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Jill Johnson-Young is the Co-Founder and Clinical Therapist at Central Counseling Services, where she and her team provide the highest quality care for individuals and families seeking assistance with life's challenges. Jill's areas of expertise include grief and loss, children's grief, dementia support for families, adoption related issues, LGBT issues, and so much more. Jill has lost two spouses to illness and shares her story on this week's episode and the frustrating experience she had when friends, therapists, and acquaintances told her what she ‘should' be doing.    Key Takeaways: How did Jill get involved with grief? It started with the AIDS crisis.  Jill's wife passed away from post-cancer-related complications.  When your partner is sick, you go from being a spouse to a care-giver. Jill talked to her wife about what she wanted her death to be like and what she wanted for their children. When Susan's husband passed away, she wanted to travel internationally. Her friends said it was a bad idea!  Susan's second wife passed away from Lewy Body Dementia.  After you've lost a spouse, you have the right to make your own rules. People gave Jill all these ‘rules' on what to do after her wife passed. Excuse me? She gets to do what she wants to do.  Jill went to therapists that specialized in grief work. None of them had a clue!  This is why Jill now helps teach therapists about grief, because it can be so easy to get this process wrong.  Don't let people outside of your life bully you into doing something that's not right for your family.  It's okay to be selfish when your spouse dies. It's okay to make people upset.  Jill decided that this is her new reality and she's going to live her life in a way that brings her joy.    Resources Tendrilsofgrief.com Email Susan: susan@tendrilsofgrief.com Jilljohnsonyoung.com Centralcounselingservices.net Jill on LinkedIn The Rebellious Widow by J. J. Young

Book Publishing Expert, Angela Engel On How She's Innovating That Industry To Help Authors Get Their Books Out Into The World This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm every day! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial.* URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindset If you love it as much as I do, you can get 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset   Angela Engel is an entrepreneur and book publishing expert with over twenty years of experience in the publishing industry. After working for 20 years in the publishing industry and with major publishing companies including Chronicle Books, Ten Speed Press, Cameron + Company, Dwell Studio, and Moleskine, Angela is on a mission to disrupt the publishing industry by giving budding authors more agency and authority in the publishing process. As founder of The Collective Book Studio, she provides authors the support they need to get a book out into the world. Founder and CEO of The Collective Book Studio, a partnership publisher working to pair authors' vision with quality book production in the areas of lifestyle, gift, and children's books. Here's a recent Publisher's Weekly article about the studio and how it's disrupting the publishing industry. Connect with Angela Website: https://thecollectivebook.studio/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecollectivebookstudio/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-engel-48b3a81b/ Episode Transcript Angela Engel [00:00:00] Angela Engel: [00:00:00] They have to, if they want trade distribution, the willing for this feedback, be willing for the work, be willing to say, Hey, you know what? All of sales, all of marketing, all of editorial is looking at this and the title and the cover really have to have this element. In order for it to work in the market. [00:00:25] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:00:25] Hello and welcome to the innovative mindset podcast. I'm your host Izolda Trakhtenberg on the show. I interview peak performing innovators in the creative social impact and earth conservation spaces or working to change the world. This episode is brought to you by brain FM brain FM combines the best of music and neuroscience to help you. [00:00:43] Focus meditate and even sleep. I love it. And I've been using it to write, create and do some of my deepest work because you're a listener of the show. You can get a free trial head over to brain.fm/innovative mindset. To check it out. If you decide to subscribe, you can get 20% off with the [00:01:00] coupon code, innovative mindset, all one word. [00:01:02] And now let's get to the show. [00:01:09] Hey there and welcome to the innovative mindset podcast. My name is Izolda Trakhtenberg. I am super happy that you're here. I'm thrilled and honored. And so, so, so happy to welcome this week's guest. She, and I've just been chatting before we started recording. And I know this is going to be a super fun conversation. [00:01:27] And you know what, Angela, I didn't ask you exactly how to say your last name. So I'm just going to try it. Angela Engel is an entrepreneur and book publisher expert with over 20 years of experience in the publishing industry. After working for 20 years in the publishing industry and with major publishing companies, including chronics. [00:01:44] 10 speed, press Cameron and company dwell studio. And Moleskine, Angela's on a mission to disrupt the publishing industry by giving budding authors more agency and authority in the publishing process. And you know how close that is to my heart was six books to my name and three more in the pipeline as [00:02:00] founder of the. [00:02:01] The book studio, she provides authors the support. They need to get a book out into the world. She's the founder and CEO of the collective book studio. And it's a partnership publisher working to pair author's vision with quality book production in the areas of lifestyle gift and children's books. [00:02:16] Angela, I am so glad that you are here. Welcome. [00:02:20] Angela Engel: [00:02:20] Thank you. I know you pronounce my name perfectly.  [00:02:22] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:02:22] Yay. I was, I was a little concerned and I was like, I normally ask and completely, completely forgot because we were, so I was so excited to be talking to him. We were having such a great conversation that everything went out of my head. [00:02:34] So first of all, Wow that you're doing this. We were just talking about the fact that there are authors so many authors like me, the DIY people who are self publishing, who've been crying for what you are offering your you're building a name for yourself and the studio in the collective book studio in publishing. [00:02:57] And you're doing it in a way that's really in many [00:03:00] ways disrupting the industry yet. Again, I would love if you would talk a little bit about what you are trying to do, what is the mission of the collective book studio? [00:03:11] Angela Engel: [00:03:11] That's a, that's a big question. I know, but, um, you know, I have, as you said, I've had a career of over 20 years in the space. [00:03:20] I'm, you know what? I was a young, young thing, right out of college, a comparative lit and creative writing. I loved books. I mean, who does it? Right? Especially in the, in the journalism field and the creative writing field and the English major, all of our stuff. And we, you know, our dream is to work in publishing and I got my dream. [00:03:40] I got really lucky. I was, you know, 20 what, one or two when I graduated and I drove down to San Francisco and I applied for this job at publishers group west, which is now bought by Ingram. We all know who Ingram is. It's a huge. Mega, um, whole wholesaler and obviously self publishing knows a lot about Ingram. [00:04:00] [00:04:00] And, and, um, I got my first job there and in that was like this champion of independent presses and small presses. And I actually had a great job. Great boss. Her name was trig McCloud and she came from Broadway books in New York. She had been Cindy Crawford's publicist, and I think she saw in me, honestly, that's he young? [00:04:21] That I could do what I wanted to do, but she sort of was like, I'm going to sort of mentor you and let you ride the wave. And I got to ride two campaigns with her. One was the four agreements, which was, as we all know, a New York times bestseller and continues to be an incredible book. Um, and then the other one was when nine 11 hit was Noam Chomsky's book by seven stories and watching, watching her champion, these small independent presses become New York times bestseller. [00:04:51] Um, was just magical, right? Cause, cause you brought in your editorial, your publisher, the writer, like all of, and then distribution and all the [00:05:00] ways to make this successful and honestly compete with the big five publishing houses. And then, um, at that same time, there's something called Amazon. Oh yes. And, uh, they were really just a book retailer, right? [00:05:15] Like it was like Amazon and Walden pond in the mall. Right? Like, like where did you go buy books? Right. Barnes and noble was like the big, big thing borders. And there was like some Walden bonds. And there was Amazon that was like starting to be a book retailer. Right. And at that same time, it was also like, Hmm, maybe urban Outfitters or anthropology or pirates should start selling books. [00:05:40] And I started just this sort of, uh, career path with, even in the publishing space, carving out for myself, becoming a specialist. And how do we sell books outside of the book trade. Right. And partly how you do that is packaging is the, is, is the way the book looks. Cause you don't, [00:06:00] you have to remember. [00:06:01] You're writing for someone else, right? In many ways you have to understand your audience and your audience and your end, the buyer. Sometimes the person who buys the book is completely different than your audience. And so understanding that package is really key. Um, so my mission was let's jump ahead. [00:06:22] Three years ago when I had been back, you know, I have, you know, my career was interesting partly because, you know, I'm a mom of three girls and you know, how are we going to, I'm pregnant with my third baby and I'm at a big trade show. And I'm like, God, I can't keep like, pumping like this. And I got two kids at home. [00:06:40] So, you know, I S I, I quit and I stopped consulting. And in this time of consulting, There was this boom of self publishing. And, um, and I understood, I understood why people were going that route, but I saw also an issue when it came to understanding the full, [00:07:00] um, reason for traditional publishing is so sacred. [00:07:04] One being, um, the craft as the book, the topography, the editorial, you know, everything, the illustrations and, and then also the distribution. So I wanted to find a company that could offer something completely different than Amazon can ever offer, which is people ask me this all the time. Do I have to sign an NDA? [00:07:26] I'm like, there's no NDA to sign it's people. Like, how do you can, I mean, you could, you can't really recreate Angela or Dean Burrell or Elizabeth Saki, like any of my staff. So you get to work with people who have been experts in this field for decades. Yeah. So that's sort of the mission is how did, how did like people, you know, I would welcome agent at work and we use agents for illustrators it's not necessary right these days. [00:07:57] And so how can we make [00:08:00] sure that people are being, having access to publishing and not having to wait three to four years to get on a list or develop a huge, huge pro. Profile and, you know, Instagram following and all the other hurdles that are, that are, that are existing. Now, my model is different, right? [00:08:19] And people do have to invest in their work. Our royalties are also much higher, so it's just a give and take why I call it partnership publishing. [00:08:31] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:08:31] I'm taking all of that in for a second. That was a lot, uh, I asked a big question. You gave a big answer. So here, here's the thing I love. I love the notion of partnership publishing and w w I, I hear what the collective book studio brings to the table. How much pushback do you get from the more traditional ways of publishing? [00:08:58] Like the big five. [00:09:00] What, what, what kind of reception or are you getting from the more traditional spaces? [00:09:07] Angela Engel: [00:09:07] Oh, They had just like cheered on my colleagues are awesome. I mean, they, like, we just signed Fran Hauser, incredible, incredible, uh, woman. Um, and she had a New York times bestseller myth of the nice girl. [00:09:25] It was just an, I just, my big win this week was there was an article in publishers, weekly in our trade magazine, in the print and digital. That, uh, the clinic of Brooke studio is trying a new approach and we were the keynote breakfast speaker, Pamela and Rocco, uh, for Columbia, which isn't an institution, right? [00:09:44] It's the California Alliance of booksellers. We were the keynote at their breakfast, her and Topeka up. And why is because I'm saying to the world, Hey, I'm not I'm, I'm just saying let's [00:10:00] figure out. How Amazon could not control. The distribution piece, because when you're self publishing, you're really kind of also, although you own your IP and you have all this control, you're actually giving many of it over to Amazon. [00:10:17] Right? If you think about it, because you know, there's definitely ways bookstores can sell you when you go through Ingram and income spark that said you don't have a massive team behind you selling your book into what I mean, you're in Brooklyn. So. Books are magic. Amazing. Right? The and amazing green apples. [00:10:38] So I'm such a huge champion. I think that goes back to by activism. Right. We kind of talked to them. I am such an activist that I'm like, I am not going to leave my small booksellers behind. Right. Like I personally only buy my books on bookshop.org. That's what I that's my purse. Now. I can't say we can't say [00:11:00] that to everybody, but for me, I believe that the small acts we choose to do change. [00:11:06] The trajectory of our lives because we're, we're teaching our community, we're teaching our kids. So for me, I just decided, oh, what is my small act? I sometimes can't run into every small little bookstore and busy with my three kids, but I can click a button and buy a, buy a book on bookshop.org. [00:11:26] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:11:26] I love that so much. [00:11:27] That makes me, so I know seriously, it's like, yay. Good, good for you. And, and I think that, that, that, that notion of small acts adding up to big changes is so it's key in, in, in many ways, in, in the ways so many authors have to do things. And it seems like it's key to the way the collective book studio is doing it. [00:11:48] And you're disrupting you're you're, you're a disruptor. Because you're providing more pathways for authors to get published. And, and yet like, as a, as a self-published author [00:12:00] myself, one of the things that has happened when I've tried to do it is stores and, and, you know, first of all, getting into libraries is very challenging. [00:12:09] The ALA is like, yeah, I don't think so. Uh, but, but at the same time, they often don't want to talk to you unless you have some sort of a company behind you. How does, how does the collective book studio. Maneuver in, in that space, like, because you have distribution, the smaller stores out there, more independent booksellers are willing to talk to you, or is there some other pathway that you can follow that just a single person might not be able. [00:12:39] Angela Engel: [00:12:39] Um, no we have full distribution is you've got you have to. So we're we partnered with, um, independent publishers group out of Chicago. They also own Chicago review press and triumph books to great companies. I personally am a huge fan of Chicago review, press. And I honestly, we started as a packager. I'm going to [00:13:00] backup like the collective book studio. [00:13:01] What is a packager is we will create books and then we will sell them to other publishing houses, less that have distribution. It's very common in the industry or we'll do proprietary work. Like we're doing these beautiful big custom board books for Costco. So we're, we're we're, this is very common, actually like a lot of publishers, 20 to plus percent of their list is, uh, is buy-ins or PA or pack from packagers. [00:13:31] Um, we also, we also create creative content. We have a whole series called the secrets thoughts of, and it's just us writing it. And it's like in cats and dogs, it's really cool. P w what I said in this article at PW is that we act actually very similar to a traditional house. When I, when I connected with Joe Matthews, I'm already saying, Hey, we are traditional publishing. [00:13:55] We are, we have content to fuel our trade list. Um, that you're going to [00:14:00] get revenue on. And in addition, I'm going to bring incredible clients with me that we vet that we have, uh, that they have a lot of say, but ultimately they're coming to us. So like, it's not like, okay, I want this cover. And it's this crazy cover with a bunch of purple volcanoes, you know, you know what I'm saying? [00:14:22] And like, we're like, okay, that will never work. Um, so they come to us with knowing it's in my contract that like, ultimately they have to, if they want trade distribution, be willing for this feedback, be willing for the work, be willing to say, Hey, you know what? All of sales, all of marketing, all of that, a trial is looking at this and the title and the cover really have to have this element in order for it to work the market. [00:14:50] And, um, all my clients are. Grateful for that. They're not, they understand that from the start. That's why I also say our [00:15:00] clients choose us as much as we choose that. Because again, in a partnership, I think we talked about this before the podcast. You're kind of all about collaborative, creative collaboration, which I really love, love that you said that because that is sort of my mission. [00:15:15] Is that in a partnership publishing. We have to agree and, and, and, and go together towards that end product. And I think that there are some people, um, who have been frustrated in the traditional space because they felt like, oh my God, I didn't even have any say. And then there's people, um, in the self-publishing base, like you say, you can't get into libraries where if you come through us, like I'm doing a TLA, a Texas library association, like big, huge getaway box, because I can't. [00:15:47] Because I have Matt major distribution  and they have booth space at those shows. Don't forget. They have actually, and I pay into that. So my, my company is listed in [00:16:00] trade shows too. The librarians know that they could easily buy us. And that we're, we're, we're a publishing house [00:16:07] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:16:07] accompany. And it's interesting because the what, what I kept, what I kept thinking to myself as, as I was listening to you talk was you're vetted. [00:16:16] Like they know that you will give them quality. Books too, to put in their libraries or to, you know, when you distribute them or all of that. That's some, that's something that, that a lot of sort of self-published authors don't have. They don't have that, that space of someone already knows me unless you're, you know, I don't know Scott sealer or something before he signed with whoever it is he signed with when he was putting his stuff out, people and people knew that he, that his. [00:16:43] We're good. And that they wanted them. Whereas for most authors, it doesn't seem like it's like that. So, so as I keep coming back to this word, disruptor, and you are, you are changing the industry because of this partnership model. I was wondering if you could talk a little [00:17:00] bit about what that actually means to you, what does being a disruptor mean? [00:17:05] And what is, what are you disrupting? Exactly. [00:17:10] Angela Engel: [00:17:10] Yeah. I mean, I'm going to go back to our friend house. Cause she said the best way better to publisher's weekly this week. Right? Then they quoted her, which is that sometimes it makes sense to go with traditional publishers who takes the financial risk and sometimes partnership publishing makes sense. [00:17:30] Especially when it's time sensitive, I'm open to both models. Why, what does that mean to me when she said that? And I read that and what that means to me is that I think we need to be open to both models because there's something called owning your IP, right. That we're all that people are. Uh, uh, sort of upset about in this [00:18:00] traditional space where, Hey, if I go with a traditional publisher and I own all this IP and I got to sign over my rights, but I want to create characters for Netflix or whatever else your dream is to do with the, with it. [00:18:12] Um, my model is disrupting the space because basically I'm licensing in some way for only, um, a certain amount of years, their IP. So you, so this is how we work. You create, we created. Fi and sometimes people don't want trade. Right. And it's just packaging. So we have definitely projects that are on our list that we just make books for for companies. [00:18:36] And they got a beautiful book and we're done. Then there are about 60% of our clients who really would like to be seen in the strand and at the library association. And so they signed a distribution deal with the collective book studio as part of our imprint, but I don't own their IP. I don't own that for life. [00:18:55] That is a huge, that's the disrupting piece, right? Is that I'm [00:19:00] actually saying to publishing houses, why are we so scared? Of saying of owning. For a lifetime. What is because Amazon has disrupted our industry. Let's be real. They have, people are going there way they want faster at eight. They don't want to have their IP owned. [00:19:20] So let's listen to what they're asking for. This is like, it's almost like we talked about movements. Look, I think enough people have spoken to say, I want to have a book. I really want to have a book and no one's listening to that. So I'm going to just do it online. And Amazon was saw that need. And now they have not only been able to do it successfully. [00:19:44] There are several, if not hundreds of cases, That are, that are hybrid services that offers certain kinds of editorial and great ways to make a really good book, which is important. You can get an editor and you can make a graphic designer through them, but they still don't [00:20:00] have the distribution piece. [00:20:01] Right. And so they're able to Le they're able to sort of utilize Amazon's ability for, for, uh, for sale. And, uh, still create some quality production in some way, but they still don't have the ability those services, because ultimately they hand it over to you and your left, right. As an author to do it all, to still do all the marketing, to do still all the PR and ultimately to print on demand or to do some offset. [00:20:34] Um, you're still left with that piece. And I sort of felt like, well, If I created an imprint at a trade imprint that people could, that was truly vetted. I could get the distribution because then librarians, booksellers. They trust what's on our list. Right. They know it's, it's been vetted through what I started this podcast with [00:21:00] really seasoned professionals for decades come from. [00:21:04] Don't forget places like random house Harper. Uh, Harper Collins, Chronicle books. I mean, that's where the staff, my staff come. [00:21:18] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:21:18] I keep having to take a second and take all of that in. We were chatting about earlier how this is just like having a cup of coffee together. So, so imagine that I'm taking a sip of my soy latte right now. Uh, so I love, I love, love, love that you're talking about the aspect of it, that, that, that you're giving this opportunity to people. [00:21:42] To not be holding the entire bag because there's this notion of playing to your strengths. You know, my strengths perhaps are the writing. They may not be the marketing and the PR and all this other stuff. And I feel like there are there for, for so many professions. [00:22:00] To wear a kajillion hats. You know, I have to be my accountant. [00:22:04] I have to be my marketing person, my PR person, my, this, my, that, my, the other. And sometimes I don't want to, sometimes I can't. And I'm talking about the general eye here. So, so you're offering. And you started it with the hope that you could write that, that I, that I think I can, that I'm going to partially because you have these seasoned professionals, but something in you seems like you're just, you're just like the eternal optimist, you know, like I'm going to be able to make this happen and go. [00:22:32] So can you talk a little bit about that? Like how. Your as the, as the CEO of this company, how does your state of mind affect the process, affect your collaborations with the people on your staff and also your collaborations with the authors that you take on? [00:22:48] Angela Engel: [00:22:48] Oh, I love this question. I mean, mindset is everything. [00:22:52] It's everything. Um, what a great question. I mean, look, entrepreneurship is hard [00:23:00] when you asked me how do my colleagues feel in my traditional. I want to go back when I first started the company, because now of course they're applauding, of course I'm getting this. Like, you know, and even in the very beginning I had really, I, I, in confidence, like I called a friend of mine who was high up at random house and I called a friend at Simon and Schuster and I called a friend at Chronicle and all of them were really, really supportive, but they were also like, Angela, we cannot offer you distribution. [00:23:28] Like you gotta go get like a million dollars in backlist sales. So. I had to say, okay, I, you know, it's not like I snapped my fingers. And I was like, cause when I first thought, okay, I'm going to snap my fingers and it's going to be pretty easy to get distribution with Ingram. No, and I'm an insider, right? [00:23:48] It was not easy. There were a lot of notes. There are a lot of like, honestly, I'm going to say. But it's really true. And I, I'm going to say it cause I'm a woman in my forties. Who's [00:24:00] climbed really high into my career. I taught before I was even 30 and there are a lot it's specially in the sales old boys clubs, they are just are in, in the, in the industry. [00:24:13] And it felt like I constantly was like, oh, that's, uh, that's, that's nice, but you're kind of young or you're kind of naive.  and then I'm in my forties. Right? And I'm like, wait a second. I have spent 20 years of my career and you're still treating me this way. I'm like, oh God. Now, so you know what I did? I just said, I'm just gonna, I'm just not going to listen anymore. [00:24:38] I'm going to internally. I actually have said this so many times to myself, to my friends on a popular podcast. I am going to just have this mantra change starts with you. And if I have this mantra for myself every morning or what I'm feeling stuck, and I think change starts with [00:25:00] you, I can do anything. [00:25:02] And so when you ask how I lead my team, It's I lead my team with that idea that like, okay, you're feeling frustrated or okay. A client is not doing right or, okay, this is not going on schedule. Oh, what can we change? What is it about you? What is it that we need to do? What is it that I need to do to move this forward on this project? [00:25:26] And I think my team and my clients. The one thing is even when I'm stuck, I use that as an optimism piece because I know that in my own 20 plus years, there has been people who had, do have not believed in me. And I just have to let that go, you know, like it just, and, and when you do you surround yourself? [00:25:52] Like, look, I'm here today on your podcast because I surround myself with people who do believe [00:26:00] in this power of lifting others up. [00:26:04] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:26:04] I yeah, absolutely. Again. Oh, I'm going to take it in for a second. No, because, because there, we were talking a little bit earlier about my, my mantra, which is creativity, compassion, and collaboration, and that, it seems like I can almost go well, Angela, that seems like it's kind of your mantra to that. [00:26:23] This notion that you're working in this very creative field. And you also have that analytical side too, that has to keep sort of the, the, all of the bowling pins in a row, if you will. But compassion is another word that I'm hearing from you, compassion for the authors, compassion for the process, compassion for the people on your staff. [00:26:44] That it's, that it's very sort of purpose driven, but also heart centered. If you see what I mean, and I'm, I'm just wondering a little bit about what, what that. Means to you. What now, w what leading from that space means to you both, [00:27:00] if you don't, if you don't mind sharing both in the business world and also in your personal life, because in many ways as the CEO, you sort of have to figure all of that out. [00:27:09] How are you going to divide the three girls that you have, you know, that you're a mom to your relationships, all of that. And how do you align that with the, the business that you're responsible for? [00:27:22] Angela Engel: [00:27:22] You asked some really good questions, you know, while you were talking, I'm thinking of this, this woman, um, her name is Susan Reich and she was president of like Avalon, which was this really cool publishing house. [00:27:36] They have like tons of imprints, one being seal, press one sources, great imprint. She ended up becoming president of, I believe publishers group west, which is part of Ingram. And. When I first, this is my biggest tip to any person find the really people who've all done it before you who've been able to, especially I [00:28:00] think women find a wa like I needed to find a woman in my life who had, who had already climbed such a ladder and had been in board rooms and was an exact, was such a boys' club. [00:28:14] That I could like sit down with. So when I first started this business and they have to be in your industry, so she was in my industry, she like understood my industry and I asked her to coffee. I didn't talk to her for years. And she took my coffee. Right. It's so excited. Like I'm 20 I'm 40 plus. And I felt like I was 22 and gap. [00:28:35] Right. She met me for coffee three years ago and she saw, she said to me, I love your idea. I think this is going to work. And it was like that moment for me. And I don't, I actually re emailed Susan, like about once I got like a lot of this once I got Fran Hauser and I told her, and we're going to re you know, it's been, we haven't seen each other with the [00:29:00] vaccines all now, rolling out. [00:29:01] Like we're going to, once everyone's fully vaccinated, we'll make a time to go get coffee again. But why I said this is you're asking me. Wait, remind me what my question is. I got on a little tangent, but I know I'm stringing it together. Um, do you [00:29:17] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:29:17] want me to remind you? Yes. Yes. So basically it's how do you align the compassionate heart-centered purpose-driven part of who you are with business and also your personal world and how you, how you figure all of [00:29:32] Angela Engel: [00:29:32] that out. [00:29:33] Okay. So this is my, my connection here. So Susan going out for that coffee, right? It's in some way, taking her time, I'm not paying her whatever she's showing compassion. She's like, I remember this young 22 year old sitting at the Xerox machine working hard for me. Right. Making sure my company succeeded, like really caring about my. [00:30:00] [00:29:59] And she now took that moment and had compassion when I said, I really need some advice. Right. And so I think that those things I lead with those things, cause I recognize. That those things about the human spirit, the human life, like what, when we show compassion to another human, right. When Susan's shows compassion to me, I, that it's almost like I'm a candle and it gets lit my combined fuel. [00:30:30] And then I have time to just give it to somebody else. The issue is when we it's, we need to keep passing that on to people. How, how I do it is I fi I have my little group of people. And when I'm feeling a little, like, Ooh, my flames out, it got as high as I needed to be. I go to the people that I know I need to refuel me so that I can refuel both my staff, my clients, my business. [00:30:57] And then in return [00:31:00] that that does create into my home life. Right? Like I, um, am not so good at RNR, to be honest. And either as my husband, he's a small business owner himself. He actually is a controller accountant for restaurants. So it is it's intense. I bet for my girls to have two small business owners in the time of COVID, but, um, my girls are alone. [00:31:27] There, there are the biggest champions of me, like my girls, for example, when my oldest who now is about to turn 13, she knows her mom from 14 weeks old. I mean, she doesn't remember, but she remembers if you won, you know, as, as she got older that I was always traveling, I was on the road every other month. [00:31:50] I mean, I mean every other, no twice a month, every other week, And, um, I was pumping, I mean, of course I was, I was selling to Costco. I was selling to target. I [00:32:00] was selling to buy, buy baby. I was selling to babies, RS at toys R us when that account existed. And so mom wasn't there in that same physical way. [00:32:08] So what I was Quinn was my kind of corporate lifestyle. She was already like eight or nine years old. Right. And I'm having a baby. My, my, my, my youngest and my oldest are eight years apart. There was a mom and I had a meltdown. I mean, this isn't about compassion and I just lost it. We were in the car and I was crying being out of the nine-year-old and I have a toddler and they want stuff. [00:32:37] They want to stop at the gap or something annoying. And I said, I turned around and the biggest cry I'd probably have to nurse. And my boobs are probably huge. And I just, I didn't have, for the first time in my life, I didn't have this like big. Job to like our nanny to pick them up or something. And I said, I turned around and I'm like, your dad makes all the money. [00:32:59] Why don't [00:33:00] you go ask him to take you? And, um, my oldest looks at me and she's like nine years old and she's like, mom, you can make money too. Oh yeah. And that compassion, that moment, that compassion, that realization. Oh, my God. I beat myself up. I've had mom guilt that I haven't, you know, wasn't able to go to her kindergarten, this or that. [00:33:27] My daughter actually sees me so differently that that's what motivated me to find the collective book studio. That's what motivates me every day. That kind of fueled that she was like, mom, you're a bad-ass. [00:33:44] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:33:44] Oh, that's amazing. I love that. And it's so it's so telling that sometimes we just can't see ourselves as well as the people who love us can see us. [00:33:55] There's there's a real powerful lesson right there. Wow. Incredible, [00:34:00] incredible. Thank you for sharing that, that, that's amazing that, that, and that you were aware enough. To take the lesson from that, you know, there are people out there probably would have gone. Yeah. Whatever, but you actually stopped and you actually took it in and that's, that's amazing. [00:34:13] Good for you. Wow. Oh, thank [00:34:16] Angela Engel: [00:34:16] you. You're the first to actually please set up that way. I, I appreciate that. I really do feel because I did ed take it in and I guess that's a tip. If people are listening, like take them smile. Moments in because you know what I realized my anger or what I said to my children. [00:34:37] That's not okay like that. Wasn't about my husband, like, you know, a partnership just like in my business, but in my marriage and in my relationship, which we've been together 15 years. Oh 16. It is a give and take, right? Like there are moments. Work work, got a share in the work. And so, and that's really what my daughter, who [00:35:00] I am. [00:35:01] She, I got to tell you these 13 year olds who could be an eighth grade next year, they're about when they taught. I don't know. I just want to say like, the way that they're intelligent about gender is just incredible. And I think in that moment, my daughter was really able to say, whoa, bomb, check yourself. [00:35:21] And she was only like nine years old. [00:35:24] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:35:24] And she said it an old in the way a nine-year-old would write she, and she'd write to the point. I love that. I love I'm so glad that you're raising such aware kids. Good for you. No, because, because honestly, I spent 20 years working. I worked at NASA for over 20 years and I was teaching, I was traveling and teaching kids how to save the planet. [00:35:44] That was my job. It was awesome. And, and, and you see, seven-year-olds teach. College professors because the college professors think they know everything, but the seven year old is the one who actually does it's really quite it's quite something. They were able to do it. They were able [00:36:00] to, to, to teach them these valuable, valuable lessons. [00:36:03] And that brings me to a question that I would love. Yeah. Chat with you about, um, this notion of teaching others of, of showing compassion and also just being giving back, I guess, you know, what, what is your thought on that? Because I know that your business and you personally, you're a philanthropist, right? [00:36:27] So. Role does giving back, does philanthropy play in, in your business model and also for you as the CEO of that business? [00:36:38] Angela Engel: [00:36:38] Okay. Yeah. Um, well, I, again, I mean, I think that if we wait around always to say, okay, um, who else was going to do this? Or I don't like it this way, or we have that kind of mindset. It nothing will change. [00:36:54] Right. It's like, so I, um, In the ho in the [00:37:00] start of the pandemic about, you know, now a little over a year ago, um, one of my closest friends was an ER ICU doc here in Oakland. And we all know there wasn't enough PP, um, E there was not enough medical face shields, uh, for, for our frontline workers. And instead of being sort of thinking about, well, gosh, you know, What am I going to do? [00:37:27] What can I do on a publisher house? I thought, you know what? I couldn't link up with one of my friends. Who's a small business owner, herself. Who's out of work a fabricator, and we're going to, because we're a business, we're going to be able to wire money over to DuPont and make medical face shields. And people would be like, what is a publishing house? [00:37:49] Why is she doing this? Right. So why my, why is that? My best friend was working nonstop in the, in the ER [00:38:00] ICU, ER, my home. Is very, very close to Highland hospital, which is, um, account, uh, you know, it's from the county hospital as a public hospital, which is a lot, so there's a lot of low income and, um, round and brown and black people and people of color and color and low income. [00:38:20] And it's literally down the street from me. There's. And I'm, uh, I'm an Oakland business. And so I felt it was my duty, my right, even though I might manufacture books as a community. Paying taxes and being part of Oakland and this hospital and my, my friend wasn't at that hospital was at a different one, but then I, I really, um, sort of networked myself to San Francisco labor and, and said, Hey, what do we need? [00:38:49] And the clinics around here from Santa Clara county low-income clinics to the Navajo nation, because it grew right. We're not just our new Keeler, small bids. [00:39:00] And our little area, you start small in your community. I guess that's my biggest advice. If you don't know where to start, start in your community and it will grow. [00:39:07] Like all of a sudden I was getting pinged by friends who had connections to the Navajo Navajo nation. And if you allow yourself to say, okay, I'm going to give myself this little time to be an activist in this particular school. And you open yourself up and you fought, like we're saying, we collaborate with other people who you can network with. [00:39:27] I ended up giving money over to a nonprofit to really maintain all of it because I have to go back to my real business. Right. But my work is not over in that moment. That's one side. So what's my next project. Like I'm working now on a book that, where we did a big, I fund women campaign and our goal is to. [00:39:48] And, and, and sell thousands and thousands and thousands of copies of this little tiny book, which is called eat cake for breakfast, which who doesn't want to eat cake for breakfast. And it's the, and it's [00:40:00] written by this incredible full, uh, entrepreneur and philanthropist, um, violas, um, soon Tonto. And she wants to be able to give back to UCS AF Oakland children's hospital. [00:40:12] And we connected, um, during the pandemic. We, we went on a walk and she, her daughter had a rare, um, a rare bone, um, bone condition, and she needed to get treatment at UCF and she wanted to be able to give back to this hospital. And so I said, well, I'm already manufacturing books. I already have staff. I already have people. [00:40:39] Um, and, and the mass distribution, if you want to run an I fund women campaign so that we have money to manufacture this book, I'm happy to provide, you know, my marketing team or PR team and, uh, and an operational team to get this book into the room. And [00:41:00] that's what I also would say. If you are a small business and you want to give back, sometimes you are able to just because you have a certain capability in manufacturing, if you think about all the places where they made masks to donate or other things. [00:41:14] It's finding those things. I also know that giving back it can be so easy. What did I say? I just buy my books now from bookshop.org. They've raised over $12 million to independent bookstores across the patient. Like that's also activism. If you just think about what your business or who you are, can do and give back. [00:41:37] I mean, for me, When, when black lives matter really was at the forefront of everybody, it was a fight. It was my duty for my kids to go out there into the streets to make signs, to see it. But it was also not enough. Like we ended up sending face shields to Minneapolis, to service, for example, children's Minnesota [00:42:00] hospital to help people during the riots. [00:42:02] Like, I just think, you know, what is, what is my take back? Like I think that if my company. Uh, you know, there's only so you can, you can there's money, but you can never, ever buy time and you can never buy humans. And like, I guess that's just my that's part of my philosophy in life. Like I, you could have all the money in the world, but that does not give you back your people and your time. [00:42:29] And that's what, that's what I want to see when I'm old and gray and maybe sitting on a beach. What I've been able to reflect who my, who I've touched. I mean, that means I have, that means the world to me. That's my personal thing. So my company, I mean, I, I do books. I do stories like I'm grateful every day, what I do, because I do think words changed Matt and words changed lives. [00:42:58] They create. [00:43:00] [00:43:00] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:43:00] For sure for sure they do. And I'm, you know, on behalf of authors everywhere, I'm so grateful that you are doing what you're doing. It's amazing. So I have, I have a. I got a [00:43:12] Angela Engel: [00:43:12] little, um, I got really passionate there. [00:43:14] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:43:14] I know. I love it. [00:43:16] Angela Engel: [00:43:16] I love it. What did I just talk about? [00:43:19] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:43:19] This is great. I think it's so important. [00:43:21] No, because, because we are not just what we do for a living. Right. And if you can, and if you can, to be the most successful person is the person who does what they love. And, and then, and then there's a wonderful quote by, um, In the book, givens decline and fall by Sheri Tepper. And it, I it's my favorite quote. [00:43:42] Like it's what I live by. And, and it it's a little bit of dialogue, but I have to tell it to you in case you've never read the book. Uh, it's about a woman who has since died, but she started a movement and somebody is talking about what she used to say, and this is the quote, find your sun warmed stone. [00:43:58] She used to say to [00:44:00] us, go there, build your house there and then lift others up. I love that quote so much because that, that notion of, yeah, you can do it, you can start your business, you can write your book, you can, and once you've gotten to that point, help someone else, you know, and it sounds to be like that. [00:44:18] Oh yeah. [00:44:20] Angela Engel: [00:44:20] Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, God. I'm doing a party dance over here in my chair. Like I love that quote. I know, that's [00:44:30] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:44:30] it. Once you've done it, pull others up. That's that's what we can do. We can help, we can help those coming after us. And so, so having said that. Brass tacks here, Angela, if somebody says, oh, I've got a book in me or I've written a book or whatever, and they want to find you, they want to, what are the steps to getting involved with collected collective book studios? [00:44:52] What would you say someone should do when they want to do that? When they want to reach out when they want to follow you? When they want to say, Hey, could [00:45:00] we work together? [00:45:01] Angela Engel: [00:45:01] Yeah, well, this would be my advice at any publishing house, whether it be mine or you were interested, you were a poet, you, I, and it was edgy. [00:45:09] And I would maybe recommend go looking at soft skull press, like, look at what we already do. That is really key. So read, like, what is lifestyle? What is children's? What are gifts? Titles? We have a titles page who are we publishing? Um, follow our authors and follow us. I think that will give you a good sense. [00:45:29] Do you think you're going to be a right fit for our last, um, I'm very education. I'm very into parenting and the career development. Um, I have a beautiful book coming out on labor and delivery, labor and delivery. Of course I am a mom of three, like, but how we even package this labor book is very gifty. [00:45:48] Like my goal is, bye. Bye baby. Here, like looking into, um, really, so kind of look at our books and think about. Are we the right fit as if you're writing a novel, like that's not [00:46:00] what we do, right. So it's not, it's necessarily not, I'm not going to be able to really help you there, but it's a memoir. We also don't do. [00:46:08] Now. I'm always willing to. Slide into my DMS, right. Which is at the collective book studio. And I'm happy to like give ideas on, uh, plates for a memoir or for a novel if I can, because I I'm very have been in the world for so long. So I have like 20 years and I might know a small, independent press that you're not thinking about. [00:46:29] And I think that, so, so for us, I love food and wine. I love Diane. I love, uh, anything travel full visual. Children's like, think about how that book is going to be structured. And if it's not full visual, then it should really be in like the self-help career motivating, uh, parenting space. But we would, but not, but the business it's not hardcore business. [00:46:56] Does that make sense? Some of that's not really my genre either. [00:47:00] It really is. We're really a trade house. We really trade publishing. We're not going to have. A big academic reach. And some people may prefer to go on it to an academic press, for example, like UC Berkeley or something like that. So I think it just, no, I think it's really about knowing what your why is and what your purpose is and what you're trying to achieve with your own book and then, and then approach us. [00:47:24] And I'm always, you know, willing to take a look there's, there's no cost for an author for us to look at it. It's a submission [00:47:31] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:47:31] process. Right. Absolutely. And, and I thank you for, for that. A lot of people don't know that very specific and very good advice that you just gave, look at the imprint, see what they're already doing and see if you would be a fit there before you even pitch them, which I think is so important. [00:47:51] And. I, I have just a couple more questions because honestly, Angela, I could keep you here for the next six hours and we could just [00:48:00] keep chatting and order more coffee. [00:48:02] Angela Engel: [00:48:02] Well, I do want to know more about your NASA days. I'm like, wow, that's a story. Can we come on? Aren't you going to write a children's book with me and we do need more women in stem for sure. [00:48:12] Okay. Well, [00:48:12] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:48:12] and that's exactly actually, that's what I did. I, it was environment earth, so. And, uh, my, my job was to go in and make dirt fun. That was, [00:48:22] Angela Engel: [00:48:22] oh my God. Well, we could talk for really, I mean, obviously we need more women in stem, so I applied there and, um, and I know I'm going on. I'm not told tangent need to pick it up, but I'm very curious about it. [00:48:38] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:48:38] Well, we'll have to have a virtual cup of coffee sometime. No, I mean, the thing about the thing about NASA and one of the. That what, what you do and what I do, where it intersects in some ways is because I was, I would go into places, either teaching kids or teaching scientists, how to speak to kids. A lot of it is they, they, they speak very eloquently, but [00:49:00] they speak at very high levels and eight year olds. [00:49:03] You said what you know, or they check out. And so my job was to help scientists learn how to speak to eight year olds in a way that the eight year olds would find fun. And so then I took that and I wrote a book all about a called speak from within. So seed. Now I've put it all back into the publishing realm about how we can communicate in a way that will be really, really. [00:49:24] Dave, particularly if we don't know how or if we're nervous about it. So, so when we're talking about that stuff, when we're talking about NASA or when we're talking about, you know, writing for kids, what, to me, what I'm talking about ultimately is communication. And so for you, with what you're trying to do with what you're already doing successfully, it seems like what are your goals? [00:49:51] 2030 years from now. What do you want to see in the publishing industry? From collective book studio and also perhaps the industry [00:50:00] itself? [00:50:01] Angela Engel: [00:50:01] Hmm, 20, 30 a year. Okay. So I'll be, what does that say? Over 70 and 30? Yeah. When you're, [00:50:08] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:50:08] when you're like, when you're on the beach and you're going, I have done all of this really cool stuff. [00:50:14] Angela Engel: [00:50:14] What are you thinking? [00:50:19] Well, I want a New York times. I want a New York times bestseller. I don't want to see, I want to see a time where independent publishing women own pub presses are back on those bestseller lists. Like it's 89.9% big houses at this point. And the big houses just aren't getting huge speaker. I mean, they're just all buying each other up. [00:50:41] They're buying. I guess, I, I guess I believe in the power of like community and words, I think I need my dream. I think I need to, some of the more famous writers that might not need the huge, huge advances and want to try something completely different. Like, I almost like need them in [00:51:00] partnership with me, but I think that's possible. [00:51:02] I think that people. Um, can work with us in a way where you can't get still a traditional deal. And there are still some books that bull make sense for your traditional house. I think I want to disrupt that industry idea that like, you have to stay all the time in traditional house. And if you don't, you're going to get like blacklisted, right? [00:51:23] Like. What or like I self published and I can't now get a publishing deal. What? That doesn't make sense. People like, let it go because of the end. Let it go. Because the media, like if you have something to stay in, you're a nonfiction author. They're going to, you have something to say and you deserve to say it. [00:51:46] Like, I don't think in 30 years someone's going to go, oh God, I had a, I had a self published book and God, I could never get a true D like no, like stop all of that kind of competitive attitude. And instead [00:52:00] let's figure out how we're going to still maintain. Right. This is really cool. For me, the reason I am still very picky about the submissions is I do have concerns with self publishing, for sure. [00:52:16] Um, there's things like, like blinders people have where you may put something that it could be offensive, racist, those types of things. And without a traditional guard, really looking at same with media, right? Like without traditional media really looking at it. There is room for hate speech. We saw that on Twitter. [00:52:39] All over. Right. We've saw that, um, across the board and what that kind of insinuates in our culture and in our communities. So if traditional publishing, we need to change, we still need to be guarded for things like that. And that's why I think if I look 30 years ago, I raised on the beach. Maybe with you. [00:53:00] [00:53:00] They're like having a beer. Champagne. And we're saying we're still, we're still saying to the country, like you can't have hate speech. You can't have to pictures of people in a certain light, right? Like that's what the Dr. Seuss enterprises did and shelves, six books and random house agreed with them. And like, there still needs to be that guy. [00:53:21] But why also does, um, that guard have to control all of distribution? I have no idea why and all of people's IP. And so maybe I'm hoping, you know, whether that be Simon and Schuster, all my colleagues were like, oh, laughing. Cause we've kind of decided. We're going to change that mindset, that access that snobbery, that sometimes does exist in my industry. [00:53:43] And I think the reason I'm talking to you today, or the reason sometimes I'm on clubhouses, that I want people to understand that there's people internally inside my industry that are, that are not so snappy that don't want to say, oh, only the elite have access to publishing. That's not, [00:54:00] that's not okay. [00:54:02] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:54:02] Once again, I love that. You said that [00:54:06] Angela Engel: [00:54:06] what's true, right? Like I, you don't have to be a celebrity to get, like, why are celebrities getting a cookbook and someone who's been a chef and going to culinary school and is a writer for, you know, even like top columnists in journals are not getting published. [00:54:21] Like that's not. [00:54:22] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:54:22] Okay. Well, and that's the thing is that you. With your company are offering the opportunity for people to do that. You know, I mean, that, that to me is sort of the key takeaway for me here is that it that's where you're disrupting, you know, that that's, that's where things are really changing and, and more power to you. [00:54:43] I think that's. That's incredible. And again, I have like 45 more questions that maybe you'll come back and do a part two of this interview, uh, because, because I'm having such a wonderful time chatting with you, but I recognize you have a life to get back to. So I would love [00:55:00] it if you wouldn't mind, uh, giving just I put it in the show notes, but people learn differently. [00:55:06] So. Where people can find the collective book studio as far as on Instagram or on LinkedIn, wherever you are and your website, so that I can also put it on the show notes. I would appreciate it very much. [00:55:18] Angela Engel: [00:55:18] Thank you. So our website is the collective. Dot studio. Very easy. It's just the collective book.studio. [00:55:28] And then on LinkedIn, you can just reach out to me, Angela angle, our companies on LinkedIn, as well as the collective books or, you know, so both places, but I, you know, feel free for people to DM me. I love LinkedIn. It's one of my favorite platforms. Um, we also are active on Instagram at the collective book studio. [00:55:47] We don't have Twitter, you know, there's only so many things we manage, but we're so visual that, um, Instagram or LinkedIn as a personal or our website, I would love people to [00:56:00] subscribe to our newsletter. Um, we have a newsletter that's growing that goes out twice a month and it's really great. We have. [00:56:06] This column called read with us, and we give all kinds of tips on what we're reading as a staff. And I don't believe that I have to only tote my books. I get, I really talk about the industry. We have, we have blogs that we write. So I just asked for people to build community with us and to engage with us. [00:56:24] And, um, Yeah, that's part of the fun. [00:56:27] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:56:27] Absolutely. And I can say as a subscriber to the newsletter, that it is a lot of fun and I've gotten some great reading recommendations out of it, so, yeah. Good. Thank you. So again, Angela, I'm super grateful to you for being here. Really? What a, what a joy to talk with you? [00:56:43] I have just one last question and I ask it of everyone who comes on the show and it's a silly question, but I find. The question often yields some pretty poignant answers. And the question is this. If you had an airplane that could sky write [00:57:00] anything for the whole world to see, what would you say [00:57:08] Angela Engel: [00:57:08] change starts with? [00:57:10] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:57:10] Ah, your mantra. Yes. Yes. That's fabulous. Thank you so much, Angela. I appreciate it. It's great. It's a great, beautiful. I can see it in the sky. [00:57:21] Angela Engel: [00:57:21] I've never been asked that question. Oh my God. If that actually happened. Oh, I would I'll remind house in Oakland. I would just be smiling. I am smiling ear to ear right now and looking out at my porch and my blue sky can imagine that. [00:57:35] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:57:35] I know. Right. Thank you so much for that, that this has been a fabulous chat with Angela angle, who is. The CEO of the collective book studio, you are going to obviously need to follow her and the studio on Instagram and on LinkedIn. See what they're doing. See how they're disrupting the entire publishing industry. [00:57:56] I am Izolda Trakhtenberg for the innovative mindset [00:58:00] podcast. If you're liking what you're hearing, please rate and review the show. I love it. I'd love to hear from you. I love your comments as you know, and if you're a writer, get in touch with me because I'm always, always thrilled to talk to other authors until next time. [00:58:13] This is Izolda Trakhtenberg again, reminding you to listen, learn, laugh, and love a whole lot. [00:58:25] Thanks so much for joining me today. I really appreciate you being here. Please subscribe to the podcast if you're new and if you like what you're hearing, please review it and rate it and let other people know. If you'd like to be a sponsor of the show. I'd love to meet you on patreon.com/innovative mindset. [00:58:43] I also have lots of exclusive goodies to share just with the show supporters. Today's episode was produced by Izolda Trakhtenberg and his copyright 2021 as always. Please remember, this is for educational and entertainment purposes. Only past performance does not guarantee future [00:59:00] results, although we can always hope until next time, keep living in your innovative minds.    

When Susan goes missing on December 7, 2009, all eyes are on Josh Powell. Together with the family and friends of Susan, the West Valley P.D. gather enough information to make Josh the main suspect, however, circumstantial evidence isn't enough. It appeared that every tactic used by the police was circumvented by Josh as frustrations grow with his lack of cooperation. Jennifer Graves volunteers to wear a wire and visit the now roommates, Josh and Steve. And when Steve is questioned about his and Susan's past, he paints Susan as a sex-starved woman who was in love with him. It seems the only witnesses may have been Susan's two boys, but with Charlie being the only one to really speak about it and being he was only 4, the police can't help but question whether or not he is a reliable witness. A segment of Charlie's first interview can be heard here, where he states "Mommy stayed where the crystals are." The episode closes with a 2019 update on Josh's whereabouts after taking his minivan back from the police with a tracker on it.

When Susan embraced the Truth and resisted the enemy she was set free.

When Susan, from Irving, Texas, found her natural mother, she learned she was conceived in transit when two young lives collided, then never saw one another again.  Her birth mother's life seemed too chaotic the women to make a deeper connection. The woman ended things abruptly when Susan didn't behave the way she wanted.  Susans's paternal connection, while a complete surprise, was filled with joy and acceptance for a father who needed to fill a void, and a daughter who craved the same.  This is Susan's journey.  Support this podcast

Today's guest is Susan Straley, author of the dual memoirs "Alzheimer's Trippin' with George" which memorialize her 10,000-mile cross-country trike trips after her husband's dementia diagnosis. When Susan and George semi-retired from their machine design and manufacturing business in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 2008, they moved all their belongings into storage except for what they needed for a long bicycle trip on their recumbent tricycles and pedaled around Wisconsin for 40 days. Throughout their travels, Susan uploaded pictures and stories to an online journal to keep family and friends informed of their whereabouts. This journal began her writing career. Born with an urge to wander, Susan thought it only natural to want to run away when dementia entered their lives in 2015, so she and George took off on their trikes for a three-month trip around the States. She again kept an online journal of their adventures, but this time she included the deepest, most personal details of the progression of George's disease. Her readers, followers, friends, and family encouraged her to tell all. "It will be so helpful to others who have loved ones with dementia," they said. This became her first book. When Susan and George arrived home she was encouraged to continue writing about their experiences, and the second half of their dementia journey turned into a love story, the love between the two of them, but also the wonderful outpouring of love and support they enjoyed from friends, family, and their community. In 2018, George succumbed to Alzheimer's. Susan still enjoys riding her recumbent tricycle and traverses the country in her camper, sharing her travels and adventures online all the way. In this episode we discuss life after Alzheimer's caregiving, the value of support groups, and turning a travel blog into a book. Read Susan's AlzAuthors post: https://alzauthors.com/2019/10/01/susan-straley-alzheimers-trippin-george/ Start reading "Alzheimer's Trippin' with George" now! https://amzn.to/38RDt39 Available in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook. Note: We are an Amazon Associate and may receive a small commission from book sales. Connect with Susan Straley Website: https://www.susanstraley.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrippinwithSusan Twitter: https://twitter.com/SusanStraley Each season our podcast brings you six of our authors sharing their dementia journeys. Please subscribe so you don't miss a word. If our authors' stories move you please leave a review. And don't forget to share our podcast with family and friends in need of knowledge, comfort and support on their own dementia journeys. AlzAuthors is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization totally reliant on donations to do what we do. Your generosity will help cover our many operating costs, which include website hosting and maintenance fees, service charges to keep things running smoothly, and marketing expenses to promote our authors, expand our content, improve our reach, and more. Our ongoing work supports our mission to lift the silence and stigma of Alzheimer's and other dementias. To sustain our efforts please visit https://alzauthors.com/donate/ . Thank you for listening.

Today’s guest is Susan Straley, author of the dual memoirs "Alzheimer's Trippin' with George" which memorialize her 10,000-mile cross-country trike trips after her husband’s dementia diagnosis.  When Susan and George semi-retired from their machine design and manufacturing business in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 2008, they moved all their belongings into storage except for what they needed for a long bicycle trip on their recumbent tricycles, and pedaled around Wisconsin for 40 days. Throughout their travels, Susan uploaded pictures and stories to an online journal to keep family and friends informed of their whereabouts. This journal began her writing career.  Born with an urge to wander, Susan thought it only natural to want to run away when dementia entered their lives in 2015, so she and George took off on their trikes for a three-month trip around the States. She again kept an online journal of their adventures, but this time she included the deepest, most personal details of the progression of George’s disease. Her readers, followers, friends, and family encouraged her to tell all.  "It will be so helpful to others who have loved ones with dementia," they said. This became her first book. When Susan and George arrived home she was encouraged to continue writing about their experiences, and the second half of their dementia journey turned into a love story, the love between the two of them, but also the wonderful outpouring of love and support they enjoyed from friends, family, and their community.   In 2018, George succumbed to Alzheimer’s. Susan still enjoys riding her recumbent tricycle and traverses the country in her camper, sharing her travels and adventures online all the way.  In this episode we discuss life after Alzheimer’s caregiving, the value of support groups, and turning a travel blog into a book.  Read Susan’s AlzAuthors post: https://alzauthors.com/2019/10/01/susan-straley-alzheimers-trippin-george/ Start reading "Alzheimer’s Trippin’ with George" now! https://amzn.to/38RDt39 Available in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook. Note: We are an Amazon Associate and may receive a small commission from book sales. Connect with Susan Straley Website: https://www.susanstraley.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrippinwithSusan Twitter: https://twitter.com/SusanStraley Each season our podcast brings you six of our authors sharing their dementia journeys. Please subscribe so you don’t miss a word. If our authors’ stories move you please leave a review. And don’t forget to share our podcast with family and friends in need of knowledge, comfort and support on their own dementia journeys.  AlzAuthors is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization totally reliant on donations to do what we do. Your generosity will help cover our many operating costs, which include website hosting and maintenance fees, service charges to keep things running smoothly, and marketing expenses to promote our authors, expand our content, improve our reach, and more. Our ongoing work supports our mission to lift the silence and stigma of Alzheimer’s and other dementias. To sustain our efforts please visit https://alzauthors.com/donate/ . Thank you for listening.

When Susan lost her young husband to a rare form of lung cancer, she was surrounded by grief. The Tendrils of Grief podcast showcases grief professionals who can help provide guidance and advice to those who might feel so alone in their journey as well as shine a light on the stories of those who have recently lost someone close to them. It’s a podcast to help you grieve and feel connected to a wider network of people in the same place you are. You are not alone on this journey and there is a path forward

Keeping children safe online is a concern for every parent. Children can have a technical skill that is far more advanced than their cognitive development and it is not easy to know how and what boundaries to set.  Today’s guest is Susan McLean. Susan is Australia’s foremost expert in the area of cyber safety and was a member of Victoria Police for 27 years. Widely known as The Cyber Cop, she was the first Victoria police officer appointed to a position involving cyber safety and young people. In 2003, she was a Victoria Police Region 4 Youth Officer of the Year. She has also been awarded the National Medal and Victoria Police Service Medal. Susan established a consulting firm in March 2007 called Cyber Safety Solutions and has grown to be the most highly respected and in demand cyber safety consultancy in Australia. Show Notes: [1:21] - Susan shares her background in law enforcement and her first online appointment was in 1994. [2:17] - She was led to America in her quest to learn as much as she could about cyber safety. The training she was a part of was The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Team training and more trainings in Texas. [3:35] - When Susan returned to Australia, she outlined a plan of action for law enforcement in Australia. [4:14] - When Susan’s support retired, she lost all internal support at that time. Others claimed she was making things up to create a job opportunity and that because she was a woman, she couldn’t do this job. [5:07] - Susan quit her job because she became passionate about this concern and took a risk in developing her own consultant agency. She works extensively with schools, parents, and teachers. [6:46] - Now, law enforcement takes cyber crime more seriously. [7:51] - Susan says that although there is acknowledgement of cyberbullying and online safety issues, there is still a lack of training of front line police officers. [8:50] - Susan describes JACKET teams in Australia and how it works in her country. [9:30] - The amount of arrests is phenomenal, but Susan would much rather there were no arrests because we can educate young people to not fall victim to these types of crimes. [10:27] - Susan shares that most arrests are made within Australia but that there are international crime gangs specifically in sex trafficking and sexual exploitation that are elsewhere. [12:08] - The statistics in Australia show that a quarter of all teens have been cyber bullied at some point. This can mean a lot of different things. It's almost always an extension of schoolyard bullying. [12:47] - Nude photos are also prominent and fit the definition of child exploitation offenses. [13:58] - To be an effective parent in the 21st century, you have to parent in the digital space. [14:43] - The internet is 100% an adult world that you are putting your child into. Risks cannot be removed but you can identify and limit the risk with boundaries for your child. [15:18] - Young people’s technical skill far outweighs their cognitive and brain development. There is a massive gap between what they can actually do and what they can understand. [16:29] - Susan explains that if your child is under 13, you should be in complete control over everything your child does online. [17:33] - Start with one platform that you can manage when you feel they are ready for it. Constant monitoring and parent judgement on maturity is necessary. [19:01] - Susan recommends having a rule in place that you will check all accounts and devices a certain number of random days per month. [20:33] - Checking lists of friends and contacts, the child has to explain who they are to the parent’s expectations. If you can’t invite them over for dinner, they don’t belong on their list. [21:55] - Susan shares how the majority of in-person sexual abuse or exploitation are with people the victim knows. But online, the majority are people who are unknown to the child or teen. [23:02] - If you are familiar with the person and are unsure if it is their real account, ask them. [24:27] - Parents also need to have conversations prior to online use to make sure their children are not being the ones doing the bullying. [25:45] - If you are the caretaker of any child or minor, you have to be aware that they are targets. [26:03] - Susan explains that the majority of inappropriate photos are taken in bedrooms and bathrooms with the doors closed. She shares examples of ways a parent can prohibit devices with cameras in those rooms. [27:48] - Especially during Covid, the limitation of devices and children online became difficult. [28:28] - One of the biggest mistakes parents make is giving their child or teen a phone thinking it will keep them safe. They are handy, but they are not safety devices. [30:18] - Susan also lists the other issues that come with extensive use of electronic devices, including posture, muscular and skeletal problems, and eye strain. [32:27] - Every adult has a responsibility to keep children safe on and offline.  [34:34] - Susan recommends several websites for parent and child education on cyber safety that include games and kid friendly language. [37:59] - Susan is also the author of Sexts, Texts, and Selfies which is an internationally available book. The only changes based on the country are the laws and legislation. [40:12] - It is everywhere no matter the crime. Cyber safety is absolutely crucial. Thanks for joining us on Easy Prey. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and leave a nice review.  Links and Resources: Podcast Web Page Facebook Page whatismyipaddress.com Easy Prey on Instagram Easy Prey on Twitter Easy Prey on LinkedIn Easy Prey on YouTube Easy Prey on Pinterest CyberSafety Solutions Web Page Susan McLean on Twitter Susan McLean on Facebook Sexts, Texts, and Selfies: How to Keep Your Children Safe in the Digital Space by Susan McLean

Welcome back to How Bizarre! On each episode Chris and Erin Chavez explore some of the more baffling cases of people who have gone missing or disappeared. On this episode, Chris tells Erin about the unexplained disappearance of Susan Walsh, a single mother who supported her 11-year-old son by writing for the Village Voice by day and dancing at gentleman’s clubs by night. When Susan disappears one afternoon while on her way to a phone booth down the street from her home, many wonder if her work as an investigative journalist uncovering human trafficking within the sex industry may have had something to do with it. Find us on the web and social media: BICBP-RADIO.com Instagram Chris Chavez            ccchavez13 Twitter Chris Chavez            @cchavezforreal

Christi Staib is the President of Silver Sail Wealth Advisors and works with her clients on making sure they have a secure financial future. After losing her husband, Christi found herself in grief and navigating this complex financial world. This is the second episode with Christi as she discusses how to make the best financial decision for your family while in grief, how to avoid scams and the best ways to set financial boundaries.   Key Takeaways: Widowers need to protect themselves from people who don’t have their best interests at heart. When someone passes away, you’re in a vulnerable state and you might open your heart up to family members who want to take advantage of you. How long after grief should you be making important financial decisions? People felt guilty when they bought something that made them feel happy.  When Susan was grieving, someone asked her to invest in a business. There are emotions that come out of nowhere, especially when you’re talking about your finances without your loved one for the first time. How can you spot a professional scammer? Susan shares an example of a professional scammer and how they specifically target widows. These scammers are brilliant. They have thought of everything to keep you hooked. Listen to your network. They know when something is up. Tell them about the people you’re dating. They will help protect you. Some people know they are being scammed, and don’t care. They just want the connection. How do you protect your financial boundaries? Are you overspending? Vet your potential partner through their friends. Before you give anyone money, look at their relationship with money. What are some of the signs someone might be taking advantage of you financially? When the money runs out, the scammer will leave. Know your limits and trust your friends. If enough people are saying the same thing, you have to pay attention to it. Get an advocate in your corner to help protect you.   Resources: Silversailwealthadvisors.com Silversailwealthadvisors.com/team/Christi Staib The Secrets of the Power of Intention by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Navigating the Unique Financial Needs of Women Today: Smart Steps for Women and Their Wealth by Christi Staib

Hear from Susan Starr in this episode of Awaken the Wonder. She shares her story on how she went from hospice care to traveling the world preaching the gospel, and seeing many healed and raised from the dead.  Ministry site: www.kingdomencounters.us  When Susan was born, she was born speaking in her prayer language. In the last ten years, she has seen the miraculous in her life. She had a double mastectomy at the age of 30 with many health problems to follow. She started taking 40-60 pills a day to control her autonomic nervous system. Susan went to a healing conference longing for healing in her body. She wanted to see her children grow up and knew a loving God wouldn't want to take her away. Before going to the conference, she was on hospice care, but with everything in her she made it to the meeting. A man from California laid hands on her, and she said she felt 'golden hot chocolate' run through her. She laid out on a mat at the front of the conference, and when she got up she was completely healed. It has been ten years, and now she sees the supernatural in her daily life. Connect with Susan and her ministry More Moravian Falls.  Stay connected through Evangelist Caleb’s social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CalebWampler/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/evangelistcalebwampler 

Michelle Anhang lost her husband to suicide when she was 34 years old. She had two young children to take care of and the stigma was so bad that her family thought it was better to tell friends he passed away in an accident. This meant that Michelle had to live with this grief secret for over ten years before she had the courage to reveal the truth.   Today, she is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and a Professional Certified Coach (PCC). Michelle works with her clients on ways to better their mental health and shares tips on this week’s episode on how to navigate depression and thoughts of suicide during the holiday season.   Key Takeaways: Michelle lost her husband by suicide when she was just 34 years old. Because of the stigma, Michelle’s family decided it was best to say he died in an accident. She held onto that secret for 10 years. Michelle lived in constant fear that someone would find out her secret. She didn’t even want to talk about his passing because it would have just been a lie. Did Michelle feel regret or guilt that her husband passed in such a shocking way? Family members can’t do anything to prevent suicide from happening. When mental illness takes over, it just takes over. When Susan’s husband passed away, she didn’t want to live. She felt so much shame because she had a daughter to take care of. No one Michelle knew could relate to her. She had to explain to her young children what death meant. How do you create a brand new life when the picture in your head isn’t going to happen? The man that Michelle knew was long gone. Mental illness had fully taken him over. A lot more people are at a higher risk of suicide around the holidays. How can you improve your mental health during this time? What is your inner voice saying to you? You are loveable. What has Michelle’s journey of recovery looked like over the years? If you don’t deal with your problems, your problems will deal with you. Michelle offers advice for someone grieving a loss of suicide.   Resources: Michelleanhang.com

Kelly Frager partners with organizations to help them optimize the power of their people through training and consulting. On this week's episode, Kelly talks a lot on the topics of work etiquette and shares what coworkers can do to show up for a grieving coworker. She also shares a quick and handy list of things to say and things not to say when someone has recently lost someone. Grief will always be with us, but it does get easier as time goes on. Key Takeaways: Nearly all people want to feel good about where they work. What kind of work etiquette should someone have when one of their co-workers is grieving? Grief makes you behave in strange ways. People struggle with words the most and people will go out of their ways to avoid saying something stupid. What are some of the things you shouldn't say to someone grieving? Kelly shares a helpful list. Kelly also shares a list of things that makes people feel loved and like you're there for them. Someone came up to Susan and told her, “You are a wonderful wife to Paul.” It was so meaningful. The words people say, they matter. Although people want to empathize with what you're going through, saying, “I know how you feel.” can be quite hurtful to someone in grief. The best thing you can do is listen and be there for someone. Allow the person to share their stories. “Call me if you need something.” This is another phrase that is unhelpful to the griever. The easiest ways people show love is through food, but Susan was overwhelmed with gestures of food and she ended up throwing it away. Year two was harder to deal with for Susan than year one. People assume that you'll be okay after a year, but you're not. It can be worse. Grief takes on different forms and people grief in different stages. When Susan lost her husband, everyone she knew came to see her. Kelly shares how she keeps the memory alive of her family members who have passed. Write a personalized letter and send it in the mail. It means so much more than a text message. Resources: Kellyfrager.com

Cathy Campbell is a Licensed Professional Counselor and has worked in a variety of different roles including, Hospice Grief Counselor, an Adjunct College Professor, a Causality and Death Notification Coordinator, and a Mental Health Counselor for our military. To continue our holiday grief series, Cathy shares advice on how to best navigate, set proper boundaries and expectations, and how to create a bit of control when things get too hectic as families come together.    Key Takeaways: Holidays are difficult enough! Add grief on top of that and you get a very painful experience.  We have cliche perspectives on what the holidays should be like and they’re sometimes unrealistic to achieve.  Find ways to take charge of your lie and take on something you can control during the holidays.  Just give yourself a break. . It’s okay to let people know what your expectations are.  Don’t want to go to a social gathering? Set time limits for yourself.  What do you do if you don’t want to spend time with family members you don’t like?  Don’t let someone else make the plans for you. Take charge.  When Susan’s husband passed, she didn’t even know what she wanted herself. She was completely drained, how do you best navigate that?  How can a friend show up for a grieving person?  The most important thing to keep in mind is to not make assumptions. Calling your friend and asking them ‘what do you need’ can actually go a really long way.  How can you better show up for yourself when you’re just not feeling it?  Do what you have to do to get through the holidays.  Every holiday is not the same. You will have some good pens and some bad ones.    Resources:  Newly Widowed, Now Socially Awkward by Eileen L. Cooley Ph. D

Susan Haglof and her husband Medhat are desperate to be parents. The agency doesn’t give them any official paperwork but the joys of parenting take over. When Susan wants to take the child, Marko, on a trip to the U.S. to visit her mother, she and Medhat are convicted of human trafficking and thrown in an Egyptian jail.Support us by supporting our sponsors! HelloFresh - Go to hellofresh.com/lockedup90 and use code LOCKEDUP90 to get $90 dollars off your order, including FREE shipping.

We're taught how to attain relationships, careers, things, etc.. However, we're not taught what to do when we lose them. When Susan lost her husband to a rare form of lung cancer, she was surrounded by grief. From her own pain, she created the Tendrils of Grief podcast, which showcases grief professionals who can help provide guidance and advice to those who might feel so alone in their journey.Through her podcast, Susan also shines a light on the stories of those who have recently lost someone close to them. It's a podcast to help you grieve and feel connected to a wider network of people in the same place as you are. "You are not alone," she says, "on this journey, and there is a path forward."Susan shares how she navigated the loss of her husband, the impact that loss had on other relationships, her daughter, career, and what she learned, through working with an energy coach in how to discern what she needed for her well-being. Also, if you know someone grieving, we also dig into the topic of how to show up for grievers, even if it means having a tough conversation. Connect with Susan:https://www.tendrilsofgrief.com / susan_ways@msn.comSupport the show (http://paypal.me/theunleashedheart)

Walter Mercado is a prolific astrologer, performer, television personality, mystic and pioneer. I first heard of Walter about 10 years ago, from my favorite astrologer, Susan Miller. When Susan takes the time to mention something in addition to her extensive planetary forecast then its worth it. I looked up Walter and what I saw was astonishing! I was in awe but also confused. Was I looking at a man, a woman? Is that bad plastic surgery or just the most unique-looking individual I've ever seen? I wasn't quite sure but after watching some videos of his on Youtube I didn't really care bc he is so captivating and warm and loving. His astrological forecasts were in Spanish yet I understood their universal message of love and peace and inspiration. After that initial discovery of Walter though; that was it. I wouldn't think much of him or hear more of his story until years later. “Mucho Mucho Amore” is Walters send off from his television show and also the name of his documentary on Netflix. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Susan calls Tracy regarding a negative comment she’s had about her radio show. Tracy’s busy tidying up after her kids and waiting on her dad. She asks Susan if Bert can stay with her for a couple of weeks. When Susan says no Tracy plays a practical joke on her, and suggests she, Chelsea and Brad move in with Susan instead. Despite her initial resistance, Alice has agreed to job share with Adam at Home Farm. She enjoys having the office to herself. She can’t believe Adam’s not planning anything for Ian’s 50th birthday. She thinks about organising a party for Ian herself. Ed thinks it’s odd that Alice is acting like their interaction last week never happened. Then he ponders how you never really know what’s going on with other people – like with Will last year. He considers how for a moment he wished Will had killed himself, though he would never admit that to anyone else. Ed tries to subtly tell Alice that she can talk to him at any time but Alice misinterprets Ed’s offer of support as romantic interest.

Sherrie Toews is the Founder and CEO of Effortless Momentum as well as a licensed marriage family therapist and breakthrough coach. When it comes to grief, it can be so hard working through your emotions. If you find yourself hung up or stuck, a therapist can help you through your grief process. In this episode, Sherrie shares some strategies on the best ways to navigate your grief and communicate with your loved ones on what you need.   Key Takeaways: When it comes to grief, what do some of Sherrie’s clients struggle with the most? Susan’s daughter went into a very dark place when Paul passed away. No one really knew how to respond to it. Why is it that some people get stuck in their own emotions? Expressing anger is very healthy. It’s so important to work through your emotions and get help if you need it. “Why Me?” is sometimes an impossible question to answer. Write a letter to whoever you’re mad at! Let it all out! When Susan was grieving, she didn’t need a casserole, she needed someone to just hold her hand and stare at the wall. You’re doing the best you can and your friends/family are also doing the best that they can, but miscommunication or mismatches will happen during your time of grief. When do you know you’re experiencing healthy anger vs. unhealthy anger? Love people through the anger phase.   Resources: Effortlessmomentum.com

IN THIS EPISODE SUSAN & BRYCE COVER:  Susan is a certified Yin yoga teacher She is also a Reiki healer and works with essential oils They discuss changing your career mid-life and following your dream They also cover the power of yin yoga and what it does to the body EPISODE DETAILS: Susan is a RYT 100 certified yoga teacher - and a Yin specialist She is also a reiki healer and a specialist in chakra and meridian theory She works to harness positive qualities within others and believes that health manifests by how you engage with the world  Susan lives from the heart and today she has most gratitude for her family gratitude today  When Susan worked in corporate life she was a VP of business development She got to a point in life where she was questioning her place; doing all the right things but didn't feel ‘right'  So she made radical decisions an ended her 13 year marriage and she had to have a lot of courage to do this as it upset both families Afterwards she did a lot of travel around the world and at 32 years old she called it her mid life gap year  She got into yoga at the time and the act of going internal and letting go of external was her medicine Yin yoga - seeing your self internally in situations and giving yourself the space to react vs respond  This helped expand her relationships and deeper communication with others and attract deeper relationships Susan also stresses that any yoga practice is a good one - just give it a go She works with people after their main workout as the muscles cool - targeting lower body to create a stretch By doing a bend you're manipulating the spine and spinal fluid and chakras sit within spine  The spine is perceived as the alter to your practice By doing the movement and twist you're rinsing the spine and creating space so that the energy can flow Treating people through yoga - she sends positive reiki to someone and then the ‘downloads' will come back to show what's going on in their body By using reiki to see what's wrong with people before hand she can form a diagnosis and then create a custom essential oil scent to help them heal Susan's daily rituals include coffee, meditation and yin yoga style In her meditation she's bringing awareness from crown of head to bottom of spine by focusing on each chakra Susan is hosting an event 3rd-12th in Peru called Peace in Peru  DISCUSSED DURING SHOW: Copper Tongue Scraper: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=copper+tounge+scrapper&crid=2W7KQM7DZKVIJ&sprefix=copper+tounge%2Caps%2C177&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_13 (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=copper+tounge+scrapper&crid=2W7KQM7DZKVIJ&sprefix=copper+tounge%2Caps%2C177&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_13) Rebounder Trampoline: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=rebounder+trampoline+for+adults&i=sporting&crid=2T9PAGF86ULUU&sprefix=rebounder+%2Csporting%2C212&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_10 (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=rebounder+trampoline+for+adults&i=sporting&crid=2T9PAGF86ULUU&sprefix=rebounder+%2Csporting%2C212&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_10) Dry Brushing Body Brush: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=dry+brushing+body+brush&crid=5C7QJ3OECJV6&sprefix=dry+brushing%2Caps%2C258&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_4_12 (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=dry+brushing+body+brush&crid=5C7QJ3OECJV6&sprefix=dry+brushing%2Caps%2C258&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_4_12) FREEDOM HACK RADIO LINKS: Freedom Hack Radio Website: https://www.freedomhackradio.com/ (https://www.freedomhackradio.com/) Freedom Hack Radio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSo5jy_kZWtB0NJK38Mdo4w?view_as=subscriber (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSo5jy_kZWtB0NJK38Mdo4w?view_as=subscriber) Freedom Hack Radio iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freedom-hack-radio/id1511789247 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freedom-hack-radio/id1511789247) Also available on your favorite podcast platform

In spite of our great science and medical advances in the last 100 years, what we know about how the body works is still embryonic. Especially when it comes to our body’s most complex organ - the brain - as Dr Susan Cunliffe can attest.  Dr Cunliffe received numerous rounds of ECT - aka shock therapy -  each more powerful than the last, each designed to ensure Susan’s brain was assaulted so hard it had a seizure.  The brain tries to protect itself from the convulsions and seizures caused by electricity - so it takes higher doses of electricity to induce the brain seizures. When Susan’s cognitive ability decreased after ECT, her symptoms were interpreted as worsening depression - not ECT induced brain damage - and she was given more ECT, causing more brain damage.   Psychiatry calls this a treatment. Others call it barbaric.    But these are the facts: Doctors don’t understand very much about the brain - for example, pharmaceutical manufacturers market antidepressant drugs on the idea that depression is a ‘chemical imbalance in your brain’ -- turns out, that’s not true, there is no evidence for a chemical imbalance as a cause of depression -- but that doesn’t stop 1,000s of unwitting doctors from prescribing them. Doctors definitely don’t understand how electricity impacts the brain. Physicians don’t know how to treat the brain on any level beyond throwing powerful psych meds at it --  and they haven’t studied traumatic brain injury so they don’t know what symptoms to look for or how to recognize signs of injury -- yet they are allowed to put electricity through people’s brains.   Psychiatry, that embarrassing discipline of medicine that operates outside the usual rules of evidence based science or prioritizing patient safety, religiously defend their practice of jolting the brain with electricity so hard that it causes the brain to have a seizure. Like religion, it is based on faith, not facts.   In this episode, physician Susan Cunliffe gives an insider’s view of the UK medical system where their own data shows 1 in 5 ECT patients experiences severe and permanent brain damage. But that doesn’t stop powerful psychiatrists from continuing to electrocute people’s brains and call it ‘medical care’.   Listen to find out who Susan found to help her brain to heal, and what she’s doing to heal a broken medical system.   Connect with Dr Susan Cunliffe: Twitter: @CunliffeSue Resources: Headway (UK) https://www.headway.org.uk/about-brain-injury/ Head Injury - book - Trevor Powell https://www.amazon.co.uk/Head-Injury-Practical-Speechmark-Editions/dp/0863884512 Facebook:  Drop the Disorder: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1182483948461309 International support group ECT survivors: https://m.facebook.com/groups/414257808688052?view=info&refid=18   Be a podcast patron Support Medical Error Interviews on Patreon by becoming a Patron for $2 / month for audio versions.  Premium Patrons get access to video versions of podcasts for $5 / month. Be my Guest I am always looking for guests to share their medical error experiences so we help bring awareness and make patients safer. If you are a survivor, a victim’s surviving family member, a health care worker, advocate, researcher or policy maker and you would like to share your experiences, please send me an email with a brief description:  RemediesPodcast@gmail.com  Need a Counsellor? Like me, many of my clients at Remedies Counseling have experienced the often devastating effects of medical error. If you need a counsellor for your experience with medical error, or living with a chronic illness(es), I offer online video counseling appointments. **For my health and life balance, I limit my number of counseling clients.**  Email me to learn more or book an appointment:  RemediesOnlineCounseling@gmail.com   Scott Simpson:  Counsellor + Patient Advocate + (former) Triathlete I am a counsellor, patient advocate, and - before I became sick and disabled - a passionate triathlete. Work hard. Train hard. Rest hard. I have been living with HIV since 1998. I was the first person living with HIV to compete at the triathlon world championships. Thanks to research and access to medications, HIV is not a problem in my life. I have been living with ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) since 2012, and thanks in part to medical error, it is a big problem in my life. Counseling / Research I first became aware of the ubiquitousness of medical error during a decade of community based research working with the HIV Prevention Lab at Ryerson University, where I co-authored two research papers on a counseling intervention for people living with HIV, here and here.  Patient participants would often report varying degrees of medical neglect, error and harms as part of their counseling sessions. Patient Advocacy I am co-founder of the ME patient advocacy non-profit Millions Missing Canada, and on the Executive Committee of the Interdisciplinary Canadian Collaborative Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Research Network. I am also a patient advisor for Health Quality Ontario’s Patient and Family Advisory Council, and member of Patients for Patient Safety Canada. Medical Error Interviews podcast and vidcast emerged to give voice to victims, witnesses and participants in this hidden epidemic so we can create change toward a safer health care system. My golden retriever Gladys is a constant source of love and joy. I hope to be well enough again one day to race triathlons again. Or even shovel the snow off the sidewalk.  

Dr Susan Friedman is our guest for this conversation about her recent article: “Why Animals Need Trainers Who Adhere to the Least Intrusive Principle: Improving Animal Welfare and Honing Trainers’ Skills” This is an update of her 2004 article: “What’s Wrong With This Picture? Effectiveness Is Not Enough”. When Susan began consulting at zoos and other animal care facilities, effectiveness was often the first and only consideration. Does the procedure get the job done? Does it get the animal moved from one enclosure to another? The answer might be yes, but at what cost? If you use a water hose, what is the fallout? What opportunities for improved welfare have you given up? Effectiveness is not enough. The hierarchy of strategies for humane intervention puts the individual’s welfare front and center. We explore the role that ethics plays in our training choices. How do you balance ethical considerations with scientific inquiry? Susan is revisiting this subject in her new article. We’re asking her what has changed? What are the updates or the elements that she wants to highlight as she revisits the hierarchy of procedural interventions.

Episode 041--Dealing With the Root of Anger (Dan & Susan Young) If you or someone you love have issues you haven’t seemed to be able to get a handle on, even with traditional counseling, this podcast will help.  If you have unresolved anger issues, this is a must listen. Dealing with the root of any issue will get us there faster than anything else. God loves to reveal the source of our anger and help us deal with it. The root has likely blocked the truth of who God is and how much He loves us and is available to guide us. Dan Young was a client who did a remarkable job of following my lead as a coach. When Susan, Dan’s wife, first told me that he wanted to do a freedom coaching session, I wasn’t sure. I had never coached a man before and had been taught that women coaching men wasn’t a good idea. However I had coached Susan and she would sit in on the coaching sessions with him, so I agreed. I knew Dan had some issues with anger he was trying to work through and I wanted to help him. So I told Susan we’d see how it worked out. I was amazed by several things about Dan. 1. His eagerness to get rid of his issues. 2. His ability to not try to figure out everything God was showing him, but just to speak out what he heard God say or what he saw or felt. From that point we could go forward asking God to help us understand more of what the words or images Dan saw or heard meant. Dan and Susan Young have been married for15 years. They are retired and live in Jacksonville, Fl. Family Life Weekends to Remember are a passion for both of them. They have been volunteer prayer warriors for that organization’s local events for 14 years. At this time I have limited Freedom Coaching spots but I also use the process we discuss on this podcast to coach members of my Overcomers Christian Weight Loss Academy during our live monthly calls. The process is also outlined in my book Sweet Freedom and Sweet Freedom Study Guides. I have a couple of courses on this available in Overcomers Christian Weight Loss Academy.  For Family Life to Remember events, go here: https://www.familylife.com/weekend-to-remember/ For Freedom Coaching, go here: https://www.teresashieldsparker.com/vip-freedom-coaching/ For Overcomers Christian Weight Loss Academy, go here: https://www.teresashieldsparker.com/overcomers-christian-weight-loss-academy/

Marni Battista is a dating and relationship coaching and the Founder of Dating with Dignity and the Institute for Living Courageously. Marni coached Susan through this new dating world she found herself in after 20 years of being married to Paul. Marni shares advice for widows out there who are ready to start dating again, but aren’t sure how.    Key Takeaways: Dating after loss is scary. Susan hired Marni to help her navigate this very scary space.  How do you know when you’re truly ready for love again?  What are the values you want to share with your partner? Marni recommends a minimum of five deal-breakers.  There is someone out there for you.  Susan had a big sense of relief where she could talk about her late husband freely with her new partner without him feeling threatened.  If you don’t have your mind right, you can start to ‘leak’ and it can show up everywhere. People can pick up on these subtle cues.  Susan hadn’t dated in 20 years and the whole landscape had changed. Marni offers advice on how to navigate that. How do you protect yourself from scammers?  If someone wants to see you, they will write you back, they will make an effort to see you. When Susan started dating again, it felt like this was finally something she could do for herself and not as a caretaker. We are so good at nurturing other people that we forget about our own needs.  It takes courage to open up your heart and to love again.  Can you put your feelings out there even when you don’t know how it’s going to be received?  Susan really truly believes she found a man that her late husband would have approved of.    Resources: Marni’s Website Join Marni’s Dating Den Facebook Community

Get your free introductory guide to intermittent fasting!Susan Perdue was overweight her whole life and fought the ups and downs of the scale through three children, unimaginable stress, and even a heart attack.When Susan showed me her before and now photos, I was shocked by the difference and overjoyed by her transformation. The drastic difference is not just in her physical size, but also in the lightness and joy in her expression, a look that says a huge burden had been lifted.That’s because, in 2019, she discovered the FASTer Way to Fat Loss and recruited her husband, who is a surgeon, and her daughter, a diabetic, to join her in the Starter Program. All three experienced life-changing success. Susan overcame her numerous struggles by learning how to eat right and exercising to make her strong for the future. She, and her daughter, Meghan, embrace the FASTer Way lifestyle completely and so whole-heartedly that they became a mother-daughter coaching team and now guide clients together in the 6-week FASTer Way Starter Program.Listen as Susan openly and honestly talks about the struggles she endured because of her unhealthy weight and lifestyle – even admitting she was not a good example to her children. She shares her success story with passion because she knows that she will follow the FASTer Way for the rest of her life. Her before and now photo shows more than just a reduction of weight; it also shows a lifting of spirit, and a joy, a pure joy, from being healthy and free.If you’re ready to learn the strategies that lead to fat loss and better health, the FASTer Way to Fat Loss puts it all together in a 6-week online starter program. Go to FatLossSuccessStories.com and click on any FASTer Way link.Mentioned in this episode:If you would like to work directly with Susan and have her for your own FASTer Way coach, please use this link to register with her. Susan mentioned Dr. Stephen Cabral who hosts the podcast The Cabral Concept and serves on the FASTer Way to Fat Loss medical advisory board. Here are just some of his many episodes I’ve found especially informative and helpful:How to Turn Up Your Metabolism In 5 StepsHow Sugar Causes CravingsThe Very Real Dangers of a Long-Term Low Carb DietProven Workout Programs that Increase Longevity2 Major Reasons Why Exercise is Now a Must (No Longer a Choice)The Big Fat Burning Benefits of Fasted CardioWhy You Gain Weight More Easily As You Age (New Research)If you have a success story you’d like to share, please send me an email at FatLossS

Episode 24.  God Images and Self ImagesJuly 13, 2020 Intro: Welcome to the podcast Coronavirus Crisis:  Carpe Diem, where you and I rise up and embrace the possibilities and opportunities for spiritual and psychological growth in this time of crisis, all grounded in a Catholic worldview.   We are going beyond mere resilience, to rising up to the challenges of this pandemic and becoming even healthier in the natural and the spiritual realms than we were before.  I'm clinical psychologist Peter Malinoski your host and guide, with Souls and Hearts at soulsandhearts.com.  Thank you for being here with me.  This is episode 24,  released on July 13, 2020 and it's called God Images and Self Images.  Today we're going to consolidate some of our learning to date, spiraling back to a few key concepts and then bringing those key concepts to life in a story.  You may remember Richard and Susan from Episodes 17 and 19 when we were doing a three-episode series on grief – you long-time listeners that were with us six to eight weeks ago may remember.  And you may have forgotten.   No worries.  Don't worry if you don't remember.  We are going to review all the key concepts briefly here and I'll catch you all up on the doings of Susan and Richard, as we begin this fifth installment on Catholic resilience.  We're also going to take a close, in-depth look at the negative God images that Richard and Susan struggle with, and how those God images impact how they feel about themselves and each other.  Now if you are just joining us, Richard and Susan are made up – I created these characters to illustrate the concepts we're discussing, buy they are realistic, and have issues common in our lives.   I said were going to review what a God image is, so let's just go over that again briefly. My God image is my emotional and subjective experience of God, who I feel God to be in the moment.  May or may not correspond to who God really is.   Initially my God images are shaped by the relationship that I have with my parents.  This is my experiential sense how my feelings and how my heart interpret God.  My God images are heavily influenced by psychological factors, and different God images can be activated at different times, depending on my emotional states and what psychological mode I am in at a given time.   God images are always formed experientially.  God images flow from our relational experiences and how we construe and make sense of those images when we are very young.  My God images can be and usually are radically different than my God concept. My God concept   What I profess about God.  It is my more intellectual understanding of God, based on what one has been taught, but also based on what I have explored through reading.  I decide to believe in my God concept.  Reflected in the Creed, expanded in the Catechism, formal teaching.   This distinction between God image and God concept is so critical, I really want you to grip onto it, to really understand it a deep level. I hope you can really digest to the difference, not just at a conceptual level, but at a much deeper level in you, and hang onto it for the rest of your lives. I mean that. Remember the causal chain that we discussed last time? Letting ourselves be taken in by our bad God images leads us to lose confidence in God, which in turn causes us to become much less resilient.  Allowing our problematic, heretical God images to dominate us, to exert influence on us in subtle but powerful ways.   In the last episode, Episode 23, we discussed how the greatest sin against the First Commandment among us serious Catholics is defaulting to our negative God images, and letting them rule us, not resisting their pull on us, letting them draw us away from God.  The more we give into our negative, heretical God images, the more they color our God concepts, leading us to entertain doubts in our intellect about God's love, his power, his mercy, his goodness.  And once we abandon our God concept to the notions of our heretical God images, we are headed for major trouble.  Richard and Susan from Episodes 17 and 19 on Grief.  We're going to take a close look at Susan's God images throughout her life to date in more detail, and in order to do that, we have to go back 100 years, and some generations.  Susan's father Pawel--  Born 1919 in Pittsburgh to Polish immigrant parents, Pawel's mother died shortly after he was born from Spanish influenza.  Youngest of three brothers.  Grew up in the 1920s  with his father and two older brothers.  No sisters, no experience of mother, no stepmother – some extended family but not really close.   Pawel's father (Susan's grandfather)  was a wheelwright, making wagon wheels.  At age 10, Al experienced the stock market crash and the Great Depression, hard times, unemployment, and a rough house, with some alcoholism.  So Pawel grew up in difficult economic circumstances, completed 8th grade, went to work as a printer's apprentice and then to war in 1942 and fought in the American infantry in France under Pershing.  In 1945, return with some shellshock, not able to talk about war experiences.  In 1951 six years after the war ended, 32 year old Pawel married Maja, an 18 year old Polish immigrant who had US shortly after WWII ended.   He had known Maja's family.  Maja was devoted to Pawel, very social, very outgoing, but with a history of unresolved war trauma from the German invasion of Poland when she was a little girl in the late 1930's.  Pawel and Maja had four children, three boys and then Zuzanna – which is Polish for Susan -- Zuzanna was the youngest of the four, born in 1960.  Life was good for the family in the 1950s and 1960s.   Susan:§  Susan's Father the good days·         Worked in a printing shop, a master printer, first shift·         High school education, funny, affectionate, a great story teller·         Susan was the youngest, and the only girl, three older brothers, everyone said she was her mother's daughter, similar to Mom Maja  in so many ways, both physically and in her personality  ·         Dad gave her lots of warmth and affection as a baby and toddler and little girl, all through grade school – he read to her and was like the coolest dad, because he would come to her tea parties with her dolls – §  God image – Susan found it easy to pray – first communion, first confession.  Warmth toward God, sunny days.  Felt beloved.  §  Susan's Father – the difficult days·         But when she turned 14, in 1974, it became a difficult relationship – she and her father did not see eye to eye.o   When Susan reached puberty, Dad withdrew emotionally – seemed to reject her hugs and kisses, told her those were “things little girls did” and “Susan, you're a big girl now”o   She told him he had always said she'd be his little girl and didn't understand when he said nothing in responseo   She didn't understand the tears in his eyes or why he'd turn away, leave her and watch TV alone in his deno   her heart ached for him.  She tried to reconnect, but he seemed cold and distant,  She tried for four years, all through high school – she'd look at the photo albums of how happy Dad was when he was with her – beaming, smiling, throwing her in the air and catching her.  Up until 14.  Maja didn't really seem to notice how difficult the relationship was.   o   Then in college, she rejected him, and went her own way, looking for the love from older boyfriends who were physically affectionate.  ·         Died suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack in 40 years ago in 1980, at age 61.  Susan Susan was 20, in college and it broke her heart.  Grief.  Guilt over rejecting him, guilt over the conflicts she had had with him, over her coldness and rejection of him.  ·         God image – felt abandoned, alone, God so distant.  She must have done something wrong.  And she had sexual partners.   ·         At Present:o   60 years oldo   Extroverted, very emotionally expressiveo   Raised Catholic, drifted away in adolescence and young adulthoodo   Reinvested in the faith about 27 years ago in 1993 with the birth of her first son, very conflicted about the miscarriage. o   Never really addressed the miscarriage of her baby daughter 20 years ago, whom she desperately wanted.  o   Wide circle of friends and acquaintances, close friend Valerieo   Professional translator in Spanish and Italiano   Scare with breast cancer five years agoo   Mother Maja has recently died at age 87 in the nursing home from the coronavirus Richard:·         61 years old·         Emotionally reserved, doesn't talk about his feelings easily, has trouble naming them·         Cradle Catholic who attends Sunday Mass, not really that invested in religion.  ·         Engineer, had made it into middle management, but lost his position when his whole division was shut down due to some internal issues in his company·         Considering retirement, not sure what to do with himself·         Day trades stocks – has a system, has made some income from that·         Porn use The Couple            ·         Married in 1992.  28 years ago.  ·         Three sons aged 27, 25 (John) and 23 years old ·         Susan troubled by emotional and physical distance in the marriage, over the last 25 years·         Susan very upset about discovering her husband's porn use  Where they are right now.  July 2020 – we're picking up the story again.  Will·         Fair degree of conflict right now – over the porn useo   Susan taking it hard – had assumed that her husband just wasn't very interested in physical intimacy§  Maybe low testosterone§  Maybe focused on work, other things§  Maybe a health issue – Richard hated going to the doctor, might have prostate trouble, won't get it checked out.  §  Self image, body image issues.  “He doesn't want me.”  “He hasn't wanted me for 25 years now”   o   He doesn't want me§  Activating some psychological issues with her Father§  Never knew why…   So now let's move into some new concepts:  Self-concept and self-image  -- Parallel to the God concept and God image Self-concept: This what we intellectually believe about ourselves, who we profess ourselves to be, what we understand about ourselves, our mental construct of ourselves.  The self-concept of a practicing Catholic, for example, may include being a beloved child of God.  There's a link between God concepts and Self-concepts – they go together, they harmonize.  Loving Shepherd, little sheep.   Self concepts and God concepts interact, there reciprocal causal effects.  Makes sense Self-images on the other hand, are much more emotionally driven, much more intuitive, subjective, and they vary a lot more from moment to moment.    These go together with God images – they impact each other  Self-images can flow from God images, they conform to God images.  God is the reference point, not us.  In spite of the Enlightenment's attempts to make the individual human being the measure of all things, we still look outside of ourselves to define ourselves.   But self-images can also impact God images.   Examples of Susan's self-concept  Exercise God image in your dark place.  Now look at your self image that corresponds .    Last Friday, July 10, Zoom meeting for RCCD community members to hang out and discuss together God images, and that is now up.   Bonding, really becoming the community.  Connecting.  Yearning to connect.  4 elements.  Do not have to be anything like perfect – we are all wounded in various ways, we all have our struggles.  Being real about God images, real about self-images, in the messiness, untidiness of these real issues.  Because we want real healing.   Check it out.  Contact information.   Patron and Patronness.     

Miranda Parker is the Executive Director of Hospice Foundation of the South and the Hospice House. Miranda is also the co-founder of Loss Love, a project that supplies care packages for child survivors of suicide. Miranda shares why a hospice house can give you the space and self care you need to reconnect with friends and get the extra support you need as your loved one’s journey begins to pass.    Key Takeaways: Miranda shares a bit about her background and what she does for the Hospice House.  How does Miranda help family members transition into a new normal as their loved one gets ready to pass? When Susan was helping her husband through his cancer journey, she had so much on her plate that her self-care completely went out of the window.  Miranda helps her family members not feel so guilty for prioritizing themselves and practicing some self-care.  By being able to take some time for yourself, you can reconnect with your social network and friends and gain access to a support you didn’t know you had. Your friends want to help you, but don’t always know how.  Susan didn’t want to miss out, but her husband was often sleeping and she was not spending the quality time she needed with him.  It’s okay to continue with life.  For the most part, the person you're grieving doesn’t want your life to stop because theirs did.  Miranda understands that relationships can be complex. She asks the patient if there are particular people they don't want to visit the Hospice House. This is a request they uphold even when they might not be conscious.  It’s important to understand that the dying process is not about you. Miranda and her staff make sure that the person passing is going on their own terms.  The hospice team is such a great asset not only for the person passing, but also for the family members.  How is Miranda and the Hospice House giving back to the community and to the children who have experienced loss?  It’s important that your children realize it’s okay to grieve and express themselves.  What advice would Miranda like to give to an adult or to a child?

Susan Eick thought she had to act like a man in order to get invited into the corporate boy’s club, but it wasn’t working! The harder she tried, the fewer things she got invited to, and to top it off, it was exhausting! Why pretend to be something you’re not? Susan has learned over the years that being your authentic self is the best way to lead and have people respect/admire you. Women/Men have natural talents and we should leverage them, not try to act like each other.   Key Takeaways ● Leadership is a people’s game. ● Leaders are having time now to really take a step back and analyze where their time is going. ● As leaders take more digital meetings, they’re not scheduling time for breaks and so they end up feeling more exhausted than before. ● Sometimes it can be difficult to innovate, there’s a lot of testing that goes into it or they might not have a budget so they don’t prioritize it, but Susan is seeing that so many leaders had to innovate overnight due to the pandemic. ● They didn’t think they had innovation in them, but they were wrong! They were able to get things up and running with no budget, within a week. ● Susan explains the difference in culture in Canada vs. the U.S. ● What risks are out there for a modern leader? ● There’s a pent up demand for getting this back to normal as quickly as possible and leaders are forgetting that you still need to communicate to your team! ● Susan’s first employee retreat, she didn’t know if it went well or not. Fast forward to her latest one and she’s never felt more connected. The biggest shift in this was Susan and being more open/authentic to her team. ● When Susan was coming up in her corporate career, she had to look like a guy and show no emotions. ● Susan realized she couldn’t be someone she wasn’t, so when she started opening up and showing more of her personality, that’s when more doors opened for her. ● What’s next for Susan? ● Susan’s daughters have better female role models than she did when she was growing up. She is very hopeful for the future.   Resources Refineryleadership.com Susan on LinkedIn   Quotes   Michelle’s quote: “There is a level of importance around keeping the intimacy around human connection and leaders with their team.”   “Leadership’s a people’s game and we’ve forgotten that. In the past we thought it was a title, status, responsibility, and people get pushed down.”   “Leaders I’ve been talking to have said that they’re forced to innovate overnight. We have this need and we have to act on it now.”   “Work says they want your best you, but what if your best you is something that is not as beautiful and polished as what they’ve experienced in the past?”

Susan Frew felt like hiding under a rock after her employee stole from her and took a considerable amount of money out of the business. Despite winning 43 awards and winning Inc. 500, her mental health struggled and so did her business while all of this was going on. The biggest takeaway was that she let her ego get in the way and it didn’t allow her to properly recover from the incident, but after taking deliberate and intentional action on her miracle journal and being grateful, Susan has come out of this more successful than ever.   Key Takeaways ● Unfortunately, the internet wasn’t too good and the interview got cut a little short, but because this information is so timely, we’re releasing it! ● When an elephant is giving birth, the other female elephants in the tribe surround her to protect her. ● When Susan’s company came under attack from a cybercrime, she let her mental health go. ● Susan won Inc. 500 and her business dreams were coming true, but she felt like she was a fraud because of what was really going on underneath it all. ● Susan started a miracle journal where she would write down all the miracles that were happening in her life. ● What did Susan need to see differently that she couldn’t see at the time? ● Susan was forced to downgrade the business and sell some of her possessions because of this cybercrime. ● The initial response is wanting to hide, but in crisis, we have to not let our egos get in the way.   Resources Susanrobertsfrew.com   Quotes   Michelle’s quote: “We are in a time of crisis and Susan has applicable experience of leading self and others through crisis!”   “I found community and then I really I ended up finding, the one word is hope.”   “When you put gratitude up into the clouds, the clouds will rain down blessings.”   “The more I wrote my miracles down and the more I became profoundly and intentionally grateful, that’s when things started turning around.”  

When Susan and Laura were invited to intro a NYC showing of The Philadelphia Story recently, they challenged themselves to find sparks related to the movie -- and they didn't have to look very far! The incredible self-orchestrated career turnaround of Katherine Hepburn, plus Scotty Bowers and the Secret History of Hollywood. Buckle up, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!

We have a brand new series and a brand new host complimenting it! This episode we dive in with Susan Charara, our new host and discuss the details of the new Amplify Series. Meet your official new host! - Susan Charara Susan is a Strategic Marketer and Communicator, with a creative spirit and deep-rooted passion for entrepreneurship. She has spent the last 15+ years working with small and mid-sized business and in 2019 she created Founders and Makers, a local platform for entrepreneurs to share their insights, stories and experiences. What lights Susan up the most is great conversation and connecting others, which makes her a great addition to The 2nd Floor Podcast. Susan joins the podcast as its newest host and through her 'Amplify' series, she intends to bring more women to the table to share more stories and experiences that help inform and inspire others. When Susan is not challenging others to amplify there business, Susan stays active by being an avid hiking enthusiast - let's just say she's never met a mountain she didn't like - and really enjoys mentoring the next generation. Over the years, she has volunteered with Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia and the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs to provide support and guidance in the areas of career and business development.  Find us on all streaming platforms : Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Stitcher

“The Mom Squad is the secret to our success.”When Susan decided she’d do moccasins exclusively (5:14)Secret #1 Keep trying different things until one sticks (7:17)Secret #2 Turn broken systems into a positive inflection point (10:31)Secret #3 Enable your customer to mark meaningful moments (11:41)Secret #4 Alleviate customer burdens (17:45)Secret #5 In order to build a legacy, don't sacrifice the brand (19:08)Secret #6 Give your customers white glove treatment (20:00)Secret #7 Do everything you can to hire for culture fit (21:80)Secret #8 Make everyone feel like a valued customer (23:02)Secret #9 Hire team members who relate to your customers (25:50)How the Mom Squad works (26:00)Secret #10 Be resilient — Don't give up (27:24)Secret #11 Create a memorable 360 degree customer experience (28:30)Secret #12 You can achieve anything (30:00)Secret #13 Listen to your customers & incorporate their feedback (35:00)Links we mention in this episodeBlue PoblanoFollow SusanLinkedIn InstagramFreshly PickedFollow the Search for the Perfect TacoInstagramYouTubeLinkedInWebsiteFollow Scott PorterLinkedInAbout TacoincidenceThis is Tacoincidence — where we learn secrets of breakthrough brand experience from the most brilliant leaders while we’re on the search for the perfect taco. I'm your host, Scott Porter, entrepreneur, brand experience strategist and the taco-obsessed founder of Search for the Perfect Taco.In my lifelong search, I’ve learned the taco experience is even more than crazy good tacos — it’s about real human connection. And Tacoincidence is about discovering how visionary leaders build successful organizations with human experience at the core of their brand’s DNA. Whether it’s with granola bars, electric bikes, software or socks. I wanted to learn why these leaders believe in the power of relationship-based brand experience, what they do to create it and how it’s helped them thrive. All…over tacos.Join the journey on our website — you’re not going to want to miss out on our national taco tour we’re planning! Follow us on social media, subscribe to the podcast and YouTube channel, and tune in every Taco Tuesday for new episodes of Tacoincidence, where we’ll continue to explore the secrets to level-up your brand experience AND your taco game.

In this week’s episode, which is one of my personal favourites so far, you’ll discover…1. How to find your North Star and why every business should have one2. Susan’s golden triangle of the three tick boxes you must have checked before launching on your own3. The two types of leader that every business needsSo listen below for all of that and much, much more on this week’s episode of "The Truth About Business"....In this week's jam-packed episode, I talk business with Susan Hallam MBE.Susan is the founder and CEO at Hallam, which is a digital marketing agency based in Nottingham City Centre.Having started the business almost twenty years ago, Susan and the team at Hallam are a major force to be reckoned with in the digital marketing world, winning many prestigious awards over the years including just recently being named as Google’s top digital agency in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.As well as being a top influencer and leader in the internet world and frequent key-note speaker, Susan is a Freeman of the city of London and was also awarded an MBE in the 2018 Queen’s New Years Honours for her services to entrepreneurship and innovation. To find out more about Susan and the services of Hallam, visit www.hallaminternet.com or find Susan on LinkedIn.When Susan first agreed to feature as a guest on the show, I knew I was in for an amazing interview and Susan did not disappoint. We manage to condense 20 years of business wisdom and experience into this episode and after hearing Susan speak so passionately about business, it’s no wonder that Hallam are not only incredibly successful but have also stood the test of time with almost 20 years in business under there belt and are still going stronger than ever.You know, success leaves footprint..So let’s take a walk with a truly inspirational entrepreneur and internationally recognised digital marketing expert, Susan Hallam MBE.Click the play and get ready for “The Truth About Business“…

We’ve got to work on ourselves before we can work on anybody else. As leaders, emotional intelligence is something we constantly have to work on and improve upon. Today’s guest dives into how you can become emotionally fit in work, leadership, and life.   Susan Packard is the author of two books, including her most recent book, Fully Human. Throughout her career, Susan has had her hand in developing long-lasting TV brands like Food Network and CNBC, and she built HGTV into a $15 billion business when she was COO for the organization. Today, she mentors both men and women who are curious about their promise and wanting to grow their potential.   In Susan’s book, Fully Human, she interviewed a wide range of leaders to get into their heads and really find out what makes successful people tick. Susan found out that it takes some time to build emotional intelligence. In Western culture, people don’t really stop to ask themselves what they want out of their life; instead, they are so laser-focused on producing, doing, and keeping busy, even if it’s to their detriment.   A leader with a good emotional IQ knows when to give their employees a break and doesn’t try to demand too much of their time away from home. Susan shares a story from her HGTV days. She was working late to deliver some important budget-related documents when she noticed that there was a big financial mistake in her work.   At prior careers, this mistake would have meant Susan would have been reprimanded in some way, but not at HGTV. When Susan told the CFO about the mistake at 12 a.m., he told her that they would both come into the office early that morning, look it over together, and fix it together before sending it off. The calmness in the CFO’s approach made Susan feel respected and trusted. A leader with emotional intelligence knows when it’s important to work together and not punish people for being honest.   Interview Links: Susanpackard.com   Resources: Scaling Up Workshop: Interested in attending one of our workshops? We have a few $100 discounts for our loyal podcast listeners!Scaling Up for Business Growth Workshop: Take the first step to mastering the Rockefeller Habits by attending one of our workshops. Scaling Up Summits (Select Bill Gallagher as your coach during registration for a discount.) Bill on YouTube  

Susan's guest is Richard Moore. Not only is he a successful architect, but he's a graphic artist and product designer. Richard talks about the unexpected lessons learned when he started mass producing products. With over 100 SKUs, he's been able to successfully refine the process. The first step, hiring someone specifically to manage the production process. They met through a Kickstarter program several years ago launching their Chimeras through Walrus Toys. When Susan asked Richard how he balances his love of being an architect with product development, he tells her that it's not always balanced and that people need to get over insisting everything is always balanced, including the balance between partners in an endeavor. Just keep doing what you love. A quote he used to explain how fortunate he is was taken from architectural school, "Graphic artists always want to be product designers. Product Designers always want to be architects, and architects always want to be graphic artists." He and his partner are able to be all three. Listen to this 24-minute episode about what that looks like, his advice, tips and insights. There will also be a new Kickstarter soon to launch four new toys completely separate from the successful and popular, Chimeras line. He would give us NO hints, you'll just have to get on his mailing list to find out. You don't want to miss the Kickstarter opportunity! Now, I need to go to find my next gifts on ilovehandles.com - they are always inventing SOMETHING I want. Learn more about Walrus Toys, ILoveHandles and Zero One Ten.

I speak to Susan Solomont about her new book Lost & Found in Spain - Tales of an Ambassador's Wife. When Susan's husband, Alan Solomont was appointed US Ambassador to Spain under President Obama, she left her career in philanthropy, her friends and family to join her husband for three-and-a-half-years in Madrid. In this episode Susan tells me about life at and the US embassy in Madrid and its inner workings, how she found a new identity in Spain and how she created a purposeful role for herself by creating the Women's Leadership Network for Spanish women in business. Susan also recalls when she met Rafa Nadal and spent Semana Santa with Antonio Banderas. We also talk favourite places in Spain and of course food, and Susan shares her experience of dining at El Bulli - twice! Check out Susan Solomont's webpage: www.susansolomont.com Get a copy of Susan's book Lost and Found in Spain - Tales of An Ambassador's Wife:  https://amzn.to/2LAhxiF   DID YOU ENJOY THIS EPISODE? PLEASE CONSIDER SUPPORTING THE WHEN IN SPAIN PODCAST BY BECOMING A PATRON AT patreon.com/wheninspain FOR BEING A PATRON YOU´LL GET EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO BONUS CONTENT SUCH AS LIVE VIDEOS, BONUS PODCAST EPISODES, INTERVIEWS, NEWSLETTERS & Q&As, AND TOURS! LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY OF SPAIN? FOLLOW WHEN IN SPAIN ON INSTAGRAM instagram.com/wheninspain1

This is episode 39 of the Pam Sowder Podcast, with your host, Pam Sowder! Pam has over 2 decades of field and corporate experience and was voted one of the most influential women in direct selling. She helps match the daily needs of distributors to everyday life challenges.   On this week’s special episode, Pam invites on Susan Wade — a top 10 money earner with It Works! She’s a mom of four (a 1, 3, 4, and 6 year old!), married to Michael Wade, and has made multiple millions in the industry of network marketing! She’s currently 30 years old and has been working in the industry for 6 years. Previously, she was a registered nurse with a dream to someday be a full-time mommy. Now, her dream is reality.   Tune in to hear Susan Wade’s invaluable advice! She talks about what it means to duplicate (and how it is the key to unlocking millions in the industry); how she balances her business and four children all while keeping her marriage healthy and happy; how she pushes through complacency and disappointment within the business; and how she lives everyday unapologetically! You also won’t want to miss her advice to all moms who are currently working full-time but wanting to get started in this business.   Key Takeaways [:31] About today’s guest, Susan Wade! [1:06] What is the message Susan wants to get across in today’s podcast? [2:12] At the beginning of Susan’s journey in network marketing, did she feel like she had to be anybody but herself? [4:28] What it means to be duplicable and why it’s the key to making millions. [5:57] About Susan’s children, and how she manages to balance both her business and children. [9:10] Susan’s advice for moms working full-time looking to start in this business. [13:09] Susan’s advice to those who badly want success in this industry, but are not seeing results. [15:44] When Susan experiences disappointment or complacency, how does she push through and continue on? [20:43] What does Susan see for her future in this business? [24:23] Does Susan feel that anybody can have the same opportunity that she has? [26:22] Susan’s advice for those just starting in this business. [28:54] How does Susan move through the tough times within the business? [33:54] The best things about social media and Susan’s favorite platform. [37:50] The definition of “unapologetically” and Susan’s take on how we can live more unapologetically! [43:38] Susan fills in the blank: “Being a millionaire means: __________.” [43:55] Susan fills in the blank: “Because of It works: __________.”   Mentioned in this Episode It Works Susan Wade Susan Wade’s Facebook Susan Wade’s Instagram Pam Sowder Podcast ep 26: “Get Set on the Path to Success with Stefani and Joel Dunn”   Continue on your Adventure Find more episodes on PamSowder.com/Listen Reach out to her at: PamSowder.com/Connect   Reach out on Social Media! Follow Pam @ItWorksPam on Twitter — Tweet her and use #askpam #pamsowder!  

Susan is Marc’s co-author for the Repurpose Your Career books. Susan Lahey is a freelance writer who is driven to taking on new challenges, whether they’re writing about the nature of meaning, the scary adventure of changing your career, or truly death-defying acts like jumping out of airplanes and parenting. Marc was her first real Austin client.   Listen in for an update, where Susan discusses her upcoming move to Portugal.   Key Takeaways: [1:09] Marc welcomes you to Episode 122 of the Repurpose Your Career podcast. Career Pivot brings you this podcast. CareerPivot.com is one of the very few websites dedicated to those of us in the second half of life and our careers. Take a moment to check out the blog and the other resources delivered to you, free of charge. [1:40] If you are enjoying this podcast, please share it with other like-minded souls. Subscribe on CareerPivot.com, iTunes, or any of the other apps that supply podcasts. Share it on social media or just tell your neighbors, and colleagues.[1:58] Regular listeners probably have noticed Marc has stopped talking about the next edition of the Repurpose Your Career book. Between last week’s episode about the Miller’s trip back to Austin and starting the resident visa process and this week’s episode, it is evident that the Millers have gotten busy but are getting back on track. [2:23] Marc’s current plan is to release the third edition of the book in September of this year (2019). He will continue to release preview chapters starting in a couple of weeks. [2:35] Next week, Marc will read one of the pre-release chapters of the next edition. Stay tuned! [2:42] This week, Marc will share an Encore Episode of Episode 54, where he interviewed Susan Lahey, who is the co-author on the Repurpose Your Career books. Marc shares Susan’s bio. [3:33] Marc is excited to present this episode. Susan is a freelance writer and a lot of the listeners want to become freelance writers.[3:55] Susan is always tempted to stay home with her adult children and watch Netflix, paint, and hide out from everyone. So she makes herself go do stuff, instead. She just got a tattoo that says “Life is Short” to remind herself to push past whatever fears and barriers she has. [5:12] Susan was a newspaper reporter for the beginning of her career, at the Kansas City Star, from age 17 through college and as her first job out of school. After several years she got a job as an associate editor of a business lifestyle magazine in KC. She left there to raise a family, freelancing from home. [5:57] At age 42, Susan was divorced. She took the children and moved to an off-the-grid house in New Mexico, taking what work she could get. The Taos News wanted her as a freelancer but didn’t move on it. [6:58] She started working as a community liaison for an EPA technical assistance group for a Superfund project. That was tough since she did not speak Spanish and was new to the community. She also did substitute teaching. She was broke. [7:29] Susan and her children volunteered at a food pantry for the food. Finally, she got on as a freelancer with the Taos News, for maybe $100 an article. [8:19] Taos was challenging in being far behind the times. Susan was out of touch with the times as a freelancer. She wanted to give her children a better opportunity. [9:41] After a trip to Europe they were motivated to change their lives. Austin had “a similar vibe” to Taos, a University, and a lot of intellectual capital. Susan rented an apartment and drove the family to Austin to start over. She sold the house in Taos for “five dollars.” [11:02] At first in Austin, she wrote eHow articles but that was unsatisfying for her. Susan met Marc and attended networking events. She met Jenny Magic. Susan learned how to market herself online with blogs and web content and how to network. Susan used EMDR psychotherapy to help her overcome the fear and stress of networking. [15:38] Creatives are typically introverted so selling themselves as “a creative” is really hard for them. Confidence is essential for approaching clients. [17:31] Marc was Susan’s first major client. Then she got some blogs. Through a contact recommended by Marc, she started writing articles for a tech news startup, Silicon Hills News, and finally got paid reasonably. Susan has covered SXSW for the last six years and she went to Thailand and Norway to see their technologies. [19:41] Susan got an article in Wired and is hoping to write more for them. She had also written a profile for bootstrap guru Bijoy Goswami, who works people through the psychological risks and fears of starting your own business. [20:14] Bijoy introduced Susan to his best friend, Danny Gutknecht, and Susan worked with him on one book and other writings. They will write more. Most of her work is with Danny. When Susan has 'bandwidth,' she looks for freelance work online (at GlassDoor and MediaBistro) and she networks. [21:20] Susan mentors and one woman she mentored hooked her up with a gig of writing for Zendesk. She still does journalism. [21:45] Susan was an old-school journalism person. Her idea of journalism came from All the President’s Men. Her sister was a journalist. She never imagined journalism wouldn’t be there for her. Most of her friends who were journalists are out of jobs. Journalism is dying. Journalism can’t find a business model that works today. [22:41] Susan never imagined she would be a tech writer or a business writer, and she is so glad she pursued both of those because that’s the direction the world is going. She never thought she would get to travel the world for tech writing. [23:31] When Susan was asked to find her ‘why’ she had never thought about it. She realized that she loved writing about people who were doing scary, brave things. She uses Marc as an example. When he started his business, it was scary new for him, but also, scary new for the job pivoters he is helping. Her children encouraged her career. [24:46] For the most part, Susan’s career pivot has turned out amazingly. She’s definitely not rich, but she’s supporting herself, doing what she loves. It fuels her as well as paying her. Ninety-nine percent of what Susan writes fits that category. [25:11] Marc is proud of Susan. In spite of her hard times, she has survived. Her three great children have gone to college on full scholarships, and are doing well. Her oldest is teaching English in Tangier, as Susan continues to enjoy her career. [25:54] People tell Susan she’s brave but they have no idea how hard she has to work to be brave. She’s sometimes afraid but she just makes herself do things. She recommends people examine why they act a certain way or go in a certain direction. They need to examine their self-limiting ideas. People need to steer their own ship. [27:24] Susan hopes to move to Morocco in the next year or so. Marc mentions his plans to move to Ajijic, Mexico. Marc thanks Susan for telling her story. [29:04] Marc welcomes Susan back after the interview for an update on her career since this episode was recorded. [29:16] Susan is now planning to move to Portugal. She just got back from there. She was planning to move to Morocco, originally, but her son cautioned her that as long as she doesn’t understand Arabic, she would not be safe in the street culture. [29:45] She started looking at other options, such as Portugal, that have a visa for self-employed people who make a moderate living. The Netherlands has a similar visa. Susan settled on Portugal because the Netherlands is cold and expensive and Portugal is warm and cheap. [30:10] Everyone Susan mentioned it to told her Portugal is so beautiful she wouldn’t believe it. She wanted to apply for the visa before visiting but she needed an actual lease on an apartment and a tax number before that was possible. Rather than hire someone to do that, she went herself, to set things up. That was a really good idea. [30:57] When Susan’s youngest graduated from college she felt free to do what she has always wanted to do — move to Europe. Until she moves, she and her son have moved in with her daughter. They all get along really well. [31:56] Susan’s youngest son will go to Portugal with her on a visit, to check it out. He might also move to Portugal. Susan’s daughter just went with her on her recent trip, and she loves it! [32:28] Because Susan is single the prospect of being an empty-nester was terrifying to her. For the last twenty-something years her purpose had been to raise her three children. Now she has to find out what is important for her. She doesn't want to fill time taking spin classes or doing Soduko. She has always wanted to travel. [33:27] She decided she needed to find a place where she could live and see the world more inexpensively. It’s hard and expensive to get around the world from the U.S. [33:54] Susan has talked to several of her clients and told them her plans. Since she works remotely with most people, anyway, no one was concerned. Susan has never met some of her clients in person. While she might work with some Portuguese companies, it is simpler to just keep working with her U.S. clients. [34:37] Susan has “sort of” figured out the technology she needs. She got an apartment, and a SIM card, so she now has a Portuguese phone number. She almost made an illegal and costly mistake with an apartment contract. [35:15] She ended up hiring an advisor or consultant who took her to the local tax office for a tax number, to the bank for a bank account, and recommended a fantastic real estate agent, who hustles. The agent took Susan to several different apartments. [36:38] Susan was considering two apartments. Both the owners backed out because Susan was not from Portugal and didn’t have a co-signer. Her agent found her another apartment but Susan is waiting for the contract. Every contract is drawn up by a lawyer; they don’t have boilerplate contracts for apartments. Each contract is bilingual. [37:37] On Facebook, Susan was looking at a group for the area. Fabiola, Susan’s real estate agent, who will live in the same neighborhood, had put a post on the group talking about what internet provider she would use. Susan believes she will go with the same provider. [37:53] If nothing else, Susan will go to a café for the internet. [38:00] Marc is very proud of Susan for having made this leap. Marc comments that in Mexico, ‘mañana’ does not mean tomorrow; it means not today. [38:14] Susan thanks Marc for all the help getting ready to go. She finds Portugal to be very chill and relaxed. Someone there told her she should move there. Susan felt she could really do this. She loves Portugal. It’s stunningly beautiful, the food is very good, and everything is affordable. People are insanely nice. It’s going to be great! [39:18] Marc thanks Susan for giving us an update on her experiences. Susan appreciates how supportive Marc has been while she has been preparing to go. Marc says he talked Susan off the ledge before she went. [39:42] Marc hopes you enjoyed this episode. Susan has done a lot of research on her move. Marc was afraid she would move to Portugal without ever visiting there. [39:55] In Episode 119, Marc interviewed Queen Michele, who moved to the North Shore of Lake Chapala without having ever visited. Queen did a ton of research and even walked around the town using Google Maps’ Street View feature. [40:13] Marc “talked Susan off the ledge” before she went, and she’s doing quite well. [40:20] The CareerPivot.com/Community website has become a valuable resource for more than 50 members in the Beta phase of this project. They have crossed the 50-member threshold! Marc is recruiting new members for the next cohort in a few weeks. [40:33] If you are interested in the endeavor and would like to be put on the waiting list, please go to CareerPivot.com/Community. When you sign up you’ll receive information about the community as it evolves. [40:48] Those who are in these initial cohorts set the direction of this endeavor. This is a paid membership community with group coaching and special content. More importantly, it’s a community where you can seek help. Go to CareerPivot.com/Community to learn more. [41:12] Marc invites you to connect with him on LinkedIn.com/in/mrmiller. Just include in the connection request that you heard Marc on this podcast. You can look for Career Pivot on Facebook, LinkedIn, or @CareerPivot on Twitter. [41:33] Please come back next week, when Marc will read a chapter from the next edition of Repurpose Your Career. [41:39] Marc thanks you for listening to the Repurpose Your Career podcast. [41:43] You will find the show notes for this episode at CareerPivot.com/episode-122. [41:56] Please hop over to CareerPivot.com and subscribe to get updates on this podcast and all the other happenings at Career Pivot. You can also subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, the Google Podcasts app, Podbean, the Overcast app, or the Spotify app.

When Susan decided to fully transition to a career in travel photography - after over two decades handling PR for some of the world’s top brands - it was because she refused to give into her fears any longer. With a resume that already included work in front of the camera, as well as work with photographers on PR campaigns, she was ready to fully embrace the newest angle – behind the camera. From walking with celebs down the red carpet to walking with polar bears in Manitoba, Susan’s journey is inspiring, if not somewhat terrifying.

Today we are going to talk about a sticky topic, literally! When Susan was kicking ass and taking names in Silicon Valley in the tech world she noticed that as her career skyrocketed her marriage plummeted. It was upon this notion that she realized that if she didn’t do something quick, her marriage would fall apart. Determined to change the dynamic of two workaholics, she set out on a self discovery in sexuality that shifted the paradigm - and along the way she became a sex expert. Now Im going to warn you right now, Im very open minded and free spirited - or at least I thought I was! Susan made me blush on more than one occasion - holy wow! Are you ready? Let's talk sex!

This episode is very special to both Jesse & Margaret. Susan has turned down multiple interview requests this year- and we are beyond honored that she came and spent time with us and thus- all of you :) The 411: Known for her bold yet practical approach to executive coaching and leadership development, Susan Scott has been challenging people to say the things that are hard to say for over two decades. Susan founded Fierce in 2001 after 13 years leading CEO think tanks, more than 10,000 hours of conversations with senior executives, and one epiphany: While no single conversation is guaranteed to change the trajectory of a career, a business, a marriage, or a life—any single conversation can. Susan continues to share her expertise with clients through her keynote presentations, and award-winning books. When Susan is not traveling the world delivering keynotes and developing great leaders, she resides in Seattle, Washington.

On Today's show we bring you a conversation with Freshly Picked CEO Susan Peterson. When Susan couldn’t find baby shoes that would stay on her son’s chubby feet, she decided to make her own. With scrap leather, a sewing machine, and a lot of heart, she made the first pair of Freshly Picked moccasins in 2009 right at her kitchen table. An appearance on Shark Tank in 2013 skyrocketed the company to a household name synonymous with quality, style, and creativity.

Headline: Let’s EXORCISE the patriarchy out of your brain! Sub Headline: That you’re not enough, powerless and second class is a lie!
Time to shed your super woman cape and live a fulfilled life by simply being yourself.
Learn why regular brainwashing yourself is crucial for your success in all areas of your life.
Get access to a free training to overcome your fear around power, your guilt around self-care and shame around money! Episode Description: We act according to our own self-image and the stories we believe to be true and which are churning in our brain like old disks with a scratch. Women being made to believe that we are second class citizens, victims with zero power, no access to money, with sinful bodies, and never good enough no matter how many degrees or accolades we collect are sabotaging their own success and happiness in life daily. Trying to be successful as a woman with a male definition of success, following male strategies turns us it to a stressed out Super Woman who has some great results in one or two areas of her life to show for yet with the price of neglected other areas and the risk of burnout and premature death. It’s school’s mission to change that. Little known, Big difference... Well know Little Understood: This Changes Everything... Guest Experience: Personally I’m proud about a fast career as a public servant, then two German university degrees and more then 20 years as an entrepreneur, rebranding seven times while marrying my soul-mate from the other side of the planet, giving birth to two boys, moving around the world multiple times and living now for a few years my personal version of paradise in Southern California surrounded by citrus orchards and my own art-studio in my garden, continuously healing from the patriarchy and the inherited shadows from my family and growing to live my full multifaceted potential in this life-time.
Professionally I’m proud that: 
- I’ve been a pioneer of the coaching industry and the very first German coach who got certified as a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation in 2002, 
- that I coached over 10 000 hours, 
 - that I helped women to break corporate glass ceilings to become CES, CFOs, Presidents in male dominated industries like transportation, automotive and finance
- that I rescued dozen of executive marriages from the brink of divorce 
- that I helped single women to create their dream partnerships 
- that I transformed the culture of whole organizations towards a more humane, thriving and happy making work environment 
- that I published an international bestseller about women’s leadership powers
 - that I travel the world to speak at international conferences and the UN
- that I founded the Becker -Hill Women’s Empowerment School who will be my legacy in the form of licensed schools all around the world where women make a living teaching other women the Art of EVElutionary Living!
 Testimonial: One client has a story which exemplifies the broad spectrum of impact my teaching of the Art of EVElutionary Living has: 
Let’s call her Susan. When Susan came to work with me she was in her early forties, overweight, underpaid, bored in her job in a company family owned by brothers and male dominated.
We worked with her self-image, established a strong relationship between her adult-self and her inner little girl, raised her confidence, changed her communication style, up-leveled her leadership style, erased some nasty negative beliefs from her past standing between her and her dreams… and two years later: she had released over 40 pounds, made way more money and became the CFO of a different 

 Testimonial #2: A huge breakthrough for me was when I started coaching C-suit executives! After working with the first 3 leaders on that level I was hooked! Not only to the impact my coaching had as a ripple effect through them touching hundreds or sometimes literally thousands of people’s life with just one decision they made in one coaching session with me, yet I jumped from $150 an hour to $400, and now my clients pay me $1200 a month for basic coaching.
 I help people with: From self-sabotage to success in all areas of their life We are stuck in old habits of thinking, feeling and acting. If we keep doing what we always did, we get only old levels of results. Our dream life is beyond the old habits. You need to be able to brain wash yourself, to stop your old habits of e.g. procrastination, distraction, whining, complaining, blaming.. Client Success Examples: Today's Special Offer: Take aways from todays episode: How they can brain wash themselves from problem mode to success mode. Offer link: becker-hill.com/bark

AUSTIN ANGELS Founder and CEO Susan Ramirez is so passionate about the children in the foster care system. She started out just volunteering and loving on kids in the system and that transitioned to an organization that has now been nationally recognized. Austin Angels partners with families that are fostering, they are intentionally engaging in relationships with kiddos and family to show love and support. This is key because fostering a child can be so isolating and being a foster child is SO difficult. So imagine these kids who have been removed from their lives now in a new place but being loved on, supported, encouraged and given monthly gifts. As an adoptive mom and a friend to many foster mommas I ADORE this program! Susan and I met in the spring at the RISE conference put on my Rachel Hollis. When Susan and I first started talking I felt like we just clicked and I was BEYOND THRILLED when she agreed to be on the podcast. I love that Susan followed her calling, I love that she is setting HUGE goals..Like a Austin Angels chapter in ever major City. I love big dreams and goals like that, and I do not believe it is too far fetched! When I asked Susan her best tips for being a friend she gave some great advice: Praying for friends, texting, carving out intentional time with friends so we can be support and love on our friends If you feel led to be make a Angel Ambassadors monthly giving commitment follow through! Don't let today pass you by!! OR if you feel led to start a chapter GOOO!! I am cheering you on friend!! I just loved todays conversation. Susan is following the Lords leading and I am SO excited to see how He grows this work! Links/ Recommendations Here is the list of leaders Susan mentioned that she looks up to! BRENE BROWN SIMON SINEK CHARITY WATER CHRIS MARLOW DANNY MENDOZA TOGETHER WE RISE Connect with Susan & Austin Angels Website Instagram  AA INSTRAGRAM Sponsored By: HUMBLE HEART an exceptional line of natural candles made with the purest ingredients  HumbleHeart.com enter the promo code “timeforcoffee” for 30% off Connect With ME     WEBSITE             INSTAGRAM         FACEBOOK

Today’s guest joins us on the show for the fourth time. Susan Piver is the New York Times best-selling author of eight books, and the founder of The Open Heart Project, a completely virtual meditation center. Today, she and Charlie discuss the four noble truths of love, which is also the title of her new book. They also talk about how to minimize the suffering and discomfort that are part of all relationships. Key Takeaways: [2:40] - Susan’s new book is The Four Noble Truths of Love. This book presents a teaching that Susan made up, rather than her previous books that present Buddhist teachings. [5:15] - The four noble truths of love are based on the four noble truths in Buddhism, and reconfigured to apply to intimate relationships. The core of the book is about how to sustain relationships and give love. It is about the action of relationships. [8:10] - A relationship and a love affair are not the same thing. We assume our love affairs will turn into relationships, and our relationships will remain love affairs; unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. It’s important to identify which one you and your partner are doing, and not apply the same rules and expectations to both. [10:10] - The four noble truths in Buddhism are: 1) “The Truth” - Life is suffering. 2) “The Cause of Suffering” - Pretending that the first noble truth is not true. 3) “The Sensation of Suffering” - Now that you know what you’re doing to cause suffering, you can stop it. 4) The Eightfold Path - Eight things you do every day to bring about sensation of suffering. [12:00] - When Susan applied these four noble truths to her love life, she came up with her own four noble truths of love: 1) Relationships are uncomfortable - They never stabilize. 2) Thinking that relationships should be comfortable and stable is actually what causes more discomfort and instability than anything else. 3) Meeting that discomfort and instability together is love. 4) Three steps to achieve finding this love. [16:05] - Often in relationships we expect things to go a certain way, and when they don’t, that is where the suffering comes from. They don’t have to be big things; the day to day things can cause a tremendous amount of irritation. It’s important to notice these things, and pay attention to the suffering without making it more powerful than it is. [21:22] - What is most frightening to another person in a relationship is when we sense unconsciousness on the part of our partner. Mindfulness is key. The more awareness we can express, the better, especially about things you know your partner cares about. [28:05] - When the small things start to build up and become too much, that’s when we can return to the four noble truths of love. The closer we are with someone, the more our lives mix, and the less we are able to see them. The way we talk to ourselves mixes with the way we talk to the other person. And the person we love most often hears this voice as much as we do ourselves. The more you can espouse a kind voice in the way you talk to yourself, the more it will be heard by your partner as well. [30:35] - Charlie talks about the idea of how we form superorganisms in tight relationships. Meditation and mindfulness can be a reminder that we are our own beings with our own separate ways. The key thing to develop is awareness on three levels: you, your partner, and the both of you together (me, you, us). [36:50] - Buddhism is a doing/ practicing religion. In her book The Four Noble Truths of Love, Susan applied this to five steps to development and the eightfold path of love. The five steps are a way to develop confidence. Susan translated them into how they can apply to two people. The five steps are: 1) Clean up your room. 2) Eat good food/Share food today. 3) Pay attention to the way you look. 4) Spend more time together with people who you like and who like you. 5) Spend time together in the natural world. Doing these five things helps build a container for love that attracts love. [45:55] - The fourth noble truth of love has three components. The first type of qualities are foundational qualities (good manners and honesty). The second type of quality is called openness (the other person has equal importance to yourself in your relationship). The third quality is going beyond conventional view (look at all that happens between you and your partner as a way to deepen intimacy). [48:30] - Susan’s invitation/ challenge for listeners is to experience your deepest longings for love without a storyline attached to them. Just feel the longing; the longing is good. Mentioned in This Episode: Productive Flourishing Susan Piver The Four Noble Truths of Love, Susan Piver Other episodes with Susan: Productive Flourishing Podcast Episode 4: Become More Mindful with Susan Piver Productive Flourishing Podcast Episode 54: Demystifying Meditation with Susan Piver Productive Flourishing Podcast Episode 149: Susan Piver: How Mindfulness Helps You Become More Creative When, by Dan Pink

Gabe and Jeff had to kick things off on our latest podcast with Dr. Susan Maples, who returns to our podcast after 18 months!  Justin eventually joins in on the fun in Part Two of this great podcast.  Dr. Maples discusses a wide variety of topics including dentistry's impact on the health care of individuals, sex therapy, weight management and healthy dieting.  Stay tuned for Part Two, this Friday! Dr. Susan is an international speaker in the area of total health, the oral health and systemic health connection, and the diabetes epidemic in America. She also speaks in the areas of leadership, team-building, advanced case planning and acceptance, relationship-based target marketing, and growing healthy kids in your dental practice. When Susan is not practicing dentistry she serves as a leader in helping her profession take their place in the U.S. health crisis. To help educate the public on the mouth-body health connection, Dr. Susan authored the book BlabberMouth! 77 Secrets Only Your Mouth Can Tell You To Live a Healthier, Happier, Sexier Life. In addition, she is the co-researcher in an award-winning study on detecting diabetes in your dentist’s office. With all of her work in advanced dental restoration, Dr. Susan has never outgrown her love for working with children. She is the author and originator of the Hands-On Learning Lab™ Kit for children and is recognized nationally for making a significant difference in children’s oral and physical health. Susan feels it is also important to give back to our community. Dr. Susan and her team donate their time and care for people who are vulnerable, disabled, medically compromised or financially distraught. She is eager to speak before services organizations or promote children’s health with hands-on learning in our schools. In addition, she writes a monthly dental column in Healthy and Fit Magazine and is published in several nationally recognized dental journals including Dental Economics and the Journal of the Michigan Dental Association. In her free time Susan she enjoys running, weight training, skiing (on snow and water), snowboarding, cooking and art. She also loves hanging with her 22-year-old son Hunter. In 1999, Dr. Susan was recognized as a leader in professional ethics and was tapped into the honorary society of the American College of Dentists. She also participates in the ethics and practice management curriculums at the University Of Michigan School Of Dentistry.

Susan Lahey is Marc’s co-author for both Repurpose Your Career books. This is one of the best of the 25-plus interviews Marc has recorded in the last year. Susan is a freelance writer who is driven to take on new challenges, whether that’s writing about the nature of meaning, the scary adventure of changing your career, or truly death-defying acts like jumping out of airplanes and parenting. Marc was Susan’s first real Austin client.   Listen in for thoughts on enduring hardship with bravery and purpose.   Key Takeaways: [1:14] Marc announces his first audience survey on what demographic listens to the podcast, what you like, and what you would like to hear about in the future. Please take the survey at CareerPivot.com/PodcastSurvey. This will redirect you to a Survey Monkey page. Marc will keep the survey going through 2017 to hear from you. [1:55] Marc reviews the series format of this podcast for new listeners. The previous episode was an expert interview. This episode is a career pivot interview. The next episode will be Marc’s story of moving abroad and taking the job with him. The fourth episode of the month is a Q&A episode with Elizabeth Rabaey. [3:43] Marc introduces Susan Lahey and welcomes Susan to the podcast. [3:52] Susan is always tempted to stay home with her adult children and watch Netflix, paint, and hide out from everyone. So she makes herself go do stuff, instead. She just got a tattoo that says “Life is Short.” [5:12] Susan was a newspaper reporter for the beginning of her career, at the Kansas City Star, from age 17 until college and as her first job out of school. After several years she got a job as an associate editor at the business lifestyle magazine in KC. She left there to raise a family, freelancing from home. [5:54] At age 42, Susan was divorced, took the children and moved off the grid to New Mexico, taking what work she could get. The Taos News wanted her as a freelancer but didn’t move on it. [6:55] She started working as a community liaison for an EPA technical assistance group for a Superfund project. That was tough since she did not speak Spanish and was new to the community. She also did substitute teaching. She was broke. [7:26] Susan and her children volunteered at a food pantry for the food. Finally, she got on as a freelancer with the Taos News, for maybe $100 an article. [8:16] Taos was challenging in being far behind the times. Susan was out of touch with the times as a freelancer. She wanted to give her children a better opportunity. [9:38] After a trip to Europe they were motivated to change their lives. Austin had “a similar vibe” to Taos, a University, and a lot of intellectual capital. Susan rented an apartment and drove the family to Austin to start over. [10:43] Susan finally sold the Taos house for “five dollars.” At first, she wrote eHow articles, but that was unsatisfying for her. She attended networking events and learned how to market herself online with blogs and web content. She pushed herself, using EMDR psychotherapy to help her overcome fear and stress of networking. [15:33] Creatives are typically introverted and selling yourself as a creative is really hard for them. Confidence is essential for approaching clients. [17:26] Marc was Susan’s first major client. Then she got some blogs. Through a contact who was recommended by Marc, she started writing tech news articles for a tech startup publication and finally got paid reasonably. She has covered SXSW for six years and went to Thailand and Norway to see their technologies. [19:36] Susan got an article in Wired and is hoping to write more for them. She had also written a profile for bootstrap guru Bijoy Goswami, who works people through the psychological risks and fears of starting your own business. [20:10] Bijoy introduced Susan to his best friend, Danny Gutknecht, and Susan worked with him on one book and other writings. They will write more. Most of her work is with Danny. When Susan has 'bandwidth,' she looks for freelance work online and networks. [21:15] Susan mentors and one woman she mentored hooked her up with a gig. She still does journalism. [21:40] Susan was an old-school journalism person. Her idea of journalism came from All the President’s Men. Her sister was a journalist. She never imagined journalism wouldn’t be there for her. Most of her friends who were journalists are out of jobs. Journalism is dying. It can’t find a business model that works today. [22:36] Susan never imagined she would be a tech writer or a business writer, and she is so glad she pursued both of those because that’s the direction the world is going. [23:29] When Susan was asked to find her ‘why’ she had never thought about it. She realized that she liked writing about people who were doing scary, brave things. She uses Marc as an example. When he started his business, it was scary new for him, but also, scary new for job pivoters he is helping. [24:41] For the most part, Susan’s career pivot has turned out amazingly. She’s definitely not rich, but she’s supporting herself, doing what she loves. It fuels her as well as paying her. [25:09] Marc is proud of Susan. In spite of her hard times, she survived. Her three great children have gone to college on full scholarships, and are doing well. Her oldest is teaching English in Tangier, as Susan continues to enjoy her career. [25:49] People tell Susan she’s brave, but they have no idea how hard she has to work to be brave. She’s sometimes afraid, but she just makes herself do things. She recommends people examine why they act a certain way, or go in a certain direction. People need to steer their own ship. Susan hopes to move to Morocco next year. [28:57] Marc has been working with Susan since 2012, when she went through an early version of Marc’s career pivot evaluation. If you would like to know more about this process, listen to episodes 48 through 51 — a series called, “Can Tim Repurpose His Career?” [31:27] Next week’s episode will be all about the process of the Miller’s move to Ajijic, Mexico in 2018. Marc is moving, but not retiring. He will run everything from Mexico.   Mentioned in This Episode: Careerpivot.com CareerPivot.com/PodcastSurvey or CareerPivot.com/Podcast-Survey Survey Monkey eHow Taos News EMDR Silicon Hills News South X Southwest (SXSW) Oslo Innovation Week Bijoy Goswami on LinkedIn Danny Gutknecht on LinkedIn Glass Door Media Bistro ZenDesk CareerPivot.com/review, and read the detailed instructions there. CareerPivot.com/Episode-48 “Can Tim Repurpose His Career? Part 1” CareerPivot.com/Episode-49 “Can Tim Repurpose His Career? Part 2” CareerPivot.com/Episode-50 “Can Tim Repurpose His Career? Part 3” CareerPivot.com/Episode-51 “Can Tim Repurpose His Career? Part 4” Please pick up a copy of Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life, by Marc Miller and Susan Lahey The paperback and ebook formats are available now. When you have completed reading the book, Marc would very much appreciate your leaving an honest review on Amazon.com. Marc has completed recording the audio version of the book and will be editing it the week of Thanksgiving. He hopes to have it available before the end of November 2017. Marc has a prototype running of the paid membership community of the CareerPivot.com website. Marc has an initial cohort of members helping him. Marc is opening a wait list if you want to participate.Sign up at CareerPivot.com/Community. CareerPivot.com/Episode-54 Show Notes for this episode. You can find Show Notes at Careerpivot.com/repurpose-career-podcast. Please take a moment — go to iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play. 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Susan Good, in her early 70’s, is the owner and primary writer for the award-winning HoneyGood.com website, a fashion, food and lifestyle blog she founded in October 2012. She is the wife of real estate auction pioneer, Sheldon F. Good, as well as a mother, daughter, grandmother and great grandmother to 25 "GRANDS" who call her "Honey."  And she is a girlfriend to many. When Susan's first grandchild was born in 1987, her daughter selected “Honey” as her grandmother name because it so aptly suited her personality and outlook on life.  Today, Susan Good is called Honey by her entire family and the Honey Good staff. Honey's website is written for vibrant, visible and savvy women over 50. In many ways, Honey's own life mirrors her readers' lives: a mixture of the bitter and the sweet as well as the joys and the sorrows. As she reminds her nearly 150,000 loyal followers in Chicago and around the world: “We have earned our PhDs in Life." While living in Honolulu with her first husband and their two daughters, she was suddenly widowed in her early 40's when her husband had a massive heart attack. She survived two bouts with cancer and the challenge of blending two large families. “I’ve traveled the world, made lasting friendships, endured my hardships and am grateful every day of my life. Through example, I have shown my family, and now my readers, how to make sweet lemonade out of lemons and to always see the glass half-full.” Describing herself and her mission, she said: “I am a woman with many titles who wears many hats and loves life to its fullest. I walk on the sunny side of the street. I love to 'shop till I drop' and I own my own style, thanks to my 96-year-old mother, my teacher and my friend. I have plenty to say to the billions of women worldwide, including Baby Boomers who are turning 65 at the rate of 10,000 a day!” HoneyGood.com is an anthology of thousands of personal stories with insights and advice. Their subjects run the gamut from friendships, grand-parenting, blended families, widowhood, remarriage, family suicide, dating after 50 and cancer survival to advice about why every woman should own that little black dress, buy that properly-fitted shoe and consider growing out her gray hair. In a weekly piece, Honey offers tips on how to survive every situation from losing one's car keys in the onion bin to packing for that fabulous trip. Topics reflect the trials and tribulations most women face during this challenging yet invigorating passage. A writer for Michigan Avenue magazine had this to say about Honey Good: “With a PhD in life thanks to her large and colorful immediate family, poignant personal history and sophisticated lifestyle, Honey Good has a lot to say about everything-- and does so with passion, verve, humor, acumen and wit. She is giving an age-old 'character' – i.e. the proverbial grandmother – a fresh, hip, new-age voice. Her posts are savvy and fun, yet also relevant and substantive. But above all else, her content is authentic at a time when authenticity is king.” Or queen? This hip, sophisticated matriarch of a blended family speaks to audiences worldwide. She writes for the Huff Post and regularly contributes to Sixty&Me.com, Medium.com and GRAND magazine. She soon will write lifestyle pieces for the new national Headlines Network powered by Aggrego, a Wrapports company that owns the Chicago Sun Times and is affiliated with nine major publishers around the nation. Profiled in Michigan Avenue and RM (Rancho Mirage, CA) magazines, Honey Good was recently interviewed by Prevention.com as well as such notable personalities in their own right as Ari Seth Cohen, the documentary producer, photographer and author of Advanced Style. “Amazing things can happen when you commit yourself,” she added. She, her husband and their beloved Wheaten Terrier, Orchid, split their time between homes on Chicago's Gold Coast and in Rancho Mirage, CA. They have traveled to 67 countries, including Iran, Syria and Antarctica, and with their pooch Orchid always by their side, they visit their children, grandchildren and great grandchild who live in seven different U.S. cities.

Stress and anxiety are unavoidable - that’s why we have resilient parts to help us survive difficult life situations. But sometimes those parts get overwhelmed, and you may feel stuck. Are you ready to give your resilient parts some on the job training? This week on the Therapy Spot, I had the pleasure of interviewing Susan Reyland, a clinical and developmental psychologist with a practice in Denver, Colorado. When Susan and I spoke back in December, we talked about parenting and child development through the IFS lens. This time around, we had the opportunity to discuss different ways of using IFS to find relief from stress and anxiety. for more, visit: bethrogerson.com

Susan Morris is a condominium developer in Portland, Maine and Principal of NewHeight Group, a firm specializing in providing marketing, branding and business strategy to organizations developing new products and services, or repositioning existing ones. Susan is a Maine Angel and is actively engaged in Maine Startup and Create Week, Women Standing Together, TopGun and the House of Genius. She has built and exited from several businesses. Prior to having her own businesses, Susan worked for Marriott International for 13 years. Susan is co-author of a college textbook, Hospitality Sales: A Marketing Approach and serves as a speaker, adjunct professor and facilitator. Playing Small Moment During her Marriott career, Susan was the account manager for very large accounts, handling all aspects of their development and strategies. The man who replaced her when she relocated to a new position packaged up her work, claiming it as his own, and teaching presentations about it all throughout Marriott. Looking back, she viewed her work as not fully complete and realized that a lot of women tend to do the same. The Wake Up Call There were two instances during her career with Marriott where Susan was up for a job against men, where she was the more qualified candidate that didn’t get the job. When Susan inquired why she was not chosen for the job, her boss informed her that the man was married and had two kids to put through college. Susan realized as you go higher in a company, there tends to be more people who think the same and they don’t like it when you challenge those thoughts. Style of Leadership Susan believes in rallying people to believe in her vision and see what their part is in that vision. She is an exceedingly verbal person and quite proactive in throwing out ideas, recognizing that it gives people a chance to react. Susan prides herself on being able to change her mind and be convinced to do so. What Are You Excited About? Susan is excited about a new condominium, Luminato, with a new theme of living light. This condominium will bring about new concepts of living and the idea that if you live in a bright space, you can live in a smaller space. They will be including new amenities, such as a guest room you would see in a hotel and a community room to do your work or hang out in. Something else that excites Susan is that there are more female buyers than male buyers now. Leadership Practice Susan is full of curiosity about the world and the people she gets to interact with. Her style can be described as what you see is what you get. Book to Develop Leadership Women Don’t Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation–and Positive Strategies for Change, by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever Advice For Younger Self There are many times when Susan has thought she could make the changes needed or make it happen before throwing in the towel, when she should have moved on sooner. Susan often lives by The Serenity Prayer, reminding herself to only change what she can. Inspirational Quote “Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Emerson “Stop me before I volunteer again.” ~ Susan Morris Interview Links http://www.newheightgroup.com Email: susanvmorris@newheightmorris.com   https://womentakingthelead.com/susan-morris/

This October, Franchise Interviews is featuring “Great Women Leaders in Franchising” month.  We are first meeting with Susan Black-Beth.  Susan is the Chief Operating Officer of Super Wash, Inc., the nation’s largest self-serve car wash franchisor, which was founded by my parents.  Prior to assuming the role of COO, Susan served as Senior Vice President and Director of Franchising from the inception of the Super Wash franchise program in November, 2000.  When Susan was 19 years old she bought her first Super Wash(r) car wash with my sister.  Susan was featured in the January 2011 issue of Franchise Times as one of the “20 to Watch” in 2011; received the IFA’s prestigious Bonny LeVine Award for mentoring and promoting women in franchising in 2012; and am the proud recipient of the 2013 Crystal Compass given by the IFA’s Women’s Franchise Committee celebrating leadership in franchising, company and/or community. Next, we are meeting with Ann Connor of AdviCoach. Ann recently received a Crystal Award from WEBB Women Empowered by Business.  Every year, WEBB - Women Empowered by Business, an organization designed to support, encourage and empower women to go into business and to grow their business, recognizes select female entrepreneurs for their exceptional success and mentorship to other women in business.

First we will podcast our weekly Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy radio show in its entirety then we’ll release just the guest interviews throughout the week. So please click POD to listen to this recent interview from the Dr. Fitness and the Fat Guy Radio Show. Or now you can subscribe to just the interviews from our radio show on iTunes by clicking this link.On tonight’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy learn all  the cold hard truths about fitness and nutrition in America from Fitness icon Susan Powter. When Susan said Stop the Insanity in the 90s she was just getting started. She has a very straight forward way of sharing her philosophy about wellness. She doesn’t suffer fools very well, as the Fat Guy can attest. And guess what, she doesn’t have super short hair anymore. Her latest book is The Politics of Stupid. And be on the lookout for Susan’s new radio starting real soon. For more information please go to her website www.susanpowteronline.comFor more Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy check out our new Wellness Minutes blog where we give you in depth information on health, fitness and weight loss topics in 3 minutes or less every single day. Now available on iTunes right here Please be our friends! Look us up on all your favorite Social Networking sites like: Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, Self Growth, Imeem, Squidoo, Xanga and more. And please don’t keep us a secret, if you enjoy Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy please forward this on to a friend and put links to our website and show on blogs and message boards you enjoy. Thanks!

The most entertaining weight loss and fitness podcast show on radio." Please click on the POD button to listen to the latest Dr. Fitness and the Fat Guy radio show podcast broadcasting live each week from Atlanta, GA, USA.   To download the show on iTunes please click on this link On tonight's show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy learn all  the cold hard truths about fitness and nutrition in America from Fitness icon Susan Powter. When Susan said Stop the Insanity in the 90s she was just getting started. Her latest book is The Politics of Stupid. For more information please go to her website www.susanpowteronline.comScott called in from England and told us all about Fit Flops the most comfortable flip flops out there. These are the only shoes that give you a workout while you walk around. They have the research that backs that up too. right now you can find these awesome shoes at Macy's and a handful of other retail locations as well as online at their website www.thefitflop.comKristin Harrison from Her Sports and Fitness magazine came on to break the news that her magazine is going through a rebranding and will emerge in January 2009 as Women's Running magazine. This magazine will be more running focused but will still have the great sections Her Sports had as well. For more info be sure to check out their new website and subscribe www.womensrunningmag.comLaela our new intern was not here again - should we worry? She is going to be out and about on all our social media sites like Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, Self Growth, Imeem, Squidoo, Xanga and more. So please be our friends! And please don’t keep us a secret, if you enjoy Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy please forward this on to a friend and put links to our website and show on blogs and message boards you enjoy. Laela will be giving away free exercise dvds each week so look for her online!Dr Fitness had no tips today but remember, you can find a tip a day at our new website www.wellnessminutes.com or on iTunes here. Or our blog www.drfitnessblog.com Amazingly the Fat Guy is being followed by dozens of people who are interested in what he eats each day. Who would have thought?  Anyone can follow the Fat Guy's eating exploits on Twitter.  Food journals are great ways to lose weight and the Fat Guy is always trying anything in order to lose those last 20 pounds. So take a peek into his food diary. You never know what he'll write. Somehow he can stay compliant to writing on Twitter but he can't fit in exercise each day. That's right, moments after he eats something the Fat Guy Twitters about it and you can follow him so that one day if you try real hard you too can look like the Fat Guy. Please go to www.twitter.com/fatguy Hot mom, Kathie Larkin was  not helping out today. Be sure to check out Kathie's website www.getkathie.com. Remember we are now on every morning in Michigan. On radio station WKNW. They asked us to create a Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy "Wellness Minute." So now a new Wellness Minute runs on that station each morning at around 7:40. Each Wellness Minute features the doctor and I going over 5 of his best tips on a given wellness subject like: losing weight, getting in shape, living a healthy lifestyle, etc. Now these Wellness Minutes are available online.  If you have a favorite radio station that you think would benefit from our Wellness Minutes send them an email telling them about it and who knows maybe you can hear us everyday too. Also once again, I need you to please do me a favor. My kid Max has been doing a radio show called "Kid Power Radio" for awhile now and you should check it out. Tiffany from The Daily Candy called his family friendly radio show "Hilarious!" This is a great show for your kids. It is kind of like a kids version of TMZ or Entertainment Tonight mixed in with a little Wayne's World. Max recaps the week in entertainment and gives his take and review of what he liked and didn't like on TV, at the movies, video games, in books and in music and even restaurant reviews. Please go to his site and download the show for your kid. He had a big show recently he interviewed Meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. And if your kid sends Max an email he'll read it on the air next week. The show can be found at www.kidpowerradio.com and you can email Max at RadioStarMax at Yahoo.com. He has gotten emails from kids from England, Australia, China and even the US. Your encouragement is greatly appreciated.  Thanks to you his show is rocketing up the charts! As always, more laughs, more info and more fun than any other health, fitness, weight loss podcast out there. Click the podcast button and check out the entire show right now. Now you can listen to only the expert interviews at our new website www.healthexpertradio.com here or on iTunes here. Don't forget to check out the Doctor Fitness and the Fat Guy blog at www.drfitnessblog.com for more tips about weight loss and Dr. Shafran's analysis of all things health and fitness. Also check out our brand new redesigned website www.drfitnessandthefatguy.com to subscribe to our FREE weekly healthy living newsletter and enjoy all the benefits of our online weight loss program and community. You can also email Dr. Fitness there with your specific questions and he will personally answer each one. Promise!! Please blog about our show. Our show grows when our listeners tell their friends about us. 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