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https://youtu.be/5rB45BEXQLU Edward Francis, executive coach, IBM alumnus, and doctorate holder in Management Consulting, is driven by four lifelong commitments—family, faith, the city of Atlanta, and experiential learning. That fourth commitment fuels his mission: helping leaders bridge the gap between theoretical competency and real-world performance through outcome-based, measurable coaching. We explore Edward's distinctive EMF Coaching Framework, which integrates authenticity, mindfulness, equanimity, and neuroplasticity to help leaders develop soft skills for next-level leadership. Edward explains why authenticity protects your future self, how mindfulness deepens connection and listening, why fulfillment (equanimity) must replace “I don't know,” and how managing the brain—rather than letting it run the show—creates space for vision and innovation. Edward also shares how he teaches passion for the future, why it can be acquired through practice, and how he measures intangible soft-skill growth with precision. For leaders seeking transformation, Edward describes what “serious coaching for serious clients” truly looks like. — 4 Ways to Expand Your Vision with Edward Francis Good day, dear listeners. Steve Preda here, the Founder of the Summit OS Group, and the host of this podcast. And my guest today is Edward Francis, a seasoned coach who provides soft skills for next-level leading with an outcome-based and measured approach. He’s an IBM alumni and holds a doctorate in Management Consulting, so he knows a lot. Edward, welcome to the show.  Thank you, Steve. Glad I could be here.  Yeah. Great to have you. I always ask our guests because I think it’s very important that we have a mission, a purpose in life. Because if we lean into it, then we are going to get a lot better results. So what is your personal ‘Why’, and what are you doing to manifest it? Good question, Steve. I like that. Well, my personal ‘Why’ are my commitments, and I have four of them. Oh. And those commitments are me, they make me who I am. The fourth commitment is why we are here today talking, but I’ll take a minute and touch on the first three because I think they’re worth touching on briefly. The first commitment, and not necessarily in order, is family. I’m a father, uncle, godfather, caretaker for a dog and cat — family. My second commitment of the four is faith. And obviously, I could talk a lot about that, but I won’t. But that is a big commitment that makes me who I am. The third commitment is actually to the city of Atlanta, because that’s where I am and where I have served throughout the years several boards of directors — the large ones that we all know about, some for profit, some not for profit, and some of the smaller ones that we haven’t heard about. I'm at that stage now where I end up doing on boards and doing things that nobody else wants to do, but I think it's very important.Share on X And so typically I’m raising money for this or helping to promote that, or the kinds of things that are very important. But they’re not the big boards, but I’ve served on all of them throughout the years. Done a lot with the arts community, the leadership community, the city government, some politics, but primarily community activism. But the fourth commitment, which makes me who I am and why I’m here, is to experiential learning. And that is that gap between competency and how it plays out in the real world—the bridge. Not just understanding the competency of business or the competency of consulting, but how does it really play out in the real world? I have a passion for that. And that bridge can be coaching, leadership development, mentoring, and so it is experiential learning.Share on X When I was with IBM, people would inherently come to me, especially young people. I think it’s this white hair, Steve, I don’t know. They’d come to me and we’d be talking about this and that. And I began to enjoy those sessions, but found that they really were important for the person coming as well as me, because I learned a lot as well. And then when I went on to study my doctorate and my MBA, I studied experiential learning, where I began to do research on soft skills. So what are soft skills? Earning trust. Can you teach someone how to earn trust? I prove that you can. Passion for the future. Can you teach passion for the future? Can that learn? Is that an acquired skill? Is that an acquired competency? Yes, it is. So experiential learning, I have a passion that comes into my coaching, which is why I coach at a business school, at a major university. And I have clients, private clients as well. Those are my ‘Whys’. And because that’s who I am. I am those commitments.  Yeah, that’s fascinating. So let’s talk about some of the things that you do, because I find it very interesting. But I’d like to start with the framework that you developed, which is a unique coaching framework. I’ve not seen anything like that before, and I think you call it the EMF coaching framework after your name. And it involves authenticity, mindfulness, equanimity, and neuroplasticity. Can you explain what this is, how you discovered it, why it’s important, and how do you apply it? Well, my research brought it to the forefront, but my clients have really discovered it for me. When I work with a client, I take them where they are. Typically, it’s someone with a set of outcomes that they’d like to achieve, or outcomes that they want to develop. Sometimes we don’t know outcomes change, and I also have the ability to measure their outcomes, which is fairly unique. I mean, I give them measurements. People say they want measurements, but I can do them and do them well. But the framework is a way of communicating blocks that we build on, and blocks for active listening on my part.  So what is the authenticity? How do you use authenticity in coaching?  To make sure that you are aware of it, to help you measure your authenticity, to make you value your authenticity, to get you to focus on it as an important element of what you want to do and who you are, so that at the end of your career, or when you’re changing careers because you have one behind you, you can look back on it and feel good about it. And you’re not some sad old guy or sad old lady who wishing you had paid attention to your authenticity. Because what happens when you have that sadness, you end up impacting the people that love you the most. Your wife, your children, grandchildren. So you want to protect this period of time by making sure you pay attention to authenticity. And so we spend a good bit of time working on it, identifying, but more than anything else, letting you know how important it is. And of course, authenticity, I mean, we grow, we bend, we assimilate the cultures, but there’s still an authenticity that you want to measure, promote, and understand. I attempt to drive home that meaning, but more than anything else, I listen to what's important to you about authenticity, it's about listening.Share on X I have more questions than I have answers, but I do have some good questions. And where does authenticity fit, and how do you rate your authenticity, and what does authenticity matter to you are important questions.  Okay. So there’s a lot there. We won’t be able to completely unpack authenticity. Maybe that’s what you do with your client so we don’t have to do it on this call. But let’s switch to the next one, which is mindfulness. So is it about meditation? What does it mean?  Well, mindfulness is all over the place, right? We hear it all the time. It’s almost cache. I mean, it’s all over the place. But in coaching and in my building blocks, we want to examine the benefit to you as my client in achieving your outcomes. The benefit of just understanding and listening rather than making an impression.Share on X You want to listen rather than try to impress. Your listening skills, finding out where someone is before you engage with them. The idea of being mindful of the moment of where are they.  So being present with the person?  Not only present, but giving a lead to listening. What does that mean?  It’s hard to hear them if you are talking. And this type of mindfulness, you want to make sure that you are being more listening than you are trying to impress or engage from your perspective. That type of mindfulness in that moment and in each moment. So we spend a good bit of time understanding that level of engagement, and if that engagement is even authentic to you, but the benefits of that. Can you give an example?  Sure. You go to someone and you want them to help you with something, not necessarily small talk, but find out where they are at that moment, where they are mentally, where they are socially, how’s their day? It’s more than small talk before you engage because you’ll find that them even hearing you, if you show that you care about where they are, their level of listening can be increased. So an example is finding out where the person is before you engage with them.  Okay. So let’s switch gears and let’s talk about equanimity, because that’s something I don’t hear people talk about. Mindfulness is a common topic—maybe not your brand of it—but what's equanimity, and how do you use it in coaching? Sure. Equanimity means a lot of things, but when we talk about coaching in the framework, we’re really talking about fulfillment. Equanimity can mean how you handle stress or how you handle disturbances.Share on X But equanimity in coaching can mean fulfillment, your pursuit of a fulfillment what is it that you really, really, really want? And are you clear on distinguishing that from that tools to get there? The classic one is money, Steve. We all know people with lots of money, and there’s a question even in their mind, if they are really fulfilled. So, an equanimity is understanding fulfillment and that pursuit of fulfillment, and it can change.Share on X When you get to our age, “I don't know” is not a good answer. What fulfills you? You say, “I don't know.” I'd say, Steve, you're too old to be saying “I don't know.” You need an answer. You can change it as often as you want, but the problem with “I don't know” is that it breeds “I don't know.” And if you’re saying “I don't know” at age 30, my fear is you'll be saying “I don't know” at age 45. So being able to pick a horse and ride it, have the flexibility to change whenever you want is critical. Plus, just think about it: let's say you want help. I remember plenty of times people would come to me wanting help, and if they had a target, it was much easier for me to help them if they had a target. They say, I want this, it’s going to be available. Then this is the decision-maker. Can you help me with this venture capital team to see if I can get it swayed my way? They got a target. But if you come to me and say, Edward, help me figure out what I want to be when I grow up, that’s a whole other discussion. It’s very difficult to help you. So when you have a target, when you have an answer, other than, I don’t know, we have a direction to move in. So “I don’t know” is not good for most people. Yeah. And you can honestly not know, but you going to pick something. Because when you pick something, even if you’re going the wrong way, you may see what’s the right way. But you never would see that right way if you hadn’t taken that first step, even in the wrong direction. Give the information and then you can iterate from there. Yeah, I agree. And I love it. So let’s go onto neuroplasticity, which was also a very interesting concept that you talked about.  Sure. How do you use neuroplasticity in coaching?  Sure. Well, neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to create additional neurons, but in coaching it's also the suggestion and the consideration that you move outside of your brain — that you don't let your brain run you, you run the brain. That brain will get you in trouble if you are just running around following it. First of all, the brain’s number one job is to protect the body. That’s the number one job for the brain. So therefore, it often has a negative bias. The brain will think that things are worse than they are. That’s part of the way it protects you. You think a lion is going to jump out of the bushes and devour you when it's just a little puppy dog who's coming up to you. So if you keep going, most of the time you’ll see it’s not quite as bad as you thought it was — most of the time. So following the brain, you have to step outside of your brain and manage your brain. The front part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, is in charge of visioning and innovation. But the funny thing about the prefrontal cortex is that it wants to be filled. It doesn’t want empty space. So wherever you are, it’s going to fill itself with something. And you going to say to your brain, no, we are not doing that. I’m not going to let you get filled up. I’m going to keep room so that I can vision. Visioning and innovation takes time and it takes room, and the brain wants to stock in as much as it can to stay filledShare on X but you going to tell that brain, no, I’m going to sit here. I’m going to eat this ice cream and think about it. And so then that leads into what’s really a coaching dynamic is the art of delegation. In order to clear out that prefrontal cortex, you going to use resources, delegation, so that when that brain is filling up, you have a way of, as we used to say at IBM, getting those monkeys off your back. You create some free space. There was a time when professors, way back in the day, had their sabbaticals. Well, that was well-meaning. That was well-meaning — having that time for visioning. Well, as we have blueprints for business, as we have goals, as we look for moving forward, it requires vision, but vision takes time.Share on X It’s just not going to drop in your lap. Your brain won’t let you do it. Now, we both know people who carry the world on their shoulders, and yet they still get a lot of things done. And it can happen, but it’s just not the best way to do it.  Yeah. And maybe they are giving themselves time. They go on a fishing trip, or a golf trip, or travel. And the best ideas come when you’re not in the office, right?  But I’m talking about more granular than that. Not just vacations or climbing a mountain, I’m talking about just sitting still and breathing. I’m talking about family time, a meal, book, listening to some good music, a walk in the woods, things that help your mind empty out those monkeys, so that you can have space to take the time for the visioning and innovation that’s critical for moving forward. A lot of times you get to where you are by keeping that mind full. You’re always having fires to put out, and that’s fine. We’re experts at putting out fires. But at some point, to take that business to that next level — that soft skill for next-level leadership — you're going to have to manage your brain to create space so that you have time for vision and innovation.Share on X  Yeah. I love that. And I often notice that I’m driving my car and I think, okay, I’m going to switch on the audio book or podcast. I say, no, I won’t do that. I just want to sit here and just daydream over the wheel and just let my mind go different places.  And actually I love that time, and I like the long drives, and I don't take in information. And I guess that’s what’s happening. I didn’t call it that, but I am emptying out my brain and giving it space.  Well, you have to manage that brain because it will get you in trouble if you just let it run the show. I mean, really, it’ll take you to some odd places. You have to say to your brain, “No. That's not what we are doing. That's not the plan.”  Okay. That’s awesome. So your coaching framework is authenticity — being aware and living an authentic life so that you can look back on it with satisfaction. Mindfulness — being present, listening, giving space for other people. Equanimity, which is fulfillment and having that feeling of fulfillment, of living with purpose. That's why I ask you about the purpose as well, so I totally relate to this. And neuroplasticity, I love that concept. I think few people talk about it, especially this way. It’s very powerful. So before we wrap up, I like to ask you about what you mentioned at the top of the conversation about teaching people passion for the future, I’m fascinated by this idea. I thought passion was more of an internally developed thing. Maybe there’s also talent for passion. Maybe it’s part of nurture, but how can you actually teach it, I’m very curious about that.  Sure. Passion for the future. That’s when you want to be passionate about capabilities and opportunities for impacting your clients, impacting the world, and you deeply believe in the quality and breadth of personal, exceptional capability. And the key with passion for the future, when you really are doing it well, then you are energizing others about unique opportunities, and you are conveying passion for the future with them. I have an exercise—several exercises—that we go through and talk about.  So, Edward, just a quick question. So does that mean that you are passionate about the potential of your own and the other people around you? So your passion is derived not from what the politics is doing, or geopolitics, and I don’t know, AI, and that stuff, but is it about the humanistic potential that you see is there and can be manifested?  Actually, Steve, it is outcomes-driven. So it is outcomes-driven, but what I see—and when it works well, you see it—it spreads. It's not that you start out saying, I want to have passion for this client, I want to have passion for this business, or passion for this opportunity. But once you grasp it—the wins or the losses, the yeses, the no's, or the maybes—you take them all. And you are still passionate about winning. You create sense of pride, you’re seeking opportunities, you confront behavior that’s contrary to the values and to reputation. So we teach this and it can be fun, but I’ve also seen tears come from it as well. It can be a tearful experience, but it’s part of what we do, and we do it well. And it’s not cookie-cutter. I take my client where they are. So this is not just some rope that I’m going to take you through. We really have to see this as an outcome that's going to benefit you and an outcome that's desired, and an outcome that you're willing to invest in.Share on X Because look, a lot of people make it, and they are not passionate about the future. So it’s a lot of work.  So you can turn a sheep into a wolf?  Yes. If there is a real support in doing it. If there is personal support in doing it, or corporate support in doing it, or if it’s passionate support in doing it, yes, we can do it. There is a price, but it can be done. A personal price. A mental price, yes.  But doesn’t the mentee or the  coachee have to be willing to pay that price, or can they get the passion without paying any price? Personally, the company will pay, but can they do it?  Sure. Well, first of all, the person needs to be coachable. And it needs to be an objective, or it needs to be an outcome that you see now, or an outcome that you developed over your period of time in working with me. So we can start out that way or it can come, but yes, you have to see that it’s worth it because it does take work. But once you get it, I see it spread, and you in fact are passionate about the future, and you weren’t there in the first place. You might’ve been pessimistic, actually.  That is amazing. I mean, if you can do that, then you can really empower other people that maybe would must be able to empower themselves or be empowered by the usual patterns and approaches.  And we measure it. I have a measurement. I can measure your progress or lack thereof. And let’s be clear, every story is not a success story. But I can measure your progress or lack thereof, and we can agree on a matrix and see how you’re tracking towards that matrix for passion for the future.  So how do I measure my passion, or how do you measure my passion?  I’ll get you to give me an analysis, and I have some questions. And I’ll get you to give me an analysis of those questions, and then I’ll ask you those same questions another way. And then we’ll do training, and then we’ll come back to that and then we’ll do an analysis of where you were and where you are now that we are at the next phase. So that’s one way we can do, we can measure it to see your progress or lack of progress. Now, I also have a role play that we can do. So there's several things we can do. There's role play, there's reading, but primarily it's me listening.Share on X It’s active listening on my part. I don’t have the answers, but I have the questions. Well, the questions are more important than the answers. Because a lot of answers can pertain to one question. That is very fascinating. So if people would like to be coached by you — and I saw on your LinkedIn page that you offer serious coaching for serious clients, so it’s not like dabblers please don’t bother applying kind of thing. So what does it look like?  Serious coaching looks like a commitment of time and resources from someone who's coachable. It starts when you contact me to schedule a chemistry session. That’s typically can be as short as 15 minutes, most of them are an hour. So it starts with a chemistry session. Then once we get out of the chemistry session, it starts when you pay me, that’s when it starts.  Okay. So if those listeners that are taking in this episode, they’d like to explore whether they have the right chemistry for you to coach them, or whether they are considered serious enough for coaching, where should they go and how can they find you? There are two places you can find me. Of course, you can find me on LinkedIn: Edward Francis. I think it’s Edward Francis, DBA (Doctor of Business Administration). So Edward Francis. Or you can go to my webpage, www.edwardmackfrancis.com.  Awesome. So if you’re listening to this and you want a serious coach with serious coaching, and specifically want to be a more authentic person can be more present for others and feel more fulfilled, and have a bigger brain capacity through neuroplasticity, leveraging neuroplasticity, or you want to be more passionate about the future, then do reach out to Edward Francis. You will not be disappointed. And if you have a company and you want to grow it, then reach out to me at the Summit OS Group. So, Edward, thank you for coming, and for those of you out there, thank you for listening. And stay tuned because we have exciting entrepreneurs and thought leaders joining every week. Important Links: Edward's LinkedIn Edward's website

https://youtu.be/ivElg53993A Ian Leaman, Summit OS® Guide, former investment banker, senior finance executive, and investor, is driven by a mission to help entrepreneurs build, scale, and successfully exit their businesses by applying the hard-won lessons he's learned from more than 100 exit journeys. We learn about Ian's path from growing up around small family businesses in the UK, to training with Deloitte, advising entrepreneurs through hundreds of M&A processes, co-founding a SPAC, and ultimately relocating to the United States to embrace a more optimistic and opportunity-driven business culture. Ian explains his Can-Do Framework, a mindset blueprint inspired by the contrast between European “can't-do” thinking and America's bold, frontier-style optimism. He also breaks down how Summit OS® empowers owners to achieve “private equity–level growth without giving up private equity,” and why the 45-Day Execution Momentum plan creates faster change than a typical 100-day private equity program. Ian closes with a gripping case study illustrating how leadership blind spots and misaligned incentives can devastate exit outcomes. — How to Break Ceilings in America with Ian Leaman Good day, listeners. Steve Preda here, the Founder of the Summit OS® Group and host of the Management Blueprint Podcast. And my guest today here is Ian Leaman, who is a Summit OS® Guide, a former investment banker with over 100 exits under his belt. He’s also a senior finance executive and an investor. So Ian, welcome to the show. Hi, Steve. It’s great to see you, and thank you for having me on.  Absolutely. And we go way back, and one of your international board positions I think I’m sharing with you, but I’m not going to go into that because it’s long in the past. What I like to explore is what you’re doing now, why you’re doing it, and some things about why you moved to the States. I mean, both of us moved to the States since we were on this particular board for different reasons. And I’d like to explore your framework, which is very intriguing. So let’s start with your ‘Why’. So what is your personal ‘Why’, and how are you manifesting it in your business life?  What I’m doing right now, Steve actually squares the circle. It brings us back together as working colleagues. You mentioned that we worked previously on an international board. Today we’re working together as Summit OS Guides. How did I get here, and how does this relate to my ‘Why’? Well, my business journey started really in my youth, where my parents had small businesses. And so the conversations over the evening dinner table were all about the trials and tribulations, the successes, failures, challenges, et cetera, of running a small business. So that got into my blood very early. That translated through a career in finance, where I qualified originally as an accountant with Deloitte in the UK, and then progressed into the transaction side of finance, helping entrepreneurs grow and exit their businesses. As you said, having come through more than a hundred successful exits, but many  more which didn’t cross that finish line.  I really became interested in the differences between those who succeeded and those who didn't, what they were doing in their businesses, which made them attractive prospects from an M&A point of view and made their processes successful ones.Share on X And eventually, I came to reunite with you when you’d started your Summit OS® Initiative and understand that we can bring our respective experience, whether it’s as a CEO of a previously exited business or as an advisor to many which have done that, we can bring that experience to there. And how that translates into my personal ‘Why’ is I get huge satisfaction out of being involved in and assisting the process of entrepreneurs building and exiting their business. And I find huge satisfaction in a successful outcome there. So my personal ‘Why’ is to work with entrepreneurs who are building their businesses to help them do so better, faster, more successfully, and, if relevant — which isn’t in all cases — take them across that exit finish line to a conclusion of that particular part of their business journey. Yeah. I totally relate to this, and I often felt guilty even when we sold the company, and I felt like we could have gotten more for it if the company was improved, and there were some low-hanging fruits that we could have helped fix in a short order. And then we can do it now, and that’s very fulfilling. That’s right. I mean, there are many war stories, if you like, from that phase of my working life that illustrate very well the point you just made. For example, on the positive side, I can recall a conversation with an entrepreneur. I met him for the first time at his place of work. It was a distributor of electronic components, so they bought in bulk, stocked, broke into small pieces, and sold and distributed at a good margin, electronic components. They had a big warehouse. He and I had an initial discussion and he was quite an impressive guy. I remember in his very austere functional office, and he said, would you like to look around? I said, yeah, of course. I’d love to. So we walked together from the upper level where his office was down a stairway into the warehouse. And just as we got to the foot of the stairway, we encountered one of the warehousemen. His name was Jim, and he said, the owner said, Hey, good morning Jim. How’s it going today? And Jim said, 81%. Why did Jim say 81%? I asked myself, I left it at that moment, but they were both very satisfied with Jim’s answer. When we returned from the visit to the office, I said, so what’s 81%? He said, well, that’s Jim’s metric. Jim has to measure a certain number of things he’s doing and relate them to that day, and he was well within his range of target, and that’s how this guy ran his business. All that translated into a very successful exit at a multiple one or two points above the regular for a distributor in that sector. Because he was growing fast, he was doing it really well, and he built a business which was somewhat independent of him. That’s great. And just a quick reference to the LinkedIn post that you put up yesterday, where you mentioned that a lot of people who are trading time for money and working 55 or more hours is basically a leading indicator that they’re not going to build a self-managing business, they’re not going to scale, they’re going to burn out. So it’s great if someone has good KPIs to make sure that they know where they are and where they’re moving towards where they want to be. Okay, so let’s switch gears here. And you have a really intriguing story of how you made it to America and particularly to LA. So what was your calculus, and how did you end up there? I’d been working successfully as an M&A advisor — as you had, Steve — working with entrepreneurs on that journey. And a lot of that was about the growth of their companies, about building them somewhat before they actually made the exit, often through acquisition or financing. And one day I got a phone call from a friend who was a headhunter who joked with me when he got on the call: “Ian, don’t put the call down. I’m going to talk to you about a new role, which is not doing what you’re doing.” I guess his call landed at a particular moment when I was restless for a change, and he described a role as the third co-founder of a startup to be newly listed on the London Stock Exchange as blank check company, often known as a SPAC in the US. Long story short, I was a good fit for the team of two entrepreneurs who had built previous businesses, financed, acquired, IPO'd, and then sold. We got together and set out on a path of acquiring businesses in the US, even though the listing was in the UK, in the oil and gas services sector. That experience was amazing. It put me on the front line as a principal, doing many of the things I'd seen done secondhand and getting my hands into the weeds of operations much more than I had previously. And these were great learning experiencesShare on X but what became most valuable over time was the experience I got working in the US and finally appreciating the fundamental contrast in business ethos between a European starting point — can’t do — and a US starting point — can do. And that framework, that basic business framework of can-do US against can’t-do Europe, really set me on the path that I then pursued. When that job came to an end and my wife and I were deciding what next, we decided to vote with our feet, relocate to the US — now 12 years ago — with three teenagers and a dog in tow, and rebuild our careers over here. That’s awesome. And that’s very similar to what we did in many ways. So tell me about this Can-Do framework. So how do you break it down? How do you make it more tangible? What differentiates an American entrepreneur or American businessperson — or just a general person — and European or UK in terms of their outlook on business or life? Okay, so it’s all about positivity. And that manifests itself with just really at the start of any conversation about anything within business, whether it’s a small change to an existing business or perhaps something at the opposite end of the scale, a big new opportunity that hasn’t previously presented itself. It’s all about the positivity. Americans will enthusiastically embrace change, generally — in my experience — without the cynicism overtaking them. Americans have just as much valid experience of what can go wrong as you build and change businesses as Europeans, but instead they choose to parlay that experience and those learnings into positive aspects of change rather than cynical aspects of resistance to change. So, for example, in America, if as a businessperson you hit some failures and those failures result in a failed business or a personal bankruptcy, those things are not regarded as necessarily negatives, which can impede your progress in the future. Quite the opposite — they can be seen as great learning experiences, which leave their battle scars in a positive way. Yeah, that is indeed amazing. I mean, you can even become president in America after failing several businesses, right? The sky’s the limit.  The sky’s the limit. That’s the point.  Yeah.  And there’s no one else’s negativity, which is going to constrain the optimistic American entrepreneur from striving to achieve their goals. All right. Okay, so there’s the positivity. I get it. So interpreting changes as looking at the positive aspect of it rather than the negative aspect. It’s more of a bold, fearless attitude rather than a conservative, resistant attitude. What else would you say characterizes this ethos? I’d say another facet of it would be the confidence to challenge the status quo. So much of European culture and business is based on history, and that history is a kind of anchor to the past, whereas America still has this frontier feeling — a sense that it’s a new country, a new world. And the status quo, such as it is, isn't an anchor to the past. It’s actually something to be critically praised and challenged with confidence if relevant. I think that very much resonates with me personally. I recall when I was choosing my firm to join and to become an accountancy trainee, leading through a qualification to becoming a chartered accountant, and at the quality end of the range were the Big Eight in those days. I interviewed with three of the Big Eight, and interestingly, it was number eight of eight, which was the newcomer on the block, the one that resonated most with me. They were confident, they were challenging, and ambitious, and somewhat fearless in the face of challenging the establishments in the UK.Share on XAnd those things really resonated with me. I joined Touche Ross. Touche Ross became Deloitte. Deloitte became the number one in the world.  Yeah, that’s right.  Touche Ross was the number seven or eight, I remember, when I applied, because I went through actual same training as you did. And when I applied it was the Big Eight, and by the time I got accepted it was the Big Six — they merged — and now it’s the Big Four. So anyhow, that’s less interesting for listeners, but you’re talking about describing this underdog mentality or underdog attitude. I resonated with that as well, because when we started the investment banking business in Hungary, actually our number one competitor was Deloitte in Hungary. They were the big 500-pound gorilla, and we were the underdog. I hired some of the people who had been passed over by Deloitte, and they had a stone in their shoe about it. And we made it a kind of quest that we were going to show these snooty, self-important people that we were actually better because we’re scrappier, more innovative, and so on. That was a big driver for us — this underdog attitude. So would you say that this is something that also resonates with Americans?  I think very much so. I think that there isn’t that respect for the status quo, and the 500-pound gorilla on the block is not necessarily there to be feared, revered, or left alone. Quite the opposite. In American business, they're the incumbent to be challenged. Challenger businesses grow to huge success in America. And actually, that links really nicely with the topic we're here to discuss — Summit OS® — and how it provides a framework for entrepreneurs to build their businesses using many of the tools and techniques which the big successful businesses have adopted. And using that to their advantage, to creep up on them from behind and sometimes take market leadership.  Yeah, that's a big objective, obviously, and we would be happy to talk about this, but then we would overrun our time for sure. But what is a specific concept that you enjoy about or which you are intrigued about with Summit OS® that resonates with you? One of the things that really resonated with me, Steve, having a background in investment banking as you have, is the notion that private equity doesn’t have a monopoly on expecting and delivering high growth from businesses. That principle, that objective, that achievement can be something which the entrepreneur, owner, manager can adopt just as validly. So one of the potentials of Summit OS® is private equity without private equity. You can set yourself the objective of, let's say, 3x value in three years.Share on X You can set yourself the objective of creating a self-managing business that has a valuation way in excess of its peers because of the way you run it, because of the rate of growth you achieve, because of the differentiators it has from its competitors. And in so doing, you create something of high value, high desire, and a high level of marketability if you’re in the market to exit. That’s a really powerful and resonant aspect of  Summit OS® for me.  Yeah, I’ve often seen business owners who sold a large minority or a small majority stake to private equity. And then someone came in with an MBA but with a lot less experience, and they would start telling the business owner what they knew that they had to work on to begin with. Maybe they were not disciplined enough or not focused enough, but a coach — a good coach, a guide like you and I — could have helped them to do that without giving away a big piece of their business. Now granted, putting capital to use can be a very effective way of achieving high levels of growth. And the scale of capital that’s available from private equity may not be available to an independent owner-managed business. But having said that, I was with an entrepreneur last week, one of a group of partners who’d sold his business initially to PE, that PE had been refinanced to an even larger one. And he described his experience with those PEs as being managed by spreadsheet. It sounds like a bit of a cliché, Steve, but it's real — that’s his actual experience. And another negative experience, from a negative point of view, that a lot of entrepreneurs have shared with me is this notion of inappropriate interference. The young MBAs just don’t get where appropriate boundaries are between them as investors and the leadership team in the businesses, and so the areas they interfere in are often not value-adding. I’ve experienced that myself, actually. I was engaged once by a private equity firm to be a consultant on a transition period. The business in question had been an orphaned subsidiary within a very large multinational corporation. When people talk about orphan subsidiaries, what they essentially mean is this businesses that don’t particularly fit within where the big corporation had moved to, and are kind of left adrift — but within. So they’d sold this business to a private equity, and the private equity engaged me to help with a transition. A transition of the business from this orphan state into an independent business. And the private equity really was clueless. The people there were absolutely clueless as to how best to manage the transition of the team, particularly the team and the way they interrelated to their ownership from how it used to be to how it was now. It’s a very good example of poor management, and I suspect it wasn’t one of one. It was one of a big pattern. Yeah. I mean, experience is really hard to replicate in the classroom. And some of these MBAs, they come out from great business schools, and they do excellent case studies, but they just don’t have the reps to develop the pattern recognition that some of these business owners who have been in the trenches for 20 or 30 years have, right?  Yeah, you can’t put a high enough value on less experience. Yeah. And if you then harness that experience into a framework which enables people with that experience to share it really effectively with clients, that's a really powerful combination.Share on X  Yeah, I love it. Yeah. By the way, we all know that private equity groups, they often have their 100-day plan. They come into a company and then they want to make a string of changes, like a new prime minister or president would do as well. So is there an equivalent process in Summit OS® to do that? Can you speak to that?  There is, actually. And there’s a big premium today on speed of change. And the private equity guys think that a hundred days is rapid. Well, it’s not. Summit OS® has got a 45-day Execution Momentum plan, which takes the business through some very actionable processes, which result in very rapid and noticeable change. So that the 45-day Execution Momentum takes the business leaders through 2 one full-day meetings in which very heavy agenda is filled with things that really interesting and opposite ends of the scale. What do I mean by that? At the very macro, high end, there will be an examination — possibly for the very first time — of why the business exists, what it’s on the earth for, how is, how’s it going to create a dent in the universe over a 30-year period? What really big changes can an ambitious management team make in the business? And this at the opposite end of the scale, a whole bunch of very day-to-day actionable skills like how to run a really good business meeting that’s super effective and results in measurable change. And then things in between those two, which join the very high macro level to the very daily micro level. Putting these things into action over the 30-day separation period between these two days, and then a 15-day follow-on, gives you your 45 days. And that results in these really measurable, perceivable changes, which catapult the start of a company’s journey with Summit OS® — very quickly, double the speed of PE. Yeah, that’s definitely. I do believe that there’s no reason why every company should not adopt all the good management practices that already exist and widely known. And the faster we get them to adapt it, the faster they’re going to get a big push, a big momentum, and then it’s going to open them up for other changes. And suddenly this whole change management is not going to be that difficult because people will say that it actually works. So why not do more of it? Before we wrap this conversation up, can you share from your experience as an investment banker or senior CFO a story that really you feel relates to the work that we’re doing here? I can, and I’m going to illustrate this with a something negative, not something positive to learn from the negative, as I suggested. It was really valid for me to do learning from all the reasons businesses failed to get across the exit line and what we can do to help build businesses better. So, I was engaged to sell a business — owner-managed, a very successful call center business based in the UK, but with an American client base. And the vertical in which the call center business work was technology sales. So they were being engaged by large American technology houses to generate leads for selling their products into European customers. The entrepreneur who started it was an experienced businessman, but from the moment I met him, what I recognized was a brutish personality. A very tough taskmaster, very unforgiving, and actually very cold and lacking in emotion. He built this business to quite some success with a very high growth rate, and soon I got to meet his management team. These were young, thrusting, ambitious people who had been early enough in their careers for him to mold them into a likeness of his own. So what he’d created was a team of very similar-behaving, similar-acting people who were aggressive, over-assertive, cold, non-emotional in the business context and actually quite a scary team. Well, that could have been okay were it not for the fact that early on in the process, I had a word with him and I said, “Look, Chris, you're going to need to motivate these guys in the exit. They're well paid, but you need to give them a little bit of a taste of the proceeds you're going to receive as the founder and 100% owner of this business. Otherwise, you might see some trouble brewing.” Nope — he wasn't having any of it. This was his business. He was going to do this his way. Guess what happens, Steve? At the 59th minute of the 11th hour, as we came towards closing the transaction with a great buyer, the animals turned on their master. And they turned with a viciousness that was similar to his own character, and they basically held him to ransom. It cost him 30% of the business. He had to give 30% of the equity in order for them to come along and be supportive in the discussions they were at this stage, having with the buyer around satisfaction with the working there, continuing to work post-transaction and all those things that were super important for the buyer. So there’s an example, a real case study. We did actually get the business closed. It cost him millions more than it could have done had he done this deal with them early on when they didn’t have the whip hand. And here’s a great example of how adapting the way you work, respecting the senior people, and nurturing them into positions of ownership of their parts of the business, not just in terms of being mini CEOs, but actually sharing some of the equity of the business could have made a huge difference, both to the risk in the process and to the dollar outcome for him. Yeah. I think this is a common failing that the entrepreneur, they take under their wings, these young people, and they feel like that they owe everything to them for raising them. But they forget that those people stuck around because they actually had internal drive and they had ambition. It wasn’t the entrepreneur who create these people. These people were there to begin with. They just took advantage of the opportunity to have bigger responsibility, and as they rose in capability, if the entrepreneur or business owner didn't recognize that and reward it, they’re going to go somewhere else and they’re going to get rewarded another way, or they’re going to turn on their master. Yeah. So this is a very tricky thing and you need a degree of self-awareness to realize that it’s not all you and you have to reward them. Even if you help them get there, you still have to pay them more because they did get there.  That’s right. It’s all part of respecting the people you work with and rewarding them appropriately. Yeah that’s a great way to finish this up. Okay. So, Ian, if the listeners would like to learn more about you, maybe connect with you, learn what you could do for them, where would you advise them to go? Well, it’s very simple.  They can contact me at https://ianleaman.com. There you’ll find some very comprehensive and interesting material all about coaching and about Summit OS® in particular, and how we work with businesses to help elevate them.  Awesome. So do check Ian out at https://ianleaman.com, not hard to remember. He is also has a great LinkedIn profile. And if you enjoyed this conversation, stay tuned, because every week I bring an exciting entrepreneur or business operator, or thought leader in some cases, who come and share their frameworks with us. 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Baseball was largely unchanged for more than a century — now MLB is trying to shake things up Meet the Non-Christian Fans of The Chosen Maybe You Don’t Need to Post That: A Theology of Private Faith Greg Laurie on X: "You know, I’ve been preaching the Gospel for 55 years now — and I still never get tired of it. Why? Because the Gospel is not just a story, not just a philosophy; it’s power. Real power. The Apostle Paul called it “the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes.” (Rom. https://t.co/rMaolJ37bv" / X Joni and Friends on X: "If you are in pain today, fix your eyes on Jesus and step into everything he gained for you through his suffering—because of the joy set before him. #Joy #Rejoice https://t.co/ZxKcRnT1tU" / XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From meme coin mayhem to stablecoin supremacy—this week on Crypto Curious, we're diving into two wild stories shaking up the crypto world.Hailey Welch, aka the 'Hawk Tuah' girl, has finally broken her silence after last year's viral meme coin disaster.Plus, stablecoins just processed a staggering $15.6 trillion in transactions—outpacing Mastercard and Visa..What does this mean for the future of crypto? Let's break it down

Mike Pence Shares the First Thing He Said to Trump in Four Years Mike McCartney on X: "You were my hero Dad. Even though I'm beyond heartbroken, I know you are whole and resting in Glory with Mom and Almighty God. Rest in Heaven Dad

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In the 5 AM Hour: Larry O'Connor and Julie Gunlock discussed: Byron York on X: "You can feel Republican confidence growing. More and more firmly believe Trump will win. But there are good reasons to avoid irrational exuberance.  'Shameful' MSNBC blasted for splicing Nazi rally clips into coverage of Trump's Madison Square Garden rally The Washington Post says it will not endorse a candidate for president   Where to find more about WMAL's morning show:  Follow the Show Podcasts on Apple podcasts, Audible and Spotify. Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor,  @Jgunlock, @patricepinkfile, and @heatherhunterdc.  Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Show Website: https://www.wmal.com/oconnor-company/ How to listen live weekdays from 5 to 9 AM: https://www.wmal.com/listenlive/ Episode: Monday, October 28, 2024 / 5 AM Hour  O'Connor and Company is proudly presented by Veritas AcademySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hurricane Milton expected to be so powerful it could forever change Florida's coastline Study: 41 Million Christians Won't Vote This Election Jared C. Wilson on X: "You're free to endorse moral degenerates for political office if that's your thing, but I hope you can understand why your moralizing lectures to the rest of us fall so flat." challies on X: "Flashback: To get ahead in life we need to get rid of anyone who holds us back. I am convinced this principle is abhorrent and will offer three reasons why. https://t.co/ZJGsnofMGJ" NYC members-only canine club touts DJs, cocktails and could cost $1,400 a year — right next to a free dog parkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"We need to engage with skeptics' concerns about Bitcoin in a serious way." - Mike BrockMy guest today is Mike Brock. Mike is Lead for TBD at Block, Inc. TBD is building infrastructure that enables everyone to access and participate in the global economy.In this episode we explore Bitcoin's place in democracy, discussing regulatory challenges, the founding fathers' vision for our nation and democracy, and the impact of social media on society. We delve into the importance of common good, patriotism, and responsible technology use in the digital age. Follow Mike on X You can find Trey on nostr and via the pod's social channels. You can also connect with him in the pod's public telegram group or via the contact form on our website.BitBox: Get the open-source Bitbox02 Bitcoin only edition. It's my favorite bitcoin hardware wallet for you to take self-custody of your bitcoin and keep your private keys safe in cold storage. Use promo-code ‘TPB' during checkout at bitbox.swiss/tpb to get 5% off your purchase, including accessories and merch!You, our listener! Thank you to our supporters. To support The Progressive Bitcoiner and access rewards, including our new TPB merch, head to our geyser page: https://geyser.fund/project/tpbpod. You can also now support our work via Patreon.PROMO CODES:Sazmining: Hosted Bitcoin mining made easy, using and 100% renewable energy. Get $50 off the purchase of a miner using the following link: https://app.sazmining.com/purchase?ref=byyhN2mCGXluFold App: Fold is the best way to earn bitcoin back on everything you do. Use the Fold Visa debit card, and purchase gift cards from the Fold Store, to earn bitcoin on everyday purchases. Get 20,000 sats with your first Fold Card purchase using our referral link - https://use.foldapp.com/r/CKVX3C4CLightning Store: Head to https://lightning.store/ and use promo-code ‘TPB' to get 20% off all products.To learn more, visit our websiteFollow the pod on X | Nostr | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Facebook | LinkedIn |Join in on the conversation at our Progressive Bitcoiner Community telegram group!The Team: Producer/Editor: @DamienSomerset | Branding/Art: @Daniel | Website: @EvanPrim This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit progressivebitcoiner.substack.com/subscribe

In the 7 AM Hour: Larry O'Connor and Mercedes Schlapp discussed: WMAL GUEST: 7:05 AM - INTERVIEW - JOE DIGENOVA - legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia BREAKING: House probe concludes Joe Biden committed impeachable offenses by helping enrich his family Welcome back! New school year begins for Prince William, Fairfax students Fairfax County to roll out phone-free pilot in select schools next month WMAL GUEST: 7:35 AM - INTERVIEW - CHARLIE SPIERING - Washington, DC, political reporter for The Daily Mail and Author of the book: “Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris in the White House” – discussed the latest 2024 News / Preview Kamala's big week at the DNC SOCIAL MEDIA: https://x.com/charliespiering CHARLIE'S BOOK: AMATEUR HOUR: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Amateur-Hour/Charlie-Spiering/9781668046074?utm_source=author CHARLIE'S WRITING AT DAILY MAIL: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/profile-1021/charliespiering.html Tim Walz on X: "Remember the time when you could go to Thanksgiving with your relatives and not complain about politics the whole time? This election is a chance to bring up the joy and look to the future. https://t.co/IuIYgjQkAb" / Sean Davis on X: "You banned people from visiting their family at Thanksgiving. And then you set up a snitch line so people could call the cops on anyone visiting family at Thanksgiving." / X Where to find more about WMAL's morning show:  Follow the Show Podcasts on Apple podcasts, Audible and Spotify. Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor,  @Jgunlock, @patricepinkfile, and @heatherhunterdc.  Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Show Website: https://www.wmal.com/oconnor-company/ How to listen live weekdays from 5 to 9 AM: https://www.wmal.com/listenlive/ Episode: Monday, August 19, 2024 / 7 AM Hour  O'Connor and Company is proudly presented by Veritas AcademySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Bitcoin is for everyone. I think a lot of people don't think that it really is, but it actually is." - Becca My guest today is Becca Bratcher. Becca is a former nurse, podcast host and the author of the newly released book, “21 Women in Bitcoin,” which highlights the vital role that women play in shaping Bitcoin's evolution and impact on society.In this episode we discuss and contrast the “crypto bro” narrative that Bitcoin often finds itself in with the reality that Bitcoin is used around the world, including growing adoption among women. We discuss how Bitcoin is empowering women globally, breaking financial barriers, and creating opportunities for all. Learn about the challenges, misconceptions, and the growing impact of women in the Bitcoin space, and we hope you'll feel inspired to think beyond peoples' preconceived notions of Bitcoin and explore its human rights and empowering use-cases. Order Becca's book “21 Women in Bitcoin” today: https://a.co/d/4hecCjN You can find Becca on X You can find Trey on nostr, X, and via the pod's social channels. You can also connect with him in the pod's public telegram group or via the contact form on our website.BitBox: Get the open-source Bitbox02 Bitcoin only edition. It's my favorite bitcoin hardware wallet for you to take self-custody of your bitcoin and keep your private keys safe in cold storage. Use promo-code ‘TPB' during checkout at bitbox.swiss/tpb to get 5% off your purchase, including accessories and merch!You, our listener! Thank you to our supporters. To support The Progressive Bitcoiner and access rewards, including our new TPB merch, head to our geyser page: https://geyser.fund/project/tpbpod.PROMO CODES:Sazmining: Hosted Bitcoin mining made easy, using and 100% renewable energy. Get $50 off the purchase of a miner using the following link: https://app.sazmining.com/purchase?ref=byyhN2mCGXluFold App: Fold is the best way to earn bitcoin back on everything you do. Use the Fold Visa debit card, and purchase gift cards from the Fold Store, to earn bitcoin on everyday purchases. Get 20,000 sats with your first Fold Card purchase using our referral link - https://use.foldapp.com/r/CKVX3C4CLightning Store: Head to https://lightning.store/ and use promo-code ‘TPB' to get 20% off all products.To learn more, visit our websiteFollow the pod on X | Nostr | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Facebook | LinkedIn |Join in on the conversation at our Progressive Bitcoiner Community telegram group!The Team: Producer/Editor: @DamienSomerset | Branding/Art: @Daniel | Website: @EvanPrim This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit progressivebitcoiner.substack.com/subscribe

Chad Ragsdale on X: "Sunday morning. Political speech at a church. Is this Christian nationalism? Or is it (D)ifferent? Genuinely curious." Paul David Tripp on X: "⛪️ Two of God's best gifts to us are his word and his church. https://t.co/bYAvr2baYC" Jenna Ellis on X: "You cannot be a faithful Christian and a faithful Republican after today. You cannot be loyal to two contradicting stances. For a long time, Christians have said it's impossible to be a faithful Christian and vote Democrat because of their policies. Well, choose ye this day Protestia on X: "Mark Driscoll easily has the most unbilical eldership situation out of any church I know. He set it up this way on purpose, so that he would never be able to be ousted from his church by anyone ever again, the shame of Mars Hill seared into his psyche. Never again! Train With DisciplineSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nashville-based singer-songwriter, guitarist & performer Dan Harrison RETURNS to the podcast! Download Dan's new single "Talkin' Dirty" on all music platforms! This is a great catch-up on all things Dan Harrison in 2024. He has released 4 singles this year - with another single planned in the coming months. Dan & I talk about the new song - as well as the singles "I Go to Church," "Hangover Here" and "Alameda." We talk about the songwriting process, inside and outside the studio, Eric Church, Jimmy Buffett & so much more!Visit Dan's web site and follow him across the socials!www.danharrisonmusic.com@danharrisonmusic - socials (dnharrisonmusic on X)You can find the video to this episode on the Dan Time YouTube channel @dantimepoddantimepod@gmail.com

Hey, this is Alex. Don't you just love when assumptions about LLMs hitting a wall just get shattered left and right and we get new incredible tools released that leapfrog previous state of the art models, that we barely got used to, from just a few months ago? I SURE DO! Today is one such day, this week was already busy enough, I had a whole 2 hour show packed with releases, and then Anthropic decided to give me a reason to use the #breakingNews button (the one that does the news show like sound on the live show, you should join next time!) and announced Claude Sonnet 3.5 which is their best model, beating Opus while being 2x faster and 5x cheaper! (also beating GPT-4o and Turbo, so... new king! For how long? ¯_(ツ)_/¯)Critics are already raving, it's been half a day and they are raving! Ok, let's get to the TL;DR and then dive into Claude 3.5 and a few other incredible things that happened this week in AI!

SBC amendment to permanently ban women pastors falls short Ed Werder on X: "Exceptional by @TomBrady as he draws parallels between success in football and achievement in life. Personal thought: red is his color and he's going to be great on TV." Dan White Jr. on X: "You're not Gospel-centered if you're ungracious with your opinions, if you're ungracious with your family, if you're ungracious to those you disagree with. To be Gospel-centered is to be so overwhelmed by God's tender grace that it soaks the 'center' of your being & flows out." The Lord Sees: Learn to Rest in God's Justice Fernando Ortega on X: "I love this exchange." Max Lucado on X: "One of my favorite childhood memories is greeting my father as he came home from work. My brother and I would take our positions on the couch and watch cartoons, always keeping one ear alert to the driveway.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, Born In The USA Cyndi Lauper announces farewell tour Kanye West Has 'Issues With Jesus' and Is Putting Problems Into His 'Own Hands' The Moral Confusion Around Trump's Felony Conviction The Cost of Radical Generosity by Tim Challies Paul David Tripp on X: "You cannot love Jesus and at the same time be casual about what sent him to the cross." Hydrate Your Soul by Max LucadoSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Bitcoin enables you to do an awful lot of good in a very short period of time." - Freddie NewMy guests today are Freddie New and Susie Ward from Bitcoin Policy UK, an organization focused on Bitcoin advocacy and education in the UK. Freddie has a background in lobbying and law and serves as Head of Policy for BPUK. Susie is a financial analyst with a background in accounting and serves as Head of Mining and Sustainability for BPUK, and as a talented journalist has written several articles and bylines for Forbes and CityAm. In this episode we discuss the current regulatory environment for Bitcoin in the UK, fighting against misinformation, and advocating for better policies. Freddie and Susie highlight the challenges and opportunities for Bitcoin adoption and Bitcoin mining in the UK, and share their efforts to educate policymakers and the public about Bitcoin's numerous benefits. Follow Freddie and Susie on X | You can also follow Freddie and Susie on nostr Follow Bitcoin Policy UK on XYou can find Trey on nostr, X, and via the pod's social channelsEXCLUSIVE SPONSORS:BitBox: Get the open-source Bitbox02 Bitcoin only edition. It's my favorite bitcoin hardware wallet for you to take self-custody of your bitcoin and keep your private keys safe in cold storage. Use promo-code TPB during checkout at https://bitbox.shop/?ref=kT4OQ4xuYs to get 5% off your purchase, including accessories and merch! You, our listener! Thank you to our supporters. To support The Progressive Bitcoiner and access rewards, including our new TPB merch, head to our geyser page: https://geyser.fund/project/tpbpodPROMO CODES:Sazmining: Hosted Bitcoin mining made easy, using 100% cheap and renewable energy. Get $50 off the purchase of a miner using the following link: https://app.sazmining.com/purchase?ref=byyhN2mCGXluLightning Store: Head to https://lightning.store/ and use promo-code ‘TPB' to get 20% off all products.To learn more, visit our websiteFollow the pod on X | Nostr | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Facebook | LinkedIn | TikTokJoin in on the conversation at our Progressive Bitcoiner Community telegram group!The Team: Producer/Editor: @DamienSomerset | Branding/Art: @Daniel | Website: @EvanPrim Get full access to TPB Weekly Digest at progressivebitcoiner.substack.com/subscribe

In the 7 AM Hour: Larry O'Connor and Julie Gunlock discussed: 7:05 AM - INTERVIEW - JOE DIGENOVA - legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia – discussed Trump's legal trials and Biden's classified documents.  Last week was a whirlwind, between Donald Trump's ongoing criminal trial in Manhattan and the high-stakes Supreme Court presidential immunity arguments in D.C. that could determine when and if the former president goes on trial in the nation's capital. What's ahead: The focus this week will mostly be on New York, where the trial resumes Tuesday with more witness testimony. On Thursday, the judge will hold a second hearing about Trump's alleged violations of a gag order. In the Florida classified document case, we're still waiting for U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon to makes some big decisions. Rep. Mike Waltz on X: "I reviewed some of Biden's classified emails from his garage. These documents are incredibly alarming. Unlike President Trump, Biden is not covered by the Presidential Records Act for what he exposed as Vice President.  WMAL GUEST: 7:35 AM - INTERVIEW - MARC MORANO - Climate Depot on Washington Post's Editorial Board on their Climate agenda SOCIAL MEDIA: https://twitter.com/ClimateDepot Wash Post Editorial Board follows orders of megalomaniac billionaires: 'Humans might need to re-engineer the climate' - Tout injecting '100,000 tons of sulfur per year into lower stratosphere to block solar rays' - Climate Depot ON HOWARD STERN: President Biden said in an interview with Howard Stern that he would be "happy" to debate Donald Trump Daily Wire on X: "“You don't believe that the child has an independent right to life…?” @BenShapiro challenges @RobertKennedyJr on abortion. Where to find more about WMAL's morning show:  Follow the Show Podcasts on Apple podcasts, Audible and Spotify. Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor,  @Jgunlock,  @patricepinkfile and @heatherhunterdc.  Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Show Website: https://www.wmal.com/oconnor-company/ How to listen live weekdays from 5 to 9 AM: https://www.wmal.com/listenlive/ Episode: Monday, April 29, 2024 / 7 AM Hour  O'Connor and Company is proudly presented by Veritas AcademySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ian Simkins  ChatGPT Pitches 10 More Christian Movies Sermon prep on the first church Don't Expect Instant Gratification from Your ‘Quiet Time' Why go to church this Sunday? John Ortberg on X: "You can choose to do life with God or without, but it's always better with Him."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey everyone, sorry it's been a little while, it's been hectic with the dayjob and then I got sick for a week. I'm back once again to bring you another episode, flying solo this time. I spend a bit of time to delve into the AARO reports fallout, Calm Before the Storm, Elizondo book and ‘The Program' Film updates. In this relatively quiet period for the topic, I take some time to reflect on the tribalism in the UFO space and why more unity is needed if we are to keep pushing forward towards transparency. All my opinions of course, always nice to hear what others think too so let me know!   You can find me on twitter, X : UFO Thinker on X  You can support the podcast at Patreon.com/ufothinker where you can pledge from as little as a couple of dollars/pounds (whatever your local currency is) per month. This allows you to join the community discussion, direct message to me, get exclusive benefits like early access to episodes and exclusive Patreon only episodes from time to time. Anyone who clicks on my podcast can listen ad free, that's thanks to the amazing Patreon supporters. I massively appreciate any and all support from those who can support on Patreon as it allows me to keep the pod running. Patreon page can be found at the following link- UFO Thinker Patreon Page

Inside the Treehouse today: web searches for VPNs surge after Pornhub pulls out of Texas, can Mike Tyson sniff his own butthole, and what's "bottle night"?Links:The Treehouse WebsiteTop 10 VPNs people are searching for after Pornhub blocked Texas | Mashable(4) Mike Tyson on X: "You still wanna f*** with me? #PaulTyson https://t.co/CqdKF4zFBJ" / X (twitter.com)Debate Sparked Over "Bottle Night" Date Concept (buzzfeed.com)Dallas Comedy Club – Comedy 5 nights a week! Improv, Standup, Sketch & Storytelling in Deep Ellum (Dallas) (dallas-comedyclub.com)Cook DFW Roofing & Restoration | Dallas, Fort Worth TX | Roofing Company Local Garland, TX Plumber | Brooks Plumbing, LTD. | Plumbing Installation & Repairs (brooksplumbingtexas.com) About the show: The Treehouse is a funny podcast. Leave your worries outside and join Dan O'Malley, Trey Trenholm, Raj Sharma, and their guests for laughs about current events, stupid news, and the comedy of their everyday lives. If it's stupid, it's in here.

"If you're born in a cage, if you're born in prison, then freedom will look funny to you. But with a tool such as Bitcoin, this actually opens your eyes to your rights as a human, your rights as a citizen.” - MarcelMy guest today is Marcel Lorraine. Marcel is the Founder & CEO of Bitcoin Dada, a women centric entity that is working towards educating African women into Bitcoin. In this episode we discuss the systemic barriers women face in Africa, how Bitcoin can help transform opportunities and beliefs, the strength of Bitcoin Dada's grassroots community approach, the role African women play as the foundation of communities, practical use cases and adoption challenges, and more. To learn more and donate/support the work of Bitcoin Dada, please head to their website: https://btcdada.com/ Support their annual charity campaign for education and hygiene in Kenya and Uganda as well: https://geyser.fund/project/btcforhumanity Follow Marcel on X You can find Trey on nostr and via the pod's social channelsSPONSORS:ZEUS is an open-source, self-custodial Bitcoin wallet that gives you full control over how you make payments. Head to Zuesln.com to learn more and download. *New* save 5% on LSP fees by using code ‘TPB' in the access code under LSP settings. BitBox: My favorite bitcoin hardware wallet for keeping your bitcoin safe in cold storage. Use promo-code TPB during checkout at https://bitbox.swiss/tpb to get 5% off your purchase. Sazmining: Get $50 off the purchase of a miner using the following link: https://app.sazmining.com/purchase?ref=byyhN2mCGXlu. Sazmining is a Hosted Bitcoin Mining provider with a commitment to using 100% renewable energy for your mining operation.To learn more, visit our websiteFollow the pod on X | Nostr | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Facebook | LinkedIn | TikTokSupport The Progressive Bitcoiner: https://geyser.fund/project/theprogressivebitcoiner Join in on the conversation at our Progressive Bitcoiner Community telegram group!The Team: Producer/Editor: @DamienSomerset | Branding/Art: @Daniel | Website: @EvanPrim Get full access to TPB Weekly Digest at progressivebitcoiner.substack.com/subscribe

“Bitcoin is Hope.” - ChristineWe have a special bonus episode this week! My guests today are Bryon and Christine. Bryon and Christine are both educators from the midwest, have been in the Bitcoin space for quite a while and have been leading the way in many regards from the progressive bitcoin side. Both being lifelong progressives and democrats, they speak to Bitcoin's progressive values and why democrats, and the democratic party, should adopt bitcoin and why bitcoin is hope, what it can do for the working class, for refugees, and how political parties and typical solutions have left too many Americans behind. You will feel the midwest charm and warmth in this episode from Bryon and Christine, and we hope the everyday, average person can really resonate with this episode. As Bryon says, “we're just people,” and they have countless examples of what Bitcoin has done for them, and many others. Christine is also a feminist science author, so please check out her series, the “Europa Trilogy.”You can follow Bryon and Christine on X You can find Trey on nostr and via the pod's social channelsSPONSORS:ZEUS is an open-source, self-custodial Bitcoin wallet that gives you full control over how you make payments. Head to Zuesln.com to learn more and download.BitBox: My favorite bitcoin hardware wallet for keeping your bitcoin safe in cold storage. Use promo-code TPB during checkout to get 5% off your purchase: https://bitbox.swiss/tpb Sazmining: Get $50 off the purchase of a miner using the following link: https://app.sazmining.com/purchase?ref=byyhN2mCGXlu. Sazmining is a Hosted Bitcoin Mining provider with a commitment to using 100% renewable energy for your mining operation.Support The Progressive Bitcoiner: https://geyser.fund/project/theprogressivebitcoiner Join in on the conversation at our Progressive Bitcoiner Community telegram group!The Team:Producer/Editor: @DamienSomersetBranding/Art: @DanielWebsite: @EvanPrim Get full access to TPB Weekly Digest at progressivebitcoiner.substack.com/subscribe

"This is direct action. This is mutual aid. And doing it with people all over the world." - Margot on using #Bitcoin for aid without bordersMy guest today is Margot Paez. Margot is a climate change physicist, Bitcoin mining researcher, and Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. She is one of my favorite guests to have on to discuss politics, social movements, all things bitcoin mining, and beyond. We discuss how Bitcoin can serve human rights causes and humanitarian efforts globally and talk about using Bitcoin to provide direct mutual aid to struggling families in Gaza, circumventing barriers that often prevent aid from reaching people in war zones. We also discuss Bitcoin's social impact potential, improving sustainability in the Bitcoin mining industry, and the importance of listening to local communities regarding bitcoin ming, and how the industry can continue to embrace being a good neighbor. Margot and I encourage you to check out Yusef's Geyser Fundraiser and consider donating any sats/bitcoin if you can to support families in Gaza with basic essentials during this time of war and crises. Follow Margot on X You can find Trey on nostr and via the pod's social channelsSPONSORS:BitBox: My favorite bitcoin hardware wallet for keeping your bitcoin safe in cold storage. Use promo-code TPB during checkout to get 5% off your purchase: https://bitbox.swiss/tpb Sazmining: Get $50 off the purchase of a miner using the following link: https://app.sazmining.com/purchase?ref=byyhN2mCGXlu. Sazmining is a Hosted Bitcoin Mining provider with a commitment to using 100% renewable energy for your mining operation.00:00:00 Start00:04:32 Intro 00:10:37 Mining Research 00:19:14 Political Views  00:25:43 Early Influences00:32:39 Biden or Trump?00:42:00 Early Tech Days00:49:32 Long Trajectory   01:00:39 The Network Lives01:07:42 Noise Pollution01:13:16 Meeting People 01:21:04 Gaza Example  01:28:08 Borderless MoneySupport The Progressive Bitcoiner: https://geyser.fund/project/theprogressivebitcoiner Join in on the conversation at our Progressive Bitcoiner Community telegram group!The Team:Producer/Editor: @DamienSomersetBranding/Art: @DanielWebsite: @EvanPrimHead to our website to learn more Get full access to TPB Weekly Digest at progressivebitcoiner.substack.com/subscribe

Practical Prepping is making some major changes for 2024, and we reveal those on today's episode.The podcast has had a Facebook page for a long time, but in order to increase interaction and help members become a community, and to explore prepping efforts on a deeper level, we have started a private Practical Prepping Facebook group.You are invited, and here's the link:  Practical Prepping Facebook Group.We have reinstated our Twitter page (Now called X)You can follow us here: @practicalpreppWe'll use this to share new episodes, important information (particularly weather info), news of interest, and things we believe you might like to see."Question of the month"For this segment, you can submit questions to be answered by listeners.You can send your answers by a certain date. We'll share those answers in one segment.January question of the month: How long have you been prepping and what caused you to start?We need your reply by January 24, 2024A New Way To Communicate Since the beginning we have had Email, and many of you have used that to communicate with us.We have the Facebook page, and now we have the private Facebook Group, and the X page.We've now added a way for you to leave a voice message. It's on the homepage, under or next to the Amazon link. (Don't worry, we edit so you'll sound great.) This is a great way to ask and answer questions New for 2024, Practical Prepping will begin offering prepping personal coaching.Details to come... Would you start your Amazon shopping from our website?  Click here.If you find value in the podcast, would you be willing to give back a little?You can do that one of two ways (or both).(1) Buy Us A  Cup of Coffee --->  CLICK HERE          OR(2)  By starting your Amazon shopping from our website? --->  CLICK HERE                (We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases)Contact us:Practical PreppingWebsite: www.practicalprepping.infoEmail at info@practicalprepping.infoOur Sponsors:Magic Mind Productivity Shotshttp://www.magicmind.com/practicalpreppingUse discount "prepper"Contingency Medical - resource for antibioticshttps://contingencymedical.com/practical ProLine Digital Grouphttps://www.prolinedigitalgroup.comEmail: info@prolinedesigns.usAURA - Your total online protection against identity theft , and for VPN.Jim Curtis Kniveshttps://www.facebook.com/JimcurtisknivesEmail Jim:  j.curtis7mm@yahoo.comPodcast music written and recorded by Krista LawleyWebsite design and hosting by ProLine Digital Group.Podcasts Copyright 2024, P3 Media Group, and Practical Prepping Podcast

Due to my system failing i.e. lost internet signal my due guest wasn't able to be interviewed this week as scheduled.This is every podcaster's nightmare- time and place agreed and with the guest assured of my integrity and set basic questions ready to be asked , then a terrible attempt at a conversation and snippets of - let-s t—ry ag-ain crackle “ fizz static ——- ensued ,My guest graciously agreed to come back in January when we will “ for sure “ have everything running smoothly.So I decided to produce my first solo no guest episode .In this cast I discus the show where it came from and why - ideas and thoughts on things like upcoming guests that are booked for January onwards,If nothing else I've tried my best to make this episode fun and informative, its my first attempt at a solo effort and i tried my best X You can find the Simon Laurie king podcast on YouTube,                                                    universesimm apple and all the main podcast catchers,If you enjoyed this show Give it a like or leave a comment below Or send the show an email Theslkpodcast@gmail.comBut either way please keep them kind Frankenskies link https://youtu.be/x9LepUVol4Y?si=X4VSrX-zozI82d7g————————————————————All jingles artwork and logos are copyright and owned by the Simon Laurie king podcast © 

Jann Arden is a multi-platinum, award winning singer, songwriter, actor, author, and now podcaster. Her podcast The Jann Arden Show is on iHeartRadio. Arden is also an activist to put an end to the live export of horses from Canada. Charles and Jann talk about how black music history defined Jann in her youth, family values, and dive in depth on the exportation of live animals from Canada and ground work being put in place to stop it. Connect with the Jann Arden Podcast on iHeart Radio.  Jann is also a good follow on X  You can also Shop Jann here. 

Listen up folks because These Words Matter! Ever wonder the origin of a word or phrase? Ever wonder how that original meaning relates to your current day interactions? Well in this episode we take it there. CFC style of course! The Question is: do you understand the value and/or power of your words? Join Us as we discuss the #MMH factors and give you golden nuggets on how to cash in on your Currency. We'll get to the point of: X = YOU.. and you need to see your Own Value! Let's Get into it! CurrentSee for Currency Y'All! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cfc8/support

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Lisa and Clare are joined by Dr. Michael New, esteemed scholar and writer, to talk about the rise of a pro-life society and the work that still needs to be done. Dr. New takes us through the stats and data that have been released regarding abortion. He also gives insight on the Hyde Amendment and the Supreme Court cases affecting the pre-born.We learned a lot from Dr. New and we know you will too! Here are some articles by Dr. New:New Guttmacher Report Downplays Pro-Life ProgressIt's Been a Record-Setting Year for Pro-Lifers So FarHyde @ 40: Analyzing the Impact of the Hyde Amendment with July 2020 AddendumPlease be on the lookout for events in the next few months regarding Dobbs vs Jackson Women's Health Organization. The oral arguments for the case will take place in early December. Dr. New would like to encourage you to join the rallies and gatherings that will take place in the DC area if you're able to. Please follow Dr. New on Twitter to get the latest details. Follow Dr. New on twitter @Michael_J_New. It is where he posts links to his articles and answers questions you may have. We hope the brilliant information Dr. New shared with us encouraged you to continue the good fight. The work and efforts over the last 50 years have not been in vain, but we have much to do! Let's keep going! Resources Heartbeat International https://www.heartbeatinternational.org/Sidewalks Advocates for Life https://sidewalkadvocates.org/40 Days for Life https://www.40daysforlife.com/Students for Life https://studentsforlife.org/We'd love to hear from you! Email us at ladies@lifesitenews.com. The Ladies of LifeSite is a weekly podcast aimed at providing other like minded women with the encouragement they need to get through the week while facing the unique challenges of being moms, aunts, sisters, and daughters. To be notified via email when we publish a new episode, click here (http://eepurl.com/hr7i_X)You can subscribe to The Ladies of LifeSite on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/3NcYa6XmyahVWK3ru7G22d), Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/ladies-of-lifesite) and on Acast (https://shows.acast.com/ladies-of-lifesite). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's episode, Maddie and Clare are joined by Leslie Sonnen and Natalie Sonnen. Leslie is LifeSite's SustainLife Assistant and Natalie is a pro-life warrior of more than 20 years. The ladies dive deep into the challenges of talking to kids about hard topics. They talk about how to talk to kids about abortion, the miracle of life, and today's insanity. Natalie and Leslie mentioned some great resources on the podcast.Angel in the Waters by Regina Doman and Ben Hatke via Sophia PressPhilo and Sophie video curriculum by Healing the CultureI Would Climb Any Mountain for You by the Sisters of LifeLook Again, Thomas by the Sisters of LifeWhen You Became You by Christiane West and Brooke Stanton If you have any resources on speaking to children about difficult topics, we'd love to hear about them! We will be happy to share them with our listeners. Email us at ladies@lifesitenews.com. The Ladies of LifeSite is a weekly podcast aimed at providing other like minded women with the encouragement they need to get through the week while facing the unique challenges of being moms, aunts, sisters, and daughters. To be notified via email when we publish a new episode, click here (http://eepurl.com/hr7i_X) You can subscribe to The Ladies of LifeSite on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/3NcYa6XmyahVWK3ru7G22d), Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/ladies-of-lifesite) and on Acast (https://shows.acast.com/ladies-of-lifesite) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's episode, Lisa and Clare are joined by Bryce Asberg, director of the Helping Hands Pregnancy Resource Center in Hillsdale, MI. Bryce takes us through the challenges and triumphs of a pregnancy resource center.As we discussed in last week's episode, pregnancy resource centers will be busier than ever when Roe v Wade is overturned. We urge you to do what you can to support your local pregnancy resource center. Their needs are endless, and your time, talent, and prayers are needed.To learn more about and support Helping Hands, please visit helpinghandsprc.org. Helping Hands is currently not able to take online donations. If you wish to support them in any way, please call them at (517) 437-7020To learn about pregnancy resource centers near you or how you can start one, please visit the following organizations:Care Net at care-net.orgHeartbeat International at heartbeatinternational.orgNational Institute of Family and Life Advocates at nifla.orgLozier Institute StudyThe Ladies of LifeSite is a weekly podcast aimed at providing other like minded women with the encouragement they need to get through the week while facing the unique challenges of being moms, aunts, sisters, and daughters. To be notified via email when we publish a new episode, click here (http://eepurl.com/hr7i_X) You can subscribe to The Ladies of LifeSite on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/3NcYa6XmyahVWK3ru7G22d) , Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/ladies-of-lifesite) and on Acast (https://shows.acast.com/ladies-of-lifesite). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join us this week to learn more about Texas' heartbeat bill and what it means for the pro-life cause! Lisa and Clare are joined by lawyer Joseph Backholm to discuss Texas' new bill. Backhom also discusses what we can do to further support and encourage the pro-life movement.The Ladies of LifeSite is a weekly podcast aimed at providing other like minded women with the encouragement they need to get through the week while facing the unique challenges of being moms, aunts, sisters, and daughters. To be notified via email when we publish a new episode, click here (http://eepurl.com/hr7i_X)You can subscribe to The Ladies of LifeSite on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/3NcYa6XmyahVWK3ru7G22d) , Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/ladies-of-lifesite) and on Acast (https://shows.acast.com/ladies-of-lifesite).Additional resources and background on the Texas heartbeat bill:https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/texas-abortion-ban-to-take-effect-wednesday-pro-aborts-seeking-last-minute-block/ 
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We are back in your ears for Season 4 and kicking off with a goodie! Finding your soul's purpose is something a lot of people struggle with ☸️ But today's guest has not only found hers, but spends her life helping others find theirs too. Today's chat is with Sahara Rose. Sahara is a best-selling author, public speaker and host of the wildly popular podcast, The Highest Self. If you've been wondering what your soul purpose is or how to find it, then this ep unpacks it all for you. We dive deep into Sahara's newest book ‘Discover Your Dharma', Sahara explains what our Dharma is and how you can find yours. This ep is for anyone wanting more from life, but may not be sure what ‘more' is. Enjoy! X You can find Sahara on Instagram here. You can buy her book here. You can download my free mini ebook here. You can follow us on Instagram here. You can find our website here. Sign up to be notified when the Rise and Conquer Project 6-week self-development course's next enrollment is here. AD/ Want to elevate and fuel your workouts naturally? Use ‘Riseandconquerpodcast' at checkout for 10% off your order at www.nakedharvestsupplements.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hangry attacks? Irregular periods? Weight gain? Doctors that seem to be sending you round in circles without any actual answers? Overflowing with stress? Type A person? Told to just go on the Pill until you want children and then to do IVF or IUI? Saying yes to all of these? Then this is a sign for you to take a step back and look at the big picture of your PCOS.I’ve found from my personal experience with PCOS as well as working with other women that making changes to their lifestyle can seem really daunting - especially because often you’re already living a healthy lifestyle, you’re SO busy and doing literally everything you can to help your symptoms and it’s just not working.It’s draining and debilitating. And as a Type A perfectionist kinda person, you just want a clean, tidy, quick regime that you follow so you can get rid of those symptoms and get back to your crazy busy life. Can it really be a quick couple of month blitz like this?Not exactly. I spoke to Helen who I’ve had the pleasure of working with, about her PCOS and everything above. She’s like me - type A perfectionist, always on the go and just wants an effective and efficient solution to these PCOS symptoms that just seem to keep getting worse no matter what.We chat a lot about this mindset and how it’s impacted our PCOS journeys as well as hangry attacks, stress, insulin, hard-to-shift weight gain, acne, pregnancy, postpartum and a whole lot more. If you’re a Type A person and you’re just not getting anywhere with reversing your PCOS - you absolutely need to listen to this episode. You don’t have to run yourself into the ground trying to do this alone.This episode is for you if:You have pretty bad acne as well as shaky, jittery, hangry attacksYou’ve been told with your PCOS diagnosis that you’re fine but you’ll need some help getting pregnantYou’re on the Pill or have been told that you ‘just need to go on the Pill’You’ve been told you should do IUI or IVF if you want to get pregnantYou’ve never had one doctor who says you need to do “X”You’ve had recurrent yeast infectionsYou have a Type A personalityYou feel like no one can help youYou’ve had kids already or you don’t want kidsYou feel like your bucket is overflowing with stressSome things we cover in this episode:Ovarian HyperstimulationChanging your mindset when it comes to lifestyle changes for PCOSIs it stress or is it something related to your PCOS?Why a functional medicine perspective is so important for things like PCOSInsulin and hangry attacksWhy you don’t have to be perfect and you don’t have to be going 100% all the time to be successful in resolving your PCOS symptomsLinks to our programs:The PCOS ProtocolEggducated

In the fall of 2019 a series of fortunate events led Technically Religious contributor Leon Adato to take a journey of a lifetime. He transformed an unexpected convention trip to Barcelona into a mission to bring a Torah back to the US from Israel. Like the movie that this episode is named for, along the way he experienced unexpected challenges and met larger-than-life characters who helped him on his way. Listen now, or read the transcript below. Kate:                                     00:00                     Welcome to our podcast where we talk about the interesting, frustrating and inspiring experience we have as people with strongly held religious views working in corporate IT. We're not here to preach or teach you our religion or lack thereof. We're here to explore ways we make our career. Is IT professionals mesh or at least not conflict with our religious life. This is Technically Religious. Josh:                                      00:24                     In the fall of 2019 a series of fortunate events led Technically Religious contributor, Leon Adato, to take a journey of a lifetime. He transformed an unexpected convention trip to Barcelona into a mission to bring a Torah back to the U S from Israel. Like the movie that this episode is named for, along the way, he experienced unexpected challenges and met larger than life characters who helped him on his way. I'm Josh Biggley and the other voices you're going to hear on this episode are my partner in crime, Leon, Adato. Leon:                                     00:57                     Hello. Josh:                                      00:59                     Alright, Leon. You know how this goes, time for some shameless self promotion. So tell us who you are and where we can find you. Leon:                                     01:06                     Fantastic. I am Leon Adato, as we've said, probably three times already. I am a Head Geek at SolarWinds. Uh, you can find me on the twitters @leonadato and you can also read my pontificating about monitoring and other things at adatosystems.com and I identify religiously as an Orthodox Jew. Josh:                                      01:26                     Wonderful! And I'm Josh Biggley. Uh, this is the first time I think we've officially announced that I am a TechOps Strategy Consultant with New Relic. Uh, super excited about that. Started two weeks ago and I feel like I'm living the dream. Leon:                                     01:40                     Mazal Tov, mazel tov! Josh:                                      01:41                     Mazal Tov indeed. Uh, you can find me on the Twitters, uh, @Jbiggley. Uh, I've actually shut down all of my, all of my um, non-work related discussions maybe I'm just tired of social media. I don't know. Um, but I do identify as post-Mormon. Um, so Leon, you, you had a trip. Leon:                                     02:02                     I did. I did. And, but before we dive into the particulars of the trip, which is sort of the central part of this episode, I want to talk about something that I think is near and dear to a lot of it practitioners, which is travel hacking. Josh:                                      02:16                     Oh yes, yes, please. Leon:                                     02:18                     Because a lot of the, a lot of the parts of the trip that I took were predicated on or were built on my ability to, um, travel both comfortably and also efficiently. Um, you know, not being independently wealthy as I think all of our listeners are. And if you are a listener and you're independently wealthy, please consider taking a sponsorship. Um, we would love to, we'd love to have your support. Um, in any case, uh, I wanted to take a minute and talk about some things that I've learned over the last five and a half, almost six years as a head geek doing a lot of traveling. And Josh, I know that you have stuff to contribute. Josh:                                      02:57                     I'm actually going to do a lot of listening here because, uh, as part and parcel of my new job, I'm going to be doing a fair bit of traveling. So, uh, I mean I'm going to take some notes. Uh, wait, no, hold on. We're going to put the details in the show notes. I'm not taking notes. Leon:                                     03:11                     Very good. Okay, good. I, you know, and we forgot to mention that earlier, so that was a nice way to slide it in there. The first point, especially when we're talking about non US/Canada travel is all you need to do is get to Europe. Everything else is cheap. Once you do that, just get to Europe. I think a lot of Americans, and I'm assuming also Canadians, um, think, well, I'm going to go from, you know, France to Italy to this and they feel like they have to book it all out from the American perspective and you can, it's going to cost a lot of money. The reality is that just land anywhere in Europe, it doesn't have to be your final destination. It doesn't even have to be on your itinerary. Wherever it's cheapest to land get there because once you're on the continent at that point, getting around is ridiculously cheap. You live, for example, uh, you can get a one week pass on the train system for about a hundred dollars US and that allows you to get on and off the train as much as you want. So you can go from city to city and if you get someplace and it's like, wow, I didn't even expect to be here and it's beautiful here and I want to spend more time, fine, stay here and get on the train tomorrow or the day after or whatever. Also, there's a lot of cheap airlines, um, easy jets, one of them, but there's others. So again, just get into the region and from there you can build your trip off of that. Another thing is airline travel points are your friend and therefore, um, you want to work those points. And just to give you an example, a round trip ticket from the U S to Israel on United. I happened to be a United flyer. That's my airline of choice a is 80,000 points. Round trip from Barcelona is 30,000 points. You know, I was already, as we'll get into, I was already going to be in Barcelona, so I was able to build off of that to go do something else. Credit cards are a great tool for travel if they make sense for you. I'm not insisting that people get involved in credit cards. You get into credit card debt. I know that it's a slippery slope for a lot of folks, but the reality is that there are a lot of cards you can get that come with a signing bonus and you get 50, 60, 100,000 points. That's a European trip right there. Just that, you know, especially if it's a credit card that you know you're not going to use after that and you've got the, the willpower to do it. Josh:                                      05:25                     I liked that actually. I did. I didn't use that piece of advice. Um, when I started my new job, I, I, I am an Air Canada flyer because I'm in Canada and there's really two airlines, so yay. Star Alliance partner. Um, right. Got out, went out and got myself a credit card. They gave me, uh, a bonus for signing up and then a bonus if I spent more than X number of dollars, which wasn't a problem because it's also their credit card, I used to reimburse all my expenses. Leon:                                     05:50                     So as an IT pro, as long as your company doesn't have a thing against it, use that credit card. First of all, you get all of your perks if you use that card rather than the corporate card. And yeah, you get, even if even if the dollars are going to be reimbursed, you get the points for the miles. And to your point, especially if you know you're going to do a lot of travel, take a look at, you know, a lot of credit cards and a lot of airlines have a card that gives you club access. It costs. For example, the..., I have the chase United card. It is I think $400 a year for a fee. Now, $200 of that are refunded to me if they're travel related. It doesn't matter whether we're talking about taking a taxi or an Uber or Lyft or a hotel room or an extra bag that I'm checking in or whatever, whatever it is, those $200 get reimbursed right off the top second. If I need to get something like nexus or global entry or TSA pre that's covered, you're automatically covered with that, but on top of it, it gets you automatic access to the airline club and the reason why you want that there's, there's the living, the high life aspect, right? You walk in there, they treat you nice, you free drinks, there's food, there's even showers and stuff like that. That's nice. However, that's not the perk. The perk is that there's a different category of travel agent who works inside the club and I really believe that those agents are exclusively graduates of Hogwarts, school of witchcraft and wizardry because they will make things happen that can't happen anywhere else. I have gotten can't, you know, flights canceled, bumped off my flight, missed my flight, whatever. And I walk into the club and I tell them, Hey, this happened and type, type, type, type, type, Mr Adato, I've got you on the very next flight. There wasn't a very next flight. There is now. Oh wow. I mean like they literally conjure a new airplane. I don't know. They're magic people. That is worth the price of the card right there is having that, that fallback. So that's another thing. You had something about your status. Josh:                                      07:57                     I mean, I don't do a lot of traveling, but I am, I got silver status, um, uh, on Air Canada this year and I am five segments away from getting to gold status when traveling first, getting on the plane before, um, you know, zones three, four and five is pretty awesome because everyone wants to take their non-checked bags with them. So everyone's trying to cram their carry-ons. So you get in early, you always are gonna find some carry on space second, um, you, you're going to get your pick of seats. I mean, not first class. Sometimes you get a first class upgrade, but you're going to get that premium economy. Um, so you actually have leg room. Um, and I mean third, you just want the ability to access some of the perks that come along with it. Like, Hey, if you rent at the Marriott hotels, you automatically get, um, 250 or 500 points. Little things like that. And I think that's another hack. Let's make sure we're stacking our, um, our rewards. You know, if Air Canada and Marriott have a, an agreement which they do, um, Hey, um, fly air Canada and stay at a Marriott hotel. Fortunately without even planning it, I always fly Air Canada, uh, or star Alliance partner. And I also, um, usually stay at a Marriott hotel, uh, when it makes sense, uh, only because it was really close to, um, you know, our, our previous employer, um, and made just perfect sense and there was, it was a great rate. So yeah, I mean, find those, find those synergies and uh, and work them. Leon:                                     09:33                     I will also say don't get sort of psychologically locked in. Sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes you can't fly your preferred airline, you can't do that. But you know, have an eye for that. And then the last thing, and this is something I think as Americans were less, I don't know, less comfortable with, is the whole cell phone thing. You know, because America is so just geographically big and the carriers cover such a large range. I think once we get into the European theater, uh, the idea of what do we do with my cell phone comes up now, I will tell you I solved this this year by moving to Google Fi which rides on top of networks in almost every country. And so I didn't have to think about it. I landed and literally got a message. "Hey, good to know that you're in Switzerland right now and we've got you covered." Like literally a pop up on my phone came up and said, but as a non-American, you know, what advice do you have? Josh:                                      10:27                     The advice that I've always been given and that I know that a few friends of mine who travel extensively always say is, um, don't roam Europe. Yes. All the cell phone companies. And including, you know, bell who I'm now with so that I can call the U S without unlimited calling. Um, they will tell you that you can roam for like $12 or $15 a day. The reality is don't roam. If you're going to be in Europe for any period of time, buy a SIM card. Um, I mean there's, they're like $25 for unlimited calling, uh, uh, a very generous helping of data. Uh, if you're going to use all of that, you should probably get out and see the sites a little more. Leon:                                     11:09                     So my son, this is going to factor into the longer story, but my son is, uh, in Israel in a hundred gig data SIM card is effectively $12. Leon:                                     11:19                     Oh, come on! Leon:                                     11:19                     If you're going to be there for a week or two or whatever it is, and you're going to use a hundred gig of cell data yet, like you said, you're doing your traveling wrong. Josh:                                      11:28                     You are definitely travel or you're, or you're traveling all sorts of, right. I don't know. Maybe you're live streaming. Leon:                                     11:34                     Yeah, maybe a live streaming. Sure. Okay. Josh:                                      11:36                     Streaming your entire trip. I mean, not, maybe that's a thing. Leon:                                     11:38                     Okay. So that's, that's, you know, part one, travel hacking, just general travel hacking ideas. And some of that will factor into the story. But I, I think we want to pivot now into the story of me bringing back the Torah. Um, again, the Frisco kid for those people who aren't familiar is a wonderful movie with Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford story of a sort of a naive rabbi from Poland who travels across America to deliver a Torah to, uh, San Francisco. Uh, I felt very much like that along the way. Where it started was that I was set up to go to VMworld Europe this year, which is in Barcelona. And when I realized that that was a thing, I immediately decided I was going to take a cheap flight to Israel to visit my son who's there at Yeshiva. Josh:                                      12:22                     No, wait, hold on, Leon. Yeah. Um, I think last time we talked your son was struggling with Yeshiva. Leon:                                     12:29                     Yeah, he was. And in fact, um, when we talked about it, he was coming home. Like that night there was a flurry of activity. There were some correct course corrections made and some assurances made. And in fact he was able to feel comfortable staying with 15 minutes to spare. Josh:                                      12:46                     Wow. Fantastic. Leon:                                     12:47                     Yeah. So he was there and you know, he's doing, he is doing much better and growing and learning and doing the things that you want to do. But I was going to be there and I thought this is a wonderful chance for me to check up on him and see what he gets to see. And so I did that. And like I said before, the flight from Barcelona to Israel is significantly cheaper than the flight from the U S so it made a lot of sense. You know, I found the cheapest code partners that I could find and I got those flights booked. And so I mentioned to my, to my rabbi, just in passing, I said, Hey, I'm going to visit my son and he's, you know, in Israel. And he said, Oh, if you're going to be in Israel while you're there, can you bring a Torah back with you? And I said, well, yeah, sure, I guess. Sure. And he immediately, his entire tone changed. Like he was surprised like, well you mean it like will you ask me to, sure. Is that, are you sure? He must have asked me if I was sure five times until finally I said, what are you not telling me about this? You know, because I thought I'm bringing a Torah back. Is there something else I should know? Is there some major risks that I'm unaware of? What's what's going on Josh:                                      13:47                     Now, to be clear, we are talking about the first five books of the old Testament. Right? Leon:                                     13:53                     Right. So, so in this context, when I say bringing back a Torah, it is the scroll and we'll have pictures of it in the show notes, but it's just, it is, it is a, you know, scroll of parchment may, it can range in size from let's say, you know, two feet long and you know, kind of like, you know, eight inches wide and maybe 10 pounds and it can get, they can be larger than that, but, Josh:                                      14:14                     okay. Well I just wanted to make sure that Torah wasn't code for, I don't know. An alligator. But apparently you can't bring on the airlines. I, I, Leon:                                     14:24                     They really don't allow emotional support alligators anymore. Josh:                                      14:28                     Oh, weird. Leon:                                     14:29                     I know. I know. Um, so yeah, it's, it's a fairly specific object and, and non-dangerous it doesn't bite or anything like that from an it perspective because we want to talk about the technically part as well as the religiously parked. I was immediately struck by what happens when you volunteer for a project that nobody expects you to say yes to. My rabbi had made a comment sort of as a, and I took it seriously and all of a sudden he was sort of stuck like, what do well, but nobody would say yes to that. And, um, you know, we, I think many of us have been in that situation with projects where it's like, Hey, who wants to do X? You know, who wants to write that ebook? Or who wants to, yes, please. May I? And I was like, no, you don't. You don't really want to do that. I'm like, Oh yeah, I totally wanted to. Josh:                                      15:16                     Uh, I think we all definitely need a Leon Adato on our teams to, uh, write all the documentation, uh, in fun ebook style. Leon:                                     15:24                     Yes, absolutely. Um, I think that, you know, for any tech writers who are here, you can men, you can talk in the comments to this post on TechnicallyReligious.com and say I'm available and I will volunteer to write eBooks also, you know, uh, volunteer meaning pay me. But, um, so I think from an it perspective though, there's some lessons that we can pull from this just even at this point in the story, you know, volunteering for things that other people consider to be a hard job is a really good career idea. Josh:                                      15:53                     Yeah, I would definitely agree with that. Over the last five and a half years. Um, well, I mean, let's bring up the story, right? Hey Josh, it'd be really awesome if, you know, you joined, you know, Cardinal Health and you know, came to work for Leon Adato and then four days later someone quit on me. Leon:                                     16:15                     Okay. It was to become head gig and SolarWinds. Like, I couldn't not take that opportunity, but yes, I, Josh:                                      16:22                     Yeah, but yeah, it's saying yes to opportunities even when they're hard, like, Hey, will you fill Leon shoes? I'll try it. It works out really well. And that really set me up for, for my entire career at a, at Cardinal Health, right. I as a non-cloud engineer, I was the co lead of the cloud community of practice as a just an engineer, uh, air quote, just an engineer, not a senior engineer. Um, I was the enterprise monitoring representative on the smash committee. It's not a whole idea of always be learning and you don't know that you can or cannot do something until you volunteer to do it and Hey, why not do it in a, what should be a safe space, um, of work. Yes. It means putting yourself out there. Yes. It means being risky. Yes. It means you have to trust your colleagues, but Oh my goodness. If you're going to try something, try it with the tactical support of a really strong team. Leon:                                     17:19                     I also want to say that, you know, I got a lot of pushback from, from my Rabbi. Are you sure? Are you really sure? Do you mean it? Sometimes that's a warning sign. Sometimes when people say, you know, when nobody else is volunteering and the person in charge is, is really looking for that confirmation, it's a clue that this is not, you might've missed something. So ask questions. Not just the people in charge, but ask other folks, you know? But at a certain point, you also recognize that what appears to impossible or odious or frustrating kind of work that may not be how you see it. And that means that that's your superpower. So again, I love writing. I really do. And so while we're, a lot of other people in it will say, you know, write something. Are you joking? I'd rather take a fork through the eyeball. I'm like, I really wish I had more time to do this. That just happens to be the thing that I like. Recognize when that's the case and run with it. Josh:                                      18:19                     My super power is apparently financial models. Right? Which is totally weird. Since I failed math in ninth grade. So Zack Mutchler and I who were colleagues up until two weeks ago, despises financial models. He never wants to do that. And I'm like, Oh my goodness, please. Yes, let me, it's, it's my grounding place. If I can figure out how it works financially, then I'll go and figure out how the technology works. So, um, yeah, I, I will volunteer to do financial models any day of the week. Yeah. Leon:                                     18:50                     And that's something I would never do. Right. Okay. All right. So, so fast forward, um, you know, VMworld Barcelona is wonderful and I wrote some blog posts about it and then I, you know, went from there to Israel and had a great week with my son and had a great time. And I even got a chance to speak at cloud native day in Israel. Um, so I had called a friend of mine, Sharone Zitzman and said, "Hey, I'm..." She has kids. and she's Israeli, "...so I'm going to be there with myself. What's really fun things to do?" And she said, "Oh, you're going to be there. I'm running a convention. Can you speak?" Like Sharon, that's not why I, that's not what I called you for is to do another convention talk. But here I am. So I did that. Now, what's interesting about this, and this is relevant to this story, is that, um, the morning of the convention, it happens to be a Tuesday, uh, Israel executed an airstrike that killed, uh, uh, Palestinian Islamic jihad commander. And, uh, I know that it gets political. It gets into, you know, the whole middle East politics and things. So a trigger warning up front about that for people who feel strongly about it. But there was a, uh, an airstrike that killed this Islamic jihad commander and that triggered a retaliatory strike of 160 rockets that were fired from Gaza into Israel. And six of those reached Tel Aviv, which meant that the talk I was giving in Tel Aviv, you know, might not happen. And we were on our way from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv and I was getting emails that, you know, despite the fact that businesses and schools had been ordered to shut down, the convention was permitted to continue. Um, and then I got a call from the organizer who said, "You know, if you don't want to come in, if you're not comfortable, if it makes you nervous, I completely understand." Nope, we're on our way. It's fine. You know, 160 rockets, just another day in Israel. Here we go. So I went in and, and gave the talk and that was fine. So the next day, Wednesday I'm set to fly home. It's me, my luggage and the Torah. Um, so I need to describe in a little bit more detailed what this is. So the Torah is a scroll, it's on two wooden dowels. And um, like I said, it can be anywhere from say a foot and a half to three feet tall or long and you know, six, eight inches a foot wide when you roll it up and everything. So that's wrapped up, you know, packed up nice and tight and bubble wrap and wrapped in plastic and put into a a duffle bag that I can take with me. Then there's a box that goes in because, uh, some Torahs are just the scroll, but some come in their own sort of self contained container and this is called an Aron. So when I use that word from now on in the Aron is the box that comes in and this is a circular box. It's about two and a half, three feet high, about a foot in diameter. It's usually made out of plywood and covered in silver and has all sorts of literally bells hanging off of it. Uh, so that's, that's also there. Now the, the Torah itself cannot be checked as luggage. You treat it with respect and you know, I wouldn't check my grandmother is luggage. I'm not going to check the Torah, his luggage either. Um, so that has to come with me on the plane. Uh, you don't have to buy it its own seat, but you do have to bring it with you on the plane. It can't be checked as luggage. The Aron, the box can be checked as luggage. So that was all packed up. Also, it was wrapped nice and tight and foam and bubble wrap. And you know, a layer of plastic just to keep it all self contained. And that was in another duffle bag. And the Torah itself, uh, it turns out was about 25-30 pounds and the, our own was probably closer to 40 pounds. Josh:                                      22:24                     Oh wow. Okay. Leon:                                     22:25                     Along with my overloaded suitcase cause it had all the convention crap I had collected and a couple of things my son wanted to send home with me and a pita maker that I bought while I was in Israel for my wife, like one does. Right, right. All right. I just need to remind you at this point in the story that I had booked my flight, uh, my flights back and forth before I knew I was bringing the Torah. And it was also predicated on this convention trip. So my flights were Barcelona, Israel, and then Israel, Barcelona and work was paying for the Cleveland, Barcelona, Barcelona, Cleveland leg. So I had these two separate trips that, that dovetailed, that I booked before I knew I was bringing a Torah. And the second thing I wanna remind you is that there were 160 rockets fired from, you know, Gaza into Israel the day before I flew. And the reason I mentioned this is because of the flight home was on Turkish airlines. Josh:                                      23:13                     I mean... what??? Leon:                                     23:13                     It was on Turkish airlines. Yeah. Josh:                                      23:16                     So a Jewish dude. Leon:                                     23:18                     Yeah. Orthodox Jewish dude flying on Turkish airlines. Okay, I'm going to give this spoiler Turkish airlines rocks. They are amazing people. Uh, they, everybody was delightful and lovely. So I'm just going to, I'm going to put that out up front. Okay. However, I didn't know what to expect. I also want to point out that, um, it, Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, the, the airport in Israel, all of the check areas, uh, are on the same level when you walk in the door, except for Turkish airlines, which is two floors down and off to the right in its own little section. And that section is predominantly a Palestinian Arabic travelers going back and forth. So I'm traveling as, as incognito as I possibly can. For those people who've seen me. I have little fringy things hanging out of my, uh, you know, out of my shirt, the tzitzit, those were tucked in a, I wear a kippah, but I was wearing a ball cap over it. I just wanted to be like as nonchalantly American as I possibly could be. Just again, didn't want to be in people's face, especially given what was happening, you know, that day and the day before. I get up to the checkout counter and delightful, a Palestinian young lady is checking me in and I give her the our own first because if there's gonna be a problem with my tickets, because I have three, I have three bags. I was only supposed to be traveling with one, they're overweight. There's a lot of extra charges on me. I want to make sure the, our own gets on before, you know, before anything else happens. So she asked me "Mah zeh?", what is that? My Hebrew is very, very bad. So in English I, I said "it's, um, it's a box that a Torah goes in?" I'm not sure if any of these words are going to have any meaning to anybody. And she looks at the duffle hanging off my shoulder and she says, "Zeh sefer Torah?" that bag over there, that's a safer tour. That's a, that's a Holy Torah? "Ken". I said, yes. "Ah, very good." She puts a fragile sticker on the bag that has the our own on it and she says, please take this off. We will use special handling for this. And then she takes my other bag, which is overweight and she puts a heavy sticker on it and off it goes. And then she takes my other bag and off it goes and I have my credit card out. I said, "I know this is going to cost." And she says, "There is no charge." Josh:                                      25:34                     Waaaaaat??? Leon:                                     25:34                     I know. I literally said, "no, no, I just gave you three bags like I have to pay for these " She says "No, no, no, it is all good." Okay. And then she hands me a card, she says, this is a pass for the VIP lounge. Please enjoy. Josh:                                      25:49                     Wow. Leon:                                     25:50                     Okay. So now I have to take the Aron to special handling. So I take it around the corner to the special handling air. It's where it just right there and these two Palestinian guys are, you know, you know Israeli Palestinian, Israeli guys are there and uh, they open the bag and it's of course wrapped in bubble wrap, wrapped in plastic wrap and whatever, and they put it through the x-ray. Now I just want to remind you, it is a, a wooden box wrapped in silver wrapped in bubble wrap, et cetera. What's that gonna look like on the X Ray? It's gonna look like a big metal tube. So these guys, these guys like we're going to have to open this up. It had been so carefully, professionally packed and look, you're going to do what you're going to do, right? You've got to do it. So they open it up and they're like, yup, that's exactly what we thought we were gonna say there. And then immediately pull out their own roll of bubble wrap and they wrap it up just as good as it had been before. Just boom, boom, boom, wrap it up, put it back in the bag and off it goes. Like no problem. No. You can also say that, you know, tourists coming back from Israel is something that is seen a lot at Ben Gurion airport. That's a pretty normal thing. So, okay, so I get through the rest of security. I get to the lounge, I have a delightful time in the lounge. Um, get on my plane. My flight is going on Turkish airlines from Tel Aviv to Istanbul. Of course, that's the, the, you know, hub for that. Change. planes, go from Istanbul to Barcelona and that's where I have to change flights again. So I'm stay overnight in Barcelona, get up the next morning, come back to Barcelona airport, and I'm basically doing the same thing all over again. I get into check in this time it's United and, uh, this time everything's going to happen except it's going to happen in Spanish. Now my Spanish is better than my Hebrew. Uh, it's not great, but it's better than than that. And so I get to the line and uh, you know, get through the line and I get up to the guy at the counter and he once again, you know, I hand him the Aron and I put it up on the conveyor and he says, "well, what's that?" All right, I'm talking to you in a predominantly Christian country. How am I gonna explain this? "Uh, it's a box that, that a Torah scroll, a Holy scroll goes into," I'm, I'm trying to figure out how to say this. And he spoke English, but I'm still, and he says, "Oh," like recognition dawned and his face, he hands me a sticker that's his fragile, he says, would you like to put that on here? Okay, fine. So I put the sticker on, he says, "okay, please take it off and we'll special handle it in the moment." And he takes my bag, the overweight one, and he takes the other bag and I pull up my credit card cause I'm going to pay. And he's like, "no charge." Like what is this? No, no, no charge. And again, he hands me a pass. He says, "here's a pass to the VIP lounge, please enjoy." Josh:                                      28:32                     Oh my goodness. Leon:                                     28:33                     Okay. He gets up. Now there's a line of people behind me. He says, please follow me. So I follow him. There's, there's other people, you know, it's not like he left the line waiting, but you know, I follow him around to where the special handling area is. And he says, please "put this up on the conveyor." Like he's standing, he's standing right there, but please put on me. So I put on the conveyor and I put it, apparently the wrong direction, "would you please turn it?" And I realized at that moment, he's not touching this thing. So I turn it and it goes and it goes on and he comes down and as we're walking back, he says, "We see this sometimes Shalom." Josh:                                      29:06                     Oh my goodness, I've got chills. Leon chills. Leon:                                     29:09                     So I go through Barcelona airport security and, and here I get stuck again because the Torah again is wrapped in bubble wrap, whatever. It's just this big blob on the x-ray. "Que es esto?"Kay the guy says, uh, "Halbas Ingles?". No. Okay. Here we go. There's, there's a phrase that you have that I try to say it's really bad. So for those native Spanish speakers, please feel free to mock me. "Una objeto religioso" it's a religious object. "Yo no comprendo." "Una scrol de Bible?" Like now I'm running out of words here to describe what a Torah is to the security dude in Barcelona airport. And so he calls the supervisor over and they have a quick conversation and she looks at me and she says a word, which if you're ever in Spain is the most important word you can possibly know in Spain. It's Vale. Vale means okay. In the same way that we would use it, it's a question. It's an answer. It's a statement. It's everything. Vale. So I say "Vale??" and she says, "Tu puedas va. Vale", You can go. Okay. So I go, I go to the, I go to the lounge, have another delightful time. I get on, uh, the airplane. I should mention one of the other things, one of the other issues. Remember I said the Torah can't be checked as baggage. So each time I'm getting on the plane, I'm worried that they're going to gate check this extra piece of luggage, this Torah, because it can't go. Never happened. Each time I would go to the flight attendants say, "I'm really sorry. I know this is sort of oversized. It's, it's a few inches larger than normal carry on, you know, but it's, it's a religious object." Again, I'm, I'm describing it in, in non-Jewish terms and it really, and they're like, "no problem. Put it right up there. It's fine." Like it was not a problem at all. Um, but back to your point about being able to check on early, it really helped to know that I was one of the first people boarding, so there was going to be overhead space. It made a difference in this case. So we're flying in and uh, you know, Barcelona, New Jersey, I land in New Jersey at Newark airport and that's when I realize I have this incredibly valuable object. How do you claim a Torah at immigration? Like how do you, Josh:                                      31:21                     how do you claim?... Leon:                                     31:23                     ...What is it worth? So I'm real quick texting a bunch of people like people do this, how do you do whatever they say? It's not worth anything to anybody else. Yes, you're right. We would pay a lot of money for it, but it's not actually on the street worth anything, so just don't claim it. It turns out however that something else happened. I have global entry. Back to the travel hacking. I have TSA pre. I also have global entry, which means that I can go through the really fast lane when I come in through the country, but I also on my phone have the TSA app, which allows you to do the claim form on the plane four hours ahead of landing and put everything in there and then the record's already in there. However, don't do both. It turns out that if you do both, it creates a conflicting record in immigration systems that if you're, if you have Global Entry, you simply use global entry, use the paper form and go through. I didn't know that, so I did both. So I get through personal immigration and they say, Oh yeah, if you're going to do, you know, so I scan my phone app and I show them my Global Entry and they're like, the Global Entry doesn't count because you did the phone app, it's going to create a conflict. Don't do that. So okay, fine. So then when I'm pick up my bags and I'm going to go through the check, I go through global entry and the guy sees the phone app and he spends a good solid like two minutes. "Why did you do that? You already have Global Entry. Why did you do the TSA App?" "I didn't know it was going to create a problem." This is... "Just please next time don't do that." And he waves me through an off I go. He didn't ever look at the fact that I had four pieces of luggage, you know, I'm a single guy going through, didn't even pay attention to that. He was more concerned about the fact that I had made an IT error. Josh:                                      33:06                     Lovely, yes, you had done the steps out of order. Incorrect. The problem exists between the keyboard and the chair, obviously. Leon:                                     33:17                     Right? So, right. PEBKAC rules. I am clearly the ID10T error of the day. That was the problem, not the toy, the ancient Torah scroll and the silver case and that, that wasn't okay. So I get through and uh, I get home and uh, one of the lessons to, to spin this back around again to the more technical is that I had, I knew the entire flight plan. I knew each of the steps along the way. I knew that I was gonna have personal security at these places and I was gonna have luggage security at these places. I knew I was going to have all these things. I had my steps in a row, but I, I took each step as it came. I didn't take a hiccup or an issue at one moment as a sign of things to come. Good or bad. I really, and I think that as IT professionals, we also need to think about that. That, you know, we have a project, we know what the project plan is. Things are going to work, other things aren't going to work. That doesn't mean it's a sign of how the whole project is going to go. That each moment is its own moment and doesn't necessarily have bearing on the next moment to come. Josh:                                      34:28                     Yeah. I, when we think about how, how do you build a resilient system, there are two things that you factor in. One is a system that is resistant to failure and a system that can quickly recover from failure because there is no such thing as no downtime. It does not exist. There will always be failures, right? And as IT professionals, we need to figure that out, not just in the technology but also in the way that we execute projects in the way that we execute our careers. I mean, it's all about that personal, professional resilience. Failure is going to happen. Roll with the punches Leon:                                     35:12                     And you know, don't, yeah, don't imagine the punches aren't going to come, but just because one step along the way knocked you down doesn't mean every step is going to knock you down. It's not. Um, so we got it back to America. Um, in the show notes, I will link to the live tweeting I did of the entire process and a picture of the Torah itself so you can see it in its, in its new home. But after I, I got back, I went over to the rabbi's house and the rabbi's wife and I were, and she said something very interesting and I have to give you a little bit of history. So as I mentioned before, um, the kind of Jewish we are or the culture that we come from is the Spanish Jewish culture. So that means that, uh, after the expulsion of the Jews from Israel in 72 CE, after the second destruction, they settled in Spain and they lived in Spain until about 1492 during, you know, the Inquisition. And then our family, my Rabbi's family and my family settled from Spain into Istanbul and they lived in Istanbul, in a little town outside of his temple until about 1920. And that's when they came to America. So when I got everything back and I was sitting at the house and I was talking to her, she said, you know that Torah stopped every place our family lived. And I got chills. It went from Israel to Istanbul to Spain to America. And if I had said to you, Hey Josh, you know, I just want bring a Torah back but I want to do this really, really cool thing. I'm going to stop every place or a, you would tell me, Leon, you are way overthinking this and just bring the thing back and be done with it. But it just happened. It just, you know, it just worked out that way. Leon:                                     36:49                     And again, from an it perspective, I think it speaks to that serendipity of life, whether that's religious or it or otherwise. Sometimes you know and have this in caps, you know, things happen for a reason. Trademark, copyright, all rights reserved. Things do happen for a reason. And it's okay to know that that happens. And sometimes you say, I'm just going to see how this works out. I'm going to let things happen. I'm not going to try to control the outcome. I'm not gonna try to make it be something, I'm going to let things go and, and just let it be. I didn't intend for that to be, my travel path, but it did. And, and the experience was that much richer because of it. Josh:                                      37:33                     You know, I, I had an interesting, uh, moment over the past month or so going through the interview process with new Relic and talking to a number of my current team members who were on that interview panel and explaining the journey that I had toward being someone who is, uh, an enterprise monitoring practitioner. And I realized in recounting the journey over the past 20 years that my very first job than IT laid the, the framework for me becoming a, a monitoring practitioner. I worked for a small company, uh, in Michigan that focused on call center software and they designed software that would connect to your PBX, uh, for your call center and would allow you to monitor the phone status of all of your agents and then would correlate all of that data up onto a big screen. That would allow you to run reports. It did call center monitoring my very first job and then my next job had an HP OpenView workstation and then my next job had an HP OpenView work station that I replaced with SolarWinds. It's a wonderful journey. Uh, I, that's, it's, it's weird. I think like you and your Torah story, uh, your Torah journey, you didn't realize the importance of that journey until you paused for a moment to reflect on the journey that you took. And I, I think we have to do IT as well. Sometimes we're so focused on where we want to get to that we forget where we've come from and the power that comes to us. I think that's important, right? Right. What we value in our IT lives. We have to take time to look back what we value in our personal lives and our religious lives. Yeah. You know, I think I'd like to end Leon with a quote from, uh, Ralph Waldo Emerson. So he, you know, prolific writer, um, wrote a series of essays and a second series and an essay entitled experience. He said "To finish the moment, to find the journey's end and every step of the road to live. The greatest number of good hours is wisdom." Destiny:                               39:46                     Thanks for making time for us this week. To hear more of technically religious visit our website, technically religious.com where you can find our other episodes, leave us ideas for future discussions and connect to us on social media. Josh:                                      40:00                     So you brought a Torah back from Israel? Leon:                                     40:03                     And all I got was this t-shirt...I mean, this podcast story.  

The Mouth Of Manliness Episode 14This week, Nick and Brad welcome the ever awesome therapist and general mind guru Peter Khan. Nick has talked about him a lot on the show and we managed to get him to come on so you can hear his wisdom first hand.This episode is packed full of wisdom nuggets and coin drops and is not to be missed. We talk about how the brain works and how our mind can cause us pain, but how we can turn that around. Thanks for all the love so far, don't forget to rate, review and subscribe below X You have heard the podcast, now wear the T-Shirt!Official Mouth Of Manliness T-Shirts now available herehttps://legallyassertive.com/collections/mom See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Intercepted 9/15/73_2018:"The intercom atop the marble alerted me to a situation in an obscure sector of the Hotel currently uncharted and hitherto unknown to the staff. I answered and captured only a fragment to record and transcribed as best I could.”"[with buzzing and interference of message, sound of phone being handled]ONE: Relax! STOP! Fucking relax! ... [noise, distortion] … You can go to hell if you want to do that!OTHER: [beat, muffled grumbling] … [high, metallic screeching in distance, interference]ONE: And what did you decide to do? You brought that in here yourself, your stupid smile did this, and you can just (unintelligible)?! . . . [much chaotic shuffling. Silence.] . . .OTHER: We didn't (unintelligible)… at fuckin' college, man... Ridiculous shit, we trusted a cuckoo. ... Privileged assholes association.ONE: That doesn't matter now, dude. Maybe it's not important now... I can't babysit you in this box anymore. You made your own damn bed. I'm going upstairs.OTHER: If you can FUCKING find it!!! [slam, chaotic swell of noise, static, phone disconnects]”After the call ended I notified {Collections} and we searched a few of the nearest accessible staircases. Walked up four or five different directions and spread out among ourselves.Nothing through the walls, all door frames encountered were intact and lighting is holding up okay. We figured this was related somehow with the new talk of recording phone calls in house. I asked {Tech} if they had picked up the recorders we had left on 447-F and none were recovered. Our best option is to collect smaller exchanges and distribute more regularly. The task of cutting up responsibilities is nigh, I suppose. No man is a desk, or a sofa. Workplace casualties are expected, but nothing permanent. The letter that came on the 15th makes a bit more sense in context, but we haven't seen occupants in several months. We hear and see the evidence of people moving through, but actual interaction has been desolate.Operator Log:2IX-1: Operator Summary of Intercepted Recording - (Believed to be 3B #2 -*unverified-)IX/14/73 - Recorded transmission - Intercepted at Desk[Transmitted(?) incident occurring in Rm. X (See 1SB-1.); Angry conversation, breakdown of dependent platonic relationship of Ox. (2) _1 indicated moving "upstairs"; _2 indicated previous connection with _1 in "college" (implication X) "You brought that in here yourself/your...smile did this" - _2]{_1 believed to be _B (potential active agent A_1-2). -- If correct, _2 presumed to be unknown entity holding phone in 3B Rm. X. Unknown if A_1-2 is common b/w Ox. 1,2. -- _2: human male X; connection to _1. (Est. A_2-6 on appearance.)Responded with direct 3D radial search {CollectionsO1-4~} of Staircases 1-4. Checked recorders, none surviving extant.

„We are not robots, you know, we are not just these beings, who woke up and study and go to work and you know do all that kind of stuff, we are human beings. Shit happens in our lives“ - Maryam Pasha, Director & Curator of TEDxLondon and Founder of X Equals Productions ----------------------------------------- CHAPTERS OF MY LIFE - BOOK TITLE Listening to the unheard CHAPTERS 1 Immigration and struggle 2 Summer cricket fields (UK) 3 Pain & Anger 4 Confidence & happiness (New York) 5 Free love (Montreal) 6 The Imposter 7 Broken heart (Brexit) 8 He is amazing NEXT CHAPTER The Power of the X ----------------------------------------- You can find more about Maryam on www.maryampasha.com and www.mygremlins.com On Twitter @thisispasha Leave some comments, what did you like most from this podcast, which chapters of other entrepreneurs, athletes or idealists do you wanna hear near future? Leave a comment or drop me a message on social media. You can find me on Instagram and twitter @bydanielludwig Never give up, always look up! ABOUT CHAPTERS OF MY LIFE PODCAST I want you to imagine your past life. Right, where should I start? Imagine you need to write your life story in form of a book already. It’s a challenge itself and frankly, not everyone has thought of this, as we always think when we get older we should write about our life. But in fact, we have so many experience ready to share with others, achievements, failures to learn from, positive and negative life transitions which in the end lead to the person we are today. This "Chapters of my life podcast" is an inspiring collection of life transitions packed into a podcast audiobook format capturing the willpower and belief of people during important life-changing decisions. We interview innovators, athletes, entrepreneurs and idealists give an insight into their past life from a young age till today and (future untold plans) covering topics around sports, entrepreneurship, mindfulness, travel, nutrition, spirituality, yoga & meditation and more - everything which leads to the person they are today. Interviews by a Daniel Ludwig @bydanielludwig

Moving off Analysis Getting to Offers (CFFL 422) Jack Butala:                       Jack Butala with Jill DeWit. Jill DeWit:                           Hello there. Jack Butala:                       Welcome to our show today. This episode Jill and I talk about how to move off analysis and getting toward making offers. Get out of your own head and get some offers out there. Right Jill? Jill DeWit:                           Exactly. Jack Butala:                       Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on LandAcademy.com online community. It's free. Jill DeWit:                           Cool. All right. Chip asks, "Hi all. In my data scrub criteria, I'm filtering for 0% improvement value, but I'm still getting records that have homes. Is this because I also have SFR, single family residence as one of my filter criteria? Jack does this in the program but it should pull all SFR zoned properties that have yet to be improved. Seems to be happening multiple counties. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thanks in advance, Chip. All right, Jack. [inaudible 00:00:57] you. Jack Butala:                       This is a PhD level question and Chip, thanks for asking. All data's different. That's the answer. What he's really talking about is, when you take an assessors database through RealQuest Pro, everything's lined up in nice columns for you. They're nice enough to extrapolate the assessor data and look at assessed value in three columns. Number one column, the land value. Land is assessed at a certain value. Number two, the improvement value. The stuff that's been done to the properties like build a house. Put some roads in. That's assessed at a certain value. A third column is a total of those two. You would think that if the assessed value for improvements is zero, there are none. A vast majority of the time, that's the case. However, it's a real world. In the data world it'd be beautiful if everything was just perfect and it lined up but it just doesn't happen that way. In a real world, stuff happens. People don't pull permits. They build stuff. They do all kinds of stuff to their property without telling the county and the county never knows. The assessor doesn't physically look at every single property in the county. It's not possible. You have to test this for reason. There's lots of different ways to do that. It's so far beyond the scope of this show. Jill DeWit:                           I came up with two things and I'm right there with you. Jack Butala:                       But you'll never get it to zero, let me tell you that. You'll never get data so that it's perfect but man, you will come close. Jill, what are your two? Jill DeWit:                           Well I was going to say too, you had number one, yeah, like you just touched on. Some structures are not always properly conveyed to the county. Who's going to want to do that? Hey, by the way, my house is worth X. You need to assess it this way. No, no, no. We're not going to do that, everyone, because then your taxes go up. Right? Then the other thing is, people make mistakes too sometimes, you know? Jack Butala:                       Oh, Jill, right. Jill DeWit:                           The county individuals are real people, so have I seen mistakes done by county individuals? Heck yes! Every once in a while, that comes up too. Jack Butala:                       That's a good point. I read a stat a few years ago when this whole mortgage crisis was happening in this country and there's something like 25 or 30% of all the mortgages that are done and completed and people are paying now, they have errors. Jill DeWit:                           Yeah. Jack Butala:                       Mass errors like the payment that you're making is incorrect, so yeah, people make mistakes. Jill DeWit:                           That percent's high. I didn't know that. That's interesting.

Moving off Analysis Getting to Offers (CFFL 422) Jack Butala:                       Jack Butala with Jill DeWit. Jill DeWit:                           Hello there. Jack Butala:                       Welcome to our show today. This episode Jill and I talk about how to move off analysis and getting toward making offers. Get out of your own head and get some offers out there. Right Jill? Jill DeWit:                           Exactly. Jack Butala:                       Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on LandAcademy.com online community. It's free. Jill DeWit:                           Cool. All right. Chip asks, "Hi all. In my data scrub criteria, I'm filtering for 0% improvement value, but I'm still getting records that have homes. Is this because I also have SFR, single family residence as one of my filter criteria? Jack does this in the program but it should pull all SFR zoned properties that have yet to be improved. Seems to be happening multiple counties. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thanks in advance, Chip. All right, Jack. [inaudible 00:00:57] you. Jack Butala:                       This is a PhD level question and Chip, thanks for asking. All data's different. That's the answer. What he's really talking about is, when you take an assessors database through RealQuest Pro, everything's lined up in nice columns for you. They're nice enough to extrapolate the assessor data and look at assessed value in three columns. Number one column, the land value. Land is assessed at a certain value. Number two, the improvement value. The stuff that's been done to the properties like build a house. Put some roads in. That's assessed at a certain value. A third column is a total of those two. You would think that if the assessed value for improvements is zero, there are none. A vast majority of the time, that's the case. However, it's a real world. In the data world it'd be beautiful if everything was just perfect and it lined up but it just doesn't happen that way. In a real world, stuff happens. People don't pull permits. They build stuff. They do all kinds of stuff to their property without telling the county and the county never knows. The assessor doesn't physically look at every single property in the county. It's not possible. You have to test this for reason. There's lots of different ways to do that. It's so far beyond the scope of this show. Jill DeWit:                           I came up with two things and I'm right there with you. Jack Butala:                       But you'll never get it to zero, let me tell you that. You'll never get data so that it's perfect but man, you will come close. Jill, what are your two? Jill DeWit:                           Well I was going to say too, you had number one, yeah, like you just touched on. Some structures are not always properly conveyed to the county. Who's going to want to do that? Hey, by the way, my house is worth X. You need to assess it this way. No, no, no. We're not going to do that, everyone, because then your taxes go up. Right? Then the other thing is, people make mistakes too sometimes, you know? Jack Butala:                       Oh, Jill, right. Jill DeWit:                           The county individuals are real people, so have I seen mistakes done by county individuals? Heck yes! Every once in a while, that comes up too. Jack Butala:                       That's a good point. I read a stat a few years ago when this whole mortgage crisis was happening in this country and there's something like 25 or 30% of all the mortgages that are done and completed and people are paying now, they have errors. Jill DeWit:                           Yeah. Jack Butala:                       Mass errors like the payment that you're making is incorrect, so yeah, people make mistakes. Jill DeWit:                           That percent's high. I didn't know that. That's interesting.

Listen up! Today's episode teaches you how to do something very useful on the Israeli streets - to stop someone who's talking at you and tell them "listen!" Pay attention as host Guy Sharett explores this gem of a root. Exclusive Content for Patrons   New words & expressions: Takshiv/Takshivi/Takshivu – Listen! / You will listen – תקשיב/תקשיבי/תקשיבו Im takshiv heytav – If you listen well – אם תקשיב היטב Takshiv li – Listen to me – תקשיב לי Takshiv li ve-takshiv li tov – Listen to me and listen good – תקשיב לי ותקשיב לי טוב Aval takshiv rega / Takshiv shniya – But listen for a sec – אבל תקשיב רגע/תקשיב שנייה Hakshev, hakshivi, hakshivu – Listen! (flowery) – הקשב, הקשיבי, הקשיבו Takshiv ma ta'ase – Listen (here's) what you should do (m.) – תקשיב מה תעשה Takshivi ma ta'asi – Listen (here's) what you should do (f.) – תקשיבי מה תעשי Takshivu ma ta'asu – Listen(here's) what you should do (pl.) – תקשיבו מה תעשו Lo hikshavtem li – You didn't listen to me – לא הקשבתם לי Lehakshiv le-sipur – To listen to a story – להקשיב לסיפור Hakshava – Listening (noun) – הקשבה Ata hayav lehakshiv le-ze – You must listen to this one – אתה חייב להקשיב לזה Takshiv leze rega – Listen to this for a sec. – תקשיב לזה רגע Ata tsarich lishmo’a et ha-album ha-chadash shel X – You must listen to the new album by X – אתה צריך לשמוע את האלבום של  Kashuv – Attentive – קשוב Keshev – Attentiveness – קֶשֶב Hafra'at keshev ve-rikuz – Attention deficit disorder – הפרעת קשב וריכוז Kashav, kashevet, kashavim – A monitor (person) – קשב, קשבת, קשבים Kashavenu – Our monitor – קשבנו   Looking for the monologue text? It's available to our patrons at patreon.com/streetwisehebrew.   Playlist and clips: Mati Caspi – Kolot Ha-Sade (lyrics) Milon Ha-Dibur Ha-Pnimi – Educational TV Maya Buskila – Takshivi Li (lyrics) Rita & Gidi Gov – Hayecha Ve-Hayai (lyrics) Arik Einstein – Atur Mitschech (lyrics) Yoni Rechter – Hakshava (lyrics) Dr. Ziva Sagi – Hafra'at Keshev Ve-Rikuz (ADD) Kashavenu Miki Gurdus – Yom Kippur War

This is a week late but hopefully it's worth it. This episode is all about my favourite transitions I have done. What that means is how a song blends into another song. Please note that not all songs blend into each other. For example, let's take the first two songs in Part One, "Amnesia" by Ian Carey (the firebeatz remix) and "X You" by Avicii, those songs may blend together but X You may not blend with the song after that. I just took my favourite blends from stuff I have done in the past.Songs In This Episode:Ian Carey & Rosette - Amnesia (Firebeatz Remix)Avicii - X YouZedd & Foxes - Clarity (Tiesto Remix)Tiesto - Pair Of DiceMacklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us (Kaskade Remix)Kaskade - AtmosphereDavid Guetta & Showtek - Bad (feat. Vassy)Bastille - Pompeii (Audien Remix)

This is a week late but hopefully it's worth it. This episode is all about my favourite transitions I have done. What that means is how a song blends into another song. Please note that not all songs blend into each other. For example, let's take the first two songs in Part One, "Amnesia" by Ian Carey (the firebeatz remix) and "X You" by Avicii, those songs may blend together but X You may not blend with the song after that. I just took my favourite blends from stuff I have done in the past.Songs Played In This Episode:Lady Gaga - G.U.Y. (Cosmic Dawn Club Mix)Daft Punk - Derezzed (Avicii's 'So Amazing' Mix)Martin Solevig & The Cataracs - Hey Now (feat. Kyle)Armin Van Buuren - This Is What It Feels Like (feat. Trevor Guthrie)OneRepublic - If I Lose Myself (Alesso Remix)Inpetto - YuccasinSebastian Ingrosso & Tommy Trash - Reload (feat. John Martin)

This is a week late but hopefully it's worth it. This episode is all about my favourite transitions I have done. What that means is how a song blends into another song. Please note that not all songs blend into each other. For example, let's take the first two songs in Part One, "Amnesia" by Ian Carey (the firebeatz remix) and "X You" by Avicii, those songs may blend together but X You may not blend with the song after that. I just took my favourite blends from stuff I have done in the past.Songs In This Episode:Ian Carey & Rosette - Amnesia (Firebeatz Remix)Avicii - X YouZedd & Foxes - Clarity (Tiesto Remix)Tiesto - Pair Of DiceMacklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us (Kaskade Remix)Kaskade - AtmosphereDavid Guetta & Showtek - Bad (feat. Vassy)Bastille - Pompeii (Audien Remix)

This is a week late but hopefully it's worth it. This episode is all about my favourite transitions I have done. What that means is how a song blends into another song. Please note that not all songs blend into each other. For example, let's take the first two songs in Part One, "Amnesia" by Ian Carey (the firebeatz remix) and "X You" by Avicii, those songs may blend together but X You may not blend with the song after that. I just took my favourite blends from stuff I have done in the past.Songs Played In This Episode:Lady Gaga - G.U.Y. (Cosmic Dawn Club Mix)Daft Punk - Derezzed (Avicii's 'So Amazing' Mix)Martin Solevig & The Cataracs - Hey Now (feat. Kyle)Armin Van Buuren - This Is What It Feels Like (feat. Trevor Guthrie)OneRepublic - If I Lose Myself (Alesso Remix)Inpetto - YuccasinSebastian Ingrosso & Tommy Trash - Reload (feat. John Martin)

Tracklist:-1 - Afrojack ft. Chris Brown - As Your Friend2 - Steve Aoki ft. Polina - Come With Me (Deadmeat) (Jidax Remix)3 - Sidney Samson, Martin Garrix - Torrent4 - Wolfpack ft. Coco Star - Miracle (Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Remix)5 - Alvaro - Rock Music6 - Calvin Harris ft. Tinie Tempah - Drinking From The Bottle7 - Sini - Untold8 - Armin van Buuren & W&W - D# Fat9 - Bassjackers, Dyro - Grid10 - Avicii & Project 46 ft. You & Daphne - Crime11 - Avicii X Kian Sang, Naxsy DJ-Compositeur, Martin Kupilas, ???? ????? - X You