Dead America

Dead America

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  • Desh Amila
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    Desh Amila
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    Desh Amila
    SUMMARY KEYWORDS
    people,
    documentaries, important, Sri Lanka, podcasts, civil war, understand, science,
    conversations, film, ideas, country, movie, system, world, truth, Desh,
    freedoms, lived, intellectual
    SPEAKERS
    Desh Amila, Ed
    Watters
    Ed Watters
    00:00
    There's
    no better way to close out a season than with a great call to action. To make a
    better world, it takes action. Our guest today is Desh Amila. And we talk about
    his fantastic documentaries. Now, more than ever, we need courageous men and
    women to stand up. We need people to talk; we need communication. Our world can
    feel like it's falling apart around us. But all it takes is for people to
    educate themselves. With the great documentaries that Desh and his team put
    together, they illustrate how important it really is to remember history. And
    more important, how to challenge yourself to understand what is truth. Let's
    not waste any more time and get into this great episode to finish off this
    fabulous season. And I can't wait for next season. Let's get into this. To overcome, you must educate. Educate not
    only yourself but educate anyone seeking to learn. We are all Dead America. We
    can all learn something. To learn. We must challenge what we already
    understand. The way we do that is through conversation. Sometimes we have
    conversations with others. However, some of the best conversations happen with
    ourselves. Reach Out and challenge yourself. Let's dive in and learn something
    right now. Today we have Desh Amila with us. He is a documentary filmmaker, and
    he is a passionate advocate for change. Desh, could you please introduce
    yourself and let people know just a little bit about who you are and how you
    got to where you are today.
    Desh Amila 03:47
    Thank
    you for having me. I am, as you mentioned, a documentary filmmaker. I'm also an
    entrepreneur, and I migrated to Beston, Australia. I migrated to Australia just
    over 20 years ago from a country called Sri Lanka. Some of your listeners may
    know the country. My journey has largely shaped me during my time in Sri Lanka,
    which was 1981. My birth year was the beginning of a civil war. So I've only
    known my country as a country of Civil War, which lasted 28 years. So I've
    moved to Australia in about 2000. And since then, I have been involved in the
    various number of things. My education was in filmmaking. But around 2010, I
    started getting involved with intellectual events. So I've been running events
    for a very long time, and I had the luxury of working with Some of the greatest
    minds in the world. And it's always been my dream eventually to start making
    films. In 2019, early 2019, late 2018, I released my first film, Islam and the
    future of tolerance, featuring Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz. And I have a new
    movie called Better Left Unsaid, which is scheduled to come out in March this
    year.
    Ed Watters
    05:32
    Well, both of those are very good
    documentaries. And I...
    40 min
  • Kellan Fluckiger
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    Kellan Fluckiger
    SUMMARY KEYWORDS
    people, life,
    money, create, depression, forgiving, podcast, perseverance, excusing, truth,
    coach, Kellan, world, question, started, kinds, years, blame, optimism, joy
    SPEAKERS
    Kellan
    Fluckiger, Ed Watters, Gareth Davies
    Ed Watters
    00:00
    If you
    like Tony Robbins, you're gonna love our guest today. He's a powerhouse when it
    comes to motivating you He is the catalyst for getting things done. Today we
    are talking with Kellan Fluckiger. He is that person that you want in your
    corner to get things changing to get things motivated and to help you push
    forward. I highly recommend you looking Kellan up and getting involved with
    him. Everybody needs a coach. And I'm sure with Kellan's story, he can help you
    achieve your ultimate life. Let's not waste any more time and get into today's
    episode.
    Gareth Davies
    00:45
    Hello,
    good evening. Good morning. Good afternoon, wherever you may be around this
    wild, wacky, and sometimes disturbing world of ours. Yes, that's the intro to
    the mindset podcast, a weekly attempt to open eyes and shedding light on what's
    really going on in the world. All done by ripping apart the media madness that
    masquerades as news. Join me, Gareth Davies. Every Sunday on the mindset
    podcast. You can find the show on all major podcasting services such as iTunes,
    Stitcher, and so on or you can go directly to the main mindset website. That's
    www.mindsetcentral.com. Check out the mindset podcast bring your curiosity, your
    opinions, and a sense of humor. And remember that some worldviews are stranger
    than others.
    Ed Watters
    01:51
    To
    overcome, you must educate. Educate not only yourself but educate anyone
    seeking to learn. We are all Dead America. We can all learn something to learn.
    We must challenge what we already understand. The way we do that is through
    conversation. Sometimes we have conversations with others. However, some of the
    best conversations happen with ourself. Reach Out and challenge yourself. Let's
    dive in and learn something right now. Today we have Kellan Fluckiger with us
    Kellan, could you please introduce yourself, let people know a little bit about
    you, and how you got to where you are today, please?
    Kellan Fluckiger 02:55
    Well, that's a long story. I'm 65. And I have
    lots of history. So I spent, I've had an interesting life and career as a
    executive, as a musician, as a recording artist, as a career consultant in
    energy markets. And in the last 10 years, I've spent all my time transitioning
    to being a full-time business and life coach. I just say coach for clients
    around the world.
    Ed Watters
    03:24
    You have
    spent your life going through a lot of things. You say that you come out of a
    depression, addiction, life-threatening illness, and a near-death...
    58 min
  • Dr. William Jackson
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    https://www.deadamerica.website (https://www.deadamerica.website)
    https://www.skillfulmeans.life (https://www.skillfulmeans.life)
    Transcript https://www.mediafire.com/file/9eb4izbw5706jok/Dr. William Jackson_Transcript.docx/file (Download)
    Dr. William Jackson
    SUMMARY KEYWORDS
    meditation,
    mindfulness, people, mind, life, meditating, develop, meditation practice,
    psychologist, monk, psychotherapy, world, stages, practice, studied, skillful
    means, talking, understand, experience, behavior
    SPEAKERS
    Dr. William
    Jackson, Ed Watters
    Ed Watters
    00:00
    Understanding
    the world that we live in, can be very exhausting. It can make our minds do
    unthinkable things. Today's guest Dr. William Jackson incorporates
    psychotherapy, positive psychology, and the most accessible core methods of
    meditation into his practices, with 7000 plus hours of total time in retreat.
    While a monk, he practiced with an organized retreat of Buddhist teachers
    around the world, including His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. He's here today to
    help us understand his contemporary evidence-based meditation practices. Let's
    not waste any more time and get into today's exciting episode.
    Ed Watters 01:07
    To
    overcome, you must educate. Educate not only yourself but educate anyone
    seeking to learn. We are all Dead America, we can all learn something. To
    learn, we must challenge what we already understand. The way we do that is
    through conversation. Sometimes we have conversations with others. However,
    some of the best conversations happen with ourselves. Reach Out and challenge
    yourself. Let's dive in and learn something right now. Dr. Jackson, could you
    please introduce yourself and let the audience know, just a little bit more
    about you and how you got to where you are today? Sure. My name is William
    Jackson, I I'm a health psychologist and a former Buddhist monk. And what that
    sort of means is, as a health psychologist, I help often people who have both a
    chronic illness and something that they're dealing with psychologically. And I
    found that sort of niche for myself, after being a Buddhist monk and deciding I
    was going to take the robes off, I wanted to find a way that I could utilize
    what I had learned in meditation to help people. And it just so happens that
    mindfulness has found a niche in the chronic pain community, and then sort of
    expanded into the rest of the medical community from there. So that's what sort
    of brought me into doing the work that I'm doing now. And, you know, I'm sure
    we'll get into it a little bit later. But there's certain types of practices
    and certain structures of courses and learning meditation that are more helpful
    than others. And I've sort of veered in the direction of these more comprehensive
    meditation programs.
    Ed Watters
    04:10
    Right
    off when I saw you on Poddit, I saw that you were a former Buddhist monk. Yes,
    that just fascinates me. Could you walk us through? What made you become a
    Buddhist monk? And then why would you decide to walk away from that lifestyle?
    Dr. William Jackson 04:30
    Sure.
    Yeah. So before I became a monk, I was actually an actor. So I started in my
    junior year of high school acting because I wasn't doing so good academically
    in my public high school, and, you know, getting into a little bit of trouble
    here and there. But I had one teacher who saw me do a bunch of impressions and
    characters and he really encouraged me...
    35 min
  • Josh Cary
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    Transcript https://www.mediafire.com/file/f4uwvwbpjazcru0/Josh_Cary_transcript.docx/file (Download)
    Josh Cary
    https://joshcary.com/ (The Hidden Entrepreneur Show)
    https://joshcary.com/about/ (Joshcary.com/about)
    SUMMARY KEYWORDS
    podcasting,
    emotion, attract, people, message, capable, josh, life, day, world, event,
    noise, identify, ed, methodically, founders, habits, retaliate, hidden, happen
    SPEAKERS
    Ed Watters,
    Josh Cary
    Ed Watters
    00:00
    The
    power that we can find in podcasting. It can change hearts. It can change
    minds. It can change the world. Stories change lives. And it takes you to help
    get out there and tell your story. So you can impact make a difference. Our
    guest today does just that. He went from hiding himself to really opening up
    and helping others find themselves and change the world. We're going to talk
    with Josh Cary today, the co-founder of PodMax. Let's get right into this great
    interview. To overcome, you must educate. Educate not only yourself but
    educate anyone seeking to learn. We are all Dead America. We can all learn
    something. To learn. We must challenge what we already understand. The way we
    do that is through conversation. Sometimes we have conversations with others.
    However, some of the best conversations happen with ourselves. Reach Out and
    challenge yourself. Let's dive in and learn something right now. Today we have
    Josh Cary with us. He is the host of The Hidden Entrepreneur. Josh, could you
    please introduce yourself? Tell people who you are, what you do, and how you
    got to where you are today, please?
    Josh Cary
    03:06
    I
    absolutely will. Thanks. By the way, Ed, for inviting me on Dead America. I'm
    already a fan. I love it all. So long story short, today, I am, like you said I'm
    the hidden entrepreneur. And that's because I spent 40 years hiding. I showed
    up in every situation, hiding my true self, my true talent, and everything that
    I was actually capable of achieving. I did that because I was so fearful of
    rocking the boat, and I didn't want to come across like I was so capable and
    powerful. Because then what might happen, you might retaliate if you felt a
    little insecure about what you're capable of. Right? Because if I'm just
    inadvertently doing my thing, coming up with something wonderful, powerful, you
    know, quite quite great. Something certainly in my wheelhouse. It might make
    you feel insecure. And if you retaliated, I felt growing up that I didn't have
    the strength or ability to defend against that. So I just avoided it
    altogether. Now what was so difficult was behind closed doors, what caused so
    much angst, anger, depression, dare I say jealousy was because every moment of
    every day I knew what I was capable of doing. So that that whole disconnect
    just created this, this whole miserable person. Now cut to today, I'm the proud
    father. I have two adoring children, a seven-year old daughter, a five-year-old
    son, who early on in their young lives. I realized that I see what's happening
    here. I'm the child in this circle. I'm the one throwing the tantrum. And
    they're looking at me like, you got to do something about that. And I made that
    immediate case to do just that. And I knew that I didn't want to continue down that
    path. Because if I did, and they grew up with that kind of father, how is that
    going to wind up for them? Right? We know that outcome. So
    29 min
  • Paul Katzoff
    https://www.deadamerica.website (https://www.deadamerica.website)
    @paulkatzoff
    https://www.whitecanyon.com (https://www.whitecanyon.com)
    Transcript https://www.mediafire.com/file/t3g26g1rsqegnuk/Paul_Katzoff_Transcript.docx/file (Download)
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    Paul Katzoff
    SUMMARY KEYWORDS
    data, company,
    device, computer, erase, wipe, people, protect, Paul, software, networks,
    securely, temporary internet files, correctly, website, organization, data breach,
    tool, information, security
    SPEAKERS
    Paul Katzoff,
    Ed Watters
    Ed Watters
    00:00
    Data
    Security is a major thing in our modern world. But how many of us truly
    understand how to protect and dispose of our information properly? Our next
    guest, Paul, is going to help us understand that just a little bit better. We
    need to understand the technological world that we live in. And we need people
    like Paul to help us figure out these data security issues and fill the void.
    Let's not waste any time and get into this terrific interview with Paul
    Katzoff. To overcome, you must educate.
    Educate not only yourself but educate anyone seeking to learn. We are all Dead
    America. We can all learn something. To learn. We must challenge what we
    already understand. The way we do that is through conversation. Sometimes we
    have conversations with others. However, some of the best conversations happen
    with ourselves. Reach Out and challenge yourself. Let's dive in and learn
    something right now. Today, we have Paul
    Katzoff with us. He is the CEO of White Canyon Software. Paul, let's start off
    with letting people know who Paul Katzoff is. And how did you become the CEO of
    white Canyon software?
    Paul Katzoff
    03:03
    Ed, pleasure to be here. Pleasure to be on Dead
    America. Thank you for having me. First off, I've been the CEO of White Canyon
    Software for three years. As far as my education goes, I have an undergraduate
    from BYU Hawaii, and then also my MBA from Utah State. As far as it How did I
    get to this position? I think it goes to a lot of work. But also, you know,
    working for a small company, I have the right educational background, but also
    successful in the sales area, the support area, you know, running different
    teams, things like that. So when the opening came up, they offered it to me, and
    like anyone else out there, I happily jumped at the chance.
    Ed Watters
    03:51
    Of
    course, you know, it's unique, you started from the bottom, and you kind of
    went up through the ranks. And that's a great way to learn the details of the
    company. When you got out of college, I assume you didn't expect just to jump
    into a CEO role.
    Paul Katzoff
    04:14
    Right.
    And I think sometimes in the MBA program, you kind of hope that happened to
    you. And looking back, I think you realize just the amount of information you
    have to learn post-college, you know, college is great. It gives you a great
    framework. It gives you a great understanding of business. But when you get
    into the real world and working day to day and how business happens between different
    companies. It's a lot to pick up. So yeah, I started off at the bottom. There
    was a little bit of humility to take a technical support role, but that was
    back in "08" February "08",
    right after the big crash. So I was happy with anything. Took the technical
    support role, and I decided to actually apply everything I learned in my MBA
    program into that role, and what happened is I was successful; I was organized.
    I saw the big picture. And I got offered the support manager role, probably
    nine months later, a year later, and moved into that role. And then once again,
    I can apply those principles I learned in the MBA program to that position. And
    it was really fun to kind of see the real-world real world application come
    into play to me; that's where the education so...
    28 min
  • Erin McCullough
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    We will always consider other points of view on any subject. We do not necessarily agree with our guests all of the time. We value everyone. All of our guests deserve respect and a platform to voice concerns.
    https://www.deadamerica.website (https://www.deadamerica.website)
    bio: https://www.erin-mac.com/copy-of-about (https://www.erin-mac.com/copy-of-about)
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erinmacllc/ (https://www.instagram.com/erinmacllc/)
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/erinmacllc (https://www.facebook.com/erinmacllc)
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-mac-600b86178/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-mac-600b86178/)
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    Erin McCullough
    SUMMARY KEYWORDS
    people, life,
    emotions thought, create, Erin, quiet, moment, conversations, challenging,
    stressed, joy, meditation, beholden, client, business, world, beliefs, deep
    dive, super
    SPEAKERS
    Ed Watters,
    Erin McCullough
    Ed Watters
    00:00
    The Dead America podcast is really about finding yourself challenging who you are,
    understanding what you want to be. To do that. You really have to get in tune
    with yourself. Sometimes, We need help doing that. Our next guest, Erin, is
    going to help us do exactly that. So let's not waste any time and get into this
    episode of the Dead America podcast.
    Ed Watters
    00:35
    To
    overcome, you must educate. Educate not only yourself but educate anyone
    seeking to learn. We are all Dead America. We can all learn something. To
    learn, we must challenge what we already understand. The way we do that is
    through conversation. Sometimes we have conversations with others. However,
    some of the best conversations happen with ourselves. Reach Out and challenge
    yourself. Let's dive in and learn something right now.
    Ed Watters
    02:33
    And
    today, we have a special treat for you. We are with Erin McCullough. She is a
    thought leader and a spiritual advisor. Erin, could you please introduce
    yourself and let people know what you do and how you got to where you are
    today?
    Erin McCullough
    02:51
    Well,
    first, I want to say thanks for having me. And it's super important to have
    these platforms so that we can talk about the things that I think are the most
    important that nobody talks about, or very few people talk about. So thank you
    for having me. And thank you for having a platform for people to learn about
    this life and what's really going on. So as I mentioned, I am a, you know, it's
    the labels that kill me. I am a thought leader and a spiritual advisor. I am a
    coach, a mentor. I work typically with entrepreneurs because I have been one
    for 20 years. And I've been consulting businesses and business owners for about
    16 years. And most people would not put that together business and
    spirituality. But the reality is, as much as we like to be separate from our
    business and our personal lives, they're intertwined all the time. That's just
    who we are as human beings, and there's no way to do that different. And the
    reason that I got to this place is because I had a business that I sold a
    couple of years ago that was very successful and had a lot of moving parts,
    lots of clients, hundreds of clients, lots of employees. And my experience of
    running that business was one of stress, anxiety, worry. I was constantly in
    stress over clients, employees, beholden to all those things, and I really
    couldn't take it anymore. Basically, I just was so stressed out. Prior to that, I have had an anxiety disorder
    years before...
    34 min
  • Dr. Krishna Bhatta
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    https://www.deadamerica.website (https://www.deadamerica.website)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujklqeWBn_c (Youtube video)
    Transcript https://www.mediafire.com/file/9gp9s5sv9rf823t/Dr.Bhatta_done_Transcript.docx/file (Download)
    Dr. Krishna Bhatta
    https://wikitia.com/wiki/Krishna_Bhatta (https://wikitia.com/wiki/Krishna_Bhatta)
    SUMMARY KEYWORDS
    meditation,
    people, silence, intermittent, app, thoughts, create, energy, theater, explore,
    flame, universe, minutes, practice, world, power, conversation, talk, guided meditation,
    watching
    SPEAKERS
    Dr. Krishna
    Bhatta, Ed Watters
    Ed Watters
    00:00
    Recently,
    I had the unique opportunity to sit down and speak with Dr. Krishna Bhatta. Dr.
    Bhatta is a surgeon, an inventor, an author, and so much more. But what we
    talked about with Dr. Bhatta was a personal side of Dr. Bhatta. His willingness
    to sit down and teach us all about what he's learned about the inner silence
    and developing skills to calm yourself under any situation. It was a pleasure
    to talk with Dr. Bhatta. Let's not waste any more time and get into this great
    interview. To overcome, you must educate. Educate not only yourself but
    educate anyone seeking to learn. We are all Dead America. We can all learn
    something. To learn, we must challenge what we already understand. The way we
    do that is through conversation. Sometimes we have conversations with others.
    However, some of the best conversations happen with ourselves. Reach Out and
    challenge yourself. Let's dive in and learn something right now. Today, we have
    Dr. Krishna Bhatta with us. He is a surgeon, an author, and an inventor, a
    fabulous person to talk with. Let's get right into it.
    Ed Watters
    02:59
    Dr.
    Bhatta, could you please introduce yourself and let our audience know what you
    do and how you became who you are today?
    Dr. Krishna Bhatta 03:09
    Ed,
    thanks for having me on your show. And it's a great pleasure to be beginning of
    the new year. So a belated Happy New Year to you and to your audience. I'm a
    urologist by profession. I've had a career in medicine and also parallel
    meditation, which is not a career but for my personal growth. And now I'm
    willing to share and I have started sharing with people my experience and my
    growth in that area.
    Dr. Krishna Bhatta 03:47
    Looking
    into you, you have had a fascinating life. And you've experienced so much. What
    we're going to talk a little bit about today is finding yourself through
    intermittent silence, the power of inner theater, also some power of inner
    conversation, which I really love. Could we start with intermittent silence and
    let our audience know what exactly is intermittent silence?
    Dr. Krishna Bhatta 04:22
    Ed,
    Let's start with two questions for the new year. One is, who controls what you
    do? And the second one is do you understand that? That's good to hear. Many
    people or many of us just do things but we don't know who is in control.
    Sometimes it's our belief systems, sometimes it's our customs that we grow, and
    sometimes it's just social norms that dictate what we do. So, getting the
    control in your hands is more important for whatever you do. Even if it is a
    glass of water or a cup of coffee, you are not doing it just because you have
    done every day, you do it because you actively want that coffee. And it's in
    your control we can say no to. And the second one is spending time with...
    36 min
  • Kay Neal
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    Kay Neal
    I'm on a mission to make the study of Latin mainstream--or at least a lot closer to the mainstream than it is now.
    Latin is mostly absent from the curriculum at any level of our education system, but it ought to be brought back, especially in the early grades. The only place that Latin shows up in school is when Latin and Greek roots are covered, as a way of building vocabulary. But I can tell you that memorizing roots off a list is not the best way to get these extremely useful and productive words into a student’s head.
    If you study Latin vocabulary in the context of Latin grammar—that is, if you study Latin—you go deep into English grammar, and this is something that isn’t really taught these days.
    But you need grammar to make sense out of words. You have to put words together in a certain way, or they don’t mean what you want them to. Studying Latin heightens your awareness of how words work together to make meaning. In fact, studying Latin gives you a foundation that you can build all sorts of academic success on.
    A person who has built a solid foundation in the basics of Latin in elementary school:
    * Will never think that a new word is too complicated to handle.
    * Will be able to read difficult texts in English (I'm talking especially about the classics) and absorb the author’s meaning.
    * Will understand the concept that languages have different ways of getting meaning across, which means that the Latin student will be able to enjoy later experiences with foreign languages in high school or college or life.
    * And perhaps most confidence-building of all, will be able to recognize when it is the speaker or the writer that is at fault and not their ability to understand.
    I've identified three different groups to reach out to first: people who for some reason or other have always wanted to learn Latin, parents who are not too happy with the education their child is receiving in public school, and people who already studied Latin but didn't get on top of the material the first time around and want a chance to really understand it.
    I have three free reports (corresponding to these three groups), and I'd be happy to share any or all of them with you. They go deeper into why Latin is worth studying. The titles are:
    https://www.latinforlife.com/whyyouareright (* Why You Are Absolutely Right to Want to Learn Latin)
    https://www.latinforlife.com/fiveways (* Five Ways Your Child Is Being Shortchanged at School--and What You Can Do About It)
    * Why You Don't Remember Any of the Latin You Learned All Those Years Ago (and What You Can Do About It)
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    Transcript https://www.mediafire.com/file/c1yp8gitu2jtlbe/Kay_Neal_Transcript.docx/file (Download)
    Kay Neal
    SUMMARY KEYWORDS
    Latin, people,
    English, study, read, sentence, podcast, language, called, wrote, grammar,
    book, long, Spanish, kay, endings, learn, thought, curriculum, action
    SPEAKERS
    Ed Watters, Kay Neal
    Ed Watters
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    challenging
    ourselves. That's what Dead America is truly about. On today's episode, we do
    just that. We dive deep into learning. And we talk to an individual that wants
    to promote learning Latin. Latin is something that most of us don't even think
    about. But you know, when it boils down to it, Latin has a lot to do...
    42 min
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