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Know your Why… As we examine our goals for our lives we have to evaluate our “WHY.” Why, are we wanting change to happen in our lives…Why, do we want it…Why, is this going to be a healthy challenge for me. Why, is a powerful understanding, especially when own our “WHY” We want to encourage you to pray about your Why, embrace your Why, and know your Why.

Greetings all,With the sad passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we now have another reason for the Left to incite more violence and destruction.  Ginsburg known for her radically left view-points and almost communist like approach to issues, leaves a void in the 9 seats that needs to be filled.  DemocRATs are screaming it is unconstitutional to fill her position until after the election.....Why?  As our constitution dictates, the President's job is to appoint a new justice.  It is the job of the Senate to confirm his pick.  Why is this so hard to understand.  The sitting President throughout history have sent high court nominees to the Senate in the last year of a term a total of 29 times.  This is not a situation where President Trump is "abusing" his power.  It's called doing his job for the American people.  Wake up America!  As always you can reach us at perceptionerection@gmail.com.  

Millions of people across the country struggle with eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia and binge eating. Many are in recovery and on their way to a healthy relationship with food. But the pandemic has been a major setback for some. Why? As we’re forced into isolation and a more sedentary lifestyle, stress and a heightened awareness around food can be triggering for people with eating disorders. So can the rampant memes and jokes about gaining weight in quarantine. Some people in recovery feel pulled back into habits they thought they'd left behind — like calorie counting and skipping meals. MPR News host Angela Davis talked to leaders in the eating disorder recovery community about the challenges the pandemic poses, and how to help yourself or a loved one in need of support.

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds, your daily dose of hope, imagination, wisdom, stories, practical tips, and general riffing on this and that. What are the chances that you could learn the secret of life in 60 Seconds? I'd  say pretty good.  Stop on in and listen.Among the many unexpected pleasures of COVID sheltering in place is the dip back into old movies, especially the light ones that bring a message wrapped in some humor like a spoonful of honey to help the Tylenol go down.  City Slickers tracks 3 friends who take an annual trip to a dude ranch for a cattle drive across the Southwest leaving behind their wives as well as their fears about midlife crisis, aging, purpose, and all the rest that haunts each and every one of us. Billy Crystal, (playing the part of Mitch) looks every bit the baby he was in 1981. And Jack Palance will forever be Curly, that grizzled dying breed existential cowboy.Maybe you remember this bit of chatter between Mitch and Curly as they mosey their horses along the desert landscape:   Curly asks: You know what the secret of life is?   Mitch: No, what?   Curly: (holds up a black gloved hand and extends his index finger) This.   Mitch: Your finger?   Curly: One thing, just one thing.   Mitch: That’s great, but what’s the one thing?   Curly: That’s what you’ve got to figure out.It’s your story. You get to figure it out or not. You get to live it or not. Either way, it’s your choice. If you choose to live it you gotta live all of it.Ironically, it’s meant to be shared. Why? As my friend, colleague and poet, Tina Dimirdjian of Poetry Consults writes, “A poem without the writer does not exist and without the reader it does not flourish or have breath in the same way as when it is shared. It’s the same for the gifts we receive and those we give; it is a service like a communal offering.”The Secret of Life is just one thing; you get to figure it out and then share it because when you do your life becomes a service, a communal offering This is the place to thrive together. Come for the stories - stay for the magic.You’re invited to stop by the website and subscribe to stay current with Diane, her journeys, her guests, as well as creativity, imagination, walking, stories, camaraderie, and so much more: Quarter Moon Story ArtsProduction Team: Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch and  Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 - Present Quarter Moon Story Arts

In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River. The body belonged to a man who had been a passenger on the luxurious steamboat known as the Ohio Belle, and he was the son of a southern planter. Who had bound and pitched this wealthy man into the river? Why? As reports of the killing spread, one newspaper shuddered, "The details are truly awful and well calculated to cause a thrill of horror." That description was too much for Kentucky Historical Society advocate Stuart W. Sanders to ignore. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, his new micro-history, Murder on the Ohio Belle uncovers the mysterious circumstances behind the bloodshed. It's a story of double murders, secret identities, and hasty getaways -- that reveals the bloody roots of antebellum honor culture, classism, and vigilante justice.

When is the right time think about a sentence-mitigation plan? Answering that question reminds me of an old saying about the best time to plant an oak tree. I heard a speaker ask that question to members of his audience. Predictably, audience members ventured a guess. In the morning? In the winter? In the summer? No one had a clue. Pausing for dramatic effect, the speaker then gave the answer. The best time to plant an oak tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is today. We could say the same thing about a sentence-mitigation plan. Too often, a defendant doesn’t do anything to prepare for the sentencing hearing. It’s understandable. Many defendants don’t think of themselves as criminals. Regardless of what type of activity brought them to the attention of authorities, they think that they’re different, immune from the law enforcement. They may not know anyone that has been through the criminal justice system, and they cannot conceive of themselves going into the system.   How do you see yourself?   But authorities saw me differently. In their eyes, I violated securities laws. That made me a target for prosecution. And when federal authorities target a person for prosecution, their conviction rates exceed 85 percent. With those odds, it makes a lot of sense to begin thinking about a sentence-mitigation plan at the soonest possible time. Regardless of what type of charge a person faces, it’s important to realize that sentencing proceedings will likely follow. Sentence-mitigation plans can help. Start with an understanding of what the defense attorney will do. Attorneys will work with: The evidence against the individual, The procedural rules that determine what evidence the court will consider, The substantive law that Congress has passed, The case law that judges have decided, The prosecutor’s ability to prove a case against the defendant. To succeed, the defense attorney will exercise judgment and discretion, fighting valiantly to get the best possible outcome for the defendant. Both the prosecutor and the defense attorney will be analyzing the case and pressing forward to get the outcome they want. Rather than justice, the prosecutor will strive for a conviction. The defense attorney will parry the prosecutor’s efforts, always assessing the strength of arguments that he can use. While the defense attorney may be a great analytical thinker, he may not have time to listen to the defendant’s life story. For that reason, every defendant should invest the time and energy to present that life story. A life story can make all the difference in the world when it comes to sentencing. Indeed, our team has worked closely with many federal judges. Our website includes two interviews that my partner Michael did with federal judges. Michael asked those judges what steps a person could take to influence the judge’s decision. Each judge responded by saying that, when it comes to sentencing, they want to hear from defendants. Our interviews with both judges are available for free through our Prison Professors YouTube channel, under the following playlist: Judge Mark Bennett from the Northern District of Iowa Judge Stephen Bough from the Western District of Missouri How to Prepare for Sentencing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf7W0veN3NWbq9nzGNmhQliFbqmaXz26y If you cannot access the link because you’re reading this book in print, simply Google How to Prepare for Sentencing + Prison Professors and you’ll find our helpful videos on YouTube or text the following word, to the following number: Text word: Sentence Text to number: 44222 You’ll get an automatic brochure sent to your phone. Defense Attorney’s Position: Some defense attorneys support a pro-active sentence-mitigation plan, while other defense attorneys resist such initiatives. Why? As stated above, attorneys are great analytical thinkers. Since they know it’s the prosecutor’s burden to prove a case, they operate out of an abundance of caution. They do not want to introduce any evidence that a prosecutor could use against their client. And since most defendants start out in denial, incapable of fully appreciating the system or the charges against them, some attorneys do not want their clients to say anything. Attorneys may have invested considerable amounts of time to construct an elaborate defense. They do not want their clients to make statements that prosecutors may twist, making it more difficult for the attorney to argue for leniency at sentencing. Defense attorneys may prefer to rely upon case law, facts, and what the prosecutor could prove. We have a different perspective. Our team has interacted with more than 1,000 people that have gone through the criminal justice system. We’ve had personal interactions with state and federal judges. Based on our experience, we’re convinced that defendants put themselves in a far better position when they engineer an effective sentence-mitigation plan. When a person creates and executes on an effective sentence-mitigation strategy, that individual does immense service to his defense attorney. In our view, an effective sentence-mitigation plan will strive to achieve several outcomes: It will help the judge see and understand the defendant as an individual, It will help the judge grasp influences that led the defendant to the current situation, It will help the judge see aspects of the defendant’s life that could not be conveyed by the defense attorney’s eloquence alone, It will help the judge see the defendant in his own environment, It will help the judge learn what other people in the community think about the defendant. Engineering an effective sentence-mitigation plan does not excuse the misconduct or litigate the case. In fact, a sentence-mitigation plan does just the opposite. It is a strategy to show the judge why the defendant is worthy of mercy. It would not serve a defendant’s interest to minimize culpability, or to blame anyone. If referring to the criminal conduct at all, the sentence-mitigation plan should focus on some key points, including: Show an understanding and an appreciation for the victim’s pain, suffering, or loss. Show influences that led the defendant to become involved in the instant offense. Show what the defendant has learned from the experience. Show what steps the defendant has taken to reconcile with society, the victims, and his community to make things right. Articulate a coherent plan to show why the defendant will never break the law again.     What if I Go to Trial? As stated in previous lessons, the vast majority of people charged in a criminal case start off with a not-guilty plea. Their defense attorneys then assess the evidence and the risks of proceeding through trial, then negotiate the most favorable plea-agreement possible. Still, a small percentage of defendants maintain their innocence and proceed through trial. If a defendant proceeds through trial, and is found guilty, that defendant may want to appeal. In that case, the defendant will want to create a sentence-mitigation plan that does not in any way threaten the prospects for an appeal. Accordingly, he should refrain from discussing any aspects of the case. Instead, such a strategy should focus exclusively on helping the judge get to know him as a person. There is always an opportunity to create a mitigation strategy. It is equivalent to building a sales presentation. And how do we accomplish that goal? We begin by thinking about our audience. A sentence-mitigation strategy has an audience of one: the judge. What steps can you take to differentiate yourself from every other defendant that comes before the judge? First Person Approach: Let your lawyer argue the law and deal with the evidence against you. When it comes to articulating the story of your life, use your own words, in a first-person voice. From our perspective, this is a common sense. Your lawyer is a professional advocate, skilled in the arts of persuasion. Even if the most notorious criminal retained your attorney, a professional code of ethics would require your attorney to provide the most zealous defense possible. After decades of practicing law, judges know that the defense attorney is going to argue for leniency at sentencing. While deliberating over the appropriate sentence, the judge isn’t too concerned with arguments on case law. He has read the case law; he has his own opinion. On the other hand, he doesn’t know much about the defendant. Prior to sentencing, defendants have an opportunity to influence the outcome. Again, a defendant does well when he starts from the premise that he’s about to make the biggest sale of his life. The only question is how well he has prepared, or how much time, energy, and resources he wants to invest to build a persuasive case. Three-Tiered Plan: Our team believes that an effective sentence-mitigation plan should begin at the soonest possible time. No one can change the past, but any of us can begin crafting a story that will show who we are as individuals and how we got here. We’re big believers in a three-tiered strategy that includes: A personal sentencing narrative A strategic character-reference letter campaign A sentencing video A sentence-mitigation story of community service

During Lent, many people give up things to create space for contemplation, prayer, or to break a bad habit. One year, Kacie Main decided to give up men! Why? As she explains in her book, I Gave Up Men for Lent, “By most definitions, I lived a social, fulfilling life. I had a good job, great friends, and a solid family. Aside from the 30-something-and-single combination, my life was picture perfect. But that was just a filter, like how the right Instagram filter can hide the circles under your eyes. The unfiltered me was restless, uninspired, uncomfortable. Something had to change—a drunken make-out with my not-single good friend was the straw that broke the camel’s back. So, I gave up men for Lent—a 40 day cleanse in an attempt to figure out why I felt unhappy in my happy life.”Kacie and I discuss how to:· Discover yourself apart from your relationships.· Handle shame and regret.· Make choices for yourself—even when your family pushes back i.e. what developmental psychologists call “individuate” from your family of origin.· Manage the dueling messages women receive—i.e. Be strong and independent! But also, snag a husband and have babies!In giving up men for Lent, Kacie created space for introspection, reflection, and clear-headed decision-making. Join us to hear her empowering story and learn how you, too, can gain clarity, insight, and self-direction.

Are you tired of the same old channel conversations that take place at channel conferences year after year? Channel veteran and entrepreneur Dave Sobel sure is! He’s the guest on this super fun podcast where he insists on asking challenging, stimulating, controversial questions. The type of questions that everyone is afraid to ask. Why? As … Dave Sobel: The Top 5 Channel Disruptors In 2020 Read More »

In today’s episode, Open Your Mind to Receive, Part 1, we discuss opening our minds to receive. I personally am very excited for this because it's based on one of my mentors book, Dr. Catherine Ponder, and the book is entitled that, . We talk about three types of giving that will allow you to be more receptive, so stay tuned on how to create more receptivity. Also, here is the we mention in this episode. 1:41  A Receiving Issue Here we are. We're going to talk today on opening our minds to receive. And for our listeners out there, the reason I wanted to bring this topic in is that so many people come to me and say, “Well, I know the law of attraction or this or that. I'm just not getting what I want.” And what I have found is it's oftentimes a receiving issue. In fact, I would venture to say it's usually always a receiving issue because if there's something that we desire and we don't have it, we are resisting it because it's there. And we talked a lot about this in our series working with the law, right? The universal laws, law of polarity. If you want something, you see it, you envision it, you don't have it. It exists and it's existing at the same time. And we have to find our way to step into it and to receive it. KISMA 2:52 First of all, Why? In this episode, what I want to talk about is, first of all, why. She even puts this in her book. She goes, “Why should you deliberately open your mind to receive?” And she says, “Because most of us have endured a pinched, narrow existence for no good reason.” That's just like a mic drop. Your life has been pinched and narrow for no good reason people. Don't take that personally, but it's like where have we settled? Where have we tolerated a certain existence because we're not receiving what is divinely ours? KISMA 4:16 Nothing Divine I'm going to read that sentence again because most of us have endured a pinched, narrow existence for no good reason. She goes on to say, “We have blocked our good from getting through to us in the process. There's nothing divine about a pinch to existence. There's nothing divine about a narrow, limited way of life. It proves nothing but the foolishness and ignorance of human beings who actually live in a universe of lavish abundance.” I mean, drop the mic, Catherine.  KISMA 4:48 We Don’t Know the Truth This is chapter one, like those are harsh words, foolishness and ignorance. But let's look at them. Ignorance isn't a bad word. When we're ignorant of something, we don't know the truth. We don't know the truth. And so we end up in an illusion when we're foolish about something, we also don't know the truth. It's like whatever we're doing because we don't know the access that we have.  KISMA 5:16 Ignorance is just an Area of Darkness It's childish, it's like an immaturity, and I don't think she's wrong about that. I think if you take it personally, if you put the charge on those words, like I'm not foolish and ignorant, you know, but if you look really look at what the words mean, what it means is, they're aware of a childish immaturity. Which I think is true about anybody. As we mature into our fullness of being in our fullness of expression, and ignorance is just an area of darkness.  Nick 5:42 The Act of Receiving Well, and she's just saying, which is true, we actually live in a universe of lavish abundance. So the word receive means to accept. And psychologists have told us over time that we can have anything we mentally accept, but we must mentally accept it first. Until we bring this into our being, we've got to accept it. And Dr. Ponder says, “A great part of the act of receiving is thus to mentally accept the good we want rather than mentally fighting it.”  KISMA 9:43 Giving is the first step in receiving What we want to focus on in this episode is a way to receive and a way to receive is to give. Dr.Ponder talks about three types of giving that will allow you to be more receptive and it's give to receive right and receive and give. She says, “Giving is the first step in receiving. When you want to receive, give. However, there are three kinds of giving. All three are equally necessary to your long term growth and success.” KISMA 10:14 First, Give to God First, give to God. Put God first financially. Why? As is explained in Buddhism and elsewhere, this is the first quality to be developed in your character on the road to enlightenment. Many conscientious people study self-help method, yet do not receive the benefits from them should they? Because they ignore this first step. Very schemes have been suggested for getting rich quick. Most of them fail because they are based on getting, this is so interesting. The get rich quick schemes. Most of them fail because they are based on getting, not giving. They have no spiritual basis. So right there. when there's something showing up like get rich, get this, it doesn't have the spiritual basis and money comes through spirituality and God. The reason many people fail to receive their good in life is because they do not practice giving or returning impersonally to the universe on a systematic basis, a portion of all that the universe shares with them. KISMA The idea is to give to something that feeds you spiritually. Nick 14:41 Give to Yourself Let me talk about this second kind of giving. Give to yourself. So you give to God, second is give to yourself. Open your mind to receive by giving to yourself because all progress begins with self-improvement. And I love this because you know, you and I invest in ourselves all the time, but she says it is sometimes easy to under give to yourself, but that unbalances the action of the law and keeps your good from coming through. You must first put your attention on the improvement and development of yourself, including your own strength and wisdom before you can possibly help others.  You cannot give to others unless you first have something to give. You must first have substance along with a measure of strength and wisdom before you can share these qualities with others. Some misguided people think it is selfish to emphasize self improvement first, but only after self-improvement are you capable of helping others. So that goes back to your question, whatever you're trying to give to get that is not a stance of self improvement.  KISMA 15:46 The Beauty in the Spirit of Giving That's right. It's selfish. I mean that's the beauty in the spirit of giving is giving freely, expecting nothing in return. But I think at the same time there is, there's wisdom in you plant seeds so that you can reap a harvest. There's an intention behind it.  Nick 18:51 Then it's Someone Else Exactly. The third kind of giving after giving to God and to yourself, give something to someone else. Isn't that interesting everyone? It's like it is Universe, God, spirit, it's yourself and then it's someone else. After you give something to someone else, bless whatever you have given, bless the person or persons to whom you gave it. Then release both the gift and the recipient. Any of us, man, woman, or child can transform our lives by transforming what we give, what we give to God, what we give to ourselves, and what we give to others. So it's back to that thing, Nick, that you said, well, if I'm going to give something, I'm going to get it, uh-huh. Give, bless the thing that you give. Bless the people you give it to and release. KISMA 21:48 A Winning Formula When you look at it really from a broader perspective, it's genius because now, let's just assume that you've got people that are doing this out there really following this simple prescription, one, two, three. What do you have? Well you have people who are giving to feed their spirituality, their connection to God, their spiritual growth. So you've got spiritually minded folks who are strong and stable and grounded within themselves, who are humble enough to keep doing the work on themselves, and then to share that with other people. That's a winning formula, that's the way to transform the whole world.  Nick

You may have seen an "explainer video". Here is one:https://youtu.be/dtGhGxkqGUcI once downloaded software to create my own explainer video, from which I created JUST ONE before I decided I would look to outsource going forward. Why? As much as I like them, it was harder and more time consuming than I thought.In this episode, I discuss Explainer Videos with someone who specializes in them, Charles Alexander. We discuss not only what an explainer video is, but actually how to make one and why it makes sense to outsource it...as I did.CONNECT WITH CHARLES:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/yourcharlesalexander/ Homepage - http://www.yourcharlesalexander.com/ BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY CHARLES:Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz - https://amzn.to/37uiuQL Deep Work by Cal Newport - https://amzn.to/37snipU Compound Effect by Darren Handy - https://amzn.to/37snipU The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - https://amzn.to/2sTa32i Books by Seth Godin - https://amzn.to/2GjPFuv ********************************************************************************************* Subscribe to Profiles in Risk at:Buzzsprout RSS: http://www.buzzsprout.com/87086 Google Play: https://goo.gl/WMAvW4 iTunes: https://goo.gl/7SqwvP Overcast: https://goo.gl/8b4cbD Spotify: https://goo.gl/niAbGN Stitcher: https://goo.gl/DmE7Mi YouTube: https://goo.gl/1Turar

I'm doing something a bit different in this episode: instead of the usual interviews with authors, editors, performers, artists, fans and others, I'm posting a short radio play I've put together with some friends. Why? As some of you know, I'm currently taking a Bachelor of Education degree, and one of my course assignments is to write something and publish it. Last summer, a friend and I were kicking around the possibility of doing a radio play. We talked about doing a take on HG Wells' The War of the Worlds, except from the Martian perspective. And, since we're both former newspeople, we talked about presenting it as a nightly newscast on Mars, updating its citizens on the progress of the invasion. When I had to start thinking about the assignment for my course, I decided to see what I could do with the radio play idea, and since I've got this podcast channel already, I have a place to post it. Admittedly, I was a little pressed for time in putting the radio play together, so the editing isn't quite as tight as I'd like it in places, and a couple of the music beds could use some fading here and there, and a little more production for theatre of the mind effect would help. But, all things considered, I think it's a reasonably good production. If you enjoy the show, be sure to leave a comment below this post, send an email, or get in touch via social media and let me know. Maybe I'll look into producing a full series from start to finish if enough people are interested. Finally, a huge thank-you to my friends who helped with the voice acting: Mark Karjaluoto as Kram the reporter. Maya Gal as Political Pundit #1. Chris Shunamon as Political Pundit #2. Kienan Burrage as Political Pundit #3.    

Mark Eckerle of Withum Smith + Brown is “bullish” on distributed ledger technologies. Why? As he says in our latest episode, these advances have the potential to greatly improve processes for auditing professionals.   To read the full transcript click here.

Welcome back to Applied Curiosity Lab Radio. This week we chomp on the Curiosity Bite about how we define, evaluate, and compare our way of life. What about your way of life wouldn't work for most people? Why? As a bonus, tune in for health advice that's better than any fancy diet. It's free and easy.

  What is open handed drumming? Simply, it’s not crossing your hands. Why? As you read earlier in the LTR method, there is no right or wrong. AND all your favorite drummers play with their hands crossed. So why go against the grain? Because when obstacles are removed, freedom expands. The goal of the LTR Read more about The WHY and HISTORY of Open Handed Drumming[…]

Did you know that filing too many insurance claims on your home could have disastrous consequences for your sale? Today I’d like to share a story that encapsulates this point.  Recently, I was representing a seller whose home was situated in a really nice neighborhood. During escrow, it came to our attention that the buyer’s efforts to obtain an insurance policy on the home were proving unsuccessful. Why? As it turns out, the seller had filed too many claims on the property over a two- to three-year period. Unfortunately, a lot of homeowners don’t think about the implications that filing claim after claim will have on their future sale. Consider this alternative: If you’re planning to sell within the next five years, you might want to avoid filing claims for issues that could feasibly be covered out of pocket or are within your deductible. “My best advice is to do a cost-benefit analysis before making a claim on your property, especially if you’re selling anytime soon.” In this particular case, about a year and a half ago, the homeowner discovered a pinhole leak originating from the master bathroom that was dripping down from the dining room ceiling—a common issue for Orange County residents. Not long after filing an insurance claim to clear up the issue, they filed yet another water-related claim: A leaky sprinkler on the lawn had caused water to seep into the home and did subsequent damage to the home’s drywall and flooring.  As a homeowner, it’s important to keep in mind that some insurance companies are sensitive when it comes to water damage claims, so if you file two or three claims in a relatively short amount of time, your future buyer will be denied coverage in all likelihood.  My best advice is to do a cost-benefit analysis before making a claim on your property, especially if you’re selling anytime soon. You might also call your insurance carrier to see if the issue in question merits a claim. And don’t worry—a simple inquiry over the phone won’t result in you receiving a case number or anything.  If you have any questions related to real estate or if there’s a topic you’d like me to cover in the future, please don’t hesitate to let me know. I look forward to hearing from you!

Welcome to the first episode of Nerding For Beginners!  This podcast started as an excuse for Mike and Dave to get into a Dungeons and Dragons campaign with their friends Glen, Brandon, Brandie, and Zack, but will be more than that.  Why? As anyone who has tried to get a regular game know, not everyone is available all the time.  When that happens they'll play other games (tabletop, card, or video), discuss other games, their fandoms, and/or movie and tv shows.  Think of this as hanging out with a new group of nerdy friends. ON THIS EPISODE: We recap what happened the first time we got together and played (and forgot to record), introduce ourselves and our characters and the weird island our characters are on, and we get ourselves a new pet! Follow us on Instagram and Facebook!

This podcast is about sitting here in my big, manly black leather poppa chair considering Big Louie's advice about what to do today. Big Louie always says "The only way to live happily ever after is to take it one day at a time." And I do want to live happily ever after. Of course Big Louie says lots of things in my book Staying Happy Healthy And Hot...available at Amazon...shameless plug. Besides "The only way to live happily ever after is to take it one day at a time" Louie likes to remind us that "If you have any moving parts left, for God's sake, MOVE EM". And "You never know when something wonderful is going to happen." So I'm trying to figure out how I can take my one day at a time like nobody else is taking his one day at time. But I find myself doing so many of the things you probably do too, that I get concerned that we might all spend our happily ever afters together. Now, I like lots of you, but...comon. Why do we do so many of the same things? Lots of times when I sit here thinking I click my ball point pen...just like you. Some times when I come home from the supermarket I ballance 4 plastic bags on each arm, grab 2 bags with my teeth, hold a quart of milk between my legs, and bunny hop from my car into the house with the groceries. Way too often I catch myself tap, tap, taping my foot. Why? As much as I hate it, I sometimes start answering a question with the word, "Well" or even the word "So." SO I think we'll have a pretty nice day today. SO WHAT! How are you feellng today Dick? Well...I'm over my cold so I'm well. I know I shouldn't do that, but way too often I fall into that well...just like you...I'll bet.

The Bible is blasphemous whenever it is used as caselaw and even the Word of God — which is a flat rejection of the Holy Spirit. Can’t jam Infinite Love inside any book. Not until 1850 did Protestants in Alabama suddenly demand this book be deemed inerrant. An inerrant book written by men? Even Jesús scolds in John 5:39-44 literalism and people who parochially refuse relationship with Him over “constantly having your heads in the Bible but refusing to SEE Me in front of you....” Look at what such narrowness of thinking has done (not because people always believe or love God who they CAN in a less literal sense SEE but won’t SEE) but solely because of individual cowardly narcissism just to be sure they “don’t burn in hell.” This isn’t love but terrorism. Think about it — you place a gun to the head of the preciously and infinitely loved little heads of children and tell them they better hate “certain people OR groups” and beat their children because that’s the only language they understand, and they’ll hardly become human beings capable of charity beginning at home or beginning within themselves. Rather, this same aberrant fear will actually create all manner of evil, self-preservation, self-absorbing megalomania and other highly ephemeral avarice and perversion. Christianity as the “religion” doesn’t espouse a love for and from God for ALL people — rather as merely another exclusive “religion” It unwittingly promotes living a life of fearing hell and hating this God and this threatening tyrannical caricature the church fabricated for dualistic confusion and socioeconomic control. Having said that, debating hate and love and especially the existence of God as a word and trying to force ideas on anyone will cause pushback. Until and, not if but when, a person is able to SEE and RECOGNIZE the divine in ALL PEOPLE— especially those they have been trained to hate not based on reality and truth and grace and truth — but with the very peculiarly arcane approach of actually EXCLUDING first and INCLUDING a very few individuals if anyone (which is ultimately self-banishment) as one’s life goes onto and INTO eternity. Life is living us. Things are improving. America’s history of preferring word-worship and highly superficial and spoon fed programming has created an unstable passively-aggressive kind of undulating conformity that has been largely without any lovingly lasting transformative experiencing as human beings. Forced love is at best, highly unconditional hatred. This has been proffered as stemming from the noun and conceptualized word — God, but any conceptual and airily abstract notion of God as anyone or even anything akin to an infinitely loving agent is all showroom but no storeroom. Just smoke and mirrors and a cheapened part of speech and an unbelievably unworkable textual rule book. A theologically lifeless topic and object of pseudo-scholastic discussion and debate, but sorrowfully little else. It might be becoming increasingly obvious to humanity that humanity is from love and infinite love has all the timelessness in and out of this world to restore to Her original state of sanity. Original sin, logically, demands that the originating Source of sin starts and stops this seemingly endless “missing of the point” not by creating the 16th century atonement conditions for His/Her creation to yet again fail to meet, but by This Creator having ALREADY removed the human convention (illusion) of finitely loving conditions that infinite Love would never impose on His/Her very own divine inventions. (There was nothing to remove but the damnable idea of sin and the blame gaming). What was the problem with Jerome’s Bible? It was heavily influenced by Latin hell-inventing theologians like Tertullian and Augustine. Many of the words used in the Vulgate, such as eternal, redemption, justification, sanctification, sacrament, perdition, punish, torment, damnation, etc., were coined by Tertullian and his contemporaries and came to be associated with concepts foreign to the original Greek. The Latin Church’s emphasis on fear-based dualism was reserved for three great Carthaginians, Tertullian, Cyprian, and Augustine, so to influence the Latin Church it deflected and declined into a system of dogmatic hierarchy and spiritual despotism. But Tertullian was the individual who set this current in motion. This, then, is the man in the hollow of whose hands lay the clay which was to be molded into concrete Latin dogma. This is the man in whose hands reclined the fate of the word eternal. Augustine, who later outdid Tertullian and his doctrines, maintained that the whole human race was “one damned batch and mass of perdition” (conspersis damnata, massa perditionis), out of which a few are elected to salvation, while all the remainder are lost for ever. He beheld evil as a force integral in a universe apart from God, while Origen believed that all is out from God, even evil, which God must undo and banish. As the centuries went by, the Bible was translated and retranslated into Latin (mainly from Greek), and more than twelve centuries later translated into English (from Greek and Hebrew) with the advent of the original King James in the 1600s. It’s not hard to see how morphing Church beliefs and language changes influenced each Bible version that came along. When King James gave the translators instructions for working on his King James Authorized Version in 1604 (a seven-year project), he intended to make sure that the new version would “conform to the ecclesiology and reflect the episcopal structure of the Church of England and its belief in an ordained clergy.” Since then, it has undergone over 400 more years of translator interventions and theological interpretations. When you think of how many people, opinions, doctrines, misunderstandings, language barriers, as well as political and theological agendas may have worked into the mix in 2,000 years, it’s hard to believe (and shouldn’t be believed) that the Bible has maintained inerrancy or complete adhesion to the original intent. Sin wasn’t humanity’s idea nor God’s allowance for the concept of sin that the church created to control and confuse. The thermodynamic energy that animates your being that IS within you (known as the Holy Spirit) has been flatly rejected and opportunely so by the church. Why? As long as you perceive yourself and, therefore others, with a rather worthless and intrinsically defective sense of identity, the simplicity of this infinitely knowable inner wholeness will by default seem confusingly complicated. Now, these heady abstract antagonists understood perfectly clear how to train word-worshipping Westerners towards dualistically divisional and extreme mental programming. And, because they did, they took advantage of the majority’s illiteracy and fearful dependency and thus, described both God and sin with their conceptualized explanations that were neither creatively freeing nor remotely explicable to the culture at that time. But, in spite of the current day literacy of Western society, both the Catholic and the Protestant career clergymen remain, for the same ephemerally selfish and passionless reasons, determined to take advantage of rigidly fearful and fervently religious people by portraying the church as an externally greater authority than the Spirit of Truth within ALL humanity. Moreover, as long as these church leaders can continue to hoodwink Western society into believing that they must pay the churches’s amateurishly ignorant “professionals” to explain God’s nature to them, oratory rhetoric will continue to hypnotize humanity as objects, discouraging humanity’s grasping their true and original identity as sons and daughters of Infinite Love’s Creator. And, while this can (for a limited time) continue to hinder individual’s knowledge of their inner authority and true identity via unconditionally loving experience, it will never detain this infinite LOVE’s Author and Creator as some diabolically separated Being who has been intentionally portrayed as an unapproachable cosmic tyrant as purposefully maligned as read inside the bindings of the Bible. You didn’t need anyone to explain unconditional love to you UNTIL religionists diabolically developed their own self-seeking conditions of dogmatic beliefs whereby they almost got away of what has gone on till only very recently. This being the early churches’s theologians and socioeconomic religious politicians desire to institutionalize guilt as its ephemeral goal so as to possess all of the gold. Put another way, the Golden Rule as the early church translated it swiftly became an aberrant abomination of Jesus’s extremely simple and easily applicable definition of this Golden Rule. Rather than, “Do unto others as you would want done unto you,” the church’s pyramid scheme was based on, “He who has the most gold, rules.” When Jesus said, “You cannot serve mammon and God both,” a simpler translation is, “You can experience Infinite Love within you and as you but never by studying this experience as merely a lofty concept inside of a book.” Jesus made this perfectly clear in John 5:39-40. No one believes truth, they recognize and know truth again as they knew truth before they became the physical manifestations of Infinite love. Soul. That’s even in the Bible- Psalms 139. God, as a concept, can appear to hate you as long as you project the hatred you have ONLY momentarily felt and observed from the very men who pretend or seem to appear to be like the God none is able to conceive of. Conceptions are deceptions. Just as saying the word water is a horrible attempt to explain the experience of actually being wet. Even if I could freeze an ocean wave, my bringing it to you in a box and placing it on a table would not be anything like surfing. As long as we believe in a word we will never begin approaching Her realty. God does not love you, love is what you are. Love is being Herself. You are BEING and to miss this is to talk about infinite life but never be about infinite life.

Take it Deeper Questions Read Acts 3:1-10 Which is more devastating; to be sick or to be without money? Why? As a crippled man in Peter’s day, what would he write in his diary on a typical day? What do you think he would write about this day? Would you do the same thing Peter did, or would you ask John if he had a dime? What was going on inside of Peter? How are you challenged by Peter’s faith? If you were more like Peter in this moment, how would it impact how you connect and relate with the people around you?

The New Music Business (Part 1 of 2)  A disturbing new music industry statistic claims that artists will only get 12 percent of the $43 billion the industry generates annually. According to the report, the industry's $43 billion year of 2017 was its most profitable since 2006. Listeners are spending more money than ever before, largely on streaming and live music, with consumer spending totaling more than $20 billion last year. Companies like Pandora & Spotify are financially hitting songwriters hard. Why? As middlemen including labels, radio companies and streaming services step in to sell and distribute music, they each take cuts of the profits, siphoning revenue away from both the songwriters and their recording artists.  Yet it's not all bad news. The report points out that the piece of the revenue pie that artists receive has actually grown over the past few decades, rising to 12 percent from just 7 percent in 2000 as artists explore routes like self-releasing their music. Artists' cut will likely continue to rise as the industry continues to adapt to the streaming age.  Much like the 1950’s record business where compensation was always an issue, todays music industry and it’s rewards appear difficult to predict. US World Report radio begins a two part series this week to explore some of the challenges confronting newbies to the industry. Meet the hit makers who have inherited the issues! Learn past and current recording techniques. Now that everyone has a home studio, what’s next and who’s in the charge of ‘The New Music Business?’

How does simply tracking your daily activities affect your overall success? It’s massive. As with most positive improvement, actually, all...the point is brain training. Trying to get our brains to make the right decisions, do what we truly want to do...so we’re all looking for ways to manage ourselves. So here with daily tracking, We’re not talking massive goals planning here, we’re dumbing it down to the ridiculously simple, that none of us can deny is easily possible. Anything in your life where you want health and success, if you will just make a daily note of what you did in that area, you will improve. Why? As you’ll hear in the show, it increases your awareness, accountability and motivation. Again, just simply...noting down what you did. Even if it’s...nothing. You’ll see it and it will give you conscious and subconscious fuel to do something, the next day. So I kick this discussion off with a clip from Zig Ziglar on this issue. The clip is not even a minute and a half and me quickly mentions how to increase your sales and weight loss! From the message I posted this question on my Facebook page - “In your goals and pursuits and growth, how are you measuring or tracking your progress and results?” Zig Ziglar’s son, CEO of Ziglar and my dear friend Tom Ziglar joined me to talk through all your comments.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The BIG Question We Must Answer, Why? As you create goals or things you want to do/accomplish in life, you will hit peaks of impossibility, where you feel like it’s not going to happen. You must ask yourself, Why? Why are you wanting to accomplish this goal? The process of asking  yourself why and answering […] The post Why appeared first on Tony Rhoton | Life Mentor | Motivational Coach | Utah Life Coach | Self-Improvement.

Shadow People are real and they want you! Why? As we all know, reality is replete with mystery and enigma – bizarre encounters that defy all matter of logic or reason. The phenomenon known as the shadow people visits are one such example. Dark, murky figures that appear, often out of thin air, only to stand […] The post Nick Redfern – Shadow People: Who Are They and Why Are They Interested in Us? appeared first on Higher Journeys.

What: Every leader is required to make decisions that move their team from where they are now to a future point. This episode shows you how to approach making any decision. Why: As a leader who’s had to make many decisions, there often is a conflict between making a decision quickly and making a decision that has the best possible outcome. Put differently, you often need to decide if you want to be first, or do you want to be the best?  This applies to decisions made in business, relationships, school, and even in your personal life. 80% of the time, you will not be able to make a decision that is both fast AND the best (which would be the ideal scenario, and every leader should be actively growing to improve this area). As a leader, you need to make a decision that will provide the most benefit to moving your team forward, and leaders must learn to distinguish and prioritize their decision as needing to be first, or needing to be the best. Breakdown: What does it mean to focus on being “first” or being the “best” First - There are many decisions where the primary benefit is just to get something moving. Your solution or course of action does not have to be perfect, in fact, it will likely be altered as you go along. Your primary focus in making a “first” decision is to get an action plan out quickly and get the ball rolling. In these types of situations, there usually is an opportunity that will only be available for a short period of time, or a project that just needs to get started to meet the deadline. Leaders who are decisive thrive here because they don’t need a perfect solution, they just need action. Best - There are situations where your plan must be the best, and so your priority and focus must be primarily on developing the best possible solution.  In these types of situations, you typically only have 1 chance to get it right, so it needs to be perfect, otherwise you will fail. As a leader, your focus is on gathering information and resources to draw up the best plan, no matter how long it might take. Leaders who have to be perfect thrive in this area because they need a perfect plan more than they need fast action. Tie Up: As a decision maker, the ideal scenario is for a leader to develop the best solution in as short amount of time as possible. Often times, however, that is not realistic, especially as we are growing as a leader. Learning to categorize each decision as needing to be “first” or the “best” will help you place the right priority and effort to achieve the best outcome. Application: To become a better decision maker, use what we’ve talked about previously as a lens to view every decision.  Here are some specific questions you can ask:   What is my deadline? Every decision process should start by setting a time in which you must commit to a course of action. How easily can I adjust my future course of action? This question speaks to the degree of quality you need in your decision. Do you only get one chance at this and need to have the best plan? Or can you adjust on the way? What happens if I do nothing? This is a really great question to ask because often times leaders feel like the have to make a decision right now, when that isn’t the case. Understand what you might be losing (if anything) by not acting quickly. What would you gain? Am I really going to be able to get resources to make a better decision? No one can see the future, so we will never exactly know the outcome of a plan or solution, so don’t trick yourself into thinking that you will be able to know everything if you spend more time researching or thinking. Take an honest assessment of your situation and evaluate if there is realistically more information you could obtain to make a better decision.

Job 23: 1 – 10 // Everyone asks, “Why?” As children, we ask that one-word question in response to everything. We’re just discovering the world and it’s full of wondrous questions. As we age, experience deepens our why questions. Why is there suffering? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why not me? What […]

Gift from Gene Ludwig - Compliance isn't Mickey Mouse This is a very special show because we recorded it directly from the bustling floor of the American Bankers Association’s 2017 Regulatory Compliance Conference. The RCC has long been the preeminent gathering of compliance professionals in the United States and, not surprisingly, it’s growing -- with another attendance record this year at 1800 people. That makes it one of the largest events of the US banking industry. We gathered in Orlando this summer to grapple with the huge array of challenges facing compliance professionals, from bank compliance officers and attorneys, to industry vendors, to the regulators themselves. The episode departs from our usual format. Instead of having one in-depth discussion with one guest, I had eight short conversations with a diverse group of compliance leaders. Each discussion is about twenty minutes. My guests, in order, are: Part 1 Gene Ludwig - Watson Financial and Promontory Financial Group Alistair Rennie - Watson Financial Kristi Grant Hart - Spark Compliance Consulting Andy Sandler - BuckleySandler, Treliant Risk Advisors, and Asurity Technologies Richard Harvey - Colonial Savings Part 2 Elizabeth Snyder - Plante Moran Brian Levy - Katten & Temple Rajeswari Sathappan - The Mercadien Group Daniel Stipano - Buckley Sandler The episode kicks off with a lively discussion with Eugene Ludwig and Allstair Renee. As many listeners know, Gene was previously the Comptroller of the Currency and then founded Promontory Financial. Last year, he surprised the financial world by selling Promontory to IBM Watson, to form Watson Financial. At the conference, I also moderated a fireside chat with Gene and Allistair Rennie.  It was the RCC’s first-ever session on regtech. -- and I predict it won’t be the last. On stage for our fireside chat, Gene Ludwig presented Alistair and me with...wait for it...Mickey Mouse ears (again, we were in Orlando). For better or worse, everyone in the room got the joke. People in finance have long complained about “Mickey Mouse” regulations that impose massive, hyper-technical requirements but produce only limited benefits. Gene’s gift signaled that technology is attacking that problem. We’re shifting from an analog-era regulatory approach to a digital-era one that will use data and machine learning to make compliance effective and efficient, through regtech. Watson Financial is part of a fast-growing regtech industry that is completely rethinking how compliance is done. Compliance isn’t Mickey Mouse anymore. To the contrary, in fact, there was a theme at this year’s conference about compliance officers as heroes. I’ve talked in past podcasts about this idea of “heroic compliance” -- that compliance people will increasingly be leaders in shaping the future of the industry. That’s counterintuitive, since compliance has traditionally been seen as a side issue in banking. Today, however, as technology transforms both finance financial regulation, we will see compliance executives at the front, shaping how the industry moves forward. They will be gatekeepers on what innovation can and cannot take hold, blocking harmful change but also opening the doors of the banking industry fortress to allow in new, better, more affordable products, and delivery channels, that can serve more people, profitably and at scale, in ways that actively foster consumer financial health. I think we should all begin to use the hashtag, #HeroicCompliance.   In the fireside chat, Alistair took this idea further, arguing that compliance officers may actually be the people who keep the banking industry competitive in a high-tech world. Why? As they adopt regtech, they’ll be at the forefront of innovating in how banks use data and AI -- and therefore leading the charge to break banks’ data out of it legacy silos and putting it to use -- first to transform compliance, and later, who knows? ...maybe to transform banking, itself. The conversations in this episode vary widely. We talked about regtech; the regulatory burden on community banks (including how regtech can help); how banking is changing; how compliance is changing; how regulators should balance use of rulemaking, supervision and enforcement; the grounding of compliance in mission and ethics; and the psychology of compliance, including that people sometimes look the other way on ethical failures in order to get along. We also discussed some of the top issues of the day, like AML and TRID. My guests have a mix of experience as regulators, lawyers, compliance officers, auditors, and compliance leaders, working with a wide range of large and small institutions. They have a wealth of insight into where we’ve been, where we are today, and where we should be going. More links ABA Regulatory Compliance Conference (plan to come next year -- June 24-27, Nashville!) Compliance resources from American Bankers Association www.ABA.com The artificial intelligence movie Her Kristi Hart Grant’s books, How to Be a Wildly Effective Compliance Officer and Wildly Strategic Compliance Officer Conference Andy Sandler mentioned (I’ll be speaking there) Regtech Enable, November 27-29 in Washington DC More on IBM www.IBM.com My previous podcast on Heroic Compliance with Treliant’s Lyn Farrell Lyn Farrell’s new podcast show, Compliance Hero Richard Harvey  RichardH@ColonialSavings.com Elizabeth Snyder  ElizabethSnyder@plantemoran.com Brian Levy BLevy@KattenTemple.com Raji Sathappan RSathappan@mercadien.com Daniel Stipano DStipano@BuckleySandler.com More for our listeners Please remember to review Barefoot Innovation on ITunes, and please sign up to get emails that bring you the newest podcast, newsletter, and blog posts, at jsbarefoot.com. Be sure to follow me on twitter and facebook.  And please send in your “buck a show” to keep Barefoot Innovation going. Support our Podcast Meanwhile, I’ll hope to see you at the events where I’ll be speaking this fall: Finovate, September 13th, New York City SourceMedia’s RegTech -- Compliance Transformed, October 3-4th, Brooklyn, NY BAI Beacon/Fintech Stage, October 4-5, Atlanta, GA CFSI Network Summit, Fireside Chat with Thomas Curry, October 5, Chicago, IL FISCA, October 5-8th, Las Vegas, NV Money 20/20, October 25th, Las Vegas, NV Monetary Authority of Singapore Fintech Festival, November 13-17, Singapore RegTech Enable, November 27-29th, Washington, DC Fintech Connect Live, December 6th, London S&P’s Fintech Intel, December 13, New York Meanwhile, keep innovating! Subscribe Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. Email Address Sign Up We respect your privacy. Thank you!

From the main stage This is a very special show because we recorded it directly from the bustling floor of the American Bankers Association’s 2017 Regulatory Compliance Conference. The RCC has long been the preeminent gathering of compliance professionals in the United States and, not surprisingly, it’s growing -- with another attendance record this year at 1800 people. That makes it one of the largest events of the US banking industry. We gathered in Orlando this summer to grapple with the huge array of challenges facing compliance professionals, from bank compliance officers and attorneys, to industry vendors, to the regulators themselves. The episode departs from our usual format. Instead of having one in-depth discussion with one guest, I had eight short conversations with a diverse group of compliance leaders. Each discussion is about twenty minutes. My guests, in order, are: Part 1 Gene Ludwig - Watson Financial and Promontory Financial Group Alistair Rennie - Watson Financial Kristi Grant Hart - Spark Compliance Consulting Andy Sandler - BuckleySandler, Treliant Risk Advisors, and Asurity Technologies Richard Harvey - Colonial Savings Part 2 Elizabeth Snyder - Plante Moran Brian Levy - Katten & Temple Rajeswari Sathappan - The Mercadien Group Daniel Stipano - Buckley Sandler The episode kicks off with a lively discussion with Eugene Ludwig and Allstair Renee. As many listeners know, Gene was previously the Comptroller of the Currency and then founded Promontory Financial. Last year, he surprised the financial world by selling Promontory to IBM Watson, to form Watson Financial. At the conference, I also moderated a fireside chat with Gene and Allistair Rennie.  It was the RCC’s first-ever session on regtech. -- and I predict it won’t be the last. On stage for our fireside chat, Gene Ludwig presented Alistair and me with...wait for it...Mickey Mouse ears (again, we were in Orlando). For better or worse, everyone in the room got the joke. People in finance have long complained about “Mickey Mouse” regulations that impose massive, hyper-technical requirements but produce only limited benefits. Gene’s gift signaled that technology is attacking that problem. We’re shifting from an analog-era regulatory approach to a digital-era one that will use data and machine learning to make compliance effective and efficient, through regtech. Watson Financial is part of a fast-growing regtech industry that is completely rethinking how compliance is done. Compliance isn’t Mickey Mouse anymore. To the contrary, in fact, there was a theme at this year’s conference about compliance officers as heroes. I’ve talked in past podcasts about this idea of “heroic compliance” -- that compliance people will increasingly be leaders in shaping the future of the industry. That’s counterintuitive, since compliance has traditionally been seen as a side issue in banking. Today, however, as technology transforms both finance financial regulation, we will see compliance executives at the front, shaping how the industry moves forward. They will be gatekeepers on what innovation can and cannot take hold, blocking harmful change but also opening the doors of the banking industry fortress to allow in new, better, more affordable products, and delivery channels, that can serve more people, profitably and at scale, in ways that actively foster consumer financial health. I think we should all begin to use the hashtag, #HeroicCompliance.   In the fireside chat, Alistair took this idea further, arguing that compliance officers may actually be the people who keep the banking industry competitive in a high-tech world. Why? As they adopt regtech, they’ll be at the forefront of innovating in how banks use data and AI -- and therefore leading the charge to break banks’ data out of it legacy silos and putting it to use -- first to transform compliance, and later, who knows? ...maybe to transform banking, itself. The conversations in this episode vary widely. We talked about regtech; the regulatory burden on community banks (including how regtech can help); how banking is changing; how compliance is changing; how regulators should balance use of rulemaking, supervision and enforcement; the grounding of compliance in mission and ethics; and the psychology of compliance, including that people sometimes look the other way on ethical failures in order to get along. We also discussed some of the top issues of the day, like AML and TRID. My guests have a mix of experience as regulators, lawyers, compliance officers, auditors, and compliance leaders, working with a wide range of large and small institutions. They have a wealth of insight into where we’ve been, where we are today, and where we should be going. More links ABA Regulatory Compliance Conference (plan to come next year -- June 24-27, Nashville!) Compliance resources from American Bankers Association www.ABA.com The artificial intelligence movie Her Kristi Hart Grant’s books, How to Be a Wildly Effective Compliance Officer and Wildly Strategic Compliance Officer Conference Andy Sandler mentioned (I’ll be speaking there) Regtech Enable, November 27-29 in Washington DC More on IBM www.IBM.com My previous podcast on Heroic Compliance with Treliant’s Lyn Farrell Lyn Farrell’s new podcast show, Compliance Hero Richard Harvey  RichardH@ColonialSavings.com Elizabeth Snyder  ElizabethSnyder@plantemoran.com Brian Levy BLevy@KattenTemple.com Raji Sathappan RSathappan@mercadien.com Daniel Stipano DStipano@BuckleySandler.com More for our listeners Please remember to review Barefoot Innovation on ITunes, and please sign up to get emails that bring you the newest podcast, newsletter, and blog posts, at jsbarefoot.com. Be sure to follow me on twitter and facebook.  And please send in your “buck a show” to keep Barefoot Innovation going. Support our Podcast Meanwhile, I’ll hope to see you at the events where I’ll be speaking this fall: Finovate, September 13th, New York City SourceMedia’s RegTech -- Compliance Transformed, October 3-4th, Brooklyn, NY BAI Beacon/Fintech Stage, October 4-5, Atlanta, GA CFSI Network Summit, Fireside Chat with Thomas Curry, October 5, Chicago, IL FISCA, October 5-8th, Las Vegas, NV Money 20/20, October 25th, Las Vegas, NV Monetary Authority of Singapore Fintech Festival, November 13-17, Singapore RegTech Enable, November 27-29th, Washington, DC Fintech Connect Live, December 6th, London S&P’s Fintech Intel, December 13, New York Meanwhile, keep innovating! Subscribe Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. Email Address Sign Up We respect your privacy. Thank you!

In this seventeenth episode of One Billion we meet the CEO of Independent Sector Dan Cardinali. He and his team made the choice to send 4 key staff members to Civilla for a month which leaves us asking: Why? As it turns out, he has a fantastic answer. http://www.civilla.com

Push us into the ocean! Nathan talks this week about health care in America. Some people seem very angry that Obama care was ever introduced. Why? As always, Nathan yells his thoughts about this. Also talks about The View. Check it! nathanmacintosh.com Twitter/Instagram @nathanmacintosh

Welcome to Episode 2 of the Happy Grappler Podcast.  In this episode, we sit down with Ribeiro Jiu Jitsu Academy NOVA Owner/Instructor Emil Takeuchi.  Show Notes below: What are your jiu jitsu credentials and teaching style? What got you started in jiu jitsu?  Any other sports or martial arts preceding jiu jitsu? What was the hardest aspect when you first started?  Any particular thing that was hardest for you? Did you ever think of quitting in those first few months?  If so, why?  If not, why do you think that is? You’re nearly a black belt.  So far, what was your hardest belt?  The most fun?  Why? As an instructor, what is the best kind of student?  The worst kind of student? You taught combatives at a police academy.  What are the similarities and differences between that, and teaching jiu jitsu? What is your favorite technique? What is your proudest moment to date? What are your views on injury?  Both minor (IE, jammed finger) and major (torn acl, broken arm, etc.).  What do you do during those times? Do you cross train?  What types of workouts do you do? Where do you see yourself in 5 years?  10 years? I hope you enjoy!  Cheers!

It blows me out of the water that we are super mean to ourselves. Why? How can you take care of so many and still find time to tell yourself you're not worthy. Why? As seasons change, you are always steadfast, loving when the going gets tough and bringing a smile to your family and friends. Today, it's your time to feel like the VIP you are! The K.I.S.S. ~ Go out today with a smile on your face and love in your heart! Join Women of Impact on Facebook here. http://bit.ly/WomenofIMPACT   THE NO FUSS MEAL PLAN Would love to hear what you are working on. Please reach out to me with your specific questions at yourbestselfie@createyournow.com   Create Your Now (Archive 1) brings moms, mompreneurs, and entrepreneurs tools and strategies to become their best selfie in areas of lifestyle, business, spirituality, nutrition, fitness, parenting, relationships, motherhood, mindset and balanced daily living. We promise according to our hopes; And perform according to our fears! This 7 day a week podcast will empower and encourage you to rediscover, rejuvenate and renew who you are in mind, body, and spirit. Topics include healthy living, work life balance, weight loss, exercise videos, overcoming adversity, burnout, inspiration, motivation, cooking and recipes, mind mapping, goal setting, marriage difficulties and Christian values. Let's train for life and love your journey. Be Present. Be Incredible. Be YOU!!! For the most current podcast, be sure to subscribe to Create Your Now ~ Your Best Selfie  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/create-your-now-your-best/id954737155?mt=2 PERISCOPE USERS! Click here for ANDROID Users / GOOGLE  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.periscope.android Click here for APPLE Users  https://itunes.apple.com/app/id972909677   Your Best Selfie Meal Plan https://createyournow.leadpages.co/the-no-fuss-meal-plan/   Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Contact me at YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Read more by Kristianne, a contributor of the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristianne-wargo/   Music by Mandisa - OVERCOMER Cover Art by Jenny Hamson

Entrepreneur and athlete Sami Inkinen, along with his wife, rowed 2,750 miles over 45 days without using any of the traditional “athlete foods” conventional knowledge says are essential: sugars and carbs. They didn’t starve, far from it. They came out of it healthier than can be expected from such an endeavor. Why? As fit as Inkinen is, he developed prediabetes by following the standard diet and surmised that sugar was the culprit. If someone like Inkinen is vulnerable, we should all be aware. Inkinen recounts his amazing journey from California to Hawaii.Lessons:    1.    The key to success is anything is a growth mindset: Don’t go through an experience, grow through it.    2.    Sometimes you have to face a challenge as if you were eating an elephant, one piece at a time, slowly, as best you can.    3.    The only way to escape an unpleasant experience is to embrace it fully, not fight it.

Are we living our lives in such a way it causes all around to ask “Why?” As we fully live out our faith in Jesus, we are challenged to both live missionally and then, when asked, share why we live the way we do.

Javier Soltero is Corporate Vice President of Outlook @ Microsoft. This position arose due to Javier's startup, Acompli, being acquired by Microsoft for $200m in 2014. Prior to Acompli, Javier spent a year at Redpoint Ventures, where he assisted in helping the firm extend their reach into both enterprise and mobile markets. However, Javier's entrepreneurial career did not start with Acompli, as he co-founded Hyperic, which he bought for $1 and within 5 years turned into a $10m+ revenue generating company. In Today's Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How did Javier start his entrepreneurial career and what were the origins of Acompli? 2.) What was Javier's biggest takeaway from the failure of his first startup, back by Sequoia? 3.) How did Javier control his burn rate once large amounts of VC money was in his company? 4.) How does Javier approach product market fit? 5.) How did Javier meet his investors for Accompli and how did Javier find the fundraising process? 6.) What were Javier's reasons for selling Acompli? Was there any conflict with his investors in selling the company?   Items Mentioned In Today's Episode: Javier's Fave Book: 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez  Javier's Fave Newsletter or Blog: Wait but Why? As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Javier right here on Twitter! If you would like to see a more colourful side to Harry with many a mojito session, you can follow Harry on Instagram here!  

I've often mentioned on this podcast the importance of owning Gold (and Silver) to protect yourself from the Inflation that is being produced by the Federal Reserve today and to protect yourself from the massive rise in prices that will be coming back to the United States when Governments around the world start dumping their dollars in pursuit of physical and tangible assets. Yet, a larger percentage of the Middle Class does not buy gold or silver. Why? As business owners, we want to make more money. So why is that most are not willing to protect it? [TweetThis] On this episode, I cover the Top 3 Reasons why most Middle-Class Americans and Internet Entrepreneurs do not buy gold. Show Highlights Discussion on Dropbox upgrading me to 1TB of Storage. The 3 Reasons Why the Middle-Class Does not Buy Gold. Gold and Silver Buyer Club - Buy Gold and Silver with me.   Hit Me Up Follow-me: @Hector_Avellan The Blog: http://NewClassRising.com

Paul's Stories A Guide To Network Vulnerability Management - Dark Reading - If you want the "training wheels" approach to vulnerability management, then you should read this article. However, the problem goes so much deeper, and this article doesn't even know what tool to use in order to scratch the surface. Sure, you gotta know what services are running on your systems, but it goes so much deeper than that. Environments, threats, systems and people all change, so howdo you keep up? How do you really find, and more importantly fix, the vulnerabilities in your environment? Old Operating Systems Die Harder - Dark Reading - Okay, here is where you could make a lot of money. Create a company that can actually provide some real security to legacy operating systems. So many of our defenses fail if there is a vulnerability that doesn't have a patch. You can implement some security, but it doesn't really solve the true problem. Once an attacker is able to access the system, its game over. Unless, there is something that can really solve the problem, even thwart the exploit and/or shellcode. Technologies exist, but back-porting to legacy systems is not often done. And this is where we need the help. Microsoft Disrupts ‘Nitol’ Botnet in Piracy Sweep - Microsoft takes down another botnet. Why is this news? Not-so-sure, as this should be the rule rather than the exception. Blackhole Exploit Kit updates to 2.0 - Check this out, attackers are implementing security! Check this out, this exploit kit now sports: Dynamic URL generation, so there is no longer a standard URL pattern that could be used to identify the kit.IP blocking at the executable URL, so that AV companies can't just download your binary. This is meant to slow down AV detection. Use of Captcha in the admin panel login page, to prevent brute forcing unauthorized access. If legit defendersonly did all that, well, except for the CAPTCHA, which is useless. Domino's Pizza says website hacked - One of the most useful things the Internet has ever given birth to, aside from access to free porn, is the ability to order pizza online. So back off! Oh, then there is this: "This is a very unfortunate event which has happened despite the security ecosystem that we have created around our online assets. Some security "ecosystem" you got there. More SSL trouble - SSL is broken, again, Drink! Apple unveils redesigned iPhone 5 with 4-inch display - I did not see any mention of improved security, but what a sexy device. Wireless now supports dual band n, which is awesome. Google helps close 163 security vulnerabilities in iTunes - iTunes is a beast, I use it all the time and well at the end of the day its kind of a resource pig, but gets the job done. However, its pretty crappy software, tons of vulnerabilities, and new ones found by Google! Webkit was to blame for many...#Antivirus programs often poorly configured - New study finds AV is not configured correctly. No huge surprises there... Do weneed to make it easier to configure or are people just lazy or both? Larry's stories Who's your GoDaddy - [Larry] - Yup, GoDaddy dns was down for the count. This included their own authoritative DNS as well as for those for the hosted stuff. Of course, now folks are talking about DoS against root name servers, and OMG the sky is falling. Of course, a single Anonymous member took credit, and GoDaddy, said along the lines of "Ooops, we tripped on a cable and corrupted our routing tables". Who do you believe… In other notes, a leaf fell from a tree and an individual member from anonymous took credit. What happens when your encryption is EOL-ed - [Larry] - Victorinox (the Swiss Army folks) are offering full refunds if you return the secure usb thumb drives. Why? As of September 15th the certificate will expire, and they have no intent on renewing and are stopping support for the software. If you don't get your data out of the encrypted volume before then, you'll allegedly lose it. So, what happens when we have something else like this that is significantly more mission critical, we have significant investment and no upgrade path. Choose wisely. Judge rules WiFi Sniffing Legal - [Larry] - Basically it boils down that is you have an open network and the data is in the clear, you should be able to sniff it. Don't want someone to sniff it? Encrypt it - and yes, WEP would be sufficient for word of law here. So, why did the judge rule this way? Wireless is a shared medium. If you are not allowed to sniff traffic that is not destined to you, then how are you able to determine that the traffic on said network is destined for you? Ruling against it would make all WiFi networks illegal, just by nature of the technology. ACTUAL Stego in the wild for "legitimate purpose" - [Larry] - I just put this story in for Darren to bust John's stones. But, it appears that Blizzard has been embedding information about the user via stegonaography into screenshots taken by the WoW clients. Jack's Ruminations Half of all Androids have Vulns? Also, water is wet. I'm surprised at this, I would have expected much higher. Android phones are at the mercy of their carriers for updates. And carriers are not noted for their mercy. Chip and Pin, er, PWN Chip and pin research shows that this bandage for the fundamentally obsolete and insecure payment card systems. The EMV protocol has crypto issues, as in "programmers may not be using cryptographic random number generator algorithms to create UNs, and instead may be using counters, timestamps or homegrown algorithms that are not so random." New FBI Facial Recognition program what could possibly go wrong? From the article "nabbing crooks after a crime is only part of the appeal. The technology also foreshadows upcoming security enhancements that will stop many offenses before they start". That "before they start" bit sounds pretty damned scary to me.