Podcasts about wonderful you

In this week's episode, Marni welcomes Christina McMahon, PhD, a love coach and certified somatic counselor who has been empowering individuals to overcome their inner barriers to love and life through the power of somatic healing. With a background in academia, Christina made the bold decision to leave a tenured university position to follow her passion, now helping hundreds of singles embrace love in a transformative way. She'll take us through how listening to our bodies, especially in times of change, can lead us to our most authentic selves. This episode dives deep into the concept of somatic healing and how listening to our bodies can catalyze massive life shifts. They'll explore the idea of breaking down barriers by connecting with bodily sensations and understanding how trauma can lead to profound transformation.   Key Takeaways: Listening to Your Body Can Lead to Breakthroughs Trauma as a Pathway to Transformation Shift Happens When We Accept Our Emotions Somatics and the Body's Signals (10:15) Recognizing these physical patterns allows for a more profound understanding of personal history, unlocking the potential for growth. By tuning into these bodily sensations, we can begin to trust the signals our body sends, guiding us toward the healing we need. "Each pattern we develop has a survival instinct behind it... our body holds the memory of what we need to heal." Breaking Down to Break Through (17:45) It's in the moments of greatest distress that clarity can emerge, providing the opportunity to realign and rebuild a new direction in life. These breaking points often serve as gateways to deeper personal transformation, allowing us to create a life aligned with our true desires.   “It was like the worst day of my life, but it was also the most pivotal because it put me on a different path.”   Emotional Energy and Healing (25:00) Somatic work teaches that emotions are energy, and blocked emotional energy creates physical and emotional pain. When people allow themselves to feel emotions—especially the ones they avoid like sadness or grief—they make room for healing and forward movement.Emotions like anger often mask deeper feelings like sadness. By embracing these, transformation occurs, shifting from emotional stagnation to personal freedom.  “Underneath your anger is probably sadness... the sadness is the golden nugget we need to heal.” Make a Connection: 3 Secrets Men Wish You Knew *Free Download* How to Eliminate Burnout: How to use the Radical Living Blueprint to Reinvent Your Life Ready To Take Control Of Your Life?  Book A Call With Us Unlock the shocking truth about how your unique personality type is silently shaping your future Want a Love Life Worthy of Wonderful You?- Meet Christina Mcmahon Opening to Sacred Love Online Program Free Dating Mastery Toolkit For Lasting Love  

•Wanda Hudgens of Hamden, Ct. is the songwriter of “Wonderful, Marvelous” recently released with vocalist Veronica Austin.  Although Wanda had this song in her heart for 30 years it wasn't until last year (2023) that she was able to find the right people who believed in her project. •The song was originally titled “You're Wonderful You're Marvelous” however through the years of transition the name ultimately changed.  She was able to connect with Raymond Earl of Trenton, NJ to get the project out. •Wanda says her first love is Gospel music because it ministers to the soul and the spirit.  Gospel music is God's way of talking to you through song. •Wanda shares that so many times she has been encouraged and strengthened by listening to gospel music and believes others have had the same experience. •Wanda also loves different genres of music including smooth jazz, R&B, pop country western and anything she likes to hear. •New Single “Wonderful, Marvelous” featuring Veronica Austin on Wanda Bringin It Records is available on all Music outlets! •Please send Let's Talk: Gospel Music Gold an email sharing your thoughts about this show segment also if you have any suggestions of future guests you would like to hear on the show. Send the email to ⁠letstalk2gmg@gmail.com⁠ •You may Subscribe to be alerted when the newest episode is published. Subscribe on Spotify and we will know you are a regular listener. •LET'S TALK: GOSPEL MUSIC GOLD RADIO SHOW AIRS SATURDAY MORNING 9:00 AM CST / 10:00 AM EST ON INTERNET RADIO STATION WMRM-DB Aired on iHeart Radio & Live365 •Both Podcast and Radio show are heard anywhere in the World! •NEW BOOK RELEASE! •Legacy of James C. Chambers And his Contributions to Gospel Music History Available for purchase on Amazon.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letstalk2gmg-ansonia/message

Van Sessions is Recorded at The Monarch in Ogden, Utah.   ARTIST | Emily Hicks Band   FULL SET: Song 1 - You've Got Drive Song 2 - Picket Fenced In Song 3 - Royals (Lorde Cover) Song 4 - Weird, Wild, Wonderful You   ARTIST LINKS WEBSITE: https://www.emilyhicksmusic.com/ TIP JAR: https://account.venmo.com/u/EmilyHicksMusic YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuYSPslw49mx3YlamJCw84A INATAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/emilyhicksmusic/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5NZq9gTkTS8y7S6rRzvPaZ?si=-8aST23QQN-EfmqDKF20Pw   SUPPORTERS   The Monarch Building: https://themonarchogden.com/ UTOG Brewing: https://www.utogbrewing.com/ Lucky Slice Pizza: https://www.theluckyslice.com/ Ogden City Arts: https://ogdencity.com/707/Arts Locals Rock: https://www.instagram.com/localsrock/   CREDITS Producer / Host: R. Brandon Long, The Banyan Collective Bookings: Todd Oberndorfer, todd@thebanyancollective.com Audio Mix: Scott Rogers, The Proper Way https://theproperwayband.com/studio DOP: Dixon Stoddard https://www.instagram.com/studios_d21/ Photography: Avery Atkinson https://www.instagram.com/atkinson.photo/ Lighting: 8ZERO1 Productions   FOLLOW // SUBSCRIBE Van Sessions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vansessions/ Van Sessions Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thevansessions Van Sessions YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vansessionspod   Our “Patreon,” Like what you hear, buy us beer: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/banyanmedia   The drive behind Van Sessions is to create a music discovery community for Northern Utah musicians to share their work, refine their craft, and network with other artists.   Van Sessions helps support local musicians, photographers, and videographers through our project. Show your support for local artists by subscribing to Van Sessions on YouTube @vansessionspod or search "Van Sessions Podcast" on your favorite podcast platform.   Join us live at the Monarch in Ogden every First Friday to be a part of the free concert and video podcast recording.   Bookings: todd@thebanyancollective.com

Van Sessions is Recorded at The Monarch in Ogden, Utah.   ARTIST | Emily Hicks Band   FULL SET: Song 1 - You've Got Drive Song 2 - Picket Fenced In Song 3 - Royals (Lorde Cover) Song 4 - Weird, Wild, Wonderful You   ARTIST LINKS WEBSITE: https://www.emilyhicksmusic.com/ TIP JAR: https://account.venmo.com/u/EmilyHicksMusic YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuYSPslw49mx3YlamJCw84A INATAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/emilyhicksmusic/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5NZq9gTkTS8y7S6rRzvPaZ?si=-8aST23QQN-EfmqDKF20Pw   SUPPORTERS   The Monarch Building: https://themonarchogden.com/ UTOG Brewing: https://www.utogbrewing.com/ Lucky Slice Pizza: https://www.theluckyslice.com/ Ogden City Arts: https://ogdencity.com/707/Arts Locals Rock: https://www.instagram.com/localsrock/   CREDITS Producer / Host: R. Brandon Long, The Banyan Collective Bookings: Todd Oberndorfer, todd@thebanyancollective.com Audio Mix: Scott Rogers, The Proper Way https://theproperwayband.com/studio DOP: Dixon Stoddard https://www.instagram.com/studios_d21/ Photography: Avery Atkinson https://www.instagram.com/atkinson.photo/ Lighting: 8ZERO1 Productions   FOLLOW // SUBSCRIBE Van Sessions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vansessions/ Van Sessions Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thevansessions Van Sessions YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vansessionspod   Our “Patreon,” Like what you hear, buy us beer: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/banyanmedia   The drive behind Van Sessions is to create a music discovery community for Northern Utah musicians to share their work, refine their craft, and network with other artists.   Van Sessions helps support local musicians, photographers, and videographers through our project. Show your support for local artists by subscribing to Van Sessions on YouTube @vansessionspod or search "Van Sessions Podcast" on your favorite podcast platform.   Join us live at the Monarch in Ogden every First Friday to be a part of the free concert and video podcast recording.   Bookings: todd@thebanyancollective.com

Van Sessions is Recorded at The Monarch in Ogden, Utah.   ARTIST | Emily Hicks Band   FULL SET: Song 1 - You've Got Drive Song 2 - Picket Fenced In Song 3 - Royals (Lorde Cover) Song 4 - Weird, Wild, Wonderful You   ARTIST LINKS WEBSITE: https://www.emilyhicksmusic.com/ TIP JAR: https://account.venmo.com/u/EmilyHicksMusic YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuYSPslw49mx3YlamJCw84A INATAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/emilyhicksmusic/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5NZq9gTkTS8y7S6rRzvPaZ?si=-8aST23QQN-EfmqDKF20Pw   SUPPORTERS   The Monarch Building: https://themonarchogden.com/ UTOG Brewing: https://www.utogbrewing.com/ Lucky Slice Pizza: https://www.theluckyslice.com/ Ogden City Arts: https://ogdencity.com/707/Arts Locals Rock: https://www.instagram.com/localsrock/   CREDITS Producer / Host: R. Brandon Long, The Banyan Collective Bookings: Todd Oberndorfer, todd@thebanyancollective.com Audio Mix: Scott Rogers, The Proper Way https://theproperwayband.com/studio DOP: Dixon Stoddard https://www.instagram.com/studios_d21/ Photography: Avery Atkinson https://www.instagram.com/atkinson.photo/ Lighting: 8ZERO1 Productions   FOLLOW // SUBSCRIBE Van Sessions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vansessions/ Van Sessions Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thevansessions Van Sessions YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vansessionspod   Our “Patreon,” Like what you hear, buy us beer: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/banyanmedia   The drive behind Van Sessions is to create a music discovery community for Northern Utah musicians to share their work, refine their craft, and network with other artists.   Van Sessions helps support local musicians, photographers, and videographers through our project. Show your support for local artists by subscribing to Van Sessions on YouTube @vansessionspod or search "Van Sessions Podcast" on your favorite podcast platform.   Join us live at the Monarch in Ogden every First Friday to be a part of the free concert and video podcast recording.   Bookings: todd@thebanyancollective.com

We're finishing up our For the Love of Wonderful You series intentionally with a deep breath and a gentle word of encouragement. In this episode, even though we are talking about trauma, critical inner voices, and the arduous process of grief, Jen and her guest unwind these topics in the most gentle and loving way.  Kobe Campbell is an award-winning therapist who specializes in helping people process grief and trauma in a way that unearths true empowerment. Hidden beneath the clamor of everyday life, the voices of our inner critic lie in wait to echo our grief. These voices, though silent to others, can roar deafeningly within us — shaping our perceptions, beliefs, and actions. Kobe's suggestions of journal “prompts” help guide our own trauma excavation process, and her gentle but challenging questions further that sometimes painful work, while steering us toward self compassion.  Jen and Kobe touch on:  The understanding that grief can take a lot of time to process; which can ultimately lead to wisdom and true empowerment A working definition of trauma and that trauma is highly personal and contextual How we can feel brave enough to examine the inner critical voice and discern where it's coming from Acknowledging the cultural pressure to live at an unsustainable pace that doesn't allow space or time to heal If you ever needed permission to grieve or drop the unrelenting pace of your life, then this is the invitation. * * * Thought-Provoking Quotes: “I love to tell people that trauma is not what happened to you. It's about how it affected you. And those effects can live in our present, even if the moment is in the past. I help people parse through that in creative ways with poems, quick words, and thoughts from my kitchen right after I'm done with the session.” - Kobe Campbell “I think that many of us have not been given the space to grieve long enough to know what genuine and internal empowerment feels like, and we keep trying to give ourselves that empowerment from the outside. We keep trying to grasp motivation from somewhere.” - Kobe Campbell "Trauma can be acute, meaning it can be a moment, or trauma can be chronic, meaning it could be several moments over time. And I like to give the example that trauma can be a boulder or it could be pebbles. But the reality is–it doesn't matter. There is no big 'T' trauma and little 't' trauma because, at the end of the day, all those pebbles amass to the size of a boulder anyway. It's just being accumulated over time." - Kobe Campbell "The person who holds the wound holds the wisdom. If we lock away that version of us that is deeply wounded and wants to cry for three months, then we're also locking away the wisdom of those situations that we need for our present." - Kobe Campbell "My humanity is good. God created it good. And if I believed that I was good for just existing as I am, how would I treat myself?" - Kobe Campbell Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Why Am I Like This? How to Break Cycles, Heal From Trauma, and Restore Your Faith by Kobe Campbell Journal Prompt on Kobe's Instagram Brain Neuro Coupling I Feel Like Woman by Shania Twain on Spotify Minaa B. Website (Therapist and Colleague of Kobe's) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Michell C. Clark Instagram Guest's Links: Kobe's Website Kobe's Facebook Kobe's Twitter Kobe's Instagram Kobe's TikTok Kobe's YouTube Connect with Jen! Jen's website Jen's Instagram Jen's Twitter Jen's Facebook Jen's YouTube  The For the Love Podcast is a production of Four Eyes Media, presented by Audacy.  Four Eyes Media: https://www.iiiimedia.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the start of a new series, For The Love of Wonderful You! Spring is arriving and as the winter slumber fades away, many of us are likely plunging into a frantic pace of commitments and To Do lists. But we want to take a minute (or approximately 45-mins to an hour) to create a moment where we can punch the brakes a little. Let's tell that inner taskmaster to relax; and instead, reflect on finding value in who we are in this moment, and how worthy we are just as we are.  Jen's amazing conversation partner today is Amanda Doyle. Amanda is many amazing things but you may know her first and foremost as “Sister” on the We Can Do Hard Things Podcast with Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach. She's also part of the leadership team at Together Rising, the amazing non-profit that has raised over $50 million dollars and given it away to people all over the world who need it most. Amanda has been a longtime social justice advocate and she uses that knowledge to break down deep truths and complex social issues in all her conversations. Today, she reminds us that spending the energy to stay vulnerable in our relationships will always pay out. In this episode Jen and Amanda talk about: The struggle to be vulnerable and truly open up versus managing perceptions and staying in control in relationships How Amanda chose sobriety and the surprising clarity that emerged in her marriage, especially during the pandemic Jen's journey to understanding herself and her avoidant tendencies in the aftermath of her divorce The profound impact of the "love letter" exercise guided by Liz Gilbert, where “Love's voice” urged Amanda to stop keeping score in life * * * Thought-Provoking Quotes: “A relationship has to have some equilibrium. The farther you go this way, the more the other person has to go the other way. What I have learned is that no one wants to be in those places.” - Amanda Doyle "What I have recently realized is that many people who either view themselves or are viewed in their relationships as control freaks; actually what they want the most is to not be in control of everything. They feel like they have to be in control of everything, because that is the way that they show their love is by taking care of things. But what they want more than anything else is for someone to step up and be like, 'I got this, I got you. You don't have to be in control of this.'" - Amanda Doyle “You are so fixated on the score of this life, but there is no score except the one in your head. You are exhausting yourself to death, trying to keep a score and figure out where you've won, and figure out where other people have disappointed you and slighted you and not met your expectations. But the score is fiction. We're not being scored." - Amanda Doyle “We think when we're giving up alcohol, we're giving up fun. And that's with good reason. It's like fully marketed--growing up, it's part of the narrative; anything that is fun also includes alcohol. But then I had the enormous blessing of being so close to Abby and Glennon's life and seeing that they were the most fun people with the most delightful, satisfying lives of anyone else I know. And none of that included alcohol." - Amanda Doyle Resources Mentioned in This Episode: We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle For the Love Podcast Episode ft. Glennon Doyle For the Love Podcast Episode ft. Abby Wambach For the Love Podcast Enneagram Threes Episode ft. Lisa Whelchel Untamed by Glennon Doyle We Can Do Hard Thing Episode ft. Liz Gilbert Letters From Love with Liz Gilbert (Substack) For the Love Podcast Episode ft. Sarah Bessey Guest's Links: Together Rising Website Amanda's Twitter Together Rising Facebook Together Rising Instagram Connect with Jen! Jen's website Jen's Instagram Jen's Twitter Jen's Facebook Jen's YouTube  The For the Love Podcast is a production of Four Eyes Media, presented by Audacy.  Four Eyes Media: https://www.iiiimedia.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A must-listen for anyone juggling life's chaos, looking to redefine productivity, and craving a sprinkle of humor in their journey to conquer stress. More about Tina, free gift, mental health resources & more: https://www.tacosfallapart.com/podcast-live-show/podcast-guests/tina-baxter In this episode of the "Even Tacos Fall Apart" live show, MommaFoxFire engaged in a insightful conversation with Tina Baxter, focusing on the crucial topic of Stress Management. Tina, a seasoned nurse and entrepreneur, shared valuable insights on how individuals can navigate the challenges of stress in their lives. The conversation delved into the importance of acknowledging stress and its impact on mental health. Tina emphasized the shift in societal attitudes towards stress, citing examples like Simone Biles' decision to prioritize her mental health during the Olympics. Despite the growing awareness, Tina highlighted the persistent stigma surrounding stress and burnout, especially in high-stakes professions like healthcare. Tina drew attention to a disheartening incident where a physician, struggling with burnout, was fired when he sought time off for mental health reasons. This highlighted the pressing need for systemic changes within healthcare to address issues like understaffing, stagnant wages, and the overall strain on caregivers. The conversation shed light on the broader implications of stress, extending beyond the individual and emphasizing the need for structural reforms. The discussion touched on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress management. Tina pointed out that the pandemic had allowed individuals to reassess their priorities and question the conventional norms of productivity. With the rise of remote work, people experienced a shift in perspective, questioning the traditional notion of hustling and constantly being productive. Tina encouraged redefining productivity to encompass activities that bring joy and fulfillment, such as baking or spending quality time with loved ones. Tina shared her personal experience of incorporating self-care into her routine during the pandemic. From baking to engaging in workouts, she highlighted the importance of finding activities that bring happiness and joy. The conversation emphasized the need to redefine productivity in a way that aligns with individual well-being. Towards the end of the episode, Tina expressed her desire to change the perception that mental health issues are personal flaws, emphasizing that they are treatable illnesses that require understanding and support. As a parting gift to the podcast listeners, Tina generously offered a free e-workbook titled "Embracing the Wonderful You." This workbook, accessible with the promo code "embrace," aims to guide individuals through breathing exercises and self-care practices, providing a valuable resource for those seeking to enhance their well-being. This conversation was a comprehensive exploration of stress management, addressing societal shifts, systemic challenges, and personal strategies for well-being. Tina's wealth of experience and compassionate insights made this episode a valuable resource for those navigating the complexities of stress in their lives. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mommafoxfire/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mommafoxfire/support

"My mission, now, is to reclaim the word WOMAN as the most powerful force on the planet." – Carin Rockind   Welcome Carin Rockind, a renowned empowerment coach and founder of The Purpose Girl podcast, to The Brave Table. Filming this episode was so much fun! Carin led me through her journey from leaving corporate America to answering her calling of empowering women to embrace their power, purpose, and pleasure. We even chat about her current motivation to shift focus, rebranding her show to the Reclaiming Woman Podcast and stepping out of the "good girl" conditioning. Through the transformative power of sisterhood, this episode is going to empower you to reclaim your  joy, embody your authenticity, and foster positive change in the world. You ready?!?     In this episode, we talk about… Daring to be unapologetically bold despite the challenge of being seen as "too much. Life threatening moments, like being held at gunpoint, that inspire action despite fear. Experiencing miscarriages and fertility issues, and embracing vulnerability after  loss.     The founder of The Institute of WOMAN and Women's Happiness Day, Carin Rockind, MAPP, is on a mission to free women of self-doubt, systemic trauma-based fears, and limiting beliefs so that they rise in their fierce feminine power to lead this world from radiance and aliveness. As one of the leading experts in women's happiness, she is a sought after speaker, teacher, and retreat leader who has empowered tens of thousands of women to not just survive – but THRIVE and love their lives.    After surviving domestic violence, armed robbery, miscarriages and infertility, Carin turned her pain into purpose and became a marathon runner, new mom at 45, and keynote speaker for Fortune 500 companies like Amazon, Capital One, and LinkedIn. She is a published author of Wonderful YOU, and her show, The PurposeGirl Podcast has 600,000 downloads.  Connect with Carin: Follow Carin on Facebook and Instagram. Listen to The Purpose Girl Podcast. Receive 4 Steps to POWER: Overcome Doubt, Fear and Shame for FREE. Register for WOMAN Rising Live! – a weekend event in Philadelphia November 2023.  If you loved this episode… Episode 148: Stepping Out of the 'Good Girl Box' From Pole Dancing, Pleasure-Seeking, to Full Liberation & Embodiment with Sheila Kelley is similar. Apple | Spotify  Play Episode 131: Defying Odds, Overcoming Fear, and Taking Risks to Thrive and Shine with Geeta Sidhu-Robb next. Apple | Spotify Listen to Episode 105:  Overcoming Adversity: Lessons on Navigating Life's Suckiest Moments with Dr. Neeta Bhushan. Apple | Spotify Book Recommendation: Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer Discussion Question: How have societal influences contributed to your experiences of doubt, shame, and fear? Join the conversation on Instagram @thebravetable!  Hey loves! Take just 2 minutes and find what YOUR emotional type is by taking my FREE quiz here →  theemotionalreset.com/quiz  For a weekly dose of my hacks, tools, & tips to emotionally reset, join my 27,000 newsletter here at → yourweeklyreset.com If the only thing you do today, is head over to iTunes, we would love your support in allowing us to expand and GROW! Please consider taking just 5 mins to write us a 5 -star review. It would mean the world, and allows us to get even bigger guests. When you do, please send a screenshot of your juicy 5-star review to support@globalgrit.co and we'll send you a FREE GIFT of my 12-month self- care calendar.

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We've finally reached the eleventh and final episode of Wonderful You! Today we are going to sum up all of the important aspects of our identity and talk about how God uses them to show Creation who He is and what He is like. But an accurate picture of God takes more than just a handful of people, it takes us all and it is only by working together in love that we can be God's mirror. (Parents, this is the eleventh in a series designed to help kids deal with identity and gender confusion by showing them that no matter what they like or what they look like or what they are good at, they are still boys and girls. When we try to push kids into filling stereotypical roles, we're often the ones creating the confusion that they are forced to find a way to live with. I do this without making any mention of sexuality whatsoever.) Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2022/09/14/episode-74-you-are-gods-mirror/

BUZZARDSKORNER OF LOVE RADIO 4pmPAC/7pmEST 5/24/22 (714)510-3707 join us online @http://www.buzzardskorner.com (radio pg)  Naimah is an internationally inspirational speake and woman of many accopmplishments, and while born in Henderson, North Carolina, Naimah grew up in Schenectady, N.Y. and graduated where she nutured here lifelong passion to inspire others and holds a valid RTT License Certificate issued by the School of Rapid Transformation Therapy. She is a Practitioner and Hypnotherapist. She is a devoted Mother and Grandmother, wife and co-author of Children¨s book that tells the story of Pooky-Poo and empowering message of self compassion and valuingthe most important person in the world entitled he Wonderful You¨. It's Naumah passion to help individuals find that power within to smash through their limiting beliefs and become unbeatable. She will help you to free yourself, to stop drifting through life aimlessly without a clear purpose and empower you to develop high self esteem, self confidence and a healthy relationship with money. She has over 20 years of Life Coaching experience helping to create a fulfilling life to manifest YOUR BEST SELF! She can be reached @ My website is naimahnorthstar.com,  My you tube channel  Naimahnorthstar or The Wonderful You  Facebook Naimahnothstar or Naimah Ali  Instagram Naimahnorthstar or asknaimah Email address. 1naimahnaimah@gmail.com   BUZZARDSKORNER OF LOVE RADIO bringing people back to themselves  

Byrne Hobart is a chartered financial analyst who loves writing about the intersection between finance and technology. He writes The Diff, one of Silicon Valley's most popular newsletters. In this episode, we dive into how Byrne launched his newsletter, how much he's earning, and how he publishes five times a week!You'll learn why Byrne isn't worried about pirates getting their hands on paid newsletters, and why you should worry about selling hard enough, instead.Byrne talks about how to build recurring revenue, and writing for different types of readers. He also points out an important factor that affects the churn rate of your newsletter!Byrne shares further insights on using free social media to lead people to the channels you monetize, and why he competes for readers' highest-value time, instead of appealing to the lowest common denominator.Links & Resources Jonathan Haidt - Social psychologist - Author - Professor Manhattan Project - Wikipedia Apollo program - Wikipedia Stratechery by Ben Thompson – On the business, strategy, and impact of technology. BitTorrent - Wikipedia Snopes.com - The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation. Byrne Hobart's Links Sign up for The Diff Medium: Byrne Hobart on Medium Twitter: @ByrneHobart LinkedIn: Byrne Hobart Episode TranscriptByrne: [00:00:00] I wasn't really thinking of the paid newsletter as this is going to be the main thing I do. you look at tech companies, they often have multiple lines of revenue, one thing they do is 95% of revenue. And the next thing they do is 2% of revenue, and when companies get more mature, it's sometimes spreads out a little bit, but early on you find one thing that works really well. And that's what you focus on.Nathan: [00:00:25] Today's interview is with Byrne Hobart who writes The Diff. Now Byrne is a chartered financial analyst who loves writing about the intersection between finance and technology. What's really interesting about his writing is that he's read by basically the who's who of Silicon Valley. So it's not just, you know, a larger email list that we're talking about today, but really we're talking about writing the kind of quality content that, You know, billionaires are reading that.Like I first heard about him from Patrick Collison at Stripe. So this is the kind of thing that a lot of really important, really interesting people are paying attention to.So in this episode, we're going to dive into how he launched his paid newsletter, how much he earns. He publishes five days a week.These are long form detailed con detailed articles that Bern is posting basically five days a week, which is, is a crazy consistency. So his writing process, what inspires them and so much more what's that then.Byrne Welcome to the show.Byrne: [00:01:23] Great to be here.Nathan: [00:01:25] So I've been following your newsletter for awhile and I'd love if you just gave a quick intro from your side what you write about and why you find it interesting.Byrne: [00:01:35] Yeah, sure. So the idea is that I like reading history and I found that if you read We contemporary coverage of things that are happening at any given time you do get a lot of the details and then you get a lot of stuff that ends up being totally irrelevant And a lot of really interesting developments just are below the surface or they they matter in retrospect but no one really understood them at the time And so what I'm always trying to do which is a really high bar to reach is to write Right things today from a perspective that will still make sense it'd be relevant in the distant future So it's basically trying to spot the important technology trends trying to spot what mattered what people thought mattered didn't matter how those perceptions changed how how perception and reality have interacted and the way to do that is one to talk about financial markets because financial markets are Aggregating knowledge preferences expectations et cetera from everyone around the world And then the other thing to do is talk about technology particularly technology companies And the nice one of the nice things about those companies is that they have to be somewhat open because they're all constrained by their ability to hire people And one way to hire people if if you're trying to compete with Facebook and Google and Amazon and Microsoft and they can all offer a really generous comp package The way to hire people is to to give them some expectation that this company is going to be totally transformative and amazing So even if the base pay is not quite what you get at Facebook it's still worth doing either to make an impact on the world or to cash in some stock options So a lot of companies have this incentive to actually tell their story in a way that that doesn't happen as much in in other fields But at the same time companies have an incentive to hide their story Because if the story is we're doing X but we're actually going to kill Google And here's how you don't want Google to know that So there's there's always this corporate stress He doesn't where you have to be really appealing and inspiring but you can't tell the whole truth because it's too dangerous So I try to parse thatNathan: [00:03:42] yeah, I think that's fascinating. And I'm spacing on who talks about this a lot is a book that I read fairly recently, but about how, Now, this is going to bother me of who I never, what book it's from, if you'll know it, but how the closer like a startup is going to talk about how they can create a monopoly and they can have all the success.And then the closer they are to actually creating a monopoly, in and succeeding the less they're like, Oh no, no, no. It's not a monopoly at all. No. W like, look at all this competition. We have, everybody has a competitor.Byrne: [00:04:14] One has that, they have this, this like nber line of. Here's like everyone, if you're, if you're an airline, you're like, here's why we're really special. Here's why everyone loves Delta. And the United is like, no, here's why everyone wants United. And then, if you're Google, you're like, well, we're one advertising company among many.And our customers could go to all sorts of different media, but really Google has a, basically a monopoly on search and search is an incredibly lucrative business, but yeah, they, they can't quite talk about that. And there are, there are other companies that have these little monopolies, like sometimes, If you, if you look at the, some of the large us companies that had large research labs in the thirties, forties, fifties, in some cases it seems like part of the point of those labs was to give them somewhere.Somewhere, they could dp their excess profits so that they just didn't look that profitable. So if you're at and T you have this incredibly lucrative business with network effects, you have a technology advantage. And one thing you could do with that is, just run it for maxim profit margins right now.But the other thing you can do with it, if you're worried about. FDR are complaining that you're terrible people is you hire a bunch of scientists. You tell them, please just work on something. It should help us. But, you know, we just, we w it's basically a way for them to defer their profits to some future that's more politically optimal.And, and then you get lots of wonderful side effects. The transistor.Nathan: [00:05:36] Yeah. Oh, there's so much to that. And so, anyway, I think those are just fun. Examples of ideas on what you tend to write about, kind of staying on the topic before we dive into newsletters specifically, saying on the inflection points in business, I'd love to hear like what, or maybe I'll start with what's one or two that you've seen in particular this year, since this year has been a very transformative year.Byrne: [00:06:00] Yeah. So, you can, you can look at the obvious inflection point of, you know, before we were all going to social gatherings and going out to eat and traveling. And now most of us are not doing very much of that at all, but I think one of the inflections there was, this. It results. Some policy argents about the extent to which you can actually solve a recession just by spending a lot of money.So there's always this concern of if we spend a lot of money it's hyperinflationary, but in an economy that's already pretty levered. There's actually, there's a pretty good argent for having somebody stabilize that. Then you can, you could imagine one steady state where we just don't have as much leverage.And so you don't have as many people who, if they lose their job now, they can't pay their rent. So their landlord. Can't pay their mortgage. So the bank has trouble with its finances and it just, just bounces through the rest of the economy. in a less levered economy, that's just less likely, but in an economy where you have this pretty robust financial system, where a lot of people have, fixed obligations, a lot of companies have fixed obligations.As it turns out when there's a huge demand shock to the system, you can actually just spend a ton of money and, and things start to get better. So it's, One of the worst recessions on record, but one of the short-term sessions on record and, it so far has worked well. there is a question of how technocratic we want things to be.There's also a question of, did we. Did we stop a depression in 2020 and get something worse than 2021. So there's still some open questions, but I think it does. It does tell you that some policymakers have, have more power than, than we thought, or it can have, have more powers they can use for good than we thought.But at the same time, you have a lot of people questioning a lot of powerful institutions because they're, if you go back to the, the discourse on COVID in January and February, it was, it was kind of seen as, as sort of extreme and paranoid to worry about it. There's the famous of box piece. Yeah.These people aren't even shaking people aren't even what's wrong with them. It's, it's no worse than the flu, get a grip America, et cetera. So, we've had some institutions where we've had to seriously question their legitimacy and, a lot of these institutions are fighting back by kind of dodging it like, there's, there's been a bit of soul searching and actually, some of the, one of the Vox writers who had covered COVID early, actually talked about how they're, She could have done more.Her name is escaping me right now, but she actually did a fair amount of soul searching and actually wrote a thoughtful piece on, part of it was on just the factual question of when was it clear that this was a crisis and what, what should be done about it? And then part of it was this meditation on the institutional incentives.So. It's it's tough to be early, especially. if you are a journalist at a large publication, you have this surface area problem where, the bigger the publication is the, the more risk they take from any one person saying something crazy. And, the bigger they are, the more newsworthy it is. If any one person says something crazy.So New York times has a lot of writers and it's also a well-known institution, which means that they actually face a ton of risk from their employees going off the reservation. And. What, what I think you see is that a lot of these institutions they're converging on some range of acceptable discourse, and they're just, they're writing off the set of people who.Don't really think that way, but they're very much speaking to the they're preaching to the choir for the people who do agree with them. So you actually end up with a much stronger filter bubbles, as a result of this questioning of legitimacy. So that's, that's an important inflection point. And, I think the other, the other side of that is that we did learn that.Tech companies broadly defined, did a great job. They sent employees home very early. the internet kept running. So the telcos did, an excellent job at, not allowing that whole system to fall apart. a lot of, retailers, for example, and manufacturers were able to adapt quite quickly. So there were toilet paper shortages briefly, but then, We got more toilet paper.there are still shortages in a couple areas, but, stuff like exercise equipment, it's still hard to find. last time I looked podcasting Mike's were still hard to find, but in a lot of cases, the, some parts of the system were exceptionally adaptable. So in many ways, you know, if you, if you didn't like going out that much, if you were already the kind of person who used a lot of, a lot of grub hub and Postmates, Some things haven't changed that much.In some ways, things are actually easier because now, now if you tell someone I don't want to hang out, we should just chat on zoom. It's actually kind of normal. So, you know, for, for introverts and a lot of these companies are, their workforce tends to be more introverted if they're tech companies, it's, it just hasn't been that big, an impact relative to the worldwide impact.Nathan: [00:10:53] Yeah, that makes sense. Is there something that, you know, we've seen these changes happen right now? The, all the things that work from home and everything else that's right in front of us, but what's something that an inflection point that you think has happened, but we haven't noticed the effects of it and we won't.You know, three years from now, we'll look back and be like, Oh, of course, that changed in 2020. But you know, you think people right now would be surprised or, not actually expect to see that change.Byrne: [00:11:22] Interesting. I think, one of the interesting changes is this, this, in the. Hardware business. And specifically in chips, there's been this narrowing of which companies can effectively manufacturer the most cutting edge chips. if you look at the, the nber of semiconductors, your fabs at, at every node of design, as the nodes get more advanced than nber of fabs, that can actually do the nber of companies that own fabs that can do this.Just diminishes and diminishes and diminishes. And now we're at the point where, the most advanced trips can get made in Taiwan or they can get made in, South Korea. And there's really, no one else has caught up to them. And this is something that, that people are aware of, but I don't know how much we've thought through the implications of, One country that has had, had disputes with China here and there.And, it was at war with them at one point, in the fifties. And then you have another country that China says as part of its territory and so very, very serious, very deep-seated disputes there. so. These, these countries are, are both pretty, more geopolitically tenuous than, than other places in the world.And they are the only place where this really essential set of components gets manufactured. So that's, that is a case where the, the world of geopolitics and macroeconomics starts to intersect with the world of technology. Right. And you started asking what it looks like if, the U S no longer has access to tips, or if China no longer has access to tips, because both of these countries are, very close to the U S diplomatically and, they're, they're close to try to geographically, so it's, it makes the world much more interesting and much more high risk.And it's, it's part of a general force and technology that you end up with. These increases only elaborate supply chains, where there are these really narrow slices that are super profitable. And, as, as they get more profitable, they get harder to duplicate. You end up with more monopolies and those monopolies just, as, as an shrinks from, you know, there are, there are dozens of companies that can do this too.There are two that can do this. Then you have to stop thinking of this as a statistical process and start thinking of it as, That's something closer to a narrative where there, there are these very specific entities. There are specific people in charge. They have particular incentives and they think about things in a particular way, and it really matters for the future, how they think and what they decide.Yeah, that's fascinating. I. You know, from the, the nineties and earlier you think of oil as being that, that resource that is worth fighting Wars over. And so that's fascinating that it could turn into chips and it might not go to Wars, but certainly very heavily, you know, a lot, a lot of, geopolitical issues around that.Yeah, there's this The good Lord, didn't see fit to put oil only in places where we'd like to do business, but we go where the oil is. And you can think about that with chips too, where you, if you were designing a, a supply chain for the U S technology sector from scratch, you probably wouldn't put the most strategic components.All right. Next to a country that is trying to build its own supply chain. And that increasingly sees the U as a major rival. You'd probably arrange it a little bit differently maybe, but these, these plants in, I don't know. England, or maybe you put them in America. And the U S is sort of trying to do that.And the semiconductor industry is lobbying very hard for the U S to do that. Taiwan semiconductor has, has plans to open a facility in the U S and, Samsung is expanding some of their manufacturing in the U S so it's, it's slowly edging over that way, but China has. subsidized that business massively, a friend of mine, Jordan Schneider, who writes a China talk, he estimates that it's something like $1.4 trillion that China has, has spent, or is planning to spend on this industry.So that's clearly, clearly they're taking it very seriously.Nathan: [00:15:23] Yeah. Oh, that's fascinating. So I want to transition right now because, and talk more on the newsletter side. Cause this is a taste of the kind of thing you, you write about and the level of detail that you go into. And so this is why, you know, executives and founders at so many top companies are following your stuff.Cause you're watching. These kinds of trends and seeing, okay, what are the implications of this? And so I'd love to go back a little bit in your story and just, focus on three years ago, five years ago, what, what were you doing? And what's the path that led you to this point of kind of being on the cutting edge of, and the narrative of what's going on in the world.Byrne: [00:16:00] Yeah. Sure. So, mostly doing equity research. So I worked for a while at a hedge fund SAC capital, and then, worked for some research providers who work with ones like that. And, that, that work was actually really fun because the equity research it's, It promotes some really healthy mental habits, because if you were trying to decide if a stock is a buy or a sell, you do want to have your thesis, but you actually want to pay very close attention to who you're arguing with and what their thesis is.Because the most valuable things you learn are from the people who disagree with you. And if you tune out the other side of the argent, then you are necessarily the db bunny. So you can get lucky. You can still make money and that's happened to me, but, You it's, it's a lot smarter to know exactly what these guys are betting against and why you think it's wrong.So that's, and that's. Normally in argents, that's the healthiest way to approach things is you figure out how to reproduce the other person's argent and then you figure out what they're missing or, or you just figure out what fundamental disagreements you have. So a lot of political argents, you think that it's an argent over, over policy outcomes, but it's actually an argent over, what is what's practical to implement?And, there's a Jonathan Haidt has a lot of research on that. Or hight has a lot of research on. And this idea of moral foundations where different people just have different things that they care about or different things that are willing to treat as morally significant. And you can, you can have an argent with someone where it seems like the other person is just, Just promoting something totally inhan and evil, because they have a different set of priorities that they're willing to give credence to.And if they, if they only, if you only cared about the, the care versus harm moral foundation, so it, it, does it hurt people or does it help them? You get one set of conclusions, but if you care about that, but you also care about things like. Respect for, respect for authority and respect for these symbolic things that, that don't have real world value, but do matter, in the abstract, then you get to a different set of policies.And, it's what hight claims is that when people with different moral foundations try to model one another's beliefs, they just tend to asse that if someone waits care versus harm differently, it just means they want to hurt people. Whereas what it actually means is they're balancing a different set of priorities.with finance, you don't really have to worry about moral foundations that much because everyone wants to make money. you can sort of have moral foundations with things like, investing in tobacco stocks, but that's a very quick argent. One person says. This company is a very profitable, and we don't think that they're going to shrink as fast as the market thinks.And then someone else says, yeah, but they cost cancer. So I'm not going to invest in that. So that's a very quick argent. It's not like they have any disputes about fundamentals. They just quickly get to what the substance of the dispute is. And then. When people debate companies like, like Netflix and there, you know, you have one side saying original content is this bottomless money pit.And they have to keep spending more and more and more just to, just to keep up with the other streaming companies. And then someone else says that that's theoretically true, but they actually get economies of scale and they get economies of scale on acquiring users. And so you're, as long as you're amortizing content over a larger and larger user base over time.And as long as you have a lot of pricing power, It doesn't really matter that it's expensive to have this original content. And maybe it's actually good because it means that eventually other companies get scared out of competing in the first place. So you at least figure out what the questions are, what the uncertainties are, and then you start modeling.You start trying to figure out what does it look like if you scale the, the Netflix movie production function up to X or up five X. And then what does it look like when Netflix raises prices in a country like the U S versus what a, what pricing power do they have in. a much poorer country, for example, so that that's a really healthy habit where you're, you're trying to figure out what you actually disagree with people on, and then you want to resolve that disagreement and, and get it right.And. Because prices are set by people who are trading. There's actually an incentive for people to share what they figured out out. If they've figured out something novel and insightful, and they've already made the trade. So a lot of people, well exchange ideas, they debate very vigorously and they're in some sense in some totally cynical utility maximizing, since they're still trying to get at the truth in, in just that narrow domain, but you take the habits from that domain and then you apply them to other areas and it's generally useful.Nathan: [00:20:38] Yeah, that makes sense. Before we get to newsletters, I'm realizing I have one more question. what's something surprising that shaped your view of the world. You have a very unique take. And so I'd love to hear what, you know, what's something that people wouldn't expect that plays into that.Byrne: [00:20:52] Yeah. So I, Very rationalist view of the world. And I'm sure I still, I still try to, I still tend to take a more, more linear left-brained view of things, but, I do think that there's, there are important coordinator functions that are served by these irrational, irrational behaviors.So there. So things like financial bubbles, you can look at a financial bubble as just people being bad at math and paying too much for stuff, investing too much and stuff working too hard on, on, on endeavors that are just not going to have any kind of meaningful payoff, but you can also view a bubble as this coordinating function, where for a lot of complicated technologies, you need a lot of things to go right at once.So you can look at the internet bubble as being this combination of a bubble in, And ISP and telecommunications, but also a bubble in creating content online and also a bubble in selling goods online. If those didn't happen all at the same time, none of them would have been possible. So if you build amazon.com and nobody has internet access, then it's worthless.If you, if you build PayPal and nobody's buying anything online, worthless, but if all of these things are happening at once, then collectively, they are actually worth a lot. It it's still very uncertain. And, a lot of people got burned, including anyone who bought Amazon at the peak. It was a very long time before they got back to breakeven, but it did coordinate all of these developments and build something that was hard to replace.And, I, I think there's a parallel between that and. What happens with successful mega-projects from governments. So, if you look at something like the Manhattan project or the Apollo program, there are all these discrete components that have to be built for the project to work. And if you build one of them and the other one doesn't get built, it's worthless.So you have one group of people designing a bomb, and you have another group of people purifying, vast amounts of the correct urani isotopes to build a bomb. If you purify a bunch of the right isotope, but there's no design for a bomb, then you've wasted a ton of money. And I believe by the end of the war, the investment in that urani project was actually larger than the total investment in the automobile industry at that time.So you would huge project could have been worthless. they did a lot of these things in parallel, so they didn't actually know if the final design would work, but. it's very much like a bubble. You're doing this thing that is irrational at one level, but if everyone's irrational in exactly the same way and you all give up what tasks have to get done, then you end up building something that you could not build on your own.You couldn't build it any scale lower than that.Nathan: [00:23:29] Right. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay. So you're going from the world of finance and, then, just this year, right. You made the switch or was it last year? You made the switch to the newsletter.Byrne: [00:23:40] Yeah. So I, messed around for a while, did a little bit of just freelance writing in a couple of different places and did some consulting. And then I, I started the newsletter, mostly promote other writing. So I've been doing that for about 10 years, just very intermittently.And, I started writing the newsletter more regularly and then charging for it in February of this year.Nathan: [00:24:08] I'm realizing we're gonna publish this in 2021. So I should do it throw a year in there. so let's see. Yeah. I mean, going back through your stuff, you've been writing for a very long time, but publish on medi. Well, before you got started on Substack. Yeah. But to what I'd love to hear what some of the things that you were looking at when it was like, okay, let's change it from, you know, we've been newsletter as a way to.Send my writing to people, right. At that point, it's just a push mechanism. And then that transition to the newsletter as a business. Now, maybe two things, one, what were some of the people you're looking to for inspiration there, who sort of charted that path for you? And then, what were the, the markers that you were looking for for like, Oh, I should actually do this.Byrne: [00:24:55] Yeah, I think so there's There's what you work on and then there's how you monetize it and these can be very different. So Nike, for example, in one sense, they are an ad company. They just found a way to monetize by selling shoes. And they're really good at it. And you can look at a lot of other companies that way that they.They do one thing and then they monetize it through something else. So I, I wasn't really thinking of the paid newsletter as this is going to be the main thing I do. I was thinking of it as I have these different channels andI'm in one channel, someone else owns the platform and I, I I really like working with them and I still write for them.but it's, it's, it's not recurring revenue. And so I wanted to have something that's recurring revenue, what I thought. And I actually, I built this little financial model. Which immediately became obsolete. And I was, I was looking at different income sources, different things I'm working on. And, I thought the newsletter, you know, they could end up being a third of my income.And so I'd have this diversified set of, of different activities I do. And there's one that's recurring, so that's really safe, but it won't be that big, cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But, what I should have been thinking was when you look at any. If if you look at tech companies, they often have multiple lines of revenue.And it's like, one thing they do is 95% of revenue. And the next thing they do is 2% of revenue, but they break even doing that. And then the next thing they do is Piney Teddy's revenue. So, I think, and when they, when companies get more mature, it sometimes spreads out a little bit, but early on you find one thing that works really well.And that that's what you focus on. that's, that's roughly how it happened with the newsletter. I got a couple of people to sign up. It started growing and it just, it grew pretty steadily. Like when I look at the chart, there are these bps, mostly from people recommending it publicly. it's and those, those have happened just periodically pretty much since I started.But a lot of it is just this gradual process of. You send an email and a bunch of people read it and some of them send it to someone else and that person reads it, likes it wants to read more. And I have another subscriber. the, the social proof of you got this paid email from some, you got this email, that's a paid subscription product.And, so the person who's sending it to, you knows you and they know you're interested and they're implicitly endorsing paying for it. That's, that's really powerful. So a lot of it is compounding from that. What that means though, is that posting frequently, as long as you have something to say is really powerful.So if you have. Five opportunities a week to do that instead of two, then the compounding process should happen lot faster and there is a balance to strike, but in general, there's a huge amount of information out there. you can, you can always think of just how much competition there is for people's attention, but a lot of it is for attention that people are implicitly putting zero value on.So a lot of, a lot of us, myself included have this just muscle memory for. I'm bored or I'm waiting for something to happen. I'm going to open a new tab and I'm going to go to hacker news or Reddit or Twitter or something. And that time is not the time I'm competing for. I try to compete for time.That's very, fairly valuable. That's why, the newsletter is an appropriate form factor because it's going into the same inbox as a lot of pretty important stuff. I know some people will filter and sort, but. A lot of people have this default approach of I'm going to get a ton of inbound email and I'm going to manually filter through it and decide what's important.So I'm generally competing for people's attention, against pressing business matters. And that's, that sets a really high bar, but it also, again, adds some social proof where if this is worth the time of a busy person, then it's worth it. to read Nathan: [00:28:42] I think that's something with paid newsletters that people worry about, right. Is that I've put this out there and obviously it's only available to paid subscribers, but are they, everyone has it in their inbox. There's no lock on the version in the inbox. So I can just forward that on people say like, But, you know, what's to prevent someone from just giving it away.And what I hear you saying is nothing. And that's the beauty of it, because worst case I'm not going to forward it to dozens or hundreds of people, I'm going to be like, know, I'm going to send it to my friend, Ryan, Hey, Ryan, you've got to read this. And then that's exactly what you're saying of like, Oh, well, if this is $20 a month, I'm reading it.This was good. Nathan pays for it. So he must think that it's worth paying for every month. So like, you know, the other four articles a week are really good, so sure. I'll subscribe and check it out. And you're right. That's really high. It's social.Byrne: [00:29:32] I would say piracy at some point I'm sure it will be a risk I'm sure it will be a risk and I'm it probably exists in private chat groups that there's some roster of. Here's the pirated Stratechery feed here's the pirated sinuses and feed, etc like that stuff happens, but it's just. Part of what you can take advantage of is it's incredibly embarrassing to ask and it's excruciating to ask multiple times, like, I, I signed up for the information because I was midway through sending someone a text message being like, Hey, I saw another headline from the information.I really want to read this article. And I was just imagining him getting this periodic reminder that I'm cheap and just dismissing it. I know people will pirate it some people will pirate stuff at scale, but they're not really, they're not a huge audience. A lot of people just don't behave that way.And in a lot of cases, what we saw in music and movies was that piracy was about usability. That if, if Netflix and Spotify are more convenient than BitTorrent than BitTorrent, it's still a factor, but it's not a huge factor. And a lot of people graduate, they, they torrent the first alb but they eventually get on Spotify and then it's just too easy.They never stop. And, the, since the economics are a lot better for paid newsletters than for piracy, like, look at the ads that, the torrent sites have to run. Clearly, they are not actually hitting a super high-monetization ultra-desirable audience. So I would expect that as piracy becomes a bigger deal, a the, the newsletter technology companies, the platforms are going to notice it before the individual users do.Users, some users might notice and complain. You know, if they see this reader opened the newsletter 500 times and clicked 2000 times on different links, like, okay, that's something something's going on there. But the people who will notice it at scale and actually start detecting it and perhaps come up with countermeasures perhaps just say going to happen, but it's not economically a huge deal for you.that's, that's probably going to be platform-side Nathan: [00:31:31] Well, I think what's most interesting about it is, is not just that it's a small, like piracy being a small issue, as far as the overall monetary side, like, you know, whatever those people were going to pay you, but also that it may be a benefit of, of exposing new people to it. You know, like your friend who sends you, the information says, Hey, you got to read this article.And then later you're texting him, like, can I read that article as well? You know, he introduced you or she introduced you to that quality of reporting and then kind of got you hooked. And so, you know, it's interesting to think about it being potentially a goodByrne: [00:32:04] Yeah, I, I think Piracy is not just, you get an email that you paid for and you send it to someone like piracy is you, you do that systematically, or like you have a special Gmail that a lot of people log into and maybe, maybe they're paying you like $10 in Bitcoin every year to get access to the giant email list.that's that is, there are definitely, there's like a pretty discreet gap and yeah. It's it's kind of, like you can, there's always the continu of how monetizeable a given media, given the physical instantiation of media can be. if you look at the music industry, you could, you could monetize by selling physical albs.You can monetize through radio, you can monetize through touring. You can monetize through merch there's, there's a whole spectrum of price discrimination and you, you generally want to have some aspects of it that monetize very poorly because they have low frictional cost of sharing. In fact, that's a, there's an interesting dynamic across different media sites where sometimes there is a low-monetization low-friction site.And then there's a high-monetization high-friction site that has the same kind of content. But the, there are people who use both of them and they use one to get followers for the other one. And so you can, there are people who will use TikTok to promote their YouTube channel. They know that YouTube subscribers are stickier, they can get advertising on YouTube.A lot of people including me, will use Twitter to monetize Substack So Twitter by design is supposed to be this ultra-seamless process for sharing stuff and having it go extremely viral. Substack is just not going to be extremely viral. There, there are examples of viral emails, but they're all in the distant past.And it's It's viral. But if you look at the, the forward line, it's like 150 people read about it. And then someone posted it, to Snopes.com or something.Nathan: [00:33:58] Right. So let's dive into that on the growth side. I think Twitter is a very common path for growing a newsletter. They, it just has distribution in a way that. You know, email doesn't have built in, or I should say discovery, as discovery built in, in such a good way, what's worked for you on, on Twitter and maybe a couple of examples of either threads or individual tweets or articles that have been right.Byrne: [00:34:22] No, I have, I don't have a good one sense of what actually works in terms of getting a payoff in subscribers, because it seems to happen. So asynchronously that it's more like. If you, if you tweet and people like it, they will follow you on Twitter. Eventually, if you occasionally tweet links or as I do shamelessly tweet links to your newsletter, eventually some of them will subscribe on the free list if they get enough free issues, some of the most apart from the paid list.So the conversion funnel is really gradual and, because. You don't have, you don't have a good way to track the, the user, path from, they saw someone retweet you, but didn't interact too. They saw a tweet. They followed you all the way down to, they paid you money. it's, it's tough to see them through that entire funnel, unless, well, sub-sect dismissed the rors that Twitter was going to buy them.So that will happen. Probably probably for the better anyway. so it's, it's really tough to say other than just, if you can be the, the Twitter ISE 280 character version of what you are in long form on, on a newsletter, then you will, you'll give people a pretty, pretty close approximation. So I'd say that my Twitter.My Twitter feed. I will sometimes tweet general observations. Sometimes I'll tweet something about a story that I end up writing in more detail for the newsletter. Sometimes I'll ask people questions on Twitter. Like if there's just something where I have an open question, I haven't found a good answer from Googling, and I know there's a good answer out there.I'll ask people. I, I do occasional Twitter things that are just things that have to be that day and it, It feels not, not like a good deal at all for someone to put the email newsletter on their expense account and then get a story about a toddler. So, that does not make it into sub stack, but that's just because a lot of my friends follow me on Twitter.So it's a way of keeping in touch with people. I, one of the things I do on Twitter pretty regularly is when I write a post that is paywall, I will generally tweet out a link to it. And I will often tweet out a screen cap of something I said in that post, the only annoying thing there is that I want the screencap to be interesting, but I don't like to post spoilers.Is one of my rules. So I will, I will often screencap a tangent or a footnote or something else in the piece that just gives you a sense of what I'm writing about, but doesn't give away the whole thing for free. And I don't know, I don't know what percentage of the content ends up being given away for free versus, charged for in theory, I, I tell people I'm going to post three times a week.I generally post five times a week. one of those posts is free and the other one's okay. Walled usually, but I will occasionally take something out behind the paywall. So, I had a piece on Palentier that I wrote after the S one was filed and I was just really proud of it. And, I was also kind of disappointed in the overall media coverage of Palentier, which is some combination of this is the evil empire and this company is fantastically overpriced.But when I looked through the S one, it was clear to me that. There's, it's not logically impossible that they're evil, but if you actually look at what they're saying, and you look at what they're doing, they, they make a pretty coherent case that they are fighting for. Good. And. Later on. There was more commentary on them, some interviews with, with the founders.And it did actually seem like they thought through all of these objections. Like if you're, if you're smart people, if you're, the founders are people who majored in philosophy, like they're, they're these used to thinking about moral issues. obviously majoring, yeah. Philosophy doesn't make you a good person.It makes you a person with a better vocabulary for explaining why you're going to do what you want to do. But at least it means that they, they do have this whole, This whole toolkit for, for wrestling, with these issues. And, almost a lack of plausible deniability. Like you, if you know what, what the great thinkers in history have said about things like, is it moral to help, Bad government do something that is going to cause less harm than if you didn't help them, but they're still doing something bad and maybe you're enabling them to do more.And maybe the more that they do will be worse. Like that's, that's stuff people have been thinking about for a couple thousand years now. So, they had been thinking about that and, I was actually really happy with the feedback on the volunteer piece because a lot of people said this. this explains what this at least gives like this counter view to the view that they're evil.But I also had people ping me privately say, yeah, I worked there and this is, this is actually right. Like we, we do believe we're fighting the good fight. that there's a lot that they can't say publicly, in part, because they're working with the government and like a lot of that stuff should not be publicly disclosed, but, that, that was a piece that I made public.More because I thought that it actually contributed to the overall discourse, but a lot of the, a lot of the stuff stays paywalls and, that's, that's something that if people want to pay for it, they should. And in a lot of cases, like the vast majority of people do not, they sign up for the free version.They don't sign up for the paid version. That's fine. And, I'm happy to write for a large audience and get interesting feedback and be an interesting people. even if there's no monetary component whatsoever to that,Nathan: [00:39:39] On the ratio of free to paid and then also the price. So you went with $20 a month or $220 a year. I'd love to hear. You know, is everyone's so many people are like $5 a month and I'm like, no, no, no. Or more like, raise the price for newsletter. It's not, it's not cite there. but what went into choosing the price that youByrne: [00:40:00] So I originally kind of newsy high quality publications that were at 10. And I saw sinus ism was at 15 and Sinocism struck me as very close to what I'm trying to do, which is provide a lot of depth. and be something that you, you could read on your own, but you could also expense at work.either one would make sense. So I basically just said, I'm going to let these people do their, do my research for me. And since cynicism was near the top of the, the meter board, I just went with that. And then, I decided just to see what would happen if I raised the price of it. So raise the price from 15 to 20, I made a big production about it.So I told people two weeks in advance and then when we can advance them the day of, I was like, you need to subscribe by 11:59 PM Eastern time, or it will permanently be. And then, you know, told them. How much they're saving, if they subscribe now, sub-sect does grandfather people in, which is a huge relief to me because I remembered hearing that somewhere and I wrote it in the newsletter.I was like, if you're a subscriber, don't worry, your grandfather did. And you have nothing, nothing you'd have to do. And then I tried to find where on the substantive website, it actually said that, and I couldn't find it. And I was like, I'm going to be Venmo showing hundreds of people $5 a month every month until everyone turns out.And then I found it in that help page somewhere. So that was a huge relief. Anyway, I did that. I sent the, my one actual sales letter to just the free subscribers and it was fun to write. I used to be a copywriter a long, long time ago, and I always liked these bombastic sales letters. And, I occasionally like reading them, like, I like reading Ramit and his sales letters on money and personal finance and career and stuff.And I know I'm being sold to, but it's actually enjoyable and he's really good at it. So I learned a lot from that. I did the sales letter, many thousands of people opened it and plenty of them converted exactly. One person unsubscribed and said, I didn't like this. It was really salesy, but he wasn't even mean about it.He was just like, this isn't really what I wanted. And I was like, that's fine. So, that works out there's there are these, Metta maltheisms. So. Malthus talked about how, when the population grows, you end up with too many people for your food supply. So it always stabilizes at near starvation. And there are a lot of other phenomenon life like that, where if you're not experiencing problems, you could be going further.So, the, the Peter teal quote is if you've never missed a flight that took your life in airports. And I think with newsletters, it's, if you've never gotten a nasty email or even a slightly peeved email from someone saying you're really selling this too hard, You've never gotten that you are not selling nearly hard enough.And I also think there's, there's this, near-moral obligation to sell your stuff. Well, if you think it's good. And I think that part of why people are reluctant to sell is imposter syndrome or maybe some form of cowardice. It certainly is a reason that I'm sometimes reluctant to sell or has happened in the past.And, I it's, it's a way to signal that you actually believe in what you're doing. If you're willing to slightly embarrass yourself with a sales letter and with a sales pitch, and you were willing to pull all the little copywriter tricks, you know, the bullet points and the endorsements from, from celebrities or e-celebrities all of that stuff.Here's what you're getting. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, all that stuff. I think there, there are people who can't get away with it and there are people who can get away with it, but don't try it.Nathan: [00:43:31] I think that's a really good point that, that, that you need to be pushing it to the point where at least some nber of people are complaining. If no one is complaining at all, then you're, you're not charging enough. You're not, you know, something like, you're not confident enough in your own value. Because, yeah, there's always someone to complain on the internet.It's if you've managed to find this perfect community, then, then yet you're selling yourself short. now I want to get into your writing process because five newsletters a week, and you're officially promising three, which is good. Right. We're under promising and over-delivering, I think there's something.You know, you could, take from that, but like Tyler, Cowen has this thing that talks about like, what's the Tyler Cowen production function. Like how does he, he's one of just an incredibly prolific, creator, like what makes him tick? What, like, how does all the work that he does happen? That's the question that I have, you know, just watching all of your stuff.Like what, what is your process? And then, you know, starting from. What sparks the inspiration to all the way through to being able to publish, you know, a detailed well-researched article, every Workday.Byrne: [00:44:43] I've always read a lot and I've gotten more systematic about it now that I have the defacto daily deadline. So I have lots of RSS feeds, probably a hundred. I don't really keep track as a lot of them. It's someone who publishes once a month, but it's always good. And then for some of them, it's, this site publishes 50 or a hundred articles a day.Most of them, you read halfway through the headline and it's garbage, but occasionally you'll see something interesting. In terms of what I read of, I try to read one major business publications business section from each of the 10 largest GDPs, the countries with the 10 largest GDPs. I think there's one or two that I'm missing, but I just try to get this cross section of business stories that are going to be local to one place today, and then they'll get big tomorrow or next week.a lot of blogs, I read, the major tech blogs, and then there's this long tail of things like, Industry specific sites. So someone like a semiconductor digest or ad exchanger, finance sites like pension investment online, a lot of these more niche ones where I'm done, probably not reading every single thing that they post, but, I'm looking at the headlines and I'll often find something worth diving into, when I come up with article topics, the structure of the newsletter by the way is, It's one long form piece, only around a thousand words, but it varies a bit.And then, maybe half a dozen short links with commentary. So. A lot of the things that I read, they end up going into that is short links with commentary thing. And that's what I definitely not trying to do is be one of the morning news dp emails, like the deal email. Cause those are, those are really valuable for knowing everything that's going on.And I try to write for someone who either a. Already gets deal books. So they don't need one more of those emails and there are dozens and dozens of them, or be someone who actually doesn't care what's going on. They care about what's. What's interesting. So it's either, and this is why it's called the diff it's from the, the, the Unix function.So I'm, I'm dipping against, like I'm trying to diff out the, the, the interesting stuff and the inflections from just the general flow of news. So I try to, I try to extract that stuff and, be your value added for people who are already immersed in this stuff all the time, which is like a lot of the finance people who read it or to be what interesting thing happened today to someone who's not reading the daily news, for the longer form pieces, there, there are a lot of ideas that sort of vaguely linger in my head for a while.And then. I eventually write something about them or there'll be a pattern where I noticed that I've, I've seen five different instances of this same kind of thing happening. And so I should write a full story about it. So, one example of that from fairly recently was I noticed that retailers and brick and mortar retailers keep launching some kind of ad business that is adjacent to their e-commerce business.And I was wondering why that was, and I realized that. Amazon did it and did it really well because they have all this first party purchase data. So if you are selling anything, Amazon probably knows everyone, almost everyone in the country who has purchased something like that, or who's statistically likely to purchase that.So they should be really good at targeting ads. If you look at someone like, target or CVS or Walgreens or someone like that, they actually have a lot of this offline purchase data that's tied to individuals and their e-commerce position is relatively weaker, which means that their ratio of. First party purchase data to e-commerce data or to e-commerce revenue is really high.So it actually makes sense for them to monetize some of that through ads rather than through selling products directly. so that's, that was one, one case where there was just this ongoing pattern. Another pretty frequent source of things to write about is companies that are just going public. That's often the first time that you get this look into the unit economics of a company that people have known about for a long time.And, there's this tradition where. Company files their to go public and it gets posted to hacker news. And someone pulls out a line from the risk factors saying this company has never reported an accounting profit, and doesn't expect to necessarily the future and is like, this is a disaster it's worth zero.And someone has to chime in and be like, well, if you look at their free cash flow, they've actually been making more money than they spent for a long time. They just have to appreciation or whatever. But basically having, having a cogent answer to the question of why is this not worthless when the company's not reporting an accounting profit, or if it's really profitable, why is this interesting?So, that's, that's another source. And then sometimes there are just general trends that I might not have written about or general patterns I might not have written about where I think it's worth a long treatment. And, that can be, that can be anything from just an economic phenomenon that I know of that, That isn't talked about that often.So one of my early pieces that I was really happy with was about, this economic law for determining the optimal amount of a resource of a finite resource to extract where the paper was. They went through a bunch of complicated math and the basic argent was your, all you're doing is saying. Do I want money now or money in a year.And, like, do I want to drill for oil now and have money now or drill oil in a year and a half the money then? And that, that depletion rate is determined by how much you expect the price to go up. So it ultimately comes back to interest rates, but. If you, if you actually try to operationalize that the interest rate that you should think about is not just what does a treasury bond yield it's actually like, what, how much do you value money right now versus in the future?And what that means is that in a lot of really unstable countries, it actually makes sense to drill way more or drill for way more oil than you otherwise would because. If you are, I don't know the dictator of Venezuela, you don't actually expect to be in power in 20 years. So even if you think oil is gonna go way up 20 years from now, you actually want to drill for it now and spend the money on tanks.Venezuela is a special case because they also are not currently able to drill for oil at all. And, so there's, there's another way the model breaks down, but I thought it was an interesting model to explore because it's. It's useful directionally. And it's actually a really elegant approach for thinking about the question of depleting a finite resource, and it's always wrong.It never actually describes reality, but the, the gap between the model and reality is actually instructive. And I think that's, that's one of my meta themes is that there are all these interesting theoretical models or interesting analogies that are imperfect, but the ways that they're imperfect actually tell interesting about the world.Nathan: [00:51:30] Yeah, that makes sense. So then, so you're doing all of this research and finding those, those trends. what does it look like when you're actually sitting down to write? Is that, are you dedicating, you know, an hour, three hours, five hours a day to writing what's what'sByrne: [00:51:45] I don't keep great I, I will spend a lot of my day reading, reading books, reading news articles, reading sec filings and academic papers and things. And then at some point I realized that I should actually start writing. And so I started writing, but I kinda zone out and I'm always surprised when I look at the clock, when I'm done writing the newsletter with how late it's gotten.So, it, it is a couple hours of writing, but. I think some of it is like trying to get in the zone and that's just, struggle with distraction and then eventually to start writing. And that just happens pretty smoothly until I'm too tired to go on.Nathan: [00:52:24] Yeah, it sounds like you're, I mean, you're doing the research and reading until the article becomes really clear what you want to write becomes clear. And then, then it's the transition to getting into a focused mode to write that.Byrne: [00:52:38] I used to, before I was writing all the time, I did have a backlog of ideas and I slowly worked through the backlog. And for a while, I was at the point where I never knew what I was going to write next. at this point I do sort of have a backlog, but it's more like, So I would have this list of just here are things I want to write about.And then periodically I'd write about one of them off the list. And what naturally happens is you write about the stuff that you can actually get done. And then you don't read about the stuff that's going to take you. So, the list just keeps getting more ambitious on average because it's always like more and more research is required or you've got to somehow find this dataset and do the statistical model, or like, I had a conversation with a commenter who was asking, he was talking about how, There was this big trend towards business articles about, what American can learn from Japan in the seventies and especially eighties.so it looks like Japan is nber one. Like what, what are they doing differently? Why are these companies just, just annihilating the U S auto industry? What can we learn from them? But there haven't been a lot of books like that about China, even though a lot of the, a lot of Chinese companies are competing really effectively.And, in, in cases like conser internet, they, they seem to be well ahead of the U S companies. And, so we were, what, what ended up coming up was the question of in the 1930s and forties, were people writing these like management secrets of Joseph Stalin pieces on like, how can we compete with Russia there?They had, they were this agrarian nation, and now they're making all this steel and mining all this coal. So, I, I Googled around, I actually couldn't find anything good on that, but I realized that you could actually write something interesting about just. What was Soviet economic policy like, because the country did industrialize at that absolutely enormous han cost, but they did industrialize, it didn't hit first world status, but, well, I guess they were second world by that, that taxonomy.But anyway, they, they were a lot richer, afterwards, and then they went through this long stagnation and decline. So I think learning about what. What the Soviets did. And then what was wrong with it is, is something pretty fun. But the sources that I looked into are pretty extensive. So there's going to be a lot of reading.That's gonna be one of the, the very low ROI posts where it's like, I'm going to read three books and write a thousand words in smary, but I'll probably learn a lot in Bali. Find some useful lessons that can apply somewhere else.Nathan: [00:54:59] It'll turn into more than one post over the next period of time. It may not be a series back to back, but over the course of a year or two, you'll pull in trends from that kind of thing. so there's a huge amount of work that goes into all of this, obviously in the end, the, the effort you think there's, do you think it matters for say the economics of your business, right.To be publishing five times a week versus say two.Byrne: [00:55:25] I'm sure it matters. I think there's, there's definitely room to, to adjust the publishing frequency and there's actually room to adjust the schedule. Like when one of the things I pay really close attention to is why people unsubscribe and there's a field that there's a form they can fill out so they can tell me.And they often do. one of the common things people say is there's too much for them to read. And especially that it's too hard to work through the back catalog. If they haven't been reading it for awhile. And I think that is, that is not really about too much content total. It's about email being a really good form factor for sending high value content that someone's gonna read that day.But it's, it's really tough to work through an archive of email newsletters. That's in your inbox, you might have to do some kind of special search, or you might just be scrolling through your inbox. So you're getting this random assortment of here's you know, an invite to a zoom meetup that I didn't go to.Here's an Amazon receipt. here is an essay and then here's another Amazon receipt and another essay. It's just a weird change in context. So. one of the things I've been thinking very hard about is switching some of the things I write to a longer delivery cadence, I'm basically working on a book and then having the giving the subscribers access to that book and probably doing four posts a week instead of five and spending one day a week.Working just on the book. probably a good trade. It's going to be the same level of output, but, I think the final product is going to be something you can actually binge-conse easily. And I think writing, writing for, habitual snackers and writing for bingers is useful because different people have very different approaches to consing information.I do too. Like I, I will have, have times where I'm going back and forth between a lot of different things and reading. Reading little bits of information here and there when I have time and then periods where I'm just going to sit somewhere forfour hourswith a book Nathan: [00:57:18] Right. I think that's really interesting. Kind of what you're getting at is what's the highest leverage, application of your writing. And so if you're, if you're looking to reach new people and this is probably why people like Tyler Cowen have done really well, right? There's a lot of that is going into another book, you know, or Seth Godin, right.We're into the 22nd book or something, right. That he's put out because he's realized it's the same writing that goes into the newsletter or the blog, or, you know, this idea is just flushed out in longer form, but it's higher leverage and that it's going to reach more people. And so, you know, if you keep a hundred percent of your writing for the newsletter, that's going to have one amount of leverage, which is actually pretty significant leverage, which is why we're all here talking about newsletters because they have great leverage and they're amazing.but if you peel some of that off and say, okay, but this is going into. A book that, you know, then you can reach so many more like CNBC is not going to necessarily have you on to talk about the newsletter. But if the book comes out, then they're like happy to have you on, because that is a format of, you know, authors going on TV tours to promote their book is a well-known thing.And so that would get you a level of exposure that the newsletter wouldn't.Byrne: [00:58:28] Yep. Yeah, that's exactly right. That you, you can, you can package content in different sizes, but it's, in some ways there is just a mental difference between what you're doing when you write. An essay versus a tweet versus a book that with an essay, you can have this more unstructured approach where you're, you're watching stories go by and you're just grabbing something that looks good and turning it into, a quick story or a not so quick story.But then with the book you actually want to come up with, you have to find that idea that's actually worth a books or the material. And then there's a lot of research. So, I am working on a book with a friend and, there's. It's like, I'm working on one chapter and stack of books is about this high that we're going to convert into a chapter in a book and it's going to be great.Cause there's going to be a lot that I'm gonna learn. And it's a, it's a fun topic. The chapter has a fun time. So I'm, I'm excited about it, but that, that is a really different process because. And part of what you're doing is, it's like the newsletter process of there are these themes to talk about and you find different iterations on the theme.So they're always reading a story through a bunch of different lenses and trying to see if there's, if there's some broader trend that this story speaks to or contradicts, but wit

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Have you ever made a decision, at any age, simply determined to see it through, and then when you finally arrived at your goal, you didn't want it anymore? This has happened to me several times.  I'm not sure if it's because I finally achieved it and then needed to seek something else, another goal needed to be looming. Or if it's because I finally could see all that it would entail and I was mistaken. Or worse. I was wrong all along and just wanted to stick to what I committed to, even if I knew it was going to be wrong. My guest on this week's podcast, Jami Hearn, made a decision at the age of 5 to become a lawyer, and did everything in her power to make it happen.  Then one day in the middle of law school, she wanted to quit.  What do you think her mother told her? Listen in to learn about Jami's determination to seek harmony, and go after her dreams, even when it meant getting out of the dream to discover a new one. Whether it's a goal or a dream, we all could benefit from regular reminders that the universe is here to support us. And who doesn't love a good, inspirational quote? Who couldn't use a daily reminder that we all are in this together?  This new book, Wonderful You! by Carin Rockind, is chock full of fabulous quotes and anecdotes about how we can find support and wisdom when we need it.  Every quote will remind you that life is truly a gift, if we only choose to see it that way. Get your copy here.  Share it so that others can be inspired! You can learn more about Jami's work below. https://jamihearn.com Jami@LiveYourDivinity.com

When I was young I had dreams of becoming a writer. I took writing classes, I wrote poetry, I applied for a grad program in creative writing, I submitted a proposal to a publisher many years ago… But I let my dream be stifled. For years. Well, I'm thrilled to announce that my first solo book has now been published, and despite the journey it took to get here, my dream came true! In today's episode I talk about… What I did to make this dream come true Why it's important to stand firm in your desires How I suppressed my own dreams when I was younger What positive psychology shows us about the importance of visualizing our dreams Hope theory and confirmation bias Attracting things into your life energetically “Womanifesting” (as opposed to manifesting) Things you can do to bring your dreams into reality It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! And don't forget to get your copy of my new book, Wonderful You: 100 Inspirational Quotes for a Pop of Joy, now available on Amazon! https://amzn.to/2UkhXMY  Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram, click here to join the PurposeGirls Facebook Group, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

Do you consider yourself to be an optimist or a pessimist? Actually, whether you choose one over the other, technically, you'd be wrong. Psychological studies have proven that optimism and pessimism are not invariable character traits, but moldable features related to our way of thinking. And here's the good news: No matter what your circumstances are - optimistic thinking is something that anyone can learn! Along the way I talk about… The benefits of an optimistic way of thinking, and how it helps us achieve better physical and mental health, professional success and quality relationships. The “explanatory style” – Analyzing how we explain a difficult situation in order to transform our mental habits. The importance of becoming aware of our own response to adversity and challenge, so that we can actually to do something about it. Four really powerful tips: the “ABCDE” thinking, the “worst case, best case, most likely scenario” technique, the Genius of Hope, and Desire. It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! And don't forget to pre-order your copy of my new book, Wonderful You: 100 Inspirational Quotes for a Pop of Joy, on Amazon! https://amzn.to/2UkhXMY       Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram, click here to join the PurposeGirls Facebook Group, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

When I first started PurposeGirl I started with the dream of creating a movement of women coming together in their power and shifting the world for the better. I've always been fascinated by movements of women that start organically, where women gather and take a stand for something together. My guest today has created such a movement, a movement that has been leading people to feel empowered in their minds and bodies. My guest today is Sadie Lincoln, the co-founder and CEO of barre3. In today's episode of The PurposeGirl Podcast, Sadie talks about: Working out at home shortly after the birth of her first child and what she learned about listening to her own inner voice. The importance of paying attention to what she really needs, and the importance of building a company by paying attention to what people really need. The need to be intentional in defying the countless messages coming at us that attempt to disempower us around our bodies. How some member of the fitness community send exactly the wrong kinds of messages, and how barre3 is different. The emphasis on encouraging modifications at barre3, where members are taught many variations on poses and exercises so they can choose what to do based on what their bodies really need, thereby empowering them to choose for themselves. A new way of thinking about what it means to be a badass. What it means to be empowered from within. The impact of having been raised by a sisterhood of women. How the idea of belonging and community is core to barre3. The importance of having one's business be driven by purpose. Getting clear on your distilled essence is the hardest thing you'll do. The importance of self-awareness practices. Barre3 retreats You can learn more about and follow barre3 on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/barre3company), Twitter (https://twitter.com/barre3), and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/barre3 and https://www.instagram.com/sadielincoln/). Note: In this episode Sadie talks about an upcoming barre3 retreat, but this interview was recorded shortly before the coronavirus spread throughout the United States, so dates have changed since the recording of this interview. Please go to https://experienceb3.com/ for information on future retreats. To learn more about Goddess on Purpose, please go to http://carinrockind.com/goddess. Also, you can pre-order my new book (or order it, depending on when you listen to this), Wonderful You, at Amazon here (https://amzn.to/2WEF4U6). It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now! About Sadie Lincoln Sadie Lincoln is the co-founder and CEO of barre3, a fitness company focused on teaching people to be balanced in body and empowered from within. Starting in 2008 with the flagship studio in Portland, Oregon, barre3 has grown to include more than 140 franchise studios powered by female entrepreneurs, plus an online-workout streaming-subscriber base in 98+ countries. What started as a workout has blossomed into a full-blown movement made up of millions of people focused on body positivity, being empowered, and redefining what success in fitness means. Sadie is on Inc.'s Female Founders 100 list, has been featured on NPR's How I Built This, and speaks regularly on the topics of mindful leadership, the power of body wisdom, and the movement to redefine what success in fitness means. Beyond running her company and being a global spokesperson, Sadie still enjoys teaching barre3 classes to many of her founding clients in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.

We're living through chaotic times right now. People are concerned about their health, their jobs, their communities, their kids, the economy… If we aren't intentional, we can get pulled down by all of the uncertainty and fear. But that's not what I want for you. In today's episode I teach you how to shift from the feelings of helplessness and fear to a place of resilience and purpose. Here are some of the key points I address: You are definitely entitled to feel all the feelings – fear, anger, frustration, doubt… It is necessary to feel these things. I talk about ways to let these emotions out, ways to move them out of your body after feeling them. With the current global pandemic, knowing and living your purpose is more important than ever before. It truly helps people not only make it through but thrive. Focusing on how we can be useful instead of on the challenging situation we're in helps move us forward. Our happiness and wellbeing rests on smaller decisions that we make throughout the day, every day, more than on our genetics and our background. I offer ways that you can be purposeful right now. I announce my brand new Goddess On Purpose course, an 8 week online course for you to uncover your purpose and create a path forward, the last live program that I'm offering before my baby arrives. And because of the current global situation I've extended the early bird discount to everyone. Learn more and register here (https://carinrockind.com/goddess-on-purpose/). Also, you can pre-order my new book (or order it, depending on when you listen to this), Wonderful You, at Amazon here (https://amzn.to/2WEF4U6). It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram, click here to join the PurposeGirls Facebook Group, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

Because of Coronavirus, we need tips and tools to boost immunity, stay positive, and regain hope, and in this episode, I give you all my tools. Suddenly, many of us have had our lives changed in ways we couldn't have predicted, and we're now quarantined or sheltering in place, practicing social distancing, and pretty much staying at home. Many are struggling with anxiety and fear for what their future holds, but we can also use this time to go inwards, to be more contemplative, to ponder the bigger questions about our life and our purpose. For so many of us, our lives have been busy and chaotic and overwhelming and go-go-go. Being busy and always doing has been a badge of honor, but we can use this time to slow down, reconnect with what matters - those we love, and ourselves. We can use this time for purpose. To discover who we are and what we want in life. In today's episode I show you ways you can work with your stress right now, rise above it, and use this time to move towards and support your highest, most purposeful selves. I talk about My morning routine from a few weeks ago, when I delivered Amazon's keynote for International Women's Day, and the day before giving it I was told that instead of a room of 600 people it would be entirely live-streamed. I was stressed and frustrated, and I share with you the tools I used to shift this so that I gave an outstanding, inspiring talk. The impact of movement, and moving stress out of our bodies. How regular exercise helps strengthen our immune system, so important right now in our current situation, and I offer tips for getting your exercise. The importance of proper and focused breathing to our wellbeing. The benefits of a regular meditation practice and tips for getting started. The health benefits of smiling and laughing. Having gratitude for what we do have instead of frustration over what we don't have, and a simple gratitude practice that everyone should be doing. The health benefits of nature, and how you can get your nature fix even if you need to stay indoors. The importance of community, of finding sisterhood. I announce my upcoming Goddess On Purpose course, for which the doors will be opening a few days after this episode is published. Reach out to my team (josh@purposegirl.com) to get on the waitlist, or to register if the doors have opened by the time you hear this. You can pre-order my new book (or order it, depending on when you listen to this), Wonderful You, at Amazon here (https://amzn.to/2WEF4U6). To learn more about the online classes offered by SoulFlyte yoga and fitness studio, please go to (https://www.soulflyte.com/schedule). It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram, click here to join the PurposeGirls Facebook Group, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

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Meg is my friend and the founder of the Wonderful You blog and YouTube channel where she aims to change the traditional blogging industry with her unique art direction. She covers topics such as fashion, lifestyle, beauty, and travel, not afraid of speaking out on issues such as body and self confidence. She’s worked with loads of brands including Levi's, ASOS, Clinique, Wonderbra and Selfridges and she was one of The Media Eye’s - Rising Stars in June this year and is represented by Milk Management. We talk about the future of blogging, body image, sponsored content, collaborating, and how sometimes it feels overwhelming keeping up with all the technology thrown in our faces daily. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our second discussion of De Anima or On the Soul (350 BCE), this time on book 3. What is the intellect? We talk about its highest part/function: nous, which is a "form of forms," literally nothing until it thinks, survives death and is not actually yours or mine, but just the universal mind! This continues the discussion from ep. 130 and includes a preview of the Aftershow featuring Rebecca Goldner. End song: "Wonderful You" (live 2001) by Mark Lint.

Christine Fawson plays trumpet and sings on her own projects and as the Alto in the group Syncopation.  She speaks her mind honestly, and doesn't tolerate B.S. from anyone, including her friends.  We discuss the Mormon faith (quite controversially, I might add), Women in Jazz, Berklee, and much more.  Visit her at http://www.christinefawson.net  Episode Music: "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" (U2, as performed by Syncopation), Don't Fence Me in (Berlin, performed by Fawson), Invisible War (Julia Fordham, by Syncopation), Avalon (Fawson), Wonderful You (by Syncopation, music by Hiromi Uehara, Lyrics by Fawson), and "Betcha By Golly Wow" (Syncopation, words and music by Linda Creed and Thom Bell).