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Through the magic of Zoom Pat interviews legendary singer Jon Anderson of Yes.

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Jeremy, James, and Elliot embark on an epic journey to pay tribute to the albums that got them interested in progressive rock in the first place: "Fragile" by Yes, "Black Noise" by FM, and "Seconds Out" by Genesis.

For our fragile behavioral health patients - how are clinicians continuing to care for them given the stressors of social distancing and "isolation"?  Drs. Manuel Castro and Wayne Sparks share the Atrium response using virtual and in person care, while maintaining a low no-show rate by their patients.  It should come as no surprise that the most common diagnosis during the pandemic is anxiety... 

Dr. Michelle McQuaid and Dr. Paige Williams are the co-founders of The Leaders Lab, which helps leaders to thrive and create thriving workplaces. They use evidence-based approaches that draw on the latest research in neuroscience, positive psychology, leadership, and systems thinking to help leaders and workplaces move beyond just the need for resilience, to become antifragile.

In this week’s podcast, we explore the practical steps leaders can take to be more neurologically robust and antifragile, so they can help themselves and their teams thrive during this time of unprecedented disruption and change.

Connect with Dr. Michelle McQuaid & Dr. Paige Williams:

• https://www.leaderslab.com/

You’ll Learn:

• [02:50] - Michelle shares hot-off-the-research-desk data about the impact coronavirus and the economic downturn is having for leaders and their teams.
• [06:06] - Michelle and Paige explore how leaders can be antifragile and thrive even during this time of great unpredictably and disruption.
• [10:48] - Michelle and Paige explore why leaders need a coaching style of leadership to support themselves and others amidst the challenges they are facing right now.
• [13:23] - Michelle and Paige explain how leaders can recruit their brains to manage the anxiety and fear that they and their teams may be feeling at the moment.
• [14:19] - Michelle and Paige provide tips on how leaders and their teams can operate in reality without catastrophizing unnecessarily.
• [18:28] - Michelle and Paige explore how leaders can break the negative and build the positive for their teams in these uncertain times.
• [21:36] - Michelle and Paige explain how leaders and their teams can use intelligent risk to quickly learn and grow in the face of the unprecedented changes they are experiencing.
• [25:35] - Michelle and Paige offer tips on how to seek collective wisdom across a team even when more and more people are having to work virtually.
• [30:03] - Michelle and Paige explore how leaders can tackle the infinite game so on the other side of coronavirus and economic downturns they and their teams are able to maximize what they’ve learned during this challenging period.
• [34:49] - Michelle enters the lightning round

Your Resources:

• MPPW Podcast on Facebook Group
• https://permahsurvey.com/

Thanks for listening! 

Thanks so much for joining me again this week.  If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post.

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Until next time, take care!  Thank you, Michelle!

Things that work, tend to continue to work...right up until they don't.

As my friend Paul Reddick says, "what raises us, can restrict us."

The trick is to catch these things before they restrict, limit, or stunt our performance &/or development. Or at the very least, become aware of them as soon as possible so we can give ourselves the opportunity to course correct.

We see these “black swan events” so obviously in hindsight - but in real time, they usually come as a shock to some extent - as an event, like an upset, an outbreak, a mistake, collapse, or some other “newsworthy” occurrence. This is why we also call them "pattern disrupts".

Hindsight is unfair - so we shouldn’t judge ourselves for mistakes: we’re looking back with our current knowledge and experience - things we didn’t have in the moment.

BUT, as we move forward, don’t expect things to continue as they always have - NOTHING lasts forever.
Life is not static. Things have always and will always change.

I've got a heartbreaking, but all too common, story to share with you in this episode and a challenge to take nothing for granted.

Appreciation, not expectation.

PRESS PLAY to tune in.

Links & Resources

• UNLEASHED Workshop w/ Paul Reddick: May 15-16th
• Nassim Taleb’s 5 part series: Incerto (Uncertainty) including:
  
  1. Fooled by Randomness
  2. The Black Swan
  3. The Bed of Procrustes
  4. AntiFragile - Systems That Gains From Disorder
  5. Skin In the Game
• Momento Mori
• "Appreciation, Not Expectation." - Todd White on the BHP

Follow Ryan & The BHP

• Ryan Munsey | Website | Instagram
• Better Human Project on Instagram
• Master Your Mind Online Course
• F*ck Your Feelings on Amazon or Audible

Many of us get into triathlon to figure out who we really are and that process is more effective and enjoyable if we love the sport. And loving the sport is a process. Today, we reflect on Kobe Bryant’s life and his passion for, not only the game, but everything he did, and tie it into our daily approach with triathlon. Kobe’s death is a painful reminder that life is fragile and triathlon is much more than just the numbers – it’s about community, connection and helping others. Today is about finding your sweet spots in training and appreciating the little things to make net gains.

Topics:

• The power of a little break
• Goaded by peer pressure
• Kobe Bryant’s impact on us
• Painful reminders of how fragile life is
• Overcomplicating what matters
• Life is hard enough without complicating it
• Combining love for the sport with wanting to be the best we can be
• Burnout rate
• Type-A Celebration
• Becoming your best, not “the” best
• Is Triathlon a “net gain” for you?
• Slowing down the least
• Chasing PRs
• Figuring out who you are as a person
• Breaking up the rocks - uncovering your the truth is often painful
• Love what you love

If you're looking for a great custom coaching plan, please check out the new C26 Systems Plan for 2020 at the new c26triathlon.com. Coach Robbie will lay out your entire season (from 12-40 weeks) culminating at your A-Race. Take the confusion out of your entire year for only $499. The package includes team events, access to our online hub resource library, priority camp registration and more. 

Big Shout out to podcast listener and Wordpress designer Bobby Hughes for helping get the new c26triathlon.com off the ground. If you like what you see and may need a website, check out Bobby’s work at https://hughesdesign.co/

You can also slide by www.crushingiron.com which is now the official blog page for the podcast. Community and coaching information are at www.c26triathlon.com 

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Pat welcomes Josh Fitzgerald (Movies That Rock: The Podcast!) back to the Guest Co-Host chair to discuss the music of YES in the 70's! As and added bonus Josh brought his Dad, Tim Fitzgerald, who is also a big ProgRock fan and a great addition to the show!

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Episode #23 of the Sufi Reverberations Podcast contains: A Floetry selection entitled 'Fragile'; a short story - 'The Building of Rome'; a musical interlude - 'Make A Wish'; and a meditative essay - 'Betrayal'.

Tonight the Swingset opens the mailbag... but does so carefully, as it's -20F outside. Dylan Thomas, Ginger Bentham, Bex Caputo, and Lunabelle answer your listener questions!

Question 1:

My boyfriend and I have been together for 8 years. We have amazing sex, but I can't seem to get satisfied sexually. We have sex/oral sex at least twice a day, but it seems like the more I orgasm, the more I crave it. He's slightly below average size, and I don't have any problems with his size because he knows what to do with it, but he's very self-conscious about his size. I'd love to bring up the topic of polyamory to him, but I'm afraid he'll feel like I want to do it just to be with someone bigger. In fact, I'm 100% positive that is what he would think. I've always felt that I might be bisexual. I'm fascinated with being with a woman, but I don't know how he'll react. Of course, it's every guys fantasy to have a threesome, but because of his self-consciousness, I don't think he'd be interested. I won't lie, being with someone bigger is also a curiosity of mine. He has a phobia (?) of someone bigger changing the way my vagina feels to him, so even if he were interested in swinging, I don't think he'd want me to be with another man.

I love him very much, but I feel like there are a lot of things I want to experience and I'm not getting any younger (I'm 36). I don't want to break up over it, because I'm very happy with him, but I'd also like to see what his thoughts are about it. How can I bring it up in a subtle, non-threatening way that might make him more interested?

Question 2:

My spouse and I are considering divorce. We love each other so much, but 15 years of marriage has left it's scars. We both have other partners, and breaking up with them, or closing our relationship at all is not on the table. These relationships are long standing, and breaking up would hurt multiple people and breed resentment. Besides, the openness of our relationship is not the issue. Do you have any advice for maintaining secondary relationships while the primary is in trouble? How to maintain boundaries when your whole life is up in the air?

Hope that's not too long! I love your podcast, and I especially love listening to it at work, where everyone thinks I'm a sweet normal and slightly boring office manager.

Question 3:

We are always taught to think of ourselves as being sexy but we won't look at ourselves and imagine ourselves as being sexy individuals. One of the problems that I've seen recently is you look at profiles or even advertise it for things even the desire takeover is we talked a get-together of sexy people or people say we are looking for other sexy couples.

The man that couples look it up and see that she is a BBW or I am a short chunky guy we no longer fit that is sexy category and both know hurts her feelings hurt our feelings.

Why is it that BBW it's almost turned into a niche versus just a description of an individual? It's almost like you're not an individual you're a BBW so you don't fit into this category and I've seen this very very bad in the swingers world.

So my question would be for you all is have you seen this how open are you to BBWs in your opinion of BBWs and how suggestion would you make to BBWs to get themselves more confident comfortable and energetic about the lifestyle itself?

Lunabelle mentioned her post, "I Like Big Toys and I Cannot Lie".

Ginger mentioned the Unfuckwithable video.

Dylan mentioned Elle Chase's book, Curvy Girl Sex .

Bradford and Angela are coming to Desire… are you? Join us from November 2nd through the 9th this 2019 for Life on the Swingset’s eighth trip to Desire! Visit swingsetdesire.com for more information!

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Flaxseed oil has been touted as everything from a cure for constipation to a balm for hearth health, and even as an effective means to prevent cancer.  It's available as a supplement and in other health productions like lotions.  Oh, and it's also an ingredient in everything from paint to linoleum.

So is there anything to the hype, or is it just hype?

Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, specializing in helping employer, pharmaceutical, device, and pharmacy clients by creating partnerships with other health care organizations. For 20 years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all, the patient.

00:00 The state of health care is fragile.
00:45 Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas
02:20 How easy it is for healthcare systems to break down.
02:40 “You can’t domesticate disorder, volatility, or uncertainty.”
03:15 The requirements of being an antifragile organization.
03:30 “Does everyone on the team understand the end game?”
04:45 Balancing people and processes.
05:25 “There is always judgement involved.”
06:30 Overlap and quality control.
09:10 Allow for small mistakes.
11:45 The need for a feedback group.
14:15 Iatrogenic - relating to an illness caused by medical examination or treatment.
15:20 How rapid scaling slows down the ability to become antifragile.
17:10 Testing if you’re doing something for the wrong reasons.
18:00 “What does the healthy business look like?”
18:20 How oligopolies make health care more fragile.

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and OEF Research, a program of the One Earth Future Foundation (OEF) co-hosted a presentation and panel discussion on the role of local business communities in repairing fragile states.

Fragile States continue to garner international attention, and the need to overcome this problem cannot be ignored. They put pressure on the global community by creating devastating poverty and restricted access to basic services for citizens. Fragile States also produce terrorism, piracy, human trafficking, and other dark network activity that puts the well-being of the global community in danger at much higher rates than secure states. One key way to address these problems is through the influence and conduct of the business community.

This event began with a presentation on the new report Firm Behavior in Fragile States: The Cases of Somaliland, South Sudan, and Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the panelists discussed how the lessons learned from the report can be used in other regions and countries.

Welcome! Today’s guest is John Allgaier, the owner of BC Characters, an entertainment company that started as a strolling fair act. If you think “slow and relaxed” defines a strolling act, then you’ve got the wrong idea here. John and his performers use body puppetry in costumes at a frenzied and energetic pace. Let’s find out more from John!

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• To get an idea of John’s characters, think Fraggle Rock meets Captain Caveman, in full-size body costumes.
• Each costume is made of foam and metal, weighing 30-50 lbs.
• The fair industry IS John’s source of income.
• A physically demanding test of endurance
• Why your performance must be STRONG
• John’s business started in 1990, with only one costume. (The 12^th one is in process now!)
• Why John has NO regrets
• “You will always learn more from your mistakes than from your successes.”
• John looks forward to stepping aside and seeing his “guys” carry on the business.
• What’s important to be successful in the fair industry? Be flexible to change, adaptable, and understand your customer.
• The patrons are your #1 boss!
• There is a power in the costume.
• Why families trust a character in costume
• Be aware of interaction and contact with patrons.
• John’s biggest fear? Keeping his image and his quality of service
• Balancing family life, marriage, and life on the road
• John’s biggest mistake? Trying to push and grow too fast and losing quality in the process
• People have to know about your act and you have to be good enough to be invited back.
• John’s advice: Listen more than you speak, be flexible, and keep your demands low.
• Find out more about John: www.bigmouthe.com.

Double albums are naturally a very high-risk, high-reward venture for a musical artist. It can be an opportunity to wow listeners with your songwriting variety and conceptual prowess, or turn them away with a self-indulgent epic that simply could have been trimmed down to a single LP. Despite the risk, double albums are a medium that some of the best artists in history have chosen to tackle, and the successes end up being some of the most memorable moments in music. In this podcast, Jake and Tom talk through their top ten double albums, what makes a double album successful, and how we define them.

See the full list here: http://www.velocitiesinmusic.com/lists/favorite-double-albums/

Sara Trovinger discovered her creativity at an early age and was encouraged to explore it as much as she was trained in harnessing it.  She is a prolific musician and soon-to-be novelist—both of which make her pretty special.  However, what makes Sara so particularly lovely is that she has decided to utilize her talents for the care of our most vulnerable children; she is a special education teacher.

Working with children who are medically fragile, wide-ranging developmentally, and full of life that can be difficult to unlock is a practice that Sara admits is challenging and oftentimes heavy.  But, she brings the greatest level of joy and tenderheartedness to her classroom that one could imagine.  She is simply a wonderful human being, and her life is a true inspiration!

This episode of Curve the Cube is sponsored by Little Smiles of Florida!  Little Smiles helps kids right here in our own neighborhoods who are struggling through something that no kid should ever have to deal with.  They work with the professionals closest to them to identify ways to put the little smiles on their faces.  Whether donating Christmas presents to children in shelters, bringing toys to children in local hospitals, raising money for a converted vehicles, or whatever else they can do… they do!  But, they do it with YOUR help.  Please donate to their wonderful cause!

Head to LittleSmiles.org and order some gear.  Enter the promo code “CurvedSmiles” and receive 10% off.  All proceeds go to Little Smiles of Florida; so, it’s a win-win!

For one of the most fun days you will ever have in your LIFE, join Little Smiles for their Bamboozle scavenger hunt up and down Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach!!!

Enjoy!!

Music Beds courtesy of DJ John Hitta!!!

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As you will hear in this PODCAST, on the night before He went to the cross, Jesus made a series of remarkable statements to His disciples, in the Upper Room, during their final Passover Seder together.

John 13-17, those 5 chapters, are often referred to as Upper Room Discourse. They contain rich and rewarding teaching that we’ll dissect and digest in, oh… 3 years or so when we get there.

There is, however, in that wide swath of Scriptural truth one statement that I want to highlight here, that really sets the stage for this discussion. In John 14, Jesus said this to His disciple Philip, in front of the other 10 (Judas having left to betray Jesus):

“Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father!” (vs. 9)

“Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father!”

When we began this study of Jesus in HD, we said then, and I remind you frequently, that we are on a journey of discovery. Over two years ago now, we embarked together on an ongoing quest to discover exactly who Jesus is.

In this statement in John 14, Jesus assured us that as we discover together who Jesus is, we are equalling discovering who God is. And this discovery has been nothing short of EXCITING!!!

“Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father!”

What we learn about Jesus, we learn about God.

Jesus’ heart is God’s heart. 

What Jesus is like, God is like. 

What Jesus thinks is what God thinks.

What would Jesus do is what God would do.

And Oh.What.Pleasant.Surprises we have discovered along the way. Soul-enriching, spirit-reviving surprises, that we have uncovered along the way, about the heart of Jesus; about the heart of God.

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THANK YOU for listening! God bless you as you listen.