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The Mason Minute
Dedication (MM #4382)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. To this day, people ask me why I do the mason minute, and I tell them, at this point, I don't know anymore why I do it. I don't have anything to prove. It's not about making money. It's just because I've been doing it for so long. Today is the 12th anniversary of our first mason minute. At this point, what do I have to prove? I've got 4381 previous episodes that can last forever. The dedication is saying I can do this every day is what keeps me going. And it takes dedication. Again, a one minute episode doesn't just take one minute to do. All told, it can take about a half an hour, sometimes 45 minutes to produce one mason minute. And then I'm not even talking about all the video versions I have to do to go up on all the social media. And at this point, I've gone too far to stop now. Does that make any sense? I love doing it. I think that's what it all comes down to. And there are times when I'd rather be doing something else, but I know I've got a mason minute to do. Today is one of those days. 12 years of the mason minute, thank you for listening once. Thank you for listening a thousand times. And thank you to the people who have been crazier than that.
The Mason Minute
Natural Light (MM #4380)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. My wife loves watching HGTV and not the home fix up shows, but the shows where they show people out looking and buying houses, $1 million dream home, House hunters international, in fact goes to sleep watching them sometimes. And the one thing I keep hearing, the real estate people talk about is all the natural light, meaning all the windows. Not sure it makes sense when you're in a living room when you're in a den, but the one place they always talk about natural light is in the bathrooms. And that just doesn't make much sense to me. In fact, what's funny is, in our home here, we have two and a half baths, and each of them has a window, and I don't know why, because the last place anybody wants to see me or I want to look out the window is in the bathroom. Now our home in Ohio, two and a half baths again, yet no windows in any of the bathrooms. Why do you put windows in bathrooms? I've never understood it will baffle me forever, but a lot of these homes, windows in the bathrooms. I don't understand for privacy reasons why you'd even put a window near a bathroom. Natural light, it's a wonderful thing, just not in the bathroom.
The Mason Minute
Cold And Flu (MM #4376)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. No one likes to get sick. Or at least no one I know likes to get sick. And the hardest part about getting a cold is the medication. When I catch a cold, it's usually all in my sinuses, and then I lose my voice. Well, this time it was a chess cold, which I rarely ever get and then lost my voice. Now my congestion has gone away, but the voice is getting worse. But the one problem I find is what medication to use. Everybody's got their favorite. As I found, what works for one doesn't work for another. There are certain medications I just don't like. They don't make me sleep well. They may be jittery. I don't like to take aspirin for headaches. So I'm not good at the drug thing. So this time around, I try to core seat and HBP cold and flu medication. I don't know how medication works for both cold and flu because they're similar, but different, but I know it only attacks certain things. Even as big as I am, I can only take one pill because it makes me jittery. But the cold and flu medication, I could sit there in the island stair for hours and never figure out what to take. Hopefully it's going to get better.
The Mason Minute
Fans Are Concerned (MM #4375)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. Last week I was talking about how people are always concerned with what's going on with celebrities. I've noticed a new trend in celebrity gossip. I didn't know what it is, a new story online. I saw it happen last week twice in one day in my newsfeed. So what I call the fans are concerned era, where you see something happen, for example, Tiffany amber thiessen from saved by the bell and Melrose place was posting something on Instagram recently. And fans saw the pictures and were concerned. She was sitting in an ice bath. And a big trough with ice in it, smiling from ear to ear with a knit hat on, but fans were concerned. I don't quite know why. And she didn't explain why she was doing it. Michael Bolton was revealed on The Masked Singer last week. And when he came out of the costume, fans were concerned, his health he looked. I don't know about you, but I can't imagine a man in his 60s, just climbing out of a hot, sweaty suit, and looking poised and collected. Yeah, it's very weird. But I think it's more just feeling space on the Internet. It's a way to talk about celebrities, but yet not really talk about them. Yes, fans are concerned. But are they really?
The Mason Minute
Work Ahead (MM #4374)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. Years ago, when I was in school, I learned the value of being able to work ahead. I don't know if you can hear it right now, but I'm about to lose my voice. See, I've been working ahead. I caught a cold late last week, so I knew it was coming. Eventually when I catch a cold, it always goes to my throat. So I worked ahead. It got some episodes done. I thought I was good. It was going to cut today's episode on Sunday, but I'd lost my voice. So I waited, try to get through the day. I already had Monday cut. I was good. So while it finally caught up with me, so you're getting the ugly voice today. I hope it'll be back tomorrow. I planned ahead. I've got mason minutes, well, at least in idea form, but I haven't cut them yet, because I got to try to get through this. So for the next few days, you may have to endure this nasty voice. It's always happened to me throughout the years. I don't catch a cold very often, but it bit me on Thursday afternoon, and I'm feeling the pain, just in my throat. Other than that, something suggestion I'm fine, no fever, so not worried about COVID. The man working ahead, it's always a good idea when you can. Of course, this time, it finally caught up with me.
The Mason Minute
Willpower (MM #4373)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. Willpower is a strange thing. We all have some sort of willpower to varying degrees to varying things. I can stay away from drinking from drugs. Lots of different things for years. Never have to worry about those things, but certain food items, I couldn't stay away from donuts for a year. My wife has interesting willpower. There's some things she has no problem with, and then she can buy a candy bar and eat part of it and work on it for days at a time. She can buy just a regular sized Hershey bar, and it could take her up to four or 5 days to eat the whole thing, but then there's just some things she has no willpower for. It's kind of funny. We like to buy these. Well, they're not cake rolls. They look like a cake roll except the rectangular at publics, and they can usually serve about 6 or 8 people. It takes me about three days to eat mine. My wife, she can go a week and a half, almost two weeks before she finishes the whole thing. I'm amazed by her willpower. With some things, with other things, there's no willpower at all. I guess we all have our vices. We all have our things that we can't stay away from. For her, it's food. I just don't understand that at all, but you can take one look at me and see why.
The Mason Minute
Opinions (MM #4368)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. If you listen to the podcast over the years, you know I spend probably more time on the Internet than most people. And the one thing I've learned over social media and for 18 years is that everybody has an opinion. You know, the old saying, opinions are like, everybody's got one. I left out a word there for you. But the one thing I've also found recently, because everybody has an opinion because they've read something on the Internet. They're now an expert. I've sat there and watched people online. Argue about subjects, they truly know nothing about. And they truly don't care. The only reason they're arguing is because they want to be right. They want to force people to believe what they believe to give them what they want, and they don't care what it takes to get that. We've learned that from politicians over the last few years, I have a feeling. But because everybody's got the Internet because everybody can hide behind a computer screen, they can be tough. They can be opinionated. And they don't care if they're wrong, because they're now experts. It's part of the problem we had with COVID. Everybody was an expert, but the doctors, because the doctors were trying to pull one over on us. We know it's not true. Opinions, everybody's got one.
The Mason Minute
Slight Change (MM #4366)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason, now I know this is just a first world problem, but I hope you'll indulge me for 60 seconds. I spent a lot of time on streaming services, both video and audio these days. And one thing I've noticed in recent years is they always change out the artwork that goes with a particular movie, TV show, or even album. Now back in the day, when we just had record albums or CDs, if we wanted to find something, we just flipped through the covers, and we knew what the cover art looked like. I could almost close my eyes and tell you some of my favorite albums and what exactly they look like. But I've noticed artwork is changing. For some reason, some of the artwork that corresponds with some of my favorite albums isn't the right artwork on Spotify. On the TV streamers like Netflix, it's even worse. Something I think I've watched like a movie, I'll go in to check and see it's like, well, I think I've watched that, but I don't remember that picture being associated with it. So you start the movie and you find out two minutes in. Oh, I did watch this. They just changed the artwork on the front. They're hoping I forget and start watching and go, oh, I did like this and I'll watch it again. I don't know why they do it, but they do. It's the end of my rant. Thanks for indulging me.
The Mason Minute
Free Blankets (MM #4363)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. If you've watched any of those strange cable channels or late night TV shows, you know the folks at shriners hospital for children give away a free blanket, one of their little cute blankets with a bear on it for giving donations every month. But I noticed recently other charities have started giving blankets too. What is the fascination with free blankets? Do we have a need for these things? But I've noticed against shriners hospital with their blankets. They wounded warrior projects. See commercials for them every now and again for $19 a month donation. They'll give you a free blanket. And then just the other night, the DAV giving away a free blanket. I would love to know the logic behind free blankets and monthly donations. I know the folks at PBS have been doing pledge drives for years. And a lot of charities. I mean, whether it's Sally struthers begging for money for the charity, she was working for. I mean, I don't have a problem with charities wanting money. But again, why a free blanket? Is there a thoughtful way of giving back? I must be confused or something. For shriner's hospital to do the blanket thing. But now to have wounded warriors and DAV. Is there something going on that I'm missing? I have a feeling there might be.
The Mason Minute
Noisy Neighbors (MM #4362)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. I lost track in the number of apartments I lived in a couple of apartments with my parents and then a lot of apartments between my 18th birthday and probably my 35th or 40th birthday. I literally lost track. We bought our first house in 1999. And since then, I don't think I've lived in an apartment. I much prefer living in a house. Because noisy neighbors and apartments happen all the time. Whether they're throwing loud parties, playing a lot of music or making too much noise if you know what I mean in the middle of the night. It's extremely annoying. But see, when you move to Nashville, even if you live in a house, your next door neighbor is likely a musician. We've been living in this house now. I think something like 6, 7 years, and we've had numerous neighbors next door. Our houses aren't that close together, but luckily for me, our latest neighbor is a bass player, and he practices all the time. Before that, I guess it was his buddy who owned the house before then. He was a drummer, and I'd get drum solos during the day. You'd think when you don't share common walls, you wouldn't have to hear that stuff. But in Nashville, it's always been a little different.
The Mason Minute
I Know That Feeling (MM #4361)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. I haven't been considered an athlete for a long time. And anybody who knew me back in high school would say I probably wasn't much of an athlete then. But it's been 45 years since I played competitive basketball. In my case, mainly said on the bench. But last night, I had a feeling go through me that I hadn't felt in nearly 45 years. So when my nephews team lost in the sectionals in Indiana, we watched the game on TV and we'd seen them over the weekend, went to see him play last Friday night. But when they lost, I didn't have to talk to them. I didn't have to see his face because I know that feeling because I felt it last night and it wasn't something I felt in a long time. Now my basketball career, if you call it that. In high school, life took over. Sure, I still follow sports, but last night I had this feeling come over me. It's almost like a sickness to your stomach. You're kind of queasy, but you don't have to throw up. You just don't feel quite right. It's that part of being on a team where you know you can't control it all yourself, but you still don't feel right. His season's over. He's got a few more. He's only a sophomore. That's not the point. I know that feeling. I felt a premium last night. And it's not a fun one.
The Mason Minute
How Did We Live? (MM #4359)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. Today I ask a serious question, how did we survive driving before GPS? And I know I can ask this question because GPS didn't exist when I started driving in the 70s. It debuted in 1978 and was strictly for government use, and by the 80s people could start using it. But a GPS device was hugely expensive then. I finally got my first one probably in the 90s and it cost me four or 500 bucks. Now you can just download the ways app on your phone and get the same technology. I use ways every morning when I go to work. Why? Because I never have to worry about accidents on the road in front of me. I always know how long it's going to take me to get there, and usually it tells me from the moment I leave the house, how long it's going to be, and I make it within a minute or two. It's an amazing tool when we travel. And I remember all the old days of just carrying maps in our cars. We're asking for directions. Yeah, remember that GPS has been a life saver and it's just so easy and so convenient, a truly ask. How did we live before GPS? I do remember the times, and boy traveling wasn't the same.
The Mason Minute
Willing To Pay (MM #4354)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. It's been a topic of conversation for a few years now, and it's finally coming to light on Twitter and on Facebook and Instagram. The question is, are you willing to pay for some privileges on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter? We're talking about verification right now. That blue check mark next to your name to let people know yours is the official channel. It started with Elon Musk and Twitter announcing that they were adding an $8 a month charge if you wanted to be verified. Now, of course, they're making some changes to two factor authentication. That plays into it, but you can still do it for free, so are you willing to pay. This week, meta announced, they're going to add the option for additional fees or additional income. I think it's $12 a month combined to be able to have that blue check mark that verification and to have a personal meta technology person, meaning. You got a problem. You finally got somebody you can talk to. You don't get lost in a maze of AI chat bots. I don't know about you. I use them every day. Am I willing to pay? Not yet. You're going to have to give me more than a check mark.
Dr. Drew Podcast
A highlight from Byron Bowers
"Victory. Or we've been interviewing all the folks that have been canceled throughout the pandemic and trying to pick their brains of what we didn't hear. Byron Bowers today, the stand up special is spiritual inward, streaming on Hulu, right? That's what they put there. For me. Well, it also could be inward. Inward. I see. I like that. I like the tundra. So it feels safer as a white person saying, just inward. And we'll just use that as a marker for the end. Or just go to the water cooler. And say it, or in the basement. Let's see what happens. I titled it that for those reasons because it's a tribute to old school comedy albums where you couldn't talk about it in public. Richard. Well, Richard Pryor did, right? Yeah, prior and then think about red fox and those guys. Sorry about that. But yeah, you could not discuss these things in public. So I thought it would be fun to bring some of that back. I was a huge Richard Pryor fan as an adolescent. So it was the 70s when I was that age. And you had, I don't know, people missed this piece of history, but you had shit tons of adolescent white boys. The memorizing his routines and saying that stuff. And not having any idea the impact they were having on their African American friends. Well, I mean, we're going through that now. With various different things, right? With the whole mental health thing and it's a lot of different topics that we might make fun of or talk about amongst ourselves that are funny to us, but we don't know. The implications later on, well, let's talk about that second. I want to make sure I get all your stuff out there. It's at Byron barris BY RON BOW. Instagram and Twitter. Also you're acting and stuff. You're in late in the Lake. We can talk about that. And then I say with the Hulu special. So, but now it's interesting to me that you brought the mental health stuff, obviously that's near and dear in my heart, but it is for you. It's new to our community, to openly express and title these conditions or conditions. Even emotion like, you know, having a motion strip that you're being empathetic or soft as we call it, you know, and becoming older and being in a relationship and learning that this is what makes relationships last. How'd you get to this point? I think it's just through growth and being indifferent environments. Culturally and stuff like that and seeing how people operate. And usually when people have great insight, which is really what you're describing, they have to follow their face a bunch of times. I definitely do that and continue to do that. I've done shrooms also. So falling on your face isn't as bad as what we are taught it is. We have the wrong definition of failure. Yeah, it's just learning. Yeah, it's just learning and I studied engineering and it's just lab work. A B testing. Constantly failing because we fell into get it right. So I started to live by that mantra once, you know, I've done shrooms and it was able to tie science and spirituality together. All right, it's a whole lot. We're going to get to that. We're just were you supposed to be an engineer, was that the plan? Or were you an engineer? I don't know. That's why I went to school for, because I remember trying to go for art and art just seemed like such an expensive thing that I was locked out of. So engineering to me was the other creative thing because I would take stuff apart at home and try to put it back. She liked her. I said, Lonnie love, my friend, comedian, was electrical engineer. That was her original career for GM, I think it was. After I was a double E major, two shout out to Lonnie love. And for completing the completing that, but yeah, I never went into the workforce because once I decided I wanted to do stand up, that's when I decided to graduate. Like, I would have just been in school forever. Yeah, yeah. So you found your thing. Yeah, 'cause I was like, math, it's like math was boring, but aside from quantum physics, which I really didn't make it into, but I was like, math, everything has been created already. Right. You're just learning other people's sort of procedures. Yeah, like one plus one is always going to equals two until you get into the spiritual realm. Okay, so let's go numerology and then that changes. All right, so let's go there. Everything. The mysticism of numbers, you're sort of tilting out. And did that sort of come to you while you were on mushrooms? No, that stuff started to come to me before. Tell me your theory about that. You know, it's interesting because you read about these different sequences like Fibonacci and all these spiritual numbers that are so deep in the universe. So it's a pie, natural log, all this stuff. And as you get older, you start to experience natural law versus man law because man law can change with natural law, never changes. And coming from a Christian belief system and growing out of that or seeing the flaws in it to me and why it didn't serve where I
Therapy for Black Girls
A highlight from Session 299: Becoming A Therapist
"Hey y'all, thanks so much for joining me for session two 9 9 of the therapy for black girls podcast. We'll get right into our conversation after word from our sponsors. I want to share with you just a few reasons why I love shopping at Whole Foods market. First of all, they're cheese selection. I love cheese. Sometimes I have questions though. I want to try new things. And did you know they have certified cheese professionals that are there to answer your questions? I love the creamy Brie, the aged Gouda, the list goes on. They have so many things to choose from. And then they're floral department. They have so many beautiful flowers that are even local. And sourced for good, meaning they support workers and communities and the environment, and a floors can help you build the perfect arrangement. And then there's wine. Each bottle has been personally sourced by the whole foods market wine team. So you know you're in good hands. Fall in love at Whole Foods market. Over 100,000 people across the U.S., most of whom are of African descent, battle sickle cell disease, a condition that can cause life threatening complications. Donating blood with the American Red Cross helps support sickle cell patients, some of whom may require up to 100 units of blood each year to manage the condition. The Red Cross is working with partners in the black community to grow the number of donors who are black.
Ask The Health Expert
A highlight from How to Combat Shameflammation with Will Cole
"Look and feel right now and have the energy to play full out at a hundred. I have my buddy doctor will Cole back and he first of all, he's the most creative with his book titles of anyone ever. So we've had him on the show to talk about keto tarion and then he also did his New York Times Best Seller intuitive fasting Andy also wrote the inflammation spectrum. He's back this time we're going to be talking gut feelings healing the shame fueled relationship between what you eat and how you feel. Give it again another amazing title. And doctor wool Cole is a functional medicine expert. He has a huge telehealth practice like way before everybody else was doing it. And he is focused on functional medicine approach to thyroid autoimmune hormonal imbalances, digestive disorders, and more. He also has the art of being well podcast and is featured all over goop. And what's very interesting about him is, hey, he, again, does the best book titles in just the way he explains things, but all has come up with how he works in his practice and how he's explaining things to patients, and you're going to hear about how his books come out of that, which I think is just genius. We're going to have some cool stuff that you will get by going to JJ virgin dot com Ford slash gut feelings you're going to get some awesome recipes. We always love those, sneak peek of the book. And some and invited to a three week event that he's doing with our buddy doctor Daniel amen and also another podcast guest, doctor Carolyn leith. So you'll want to go and get that and again that's a JJ virgin dot com slash gut feelings and now I am going to introduce my buddy, doctor will call to you. If you haven't heard him before, you may want to go back and listen to some of the other podcasts he is a fantastic guest. And we're doing a little different today again. We're going to really talk about the gut brain connection. And how you have to work from both the dietary side and the nervous system
Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu
A highlight from AI REVOLUTION: The #1 MEGATHREAT to Our Economy & How To PREPARE NOW | Raoul Pal
"Do you think that AI presents a mega threat to our economy? It's very exciting technology, but when I really think about how this is going to play out, I'm not so sure that it doesn't get brutal. Okay, you've just gone straight in for the big question. I mean, this is not the quickest question to answer. I've thought about this for a long time. And I've read, you know, I started things like homo deus. There was a few other books to come out. There was some guys from Cambridge University, congressman's name, asked a really famous book, he's been on real vision as well. Nick, yeah, so Nick bostrom's started with Nick bostrom. It started with then homo deus that came after sapiens by Noah harari, then I started reading also mo gordo, who wrote scary smart. He used to run Google X, talked about this. So I've been thinking about and I've just read another book now about it. The philosophical questions, what it is, where the technology is and know some people in this space like Emma mossack, who build stability AI. So. There is no way, no, let's start let's start with approaches for different angle. It is augmentation of humans. And it's amazing. And we're lucky because the human population of most of the western developed world is diminishing over time. It's aging and we're not replacing ourselves. So we replace ourselves with AI and machines. So we're seeing it Amazon warehouses. A third of the Amazon workforce is robots, but they're three or four times more productive than humans. So therefore, we will see endless build outs of robots instead of humans. An AI is disrupting jobs we didn't quite imagine would be disrupted first. We thought it would be accountants or whatever. And what it ends up being is artists creators. I mean, I just saw a website today for model agency. Where you can get an AI model? Yep. And you can't tell. And so you can define exactly what race color age any requisite you want, and it makes it perfectly. So I'm like, okay, I didn't expect the modeling industry to get disruptive, because how many people actually get a catwalks, it's not. It's for video or photography. So it's going to change a lot of jobs. It's also not going to offer a lot of opportunities. All of us will be thinking about AI strategy like in the late 90s we were all thinking about Internet strategy when we're building businesses. Fine. Okay, we can deal with that. The issue is Moore's Law and the exponentiality of all of this. So these language models, these large language models that allow which GPT came out with are increasing exponentially in their power. Of an order of magnitude that we can't get a heads around because we think in linear terms because we're dumb humans. So these things are doubling tripling every year or less. And this was the fastest you've heard me use this phrase before the fastest adoption of technology in all history was crypto. Blockchain technology. Chat GPT went from zero to a 100 million users in a month. Okay, so now we've got AI that is like a virus. It is so unstoppable. And we've got two or three different people building it at scale, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, with OpenAI, and then stability AIs and open-source network AI. Which is almost unstoppable because it's doubly viral. Because you've got so this is going on, the computational power is exploding the cost of computers going down. And what it means is that AI becomes more and more powerful. So if you listen to that and he knows because he ran Google X where a lot of this has been incubated, they discover DeepMind. They were the people really to build out the large language models. He says, well, right now, specific AI is better at humans in almost everything it does. So specific AI has a better result set than any radiologist on earth. And just for people that don't know, specific AI or narrow AI is it's one task. Go get good at reading and x-ray go, get good at playing chess, playing go, whatever. Correct. So, okay, fine. They think that mogor thinks that by the end of this decade, AGI, so that's a generalist AI. So like humans or chat GPT is a general is a general can navigate a grocery store, you can play chess. You can play in the markets. Well, the weather's going to be like pointed at anything. Anything. I could ask you a question you can ask me a question. So he thinks that with the computational power and the progression of where this is going, that it's almost certain that by the end of this decade we get to the point where AI is smarter than humans. Now, we don't really worry about that because we already think it's smarter than us at doing certain things. And soon it will be smarter than us at driving cars and it already smarter us flying planes, which is kind of take it for granted. We don't see it. But then if you get to the ray kurzweil singularity point, so and Moe godat says, okay, here's the really big problem. And this is exactly what Noah harari says as well. Is when you take it extrapolates it a little bit further out into the future. So ray kurzweil's singularity moment is 2049.
Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu
A highlight from Why Waking Up At 3:30 am Everyday Will CHANGE YOUR LIFE (Try This For 7 Days!) | Tom Bilyeu
"At the same time every day. Don't use an alarm. Sleep as much as you need, but the second you wake up, you're gonna get yourself going. Let me tell you all about what my life looked like before I started getting out of bed and really getting after it. One I was sliding towards depression because my life felt like it was completely out of control. Two, I was wasting four to 5 hours a day every day. Three, I spent my time tired all the time because I wasn't going to bed with intention, which means that my body clock was all over the place. I would go to bed two to three hours differently every night, sometimes earlier, sometimes later, I had nothing specific to anchor to to what time that I was going to go to bed, which means that if I just let my body sleep, then I was going to wake up whenever I was going to wake up. And if I set an alarm even worse, I was going to wake up, but feel terrible. Now, most of the time, I had an alarm. So I would just wake up feeling terrible. And I would snooze the alarm and snooze the alarm and snooze the alarm. And I would constantly, one, I would still sleep like another hour, but I would do it in 9 minute fits and starts. So you end up starting your day absolutely terribly. You feel like you're on the back foot from the moment you get up because by the time you finally get yourself out of bed, depending on if you're talking about a period when I had a job or when I didn't, which even I can't believe that that's actually true in my lives, but there was life. There was extended periods of time where I didn't have a job, and then times where I did. So when I didn't, I would just lay in bed, and when I did, I was on the back foot and that was when I really could not get momentum going in my life. And I couldn't understand why. Now from a biological standpoint, I really did not feel good. I was low energy all the time when you're low energy you lack motivation when you lack motivation, then you don't make the changes that you need to make, partly because you're not going out and learning the things you need to learn in order to create a framework in your mind that's going to tell you things like what I'm telling you now. Now, when I started implementing rules in my life, then one, I was going to bed on time 9 p.m. every day like it's a religion. I would wake up when I would wake up without an alarm, so I would actually feel refreshed and then I gave myself only ten minutes to get out of bed. So imagine going from snoozing for an hour when I had a job, or laying in bed four to 5 hours, if I didn't have a job to getting all the sleep that I needed, getting up within ten minutes and having my day structured such that, if I was awake Monday through Friday, I was either working or working out. Imagine the amount of momentum that you can create in your life when you act like that. And so everything changed dramatically once I started putting those rules in life. Now, when I did this, I actually didn't have a job at the time that I put this rule set into place, but I started going to bed at the same time. I started whatever time I woke up, I gave myself ten minutes to get out of bed, and then I would get right to it. Now, at the time, I had a big goal of writing a screenplay, which I ended up accomplishing, I can't remember how long it took me four to 6 months, something like that. And I was like, holding this thing was like, oh my God, I actually managed to accomplish this. Why, because I was getting up early. Now what ends up happening if you're going to bed early, you're going to sleep somewhere between probably 7 to 9 hours depending on your age, or if you're really going hard after something that's really exciting for you or quite frankly, really stressful, might be closer to 6, 6 and a half, which is about where I live. 6 and a half to 7 hours of sleep measured. Has an average over the course of a year. And so like last night, I went to bed at 9, I woke up at three 30 a.m.. Now, if you have my rule set, you get up at three 30 a.m. by three 31, you're either working or working out. Now you can imagine that you get a lot done. As I'm recording this now, I think it's like three 34 p.m. in the afternoon. I've already worked a 12 hour day by the time that I'm recording this. And I'm filling all of my intermittent moments where I'm transitioning from one thing to another, reading, researching, so I am constantly maximizing my time. Now, by the time most people woke up, I'd already been working. If they wake up at 6 o'clock, I'd already been working for two and a half hours. If they wake up at 7 o'clock, I've already been working for what, three and a half hours. So I'm able to get a half day's work in because it might pace, it's really getting a lot done before most people get to their first meeting. So it's really incredible how much you can do in a day when you begin maximizing it. But it really does begin with going to bed on time, not setting an alarm. This is not me telling people to get 6 hours of sleep or 5 hours. This is me telling you to get as much sleep as you can get so that you can be cognitively optimized so that you've got the biological energy that you need. And so that you really can pursue the only thing that matters, which is skill, acquisition. Once you have the right skills, you can apply that to accomplishing the things you want. But look, we live in a hyper competitive world. I always tell people there's three things that you've got at your disposal. You can work hard, you can work smart, and you can work long hours. Now, people always say, if I'm working hard and smart, why do I have to work long hours? Why Tom? Do I need to get up early? Because eventually you will encounter somebody like me and I'm doing all three. So if you're trying to accomplish something big in your life, I'm telling you, you just have to maximize all of the things that are at your disposal. And one of those things is just the number of hours in your day. Now remember, I love what I do. So for me to go hard after the things that I'm trying to do, create and build, it's the right of a lifetime. I don't want you to do something that's miserable. I don't want you grinding it out to try to make a bunch of money. I want you to pursue your passions with everything that you have to leave it all out on the field like your life depends on it, because how you feel about your life actually does depend on it. So many people have a constant
The Emma Guns Show
A highlight from Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton | Breaking the glass ceiling, getting off the streets and redefining what it means to be a woman in power.
"After having the experience that I did of homelessness, I hid it for so long, I felt like I couldn't talk about it, but actually if you own your vulnerabilities and your failures with as much conviction as you own your successes, then the people that come up behind you don't have such a tough journey. But when I first joined the fire service, there's absolutely no doubt they didn't want me there. How many times has women do we just put up with things that happen? Because we think it's just the way of the world. And I did a 7 year part time PhD in three years and people told me I was nuts and the work that we did changed the national policy. There's something deeply important about not blaming people for the biases that they have and recognizing that we all have them, but there's something for everybody in that, not just women not just someone that's experiencing advice everyone can take something from that. My
Ask The Health Expert
A highlight from 15 Major Warnings to Know Before Using Ozempic for Weight Loss
"Clients for four decades, I figured out a few things that work extremely well. Stay tuned, later in the episode, I'll reveal my number one tool to help you eat better and feel better fast. Hey, this is JJ virgin. Thanks so much for joining me. This is ask the health expert. In each episode, I put the power of health in your hands and share ways to get healthy, lose weight, heal your gut detox and lots more so you can look and feel better fast. If you'd rather watch the video, hey, I did put on my makeup and do my hair, so check it out on my YouTube channel. So if you've even glimpsed at the news over the past year, you probably heard about the new miracle drug for weight loss. And you may be wondering if this would make sense for you. And the answer is maybe. If you're 30 or more pounds over fat, notice I said over fat, struggling
The Emma Guns Show
A highlight from Caroline Neville: Executives, Boardrooms and Ambition.
"Welcome, welcome, welcome. Thank you for joining me for another episode of the Emma gun show. In this episode, I am joined by Caroline Neville, who is the president of cosmetic executive women. You may know it as CEW. And in this show we talk about so much and it was such a pleasure to be able to speak to Caroline and actually as a sheer coincidence. I'm just going to tell you this little story. When I left, they were recording as is often the case when you do an interview, your brain sort of percolates all of the information and the content and the conversation that you just had. And I kept, I'm going to taxi. I was rushing to another podcast. It was pouring rain, and I kept having the words mother beauty, mother beauty, go round and round in my head. Because I just felt like when it comes to beauty, Caroline's knowledge caramelized expertise, Caroline's reaching the industry is just so vast that she's almost like the hub of the industry. She is an incredible support. She nurtures and nourishes people within the business, new talent, people who've been around for a long time. And that mother beauty just kept going around and around in my head and as it's so happens by sheer coincidence, I am publishing this in the UK on Mother's Day and I wonder if face stepped in. But anyway, in this conversation, we talk about cosmetic executive women, how it started, what it stands for now. The support that it gives new members young businesses and Caroline also gives some incredible insight into the fact that the beauty industry is known for being a place where people pursue their passion. And one of the first things that happens when somebody wonders about whether to pursue their passion in many cases is it's a risk should I do it, shouldn't I do it? And Caroline gives some very clear concise and wonderful advice to anybody who has an idea. So if you're listening and you thought I think I'm onto something, I don't quite know how to go about it. I think Caroline's words will be incredibly inspiring and perhaps may be the thing that help you in your decision making process. We also talk about the many changes that have happened in the industry in terms of digital, in terms of what's happening with the retail space, in terms of what's happening with brands, and she also really talks about some of the stuff that I didn't know. Somebody's been the industry for 15 years. I really wasn't aware of quite how much philanthropic work CW does and quite how quite how incredible some of the support systems they put in place for their members and people within the industry are. So I came away from it just feeling very overwhelmed and encouraged by the fact that CW even exists and you'll hear Caroline is incredibly eloquent and very articulate about the whole matter, so I will let her do all the talking. If you're listening on iTunes, I would love it if you would subscribe and if you're enjoying the show, please do leave me a review and if you could write a little rating that would be incredible and as ever if you do want to
The Emma Guns Show
A highlight from Bullet Points | The Disease to Please, Caroline Hirons newness and deconstructing gender bias.
"Hello hi and welcome to another episode of the Emma gun show and a mid week installment of bullet points. Thank you so so much for all of your messages about my conversation with the psychotherapist Anna Martha. I have to be honest with you as soon as we started talking about people pleasing in that episode, I knew it was going to get very deep, very fast and clearly it did. See, I realized a few years ago how much I am a people pleaser. Or should I say recovering people pleaser? It came from a place of low self worth and only feeling I was of any value in a relationship be it personal or professional. If I was doing something to please the other person and it's a tricky one because it's very easy to lose yourself in how other people treat you or perceive you. And that's what Anna and I really didn't shy away from talking about Anna is definitely experienced people pleasing in her own life. And has had to really pull herself back from it. And I think that's what you hear in that conversation. Two people who've kind of realized learn the hard way and then tried to put themselves back together. If that makes sense. And I think anyone who has identified this in themselves and has done the work to become less of a people pleaser will know how hard it is and how setting boundaries say no and saying what you want takes a lot of time and effort. I think if I lie up at night thinking about my day, it will often be because I think, oh God, did I roll over too easily for that person? Did I not say what I was really feeling? Should I have been a bit stronger in my the way I said that? Because I think now that they're not taking me seriously, that's the kind of thing that I think actively takes place during that kind of recovery. And there's it's something that a lot of you have mentioned in your email since the show went live, how once you do know it, that's when the real work starts because it's easy to fall into those old habits. And someone sent me a really interesting email about how to deal with friends or people in your life who regularly take advantage and how to set that boundary. And I just thought I'd mention it in bullet points because I want to refer to the conversation I had with doctor ramani, who came on doctor ramani devalue, who came on the podcast a little while ago. She's an expert in narcissist narcissism and narcissistic relationships, how YouTube channel is amazing. But I think it really is, if you listen to that conversation with Anna, it's a really nice one to move on to. Because I think what's really tempting if you're a people pleaser is you will often find that the people that you're attracting to your life feel no problem with asking. They probably don't say please and they also probably don't say thank you. And once you identify and you can identify those people a mile off once you start to do the work and you begin to think, oh, this is what I do and this is what they do. For example, if someone did me a favor, I would never not say thank you. And if I asked for somebody, if I asked somebody for a favor, I would never not say please. And yet I would let other people ask favors of me without saying please and I would do that favor and I would let them get away with not saying thank you, things like that. But doctor ramani says it's never a good idea to call those sorts of friends out and say you're wrong. Rather simply because those people will probably stamp their feet and make you the problem and say that you're being difficult. Rather to do one last thing and then leave that dynamic. Just kind of, yeah, of course I'll do that for you. You know problem. But you know how it's going to end. So actually, you can draw a line. So that's the best advice I can give you. And if you haven't listened to that conversation with Anna yet, then any of that resonates with you, then definitely go back and listen. And if it does and you want some more insight or some more help, that conversation with doctor ramani de basile is really really useful. So just as a sort of wind that bit up, if you have ever felt as though you're always doing for other people, then I do highly recommend you give that conversation with Anna, some of your time, her insights are really helpful and incredible and also you can just set you on a path that will be more fulfilling and will get you closer to you rather than closer to doing things for you rather than always doing for other people. Right. What else has been going on? It has been very, very busy recently. I've recorded more podcasts in the last since the beginning of the year. Then so in that space of time, what is it three months? I've recorded more podcasts than I have in any other three month period, I think. And I can't wait for you to hear them all, by the way. But I've also been stacking up some incredible beauty products recently, so I get a lot of sample sent in, a lot of new products. And I realize I've been really bad at sharing the beauty side of things with you, especially on Instagram. So I'm going to start doing that again. And I just want to pick out a few that have come in recently that have what one I'm very, very excited about in a few that have already just completely blown me away. So the first is Jamie genevieve's brand vive, launched the most beautiful eyeshadow quads that I'll be using and reviewing on my Instagram shortly. The colors and pigments are so buttery and beautiful and so easy to wear and I'm excited to really get stuck in and play with them. And if you have been following the launch of vive, Jamie came on the podcast, what was it in 2020 when the brand launched? She previously had launched three ten pound palettes. And they are genuinely three of my most worn and most favorite eyeshadow palettes of all time. But these quads are much more curated. There's an edit of four shades to create very specific looks. You can obviously you can do with any kind of palette, but with these four pound palettes you can do something quite casual, and then really glam it up. There's one in particular noir that is so glamorous. It's just so inky black and silvery gray. I can't wait to play with it. The other brand I wanted to tell you about is Ilya. So I think that's how you say it. And it's a skin care makeup hybrid brand. And I've been seeing a lot of my friends using their super serum skin tint, which has an SPF of 40, so Ruth quickly had used that, I'd seen the pebbles using it. And I've actually had lunch with lily and I was saying I really need to try that and she said, honestly, it's amazing. And I've also been using their true skin serum concealer. So together they work really, really nicely. And when I tell you that these bases offer this incredible lightweight finish, but blend completely seamlessly. I am not joking. In fact, you barely need to blend. I pat them in with my fingertips sort of warm them up and pat them into my skin. And it looks just like I have naturally very even glowing healthy looking skin, which is great. It looks like I haven't got makeup on, but it just looks like I've got great skin. So I'm genuinely totally blown away by them. I really highly recommend them. And then very excitingly today, after a delay in post, I
Ask The Health Expert
A highlight from Eat for Energy with Ari Whitten
"Okay, this possibly is one of my favorite all time podcasts. So I have back Ari whitton. I'm gonna tell you a little bit about them if you've never heard of them. We'll also link in the show notes to the other podcasts I've done with them because we refer back to those. And you'll be able to get that and a really cool webinar that he is doing and a guide on supplements for energy all at JJ virgin dot com slash ARI, and all right, so we are going to be talking about a bunch of stuff. I've known Ari now for ten plus years because he is a, we have a mutual friend, John astroth, and he was John Afro Ashraf's personal trainer and John pinged mingles like JJ, you gotta meet Ari. So that's how I've known Ari for ages and ages I'm sure you probably heard of John ASTRO F two he does super cool stuff in the brain world. He's got neuro gem. Let me tell you a little bit about Ari. So what's been interesting is I met Ari he was a personal trainer and he went so deep into the rabbit hole of energy. He's going to explain why he created the energy blueprint system which now he's helped over 2 million people with he's the bestselling author of the ultimate guide to red light therapy. He has the energy blueprint podcast, he was, by the way, it might share my mind share collaborative company where we have all the coolest health experts health practitioners coming each year. He got voted the number one health influencer of the year. And has an MS in human nutrition and functional medicine, a BS and knees. He has certified as a corrective exercise specialist and performance enhancement specialist from the national academy of sports medicine and he's completed all of his coursework for clinical psychology, PhD. He has done just some awesome stuff and he also has the eat for energy book that was published with hay house. So lots of cool stuff. We holy smokes. If you've ever wondered, what is the story with caffeine? He did the best explanation of what caffeine does to you and, you know, can you drink it? Can you not drink it? I'm not telling you, you're gonna have to listen to the podcast. We talk about when to eat and why that matters. You know, what the real source of fatigue is and what you need to do to improve it, like such cool stuff in this interview. So it is, we might have gone a little long and it's worth every minute. So I will be right back with Ari. Stay with me. whitten. Welcome back to the show. I'm so excited to be digging into energy more with you. It's always a pleasure to chat with you, JJ. Thank you so much for having me. When were you here? Have you only been on once, which would be a travesty? I think I've been on twice and then I've been on it maybe one of your summits as well. I know we've done. And then I've had you on my podcast at least twice. So we've had a lot of conversations. It's hard to keep track of it. Yes, we have. We've known each other what now, like ten years, I think. Yes. Indeed. You've really really gotten deep into the energy world. And what's cool about this. And when I say energy, because now energy can be so many different things out there. It could be energy medicine. But you're really talking about how does your body create energy? How do you have more energy throughout the day? And doing it at a very deep level, not the superficial. Get more sleep, right? Which is important too, like if you're not sleeping well, like start there. But totally. We are going to go deep into energy and you have a new book out, which is exciting, eat for energy. Why don't we start there and then we'll just meander around. Let's start with eat for energy in talking about the top principles in that book. Sure. So, you know, I think just as general context, maybe I'll tell a brief version of my story and then kind of what led me down this path. So I think like you, JJ, my original interest in all of this was more in the body composition, the fat loss, the muscle gain, fitness, athletic performance side of things. And I really was passionate about that since the time I was 12 years old. And that was my world. It was when I got into it, too.
Dr. Drew Podcast
A highlight from Capt. Sandy Yawn
"Listening to this show and not the Adam and drew show, what the hell is the matter with you? But I would like to see the corolla faithful. On my other platforms, I think you'd enjoy some of that stuff, particularly Wednesday show. We do it 3 o'clock Pacific time. It's a streaming live show. We do Twitter spaces, we're on Twitch Twitter, Facebook, anywhere rumble. And we're interviewing a lot of the silence voices from the pandemic, and I personally have learned a ton, though I'm still, I don't know about you, but I'm still confused as hell about so, so many things. And again, support people to support us. Today it is my privilege to bring captain I almost said doctor captain sandy yawn in here. That's where she sits in my esteem. You can go to her website, captain sandy yawn, sandy's with a wide and boyan of course is like what you do with your mouth. AWN, Twitter at capped sandy on Instagram, captain spelled out Sandra, Jan, and her new book is be the calm or be the storm, leadership lessons from a woman at the helm. And sandy first of all, welcome. Thank you for having me. My privilege, but as I'm thinking about the book, you were just tilting towards me telling me that you weren't always at the helm. In fact, you let go of the wheel a couple times. Right? Yeah. And by the way, when you get better, you have to let go of the wheel sometimes too. So talk to us about that. Yeah. So kicked out at 11th grade, got on that merry go round of drugs and alcohol. What? Oh, yeah. What is that? It was that magic. The magic bus ride was a 7 14. You're not old enough for the real magic bus era, but I could see the I understand the vestiges of that, but where were you in the country then? Bradenton, Florida. Yes. And I just stayed on that was in trouble arrested like 14, 15 times. Parents divorced. What was your drug of choice? Anything? Oh, you were just with my hands on? Yeah, yeah. We call that garbage bag. Is that what you were doing? Absolutely. No preference. No, you know, pot was the gateway drug for me. Of course. So then I imagine, and by the way, I'm imagining that was before it got so powerful. Imagine now you could have stayed with it and got all the effects you wanted just from the cannabis that's out there. Yeah, exactly. Crazy. And then it just one thing led to another court order to treatment. In and out of court order, somebody to treatment and it works. What? It's called a Myers. You're not allowed to do that in California, by the way. Oh, no. You can't not anymore. You can't even go to somebody who said, let me help you. You're not allowed to do that. Because they're living their best life. Our governor just said to clean and sober is the craziest thing anybody ever said, the worst thing. Worst words ever. It's insane. It makes me so you should be angry, yes. Anger is right. I feel like that's it's committee. It's nothing short of second degree homicide. Or manslaughter. Manslaughter. Because you're committing these people. Don't vote for him. Yeah, because it's a progressive illness. And people just, they can't get that through their head. Well, they can't even get through their head that it's an illness, but good. Yeah, exactly. It's a disease. It's in the medical journals. Yes. I know all of the neurological processes that are involved in it. So I finally got clean years in and out of drugs and alcohol treatment centers and at the age of 25. And they told me I would live a life beyond my wildest dreams. Did they tell me I would be a captain and write a book and TV? No, but they said I'd live a life beyond my wildest dreams if I followed the 12 steps and did the work and maintained, right? Yeah. That's what I did. And guess what? I'm living a life beyond my wildest dreams. And so that's why I get involved in this field. And so I got involved because I was working to psychiatric hospital and I watched some people like you very, very similar stories who were dying. They were clearly dying to me and I was like, oh, these people are going to die. What are you going to do? And all of a sudden something happened and they're like these amazing people and I didn't know anything really about recovery at that point. This is 1988 or something. And I'm like, well, I want to understand that. There's nowhere else in medicine you can take somebody from dying to better than they ever knew they could be. What the hell? So my bias, as I'm sure yours is, is for sobriety and abstinence based programs, not that that's the only way to do it. I understand that some are sicker than others and some needs all kinds of things that fully flourishing life like sandy's just not in the books for everybody, but I hate the fact that we can't a give everybody a chance at that. And B, if we can't do that, at least figure out who the sandy's are and let them flourish. And not give them a bunch of shit, medicines that are only going to keep them at a state of chronic illness. Yeah, exactly. And you know it's a daily reprieve, right? I mean, I didn't have a good morning this morning. I did turn it around. There are times where I would like to smoke a joint. Trust me and pick up a glass of wine. There are alcohol. There are glasses of alcohol. I haven't even tried. Damn. I didn't say bottles. Look, that's changed. That's interesting. So yes, I still have to hang out. I'm so accustomed to the attic brain, what it does to your thinking, that that's you, not you, that's your disease going, yeah, yeah, just a glass because you could try a glass. Right. As long as you don't say body, you could do the glass. Yes. That's what your brain is doing to you right now. Exactly. And so by doing that, it puts you just by thinking that one thought, it moved you one step closer to relapse. That's right. If you're not careful as hell and talking to people in the program. Yeah, the monkey's always on your face. It just fucks with your thinking so much. And so I'm going to explain to people what just happened. She's like, oh my God, I didn't say a bottle. Normally I want to drink a bottle of wine, and then with the disease would do is go, yeah, that's right, a glass. You could try a glass because you're not thinking about bottles anymore. You're good for a glass. 6 months later, glass. That's right. That's it. Yeah, exactly. And I love that you recognize that. Yeah, I'm very super rare and people in the program always looking to go, how do you know this disease so well, and it's really because I've been intimately involved with it for 40 years. I've just been treating it. My daughter's recovering a year now and it's been so wonderful to be close to a family member going through this process, and it's just as magical as I know it to be. It's incredible. You know, I follow this Instagram sober celebrities. It's really interesting. And when you read, you're like, wow. And I think it's really great because I feel like I've been given this platform for a reason. And I have a now an obligation to show up for people. First myself, and then others. Do you sponsor other people now? Are you still doing that? You know, I never was a sponsor. I tried it once. And I told my sponsor, I'm like, I've just not cut with that cloth. But I give service in other ways. Is that because you're used to being the captain and drug addiction? Don't respond to captains pretty well. It's hard to sponsor people when you're at sea.
Therapy for Black Girls
A highlight from Session 298: Church Hurt with Dr. Thema Bryant
"Let it go girl, let it out girl. Twilight thing like you came up at the south girl. Church girls whip their hips across the eastern and western hemispheres. With the homage to the Clark sisters embedded in the beats, many fell sanctified and seen, all within the same breath. For many of us, it was a call for healing. But what happens when our church communities have been responsible for our home and not our healing? To discuss this complex and sensitive topic, today I'm joined by doctors Hema Bryant, a licensed psychologist, ordained minister, and the 2023 president of the American psychological association. She is an ordained elder at first AME church in south Los Angeles, where she directs the mental health ministry, and she's also the host of the homecoming podcast, a mental health podcast of facilitate your journey home to your authentic self. In our conversation, we discuss why it's important for faith communities and psychological communities to align, how religious institutions can create more ethical standards to protect members from abuse and how to navigate feelings of anger towards God after surviving abuse in the church. If something resonates with you while enjoying our conversation, please share it with us on social media using the hashtag TBG in session. Or join us over in the sister circle to talk more in depth about the episode. You can join us at community therapy for black girls dot com. Here's our conversation. It is such a pleasure to the team and thank you for joining us. Oh, thank you for having me. I'm excited for the conversation. Yes, so so many things to talk about. But one of the things that our community really has a lot of energy around rightfully so I think given black women is church hurt. And I know you have talked about this extensively with former guests on the podcast. This is from the truth team. Yes. Podcast. Shout out to them. And so I'm thrilled to have you talk with us today about it. So can you start by just saying what is church hurt or church abuse? So church hurt or abuse is when we are emotionally and spiritually, sometimes physically, sexually financially, mistreated under the guise of it being a spiritual mandate or within the confines of the church. And unfortunately, many people have experienced it as a result of the church being an institution, and an institution is run by human beings, and human beings who have at times misuse their power, their authority, their opportunities, as it relates to people's vulnerabilities. And how might people recognize whether they have been a victim of church hurt because I think sometimes it's hard to tell. So how would someone know? So ultimately, if we think about church and relationship with God, intentionally being based in love, like what are the principles that this space is supposed to embody, and then how does it feel when you are in that place? How are you treated? And how do you feel when you leave? So it's not that there will never be disagreement, right? Church is like any other place where you have a group of people, but you can think about times in your life where I might have thought differently or had a different perspective, but I didn't feel demeaned or disrespected or devalued that I felt safe to be myself.