the first ice cream truck. So it follows that this version may be the one people knew in the early days of ice cream truckin'. Does sound travel further in warmer weather? There are scientists who will say it travels faster in the summer heat and humidity, but that it travels further in the winter. We think it's mostly due to having windows open in the summer. Does ice cream sell better on rainy days? This is some purely anecdotal BS that Phil heard in grade school from a guy who worked at an ice cream shop, and has accepted as the truth. He has no documented proof for this. He looked online but has found nothing that backs it up. When Jake talks about the melody from “Ice Cream Man” by Dru Down (featuring Luniz), he's talking about the main part of the song, not the intro featuring “Pop Goes the Weasel”. A few years after this song came out, Master P released a song by the same name (with a similar intro), but it's not nearly as catchy. Another song by a Bay Area rapper apparently played by some ice cream trucks is “Ice Cream” by Andre Nikatina, which is pretty much just a “Turkey In the Straw” remix. Here's the scene from Friday where the ice cream truck is used as a front for a drug dealer. Western Beef is a mid-Atlantic supermarket chain whose mascot is a cactus in a cowboy hat. Their old CEO had mafia ties. The location Phil was thinking about is at 44 Empire Blvd by the park. Fud is a brand of hot dogs from Mexico. Fuddhism is a restaurant with a goofy name in Truckee, CA. Junior's Cheesecake is a place where Matt likes to urinate. Christie's Jamaican Patties is now closed. It's described as beloved in the linked article so you know it wasn't just Phil that liked it. Taqueria Diana in Williamsburg is an outstanding place to get Mexican food (and mezcal). If you're hungry and in Brooklyn, go there. In fact, if you're anywhere in New York City, go there. The Williamsburg location is the best. Here's the EDT episode featuring Efrem Schulz where he helped us rank “Weird Al” Yankovic over Bruce Springsteen. ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:wheat germ * carob * quiescently frozen desserts * holy communion * In-N-Out Burger * “It's Now or Never” by Elvis Presley * Glasgow Ice Cream Wars * It's-It * peanut butter ice cream * interspecies animal friends * firefighters * Bill Paxton * rye bread * Christmas trees * pancakes * Coney Island * Hawaii * air conditioning * Jersey Shore * fast fashion * Mendocino CountyBelow are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here):TOP TEN: Dolly Parton - person interspecies animal friends - idea sex - idea Clement Street in San Francisco - location Prince - person It's-It - food Cher - person Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character Donald Duck - fictional character Hank Williams - person BOTTOM TEN:170. Jenny McCarthy - person171. Jon Voight - person172. Hank Williams, Jr - person173. British Royal Family - institution174. Steven Seagal - person175. McRib - food176. war - idea177. cigarettes - drug178. QAnon - idea179. transphobia - ideaTheme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was produced & edited by Jake MacLachlan, with audio help from Luke Janela. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green.Our website is everydamnthing.net and we're also on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Email us at list@everydamnthing.net. 

Director of photography Jake Polonsky was a fan of the band Sparks for several years, a love he developed after seeing the band perform at a music festival. Jake had frequently worked with director Edgar Wright, shooting commercials and music videos in the early 2000's, and then as the second unit DP on Wright's movie, The World's End. Both Jake and Wright shared a love of music, and in 2018 he saw Wright had posted a photo of himself with Sparks. He congratulated Wright on finally meeting the band. Wright let Jake know he was going to make a documentary on Sparks and asked if he would be the cinematographer. The Sparks Brothers documentary combines interviews, live and archival concert footage and collage-style animation in an eclectic style that reflects the aesthetic of Ron and Russell Mael, the Sparks Brothers themselves. In spite of putting out 25 albums over the past 50 years, Sparks has remained under the radar for most of the public. The brothers had some success at the beginning of their careers, mainly in the UK, writing and creating an unusual sound admired and imitated by many other bands. Sparks continues to reinvent themselves and has never stopped touring, building an incredibly devoted fan base. Both Jake and Wright knew that all the interviews for the documentary needed to have a certain look and visual continuity. They settled on a photograph from the cover of the 1976 Sparks album, Big Beat. The photo was taken in black and white with a large format camera, so Jake decided to shoot all of the interviews in black and white, using several large format Red Monstro cameras. Everyone would wear black so that each interview had a consistent look, no matter where it was shot, and each interviewee spoke directly to the lens, using an Eyedirect teleprompter. When Jake heard Wright was getting ready to make The World's End in 2013 with DP Bill Pope, he was eager to work on his first feature film, and asked if Wright needed anyone to shoot second unit. Wright was happy to give Jake the opportunity. Jake saw that even with a comedy such as The World's End, Wright found it important to have even the smallest scenes exactly right for comedic timing. Jake went on to work on several other UK based television shows, such as the Black Mirror episode, The National Anthem, and the interactive Black Mirror special, Bandersnatch. The executive producers of the Showtime series Billions noticed Jake's work on Black Mirror, and he became the cinematographer for 27 episodes of the show, as well as directing one. Jake was able to learn from many different directors on Billions, and loved working with actors Damien Lewis and Paul Giamatti. He thinks that as a DP, it's much more stimulating to work with a director you like and respect. It becomes easy to deliver what they want to achieve because you know it's going to be great. Find Jake Polonsky: http://jakepolonsky.com/ Instagram: @jakepolonsky You can see The Sparks Brothers in theaters and streaming on VOD. https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-sparks-brothers/ Find out even more about this episode, with extensive show notes and links: http://camnoir.com/ep132/ Sponsored by Hot Rod Cameras: www.hotrodcameras.com The Cinematography Podcast website: www.camnoir.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCinematographyPodcast Facebook: @cinepod Instagram: @thecinepod Twitter: @ShortEndz

Phil, Jake and Beth are joined by writer, model and friend Eirinie Carson to rank the TV sitcom Frasier, the British Royal Family, and fast fashion on the List of Every Damn Thing.Follow Eirinie on Instagram (@eirinieeee) and Twitter (@Eirineee). Her articles (including the one Jake mentions in this episode) and other projects can be found here.Beth is raising money through Rise Up Against Racism to build little free anti-racist libraries throughout the Bay Area. Her fundraising page can be found here. You can follow her progress on Instagram (@little.free.antiracist.library).If you have something to add to the list, email it to list@everydamnthing.net (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook).SHOW NOTES: We talk briefly about kid's shows, including We Bare Bears, Apple & Onion and Hey Duggee.  In Apple & Onion, Richard Ayoade plays Onion. He and his best friend Apple live in an apartment and deal with various problems. Everyone they know is food. It's strange because their friend Falafel has ground onions inside of him and they never mention it. It's like Pixar's Cars where it's best not to think about it too much. Here's some examples of the rules of anthropomorphic food on the show. Sitcoms discussed in this episode include Cheers, 30 Rock, Seinfeld, The IT Crowd and Peepshow. Phil also brings up That Mitchell & Webb Look, which isn't sit but is com. We were right in assuming Kelsey Grammer hung out with Robin Williams. It turns out they were roommates at Julliard. It's possible they may have used cocaine together. Here's the article Beth mentions about Grammer's problematic politics putting the Frasier reboot at risk. When Jake says the character of Daphne Moon reminds him of Cathy, this is what he's talking about. There's some talk of how Julia-Louis Dreyfus / Elaine changed throughout the course of Seinfeld. It's possible when Phil said this what really was happening was that he himself was growing into manhood and began to look at JLD differently. Here's some fish-throwing at Pike Place Market. Our Black Frasier discussion includes the one on 30 Rock as well as Phoebe Robinson podcast. Eirinie doesn't think Choppin' Broccoli is funny but Jake still does. Here's Monica Bellucci in a latex dress from The Matrix movies. She wears more than one so here's a video of all Monica Bellucci content from those films, compiled by someone operating with one hand. Most of Jake & Beth's research on the royal family was done by watching The Crown on Netflix. Jake also listened to the Prince Harry interview on Dax Sheppard's podcast. Fast fashion retailers discussed include H&M, UNIQLO, Target and Old Navy. They're all doing okay so we didn't provide links. ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:Sideshow Bob * laugh tracks * the male gaze * David Hyde-Pierce * Seattle * Lilith Sternin * Batman: The Animated Series * Saturday Night Live * The Three Stooges * Shakira * air * Bruce Springsteen * Wigan kebab * The Truman Show * Double Stuf Oreos * capitalism * colonialism * war * Hank Williams, Jr. * consumer waste * Warner Bros large-graphic cartoon t-shirts * band t-shirts * Grocery Outlet * commandos * Tommy Bahama shirtsBelow are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here):TOP TEN:1. Dolly Parton - person2. interspecies animal friends - idea3. Clement Street in San Francisco - location4. Prince - person5. It's-It - food6. Cher - person7. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character8. Donald Duck - fictional character9. Hank Williams - person10. air - substanceBOTTOM TEN:160. Jenny McCarthy - person161. Jon Voight - person162. Hank Williams, Jr - person163. British Royal Family - institution164. Steven Seagal - person165. McRib - food166. war - idea167. cigarettes - drug168. QAnon - idea169. transphobia - ideaTheme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was edited by Jake MacLachlan. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green.Our website is everydamnthing.net and we're also on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Email us at list@everydamnthing.net. 

Hi everyone! Welcome to another episode of the 21andsensory podcast. On today's episode I have special guest Jake Steiner. Jake established Endmyopia.org as a resource to offer people the opportunity to explore the science behind our eyesight. Jake advocates for an evidence-based approach to understanding myopia (which is a word that means Nearsighted-ness)and he explores methods to potentially reverse it, he has his own experience reversing his -5 diopter myopia. He has helped over 1.2million people reduce their dependence on corrective lenses through his website, popular YouTube, Twitter, Facebook group, Discord and Forum. Jake stresses that he is not a medical doctor or optometrist, he just set out to solve a problem he encountered. So yeah i'm super interested to have a chat with Jake as I actually wear glasses 24/7! We chat about: What myopia is A bit about Jake, his background and his journey to improve and reverse his own eyesight When Jake started endmyopia.org to document his findings and how he slowly developed an extensive set of tools to help others My own eyesight and my journey with glasses His YouTube channel where he shares tips and advice through his (almost) daily beard videos! We wrap up with some general tips DISCLAIMER from Jake's website We see myopia as a refractive state. Not an error, and certainly not an illness or medical condition. We explore scientific ideas here, not medical ones. Any advice and suggestions provided by Jake or @endmyopia is 100% unlicensed, unsanctioned, un-endorsed by the optometry establishment - because we discuss science and not medicine Everything we discuss is also highly experimental, and you should absolutely always seek a sanctioned opinion if you are experiencing health issues or medical concerns. Lens use specific comments are for discussion only, and should not be considered medical advice, nor any of other suggestions provided herein. Depending on your local laws you may need to consult a local optometrist for prescriptions and medical advice. When driving, or any activity requiring full 20/20 vision, you should always wear your glasses that provide the full correction necessary for the task. If you have symptoms that might require medical attention, please visit an ophthalmologist or hospital! My 21andsensory links: @21andsensory on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/21andsensory/ @21andsensory on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@21andsensory 21andsensory on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/21andsensory 21andsensory Blog - https://21andsensory.wordpress.com Want to be on my podcast? Apply here: https://forms.gle/scAY23744owv3oeB9 @21andsensory on Twitter - https://twitter.com/21andsensory

In this lightning (and wife-ening) episode, Phil & Jake are joined by Beth & Ali to rapid-fire rank karaoke, dippin’ sauce, landlines, the Golden Gate Bridge, bagels, goats, Cadbury Creme Eggs and carpets on the List of Every Damn Thing.VOTE HERE to help choose which item on the List of Every Damn Thing should be re-ranked in an upcoming episode (you can vote once a day).If you have something to add to the list, email it to list@everydamnthing.net (or get at us on Twitter and Instagram).Check out the Little Anti-Racist Library project that Beth is working on.SHOW NOTES: We mention many of our favorite karaoke songs, including “Last Christmas” by Wham! (we don't cite it specifically, but Jake also likes George Michael’s “One More Try”), “Easy Lover” by Philip Bailey & Phil Collins, “Dream A Little Dream of Me” by The Mommas & the Poppas, “To Be With You” by Mr. Big, “Bernadette” by the Four Tops and “Blow the Whistle” by Too $hort. Dimples is a San Francisco treasure. If you like karaoke, overpriced drinks, open gambling, a weird sex-work vibe and possibly indoors cigarette-smoking, go there. Ali doesn’t mention the song “Last Resort” by name when she brings up Papa Roach in honor of Beth’s hometown of Stockton, CA. The band is actually from about sixty miles away in Vacaville, CA, but hey what’s the difference really? We mention “Cherry Pie” by Warrant, but not as an acceptable karaoke song. Also, “November Rain” by Guns ‘n’ Roses has way too much instrumentals to be a good karaoke song. Even the radio edit. Phil tells a story about a former student teaching him to mix hot sauce and butter, which is the recipe for buffalo wing sauce (usually made with Frank's Red Hot sauce). When Jake refers to Phil’s mom having a “Bucky Walter” in her home, he’s trying to use Boontling, the local dialect of the small town of Boonville, CA. It looks like he misuses the term, though, as a “Bucky Walter” is specifically a payphone (he should've said “Walter Levi”). “Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s” is a country song that Phil listens to when he goes to the hardware store. The paint color of the Golden Gate Bridge is neither golden nor red. It’s international orange. Here’s a brief video with some clips of the GG Bridge “singing” (as described in the episode by Jake and Ali). If you’re in Petaluma, CA and have a bagel-hankering, go to The Bagel Mill. The Marble Rye is the king of bagels. It's made by dividing the dough into two piles and mixing cocoa powder into one pile! Strange that it doesn't taste like chocolate. When Jake & Beth inexplicitly exclaim “Cram!” they’re referring to the comedy of Tony Baker. Googling teaches us that goats are, in fact, ungulates. We discuss the use of goats in religion. In Islam it's traditional at the end of Ramadan to slaughter a goat and donate it to the needy. Phil didn't know the word off the top of his head but it's Qurbani and it comes from a story about Abraham. In non-majority Muslim places there's not really a framework for donating and the needy aren't expecting goat meat.  The scapegoat is a different story from Hebrew tradition in which there were two goats and one was sacrificed while the other one was marked up to carry all of the sins and let go into the wilderness. We're not religious but it seems like the scapegoat got off easy (although it does carry the burden of guilt) which is the opposite of how we'd always understood the expression. ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:steroids * sex * puns * Christmas trees * pancakes * Saturday Night Live * Mendocino County * Japan * mayonnaise * aioli * artichokes * onions * rye bread * Popeye’s chicken * glitter * 5G towers * nail clippers * generation ships * zipper jeans * Top Ramen * Robin Williams Tunnel * Jersey Shore * “Midnight Train to Georgia” by Gladys Knight & the Pips * the Eiffel Tower * Watchmen comic * It’s-It * bridge tolls * Cher * Watchmen TV series * square pizza * pizza on a bagel * screaming goats * fainting goats * goat cheese * crows * Boxer dogs * wind chimes * Jessica Rabbit * Popeye * Dan Aykroyd * Dragnet * Whoppers * McRib * Double Stuf Oreos * Gambit * Howard the Duck * Surge * magic carpets * static electricity * ratsBelow are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here):TOP TEN:1. Dolly Parton - person2. interspecies animal friends - idea3. Clement Street in San Francisco - location4. Prince - person5. It’s-It - food6. Cher - person7. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character8. Donald Duck - fictional character9. Hank Williams - person10. air - substanceBOTTOM TEN:145. carpets - decoration146. broken glass - substance147. Jenny McCarthy - person148. Jon Voight - person149. Hank Williams, Jr - person150. McRib - food151. war - idea152. cigarettes - drug153. QAnon - idea154. transphobia - ideaTheme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was edited by Jake MacLachlan, with audio help from Luke Janela. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green.Our website is everydamnthing.net and we're also on Twitter and Instagram.Email us at list@everydamnthing.net. 

Show Notes and Links: https://ukuleleunderground.com/2021/05/whos-that-jakemon-ft-jake-shimabukuro-tuup13/ After talking about, referencing, and idolizing him, we finally have the "Jake Shimabukuro" on the podcast. The podcast starts off with some reflections on the last collab UU did with Jake, and when he went from Aldrine's Idol to Aldrine's Hero. A question about disaster gigs leads Jake to explain how he learned and grew from those experiences. When we ask the legend what his uke size preferences are, we also get a history of his personal ukuleles, and an origin of the Flattop Kamaka Headstock. Aldrine asks for an explanation of Slash Chords before we ask what is it like performing with your brother? A short break from questions: we challenge Jake to a mini game of Who's that Jakémon (Jake or Young Kid). Aldrine shares his story of, "When Jake asks, you don't say no." The podcast wraps up with Jake listing uke players that inspire him.

In this episode, we interview Jake Olson. Jake Olson is 23 years old, a resident of Huntington Beach, California and a graduate of the University of Southern California. When Jake was 8 months old, he was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer, retinoblastoma. The disease claimed his left eye at 10 months old and in November 2009 Jake lost his right eye after battling the cancer for 12 years. Jake confronted many challenges and encountered many setbacks during his battle and loss of sight but remained strong through his faith in God. He has used his experience to inspire and motivate others by authoring two books, creating a non-profit foundation to help visually impaired children and support cancer research and by sharing his story openly as a motivational speaker. Jake is also a life-long USC football fan. While in high school he learned to long snap and was the starting long snapper for his team his junior and senior year. After being accepted to USC, he was offered a walk on spot with the USC football team, making him the first completely blind Division I college football player. He saw his first live action when he snapped in USC's home opener on September 2, 2017 and was named the Pac-12 special teams' player of the week. In his college career, he had a total of three successful PAT snaps, earning his spot as one of the top two most inspirational stories in college football's 150 year history. His story has been featured on ESPN, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, Fox Sports, Hallmark, TBN, The Golf Channel, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, etc. Since graduating, Jake has become an entrepreneur, co-founding Engage, an online platform that digitizes the process of booking talent for experiences. To book Jake for a speaking engagement or learn more about his business check out : https://www.letsengage.com Get our Rookie Mistakes course to help you avoid the common mistakes young athletes make from a financial and career perspective. This course will help give you the playbook you need to give yourself the best chance for financial success and more. https://afrugalathlete.thinkific.com/courses/rookie-mistakes For more information on how to be smarter with your money check out our website at www.afrugalathlete.com Follow us on Social Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/afrugalathlete/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FrugalAthlete LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a-frugal-athlete/ Follow Amobi Okugo [Founder] Twitter:https://twitter.com/amobisays Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/amobisays/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/okugo/ Website: https://www.amobiokugo.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/afrugalathlete/support

In this week’s episode, Amrit interviews Jake Heilbrunn, an international TEDx speaker, best-selling author, host of Curious with Jake Heilbrunn Podcast and Head of Partnerships at Conscious Counsel.Purpose consists of the central motivating aims of your life. It is the reason why you get up in the morning. Purpose can guide your life decisions, influence behavior, shape goals, offer a sense of direction, and create meaning. Purpose can heal. Purpose can heal anxiety and so much more.Jake and Amrit talk about Jake’s anxiety healing journey, his path towards self-discovery and purpose, and his greatest lessons learned along the way.At the age of seventeen, Jake started university and began to break out with hives, rashes all over his body and soon after with anxiety. He was on a path of pressure, a path based on expectations of others, a path where he certainly was not happy and was causing more pain than good.Jake wanted to change. He wanted to pursue his dreams. He felt the urge to experience another way of life, a journey of self-discovery. At the age of 18, he took courage and made the hard decision to leave college. He bought a one way ticket to Guatemala where he spent months backpacking through Central America all alone, without a phone and three words of spanish.He wanted to know who he was, what he was capable of and needed to pave his own trail. He listened to his inner voice following his intuition, trusting his instincts that things were going to work out.Jake’s body was telling him something, something in him wasn’t aligned. Taking this new path, not only helped him recover from the rash, but also helped him figure out who he was, unrevealing all the opportunities that have led his life to where he is today. He also discovered the importance of having courage and following it and how important it is to trust yourself. Furthermore, Amrit and Jake dive deep into a raw conversation about Jake getting this lesson twice but in a different way.A couple of years later, Jake’s life was knocked over. He was hit by Lyme disease. For almost ten months in severe pain and suffering, he had to be in bed. This impacted his entrepreneurial life, having to bow out from the company he co-created from 0 to $2.5M in revenue in just 2 years, his personal and his love life as well. Jake felt completely shut down and all alone.Listening to people who have been through the same chronic disease, surfing the ocean, and being in flow with the waves and every single moment, have helped Jake on his healing journey. This extremely challenging disease helped him discover his hypesensitive energy and learn how to be hyper aligned with saying no and letting go. Jake affirms that the journey towards recovery was about learning to listen. He strongly believes his journey here on earth is intuition and that the universe talks to us in many different ways. It appears with a whisper but if you don't pay attention every time it will appear with more and more force.In this chapter of Inspired Evolution you will learn how to heal anxiety and depression through purpose, learn how to take courage to do things you believe are right by following your intuition, discover the beauty of peace by letting things go and discover that in darkness there is always hope.“I say to myself: How can I be the most aligned with the thing that sets my soul on fire? Because that is the medicine for the world!”“When you pursue something that you choose, even if it is scary, it makes problems less haunting”About Jake Heilbrunn:At the age of nineteen, Jake Heilbrunn published 'Off the Beaten Trail', a memoir that has been described as the young dude version of 'Eat Pray Love' fused with a modern-day 'Into the Wild'....but with a happy ending ;) The book became #1 on Amazon in 2 categories, has over 50 5-star reviews, and has gained the attention of multiple NYT best-selling authors, including Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup of the Soul founder, 500+ Million copies sold), The San Diego Union-Tribune, Psychology Today, and various other media outlets.He is a passionate TEDx speaker, who has spoken to 15,000+ people across 6 countries, to audiences ranging from High School assemblies, Universities like USC, corporations like REMAX and organizations like NAMI. When Jake speaks, his intention is to inspire people to replace anxiety with passion, find what makes them tick, feel at peace with their mental health journey and live purposefully.In 2017, Jake co-founded and built The Idea Collective with his business partner, Taylor Conroy. From scratch, they grew the company from 0 to $2.5M in revenue in 2 years and helped over 200 purpose-driven leaders share their messages with the world, landing talks at TED, TEDx, Fortune 500 companies, Universities and features in Goalcast, Forbes, ABC & Entrepreneur. They helped speakers clarify their message, land their stage, deliver their message and spread it online to elevate their mission and purposeOvernight, on October 17th, 2019, Jakes’s life turned upside-down. Lyme Disease hit him like a train. Bedridden in extreme pain, and unable to work, he stepped down from the company and parted ways with his business partner, no longer fit to work. The next 10 months were the hardest and darkest of his life. He produced a film, 'Waves of Healing,' on his story going through Lyme Disease and the healing power of the ocean and surfing. While he is still on this healing journey and has a long way to go, he is happy to have made tremendous progress and is at least functional again.Jake is the host of the podcast "Curious with Jake Heilbrunn" where he interviews fascinating entrepreneurs, authors, healers, musicians and pro athletes. He loves diving deep with people who inspire him, learning their triumphs, dark moments, failures, successes, lessons and the juicy stuff that can’t be seen on social media.Tune In: Welcome Jake Heilbrunn to the Inspired Evolution!: (00:00:00)Where replacing anxiety with purpose came from:(02:00)“The dark can lead you to your own hero’s journey”Stress symptoms notifying non-alignment:(06:10)“Looking back I understand my body was saying something was wrong”Challenging bits pointing to the right direction:(08:37)“Know when to say no and let go”About recalibrating a mindset: changing paths to deal with anxiety and then getting knocked with Lyme disease:(15:57)“The inability to relax opened me up to what the lyme presented”Intuition as a gift brought from healing journey:(22:13)“Intuition guides you to your highest invest and joy”The process of labelling Jake’s anxiety:(24:43)“Take time and make space to uncover layers on top of you that are not you”What called Jake in going to Guatemala:(29:09) “Experience something drastically different to figure out who you are”Taking the courage to follow intuition:(32:17)“Take the courage to do what you believe is right”About pivotal moments:(37:26)“The unknown for whatever reason is so much harder to choose”About the challenges worth to take a different path:(39:20)“Pursuing things that you choose, even if scary, makes problems less haunting”The importance of service to others and how it helps Jake:(43:01)“Don't ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive and do that”Jake Heilbrunn’s book and film:“Off the Beaten Trail: A Young Man’s Soul-Searching Journey Through Central America” book by Jake Heilbrunn: https://amz.run/4Ox2 - “a book that every young man should read. It will inspire you and it will empower you to follow your heart and live the life of your dreams” - Jack Canfield. Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul® and The Success Principles“Waves of Healing” movie by Jake Heilbrunn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp7EZpB6YZw - Healing Lyme Disease through the power of the ocean and surfingMentioned resources:Conscious Counsel: https://consciouscounsel.ca/ The Idea Collective: https://thepurposecollective.clickfunnels.com/optin32871680 TED program and TEDx: https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization “When the body says no: The cost of hidden stress” book by Gabor Mate: https://amz.run/4Oip - Mentioned in timestamp (06:10)Steven Kotler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Kotler - Mentioned in timestamp (08:37) - Someone who went through the same experience as Jake and talks about how surfing and flow states healed him - An inspiration for Jake when struck by the diseaseJake Heilbrunn’s TEDx talk on How to replace anxiety with purpose on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crUusAyzPxo Jordan Younger, The Balanced Blonde: https://www.thebalancedblonde.com/about/ - Blogger mentioned in timestamp (22:13)Quote: “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” by Tich Nhat Hank - Mentioned in timestamp (37:26)“Art of impossible: A peak performance primer” book by Steven Kotler: https://amz.run/4OyJ - Mentioned in timestamp (39:20) - A conversation around decisions taken by autonomy and intrinsic motivation “Big Magic: Creative living beyond fear” book by Elizabeth Gilbert: https://amz.run/4On8 - Mentioned in timestamp (43:01) - Connect with Jake Heilbrunn:Website: https://www.jakeheilbrunn.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jake.heilbrunn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jakeheilbrunn/ Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQGJ5QXyG50w0YThtA3zjjQPodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/curious-with-jake-heilbrunn/id1479197026 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeheilbrunn/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jake_heilbrunn Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/ Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Shadowrun is a excellent and clever setting. A mix of Cyberpunk and fantasy in a dark future where life is cheap and technology is expensive. We are using Shadowrun 4th ed for setting information and Genesys for the rules. When Jake the unstoppable force of charisma hires them to steal a book from the library it poses a couple of problems for the team. New parts every Sunday! If you would like to send us a voice message you can do so here https://anchor.fm/kritfayle/message Storyteller: Ghost Terry the Mage: Becca Cipher the Decker: Raveninsane Wren the Thief: Emily https://www.patreon.com/Kritfayle Sounds provided by the excellent Syrinscape. Syrinscape is an indispensable tool for tabletop RPG's allowing the use of ambient and direct sounds and sound FX to help to bring your games to life. its a great tool to have and you can find out more and how to subscribe to them in the link below. https://syrinscape.com/ https://syrinscape.com/attributions/?id=908&id=13&id=47&id=1861 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kritfayle/message

Shadowrun is a excellent and clever setting. A mix of Cyberpunk and fantasy in a dark future where life is cheap and technology is expensive. We are using Shadowrun 4th ed for setting information and Genesys for the rules. When Jake the unstoppable force of charisma hires them to steal a book from the library it poses a couple of problems for the team. New parts every Sunday! If you would like to send us a voice message you can do so here https://anchor.fm/kritfayle/message Storyteller: Ghost Terry the Mage: Becca Cipher the Decker: Raveninsane Wren the Thief: Emily https://www.patreon.com/Kritfayle Sounds provided by the excellent Syrinscape. Syrinscape is an indispensable tool for tabletop RPG's allowing the use of ambient and direct sounds and sound FX to help to bring your games to life. its a great tool to have and you can find out more and how to subscribe to them in the link below. https://syrinscape.com/ https://syrinscape.com/attributions/?id=908&id=22997 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kritfayle/message

This week Dawson and Clint welcome Jake Wheeler back to Day Fire! Jake is the Social Media Manager for Aspen Snowmass. Did you know mountains and ski slopes have personalities? Well they do - and they talk about the different personalities and characteristics of each mountain in the Aspen Snowmass family. Plus, they talk about art, diversity, marketing, hosting the X-Games and other events, and yes - sticking with the Day Fire tradition - they shared some stories. When Jake isn't working with his social media marketing team to produce the best content possible, he loves to take advantage of all that Aspen has to offer, which usually involves something outdoors. Good times were had by all on this episode of Day Fire! Thanks for listening! Find all our episodes at dayfirepodcast.com This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Shadowrun is a excellent and clever setting. A mix of Cyberpunk and fantasy in a dark future where life is cheap and technology is expensive. We are using Shadowrun 4th ed for setting information and Genesys for the rules. When Jake the unstoppable force of charisma hires them to steal a book from the library it poses a couple of problems for the team. New parts every Sunday! If you would like to send us a voice message you can do so here https://anchor.fm/kritfayle/message Storyteller: Ghost Terry the Mage: Becca Cipher the Decker: Raveninsane Wren the Thief: Emily https://www.patreon.com/Kritfayle Sounds provided by the excellent Syrinscape. Syrinscape is an indispensable tool for tabletop RPG's allowing the use of ambient and direct sounds and sound FX to help to bring your games to life. its a great tool to have and you can find out more and how to subscribe to them in the link below. https://syrinscape.com/ https://syrinscape.com/attributions/?id=47747&id=39491&id=106&id=180 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kritfayle/message

Shadowrun is a excellent and clever setting. A mix of Cyberpunk and fantasy in a dark future where life is cheap and technology is expensive. We are using Shadowrun 4th ed for setting information and Genesys for the rules. When Jake the unstoppable force of charisma hires them to steal a book from the library it poses a couple of problems for the team. New parts every Sunday! If you would like to send us a voice message you can do so here https://anchor.fm/kritfayle/message Storyteller: Ghost Terry the Mage: Becca Cipher the Decker: Raveninsane Wren the Thief: Emily https://www.patreon.com/Kritfayle Sounds provided by the excellent Syrinscape. Syrinscape is an indispensable tool for tabletop RPG's allowing the use of ambient and direct sounds and sound FX to help to bring your games to life. its a great tool to have and you can find out more and how to subscribe to them in the link below. https://syrinscape.com/ https://syrinscape.com/attributions/?id=19265&id=182&id=39315&id=22997&id=1861&id=908 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kritfayle/message

Shadowrun is a excellent and clever setting. A mix of Cyberpunk and fantasy in a dark future where life is cheap and technology is expensive. We are using Shadowrun 4th ed for setting information and Genesys for the rules. When Jake the unstoppable force of charisma hires them to steal a book from the library it poses a couple of problems for the team. New parts every Sunday! If you would like to send us a voice message you can do so here https://anchor.fm/kritfayle/message Storyteller: Ghost Terry the Mage: Becca Cipher the Decker: Raveninsane Wren the Thief: Emily https://www.patreon.com/Kritfayle Sounds provided by the excellent Syrinscape. Syrinscape is an indispensable tool for tabletop RPG's allowing the use of ambient and direct sounds and sound FX to help to bring your games to life. its a great tool to have and you can find out more and how to subscribe to them in the link below. https://syrinscape.com/ https://syrinscape.com/attributions/?id=19265&id=908&id=47&id=22997 Check Out Bleak Expectations a great British radio play and inspiration for the Monkey Hotel --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kritfayle/message

How did your debut sell? We imagine, very much like ours! Author Abigail has achieved the dream with her debut book Girl A that was released yesterday. We will be asking all the questions we want to know and if we don't, you can. We will be LIVE at 8pm UK time. Celebrate her launch and Friday with us! Bring a drink and some questions for the writing community question time. Abigail's debut novel, GIRL A sold in the UK after a 9-way auction to Julia Wisdom at HarperCollins who will publish in spring 2021. The book also sold in the US to Viking for a seven-figure deal and has quickly sold in 12 other territories including television/film. GIRL A tells the story of Lex, better known to the world as Girl A, who escaped her family home where she and her siblings were held captive by their parents. Now, after her mother's death, she and her siblings are left the family home. Wanting to transform the House of Horrors into a force for good, Lex must come to terms with her six siblings – and with the childhood they shared. To buy this book through Amazon on our affiliates link please do it here - https://amzn.to/2KIRQ0l - we will get a tiny return for the sale that may help the show. Abigail lives in south London and is working on her second novel, THE CONSPIRACIES. If you are new here welcome! If you know us, welcome back! Please hit that subscribe button AND the notification bell. We are a LIVE streaming show. We love the live interaction so don't miss out. Although if you do, you can watch us back or listen to the show on our podcast page. To find out more about this podcast and its links visit here https://linktr.ee/TheWCCS Use hashtag #TheWritingCommunityChatShow or #TheWCCS on social media to keep us current. This show will only succeed with your support! on social media to keep us current. This show will only succeed with your support! Tonight's BEER TOKEN BOOK PROMOTION sponsor is My name is Will Castillo. My novel, JAKE HOWARD: MULTIVERSE 101, is a sci-fi/fantasy set in Upstate New York in 1997. Here is a quick blurb about it: When Jake was in ninth grade he discovered a mysterious portal while on a field trip that was going in a flash but the image never left his memory. Now, in 1997, Jake is about to start his Junior year at the State University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz when he meets Beth. Beth is brooding, mysterious and about to shatter poor Jake's perception of the universe when he finds out she has a link to that portal... I set it in and around my hometown of Wallkill and New Paltz NY and there are a bunch of 90's music and pop culture references. The link will be below (it's available in paperback, Kindle and Audible) but I will also attach a link to the "Soundtrack" I made on Spotify: Amazon link: https://amzn.to/37O3Gzb Spotify link: https://spoti.fi/38uPBpu As always, thank you. We appreciate you. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/writingcommunitychatshow/support

As a sought after leader, coach, business strategist, and founder/co-founder of over 10 companies, Jake Dreyfuss is passionate about creating business' with impact and helping others do the same. Jake shares valuable insights, along with some of his own struggles, that have all led to deeper levels of understanding in his personal life and business. Tune in for an inspiring story filled with so many golden nuggets to implement today!  Episode Highlights:  Kara introduces Jake Dreyfuss, a high-level entrepreneur who has personally founded and/or co-founded over 10+companies.  Jake attributes a big part of his success to advice he received from a coach about how to "Booby trap your success."  When Jake began his professional career, he joined a company with a strong culture of coaching. He has embraced that culture, and now believes that all business owners and entrepreneurs should hire a coach to help them reach higher levels of success.    Jakes shares about his "Year of Yes Challenge" and what led him to embrace this new mindset. Gina Mallison, also featured on the Soul Inspiring Business podcast, is Jake's personal coach, and she has helped Jake let go of old mindset patterns through NLP. Jake shares some of his personal losses, including the loss of his father at a young age, and how that experience has shaped his mindset and business' today. In connection with the Law of Attraction, Jake realized that as a visual learner, he wanted a "vision board" that was interactive versus static. He most recently created a company that helps people create a short, interactive video that provides a daily "vision" for all that you want to create in life.  This video vision board allows customers to record affirmations in your own voice, pick your favorite music and create a custom experience that leads to a higher commitment to your vision.  As a final thought, Jake reminds entrepreneurs to periodically ask for feedback from their customers and clients to ensure they are invested where their clients want it most. Jake also encourages all entrepreneurs to test their concept with potential customers before investing too much money into a new idea that does not resonate with your target audience.   Connect with Jake on Facebook, Instagram, and his website listed below.  Connecting with Jake: Website Instagram Facebook LinkedIn  Connecting with Kara: Website Instagram Facebook LinkedIn Soul Inspiring Business Private FB Group  Other Resources: Gina Mallison (Website) Rocket Fuel 

Sydney is still trying to tell Jane what's been going on between her and Chris and Jane is still steadfastly refusing to hear her. When Jake stops by the studio delivering papers from Amanda and Chris, assuming Jake is a courier, just casually tries to involve him in objectifying Sydney, Jake pushes back. He then reports this to Jo, apparently counting on her to pass it on to Jane, which Jo does...but Jane still doesn't believe it and just takes it back to Chris to spin for her, which he can easily do now that he's had a day and a half to firm up his story. Jane then goes to yell at Jake before kicking Sydney out of her apartment and firing her from the studio. Chris also used his time to get out ahead of his Jake blunder with Sydney's probation officer, who threatens to send Sydney back to the mental institution now that she's unemployed and homeless, which is why it's very handy that Jake has just used the reward money the FBI conveniently gave him for his part in apprehending Brittany to buy Shooters: he can give Sydney a job! After seeing Michael and Kimberly at the agency, Bruce makes Amanda hire them, over her personal objections, for a "real people" coffee ad. Kimberly correctly predicts that Peter's not going to let them do it because it violates hospital rules, but all it takes is a visit from Amanda and her hot legs in her short skirt to convince him to do whatever she wants in order to keep her in his life. Alison's college roommate Susan is passing through town on her way to her new job as a chef in Santa Barbara, intriguing Billy in the process. But when the job falls through, Alison invites Susan to move into her spare bedroom while Susan figures out her next move. This won't be a problem at all! Load yourself up a heaping helping of our podcast on "The Cook, The Creep, His Lover And Her Sister"!VISUAL AIDSVisual Aids S03.E07SHOW NOTESShow notes for this episode can be viewed on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com.SUPPORT AWT ON PATREONThank you to all our supporters! You can support the podcast directly on Patreon and get access to bonus episodes of “Again With Again With This” as a thank you from us! Check out AWT’s Patreon page today.SUPPORT AWT WITH A PERSONAL MESSAGEWish your friend a happy birthday or just call them a squeef with a AWT Personal Message. It's $50 and helps keep us going. Start on our ad page now!BUY OUR BOOK"A Very Special 90210 Book" (Abrams, $24.99) can be yours RIGHT NOW! Here’s ordering info via our publisher, Abrams or find it anywhere else books are sold! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

My guest today is Jake Anapol. Jake is fresh off of his commitment to play Division I Football for the Marist Red Foxes. Jake has overcome a ton of adversity to get to where he is today. He moved to the United States from Oxford, England in elementary school. Jake had to undergo multiple surgeries to fix a knee issue that he was born with throughout his childhood. When Jake got to high school, he had an additional two surgeries caused from football totaling seven knee procedures. Jake began his high school football career at Xavier HS in Middletown, CT before transferring to the Kent School. Jake excelled in football at both places. At Kent, he became an All-League and All-New England offensive lineman. He missed his sophomore year due to injury and his senior season due to COVID, but Jake was still able to pick up multiple D1 offers. He recently committed to Marist and will sign with the football program on December 16th. If you'd like to connect with Jake his IG is https://www.instagram.com/jakeanapol_55/ and his Twitter is https://twitter.com/anapol_jake. To learn more about myself and the show please visit https://www.tannerkern.com.

Faith from Marysville has asked us for help with her boyfriend Jake whose family does not include her in any holiday activities. Faith says despite being together for three years, his family still does not include her in the Christmas Gift Exchange and they don’t ask her to cook anything for their potluck Christmas Dinner meal. And she says they are very rude and awkward around her as if she is a one-night stand he just dragged home. She wants Jake to stand up for her to his family and let them know she is here to stay and they should treat her like family. When Jake comes on he says his parents are just really traditional, the Gift Matrix is pretty solid, and they don’t want to bother her with trying to make the kinds of foods they like. He does sort of admit that until they get engaged they probably won’t count her in, but the P1’s (and we) seem to think it may go a lot deeper than that.

Jake Thompson is an entrepreneur, performance coach, podcaster, speaker, and author.  He's also the CEO of Compete Every Day… a training and performance apparel company with kick-butt clothing to help you stay healthy, motivated, ambitious, and hungry!  His podcast is called “Compete Every Day,” and he interviews competitors from all walks of life and they talk about the specific things they do to win and succeed.  And lastly, Jake's brand new book was just released and it's killing it.  The book is called… surprise… surprise… “Compete Every Day.”   In it Jake shares the seven key choices leaders and globe changers can make to enhance their focus, increase their success, and win at work and life… EVEN during a pandemic!  We're going to talk about what it means to COMPETE EVERY DAY… and how we can make some KEY choices to help us succeed more… and live more of the life we were meant to live!  I'm so looking forward to this so let's get to it!   RESOURCES MENTIONED IN EPISODE: WEBSITE: www.competeeveryday.com PODCAST: podcast.competeeveryday.com BOOK: www.competeeveryday.com   MORE ON THE Jake Thompson EPISODE: Welcome to episode 281 of DREAM THINK DO.  I'm so stoked to get you this interview… because in it, we're going to get you some specific ways to beat “Pandemic Fatigue.” I mean seriously… beat it back with a stick!  We're going to dig into some strategies to help you not only survive… but thrive… RIGHT NOW. Honestly… that wasn't what I was originally planning to focus on in this interview… because we're talking with an expert on competition and resilience.  This is a guy who helps athletes… as well as people from all walks of life… perform at their best. But when we started to dig into some of the specific things top athletes do to perform at world-class levels… we started to bring the conversation to applying them to help you to navigate some of the rough stuff that's hitting us right now. Whether you want to call it “Pandemic fatigue” or “COVID fatigue” it's rampant.  It involves the feelings of being drained, overwhelmed, frustrated… especially because we're not sure when all of this stuff is going to get better.  And if we let it… pandemic fatigue can totally drain our energy… our creativity… our performance.  And heck… even our ability to experience joy and peace. Well… if you can relate to this… and… deep down… you've been looking for some solutions… I can't wait to get you this episode.  I can tell you that when I got done with recording the episode… I started to apply some of the things we talked about IMMEDIATELY.  And I can say that it's already started to help.  And that's what I want for you. I'm hoping you listen and then set an intention to do something new.  Something small but significant to not only survive but thrive… EVEN now!  So let's do this! MINUTE BY MINUTE: 0:02 What is going down today 2:46 Get to know Jake Thompson 4:00 Conversation starts 4:42 The difference between competition and comparison 7:32 When Jake found that personal competition is key 15:57 Perseverance and grit 20:28 How Jake has coached his team during the pandemic 20:23 Staying focused on your priorities and goals 29:30 Final thoughts 30:46 Mitch's biggest takeaways   I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! What do you think?  What stood out to you from this convo with Jake? I loved each of his suggestions… but one specific thing I started to do IMMEDIATELY was to put some specific stuff on my calendar to look forward to.  Things for work.  Things for family and friends.  Quick adventures.  They don't have to be BIG things (although I did schedule some ACTUAL travel - don't worry… I'll do it safely!).  They can be small but intentional things.  But I can already feel a difference.  Those milestones are SO important… especially right now!  What did you dig?  What did it stir up? I want to hear from YOU! 

Enjoy our presentation of The Invasion by K.A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. The Earth is being invaded, but no one knows about it. When Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, and Marco stumble upon a downed alien spaceship and its dying pilot, they're given an incredible power -- they can transform into any animal they touch.The Invasion is recommended for ages 10 and up for suspense and action scenes. Please see Good Reads for more information and reviews. https://bit.ly/Invasion_Reviews The Invasion is available as an audiobook on Hoopla. https://bit.ly/Invasion_HooplaAudioPlease visit www.calvertlibrary.info for more information.Music: Dub the Uke (excerpt) by Kara Square (c) copyright 2016. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/mindmapthat/53340 

Jake Tuura, Assistant Strength & Conditioning coach at Youngstown State University and mastermind behind jackedathlete.com, joins the show today to discuss jumper’s knee, power/force development, his time at Minnesota under Cal Dietz, coach-athlete relationships, having fun, vertical jump protocols, isometrics, tendons, and a whole lot more. Jake found his way to the weightroom through sports before his senior year in high school. When Jake went to college he had intentions of playing basketball, but was unable to play due to ongoing patellar tendinopathy (“jumper's knee”). Throughout this time he still tried various jump programs, but still ended up with the same patellar tendinopathy. Out of frustration, he stopped trying to play basketball and began to gravitate more towards lifting weights and trying to solve the problem of his jumper’s knee. Jake did his master’s degree internship under Cal Dietz at Minnesota, learning the ins and outs of Triphasic training. He then went to Minnesota Duluth and now is the Assistant Strength & Conditioning coach at Youngstown State University in Ohio. We kick it off discussing the disconnect between coaches and athletes and their view of the weightroom. Strength coaches tend to love all things lifting and only view the world through that lens, but athletes typically only love to play their sport and view strength and conditioning as a means to an end. Jake has learned to take a more realistic view on this and has found ways to build adherence and buy-in to the process. One example was changing the way he warmed athletes up. Rather than watching athletes mindlessly slog through a standard dynamic warm up, he found the use of games such as Spikeball to not only be more engaging, but better at increasing overall readiness. At the end of the day, Jake is always looking for ways to increase the collective buy-in of his athletes and make the training process enjoyable for them as opposed to following a more rigid model.  Next we discuss Jake’s time working under Cal Dietz and the Triphasic training model. First and foremost, Cal Dietz has a fantastic environment to maximize the benefits of the model, including a history of phenomenal professional athletes and a weight room set up perfectly for implementation. Jake’s initial exposure was completely foreign to him, but after being able to go through with the internship and ask a lot of questions, he wanted to implement it on his own. He quickly learned that implementation would be very difficult if you don’t have the facilities to do so, buy in from other coaches, or athletes with very different needs and personalities than one another. Jake had a similar experience with RPR, running into issues with athletes just going through the motions.  A big theme during this discussion is that the biggest rock in training athletes is buy-in, not only from a results standpoint, but in maintaining a health coach-client relationship so that their sports performance continues to improve. He learned how to mold his training to the athlete, not the other way round. Many of these lessons were the result of trial and error and making a lot of mistakes, which Kyle makes the point that those mistakes are necessary for growth and self discovery. Jake emphasizes that it was through failure and keeping an open mind that allowed him to progress to the point where he is now.  This leads us into coach-athlete relationships, and how the main goal has always been to improve performance, not establish relationships. Coaches need to keep the main goal at the center of their attention, which is getting results. Jake is realistic about relationship expectations, especially with such a large number of athletes coming through the door. He aims at being a good person and genuinely connecting with athletes through the training process.  Jake now takes us into the details of his own training. Currently, he’s in Wisconsin due to...

When Jake tries to Max Fischer his way into another extracurricular activity at the station, the other members of the Resistance Club take great umbrage. Meanwhile Worf fights a new enemy: the umbrage of his abandoned son Alexander. Is the big spoon the good spoon or the bad spoon? Yes…but is it art? How close is Shavasana to Sto'Vo'Kor? It's the episode where we're offered a drink and we ask why.

When Jake hatches a plan to cheer his dad up, it becomes a teachable moment for Nog to explain why money is good. But when the Noh-Jay Consortium is outbid, what seemed like a simple trip to the village store becomes a nearly interminable item-collection quest. What's the last part of the brain to die from oxygen deprivation? How does one identify Jeffrey Combs in public? How many loyalty points does Weyoun earn for his stay at DS9? It's the episode where the A storyline really seems like it's a B storyline.  Follow The Game of Buttholes: The Will of the Prophets! Support the production of The Greatest Generation. Music by Adam Ragusea & Dark Materia  Follow Adam and Ben on Twitter, and discuss the show using the hashtag #GreatestGen! Facebook group | Subreddit | Wiki Sign up for our mailing list!

You have too much to offer to let this gift go. This gift is a blessing, but it can also be a burden and a curse. When Jake plays the piano, there’s something in there that makes me cry. Every single time. Your drawings and your artwork have that same power. When you create something, it shows others what is inside you. But more importantly, it shows them what is inside them. In the Spirit of Medicine features the essays of Dr. Arne Vainio, an enrolled member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and a family practice doctor on the Fond Du Lac reservation in Cloquet. His essays on life, work, medicine, and spirit are published on Indianz.com and you can find the transcript of this story below. My brother died this morning By Arne Vainio, M.D. January 30, 2014 Christmas was two days ago. Ivy and Jake and I made a 150 mile or so round trip to put ice candles on my Finnish grandmother’s grave. A year ago my brother Kelly met us at the cemetery as he only lives a block away from there. I was

12/31/2019 Our last guest of 2019 was our good friend, Kevin Jentes. He is a graduate of Los Alamitos and is currently studying at Grace College in Indiana. Since we haven't been around for a few days, we started by pointing out some of our highlights from the holiday. These ranged from Throw, Throw Burrito and disc golf to celebrating a wedding and other group celebrations (0:00-22:50). Then we recapped the college football playoff semifinals games between LSU/Oklahoma and Clemson/Ohio State, and talked about the end of the NFL regular season (22:50-45:00). Jake took a break, so Jacob and Kevin talked about disc golf and bowling for a little while (45:00-52:30). When Jake got back we heard from Kevin about his parents and his siblings, and some details about life at Grace College and what he's studying there (52:30-1:07:40). From there the conversation took an unexpected turn and we had an in-depth look into the game of Minecraft, which has been a major part of Jake and Kevin's lives for quite some time and is much more complicated than it sounds (1:07:40-1:22:25). Moving into more important things, we had some discussion with Kevin about some of the people who have influenced him and the personalities and dynamics present in his relationships with his siblings (1:22:25-1:42:40). We concluded our conversation with Kevin giving a detailed look into his faith journey from being the son and grandson of pastors to the most influential three weeks of his life one summer and a couple really important verses for him (1:42:40-2:12:15). Have a fantastic start to your year and decade! Please listen, comment and share!

Jake Hunter has only just arrived in the Tasmanian town on Dunton. He’s sought out the remote Tasmanian town to escape unnamed troubles back in Melbourne, but is struggling to adjust, especially because no one has connected the electricity in his tiny police issue accommodation.Early one morning Jake is called in to the search for a boy, missing from the local campgrounds. The boy is quickly found, cold and terrified in a decrepit vineyard, reporting a monster that had pursued him. When Jake investigates he discovers the body of an aged woman. She’s quickly identified as the retired headmistress of a nearby school for troubled girls. The first thing Jake notices is each of her finger nails have been removed; gruesome enough, until the postmortem reveals further horrors…

From Publishers Weekly: In Lyle’s ingenious third mystery featuring retired major league pitcher Jake Longly (after 2017’s A-List), Jake, who runs a restaurant in Gulf Shores, Ala., is again roped into working for his father Ray’s PI firm. An attorney has contacted Ray on behalf of Billy Wayne Baker, a convicted serial killer. Though Baker pleaded guilty to strangling seven women, he insists that he killed only five of them, and wants that assertion validated. When Jake meets Baker in prison, the murderer refuses to name the other killer, claiming that doing so would lead to accusations that Jake’s inquiries were biased. The investigator’s task is made even harder by Baker’s not even identifying which of the dead women were killed by someone else . (To his credit, Lyle makes this complicated scenario credible.) Along with his girlfriend, Jake travels to Pine Key, Fla., the scene of three of the strangulations, where the couple pretend to be researching a documentary examining the impact of the killings on the small community. The clever plot twists will surprise even genre veterans. This entry is the best in the series so far.

Empower by Example Episode 12 Jake Goodman, Executive Director of The Opportunity Fund https://www.theopportunityfund.org     In our second episode with Jake Goodman from The Opportunity Fund, Jake and I talk openly about our personal struggle with imposter syndrome. As Jake states, in almost everything that we fund, people are going to do even if they don’t have access to the funds. We realize that the founders of these amazing programs and initiatives will run their programs without paying themselves. We become close with the people and programs we fund.   When Jake asks me what I have learned by coming back to Pittsburgh after 13 years, we begin discussing the disparities between the haves and the have nots in Pittsburgh. We frankly question the existence of foundations and ask if Pittsburgh is one of the most philanthropic regions in the nation, why are the disparities still so profound?   The Rock Family Foundation and The Opportunity Fund work together and parallel to each other in many ways. Our partnership is important because we amplify our impact and our message when we support the same programs and funding areas. We are both currently working on the renovations for Downtown Pittsburgh’s low barrier winter homeless shelter. If you have questions about where we fund and how we decide which projects to back, please email Laura at rockfamilyfoundation@gmail.com.   https://www.post-gazette.com/social-services/2019/11/12/Winter-homeless-shelter-Allegheny- County-Smithfield-United-Church-Christ-Pittsburgh-Mercy/stories/201911120096   Music by Buscrates (https://www.instagram.com/buscrates/?hl=de)

This week on the Mandolins and Beer Podcast, I talk with the incredibly talented Jacob Jolliff. Jake is currently on the road with Yonder Mountain String Band website. When Jake is not on the road with Yonder, you can find him promoting his incredible release Instrumentals Vol. 1 which you can purchase from his website. Be sure to follow Jake on his social media pages. Facebook and Instagram As always, thank you to my sponsors The Mandolin Cafe and Peghead Nation! You can support this podcast by going to my website Mandolins and Beer and purchasing some merch or going to my Patreon page! And last but not least, follow the Mandolins and Beer Spotify Playlist

When Jake makes Dr. Bashir the subject of a writing assignment it feels like he's shot himself in the foot, creatively. But when they're dropped into a war zone and days away from rescue, he'll find out if the pen is mightier than the bat'leth. Do all ships in Starfleet get their own workout shirts? Where's the ideal place to park a runabout? You do believe me, don't you dad? It's the episode where we lost the belt.

When Jake entered Islam, he was immediately influenced by the Quran-only movement. This is a loosely organized group of thinkers who reject the Hadith and do not reference the Sunna as a source of guidance. After nearly a decade of being with this group, he shares with us the main verse that changed his mind. He also tells us about the bizarre followers of self-proclaimed "messenger" Rashad Khalifa and the theory of 19.

This Camporee will exercise everyone’s faith, but Jake’s more than anyone else’s. When Jake first arrived in Discovery Mountain, he wasn’t sure that God was calling him...and a campsite neighbor might make him wonder that again. What will he do?

This Camporee will exercise everyone’s faith, but Jake’s more than anyone else’s. When Jake first arrived in Discovery Mountain, he wasn’t sure that God was calling him...and a campsite neighbor might make him wonder that again. What will he do?

This week’s conversation is with Jake Olson, an entrepreneur, athlete, speaker and most recently a graduate at the University of Southern California.When Jake was 8 months old, he was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer, retinoblastoma. The disease claimed his left eye at 10 months old and in November 2009, Jake lost his right eye after battling the cancer for 12 years.He has used his experience to inspire and motivate others by authoring two books, creating a non-profit foundation to help visually impaired children and support cancer research and by sharing his story openly as a motivational speaker.Jake is also a life-long USC football fan.While in high school he learned to long snap and was the starting long snapper for his team his junior and senior year.After being accepted to USC, he was offered a walk on spot with the USC football team and had his first opportunity to snap in a live collegiate game on September 2, 2017 and was named the Pac-12 special teams player of the week.On May 19, he’ll be participating in the 7th Annual Tour de Pier in Manhattan Beach, raising money for cancer research around the globe and psycho-social support for families battling the disease in the South Bay.You can learn more at TourdePier.com.This episode is brought to you by:Athletic Greens: Athletic Greens has a new podcast called "Inspiring Lives." I hope you'll check it out! I was recently a guest on their podcast!Receive a free 20-count travel pack of Athletic Greens (valued at $99) with any purchase!Claim here: athleticgreens.com/findingmastery

Sometimes chasing your dream requires you to walk away from the path you thought was laid out before you and make a leap and take a risk. If you allow others to tell you what’s right for your life, then chances are that you’ll encounter anxiety. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re talking to someone who has learned how to find peace and purpose in life. Jake Heilbrunn is a TEDx speaker and bestselling author of Off the Beaten Trail, endorsed by multiple NYT bestsellers. He has spoken across the US and internationally to 12,000+ people about replacing anxiety with purpose and creating a career you love. He is the co-founder of The Idea Collective, which helps thought leaders get their message out through speaking engagements and TEDx talks. Conquering anxiety When do you experience anxiety? When Jake went to college at age 18, he broke out with hives and rashes due to severe anxiety. Doctors couldn’t help, and he became depressed and questioned everything about his life. Jake left school with a backpack and flew to Guatemala, where he taught English and lived in the jungle for several months. When he learned mindfulness, meditation, peace, and purpose, he experienced a 180-degree shift. He soon learned that many young people are battling anxiety, so Jake felt the calling to help others through his speaking opportunities and writing his book. TWEET: Anxiety was debilitating, so once I found out what helped mine, I knew I could help others with the same thing. #chasingdreams Social media How much time do you spend on social media each day? Statistics show that American teenagers spend an average of 4 hours daily on social media! It’s the place where dangerous comparisons are made, and each one of us can play a part in changing the narrative. Social media can be used for good, but we all fall into the trap of viewing others’ lives as “perfect,” because of the selective glimpses we get. We have to remember that we see what people want us to see, and much of it isn’t real. We can see the same post as thousands of people, but we may have a different perception. Jake explains how our brains can be changed because of the influence of social media. TWEET: Social media plays a huge role in the lives of American teenagers, and it is changing their brains. #chasingdreams Taking a leap How do you know which path to follow? Jake didn’t know what career path he would follow after college, but he saw someone’s Instagram post about a meaningful trip to Mexico, and he decided to pay $1000 for a trip. Jake says the trip “called out to me.” As if the universe reinforced his decision, he won $1000 in an unrelated book marketing contest the next day. On his trip to Guatemala, he met the person who later became his business partner. Sometime later, they started The Idea Collective to help people develop TEDx talks. Their company has grown to a team of 13 people. TWEET: Knowing you’re not alone means everything. #chasingdreams OUTLINE OF THIS EPISODE: [1:03] What’s happened since Jake’s last appearance [2:58] Jake’s journey to mental health [5:23] How Jake’s perception has changed [10:53] Positivity that can be negative [12:56] What influences you the most [16:05] Jake’s company and his role [24:31] Following a gut instinct [28:56] A place of positivity   RESOURCES MENTIONED: Jake is previously featured on Episode 63 Jake on Facebook Jake on Instagram Jake on LinkedIn Jake’s Website Jake’s TEDx--How to Replace Anxiety with Purpose Jake’s Jack Canfield Interview Jake’s Behind-the-Scenes interview TWEETS YOU CAN USE: TWEET: I felt a calling to help others come through anxiety and find their purpose. #chasingdreams TWEET: Not knowing what you want to do is OK. #chasingdreams TWEET: One of our core values is radical transparency. #chasingdreams  

3PP 27, Work/Life Balance SVSLearn.com Just a reminder this podcast is sponsored entirely by SVSLearn.com. This is the place to be if you want to become a children’s book illustrator. We have 80+ courses apart of our subscription, we also have a few 5-10 week long interactive courses that will be starting up in May. We are running a 7 day free trial right now and you can try it out and see if you like it. We are starting to record our podcast as a video and will be uploading it to Youtube. Work/Life Balance Our topic today is Work/ Life Balance. We have gotten a lot of people asking us about this and we’ve talked about this before on our old webinar, which was the precursor to this podcast, hopefully we will be able to address it from a few different angles today. This is something that everyone is concerned with and it affects all of us each day. The Basics of Establishing a Work/Life Balance We were thinking about going over what to do with your time once you have established a work/life balance, but we wanted to start with the basics of establishing a work/life balance and share some experiences from different phases of our lives. We thought that starting with the basics would be beneficial. Is it possible to always have work/life balance? No. There are some phases that aren’t going to have as great of a work/life balance. When Lee was at Art Center, it was like boot camp, he was doing art from the second he woke up to the second he went to sleep, and he didn’t have good working methods back then which may have helped alleviate some of that. There were other phases where the balance was skewed, i.e. having a baby. Balance is not the norm but there are ups and downs and ebbs and flows and rhythms to our work/life balance. There are times for more work/life balance. Life is everything besides work: Spending time with family, with your spouse or significant other, exercise, recreation, playing games, etc. Learn to Do Hard Things Will has noticed that for a lot of young people, including one of his children, that they struggle to do really hard things. When Will was young he participated in Boy Scouts, and for that he was in an axe competition that took all day chopping down trees till his hands were bleeding. Probably one of the hardest experiences he had was when he hiked a mountain in the winter time starting at 5am and they didn’t set up camp till 5pm. Experiences like that, where you push yourself and your body to the limit, it makes other things pale in comparison and seem less difficult. Some people don’t have hard experiences like that to build on. Things that might seem easy to some seem impossible to them. However, compared to others throughout the history of the world, Will has never done a full days work in his life. There are kids today, who have really never worked a day in their lives. Lee was teaching a painting class and students were commenting on how they had spent 6 or 8 hours on their master copy painting, but when he was in school that was just the start most of his would take around approximately 12 hours long. That was the norm. Nowadays we lean towards that instant gratification mindset and 5 hours can seem like forever. If we change our mindset on how long we think something should take it can change our whole attitude towards the project. Work/life Balance is not a balance so much as it is more like an ebb and flow. There are times where you need to put everything into work, there are times of life and times of the year, or the project, during those times your life becomes the work. There are other times in life where you need to focus more on family and on friendships and it’s okay to hold back on work some to focus on those most important things, maybe you just had a baby, or got married, or had a death in the family, etc. There is a way to have that ebb and flow day to day as well. The main rule is: be present wherever you are at and in whatever you are doing. When you are at work, be 100 percent at work. When you are with your family, don’t be on your phone, be 100 percent present. Jake’s mom just passed away and that is one of those personal experiences that we will all experience in our lives. Jake went and visited her before she passed and had a really special time taking care of her, talking with her, and holding her hand. He came back to Utah and her condition was worsening. He had some rough days, and had been planning on going to Emerald City Comic Con and he was debating if he should go or stay in case he needed to go back to Arizona for his mom. Jake’s mom wasn’t the type of person who wanted to cause too many waves and wouldn’t want to get in the way of family or work. She was really cool about stepping back. Jake’s sister told Jake to go and that if there was an emergency they would fly him out. He went to the event and did his best despite the undercurrent of sadness and thoughts about his mom. He tries to be present and do his best wherever he is. Work With Intensity and Focus in All Categories of Your Life It’s a conscious choice, I’m here and I’m working. It’s a very important thing to think about and to apply to every part of your life. Learning art can be overwhelming. There is this undercurrent to art, that you should be working all the time. 21:42 While in his early 20’s Lee’s Dad got Cancer at a young age: 54 years old. Lee was living in California and his dad was in Nashville. Lee had a lot of friends in Nashville and he was trying to schedule a time to go out there to visit his father but also be able to see his friends and get the most bang for his buck from the trip. Sadly, his dad passed away when Lee was en route to see him, and that is Lee’s one regret. Time is so precious. Lee and his wife, Lisa, took his 8 year old son out of school for a few days just to go on a trip with him, and he really just wants to treasure his time with him. Nikola Tesla, and Steve Jobs they would wear the same outfit everyday so they didn’t have to waste any time thinking of what they were going to wear. Will has always wanted to get to the point where he realizes that time is short and that time is really so precious. We have that luxury some with being an artist where we are passionate about what we are doing. Some other jobs where you just clock in and out feel like you are just selling 8 hours of your life to that company. When you are creating your own art and you are getting better, and you are inventing yourself as an artist etc. That should become your “video game.” So many people get so addicted to games that they schedule it to where nothing else in the world will interrupt their game time. There are times as an artist where it needs to interrupt your pleasure time. The better you get the more fun it becomes, then you are able to start realizing the dreams you have. The work you put down on paper starts to mimic the vision you had. It becomes more fun when you are able to visualize something and then create it. It becomes a lot more fun when you are able to get past worrying so much about your technique. That’s an important part of work life balance, when you don’t struggle with the technique anymore and it becomes just the vision of what you are trying to say. Struggling with technique doubles your time on any individual piece. Once that goes away, then you are off to the races really quick! Jake’s Phases of Work/Life Balance. Teens: All about have experiences and drawing. Twenties: Got married and had kids, worked to master his craft. It was all: Family, work, family, work. Not much time for friends, health, or hobbies. That’s where he got really good at his style, finding tools he liked, exploring a lot of different things, etc. He experimented a lot: messed around with modeling, animation, comics, storyboarding. Thirties: Refining. He had mastered a lot of these things now it was time to pick one path, and zero in on getting better with his health and family. Also to put into practice those things so you can go on your own path. Children's books, and comics, and freelance. Getting into a position to where you can do your own thing. Started SVS. Forties: simplifying even more. Had a little more time for health and family. Now it’s Planning his trajectory to where he can do things like Will: stop working in the afternoon, and do something for his health/ a hobby for a couple of hours, and then spend the evenings with family. There are different phases that you go through. There will be some ebb and flow. Try and plan for it. Do things that will help give you that life balance. Don’t think you can maintain a constant. Be present and lean into your free time and lean into your work when you need to. Different things that help give us work/life balance. Lower Your Monthly Expenses Lowering your expenses is so much easier than making more money. If you have a full time job and you do that for 8-10 hours a day, and then you want to work on illustration at night and want to also spend quality time with your family. It can be difficult. There are only so many hours in the day. For example, if you can cut your expenses to where you don’t have to work full time but can work part time, then you can spend those hours you gained back working on your craft. Getting your financial life in order is a worthy pursuit. Start investigating it. A couple of things to check out: Dave Ramsey has a great podcast. This really got Lee started on wanting to be debt free. In the US you can have so much credit. Too much, credit, be wise and get out of debt. Lee and his wife were really interested in the the idea of being debt free. Lee’s wife came across a website called, Mr. Money Mustache which is all about penny pinchers to the extreme. For most of us, ultimately, we don’t like to work. Over at Mr. Money Mustache, those guys focus on early retirement, how to get off the treadmill. This got Lee and his wife thinking, is it possible to do this? So they started looking at where they spent their money. Some of it was ridiculous and easy to cut out immediately. Fast forward 8 or 9 years later from that point, they’re debt free. Which has made a massive difference. Now Lee can do what he wants to now. He still needs some money but it’s just so much different with how he feels about work. It’s just not as intense. They now fully owns their house, 100%. They have a renter and now they are making a profit. The difference between now and before is about $3000. Before he was having to spend $2200 now he doesn’t spend anything and he gets a rent income of $1400 a month. Lee’s our inspiration. When you are in a financial bind it’s really difficult. Will and his wife went through a time when they were not the best with their money and had a financial meltdown. He got to the point where he was waiting on some checks and he had to break into a coin jar he had collected to get money for gas and groceries, Will also had a big jar of pennies and they had to break into that jar to get some groceries: a bag of potatoes, bread, and a gallon of milk, etc. You shop differently when you’re in a situation like that; all while waiting for that check. Lee’s in a really good financial situation. Lee doesn’t come from money. He had no help, loans, gifts, no big inheritance. Their first home was 1 bedroom, 1 bath. He had a stated income loan. He is a success story from the time of the Great Recession. They were responsible with money. They didn’t buy a home that they couldn’t afford but just barely got in under the wire. Jake was working at Blue Sky, working full time in the animation industry, making a healthy 6 figure a year income. He liked it but what he really wanted to do was to be independent, to work out of his home office, doing the projects he wanted to do. But he knew that if he did that he would take a drastic pay cut for years until he could build it up and get enough work and things going to match that. His wife said, we can’t live here in Connecticut where you have to have 6-figure income to afford the houses here. So they decided to move to Provo, UT, which, at the time, all of the housing prices there were just dropping. They found this foreclosed home, the yard was trashed, the inside was trashed and they got it for a great price.Their house has never been a financial burden to them. It has made a huge difference in the amount of work that they had to take on, and it’s been a big blessing to them in the work life balance that Jake’s been able to find, for the past 8 years that they’ve been living in that house. Be sure to buy a house that you can comfortably afford. Don’t spread yourself and your finances too thin. Back to Lee: He and his wife started thinking about becoming debt free during a time when the idea seemed extremely outrageous. They had bought that first home (1 bedroom, 1 bath) with no down payment and now they had just taken on a $225,000 loan. Lee had barely any income. They bought this home in an area that was transitioning from being a dangerous place to becoming more gentrified. Lee didn’t know how to do any home repair, so he went to Home Depot and got that orange book that teaches you how to do all home repairs. He redid all of the electrical, flooring, tiling, plumbing, they even tore out a plaster ceiling, etc. He was illustrating books by day and renovating his home by night. Lee noticed his neighbors were moving and he offered to buy their house, with no money. So they sold their 1 bedroom house and made a profit. Then they bought that other house and had a higher mortgage but still wanted to become debt free. He was a broken record back then about wanting to be debt free and all of his friends told him it was impossible. Lisa’s grandparents had passed away and left an old beat up home. Lee and Lisa went and lived there for free in exchange for fixing it up. They rented their new home out to pay the mortgage on that home. They lived in their grandparents old home for free while his renters paid for their mortgage. This gave them a taste for renting your house out. They started to make these huge sacrifices and huge strides to living debt free. They started renting their house out on Airbnb whenever they went on vacation. The other thing is you need to get debt free is to live somewhere affordable. You will have a hard time if you live in Portland or somewhere extremely expensive as an artist and expect to get debt free. They moved out of Portland to Nashville which isn’t super cheap but much more affordable than Portland. They spent 5 years getting ready to do that. They ended up buying a third home and spent 5 years fixing that home up getting ready to sell it. Lee spent 12 years, in total, fixing up houses. It took them those last 5 years to prepare to make the move to Nashville. Lowering your expenses takes effort. You may have to move, you may have to shift things around, you may have to lower your standard of living, you may have to get roommates. But if you lower how much you have to make, your time will expand. How do you feel today about having to take a job vs. the beginning of your career? At the beginning of Will’s career he took everything that came in, he took all jobs. There were a lot of jobs he took in that he hated and didn’t want to do. Now Lee takes jobs now that move him emotionally and creatively. He doesn’t take jobs for the money now. It’s vastly different. You go through different stages in your career. In the beginning Lee also would take everything, not just for the money, but for the exposure, “I need to be published.” You’ve got to have some credibility of working as a pro and meeting with art directors etc. You have to go through that grind. As you get better technically, the jobs become more rewarding. As you go further along in your career and don’t have to take those jobs that don’t match up with what you want to do, as well. So this is a career that just becomes more and more rewarding as you go through it. If you are in a position to provide for your family or for yourself as well, it doesn’t really matter where you make your money; it doesn’t have to be from art. If you have to side hustle and make money from Airbnb on the side that is just as respectable as taking on 3 extra illustration jobs. All through his 20’s-30’s Jake’s mindset was: it has to be art, that’s all I’m good at. But now his mindset has shifted, it could be helping his wife to start a business, or they get a rental property, or Airbnb, or flip a car, etc. There are many respectable sources of income apart from art. At some point, you need to do what you need to do to make ends meet. Leave some portion of making art for yourself so that you can enjoy it and get something out of it, rather than just paying for the bills. Be a Scheduler This complements our step 1) Work With Intensity. If you don’t know what you need to do it’s hard to work with intensity. From 8-12 I’m going to be doing this thing, from 12-4 I’m going to be doing this thing, etc. Some of our scheduling strategies: Lee works for around 8 hours a day. He will work for 50 minute chunks and then take 10 minutes off. During those 10 minute breaks he will stand up and walk around and move. As illustrators we can work for hours and hours being stationary and it’s not good for our health. As illustrators sometimes our posture can get really bad because we are always leaning over to draw and may not have the best chair situation. Jake switched to a stool and has been sitting on a stool for the past 6-7 years and that has helped him sit up straight and has helped him not have back pain. Lee has this climbing harness type thing that helps pull his shoulders back, the natural position for drawing is rolling your shoulders forward. If you do that enough, the chest muscles become contracted and the arm muscles on the back of the arm become elongated and your body can get used to being in that state. It can become hard to get out of that state because your body has adjusted to it. It’s important to think about your health. All of the stuff we are talking about today are long term strategies because if we are going to be doing this for life we want to figure this stuff out. You need to take time to look at your calendar and figure out what you are doing. When Jake got started working for himself, he would look back at his day and realize he had nothing to show for the day despite having been in the studio for 8-9 hours, he didn’t even know what he had done. So he started doing a time audit where every minute of the day was accounted for. I.e. The last half hour, I confess I surfed Twitter, but then the next half hour I buckled down and got that illustration done, and then for these 3 hours I did this, then I spent 2 hours clearing out my inbox, etc. He did this for months, recording how he was spending his time, and making to do lists and checking things off. Once he had done that time audit and could see where his time was being spent, then he could widdle out stuff that was unproductive. He used to think that he could get so much done at night after the kids went to bed, and that used to be the case because he was younger and had more energy, but now as he’s aged he’s noticed that for 3 hours spent at night could get that same amount of work done in the morning in just 1.5 hours. So he’s 50% less productive at night. So he decided to take the times where he’s most productive and put the most creative work into those hours, and to take the time where he’s least productive and that’s when he’ll surf Twitter, watch Youtube videos, read a book, watch a movie, etc.That way he’s not doing unproductive stuff during unproductive time. This has made a huge difference with how he sets up his schedule. The other thing with this is that he doesn’t want to stay up late watching Youtube videos so he goes to bed earlier, and wakes up earlier, and gets more work done before his kids get up in the morning. It’s an overall refining of his schedule and how he works. Will doesn’t write things down but he knows what he needs to get things done and he thinks about it a lot. What Lee has learned about being a scheduler is that once you write it down you don’t have to worry about it and think about it but it’s just done. Will does use a to do list but he doesn’t put a timestamp down trying to figure out how long everything will take. Jake’s perspective on Will: Will does have a to do list, he comes into work focused on his MIT (Most Important Task) and he is focused on getting that done. If anything else gets accomplished then that’s just gravy. Then he goes home. Sometimes he gets the thing done that he wanted to get done and he can leave. It’s pretty awesome and takes a lot of discipline. Part of it is that Will doesn’t want to sit at a desk all day. He likes to break up his workday. Because his kids are grown he does a lot of drawing at home later on. He breaks his day into thirds: 1) morning/afternoon: work. 2) afternoon: exercise, shopping for the family, doing things with them. 3) nights) draw and get work done at home, especially the drawing aspect, he can do that anywhere with the iPad. Will has found a schedule that really works for him. Everyone should put a priority on that. Some people work better and are more creative at night. Some people, like Lee work better in the morning, etc. Jake’s daily schedule: 4:30-5:00AM: Wake up, get an hour of work in. 6:00-9:00AM: Make breakfast, take kids to school, work out/go on a run, shower and head to the studio. 9:30/10AM-12:30/1PM: Straight creative time, do the most cognitively demanding work, same with his early morning work time. 1PM-5:30PM: Afternoon is focused on administrative stuff, recording podcasts, meetings, checking email (Inbox zero method), phone calls, meetings, etc. 6-7:30/8PM: Family Time. Dinner, spending time with kids, helping them with school projects, etc. 8-9PM: Decompressing, reading taking notes, maybe write a little for a comic project, then go to bed. Tries to get 7 hours of sleep a night. Good schedules are something that are thought about. Not just random. That was Jake’s weekdays. The weekdays are super focused but the weekends are not. Friday nights he will stay up late watching a movie with one of his kids. Saturdays he sleeps in and will go on a nice long run in the morning, does chores, house stuff, etc. Sundays are completely a day of rest, he goes to church, spends time with his family, plays board games, maybe they make a dessert, watches a Miyazaki film, completely unplugs, tries not to even look at his phone. Then after a weekend like that he is itching to get back to work and it’s no problem waking up at 4:30 in the morning to start another work week. Lee’s Workday Schedule: Lee is naturally an early riser, he tried to be like Jake and wake up early and go straight to work but was feeling some resistance there. Feel things out, if you are feeling some internal resistance, then try and change it up. He would wake up and try to work and would feel antsy, he couldn’t just stumble from his bedroom to his office and start working. He wakes up at 5-5:30 and will do an intense workout, always something athletic, he will go on a run or lift weights, and will spend 1-1.5 hours doing that. Once he got on that schedule it was perfect for him and he would come back home or to the office, wherever he is working that day, feeling balanced, having burned through some of that weird energy and he’s ready to sit down and work because he’s already got some exercise. Monday, Wednesday, Friday: he has designated those days to be an illustrator, that’s when he does his book work. He has a separate studio away from his home and that’s where he does his illustration work. He will work there for 8-10 hours with his 50 minute blocks. He is focused, just does illustration, doesn’t answer the phone, it’s a very focused time frame for him. Tuesday, Thursday: are for teaching, for doing SVS, for recording podcasts. Lee can never do anything halfway, he gets intensely interested in things. Avoiding a trip up with being a scheduler: Before when Lee would get out his calendar and start scheduling he would schedule out the perfect day and with no space for error, he was going to be the epitome of productivity, and then he’d get a revision or something unexpected would pop up and throw everything out of whack. Finally, after a number of frustrating years trying to deal with that he realized something: it’s so easy, don’t be idealistic, leave open space in between the projects. All of the sudden things started working out a lot more smoothly. Obviously, you have to account for things you don’t expect, but by not trying to schedule a perfect day enabled him to have perfect days, if that makes sense. Don’t get frustrated if your schedule gets thrown out of whack. It’s still good to know what the the schedule should be so that if things start going off track and it’s your fault, you can get back on track. A good schedule is your armature to hang everything on. Be willing to dodge and weave as needed. The calendar is a guide/ armature. You will never stick to it, some things take longer, some things are shorter. That’s an important concept, before Lee would derail himself and go from having a crazy scheduled day to no schedule and nothing else would get done. On the weekends Lee has nothing scheduled. Live Life In order to be a good illustrator, it’s not about your craft, it’s not about your technique, it’s about your experiences that you are trying to share with people. It’s, what are you creating art about? What are you trying to share about? You can’t do that if you are vapid, if you don’t have anything inside of you. So you’ve got to have experiences, you’ve got to have a life outside of the studio, you’ve got to have hobbies or something like that. Once you get through that stage of life where there’s that intensity to master your craft and you get there, once you’re sort of on this track where you set your schedule and you’ve got some room in there for balance, it informs your art. Maybe even before then, you find a way that you can do stuff, you can travel (not traveling to Europe, but maybe just across town, or to that museum you’ve been meaning to go to). You need to fill your creative bank account, you need to fill it with creative capital and use it to know what to create art about. Jake’s family will always go on a summer vacation for 2 weeks to a month, depends on the schedule. They’ll do a road trip and go to New York to visit family. It’s a time to have experiences, to spend time with family, and just to have fun. The kids all sleep in a cramped beach house, and they get to play actual games like Cornhole that don’t involve buttons. Jake also raises chickens, which is sometimes fun. A lot people listening to this might be in school and not have the finances that we have. Back then Will would find time to exercise, and it was always running and that’s about it. Now he flies model airplanes, plays the bass, goes hiking, goes mountain biking, plays racquetball 3 days a week, sometimes he snowboards. Really work hard in the beginning, you have more bandwidth and capacity to work hard then. You don’t see many 80 year olds starting at 9 in the morning and going until they drop at night. You can do that when your are in your 20s, 30s, and even 40s. What you do is as important as taking time to work on other things. Will can see a lot of his childhood experiences in his newest Bonaparte book. He’s putting things in there from his childhood. It’s all about those raw experiences, you need to make time to have those meaningful and special experiences. If Will could do it all over again, he’d have spent money differently in the beginning, and became more financially independent earlier on. He would have cut out half of the work that he did early on, because he did so much horrible work: jobs that were so heavily art directed that he wasn’t happy with the work afterwards, and the client probably didn’t care too much about it either, after the fact. All 3 of us are later in our careers, where we’ve all been doing this for 20 years or more. Don’t get frustrated, if you’re like: “I’m never going to get there.” Jake never thought he’d get to where he is right now. There was a time in his life where he wondered if this was even possible. Will also questioned if he could do it early on too. We work smart not hard. We don’t spend as much time spinning our wheels. The execution is quicker. We’ve spent all of that time making those mistakes before. It’s like the guy who, when Will would help him move a couch, had already prepped the whole house, he had already put things away so they wouldn’t trip, and had tied the hide-a-bed down so it wouldn’t spring out and put a ding in the wall. He had done all that prep work so that when we would go to move, we would move it and it would be done, there weren’t a lot of mistakes made. Art is much the same way. When you’ve figured out your process, you just sit down and crank something out and it works out. It’s all about the mistakes you’re avoiding. I.e. Jake did 2 character designs the other day in 3 hours, 10 years ago, it would have been a 10 hour job, but now he’s got a system down, he knows how he’s working, and his intuition is finely attuned, he knows whether or not he is on the right track or not pretty quick. So the sad news for a student is that when you’ve worked 10 hours on a project, don’t pat yourself on the back, because you’ve only worked 3 good hours. Illustration is about experiences. How do those experiences affect illustration? Late teens to early twenties, Lee was really into competitive skateboarding. How he sees the world was changed. Even now when he goes down the stairs and sees a handrail, he sees it first as an obstacle, and second as a handrail. The whole world is like that. He has noticed that others don’t see the world the same way as he does. Skating was all about finding lines in these urban environments and it’s become a tool he uses now in his compositions. The way that he composes a picture has to do with the lines that he saw as a skateboarder. Each thing that you do complements other things that you do in life. And vice versa, how does illustration affect the way you see the world and other things in your life? The same goes for intensity, when Lee works out he tries to work out with intensity. Each of these things plays off of each other and make each other better. Try and see links between things. In Summary: Work With Intensity and Focus in All Categories of Your Life Lower Your Monthly Expenses Be A Scheduler Live Life Quote: “Make a daily appointment to disconnect from the world so that you can connect with yourself.” -Austin Kleon That’s what this work/life balance is all about: to disconnect from your world so that you can connect with yourself, so that when you are back to connecting with your work, with the world you know what to work on, what to talk about, and what your work is to be about. LINKS Svslearn.com Jake Parker: mrjakeparker.com Instagram: @jakeparker, Youtube: JakeParker44 Will Terry: willterry.com. Instagram: @willterryart, Youtube: WillTerryArt Lee White: leewhiteillustration.comInstagram: @leewhiteillo Alex Sugg: alexsugg.com Tanner Garlick: tannergarlickart.com. Instagram: @tannergarlick If you like this episode, please share it, subscribe, and we’d love it if you left a review! These podcasts live and die on reviews. If you want to join in on this discussion log onto forum.svslearn.com, there is a forum for this episode you can comment on.

In this interview, I talk with Jake who’s 32 years old and used my Bigger Leaner Stronger program to completely transform his physique. He shares his personal fitness journey, including what he was up to before finding me and my work and how it was going, and how things started to change after implementing the advice in my books and articles. The bigger picture looks like this: When Jake first found Bigger Leaner Stronger about six years ago, he was about 16% body fat at about 155 pounds, and today, he’s about 10% at 167 pounds and has added a ton of strength to all of his major lifts. Jake’s transformation wasn’t without struggles, of course. He ran into a number of roadblocks along the way that most of us can relate to, including issues with workout and meal scheduling, hunger and cravings, dietary temptations, and more. And in our chat, Jake shares what has most helped him navigate these barriers skillfully and prevent them from derailing his progress. So, if you like hearing motivational stories about how people have changed their bodies and lives, and if you want to pick up a few tips that may help you along in your personal journey, this episode is for you. 4:12 - What was your diet and fitness like before the Bigger Leaner Stronger program? 8:28 - How tall are you and how much did you weigh before you started the Bigger Leaner Stronger program? 13:07 - How do you eat well while traveling? 26:20 - What are your current numbers? 28:28 - What is your current body fat? 1:01:55 - What did Elon Musk say about feudalism on The Joe Rogan Experience? 1:02:32 - Did Elon Musk have a solution on how to slow down the progress of artificial intelligence?   Mentioned on the Show: MFL Coaching Jake's Book, Marooned Want to get my best advice on how to gain muscle and strength and lose fat faster? Sign up for my free newsletter! Click here: https://www.muscleforlife.com/signup/

Tread Perilously closes out its primetime soap month with a visit to Melrose Place and its fourth season episode, "Catch Her In The Lie." When Jake gets mad that Allison is spending too much time at the office while pregnant, he sets off on the road and ends up in a Central Coast town where one of his ex-girlfriends is raising a boy who might be Jake's son. Meanwhile, Peter and Taylor try to carry on an affair, but are stymied by ex-wives, schedules and overly-concerned employees. Micheal agrees to sleep with Kimberly one more time before she dies, leaving Megan feeling like an afterthought. Erik and Justin get into Los Angeles geography and the Melrose of the 1990s. Earth-tone lipstick, denim hats and Doc Martens are fondly recalled. Jake gets identified as the Wolverine of the cast while Grant Show gets identified as a prototype Jensen Ackles. Heather Locklear gets another spotlight. Erik discusses the backdoor pilot format of the 80s and 90s. The 4400's Billy Campbell ends up a topic thanks to a character name. Erik and Justin envision the Smuckers War. 1990s male hairstyles get reviewed and Justin irrationally decides Andrew Shue is the show's real villain. Also, Kelly Rutherford always deserves better.

Back to the Mirror Universe we go! When Jake is taken to the MU by the MU version of his dead mother, Sisko follows him there and becomes embroiled in the human resistance against the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. People get slapped, people make dinner, and people fly spaceships! It's all fun and games in DS9's Mirror Universe, I guess. Clay joins me to discuss the sexual dynamism of Cirroc Lofton, the serialization of the MU, and cutting the legs out of a story! Are you looking for older episodes? Find this and every other episode at The Pensky Podcast! Thanks for listening. Stay connected: • https://thepenskyfile.com/links/ • e-mail: thepenskyfilevideo(at)gmail.com

If you love Skulduggery Pleasant and Who Let the Gods Out by Maz Evans, you're going to love this! Embassy of the Dead is the first book in a spooky new series, where the living meets the dead and survival is a race against time! When Jake opens a strange box containing a severed finger, he accidentally summons a grim reaper to drag him to the Eternal Void. Yep, it's as fatal as it sounds. Now Jake's running for his life but luckily he isn't alone... he can see and speak to ghosts! Jake's hanging around with his deadly gang who all have one mission, to find the Embassy of the Dead and to seek protection! There's Stiffkey the undertaker, hockey stick-wielding Cora, and Zorro the ghost fox. Unfortunately, not everything is as it seems...

If you love Skulduggery Pleasant and Who Let the Gods Out by Maz Evans, you're going to love this! Embassy of the Dead is the first book in a spooky new series, where the living meets the dead and survival is a race against time! When Jake opens a strange box containing a severed finger, he accidentally summons a grim reaper to drag him to the Eternal Void. Yep, it's as fatal as it sounds. Now Jake's running for his life but luckily he isn't alone... he can see and speak to ghosts! Jake's hanging around with his deadly gang who all have one mission, to find the Embassy of the Dead and to seek protection! There's Stiffkey the undertaker, hockey stick-wielding Cora, and Zorro the ghost fox. Unfortunately, not everything is as it seems...

If you love Skulduggery Pleasant and Who Let the Gods Out by Maz Evans, you're going to love this! Embassy of the Dead is the first book in a spooky new series, where the living meets the dead and survival is a race against time! When Jake opens a strange box containing a severed finger, he accidentally summons a grim reaper to drag him to the Eternal Void. Yep, it's as fatal as it sounds. Now Jake's running for his life but luckily he isn't alone... he can see and speak to ghosts! Jake's hanging around with his deadly gang who all have one mission, to find the Embassy of the Dead and to seek protection! There's Stiffkey the undertaker, hockey stick-wielding Cora, and Zorro the ghost fox. Unfortunately, not everything is as it seems...

Full Stop by Christopher Patrick Performed by Colin Little, Hazel Ann Crawford, Kirsty Strain & Charlie Graham. When Jake loses his wife he does what all grieving husbands would do. Buys cheap whiskey and hides in his attic from the in-laws. Will his sister and best friend be able to convince him to come down? And will they have to put up with his wife's family for much longer? The only thing worse than death is dealing with the family in the aftermath. Thankfully, attics were built for hiding.

When Jake checked into detox, he wasn’t planning on going into long-term treatment. But after he heard the stories of MARR clients who were volunteering at the detox facility, he... The post Ep 8: Moments of Surrender appeared first on MARR Addiction Treatment Center.

Jake is the founder of two fantastic companies in sales and lead gen, he’s a real wealth of knowledge on how to grow your business with outbound tactics. At Lead Cookie, he helps B2B sales teams generate more leads through done-for-you Linkedin Prospecting. The service is 100% risk free as we have a 30 day money back guarantee. I scaled Lead Cookie from Zero to $33k MRR as a productized service in 6 months. At Outbound Creative, he helps agencies win their dream clients through custom consulting.   Prior to starting Lead Cookie, he ran business development for a video production agency and won the business of multiple Fortune 500 clients and A-List touring artists. He doesn’t have an office, but loves Colorado and can be frequently be found traveling the world. He and his team are 100% remote, with no plans to change.Early beginnings Jake started with  a recording studio at his basement from the age of 16-19 years old where he charges bands $10 a song to record them; into a full-time audio production company. Eventually he paired with another guy as business partners and ended up forming a video production and animation agency; and ended up stumbling into multiple fortune 500 client. He sold his first business to his partner and went into consulting for several years. A year ago, he ramped up Lead Cookie and has been a huge success since it kicked off.Sales & Systems (~2:30) Jake’s expertise is on building outbound sales process. He thinks that a lot of people struggle to get going or to get that right, so he focused his career on it for several years. His agency started using outbound to grow and get more clients by first running a dream client campaign where their target customers are worth up to the top, like event planners in the industry which led to their first customers closing huge fortune 500 deals.Starting Lead Cookie (~5:55) Jake came across LinkedIn when he was doing solo consulting. When he got a customer without doing anything that intentional, he dabbled more into using LinkedIn by researching about thought leaders of the industry and learn about their best tactics and how to master the platform. He studied Josh Turner and John Nimmo, looked at what they were doing, teaching, and he went out and started testing the tactics that they were teaching which led into his first-month booking 11 phone calls, had another 10 leads in the scheduling process, then ended up closing three deals within 60 days. When Jake saw that most were focusing on Facebook Marketing and Facebook Advertising and there was almost no one specializing in LinkedIn. He was getting more clients from LinkedIn than anywhere else; this made him focus on the LinkedIn platform and provide a productized service.Productizing The Service (~9:20) They optimize on people’s profiles, send a four-step drip sequence to prospects on a daily basis and they ramp up traffic to their LinkedIn profile. They just focus on this one thing that they know works and when paired with the right customer, they basically know that they will see results for them. They don’t take things that are custom when people try to push them out of their process. Building out those processes do let them operate at a lower cost They give away scripts and they teach online on their website. They have an ebook where they literally teach all of their tactics (https://leadcookie.com/ebook) He shared their secret sauce which is the organization of the processes and their ability to take all of that time off someone’s daily work.Ramping up Traffic on your LinkedIn profile (~12:35) Jake introduces Dux Soup, a Google Chrome extension that will basically go visit 500 profiles of target prospects every day which they just use for visiting profiles. It is a tool that will get you more eyeballs on your profile, leading to getting inbound connection requests. You’ll see traffic to your profile jump up by a thousand percent typically after about a month and doing it every day. So if you have your profile optimized, you've got good copy on there, you have an engaging and an engaging headline and a call to action, this can be a great way to drive leads to your business. Dux soup is $15 a month, set this up in five minutes a day. It’s a super quick, easy tactic if you don't have that much time and you're just kind of wanting to ramp this up as another channel.Sales Analytics and Automation (~15:50) You need to try to be a closer and get people to say, Yes or No as quickly as you can so that they’re not wasting up time or muddying up the middle of your funnel Have a Nurture Status in your CRM. This is super powerful for the people that say, “Hey, not right now”, or anything like that. Add them to an email list or add those to a quarterly follow up where you go through and try to nudge all those. Jake is a big believer in Sales, so having to do personal outreach not trying to automate everything, that even if you outreach to those every 2 or 3 months, that nurture status is super useful. Another tool that Jake uses is Rebump (https://www.rebump.cc/), that if you are operating in Gmail, you can basically do an individual drip campaign. Like while you are writing an email, you can personalize the first email and then set a drip campaign to follow up with that person a few times. This is really useful for people that are in the middle of the funnel, who haven't gotten a call yet, they've expressed interest but haven't engaged yet. There are so many leads that just get stuck in that period before you get them on the phone. Jake finds that that is a really great tool to personalize that first followup with them, but not personalized everyone after that. So it's still more personal than trying to just automate your entire sales funnel. Use of a Virtual Assistant. Jake has a virtual assistant who prepares call briefs every day for him and so he doesn’t have to research any other projects ahead of time or to find them in the CRM. He just gets an email every day with the websites, LinkedIn profiles, CRM links for all his calls for that day and saves time probably 30 minutes a day.Creating Systems for Virtual Assistants (~21:30) You have to look for the low hanging fruit first or the biggest burden and the biggest pain. Find out how much time would a task save you if you hand it over. Write an SOP or Standard Operating Procedure. Jake blocks out a morning to spend an hour to document while he does the task, he’ll go through it and do the process himself again, write down instructions and take screenshots along the way and normally puts it in a Goole Doc. It’s useful to schedule an hour call to walk your VA through it, send them the document, and have them read it prior to the call. Then do one, show them how it’s done, then shadow them after and let them work on their own. Have your VA ping you for any questions.Actionable Tips To Get Started With LinkedIn Sales (~24:30) Drive traffic to your LinkedIn profile using Dux Soup Send outbound connection requests on LinkedIn, by sending connection requests on a daily basis using Sales Navigator so you can do a higher volume. Don’t do this without Sales Navigator or you might trip their limits. After you send like 100 connection requests per day to your target customers, when they accept, ask them a question or provoke a conversation around your business in some capacity or what you are offering.Check Out: Lead Cookie’s Ebook for scripts, profile optimization tips, and everything else to get started!Jake’s Book Recommendation  

Air Date Oct 10, 1994. Amanda sees the message left by her father and calls the FBI for help, while the Coast Guard finds a half-dead Jake floating at sea on some of the wreckage of his boat and he returns to Melrose to break the news to Amanda of her father's death. When Jake has hard time to accept this turn of events, he hits the road. Despite Matt's warning that Kimberly is dangerous, Michael decides to stay with her and divorce Sydney. Jane then asks Sydney to get Michael to give his share of Mancini Designs to her. But Michael tricks Sydney into accepting only $5,000 and leaving the rest of his assets to him. Meanwhile, Billy hires a new secretary, named Elizabeth Wyatt, who's the splitting-image of a younger Alison and they being dating, much to Alison's increasing jealousy. Contribute to the podcast! Patreon- https://bit.ly/2pq8x1B Follow us on social media! Join our Facebook Group - https://bit.ly/MelroseFBGroup Facebook- Https://facebook.com/melrosepod Instagram- https://instagram.com/melrosepod Twitter- Https://twitter.com/melrosepod Email - Melrosepod@gmail.com More Ways to listen! Apple Podcasts - https://goo.gl/9T4Wnb GooglePlay - https://goo.gl/cxtxjT Stitcher - https://goo.gl/54w8PA

When Jake sets their kitchen on fire, the Morgendorffers have to stay at a hotel for the next two weeks. Meanwhile, tension between Daria, Jane and Tom gets EVEN MORE TENSE. Tense tension, I say! Hosts Brittany and Laura try to conclude that Trent is probably bi. Check us out on Twitter @sickersadder or our website at sickersadderworld.com

In Episode 8 Tracey talks about her initial attempts at coparenting with Gary and how things didn't really go as planned at all. To learn more about Tracey and the podcast visit the Finding Your Best Self website.  Once there you can opt in for access to special episodes and updates, and join the Finding Your Best Self Facebook page, a special community just for women who are striving to find the best versions of themselves.  You can also support the podcast by shopping with one of our many affiliates.  Each time you make a purchase through an affiliate partner, they make a contribution to Finding Your Best Self which helps us to keep producing podcasts for you. Do you love what you are hearing so far?  Leave us a review on iTunes!  It is the best way for you to help others find the podcast.  Also, Tracey loves to hear your feedback.  Just click here to leave feedback, ideas for future episodes, or to share your personal story. Show Notes:    Co-Parenting I was recently interviewed on a podcast about loss and grief Check it out here!.  During the interview, the lovely podcast host asked me if it helped to write about what happened to me all of those years ago when I went through the terrible loss of my marriage and the way of life that I thought would always be mine.  And the truth is, it really does help, but all of that stuff that I have talked about, all the stuff that has happened between Gary and I is really so long ago that I am over it.  Sure I get riled up telling the stories, and it churns me up a bit when I have a friend or one of my besties from my Facebook group contacts me and are going through the same thing, but overall, I have come out the other side.  I’m good.  Really. There is one exception to that rule though.  The part that isn’t behind me yet is the part that pertains to my kids.  Although my marriage was dissolved in a courtroom after two and a half years of battle almost six years ago now, I am still the mother of these two amazing people, and he is still their father.  And co-parenting with Gary, well it has never been easy.  I have been putting off talking about this, because it is still really real, and really raw.  And while talking about everything else is easy, it’s old news, talking about my kids and what they are currently going through is fresh, and it’s painful.  I can be somewhat impartial with the rest, but with this stuff, this is not something I feel magnanimous about…I will do the best that I can. Custody situations can vary.  I was lucky enough to be awarded sole physical custody of my kids and only joint legal custody.  Legal custody relates to decisions surrounding healthcare, religion, and schooling.  So a few years ago when my son was being brutally bullied in school and I wanted to pull him out and let him do school online, I was vetoed and there was nothing that I could really do about that.  But the sole custody part was a huge bonus for me.  And a real life saver, which I will explain here in a moment. But first let’s go back to 2009.  The very first weekend after we moved over the river and through the woods to the poopy brown house, the kids had their first “visitation” weekend with Dad.  I was kind of a wreck and couldn’t wait to get them back.  And before I even went to pick them up I got a call from my then best friend, who lived across the street and had spent some time with my daughter when she had come over to play that day.  She warned me that I was going to hear some news from the kids that I wasn’t going to like.  While the two little girls were chatting and playing, my daughter, Samantha, had told hers that she had “had a sleepover “ at daycare.  Which, if you will recall, means that she spent the night at Carol’s house.  I didn’t think too much about it because Carol, if you will also recall, was married.  My friend, we will call her Janet, wanted me to know, and I thanked her. So when I picked up the kids that evening, the first thing they both blurted out was that they had spent the WHOLE weekend at daycare.  I called Gary.  We talked civilly.  I explained to him that I felt it was important for the kids to spend some time getting used to living in two homes before he started diverting their attention with Carol, if that was what his future was going to hold.  He assured me that there was nothing going on with Carol, but in the end, he agreed that the kids should have some time to adjust first.  When I tucked the kids in to bed that night, my son, age 9, said, “Mom, I think Carol is going to be our stepmom!”  And I cheerfully agreed that “maybe she is”.  I should mention, that I was not unhappy that he would choose to start a relationship with Carol after we split.  And I also was not yet clear that she was the catalyst of the split.  Carol had been our daycare provider for a number of years at that point. She knew my kids and I believed that she cared about them.  They knew her and they trusted and cared for her as well.  My guard would have been up had she been a stranger…but she was Carol…I felt okay about the idea that if the kids wouldn’t be with me, they would be with someone who understood my parenting style and who also cared about them. Two weeks pass and the kids are back with Dad for another weekend.  They spend another weekend sleeping over at Carol’s.  During the weekend in between her husband had been given his walking papers and he was now moved out.  My kids would continue to spend almost every night spent with their father in sleeping bags on her basement floor until we got to court over a year later and I got the judge to assert that he would not have visitation with them unless they had beds to sleep in. So we got off to a rocky start parenting together from the very beginning.  The first agreement that we make on behalf of the kids is violated when he doesn’t keep the kids separate from his “friendship” with Carol.  But things are weird all the way around.  He barely seems like the same person.  And the kids start to notice. When we were together, Gary would play video games with our son, Jake, and it was kind of their “thing”.  Jake loved that time with his Dad and they played games that I didn’t always think were appropriate for Jake’s age group but my boys were happy, so I was happy.  Jake loves guns.  Both Gary and I are from an upbringing that hunt and guns are a part of our culture.  Jake had toy guns ranging from a realistic cap gun to Nerf guns.  He also had a fascination with knives and had his own pocket knife that he had been taught to handle safely.  Once Gary started spending all of his parenting time at Carol’s all of the rules changed.  Jake was not allowed to have any guns as toys there.  Carol did daycare and she would not allow it.  When I did daycare we kept my kids’ toys separate—guns were for the weekends or after all the daycare kids had left.  They weren’t outlawed.  Jake was told that this was not an option at Carol’s and to leave the guns at Moms.  Knives were definitely not allowed, which was understandable.  But what poor Jake did not understand though, was that suddenly the rules around video games changed.  First, Dad no longer wanted to play video games with him.  He was busy hanging out with Carol.  As if that wasn’t bad enough, Jake was no longer allowed to play any of his games that he was used to playing with Dad.   The M rated games were all gone.  And he wasn’t allowed to play the T rated games either.  It was G rated or nothing, and I watched as Jake’s love of video games died off.  The following Christmas Jake asked for a bunch of games and got a couple of them from myself or grandma.  When Gary saw them he was livid.  Why would I buy our child T rated games when he said no?  Well, because you used to let him have them…and no one understands why that has changed. Another thing that changed after Gary and Carol started hanging out is that he started going to church.  When Jake was a baby, Gary’s parents pushed for us to get him baptized.  Gary and I dragged our feet.  Although we identified as Christians, we didn’t go to church and I wanted to find a place that we liked before we baptized our baby there.  I asked him repeatedly to go with me to check out the churches in our town.  Gary could not be bothered to get up early on a Sunday to go and attend church services with me.  Well, once Carol was in the picture, they were going twice a week.  AND requiring the kids to go with them.  Our kids had never had to sit through a church service other than a random funeral or wedding and suddenly they were going twice a week when they were with Dad.  Jake didn’t like it.  He doesn’t believe the way that we do and I accept that he has his own opinions.  His father does not and it has caused problems between them. Then there was talk of having Samantha baptized at Carol’s church…but not really to me, rather around me.  That still hasn’t happened yet, but I am fairly certain I won’t be invited when it does.  And yes, doing that behind my back is a direct violation of our court order. There are more tales of parenting woe like when Gary decided to take Samantha to get her ear’s pierced and I said no but he did it anyway, because he said Carol deserved to have that special time with MY daughter.  Or like the times that he and Carol would decide to go out of town and leave the kids with Carol’s mother instead of allowing them to just stay with me.  Or the dozens of times they took my two kids and her one child and left the three of them in a hotel room at the casino overnight so they could gamble on the casino floor all night long, a nine year old in charge of two other kids 6 & 4. Or how he stopped bringing them to visit his parents as much or accommodating his parents vacation schedules so that I had to deprive my kids of time with their beloved grandparents or give up my own time. You know the answer to that one…I give up my time over and over again so that they can continue to have a wonderful relationship with their grandparents.  Or there was also the time when he essentially kidnapped my children on a Friday night that happened to be Jake’s birthday because he said he was sick of dealing with me and he would not be bringing them back until a judge ordered him to.  And I cried and cried until Tuesday, when the kids reappeared.  As if by magic.  And don’t even get me started talking about child support.  I could go on and on. Now those of you who have gone through a divorce or are going through one are probably screaming at me right now that I need to document this and tell the judge.  Well, I did just that and although the judge sided with me on every issue and made notes to that effect in her court order.  Enforcement of that court order is something else entirely and the reassurance that the judge agrees that my kids being left in a hotel room is not safe does not help me keep them from ending up in that hotel room when they are in their Dad’s care.   Yes, I could have him found in contempt, but that all costs money and time, which are two things that I don’t have ample quantities of and I would rather spend what I do have on these kids. Parenting with an ex is hard.  Parenting with an ex who cannot be wrong and does not ever see the error in his ways or apologize for anything…well, I am going to go out on a limb and say that it is impossible.  I sure haven’t been successful at it.  Throughout all of this abuse, I never badmouthed this man to his children.   Until recently—when for reasons you will discover in a moment, it could no longer be avoided. I will talk about the perils of bashing the ex in another episode, but it’s just a terrible idea on all fronts.  Don’t do it. Jake is 17 now.  He is a smart, creative, sensitive young man and he makes me proud in a myriad of ways every single day.  He also makes me want to strangle him on occasion but I love and respect the human he is growing up to be.  His Dad has a mold that he would like Jake to fit into.  You see, Jake has never really liked school, and as a result he is an underachiever by society’s measure.  He isn’t incredibly social, doesn’t put a ton of energy into chasing girls, and doesn’t play sports.  Jake didn’t get his driver’s license right when he turned 16…or 17.  Part of that was that I couldn’t afford drivers ed because well, his dear old Dad doesn’t help out too often, but also because he doesn’t really care if he gets a driver’s license and he recognizes that there are financial ramifications to doing so.  And he has no interest in getting a traditional job—both because he does not incur expenses, and because he hopes, and is working towards making a living online doing graphic design for video game designers.  He is very good at it.  All of these things add up to “not good enough” for his father.  So a few months ago, the two of them had a discussion, via text message about his father’s expectations and Jake decided that rather than change himself to avoid disappointing his father, he would just NOT.  His father expects an apology that Jake has opted not to give.  So he doesn’t see too much of his Dad anymore.  He is starting to stand his ground and to speak up when things seem unfair, and that doesn’t go over well with a man who cannot be wrong.  Then there is Samantha.  She is such a radiant soul and has always been Daddy’s little girl.  But the stuff happening with her brother upset her.  Hearing Carol talk trash about her brother got to her even more than listening to them talking trash about me for all of these years.  Sweet Sammy started hardening herself, suspecting that if she didn’t jump through all of the hoops that she would be next.  That time came sooner than she expected.  While camping with some cousins and Gary’s parents, her step-brother Charles became upset claiming that Samanthaand Jake were teasing him.  He was in tears, and wanted to go home so he called his Mom.  She immediately set out for the northwoods to retrieve him and Gary sent a text message to me and an email to his mother that he was going to bring our kids home too.  Well, when Carol showed up at the campground, it was only Samantha who had to go home, and after words were exchanged between her and the grandmother a tearful fourteen year-old girl was driven away against her will.  She was devastated and swore that she did nothing wrong.  Her story was corroborated by her grandmother and every adult at the campground, and after a day and a half when I was finally able to see her, I mentioned flippantly that I had half a mind to drive her back there.   After consulting with and getting approval from the grandparents, we hatched a plan… and back to camping she went.  Of course she was punished the next time she went to Dad’s for defying his orders, but we believed that we had stood up for what was right.  And even after trying to talk to him with the help of her therapist, he refuses to believe that he did anything wrong or that his forcing her to leave her cousins and grandparents was anything less than “good parenting”.   He also bought her expensive concert tickets the week that this therapy visit was scheduled, because he had to know that she had grievances to air.  And his doing so, as per his plan in my opinion, pushed her complaints to the side.  At least for now. Samantha is a bit more aware of the tenuous nature of her situation now.  She knows that one wrong step will put her right out of her father’s favor.  But she also cares less.  People always say that kids are smart and they figure stuff out for themselves, and that is certainly true with my kids.  They get it now.  They certainly are nobody’s fools. And here’s the big moral of this whole story.  While these tales and woes do not necessarily involve me…it is incredibly upsetting to comfort your child when they are hurt by one of the two people who should love them most in the world.  Just like them bashing me to the kids though, it works slightly in my favor.  My kids are more aware now than ever before that my love for them does not have conditions.  That they don’t have to fit a mold for me to love them.  And that they don’t have to hide their feelings or pretend.  We can talk through the tough stuff. They are welcome to have and share their opinions.  Just as I am allowed to play the parent card and overrule them. Gary and Carol like to say that we don’t have any rules in our house.  But we do have rules.  Well, maybe just one rule.  Love and respect each other.  I strongly believe that if we do that, there are no additional rules required.  While I wish that things were different and that their father and I could work together to be better parents to them and to remove so much of the awkwardness that has happened and is bound to continue to happen when we have to attend things together, I am feeling pretty okay with what I am accomplishing on my own.  These are good humans.  I must be doing something right. Until next time.  Don't forget to visit the FB group Finding Your Best Self FB Group--The Home for Badass Besties and share your motivational thought or phrase from Episode 7. 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Ilka tackles the topic of the men to women ratio in freestyle. From her perspective, there are many other more important things to focus on. When Jake asks her thoughts on growing the sport, she says it can be as simple as asking people from the sidelines to join in,… Continue reading The post Episode 45: Ilka Simon Says, Invite People from the Sidelines to Join In appeared first on FrisbeeGuru.

When Jake suffers a heart attack and his mom comes to town, the Morgendorffer women make changes to their personalities and future plans. Daria takes on two skeezy radio DJs and hosts Brittany & Laura take on ASMR practice, a potential shared future as mental health practitioners, and the patriarchy (per usual).

Full show notes at https://capitalism.com/can-control-investments-financial-freedom-w-jake-stenziano-gino-barbaro/ When Jake and Gino met in 2010, Jake was working in pharmaceutical sales and Gino was running a restaurant. They both knew they could do more. After discussing their mutual interest in real estate investment, they came together to make a partnership. In this episode of Capital Gains, Jake and Gino discuss why multifamily apartments are the best investment option if you want control over your assets, the three aspects of investment which you have to get right, and how to source the best deals. They knew when they started that they wanted to create wealth and gain financial freedom. By building their business over the past few years, they have both reached a point where financially they don’t have to work, but they love doing it. Discover how to make huge gains in multi-family investments by listening to the podcast, and hearing how Jake and Gino have done it. Key takeaways: Why you have more control over your investment with multi-family apartments The three things you have to do right when investing How to source multi-family investment deals Connect with Jake and Gino Visit Jake and Gino’s website at www.jakeandgino.com. On Facebook On Twitter On LinkedIn Connect with Jonathan Twombly Find more great content from Jonathan at www.twobridgesmgmt.com. Jonathan Twombly on Twitter Jonathan Twombly on LinkedIn

Air Date Oct 6, 1993. When Jake realizes that he accidentally caused the fire, he gets upset and trashes Jo's apartment, forcing her to ask him to move out. During the divorce depositions, the evil and devious Michael tries to make Jane responsible for their breakup by saying that SHE was the one who had an affair with his friend Sam, while he lies about having an affair with Kimberly. Unfortunately for Michael, Kimberly isn't a very good liar and when she takes the witness stand, she easily breaks and confesses about her romantic relationship with him. Meanwhile, Matt is invited by Katya to her place for dinner, but he has to tell her that he's gay. Billy is assigned to do an article about a famous hotel, so he's invited over for the weekend and secretly brings Alison, while the hotel owner's daughter takes a strong interest in Billy. Contribute to the podcast! Patreon- https://bit.ly/2pq8x1B Follow us on social media! Join our Facebook Group - https://bit.ly/MelroseFBGroup Facebook- Https://facebook.com/melrosepod Instagram- https://instagram.com/melrosepod Twitter- Https://twitter.com/melrosepod Email - Melrosepod@gmail.com More Ways to listen! Apple Podcasts - https://goo.gl/9T4Wnb GooglePlay - https://goo.gl/cxtxjT Stitcher - https://goo.gl/54w8PA

When Jake has a nervous breakdown, the Morgendorffers take a camping trip. Meanwhile Jane and Trent attend a family reunion. In this episode, hosts Laura and Brittany talk high school reunions, alternative looks and they both have their own nervous breakdowns about LGBT representation!

In this episode of the DREAM. THINK. DO. podcast, Mitch Matthews interviews Jake Kloberdanz, CEO, and Co-Founder of ONEHOPE. They talk about starting a cause-based business with your friends, how to find your “sweet spot” and how to look at fear in a new way. Listen To The Podcast:                         Isn't it interesting how sometimes one phone call can completely change the direction of our lives? Sometimes it's a path we've been wanting to follow but just hadn't started...maybe the timing wasn't right or we lacked courage. That's what happened to Jake Kloberdanz, my guest on today's episode of DREAM THINK DO… One phone call changed everything. When Jake was only 23 years old, he got together with some friends and founded ONEHOPE, a cause-centric company. That was 10 years ago and he hasn't looked back. Since then he's garnered recognition from Bloomberg's Businessweek Top 25 Under 25, Wine Enthusiast's Top 40 Under 40, and by Ernst & Young as their Young Entrepreneur of the Year. I invited Jake to talk about the inspiration behind ONEHOPE and how he and his friends have built such a successful cause-centric business. You won't want to miss this exciting conversation about finding the cross-section of things you love to do and turning it into a business, and the role of respect in building lasting business relationships. In this episode, you will… Learn about business curveballs that you won't learn in a business book Get advice about whether to start a business with your friends Hear about challenges specific to running a cause-centric business Learn why fear can actually be a good motivator Understand how to build a profitable business that celebrates and serves at the same time Episode Resources Act Today One Hope Wine Cause Entrepreneur One Hope Wine Discount for DTD listeners MitchMatthews.com/itunes DREAM. THINK. DO.

Air Date Jul 15, 1992. While moonlighting as a taxi driver, Billy picks up a young dental student, named Marcy, and she practically moves in with him which frightens him and makes Alison jealous. Meanwhile, in a continuing cross-over from "Beverly Hills, 90210", Jake is still being pursued by Kelly who has a crush on him. When Jake gets arrested for getting into a fight at an unemployment office, Kelly bails him out of jail and still goes after him despite learning of his "colorful" police record. Jane experiences a crisis when Michael can't remember when he fell in love with her. Contribute to the podcast! Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/melrosepod Facebook- Https://facebook.com/melrosepod Instagram- https://instagram.com/melrosepod Twitter- Https://twitter.com/melrosepod Email - Melrosepod@gmail.com

Story Synopsis From visionary director Tim Burton, and based upon the best-selling novel, comes an unforgettable motion picture experience. When Jake discovers clues to a mystery that spans alternate realities and times, he uncovers a secret refuge known as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As he learns about the residents and their unusual abilities, Jake realizes that safety is an illusion, and danger lurks in the form of powerful, hidden enemies. Jake must figure out who is real, who can be trusted, and who he really is. Official Website here: http://www.foxmovies.com/movies/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children Read my written review here: http://www.3dor2d.com/reviews/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children ™ and © 2016 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. Property of Fox. Send your Listener mail to: Email3dor2d@gmail.com 3Dor2D.com podcasts can be found on: iTunes Stitcher Radio Sound Cloud Google Play Here is the Podcast RSS Feed if you need it. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and please Subscribe and Rate the podcast!

Professional wrestler, Diamond Dallas Page, has been a world wide entertainer for over 20 years. His work ethic, positive mindset, and incredible commitment to relationships propelled him to the multiple world titles in the WCW a prolific career in the WWF.   He is also the founder of DDP Yoga, a revolutionary fitness program that combines the restorative methods of yoga with the body transformation techniques of calisthenics, bodyweight exercises, and strength training.   Today, he is here to drop knowledge on the lifestyle strategies that helped turn him into not only a successful businessman but also a world-class human being that touches the lives of thousands of people everyday.   Whether you want business, personal development, fitness, or relationship advice, this episode is packed with high level, practical advice.   And for all the wrestling fans, like me, DDP shares a ton of hilarious stories that peel back the curtain on professional wrestling.   You don’t wanna miss this one, so tune in to hear Diamond Dallas Page on this episode of Renegade Radio.   We Discuss...   0:00: Introducing today’s guest, pro wrestling legend, Diamond Dallas Page, and his new career in fitness.   4:18: DDP’s strategies for drowning out negativity and climbing to the top of the wrestling ranks.   9:00: What do you do when you find yourself struggling to reach the success you hoped for?   11:35: DDP’s transition from managing nightclubs to professional wrestling, and the drastic impact it had on the wrestling culture   15:43: How DDP’s training crew supported and pushed each other to success at the original WCW Power Plant training facility.   22:30: When Jake the Snake lost a 12 foot snake in DDP’s apartment.   31:00: Did DDP ever doubt himself when he got pulled off the air and saw his wrestling career potentially coming to a close?   38:03: Putting to rest the age old mantra of “it’s all about who you know”   42:05: Finding the passion to soldier through resistance and assert your value   48:30: The behind the scenes story on Raven’s transition from the ECW to the WCW   55:50: How external focus on helping others drove DDP’s success in wrestling and life   58:50: The ZIg Ziglar quote that transformed DDP’s life   1:01:26: DDPs thoughts on nutrition and recommended resources of taking care of your body and mind.   1:05:30: The fastest, easiest, simplest way to immediately improve your self-confidence and outlook on life.   1:08:04: What has been the biggest change in DDP’s life over the past 30 years?   1:11:44: How to find out where Jake the Snake is today   1:14:30: Muhammad Ali’s impact on DDP’s mindset and sense of self   1:23:27: How pull yourself out of a negative headspace and re-infuse positivity into your life   1:28:45: The most meaningful review of Resurrection, the documentary on Jake the Snake   1:30:45: Achievement vs. fulfillment and finding the balance in your life   1:35:55: More about DDP yoga and the effect it can have your health and your life   1:39:00: DDP’s relationship with the wrestling superstars of his day   This episode is brought to you by Onnit Total Human Optimization. Onnit is one of the premier nutrition, supplement, and fitness equipment companies in the world, and they are leading the charge on sustainably producing earth-grown, natural products that make a huge impact on how you look, feel, and perform.   Use The Same Supplements That I Do and get to www.getonnit.com/jay to: Increase Focus with Alpha BRAIN Improve Workouts with Shroom TECH Sport Enhance Sleep & Recovery with NEW MOOD 100% Money Back, Keep The Bottle Guarantee If you have questions, shoot them my way on Twitter (@JasonFerruggia) or email podcast@JasonFerruggia.com Thank you for tuning in, subscribing, and listening. I appreciate every one of you that takes the time to listen.  

On today's episode we bring back Jake, our guest from episode 8 which aired back in October 2015. When Jake was first on the show he shared the strategies he used to generate sales of over $50,000 in his very first month selling on Amazon. Today nearly one year later Jake shares what his numbers look like today, what he's been doing to grow the business and the moves he's making to create even more unique products that he plans to patent. You can read the show notes and look at the resources mentioned in this episode by clicking here. Also, if you'd like to get more reviews for your products on Amazon check out Salesbacker.

When Jake reached out to me, I was instantly intrigued by him. At the young age of 23, he has accomplished a lot of things, and has even inspired me to hustle harder. He recently launched his new book, Elevate Beyond, and it has already seen instant success. We'll talk about the book, his speaking engagements, and why he left his internship with the Los Angeles Lakers. I don't want to give away the whole story, so be sure to listen and I promise you'll be motivated to take action after hearing Jake's story. I hope you enjoy this episode and be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! Buy Jake's Book Elevate Beyond Everything mentioned USC ZBT Fraternity Straight Curve Marketing Fundamental Mindset Elevate Beyond (Jake's book) Idea Factory Jake Kassan MVMT Watches Saving Innocence Jon Gordon Kobe Bryant's Last Game Brock Vereen Jeff Fellenzer Connect with Jake Website: jakekelfer.com Facebook: facebook.com/jakekelferjourney Twitter: @jakekelfer Instagram: @jakekelfer Email: jakekelferjourney@gmail.com Best quotes from this episode I asked myself, "What do I know, and how can I help people?" I'm a big believer in taking the risks and following your heart, as long as you're willing to put in the work. Take advantage of the opportunities that are in front of you. One of the things I like to do is listen to those that are more experienced than me, because I'm so young and I have so much to learn. I have mentors in all different aspects of my life, and I think that's a huge reason for a lot of my success so far. My first company was just an incredible start to entrepreneurship and really fired me up for my future and what I'm currently working on. When I was growing up, it was go to school, get good grades, go to college, and then you're probably just gonna end up getting a job and start paying the bills. Things change and situations come up where you have to adapt and make different decisions. I'm young, I'm ambitious, and if I fail, and it doesn't work out, oh well, at least I tried. And now I know what doesn't work and I can learn from that. But if I never tried, I didn't want to look back ten years from now and say I wish I would have followed my heart and pursued my passions. I don't have the knowledge of somebody that has had ten extra years of life experience on me, but what I do have is just an immense hunger and desire to learn and continue to grow and to make an impact. The only shortcut in life is to start now. -David Kelfer A lot of people still don't understand why I'm doing what I'm doing, but that doesn't mean they're correct. That just means they don't understand yet. It's all about achieving your own definition of success, not just what everyone wants you to achieve and what everyone might assume success is. When you can combine hustle with working hard and working smart, I think that's when you really create something great. Enjoy the journey and be in the moment. -Sheri Kelfer Sometimes entrepreneurship scares the shit out of me, but at the same time, that's what excites me. Fear is important to acknowledge as long as it doesn't control you. Everytime you meet someone, it is an interview. When you combine entertainment with education, and to do it in a good organized way, the result and the value can be extraordinary. One of the biggest risks that I've taken was turning down multiple full-time job offers before graduation and deciding that I was going to pursue my passion. At the time, a lot of people criticized my decision. But I knew that it's what I wanted to do and it was aligning with my goals and my definition of success. And so I took that risk and I have not regretted it one day since then. Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

due to physical and professional trauma, this episode is a bit late(that should be our new tagline), but in this episode we finally start to chip away at Fran's topic list, discussing such wonderful topics as the fact that When Jake's Away, Bob Will Anime, The single best name for a child, What the everloving butts is Caligula's Cabinet(spoiler: its not a Nick Jr show) Adult Cartoons(thematic.  no tentacles) and Bob breaks Fran, apparently.   Remember to rate/review/subscribe on iTunes and send suggestions to @ABPpodcast brothersquarrel@gmail.com

Synopsis   A GIFTED BOY forced to grow up too fast... A father who will do anything to protect him... A madman bent on destroying them both. In Amsterdam, a visionary scientist is laying the groundwork for a cybernetic life-extension project that will transfer individual consciousness to a personalized avatar. Halfway around the world, his brilliant grandson is secretly planning to use the same technology to infiltrate the world’s most secure networks. But the scientific advances necessary to perfect the brain-to-computer interface are slow in coming, too slow for the aging founder of the Everlast foundation—who may die before realizing his dream of immortality—and too slow for his ruthless grandson, who will stop at nothing to attain the recognition that is his birthright. Caught in the middle are Jake Bronson and his seven-year-old son, Alex, whose combined mental gifts might provide the key to leapfrogging the impasse. When Jake’s family and closest friends are simultaneously abducted in a globally coordinated kidnapping scheme, Jake is thrust into a frantic race that takes him from the canals of Amsterdam and the cobbled streets of Rome to the back alleys of Hong Kong and the South China jungles, where he must lever every scrap of his failing abilities to rescue his loved ones and crush a madman’s plans to bring the world to its knees.     Excerpt   [From the point of view of 7-year-old Alex Bronson, set in the jungles of South China where he crash-landed along with his brother and sister]   We were about to set off when I heard a rustle in the bushes behind us. “No move!” a deep voice shouted.

When Jake is away, the Nerds will play. Jack and Tyler talk about everything, and nothing.

-Nattalie sits patiently for the "Handyman" to arrive. Waiting, she enjoys herself. When Jake the handyman arrives Nattalie scopes him out head to toe. The rest is history.

When Jake listens to his favorite classical music, he finds himself conducting furiously and with abandon.  His wife Erica, an accomplished concert musician, says his flamboyant conducting makes a mockery of her life's work. Must Jake cease his carefree conducting style?