 Spreadsheet link Today I discussed food prep for COVID-19 with Katie Barbaro. Katie is a cartoonist, comedian, occupational therapist and overall wonderful human being living in New York City. Since the Coronavirus has really started to ravage the city, I have been contacting all of my friends in the city and going over how much food they should have in their apartments so they don't have to rely on going out to the supermarket during the upcoming scary days. It's a surprising amount. I create a spreadsheet with Katie and we do the math on how many calories she and her roommate will need to survive for 90 days. Each of them are budgeting to eat 1,500 calories a day, so 3,000 combined. 90 X 3,000 = 270,000 calories. Each pound of dried food is roughly 1,560 calories, and each gallon of cooking oil is 25,000 calories, so we ended up settling on her buying an extra 50 lbs of lentils and 5 gallons of oil to supplement what she had. Many online outlets of bulk foods are already sold out, and most stores as well, but rainydayfoods.com still has some and is a good resource, for now. As always, email Philip@philipspodcast.com with your questions, and enjoy the show.  

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COVID-19 Food Prep With Katie Barbaro, Episode 007

'I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far.'  Today I'm reading one of my favorite short stories by Donald Barthelme: Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby.  A book of his short stories, with this one included, can be found on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2G92Z4R    

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby by Donald Barthelme, Episode 006

Today I'm posting a conversation I had with Katie Barbaro, the host of the podcast Showing Up Messy. Katie is a standup comedian, life coach, a cartoonist, and an all-around great human being.  Her podcast, cartoons and blog can be found here: https://www.showingupmessy.com/  

Your Presence is your Present with Katie Barbaro, Episode 005

Today on the podcast I have Tommy Lukrich, who is working on an amazing project in Chicago called Monologues For The Homeless. As of this recording Tommy has taken three people under his wing and is doing everything he can to help them eventually find stable homes, jobs and the security they desire. In the meantime he is helping them with their basic needs through a tough winter in Chicago. Tommy is a trained actor and is raising money for this project by performing monologues on the streets of Chicago, and he also accepts donations on his GoFundMe page: http://bit.ly/2PFCYzt Tommy regularly updates his donors with videos that explain exactly where their money is going, and the various twists and turns of navigating the social services on behalf of the people he is helping in Chicago.  They are also published to his youtube page: https://youtu.be/4zhwWFZ_DGo On the show we discuss the project in depth and where it could lead with more resources and manpower.     

Monologues For The Homeless with Tommy Lukrich, Episode 004

  Poem: Unknown author, https://turningthepage.info/if-you-put-your-nose-to-the-grindstone-rough/   Book, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance: https://amzn.to/2ZTgixC   Atlantic Article, Why Local Money Matters, the Middletown Story: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/09/why-local-money-matters-the-middletown-story/279443/   Music Recommendation, The Earth is Not A Cold Dead by Explosions in the Sky: https://explosionsinthesky.bandcamp.com/album/the-earth-is-not-a-cold-dead-place    

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, Episode 003

In this episode of Philip's Podcast, we take a deep dive into "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. The book is about Resistance, and how to overcome it. What is Resistance? From the book: "Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experience it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential. It's a repelling force. It's negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work."  "The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel towards pursuing it." "Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious timetable for its completion. It knows we can't sustain that level of intensity. We will hit the wall. We will crash. The professional steels himself at the start of a project, reminding himself it is the Iditarod, not the sixty-yard dash. He conserves his energy. He prepares his mind for the long haul. He sustains himself with the knowledge that if he can just keep those huskies mushing, sooner or later the sled will pull in to Nome."  The book can be found on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/30nTREE  The poem at the top of the show is [love is more thicker than forget] by ee cummings.  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/22224/love-is-more-thicker-than-forget    

The War of Art, Episode 002

First episode of Philip's Podcast. Recommended that you skip this one, but if you insist, here are the relevant links: Poem: http://bit.ly/philip001a Pocket, article-saving app: http://bit.ly/philipspodcast001b  Collaborative Fund Article: http://bit.ly/philipspodcast001c  NLP Coaching Cards: https://saladseminars.com/index.php/portfolio/nlp-coaching-cards

Magic Wands and Miracles, Episode 001

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