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Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from YSA Leaders in the Church
"As many of you know, we recently published three episodes from the new podcast called At the Table. This is produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, and I had the privilege to help with this project as a consultant. After publishing the recent podcast on Leading Saints, those working at the church on this project were so impressed by the results and the feedback from the audience that they asked if we could share more episodes. So for the next three episodes of the Leading Saints podcast, we will feature the three remaining episodes for the first season of the At the Table podcast. Enjoy! And don't forget to send your feedback by taking the survey for each individual episode, which we will link in the show notes. Welcome to the At the Table podcast, a production of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. On this podcast, we aim to explore how church leaders can more effectively understand and utilize the voices of young single adults in their words and stakes. You'll hear from experienced church leaders and young single adults about best practices, inspiring stories, and encouraging methods to help us all follow Jesus Christ together. My name is Kami Castrijon. I'm originally from Colombia. I was born and raised there, and I moved to the United States when I was 16. I moved to the big city of New York, and that's where I joined the church. And then soon after, I served my mission in Riverside, California. Then after my mission, I moved to Utah, and I've been here ever since. I love dancing, especially salsa, hiking, baking, and I am thrilled to be part of this amazing podcast, At the Table. I'm Jared Pearson, and I have the pleasure to be a co -host on the At the Table podcast. I'm currently in Provo, Utah, but I was born and raised in Livermore, California, right outside San Francisco, California. I ended up serving my mission in New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Manchester Mission, and some of my favorite things are playing pickleball, tennis, or staying inside playing some board games or reading books as well. And I'm just really excited to be part of this.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Kami" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Hiring platform connect the country's top talent with your public sector openings learn more hirevue at .com public sector everything you need every time you listen it's 445 I'm Anne Kramer and I'm Shawn Anderson thanks for being with us Montgomery County Public Schools investigation into a principal's conduct and the system's own handling of the issue are in the spotlight again this afternoon the County Council today is asking what happened to the emails detailing allegations of sexual harassment that were sent to Montgomery County school leaders emails that failed allegations of sexual harassment against principal Joel Bidelman were sent to Montgomery County Public School officials but Montgomery County Council president Evan Glass pointed out the law firm hired by the school system to investigate found a problem it states that after searching MCPS is email servers it did not find these emails I referenced in Wednesday's hearing before a council panel school officials explained emails are deleted after one year that led councilmember Kristin Mink to asked I'd like to just request that the deletion that that just be stopped immediately school superintendent Monifa McKnight and school board president Carla Silvestri said they'd consider it but Silvestri added they are are archived and what I'm not prepared to tell you today is what how that system works Glass responded that still raises questions about what happened to those emails the county's own inspector general is now conducting two -pronged investigation Kate Ryan WTOP news and Kate will go in depth with us on this latest development when she joins us at 5 .15 this afternoon. 4 .46 the American soldier who was detained in Korea is now back in the US Travis King was taken into North Korean custody back in July he skipped his scheduled flight to the US and then later appeared on a tour of the demilitarized zone before darting across the border. Private Travis King is undergoing an evaluation at a military medical facility in San Antonio he said to be in good health the army says it's focused on his well -being and privacy he's still set to face disciplinary action after a bar fight in South Korea which briefly landed him in jail CBS correspondent Kami McCormick well after a days -long search police in Baltimore captured the man accused of killing a young tech company CEO Jason Billingsley was taken into custody by US Marshals in Bowie around 11 last night he suspected of killing 26 -year -old Papa Laperre who was found dead in her apartment Monday morning she had reported been missing here's Baltimore acting police commissioner Richard Worley we know that the victim and suspect were known to each other the suspect did not break into the building as he worked at that location Billingsley is now charged with first -degree murder he is a registered sex offender had a warrant out for attempted murder and arson in another part of Baltimore days before Laperre's murder police say they were actively searching for him on that warrant when the tech CEO was killed Top stories we're working on for you here on WTOP. House Republicans have started their impeachment inquiry against President Biden and meantime tensions rise on Capitol Hill during closed -door meetings with Republicans as the country moves toward a weekend deadline to avoid a government shutdown keep it here for full details on these stories the minutes traffic ahead 448 and weather on the 8th let's get back to Dave Dildine in the In the district a crash reported near Lincoln Circle in front of or behind the Lincoln Memorial we already had one reported there earlier today doesn't seem to be impacting traffic all too much as drivers are getting to and from Arlington Memorial Bridge without much fanfare on 395 to and from the 14th Street Bridge feels like rush hour Virginia 395 southbound in the Springfield interchange the broken -down pickup on the rollback left lane block for a few more minutes that is enough to back up traffic to about Seminary Road all other interstates in the DC metro area carrying rush hour traffic but not hosting any major incidents Maryland Suitland Parkway outbound beyond Branch Avenue police were stopped with one in blocking a lane 50 eastbound sluggish through Annapolis to get across the Severin River no delays at the Bay Bridge though I -97 northbound the backup near BWI is because of a crash Aviation beyond Boulevard on the left side keep your coverage even if you leave the federal government WAPA provides civilian feds with fully portable group term life insurance learn more at WAPA Dave Doldine WTLP traffic 7 News First Alert meteorologist Jordan Evans with us and some clouds heading our way what else do you have as we head toward the weekend? looks like we'll be tracking a few showers
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast
A highlight from Friend Tech: Turn Your Friends Into Revenue // Tornado Cash Update
"Hello, hello. Welcome, everyone, to our weekly recap. Thank you for joining us. This is another episode of the Defiant Print team going over the biggest stories in DeFi and crypto of the week. I'm Kami Russo, the founder of the Defiant. We have YYCTrader here with us, head of news, Owen for now, Jeremy Nation, our staff reporters. So yeah, it was a big week in DeFi and crypto. Some of the biggest topics I will be covering, the DOJ charged tornado cash devs with money laundering. Roman Storm was arrested and released on bail. Another big trending topic these past few days has been friend tech. Is it a legit trend that's sparking off social fi, or is it a fad? We'll look at different opinions on that. We also covered combined layer two throughput is outpacing main net by 400%. So looks like scaling is happening. And Uniswap has processed more spot volume than Coinbase this year. Like CZ said, quoting our story, DeFi is taking over. And finally, OpenSea gives up on enforcing royalties. So bad news for NFT creators, and Yuga plans to block the marketplace. So let's start with tornado cash, Owen. Right. So everyone is still wrestling with what this means. But yesterday, the DOJ charged two of the three founders of tornado cash, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov with money laundering and violating sanctions. And each charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. So yes, this has been an ongoing saga. Tornado cash is probably the most targeted crypto protocol in DeFi. And as most people listening probably know, tornado cash is a mixer. So that means you can send assets in and get assets out and obfuscate that they came from you. So that's what we're dealing with. A lot of DeFi is trying to understand what the ruling means. Tornado cash has been offline, I think, since the service itself was put on the sanction list almost exactly a year ago. And we've been wrestling with this idea of whether code is speech, what kind of, you know, are people responsible for what people do with the smart contracts you provide and wrestling with, you know, if the tornado cash founders are hosting a front end for code, are they responsible for the money that runs through it? So all of those issues are going to come out in more subtle forms than I can speak to. But it's definitely, I mean, what we're learning from a high level is the DOJ is by no means, you know, looking the other way in terms of where tornado cash is. And obviously, as the case moves forward, it'll be interesting to see the arguments that are made. And I think it has ramifications for the rest of crypto. But I mean, obviously it does. But there's a way in which, I mean, tornado cash is a very unique protocol in that it is geared towards privacy and I mean, and has been used by, you know, a lot of people who are using it to pay for a bunch of money. So it's not quite the same as a Uniswap or a Maker or an Aave, but it does, I don't know, it brings up a lot of issues, which I know people can speak to very eloquently about what privacy means. But at the face of it, part of me is like, yeah, well, if people are using this to launder, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars, like, we need to figure out how to prevent that. I can understand why the government would want to go after a service like that. So that's where that is currently.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Kami" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"News meteorologist steve bruden of the first alert weather center centerville checks in at sixty nine we have sixty eight in downtown d c this is w t o p news everything you need every time you listen to w t o p producers answers desk is wired by i p w local twenty six where good afternoon i'm sean anderson i'm anne kramer mike cicaitis is our producer god the several major developments underway this afternoon on capitol hill including new debate on a proposal to avoid a government shutdown but we begin with the republican led impeachment inquiry of president biden which started today w t o p's mitchell miller today on the hill joe biden abused uses public office for his family's financial gain house oversight committee chair james comer republicans they've say turned up information suggesting that the business dealings of hunter biden benefited panels ranking democrat maryland's jamie raskin takes issue with that there are moments at a smoking gun or even a dripping water pistol they would be presenting it today but they've got nothing on joe biden george washington university law professor jonathan turley a witness called by republicans says an inquiry is justified but also said i do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment in senate the meanwhile debate has begun on a short -term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown the house hopes to bring up a public conversion tomorrow but it may not have the votes on capitol hill mitchell miller wtop at two thirty two we continue to follow breaking news out of the dutch city of rotterdam two people are dead after police say a man wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire at a university hospital and an apartment in the city according to police the suspect first shot and killed a 39 year old woman and seriously injured her fourteen -year -old daughter at the apartment he then went to a nearby aramis medical center and shot and killed a forty six -year -old teacher there fire broke broke out at both locations a suspect was captured at the hospital's helipad authorities have yet to name the suspect the american soldier who was detained in north korea for two months is now back in the u s travis private king is undergoing an evaluation at a military medical facility in san antonio he he said to be in good health the army says it's focused on his well -being and privacy he still set face disciplinary action after a bar fight in south korea which briefly landed him in jail at cbs correspondent kami mccormick more details this afternoon about the arrest of a murder suspect in the death of a young tech company ceo in baltimore after a day's long search baltimore police captured suspect jason billingsley last night 26 year old pava lapaire was found dead in her apartment on monday morning after she was reported missing here's baltimore acting police commissioner commissioner richard warley we know that the victim and suspect were known to each other the suspect did not break into the building as he worked at that location billingsley is now charged with first -degree murder he is a registered sex offender who had a warrant out for an attempted murder and in arson another part of baltimore days before police say they had been actively searching for him on that warm in the tech ceo was killed it's 234 wtop continues this week looking at the issues and challenges facing the child care industry and the parents who have to use it in part two of a series child care at crossroads a wto piece john doeman explores the tenuous balance between providers and parents that's been teetering for years we had to adjust our schedules it's something parents all around dmv can relate to excited about getting her daughter enrolled in a county -run pre -k program lana jarvis of buoy has struggled to find aftercare my husband had to go into work late so that he could drop her off and then i went really so early that i could pick her up friends and family offer to help but she worries about asking too often you feel bad yeah even if you can find it affording it's a different story some centers charge six and seven cynthia davis a has licensed run child care facility ever pet worth home for years her clients often single parents low on the economic ladder how could she afford that when she's in a service position working as a waitress or working as a purity officer davis says her days may be numbered if something doesn't change give it about six more months maybe to a year john dome in wtop news it's 235 the fda is out with new a warning for a popular drug after getting reports of a side effect the label for drug is is part of a class of medications which has become popular for weight loss has now been updated with the fda now acknowledging increased reports of a condition known as alias that's essentially blocked intestines after use of the medication the labels for other medications like nova nordisk's other semi -glutide injection wagovi or eli lilly's 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Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from YSAs and Church History Questions
"Hey everyone, this is Kurt Frank. I'm the host of the leading Saints podcast and I'm excited to help premiere a new podcast That is actually produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints This podcast is called at the table creating space for single members of the church I actually had the pleasure of partnering with the church to help produce this podcast And so I wanted to make sure the leading Saints audience is aware of it This is the final episode that we are publishing on the leading Saints podcast feed We encourage you to listen to the other episodes by subscribing to the at the table podcast on whatever platform You are listening to leading Saints to help the church improve the podcast content There is a link in the show notes for this specific episode after listening We encourage you to take the time to fill out that short feedback survey now Let's jump into this week's episode where we'll hear young single adults and church history topics Welcome to the at the table podcast a production of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints on this podcast We aim to explore how church leaders can more effectively understand and utilize the voices of young single adults In their words and stakes you'll hear from experienced church leaders and young single adults about best practices Inspiring stories and encouraging methods to help us all follow Jesus Christ together. My name is Kami Castrijon I'm originally from Colombia. I was born and raised there and I moved to the United States when I was 16 I moved to the big city of New York and that's where I joined the church and then soon after I served my mission in Riverside California then after my mission I moved to Utah and I've been here ever since I love dancing Especially salsa hiking baking and I am thrilled to be part of this Amazing podcast at the table. I'm Jared Pearson. I have the pleasure to be a co -host on the at table podcast I am currently in Provo Utah, but I was born and raised in Livermore, California right outside San Francisco, California I ended up serving my mission in New Hampshire the New Hampshire Manchester mission and some of my favorite things are playing pickleball Tennis or staying inside playing some board games or reading books as well, and I'm just really excited to be part of this Welcome back to the at the table podcast. I'm here with Jared. Hey, how's it going? Great, and we're here with Claire and Matt. Welcome Claire and Matt. Hi happy to be here. Thank you. Thank you we're gonna start with just getting to know you if you can tell us about who you are and What you do we're talking to church historians here and we're excited to learn more about what you do Well, I'm Claire Haney, I'm an associate historian with the church history department I've been there for a little over four years My background is in history from BYU and a master's degree in history from Oxford University I've been with the church history department ever since I graduated Cool. What about you Matt? My Matt McBride and I'm the director of publications for church history. I'm a historian I was trying I went to graduate school up at the University of Utah and I've worked at the church history department for about 12 years and love it. We work on the Joseph Smith papers. We work on Saints, which is the church's official history the four volume history and It's just a really great place to be So we're here today and we're talking in the context of YSAs and YSA leaders and we kind of just wanted to outline What are you hoping to accomplish here today and talking about churches for your other topics as well? Well as a As a member of this demographic as a YSA myself I would say I have a lot of close friends and family members who have struggled with church history questions and have not always known how to find the right resources and have not always been met with with empathy and with understanding as they've brought those questions to leaders in the church So what we're hoping to do today is is provide some some helpful tips and guidance of how to help leaders and and Those they lead to feel like they have access to the resources that they need to find answers to their questions maybe add that All of us may be in one way or another experience that something traumatic in our in our lives And it certainly can be traumatic sometimes to discover something about church history that that maybe troubles you or something You didn't know about and it's new but one of the most important Things that somebody who's had that kind of an experience needs is a nurturing relationship to help them through it and so so I think that's maybe the most important thing we could focus on is how We can as people in a position to counsel and help and support those who have questions about church history How can we how can we provide that kind of a nurturing relationship that will help them land in a in a good place? Thank you for that Being a YSA too.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "kami" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"News everything you need every time you listen the wtop producers desk is wired by ibew local sticks where electrical contractors come to grow good afternoon i'm mark plus mike cicadas is our producer we're following several major underway developments on capitol hill this afternoon and we begin with the start of the impeachment inquiry of president biden by house republicans wtop's mitchell miller joining well today on the hill joe biden abused his public office for his family's financial name house oversight committee chair james comer kicking off what's been a feisty hearing today republicans say they've turned up information suggesting that business dealings of hunter biden benefited the first family and the president but the panel's ranking democrat maryland congressman jamie raskin takes issue with GOP assertions if the republicans had a smoking gun or even a dripping water pistol they would be presenting it today but they've got nothing on joe biden george washington university law professor jonathan early a witness called by republicans says an inquiry is justified but he also said i do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment republicans say inquiry investigators will keep working even if there's a shutdown mark that's all so uh... this uh... our the taking a procedural vote on a short term spending bill still trying to avoid a government shutdown what's the latest well that vote is ongoing mark and while it is still open there are now enough senators more than seventy to open up that debate that's a reflection that this spending measure which would last until mid december or mid november rather has bipartisan support but it also includes funding for ukraine something that could slow its passage in the coming days and it's also a nonstarter for conservatives in the house all all speaking of the house we're understanding there's more dissension among house speaker kevin mccarthy is g l p nemesis matt gates apparently treated words during a heated closed republican conference meeting this morning gates accusing mccarthy of supporting a social media campaign that targeted him which mccarthy denies this is of course another bad sign that republicans can't overcome their differences as country the races toward that shutdown deadline saturday night gates and more than a half dozen republicans say they will not vote for a republican short -term measure that's separate from the senate one that mccarthy wants to bring up tomorrow all these signs marker pointing toward the country waking up to a shutdown on sunday top's mitchell miller today on the hill we're following breaking developments out of the dutch city of ronald m a man wearing military fatigues has been arrested police say he shot and killed people at a university hospital and at a home in the city fire broke out at both locations authorities not yet releasing details of how many have died they are waiting notification of relatives the suspect was captured at the hospitals helipad stay with us we'll bring you more on this developing story the american soldier who was detained in north korea for two months is now back in the u .s. private travis king is undergoing an evaluation at a military medical facility in san antonio he said to be good in health the army says it's focused on his well -being and privacy he still set to face disciplinary action after a bar fight in south korea which briefly landed in jail cbs correspondent kami mccormick here at home the defense continues presenting its case in the trial of fired london county school superintendent scott ziegler wtops neil augenstein has been covering well any brings us up to date on what happened before court went back into session this morning here in london county circuit court the jury heard from the principal of the school where erin brooks taught scott ziegler is charged with two misdemeanors prosecutors say he retaliated against the specialized teacher who testified before the special grand jury and improperly fired her but the principal diane mackie said she was the the one who sent a letter to ziegler recommending brooks's contract not be renewed the principal said the boy who brooks said sexually assaulted her was a ten -year -old nonverbal statistic boy with a cognitive understanding of a toddler and she'd observed his behavior as attention seeking not sexual the judge said closing arguments are likely on thursday in leesburg neil augustine double utlp news he sees rising homicide rate has been fueled in part by crimes committed by teens at at howard university hospital there's a program that's designed to help teens avoid violence more than a dozen teens are the first graduates of the hospital's new anti -violence summer program including year -old morgan houston a lot of things you know come into these no classes on saturday program teaches conflict resolution and introduces the teenagers to mentors we believe that mentoring is critical to decreasing violence in the in the community dr roger mitchell medical director of the center of violence for trauma and violence prevention says there's hope the summer program can grow well every summer we're going to have this and program then we are going to stay in contact with the young people helping support them throughout the year particularly on our w t o p news stick around on w t o p coming up in money news there are a lot of evs in dc driveways i'm jeff claybaugh it's thirty six staple stores provides innovative products in service for small business remote workers and even teachers and parents explore more at your local staples store are you interested in selling home your well then turn that interest into action with jennifer young homes this is dave seminar there's blood coming up wednesday october fourth and six thirty it's online at jennifer young homes dot com and speaking interest of i know higher interest rates but you can find out how jennifer and her 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Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from YSAs and Mental Health
"Hey everyone, this is Kurt Frankam, the host of the Leading Saints Podcast, and I'm excited to announce that we will be helping premiere a new podcast that is actually produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. This podcast is called At the Table, creating space for single members of the Church. I actually had the pleasure of partnering with the Church to help produce this podcast, and so I wanted to make sure the Leading Saints audience is aware of it. This is episode 2 of 3 that we will be publishing on the Leading Saints podcast feed to give you a little flavor, and then you can hear the other episodes by subscribing to the At the Table podcast on whatever platform you are listening to, Leading Saints. This will most likely be a semi -annual series. To help the Church improve the podcast content, there is a link in the show notes to a feedback survey for each episode. After listening to each episode, we encourage you to take the time to fill out that short survey. Let's jump into this week's episode about young single adults and mental health. Welcome to the At the Table podcast, a production of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. On this podcast, we aim to explore how Church leaders can more effectively understand and utilize the voices of young single adults in their words and stakes. You'll hear from experienced Church leaders and young single adults about best practices, inspiring stories, and encouraging methods to help us all follow Jesus Christ together. My name is Kami Castrijon. I'm originally from Columbia. I was born and raised there, and I moved to the United States when I was 16. I moved to the big city of New York, and that's where I joined the Church. And then soon after, I served my mission in Riverside, California. Then after my mission, I moved to Utah, and I've been here ever since. I love dancing, especially salsa, hiking, baking, and I am thrilled to be part of this amazing podcast At the Table. I'm Jared Pearson. I have the pleasure to be a co -host on the At the Table podcast. I'm currently in Provo, Utah, but I was born and raised in Livermore, California, right outside San Francisco, California. I ended up serving my mission in New Hampshire, the New Hampshire -Manchester mission. And some of my favorite things are playing pickleball, tennis, or staying inside playing some board games, or reading books as well. And I'm just really excited to be part of this. Thank you for being here today, Sheldon and Xochitl. We're so happy to have you here and to hear from your experiences, hear your insights, and we want our listeners to get to know you too. So why don't you go ahead and introduce yourselves and tell us a little bit about you and your story. So I'm here to speak about my mental health journey. I'm a little nervous because it's usually easier for me to write out my experience. I think this will probably be my first time outside of therapy that I'm going to be sharing my journey, my whole journey with someone else. So I hope that's able to help other people as well. I'm Sheldon. My whole life professionally, I think, has revolved around people, whether that's as a professional therapist or building products or programs. It's always trying to strengthen and help people, especially in situations where they may have emotional or mental health needs and the things we can do to support them and to learn from them. So I'm a licensed therapist. I received my doctorate degree at Arizona State in healthcare solutions. It's just led me into a space where I love trying to figure out the things that are heavy for us as human beings, whether it's through private practice therapy or how to strengthen a community, just how to get stronger together. So both of you have had kind of different perspectives on mental health and YSAs and people in general and like what kind of struggles people go through. And we're trying to like demystify what happens behind the scenes. And so you being a YSA, so you've experienced things yourselves and I'm sure Sheldon, you've seen a lot of things in your profession, other experiences as well. And you've both kind of seen the sides of mental health and like what it can do for you. And I just would like to get a quick rundown on both of your experiences and what you've seen in your lives with mental health and how that's affected you. I've battled like depression and OCD for a long time since I was 14. Thing was my family at the time did not believe that depression and mental health stuff existed. They always denied it. They're like, nope. So when I recognized I was like depressed, I couldn't feel anything inside. My mom basically told me to buck it up and just stop feeling that way. And so it was really hard for me from middle school to high school, just like having to battle my own demons inside my head, thinking that it's not real, that it's not true. It really hit my self -esteem a lot. And when I went to college, I was able to like put on the back burner for a bit, but once I got closer to my graduation date, the barrier I had built just broke and everything spilled out. I remember just for like weeks, I was like, things aren't feeling positive. I'm not feeling motivated. I'm not sure what's wrong. Everything's going right in life. And then I remember one day as I'm leaving campus, I have to take this ramp up to go over a bridge, over the road to get to my car. And I remember like imagining like someone could just fall off that wall and hit the road below. And as I was going over the bridge, I broke down because at that moment I realized it was me. I wanted to throw myself off that wall. And so I just, I cried right there watching the cars go by under me.
Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from Leaders Perspectives on Strengthening YSA
"Hey everyone, this is Kurt Frankam, the host of the Leading Saints podcast, and I'm excited to announce that we will be helping premiere a new podcast that is actually produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. This podcast is called At the Table, creating space for single members of the church. I actually had the pleasure of partnering with the church to produce this podcast, and so I wanted to make sure the Leading Saints audience is aware of it. We will be publishing three episodes over the next three weeks on the Leading Saints podcast feed to give you a little flavor, and then you can hear the other episodes by subscribing to the At the Table podcast on whatever platform you listen to Leading Saints. This will most likely be a semi -annual series. To help the church improve the podcast content, each episode will have a link in the show notes for a feedback survey. After listening to each episode, we encourage you to take the time to fill out this short feedback survey. Now let's jump into the first episode. on the At the Table podcast. I'm currently in Provo, Utah, but I was born and raised in Livermore, California, right outside San Francisco, California. I ended up serving my mission in New Hampshire, the New Hampshire -Manchester mission, and some of my favorite things are playing pickleball, tennis, or staying inside playing some board games or reading books as well. And I'm just really excited to be part of this. My name is Kami Castrijon. I'm originally from Colombia. I was born and raised there, and I moved to the United States when I was 16. I moved to the big city of New York, and that's where I joined the church. And then soon after, I served my mission in Riverside, California. Then after my mission, I moved to Utah, and I've been here ever since. I love dancing, especially salsa, hiking, baking, and I am thrilled to be part of this amazing podcast At the Table. I'm Kami Castrijon, and we're happy to be here at the institute, and we're here with some phenomenal leaders, and we'll give you the time to introduce yourselves. All right, my name is Bishop Wessel. I am the bishop of a geographic ward north of here, and I've been the bishop for about two and a half years. I'm President Bigelow. I'm the stake president of the Riverton YSA stake. I am President Boha, the second councilor in the stake presidency of the Riverton Young Single Adult Sake. We have this new document, this strengthening YSA that was just released in the library, and we just kind of want to go through with initial thoughts and impressions that you have or anything like that. Like, what did you think when you first saw this document or when you piloted these things in your ward? Yeah, I'll jump in there. Just the idea that the church is thinking about young single adults and trying to come up with something to address young single adult needs, and their participation in the church I thought was awesome, was amazing. As I look at the church, I think it's really well organized for the youth, and it's really well organized for older people. Maybe there's some opportunity there in the middle for young single adults for us as an organization to meet the needs or interact with young single adults in a better way and invite them, invite you to come in and participate in this church that is ours together. And so I was really excited to see that the church was doing something there. It just, when we were called to stake presidency, the General Authority 70 who came made a comment. He said to our stake, he said, this is not, he said, I want you to think about yourself as a YSA stake. You are a stake of Zion, just like any other stake in the church. And I think this document really speaks to that idea of young single adults taking the leadership roles for their stake. But there's a wonderful balance that can come when you have some people who have had lots of years of experience together, yoked together equally with young single adults to create some pretty spectacular things. And I think that's what I felt as I went through the document is that this is setting the stage for a great deal of growth for young single adults. You know, it just really just got broadcasted and put on the tools. For me, it started, my awareness kind of started when the, when him and his wife gave the fireside for young single adults. You know, at the moment I was teaching a class for single adults in my stake. And then they had the broadcast that came out in May where him and Sister Nelson talked. And in his beginning speech, he said, they've been waiting months for this. So, it'd been something that he's been inspired to kind of head and to be able to address the young adults before anybody, you know, in the beginning of the year. And so, he also gave that charge for us to take charge of our testimonies. He gave that to the young adults first. And then he mentioned it again during conference, where he says, hey, I just want to remind you of the charge I gave to the young adults. And this is something that I guess I boast of the young adults is he kind of gave the young adults the charge first. And he's kind of like giving the young adults the baton and saying, hey, here you go. You run with this. You're the one that's going to do it. And so, you know, that, and I don't know if in sequence that was planned or not, but just his ability to say, young adults, I'm going to give you the charge to take charge of your testimonies. And then he gives a couple principles and teaches us about that. But just glad to be able to take this on and apply it to our great members of the young adults. I mean, you've kind of got our responses as leaders. How do you young adults feel as you kind of see the initiative of the church coming out with special attention to your growth, especially in your leadership skills and your leadership abilities? I mean, how does that make you feel? You're the direct, I guess, the direct audience of this revelation and of this initiative. How does that make you feel? No, I love that question. And I was, as you were speaking, I was trying to think of my experience in the YSA world, I guess, because I'm a convert to the church and I was baptized when I was 17. And I remember when I turned 18, I was in New York and I didn't want to move to a YSA ward. I wanted to stay in my family ward. I was kind of scared. I went and visited the YSA ward there and I just didn't feel like I belonged, you know? And then I went on my mission, moved to Utah, and I've been here for a few years, but it wasn't until recently that I felt like I belonged somewhere, that I had, that my voice counted, you know? And I've been able to see how other friends of mine, and I was in a Spanish YSA ward, and so it was great for me to see how our culture, our Hispanic culture, we're being given the opportunity to lead and to learn more about how everything works in the church, especially like me being a convert. I didn't really know how everything worked. And so when I was given the opportunity to lead, I was given a calling and that's how I started understanding, oh, this is how the church works. This is how we do things and we often hear that we're going to be the future of the church. We are right now leading the church and I think that's great. So that's been my experience.
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast
A highlight from UniswapX, POL Token, MetaMask Snaps, Ripple Ruling
"Well, good morning to you all. This is the live broadcast of your weekly recap of the news here with The Defiant. I'm Jeremy Nation and joining me is Owen Fennell. What's going on everyone? Hope you guys have a good week and we're here rocking it. The parents are out of town. Kami is in Europe. YYC is in Toronto. So you are stuck with us here today to give you a brief breakdown of the week's news. And we're going to start with markets where we have seen some of the older DeFi tokens actually get some love from the market. We got Maker up 23 .8 % on the week, Chainlink up 14 .4. They got a new CCIP release. And some other DeFi tokens, Synthetix is doing well, Compound's doing well, as well as some other tokens like Bit, which recently pivoted to becoming Mantle and L2. Jeremy, do you have any other takes on the market that we were seeing? And I mean, we had some great news in terms of the market sentiment last week with that ruling on Ripple. I think that we've seen some healthy consolidation in the marketplace rather than some pump and dump activity, which would, I think, indicate that markets may be maturing in the wake of what we've seen as a long bear market coming into the latter half of this quarter. Now by the end of this year, we may see this sustained and perhaps some of these more positive shocks such as additional rulings from regulatory bodies that are having lawsuits go through and other types of things like central banks taking a look at some of these things. I think that there are a lot of different positive shocks that may yet hold for the market. I'm very optimistic, actually, about it. Yep. We will see where everything is going there. Obviously, there are macro experts out there who could tell us a lot more than we can say. But yes, we are looking at least on a bit more solid footing than we were, I would say, three to six months ago. Certainly. And hopefully those conditions will persist. I've seen a lot of different stablecoins kind of being looked at by different protocols. So in terms of DeFi having a little bit more stability in the marketplace would be a good thing. Right on. All right. Let's get into it. So to start off, we're just going to break down some of the stories that we worked on this week. I spent a fair amount of time working on a regulatory story, trying to dig into what it means, what the Ripple ruling means, which rocked us last week. And that was very interesting, very talking to a lot of people about getting into the weeds about what a security is. And it gets very messy, as we all maybe can intuit. So that's what I spent a lot of the week on. But also, we had some interesting releases like Utopia Labs, which enabled withdrawals direct to U .S. bank accounts from businesses, including American businesses. And kind of an amazing thing in that typically the user flow is withdrawing to some kind of centralized exchange and then moving to a bank account if the centralized exchange likes you. And I mean, I'm being a bit facetious there, but they basically took out that middleman, which I think a lot of people were excited about. And I would talk to the founder and he said people did funny things like they have to, you know, you're trying to control these assets as an organization. But then to withdraw, someone needs to withdraw to like an individual Coinbase account and then to some bank account and obviously there's a huge point of trust there. If the bank account is company controlled and the assets on chain are company controlled, but you have to go through a centralized exchange, it doesn't really work very well in terms of you have that whole intermediate stage where someone can supposedly take the money and run and crypto being what it is about minimizing points of centralization. It's beneficial to cut that out. So kind of a simple product, but interesting step in terms of allowing more frictionless interaction between the traditional financial system and the on chain one. And isn't that really what it's all been about for the decentralized ecosystem is kind of disintermediating these sort of financial system steps so that we can see less fees, code driven processes rather than centralized entity driven off processes, right? So this is just, I think driving some more of that utility that basic blockchain services provide down to that fundamental like TradFi player. Yep. Yep. And yeah, I think we've seen a lot of people knocking out small serviceable parts of the market where they see a snag and then they build a simple product to deal with a snag. I'm thinking of Synthetix's Infinex, which they announced last week, I believe, where they're trying to store the private key in the browser. There's a lot of technicality there, but the idea being that there's a snag in the UX and let's just tackle it. So I think the focus is also continually heading towards UX. So that's what I got out of that development. And we can move on to Lens V2, which Sam wrote, but Jeremy is... Yeah, I brushed up on it a little bit Lens V2. The latest iteration of the social graph from Ave announced July 15th. It's basically been upgraded with external protocols, apps, enabling two way interaction between any application and Lens. It's kind of a big deal. They're doing it with an open app actions feature, which is basically allowing developers to execute smart contracts from within Lens. And this allows them to mint NFTs, trade ERC20 tokens and enable cross chain interactions, which is pretty huge. Interoperability protocols are a good thing for the ecosystem, I think. The entire Lens V2 code base was rewritten and optimized for readability and open source contributions. So this is giving more flexibility to developers and Lens is, again, it's an Ethereum based social graph. It's aimed at decentralizing media, allowing people to utilize a Web3 native ecosystem. And we've seen a lot of fracturing in some of the social media empires that have come up and are sort of teetering in their towers. So Lens is out there competing with them and trying to build infrastructure that can compete. Another thing that Lens introduced was composability between ERC6551 NFT standard, which gives their own social relationships, voice and monetization opportunities behind their NFTs. And so Lens is pretty much seeing this upgrade. I think that it's pretty important in terms of what Lens could bring to the table. Pretty much the world is their oyster, especially when you see like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg talking about fisticuffs and stuff, but their protocols are actually like having a lot of errors with them or struggling to maintain a user base, or in the case of Meta, struggling to have this existential reality come in here where it's actually something. So I'm looking forward to seeing what Lens can do. Yeah, it will be interesting. Everyone was talking about Threads last week, and I'm not sure what's happened to Threads, but I don't think people are talking about it this week. So we'll see. Go ahead. Sorry, go ahead. I was saying they might have lost the Thread on that one. Oh, nice. Zing, zing. Some color on Lens, I don't know, I met with Stani briefly, Stani to some, who developed the Aave protocol and also I think is, I mean, I don't know if he's technically the CEO, but he's involved heavily in Lens and he was decked out in Lens gear in SF. So I think he's living and breathing Lens at this point. So we have a strong leader in that category, it was nice to see. So anyways, just some color. And okay, so now we can move on to Polygon and they are continuing, they're kind of doing a month -long release of, I would say, I mean, they're basically revamping this whole idea of Polygon 2 .0. And so last week the big news was that the Polygon token, which ticker POL, they're converting Almatic to POL and they're presenting it as a, quote unquote, hyperproductive token, which is going to be used to validate potentially a bunch of different chains instead of just one. And Polygon is also venturing on this kind of multi -chain, multi -L2 future roadmap, which they're working on. And so this week we saw a revamped plan for governance. And I didn't write this story, but I think they're working on revamping what they're doing to manage the treasury. It's all up to the community. So we'll have to see where this goes. But that's their plan, obviously, as we've seen, the L2 ecosystem continues to heat up. L2 transactions are much higher than Ethereum main net ones at this point on the whole. And we're constantly getting new L2s all the time. I think we're going to, it almost feels like we're hitting a saturation point where we're you don't quite know what the purpose is and you don't quite know what the throughput is. And it's always easy to revert to infrastructure when you don't have users. And so I tend to think the more serious builders are ones working on the user experience at this point. But the L2s are coming fast and heavy at this point. So we'll see how Polygon develops as they build it out. Then they certainly have a strong business development team as anyone in the space knows. So we'll see where they go from there. I tend to agree with you two in terms of usability and capturing the user base by creating something that they can use. UX is where the next revolution of blockchain lies. That's just my personal opinion. No, no. But it's true. I mean, crypto has been around for a really long time. I mean, arguably, in a sense. And if it's going to serve some of the promise that people have espoused over the years, I think this is the cycle where you need real people, real normal people who don't care about blockchains or decentralization using these apps. I think it has to happen soon. Otherwise, I think crypto is going to be in a pretty rough place. Well, in terms of adding functionality to crypto, MetaMask Snaps is a much spoken of platform coming to MetaMask probably this year. And what it will do, and by the way, this is kind of an interesting thing here. What it will do is allow MetaMask to take custody of other protocols like Bitcoin. It will also allow developers to process APIs within the application, run applications within the application, so they can build these individual Snaps, as they're called, to serve specific purposes. Now, if you're a user, you might stack together different Snaps to get different functionality out of the MetaMask platform or application. So for instance, say you wanted to have some privacy. Well, there might be a ZK -SNARK Snap that you can roll up into your MetaMask program and there you can obfuscate your identity from the protocols you interact with. Or say you want to analyze what is going on with a transaction before you commit to it. Well, they have a Snap for that too that can run a simulation, find out what that transaction is going to do, and then give you a human readable output from the transaction data, which generally speaking, if you go into a MetaMask transaction and look at the transaction data, it's not decipherable to the common user. So this takes that indecipherable data and turns it into something that you can tell what's going to happen. This will avoid you getting rubbed or perhaps signing a contract that will send all of your US dollar coin to someone who want to. It can also track OFAC sanctioned addresses or any malicious blockchain addresses known in registries and things like that. The API integration allows developers to do some interesting things, including integrate AI directly within the MetaMask extension so that they can do a ton of different things. We're going to see this roll out later this year and ConsenSys and MetaMask are sponsoring this with some grants to partially fund developers to kind of incentivize the growth of this ecosystem. And while they're not actually creating any one particular index, they did give I think a $60 ,000 grant to an organization that's creating an index that just basically has a list of all the different snaps that you can get out there. It's an independent organization doing this, so there's no favoritism or anything like that. They have a fairly open means for you to get in. You can submit your snap to the org, you can audit it, and in many cases there are some requests for proposals for specific snaps. So you can get funding. There are some hackathons that have been going on. This has been introduced I think in 2020 originally, so it's been kind of going through the rounds, but they are getting ready to bring it to fruition this year. And I think that it's kind of huge considering the fact that now we're talking about interoperability and MetaMask, perhaps one of the most widely used Ethereum wallets from ConsenSys, is now taking on the capacity to custody Bitcoin. Kind of a big deal. So sorry, because I remember hearing about, I saw a MetaMask presentation about snaps maybe a year or two ago, or a year ago at Bitcoin Miami. So the high level is what? That people can put in these pieces of a program into the wallets to kind of build out kind of a more expressive experience than just sending transactions, approving transactions? Think of it like plugins. Yeah. So if you want a plugin that helps you analyze the transaction, you roll it up. If you want a plugin that helps you run AI before you do a bunch of perhaps hedge trading or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they have ones that can do security too for analysis purposes or privacy. So as they add functionality, developers are going to have more tools at their disposal to be able to create more dynamic snaps, and then users can stack them in a modular way to fit their needs. Not every user is looking to do the analysis, and not every user is looking to do AI, and not every user is looking to operate in privacy. So there are various use cases that will dictate the use of snaps, I believe. Sweet. Yeah. It will be interesting to see. Yeah, I think the wallets are kind of going to ooze into identity solutions, and it will be interesting to see how those play together. You might have your... I mean, I love what the disco people are doing and trying to establish other non -financial credentials on chain, like age or something. I think that's going to be interesting. So, I don't know, having customized processes around your transactions, having more of a customized identity all linked to your wallet, which I don't even know if we'll call a wallet.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sean Davis: TikTok Should Be Banned
"Your thoughts on TikTok I'm torn on this I mean it's obviously a Chinese technological weapon for social destruction Get it Totally get it You don't have to sell me on it I'm in the tech space But I'm torn on it And the reason I'm torn on it is I think that the Democrats have linked shields with the Republicans here to get rid of TikTok not because they care about misinformation or foreign interference but if they can do that they want to go and start banning other platforms too Your thoughts after the hearing yesterday and what should be done about TikTok I think TikTok is an abomination It's poisoning our children's minds rewiring their brains doing so at the behest of the commies in China who by the way use a completely different algorithm and service among their own That's right You can't go and look up at this rot on Chinese TikTok It's all like learning and educational videos So there's the brain poisoning aspect There's the kami spying aspect where you are importing into your phone and into your life Chinese spyware So I think it absolutely should be banned It's a cancer Can you imagine during the Cold War if we were telling people hey you need to check out this great new device It's a Soviet radio It just happens to transmit stuff to the Soviets but don't worry we'll have really good radio program It would have been last out of the room But with TikTok it can't end with TikTok It has to end with us going acknowledging more with China spanning them from buying up our land buying up our farms preventing them from stealing all our IP And we need to stop making all our stuff over there Let's make stuff in America again and have a Manhattan Project for making stuff in America because if we don't do that we're cooked
Mark Levin
Caller: What's Happening to Netanyahu Is Happening to Republicans
"One about what you're talking about Benjamin Netanyahu Isn't that kind of the crazy crap we're trying to have our swamp up in Washington D.C. due to any of our Republicans And that what they're doing to them you're asking Well trying to basically make it where they can run us out Thank you I think in a different way you're a 100% correct They're intimidating these Republicans I think they're trying to make an example out of Trump He didn't deserve to be impeached twice He didn't deserve to be criminally investigated He doesn't deserve what's going on now I'm not even just talking morally And hasn't done anything Then they secure 6 year of his taxes with the support of the chief justice of the Supreme Court to do what to leak them There's no criminality in those taxes He ran his businesses on the up and up then you have letitia James who is a radical kook kami in Albany She runs for office She gets to keep her license even though she said one of the reasons she's running is to bring charges against Trump Then you have another kook left wing DA who puts a grand jury together to go after Trump in Atlanta Then you have another kook Soros DA in Manhattan who's trying to find ways to go after the Trump businesses too That's three Democrat DAs slash attorneys general Then you have a U.S. attorney special counsel or special prosecutor really This guy Smith they yank him from The Hague where he's busy Prosecuting war criminals to go against Trump on January 6th and documents which is a disgusting thing what they've done there While they're covering up for the bidens hunter Joe Jim the corrupt Biden family while they refuse to enforce the border while they refuse to prosecute people who are threatening justices
Mark Levin
Jan. 6 Committee Member Jamie Raskin Declined Mark Levin Interview
"Jamie Raskin is one of the sleaze balls who's on those committee is one of the sleaze balls who objected to George W. Bush being president of the United States He objected to the electors in Ohio even though which one Ohio by a substantial number any changes close puts a dress on and pretends he's brilliant Jamie Raskin's father was a kami Jamie Raskin was invited on the show Jamie Raskin is a coward He is a demagogue Is a dangerous man in my humble opinion Was wise of him not to come on this program Because I was going to confront him In a hundred different ways but it's people said that he's too busy In the lead up to the election is scheduled in permitted And yet mister producer he was on with Joe Scarborough this morning wasn't he He was all with Joe Scarborough because Joe Scarborough every politician knows this as a joke But Jamie won't come on this show neither will Lizzie He is well any member of that damnable committee not one
Mark Levin
Jamie Raskin Declines Interview by Mark Levin Until After Election
"Now we asked Jamie Raskin the so called constitutionalist whose father is a kami it was To come on this show in the past mister producer I need you to open up your microphone please And we got an email from Jamie Raskin's office today And what did that email essentially say mister producer They were not able to come on Speak up a little louder They were not able to come on until November They're not able to come on no the first email didn't say that The first email said that he'd be happy to come on Then you said fine What day and what time Correct and response as I asked you Correct And then they come back and say he can't come on until sometime after the election He's scheduled just too busy isn't that correct correct Okay That's how you conveyed it to me Jamie Raskin won't come on this show because he's a punk Because he's a coward Because he doesn't want to be confronted by me He'll do every kiss ass interview by CNN and MSNBC and The New York Times and The Washington Post And the whole newspaper and the other reprobates But he won't come on here Because he's a coward
Mark Levin
Hillary Clinton Compares Trump's Ohio Event to a Nazi Rally
"Here's what she said today Cut 20 go And it's no longer just the whiff of violence but the appeals to violence that we saw on January 6th but have seen and heard since then I do I worry about it a lot You know I remember as a as a young student young student you were a young kami even way back then Go ahead People get basically drawn in by Hitler How did that happen And I'd watch newsreels and I'd see this guy standing up there ranting and raving and people shouting and raising their arms What's happened to these people Why did they believe that You saw the rally in Ohio the other night Trump is there ranting and raving for more than an hour and you have these rows of young men with their arms raised I thought what is going on So there is a real pressure And I think it is fair to say we're in a struggle between democracy and autocracy
Mark Levin
China Sends Olympic Athletes to Quarantine Even After Negative Tests
"And I'm loath to even talk about the Olympics because I don't want to give it any attention or any oxygen except this is newsworthy China's cheating They keep sending other countries athletes to quarantine after negative tests After negative tests New York Post reporting Olympians in tears over poor living conditions lack of food at winter games My friend Chris Platt who's a great syndicated radio host Out of my station in D.C. I'm sure many of you are listening on this station you hear Chris plant as well He calls these The Hunger Games And this story brings it all home Belgian skeleton racer Skeletons see there's another one It's like as if luge wasn't unique enough where you lay down on your back and go hurtling down the toboggan course iced up tube at 90 miles an hour wearing nothing but a helmet But then they come up with skeleton It's like hey lay it on your back and going foot first That's not stupid enough Let's lay on our stomach and go head first See I love these sports And but I am kind of missing it a little bit but I'm not going to watch these games Belgian skeleton razor Kim mella manz broke down in tears in a video she posted on Instagram explaining how scared and confused she was about the COVID-19 protocols in Beijing Marilyn's tested positive for the virus when she arrived later tested negative All right so she's got one positive test one negative test So what are the geniuses running the Beijing kami Olympics do She thought she was being transported to return to Olympic village in Yang king She was instead taken by ambulance to another isolation destination
The Dan Bongino Show
Bill De Blasio Eliminating NYC's Gifted and Talented Program for Students
"So Bill de Blasio you know the communist up in New York He's about 7 foot tall I didn't know they piled turds that high He is a communist this guy Full blown kami he ruined the city one of the world's greatest cities I grew up with the Blasio 7 foot tall pile of turd De Blasio decides it's a good idea because de Blasio's public schools really suck and can't educate black and Hispanic kids So his idea to fix that problem like every communist throughout human history is let's not make everybody richer Let's make everybody equally poor Equality Liberals are like yeah man So great Because you're idiots So because mayor de Blasio's public schools run by unions that throw black and Hispanic kids under the bus Can't seem to educate a black or Hispanic kid anywhere in the city What did de Blasio do with de Blasio says that I've got an idea to my fellow communists Here is my great idea And the commies are clapping They're like this is great mayor de Blasio There's a gifted program in New York City For kids who are gifted Liberals are having a tough time with that They're like uh what does that mean So de Blasio says you know what if I can't make black and Hispanic kids smarter I'm going to make everybody dumber And the commies in New York are like yeah I'm a great idea So he's scrapping the gifted program Because God forbid Asian and kids who are white get into the program because mayor de Blasio his schools can't educate black Hispanics So where is conservatives are like I got an approach to this that could work How about we do a better job of educating black and Hispanic kids and sane people Again non liberals are like yeah yeah that sounds like a smart idea Liberals who are morons by the folds like no no no Let's keep black and Hispanic kids dumb and I've got idea Let's make white Asian every other kid Dumb too let's make everybody equally
Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"kami" Discussed on Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"This is great restored friends mostly do but there were some good comments. Made admits slight changes. We got into a illiterate agent and say Took to new york to and it was turned down by published. Wrap your publisher after publisher. And then we brought it back and radically revised and it was my first major a crash course in the art of revising and i show you in the book actually the first page of the golkar. The weight originally was and walk you through every change made to where it ended up and how it got there. Because i think that that's so important i actually. I remembered that story. When i heard you speak last spring and i it was like just a week before we were doing our wild woman writing retreat and i actually wrote that story down in my nose some that i could. It wasn't. I'm saying that you know if you're if you're if you're in the space or rewrite embrace out playing in it and And i think you know when you talked about it. When i we speak it was you said when that first publisher might publish it but it would not have reached as many people and when you got pushed on it and pushed on to what really happened was it got better and better and that's how you are able to reach an impact. So many people with that just happened to me again. With feel fear of them been the thriller when i give agent. It was one hundred fifty thousand words. You said this is great. And you know it's got to be a hundred thousand asserted and with every cut every revision got better and better and better. And here's the thing about about rewriting revising. Its not because your original writing wasn't visit should be is because it's it's like polishing diamonds and what happens is and this is what needs to happen that you want to be a successful writer. Whatever success means to you. You need to fall in love with the revision process. Because what happens. Is you start to see this magic magic. You take you take a sentence but you think is pretty good and it is and then you make a few little changes and all of a sudden. It's like magic. It's valey right yes it's yeah and so i am endlessly just fascinated and thrilled with how can take something that i wrote. It is okay and just do some work on it and all the sudden it's like oh god this is. This is just like a like humming and shining and glistening so. That's an exciting always exciting process. I finally got Edrich goes back to you and says this business nist instead of going. Oh crap. I thought it was done. I go by a chance to see what else is in there. That i didn't even know is better than i thought an only gets better. I love this After you've written thirty bucks. I can see. You're you're you see where that goes. I know when. I was writing my first book. I was like when my editor came back. Did you need to go deeper here. I was like i done. And she's like. Oh no you're not and you know what came out of. It was much more magical. So i it's. It's good to hear that that you know that you you see the magic event. I loved the fact that you save fall in love with the process that site a step process. That's awesome that's toils. I love it because of what comes down row. Yeah yes okay. So what's next for you. What are you working on. Some of the most exciting things that in the forefront for you two things are mentioned so. I've mentioned several times throughout steel. Fear did successfully sell it to publisher. They said we want a tuba deal. So it's serious. So i am right now working on the sequel and i almost got the point where i draft finish not going to look at it and say oh how can this be a lot better than the first one is out making get that now. The first book is out. It came out a month ago in july. That's called steel fear and then the that's the leadership parable disguises a crime novel and then the safe all Culture will come out in a year and then the other one is. There's a new golden for book. Really exciting there three parables. There's a new one coming out. My wife and i wrote it's called go. Giver marriage coming in march relies. Agile sal you with your wife. That's gonna be fun because then you can. That usually apply these concepts into our relationships. That's awesome yes. He was a first for me to really good time. Doing it was amazing. Cool cocoa so final question. I have for you. Are what three pro wisdom when you like to leave with our audience today. Three pro vision. Well you know how john to three on this. And they're not necessarily connected. I think the first is is critically important to in order to everybody. Everybody's put here for unique. I've moved in. Everybody has a night reason. They're here is as unique as their fingerprints and in order to fulfill that reason. I think it's critical that you listen to yourself. Trust yourself believe yourself honor yourself and follow your own your own instinct no matter what anybody else. That's the first point. Second point is. I think it's really important that you listen to other people and don't leave yourself. Don't listen because there are there. Are people out there who knows something you don't know and like the go giver story that you that you talked about you know there were editors who knew something we didn't know which was this isn't ready is not yet. This is mediocre. It's got seeds a gig stuff inference. Not ready so we're always like that always stuff in us that somebody else can see. We can't see so you have to do is kind of a paradox. You have to a trust yourself. Believe in yourself with a passion and be at the same time. Have your years and is open to trustworthy people who care about you and know something. You don't know the whole paradox. It's like one ready teacher. Said you have to have the the the arrogance of the teenager and the humility of buddhist monk at the same time right and the i guess the third thing i would say is messing with that paradox and dealing with these difficult decisions and strange pathways where the elite you follow them anyway is important because you said this the beginning because you matter you nobody can write the book you can right because nobody has lived the life you minutes nobody can. If you're an entrepreneur nobody can build the business. You can bill because nobody is you. Nobody has has. The experience is exactly has that. Mix that you do. And so there's you have something to give the world off of the world and a tremendous amount of fulfillment and satisfaction doing it that you can only access by figuring out with the story and then figuring out so good so good john. It's been a pleasure. It's been a delight and thank you so much for joining us here. I know my listeners are gonna just love this interview. Oh good well thank you so much. Thank you for giving you the chance to say some foods. You bet you bet and i can't wait for your give. Her marriage books. That's going to be fun. it's already up on amazon. Oh it is. It is and what's one tip out of that that that we should take into our our marriages into our relationships. I'll just say this the there are it's it's the subtitles the five secrets to lasting most and our our our our physicians. It isn't about love. It's about love last because if afam level of time but then what happens you know after ten years. Twenty years or cougars. So the first secret to lasting love is appreciation is the constant daily the civic and audible expression of appreciation specific meaning. I know not just. Hey you're a great person. But so tell me what i did. That was so great. That's good. I'm going to give my husband verbal appreciation this evening. Spray your well. Thank you so much john and spent a pleasure and thank you again. 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The Plant Path
"kami" Discussed on The Plant Path
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The Plant Path
"kami" Discussed on The Plant Path
"We're really take people into how how to get started making herbal oils. I you know at least five years of moldy oil experiments that I see a lot of pictures on instagram. Nope that oil not gonna last. I can tell ya and because the thing is is that every plant has something a little bit different that they want And so it's it's since. I started making oils fulltime. Thirty years ago I have a sense of the nuances. herbal oil. making can be simple but there are details Anybody can do it. But there are details and So all these years of experiment. It's really every actually every. Has something a little bit different than it likes. I like people. Like i like it this way. Just just tweak me a little bit that way. And i like just a little bit better. You know so. Yeah so. I do that in. But i have three workshop where i'm going to get people started in how to think about you know because we go how we made this oil or what i do to make this. Let me look it up on google. We go okay. That's how you do it but you don't understand why why. yes so. i am all about getting people in other. Why like why. You're going to choose this carrier oil why you choose this method. Why you're going to choose to use fresher dried plant and so this free workshop. We get started in that. And i even have a lot of longtime oil makers that go through the even the free workshop and email me go a while. Okay you just upped game. Big time i've been making oils for twenty years. So it's it's it's good. I i hope yeah. It's really good for free workshop that some happening before i opened up the course awesome. Yeah that's the thing. Right is i feel like there's levels of herbalism and being an herbalist. And i feel like there's this level where you realize that herbalism is more than just like a pastime and something that you're curious about and it's on the side where you but you're like okay. I'm a little more serious about herbalism. And that's what i wanna do. And i think that's the line that you were just talking about. Where when you get to that level of interest in herbal medicine that you need to know the why right. You can't just say. Oh i'm gonna give this person for that thing because that's what every book says to give the us this for that. We have to understand the inner mechanics of. Why is that plant being used for that particular person with that particular constitution with that particular constellation of symptoms. Right why are we using. This percentage alcohol to make this tincture for that plant. Fresh dry right. And i love that. You're getting that's specific with it with the oils. Because right i mean how many different i mean there's so many different kinds of oils out there. How do you know which one do you use. There's so many different plans like you said. Is it fresh dry. What's the ratio. How long do you infuse it. How do you make sure all of the water is getting evaporated out so you don't end up having a spoiled oil later on. How do you heat it up. But not so much that you make the oil go. Rans ethic there's so many different factors that that are involved that it can on the surface look like poor soil over urban filter. It in there you go. It's like kind of but there's actually a lot more to them as you said. I love that you're going into so much detail on this and it's so awesome that you're making.
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"kami" Discussed on The Plant Path
"She is mustard seed. I know that my great grandmother on my great grandmother he she used onion. I know you know you. Little relics right but those relics are really important. And i i finally figured out. Why my great. Great grandmother made rhubarb pie. In the spring. Like oda right rhubarb. She entered into when you look at all the old recipes and stuff. It's not just about the recipe. It's like where did the break happen when people stopped knowing the therapeutics of the recipe rights. Right so so my my age. They've all got the recipe from gregory grandmother's grammar. And they just make the recipe. But they forgot that the rosemary that lamb steeped in the rose might for a reason. And it's like oh. We're making the rhubarb pie case. But what's like if we can go back. Remember that therapeutics of why we go for this hour Liquefying Flavor in the spring of rhubarb. Right so if we can go back and just look at all his recipes and go. Okay there buicks. And when did that stop and can we connect with that person just energetically just and start thinking about when when health are back to be need to go to find that person. That knew the energetics that i work on that a little bit at a time. And like i said i feel like i gathered. Maybe enough strings to start reading something. But it's a lifelong process right. I mean it really is and what is blooming now. What can we celebrate like. We have a party every year when the blackberries come like that's just that is part of our culture or the apples. And so what can you create. What could what unlike little noticed seeing maybe when the bees come back the first flower what is it in nature round. Knew that just has you like gosh. This deserves a meal and a party a celebration and instead of our culture being fed to us what what what's the culture from the ground right. I'm i'm really really interested in that..
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"kami" Discussed on The Plant Path
"I feel like that is really really important. What you just talked about. And there's the i loved that phrase that you said i forget what was at home home. Healing culture just healing a healing culture within the home and i feel like especially amongst my generation of folks. You know thing. I hear a lot is i just. Don't feel like we have a culture here in the united states you know. Were just the smorgasbord of all. These people came from all over these different countries from all over the world and one of the big things of people came. I immigrated to america as they wanted to be americans. They didn't want to be norwegians anymore. They didn't want to speak their language. I didn't want to be swedish. Anywhere they want you know is a lot of not for everyone but a lot of it was kind of leaving a lot of that behind right and And i know a lot of folks are. These days are kind of like looking for that culture. They're looking to where they come from where their ancestors are from where what their heritage is maybe a little further back in the their ancestry. And i feel like there's also an element of being able to create that culture that you want in your own family. Maybe it doesn't have to be everyone. You know the whole country or even in your whole city or even in your neighborhood but maybe just within your own home you create the kind of culture that you want to have where maybe you really honor and recognize the changing of the seasons with some form of intentional ceremony or blessing or something. You know what i mean every day. We're gonna take care of ourselves in this way because this is the way our family operates and i just feel like that's so great Talking about culture and bringing that to life within the home and within the family. And just. Yeah i don't know i just feel like there is something about remembering our heritage. That is so important as herbalists and as healers and i guess. I'm just curious on what that process has been like for you. I mean he sounds like you. Six generation i think you said people kind of connected to the earth and wild crafting and i guess. I'm just curious if you can speak a little bit more to that dynamic of our heritage in our culture a little more. Yeah such a big question. So so many people listening Everybody's background is so different. What the experience is so different. Some people you know. They were put in schools and beaten and killed if they spoke their language or practice their medicine. You know right and just so many different experiences Or people that were enslaved and they just you know. They could not practice anything that that they came with. And for i know for irish scottish heritage. I know Just do some of my research a lot of the early mills in the factories and even like four. This was documented in one of the documentaries that on ford motor like when they were all living in these camps if if people were caught Using their medicine creating traditional foods singing their songs they were punished off fired. You know so. There was a lot of the The early industrial factories there was a real push to just not have to have people all become one thing so that they could be controlled and so we all have this level of our you know but then there in and then there are some cultures that they were able to keep it intact. you know. so everybody's got a different experiences. Each person has to make that connection. Look for that threat. Look for those you know. I call it just like so that they can wear that cloak again. We're it's just a few threads in the lifetime. I feel like i've gathered up. You threads literally like okay. I got okay. I know about this plan. My grandmother on my mom's side..
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"kami" Discussed on The Plant Path
"He was like. Oh my gosh. This feels so good. Slicked himself with oil. And i was like there you are. That's who we are. That's how we're meant if the all like. Yeah let's just oil up. That's excellent so the one thing that you said that i really really love and i feel like this is something that i personally really resonate with. And as i would say a big part of my mission to you know about the evolving to embrace taking care of our bodies using those medicinal plants to be a part of our self care and the way that we heal ourselves and rekindling that connection that we have with the earth the intelligence of the earth and really learning how to live a lifestyle that is healthy and holistic in accordance with nature and this earth and and this one piece is becoming much more important to me. Now that i'm dad and passing this down to the next generation right so that there were kind of this. Plants are becoming a part of our culture that is Bringing healing to the people in through that bringing healing to the earth because we're learning to live in greater harmony with the earth. So where do you see working with herbal oils and herbal medicine as a whole kind of fitting into that and kind of on a bigger picture. Changing culture as a whole yeah. That's such a great question right because it's not just about take this for that anymore. It's about transformation is not just about like a peak experience. Like oh i got yield. It's really about transforming our culture in a relationship with the earth and it's End so it's so much this is about it can help. But the thing about the oils as they can. They really do help us. Remember our heritage as herbalist healers right. It's it's if you as being the herbs into our home the oils into our home and we say compress decompress each day right And if you have savvy lotion in your living room it's it's just there you you start putting your hands on you know. We always put our hands on people's shoulder when they're crying or something but we can do that for each other every day. It's really about bringing that consciousness that we're going to touch each other. We're gonna rub each other's feet. We're going to do salt scripts. In the evening. We develop a family culture or a friendship culture that involves touch herbs oiling. So that so that just the common mic screen and alcohol are the only decompression space and so it's like it's about building a home healing traditions. That's what i'm about because the pharmaceutical campaigns are not gonna go away anytime soon. They're getting more intense and they come flying at you. And unless we have a river of home or tributary are a little stream of home healing traditions flowing through our household mom that we've embedded that we met that automatically teaches the young ones that they can do it for themselves Then what are we gonna do we. Eventually we get afraid. We got a call the advice nurse. You know not that you never do that but if we if we develop these healing traditions then it's a completely different situations it's like you. You're you're it's just part of what we do is part of our home culture as part of how i stay awake and connected and it's just it's like We oil each other we. It becomes part of household cultured healing. And and it's it's where you start offering your intention your attention and your love to your body and so it's like you you you you you you have this thing in place the self healing act and by you know you're not just using the oils you're using your hands and we all have healing energy in our hands in.
Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"kami" Discussed on Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"Challenging and You know a lot of people don't realize that you can really go down you your own niche within the makeup industry so i just went full on after the production needs and i was in la at the time. But i was like you know. I could be a release small fish in a big big ocean or i could move back to dallas which actually has a really large commercial market and i could be a big fish in an For lake. you know what you did. That's what i did that was. Then you started your. You started your company then in dallas. I did i was really taken but in the makeup industry had a lot of success in a short amount of time and was so aware of the jobs that i was working on. I was often times the youngest person on set and you know after going through cosmetology school. I definitely realized. I'm hard wired differently. I think growing up in the woman network environment having entrepreneurial parents you know growing up going to my mom's tours listening to her speak and hearing her keynote twenty times a year and all of that definitely i think impacted my approach to the to my to my career android. An impacted my success. I saw a need to train. You know beauty industry professionals. That really wanted to go for it. You know how to how they can do it. You know it's not. It's not that hard to get there you know. He just needs to have certain systems and processes and etiquette and all these things. They don't teach you in school. So that's what i did. I partnered with a fellow industry artists. That i really respected. Who a really great friend. And we launched our first company and hosted makeup workshops all over the country and so you were training the who are you training so our audience were cosmetology students primarily. That was our main. That was our our main audience that we really went after but we promoted in the hat professional artists that were a little bit more seasoned as well but we really wanted to go after that person very early in their career. That's where we went. And we hosted workshops with fifty or so students at a time and provided them models and huge makeup kits with spa that our sponsors donated and brought in the top celebrity makeup artists and the world. I mean rainy dos quiz. Aj crimson on. Kelly baker growls the kardashians brow artists. And you know. Jennifer lopez artists like the list goes on and so we put these amazing workshops masterclasses together and taught not only the technique but then also we really went deep into the business side of it and it was amazing. We kicked it off. Hit six figures within our first year and the businesses really growing momentum. And i was like man. This is it. This is except that once you start to get some traction and some success. It's amazing how you know people change. And i kind of had my my i. You know really rude. Awakening that The that success definitely does not buy happiness again. I realized i was in business with the wrong people and And that that really made her break it can make or break it and my case it was really breaking it and i i was like man i can't we can't i can't move forward with this partner anymore. This because our values are two different. Very complimentary work skills but totally contradicting core values. And you can't. I don't think you can live a life of integrity. If you're not in alignment with your core values as so agree. And so and i know core values such an intricate part of women network What were your core values that you were standing on that point that you're like okay. These are my core values that i really have to hold true to. I think it was the biggest one. There were several. But i think the biggest one was treating everyone with a quality. You know. I kind of really believe in the importance of treating the janitor the same way you would treat the ceo and that was one of probably the biggest stainless that were not consistent. That really bothered me. Because i really liked to take care of my team The same way. I take care of my sponsors the same way. I take care of my celebrity artists. Same way i take care of. You know the valet person helping us other stuff and and that That really bothered me. And i think in and it would have been. Maybe one thing if it wasn't so if it didn't impact everyone around us. But i it was a value that not only while there may but it impacted the way other people experienced my brand and i couldn't be the face of a brand that you know was received that way and so you know I think that was the deal. Breaker for me campaign. So i i. I had to step away from that business. It was a really really painful decision. I put so much sweat equity to it and really felt like i had found my stride and found my dream and and unfortunately it wasn't something that i could step away from easily and it turned into a really really yucky two year separation with lawyers and all of that and ultimately we both lost. You know we both lost the business. We both lost a friendship. You know ten years of friendship you know where you learn through that because so many people look at partnerships and it's so much more fun to do something with with someone else right partnership you know. There's there's there's low brightness in that what did you learn through that you would give advice on. I learned that. I learned that the way you know pete ball personally is not the way people professionally that just because you mess with somebody really great and a personal environment. You like them. As a person outside of work does not mean that. That's the person you're going to get when you go into business and it is and it's something that i knew. My mom teaches at you know where each individual is. A function of your behaviors are a function of the individual in the environment right so when the individual is in a different environment. You're going to get a different set of behaviors. I knew that. But it didn't play out and i didn't. You know you can hear it and then you gotta live it. Sometimes you'll learn. I learned the hard way. And would you have been able to foresee that in any way. Do you think have discovered that early on or was it just something you had to go through in. Discover me now. In retrospect i think if i were to do that do a partnership again i i would definitely approach it differently. I think because you know. I had such a long standing friendship with this person. I was just really eager and excited to jump in. And i think now i probably wouldn't go into business someday. I'm that personally close. Because i think that that can create a lot of Unnecessary emotions that wouldn't that wouldn't exist in business. You know if you weren't dat personally invested with somebody number one but number two. I think there's a different betting process. There's different questions that i ask. You know i would definitely have talked about values from the beginning. You don't put them on paper you know i. I don't. I can't say that we did that like espn network. Does that so appreciate our values down as a result of that experience. I appreciate a company that really makes them clear and broadcast what they stand for because they play out every single day our values right.
Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"kami" Discussed on Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"Well welcomed extraordinary women radio jessica. Answer thrilled to have you with us today. Thank you for having d cam so come to be here and tell us where you joining us from today. I am here in chicago illinois where it is a balmy sixty degrees for the first time mike six months. So we're all very happy your light right now because basically summer right right as we've had a couple sixty and seventy degree days here in colorado and we just we just eat them up and then we get a big dumped snow in between them. And that's that's okay because we need the we need the moisture. But i assure i'm ready for the spring and the sprouts Start coming up and all that good stuff too. I think you and i are very very much aligned in the work that we're doing and the things that were most passionate about and i'm so glad to speak to you and i know you just had your book. Combat this last month multiple. Tell people about your book. Be which i love the name of your book being what what won't get into that as we get through this. But i really want to start with your story and i my my listeners. Love to hear the story you know. What got you to this place that you're you're at in your business and your life and i know you've that spiritual ben to that's taken you that's brought you here so share a little bit about that. I mean why story. It's really interesting this perception right that we all have an projection that we all have about people we see in the world and yesterday i run a successful business iva deal i have a platform. I have a great marriage. I you know. I have the the things that you could actually equate to a happy in fulfilling life but hasn't always look this way. I've been through a lot of trauma and struggle specifically as a woman when it comes to software shuttles team self loves. I have definitely never considered myself with for a long. Did number never considered myself like financially successful right. I struggled with a lot of debts. Toxic relationships with men body dismore via you know been through through a lot and my my journey. I guess i guess you could take it back to high school where i was never cool. I grew up in a very fluent suburb. My parents were self made people. I was never part of the in crowd was bullied a lot carrying a lot of that trauma into my twenties. And you know a lot of poor decisions when it came to romantic relationships struggled founder professional for quite some time once for theater graduated became an actor slash. Bartender ended that for a long time before i stumbled into entrepreneurship
Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"kami" Discussed on Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"Welcomed extraordinary woman radio and the key to it is so great to have you join us today. They can be. I am honored to be here. I have been so excited to talk to you in. Learn more about your work. Learn more about your stories are der mutual. Jessica roads introduced us. And i just adore jessica and the whole interview connections team. Then we already have something in common. I absolutely love them all. Yup yup jessica yup. All of them that they are and It's and it's so much fun to every time every time i meet anybody from that community. It's like they're they're just good people they're people doing good things in the world and they're they're just really they draw the right people into their community. Which makes it feel safe when they recommend someone breaks exactly the same. Yeah yeah well nikita. I wanna start with your story unless there with your personal journey and it you are running an amazing business and i want to know. How did you get to this point What's what's the journey been. Because i know it hasn't been just a straight line from you know from there to here so tell us just a little bit of this this arc way of. What's gotten you to where you're at. No question. And i know you and i were talking before we started about the layers that women have you know people have but it's been lillyman layers mastery that different in that respect lasts of twist in terms of my journey So i started off. My business is almost ten years. Old will be ten in may of this year so entrepreneur relations. Thank you. Entrepreneurship is a decade. For me at this point for a veteran a great. That's a great milestone. i hit ten years i think it just a little a year ago and it feels good when you hit that right it. Does you feel like did you have that feeling when you thirty. You're like a hammer out relies announcing you as a as a business owner in all parts of the process. We love it. Weiner churn we cherish by. It does feel different when you can feel like you're kind of doubts inside your life end in your business. So prior to becoming adult again this My journey started as a licensed clinical social worker. A trauma specialists sexologist relationship therapist. Like all things human behavior. I really just wanted to understand. Why did certain things or didn't do certain things to make their lives full and rich and healthy and whole That were anchored to whatever their experiences where that may have actually ridge dramatic so you were. You love this. Study people and behaviors and that's awesome It was really important for me to be really clear about how defined sharma like some people think. Oh i was sexually abused. Or i wasn't in any kind of intimate partner violence so it doesn't matter to me like that's not why i'm having difficulties or challenges but a lot of people didn't understand as my work got deeper and deeper and i understood the legs that trauma and michael jets that trauma smaller traumas can have as it also includes ways that you might have been violated when someone you and you held onto that and who stored at a certain way Limiting your ability to shy the lack of a better phrase being endure case extraordinary trade. Yeah it it kinda makes um that that emotion or that feeling in your body making you kind of poland. Smaller guest's feels like absolutely And i wanted to know why. I wanted to know not just for the other people but i honestly gambling i wanted to know. Why did it right on my life right. I liked that you say that it wasn't you didn't have to be some big trauma that there can be some instant that happens in our life that that that we carried forward at simply that we here a lot of law you know. All the parts of my life like in terms of our clinician being a being in practice. I would hear people say. I don't have that that we trauma story so that means also will have the big success on the other side because you know we are here it right the quote unquote gurus out there. They've all had something at least reportedly they've all had something family abandoned on raise in foster care right right by major thing happen so other people listening what feel like. I didn't have that. I have both my parents. Were in a nuclear family. Other than my siblings. Getting on my nerves for the most part wasn't hitting major bullying. So there's this meeting that. I can't be successful that i won't have healthy happy relationships so deep studying because i am a hashtag nurture life right so we've really studying that and being removed from my own biasi because we do bring our own biases in every situation. I really got to understand it. Some people were denying bear experience. That was traumatic even if it was a quarter whole smaller although we have to be careful with that were by you know measuring outsource experience but compared to maybe catastrophic right or military level heath yesterday ramble words and ryan there right soon grief and a knowledge that they had something that needed healing So that they could be restored from that just because it wasn't seeing as a what a trauma in the eyes of the news reporting So that really. Let me down the funnel of all things Figuring out why people were kind of stuck in this survival moles as a clinician. I honestly candidate. That was my job is to be with you in your process to help you figure out the route at dysfunction to get you get your legs underneath of you so that you could navigate and start to survive host trauma once you had identified or became aware of it regardless of win. That awareness was unlocked. Not where things got rocky for me by honestly is i wasn't happy during it. I was really good at it. And i loved it but i wasn't in my
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"kami" Discussed on Culinary School Stories
"That you were just mentioning posted. Yes videos in different things like that. I'm also unlinked animal everything but the two major spots our website in twitter and i am always posting only dan which is courses candy are. Smith is my my name on their great. Now make sure. I put those links and the show notes so if anyone's listening and can't remember them they can always go back and get those links. There would be flattered. I'll talk to anybody who as we come to the end of our chat today before we wrap up as many last minute advice or guidance. You want to leave with the listeners. Something you want to share url gladness. There's so much to say. I have well first of all. I really enjoyed my time with you. And just talking about these steps said the ladder than i've been on with this career and honestly it's my life. It's been really cool crazy right. But what i would say is whatever you choose whichever field a food which there so many now and i cash. I'm so envious of those are just now stepping into the world of food and beverage. If you will just a you know say it. As more of a blanket statement there is almost every opportunity. You know Of of work that they could do and they can go. Association to create specific flavor says flavor wrist all the way to creating machines that can do something to create a new looking pie. The world's wide open. I would say in all of it no matter what you do always follow that gut feeling. There's something to be said for your personal intuition and even though it's what you feel like you should do when you know in your gut it's wrong or something just doesn't feel right. Just follow that. That's just your little self telling you good or bad things about not good or bad but just better for you or not so good for you. I'll give you a quick example of following the get. I was creating a wedding cake. And i used the wrong. Stark system with the batter didn't even realize that i did. I did and what i found was. My cheesecakes were weeping terribly. I'm talking. they all look like they were crying. Just water dripping out. And i was heartbroken because his bride related this cake. You know so. I'm just i'm crying in the kitchen and trying to get thanks to stop watering. It won't stop number thinking. Can i just get this water to stop like stop already in Stip back it all of a sudden in my gut. It don't use better cream in between the layers. Don't use better crewmen between the layers. Oh my god. Yes so. I took the cheesecakes. And i put them directly on the cake without any filler. And the water dripped in the cake and kept all the cakes moist in all over was pulled in and it was just that knowing and that you can't teach you can't teach it you just have to imagine. Say when you feel like it's right to do it when you're doing job changes. My parents freaked out a few times on me. When i'm like you know what i'm getting a job. This is why this is going to. And they're like but when you know it's right it's right so i would just consider into be very clear. On following your got anna. I would say the other baby level of advice is never be afraid to be who you are ever i am. I am a petite female who loves make up in. I love fancy hair and i love glitter sparkle. I am dolly parton. Basically i love and glamour. But it does not devalue the level of chef. It doesn't mean that. I don't take my culinary seriously. It just means that. I just lack of good beautiful basic and for many that did not fly well and they didn't really get some assumed because i loved makeup into be dressier than some at some presentations. They assume that. I just wasn't to be taken seriously. That's fine but in the end. I am just who i am and i would encourage everyone to be. You are in daring in that because in the end you always treat yourself therefore you will always be at peace with who you are and i think that's wonderful and finally people get it. I like makeup in enjoy perfect. Well that is just about all the time we have for this episode. And i wanna i thank you for coming on the show today and sharing your culinary school story with all of us really appreciate your time your insight and your honesty. You're so welcome It's been a pleasure. I'm beyond flattered that you've had me on your show and thank you for creating a really neat and wonderful firing space for may an infant visitor listening so thanks so much well. Thank you again. Enjoyed our chat by now and a big thanks and appreciation also goes out to all of you the listeners. We hope you enjoy the show and this episode. You all are a big part of this show so please let us know what you think. Your comments are always welcome and they help us in making the best show possible. 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"kami" Discussed on Culinary School Stories
"Said i need to discuss a potential hazard with you and she said sure. What's going on her. my them she said. Are you in pain a signal out. This happened about a month ago. And it's not broken in. The thumbnail is black but it just looks bad. Are you okay. If i don't wear gloves shirt. I and she simple isn't an open wound said now there's nothing coming out of it great and you're fine to not use a glove interest. Go for it. A went okay. So about six hours later we have baked. We have made better kinds. We've made syrup. We have scrubbed the kitchen down and we ended up making this beautiful. I toward that. I learned on it was called Boca better tour. And the way in which things work johnson and wells everyone that makes a final product. They are boxed and shipped over to the main hall for eating or consuming. So that is it creates a whole cafeteria main hall eating scenario so that after everyone class that go to main hall. We basically eat what we made like. It's ingenious idea so at the end of class scrubbing cleaning up. I'm taking by eight brand. And i was just noticing. My skin was all dry. Down in my thumb was clear. Ooh it had no state. Whatever i guess it was dried blood. it was gone. I was horrified. Like oh my god. I just completely destroyed and ruined the potential. You know tour. I mean. I've tainted this entire class and i was so scared. Just finish Anything how ridiculous is that. I get the best. We all go over to the dorm. We change clothes. And i am coming down the hallway like a fury. Because i just had to warn my roommates tony awful. I was like it's like in a paul revere running running so anyway i rent in the hallway at open. The door and i needed to say was do not eat the burger tonight surprise something just just just donated. I kept that secret to the grave to be and well. I think you save now. So it's okay now out of all those classes. Did you have a favorite in one of those classes that you like. Wow that was one. I stuck with me to this day. Oh definitely chocolates. Simple lanes back course. Just for a little back info. I ended up transferring from the providence rhode island campus to charleston only because the freshman year people could have cars at rhode island but in charleston. They could and i was like well. I want to be able to have a job. i wanna work. I wanted to fill my time so it was just a better opportunity for me. So i transferred there and padding chef arman groner's or chocolates and lanes eighty six six-foot or german who was just absolutely a destroyer all of the war as out but it was by far the most impressive course of ever had my life and now that seems fitting because you work with the candy company. Yes i don't get it. I guess it all full circle at some point. But yes. I work or a manufacturer which i basically in my history shift career. I was in production. Just a few years and then i jumped over into a food science world because i found that my brain clicks better in these scenarios but yeah i'm in food manufacturing and we produce basically inclusions or as we like to say like the little extra that you have in your ice cream. Your yogurts your cookies. Even bagels vic goods muffins. N even toppers for really beautiful hot like Like a standard whipped cream. On top of a mock. We might have like a dusting of something we're producing those katie's inclusions baked goods. Wow interesting really cool. So are we talk a little bit about that for the listeners. Because sometimes they realize what this industry offers you know. They may think. Oh i have to go into a restaurant or a hotel when the so many outlets that you can use this degree that you added. The skills are the apprentice in this industry and yours. No you did that and in new tv and you had bakeries and kind of recommended. Maybe you could talk about that a little bit for the listeners and how they may be able to follow that path. It's definitely an open ended conversation in of wherever you want to probably hand. If they're working in baking please stray definitely in your yard in each and not everyone loves that. But when you're in it you're in it for life. Became his passion is its expertise in. It's also. I don't know what to become a love affair like i don't have children but my career has really been able to bring such joy because the products that i work on are developed watched those have been all over the united states in the world. That's deal Before i dive into that. Say when i was a preliminary there was champagne wishes the landscape. He just we just had a really nice banner every but it's just wasn't too scared of them a shot that's disband you know in the cook. The mom has gold medals It's incredible that was older a nontraditional student at twenty one. Twenty two years old at that point. And i remember asking him i said what would you recommend to someone entering the field and he said if anything work in restaurants or can have all you add to that. Choose what you wanna do it. Just give those hikes. Works under your belt and i would definitely say that to everyone unless they are very very specific on the type of work they want to do. It is vital to understand this the workings of a restaurant the hours labor in the precision that it really takes in high volume which i personally really excelled that worke in a team. Effort is huge. If you don't know how to almost let down the pride in go a little bit work with the team in create something together you're gonna have a heart career. that's probably number one but working in high volume. You understand that creating thousand plates at this speed. You wanna create one plate in the speed of a thousand and unicredit thousand plates. The precision of one is a big deal for us so once you have that expertise than you can jump into anything. You want now all the stuff that done. It's just things that have crossed my path. And i kept saying yes. That's it was at any of these major goals that i just had in mind. I just knew. I wanted to keep reaching a level of excellence and there was a chef. That really pulled me back one day and said you wanna be perfect. You're gonna fail to stop michael god. You're right beating myself up. Because i you know i ruined a chapel. May which is an egg widened nut mixture and couldn't get it right and i you know messing everything up and he said stop. Just stop it breath. Just keep reaching a level of excellence because we.
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"kami" Discussed on Culinary School Stories
"When we wanted to get into that in the end i just said you know what i'll chocolate and i would like to make things pretty and i think i might be really good at this using food in this avenue and so that's how i got to culinary was it was kinda like plan b. Wow well it kind of makes sense. You had that foundation architecture you interested in. That's the pastry the culinary arts part of it in the nursing you want to help others. You want to nourish them so you had the all there you just you know came to foolish you in there when you saw that ad for johnson and big all of these little pieces finally making their way in creating a future career for myself but it worked. Joe did you go visit the campus. I you just enrolled in went there. Tell us about how that process started. And then what happened when you got there so at the time. I assuming they still do this now. But johnson and wales offered a lion program for prospective students. And if you you know. Flew up there on their dime you enjoy restaurants restaurants. You took a full tour. And you were able to just basically congregate with your future of administration chaffetz. And if you enroll that weekends and they would give you basically a rebate to grand isle. Well parents were like This is a good idea was the three of us will up from east tennessee. And it's really hard to explain. But a lot of people have that light bulb moments and a lot of people. I would assume that maybe listeners have had those opportunities in life where they're like. Hey you know what you have knowing when we started the tour and i was looking at the history center. They of course. It's the fishbowl. You didn't look through the window and you're looking for doing. It was advanced cake and baking. When i saw this case being created. It was just stunning. Pipework i looked at my mom. And i said this is it is it so flash. Light brown was a knowing it was hard to explain. I was twenty one and my dad was like. Are you sure mike. yes like. There was an adamant absolutely so we went through the process. And i ended up moving up there about a couple of months later. That was this was the providence campus. It was the providence campus. Yes i stayed at the what was called the hospitality dorm. Which on the yeah. It was hospitality which ended up being an old howard johnson hotel. They had think crazy than i had an end room which was probably like a banquet room but i had four roommates so it was a bit crazy and crowded. But isn't that kind of a really cool and fun. Memories are made. So yup. I think about this. They're really fun. So you went there for baking and pastry culinary arts and so what was. What was day one. They had to get uniforms and they gave you a tool and then you went to classes. You have labs. I and what was that class situation. Where since i already carried it undergrad degree i opted or they basically just took me straight into practical or lab work. I didn't have to take any lecture classes because a lot of i think i think a lot of listeners may not know that but they most culinary schools do have that garnish your degree or some program like that. Where if you already bring in one all those credits for the academic type classes will transfer and you just have to take basically the lab classes. R- that right. i was able to get the associates. Bp baking pastry art degree or associate degree. Which would normally be a two year program. I got that in one year. So i mean it's not good or bad it just was my situation and i was quite grateful because i was anxious. Little analogy jump ban and start working with my hands for sure you get to save that tuition and you get to get back into the workforce quicker. You're actually right once. I was able to receive. Like what all elapsed going to be like in pastry. If i remember correctly basically one class was about a month it was thirty days whereas in culinary you have seven day classes and then you switch you know stocks and sausalito anyway skills and you know just garbage day like it was very fast learning that russ the little bit more intense on learning proper batters and just all the different faces or meringue better cranes simple syrup. Just a ton of so. I was in my first baking and pastry class which was actually just cakes at cranes. In syrups i believe is my class and so is this. I was reading in your bio. This is where you had a little accident with love fingernail. Maybe this class the mentioning accidentally that storms oracle would so. I think that about a month. Before i had to pack up in live rhode island was out on the driveway. Washing the car or getting something out of the carpet for some reason. When i opened up the driver's side door and grabbing remember grabbing a bag inside the car and in my world just wanted to be swift and cool and when i pulled be bad with my left hand and then had my right hand on the frame. I just thought i'm going to shut the door. It's just like nothing happened. For whatever reason. I ended up slamming the door right on my right was it was awful. Main thing heartbe bloody disgusting. But it didn't break it which is good so After my parents took me to the doctor. They're like yeah. You're like okay. So the thumb itself was really bruised and the thumbnail was like black but there was no wound and it just looked really ugly but so far it was okay so i fly to rhode island. Everything's working at thumb is still looking like it's it's just boost in really really. It just looks really bad and ugly. Anyway so i get into class. First day we are examined are uniform. Were examined for ironing. Our aprons had to be poland certain toolkits head to be honest to the table. A certain way like it was very military. But i loved it because i like precision of so once class officially started i just approached the sheriff and.
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"kami" Discussed on Culinary School Stories
"Stories. The weekly podcast dedicated to sharing the stories people round the globe whose lives have influenced impact. Touched and or enriched for good or for bad from their culinary school experience high. Money is colin roach. I'm your host. Thanks for joining us today. You are an important part of this show. We asked the question. What's your culinary school scoring so now without further delay. Let's meet today's guest. Hello everyone and thank you for joining us today. For another episode of the culinary school's stories. Podcast a proud member of the food media network. I'm very excited to welcome today's guests to the show. She is currently at corporate pastry chef and director of culinary but is also are has been a speaker teacher entrepreneur and tv chef and that is only part of her culinary school story and so without further delay. It is my pleasure. Introduce today's guest chef. Cammie smith cami. Welcome to the show are match. Weser to be here great. So let's start at the beginning like all good stories. Do and tell us. Where did your love of food and baking and cooking. Start so great question. When i was younger. Probably i would say eight nine years old for some reason. I received a little tiny hershey's viral cookbook or either birthday or maybe valentine's day. But i think everyone had one and it was probably thirty pages all collar and on that little spiraling even open it up and it started out maybe with than which brownies bars and supervising cakes and stuff and i was just so enthralled with how beautiful everything looked i remember looking at my mother and i said can i make these things when i get home from school said of course so i always made chocolate chip pancakes in cookies with her and then when she would make pie or cakes i would try to help or at least what she would allow me to do and we always had baked goods in the home and so i was just a bit swarthy if you will because i just love it. I love eating all so when we get home from school. Of course i would pull out my little hershey's book and i would just start making in the first thing i made the play. Wow was great. My dad helped me create this caller that would put over this croc and it rose it was phenomenal and that was my first taste of like an egg white basically just this incredible energy that took for this egg white to rise like i remember eating out with him and on wet. That is this fancy and he was like. Oh yeah this is so that was where it all began our felt like i had this natural intuitive thought of looking at a cookie sheet and i just felt well. This is a four by three or this is a two best seven or meaning. That's how many jobs across or many. How many packs of cookies. I could put in. It would have enough room to spread and bake and it wouldn't like slam into each other so it just kinda started when i was younger to be frank. That's a pretty ambitious first recipe. Assu flay too so daring personality at times and sometimes i just want to jump in you know all four so great so then you kinda went on to culinary school right. So how did that happen. Did you start in high school. Or did you always know you're going to culinary. School was an afterthought and then how did you choose the culinary school that you did. That was never necessarily a goal. It wasn't this innate ability of mine to say this is what. I'm going to be when i was younger. Actually wanted to be an architect and then it went to nursing. I just flipped all over. Because i was such a high creative space and i'm not sure that my parents always knew how to deal with that but they always threw me into something whether it was our class piano. I played flute We did a ton of cantatas in the church that i was in growing up so always in the limelight always performing always working on showmanship always singing so that was a creative outlet for me just to cut. You will get the energy out in middle school at show choir high school. I did band but when it came to school it was definitely understood that we needed to go to college. That was a better avenue to see the world. So i had no idea very young as a seventeen year old and decided that i probably should just do interior design because i really loved art. I love to make things beautiful in pretty. And i headed back for it. That was the first major in five majors later. To be honest. I ended up going into nursing and i discovered a class in it was called. Nutrition to fascinated micro macro minerals vitamins. Gi track new and everything just came together in so that was basically opening the door to food. Science had no idea what was at the time so this was at tennessee. Tech so my grad is ended up graduating with a bs degree in human ecology concentration food nutrition diabetics but my concentration within that was food administer food service administration. I loved being in that kitchen working with the kitchen. Ladies i love being able to create volume food and it. Just i just got it. Everything food i understood. Chemistry ended up having a minor in chemistry. Because i took some classes. So i just kept following little rabbit down the whole bit and through that little following the hall and an actor. Everything was coming to a close graduation. I ended up discovering that one of my family members developed unfortunately cancer. So i began to walk with her through that process. And what's i ended up finding out while in the hospital. Just being with her in staying you to supporting by passion to be a registered dietitian which is bridge. Really what you were going to do with foods. Undergrad degree it kind of squashed. It and felt a bit lost in had no clue what i was going to do in literally on a whim. I'm looking through a magazine and this was probably when i was not in the hospital. Stay with her. But just you know hanging out in my dorm room but i just saw a m well when i was visiting hoping coming back but in the end of the magazine cover on the inside. Just the kind of pastry chef johnson wales university and thinking. Well i'm definitely not going to work in nutrition and actress saying what food has dan or couldn't do to save my cousin which that's a really long story but.
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"kami" Discussed on Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"Put thoughts behind it bring original thought to it and then make space for pas and quiet introspection. I've touched base on this many times. That's how we can do this as leaders only way we can do. This as leaders is to find that introspective time. Meditation walks be in nature. Whatever is for you make that space. Learn to stand in your feminine power right that light of you. There is so much strengthen our feminine power and it's not showing up projecting ourselves it is really about showing up and being who we are and we then move out of the projection and really into the the the light. That's inside of us right. That's that's the difference that we we step into with a are feminine power and know that how you resonate matters this. Our factor right. It is about really taking care of the energy of ourselves and it means stepping into taking care of our mindset. Taking care of our bodies taking care of how how we spirit however it as we spirit. It means about being a community. That's the r. factor. How we resonate matters and know your personal rhythm. No when you're you're you're most bright no one. You need the downtime tune into that. Listen to it and finally women together. Encircle circle collaboration and community. And i talk about this all the time but it is our community that makes our businesses around. Its it's community as queen put an effort into building your community so when you're thinking about your business the things to really be thinking about in this. This is all about leadership right. This is about us showing up in strong leadership goodstuff here as entrepreneurs raising our leadership. Question is is some of the most important work we can focus on to level of. Our businesses are influence our influence your status our communities our impact. This is how we make a difference. I'm going to be putting a lot of focus on leadership in my extraordinary women. Connect facebook community in my mastermind communities. We're going to be teaching some bernie brown dare to lead work. We're going to be teaching thought leadership having messages that matter having messages that make a difference and much more so be sure you join us and in the meantime keep on tuning into extraordinary women radio. We're about ready to hit for years and two hundred episodes and we're going to be having all kinds of extraordinary leaders to learn from engro with if you've been listening in love the women you're meeting here in my facebook group spread the love a bit and byte some your other extraordinary women friends into this extraordinary women connect group and give my ratings on apple podcast a little love with a five star rating. It really helps us grow and with that my friends. I'm gonna close my invitation to you is to get out and step into your leadership. Your voice your vision and let's be change. Our world needs. We've got this because you were born for this. Welcome to twenty twenty one my friends and let's have fun on this journey together. I hope you liked this episode. Extraordinary women radio. If you dead please share this podcast with your own. Special tribe of women and help spread the love the dreams and the inspiration. Are you ready to raise up your voice your visibility and your business. I invite you to join the conversation and my facebook group extraordinary women can act. This group brings together change maker. Women entrepreneurs who want to elevate their business or impact is place for powerful connections and collaborations. It is a place to be inspired of lifted and fired up for action to learn more about my work that helps women entrepreneurs make heart connections to mindful growth strategies. Visit my website at cami. Gulnur dot com. Tell next time my friend listen to your heart. Follow dreams and b you..
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"kami" Discussed on Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"Going to release what i can't control. I'm going to show up where i can make a difference. The meaning of the word home is multidimensional me. I love my physical home. And i love coming home to me. That internal me in the midst of all the chaos. I believe that the turmoil are twenty. Twenty was meant to give us lessons. It felt like we were moving through this portal this war tax to the other side into something more beautiful. I believe there's something more beautiful on the other side of all of this and what we've been feeling this craziness of this year was really meant to magnify the circumstances that were long overdue to shift and perhaps to allow us to see things through a new lens as we get to the other side of this craziness perhaps a softer gentler lens. Women's wisdom is the medicine are earth. Lates i believe that at the very core a my being we have come to this vortex of twenty twenty two truly step into new ways of being leading of serving in Into twenty twenty one and beyond. I can literally feel this shift in my body. And i'm excited for what's to come. Can you feel the ship. I'm been feeling this shipped. It's like through the end of this year. It got pretty intense. And i was doing all sorts of meditations i was released. I was taking time with my horses. I was simply making space. And i could feel a physical tension in my body. I could feel an energetic tension in the world and the ships were still going through it right. I mean they're still kinds of things happening around us but there's some there's been a shift that that it's actually opening up and i did feel this this a total opening up in this last week of december. I feel it in this first week of january and this is really fascinating to me. This shift has been company coming right. Indigenous elders from around the world had been speaking of this ship for many years. When i interviewed dr anita sanchez. a few years back. She had just released her book. The four sacred guests indigenous wisdom for modern times and the time of our interview. She had just returned from spending a week and qui- with thirteen indigenous elders from around the world. Among the many deep discussions the group embarked upon. There was a clear agreement from the elders that women would have an important role in the energetic shifts. That we're going to be coming into our world. They predicted these intense times. They predicted what our role as women would be. They predicted that we would be moving from a masculine dominant energy. That is so prevalent in our business. Our money our government systems into a much more balanced feminine and masculine energy led by women. And i'm by no means in astrology expert. But i've been tuning in listening to a lot of astrology in this last quarter of the year. And if you follow any of the stra logical gurus. They speak to the big shifts and planetary alignments. That are going on right now. That has some that hasn't happened for hundreds of years. The energy we just came through as we closed out. The year was incredibly intense. I heard over and over from astrologist. Expect us and know that there were that. There is a newer lighter energy on the other side of this. When i can't say is i feel the shift. I feel it in my bones and in the weeks preceding the new year. I felt a new lightness of breath. I truly could feel a lighter energy in my breathing. I see a future of women standing in their light because the world needs us. We are being called my friends to do our work to be connected to are being to make a difference with the gifts of who we are in collaboration and community a here calling for a different way of being in the world to rise up out of all the noise and that is around as me. Think about the noise that we are in right now from the politics to cova all that. There's so much noise and when we stop and we tune in and we listen we start to feel differently. We start to we we can be. We have a different way of being right Get out of the noise of scarcity thanking fearmongering and all the other things that are going on and come forth with our wisdom. I feel sense of doing things in a different way. And that means being connected to one another to trust each other to knowing each other allowing the universe to support us to connecting to who we are bring all of our life experiences to the table being connected to my soul being connected to yourself being connected to others connected to the end of verse in really stepping into the flow and not the hustle. And that's a big piece of it right. I think that's a ship that's going to be happening is in our businesses is it. It's not about the hustle about being in the flow and being aligned at the work that we're meant to be bringing into the world it's about carrying. It's not empathy about softness in different ways of being. It's about different ways of doing so. What does this army for you and your business. Here are some of the most important shifts. I see for leading your business and twenty twenty one and it's really it's all centered around the world leadership and it's a new kind of leadership. Several years ago. I wrote an article called lead like a woman with grit and grace might have put the lincoln heresy. So you can go read the full article because there's all kinds of good tips around it. But i think it is so relevant for today right now and this is what i wrote in this in this blog. Post women have been shape shifting who they are in leadership roles for years. Defendant a man's world times are changing a new leadership. Paradigm is unfolding making way for leaders to embrace and embody more graceful heart based wisdom fused way of leading. This is leadership guided by seeing feeling and connection. The world is ready and in fact the world needs you. Does that kill good. Does that feel really good feels. It's exciting to me when you start looking at the way that we can lead with a more graceful heart based wisdom infuse way of leading right by feeling by connection this this is so different and there are several points that and i give a good tips around how you can. You can really step in action action. These these different types but I the starts being the perfect and imperfect expression of you that means knowing who you are showing up embracing all of you not putting up the walls of trying to project but really just being you knowing what your gifts are and that essence of you building that into how you show up and serve your clients. Second know what it is you want to be known for and this means really getting clear about a the core message your mental deliberate in the world right because if you are in this space of of trying to to put messaging now it's just it's just it's just there's no substance to it right and you see so much of this in the world. We have so much information going on in the world. Had something that you stand for be able to put a stake in the ground..
Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"kami" Discussed on Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"What came out of this year for you as i wrapped up the year i closed with record level. Revenue growth twenty twenty so that was super exciting and i can attest site growth not to the pivot but to showing up and serving my community to bean and community and making that a priority even if it was a virtual community for the biggest part of the year i tuned into the conversations that they were having around me and i asked myself. How do i serve them. What is my role in these times. Those were to really powerful questions. And when i listened to that what i knew was it was a time for me to help my clients really step into their genius and helping them so that they could break through to serving their communities. And how could they serve on. What was their role in this time. And with that they also got record levels of growth despite twenty twenty right. So this is part of this tuning in and listening to what's happening in our world and making a difference with the gifts of who we are and that's how can really show up to serve and to to maneuver through times like this. That can be difficult. So yes despite twenty twenty and there certainly was an element of shift. I don't talk about the pivot because it wasn't a pivot for me. It was it was more of a shift. Taking extraordinary women ignite conference to a global. Virtual event was no small feat. There were days that i thought holy moly helmet ever going to make this work And i think that the success that came out of that event was tremendous and it also turned it into people could attend from anywhere so there was expansion in it right. There was certainly lessons in learnings. That i had to do and i had to really shift the way that i plan. There was so many more details associated with that again no small feat but it was a shift that that resulted in me. Bill the reach more people guesting on other people's podcast instead of stages was another shift. But it's ended. The date wasn't about a pivot. It was about a shift in how i served my clients and the core of my work helping them raise their voice serviceability and grow their businesses despite twenty twenty and i'm so proud of the women in my community how they supported one another from an emotional perspective from a professional perspective from a friendship perspective. That's what i'm most proud of in my community and yes twenty. Twenty certainly through as many energetic in physical curve balls. And i believe you will find. Good things have happened from this year. Am bad things happen from this year from every single one of us and a good exercise that i went through i looked at it month by month right. I looked at it. I wrote a list out of january february march and i looked at it and there was some great positive things that happened and there were uplifting things that happened in each one of those months and there was also you'll probably find like i did heartbreaking and challenging moments with every single month of the year as well and this is an exercise that i've done for years but when i looked at it in twenty twenty the spread was much more dramatic than it ever been and it really gave me space to follow up with the question. Did i learn in this year. And i think that's a really important thing because i think there's so much growth and opportunity to learn when we are going through times like this to to really tune in to see how do we. How do we survive this year. What what was it. That helped us get through this year. And i i had all kinds of of pages of what i learned from this year. I'm gonna share just a couple of the top things and i'm going to start with. I am resilient and we are all resilient. I'm guessing you brought up but this year brought up all kinds of skills and talents in twenty twenty. That that you were able to tap into that you've been building your whole life leading up to this point right. You've been learning and growing in having experiences that you into this year. And i believe that we were made for these times. And we've been giving the given the tools to show up and lead through these times so don't forget that right. Don't forget that you've got all these life experiences that have gotten you to this point. It's not an accident that you are. You and i are living through these times during these times during these times right. It's we were born for these times. You have gifts that are meant to help shift. Our world to new ways is exciting to look at life through this land. How are your gifts. Meant to make a difference in the world right now to question to really ponder on raise it up step into it lebed for togethers this is how we create the shift in the world. And i think this is some really important. This is a really important time for us to step into our resilience step into our gifts because the world you've been set into this. I did to deliver upon those gifts. I learned that. I don't miss the business travel. I don't the personal travel. I miss yes and i learned that i loved road trips. Yes but the business travel. I can grow my audience on podcast and this is exciting. Me to keep exploring a world of serving in podcast so it's new product. Ideas are bubbling for me. Right and some of these ideas bubble from the pas. Twenty twenty some of the ideas bubble. Because i can see an opportunity served my tribe even further right now. I'm not going to go into the details here today. But know that it's coming and i'm super super stoked. So yes there's resilient serie talked about and now there's this ideas that come when we stopped to slow down a little bit. So that's what happened this year as we were able to slow down and be and our spaces to be in our strategy to be in our planning and that's the beauty of this slowing down. The third thing i learned was i can grow a business downturn. Yes hell yes. This is exciting for me and the other even more exciting part of that is that my clients also grew their businesses. And that's something for us to really be proud of so no matter where your business how your business evolved in two thousand twenty now that you've learned something and that it's setting them up expansion for you so no that and entrusting and know that if you start to apply stepping into your business showing up in your guests that you can really grow your business. Even in downturns the next thing i learned was i love connections connections. Make my business go round. They make my world. Go round. And i'm gonna put him more focused than twenty twenty one to growing my communities to growing my connections to being in there right rooms with the right women and helping each other and supporting each other and opening up doors connecting great women degrade women. It's all the stuff that i love to do. I wanna keep really putting a lot of focus in twenty twenty one on growing my facebook group. Were about ready to hit a thousand women there and have some really big goals that i've set for myself and what i want that number to be and twenty twenty one and so join us over there next. I learned that my intuition is powerful. There were several times in twenty twenty. Went where my intuition guided me. Even before the pandemic started and i think probably the best story around this was in january twenty twenty. I was trying to decide whether to invest on somebody booking me on more stages or somebody buccaneers on more podcast. And i really sat with it. And i listened to it. I'd had great success a year before being on more stages but there was something the said. Follow the podcast. I love podcasting personnel rights. So i listened. And i made that decision. And what i've got to say is when you look at what happened in twenty twenty. I have made a better decision. Because i ended up being on over. I think twenty five different podcast.
Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"kami" Discussed on Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
"Hello my extraordinary women friends. I had recorded this episode early this week and had intended to share it today on thursday january seventh however in the midst of all the happenings at our nation's capital yesterday i could not in good conscience release this episode which i feel is still relevant as we step into twenty twenty one without first recording a new intro to reflect on what happened in our country yesterday today and feeling numb and saddened and angry at all the unbelievable of that took place at the capitol and not to say that it was totally unbelievable because we could see this coming for months and i look at the security measures that were in force yesterday or lack thereof in that evil intent aimed at stopping our nation's democracy a president who started talking about election fraud before votes reading cast and fed the flames with lies upon lies a president who incited violence from a rally urging them to march upon our capital on this important day a president who told a terrorist and yes they were domestic terrorist that he loved them after they tore through the walls of our capital. Police police officers. Who took southeast with these thugs angry at the systematic racism that lives in our country the treasonous criminals of yesterday who walked freely from the capital in comparison to black lives matter protests earlier this year. The frontline security of our nation's capital yesterday compares drastically to how security stood up months ago around black lives manners. I know you've seen the pictures. The forty fifth non president. Yes he is. My non president has field white supremacy in hate into biden our nation which has tore through every community and many families. My own included. My heart has broken for my black women friends who have had to worry about their sons in the state of the racial fires he field. I have ranted with friends and family over character of this man for four years. His lies his horrible leadership. His misogynous ways his egging on racial hatred is delusional narcissistic ways his inability to accept defeat and he is now done it was never my president and he will soon be stripped of these rights. Something which should have been done long ago had it not been for spineless politicians. There is no doubt that we as a nation have bloodstains on our hands and it is now time to bring back in america. We once loved. It is time to let our american flakes damper good once again not for the hate. Indivi- cast upon that flag over the past four years. It was never their flag to own. It is america's flaked on united. We stand as i glued myself to the reassembly of the nation's congress on television. Last night i saw small glimpses of hope. I saw walls coming down and congress men and women deciding to stand for what was right despite how they intended to show up when they had initially arrived yes not all of them would own the truth that unfolded yesterday and there are some who continue to hold their unbelievable stances and platforms in light of the day but there was motion ever so slight in those halls last night there was a calling for peace and nonviolence and the rule of law established in our country. By our country's founders. This morning i listen to the story of a democrat congresswoman and how some house republicans had reached out to her with carrying concerned to make sure she was okay through the horrible incidents of yesterday as those thugs glass and tried to break down doors and disrupt our democracy. This fellow congressman cared about the real humanity in their room. Again i saw hope in this congresswoman story of people supporting people despite their differences that my friend is what being an american is about. That is the healing that can be brought back to our nation. We have so much work to do. Any long road to recovery from these past four years is going to mean doing things. Differently is going to mean showing up differently. Every single one of us has to do that. I pray for good and i pray for. I'm not one that likes we. Politics into this show is not the purpose of this show. But today as a woman in in america i could not leave this unsaid. I believe in dual party system. My leanings towards the middle is i believe that in leadership that enables collaboration working together. We have big problems to solve in our nation in the only way we can do. This is together today. I have to take a stance and give voice on this platform that i use for good. I'm going to take time today to care for me. And i'm feeling pretty frazzled. I'm going to be in nature. And i'm going to breed them the fresh mountaineer. That's around me. May you find peace in your heart. May we find peace in our country. May we find peace in our world. I listened to. John lennon's imagine song over and over again. This morning could not get enough of that song. I invite you to take a moment and to tune in to it into listen it and feel it now and when a take share the original episode i recorded for this week you may wanna take a deep breath and shake off the energies of these past few days before finishing the episode really truly take a deep breath for it was meant to inspire. It was meant to give you light. And i still believe that there is light in this year before us. We were going through this big change. We are going through this portal. What i talk about it so pause give yourself a big breath and now let's start this twenty twenty one a new low. My extraordinary women friends. Happy twenty twenty one. I hope you had time to slow down and be with family to reflect on twenty twenty in simply for some good old fashioned. Self care is certainly needed. A good dose of downtime. After this year. And i turned off all my medians introduce for the full last half of december. That was the first time i've ever done that. And i gotta say. I love taking the space to plan and strategize on my business and blocking off full day's dedicated to setting up twenty twenty one. It was just such a powerful exercise to be able to make space like that for myself and yes it was a crazy year and yet there was so much that i'm just really happy about when when i look back on the year i was thrilled about where my business ended up.
Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
Interview With Hilary Blair
"In how we are connected. Human connection can be awkward exhausting. Hillary shows how true connection is worth navigating the mess. I can't think of a more important message. Bring new as we step into this holiday season. Yes we might have a few messy holiday conversations. And i invite you defined your shared stories all your most important conversations. In connections hillary recently grace attack stage is a keynote speaker. Communication trainer professional actor. She is the ceo and co founder of articulate real and clear in today's interview. Hillary share some of my favorite teachings that she does around her passion on our speaking voice. In letting just be messy. I love this. Let's get messy. I'm super excited to introduce you. To hillary blair so welcomed extraordinary. Women radio hillary. I am so thrilled to have you join us. I am really happy to be here. I love what you talk about. Love missing dear guests. Thank you thank you. And you. And i both belonged to culture talk community and asked where we've really gotten to know each other a little bit more this year. We've known each other for. I think we've known each other for many years but we haven't had the opportunity to really get to know each other's work until this year in. It's i got to see some of his presenting earlier this year. I was like oh my gosh everything you talked about. I was in love with and your message is so powerful and so important. And i'm so thrilled to have you meet. I'm thrilled to be here. Yeah and the whole culture talk community so the culture tucked community that we belong as we had cynthia fortunate on here last year on the podcast and she talked a lot about the The archetype work that that she and her sister really developed in have been taken out into the world and It's it's such powerful work. Yes i have found it resonating because of might be her background types being hard of the theater world and part of performance and in play writing in novels and in movies and television shows everything that that archetypical focus on the patterns of behavior who we are as people and roundedness out. I found it resonated with me and in the terms i love. you know. They're using the term him with an. I love those those twelve the hero in a lover in the near the creator and those terms and as you know in the work we do there are so many tests out there and and a lot of them have different ways of helping us be your out more about ourselves right. And they're all great right. There are the ones i know are really wonderful and great insights into who we are relating to each other and moving to the world. I feel that big gorgeous of this culture. Todd is that it resonates deep down with rice. Story south my stories propose. I know who i am. I know who that is. And that combination of things who they are. And how i show up and i get here your that. What made in resonating make granted. I need arnav or always. There's some deep seated. Hough happens with that. I so true so true. It's so funny. Because i've been working in that essence of who you are with my clients since the very beginning and so that was has always been part of my work. I'm helping my clients build their brand from the inside out. Let's start with that essence of you and starting to integrate. The archetypes into this year has religious. Put another layer of richness in to their own understanding of who they are in how they are showing up in their businesses spent. It's really been awesome. And he said the whole story component in how we really can tie this back to her own personal stories. It's such a powerful exercise to just look at archetypes and understand. You know how they shape who we are and how they guide the choices made and the life that we've created in the work that we do as also in related when you think about so you're archetypes tell us about your archetypes are a little bit about how that shaped your life from a personal story perspective. I am a magician in my next level are four. That are all very connected. And whenever i take any of the personality assessment. I tend to be this mix of many many things. This didn't surprise me magician first and then lover caregiver. Ruler and hero are all the next level and for me magician. It hit me on seoul many levels it. I am the child who was reading fantasy novels from forever. Still do as an adult. So that magician. It just made me grin from the inside aras. How and birmingham magician that sense of magic in that sense of finding for me. My journey has been finding the essence of each person that thing that sometimes they forget their or they squished in our help. Bring to light so it's like
Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
interview With Kristen Putnam-Walker
"Welcomed extraordinary women radio chris. It is great to have you join me today. Thank you so much candidates great. Be here so one of the core values of extraordinary women. Radio is impact trading impact. Making a difference in you helped over a hundred philanthropists strategically allocate over half a billion dollars in grants and gifts. I mean that's that's just incredible first of all So congratulations for that. How did you find your passion for philanthropy. A great question i. I'm not entirely sure to be perfectly honest where it started. I remember back in his will which was way back in the day. I'm being very passionate about trying to change. Us policy and in the third world is be caught at the global south In especially in latin america and became very involved as a student activist In trying in el salvador and central america nicaragua and trying to create a lot of change there. in fact. it's funny i I saw myself in washington d. c. During college i had organized a contingent of students my university to travel to these see and participate in a demonstration and that trend into a civil disobedience unexpectedly. So i got arrested for somebody you know. These are the days of cell phones right way to reach anybody nonetheless. I boarded this bus. Where all of us are being taken off to the washington. Dc place department. I suppose and i sit down my rights and musette next at asner actor right. The mary tyler moore show which means hopefully. Hopefully your your listeners. Know that show in high show about the next three hours talking to asner. I was probably twenty. That's awesome you know what i know. It was very fun but one of the first questions he asked me was. What got you involved in. this was it. Your parents are your parents political or whatnot and at the time quite frankly i didn't have the best answer i didn't entirely. No i just knew that. Once i learned about injustice in the world i felt compelled to act on it and so i think really that kind of fuels my passion and you know in philanthropy one of the benefits. I think of being a funder or advising funders as you get to be you get to put in a variety of positions places and experiences that you wouldn't otherwise have and so it's a privilege related to be able to talk to different kinds of people like i've worked on issues related to gang violence in california. I was in salvador during the civil war. I was in nicaragua during their presidential elections as an observer I'm doing some work now with an organization called body. Osuna does in santa cruz california along with today. Another actor danny glover who's a big supporter of theirs. And they're doing a lot of work on prison reform in california and all of the Know the ways in which the prison system is working against us. Not for us. And so i guess what drives me and release is seeing the impact Seeing people who are at the front lines during this work In creating change and being able to be part of it you might be part of it for a day on a site visit or he might be part of that because it's a project that you're working on but it really is such a privilege to be able to connect with so many different people who are doing such good work in the world
Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
Interview With Violette de Ayala
"Well welcomed extraordinary women radio violet. I am so thrilled to have you join us today. And i am excited to hear your story. I can't wait to learn more about you. Thank you so much. I'm really excited to be your very honored. Surfing's proxy honored to have you here. And i wanna i wanna start west your business you. You started as an entrepreneur when you were twenty two and So tell us a little bit about this. Entrepreneurial journey from that twenty two year old to running this multimillion dollar business today that really spans across all the different chapters that you have all the the community that you've built. I mean i'm so impressed with what you've built so so give us a little bit of that back story. Sure so. I was twenty two years old. A new mom and may adjust moved from miami to north carolina. And i knew that. I wanted to support the family financially rights. You've had just graduated from college at the state. And i remember having that internal dialogue of whether or not you but christopher fulltime daycare or you know trying to find hybrid of the two and i remember being just really Filled of anxiety of going to that. Because i didn't want my children to be latchkey kids so i grew out pretty much on my own. My parents both worked until very late. At night i was a child at home or to buy themselves unified dinner. Nfl sleep on their own. And i didn't want to have that for my kids. I remember having friends that have parents that whether they worked fulltime they were home at five o'clock or six o'clock in week dinner Or perhaps one of the parents didn't work and they were there as is apparent. During the day. I remember one that i remember like seeing that. Not being jealous that. I remember like wanting that in my life and so when we had chris off to make sure that i had the flexibility to be there i didn't want to have my kids have extreme experience so really being a first generation. Cuban american my parents arrived united states. Nineteen sixty one cuba. The only stories i ever heard growing up were stories of my family coming to the country with a penny in their pocket right not knowing the language of the culture and really creating tremendous amount of wealth because of being an entrepreneur because of small business. And so i happened in the back of my mind theory this entire kind of situation of trying to figure out. How am i going to provide my family. Be a mom and how that ballads and relief for me. The only option was to start a business so at the time. I'm going to tell you the kind of the truth behind it is that i wanted to be a really good. At fitness. i had worked at every house hub in miami in high sworn in college. That was really the only industry that i knew and so i will. I will go ahead and just get my personal training. Certification analogy personal trainer and started small business so i reached out to the sba in with. Carolina is nineteen ninety-four. So before giggle. Before lead gen our media and i reached out and got a counselor at the time and told them what i wanted to do when she was like. Well how much alone you take out. While i need a loan of three thousand dollars you need to buy -cation. I need to go ahead and get business cards out. Place a couple of advertisements and some equipment and she was like three thousand dollars. She's like that's ridiculous credit card and so that was her advice. And i did. I had a discover credit card. They don't i remember they're not partners of ours at all. It was really a straight up. Discover was the only credit card. I had besides a little retail one. And i did it put it on. There was the most nerve wracking putting three thousand dollars on a credit card. I mean we are. We are brand new parents. You know young Not knowing really anything about business had never taken a business class. By the way i graduated pre law and i stepped into that and i continue to make every mistake after that Found by place did did well with that. Small business I was looking for. And then. After that i just continue to watch more and more businesses and about that's really the truth or wise started twenty two. I really am. I had an option at the time. Based on what priorities work right and you wanted to be home with your. You wanted to have support around your kids by and the serial entrepreneur. You mean so what was it. That kept have had the ideas. Keep coming to you. What was the catalyst behind that. Yeah so i think you know After personal training company. I did hire on at i got into real estate. My stepfather at the time wanted me to take over his business and he said you know i really need you to work in real estate for a couple of years you can take over my business. I'm ready to retire. So i did that for him and he would say to me and by the way he was an amazing mentor. This guy might my mother's second husband show me the million dollars. He was like thirty years old he no. He sold his bakery here in miami to arnold bakery and then he continued to create tremendous well so he would tell me. Violate your unemployable. Anyone would say that that is the most horrific complement him a great employees. I show up on time. I always delivered you like no. No you're just unemployable. You'll realize that you get older. And it's now about older. That i realized that even though i could work for other people and i was great. I excelled in everything super taipei. The truth was that. I always had to be on my own. I something about how my dna just had that always come back to being a small business owner and then eventually being entrepreneur and different that i do the real estate and then i kinda hired on with another company and kept on growing in that world and finally i was like that's it i need to go back into to go back and create my own business again. Got my pilates. Reputation became applauds instructor and then had a location. They got a bigger location Satellite locations but again it just keeps coming back around and around. And it's because at first of all i believe in small business. I believe that that's the way that women specifically can have balance in their life especially when the raising humans or perhaps they have aging parents or other responsibilities.
Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
Interview With Violette de Ayala
"Well welcomed extraordinary women radio violet. I am so thrilled to have you join us today. And i am excited to hear your story. I can't wait to learn more about you. Thank you so much. I'm really excited to be your very honored. Surfing's proxy honored to have you here. And i wanna i wanna start west your business you. You started as an entrepreneur when you were twenty two and So tell us a little bit about this. Entrepreneurial journey from that twenty two year old to running this multimillion dollar business today that really spans across all the different chapters that you have all the the community that you've built. I mean i'm so impressed with what you've built so so give us a little bit of that back story. Sure so. I was twenty two years old. A new mom and may adjust moved from miami to north carolina. And i knew that. I wanted to support the family financially rights. You've had just graduated from college at the state. And i remember having that internal dialogue of whether or not you but christopher fulltime daycare or you know trying to find hybrid of the two and i remember being just really Filled of anxiety of going to that. Because i didn't want my children to be latchkey kids so i grew out pretty much on my own. My parents both worked until very late. At night i was a child at home or to buy themselves unified dinner. Nfl sleep on their own. And i didn't want to have that for my kids. I remember having friends that have parents that whether they worked fulltime they were home at five o'clock or six o'clock in week dinner Or perhaps one of the parents didn't work and they were there as is apparent. During the day. I remember one that i remember like seeing that. Not being jealous that. I remember like wanting that in my life and so when we had chris off to make sure that i had the flexibility to be there i didn't want to have my kids have extreme experience so really being a first generation. Cuban american my parents arrived united states. Nineteen sixty one cuba. The only stories i ever heard growing up were stories of my family coming to the country with a penny in their pocket right not knowing the language of the culture and really creating tremendous amount of wealth because of being an entrepreneur because of small business. And so i happened in the back of my mind theory this entire kind of situation of trying to figure out. How am i going to provide my family. Be a mom and how that ballads and relief for me. The only option was to start a business so at the time. I'm going to tell you the kind of the truth behind it is that i wanted to be a really good. At fitness. i had worked at every house hub in miami in high sworn in college. That was really the only industry that i knew and so i will. I will go ahead and just get my personal training. Certification analogy personal trainer and started small business so i reached out to the sba in with. Carolina is nineteen ninety-four. So before giggle. Before lead gen our media and i reached out and got a counselor at the time and told them what i wanted to do when she was like. Well how much alone you take out. While i need a loan of three thousand dollars you need to buy -cation. I need to go ahead and get business cards out. Place a couple of advertisements and some equipment and she was like three thousand dollars. She's like that's ridiculous credit card and so that was her advice. And i did. I had a discover credit card. They don't i remember they're not partners of ours at all. It was really a straight up. Discover was the only credit card. I had besides a little retail one. And i did it put it on. There was the most nerve wracking putting three thousand dollars on a credit card. I mean we are. We are brand new parents. You know young Not knowing really anything about business had never taken a business class. By the way i graduated pre law and i stepped into that and i continue to make every mistake after that Found by place did did well with that. Small business I was looking for. And then. After that i just continue to watch more and more businesses and about that's really the truth or wise started twenty two. I really am. I had an option at the time. Based on what priorities work right and you wanted to be home with your. You wanted to have support around your kids by and the serial entrepreneur. You mean so what was it. That kept have had the ideas. Keep coming to you. What was the catalyst behind that. Yeah so i think you know After personal training company. I did hire on at i got into real estate. My stepfather at the time wanted me to take over his business and he said you know i really need you to work in real estate for a couple of years you can take over my business. I'm ready to retire. So i did that for him and he would say to me and by the way he was an amazing mentor. This guy might my mother's second husband show me the million dollars. He was like thirty years old he no. He sold his bakery here in miami to arnold bakery and then he continued to create tremendous well so he would tell me. Violate your unemployable. Anyone would say that that is the most horrific complement him a great employees. I show up on time. I always delivered you like no. No you're just unemployable. You'll realize that you get older. And it's now about older. That i realized that even though i could work for other people and i was great. I excelled in everything super taipei. The truth was that. I always had to be on my own. I something about how my dna just had that always come back to being a small business owner and then eventually being entrepreneur and different that i do the real estate and then i kinda hired on with another company and kept on growing in that world and finally i was like that's it i need to go back into to go back and create my own business again. Got my pilates. Reputation became applauds instructor and then had a location. They got a bigger location Satellite locations but again it just keeps coming back around and around. And it's because at first of all i believe in small business. I believe that that's the way that women specifically can have balance in their life especially when the raising humans or perhaps they have aging parents or other responsibilities.
Extraordinary Women Radio with Kami Guildner
Resilient Leadership in Anxious and Uncertain Times
"Welcome to extraordinary women radio Christine. I am so excited to have you join me today. I know this is going to be so much fun. You and I are long long time Pals and I am just thrilled to have you hear me to thank you for having me. Yeah, and you've got so many interesting stories. I know you're going to be sharing with us today. We we've talked a little bit about this direction that we're going to go in and and I know that you were sitting in meditation this week actually thinking about you know, what is it that wants the flow through you and this week on this conversation and I love first of all you were doing that because that's there's so much Beauty and stopping & pausing and listening to that inner wisdom that's there for us to find jobs then being able to hear Hear that message that that bubbles up and I know you and I have had many many conversations about this and what I know it came up for you was accepting when it's time to Pivot off and I love this first of all, and it's it's funny because any of my listeners are going to go wait a minute you've been talking about it's not about the pivot and sometimes it's not about a pivot in this crazy or sometimes. We really have to stand in our truths and and who we are and just show up and serve our our people and at the same time there's definitely times and places. Where would we need to Pivot? And I know that's a theme that has been showing up for you for multiple years in different ways. You've been very courageous and brave and how you should up in your pivot should tell us a little bit. Why you think that's the topic that came it came up for you on this. Sometimes we don't know what's going to come up right part of it makes no true. Right right opening to The Unknown. So this definitely wasn't coming from you know, this song theoretical analytical part of my brain now, I will say I may have been influenced because I've been watching the NBA finals and you know, there's there's a pendant in basketball who knows that that had anything to do with the it's okay. So I'm going to add you on that because guess what I used to play basketball in high school and we had the best coach we're off we had he taught us how to Pivot and this really strong space where we when we pivot we pivot with our body and we'd hold the ball in front of us and we'd pivot which keeps you safe from them, you know, having a foul or anything like that. There's such strength in that so I'm just going to let that keep moving off of that that theme you know, and as you know in basketball, you can't pivot all the time off. Like to your point there's a time in the game when you strategically go up on you know, you always leave one foot on the ground right when you pivot right? You're not home, right? Very good. You think about like you leave that one foot and then you literally can pivot 360 degrees with a ball and I say there is wisdom in knowing when to let go off all and win to let come what needs to come into your life. And so for some reason that seems to be the overriding theme that came through Thursday. So tell us some of your I know you've got multiple stories of pivoting. Where do you want to start share a little share a little share a bit about you and just your journey that's gotten you to this point. I know you've built this amazing incredible company and I'm always so proud of the work that you know, you are doing in the world. I just go look at the work you're doing and I'm very exciting. For you, but you have a you have some some big pivots you've made. Very much. So and I was thinking all the way back to 1994. So somebody do the math. You'll figure out that that was a long time ago. And at that point I was living in San Francisco that place of my dreams. I had the dream job working in Corporate America and knowing that this was I thought this is it off. This is where I'm going to be and a pivot came and that pivot brought me to Denver where I transitioned from my corporate career, which was advertising sales in the high tech magazine publishing industry. I pivoted to being a stay-at-home mom and I would put those in quote stay at home because I don't know any mom who stays at home and I certainly didn't wage and for a number of years. I took a detour from my professional career to raise three children by kept one foot in the professional world all the time whether it was dead, Marketing Consulting sales, I even became a book publishing coach at at some time