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Russillo is joined by author Matt Taibbi to discuss his book ‘Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another' (0:25). Then he talks to former NBA stars about their experiences with the college recruiting process (44:10). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:16:40). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Rasheed Wallace, Robert Horry, Amar'e Stoudemire, James Posey, Jermaine O'Neal, Jarrett Jack, and Matt Taibbi Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sometimes, it takes just one tweet to spark a debate.This month, the journalist Matt Taibbi suggested that the “financial/educational/political elite” hold real influence in America — not Fox and its viewers. According to Taibbi, America is controlled by the sensibilities of the few — especially those who run tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter. But where does that leave politicians, or the media, in the struggle for power in America?This week, Jane Coaston debates who's really wielding power in America right now and to what ends, with Matt Taibbi, author of several books, including “Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another,” and writer of the newsletter “TK News”; and Michelle Cottle, a member of the Times editorial board.Mentioned in this episode:The book “Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America” by Chris Arnade.Jane's 2020 piece in Vox, “Trump was supposed to change the GOP. But the GOP changed him.”

Today we take on News Corp., the most egregious example of “manufactured consent.” The fact that we let this monster from down under invade our thought space and contaminate the discourse in this nation is a crime. Rupert Murdoch's companies have made us dumber, angrier and more susceptible to conspiracies. Of this there can be no doubt. To reveal how he accomplished this, we'll travel through a brief history of American media, discuss the legislation at the center of the disaster that is our media, and place our polarized news landscape in its proper context. The pivot centerpoint of our feature is 1996. Max also introduces two new themes into the show and addresses listener feedback to the Fuck Milton Friedman episode during show notes. #FMF #FRM Show Notes: Pod Love Ralph Nader Radio Hour- Be a Smart News Consumer: https://spoti.fi/3gBzF8Q Book Love Michael Wolff- The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch: https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780767929523 Ken Auletta- Backstory: Inside the Business of News: https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780143034636 Matt Taibbi- Hate, Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another: https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781682194072 Noam Chomsky + Edward S. Herman- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media: https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780375714498 -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by the ghosts of Bloomsbury and distributed by honey bees. Podcast art description: Image of the US Congress ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, "Unf*cking the Republic." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As of this week, music producer and YouTube star Rick Beato has 2.34 million subscribers who watch his deep dives into musical theory, often using examples from pop music.  His videos are meant to be educational and analytical, but they are from time to time demonetized for copyright infringement. Most recently, Beato had a dispute with music publisher Warner Chappell Music, over a live streamed video called “Why Today's Music Is So BORING. The Regression of Musical Innovation,” in which he played a chord progression on his guitar of Led Zeppelin's “Babe I'm Gonna Leave You” as an example of a complex chord progression. According to a follow-up YouTube video, Beato said that Warner Chappell Music made a copyright infringement claim, he appealed citing fair use and was rejected. Then this morning, Beato got word that the claim was released. We hold up a legal lens to the situation. What are the rules when it comes to copyright infringement and fair use in the world of music and educational YouTube videos? Guests: Kelly Shapiro, founder and managing partner at the Law Offices of Kelly D. Shapiro, based in Santa Monica, Los Angeles  Don Franzen, adjunct professor of business and music law at UCLA and visiting professor at Berklee School of Music; music and entertainment attorney based in Beverly Hills; he tweets @donfranzen

Self-explanatory! Enjoy. Lotsa links below about Ben's work and the stuff discussed in this interview. We'll be back with a new K+J episode soon. If you like what you hear, please consider becoming a Patron by heading over to https://patreon.com/blockedandreported (https://patreon.com/blockedandreported) . -Ben's latest book, Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left: https://www.amazon.com/Canceling-Comedians-While-World-Burns/dp/1789045479 (https://www.amazon.com/Canceling-Comedians-While-World-Burns/dp/1789045479) -Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis (https://twitter.com/BenBurgis) -YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCByZMNYpHFEetI0s3deYH2g (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCByZMNYpHFEetI0s3deYH2g) -Bernie Sanders’ unreasonably Vermontian demands: https://nypost.com/2021/05/27/book-reveals-bernies-hotel-demands-king-size-beds-and-60-degree-rooms/ (https://nypost.com/2021/05/27/book-reveals-bernies-hotel-demands-king-size-beds-and-60-degree-rooms/) -Bernie Sanders criticized for ‘touting’ Rogan clip: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/politics/bernie-sanders-joe-rogan-endorsement/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/politics/bernie-sanders-joe-rogan-endorsement/index.html) -Ben Burgis and Michael Brooks on why Rogan’s endorsement was good: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/its-good-that-joe-rogan-endorsed-bernie-now-we-have-to-organize (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/its-good-that-joe-rogan-endorsed-bernie-now-we-have-to-organize) -Tom Cotton column: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html) -National Guard deployment to Kenosha: https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/national-guard-ends-deployment-to-kenosha/article_61a44f06-43cd-5db8-992f-23f1bcbb5188.html (https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/national-guard-ends-deployment-to-kenosha/article_61a44f06-43cd-5db8-992f-23f1bcbb5188.html) -$1-2b in damage from the George Floyd riots: https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html (https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html) -attacks on federal courthouse in Portland: https://ktvz.com/news/crime-courts/2020/07/24/fires-set-inside-portland-federal-courthouse-fence-18-arrested-on-federal-charges/ (https://ktvz.com/news/crime-courts/2020/07/24/fires-set-inside-portland-federal-courthouse-fence-18-arrested-on-federal-charges/) -Matt Taibbi’s book Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another: https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Inc-Todays-Despise-Another/dp/1949017257 (https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Inc-Todays-Despise-Another/dp/1949017257) -Ben Burgis/Jacobin Bestner article on ‘insurrection’: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/trump-capitol-riot-fascist-coup-attempt?fbclid=IwAR1CVU3AKhMhXufL6OfwDiu_UEIFcghIZ0osMlS-uFST8rmdT7dQ9w69vVU (https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/trump-capitol-riot-fascist-coup-attempt?fbclid=IwAR1CVU3AKhMhXufL6OfwDiu_UEIFcghIZ0osMlS-uFST8rmdT7dQ9w69vVU) -2019 DSA convention ‘highlights’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRxu3XrsHg&ab_channel=Mitchollow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRxu3XrsHg&ab_channel=Mitchollow) -JFC, tankies: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie)

Today's guest on the Expat Money Show is Vin Armani, a philosopher, serial tech-entrepreneur, and CryptoSavage. He was co-founder of CoinText and is the author of several Bitcoin payment protocols. He is the author of three books and a highly regarded public speaker on topics of liberty and cryptocurrency. He has recently moved from mainland USA to live on the little island of Saipan, a commonwealth of the United States in the Western Pacific Ocean.   HERE'S WHAT WE DISCUSSED IN DETAIL IN THIS INTERVIEW:Why you should stop everything and consider leaving mainland USA for a tiny overseas territory in the middle of the Pacific. Why TODAY is the best time in history to be a Digital Nomad and how to stay ahead of the curve. What is the one thing that made Saipan so attractive that Vin Armani would drop everything to move his family there in the middle of a pandemic? Vin's secret to dealing with the Expat lifestyle and how to make the transition stress-free and easy. What were the 3 biggest challenges of moving to an overseas territory and how to be prepared before you leave? How to legally pay NO Taxes to the US federal government living in Saipan How did Saipan deal with lockdowns and covid? (HINT: it was a lot freer than in the continental USA) Mikkel and Vin talk about the culture in Saipan, Mexico and Panama. Doing a little comparison with the Latin culture. As Vin would say; Don't go there to escape, you're not fleeing, go there so that you can help to build, be valuable to them, be a contributor, don't just be a taker.   RELATED PODCAST EPISODEShttps://expatmoneyshow.com/episodes/johnny-fd/ (109: How To Find Freedom And Travel Like A Boss – Johnny FD) https://expatmoneyshow.com/captivate-podcast/ep-93-travis-luther/ (093: Why Are People Leaving The USA – Travis Luther) https://expatmoneyshow.com/captivate-podcast/matt-javit-leaves-it-all-behind-to-travel-the-world/ (042: Matt Javit – International Award Winning Sales Executive Leaves It All Behind To Travel The World)   HOW TO REACH OUT TO VIN ARMANIhttp://www.cryptofrontier.org/ (Cryptofrontier.org) movement in Saipan https://twitter.com/vinarmani (@vinarmani)   FINAL THOUGHTSSuch a fun conversation with Vin today, I love talking with like-minded individuals about freedom and how to achieve it. Vin and I have both been guests on thehttps://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/thedimage?rq=Vin%20Armani ( Lions of Liberty) Podcast multiple times with my good friend Marc Clair. Vin's famous line in both appearances: pack your shit and go! Support this podcast

Lindsay Stein is the Chief Executive Officer of Today, I’m Brave, a non-profit organization focused on unlocking bravery in every child, teen, and young adult around the world. Lindsay had a stellar career in journalism, PR, and advertising: she led the editorial team for Campaign and was a reporter for Ad Age and PRWeek. But, after being presented the opportunity to spearhead social good projects that impact people’s lives, Lindsay left the advertising and marketing world to join Today, I’m Brave and became its first CEO in July 2020. Lindsay joins me today to discuss what it means to cultivate a brave culture and how we can be brave ambassadors. She highlights the difference between a “mission” and a “movement” and explains why she pivoted her career into the not-for-profit world. She shares the initiatives and efforts of Today, I’m Brave to help young people unlock their bravery. She also shares empowering stories of bravery and underscores the reason leaders need to show their vulnerability.  “Bravery is more than a mindset: it is a force within all of us. When we unlock that force, we can take on challenges that seem insurmountable.” - Lindsay Stein This week on Rebel Souls: Rebelling FOR bravery and individuals who are yet to unlock their bravery What Today, I’m Brave is and the difference between a mission and a movement What bravery means and how we can unlock it in the younger generation Braving it forward and why Lindsay chose to transition to the nonprofit world The role of leaders in cultivating the brave culture The importance of doing what lights your soul on fire The many different faces of bravery Rebel leadership and why we have to re-write the meaning of success Creating and measuring Ripples of Impact The value of doing small acts of courage and bravery every day and how to celebrate them The power and impact of leaders who show their vulnerability Exercises for self-love and acceptance Why Today, I’m Brave is organizing a Brave Camp The Brave Curriculum and why the world needs it Why Today, I’m Brave is helping students create bravery and diversity in the arts Building the Brave Library and the power of sharing stories of bravery What it means to be a Brave Ambassador Resources Mentioned: The Brave Bionic Girl: Tilly Lockey’s Brave Story Instilling Confidence with Cuts: Joshua Coombes’ Brave Story Cindy Gallop: Make love, not porn | TED Talk Related Content: Book: Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel’s Guide to Finding Your Best Life Connect with Lindsay Stein: Today, I’m Brave Today, I'm Brave on LinkedIn Today, I'm Brave on Instagram Today, I'm Brave on Facebook Today, I'm Brave on Twitter Lindsay Stein on LinkedIn Lindsay Stein on Instagram Lindsay Stein on Facebook Lindsay Stein on Twitter Lindsay Stein on Medium Liberate Your Soul & Join the Rebelution Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of Rebel Souls with your host, Shelley Paxton, the podcast dedicated to helping leaders reject the status quo, liberate their soul, and become a lifelong rebel. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe to the show and leave a review. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram and share your favorite episodes across social media. And for more great content and information, visit our website and grab your copy of Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel’s Guide to Finding Your Best Life.

Ray McGovern talks with Scott about the lies and malfeasance of the national security state during the “Russiagate” fiasco. McGovern begins by rehashing the FBI’s lies that first led to a FISA warrant on Carter Page, who they failed to disclose to the court was already a CIA asset who was delivering them information about the Russians. McGovern also reminds us that Comey himself lied about the reliability of the evidence in the Steele dossier, which in private he revealed that he knew to be dubious. But of course the real target was always Donald Trump and his campaign all along, who could be easily spied on thanks to the “two hops” principle, by which almost anyone can become the target of “legitimate” surveillance according to the convoluted and malicious system of the national security apparatus. Discussed on the show: “Will Comey’s Words Come Back To Haunt Him?” (Antiwar.com Original) “The Shaky Case That Russia Manipulated Social Media to Tip the 2016 Election” (Consortium News) Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another “James Comey, Whistleblower” (CounterPunch.org) The Complex (American Empire Project) Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace: Third Edition Ray McGovern is the co-creator of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and the former chief of the CIA’s Soviet analysts division. Read all of his work at his website: raymcgovern.com. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Photo IQ; Green Mill Supercritical; Zippix Toothpicks; and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG.

In this episode, Ben Bayer reads aloud his article “Why Today’s Ethics Offers No Real Guidance.” In that essay, he examines the strange set of cases today’s academic ethicists choose to analyze. All too often, he observes, they see morality as concerned with settling interpersonal conflicts or even resolving dilemmas in rare emergency situations such as the “trolley problem.” Bayer argues that these ethicists are unable to provide meaningful advice for everyday life because they think that the special province of morality is to give us advice about who is to be sacrificed to whom when there are conflicts of interest. Bayer’s article was originally published in New Ideal, the Ayn Rand Institute’s journal, on November 18, 2020.

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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Gregory Salmieri joins Ben Bayer to discuss the approach that leads many prominent philosophers to analyze far-fetched dilemmas, an approach that offers no serious moral guidance for everyday life. They also discuss how a different approach can actually guide our decisions. Among the topics covered: How prevalent the study of these dilemmas is among philosophy professors;Whether ethics has always been about resolving dilemmas;The philosophy that leads thinkers to see the subject of ethics as conflict resolution;Ayn Rand’s alternative approach to the ethics of “emergency” situations, and why her approach to ethics does offer positive guidance. Mentioned in the conversation are Rand’s essays “The Ethics of Emergencies,” “The ‘Conflicts’ of Men’s Interests” and “The Objectivist Ethics” from her book The Virtue of Selfishness; Leonard Peikoff’s book Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, Gregory Salmieri and Allan Gotthelf’s A Companion to Ayn Rand, and Ben Bayer’s article “Why Today’s Ethics Offers No Real Guidance.” This podcast was recorded on November 18, 2020. Watch or listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.

Ron Siegel discusses local and national current events, politics, personal and business finance with a few mortgage tips along the way. A Southern California mortgage expert and bonafide political junkie, Ron Siegel delivers intelligent, entertaining radio that makes the hard news of the week easy to understand! Ron Siegel is joined by Alison Oddo & Jill Takahashi. Ron Siegel will discuss: Why Today’s Options Will Save Homeowners from Foreclosure; Real Time Real Estate; Your Credit Matters; Mortgage Minute; Word on Wealth; and so much more. Ron Siegel, consumer advocate and mortgage lender, discusses anything that affects the roof over your head, your bank account or other items that will benefit you / your family. Reach Ron Siegel at  Ron Siegel: 800.306.1990Ron Siegel: Ron@RonSiegelRadio.comwww.RonSiegelRadio.comwww.SiegelLendingTeam.com your Newport Beach Mortgage LenderMonthly Home Equity Monitor: www.SLTHomeDigest.com  Ron Siegel, Your La Quinta Mortgage Lender offers: Conventional Loans, FHA Loans, USDA Loans, Refinancing, and Reverse Mortgages #RonSiegelRadio #Mortgage #Housing #Realtor #RealEstate

Ken learns why dynamic kindness is more important than "success" in his chat with Corey Johnson, founder of Imagine Scholar, based in the Nkomazi region of Mpumalanga province, in South Africa. Imagine Scholar is "founded on the belief that there is an equal distribution of raw potential in every pocket of the world. Our mission is to equip young leaders with the integrity, skills, and mindsets they need to shape a world they can be proud of." Many thanks to Laura Kaub (whose name somehow got garbled on the pod!) from Yale Young African Scholars, who introduced Ken to Corey via Kyra Kellawan's excellent ThePilotEd Podcast.Rapid DescentWalkout song: Magic Carpet Ride by SteppenwolfBest recent read: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt Eager to read next: Hate, Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt TaibbiFavorite thing to make in the kitchen: Pizza using an obscure recipe from Richard the hippie, who read Lord of the Rings to Corey when he was ten. What she uses to take and keep notes: Things (Mac app) and four colored Etsy notebooks, using a purple-inked Pilot G2 pen.Memorable bit of advice: Get honest feedback from people who care about you. We all have emotional blindspots that we think nobody sees. Unmask your insecurities. (Inspired by a roast of him by his best friends.)Bucket list: He really wants to go to space.

Scott talks to Dave Smith about the upcoming election and the role of the Libertarian Party in presidential politics. Both agree that the right move for the Party, given that it has essentially no chance of winning the presidency in the near future, is simply to spread the message of liberty to as many people as possible, just as Ron Paul did during his campaigns. Instead, the LP seems more focused on saying the politically correct thing, not offending too many people and accepting a few percentage points at the ballot box. This strategy is sure fail in waking people up to the radical message of libertarianism that our country so desperately needs. Scott and Smith also discuss the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the likely fallout from the Republicans’ attempts to install a new justice before January 2021. Discussed on the show: “9/11/20 Ford Fischer on the Unified Activism the Media Doesn’t Want You to See” (The Libertarian Institute) “Leaked phone recordings reveal CNN head supported then-candidate Trump during 2016 elections” (One America News Network) Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another “War Crime Risk Grows for U.S. Over Saudi Strikes in Yemen” (The New York Times) “9/18/20 Nasser Arrabyee on the Continued Horrors of the War in Yemen” (The Libertarian Institute) Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War “9/11/20 Ted Snider on the Israel-UAE Normalization Agreement” (The Libertarian Institute) “9/17/20 Ted Snider on the Bahrain ‘Peace’ Agreement” (The Libertarian Institute) Dave Smith is the host of the podcast Part of the Problem and a member of Legion of Skanks. His debut comedy special, Libertas, reached #1 on iTunes. Follow him on Twitter @ComicDaveSmith. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com. Donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal, or Bitcoin: 1Ct2FmcGrAGX56RnDtN9HncYghXfvF2GAh.

Have you ever had a new beginning or breakthrough only to get on the other side of it and encounter another test? You may have said, "God I just made it through that and now this - WHY?" Today, Dr. Kim will answer that very question in the final episode of Test After Breakthrough.

Should you tell someone “God told me you’re the one”? Where are the good men? How do you get out of the friend zone? Are men intimated by women? Why? Today we are answering ALL of these questions with the founders of Godly Dating 101. Tovares and Safa Grey are a young, married couple with a passion for seeing relationships done God’s way. They advocate for purity in heart and mind so that believers can grow closer to Jesus while growing stronger in their relationships. Their IG account @godlydating101 is on fire and their podcast Godly Dating 101 is also a rich and incredible dating resource. Because they are dating extraordinaires, we decided to do something different and have a dating hot seat on the podcast today, asking them some of your top dating questions. It was fun and fiery and they covered a lot of ground. Some themes of today’s podcast: -What to do with the uneven men to women ratio in the church -Dating safe and well during a pandemic -Why women can intimidate men (do they?) -Getting out of the friendzone -“God told me you’re my spouse”- what do we do with that? -The importance of attraction PS. Don’t miss out on our biggest announcement ever…The Heart of Dating Conference! We have brought together some of the top pastors, speakers, authors, psychologists, and thought leaders in the relationship and dating space to create a special online event for you! This conference is for men and women, single or dating couples! All sessions included in the conference will go LIVE on July 25th. We do not want y’all to miss out on this! By the way, all sessions will be available on-demand so you can set your own schedule and pace. With your registration you get unlimited access for one year. You can watch and re-watch the sessions for as long as you’d like! Plus for HOD listeners YOU get a special 10% off by using code HODC10. Visit heartofdatingconference.com to join us for this special event!

Have you ever had a new beginning or breakthrough only to get on the other side of it and encounter another test? You may have said, "God I just made it through that and now this - WHY?" Today, Dr. Kim will answer that very question in part 4 of the series, Test After Breakthrough.

You're listening to Episode 82 of the Happy Homebirth Podcast. Midwives, are you set up to be in practice for a long, long time, or are you feeling the sensations of burnout taking hold? Today’s episode is going to be of great benefit to midwives and mothers alike. So mamas, if you love your midwife, make sure you share this podcast episode with her. Why?Today’s guest, Leslie Cornwell, is a midwifery business consultant, and she has a passion of helping midwives grow and run thriving, brilliant practices that stick around for 30+ years by preventing burnout. 
She’s a midwife herself, and she’s struggled with the same burnout issues as many of my listening midwives will surely have experienced themselves. I’d love for you to take a quick screenshot of you listening in and post it to your Instagram stories. Tag Happy Homebirth Podcast, and I’ll be sure to feature you in my stories as well. All right, let's hop on over to the interview with Leslie. Please remember that the opinions of my guests may not necessarily reflect my own and vice versa, and neither one of us are acting as your medical professional, so continue to see your doctor, midwife, or if you’re like me, your chiropractor. Show Notes / About Leslie's Services: "Becoming a midwife has been a lifelong dream. I didn't realize that this wonderful profession would lead me down the path of business. I have found over the years that midwives need to understand business, accounting, financing, marketing, negotiating, and so much more to be successful in today's health care system. I love supporting women. By being able to participate in leadership roles and create amazing private practices, I can support midwives just as much as the pregnant women they care for! I am passionate about women's empowerment and women business ownership. We can serve families best with independent successful midwifery practices. I have had over 16 years experience in health care. I have worked in hospitals, birth centers, and home settings. I have worked for large non-profit hospitals, small community hospitals, privately run birth centers, hospital owned birth centers, and my own homebirth / birth center practice. Being able to understand the business and financial side of midwifery has really shown me how much easier a midwife practice can be profitable and successful in today's health care ever-changing climate. Let me help you start your own practice or improve the current midwifery business you are struggling with. I have years of billing, accounting, contracting, business plan writing, and midwifery clinical expertise to make your midwifery practice thrive no matter what stage it is in! Whether you want a small homebirth practice, large birth center practice, or booming hospital midwifery practice, I can provide guidance, support, and resources to make your midwifery practice dreams a reality!" Conclusion: I'm so grateful for the business professionals who have a heart for mothers and midwives. Thank you, Leslie, for supporting mothers by supporting midwives. When we work together, we can make sure that more and more women are able to receive the intimate, loving care they deserve through thriving midwifery practices. All right, friends, that is it for this episode! I look forward to seeing you back here next week. Don't forget to join our thriving community at Facebook.com/groups/happyhomebirthpodcastcommunity

Have you ever had a new beginning or breakthrough only to get on the other side of it and encounter another test? You may have said, "God I just made it through that and now this - WHY?" Today, Dr. Kim will answer that very question in part 3 of the series, Test After Breakthrough.

Most people get into the multifamily business for time and money. What’s truly important? It’s not about the money. What’s your reason, ‘Why?’ Today’s topic focuses on family. Choose to live the life that you should and by building a business that allows your family to have your time.   Topics on Today’s Episode: Too Many Distractions: Steal your time and your time with your family Do the right things: Principles to live by include family identity and traditions Roses and Thorns: What’s the best/worst thing that happened to you today? Rules and Boundaries: Mean what you say; no has to be no Disciplinarian or Nurturer: Roles matter and make a difference Pursue Passion: Teach/show family highs and lows of entrepreneurship success Broken Promises: Don’t forget to make your family and personal time a priority Can we …? Teach your children the meaning and value of money   Links and Resources Mentioned: Asana Joyce Meyer Kahuna Boardroom KahunaHQ Kahuna Investments Multifamily Legacy Podcast on YouTube Multifamily Legacy Podcast on Facebook   Quotes: “I believe that we got into this business for two things: Time and money.” - Corey Peterson “Most of the time, we are not living the life that we should.”       - Corey Peterson “What you do is more important than what you say.”                   - Corey Peterson “Our kids have watched me succeed, but they’ve also watched me fail.” - Corey Peterson   Don’t forget to download my Free Workshop Quick Start Video Series, and if you like what you have heard please leave a review on iTunes. Text the word MONEY to 408-500-1127 to get my free private money program and credibility kit for single family.

Have you ever had a new beginning or breakthrough only to get on the other side of it and encounter another test? You may have said, "God I just made it through that and now this - WHY?" Today, Dr. Kim will answer that very question in part 2 of the series, Test After Breakthrough.

In my recent Linkedin Poll, the #1 challenge Sales Reps face today is Prospects Going Dark and the research backs this up as according to Forrester only 17% of reps are invited back to a second meeting. These initial meetings are disasters for a large chunk of sellers. Why? Today we review the Top 7 Reasons Why Prospects Go Dark, according to USC Business School. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dan-sixsmith/support

5am Mester Scrum Show #281 Live - Metrics Variety and Complex and Complicated work is where Scrum sits and Why - Today's topics: (1) Metrics whether you are exercising or working should involve a variety as they tell the story and (2) The Complex and Complicated world is where Scrum works well because it is a team vs. a group of individuals. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #metrics #measure #velocity #capacity #complex #complicated #values 5am Mester Scrum Show #281 went live on Youtube at 557am EST Tuesday 4/28/2020. Happy Scrumming, Social Media Roll Call   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/5ammesterscrum/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/5ammesterscrum Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/5ammesterscrum/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/5ammesterscrum/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/5amMesterScrum/ TikTok: (search 5amMesterScrum)  Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum) Spotify, Google Music Player, PodBean, iTunes, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Breaker 

Drew Perkins talks with journalist Graham Couch about how his training as a sportswriter has helped him write dispassionately about polarizing topics. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Lansing State Journal: Graham Couch @Graham_Couch @couchandtherube Couch and the Rube Podcast Matt Taibbi: Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling Visit wegrowteachers.com for information about our workshops and services.

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 843. Heute sprechen wir über folgende Themen: Bitcoin & Ethereum bald das neue Dreamteam, Bitmain: Antminer S19 innerhalb von 24 Stunden ausverkauft & BTC Mining Difficulty fällt 16% 1.) Bitcoin & Ethereum bald das neue Dreamteam? – Buterin will eine Verbindung ohne Dienstleister https://cryptomonday.de/bitcoin-ethereum-bald-das-neue-dreamteam-buterin-will-eine-verbindung-ohne-dienstleister/ 2.) Bitmain: Antminer S19 innerhalb von 24 Stunden ausverkauft – Community empört https://bitcoin-kurier.de/bitmain-antminer-s19-innerhalb-von-24-stunden-ausverkauft-community-empoert/ 3.) Why Today’s 16% Fall in BTC Mining Difficulty May Cause the Price to Plunge https://cointelegraph.com/news/why-todays-btc-difficulty-adjustment-may-cause-the-price-to-plunge Telegram Kanal: https://t.me/bitcoininformant Steemit: https://steemit.com/@denniskoray HIVE: https://hive.blog/@denniskoray Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denniskoray/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/btcinformant/ Top 10 Kryptowährungen am 26.03.20 um 09:00Uhr Sonnige Grüsse Dennis "Bitcoin Informant" Koray

A star from the reality television show Vanderpump Rules is getting married and says that prenups are "romantic." Why? Today we'll dive into not just prenup contracts, but also difficult money discussions and more. While not everyone needs a prenuptual agreement, having clear rules around your money can make a world of difference in any relationship

How many of you have felt unqualified for your dream. I don't have a class in business and marketing, and yet businesses are hiring me to teach them marketing. Why? Today, it's all about results.

WHY? Today's episode is what I like to call an Espresso Shot. It's a candid conversation with a good friend, snuggled on a couch having a nice cup of Ethiopian coffee. Pull up close because you are going to want to hear this one. I have a very candid conversation about "Why Do People Stay?". I don't have the answers but I do hope to shed a little light on what it is like and maybe answer the question of why people stay in bad relationships. We want to serve you better so we need your feedback. Here is the link to our survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3BXJHRV As always we want to keep in touch with you. Follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/iamportiascott/ or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/iamportiascott/

Have you ever heard or used the phrase, -no good deed goes unpunished-- It seems that should have been the motto for Jesus. He did nothing but good and was punished for it. Why- Today we look at this phenomenon and consider it's implications on our lives.

When you execute your "Why" things are easy and life is beautiful. I got to BE my WHY Today. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chilejam/message

In the 1960s the drug thalidomide caused over 10,000 babies across the globe to be born with deformed limbs. Scientist Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey blocked its production in the US, saving countless lives. But since then thalidomide has been approved by the FDA. Why? Today we tackle how thalidomide's chemistry caused a pharmaceutical disaster and why it's still around. You’ll hear from two researchers: one in the US and one in Brazil, a place where there are still cases of thalidomide embryopathy.

Friendship is our culture is so key and important. Friendship can be so life giving, but also very hard for some. Why? Today we're exploring why friendship matters, and why it's so important to make sure our priorities in friendship align with God's principals in His word. Join me and author Kelly Needham as we discuss her new book Friendish. To find links to everything mentioned in this episode visit the show notes here http://www.andreamworley.com/blog/ep39

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts, The Grace Year, How We Fight for Our Lives, and more great books. This episode was sponsored Book Riot's Blind Date with a Book; Ritual Essential Vitamins for Women; and The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz, new from Algonquin Young Readers. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones The Grace Year by Kim Liggett In the Hall with the Knife: A Clue Mystery, Book One by Diana Peterfreund Jackpot by Nic Stone The Furies by Katie Lowe Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry What we're reading: Birthday by Meredith Russo The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown More books out this week: Sudden Traveler: Stories by Sarah Hall Bat Basics: How to Understand and Help These Amazing Flying Mammals by Karen Krebbs Seven Crows by Kate Kessler What Is Missing: A Novel by Michael Frank A Bitter Feast: A Novel by Deborah Crombie The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation by Holly Jackson Before the Devil Fell: A Novel by Neil Olson What I Lick Before Your Face ... and Other Haikus By Dogs by Jamie Coleman The Girl Who Reads on the Metro by Christine Féret-Fleury Cats Are a Liquid by Rebecca Donnelly and Misa Saburi Avidly Reads Making Out by Kathryn Bond Stockton I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita, Jessica Hagedorn (translator) Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds A Punk Rock Future edited by Steve Zisson The Story That Cannot Be Told by J. Kasper Kramer The Girl At the Door by Veronica Raimo, Stash Luczkiw (Translator) Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political on Rivers of the New West by Zak Podmore A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs Watershed by Mark Barr The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey Animal (Bagley Wright Lecture Series) by Dorothea Lasky Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo The Remaking: A Novel by Clay Chapman The Oracle of Cumae by Melissa Hardy A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma by David Eimer Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust, Volume 2) by Philip Pullman The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice by Vanessa Brown This Way to Departures by Linda Mannheim Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems by Margarita Engle and Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez Who Says You're Dead?: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned by Jacob M. Appel MD Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes Collateral Damage (Star Trek: The Next Generation) by David Mack Faker by Sarah Smith Rerun Era by Joanna Howard Symphony No. 3 by Chris Eaton Remember by Patricia Smith Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger by Lilly Dancyger Love, Heather by Laurie Petrou Half/Life: New & Selected Poems by Jeffrey Thomson Rogue Heart by Axie Oh The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh Salt Slow by Julia Armfield Infused: Adventures in Tea by Henrietta Lovell Blood Sugar by Daniel Kraus Marley by Jon Clinch Heart of the Moors: An Original Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Novel by Holly Black Warrior of the Altaii by Robert Jordan False Bingo: Stories by Jac Jemc Wham!, George Michael and Me: A Memoir by Andrew Ridgeley Ghosts of Berlin: Stories by Rudolph Herzog, Emma Rault (translator) Here Until August: Stories by Josephine Rowe Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith Bodega: Poems by Su Hwang The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted: A Novel by Conor Grennan and Alessandro Valdrighi Metropolitan Stories: A Novel by Christine Coulson Horror Stories: A Memoir by Liz Phair Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse: Book One of the Thorne Chronicles by K. Eason The Giver of Stars: A Novel by Jojo Moyes On Time: A Princely Life in Funk by Morris Day (Author), David Ritz (Contributor) The Envious Siblings: and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes by Landis Blair Older Brother by Mahir Guven, Tina Kover (translator) Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019 (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Natasha Stagg Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell The Penguin Book of Mermaids by Cristina Bacchilega and Marie Alohalani Brown 25 Days 'Til Christmas: A Novel by Poppy Alexander  

We know yoga is good for us, not just our body but our mind. But...Why? Today, I discuss the “why” and most importantly how we can utilize yoga to connect our mind back to body and begin the process of healing. Mental Health is extremely important to living your best life. Let’s begin today! You might

From exhaustive and lengthy to simple and nimble. There’s a paradigm shift underfoot in Leadership development models. Why? Today’s digital, social enterprises need leaders who are agile, engaged, and connected. Our guest for this episode, Joe Moscola, chief people officer at Northwell will discuss his experience defining and rolling out a new leadership strategy—from strategy and framework to C-suite collaboration and succession planning. Joe will also share his top three "things to get right" when executing a new leadership philosophy.

Intro 0:00 When we're young, we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be. But somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join Up Dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams. This is your blueprint for greatness. So here's your host live from the back of his garden in the UK. David Ralph. David Ralph 0:25 Yes. Good morning. Good morning to everybody. Everyone across the world. Thank you so much for being here with me. Can we have a group hug, which is WeChat a little arms round and squeezing, squeezing, squeezing? You know, I I've gotten apologies to me, I have gotten an apology to make I recorded a show the other day, called opportunities are everywhere. When we reference Lucas Gordon photography, and I listened back to it this morning, I just dipped into one of my episodes. And that was the one I chose was so fast, I was a little a little little over enthusiastic. I don't know what was the matter with me. So if you listen to that, and thought, My God, you must be on drugs or something. I agree with you. I agree with you. I don't know why I was going at it so fast. It didn't feel like it at a time maybe. Maybe I was just excited. Maybe I was just an excitable man. And, and it came out in my voice. So I do apologise, I do apologise, I'll try to get back on to normal track because I do know, I get a lot of people across the board across the board across the world from abroad, listening to Join Up Dots. And some of them say, I don't catch all what you talk about. But I enjoy the passion. Well, I don't think that one you would have called or enjoyed the passion at all. So I do apologise, I do apologise. I'm going to take it slow. I'm going to take it slow. Why Today's episode is from a listener. And I hope you like these little little listens as well. It's not just interviews, we're trying to, we're trying to change it around, we're trying to put a little bit of element of what you want into it. So some people might only have a little bit of time. Going for a little 14 minute Join Up Dots. Others I've got hours and hours when go for that one, trying to blend it. It's all about you guys. Anyway, this is an email that came through from Marcus archers from New Zealand. And Marcus says dear David, David, I listened to your show sporadically. And I've always been partial to listen to it more. I think this is brilliant. This sounds like a native, doesn't it? Yeah. Can't be balanced. I don't know why I go off elsewhere. But I guess I'm easily distracted. One of the things that you can talk about is making time to be disconnected from your business and the world. And I struggle with this majorly. And I would like to become better. Over best. Right? I think I tell you what I tell you. I was there. I was wondering the field batting of sheep left right in the centre there. I was going to be in the new new Lord of the Rings field. That's how good at my accent was where? Why did David? Because I think Australians do that sort of everything's a question at the end of the day, David, I listened to your show, sporadically. And always think I should listen to it more. You having sounding good. It's all that I know what it means something that when your voice goes up at the end, like a question, but it's not a question. But it's a question. That's what the LC is a monster. Okay, yeah. being distracted and disconnected from the world. And it is a big, big problem. And I think it's it's the major problem. I know, my kids struggle with it. My I think everyone struggles with it. And I, I'm very good at disconnecting. But I also having an online business, I feel that poor, I feel that poor like, everyone really, you know, the world has never been more connected. And no matter where in the world you are, you can send a message to anyone in another part of the world, as long as you both have internet connexion. I'm a member in the sort of 80s in the 70s. Anyone from the United Kingdom will remember this, you'd go on holiday to Spain, and you'd have to wait a week for the newspapers to turn up. And so he was always a week behind the football results. He was always a week and one person would get the paper and you share it around with anybody else. It was like it was it was like a drug deal. But you go How can I have 10 minutes? In an hour? Can I have 10 minutes I newspaper done? I want I've gone back into that accident. I just like doing it. I really do. And yeah, but now you just got being and you just never never away from stuff is it's annoying, but it's the way it is. It's the way it is. Right. Also, I think one of the issues is that all these devices out there are designed to make you actually want to get hooked up to them, you can't fight it. They are like psychological experiments being paid on us. So that we will feel that desire. That's what it designed for. And as soon as you realise that Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter and all the social media platforms are designed by people, I'm getting a lot slower today. And I I feel I feel more in control of everything. And they're in designed by people who are actively trading on our emotions, our stress levels, our need to not miss out on those kind of things. And once you realise that, and you realise that they're playing on a kind of internal algorithm, it's easier to stop. Okay, so some of the things that I actually do, right, I don't look at any games, well, I don't have any gadgets, I have my PC in Join Up Dots, HQ. And I have this morning laptop, which I'm going to get rid of because it started not logging on. And so I spend 1015 minutes trying to get it to work. So I'm actually going to get rid of it. So I'm now down to just my PC. So when I turn that off, I've gone. Absolutely no one on earth will be able to get me. But I've started to limit my amount of time I come to my office. And if I do come to my office, what I used to do is leave my computer on all the time, and I could just come along and boom hours easy to turn on. Now I'm turning it off. So I might come up here to read a book, I might come here to plan something. But actually getting into the online world, I don't unless I actually have to turn my computer on which once again is a little barrier for me to do. But you can certainly eliminate gadgets for one hour before sleep and after wake up. So my daughter will reach out and before our eyes even open in the morning, she's got her phone, and she's reaching and dragging it under the covers. So she's hi asleep, but she knows that she needs a phone. My wife needs a phone by the side of a bed. In case of emergencies. I go, what emergencies Are we going to have? Everybody that you love is basically in our house, or vape got people to support them, you know, you know, Batman woman, you know, getting a suddenly ever dot appear on the ceiling and you've got to go out and solve crime during the night. You don't need to have your phone on all the time. I just turned the notifications up. She doesn't talk about that. And I say no. Is that gonna be all the notifications because my wife's not good. We got a new radio, we got a new alarm by the side of the bed because she decided that the light of the previous one that we've had for a million years was too bright. It was too bright. It is keeping me awake. Well, if you hear the snoring, I don't think it is. But anyway, so we've gone to this other one that you can dim down. And she doesn't like the buzzer, because it sounds like a lowly reversing. You know they do that noise. And it actually gets louder. So you actually feel like you're gonna back to be run over and you sleep. And so you suddenly panic, but a law is just going to crash your head. But when you go, Oh no, it's always the alarm. So she doesn't like that. Now she's going for the radio. And now, the other night, she set the radio to come on at half past 12 in the morning, panicked. And they went out for God's sake, why is it doing this? Probably because you programmed it to do that. And then reset it again for half past two in the morning. So we had the radio burst into our life all the way through the night. But it wasn't, it wasn't the devices fault. It was the wives. I'm telling you that don't say anything, but it was the white spot. So what you need to do is reach out and turn off all your devices before and after wake up and have that set into your your routine. And turn off all your notifications. It doesn't only save battery life, it also saves you from a lot of distractions turn up all your push notifications from email, chat, social media, your application. If it's really really urgent, somebody will knock on your door for example, you know, people won't be drowning. I'm drowning, I'm drowning, I'm drowning. Send a text message to your best mate. That wouldn't happen. You would shout out Help me Help me, you know, urgent doesn't happen. And as we're talking about emergencies, do this as well. Because I get this a lot when people say to me, you really haven't got a phone, you haven't got a phone? Oh, no, I haven't got a phone. What do you do in emergencies? And I always say to him, when was the last time you had an emergency? And I go Oh, no, no, it does happen. I got When was the last time. And I would say to all of you if you're in that light? Yes, there's emergencies all the time. just jot it down and jot it down on a scale of one to 10. When you get something through, was that an emergency did that need it now. And you'll see you rarely ever. If anything I once broke down on the Alps, I was 12,000 feet up in a car with broke down, couldn't get it going. And my dad had an emergency phone, thank God because otherwise I don't know what we would have done that I think in my life is the only emergency I've ever had. Okay, doesn't really happen. Now, if you do need to have all these phones around you keep your phone in the drawer while you're working. Just just lock it away. And just try to think to yourself, now keep it there. And when you get that urge in your stomach, because you do you get a bit tense Do you get a bit twitchy just being said, Well, I'm feeling twitchy. I'm feeling twitchy, I'm going to go for another 10 minutes, don't beat yourself, I'm leaving it in there forever. Because you won't do that. That's like trying to lose 30 stone in a month. Just leave it in there go right now I can do another 10 minutes, I'll do another 10 minutes is now 1106, I'm going to wait to 1116 before I get back and start increasing it little by little 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, because you are trying to break free from an addiction. These devices are created. So you're addicted, it's the way they work. But you can't go cold turkey because it just won't work. Now, one of the things that I don't understand, but one of my mates says he does is he has only one device for checking social media. He can he can get Facebook, on your desktop, on your laptop on your smart phone, even on your Apple Watch. So you're checking everywhere, he now is it all through into one device. Now I've got one and it's called a man's name. I can't think what it is. But I put it in the links. And I haven't used it for a while. That's why I can't remember. But it has LinkedIn it has Facebook on it has all the notifications and I can go on to it. Within one second, I can see and turn it all off. So instead of going into Facebook and going into here and going into a or whatever, or having all the notifications, I don't have any notifications at all, I just have this one device, whatever it's called now coming was called is something to do with Roman is come to me. And I just log on once every three days or something and I have a quick look. And bang, it's done. Okay. Now, then the next thing that I would do, and these are the kinds of things I do, I have a thing called stay focused on Chrome, which I can programme my favourite websites. And we all have websites that were desperate to get into and we're going to check mines BBC Sport, are can go on to BBC Sport and find out where this football players being transferred. And that is not necessary. But I do. So I limited and I give myself 15 minutes a day on this website. And when it closes down, and it won't activate again till the next day. And you can set it up stay focused on Chrome. It's a free app. And it's brilliant. And as I say I look at it and I think to myself running out and running out I've got to do it bang is gone. And that's it. I just have to walk away from it. And so I prepare. And I think to myself, I have I got 15 minutes, yes, I have because what I don't want to do is it sort of waste of time, I want to make the most of it. Once again, your chance to do now somebody else told me what what they do, I have over sort of like the summaries of the websites, come to them in an email. So I can just scan down. I don't know how that's done, if anybody knows how that's done. But that's what he does. email comes through, it gives over sort of highlights of the website changes, and you can scan down and you can just keep up with it. Okay. And the last thing that I would say is go to emails once a day, okay, just just once a day that there's nothing, the problem is in business, people use it to talk, they don't use it to actually confirm, they just use it to communicate. So you're in there all the time sending two line emails back and forth, because you're too lazy to walk across the desk. If that is you then say to your colleagues, no, I'm not going to do this until 12 o'clock lunchtime, and bed, I'm going to open it up anything he wants saved about time, and I will respect or we can talk face to face. Because in the online world, email still remains the most personal way of online communication is it this is where the most important engagements happen, tweets and all those kinds of stuff it is. So bullet points, this is the big stuff. And so social media, like Friendster and multiply, have come and gone, all these kind of things, but email still remains and it always will. So limit yourself. Don't think that it's important. It's not if it is important in your company, your boss will come across. And if he's just sending an email expecting you to respond straight away, then it's not, it's not okay. So that there are kind of things Marcus, but I do. But the main thing that I do is I don't have a phone. I push everything now into messenger, and email. That's the only two ways that you can communicate with me away from that I don't look at anything. And I'm just aware of it. And I'm not a month, I still feel that that pole, that desire to check into these things. But by doing that, and just being aware and try to do 10 minutes and then make it 20 minutes and try to do an hour you will start breaking that addiction. And then you can do a day two weeks, you know, I can do a month at a time not look at anything. I probably could do longer than that now to just the way that I've organised it. So let me know Marcus, if you've managed to do anything and you try to stay disconnected and focus because it's a real game changer. And I will promise to practice my New Zealand accent. I really will. I'm gonna really Tommy best to do that. Until next time. Look out yourselves everybody. Thank you so much for being here and I will see you again soon. Bye bye. Unknown Speaker 15:48 That's the end of China. Unknown Speaker 15:51 You heard the conversation. Now it's time for you to start taking massive action. Unknown Speaker 16:01 QB create your life easy only life. Unknown Speaker 16:07 Will be back again real soon. Join Up Dots Join Up Dots Join Up Dots Unknown Speaker 16:15 Jolly Jolly.

When we're young, we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be. But somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join Up Dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams. This is your blueprint for greatness. So here's your host live from the back of his garden in the UK. David Ralph. David Ralph 0:25 Yes. Good morning. Good morning to everybody. Everyone across the world. Thank you so much for being here with me. Can we have a group hug, which is WeChat a little arms round and squeezing, squeezing, squeezing? You know, I I've gotten apologies to me, I have gotten an apology to make I recorded a show the other day, called opportunities are everywhere. When we reference Lucas Gordon photography, and I listened back to it this morning, I just dipped into one of my episodes. And that was the one I chose was so fast, I was a little a little little over enthusiastic. I don't know what was the matter with me. So if you listen to that, and thought, My God, you must be on drugs or something. I agree with you. I agree with you. I don't know why I was going at it so fast. It didn't feel like it at a time maybe. Maybe I was just excited. Maybe I was just an excitable man. And, and it came out in my voice. So I do apologise, I do apologise, I'll try to get back on to normal track because I do know, I get a lot of people across the board across the board across the world from abroad, listening to Join Up Dots. And some of them say, I don't catch all what you talk about. But I enjoy the passion. Well, I don't think that one you would have called or enjoyed the passion at all. So I do apologise, I do apologise. I'm going to take it slow. I'm going to take it slow. Why Today's episode is from a listener. And I hope you like these little little listens as well. It's not just interviews, we're trying to, we're trying to change it around, we're trying to put a little bit of element of what you want into it. So some people might only have a little bit of time. Going for a little 14 minute Join Up Dots. Others I've got hours and hours when go for that one, trying to blend it. It's all about you guys. Anyway, this is an email that came through from Marcus archers from New Zealand. And Marcus says dear David, David, I listened to your show sporadically. And I've always been partial to listen to it more. I think this is brilliant. This sounds like a native, doesn't it? Yeah. Can't be balanced. I don't know why I go off elsewhere. But I guess I'm easily distracted. One of the things that you can talk about is making time to be disconnected from your business and the world. And I struggle with this majorly. And I would like to become better. Over best. Right? I think I tell you what I tell you. I was there. I was wondering the field batting of sheep left right in the centre there. I was going to be in the new new Lord of the Rings field. That's how good at my accent was where? Why did David? Because I think Australians do that sort of everything's a question at the end of the day, David, I listened to your show, sporadically. And always think I should listen to it more. You having sounding good. It's all that I know what it means something that when your voice goes up at the end, like a question, but it's not a question. But it's a question. That's what the LC is a monster. Okay, yeah. being distracted and disconnected from the world. And it is a big, big problem. And I think it's it's the major problem. I know, my kids struggle with it. My I think everyone struggles with it. And I, I'm very good at disconnecting. But I also having an online business, I feel that poor, I feel that poor like, everyone really, you know, the world has never been more connected. And no matter where in the world you are, you can send a message to anyone in another part of the world, as long as you both have internet connexion. I'm a member in the sort of 80s in the 70s. Anyone from the United Kingdom will remember this, you'd go on holiday to Spain, and you'd have to wait a week for the newspapers to turn up. And so he was always a week behind the football results. He was always a week and one person would get the paper and you share it around with anybody else. It was like it was it was like a drug deal. But you go How can I have 10 minutes? In an hour? Can I have 10 minutes I newspaper done? I want I've gone back into that accident. I just like doing it. I really do. And yeah, but now you just got being and you just never never away from stuff is it's annoying, but it's the way it is. It's the way it is. Right. Also, I think one of the issues is that all these devices out there are designed to make you actually want to get hooked up to them, you can't fight it. They are like psychological experiments being paid on us. So that we will feel that desire. That's what it designed for. And as soon as you realise that Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter and all the social media platforms are designed by people, I'm getting a lot slower today. And I I feel I feel more in control of everything. And they're in designed by people who are actively trading on our emotions, our stress levels, our need to not miss out on those kind of things. And once you realise that, and you realise that they're playing on a kind of internal algorithm, it's easier to stop. Okay, so some of the things that I actually do, right, I don't look at any games, well, I don't have any gadgets, I have my PC in Join Up Dots, HQ. And I have this morning laptop, which I'm going to get rid of because it started not logging on. And so I spend 1015 minutes trying to get it to work. So I'm actually going to get rid of it. So I'm now down to just my PC. So when I turn that off, I've gone. Absolutely no one on earth will be able to get me. But I've started to limit my amount of time I come to my office. And if I do come to my office, what I used to do is leave my computer on all the time, and I could just come along and boom hours easy to turn on. Now I'm turning it off. So I might come up here to read a book, I might come here to plan something. But actually getting into the online world, I don't unless I actually have to turn my computer on which once again is a little barrier for me to do. But you can certainly eliminate gadgets for one hour before sleep and after wake up. So my daughter will reach out and before our eyes even open in the morning, she's got her phone, and she's reaching and dragging it under the covers. So she's hi asleep, but she knows that she needs a phone. My wife needs a phone by the side of a bed. In case of emergencies. I go, what emergencies Are we going to have? Everybody that you love is basically in our house, or vape got people to support them, you know, you know, Batman woman, you know, getting a suddenly ever dot appear on the ceiling and you've got to go out and solve crime during the night. You don't need to have your phone on all the time. I just turned the notifications up. She doesn't talk about that. And I say no. Is that gonna be all the notifications because my wife's not good. We got a new radio, we got a new alarm by the side of the bed because she decided that the light of the previous one that we've had for a million years was too bright. It was too bright. It is keeping me awake. Well, if you hear the snoring, I don't think it is. But anyway, so we've gone to this other one that you can dim down. And she doesn't like the buzzer, because it sounds like a lowly reversing. You know they do that noise. And it actually gets louder. So you actually feel like you're gonna back to be run over and you sleep. And so you suddenly panic, but a law is just going to crash your head. But when you go, Oh no, it's always the alarm. So she doesn't like that. Now she's going for the radio. And now, the other night, she set the radio to come on at half past 12 in the morning, panicked. And they went out for God's sake, why is it doing this? Probably because you programmed it to do that. And then reset it again for half past two in the morning. So we had the radio burst into our life all the way through the night. But it wasn't, it wasn't the devices fault. It was the wives. I'm telling you that don't say anything, but it was the white spot. So what you need to do is reach out and turn off all your devices before and after wake up and have that set into your your routine. And turn off all your notifications. It doesn't only save battery life, it also saves you from a lot of distractions turn up all your push notifications from email, chat, social media, your application. If it's really really urgent, somebody will knock on your door for example, you know, people won't be drowning. I'm drowning, I'm drowning, I'm drowning. Send a text message to your best mate. That wouldn't happen. You would shout out Help me Help me, you know, urgent doesn't happen. And as we're talking about emergencies, do this as well. Because I get this a lot when people say to me, you really haven't got a phone, you haven't got a phone? Oh, no, I haven't got a phone. What do you do in emergencies? And I always say to him, when was the last time you had an emergency? And I go Oh, no, no, it does happen. I got When was the last time. And I would say to all of you if you're in that light? Yes, there's emergencies all the time. just jot it down and jot it down on a scale of one to 10. When you get something through, was that an emergency did that need it now. And you'll see you rarely ever. If anything I once broke down on the Alps, I was 12,000 feet up in a car with broke down, couldn't get it going. And my dad had an emergency phone, thank God because otherwise I don't know what we would have done that I think in my life is the only emergency I've ever had. Okay, doesn't really happen. Now, if you do need to have all these phones around you keep your phone in the drawer while you're working. Just just lock it away. And just try to think to yourself, now keep it there. And when you get that urge in your stomach, because you do you get a bit tense Do you get a bit twitchy just being said, Well, I'm feeling twitchy. I'm feeling twitchy, I'm going to go for another 10 minutes, don't beat yourself, I'm leaving it in there forever. Because you won't do that. That's like trying to lose 30 stone in a month. Just leave it in there go right now I can do another 10 minutes, I'll do another 10 minutes is now 1106, I'm going to wait to 1116 before I get back and start increasing it little by little 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, because you are trying to break free from an addiction. These devices are created. So you're addicted, it's the way they work. But you can't go cold turkey because it just won't work. Now, one of the things that I don't understand, but one of my mates says he does is he has only one device for checking social media. He can he can get Facebook, on your desktop, on your laptop on your smart phone, even on your Apple Watch. So you're checking everywhere, he now is it all through into one device. Now I've got one and it's called a man's name. I can't think what it is. But I put it in the links. And I haven't used it for a while. That's why I can't remember. But it has LinkedIn it has Facebook on it has all the notifications and I can go on to it. Within one second, I can see and turn it all off. So instead of going into Facebook and going into here and going into a or whatever, or having all the notifications, I don't have any notifications at all, I just have this one device, whatever it's called now coming was called is something to do with Roman is come to me. And I just log on once every three days or something and I have a quick look. And bang, it's done. Okay. Now, then the next thing that I would do, and these are the kinds of things I do, I have a thing called stay focused on Chrome, which I can programme my favourite websites. And we all have websites that were desperate to get into and we're going to check mines BBC Sport, are can go on to BBC Sport and find out where this football players being transferred. And that is not necessary. But I do. So I limited and I give myself 15 minutes a day on this website. And when it closes down, and it won't activate again till the next day. And you can set it up stay focused on Chrome. It's a free app. And it's brilliant. And as I say I look at it and I think to myself running out and running out I've got to do it bang is gone. And that's it. I just have to walk away from it. And so I prepare. And I think to myself, I have I got 15 minutes, yes, I have because what I don't want to do is it sort of waste of time, I want to make the most of it. Once again, your chance to do now somebody else told me what what they do, I have over sort of like the summaries of the websites, come to them in an email. So I can just scan down. I don't know how that's done, if anybody knows how that's done. But that's what he does. email comes through, it gives over sort of highlights of the website changes, and you can scan down and you can just keep up with it. Okay. And the last thing that I would say is go to emails once a day, okay, just just once a day that there's nothing, the problem is in business, people use it to talk, they don't use it to actually confirm, they just use it to communicate. So you're in there all the time sending two line emails back and forth, because you're too lazy to walk across the desk. If that is you then say to your colleagues, no, I'm not going to do this until 12 o'clock lunchtime, and bed, I'm going to open it up anything he wants saved about time, and I will respect or we can talk face to face. Because in the online world, email still remains the most personal way of online communication is it this is where the most important engagements happen, tweets and all those kinds of stuff it is. So bullet points, this is the big stuff. And so social media, like Friendster and multiply, have come and gone, all these kind of things, but email still remains and it always will. So limit yourself. Don't think that it's important. It's not if it is important in your company, your boss will come across. And if he's just sending an email expecting you to respond straight away, then it's not, it's not okay. So that there are kind of things Marcus, but I do. But the main thing that I do is I don't have a phone. I push everything now into messenger, and email. That's the only two ways that you can communicate with me away from that I don't look at anything. And I'm just aware of it. And I'm not a month, I still feel that that pole, that desire to check into these things. But by doing that, and just being aware and try to do 10 minutes and then make it 20 minutes and try to do an hour you will start breaking that addiction. And then you can do a day two weeks, you know, I can do a month at a time not look at anything. I probably could do longer than that now to just the way that I've organised it. So let me know Marcus, if you've managed to do anything and you try to stay disconnected and focus because it's a real game changer. And I will promise to practice my New Zealand accent. I really will. I'm gonna really Tommy best to do that. Until next time. Look out yourselves everybody. Thank you so much for being here and I will see you again soon. Bye bye. Unknown Speaker 15:48 That's the end of China. Unknown Speaker 15:51 You heard the conversation. Now it's time for you to start taking massive action. Unknown Speaker 16:01 QB create your life easy only life. Unknown Speaker 16:07 Will be back again real soon. Join Up Dots Join Up Dots Join Up Dots Unknown Speaker 16:15 Jolly Jolly.

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Listen to Part 2. Gender roles, norms, and stereotypes are prevalent in all age groups. Since birth, we’re told what colors to like, what type of activities we should do, and what was classified as “girl things” and “guy things”. These standards exist worldwide but vary depending on culture. Why? Today, we’ll explore more as "Battle of the Sexes" continues.

Gender roles, norms, and stereotypes are prevalent in all age groups. Since birth, we’re told what colors to like, what type of activities we should do, and what is classified as “girl things” and “guy things”. These standards exist worldwide but vary depending on culture. Why? Today, we’ll explore the fundamental differences between male and female brains, and how it affects us daily.

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This episode is a must listen from beginning to end for parents, educators, and providers of individuals with disabilities. Restraining someone against their will or placing them in an area of seclusion where they can not get out are still widely used methods in the special needs community. Why? Today’s episode addresses this question.   Click here for links to content mentioned in this episode.

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Dr. Jeanette and Bob Opperman co host a new show called Highway to Recovery which dives right into the hard topics; alcohol, drugs, heroin and addictions.  Today's families and children are fighting to survive the effects of living in a world where anything goes and so have all the ways that life used to look like.  We are being pushed to the edge of the cliff and many are choosing to exit via suicide and drugs.  Families are crumbling and children are dying.  Why? Today's guest is Dr. John DeGarmo, a leading expert in fostering children that have had extreme life challenges in their short lives.  Dr. John believes we all have enough love to heal a child's heart and bring them back into the fold and feel cared for if we just take a chance and reach out.  There are thousands of children at risk just waiting for you to help. For more information, google Dr. John DeGarmo and you will find his videos, articles, writings and websites with resources to get started in helping at risk kids.  Dr. Jeanette's new book "Trust:  Photo Meditations" is a guide to help you back into the world that may have seemed like it has turned on you or you are just not getting yourself back out there to live life again, this is a first step, click here.

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This Podcast Is Episode Number 0210 And It Will Be About Contractor Bookkeeping Basics Explained Contractor Bookkeeping Basics and Why Today’s technology says “Do Everything On Your Phone” Use an app to create an estimate, or better yet just send the estimate in the body of the email. That works when the customer’s reply is “Do It”. Great you start the job, finish the job, never send the customer an invoice; Why – They Don’t Need One – they know how much to pay from your original email. and you Included short explanatory paragraphs about each item of work you did. You move on to the next job. Weeks go by. If the customer is expecting a “formal invoice” and do not plan to pay until they receive one. More time passes; you are waiting to “GET PAID” and the customer is waiting “To Pay You”. Some customers will take the extra effort to call, leave a message, text, or email you asking for the invoice so they can pay.  MANY customers will say nothing until The Contractor sends the invoice they are NOT Paying and NOT doing any follow up. Months go by, and still, no check arrives.   Many contractors think they have someone who hasn’t paid but are unsure of who the customer was. Often times the contractor feels too much time has passed and doesn’t try to go back and bill old customers. What came in the mail was all of the supplier invoices for the job. All of the subcontractor invoices, and YES, the payroll for the job has been paid. The person who did NOT get paid was The Contractor. Get The Money, Collect Ongoing Payments, Get Job Deposits – Use Customers Funds for Material. DO NOT BE THE BANKER FOR YOUR CUSTOMER! Contractors are not bankers! First Step No matter what app you use. Make sure it has a “mini” invoice program for emailing customer an invoice. You can then go back and have a paper trail that you asked the customer for money. Second Step Track your time Use T-Sheets to keep track of the jobs you were on. (This is good for Contractors who do not have employees) What If you have to lien the job? One of the questions are when was the last day on the job? The answer could be the difference between having any lien rights and collecting the money or getting nothing but attorney or lien service fees. Use a Lien Service for Notice to the Owners on larger jobs. Double check with your supplier. Does the supplier send out Notice to the Owner? Even if your Lien Rights are gone – Maybe your Supplier’s Lien is Valid and Collectable.   Third Step Accept Credit Cards. More customers have room on their credit card than “Cash In The Bank.” Getting Money Now offsets the fees charged by your Merchant Service Provider. Many services that offer invoice programs (Estimating Software, Dispatch Software, Invoice Software) have an add-on feature for Merchant Services. Customer follows the link, puts in their credit card number or bank routing and account number for easy payment.  Again, worth the fees to GET PAID NOW! Behind the scenes, every Contractor should do additional Bookkeeping. Some invoice programs will track the payments received, but that is the extent of the bookkeeping. The Contractor’s Bookkeeping needs go beyond sending an email to the customer with the price of the job and taking the check to the bank. Customer Invoice Tracking knows Who Owes You Money AND How Much A proper Construction Contractor Bookkeeping System is setup to create a Customer Invoice. Receives Payment. Seeing the balance if anything is owed. Accounts Receivable Aging Report is one of the reports banks look at before giving you a business loan. Bankers want to know What is your volume (sales) What have you collected (customer payments) and How Much Do Customers Still Owe You and finally How Long Does It Take You To Collect. In some industries 30-60 days is common.   I have heard stories about larger retail stores who paid promptly after the first 6 months. It was surviving the first 6 months that was hard for smaller suppliers and Tenant Improvement Contractors. Accounts Payable is keeping track of the bills owed to a supplier or subcontractor. A proper Construction Contractor Bookkeeping System uses the Accounts Payable feature to track the unpaid bills. Again, the Banker wants to know how long it takes to pay your bills. The Bank wants to get paid and unlike The Contractor who is embarrassed to call an old customer; The Bank is very willing to Call Early and Often for any outstanding payments due.   Another reason to keep A proper Construction Contractor Bookkeeping System is so you don't Over Pay a supplier or subcontractor, cell phone, the internet, liability insurance, vehicle insurance and more. The bills keep coming and depending on your payment schedule you may receive the Past Due Reminder Notice before the Original Bill has arrived. Some utility companies have a history of what appears to be randomly sending Original Bill Some insurance companies if you do not immediately pay the invoice when it comes then the payment will be late and subject to a late charge. Based on where the Out of State payment needs to be mailed to it may be impossible to mail (by regular mail) and be received on time.   Hence – Online Payments Accepted. 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Welcome to another guest segment of ‘The Writer’s Brain’ where we pick the brain of a neuroscientist about the elements of great writing. This week’s show covers some possible origins and solutions to an ailment known only to writers. Research scientist Michael Grybko, of the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington, returned to help me pinpoint the mysteries of writer’s block from a scientific standpoint. If you missed the first three installments of The Writer’s Brain — on How Neuroscience Defines Creativity, Empathy, and Storytelling — you can find all of them in the show notes and on writerfiles.fm. Join us for this two-part interview, and if you’re a fan of the show, please click “subscribe” to automatically see new interviews, and help other writers find us. If you missed the first half you can find it right here. In Part Two of the file Michael Grybko and I discuss: 3 Symptoms of Writer’s Block and How to Cure Them How Your Emotions Have a Profound Effect on Your Creativity Why Achieving Small, Attainable Goals Rewards Your Brain How Changing Work Venues Boosts Your Productivity Hemingway’s Personal Tricks for Getting Words on the Page The Importance of Regular Rituals for Eliminating Doubt Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes How Neuroscientist Michael Grybko Defines Creativity How Neuroscientist Michael Grybko Defines Empathy How Neuroscientist Michael Grybko Defines Storytelling How to Beat Writer’s Block by Maria Konnikova How Bestselling Author Austin Kleon Writes: Part One Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind The End of Reflection – Teddy Wayne How To Concentrate Automatically Without Even Trying Seven Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction Around the Writer’s Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer’s Resistance 8 Strange Rituals of Productive Writers Kelton Reid on Twitter The Transcript How Neuroscientist Michael Grybko Defines Writer’s Block: Part Two Kelton Reid: The Writer Files is brought to you by StudioPress, the industry standard for premium WordPress themes and plugins. Built on the Genesis Framework, StudioPress delivers state-of-the-art SEO tools, beautiful and fully responsive design, air tight security, instant updates, and much more. If you’re ready to take your WordPress site to the next level, see for yourself why over 177,000 website owners trust StudioPress. Go to Rainmaker.FM/StudioPress right now. Kelton Reid: These are The Writer Files, a tour of the habit, habitats, and brains of working writers, from online content creators to fictionists, journalists, entrepreneurs, and beyond. I’m your host Kelton Reid: writer, podcaster, and mediaphile. Each week, we’ll discover how great writers keep the ink flowing, the cursor moving, and avoid writer’s block. Welcome back to another guest segment of The Writer’s Brain, where I pick the brain of a neuroscientist about the elements of great writing. This week’s show covers some possible origins and solutions to an ailment known only to writers. Research scientist Michael Grybko with the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington returned to help me pinpoint the mystery of writer’s block from a scientific standpoint. If you missed any previous installments of The Writer’s Brain — on How Neuroscience Defines Creativity, Empathy, and Storytelling, or the first half of this show — you can find them all in the show notes, as well on WriterFiles.FM. Join us for this two-part interview, and if you’re a fan of the show, please click ‘subscribe’ to automatically see new interviews and help other writers to find us. In part two of the file, Michael and I discuss three symptoms of writer’s block and how to cure them, how your emotions have a profound effect on your creativity, why achieving small, attainable goals rewards your brain, how changing work venues can boost your productivity, Hemmingway’s personal tricks for getting words onto the page, and the importance of regular rituals for eliminating doubt. 3 Symptoms of Writer’s Block and How to Cure Them Kelton Reid: Well, I think I found an early reference to the incubation phase in this four-stage model of creativity from the ’20s that this social psychologist, Wallas — he was a British guy — was studying inventors, and he came up with this four-stage model. The first stage was preparation. Second stage was incubation. Third stage was elimination. The fourth stage was verification. It confirms one piece of that puzzle. Obviously, going back to how the research phase that all writers initially have to do to start putting information in there, but you talked about this before, actually. In our creativity session, you said, “The more information you put in there, the bigger pull of ideas you’ll have to pull from, and that means more opportunities to be creative” — kind of bringing it full circle to creativity. And your original point, you can apply that knowledge in a situation that you might be unfamiliar with to kind of resolve an issue, and some of that is happening subconsciously. Well, there was a couple things. I love the idea of remixed culture and a couple guys, Kirby Ferguson and Austin Kleon, talk about these basic elements of creativity. That ability — being able to copy, transform, and combine elements into something new — kind of fits into that same four phases or model of creativity. I want to pull out a clip from Austin Kleon’s interview about writer’s block, and I think I’ll have Toby drop that in right here. Austin Kleon: I feel like writer’s block is just exhaustion, laziness, or fear, or some combination of them. I also think that a lot of times when I’m blocked, I don’t want to sit down and write. I just don’t want to because it’s not my favorite thing to do. I would rather read. Fran Lebowitz, she’s like, “If you ever feel like writing, just lay down on the couch and read a bit, it’ll pass.” That’s how I feel. But I also think that people hit walls and I think a lot of times when I am just, “Nothing’s coming,” that means that, when the output doesn’t happen, that’s cause there’s problem of input. A lot of times, problems of output are problems of input. So if you don’t have anything coming out, that means there’s not good stuff going in. That could be anything from you need to take a trip, you need to just walk away from your desk, or you need to stare at a wall for a while, or read. Just something to get something jump-started. So a lot of times with block, some people try to power through block, and I’m just like, “Eh, go walk away for a bit.” Everybody’s had that experience. You’re in the shower or you’re on a walk, and that’s when the juices start flowing. With that said, I think you need a time and place every day to do the work. Kelton Reid: Creativity’s a messy process, I think. There’s this other book called Wired to Create, kind of examining the creative mind, talking a lot about how creatives are switching between these rapid thought processes and, to generate these new ideas, always working out an idea through critical reflection and considering the perspective of the artist and the audience. Anyway, there’s so much about input equals output that we could talk about in engaging our brains. Michael Grybko: Well, I think there’s one more aspect, too, and it’s not just input and output, but there’s also recall. So even if we have the information, we have to be able to access it, and I think that has to do a lot with writer’s block. It’s not just if we have the information or not. Of course, like I said, we can’t access information if we don’t have it. But once we’ve developed a knowledge base, it’s how do we access it? And I think that’s a big issue in writer’s block, and that’s the one I was kind of interested in. How Your Emotions Have a Profound Effect on Your Creativity Michael Grybko: And another important topic on that is emotional states. And this can influence, greatly I think, our ability to access information. We touched on this a little bit before, but emotional states have a profound effect on creativity and our productivity. Of course, there’s major bouts of depression and anxiety, even if you want to consider narcissism an emotional state, that can go on for a long time, and those are kind of hard to touch on. What I wanted to focus on are things we can do today. Maybe help writers today and help avoid writer’s block. And there can also be kind of minor walls we hit; minor bouts of depression or anxiety that we can possibly control. I started thinking about that and this idea of motivation, motivational learning, and individuals being avoidance-motivated or approach-motivated — meaning that do you go into a task thinking you’re going to succeed, being optimistic, or do you approach life in fear while trying to avoid failure? “Oh, I can’t. That’s something I can’t accomplish. I’m not going to do that.” And this has been shown — these behaviors, avoidance-motivated versus approach-motivated — to affect an individual’s productivity. Avoidance motivation tends to lead to depression, anxiety, and less productivity. And approach-motivated is generally beneficial, but there can be some downsides. You can be too optimistic. We’ve always referred to foolishly optimistic, and this almost narcissistic behavior. I was thinking about that, and what’s the neurological basis for this? And there’s quite a bit. This is a huge field of research. A lot of it comes down to the neurotransmitter dopamine, and some work done in the late ’90s by Wolfram Schultz and colleagues showed that in animals models, dopamine neurons in the area of the brain known as the striatum, which is thought as a reward center of the brain, these neurons were found to burst fire in response to the rewards, and they would decrease their firing rate, or pause in firing, if there’s punishment — so if a reward wasn’t received or was less than expected. Now, what’s really interesting is that after the animals were trained, they would begin to expect a reward. They started to see that the firing rate would change, so the animal’s neurons would start the burst fire before they received the reward, just if they expected to. And then the opposite was also seen, so they would start to perceive a punishment. Now, why this is interesting is because now this is evidence that changes in neuronal activity may happen based on our perceived outcome of a situation. So before we even know what’s going to happen, we can almost affect how we proceed. This research is continuing. It’s still going on. So further research on this topic is showing that an individual’s perceived outcome of a situation can influence on how we perform on a task. Why Achieving Small, Attainable Goals Rewards Your Brain Michael Grybko: So there’s something said to being optimistic and pessimism, that you may actually be changing your performance on a task by thinking negatively, being avoidance-motivated versus approach-motivated. I think that, that can apply to writer’s block and can be something writers can work on, people can work on, to be more productive — is to try to be more approach-motivated and maybe some tangible things we can do to help facilitate this. I think one of these is set some obtainable goals, even small stuff. As you go through a project, just, “All right, I want to get this much research done today,” and your brain’s going to reward you a little bit. Your brain’s going to, “Okay, here’s a little dopamine. Success. Way to go!” Getting in this pattern of positive thinking and accomplishment may help stave off writer’s block. Kelton Reid: Yeah, absolutely, and I’ve heard writers talk about this before. It is sometimes a matter of and there were some example of this, but I’ve heard writers say, “I’ll just set a small goal for myself, like 500 words,” and it’s so obtainable that, often, I will get to the end of the 500 words very quickly and then just keep going. Michael Grybko: Right. Kelton Reid: I’ll write 1,000, 2,000, whatever that may be. But there is that negative death spiral of writer’s block that I can see happening. Because all of a sudden, once you’ve missed or you give yourself too big of a goal and you miss it, then you want to avoid it. That avoidance motivation I could see working against you. Michael Grybko: Yeah, so one problem with writer’s block, it can really snowball. So this deadline all of a sudden, the anxiety builds. Anxiety makes it harder to work and be productive. Then there’s also the idea of the problem with being approach-motivated is you can set a goal that’s too lofty and convince yourself you’re going to be successful, and if we miss that goal, then it can be a very dramatic and negative process. And also I think this is important for managers to realize, and supervisors, what kind of environment are they creating in their workplace and to think about some approach-motivated goals and things like that and be sure to reward people when they do a good job and not just hang deadlines over their heads. That’s really going to create an unhealthy environment. Kelton Reid: There’s so much here. There’s so much to talk about. Michael Grybko: I know. Kelton Reid: Should we start to get into how do we resolve writer’s block once it’s actually set in? Michael Grybko: Yeah, going over and thinking about what we just talked about and introducing some of these sort of behaviors back into your schedule help a lot. I think this incubation stage really comes up time and time again. We started this podcast off by talking about Maria Konnikova’s article in The New Yorker. She went back and looked at some of this early research on emotional states of the writer and how they helped writers overcome writer’s block by using what they called ‘directed mental imagery.’ This is where the subjects would focus on a creative project that was unrelated to the one they were working on for a period and then go back to their original work. They found some success with this approach. I think the efficacy of this approach may be tied to that incubation period that we were discussing earlier. Kelton Reid: For sure. Michael Grybko: So if individuals are feeling blocked, maybe hitting a pause button may be a good idea. Just take a step back. Give yourself a moment. And then as we were talking about earlier, it may be good to have another hobby, another task in your life, to kind of divert your attention away for awhile. So try focusing on something else for a little bit, and then go back to the project that you were working on. Kelton Reid: One-hundred percent believe in that. Michael Grybko: Back to the approach- and avoidance-motivated, I think if you are blocked, just go back to the basics. Just set some basic goals for yourself. Just easy stuff you can accomplish to get that ball rolling and get some confidence back, too. So that might be a good step to take if you’re beginning to have writer’s block set it. Why Today’s Technology Makes an Incubation Period Vital Kelton Reid: I keep thinking that, I’m thinking about another piece in The New York Times, the title of it was The End of Reflection, this piece by Teddy Wayne where he talks about our compulsive obsession with checking social media and how we’re plugged in all the time to smartphones and the Internet and how our brains begin to just get engaged all the time. With the speed of high-speed Internet and the ease of use of all these different tools that we’re using to constantly be plugged in, we’re not really giving ourselves the opportunity to have that incubation phase. So some of those neuronal connections aren’t being made. I don’t know. I think it comes back to unplugging, and I was just thinking of a handful of things, myself — like writing longhand in a notebook or on note cards instead of using a computer, which actually has been proven to be more effective in learning. Reading a book, like a paper book, couldn’t hurt. You can use an e-reader that’s not connected to the Internet, obviously. That’s effective, too. Turning off your phone for a period or using apps that block the Internet, plenty of well-known writers do that. Taking a long walk, taking a long walk in nature. Michael Grybko: Yeah, just get away for a bit. Just technology, Internet, and information technology is evolving so quickly. It’s really hard to predict what the outcome of this will be, but we know, as you said, we have so much information available just at our fingertips. We may not be giving ourselves the time we need to step away from these things and really give ourselves that incubation period. Maybe we might be missing some important neuronal activity or not giving our neuronal activity the time it needs to fully develop these ideas and be productive. Who knows? Kelton Reid: So you talked about mixing things up? Michael Grybko: Yeah, I think that’s another good way to get away, to give yourself an incubation period, to give yourself something else to do besides just this task. It’s very easy to get overrun on one task. Our brain likes activity. It likes things to do. It likes surprises, I guess, a little bit. How Changing Work Venues Boosts Your Productivity Kelton Reid: Yeah, yeah. A lot of writers also talk about the importance of changing venues or at least designating a special place or special computer for doing writing to increase their productivity. But it actually has been proven that changing your surroundings to a place where others are actually hard at work on their own projects has been proven to influence us and help us concentrate. It’s actually literally contagious. Michael Grybko: Sure. Kelton Reid: This study, which I’ll link to, talked about how seeing other people in postures of exertion or working hard at a task I don’t know if it’s their face or just being at a coffee shop. It’s also been proven that the ambient sounds of a coffee shop are helpful to writers, or at least to productivity. There’s something scientific about the accountability of having a pair of eyes on you. Michael Grybko: I don’t know. Yeah, this could be interesting. I think there’s a lot of things to talk about here. One, we can link back to our discussion on empathy, and that could be part of it. Our behaviors can be somewhat contagious. We sort of mirror and mimic individuals around us, and they mimic us as well. So that may be an aspect to this. I think that, again, speaking to supervisors, managers, this is something that they can think about. What kind of environment do they want to work in? What’s the good environment for their productivity and work, or people? Then, also, listening to the people they hire — what do they need to be productive? — and creating a culture that people can feed off each other. Kelton Reid: Absolutely. Michael Grybko: It’s not surprising. Venue is important. Kelton Reid: Venue is important. Also very interesting is this idea of the solitude of the writer because writing is a very intimate, private thing. And that’s why a lot of writers cloister themselves off in a writer’s retreat or a cabin in the mountains. But that’s not always the best place to get writing. Michael Grybko: Again, I’ll reference back to our talk about rhythms and how our brain activity changes over the course of a day. Yeah, certain aspects of the creative process or, probably, we’re more prone to a certain venue or more productive in a certain venue or task. Maybe we have to change venues — so doing research versus writing. They involve different environments. Kelton Reid: I love that, and I also do love working in a coffee shop. But there are times where I just can’t work in a coffee shop when it’s too distracting or I really need flow — so I need quiet and no movement. They do actually have apps that have a coffee shop soundtrack, which I have used in the past and can attest to. Michael Grybko: It made a little coffee odor, too? Kelton Reid: No, but you can put a cup of coffee next to your desk and just waft it your way or drink it. Anyway, I think there’s so much here. Hopefully we’ve offered some ideas for writers. The importance of the incubation phase, which allows your brain to do some of those cool subconscious things — if you’ve had in an ah-ha moment in the shower or on a walk or on a bike ride when you’re not thinking about the work at hand, all of that kind of stuff. Hemingway’s Personal Tricks for Getting Words on the Page Kelton Reid: I just wanted to touch on in some tips from Ernest Hemmingway, just to go back to a seminal writer and some of his advice that were collected in a book called Ernest Hemmingway and Writing, where he just dropped some wisdom. They were, obviously, not all in one place, but were collected from his letters. First one that he said was, “To get started, write one true sentence.” I think that kind of goes back to the setting obtainable goals. Because, hey look, you wrote one great sentence, and everything kind of goes from there. Michael Grybko: So you have a taste of success. Kelton Reid: Yeah, and he was saying I’ll go back to just general advice for writers, which going all the way full circle to the idea that the writer’s brain can be compared to a pro athlete’s brain — where does that come from? So much of that is from practice and repetition. Michael Grybko: Right, repetitive. Kelton Reid: And there’s another great book called Around the Writer’s Block by an author, Roseanne Belle, where she discusses that whole thing. She really gets into it, digs into it, but just to bring it back to Hemmingway. She’s kind of drilling into the idea that you’re training your brain through repetition and practice, and in order to write well, you have to write, period. And to write, you’ve got to write badly. You’re always going to start writing something crappy, so Hemmingway’s famous quote, of course, is, “I write one page of masterpiece for ninety one pages of sh*t. And I try to put the sh*t in the wastebasket.” And that’s where the editing process comes in, right? That verification process. I love that. Anyway, a couple others from Hemmingway, really quick. “Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.” Of course, that’s a fiction thing, but kind of keeping that interest alive. The incubation thing he touches on, “Never think about a story when you’re not working on it.” Michael Grybko: Sure, incubation. Kelton Reid: Hemmingway was there. Then, “When it’s time to work again, always start by reading what you’ve written so far.” So you’re kind of firing up those neuronal pathways again. Michael Grybko: Accessing the information again, recall. Kelton Reid: And he swore by using a pencil when he wasn’t at the typewriter. Again, that hand writing to start out. Michael Grybko: Yeah. It may help with acquiring knowledge. It may be a useful tool for memory formation. Kelton Reid: It works your brain a different way. Michael Grybko: Right. The Importance of Regular Rituals for Eliminating Doubt Kelton Reid: Okay, well to kind of wrap up here, I think that writers need to find rituals and routines. I know this is a question I ask writers on the podcast quite often — do they have some psyche-up rituals to get them in the mood. Everyone is different. Everyone has different stuff. Some have none at all. I know in Twyla Tharp’s book The Creative Habit, she talks a lot about how rituals eliminate doubt. And of course, I think that’s probably part of what you touch on as well. Michael Grybko: Right. And I think like we were saying, there’s going to be a lot of individual differences based on people’s history. Find out what works best for you as a writer. Kelton Reid: For sure. Michael Grybko: Just because one writer defines writer’s block as a certain thing and you don’t agree with that, that’s fine. Kelton Reid: Yeah. I wrote a piece for Copyblogger called 8 Strange Rituals of Productive Writers, and again, like pro athletes, these rituals, they don’t have to be orthodox, which I’ll get to. They just have to be regular. And you just have to build those muscles. Anyway, George Orwell, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill — all famous for writing while they were lying down. Michael Grybko: Okay, I’ve never tried it. Kelton Reid: You know, why not? Of course, Charles Dickens and Henry Miller both used to wander around Europe actually trying to get lost and, again, trying to foster creativity by changing their mindset. A lot of writers will write with music on. This is something I touch on actually in a podcast. Every writer has kind of a different music. I know that Stephen King likes to listen to rock music. Same with Austin Kleon. I prefer, actually, ambient music. The productivity thing again, touching back on circadian rhythms, Balzac would get up at midnight and drink black coffee well into the next day. Flannery O’Connor only wrote for two hours a day, and that seems like a pretty obtainable goal. Michael Grybko: That’s a goal, yeah. Kelton Reid: She was very prolific. Finally, I think I’ll wrap up with this one. Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever wrote mostly in his underwear. Michael Grybko: Okay, I’m not sure the neurological basis for that one. I’m going to leave that one untouched. Kelton Reid: Yeah, we don’t really know why. Michael Grybko: Yeah I don’t know the neuro-mechanism on that. Kelton Reid: Hey, he’s just trying to relax, be groovy, man. Michael Grybko: Yeah, we have to leave on a cliffhanger, right? Kelton Reid: Okay. Well, I think we’ve covered a lot of good stuff. I think we’ve offered a lot of good insights of what’s happening at least inside the writer’s brain, as we try to do. And I really appreciate you taking the time to enlighten us, man. Michael Grybko: This was fun. These are interesting questions that I get to think about, and I love it when you throw these my way. It gets me thinking about things, so I enjoy it. Thank you. Kelton Reid: Fantastic. Well, come back and see us soon. We’ll have another brain question for you. Michael Grybko: Great. Looking forward to it. Kelton Reid: All right, thanks, Michael. Michael Grybko: All right, thank you. Kelton Reid: Thanks so much for joining us for a glimpse into the workings of the writer’s brain. For more episodes of The Writer Files, or to simply leave us a comment or question, drop by WriterFiles.FM. You can always chat with me on Twitter @KeltonReid. Cheers. Talk to you next week.

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