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A woman is murdered and left naked in a bath in Cheshire in 1983. Years later, one of her lovers is convicted of the crime. But Geoffrey isn't convinced that the man in prison is the culprit. You can read Geoffrey's 2009 article about the case here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1227647/Why-Im-convinced-husband-innocent-Beauty-Bath-murder.html CREDITS - Producer: Sam Brain Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com.

There wasn't much news this week and we thought we weren't going to have events at all; but, in the end, it turned out we had been overlooking the Star City Tour Online. So we'll break that down for you and take the slow news week as an opportunity to examine the new Planeswalker decks in more depth. Then, it's another entry in our series On the Shoulders of Giants. We're talking about Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Circle by Dan Paskins. In his words, "Why I'm not afraid of Circle of Protection: Red, Silver Knight, Worship, Pulse of the Fields or any other stupid white cards." Check it out for yourself or just listen to us break it down for you and then tell us your thoughts on the metagame by writing to PlaneswalkersPod@EngineWithin.com Article: https://articles.starcitygames.com/premium/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-circle/ Decklists: https://articles.starcitygames.com/news/diaz-temur-reclamation-wins-scg-tour-online-championship-qualifier-2/?_ga=2.105771200.2130997322.1594008000-1697417567.1591208660 News Sources: https://scgtouronline.starcitygames.com/ https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/core-set-2021-planeswalker-decks-2020-06-30 Judge Call: Prevention and Protection Supported this week by: Burrenton Forge (Burrenton Forge-Tender) You can help too! Support the show by visiting Patreon.com/EngineWithin Or TeePublic.com/user/EngineWithin And, as always, Special Thanks to Joseph McDaden for music used in this episode. Check out his music at josephmcdade.com/music or support him at www.patreon.com/josephmcdade EngineWithin.com Twitch.tv/dday_99

Why I'm voting NO to the new SAG/AFTRA Contract Stay raw and open in an un-natural world Ray Bradbury says we should send artists into Space! Get the book on Amazon at http://bit.ly/HAGFilm   Hosted by Jennifer Lynn Warren www.instagram.com/jenniferlynnwarren   For the show, go to www.instagram.com/hollywoodactorsguide   Email me at hollywoodactorsguide@gmail.com

Welcome back to Season 3 of It Starts With A Click! I'm so excited to be back with another season, and I'm kicking it off with a bit of reflection on 5 of the biggest lessons I learnt from being put into lockdown because of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic. I go over things like: - why I don't need to shoot as much as I used to going forward - Why I'm more grateful than ever for my online business - How I sorted out my finances - Chilling to the max was so beneficial  - Pitching to brands was still, even in a lockdown, my most effective form of marketing. Follow Olivia at: www.oliviabossert.com www.oliviabosserteducation.com www.instagram.com/oliviabossert  Free Pitching Course: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5e970f98bb21840026544507?fbclid=IwAR2aLd16nQQgt-FvTu0TU7wuvuJEKq3rJHK7cKLdNmvXBM44Oa5sn66VNnQ Presets Shop https://www.oliviabosserteducation.com/shop Amazon Shop: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/oliviabossert Flodesk (Email marketing software): https://flodesk.com/c/HWLBSY (affliate link) Free Resource Library: https://www.oliviabossert.com/free-resources Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fashionphotographywitholivia/

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Welcome to episode 72 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.    This is our last episode of series 7, and we have a great chat to end the series on. Thank you to all of our listeners for your support this series, we'll be back with a bang in September!    This week we're chatting to Matt Barnett, founder of video messaging company Bonjoro. Matt used to be a wedding photographer, so he understands our marketing needs as photographers and how video messaging can help us to get more clients.    Matt talks to us all about how video messaging can help us to convert more enquiries, build trust with our clients, and gain loyalty.    Bonjoro are kindly offering our listeners a discount off their plans until 30/09/20. Use the code 'shootedit15' to get 15% off monthly subscriptions and 'shootedit30' to get 30% off their annual plans. Here is the link to get their free trial.   If you join us as a patron, for just $5 a month, you'll get access to the extra juicy questions that we put to Matt at the end of the interview. And also get your hands on all of the links to our Repeat Recs from the past 2 years. Click here for all of the details and to get instant access to the longer version of this episode, on your favourite podcast app.    Thank you to The Marketing Fix for their support of this episode. Get on top of your marketing by signing up for 1 free month by using the code 'SHOOTEDIT'.    Thank you to Shootproof online galleries for sponsoring Repeat Recs for this series. Get 25% off your first 12 months subscription by using the code SHOOTEDITCHATREPEAT.     Our Repeat Recs for this week Eddie - White Fragiity book by Robin Diangelo  Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race by Remi Eddo-Lodge Photographers without Borders   Vicki - Anti-racism activist, writer speaker & podcaster Nova Reid.   Watch Nova's Ted Talk here      Check out our new Amazon store full of our favourite things, including over 50 of our recommended photography & business books!    We'd love to know what you think of this episode. Please leave us a review if you've enjoyed it, it helps other people to find the podcast.  Email:  hello@shooteditchatrepeat.com Instagram  Facebook    Eddie Judd's Lightroom 121 virtual training  ​​Get your hands on Vicki Knights’ FREE 20 min online business class and get on the waitlist for her new 6 week group training programme for family photographers, launching September 2020.  

With everything going on right now, I wanted to replay one of the most important and impactful conversations that I've had on the podcast, The Black Tax & The Cost of Being Black in America with guest Shawn Rochester. In the beginning of the episode, I also share my thoughts on why I will continue to use my platform to educate and amplify Black voices while giving you the tools to reach your Financial Freedom & Independence goals.  I encourage everyone to listen to this episode and share it with someone who needs to hear more of how we as a nation got to a place where Black Americans own only 2% of wealth and what we can do to change it . In this episode you will learn: Why I'm so committed to amplifying Black voices and stories What is the Black Tax and how it’s impacting your wealth How to identify unconscious vs. conscious bias Why hard work is not the key to success and what resources you really need Concrete ways you can close the wealth gap How to apply Shawn’s PHD strategy to create jobs, capital, and thriving black communities, and so much more You can watch the original interview with Shawn Rochester on youtube by clicking here. Join me & Teri Ijeoma for a free class on how to make money in the stock market and avoid the uncertainty of the economy tonight at 8:30 pm EST here journeytolaunch.com/tradingclass Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode: Check out Shawn’s talk at Google, which has had over 200,000 views and sparked a lot of conversations about the real cost of being Black in America. Get the Free Journeyer Jump Start Guide here. Check out the other tools that help me with my finances and business here. Check out the Journey To Launch Podcast index here which categorizes all of the Journey To Launch podcast episodes by subject. Now you can binge on your favorite topics or type of episode. Join The Weekly Newsletter List Leave me a voicemail– Leave me a question on the Journey To Launch voicemail and have it answered on the podcast! Watch me on News12  Watch my latest segments on News12 YNAB –  Start managing your money and budgeting so that you can reach your financial dreams. Sign up for a free 34 days trial of YNAB, my go-to budgeting app by using my referral link. Connect with Shawn Rochester: Website Twitter: @BlackTaxed Facebook:@Shawn.D.Rochester Instagram:@BlackTaxed Connect with me: Instagram: @journeytolaunch Twitter: @JourneyToLaunch Facebook: Journey To Launch Join the private Facebook Group Join The Money Launch Club Waitlist  Jumpstart Guide

"Why I'm a pain in the ... when I'm preparing you for a check ride"! Making me happy is a lot harder than making the examiner happy! I just really like do get you to perfection, I want you doing really really well, and I want you to ace that check ride! I want you studying and have your knowledge up to par! We want you to be prepared and show up ready! No half ass stuff here! I want your helicopter interior looking nice and neat as well! I want you to walk away from it, saying heck ya that was awesome!

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Tahnee speaks with her beloved Yin Yoga teacher Paul Grilley on the pod today. Paul is the founder of the modern form of Yin Yoga. Paul has a deep passion and interest in Anatomy and Chakra Meditation and has been teaching and practicing yoga for decades. Along with his wife Suzee, Paul has trained thousands of yoga students and teachers across the globe and is an absolute specialist in his areas of interest. Today we explore the traditional foundations and teachings of yoga, what is has come to mean in our modern and westernised society. We delve into anatomy, Taoist philosophy, the concept of Qi and bust a few myths around the practice of asana. Whether you're an established yogi, a yoga beginner or just curious, today's chat will offer you a grounded and insightful view of the practice that is yoga. Tahnee and Paul explore: Paul's path to yoga, how he got to where he is today. What yoga has become in the west. The underbelly of the yoga industry; power, influence and hierarchy. The rise of Yin Yoga; why it has become so popular in western society today. Complementing Yang yoga with Yin. Yin Yoga as a platform for introspection. The power of the hold; stillness as a transformational element in the practice of Yin Yoga. Qi, the intelligent and creational force - "maintaining form without disfunction is Qi" - Paul Grilley. Anatomy and range of motion; the impact a persons skeletal structure has on their ability to achieve certain poses in asana practice - "different shaped bones will have different ranges of motion, because every reasonable range of motion eventually the bone hits the bone it's pivoting against." - Paul Grilley. Whether there is enough education in modern 200hr teacher training courses.   Who is Paul Grilley? Paul Grilley has been teaching Yoga since 1980 and his special interest is the teaching of Anatomy and Chakra Meditation. He is the founder of Yin Yoga in its modern form and has trained thousands of yoga students and teachers with his wife Suzee Grilley. Paul and Suzee practice yoga postures in the style of Paulie Zink and pattern their philosophy on the writings and researches of Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama - a yogi and scientist from Tokyo, Japan. This philosophy integrates the Taoist meridian and acupuncture theories of China with the yogic and tantric theories of India. Paul and Suzee live in Ashland, Oregon.   Resources: Paul's Website Paul's Online Anatomy Course Paul's Chakra DVD Paul's Anatomy DVD Paul's Yin Yoga DVD Paul's Chakra Book Paul's Yin Yoga Book   Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast?   A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or check us out on Stitcher :)! Plus we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Tahnee:   (00:00) Hi, everyone. Welcome to the SuperFeast Podcast. Today, I have Paul Grilley with me. Paul is the leading Yin Yoga innovator, and one of the top Yin Yoga teachers in the world. He and his wife, Suzee, trained 1,000 of students around the world, and he's also the author of two books, The Yin Yoga Principals and Practice Book, and a Yogi's Guide To Chakra Meditation, which was just published this year. He also has a whole bunch of educational videos, and an online course available, which we will put next to the show notes. I know many of you out there are yogi's, I'm really lucky to call Paul my teacher so I am really greatful to have him here today. Paul thank you for joining us on the SuperFeast podcast.   Paul Grilley:     (00:44) I am happy to be here. Thanks for having me.   Tahnee:   (00:47) I was curious if you could go back to the start, I know your a boy from Montana, and always interested as to how people find yoga. Would you mind sharing that with us, today?   Paul Grilley:     (01:01) I found yoga reading the book, Autobiography of a Yogi. That was the summer of 1978, I believe I got that right. Yeah. No, maybe '79, '78? '78. Anyway, a long time ago, and that book completely blew my mind. I had no idea that this kind of stuff, what really looked spiritual traditions were, I sort of grew up a Christmas time, Christianity family, meaning that's the only time we ever really thought about it.   Paul Grilley:   (01:38) I was not indoctrinated in any type of religious or spiritual teaching, and I got interested in sort of the human potential. I was 20 at the time, 19, 20, and I was reading things about what people could do under hypnosis, or I can't remember some of the other things I was into. I asked a guy in my town who I thought might know about such things, and said, "I'm really interested in the yoga mind over body thing," and he says, "Well, here's a book you should read and he gave me a list of two or three books, actually, and the Autobiography was the one book that was readily available to me, and I read that, and I was just completely shocked, sort of like how can you get through life and not be exposed to these ideas? They seem incredibly important.   Tahnee:   (02:24) [crosstalk 00:02:24].   Paul Grilley:   (02:25) It was reading the Autobiography of a Yogi is what got me into yoga.   Tahnee:   (02:29) From there, in the late '70s in the states, I know it from my historical studies that yoga wasn't exactly super popular, most of the exposure people had was kind of probably more that traditional... Almost the sannyasin kind of a thing where it was a community of people practicing together. How did you even get to be a yoga teacher then if you're reading a book in Montana.   Paul Grilley:   (02:57) That was actually an accident. What happened I was, I enrolled at the community college near me, and I was taking an anatomy courses, and I was trying to study anything Indian, and I got a couple Hatha Yoga books, some very simple Hatha Yoga books of the time, and I thought I'd study anatomy to sort of bolster my understanding of what I was doing. That was, again, right soon after that same summer, and I was talking about yoga to friends of mine, and trying to get them interested in doing it, and working out with me.   Paul Grilley:   (03:33) I essentially was like the gym rat, it's like, "Do you want to work out with me?" You know? We were talking about it, and a woman there, Sandy, I can't remember her last name, she says, "Oh, I've done a little bit of yoga before, but I've got this book at home, it's kind of like a comic book, it's maybe not as serious as maybe what you study, but I could bring it in," and I'm like, "Look bring it in, I don't know that much about yoga, I'm just getting started." It turns out it was Bikram Choudhury's Introduction, or Beginning Yoga Class, and it is a big picture book, but at the very front of that book is a picture of Bikram's guru, and Bikram's older brother was Paramahansa Yogananda, so I thought, oh, my God this is it, this is the Hatha Yoga lineage that must be very closely related to what Yogananda was teaching, because look it's his brother who did this.   Paul Grilley:   (04:27) Like a lot of people do, you sort of spin this fantasy story God's talking to me, oh, my God, first he led me to Yogananda, and now he's led me to Yogananda's lineage of Hatha Yoga, I spun this story instantly, and I wondered my way down to LA to see what Bikram Yoga was about. Bikram at the time was teaching in Beverly Hills, and he was one of, and I'm not a sociologist, so I could be off about this a little bit, but there might have been four studios in the greater LA area of 10 million people, there might have been four, there could have been others, but those were the only ones I was aware of, so even in the hot bed of counterculture LA yoga was not a popular thing, and so it was surprising to me to go to a studio where he was teaching four classes a day, sometimes five classes a day in a studio setting.   Paul Grilley:   (05:26) That was totally new to me. In fact, I don't think aerobics had spread to Montana. Aerobics existed in California, but where I was from, I didn't know what an exercise class was, "What do you mean exercise class," that made no sense to me. I get going to the gym, lift weights. I get, go play football with your friends. What is an exercise class? It was a double whammy for me to see, one, wow, a lot of people are doing yoga, and two, and they're doing it in this exercise class format, and so I just sort of drank that in about, wow, you can actually earn a living doing this, and so I sort of fell into teaching Hatha Yoga like that.   Tahnee:   (06:12) You were teaching Bikram when you were there or....   Paul Grilley:   (06:15) Yeah. I taught, at first I taught, well, I wasn't there very long, I was there about, I'm a little hazy on the dates, but maybe I was there 18 months, or something, and we had a huge falling out, and I stopped teaching his system after we had this huge falling out. I don't really know why, I just was sort of like, all right, I'm not going to teach that anymore, I don't like him, so I'm not going to teach that system.   Tahnee:   (06:41) I can imagine at that time there would have been a lot of, I don't know his ego was substantial. Yeah. It would have been a lot of stuff going on and brewing, because I mean...   Paul Grilley:   (06:59) It doesn't surprise me, well, it does surprise me a little bit how bad that scandal has become, it's kind of shocking, but looking back the seeds of his behavior were readily apparent, it's just that sometimes you get shocked about how far it goes. Now, that you're reading about, you know this was 40 years ago, so now 40 years later you see how far it goes, you go like, "Oh, my God," it's like, what was a sprout of not very good behavior patterns has evidently, if you can believe people, and I do become an impenetrable force of unbelievable bad behavior.   Tahnee:   (07:35) This is a small segway, but I think that's something I've noticed in yoga is that what you're already quite strong at can be cultivated if you don't have a lot of discernment, and even a good teacher who can kind of keep you in check, so if you naturally have the tendency toward perhaps power, and charisma, and control, those things can become very strong. Is that something you sort of seen, or would agree?   Paul Grilley:   (08:02) I think so, absolutely. I see it, I see the parallel in the martial arts, as well. I think, I'm trying to not speak in cliches, but they've been thrown around so much, it's the dynamic, it's the social dynamic of the one person in charge has all the answers, or he comes from the tradition that has all the answers, and there aren't many options. It's kind of like, well, you better stick with this teacher, or you're not going to get a chance to learn this, whether it's yoga, or Aikido, or Jujitsu, it's sort of like they kind of have a lock on the market, and I think that leads to detrimental human relationships.   Paul Grilley:   (08:44) I think, I've seen many sort of arcs of started with good intentions, and then it went bad. I've seen that repeated several times. If I'm honest, and I introspect on my own behavior I can see where, if I hadn't been married, and had someone constantly checking my behavior you can sort of see where little tick here and there, and that pattern of speech, or behavior, or mannerism would have grown into something not very spiritually productive, let's say.   Tahnee:   (09:18) So that makes me think if people are in these careers, and industries where they can be merging spirituality and work, and they're also making money out of these ideas and concepts, and I lot of the time isolating themselves at the top, or surrounding themselves with people that are kind of yes man for want of a better word, I mean I feel like it's such a tricky thing to navigate as a beginning student or even someone who kind of, like you were saying, in the middle of their career going well this is the path, how do I, how do I navigate it? I Think there's so few voices of reason in yoga, and to me when I first met you and Suzee, which was in 2013 I thought... I was like, wow these guys are actually living yoga right, you were the first people I've known in the yoga community with maybe one exception, that I thought was truly embodying what I thought yogic principles were, and actually kind of keeping themselves humble and in check, and trying to really look at the function and purpose of why we would practice.   Tahnee:   (10:28) I think when you start yoga your kind of thinking, I'm going to get more flexible, and I'm going to get healthier, and all of these various things, and then there's almost like this cult of yoga once you get into it. I kept watching teachers abuse students physically, and even emotionally and energetically, it was this really toxic culture. I wonder, you were in LA in kind of I guess the hot bed of this, because I knew you worked at Yoga Works, which is really the foundation of modern yoga in a lot of ways, I thought they created, the foundation to teacher trainings all around the world. Did you see that kind of stuff brewing like you did with Bikram, or was it not that obvious at the beginning? How did we end up where we are? Is my question to you.   Paul Grilley:   (11:18) You know, I think that's been part of human nature, and human relationships forever. I think that's when I look back, and I read books, and read between the lines of what is, or is not said about cultures from a long, long time ago, all the way up into a 100 years ago, to 50 years ago, to today, I think that is, I think that's human nature, I think that there are forces in the human group psychology that I think create hierarchy and I think that can be good, or it can be bad.   Paul Grilley:   (11:53) I think what it gives me an appreciation for, this might be overstretching it a bit, but it makes me appreciate what people had to go through 400 or 500 years ago to break the grip of the church. Then, to break the grip of divine right of kings. It makes me really think about that humanist movement, and what they were probably rebelling against. They probably weren't rebelling against the teachings of the church, they were rebelling against the behavior of the monks. That's my understanding of it.   Paul Grilley:   (12:28) Yeah, there was intellectual debate about I don't believe this, or believe that anymore, but I don't think that starts wars or revolutions. I think what starts wars and revolutions, political, and religious is people get fed up with the behavior of the people who run things. To me, it's cliché, the idealistic communist, socialist gorilla over throws the dictator, and becomes a dictator. How does that happen, over and over and over again? Idealistic guy throws over that dictator and he becomes a dictator.   Tahnee:   (13:06) Yeah.   Paul Grilley:   (13:06) I just think you go, okay, it's written large across history, and I think if it's written large across history it's got to be something innate in human nature, and these are not isolated historical events, politically, and religiously, they are the pattern, and so I think anything that repeats itself over and over, east, west, north, south, whatever it's got to be something rooted in human nature, and something rooted in we just fall into these hierarchical positions.   Paul Grilley:   (13:34) I've wandered a long way from your question, but if you ask me, did I see then at Yoga Works, seeds like this, it's hard for me to point to my colleagues. A lot of whom I respect, and didn't go that way and say, "Oh, yeah, it was all there," I just think I could answer that question by more honestly that I think those seeds are in all of us, and I think that you have to be conscious in your effort, and repetitive in your effort not to fall into this unhealthy hierarchical relationship, because I have seen it, and it's been projected onto me, the students themselves start to assume this hierarchical relationship, and pretty soon you're going, "How did we get here, I didn't start out with this idea." I'm not trying to point the finger at anyone at Yoga Works, those were very dedicated yoga people.   Paul Grilley:   (14:36) I think it's a human problem. I think that's why it's a good thing, it's not my thing, but I think it's a good thing that when you go to business school they teach you the psychology and sociology of organisations. I was never exposed to that in school. I was not interested in large things I thought that had nothing to do with what I wanted to do in my life, I'm just a simple guy, I just want to exercise and do yoga, but it's not true, you can't interact with human beings without being in some type of sociological bond, some type of sociological group expectation, and even though I led a pretty simple life, it's not a corporate life, it's not a large thing that we've tried to create, and we haven't tried to create an empire. I'm allergic to that kind of thing.   Paul Grilley:   (15:25) Nonetheless, in our dealings with students, and others it's like there's got to be some type of formation. There's got to be some type of usually not consciously expressed hierarchical this is how we do things. I think it's inevitable. I think that you need a leader. I think that you need people who are charismatic, and good speakers to lead classes, but I think somehow they themselves must submit to holding themselves in check to others. I think that it's always been like this, and I think it'll always be like this.   Paul Grilley:   (16:03) I think if there are yoga teachers out there listening I would just put the bug in your ear that whether you have egomaniacal desires, or not, whether you want to form an empire or not, these pressures exist around you, and within you, and it might be a petty little kingdom that you develop, or it might be a big thing, but either way it's just be aware that there are, it seems to me, it is my honest opinion that there are forces in human nature, and in human society that are constantly trying to push us towards these dysfunctional hierarchical organisations.   Tahnee:   (16:43) Is that not the purpose of yoga though to become aware of that?.   Paul Grilley:   (16:48) I think so. I mean, to me, the purpose of yoga is trying to uncover all kinds of unconscious things within you, that to me is what yoga is. Is you're trying to become aware of what are called the vrittis in your chitta, and some of them are very obvious, and some of them are very, very deep. Yeah. I think that you're trying to become aware of these things. It's just that you don't read about these issues in the ancient books. If you're trying to get help in keeping yoga a healthy male, female, teacher, student, group class paradigm, you're not going to get any help from Patanjali. You know? You're not going to get any help from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika.   Paul Grilley:   (17:33) None of that is discussed in those textbooks. It's like, you need to sort of look around, and take advantage of the human struggle, and the modern scientific objective study of human organisations, and take it in. I think it's something that needs to be added to the modern yoga curriculum, and it's inevitable, the whole me too thing, as it filters into the yoga world, look, you don't read anything about me too in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. None of this stuff is discussed. Those are just manuals of practice of introspection, but in the modern era when you got essentially we're recasting yoga as a group activity, with groups comes these issues, and there was no discussion of how to form a group in the ancient yoga books.   Tahnee:   (18:32) Was yoga practiced in groups, do you think, or more individually?   Paul Grilley:   (18:37) I think that yoga's always had a huge varied background. I think you could answer yes, and you could answer no to anything that you throw up. I don't think there's evidence from what I'm aware of. I don't think there's evidence that it's like it is today, that everybody come one, come all, young, old, male, female, suited for it, not suited for it, let's just all get together, and sweat in a room together. I do not think that's how it used to be done.   Tahnee:   (19:13) Sort of unchartered territories in a lot of ways.   Paul Grilley:   (19:17) That's kind of the heart of this rant, is that just we need to, all of us need to be aware of that there are pressures to form hierarchy, there's an authoritarian streak in human beings, and I think it's a good thing, because that's how things get done. I think people who create new things, they tell people what to do, so there's a voice guiding things, but like everything in life, that's a good thing, and that can become an abusive antiquated out worn structure in relationship.   Tahnee:   (19:54) Wow. Your someone who has created a new thing, and I know that it's also an old thing, I'm speaking to Yin Yoga, and I started teaching in 2012, and I would have one class a week on the schedule of about 40 classes, and it would have maybe 10 to 20 people in it on average. I see now that there was studios dedicated to Yin Yoga, there are hundreds of thousands of people around the world attending classes every day, it was a very short period of time, it's had exponential growth, what drove you to first of all create it and then can you try to explain for us why you think it's become so popular.   Paul Grilley:   (20:45) I created it, that's a hard word, created-   Tahnee:   (20:49) I know. Sorry.   Paul Grilley:   (20:53) I was still pursuing as late as 1998, '99, 2000, no, that's not true, I'm 10 years off, I was still pursuing trying to be a flexible superstar yogi in the late '80s, and I came across Paulie Zink, and his work, I saw him do an interview show on a local access television thing, just a very low budget curtain against the wall interview, and he was being interviewed as a martial arts champion, and Paulie I think was two or three times world champion in martial arts, I can't member exactly what setting, and he was being interviewed as a martial arts champion, but he was constantly deflecting the interviewer into well it's my yoga that prepares me to do this, it's my yoga that keeps me flexible.   Paul Grilley:   (21:46) He would take these softball questions about martial arts, and doing things, and he would take them and turn them into yoga, and I go, well, this is interesting, here's this martial arts guy talking about yoga, and then he demonstrated his yoga, and I thought, wow, he's incredibly facile, he's incredibly flexible, and I would say right now he has great skill and ability. I didn't have those conceptions back then. I go, wow, not only is he a pretty cool guy the way he talks, but he's incredibly facile, and then he described his yoga, which was Yin Yoga, it was minutes at a time, postures on the floor, and I thought, oh, I've been doing yoga for about 11, 12 years now, or I guess maybe it is nine or 10 years, anyway, but every form of yoga that I had done I would see now as, oh, that's a form of Yang Yoga, it's weightlifting, but it's a different routine, and this is weightlifting, but that's a different thing, here's something that's not even weightlifting, here's something that's stretching.   Paul Grilley:   (22:46) That was the comparison in my mind, I thought, oh, this is why even 10 years into my practice there are things that I can't do, and so I thought maybe this is the magic thing, this is the magic thing I've been missing is do it slow, do it relaxed, do it for minutes at a time. That's what got me started was just the simple pursuit of range of motion. After a year or two things start to get a little hazy as you look back, I started to realise, no, this was not going to make me a superstar, either. I was not going to be able to put my butt on my head, balanced on my elbows, this is not going to happen, but the practice itself felt so good that I was okay, I was disappointed, I thought this was my last hurrah, I've been at it since I'm 20, now I'm almost 30, and it's like I ain't going to be a poster boy for this practice.   Paul Grilley:   (23:45) There was disappointment that what my fantasy was of what a yogi, a dedicated yogi could achieve was a fantasy, but the satisfaction was I discovered a practice that really made me feel good, so I slowly, begrudgingly let go of my ambitions to be a star, but I kept and held onto a practice that I really enjoyed doing. That's how I came to it. I came to it with one ambition to become flexible, then actually just really enjoyed the practice and said, this feels great.   Tahnee:   (24:25) Sometimes it does feel great, so do you think that alone is why it's become so big around the world, or do you think it's more to do with... I always kind of call it the opposite side of the practice, so that counter to all of the activity of in our daily lives, is that more, do you think the core of why it's become so popular?   Paul Grilley:   (24:48) You've said two things, and I agree with them both. I think that it feels good to do the practice. That's it. It feels good to do the practice. I don't think its intellectual arguments, or theoretical arguments or anything have won the day, I spent 15 years doing that. I don't think it won the day, I think what won the day is people did it, and they liked it, and it fel good, and they kept doing it.   Paul Grilley:   (25:13) I think the other part of your question is do you think it's just because it's the Yin to the Yang practice, and I think that's true, too, because I believe, I can't prove this, but I believe that if we didn't have such a strong exercise culture today, that it wasn't culturally acceptable all over the world to spend time exercising, very vigorously, it wasn't like that a 100 years ago, if that wasn't such a big thing in our culture, I don't think Yin Yoga would be as popular today.   Paul Grilley:   (25:46) I just think that Yang is going to be the popular form of yoga for the foreseeable future, and I think because we live in cities, and urban environments that's probably the way it should be, and that's why it's that way now. But, that culture is so big, and as that culture ages, that Yin Yoga is just going to come up. I think it'll always be maybe numerically the weak sister to Yang, but I think at some point they're going to get closer in popularity, and I just think it is natural that if you have a strong vigorous healthy practice that you need to purify your body, and to calm your mind, if you have a strong Yang practice, then you're going to want to compliment it with a Yin practice.   Paul Grilley:   (26:32) I think it makes sense that the Yang sort of came first and led the way in the western world, modern incarnation of yoga, I think it makes sense that Yang came up that way, because we're in a stressed out sedentary urban culture, and you need Yang Yoga to counteract the stresses and demands of that culture. But, now that's becoming established, I think that Yin Yoga now is going to be more popular, and that's why it gains popularity so quickly.   Paul Grilley:   (27:05) To round this up, I think for both reasons, there's a lot of Yang, it's very well established, you can get it anywhere, you can get it in many forms, not just yoga, but in all forms of exercise, and now because that is well established doing Yin really makes you feel good, and there's a big contrast between the two, so I think that in and of itself is a great practice, and as a counter balance to Yang it's value is even seen more immediately effective for people.   Tahnee:   (27:33) I think that's something that maybe is misunderstood in the general population around, it's kind of this idea of Yin or Yang over the time that I hear people talk about and I don't think people appreciate how much you and Suzee emphasize that yes you do still need to do the Yang practice and you still need a form of activity, and even your teacher Doctor Motoyama who was like a Shinto priest was like you've got look after your physical body right, is that something you guys have always been myth busting with people?   Paul Grilley:   (28:07) Say that again?   Tahnee:   (28:08) Do you feel like that's kind of a myth that you guys have to bust around it's not Yin or Yang?   Paul Grilley:   (28:15) No. I was unaware that was an issue, because that's why we chose the word Yin Yoga, because to us it's like Yin Yoga, that's only half the equation. What do you mean Yin? Where's the Yang part? I mean, that's one of the reasons why we chose that as a name for this style was it's half of the equation people. That's why we didn't call it Taoist Yoga. In the very, very early years I called it Taoist Yoga, because that's what Paulie Zink called his yoga, but Paulie Zink has whole Yang side to his yoga, and so when I went out there just doing Yin Yoga, which was my specialty, I thought it's really not accurate to call it Taoist because it doesn't have both elements in it.   Paul Grilley:   (29:00) Yeah. I'm a little surprised that people would think it would be one or the other, I mean, the very name of it implies its Yin, it's half, it's a part of the equation of mental and physical health, where is the Yang. Yeah, I'm a little surprised that people might think it's one or the other. What I would say to those people is different people have different needs of how much Yin to how much Yang and it maybe that you're a type I want to have dominantly Yin in my life, and a little bit of Yang, but someone else is going to tilt that scale exactly the opposite way, they need to dominate Yang exercise regime, whether that's yoga or something else, and a modest amount of Yin, and I think that changes by personality, and I think it also changes as you age over time. Yeah, I'm a little surprised that anybody would argue that it's Yin or Yang, I think that's just kind of weird to me.   Tahnee:   (29:56) We hear some interesting things in yoga. That brings me to this idea of function, which I think is obviously a foundation or principle of your and Suzee's teachings, it's something that I think we really, again, I guess talking really broadly as humans, but we're often looking for that one size fits all approach, that thing like you're saying that's going to turn you into that yoga superstar, or we have herb business, you know that herb that's going to make me healthiest person in the world, or enlighten me, or whatever people's reasons are for coming to certain things, and I certainly have in my practice have realised that it's so different from day to day, and moment to moment, and what I need, and there's this kind of introspection and cultivation of awareness that is required, and we call it sovereignty, the ability to kind of self govern, and I feel like Yin is quite unique, it was certainly for me it was one of the portals into which I was able to cultivate some of that awareness, I suppose. Are you able to.. I don't know if you agree with that statement, and I'm curious as to whether you have any rationale, I have some ideas as to what I think it might be, but I'm curious to hear your take on why Yin would be so uniquely geared towards cultivating states of awareness?   Paul Grilley:   (31:22) Because I think it's so slow, and so ecstatic, and so sedentary. I think essentially you're doing a postured meditation five minutes at a time. Get in this pose, stay for five minutes, get in that pose, stay for five minutes, and I think that a lot of things pass through your mind, a lot of sensations come and go in five minutes time. I think it's tailor made for introspection. Again, that doesn't mean it's superior to Yang Yoga, but Yang Yoga you've got a lot of stuff going on, man, you're breathing, you're moving, you're counting your breaths, you're doing a vinyasa in between, you hit it, you hold, you're onto the next thing.   Paul Grilley:   (32:00) That sort of practice is let's build up to a big savasana at the end. But, Yin is let's feel what we're feeling right now, for five minutes, don't look away. Don't look away. It's right here, right now. I think that's why Yin develops that, because you literally have the time, you literally can notice change, I think that's the biggest thing. One of the techniques I'm sure Tahnee you've been through it, you know we've been together several times is one of the biggest things you can do to a naïve person is have them do a spinal twist lying on the ground, have them do a simple spinal twist, I don't care what it is, one leg, two legs, do a spinal twist for 30 seconds, each side.   Paul Grilley:   (32:42) Now, how do you feel? Now, do a spinal twist for five minutes, each side. It's a world of difference, and you can feel your bod likey let go, and then 90 seconds later, let go again, and then maybe go through three of those cycles, and then when you've held that spinal twist for five minutes, and I'm repeating this for your listeners that you might try this, coming out of a five minute spinal twist no matter how simple it's actually mildly distressing. It's like, oh, my god, I think I hurt myself.   Paul Grilley:   (33:17) Then, you unwind on your back, and you have this, am I hurt? Did I just hurt myself? And it's like, no, I'm okay, and then you sort of have these layers of progression of coming back to normal. Then, you go, okay, I think I'm all right, I think I can do the other side now without injuring the disc in my back. I think that Yin Yoga is tailor made for introspection, because you're still enough, you're not efforting, you're still enough, you're still long enough, that's put it that way, you're still long enough to feel these progressive changes.   Paul Grilley:   (33:53) I think once you get that, once you get this like, wow, that just changed, it's totally different than how it was two minutes ago, I think that's what hooks you. I think that's, at least that's what hooked me, and my feedback with people over the years that's what gets you, it's like, I feel the change, not just a little bit of change, but maybe several plateaus of change, and it just naturally draws you in. What is changing? Is it muscle relaxation that I was hanging on to? No, I think I'm muscular relaxed. Was it as we know now, it could be fascial or that kind of thing, but I think that three to five minute hold of even a simple posture takes you through progressive change.   Paul Grilley:   (34:35) I think that sort of draws you in, and all of a sudden your yoga doesn't become a rote,gokay do this, now do this, it becomes like, oh, wow, that's really tight today, oh, God, yesterday was so easy, what's going on? Now, I feel it up in my upper back, and yesterday it was my lower back, and all these things just come up and all of a sudden you're introspecting, because every day is different, and every five minute pose is different. I think it's without much needed guidance from the teacher, you sort of just get drawn into what's going on. I think that's the great strength of Yin Yoga is that it's sort of a built in doorway to physical and then mental emotional introspection.   Tahnee:   (35:24) I call it the gateway drug to meditation.   Paul Grilley:   (35:28) I agree. I think it's true, because I've seen it. I already had a meditation practice before I started Yin Yoga, but I've seen it over and over again people who didn't have much of an interest in meditation, or it was, "Yeah, I do it because you're supposed to." Then, over time the Yin Yoga leads them into an interest in pranayama, and other subtle practices.   Tahnee:   (35:55) What about Qi then? I know that you've moved away from this idea of Taoist, but you're still heavily influenced, in my opinion, anyway, by a lot of the Chinese Medicine kind of Taoist ideas, even to the point where instead of saying prana you guys use the word Qi in your teachings. Where is this idea of Qi? What is Qi? If I am a yogi and and I'm starting to practice Yang or Yin Yoga, what am I feeling when I've got all these sort of changes that are beyond the physiology, can explain that for us.   Paul Grilley:   (36:32) That's a hard one, but I think it's a key element. I think it divides the personal beliefs of the practitioner, and the limits of modern science, and I think you're at the bleeding edge there of is Qi just a superstition? Because there is not a physicist on the planet who's trained to believe that there's Qi. I don't think doctors, my understanding of it is they're trained to believe in Qi. That's a futuristic superstition.   Paul Grilley:   (37:08) It's like when you start talking about Qi you have to ask yourself, are you flying in the face of all your modern university education? Is it something you believe? Have you adopted that language simply because you're parroting what came out of the tradition that you learn from? I think it's an important thing to sort of introspect about, and I'm sure that's why you formed the question. I believe that there is forces, we can call it one force, you can call it Qi, but there are several forms of it. I believe it is a force unrecognized by modern medicine, and modern physics, and I believe it's an intelligent force that creates human form, and maintains it.   Paul Grilley:   (37:47) It's too deep a philosophical thing to go too much into it other than to say, mechanical forces cannot account for form, they cannot account for arms, and eyes, and teeth, and legs, it can't have account for zebras, giraffes, and hummingbirds, and it cannot account for the human form. There's an intelligent guiding force, or forces, or energies in the body that western medicine does not yet recognise. Now, I think independent medical practitioners, independent human beings who outside of their medical education have come to believe there is such a thing as a healing life force in the body.   Paul Grilley:   (38:27) I'm not denying that there are healers, genuine physicians, and nurses, and people who believe in a healing force, but they don't get it at medical school. What they get at medical school is biochemical theory, which is not a healing theory, it's a mechanical structural theory. I don't want to slander the healers, and the health givers out there by saying they don't believe in Qi, because it wasn't in their medical curriculum, I'm just saying it's not an accepted force, it's like, it's not electricity, it's not magnetism, it's not the strong, or the weak nuclear force, and it's not gravity.   Paul Grilley:   (39:08) What is it? I believe that Qi, you can feel it in your body, you can feel it move, and that the argument that what you're feeling is blood move, or nerve change, I believe is inadequate to the description that I'm not an expert in physiology, but I know enough that some of what, oh, that's the blood you're feeling traveling from your head to your back, or that's a nerve thing, and I go, "No, I know the pathways, I know what a nerve feels like, and the speed of propagation, and the sensation are not a nervous pathway, so not at nervous speeds of conduction, and the travel, they don't just have a sharp impulse or shock," so I there are things that I think would be boring, and technical to get into, but to my satisfaction the electrical nervous impulse, or blood, quote on quote, movement does not adequately describe the full movement of Qi. There are experiments, for example that Doctor Motoyama, my teacher did that stretches this much, much further.   Paul Grilley:   (40:18) You can edit this out, if this goes too deep into what your interest is, but I put this to your students to consider. Doctor Motoyama found a way to measure the electrical potential of the meridians, objective measurement, repeatable measurements of how much energy, capacity is in your meridians, or how it conducts electricity. He found a way to measure that. Now, electricity is not Qi, but what he found was that the ability of a meridian to hold electrical energy, or the direction of electrical energy, or the speed of propagation of that electrical energy was changing all the time. He wondered why, but one of the things he did, after he's now established an ability to monitor the meridian energy let's say in your body, then what he did is he took a subject like you, and he put you in what's called a Faraday cage, which is concrete, copper and lead, it's a room in which no electric magnetic forces can enter, which it's called a shielded room.   Paul Grilley:   (41:26) So Tahnee, you'd be in there, and we'd be taking you through wires through your fingers and toes, we're taking measurements of your meridians, the electrical potential of your meridians, then we have a Qigong master outside of this shielded room, and not a queue from us, you don't know it, but a queue from us, the experimenter, he starts quote on quote, sending you his Qi. Now, if it's electrical, or it's magnetic it can't penetrate the room, and yet you can make a mark on the tape, tapes an old fashioned term now for scientific instruments, but in the old days when you had tape we could make a mark on the tape of when did the Qigong master start projecting his Qi at Tahnee in the room, and you don't know that he's projecting the Qi, there's a silent hand signal, he starts projecting his Qi, and we can monitor how your meridian energy changes and builds up as he projects his Qi.   Paul Grilley:   (42:26) One, we're proving that he can transmit Qi to you, and two it cannot be electrical or magnetic, because it wouldn't penetrate into the room that your sitting in, so that's incredibly important experiment. It's incredibly important to think, and it's worth repeating over and over, you're sitting in a room and we're measuring your bodies reaction to an energy that's being projected to you, and it cannot be electrical, and it cannot be magnetic. What is this energy? That to me is Qi, and Doctor Motoyama did several things to sort of discriminate. He wrote booklets, and published several studies about how whatever Qi is, it's not electrical or magnetic, but it influences the electricity and the magnetism in your body.   Tahnee:   (43:28) You say the purpose of yoga asana, also is to harmonise the flow of Qi in the body. Right?   Paul Grilley:   (43:38) Yes.   Tahnee:   (43:39) Irrespective of Yin or Yang... I guess we are speaking more to Yin in this interview, how is this happening, and again I know the answer to this question, but I'm curious to hear you explain it to our audience, where especially in yoga focusing in on these areas, so if you accept this idea of Qi that it stagnates, sort of what's happening in our practice that helps to liberate this Qi, and what.. What does harmonizing the Qi actually do for us?   Paul Grilley:   (44:11) The second part of your question is the easiest part, what does it do for you? The theory of acupuncture, and Ayurveda, and yoga is that it keeps you healthy, it's the difference between a cell that you're growing in your kidney, replacing a kidney cell, and that cell becoming a cancer cell. That's happening a billion cells, I think, every second in your body. Why not, we just get riddled with cancer? Why don't we grow eyeballs in our liver? How do cells know and do what they do? How do they integrate? All of that stuff that maintains form without disfunction is Qi, so that's the result of harmonising your Qi.   Paul Grilley:   (44:47) The first part of the question is what are we doing that's harmonising the flow of Qi? Well, this is highly speculative. I'll throw it out there to you. Qi in the body is stored and transmitted through the structure of the fluid in your body. The idea that the fluid in your body is like fluid in a glass of water is wrong, the fluid in your body is held in a structured shape, and it's more like a gel in your body. I believe the life process that these gel like threads or channels that penetrate all the tissues of your body, they get thicker, and denser, or they thin out, and become watery, depending on whether they're holding Qi, or releasing Qi.   Paul Grilley:   (45:43) The example I would use to you is that we wake up in the morning, just say you're healthy, you wake up in the morning, and you feel that you're rested, you feel that you are refreshed, we say that you're jelled up, you're more jelly, the Qi is now sort of organized, the fluid in your body, and you've got a lot of potential in you, but it's a little hard to move. First thing in the morning you feel rested and everything, but it's like, oh, God, I got to go out and run now? It's like, how about another cup of coffee.   Paul Grilley:   (46:15) It's kind of like the idea of getting started on whatever your exercise regime is, is slightly daunting, even though you're well rested it's like, well, because you feel what we would call jelled up, your kind of all potential, it's kind of like I'm like a candle, I'm all wax, and I don't have any liquid wax, or I don't have very much liquid wax, and for a candle to burn enough of it has to be liquid to be burned up off the wick, so you're up, you're jelled up, you're mostly candle solid wax, and you don't have very much liquid wax. Then, you go out and you start running, and what we're saying is the Qi now is slowly starting to relax and be released by the gel, the gel was holding that energy form.   Paul Grilley:   (47:02) When it releases that energy, it loses its form, it takes energy to hold that form, so you start that whole candle now that was stiff and hard in the beginning, that's all spread through your body, it's starting to loosen up, it's starting to become warm, and now about 20, 30, 40 minutes into our exercise routine you feel great. You're not exhausted yet, and your past the I'm so stiff, I'm so heavy, you're right in the sweet zone, much like I'm still rested, I'm not exhausted, and that goes on depending on whether you're 20, or 50, and what kind of shape that you're in, that goes on for a magic period of time, 20, 30, 40, 50 minutes, whatever it is.   Paul Grilley:   (47:44) Then, you start to get to the other end of the spectrum where it's like I'm getting worn out now, and you get to the end of your routine or the end of your day, your face is swollen, your hands are swollen, your feet are swollen, you're like, why? Because once that gel, and all the other parts, and tissues in areas of your body now goes to fluid, because it's releasing this energy, but as it releases it, it's melting, it's going into fluid, well, it's going to follow the laws of gravity, and it's going to go out to your fingers, and out to your toes, and sort of fall out of your organs, kind of thing.   Paul Grilley:   (48:22) That's why at the end of the day when you're exhausted your feet are heavy, your legs are heavy, your hands are swollen, your tired, and you have no energy. You've gone from I'm stiff, I'm sort of full of potential, I'm stiff, and all gelled up like a waxy candle, [crosstalk 00:48:41] balance of the wax is melting, but I have the reserve, and as it's melting its giving me energy, but then you reach to the point where most of it now has gone from wax to solution. There's no energy left in that. It's spent its energy to get to that soluble state.   Paul Grilley:   (49:00) Now, your sort of like, maybe you're really bendy, you're all hot and sweaty, maybe if we massaged you, you'd bend all over, but you don't got any Qi, it's like, oh, God, then you go through that cycle again. The next cycle is I rest, I eat, and some magic happens where I get gelled up again, and the Chinese tradition would say, you're building your Qi. You get all gelled up again, and you're ready for the next day, and that life is getting gelled up, holding energy, using that energy to think, and work, and breath, and walk, and talk. Now, you don't have any energy. Getting gelled up, and blah, blah, blah. That's the long introduction to how does Yin Yoga help harmonise the flow of Qi in your body? I believe that when you do sustained stresses on the fascia of your body, you're making it much, much more easy for your body to re-gel again, so think of, it's hard to have an exact analogy, but think of a wet paper straw, and think of it all kind of pinched and crushed down on itself, because it was stiff in the morning, but now it's all soggy, and wet, and collapsed.   Tahnee:   (50:23) You've met my toddler...   Paul Grilley:   (50:23) Now, you want to reinflate this straw, and stiffen it again. If you just lay down the Qi can do that, if you just lie down, we assume you're eating well, we assume you're getting good rest, the Qi will do that. The Qi will literally push that straw back open, stiffen it up a little bit, and now you're ready for the next day. I believe pretty literally there's more to it than this, but I think what Yin Yoga does is that it pulls the straws apart, they want to collapse, and pinch down on themselves, it pulls them apart to make it much, much easier for the Qi in your body to reinflate, refill, and get those straws back up to speed, so you're relieving the Qi of having to physically unfold, and un-pinch the straw, you're doing it.   Paul Grilley:   (51:29) By you using some cleaver mechanical vectors you're speeding along a process that might be as efficient, particularly if you're injured, or you're unbalanced in your physical activity, which most of us are. I believe that's literally what Yin Yoga is doing. That it is speeding up, it is making it easier for your tissues to reinflate and become gel like again, and hold the Qi.   Tahnee:   (52:01) Is Yang Yoga doing that to any degree in your opinion is it purely spending Qi?   Paul Grilley:   (52:11) But, you don't do Yang Yoga all day, and when you're done you can recover, and I think what Yang Yoga might do better than Yin Yoga is you need to squeeze, and twist the straw, and you need that because toxins, and free radicals, and ions, and waste products they kind of get stuck into the straw, and what Yang Yoga does very well is lets rhythmically contract and pull, and contract and pull, and force blood, and fluid with the rhythm of your heart through this tissue that it literally cleanses and purifies those tissues, which may be Yin Yoga by itself wouldn't do. We don't have subtle enough experiments yet to decide that, but my subjective experience of that is that Yang Yoga sort of rinses you out, it's kind of like you need to, the wash rag, I notice that not every culture has wash rags, but-   Paul Grilley:   (53:11) If you had a wash rag, every once in a while you have to completely soap it up and rinse it out two or three times, that's called cleaning the rag, and I think that's what Yang Yoga does very, very well. Is that it may be in a way better than Yin Yoga. At least for certain tissues of the body. It's like you need to flood under pressure these tissues, and pulse, and alternate to literally shake free and pull out of you the inevitable build up of toxins, and waste products that are the result of living. I think that you need that rhythmicity, I think you need that effort, I think if you don't raise your blood pressure on a regular basis, you're just asking for your arteries to deteriorate.   Paul Grilley:   (53:55) I think by raising the blood pressure, and relaxing the blood pressure, and rhythmic cycles throughout the weeks and the months, but it keeps your vascular system incredibly healthy. I think, again, its complimentary thing. I think that Yang Yoga is better at moving fluid into and out of the tissues, get new nutrients in, get waste products out. I think Yang Yoga is better at that than Yin Yoga. But, I think Yin Yoga is better at relaxing, and reinflating, and allowing this build up of necessary energy that manifests itself biochemically, electromagnetically later, so it's the inhale, it's the exhale.   Paul Grilley:   (54:38) Yin to me is mentally it's sort of like the exhale, but I think physically I think Yin is the inhale. Mentally, it's the relax, but physically it's just rejuvenate, let's not kill ourselves anymore, let's just massage ourselves back into shape. I think Yang Yoga is the opposite. I think mentally Yang Yoga is this inhale, and driving, but physically it is the let's wash these tissues clean. I think there's a great balance there in the Yin and Yang effects on the fluid in your body.   Tahnee:   (55:15) I think that's a beautiful analogy for me, because that's exactly how I experience it subjetively as well. I'm curious though because we haven't really ever touched on what your really famous for, which is your bones, and your sort of thoughts of the human anatomy, which is kind of, I mean, I think slowly sort of penetrating, I still hear some interesting things in yoga classes. We haven't really, I think a lot of people come to yoga with this idea that they're going to improve their range of motion, they're going to get fit, and flexible, and all of these things, which kind of sound like really good ideas from the outside, but my experience in my own practice and working with many people, students, now, is that actually extreme range of motion is not really that beneficial for many people, like Cirque du Soleil performers, perhaps with the exception.   Tahnee:   (56:13) That most of us aren't actually designed to do extreme poses, but what we see in a lot of the kind of more modern yoga texts is not enstirely accurately representing what yoga asana's have been designed to do, which is along the lines of what we discussed already, harmonizing the Qi, for the practices of meditation, and all these things, so I think when we're looking at what people can expect from yoga, and from learning with Paul Grilley, we're seeing it's a lot to do with learning our own personal boundaries, but it comes to this understanding of this almost intellectual experience, I suppose of understanding mentally what's going on, why I can achieve certain poses, I think that relaxes the mind in a certain way, and allows Qi to really harmonise. Certainly that was my experience. So you've taught in LA, you've taught in Yoga Works, you've met Paulie Zink, at what point did anatomy come in? You said you studied anatomy really early, which I didn't realise, at community college you were saying. So how did you come to realise that our bones are different? and first of all it seems bleedingly obvious when you say it out loud, but why is this idea not more readily accepted yoga in your opinion, Paul Grilley?   Paul Grilley:   (57:45) So are you asking me when I came to it?   Tahnee:   (57:48) I had like three questions in that. I'm curious as to you, how you came to recognise that we all have different bones, what that meant for you as a practitioner, and then what that means for us as practitioners, how you kind of feel that it's relevant to a yoga practice, now? Why? I'm super curious as to why it's not part of the marketing of yoga, I guess. It's like yoga is really sold on this idea of, hey, look on Instagram, look how great everything is, come and learn to stick your leg over your head. It's almost like lure them in and then tell them actually that;s not going to happen.   Paul Grilley:   (58:39) To me, the anatomical interpretation of yoga was with me from the beginning, because that was my study, and that was my interest. The bones, particular, I didn't come across that until about 1996, or something like that, '97. Somewhere in there, somewhere in 1996, '97, so I've been at it 18 years. Maybe? The story is I was at a laboratory, that was a dissection laboratory, there really wasn't a lot of dissection was done there, it was a nursing program at the college in Ashland.   Paul Grilley:   (59:22) I was actually there with a friend who was helping the professor clean his office, the professor of anatomy, who ran the nursing anatomy, biology section of the college there was retiring, and my friend was helping him in his office, and so I just sort of tagged along, there wasn't much for me to do as they were emptying textbooks, and putting them in boxes, and stuff, so I'm sort of wandering through this college laboratory, and I see some boxes, because all the shelves and cupboards were open to see what was the professors, and what was the schools, well, one of these boxes had three femur bones in it. I go, "Wow, this is really cool," so I take these three femur bones out, and I put them on the table.   Paul Grilley:   (01:00:04) You got to remember I'm already 40, 38, and I've got a strong anatomical background, and training, and reading, and I see these three femur bones on the table, and they're all completely different, they couldn't be more different, they're even different color, for one reason one of the bones was black, I don't know what was in this guy's diet, but I just remember like, wow, that's weird, but anyway three femur bones, and they were completely different in language I know now, tortion, and things like that, I go, whaaaaaat? Why didn't no one ever tell me about this?   Paul Grilley:   (01:00:46) I literally went home thinking, well, maybe they were in that box, because there three very special femurs, and they were displayed as, look how weird some people are, so I literally got on the internet, which was pretty new in 1996, '97, '98, I found a store that was in the Berkeley, California area right in the bay area of San Francisco that sold human bones. It was a nature store, mostly they sold snakes, and agates, and bird skeletons, but they had a stock of human skeleton, old bones.   Paul Grilley:   (01:01:24) I went down there, and I asked the guy, "Can I see your box of femur bones," because I had seen femur bones before, and he had like two boxes, and they're just a collection of bones. There must have been I don't know 40 at least femur bones, or at least 20 specimens all together, but they were not associated with what femur bone went with what femur bones, just a box of femur bones, and I just laid them out in his store, I had them all over the table, because I wasn't really sure what I was looking for, but then I just stared, and stared, and I go, oh, wait a minute, and I started to see the differences in the bones, and I think I bought, I still have them, six, maybe eight femur bones.   Paul Grilley:   (01:02:03) I took them back home, and took pictures of them, and I said, "What is the deal with these bones? What does this mean?" It became clear to me by manipulating a skeleton, I had plastic skeletons, too, I thought, oh, the bones hit, and if the bones hit, and that's what limits the range of motion, then different shape bones will have different ranges of motion. That was an epiphany for me. They're like, different shape bones will have different ranges of motion. Different shaped bones will have different ranges of motion, because every reasonable range of motion eventually the bone hits the bone it's pivoting against.   Paul Grilley:   (01:02:41) That was the ah-ha, so now I have this box of femur bones, six of them, took pictures of them, and I started to lecture two of them, like look how different these bones are. Then, eventually over time I grew that collection, and I got some scapula bones, and some humorous bones, it was the femur bone that was the big breakthrough. It was the femur bone that was like sort of my guiding star. It was a lucky break to do that, because so much of yoga is trying to move your femur in a certain way, to do the splits, or to do the lotus posture. Then, later I extrapolated that to the other bones of the body, but the femur bone was the thing that's sort of my golden key that pulled me in, and it was because I saw that box of bones by accident in that laboratory.   Tahnee:   (01:03:31) Amazing. It's not just even the extreme shapes though, it's basic beginner poses, like warriors and vīrabhadrāsana shapes, lunges. I had a woman write to me the other day saying, "I can't keep my hips square in downward facing dog, and when they ask me to lift my leg to the sky," and I thought oh well you know you probably can't extend that far so you hit external rotation and... and she's like "oh no, no, no what's happening, I'm just not flexible enough" I think a lot of us studying Yin with you, but this idea is not unique to Yin Yoga, it extends out to all kinds of styles of asana and to other movement practices, whether you're at the gym trying to do a squat. I remember my first training with you, you said to me, "you should not do deep squats young lady, under load because you've got long femur bones," and I remember going, what? Because my knees always hurt. when I did that. Leverage right?   Tahnee:   (01:04:37) It kind of sometimes frustrates me that this is only taught in a Yin capacity, and even when I've taught on 200 hundred hours trainings I sort of teach it, and then I see the students still not really getting it across the board, because I'm usually just teaching the Yin componant. Yeah. I'm just curious to, I guess in your practice if you're not being exposed to anatomy, and even a lot of yoga teachers are not studying anatomy, do you think yoga teachers the need to study anatomy to be effective Hatha Yoga teachers, or do you feel like we can kind of skip around that, and trust that students aren't going to injure themselves, because I see a lot of injuries, repetitive stain injuries from people trying to push themselves into the shapes they can't do? I'm just curious as to your thoughts...   Paul Grilley:   (01:05:24) I think that you can be a very good yoga teacher, and really not know anatomy very much, but as soon as you the yoga teacher or the students are pursuing extraordinary ranges of motion, then there's going to be a tragedy. I know a lot of people, colleagues, and friends of mine, they don't know very much anatomy, but they don't push people. How they teach is they let people find their way, and then when you look at the other side of the spectrum where there are teachers like they've been trained to tell you exactly how wide your feet should be, or the angle of your back foot, in vīrabhadrāsanayour and for them, they're totally mistaken, that student is never going to do the thing that you're asking them to do, but fortunately the postures they're teaching is that students probably aren't going to get hurt, either.   Paul Grilley:   (01:06:22) A student might get frustrated not being able to keep their hips square raising their leg in downward dog, but they're not going to get hurt. A student might get frustrated because I can't turn my pelvis over my front leg, and keep my back foot on the ground. They might get frustrated doing that, but they're not going to get hurt. You need to have a volatile situation of the teacher doesn't know anatomy and the limitations of the skeleton, and either they're teaching a style, or they have a student, students, who are trying to do these extraordinary ranges of motion.   Paul Grilley:   (01:07:04) I think that's why you're going to have repetitive and injuries, and overstrain is in those circumstances where the student has a real ambition to get better, and so I think a teacher, if a teacher teaches a course where I'm not pushing you to do the splits, maybe you'll never do the splits, I have many friends, and many colleagues who are marvelous inspiring, charismatic yoga teachers, and they're not killing people in their classes, and they don't know much anatomy. But, either by luck or by training, or whatever, they also understand that you can't push everyone into all these different poses.   Paul Grilley:   (01:07:48) Some people can do them, some people can't. They don't know why, they just know that the experience has taught me it doesn't work. Yeah. I'd like to say that everyone should take my anatomy course, but I think the reality is that's not feasible, and the reality is that you can be a very good yoga teacher, and as long as you are the student that's not trying to pursue aggressively an extraordinary range of motion, you're not going to get hurt. You might get frustrated, but it ain't the worst thing in the world.   Tahnee:   (01:08:23) I guess that's the kind of Yin and Yang of experience, because a lot of us when we begin teaching yoga we teach from our own experience, expecting everyone else to have this unique experience, which obviously doesn't work, and then as we get older we start to, even if you don't have a concept on why, we start to realise well a lot of these things actually don't work in my body but my student can do it from the first day they come to class. So maybe I'm just going to hang out in the middle here, I think I see that happen a lot as people mature in the practice.   Tahnee:   (01:09:02) I was going to ask you, it's such an interesting time, this is kind of my last question, with the way yoga's being taught now, it's this 200 hour go and get it... I guess this came up from a question I was asked recently with someone, "I've done my 200 hour like I don't think I need to do any further training," and I was kind of like triggered and was like, "what are you talking about?" But, there's this idea that we receive everything we need to know in a 200 hour yoga practice

In this episode I, Alyson Premo, discuss: Why I'm grateful to be sober through this pandemic What we can do to use this social distancing opportunity to get back in tune with ourselves How to not get caught up in the comparison trap with other mothers What resources are being offered to the sober/recovery community

Health Hacks with Mark L White - How to Unlock Your Inner Resilience with Jodi Sternoff Cohen Life will throw you curveballs, and how you react to them makes all of the difference. Jodi has had a very tough year. In a very short time period, she has lost three significant people in her life. But instead of diving deep into numbing medications, being overrun with depression and letting herself be engulfed by dark thoughts, she has discovered how to unlock her inner resilience and become relentless in continuing to march forward, care for her family and grow. If you’re going through a tough time, just know that it will get better. It can be better. But you have to work towards it. This is how Jodi was able to do it, and how you can do it too. About Jodi Sternoff Cohen: Jodi Sternoff Cohen is a bestselling author, award-winning journalist, functional practitioner and founder of Vibrant Blue Oils, where she has combined her training in nutritional therapy and aromatherapy to create unique proprietary blends of organic and wild-crafted essential oils. She has helped over 50,000 clients heal from brain-related challenges, including anxiety, insomnia, and autoimmunity. For the past ten years, she has lectured at wellness centers, conferences, and corporations on brain health, essential oils, stress, and detoxification. She has been seen in The New York Times, Wellness Mama, Elephant Journal and numerous publications. Her website, vibrantblueoils.com, is visited by over 300,000 natural health seekers every year, and she has rapidly become a top resource for essential oils education on the Internet today. Connect with Jodi: Website: https://vibrantblueoils.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vibrantblueoils Twitter: https://twitter.com/vibrantblueoils Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vibrantblueoils/ _____________________________________________________________ About Health Hacks with Mark L. White: Health Hacks is an innovative 30-minute podcast that highlights cutting-edge health hacks from around the world and the interesting stories that inspired them. In each episode, host Mark White uses a clever blend of storytelling and interviews to educate the audience on relatively new areas of vitality enhancing remedies. With the help of health experts, medical practitioners, and wellness-oriented CEOs, Health Hacks explores the rapidly expanding world of health hacking and the stories that are driving it. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marklwhite1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/health_hacks_podcast Learn About: Essential Oils,  Overcoming anxiety,  Overcoming depression,  Vibrant blue oils,  Health hacking,  Health hacks,  Do oils work,  Natural medicine,  Why I'm so nervous,  Hack your nervous system

We're two months into 2020 & I thought that it was a good time to pause on the weekly interviews with Visionary Guests, so that I could give you all an update on how Life, Business & All Things Visionary are going! Does that sounds good? If you like hearing solo episodes, can you let me know? I love recording them for you, but I know that interviews with talented guests are also very valuable. It's hard to know where I should focus more efforts. Reach out to hello@kelseyreidl.com if you have any suggestions for future episodes. On to this weeks episode I'm getting REAL on what's being going on. We're chatting about... January & February in REVUE: we're talking TRAVEL, BUSINESS GROWTH, REVENUE, etc. Why I decided to give up a few things that were no longer serving me My Recent Launch of The VISIONARY METHOD (& how it went) Why I raised my Private Coaching Prices Why I'm loving The Flow Diaries from The Lively Show & how I am incorporating it into my own life The "No Booze" experiment that I'm doing right now & why I decided to try it out How I'm taking care of myself during this busy season The evolution of my Consulting Services (this was such a tricky pivot for me) p.s. The last solo episode I did (2019 Year In Review) can be found here.   IF YOU WANT TO CONNECT… REACH OUT! You can learn more about Kelsey & her services by clicking through the following links. Website: www.kelseyreidl.com Podcast: https://kelseyreidl.com/podcast Contact: https://kelseyreidl.com/contact-1 Business Coaching: https://kelseyreidl.lpages.co Connect on Instagram: http://instagram.com/kelseyreidl  

On this BONUS Episode, I'll be talking about Why I'm (once again) late on Publishing The "Abraham Lincoln VS Zombies" Movie Review, and I will also be giving you all an Update on my plans for March and April!!! I hope you Guys Enjoy!!! (Also I'm going to the Beach in April, Not March).

Using Oils to Hack Your Nervous System with Jodi Sternoff Cohen What You’ll Learn in This Episode: How to use oils to hack health How you can actually shift gears in the nervous system How to shift gears mentally and emotionally - step by step guide About Jodi Sternoff Cohen: Jodi Sternoff Cohen is a bestselling author, award-winning journalist, functional practitioner and founder of Vibrant Blue Oils, where she has combined her training in nutritional therapy and aromatherapy to create unique proprietary blends of organic and wild-crafted essential oils. She has helped over 50,000 clients heal from brain-related challenges, including anxiety, insomnia, and autoimmunity. For the past ten years, she has lectured at wellness centers, conferences, and corporations on brain health, essential oils, stress, and detoxification. She has been seen in The New York Times, Wellness Mama, Elephant Journal and numerous publications. Her website, vibrantblueoils.com, is visited by over 300,000 natural health seekers every year, and she has rapidly become a top resource for essential oils education on the Internet today. Connect with Jodi: Website: https://vibrantblueoils.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vibrantblueoils Twitter: https://twitter.com/vibrantblueoils Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vibrantblueoils/ _____________________________________________________________ About Health Hacks with Mark L. White: Health Hacks is an innovative 30-minute podcast that highlights cutting-edge health hacks from around the world and the interesting stories that inspired them. In each episode, host Mark White uses a clever blend of storytelling and interviews to educate the audience on relatively new areas of vitality enhancing remedies. With the help of health experts, medical practitioners, and wellness-oriented CEOs, Health Hacks explores the rapidly expanding world of health hacking and the stories that are driving it. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marklwhite1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/health_hacks_podcast Learn About: Essential Oils,  Overcoming anxiety,  Overcoming depression,  Vibrant blue oils,  Health hacking,  Health hacks,  Do oils work,  Natural medicine,  Why I'm so nervous,  Hack your nervous system

Welcome to episode #25 of the Gentle Business Revolution podcast, the show where we talk about marketing your business by disrupting the current marketing paradigm. If you are a heart-centered entrepreneur who feels anxiety around marketing your business or you are tired of the traditional marketing model, you're in the right place! I'm back with another book update! In my last "behind the book" update, I shared my structure. Rather than reading one of the chapters, I thought I'd share a bit about what goes on in my head through the process of writing this book. In this episode you’ll learn  … Why I'm writing this book (hint: it's not for me!) The questions I ask myself now that I'm halfway through the book How I struggle with sharing personal stories And much more Other links and resources mentioned in this episode: The Gentle Marketing Revolution The Gentle Business Revolution Sarah’s Book List Thanks for listening ! After you listen, check out The Gentle Business Manifesto, an invitation to belong to a movement of people who do business the gentle way and disrupt the current marketing paradigm. You can download it for free at thegentlebusinessrevolution.com. There’s no opt-in. Just an instant download. If you enjoyed the podcast, I would be super grateful if you'd share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post. Also, please leave a review on iTunes. I'm told that they really matter so if you'd take a minute I'd appreciate it. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes or on Android to get notified for all my future shows. Raise your hand and join the Gentle Business Revolution. Warmly, Sarah

What does it mean to have your own weather system? Meaning that, you understand how the environment around you has the ability to direct the quality of the environment that you are living in? Novel idea. Right?  I talk about my own personal weather system in this episode.  Why I'm dipping my toe back into podcasting Have you ever had a friend that is a weather person? Bullet Journal time-tracking What are your points of bad weather patterns? What I am Reading/Doing 30 Day Bible Shred 

There is a full moon at 2:33 am eastern time February 9, so this episode is being released Saturday night for those of you who might want to use the evening before to do some powerful creating. I also compare this configuration to an interesting one that was in the sky during one of the presidential candidate's public campaign announcement. There are some things we could learn and deploy.Feb 9 Transcription[00:00:00] Hey, welcome man to the full moon out February 9th in Leo. So we could say top of it. Thomas Miller and I am, uh, so this is for Sunday, February 9th. But because this full moon happens at 2:30 in the morning Eastern time, I'm going to release this. On Saturday evening, so that if, so those of you who are, stay up late hours might want to catch it.Those of you on the West coast, this will happen before you go to bed. This is all us time stuff, of course. And those of you insomniacs who just wake up in the middle of the night and want something to do, you might start doing your full moon routine. So let's talk about this full moon at 20 degrees.Leo, this is kind of an interesting thing, and it made me think of something that I saw this week in the astrological [00:01:00] conversations online about inception points in the chart. One of the foundational things about astrology is that everything has a birth time. Whether that's you or whether that's an event, a business, a marriage, and I think that we don't put enough value on inceptions, but that's how astrology works, that everything is based on the time that something is born.And what's super unique about this full moon. Is that it is in Leo fire sign and all about making a statement in the world. So with the sun, obviously opposite in Aquarius and the moon in Leo, and the only real aspect that this full moon has is a trine favorable aspect with Mars. And Mars is still in Sagittarius.Now there's no other side of this that we can pull. Like [00:02:00] Mars is not in a trine with something, so we don't get a grand trine and the moon is not trying with something else over on the other side of the chart. So we're dealing with a couple of fire signs. At least we have what we have the moon in Leo fire and Mars in Sagittarius fire.So I think this is just a great weekend to create around that putting herself out there. So the social piece comes from the sun in Aquarius. The putting yourself out there comes from the moon in Leo and the extra oomph and. Good luck comes from Mars in Sagittarius, which of course is ruled by Jupiter, which is in the sandbox in timeout and Capricorn, but at least it rules Sagittarius.So, Hey, let's take what we can get right now. What caught my fancy in the astrological conversations this week [00:03:00] was the announcement of the presidential campaign for mayor Pete budaj. Now look, number one, rule number one on this podcast, no politics. We all, Republicans, Democrats, independence. If you are in another country listening to this and don't even relate to what that is, uh, we are all under the same sky, right?And it affects all of us. And that's why I just stay politically neutral. Why I'm using this is the unfolding events since this occurrence and it's in the profile. So it's something that we all can look at and relate to. Okay, fair enough. There is no, I mean, zero political inference or reference associated with this.Okay, so let's call him mayor Pete, like he likes to be called, announced his presidential campaign in South bend, Indiana on April 14th, 2019. And I have not looked at all, and I don't even know if it would be [00:04:00] disclosed if he follows or uses astrology. But boy, I'll tell you what if he doesn't, he dumb lucked his way into this one because, uh, I mean, for a road scholar, this was pretty good, let's say.So, the sun on that day was an Aries fire. And it was trying to Jupiter in Sagittarius, that's Jupiter in its home sign. Remember how I said so much before Jupiter leaves Sagittarius initiate or do what you would want to do because that energy will not be back for 12 years. Well, Jupiter was in Sagittarius trine, the sun and Jupiter was also trying the moon right where it is right now.And Leo almost at the same degree. It was at 19 degrees. So there's a grand trine. So the moon was trying the sun that all fire the fire. The three fire signs were connected by trines. So the sun was in Aries, the moon was in Leo, and Jupiter was in [00:05:00] Sagittarius. The further brilliance of this is, as I mentioned, Jupiter rules Sagittarius.So there was a ruling configuration, and the sun is exalted in Mars. That means it's happy. So you had an exalted sun and Mars, a ruling sign with Jupiter, and then the moon, and Leo. Now, mayor Pete first came to my attention from a, another tweet that was copied or something from Dan rather, the former news journalist at CBS news, whose tweet basically said, Hey, just keep an eye on this guy.And this was when finally he started to be in the public eye. And, you know, knowing that Dan rather has seen this a few times in his eighties, six or so years, I mean, he's way up in his eighties. That was an intention grabber, and I don't follow the political scene that much. I really don't.But I have seen this [00:06:00] week that he claimed initial victory in this debacle of the caucus that they had an Iowa. And that was kind of a bold move, but it looks like the results are kind of turning out that way, or at least is tied for first, however you want to frame it. So in other words, here he is at the top of the first primary, and we'll see how this unfolds.But I just thought it was interesting that, you know, I mean, how many 37 year old mayors step into the presidential arena, and by the time the first primary rolls around are at the top of the peak. That's the power of a fire branded Jupiter influenced trine. Now, let's don't go any further. I mean, am I saying that he's going to win, you know?No, I'm just saying that here is somebody who either by design or by, like I say, backing into it, set up his campaign, [00:07:00] the announcement of his campaign. Publicly on this very powerful energy and look at where he is. Is that because of astrology or is that just because his message is resonating and he's a potential, top runner?Top of the ticket for the democratic side? I don't know. I would say the astrology doesn't, doesn't hurt. In this case, it certainly doesn't hurt. And then go, wow, look at that. That's interesting. So that's why, you know, I say don't ever bet against astrology. That's the amazing part of this. And of course, that's a story that we'll get to publicly watch unfold over the next....Rest of this year.Basically. So what do we have? Well, we have that moon and in Leo, so that's, you know, there's part of it. And moon was in the same position. We have Mars in Sagittarius. We've got that fire element. We don't have, I mean, this is not that kind of configuration, but what I was saying is this is pretty darn good.[00:08:00] So if you wanted to initiate something under the raise of this beautiful Leo full moon. That'd be a great thing to do. All right. Stay busy. Stay awake. Stay conscious and do some creating on Sunday. Have a good one. We'll see ya. Manyana. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Conscious Millionaire Epic Achiever Podcast, with your Host, Marcus Aurelius Anderson... Epic Coaching Lesson: This is Why I'm a Coach Marcus Aurelius Anderson is an author, Keynote Speaker, TEDx Speaker and executive Mindset Coach. While preparing to deploy with the U.S. Army, he suffered a severe spinal injury and was told he’d never walk again. He now speaks, writes, and coaches others to overcome their own Adversities to actualize their personal definition of success. SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES And, download your free gift today... Get the High Performer Formula to Make Millions – Click Here! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other entrepreneurs and business owners find our podcast… grow a high-profit business that makes an impact. Help your friends Become a Conscious Millionaire! They will thank you for it. Conscious Millionaire Network has over 2,000 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries. Our original Conscious Millionaire Podcast was named in Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts! Conscious Millionaire Epic Achiever Podcast is an entrepreneurial, business, and mindset show that reveals the secrets of the world’s Entrepreneur Epic Achievers. Join Marcus Aurelius Anderson as he goes inside the minds of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, athletes, authors, and experts who teach you how they turned their greatest Adversities into their most Epic Wins. 

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Welcome to 2020! If you haven't noticed already, the year, and the DECADE, aren't the only things that have changed 'round here. If you've been following me for the past year, you know that I was a Narcissistic Relationship and Abuse Recovery Coach, and that was the topic of this podcast as well. Now, I am so excited to announce that I'm up-leveling and pivoting, onto a new adventure as an International Business Coach! My new mission is to help women who are sitting on a new business idea, or feeling stuck with their side hustle, to bust through their self-doubt, gain confidence, and make 2020 the year that they actually start their business and achieve the freedom they've been dreaming of! This podcast episode marks the start of this shift. This episode is also a big kick in the BUTT for YOU to take control of your life, because we've only got this one to live! So welcome to the very first episode of Slaying Your Side Hustle! In this episode, we'll cover: How and why I ended up making this decision to totally shift and up-level my business. Who this Podcast and my Coaching is for, and HOW I can help you. Why I'm uniquely poised to be a Business Coach for new entrepreneurs Why it's ok to re-brand and pivot as many times as you need to, in order to find what it is that truly makes you happy and fulfills you. Why you shouldn't feel bad for not knowing exactly what you want or what you're passionate about yet. Or perhaps you have multiple passions and want to become clear on what passion you should turn into a business. The importance of giving yourself permission to grow, question everything you think you "know" about yourself, and explore. My story of "knowing" from when I was young that I wanted to be a full-time Registered Nurse, only to find out when I actually started the job that this was not the lifestyle I was expecting, and the warning signs that signaled to me that it was time to make a change. How I started to make the change, and all of the limiting beliefs and confidence issues that I had to battle and move past, and HOW you can overcome your fears too! We will even go through some real, practical exercises (yes, grab your pen and paper for this one!) to help you gain clarity around what you want. I have tons of journal prompt questions to ask you so you can really start taking action. You'll never feel "ready" to start a business - so the time is NOW. Let's do this!! Follow me & chat with me on Instagram at @oliviapowellcoaching for more business tips and inspiration, or email me at oliviapowellcoaching@gmail.com with any questions!

Goals for 2020 which includes publishing 3 books, developing 3 more for the following year, earning my brown belt in jiu jitsu, becoming fluent in German, and opening a Try Not to Die mobile escape room. The struggle I'm currently having with writing the traumatic brain injury book and taking an honest look at past behavior and attraction to crime and violence. (12:35) I share the results of my IVA-2 testing which I did at the start, middle, and end of my neurofeedback training. Not only did my scores rise but I went from testing positive for ADD and ADHD to testing negative for them. I just did another IVA test and brain map while high on cannabis and will share those results next episode. Why I'm getting Brightside translated into German. (23:10) I give the correct answer to the first part of Try Not to Die: In Brightside for those that want to cheat in the upcoming contest. (24:50) The short horror story "Hit the Lights"

Today on the show I’m joined by renowned conservation writer Hal Herring to discuss public land history and advocacy, wilderness, and an in-depth look at my book That Wild Country. Topics discussed: Why I'm the guest on this episode and not the host Why you should join Backcountry Hunters & Anglers The early adventures that formed the foundation for my public land passion The frustrations of public lands becoming political Theodore Roosevelt and his focus on the next generation What the writing process for That Wild Country was like Writers who influenced my work and advocacy The importance of working with diverse stakeholders to protect wild places Why a basic understanding of public land history is so important The beauty and curse of multiple-use management Action is the cure for depression Having hope    Connect with Mark Kenyon and MeatEater Mark Kenyon  on Instagram , Twitter , and Facebook MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch  

Today on the show I’m joined by renowned conservation writer Hal Herring to discuss public land history and advocacy, wilderness, and an in-depth look at my book That Wild Country. Topics discussed: Why I'm the guest on this episode and not the host Why you should join Backcountry Hunters & Anglers The early adventures that formed the foundation for my public land passion The frustrations of public lands becoming political Theodore Roosevelt and his focus on the next generation What the writing process for That Wild Country was like Writers who influenced my work and advocacy The importance of working with diverse stakeholders to protect wild places Why a basic understanding of public land history is so important The beauty and curse of multiple-use management Action is the cure for depression Having hope    Connect with Mark Kenyon and MeatEater Mark Kenyon  on Instagram , Twitter , and Facebook MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch  

What a year it has been – from the Game of Thrones finale to Fedex being banned by Amazon, 2019 has been a memorable one. And at LTSC, it has been an incredibly memorable one! We added The SC, Supply Chain TV that includes several new shows from around the world, named the Best Supply Chain Podcast of 2019, launched our new website and observed exciting trends in supply chain this year. Supply Chain professionals are loving Lets Talk Supply Chain and that includes our Linkedin Page. Our Women in Supply Chain series once again reigns supreme as the most frequently downloaded on the podcast on read on our blog, with AI and Supply Chain Performance Simplified gaining traction as the most downloaded. Looking back at 2019, the golden nuggets that standout are in this episode: EP 47 - Jim Hayden, Netflix is a good example of supply chain visibility EP 53 - Nozuko Mayeza, defying all odds in South Africa EP 55 - Jonathan Briggs, Cost to Ship vs Cost to serve EP 58 - Robert Garrison, Shinning a light into the dark corners of supply chain EP 59 - Leah, Audrey & Sarah - The Trade Squad EP 64 - Craig Fuller, Story behind Freightwaves EP 65 - Graham Parker, Digital freight disrupted EP 67 - Amjad Hussain, AI is closer than you think EP 69 - Hugo Fuentes, supply chain performance simplified EP 70 - Kathy Fulton, supply chain expertise can help when disaster strikes EP 71 - Demo Perez, Panama - the hidden gem of logistics EP 73 - Michiel Vos, Why I'm obsessed with coconuts Exclusive from Logtech - Brian Glick on Blockchain EP 87 - Rob Zomok, Are you getting the most out of your returns EP 88 - Nicole Vernkidt, Challenges from both men and women EP 91 - Howard Berg, Overwhelmed by content, learn to speed read   We thank you for LISTENING, SPONSORING, SUPPORTING, REVIEWING THE SHOW AND ENGAGING with us this year – we can’t wait to be a part of your 2020.  

Why I'm tired of working!

Helene Massicotte of Free To Pursue shares why she is a lousy personal finance blogger. Episode 1014: Why I'm a Lousy Personal Finance Blogger by Helene Massicotte of Free To Pursue on Money Mindset Helene Massicotte blogs about living life on your terms and experiencing true personal freedom. She describes herself as a person in search of all that life has to offer and who has built a life that enables her to do just that. No more, no less. She chose to retire from corporate life in her mid-thirties because it wasn't in line with what she wanted anymore. The original post is located here: http://www.freetopursue.com/blog/2015/12/7/lousy-personal-finance-blogger Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Podcasts Facebook Group! and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts Fundrise is the future of real estate investing. Visit fundrise.com/ofd to have your first 3 months of fees waived. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/optimal-finance-daily/support

Today I’m sharing some big changes I’m making to my own business in the new year and whether or not you should be pivoting in 2020.    Highlights:  The big pivot I'm making in 2020 Why I'm closing my membership program & community When to make big changes in your business and when to stick with what you already have What I'm looking forward to most in 2020   Links and Resources Mentioned in this Episode:    Integrator School Waitlist  

  In today's episode, Nate will be coaching Karen Farfan on what to say at the beginning of her YouTube videos. Join them in today's episode as Nate gives tips on how you can tickle your viewers' curiosity and how to keep them watching until the end - all at the beginning of your video!   So, what do you say in the beginning of a YouTube episode? I guess I just said something. So, there's certainly a better way that you can start YouTube episode though. Make sure you get better results. So, Karin, we're actually going to demo. So, I'm going to step out of the shot and coach you on how to start a YouTube episode so you can get people to watch a lot longer in the episode not just a leave right away. Sound good? -Sounds great. -Okay, yeah. So, just... You're going to make eye contact with that lens just look straight into the lens and conversational. We don't need to have a stage voice or anything. The title of video how to use Alo vera for pimples and acne. So, 2 things. You want to tell them what the video is about. And that's a great title. Just to tell them what the videos about. And then give them a reason why. Like why should they watch this video. You know, what's your credibility? Why they need to watch it from you? Or if they watch this video, is it going to change their life or just going to make things a lot easier. That make sense? So, not only we're gonna answer the question but kind of back that question up. So what would be a reason? What would be a good line to use like why? Oh! Let me demo it for you. -Okay. -So, if I were if I were looking at the camera, I'd say, "Welcome back. Are you wondering if you can use aloe vera for pimples and acne? The answer is actually yes. And I'm going to show you how you use it..." And I'm just making it up but... -Why should they watch it. -Yeah. I'll demo another way and this is going to be fictional because I've never done this. But would you like to know an amazing remedy for pimples and acne that you can find in your kitchen? And you saw the title aloe vera. I've been using this for years. I used to have terrible acne. Now, look at this amazing skin. I'm going to show you how it works. That make sense? So, I'm just... I'm embellishing a little bit more. I'm kind of giving them a hook and giving myself some credibility of like why you should watch this episode? Why I'm the one that's teaching this. -Okay. -Alright. -Hi, guys. So, do you want to... Hi guys, so do you want to know how to cure acne or prevent acne with just one ingredient that you can find right in your fridge? It's less expensive and it will cure acne or prevent it. I've always had acne throughout my high school years and I cleared my whole skin with just this one ingredient, aloe vera. -Awesome. I actually... I think you did great and you kept going even longer than you needed to. I think you did fantastic. One thing that I'll share is instead of saying "Hey, guys" Because you're just talking to one person at a time. -Okay. -I'm being really rude because you did so good. But if you're... If you just if one person is watching at a time you'd say, "Hey, guys" it's kind of like, "Oh, you're talking to everyone, not me." But if you say "hey, there" you know? Or... -Make it more intimate? -Yeah. -Okay. -But you did really good. I mean, you did it... Look... I just to give you make this more challenging. Let's change the title. So, let's do the video, "Can drinking aloe vera juice help acne?" So, go ahead and give it a try. Basically tell them what the video is about and then give them a reason why. -Okay. Hi! So, have you guys ever... I said just "hi Guys".Hi, have you ever... Okay. Hi, there. Have you ever wonder if drinking aloe vera actually helps with acne? The answer is absolutely yes. Have you ever heard of that saying that the reflection of your outside looks is a reflection of what's inside? Well this is exactly what we're going to be talking about in this video. -Okay, good job. I liked it. Especially the intro. I loved the question like, "Have you ever wondered..." I really like that. I think that was good. Maybe you could give them a prediction. So.. "Well, in this video I'm going to share with you why it's good internally and..." Let them try because I don't know the content. So, it helps acne. -Yeah. -So, in this video, I'm going to show you some before and afters and tell you why taking all internally actually helps with acne. So, you're just giving a little bit more concrete chart. One more time. -Okay. Hey there. Have you ever wondered if drinking aloe vera can prevent acne? I'm going to show you before and after pictures of half of my skin to show you the results. -Okay, I saw something... Edit out your little hesitation there. Good job. -Okay. -So, it's just 2 things. Right? You tell what the video is about and you give them a strong reason why they should watch it give some credibility or kind of back up what you're saying. Sometimes you can give them a hook saying "And if you watch all the way to the end, I'll show you a recipe of how you can include Aloe Vera in the smoothie. So, make sure you watch all the way to the end." So that would be like a hook. But that's it. Just by starting your video in this way, people know what the video is about. They know that they're in the right place. And they've gotten some credibility reason to watch the whole episode. So you start your episodes this way. It'll make a big difference. That's it. Is that easy enough? -Easy enough. -Take a little bit of practice. Getting used to it. But yeah, you're already really good at it. -We'll keep practicing. -So, the real test is if we've still got viewers. I mean maybe I started this episode all wrong. Let us know in the comments below. And if you did watch this far, obviously you liked it and you should be a subscriber on the channel. And so we'll see you in the next episode.

Continueing on Dr. Norman's sermon "Why I'm not a Five Point Calvinist" Looking at the verses that say God elects people but how does he elect them?

1:00 You may not remember when it happened to you 1:40 Growing of all types, causes pain 2:25 Why I'm talking about this... 6 dads to 170 in 2 years 3:40 When people don't understand the vision, negative people surface 5:10 "Moms aren't dads" 5:35 Dads back out and let moms take over if there's an out 6:50 I spend a lot of time learning and growing 8:02 Applied knowledge is power

Let’s Fix Work Episode 82 Earlier this year I was invited to speak to a bunch of corporate executives about the future of work. I was there as the special guest expected to bring some new ideas on how to rethink and re-imagine the world of human resources. I love these opportunities because it gives me a chance to try out new material. I decided to talk about something I've been thinking about for a long time. What if the CEO ran human resources? What would happen in your company if your CEO woke up tomorrow and suddenly decided to run human resources? Sure, it could mean a big disruption and there would be a huge learning curve for most CEOs. If you're a CEO, you may be thinking you would be way too busy to run the HR department. In this episode, I explore what the world of Human Resources would look like if we passed the reins to the CEO. Sure, your reaction listening to this episode may turn out just like the audience I presented this topic to; they were mad. They even heckled me. They thought it was a stupid idea. All of this tells me I'm on to something good. So if you are interested in exploring what a human resources department run by a CEO might look like, then sit back and listen to this episode of Let’s Fix Work.  In this episode, you’ll hear: There needs to be a re-imagining of the world of HR, why not give it to the CEO When your CEO runs human resources, it breaks down this notion that there are people and then there are profits As a leader, you cannot guarantee that people are having a good experience at work unless you have a direct line of sight and accountability into that function Why I'm in love with the idea that CEOs should run the human resources department Ask the person who is the most creative, most powerful, and most responsible for fixing work to run the HR department, the CEO Resources from this episode: Read more from Laurie Work with Laurie   *** EPISODE CREDITS: If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment. He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com 

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This episode and it might be my best one yet, super unforgivable sounding...but straight form the heart. Idk, I had a cup of coffee 8 hours before this. I am gonna share with you how to know your worth, what it means & why it’s important.Why I'm so grateful to be living this life.Check out video highlights of the show @ManChildPod Wanna help people without access to clean drinking water? Check out CharityWater.orgThanks for hangin out, y'all!

Why I'm wearing blue blocker sunglasses, the difference between sickcare and optimizing your life. My Coke Zero habit. Find out all that in more in the latest episode with Jay.

In this podcast, I discuss: 1. Why I'm not watching tonight's Democrat party presidential debate. 2. Why it's fundamentally important that the House vote on opening impeachment hearings. 3. Why Americans are better than Europeans (yes, I said it).

Why I'm so good at coding.

Stories in this episode: Sarah longs for a new perspective after loss and finds it with a feisty group of octogenarians in LA; A kilt-wearing stranger shows up to Brian’s weekly game night and volunteers to take a road trip with him; Emily promises 99-year-old Mac she’ll get him to 100 and finds the best friend she was promised by God in the process. SHOW NOTES: To see pictures and videos from our storytellers this week, go here. TRANSCRIPT: KaRyn Lay: Welcome to "This Is the Gospel," an LDS Living podcast where we feature real stories from real people who are practicing and living their faith every day. I'm your host, KaRyn Lay, and I'm here with my friend and fellow producer Sarah Blake. Sarah: Hi, everybody.  KaRyn Lay: Sarah, why are we here together today?  Sarah: Because today's episode is about unexpected friendships. And we're talking about friendship and our friendship is something to celebrate. KaRyn Lay: It's totally something to celebrate! Sarah and I first met, actually, I don't remember the moment that we first met, do you? Sarah: No, me neither.  KaRyn Lay: I just feel like I've always known you. But I do know that we first met in a singles ward in Salt Lake City in our 20s when we were just doing the things that single people who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do in their 20s. So like, I'd see you at FHE and occasionally like at a "Munch and Mingle," if we felt like we had the energy to go to that and try to flirt with a boy, right? I feel like you and I just always had so much in common. So it was really easy for us to be friends.  Sarah: Yeah, really natural. We're readers, we're writers, we're prolific Goodwill shoppers. KaRyn Lay: I was always jealous of your red boots.  Sarah: Those were my best find ever.  KaRyn Lay: Yeah, that was a good find. So we've been thinking about friendships and how it's really easy to be friends with somebody who has a lot of things in common with you. And it's much harder to be friends with the people who seem different.  Sarah: Or maybe it's, maybe it's that it's harder to start those friendships, right? It can be unexpectedly easy, but you weren't looking for it and you didn't know how to start it.  KaRyn Lay: And I think Sarah, the reason that you're here, beyond just us celebrating our friendship, is that you have a story about a really unexpected friendship that you want to share with us, right? Sarah: Yeah, when we picked this topic, this story of my own immediately came to mind. Do you want me to tell it?  KaRyn Lay: Of course I want you to tell it. I love a good story.  Sarah: Okay. So when my husband Casey and I were first married, we lived in Los Angeles. And it was a very fun time. We were renovating this duplex we had bought, we lived pretty close to the beach, sometimes we saw movie stars. It was pretty idyllic in a lot of ways. But we had this little dark rain cloud in our life, which was infertility. We really wanted to start our family but we just didn't get pregnant, didn't get pregnant, then I had a miscarriage. And then we couldn't get pregnant and had another miscarriage. And it was a hard time for me and I wasn't talking to very many people about it. I just couldn't even bring myself to say the words of what I was struggling with. And I remember even a couple days after my second miscarriage, I went to babysit for my friend's kids, so she and her husband could go to the temple. And I really wanted to do that for my friend, I also thought it'd be good for me to get out of the house instead of laying around crying. So I went and her kids wanted to watch the Disney movie, "Tarzan." And that opening scene where the gorilla mom loses her baby, I mean, I just sat there crying and crying in the dark, trying to wipe away tears so her kids—my friend's kids—wouldn't see how sad I was. But I still didn't tell her even, like I didn't tell my friends at night when she got home what I was dealing with. I just couldn't talk about it. But I needed someone who understood. And I think heavenly father knew what I needed. So in our ward, there was this row of old ladies, what do you call a group of old ladies? A gaggle? A pew? They all took the back row in the chapel and everybody knew that was their place. And these women were in their 80s and 90s. They had all moved to LA in the 40s and 50s for their husbands to work for Howard Hughes Aircraft stuff. And then they'd all had a ton of kids and their kids are all grown and their husbands were all dead. And now they had each other in this awesome sisterhood that sat together. They were spunky, feisty, interesting women. And one day I was sitting next to one of them in Relief Society and she mentioned that they had formed a chapter of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. And I really identify with my own, like Utah pioneer ancestry. And so I said, that's super cool. And they invited me to come to a meeting. So I went to a meeting and I didn't know what to expect, but it was just all the ladies from the back row of the chapel. I don't know if they'd ever invited anybody young before or if anybody else had ever been interested, but they were really excited to have somebody new there. And somebody gave a presentation about a pioneer ancestor, and we all stood with our hand on our hearts and recited something and we sang a song and scheduled the next meeting. But then it got really fun when they broke out the deserts and just sat around talking. And I realized that as a young woman growing up, you don't very often get to see older women in their natural habitat, you know, just like letting loose and talking with their friends. And I know my mom had good friends and those friendships were important to her, but I never saw them quite like this, and my grandmother's, too. But what was amazing to me was these women sat and talked about their lives, and they were just reminiscing, but they were telling the stories of the worst things that had ever happened to them. And then they were laughing their heads off because like life had moved on and they saw it with this perspective that I think you can only get in your 80s. Like, "Remember the time when all our husbands got laid off at the same time and one of the husbands had to lay off half of them?" Or the time the kid jumped off the roof and broke his arms. Or, one of them had a disabled son and she spent literally decades fighting with doctors to keep him out of institutions. And another woman had this daughter who just did everything wrong that she could, like doing drugs and running away to follow a rock band and saying the most outrageous and rude things. And they would tell a story and then they would just like laugh until they cried, wiping the tears from their eyes and slapping their knees and stuff. And it was amazing to me.  And I didn't even realize quite how it was causing a shift in me. But I remember driving home from that meeting. And I don't think there's very many moments in life where you feel changed by just a few hours, but this was one of those for me, because I realized that I had been just, I felt surrounded by these walls of my doubt and my self-pity, my tragic sense of how hard my life was right now. And it was like all those walls had been pushed way back by the perspective of older women. Seeing it in their own lives really, truly, "Time heals all wounds," and "This too shall pass," and life will go on. I suddenly had a vision that there's a future me out there in her 80s, maybe she's surrounded by loving posterity or maybe she's not. But either way, she's okay. And like, it's going to be okay. This is just a moment, and life is still full of joy. And none of my younger friends could have taught me that. Anybody saying you know, "You're probably going to get pregnant soon, it's going to be fine." It wouldn't have done it for me, it wouldn't have been what I needed in the same way it was just rubbing shoulders with these women whose own life experience could show me truly it is going to be okay. KaRyn Lay: First of all, I adore the visual of you in your 30s, sitting in this room full of octogenarians, slapping your knees and laughing.  Sarah: I wish you could have met them. They were so great. KaRyn Lay: It sounds so great. And I love that that friendship was exactly what you needed at that exact moment. And the other friendships with people that you would have immediately been drawn to, maybe that had something more in common with you like age or stage of life, wasn't actually what you needed.  Sarah: I think that is probably true for a lot of hardship. Like when you're going through something, your usual friends might not be the ones you need the most.  KaRyn Lay: So how do you find these kinds of friendships? Like, what's the secret for opening yourself up to a kind of friendship that you wouldn't maybe naturally look out for?  Sarah: Well, I think a lot of it is just a gift of God sometimes, right? And being open to that. But I think in the stories in this episode, there's an element of risk. And on the other side of a little risk is the reward of a new friendship.  KaRyn Lay: So true, so true. And like you said, today we've got two more stories from people who took that risk, who opened themselves up and found friendship that absolutely surprised them in the best ways. Our first story comes from Brian, who was perfectly content and happy with the friends that he had when a kilt-wearing stranger offered to accompany him on a road trip. Here's Brian. Brian: So I guess it's kind of ironic that in a room that included dwarves and elves and ogres, that it would be the bald human that would have such a profound effect on my life.  Growing up, I was always a real introvert, I only had a couple of really close friends. And it stayed that way until I got home from my mission and started going to a young single adult ward. I started to become friends with a group of guys there and found out that they got together on a regular basis to play "Dungeons and Dragons." I grew up as a geek, I like superhero things, I like fantasy and all that kind of genres. But I had never played "Dungeons and Dragons." And I thought, well, this would be like a cool experience to go sit in and see what it's like. So I asked them once if I could come over and just watch and they said, "Sure." And they told me what time they were playing. The day that I went over, it turned out that one of the guys that was in the group at the time wasn't able to show up that day. And so they asked me, you know, "Do you want to play so and so's character?" And I remember saying, "I don't know what I'm doing this just literally, I'm just sitting down at this table for the first time ever." And they said, "Well, that's okay. You know, we'll show you what to play and don't worry." And now 26 plus years later, we're still playing. We've had different people come and go, but there was a core group of us that have stayed together all these years. When we started out, obviously, we're all single, We were all in this single adult ward. Now we're all married with children. We have one grandfather in that group and we still get together every other Monday night and play. And in fact, two of the guys that I play with were my best men at my wedding reception because I couldn't pick between them, we were that close. After we had been playing together probably 10 or 15 years, someone from our core group, Dave, brought a new friend that he had met to play. This new player looked very different than the rest of us. Let's just say he had a shaved head, earrings, rings on his fingers, I know that least one of them was made from a nail. Had either sandals or bare feet, I don't recall which, I would guess bare feet based on how well I know him now. Just really different than what the rest of look like. But I remember thinking, "Dave, what have you brought into our group?" Which, I look back on now, and I'm so embarrassed that I ever thought that, but I did. I was really protective of this group because it really was the first time I had a close group of friends, I mean, we did everything together. But I thought, okay, you know, let's invite him to play and, and he was good at playing, he had played before, so he fit right in that way. He took over someone's character, and he became part of the playing group, but he wasn't part of our group. And then something happened. For the job that I used to have, I traveled extensively by car. I would drive all over the western United States. So I'd spend a lot of time in the car, and I would always invite my buddies. And they would always say no, you know, they had jobs, so I understood that but it was always fun to ask them and see if they could go. And then one day, I said, "Hey, I've got a trip down to Vegas next week. Is anybody interested in going with me?" And Russ piped up and he said, "Yeah, I'll go with you!" And I remember thinking, "Oh, I, okay." I didn't expect it because, you know, we didn't do anything outside this group. But it would have been rude to say, you know, "No, I meant all the other guys, not you." So, well, you know, he said yes, I invited, he said yes and I always say I want someone to go with me so let's, okay. I drove down to Utah County and picked him up really, really early. And I think looking back that I was kind of glad that it was dark outside because it was almost a barrier because I was maybe a little uncomfortable. So we started talking very safe subjects, geeky subjects, you know. Can you name all seven members of the Justice League's original lineup? Can you name this? And what artists do you like? What's your favorite title? Just very safe subjects. We tried to figure out who among us was the bigger geek. And we decided that he ended up winning simply on the fact that his father-in-law's name is Bruce Wayne, which, obviously to any geek that that's a trump card that just can't be beat. So it was a good way to break the ice, you know, to stick to those safe subjects. We had a lot of driving ahead of us, obviously down to Vegas. And it was a week-long trip. So we were going to be spending a lot of time together. And then we kind of started branching into other subjects. I'm very much a creature of habit when I go on the road. I eat the same restaurants at the same place, eat, you know, the same thing, everything just like that. Even some hotels I'd stay in the same room. And he was very much against any type of chain. He was very much, let's look at that little hole in the wall diner over there. Or let's ask the person in the store, "Hey, where would you go to eat?" And so as he would do that, it was fun too because it was something new for me. It's like oh this is, you know, I would never do this. And I started to kind of come out of my shell not only around him but just in general, I think because it was new and it was fun. And he kind of taught me that a lot of times, those are the best places to go, you know, some of the best food you'll ever try. If you spend a week with someone, you're either going to come home, not speaking to them at all, or you're going to be a lot closer, and I realized that, hey, this guy's pretty cool. Over the next few years, we did travel a lot together. The shortest trip we took was a day trip and the longest trip he's been with me on was 17 days, where we went all over Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. We ended up creating a world together because you really have a lot of time in the car. We're very different in our views on a lot of things. I'm very conservative in a lot of my views and he's very liberal. My music would be Billy Joel, Elton John, Michael Buble, and his Metallica and Flogging Molly and Dolly Parton. So we're very different in that way. But when we talk and we discuss these differences, there's never any animosity. We can discuss politics for instance, and not have any bad feelings towards one another. We're able to see the other person's views and there's never any bad feelings, which I think is a lesson to a lot of people. He really changed my life in a lot of ways. He's taught me not to pass by life, not to stay in that shell. He does wear kilts a lot on the road, which is a lot of fun because I'll walk in a store four or five seconds behind him, and I do it on purpose. And he knows I'm doing it on purpose. Because if I walk in behind him, especially in little small towns, that's the best because the looks he gets from the people that are in the stores are priceless. And I know in my head that they're doing the same thing in their own way that I did when Dave brought him into the group. You know, they're, they're judging him based on his external appearance. Like when I said, you know, "Dave, what have you brought into our group." As it turns out, what he brought into the group was a brother. He is one of the few people that when I talk to him on the phone, there's times at the end, when I will just say, "Hey, I love you, man." And he'll say it back. He is someone that I will call when I just need someone to talk to. He's always, he's a great listener, and he is very good at counseling. And I like the fact that he doesn't just agree with me and say, "Oh, you know, yeah, you're right of this," but he will point out, "Okay, how can you grow from this?" I think God puts people like that in our lives to teach us lessons. It would be easy to say that God put him there to teach me not to judge people. And that is an easy answer. And I think he did, I think he put him there to teach me that. But I also think he put him there to make me a better person in a lot of other ways. I think God knew that there were going to be times that I would need Russ. He was there for me during one of the lowest points in my life. I was battling—still battle—with depression. And I had gotten to the point where, as I would drive, there were times that I would think, "If I didn't turn this corner up here, it would look like an accident." And when I needed to talk to somebody, he was always there and didn't matter what time, and he would just listen and he would love unconditionally. And I don't want to downplay those other guys I play with because they are very much brothers to me. They showed up one night at my house at 11 o'clock at night, because they knew what I needed. So I don't want to downplay them at all. He's just become, he's become a brother. It makes no sense, it really doesn't because we are so different in so many ways. And maybe that's what makes it so fun is that it doesn't make sense that we should be friends. But I know that he was put there to teach me a lot of things and to be there, almost as a stand-in for my older brother. I'm the oldest but I mean, you know, my heavenly older brother to put his arm around me when I needed it. A scripture comes to mind when it says that "God looketh upon the heart." And I think that Russ is a great example of that because when you see him, you're going to make judgments based on the way he looks. But if you get past that Bulldog exterior to the puppy dog that's beneath, you see the way that Christ sees him.  I think that I hope that I'm a little more understanding now, a little more willing to get to know people underneath rather than just judge by that first four seconds of seeing them. And I'll be forever grateful for the bald human that entered the dungeon that day. KaRyn Lay: That was Brian. When I first heard the story on our pitch line, I was immediately drawn to it. Partially because I love a good story and Dungeons and Dragons was involved, but also because I have a few gamers in my family. And I know how close-knit and connected those 12-sided-die groups can be. So when I heard that Brian was talking about friendship, I wanted to hear about it even more. I love his willingness to admit that he was protective of that friend group when Russ first came into the circle. It kind of reminded me of that childhood feeling that we have sometimes when the new kid comes to school and you immediately are like, "No, they're not like us." Sometimes new friendships or the possibility of new friendships can feel like a threat to our system. But I love what Russ and Brian found out: Love is an infinite resource. There's room in our hearts for new friends, there's room there. And if we don't think that there's room there, God can help us to create that room. And letting new people into our lives is absolutely going to bring change in one way or another. Whether it invites us to try that new hole-in-the-wall local restaurant instead of the Olive Garden or letting someone see the hardest things in our hearts. It takes real courage and sometimes an act of God, like Sarah said, to get us to open up to the possibility of a new friend. But I really believe that on the other side of that is more love, more connection, and growth, which is exactly what our Father in heaven wants for each of us. Our last stories from Emily with a special appearance from her friend, Mac. It's a story of a friendship that might not have come without the intervention of a loving Heavenly Father. Here are Emily and Mac. Emily: For years, I felt like I never had friends and I felt really lonely. I think a lot of it is our perspective of how we think of ourselves and how we feel like we are around people. And for me, I just felt like I also was a person that didn't always connect with people on that deeper level. And so I love to be with people and serve them, but then all sudden, it's like when I'm not around people, I'll have that like, real sense of loneliness, kind of that bitterness. And it kind of bites, like sometimes it's really hard and sometimes tears are shed. I was really lonely and I had prayed for years to Heavenly Father, "Can I have friends in my life? Can I please have a friend?" And it's just really interesting how my friend came to me. Before I met Mac, I had just transitioned from living in Ecuador and serving in the orphanages. I was there for two months and it was an incredible experience. I loved it. It changed me. And then I moved back to the States and I was so lost. When I moved, I was actually going to live in a whole different city, and just circumstance after circumstance I ended up living in a different city than I had planned. And so I ended up in this apartment by myself. I was 24 at the time, single, and it was just like, like, what do I do with myself? I just feel so lost. I've always played the piano since I was eight years old. It's just been my thing my entire life. And so it's just always been my de-stressor. It's been my entire life, it's what I do. Growing up, my mom used to get so mad at me when it was time to get ready for school every morning, bless my mother's heart, she'd have to be like, "Emily stop playing the piano and please get ready for school." And I'd always be like, "Mom, I don't want to," Every day because it's just me, like the piano just feeds out of me, songs just constantly. When people would be having conversations like sometimes I just don't even talk because I have music going through my mind. And I don't really want to talk, I just want to play your piano that I see in the corner of your room. And no joke like, still to this day, like, I would rather go play your piano and talk to you while I'm playing the piano, but I don't want to just stand here and talk to you if there's a piano in the room. It's kind of like a kid who has a problem with candy-like, it's constant. So the piano, I feel like, allows me to express myself. It's almost even hard to explain, like, there's no words for it. And so it's one of those connections that we can have with people is music. And that's my latest connections. And maybe that's why I would rather talk to them as I'm playing the piano because it's like connecting our souls. I really think that's what happened with Mac and I. Heavenly Father knows me. I always have loved older people, but to get that deep level of a friendship he involved at starting around a piano, around music and so the day I met Mac, I had been praying for opportunities to play the piano and praying for opportunities that could bring me joy. I'm outside running, down the street, have music playing in my ear, do my normal run. And then all sudden, this prompting came into my mind, my nose tingled and it was like, "Go play the piano now." I'm like what? And I turned my head, and there's an assisted living center there. And I had never seen it and I'd ran that same street for three months. And I thought, "Oh, that's funny." Still, with the music playing in my ear, I just started running again. And the voice came again, loud, "Go and ask if you can play their piano now." Honestly, when that prompting came, and I heard that, like, other voice in my head, I just learned you don't even doubt them. Because why would I be thinking to go play a piano in the middle of a run? Like I wouldn't be. And so I just learned that like promptings come at the most interesting time, and I have to follow those. And so that prompting came and it just honestly didn't even surprise me. It just surprised me that it was right then and it said to do it now. Because I thought, "Well, I can go tomorrow or I can go another time." So I step into the assisted living center. and I asked the front desk like, "Hey, would you be open to if I come and play the piano for you sometime?"  And they were like, "Sure, why not right now?"  I'm like, " Wait, what? Right now?"  And she was like, "Yeah, sure."  So I like literally, still in my running clothes, go to where they have their piano, and I just start playing. And in walks this cute little old man with his walker, with his little pep step, walking towards the piano. And he's like, "Hey, when's the show start?"  I was like, "What show?" I was like, "I have no idea what you're talking about."  He's like, "No, when's the show start?"  I was like, "I'm just here to play the piano."  He goes, "Oh, that's great!" And so he sat down on the piano bench with me started talking.  Mac: I can't remember just how it was, but I was so impressed with Emily, not only a beautiful girl but a wonderful piano player. I was so impressed that you would take your time out to do something like that for an old duffer, to come and entertain us show people. Emily: My first thought was like, "Who is this funny old man?" He was so hilarious and he was just so with it. And I was like, he's really asking real questions. And so then I asked him, "I was like, how old are you?" And he was, like, "99 years old."  And I was like, wow. And then I was like, Wait a moment. You're 99. I asked him, "When do you turn 100 years old?"  And immediately, his demeanor changed. He got all depressed and all sudden he goes, "In six months." I was like, "Wait, what? That's so exciting. Like, you're going to be a century like no one ever lives to be a century." And he did not act excited at all. He didn't care. And it bothered me and I was like, that's it. This man has got to live to be 100 years old. Like no one can say that, right? It's so funny, I'm not a person that likes to make bets or deals, I never have been. Literally, I knew Mac for maybe 20 minutes. It just came out of my mouth and I was like, "I want to make you a deal. I'm going to keep you alive until you are 100 years old by coming to play the piano for you once a week." He laughed at me and he's like, "We'll see about that." And I was like, deal. Game on we're gonna keep you alive till 100 years old."  Mac: You say, "I'm gonna get you to 100." I just thought somebody has an interest in me. When I first came here, I thought well, I'm not gonna stay there any more than 30 days. They said, "Why?" I'm not old people like they are. They're just old people and I don't know, they looked like they were from the Valley of the Lost. People moving along without a purpose. Emily: Making this deal for Mac, just like sparked this thing in me that helped me to fill this purpose like, I got to keep this man alive. But I also felt like if I come and serve him, it will be a friend for him. And that it would be something he could look forward to. Just the conversation that we had that day on that piano bench, like, it just kept me like wanting to go talk to my friend. And so then I started going once a week, but quickly, that turned into the daily thing. And so I literally would go do my runs and then stop there on my way home and I'd go play some songs for him. But then it just evolved. He started inviting some of his friends, of the residents that live there. Pretty soon he'd say, "We need to go pick up so and so from their room." And by then, I also had made friends as well with residents that I would see in the hall as I was walking through and I would say "Hey, come we're gonna play some music."  Mac: Oh I, kind of, I looked forward to that every week. She had kind of a schedule. She'd come to my room and pick me up and she'd call me "Duffer," and I'd call her "Clapper." Called the Duffer and the Clapper. Emily: So then I'd go pick him up, but we definitely could not leave the room without his golf shoes on, insisted his hair was combed, and we had to grab his harmonica and then we were good to go. Mac: I guess I was so proud of how I looked. I always felt like I had to look my best.  Emily: And he is so funny, his personality that we'd be going to each room and then he'd start saying, "Watch out. We're getting the gangs out, the party's just getting started." So here's some that can hardly walk, so they're holding onto my arm, with their a little cane, we're going down the hall. Here's some that would be willing themselves, like so funny. And then we all meet at the piano, a gathering place.  Mac: She would stop by, pick up several of the people here and get with those, get around the piano, anxious to get right there by the piano and listen to her play. She was wonderful. And then with nearly all of us singing along with different songs, and Emily promoted that all alone and so she became a great fixture. People looked forward to that music. That's how I got to convince, well maybe I can do something with my harmonica. So I started playing a little bit. Emily: While doing this, things just changed inside of me. I was like, wow, I'm not so lonely anymore. The more I was around them, I felt like life's gonna be okay. It just was like one of those friendships that when you meet, and it just clicks, you're just like, "Whoa, like, where's this friend that I've been praying for for a long time?" Just one of those connections when you meet people you're like, "Well, that was definitely God putting them in my path." And my favorite thing of my friendship with Mac is that we both have a talent of playing music, and we love to share it with people. And the funny thing is, is I've played my whole life. Mac started when he was 10 years old, but he would only play the harmonica when he was using it to call the sheep in. And it wasn't until we met that both our talents blossomed, that we started playing for people, that his harmonica skills became incredible. He'd start with only one or two songs when I first knew him, and then he would be playing five or six by the time we were done with each dance party.  Mac: Oh, thank you. Anyone that can get music into their lives has a better chance of having a complete and happy life. Emily: So, about six months of building this friendship with Mac, I started feeling yucky. Like I was so tired all the time. And I noticed that I started feeling like I had the flu every single day, it was the weirdest thing. Because I'd wake up, go for a run and then I would just start to feel so yucky and my arms would burn, my hands would burn. And then I noticed my feet started burning. And I noticed when I was starting to run, I would start to trip because I couldn't feel my feet. My fingers would all sudden just have no feeling and I would be playing a song and they would ache and throb up so bad and the burning got so bad, that I'd have to stop in the middle of a song. And when I would go play for Mac, I'd sit there on the piano bench with him playing songs, have to pause, tears are streaming down my face, Mac's blind, so he couldn't even see and he didn't understand what was going on. It was really hard for me. Every doubt and fear ran through my mind as I was sitting there on a piano bench. Will I ever be able to play the piano like I used to? Will I ever have that back again? Well, my whole life be like this? Is this something that's been taken from me one of my favorite things that brings me the greatest joy in my life? God, did you take this from me? Will it ever come back? God when I'm here serving your children, where are you and why can't I continue to help them? I think that's when I had to realize too, that sometimes we can't serve in the way we want to, but oftentimes, it's always in the way we need to. And so some of those days, maybe those residents didn't need to hear as much music and they just needed friends. And so we would just start talking. Here they were sharing their stories with me of when you know, their spouse had passed away or an illness that happened to them and they didn't do it as in a rude, like "Get over it, Emily," or something like that. It was always such a teaching moment that I walked away just so inspired by their examples. When I realized that true friendships are when we open our hearts, and that we're not focused on ourselves, but that we share stories and things that we've learned, but it just brought such closeness and realness. And it wasn't just a service and happy friendship, and how are you doing today? And it was real. I mean, it was the deepest friendships I've ever had. And it just made me laugh because I'm like, how am I have more friends that are older, that are in their 80s or 90s than truly than my own age. But always, every time I left that building, I would leave a happier person than I was then when I walked in because they taught me such valuable lessons. I had finally gotten a diagnosis that I had Lymes disease. I had never told Mac, but he could tell just by my voice, or by how I gave him a hug, he could tell when days that I didn't feel good. And he started picking up on it and he would say, "Have you had a good day today?"  And I'd say, "Yes."  And he goes, "No, you haven't."  And I'd say, "Yeah, you can tell huh?"  And he goes, "You don't feel good today, do you?" And it really meant a lot that he was there as a friend and he would ask. But he knew that it took all that I could to get out of bed, to get him and those residents so that we could play. I mean, I was terrified. I'd lay in my bed when I was so sick. And think if I don't get up today, this man's gonna die. And I made him a deal to keep till 100. I have to go, I have to go get him. And I always pick myself up, get over there, drag myself over there and do all that I could.  Mac: I didn't realize I was doing any good. She always says I helped her as much as she helped me. I always felt our purpose in life was not what we can do ourselves. I wondered, maybe God should tell me what my purpose is. So I guess my purpose was to help Emily along and her purpose was to help me along. Emily: The more I got to know Mac, I learned that he had family that came to visit him every day. And so sometimes I'd wonder like, should I be continually coming to visit him every day? Does he even enjoy these visits? I really realized these visits meant more than anything. He was looking for friendship as well. He needed that. People need friends, we need each other, at any age. He wanted to make a difference, I wanted to make a difference. And when our friendships have the same goals that we want to do, it's amazing how God puts each of us in each other's path and that we were able to make that difference. Around the same time I was diagnosed with Lymes disease, Mac made it to 100. We made it to 100 years old, and I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe we had done it. Now he had definitely had to do all the breathing, but I was so relieved that we made it to 100 years old. I felt like I accomplished what I said I was going to do for him. And that I kept my end of the deal. His family through a huge party for him, lots of people came, we're all at the party mingling and Mac comes over to me and He says, "So, now what? You didn't promise me anything else." I didn't even know what to tell him. I was like, I'd only just made it a goal to keep them alive till 100 years old. That's all I felt. And now what? And yet, reaching 100 wasn't the end for us. In like a month, he'll be 103 and I will be 28 years old. He's also taken it upon himself to be my dating consultant. And it's not working out for me. So far, his success rate is zero. But I haven't given up on him yet. Mac: "I'm gonna get you over 100 years old." She mentioned that many times. And I said I'll make a promise. I'll do that if you find somebody to get married to." She said she'd do that, so I'm still plugging along, so she's got a lot of work to do. Emily: The other day I was telling him about my friend that's going to get engaged. And he goes, "You know, I can't keep living all these years just waiting for you." I said, "I'm trying" and he goes, "So am I." Never did I ever think I'd still be best friends and have a dating consultant who's 103 and is blind. Even now, to this day, Mac and I get asked to play the piano and his harmonica at funerals, and events. We actually go on tours. It's hilarious. And when we're playing at these funerals, Mac will lean over to me and say, "This is hilarious we're here playing for someone that's much younger than me. This isn't even my funeral." Mac: Emily supervises and we played at three different funerals. And I found that I've really got a purpose here. I feel closer to the Savior all the time I listen to Emily play because that melody comes through and puts meaning to life. Emily: Mac's amazing. He's my best friend. I still feel lonely at times and knowing that his time will come soon, there's always that sense of will I feel loneliness again? I question that. But I have such a greater peace now and trust that I know the Savior's there. Mac would always say that if you have a heartbeat, you have a purpose. And I realized through this whole experience, I wasn't focused on myself, I wasn't focused inward. I was focused on loving others, that they're here too, that they're lonely too. We need each other. We're not here to be alone. Like we're here to be together, we're here to be friends. We're not here to suffer life alone.  Mac: I guess the Lord doesn't want me to come back. He wants me to stay here to understand that we're here for a purpose. And until we go to the other side, our purpose is to try to make other people happy. Maybe I'm here to help Emily and she was here to help me. KaRyn Lay: That was Emily and her 103-year-old best friend, Mac. Well, almost 103. If you want to hear some of Mac and Emily's musical collaborations, we'll have a link to the album that they made together in our show notes. I promise you will want to hear Mac's harmonica stylings. I also wish you all could have been in that room to feel the adorable energy between Emily and Mac when they came in to record. I think energy is really the right word for it because what their friendship did is energized each of them for their unique challenges. For Mac, it was finding a reason to live again at 99 years old. And for Emily, it was finding a way to fight through her loneliness and a debilitating illness. And isn't that the thing about inspired friendships? However, they come to be, those friendships set off a chain reaction of discovery and mutual joy just as it did in their story. And that makes us better. It makes us better for everybody and it teaches us more about the love that our Father in heaven has for us. I do remember Sarah. I do remember how we met. Well, I don't remember how we met, but I do remember the circumstances in which our friendship came to be. And that is because I took a risk to move to Salt Lake City. I didn't have a job. When I first moved there, I had no job and no place to live. And I rolled up into Salt Lake and God kind of— I felt like God sort of put me into this, this avenues space like the avenues in Salt Lake. And so then we were in the same ward together. And do you remember what we used to joke about, that ward at that time, we called it the—  Sarah: The Island of Misfit Toys? KaRyn Lay: The Island of Misfit Toys, and X-Men school.  Sarah: Oh, totally! KaRyn Lay: Because we all felt like we were developing specific talents and gifts that God wanted us to use in our lives. And I think it's really interesting that he puts us where we need to be so that we'll meet the people who can change us and show us something different, something new about ourselves that we didn't know before. And you did that for me and I hope that our friendship never ends.  Sarah: Me too. KaRyn Lay: That's it for this episode of "This Is the Gospel." Thank you to Sarah and Brian and Emily and Mac for sharing their stories and their faith. And special thanks to Susan Bender, Mac's daughter, who helped us to get those fun recordings of her dad. We'll have the transcript of this episode as well as some fun pictures and links from the stories in our show notes at LDSliving.com/thisisthegospel. All you got to do is go and find this episode and click on it and right there you'll find all the show notes. So check it out. If you have a great story about your experience Living the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we want to hear from you on our pitch line. Leave us a short three-minute story pitch at 515-519-6179. You can find out what themes we're working on right now by following us on Instagram and Facebook at @thisisthegospel_podcast. That's @thisisthegospel_podcast. If you loved this episode, will you please leave us a review on the Apple App or Bookshelf PLUS+ from Deseret Book? We love to hear your thoughts about individual episodes or the podcast as a whole. We read every single one.  This episode was produced by Sarah Blake with story producing from Katie Lambert and me, KaRyn Lay, With story editing by Danielle Wagner. It was scored, mixed and mastered by Mix At Six Studios with additional mixing from KC Blake. Our executive producer is Erin Hallstrom. You can find past episodes of this podcast and other LDS Living podcasts, like the "All In" podcast at LDSliving.com/podcasts. Have a great week.

Purpose Driven Mom Podcast Episode 20: Weekly Planning System for Busy Moms   This episode is a sneak peak into the 15 Minute Formula Course and shows you the weekly planning system that helps me be super productive! Follow these steps each week to start your week with intention!   Episode Show Notes 2:15 Review of the Week 4:10 Digital vs. Paper Planning 6:27 Why I'm obsessed with Trello - check out a sample of our dates and events board! 10:15 How to set up your weekly planning system 13:30 Adding in things you can't change 14:50 Next, add in your 15 minute goal break down 16:02 Which habits or routines are you working on? 17:43 Adding in learning time for you and your goals 18:18 Batching the rest of your tasks 20:00 Nightly planning system       Subscribe & Review in the Podcast Are you subscribed to my podcast? If you’re not, make sure you head over and do it now so that you don’t miss an episode! Click here to subscribe at iTunes! While you’re there, I’d love an appreciate if you’d leave a rating and review! These allow other purpose driven moms to find the show and help grow our community! Just click here to review, select ‘Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let me know your favorite part of the podcast! I’d love to feature you as our ‘Review of the Week’.     Links and Resources Mentioned in Today’s Episode Plum Paper Planners Trello Free Mini Course Join the FREE Trello Webinar! Weekly Printable Checklist  Free Prints - 80 prints each month FREE!   Related Blog Posts Simple Steps to Make Your Morning Easier How to Set up Your Week to Be More Productive How to Schedule Your Day as a Work at Home Mom How to Fit Self Care Into Your Day How to Find Time to Workout as a Busy Mom  Digitally Organize Your Prayer Time to Become a Prayer Warrior Create a Morning Routine in 3 Easy Steps How to Time Block and Get More Done! How to use the 15 Minute Formula to Break Down Your Goals {podcast episode 01} Using Habit Stacking for Life Long Goals (podcast episode 08)    

A dollhouse! A spooky garage sale! A scary woman! Spiders! What do these things have in common? NOT MUCH. TRY and figure it out in HOME SWEET HOME - the 2nd short story in EMTTGYG! And whatever you do, stay out of the dollhouse! Don't go in the garage sale! Why I'm afraid of spiders!

On this week's episode: Why I'm glad I don't know everything Magical Middle School Moments One Tech Tip-Manage Your Tabs My Own Two Cents--Remember Your "Why"

It's Saturday which means it's "Spartan SAVAGERY Saturday". Every Saturday leading up to the Spartan 30 Mile Ultra Race, I've programmed in a nasty, physical and mental test. Each week has been getting just a bit worse and worse. This AM I hit "5 Miles The Forged Way" which is a simple 5 mile run BUT... You start with 10 Burpees, 15 Bodyweight Squats, and 20 Push Ups. Then, every 5 minutes thereafter, you have to stop running and repeat the same from above until you finish the 5 miles.It really starts to add up. I got about half way into it and the bodyweight movements no longer felt like "rest". It honestly became an all out war both physically and mentally. My legs were burning like crazy. My calves were screaming at me. Even my shoulders started to get blasted from all of the Push Ups and Burpees. I ended up finishing in an hour and 3 minutes. SLOW, but steady. I never stopped to walk. I never stopped period. Just slow and steady and that was the focus. NO STOPPING. NO QUITTING. People have asked me WHY I'm doing this 30 Mile Spartan Race in Oct??? I'm doing it for the test. I'm doing it to TEST myself. To test my body and my mind. To see what I'm truly made of. I'm NOT doing it to prove anything to anyone else. I could care less what other people think. I'm doing it to PROVE to myself that I'm capable to push through something that scares the shit outta me. Something that I've NEVER done before. This 5 mile run was rough. I can only imagine what those 30 miles are going to feel like... Bring it on mothafucka. I want the challenge. I want the test. As should YOU. Don't ask for easy. Easy won't change you. Take on the hard shit. The shit that forces you to change, build, and grow. The shit that shoves you right out of your comfort zone. That shit that forces you to raise the bar. Because it's either rise above and adapt or fade away and die. Push forward or quit. What do YOU choose? What are you doing in LIFE right now to PROVE this? REFUSE AVERAGE. === Forged FATHER Resources === Join Travis’ High Level Private Coaching Group, “The Forged FATHER Project” - For DRIVEN DAD’s ONLY... APPLY HERE --> http://bit.ly/ff20week = In need of Fast And Effective Workouts? Gain access to Travis’ weekly programming, “Forged STRONG” to receive exclusive workouts, bonus programs, nutrition systems, the private coaching community, “Forged STRONG”, and more by visiting the link below... --> bit.ly/aestheticsavage = Have QUESTIONS? Ask Travis your QUESTIONS HERE and he'll answer it for you on the podcast --> bit.ly/fffmquestions = To Apply For Coaching With Travis, visit – http://bit.ly/ff20week == Other Resources and Links == The Blog – www.ForgedSTRONG.fit Facebook - www.facebook.com/theforgedwarrior Instagram - www.instagram.com/forgedwarrior YouTube - www.youtube.com/user/trainaggressive Email – theforgedathlete@gmail.com

To close out the week, I reopened the mailbag to catch back up and answer all the questions I might've missed. Topics included: Why I'm so low on Carmelo Anthony, a few thoughts about Donald Sterling (and Shelly, his wife), why the Lakers are in great position to land Andre Iguodala and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about ways you might be getting lost in the tools and techniques of LoA. This episode is perfect for anyone who wants to learn… How getting hung up on the right way to use a particular LoA tool can create friction in your vibration Why doing your vision board on Pinterest may be a nudge from your Inner Being The pitfall of ignoring your own intuition when it comes to your LoA practice How sometimes focusing on the tools and techniques can be a distraction Why I'm huge fan of Ask and It Is Given, my all-time favorite Abraham book—and how to avoid making yourself crazy with its 22 processes What happened when my Creative Workshop went from high vibe to a friction-filled routine 5 suggestions I have to offer you relief if you've been getting lost in the tools and techniques of Law of Attraction

This episode is an interview I did for Anna Squelch from The Full Circle Podcast and i wanted to share it with you because it is sooooo juicy! We cover: How and why I became a period coach after losing my own period (and then getting it back, following a holistic wellness plan) The wisdom of our period and why we should all be tracking our cycles How it’s impossible to have optimal fertility when you follow a vegan diet How I handle my haters Why I'm getting a nutrition degree just to shut the haters up How I refuse to get sucked into Tall Poppy Syndrome How I help my clients clear their blocks to attract massive abundance in their business How to experience more pleasure in the everyday, simple things How I embody the feminine Why we should be eating salt and fat with our vegetables How a blocked sacral chakra can block us from being able to feel sensual and fully tapped into our sexual and creative energy The importance of slow sex The importance of internal self-care You can listen to Anna’s podcast here https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-full-circle-podcast/id1471579910

In this episode, you’ll learn more about money objections and how to overcome them from a MINDSET perspective. We all experience money objections at one point or another in our businesses. It's a part of being a business owner. It's also a part of the human decision-making process. The key to dealing with these objections is managing your MIND.   WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE Why attaching your self-worth to your work is harmful  What "No" really means, most of the time Why I'm not an advocate of the traditional way of overcoming objections What your job is in your business to help a potential client make the decision that's best for them FEATURED ON THE SHOW The “Charge What You’re Worth” private mentoring program

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2:05 - Why safety nets at baseball stadiums will further decrease attendance. 4:57 - The Chargers and Cowboys aren't paying their star running backs and I explain why I'm ok with it. 9:10 - The Angels first home game since Tyler Skaggs' death was one one the best stories of 2019. 10:53 - My first reaction to Marvel's Phase 4. 16:05 - Why I'm excited for these top five college football teams. 21:03 - Final Drive.

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I've always been a HUGE fan of the Madden series... ...it defined my childhood... ...helped me fit in when I moved schools... ...and even helped me pay my way through college. (Keep that one a secret, okay?) So this is a HUUUUUUUGE honor to have the Game Designer of Madden - Anthony White -  on today's episode of Talking Football with Coach McKie You'll learn from this episode: How Madden offenses are created Why RPOs were introduced now How Madden 20 is the realist version of football you can play What new defensive strategies are in Madden 20 Why RPOs are the future for the Madden series Why I'm going to have to buy a new PS4 Thanks for Listening! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Buy My Simplified Air Raid Book Buy my Pin and Pull eBook Buy my Simplifying the Air Raid Quick Game video Get a free eBook on Air Raid Drills. Get a free eBook on The One-Back Power RPO. Follow me on Instagram. Follow me on Twitter. Subscribe to my YouTube Channel. Grab a free audiobook from Amazon. [Affilate Link]. Football Coaching Podcast Become a Ron McKie Football Member To help out the show: Leave an honest review on iTunes and Sticher. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read every single one. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and Sticher. Show Notes: Anthony White's Twitter Madden 20 EA Access