Scrolling Through Life

Scott Morris is a Regional Vise President of sales with AURA.

AURA is a digital identity theft and fraud protection company that aids in the safekeeping of your finances, personal info for you and your family and is very easy to understand and is simple to set up and is your one-stop shop when it comes to digital protection for you and yours.

AURA keeps your identity safe with very extensive monitoring of your personal information, accounts, and much more. They will monitor everything and alert you in real-time to all new inquires on your credit file, like new credit cards or bank loans.

I've personally used many different services in the past for my digital protection but never have I seen a company that does it all under one umbrella. AURA has gone as far as acquiring other companies to ensure a smooth and easy process in order to protect you and your family's digital fingerprint. Like identity theft protection, Financial Fraud Protection, Devic and Network Protection (VPNs), and in my opinion the icing on the cake the Family Protection.

Your family can rest assured they can stay safe from malware, including viruses, ransomware, trojans and so many harmful threats that can not only cause you to have your identity stolen but also lose sleep and cause you to jump through hoops in order to fix the issue.

AURA lets you set up and protect yourself and up to 10 family members all in under one plan. You'll get alerted to fraud and breaches of online accounts and credit files, plus every adult member gets $1 Million in identity theft insurance. AURA will notify you if your child's Social Security Number or online accounts have been stolen or found on the dark web.

Follow my Instagram page and stay tuned and look for a link for you to get your own AURA account for you and your family.

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Frank Molinar is a certified financial planner who works out of Phoenix,

Arizona, who has been in the industry for 16 years. Molinar is on the

advisory team at Retirement Consultants, Inc. Molinar has gained

experience at Next Financial Group Inc, Securities America, Inc and

Verus Capital Partners, LLC. Molinar has Series 63 and Series 65

licenses, which qualify him as both a securities agent and an investment advisor representative, and can work in Arizona.

We all need someone to vent to and get advice from but sometimes that turns into a one-way street and you become that person that is always getting hit up and having everyone else's problems dumped in your lap.

Helping others is always a great thing and you should always be willing to hear someone out and help them through their issues but when it becomes repetitive on the same issues from the same person it can become exhausting and take a toll on your own mental health. especially when an individual is always and only calling when they have issues it may be a sign it's time to set boundaries.

Tim and I talk about how we deal with some of these situations and our past experiences on people who tend to use and abuse the access you give them. Setting boundaries is very important in these types of situations not only for your own mental health but to the other person's mental health. It's important to lay out your expectations on your limited time and if that individual is heeding your advice or not, if they are not taking your advice then what is the point, to even having a conversation.

Always remember whether you are the one reaching out or the one being called to always be considerate of the other's time and mental health.

Say to your self "my Mental Health Is important'.

John Gebretatose is Eritrean born but American raised who at an early age had to learn coping skills in order to deal with the hands that life deals us.

John opens up with me about his mother having schizophrenia and have to care for her at an early age and using laughter to help him cope with all that he had going on at a very young age. His father was around but was dealing with his own demons of alcoholism and not really understanding his wife's illness and how to deal with it was all too much for him to cope with.

John found comedy as a form of escape and a way to channel his feelings and emotions through laughter. While performing stand up he found his new passion and love in the form of Improv. While doing so he realized a community was needed for Black comedians in the Improv world and so he helped create BlackOut Improv. After a long and awaited time away due to the pandemic, they will be performing again at HUGE Theater in South Minneapolis.

This is a very special episode for me not just as a Veteran, Ranger brother, friend but as someone who has suffered tremendously from depression, PTSD, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts but also planning out those acts.

I asked Lora Irving and Edward Goff to sit down with me and talk about their son and brother Aaron Goff.

Aaron and I served together in 1st Ranger Battalion and I had the honor and privilege to serve right alongside him as his junior Fire Team Leader.

Aaron was a very outgoing individual and was always in a good uplifting mood. It was very hard to get him to angry but if you did you definitely did something wrong. He always saw the bright side of things but was serious when the time called for it.

I decided to ask his family to sit down with me and speak about Aaron and talk about the type of person he was growing up, what led to him joining the Army.

I really wanted to focus on the changes that were happening at all major stages of his career from the beginning and the toll the Army and the combat deployments were having on his mental health. It is never easy to notice these signs and actually realize that a loved one is really suffering as bad as they are inside.

Please always listen to your loved ones and actually hear what they are saying and let them know that they are loved and that everything will be ok. We can't force anyone to seek help or make them talk to someone and actually at times that might make things worse.

So what do you do?

That is why we have these conversations to hear what others would do have done or wished they would have done. it's never a cut and clear answer but together we can defiantly bring these questions to the forefront and help those that are suffering and give others ways to intervene to save their loved ones.

If you are suffering and have no one to speak to please DM me on all my Social media that I will leave below.

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I grew up in the St. Louis Park and Hopkins Community. I went to Junior High and some of the High school in Hopkins. My daughters and stepkids go to Hopkins and I moved back to Hopkins with my wife after my retirement from the Army. So ensuring that the right person is in the office that runs my city is very important to me and my family.

Patrick Hanlon is the right person for the job, he is someone that truly cares about the community that he grew up in and wants it to thrive and be a leader on many issues that the people truly care about.

Patrick talks to me about many of the issues that are important to him and what he sees for the future of Hopkins looks like.

Patrick comes from humble beginnings with a mother that became very ill when he was a young age but before her passing had already set important values and morales into him and that was to love and care for everyone and most importantly to always give back to the community and always listen to those around him and act with his heart.

This was very different from my usual episodes but definitely a great episode on many levels, this is an episode that is a must listen and get some great insight into the mind of someone that wants nothing but great things for his community and someone that is taking action into making a change on a bigger scale for his community.

below is are links for more on Patrick Hanlon

https://hanlonforhopkins.com/

For the below link start at 1hr 29min

https://hopkinsmn.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=638

When people hear algorithm they think of one of two things math or social media. What they don think about is the algorithm of life and how from the time you are born you are set to fit the algorithm of someone else or the algorithm of your environment.

It may be as small as the path your parents want you to take in life or career not understanding that you may have a passion for something else or it could be the friends you hang around that influence the way you dress to the path you end up taking in life.

Tim and I talk about the path our parents wanted us to take to the friends in high school that may have influenced us to the way we acted, dressed and the friends we kept around. It's never easy when you are young because those times are when you are attempting to find yourself and figure out what it is you are really into and your likes and dislikes.

The military does a great job at bringing everyone together from different walks of life and not judging you on how you dress, the music you listen to, and what you like to do in your off time. Instead, it exposes you to things that you might have thought you did not like just because of your past environment.

Happiness is the key to life and that means being you, doing what you like, creating what makes you happy and doing things for you, and not always doing what makes everyone else around you happy.

Always choose happiness and create your happiness and that means creating your own path and do it your way and that's whatever makes you happy and puts a smile on your face

Social Media has played a huge part in many people's mental health. Social media does not always have to be a negative thing but the way we consume it can definitely have a negative effect on our mental health and our lives as a whole.

Theodore Roosevelt said, "comparison is the thief of joy".

You can use social media and those that you follow to keep you motivated and hungry to reach your goals, whether your goals are fitness or entrepreneurial, and use it as a positive aspect to reach that next level. But many compare their life to celebrities or see those that have become successful and they become envious, grow hatred in their heart, and ultimately will become depressed, have lower self-esteem, and will become unhappy with what you don't have instead of being grateful for what you do have.

Social media can be a great tool if used the right way, for example, to stay connected, to network, grow a business, get a message out to those you love and want to help, or even learn from those that have reached certain success that you are wanting to reach.

You must be aware of the mental health effects your social media use is having on you and learn your triggers that certain pages and people you follow influence you.

Do certain pages or people make you feel ungrateful for what you have, do they make you feel as if you aren't achieving your goals fast enough or not even achieving them at all, do they make you feel envious, do they make you feel hatred for those that have what you want?

Whatever it is you are trying to achieve always understand that nothing comes without hard work and determination and nothing on social media is always what it seems.

In this Part Two Joe describes with great emotions being stationed at Fort Bragg and beginning the Special Forces Qualifications Course and finding out his wife was diagnosed with Cancer. Joe explains how a pain that his wife was experiencing for years grew into a tumor, which later was diagnosed as synovial sarcoma which was a very rare type of cancer at the time.

Joe had to make the tough decision to drop out of the Qualification Course in order to take care of his wife and two girls. Joe talks in great detail and gets very emotional explaining this dark and very tough period of his life. Feeling powerless he had to just watch his wife deteriorate over a period of 18 months and succumb to cancer. Joe describes having to live through that, day after day and how seeing his wife dying was worse than anything he had seen in combat.

Having nobody else to turn to but his mother, he sucked up his pride and asked for help but not without her asking for support in the form of $600.

Joe turned to alcohol and violence to channel his anger, loss, and all that hurt he was bottling in from a young age to the hurt of losing his wife. If it were not for the Special Forces Command he was under and how they took care of him and made sure he had adequate support in order to get through that tough time it would have been near impossible to get through it all. After the loss of his wife, he decided to move back home to West Virginia and become a recruiter. Still feeling the loss of his wife and turning to alcohol and violence Joe started to hang out with Motorcycle Clubs.

Joe gets very emotional talking about how his mental state at the time traumatized his daughters and he realizes now the damage he had done to them with the choices he made, how his mother capitalized on his mental state and was conspiring with a psychologist to take his daughters from him which she would succeed doing so.

Joe is not blind to the choices he made and blames no one for anything that has happened in his life. We talk about how psychedelics changed his life and later micro-dosing mushrooms helped to recenter him mentally and send him to a more positive trajectory. Joe explains how becoming more disciplined and structured while micro-dosing was just the beginning of a new path for a more positive life.

Joe Hudson sits down with me and holds nothing back on telling his story. Joe tells in great detail about growing up in West Virginia in a household where food wasn't the only scarcity but love, compassion and care were also at the top of that list of missing necessities. Abuse, neglect, and the loss of caring parents had major life-lasting effects that started at a very young age for Joe.

Joe describes his parents as Fundamentalist Christians who wanted to live off the land, they believed that God will just provide everything for them and that they won't need money anymore. Joe describes growing up in a makeshift-type cabin with no bathroom on a farm because his parents believed that giving away all their possessions was what God wanted. He also talks about his mother walking out on his family and selling him and his siblings to his father for $400, Joe also explains how he believes that Stockholm Syndrome helped him to get through those tough days.

Joe explains how music saved him and gave him a new outlook on life and helped to build his confidence. Joe decided to pursue his music career and was excepted and attended a Creative Arts School but was not able to graduate due to his mother not being able to afford it.

Joe gets very emotional when talking about watching the news and seeing the death toll of Americans during the early days of the Iraq and Afghanistan War on terror. That was what made him want to join the Army to do his part for his country. This was the first and most pivotal moment that would change the trajectory of his entire life for the better. Joe explains signing in to his Mechanized Unit and going on his first combat deployment with them, he explains how unprepared they were to deploy for 15 months.

Joe explains how being stop-loss helped him to make the decision to go to Special Forces Selection and Assessment and how his current Unit at the time was against him going, which gave Joe the motivation and determination to make sure he got selected so that he would not face any retaliation for going to selection if he did not make it.