Podcasts about willingness

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What if the scariest story your mind tells… could actually set you free?   *This episode includes a live imaginal script. Some words that algorithm may flag as problematic have been muted to prevent issues with the platform. These edits are purely for compliance and do not change the meaning or therapeutic purpose of the script.*   In this episode of The OCD Whisperer Podcast, Kristina Orlova sits down with Natalia for part two of a four-part series on ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention). Together, they dive into the misunderstood practice of imaginal exposures — a therapeutic tool that helps people face OCD's darkest fears on paper, reclaim power from intrusive thoughts, and build true resilience.   Natalia opens up about: • Writing an imaginal script around her most feared intrusive thoughts • How OCD convinced her she could be a danger to her own children • Why telling the “fear story” in detail reduced its power • What it feels like to desensitize through repetition   This conversation also dives into: • Why OCD thrives on avoidance and secrecy • How imaginal exposures flip the power dynamic over intrusive thoughts • The role of compassion and creativity in ERP therapy   Whether you are navigating OCD yourself or supporting someone, this episode offers clarity, tools, and hope to help you understand ERP and take the first step toward recovery.  

This week, Pastor John continued our Unafraid series with a sermon from Judges 4–5, showing us through the story of Deborah and Barak how God works through surrendered hearts. In all seasons of life, God leads us step by step and invites us to trust in His sovereignty and walk faithfully in willingness.

"At M2 The Rock, we fully respect the anonymity of all 12-step fellowships. In alignment with their traditions, we do not represent or speak on behalf of any of these groups. Our mission is to share hope, not affiliation."About M2 THE ROCK - MICHAEL MOLTHAN:I'm Michael Molthan, host of The M2 The Rock Show—one of the fastest-growing podcasts and shows on self-improvement, mental health, addiction recovery, and spiritual transformation. I'm so grateful you're here.I started M2 The Rock in 2017 to bring you conversations designed to make you happier, healthier, and more healed. Through raw and unfiltered discussions with experts, celebrities, thought leaders, and athletes, we uncover new perspectives on personal growth, recovery, and overcoming life's toughest challenges.My Story:What sets my journey apart is that there wasn't just one rock bottom—there were many. From being a successful luxury homebuilder to falling into addiction, homelessness, crime, and eventually 27 mugshots and prison, my life was in absolute chaos.Addiction was my temporary escape from childhood trauma, but it only led to destruction.It wasn't until I hit the lowest point imaginable that I finally found true freedom, redemption, and purpose. After an unexpected early release from prison in 2017, I walked 300 miles back to Dallas to turn myself in—only to be miraculously pardoned and told to “pay it forward.”And that's exactly what I've been doing ever since.My MissionI believe that rock bottom is not the end—it's a stepping stone to something greater.My goal is to redefine what "rock bottom" means by helping others rebuild their Spirit, Mind, and Body. On M2 The Rock, I speak openly about trauma, addiction, recovery, and the power of transformation. I don't shy away from topics like:✅ Trauma & Addiction – Understanding the root causes✅ Self-Sabotage & Mental Health – Breaking negative cycles✅ Codependency & Enabling – How relationships impact recovery✅ 12-Step Programs & Spiritual Healing – Finding true freedom✅ Religious Trauma & Personal Growth – Healing from past wounds"Everyone Is An Addict."Whether it's substances, work, validation, or negative thinking, we all have something we struggle with.But recovery is possible, and transformation is real.

Can ERP really help you face your biggest fears? In this episode of The OCD Whisperer Podcast, Kristina Orlova speaks with Natalia, a therapist specializing in OCD treatment. Together, they explore the foundations of Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy and why it is considered first line treatment for OCD.   Natalia opens up about: The basics of ERP and how it actually works in practice Why people fear ERP and worry it will feel “torturous” How therapists can guide clients step by step without overwhelming them Strategies for building confidence and willingness in the recovery journey   This conversation also dives into: Common misconceptions about ERP and OCD treatment The importance of flexibility, creativity, and pacing in therapy How ERP is not about “beating you down” but about empowering lasting change Whether you are navigating OCD yourself or supporting someone, this episode offers clarity, tools, and hope to help you understand ERP and take the first step toward recovery.  

"If you have IBS, chronic fatigue, autoimmune disease, or anxiety that won't go away - your doctor might be missing something huge. Your illness might not be just physical. It might be your body screaming what your mouth can't say: NO.In this episode of Masks Off for People Pleasers and Perfectionists, host Kim Gross uncovers the powerful connection between chronic illness and patterns like people-pleasing and perfectionism. These behaviors, often rooted in childhood, can create chronic stress that worsens conditions like IBS, autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue, and anxiety.✨ Inside this episode, you'll learn:How people-pleasing and perfectionism contribute to chronic illnessKim's personal journey from diagnosis to deeper self-awarenessWhy emotional well-being is directly tied to physical healthAn introduction to the 5-Step POWER Pathway (Patterns, Ownership, Willingness, Embrace, Radical Responsibility)Actionable steps you can take today to set boundaries, honor your true self, and begin your healing journey

What if the secret to unlocking your business potential—and your life—was embracing the very thing you've been told to hide? In this episode of Unemployable with Jeff Dudan, globally recognized entrepreneur, author, and thought leader Frankie Russo shares his philosophy of Love Your Weird. From losing it all in the 2008 crash, to rebuilding through imagination, innovation, and authenticity, Frankie reveals how to break free from stagnation and fuel limitless growth. Together, Jeff and Frankie explore: Why stagnation kills businesses and how to escape it The “Infinity Growth Loop” for continuous momentum Why genius = why × weird² is the formula for personal and business success The role of permission, authenticity, and failure in innovation How AI is rewriting the future of work and why embracing your weird is the ultimate competitive edge If you're ready to unlock your genius, embrace your authentic self, and build a legacy that lasts—this episode is for you.

What if the secret to unlocking your business potential—and your life—was embracing the very thing you've been told to hide? In this episode of Unemployable with Jeff Dudan, globally recognized entrepreneur, author, and thought leader Frankie Russo shares his philosophy of Love Your Weird. From losing it all in the 2008 crash, to rebuilding through imagination, innovation, and authenticity, Frankie reveals how to break free from stagnation and fuel limitless growth. Together, Jeff and Frankie explore: Why stagnation kills businesses and how to escape it The “Infinity Growth Loop” for continuous momentum Why genius = why × weird² is the formula for personal and business success The role of permission, authenticity, and failure in innovation How AI is rewriting the future of work and why embracing your weird is the ultimate competitive edge If you're ready to unlock your genius, embrace your authentic self, and build a legacy that lasts—this episode is for you.

Send us a textWhat makes a truly effective correctional leader? In this thought-provoking episode, Michael Cantrell draws from decades of experience to unpack the three essential qualities officers desperately want from their supervisors: knowledge, willingness, and courage.Correctional officers seek leaders who possess deep knowledge about policies, case law, and facility operations—creating a foundation of confidence and security. They need supervisors willing to step up during challenging situations and act as shields, protecting their teams from both unreasonable administrative demands and front-line dangers. Most critically, they require leaders with the courage to act decisively when faced with difficult circumstances.Cantrell explores how successful correctional leaders maintain clear visions that extend beyond themselves, establishing high expectations that motivate their teams toward excellence. He examines how a leader's treatment of others—from subordinates to superiors to inmates—reveals their character and shapes the entire facility's culture. The conversation delves into how effective leaders combat the pervasive discouragement that can infiltrate correctional work by highlighting purpose and meaning. Even when results aren't immediately visible, the work of maintaining public safety represents a vital contribution to society that leaders must continually reinforce.Perhaps surprisingly, Cantrell emphasizes the crucial role of appropriate humor in correctional leadership. The ability to find joy amidst challenges creates resilience against the inherent stresses of the profession and builds stronger connections among team members.Whether you're a seasoned correctional supervisor or aspiring to leadership, this episode provides valuable insights for building stronger, more effective teams in one of society's most challenging environments. PepperBallFrom crowd control to cell extractions, the PepperBall system is the safe, non-lethal option.OMNIOMNI is cutting-edge software designed to track inmates and assets within your prison or jail. Command PresenceBringing prisons and jails the training they deserve!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showAlso, check out Michael's newest book - POWER SKILLS: Emotional Intelligence and Soft Skills for Correctional Officers, First Responders, and Beyond https://amzn.to/4mBeog5 See Michael's newest Children's Books here: www.CantrellWrites.com Support the show ======================= Contact me: mike@theprisonofficer.com Buy Me a Cup of Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mikeml Keys to Your New Career: Information and Guidance to Get Hired and Be Successful as a Correctional or Detention Officer https://amzn.to/4g0mSLw Finding Your Purpose: Crafting a Personal Vision Statement to Guide Your Life and Career https://amzn.to/3HV4dUG Take care of each other and Be Safe behind those walls and fences! #prisonofficerpodcast #leadership #podcast @theprisonofficerpodcast Contact us: mike@theprisonofficer.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePrisonOfficerTake care of each other and Be Safe behind those walls and fences!

Pastor Marcus De La Cruz | August 24, 2025| Sunday 10AM | Porterville, CA

RAW Recovery Hosted by Dion Miller Subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@thedailytrudge3367 RAW Recovery is a podcast built on real conversations, not canned stories. Hosted by Dion Miller, who brings over 20 years of experience interviewing people and supporting others through recovery-related work, this show offers honest, unfiltered dialogue about addiction, sobriety, and healing. Dion has spent two decades connected to recovery—from working in detox and treatment to prevention and outreach—and now uses podcasting as a new way to help others. RAW Recovery isn't about one-size-fits-all solutions. It's about real people, from all walks of life, sharing their journeys in their own words. What makes RAW Recovery different? It's not a scripted narrative or a host-driven spotlight. It's a conversation. The guest is the focus. The stories are raw, the emotions are real, and the goal is simple: to let people know they're not alone. Whether you're in recovery, seeking help, or just listening to learn, RAW Recovery is here for the tough talks that can lead to healing.

Hello, and welcome back to Source of Truth, the new podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at SOLO. This series is about information asymmetry (the enemy of financial services; especially lending).  In Episode, we tackled truth vs. trust. And in Episode 2, we explore history vs. overconfidence, which goes something like this: In 1995, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac effectively mandated the use of FICO scores in mortgage underwriting. Almost overnight, credit scores went from a niche tool in bankers' back rooms to the market's law of the land. Joining me to unpack that history and its consequences is Martin Kleinbard, Founder of Granual Fintech (and author of the great research report How Cashflow Data Can Diffuse the Credit Score Time Bomb, which I was proud to publish at Fintech Takes).  Highlights include: What began as an additive tool for underwriting quickly became a substitute for judgment (lenders skipped the W-2s and leaned entirely on the number) The three pillars of credit: Willingness to pay (FICO's wheelhouse), ability to pay (cash flow, income, assets), and product risk (loan terms that can themselves trigger default) – the financial crisis showed what happens when you ignore the latter two! Second-order risk today. From BNPL quirks to payment hierarchy surprises (why personal loans sometimes get paid before mortgages), context still matters more than any one score This episode explores what happens when we reduce everything to a single number: lenders miss nuance, consumers get misread. A credit score can predict repayment, but only context explains it. And in the end, context is king. Subscribe now and catch the rest of Source of Truth … we're just getting started! This miniseries is brought to you by SOLO. SOLO resolves and connects customer data across silos — so teams stop rekeying the same customer info for the hundredth time and finally move forward. Break the cycle at SOLO.one - That's SOLO dot o-n-e. Sign up for Alex's Fintech Takes newsletter for the latest insightful analysis on fintech trends, along with a heaping pile of pop culture references and copious footnotes. Every Monday and Thursday: https://workweek.com/brand/fintech-takes/ And for more exclusive insider content, don't forget to check out my YouTube page. Follow Alex:  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgfH47QEwbQmkQlz1V9rQA/videos LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhjohnson Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/AlexH_Johnson Follow Martin: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-kleinbard-6122aa1a/ We also chat about his new piece in Open Banker (on AI for consumer bankers), which you can read here: https://openbanker.beehiiv.com/p/aiforconsumerbankers Learn more about SOLO here.

Kevin Estela is a former History teacher and life-long outdoorsman, as well as an author, and talented educator. For me, Kevin was one of my earliest inspirations as a podcaster, and I couldn't be more excited to have the opportunity to sit down with him. We dive into history and fieldcraft, his transition from public school educator to full time instructor, as well as the importance of mindset in your individual training journey. Kevin shared a lot in this conversation, including the three essential elements to achieving success: awareness, preparedness, and willingness. We talked at length about how those three characteristics together will lead you to the places you want to be, and how their absence can lead to failure. Further we talk firearms for wildlife encounters as well as self defense, and even got into a little bit of tactical shotgun. Absolutely, an outstanding and entertaining conversation, and I'm sincerely looking forward to connecting with Kevin again in the future.Visit our sponsors!Our Patreon - www.patreon.com/prepared_mindset_podCustom Night Vision - www.customnightvision.comHerrington Arms - www.herringtonarms.com

Personal Testimony and Introduction Expressing gratitude for salvation through Jesus Christ. Acknowledging that salvation is solely due to Jesus's actions. Sharing a personal experience of conviction and salvation at age 17 during a revival. Experiencing a difficult night after initially resisting the call to salvation. Emphasizing the importance of not delaying obedience to God's call. Expressing nervousness before preaching despite years of experience. Desiring prayers for the ability to deliver the intended message. Scripture Reading and Theme Introduction Reading Isaiah 1:19: "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land." Focusing on the words "willing and obedient" as the central theme. Highlighting Jesus Christ as the ultimate example of willingness and obedience. Jesus's willingness to go to the cross as essential for humanity's hope. His obedience in not calling upon angels as crucial for salvation. Emphasizing that the initial call to obedience is accepting Jesus as Savior. Expressing continued thankfulness for salvation. The Necessity of Continued Willingness and Obedience Highlighting that salvation is not a passive state but requires ongoing willingness and obedience to God. God provides talents and abilities for kingdom work, requiring individuals to be willing to use them. Experiencing spiritual blessings through personal obedience and the obedience of others. Referencing Isaiah 6, where Isaiah volunteers to go when God asks, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Acknowledging past failures to seize opportunities to work for God due to succumbing to worldly influences. Emphasizing the importance of willingness in serving God. Examples of Willingness and Obedience David's willingness to face Goliath, questioning, "Is there not a cause?" David's confidence in God's power over the giant. Rejecting Saul's armor to rely on personal experience and faith in God's Word. David's past experiences as a shepherd, where God strengthened him to kill a lion and a bear. Sticking with what is known to work, which is God's Word. Highlighting the importance of God's Word as the source of help, contrasting it with reliance on worldly programs or other people. Expressing gratitude for those who wrote down God's word. Consequences of Disobedience and the Mercy of God Experiencing misery when failing to seize opportunities to serve God. Feeling conviction and needing to seek forgiveness and restoration. God's loving and merciful nature, offering forgiveness and restoration. Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac in Genesis 22. Abraham's prompt action: "rose up early in the morning." Isaac's question about the sacrifice and Abraham's response that "God will provide himself a lamb." Relating this to Jesus Christ as the ultimate sacrifice. God's blessings for willingness and obedience. Practical Application and Personal Reflection God expects action on the tasks already given before providing new ones. Recalling a prayer to do whatever God wants, initially with exceptions (e.g., not wanting to be a missionary). Opportunities arose when the exceptions were removed, and a willingness to do anything was expressed. God blesses those who are willing and obedient, allowing them to "eat of the fat of the lamb." Recognizing the world's need for salvation and the opportunity to work for the Lord. Acknowledging the gift of gab and the importance of using talents for God's kingdom work. Seeking forgiveness for past refusals to act when God called. Highlighting the danger of becoming complacent and missing opportunities for God to work through us. Living Sacrifice and Family in Christ Referencing Romans 12:1, urging believers to present their bodies as a living sacrifice. Emphasizing that this is a reasonable service to God.

In this powerful episode, Dr. Debi Silber dives into one of the most misunderstood yet essential parts of healing after betrayal: forgiveness. She explores forgiveness from two sides—forgiving ourselves and forgiving others—and unpacks the deep misconceptions that keep people stuck in pain, resentment, and confusion.  You'll learn why forgiveness doesn't mean reconciliation, how it affects your physical, emotional, and mental health, and why self-forgiveness is just as important—if not more—than forgiving the person who hurt you. Dr. Debi also introduces the Window of Willingness, a framework to help you determine whether it's safe (or even wise) to rebuild with someone after betrayal.  Plus, in honor of National Forgiveness Day (founded by Dr. Debi and held every year on September 1st), you'll hear about the 21-day forgiveness experience that has helped countless people move from pain to peace. If you've been holding on to anger, shame, guilt, or heartbreak—this episode is your invitation to finally let it go. 

What are the determinants to Fellowship? #1-HUMILITY, vv. 1-2 #2-Preserving UNITY, vv. 3-6 #3-SERVICE, vv. 7-12 #4-AVAILABILITY, vv. 11-12 #5-PURPOSE, vv. 13-15 #6-LOVE, vv. 15-16 #7-ACCOUNTABILITY, vv. 17-24 #8-PATIENCE, vv. 25-31 #9-FORGIVENESS, v. 32 #10-SOUND DOCTRINE, vv. 6, 13 #11-TRUTH, vv. 11-12, 15, 21 #12-WILLINGNESS, v. 1 #13-FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT, v. 30 #14-EDIFICATION, v. 29 #15-SENSITIVITY, vv. 20-21 #16-PRAYER, vv. 29 & 31

August 20, 2025, 4pm: After returning from their two-week walkout over the Texas GOP's redistricting plan, Texas Democrats continue their protest on home turf while awaiting final passage of the state's new congressional maps. Texas State Representative Ron Reynolds joins Nicolle to provide insight. Plus, Governor Gavin Newsom gives Trump a taste of his own medicine. For more, follow us on Instagram @deadlinewhTo listen to this show and other MSNBC podcasts without ads, sign up for MSNBC Premium on Apple Podcasts.

Living In the basics, we are exploring of the principles of the 12 steps and how they are expressed in fundamental ideas of Pnimius HaTorah and Chassidus.In this episode Menachem closes our our exploration of step 8 by exploring the journey of developing willingness and embracing the value of the journey toward willingness.Website: TheLightRevealed.orgEmail: TheLightRevealed@TLRFamily.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelightrevealed/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelightrevealed/

RAW Recovery Hosted by Dion Miller Subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@thedailytrudge3367 RAW Recovery is a podcast built on real conversations, not canned stories. Hosted by Dion Miller, who brings over 20 years of experience interviewing people and supporting others through recovery-related work, this show offers honest, unfiltered dialogue about addiction, sobriety, and healing. Dion has spent two decades connected to recovery—from working in detox and treatment to prevention and outreach—and now uses podcasting as a new way to help others. RAW Recovery isn't about one-size-fits-all solutions. It's about real people, from all walks of life, sharing their journeys in their own words. What makes RAW Recovery different? It's not a scripted narrative or a host-driven spotlight. It's a conversation. The guest is the focus. The stories are raw, the emotions are real, and the goal is simple: to let people know they're not alone. Whether you're in recovery, seeking help, or just listening to learn, RAW Recovery is here for the tough talks that can lead to healing.

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In this episode of Enrich Your Future, Andrew and Larry Swedroe discuss Larry's new book, Enrich Your Future: The Keys to Successful Investing. In this series, they conclude the lessons from the book.LEARNING: Investing isn't about chasing the next hot stock—it's about building a resilient, well-diversified portfolio you can live with in good times and bad. “Once you have enough, stop playing the game as if you don't. Reduce risk, enjoy life, and make your money serve you—not the other way around.”Larry Swedroe In this episode of Enrich Your Future, Andrew and Larry Swedroe discuss Larry's new book, Enrich Your Future: The Keys to Successful Investing. The book is a collection of stories that Larry has developed over 30 years as the head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners to help investors. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. In this series, they conclude on the lessons from the book.Enrich Your Future: Larry's Timeless Guide to Smarter InvestingIf you've ever wondered how to cut through the noise of investment hype and build a portfolio that actually works for you, Larry's Enrich Your Future is the blueprint you've been looking for. Here's a distilled look at the wisdom from his book.Start with core principlesLarry insists there are only a handful of fundamental truths in investing—and if you master them, you'll avoid most costly mistakes:Markets are highly efficient – While not perfect, markets price assets so effectively that consistently beating them on a risk-adjusted basis is near impossible. So don't engage in individual security selection or market timing.All risk assets offer similar risk-adjusted returns – Whether it's US stocks, Thai stocks, or corporate bonds, the relationship between risk and return holds steady over time. Invest in assets based upon your ability, willingness, and need to take risks. If you're willing to take more risk and have the ability and maybe the need to, then you can load up on more risky, higher expected-returning assets. It doesn't mean they're better assets; rather, they have higher expected returns at the cost of higher risk.Diversification is non-negotiable – Since all risk assets have similar risk-adjusted returns, it makes no sense to concentrate all of your risk in one basket. Concentrating your risk in a single asset class or geography is a recipe for trouble.Build a portfolio that fits YOUForget cookie-cutter solutions—Larry believes the “right” portfolio depends on three factors:Ability to take risk – Your financial capacity to weather market downturns is influenced by factors like investment horizon and job stability.Willingness to take risk – Your psychological comfort level with market volatility.Need to take risk – Whether you require high returns to meet your financial goals.Larry's rule? Let the lowest of these three determine your equity exposure. If you don't need to take big risks, don't.Think global, but stay rationalA...

0:00–14:25The sections on “woman” are not distinct from the rest of the book; §68 “Will and Willingness” §64 “Skeptics” superficiality of existence ; the feminine operation and the body marked by the feminine operation.14:30–36:20John's writing project ; maybe these aphorisms are more interesting now? §74 “The Unsuccessful” and §75 “The Third Sex” ; Kaufman can't handle it anymore ;  §80 “Art and Nature” the fantasy of good speech and the self-controlled cogito ; are we talking about Platonic ideals when we talk about woman as a “ship at a distance”? ; the prospect of metaphysics ; coordinating these aphorisms “on woman” with the rest of the book ; §59 “We Artists,” woman, god, and property.36:20–60:00The multiplicity of misogyny ; Nietzsche is a strange pathway by which to engage feminism;  Beyond surfaces and depths (or between them); why gender is impossible to think and why that's important; politics vs. metaphysics; deconstructive feminism; the political conditions for thinking; the #FigureItOut movement; exceptions and institutions; honoring Sinèad. 

In this message, we explore what it truly means to be sent by God. Being sent starts with an encounter, leads to a response, and is lived out in obedience. Isaiah's experience gives us a clear picture of this calling. 1. Encountering God's Holiness – Isaiah 6:1–5 “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up...” The vision of God's glory and the cry of the seraphim — “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts” — shake Isaiah to the core. Understanding God's Holiness: The weight of His presence is undeniable. Recognizing Our Unworthiness: Isaiah says, “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips...” Compelled to Respond: An encounter with God demands a response. 2. Willingness to Go – Isaiah 6:8 God asks, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Isaiah's response is immediate: “Here am I! Send me.” God's Call: A question still being asked today. Isaiah's Response: Bold, surrendered, and without hesitation. Availability Over Ability: God uses those who are willing, not just those who feel ready. 3. Obedience in Action – 1 Samuel 15:22 “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.” Importance of Obedience: God values our obedience more than our outward offerings. The Cost of Disobedience: Choosing our way over God's comes with consequences. Facing Doubt and Fear: Obedience often challenges us, but it aligns us with God's purpose. This message is a call for all of us—not just to hear God's voice, but to respond.

Living In the basics, we are exploring of the principles of the 12 steps and how they are expressed in fundamental ideas of Pnimius HaTorah and Chassidus.In this episode Menachem begins the discussion of step 8 with an exploration of the value of simple actions and how in some ways they trump even the highest of spiritual energies.Sign Up for our Newsletter!!Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email!Website: TheLightRevealed.orgEmail: TheLightRevealed@TLRFamily.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelightrevealed/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelightrevealed/

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,Nuclear fission is a safe, powerful, and reliable means of generating nearly limitless clean energy to power the modern world. A few public safety scares and a lot of bad press over the half-century has greatly delayed our nuclear future. But with climate change and energy-hungry AI making daily headlines, the time — finally — for a nuclear renaissance seems to have arrived.Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I talk with Dr. Tim Gregory about the safety and efficacy of modern nuclear power, as well as the ambitious energy goals we should set for our society.Gregory is a nuclear scientist at the UK National Nuclear Laboratory. He is also a popular science broadcaster on radio and TV, and an author. His most recent book, Going Nuclear: How Atomic Energy Will Save the World is out now.In This Episode* A false start for a nuclear future (1:29)* Motivators for a revival (7:20)* About nuclear waste . . . (12:41)* Not your mother's reactors (17:25)* Commercial fusion, coming soon . . . ? (23:06)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. A false start for a nuclear future (1:29)The truth is that radiation, we're living in it all the time, it's completely inescapable because we're all living in a sea of background radiation.Pethokoukis: Why do America, Europe, Japan not today get most of their power from nuclear fission, since that would've been a very reasonable prediction to make in 1965 or 1975, but it has not worked out that way? What's your best take on why it hasn't?Going back to the '50s and '60s, it looked like that was the world that we currently live in. It was all to play for, and there were a few reasons why that didn't happen, but the main two were Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. It's a startling statistic that the US built more nuclear reactors in the five years leading up to Three Mile Island than it has built since. And similarly on this side of the Atlantic, Europe built more nuclear reactors in the five years leading up to Chernobyl than it has built since, which is just astounding, especially given that nobody died in Three Mile Island and nobody was even exposed to anything beyond the background radiation as a result of that nuclear accident.Chernobyl, of course, was far more consequential and far more serious than Three Mile Island. 30-odd people died in the immediate aftermath, mostly people who were working at the power station and the first responders, famously the firefighters who were exposed to massive amounts of radiation, and probably a couple of hundred people died in the affected population from thyroid cancer. It was people who were children and adolescents at the time of the accident.So although every death from Chernobyl was a tragedy because it was avoidable, they're not in proportion to the mythic reputation of the night in question. It certainly wasn't reason to effectively end nuclear power expansion in Europe because of course we had to get that power from somewhere, and it mainly came from fossil fuels, which are not just a little bit more deadly than nuclear power, they're orders of magnitude more deadly than nuclear power. When you add up all of the deaths from nuclear power and compare those deaths to the amount of electricity that we harvest from nuclear power, it's actually as safe as wind and solar, whereas fossil fuels kill hundreds or thousands of times more people per unit of power. To answer your question, it's complicated and there are many answers, but the main two were Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.I wonder how things might have unfolded if those events hadn't happened or if society had responded proportionally to the actual damage. Three Mile Island and Chernobyl are portrayed in documentaries and on TV as far deadlier than they really were, and they still loom large in the public imagination in a really unhelpful way.You see it online, actually, quite a lot about the predicted death toll from Chernobyl, because, of course, there's no way of saying exactly which cases of cancer were caused by Chernobyl and which ones would've happened anyway. Sometimes you see estimates that are up in the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of deaths from Chernobyl. They are always based on a flawed scientific hypothesis called the linear no-threshold model that I go into in quite some detail in chapter eight of my book, which is all about the human health effects of exposure to radiation. This model is very contested in the literature. It's one of the most controversial areas of medical science, actually, the effects of radiation on the human body, and all of these massive numbers you see of the death toll from Chernobyl, they're all based on this really kind of clunky, flawed, contentious hypothesis. My reading of the literature is that there's very, very little physical evidence to support this particular hypothesis, but people take it and run. I don't know if it would be too far to accuse people of pushing a certain idea of Chernobyl, but it almost certainly vastly, vastly overestimates the effects.I think a large part of the reason of why this had such a massive impact on the public and politicians is this lingering sense of radiophobia that completely blight society. We've all seen it in the movies, in TV shows, even in music and computer games — radiation is constantly used as a tool to invoke fear and mistrust. It's this invisible, centerless, silent specter that's kind of there in the background: It means birth defects, it means cancers, it means ill health. We've all kind of grown up in this culture where the motif of radiation is bad news, it's dangerous, and that inevitably gets tied to people's sense of nuclear power. So when you get something like Three Mile Island, society's imagination and its preconceptions of radiation, it's just like a dry haystack waiting for a flint spark to land on it, and up it goes in flames and people's imaginations run away with them.The truth is that radiation, we're living in it all the time, it's completely inescapable because we're all living in a sea of background radiation. There's this amazing statistic that if you live within a couple of miles of a nuclear power station, the extra amount of radiation you're exposed to annually is about the same as eating a banana. Bananas are slightly radioactive because of the slight amount of potassium-40 that they naturally contain. Even in the wake of these nuclear accidents like Chernobyl, and more recently Fukushima, the amount of radiation that the public was exposed to barely registers and, in fact, is less than the background radiation in lots of places on the earth.Motivators for a revival (7:20)We have no idea what emerging technologies are on the horizon that will also require massive amounts of power, and that's exactly where nuclear can shine.You just suddenly reminded me of a story of when I was in college in the late 1980s, taking a class on the nuclear fuel cycle. You know it was an easy class because there was an ampersand in it. “Nuclear fuel cycle” would've been difficult. “Nuclear fuel cycle & the environment,” you knew it was not a difficult class.The man who taught it was a nuclear scientist and, at one point, he said that he would have no problem having a nuclear reactor in his backyard. This was post-Three Mile Island, post-Chernobyl, and the reaction among the students — they were just astounded that he would be willing to have this unbelievably dangerous facility in his backyard.We have this fear of nuclear power, and there's sort of an economic component, but now we're seeing what appears to be a nuclear renaissance. I don't think it's driven by fear of climate change, I think it's driven A) by fear that if you are afraid of climate change, just solar and wind aren't going to get you to where you want to be; and then B) we seem like we're going to need a lot of clean energy for all these AI data centers. So it really does seem to be a perfect storm after a half-century.And who knows what next. When I started writing Going Nuclear, the AI story hadn't broken yet, and so all of the electricity projections for our future demand, which, they range from doubling to tripling, we're going to need a lot of carbon-free electricity if we've got any hope of electrifying society whilst getting rid of fossil fuels. All of those estimates were underestimates because nobody saw AI coming.It's been very, very interesting just in the last six, 12 months seeing Big Tech in North America moving first on this. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta have all either invested or actually placed orders for small modular reactors specifically to power their AI data centers. In some ways, they've kind of led the charge on this. They've moved faster than most nation states, although it is encouraging, actually, here in the UK, just a couple of weeks ago, the government announced that our new nuclear power station is definitely going ahead down in Sizewell in Suffolk in the south of England. That's a 3.2 gigawatt nuclear reactor, it's absolutely massive. But it's been really, really encouraging to see Big Tech in the private sector in North America take the situation into their own hands. If anyone's real about electricity demands and how reliable you need it, it's Big Tech with these data centers.I always think, go back five, 10 years, talk of AI was only on the niche subreddits and techie podcasts where people were talking about it. It broke into the mainstream all of a sudden. Who knows what is going to happen in the next five or 10 years. We have no idea what emerging technologies are on the horizon that will also require massive amounts of power, and that's exactly where nuclear can shine.In the US, at least, I don't think decarbonization alone is enough to win broad support for nuclear, since a big chunk of the country doesn't think we actually need to do that. But I think that pairing it with the promise of rapid AI-driven economic growth creates a stronger case.I tried to appeal to a really broad church in Going Nuclear because I really, really do believe that whether you are completely preoccupied by climate change and environmental issues or you're completely preoccupied by economic growth, and raising living, standards and all of that kind of thing, all the monetary side of things, nuclear is for you because if you solve the energy problem, you solve both problems at once. You solve the economic problem and the environmental problem.There's this really interesting relationship between GDP per head — which is obviously incredibly important in economic terms — and energy consumption per head, and it's basically a straight line relationship between the two. There are no rich countries that aren't also massive consumers of energy, so if you really, really care about the economy, you should really also be caring about energy consumption and providing energy abundance so people can go out and use that energy to create wealth and prosperity. Again, that's where nuclear comes in. You can use nuclear power to sate that massive energy demand that growing economies require.This podcast is very pro-wealth and prosperity, but I'll also say, if the nuclear dreams of the '60s where you had, in this country, what was the former Atomic Energy Commission expecting there to be 1000 nuclear reactors in this country by the year 2000, we're not having this conversation about climate change. It is amazing that what some people view as an existential crisis could have been prevented — by the United States and other western countries, at least — just making a different political decision.We would be spending all of our time talking about something else, and how nice would that be?For sure. I'm sure there'd be other existential crises to worry about.But for sure, we wouldn't be talking about climate change was anywhere near the volume or the sense of urgency as we are now if we would've carried on with the nuclear expansion that really took off in the '70s and the '80s. It would be something that would be coming our way in a couple of centuries.About nuclear waste . . . (12:41). . . a 100 percent nuclear-powered life for about 80 years, their nuclear waste would barely fill a wine glass or a coffee cup. I don't know if you've ever seen the television show For All Mankind?I haven't. So many people have recommended it to me.It's great. It's an alt-history that looks at what if the Space Race had never stopped. As a result, we had a much more tech-enthusiastic society, which included being much more pro-nuclear.Anyway, imagine if you are on a plane talking to the person next to you, and the topic of your book comes up, and the person says hey, I like energy, wealth, prosperity, but what are you going to do about the nuclear waste?That almost exact situation has happened, but on a train rather than an airplane. One of the cool things about uranium is just how much energy you can get from a very small amount of it. If typical person in a highly developed economy, say North America, Europe, something like that, if they produced all of their power over their entire lifetime from nuclear alone, so forget fossil fuels, forget wind and solar, a 100 percent nuclear-powered life for about 80 years, their nuclear waste would barely fill a wine glass or a coffee cup. You need a very small amount of uranium to power somebody's life, and the natural conclusion of that is you get a very small amount of waste for a lifetime of power. So in terms of the numbers, and the amount of nuclear waste, it's just not that much of a problem.However, I don't want to just try and trivialize it out of existence with some cool pithy statistics and some cool back-of-the-envelopes physics calculations because we still have to do something with the nuclear waste. This stuff is going to be radioactive for the best part of a million years. Thankfully, it's quite an easy argument to make because good old Finland, which is one of the most nuclear nations on the planet as a share of nuclear in its grid, has solved this problem. It has implemented — and it's actually working now — the world's first and currently only geological repository for nuclear waste. Their idea is essentially to bury it in impermeable bedrock and leave it there because, as with all radioactive objects, nuclear waste becomes less radioactive over time. The idea is that, in a million years, Finland's nuclear waste won't be nuclear waste anymore, it will just be waste. A million years sounds like a really long time to our ears, but it's actually —It does.It sounds like a long time, but it is the blink of an eye, geologically. So to a geologist, a million years just comes and goes straight away. So it's really not that difficult to keep nuclear waste safe underground on those sorts of timescales. However — and this is the really cool thing, and this is one of the arguments that I make in my book — there are actually technologies that we can use to recycle nuclear waste. It turns out that when you pull uranium out of a reactor, once it's been burned for a couple of years in a reactor, 95 percent of the atoms are still usable. You can still use them to generate nuclear power. So by throwing away nuclear waste when it's been through a nuclear reactor once, we're actually squandering like 95 percent of material that we're throwing away.The theory is this sort of the technology behind breeder reactors?That's exactly right, yes.What about the plutonium? People are worried about the plutonium!People are worried about the plutonium, but in a breeder reactor, you get rid of the plutonium because you split it into fission products, and fission products are still radioactive, but they have much shorter half-lives than plutonium. So rather than being radioactive for, say, a million years, they're only radioactive, really, for a couple of centuries, maybe 1000 years, which is a very, very different situation when you think about long-term storage.I read so many papers and memos from the '50s when these reactors were first being built and demonstrated, and they worked, by the way, they're actually quite easy to build, it just happened in a couple of years. Breeder reactors were really seen as the future of humanity's power demands. Forget traditional nuclear power stations that we all use at the moment, which are just kind of once through and then you throw away 95 percent of the energy at the end of it. These breeder reactors were really, really seen as the future.They never came to fruition because we discovered lots of uranium around the globe, and so the supply of uranium went up around the time that the nuclear power expansion around the world kind of seized up, so the uranium demand dropped as the supply increased, so the demand for these breeder reactors kind of petered out and fizzled out. But if we're really, really serious about the medium-term future of humanity when it comes to energy, abundance, and prosperity, we need to be taking a second look at these breeder reactors because there's enough uranium and thorium in the ground around the world now to power the world for almost 1000 years. After that, we'll have something else. Maybe we'll have nuclear fusion.Well, I hope it doesn't take a thousand years for nuclear fusion.Yes, me too.Not your mother's reactors (17:25)In 2005, France got 80 percent of its electricity from nuclear. They almost decarbonized their grid by accident before anybody cared about climate change, and that was during a time when their economy was absolutely booming.I don't think most people are aware of how much innovation has taken place around nuclear in the past few years, or even few decades. It's not just a climate change issue or that we need to power these data centers — the technology has vastly improved. There are newer, safer technologies, so we're not talking about 1975-style reactors.Even if it were the 1975-style reactors, that would be fine because they're pretty good and they have an absolutely impeccable safety record punctuated by a very small number of high-profile events such as Chernobyl and Fukushima. I'm not to count Three Mile Island on that list because nobody died, but you know what I mean.But the modern nuclear reactors are amazing. The ones that are coming out of France, the EPRs, the European Power Reactors, there are going to be two of those in the UK's new nuclear power station, and they've been designed to withstand an airplane flying into the side of them, so they're basically bomb-proof.As for these small modular reactors, that's getting people very excited, too. As their name suggests, they're small. How small is a reasonable question — the answer is as small as you want to go. These things are scalable, and I've seen designs for just one-megawatt reactors that could easily fit inside a shipping container. They could fit in the parking lots around the side of a data center, or in the basement even, all the way up to multi-hundred-megawatt reactors that could fit on a couple of tennis courts worth of land. But it's really the modular part that's the most interesting thing. That's the ‘M' and that's never been done before.Which really gets to the economics of the SMRs.It really does. The idea is you could build upwards of 90 percent of these reactors on a factory line. We know from the history of industrialization that as soon as you start mass producing things, the unit cost just plummets and the timescales shrink. No one has achieved that yet, though. There's a lot of hype around small modular reactors, and so it's kind of important not to get complacent and really keep our eye on the ultimate goal, which is mass-production and mass rapid deployment of nuclear power stations, crucially in the places where you need them the most, as well.We often think about just decarbonizing our electricity supply or decoupling our electricity supply from volatilities in the fossil fuel market, but it's about more than electricity, as well. We need heat for things like making steel, making the ammonia that feeds most people on the planet, food and drinks factories, car manufacturers, plants that rely on steam. You need heat, and thankfully, the primary energy from a nuclear reactor is heat. The electricity is secondary. We have to put effort into making that. The heat just kind of happens. So there's this idea that we could use the surplus heat from nuclear reactors to power industrial processes that are very, very difficult to decarbonize. Small modular reactors would be perfect for that because you could nestle them into the industrial centers that need the heat close by. So honestly, it is really our imaginations that are the limits with these small modular reactors.They've opened a couple of nuclear reactors down in Georgia here. The second one was a lot cheaper and faster to build because they had already learned a bunch of lessons building that first one, and it really gets at sort of that repeatability where every single reactor doesn't have to be this one-off bespoke project. That is not how it works in the world of business. How you get cheaper things is by building things over and over, you get very good at building them, and then you're able to turn these things out at scale. That has not been the economic situation with nuclear reactors, but hopefully with small modular reactors, or even if we just start building a lot of big advanced reactors, we'll get those economies of scale and hopefully the economic issue will then take care of itself.For sure, and it is exactly the same here in the UK. The last reactor that we connected to the grid was in 1995. I was 18 months old. I don't even know if I was fluent in speaking at 18 months old. I was really, really young. Our newest nuclear power station, Hinkley Point C, which is going to come online in the next couple of years, was hideously expensive. The uncharitable view of that is that it's just a complete farce and is just a complete embarrassment, but honestly, you've got to think about it: 1995, the last nuclear reactor in the UK, it was going to take a long time, it was going to be expensive, basically doing it from scratch. We had no supply chain. We didn't really have a workforce that had ever built a nuclear reactor before, and with this new reactor that just got announced a couple of weeks ago, the projected price is 20 percent cheaper, and it is still too expensive, it's still more expensive than it should be, but you're exactly right.By tapping into those economies of scale, the cost per nuclear reactor will fall, and France did this in the '70s and '80s. Their nuclear program is so amazing. France is still the most nuclear nation on the planet as a share of its total electricity. In 2005, France got 80 percent of its electricity from nuclear. They almost decarbonized their grid by accident before anybody cared about climate change, and that was during a time when their economy was absolutely booming. By the way, still today, all of those reactors are still working and they pay less than the European Union average for that electricity, so this idea that nuclear makes your electricity expensive is simply not true. They built 55 nuclear reactors in 25 years, and they did them in parallel. It was just absolutely amazing. I would love to see a French-style nuclear rollout in all developed countries across the world. I think that would just be absolutely amazing.Commercial fusion, coming soon . . . ? (23:06)I think we're pretty good at doing things when we put our minds to it, but certainly not in the next couple of decades. But luckily, we already have a proven way of producing lots of energy, and that's with nuclear fission, in the meantime.What is your enthusiasm level or expectation about nuclear fusion? I can tell you that the Silicon Valley people I talk to are very positive. I know they're inherently very positive people, but they're very enthusiastic about the prospects over the next decade, if not sooner, of commercial fusion. How about you?It would be incredible. The last question that I was asked in my PhD interview 10 years ago was, “If you could solve one scientific or engineering problem, what would it be?” and my answer was nuclear fusion. And that would be the answer that I would give today. It just seems to me to be obviously the solution to the long-term energy needs of humanity. However, I'm less optimistic, perhaps, than the Silicon Valley crowd. The running joke, of course, is that it's always 40 years away and it recedes into the future at one year per year. So I would love to be proved wrong, but realistically — no one's even got it working in a prototype power station. That's before we even think about commercializing it and deploying it at scale. I really, really think that we're decades away, maybe even something like a century. I'd be surprised if it took longer than a century, actually. I think we're pretty good at doing things when we put our minds to it, but certainly not in the next couple of decades. But luckily, we already have a proven way of producing lots of energy, and that's with nuclear fission, in the meantime.Don't go to California with that attitude. I can tell you that even when I go there and I talk about AI, if I say that AI will do anything less than improve economic growth by a factor of 100, they just about throw me out over there. Let me just finish up by asking you this: Earlier, we mentioned Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. How resilient do you think this nuclear renaissance is to an accident?Even if we take the rate of accident over the last 70 years of nuclear power production and we maintain that same level of rate of accident, if you like, it's still one of the safest things that our species does, and everyone talks about the death toll from nuclear power, but nobody talks about the lives that it's already saved because of the fossil fuels, that it's displaced fossil fuels. They're so amazing in some ways, they're so convenient, they're so energy-dense, they've created the modern world as we all enjoy it in the developed world and as the developing world is heading towards it. But there are some really, really nasty consequences of fossil fuels, and whether or not you care about climate change, even the air pollution alone and the toll that that takes on human health is enough to want to phase them out. Nuclear power already is orders of magnitude safer than fossil fuels and I read this really amazing paper that globally, it was something like between the '70s and the '90s, nuclear power saved about two million lives because of the fossil fuels that it displaced. That's, again, orders of magnitude more lives that have been lost as a consequence of nuclear power, mostly because of Chernobyl and Fukushima. Even if the safety record of nuclear in the past stays the same and we forward-project that into the future, it's still a winning horse to bet on.If in the UK they've started up one new nuclear reactor in the past 30 years, right? How many would you guess will be started over the next 15 years?Four or five. Something like that, I think; although I don't know.Is that a significant number to you?It's not enough for my liking. I would like to see many, many more. Look at France. I know I keep going back to it, but it's such a brilliant example. 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On Healing Trauma and Building Trust... In this episode of the Unboxable Podcast, we enjoy a heartfelt conversation with Nicole Healy. We discuss navigating personal challenges, offering empathetic support, and fostering deep connections while maintaining boundaries. Nicole shares her personal story of a husband's gambling addiction and her desperate and courageous steps to regain control over her life and family. We delve into the importance of somatic practices, recognising and addressing personal resistance, and fostering safety and honesty within relationships. There's an emphais on the power of small, courageous decisions in transforming your life and the lives of those you love. Highlights: 01:02 Deep Conversations and Open Hearts 01:54 Exploring Empathy and Sensitivity 02:30 Supporting Loved Ones in Addiction 03:26 The Power of Somatic Therapy 05:35 Overcoming Resistance in Healing 06:46 The Journey to Self-Healing 11:07 The Turning Point: Embracing Change 17:01 Courage and Willingness to Change 21:48 Understanding the Need to Control and Rescue 22:27 Adapting to New Ways of Being 23:30 The Power of Compassion and Boundaries 25:32 Honesty and Connection in Relationships 28:04 Embracing Imperfections and Authenticity 30:30 Redefining Strength and Vulnerability 36:12 Gratitude for Past Selves and Healing 37:33 Final Thoughts and Encouragement ABOUT NICOLE: I'm Nicole from Myndful Healing and I am a trauma informed holistic and somatic therapist using my lived experience to support people who have a loved one living with or in recovery from addiction. Find out more about Nicole's work and connect with her at: www.myndfulhealing.com

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello re-address the dangers of drinking raw milk, the Legionnaire's outbreak in Harlem and results of a vaccine knowledge survey done by emergency departments before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, reports of influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy or neuropsychiatric events in children, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines, the effectiveness of Pfizer and MODERNA vaccines against the JN.1 variant, risk of children developing severe disease from SARS-CoV-2 infection, where to find PEMGARDA, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, the association of “virus rebound” and post-acute sequelae among hospitalized patients, effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against long COVID, predictors for distinct COVID-19 sequelae including immune disturbances and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research. 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What if there's a divine "olive leaf" of peace from God, revealing profound truths about Christ, our eternal potential, and how to prepare for His glorious return? This video unlocks D&C 88! Summary: Doctrine & Covenants 88, often called the "Olive Leaf" plucked from the Tree of Paradise, is a comprehensive revelation offering God's message of peace and preparation for the last days. This video delves into its multifaceted teachings: The Light of Christ (88:3-13, 40): Discover Jesus Christ as the omnipresent "light of truth," the "other Comforter," and the very "life, law, and power" that governs all things in the universe—from the sun and moon to the earth itself [cite: 88:6-13]. This light enlightens our understandings and helps us see everything else, truly revealing that "light cleaveth unto light" [cite: 88:40]. The Spirit and the Body (88:14-20, 28-31): Learn the profound truth that "the spirit and the body are the soul of man" [cite: 88:15], emphasizing the vital importance of the physical resurrection for a fullness of joy. We explore how even "Mother Earth" will be sanctified and crowned with glory, prepared for celestial beings, and how our resurrected bodies will be quickened by the glory we are willing to receive [cite: 88:17-20, 28-31]. Willingness to Receive (88:32-33): Understand that God gives according to our willingness. We often limit the infinite goodness of God by our own unwillingness to open our arms and hearts to His gifts, preventing us from rejoicing fully in both the gift and the Giver [cite: 88:32-33]. The Power of Law (88:22-26, 34-39): Explore how divine law governs, preserves, perfects, and sanctifies all things. Only by abiding in celestial law can we abide celestial glory. The earth itself serves as an example, fulfilling the measure of its creation by obeying celestial law [cite: 88:25-26, 34]. Every kingdom in the universe operates by its own specific laws, emphasizing that there's no escaping the principle of law [cite: 88:36-39]. A Universe of Other Sheep (88:45-62): Gain an expanded vision of God's vast creations. Through a profound parable, learn that Christ not only created and redeems "worlds without number" but also visits them all in "his hour, and in his time, and in his season" [cite: 88:56-58]. This highlights God's personal attention to all His children across the immensity of space. House of Glory (88:87-120): Discover the Lord's blueprint for preparing for the Second Coming. This includes a call to solemn assembly, diligently seeking wisdom from "best books" by study and faith, and organizing and establishing a "house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God" – ultimately referring to the Temple and its transformative power [cite: 88:117-120]. The School of the Prophets (88:77-81, 122-133): Understand God's command to teach one another diligently the doctrine of the kingdom, encompassing both religious and secular knowledge. This "celestial curriculum" prepares us to "magnify the calling" whereunto we are called and to warn our neighbors. The video concludes with the beautiful order of the School of the Prophets, emphasizing that true education is a relationship built on prayer, salutation, and an "unchangeable" bond of charity [cite: 88:77-81, 122-133]. This video is a powerful invitation to embrace God's expansive truths and prepare ourselves for the glory that awaits. Call-to-Action: Which aspect of D&C 88 resonated most deeply with you? How will you apply these principles to draw nearer to God? Share your insights in the comments below! If this message brought you peace and expanded your understanding, please like, share, and subscribe to "Unshaken" for more revelatory insights into God's word.   Chapter Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 3:36 The Light of Christ 20:23 The Spirit and the Body 34:15 Willing to Receive 43:54 The Power of Law 1:02:45 A Universe of Other Sheep 1:15:24 House of Glory 1:35:09 The School of the Prophets 1:57:59 One Liners

SummaryIn this stirring message from Wayman Wednesday, Pastor Wayman Mitchell calls believers to a life of radical commitment, sacrifice, and sanctification. Using Acts 21 as his primary text, Pastor Mitchell challenges Christians to remove all boundaries in serving God—whether in ministry, outreach, holiness, or personal sacrifice.With vivid illustrations from military service, missionary work, and scripture, he confronts the modern church's comfort-driven mindset and calls for a generation willing to say, “Whatever it takes” to fulfill the will of God.Key Scriptures:Acts 21:10–14, 261 Timothy 1:12Jonah 1:1–32 Corinthians 4:5, 12:15Nehemiah 4:13–151 Thessalonians 4:3–4Titus 2:11–12Chapters00:00 – Introduction: Wayman Wednesday on Taking the Land Podcast01:36 – A Conference Filled with God's Presence03:58 – The World's Mentality: No Longer Worth Fighting For04:53 – The Church's Need for Paul's Spirit07:10 – Commitment Over Personal Preference08:35 – Choosing God Over Secular Priorities10:06 – The Will of the Lord Be Done12:03 – Lessons from Military Commitment13:47 – Guerrilla Teams & Outreach Mindset15:53 – Understanding We Are at War17:19 – No Excuses: Whatever It Takes18:51 – Sacrifice: A Lost Word in Today's Church20:54 – Paul's Willingness to Suffer for Christ23:01 – Examples of “Whatever It Takes” in Scripture24:43 – Sanctification in a Prophetic Generation26:20 – Holiness vs. Religious Appearance27:42 – The Call to Purification and Set-Apart Living29:52 – Possessing Your Vessel in Honor31:08 – Avoiding Sinful Entertainment31:36 – Holiness is for Every Believer33:39 – Sanctifying the Lord in Your Heart34:28 – Removing Boundaries in Serving God35:43 – Whatever It Takes: Even in Giving36:54 – Consecration in Attitudes and Relationships38:29 – Reverence in Prayer39:34 – Biblical Responses to God's Presence40:51 – Isaiah's Vision of the Lord41:13 – Jacob's Encounter with God42:07 – Closing Challenge: Whatever It TakesShow NotesALL PROCEEDS GO TO WORLD EVANGELISMLocate a CFM Church near you: https://cfmmap.orgWe need five-star reviews! Tell the world what you think about this podcast at: • Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://apple.co/3vy1s5b • Podchaser: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/taking-the-land-cfm-sermon-pod-43369

Points of Interest0:00 – 1:25 – Guest Introduction: Marcel welcomes James Friel, serial entrepreneur, investor, and leadership expert, to discuss building scalable, profitable businesses through effective operations and leadership.1:26 – 3:08 – Journey from Corporate to Entrepreneurship: James shares his transition from aerospace and software engineering into consulting, entrepreneurship, and acquiring businesses, driven by a curiosity for how businesses function.3:09 – 4:48 – Building a Sellable Business: James outlines his core focus—helping founders create businesses that generate cash flow and are structured for potential exit through strong infrastructure and operational clarity.5:00 – 6:46 – The First Principle: Customer-Perceived Value: A business is only viable if customers see genuine value in its offerings. Founders often overvalue their own ideas and under-prioritize market fit.6:47 – 10:14 – Value Creep and Feature Fatigue: James critiques how companies add features that customers don't value, creating bloat and eroding customer loyalty—highlighting the need for focus and feedback.10:15 – 11:24 – People and Culture as Core Assets: A business with enterprise value depends on its people. Leadership, culture, and alignment are foundational to building an organization that can thrive without the founder.11:25 – 13:56 – James' Leadership Struggles and Realizations: James recounts his early leadership challenges and how they motivated his deep dive into team performance, management systems, and organizational design.15:00 – 16:15 – The Three Core Failures: Most performance issues stem from lack of leadership, accountability, and clarity. Fixing these creates the foundation for sustainable team success.16:16 – 21:24 – Why Leadership Is a Profit Lever: Leadership is essential for ROI on your largest expense—people. Poor leadership silently burns cash and stalls growth, despite having the right strategy or data.23:37 – 26:17 – Willingness vs. Ability Matrix: James introduces a simple performance framework that helps leaders assess team members based on their alignment (willingness) and skills (ability).33:01 – 37:52 – Role-Based Scorecards: James breaks down his approach to team structure using one-page scorecards for each role—clarifying objectives, tasks, metrics, and reporting expectations.38:00 – 40:17 – Introducing the “57 Hats” Product: James shares his new gamified tool that helps founders identify and delegate responsibilities, creating clarity on team structure and freeing them to focus on growth.Show NotesConnect with James:LinkedInWebsiteGame: 57 Hats

How entrepreneurship can transform lives and communities? Will shares his personal journey from a challenging childhood to becoming a successful entrepreneur. They explore whether entrepreneurship can be a means to alleviate poverty, emphasizing the importance of hope, a safety net, and access to education and mentorship. The conversation dives deep into the potential impact of entrepreneurial initiatives on economic development and the need for structured support to foster entrepreneurial success on a global scale.Resources:Startup Therapy Podcast https://www.startups.com/community/startup-therapyWebsitehttps://www.startups.com/beginLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/startups-co/Join our Network of Top Founders Wil Schroterhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/wilschroter/Ryan Rutanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-rutan/What to listen for:00:40 The Power of Entrepreneurship to Alleviate Poverty01:17 Personal Stories of Entrepreneurial Beginnings02:34 The Ripple Effect of Entrepreneurship03:38 Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Lifelong Skill04:46 Hope as the Foundation of Entrepreneurship05:37 Early Wins and Their Impact07:17 The Importance of Small Wins08:20 The Role of Hope and Pride in Entrepreneurship12:15 The Willingness to Fail22:49 The Risk of Failure for the Broke23:45 Historical Context and Immigrant Success Stories24:46 The Luxury of Credit and Capital27:03 Entrepreneur Welfare and Venture Capital29:14 The Case for Minimum Basic Income for Founders29:40 The Parallel with Education and FAFSA38:47 The Need for Structured Entrepreneurship Education39:47 The Role of Hope and Security in Entrepreneurship45:46 Entrepreneurship as a Solution to Poverty47:34 Join the Startups.com Community

Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.  She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.  Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts. As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.  In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.   In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.  No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.   For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list. To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/ Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/

✨ Episode Summary In this deeply personal and Spirit-led episode, Dr. Leelo Bush shares how a quiet moment of surrender led to a global movement—and how the same can happen for you. If you've ever hesitated because you didn't feel “ready” to step into coaching, ministry, or healing work, this message will break chains. You'll be reminded that God doesn't need you to be perfect—He needs you to be willing. Through powerful scripture, bold truth, and a heartfelt challenge, you'll discover why your story, your scars, and your “yes” might be the answer to someone else's prayer.    

Today, we are joined by Peter Bregman.Peter helps successful people become exceptional leaders and stellar human beings. He blends his deep expertise in business, leadership and people, to deliver quantifiable results such as Turnarounds, Revenue/Stock Growth, Executive Team Development, and Personal Development. Peter is recognized as the #1 executive coach in the world by Leading Global Coaches. He coaches C-Level executives in many of the world's premier organizations, including Allianz, Twilio, Electronic Arts, CBS, Mars, Pearson, Citi, Charity Navigator, United Media, FEI, and many others.Peter is ranked as a Top 30 thought leader by Thinkers 50 Radar and selected as one of the Top 8 thought leaders in leadership. He is ranked by Global Guru's as one of the top 30 best Coaches in the world and one of the top 30 best leadership speakers/trainers in the world. He is the award-winning, best selling author and contributor of 18 books, including most recently, You CAN Change Other People: The Four Steps to Help Your Colleagues, Employees—Even Family—Up Their Game. He also wrote Leading with Emotional Courage: How to Have Hard Conversations, Create Accountability, and Inspire Action on Your Most Important Work. His book, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller, winner of the Gold medal from the Axiom Business Book awards, named the best business book of the year by NPR, and selected by Publisher's Weekly and the New York Post as a top ten business book. He is also the author of Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Replace Counter-Productive Habits with Ones That Really Work, a New York Post “Top Pick for Your Career” in 2015, and Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change.In this powerful conversation, we explore what emotional courage really means and why it's the secret sauce of effective leadership. Peter reveals how most of our leadership challenges stem not from lack of knowledge, skills, time, or opportunity, but from our unwillingness to feel the emotions that certain actions might trigger. Key topics include:Why emotional courage is the willingness to feel The four essential traits of powerful leadershipHow self-compassion serves as the foundation for authentic confidence The importance of owning your shadow side rather than projecting it onto othersLearning to practice irrelevancy without losing influence or impactThe metaphor of "holding the baby" when you feel powerless in challenging situationsHow to bring devotion to your workThe critical difference between expressing emotions and containing themWhether you're avoiding difficult conversations, struggling with vulnerability in leadership, or looking to deepen your emotional intelligence, Peter's insights provide a roadmap for building the emotional courage that transforms both leaders and organizations.Peter Bregman's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Emotional-Courage-Conversations-Accountability/dp/1119505690 Bregman Partners Website: https://bregmanpartners.com/ -Website and live online programs: http://ims-online.com Blog: https://blog.ims-online.com/ Podcast: https://ims-online.com/podcasts/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesgood/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/charlesgood99 Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(01:25) Tool: Defining Emotional Courage as Willingness to Feel(05:40) Technique: Building Emotional Courage Through Daily Practice(09:05) Tip: The Four Essential Leadership Traits Framework(12:30) Tool: Self-Compassion as Foundation for Confidence(15:10) Technique: Owning Your Shadow Side Instead of Projecting(23:05) Tip: Practicing Irrelevancy Without Losing Influence(27:30) Tool: The "Holding the Baby" Metaphor for Connection(32:05) Technique: Bringing Raw Engagement and Devotion to Work(37:30) Tip: Containing vs Expressing Emotions for Strategic Choice(39:28) Conclusion

Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.  She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.  Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts. As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.  In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.   In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.  No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.   For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list. To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/ Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/

This is an Impact Pricing Blog published on May 26, 2025, turned into an audio podcast so you can listen on the go. Read Full Article Here: https://impactpricing.com/blog/value-is-not-the-same-as-willingness-to-pay/ If you have any feedback, definitely send it. You can reach us at mark@impactpricing.com.  Now, go make an impact.   Connect with Mark Stiving: Email: mark@impactpricing.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stiving/

Maximizing Your Agency's Potential: The Power of Willingness and CapabilityIn this episode, host Matt Diet delves into the crucial aspects of running a successful insurance agency, including staffing, sales, marketing, and retention. Matt shares his excitement about launching his first physical product, a training deck of cards, which encapsulates his entire course. He emphasizes the importance of willingness and capability in achieving success, illustrated by a story of an agent who successfully leveraged mortgage broker connections. Matt advises listeners to challenge themselves to reach their full potential and not shy away from asking for business. He concludes with a motivational call to action for agency professionals to maximize their capabilities and continually ask for opportunities.00:00 Introduction to Agency Launch00:17 Exciting New Product Launch01:19 Coaching Session Insights07:52 The Power of Asking09:22 Maximizing Your Capabilities10:58 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.  She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.  Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts. As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.  In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.   In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.  No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.   For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list. To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/ Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/

In this episode, Phil Treadwell is joined by Ray Ellen who breaks down what it means to grow through grit. Ray explores how consistent action, willingness to learn, and letting go of control can unlock new levels of success. Whether it's sacrificing time now to create your “spring” later or surrounding yourself with the right cohort, Ray's message is clear: the people who win are the ones who keep showing up and choosing progress. Ray Ellen is a seasoned real estate professional, content creator, and team leader with nearly two decades of experience. As the founder of Pixel Properties, an award-winning team brokered by REAL, he's helped over 1,000 clients and consistently closes more than 100 homes a year. Ray blends smart marketing, high-performance systems, and strong client relationships to drive results. He's a REAL Mentor and co-host of two national masterminds focused on AI, strategy, and personal growth. A recognized marketing expert, Ray shares his expertise through the tWiRE Podcast and national speaking, helping agents grow through clear strategy and authentic connection. 01:30 Ray Raised His Hand 05:45 The Hard Times are Good Times 09:30 It's Not the Same Race 11:15 All in the Details 16:50 Let Go to Grow 20:00 Showing Up is a Differentiator 23:30 Capability and Willingness 25:50 Create Your Spring 28:15 Sacrifice the Time 32:00 Find Your Cohort 37:10 There's Value in Creativity 39:00 Keep Going or Get Out Connect with Ray: Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube Join Ray's Book Club! BE IN THE ROOM WHERE GROWTH HAPPENS: M1A Mastermind Group If you are enjoying the MME podcast, please take a second and LEAVE US A REVIEW. And JOIN the M1A Text Community: 214-225-5696

In order for someone to change their beliefs they need a strong reason to reconsider what they know to be true and a personality that is willing to accept they were wrong.Was this helpful? If so then you need to check out the 7 Fundamentals Of Self Improvement which features short summaries of the most popular and impactful articles from the past 7 years.Takes only 5 minutes to read through them today but it'll help you avoid years of making things so much harder than they need to be. Plus, I bet you'll be surprised to learn what they are...

Lisa Shield delves into the crucial distinction between love bombing and real love. She shares her own experiences and insights on how to identify a love bomber, highlighting red flags such as over-the-top affection, constant communication, lavish gifts, and pressing for quick commitment. Lisa contrasts this with the slow, steady development of real love, emphasizing the importance of boundaries, consistency, and mutual respect. She offers practical advice on protecting your heart, setting and reinforcing boundaries, and listening to your intuition. Lisa passionately encourages taking time to truly get to know a partner and underscores the value of emotional nakedness and vulnerability in fostering genuine connections. Tune in to learn how to safeguard yourself against love bombers and open the door to lasting, meaningful relationships.Highlights: Understanding Love Bombers  Love bombers overwhelm you with attention, affection, and gifts to quickly win your trust.  They often exhibit narcissistic traits and may have avoidant personality disorders.Characteristics of Love Bombers  Over-the-top affection too soon.  Constant attention and intense communication.  Lavishing gifts and grand gestures.  Putting pressure to commit quickly.Characteristics of Real Love  Develops gradually with mutual respect and understanding.  Establishing a foundation of friendship first.  Consistency, reliability, and genuine interest in each other's goals.  Willingness to have difficult conversations and respect for boundaries.Protecting Yourself from Love Bombers  Slow down and honor your own pace.  Set and reinforce clear boundaries.  Stay connected with friends and family who can offer objective perspectives.  Look for consistent actions over grand promises.  Listen to your intuition and trust your gut feelings.Key Takeaway  Authentic relationships build over time with open communication, mutual respect, and emotional vulnerability. Avoid rushing into commitments and prioritize finding a partner who truly values and respects you. **Resources:**- Free 45-minute presentation: https://www.lisashieldlove.com/registration-page-final-page**Connect with Us:**- Website: https://www.lisashield.com/podcast/- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisashieldcoaching/- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisashieldcoaching/  Want more content like this? Continue On Your Journey: Lisa Shield| YouTube | Facebook | Instagram | Book a Call with LisaEmail the podcast at: podcast@lisashield.com

To download my free 75 Fully Alive guide, go here:https://www.allieireeves.com/offers/EWWocj9U To listen to the 528hz audio I mentioned, go here:https://youtu.be/1MPRbX7ACh8?si=hJD_zUC0NOCf7DY0

In this episode, Anthony speaks with Victoria Bryan, Senior Vice President, Trade Performance and Analytics, Banking and Markets, Northern Trust, about how data analytics shapes trading decisions and drives performance on the trading floor.Victoria shares how she built a career at the intersection of data, markets, and communication, teaching herself to code, translating complex insights for stakeholders, and leading with curiosity and adaptability.It's a candid look at one of the most impactful (and often overlooked) roles in finance, full of practical advice for anyone exploring data-driven careers or trying to stand out early in the industry.(00:00) Introduction to Data Analytics in Finance(01:24) Victoria Bryan's Journey: Education and Early Career(06:17) Understanding Northern Trust and Its Role(09:05) Navigating Career Challenges and University Selection(14:20) Mindset Shifts for Career Pivots(18:07) The Willingness to Learn and Personal Growth(21:52) The Role of Data Analytics in Trading Decisions(25:15) Essential Skills for Success(29:09) The Balance of Communication Skills(31:33) Building Confidence in Public Speaking(35:51) Navigating Imposter Syndrome(42:43) The Importance of Networking(46:16) Advice to My Younger Self

Prayer for Staying Focused on Willingness for her Daily Spiritual Espresso published on July 21, 2025 which you can access here: https://powerofloveministry.net/focus-on-willingness/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Trending Fantasy, John and Mitch discuss dealing with chaos in dynasty fantasy football. This week's conversation stems from recent news surrounding Quinshon Judkins and how we are navigating the situation in our dynasty leagues. Don't forget to drop topic suggestions in the comments that YOU would like for us to discuss. Learn how to navigate throughout the offseason and gain actionable insights to dominate your fantasy football leagues.

Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.  She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.  Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts. As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.  In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.   In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.  No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.   For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list. To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/ Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/

We often approach prayer thinking we have to convince God to respond, but the truth is that He is more willing than we realize. In this message, we look at how Scripture teaches us to lay hold of God's willingness and align our prayers with His will. Through key passages like Mark 5, Philippians 4, and 1 John 5, we see that prayer is not about changing God's heart but allowing Him to change ours. Whether you're dealing with delay, discouragement, or doubt, this message will encourage you to keep praying, keep believing, and trust that God's “yes” is filled with purpose and rooted in His love.

In this episode, we answer a listeners question about how to address an issue that has come up now that his wife has had a partial hysterectomy and gets too wet so there is a loss of friction. Enjoy the show! On the Xtended version … We explore the difference between a willingness vs intent to have sex. Only this segment is one where Pam and I are not on the same page and it goes a completely different way than Corey was thinking it would beforehand. Sponsors … Academy: Join the Academy and go deeper. https://smr.fm/academy The post Willingness vs Intent #736 first appeared on Sexy Marriage Radio.