Basic needs rely on money. Health and wellness also rely on money. Dr. Darla Bishop, founder of Finansis, LLC, and Bryce Hamilton, LSCSW, sit down to talk about how to handle the overwhelming feelings families may have around money and how to get clear about finances. From forgotten subscriptions to uncommon expenses, credit scores and savings accounts to credit cards and budgeting, Darla and Bryce discuss how to stay ahead of finances by planning ahead, finding ways to cut back on expenses, and ways to increase income. How does this relate to parenting? Kids learn from those around them. Modeling financial literacy can have a big impact on our kids’ futures. And, sometimes we have to get creative to save money but still provide for our family. Darla offers several tips and tricks for taking a hold of finances and feeling financially secure while modeling healthy financial habits to our kids. 

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This conversation isn’t your typical “save money, work hard” advice. Dr. Darla gives us so much more than that. Her work provides us valuable, creative, and helpful tips for raising wise, money-smart kids. 

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Show notes:

Dr. Darla is known as the ”FinanSis” founder of Finansis LLC. She founded the company to help families and communities improve their relationship with money and set their children up to be financially responsible for life. Dr. Darla is all too aware of the correlation between low credit scores and short lifespan. Her mission is to change that narrative.

What breaks a man?
Is it the missing of love?
The lack of being nurtured?
The lack of understanding?

I say is God abandoned …
I say say is the soul gone wrong
I say is a friend you thought you had
I say is a prayer now you’ve no have a tongue

What happens of a broken bird?
His tiny microscopic heart ticking
As his mother played tricked …
He now can’t eat feeling weak

His broken wings …
Not allowing him to fly
Shall I say get wax wings
No! You must learn to navigate without one

Trust your mind little one
Learn to seek God
From the inside
You still got a tongue
… Think about about

Let none take it from you
It’s He you’ll need …
Look up to Him
Allows others not

Come away with me tiny bird
Perhaps as you sit near me
I can feel your pains
Then you can explain

I’ll listen …
Maybe not as you may think
I do not have money to give, which is a gift
But love that is free …

Come from where you are
Seek peace and love
Follow those breeze
Yea, follow those breeze

Follow those free breeze
Yea, follow those free breezes
Coming your way …
It can be yours, only friend

You may want to ask
Why they have left you
Without wings?
I say is jealousy, the ugliest of all the emotions

You unique …
Unlike all others
Do not let them play you bad
Or tricks on you

Never let it happen
Or continue to be
Get out of your dreary state
Do not let misery

Become your new name
Be brave little one …
Be prepared …
And get out of there

Aim high like a kite
Set your mind free
Excercise everyday
Until the day you die

Die trying …
Better than being stagnant
Instead of dying without trying
Be strong little one …

Have microscopic
Bits of faith …
Then grow it to gigantic one
Run, run and run fast little one

Get out of there …
Run faster til you reach
A birdie that once was you
Sit next to it, yea

Sit next to me
And God …
And seek His advice
Yea, seek His advice

He’ll tell you
He was once you
He no longer is
He can show you His scars

Believe he once was you
Just go to the beach
Look at those prints
Now ask your God

Are these your prints
Left from your no wings?
As you suffered …
He gave you two to never trust again

He’ll answer you
As fast as He can
Remember this test
Yea, remember this was a test

You’ve pass
These new test
Now you’ve wings
As forever yours to keep … Amen

Minerva A. Garcia, your Poet

Are you battling hair loss? Have you tried all sorts of shampoos, pills, injections, doctor visits, creams and potions but your hair just won’t grow? Are you living with shame? Embarrassment? Self esteem issues? Fear? Dread? Well don’t, you’re on a journey that many have been on and you’re not alone! Let’s get into this and celebrate Alopecia Awareness Month!

Join Doc Holliday as he interviews a congressional candidate who names President Trump’s number one enemy in the U.S. Congress and tells us why. In this year’s midterm elections we are going to see some major surprises thanks to the DSA, Democratic-Socialists of America. Get informed, get fired up and let’s not watch history, let’s be a part of making history. Get those young people registered to vote and make sure everyone you know is ready to start voting in the midterm. Some people say that Trump is not on the ballot, but in reality he is. If you want President Trump to have the best final two years of any president in history then show it by voting in the midterms! Because if the Republicans don’t hold Congress then Trump cannot maximize his historic presidency. Click on now for a great show! 

Our guest today is our dear friend, Dr. R. Craig Hogan, who is with us for the fifty-fourth time in our more than thirteen years of doing these weekly Seek Reality conversations. Our first Seek Reality podcast interview was with Craig, thirteen years ago this past June, and he has been our guest again, like clockwork, about four times each year ever since. So, that would make it about fifty-four times, which is just about right! Craig and Roberta have also been close friends and have worked together since 2008. For a while they gave conferences in Arizona every summer, but those conferences were too much work when they served just a few hundred people!

So Craig and Roberta started a website called seekreality.com, the largest afterlife-evidence website of its kind on the internet. Craig now runs it, while Roberta blogs, podcasts, and tells people that if they want to know the evidence-based truth about death and the afterlife, seekreality.com is where they have to go. Our wonderful friend Craig is now the world’s leading expert on the afterlife and what happens when we die. He has devoted himself to teaching directly and amazingly about death and the afterlife. He is president of both the Afterlife Research and Education Institute (AREI) and Seek Reality Online (Seek Reality Inc.). Together, AREI and Seek Reality Online produce a great monthly newsletter full of beautiful, in-depth evidence that proves our lives truly are eternal.

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“A joyful laugh can bring people together. It can help the body release tension, help the mind make space, and remind us that we do not have to carry every hard moment alone.”

Think back to the last time you shared a real belly laugh with someone you trust — what did that feel like? In this episode, we explore what happens in the body and the mind when joy and safety meet, and why that moment matters more than we often realize.

We’ll talk about endorphins in plain language — the brain and body’s own chemistry connected to pleasure, pain relief, and social bonding — with an honest note that the strongest research points specifically to shared social laughter, not just any laugh.

From there, we look at two forms of healthy laughter: the easy, relaxed laugh that follows something genuinely funny, and the compassionate laugh that helps a room exhale after a tense moment. Both matter — but not all laughter lands the same way. We’ll walk through a simple bridge test — does this laugh invite everyone in, or does it leave someone feeling small?— and talk honestly about how teasing and name-calling can cross into verbal bullying when they’re unwanted, repeated, or tied to a power imbalance.

We’ll also cover timing and repair, because even well-meant humor can miss. You’ll hear a simple, real way to course-correct in the moment: “I was trying to lighten the moment, but I see that it didn’t help. I’m sorry. Let’s slow down.”

“Healthy laughter is not a performance. It is a shared moment where people feel safe enough to be human together.”

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How often have you pondered the meaning of life? Have you ever felt as if you might live forever, with death simply passing you by? Or perhaps you’ve experienced moments of clarity, realizing how brief life on earth truly is — and how it could end at any moment?

If these thoughts have ever crossed your mind, you’ve likely wondered whether life continues beyond this world. Maybe you’ve experienced déjà vu or had prophetic dreams that left you to question reality. The author is confident that each of us has encountered moments in life that defy explanation. If so, this book is for you. Within these pages, the author shares his thoughts on the mystery of eternal life.

The Step of the Wolf is the third and final book of a trilogy. The first two books are “The Flight of the Butterfly” and “The Gaze of the Raven”.

Each book tells the stories of nine different characters, but in fact they are all incarnations of the same soul. Every story begins with a character’s life and ends with their death, and the next character becomes the reincarnation of the previous one.

Throughout the trilogy, the paths of these souls cross each other in different lives. The books include many elements of déjà vu and prophetic dreams, suggesting that the soul remembers fragments of its past lives.

In the end, after many reincarnations, the soul finally encounters a Higher Power — God. The final lines of the third book return the reader to the very beginning of the first book, thus completing the circle of life.

What might explain the increase in the diagnosis of ADHD over the past 30 years, especially in the last 10 years? Overdiagnosis or Underdiagnosis – is ADHD increasingly diagnosed inaccurately, is it just a “fad” diagnosis? Or is ADHD mis-diagnosed as another condition or missed entirely as the explanation for symptoms a person has, symptoms which reflect difficulty dealing with whatever is happening in that person’s life at that given time? Each of these possibilities has consequences, the more significant impact is upon a person’s life trajectory when the diagnosis of ADHD is missed.

Helping me explore these important questions is my guest Mark Stein PhD, a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Washington and the founder of the ADHD Clinic at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He also has a private practice for diagnosis and treatment of adolescents and adults with ADHD in Seattle. Mark brings the expertise of a clinician with 40 years of clinical and research experience in the field of ADHD to the show; years during which the knowledge about ADHD has increased exponentially, knowledge of what it is and also what it is not. Listen, and learn!

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I’ve a message for Tori
My super great niece

She vacationed with me
A daughter she to me

I love her endless …
As the Earth needs the moon

She’s been through rough edges
Just like everyone … perhaps more

She’s super tough …
I think she came from Kryptonite

I may ask …
Is she related to Clarke Joseph Kent?

She is never satisfied with her physique
Always perfection she seeks …

She super strong … can make any man weak
Why I say this?

She’s grown emotionally with some scars
To prove she passed the test, few can’t …

If you sit down to talk to Tori …
She looks taller then she really is

She’ll probably open up like a wild flower
Then she become like a pussy cat or a puppet
… yea, a puppy

She already found one …
He is white named Luna in DR

She is a science teacher
With beauty and brains

She can get madder and madder and madder
than anyone! Why you may ask?

She survived wars like Vietnam …
With dynamite exploding on her torso

Been left for practically dead
Still she rose like Lazarus …

Is there any badness to her name?
Well, she is not perfect neither are we

But, still she tries to be …
If you ask me to score her 1-to-10

I say she’s a 10
… and more not everyone

Minerva A. Garcia, your Poet

Throughout the summer, we have been fostering mindful practices—not forcing perfection, but trying tools that can help us pause, notice, and make wiser choices in everyday life. In this closing episode, Eartha brings together breathing, sensory awareness, mindful eating, growth mindset, self-compassion, the Eye of the Storm, and the P.A.U.S.E. mindful response plan.

Using tire maintenance and dashboard warning lights as a metaphor, this episode invites listeners to recognize their own personal indicators: tiredness, poor sleep, body tension, irritability, racing thoughts, emotional overwhelm, disconnection, and stress that has been building over time. These indicators are not punishments or signs of failure. They are information—gentle reminders that it may be time to check in, reset, and care for ourselves.

Listeners are encouraged to remember:

In this episode, we revisit the P.A.U.S.E. plan:

The episode closes with a calming three-circle kindness practice. Listeners are invited to offer peace, health, awareness, compassion, and connection to everyday people, loved ones, coworkers, friends, family, and finally themselves.

As the Summer Series comes to a close, this episode reminds us that mindfulness does not have to be perfect or complicated. One breath, one pause, one moment of awareness, and one compassionate choice can help make the eye of the storm a little bigger.

Keep fostering. Keep practicing. Keep making room for calm.

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