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A highlight from How Rebecca Alvarez Story Built a Sexual Wellness Brand
"Ladies, gentlemen, welcome to the colorful world of Skittles. Skittles brings you a jolt of five fruity flavors in every bite, giving you the chance to taste the rainbow like never before. Break free from the ordinary day -to -day with the help of Skittles chewy candy. Skittles is a must in my candy jar, movie snack, even my secret to an afternoon pick -me -up. And I don't even care who knows it. Add a splash of joy to your day with Skittles. There's nothing better than fruity fun that tickles your taste buds. Taste the rainbow. I've been wanting to talk with Rebecca Albera's story for a while. She is an award -winning entrepreneur, sexologist, and intimate product developer. Three titles that do not often go together. But I'm glad we waited for this moment when, like many of my very favorite conversations, we find Rebecca and her company Bloomy, a wellness brand focused on clean, intimate care essentials, at an inflection point, asking the very familiar question, will what got us here get us to where we want to go next? Rebecca, finally, thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me. I'm glad it worked. I'm so happy to have this conversation. Rebecca, among the things you say about intimacy is that so much of the root of intimacy is unlearning bad sex ed. What was the bad sex ed that you grew up with? My bad sex ed was actually no sex ed to start with. I definitely saw love, and my parents modeled that so well. But in terms of, like, in my community, in my school, did we have sex education? Not really, because it was abstinence -only education in high school. It's wild that someone goes from growing up in an environment that is abstinence -only to, I mean, by the time you are in college, you're very clear that you want to study sex and sexuality. I sit at the intersection of so many things, being Latina, a woman. I was a single mom at that time. I just felt like I could relate to so many people's intimacy journeys. And I wanted to create the spaces where we could talk about it. I didn't know exactly what it was going to look like. But yes, in college, I tell this story, you know, I was apprehensive about sexuality because my first year in college, I was actually assaulted. And I ended up transferring home. I ended up at Cal, a very liberal, very progressive school where I could take so many wonderful classes that were holistic, and I shared with people that it was very healing for me. I had great therapy. I had great all of that. But the education, it just transformed my life. When did it become clear to you that you are an entrepreneur? To be honest, I feel like I've always known this since I was little. I had that spirit of, oh, that should be a business. And why don't we have a solution? I would just see things differently than like the cousins I grew up with, I think. They would joke and say, why do you always have so many ideas? Why are you always so bossy? But it was just little. I was little and I was like taking initiative to create things. Talk me through the evolution of Blumey, because as I understand it, the original idea was a multi -brand marketplace. How did it morph from that concept to a place for education, advice on intimacy with a line of sexual wellness products? I had been in the industry for 10 years. I was working as a consultant for startups, helping them with their product development. And I was coaching both singles and couples, learning so much about intimacy challenges, intimacy goals, and really helping people in a lot of different ways, where at the end of so many of my sessions, my clients wanted solutions. They wanted the book, the product, the toy, the whatever it was. And so I would manually send this to them. I started creating a list, but it was a little bit like it was a lot of work on my end to always curate. And so what I did is I said, I'm just going to put these products that I recommend that are clean, because it's very important that these products be healthy, especially for these areas of the body, put them all on a page. And that was the beginning of Bloomie, where I had multiple brands. They were my favorite clean brands that I would recommend in the category. And then when I developed our first product with our team, it was called Bloomie Arousal Oil. We still sell it. It's a bestseller. That was just the beginning of a pivot for us. And that's why we fundraised and why we ended up really focusing on Bloomie's products, making solutions for products that I wish I had 10 years ago. The question I'm about to ask you seems particularly relevant given the timing of your and my conversation, but I want to take us back to April 2022. Your line is set to debut at Target and your funding falls short. How does that happen? Funding for women of color entrepreneurs is severely lower than what it should be. There is less than one percent of funding that is going to entrepreneurs of color and Latina founders. So I never use that as an excuse. But when I went out and I fundraised, I did everything by the book. I trained, I did accelerators, I did boot camps. I had a cis white male co -founder. I had everything you're supposed to, and I'm using quotes, to have. And we fell short. We wanted to raise two million. We raised one million. So what did I do? I ended up seeing that there is no standard for my industry. This is new. Intimacy companies were not being venture backed at that time. And I just realized I'm going to have to do things differently. So we crowd raised. We basically opened up part of our round to the community where they could invest one hundred or two hundred dollars minimum. We raised almost a million dollars that way, two different times. And then we also I took out personal loans. We had a few angels give us personal loans. I took out a line of credit. Like I did everything to make sure that we could have sufficient capital to meet the demands of going into retail. And even with that, I'll say when founders ask me, what does it take to go into retail? It's so big of a question. I want to sit down and go through things with people. But you have to estimate how much you're going to need to be on shelf, stay on shelf. That's even harder. Mark it and to not plan to be profitable right away.
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Fresh "Rebecca" from Bloomberg Law
"In Hong in Kong. Bloomberg Taiwan, Thanks .com very also up much for nine and listening. the -tenths Bloomberg We'll see Business of one Act. percent. For Doug Broadcasting Krisner in 24 New York, House hours a I'm day Brian Republicans Curtis at here are scrambling to find a new speaker after Kevin McCarthy was voted role this week. Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana both launched their bids on Wednesday. President Biden says lawmakers need to change the business atmosphere in Washington. We have strong disagreements, but we need to stop seeing each other as enemies. We need to talk to one another, listen to one another, work with one another. Three Philadelphia police officers be are in said stable to condition after being shot. Authorities say it happened Wednesday in this city's Ronhurst section. There's a heavy police presence at the scene. The Anti -Defamation League says it plans to resume advertising on X, formerly known as Twitter. It comes after a recent spat with tech mogul and ex -owner Elon Musk. Last month, he threatened legal action against the group, claiming its statements about rising hate speech on the platform had resulted in lost ad revenue for X. The ABC says it's no longer distributing COVID -19 vaccine cards. The ABC says it's no longer delivering as more. There was a time when you practically couldn't leave home without it. You had to show it at airports, Broadway theaters and restaurants in many cities during the height of the COVID pandemic. But that time has passed. International travelers no longer have to show their COVID vaccine cards when arriving from other countries. But the CDC says if you're leaving the US, you should check what the rules are wherever you're going. And if you full need a vaccine record, you can get it from your state health department. The head writers of the Drew Barrymore show are quitting. On Wednesday it was reported the trio of head writers who worked on the show before the writers strike have all turned down offers to return now that the strike is over. Barrymore faced backlash this month after she announced the taping of her show would resume during the strike, a decision she later faced. I'm Brian Shook. California's Miracle Water Water year is finished and brought enough rain and snow to fill the state's biggest reservoirs averages. National Weather Service Bay Area meteorologist David King says now only half the state is in some form of drought after it was entirely so just three months ago. We've had this anomalous above average rainy season this year which you see how often we have to get rain to systems push through here to have such a significant event. NASA and USGS satellite site imagery has been tracking California's two largest reservoirs showing drastic changes over the year. The Federal Drought Monitor report shows most of the Bay Area is now formally out of drought stage. Snowpack is approaching levels that haven't been seen since the early 80s. Often known as the forgotten generation, problems faced by those now in their 40s and 50s cannot be explored. Rebecca Hughes explains, Gen Xers are failing to meet their targets for retirement savings according to a new report from the National Institute of Retirement Security. Experts say multiple financial struggles during their lifetime include wages not even remotely keeping up with inflation, the shift from employer -run pensions, and the need to dip into those retirement plans due to multiple national economic crises. Data from analyzed by Pew Research shows Millennials had higher 401k balances than Gen Xers at their same age. As well, CNBC reports 55 % of Gen X parents are financially sacrificing their own well -being to help pay their children's bills, which was only true for 44 % of Gen Xers' baby boomer parents. I'm Rebecca Hughes. The nation's first Gandhi Museum is now open in Houston. The eternal Gandhi Museum Houston held its grand opening on Monday. It's dedicated to the legacy of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Mahatma Gandhi and his teaching of non -violence. I'm Bryan Shook. And I'm Doug Krisner at Bloomberg World Headquarters in New York. Let's check this hour's top business stories and the markets. It's the latest U .S. economic data suggests the Fed can refrain from further rate increases. The payroll service provider ADP says American firms added the fewest numbers of jobs in since September the beginning of 2021 and at the same time pay growth slowed. Here's Bloomberg's Michael McKee. Over the past year, ADP has overstated the private sector job creation seven out of the 12 months. So if that follows, then we will unusually have an weak payrolls report on Friday. But hard to square with what we saw from the ISM numbers because ISM went positive and ADP says we lost 12 ,000 jobs. That is Bloomberg's Michael McKee also said 13 ,000 jobs were lost in trade and transportation and another 32 thousand were lost in professional and business services. On to politics now that Kevin McCarthy been has removed from his post as House Speaker several questions loom including what happens a when stopgap spending measure runs out November 17th. Here's Bloomberg's Kaylee Lines. The government funding that was agreed to in the continuing resolution of last weekend that led to McCarthy's downfall in the first place only to extends that date and the issue is right now we have paralysis in the house really the only thing that pro temp Patrick McHenry can preside over is a speaker vote he can't preside over usual business. That is Bloomberg's Kaylee Lines now the house is intending to vote on a new speaker next Wednesday US that would be October 11th AT &T has begun to explore options for its 70 % stake in TV the story from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellet. Word comes as AT &T approaches the end of an agreement upon which it can legally sell its interest in America's third largest paid TV provider. Sources say among AT &T's options are a dividend recapitalization adding a new investor or selling the stake and exiting the venture as early as August 2024. AT &T co owns DirecTV with private equity firm TPG as part of a joint venture formed in 2001. The business was valued at about $16 billion dollars at the time. And that is Bloomberg's Charlie Pellet. We're seeing a recovery in crude oil after WTI fell more than 5 .5 % in New York when the government pointed to extremely weak US fuel demand. Right now $84 .40 in the electronic session. We check markets throughout the day here on Bloomberg. In Tokyo the Nikkei up 9 .1 %. Hang Seng better buy 2 .1 %. The KOSPI rising 6 .1 %. And in Sydney the SX200 is ahead 4 .1 %. Global news powered by more than 2700 journalists and this is Bloomberg. This is Bloomberg Law. What does the prosecutor have to prove in order to get a RICO conviction? Tell us why the Solicitor General sometimes is referred to as the 10th Justice. Interviews with prominent attorneys and Bloomberg legal experts. That's Jennifer Kay for Bloomberg Law. Joining me is former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz and analysis of important legal issues cases pieces and headlines. Is the toughest hurdle for prosecutors proving Trump's intent. Alito took on Congress saying Congress has no power to regulate the Supreme Court. Bloomberg Law with June Grosso from Bloomberg Radio. Welcome to the Bloomberg Law Show. I'm June Grosso aheadness our the prosecution lays out its case against Sam Bankman freed and the Supreme Court appears ready to reject a challenge to you. 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Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
Defining the 7 Pillars of Abundance With Author Rebecca Whitman
"Let's talk about the seven pillars of abundance. So what are they? And can you share a little bit about each one? Because I think these are the main areas in all of our lives where we want to have joy and abundance. Everybody kind of wants to be happy and abundant in all these areas. So what are they? Of course, I would love to. So they are in order of importance in my opinion. So the first one is spirituality. I believe people get to tap into a power greater than themselves, whatever they call that, to have faith in, to guide them, to trust. And that's exactly the work that you're doing. Part of it is trusting that there is a benevolent force in the universe that when you send these postcards out, magic happens. So how to get in touch with that is to have a morning practice. I'm a huge believer in journaling. And actually, as a gift to your audience, I'm going to gift them with my abundance journal prompts that have just completely changed my life in every way. I went from just being very negative and atheist, even addicted to certain substances, to just having a beautiful spiritual relationship with a power greater than myself, who I choose to call God. So the second area is fitness. I do believe that health is wealth. And if you have your health, you have every opportunity in the world. And if you don't have your health, then your whole life is about getting healthy again. So fitness is a very important pillar of abundance. The third pillar is emotion. And I believe just like the Course in Miracle teaches that all emotions come from fear or So fear, doubt, worry, skepticism, jealousy, resentment, bitterness, that's all fear -based and bliss, ecstasy, happiness, love, joy, contentment, appreciation, gratitude, that's all from love. So the key is how do we go from fear to love? And one way is like your wonderful workshop on Thursday night, your gratitude practice. Another way is through the power of affirmation. The next pillar of abundance is romance. And your romance affects all the other areas, especially your finance. And I really encourage people to be in a relationship that serves their highest good. There is no such thing as a neutral partner. They're either lifting you up and supporting you, or they're bringing you down and they're draining you. The next area is mental. And that's what we're doing right now, listening to this amazing radio show. There's so many ways to grow your mind. We're in the golden era of mindset work, classes. There's so many different resources from podcasts to YouTube, to Audible, to online classes, in -person classes. So everyone who's listening to this show is definitely growing their mental capacity. The next area is social. Community creates immunity, and your vibe attracts your tribe. And being in social circles with people who have the results you want is so instrumental to you getting those same results. And finally, the seventh pillar is financial. And everybody thinks financial should come first. So like, I'll make a lot of money, I'll hire a personal trainer, get in great shape, attract my soul mate, we'll go on spiritual retreats and socialize with other couples and get happy. But in my experience, financial is the last thing. It's when I'm healthy and in love and have great friends and I'm feeling spiritually connected. That is when I manifest the most financial abundance. And yeah, that's a quick overview of the seven pillars of abundance.
Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
Meet Rebecca Whitman, The Magnetic Abundance Mentor
"So I wanna talk to my guest today because everything I talk about each week in the beginning of my show, Rebecca and I are gonna be talking about today. So Rebecca Whitman, she is called the Magnetic Abundance Mentor. I love that. She's an international best -selling author. She graduated with honors from Princeton University. She was awarded Life Coach of the Year and Empowered Woman of the Year by International Association of Top Professionals. LA Weekly Magazine featured her as one of the top seven entrepreneurs to watch in 2023. She hosts the top 1 .5 % globally ranked, balanced, beautiful, and abundant podcasts, which won the Positive Change Award. Her philosophy divides life into seven pillars of abundance, which include spiritual, physical, emotional, romantic, mental, social, and financial. She helps people achieve balance within these seven areas so that they can experience more fun and freedom in life. She has been featured in New York Weekly, Miami Magazine, and LA Weekly Magazines. In addition to her appearances on ABC and CBS, she has guested on over 100 podcasts. She has given keynote speeches at Columbia University and UCLA and has shared virtual stages with renowned thought leaders Grant Cardone, Jack Canfield, and Les Brown. You can find out more about her if you visit her website. It's RebeccaElizabethWhitman .com. Welcome, Rebecca. Thanks so much for being here with me. Thank you so much, Melissa. I'm so excited to be on your show with such a delight to have you on my show a couple weeks ago, and now we get to continue the conversation. Exactly, yeah. So I was on Rebecca's show on her podcast, The Balance Beautiful and Abundant Show, and it aired August 29th. And you guys who are listening, you can find it on any of the podcasting platforms, Apple, whatever you listen to, Spotify, Google, and yeah, you can listen to the show. And it's also, it's on YouTube too, right, Rebecca? I think you're on YouTube also. Yep, YouTube as well as Apple, Spotify, and all the podcast platforms. Absolutely. It was so much fun. It was so much fun. So yeah, so now she's here. So let's talk about you and like what got you into this kind of this abundance mindset, like starting to do this kind of work? What made you want to do it? Were you always doing this your whole life or is this something that you kind of fell into or came to, I should say? Yeah, I moved to Los Angeles 22 years ago to pursue my childhood dream of being an actress. And I had small parts on huge shows like Friends, CSI, and 24, and I never got that big break. So I supported myself at children's acting schools and the children were busy during the day at school. So I would attend spiritual lectures with great teachers of the law of attraction like Michael Beckwith, Esther Hicks, Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, and I started applying it to my life and I got immediate results. I was making six figures working part time at a kid's acting school. And I didn't quite apply it as well to my love life. I had a series of really painful breakups with emotionally unavailable men. And I even married one thinking he would change. Three years later, I filed for divorce and my marriage was slowly and painfully unraveling as my dad was slowly and painfully dying in a nursing home. And in one of our last conversations, he asked me to write a book. And a few months later, my dad had made his transition and my marriage had dissolved and I was sitting across the desk from my financial planner. And he said, Rebecca, I find it interesting that you are making more money than you've ever made the same year that you lost your marriage and your father. And I think you should write a book. So I wrote a book based on the seven key areas of life, which I now call the seven pillars of abundance, and it's called How to Make a Six Figure Income Working Part Time. And now I help women go from burned out to balanced, beautiful, and abundant. And using these principles, I'm now happily married to my soulmate. And now I just coach women. I have the podcast and I just love this mission, teaching people they don't have to be burned out and overwhelmed to receive abundance in life.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IDL82 Part 3 Chapter 38 Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerning Hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. To continue production of these podcasts, prayers, and more, go to discerninghearts .com and click the donate link found there, or inside the free Discerning Hearts app to make your donation. Thanks and God bless. Part Three, Chapter 38 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Corey Webb. Chapter 38, Councils to Married People. Marriage is a great sacrament both in Jesus Christ and His Church, and one to be honored to all, by all, and in all. To all, for even those who do not enter upon it, should honor it in all humility. By all, for it is wholly alike to poor as to rich. In all, for its origin, its end, its form and matter are wholly. It's the nursery of Christianity, whence the earth is peopled with faithful, till the number of the elect in heaven be perfected, so that respect for the marriage tie is exceedingly important to the commonwealth, of which it is the source and supply. Would to God that His dear Son were bidden to all weddings as to that of Cana? Truly, then the wine of consolation and blessing would never be lacking. For if these are often so wanting, it is because too frequently now men summon Adonis instead of our Lord, and Venus rather than our Lady. He who desires that the young of his flock should be like Jacob's, fair and ring -streaked, must set fair objects before their eyes, and he who would find a blessing in his marriage must ponder the holiness and dignity of this sacrament, instead of, which too often weddings become a season of mere feasting and disorder. Above all, I would exhort all married people to seek that mutual love so commended to them by the Holy Spirit in the Bible. It is little to bid you love one another with the mutual love. Turtle doves do that, or with human love. The heathen cherished such love as that. But I say to you in the apostles' words, Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church. Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as unto the Lord. It was God who brought Eve to our first father Adam, and gave her to him to wife. And even so, my friends, it is God's invisible hand which binds you in the sacred bonds of marriage. It is He who gives you one to the other, therefore cherish one another with a holy, sacred, heavenly love. The first effect of this love is the indissoluble union of your hearts. If you glue together two pieces of deal, provided that the glue be strong, their union will be so close that the stick will break more easily in any other part than where it is joined. Now God unites husband and wife so closely in himself that it should be easier to sunder soul from body than husband from wife. Nor is this union to be considered as mainly of the body, but yet more a union of the heart, its affections and love. The second effect of this love should be inviolable fidelity to one another. In olden times, finger rings weren't want to be graven as seals. We read of it in holy scriptures, and this explains the meaning of the marriage ceremony, when the church, by the hand of their priest, blesses a ring and gives it first to the man in token that she sets a seal on his heart by this sacrament, so that no thought of any other woman may even enter therein so long as she who now is given to him shall live. Then the bridegroom places the ring on the bride's hand, so that she in turn may know that she must never conceive any affection in her heart for any other man so long as he shall live, who is now given to her by our Lord himself. The third end of marriage is the birth and bringing up of children, and herein, O you married people, are you greatly honored in that God willing to multiply souls to bless and praise him to all eternity? He associates you with himself in this his work, by the production of bodies into which, like dew from heaven, he infuses the souls he creates as well as the bodies into which they enter. Therefore husbands, do you preserve a tender constant hearty love for your wives? It was that the wife might be loved heartily and tenderly that woman was taken from the side nearest Adam's heart. No failings or infirmities, bodily or mental, in your wife should ever excite any kind of dislike in you, but rather a loving, tender compassion, and that because God has made her dependent on you and bound to defer to and obey you, that while she is meant to be your helpmate, you are her superior and her head. And on your part, wives, do you love the husbands God has given you tenderly, heartily, but with a reverential confiding love? For God has made the man to have the predominance and to be the stronger, and he of his flesh, taking her from out of the ribs of the man, to show that she must be subject to his guidance. All holy Scripture enjoins this subjection, which nevertheless is not grievous, and the same holy Scripture, while it bids you accept it lovingly, bids your husbands to use his superiority with great tenderness, loving -kindness and gentleness. Husbands dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel. But while you seek diligently to foster this mutual love, give good heed that it do not turn to any manner of jealousy. Just as the worm is often hatched in the sweetest and ripest apple, so too often jealousy springs up in the most warm and loving hearts, defiling and ruining them, and if it is allowed to take root, it will produce dissension, quarrels and separation. Of a truth, jealousy never arises where love is built up on true virtue, and therefore it is a sure sign of an earthly sensual love, in which mistrust and inconstancy is soon infused. It is a sorry kind of friendship which seeks to strengthen itself by jealousy, for though jealousy may be a sign of strong hot friendship, it is certainly no sign of a good pure perfect attachment, and that because perfect love implies absolute trust in the person loved, whereas jealousy implies uncertainty. If you, husbands, would have your wives faithful, be it yours to set them the example. How have you the face to exact purity from your wives, asks Saint Gregory Nazianzen, if you yourself live an impure life? Or, how can you require that which you do not give in return? If you would have them chaste, let your own conduct to them be chaste. Saint Paul bids you possess your vessel in sanctification, but, if on the contrary, you teach them evil, no wonder that they dishonor you. And you, O women, whose honor is inseparable from modesty and purity, preserve it jealously, and never allow the smallest speck to soil the whiteness of your reputation. Shrink sensitively from the various trifles which can touch it, never permit any gallantries whatsoever. Suspect any who presume to flatter your beauty or grace, for when men praise wares they cannot purchase, they are often tempted to steal. And if anyone should dare to speak in disparagement of your husband, show that you are irrecoverably offended, for it is plain that he not only seeks your fall, but he counts you as half -fallen, since the bargain with the newcomer is half -made when one is disgusted with the first merchant. Ladies, both in ancient and modern times have worn pearls in their ears, for the sake, so says Pliny, of hearing them tinkle against each other. But remembering how the friend of God Isaac sent earrings as first pledges of his love to the chaste Rebecca, I look upon this mystic ornament as signifying that the first claim a husband has over his wife, and one which she ought most faithfully to keep for him, is her ear, so that no evil word or rumor enter therein, and not be heard save the pleasant sound of true and pure words, which are represented by the choice pearls of the Gospel. Never forget that souls are faithfulness lead to familiarity and confidence, and saints have abounded in tender caresses Isaac and Rebecca. The type of chaste married life indulged in such caresses as to convince Abimelech that they must be husband and wife. The great St. Louis, strict as he was to himself, was so tender towards his wife that some were ready to blame him for it, although, in truth, he rather deserved praise for subjecting his lofty, marital mind to the little details of conjugal love. Such minor matters will not suffice to knit hearts, but they tend to draw them closer and promote mutual happiness. Before giving birth to St. Augustine, St. Monica offered him repeatedly to God's glory, as he himself tells us, and it is not a good lesson for Christian women how to offer the fruit of their womb to God. Who accepts the free oblations of loving hearts and promotes the desires of such faithful mothers? Witness Samuel St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Andrea Deficile, and others. St. Bernard's mother, worthy of such a son, was wont to take her newborn babes in her arms to offer them to Jesus Christ, thenceforth loving them with a reverential love as a sacred deposit from God. And so entirely was her offering accepted that all her seven children became saints. And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis her son. Witness her oft -repeated words, My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin, words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind and strengthen him in treading God's ways. We call races and generations, houses, and the Hebrews were to want to speak of the birth of children as the building up of the house, as it is written of the Jewish midwives in Egypt, that the Lord made them houses, whereby we learn that a good house is not reared so much by the accumulation of worldly goods as by the bringing up of children in the ways of holiness and of God. And to this end, no labor or trouble must be spared, for children are the crown of their parents. Thus it was that St. Monica steadfastly withstood St. Augustine's evil propensities, and, following him across sea and land, he became more truly the child of her tears in the conversion of his soul than the son of her body in his natural birth. St. Paul assigns the charge of the household to the woman, and, consequently, some hold that the devotion of the family depends more upon the wife than the husband, who is more frequently absent, and has less influence in the house. Certainly King Solomon, in the book of Proverbs, refers all households' prosperity to the care and industry of that virtuous woman whom he describes. We read in Genesis that Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren, or as the Hebrews read it, he prayed over against her, on opposite sides of the place of prayer, and his prayer was granted. This is the most fruitful union between husband and wife which is founded in devotion, to which they should mutually stimulate one another. They are certain fruits like the quince, of so bitter a quality, that they are scarcely eatable, save when preserved, while others again, like cherries and apricots, are so delicate and soft that they can only be kept by the same treatment. So the wife must seek that her husband be sweetened with the sugar of devotion, for man without religion is a rude rough animal, and the husband will desire to see his wife devout, as without her frailty and weakness are liable to tarnish an injury. Saint Paul says that the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband, because in so close a tie one may easily draw the other to what is good, and how great is the blessing on those faithful husbands and wives who confirm one another continually in the fear of the Lord. Moreover, each should have such forbearance towards the other that they never grow angry or fall into discussion and argument. The bee will not dwell in a spot where there is much loud noise or shouting, or echo, neither will God's Holy Spirit dwell in a household where altercation and tumult, arguing and quarreling, disturb the peace. Saint Gregory Nenzen said that in his time married people were wont to celebrate the anniversary of their wedding, and it is a custom I should greatly approve, provided it were not a merely secular celebration, but if husbands and wives would go on that day to confession and communion, and commend their married life specially to God, renewing their resolution to promote mutual good by increased love and faithfulness, and thus take breath, so to say, and gather new vigor from the Lord to go on steadfastly in their vocation.
THE EMBC NETWORK
A highlight from Dr Fitness USA The Show Presents The Magnetic Abundance Mentor Rebecca Whitman
"Hello, and welcome to Dr. Fitness USA, the show, exercises, medicine, strength training and stronger medicine with your host, Batista Gromod and myself, Steven Hersey, aka Dr. Fitness USA. Welcome to Dr. Fitness USA, the show, I'm Batista, your host, and I'm here with my co -host, Steven Hersey, also known as Dr. Fitness USA, the foremost expert in the world in strength training and body design, the Dr. Fitness USA show aims to inspire a society of stronger people. Today, we have an amazing guest for you, Rebecca Whitman. Oh boy, are you in for a great surprise. Rebecca is the magnetic abundance mentor, graduate with honors from Princeton University and author of internationally best -selling books. She was awarded life coach of the year and empowered woman of the year by the International Association of Top Professionals. She hosts the top 5 % globally ranked, balanced, beautiful, abundant podcast, which won the positive change podcast award. Her philosophy divides life into seven pillars of abundance, which include spiritual, physical, emotional, romantic, mental, social, and financial, all that you can imagine to have a fulfilling life. She helps people achieve balance within these seven areas to experience more fun and freedom in life. In addition to her appearances as an expert on ABC and CBS, she has spoken on multiple podcast at Columbia University, UCLA, and has shared virtual stages with great thought leaders like Grant Cardone, Jack Canfield, and Les Brown. Today, the topic of our conversation is the seven pillars of abundance. Rebecca, welcome to Dr. Fitness USA, the show. It's a real honor to have you with us today. Thank you. It's so wonderful to be here. I love talking to you guys already in the pre -show. We could have kept that conversation going, and now we get to do a podcast together. So I'm excited to be here. Beautiful. So listen, before we get started on the whole seven pillars of abundance and all this great stuff that you're going to share with us, we kind of want to know you a little bit, who you are, where you come from, and how did you get to where you are today? Sure. So I moved to LA about 20 years ago to pursue my childhood dream of being an actress. And I had small parts on big shows like Friends at CSI and 24, but I never quite made a living at acting. So I found myself working at children's acting schools, which I love because I don't have any kids, so it was fun working with them. And I had a lot of free time to study with great spiritual teachers like Michael Beckwith, Abraham Hicks, Wayne Dyer, and Miriam Williamson. And I really mastered the law of attraction in a lot of areas of my life. The one area that eluded me was my romantic life. And I had a really tough year in 2015. My dad was dying as my marriage was unraveling. And a year and a half later in 2016, in my last conversation with my dad, he said, Rebecca, I think you should write something. I think you're living life in a really different way, and I think you can inspire people. And I had no idea what I was going to write. My dad was buried on a Wednesday, 72 hours later, my marriage was dissolved and divorced on a Friday. And a few months later, I was sitting in my financial planner's office in workout clothes. And he's like, Rebecca, you always come in here like in workout clothes in the middle of the day, and I know you lost your dad and you lost your marriage, and you always come here with such great energy. And I'm looking at your financial portfolio, and you had the best fiscal year ever. So I think you should write a book inspiring people how you're living your life and how you're so resilient. And I believe that God speaks through other people. So I said, that's exactly what I'm going to write about. So I wrote a book called How to Make a Six Figure Income Working Part Time. And it's not a business plan. It's how I lived my life and live my life to make six figures working part time. And in that book, I divide life into seven key areas, which I call my seven pillars of abundance. And now I'm coaching women. I'm helping them go from burned out to balanced, beautiful, and abundant. I have a podcast called The Balanced, Beautiful, and Abundant Show, where I interview experts in each of these seven areas. You guys are going to be on the podcast talking about fitness. And I just love my mission of taking overworked, stressed out women and transforming them from burned out to balanced, beautiful, and abundant. So that's how I got to where I am today.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Visa Goes Deeper on Stablecoin Settlement
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, September 6th, and today we're talking about big news from Visa. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. So yesterday's episode started with a very brief discussion of a nominally big thing for Solana that didn't push the price at all. What we're going to do today is talk about that thing, which is much bigger than just Solana, and also talk about what it says about the general state of the cycle that we're in. The specific news was that Visa has announced an expansion of their stablecoin settlement to include the Solana network. Visa will now settle some cross -border payments using USDC on Solana. The payments company began experimenting with USDC for treasury operations in 2021. The pilot began with Crypto .com's crypto -linked Visa cards issued in Australia. Visa set up a cross -border settlement channel with Crypto .com, which allowed the exchange to finalize customer purchases using USDC over Ethereum. The expansion of the USDC settlement pilot is being done in collaboration with merchant acquirers WorldPay and Nuvei. This will allow merchant customers to select USDC stablecoin settlement as an option instead of receiving fiat currencies. Now the upgrade to Visa's systems is entirely a back -end improvement, and it's designed to cut settlement times and costs. In a statement, they explained that at the moment, quote, But what they don't see is that the funds used for their purchases need to move between their bank, the issuer, and the merchant's bank, the acquirer. This is where Visa's treasury and settlement systems enable the clearing, settlement, and movement of billions in transactions a day, making sure the correct amount in the preferred currency is received from the issuer and sent to the acquirer, end quote. Now currently cross -border card payments rely on the SWIFT system, which can take several days to finalize. By switching to crypto rails, merchants can receive cleared payments much faster, which is obviously a huge boon when it comes to cash flow management. Visa head of crypto Kai Sheffield said in a Twitter thread, WorldPay and Nuvei enable card acceptance for a diverse set of merchants across the world, including a growing number of merchants interacting with the blockchain and crypto economy who may prefer to use USDC within their corporate treasuries over traditional fiat banking. Visa can now settle these payments to WorldPay and USDC, enabling WorldPay to more flexibly manage their own treasury infrastructure and route the USDC directly to their merchants with less worry about wire cutoff times and bank holidays. It's still early days, but Visa has already settled millions of dollars of USDC over the Ethereum and Solana blockchains between our clients. We are committed to continuing to innovate around how we move money and provide our clients modern options for settlement, end quote. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire noted that the paradigm shift enabled by using USDC as a settlement currency and not just a payments currency. Also on Twitter, he wrote, One of the things that I am most excited about regarding this new expanded use of USDC by Visa is the fact that USDC is being used as a core settlement layer within the Visa network, a more real -time, global alternative to traversing SWIFT and various ACH rails. More often than not, everyone focuses on the purely retail uses like the Shopify USDC plugin. When in reality, USDC is a generic digital dollar protocol that spans from retail to wholesale across commerce and finance. Our existing mental models for payment systems are dated. An internet -native digital dollar and stablecoin network protocol scales from tiny micropayments in P2P transactions to multi -hundred million dollar capital market transactions, end quote. Now, while Visa has been experimenting with faster USDC settlement on the card issuer side of the business for some time, this pilot extends that functionality over to the merchant settlement side. Now, to bulls, this move seems like a significant step forward in the adoption of crypto networks as a global public and neutral end -to -end value transfer system. Visa currently settles $11 .6 trillion in global payments annually and this settlement use case is precisely what research firm Bernstein envisioned when they made their call in August that stablecoins could become a $2 .8 trillion market over the next five years. So in terms of community reactions, obviously for the Solana bulls, this was a huge deal. Anatoly Yakovenko, the founder at Solana Labs said, I want Solana to be so cheap that it saves Visa money to use it over its own in -house infrastructure. And I want Solana to be so fast that it improves the user experience as well. Lily Lu, president of the Solana Foundation said, We've had a long -standing thesis around payments being only possible on Solana. Fifteen years into the conception of cryptocurrencies and the gradual progression of this use case from forum post to proof of concept to DeFi adoption, Solana meets users where they are today. Click a button, something happens immediately and with infinitesimal cost. This is going to be demonstrated at scale with Visa building on Solana. Now, others focused on the significance from the Visa side of things. Terry Angelos, who formerly worked on crypto at Visa said, Visa is an authorization network and not a payment network. Merchants pay for real -time authorization, security and guaranteed payment. Settlement post -transaction is when Visa moves dollars from issuers to merchants and that can happen on Wires, ACH and now crypto rails. Nick Carter writes, This is a huge deal. Writing on the wall, stables would become de facto interbank settlement solution via card networks. Even my non -crypto fintech friends are fired up about this. This is one of the most important news items of the year. Caitlin Long puts it even more catchily saying, Visa debanks the banks by going around them to settle US dollar payments outside the US banking system and outside traditional USD payment rails. Pilot programs for now, but… Dennis Porter, the CEO of the Satoshi Action Fund wrote, Bitcoin -only people will hate this but it needs to be said. Stablecoins will play an important role in the next wave of financial technology. The dollar isn't going anywhere anytime soon. In fact, stables will strengthen the dollar. Banks will adopt quickly. Now I could and maybe will at some point do an entire show about why Bitcoin and stablecoins aren't at least in the short term competitive. One offers an improvement on the system that exists. The other offers an opt -out of the system as it exists. In other words, they are far from incompatible. Finally, Mert, the CEO at Helios Labs says, The Visa news today isn't just good for Solana, it's awesome news for all of crypto. Slowly the Overton window is shifting and more financial activity is moving on chain. So this must have caused a huge price run up, right? I mean, this is big news. Nick Carter called it one of the biggest pieces of news of the year. Alas, Solana was up just 2%. Crypto trader Gumshoe wrote, In a bull market, Solana would have jumped over 100 % with all the crazy news of the past two weeks lol. The other news that he's referring to was Solana Pay integrating with Shopify two weeks ago. Trader Horse writes, The sole response is a good indication of the current market environment. Imagine what this post would lead to during any other point. Instead, price is listless. This is not a supply issue. We just don't have any buyers. The news should excite long -term investors, however. Teams that are still grinding in the bear get rewarded in the bull. Now I weighed in on this yesterday as well, tweeting, People looking for prices to move up on good news right now are totally missing the part of the cycle we're in. Until new buyers come in, it's sideways or down only. Doesn't mean good news isn't still good. It's just not going to show up in price. Now in the particular case of Solana, there is a general and specific context. The general is what we just talked about and where we are in the cycle. The specific is that Solana is dealing with the overhang of the FTX estate having $1 .1 billion worth of Solana in their coffers right now. That's something like 13 % of the total supply. Reinforcing the contrast between news and energy, even as all this was happening, Solana's daily active addresses fell to around 204 ,000 at the end of August. That's the lowest level for the metric since the block began tracking it in late 2020. Rebecca Stevens, data analyst at The Block Research, put the reasons pretty crisply saying, The Solana ecosystem was already seeing a decline in active users prior to the collapse of FTX, but the fact that the blockchain had such strong ties to the exchange and Alameda Research hurt its reputation a bit. The SEC alleging that Sol is a security also hurt the token's price and has caused it to be delisted in the U .S. on several platforms like eToro and Robinhood. Now overall, the block's monthly exchange volume measurement hit its lowest point so far during this cycle in August. Just $423 billion in volume was moved through centralized exchanges last month, falling below other recent low points in May and December. The lack of trading on exchanges was punctuated by Binance falling below $200 billion in monthly volume for the first time since November 2020. Now this lack of activity extends to Bitcoin as well. Dylan LeClair tweeted, As a percentage of circulating supply, Bitcoin moved in the last 30 days is at an all -time low of 5 .4%. Meanwhile, spot volumes are at levels not seen since 2019. Saying this market is thin currently is an understatement. Reflexivity Research co -founder Will Clemente writes, Crypto aggregated trading volume is the lowest that it's been since 2020. Google's search trends for Bitcoin and crypto at multi -year lows. Realized volatility, implied volatility, weekly Bollinger Bands, all near record lows. This is exactly what apathy looks like. Now Kaleo pointed out that although this is brutal, it's not necessarily out of sync with the cycle. He wrote, Centralized exchange volumes haven't been this low since December 2020. Daily average volume is down from $164 billion at peak to around $13 billion now, a 92 % decline. For reference, the peak in the 2017 bull market was around $28 billion, with an average of $2 .5 billion per day six months prior to the 2020 halving, a 91 % decline. So after all of the centralized exchange trauma we've seen over the past year, we're still in line with a similar trend to what we saw last cycle, despite how rough it may feel. Still, I think it's worth noting comments from Kobe given during the height of the bull market. On the Up Only show, he said quote, You need to have the same level of interest when everything is really boring. The main way you have to make it is to try to perpetuate your interest through the boring bit. The boring bit is where the opportunity is. Now of course, one of the things that people anticipate could bring some new blood in is that fabled Bitcoin spot ETF. So an update on that front as well. After winning a comprehensive victory in court last week, lawyers for Grayscale have written to the SEC to ask them to get moving. According to Grayscale, the court ruling was so comprehensive that the SEC has quote no grounds for treating the Grayscale Bitcoin trust differently to Bitcoin futures ETFs. They wrote quote, Now the letter anticipates a change in tactics from the SEC who may choose to introduce new reasons to prevent Grayscale from converting GBTC into an ETF. The letter stated that quote, Grayscale pressed home the importance of resolving this conversion in a timely manner given the number of rival products clamoring for approval. The letter noted that the SEC may have now exceeded the time allowed to refuse an application, reserving their right to argue in court that the conversion should now be deemed approved. Grayscale argued that quote, Finally, they requested to meet with the SEC as soon as possible to discuss the path forward. James Safart, ETF analyst at Bloomberg said, Now even as the ETF situation works to be resolved, there is clearly some jockeying for positioning as it relates to renewed or new institutional interest in the crypto space. As a for example, Coinbase has launched a new crypto lending service aimed at U .S. institutional clients. The service looks to fill in the gap left by the Genesis and BlockFi bankruptcies. An under -the -radar SEC filing made last week disclosed the program already has $57 million in client funds. According to a person familiar with the service, clients can lend out their crypto assets on an over collateralized basis to Coinbase. The firm can then extend those crypto assets as loans to institutional trading firms. This is essentially the same business as prime brokerage in the traditional finance space. Now, unlike the canceled Coinbase Lend program, retail customers are explicitly excluded from this service. By catering exclusively to accredited and institutional clients, Coinbase is able to offer the service under less onerous regulatory requirements. Honestly, one of the big takeaways is just what a big gap has been left by Genesis in the U .S. institutional environment. However, as you'll hear in an interview coming out later this week or maybe even later today with Hani Rashwan from 21Shares, that institutional interest may be far less gone than it might currently seem. However, that is going to do it for today's episode. I appreciate you listening as always, and until tomorrow, be safe and take care of each other.
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
A highlight from The poison salon with Rose Biggin
"At Breaking the Glass Slipper, we believe it is important to have conversations about women and issues of intersectional feminism within science fiction, fantasy and horror. To continue to do so, we need your help. Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Join the conversation by following us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Hello and welcome to Breaking the Glass Slipper. I'm Lucy Hounsom. And I'm Megan Lee. In the preface to Les Fleurs du Mal, The Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire indicated that boredom is the truest suffering, and this idea later became central to the fin de siècle movement of the 1890s, an era of decadence in which artifice masqueraded as, or was even elevated to the status of, art. The Belladonna Invitation by Rose Biggin is a gothic exploration of the cult and cost of celebrity. It looks at the consequences of wealth, the ethical complexity of aestheticism, and ultimately asks the question, is celebrity or the mask of it worth dying for? We are extremely fortunate to have Rose with us on the show today. I loved this book, I devoured it in a couple of days. So I'm really keen to chat to Rose all about it. Would you like to introduce yourself to our listeners? Hi, I'm Rose Biggin. I'm a writer and a theatre maker based in London. I work between performance and I do a bit of dance and I do a bit of writing, short fiction and novels, often exploring things like art and artifice. So thank you for having me. As I said, I absolutely adored The Belladonna Invitation, which is out now from Ghost Orchid Press. It's a small press that's putting out some really exciting books at the moment. So I do urge everybody to just go and have a look at their titles. We're hoping to talk to some of their authors, other authors later in the year as well. Since you mentioned art and artifice, and I've mentioned also one of my favourite literary periods, the 1890s for the Fada Siekla, which is, yeah, it produced some really remarkable novels. But what I really liked in your book is this idea of death salons, this exclusive and expensive gathering where guests deliberately poison themselves. And I felt like that suggests that wealth directly enables the taking of absurd risks in pursuit of sensation. And this is horribly topical. I'm sure you know what I'm referring to at the moment, this having money and that leads directly to your doom. I wanted to dig into this idea of extreme wealth leading to a possible disregard for life itself. Yes. Well, the poison salons were something that came right at the start of the conceptualisation of the novel, before the idea was even novel sized. Maybe I could get to that later. But I immediately knew from the beginning about the dark, fin de siekla world that I wanted to set the story in, the main character, Bella Donna, her name, what she would do, the work she would do. This was all part of the texture of that world. I think the poison salon is the exclusive secret thing that she runs at the end of the official salons that just felt like a very interesting way to make those themes a bit tangible and a little bit tasty, I suppose, a sort of texture to the world. But I think something that interests me is that the character Bella Donna works in this world. She runs these salons and she takes on a very ambitious devotee apprentice and that's the perspective character. That's who we see the story, who we see the novel through in her eyes. Quite quickly, they get a little bit used to it. We have this glamorous showpiece thing she does, but what I was quite interested was showing the work that goes on beneath creating that kind of glamorous or that dangerous or that show -stopping event. They actually get a little bit used to it. It's central to what they do, but it's also part of the job. They run these things and the business and the practicalities of running these things, what it takes to uphold that glamorous edifice. We sort of see underneath that. There's a moment when the perspective character first learns about the poison salon because she doesn't walk in on day one. She's led up to experiencing it. She asks Bella Donna, I can't remember the exact quote, but why people come to this, why people do this. Bella Donna says, she words it a lot better than I would say it, but she says something like, she doesn't know why. It's either obvious or she's sure she doesn't want to know. We're at a little bit of distance from why people come to this. It's sort of a texture of that kind of world where we then see the relationship between the Bella Donna, who's this socialite, this mysterious character and her apprentices. They're working it through. I suppose equally, it's interesting to think that people do get blind drunk at parties and die from that. They take drugs. This perspective isn't one I don't have a particularly strong position about people doing high risk things to get a high. I'm quite liberal about that. It's just that I think the extremeness of the sort of poison berries and the way that is a combination of beauty and danger and the temptation of it feels like something. The Bella Donna is selling you that as an idea as well. The novel is kind of selling it to you as a reader. This is something someone's doing, but also her job is to sort of sell that it is particularly dangerous, particularly cool. That's part of her Fin de Sica celebrity and her glamour. Of course, after the apprentice character has done it once, she never wants to do it again. I think there's a relationship between this thing, this glamorous, decadent, dangerous thing, the poison salon, but part of the mystique of that and the upholding and the creation of the mystique of that is sort of where the book's territory really is. I love this exploration of the fact that they're very expensive. They're exclusive. Not anybody can just get into one of these poison salons. It just raises the idea of what I mentioned in the intro, this Baudelaire's saying that it's like the worst thing, the worst misery is boredom. Is that what happens when you have this extreme wealth and privilege that it's kind of horrible because the welfare state wasn't established in that period. There were tons of people who were living in abject poverty, scrabbling at life to try and keep on living. Then you've got this aristocratic class who was so wealthy that they are eating poison to try and get some kind of kick out of them. I think that that juxtaposition is that the whole moral question surrounding those ideas is so fascinating. But also, everyone knows not many people can get in. The exclusivity of it is, they talk about that. They know that's part of, you have to uphold. You have to uphold that. That's part of the fun. There is a huge consequence to, well, not just the poison salons themselves, but to the way that Belladonna behaves towards men who fall in love with her. It does force us to question the moral integrity of the world that she's constructed around herself. Was that something that was central also to you that you wanted to explore? It's a glamorous, beautiful world, but it comes at a huge cost to some people. Yeah, well, it's worth saying that the big, dramatic, jealous lover moment, I don't think it's a spoiler really because he comes in quite early. A guy appears, there's a sort of dramatic, jealous lover moment. The reason that happens, the reason we have that character, his name is Lucien, that is a trope that we have in culture and in these sorts of stories. The novel that is in the DNA of the Belladonna invitation is The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas -Phew, the son of Alexandre Dumas -Phew, who wrote The Three Musketeers and so on. His son wrote a novel, The Lady of the Camellias, which was a big hit at the time. It was adapted for stage and it later turned into the opera. Verdi adapted the story for his opera, La Traviata, and that's where Moulin Rouge gets its plot from. Although The Lady of the Camellias isn't so well known now, it has quite an interesting cultural footprint. Some of the initial skeleton of this Belladonna character and the lover who comes in and how she deals with that is a trope that I was looking to try to rework in a new way. He has his big, dramatic, jealous moment and she deals with that in a way that she doesn't deal with it in the text that I was just referring to. What I wanted was to have the man arise, but the emphasis isn't really on how she navigates that romantic or that pseudo -romantic world, but how she navigates the pressures that she's under and how that impacts on her relationship with Flora, or F, the name of the apprentice that she takes on who's watching all this happen. The relationship with the lover and how that sort of goes and how that ends up is interesting for me because of how it impacts on the central relationship between the two women. I do want to talk about Belladonna a little bit more in a bit because I do feel like there's a Rebecca vibe to her. She's on every page, but I don't feel like we ever really can say that we know who she really is. However, you mentioned F or Flora and I was so intrigued by these two names that she's sometimes Flora and she's sometimes F. There's a mask in there too. Do you have to have a mask to enter this constructed world? Who is Flora? Yeah, it's very interesting. In a way, I tried to make it quite an intimate novel. In a way, although she's F or Flora and there are things we don't know about this mysterious figure, she's also the perspective character of the book and we're sort of under her skin quite literally at times. I tried to really bring bodily sensation and feel and intensity of mental into construction her how she's seeing the world. At the same time, she's sometimes F, sometimes Flora. That's not necessarily an explicit puzzle that can be solved. It's more done through feel. There isn't a secret why she's one or the other. It's more how I felt in the writing, which name it felt like she was the best living up to in the time and in the moment. It does change. I suppose it's how she feels, who she feels she is in that moment. If she's expanded to take that kind of Flora name, which Belladonna gives her as well, or is just a letter, just a kind of ghost making things happen. I think in art, particularly in some forms, songwriting for example, or certain types of writing, certain genres, there's quite a lot of value placed on perceived sincerity or honesty, authenticity we might say. I'd argue it's maybe not necessarily about the world of art or celebrity itself that's all about masks, but particularly it's about a psychological perspective on the layers that we tell ourselves. The narratives we tell ourselves and what we tell other people, multiple selves that exist inside of us. I suppose the point is you don't need to be the top of society, La Dame, Belladonna, to have secrets and to have a sense that there are multiple selves within you and who will you show yourself to be at any one moment to other people depending on. F is a thinker, she's a planner. She's kind of a bit of a schemer, although that sounds a little bit Del Boyish. It's much more like, how can I get what I want? What do I need to do? Who do I need to be to these people in order to get from A to B? I suppose that's sort of the psychological territory that we're in, really. I think it's also, F is on the surface, we think they're going to be an entry character for the reader, I suppose. Of course, they're the perspective character, they're the one we identify with, but she's also hiding from the reader a little bit as well. It's an invite, it's to have fun to enter this world where there is mystery, there are characters who know more than what they tell you. I suppose I've just tried to embody that quality as well as depicting it. I wanted that to be something that hopefully is tantalising to the reader in form as well as in content. It is very tantalising and I was intrigued by both characters, but I'm glad that now you've kind of introduced both of these principal women. I wanted to talk a little bit about the power dynamic between them because they come from different classes. Flora is basically a servant and Belladonna is dripping with diamonds. Why set up this particular power dynamic? Class is a particular issue here and the fact that Flora is a servant to someone who stands at the very top of the social ladder. The power dynamic and the basic power struggle between them was the whole reason to write the novel, to be honest. As I mentioned earlier, I alluded to Lady of the Camellias and I had an idea to do a kind of goth, poison -y version of that. We'll call her Belladonna, she'll wear the blackberries in her hair and that all came quite fully formed. It felt like an idea that could potentially make quite a creepy short story. Fine. The jealous lover arrives, she deals with him, the end. I didn't quite write it because somehow there was something missing. There wasn't quite a reason to write it. It didn't feel like I had everything that I needed. There was a point where I was just puzzling over one of those scenes, maybe her and Lucienne or something. I suddenly thought, wait, who's watching this? Who's seeing this happen? Suddenly, it was one of those rare thunderbolt moments. Well, you know how it is artistically. You have a bolt from the blue that's actually a decade in the making. I'm sure I'd already had this idea, probably. The perspective is that Belladonna has a close assistant. She has a close person or someone, a devotee, who idolises her and she watches this. Suddenly, the muscle of the story is the power dynamic, the power struggle between those two. Then the guy coming in is like, you know, that's just part of the job. What does our shift bring us today? Ah, it's a guy. Then the romantic story isn't the focus, but it's the friendship or the test, the tempestuous combination of dependence and subversion between those two women. In a way, making her a servant or a lower class just makes Belladonna's world even more unobtainable because then that's further that you also do it. Whenever you don't, you do. That's also a handy driver to talk about wanting and desire. The notoriety that Belladonna has and the fame she has makes her far more distant. When we first see her, she's literally on the top of the private box in the balcony and F is staring up at her from below. That's one of the first dynamics between them that we see. I don't think it's a spoiler to say F is looking at Belladonna throughout the entire book. I wanted F to set out to achieve something unobtainable. Having her background be from the printing press in that kind of world was a deliberate decision as well because I wanted the Belladonna. She's got a very famous signature. She signs her name with black purple ink. She's associated with fine art, with calligraphy, with, as you say, dripping with diamonds. There's a liquidity to her as well as beauty and jewelry and so on. Whereas F has come from working in a printing press is all about industrial technologies. It's about replication. It's about mechanical reproduction. We're deliberately putting letters to create a specific thing that you need, which is how F goes about navigating the world. In comparison, what she sees Belladonna doing, and of course this is F's perspective, what she sees Belladonna doing is all about glamour and relationship building and beauty and rehearsal and performance and liveness. F is much more thinking in terms of these little metal blocks.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from Interview: Rebecca McLaughlin
"For many in our culture today, biblical Christianity is a dangerous idea, challenging some of their deepest beliefs. In her book Confronting Christianity, 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion, Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin explores the hard questions that keep many people from considering faith in Christ. Listen as Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin explores how we can share our faith in a way that is relevant, winsome, and true. The co -founder of Vocable Communications, a firm focused on data and speech, Rebecca McLaughlin has long been drawn to helping individuals tell their stories in the most compelling way possible. Her own story has seen her serve as the vice president of content for the Veritas Forum, going to Oak Hill College to study theology, and earning her PhD in Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. And in April 2019, she released the book Confronting Christianity, 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion. Rebecca, thank you so much for chatting today. It's great to be here. So I'd love to hear, just kind of right out of the gate, why you released the book now. Why do you think the church and even culture needs this book in this moment? In 1994, the historian Mark Knoll published a book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, in which he made the bold claim that the scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind. I think since then, if that were true in 1994, I don't think it's true today. God has raised up thousands of Christian professors at some of the top universities in the world in all of the fields that are supposed to have discredited, disproved, or sort of blown apart the Christian faith. And the nine years that I spent at the Veritas Forum, I was able to actually focus on unearthing and so the book is very much an opportunity to showcase their work. I think these guys are the greatest untapped resource of the global church and I guess my attempt in the book was to curate some of their work and insights and I think that's something that's needed today. So you don't think there's a scandal, at least in the way that Knoll put it, in 1994, any more today? I guess today the scandal is that we are not making the most of the evangelical minds that God has raised up. So was there something that, was there kind of a concrete moment where it clicked with you that this book needed to be written or was it kind of over the time of working with Veritas that kind of produced this desire to write this? Yeah, I think there were two streams that came into play and kind of flowed together. So one was, as I say, spending nine years working with these folks and realizing that both in the university and outside, both Christians and non -Christians, there was a massive information gap between what the best Christian minds knew when it came to science or philosophy or history or the arts and what was trickling down to the rest of the world. And in fact, some of the very ideas that were discrediting Christianity on college campuses were ones where Christians were world leaders in those very fields. So there was that stream of feeling like, oh, there's this massive information gap and I don't want to keep this all in my own head. I want to make this accessible to Christians and non -Christians. I think there was another stream which connected up for me personally and maybe connected up with some broader cultural issues, which was when gay marriage was legalized, I felt heartbroken honestly by the ways in which the church was messing up our witness on these questions. So it seemed to me that there were, broadly speaking, two ways people were going. One was saying there were well -meaning Christians who were repenting of the homophobia that they may well have been brought up with and throwing out the authority of the scriptures in the process. And then on the other hand, there were a lot of churches that seemed to be doubling down on a kind of culture wars, them and us mentality, which seemed to me to be sub -biblical and unhelpful and distracted both to those within the church and to our witness to those outside.
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Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from The Violent Bear It Away
"Welcome to Gospel in Life. Jesus was a great teacher, but he had a lot of things to say that were challenging or difficult to understand. In the Bible we see a number of places where his disciples say, Jesus, this is a hard saying. Today Tim Keller is preaching through one of the hard sayings of Jesus and how we can rest in the fact that while Jesus' teachings aren't always comfortable, he is always good. As John's disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John. What did you go out into the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are in king's palaces. Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet, this is the one about whom it is written, I will send my messenger ahead of you who will prepare your way before you. I tell you the truth, among those born of women, there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist, yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing and forceful men lay hold of it. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John, and if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. He who has ears, let him hear. To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to others, we played the flute for you and you did not dance. We sang a dirge and you did not mourn. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, he has a demon. The son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners, but wisdom is proved right by her actions. This is the word of the Lord. We're looking at the hard sayings of Jesus this month and the new international translation from which Scott just read gives us as nice a translation of verse 12 as you could possibly get. In verse 12, Jesus says, the kingdom of heaven from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing and the forceful take it, the forceful receive it, the forceful lay hold of it. In the older translation, in the authorized version, the older translation, it brings out the harshness and the strangeness of the verse. In the authorized version, Jesus is translated as saying, from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent bear it away. Flannery O 'Connor's only novel, I think it was her only novel, was called The Violent Bear It Away. It's taken from this verse. From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven advances through violence. That's what the Greek word means. That's what it means. There's no way around it. The kingdom of heaven has always moved forward since the days of John the Baptist through violence and the violent are the ones who lay hold of it. What does that mean? What does that mean? Let's think about it. The context is Jesus telling us about John the Baptist. See in the beginning, John the Baptist came preaching a message and the message was this, the Messiah is coming to bring in the kingdom of heaven. Now that's not as esoteric as you might think. Bottom line, the kingdom of heaven means someone is coming to put everything straight, to make the world right again, to right all wrongs. Our fiction is full of talking about some golden age of the past or some future age of the future in which all problems are put straight, all the psychological and social and physical problems are put straight and everyone is happy. And of course, our fiction is full of talking about an age like that. What John the Baptist's message was this, the kingdom of heaven is not fiction. It is real and it's coming and there is one coming to bring it and he is not fiction, he is real, it's Jesus of Nazareth. That was the message of John the Baptist. Now, Jesus turns around, that's what John said about Jesus. What does Jesus say about John? Jesus, in this passage, is talking to the people about John the Baptist. He says, John the Baptist understood that the kingdom of heaven, this power coming to set the world straight again, is not a fiction, it's real. And once John the Baptist got a hold of it, what did it do to him? It radicalized him. It turned him into someone crying out in the wilderness, wearing a hairy shirt. It turned him into someone who became, you see, it meant everything to him, it radicalized him, it also put him outside of the power structures of the day. Jesus says, you do not go out when you see him, you don't see a person who's a nobleman, he's not someone from the king's palaces, he's been marginalized, he's been radicalized, he's spiritually intense. Once he realized the kingdom of heaven was real and it was coming, it meant everything to him. It dominated his life. Then Jesus says, look at yourselves, look at how you listen to the message of the kingdom. Some of you say, hey, that's very interesting, thought -provoking. Some of you find it inspirational, and yet the status quo in your life has not been challenged. Basically, you want to hear about the kingdom of God and go on with business as usual, that's impossible. And then he turns around and says, from John the Baptist until now, anyone who understands the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of heaven comes in to your life with a spiritual force, it comes into your life with a kind of violence, and only violent people lay hold of it. And this bothers a lot of folks. It's one of the reasons probably why the translation that we read from takes away the word violent. It bothers us. Isn't this Jesus? Isn't this the one that said, blessed are the peacemakers? Isn't this the one that said, turn the other cheek? Yes. And that's the reason why Jesus uses this term. Jesus is a communicator, he's a preacher, and he knows by saying this, you're going to start the puzzle. You're going to be startled. You're going to say, what does that mean? And that's just exactly what he wants. Let's cooperate with him. He wants to surprise you. He wants to startle you. He wants you to ask, what in the world does that mean? Because he wants you to understand what he's getting across. My purpose this morning is to explain this spiritual violence to you, and by God's grace, to arouse it in those of you who do not have it. And by God's grace, to stimulate it in those of you in whom it's burned low. What is this violence that only is the only way to receive the kingdom of God? The only way to enter the kingdom of God and advance in the kingdom of God, he says, is through forcefulness, is through violence. What is it? Well, it's always helpful if you're defining something to go by way of negation. So let's, right off the bat, say what we can eliminate, what we can say it is not. First of all, he's not talking about physical violence. He's not talking about physical violence. The Bible is so against physical violence. You know the place in the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus says, you've heard it said, thou shalt not kill, but I say unto you, don't even resent somebody. Why does Jesus forbid you even holding a grudge? Why does he forbid you even resenting somebody? You know why? Because it can lead to violence. Human life is so sacred. Human life is so valuable that anything that even could lead to the abuse, to the weakening, or to the destruction of human life is not permitted. Even resentment is rolled out. And the reason why is because every human being is built in the image of God. God sees an assault on a human being as an assault on himself. If for some strange reason somebody built a statue of you somewhere in New York and you saw people pulling it down and stamping on it, and shooting it, wouldn't you take that personally? I mean, if Lennon was around, shouldn't he have taken it personally? What people did to his statues? Yeah. And the Bible tells us that because we are built in the image of God, God takes it as a personal assault on his own being when you assault someone else. No, the Bible is completely against physical violence. That's not what he's talking about. And not only that, it's not even talking about the formerly violent. There are people who hear Ted Bundy about to be executed. Before he's executed, he says, I found Christ. I'm born again. The guy who was just hanged in Washington last week. Did anybody hear that? Before he was hanged, he said, I found peace in Christ. And a lot of people say, well, that makes sense. These guys were so violent, and their crimes were so heinous, and their guilt is so great, I guess they need that kind of Hallelujah born again stuff just to deal with their own consciences. That's fine for them, not for us, not for average decent people. No way. If there's one thing that the Bible and history and personal experience proves, is the Christian conversion is not for one type of personality. Yes, of course. History proves that people of every conceivable class of psychological and social class, every conceivable type of personality have claimed to be born again. You must not say the kingdom of heaven and all that born again stuff is really just for the people who used to be violent, desperate sinners. Not at all. Yes, people from the dregs of society have found Christ and said, I'm born again, but people from the cream, people who are simple, people with towering intellects, every region, every race. You can't say that Jesus is talking about the formerly violent or the physically violent, but here's what he's saying. Jesus is saying that Christians are not passive people, that Christianity cannot be received passively. Christianity is a proactive stance toward the universe. Christianity makes you someone who is characterized by a holy violence, by a spiritual aggressiveness, listen carefully, by a sweet, humble spiritual ferocity, by a vehement spiritual sincerity. Now, I know, see modern people stare at such terminology the way a cow stares at a new gate. We've got no framework for it. A spiritual ferocity, a radical spiritual aggressiveness and intensity, and here's why, because the world believes the only people who are radical and intense and zealous and spiritually aggressive about faith and beliefs are arrogant people. The world believes the...and I'll show you in a minute why. The world in its prejudice believes the only people that can be spiritually intense and aggressive, spiritually ferocious, are arrogant people. But you see, when Jesus was preaching, one thing that he must have seen in my guess is that this is where he got his idea, his metaphor. He would attract tremendous crowds, and there was only a certain kind of person that actually got in to hear him. The kind of people that got in to hear him were the people who came early, the people who stood in line, the people who scrambled, the people who were relentless, who were aggressive, who were creative, who climbed and scrambled and ran and tore through the roof, remember that one, to get in. And the people who showed up on time, the people who expected normal conditions in order to hear Jesus Christ, the people who thought that a normal effort was all it was going to take, the people who were casual, couldn't even hear him. My family and I went to the Paul Simon concert last summer, 750 ,000 people, and one of the things we discovered, if you try to get into the Great Lawn, you know, around the Great Lawn were the pathways, the paved pathways. So you get onto the Great Lawn, on the pathway, and you start to follow the crowd, so you realized that the crowd was going away from the Great Lawn, that the crowds were being diverted away, and if you wanted to get into the center to get any kind of decent seat, you had to buck the crowd. You had to dart. You had to think for yourself. You had to pin your ears back and not care where everybody else was going and not care what everybody else said either. And you had to go. And Jesus says there's a certain kind of relentlessness, a certain kind of hard pursuit, a kind of striving, a spiritual intensity that must characterize anyone who will lay hold of the kingdom of heaven. For many in our culture today, biblical Christianity is a dangerous idea challenging some of their deepest beliefs. In her book, Confronting Christianity, 12 hard questions for the world's largest religion, Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin explores the hard questions that keep many people from considering faith in Christ, tackling issues including gender and sexuality, science and faith, and the problem of suffering. McLaughlin shows that what seems like roadblocks to faith in Jesus can become signposts to a relationship with him. Confronting Christianity is our thank you for your gift to help Gospel and Life share the love of Christ with people all over the world. So request your copy today at GospelAndLife .com slash give. That's GospelAndLife .com slash give.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from Four Things Christians Must Reclaim
"If you're a Christian, you want to see your neighborhood, workplace, and city renewed by the gospel. But in today's culture, the challenges to sharing our faith or discipling someone can feel almost insurmountable. How can we effectively share our faith in spite of tough questions and misconceptions about Christianity? Today's podcast features teachings from the 2019 Missional Living Conference held at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. Listen as Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin explores how we can share our faith in a way that is relevant, winsome, and true. After you listen, we invite you to go online to GospelAndLife .com and sign up for our email updates. When you sign up, you'll receive our quarterly newsletter with articles from Dr. Keller, as well as other valuable gospel -centered resources. Subscribe today at GospelAndLife .com.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from How Do We Share Our Faith Now? Practices
"If you're a Christian, you want to see your neighborhood, workplace, and city renewed by the gospel. But in today's culture, the challenges to sharing our faith or discipling someone can feel almost insurmountable. How can we effectively share our faith in spite of tough questions and misconceptions about Christianity? Today's podcast features teaching from the 2019 Missional Living Conference held at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. Listen as Dr. Keller explores how we can share our faith in a way that is relevant, winsome, and true. After you listen, we invite you to go online to GospelAndLife .com and sign up for our email updates. When you sign up, you'll receive our quarterly newsletter with articles from Dr. Keller as well as other valuable gospel -centered resources. Subscribe today at GospelAndLife .com. Now, for a person to go from no faith to faith, I think takes at least four things. They're going to need four things, and I'm going to briefly talk to you about three because the fourth one, Rebecca, is going to give you a really great presentation on. But those four things are you have to get their attention. As I try to say, they have to give sustained attention to thinking about Christianity. Secondly, there has to be some attraction because people have to get to the place where they about say Christianity, it would be great if it was true. There has to be, at a certain point, you have to get a person to the place where they say, gee, that would be interesting. That would be great if that was true. And that's attraction. So they need attention, attraction, then demonstration, which is how do you know if it's true? And that's what I'm not going to talk about right now because Rebecca is going to talk about that. a But if person goes from paying attention to finding Christianity attractive, then it's natural for them to say, but how do I know if it is true? And therefore, you do have to answer some questions there. And then lastly, there's explanation. Well, what is the gospel itself? Let me just give you a couple ideas on those three, three of those four. We talk about attention. How do you get people's attention? I've already hinted at this. I already said something about this in the Q and A. Ultimately, people are going to need relationship now. It means, and Abe also has talked about it, so I really can be pretty brief on this. You've got a number of web, you might say, a number of relationship networks. There's the people you actually live with. And even there in New York, there's the people in your building and there's the people in your neighborhood. It's not necessarily the same, but there's the geographical network, people that live near you. There's the work network, people that you work with or people in your field, even if it's not people in your actual company or business, but people in your field. A third area, of course, is interests. That could be hobbies, but it just means something that you get involved in doing. Maybe hobby avocation. A third network, for some people, are kinship networks. So I have to admit that probably the average person in New York City is not living near their extended family. That's not always true, of course, and some of you are. But a fourth network of relationships are kinship networks, people who your extended family and relationship. Abe was right in saying that one of the most important things to do is to choose one of begin to help you be more intentional in developing relationships there. And it's not real instrumental. That is to say, the way to get those relationships going is really just to be more regular and inhabit them. If you, for example, do the same thing in your neighborhood routinely, for example, in my building, I have found out that if you wash your, if you do your laundry at certain times on certain days, I've noticed there are other people who are there always the same time on that day. That's their day, or one of their days to do it. It's not that hard to get to know them if you do that. If you go to the store at certain times, if you take even walks at certain times, if you're regular, you end up seeing the same kind of people. What you really want to do in the very beginning is you want to be finding ways to just strengthen the relationships in one of those fields. You need to say, this is where I'm going to pray that God would open some doors just to become friends. And don't forget the motivation. The motivation in these relationships is really, on the one hand, to say, Lord, you have to open doors. If there's going to be an openness to talk about the faith, that's something you've got to do. But it's also, your motivation is actually to love people. Talking about your faith, this may sound strange, talking about your faith is really a means to an end. And what's the end? Loving them. In other words, you don't love them in order to show your faith, you share your faith in order to love them. Those are two very different motivational structures to the heart. If you're loving them in order to share your faith, in some ways, you have objectified them. They're objects, not subjects. They're people that you want to feel good about yourself because, hey, I'm sharing my faith. You don't love people to share your faith with them. You share your faith with them if you get the opportunity because you love them. And so what you want to do is you want to deepen relationships in one area. And the only way people are going to pay attention is, number one, they have a relationship with somebody who is a believer. And then number two, the moments come. Now what do I mean by the moments? A lot of you were saying, how do you get into conversations? I'm a little more passive, maybe, than I should be, but I wait for moments. And there's three kinds of moments once you have the relationship. The one moment I'll tell you, here's the easiest one, is when you see an article or something that you've read online or in the paper or something like that, and you say it raises questions that aren't necessarily directly about Christianity or about even religion, but they raise some pretty interesting questions. They kind of get you talking beyond just the, hey, what do you think of how the Yankees have done and that sort of thing. You're trying to get people to start talking about life issues and what is the meaning of life and how do you make moral judgments and what are the important things for us to be doing. One of the things to do is just to see something like that, especially when you know it's going to be kind of interesting. Just to give you an interesting article, there was an article a while ago in the New York Times called, Has Trump Stolen Philosophy's Critical Tools? And it's written by a guy who at the time was a PhD student in English, maybe still is, an English PhD student, because it's two years ago and we all know how the doctorates go at Duke. And what he says here in the article, he says this, he says, for decades, critical social scientists and humanists have chipped away at the idea of truth. We've deconstructed facts, insisted that knowledge is situated, and denied the existence of objectivity. The bedrock claim of critical philosophy going back to Kant is simple.
The Voicebot Podcast
A highlight from The Evolution of Conversation Design in the ChatGPT Era Part 2 - Voicebot Podcast 338
"This is episode 338 of the VoiceBot Podcast. Today we have part two of our special edition on how generative AI is changing conversation design. Rebecca Evanhoe, Micah Coppins, Kane Sims and Hans van Dam share their thoughts on the evolution of conversational AI and the impact of chat GPT. Hello everyone out there in VoiceBot Nation. I'm Brett Kinsella, your host of the VoiceBot Podcast. We're back at it with another expert commentary on the evolution of conversation design for six years. We've brought you many amazing guests and this week we have four conversation design experts, all of whom have previously appeared as featured guests on the podcast. Today we have them offering new insights on how conversation design is changing and in particular the impact of chat GPT and large language models on current practices. Now this is part two of our series on the evolution of conversation design. Don't miss part one which featured Micah Groenewegge, Tom Hewittson, Peter Isaacs and Karen Gushansky. You can find all of their commentary in episode 336. Also, don't miss the upcoming Unparced Conference. It's just later in July. It's actually just in a few days now once you start listening to this. It's focused on the state of conversation design. Oh, by the way, this is online and in person in London, right? And it's focused on the state of conversation design is a practice in a profession so you can join even if you can't make it to London. And I hope you will. I'm presenting new data about conversation designers and design, but the real draw is really going to be the leaders in the conversational AI industry, such as Karen Gushansky, Rebecca Evanhoe, Lisa Falcson, Hans van Dam, Ellen Nichol from Rasa, Stephanie Reimer from Verizon, Dr. Lisa Preck from IBM, many, many more. I'm sure you're going to like it. If you use the code VOICEBOT when registering, you get two tickets for the price of one. So sign up and bring a friend for free. The deal is for both online and in person formats. And this is ridiculously inexpensive. It's just 99 pounds to attend online. That means it's actually 50 pounds because you get the one free. If you go in person, it's only $249. And actually they give you food as well. And they're renting a space and everyone's coming in. So that's like essentially $125. So this is like really affordable. I hope you can join us. I think it's going to be a great community event. It's going to be great content, some useful insights. Just go to bit .ly forward slash unparsed 2023. That's bit .ly forward slash unparsed lowercase 2023. Register there. Don't forget to use the code VOICEBOT for your free ticket. Okay. Today's guests are leaders and practitioners of conversation design. Micah Coppins is vice president of product at Open Dialog AI, where she started as head of UX and conversation design in 2020. She was a product designer at Zap Media, Labwork, Smartly AI, also a UX consultant at Applause. Micah was also my guest on episode 284 of the VOICEBOT podcast. Rebecca Evanhoe is the co -author of the popular book Conversations with Things, UX Design for Chat and Voice, published by Rosenfeld Media. She is a visiting assistant professor at the Pratt Institute in New York, where she teaches a graduate course on conversational UX design. She also has a background as a conversation design consultant at AWS, was a voice user interface designer at Mobiquiti, a writing instructor at University of Florida, many, many more experiences in her professional life.
AP News Radio
Post-Serena, women's tennis heads to French Open led by Big 3 of Swiatek, Sabalenka, Rybakina
"All of the questions about who would step up once Serena Williams walked away from the tennis store seemed to be getting answered with three names. Arena sabalenka and Elena rabaka. As the start of the French Open approaches on Sunday, defending champions via tech is ranked number one, sabalenka is number two and is number four. A 21 year old from Poland is the reigning champion at Roland Garros and the U.S. open. A 25 year old from Belarus won the Australian open this January by beating Rebecca in the final and won Wimbledon last July. I'm geffen cool Bach.
AP News Radio
Biden says teaching should not be 'life-threatening' job
"President Biden has honored the nation's best teachers, praising them for going above and beyond for their students. In the rose garden, the president said teachers do things like bringing snacks for hungry students. Spending your own money, your own money on school supplies. And face the unique challenges of today's teachers. Explaining not explainable from banned books to duck and cover drills. Amid a plague of deadly school shootings. A life threatening profession. What that also should not deal with politicians trying to score political points by banning books. Empty shelves don't help kids learn very much. The event honored teachers of the year from every state with Oklahoma's Rebecca Peterson named the top teacher, Sagar, Meghani, Washington.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Mike Gallagher: Trump Should Be the 2024 Republican Nominee
"We don't want to see these two Titans go at each other. We don't want to see Trump tear desantis apart and vice versa. We don't like desantis calling Trump a coward and a gun grabber. We don't like Trump calling desantis mister puddin fingers or whatever. And he's a bit of bad governor of Florida and all that. We don't like any of that. And it's happening because of the dynamic of the two of them, challenging each other. We should be unified behind one man and that ought to be Donald Trump. We saw what Trump accomplished in four years, we know what they're putting him through. We see how desperate they are to try to stop him, how terrified they are of him. They want to impeach him and arrest him and indict him and throw him in handcuffs and put him in jail and do anything they can to let the American people elect the guy who we loved in 2016. Again, make sure you understand where I'm coming from. If Ron DeSantis is the Republican nominee, I will be all about Ron DeSantis. If Vivek ramaswami is the Republican nominee, I will be all about Rebecca Swami. I will be enthusiastically behind any Republican that the voters elect to be the Republican nominee. I just believe it should be Donald Trump. And I have tried to hold back from saying that. I have pulled my punches. I have been walking on eggshells and I'm not doing it anymore. That's how I feel.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
How the War in Ukraine Could End With Rebekah Koffler
"Some questions that my good friend constant in kissing provided for me who's born in the Soviet Union. His wife is Ukrainian, visited Ukraine a lot. He says, ask Rebecca, what if there is to be an end to this at some point? What are the conditions Putin could agree to and survive in the Kremlin? Because he has Crimea. He's got a breakaway quote unquote republics. There's other territories and buchan and everything else that he wants to maintain control of. Is there a settlement that he could agree to, which is short of controlling all of Ukraine? So that's a tough one. A couple of months ago, I would have said that Putin could saddle for the roughly 1820% territory. But he has captured, right? The two territories, what he's had captured, he'd be happy with that. Plus Crimea, obviously. Yes, right? Yes. So that's what my intelligence analysis told me at that point. As long as we recognize those territories in Russian, which we probably would never have do, because it just wouldn't bold and again. Every damn totalitarian out there to just chop off that America gave in. Oh, I'll do it too. I'll take Taiwan, right? Right. But regardless, that's what my assessment was. He would have accepted. At this point, I believe that he is just benefiting from maintaining this war indefinitely. Waging this strategy of attrition, right? Relentless attraction of manpower because he has able to galvanize and to form an entire anti U.S. and anti western coalition,
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Sen. Marsha Blackburn: Biden Needs to Apologize to Rebecca Kiessling
"You had the crowd going today. What a fun day at cpac. Well, it is and as we said, our segment was human trafficking cartels and beyond the China balloon. Because you look at how the Chinese Communist Party and the Mexican cartels are in cahoots. And you look at the how this fentanyl crisis is unique to the United States and all of that fentanyl is coming out of China, Mexico, cartels, and into our community. What was your reaction yesterday when President Biden actually laughed at a woman because of the fentanyl issue and losing losing children as well? He needs to apologize to that family immediately. I thought that was in very poor taste. I thought it was almost a moment of ridicule of the sadness. And I can not imagine as a mom and a grandma. I can not imagine the trauma and heartbreak of losing both of my children. I just can't. When you look at the drug addiction in this country and the drugs coming across our border and Memphis, the crime rates are just off the charts deadliest city most dangerous city in America, what is your message to people in Tennessee about the policies of these Democrats? Well, they need to look at how the issue of the cartels and the drug trafficking human trafficking gangs. All of that fits together. And pushing these gangs into our cities and that you're driving up the crime rate. The drug dealers. You know, Todd, the thing is, when you talk to the Tennessee bureau of investigation or of any state, they will tell you. The cartel has a presence in our state. The cartel is active, in our state.
Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"There were a lot of things. I had to strip away about my old self. That are no longer serving me but when you get rid of something old you have to replace it with something new. So what's that noon. And just reminding yourself like i can do this. I am this if you can. I was so people. You can envision it. it's there for you. it's waiting for you most definitely right like i. I had a very very distinct vision. Once i started on this journey of what i wanted my life to look like sorta don't wanna say at the end because we're always a work in progress but lake. There's a very distinct vision. I'm building towards the end. I use that every single day to make choices and to remind myself like pay my bank accompanying outlook. How hers books in the future. But here are things. I'm doing today to move in that direction And then the last thing. I always tell people. This is my favorite favorite tip to give people right now at night before you go to bed was kind of a. It's a motivational piece to keep moving. I always say I list i love to journal. So like these prompts are actually. It's a freebie that i offered to to people And they're they're feeling in your show notes but still gives a five prompts. These five things that i go through every day but my favorite one whether i actually write it down or not is right before we go to bed. I list off all of the ways intended or not that. I ended up showing up as my future. South my best self. Whether it's i drank three glasses of water today. Instant of two or i had one less cup of coffee. Today i went for my walk instead of watching. An extra episode of nets. Looks all of the ways. I won that day because the last thing you think about before you go to bed it. You don't want it to be all the things you didn't do right and so having that sort of uplifting moment right before you go to bed is a motivate you to get up the next day and do it again super exciting. I think that you have some great nuggets there. The audience has some perfect tips. And i'm really excited for them to connect with you go ensure some the links that you've got. Yeah so they can find me on my website. Karston marie dot com There's different tabs in there. they can find. I think the freebies on on my website are under the coaching tab I've also on instagram and facebook. Also some version of at kirsten. Marie i think on instagram might be at curse to underscore marie. I think Freebie is there as well and then i also included a link for your listeners if they want to hop on a. There's a link. I think for the actual freebie itself and then there's also a link for free one on one session if if any of these things resonated with them and they want to dig deeper. I would recommend you know. Grabs the freebie journal prompts on a page and then Reach out and he will dig deeper for sure would love to us. And thanks for coming in today share. Everyone's but having me thank you for everything that you have shared with the audience. I think that the tools and the topics on each different level that we talked about we're just scratching the surface and this is a great opportunity for all of the audience to really reflect and see the different ways that they can make it better. And i appreciate everything that you've done to share that. Thank you for having me. And i want to thank all of you for tuning into another episode of rebecca. Sounds reveille take a few moments after the shell or if you're listening during times where you can't get to a quiet place later on today and start reflecting on some of the things that you've heard today you might have to replay the show a couple of times to go back and see some of the light bulbs that went off that are going to allow you to make changes in a healthier way for you and all about everything that you're doing although they seem small at first the ripple effect on every relationship and everything going on around. You is going to be huge. Thanks for watching and definitely get this out there to everybody you know and everybody you don't thanks for tuning in..
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"The freedoms are going to be taken away the since of loss of control that they don't want to give up so So that it's just it's very volatile situation not only prolong horsemen because oftentimes were seeing things. Now where the victim is harmed the children the harm are harmed in home and so is the person that is making the The issue to begin with so I i don't even like going there but we're seeing this on the rise just unbelievably and so I really like that. Your you're going to be doing this. And i think one of the things i want to really point out for anybody who's listening one find a mentor. Somebody has been through this and make sure that you are. That's what do i had. Mental off was telling me everything i did was great. It's amazing you did this on your mind. She said like with the bulk at accusation. Everything else that. I'll adri and like nobody can believe they will that. Actually i may day. They still talk about the how i'm still he today. And hal. i've got a smile on my face. l. I say things positively and don't let anything get me down. I'm actually a mole ave personnel. The in our like the pasta. Yes and you're able to see things. I think the perspective is so different and it really allows you to bring joy in once you can kind of break that chain and say. I don't need to be tied to those emotions anymore and i'm getting healthy and you're doing it and i wanna share with the audience also because you've been through the joy and the inspiration and the beauty from all of these things that you've experienced as coming up your writing and your work will definitely bring a new perspective to people as they are going through the situation and trying to maneuver through it just reading your work as it poetry and things like that. It's this is just incredible. Let me ask you a question. To what direction are you going to be going over the next year. Are you're going to do any speaking engagements or even virtually or Any any other things that might be going on the next saturday Twenty eight. i'm gonna be on check skin. Radio the interviewing me again. This'll be my time. Excellent them it'll be live international broadcast And they're in the uk. That'll be exciting. I think that that's going to be exciting. So you're gonna end up continuing to get interview after interview and you're going to continue to release more work and i really want audience to connect with you on so many levels. Do you want the audience to connect with you on facebook or instagram. And if so can gonna go. I have facebook which is undermine catherine vasily and my instagram page is also a turn the silica What else. I've got twitter. Which is from vessel cada. And if they want to your book. They can head on over to amazon amazon kindle and yet is going to be so much media exposure surrounding it. Such as interest My publishers only so many So many things that. I did not have to talk with him on dry because we can get the audience to connect with you on your social media feeds. You'll be posting things as you go and they'll be able to connect with the links that you post and things like that so That's totally okay. Yeah but also have an email addresses. They want to though any updates instance. Yes yes. let's hear it okay. Told say by the way up until say I to a capital b. a. s. i. Lic at j. mile dot com excellent one would catcher vessel An excellent. I wanna thank you so much for sharing your story for giving me inspiration. I know that those are the reading. Eds are inspired. And there's so much in your work that is changing Respective and habits and will also provide at least one person to change the direction that they're going in their life and it's gonna be a lot better and i'm excited to see about what you're doing. I want to thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for inviting. Like i can't wait to see more. I just so jazzed. And i wanna thank all of you for tuning into another episode of rebecca. Sounds reveille. I really would like you to connect with catherine because there's so many of you who have unspoken needs in this area that we talked about just on the domestic violence level definitely connects. Because i think that the things that you're going to find that you might need to make some changes this is going to give them to you so do connect plus wanna connect in. You've got to read her work. I'm telling you there's just so much joy in it so much creativity and you're going to game a lot. Share this with everybody. You know on social media all of your friends and family and those even co workers or someone that you might suspect needs a little bit of a boost. Tell him hey. I've got something that you've got to read or this is author. You've got to connect with. you're gonna. you're gonna be glad that you dead. Thanks for tuning in another episode..
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"And i really wanna see the dynamic of who's apparently we have an eighty year old lady down here that signed up or which is exciting will learn so much her and then we have a budget one. So so it's going to be very interesting dynamic. And i like i like i'm not gonna stand at elector and dictate. It's not my style. I want to sit in the uca. I wanna talk. Answered questions. Don't want to build rapport. And oh by the way. You're going to see yourself. And i will away edwards going to critique is that's how we learned us out. I absolutely love this. So let's do a couple of things here a quick. Let's share with the audience where they can catch glued tv and anything else you wanna connect them to but also how they can enroll in one of your classes or if you'll be doing future virtual classes or anything like that i this takes me back to an addition i have. I just oh man. It was completely opened. Unscripted and there was a catecholamine. There was just hundreds of people there. And i was very very green. Had no no idea what to expect. So this is pretty exciting. And i think that there's a lot of others who right now. We'll feel that way. And if they know that these are the things that you're going to be sharing with them and teaching them and equipping them. I like them to get involved church. Thank you that you will. I'm on social media on facebook twitter. It's dennis malan and a l. e. n. I'm more than willing to help anyone with anything. And i've been thinking about doing the chorus and virtually doing his own courts. Or you know whatever works. This is my verse borei into that and my biggest concern is that there's so many projects going on right now. Everything's going to diverge at the same time. We gotta unites the tank. Zach yuppie the producer writer. I saw at least once a week. And he's waiting for cobain subsidence in the northeast and new york and california. We're going to be doing that. I just did I just did ain't nineteen fifties. Noi don't have we mentioned. I got that because people saw beauties. So i'm telling you this is everything parleys itself but please find me on social media dennis malan and i am they see how this course goes i before on a rapid but it up on You know put it up on the zoot like this you know. I have received feedback so far. And i just wanna get one under my bill. I you know gets under my belt waiver so well thank you so much for sharing and giving us an update with everything that's going on. I really love what you are doing. And i am excited for the audience to get engaged with everything that you have going on especially checking out Daddy were back on. Tv going over to amazon prime and seeing unlawful duties and more and more. So i just encourage all of you to keep listening. He's dentist will be back here repeatedly so i also asked that you'll share everything with your friends and your family. Dennis thank you so much for being with us again. I am just so excited about what you have going. I just of wanna wrap up and run over the tv. We do things. But that's how i'm feeling right now and. I hope that the audience is to thank you. Dennis rebecca thank you so much i appreciate and thank you offer tuning into another episode. Rebecca sounds reveille. Oh if you getting ready to turn this off go turn go check out glue. Tv internet honored over to amazon prime. There is things for you to do. You don't have anything to do right now. And if you wanna do a virtual party call up some your friends and see if you can all start watching at the same time and chat back and forth and then include us in which you think. Let us know what's going on. We'd love to hear your feedback and we want you to connect so thanks for tuning in and we will see next week a too.
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"And i've got about ten different scenes with east yayla sisters so that is exciting again. It's like it's like the perfect storm. Rebecca everything started to come together Between killer miller. Danny were back. You know between all duties. It's all coming together at the same time. So you know. And i believe in karma. I live manifesting believing goals and you know affirmations and stuff like that I read myself today. I always keep keep my goals for frontline head. You know when we won comes killer. Miller one cons. That's like an academy award for it is. It is out. And that's but i think overwhelming on dennis. I think this isn't about..
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"There are some areas of police work in policing that are never really exposed portrayed in the in the right way or Or even touched on and so that this is something you said. That really strikes me is that what is not being or the lack of support from the the agency side in in addition to the community site. So that this is going to be very very fascinating for me to watch in addition to your other films as well But you guys have a lot to offer. I think that the audience is going to really get such enjoyment from the things that both of you are doing because they're meaningful and you have a lot to show in what both of you do. Both of you are doing things that say. Never give up pursue your dreams. Continue on and just keep going. You can't stop and from let me ask you a question though john from a health standpoint. Isn't it true you cannot be sedentary you have got to be moving pretty much. I think brian. I both both of us fit that bill. Let me ask even just to try to text each other. Lemme lemme texture. Right back on right in the middle of doing this or i'm doing and i said okay. Well i've got a patient in surgery. Just texted ten minutes after i get on you know or you know what you know whatever and and honestly i mean. I don't know this is an appropriate forum or not but Brian and i both have tremendous bait in. Jesus christ to so not only are. We both feel like we're brothers. Biologically or in real life. But we're brothers. In christ too and i think that foundation of just doing the right thing you know. Just keep chipping away at it. And if god intended to be it'll be if he doesn't intend it to be won't be you know but all you can try and pray and an oath or the success that he intends you to have you know and i think we both kind of feel that way so well one of the things that i do. Every show is to ensure that the audience has something that they can take away to make life better. And i think you just said it best. So thank you for saying that i. I can't could have said anything or given them anything better than that. So thank you. Tell the audience you guys. Where are the can get in touch with you where they can follow you. What they need to do to make sure that they're connected deftly. Facebook said you can look up By name Brian with an elder or john hall. Or you can look us up on death compromise on facebook instagram. We have that's posted can spell the posters right there. You can spell that so inside. Death and compromise all spelled facebook instagram. You can looks of unused to. We do have trailers out on youtube now. you can from freeway. The gut elder elder all texas independent film festival. Also look at up as dot com and imdb. You can look them up and the show imdb and that's when we got as far as social media we're out there were answered. You look worse you'll find us. I love it. Thank you both for being with me know. You both had a very long day. And i appreciate your time and i know that the audience appreciates everything that you're doing as well. Thank you on this ends. I wanna thank you. All for tuning into another episode of rebecca sounds reveille. I really have enjoyed having these two on the show. And i know that there has been a lot of things that they have been able to provide you as well and i do hope that you connect with them and that you really listened into some of the things that they have shared about how to make your life better not just with the entertainment they provide but some very deep things and if you didn't quite catch it well you definitely can replay the show and you can also get the links to their Sites and all their information all over again. He didn't catch the first time that way. You can definitely connect again. Make sure you show this show and all of the information about what they have going on with your friends your family everybody on social media with all those you know and all those you don't thanks for tuning in..
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"Get involved in what what goes on so they get idea. It's an basically groups are great because there's no charge to get into the group great. Yes there's not so it is group and you When you enter in specific questions really very basic just nice to know you know eater bullied. So just be polite. And we're all entrepreneurs autumn entrepreneurs of all entrepreneurs we share chimps best practices. We share stories reshare frustrations reshare every friday share success so every friday and make sure that we share our biggest ran for the week. How to so important to be able to celebrate exotic excess. Little success and everyday of the week is really different topic. I share a lot of value as year a lot of different topics about how signed your ideal client a language that we use in sales it is no more strategic to speaking to your ideal clients and then we also do goals every sunday at his really important that we all share our goals of each other's the weekend hold each other accountable and then there's this a lot of other stuff in between so this is exciting now. Do you share a little bit about the hell coaching as far as like weight loss. Because you you're an incredible story billboard for doing the right thing inc yo and you sweet. Thank you have several other health and wellness coaches in there as well. And that's really how i got started and reduce share health and wellness success stories can what's going on in that space. While on my own personal. Facebook page i share in instagram. I share right help. We will this journey as well. I i am really embracing this for my own invert for my own personal issues professional issues. I've got to tell you. I love this and i want all of you to as well so definitely connect with aaron. Because she's going to really do. I mean just even in the small nuggets that you're gonna get you're gonna find a lot of a lot of really good things so i wanna thank you for being with us today. I am jazzed. I've had a lot of fun these jail. This is fantastic. Oh and i can't wait to have you on again soon. So real will have you back awesome anytime any sun and i wanna thank all of you for tuning into another episode. rebecca sales. Reveille make sure that your friends family. Everybody you know and as you know what i say. Everybody you don't is connected with erin because this is stuff that's going to really be able to fast forward launch. Do different things with your life with your career in you are going to really enjoy life because of it. Thanks for tuning into another episode chow cornell..
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"Well to rebecca's downs reveille. I am absolutely static today. Because i've got somebody who is going to really be able to make your life different and why because it's gonna push you through some things that maybe didn't know. Based on what she does she's assailants issues. A sales executive for food and safety firm held a wellness coach. Podcast show host. She holds an early childhood education degree from miami university and she spent well more than half her career field in the field of operational excellence. And this is assisting businesses such as chick-fil-a target regal cinema and she's been able to provide them with tools and resources on how to operate and grow their brands. So we're talking big. Stop here which means you're gonna learn a lot today. She's really well-versed and Well known for a lot of different things. Different types of facets of sales marketing quality assurance is super important. Because we're really lacking that right now. She's also very well versed in hiring and training along. Strategic business and budget needs herschel. You as a small business or a home business Person are going to be able to pick up a lot of tips and tricks from her. You're going to absolutely love it. She has really brought ourselves techniques and process to coaching program. That's headed with her passion and towards helping others In coaching and business owners. And like you and i. We've got businesses that we do ourselves. So i wanna bring her on and make sure that you get connected here all that. She has an all issues passionate out with knee. Aaron rector welcome to the show magazine. I'm so excited to be here today. I am excited too. Because one of the things. I really love to do is bring tools and resources out to people who in use those strategies to just allow forward in life and start moving ahead at a faster pace because sometimes instead of trying to reinvent the wheel ourselves if easier were being guided by a mentor or unit any even a virtual mentor. That is able to say. Hey i been here. Here's something that you can do. Try this and you just you just start rapidly. Making a difference in your world in this is so so important and you do it. I do i do it really in every facet of my life super exciting. That you ray by the onset baheren in talk about that because they it's super important in you know moving forward. It's great yeah. I it is. How did you get started in sales. Because i know one of your things is head of the quote about overcoming the sales e stereotypes. Yeah so that's exactly it. I actually thought a career in sales for really long time. I always been told that. I would agree that it and had opportunities before. And i turned it down. I turned down for years and i just i. You know like a lot of people. I talked to his low. Have image in my head of a used car salesman whose you know. Smoking is your ad trying to sell you. The lisa johnson revere that has you know three wheels in you know doesn't run so this is the image that i think a lot of us haven't her head and i thought it for years i got connected with someone from from a past life past career and had reached out. We had a wonderful conversation and he said you know. I think he'd be great for organization. You have all the values that we have. We have a position open. It's in sales and i- instilling her in shows. Like i love this though a seriously i was just like adult this not what i wanted to hear so i slept with him than i spoke. Some of his colleagues is actually now my bosses and they really you know Remember even having the conversation repair she. You're gonna be granted. This and i'm like you're supposed to say that you're in sales. And she said no seriously. You're going to be amazing. So i took the leap of faith i jumped in. I can tell you that my only regret is that i didn't do it sooner. I delayed i love it. I love my job. I just it was. It was a game changer. And i do don't have regrets in life but i will say that they do wish our sales in something that in benefit us on a multitude of levels and it really helps communication. It helps with rhyming our circle. The it's not just about driving Products like the used car salesman does. Here's so much more to this because we're selling ourselves and if we look at our our own person our own personal stuff is a brand exactly. I love the that. Yeah it's just i. It's really interesting too because having those skills allows you to be able to get in the door and a lot of different arenas and so many people don't realize that having that skill will always give you sort of a plant another plan if something doesn't work out. Businesses are always looking to grow and sales as their number one strategy. Absolutely so this is exciting. So you've been doing this for a very long time. We've been building major brands and a lot of people don't realize who's behind all that. How did these people get door. they are. They're just this multi million or billion dollar corporation nasa. That's a great question. Do not everybody has to start somewhere and i think that the real key is you know once you grow and you obviously have to have a solid breen message a brand mission brand purpose and you know i can dig a one in particular you know through. Cathy was always very open about his career in how he built chick-fil-a from the ground up and he was a true salesman he really was he his brand by building partnerships. He built a partnership with ford That was right across the street from his first ever wasn't called chick-fil-a at the time he brought those relationships in what we have today so from an operational excellence. Gm point we they come up with their standards in their brand mission as a company and they were hired go in and ensure that they are operating or the standards. So it's really fascinating job in it was. It was one of the best jobs. I've ever had any really gave me the tolls. I need to be successful as in sales because it taught me all about building relationships and really understanding how the core of different businesses operate. It's really interesting that you talk about chick-fil-a because if there is a brand that shows that their mission and their values insists name changes in the social climate and still be respected. It is that brand absolutely absolutely e- the ari'el the staff and because just them fulfilling these things in such a in a way that they have built relationships. It's been able to work very well. And i think that's the key that you said in so you have really been able to acquire in amass.
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"Welcome to rebecca's sounds reveille show. Today i have for you. Because we have a guest who's in actress screenwriter. An artist a model. She's also worked for several radio stations and she has known for many of her roles in documentaries shorts feature films voiceovers to include these be chronicles and she is also known for her cover art locals in other artwork or a lot of entertainment films. You may see some behind her right now. She's just got this vibrant helmet of talent. She's also musician and she stays active. This is so injuring to me. Just as active in supporting causes such as the prevention of bullying and child abuse. I'm so absolutely delighted to have her with us today. Because you're going to just gain so much joy and excitement from the things that she does. You're going to want to get on board with me today. I have kim mysterious. Welcome to the show. I i am doing fantastic. And i'm so excited to have you here because you have such a palette of talents and so many people just wish that they had just a missile of the things that you're able to do. Let me first start out asking you. How did you get started. Because i know around six years old. There were some things that you were doing in the industry that were pretty pretty amazing now got started because i like walking along. The old shows you now like i. Will we see and bewitched and things like that. In when i was about six years old. You know. I was watching bewitched. And you know the munsters in Craw than all that stuff you know and and i was just just really connected with the facial expressions and just all i love lucy with the is and dissolve the league choices that he made that in. I just started acting up really early and just started entertaining. Twenty four hours a day. You know at my own family. It just became army so That's pretty much how i started acting just been just felt like it. Was you know like..
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"Welcome to rebecca's sounds reveille show. Today i have for you. Because we have a guest who's in actress screenwriter. An artist a model. She's also worked for several radio stations and she has known for many of her roles in documentaries shorts feature films voiceovers to include these be chronicles and she is also known for her cover art locals in other artwork or a lot of entertainment films. You may see some behind her right now. She's just got this vibrant helmet of talent. She's also musician and she stays active. This is so injuring to me. Just as active in supporting causes such as the prevention of bullying and child abuse. I'm so absolutely delighted to have her with us today. Because you're going to just gain so much joy and excitement from the things that she does. You're going to want to get on board with me today. I have kim mysterious. Welcome to the show. I i am doing fantastic. And i'm so excited to have you here because you have such a palette of talents and so many people just wish that they had just a missile of the things that you're able to do. Let me first start out asking you. How did you get started. Because i know around six years old. There were some things that you were doing in the industry that were pretty pretty amazing now got started because i like walking along. The old shows you now like i. Will we see and bewitched and things like that. In when i was about six years old. You know. I was watching bewitched. And you know the munsters in Craw than all that stuff you know and and i was just just really connected with the facial expressions and just all i love lucy with the is and dissolve the league choices that he made that in. I just started acting up really early and just started entertaining. Twenty four hours a day. You know at my own family. It just became army so That's pretty much how i started acting just been just felt like it. Was you know like..
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"The audience out there both on audio and video to connect with you on i g you want these do all of the things is tell the audience exactly what you would like to do dating age because you gotta go inaugural thank you brisk I would definitely say on yet. Like dislike rebecca said Checkout all social media accounts imposed either making and our love love love see comments and things. Obviously when this comes out you guys i mean sabre black is out and ready to boom and i really really would. It would make day to see any kind of comments or reviews or anything specific from you guys. You know it's always. They always kind of joke about it. But it's true that any author or view will dislike make wednesday and we'll If you want to win the heart of an author read review but it's so true Comments view ask character ask questions about characters are plot or whatever because i love questions some people. Don't i do. And i absolutely love abortion. So yeah all that stuff would totally be awesome to engage and you are really good about engaging on social media in it being you. It's not a social media manager. You handle your social media very very well and so i think that that's just another really great component because people are actually able to connect with you and and you're making things happen. Now let me ask you a question to if someone wants an autograph copy to go to your website in or exactly exactly what she said for autographs copy it will be. It is available on will be available. But it's hard with all these like it will be in. Israel wasn't is with with this broadcast. It's going to be out. So where can we go get it okay so you are going to see it on and you can go buy on arianna. Fox dot com. That's a r. I n f apparatus dot com that students and And you can find that and get it for a personalized. Signed copy from me. So yeah absolutely. That would be fun for your book club by the way live on starting them or if you want summer reading program telco down to your library and say i want to start a summer reading club. Go down a library ends at signed coffee or you can use that as a giveaway as an incentive to get your group going and things like that so anything that you might want to do it would get things going in your community with this and you're not sure what we can do to help you. Just give me or contact area. A give me a call. Contact hurts the m or any message on any platform. She's gonna get with you. Well i never way to make this work for you so that you can really Inspire some other people. I want to thank you so much for being on again today. You have had so many things going on and guess what there's more common so we're going to be seeing you again here pretty soon. Yes i am so excited number. Why it's such an honor to be on for third time now. It's crazy. But i cannot wait to have a fourth Your august is incredible. So i'm so happy to be on larry honored. I'm honored to because the things that you do just fall in line with my philosophy in life and that's helping others and really making people rise to the top and because you're doing it at the age you're doing and with a group age group that you're doing it just to me is a just touches my soul and so i thank you for everything that you're doing and your time when you come on and so we're going to continue. Make things happen all right. I'm so excited. Thank you all right now. And i think all of you for tuning into another episode. Rebecca sounds reveille definitely. Make sure that you can act and get this information out to people in your community those that you know if you have grandchildren that are in school. Sixth grade seventh grade eighth grade on ob. Just get this book in their hands. Go down the community library talk to your educators in your area also to see if he can make it as part of the reading program because the value in this being installed in this novel is something. That's really important. I thank you for tuning in. And i asked you to get this out to everybody that you know on social media in your local and everybody that you thanks for joining..
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"Love it those are the two places definitely got to connect with nicole. You've got to see what she's got going on led her inspire you and overcoming any type of fears. That have held you back from doing something that you wanted to do. Whether or not you have a support system or not because you'll get one. I mean just like where she's at now from where it began as some like this little secret thing and the before shaming or it in now this is just something that has made incredible difference in her life. When those things happen you are filled with competence. New dr positively hope and the doors open for you in many money many other aspects so nicole. Thank you so much for being on the show today. And i really want the audience to connect with you so we will make sure that these links are also in the description boxes on everywhere that this show can be spoke seen and heard will take you so so much for having me supplies. You're talking to you. You've been absolutely wonderful. So thank you again. Oh thank you. And i wanna thank all of you for tuning into another episode of rebecca. Sounds reveille whatever you dream is whatever. You're feeling inspired to do. Don't let anything hold you back to let anybody hold you back. We spend too much time in our lives. Listening to the negative feedback of other people. Some are just envious and those things will keep us being held back that happened. Surround yourself with people are going to be positive. Influences continue to connect with people who want to help inspire. You also an you know how to do that with nicole. So not only. Do we want you to connect. We want you to make sure that your friends and family everybody on social media does all those that you know in those. You don't get the information out there. Thanks for tuning in..
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"Welcome to rebecca sounds. Reveille only have. I got a show that is going to grab your attention. In fact the guest today is a short word content creator on tiktok and we talked about tiktok before and how massive this is. In fact i know a lot of you might have been. I don't know a little bit skeptical over the last year. So with some of the controversy around it but it's bigger and bursting out better than before. The guest today has been recognized for posting a variety of lip synch performances and skits and she has amassed over one point three million chance on this platform alone. Well we'll talk to her about some of the other platform. She's on but we really want to talk about this today because she debuted her performances on tiktok starting in march of about two thousand nineteen and she is known for some of her sets two cardi b. megan thee stallion's. Wap will go into that little bit later but the oldest archived video that she has made was captioned. We had to cut my hair. So i could become famous and i want to hear about that because i'll tell you a lot of girls women we don't wanna car and so that's kind of a pretty big sacrifice but she's also made a parody about staying up all night playing nintendo ds. There's so much more in fact that particular video you're not gonna believe this went viral with over..
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"Know i yeah. I'm not really sure most of my stuff is style todd Because i started young. I just figured things out i went. I figured out how to work at cameras I actually started filming on ipod. When i was younger. Ch and i would make videos there in the got done. So i switch to that and then for christmas about twenty seven. Thirteen my parents on the camera. And i've had that ever since But i taught myself how to do that. I taught myself. So how'd sue built the sets in even to edit videos. This is incredible. So since you build the sets well let me just shift for a second. Because what i'm wondering is. Are you getting anybody who wants to purchase the clothes that they see in the movie. I actually haven't had had that. But i did at one point trying to open as he shot But i just got busy to keep running it So that in last long. But i do enjoy to so the clothes And yeah people would like cautions. That could possibly make those. Yeah that's really neat. I mean that's an exciting thing. And i know that a lot of people will hurt us the things that they've seen the costumes or movies and things like that so i just wondered how that was you know if that had been kind of intertwined and that's that would be neat. I'm going to send that onto the audience and we can drive traffic that way and well you guys have got to see what is doing man. This is unbelievable. This is something. I have never seen before along with the intertwining fantasy. This is this is incredibly creative. And the fact that taylor you are doing. You're you're making the costumes you're building the set you write the script you do the voiceovers i mean this your multifaceted in just you just have so much so much talent within you is absolutely incredible exciting to hear and it's exciting to see some of the things that this is going to launch you into do you have anything on the horizon that you can share with us as my youtube channel. I don't have any projects in the making right now. But honestly that will change because i never know when i get inspired as As last summer. I'm still working on a acting and getting not going Trying to do something in between. I really love this and we're going to definitely want to have you back on the show to talk about some of the acting roles that you get more of your youtube videos. I think that the things that you're doing are an absolute inspiration. In one of the areas that is so needed is inspiring young girls and allowing them to overcome their fears and that inspiration can launch them to do things that they didn't feel they were capable of or bring them to places that are new and exciting. And you're doing it. You're making this even doing it for a long time and valuable. There's just so much value in what you're doing. So let me ask you if we were gonna have the audience. Go and connect with you. What social media would you like them to connect with you on and where would you. What are the links that you would like to see them. Go to so. I'm definitely most active on instagram youtube. So my youtube is called pears. H. e. And then my instagram. I post Behind the scenes of videos in that is wonderful. Underscore agency I also do have a twitter Post often but sometimes was behind the scenes as well and that is also appears owners agency. and i think that's about it. I love it. I wanna thank you so much for being with us today and sharing a couple of the characters. I don't want to disclose. Because i really want to encourage the audience to get connected with you. You're what you're doing has so much value so much creativity and i really think that it's important for them to get connected with you so i thank you for what you're doing your mission and i am super excited about your upcoming things that are in. I know that there's some things in the work. So i'm really excited about them. But thank you so much avenue. It was a blast. I'm excited you guys. You have got to connect with taylor. She is just doing something. That's so important. And if you you may not yourself as an adult be into dolls. Let's say but. I know that you want to connect with young girls who want to be motivated and inspired and have competence built. And this does that so definitely. Connect the taylor on the different forms that she talked about the platforms youtube and You can also connect with her like she said on twitter but more so on instagram. Because you're going to get to see the difference Photographs that she's taken both behind the scenes and other things that she's got going on and you'll be able to follow her career with her. This is exciting and There might even be more. You might be able to get her to start making some costumes or share some. I'd super excited about this. A definite connect with their. I wanna thank you for tuning into another episode of rebecca sounds reveille. I can't thank you enough or supporting. All of the actors are as entertainers authors. Everybody that comes on the show and me to help get the tools and resources in your hands so that we can make our lives better. Thanks for tuning in today. Make sure you share this with everybody. You know on social media.
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"Welcome to rebecca sounds rally. We are going to rock the house today because with me as a young actress director executive producer and a writer. She began her career making youtube videos with her dolls. It's really exciting to hear what she's doing because they were away to inspire other young girls and so she began writing her own scripts making her own sats and and then she even made clothes and began filming the videos. She's done the voice over work for all her own videos along with videos for other youtubers so she's also voice artists and so for about oh over seven years or so. She has worked on building her career behind the camera in well sometimes on the camera too. So she's going to be on the camera with today's over those of you. Who are listening out there. We're going to hopefully head you on over to you to bridge. Tv or Gte's a you can check out what she's got going on. You've got to see this but she's not only known for her youtube videos but photography and early on. She even knew that she wanted to act in so the feeling of being a little bit of shy sort of kept that fear away from that and well like this switch it just turned on for her and she decided she was going to be an actress in not letting stopper and this is what i suggest all of you do also let that switch. Just go off for you when you fields fired you gotta move on it so what she does now as she reads books on acting taking classes doing acting with the acting coach. And she's still. She's still focused on what she does. Which we're gonna bring to you today and it's going to help inspire other girls. If you have a young person in your life this is definitely something that you want to take a. Look at your gonna wanna oliver. You're going to see why but following the dreams and just chasing away the fears that have stopped them from things that they have wanted to do. So everybody what an inspiration. This is because she wants to share with how you reach your goals just like she has welcome to the show taylor camp. I'm so glad to have you and they signed to be here so before we get started. You have a guest yourself sitting right you tell me who your guest is. This is my. Don't billy but in my recent movie that i just released she played the character. Ira who is the daughter of the blue fairy. I love this okay. Tell the audience which show which film we're watching for with belly. So is in a movie that i just released caught offy things hidden babia and it's venezia movie about a young girl named bay who is from the modern world's but she gets transported to a fantasy land called sabia and she meets ira and peter pan team up to stock villain red riding hood. Now this is really creative. How long did you have this idea and start writing about it before you developed it into a movie so this actually it began just thinking. Areas is going to be a normal video. May you to Just got writing and it just became a whole thing. Like i just couldn't stop writing. I had so many ideas flowing And eventually it turned into a re- part long long scripts and a fifty two minute movie. This is incredible. This is so exciting. You have been inspired for a long time. When did you start writing and putting your creat- creative thoughts on paper Back in january after my birds. Actually i got the idea to this movie. And i started creating as she teamed up another youtuber And we wrote together In we just kind of together just came up with all of these ideas and they kept flowing and we kept writing and eventually we got to point where we're like. Yeah this is going to be an entire movie. And i started producing it and i finished in. May this is really exciting because you are on the road to doing some major things. This is just the beginning. You've been doing some things for a while already so let me ask you. I mean how complex is it to do all of these different roles for you. Yes so sir. I don't know i've been doing my youtube for Since two thousand thirteen a started. So i was like about eleven years old and ever since i've been voicing my dolls and writing scripts and each doll i just kind of they each hour personality. That kind of just comes out and i know which saw how they sound how they act and how to voice them. Each time i do a video. That is a lot of work and so you're very talented. Besides billy there with you. Do you have any other characters from the movie. Yeah ashley me right now. I have the main character So this is the main character. The movie my dog viola she played bay and she was voiced by my really good friend. Aj jurors or angie odds her name on a g. tube is what we call doll youtube And so she was the main character and she's a doll who she lives in the modern world in iowa but she gets transported to babia okay. So we're not going to share with the audience. How she gets transported because we definitely want to encourage them to head on over and watch this. This is really exciting. You're getting a lot of traction from what you do. And i know you've invested a lot of time so you have another movie as well to some yes so it is a called news strong. And it's a documentary that my parents are producing about the tornado that hidden And i'm directing it So we're just kind of going through the story of what happened. And how new came together as a community.
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"In. Yeah so and that is at pro-growth. Va dot com slash mastermind. That was simple. thanks. I love it. I think this is fantastic. Because there's so many different ways so different platforms not only from your own personal website. But through other media that those who really want to grow and develop deeper and more meaningful things going on in their life and in their networking and everything about it all away around making well rounded really be well rounded. They can connect with you on so many different so many ways. So i'm pretty excited about that. And i want to also thank you so much for taking out time from your day to meet with us here today. Talk about all of these different things because your passion is the same as mine. And that's all about helping others and a your specific help more people better. I love this. I love it i love it and And i just want to thank you so much for being with us today. Thank you so much. Rebecca at a. It's no trouble at all because these kinds of conversations. I enjoy and if i might add. I firmly believed that relationships community are the currency of the future. So i'm always happy to sit down and have these kinds of conversations that are impactful in hopefully impactful for someone else. I feel the same way. So thank you again so much. And i want to thank all of you for tuning into another episode of rebecca sounds reveille missed it. Go to pro rothe. Va dot com. You're gonna find everything you need there. But you're also going to be able to connect with dan and find all the different social media platforms these. He's on you need to connect with them. Because there's something a little bit different that you're gonna find from. It's not just a cookie cutter template everywhere you go and you're going to be able to grow so you definitely want to connect with him see what he's doing. Get on board with it. This is a lot of fun. You're unifying joy that you haven't had maybe for a little while in areas that you thought. Wow that hasn't been working for me for a long time. And i'm feeling i'm starting to feel good now and things are going to be making a difference in right now with the climate that we've been in. This is the time with springtime so let's blossom. Connect with him everywhere. You can make sure you connect with the rebecca sounds reveille and me personally on all the other platforms. You're gonna find me just about everywhere. And i hope that you will take a few minutes to pass along the information to your friends. Your family your loved ones everybody that you know on social media and everybody you don't thanks for tuning in today..
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"rebecca" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"On climate. That we were in right now has been just kind of like. I said earlier. A debbie downer. Because i don't wanna. I don't wanna bring the focus on that but there's so much opportunity within that to go all right. Tell me about that person and let me see how they are. Because there's love in there. And i want to see it and you'll it can be captivated by that and i'll tell you you guys. You're an amazing dynamic. Duo who is really you can stand. I just love and you just well onscreen together just like you do right here behind the scenes and this is something that is really often people don't realize how something can be forced and you guys don't force it at all and it's you you can see why also is that a slow let it. Well i absolutely love it. Let's ask you guys before. I have the audience start connecting with you aside from what they're connecting with you here. What is the biggest challenge working together as a family. And maybe don't wanna share. We want to so this challenge will on getting you swim out. Stephen had to teach me not to separate personal and business. Occa- no in your business should not miss messed together when you're dealing with business business and then at the end of the day that we can talk about it. We have a problem. We talk about it together but that was the basting that had seen over was not wanting personal business not to take your soul to heart has to get on eastern time with his for businesses for me to get better. Yeah you know. That's saying that is something that we should be able to also utilize even in some parts of our personal world because oftentimes are being. We look at things as criticism instead of constructive ways to make something better and if we can just kind of go okay this is. This is being used to help me feel my full potential enemy embrace it and oftentimes ago man. That's my pride and i need to go. I don't know what to ask but it's like. Oh gosh why you but then you go okay and when you raise it boy does dislike of something you didn't even know. Was there because now you have a combination of past experience as future experienced your onsite like when you're acting or given circumstances and then you can make that magic is happened in it's all just like bam it just rocks that way. I'm really glad that you shared that. Because that is something that i think the audience can take to heart to and go. You know what. I don't always have to be offended because someone is making a informative choice to tell me a way to do something that might help boost me up. May know and so exciting announced next to how boost up nasa hokey. Because for me. I mean just to elaborate briefly on what she said. I concur with that because that was the hardest thing in in. Thank guy for my sister. Her mom who taught me she was. She had to coach me because she used to be for his issues. Are free delivery times. I would say okay clearly not finishing the song today. Young all identified by the for his sister. What happened in this. I got this so she would handle that this. She say i'm gonna call you that later. I can teach you is so she would teach me so. It helped me in that snyder so as the guy for school. Yeah i do. I do as well. It's really neat. When we find out our learning styles or the learning styles of somebody else can you can. Then say okay. There are more audit auditory learner. So if i tell them they're going to embrace this maybe there are visual in. Have to show them okay. This is the way that this can project this way. And we understand just those basic things. We have less conflict. And it's kinda cool. But i'm glad you pointed that out both of you because this is something that i think. Not only everything about what we've talked about before the audience can embrace that w maybe start taking a different perspective on certain things that are happening and apply it and there are more so i spent a thank you guys both for everything that you're doing. You are really providing inspiration and motivation and a new breed of excitement in everything that you're doing. I felt it. And i was just i told you from the beginning are repeated. I just jazzed and super excited about being that. You're going where you're going what you're doing and i thank you. So much for your time with us today. Favelas and i want to thank all of you for tuning into another episode. Rebecca sounds reveille. I can tell that you are just as elated being right there with you because you can feel what's happening. I know that you can. And so i ask that you share this with your friends. Your family your loved ones everybody. You know on social media and you don't thanks for tuning in.