The Armen Show

welcome Titan back on the show for episode 197~went over end of year material including holiday time and events remembered on New Year’stalked about 2018 reflection and fitness changesfitness goals for the next yearsports played including volleyball and basketballgames being played and content being consumed, including Fortnite and comedians on the televisiondynamics for developing of games with updates coming regularlyweight and height material over periods of Titan’s lifetimeglad to have Titan on

Welcome actor and entertainer Chris A. Grounds to the show~recorded in Koreatown on two micswe discussed how we met, where we metplaying basketball and what it is like to be an actletegrowing up in the Northwest and its impact on lifecontent creation and plans in songwriting and screenwriting for the upcoming yearparticipation in something like city council that I went to a meeting of prior to our timehis relationship and relationships in generalthe value of collaboration and looking to do more of itglad to have Chris on the show Chris on episode 196

Welcome psychologist Dr. Gail Brenner to episode 195 of the show~. She is a licensed Ph.D. psychologist with over 20 years of experience providing psychotherapy. She received her B.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University, Ph.D. from Temple University, post-doc from the University of Florida, and took part in a clinical internship at the VA Hospital in Palo Alto, California. One specialty of hers is working with older adults during the transitions of the end of life period of aging. Gail has worked with a variety of clients/patients, and speaking with her is a pleasure. We discussed a variety of topics, including: her latest Ebook (of 3 she has releaseed) titled Suffering Is Optional, and its contents description about some of the chapters on thoughts and feelings, and their message blogging of the past that she did on a site called “A Flourishing Life” (~ 2009-2011) audio meditations she has posted online, and their origin (they are very relaxing/mindful) self-awareness, frantic nature, and empathy towards individuals how to connect with someone to help them out a main issue seen in society, and a healthy way to respond to it some description of her path for the end of 2018 onward through 2019 I was glad to have her on this great episode. I find her to be a healing and healthy individual. You can find her ebooks, audios, blog, and much more at gailbrenner.com.

Nelson on the show, family member to past guests Alex and Christi Nelson was on the previous podcast I ran called That Guy Named Armen we talked about truthfulness and strategy lying as it relates to social manipulation and what it means why you would want to check the rules of society what value there is in leaving things as they are, versus agitating or playing with the social/rule-based framework we live in some discussion about where the world is headed, or currently at glad to have Nelson on the show

welcome first-time guest dancer and choreographer Eve Mutso to the show~ return guest Mary Mullen is on this show with Eve as well Eve from Estonia does great forms of dancing and choreography with various productions she has worked with people of different physical abilities, complementing their styles with her own she is friends with Mary, who has also designed clothing for her to wear during performance, as Mary handles costume design Eve spreads kindness and an open-mindedness to the world we discussed her upcoming goals in the performance space, and some features about people she and Mary resonate with glad to have Eve and Mary on the show

welcome Angelix to episode 190 of the show the numbers 1 and 9 are big in her being, and they are in 190 as well we talked about a variety of topics in the more abstract category these are ones about your internal state, and how you express yourself we went over some details about what holds people back, or how their internal vision is a continuous block we brought up Jim Carrey and the way his discussions are not stifled the ways that we manifest things we are looking for in this world where we all connected as part of a collective how a person can find their way to live less out of fear a fun light-hearted episode with a lot of material for the internal there is some rap and singing in this one glad to have Angelix on the show~  

welcome Ren Barlow from Australia to episode 189 of the show this one was recorded on my phone outside a restaurant in Beverly Hills, so the quality is a bit more phone quality with some background sounds from people the associated video for this episode will be at this link she has done work for Melbourne Opera, and done various singing gigs one of her large pushes is for improvement in literacy for children, with literacy being the way for them to grow from their environment she also illustrates children’s books we talked about the importance of protecting your energy and being kind a bit as well about books and a book recommendation glad to have had her~

welcome guest Farnoosh to episode 188 of the show~ I met Farnoosh early on in the blogging days, with her site Prolific Living From her bio, “Farnoosh Brock went from electrical engineer and rising leader at a Fortune 100 to business coach, entrepreneur and CEO of her company, which she runs today with her husband. In her coaching work, she shows business owners, professionals, entreprenuers and leaders to choose serving over selling in order to build deep trust with their customers and profitable sustainable businesses for their employees and the future. In addition to her latest book, The Serving Mindset: Stop Selling and Grow Your Business (2018), she is the creator of Crack the Code to Get Promoted, an advancement leadership course for corporate professionals as well as the author of The Healthy Juicer’s Bible (2013), The Healthy Smoothie Bible (2014), and The Big Book of Healing Drinks (2019). Find out more at  www.farnooshbrock.com.” we discussed her book that released November 6th, called The Serving Mindset, which is about being of service to build your business instead of attempting to sell to grow it knowing about objections from customers, and your own pricing, is very important to maintaining and building your business some topics about sales and value were included we also covered bits on juicing and her yoga practice glad to have her on the show~

welcome celebrity stylist Melissa Souza to the show on episode 187 from her bio, she “is an established celebrity, editorial, and commercial stylist, and is the owner/founder of Haven Street Style Studio” we talked about a variety of topics including her abilities and skills discussed fashion and our time at Los Angeles fashion week, including some of the shows she liked a bit about personality and features of Melissa’s there was some material about kindness and its value in public discourse her assistant Charmina joined in with a message about how to conduct onesself in life You can find her material on her website glad to have her on the show~

welcome to the episode known as #186 the topic of putting effort to open jackfruit it’s not easy to eat like a banana, but worth it, like life you get value out of trying things yourself there are those moments of high effort where time stops the more of these you work with, the better prepared you are life is not light, and your ability to respond is key Halloween is here and many will dress up and be creative festivities in West Hollywood and across the lands P.S. – guest post by Gary on the blog