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Zack Arnold is a film and TV editor (Burn Notice, Empire) and the host of the Fitness in Post podcast (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2094093/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1).

The podcast focuses on how to make healthier changes to your lifestyle while setting yourself up for success as an editor. It's a great resource for finding ways to keep good upkeep on your body and mind so that you can stay creative and do your best work.

Zack started the Fitness in Post podcast once he recognized that the work environment of the editor can be detrimental, especially when taking into account long stretches of hours spent sitting at a desk and not getting proper rest or nutrition.

Nick has been a listener of this podcast for some time and credits it with helping make healthier lifestyle changes in his own life, including not feeling guilty about taking the time you need to take care of yourself (admit it, you've felt this way before, too).

We talk about the origin story of Fitness in Post, why editors seem more prone to neglecting their own health than other trades and what can you do to fix this for yourself.

AND THAT'S NOT ALL...

Zack talks about a new program he's rolling out called Optimize Yourself (http://optimizeyourself.me/) where you can learn all about how to do what he's talking about in this episode. Be more active at work, eliminate procrastination and manage your time better so you can have a life outside of work. It's in beta right now and he's looking for more editors JUST LIKE YOU to sign up for it and chime in with your thoughts on it. As a Command+Edit listener you can use the link fitnessinpost.com/commandedit to get started with a discount of 25% of the current price. So go check it out and give him your feedback.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• DeskCycle Exercise Pedal Exerciser (https://www.amazon.com/DeskCycle-Exercise-Pedal-Exerciser-White/dp/B00B1VDNQA)
• Geekdesk Standing Desks (https://www.geekdesk.com/)
• Transform Your Edit Suite Into a Gym (https://library.creativecow.net/arnold_zack/Fitness-Post_Edit-Suite/1)
• Optimize Yourself (get 25% off the program by using fitnessinpost.com/commandedit to sign up)

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The key is to leave work a little less crazy than when you walked in.

Last week's episode dealt with keeping yourself healthy and fit while working those insane hours in the edit bay. This week we're getting into an ever more neglected area: keeping your mind sharp and healthy.

Are you overworked? Sleep-deprived? Running on the power of coffee alone from day to day? Then listen up.

We editors work INSANE hours and have to put up with huge demands, tight deadlines and having to work under tremendous pressure (arguably more so than most other trades).

So we share a few ways you can train your mind to be healthy, fully functioning and how to take a few quick minutes out of the day to take care of it.

A few things we mention:

• How nutrition can affect your brain
• The difference between GOOD coffee and BAD coffee
• Light therapy
• Work better, not MULTITASKING
• Don't just get MORE sleep, get BETTER sleep
• What is gray matter and why should you have more of it?
• The benefits of mindfulness and meditation each day

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This week we are talking taking care of our bodies and minds so that we can edit until we're the ripe old age of 95!

You have career goals but do you have health goals? You'll need to take care of your body because it's the vehicle you'll use to get you to the finish line.

We editors have a reputation for neglecting our health whether it be not exercising, sitting with incorrect posture, going without sleep or some other way that will kill you slowly.

This episode addresses that reputation: Why are editors out of shape? (not all of us, but let's face it, the majority seem to be).

This is also Part 1 of a 2-parter that will address overall health awareness. The next episode will deal with mental health, how to keep your brain stimulated, healthy and creative. So stay tuned for Part 2!

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Josh has an announcement to make: he is taking the leap to being a freelance editor!

On this podcast we've discussed the differences between freelance and contract/full-time positions, with Josh and Nick representing both sides of the coin. However now...all that is about to change.

This decision has been long in the making and there has been much thought put into this move. This episode we get to capture what goes on in the mind of an editor as they make this transition. So for editors who are considering going freelance, this will be a great episode to know how to best prepare yourself for it.

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This episode comes with a BIG gift for you!

We are joined by Todd Wolfe from CheeseSteak Media and FroKnowsPhoto. The latter of which just released the FroKnowsPhoto Video Editing Guide. This 16GB guide is jam-packed with the knowledge needed for beginners to get started with the basics and plenty of advanced techniques for the veteran editors, as well.

Todd shares his story about how he fell into filmmaking, running his business CheeseSteak Media and how he first encountered Jared Polin (the Fro) and formed an excellent business relationship that has become one of the biggest online resources for photography and filmmaking.

The guide also includes the footage featured in the guide itself so you can get hands-on experience trying your own cut of a music video, commercial or short film. If you do your own cut, go ahead and share it with us and the FroKnowsPhoto crew.

This was a killer episode and we want to thank Todd for being on the show and chatting with us.

He also wanted to share an EXCLUSIVE gift for the Command+Edit listeners. Use the promo code "cmdedit" (all lower case) to get a whopping 25% off of the FroKnowsPhoto Video Editing Guide (normally $279). Click the link below to get the guide now.

http://froknowsphoto.com/video-editing-guide/

Check out CheeseSteak Media for more of Todd's shiny work. (http://www.cheesesteakmedia.com/)

And of course you should check out FroKnowsPhoto for their podcast, YouTube channel and their assortment of handy guides that they have available. (froknowsphoto.com)

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This here is a bonus episode for you to enjoy just for being awesome listeners!

We invited Andrea back on to the show in response to listeners saying they were curious about the 7-Day Sugar Detox group that she runs each month.

• What does doing a sugar detox involve?
• Are there ways to prepare the body for removing sugar from the diet?
• What are the biggest challenges of a sugar detox and how does the group help?
• Just how much sugar is in everyday food that you consume (Hint: Sugar hides in many foods under different names. It's sneaky like a ninja!)

You can join Andrea's 7-Day Sugar Detox group for FREE because she runs it out of the goodness of her heart. And also because she helps people for a living to make healthier lifestyle choices in nutrition and is an all-around pretty happy person herself.

Join the 7-Day Sugar Detox Group here (http://bit.ly/1YrYH9J)

Check out more on Andrea and her holistic work here (www.andreamclaughlin.net)

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Today's guest is Mark Hartzell (editor on True Blood, Agent Carter, Animal Kingdom) to talk about how he got into TV editing and what the difference is between TV editors and feature film editors.

We talked about:

• What it's like transitioning from show-to-show often
• How does the workflow differ between shows?
• How do you know when to say "No" to a script?
• ...and how do you do it politely and professionally so that bridges don't get burned?
• And how does an editor work their way onto one of the BIG shows like Agent Carter? (or how can Nick weasel his way into working on The Golden Compass series?)

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Today's guest is Andrea McLaughlin from Llovara Holistic and I'm

I asked recently in the Command+Edit Facebook group how some of

Our jobs are known for being particularly stressful, constantly

So with that in mind, Andrea is here to save the day! She tells

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So we may have had a brief hiatus there. Life gets in the way, work piles up, but we've still got episode that we want to give to you. (Besides you're probably still keeping busy paying attention to NAB announcements, right?)

Thanks for waiting! Here is Episode 43 for you.

In this episode we address that question that every filmmaker gets asked at some point: "So do you make porn movies?"

For some reason often when you tell people that you are involved in the film industry they will associate your work with that of the adult, risqué type of cinema. It's annoying and it may be a simple misunderstanding or it could be potentially harmful for your career...or it could be entirely true. We're not here to judge.

To be completely honest I've worked with filmmakers who have experience in the adult film industry and they have been pretty open to discussing it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that line of work in my opinion. And it shouldn't prevent you from getting work in commercials, TV or feature films. Unfortunately not everybody will share this view so we should spend some time talking about how to deal with these situations when it comes up.

This opens to the door to discussing a load of other misconceptions about our work that we should be ready to correct:

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"You cross over to that side of the line, you don't get to come back from that. Not ever."

In this episode we talk about Daredevil Season 2 on Netflix starring Charlie Cox returning as the title character.

The show is edited by Michael N. Knue, Monty DeGraff, Jonathan Chibnall and Jo Francis. (Any of which we would be thrilled to have on the show, FYI!).

We focus on the pacing of the story over the course of the season, whether we would have done anything had we worked on it and if the interweaving of storylines left any characters out in the cold.

SPOILER ALERT! Although a mild one. Just in case you haven't seen it.

If you have seen it, what point of the story did you feel were the strongest/weakest of the season? What would you have done differently if you were the editor?

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