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Unchained
A highlight from SBF Trial, Day 2: DOJ: Sam Bankman-Fried Lied His Way to Wealth, Power, and Influence
"Hi everyone, Laura here. This is the Unchained Recap for Day 2, October 4, of the criminal trial of Sam Pinkman -Fried. The U .S. Department of Justice started the criminal trial for Sam Pinkman -Fried this Wednesday afternoon by declaring in its opening statement that Pinkman -Fried deliberately lied his way toward, quote, wealth, power, and influence, allegedly stealing billions of dollars from thousands of individual people. The defense team for Pinkman -Fried, on the other hand, described the former FTX CEO as, quote, a math nerd and a, quote, hard worker who acted in good faith and took reasonable business actions during his time as FTX's founder and CEO. The opening statements from both sides occurred on the second day of the trial, following the finalization of the jury selection process earlier that morning. Pinkman -Fried's trial also saw testimonies from a former FTX customer and a longtime friend of the defendant. Overall, the prosecution's opening statement was cleaner and easier to follow, using simple words such as lied or stole repeatedly, and sentences like, Pinkman -Fried, quote, was using his company FTX to commit fraud on a massive scale, and the money he was spending to build his empire, it was money he was stealing from FTX's customers. It even referred to infamous tweets of SBS that he deleted, as well as testimony to Congress that contradicted what prosecutors allege actually occurred at FTX. The defense's opening, which brought up terms like margin loans, collateral, and liquidity, was harder to follow, even for someone familiar with crypto and this case. Chosen jurors included numerous people with professional backgrounds far from finance, such as a retired corrections officer, a trained conductor, a social worker, and a nurse. The only juror with a financial background was a retired investment banker with a Stanford MBA. However, Pinkman -Fried's attorney, Mark Cohen, also had some easier -to -follow moments in his opening. He called his client Sam and said the government's portrait of him had been, quote, almost a cartoon of a villain. Cohen also used some simpler statements, such as, quote, The first witness called by the prosecution was Marc -Antoine Julliard, an FTX customer who had lost roughly $150 ,000 worth of cryptocurrencies and fiat money he had deposited into or purchased on FTX. He explained the due diligence he conducted before deciding to use FTX and how his research on Pinkman -Fried led him to have a picture of SBF that was, quote, Julliard shared with the courtroom how, on November 6th and 7th, the days before FTX's insolvency became public, tweets by SBF stating that customer assets were safe assured Julliard so that he didn't try to withdraw any of his funds. The second person to testify was Adam Yadidia, who called himself a close friend of Pinkman -Fried's since their college days at MIT and who also worked at FTX as a software engineer at the time of its collapse and Alameda Research as a trader prior to that. Yadidia said he had resigned immediately from FTX upon learning that Alameda, Pinkman -Fried's crypto trading firm, had used FTX customer deposits to repay Alameda loans. Just before the trial closed for the day, Yadidia acknowledged he had been living with nine roommates, one of whom was SBF, in a luxurious penthouse in the Bahamas worth about $35 million. The 31 -year -old Pinkman -Fried currently faces seven felony charges ranging from wire fraud to conspiracy to commit money laundering. The trial will resume tomorrow at 9 .30 a .m. Eastern Time with a continuation of Yadidia's testimony. The government then stated that its next witnesses this week will likely include Matt Huang, co -founder and managing partner at Paradigm, and Gary Huang, former CTO of FTX. Unchained will be back with more updates tomorrow.
Unchained
Fresh update on "adam" discussed on Unchained
"Hi everyone, Laura here. This is the Unchained Recap for Day 2, October 4, of the criminal trial of Sam Pinkman-Fried. The U.S. Department of Justice started the criminal trial for Sam Pinkman-Fried this Wednesday afternoon by declaring in its opening statement that Pinkman-Fried deliberately lied his way toward, quote, wealth, power, and influence, allegedly stealing billions of dollars from thousands of individual people. The defense team for Pinkman-Fried, on the other hand, described the former FTX CEO as, quote, a math nerd and a, quote, hard worker who acted in good faith and took reasonable business actions during his time as FTX's founder and CEO. The opening statements from both sides occurred on the second day of the trial, following the finalization of the jury selection process earlier that morning. Pinkman-Fried's trial also saw testimonies from a former FTX customer and a longtime friend of the defendant. Overall, the prosecution's opening statement was cleaner and easier to follow, using simple words such as lied or stole repeatedly, and sentences like, Pinkman-Fried, quote, was using his company FTX to commit fraud on a massive scale, and the money he was spending to build his empire, it was money he was stealing from FTX's customers. It even referred to infamous tweets of SBS that he deleted, as well as testimony to Congress that contradicted what prosecutors allege actually occurred at FTX. The defense's opening, which brought up terms like margin loans, collateral, and liquidity, was harder to follow, even for someone familiar with crypto and this case. Chosen jurors included numerous people with professional backgrounds far from finance, such as a retired corrections officer, a trained conductor, a social worker, and a nurse. The only juror with a financial background was a retired investment banker with a Stanford MBA. However, Pinkman-Fried's attorney, Mark Cohen, also had some easier-to-follow moments in his opening. He called his client Sam and said the government's portrait of him had been, quote, almost a cartoon of a villain. Cohen also used some simpler statements, such as, quote, The first witness called by the prosecution was Marc-Antoine Julliard, an FTX customer who had lost roughly $150,000 worth of cryptocurrencies and fiat money he had deposited into or purchased on FTX. He explained the due diligence he conducted before deciding to use FTX and how his research on Pinkman-Fried led him to have a picture of SBF that was, quote, Julliard shared with the courtroom how, on November 6th and 7th, the days before FTX's insolvency became public, tweets by SBF stating that customer assets were safe assured Julliard so that he didn't try to withdraw any of his funds. The second person to testify was Adam Yadidia, who called himself a close friend of Pinkman-Fried's since their college days at MIT and who also worked at FTX as a software engineer at the time of its collapse and Alameda Research as a trader prior to that. Yadidia said he had resigned immediately from FTX upon learning that Alameda, Pinkman-Fried's crypto trading firm, had used FTX customer deposits to repay Alameda loans. Just before the trial closed for the day, Yadidia acknowledged he had been living with nine roommates, one of whom was SBF, in a luxurious penthouse in the Bahamas worth about $35 million. The 31-year-old Pinkman-Fried currently faces seven felony charges ranging from wire fraud to conspiracy to commit money laundering. The trial will resume tomorrow at 9.30 a.m. Eastern Time with a continuation of Yadidia's testimony. The government then stated that its next witnesses this week will likely include Matt Huang, co-founder and managing partner at Paradigm, and Gary Huang, former CTO of FTX. Unchained will be back with more updates tomorrow.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep386: 3 Ways To Make Money From Your Show
"I want to make sure that I'm always bringing in at least one client a month, one new client a month. So I'm not going to waste my time only doing four episodes in the month. Instead, I'm going to go much more. I'm going to do 16, 17 episodes in the month. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, Podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams, and we are talking about monetizing your podcast. We're talking about the three most common ways that podcasters will monetize. Now, if you look at other episodes that we've done on this podcast, and actually I'll have my team put a few of the monetization episodes in our show notes right now. So now you're listening and you're going to be able to scroll down and see what are the other ways to monetize because in this episode, we're talking about the three most common ways that people monetize their show. So if you want to know the other seven or eight ways, go and check out the links that are in the show notes. We will link to other episodes with other ways of monetizing. We're going to talk about the three most common ways, the three most common ways. The first is CPM. This means cost per meal, and it doesn't mean cost per million. It means cost per thousand. I think meal, M -I -L, must have Latin roots. It must be like Latin, cost per meal. Cost per thousand downloads is the most common way that most people try to monetize. As the three ways that I'm talking about today, this is the worst of the three ways. So I'm going to share what CPM is. I'm going to explain how it works, and then I'm going to share with you a better way. I'm going to explain how that works and how people get a hold of people because you make a lot more than your CPM model. And then I'm going to explain the third way, which is the way that you can make the absolute most amount of money. CPM cost per meal means that an advertiser who, and here's kind of like the caveat to it, and it's an advertiser, they don't necessarily have your same avatar. They're just more of like a general audience advertiser. And so you might have a real estate show. You might have the podcast on podcasting. You might have a show about your health and wellness. You might have something about piloting. You might have something about, you know, aviation, or we can just talk about millions of these things. Education, we can talk about movies, whatever your podcast is about. If you were going to go with a CPM model, that would mean that you would get an advertiser on that had a general ad. They're usually about 30 seconds or a minute long. So that advertiser, they wouldn't even really conversate with you. They would end up just putting up their ads in your place. And so one of the ways that we do this is there's some platforms out there that allow these ads to happen automatically. And when I say automatically, they can be dynamic ads, which means they can do it to episodes that you've already been published, that have already been published, you published a long time ago. And they just basically push a button and then one, two, three, or four different ads, one, podcast. And when it's a dynamic ad insertion, that's going to mean that there's going to be a 30 second ad followed by another 30 second ad followed by maybe a one minute ad followed by a 30 second ad. And that's before you ever give anybody value. Before anyone ever hears anything on the podcast, before you've said anything good, they get bombarded with these CPM model advertisements. One might be about diapers. One might be about home improvement. Another might be about a meal prep service. And the fourth one might be in Spanish or some other language that you don't even understand and neither does your listener. And this is a real story. This is actual true story. And so do you want the CPM model? Maybe. So far, it doesn't sound very enticing, does it? They don't even share my same avatar, you're thinking. If they're not going to help my perfect person, why do I want them? Well, you might not want them at all. You probably don't. And how do I get paid? That's your next question. How do I get paid with CPM? Well, most of these places, they will say, hey, I'm going to give $5 CPM. Or if they really have a lot of money to throw around, they're going to say $20 CPM. And if you found a way to just get the cream of the crop, the best of the best, you might get $30 CPM. What does that mean? That means that per thousand listeners that you have, so think about it, how many listeners do you have? The average podcast has about a hundred listeners. A top 10 % podcast has about 300 listeners. The average one has about a hundred. A top 10 % has 300. A top 1 % podcast has about 3 ,500 downloads per episode. Now you know how you get paid. If I'm getting $5 CPM and I have a thousand people listening, I'm going to make $5. Awesome. Now, if I had three advertisers, I would make 15 bucks per episode. So all the time, the effort, the work, the value that you're trying to give, and then you go ahead and you make 20 bucks, you sell out, you make 20 bucks, and you turn off your listener. You're a very awesome listener that has been coming every single day that you publish an episode. They get excited about it. Well, now they have to sit through three or four ads. And by the way, one of them's in a language they don't even understand because you went with a CPM model. That type of sellout, no offense if you're doing this already, but yes, offense if you're doing this already, that type of sellout isn't going to have a prolonged active podcast. Let's just say you had a thousand people downloading and you had four ads. So you're about to make 20 bucks. Now you're probably going to have like 500 people listening because they don't like the freaking ads. So now your income goes down to 10 bucks. If on the highest end, think about the CPM being on the highest end. Like I'm really crushing it. In the top 1 % of all podcasts in the entire world, I've got about 3 ,500 say I'm even above that. I've got 4 ,000 downloads per episode. And you're looking at a CPM model where you're able to somehow negotiate 20 bucks per each episode, per each CPM, per meal, per thousand downloads. And you got 4 ,000, you just made 80 bucks per episode. I do the math on this. Let's just say you're doing one episode a week. So 52 times 80 bucks. This is the best you could do. At the end of the year, you've only made four grand. It won't even pay for your editor. That's why I don't like the CPM model. That's also why did I bring it up first? I brought it up first because it's the absolute most common way and it sucks. And people get excited because they think they're making all this money, but really they're making like $2 because listen here, I'm going back to the CPM And negotiate you $20 per meal, cost per thousand. You're going to make two bucks, two bucks. You're going to make a 10th of it because you only have a hundred listeners when you need a thousand. So you made two bucks on that episode. What can you get with two bucks today? A candy bar? So if you do this the whole year, you can buy a candy bar every single week. It sucks. Option number two is partnership. This is a sponsor that is partnered with the show. And why is this different than CPM? It's way different because in CPM, they are chasing you. They are putting it at that $5, $10, $20 per meal. And then they're reaching out to people and saying that they'll give you like $20 per thousand. And you think to yourself, Ooh, I get almost a thousand downloads per month. And so I'm going to make like 20 bucks a month. And that's one way. Okay. What is the partnership? This is when you reach out to them. When I give you an example, I coach a ton of people to do number two. And it's because I think the CPM model sucks. And so I tell them, why don't you find a partner of the show or a sponsor of the show? Now, this does not mean an advertiser. The CPM is more of an advertiser who reaches out to you and says, I'm only going to do $5 CPM. And I'm going to do it with anybody who wants to do it. When you're getting a hold of a partner to your show or a sponsor of the show, you reach out to them and then you dictate how much money you're going to be making. So let's just say you've got a hundred downloads per episode. In this case, you'd be able to command much closer to let's just say 1500 bucks a month. If you are an average podcast, you would probably be able to command about 1500 bucks a month. Let's say that your 1500 bucks means that you've got 4 .333 episodes per week, because that's how the math really works. You don't have four episodes a month. I mean, you don't have four episodes a month. You have 4 .333 episodes a month because 52 weeks divided by 12 months is 4 .333 weeks per month. And so in this case, you would be making $348 per episode. Now that's a lot better worth your time, isn't it? Think about how long does it take you to do an episode? If you have a team that edits your podcast for you, then your podcast is only going to take you about 30 to 60 minutes, maybe 90 if you're doing a little bit of research. So for example, you spend 90 minutes to do this. So I'm going to divide $348 by the 90 minutes that it takes you. 348 divided by 90 equals, I don't know why I was even thinking about 90. 90 minutes is an hour and a half. Okay. So I needed divided by 1 .5. So I did that. I was like, what the heck? Why isn't this adding up when I divide it by 90? Okay. You were making about two bucks a minute, but when you look at how much are you making per hour with that podcast, if it takes you 90 minutes to come up with the content or invite your guests, do a little bit of research and then press record, then in the partnership slash sponsorship version number two, you're making $232 per hour. That's if it takes you 90 minutes. Now, if it only takes you five minutes to do an episode, 10 minutes to do an episode, you make a lot more. On the other hand, you are editing your own podcast and it takes you 12 to 15 hours to do all the editing of post -production, create all of your marketing pieces and all of that. Then let's just divide this by 15 instead. So I'm going to do 300 divided by 15 hours. You're making about 20 bucks an hour. And that's not terrible. It's slightly higher than the average minimum wage right now. So it's close to minimum wage. It's not amazing, but it's not terrible. It's not $5 an hour, $10 an hour stuff. So that's okay. You want to spend 15 hours editing and all of this for your podcast, you make about 20 bucks an hour. If you use the partnership slash sponsorship version, that's version number two. There was CPM was number one. Partnership is number two. Number three is going to be selling your own stuff. And that's the cream of the crop. We'll be there in just a moment. So I tell a quick story. I had a podcast client. Well, still have a podcast client. But this is in the past. So Alex came to me, he wanted to make money. He had a top 1 % podcast. So he had about 3000 downloads per each episode. And I told him, Hey, if you do CPM, you're going to be able to make something like $20 CPM. You've got 3000. So that three X of what the cost per meal is. And so you make $60 per podcast. And is that how much you want to make Alex? And he would say, no, it's not worth my time. Why would want to offend my listener to listen to an ad? That's not even going to serve them that comes in in the beginning of my episode before I've even added any value. And I do all of that for 60 bucks just to lose listeners. So that later I'm only making 30 bucks because it goes from 3000 people to 1500 people now. And so of course he's going to say no. So then it goes, Alex, here's a way to partner with somebody. And in the real estate space, I said, one of the main people that you reach out to is a lender. Alex has a real estate podcast. And so he teaches fix and flip and he teaches mindset and he teaches how to scale a business. And when it comes to him getting his sponsor and reaching out to them as a partner of the show, I told him one of the best, easiest places that you can go is a lender. So think about this, Alex, think about a private money lender, a hard money lender, somebody who lands on these fix and flips. Now you can still do coaching for listener and they still need somebody to fund the deals. So you having a fix and flip partner, it definitely both of you serve the same person, but neither of you take away business from the other person. Now, in fact, Alex probably makes more money if he has somebody who can really support his people with money. And the person who lends the money, the hard money lender, probably makes more money when Alex has more clients as well. So it's a win -win. Instead of detracting from the business that Alex can get, it actually supports his business and he's more profitable and effective and his sponsor or his partner of the show is more effective. And Alex says, well, with my 3000 plus downloads a month, because I'm in a top 1%, I could either make 60 bucks if I do CPM or if I do this partnership, how much do you think I can make? So five to 10 grand. And he's like, five to 10 grand? Are you sure? And I'm like dead serious. I am sure you could easily make five to 10 grand if you are the one who reaches out to them. So I taught him how to reach out to them. He and I even role played. So he practiced it. Step one was we decided who are the people that can help him. He writes down the hard money lender. Step two is we decide how do we play to the player? How do we give a pitch to that hard money lender? How do we give them that what's in it for me so that they even give a darn? And step three is to do that first call and to go out of your comfort zone and to call the hard money lender and let them know about the opportunity. So he did this behind my back. Well, we at the end of a coaching call, I said, okay, go and do this. And so he did, but he did it with two people instead of one. So he asked the first person for about five grand. And then he called the second person and asked them for about five grand. And so guess what? Alex could have made 60 bucks an episode, but instead he made 10 ,000 a month. He was doing eight or nine episodes a month. So I need to put in this math, $10 ,000 divided by approximately nine episodes a month because he's doing two a week. So this is an approximation. He's making $1 ,111 every single episode. He's making $1 ,111 per episode. And I know for a fact that Alex has my team doing all of the back office. So it takes him about 45 minutes to make $1 ,111. So I'm going to multiply this by 0 .75 because it's three quarters of an hour that it takes him to do that. Oh, I need to divide it by 0 .75. And he's making $1 ,481 an hour with his podcast. So partnership slash sponsorship, way better than CPM. Do you still want to do that CPM model? No. So the partnership is a much better way to go because Alex was able to make $1 ,400 in per hour instead of 60 bucks or 70 bucks an hour. Much, much better. Now let's go to the third option. The third option is selling your own stuff and this can yield you so much more fruit than the partnership slash sponsorship. So if you want to make more than $1 ,481 .33 every F an hour that you do your podcast, stay tuned. We'll be right back after this episode. Hey my friend, as you know, this episode is sponsored by my company, growyourshow .com. We want you to be able to have the best tools at your disposal without costing you a whole arm and a leg. So right now you can get a free list of vetted equipment that like mics, mixers, webcams, sound treatment, editing software, everything that you need. I created the whole PDF with direct purchase links just to save you time and money to help it be more convenient for you. So this free PDF will help you skip all the guesswork. If it's on there, it's vetted and approved by yours truly. And if it's not on there, it's probably not worth the money. So go ahead and get yours at growyourshow .com forward slash PDF. Let's get back into the show. We are back. We are talking about the three most common ways that people monetize their show. The first was the CPM model. We decided together that that one effing sucks. The second one was partnership. That one's really pretty cool. Like that one's pretty cool. Remember Alex making $1 ,481 .33 every single hour that he works on his podcast. When you like that too, or would you like something even a step better? A step better would be you selling your own services. You would sell your own coaching, your own consulting, whatever you can do, coaching masterminds for your listener. And let's imagine that you've got a products. One of my products is above $40 ,000. So the client would come to us and they would pay about $3 ,000. They would pay a little upfront fee and then they would pay about three grand a month and we would serve them for the 12 months. Okay. We would serve them for the next 12 months. So that ends up being more than 40 grand. When you add the three grand a month, but times 12 plus the down payment as well, it's over 40 grand. So for that package, if I get one person, just one per month, then we gross just like you would be grossing the CPM. You would be grossing the partnership money or sponsorship money. You are also grossing. You're selling your own services. So in this case, if all I do is just sell one person, that one package, and I have other packages available that are more and less, all I do is just sell one of those packages once a month and I'm doing four or five or six episodes each week. If I just sell one a month, then I make 40 grand every month, more than 40 grand every month. I'm doing the math right now on my phone, on my calculator, my trusty phone calculator. And I'm assuming that I do four episodes per week, four episodes a week. Now, two of those episodes are 10 minutes on average. We'll just say 12 minutes on average. Let's just say 15 minutes on average because that'll be actually easier with math. And the others are 45 minutes on average. And so I've got basically two hours of work, two hours of work each week because I've got a 45, a 15, a 45 and a 15. I hope that's making sense. So two hours a week. And so I've got 17 episodes happening and almost exactly 17 hours of work. Now, if I divide $40 ,000 by 17 hours of work, it's $2 ,352 .94. It's $2 ,352 .94. So let's recap. Option number one, CPM. You can make 60 bucks -ish max, maybe $5 per episode. Let's imagine that you are doing four episodes a week. And so you're making, let's just say 40 bucks a week. That's a hundred. And anyway, I don't want to give you too much numbers. I'm now realizing that I keep throwing out numbers and that's going to get confusing. So I'm not going to waste my time doing all of that since this is an audio and I don't have something to show you. I'm just going to explain it to you. On one way, you are most likely making about 20 bucks an hour. The next one, you're making closer to a thousand bucks an hour. And on the next one, you're making about $2 ,000 per hour. Now for me, I'm doing four episodes a week. If I was only doing one episode a week, of course I could quadruple that, but I want to make sure that I'm always making that. I want to make sure that I'm always bringing in at least one client a month, one new client a month. So I'm not going to waste my time only doing four episodes in the month. Instead, I'm going to go much more. I'm going to do 16, 17 episodes in the month. If I do 17 episodes in a month, I'm still making $2 ,352 and 94 cents per hour. And in additionally, about $2 ,352 per episode. Now, if with that type of motivation, think about it for a second. If you were doing four episodes a week and you were selling one $40 ,000 thing per month, would you have some motivation to get behind the mic? If you knew that you were going to record for about an hour and you're going to make over two grand, it would become your favorite thing to do. You would choose to record an episode before you would go do something else that was fun. Because it's like, I can get behind the mic for just an hour and I can make two grand. So let's recap. CPM, shitty. Partnership, pretty freaking good. Selling your own crap, your own good stuff. Hopefully nobody sells crap. Hopefully you're only selling really quality things that you've got. Well, that's the way to make the most amount of money. So those were the three most common ways that podcasters make money through their podcast. We talked about how they work and we talked about why the last one is the one that I suggest that you get started on right now. And if you need help, my name is Adam Adams. I coach people for a living. I support people. I help you to be able to make your 40 grand a month, even just 10 or 20 grand a month through your podcast because you're doing fewer episodes. That's great too. That's really, really good too. And I coach people to do that. So feel free to go into the show notes and schedule a call with me so that you and I can start working together. That's going to be a discovery call. And in the show notes is a link to our website. It's growyourshow .com. You'll see the link. And at the top right, you see a button. The button says schedule a discovery call. It's green. It's bright. It tells you exactly what I'm telling you right now. So you just go to that button, push it and schedule a call with me and we will help you start making your 10, 20, 30 or $40 ,000 a month through your podcast by selling your own stuff. See you on the next episode. This is serious. Don't go. Now that you've gotten whatever value that you feel that you got the actionable takeaways, you need to implement the stuff that you learn. If you remember me talking about bird church once and they learn how to fly and then they walk home. I don't want you to walk home. I want you to fly home. So take the steps, take the actionable steps for your benefits that you can become a better podcaster. That's the only thing that I ask of you. And I'll see you for more actionable tips on the very next episode.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
Fresh update on "adam" discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Shakur Stevenson said the other day when we had an open workout with him in Las Vegas, and he told a couple of really good stories about underestimating Terrence, or at your own peril, underestimate Terrence Crawford. He said he saw him spar a heavyweight one time and kind of made the heavyweight take a knee. I'm not saying those things didn't happen. I'm just saying that when you get in there with 10-ounce gloves and no headgear against a guy who can crack the way that Canelo can, and a guy who now apparently is the 100% version of him that we hadn't seen in a couple of years really, it's a very tall order. Although they're the same height, it's a very tall order for Terrence Crawford. But I do think, unfortunately, that as much as I don't think that this fight will be competitive in the way that some people might believe it will be, I do think that's going to be the next fight for Canelo Alvarez because I do not think, assuming David Benavidez beats Demetrius Andrade, and that's not an easy fight for Benavidez, but I don't get excited. I do think that David Benavidez will win and then would obviously be in position to fight Canelo in what would be a massive event on Cinco de Mayo weekend. Canelo already said that he's coming back May 4th of next year. It would be an enormous event, but that would be the second of his three-fight deal. And it's my understanding that the Benavidez fight, assuming Canelo keeps winning, would be the third fight of his deal with PBC, again, assuming that David Benavidez keeps winning. And then Benavidez is kind of in a weird position because let's say he beats Demetrius Andrade on November 25th. Does he then want to wait almost nine months or ten, I guess it would be ten months, yeah, ten months before he would fight Canelo? And that's, again, assuming that Canelo continues to win, you know, a lot of factors, a lot of things could go wrong and screw that up. We've seen that many times, but I do think at this point, I'm not sure that Crawford fights Spence again because if he demands, as he has done so far, if he demands that their fight is at 147 pounds, that rematch probably won't happen because Errol Spence cannot safely or smartly make 147 pounds because it just takes too much out of him and I don't think he wants to do that again. If they fought at 160 pounds, I think Terrence Crawford wins decisively. It doesn't really seem to matter. But if that rematch is not at 154 pounds, it might just go away and then Crawford would be free to fight Canelo next. And that very well could be the way that it plays out. Let me tell you something, Keith. You were skeptical of my opinion that Crawford, sorry, that Charlo against Canelo was going to be completely uncompetitive. I didn't believe that. I said it many times over and over. I want you to believe me when I say that Dimitris Andrade beats David Benavidez. If David Benavidez, this fight sounds like it's a done deal, if David Benavidez fights Dimitris Andrade at 168 pounds, he is going to lose. He is going to lose that fight. He's going to have to rematch Dimitris Andrade and we are no longer talking about Benavidez against Canelo. Andrade is going to be the one that is talked about fighting Canelo in May of 2024, a fight that Andrade has been chasing for the better part of the last five years. He's going to get it because he's going to beat David Benavidez. Calling my shot right now, October 3rd as we record this, Andrade over Benavidez unanimous decision victory. Well, I hope Adam keeps this one in the archives. Look, Dimitris Andrade is not an easy guy to fight, of course. You know, Dimitris is an elite level, from a skill perspective, is an elite level fighter. Benavidez is a big strong kid. I would expect him to win the fight. It's not going to be easy, but I do think he'll win the fight. And if Andrade wins, yeah, he would then be in line to fight Canelo and Canelo would have no reason, of course, then not to fight him because he beat the guy that everyone wanted to see him fight. It's bad for business and this is no knock on Dimitris Andrade. He's a very good dude and deserves his big fight and all that kind of stuff. But it's bad for business if he beats Benavidez because Benavidez, Canelo or Canelo Benavidez is the fight that everyone would want to see in that division with the guy who is still and will continue to be the biggest star in American boxing. So interesting fight on November 25th, for sure. You know, he's a talented guy, man, but he's a little he's on the back end of his career. He's a little older now. Say Benavidez is more of a natural 68 pounder than him. So I don't expect it to be easy for Benavidez. But if he wins, he's got a lot of incentive to win the fight because there's a big bag of money awaiting him if he does fight Canelo, assuming that's where he would go after that. But I don't know, Chris. Look, we'll bet some dinner on that, I guess. Big mistake, David. Big mistake. You and Samson Lukowitz are making a huge mistake booking this fight with so much on the line. You should have taken any other fight but Demetrius Andrade. Demetrius Andrade, yes, he has been a long time 160, but you know this, Keith, he's a huge 160. He's going to be I don't think the size disparity is going to be that big between David Benavidez and Demetrius Andrade at their weight. And on Fight Night, I don't think it's going to be that big. I think Andrade is a big dude. And yeah, they're basically the same height. I mean, Benavidez seems taller than I think he's really only 6'1", but he looks bigger than that. They're around the same height. I mean, Andrade might be a tinch smaller than him, but they're around the same height and Demetrius has filled out well. An interesting fight. Like I said, Chris, I mean, it's not a gimmick in no way, shape or form for David Benavidez. So I look forward to that fight on November 25th. If I just think he's whatever happens November 25th, I think he's fighting Crawford, even if Benavidez wins, as I expect him to win. I do think there's a lot of momentum for this Canelo Crawford fight, as much as I don't really think it won't be. It won't be Canelo, Charlo, because I really think that Crawford will come to win the fight. I really can't, Chris, I know I've said this already, but it's really just perplexing to me on the Tuesday after the fight happened that Charlo performed the way that he did, because that's just not the way he's built. I don't get what happened there. And he really, you know, he got out jabbed in this fight by Canelo and his jab is one of his best weapons. And, you know, he flicked it out there at all. But Canelo out even out jabbed and went to his body, you know, stalked him the entire fight, put him on his back foot. There was just no point where I saw over the course of 12 rounds that Jermell Charlo that I've seen for the better part of the last, you know, nine years or whatever, eight, nine years, I just didn't see that guy. Even in the, I wanted to bring this up, Chris, even in the post-fight press conference, when he lost to Tony Harrison, again, it was a close fight that could have gone either way. Jermell Charlo cried in that press conference because it meant so much to him that he lost his WBC title and it got to him so much that he suffered his first professional defeat. He cried during the press conference. During the post-fight press conference on Saturday, he was laughing and joking around. And look, I'm not going to say I didn't enjoy seeing a different side of Jermell Charlo and, you know, he was easier to deal with and all that stuff. But the guy who was edgy and would tell you to F off if you asked him how he was doing, that we needed that guy to fight Canelo Alvarez. And that guy was nowhere to be found for the last two plus months. It was bizarre.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IP#502 Adam Blai The History of Exorcism, Part 2 on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com presents inside the pages insights from today's most compelling authors I'm your host Chris McGregor and I am delighted to be joined by Adam Bly who is a church to create expert on religious demonology and exorcism for the Pittsburgh Diocese he's helped train exorcists for over 15 years and has attended hundreds of solemn exorcisms his journey started in brainwave research and psychology and is now focused on the spiritual realities of miracles angels demons and possessions he's also the author of several books including the exorcism files with Adam Bly we go inside the pages of the history of exorcism published by Sophia Institute press we now continue with part two of our conversation a lot of times we look at those things that the action of the enemy that is what 90 % is temptation the our father lead us not into temptation but also as we just said the oppression and obsession those are things that can be dealt with especially in the sacramental life that we have within the mass within confession isn't it been said Adam that one good confession could be worth of a hundred exorcisms these are all just kind of turns a phrase but essentially yes for the average person the average Catholic who has access to the sacraments deliverance comes primarily through the sacramental graces and that means baptism confirmation confession and the mass those are the the mechanisms that sanctifying grace comes into your life for the average person and then of course matrimony for some people people underestimate the importance and power of the sacramental graces and they want the drama of the exciting prayer thinking you know you'll do this kind of magical incantation and make these problems go away versus the person doing the the work of conversion in themselves of making it to mass of having a good confession of doing the work of building a daily prayer life all of those things are actually what lead to deliverance primarily it's not just the exciting prayers if a person is unwilling to make any changes in their life is an unwilling to walk away from sin is essentially unwilling to have conversion in their life usually the prayers don't work because Jesus is looking for conversion and change so if somebody has done something to get into trouble spiritually they can't just come to the church and say well wave the magic wand and make the suffering go away I don't like it but I'm not gonna change my life because Jesus knows our hearts and so I've seen this over the years that even in the case is a full -blown possession he wants to see spiritual growth in the person he wants to see a movement towards him and trust and love and a turning away from sin in addition to coming to the church for prayers and so the sacramental grace is for the person that isn't possessed actually that is the engine that drives deliverance it's so important that in your book you have a section called Jesus as exorcist and that ultimately that's the lesson is the turning towards him right summately and that's what the team in their particular response to the individual is helping that individual to turn towards them it's not so much it is the actions of what they're doing during the liturgy that's what it is exorcism is a liturgy but it's that reception of that person to a life of faith is that a fair way of saying it yes that's that's a big part of it they also are repenting of their sins through sacramental confession if they're Catholic and then another important piece that most people don't think about is they're forgiving the sins of others and so a demon can hold on to or it gets traction from our sins that we're unwilling to let go of or keep trying to let go of and get away from but they can also hold on to when we are unforgiving of the sins of others that have hurt us and so as we know from the our father forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us we know that God wants us to forgive as he forgives us you know the parable of the king who forgives the debt of the one slave and then that slave goes and beats up another slave and says give me you know the little bit you owe me and then when the the king finds out about this he throws the first guy who he had forgiven who's now being mean in turn in jail so we see this played out time and time again God expects us to be merciful and that that is part of it and then you know in an interesting twist sometimes the unforgiveness towards yourself becomes a stumbling block to total freedom because if a person feels they deserve to be punished and suffer and they're not forgiving themselves even though they know they've been sacramentally forgiven they even understand and believe Jesus has forgiven them but if they feel that they can't forgive themselves and that they deserve this that also gives the demon traction to hold on so there's kind of a pastoral process that is woven through exorcism over time working with the person outside of the sessions before and after and chatting with them and you know basically spiritual direction and that's the part that's missing in the movies oh yeah that's an incredible part of it because as I alluded to earlier you know it's the opening of doors I mean we can for example I have priests come through our house and bless our homes place Benedictine metals at windows go through the whole ritual as family but then we go downstairs and put on a television screen or open up online and allow something that's evil in character into our house or to do actions what was the point of the of the prior blessing I don't think we appreciate the fact that there is a need for repentance and a conversion of action not just of words and correct yeah and again Jesus knows our hearts so we can't just give lip service to these ideas because he knows what's going on with us for real and he's looking for real conversion and so you know it's just so important because ultimately he doesn't allow this stuff just because he wants to allow it you know he doesn't enjoy the fact that we're suffering but he allows it as a corrective experience so we realize the thing that we're embracing and we turn and run back to it so ultimately he's looking for closeness with us and possession is something that happens to people that generally are running away from Jesus and are far from him and specifically are embracing demonic spirits in some way and so he's not allowing this to be mean he's saying I'm gonna let you see the monster that you've chosen hoping that the person will then turn away and come back to him no I thought it was really important in that particular section in closing from the exorcisms by Jesus that you point out that he does Commission the 12 but in the 72 as well to go out but it's important that it's not only the priests and the bishops who have the authority to cast out demons and that would be revealed over time but it took centuries in a way for the church to find the need to limit the exercise of the use of exorcism and you really broke that open I thought that was so fascinating the research you did on that well it was a journey the church went through and you know one thing we have to remember in the very early church it was just apostles and followers you would have the equivalent of a bishop in your city or your region who would be you know the current apostle but there wasn't this whole hierarchy of you know deacons and priests and formal offices within the church because we're you know for the first 300 years the church was under terrible persecution it wasn't this big wealthy institution with buildings and schools and everything else it was it was a struggling little movement and so we have to remember in those very early centuries there weren't priest exorcists because there weren't priests in the very beginning it quickly came about but again with the persecution in the early church things just weren't that organized and then as the church spread around the world communication wasn't there we didn't have an internet letters could take weeks months or never arrive you know sending information around the world at that time and so it was a very different world it took centuries for the church to figure out this ministry and then through hard experience and seeing how difficult the ministry is and how it can chew people up and how it can lead to pride which leads to destroying people and causing heresies to develop and all kinds of other problems the church wisely said we need to regulate this so that qualified people are doing it it's not just you know somebody deciding they're gonna pick it up because they'd like to the church wanted to make sure people were qualified and then had kind of a proper context to keep them safe and effective essentially yeah it isn't a game and there isn't something that you oh I'm fascinated I'm curious about this I want to explore more yes reading your book is the great way to do that if you have that inkling but the actual ministry of it there is so much involved and you go into the different types of exorcism and how they developed for anybody who wants to understand more about the free masonry dynamics that are addressed by exorcism that's fascinating but also it's a very real issue isn't it yeah so the minor exorcism what's sometimes called the Leonine exorcism because Pope Leo the 13th wrote it in 1890 was originally explicitly directed against Freemasonry it wasn't a general exorcism against the devil it was it was against Freemasonry and Freemasonry since it's you know within 20 years of it coming into existence in the world in the early 1700s the church was identifying it as the church's greatest enemy in the world and there's been you know papal statements I think there's at least seven different popes have made formal bulls and statements about Freemasonry condemning it reminding Catholics that their ex communicated if they become Freemasons which is still the case by the way and so yeah the the minor exorcism actually was all about Freemasonry and that's why I took that kind of a side in the book to explain the history of Freemasonry and where it came from so that we could see it kind of from the church's perspective and imagine you know how they were seeing Freemasonry and why that may have led to this prayer being written we'll return to inside the pages in just a moment did you know that discerning hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite discerning hearts programming father Timothy Gallagher dr. 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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
Fresh update on "adam" discussed on The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
"Yeah. Let me get my coffee here, folks. Still, uh, still recovering from Vegas a little bit, a little bit. Uh, it was tough for me to get asleep at early time. That just screwed up my time zone. So I got to sleep a couple hours later than normal here. All right. Uh, let's get into some of the stories here. First, we're going to talk about Bitcoin reserves. This is more a headline than a whole article to break down. Bitcoin exchange reserves plunges to five year lows as a investor cohorts position or the bull market. So only 2 million Bitcoin currently sits on exchanges. I think there's just going to be a long-term trend. We have the bank collapses. Then we had a bunch of, uh, exchange collapses in 22. So people are just going to be a little bit more comfortable and the Bitcoin wallet technology, the usability, the friendliness is getting easier. So I think just more and more people are going to, uh, self custody as we move forward. 100%. I think there's anything that this 2021, right? I think what it has showed us is that the centralization, that's the issue, right? That somebody running an exchange or somebody running a project is the issue. And if you have full control over your crypto, then it's probably going to be safer than it would be on an exchange. So I definitely think that's the reason why we're seeing these exchange reserves plunge to five year lows. Yeah. 100%. Could you close that poll? I want to, I want to be able to read the chat. Yeah. Uh, Satoshi Nakamoto. Now we're going to talk about Satoshi. Did he end his life because of Bitcoin? There's another, uh, potential candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto. So this is, uh, the late cryptographer Lynn Sussman. All right, let's get into why, what is the why here? So we know Satoshi creator of Bitcoin no knows who it is synonymous. The latest candidate is Leonard Lynn, uh, Harris Sussman born in 1980. And after his education, he earned a diploma from the Hill school. Well, then he later got into the internet engineering task force. Uh, this is, uh, they dedicated themselves to internet standards and protocols. 99 moved to San Francisco, became part of the cypher funk community. Uh, keep moving here. Uh, he co-founded code con, which is a hacking convention in 2002. Then he got the tour, uh, doctoral studies in cybersecurity and cryptography here. Then he was exposed to various projects and including some software projects on a cryptography here, distinguish himself by exposing vulnerabilities and some standards for public key certificates. So he knows his stuff following an adolescent diagnosis of depression. He then took his life in 2011. What did he say about Satoshi? Actually nothing here. Is it the creator? What are the experts think here? Well, uh, he worked with several of the cypher punks here, uh, previously considered candidates for the Bitcoin creator. Among them, he worked with how Finney, uh, who's I th that's who I think I also worked, uh, with, uh, Zimmerman here and he, uh, favored anonymous mail servers. And his image has been immortalized in a blockchain, uh, here from a, uh, late cryptographer or from an early builder right there. But notably the dispute around here is, uh, has been around the case assessments, death, and one of Nakamoto's last known emails before his departure, he left a message. He had moved on to other things and was leaving Bitcoin in good hands. Had he announced a potential suicide without saying it outright? No one knows for sure. Theories diverge. Do you have any Satoshi theories? Uh, that's tough. I mean, I mean, that's the, that's the biggest like mystery in all of EFI and some people are saying it's the NSA man. But, uh, with that tweet we had yesterday from that small account, not really big on X, I mean, we're getting all these stories about who Satoshi was at Satoshi. And, uh, it's funny how X really fat, I, first of all, X is such a breath of fresh air when it comes to social media and the way they fact check things is like the best way. But yeah, I think that, uh, especially after that, you know, tweet from that anonymous account, which we know it's not really anonymous anymore. Um, a lot of people are speculating on who Satoshi is, but I mean, I just don't know. I mean, it would make sense, uh, that he would be working with a group of people to make it happen on a one guy thing, but I don't know. Yeah. So after years they have posted, uh, they haven't posted since 2018, uh, and then they finally broke it. Uh, Craig Wright claims to be Satoshi, but it's been proven to be a fraud. He controls this account and it should not be trusted. Oh man. Uh, community notes, violating people left and right there. All right. Uh, so let's move on. All right. So we got a CFT versus SCC. Uh, well, we got this little cosmos story. There are some cosmos fans. I know TJ likes it. There's some Adam fans out there. Uh, people with the name Adam, uh, also, also molecular scientists, they deal with atoms. So there's a lot of people here that, you know, are fan of cosmos, uh, it's coming to Bitcoin. It's coming to cosmos with the new, uh, bridge, uh, essentially here. So cosmos via a Bitcoin backed token. So it looks like, uh, maybe similar to wrap Bitcoin. Uh, so Hey, cosmos building. Do you have any? Yeah. I mean, Hey, keep building out in the bear market, right? Cosmos is one of those bigger networks that I think that a lot of people are in on and maybe not so like mainstream, but I think a lot of people are betting on the, uh, a bullish future for cosmos. So yeah. I mean, if you want to buy Bitcoin any other way, man, why not? Uh, why not? Uh, you ever, uh, wonder what the, I believe his, uh, title is the CFTC chair. Look like that's him right there. Look at that smile. What a guy. There's something about this guy. He can regulate crypto. He looks something, you know, this guy looks like in chat. When I say this, you're going to say, Holy crap, DZ nailed it again. He looks like a 1960s pro wrestler. Yeah. Well, I don't know. It looks like a mafioso a little bit. I don't think so. Well, he definitely doesn't look Italian to me. It looks more, you know, there's some middle Eastern jeans in there. So I don't think they let them in, but, uh, all right. Let's see. Yes. Look, he could be associated. He'll never be part of the family. He'll never be a made man. When I look at him and Gary, I think I can trust this guy a little more, you know? Yeah. I mean, I could, I was going to say I could trust Gary as far as I could throw him, but I could, I feel like I could like catch a wind pocket. This guy, Roston Benham was brought up by Debbie Stabenow. Who's one of the main receivers of funds from FTX and that scam that we don't know. And it's, I don't like this guy. Uh, I'm going to like army Piper's comedy. He looks like 1940s, Dracula. I don't like making fun of people's looks and look guys. I can't imagine what people would say about me if my face was up there. All right. So, uh, he disagrees with Gary Gensler on the state of digital asset regulation here. You're speaking at the futures industry association expo, uh, just yesterday here. And, uh, he reiterated his stance on the urgency of implementing a substantial regulatory framework in the cryptocurrency market. He's he urged how we need to have more regulations essentially. Uh, he says that 70% of the market should be recognized as commodities. That's a lot better than Gary Gensler. I would say, Oh yeah. And he won't even call Bitcoin a commodity really. I mean, we saw him speak to Congress and he was just like, well, maybe sometimes. Um, but yeah, I think that cryptocurrency is just not one thing. It's many different things. NFTs meme coins, which are just gambling Bitcoin store of value, dogecoin store of value. And then you have companies that operate on the blockchain, you know, like similar to shares in a company with like no crypto.com. And, you know, it's like buying shares of the company, right? Like when you buy some Ethereum or something like that. Um, so crypto is so many different things that you just can't have one kind of way to regulate it. So there needs to be clear framework and Gary Gensler is saying there is, but there isn't, there's no way for them to conform with our current rules and regulations because they don't like crypto. They want to regulate it out of existence. So, I mean, I agree with this guy, even though he's taking money from FDX, I grew with him, you know? All right. We got Eric Carlson in the chat. Shout out to Eric Carlson. Uh, I think you hover over him. Maybe follow his channel army Piper. Appreciate the daily shout out there. Make sure you check out army Piper in the investing bros. Uh, shout out to bone thugs and harmony for some weird reason. I don't know. And, uh, Ray liked the comment to catch a win pocket. Yeah. I feel like, yeah, if it would be like, who watched fresh prints of Bel Air? Oh, the OG doesn't remember, uh, uncle Phil and, uh, what's his face? Uh, jazzy. Jeff was his name on the Jeff, but who? No, no. Uncle Phil would throw Will's friend. He threw him off the porch and then they would cut to the camera shot where it was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's with one hand. That guy. How do you go from wanting to work from, but for finance to go to like destroying crypto? I don't know. How do you go from the mean streets of Philadelphia then Bel Air, then just, you know, keep a good head. That's an awkward interview. Um, a shout out to uncle rest in peace, uncle Phil. All right. One third of all CFTC crypto enforcement actions took place this year. Oh, that that's pretty high. Actually, you know, you think a lot would have happened in a 22, a lot of what happened in 21, it looks like there may be trying to fight against the sec here, you know, maybe trying to get some things done. So in his text version of the keynote address, he recounted the 6 billion CFTC collected in penalties in 2023, 45 of those involved, basically crypto representing over 34% of the 131 actions. So one third of the actions were against crypto firms. Uh, that, yeah, that I would say that makes sense. It indirectly, uh, address limitations and their enforcement authority to suggest that we have to wait until victims suffer, uh, to help to be proactive undermines our mission and purpose. I've continued to advocate for additional authority in the crypto space. Well, they're always going to use the umbrella of safety to increase their power and control. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't really make sense when you think about what the sec is doing. I mean, there are some terrible cryptocurrency and entity products they take taken out, but it's like, we miss Terra Luna. We miss Voyager Celsius. We miss FTX, but we're going after XRP Binance and Coinbase. It's like, what are we doing? You know, what do we, what do, who are we trying to stop here? It gets better too. It's just wild. The banks are at risk for trillions of dollars in underwater securities too. I'm sure anyone asking him questions about that. Well, uh, army Piper. Yeah. Has showed nine 38 in the Eastern state of time. Give him a little shout out right there. Uh, what, what would a Will Smith from West Philadelphia be like today? He'd either be nodding out on the couch. He'd be on tranq or he's like, guys, I literally don't get in trouble for running inside the Bel Air store and just running out with all the merchandise or he'd be slapping people at the gas station, like, you know, on some upper, you know, uh, anytime I see a gas station slap, I just think of the guy that dropped his can and that dude attempted to kick him. He just wastes him, wastes him with the twisted tea. All right. Uh, well, speaking of, uh, uh, you know, I'm not even gonna say ledger, you know, I don't have anything that you're gonna say about ledger ledger to provide free wallets to Sotheby's top NFT collectors here. That's pretty cool. A little, I would say that is smart synergy. Uh, Sotheby's does the higher end mutant raffle raffles, mutant auctions, uh, you know, like the, the, the, the 11 rare ones, uh, the mega mutants that does a lot of the gold and the coveted board apes. And it does some grail, uh, crypto punks as well. So it looks like, uh, they're just going to give everyone a free ledger. Hey, congrats spending $10 million on that picture. Here's that free $50 ledger, but wait, we've engraved it. And it's actually the $150 version. I mean, sure. It's a collectible, you know, I think it should be diamond studded. I, you know, I think this is, I'm actually being serious. I think they should have done something real serious here. Like I'm gonna write a letter, at least Swarovski, uh, gyms or whatever they're called. So Vorsky crystals or something get, give us something here. Remember when razors would there'd be like the blinged out razor. It'd be like the flip phone. Yes. Boy, if you had a razor back or to sidekick back in the day, yeah. And they had like blinged out versions with gyms and gold and, you know, all these cases and stuff. Isn't it weird in 2023, you have the same cell phone as a billionaire, the world's richest people not have a better phone than you love it. Pretty cool. All right. That being said, if I was a billionaire, I would want a gold. So I would want like a gold plat. I don't know something. Give me something special. I got to be better. You see the Arabian dude with the golden toilet. I have seen that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or that guy that had the gold shirt, who was later murdered that in the famous picture of the guy with the gold shirt, he was killed for a shirt lit. Uh, whatever happened to Trump and his gold toilets and gold, everything he, he got away with that or from that, I would say him and master P were known for gold toilets, like gold, everything. I mean, they're probably still there. He's just not taking Instagram. Just realized like it doesn't play well in middle America. Like he doesn't want to go out there in front of the John Deere tractor and be like, I have gold toilets. That probably doesn't play as well. It's like something, something hunter Biden, you know? All right. Uh, but toilets are so gold. All right. So is my skin. All right. Uh, it's orange. All right. Uh, like Bitcoin. All right. Crypto speaking of crypto here, crypto supporting Elon Musk before we get into this, what is Rodney's thoughts on Elon? Uh, I think he's great. I mean, obviously he's not, he doesn't do everything single thing, right. But he's a breath of fresh air for, uh, X. I think that having a social media platform where you can actually feel free to talk about things that maybe aren't allowed on other websites, YouTube, you know, and other, other websites. I think that's great. Tesla's are great products. If you've had a newer Tesla, like they're good products and it's trying to get on the moon. Like the man's a genius. And obviously he's the kind of guy that would be into crypto and crypto would support him. He's a doge father, you know, and calling Fiat a scam. I mean, he's right. It's a scam a little bit, you know, it's not backed by anything. It's backed by trust me, bro. It is backed by trust me, bro. Um, what do you feel of him as a CEO business leader? I think he's great. You know, he's, he's not the same kind of suit and tie, like guy that you, that, that, that talks to you a certain way in public and then talks to you another way in private. Like he's kind of like, whatever, like he'll, he'll post memes. He'll like talk a little crap on a, you know, on, on Twitter to like AOC or something like that. Like, I like that, you know, because he's still a hard worker and get things done and still provides value to us through different forms of his business. Tesla's, you know, X, I think is a better platform now and stuff like that. So I think it's a great CEO, a TB. That's not how I meant it. And also why I threw in the fentanyl thing, uh, catch them all catch you tomorrow. Uh, master Pete never made it to the NBA, but he was like on a practice squad and he had some pretty good collegiate, uh, stuff going on. All right, well, let's talk about Elon here, supporting crypto, supporting him because he called Fiat a scam. Like Rodney said here in the midst of a big price increase, the CEO of X posted, uh, on the platform labeling Fiat currency, a scam that's so normalized. We don't even realize it's a scam anymore. I would say the main scam is inflation being a hit in tax on the middle class and the lower class there, a Bitcoin approval, or just an act of defiance while he's previously influenced cryptocurrency markets, the rapid and significant impact of his recent remarks on Bitcoin's price may seem unlikely. However, considering his well-known support for cryptocurrencies and active participation in the market, it's plausible that the upsurge drove his post. You know, he like posted on Bitcoin forums like back in 2012 and stuff. He's been a long, long supporter. Yeah. It was mentioned in the latest book too. Of course, you know, all the doge stuff he's secretly, uh, the book exposed that he was secretly backing doge developers. Wow. Okay. Money out of his own pocket. Hey, what are you going to do? Okay. Here's 200 K thanks for building the little app. Um, so potential resumption of a Bitcoin payments by Tesla. Yeah. We talked about this a couple of weeks ago where he said, Hey, if Bitcoin goes 50% renewable, we will accept Bitcoin payments again. Do you remember a lot of people got very upset at Elon, you know, for saying, Hey, you know, no longer accepting it. And they got really mad at him at selling some for a profit. Call me crazy. I don't like shell saving people who are getting wins. Oh, you shouldn't have sold because the price went down and I didn't sell before you to me. That's weak. Uh, so yeah, I've always been a fan of, uh, Elon. I became a really big fan after his podcast appearance. And when Tesla started tanking in price, I just remember thinking like, are these people watching the same interview as me? Cause they, they got really mad. Oh my God. He, he puffed a job there, you know, let's, let's short the stock. I was just so blown away by how forward thinking he was. And I haven't really seen a long form interview with the guy at the time.
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A highlight from The Guardian Angels Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr John Esseff
"Discerning hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey to continue production of these podcasts prayers and more go to discerninghearts .com and click the donate link found there or inside the free discerning hearts app to make your donation thanks and God bless discerninghearts .com presents building a kingdom of love reflections with Monsignor John Assef Monsignor Assef is a priest of the diocese of Scranton Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to St. Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the sisters of the missionaries of charity. Monsignor Assef encountered St. Padre Pio who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world serving in the Pontifical missions a Catholic organization established by Pope St. John Paul II to bring the good news to the world especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops priests and sisters seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a kingdom of love reflections with Monsignor John Assef I'm your host Chris McGregor. Angels are so much on my mind today to talk to you about and I would like to begin with the guardian angel. I was very much enamored of my angel as a child. Ever since I can remember my brother and I were roommates and we had in our room you know that picture of guardian angel guiding this child across a bridge and we certainly he and I had so many scrapes as children we have some of them in our book but as two boys growing up and we were so companions because I can't remember being my memories go way back but they they don't go back before my brother because I was only a year and a half old when he came along so I always had this companion and so it's kind of easy for me to believe that I have a companion the angel the guardian angel is given to us from the first moment of our conception the guardian angel is interuterine he is given to you from your mother's womb and from the first moment that that egg fertilizes that is for that seed fertilizes that egg that soul that's blown into that person who now is going to be that's the beginning that's the moment your guardian angel begins to protect you and watch over you so he's with you and assists you in your life in the womb because how many more things are being told to us these days about what happens to the child in the womb it's a whole life in there if you're a single birth if you're you know are you my mother tells the story about that what do they talk about when a child is turned around and I was a breach breath I was going to be a breach birth and what happened to me is I got turned around and there's like all kinds of assistance that goes on within the womb guardian angel is right there assisting you in the birthing you know I think so many times we've it's good for a mother to know that that baby is being watched over and protected how that life is there and how the mother loves that baby from the moment that she knows she's pregnant and so the the baby is being watched over and cared for within the womb and then in the birthing your guardian angel comes with you that that angel stays with you from that moment of conception not only until you die but if you fail to go to paradise that angel reminds people on earth to pray for you so often you know some people who are not yet and may be in purgatory and not yet settled in their in their home forever in heaven that angels work is to go to the people on earth or to others to pray for that soul and I really believe that many of us are reminded oh my grandmother or my uncle so -and -so or having a mass offered for so is really inspired by the angel who comes and asks why don't you have a mass said for your dad why don't you have a mass said for your aunt Tilly so that there's there's that reminder to pray for the dead so until that's also because even in the liturgy itself it says at the death of a person may the angel lead you into paradise may the martyrs receive you on your way so as we go into the eternal city the angels are individually created angels do not multiply like humans so therefore if there are six billion people in this universe and each one of us has a specific guardian angel then there must at least be six billion angels God in making angels we always hear scripturally that there are myriads you know what myriads is millions and billions he just makes them and he creates them individually the least angelic creature is greater than any human creation you know after all man is only half spiritual half of him is material or physical he's half animal half spirit so that our bodily part it's no less beautiful it's a creation that we have feet and arms and legs and and we have a sex to us know that individual creation of my body is a very beautiful creation God has made the the marvel of a human body you know when I go to doctors and see especially if a person becomes ill the functioning of a healthy organ and a body is such a magnificent the eye the complexity of what an ear is or what a face is so what a brain is this is a magnificent each one of us who are human have been given this body creation and we have be given a spirit which is that part of us we are a body soul composite so that when we do die it's not only that the soul goes on to live because that's the part of us that will live eternally that's the part of us that's immortal but so is our body going to be so when the body and we believe that it's going to be raised from the dead we believe in the resurrection of the body so that it will participate in the glory of God in heaven forever or in the damnation in the fires of hell or whatever there is for eternal damnation and torture so we do know that we have any we are not made to die we are made to live eternally and because of Jesus who gives us a new life we are called now to live eternally in heaven he has given us the opportunity of salvation when he died on the cross Jesus saved everyone from the time of the cross back to Adam and Eve but they were not able to enter into glory because of Adam and Eve sin so he by his death on the cross brought salvation to every human being from Adam and Eve down to the year 33 and from the third year 33 to the end of time so that the cross is the salvation of all of mankind the desire of God was to save all of the human family each member of that family has a guardian now I'd love to go over that prayer angel of God my guardian dear to whom God's love commits me here so that God has sent an angel to be with me to watch over me to guard and to assist me to enlighten me to inspire me to guide me so this and we usually like to use the word guard because I think each of us is dealing with a lot of hostility in the world in which we live so there's a protective nature to this friend of ours and be careful watch for yourself and these inspirations that we receive daily and how many times you know driving along there's like an inspiration of why don't you take this street instead of that or that some different you slow down here this is like our guardian protecting us and I I often think how important it is to develop that relationship with our guardian angel to become more familiar I developed a very strong relationship with my guardian angel I think I had it as a child I kind of lost it and then it came back to me very early in my priesthood and I remember meeting a long tradition with Carmelite nuns who said to me why don't you ask your guardian angel its name because your guardian angel has a name it's a particular spirit and if you ask your guardian angel what your name is you would be able to become more familiar because you could call him by name and you could become more dependent on him and ask him and and then develop a closer relationship with him because every guardian angel has a nature it's an angelic nature it is hugely powerful and not incidentally every guardian angel is not the lowest rank of angel you could have a guardian angel from the archangel class you can have an archang you can have an angel that's your guardian from the seraphim or cherubim or Thrones I'll talk about those choirs of angels because they have enormous power each one in gradation and they they come according to the power that was given to them in their nature which is vastly different from each other they are all invisible creatures but they are all creatures made by God who have this nature and it's a particular nature I'm starting off with guardian angels because they're the ones I think that we're most familiar with we'll return to building the kingdom of love with Monsignor John Essip in just a moment did you know that discerning hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite discerning hearts programming father Timothy Gallagher dr.
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"Try to find other ways to collaborate and continue the relationship versus being just one and done after the episode. A lot of people like they do an interview and then they never talk to that person again. Don't be that person, then your show will continue to grow. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, Podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And today I'm with Rina Watts from Better Call Daddy podcast. Better Call Daddy is where she'll interview just about anyone, about anything, interesting things. It's totally uncensored. And at the end, she has the guest ask her father a question because she says her dad knows everything and anything. And so they will ask. And I was recently featured on the podcast. I didn't know what to ask. I was like, geez, like where do I start? And unfortunately I wasn't prepared. I didn't have my question in front of me. So I came up with a question and it was like, what did your dad think when he had a girl? Because I've got a couple of boys. I have two sons and for the most part, boys are pretty easy. And you do want to raise them as gentlemen, but I think I would freak out if I had a girl. I would lock her in a whatever, like some type of up high thing. I would lock them up and I wouldn't let anyone see them or talk to them. I would be that weird controlling, scared to death dad, like we hear about in history. So I think God or the universe knew that and just gave me boys. That was perfect. So yeah, that's why I asked on her podcast, Better Call Daddy. So when that episode comes out, the link to it will also be in the show notes here. So you could probably just scroll down, check out that link to Better Call Daddy and also specifically that episode. And you can also connect with Rina on any social that she wanted you to connect with. Everything's down there. Her whole bio is also in the show notes as well. So anything you want to do, like finding her, connecting with her, getting to know more about her, just scroll down. Let's get into today's podcast interview about podcasting ultimately. And it's interesting because Rina has had her episodes. She's been going for well over 300 episodes and soon she'll be crossing 400 episodes. She's been really doing it for a little while. I want to find out like what has kept her there because for one, there's something that's true and it's called podfade. And depending on who you ask and which study it was, studies show that most people don't get past six or 10 episodes. Most podcast hosts never get past that. So she's in the 300s right now and she has 173 ratings and or written reviews on her podcast. And so it's like, what did you do to get all of that? Obviously, there's something good that she's doing. I will mention something that's part of her bio real quick. And it's that she worked with another person and she actually helped get ultimately top guests for them. And so I want to talk a little bit about today on this podcast, like how do you get top guests? How do you reach out to them? Because most of them have gatekeepers. So we'll talk about a few of these things. First and foremost, Rina, I've talked a lot, so I want you to say something. So I'm going to ask you a question. When was it that you launched your podcast? I want to hear the when and the why and the how did you launch your podcast? When, why and how? Great question. I launched in July of 2020. But even before that, I was thinking about it for a long time. So I had co -hosted someone else's podcast years prior. It started off where I was just booking guests, but then it was like two guys, they were both recruiters and they were like, Oh, wow, you've brought us some really interesting people. How would you like to fill in? And so that brought me back to my radio days. I worked for an NPR station in college and I really like the radio medium. And so they let me co -host a few times. And I got excited because I saw the numbers growing and I liked booking guests on that show. So I had gotten my feet wet, which I think is actually a good idea for podcasters. Either guest on other people's shows, co -host a show, starting a podcast, like you're talking about this pod fade thing. It's a lot of work that I feel like people don't think about. Marketing is just as big a piece as recording the episode. It's probably a bigger piece. Marketing is where I feel like people get burned out. So here's how I keep that easy. In the beginning, I literally was just sending an audiogram and a graphic and links to the episode. But then I built upon that. Then it was, Oh, hey, here's some copy you might want to use. The easier you make it for people to share, the more they'll do it. So send them different clips, send them audiograms, send them copies, send them links to the episode. And like you just did a pro tip, see how you can link in the show notes to help them. Do you have a website? I have a website. I have a blog. You have a blog. You have an email list. I have an email list. Try to find other ways to collaborate and continue the relationship versus being just one and done after the episode. I think a lot of people do an interview and they never talk to that person again. Don't be that person. Then your show will continue to grow. Can you guys do an Instagram live together? Are you talking to a streamer? Can you do a Twitch? Can you do a social media collab? Are you talking to somebody who's good at graphics? Can they make you a meme? Think of different things or different strengths that the other person that you're talking to has. Are they really good at rev share opportunities? Talk about affiliates. What is the other person that you're talking to doing that's working that you can get in on or learn from or also do? Interesting. Thank you for sharing all that. I keep going. I'm hung up on something though because I did the math. I looked. You had something that went out like on September 4th. You had something went out on August 28th and then August 21st and I'm noticing that it's about once a week. Yep. I've gone down to one a week. In the beginning, I was insane and did three a week. Ah, that's where it is. Okay, because I pulled up my calculator. You basically have been going a little over three years and so I calculated basically there's 52 weeks a year and you should only be on like 150, 160 episodes right now. You're like 330 -ish, so like more than double. I was going to ask what happened there. So let's talk about this because I know some podcasters who launch and maybe they're doing it or triple it. So they switch it to three a week or they switch it to one a week from one a month or I know maybe there's three somebodies actually who have gone to daily who started with like every other week or once a week and now they're at like five or seven a week. But for you, you mentioned that you had at three and that lately has been at one and I want to find the pros and cons. I want to find out why. I want to find out if it's working better. Were you getting burnt out? Why change from three to one? That is a great question. Well, there were multiple reasons. I would say a bit of burnout. Yes, like I wanted to stay fresh and now I batch record too. So I'm like six, seven weeks ahead of like releasing one a week. I think that if you only do one a week, then you're able to market it better. You're able to be fresher. You're able to do better research for the people that you're actually interviewing. You can be more selective in who you're picking. And here's another thing. There are some podcast hosts like yourself that do solo episodes as well. I haven't really done solo episodes. But what I have done is I've had other people interview me. I mean, I've been on other people's shows. So if somebody interviews me well, I will take that interview. I'll create a custom intro. I'll have my dad listen to somebody else interviewing me and then I'll have him respond to a good interview. So I've taken some of my best interviews of other people interviewing me. And I've re aired those on my RSS feed. It just gives you more content gives that other person another boost. It reintroduces an episode a collaboration. So I've done a few of those. But I have talked to other podcasters that, you know, are getting thousands of listens on each episode. And I am finding that they're either doing best of they're doing shorter, solo episodes, or they're doing tips. And those episodes can get just as many downloads as an interview. So I'm thinking about potentially maybe doing some extra daddy segments like me and my dad like reflecting on certain episodes that have stayed with us or daddy tips or I'm playing with that idea as an evolution. So there's a couple things that you said, one of them is that you can be more selective with the guest. And that makes complete sense. If you feel like you have to do seven episodes a week, three episodes a week, then it can get challenging to batch all those it can get challenging to stay ahead of the game. And so there is technically a likeliness going up of you being okay with somebody who is less quality. And so you avoid that by doing fewer. You also mentioned the truth is I'm like thinking on the tip of my head, like there was another reason that you said you slowed down. What was the other reason that you said you slowed down besides being able to monitor them? I was a bit getting burned out. I mean, I was cranking out so many that I wanted to make people want to listen more too. Like if you just give them out so easily, right? Oh, marketing. Marketing was the other one. I did mention the burnout. Somehow I just accidentally mentioned the burnout and forgot that I said it, but I mentioned the burnout and I mentioned the being able to focus on the guest and having good quality. But the other one that I missed that you did say is because you felt like you could market it a sec. Definitely. You can market it better because then you don't have to like, get out your clip, get out the graphic, get out everything. One day you can space it out. And the more you space it out, you're going to hit different people seeing it. I mean, you've got to really promote something like seven times for like your audience to see it. And here's another thing too. I've started working at cool .fm one day a week and I'm re airing best of episodes there. So I'm airing them sometimes a year after they've already aired. And a lot of podcasters, once they air it the first time, they never talk about the episode again. I try to find ways to get my back episodes re listened to. So I just interviewed the Jewish matchmaker, the host of Netflix's Jewish matchmaking. I had interviewed four people from Indian matchmaking a year ago. So I'm like, hey, if you liked Indian matchmaking in her episode, here's the links to those four. And now here's the Jewish version. Okay, cool. So your podcast Better Call Daddy, is it something that you make money from or no? Everybody wants to know that, right? It has led to me making money. Yes. Is it like, does it feed into a business or is it more advertising dollars? How have you made money through your podcast? In lots of different ways like entrepreneurs do, right? So I have made money by advertisers. That is not the route I'm currently going. I have made money through affiliate sales. I've made money by coaching other podcasters who are just starting out in how to do it better. So I do like coaching calls one on one, or I've also helped people produce their own shows. Okay, cool. In that last one, where you're supporting podcasters, is that something that you thought you would do in the beginning? That's a great question. So in the beginning, I did kind of want to demonstrate my love of marketing. Like, hey, if I put together something and package it cool, other people will want me to try and help them do that too. That was a thought, right? But it was kind of a pipe dream. I hadn't done it. I had worked in production before behind the scenes. I got my start in reality TV. I've worked in radio. I love production. I love storytelling. But had I helped somebody from start to finish do it? No, but it led to me doing that multiple times. Yes. You mentioned storytelling and loving storytelling. And I think that podcasts are a lot of storytelling. I'll even tell random stories that are more parables. It's not even a real thing. Obviously, I've made up the characters. They might be ducks or cave persons or something else. So I'll frequently tell stories. I'll tell stories about clients. I'll tell stories about people that have worked with our company and what they're going through. And frequently, if something comes up, I will liken it to an actual story. Because I think that that is really helpful and supportive. And on your podcast, you get interesting stories. Like you're just talking about interviewing people from Netflix on Jewish matchmaking and Indian matchmaking. I know that you've had phone sex workers. I should say the whole thing. Yeah, it sounds totally different if you don't use the whole thing. But on the podcast, and it sounds like the stories are kind of a big emphasis. Would you share why you think that they are and then after the why are they a big deal? Why does it help? Kind of the how the listener can be better with their stories on their podcast? Yes, that's a great question. So why? I just have a fascination and curiosity. And I have crossed paths with lots of interesting people. That's why I also thought I should have a podcast like I've kept in touch with people that I worked with in 9911 and VH1 and E and special effects animation companies and producers and directors. And I feel like a lot of people are and I wanted to bring some of those conversations into the forefront. How the phone sex worker is an interesting one, but I was a coach for Kathy Heller's launching a mastermind. And one of the girls that was in my group was a mental health worker by day and a phone sex operator by night. And I'm like, hell yeah, that's mompreneurship at its finest. I want to hear that story and talk to me like you talk to them. You know, like, wait, so you had her do the voice and everything? Hell yeah. But that was what did she ask your dad? What did she ask your dad at the end? I don't remember, but my dad has got a sons of humor. So I've had women on that have been sex trafficked. I've had a lady on who was a dominatrix. And there's been some funny moments in my dad has a sense of humor. I even had on the host of Netflix's show, how to build a sex room. And my dad was like, he's open to listening to it, but he's like, that's a little out there for me. He was like, I think I'd rather have like a romantic dinner and a walk on the beach. Like my dad. So like old fashioned, he listened to the whips and chains, but for him, that wasn't like so much a turn on. Okay. All right. So it would have been weird if he shared that it was with me. It was how would the listener? No, I'm hearing what you're saying and ignoring it on purpose. Okay. How would the listener think to themselves like the best way to adding in people's stories or their own stories to help with engagement, entertainment, and probably even sales persuasion? Okay. So one thing about storytelling that I've learned is it's really a dance between the and interviewer the interviewee, right? Like you're sharing a bit and I'm sharing a bit and you're really listening for how you can keep the conversation going. You're not just going to your next question. How do you know that? How do you know? I don't just have seven questions that I need to get through in the time of 20, 30 minutes. You can feel it. I can feel it. I like that. All right. Well, keep going. I didn't mean to interrupt you. Hear it and you can feel it. Yeah. So it's okay to have bullet points, but I shouldn't be able to tell it's okay to do your research, but don't be so married to your questions. You have to leave room for magic to happen in the conversation. You have to genuinely be interested in what the person's saying. And I think also new interviewers don't do little things like, tell me more. How do you feel about that? Just little followups like that can make the person who's telling their story open up even deeper. And they love that. So those little tricks of getting a deeper answer from the person who's telling their story will make your story better versus just having a big question and answer, but try to get deeper by just giving them a little yes and. Okay. So to be clear, one of the things that I think I'm hearing you say is if we're interviewing, a thing that we can do that can be beneficial is ask more questions about what they're already talking about. Yes. How did you feel about that? What got you into that? Tell me more about that. These are good things. Is that right? Yes. I love how you just re -paraphrased that and said it better. That's another really awesome technique. Some people are really good at paraphrasing. And actually, the reason I decided to have my dad at the end of my show is because my dad is really good at summarizing what I say and saying it in his own way, but he knows me so well that he's able to connect my crazy thoughts. And I think not everyone when they're starting out podcasting is able to give people the key takeaways at the end. So have a notebook next to you and write down maybe your key thoughts that you want people to remember. That's another really, I feel like, advanced technique in storytelling is what do you want to leave the audience with? Give people those main points at the end. And I love that my dad does that for me and he puts his own spin on it. Yeah. I like it. I'm writing that down. So that's why you don't hear me asking a question. Main points down at the end. I've got some good notes from you so far. We're talking about how you launched a podcast July of 2020. You started out with doing multiple episodes. You slowed it down. And there's a lot of reasons. You were feeling overwhelmed. It was too high of a cadence, but you also justify that with some other things that can be beneficial. For example, it's like, now I can really hone in on who I'm having on. Additionally, not only am I honing in on it, but I can market a little bit better. And I can pull out new things and share them for a while. And you also mentioned how you do what's called callbacks. I was watching a comedian and he was talking about his own callbacks. And he was talking about, he's like, my jokes are so funny because I can do all these callbacks. So he had this whole skit and he kept doing the callbacks. And I think any good comedian will, where they jump into a point that they had mentioned earlier on in the joke. And they wrap it all together. For example, if we found a way to talk about phone sex workers again later on in this, or like where all of a sudden it's just like that phone sex worker or something like that. This is a good way to call back. And you do it with previous episodes. You mentioned that when you're doing the Jewish matchmaking, I think you said, but you had already done with the Indian matchmaking, I think. Is that correct? And so you put the four episodes in the show so now people can get to it easier. And also you mentioned it. And not everybody who comes on this show talks about callbacks like the comedians would, even in the same episode and referring to things that we've talked about before. And not everybody talks about callbacks in the way that you mentioned where you basically share a different episode that you had in a previous time. Like if you like this, then you might like that. Or we're talking about this today, this other episode also talks about it. I like the feedback about using stories, storytelling. And in a way, I just used storytelling of me just watching a comedian talking about callbacks to emphasize a point. And I didn't notice it until I'm looking at the stories right now. But these things where we bring in outside stories or other people's stories can really help to be able to be, as you were illustrating, helps us to be able to be more entertained, to learn more, et cetera. And then you mentioned something that I'm kind of doing right now in a way. It's like it's hitting the main points. And your dad does that at the end of your episodes. I try to do that at the end of episodes as well. I call it tell them what you're going to tell them is the first part. The middle part is tell them. And the last part is tell them what you told them. And so it's like, we're going to learn about this. And then you teach them the thing. And then you say, today you learned, and you share it. And these are like giving those main points, making sure that they're down. And so we've had fun already so far. But we've also learned a few really cool things from you about promotion, callbacks, stories, and repeating the main points. I want to take a quick break. When we get back, I'm going to talk more about how you make money. I'm going to talk about your best advice to a podcaster find and out if there's anything you're struggling with. So how you make money, main thing that you want to share with a podcaster. And we'll be right back.
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".com to book your good Wednesday morning midweek welcome into WTLP this October 4th if you're just joining us it's gonna be a nice day mostly sunny warm comfortable it'll be close to 85 for the high 60 you're waking up to in our nation's capital right now it's 4 14 on WTLP i've been laying glad this is early morning welcome and this is WTLP news ww well with everything going on on the news may you not have heard about World Romance Scam Prevention Day billions of dollars you see a year are apparently stolen from people looking for love online and instead forming a relationship with a security expert Adam Levin this morning founder of cyber scout and co -host of what the hack the podcast tells our dimitri sodas he thinks anybody can be fooled when looking for a date online anybody could fall for it doesn't it matter how well educated how financially set how you worldly can fall you for are this now it originally started when they were going after people between 60 and 80 and then it's then they came down to 50 to 70 then during the pandemic they their were going 30s after people because so in many people felt isolated and now the FBI is reporting that they're targeting young boys between 15 and 18 that they're going after posing as if they're young women let's prepare ourselves for this Adam so that we don't fall victim is the idea here that when you try to meet the person after communicating they never want to meet but they do start asking you for money you're communicating with a
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
IP#501 Adam Blai The History of Exorcism, Part 1 on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts - burst 2
"When it comes to full -blown possession it's necessary and the church figured that out over the centuries that it's a qualitatively different situation it's not saying like oh this is minor league versus major league it's like this is baseball versus football it's a completely different situation when a person is possessed versus somebody who's just being heavily tempted or maybe oppressed the church saw this is a different phenomenon and it requires a different intervention and so you know that's why the church limits the use of solemn exorcism it can only be used if there's possession and so I don't mean to ramble on about that but it's not a kind of a competition or any kind of enmity between kind of the charismatic world and the exorcism world they both have their place in terms of prayer I think the times that it can get difficult is when people involved in the charismatic world encounter people that are actually
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
IP#501 Adam Blai The History of Exorcism, Part 1 on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts - burst 2
"Possessed versus somebody who's just being heavily tempted or maybe oppressed the church saw this is a different phenomenon and it requires a different intervention and so you know that's why the church limits the use of solemn exorcism it can only be used if there's possession and so I don't mean to ramble on about that but it's not a kind of a competition or any kind of enmity between kind of the charismatic world and the exorcism world they both have their place in terms of prayer I think the times that it can get difficult is when people involved in the charismatic world encounter people that are actually possessed and continue to pray and start speaking to the demon and rebuking it and things like that and that crosses the line that then Cardinal Ratzinger in his 1986 letter to the world from the CDF so it's an authoritative letter warned the lay people that they're not to speak to
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
IP#501 Adam Blai The History of Exorcism, Part 1 on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts - burst 2
"Possessed versus somebody who's just being heavily tempted or maybe oppressed the church saw this is a different phenomenon and it requires a different intervention and so you know that's why the church limits the use of solemn exorcism it can only be used if there's possession and so I don't mean to ramble on about that but it's not a kind of a competition or any kind of enmity between kind of the charismatic world and the exorcism world they both have their place in terms of prayer I think the times that it can get difficult is when people involved in the charismatic world encounter people that are actually possessed and continue to pray and start speaking to the demon and rebuking it and things like that and that crosses the line that then Cardinal Ratzinger in his 1986 letter to the world from the CDF so it's an authoritative letter warned the lay people that they're not to speak to
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IP#501 Adam Blai The History of Exorcism, Part 1 on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com presents inside the pages insights from today's most compelling authors I'm your host Chris McGregor and I am delighted to be joined by Adam Bly who is a church decreed expert on religious demonology and exorcism for the Pittsburgh Diocese he's helped train exorcists for over 15 years and has attended hundreds of solemn exorcisms his journey started in brain wave research and psychology and is now focused on the spiritual realities of miracles angels demons and possessions he's also the author of several books including the exorcism files with Adam Bly we go inside the pages of the history of exorcism published by Sophia Institute press Adam thank you so much for joining me sure Chris it's great to be back with you I'm very grateful for the history of exorcism I think it's an important work I think it's one of those things that needs to be brought out in the light because people have a lot of different ideas about what exorcism is but also maybe not an appreciation of its role in the life not only of the church but even before that and you bring that forward so clearly so thank you so much the history is all there so I really didn't do a whole lot except try to put it together and maybe synthesize it a little bit but I found it to be a really interesting story which is why I wanted to to get it out to people in the form of a book because yeah as you said most people really have no idea where this came from they've just kind of seen the movies you know they have their ideas from there which which is really distorted obviously Hollywood doesn't know much about this so yeah I'm hoping it'll kind of demystify it a little bit and and also it had some interesting twists in the road through the history of this so it's kind of a neat story I thought and I'm not saying that about like my own book I'm saying that the history of it is just it's a neat history well I'll say it for your book it is a neat book I found it fascinating and I think context is everything isn't it so to understand something more fully you need to be able to put things into context don't you mm -hmm yeah I think you do and hopefully it'll help not only with the idea of solemn exorcism but the whole deliverance world it kind of puts the whole range of prayers in a context because it shows back when it was more of a gray area and prayer was just prayer and you know deliverance and exorcism weren't well defined in the early church in terms of where the lines were between them so I hope it'll lead people to understand why exorcism is is really a qualitatively different thing than just deliverance prayers how did you become involved in the ministry that that helps to free people from a captivity that the church wants to be able to offer them well it's a long story but it's about 15 or 16 or 17 years ago I was doing graduate work in adult clinical psychology and mainly brainwave research and I was curious whether any of these strange experiences were real or if they were an artifact of the brain or mental illness and so I started looking into it stumbled across a possessed person early on it wasn't like anything I had seen clinically or been trained for clinically the interventions that you would do in psychology for psychosis had no impact and that led to you know obviously questions and then as I got to meet specialist clergy and got drawn into this and saw full -blown cases of solemn exorcisms I started seeing things that you can't explain and so once I realized it's a real phenomenon it's a real spiritual reality I then decided to basically as long as God was willing dedicate my life to it because there was so few exorcists around at that time you know 27 well about 17 years ago the ministry really you know it had faded out it was almost gone and so we've been working you know as a community for a lot of years and now there's a lot of exorcists trained up in the United States you know a few hundred at least and there's more every year so things are really kind of rolling at this point well the really good news about that is it as you said in the past maybe 15 years or so institutes have developed the one that I'm more familiar with is the Pope Leo XIII Institute that is established by priests and also their particular teams which include practitioners as you are someone who is not only devout in his faith but somebody who has an understanding of the human person which can help them to provide their ministry and then that's an important thing isn't it yeah and it's good to mention of course I'm a lay person I'm not a priest I don't actually do exorcisms only a priest with permission from their bishop can do that but God seems to have called me into a kind of unique role of training and teaching and essentially coaching priests and particularly new exorcists so the best way to learn is kind of in the situation so I do teach at the Leo Institute and I've taught at other national conferences for years and things like that but really the at the end of the day you have to do it and kind of be mentored by other exorcists and people with experience basically and just wanted to be clear so people don't make the mistake of assuming I'm an exorcist I know from the founders of the Pope Leo XIII Institute I know Monsignor John S.
Book Club with Julia and Victoria
A highlight from 117 Beyond the Story by BTS & Kang Myeong-seok A Memoir or an Official Wiki?
"What is book what the heck is this book what is it the main thing i got from it was like this sense of feeling seen and validated well why does it have to be this way this book was placed in my hand for this moment insightful learned a lot wrote some quotes that i'm ready to like paint on my wall i love this book that we just kind of pull out some some of the big things that we see and talk about a few different ones i apologize if most my contribution has k -pop references alternative book title the feminine mystique part two you're really just gay welcome to book club with julia and victoria we are two friends who find making and presenting power points on their special interest via super fun way to spend two hours on a saturday night it was the best time i had such a great time with you yesterday and we'd like to be your book friends this is a podcast for the books we just can't shut up about and this one is truly for julia and i'm here as the bestest of friends along with two lovely guests we will introduce in just a moment this week we're talking about beyond the story a 10 -year record of bts written by kang myung suk along with bts's interviews and translated by anton herr claire the first official biography charting the inception and rise of the global sensation kpop boy group bts and this is very much an official biography sort of by and about the company as much as about the artist so we're here to kind of talk about what exactly is going on with this book and bring in some special guests very very quickly before we introduce them if you'd like to support the show you can rate review and subscribe on any and all podcast platforms. If you're in the market for buying some books, you can go down into the show notes. Any book links that are there will take you to our affiliate page on bookshop .org and we get a very small kickback from those. And if you'd like to join the club, you can go to buymeacoffee .com slash book club with JB, where we have all of our archived episodes, a bunch of bonus content, all kinds of fun stuff. And that's it. Our special guests, husbands Adam and RJ are here. They have been podcast hosts since 2015 and can currently be found on the Ampliverse channel, hosting and producing shows like Did You Read the Group Chat, Showgaze, a movie musical podcast, and their own Boys Love series, where they recap idol survival shows like Boys Planet and Queen Dumb Puzzle, dating shows like His Man and BL series like The 8th Sense, and they're currently recapping Cherry Magic. Victoria doesn't know what any of this is. It's okay. The word salad.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep384: People Don't Go To Reels To Find Podcasts
"I would recommend that you have a podcast as the top of the funnel because it's going to grow your business. It's going to support you because you need people to know, like, and trust you, I'll say on that podcast. You need people to know, like, and trust you. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams. And I was scrolling through a Facebook group, a Facebook group for podcasters. And why was I there? I'm looking for clients and I'm looking for guests. So here I am trying to see who it is, who's asking for help, who it is, who wants to be a guest. And I'm starting to maneuver through there. And this was just a few minutes ago. And once this ended up happening, I decided I needed to come to you and mention something that is thoughtful and that this gentleman, I'm trying to remember if his name is JJ, or if I'm mixing them up with, I read, I was on that scrolling through for a long time. Let's just pretend it was JJ. So that gentleman, he goes, I don't understand what's happening. I've been doing reels for, I don't remember the amount of time. Let's pretend, let's insert the word months. I don't know. But he goes, I've been doing reels for a long time and they're getting between 1000 and 3000 views, but I don't understand. Again, I'm getting one to 3000 views on my reels, but I don't understand why am I getting so few podcast listeners? And I think I was kind of feeling like an asshole or something. I think I was feeling like a jerk. Like I wanted to prove a point or something and I was frustrated and it gave me some weird thing in my heart where I wanted to freaking scream at this guy. And I kind of did. And I basically said, it's because people don't go to reels to find podcasts. People don't go to YouTube to find podcasts. People don't go to Facebook to find podcasts. And what I said to, we'll call him JJ, I can't remember if it was JJ or somebody else. What I said to him was, well, the reason why is people don't go to reels to find podcasts. I said it very matter of fact. And I felt like a jerk when I did it. I said it. And then all of a sudden, like all of these podcast coaches are liking and thumbing up my response to this guy. And so I felt at least like, okay, that's good because the people that really know they agree that people don't go to reels to find a podcast. So maybe I wasn't as mean or unthoughtful as I thought, but I did, I did jump right into it and like, I'm rolling my eyes and be like, bro, what are you thinking? You got to put your money into bringing people to the podcast, not growing a reel. It doesn't necessarily translate. It doesn't transfer over each and every time. There have been so many times that I go to Instagram, for example, and there's this guy that I really admire. I really respect. His name is Andrew Kuberman and Andrew constantly puts out good reels. Okay. I follow him on Insta and sometimes I'll watch him on YouTube, but I am technically subscribed to his podcast. I don't know that I've ever listened to his podcast through the podcast playing platform. And that's because I don't go to Instagram to find a freaking podcast and I'm scrolling through and I'm getting reels and I'm liking his stuff. And then I follow him. It doesn't mean he gained a subscriber and same thing. I've had clients, probably two or three clients, two are women. I remember the conversations very, very distinctly. And they said, I don't understand my podcast. Let's just say 3000 downloads per month, but my Instagram is still only getting five to 10 likes per post. And they're like, something's going on. And I want to say same thing as I said to, we'll call him JJ. It's because people don't go to podcasts to find people to follow on social. Yes, they might a certain percentages of them might some of the people that see me on Insta or LinkedIn might find my podcast. But if we want to really grow a podcast, there's two things to do. So get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Now get ready to take notes. There's two things that you could do. One of them is to guest on other people's podcasts. Why? Because a hundred percent of the listeners of that podcast, listen to podcasts. A hundred percent of the listeners of that podcast in your genre are interested in your genre. It's really easy if you're being on somebody else's podcast to have a call to action that says, check out my podcast. If you would like another free resource in this area, if you're doing life coaching, then you would say I coach coaches. And if you want to become a life coach, this is a good podcast and I've got a free one as well. Go over here. Or if you're liking what this is about entrepreneurship, I would recommend, this is what Adam says often. I would recommend that you have a podcast as the top of the funnel because it's going to grow your business. It's going to support you because you need people to know, like, and trust you. I'll say on that podcast, you need people to know, like, and trust you. Well, the podcast is how do they know you? So I'm hoping that you, the listener of that other person's show is who I'm talking to right now. I'm being interviewed. Remember in this scenario, I'm being interviewed. I say this all the time. I say, if that's what you're looking for, jump over to my podcast, it's called the podcast on podcasting. This is the value that we drop. I would like to see you there, especially if it can help you. And it's totally for free. Okay. That's a great place to do it. The next place it costs more money than just being interviewed on somebody else's podcast. Okay. And that is to do advertising. So you can do advertising on Spotify. You can do advertising on Buzzsprout. My team does advertising with private messages where we personally invite the person, each and every person that fits your perfect avatar. We reach out to them on Facebook, LinkedIn, and meetup .com. And as we start a conversation with them, we make it go to the place where we ask them if they've heard of your podcast and then we bring it to them. So what I'm saying here is you want to do a couple of things. Go guest on other people's podcasts because people listen to podcasts that want podcasts. Secondarily, make sure that you are doing some type of paid marketing, paid ads, getting in front of that person time and time again in other ways. And sorry, I was starting to get distracted by a phone call coming in. That'll be a lesson for me and you to just put our phones away because I could tell that it was somebody that was important. And I was like, I need to answer that. So getting back to where we were before I started stuttering more is I want you to be on other people's podcasts. It's one of the biggest, best ways that you can grow your audience. And secondarily, I want you to find ways of doing paid ads because that investment could pay you dividends. For an example, we had a client, his name's Alex. Alex came to us and he said, I've been going with this big package with you and I've got this other guy helping me. My podcast has been costing me a couple thousand dollars a month. Do you think I'm at a place where I could make money? And I was like, Alex, yeah, I'm looking at the numbers right now and you could make great money through your podcast. How much do you want to make? And he goes, it'd be great if I could pay most of those expenses. I said, how much? And he goes, it's a little over $3 ,000 a month. Do you think that's even possible? I said, yeah, sit down with me. So Alex and I just sat down and we talked about him making money through his podcast. We talked about how many listeners he has because he was doing a package with us that we were doing some marketing. And now that package costs a little bit more. But anyway, we were doing that for him and he had plenty of listeners. So I spoke with Alex and I let him know you're who to talk to and how to talk to them. So we did that. He went and talked to one person one time. He had literally one phone call and he got five grand a month and he had another phone call just a couple of days later. And he called me and he says, I'm making $10 ,000 a month through my podcast. Thank you so much. Because he went from a place of not knowing that he had that ability. He went from a place of thinking that this was an expense and it became more of an investment that paid him dividends. Think about that. A, I want you to go out and get on other people's shows. B, I want you to find a way to put out paid marketing. We would love to help you with that if it's within your budget. If not, reach out to me, give me a call and I'll share with you a few things that you could do without having to hire us. Awesome. I'll see you on the next episode. Oh, hey, because three of my clients came to me recently looking to find a way to have their podcast make the money instead of cost them money. We put together a resource for some of our clients and I want to give it to you as well. It's something that did actually seem to help because one of them is now making $2600 a month. Another one $4500 a month. And the third is making between $5 ,000 and $10 ,000 each month. And so it's been a resource that's been incredibly valuable to them. It's our sponsor sheet template. It's a template of a sponsor sheet and it gives you something that you can hand to potential sponsors. And hopefully also be making $2600, $4500 or between $5K and $10K regularly each month with your podcast. So this has been a contributing factor to helping all 3 of those clients turn their podcast into an additional income stream for them. And the way that you can find it is just going to our website, growyourshow .com. But put in forward slash templates, growyourshow .com forward slash templates. And then you can actually download that template and others that could be valuable to your podcasting experience. I'll see you on the next episode.
Mutually CoDopendent
A highlight from Jen's Birthday
"Hey guys, welcome to Mutually Codependent with Adam and Jen. I'm Jen. And I'm Adam. I hope everybody is doing spectacular today. Today on Mutually Codependent we're gonna talk about what we thought the 40 would look like. We are not 40 yet but we're almost there. I turn 39 this coming Sunday which will be in the past once you've heard this episode. But yeah. We're close enough to realize that 40 was very different than what we thought it was gonna be. Yes. And we thought it would be worth a podcast to kind of talk about it and our expectations. Throughout the ages? Yeah, yeah. So if you don't know now you know that we have a strain of the show. I may end up with like a little rhyme, a little haiku or something. I hate haikus. I don't I still don't understand. I couldn't tell you the number. But anyway, Strain of the Show. 575, right? 535? 575. I think it's 575. Yeah. 5. Strain of the Show is something that we use. It's a flour that we are smoking that is available through Texas Canna Health. CentexCBD .net. This week it is a pre -roll from Happy Shaman, I think? No, this is from Hymn Living. This is a marshmallow OG. It's labeled as a hybrid. It is definitely something that we've learned that we can smoke anytime for any reason and it's kind of a marshmallow -y, oaky, sweet flavor. Yeah and some people are way better at pulling those notes out than I am but even Landon when he tried it he was like this yeah there's like a so like caramel and I'm like marshmallow he's like yeah and I'm kind of jealous. It's very sweet. I like it. This is one of my favorite strains. If you have a headache and you need it to go away but you don't want to fall asleep or take a nap or be too energized this is a pretty solid hybrid. You can smoke this anywhere and do anything like it's maybe not anywhere. Yeah and it's it's 18 .2 % THCA so it's enough to get you where you need to go but it's not like overwhelming like this is something you can just hang out and smoke for a bit and I think that's people forget that that's a thing. Yeah. The activity of smoking isn't just for the intoxication it's it's a time to sit back and just breathe literally that's what you do. Just breathe for a minute. Take a break. Just take a few minutes to breathe. Almost like smells like a cigar to me. Okay. Like when it's burning there's almost a cigar -y or maybe not a cigar but like I guess what's a Swiss or sweet? That's a cigar. I was gonna say like you're like a flavored cigar. Yeah. I was thinking like Swiss or sweet. Like a vanilla or or like. Yeah. Yeah that would make sense. Vanilla. Russian cream. Yeah see that's that's probably whatever it is that all those things have in common. The first thing I ever smoked was a clove strawberry clove cigarette when I was 14 with my cousins Amy and Brian. I the first time I smoked was a clove cigarette. Yeah. Yeah Kim. Yeah I can see that. Yeah we were we were laying down on the driveway cuz cuz both parents were gone there were no cars there and it was I think I don't know it was we were just hanging out she's like I'm gonna go smoke and I was like what? No I actually knew that she had smoked could but she would only do it like in her car like I don't remember her being. That makes sense. Or around I don't remember her doing it around the rinse if you will. That's something I I would I liked clove cigarettes I liked the way they tasted they were delicious I think that's ones that are flavored.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep383: Best Morning Habits Podcasters Should Practice - Ahna Fulmer
"Podcasting would be a good option. And interestingly, it combined a skill that I didn't realize I'd been honing, which was interviewing an interesting element of interviewing as well as podcasting. This goes into the next question, but what makes a successful one? And it is learning the art of asking better questions. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams. And we're with Ana Fomer today, who is a client and a friend and somebody that inspires me. And I think you'll also find yourself a little bit inspired at the end of the podcast. She's got a show, obviously, or else how could we help her? And it is called, I said it wrong earlier. I said, I don't know what I said, but it was not right. It's imperfectly empowered, imperfectly empowered. I love it. And you also are doing something new in your business. It's kind of recent and it's about waking up early and having a morning routine. I think I would like to hear a little bit about, and maybe the listener would, what's important about a morning routine and why did you pick those two things? Yeah, I think one of the first things that's important to clarify is that waking up early is not natural for about 50 % of the population. And I happen to be one of those 50%. And I was, it was about four or five years ago in 2018, I was a busy working mom. I had three kids. My youngest was one and I was a dual certified nurse practitioner working in emergency medicine at the time. I was also the assistant medical director for two stroke programs that I helped create from the ground up. On top of that, we were renovating houses. We were in our second fixer upper at that time. That was like a side hustle for my husband and I. And on top of that, I had just started a home DIY decor blog just for fun because I didn't have enough going on. But it was at that point that a lot of us reach as moms where I desperately needed time for me. I was sick of waking up every morning, rushed and feeling like I was starting stressed and behind before I even got going for the day. And so I decided I was going to start an early morning routine because it was the only time I could find quiet. So I hustled to make this happen. And I fought this news button for about two years and really reprogrammed my biology to fall in love with the early morning quiet. And I fell in love with it so much and realized how many other women desperately want the same thing. But when it's not natural, it's incredibly difficult. And there's no program out there teaching you how to become an early morning person ultimately. So as a health and fitness coach, I ended up leaving bedside medicine and my online presence as a blogger actually turned into a virtual health and fitness professional, which is really neat. Now I help people prevent disease instead of treat disease, which is exciting. But what happened is I realized there was this gap for many of us as women in the health and fitness space because we go hard for six weeks and we transform our life for six weeks. But it's sort of like a bandaid on a gaping wound because we haven't created a habit of life change. And not that that six weeks wasn't important, but what we need is we need another program to partner with those fitness and nutrition programs who are able to also teach people how to create a habit to help sustain and offload some of the stress during our day so that we can really focus on nutritional changes, which is a full -time job for any of you. Adam, you've certainly undergone a lot of health transformation. You know, I mean, tracking macros in and of itself is like a full -time job. So the bottom line is we are in the process of creating this premier virtual program for busy women to learn how to become an early morning riser, establish a routine they can sustain that starts with being not doing. We don't get up earlier to hustle harder and do more. We're trying to press pause and actually be still and renew our hearts and minds in the calm of the quiet. And then we get a time efficient, effective workout done before our kids wake up. So that is early morning habit. If that's not cool enough, we are also an adoption fundraising program. My passion is to help women really manifest the sense that you are worth investing in because you have the power to impact the world because you've been made in the image of God and that alone makes you enough finding your value, not in what you say or do, but in the God that created you and really tapping into that to manifest this idea that you have the power to change the world. The small choices that you make for yourself have a massive impact. So when women successfully complete the program on the app, my company gives them back a significant portion of the money they paid for the program to give forward to an enrolled and adopting mom. Who's raising funds through life song for orphans. We are also adopting. So this is another heartbeat of mine. So anyways, there's a lot going on behind the scenes over here, but early morning habit, we're ready to change women's lives and bring more children home to their forever families. I like it. I have a question on the 50%. You mentioned that there's about half of us who it's not natural for us to wake up early. It's not normal. It shouldn't be normal maybe for us to wake up early. It's not our in our body, but that we can fix it. Is that part's true, right? And you fixed it. I'm living proof of that. Yes. What I'm curious about is who is your 50 % that it's not natural for or is it anybody? It's absolutely anybody. And to be clear in early morning routine is beneficial, whether you are a man or a woman, it's just my avatar specifically for this program. We are really honing in on busy women. And what I have found is it tends to be moms who recognize the need for an early morning routine. And this would have been true of me as well. It wasn't until I had kids. I mean, we think we're busy before kids. And then you have kids and suddenly you realize your time is no longer your own. And so you have to create time. And as there's only 24 hours in a day for most of us women as moms that tends to be before our kids wake up, if we want to maintain our sanity, not to mention our health. So my perfect avatar for early morning habit is really busy women. And a familiar business adage is you are best positioned to serve the person you once were. And so for me, that is I think I'm quoting Rory Vaden. He might have been quoting somebody else I don't even know. But for me, that was the busy Christian mom who wanted to start her day grounded in the truth of God's word, and then wanted to pound out a workout. But I knew I needed to start being still because I was constantly surrounded by chaos and noise of society, my own family, the own expectations I put on myself. So busy Christian moms is the very hyper -targeted audience, but it's really, it's just busy women. Any busy woman benefits from this, whether you're an early morning riser by nature or not, to answer that part. Okay, perfect. I was going to ask again, but no, perfect. So in the two big parts are reading the scripture and getting a workout in. So I've got this friend, he wrote a book about early morning, Hal Elrod. He's got this thing called Savers, and I think that must be like six things to do in the morning. Why do you pick those two? And is there anything else that you might think of adding on to it? It's a great question. And it's an interesting dynamic that a man would create six things to do, and a woman is going to create two. And I'll tell you why I think that's an important thing to highlight is one of the issues we frequently face as women is simply that it's the to -do list. We are constantly exhausted by our to -do lists, and we also feel the pressure in our society, as well as from ourselves, to do more, to hustle harder, and ultimately to be more. We think that we need to prove ourselves and our home or outside of our homes in order to reach a standard of success, however we're defining that. Our family is well put together and our kids are thriving. Maybe that's our definition. Maybe it's financial. Maybe it's the professional goals. But the problem is we are constantly moving, and the reality is, scientifically speaking, socially speaking, all five elements of our health, there are ways to prove that one of the best things we can do ourselves is to actually be still, practice the art of being still. So when we teach our community how to start their day being, not doing, we are specifically honing in on three things. Truth, or God's word, prayer, some people might practice meditation, and then gratitude. And there is a scientifically proven concept called emotionally intelligent gratitude practice, and that is what we teach our community how to implement. Whether you are somebody who prays or doesn't, emotionally intelligent gratitude can change every single aspect of your health and ultimately your life. So between that and a workout, I want women to be able to create a habit they can sustain, and if you go much beyond two things in the morning, I'm already peaced out because I'm looking at my to -do list, and I need it simple and sustainable. I love the simply part. I have a question, emotionally intelligent gratitude. In 2018, it was December of 18, I was overstressed, overworked, trying to do too much, and wasn't making all the best choices, wasn't working out enough, and that's where the health journey that you mentioned earlier came, but it was more like a life journey. There was a lot that changed, not snapping at the kids as much. But it started with something called gratitude. Now I didn't have you in my corner at that time, so I didn't know what emotionally intelligent gratitude was. What I would do is, when I'd wake up, I would try to express some gratitude before I got out of bed. When I went to bed, I tried to close my eyes and express some gratitude before I slept, and almost any time that I got overstressed, things were just compounding on me, and I wasn't sure what to do, and I was thinking about how stressful it was. I was thinking about how bad it was. Then I would have to re -hone during the day a few times and just, I guess, talk about my many blessings, because all of us have so many blessings. We just got to think about them, like the relationship with our kids, the relationship with our sweetheart, the air that we have to breathe, the roof over our heads, etc. So I would, when it was hardest to feel gratitude in my busiest of times, I would also just take a moment to try to close my eyes or even open them and think about what I'm grateful for. It ended up making a humongous impact on who I am as a person, and I still try to do it. Not as much, to be honest. I wish I did. I should. I should definitely get back to doing it more often every morning, every night, and any time I'm stressed. But I don't know what emotionally intelligent gratitude would mean if I was even close to it or not. What would you say to a listener who heard that and doesn't know what it means? Yeah, so I should also clarify emotionally intelligent gratitude practice is a concept that I have created, so this is proprietary to my program, but why I have clarified something, and I've taken gratitude practice and, one, infused a lot more science into the actual practice, so there's more intention to it, but one of the concerns with gratitude practice that I see for a lot of us is that it starts to border on good vibes only, and anyone who's listened to my podcast knows I am not a fan of that concept. The good vibes only concept is detrimental because what it is subconsciously telling us to do is to keep hustling harder and ignoring the stress, ignoring the fact that we're an absolute mess, ignoring the fact that our family is not perfect, that we actually feel terrible, we're anxious, we're stressed, so good vibes only is almost this concept of just ignore the bad, we're only going to focus on the good, and that's not true for everyone practicing gratitude, but it is very, very easy to start to lean to that corner of gratitude as though it is simply only focusing on the good in our life because, if we're honest, we are terrified of acknowledging the fact that we're actually a hot mess. Clearly not the corner I stand in as my podcast is quite literally titled Imperfectly Empowered, I'm all about the concept of embracing the mess, so where we incorporate emotionally intelligent gratitude practice is that in the actual practice of gratitude, before we are even diving into the very specific things that we are grateful for, we are first improving our emotional intelligence. Intellectual intelligence, we're familiar with IQs. It is something that, for the most part, cannot be developed. You have a naturally given IQ. Obviously, circumstances can depress somebody's ability to fully live out or up to that IQ potential, but typically speaking, it does not change. Emotional intelligence is something that can be grown, developed, and worked on, and it has three components. It is number one, being able to identify emotions, and this is where something as simple as an emotions wheel comes in. If you have a kid who struggles with behavioral issues or emotions, I have one of those kids, these emotion wheels come into play because you see like the little happy, do you feel happy, do you feel sad, or there's like these wheels that I like that have all kinds of emotions described on them, which is really helpful because half the time we don't even know how to put the words to what we feel. You're like, I don't know, sad, or it might be more specific than that. So number one, emotional intelligence includes being able to identify what you're feeling, but number two is being able to communicate what you're feeling, which is an entirely different concept. So number one, being able to identify, number two, being able to then communicate that, which is called emotional literacy, and then number three, this is truly where gratitude comes into play, being able to convert uncomfortable emotions, the emotions that we try to suppress and ignore and push down, being able to embrace them, and then convert them into a positive or more comfortable experience. That is the most difficult part of emotional intelligence. But it is also where gratitude comes in. Because what it's saying is basically it's me sitting at the restaurant and feeling really frustrated because my kids have effectively turned the table into a playground.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1414: Bitcoin Will Reach $10 Million By This Date - Adam Back
"In today's show, Bitcoin priced the $30 ,000 in October, says analysts as the Bitcoin price climbs 2%. And check it out, Coinbase CEO slams Chase UK for a totally inappropriate crypto move. And I'd say the same thing. Also, breaking news, the SEC chairman Gary Gensler says Bitcoin is not a security, but refuses to say it's a commodity. Max Keiser's response, Bitcoin is a synthetic commodity willed into existence by humanity's greed as a species for perfect money. It regulates itself, and it obviates the need for the nation state preach. Also in today's show, we'll be discussing the SEC pushes back the deadline for ARK 21 shares, spot Bitcoin ETF to January, continuing to kick the can down the road. However, breaking news, US lawmakers call on the SEC chairman Gary Gensler to approve a spot Bitcoin ETF immediately. Key word, immediately. Also in today's show, we'll be discussing Bitcoin price can hit $10 million within the next nine years, according to the Blockstream CEO, Adam Back. And speaking of a $10 million Bitcoin price, did you know Hal Finney was calculating a Bitcoin price of $10 million per coin just one week after the Genesis block on January 3rd of 2009? Talk about an absolute legend. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again that's cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome to everyone just joining us on our live stream. This is pod episode number 1414. I'm your host JV and today is September 27th, 2023. We've got another action packed show for you today. Let's kick it off with our market watch. It's good to see a lot of the cryptos are back in the green with Bitcoin holding on to $26 ,200 as support and checking out coinmarketcap .com we can see the crypto market cap pretty stagnant at just above a trillion dollars, we're roughly $28 billion in volume in the past 24 hours with a Bitcoin dominance pretty stagnant as well at 48 .9 % and the ether dominance at 18 .3 % and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours. We got Bitcoin cash leading the pack up 7 % trading at roughly $230 followed by the infamous Pepe up 5 .6 % followed by Chainlink up three and a half percent trading at $7 .65. Which altcoins if any are you most bullish on right now? Drop it in the comment section right down below and at the end of the show I'll be reading everyone's comments out loud and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week we can see it's a mix between a sea of red and a sea of green. We have Bitcoin cash up 7 % again link is up three and a half percent and RLB up four and a half percent and checking out one of my favorite indicators which is the crypto greed and fear index you can see we're currently rated a 46 in fear yesterday was a 47 last week a 46 and last month a 38 in fear so there you have it fam how many of you are bullish for this upcoming October which is only a few days out? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below and speaking of technical analysis let's dive into today's ta and check out the charts and what is popping with the king crypto.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Huobi Changes Name to HTX and Almost Immediately Gets Hacked
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 22nd, and today we are talking hacks, hacks, hacks. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, today we start this show talking about Ben Armstrong, better known as BitBoy, who was arrested last night after he won, posted to his YouTube that he was going to confront a former business partner about the Lamborghini that he said was his, two, went to said person's door and rang the doorbell, three, did this with a gun and illegal narcotics in the back of his car, along with another business and affair partner to boot, and then four live streamed himself getting arrested. Just kidding. I'm not going to talk about that ever at all. In fact, I will only say this. The crypto space gets exactly the level of influencers it deserves. So perhaps as we think about where we want to be heading into the next bull market, we might want to choose who we listen to with just a hint more discernment. Now, what we're actually going to be talking about today is the plague of this bear market. Well, outside of Gensler, of course, and that is hacks. A wave of hacks impacted crypto firms starting over the weekend. On Friday, Nansen disclosed a security breach at a third party software vendor. The attacker was able to gain access to admin rights of a Nansen account in charge of facilitating client access to the platform. Nansen claims it, quote, managed to stop the unauthorized access shortly after learning about it and launched an immediate investigation. According to Nansen, wallet funds were unaffected. All affected users had email addresses exposed, while smaller user cohorts had password hashes accessed and wallet addresses revealed. Nansen urged all users to double check emails claiming to be coming from the company and be vigilant for phishing attempts. So that was Friday. Then on Saturday, OpenSea disclosed that one of its third party vendors, quote, experienced a security incident that may have exposed information. They warned that user API keys were compromised. The company noted that the incident was not expected to impact any programs which use an OpenSea API key, but that external parties using exposed keys could experience rate and usage limits. OpenSea plans on shutting down existing keys by next Monday and asked users to rotate their keys. A third exploit was disclosed early on Monday morning. Mixin Network, which is a nominally decentralized wallet service, said it lost $200 million in customer assets during an attack early on Saturday morning. Crypto developer Lawrence Day at Function Zero writes, Also, respectfully, how are you losing $200 million from a cloud breach? So this company Mixin was founded in 2017 and had nearly $400 million in protocol funds across 48 chains. The service allows users to send digital assets assigned to phone numbers and its biggest market appears to be Hong Kong. Now the firm said that it can guarantee the safety of around half of user assets, but that guarantee seems to be in the form of a corporate backstop rather than the product of successful threat mitigation. During a livestream on Monday addressing the attack, Mixin founder Feng Xiaodong said, No matter what your assets are, whether it's Bitcoin or Ethereum, we will ensure that half of it is unaffected. We're trying to find a way to recover the compromised money, but that is very difficult. For the other half of the assets, Mixin is considering offering what they are calling bond tokens for users to claim. The firm would later buy back the tokens, making them similar to other token -based recovery schemes seen in the past during events like the Bitfinex hack. A security firm called Slowmist is involved in the investigation and stated that the incident occurred when a cloud service provider database was attacked. Now if this feels like just the latest in a string of big hacks, that's because it is. In 2022, we had the record of $3 .1 billion in funds lost from hacks. And estimates this year include TRMLab saying that $400 million was stolen in Q1, Immunify saying that $700 million was lost in the first half of the year, and then just in Q3 we've had a 126 multi -chain hack in July, a $61 .7 million market -based protocol exploit of Curve Finance in July, $41 .3 million hacked from Stake .com in September, and another July hack of $37 million at CoinsPaid. So from estimates, it looks like this might be the largest hack of the year, roughly the same size as Euler in March. Still, even though it wasn't the biggest, the most high -profile hack of the weekend was disclosed on Monday as well, and that was from HTX. HTX, formerly known as Huobi, suffered the loss of 5 ,000 ETH worth around $8 million on Sunday evening. Justin Sun claimed in a Twitter thread that, quote, HTX has fully covered the losses incurred from the attack and has successfully resolved all related issues. Sun added that, quote, all user assets are SAFU and the platform is operating completely normally. Now, in addition to disclosing the loss, Sun downplayed the impact of the attack, stating that, quote, $8 million represents a relatively small sum in comparison to the $3 billion worth of assets held by our users. It also amounts to just two weeks of revenue for the HTX platform. Sun disclosed the wallet address of the hacker and added, We are willing to offer 5 % of the stolen amount, $400 ,000 USD, as a white hat reward to encourage the hacker to return the stolen funds. If the hacker returns the funds, we will also hire them as a security white hat advisor for HTX. However, they said, if the funds are not returned within seven days, we will transfer the information to law enforcement authorities for further action and to prosecute the hacker. In an on -chain message to the hacker, HTX claimed to have discovered their, quote, true identity. Now, according to Arkham Analytics, the attack affected an HTX hot wallet, which was created in March. Since then, the wallet has received $500 million in deposits from Binance, and on -chain analysts confirmed that funds have now been migrated to a new wallet. Now, there were a lot of comments relating to the name change of this exchange. Crypto Kaleo writes, Huobi changes its name to HTX and gets hacked for $8 million in the first month? Coincidence or tempting fate? Lawrence Day again said, I'm sorry, but renaming Huobi to HTX and then immediately losing millions of dollars is so effing funny that I might have a stroke. Even Binance's CZ said, A week after you rename your exchange after FTX... Jokes aside, our security team will help in tracking hacker funds in all cases where we can. Now, in addition to just the jokes about the HTX name, there are lots of questions floating around about Huobi solvency. To get a sense of some of those theories, go check out Adam Cochran's account. It's a little bit out of the scope of this particular episode, but it's obviously something that we're watching closely. Now it's unclear at this stage whether these attacks had any sort of links, but the small amount of detail available does show some common features. The first three hacks all blamed a third party service provider. While the provider was not named, Nansen did urge them to disclose the security breach. These attacks come just weeks after crypto custody firm Fortress Trust suffered a $15 million attack, which was also related to a security failure at a third party cloud provider called Retool. In that attack, an employee at the software provider was the victim of a phishing attack. The attacker used an AI -synthesized voice clone of an IT support worker to replicate the employee's credentials to access Retool's systems. In their write -up of that attack, Retool said that 27 customer accounts were compromised. All 27 were crypto companies. So the method of attack here, which uses a combination of social engineering and a bypassing of security measures, also bears a striking resemblance to the write -ups of the recent cyber attack on MGM and Caesars casinos. The casino's systems were hacked two weeks ago with customer and corporate data compromised. Postmortems of the attack claimed that hackers used a voice replication of IT workers to gain access. Identity management firm Okta confirmed that the casinos had been using their systems to credential employees. In an August blog post, Okta said that their customers were seeing, quote, consistent pattern of social engineering attacks against their IT service desk personnel, in which the caller's strategy was to convince service desk personnel to reset all multi -factor authentication factors enrolled by highly privileged users. The casino attacks were attributed to a threat actor known as Scattered Spider using malicious software developed by Alfie or Black Cat. Now if these attacks are all part of the same cybercrime spree, it could speak to a group of hackers going after high -value targets like crypto firms. The vulnerability seems hard to address as it involves security training for employees at third -party software providers. And one of the implications is, if these kind of attacks become a systemic threat to the industry, it could mean more crypto firms need to bring sensitive software in -house. That higher barrier to secure operations could make it more difficult for smaller startups to compete in the industry. Now of course for any of you who are listening to the AI breakdown, you'll also recognize that this is not going to be a problem that's unique to the crypto industry. The casino attacks speak to that as well, but the reality is that voice cloning technology is incredibly advanced and just getting more so all the time. Individuals and companies are going to need to develop entirely different modes of operation that recognize the fact that you simply can't trust a voice on the other line of a call anymore. Now when it comes to the impact of these hacks on the industry outside of just the ramifications for the people who lost money themselves, it's hard exactly to know what the real impact is. On the one hand, it certainly lends to a perception of immaturity overall, but at the same time, when it comes to the geopolitics and regulation of crypto, the hacks that are most important to keep an eye on are those that have some sort of geostrategic ramifications, particularly those emanating from the Lazarus Group in North Korea. Still, being this deep into a bear market and trying to match all -time records for hacks is not necessarily the place we want to be overall. The one other story that I wanted to cover on today's show is a bit of a dust -up around the Celsius restructuring. In short, the Celsius bankruptcy could be coming to a close after creditors have voted in favor of the current recovery plan. 98 % of creditors gave the thumbs up to a plan which would see the sale of assets to crypto consortium Fahrenheit Holdings. The acquiring group includes Errington Capital and miner US Bitcoin Corp. Fahrenheit plans to retain and operate mining equipment owned by Celsius under a new corporate structure. The new company also plans to stake Ethereum and monetize other Celsius assets. Some large creditors will receive equity in this new company. And in addition, another $2 billion in liquid crypto will be distributed to creditors. Overall, the plan is projected to provide a 76 -85 % recovery. Now one remaining snag in the plan is an objection from the SEC. The regulator filed its objection last Friday to express concerns with Coinbase's involvement in the process. Celsius receivers plan to use Coinbase as an intermediary to distribute crypto to creditors. The SEC claimed the agreement could require Coinbase to The SEC filing claimed that However, this court should not be asked to approve a deal where their material terms are missing or inconsistent. The regulator also appears concerned about an additional agreement with Coinbase, which Celsius have attempted to file under seal and have not yet disclosed. Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal hit back at the SEC's objection in a Twitter post stating, Now, Wayne Vaughn had a very simple explanation, saying, And of course, this isn't the first time we've seen the SEC stand in the way of a bankruptcy distribution agreed to by creditors. In March, the SEC objected to Voyager using Binance US to distribute crypto to its creditors, which was of course months before the regulator had filed its lawsuit against Binance but still based their objections on claims that the exchange was an unregistered securities brokerage. A very unimpressed judge in the Voyager case called it This time around, of course, the SEC at least does have an ongoing lawsuit that they can point to regarding Coinbase's brokerage services, but the objection does still seem odd given that the regulator didn't seek an injunction to prevent Coinbase from operating as normal in the interim. The Celsius case will return to court next Thursday to hear the SEC's argument and see if the judge is inclined to allow the plan to go ahead. Now one interesting line of discussion are the implications for the spot ETF applications that are outstanding. Adam Cochrane writes, Now, speaking of ETFs, Bitwise filed an amendment to its spot Bitcoin ETF application on Monday, adding 40 pages of research on Bitcoin market structure. The research aimed to preempt arguments from the SEC, which could be used to reject the current batch of ETF applications. Bitwise claimed to show that Bitcoin futures are the primary market for price discovery with spot prices following futures. According to Bitwise, this would mean that the well -regulated CME futures market should be the primary consideration when looking for evidence of market manipulation. They argued that this trading venue should count as a regulated market of significant size for market surveillance purposes. As part of their argument, Bitwise also cited a previous study from 2019, which suggested that Bitcoin's spot market mainly consisted of fake volume, making the relative size of the regulated futures market much larger in comparison. Regarding the price impact of futures, Bitwise found in 2021 that futures markets accounted for between 52 .97 % and 68 .03 % of Bitcoin's price discovery. Now this isn't the first time Bitwise have dropped large amounts of Bitcoin research on the SEC to dispute their claims. They have produced at least two 100 -page -plus reports in support of previous Bitcoin ETF applications. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hogan explained his firm's strategy in a Twitter thread stating, That's the happy case. The question is, what happens if the SEC appeals the court decision? In short, we return to the status quo. We're back to needing to prove that the CME Bitcoin futures market leads price discovery over the spot market such that it can serve as a regulated market of significant size for the purpose of surveillance. Unfortunately, existing filings do not include substantively new arguments or research addressing this question head on. Until now, today's amendment aims to address point by point each of the major objections the SEC has raised in prior disapprovals for spot Bitcoin ETFs. In particular, we try to clear up the significant confusion around the growing body of academic literature on price discovery in the Bitcoin market and demonstrate that every well -designed academic study supports the finding that the CME is significant. So friends, there you have it, a little bit of hacks, a little bit of the SEC objecting to something that seems reasonable from the outside. In other words, a quintessential 2023 crypto day. Appreciate you guys listening, as always. And until next time. Peace.
Club 31 Pod
A highlight from Am I Ready???
"Body odor? Body odor? B .O.? At this time, you are smelly. It's impossible. So you are what you attract. Develop yourself. We are live. I'm excited. I'm excited. How is everybody doing? I don't know, but that sounded like some cartoon song. It's true. You're thinking everybody clap your hands. That's not a cartoon. What's that from a cartoon? No, no. No, it looked like it sounded like it was. Okay, whatever. It isn't, but yeah, you got me. That was it. Everybody clap your hands. Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap your hands. One hop this time. Two hops this time. Boom, boom. Slide to the right. Slide to the right. Criss cross. Criss cross. We're excited, as you can tell. Welcome to the club, everybody. Welcome to the club. We welcome you to the club today with the Cupid Shuffle. That's what you heard us singing. Uh oh, yes please. Go there, girl. I love that. That was a good one. It's a good one. You're welcome to the club, y 'all. And you are met with your favorite DJs, stroke hosts, today for the episode three. Oh my gosh, episode three. Wow. Already? Hi. Oh, I have exciting news, guys. So guess who is starting with our third episode. And we honestly cannot thank you, our lovely listeners in a breath super, super grateful. Y 'all holding us down. We are literally charting with our second episode. And this is our third episode, so we know we're going to be charting even higher when we release this one. Yes. And honestly, God richly, richly, richly, richly bless each and every single one of you that have been involved, that have been sharing, listening, leaving reviews, doing all of that. God richly, richly, richly, richly bless you for that. And with that being said, we go right into it for housekeeping. We entreat you to follow our social media pages, Twitter and Instagram at clap31pod, where you are kept up to deal with every single thing that's going to be happening in the club. Also, I run the Twitter page, so Twitter is lit. Honestly, you should engage on our Twitter page. Follow us on Twitter, follow us on Instagram so that when we post, you can contribute, share your stories, engage, tell us what you think about the podcast, tell us what you think about this week's next week, the week before, the week in 10 years. We're going to be here for a while. So yes, make sure to keep leaving us reviews and sharing. Subscribe to the podcast on all the streaming platforms you're going to be listening to this on. Leave a review. If you like this week's episode, please make sure to leave a review under it so that people will know about it and people can have access to the messages as well. Don't get keep. I know this is such a lovely podcast that you'd want to get keep, but please let's not get keep. Let's share, share, share, share, share. And that's it for this week. Thank you, girl. So y 'all, this episode is going to be a continuation of episode two. We're going to be picking up from where we left off in episode two. So if you haven't been able to listen to episode two and you jumped right into this, I would admonish you to kindly go back and listen to episode two before listening to this beautiful one. So maybe a little recap of last week's episode would help us transition better into this week's. So for last week, we delved into the world of dating and pursuit and we explored different perspectives, mainly biblical examples. And we established that the woman's responsibility is not to pursue, but to be pursued. And we looked at examples from Adam and Eve and Ruth and Boaz. And we also looked at a scripture from Proverbs 18, 22, where it says he who finds a wife found a good thing and not the other way around. It doesn't say she who finds a husband. Right. And for this week, we're going to be looking specifically at Ruth and how she prepared herself to be pursued by Boaz. And last week we established that Ruth was not concerned about how she was going to get Boaz to woo her and stuff like that. She was very much focused on herself and how she could, you know, make a living for herself and for her mother in law, because we all know that Ruth was a widow and she lived with her mother in law. And she was also very hard working and she just possessed a lot of great qualities that helped her flourish as a woman. And that allowed Boaz to notice her and pursue her. And so in this episode, we're going to be delving more into this period of self -discovery and preparation. And we're going to draw on personal examples as well as what we have seen other people do and what we have learned in general in our lives. So, yes, let's delve right into it. And so we befittingly called this episode, Am I Ready? And before we get right into the episode, we'd love for our very prayerful Joanna to pray us into the episode. Wow. Isn't that beautiful? I'll take it.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep382: Don't Be Afraid Of Giving Value
"Don't be afraid of giving value. Don't be afraid of giving actual tangible value that somebody can grab hold of and do something about because that's how people are going to share things. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And we are going to be talking about not being afraid of giving value. Here's the thing. I had a conversation recently with somebody who's starting a podcast and it's for their business. And he and I were talking about what he could talk about. And we're outlining a bunch of ideas. He's a coaching client. We're outlining a whole bunch of ideas that he could do episodes on. I started by asking him, what does your perfect listener need to know? What is that perfect, perfect listener? The same person that you would actually do business with. They would hire you and you would be able to support them. They would be able to go further and faster. The investment with you would be nothing to them compared to how much they would make because they did that. I asked him, who do you serve? How do you serve them? And what do they need right now? And he starts giving me some options, some ideas. And one of the ideas, he was like, oh, well this. And I was like, that's great. And he goes, yeah, but I mean, I can't give him all of the details of that. And I'm like, okay, I knew where this is going, but I go, why not? What do you think is going to happen? And he goes, well, if they know all of the things and they don't need to hire me. And so I got to hold some things close to my chest. You don't freaking need to keep anything close to your chest. I wanted to say, I didn't say it like that. I should have slapped him up the side of the head, but he was virtual and I couldn't. So he goes, yeah, I've got to keep some stuff close to my chest. That's private stuff for my coaching clients only. I thought about it for a second and I go, what's the worst that could happen? A couple of them use it and they get successful. Why not share it on your podcast? And I mentioned, I've had other coaching clients in the past few years. I've been helping people with podcasting since even before my company launched in 2019. And I let them know that, hey, when I was doing my real estate podcast that I sold, I sold it back in 2020. When I was doing my real estate podcast, I gave all the goods and people came to me in droves. They flocked to me and I made a lot of money. I was able to raise a lot of equity for my real estate deals and find great deals and be awarded or win deals that I wouldn't have because I gave the good stuff. And I'm talking to this guy and just letting him know that don't be afraid of doing that. That is just some fear that's inside of you. And I thought to myself, because this wasn't the only time I ever had this conversation, I've had this conversation many times, especially when I'm being interviewed on other people's podcasts. When I'm being interviewed on a podcast about podcasting and people are asking me like, you know, what should I do? I'm constantly saying, don't be afraid of giving value. Don't be afraid of giving actual tangible value that somebody can grab hold of and do something about because that's how people are going to share things. I'm thinking right now in my head of this guy named Dave Ramsey. Dave Ramsey, he's kind of famous for teaching people that debt is bad. All debt is bad. I don't agree with it and that's okay. But he tries to share like the paid off mortgage is the new status symbol of wealth replacing the BMW. So he basically says and I hear the wisdom in it. He's basically saying like, instead of having a house that's not paid for and a BMW that's not paid for and now you're shit out of luck if the economy goes bad, pay off the house and maybe just have a Toyota for a while, have a Honda for a while and then graduate to a BMW when you can pay it all in cash. So you don't need that status symbol. Well, Dave Ramsey gives all of the goods. He gives all the goods on every freaking time. He basically only has four things to talk about, but he talks about them in full depth each and every time. And what that means to you is if he's making millions and millions of dollars, if Adam's able to do just fine and work only a few hours a week and have good revenue coming into the business, if other people are able to do this and give away the goods so that you have to keep things like my coaching client said close to the chest, nothing, give out the goods. It will come back to you probably tenfold. So today, this episode is about not being afraid of giving value to anywhere, anyone in anywhere, give the value, even if you're not getting paid for it. And it's going to come back to you. By the way, this was a pretty short episode. I have a lot of these podcast episodes that are solos that might only be three, four, five, ten, fifteen minutes. And that means what I'm asking you to do is rather than turn us off, check out the episode that I've got queued up for you. I'll see you there. You're not alone if you're ready to either get your very first affordable microphone or if you're ready to upgrade your equipment to some legit podcasting studio equipment. Because on all of the forums over the last few months, I'm seeing this all the time. Even my own personal clients that work with my team, they're ready to get that next microphone. They're asking us for it. Additionally, when I'm on discovery calls with potential clients, they're always asking for this stuff. 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Evangelism On Fire
A highlight from Sydney Sundance Smith's - God Story
"Welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. My name is Mark Thomas, an ordained pastor, a teacher of the best selling book of all time, your host, and most importantly, your evangelism coach. Every episode, I bring you an inspiring message to help you live the most exciting life God has created you to live by actively sharing your faith in Jesus with others. I believe in the power of the gospel and the potential of all Christians to live out the mission of the great commission. I believe the best way for Christians to grow is to go. It's time for a revolution in every Christian's life around the world so that every person everywhere around the world can hear the gospel of Jesus Christ from a friend or a family member through one -on -one evangelism. I'm so thankful for our time together today. I absolutely love spending time with you, evangelism on fire nation. I believe this podcast will truly inspire you and I believe it will inspire so many people that you know. 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The message that we wanna share is that God wants to give hope to the young generation and all generations, that there is hope for them through a relationship with God, through Jesus Christ. And we wanna offer this hope to as many people as possible in 2023 through our outreach ministries, which of course includes our EOF podcast ministry. I'm asking you to join us at EOF ministry and become a partner. A partner is just a friend that makes a regular commitment to us each and every month. They stand by us. That enables us to respond to the opportunities that are coming our way. In many ways, we live in a hopeless world, but through Christ, we have hope. Life without God is a hopeless end. Life with Him is an endless hope. Join us right now and become a part of our team and let's reach the world with the most important message that exists, the gospel message. Join us for the plans we have for ministry in 2023 by becoming an Evangelism on Fire ministry partner. Are you ready? Well, this is your next step. Go to today's show notes and click on the giving link to become a monthly partner by setting up a monthly donation or go to our website evangelismonfire .com. Click on the donate button to give a monthly reoccurring donation or a one -time gift. Thank you for joining us to give hope to the world. All right, welcome Evangelism on Fire nation to today's podcast episode. Man, I've got a big time treat for you guys today. We have on our podcast episode today, Sydney Sundance Smith. She's 31 years old. And let me tell you what, she's on a mission to be one of the world's top female bare knuckle fighters. And listen, she has her eye on the title. And you know what? Something that I love about Sydney is that she is a true spiritual warrior and she carries her faith and her father's memory with her everywhere she goes and into the ring. Sydney Sundance Smith, welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. How are you doing? I'm blessed and highly favored. Yeah, I'm doing well. I feel really good. You know, I'm in a really good place in my life, so. That's awesome. I'm so happy for you. So you know what? So my audience, Evangelism on Fire Nation, so they know more about you. I gave you a little introduction, but tell us more about who you are. Oh, wow. I feel like that's such a big question, right? Like the, what does Shrek say? Like an ogre, I have like an onion, I have ears. Yeah, I don't know, man. I'm just like a kid from the middle of nowhere. I grew up on a horse farm. All three of us, my brother and my sister and myself, we were all born at home. We were not born in a hospital. Oh, you were born at home? Not a hospital, at home. Oh, wow. And so for my sister's birth, my dad actually had to deliver her because the midwife was somewhere else. And so she didn't get there. Oh, wow. So my dad had to deliver my sister. That is wild. What was going on with the midwife? It starts wild. She was delivering another baby like across the county. Right. Wow, that's such a cool story to start this podcast off. Hey, it's interesting from starting to talking with that. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, I mean, I don't know. I just grew up out like in the middle of nowhere in a place called Middlebrook. Doesn't even have enough people to be considered a town and still considered a village to this day. When I first heard about you, I was when I was training at Mixed Martial Arts Institute here in Richmond, Virginia. And I would hear your name mentioned, you know, in my training sessions. Then I got to be good friends with Gigi, who she owned MMA Institute around the area that she lived. In Charlottesville, yeah. Yeah, for a little bit. And through Rick McCoy and Tyus Thomas and David Gladfelter, I got to know more about you because I would just hear your name around, you know, the Institute. So let's get right into it. How did you come to faith in Jesus Christ? So I actually, I grew up in it. I just kind of always believed he was there, that he was and that his son existed. And I didn't really know too much about the Holy Spirit growing up. That wasn't really something, it's not really something that Presbyterians talk about a lot, you know. And so, yeah, I mean, I had a relationship with him for, you know, most of my life, but it really didn't, it was like, you know, like the shockwave kind of hit more when I was like 16, 17. And I was really starting to go through like some really serious suicide and depression. And I got really, you know, just really into the word. And, you know, my mom bought me a study Bible on Easter, the year I turned 17. And I still have it, I still use it every day. And so that really just kind of, cause I just have this insatiable appetite just like to know things. I don't know why I just do. And so, yeah, so giving me a study Bible was a great way. And I just never looked back, you know. And that's, I mean, I've had my ups and downs, right? You know what I mean? I'm not saying, I've walked a perfect path since I was a teenager that is far from true. But, you know, it doesn't mean that I've ever stopped believing in God or loving God or talking to God. You know, I think that I just kind of have this different understanding of who he is and like what he wants to do. Like he's never gonna give up on you, you know? And I think that's something that's really important and not something that I really want to get out there is that I'm not saying go out there and do all these bad things. We shouldn't sin much so that grace can abound much. But what I'm saying is that like, grace covers a multitude of sins. That's what I'm saying. And there's no shame, no condemnation for those that are made new in Christ. And that's what I'm trying to come and talk about is there's a way, we've kind of gotten to this point as a society where if anybody starts saying like, thus sayeth the Lord, or you quote the word in a way that people know that you're quoting the word to them, they just shut down, right? And so I don't know, I just feel like God has written it on my heart in a way that, you know, I just talk about it. I'm not trying to shove it down your throat. I'm not trying to like preach at you, but I just, I feel like God is so enmeshed in everything and every single moment of every single day that I mean, his word is just one more example of that. And speaking it is very powerful and that's something I learned along the way. And so to speak it, you have to know the word. Say that again, Sydney, maybe that one more time. To speak the word, you have to know the word. So yeah, you know, write it on your heart. Yeah, to speak the word, you have to know the word, you know, and I've read some articles about you that you are in the word daily. Yeah, I love that. I love that. Every day. In my study Bible, Josephus, you know, I've got like the concordance, the Hebrew and the Greeks dictionaries. Like I really do, like, I truly go through it all, all the time. I just love it, you know. I think it's really interesting. And I think that when you study the different translations, not that anyone is better or worse than any of the others, but I think that, you know, they all have something to offer. And, you know, that goes for like the Hebrew and the Greek too, because their vocab, like, I don't know how to explain it, but their vocabulary was richer. It was like more dense than ours is. I feel like the words that they chose to communicate what was going on or how they were feeling or what God was saying were chosen for specific reasons. They did a lot of like play on words with, you know, like was it Adam and I can't remember the other one, like that that's similar to his name, but it's like Adan or whatever, you know. And like, so one means Adam and one means something that's like completely opposite and bad that he did or whatever, you know. Hey, you know what, if someone's listening right now, right, so this is mostly a Christian podcast, but a lot of those listeners out there right now, they're not reading the word daily, say like you are or I am. What encouragement would you give to them to pick up the best -selling book of all time, the Bible, right, and get in the word and, you know, taste that a little bit every day. What would you, what encouragement would you give to them? I mean, what do you have to lose, right? Like there's so many places in the Bible where it talks about how we should meditate on God's word. And that's not just sitting there and being like, oh, you know, I'm thinking about your word. But the Hebrew and the Greek actually means to like speak on the utterance, to talk to yourself about it. And honestly, you know, you shouldn't look at it as a chore. I know for a long time, you know, it's not like I've read my Bible every single day for my entire life, right? Like we all go through stages and phases and seasons, but, you know, habits are what you consistently do. So, you know, it's gonna take time to get to that point where, you know, you make it, it's just part of what you do every day. You have your coffee and you sit down and you spend time with God first thing, you know, that's kind of like what I like to do. Just pick a time that works for you. It doesn't have to be like, oh, I'm spending 45 minutes, you know, just literally anything is better than nothing, right? Like God just wants you to say, hey, you're important to me and I'm taking this time out of my day to just spend this time with you. Set yourself up to like read five verses or read a chapter a day or, you know, start with small bits. But I mean, honestly, try not to look at it as a chore. I mean, you're meeting with the creator of the universe and magnificent things happen. Ah, come on. I mean, you know, Jesus is the word, right? Yeah. So, I mean, if you shun the word, you're kind of like shunning Jesus in a way. And he came to give us life more abundantly. So how can you have abundant life if you kind of like refuse the one who's trying to give it to you? Wow, that is, that's deep. That's profound. That is so good. That's the Holy Spirit now. That's the Holy Spirit. Speaking in and through you. Just do the talking. Cause I ramble. People know that. I'll talk forever, especially when it's about God. So I was like, God, please just let the Holy Spirit. Isn't it cool when the Holy Spirit speaks in you and through you and you hear what you just say and you're like, wow, thank you, Holy Spirit. That was totally you. Yeah, that was not me. You're like, whoa, that was good. Yeah, that was fire. That was fire, straight fire. Yeah, I was praying for like tongues of fire to be dropping on people in Albuquerque and stuff. Like it would be so heavy in the arena. Like I pray for that kind of stuff. Like to me, when I walked into church on Sunday, cause I've been doing like a really in -depth study on Joshua. I actually did a pretty in -depth study on judges. And then I went back and did Joshua cause God was like, go read Joshua. And I was like, all right, cool. So that's what I did. And you know, so I walked into church on Sunday and I just, I felt God say, take your shoes off. This is Holy ground, you know? And that was what I prayed over the ring the last time I fought in May, cause they let you go out and check the ring out. And so like, I prayed in the spirit and, you know, people call that speaking in tongues. To me, I call it praying in the spirit. It's personal between me and God. But you know, and I just remember saying like, this is Holy ground. Do you know what I mean? And I like closed the whole circle of it and like, you know, I just, and I pray about it before I go, pray about like his spirit being there, you know, and the Bible says that, that God himself is enthroned on the praises of Israel. And then people want to ask me, like, why do you walk out to Christian rapper, Christian praise music? And I'm like, why wouldn't I, you know, I'm inviting, I'm inviting God to come in and like come into my situation. You know what I mean? And just, and yeah. So to me, it's, it's a lot different, you know? So much of it is spiritually based for me. I mean, even like the hashtag, watch me rise that I use, right? That actually comes from one of my favorite verses in Judges. And it's because it was a woman judge who spoke at Deborah. And you know, I'm always about like the women warriors, like the outcasts that, you know, in society it's like says to be ladylike and they're like, no, I'm going to go fight with the dudes. Like that's who I've always identified with, you know, like Mulan was my favorite Disney movie. Like, yeah. So yeah, I mean, I don't know. I lost her. So, you know what you, you mentioned a moment ago, August. So you have an upcoming fight Albuquerque, right? Just trying to trace that one back, but yeah. But you also mentioned that how you went into the ring and prayed at your last fight. Now your last fight, you beat your opponent. You landed 98 punches to her 26. And you know what I'm like that. Yeah. And you only suffered a few bruises. Tell us about that fight. You know, there was a lot of craziness going into that fight that, you know, I just kind of briefly spoke on and that's pretty much, you know, most of like that's like the gist of what I'll say about it just to like, you know, maintain a modicum of respectability, but basically my corners last minute abandoned me for no good reason. And like one of them wasted a promotion flight and all this stuff, like it was insane. And I'm like at the airport, you know, trying to figure this stuff out. My friend drove down from South Carolina with her mom and her four year old son and like to corner me. And man, it was just wild. Like so many God moments happened. You know what I mean? It was like for every curse, there are two blessings. Like that was, that came true. You know what I mean? Like that was just so evident. And it wasn't just for me. It was for so many other people around me too. Like my friend who came down, she had been, you know, kind of like, you know, a rough state, a stagnant place in her faith with God. And, you know, I guess was feeling some type of way. And when she saw like everything that had happened and how God just like made everything just boom, boom, boom, boom, she was like, look, I told my whole family, there's no way I'll ever question again, if that is real, you know? So literally it was just nothing but God. I was just having a blast. Like I had to put all that stuff out of my mind. I didn't feel any emotion. Like, you know what I mean? I felt some, but I just prayed for protection and peace and to stay on point for what we came there to do. You know, like I had, like I have people who like, I have prayer warriors who literally like that is what we do is we pray over these events. It's not just we're praying over my fight. We're praying over the event as a whole, you know, we're praying over all of the millions of live viewers, you know, that's what we're doing. And it, I mean, hey, I couldn't have, I mean, it was other than, you know, just wanting to push the pace a little bit more. I feel like, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't a bad start to be KFC, you know what I'm saying? And you know what? BKFC, now, one thing I love about you, okay? You're a different breed, okay? You have martial artists, you have your MMA fighters, but tell my audience, maybe some of them don't, they do not know what BKFC is. You're a whole different beast, okay? All right, you're a whole different human beings. So evangelism on fire nation. If you don't know what BKFC is, listen to this. Tell my audience what type of fighter you are, Sydney Sundance Smith. So I started off in MMA, but I was waiting very patiently for them to open my weight class. And when they did, we fight with no gloves, just a little bit of wrap support around your wrist. And you know, I take down some of that. You're talking bare knuckle. Bare knuckles, yeah. Bare knuckles. 100%. She said 100%. Facts, yes. I'm so like, okay, so they're coming up with this new card. It's one in Thailand. It's like the super fight or whatever. And they're letting them do, it's a special rules, bare knuckle Muay Thai. Ooh. I have been bugging the crap out of them. Like, hey, can we get a bare knuckle Muay Thai? And they're like crickets. And then this happens and I'm like, I see y 'all. I see what's happening. Y 'all keep me in mind at 1 .15, I told them, I told all of them, I've told my manager, I've told Dave Felt, I mean, you know, I've told them all. I said, if you start a bare knuckle Muay Thai, don't even ask me any questions, you just sign me up. Sign you up. Every single time you have a fight for me, don't even ask me, don't ask me no questions, just sign me up. Don't do that until the day I cannot fight for. That appeals to me. So how do you go from MMA to bare knuckle fighting? How does that transition happen? Very carefully, I guess. It's hard not to kick people and knee people. I mean, honestly, I was just waiting for them, like I said, to open my weight class. It's been around for five years now. So you're a straw weight, correct? Yeah, yes. All right. They had 1 .25 for a while and I, you know, I've been offered a couple of different, different promotional bare knuckle, you know, fights at 1 .25. But I just, you know, I had a lot of medical issues and stuff and, you know, even now healthy, I have to, I have to work to be at like 1 .32 walking around, you know, like a healthy 1 .32. So there's no way I could fight at 1 .25. Those girls cut from like an insane amount and yeah, no. I'm good at 1 .15, you know, like I can make the weight. It doesn't bother me. I make 1 .15, like my body just automatically knows like, oh, it's time to cut weight. And it just does it. Like I really, you know, I just have this really good system and as long as I stick to it, then I really don't have any problems. I cut weight and I feel so strong. It's so weird, but it's just, I've gotten it down to that, down to that point, you know. You know, one thing that I've heard about you, tell me if this is true, but I've heard that you're a fighter who likes to get hit. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so like, you know, Donald Cerrone, you know, he kind of like a little bit of a slow starter sometimes. He's got to get hit a few times to like kind of wake him up. And then he's just like, you know, like back in the day, that's, that's kind of like me. You know what I mean? It's like, if you don't, if you're not going to exchange with me, it's kind of hard. Like, yeah, I mean, I still fight you, right? But it's not going to be the same level of fight. You know, if you're, if you want to bang with me, you're going to, like, I know people think like, maybe I'm just, you know, exaggerating or whatever, but like, you're going to get a different, a different side of me. Like you're going to bring out something in me that is like, oh, okay, you think that was hard, like my turn. You know what I mean? Like I get to hit you now, right? So I don't know. I just, I love it. I've always loved it. I fought Chelsea McCoy for my first fight, right? Like Rick McCoy's daughter, first ever MMA fight. She hit me so hard, I fought double. I'm not even kidding, right? I didn't know what to do. I had never, like, I was training out of a basement with some, you know, with a guy who had a few amateur fights under his belt. Like, it wasn't like I was Rick McCoy's daughter trained at the MMA Institute, right? I apparently even knew what the MMA Institute was. And I was just like, yeah, I'll fight her. Everybody was like, you're really going to fight her? And I was like, yeah. And then like, I didn't get knocked out or submitted or anything, right? Like we had a good fight, but yeah, she made me see double and I was just kind of like, you know, it was in that moment where it was, it was kind of like, you're either going to do this and you're going to love it. Like, that's going to, that's going to do it for you. You know what I mean? Yeah. Or you're done. You know what I mean? This is not for you. Yeah. And I was just like, I shook my head and I was like, well, then I was like, just pick one, you know? So it kind of solidified that. And you know, so it's not the last time I've seen double in a fight.
WorkLife with Adam Grant
"adam" Discussed on WorkLife with Adam Grant
"Uses music to build bridges between people in times of crisis. Hello, I love that you were making music with your hands when we couldn't hear each other. Oh, well, listen, I was just sending you love. And how are you, Adam? I am great now that I'm with you. So I've never actually gotten a chance to ask you about your childhood. But I've read some of what you've written and some of your interviews about growing up. And I know you were raised by two musicians, and you've alluded to the fact that they may have been Tiger parents. What was that like? A long side the love, there's a lot of pressure. And a lot of expectations. You kind of absorb everything. On the one hand, it was very focused messaging. I should do well, but for what purpose and for whom, I think these are other questions that usually, as one grows up, you kind of sort it all out. And being a slow learner, it took me many decades multiple decades before I could find a way to sort it out in a way that I can call, not just my own, but that it's something that I can feel that it's worthwhile to do. Well, I have to say, it's a little bit shocking for me to hear you call yourself a slow learner, mister child prodigy. So here's the rub. You could be facile at something. And obviously, at an early age, I must have developed very good neuromuscular coordination. And really, in the end, it's all about in music. And probably in life is how you put your head and your heart and your hands together to exist, right? Hands of metaphor for your body, you're multiple senses. And heart also is as a metaphor.
WorkLife with Adam Grant
"adam" Discussed on WorkLife with Adam Grant
"Wins. Yeah. Okay, this is good. So I think it's extremely powerful to involve kids in the plant, right? Because then they start to take ownership over the ideas. They generated them as opposed to you kind of telling them what to do. It's a really compelling way to give them a chance to be in charge, right, to be in the driver's seat, as opposed to feeling like they're being bossed around. And also maybe a way to give them the confidence that they can solve some of their own problems. Yes. What about situations where kids do have the skills, but they choose not to exercise them. So I'll give you an example that we ran into recently. Turned off our kids lights to go to sleep, an hour and a half later, their lights are on. And they're reading. And full disclosure and personally ambivalent about this because some of my favorite childhood memories were staying up several hours past my bedtime to finish a book that I loved. But it was a school night. And our kids know when it's bedtime, they're supposed to go to bed, and they just didn't follow the rules. And I don't like having rules in the first place. I read some classic research a few years ago showing that one of the differences between highly creative kids and their peers is that highly creative kids tend to be raised in households that have fewer rules. Clear values, but not that many rules. We don't have that many rules. One of our rules is, like, we want you to get in a good night's sleep and feel well rested and be healthy. And so when we say it's bedtime, it's bedtime. When our kids break those rules, what are we supposed to do? This happens a lot when we're frustrated with kids. Me too. By the way, I talk a good game on your podcast, like doctor Becky is not the parent of her own kids. That is Becky, and she also says all these things. So don't think my kids get this. Because I'm also like, but they know better. They know better. It's such an interesting thing we do. I know better than to be on my phone right before bed. I know better than to shut off my alarm as opposed to like actually go to the gym, which is the reason I sent my arm. I know better than to be passive aggressive. I know better than to yell at my husband. And knowing better doesn't always translate to doing better. And the answer then isn't that we're being obstinate or I think we often interpret those situations with our kids in a very like centering of ourselves way. They don't respect me. They don't respect me, right? If I dare you not follow my rules. Yeah, right? If my husband cooked dinner and was like, I knew it. And I just couldn't stop myself from having chocolate before. I don't think anyone thinks like you just must not respect your husband. Like, what? Like, I just couldn't control my urge to have chocolate. Like, this isn't about him, right? So I think we should de center ourselves. And I still think the same types of interventions apply. So here's where I would go. I think family meetings are one of the most under utilized interventions with kids. And what do I mean by a family meeting? I would imagine you could tell me Adam if you suggest similar things in the workplace. Because I actually say this when I'm teaching how to introduce it to kids. I would approach your kid the next day. Not when the situation is hot. Hey, you know, I'm thinking about bedtime. And it's one of the very few rules we have is like bedtime means bedtime, and that means lights out. But also the last few nights we've found you reading with a light on. And you know what? I'm sure you have some ideas about this. I have some ideas. And just like when I'm at work, when things don't go well, like we get a lot of smart minds in one room and talk it through. And we always come to a good place. Let's do that, right? And then doing that. And then there's like a little bit of a way that's helpful to run a family meeting, aileen Maslow and Adele Faber talk a lot about this and they're about kind of talk so your kids will listen. And I just love it. I want to give them credit for it. They're like, you actually get out a piece of paper. And you write down the thoughts your kids have, right? Because if you ever imagine someone your argument with your wife or something, being like, Adam, you seem upset about something. I want to write down all of your points to me. You'd be like, we're good. That's amazing. I love you. All good now, right? It's just so respectful. And then I'd say, like, here's how I think about it. Tell me the parts about going to bed at the exact time I say, that like aren't working for you. I know you're a good kid, and I know you respect me and this family. Like, I know that. We're on the same team. So when I found you reading the other night, there must have been something that compelled it. I'm not saying that's justification for doing it, but we definitely need to understand before we move forward. So tell me a little bit about that too. And like kids really feel hurt. They feel part of the family. They feel respected. And, you know, one of the things I think about human behavior more than anything else is we are all more attached to feeling seen than to any individual decision. But the opposite is true too. The more we don't feel seen and understood, the more we hold on to a specific stance or decision because it's the representation of our identity. And I think this is plays out in politics, this plays out in marriages. It definitely plays out with kids. So the more your kids feel, like, oh, that's why you're reading. You're really into that book, or you really want to talk about it with your teacher the next day, or you actually felt like you really weren't tired. The more you understand that, the more your kids actually will be likely to cooperate, but maybe also you might learn something that would lead you to change your rules, not from a place of needing to quote make your kids happy. From a place of legitimately changing your mind. Even in any two minute snippet of listening to you see how valuable your wisdom is. And I'm just grateful that you're putting it out there for all of us who are muddling our way through trying to figure out how to raise adults when we don't even know if we're fully formed adults. Yes, parenting and re parenting at the same time. Well, thank you for having me. Thank you for being a champion of my work. You've been such a powerful person for me to have a mic on her. So thank you. You deserve it. What I can't stop thinking about from this conversation is how we define success for the next generation. I know too many parents who want to live vicariously through their kids. Of course, a lot of parents know better. But still make the mistake of assuming that their kids share their definition of success. I love the idea of asking our kids, how do you define success? Because I think that's our job as a parent. To figure out what our kids want, and then try to help support them in achieving it. Rethinking is hosted by me, Adam grant, and produced by Ted with cosmic standard. Our team includes Colin helms, Eliza Smith, Jacob winnick, Asia Simpson, somiah Adams, Michelle Quinn, Ben Ben Chang, Hannah Kingsley ma, Julia Dickerson, and Whitney Pennington Rodgers. This episode was produced and mixed by cosmic standard. Our fact checker is Hana matsudaira. Original music by Hans Dale Sue and Alison Leighton Brown. Well, you're welcome to come and correct my parenting anytime. Not correct, not correct, just add some nuance to and see if that resonates and you want to use it. That is all. No, I want to be corrected. I want to get better at this. Every big life lesson I've learned. How to channel my competitive fire. How to be a supportive teammate or partner. How to focus on what I can control and try to let go of what I can't. All of that, I've learned through sports. My name is Jodi Afghan, and I'm the host of a new show called good sport. It's a podcast about how sports can connect us with one another. Help us understand the world around us. Help us improve our oh my God. Did we make a self help podcast?
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"Got it. Looks like a different guy. Looks like a son. Seventy six fucked fucked up architecture fucked up. It really destroyed architecture. I was thinking about. This is funny. I'm told you guys in a while. But i'll get the dates a little bit off. I think mike. And i. I was playing a gig on the east coast somewhere and we had some time. And we're driving like from one gig to the next gig and we said let's. Let's stop by the harvard. I think it was the harvard campus. Could have been yale. This is one of the schools. That's eighty years old or more and you walk around there and you just you just marveled that architecture bar extend marvel at it and then you come across this big brown piece a shit slab monolith nothing thing that was built in one thousand nine hundred seventy four. Like what building is this. And it's the it's the design. It's the architectural design bill and he building but that it was built in the seventies so ward of a shit. Show all the all the stuff you would have done to seventies building right in the middle of cathedrals that were around it. And that's what the seventies work. I trust me walking around the valley as much as i do. There's no worse example than all over the san fernando valley those horrible. If you are depressed to live in one of those apartment complexes before this horrible slat front with the little window and the side stairs. they're awful. It fucked up architecture fucked up design fucked up fashion at fucked up are like just fucked everything up and i don't know why everyone was sucked into it. I was talking about this last week. I sing like nobody's hairs. Change from two thousand and ten to two thousand twenty one right. Why in this one little period of time did everything just gets sucked into this vortex of change pre internet. There was no no instant anything. I mean nobody could tell it fucked up food all of a sudden everything space sticks and tang and hungry man dinners and everything. Everything was instant this and that technology. We didn't have the technology to pull off the technology. So it's like we have the same tv set but we put it in an orb but the same to everything that antennas assist cars were the worst in the mid. Seventy cars from the sixty hot cars from the fifties cars later. We're finding just that that period of time in the mid seventies fashion music cars architecture. Everything was just fucking devoured and destroyed by that you kids are too young to remember the horrors of that right. Let me see let me hit. You know let. Let's put the game off till tomorrow. I'm going to get to the the news with the gina granted. Here i. i'll tell you about bambi asks when you run a business. Hr issues can kill you. Wrongful termination suits minimum wage labor regulations and hr management salaries average seventy k..
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"Balls orders now at adam karol dot all right. We've got the game to play with. I think we should get this neil diamond. Yeah i've been teased that helen reddy thing That lynch can't stop watching and to me. Based on my henry winkler story so this is neil onstage in one thousand nine hundred seventy six. Yeah we say was the bowl. Are the greek. Sorry though jeff wald i want you say long is ellen it here. Jeb singer would make ready. Helen reddy quite. Would you sing it with me. You're gonna kill me this. No i come and sing in your show okay. We'll do it together exactly like hell with some air. Robot knows but so ross saw rose guy. Could you just plots remiss curious you we sleep on all my thank you for henry. Winkler can't sing for shit. Another nice jewish boy. Now you gotta go on after a professional you might have to kill him by the way if this was one of my favorite songs. It's not but if it was that'd be pissed that they kind of turned it into that novelties. Worst henry winkler since the height of the ons fame here blue. Everybody knows. Andre did do it roger. Did you know what you do. Would you do this. And we do like the funds would do it. I would define thing that saw dryer. Dr the mike and he left knows dig it. Research for s for rebel still loves him. Yeah throw him singing. Whether show all right mealtime diamond is more liberace than i realized. Yeah sorry you can just.
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"One. I get it. He goes from. Poplar popped ben. Shapiro did as much with that. Popular poplar were referring back to show from two months ago. He doesn't much with that poplar as the mayor does with the silver shovel three piece. I knew shopping center on the hands of mexican box off estonia suit. Yes stillness it. Connect some dots real quick before just. Because i don't know what else i would bring this up. I wanna waste our guest time. But our guest who i'm very excited to talk to the bashing younger Wrote the book perfect storm a perfect storm that the movie is based on you and i both liked. I liked the movie. I liked the movie a lot. And i was. I think we played rotten tomatoes. Them were little bit surprised that the critic scores on unreasonably low. Something like fifty or something very solid high seventies movie. I enjoyed it. And i saw remember. Where assad and who assault with an on the santa monica promenade with some coworkers. My first job out of college. And i went to see what some co workers and they all annoyed the shit out of me upon walking out really liked. What do you think they will. I don't know how did i even know it happened. If it spoiler alert. How do they even know what happened. At the end of the aisle drowned didn't even know it happens. I can heat up. It's a movie related. Make things up. You're allowed to speculate based on records. And where they were say this. Be fun in history class. God it was and i was thinking about. I'm talked about that than i remembered. This fucking bitches boyfriend was equally stupid because she was like by the other night mentioned because picking traffic why at a red lion light turns green. Why doesn't everyone just go at the same time. Just all go at the same one cargo. That another her go and you realize you have to get up to speed right. You can't go at the same pace and six inches away from each other with entire time. She's like i'm boyfriend. Wants to know it's fucking idiot to to land and on sea. Brian is equally as disgusted with civilization. I agree all right. Thanks matt Yeah sebastian younger is going to join us and we can talk to them about that other books as well..
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"And now a totally innocuous word that sounds dirty when my dawson says it splurge you know. Let's get back to the adam. Corolla show well as we said. Great gavin newsom are camping. Mcleod sorry yeah deep six him let him go down at davy jones locker. Hair probably wouldn't move. Yeah so The the woman found love with With captain stu and did the did the shrew come up god. I still rich. Didn't send off an dinghy again. It's so flawed. Because yeah maybe he shoulda cut her loose when they were on on the ground but once they set sail. What's to be done. Also you walk around. The boat and mope if you fire to all the anyway but i meant to old d'amato but still twenty three twenty three years younger than an stooping so he was fine with that all right. Well we'll see if we can find that we have it. Oh i'm sorry. Sorry we we're gonna see a script the themes on if you wanted to see all their all their faces. You just gotta check you gotta you gotta have all of the gas are before the crew when it comes to the introductions. Yeah you gotta show all the guests. Because they're all they're all friendly it's halston who's given given the camera the stink. I i got to see it again to here. It is pastor morgan brittany. Mike toddlers pristina for our richard. Gillian calls for muggy dance for anybody. Dick john or septic t summer. I won't see it again. Wow that was uncomfortable. I got up and left the room. I'm alone. I was just sitting at home jane kennedy. She's hi kennedy. Wasn't she Miss america or miss something. Yeah you can.
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"adam" Discussed on The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"When i grow up and i remember saying i want to run was a fashion chain of teenage guards. Clues called tommy gun but they had a chain of shops in the uk. And i said i'm going to buy tommy. I'm going to be the see you. And ron which would not have been normal. And the copy cited. It's eight years something that got. That's awesome with your parents and cashing your pocket. Where were your parents were they. Supportive of the entrepreneurial aspect or did they sort of see you as taking over the family business versus being an entrepreneur if that makes sense yeah i mean we could do whatever we wanted in a sense. I've been brother is i. I had the best of both worlds growing up. My mother was a teacher so education was very important in the sense that you know the message was always very much. It's easy to carry you know when you get your education. My father is a typical entrepreneur. He laughs goal very young. The university of life so he was the opposite. Hey didn't believe that education was important and he would wanted us to be on the business from a very young age on leave scoreless we. I probably planned to boost i. I went on further. My education went and did my mba. But i also at the same time was university of life rolling working in my parents. Businesses rolling at rolling my own businesses wales so i think might our generation is very different from people in their sixties or seventies. Maybe education wasn't as important. But you can you com- roland scale business with any formal education as well understood and last question sort of on the family business. I don't wanna get to building your businesses and how you scale them up. Was your dad running the original business. Was he always scaling or was he running the business. Where where did you learn the scaling from up top a little bit about that with my parents i would say the perfect business partnership setting aside being married to my father is not are not sino. That's where i it from. He was always scaling. Sorry i believe from the very start very young when he had the business that up when i watch him and look at how he does things he he's scales. Businesses gruesome moves onto the nexen. And my mother was very much a phenomenal business. Leader and sushi operated them amateur. Everything was was waiting. Needed a base. Okay and i was. I was very lucky that i picked up the license for both of them. Because i don both anaya. Was i focus on the scaling side definitely and a lot of entrepreneurs like you said build a business move onto the next they get to a point. I used to to flip houses back in that in the real estate downturn here in the states and i'd get about eighty five percent of the way there and i didn't care about the trim and i didn't care about what the towel racks look like right so i wasn't the perfect house. The needed someone like the attention to detail of getting it there and it sounds like you had the best of both of those worlds growing up where your dad was onto the next like your mom could make sure that the the thing was running.
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"adam" Discussed on The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"Does that help you. In seeing like how i look at because what i learned Adam from doing a bill to multi million dollar companies in the first company where i learned about that was. It's not how much you make. It's how much you get to keep right. So yeah so i was like so i'm all about. I really think of wealth. Now as i'm my own bank so i think of wealth in terms of and i really mean that literally like my own bank so i think of wealth as How do i take money. That has no meaning. I'm not attached to money like money doesn't define me at all at all. But how do i take something that has no meaning like no no attachment to it whatsoever. and i have no resistance to it. But how do i take that in. Allow it to really work for me. Twenty four seven. What are the ways that. I'm using that Money to you know. It never calls in sick. It doesn't take days off right right. How do i think like a bank. Where i'm you know lending money in order in order to get higher returns so i'm always making money on my money. And then how do. I think that way in terms of everything i do in my business. I'm always looking at it from the perspective of how can we create a self liquidating offer. Like how do we get paid to get paid. Sent me covered twenty seven episodes in two and a half minutes for always bring a few things together here and i love it so the self liquidating offer for those of you. Don't know what that means Reach out to be rejected me ashes. Yeah hewitt dot com is her website mia document on instagram at me hewitt pretty much everywhere else. Instagram's got dot between the two. Everything else is straight her name And one of the things that i learned is spend the five dollars and ninety cents one. Because it'll change your life just by reading the book but also when.
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"adam" Discussed on The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"I have figured it all out. It took me six six years. What i can help. People live in eight weeks. It is so different. So here's here's what everyone's missing. And i went two years of therapy before and i you know like i said i did all this personal development. And here's what everybody's missing and all and all shared in my story. Because i think it will make more sense so when i was about five years old Between four and five around there. I was playing in my room and i remember hearing my father called me and i could tell by the sound of his voice that he meant business like my father. Adam was the kind of guy that One moment he could be really gregarious and the next moment something could set him off. And that was it. Somebody was going to get the belt. Somebody was going to get hurt and beginning at their mouth washed out. Somebody was gonna get something. And so. I could never tell what was going to set him off so i always felt like had to walk around on eggshells constantly. In fact i didn't even realize but I developed this habit of as soon as like an because my mom and dad used to fight As soon as it would get quiet. That would make me so nervous that i used to talk incessantly like constantly. I didn't even know why i was talking. I would just do this as a natural way of trying to soothe the anxiety. That was coming over. When when if i was in a conversation with someone and they stopped talking. I didn't know how to be with the quietness so he invites me. You know he says. I want you to go outside with me and i was like why like you know all the people in my house. Well he's the one i feared the most and he's like i just wanted to spend time with you and i was like me really like i. I wasn't his favourite. I was like my older sister was like the boy he never had right so i was like. Wow that's so amazing. So he we go outside and he says to me. Which one is your favorite chicken and michael. That's easy that one and you know there was this one. I called her henny penny and she was my favorite chicken. Like i would find her worms and she would always come over and see what i was doing. And he's just turns to me as plain as day.
The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"adam" Discussed on The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"And marketing. Strategist adam kipness. Many of you were in court in corporate america. You had a job. You did your thing but you always thought that was something bigger out there something else to achieve and some of you are in business but you never got to where you always envisioned. You wanted to be relieved. You knew you felt you were meant for more but just didn't know how to get there. We're going to date into that. Not only why that happens to people or things that you can do to attain more to get to the highest levels of your human potential and exceed. What you really think is possible. This is adam. Kipness host of the entrepreneurs mba. Guess appreciate. Y'all taking a listen today as always brought to you by the c. suite network and Love them for their support and promotion of the show in the platform. They provide today's guests me. A hewitt is the founder and ceo of aligned intelligence and the best selling author of meant for more. She's an expert expert on the topic of human potential helps entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs who know they are meant for more stop secretly struggling to make and make six or seven figure leaps in their business using her aligned intelligence method this methodology works consistently and predictably to allow her clients the ability to coach themselves any obstacle build their dream businesses and feel fulfilled in their purpose me as passionate about power about empowering purpose driven entrepreneurs to live the lives of always known they were meant to be living. And isn't that a great thing. Welcome to the show me. Thanks for being here. Hey thank you so much adam. Thanks so much for having me. You're very welcome. And i'm excited for this conversation. As i am with most because i don't take conversations not excited about but i'm excited about his because many people especially people listening to this show are striving to a greater end. Whether that's more money whether that's bigger fulfillment whether that's making a bigger change in the universe. How did you start on this path. What what led you to.
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"adam" Discussed on The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"They scan at the end of the day. It's really the people who were thinking which. I was learning from You know. I still don't have the able to be honest At the end. I failed rice. I old about thirty grand on my credit card. I really couldn't pay so actually got a job I had to get a job to go. You know working at on marketing Getting really wanting so it's still didn't take by then i was. You know that wasn't really my end but it was sort of like a means to an end at work knowing that i still want to marketing that this was just probably pay my bills. I couldn't so wha working at the egg is still writing myself nights on his building. My own brand name getting kinds on the side so eventually you know over the five years of working at an agency. I basically quiet plans to start my own nice. So so you had your side-hustle go in and you're building websites doing mark network marketing all the things that you were doing for them and so now you've got enough money coming in to leave your job but you kind of created a job for yourself right because you're doing all this work for your clients weird it turn into a business meaning you does. Things a bit more streamlined. You have a team now that you work with. How did that business come in. So you didn't just have to trade your personal time for money. Yes so you know. The funny story is when i was starting. His journey amal marketing. My parents mommy's still bid for for doing this. Getting the money for it right and then they also told me stupid for getting a job after because you know. I basically didn't were able to do what i said i was gonna do. Then you know so. While i was working on the company while i have my slack mind was making somewhere around fifty grand a year right and then they call me because i basically threw away my my income from my job and then i took whatever money bigger for my plans to start a team saw from basically recently granted year to nothing that because i wasn't paying myself salary rather get office in a heartbeat people That was the transition you know and it was an. That's a job right because you go from self-employed saying okay. Am i willing to take the next risk to actually put money into this company not get paid and maybe not even make any money right so that was that that is the transition and i took. The red sox didn't play myself for year. And then you know that's that's where we're at now. Wow so so you said rather than just transitioning over giving up the salary you were getting in living off of what you're making growing that you said i'm going all in i'm starting agency and i'm hiring two people. I'm going to get an office. I mean take on expenses. I mean you've got yourself. I'm assuming out of debt because you're making enough money to do all of that. And you're like i'm gonna go do it again. Why why did you decide to do it again. Yeah so you know again. I don't know how everyone else else's by as an entrepreneur. You never sort hot by so. You're an entrepreneur. You just keep going a lot entrepreneurs. They don't succeed on the first friday sale. And you it so for me. It was a set to be an entrepreneur. I don't think i've ever wanted to work. Corporate and journeys home for being with been living laugh. So i went on and you know and i know that i was still went on even if i feel again off. I love that i love. I appreciate that. I appreciate you just being so open about why you did it in. So now you've got three fifty coming in and going right back out to expenses. Probably some marketing that you did on on your own but then you build it up to a million bucks million bucks plus in revenue and now you've got an ongoing team as the the leader of that team. How do you translate your vision. Because you just do right. Entrepreneurs take action entrepreneurs get after they hire people and those people for better or worse many times our employees. They have an employee mentality they come in. They're looking for someone to tell them what to do. How do you instill your drive your passion your vision to the rest of your team so this business can continue to grow. I think the leader you really have to. Actually i'm trying to find the grace for Do as you say as you do whatever those all right so like for me at work extremely hard and i think everyone here sees mine worker but in solve for them is sort of more motivated by what i'm doing right. I beg me as being. The leader wasn't hardware gang. And i talked early and i didn't work at all. I think for them they would sort of take the everything's a sham. So i think that's the way they see you know like the the passion and the vision and they do follow along because of that so very cool and obviously hire the right people if if they're doing the same thing one of the hardest things that have had this conversation with a lot of my clients in the cove world is people are now working from home. I don't know what it's like in your office. But if they're working from home how do you know if they're working three hours and telling you it's eight or if they're working twenty four hours because they're sitting at home they might as well be working. How do you how you manage managing team. How do you find the right people that that are going to be working. Twenty four hours just like you. Yes so i mean you. Don't they don't know how much they're working but saw a couple things as we have our daily which is malls right. But i don't think ours is necessarily the current measurement with this offer. So i think as as the owner you know. Who's all putting what. I can candidates eight hours forty hours a putting the word. I'm okay. was that right. So we know at enter. They management Again with this guy didn't do much this is so and we we try not to micromanage because of another day. That's what kills morale Where you know. I think we all of our employees to do what they must do and they don't then you know there's good well. I'm glad that's working for you. So now you've inex- agency talk a little bit about what online marketing means right because it could be funnel building it could be google ads. It could be youtube videos. It could be building websites. There's a whole spectrum of quote unquote online marketing. What what do you do for your clients and next. What are you doing more aggressively today because of the environment. Yeah so. I guess a couple of things. There isn't a one size fit oxford. Saw know marketing program that works for any industry is what i was asking. A lot of people come in buy books from guru and think that you know it's gonna work but it really doesn't work that way for us where we focused on one industry was so you know we are the price they will spend marie dollars in did the sort of in that mid level market. You don't try to go for this oftens just because it's about the same amount of work which is more headaches right so for us what we really focus on his prank drive revenue with positive role rolex and we do the game at so we run our google ads facebook ads. Email see all But we have a whole program in a strategy to sell more things online. Just because you know. I think the the the market the e com side of things the buyer from you know someone trying to get into the restaurant and we sort of had that down pat At the agency. That i worked at. We didn't have any system the processes in place and also won manager would be good at one area. The other manager would be torn horrible. You know and they will also do everything industry so there wasn't like a standard at the company for us Every account is basically the same we had. We take all of our learnings every single cat. We put them all together and usually our. I mean our plants. Every time we take over the by say anywhere from thirty percent one hundred percent in revenue were touches. And so that's amazing and you were able to find an industry that you're successful because if we look at e commerce and what that means i buy everything from from amazon pretty much Right and i live in phoenix. I get my food delivered from amazon in two hours to my door. I don't have to see anyone out. Forgot side. I don't have to do anything but the e commerce space. There's a lot of people selling stuff for specific industries. What industry did you focus on so you. You're you're not sort of challenge with the. Oh.
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"adam" Discussed on The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"Events dot net so you can learn more about them and see the events that they have and also our platform c. Suite radio thanks voted for. Give me the plot in pushing this out there. So let's get to the meat of this. My guest today is an expert at positioning your business to sell selling your business and exiting rich. Michelle seiler tucker. Thanks for joining me appreciate it. Thanks adam is good to see again. It's been a long time. Yes it has are old friends from the event world when we could go to to live events and now he gets to connect digital era and talked to all of you do know you run a seven figure business you have grown substantially over the years. Where did you start where you always entrepreneur when you were a kid or is this something that happen later in life i would say i would say i had the entrepreneur's spirit within me as a kid. I wasn't your typical child or never played with toys dolls. Like other little girls dead. A walked around with a notebook and a pen and asked. Everybody am nine questions. I would walk up to strangers and just start asking him questions. My mom thought i was going to be the next level and so i've always own businesses Pretty young on publishing companies magazines events companies etc. But then at one point i did get sucked into corporate. America wants to work for xerox and You know six figures. Bright benefits. And i was already there for about six months and my nickname that xerox was a closer because every time somebody can pose a deal they will call me because i was known as a close and i always close every single detail on that. Nobody else could close so they came to me and.
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"adam" Discussed on The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"Because you're trying to serve. Everyone makes makes perfect sense. It makes perfect sense. And so now you've got systematize business. You got ten million in revenue. You've got things working. you know. You probably have multiple different business lines in terms of customers. Did you sort of sit at home one day and say all right. It's time to to monetize this saying time to do something else or did people start knocking on your door. When how did that transition into sale come from because you were probably still working on the business day day making sure it was still growing. Why sal and how did that come about. Yeah it's a for me. It was a personal decision. So you're you're on a ten million dollar landscaping company. You got two hundred and fifty people eighty trucks going out every day. I mean i three mechanics that work for me in that business. That like just fixing trucks lawnmowers. It was a hell of an operation in every day. It's like it's everything you can do to keep that running smoothly even if you have really good systems your as the as a ceo as a business owner. You're just trying to make sure everything runs smoothly. And so how do you introduce this notion of an exit into all of that All of that activity and so it wasn't one that i like made a three year plan and execute against that plan. Ideally if you have a company that's doing five ten million dollars in revenue and you want to sell it. Ideally you create an exit plan and you execute against that plan. That's not how it happened for me. I i had a personal decision for me. I i started to understand about myself that like the my businesses were an extension of me and they were are the thing that causes me to grow and level up as a as a human being and i had reached a point of plateau running that company i built it to be one of the biggest landscaping companies in our market. And for me to get to the next level i would have had to go regional and open up a new branch in atlanta and one in charlotte. And i really didn't have the desire to do that. I have been in it. Fifteen years and i'm not always motivated by money I'm motivated by challenges and goals and and and accomplishing new things. And so i understood like okay. I've reached the necessary ending with this. Business is time for me to explore the idea of selling it and hired a a good a good broker that that kind of walked me through the process and Became the became the learn. Really quickly that. I hadn't built this company to sell. I had built it just to be the best in our market but not necessarily One that could be gobbled up by bigger outfit and so we had to reverse engineer a lot of things in in place that we didn't have in place so from the moment i made the decision to the moment of like wire transfer was over two years and so you know a lot of people. Look this person built and sold this business. They don't really understand kind of the gravity of.
The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"adam" Discussed on The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"How did how did you make sure that people were paying collections and accounts receivable. You wouldn't think a big part of this business. It really is because the reality is the long guy is like the last to get paid and so and so like staying on top of the cash flow is the difference between having a good business going out of business and i learned that the hard way in the early days one was the first hundred customers. No two of them looked like and no two of them wanted the same things and no two of them were built on the same intervals. No two of them were willing to sign up for the same type of cadence of service and so like literally having to learn to say no and only bring people into my system. My standard way of doing business was something that took me three years to figure out. Was that okay. This is how we do business here. We are the best lawn mowing service you can hire in in this city. And here's why and here's how we do business when you sign up you know. We do an assessment and we we identify the things that you wanna get done and we lay out a plan for them and then we sign you up for a maintenance program and it's built on this day and is due on this day and if you don't pay then then we have to discontinue service like creating all of those processes around a a routine that we do than we offer as a standardized product or service to all of our customers was something that took me a long time to figure out the reality is when you're starting a business from scratch. You almost have to take what you can get. And so the first one hundred thousand dollars in revenue. You're kinda like cobbling together. Hand to hand combat. You're bringing in every every dollar you can but the but then as time goes on you can kinda graduate towards a more. Orderly systemized way of doing business..
The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"adam" Discussed on The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"Whatever it is so you can learn how the dynamics of that business works. And you're going to do it at like very thin. Almost zero profit margin. Just you can understand how this works because you have all its these assumptions that you have invalidated and so that's how i did it for a long time. I would try to like just just just get like enter into those markets by way of out serving my competitors having better prices than my competitors and then i understood okay. This is the recipe for how we do this kind of project. I would document that. And i would understand. Okay like this. How we do it repeatedly over and over again and this is how we layer in our profit margin onto that but the only way to like get here is just to get started and get started on on the first couple of jobs so you can understand how this stuff works and do it almost for free so you can like almost like get go to school for free right and you just talk a lot about about systems in profit margins and all the business terms that we all have to learn as we.
The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"adam" Discussed on The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"My parents and not entrepreneurs definitely multiple masters so they were education people and and clinical people and they told me to mow the lawn and they told me to mow my own our own lawn which of course being a lazy grade schooler. I was like. I don't wanna mow the lawn. And they paid the neighbor kid to mow the lawn. Paid me to mow the lawn. If it would have spurred something within me but they paid the neighbor kid. It was like then i was like well. I'm not gonna do it for free if you're going to pay him. Well a thing about the lawn mowing businesses. there's some fundamentals that exists and that type of business that are true and fundamental to all business. And so it's funny like a lumbering times and entry point into entrepreneurship for a lot of people who don't necessarily stick with it like i did. But it's it's something that gets them into the idea of owning their own business. Barriers to entry are low a lot of the same fundamentals around customer service and a focus on the customer and marketing and hustle. And just the ability to adapt and just put out fires. All day are like n- like native to the lawn mowing business and that can help school you on how to how to start your own business in any field really and so for me. I stuck with it but a lot of people it's like it's like their gateway you don't know how many people i've interviewed on this show. That started either lawn mowing a paper route. Like right like the common thread across people is that was the first way and it wasn't entrepreneurial it was getting cash in your pocket. It was knocking on your neighbor's door or in many cases it's you're mowing your lawn or your mowing the neighbor's lawn and then somebody drives down the street. And they're like hey. Do you have room for other people. How did you grow like was it. You got your street and then it branched out or how did you get new customers when you were really just doing the work and you were a young kid. Great question on those early days you know in their l- in the late nineties early two thousands. We didn't have access to podcasts or youtube or a blog. Post to teach you how to do this stuff. So a lot of it was just trial and error under sheer hustle. Know the first hundred customers. I got by passing out flyers. All over the neighborhood. I was mowing grass in. And then as you're growing one of these lawn mowing businesses you you wanna try to layer on employees and crews and.
The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"adam" Discussed on The Entrepreneur's MBA with Adam Kipnes
"To business in the landscaping field. Built it up. Ten million dollars probably was not a straight trajectory gonna learn a little bit about that. Sold the business and it's always interesting to hear how you go about selling a business. How do you get your business to a place where somebody wants it and how you transition and then built another business green pal where. He is the uber of landscaping. He has consumers he has providers and he brings them together. Nationwide through green powell. Brian clayton thanks for joining us. Today appreciate you have me all man. You're very welcome. Want to jump into this conversation. And i always liked to learn the entrepreneurial path and the listeners always want to know because we're at various stages some people are starting. Some people are transitioning. Some people are a little bit stuck what what was your first. Entrepreneurial thought was this. Were you born this way. Oh man so. I was drugging entrepreneurship kicking and screaming by my father when he forced me to mow the neighbor's yard for twenty bucks was a hot summer day and he came up to my room interrupted playing nintendo and said hey listen we got a job to do. We're going to go mother neighbor's grass. We may twenty dollars split it and ever since then. I was an entrepreneur. I've never had a job. I've never worked for anybody else and actually that lawn mowing business by the end of that summer had like five or ten customers that was mowing grass for and i just stuck with that business all through high school as a way to make money all through college put myself through school. I graduated college. I figured out okay. Well i'm gonna take a pay cut. If i go get a job somewhere so let's just double down on this landscaping company and over fifteen year period of time. I grew that business from just myself and a push mower to over one hundred fifty employees ten million dollars a year in revenue one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of tennessee and that company was acquired in two thousand thirteen by one of the largest landscaping organizations in the country. And so look growing that business. From zero to ten million learned a lot. I learned to learn how to become a manager how to become a leader out of create systems processes around making a business happen how to market all of these things learned just through school of hard knocks and an applied. All of those lessons. That i learned to my second business green powell which is like the uber for lawn mowing i. If you if you're a homeowner grass cut you just jump on our website or mobile app and you'll get hooked up with a great service provider.