Observing Others

Just wrapping up Tacos Together.

Tacos Together at Gyvr Hub was spectacular!

So many mingled under the blanket fort!

So many mingled for lunch eating tacos, Dirty Dough Cookies and San Diablo Artisan Churros!

And so many others pulling together as a community under the canopy.

Thank everyone for attending and donating blankets!

Next time we are collecting coats!

Thanks Paul Shin and your volunteers for a wonderful Tacos Together event. 

We can't wait for the next one!

Keep the camera rolling.

Don't let lost opportunities happen!

Start small.

But start somewhere.

Just start.

Evolve with it.

Video does not need to be picture perfect.

Learn how to do it and then DO IT!

Be spontaneous.

Making it perfect may prevent you from making it at all.

Join today's podcast and find out more about. . .

. . . Media Kit Mondays!!

Hands-on workshops.

A time to learn and improve and share content.

Sharing content includes collaboration. 

Duet's are one of the best ways to collaborate.

Not simply old school singing type duets, but giving joint commentary, shared moderating. etc

We call it Co-Posting

And we want to take it to a new level.  

In fact, we've invented a new word.

We want to be Confulencers!

The combining of social media forces. 

Engagement is more than just likes, comments, & reposts.

Dynamic engagement includes sharing the virtual and video stage.

The confluence of separate media pulling together.

So be a Confluencer!

And consistently co-post!

Consistency develops the audience.

We want you to jump into the media endeavor with us!

Come share the spotlight!

Join us on Media Kit Mondays!

On location or on your laptop.

Just keep the camera rolling!!

Today we are at a Grill & Chill.

At a co-working warehouse.

You heard that right.  It's like a "wewarehouse."

And it isn't your typical co-work space or lunch event.

It's a Meat & Greet like no other.

Find out more how a new start up is start out right by starting up a community with an amazing new type of facility!

It's just the Gyvr way.

 Finally a new law that works in your favor!

Did you know there is a way to open up affordable rental options right in your own home?

Did you know there is a way use your home as an additional source of income?

Find out more about an ADU and see if it is right for you!

An ADU is an additional dwelling unit on a single family property.

Today we are at Goldcrest Home's award winning Parade of Home Model Home! 


With a basement ADU!

At Goldcrest Home's England Ridge Subdivision there are several homes with ADU's to choose from.

Basement apartments with a separate walk out entrance and parking.

A brilliant way to rent your basement and help pay the mortgage upstairs!

Pretending hides problems.

Especially financial ones.
 
Which escalates a pretending and spending death spiral.
 
But there is a way to address and reverse that.
 
It requires pulling up some plants to look at the roots of the problems. 
 
Most of the roots are emotional.
 
Much of the root of the problem is behavior.
 
In todays podcast, Dr. Chelsea Adams and I pull on a few of these roots.
 
We may even hit a nerve or two.
 
♤ Immediate gratification
♡ What other people think
◇ Make yourself feel better/feel better about yourself
♧ Covet and compare
♤ Want what you can’t have
♡ Can’t buy love
◇Money doesn’t buy happiness
 
Immediate gratification, for example, misses the power of compounding interest. Instant gratification seeks immediate returns making some bitcoin speculation and day trading closer to gambling rather than long term investing.
 
Perspective helps keep us from panic. It keeps us level headed when life seems upended. It stops the doping by shopping and pretending & spending.
 
Find out more about a simple behavior changing habit stacking solution in today’ podcast.
 
Take a personal inventory.
And start your streak today! 

We struck gold on this podcast!

It's always way cool to find out that friends have similar hobbies and backgrounds.

Especially when it has to do with music and marching.

Listen as Kelly and the sexy roofer, Adrian Alvarez--owner of Presidential Roofing talk about something they have in common they didn't even know about!

Healing & rejuvination.

The purpose of a spa.

An infusion of what your body needs for wellness & health.

Is it worth it? Does red light therapy, for example, really work?

Or is it a form of "fake bake"?

Listen today as Kelly & Zach talk about self care and how spa treatments can boost more than simply self image but can be a source of investing in self that lifts mood and provides tranquility.

Zach Metz owner of Dragonfly Spa says it best: "Taking care of yourself--it isn't vanity it's sanity"

Last spring I had a booth in a B2B trade show in Davis County. The marketing phrase I used was "Bringing Smiles Back".

The word "back" seems to indicate the smiles went somewhere. Maybe the smiles had just been hiding behind masks for two years. Maybe they disappeared because of inflation, a divisive election, an evil war, mass shootings, or a housing crisis.

 These would all be very good reasons--reasons not to smile.

 But what if I told you my booth was a glimpse of and a blast from my past?

 When I was seven, my father, Dr K, took me to the Salt Palace to see a booth he had set up. I had no idea what I was about to experience. When I turned the corner and saw his booth it took my breath away. There in all its glory and grandeur was a booth filled with objects as in pillows, a shower curtain, a huge area rug, a bedroom trash can, desk items and signage filled with little yellow smiley faces. Yellow smiles everywhere!

 His booth was twice the size of mine. Complete with a couch, a chair, and a lamp with a shade and, you guessed it, smiley faces on the lamp shade!

 So, I decided to bring his smile back. He is 84 now. He doesn't remember much but when I paid him a visit and showed him my pics, he did, in fact, smile. A big cheesy grin!

His experiment back then, as a social psychologist, in the 70's, was to see how many people actually smiled when they saw his booth. It had such an impact on me I would never forget it and some 40 years later I decided to bring it back.

 So I found what I could, customized what I couldn't and brought smiles back!

 Including two big yellow balls.

 Later these two yellow balls ended up hanging out in my friend Alex’s hospital room.

They made the journey with me to visit my friend because the only reason they are smiling is because my good friend put those smiles on their faces.

 That's right, he printed the vinyl and slapped them on these mammoth inflated balls.

 They joined me because that same friend recently suffered a massive stroke.

 The doctor told me today that this type of stroke is the most deadly.

 My friend is fortunate to have survived.

 So I brought my two smiley friends to bring some smiles back to my friend and his family.

 Two yellow smile balls to his hospital room to cheer him up and cheer him on.

A few months later I was burnt in a propane tank explosion and fire.

Wouldn’t you know, one of the yellow smile balls Alex and I made showed up in my hospital room.

Now, as Alex and I recover, we are making yellow smile balls for others to cheer them on and cheer them up!

We are two of the fortunate ones. 

We have a second chance.

A new lease on life.

There is so much to smile about!

Certain Points in our life define us more than others!

Some moments may appear to many as setbacks in life when in actuality they can be pivot points to launch us into something even better. 

In this episode of Observing Others, we talk with Lee Brasher about these moments in his life as he has launched multiple businesses and currently is the sole owner of Wasatch Prints in Clearfield, Utah.