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Your Ego will ruin your life if you're not mindful.  One of the most effective ways to hold it in check, and break free from its tyranny, is to recognize that our inner, unconscious commentary ABOUT what is happening is not the same thing as what's ACTUALLY happening. It's interpretation - and interpretation is not the same as capital T truth. When we're able to bring some spaciousness, some quiet observation to our own inner experience, we find that there are many nuances to a single feeling. Anger is often connected to sadness. And bad moods are almost always about some kind of pain in us that isn't getting the acknowledgement or attention it requires.  There is much to know about a single feeling and when we put in the effort to explore and understand ourselves in these ways, we become our own allies. We heal. Join the conversation on today's Love Notes episode to learn more! And find lots of tools to support your journey at: marywelch.com

Upfront summary - KEY points we will discuss:1. Stillness – what is it and WHY I should develop this skill. Medical research using MRI's and other technology have proven that stillness & meditation: Slows the rate of aging, Protects the brain from Alzheimers disease, Lowers blood pressure and slows heart rate, Reduces the occurrence of heart attacks, Brain repair BDNF (Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor), Reduces stress and enhances cognition2. Your thinking brain should be a tool that use and then put away. You are addicted to your thoughts, and you never allow your brain to rest.3. Your Ego lives in your brain, your mind, and creates 100% of the stress you feel every day. NO ONE can give you stress – you GENERATE IT – 100%4. Here are 5 clues that you are stressed: always irritable, life is HARD, feel drained, poor sleep, crave junk food.5. MEASURE your stress: Blood pressure, Heart rate & Heart Rate Variability. 6. Two Part Podcast – send us your questions or challenges that you have faced in your stillness attempts, and we will answer them in our next podcast. Email us at help@huberpm.com

Hey Cosmic Witches, welcome back to another episode of the Divine Gossip Girls. ☾⋆⁺ MONTH has arrived and it's time for you to tune into the 411 on the cosmic energy around you. Karlie will give you the energetic update through tarot, Maggie will give you the astrological forecast, and Sophie will tie it all together for you in a neat little bow, so you can make the most of it! So grab your notebook and a cup of tea and let's dive into the magic…Your Monthly Mantras☾ I am a creative life force and it is safe for me to step into this energy⋆ I open myself up to creative ideas and opportunities & I am committed to liberating the fear stopping me from stepping into them all ☾ It is safe for me to step into my creative ideas & energy & let go of any fears getting in the way ⋆ I can take determined & focused action and still be in my feminine flow & energyYour Monthly Practices☾ Write a Letter to Your Ego - before the month starts write a letter to your ego to remind it what your goal is and what it needs to calm down and quiet down. Come back to this and read it over throughout the month when you need it☾ Have an Open Conversation with Your Fear- Once we are out of mercury retrograde have an open conversation with your fear and ego to see what it has to say and work with it, work to understand it. Have it sit next to you and let it be heard.⋆ Journal Prompt: What creative ideas are coming through for me right now and what is one thing I can do each day to begin stepping into these ideas? Become Part of the Divine Gossip Girls Community ☾⋆⁺Maggie: https://www.instagram.com/springluneoracle/Karlie: https://www.instagram.com/risewithkarlie/Sophie: https://www.instagram.com/_shinewithsophie/Send us your spiritual or advice questions so you can get our cosmic perspective (you will stay 100% anonymous): email us at divinegossipgirls@gmail.com

In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Today, they discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this series, they discuss mistake 30: Do You Fail to Understand the Tyranny of the Efficiency of the Market? And mistake 31: Do You Believe Hedge Fund Managers Deliver Superior Performance?LEARNING: Discovering anomalies or mistakes reinforces and makes the market more efficient. Hedge fund managers demonstrate no greater ability to deliver above-market returns than do active mutual fund managers. “Unfortunately, the evidence is hedge fund managers demonstrate no greater ability to deliver above-market returns than do active mutual fund managers.”Larry Swedroe In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Larry is the head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today, Andrew and Larry discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this series, they discuss mistake number 30: Do You Fail to Understand the Tyranny of the Efficiency of the Market? And mistake 31: Do You Believe Hedge Fund Managers Deliver Superior Performance?Did you miss out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?ISMS 24: Larry Swedroe – Confusing Skill and Luck Can Stop You From Investing WiselyISMS 25: Larry Swedroe – Admit Your Mistakes and Don't Listen to Fake ExpertsISMS 26: Larry Swedroe – Are You Subject to the Endowment Effect or the Hot Streak...

Here is what you will discover on this week's episode of The GMS Podcast: 1) Your Doubt is Your Ego 2) Doubt is a Safe Place to Avoid Success 3) Critical Parents 4) Being Critical of Yourself 5) The Payoff of Doubt 6) Letting Go of Doubt 7) The Courage to Succeed   *Visit This Link to Request a Free 20 Minute Coaching Session* https://www.goldenmastermind.com/coaching-call-signup/   *Connect with Jeffery* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeffery.combs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffery_combs/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefferycombs Website: https://www.goldenmastermind.com/   *Jeffery's Books* (2019 Bestseller) The Breakthrough Factor - https://www.goldenmastermind.com/product/the-breakthrough-factor/ The Anger Factor - https://www.goldenmastermind.com/product/the-anger-factor/ The Procrastination Cure - https://www.goldenmastermind.com/product/the-procrastination-cure/ Psychologically Unemployable - https://www.goldenmastermind.com/product/psychologically-unemployable-remastered/ More Heart Than Talent - https://www.goldenmastermind.com/product/more-heart-than-talent-book/   *Other Ways to Listen to The GMS Podcast* Website: https://www.goldenmastermind.com/podcast/ Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3D07Y6f Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Qd4FvC YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/JefferyCombsGMS

In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Today, they discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this series, they discuss mistake number 28: Do You Fail to Compare Your Funds to Proper Benchmarks? And mistake 29: Do You Believe Active Management Is a Winner's Game in Inefficient Markets?LEARNING: Don't choose a fund by its name. Active management is highly unlikely to outperform even in inefficient emerging markets. “Don't choose a fund, even an index fund, by its name. Instead, you should carefully check its weighted average book-to-market and market capitalization levels.”Larry Swedroe In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Larry is the head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today, Andrew and Larry discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this series, they discuss mistake number 28: Do You Fail to Compare Your Funds to Proper Benchmarks? And mistake 29:Did you miss out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?ISMS 24: Larry Swedroe – Confusing Skill and Luck Can Stop You From Investing WiselyISMS 25: Larry Swedroe – Admit Your Mistakes and Don't Listen to Fake ExpertsISMS 26: Larry Swedroe – Are You Subject to the Endowment Effect or the Hot Streak Fallacy?

In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Today, they discuss Larry's recent piece, The Self-healing Mechanism of Risk Assets.LEARNING: Don't engage in resulting because there will be periods when an investment will underperform and others when it outperforms. Resist recency bias. Avoid performance chasing. “You don't want to engage in resulting because there will be periods when an investment will underperform and others when it outperforms.”Larry Swedroe In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Larry is the head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today, Andrew and Larry discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. Today, they discuss Larry's recent piece, The Self-healing Mechanism of Risk Assets.Did you miss out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?ISMS 24: Larry Swedroe – Confusing Skill and Luck Can Stop You From Investing WiselyISMS 25: Larry Swedroe – Admit Your Mistakes and Don't Listen to Fake ExpertsISMS 26: Larry Swedroe – Are You Subject to the Endowment Effect or the Hot Streak Fallacy?ISMS 27: Larry Swedroe – Familiar Doesn't Make It Safe and You're Not Playing With the House's Money

In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Today, they discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this fourteenth series, they discuss mistake number 26: Do You Fail to Compare Your Funds to Proper Benchmarks? And mistake 27: Do You Focus On Pretax Returns?LEARNING: Always run a regression analysis against an asset pricing model on portfoliovisualizer.com. Actively managed funds have higher tax expenses than ETFs and mutual funds. “If you want to see if an active manager is truly outperforming and their appropriate risk-adjusted benchmark, run a regression analysis against an asset pricing model on portfoliovisualizer.com.”Larry Swedroe In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Larry is the head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today, Andrew and Larry discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this fourteenth series, they discuss mistake number 26: Do You Fail to Compare Your Funds to Proper Benchmarks? And mistake 27: Do You Focus On Pretax Returns?Did you miss out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?ISMS 24: Larry Swedroe – Confusing Skill and Luck Can Stop You From Investing WiselyISMS 25: Larry Swedroe – Admit Your Mistakes and Don't Listen to Fake ExpertsISMS 26: Larry Swedroe – Are You Subject to the Endowment Effect or the Hot Streak Fallacy?

In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Today, they discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this thirteenth series, they discuss mistake number 24: Do You Believe More Heads Are Better Than One? And mistake 25: Do You Believe Active Managers Will Protect You from Bear Markets?LEARNING: Invest conservatively instead of following the crowd. The best way to minimize the risks of a bear market is to hyper-diversify. “The only way to help minimize those risks and be safe is not to take risks, but then, you won't get any actual returns, and it'll be hard to reach your goals. The next best thing is to hyper-diversify.”Larry Swedroe In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Larry is the head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today, Andrew and Larry discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this thirteenth series, they discuss mistake number 24: Do You Believe More Heads Are Better Than One? And mistake 25: Do You Believe Active Managers Will Protect You from Bear Markets?Did you miss out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?ISMS 24: Larry Swedroe – Confusing Skill and Luck Can Stop You From Investing WiselyISMS 25: Larry Swedroe – Admit Your Mistakes and Don't Listen to Fake ExpertsISMS 26: Larry Swedroe – Are You Subject to the Endowment Effect or the Hot Streak Fallacy?

In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Today, they discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this twelfth series, they discuss mistake number 22: Do You Confuse Great Companies with High-Return Investments? And mistake number 23: Do You Understand How the Price Paid Affects Returns?LEARNING: Great companies are not always high-return investments. Understand how the price paid affects returns. Rebalance your portfolio regularly. “Rebalancing forces you to do the opposite of what most people do, which is dumbly chasing returns and ignoring the historical evidence. They ignore the fact that typically, over the longer term, prices tend to revert to some mean.”Larry Swedroe In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Larry is the head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today, Andrew and Larry discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this twelfth series, they discuss mistake number 22: Do You Confuse Great Companies with High-Return Investments? And mistake number 23: Do You Understand How the Price Paid Affects Returns?Did you miss out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?ISMS 24: Larry Swedroe – Confusing Skill and Luck Can Stop You From Investing WiselyISMS 25: Larry Swedroe – Admit Your Mistakes and Don't Listen to Fake ExpertsISMS 26: Larry Swedroe – Are You Subject to the Endowment Effect or the Hot Streak...

In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Today, they discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this eleventh series, they discuss mistake number 20: Do You Only Consider the Operating Expense Ratio When Selecting a Mutual Fund? And mistake number 21: Do You Fail to Consider the Costs of an Investment Strategy?LEARNING: Don't focus solely on the operating expense ratio when buying a mutual fund; consider hidden costs, too. Always consider the costs of an investment strategy, such as bid-offer spreads, market impact costs, taxes, etc. “Successful active management, as I like to explain it, sews the seeds of its own destruction.”Larry Swedroe In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Larry is the head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today, Andrew and Larry discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this eleventh series, they discuss mistake number 20: Do You Only Consider the Operating Expense Ratio When Selecting a Mutual Fund? And mistake number 21: Do You Fail to Consider the Costs of an Investment Strategy?Did you miss out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?ISMS 24: Larry Swedroe – Confusing Skill and Luck Can Stop You From Investing WiselyISMS 25: Larry Swedroe – Admit Your Mistakes and Don't Listen to Fake ExpertsISMS 26: Larry Swedroe – Are You Subject to the Endowment Effect or the Hot Streak...

Since we were kids, we've been taught to look at the world, and interpret it, in a specific way. We may not be aware of it, but we've been educated in a culture that encourages a scarcity mindset, a perspective of lack. We believe in the Ego, in our victim voice, which is the voice of fear. On this episode, we'll go in on how to step out of that scarcity mentality and choose an abundance mentality, because you are abundant, right now. Abundance is a choice, it is the voice of love, and it gets you closer to your Highest Self. Your Ego is part of the reason why you might perceive challenges, failures, and setbacks as something bad, when you can actually choose to see them as opportunities, and use them to build your path towards greatness, like Obama, Oprah, Michael Jordan, J. K. Rowling  or Steve Jobs did.RESOURCESChopra, D. (1996) The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success: A Practical Guide To The Fulfilment Of Your Dreams. Bantam Press, Transworld Publishers.Issa, M. (2022) Tu éxito es inevitable: manifiesta lo que deseas y mereces en todas las áreas de tu vida. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.Kern Lima, J. (2021) Believe IT: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable. Gallery Books.Mandela, N (1994) Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography Of Nelson Mandela. Little, Brown & Company.Nafousi, R. (2022) Manifest: 7 Steps To Living Your Best Life. Michael Joseph Editorial.Ruiz, M (1997; 2018 edition) The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book). Amber-Allen Publishing, Inc.Follow the show's Instagram here! Follow Inma's Instagram here! Check out the show's website here!

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In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe: Ignorance is Bliss. Today, they discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this tenth series, they discuss mistake number 18: Do you believe your fortune is in the stars? And mistake number 19: Do you rely on misleading information?LEARNING: Stop thinking about having your fortune in the stars. Avoid actively managed funds. Be cautious when evaluating claims about fund performance. “Stop thinking about having your fortune in the stars. Morningstar won't help you.”Larry Swedroe In today's episode, Andrew continues his discussion with Larry Swedroe, head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today Andrew and Larry discuss a chapter of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this tenth series, they discuss mistake number 18: 18: Do you believe your fortune is in the stars? And mistake number 19: Do you rely on misleading information?Did you miss out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?ISMS 24: Larry Swedroe – Confusing Skill and Luck Can Stop You From Investing WiselyISMS 25: Larry Swedroe – Admit Your Mistakes and Don't Listen to Fake ExpertsISMS 26: Larry Swedroe – Are You Subject to the Endowment Effect or the Hot Streak Fallacy?ISMS 27: Larry Swedroe – Familiar Doesn't Make It Safe and You're Not Playing With the House's...

In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew gets into part two of his discussion with Larry Swedroe; Ignorance is Bliss. Today they discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this ninth series, they discuss mistake number 16: Do You Fail To See The Poison Inside the Shiny Apple? And mistake number 17: Do You Confuse Information With Knowledge?LEARNING: Trust, but verify even when working with a financial advisor. Don't confuse information with knowledge when buying individual stocks. “One of the rules of investing is you should always ask an advisor if they put their money where their mouth is.”Larry Swedroe In today's episode, Andrew continues his discussion with Larry Swedroe, head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today Andrew and Larry discuss a chapter of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this ninth series, they discuss mistake number 16: Do You Fail To See The Poison Inside the Shiny Apple? And mistake number 17: Do You Confuse Information With Knowledge?Missed out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?ISMS 24: Larry Swedroe – Confusing Skill and Luck Can Stop You From Investing WiselyISMS 25: Larry Swedroe – Admit Your Mistakes and Don't Listen to Fake ExpertsISMS 26: Larry Swedroe – Are You Subject to the Endowment Effect or the Hot Streak Fallacy?ISMS 27: Larry Swedroe – Familiar Doesn't Make It Safe and...

In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew and Larry discuss three chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this eighth episode, they discuss mistake number 13: Do you confuse the familiar with the safe? Mistake number 14: Do you believe you're playing with the house's money? And mistake number 15: Do you let friendship influence your choice of investment advisors?LEARNING: Just because you're familiar with something doesn't make it less risky. Diversify globally to get the real benefits of diversification. Your financial advisor is not your friend; it's a business. Value and protect your investment gains as much as you value and protect the principle. “We're all human beings and have made these mistakes. What differentiates smart people from others is that they don't repeat the same behavior when they learn it's a mistake. They change it. They become aware of investment biases and overcome them either on their own or with the help of a trusted financial advisor.”Larry Swedroe In today's episode, Andrew continues his discussion with Larry Swedroe, head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today Andrew and Larry discuss a chapter of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this eighth episode, they discuss mistake number 13: Do you confuse the familiar with the safe? Mistake number 14: Do you believe you're playing with the house's money? And mistake number 15: Do you let friendship influence your choice of investment advisors?Missed out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?ISMS 24: Larry Swedroe – Confusing Skill and Luck Can Stop You From Investing WiselyISMS 25: Larry Swedroe – Admit Your Mistakes and Don't Listen to Fake Experts

What if the one thing keeping you from find love is YOUR EGO!? That's right, your ego could be the culprit for why you can't seem to find that diamond in the rough. We all have an ego and sometimes that ego can be your best friend and other times it can be the very thing that causes you to be alone. This week, The Amazing Clarks talk about how you can tame that out of control ego of yours and find the love that you not only want, but the one you need. If your ego doesn't want you to find love, this episode will give you the will power to tell it to go take a break and let you win at love!  Time to join the Love Revolution family! If you have any children, are you prepared for their love journey? Tap in with us over at  @theamazingclarks and @blacklovepodcastnetwork and let us know what your story is!Click Here if you are interested in being coached for The Amazing Clarks Podcast!========Do you have a question for The Amazing Clarks? Let us know by filling out our form!========Are you interested in becoming a life coach or want more tips and tricks from The Amazing Clarks?  Head over to the Law of Attraction Life Coach Academy!If you want more tips and tricks from The Amazing Clarks, pick up your copy of Crack The Code: The Secret To Achieving Your Happily Ever After========BLACK LOVE, INC. is the premier Black-owned & operated media company for celebrating 360 degrees of Black Love. Connect with us:@blacklove on Instagram@blacklovedoc on Facebook@blacklovedoc on Twitter========Credits:Hosts: Anthony Clark & Melanie ClarkSenior Producer: Krystal HillAssociate Producer: Mike BryantEditor: Mike BryantExecutive Producers: Codie Elaine Oliver & Tommy Oliver

In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew and Larry discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this seventh episode, they talk about mistake number 11: Do you let the price paid affect your decision to continue to hold an asset? And mistake number 12: Are you subject to the fallacy of the hot streak?LEARNING: Look at everything you own from an economic perspective and decide whether to keep holding or selling. Avoid FOMO (fear of missing out) and stock picking; build a diversified portfolio. “One of the biggest values of a good advisor is to educate people on rational economic decision-making so they can make informed investment decisions.”Larry Swedroe In today's episode, Andrew continues his discussion with Larry Swedroe, head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today Andrew and Larry discuss a chapter of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this sixth episode, they talk about mistake number 9: Do you avoid admitting your investment mistakes? And mistake number 10: Do you pay attention to the experts?Missed out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?ISMS 24: Larry Swedroe – Confusing Skill and Luck Can Stop You From Investing WiselyISMS 25: Larry Swedroe – Admit Your Mistakes and Don't Listen to Fake ExpertsMistake number 11: Do you let the price paid affect your decision to continue to hold an asset?According to Larry, people value things more when they own them. This is due to the endowment effect, which causes people to put extra value emotionally and make decisions based on this. This type of decision-making is utterly irrational from an economic perspective.The endowment effect is a big mistake that investors make, especially when they get gifted...

In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew and Larry discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this sixth episode, they talk about mistake number 9: Do you avoid admitting your investment mistakes? And mistake number 10: Do you pay attention to the experts?LEARNING: You'll only learn from mistakes if you admit that you made them. Just because someone is famous and confident in what they're saying doesn't mean they're experts who know what they're saying. “If you could admit a mistake when it's the size of an acorn, it's easier to repair than when it's the size of a tree with deep, wide-ranging roots.”Larry Swedroe In today's episode, Andrew continues his discussion with Larry Swedroe, head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today Andrew and Larry discuss a chapter of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this sixth episode, they talk about mistake number 9: Do you avoid admitting your investment mistakes? And mistake number 10: Do you pay attention to the experts?Missed out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?ISMS 24: Larry Swedroe – Confusing Skill and Luck Can Stop You From Investing WiselyMistake number 9: Do you avoid admitting your investment mistakes?As human beings, we're hardwired to avoid admitting mistakes. And, of course, you can't correct a mistake unless you acknowledge that your behavior was a mistake in the first place. A typical investment mistake most people make is engaging in actively managed funds and stock picking, even though there's hard evidence that a vast majority of active managers fail persistently to outperform over the long term.According to Larry, when you've made an investment mistake and have a poorly performing asset, the right thing to do is count your losses and substitute the asset with a superior choice. However, many people don't want to sell because they'll hurt their ego. Selling means...

In this episode of Investment Strategy Made Simple (ISMS), Andrew and Larry discuss two chapters of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this fourth episode, they talk about mistake number 7: Do you confuse skill and luck? And mistake number 8: Do you avoid passive investing because you sense a loss of control?LEARNING: When gauging a fund manager's performance, consider risk-adjusted performance. If you're a passive investor and use a systematic strategy, you're 100% in control. “You have to accept that you can only control what you can control; you can't control the unpredictable things that happen.”Larry Swedroe In today's episode, Andrew continues his discussion with Larry Swedroe, head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today Andrew and Larry discuss a chapter of Larry's book Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them. In this fifth series, they talk about mistake number seven: Do you confuse skill and luck? And mistake number eight: Do you avoid passive investing because you sense a loss of control?Missed out on previous mistakes? Check them out:ISMS 8: Larry Swedroe – Are You Overconfident in Your Skills?ISMS 17: Larry Swedroe – Do You Project Recent Trends Indefinitely Into the Future?ISMS 20: Larry Swedroe – Do You Extrapolate From Small Samples and Trust Your Intuition?ISMS 23: Larry Swedroe – Do You Allow Yourself to Be Influenced by Your Ego and Herd Mentality?Mistake number 7: Do you confuse skill and luck?According to Larry, investors don't know statistics well enough to differentiate skill from luck. To understand if an outperformer is outperforming because of skill and not luck, look at risk-adjusted performance. So, for example, over the very long term, value stocks have outperformed growth stocks, and small stocks have outperformed large stocks. So somebody who outperforms simply because they owned lots of small and value stocks more than the market isn't outperforming on a properly adjusted basis. Other factors than size and value, such as momentum, profitability, or quality, can also drive the return. Larry recommends Portfolio Visualizer, a tool that shows how much exposure an active fund has to those factors. It also reveals the alpha or the remaining performance that cannot be explained.The second thing you need to consider is whether the fund's assets are growing. If they've

Do you feel personally attacked every time you receive constructive feedback at work?In episode 75 of The Powerhouse Revolution Podcast, Lucy shares her top tips and strategies for separating personal and professional feedback. Thanks to both her personal experience and coaching sessions with hundreds of women leaders, you'll learn valuable skills to help you grow and succeed in your career.Listen now to discover how you can stop taking criticism to heart and start viewing it as a valuable opportunity to level up and excel.Here's this week's episode at a glance:[01:07] My #1 Strategy for Recharging and Boosting Productivity[09:26] How to Let Go of Your Ego and Listen to Feedback with a Growth Mindset[11:39] How to Embrace Feedback to Reach Your Next Level of Success[13:42] This ONE Mindset Shift Will Change Everything.Quick Links:Apply to work with LucyJoin the Powerhouse Elite Mastermind Download Your Free Work Life Balance GuideFollow Lucy on Instagram for more tips and behind the scenes contentConnect with Lucy on LinkedIn Read the podcast notes and full transcript here.

Your EGO can easily work against you or work in your favor. Your EGO never really dies , it just matures with time , experience, acceptance and healing. Many people believe that they cannot use their ego to their advantage but they most definitely can. Sometimes the true authentic version of us , is living in the shadow of our EGO and we don't even know it. It can supress who we really are because we're afraid to be who other said we couldn't. Those feelings of not being good enough, hurt you so deep that the EGO had to step in to protect you. But instead of acting as a guiding force of assistance it is now , suffocating your true nature. In order for the real you to re-emerge, you would have to heal that mask that's kept you from feeling for so long.

How do you view vulnerability?   For years, that word made me uncomfortable…   Because men are supposed to be strong and vulnerability is a sign of weakness, right?   Wrong.   Vulnerability is necessary for your growth.    On today's episode of the Coming Up Clutch with J.R.™ show, I sit down with financial expert and trusted advisor to billionaire families and business owners, Chris Jarvis.    In this powerful episode, Chris shares what we can all learn from giraffes when it comes to vulnerability and success.    Yes, we're going to talk about giraffes.   In this latest episode, Chris and I talk about…   How to cross the bridge from successful to ultra-successful What Chris means by “Be the Giraffe” and how it can impact your life and career What a giraffe can teach you about the power of vulnerability   …and so much more.   If you want to dominate the Fields of Play that you roam, then lock in to today's episode. [00:01 - 09:50] Introducing Chris to the show   Chris's most embarrassing moment Chris's background, story, and professional journey   [09:51 - 28:40] How to cross the bridge from successful to ultra-successful   People who are NOT born in the US are more likely to millionaires and billionaires than people who ARE born in the US The odds of a millionaire becoming a billionaire are next to zero (Chris: if you're successful, you'll never become super-successful because, once you become successful, you know there's something you can do to maintain a certain level of success) Must have a change in mindset - what made you successful may not make you ultra-successful…but before you even think about changing, the big question you have to ask is, “Should I change?”  If the answer is YES, then you have to be honest with yourself and determine if you've taken whatever you have as far as you could, and if that next level really suits your gifts and passions. You also have to ask yourself WHY you're making the decisions you're making Be outcome driven vs. ego driven (Chris referenced the book, “Your Ego is Not Your Amigo”) You may wish for something and you might get it (and it turns out you really didn't want it) Must be aware of your ego because everyone struggles with this   [28:41 - 34:45] What Chris means by “Be the Giraffe” and how it can impact your life and career   Context: wildebeests and zebras just go with the herd…where the pack goes, they go. Also, they eat from the grass, so they're heads are down when that's happening. Giraffes have a neck that's six feet long and eats from trees, not grass…and they're constantly looking and surveying what's going on (it has more of a vision) Problem: most people are living with their head down with the attitude, “I just need to get this done” and they don't stop to ask whether they should Anyone successful has the ability to put their head down and work, but you have to shift the mindset to “I know I could, but should I?” Ask yourself: What is it that I really want? Are you sure what you're going for is going to get you there? Is it possible something else might get you there? It's ok to put your head down and crush something, as long as you're pretty certain that it's going to give you what it is you want and need - there's nothing worse than busting your ass, getting what you want, and going, “Is that it?” You don't need to over-analyze everything, but you do need to check to make sure it's important to you   [34:46 - 45:54] What a giraffe can teach you about the power of vulnerability   The giraffe is the only animal that evolved to be more vulnerable  By being more vulnerable, it could see things that others can't and reach things that others won't (it's the origin of “sticking your neck out”) Giraffe can eat from trees in ANY environment, so they don't have to migrate Chris: Do you want to be migrating and constantly moving, but moving with everyone else and get what they get? OR, do you want the freedom to go somewhere else? When you're the most vulnerable person in the room, your relatability, connection, and impact will go through the roof If you're afraid to do something different, you're never going to get a different result You can be the Alpha, but you'll end up being alone. If you want help, you have to be doing something that other people believe in and care about (being vulnerable helps that) Everyone wants to be an outlier, but they don't want to be an outcast   [45:55 - 51:33] Wrapping Up Chris's BIG domino How to connect with Chris   KEY QUOTES “Be outcome driven vs. ego driven.” - Chris Jarvis “Most people live with the attitude, ‘I just need to get this done,' instead of first asking whether they should.” - Chris Jarvis “There's nothing worse than busting your ass to get what you want, then once you get it ask, ‘Is that it?'” - Chris Jarvis “When you're vulnerable, you see things that others can't and reach things that others won't.” - Chris Jarvis  “When you're the most vulnerable person in the room, your relatability, connection, and impact will go through the roof.” - Chris Jarvis “If you're afraid to do something different, you're never going to get a different result.” - Chris Jarvis “Everyone wants to be an outlier, but they don't want to be an outcast.” - Chris Jarvis   CONNECT WITH CHRIS Instagram: @chrisrayjarvis Twitter: @jarvischris Linktree to Chris' TED Talk and Free Assessment: https://linktr.ee/chrisrayjarvis (to get the Assessment FREE, use code: CLUTCH) Website: https://chrisjarvis.me/   CONNECT WITH J.R.  Facebook: @jamesJRreid Instagram: @jamesjrreid LinkedIn: in/jamesjrreid/ Twitter: @jamesJRreid Website: jamesreid.com For Men Only - Check out The Clutch Club™️: jamesreid.com/club   RATE & REVIEW this episode on Apple: https://jamesreid.com/review   SHARE this episode with someone who wants to be challenged, pushed, and positioned to come up clutch more often.   SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss out on any new episodes and Special Guests!   LISTEN to previous episodes on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Google or whatever podcast platform you prefer!  

In this episode, I talk about something we all do… overthink. Whether it's big business decisions, or the caption to your photo, we can spend days, hours or even years overthinking a decision. I go over my own recent experiences that made me want to talk about this subject, and how embracing risk and failure allows you to take action and step forward in your life and business.Unstoppable Self Confidence: https://amzn.to/3JcLodT(affiliate link)0:00 Intro2:34 Stop Thinking, Start Doing3:38 The Negative Effects of Overthinking6:12 Fear & Overthinking in Business7:25 My Recent Overthinking Experience13:53 There Is No Right Way to Stop Overthinking15:25 There Will Always Be Uncertainty in Life18:42 The Power of Risks, Failing & Mistakes22:14 Your Ego is Causing You to Fail22:57 Busy & Overwhelmed But Nowhere Near Your Goal23:48 What If Everything Worked Out?Follow The Yegi Project on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/theyegiprojectMore About Your Host:Yegi is a young entrepreneur who has always been curious and hardworking. You can say she has always seen things out of the box and been able to creatively solve difficult problems. Her cool and collective spirit in life and business makes you want to be around her. She thrives on inspiring others and helps others see things from a positive point of view. The Yegi Project, is the podcast for the young entrepreneur who may not know where to start, doesn't have anyone to guide them in the right direction and may not have full support from others. This podcast is called The Yegi “Project” because although Yegi is happy with where she is now, she knows that she still has a lot to do to complete her mission and purpose in this world. She aims to use this podcast to work hard alongside all of you to grow to a point where she can make a lasting change in people's lives and in the world.  If you would like to be a guest on a future episode of The Yegi Project, please email info@yegiproject.comThe Yegi Project is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and more!https://linktr.ee/theyegiprojectDisclaimer: This podcast or any other The Yegi Project episodes on this platform or other podcast streaming platforms is not legal business or tax advice. I make this content based on my own experience as a business owner and MBA for educational and entertainment purposes only.

If you're ready to up your income game as a fitness coach, this episode is for you. I (Erin) be sharing the top 10 thoughts that helped us earn 6 million dollars in 2022. Whether you're just starting out or looking to take your business to the next level, these thoughts and past beliefs will hopefully help you avoid making some of the mistakes we have.   Time Stamps:   (1:43) Belief #1: Someone Else Can Do This Better Than Me (3:06) Belief #2: Product First (4:06) Belief #3: Holding Adults Accountable (4:51) Belief #4: A Players Want Critical Feedback (5:30) Belief #5: A Players vs B Players (6:44) Belief #6: Power of Focus (8:41) Belief #7: Business Doesn't Exist for Your Ego (10:22) Belief #8: Going the Extra Mile for the Customer (11:57) Belief #9: No One Knows the Prospect Better Than You (13:14) Belief #10: Winning Big Means Risking Big (15:37) Our IFCA Guarantee ---------- Learn More About Impact Fitness Coaching Academy,   To Learn More About I.F.C.A. - And How We've Helped More Than 1,700 Fitness Coaches, Experts, and Influencers Grow a 5-35k+ Month Online Fitness Business Without Paid Ads, Complicated Funnels, or Even Having a Large Social Media Following    Click Here→ to VISIT THE IFCA PAGE  ---------- GIVEAWAY!  Leave a rating + review on iTunes, and Have a Chance To Win a $200 Amazon Gift Card + Special Prizes! Winners Announced Monthly on The Episode. Simply leave a review, and send a screenshot to the Fit Biz Podcast Instagram Page!

What separates you from the competition? What makes you special? Your competition isn't other people. Your competition is YOUR EGO. The unhealthy food you're consuming, the knowledge you neglect. The negative behavior you're nurturing & your lack of creativity. Compete against that. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Taking a little detour from Bitcoin history, and into Trigger-territory this week. My latest article, is the first I've done in a LONG time that is not Bitcoin-centric, but life & philosophy centric. I'm tired of all the "Ego death" myopia out there, spouted by faux philosophers like Ryan Holiday and their brainless acolytes who are simply empty vessels, easily influenced by vague platitudes like "no suffering & no self". In this essay, I make the case for the necessity of the Ego, and suggest that you as a human, alive with a mind, body & soul, pay this ancient, emergent construct of nature (or gift of God), some respect. Your Ego is your Character and your Personality. "Ego Death" is nothing to proud of, nor something top be pursued. If that's your life's mission, you're an immature moron. I hope this is triggering for those with fragile Egos, and for those who have the strength of character and fortitude of Ego, I hope you find it an argument with merit. Here's the article: https://svetski.medium.com/ego-is-not-the-enemy-ed2295b1bd7 Of course, subscribe to the channel across all the mediums you're on. Here's a few links to help you do that: https://play.fountain.fm/show/KGEglVpdWo4zXQWR3X7G https://rumble.com/c/c-1677935 https://anchor.fm/wakeuppod https://www.youtube.com/c/WakeUpPod ____________________________________ Thanks again for listening. Check out the new book @ UnCommunist.com Shout out The Bitcoin Times @TimelessBitcoin You can follow my work at: Linktree.com/Svetski Twitter @SvetskiWrites IG @AleksSvetski https://svetski.medium.com https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/aleksandarsvetski More coming soon!

F*ck Posting Consistently. This topic might ruffle some feathers, but it is my mission to give you the permission to stop trying to force yourself to show up online. In this episode, I go over: Consistency in showing up as your authentic, highest creative self is what will attract soul mate clients why cultivating a better relationship with your intuition is the path toward the upgraded version of you What productivity SHOULD mean over what we believe it does How to tell who is in the drivers seat: Your Ego or Your Inner Wisdom I want you to all know that you CAN have an easeful experience in running a su[er successful business. Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theartofreese/ Follow me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClRdVuF9wXIAaEXp-RrVaHA Learn more about my Mastermind Course: https://www.theedgeink.com/impact-leadership-mastermind-vip

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Often, when men realize their marriage is coming to an end, they start looking at all the things they can do to CONTROL and CHANGE the situation. They might try to get smarter, or fitter, or do ALL the things, but the problem is they are doing the WRONG things. Doing all of the WRONG things is NOT going to bring your wife back. You need to listen up this week. If your marriage is failing, it's easier to blame HER than own your sh*t and accept YOUR responsibility. But you need to STOP looking externally for blame, START looking within, and START taking ownership of your life. There are certain things you HAVE to stop doing if you want to save your marriage, and in this episode, Mark shares 5 steps to saving your marriage. Hear three main ways men LIE to themselves when going through separation or divorce, and learn how to put yourself in a POWERFUL position to bring your wife back. “Change for someone else is not authentic change. You have to do the work for YOU.” - Mark Santiago  In This Episode: - Do you allow yourself to be VULNERABLE? Mark shares his own experience of being vulnerable and why it is SO important in your marriage - Find out the ONLY way you can learn from your mistakes - You need to change for YOU, not somebody else. Here's why… - Wondering what it takes for a marriage to be healthy? Here's what it is… - Discover the number one thing you have to stop doing if you want to save your marriage - Do you need to get better at communicating and setting boundaries? Here's how to tell… - Mark shares what it means to detach from the outcome and why you need to do it to save your marriage - Your EGO gets in the way every single time. Here's why…  And much more…   Join the Thrive Program: -Website:https://training.empoweredman.co/application/ ( https://training.empoweredman.co/application/) Take the Empowered Man 5 Day Challenge: -Website: https://www.empoweredman.co/order-form1651254400260 (https://www.empoweredman.co/order-form1651254400260) Connect with the Empowered Man: - Call to Book:https://go.oncehub.com/EmpoweredMan ( https://go.oncehub.com/EmpoweredMan) - Get In The Free Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/empoweredbusinessmen ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/empoweredbusinessmen) - Watch This:https://youtu.be/8phE5WtaY6U ( https://youtu.be/8phE5WtaY6U) - Website:https://empoweredman.co/ ( https://empoweredman.co/) - Questions? Email support@empoweredman.co Connect with Mark Santiago: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.santiago.35977 (https://www.facebook.com/mark.santiago.35977) - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markwsantiago/ (https://www.instagram.com/markwsantiago/) - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-santiago-854a68a/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-santiago-854a68a/)

If you wanna grow your business and your bank account, you gotta grow yourself first! Experience is the best teacher, Mindset is the superhero, Your Ego is the villain and Personal Development is the name of the game. In this episode I'm sharing with you what held me back, what pushed me forward and what kept me going. Take some notes! “Everything you do in this business, good or bad, is your fault. That's why you have to get better every day!” If you want to learn first-hand how to grow your business straight from 3 multimillionaires, join our Live 6-Week Bootcamp at https://mylifestyleacademy.com/bootcamp

Want to attract MORE Leads & More Clients!  Heck YES as We all want to share Our Talents with MORE people and MORE money!!! Learn with International Visionary Marketing Coach, Leon Streete, as Dr. Hank gets to the nitty gritty and helps Us discover and realize Our vision including: - Discover Your BLIND SPOT! - The only trauma is Your EGO! - Build Your Foundation for a bright future!

Episode one hundred and forty-two of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys, and the creation of the Pet Sounds album. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources There is no Mixcloud this week, because there were too many Beach Boys songs in the episode. I used many resources for this episode, most of which will be used in future Beach Boys episodes too. It's difficult to enumerate everything here, because I have been an active member of the Beach Boys fan community for twenty-four years, and have at times just used my accumulated knowledge for this. But the resources I list here are ones I've checked for specific things. Stephen McParland has published many, many books on the California surf and hot-rod music scenes, including several on both the Beach Boys and Gary Usher.  His books can be found at https://payhip.com/CMusicBooks Andrew Doe's Bellagio 10452 site is an invaluable resource. Jon Stebbins' The Beach Boys FAQ is a good balance between accuracy and readability. And Philip Lambert's Inside the Music of Brian Wilson is an excellent, though sadly out of print, musicological analysis of Wilson's music from 1962 through 67. I have also referred to Brian Wilson's autobiography, I Am Brian Wilson, and to Mike Love's, Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy. For material specific to Pet Sounds I have used Kingsley Abbot's The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds: The Greatest Album of the Twentieth Century and Charles L Granata's I Just Wasn't Made For These Times: Brian Wilson and the Making of Pet Sounds.  I also used the 126-page book The Making of Pet Sounds by David Leaf, which came as part of the The Pet Sounds Sessions box set, which also included the many alternate versions of songs from the album used here. Sadly both that box set and the 2016 updated reissue of it appear currently to be out of print, but either is well worth obtaining for anyone who is interested in how great records are made. Of the versions of Pet Sounds that are still in print, this double-CD version is the one I'd recommend. It has the original mono mix of the album, the more recent stereo remix, the instrumental backing tracks, and live versions of several songs. As a good starting point for the Beach Boys' music in general, I would recommend this budget-priced three-CD set, which has a surprisingly good selection of their material on it. The YouTube drum tutorial I excerpted a few seconds of to show a shuffle beat is here. Transcript We're still in the run of episodes that deal with the LA pop music scene -- though next week we're going to move away from LA, while still dealing with a lot of the people who would play a part in that scene. But today we're hitting something that requires a bit of explanation. Most artists covered in this podcast get one or at the most two episodes. Some get slightly more -- the major artists who are present for many revolutions in music, or who have particularly important careers, like Fats Domino or the Supremes. And then there are a few very major artists who get a lot more. The Beatles, for example, are going to get eight in total, plus there will be episodes on some of their solo careers. Elvis has had six, and will get one more wrap-up episode. This is the third Beach Boys episode, and there are going to be three more after this, because the Beach Boys were one of the most important acts of the decade. But normally, I limit major acts to one episode per calendar year of their career. This means that they will average at most one episode every ten episodes, so while for example the episodes on "Mystery Train" and "Heartbreak Hotel" came close together, there was then a reasonable gap before another Elvis episode. This is not possible for the Beach Boys, because this episode and the next two Beach Boys ones all take place over an incredibly compressed timeline. In May 1966, they released an album that has consistently been voted the best album ever in polls of critics, and which is certainly one of the most influential even if one does not believe there is such a thing as a "best album ever". In October 1966 they released one of the most important singles ever -- a record that is again often considered the single best pop single of all time, and which again was massively influential. And then in July 1967 they released the single that was intended to be the lead-off single from their album Smile, an album that didn't get released until decades later, and which became a legend of rock music that was arguably more influential by *not* being released than most records that are released manage to be. And these are all very different stories, stories that need to be told separately. This means that episode one hundred and forty-two, episode one hundred and forty-six, and episode one hundred and fifty-three are all going to be about the Beach Boys. There will be one final later episode about them, too, but the next few months are going to be very dominated by them, so I apologise in advance for that if that's not something you're interested in. Though it also means that with luck some of these episodes will be closer to the shorter length of podcast I prefer rather than the ninety-minute mammoths we've had recently. Though I'm afraid this is another long one. When we left the Beach Boys, we'd just heard that Glen Campbell had temporarily replaced Brian Wilson on the road, after Wilson's mental health had finally been unable to take the strain of touring while also being the group's record producer, principal songwriter, and leader. To thank Campbell, who at this point was not at all well known in his own right, though he was a respected session guitarist and had released a few singles, Brian had co-written and produced "Guess I'm Dumb" for him, a track which prefigured the musical style that Wilson was going to use for the next year or so: [Excerpt: Glen Campbell, "Guess I'm Dumb"] It's worth looking at "Guess I'm Dumb" in a little detail, as it points the way forward to a lot of Wilson's songwriting over the next year. Firstly, of course, there are the lyrical themes of insecurity and of what might even be descriptions of mental illness in the first verse -- "the way I act don't seem like me, I'm not on top like I used to be". The lyrics are by Russ Titelman, but it's reasonable to assume that as with many of his collaborations, Brian brought in the initial idea. There's also a noticeable change in the melodic style compared to Wilson's earlier melodies. Up to this point, Wilson has mostly been writing what get called "horizontal" melody lines -- ones with very little movement, and small movements, often centred on a single note or two. There are exceptions of course, and plenty of them, but a typical Brian Wilson melody up to this point is the kind of thing where even I can hit the notes more or less OK -- [sings] "Well, she got her daddy's car and she cruised through the hamburger stand now". It's not quite a monotone, but it's within a tight range, and you don't have to move far from one note to another. But "Guess I'm Dumb" is incorporating the influence of Roy Orbison, and more obviously of Burt Bacharach, and it's *ludicrously* vertical, with gigantic leaps all over the place, in places that are not obvious. It requires the kind of precision that only a singer like Campbell can attain, to make it sound at all natural: [Excerpt: Glen Campbell, "Guess I'm Dumb"] Bacharach's influence is also noticeable in the way that the chord changes are very different from those that Wilson was using before. Up to this point, when Wilson wrote unusual chord changes, it was mostly patterns like "The Warmth of the Sun", which is wildly inventive, but mostly uses very simple triads and sevenths. Now he was starting to do things like the line "I guess I'm dumb but I don't care", which is sort of a tumbling set of inversions of the same chord that goes from a triad with the fifth in the bass, to a major sixth, to a minor eleventh, to a minor seventh. Part of the reason that Brian could start using these more complex voicings was that he was also moving away from using just the standard guitar/bass/drums lineup, sometimes with keyboards and saxophone, which had been used on almost every Beach Boys track to this point. Instead, as well as the influence of Bacharach, Wilson was also being influenced by Jack Nitzsche's arrangements for Phil Spector's records, and in particular by the way Nitzsche would double instruments, and have, say, a harpsichord and a piano play the same line, to create a timbre that was different from either individual instrument. But where Nitzsche and Spector used the technique along with a lot of reverb and overdubbing to create a wall of sound which was oppressive and overwhelming, and which obliterated the sounds of the individual instruments, Wilson used the same instrumentalists, the Wrecking Crew, to create something far more delicate: [Excerpt: Glen Campbell, "Guess I'm Dumb (instrumental and backing vocals)"] Campbell does such a good job on "Guess I'm Dumb" that one has to wonder what would  have happened if he'd remained with the Beach Boys. But Campbell had of course not been able to join the group permanently -- he had his own career to attend to, and that would soon take off in a big way, though he would keep playing on the Beach Boys' records for a while yet as a member of the Wrecking Crew. But Brian Wilson was still not well enough to tour. In fact, as he explained to the rest of the group, he never intended to tour again -- and he wouldn't be a regular live performer for another twelve years. At first the group were terrified -- they thought he was talking about quitting the group, or the group splitting up altogether. But Brian had a different plan. From that point on, there were two subtly different lineups of the group. In the studio, Brian would sing his parts as always, but the group would get a permanent replacement for him on tour -- someone who could replace him on stage. While the group was on tour, Brian would use the time to write songs and to record backing tracks. He'd already started using the Wrecking Crew to add a bit of additional musical colour to some of the group's records, but from this point on, he'd use them to record the whole track, maybe getting Carl to add a bit of guitar as well if he happened to be around, but otherwise just using the group to provide vocals. It's important to note that this *was* a big change. A lot of general music history sources will say things like "the Beach Boys never played on their own records", and this is taken as fact by people who haven't investigated further. In fact, the basic tracks for all their early hits were performed by the group themselves -- "Surfin'", "Surfin' Safari", "409", "Surfer Girl", "Little Deuce Coupe", "Don't Worry Baby" and many more were entirely performed by the Beach Boys, while others like "I Get Around" featured the group with a couple of additional musicians augmenting them. The idea that the group never played on their records comes entirely from their recordings from 1965 and 66, and even there often Carl would overdub a guitar part. And at this point, the Beach Boys were still playing on the majority of their recordings, even on sophisticated-sounding records like "She Knows Me Too Well", which is entirely a group performance other than Brian's friend, Russ Titelman, the co-writer of "Guess I'm Dumb", adding some percussion by hitting a microphone stand with a screwdriver: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "She Knows Me Too Well"] So the plan to replace the group's instrumental performances in the studio was actually a bigger change than it might seem. But an even bigger change was the live performances, which of course required the group bringing in a permanent live replacement for Brian. They'd already tried this once before, when he'd quit the road for a while and they'd brought Al Jardine back in, but David Marks quitting had forced him back on stage. Now they needed someone to take his place for good. They phoned up their friend Bruce Johnston to see if he knew anyone, and after suggesting a couple of names that didn't work out, he volunteered his own services, and as of this recording he's spent more than fifty years in the band (he quit for a few years in the mid-seventies, but came back). We've seen Johnston turn up several times already, most notably in the episode on "LSD-25", where he was one of the musicians on the track we looked at, but for those of you who don't remember those episodes, he was pretty much *everywhere* in California music in the late fifties and early sixties. He had been in a band at school with Phil Spector and Sandy Nelson, and another band with Jan and Dean, and he'd played on Nelson's "Teen Beat", produced by Art Laboe: [Excerpt: Sandy Nelson, "Teen Beat"] He'd been in the house band at those shows Laboe put on at El Monte stadium we talked about a couple of episodes back, he'd been a witness to John Dolphin's murder, he'd been a record producer for Bob Keane, where he'd written and produced songs for Ron Holden, the man who had introduced "Louie Louie" to Seattle: [Excerpt: Ron Holden, "Gee But I'm Lonesome"] He'd written "The Tender Touch" for Richard Berry's backing group The Pharaos, with Berry singing backing vocals on this one: [Excerpt: The Pharaos, "The Tender Touch"] He'd helped Bob Keane compile Ritchie Valens' first posthumous album, he'd played on "LSD-25" and "Moon Dawg" by the Gamblers: [Excerpt: The Gamblers, "Moon Dawg"] He'd arranged and produced the top ten hit “Those Oldies but Goodies (Remind Me of You)” for Little Caesar and the Romans: [Excerpt Little Caesar and the Romans, "Those Oldies but Goodies (Remind Me of You)"] Basically, wherever you looked in the LA music scene in the early sixties, there was Bruce Johnston somewhere in the background. But in particular, he was suitable for the Beach Boys because he had a lot of experience in making music that sounded more than a little like theirs. He'd made cheap surf records as the Bruce Johnston Surfing Band: [Excerpt: Bruce Johnston, "The Hamptons"] And with his long-time friend and creative partner Terry Melcher he had, as well as working on several Paul Revere and the Raiders records, also recorded hit Beach Boys soundalikes both as their own duo, Bruce and Terry: [Excerpt: Bruce and Terry, "Summer Means Fun"] and under the name of a real group that Melcher had signed, but who don't seem to have sung much on their own big hit, the Rip Chords: [Excerpt: The Rip Chords, "Hey Little Cobra"] Johnston fit in well with the band, though he wasn't a bass player before joining, and had to be taught the parts by Carl and Al. But he's probably the technically strongest musician in the band, and while he would later switch to playing keyboards on stage, he was quickly able to get up to speed on the bass well enough to play the parts that were needed. He also wasn't quite as strong a falsetto singer as Brian Wilson, as can be heard by listening to this live recording of the group singing "I Get Around" in 1966: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Get Around (live 1966)"] Johnston is actually an excellent singer -- and can still hit the high notes today. He sings the extremely high falsetto part on "Fun Fun Fun" at the end of every Beach Boys show. But his falsetto was thinner than Wilson's, and he also has a distinctive voice which can be picked out from the blend in a way that none of the other Beach Boys' voices could -- the Wilson brothers and Mike Love all have a strong family resemblance, and Al Jardine always sounded spookily close to them. This meant that increasingly, the band would rearrange the vocal parts on stage, with Carl or Al taking the part that Brian had taken in the studio. Which meant that if, say, Al sang Brian's high part, Carl would have to move up to sing the part that Al had been singing, and then Bruce would slot in singing the part Carl had sung in the studio. This is a bigger difference than it sounds, and it meant that there was now a need for someone to work out live arrangements that were different from the arrangements on the records -- someone had to reassign the vocal parts, and also work out how to play songs that had been performed by maybe eighteen session musicians playing French horns and accordions and vibraphones with a standard rock-band lineup without it sounding too different from the record. Carl Wilson, still only eighteen when Brian retired from the road, stepped into that role, and would become the de facto musical director of the Beach Boys on stage for most of the next thirty years, to the point that many of the group's contracts for live performances at this point specified that the promoter was getting "Carl Wilson and four other musicians". This was a major change to the group's dynamics. Up to this point, they had been a group with a leader -- Brian -- and a frontman -- Mike, and three other members. Now they were a more democratic group on stage, and more of a dictatorship in the studio. This was, as you can imagine, not a stable situation, and was one that would not last long. But at first, this plan seemed to go very, very well. The first album to come out of this new hybrid way of working, The Beach Boys Today!, was started before Brian retired from touring, and some of the songs on it were still mostly or solely performed by the group, but as we heard with "She Knows Me Too Well" earlier, the music was still more sophisticated than on previous records, and this can be heard on songs like "When I Grow Up to Be a Man", where the only session musician is the harmonica player, with everything else played by the group: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "When I Grow Up to Be a Man"] But the newer sophistication really shows up on songs like "Kiss Me Baby", where most of the instrumentation is provided by the Wrecking Crew -- though Carl and Brian both play on the track -- and so there are saxophones, vibraphones, French horn, cor anglais, and multiple layers of twelve-string guitar: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Kiss Me Baby"] Today had several hit singles on it -- "Dance, Dance, Dance", "When I Grow Up to be a Man", and their cover version of Bobby Freeman's "Do You Wanna Dance?" all charted -- but the big hit song on the album actually didn't become a hit in that version. "Help Me Ronda" was a piece of album filler with a harmonica part played by Billy Lee Riley, and was one of Al Jardine's first lead vocals on a Beach Boys record -- he'd only previously sung lead on the song "Christmas Day" on their Christmas album: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Help Me Ronda"] While the song was only intended as album filler, other people saw the commercial potential in the song. Bruce Johnston was at this time still signed to Columbia records as an artist, and wasn't yet singing on Beach Boys records, and he recorded a version of the song with Terry Melcher as a potential single: [Excerpt: Bruce and Terry, "Help Me Rhonda"] But on seeing the reaction to the song, Brian decided to rerecord it as a single. Unfortunately, Murry Wilson turned up to the session. Murry had been fired as the group's manager by his sons the previous year, though he still owned the publishing company that published their songs. In the meantime, he'd decided to show his family who the real talent behind the group was by taking on another group of teenagers and managing and producing them. The Sunrays had a couple of minor hits, like "I Live for the Sun": [Excerpt: The Sunrays, "I Live for the Sun"] But nothing made the US top forty, and by this point it was clear, though not in the way that Murry hoped, who the real talent behind the group *actually* was. But he turned up to the recording session, with his wife in tow, and started trying to produce it: [Excerpt: Beach Boys and Murry Wilson "Help Me Rhonda" sessions] It ended up with Brian physically trying to move his drunk father away from the control panel in the studio, and having a heartbreaking conversation with him, where the twenty-two-year-old who is recovering from a nervous breakdown only a few months earlier sounds calmer, healthier, and more mature than his forty-seven-year-old father: [Excerpt: Beach Boys and Murry Wilson, "Help Me Rhonda" sessions] Knowing that this was the family dynamic helps make the comedy filler track on the next album, "I'm Bugged at My Old Man", seem rather less of a joke than it otherwise would: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I'm Bugged at My Old Man"] But with Murry out of the way, the group did eventually complete recording "Help Me Rhonda" (and for those of you reading this as a blog post rather than listening to the podcast, yes they did spell it two different ways for the two different versions), and it became the group's second number one hit: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Help Me, Rhonda"] As well as Murry Wilson, though, another figure was in the control room then -- Loren Daro (who at the time went by his birth surname, but I'm going to refer to him throughout by the name he chose).  You can hear, on the recording, Brian Wilson asking Daro if he could "turn him on" -- slang that was at that point not widespread enough for Wilson's parents to understand the meaning. Daro was an agent working for the William Morris Agency, and he was part of a circle of young, hip, people who were taking drugs, investigating mysticism, and exploring new spiritual ideas. His circle included the Byrds -- Daro, like Roger McGuinn, later became a follower of Subud and changed his name as a result -- as well as people like the songwriter and keyboard player Van Dyke Parks, who will become a big part of this story in subsequent episodes, and Stephen Stills, who will also be turning up again. Daro had introduced Brian to cannabis, in 1964, and in early 1965 he gave Brian acid for the first time -- one hundred and twenty-five micrograms of pure Owsley LSD-25. Now, we're going to be looking at acid culture quite a lot in the next few months, as we get through 1966 and 1967, and I'll have a lot more to say about it, but what I will say is that even the biggest proponents of psychedelic drug use tend not to suggest that it is a good idea to give large doses of LSD in an uncontrolled setting to young men recovering from a nervous breakdown. Daro later described Wilson's experience as "ego death" -- a topic we will come to in a future episode, and not considered entirely negative -- and "a beautiful thing". But he has also talked about how Wilson was so terrified by his hallucinations that he ran into the bedroom, locked the door, and hid his head under a pillow for two hours, which doesn't sound so beautiful to me. Apparently after those two hours, he came out of the bedroom, said "Well, that's enough of that", and was back to normal. After that first trip, Wilson wrote a piece of music inspired by his psychedelic experience. A piece which starts like this, with an orchestral introduction very different from anything else the group had released as a single: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "California Girls"] Of course, when Mike Love added the lyrics to the song, it became about far more earthly and sensual concerns: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "California Girls"] But leaving the lyrics aside for a second, it's interesting to look at "California Girls" musically to see what Wilson's idea of psychedelic music -- by which I mean specifically music inspired by the use of psychedelic drugs, since at this point there was no codified genre known as psychedelic music or psychedelia -- actually was. So, first, Wilson has said repeatedly that the song was specifically inspired by "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Bach: [Excerpt: Bach, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"] And it's odd, because I see no real structural or musical resemblance between the two pieces that I can put my finger on, but at the same time I can totally see what he means. Normally at this point I'd say "this change here in this song relates to this change there in that song", but there's not much of that kind of thing here -- but I still. as soon as I read Wilson saying that for the first time, more than twenty years ago, thought "OK, that makes sense". There are a few similarities, though. Bach's piece is based around triplets, and they made Wilson think of a shuffle beat. If you remember *way* back in the second episode of the podcast, I talked about how one of the standard shuffle beats is to play triplets in four-four time. I'm going to excerpt a bit of recording from a YouTube drum tutorial (which I'll link in the liner notes) showing that kind of shuffle: [Excerpt: "3 Sweet Triplet Fills For Halftime Shuffles & Swung Grooves- Drum Lesson" , from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CwlSaQZLkY ] Now, while Bach's piece is in waltz time, I hope you can hear how the DA-da-da DA-da-da in Bach's piece may have made Wilson think of that kind of shuffle rhythm. Bach's piece also has a lot of emphasis of the first, fifth, and sixth notes of the scale -- which is fairly common, and not something particularly distinctive about the piece -- and those are the notes that make up the bass riff that Wilson introduces early in the song: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "California Girls (track)"] That bass riff, of course, is a famous one. Those of you who were listening to the very earliest episodes of the podcast might remember it from the intros to many, many, Ink Spots records: [Excerpt: The Ink Spots, "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)"] But the association of that bassline to most people's ears would be Western music, particularly the kind of music that was in Western films in the thirties and forties. You hear something similar in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine", as performed by Laurel and Hardy in their 1937 film Way Out West: [Excerpt: Laurel and Hardy, "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"] But it's most associated with the song "Tumbling Tumbleweeds", first recorded in 1934 by the Western group Sons of the Pioneers, but more famous in their 1946 rerecording, made after the Ink Spots' success, where the part becomes more prominent: [Excerpt: The Sons of the Pioneers, "Tumbling Tumbleweeds"] That song was a standard of the Western genre, and by 1965 had been covered by everyone from Gene Autry to the Supremes, Bob Wills to Johnnie Ray, and it would also end up covered by several musicians in the LA pop music scene over the next few years, including Michael Nesmith and Curt Boettcher, both people part of the same general scene as the Beach Boys. The other notable thing about "California Girls" is that it's one of the first times that Wilson was able to use multi-tracking to its full effect. The vocal parts were recorded on an eight-track machine, meaning that Wilson could triple-track both Mike Love's lead vocal and the group's backing vocals. With Johnston now in the group -- "California Girls" was his first recording session with them -- that meant that on the record there were eighteen voices singing, leading to some truly staggering harmonies: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "California Girls (Stack-O-Vocals)"] So, that's what the psychedelic experience meant to Brian Wilson, at least -- Bach, orchestral influences, using the recording studio to create thicker vocal harmony parts, and the old West. Keep that in the back of your mind for the present, but it'll be something to remember in eleven episodes' time. "California Girls" was, of course, another massive hit, reaching number three on the charts. And while some Beach Boys fans see the album it was included on, Summer Days... And Summer Nights!, as something of a step backward from the sophistication of Today!, this is a relative thing. It's very much of a part with the music on the earlier album, and has many wonderful moments, with songs like "Let Him Run Wild" among the group's very best. But it was their next studio album that would cement the group's artistic reputation, and which would regularly be acclaimed by polls of critics as the greatest album of all time -- a somewhat meaningless claim; even more than there is no "first" anything in music, there's no "best" anything. The impulse to make what became Pet Sounds came, as Wilson has always told the story, from hearing the Beatles album Rubber Soul. Now, we've not yet covered Rubber Soul -- we're going to look at that, and at the album that came after it, in three episodes' time -- but it is often regarded as a major artistic leap forward for the Beatles. The record Wilson heard, though, wasn't the same record that most people nowadays think of when they think of Rubber Soul. Since the mid-eighties, the CD versions of the Beatles albums have (with one exception, Magical Mystery Tour) followed the tracklistings of the original British albums, as the Beatles and George Martin intended. But in the sixties, Capitol Records were eager to make as much money out of the Beatles as they could. The Beatles' albums generally had fourteen songs on, and often didn't include their singles. Capitol thought that ten or twelve songs per album was plenty, and didn't have any aversion to putting singles on albums. They took the three British albums Help!, Rubber Soul, and Revolver, plus the non-album "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out" single and Ken Thorne's orchestral score for the Help! film, and turned that into four American albums -- Help!, Rubber Soul, Yesterday and Today, and Revolver. In the case of Rubber Soul, that meant that they removed four tracks from the British album -- "Drive My Car", "Nowhere Man", "What Goes On" and "If I Needed Someone" -- and added two songs from the British version of Help!, "I've Just Seen a Face" and "It's Only Love". Now, I've seen some people claim that this made the American Rubber Soul more of a folk-rock album -- I may even have said that myself in the past -- but that's not really true. Indeed, "Nowhere Man" and "If I Needed Someone" are two of the Beatles' most overtly folk-rock tracks, and both clearly show the influence of the Byrds. But what it did do was remove several of the more electric songs from the album, and replace them with acoustic ones: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I've Just Seen a Face"] This, completely inadvertently, gave the American Rubber Soul lineup a greater sense of cohesion than the British one. Wilson later said "I listened to Rubber Soul, and I said, 'How could they possibly make an album where the songs all sound like they come from the same place?'" At other times he's described his shock at hearing "a whole album of only good songs" and similar phrases. Because up to this point, Wilson had always included filler tracks on albums, as pretty much everyone did in the early sixties. In the American pop music market, up to the mid sixties, albums were compilations of singles plus whatever random tracks happened to be lying around. And so for example in late 1963 the Beach Boys had released two albums less than a month apart -- Surfer Girl and Little Deuce Coupe. Given that Brian Wilson wrote or co-wrote all the group's original material, it wasn't all that surprising that Little Deuce Coupe had to include four songs that had been released on previous albums, including two that were on Surfer Girl from the previous month. It was the only way the group could keep up with the demand for new product from a company that had no concept of popular music as art. Other Beach Boys albums had included padding such as generic surf instrumentals, comedy sketches like "Cassius" Love vs. "Sonny" Wilson, and in the case of The Beach Boys Today!, a track titled "Bull Session With the Big Daddy", consisting of two minutes of random chatter with the photographer Earl Leaf while they all ate burgers: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys and Earl Leaf, "Bull Session With the Big Daddy"] This is not to attack the Beach Boys. This was a simple response to the commercial pressures of the marketplace. Between October 1962 and November 1965, they released eleven albums. That's about an album every three months, as well as a few non-album singles. And on top of that Brian had also been writing songs during that time for Jan & Dean, the Honeys, the Survivors and others, and had collaborated with Gary Usher and Roger Christian on songs for Muscle Beach Party, one of American International Pictures' series of Beach Party films. It's unsurprising that not everything produced on this industrial scale was a masterpiece. Indeed, the album the Beach Boys released directly before Pet Sounds could be argued to be an entire filler album. Many biographies say that Beach Boys Party! was recorded to buy Brian time to make Pet Sounds, but the timelines don't really match up on closer investigation. Beach Boys Party! was released in November 1965, before Brian ever heard Rubber Soul, which came out later, and before he started writing the material that became Pet Sounds. Beach Boys Party! was a solution to a simple problem -- the group were meant to deliver three albums that year, and they didn't have three albums worth of material. Some shows had been recorded for a possible live album, but they'd released a live album in 1964 and hadn't really changed their setlist very much in the interim. So instead, they made a live-in-the-studio album, with the conceit that it was recorded at a party the group were holding. Rather than the lush Wrecking Crew instrumentation they'd been using in recent months, everything was played on acoustic guitars, plus some bongos provided by Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine and some harmonica from Billy Hinsche of the boy band Dino, Desi, and Billy, whose sister Carl Wilson was shortly to marry. The album included jokes and false starts, and was overlaid with crowd noise, to give the impression that you were listening to an actual party where a few people were sitting round with guitars and having fun. The album consisted of songs that the group liked and could play without rehearsal -- novelty hits from a few years earlier like "Alley Oop" and "Hully Gully", a few Beatles songs, and old favourites like the Everly Brothers hit "Devoted to You" -- in a rather lovely version with two-part harmony by Mike and Brian, which sounds much better in a remixed version released later without the party-noise overdubs: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Devoted to You (remix)"] But the song that defined the album, which became a massive hit, and which became an albatross around the band's neck about which some of them would complain for a long time to come, didn't even have one of the Beach Boys singing lead. As we discussed back in the episode on "Surf City", by this point Jan and Dean were recording their album "Folk 'n' Roll", their attempt at jumping on the folk-rock bandwagon, which included the truly awful "The Universal Coward", a right-wing answer song  to "The Universal Soldier" released as a Jan Berry solo single: [Excerpt: Jan Berry, "The Universal Coward"] Dean Torrence was by this point getting sick of working with Berry, and was also deeply unimpressed with the album they were making, so he popped out of the studio for a while to go and visit his friends in the Beach Boys, who were recording nearby. He came in during the Party sessions, and everyone was suggesting songs to perform, and asked Dean to suggest something. He remembered an old doo-wop song that Jan and Dean had recorded a cover version of, and suggested that. The group had Dean sing lead, and ran through a sloppy version of it, where none of them could remember the words properly: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Barbara Ann"] And rather incredibly, that became one of the biggest hits the group ever had, making number two on the Billboard chart (and number one on other industry charts like Cashbox), number three in the UK, and becoming a song that the group had to perform at almost every live show they ever did, together or separately, for at least the next fifty-seven years. But meanwhile, Brian had been working on other material. He had not yet had his idea for an album made up entirely of good songs, but he had been experimenting in the studio. He'd worked on a handful of tracks which had pointed in new directions. One was a single, "The Little Girl I Once Knew": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "The Little Girl I Once Knew"] John Lennon gave that record a very favourable review, saying "This is the greatest! Turn it up, turn it right up. It's GOT to be a hit. It's the greatest record I've heard for weeks. It's fantastic." But the record only made number twenty -- a perfectly respectable chart placing, but nowhere near as good as the group's recent run of hits -- in part because its stop-start nature meant that the record had "dead air" -- moments of silence -- which made DJs avoid playing it, because they believed that dead air, even only a second of it here and there, would make people tune to another station. Another track that Brian had been working on was an old folk song suggested by Alan Jardine. Jardine had always been something of a folkie, of the Kingston Trio variety, and he had suggested that the group might record the old song "The Wreck of the John B", which the Kingston Trio had recorded. The Trio's version in turn had been inspired by the Weavers' version of the song from 1950: [Excerpt: The Weavers, "The Wreck of the John B"] Brian had at first not been impressed, but Jardine had fiddled with the chord sequence slightly, adding in a minor chord to make the song slightly more interesting, and Brian had agreed to record the track, though he left the instrumental without vocals for several months: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Sloop John B (instrumental)"] The track was eventually finished and released as a single, and unlike "The Little Girl I Once Knew" it was a big enough hit that it was included on the next album, though several people have said it doesn't fit. Lyrically, it definitely doesn't, but musically, it's very much of a piece with the other songs on what became Pet Sounds: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Sloop John B"] But while Wilson was able to create music by himself, he wasn't confident about his ability as a lyricist. Now, he's not a bad lyricist by any means -- he's written several extremely good lyrics by himself -- but Brian Wilson is not a particularly articulate or verbal person, and he wanted someone who could write lyrics as crafted as his music, but which would express the ideas he was trying to convey. He didn't think he could do it himself, and for whatever reason he didn't want to work with Mike Love, who had co-written the majority of his recent songs, or with any of his other collaborators. He did write one song with Terry Sachen, the Beach Boys' road manager at the time, which dealt obliquely with those acid-induced concepts of "ego death": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Hang on to Your Ego"] But while the group recorded that song, Mike Love objected vociferously to the lyrics. While Love did try cannabis a few times in the late sixties and early seventies, he's always been generally opposed to the use of illegal drugs, and certainly didn't want the group to be making records that promoted their use -- though I would personally argue that "Hang on to Your Ego" is at best deeply ambiguous about the prospect of ego death.  Love rewrote some of the lyrics, changing the title to "I Know There's an Answer", though as with all such bowdlerisation efforts he inadvertently left in some of the drug references: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Know There's an Answer"] But Wilson wasn't going to rely on Sachen for all the lyrics. Instead he turned to Tony Asher. Asher was an advertising executive, who Wilson probably met through Loren Daro -- there is some confusion over the timeline of their meeting, with some sources saying they'd first met in 1963 and that Asher had introduced Wilson to Daro, but others saying that the introductions went the other way, and that Daro introduced Asher to Wilson in 1965. But Asher and Daro had been friends for a long time, and so Wilson and Asher were definitely orbiting in the same circles. The most common version of the story seems to be that Asher was working in Western Studios, where he was recording a jingle - the advertising agency had him writing jingles because he was an amateur songwriter, and as he later put it nobody else at the agency knew the difference between E flat and A flat. Wilson was also working in the studio complex, and Wilson dragged Asher in to listen to some of the demos he was recording -- at that time Wilson was in the habit of inviting anyone who was around to listen to his works in progress. Asher chatted with him for a while, and thought nothing of it, until he got a phone call at work a few weeks later from Brian Wilson, suggesting the two write together. Wilson was impressed with Asher, who he thought of as very verbal and very intelligent, but Asher was less impressed with Wilson. He has softened his statements in recent decades, but in the early seventies he would describe Wilson as "a genius musician but an amateur human being", and sharply criticise his taste in films and literature, and his relationship with his wife. This attitude seems at least in part to have been shared by a lot of the people that Wilson was meeting and becoming influenced by. One of the things that is very noticeable about Wilson is that he has no filters at all, and that makes his music some of the most honest music ever recorded. But that same honesty also meant that he could never be cool or hip. He was -- and remains -- enthusiastic about the things he likes, and he likes things that speak to the person he is, not things that fit some idea of what the in crowd like. And the person Brian Wilson is is a man born in 1942, brought up in a middle-class suburban white family in California, and his tastes are the tastes one would expect from that background. And those tastes were not the tastes of the hipsters and scenesters who were starting to become part of his circle at the time. And so there's a thinly-veiled contempt in the way a lot of those people talked about Wilson, particularly in the late sixties and early seventies. Wilson, meanwhile, was desperate for their approval, and trying hard to fit in, but not quite managing it. Again, Asher has softened his statements more recently, and I don't want to sound too harsh about Asher -- both men were in their twenties, and still  trying to find their place in the world, and I wouldn't want to hold anyone's opinions from their twenties against them decades later. But that was the dynamic that existed between them. Asher saw himself as something of a sophisticate, and Wilson as something of a hick in contrast, but a hick who unlike him had created a string of massive hit records. And Asher did, always, respect Wilson's musical abilities. And Wilson in turn looked up to Asher, even while remaining the dominant partner, because he respected Asher's verbal facility. Asher took a two-week sabbatical from his job at the advertising agency, and during those two weeks, he and Wilson collaborated on eight songs that would make up the backbone of the album that would become Pet Sounds. The first song the two worked on was a track that had originally been titled "In My Childhood". Wilson had already recorded the backing track for this, including the sounds of bicycle horns and bells to evoke the feel of being a child: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "You Still Believe in Me (instrumental track)"] The two men wrote a new lyric for the song, based around a theme that appears in many of Wilson's songs -- the inadequate man who is loved by a woman who is infinitely superior to him, who doesn't understand why he's loved, but is astonished by it. The song became "You Still Believe in Me": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "You Still Believe in Me"] That song also featured an instrumental contribution of sorts by Asher. Even though the main backing track had been recorded before the two started working together, Wilson came up with an idea for an intro for the song, which would require a particular piano sound. To get that sound, Wilson held down the keys on a piano, while Asher leaned into the piano and plucked the strings manually. The result, with Wilson singing over the top, sounds utterly lovely: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "You Still Believe in Me"] Note that I said that Wilson and Asher came up with new lyrics together. There has been some slight dispute about the way songwriting credits were apportioned to the songs. Generally the credits said that Wilson wrote all the music, while Asher and Wilson wrote the lyrics together, so Asher got twenty-five percent of the songwriting royalties and Wilson seventy-five percent. Asher, though, has said that there are some songs for which he wrote the whole lyric by himself, and that he also made some contributions to the music on some songs -- though he has always said that the majority of the musical contribution was Wilson's, and that most of the time the general theme of the lyric, at least, was suggested by Wilson. For the most part, Asher hasn't had a problem with that credit split, but he has often seemed aggrieved -- and to my mind justifiably -- about the song "Wouldn't it Be Nice". Asher wrote the whole lyric for the song, though inspired by conversations with Wilson, but accepted his customary fifty percent of the lyrical credit. The result became one of the big hits from the album: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Wouldn't It Be Nice?"] But -- at least according to Mike Love, in the studio he added a single line to the song: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Wouldn't it Be Nice?"] When Love sued Brian Wilson in 1994, over the credits to thirty-five songs, he included "Wouldn't it Be Nice" in the list because of that contribution. Love now gets a third of the songwriting royalties, taken proportionally from the other two writers. Which means that he gets a third of Wilson's share and a third of Asher's share. So Brian Wilson gets half the money, for writing all the music, Mike Love gets a third of the money, for writing "Good night baby, sleep tight baby", and Tony Asher gets a sixth of the money -- half as much as Love -- for writing all the rest of the lyric. Again, this is not any one individual doing anything wrong – most of the songs in the lawsuit were ones where Love wrote the entire lyric, or a substantial chunk of it, and because the lawsuit covered a lot of songs the same formula was applied to borderline cases like “Wouldn't it Be Nice” as it was to clearcut ones like “California Girls”, where nobody disputes Love's authorship of the whole lyric. It's just the result of a series of reasonable decisions, each one of which makes sense in isolation, but which has left Asher earning significantly less from one of the most successful songs he ever wrote in his career than he should have earned. The songs that Asher co-wrote with Wilson were all very much of a piece, both musically and lyrically. Pet Sounds really works as a whole album better than it does individual tracks, and while some of the claims made about it -- that it's a concept album, for example -- are clearly false, it does have a unity to it, with ideas coming back in different forms. For example, musically, almost every new song on the album contains a key change down a minor third at some point -- not the kind of thing where the listener consciously notices that an idea has been repeated, but definitely the kind of thing that makes a whole album hold together. It also differs from earlier Beach Boys albums in that the majority of the lead vocals are by Brian Wilson. Previously, Mike Love had been the dominant voice on Beach Boys records, with Brian as second lead and the other members taking few or none. Now Love only took two main lead vocals, and was the secondary lead on three more. Brian, on the other hand, took six primary lead vocals and two partial leads. The later claims by some people that this was a Brian Wilson solo album in all but name are exaggerations -- the group members did perform on almost all of the tracks -- but it is definitely much more of a personal, individual statement than the earlier albums had been. The epitome of this was "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times", which Asher wrote the lyrics for but which was definitely Brian's idea, rather than Asher's. [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times"] That track also featured the first use on a Beach Boys record of the electro-theremin, an electronic instrument invented by session musician Paul Tanner, a former trombone player with the Glenn Miller band, who had created it to approximate the sound of a Theremin while being easier to play: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times"] That sound would turn up on future Beach Boys records... But the song that became the most lasting result of the Wilson/Asher collaboration was actually one that is nowhere near as personal as many of the other songs on the record, that didn't contain a lot of the musical hallmarks that unify the album, and that didn't have Brian Wilson singing lead. Of all the songs on the album, "God Only Knows" is the one that has the most of Tony Asher's fingerprints on it. Asher has spoken in the past about how when he and Wilson were writing, Asher's touchstones were old standards like "Stella By Starlight" and "How Deep is the Ocean?", and "God Only Knows" easily fits into that category. It's a crafted song rather than a deep personal expression, but the kind of craft that one would find in writers like the Gershwins, every note and syllable perfectly chosen: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows"] One of the things that is often wrongly said about the song is that it's the first pop song to have the word "God" in the title. It isn't, and indeed it isn't even the first pop song to be called "God Only Knows", as there was a song of that name recorded by the doo-wop group the Capris in 1954: [Excerpt: The Capris, "God Only Knows"] But what's definitely true is that Wilson, even though he was interested in creating spiritual music, and was holding prayer sessions with his brother Carl before vocal takes, was reluctant to include the word in the song at first, fearing it would harm radio play. He was probably justified in his fears -- a couple of years earlier he'd produced a record called "Pray for Surf" by the Honeys, a girl-group featuring his wife: [Excerpt: The Honeys, "Pray For Surf"] That record hadn't been played on the radio, in part because it was considered to be trivialising religion. But Asher eventually persuaded Wilson that it would be OK, saying "What do you think we should do instead? Say 'heck only knows'?" Asher's lyric was far more ambiguous than it may seem -- while it's on one level a straightforward love song, Asher has always pointed out that the protagonist never says that he loves the object of the song, just that he'll make her *believe* that he loves her. Coupled with the second verse, which could easily be read as a threat of suicide if the object leaves the singer, it would be very, very, easy to make the song into something that sounds like it was from the point of view of a narcissistic, manipulative, abuser. That ambiguity is also there in the music, which never settles in a strong sense of key. The song starts out with an A chord, which you'd expect to lead to the song being in A, but when the horn comes in, you get a D# note, which isn't in that key, and then when the verse starts, it starts on an inversion of a D chord, before giving you enough clues that by the end of the verse you're fairly sure you're in the key of E, but it never really confirms that: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows (instrumental)"] So this is an unsettling, ambiguous, song in many ways. But that's not how it sounds, nor how Brian at least intended it to sound. So why doesn't it sound that way? In large part it's down to the choice of lead vocalist. If Mike Love had sung this song, it might have sounded almost aggressive. Brian *did* sing it in early attempts at the track, and he doesn't sound quite right either -- his vocal attitude is just... not right: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows (Brian Wilson vocal)"] But eventually Brian hit on getting his younger brother Carl to sing lead. At this point Carl had sung very few leads on record -- there has been some dispute about who sang what, exactly,  because of the family resemblance which meant all the core band members could sound a little like each other, but it's generally considered that he had sung full leads on two album tracks -- "Pom Pom Play Girl" and "Girl Don't Tell Me" -- and partial leads on two other tracks, covers of "Louie Louie" and "Summertime Blues". At this point he wasn't really thought of as anything other than a backing vocalist, but his soft, gentle, performance on "God Only Knows" is one of the great performances: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows (vocals)"] The track was actually one of those that required a great deal of work in the studio to create the form which now seems inevitable. Early attempts at the recording included a quite awful saxophone solo: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys "God Only Knows (early version)"] And there were a lot of problems with the middle until session keyboard player Don Randi suggested the staccato break that would eventually be used: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows"] And similarly, the tag of the record was originally intended as a mass of harmony including all the Beach Boys, the Honeys, and Terry Melcher: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows (alternate version with a capella tag)"] Before Brian decided to strip it right back, and to have only three voices on the tag -- himself on the top and the bottom, and Bruce Johnston singing in the middle: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows"] When Pet Sounds came out, it was less successful in the US than hoped -- it became the first of the group's albums not to go gold on its release, and it only made number ten on the album charts. By any objective standards, this is still a success, but it was less successful than the record label had hoped, and was taken as a worrying sign. In the UK, though, it was a different matter. Up to this point, the Beach Boys had not had much commercial success in the UK, but recently Andrew Loog Oldham had become a fan, and had become the UK publisher of their original songs, and was interested in giving them the same kind of promotion that he'd given Phil Spector's records. Keith Moon of the Who was also a massive fan, and the Beach Boys had recently taken on Derek Taylor, with his strong British connections, as their publicist. Not only that, but Bruce Johnston's old friend Kim Fowley was now based in London and making waves there. So in May, in advance of a planned UK tour set for November that year, Bruce Johnston and Derek Taylor flew over to the UK to press the flesh and schmooze. Of all the group members, Johnston was the perfect choice to do this -- he's by far the most polished of them in terms of social interaction, and he was also the one who, other than Brian, had the least ambiguous feelings about the group's new direction, being wholeheartedly in favour of it. Johnston and Taylor met up with Keith Moon, Lennon and McCartney, and other pop luminaries, and played them the record. McCartney in particular was so impressed by Pet Sounds and especially "God Only Knows", that he wrote this, inspired by the song, and recorded it even before Pet Sounds' UK release at the end of June: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Here, There, and Everywhere"] As a result of Johnston and Taylor's efforts, and the promotional work by Oldham and others, Pet Sounds reached number two on the UK album charts, and "God Only Knows" made number two on the singles charts. (In the US, it was the B-side to "Wouldn't it Be Nice", although it made the top forty on its own merits too). The Beach Boys displaced the Beatles in the readers' choice polls for best band in the NME in 1966, largely as a result of the album, and Melody Maker voted it joint best album of the year along with the Beatles' Revolver. The Beach Boys' commercial fortunes were slightly on the wane in the US, but they were becoming bigger than ever in the UK. But a big part of this was creating expectations around Brian Wilson in particular. Derek Taylor had picked up on a phrase that had been bandied around -- enough that Murry Wilson had used it to mock Brian in the awful "Help Me, Rhonda" sessions -- and was promoting it widely as a truism. Everyone was now agreed that Brian Wilson was a genius. And we'll see how that expectation plays out over the next few weeks.. [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Caroline, No"]

Light language is a powerful way to start healing your body and understanding more about the reality you're in. Your EGO doesn't have to understand what the light language actually means, but rather, your SOUL receives the message. This is how light language works, and in this video I'll share how you can use light language to heal your body/soul/mind, and upgrade your DNA to prepare for ascension. The things I mentioned in this video are: SUPERHUMAN PROGRAM: https://astralhq.com/superhuman-optimisation-system/ RAISE YOUR VIBRATIONS FREE TRAINING: https://astralhq.com/superhumanfreetraining/ The Astral Projection Podcast from AstralHQ is the best place to learn about astral travel, OBEs and spirituality. You can get bonuses and show notes at AstralHQ.com/Podcast. Make sure to follow the podcast on whatever podcasting platform you use the most because we post weekly episodes! Also, we're on every social media platform, just search for ‘AstralHQ'. Also to get a free astral projection PDF and lessons, go to AstralHQ.com/Join.

Like the vast majority of men that are going through a separation or divorce, you feel like your wife has all the power over you and you no longer have any semblance of control in the situation. It feels sudden - everything was going great, and then your wife seems to no longer love you, no longer trust you, or maybe she even “hates” you. At this point you may be asking yourself, “How the f*ck did this happen?” and “What do I do now?”. In today's episode, Mark is going to talk about how to neutralize the power of your wife by actually addressing the bad habits that you have been doing, without realizing it, and by discussing your lack of boundaries. “The old you has to die in order to let the new you live.”  - Mark Santiago In This Episode:  - All the things that you tolerate in order to not lose intimacy with your wife (Mark tells you how to fix this from within...ASAP) - Being rejected scares you and that's why you don't step up - and you don't even know you have this going inside your head! Mark talks about how to be the leader that your wife needs in order to get through this - Your Ego makes you think she is guilty of all the things that are going wrong in the marriage (it takes two to tango) - How lacking to set consistent boundaries gives your wife room to do whatever she wants and brings tons of uncertainty into the relationship And much more… Join the Thrive Program: - Website: https://training.empoweredman.co/application/ (https://training.empoweredman.co/application/) Take the Empowered Man 30 Day Challenge: - Website: https://www.empoweredman.co/challenge?el=podcast (https://www.empoweredman.co/challenge?el=podcast) How to Connect with The Empowered Man: - Call to Book: https://go.oncehub.com/EmpoweredMan (https://go.oncehub.com/EmpoweredMan) - Get In The Free Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/empoweredbusinessmen (https://www.facebook.com/groups/empoweredbusinessmen) - Watch This: https://youtu.be/8phE5WtaY6U (https://youtu.be/8phE5WtaY6U) - Website:https://empoweredman.co/ ( https://empoweredman.co/) Connect with Mark Santiago: - Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/mark.santiago.35977 ( https://www.facebook.com/mark.santiago.35977) - Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/markwsantiago/ ( https://www.instagram.com/markwsantiago/) - LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-santiago-854a68a/ ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-santiago-854a68a/)

Balancing your business and your personal relationships can be a daunting task. Focus too much on your business/job then your relationships suffer. Focus too much on your relationships, then you business/job suffers. In this episode we explore things that have helped up find a happy medium... Prepare to Prosper! #worklifebalance #relationships #worklifebalancetipsandtechniques 00:00 Intro 03:00 Let Go of Your Ego 06:21 Play Your Position 11:05 Lead & Be Led 16:55 Communicate & Compromise =============================== SUBSCRIBE TO THE LEAGUE OF HU$TLER$ FOR VALUABLE FREE RESOURCES, BUSINESS ADVICE, ACTION STEPS, GIVEAWAYS & SPECIAL OFFERS! League of Hustlers Gear & FREE Downloads: https://shop.leagueofhustlers.com​ - League Administrators Web: https://LeagueOfHustlers.com​ Email: contact@leagueofhustlers.com Insta: @League_of_Hustlers FB: @LeagueofHustlersPodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/league-of-hustlers/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/league-of-hustlers/support

Brian Orlando and Om Patel talk about the times when you know its over. This episode we're joined by two special guests!0:00 When its Time (Om)1:59 Outstaying Your Welcome5:51 Car Talk7:57 Intangible Company Value9:59 More Car Talk11:14 Little Things Add Up12:13 A New Guest12:44 Feeling Stagnant14:52 Your Ego & Titles/Roles16:46 The Case for Stagnancy19:20 Inauthenticity at Work22:27 When its Time (Tricia)25:15 Abuse, Trauma, & Personality Deficits28:15 Toxic People/Politics & Growth31:40 No-Win Scenarios33:54 Now Back to the Topic35:10 Imposter Syndrome37:55 Pitching Product Management to a Scrum Master39:53 The Reason for Brian's Rant40:33 Extraverted Thinking vs. Extraverted Feeling42:03 Imposter Syndrome (Continued)43:24 Scrum Master as a Low-Rent Program Manager45:34 Wrap Up (& Topics We Didn't Get To)= = = = = = = = = = = = Also Available on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKC6O8Tqa4U= = = = = = = = = = = = 

Who's in charge of your life right now? Your Ego or your Intuition? And can you tell the difference? Learn how to tap into your inner wisdom and higher self to make high impact moves in your business with Full Potential Business Coach Alix Rufas! Alix is a Full Potential business coach working with incredible humans based all over the world. To date, she has started 7 business ventures, coached hundreds of powerful leaders 1:1, held 50+ talks, created multiple transformative digital experiences and led 10 leadership retreats around the globe. She's incredibly passionate about and committed to empowering humans around the world to own their full professional potential and leverage it to create their most fulfilling lives. Highlights: In this episode, we cover: Ego or Higher Self: how do you know who's talking? (06.27) Signs that your ego is in the driving seat and self sabotaging. (10.20) Taking your power back! Tools to detach from your ego (12.45) Escaping the whirlpool Story (16.38) Tapping into your intuition and inner wisdom for fully aligned living (18.49) Turning intuitive insights into high impact moves in your business (23.32) Expressing the highest expression of yourself as a female leader (29.35) Your mission is greater than your ego. (35.14) Alix's tips on inner leadership and most empowering things you can do as a sensitive entrepreneur (36.48) Guest links: Website: www.alixrufas.com Socials (@alixrufas): Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alixrufas/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alixrufas/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alix.rufas Brainz Magazine Publications: https://www.brainzmagazine.com/executive-contributor/alix-rufas Mentor & Speaker profile for Female Factor: https://www.femalefactor.global/product-page/alix-rufas How to support the show in under 5 minutes! If you haven't already, please subscribe to the show. I invite you to help grow this community by rating 5* on apple podcasts and leave a one sentence review. I would be very grateful. If you loved this episode please share on instagram stories, and tag @itspauljuggins, so i can thank you personally. Free guided meditations & visualisations at www.pauljuggins.com and learn more about my work.

Have you ever wondering how your skills would transfer to a new role or company? When you've thought about your skills, have you wondering if they, or even you, were good enough?  Throughout our careers, we make changes because our career paths aren't linear. However, being self-aware of who you are and what you do, along with your Unique Professional Value, will help you navigate the twists and turns while you figure out what's next.  Leadership and Team Effectiveness Coach  Dean Cox and I get on the mic to discuss his career journey and how his self-awareness helped him successfully navigate his career. If you are someone who struggles "tooting your own horn," Dean shares why creating healthy boundaries allows you to come from a more authentic and genuine place to do from a place of service rather than being boastful. You can learn more about Dean on his website, https://strongestlinkcc.com. You can email Dean at dean@strongestlinkcc.com. Connect with Dean on LinkedIn here.  Key Topics & Time Stamps: ·      What Dean Wanted to Do Growing Up? (5:25)·      Dean's Non-Linear Career Path (7:14)·      The Power of Being Self-Aware on Your Career Journey (11:40)·      Helping Leaders Be More Effective (16:53)·      Letting Go of Your Ego & Grow Your Leadership Capacity (21:15)·      Tooting Your Own Horn with Healthy Boundaries (27:15)·      Tips to Maintain Your Network (31:30)·      Dean's Advice to Help You Build Your Mid-Career GPS (34:57) List of Resources:·      SHOW UP - Six Strategies to Lead a More Energetic and Impactful Career Calls to Action: ·      Download "The 55-Minute Career Transition Jump Start" by clicking here or visiting https://johnneral.com.·      Get notified when new podcast episodes drop. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here or wherever you listen. And don't forget to rate and review to let me know what you are enjoying or learning. ·      Let's stay connected by following me on social. LinkedIn @johnneral, Instagram @johnneralcoaching, Facebook @johnneralcoaching, Twitter @john_neral.·      Visit https://johnneral.com for more information. 

Hi loves! Thank you for tuning into another Episode of the Higher Love Podcast! This Episode is all about the Ego. Your Ego Is the opposite to your Intuition aka your Higher Self. This is the part of you that wants to keep you safe. Literally. Your Ego would be happy to just have you sit inside all day in a little protective bubble if it meant you weren't going to die. Yes, it's that dramatic. Most every single one of us is driven by the Ego and when we learn to allow it to come down, we open a lot more opportunities for ourselves. Think of your Ego as that overly protective parent that never wants to let you go from their sight. Always carrying anxiety, low vibrations and a fear based mind set. This type of mindset will manifest everything you DON'T want in your life instead of bringing things you do want in your life. When we can learn to bring down the ego we can learn to open new doors of amazing opportunities and begin to manifest our greatest life. For more information about the Ego find me on Social media at Instagram: Shatelkrentz FB Shatel Krentz or Shatel Krentz Psychic Medium.

In this episode, we discuss equine therapy and the incredible ability horses have to sense what's going on inside us and help us work through whatever is blocking us from a stronger sense of self.   Dr. Ashley Dial (formerly Dr. Thompson) received her PhD in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute of Carpinteria, CA. Unlike traditional Western psychology, Depth Psychology does not seek to label problems or prescribe quick fix solutions, instead it approaches mental health issues with compassion, love, empathy, and creates consciousness around what troubles us. Dr. Dial's research and studies on the horse-human relationship have afforded her special insight into the psychological elements involved in equine therapies. In addition to her in-depth studies and education, Dr. Dial's experience working on horse ranches gave her the advantage of complete immersion into the understanding of horses.   Combining her knowledge of Depth Psychology and Trans-species Psychology, Dr. Dial has developed a unique therapeutic model that offers a refreshing and real approach to modern day issues. Dr. Dial's therapeutic technique is personable, honest, and organic. Working from a Jungian perspective of mental health, the entirety of the individual is taken into consideration and worked with in-depth. As the goal of any mental health treatment model should be, Dr. Dial engages clients with the expectation that whatever issues they may have, their treatment will be specific and result oriented.   In this episode, we discuss: ·      Her very interesting story of why she first started working with horses. ·      What depth psychology is and how it differs from traditional psychology. ·      The significance and the insight we can gain from our dreams. ·      The energetic conversations that are happening alongside our actual conversations. ·      The intuitive nature of horses and how they can sense what's going on in us. ·      How and why trans-species therapy can be an easier way to work through traumas and issues than traditional therapy. ·      How working with horses can help with everything from trauma, depression, and grief to everyday stressors and anxiety. You can find and follow Dr. Dial here: ThompsonTherapy.com Instagram: @thompson_therapy Facebook: @AshleyThompsonPhD PREVIOUS EPISODE RECOMMENDATIONS: Ep. 79: Finding Forgiveness & Healing with Sara Schulting Kranz Ep. 72: To Change Your Life & Change the World, You Have to Do the Work with Brandi Harvey Ep. 69: Breathing Through Stress & Anxiety with Dr. Emma Seppala Ep. 43: Brainwash Yourself to Make Better Decisions with Dr. Austin Perlmutter Ep. 24: Meditation to Reduce Stress, Increase Focus, & Rest Your Brain with Monty Cholmeley Ep. 51: Your Unconscious, Your Ego, & You with Jungian Psychologist Gary Bobroff Ep. 7: How the Body Remembers What the Mind Tries to Forget with Amy Pope-Latham Please SUBSCRIBE, SHARE, RATE, and REVIEW the podcast! Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheBetterYouPodcast or Facebook @TheBetterYouPodcast. And you can email the podcast at TheBetterYouPodcast@gmail.com Follow me on all the socials: Instagram @kaciemain_writes, Facebook @kaciemain.write, or Twitter @kaciemain_write. Find my book – I Gave Up Men for Lent, the story of a jaded, hopelessly romantic, health-conscious party girl's search for meaning – on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible. And for everything else you want to know about me, visit my website at www.kaciemain.com

Checking your ego allows you to explore a bit more. Your EGO is trying to kill you, whether by restriction or excessive allowance  Apology opportunities are a great example of an inflated ego. Our ego wants to maintain a place of dominance. We need to operate from a position of tolerance.  Operating with a chip on your shoulder. Thinking that people do not understand you, your past, or your experiences. That is what feeds the ego. Sit down ego, not today...

You can be humble, sensitive, and never talk about yourself... but still, Your Ego could be getting the best of you - and you don't even realize it. What happens to us at work, in our relationships, and in our creative pursuits once Ego takes over? In this episode, we discuss the surprising ways your Ego may be derailing your progress and how to keep it in check.

Your Ego is a d**k... there I said it! So how do you beat it down and win over it? Here are 8 unique, purpose-driven and actionable methods and strategies to overcome your Ego... with examples! Let's dive into it! ---------- Instagram Facebook Pinterest Twitter LinkedIn --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoticcourage/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoticcourage/support

Your Ego can get huge and it all stems from a place of fear come listen to this segment relating to letting go of your EGO

Frank J. Fleming writes for The Babylon Bee and has written several novels, including Sidequest, Hellbender, and Superego. He has just released a sequel to that last one called Superego: Fathom that you need to buy immediately. Jon and Frank discuss sci-fi, the creative process, and parody in an era beyond parody. The intro/outro song is “Hang on to Your Ego” by Frank Black. To listen to all the... Source

Your Ego was created from your past experiences. It is your personality and designed to keep you safe and knowing how to behave in the world around various people, circumstances, and events. How does this relate to fitness? If you've struggled with your weight/nutrition/fitness most of your life, your Ego feels familiar being unhealthy even though it's something you don't like. You know how to live in a body you don't love and sometimes without realizing it, you'll fight to stay that way. When you understand that your Ego wants to keep things the same in your life even if it's not what you want, you can start to see your wellness journey in a new way. Instagram: @__offthedeepend --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-elixir/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-elixir/support

CHAOS *WHAT CONTROLS YOU?* YOUR ANGER? YOUR EGO? Colombian writer/rapper Azomali, debuts his song "Itagui" on our show, as we discuss finding and creating in chaos. Check it out Diosas!