The Armen Show

We switch it up on The Armen Show every so often. On this episode #282, I will be answering 28.2 questions about myself and the show, as far as my perspective and responses as though I am being interviewed. I find it to be fairly informative. The first 9 questions, and one later one, are made up by myself, and the other 19 questions are taken from a 19 Podcast Interview Questions article online. It is a mix of my own material and that from outside. Here are the questions answered on the show: When did you start this podcast?What does it mean to you to have a podcast?What kinds of topics do you most like to cover on the show?How does a podcast work?What are some goals you have for the show?What styles of podcasts do you most relate with outside of your own?How would you describe 2020?What books do you recommend for someone wanting to read something new?What do you most like to see for others?What’s something people seem to misunderstand about you?What should I ask you that I didn’t know enough to ask?What is something you have learned in the past year that has been important?Tell me about a patient that touched your heart, and tell me about a patient that changed your practice.What makes you feel inspired or like your best self?What is one thing that your program did for your client that you didn’t expect?If you could have a billboard with anything on it, what would it be and why?If you could turn back the time and talk to your 18-year old self, what would you tell him/her?If in 150 years sciences fails to save us & all that is left is a book about your life….What would the title be and what would the blurb tell us about “INSERT NAME”.What does being Ridiculously Human mean to you?If you had £100million to spend on health tech and no red tape, how would you spend itWhat’s the most important thing you’ve learned in your life? What was your life like before learning it? What was your life like after learning it?What is your best tip for making the world a better place?If you can do anything to improve health and healthcare in rural America, what would you do?If I could remove all barriers and constraints what project would you do and would you want to be known only by that projectWhat is the best compliment you have ever received?How would your parents describe what you do for a living?If you could have dinner with any 3 people dead or alive who would it be and why?What would you pick for a last meal?28.2. This 0.2 questions is in the show~ It is almost like a self-interview. We mix it up here on the show, and sometimes we reach from sources outside of the show. Glad to have you as a listener.

Welcome to episode 281 of the show, where I cover a few messages and topics in a monologue type of form. The main theme on this one is that there is value outside yourself to absorb from, and you can tag on to the stories of others to enhance the story of your own. Show notes: looking at the stories and path of othersgetting value from things outside yourself, and letting the experiences of others bring you messages and understandingthe different types of markets that existparticipating in the markets of your choosingbringing the people around you up, and what that can do for youhow to bring the people around you uphow acting in line with your true nature matches you in the long-term, but can have slight drawbacks in the short-term Glad to have you listening, and we continue to the future.

Welcome London Business School Professor Dan Cable to episode 280 of the show. He has come out with a new book titled Exceptional: Build Your Personal Highlight Reel and Unlock Your Potential. Building your highlights into a listing of strengths can give you motivation to use moving forward. He is Professor of Organizational Behavior and received his Masters and PhD in Labor and Industrial Relations at Cornell University. He gives us guidelines for how to envision our life, focus on what we bring to the table, and grow as a person. He has given a TEDx Talk on how to have a Best-Self Activation, and wrote a previous book in 2018 called Alive at Work. Show notes: Professor Cable’s background, and how he got into the field he is currently infocusing on what we do correctly or well in lifelooking at what limits us, whether clearly or in a hidden formwhat it means to create your personal highlight reelimagining your own eulogy, and seeing what that says about your lifecrafting a life that you want to live, instead of one that is offered to you without specificity to your tastemessages for life

Welcome actress and producer Kat Fairaway to episode 279 of the show. Depth is something that Kat represents, and depth is something that I find to be valuable. We can see moments as fleeting elements, or explore them further, such that time allows us to understand more. Kat is known for her work in productions such as Psycho Escort, Kidnapped by a Classmate and Letters from the Heart. Representing characters in filmography is the heart of Los Angeles, and Kat occupies this great county (as I do). We covered quite a bit about her background, thoughts, and had a bit of fun as well. Show notes: Kat’s background, and representing parts of Europesome of her work in movie/content roles she has been in, whether on Lifetime, Amazon, or elsewherebeing at peace through mindset or meditationfun with accents, and some swell singing (I also rapped)a Gary Vaynerchuk message about blocking out unsupportive voiceshow one can choose their attitude in response to circumstanceshow those who have suffered and not ran away are appealingpicking apart life through doubt, or a different wayand a message for all Social Links: IMDb | Instagram

To look at something holistically is to look at it with a broad view, as compared with narrowing our perspective and leaving out the bigger picture when making decisions. Dr. Joseph Sarkissian handles the world of dentistry in such a way, treating patients with detail that takes their total health into account, and he joins on this episode of the show. Dr. Sarkissian runs his dental practice in Glendale, California. He studied microbiology at the University of Alabama, and received his dental degree at the University of Goettingen in West Germany. His practice of dentistry was originally on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, and he later relocated to Los Angeles, where his own practice is now located. He is of the Armenian people, similar to myself, and represents well for the nation and its continuity of tradition and exploration of its roots. Show notes: a bit about Dr. Sarkissian’s national and educational background, linking to how he got where he currently isholistic or biological dentistry, and the tenets that are followed under that description of practiceimpacting the youth, in terms of health and their aesthetic smileshow dentistry has changed or improved in the past decadewhether mouth breathing or nasal breathing can be noticed by a dentist, and the impacts each type can havehow much tooth health is connected with overall healththe building of one’s own practice, and what it takes to maintain thatthe importance of early dental care and adjustment, in prevention of problems decades down the linehow much regular dental care impacts the need for dental workcomplex procedures that are performed, and how skill is built up for those It was good to have Dr. Sarkissian on the show. You can check out his dental practice website, YouTube page, or Instagram @sarkissiandds.

Ricardo Lopes, The Dissenter When it comes to interviewers, few are as currently prolific as Ricardo Lopes, host of “The Dissenter”. He is known for his social commentary, provoking thought, having strong opinions, and still being open-minded to new concepts. He hails from Portugal, and has been doing interviews for a few years now. On his show, Ricardo has spoken with some of the same scientists and researchers I have spoken with, along with many others, including Steven Pinker, Robert Sapolsky, and Noam Chomsky. A big focus of his is social science, and he has spoken with people based on their insights and research, sometimes solely from their research papers. Show notes: how Ricardo starting doing interviews, and where he comes fromwhat The Dissenter podcast is about, and how it is important to keep open-minded about new information coming inwhy Ricardo prefers social science and related fieldsand more I was glad to have Ricardo on the show. You can check out The Dissenter on YouTube.

Welcome to another edition of The Armen Show. On #276, it is a stream of consciousness, as I take you through thoughts. Show notes: how feeling is to be let throughwhy feeling is a representation of truth that thoughts are not able to be, in the same wayhow a post about leaked e-mails made me think about truthwhat leaked e-mails can showcase beyond the straightforward wheeling and dealinghow truth is found in edge cases and battleswhy it is important to keep pushing your mindnovelty in its relation to mind growth Glad to have you all along on this journey.

What does a little risk taken or effort made today do for you a week from now? How about 10 years from now? We look at life in an extended framework if we want to see it more clearly. Episode 275 is about this concept, how something can build only once it is started, and when the valuable representation of what you did will show up. Show notes: how a spark has to be in place for the item to light up years laterwhy compound gains start off disturbingly slow and pick up speedlooking at past musical artists or content creators, and how their early efforts on the internet set the stage for thousands of people who followed them Hope you enjoyed this one~.

What is the damage we’re not attending to, with regards to the pandemic? How does biological and social contagion spread based on population and contact networks? How do scaling laws inform us about efficiency and person/city/network growth and change over time? Last month, researcher and professor Dr. Geoffrey West, author of Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies, co-wrote an article on the topic of scale in relation to the pandemic with fellow Santa Fe Institute President and researcher Dr. David Krakauer. Dr. West is a theoretical physicist, who is distinguished and former President of the Santa Fe Institute, a scientific think-tank in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is able to combine multiple fields of research in ways that were not previously looked at. He is a leading researcher on a scientific model for cities, and is known for the metabolic theory of ecology. His B.A. in Physics is from Cambridge University, and his Ph.D. is from Stanford University. I originally came across Dr. West’s work through his book Scale, which I summarized chapters of in some of the earliest episodes of this show, specifically 2, 9, and 11. It was informative to me to get a sense of how a population or network develops from early large paths to the smaller nodes at the end, and where there is efficiency in growth that is connected to non-linear scaling ratios. We spoke about the book, as well as a variety of topics. Show notes: how Dr. West progressed from his background in the UK to where he is at the current momenthis experience as a researcher and past President at the Santa Fe Instituteprogressive from theoretical physics and particles to looking at cities, companies, networks, and global sustainabilityfostering collaborations between scientists of different fields, and non-linear thinking as connected with risk-takingscaling rate as it relates with food requirement for different sizes of organismshow all organisms are network systems that follow scaling lawsthe way that one’s blood vessels share these laws with roads and freeways, trees and branches, and neuron paths in the brainwhether the scaling laws relate with determinism as related to biology, and how biology differs with physics in that regardour similarities as viewed from a long-distance perspectivethe way that one city is similar to other cities, at their respective stages of development, taking into account the specific environmental and cultural variables of the regionDr. West’s relationship with Dr. Krakauer, and the article they co-wrotelooking at the pandemic as something to focus on, while not forgetting that it is one element of a bigger picture situation humanity is part ofhow one item on the planet affects something else on the planet, especially in a heavily interconnected planetexponential gains, and the lack of understanding that has been associated with the conceptcounter-intuitive responses to problems, which require looking at problems with more depth than only repairing directly what is broken at first glancethe reception of science in the public domain, and how that is affecting responses to problems or new scenarioshow higher-level education has been very prolific in its ability to serve as a backbone for society to work fromthe way that feel of age can alter based on our current momenta message for people It was wonderful to have Dr. West on the show. You can check out Scale on Amazon, his recent co-written article, his Santa Fe Institute page, or his Wikipedia.

Our time is our own to get things done, for our own form. On episode 273, it is about building your own thing, and not letting your important time slip, though the time not connected to your main projects is not as important. Show notes: your self-oriented timenoting the value of moments versus the value of other momentsrecognizing that there are some periods of time you can’t afford to let go to any type of wastehaving, being, and doingthe concept of flow We continue on our way~.