The Maven Nation

Shownotes:

* Michael shares about an APP named “Moment” – 0:15

* Michaels shares about signal to noise ratiometric – 2:17

* If someone is taking advantage of you, it’s probably time to end the relationship – 5:46

 

Shownotes:

* Michael shares a very important lesson he learned in Puerto Rico – 0:18

* What does chaos mean? – 0:40

* In the moment of chaos or when are feeling down or negative, this is an opportunity to turn it around – 05:34

 

In today’s episode, I wanted to address a few rules I use when deciding if I should debate with others (it very rarely happens) on certain topics and the thresholds that are required for me to want to invest my time into it. I’m also including 2 examples of debate thresholds that are very controversial, GMO’s and Global Warming.

There are people who are very passionate about these in Social Media and the reason I use these two examples is to demonstrate how willing some are to debate about things they do not fully understand. (Hint: Do not debate with anyone who intentionally misunderstands you, doesn’t know the basics or is unwilling to learn the basics).

I’ll also share with you two incredible scientific facts that reset the stage of debate when it comes to GMO’s and Global Warming. Hold on to your seats! 🙂

 

 

Shownotes:

* What is an ARC? – 01:45

* What kind of addictions are being treated – 03:18

* How to check in to an ARC? – 05:38

* How effective is the program to the beneficiaries – 08:13

* How long has it been there? 13:03

* Factors that make the program really work – 16:04

* Alex Velasquez on Salvation Army – 23:10

* Alex talks about homeless people also being rescued – 27:01

* He never left the Salvation Army after graduating from the program – 31:18

* Alex shares his experience in Puerto Rico doing disaster volunteer work – 35:25

* Michael’s thoughts on his Puerto Rico experience – 37:44

* Alex’s invitation – 42:53

 

Ive been working on disasters with the Salvation Army now for 8 years. I kept on hearing this term “ARC…ARC” but I never really stopped to ask what it was about until I was in Puerto Rico, where Captain Alex Valesquez sat down and told me what they were all about, and he should know, he runs one of the bigger ARCs in the US. What he told me absolutely blew my mind.

With one of the highest efficacy rates I have ever heard of for an addition rehab program, what is further mind boggling is that there are no financial costs tied to those enrolling in the program. All they have to do is answer 6 questions.

Im sure many of you out there listening know someone who is struggling with different kinds of addictions, be it drugs, alcohol or the like. I felt so inspired about what Alex does that I felt compelled to share it! What an incredible service to so many without hope, many whom I have personally witnessed completely turning their lives around to becoming incredible men! That is today’s topic on The Maven Nation!

PS- I know the audio is a little rough, but it was the best we could do!

* If you are in the United States, you can find your local ARC by searching “Salavation Army ARC (your state)”

 

Shownotes:

* What kind of exercises does Angelina Hills do? – 2:54

* What kind of food does she eat? – 03:51

* Angelina sharing about her kids – 04:50

* How did she start a career in photography? – 05:32

* Her love for photography turns into a business – 08:24

* Angelina’s thoughts on services for free – 09:07

* How did her idea of putting her images onto a hat become successful? 13:58

* Angelina sharing her experiences on sales and shoots at the side – 18:24

* How many hours she spent on her products – 23:01

* Talks about being a mom – 25:46

* Angelina shares about the lessons she learned while trying to make her business to work – 26:48

* Connect with Angelina Hills – 30:45

One of the most common excuses I hear about becoming an entrepreneur is “I don’t have time”, and as many of you know, few things are as time consuming as being a stay-at-home mom with 2 little ones. Angelina Hills was an extremely successful Maui wedding and portrait photographer right up until the birth of her first child, at which time she decided to make her children priority number one. Yet, she still wanted to continue to pursue her photographic, creative and business as secondary interests. I’ve always wondered how in the world does she do it? She’s our first female entrepreneur on The Maven Nation!

Angie has generously offered a 50% coupon on her Custom Pop Sockets – Use coupon code “MAVEN” at check out

Find her popsockets, hats and and other awesome products at: angelinahills.com

In this Episode, Michael shares his secrets of quick rest & resetting on the fly.

 

Shownotes:

* Michael shares a personal experience about service – 0:14

* Never doubt the amount of good you can do to a person – 07:15

* The service that we give can change the world – 08:30

 

Today I want to share with you one of the foundational stories that convinced me of the value of service and doing good in general. I hope it has the same effect on you!

What miracles of service or good have you experienced in your own life? Feel free to share in the comments below!

In this Episode Michael describes what he thinks is the perfect drug for happiness.

Show Notes:

* Michael is heading home soon – 0:20

* Michael talks about the learnings and growing while in service – 4:30

* A challenge to act on your purpose – 08:21

 

Show Notes:

* Michael share an update from Puerto Rico – 0:14

* Tremendous support is received from a lot organizations – 06:01

 

Please visit the following links if you would like to donate to the Hurricane Relief in Puerto Rico

Red Lightning  

Clean Water For Puerto Rico

Hey, everybody. Michael here. It is October 11th, 2017, and I’m recording this from Caguas, Puerto Rico. I’ve been here for just over a week now and I’ve been working with the Salvation Army and I wanted to give you guys an update in terms of what I’m doing, what the real situation is on the grounds and the problems we’re facing and as well as what you can do to help.

Puerto Rico, the problem with it … Whatever you’re hearing in the news, it’s not one thing, it is a number of things. If you look at the system of society, including water and power and internet connection, cell service, fuel, distribution of food, all of those things, they come into play as a system. So when all of the systems in a complex organization start to lose efficiency, it has a multiplying factor on it, and I’ll try to illustrate this right now.

If you’re not able to call to a friend or a coworker and communicate an idea to them, when that is gone, it creates a logistical nightmare because in order to get certain types of information, you have to physically show up. Puerto Rico is unique because it is an island and it’s geographically isolated, so there’s not roads coming in. If you are going to come to Puerto Rico, you’re coming by boat, or you’re coming by air, and that creates a tremendous bottleneck for supplies first off. The second problem is that the damage to the infrastructure is wide spread, so if one town or two towns were hit on Puerto Rico, the rest of the island can obviously come in and support it, that’s not what we’re seeing here. We’re seeing widespread destruction across the entire island. 88% power is still down, so the island is running off 12% of the power that it typically normally has, so without power we lose lots of different services, desalinization plants, water plants, things of that nature, and that creates some tremendous challenges. As I mentioned, the power grid is down. Without power, it’s a real nightmare. In Saint Thomas we didn’t have power for a while. Most everything that I see here is running on generators, but there is some city power coming back on.

But really the biggest problem in the beginning was the lack of fuel that has kind of been resolved and people are able to travel more, the gas lines are definitely shorter, in fact yesterday I filled up, I didn’t wait at all, but I think the fuel was the first thing that needed to be resolved. The second thing now, the biggest thing, is communications. If AT&T and the other cell service providers could fix that, that would be a great benefit. Even our sat phones that we’re using here, sometimes they don’t get through because there’s so many people using sat phones, but currently the communications is one of the biggest challenges, I think.

Despite what you guys are hearing in the news, I can tell you there are thousands of government and [inaudible 00:03:04] workers, nonprofit organizations, state departments working together. They are doing a phenomenal job, very impressive, but as a whole, I see Puerto Rico as a problem that’s just not going to be solved at any point. You’re just not going to say, “Okay, the problem in Puerto Rico is finished.” That’s not how it’s going to work. What’s happening is the situation is being improved upon from day-to-day, and that is what’s getting the progress d...