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The Plant Movement Podcast
We're Digging Deep Into Nasir Acikgoz's Journey to the American Dream
"So talk to me you're you are from Turkey that you were telling me I'm from Turkey originally. How did you end up here? Well Right after college finishing undergraduate undergrad in Turkey in electronics engineering. Okay, I talked to my father You know father I said, you know, I just want to go to America United States. He said to me Okay, but why United States you want to learn English? Yes, I want to learn English, but there's England here, huh? Right here three hours away. Why do you want to go all the way to 12 hours with plane? I said, I love the American culture I left the American, you know American dream the the colleges their lifestyle and this was all in the this was in the 1996 okay when I graduated from my from college and I graduate college a little bit earlier I was nineteen nineteen and a half years. Wow. Yes, man. Thank you. I Started going to school like five and a half years old because they had that like a program there different programs at that time They allowed kids to to be the first graders. Yeah to accelerate. Yeah, I took advantage of that and Thank God I passed all the grades, you know, I never missed anything. So as a matter of fact, I'm a third year of college I told my dad this, you know, hey, I want to go to the United States, please, you know, would you will you support me? He's so what you told me Whatever you do son. I'm gonna support you. Mm -hmm. So right after college I started applying to college. I mean the you know, yeah colleges for MBA program Okay, because I said I want to do MBA. I want to do master's in business administration If you ask me why because it was the hit thing in Turkey at that time if you have your Engineering background. I mean undergrad and then you have the MBA all the companies all the corporate guys, you know They want you and especially from the United States, you know the MBA so I had two friends in Orlando Back then and I applied other states as well And one of the guys in Orlando called me, you know, he said look Nasir I know you're applying to other states. We have the house here. We have you know, the dorms everything Yeah, the dorms and everything and and we know people in the college will help you out and we love you come over We'll hang out, you know first I was hesitant I said, you know, I'm gonna go there instead of learning English right away And now we're gonna be hanging out Turkish people, you know, so I had that doubt Yeah, from my town, yes, we know their families my dad knows their dads and but my father told me look It's better to know someone there when you start off and then you don't like it you move somewhere else It's easy, you know easier. It breaks the ice. It breaks the ice So I said, okay, so they send me the application from it's called seminal community college. Okay, it's where the Seminoles India All speakers English all like, you know, and you didn't know any English at this point very very little you speak it Very well. Yeah, I practiced there so much, you know, they applied to college community college. I said, oh, it's a community college It's not a it's not a university and my friends told me look, you know, it's this little college close by to our house It doesn't matter if you call you you're just gonna learn English and here there's no Turkish people only there were some Latins like Puerto Ricans. Yeah, a lot of Puerto Ricans. You're in Orlando. Yeah, that's the Puerto Rican capital. Puerto Rican capital. Yes Back then it was like this 1996 1997. So I loved the idea. I said, okay, no problem So we I applied and they said, okay, no problem. You can start the English as a second language program. I started going there Yes, I was the only Turkish guy. So I had no option but to learn the language So I loved it. So I said, you know what? I'm just gonna stay here I'm not gonna move anywhere else and I started getting to know people Okay I had I met a lot of people there and we started hanging out even though our English all of our our English were a Little bit, you know, like it's off. Yeah, but still with hand gestures with moves and stuff like that You you manage you manage to engage So I finished English as a second language course, then I applied to UCF University of Santa, Florida Okay for the MBA program they accepted me, but they said I need to take a lot of prerequisite courses and I said, okay, and they gave me a list. It was like 12 courses I said, wow, it's too much and I gave you my transcripts guys, you know, I'm an I'm an engineer I mean, but they said hey, you didn't take financial accounting. You didn't take managerial accounting They saw me like economics macro economics micro economics all these courses, you know, you know, and they said You know, you have to take them, okay, so I don't want to say I lost another year year and a half No, you felt like it I felt like it at first but then I appreciate it because that taught me a lot because you're learning the fundamental of Economics financials actually the courses that I took financial and managerial accounting courses They teach you how to read your balance sheet of the company, which is great A lot of people are clueless to that exactly and I actually I'm doing my old balance sheets PNLs That's awesome. I'm looking at every month and I'm kind of you know Looking through it, even though my CPA looks at it almost every month But when he talks about something I already know or you already know So that's why I was like that time out to me like oh my god I'm gonna lose another one year and a half two years, but it ended up working out working out for me so I started MBA program right after I finished it and Study administration business administration, so you studied what you wanted to study when you were with your dad Yes telling them this is what I want to do exactly, okay One little detail I left off before before I got into UCF the first year when I was in seminar community college My roommate told me hey, let's apply for a green card lottery. Oh, I said, what is that? I'm like lottery also is we're gonna win money is like no it's it's called green card lottery I still didn't understand the concept and he told me look you're gonna apply a lot of people are applying and they Pick you and if you they pick you you can stay in this country and you get the residency Okay, I'm like you're kidding for me to get my student visa I have to go through so much so much and they're just gonna give me my green card and that's it over like, you know Yeah, that easy. It's like yes, that's easy. I'm like Let's apply. Let's apply and I'm thinking welcome to the United States. Welcome to American dream.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh "12" from News, Traffic and Weather
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Food Addiction, the Problem and the Solution
Recovering Food Addict Colleen Y. Shares the Ups and Downs of Her Journey
"On the podcast, our guest is a recovered food addict, Colleen Y. Welcome Colleen. Colleen Y. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Susan Branscombe Yeah, it's great. I heard about your story. I've read about your story and I'm looking forward to sharing it with our listeners. We're going to talk about your story and how you found recovery from food addiction. I understand you became abstinent at 55 years old in 2018 when you joined a 12 -step food recovery program. Talk about that and what brought you into recovery. Colleen Y. Yes, it was late getting into. I had never heard of any 12 -step recovery programs. I had never heard about food addiction. I was just a person who thought I had a moral issue that I needed to diet, that I didn't have willpower, that that was the only way that I could overcome the excess weight. I was getting up there. I was 250. I was up to 300 pounds when I finally went into the rooms. So up until that point, I just thought that I just had no willpower. But it got to the point where all I could do was think about the food. I could not function unless I was thinking about food. So that's what brought me into the rooms. Talk about you got into recovery when you realized that you needed help in this way. And then you relapsed after two months. What happened there? Well, actually, it was after five years. I was in the program for five years. So for the first two years following the program, I was good. I followed it. I lost weight. I was working the steps in the program. But then I thought I didn't need it anymore, that I knew what I was doing and slowly started deviating from the program to the point where I left it and just started doing diets again and the weight started creeping back on. But I was still not eating the sugar flower wheat. So that's what I considered as still being abstinent. But the weight came on. I was still eating high fat. And then finally, after five years, I just couldn't white knuckle the diets anymore. And I relapsed. And in that two months that I relapsed, I gained over 25 pounds and really came to believe that I had a serious problem with food addiction. I just could not function at all over that two months. And I just did not want to live anymore. I just did not want to wake up in the morning. It was a brutal experience for two months. For critical level food addicts, some of us can get suicidal, where we just can't see a way out and that we're always going to suffer from this and food controls our lives. Yeah, I prayed every night that I wouldn't wake up in the morning. And that was the thing. And then I'd be so devastated that I had another day in this disease and that somehow I had to function. So talk about this history then. You got into recovery, five years, doing well, lost weight. Then you relapsed. Tell me about the weight that went off and came back on. You said you gained 25 pounds. You got up to 300, but were you close to maintenance weight during that five years? I had never been a normal weight my entire life, never. So I got close. I had lost, by this point I started at 300, so I was probably down to 170, which was just absolutely new territory for me. Then I gained some weight back, but then I knew I could not get abstinent on my own. It didn't matter what I did, I could not keep it. So I tried to go to Renasant and Renasant was running an outpatient program and I signed up for that. And then just before they were going to run it, they contacted me and said that they weren't prepared to run it anymore. And I was devastated. I ended up getting in touch with Dr. Vera Tarmon, who is a director at Renasant, and she told me about, in fact, was going to run their intensive for their students. And Esther usually does it in Iceland, but this time she was actually doing it in Ontario where I'm from. So it's like three hours away from me, I had this opportunity. So I jumped at it and I went and did that intensive where Esther Helga had Amanda from Shift come in and run the intensive. And it was mind -altering. It changed everything about the way that I looked at food addiction, totally, totally opened my eyes.
Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
Fresh "12" from Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
"1000 FM 97 7 stay connected stay informed thanks for joining us I'm Kim Shepherd Bill O 'Neill at the editors desk a notorious homeless encampment along Dearborn near 10th South in Seattle has finally been cleared that emergency order and emergency closer was issued on Monday forced Cruz clean to up everything fast and that is exactly what happened the cleanup required the help of at least a dozen WSDOT workers also assisting were employees with Washington State Patrol regarding the facts that an emergency closure was used in this instance WSDOT says it had no other choice because of safety worries they point to the fact that 14 fires occurred at this camp since January with four in the last month alone on top of that there have also been multiple shootings making things even more alarming is that there have been numerous cases of fentanyl busts being made at this camp with authorities saying it was a hotspot for and drugs crime recently though WSDOT says those fires really series of fires is what caused them to issue that emergency closure order that's come before Ryan Sims reporting Snohomish County will spend 130 million dollars on affordable housing the county council approving that plan this week according to the Everett Herald 92 million be will used for affordable and supportive housing 10 million for construction of behavioral health facilities more than 8 million for services like employment help child care and education the money is coming from a 0 .1 % sales tax was that approved two years ago Rite Aid will close 31 more stores across 12 states as it continues its restructuring efforts three of those locations are in Washington State however it's not get clear which stores closing are in what cities after this round of closures Rite Aid will still have about 2 ,000 stores still operating which includes Bartell locations Rite Aid along with many other drugstore chains are struggling to compete with online companies like Amazon and big -box chains like Walmart Target and Costco over the past six years Rite Aid has tallied nearly three billion dollars in losses that's come before us Preston Phillips the North Cascades Highway is set to close for this season tomorrow evening at 6 ahead of a storm that could dump nearly two feet of snow on the area will block State Route 20 from the Ross Dam trailhead to the Silver Star Gate on the east side November 30th is the second latest winter closure in the last decade that roadway will reopen in the spring after crews clear all that snow and make any needed repairs. That's Como 4's Molly Shen. 634 now Northwest News Radio your home for breaking news traffic and weather every ten minutes on the high -performance homes traffic center. Siena X, how's it looking? Well in Seattle a stall is blocking the right lane of Southbound 99 at the mid spin of the Aurora Bridge that's causing slow traffic from the bridge way. JBLM seeing crash a blocking the left and HOV lanes of Southbound 5 near 41st Division Drive and it looks like your Linwood to Seattle Drive is at 27 minutes with a 12 minute delay. This report is sponsored by Regents Blue Shield. Make sure you're covered for next year with an individual and family plan from Regents Blue Shield. Shop now. Open enrollment ends December 15th. Our next Northwest traffic is 644. And your forecast sponsored by Northwest Crawl Space Services. Good evening. We've got cloudy, cool conditions and staying dry until we get to our Thursday morning when
The Dan Bongino Show
Shocking Video Reveals Hidden Truth of January 6th Incident
"Dan Bongino. Well, if you listen to my show before, I don't know if you just tuned in when you tuned in. But I was telling a story about these these new January six videos, which now clearly tell an entirely different side of the story. I said a lot of stuff happened on that day. We've talked about it fairly candidly on this show for a very long time. What bothers me is the left was looking to hide an entirely different side of what happened that day. Not us. It was them doing that. It's because they don't want you to see the entire story. They want you to see what just happened on one side. And one of the stories is about a really tragic case of a gentleman named Matthew Perna. And here to discuss that is a good friend and real warrior, his aunt, Jerry Perna. Jerry, thanks a lot for taking the time. We really appreciate you coming different on story. Well, thank you for having me on. Well, we met through Xtapes, this movie we did. And I remember seeing you on the, Dinesh had sent me kind of a screener rough cut of the movie. And I'm watching you talk about Matthew and what happened to Matthew my and wife. I looked over and she couldn't take it. Neither could I. It was such a horrible story. If you could tell the audience what happened with Matthew and just tell them what happened, your, your version of it is really kind of tough to listen to, but everyone needs to hear. Well, Matt went the to Capitol on January 6th. He thought he was going to be part of a celebration that day. The crowd was was big and he got into the crowd and it was announced that Mike Pence had certified the election results. It wasn't exactly what he had planned. And as the crowd moved forward, they the went to Capitol and he was in a huge crowd of people and he did go in. He went inside a had door been that previously had opened. He walked around inside the building filming from his phone and he walked out. He went back to his hotel. He made a live Facebook video talking about the day. The video is still visible on our website. He was very calm and cool just talking about the day. He made a comment that he said Mike Pence proved himself to be a traitor today. And he said, but don't worry. Don't worry. This isn't over yet. And basically the way he said it. And about a week or so later, I'm sitting on my couch in Florida. That's up in Pennsylvania. And I saw Facebook posts that said the FBI had posted pictures of people from January 6th. So I clicked on the link and I was scrolling through the photos. lo And and behold, there's Matt's picture. And I was speechless. I didn't know what to do. So I called I called one of my brothers up in Pennsylvania and I said, you need to go to Matt's house first thing in the morning. His picture is on the FBI website. So six o 'clock in the morning, my brother shows up at Matt's house and Matt already that knew his picture was there. And he had contacted a retired police officer and asked him what he should do. And he told him to call the local office of the FBI in Newcastle, Pennsylvania. So at nine o 'clock in the morning. That's exactly what Matt did. And Matt seriously thought this was all a huge understanding. He just needed to explain that he didn't hurt anybody. He didn't break anything. And he thought this would be resolved. And so the FBI came out to talk to him and I had a couple of my brothers there present as witnesses. And they listened to Matt's story and they made it seem like, yeah, it was just a misunderstanding. And they left and Matt called me and I said, you know, I don't like sound the of this. I said, I'm coming home. So I got on a plane and I flew home that week. I said, we need to get you a lawyer. And we did. We got him a lawyer and lo and behold, the FBI showed up and arrested Matt that week while I was there. And they took him in and they processed him and then they let him go. He was not placed in custody. He was told he had to report to somebody if he were to leave the area. And, um, and he was charged with form for misdemeanors, the regular ones, the parading and disorderly conduct. And, um, we met with his attorney. His attorney said, Oh, this is nothing. This is just a slap on the list. You've never been arrested for anything before. Don't worry about it. I've got this. Well, then they slapped 220 of the J fixers with the felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding. And that's when it got serious. But attorney his was still saying, don't worry. This is, this is nothing. So somebody sent me video that they had of Matt outside of the Capitol at two 55 in the afternoon. says, And I well, that's almost 45 minutes after Congress adjourned. You hadn't even gone inside yet. And so I thought, well, there's your evidence right there. It's right there on video. You didn't go inside. You didn't obstruct anything. So I sent it to his attorney and attorney said, Nope, it doesn't matter. They said he was there. So it was an obstruction and that video isn't going to help. So this was a start of nightmare. a A nightmare watching Matt worry and deteriorate because the newspaper, Facebook, social media, everybody was brutal. They were showing the video from January six that everybody has seen countless times and calling it an insurrection. And that's community turned against him. Um, his business, which he ran through social media, um, was taken away from him. All of his accounts were disabled and it was house anymore. And he would have meetings with his attorney that were, he would have to go into the attorney's office and they they would meet with the judge via zoom because of the whole COVID mess. And they would cancel those meetings at the very last minute, every single time and postpone them. And it would just wear in him. Cause he would prepare himself mentally what he was going to say. And they would say, Oh, it's been canceled. And this went on for quite some time. And, um, Matt was deteriorating something awful. He no longer ran. He was a runner. Um, he gave away his television cause he couldn't stand to see the news anymore with his picture on it. His dad was who is my oldest brother has Parkinson's disease and it was affecting him something awful. And Matt felt felt very guilty about the effect it had on his dad. And as the year was coming to a close, it was almost Christmas. Matt had lost a ton of weight. He was vomiting at this point. And he told his attorney, I just need this to be over. What's the best way for this to be over his attorney said, plead guilty. You're looking at six to 12 months in a federal prison minimum security. And mass is okay. Then that's what I'll do. And Matt was going to, he told me, I'll turn it into a positive. He said, I'll teach my fellow inmates, help them get their GEDs. I'll work on another degree for self at the time that was very intelligent and very giving. So that was settled. And the hearing was scheduled for March the third. And a week before the hearing, Matt called his attorney and he said, I just have a bad feeling. It's just a bad feeling came over me. So that's the day my mother died March the third. And his attorney says, well, Matt, I have bad news. They've postponed your, your hearing again to April fool's day. And the prosecution is looking to add a of sentencing enhancement terrorism. And this could have taken Matt's sentence to nine years in jail. Matt called me on the phone sobbing that day, uncontrollably sobbing, sobbing. I couldn't hardly understand him. He kept telling me he loved me. He kept apologizing to me for losing all of my friends. Cause I lost every friend. I almost, almost everyone I ever had over this. And I told him, don't worry. We're going to get through this together. Don't worry. God's not going to let you go to jail. I promise you this. And he told me he loved me. I told him I loved him. And that And I, I can't tell you the devastation that our family has felt. We're a big Italian family. We're very close. We never had any of our nephews or nieces ever in trouble before. And, um, now that some of this video evidence came out this past week, and it seemed I didn't even know it was on Twitter. Somebody messaged me and said, this looks like your nephew. And there's Matt walking calmly through the Capitol past six Capitol police officers just standing there
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "12" discussed on Mark Levin
"News time coming up on 806. I'm Bob Brown. the Remember news never stops at wabcradio .com WABC is here. Now broadcasting from the underground command post. Deep the bowels of a hidden bucket somewhere under the brick and steel of a non -district building we've once again made contact with our leader. I guess the question is now that China has a new pandemic this this pneumonia sweeping the country with masks and lockdowns coming back when does it come to America probably just in time for the presidential election welcome back to the show glad you're here it is the mark Levin show the great one is off tonight he will be back tomorrow it is me rich zeoli from mark's hometown of philadelphia where i broadcast on 12 10 hd i do the afternoon drive show there on twitter or acts as they call it now at which zeoli zeoli for those of you that are not italian in the audience and i keep thinking about what's happening in china right now i keep thinking about the fact that back in october of 2019 the secretary energy and he was on my show a bunch of times because philadelphia obviously pennsylvania is a is a huge energy state and unlike the previous administration president trump actually cared about making america energy independent and secure unlike this administration president trump actually realized the potential and didn't try to destroy america's energy independence he tried to increase it and that meant things like supporting natural gas which is a huge thing in pennsylvania and the idea of a liquid natural gas transfer station where we could sell our natural gas across the world instead vladimir putin is selling his natural gas to france i and think belgium and certainly spain and they've been buying more and more of it we could sell our oil we could sell our natural gas we could we could have our coal we could do all those things when trump was president those things were happening in the state of pennsylvania was great wonderful and dan brie at will come on my show all the time to talk about all the new energy initiatives that the administration was taking the war on coal stopped got into the oval office remember
InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
Adebayo Alomaja Is Revolutionizing Education With Micro-Learning
"Tell us a little bit about the course that you have designed. What topics do you cover? Yeah, sure. Sure. Thank you. As I think about how learning is going to become more and more interesting, more fun, even in K -12, we see a place of micro -learning coming into the equation. Okay. We see the place of micro -learning coming into the equation. So if you see what the course looks like, it's designed to cut off the noise. One of the things we need to, the problem we need to solve in K -12 is that there's a lot of noise. We expose kids to too many things that are not important. These things can be streamlined and presented from a micro -learning perspective such that what we are giving kids is just exactly what they need to know, just exactly what they need to know. And that's the idea of micro -learning. People think, is it going to be effective? It's going to be effective. And that's why we talk about teachers becoming learning designers, because by the time you're thinking as a learning designer, you will begin to focus on specifics, specific things that needs to be addressed and how you want to capture in the learning experience is just nothing but those specifics. In this course, it's about how to design authentic learning in K -12. And I just decided to address the basics, the starting point for anybody from anywhere, wherever you are across the world. If you're thinking about offering your learners something more than just being able to pass exams, something more that will make their society respect them, something more that will put them in a place where they can have real value to their society. You want to join the class of educators that are not traditional, but that are offering kids real value. Then you want to think about jumping on this course. I taught them all the basics. And then in the course, I talked about basically how teachers can become more familiar with context as against content. I talked about substituting content for context. Like I always say that context should determine content when it comes to engaging learners. I always say that. I got my inspiration from the story of what's happening in Dubai. I mentioned it in the course too, how Dubai wants to go and live in Mars by year 2017. That's like next 90 something years. So they lost the project in 2017. It was an 100 years project. So they traveled to Mars. And what they went to do was to study everything about Mars. And so when they were done with that, they came back to the earth and then built a colony, built something that looks like Mars. When it's right now, that thing is in Dubai. They built it. The whole atmosphere in terms of pressure, temperature, and everything in Mars, they came to replicate. They built like a simulation of that under the earth. So they are saying that they are going to live in that thing. And if they can live in it and survive in it between now, between 2017 and 2017, then that means they are now right to move to Mars, to build, to go and start building Mars. And the lesson I learned from that is that we need the atmosphere of a reality to prepare for that reality. That's the lesson I learned from that. So Dubai looked into the future, created the future and the present to prepare for the future. So that tells me, that tells K -12, that tells every educator that you cannot be effective if you don't understand what is coming. You don't understand what the world is asking for. You cannot be effective in a classroom because you only keep offering what is not needed. So there's a need for educators to understand the context, what is obtainable. For example, I always say that vocabularies are seasonal. There was nothing like child deputy in the year 2010, nothing like that, nothing like that. So if we want to stick with what our syllabus and the scheme of work says, and we want to just keep following it head on and on, what will happen is that - No innovation. Yeah, so we'll just keep disconnecting our learners from the reality and what real life is saying by the hour, right? And that's really going to be quite problematic. So in the course, I opened up educators to being able to get more familiar with context and how to begin to use context to influence how they design their learning experiences I sped up some very simple steps, practically, that educators can adopt to help them move and move and just keep gravitating. So that course is just like a starting point for every educator that wants to go into the world of authentic learning.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "12" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"-scoring Miami Dolphins on Sunday their first game since Jack Del Rio was fired. You're a team captain Kendall Fuller. How's it going without your defensive coordinator? Yeah it's a little weird especially I think it's just about fourth year here so I've been used to having Jack and Vees out there and things like that so it's definitely a little weird. You hate to see any of this happen in football whether it's during the season, off season, things like that and at the same time you know it's a business you gotta go on to the next game, go on to the next play and that's what it to takes be a professional. As they round out their new look defensive staff the commanders are reportedly adding Jim Salgado on an interim basis. He was the cornerback's coach for Michigan State this season and spent the previous six seasons coaching defensive backs with the Buffalo Bills. At today's practice the D was without Emmanuel Forbes and James Smith Williams. Center Tyler Larson was sidelined on offense. The Jets offense could get a big boost as the 21 -day practice window for Aaron Rodgers to return from injured reserve is open just 79 days after he tore his Achilles down Down a level South Carolina Spencer Rattler announced he's entering the 2024 draft but fellow quarterback and local product Caleb told Williams the LA Times it's still a game time decision as to whether he'll declare by next month's deadline in less than 30 minutes a preview of the Maryland Niagara game in College Park Rob Woodfork WTOP sports not ahead after traffic and whether 49 -year -old mother who holds dual US and Israeli citizenship is one of 16 hostages released tonight the latest on the breaking news ahead 626 Mervis Diamond importers this is Ronnie Mervis I'm inviting you to a holiday trunk show this weekend admire spectacular jewelry at specially reduced prices but for three days only don't miss out reach 12 international jewelry designers with
InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
Adebayo Alomaja Unpacks Key Trends Shaping the Future of Education
"Was looking at your LinkedIn, you mentioned your work at EZDG, where you've been studying the educational trends. You read a lot. So you have identified five key trends. Could you share those trends with us and how does that inform, I guess, your vision as we talk about the use of data? Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you so much, Dr. Eyal. In one of my posts, I talked about five key trends that will characterize K -12 education in Africa by 2030. And of course, I always say that the future is not vague. When we look at the future, for example, if I am in year two today, if I'm in year two today, in the next four years, I should be in year six. That's by design. So all things being equal, I should be in year six. But okay, so for the sake of eventualities and the likes, let me put two, three or four years ahead. So if I'm in year two today, I will say that in the next four to eight years, I should be done or I should be done with anything called year six. So look at that kind of simple analysis. So the future is not totally vague. If we do backcasting and backcasting is just basically about studying how things have evolved in the previous years. For example, I checked how 3G, 4G and 5G came to Nigeria. And then I discovered from my research that the gap between their adoption was six to eight years. That's 3G, 4G and 5G in Nigeria. So the gap was just between six to eight years. Now, that's just something to me. Of course, if I look at the impact of that on the digital economy in Nigeria and the predictions around the digital economy in Nigeria. Sorry, I'm digressing a little bit. No, no, I won't say analogies. That's great. Yeah, that's something because I am always thinking about the future and what needs to be done today in K -12 so that we're raising kids that can thrive when they get to the future. Kids are not going to be confused. Kids that can be so much empowered and even think beyond themselves to add value to the society. So when I think about that, for example, I'm talking about 3G, 4G, 5G and how it came to Nigeria. That backcasting review gives an insight. So based on that, I can say that if 5G came to Nigeria this year, they're most likely in the next six to eight years, we're going to have another version, maybe 6G or something else, or maybe not 6G. But that pattern shows that there's a likelihood that around that period, something is going to happen. So when we, as future priests, when we see some things like that, I don't think it's spiritual, actually. I just think that it's just studying the way things are evolving, which anybody can actually do if you're passionate about and understand that this is what might happen at this period because of what we have seen that has happened in this particular period in the past. So five key things, five key things I put here, I said, number one, I said, learning will no longer be tied to a place called school, but an experience that promotes lifelong learning. As learners, we now be able to learn anywhere and anytime. So there will be nothing like homework or classwork, but assessments to provide feedback and ensure mastery. Now, the question, is this happening right now? This is happening right now. I forgot to mention something. So when we look at the future, that there are three P's, there is the possible, there's the preferable, and there's the predictable. So there are things that when we look at the future, we can say that this is possible at this time. There are things that we can say that this one is still in the predictable realm. So it's still in the predictable realm. We can have five years or some six, seven years to it. It looks like it might happen this period. There's something is shaking about it. But some factors are trying to say that it might or it might not, it's quite predictable. And why some things may not just be preferable. So right now, there's a flying car. A flying car was just launched, I think, last week thereabouts. And so the question is in Nigeria, are we going to have your flying car by 2030? The issue is that's not possible and it's not even preferable because right now, we're just trying to bring in electric cars into Nigeria. We have some electric cars in Nigeria right now. We're just trying to get on our own. And for infrastructure and many reasons, we can't use flying cars in Nigeria by 2030. That's going to be a big problem. So this particular thing is something that is happening even right now. So we see, for example, the school I talked about earlier, first guidance school, they are now hybrid. I'm an hybrid in the constant. They are now hybrid in the sense that there are days that some kids don't come to the physical school. They just learn from home. They just learn from home because the structure within the school environment is that the kids can connect with their classroom from anywhere. So we're going to have connected classrooms. They can connect to their classroom from anywhere. That is happening today in Nigeria.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "12" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Module just won three million dollars through the housing affordability breakthrough challenge and is now looking to manufacture and homes sell in Prince George's County. Marquise Cofer is the director of development at module which works with local governments and nonprofits to get housing grants as opposed to going direct to buyer. And so they're passing along those savings to the home buyer who's just buying the home outright but at a lower cost below the cost of construction. They're all electric energy -efficient homes typically sell to people making around 60 to 80 percent of the area median income. The company is also looking to expand to Baltimore and Richmond. John Dohmen WTOP news. 24 and the band is getting back together for a sequel to the spinal tap. The numbers all go to 11 but right across the board. 11. Most of the amps go up to 10. Exactly. Does that mean it's louder? that Is any louder? Well it's one louder isn't it? All these years later that line still gets me. to No word on the boys have found a way to get it to 12. Rob Reiner directed, wrote and starred in the original 80s classic. He confirms they plan to start filming with the original cast starting in February and get this Reiner is also teasing some possible big -name cameos including Garth Brooks, Paul McCartney. Sports at 25 and 55 powered by Red River. Technology decisions aren't black and white. Think red. Rob Woodfork is here. The commanders are back at practice getting ready for the speedy and high
Mark Levin
Joe Biden Is a Political Arsonist
"Political that's arsonist what he is both here at home and overseas he's a and political arsonist he lit the fire in the Middle East like really no modern president it ever has and he's still doing it by arming the enemy there's no other way to put it his decisions are arming the enemy now it's an amazing thing we have sanctions in place thanks to President Trump and Joe Biden will not honor them he will not enforce them and yet today at the United Nations I will read this to you the United Nations Security Council approved the resolution calling for quote urgent and extended humanitarian entry pauses to the Gaza war now what's amazing about this is you have China voting for it Russia voting for these regimes that are slaughtering their own people and other people like they give a damn about a pause the resolution passed 12 to 0 with three countries abstaining the United States Great Britain and Russia why would the United States in Great Britain abstain you they already know as a matter of fact through their own context
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 11/14/23
"Lots of channels. Nothing to watch. Especially if you're searching for the truth. It's time to interrupt your regularly scheduled programs with something actually worth watching. Salem News Channel. Straightforward, unfiltered, with in -depth insight and analysis from the greatest collection of conservative minds. Like Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Sebastian Gorka, and more. Find truth. Watch 24 -7 on SNC .TV and on Local Now, Channel 525. 738 on this Tuesday, the 14th day of November. Lots of Texas political news. But I did get a chance to spend a moment there in the opening half hour saying that I grow weary of the moral fog. In fact, on Twitter just a couple of moments ago, in these fractured times, I'm glad to give a Democrat some credit. Democrat Senator Chris Coons, who is right on Israel, was confronted by this stooge pro -Hamas activist on a train who badgered him. Why not a ceasefire? Why not a ceasefire? Sometimes moral clarity is something that needs to be delivered in a certain fashion. I'd like to think I have it intellectually and conceptually. My buddy Mike Gallagher joins us, who had an experience yesterday that will bring that kind of clarity in the harshest but necessary terms. I just can't wait to see how this day went. It had to be amazing and I'm just so glad you're here and the floor is yours. And tell everybody what you got a chance to do yesterday. Well, it was something that no one would want to see. It was pretty brutal. It was worse than I thought it was going to be. Israel put together a 45 -minute sort of a collection of video and audio and still photographs. They were videos from the terrorists' GoPros and their cell phones. There were closed -circuit videos and there were audio intercepts. They got audio recordings of the terrorists calling their families. The IDF was able to tap into some of these calls where they were calling their parents excitedly, saying, I just killed 10 Jews with my bare hands, Mom. Your son is a hero. Your son is a hero, Aloha Akbar. And they're all joyful and ecstatic. A couple of takeaways. When you watch the brutality of the violence that they inflicted on these innocent men, women, children, elderly people, there are a couple of things that really stand out. Number one, the ecstasy and the joy that the Hamas terrorists experienced as they were killing people, including little babies in little onesies and little daisy outfits and cute little kids covered in blood, slaughtered brutally. And they were absolutely euphoric, Mark. That's the only word to use. It was ecstatic for them. They had such a joy. And I kept telling myself, there's no way they think that Jews are human. There's no way that they regard them as human beings. You couldn't do that to another human being and have that kind of satisfaction. I mean, let's face it. When you think about crime in America or crimes of passion or murders or robberies or whatever, what have you, normal people don't have euphoria when they cut somebody's head off. They don't get joyful and they don't call their moms and brag about it and say, look what I did. Look what I did. So number one, that's one of the big takeaways. And the other thing I kept thinking about, and it was a somber mood. It was at the Israeli embassy. There were a number of some media people there, some pastors. It was a gathering from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews who we worked with closely right after the terror attack of October the 7th. About 60 people in the room, maybe 70. It was very somber. It was very well done. But as you can imagine, there were tears. There was crying. There was weeping. One pastor in front of me, in fact, he happens to be a pastor from Sarasota, not far from where I'm at right now. When it was over, he kind of flung himself down onto the ground and laid across the stage and was laying on his belly just heaving, just crying and sobbing. I mean, you're looking right at the face of the devil. You're looking at evil with this. And I kept thinking, Mark, how I wish the people marching at Columbia and Harvard and in Austin, how I wish they could see this video. From the river to the sea, you proud now? You proud now? I mean, you know, the one pastor, I spent some time, I pulled double duty after the show and then I did the screening at this embassy. And then I was asked to do an afternoon show for WAVA, which is a huge Christian teaching and talk station. Over in Arlington, yeah. Yep, the Arlington. And so Don Crow has been out on a medical leave and they asked me to fill in for him. And I had with me Bishop Lanier, who is the chairman of the board of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, as a very profound speaker, very eloquent, very, you know, just a great orator and a great man of the cloth. And he said, look, I don't think we're going to change their minds. We need to change our minds. We need to change what we say from the pulpit. We've got to stop the equivocation. Well, it's two sides here. People are dying on both sides. That is both -sides -ism of the worst possible stripe. It really is, Mark. And I just want to reiterate that because I don't know that Israel, listen, if Israel was guilty of any of the stuff that I saw yesterday, that I experienced, and again, I'm not trying to be melodramatic. It's one of the most painful things I've ever, ever encountered. I mean, and I'll spare you gory details. You can imagine how bad it was. I mean, you already have seen some of it, you know, lining up on the streets and just shooting into cars of innocent passengers trying to drive down the street. But there was one scene in particular that got to me the most. I do want to share it with you. There was a father alone with his sons. The mother was gone, and it was in the kibbutz. They did a horrible massacre in this kibbutz, which is like a Jewish religious holy neighborhood, you know. But they're beautiful little homes. I mean, oh, their homes were so cute and decorated and, you know, plants on the porches and everything. And they were meticulously taken care of. So here's this father in the house, and it's all captured on the family's closed -circuit video. So they had like a ring system all throughout the house and outside, and it was all captured. So the father is with these two boys. I would guess the one little boy was about seven or eight. The other one was probably 11 or 12. And the little boys were in their underwear. And the shots ring out, and the father, they're all terrified, and the father desperately tries to protect his children. He scoops them both up, and they run into the backyard, and they go into a little shed that's in the backyard. It looked like a little gardening shed. And you see a Hamas terrorist come around the corner and casually pull the pit off of a grenade and throw the grenade in the shed. And it blows up, and the father immediately slumps out of the shed dead. You could tell he's instantly dead. But the two little boys are alive, and they come running out in their underwear. The one boy, you can see it looks like his eye is missing. He is terrified. The two little boys are crying, Daddy, Daddy, Mommy, Mommy. They go into the kitchen. Now the closed -circuit video picks them up in the kitchen where they're talking to each other. And they said to each other, and it's all translated, of course, and they said, Is this real? Is this real? I think we're going to die. Daddy died. Daddy died. Where's Mommy? Where's Mommy? And then the one little boy turns to his brother, his little brother, and says, Can you see out of that eye? He says, No, I can't. And he looks at him, and you can see that it looks like his whole side of his face was injured from the grenade. And he says, You can't? You can't? You can't see? He goes, No, I can't see anything out of my eye. And the little boys are crying, and they're calling for their Mommy. And then the closed -circuit shifts back to the backyard where a kibbutz security guard, actually two security guards, have escorted the mother to the property. She had been away. So they take her to the back of the shed where her dead husband is laying. She is now in anguish and screaming and collapsing and screaming, Where are my boys? Where are my boys? At the same time, the two boys, they run out of the house in the front, trying to escape. And Lord knows what fate they met. I don't have a whole lot of high hope that they made it. And I'd like to look into that. I'm going to follow up with my friends at the fellowship to see if those boys were reunited with their mother. But that's the human suffering that I wish people who seem to dehumanize Jews would see. It was eye -opening. I'm glad I did it. I'm honored that I did it. I'm glad you did, too. I'm so glad. But it was awful. And I wouldn't want anybody to see it. For people who – and sometimes you can hear people in your headphones and hear people driving around. And I want to give a voice to people saying we could show a horrible video of a Palestinian child to whom something terrible has happened, and that is undeniably true.
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"Business stories aren't just about business, they're also about policy, politics, finance, and more. With Bloomberg, you stay informed on global coverage that connects the dots. The Bloomberg mobile app now features Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, so you can get the latest live radio, podcasts, and audio articles in the car. Download the Bloomberg mobile app now to get started. Find it in the Apple App Store or on Google Play. Bloomberg in -car apps are sponsored by Interactive Brokers. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Markets with Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller. Why were the economists so wrong? What are the economists getting wrong? Isn't this a slam dunk time to buy U .S. treasuries? Soft landing, hard landing, no landing. I don't know. True. What the heck does that mean? I don't know. Breaking Market News. An insight from Bloomberg experts. We're going to be in an environment with higher rates for longer. The five day in office work week is effectively dead. It's definitely a good sign that we're not ready to land this economy just yet. This is Bloomberg Markets with Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller on Bloomberg Radio. All right, coming up in this hour, we're going to break down those Home Depot earnings. We do that with Drew Redding. He's a research analyst, covers all the builders and all that adjacent stuff where Bloomberg Intelligence. Plus, we're going to have our C -suite conversation today with Jerome Silvain, CFO at Dexcom. Talk about that company, its initiatives in healthcare, specifically for diabetes. Dude, they've done well, even in the face, at least yesterday, in the face of the Ozempic results. I thought it was really interesting that that stock was able to rally. They were up almost 5 % yesterday.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Rising Venture Capital Investment in Crypto
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. It's Tuesday, November 14th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto as Macro Now newsletter on Substat. On today's show, we're talking about new inflows into the crypto ecosystem, inflation, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto prices were heading down earlier today, but then we got some good news on the US inflation. I'll talk more about this in a moment. This has turned the mood around, with many assets clawing back some of the day's losses. According to CoinDesk indices, at 9 a .m. Eastern time today, Bitcoin was trading at $36 ,546, down almost 1 % over the past 24 hours, although up 1 .5 % over the past hour alone. Ether was trading down 0 .75 % over the past 24 hours at $2 ,043. Elsewhere, Cosmos, Filecoin, and the Lido DAO token were down 9%. Solana and Polkadot were down 3 .5%. Ripple's XRP token had an interesting day yesterday. A tweet reported that BlackRock had filed for an XRP trust in Delaware. This was taken as a sign that the asset manager was planning to file a proposal for a spot XRP ETF, and the asset jumped 12 % in just a few minutes. The news turned out to be fake, however. I mean, it's very, very unlikely BlackRock would file for an ETF based on asset that not only doesn't have a CME derivatives market, but is still in active securities litigation. Needless to say, the XRP price corrected sharply shortly after, with both moves triggering significant losses in derivatives positions. Earlier today, XRP was still up over the past 24 hours, but only around 1%. In macro indicators, the US inflation data for the month of October is in. And it came in soft, which is very good news. To recap, in September, the headline CP index increased by 3 .7%, and consensus estimates for October pointed to a 3 .3 % increase. That itself would have been good. But the number came in even softer, at 3 .2%. Even more relevant for the US Federal Reserve is the Core CPI index, since this strips out the volatile components of food and energy. In September, Core CPI jumped by 4 .1 % year on year, and expectations were for that rate of increase to hold steady in October. The actual figure came in at 4 .0%, the smallest increase since September 2021. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shelter accounted for the bulk of the increase in the Core Inflation Index, but much less so than expected. And it seems lower energy prices are also doing their bit. On a monthly basis, Core CPI grew by 0 .2%, less than expected. This brings the three -month average monthly gain down to 0 .3%, lower than last year's average of 0 .5%. The average needs to come down further to give the Fed some breathing room, but it is progress. A US rate hike at the December FOMC meeting was unlikely anyway, given market tension, geopolitical fragility, and the likelihood of a government shutdown starting this weekend. This release now takes that totally off the table. As we head into record, US yields are heading down fast, with the 10 -year Treasury yield plummeting as investors were holding their breath for the inflation report. The good news in the figures has given the market a jolt of energy, with futures pointing to a very strong open. European indices were more positive yesterday, with the FTSE 100 up 0 .9%, the German DAX up 0 .6%, and the Euro Stoxx 600 up 0 .75%. The US figures are extending this trend for the DAX and the as investors digest the UK cabinet reshuffle. In Asia, stocks were cautiously positive today, with both Japan's Nikkei index and China's Shanghai Composite climbing 0 .3 % and the Hang Seng losing almost 0 .2%. In commodities, oil continues to head up, despite a report out this morning from the International Energy Agency that insists global oil markets won't be as tight as expected this quarter. The agency recognizes that demand is growing, as OPEC said yesterday, but non -OPEC supply apparently is growing even more. The market doesn't seem convinced yet, however, and the Brent crude benchmark is up 0 .4 on the day, trading at $83 .67 a barrel. After falling more than 1 % yesterday, gold today is benefiting from a drop in the $DXY index, as US yields digest the good inflation figures. Earlier today, gold was trading up over 0 .5 % at $1 ,956 per ounce. Stay with us. After the break, we're going to talk about new crypto investment.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Rising Venture Capital Investment in Crypto
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. It's Tuesday, November 14th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto as Macro Now newsletter on Substat. On today's show, we're talking about new inflows into the crypto ecosystem, inflation, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto prices were heading down earlier today, but then we got some good news on the US inflation. I'll talk more about this in a moment. This has turned the mood around, with many assets clawing back some of the day's losses. According to CoinDesk indices, at 9 a .m. Eastern time today, Bitcoin was trading at $36 ,546, down almost 1 % over the past 24 hours, although up 1 .5 % over the past hour alone. Ether was trading down 0 .75 % over the past 24 hours at $2 ,043. Elsewhere, Cosmos, Filecoin, and the Lido DAO token were down 9%. Solana and Polkadot were down 3 .5%. Ripple's XRP token had an interesting day yesterday. A tweet reported that BlackRock had filed for an XRP trust in Delaware. This was taken as a sign that the asset manager was planning to file a proposal for a spot XRP ETF, and the asset jumped 12 % in just a few minutes. The news turned out to be fake, however. I mean, it's very, very unlikely BlackRock would file for an ETF based on asset that not only doesn't have a CME derivatives market, but is still in active securities litigation. Needless to say, the XRP price corrected sharply shortly after, with both moves triggering significant losses in derivatives positions. Earlier today, XRP was still up over the past 24 hours, but only around 1%. In macro indicators, the US inflation data for the month of October is in. And it came in soft, which is very good news. To recap, in September, the headline CP index increased by 3 .7%, and consensus estimates for October pointed to a 3 .3 % increase. That itself would have been good. But the number came in even softer, at 3 .2%. Even more relevant for the US Federal Reserve is the Core CPI index, since this strips out the volatile components of food and energy. In September, Core CPI jumped by 4 .1 % year on year, and expectations were for that rate of increase to hold steady in October. The actual figure came in at 4 .0%, the smallest increase since September 2021. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shelter accounted for the bulk of the increase in the Core Inflation Index, but much less so than expected. And it seems lower energy prices are also doing their bit. On a monthly basis, Core CPI grew by 0 .2%, less than expected. This brings the three -month average monthly gain down to 0 .3%, lower than last year's average of 0 .5%. The average needs to come down further to give the Fed some breathing room, but it is progress. A US rate hike at the December FOMC meeting was unlikely anyway, given market tension, geopolitical fragility, and the likelihood of a government shutdown starting this weekend. This release now takes that totally off the table. As we head into record, US yields are heading down fast, with the 10 -year Treasury yield plummeting as investors were holding their breath for the inflation report. The good news in the figures has given the market a jolt of energy, with futures pointing to a very strong open. European indices were more positive yesterday, with the FTSE 100 up 0 .9%, the German DAX up 0 .6%, and the Euro Stoxx 600 up 0 .75%. The US figures are extending this trend for the DAX and the as investors digest the UK cabinet reshuffle. In Asia, stocks were cautiously positive today, with both Japan's Nikkei index and China's Shanghai Composite climbing 0 .3 % and the Hang Seng losing almost 0 .2%. In commodities, oil continues to head up, despite a report out this morning from the International Energy Agency that insists global oil markets won't be as tight as expected this quarter. The agency recognizes that demand is growing, as OPEC said yesterday, but non -OPEC supply apparently is growing even more. The market doesn't seem convinced yet, however, and the Brent crude benchmark is up 0 .4 on the day, trading at $83 .67 a barrel. After falling more than 1 % yesterday, gold today is benefiting from a drop in the $DXY index, as US yields digest the good inflation figures. Earlier today, gold was trading up over 0 .5 % at $1 ,956 per ounce. Stay with us. After the break, we're going to talk about new crypto investment.
Cryptocurrency for Beginners: with Crypto Casey
A highlight from Crypto Wallet How to Transfer Crypto from Exchange (Tangem Wallet 2.0 Review ) New Features!
"We are going to become our own bank, our own security system. We are going to 100 % own and have complete control over our digital assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Altcoins, and other cryptocurrencies and NFTs all in less than 90 seconds right now. This is the latest version of Tangent Wallet, a multi -currency, multi -chain cryptocurrency wallet that is the size of a credit card, the most affordable cold storage hardware wallet, and extremely easy to set up and use. Check it out. Opening the box here, we have the three cards with a new sleek matte black design. Next, installing the correct and official Tangent Mobile app on our phones and opening the app, tap Scan Card and touch one of the cards to your phone like so. Next, tap Create Wallet and tap the card to your phone again. Nice. Now that we have a wallet, let's create backups of it. Tap Backup Now and then tap Add a Backup Card and tap the second card to your phone. Cool. Now tap Add a Backup Card again and tap the third card to your phone. Then tap Finalize the Backup Process. And now we need to create an access code to secure the wallets. Tap Continue and then type in whatever word, phrase, numbers, or combination of text you want to use to access your wallet. Re -enter it to verify the access code and then scan the primary card ending in the corresponding numbers on the screen that matches that card, holding you up to your phone until the operation is complete. Then repeat this process for the two backup cards. Sweet! Now your Tangent wallet has been configured and is ready for use. Now we can continue to the wallet, check out the mobile app, learn how to use it safely and securely, and then move some crypto to it. Hello, I'm Crypto Casey and in this video we are going to go over the new features of Tangent's latest wallet and how we can transfer crypto off of exchanges to completely own and control it with this cold storage hardware wallet. Let's hit it! Here is Tangent's original wallet we fully reviewed together on the channel, which you can check out by clicking on the link above. And this is their latest sleek matte black design with some interesting new features. Side by side, both cards are the same shape and size, however the new one is more sturdy with some nice weight to it. Tangent compiled a list of the most requested features by users and implemented them in their new Tangent wallet card. One of the main differences being three different options for private key generation versus only one. So in addition to using the certified true random number generator, TRNG, which generates and stores the keys inside the card's chips, where neither Tangent nor anyone else can see what it is and no copies exist in space and time outside of the Tangent wallet cards. Now with the new wallet cards, we have the option of generating a seed phrase with the Tangent mobile app and importing it to the cards, and also the option of importing an existing seed phrase from another wallet. Cool stuff. So it's important to note that if we create the wallet without the seed phrase option, generating a seed phrase will not be possible later. So we need to carefully consider the pros and cons of each option and decide which one we are most comfortable with long term. Tangent creates a seed phrase through their app on your phone, a hot device connected to the internet, which is not ideal if your phone has malware on it has been compromised or similar. So if we do decide to create a seed phrase for our Tangent wallet, or if we decide to import a seed phrase from an existing wallet, consider disconnecting from any Wi -Fi networks and switching your phone into airplane mode to make sure the process is more secure. Do not take a screenshot of the seed phrase. Instead, write it down on a few pieces of paper to store securely in different locations in case of something like a fire, flood or similar, and then get something more durable than paper immediately for the long term. There are some great offline options for storing the private keys like the crypto steel capsule solo offered by Ledger. This is a solid steel capsule to protect your seed phrase designed to resist extreme conditions. And the BILFODL also is offered by Ledger. BILFODL is a solid steel case to store and protect your seed phrase designed to resist fire, water and more. With cold wallets like Ledger and Trezor devices, the creation of the 12 or 24 word seed phrase is done offline, which is more ideal and secure. However, vulnerabilities and security risks are still present because, as we've discussed in several videos on the channel, if anyone has access to your seed phrase, like if they came across them written on a piece of paper or had access to a Ledger crypto steel capsule or BILFODL with the seed phrase, or if you stored it on a device that can be hacked like your computer, cell phone, or if a scammer tricks you by pretending to be Ledger, Trezor or similar, sending you a fake email or directing you to a fake site and instruct you to give them your seed phrase by lying and saying your funds need to be recovered or something like that, then all the funds on your wallet will be gone. So seed phrases are designed to help us with self custody and to manage our cryptocurrencies and digital assets more easily and restore any lost access to our funds. However, like we just discussed, there are risks. And even if you decided to try and remember it by heart or mix up some of the words, if you unfortunately suffered a brain injury, memory lapse or similar, that's also a risk of completely losing access to your funds. So think about this. Cryptocurrency private keys are generated by elaborate mathematical algorithms where data is encrypted many, many times using a huge amount of computing power. And then the most important key is then just converted into a 12 word seed phrase that can be used by anyone anywhere at any time to steal everything. Right. Important things to consider. So do your own research and never put your eggs or crypto all in one basket or even several of the same types of baskets. Diversification in investments is just as important as diversification of the same type of assets, like spreading cash into several different banks and spreading crypto across different types of wallets. Diversify some digital assets into seed phrase based cold storage hardware wallets like Ledger and Trezor and also diversify some digital assets in different technologically based wallets like BC Vault or Tangent Wallet. With Tangent Wallet, instead of a seed phrase as the only way to backup our cryptocurrency, backup copies of the wallet are created and used on the other Tangent Wallet cards. So let's say we have our Tangent Wallet card and two backup cards. We can store them in different geographical locations in case we need to restore access to our digital assets. And if anyone happens to come across the card or steals the card and even downloads the Tangent Wallet app and tries to access our funds, an additional security layer is necessary, which is where we encrypt our wallets with an access code by creating our unique series of numbers or letters or similar to a PIN code or passphrase. And to protect the wallet from brute force attacks, after each wrong password attempt, an increasing amount of time delay between each attempt is executed. So our crypto remains secure. Amazing. The other new features we will explore apply to both the first and latest versions of the Tangent cards as updates to the Tangent Mobile Wallet app and overall user experience. This includes a new dark mode where we can navigate through the mobile app comfortably in low light environments. So it's easier on the eyes when using it at night or in the dark. It also looks a lot cooler as you can see here on some screenshots. With the new update, we can now sort and group our cryptocurrencies and tokens however we want, whether it be by balance, by blockchain network, like cryptocurrencies on the Ethereum network versus Polygon or similar, or manually in whatever order we prefer to see them. Tangent added an extra layer of protection with an option to hide our balances when the app is open to keep our crypto holdings more discreet without us having to sacrifice convenience if others are close by and can see our phone screen. And they also added an option to turn off access code recovery, which increases security. We can now monitor price changes over the past 24 hours of all of our assets directly in the app to help us make informed decisions during crazy dynamic markets. There is rapid access to buying, selling or hiding a token by tapping and holding it on the home screen. Bitcoin and Ethereum transaction histories also display directly in the app without us having to check third parties like Block Explorer, Etherscan or similar. And Tangent is working on adding more blockchain networks in future updates. Tangent now offers 24x7x365 support so they can answer any questions we may have or guide us on how to properly do crypto transactions with Tangent Wallet no matter what time it is or what time zone we are in, which is huge for beginners just getting in the space. More features are on the horizon like a market data feature directly inside the app, an address book, cross -chain swaps, staking and more support for more blockchains. Brilliant. Now let's transfer some cryptocurrencies off of exchanges to our Tangent Wallet together so we can get more comfortable with the process as well as transfer some back to the exchange to practice for our profit -taking strategy in the next bull run, which you can learn more about in this video guide by clicking on the link above. And after that, we will learn how to connect our Tangent Wallets to Web3 applications like Morales Money, a platform for finding undervalued altcoins before they pump in the next bull cycle. So stay tuned to the very end to learn more about becoming your own bank with complete control and ownership over your digital asset investments simply and easily with Tangent Wallet and a very important free tool we can use when interfacing with Web3 to further protect our funds. Nice. Let's move some Bitcoin we have on our Coinbase account off of the exchange together to hold in our very own cold storage hardware wallet, Tangent Wallet. Open the Tangent app, tap scan card, scan the card, and enter the access code. Scan the card again. And from here on the dashboard, press and hold Bitcoin, then tap copy address. Next, open the Coinbase exchange app, tap the send button, tap Bitcoin, paste the Tangent Bitcoin wallet address into the to field, and tap continue. Enter the amount of Bitcoin we want to send. I always recommend sending a small amount as a test first to make sure everything is good to go. So in this case, we are sending $100 worth of Bitcoin. Tap preview, make sure everything looks good, then tap send now, and it's on its way. In a few minutes or so, when we open our Tangent Wallet app, we will see the $100 worth of Bitcoin that we now completely own and control. Repeat the same process for any other type of cryptocurrency by copying the corresponding address on Tangent Wallet, also making sure we select the right network. Like for example, with Tether, there are many other available networks like Ethereum versus BNB Smart Chain versus Solana and more. And then repeat the same similar process on any other exchange we may have crypto on by using the send function, pasting the address in the recipient field, and checking to make sure everything looks good before sending. The process is actually much easier and simpler than most people think that are new to crypto. And it's a lot like riding a bike. I can try to explain how to ride a bike to you, show you how to ride a bike, and you can read about riding a bike. However, at the end of the day, you need to get on the bike and ride it for yourself to learn. So start practicing transferring to and from different exchanges and wallets to prepare for the next face -melting bull cycle so you can take profits and potentially change your life with some nice gains. And if you want to explore a simple tool any of us can reference to increase the probability of us making gains by buying and selling altcoins at the right time, check out this video guide all about the Morales Moneyline charting tool by clicking on the link above. Great. Now let's transfer crypto from our Tangent Wallet back to Coinbase exchange to practice for when we want to lock in profits by converting it to fiat and transferring it to our bank accounts. Note that you can take profit in stablecoins directly on the Tangent Wallet app without transferring it by tapping on the token, tapping exchange, entering the amount, and tapping swap. There's also an option to sell for fiat using moon pay if we tap sell. However, you will have to set up an account with them which is a good idea so we have multiple options to trade and sell crypto when the market is hot as some exchanges get overwhelmed, freeze transactions, prevent withdrawals, etc. So open the Coinbase exchange app, tap receive, select the crypto, for example Ethereum on the Ethereum network, tap copy, then open the Tangent Wallet app. On the dashboard, tap and hold Ethereum, then tap send. Paste the Ethereum network wallet address from Coinbase in the address field. Select the amount of Ether to send, which as usual start with a small amount to test first to make sure it works, then tap send. After a few minutes or so, depending on how busy the network or exchange are, it will show up on the exchange and from there you can sell it for your country's currency and then transfer it to your bank account. Amazing. Now let's connect our Tangent Wallet to a Web3 application so we can start using decentralized platforms like Morales Money. But first it's extremely important to make sure we are accessing the correct and official sites as well as understanding exactly what is going to happen when we sign transactions to avoid losing all of our funds from a scammer or hacker using a free browser extension called WalletGuard. I've been using it over the past year and it's been working great, popping up warnings, helping check everything out before transacting, so it's definitely worth checking out and giving it a go whether we are new or experienced in the space. For example, if we start interacting with smart contracts like for minting NFTs, when accessing the site, WalletGuard's phishing protection layer executes and warns you if the website might be harmful, if it was created recently, and if it has a low trust score and if we do proceed to do so with caution. And when we do, before attempting to verify a transaction with our wallet, a second layer of protection is executed with a clear human readable warning about what exactly will happen if you decide to proceed with a transaction, like if it's going to drain your wallet instead of actually mint an NFT. This feature alone would have saved me from losing over $20 ,000 when minting an NFT on a fake lookalike website back in the last bull cycle. Absolutely insane. It can also detect and will notify you if the site is making multiple attempts to interact with your wallet, trying to hack and steal funds. So, WalletGuard is a must have as a crypto investor, so make sure to scroll down and use the link below to access the correct and official site to download WalletGuard's free extension to protect your wallet and crypto assets today. Seriously, it takes like 10 seconds and if you'd like to see a video guide all about how it works, click on the link above. Nice. Now that we've got an added layer of protection to keep our wallets and funds more secure when interacting with Web3 apps, let's learn how to connect our Tangem wallet to a Web3 app called Morales Money. Make sure to use the link in the description area below to access the correct and official site, as well as redeem any special offers they have for us. Before connecting, open the Tangem app, tap Manage Tokens at the bottom, tap BNB and make sure the BNB Beacon Chain and BNB Smart Chain options are enabled. That way the connection to Morales Money platform goes more smoothly. Using the link below, when we arrive at the site, we can see a screen full of crypto bubbles that show us which altcoins are up versus down in the latest price action. And in the top right hand corner, click on the Sign Up Login button, then click Login via Wallet. Here we can see a secure login screen where we can click Connect, then click on the option called Wallet Connect here, and then we will see this QR code. Next, open the Tangem wallet app, tap on the three dots in the top right hand corner of the screen, then tap Wallet Connect, tap the Add icon in the top right hand corner, then hold your phone facing the QR code on the Morales Money screen. On the Tangem app, you will see a message, tap Start, and next on the Morales Money screen, we just need to click the Verify button. Then on the Tangem wallet app, on the message that pops up, tap Sign. Enter your access code, tap the Tangem card to your phone, and on the Morales Money screen, enter your email address, and now you're connected to the Morales Money Web3 app. This is a platform with a lot of different functionalities that helps us with finding new altcoins, trading them, and much much more, which you can learn all about in this video walkthrough by clicking on the link above. Just to give you an overview of what we can do with our Tangem wallets connected to Morales Money, we can check out our wallet balances by clicking on this profile picture in the top right hand corner and then clicking My Wallet. And here we can view all of our tokens, and under the NFT tab, we can also view any NFTs on our wallets. Nice. And on the navigation menu at the top of the screen, if we click Swap, then click on the dropdown that says Trading Account, we can click Main Account, which opens up our wallet. And if we click Swap, we can select a token to sell from our wallet to buy another token on the Ethereum, Binance, or Polygon blockchain networks. All straight on the blockchain without having to transfer tokens to and from centralized exchanges. Very neat. On Morales Money, we can also go to the Explore Coins option and choose a predetermined filter like Top Recently Minted Coins with Experienced Buyers. And if one of the tokens seems interesting and you want to gamble on some, click on it. And on the right here, we can instantly swap tokens in our wallet to the new token directly on chain. There are a ton of other interesting tools and tricks on the Morales Money platform with many more to come. So if you're interested in checking it out, be sure to scroll down and use links below to sign up. If you would like to learn more about Morales Money and how it can help us potentially make life -changing gains in altcoins, check out this video. If you would like to watch a video guide about how crypto wallets, seed phrases, and private keys work, check out this video. And to get your very own Tangent wallet, click on the link in the screen. Like and subscribe for more. Be safe out there.
Recipes for Success
Treat Others the Way THEY Want to Be Treated With Ciara Lynch
"You know the way like people often say like treat people how you want to be treated that's not actually true like you should actually treat people how they want to be treated because it's exactly to your point for some people like public recognition is horrifying yes there were times you would think not giving someone more hours is a good thing but you're right if someone is trying to save then it isn't so I think that's amazing that you're bringing that in to the farm as a workplace I suppose our biggest thing is you get that you're trying to be like an employer of choice yes yeah you know we just want to suppose create a place where people are happy coming to work and like there's a couple of the you know and I'll know if they're having a good day or a bad day because they'll they'll like if they're happy I just they'll be whistling they'll be singing they'll be you know do their work or do their jobs whereas I know okay if he's quiet and you know you'll kind of get down to the crux of the issue there really quickly but yeah it's it's just it's trying to create a really nice workplace as nice as possible and look we don't always get it right you know there's always going to be a couple of people who don't agree with how you do things and that's just life that's nature you know that's just human human elements on it because when you're in our business there's there's times where it's really you know it's high pressure like calving season I'm sure you remember from you know from growing up my calving season is full on like it is I always say if I'm to compare it to like my marketing spiel it's like it's pitch week yes for 12 weeks straight and then you have you know a nice maybe two or three week break and then you're into breeding season which is like double pitch week that's like coming down to the crunch that is you know we're just going to find on the new flight but we need to make sure that all of these things are done yeah and you're exhausted you're emotionally drained you are you're you're spent and then you go back into like another another heavy 12 weeks so we always kind of say like from february to the very june don't knock on the door um called in our house because we're just like zombies and but you have to be and that's where you really have to be aware of how people are behaving and just kind of monitoring people's behavior are you doing okay do you know do you need extra time off you know what's going on are you feeling all right because it's a busy time it can be really stressful this spring in particular was really tough on all farmers the weather just was it rained from March pretty much straight through to May you know and that puts physical pressure on because I mean cows supposed to be out normally we'd be lucky enough we'd have cows out kind of by the end of february we still have cows in shed in May and that takes us to the body and the mind right is it ever and you know you know at some point it will stop
Awards Chatter
A highlight from George C. Wolfe - 'Rustin'
"Monarch Legacy of Monsters, an Apple Original Series. The world is on fire. I decided to do something about it. On November 17th. This place, it's not ours. Believe me. The most massive event of the year arrives. If you come with me, you'll know everything, I promise. Oh my God, go, go, go! Monarch Legacy of Monsters, streaming November 17th. Only on Apple TV+. My guest today is one of the great storytellers of Stage and Screen, which is why it's only fitting that he's here at the Fest to collect the Storyteller Award. He's a playwright best known for writing 1986's The Colored Museum and co -writing 1992's Jelly's Last Gem. He's a theater director best known for directing the original Broadway productions of Angels in America Millennium Approaches and Angels in America Perestroika, two landmark plays in 1993, and a host of Broadway musicals, including 1996's Bring in the Noise, Bring in the Funk, 2004's Caroline or Change, and 2016's Shuffle Along. And he's a screen director best known for directing the 2005 limited series Lackawanna Blues and the films Night in Rodanthe from 2008, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks from 2017, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom from 2020, and this year's Rustin, the story of Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Over the course of his career, this 69 -year -old has been nominated 15 times for a Tony Award, winning three for best direction of a play for Angels in America Millennium Approaches in 1993, best direction of a musical for Bring in the Noise, Bring in the Funk in 1996, and best special theatrical event for Elaine Stritch at Liberty in 2002. He was nominated for an Emmy best directing for a limited series for Lackawanna Blues in 2005, and he has twice been nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for outstanding directing of a miniseries or TV film for Lackawanna Blues in 2006, which resulted in a win, and for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in 2018. The New York Times' Ben Brantley has described him as a brilliant stage director, arguably the best now working in the American theater. The Los Angeles Times declared, there are few living talents who could be viewed as as much of a New York theater institution. Interview Magazine said it would be difficult to overstate his status on Broadway, and Tony Kushner proclaimed that he is the premier theater artist of my generation. And those are just the quotes about his work in theater. There are many more about his work in film. But without further ado, would you please join me in welcoming to the SCAD Savannah Film Festival and to the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast, Mr. George C. Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe, thank you so much for coming to Savannah. Glad to be here, glad to. Let's just start at the very beginning. Where were you born and raised, and what did your folks do for a living? I was born and raised in Frankfort, Kentucky. My mother was a teacher, and she later became a principal of the schools. I went to that school. She taught me. It was horrifying. My father worked for the state government, and that's that. For the first eight years of your life, the town in which you grew up was segregated. Yes. You have spoken about wanting to go see a movie, 101 Dalmatians, and not being able to do that because of your race. Well, my grandmother was this incredibly ferocious figure who would take on anybody. I telling remember her that I wanted to go see 101 Dalmatians at the Capitol Theater. I remember her calling and them telling her no. It was sort of startling and shocking and fascinating because it was the first time I'd ever see her come into contact with a no. So that was fascinating. But then it integrated, and then at one point, when I went to high school, I was editor of the high school newspaper, and I went and convinced the man who ran the Capitol Theater that I should go see movies for free so that I could write reviews. He said, but by the time the review comes out, the movies will be gone. I said, but it's cultivating a love of movies, and so that's what my column will do. It was my slight payback because then I got to go see movies for free. I love it. Let's talk, though, there's a moment you've described over the years. You were in fourth grade, and your, at that time, all black grade goes to an all white class. But that time, I think it was probably a little bit older, so I got about the PTA and the singing. Well, I think by that time, Frankfurt was integrated, but I still went to this black school which was connected to a university there. And the principal, this woman named Minnie J. Hitch, you told us, because we were going to be singing a song, and the lyrics were these truths we are declaring that all men are the same, that liberty is a torch burning with a steady flame. And she told us that when we got to the line that liberty is a torch burning with a steady flame, we should sing it with a ferocity and that we would shatter all racism in the room. So I literally remember these truths we are declaring that all men are the same, that liberty is a torch, you know. And then racism was gone. And racism was gone, exactly. They were all transformed. But it sort of was like so cluelessly wonderful for somebody to tell someone that young that if you say words and if you say them with power and conviction, you can change people. And that sense of potency of conviction and language was embedded in me, and it's never left. When did you see your first theatrical production that was done professionally? When I was 12 or 13, my mother went to do some advanced degree work at NYU, and she brought me a log, and it was one summer. And so I saw a production of West Side Story that was done at the State Theater at Lincoln Center. Then I saw a production of Hello Dolly with Cab Calloway and Pearl Bailey. And then I saw a production, as it turns out, from the Public Theater and Mobile Unit that Cleavon Little played Hamlet. Wow. And it was done in Washington Square Park. Wow. And some in respect, each of those three productions had, I think, a lasting impact on a kind of aesthetic. Right. And the thing interesting about the Mobile Unit, it was free. And so it was seeing the rawness of that energy of the audience was also very, it was very, very, really wonderful and really interesting and great. So the throughout rest of your time in high school, you were increasingly involved in theater and school. I don't know if it was specific, I think, was it writing, directing, acting? What were you focused on at that point? Acting and directing. And also it's very interesting because when I went to that high school, I stuttered really intensely. So this is one thing I was talking about earlier. So they decided that I was stupid because I stuttered. And so they called my mother over to the school to say, and they wanted to put me in remedial classes. And she says, are you crazy? No, that's not happening. And so I developed an Evita complex. So I said, by the time I leave this school, I will be running it. And so I was editor. I was drum major. I was the worst drum major since the dawn of time. I just, you know, I was editor of the newspaper, of the literary magazine. I just did all these stubs just to, you know, how dare you dismiss? I could tell. And I never heard the story about them calling my mother over, but I could tell I was being disregarded. Right. I sensed it. And I went, no. So you start college in Kentucky and then move to Pomona and California. What at that time? This is there. Oh, yeah. We're doing the whole thing. Exactly. What was the idea of going out to California? Was it just to have a change of scenery or did you were you already thinking maybe that's where you go if you want to be in show business? No, not at all. I had always dreamed of going to New York. I would I would watch, you know, TV shows that were set in New York, like the Dick Van Dyke Show. And I remember this is kind of neurotic and crazy. But I what I really I was obsessed with Disney and I wanted to have my own amusement park. But I wanted money. I knew you need a lot of money. So I decided that actors made a lot of money. This is when I was seven or eight. And so and I knew the actors starved. So when I was seven or eight, I used to practice not eating. So that when I went to New York, this is insanely true that, you know, that I so I could deal with it, you know. Well, little did I know one doesn't need to practice starvation. So you graduate from Pomona, go to L .A. for a little while to do theater, to do theater. OK, now theater, as I guess you quickly concluded, is primarily in New York. Well, yeah, I mean, at one point I did shows and I started to get some good reviews in the L .A. Times. And then I got called in. I don't even remember for to be a writer on a sitcom. And and I and I said something funny and they said, oh, he's quick. We're going to have to tie one hand behind his back. And I took that literally. And that's when I went I'm moving to New York. You know, I just was it was like time to go time to go time to go confront a whole bunch of other stuff and things I need to learn and get smarter about. Well, so, OK, you move. It's 1979. You're in your 20s. You moved to New York. Early 20s. Early 20s. Right, right, right. Very early. In fact, I was 19. I was just pretending to be 20. Something like that. Yeah. You moved to New York. There are a number of years then after moving there that were we can say lean. You got to put into practice not eating so much. You what said once quote, I came to New York to write and direct. And when I got here, a lot of my rage came out. Close quote. What do you mean by that? Well, it's so interesting because in L .A., it's you know, it's you know, there's more space. So so, you know, poverty and wealth are very much so separated. And then in New York, it's, you know, they're next door to each other. And the intensity of the inequity at the time, plus the fact that I had no real power over my existence, sort of magnified all of that. And I remember I remember seeing I remember at one time seeing this image of this of this woman in a fur coat. It was winter and eating chocolates and there was a subway vent and there was this homeless woman sitting there. And she had newspaper wrapped around her legs instead of boots. And she was like like crazy and was like and just seeing those two images next to each other. It's you know, it's the thing about New York. Every single time you step foot outside your front door, you see somebody who is worse off than you and you see somebody who is living a completely different life to you. So you have you get instant perspective whether you want it or not. So in those those leaner years, you are teaching a little bit. You're going to get your own MFA at NYU Tisch in dramatic writing, your... Dramatic writing and musical theater and a double MFA. And then there's a opportunity to have a work of yours produced for the first time at Playwrights' Horizon, which is a big deal. Playwrights? No. And how did that go? Well, it it was interesting. It was it was ultimately the best thing that could have happened for my career. I didn't direct it. I wrote the I wrote the book and I wrote the lyrics for it. And it and there were things that in the rehearsal process that I. And also, when I first came to New York, I said, I'm a writer and director, and they said, no, you can't do both. You have to focus in on one. I said, but I could do both. And they said, no, you can't. So I focused just on the writing. So then I there were things that were happening in the rehearsal room that I knew weren't right. But in the spirit of ra ra ra, getting along and being good guy and all this sort of stuff, I didn't object. And then I remember there was a tornado passing through New York City on the day my bad review came out. So I'm standing on the corner of 95th and Broadway with the winds blowing. I'm reading this hate review. And it was so very painful. But it was really interesting because it was very good for me because, you know, I went, oh, if this happens again, if I get another bad review. And of course, I've gotten bad reviews. But if it's going to be because it's my vision. Because it's I because I put every single thing I had on the line. Everybody, we're only in the room to make a very beautiful baby. And if we become good friends as a result of that, that's fine. But we all have a responsibility. The people that you're collaborating with to do their finest, best work. And you have to do your finest, best work. And it was interestingly enough, when I was at NYU, the piece that I wrote that bombed, I went, oh, this is going to be successful. And then there was this play that I wrote just for myself called The Colored Museum. And yeah, none of y 'all applauded when I said the title of the other thing, Paradise, did you? No. But that's what happened. It was the most interesting thing because I wrote one for success and I wrote one for myself. And that was the thing that succeeded. And so it was a very deeply, deeply, deeply valuable lesson. It was just like, and then eight weeks later, all those people who trashed, eight weeks, no, eight months were that it were eight weeks. Eight months later, all those people who trashed me were going, oh, where has he been? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And I'm so glad it happened that way. I'm so glad that the first piece was treated that way so that therefore it gave me a clarity and a sense of responsibility. And doing and doing work that I believed in and and that was that I believe mattered as opposed to something that was going to lead to success. It was just one of those slap you in the face and get smart, George. So you mentioned The Colored Museum, which let's just say, though, you know, you had you're coming off the rough review. How did you even get the opportunity to do The Colored Museum, which is going to as if you don't know, it was the first big success for Mr. Wolf. So how did that opportunity even come out of that? Well, it came out of that because I was at Playwrights Horizons because the guy named Lee Richardson, who was running a theater called Crossroads, said you're at Playwrights Horizons. And I don't think there's ever been a black playwright at Playwrights Horizons. Do you have something else that you've written? I said, well, funny you should ask. Dada, Colored Museum. And so that's how it happened. So there is there were they were both connected in a in a in a way that didn't seem so at the time, but was sort of brilliantly perfect. I want to ask you. So The Colored Museum is produced at Crossroads in 86 and then moved to the Public Theater in 87, which you'll notice the Public Theater, the great off Broadway institution, is going to come up quite a few times in this conversation. But for people who weren't around at that time or don't know or whatever, can you describe what The Colored Museum is about and what the controversy backlash that that provoked was? Because it was you you had to develop thick skin early on because it was not all fun and games in response to that one either. Well, but that was different. That was called pure unadulterated jealousy. So that was that was that was just, you know, I came from nowhere and all of a sudden I'm at the Public Theater. And Frank Rich wrote a wrote a review, a rave review, and said it's the kind of playwright who takes no prisoners. And people thought and that meant he kills people. The language kills them. And people thought that that meant I was soft. So it was just like that was just dumb cluelessness. That was very that was very easy to dismiss. And and, you know, and it was it was just jealousy. It was and that I, you know, I went, oh, my feelings are hurt. Oh, I'm over that. OK, go to hell. You know, it's just sort of like I didn't I didn't sweat about that. Well, tell us a little bit about the show, because this is your big success. First. Yeah, it was first. Well, it's it's interesting when I was at NYU. In the dramatic writing program, there are about three or four people writing plays about old black tap dancers, and they didn't happen to be old black or tap dancers. And so and I was just I was just I just thought about it. And I said, so somebody has figured out, has made a decision or dynamics have been created so that people have decided what black is. And I'm going, I'm black, I'm black my entire life. And I view it as this ever changing, complicated, insane, brilliant, amazing thing. So it was an effort to shatter, shatter any preconceived notions that I thought were going to stand in the way of what I wanted to create. So I wrote this play, which was eight exhibits set inside a museum. So I wanted to shatter all the perception, any perceptions that were in my head. So it's to liberate me to go in any direction that I wanted it to. And that's what happened. And it became this and it became this very successful show. It played, I think, for I think for 10 months at the Public Theater. Then it went to the Royal Court in London. Then it toured all around. And now it's it's high schools do it now and stuff, which is great. So it's in. And then as a result of it, then I started getting interesting from that. I went from, you know, being completely flat broke to then I met the kids of studios. I got Mike Nichols wanted me to write a movie for him. Robert Altman wanted me to write movies. So all of a sudden, you know, these job opportunities happened. But it wasn't for many years that you actually went into film. In the meantime, you were kind of seizing this interest in the theater, this opportunity now in theater. There was a person who is legendary by the name of Joseph Papp, who founded and ran the public, who took a great interest in you and, you know, brought you in there. And and we can say, you know, in addition to producing the colored museum, right. Named you one of three resident directors there offered to have a producing entity within the public for you. This was a big champion to have. He then passes away in 1991. He gets succeeded by a lady who was there for only 18 months. And then in August 1993, this institution of the sort of first thing that comes to mind when you think, at least for me, off Broadway comes looking for a new director. How did you become aware that there was interest in you for that position? And was it was that job, which you then spoiler alert, got and held for the next 12 years? Was it what you thought it would be? Nothing is ever what you think is going to be. But that's the point of the journey. It was actually it was I was I directed a Broadway show called Jealous Last Jab. And then I was then offered Angels in America. And and then I was in the middle of directing a seven hour play. And then they called up my lawyer and said, we want to talk to George about running the public theater. And I went, well, I'm kind of busy right now. Can they come back after? And they said no. And so they wanted to make a decision. So when I was in rehearsal, it was announced that I was running the public theater. It was I loved the thing which I loved. I loved, loved about running the public theater was giving artists money, giving artists money and spaces where they could go do work. It was that, you know, because I after after Jelly, I went, oh, this is hard. Surviving Broadway and dealing with all of these all of the dynamics and the money and the audiences and all of that stuff. This is really, really hard. And you have to be really, really tough. And so I knew all these artists who were really gifted, incredibly gifted people, but maybe weren't as tough. Can we can I just mention a few? Because these are shows that were given a spotlight by you in those years, which, in fact, several of them were just revived in the last couple of years. So decades later, people are, you know, coming back to them. But let's note, Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992. This was a dear, dear, very Smith and important show there. That was 1994. We had Top Dog Underdog, Suzan -Laurie Parks wins the Pulitzer for that 19 excuse me, 2002. Take me out again. Just revive. So these are the kinds of people who were talking about where you can. And this the public was not particularly known for its being inclusive prior to your tenure. Well, I'd say it was I think probably yes. I think it's also a place that gave us, you know, for colored girls and it's also a place that gave us for short eyes. So I'm so I would I wouldn't totally agree with that. And also these were very smart artists and these were tough artists. But there were, you know, it's just you people when you're beginning, you need a place to play, which means you need a place to fail so that you can get smarter. Like I had with Playwrights Horizons, you need you need to to do the work and not feel the pressure of it being the biggest hit in the world because you're growing and you're learning and you're getting smarter and you're getting tougher and you're learning more savvy. Just like the things that I allowed on the first production that was done, I didn't allow on the second one. And so you get, you know, so you're growing, you're growing all these muscles. It's not just your talent muscles. It's your your ability to defend yourself and to protect your work and to go, I disagree with that. And, you know, I remember one time there was a writer who was doing a play and a couple of things got really wonky at rehearsals. And I said, well, why didn't you speak up? He said, well, I was just scared that I was actually doing a play at the public theater and somebody was going to discover I didn't know what the hell I was doing and throw me out. And it's that fear you have to get. You have to realize that fear and doubt and other stuff, all that stuff is a part of growing and you have to have permission to grow. And so that's that's what I took on very much so, which is creating a space that was there. I wanted the I wanted the audiences and the artists there. I wanted it to look like the subway at rush hour in New York. I wanted to have all kinds of people there. So that was the thing that I loved after a while. It became very, very clear to me that as much as I was creating spaces for other artists, it was very challenging to be one. And while being in charge. Well, let's go back to, again, what you were doing when you got that opportunity to go there, because this was the beginning. While you're creating these opportunities for people off Broadway, you were making your first inroads on Broadway. As you mentioned, Jelly's Last Jam, 1992, you co -wrote and directed this about Jelly Roll Morton and the birth of jazz. Your first Broadway show musical with Gregory Hines and small role the first time you're working with Savion Glover. And this gets 11 Tony nominations, wins three and sort of leads to Angels in America. Now, this is it's been looked back at. I think the New York Times looked at it as the greatest show on Broadway of the last 30 years. It's an all timer, obviously, but you first saw it as a spectator in Los Angeles. It started at the Mark Tabor Forum. There doesn't sound like there was even a thought in your head that you might ever have anything to do with this. How did that change? Well, Jelly had opened up and I worked with a producer named Margo Lion, who passed away, who was a very dear friend of mine. And everybody, you know, and there were some changes that were going to be made from the Tabor to when it moved to Broadway. And she brought my name up and Tony Kushner and someone called me up and said, Tony Kushner wants to come and talk to you. I said, OK. And he came over and he talked and I had never read the play. I had only seen it. So I talked to him about it and just gave him my observations.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from BREAKING: Bitcoin Spot ETF to be Approved Friday!? | EP 866
"It's all going to zero against Bitcoin. It's going up for everyone. Bitcoin! You're against Bitcoin, you're against freedom. Yo, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live, you're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution covered breaking news, culture, and medic warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state. Today is November 13th, 2023. I hope everyone had an amazing weekend. Breaking news, it seems like the deadline for whether or not the spot Bitcoin ETF will be approved in 2023 is going to be November 17th. It's coming up. It's coming up in a couple of days. What are they going to say? Are they going to approve it? Are they not going to approve it? I definitely think it's going to be one of those things where it's like pump up on the news and then giant sell off, you know, because that's what always happens if you've been in the space for a while. But it's it's absolutely bonkers that we've we've gotten to this point. Now, we've talked a lot about what the downsides and what the upsides of of a Bitcoin spot of a spot Bitcoin ETF are going to be. Obviously, a lot more liquidity going into the market. I definitely believe it will make number go up. But like Caitlin Long said when she came on Simply Bitcoin IRL and Lawrence Lippard, you know, it also risks for for rehypothecation of Bitcoin in the selling of paper Bitcoin. Now, obviously, I don't think it's going to be as easy to do than how they did that in the gold market due to gold's physical characteristics and due to Bitcoin's unique ability of being able to be transported and custody very easily, you know, for pennies on the dollar, you could send it anywhere around the world. You could take self custody of Bitcoin, millions, billions, theoretically trillions of dollars by writing down 12 words, 24 words, not to mention, you know, using multisig if you want to beef up your security setup. So actual the ability for you to take custody of it very quickly and very efficiently, I think is going to protect it from what they did to gold. But that's not to say that they're not going to try. Like I think the long term play here based on the FinCEN, you know, what's going on with FinCEN, which we're going to talk about tomorrow, how they're demonizing mixing services. But the things are so broad that it's like a single use address counts as of some type of mixing. And then the words are what I would call the Freudian slip from Elizabeth Warren, basically finally saying the quiet part out loud because Bitcoin exposes all incentives after all, finally admitting that, you know, self custody is some type of this highly sophisticated way of money laundering, of skirting regulations. Right. Like and of course, they're planting the seed. That's why they come up with these words, unhosted wallet, you know, custody wallet, non custodial wallet. Right. They're trying to plant the seeds in the uninformed populace that somehow self custody is dangerous. Well, the reason they're doing that is because self custody is the revolution. And if enough people take self custody will win and there's nothing they can do about it. So it's pretty crazy that the that the date to come is on Friday. But again, all of this would be rumors. All of this would be a big nothing burger. But actually, the CEO of Grayscale, which is one of those companies they hold up, not only do they hold an F ton of Bitcoin, but it's also one of those companies that have applied to file a spot Bitcoin ETF, has been hinting at some things on Twitter. He tweeted it out very, very early this morning before right before eight a .m. Eastern Time. So, I mean, it looks like. There could be a potential approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF on Friday. And if it was one, it wouldn't just be just one approved. There'd be multiple spot Bitcoin ETFs approved. Right. So that's what's going on right now. That's the breaking news. We're going to cover it like always. We're going to analyze it. We're going to show you guys all the details. We're going to make the case like we always do. Anyways, no more delay. I want to bring up my legendary co -host, always optimistic, already smiling, giant smile. The chat's on point. The chat is losing their mind today. It's totally irrelevant to the conversation. Don't go look in the chat. It's probably inappropriate for you guys at work. But yeah, chat's undefeated over here. They're cracking me up. Anyways, yeah, Nico, what a crazy weekend. And it really just goes to show what we've been talking about on the show for months now that we are in the then they fight you stage. This is the separation of money and state and things are getting frothy, not only the price, but everything going on around Bitcoin is starting to become a point of contention. I think we've been talking about this all year, that the stance on Bitcoin from any quote unquote authority figure is the defining conversation right now. Of course, this was all going on behind the scenes and now it's becoming public and it's all happening publicly. And this is why I think there is so much uproar about it all, because now finally, everything from behind the scenes is being made public and being brought to light. So I think it's more important than ever to do what we always tell you guys to make sure that your Bitcoin is in cold storage, that you don't have Bitcoin on exchanges, that you are huddling them Bitcoin because we know that they don't want us to be in the escape route. We've said it before. You know, they don't want an exit route. And Bitcoin is that exit route. And we've been telling you guys constantly the on and off ramps are the chokeholds, like we've known this for a while and now it's heating up. So hopefully we can move forward. Hopefully there will be pushback. And as an individual, if you're on the Bitcoin standard, the Bitcoin circular economy already, what's this mean to you? Just some roller coaster rides and part of the Bitcoin fund. So we'll get a wine. All right. I'm getting trolled. I'm getting trolled. Go. That's another thing to kind of bring up. And we'll bring up the latest development on the FinCEN and stuff that happened over the weekend. We'll cover that on tomorrow's episode. But one thing's for sure, guys, we say this in the beginning of the show. It is our motto. We'll be your guide to the separation of money and state. We are definitely entering the Then They Fight You stage. That's for sure. You have to take action. Get involved. Don't be just a bystander looking at what's happening. Get involved. And unfortunately, I think over the long term, I do agree with the theory from the book The Sovereign Individual, where information technologies and the ability for individuals to opt out, opt into whatever money they choose to use is going to make politics irrelevant over the long term. I completely agree with that. But what worries me and what keeps me up at night is the transitional period. And during the transitional period, I do think that politics are somewhat important. I do think that they can make life very, very difficult for you if you are holding Bitcoin and you live in a certain jurisdiction. So unless you want to keep moving from place to place, to place and place, it's important that you get involved, right? Whether that is making memes, commenting, making videos, just highlighting the lies and the misrepresentations, like what happened with Elizabeth Warren in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago. The more attention we call to that, the better we position ourselves, right? And the key is to win over the adoption race. We have to orange pill as many people as humanly possible, as quickly as possible, so that there's enough people holding Bitcoin in the US that if any politician tries to recommend anti -Bitcoin legislation, it becomes unpassable. And then the example that I would give to this would be the gun lobby, right? Any time you tried to pass a gun law in the United States, because so many people own guns, it just becomes impossible to pass, right? Hopefully we get to that much Bitcoin adoption in the United States very quickly, that any type of Elizabeth Warren type of regulation, any type of maneuvering and scheming just gets shut down just because it's so unpopular with everybody. But we're not we're not quite there yet. Bitcoin right now is still in the shadows. Like that's the reality. Like people know about Bitcoin. People know about crypto. They know about these things. They still think crypto and Bitcoin are the same thing. But it really comes down to us to really educate the masses. And I'm not talking about just me and Opti. I'm talking about everyone in the chat. Take it upon yourself. Take agency, take action. Orange pill as many people around you. Right. This is all about the individual pushing this forward. That's how we win. We win over the hearts and minds of people. It's not left versus right. That's the divide and conquer strategy. It's really the party of orange, party of peace, Bitcoin, opportunity, prosperity, versus a party of green, which is a party which is the future they want us living in, which is a party of central bank digital currencies, nihilism, slavery, confiscation, all of that bad stuff. So you got to decide what future do you want your children to be living in? I want my children to be living in a Bitcoin future. Well, we got to stand up and stand up for your right. Anyways, everybody, let's let's move on to the numbers. Yeah, I know, right. It's a good line. It's a good line. All right, everybody, let's move on to the numbers. We got a lot to talk about. Let's check it out.
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A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | What JPMorgan Analysts Missed About Bitcoin's Rally
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now a markets roundup. After the hectic activity at the end of last week as markets reacted to BlackRock's filing of an EtherSpot ETF proposal, the weekend seemed like an oasis of calm. So far today, the market looks mixed. According to Coindesk Indices, at 9 a .m. Eastern Time this morning, Bitcoin was down two thirds of a percent over the past 24 hours, trading at $36 ,873. Ether was up one third, trading at $2 ,059. Elsewhere, Filecoin was up 14%, Cosmos was up 10%, Optimism and the Lido DAO token were up 5%. Solana was down 1 % after what has been an astonishing run. Over the past week, the asset is up over 40%. You may remember that in an early October episode, I pulled out the average performance of Bitcoin for the month of October going back to 2010, which was 27%. I calculated that if Bitcoin achieved that average performance during the month, the price would reach just over $34 ,000. Well, that's pretty much what happened. Do please note, I am not saying I know where the price is going, and the October result was pure coincidence, I don't have a crystal ball. But let's try the same exercise for November just for fun. November historically has been on average an even better month than October, with an average performance going back to 2011 of 44%. If this November meets its average, and it's a big if, that would put the Bitcoin price at just over $49 ,000. It's a pleasant thing to keep in mind. In macro indicators, today I have more news from the University of Michigan Consumer Survey. You may remember a couple of weeks ago, I talked about why this survey was worth watching. It's because of what it says about how consumers are feeling, which could impact future spending. Well, on Friday, we got the details for October, and there are some worrying signals in there. Inflation expectations one year out are now at 4 .4%, much higher than the expected 4%, and higher than September's 4 .2%. This is the highest level since May, which signals that the rate hikes are not doing what they're supposed to do, which is bring down corporate and consumer spending and reset expectations. The fact that consumer inflation expectations are more than double the official target is not nearly as worrying as the fact that they are heading up. And it's especially relevant since it is something Fed Chair Jerome Powell has said he keeps an eye on, as inflation expectations can influence behavior. This rise in the University of Michigan's survey result further confirms that rate cuts are not on the table just yet, and probably won't be for a while, at least until this number comes down to close to 2%. The University of Michigan inflation expectations for five years out also came in higher than expected at 3 .2%. This is lower than the 12 -month expectations, which is good, but it does send the signal that the Fed's inflation target won't be reached even in five years.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | What JPMorgan Analysts Missed About Bitcoin's Rally
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now a markets roundup. After the hectic activity at the end of last week as markets reacted to BlackRock's filing of an EtherSpot ETF proposal, the weekend seemed like an oasis of calm. So far today, the market looks mixed. According to Coindesk Indices, at 9 a .m. Eastern Time this morning, Bitcoin was down two thirds of a percent over the past 24 hours, trading at $36 ,873. Ether was up one third, trading at $2 ,059. Elsewhere, Filecoin was up 14%, Cosmos was up 10%, Optimism and the Lido DAO token were up 5%. Solana was down 1 % after what has been an astonishing run. Over the past week, the asset is up over 40%. You may remember that in an early October episode, I pulled out the average performance of Bitcoin for the month of October going back to 2010, which was 27%. I calculated that if Bitcoin achieved that average performance during the month, the price would reach just over $34 ,000. Well, that's pretty much what happened. Do please note, I am not saying I know where the price is going, and the October result was pure coincidence, I don't have a crystal ball. But let's try the same exercise for November just for fun. November historically has been on average an even better month than October, with an average performance going back to 2011 of 44%. If this November meets its average, and it's a big if, that would put the Bitcoin price at just over $49 ,000. It's a pleasant thing to keep in mind. In macro indicators, today I have more news from the University of Michigan Consumer Survey. You may remember a couple of weeks ago, I talked about why this survey was worth watching. It's because of what it says about how consumers are feeling, which could impact future spending. Well, on Friday, we got the details for October, and there are some worrying signals in there. Inflation expectations one year out are now at 4 .4%, much higher than the expected 4%, and higher than September's 4 .2%. This is the highest level since May, which signals that the rate hikes are not doing what they're supposed to do, which is bring down corporate and consumer spending and reset expectations. The fact that consumer inflation expectations are more than double the official target is not nearly as worrying as the fact that they are heading up. And it's especially relevant since it is something Fed Chair Jerome Powell has said he keeps an eye on, as inflation expectations can influence behavior. This rise in the University of Michigan's survey result further confirms that rate cuts are not on the table just yet, and probably won't be for a while, at least until this number comes down to close to 2%. The University of Michigan inflation expectations for five years out also came in higher than expected at 3 .2%. This is lower than the 12 -month expectations, which is good, but it does send the signal that the Fed's inflation target won't be reached even in five years.
The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from Aim to be above your business
"In this short talk episode I speak to Jonathan Jay about his experience in buying and growing businesses over the past 25 years. Jonathan bought a total of 53 businesses over the course of six years with five being before the pandemic and 48 during the pandemic. In this conversation he shares the top five mistakes entrepreneurs make when buying a business and the importance of identifying game -changing acquisitions based on the financial numbers, knowing when to sell business at its peak and the value of not being emotionally attached to the business. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Jonathan Jay. How you doing Jonathan? I'm very good thank you Judith, thank you for having me on. No thanks for coming on board. Now tell me, what's your favourite thing ever? I was expecting this to be a question about buying a business. My favourite thing ever? Oh my goodness, that's such a broad... my daughter, there you go. Can't get better than that. No you cannot, I bet she's gorgeous when she smiles. Even when she's grumpy she's fairly gorgeous. Brilliant. Jonathan tell us a bit more about you. Well this coming year, 2024, is my 25th anniversary of doing buying, selling, owning, growing and all those sorts of things in business. I've actually been in business longer but my first business was sale in 1999, so coming up to the 25th anniversary and it feels like yesterday in some ways and it feels like a very long time in other ways and I'm going to take it a lot easier from next year onwards, spend a little bit more time doing things other than businessy things. Interesting, so when you buy these businesses do you onboard a management team or do you become the CEO for a while or what do you do? Well it's an all depends answer on the different situations. I'm not particularly interested in operations and I'm not very good at it either. I'm not really the people person that's required to do that sort of thing so I always prefer other people to do that. Okay it's always good to know so many CEOs, founders as well they sort of get trapped into running it when they're not the right person. Well yes that's right because at the beginning you do everything yourself don't you? You are the business in every way possible so it takes quite a mind shift change to say that's not going to be me and there aren't any rules about when it stops being you. Does it stop being you after 12 months or 24 months? There's no rule so it just ends up being you all the time because at the beginning you can't justify anyone else being involved. You can't afford anyone else usually but it is a trap so the work on your business rather than in your business, massive cliche now but when Michael Gerber wrote The E -Myth over 35 years ago I think, it was quite a revolutionary change in people's thinking and he encapsulated it so well with that phrase work on rather than in and now I say to people work above the business so you become the investor rather than the doer or just the owner. And how easy is it to do that? I've never heard of anyone talking about being above the business. How easy is it to get there? Well there are very few things in business that are easy because everything takes discipline, effort, hard work, dedication and all of those things but I think it's important because if you do get dragged into the day -to -day you become the bottleneck in your own business and the growth of your business is going to be throttled by your time and your energy and to have boundless energy in our 20s and 30s past the age of 50 maybe the energy level is not quite what it used to be and we look forward to an early night and a good night's sleep so therefore capturing the energy and enthusiasm of other people allows you to do far more than if it was completely dependent upon you. Okay that makes sense. So in the last three years you've bought 48 businesses so tell me about that journey. Yes it's more than that actually, 53. So yeah I did a buy and build in 2019 which is what's that like that was five years ago actually five years back that I've been thinking about for a year prior to that so it really goes back about six years and I bought five of these businesses before the pandemic, 48 during the pandemic and it was stressful at times. I've got to admit that it wasn't plain sailing, very few people I've ever met have done that. There's only one person I can think of who's done it that aggressively and I ran out of energy. I was helping my daughter with her spelling homework and she was reading through the words for her spelling test that coming that coming week and one of the words was unhappy and she looked at me and she said that's you. Wow. And I said oh okay okay I let it go and the next day I said why did you say that and I said what makes me unhappy and she said work and I thought I've just suddenly become a very poor role model and at one point I was hospitalized. I'm not trying to put people off buying a business, I'm trying to put people off buying 53 businesses in like it was actually two and a half years. The stress started to get to me so no amount of money or no obsession with business is worth your health, your relationships, your family and all of those things and I think that early on in our careers we put everything behind our business and our career and then I think again when you tip into maybe when you tip into your 40s then you tip into your 50s you realize that you've got to get your priorities right because you start saying life is too short way too many times you've only yourself repeating that again and again life is too short life is too short so I think it's getting that work -life balance again yeah that was a kind of a new phrase 20 years ago and now it's work -life balance this that and the other but it's but it is very important. So you risked your health doing what you did but why did you do that? No one had a choice to be fair it kind of crept it kind of crept up at me I wasn't intentionally doing that. I had these stomach pains that wouldn't go away and one particular night you know I just didn't sleep the entire night I was just such agony and I was googling appendicitis and that was actually on the other side so it wasn't appendicitis I thought I couldn't figure out what it what it was I always thought my stomach was kind of in the middle and it's not actually it's to the to the side so I figured it was my stomach so I went to the doctor which I don't you know not something I've ever done on a regular basis and the next day I was having a colonoscopy which is not my favorite medical procedure out of all the medical procedures there are available a colonoscopy is not my most favorite one and they couldn't find anything which was good in some ways but what what was causing these the the stomach pains and it was all stress related so that was when I decided I've got to make a bit of a life lifestyle choice here and however big the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow if I'm not here you know because I'm as long as possible and I can't risk um you know I can't risk my health sort of suffering because of something which is let's face it financially based so um so yeah yeah it's a very common trait though isn't it entrepreneurs pushing themselves far too far um because I suppose you just get used to it and then it makes then it becomes harder to let it go oh I mean I I I have been and to a certain degree even now addicted to my phone I mean it's like it's like I get uncomfortable if it's not in my hand or I can feel it in my pocket which is bizarre I mean I shouldn't be looking at my emails at the weekend should I I mean it's like what's happening at the weekend nothing's happening at the weekend so so why am I even looking um so so it's but but I but I also remember the very very first day back in I think it must have been the mid -2000s when someone showed me how I could actually get emails on my phone and it was like oh my goodness I don't have to sit at my desktop to get my I can actually get them on my phone and you think that um you know if you if you again if you go back 20 25 years where we didn't have Facebook and we didn't have social media we didn't have um phones of any description but we still managed okay actually this is going back 30 years we still managed okay and we managed with a fax machine and uh you never hear anyone saying they make more money now than they did back then because they've got phones and technology yeah it it it is meant to improve communication but I don't remember anyone ever saying communication was was bad it was just you worked with what you've got and you didn't expect an instant yeah people these days you send them a whatsapp message and you don't reply instantly it's like a it's it's it's considered to be rude um where you know no one ever got upset when you faxed them and you didn't fax back immediately had it changed for the better not necessarily yeah why did you buy all those businesses in such a short period of time and it was in opportunity um that uh it was an opportunity to grow a grow a a pretty sizable group the fourth largest in the sector um within a short space of time and the pandemic was good in some ways business -wise bad in other ways um and one of the ways it was good it was because there were we just went for it um what it was it was just opportunistic that's all what type of businesses are they are these were all uh child care oh wow okay that made do you do you still have those no well my my business partner took over when I I I decided like I said the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was not was not as enticing as I thought it was going to be so she took over um uh and and she was the child care expert I I was just the guy with the idea so my contribution was I had the idea and I knew how to do the deals and get the deals done um apart from having a child I I don't really know anything about uh how to run a child care business it's all highly regulated and you know I'm not qualified to do that anyway okay that makes sense so how did you know which of those businesses were good businesses to buy next to other businesses that you didn't buy uh because I looked at 500 so I looked at 500 first and it was kind of like a one in ten um of the of the 500 uh despite that you know some of them were better than others because they're not all created equally um and and some had some inherent cultural issues uh some had reputational some issues had financial issues uh you never get a perfect business right every business something that isn't appealing to someone else um maybe as the owner you live with it but to a new owner they wouldn't think it was um a good thing uh so so yeah so so the the bottom line was having choice of looking at looking at 500 in quick succession so if somebody was sitting there and they were thinking I need to I want to buy a business yeah is there any key things other than the fact that obviously you know the financials if you take the financials out is there any key things that people should be looking at well it is actually the financials the largest part because you want a business that's that's making good money and if you're going to buy a business why would you buy a business making 50 000 a year when you can buy a business making 500 000 a year with the same level of effort um as actually is easier to buy the larger business and the smaller business the larger business is going to be a better business than the smaller business um so they're uh yeah so the financials actually are are absolutely critical uh it's got to have enough staff enough people because you always get some when you buy a business you always get some people you want something that if you've if you've got a business with five members of staff and two leave you've got yourself a big problem uh if you've got a business with 50 members of staff and five leave or six leave it you know you don't notice yeah sometimes they were surplus to requirements anyway uh you've got to have a business that's big enough to be able to afford some good people to run it because you don't want that if uh it if it if it's you and you just bought yourself a job uh and even though it might be a well -paid job yeah we've kind of created that bottleneck that we were talking about earlier yeah and how did what sort of weight do you put on things like the culture of the organization well the that's the hardest part so you know if you buy two businesses one has a nine to five you know you walk in at one minute to nine you leave at one minute to five and then you've got the other which is work hard play hard and you know we're on call we're available anytime we'll do what's required to grow this business you try and put those two groups of people together and they won't mix so that cultural match is is really difficult and getting the staff on side is really important and that you know we did it really well and we did really badly yeah so and everything in between and sometimes it's practice slightly outside of your control as well so um you know you you might have a seller who who is a reluctant seller and some for some reason doesn't want the buyer to be successful and definitely doesn't want the buyer to be more successful than they were doesn't want to show doesn't want to be shown up so they they spike it a little bit with the staff and it's amazing how many people sell a business and then keep in touch with the staff and want to know everything that's going on they can't let go oh i suppose after 20 years of ownership i get that i understand that but uh that that makes things a little bit tricky so the the people aspects are typically the hardest okay thank you that's really that's really a good point so what are you doing now then um i go on holiday a lot and i take my daughter to school i pick her up from school um i watch uh dancing uh uh shows uh gymnastics competitions the other night last night and uh and i i do that i i i fill my day um helping other people buy businesses and benefiting from my experience over the last 25 years so uh these are either business owners already who want to expand by buying another business or they're entrepreneurially minded people quite a few property investors recently are not getting a very good return on property um and uh and see an opportunity in business so it's a it's a combination of all of uh all those different types of people and i i have sort of groups of business owners and entrepreneurs who come together and i guide them through the business buying process so they don't make all the mistakes and there's a lot of mistakes you can make and i've made all of them so i can help people avoid them that sounds really good so is there a top five mistakes that entrepreneurs make when they're trying to buy a business yeah um this is in no particular order because it's off the top of my head but uh definitely uh letting uh emotion rule the decision so ahead so it you turn into a motivated buyer you want to buy it and therefore you've got to make the deal work even though the deal shouldn't work it actually would help you if the deal didn't work um buying a business that's too small so you end up um getting involved because you have to and the business can't afford anyone to replace the exited owner um another mistake is using your own money you should never use your own money when buying a business why would you do that um you know we can we can finance the the acquisition without you having to reach into your own pocket and that's why people can buy multi -million pound businesses without being a multi -millionaire uh you don't need the money to to do that you just need the knowledge and the three mistakes that people make uh mistake number four um is that uh let's see um they uh get the numbers wrong so they don't do sufficient due diligence to understand exactly how much profit the business makes uh what the business will continue to make under the new ownership you know they rush the deal they rush this part of it because it's not very exciting due diligence um it's a little bit like waiting for the house survey to come back when you've already want to buy the house and even if there's a hole in the roof and you're gonna buy that house so people ignore the due diligence or skimp on it that's four thing four mistakes that people make i've done a video i've done actually done a video series of 12 mistakes that people make uh and uh so let me think of one of those for number five for you um so i i think going into an acquisition without enough knowledge of what to do so feeling as though you can make it up as you go along you can pick up bits of information of the internet i mean goodness me if you spend enough time on the internet you'll you'll be so confused because people say different things what you need is a process you need a system to follow you need to say like this is the first thing i do this is the second thing to the third thing and every time i see someone follow the system they get the result if they don't follow the system they don't get the result and it becomes frustrating or it becomes expensive or they end up just not doing it so i think it's really important to follow that process follow that system so there you go there's five mistakes that people make they're really good ones actually and they're things that you don't automatically think of and that i like the idea about not being a motivated buyer because you make mistakes because you just need and like you say you just need to buy it when it's been going on for ages so it's just like i've put i've already invested x amount of time so now it's i might as well just do well it um yes or i've spent x amount of money and yeah i feel as though i i have an obligation to follow through uh which is just not some not a good idea uh at all you you are looking for a motivated seller you're looking for somebody who wants to sell because if they don't want to sell why you know what you're going to do you're going to try and persuade them to sell to you does that sound like it's ever going to be a good deal so you want someone who wants to sell and you'll find that the more they want to sell the better the deal for you so out of all though millions of businesses out there i think you're probably better off finding someone who really is motivated to sell rather than someone who doesn't want to yeah and i suppose the other thing to think about is if you've got another business or other businesses is how does this one adds to the portfolio or does it distract from the portfolio i guess another one isn't it exactly and and it becomes a distraction it becomes a bad distraction if it's small and it sucks up time but doesn't give you anything back uh it's a good distraction um if it's a game changer acquisition and that and that's what uh um that's always what we're that that is a game changer or just something that you want to do how do they how can they tell the difference uh it's usually down to the numbers right okay to give an example a father and son duo who just bought their first business recently with my help um eight million of revenue 1 .1 million of pre -tax profit that's a game changer deal where you know you buy a business 20 that makes 000 pounds a year well that's never going to set the world alight right it's just like why put the effort in you might as well go and buy the bigger the bigger business okay and do you have any thoughts about knowing when to sell when someone should be thinking about it's time to sell yeah when things are going well but no one wants to sell when things are going well because i say well why would i sell things are going well now that's when you get the um most value and things don't go well forever no business goes up and up and up and up and up and up and up every business you know it goes up and down it's like a roller coaster so you need to know when you're going getting up to the top of the the peak and when you're going up to the top of the peak that's when you sell when you reach the top the only way is down and that's when you get the worst value and that's when you become seriously motivated to sell you should be motivated to sell because the business is doing well not motivated to sell because the business is doing badly. That makes a lot of sense and I guess you need to not be emotionally attached to the business because that's when it's difficult to sell. You get the best value if you're not emotionally attached. If you are emotionally attached your value goes down every single time. This is really useful. Thank you so much for that. Before we finish is there anything Jonathan you want to add or leave with the audience? Can I give a plug for my YouTube channel? Yeah go ahead and do it. If you type my name Jonathan J J A Y into YouTube I've got over 200 videos on buying a business and all interviews with my clients who've done it, me doing presentations to groups of people, all different types of videos and there's some free training videos there as well. If anyone's interested in doing this check out the Jonathan J YouTube channel. Brilliant and I think that will help as you said it's always good to have a bit of a template a bit of a process and an idea of what to expect rather than getting super excited and go I've got some money I can do something. Yeah and keep your money in your pocket don't use your own money when buying the business. Brilliant thank you so much for coming on the show. My pleasure thank you Judith. You're welcome and thank you out there for tuning into the Maverick Paradox podcast. I'm Judith Germain your host and thank you very much for listening to us today. The Maverick Paradox. Judith Germain is an author, speaker, consultant, mentor and trainer and the leading authority on maverick leadership. She is the founder of the Maverick Paradox which supports organizations to enhance their leadership capabilities and to help business owners develop and grow their businesses. Judith enables individuals, business owners and organizations to improve their impact and influence. She is also HR Zones leadership columnist and her expert opinion has appeared in national, international and trade press.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
"12" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Briefing
"I think his tweets have been a pretty important in driving traffic to Twitter. The company, of course, has been lost making for many years. And in many ways, Elon Musk was a great ambassador for Twitter before he was even considered spending $44 billion buying it. So of course he has driven a lot of publicity and a lot of traffic to Twitter, albeit with a lot of controversy as well. You and pots as ever, thank you so much for joining us on Monaco radio. You were the briefing. Finally, on today's program, violence against women is endemic in Austria. The numbers aren't clear, but it's estimated that since 2010, more than 350 women have been murdered, including 8 already this year, mostly by their male partners or close family members. In 2021, Austria was the only EU country where more women were killed than men, activist groups say there's an average of three women are killed in the country every month. Well, after years of official neglect, there are signs that the authorities are finally taking note. Monocles Alexei Coriolis in Vienna brings us this report. Here, just in front of this corner and the whole neighborhood knew her. She was a 35 year old woman and one of the centers here and
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"12" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"And Addis Ababa 7 16 a.m. here in London, you're back with the globalist. Now 5 months ago, Ethiopia's government and forces from the Tigray Region agreed to stop fighting. At the time, the Ethiopian government had enjoyed the support of regional special forces who had helped in the fight against the tigrayan rebels. Well, now the Ethiopian prime minister has announced that these local militias will be brought into a centralized state security structure, and there have been protests against it. Well, joining me on the line from Nairobi is Patricia Rodriguez, his associate directorate control risks, a very good morning to you Patricia. Good morning. I just explained to us just a little bit of context first. The truce was crucial after two years, wasn't it? Because that war had killed thousands and displaced millions. A complete agreed, so the truth that came into place from in November last year has had a few ups and downs, but broadly both sides have been committed to ending the fighting integral, but there was a crucial part that was missed out in that these regional forces such as the empire regional forces, as well as the Eritrean forces weren't involved in any of those peace talks. So what we're starting to see now is that lack of involvement slightly coming to the head. Almost a delighted to say we're joined on the line for an Addis Ababa by Samuel guercio, who is a journalist based in Ethiopia. Good morning to Samuel. Just build a little bit on what Patricia was saying there was how important for the Ethiopian government was this help from these regional militias. Well, there were really helpful. The finals complemented the Ethiopian forces in terms of trying to defeat what they saw as a terrorist organization, which is to grab people's liberation front. They played a very paramount role in what a year it has been. Now they're fighting they're trying to fight against the wishes of the Ethiopian government, which has been an ally to them for the two years of the Civil War in the northern parts of Ethiopia. So Patricia, this decision by the prime minister abiy Ahmed to bring these local militias into a state security structure. It's understandable why this is being seen as such a difficult choice, isn't it? What is it that made him do this? So essentially, Abby has always advocated for a stronger role of the federal government and his administration largely views the fact that each regional state has access to and control over its own sizable regional force is a potential threat to the national unity of Ethiopia. So in Abbey's mind, one of the ways to bring Ethiopians closer together is to make sure that all these different regional states are essentially working a lot closer together, especially on the security side. So this move is really intended to bring a greater sense of unity and to in some ways decrease the authority and power of regional states in the security sector specifically. But this unity that Abbey wants Samuel isn't happening, isn't in fact, in fact, it's created quite the opposite. It has your guests said RB wanted a much stronger federal force. But harass our feeling that they might be attacked from the TPLF from the northern side from the oromia side. And they have been saying that there is a sense of amhara genocide which they've highlighted. There's a sense that being attacked all over the country. So they feel this is targeting them hard as per se. And this is what a bee wants is really, again, it's an interest of them, how are people that they've unleashed? That's why much of the protest is happening. The roads are opening up this morning, but they've been closed businesses have closed, and the people determination is there to really defeat what RB wants to do, which is try to take the power from the regional forces. Staying with you. On that point, the prime minister abiy Ahmed has said that he's going to go ahead with these plans, even if a price had to be paid. What do you think that price could be? And when you are walking around at a sababa and people are saying, you know, this is affecting our business. I mean, do people genuinely believe that his move is worth it? Well, you know, there's a sense that Ethiopian society, the open society, rarely compromises are saying they're going to fight on obvious saying there's going to be a price if there is a price he's going to go forward and really fulfill the mission that he said you will do. But there's a sense. It's not just an all over amhara regions that all the businesses have closed some of the most important foreign investments in the country are in Deborah brahan where much of the protest is happening. The beer companies from Europe are in Debra Han, the coffee farmers that really supply much of the coffee that Ethiopia exports to European countries are in amhara. So this is really a fake tea. Not just the everyday businesses, but also for an investment, which is really important to a country like Ethiopia. Patricia is a chance that this could destabilize the peace treaty that had been so hard fought for. The short answer is maybe. So on one hand, I'm racial forces and politicians weren't really involved in the peace agreement between the tigray and forces and the federal government. So this as Samuel had said has really triggered this backlash, especially in amhara who feel like they're being betrayed, could it upset the peace deal Integra, it's highly unlikely mostly because that peace deal was not signed by any of the empire forces. However, there are some unconfirmed reports that this is really trying to pressure horror forces to withdraw from parts of tigray, which they are already are, or which they have been heavily deployed in during the conflict. So in that sense, this push to try and get them to withdraw from tigray could be a potential spoiler for the peace deal, but ultimately this peace deal was signed between two different parties. So the tigrayans and the federal government with the empire regional forces not really involved. And in a wider context family, if you are living in Ethiopia, bordering the likes of Somalia, if you don't have these local militia to protect you, where are you going to see greater areas of risk? Well, if you're speaking to someone from the perspective of the prime minister, he would say that he's going to implement a stronger force that will defend the interests of Ethiopia. Also, I would like to highlight there is also a disputed land between the tigray forces and the amhara forces in the borderline between amhara and tigray, that have taken over from the tigray side, which they claim is theirs. So there's a fear that this land would be transferred to the tigray side, and they fear that unless they have their own forces, the Ethiopian government might compromise and give it back to the great region. It's been a disputed area for generations. And amharas feel that it's theirs as much as the Tigris are claiming it's theirs. From Arizona, Samuel gets to choose thank you so much for joining us and to Patricia Rodriguez on the line from Nairobi, thank you. Still to go on today's program, the IMF says economic turmoil is on the way. I'm Chris treme in Washington and I'll be looking at the International Monetary Fund's warning of a global financial crisis, and what central banks should do about it. Stay with us on the globalist. UBS has over 900 investment analysts from over 100 different countries. Over 900 of the sharpest minds and freshest thinkers in the world of finance today. To find out how we could help you. Contact
The La Jolla Cosmetic Podcast
"12" Discussed on The La Jolla Cosmetic Podcast
"Hello and welcome. I'm your hostess Monique Ramsey. We are back with our 12 days of beauty, and this is our 14th annual, by the way, 12 days of beauty.
How Did This Get Played?
"12" Discussed on How Did This Get Played?
"Just to so all right. So you've been warned bad where you now is spoiler country. You got it partner okay. So i was roof once. Oh my goodness and and i was. I went to a bar on fairfax boulevard. The week that i got back from amsterdam. And i i had a martini was playing pool with my buddy And you know when you play pool you put the drink down and you you play and you come back to the drink and i'd had about like half of it when i was like. Oh something is wrong with me yes. I'm like hey man. I don't feel good. Let's get can we leave. And he was like absolutely so. We went outside. And i watched the pavement. Come up to me. She does that make sense. Like i was watching the pavement. I was like what is happening to the ground and like fill full face planted. He drove me to cedars. And they fucking put me on. Iv and everything so like thankfully i was with a friend who Was able to keep me safe. And also i like i'm like i was like oh something's wrong like i wasn't like oh man this drinks hitting me hard. Wow that that's sounds like victim blaming. I was just extremely lucky. Lucky this so this so this is a thing that happens to women always. I am not a party girl. I am like building gundem in my fucking garage. And i when i go to a bar to play a sport i wasn't even like oh i'm i'm just going to go and try and score some some dicker pussy like i was like at anyway. Yes it happens so much that that it that it is casual. Almost it is a thing that women talk about to each other that you have like a hawkish nece towards your drinks at bars like you cannot be a physical human body shaped like a like a female whatever that whatever that means the look. You cannot be in those spaces without being in a semi unsafe in thinly. You have to anyway so the fact that you have to drag your wife. Yes yes hundreds of times in order to make this story happen is fucking crazy. One hundred percent. It's wild yes nuts. -absolutely it's it's wild and it's one of those things where because also if you just sort of let the game play out and i think probably most people's instinct will be like. Hey you know what the first couple of loops disorder see. What happens if you start. Let things play out. It's revealed that also that the there's the extra layer of your wife is pregnant so you are dragging your pregnant wife and apparently the reason you have to do this is because if you just tell her what's going on. She runs out of the apartment. Like there's no way you can actually just have an honest conversation with somebody with her and then try to convey this information you can eventually but that comes after you there's that layer how there and then there's the other thing so both of these are key to progression you will have to drug. You're pregnant wife and so that you can. You can have a point where it's it's this tortured graphic adventure logic. Wear your wife you drug your wife so she passes out and then the home invader who claims to be a cop who comes later has to on the light because she's turned off the light in the bedroom and when he turns it on there's an electrical malfunction and he's shocked and he passes out at which point you can handcuff him and then get information from him by torturing him So so the so. There's so and that's key for that point but then also get another piece of information which is absolutely critical to getting the end game. You have to hide in a closet. Sneak into the to the place seeking to your apartment hide in the closet before your wife sees you and then just wait for this man to show up and shooter in the brain and then and like watch this happen and that's just because only in that state will she disclose exactly what happened to her murdered father years ago and then you can use that nugget of information later on. It's just like like all the shit that you have to witness and participate in is just so fucking grim. It sounds like a joke that i would tell about how to solve a puzzle. All right well link in order to to beat this shrine you have to watch zelda get torn in half by a monster witnesses it maybe fifty times and then the shrine guardian will light up. And you'll go crystal and you keep going whatever happened when i don't even what happens when you beat the shrines in that game. Why do they get all of them. You get stuff right. yeah. I don't remember but it sounds like it was this game is so i also don't have any sensitivity towards game graphics so i was never shocked. I was mostly like really. This is the story that you're telling here like this. Yes this is the choices that you're gonna make without any like flagging by the protagonists like no moment where he's like like i can't. I cannot do this to my wife again. I can't like why why not build. That shouldn't go to drug her. And he's like i can't fuck and do this. I cannot do this again here is there is a moment if you you. There's a knife in the in the in the kitchen area of the game. Yeah it's all one area and you can use the knife you can kill yourself. You can stab yourself. You can like yeah you can. You can get the cops gun and shoot yourself like in front of life. When mary played having trouble with the controls and she she handcuffed the talk to his shot. I tell you there's a moment where like you're trying to figure out like you know you're trying to test the limit of what you're allowed to do in this and so you're like okay. Well one of the options. I could hover the knife over my wife and that may indicate you could if you make the choice. Kill your wife if you want to and if you do select that it.
How Did This Get Played?
"12" Discussed on How Did This Get Played?
"It's just like. I feel like like like what i was looking at just felt so generic and uninteresting especially considering have to stare at the same four rooms for the entire time. You're playing this and something to know. Also we said when this game came out as of this recording. It's been out for like a week and a half two weeks like it's very new game. When i was playing it i was playing the day. It dropped like. I think i started playing it before. We decided that we were going to do it for the show and i would see like resolutions if things just like completely like fuck up or like have like walk through stuff. They shouldn't have walked through and stuff or like even get by character. Set back a couple of paces. Not that that's an overall like you know shit happens like sometimes you know bugs or whatever but it didn't roommate experience but that's just something to that did take me out of it for a second. It looked like and was performing not at a level that i thought was completely acceptable right away but then it was then it was fine i experienced those glitches here like somebody go to hug somebody pass through them and it's yeah it's a buggy but it's also so scribble nuts can allow you to put a hat on a toronto source wrecks and give them a fire hose and then he sprays a fire writing if scribble notes can be like on the fucking ds came into like anything you can think of. You can probably do the one of the most limiting things about this game is you cannot do a lot yes cannot do shits that. If you were in a time loop you would do. And and i think that the the sort of self seriousness about the dour energy of the game is limiting because the more comedic quote unquote comedic solutions. To puzzles are also the things. I'd like the reason that all these time loop movies are comedies is because the premise executes most effectively as a comedy like your your wife comes out of the shower and she's like wow i didn't hear you come in and you just pour water over our head and like that spirals you into a different reality is not a thing you can do in this show. Very serious game. it very much wants to be like when someone says. Oh yeah games aren't art. We'll check out this game very much to me. The answer that i want to return to what you were talking about with scribble nuts and why can scribble notes. Do this and this game camp. A big thing to me is just the choices to have this. Be a three game with a lot of character. Animation and your biggest cost and development is always going to be labor and the biggest. The most labor intensive thing and in in development is generally animation. So when they when they do that when they make that choice instead of making this like. Hey let's make this to be a top down. Two d game with limited character animation and and instead of having a hollywood a movie stars voicing the doing the voice acting. Let's get you know some working class voice actors who can give us a lot more time in recruit record ten times as many lines of dialogue and all these also that you were pitching. Heather likes so that so that we can have a game that accounts for all these contingencies and allows the player to experiment and the way. That's fun in a time. Loop sort of premise which this game does not let you do a lot of times when you try to do something fun it just will just. You're just flat out get like a. I can't do that or like. Why are you showing me this. You know yeah yeah. It's kind of a letdown in that sense you as a human being as the player can think of a million things you would like to do and when you're when you attempted and it tells you you can't you're just like why am i doing this then what it. What was his four if you if how. How much of a time loop is it. How much of an adventure game is it. If the scope of your adventure is limited. If you're not allowed to do certain things than what. What is the point of this and then neo. Obviously once we get into the larger point of it. I don't even know if it's still answers. The question why it is it is just like it is such an interesting. I will say something i mean. We mentioned yeah. Kojima loved it. No disrespect to the man. This is one hundred percents like no shit. He loves this. It's like exactly what type of things like. i love this guy. God bless him i. i'm. I'm happy that he enjoyed it. This thing. so far up its own ass that it makes me seem like a humble normal person. Maybe that's why it's like reset the balance for him a little bit right now. I can kind of go and and be me again. I feel like we should. I feel like we should maybe enter spoiler. Country.
Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast
"12" Discussed on Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast
"Not not just at the surface you now as if you were a animal so we used it certainly for spearfishing but you know for example. Let me give you. This is probably the highlight of the month for me mice skipper. David took me to Like his passageway and there were a bunch of waves. And as i get off the boat like okay like what we're gonna die. You're gonna die here. But i could tell something was different. He didn't drop the anchor. He wasn't getting in the water. So as me it wonderful gabriella push us off. And i can see the current. I'm like. oh it's kind of it's moving fast. And then i looked down on the water. And i realized that it's like it's not moving fast it's ripping ripping essentially like a rip current So it's called called the drift dive. Dri drift dive. And we're like if you've seen finding nemo or or When they're in that rift all the way to australia. That's what it was so for like five minutes. We are under the water. Imagine being sucked. Horizontally a perpendicular to the ocean floor site laterally parallel today. But you're able to hold your breath for a minute or two so you're just like being shot through a canon. The fish swimming with you swimming against you like a seat third are all around so you get to experience the ocean and nature. In a way you've never seen before Similar to scuba diving but different because scuba you still kind of feel like separate you have this thing on your face. You feel less natural when you're down there without any that fish wanna play with you. And they're curious they come up to do it like who the hell are you and you can like make sounds on rocks. You could throw up sand and they all start circling around you. So it's really special. And i think it opens a whole possibilities. How are you finding the masters. Because that's another part of this like the skill like you doing. The skill is one part but the masters and as you mentioned the stories that these people. I like david furnish canadian who got sick of life in canada and decide to come down and taught himself like that. You're finding really unique people. Because you're immersed in a subculture that you had no idea existed had weren't a part of before and all of a sudden. You're like whoa. There's some interesting characters here. How are you deciding who the masters are going to be. And then follow up question. Would you can answer. How are you getting how you talking to them in saying. Hey i'm just as dude coming for a month that i really wanna learn this. What's what's the pitch or are most of them just like this is a cool project like i wanna be a part of. That was so finding the guys on the kind of person. That's not a planner in. Yeah we understand that four days you wanted to come to north carolina between behind. That was a plan for. You gonna make a plan with traffic four days in two of the four countries. I just showed up and i didn't. I didn't have anyone lined up. A bitterly started asked rump local seeing who was available seeing who would take me and just you know like for example in brazil found mastered. Start i who. I tested out. Didn't really connect the way i wanted to. So i had the other guy on standby. He ended up being exactly what i was looking for. So i'm not actively searching beforehand scrubbing the internet for like the best the best the best the kinda just presenting themselves in a really special way part of that. I'm sure is due to the few people that are traveling now so anytime i've walked up to one of these folks or made contact in advance. They've been super excited because they haven't had businesses so long So so their schedules are more open than they might. Otherwise be so. I think i'm getting a bit lucky. you know again. I do trust in the universe to large degree. So i think that that's part of it in a wet whether you call it. Good karma but frankly i've been growing global network for the last fifteen years nonstop travel living the road so i will really robust a human network that i trust so i definitely ask people for recommendation. They put me in touch with the right people so far so good i think it comes down to you. Know who you know and and it will come yet. You mentioned the one in kenya being the the one specific one that you really needed to do some planning ahead of time right so talk us through how that came about because that is one that you couldn't just rock up. Say hey i want to learn this. And i think that might be the same with treasure hunting. For example you know cooking. Italy and sailing in france. I could maybe not selling transplant but with africa. So me and my One of my best buddies. We hosted a travel conference for high end luxury properties of Luxury properties in morocco every year and one of the women name robin represents a company called secluded africa. And she her and her family have a number of beautiful. Like sustainable. eco. Friendly lodges all throughout kenya and other parts of southern africa. So she heard about what i was doing. Just from the graham. And she's like mike you know if you if you want to come to africa. I'm gonna go now. Look that the plan was to become a masai warrior one of the ones like red robes into spear and she goes well. Yeah you could do that. But she's like. I think i have something that might interest you even more And that's when she sorta pitched me on the conservation ranger concept but our first call actually have filmed we face them. She goes mike like this is just so you know it's no joke like you're going to be out in the wilderness. These guys are going to put to the test. Normally in six months of training they're going to consolidate at for you into one month's and your final tests may very well be being out in the in the seren getty by yourself for a weekend surviving amongst animals and you might not come back. She's like do you really want that. And your camera persons. I know this is your dream mike. Not mine has been a little bit of that at So yes she's lined up. She got special permission from the conservation group. In and i think the government as well and She's going to dial it in us because when you told me about that i actually thought oh well. That's i didn't know what it was. i was like. Oh that's kind of boring and like that. That's not going to be very hard or very dangerous or anything like that and you were like no. Actually this is probably the most dangerous thing that i will do because of animals but also because poachers it's essentially special forces training. Your firefighter policeman your first aid. You're you're you're all of it in the wilderness by yourself that any support systems. Have you had any times where you've been given pause a bit either for these last four or anything coming up where you think aright that might be debt. Might be too far like it. Might be too hard and i might. I might just not be able to complete it or it might just push me too far that that i'm endanger too much genuinely that were pause. I'd probably have never thought about that word in my life. I'm not even making like a funny joke by model for many years was go go go. You can't go any faster. Go when you can't go any further. Go faster i've since changed it a little bit but no look. I have concerns. I reflected think about things. But i've not. I've not said no to anything because of fear. Were doubt if i don't accomplish something i don't care frankly if you watch any of these episodes or follow me. I'm terrible at all of the things that i start other than sauce. That was pretty good. Start in that one out. But i'm a complete embarrassment in its struggle bus usa. There's a lot of doubt and.
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"Today's episode you guys. I'm pretty excited about this. This is going to be cool and honestly you can thank my assistant reagan for this one because you guys probably have figured out that i am very much a type a personality right. I'm a list maker. i am a planner. And i will have all of these ideas of content. I want to create all these lists of podcast topics Things topics. I wanna do about many courses. I wanna create masterclasses. You know i love doing all those things. Webinars do all these things with you guys and so i just have all of these lists of topic ideas and content ideas and it gets really overwhelming for me. You know because reading through all these endless topic ideas and possible titles for episodes and and i can get really overwhelmed. I'm like oh my gosh. I don't know if that's a good idea. That's a bad. Do they want to hear about that. They want me to talk about that. Does that sound dumb. You know. I have no idea so a while back. I sat down with my assistant in handed her. This list and i was like pick ten things off this list that you think sound cool now. My assistant is not an addicted person right. She is a totally non addicted. One of those weird people and god bless her. I love her. And i just wanted. I have to get it out of my head in out of my control. You know because. I'll just second guess everything and talk myself out of it and and i don't know always what will be cool to you guys you know so i just hander. This list i go. I want you to pick ten things off this list. That sound cool. That sound interesting to you that you might like to know more about For me to record podcasts.
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"Down three things you want to get done today. I didn't even realize this was down this list. Because i've said it like two hundred times so again being intentional you know i post it. Notes that sit right next to my bed on my bedside table. So that's where i write down my three things. I want to get done that day. Because i have to sometimes do it the night before and i'll put that post it note on my lamp or i'll put it on my phone or i'll put it on my bathroom mirror right so i see those three things so i remember that those are the three things i wanna be focused on but is a great practice. I have to do this to keep me focused. Because you know like i said it's distraction city in my life so write down three things you want to get done today in and keep those close to you and last one number twelve so freaking important. Make the decision that today will be amazing. I really want you to sit with that for a minute. Because i see all these posts everybody uses the word. Hope i hope. I have a better day. I hope this gets better. i hope i don't relapse listen. I hope i win the lottery. Hope is not getting you anywhere. Being intentional with your actions is what will get if i want ten million dollars. It ain't gonna happen in the lottery. It's gonna happen by me being intentional. In how i live my life in the moves i make every day. That's how get there right if you wanna stay sober. Then you get intentional about how you spend your time and what you're doing and where your little feet take you and you get intentional about the activities you partake in to stay sober. You don't hope you take action so make the decision. That today will be amazing. Don't hope for a good day have a good day. Think in your head get intentional. What could i do to make today. Great.
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"12" Discussed on Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"My journal entry starts with today was a shit show. You know like it could be anything. You guys don't over think it. Just sit down and write. You know what. I feel good today. My mood feels light today. I'm looking forward to today. I'm going to see my girlfriend for launch. I can't wait for that today. Whatever keep it simple. you're practicing. Don't blow it out of proportion to make it something. It doesn't have to be spend a few minutes and just jot down a few things in your journal. If you have some down energy right about that for a minute and then write about some solutions. don't ever stop on a downside back it up with a positive side. My anxiety is a little bit high today. So i'm gonna make sure i take some time to do. Deep belly brushed throughout the day. I know that will make me feel better. There's a journal entry okay. Number seven eat a healthful breakfast. Now i get up super early in the morning. I do not eat breakfast when i get up. I'm not hungry. i'm not interested. I am very focused on getting things done that early in the morning like i said i try to do a lot before the rest of the world wakes up. Because then it's distraction central in my life. So i don't eat when i get up. I do have breakfast. But it's typically after. I get home from the gym Which is like mid morning which is just a regular time by the way. It's probably regular breakfast. Time for other people to ten thirty that i get home from the gym but i make sure that my first meal of the day is healthful again. I am intentional about what i eat as my first meal of the day. I make sure i have something healthy. Good protein packed because that sets me up for success for the rest of my day because afternoon and evening time is when i struggle to eat. Well you know once it's late afternoon like three four five o'clock that is my danger zone. That is my food danger zone. So if i can start from my very first meal being healthy and a lot of protein which makes you stay fuller longer than i'm setting myself up to do better in my few hours that i'm gonna struggle right so eat a healthful breakfast and i always make sure i drink a big loss water and i take my vitamins. Then number eight gopher a short or long walk either way short or long walk. Walking is so freaking good for you and you can have a conversation with the committee while you're walking if that's your thing i love being out when it's cool and crisp in the morning love. It love walking my dog. It's so nice. I don't care how far you go. I don't care if you walk down to the end of your street and back. I don't care if you walk to the of your driveway in back. Go for a walk take some deep belly. Brett's get some fresh air. Have a conversation with the committee while you do it. Walk out and get the or walk out and get the newspaper. What do people have the newspaper anymore. I'm sure they do. I don't know but those few minutes you can be intentional. How you use those few minutes game changer..
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"12" Discussed on Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"I live by these videos. You know that. I talked about all the time i listen to every single day. I listened to a video whether put on my car. I know it's a video but you don't have to watch them. Watching them isn't the important part. It's listening to them. The ones i listen to its listening. That's the important part. So i can do my car i can do it. When i'm on the treadmill i can do it while. I'm brushing my teeth. I can do it while i'm in the shower. Whatever see the showers and other time that you can use with intention because you're already in there. This is one of the best times for me. Because i'm trapped. I'm already in the shower. I make captive audience. There's nothing else i can be doing in time. I can't be multitasking right. So whatever is on has my full attention. That's being intentional. I used that time intentionally. Okay so reader. Listen to something inspiring again. This can be three minutes. Don't blow it out of proportion. Drink a big glass of water. I try to why don't try to do every night. Glass of water is the last thing i have before i go to bed every morning when i get up. A glass of water is the first thing i have before i start my day before. Brush my teeth or do anything. I have a glass of water that sits on my nightstand. Soon as i get up. I drink my first glass of water again. When thus on my nightstand right i get up on time during my glass of water to victories. In thirty seconds to victories i'm already crushing it and i haven't even gotten out of bed yet. That's big you guys. All right number four. Have a conversation with the committee to plan your day. This is the conversation i'm talking about. Why brush my teeth. I have that conversation with the committee. This i want my day to go. I need to make sure i do this. This and this..
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"12" Discussed on Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"Morning routine ideas one get up on time. Don't hit the snooze. Why do i say this. Because you're going to feel so freaking good about yourself. If you get up on time it is a game changer. It starts your day with a whole new energy instead of waking up. Lay being irritated..
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"Teeth. That's it bam that's simple it doesn't have to take time the other thing. I wanna talk about morning routines to you. Don't have to do the same exact thing. You gotta give yourself some wiggle room because everybody's going to be different on this. Some people love to do exactly the same thing every day all the time and they're very comfortable with that. If you're that person perfect do that but if you're a person that catches your self struggling to stick to one thing every single day the same thing then you switch things up or you do it a different way. I love to meditate. That doesn't mean. I meditate single day of my life or that i meditate in the same way every day of my life. Sometimes i'll sit in a different room. Sometimes i'll go on youtube. And i'll look up a new meditation. Sometimes i'll listen to something completely. Different or do visualization or. I'll do walking meditation. Because i can only do the same thing for so long so for me. It's like batches you know like. I'll have a few months that i do this. One thing like podcasting. I'm sure you guys are the same way like all few months that all i do is listen to podcasts constantly. Podcasts all the time. And then i kinda get out of that phase and it'll be audiobooks in all be reading books constantly all the time and then on grew out of that. It'll be youtube. And i'll be watching videos all the time you know so you have to have different things to plug in. It doesn't have to be routine. Doesn't mean the exact same thing all the time. It means that you have a routine that you're going to do something intentionally to care for yourself and put yourself in a good mind space. That's the routine. It's not about the specific actions. It's just that you have a routine of doing things to be happy healthy and make yourself a better human and to be more productive in your life. Okay let's get to these twelve things twelve morning routine ideas again. Don't blow this out of proportion. Don't think you have to do all twelve of these. I'm saying pick two maybe three. That's all in. None of these should be more than ten to fifteen minutes they can if you're at a different place if you've been practicing longer and you're more disciplined in. You can do longer. Like i promise you when i started morning routine thing was probably three minutes now. I can do more stuff. Because i'm more disciplined. I've been doing it longer. I have more practice. So but don't blow this out of proportion and think that you've got to do each of these things for an hour apiece. No dude no do each of these things for a few minutes again. The key is that you are consistent. It's not how long you do it. You can build on. How long you do it once you get better at it and more comfortable doing it but in the beginning keep it small bite sized pieces because i want you to do it consistently so make it make it fast make it easy twelve.
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"12" Discussed on Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"Telling you. I watched three shows last week in all three of them have a main character main storyline around addiction recovery. And i was like. Wow this is crazy in. it's so beautiful too. Because they're all high functioning successful people married with families not homeless not uneducated not poor. Not all those things that people think you have to be. These things to have addiction rightly are just regular people. And i got this warm and fuzzy feeling you guys because i love it when they put us out there in such a realistic composite way. We are everywhere. People with addiction are everywhere. There's nothing weird about us. There's nothing different about us. We're just regular people living life in doing all the same things that everybody else is doing. And what a beautiful thing to see that portrayed on television instead of just the insanity of drunken party lifestyle that we've been so saturated with for so many years you know like i just love this and you know my favorite show. My favorite favorite show is a million little things. One of their primary characters is an addict. He was alcoholic and that has always been a story line in the show and he had an injury pain pills and now it's this current storyline of the world. Right injury surgery pain pills addict so i just love seeing this and this is one of the things also. I can get a little protective of a when people say they go to a and don't connect or i went to a and it didn't work for me and i can get my feelings hurt by that. Sometimes because i think about the people in those rooms in that we are the same people that you encounter everywhere in your life we are the via the vp. Of your bank. We are the person in the checkout line. Ringing up your groceries we are your real estate agent. We are the person sitting next to you at church every sunday. We are the people that you are surrounded with everywhere you go so it seems weird to me when people say oh i went to a in. I didn't connect or i went and it didn't work for me. I'm like how does it not work for you. We're the same. We're the same people that you were drunk with at the bar or at your office party like. How do you not connect. You know it's like you don't connect because you don't want to connect because we are just regular people. We are hilarious. We are really smart and we're the same people that you see everywhere you go. I promise you every day when you're standing in line somewhere. Hopefully socially distanced in line around you. I promise you is a person because we're everywhere but anyway i just wanted to bring that up. All of that that that. That stigma is being broken down. It's okay to have addiction. It's okay to be sober. It's okay to just be who you are in to be okay with that within yourself is the first step to getting acceptance in feeling accepted in the rest of the world. You have to accept yourself and that is a big piece of my morning routine. You didn't think i was going to be able to tie that all together did you. But here we are my morning routine.
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"12" Discussed on Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"I was with those people. And that's when it dawned on me. I was like. Oh my gosh. That is not how i want people to feel when they hang out with me like that is not the effect i wanna have on the world so i knew i had to make some changes and i want to be a positive force in people's life right. I want you when you hang up the phone with me or walk away from me after having dinner or even clients you guys doing group coaching in the vip sober society. When those calls. And i want you to feel good because all the energy in that room has been good. That's why i focused so much on the positive side of thing and celebrating victories instead of being constantly in the problem. And what's not working. What's working against me. And what's so hard. I don't wanna focus on those things. I want to focus on the victories to focus on the solution. Because that's how you create change and that's how you feel better. I hope all of that makes sense before. I get into these two deep. I want to say one other thing. I was noticing last week. You know there are so many of us out in the world who really are core belief and desire is to create change around the negativity of sobriety right like. There's no reason that we should feel weird for being the nondrinking people in the group right because it's so common for that people drink and it sucks that. There's this weird stigma around sobriety. I don't even care about the stigma of addiction or alcoholism because really that's breaking down so fast if you're still a person that has the thought in your head that being an alcoholic means you know you're homeless. Listen a hot mess. And whatever like that's your old school stuff that's not reality and that's not what the majority of people think. I think everybody's pretty clear at this stage of the game that alcoholism and addiction can take down anybody in everybody..
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"Hey everybody welcome to the addiction. Unlimited podcast where you get to learn everything you want to know about addiction and recovery. I'm your host. Angela pugh co founder of kansas city. Recovery life coach and recovering alcoholic to learn more about me. You can listen to episodes zero on your podcast app or find us on the web at addiction. Unlimited dot com. Hey there welcome to episode number one hundred fifty eight of the addiction unlimited podcast. I'm your coach angela. Pugh thank you for spending some time with me today. Listening to the pod..
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"I want to start with. I wanna play this snippet for you of matthew mcconaughey. And a talk he did. He is an amazing speaker. And any of you that have done my mindset makeover video series. He's in a couple of the videos. I share with you during that mindset makeover and that's totally free five day of video every day to your inbox but i wanna play the snippet for you because this is exactly what we're talking about in. This is what i want you to think about is just as important where we are not as it is where we are. Look the first step that leads to our identity. Life is usually not. I know who i am. I know who i am. That's not the first step the first step. Usually i know who i am not process of elimination defining ourselves by what we are not is the first step that leads us to really know who we are a group of friends that you hang out with their they really might not bring out the best in the gossip too much kind of shady <unk>. Gonna be there for you in a pinch about that bar. We keep going to that. We always seem to have the worst hangover from over that computer screen right. The computer screen keeps giving us an excuse not to get out of the house and engaged with the world. It gets real human interaction. I bet that food that we keep eating stuff taste good. Going down makes us feel like crap. The next week we feel when he put on weight will those people those places those things stop giving them your time and energy. Just don't go there. i mean. put them now. And when you do this when you put them down when you quit you quit giving them your time you inadvertently find yourself spending more time and in more places that are healthy for you that bring you more joy. Why because you just eliminated the who's the wears the once in the winds that were keeping you from your identity. Trust me too many options. I promise you there's too. Many options will make tyrant of is. All i get rid of the excess wasted time. Decrease your options. If you do this you will have accidentally almost innocently put in front of you. What is important to you process. Elimination how about that. I love this thought process in. This is so much what i think about. When i'm thinking about changes that i wanna make or when i'm thinking about if my anxiety is extra high or i'm feeling uncertain which guesses anxiety to right but this is what i think about like. What are there things in my life that are causing me more anxiety and discomfort in disease and this is people places and things we talk about this in twelve step programs a lot and again when you want to change something when you want something in your life to be different. Then you have to do things differently and often times. That's going to mean making decisions differently. It's going to mean different people. Different places different things. Have you ever thought about it this way about moving things that don't serve you rather than adding more things. i think. We have a tendency to add more things. Like we're always in this quest for happiness and it's about stuff and things wanting to add things to distract us right in. I'm all about distraction especially in the throes of a craving or high anxiety or when. You're super upset. I think in those moments one of the best things you can do is kind of distract yourself until some of that emotion comes down in then. You can figure out really how to cope with it and often times. That quest for happiness is more about removing things. That aren't serving us. And that's really what i want to get into in some changes that i did in twenty twenty. That made a big difference for me and it just food for thought some things that you can think about again especially going into this new year this fresh new perspective the next version of you that you're going to build the next level of your sobriety your life your relationships. I want you to think about some of the things that you can take out of your life. That just don't serve you. Well the first things that i really started to cut down on in the beginning of corona virus was news in negative information. And this isn't just about corona virus but also this kind of place together but also the political part of everything. The last few years has just been super toxic and weird and divisive and i. I don't like divisive anyway. So i don't like to play into that. That news just got super overwhelming to me now. Obviously i check in. We have a