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HALFWAY UP MIDDLE - 076 - Episode 76   Hoggy returns and pulls no punches! We talk over the last few weeks cricket and grab an interview with Abbi Aitken-Drummond ahead of the fantastic win over the Windies!         Twitter: https://twitter.com/halfwayupmiddle   Instagram: https://instagram.com/halfwayupmiddle/   Podbean: https://halfwayupmiddle.podbean.com/   Apple: https://feed.podbean.com/halfwayupmiddle/feed.xml   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2GltizgVzM2YhvUb705Yjn    Contact: halfwayupmiddle@outlook.com

In this episode, Backward Point is joined by Machel from  @CaribbeanCricketPodcast  to preview the Pakistan Vs West Indies Test series and to discuss the potential two-tier cricket system. Use code "BP10" for an exclusive 10% off your purchase at Yashi Sports: https://www.yashisports.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 - West Indies touring Pakistan in tests after 18 years 5:18 - West Indies squad review and why their batters average low 12:15 - Comparing current players with past legends and being a fan of Windies and Pakistan 19:13 - West Indies players to watch out for 24:18 - West Indies players in the T20 circuit and Darren Sammy as head coach 30:19 - New CWI president and potential areas of improvements 35:05 - Two-tier system in test cricket 44:43 - Closing thoughts ✉️ Sign up for our free weekly newsletter – https://backwardpointpod.com/

As part of the Lowy Institute Re-Cast series, we are republishing the best podcasts of 2024. In case you missed them the first time around or if you want revisit these engaging conversations, the Re-Cast series has you covered. In this episode of The Director’s Chair, the Lowy Institute’s Executive Director Michael Fullilove is joined by UK Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy. They discuss David Lammy’s journey from cathedral chorister to the House of Commons, what kind of prime minister Keir Starmer would make, foreign policy under a Labour government, the UK’s relationship with Europe, China and the United States, how he was influenced by the revered West Indies cricket team of the 1970s, and how Australian manager Ange Postecoglou has influenced his beloved Tottenham Hotspur. The Director’s Chair is a podcast by the Lowy Institute: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/ Twitter:@LowyInstitute@mfullilove@DavidLammy Host: Michael Fullilove Producers: Josh Goding and Andrew Griffits Research: David Vallance See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

She's one of the most destructive batters in the world game. A game changer, a fire-stater...but we just know her as the World Boss. Deandra Dottin has been shocking the world with her incredible power-hitting and match-turning performances ever since she burst onto the international scene in 2008. She became the first woman ever to hit a T20I hundred and still holds the record for the fastest hundred in WT20Is and she's showing no sign of slowing. Georgie caught up with her just a few months after she came back from international retirement to discuss all things Windies, WBBL, the future and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Finny has been on the telly again, next to G̶a̶r̶y̶ B̶a̶r̶l̶o̶w̶ Sam Billings. And so he gives us his view on the latest white ball games between England and the Windies. We also talk about angry bowlers, angry batsman and damage in changing rooms. Plus there's a chat with Lauren Bell and a slightly briefer chat with Adil Rashid about a new cricket cookbook from the ECB called the Taste of Cricket... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, our love affair with Wangaratta grows through the story of a journeyman in the wickets against the Windies. With Daniel Norcross with Adam, long answers are inevitable and roads less travelled too – what would Australia be like had Matthew Hayden taken the chance to run for parliament? A rare triple header is tackled ton as well – a new number revisit and confirmation all in one, with (Plucka) Ducks, (Vasbert) Drakes and (Jon) Davison together at last. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 4.81 - Dane Hansted 6.82 - Richard Johnson 2.36 & 2.46 – Randolph Brazier 3.59 - Tim Unwin 7.35 - Tobi Wilson Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Sort your super with CBUS on their 40th birthday And please hyperlink over ‘sort you super out with CBUS' with this: https://www.cbussuper.com.au/ Go Ambassador cruising with Goochy, Aggers, Blowers and Alex Tudor from December 12-19! Pick up 10% off with finalword10 at checkout here - www.ambassadorcruiseline.com Find all our links at linktr.ee/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Women's T20 World Cup, semi-final 2 - New Zealand/West Indies: No matter what, there will be a new team winning the Women's T20 World Cup with New Zealand holding off the Windies in a thriller to earn the right to play South Africa on Sunday. Daniel Norcross and Cam Ponsonby are two very excited co-hosts - join them for their instant reaction from Sharjah. Go Ambassador cruising with Goochy, Aggers, Blowers and Alex Tudor from December 12-19! Pick up 10% off with finalword10 at checkout here - www.ambassadorcruiseline.com Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Get your Nord VPN discount - nordvpn.com/tfw Find all our links at linktr.ee/thefinalword - including our Australia Live Show tickets! Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Women's T20 World Cup, Day 13 - West Indies/England: Whoa. England, undefeated and flying, did everything right until they didn't. The Windies, smashed in their opening game of the tournament, have bounced them from the comp and vaulted into the semis themselves via Net Run Rate on a dramatic final night in Dubai. Find out more with Daniel Norcross and Cam Ponsonby. Go Ambassador cruising with Goochy, Aggers, Blowers and Alex Tudor from December 12-19! Pick up 10% off with finalword10 at checkout here - www.ambassadorcruiseline.com Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Get your Nord VPN discount - nordvpn.com/tfw Find all our links at linktr.ee/thefinalword - including our Australia Live Show tickets! Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WATCH THE FULL EPISODE ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE!Matt Heath joins Manaia Stewart & ACC Head G Lane to discuss talkback hosts, ablutions, tabloids and Stag Dos (0:00)... Then the fellas discuss the Black Caps' chances against India in India, the White Ferns' chances against the Windies in Dubai, and the time Matt Heath did wees on Virat Kohli (17:32). Finally, they get to your feedback on 'Yours Please' (29:21). Brought to you by Export Ultra!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Women's T20 World Cup, Day 8 - West Indies/Bangladesh: We're at an interesting point in the group stage where each game changes the vibe. With that in mind, it was so important the Windies came to play against Bangladesh and play they did, banking a healthy Net Run Rate boost at Sharjah. As ever, join Daniel Norcross and Cam Ponsonby for their nightly wrap. Go Ambassador cruising with Goochy, Aggers, Blowers and Alex Tudor from December 12-19! Pick up 10% off with finalword10 at checkout here - www.ambassadorcruiseline.com Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Get your Nord VPN discount - nordvpn.com/tfw Find all our links at linktr.ee/thefinalword - including our Australia Live Show tickets! Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Women's T20 World Cup, Day 4 - India/Pakistan, West Indies/Scotland: What is it about India and Pakistan at World Cups? It went as predicted, with Harman's team bouncing back from their loss to the White Ferns. Later, it was the Windies' turn to get on the board after dropping their tournament opener. Over to Daniel Norcross and Cam Ponsonby at Dubai Sports City who will take it away from there. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Go Ambassador cruising with Goochy, Aggers, Blowers and Alex Tudor from December 12-19! Pick up 10% off with finalword10 at checkout here - www.ambassadorcruiseline.com Get your Nord VPN discount - nordvpn.com/tfw Find all our links at linktr.ee/thefinalword - including our Australia Live Show tickets! Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Women's T20 World Cup, Day 2 - New Zealand/India, South Africa/West Indies: Well, well. India, the team everyone thought might give it a shake and challenge Australia have been hammered by New Zealand in the White Ferns' most significant World Cup victory in over a decade. Meanwhile, South Africa were just as ruthless in dispatching the Windies. There's plenty for Daniel Norcross and Cam Ponsonby to chew over at Dubai Sports City! Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Go Ambassador cruising with Goochy, Aggers, Blowers and Alex Tudor from December 12-19! Pick up 10% off with finalword10 at checkout here - www.ambassadorcruiseline.com Get your Nord VPN discount - nordvpn.com/tfw Find all our links at linktr.ee/thefinalword - including our Australia Live Show tickets! Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let Cyrus take you down memory lane as he recounts some of the greatest Test innings in the history of Indian cricket. From Vijay Hazare's phenomenal centuries in both innings against Australia, to G. Vishwanath showing his sturdy mettle against the mighty Windies and all the way to the unforgettable 281 by VVS Laxman against the Aussies, these innings will restore your faith in the undeniable spirit of cricket. #CenturyOfCricket #CricketPodcast

Krieket: Die eerste van drie T20's tussen die Proteas en die Windies word môre in Tarouba gespeel. Dit volg op die toetsreeks wat Suid-Afrika 1-nul gewen het nadat reën die eerste toets ontwrig het. Die tweede T20 word Sondag gespeel en die laaste een Dinsdag - albei ook in Tarouba. Die Proteas se witbal-afrigter, Rob Walter, sê die reeks is 'n belangrike deel van die span se reis na die volgende Wêreldbeker-eindstryd.

Krieket: Die toetsafrigter van die Proteas, Shukri Conrad glo die onervare Tristan Stubbs het wat nodig is om 'n fantastiese nommer drie-toetskolwer te word. Hy sal die rol vervul in die eerste van twee toetse teen die Windies, wat môre in Trinidad begin. Die witbalkaptein Aiden Markram en Tony de Zorzi is die aanvangskolwers vir Suid-Afrika. Conrad sê hoewel die 23-jarige Stubbs tot dusver nog net in een toets gespeel het, is hy 'n indrukwekkende karakter met 'n goeie aura en sterk liggaamstaal.

Krieket: ‘n Wes-Indiese uitnodigings-elftal hervat vandag hulle eerste beurt op 245 vir ses in die opwarmingswedstryd teen die Proteas, wat voorberei vir die twee toetse teen die Windies. Suid-Afrika het die loot gewen in Trinidad en Tobago en gekies om te boul. Die tuisspan se openingskolwer, Jeremy Solozano, het die beste gevaar deur 111 aan te teken terwyl die snelbouler Kagiso Rabada drie paaltjies ingeoes het. Rabada sê hy geniet dit baie om in die Karibiese Eilande te wees.

Krieket: Die Proteas begin vandag met hul opwarmingswedstryd teen 'n uitnodigings-elftal van die Wes-Indiese Eilande in Trinidad en Tobago voor die reeks van twee toetse. Die Windies het pas van hul toetsreeks in Engeland teruggekeer, terwyl die meeste van die Suid-Afrikaanse spelers die afgelope ses maande nie toetskrieket gespeel het nie. Die snelbouler Kagiso Rabada beskryf dit as 'n belangrike opwarmingswedstryd.

Lots to talk about this week after England completed a series clean sweep against the Windies. Plus a couple of nepo babies made their cricket debuts, a local cricket club has banned hitting sixes and Finny has discovered the umpire who is really to blame for his bowling troubles.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another victory for England after a brilliant Second Test against the Windies. The team reflect on the stand out performers and everyone's new favourite cricketer has arrived! Plus Finny talks about infuriating 10th wicket partnerships and someone's nicked his golf clubs... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Notts Test, Day 2: It was doom and gloom after Lord's and not unreasonably so - the Windies were uncompetitive in London and smashed inside seven sessions. But what a difference a week makes. The visitors have enjoyed splendid batting conditions at Nottingham to be within striking distance of a lead, the highlight of their work a stirring maiden Test ton from Kavem Hodge. Daniel Norcross is at Trent Bridge and called the beautiful century moment on radio, he's chatting with Adam Collins. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Check out Westfield London and Stratford City. Download the app: westfield.com/united-kingdom/app Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

talkSPORT's Cricket Editor Jon Norman (follow on X/Twitter @fulhamjon) and former Ashes winner Steve Harmison dissect day three of the 1st Test between England and West Indies as Jimmy bows out, Gus takes 12 for the match and we all wonder where now for the Windies?If you like what you hear please take the time to leave a 5 star review on the podcast page and follow @cricket_ts on X/Twitter. For even more content head over to the talkSPORT Cricket YouTube Channel and hit subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/@talkSPORTCricket hit subscribe. Thanks for listening to Following On. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Lord's Test, Day 1: Well how about that! It was Jimmy's Day in the script but Gus Atkinson's in reality, snaring 7/45 on his Test debut as the Windies were skittled for 121. Cam Ponsonby is at Lord's with Adam Collins talking about the success of his club teammate on a day that won't be forgotten by England fans in a hurry. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Check out Westfield London and Stratford City. Download the app: westfield.com/united-kingdom/app Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nas and Ath are joined by West Indies great Ian Bishop to look ahead to the first Test of the summer at Lord's. They pay tribute to Jimmy Anderson on the eve of his last England Test and discuss the likely England and Windies teams, but don't expect Bish to join them for dinner! You can watch the Lord's Test live and in full on Sky Sports. 

Krieket: Die Proteas se toets-afrigter, Shukri Conrad, het Temba Bavuma as kaptein ingesluit in die groep van 16 spelers vir die reeks van twee toetse teen die Windies. Die paaltjiewagter Ryan Rickelton is ook terug in die groep en die kolwer Matthew Breetzke gaan in sy eerste toets speel na ‘n indrukwekkende somer. Die eerste toets begin op 7 Augustus in Trinidad en die tweede op 15 Augustus in Guyana. Conrad sê hulle het besluit om die veelsydige Marco Jansen vir hierdie reeks te laat rus.

I find that people do not necessarily view themselves as “unstoppable”. It just happens with them although later they may truly adopt an unstoppable mindset. Such a person is our guest this time, Wendy Cole. Wendy and I are roughly the same age and, I suspect, for different reasons have many similar life values and observations.   At the age of ten Wendy announced that she was a girl although physically she was a boy. As she puts it, her brain was a girl and the rest of her was a boy. Even so, she moved forward with life. She spent 20 years working for Digital Equipment Corporation. After being laid off as DEC was failing, she decided not to work directly for one company but rather to accept contract work. She enjoyed doing this kind of work and living that existence for twenty years more.   In 2012 she retired, sort of. Wendy began looking more at her life and existence. She began researching transgender topics and discovered that medical science finally concluded that transgender was not a psychological or mental issue but rather it was, as Wendy says, a medical condition. In 2015 Wendy took the leap as she will tell us and became physically a woman.   She now not only coach's transgender people to help them navigate their uncertainties and concerns, but she is a recognized coach helping and mentoring anyone requiring aid in navigating life changes. As Wendy points out, we all are constantly dealing with change and thus transitions from one thing to another whether it be job related or anything else you can think of.   About the Guest: Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hello, once again, and welcome to unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to talk to a transition expert in all that that implies, her name is Wendy Cole. And she will tell you about her own transitions and also the things that she helps other people with. So I'm going to not give a lot away. Because I think it'd be more fun for Wendy to tell us and I think we're going to have a wonderful discussion about the concept of transition and change and so on. And it's interesting. For me, I hear a lot. And I know I've talked about it a bunch when we talk about September 11, of course, was just my story. Afterward, people kept saying we got to get back to normal. And for the longest time, I bristled at that until I realized why I wasn't happy when people said we have to get back to normal, which really was saying We don't like change. But the problem is normal would never be the same again. So we can't get back to normal because normal is different. And we need to discover what it is. And normal in reality changes regularly. And we'll talk about that. But I would like you to meet Wendy Cole and Wendy. Welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Wendy Cole ** 02:35 Thank you, Michael. I'm really excited to be here. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks for having me.   Michael Hingson ** 02:40 Well, I really appreciate you taking the time to do this. So why don't you tell us a little bit about the earlier Wendy and all that sort of stuff and kind of catch us up but like to see where you came from and all that. All right.   Wendy Cole ** 02:54 Well, as we, as we've discussed, I, I help people learn to embrace change. And I help them explore and identify and eliminate the stresses of life changes. That's a very general statement about what change is all about. I have, I was born with a very different condition. I was born, what we now call today, transgender. And in 2015, I faced a monumental life change. And I went from living as male to which I really wasn't. I refer to him as my mail facsimile. And I went from living that way to living as when he and I have never been happier. And throughout that entire experience, I learned to embrace change in ways that I never dreamed possible. For me. I spent my entire life repressing what I felt who I felt I was, and I was told at age 10, that I would be committed and fixed at a psychiatric institute. If I didn't stop telling my parents that I was really a girl that was in the late 50s. didn't go well. I tried again in 1970. That didn't go well either. That was when a psychiatrist told me I was afraid and should move to New York City. At any rate, he was right and there was only a few choices I had so I began life with repression and hiding for real, and I was always told, get married. Have a Career have wife have a family. And you'll forget all about this. Well, that didn't work either. So, in terms of life changes, I struggled, I struggled, I repressed, and I repressed everything about myself for probably at least five decades. And we came into 20 2015. And that's when I found that everything had changed. The way I was born used to be considered a psychological condition with no treatment and no cure. And I found out in 2015, that as of 2012, it had been changed to a medical condition treatable through therapy, hormones, and surgeries. For me, I had to do it. I was 67 at the time, and it's never too late. And I just had to do it. One of the first things I started doing was working on myself, Michael, working on aligning my own inner being with who I knew myself, there really be. I did a lot of things to make that happen. visioning mindfulness, a lot of meditations, a lot of work with my therapist. And within six months, I was ready to make the leap, take the leap of faith. I realized at that point, there was no guarantees, I had no idea how it would come out, what would happen to me, and there are no guarantees in life. And throughout all of that six month period of the first six months of 2015, I learned a very hard lesson that life is all about change. And it doesn't stop, it just keeps going. So the best thing I learned to do was evolve with it. You know, it's   Michael Hingson ** 07:09 an interesting concept. And the issue is, you happen to experience that and exhibit that with a physical change. But that started with being different than people thought you were that is you were a boy, now you're a girl. And you were really a girl all along internally, right? But the reality is, does it really matter if it has to do with gender or any other thing? You know, like I said, September 11, people experienced that they wanted to get back to normal, but that genie got let out of the bottle on September 11. And normal would never be the same again.   Wendy Cole ** 07:54 Absolutely. So   Michael Hingson ** 07:57 yeah, and transition isn't just about gender, or any one particular thing. Transition is well, you know, children become adolescents, and they become adults. And if that doesn't change, I don't know what it is.   Wendy Cole ** 08:15 Right. And when I was going into this, I started thinking back on the earlier two years of my life, while I was repressing this while I was trying to get through life and just barely survive, which I did quite well actually. I realized that I had changed my life, periodically in many different profound ways. I started a career in the computer industry. I worked for 20 years for a computer company, second largest IBM,   Michael Hingson ** 08:52 at which company was that? Oh, that was digital equipment, corporate. Look where they are today. Okay. Anyway, I just have to say that yeah. Oh, I remember playing with Dell computers. We had a PDP 10 at UC Irvine. So   Wendy Cole ** 09:05 Oh, yeah. Those were the big ones.   Michael Hingson ** 09:09 Big ones. Yeah.   Wendy Cole ** 09:12 That was in the days when mainframes pretty much still ruled. And you know, disk drives were the size of washing machines.   Michael Hingson ** 09:21 And if one crashed, you knew it all over the campus you could hear.   09:28 So,   Michael Hingson ** 09:29 when a disk was a disk,   Wendy Cole ** 09:32 it was in 1989, that I faced a significant life change. And that was digital equipment was beginning to go out of business. And I was given a choice. I got laid off in New Hampshire, where I was living at the time, or take a transfer to Philadelphia and I took the transfer Were to Philadelphia and stayed employed until 1992, when I finally got laid off. And I got a severance package and two years worth of health benefits. And when I sat down and started thinking about what was I going to do with the rest of my life? Well, what was I going to do for work? So that in and of itself is a fairly profound life change?   Michael Hingson ** 10:26 By any standard it is, what were you doing for DEC,   Wendy Cole ** 10:30 I was, I started out with them as a quality engineer doing inspections of all the equipment before everything got bundled up for shipment. And by the time I left, New England, and the job there, I was a senior project manager overseeing projects in three different states. For the manufacturing facilities. And when I went to Philadelphia, I was a sales support tech type person handling a lot of the sales paperwork, making sure everything was technically correct. And when they messed up the orders, which they did frequently, I had to go in and fix them. So I went from doing that kind of work to I decided, well, I did pretty well working for Dec. Throughout the years, even though it drove me crazy. You see, it was a high tech company. And they reorganized frequently, the way they reorganize this the dissolve the entire organization, everybody had to go get new jobs, you had to do up a resume, you had to find out what the new organization looked like. And you had to go interview for jobs. And that was very frequent. So and that actually drove me crazy. During the time I used to drive a drive people around me nuts with the way I was. And when I was working, I resisted change. And it I just didn't deal with it. Well, and I lived like that for 20 years.   Michael Hingson ** 12:24 What about other people?   Wendy Cole ** 12:27 Um, some people just didn't care. It just kind of went with the flow. I was not one of those flow people at the time.   Michael Hingson ** 12:38 But you weren't guaranteed a job with the new organization, whatever that was? No,   Wendy Cole ** 12:42 you weren't. But the reality of it was this, almost everybody did get a new job. Okay. And the reality of it was, and this is what I found out. After going through that for 20 years, and then doing some serious introspection on what I was going to do with the rest of my life. I actually did better every time they reorganized, I always got a better job than what I always had. I just didn't recognize it at the time. And that was something that was kind of like a major aha moment in my life at that point.   Michael Hingson ** 13:27 Interesting, though, concept and interesting way to go about doing business even so just to constantly reorganize like that. I'm wondering what the professionals in the world would say today about that, or do we still do a lot of that?   Wendy Cole ** 13:44 There are there are organizations do change quite frequently, but what I noticed happened after that timeframe. And was the organization's didn't change. People started changing jobs. When I started working, the mindset was, and it's all about mindset. The mindset was, you go to work for a corporation, you work for them for 40 years, you retire. That's it. Yeah. Well, somewhere along the line, I think in the 80s, maybe even the early 90s, things really started changing and people didn't stay at jobs. They might work for a company for three, four or five years at the most and switch, go to another company get another job. Why? Ah looking for a better job looking for a new challenge, looking for some sort of improvement in their career.   Michael Hingson ** 14:53 Did the kind of reorganization thing that happened at DEC send a message that We're not necessarily as loyal to you, as maybe we were or as you think we ought to be.   Wendy Cole ** 15:10 Initially, I don't think that was the case. But I think as as the years went by, especially by the late 80s, that's the message that started going out. But the rest of the high tech companies at the time, they were all going through similar situations.   Michael Hingson ** 15:33 That's why I was wondering if it was somewhat, not whether the companies did it, even initially. But whether people thought that was the case, and wondering if perception went faster than reality, but reality caught up and companies end up not being quite as loyal as they had been wanting to just keeping for sure, exactly.   Wendy Cole ** 15:55 I think that was, that was probably more the case, things began to evolve as they started outsourcing and overseas, shipping jobs overseas. But what I had decided in the early 90s, when I was laid off was I didn't want to be an employee anymore. When I started, contract work. And I actually loved that. All I had to do was please my, the person that signed my contract and do a good job, which was something I always enjoyed doing. And I taught myself how to program in the Microsoft technologies. And I taught myself SQL Server database and started building intranet applications for corporations. So yeah, that was, I did that until 2012. So   Michael Hingson ** 16:58 that was a major mindset shift, needless to say, because it sounds like you went into the workforce, thinking you're going to be loyal to a company, and you're going to go through that whole thing. And then along the way, things changed. And then you decided to shift the mindset to Well, I can be loyal to somebody who signs my contracts. And that's great. And it might last a long time. But the bottom line is, I need to be loyal to me first.   Wendy Cole ** 17:29 Exactly. My contracts usually ran in three month increments. So every three months, I got the equivalent of a job review. But at that point, I had gone to the mindset of I didn't care, I was fine and confident in what I was doing. I knew I was doing good work and delivering results. I would take on major projects and make commitments to deliver incrementally, every two to three months, major changes and major improvements in what I was doing, or make progress in developing what I was developing. And that would always be visible and open to them. Because I would put everything on what I called staging servers, so that people in the organization assigned by the people signing my contract could actually go in and look at what I was doing. And give me feedback on it as I was working on it.   Michael Hingson ** 18:31 So even though you had contracts that went like in three months intervals, did people keep signing your contracts, and you stayed with the same contractor?   Wendy Cole ** 18:43 What my first contract was with a small ambulance company in Philadelphia. And that was an interesting meeting with the CFO who was signing my contract. He said I was very expensive, and that he could only afford me for a short period of time. And I decided well, okay, he said he wanted to know exactly what I was going to do and how I was going to fix their problems. By Friday, this was on a Monday. So I said to him, well, since I'm expensive and you want this by Friday, I'll save you some money. I'll leave now. And I turned and headed for the door. He told me to wait, I came back. He said Why are you leaving? I said well, it's gonna take me at least a week or two to figure out what your system is how it works. Forget about finding out what's wrong with it. This week, I just have to identify what you've got and how it's all working or not working. And within a week Within two weeks, I'll start being able to tell you how I can fix it. And that was something I could never say to a boss, one. Boy. under contract. Yeah, I could say that mindset shift. Exactly. And it felt good, Michael, it really felt good.   Michael Hingson ** 20:23 So what did he say?   Wendy Cole ** 20:26 He agreed. I committed to updating him every Friday where I would meet with him every Friday morning and tell him where I was and what was going on. And I did. And the first Friday, he was relatively pleased. The second Friday, he was very happy because I was making progress. I had figured out a lot of things. And I worked there for three months. And I was done. They they got there. They were having problems with their invoices to you United Healthcare being paid. And United Healthcare owed them $6 million, because their invoices hadn't gone through correctly. I fixed it, I put a new system in place for them. He was thrilled the money was flowing. He offered me they were moving to a new location. And he offered me the job as IT manager. I turned it down. But you can surprise   Michael Hingson ** 21:35 I had a mindset shift. Again,   Wendy Cole ** 21:37 I had a much better job offer, doing contract work at Merck. I wound up working at Merck supporting the serology laboratory where they do the blood tests from the clinical trials of drugs. And that was a really interesting job. And I enjoyed it, I learned a lot there. I continued to develop my programming skills and my computer knowledge as especially in the Microsoft platform, which I had not worked in in my first 20 years. In fact, I discovered PCs in 1992, and had my first one then. And being a former techie type hardware person. Within two weeks of buying my first PC, I tore it all apart, formatted the hard drive, just to figure out if I could put it back together. And it was fun. Yeah, the I worked at Merck for three years, every three months new contract. And I asked him, I said at that point, I wanted to work basically with intranet applications, and do that kind of development work. And they said they weren't interested in doing that. They didn't trust it. So much to their surprise, I think I quit. I didn't take another contract with them. That's when I went to NEC. Okay. I want the NEC for an in an engineering department and built a whole applicant SQL Server database application for them. And when after, after about a year, it was pretty much done with that and then moved on to a chemical company called FMC. And I took much the same approach to everything I'd been doing just, you know, a whole mindset shift of just been independent doing my work. And I didn't have to play office politics. I didn't have to do any of that stuff, Michael. Yeah. It was really good.   Michael Hingson ** 24:06 So you really took to this particular mind ship mindset. idea of being a contractor, which is cool that you you really liked what you were doing.   Wendy Cole ** 24:17 Yeah. It also helped me with my own personal issues, because   Michael Hingson ** 24:25 I was gonna ask that. Yeah, people like   Wendy Cole ** 24:28 me need distractions, things that will take my mind off of what I was struggling with and what I was repressing. And my computer career definitely did a good job of helping me in that department. But this is something that never goes away. It's just part of who, who I was.   Michael Hingson ** 24:56 So what happened in 2012 2012   Wendy Cole ** 24:59 I'm in the tech field, at least it at that point. And I know in hindsight, this was really wearing on me, I looked a lot older than I actually was. I probably just didn't have the right vibes and the right energy, when I was interviewing for contracts anymore. I was tired, Michael, really tired. And so I couldn't get another contract for quite a while. And what I wound up doing was just setting up my own little business doing in home. Computers and technical repair for small businesses and for IN HOME people. Okay, that kept me busy until about 2014 or so. And then that's when I pretty much went into retirement mode. Which I didn't like.   Michael Hingson ** 26:07 Well, you know, I've been dealing with basically 42 years on the job of doing something. Yeah.   Wendy Cole ** 26:13 So, and that was also I was in a really, really dark place with my whole gender issues and everything else. I've been fighting that for decades. And dealing with that, and it just, I was, I was really pretty much done living. But I did decide, I would go online, and look to see if anything had changed relative to my diagnosis that I'd gotten in 1970. I didn't look after that at all. Because thing. I I just couldn't. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 27:04 Well, that's psychiatrist and 20. When you were unwell when nothing, so 1970 called you a freak. I mean, that's a pretty traumatic sort of thing. Anyway. So one can but wonder what that psychiatrist would say today.   Wendy Cole ** 27:24 I, well, see, this is something to that. People like me go through. You try. And besides, you know, distractions, things that you can do for yourself to get past the gender issues and repress them. A lot of people embark on substance abuses, they become alcoholics, drug addicts, things like that. In from the 90s on, I was pretty much involved with psychiatrists. But I never told them what the underlying condition for my anxieties, my depression and my other things that were going on in my mind, I never told them. After all, why would I always call the freak and so but they're all too happy to prescribe medications. And have you come back for regular visits. So I spent a lot of that time very heavily medicated, when I discovered that the diagnosis had changed to a medical condition that you're born with. And that is treatable by therapy, hormone therapy, and any unnecessary surgeries. That was, sounded wonderful. could finally do something about this. And I was seeing a psychiatrist in Doylestown, Pennsylvania at the time. So I told him all about the underlying condition. Well, guess what? Michael, he wanted to send me to conversion therapy. And that's where they try to work on you so that they try to get it out of your mind by various techniques. And it's been proven not to work. They tried it a lot with gay people. They also tried it with people like myself, it just doesn't work. It's basically, when I was when I was still in the process of being born. My brain went female, my body went male. That's the condition And now it's recognized as such, and it's considered treatable. And it affects people differently. to one degree or another, not everybody goes through what I did. But I started seeing a therapist, she started me working with mindfulness started me, basically back into my old hippie days of meditations. And basically challenging all of my beliefs about who I am, what I am, so that I could learn to accept myself, develop self acceptance, self awareness, and actually begin to develop some degree of self love. Okay, and it, I just continued working on that all the way through the first six months, and giving myself little life tests of going to therapy as Wendy going out after therapy, different public outings and things like that. And I found out that I could do this. And that's when I discovered that there. It's all possible, and life is all about possibility. And   Michael Hingson ** 31:27 that's an important concept for anyone, no matter what, exactly whether you're dealing with a gender issue or whatever, right? Because   Wendy Cole ** 31:38 with once you realize that life is about possibilities, the thing that I found that blocked those possibilities from my vision, or make, it's my beliefs that make it look like it's impossible to do that. So I started asking myself, why, what do I believe that makes this impossible and started challenging that. And what I found, Michael, is that really works. I'm shifting my beliefs, your beliefs are made up of your thoughts, and your emotions. And it's the chemical reactions of your body, with your mind your being that drive that. So that's what I learned to change.   Michael Hingson ** 32:41 So I know you have what you call Windies 80% rule. Tell me about that. I think it's great, I love it.   Wendy Cole ** 32:51 Well summarized very, very briefly, it's 80% of all life change begins and is between your ears. It's in your mind. I really, truly believe that. And I've actually live live it now. Yes, there is a physical reality. But our reality is actually determined in our minds, our bodies, our brains take in through our senses of vision, sight, vision, sound, smell, touch. And that's how we form our reality. And those senses get processed in our minds. And that's what we see, touch, feel and experience from the outer world. And so, your reality, my reality, can be very different and very similar in many different ways. It depends on our senses and how we perceive the world.   Michael Hingson ** 34:06 Well, so, you know, if we talk about fear, for example, there are any number of experts who will tell you that we create most of our own fears, they're unformed, they're unfounded. And they'll never come to fruition. And the ones that are legitimate, that we should really be afraid of, also, oftentimes by using mindfulness by using meditation by using introspection and so on, they are also fears that I hate to use the word can be managed, but rather they can be understood and you can use the fear to help motivate you to do whatever you really need to do rather than being as I love to say blinded by fear.   Wendy Cole ** 34:57 Exactly. I I would totally agree with that, Michael, when, when I first started doing this, to become who I really am, I really had to get past a lot of fears, and change a lot of my thoughts and shift a lot of my emotions around so that I could actually enjoy becoming mate. In the real world.   Michael Hingson ** 35:37 You, you mentioned before about life, being very much involved with possibilities. And you said that our beliefs often keep us from dealing with and essentially mass possibilities. Tell me more about that? Well,   Wendy Cole ** 35:53 I've had people tell me that I couldn't have done this transition from male to female in six months. And my question to them is why. If you believe it takes longer than it will, whatever you believe is what it's going to be. And that applies to everything in life. If you believe that you can't successfully you wanted to try skydiving, you wanted to go up in an airplane and jump and experience skydiving, but you don't believe you can do it? Well, as long as you believe you can't do it, you never will get up and go up and do it. But if you shift that belief, change your emotions about it, overcome the fears of it. Then, at some point, when you feel you're ready, you will get on that plane, you will go up and you will jump and experience skydiving.   Michael Hingson ** 37:08 Which doesn't mean everybody has to test themselves by going up and doing skydiving. But that's an example. That's just a hypothetical. Yeah, there's so many things that that one deals with, but we do lock ourselves into the way we operate by what we believe or don't believe. And we, we tend not to be nearly as good collection of explorers as we ought to be.   Wendy Cole ** 37:39 One of the things that I learned is that the human mind is designed to resist change, change equals risk. We tend to want to stay in known situations and routines. We get up in the morning, we do the same things every morning to get ready for work, we go off to our jobs, we take the same route to work every day. We do everything as routinely as possible deviations from routines, and deviations from our weekly routines. These can be potentially stressful situations.   Michael Hingson ** 38:28 But do you think that's true? Because the mind is really designed that way? Or that's what we've been taught. that   Wendy Cole ** 38:36 I believe is what we've been taught. Because when I I've put myself into so many different situations. Especially since 2015. Where I enjoy taking on new situations going into new environments, doing things that I've never done before, or, or first time experiences. It makes life so much more fun.   Michael Hingson ** 39:10 Have you done skydiving yet? No. Just checking.   Wendy Cole ** 39:14 I'm not willing to jump out of a perfectly good airplane quite honestly.   Michael Hingson ** 39:19 Yeah, you know, I know people who have and I don't I, I have no problem with that. But I have just never had an interest in skydiving just like I've never really had an interest in skiing, but it's not a fear of it. I've done other kinds of things. But I love to tell people that you know Sonny Bono got hit by a tree because he was skiing very kindly and peacefully in a tree jumped out and grabbed him. So my my brother in law who's an avid skier says well then just don't ski near the trees and I said don't you don't understand whether you like it or not they come out and get you. And it's funny to joke about that but I just have never had an interest in ski but I I believe I know myself well enough to know that if I had to go out and do it, or if somebody really wanted me to go out and ski with him if Gary, my brother in law came along and said, Come on, would you just come out with me? I'd go. But it's much more fun to joke about it and blame the trees. Exactly. But But I agree with what you're saying. And I and that's why I asked the question, because I think that we oftentimes hear well, we're resistant to change, because that's what our mind is, is all about, we don't like change the brain is, is resistant to change, and I don't buy that. I think that that's what we're taught.   Wendy Cole ** 40:38 Exactly. I think it starts from childhood with our parents. It begins there. It's continued through especially the early grades of school, you know, doing things outside the box, as it were, are discouraged more often than not? Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 41:05 We just don't do it that way. Well, but why? Exactly.   Wendy Cole ** 41:11 So I, I really have enjoyed the last going on nine years of my life, far more than a lot of the aspects of my previous 60 some odd years,   Michael Hingson ** 41:30 will tell me what are you doing now? So So what have you been doing for the last nine years?   Wendy Cole ** 41:36 Oh, well, once once I did become authentically Wendy I just about every daily activity, everything in life was a brand new experience. Because I was experience it from a completely different perspective. The first time I ever signed my name is Wendy Cole. That, that was that was a really felt good. It was a and that's what I really believe that's what life is all about is feeling good. And I, the first time I got my driver's license, the first time I did my changed my name. And then all the way through everything on an everyday basis was a brand new experience it to one degree or another. And 2017 I had surgery. As I like to put it, I got my birth defect corrected. And that was at NYU Medical Center. And I met a lot of really great people there. And I met people in the city in New York City. And I had a wonderful time I had a lot of experiences there. My mail facsimile would never speak publicly. And I was invited to talk to a group of people, probably about 300, I think or so. About my life. I didn't know I was gonna, that was going to happen to me. And I was given the microphone and said, Go talk about what you've been through. And I did, and I enjoyed doing it. That was a brand new experience.   Michael Hingson ** 43:55 And that's the really cool part about it. You enjoyed it.   Wendy Cole ** 43:58 Yeah, this was all so different to me and also knew it was like, almost kind of almost like a rebirth. My psychiatrist and my, because I got a new psychiatrists thanks to my therapist. My therapist, and my new psychiatrists told me a couple of years after I'd been living as myself full time that they couldn't get over the personality change. They'd see me one week as my mail facsimile, and the following week in would walk Wednesday, and totally different personality, very outgoing, very social, and very open. And whereas I wasn't before, I had a secret to hide that I hit it.   Michael Hingson ** 45:03 So, but you understand that now? Yes, I do.   Wendy Cole ** 45:08 And that has really helped immensely in how I feel and how I live. After my surgery, I decided I wanted to help other people go through this. And I started helping people go in through the NYU organization to have their surgeries and things like that. I would talk to girls night before surgery. And I enjoyed doing that. So that's when I decided, well, I'll start actually coaching people and helping them do this. And in 2020, I spent the entire pandemic year developing my coaching business, and started doing that. And then I found that when I was working with people on helping them change their mindset, and how they approached life, so that they could do this and actually find joy in doing it. I found that the things that I was working with people in that regard, applied to everybody, to one degree or another, it all works for everyone.   Michael Hingson ** 46:38 So it gets far beyond the whole issue of transgender exam is really about life in general and recognizing that, as I would say it, we're always in transition.   Wendy Cole ** 46:54 Oh, absolutely. The other thing that I do want to point out is that this has done wonders for my physical health. So I believe that the mind, the human mind, and all interacts with our body through the chemicals that the mind forces the body to produce the neuro peptides that get produced by the hypothalamus, the hormonal production and everything. So if you're in perpetual state of stress, and anxiety, perpetual fear, you're doing harm to your body physically. You might not eat healthy. I did all of these things. I weighed 70 pounds more than I do now. My blood work was horrible. And I was type two diabetic from age 39 on my doctor, my primary care doctor I was about I was about 6869 at the time looks at me and goes you're no longer diabetic. I'm taking you off the meds. What do you attribute this to? And all I said to him was it starts with being happy. I had I had I've lost 70 pounds I'm not I no longer have the cholesterol issues that I had, I no longer had the triglyceride issues that I had, and I'm no longer diabetic. And I exercise I take care of myself I eat properly. And I enjoy life now. I'm not producing the internal body chemistry that causes that that tells my body that I'm having anxiety   Michael Hingson ** 49:06 what what cause you to use or decide to use the name Wendy? Ah   Wendy Cole ** 49:14 she was a girl in one of my grammar school classes I think around fifth or sixth grade. She was the prettiest girl very popular. Always look nice. And I I wasn't interested in interested in her as a girl. I wanted to be her. So I liked that name. And I adopted that name at that age that if I could ever actually be the person that I knew I was.   Michael Hingson ** 49:50 That would be my name. When nothing to do with Peter Pan huh? Nothing. Second star on the right straight on till morning. Oh, that's good. Thank you. Well, it's it's interesting, those in all seriousness that the way you you talk about this and the whole issue of transition, it goes far beyond. And I'm glad that you do it this way far beyond any kind of gender transgender issue, right? It's recognizing that it's something that we all are constantly going through, I know that, for me, doing this podcast, although I was interested in doing the podcast from the beginning, I wondered what it would be like, and, and it has been absolutely fun. And as I love to tell people, if I'm not learning at least as much as anybody else who listens to or is involved in this podcast, I'm not doing my job well, because I love learning new things. And I love exploring. And I'm glad that so many people have blessed me by coming on and are willing to tell it and talk about stories like, like you're doing.   Wendy Cole ** 51:03 Oh, I agree with you, and I love doing this. It's, it's also part of sharing my life with people so that they can see that. In reality, I'm not that much different from a lot of other people. Right. And there's so many times that people like myself are talked about by politicians by so called religious people. And all these really outrageous comments are made, or they treat us like that psychiatrists treated me and like the seventh day. And I, I really started doing this as a as a way of showing people that I'm not that much different from anyone else. This is how I was born, I finally had the opportunity to do something about it. And I did. And I am grateful for my mail representative, my mail facsimile for not making me a drug addict, not making me an alcoholic, like so many. Go through, unfortunately, and definitely not killing myself, even though I thought about it a lot at times, and went through some very dark times during my life. So I got to a point where now I can enjoy it.   Michael Hingson ** 52:45 Well, you talked about self love and self acceptance and self awareness. And that's clearly a really significant part of it. And, and self love is not an ego thing at all. It's appreciating who you are.   Wendy Cole ** 53:00 And we all have doubts as to what we can do, and what we are able to do. And just shifting your emotions and changing your beliefs will get you past so much of that. And that's what I've learned to do over the years. So   Michael Hingson ** 53:21 what what kinds of basic things do you teach in your different coaching sessions for for people? Since you do talk a lot about transition in You talk a lot about change. I assume that one of the things that you do is that you talk about transition, in terms of saying it's more than changing from what you weren't to what you are.   Wendy Cole ** 53:53 But when we're talking when I'm talking to a person who was born transgender. I like to shift that around to it's less about transitioning and more about more about correcting a condition you are born with, so you can be who you always were.   Michael Hingson ** 54:26 But extrapolate that out beyond transgender to other people in dealing with change.   Wendy Cole ** 54:32 There are okay I've had people that had issues with abandonment parental abandonment, abandonment by a spouse, whatever. And what we need to do in those situations is talk through their beliefs and their their emotions associated with their thoughts, and change those thoughts so that they are creating a pot more, a more believable thought that they can get past that issue of band of abandonment. Look at it differently, change the perspective, change how you look at it. And I'm also a believer in journaling, and writing down all your thoughts, no matter how negative no matter how horrible, they might seem to you write them down, document them in some way that you can go back and look at them 234 days later, and read what you wrote. And when you do that, that's when you start to realize how you were thinking and how you were feeling. And you actually come to the conclusion, I don't want to feel that way anymore. Why am I thinking that? Let's change that thought. So that's when I teach them how to shift that belief that that shift that thought into a new thought, that's a little more supportive of where they need to go and what they need to do. And this can go fairly quickly if they're willing to do the work. And just start to shift all those thoughts, learning how to block thoughts. I've used personally techniques where I have a rubber band around my wrist, and I start thinking, I realize I'm thinking all this, this fall, that makes me really anxious, really upset. I don't want to feel that anymore. Snap the rubber band. It's a way of learning to block the thoughts. It's it's our thoughts that drive our emotions. And the two combined if they persist, form these beliefs that we've got to overcome. You know,   Michael Hingson ** 57:23 I hear a lot of people when they talk about being gay or being transgender or whatever. And they, they tell others about it. They say they're coming out. But I'm wondering, to again, extrapolate that, do you ever encourage people like you're talking about whether it's dealing with abandonment, or whether it's dealing with any kind of life change? Do you is part of the coaching program that you do? Do you encourage them to go out and talk about it?   Wendy Cole ** 57:58 Yes. Because once you start talking with sharing your thoughts and sharing your feelings, with a really good friend. And I actually did this with people that were, relatively speaking complete strangers. I would meet people in a social setting and a bar, go to a restaurant where there's a bar sit at the bar, and you wind up talking with somebody. And, you know, sharing soda or something at that point that is highly personal and somewhat stressful or anxiety loaded. And hearing what the how they respond to it. That can be very helpful. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 58:55 Well, and it can be anything. Exactly. I'm really afraid of not having money, or I'm afraid of a job change or any kind of change. And you coach people through that and get them to the point where they can say, you know, it really wasn't what I thought at all. No. And I want to tell the world about I mean, I've asked that because of the fact that you so eloquently talked about how you then started speaking publicly and talking and speaking right to 300 people right off the bat, which is pretty cool.   Wendy Cole ** 59:32 That was that was something that I would have. I would have had it for the door before.   Michael Hingson ** 59:40 Yeah. It's, it's something that you never thought you would do. But you, you did it. Well, I understand that you're now writing a book. Tell me about that.   Wendy Cole ** 59:50 Well, yes. I've wanted to do this for a couple of years now. Good for   Michael Hingson ** 59:58 you. And And I,   Wendy Cole ** 1:00:01 I started out by writing what turned out to be a 36 page life story of my family and my life. And that that story is the first post in my blog on my website now. And one of the things that talks about is my father, my father was a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI in Troy, New York, research chemical engineer, work for Texaco research labs for I think it was almost 45 years,   Wendy Cole ** 1:00:44 over 100 patents, and his name was a lieutenant commander in the Navy during World War Two, my parents were products of the early 20th century, group lived through the Depression, lived through World War Two.   Wendy Cole ** 1:01:07 My father was very conservative. And he has my story on the on the blog post details. He wanted his son to continue the family name. And so he wound up with his first marriage having two daughters, and then with my mother had me. So that that was quite quite a significant thing about it for my life at age 10. When I said, Hey, I'm a girl, and insisted on that, that didn't go well, I'll bet it and no. And that was in a late 1950s, early, very early 60s. So in my book, what I'm doing is focusing more on my life. And what I learned as a result of it. One of the chapters that I'm working on now is having to do with parents who find out their children are transgender. Another one I thought that I'm working on is, has to do with the Wendy's 80% rule. So I also did, I also have been working on another chapter of where I highlight and go through all the differences between men and women. Other aspects of what I've learned. And a lot of it has to do with the whole issue of mindset shift, mindset change, and how we treat each other. Like, with the parents, so many, that's that's a really big problem in some areas of the country now. People find out their children are transgender, they throw them out of the house. There's a program here in where I'm living now. It's a it's a home. It's a facility where they take in kids who have been thrown out of their homes. That   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:48 because it happens for more reasons than just transgender. But, ya know,   Wendy Cole ** 1:03:52 it used to happen a lot for gay, but they don't do that so much anymore. That's become a little bit more acceptable.   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:59 It's maybe not as much in this country as in other countries. But yes, yeah, there are a lot of reasons why things happens to kids, because it's not what the parents expected, as opposed to what is   Wendy Cole ** 1:04:11 right.   Michael Hingson ** 1:04:14 But it's really unfortunate. Now,   Wendy Cole ** 1:04:17 and I've, I've, I've had quite a few experiences in doing this writing that I'm working on. I never thought of myself as having been abused as a child. Now it was perfectly normal in the 1950s to get spanked. And the way my parents treated me as a result of all of this back then, I didn't think twice about it wasn't something I was would, would have considered or thought of as being abused or being abused by A psychiatrist or somebody like that. But yeah, by standards, it's abuse. Does   Michael Hingson ** 1:05:08 your book have a title yet? No, it doesn't. Okay,   Wendy Cole ** 1:05:13 I've got a collection of, I'm working with an editor and I have a collection of what we call rough titles, or chapters. And I'm going through working on each chapter as I feel the inspiration. When   Michael Hingson ** 1:05:33 do you anticipate the book being published?   Wendy Cole ** 1:05:37 Definitely next year. And definitely, I hope to have it in the, into the publisher by no later than the first half of next year.   Michael Hingson ** 1:05:51 Well, they will, they will, I'm sure have other edits and other things publishers do. Although it happens, that's okay. We're writing live like a guide dog right now, which is the book that I'm writing all about learning to be able to control or use fear in a positive way, rather than being blinded by it. We expect that out next July. So that's getting pretty exciting. We, we still get some things from the publisher about well, now we've got this, we saw this error, or we saw this, but it's gotten to be like, only two or three little minor things now. So we're getting pretty close to I think the publisher being totally happy, but also what they've been doing lately. Were good catches. So it's okay. Yep. Well, that's exciting.   Wendy Cole ** 1:06:45 That's the job of the editor. As I understand it, it is   Michael Hingson ** 1:06:48 as long as they don't try to change what you are and who you are and what you wrote. Right. Which is, which is good. Well, I want to thank you for being here. We have been doing this now for well over an hour. And it's been fun. I know time flies when you're having fun. Right? Well, I guess Thank you. But I want to thank you for being here. And I want to thank you for listening to unstoppable mindset, wherever you may be. We'd love to hear your thoughts about it. I'm sure Wendy would if people want to reach out to you maybe talk to you about coaching and so on. Wendy, how do they do that?   1:07:21 Wendycolegtm.net/connect. Do that once more, right? My website slash connect when they call jpm.net/connect. And GPM means GTM GTM gender transition mentor got   Michael Hingson ** 1:07:42 it? Okay, well, let's go jtm.com/dotnet. Right, cool ash   Wendy Cole ** 1:07:49 connect slash Connect. The domain name was the name that I picked in 2020 When I first started,   Michael Hingson ** 1:07:59 but you don't need to have a gender issue to talk to Wendy about transition. So please, reach out. She'd love to communicate and talk with you and assist in any kind of dealing with life changing and transition stuff. And I want to encourage you to do it. 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Dylan Cleaver & Paul Ford join Jason Hoyte for another episode of NZ's #1 cricket pod the BYC! After the early exit from the T20 World Cup the fellas predict who will still be around for the Black Caps at the next T20 World Cup (0:00), then look ahead to the Semi Finals between Afghanistan & South Africa and England & India (15:15) before finally getting to correspondence from Mark T in the Windies (30:18).  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After a dominant run in the group stage, West Indies failed to get going against England, setting an under par score that England comfortably chased down. Though they did manage a big win against USA that offered a boost to their NRR, in their do or die game against South Africa they couldn't manage to capitalise on the openings they got. Meanwhile, it is all set up nicely in Group 1 with both the semi spots up for grabs, with India being the top contender for one, and Afghanistan and Australia left to fight for the one remaining spot. Meanwhile, it is all set up nicely in Group 1 with both the semi spots up for grabs, with India being the top contender for one, and Afghanistan and Australia left to fight for the one remaining spot.Follow us On: Cricket8: https://cricket8.com/ -- Jarrod Kimber: Website: https://www.goodareas.coYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@JarrodKimberYTYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoodAreasLiveX: https://x.com/ajarrodkimber-- Rob Barron X: https://x.com/MonsieurJudge-- Megha Sinha Youtube: https://youtube.com/@meghasinha7126?si=VRisxCMpkQbsdZH2Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/45YXPLKiGbwvo2Si/?mibextid=LQQJ4dX: https://x.com/MeghaSinha006-- Machel St Patrick Hewitt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/MC21uXUgCRyhrBsL/

2024 T20 World Cup, Day 21.2: West Indies v USA We have seen signs over the last week that the Windies are emerging as one of the biggest contenders for this World Cup, a suggestion that will grow yet further after becoming the first team to beat up the USA. In a first for Final Word Daillies, it's Daniel Norcross as the solo host (blame Ben Jones' wifi) and he does a terrific job of explaining why the biggest loser out of tonight is actually South Africa. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Enter the Westfield UK competition: win gift vouchers or your own T20 World Cup final party at Sixes. westfield.com/united-kingdom/tfw Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Aaman and Nate are joined by MiLC commentator and World Cup ground announcer Joe Hickey to discuss USA's loss to Windies in the Super Eight stage. 

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The T20 World Cup is here….let's talk about it! USA ended up running out comfortable winners against their oldest rivals in sports Canada… did you hear it's the oldest rivalry in sports because it was mentioned once or twice! The West Indies almost slipped up on the banana skin that was PNG, normally a minnow upset is what we want but the Windies losing early would have been disastrous for the tournament annnnd Namibia outlasted Oman in a Super Over after a low scoring but incredibly entertaining thriller this afternoon This show is called “The Good, the Bad ... and the Land of the Free” brought to you by, Maximum Cricket.  This is your T20 World Cup wrap up, where twice a week we talk about things that are good…. And things that are bad in this World Cup, followed by something different at the end.  My name is Matt Hunter but you can call me Munter, this here is Jackson Latham, otherwise known as Pies, or Jacko even and if you want to stay upto date this World Cup, hit that subscribe button.... and enjoy the ride... that TMC is trying to take you on... INTRO (00:00) THE GOOD (05:08) THE BAD (10:19) THE FREE - Top 10 Runs in T20 World Cups (20:35) FUTURES - Most Runs & Most Wickets (28:27)

Cricket writer and commentator, Neil Manthorpe, discussed The Proteas' T201 series defeat by the West Indies on the weekend, which comes just over a week ahead of the T20 World CupSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Krieket: Die Proteas kan dalk 'n terugkeer maak in hulle reeks van drie T20-wedstryde teen die Windies, met die oorblywende twee wedstryde wat hierdie naweek gespeel word. Suid-Afrika het die eerste wedstryd in Jamaika met 28 lopies verloor ten spyte van ‘n loopbaan-beste 87 deur Reeza Hendricks. Die T20-Wêreldbeker vind volgende maand in Amerika en die Windies plaas en Hendricks sê die Proteas sal vinnig by die omstandighede moet aanpas.

Krieket: Die Proteas pak vanaand die Wes-Indiese Eilande in Jamaika in die eerste van drie T20's. Hierdie reeks sal as 'n belangrike opwarming dien vir die T20-Wêreldbekertoernooi wat volgende maand in die Karibiese Eilande en Amerika gespeel word. Rassie van der Dussen is die kaptein van die Proteas vir die reeks wat hulle die geleentheid bied om aan die Karibiese klimaatstoestande gewoond te raak.

New Zealand v Australia, Wellington Day 0: What will we do without Neil Wagner? A fine career comes to an end ahead of the series opener between the Black Caps and Pat Cummins' men at the beautiful Basin. For the Aussies, it's the XI as anticipated - the same side that lost to the Windies at the Gabba a month ago - and they're on the hunt for precious WTC points away from home. As for Tim Southee's team, they would do anything to get over the line against Australia in a Test Match for the first time in over a dozen years but they won't have Devon Conway's assistance in that mission, out with a thumb injury - a big blow. Bharat Sundaresan is with Adam Collins in their Airbnb/commune/hostel. And then... India v England, Ranchi Wash-up: How did it come to this? Will Bashir and Hartley ever get a game in the County Championship? And what on earth happened to Ollie Robinson? Cameron is joined once again by Cricinfo's Vithushan Ehantharajah to analyse to England's series defeat and have the latest from the camp. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find shirts, marathons and other links at linktr.ee/thefinalword Sort your super with CBUS on their 40th birthday All links at linktr.ee/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adam Peacock, Alyssa Healy and Callum Ferguson look at Australia's dominance over the West Indies in men's cricket and South Africa in the women's game, go inside the Australian Cricket Awards and who was the MVP of the after party, debate two very contentious obstructing the field calls and hear from Aussie quick Lance Morris and his spooky beliefs!  Follow on Apple, Spotify and the LiSTNR app Drop us a message on Instagram and TikTok! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After the Aussies were far too strong for the Windies yesterday - Lisa joins the boys to break it all down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The electoral support for tax cuts is yet to drop and JTI says there's no point looking at polls until at least July when the money drops. Politicians lie as one of listeners reminds us (as if we needed reminding) and live to lie another day. HK Jack says there may be a little loss of skin but overall the package should be well received. The Government actuary (yes, there is one) predicts extraordinary cost blow outs in the NDIS over the next decade and HK Jack makes a few suggestions on how money might be saved to keep the programme going. In the US, polling shows Trump with leads in key battleground states but the Orange One is going to get hit hard in the wallet over the next week or two with multimillion dollar losses in court heading his way. In France, the farmers are blockading Paris. JTI says never get in the way of the Parisians and their food. Test cricket is back and so are the Windies while England also pull off a stunning win at Hyderabad. 

Aaman and Nate discuss the USA U19 performances in the group stage of the U19 Men's World Cup, USA Cricket's lack of prep for the T20 World Cup, West Indies and the ICC revenue distribution model failures, and USA Cricket's constitution amendments review. 

We review the past week of exciting test cricket and what lies ahead. How did the Windies win? Will England maintain this momentum? Tune in to learn more.

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A red-letter day in the annals of Test cricket, once again demonstrating its capacity to deliver bulk pleasure and bulk pain. We talk Windies, we talk Shamar, and Commo John gives his verdict. Should we turn up at Jolimont with balaclavas and illegal firearms? Only time will tell. ESPNs Alex Malcolm joins to provide the logic and reason. Then it's England and India, where everything good about Bazball came to pass in a victory that, really, may well be one of the greatest in England's history. Will Tom Hartley celebrate with cock tricks and died hair? We're then graced by the presence of Australian Rock and Roll legend, Tim Rogers, talking country cricket, Mick Jagger, and scoring drugs with Liam Gallagher in Tokyo. Australia's women aren't absolutely perfect, thus we are concerned, the men's U19 World Cup has started well thank God, and Spencer Johnson got a big bucket medal for winning the Bucket on Bonce League. AskTGC is about riding 12k on an ebike for a solo indoor net at 1am. Hope you enjoy. If you want to support The Grade Cricketer, please join us on Patreon at https://www.Patreon.com/gradecricketer  where you get #AskTGC Fridays every week and access to the entire back catalogue of Patreon work that has been going for 3 years now. An extra 4 hours per month, every month of TGC when you sign up! Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to the custom URL here: https://nordvpn.com/tgc to get a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 months for free! It's completely risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee! https://nordvpn.com/tgc  Use the code GETAFEW at https://www.pontingwines.com.au for 20% your order. We thank Ponting Wines for their support and for getting around #AskTGC  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Stage Three tax cut restructure has been announced. Albo has backed away from a promise and bracket creep remains real. He may lose some skin over it but overall, the announcement means 11 million Australian workers will pay lower taxes as of July 1. JTI believes it's designed to wedge Peter Dutton in the regions and outer suburbs where Dutton wants to take the Libs. Scott Morrison resigns from the parliament. Where does he stand on the pantheon of Prime Ministers? A fair way down but not quite Billy McMahon status. Trump takes New Hampshire but Nikki Halley is proving a difficult opponent. South Africa goes to the elections later this year with the possibility that the ANC's lock on power may start to shift. In sport, the BBL wraps up with the Heat winning the tournament as the Australians face the Windies in Brisbane and England play India in the first Test in Hyderabad.  

Australia v West Indies, Brisbane Day 2: What a day of Test cricket! If only those bails fell off... well, let's not get too deep into alternative histories. What's certain is that the Windies have given themselves a genuine chance of victory after claiming a first-innings lead, thanks mostly to the work of their opening quicks Kemar Roach and Alzarri Joseph. For the first time, it's Bharat Sundaresan piloting the show, and we have a new guest host alongside him, the excellent Adam White. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find shirts, marathons and other links at linktr.ee/thefinalword Sort your super with CBUS on their 40th birthday: cbussuper.com.au Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

The Test is delicately poised heading into day three between Australia and the West Indies, with the Windies 35 runs ahead with nine wickets in hand. Callum Ferguson and Dan Ginnane spoke to two of the stars of day two - Alex Carey (65 off 49) and Kevin Sinclair (1x backflip) to take us through the day. Follow on Apple, Spotify and the LiSTNR app Drop us a message on Instagram and TikTok! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reviewing the first test match between Australia and the West Indies. Michael Vaughn is hysterical and so am I. Shamar Joseph is my dad. Cam Green and Smudge both fail twice. Why didn't the game start on a Tuesday???? Travis Head is a freak etc.  New Episode every Thursday! Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJscnfTTW_-aO5D81Xi22yw?  Facebook: www.facebook.com/billydarcy1  Instagram: www.instagram.com/billy.darcy  Music: 'In the Clouds' by RENNANSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australia superstar batter Travis Head joins Willow Talk's Sam Ferris to preview the first Test between Australia and the West Indies at the Adelaide Oval. Travis chats about the vibe around the camp without David Warner, preparing to play the Windies by watching his 175 from last summer, Steve Smith's move to opener, random ticket requests and how Test cricketers wash their whites.  Follow on Apple, Spotify and the LiSTNR app Drop us a message on Instagram and TikTok! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Australia batter and Victoria one-day captain Peter Handscomb joins Willow Talk hosts Adam Peacock and Brad Haddin to preview the first Test between Australia and West Indies in Adelaide, the Windies players to watch for this summer, the national selection process, Pete's own game, his Test aspirations and favourite memories of the retiring Aaron Finch. Hadds and Adam then finish off the show with their Risers and Fallers and the best and worst of joke of the day!  Follow on Apple, Spotify and the LiSTNR app Drop us a message on Instagram and TikTok! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australia's Test XI has been revealed with Steve Smith to replace David Warner as Test opener, with Cameron Green to return at No.4*. Adam Peacock and Brad Haddin look over Australia's Test squad for the two-Test series against the West Indies, Hadds remembers his battles with the Windies, Jackson Bird swoops in to talk BBL and the Sydney Smash this Friday and our Risers and Fallers with a shout out to our very own Alyssa Healy!*This information was discovered halfway through the episode!  Follow on Apple, Spotify and the LiSTNR app Drop us a message on Instagram and TikTok! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this podcast, the hosts Grace Leeder (@hifromgrace), DM Filly (@dmfilly), and Ariel (@thatotherariel) discuss the results of The Windies: A Dark Awards Show.