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    Make Your Damn Bed

    @MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum – better your life.

    Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed – so you can start making it!

    Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

    All content, including text, graphics, images and information, is for general information purposes only. This content is presented on an “as-is” basis.

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    what can we do? || 2: ASSESS YOUR CONTROL May 19, 2025
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    Things are chaotic (by design) so after we start to rebuild internal trust + social trust, we can start to address our own needs, and eventually our community's. Develop boundaries, coping skills, resilience strategies. Grieve, learn to accept reality + then address what is within your control. From there, you can pick a lane.


    When we try to do too much, we get overwhelmed and don't accomplish half the stuff we could accomplish if we had just picked ONE thing to work on at a time.


    HOW TO RESIST THE COUP?


    1. Build Internal Trust
    2. Build Social Trust
    3. Grieve, Accept, Build Resilience
    4. Identify your locus of control
    5. Pick a lane


    The sources:


    What can I do to resist the coup? https://choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/


    Grounding yourself in a chaotic time: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/?utm_source=Climate+Advocacy+Lab+Members&utm_campaign=8cf646d623-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_22_04_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-8cf646d623-547145900


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    what can we do? || 1: REBUILD TRUST May 18, 2025
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    Over the next few days we're gonna do a deep dive on the various ways, we as individuals, can actually resist this coup. Remember, it's easier to resist tyranny today, than it will be in a month. Today, we're starting with the internal work of learning to trust ourselves (and each other) with intention. Our distrust is manufactured, it's time to push back against that belief.


    We've got more in common than we're led to believe.


    "Authoritarian power is derived from fear of repression, isolation from each other and exhaustion at the utter chaos. We’re already feeling it. Thus, for us to be of any use in a [chaotic] world, we have to pay grave attention to our inner states, so we don’t perpetuate the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion or constant disorientation." - Daniel Hunter


    The sources:


    What can I do to resist the coup? https://choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/


    Grounding yourself in a chaotic time: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/?utm_source=Climate+Advocacy+Lab+Members&utm_campaign=8cf646d623-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_22_04_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-8cf646d623-547145900


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    1450 || promotion vs prevention mindset May 17, 2025
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    "Those with “promotion-focused” mindset (i.e., those who tend to focus on achieving their goals and aspirations) are more resistant to conspiracy theories than those with a “prevention-focused” mindset (i.e., those who focus on protecting what they already have)" - Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2020/07/how-to-inoculate-your-team-against-conspiracy-theories


    OTHER SOURCES:

    Scientific American article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-can-you-fight-conspiracy-theories/

    The research: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167218775070

    Information overload resource: https://www.lifehack.org/922480/information-overload

    The Mayo Clinic on Cognitive overload: https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/cognitive-overload

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    1449 || how to resist demoralization May 16, 2025
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    Resisting subversion means we need to stop playing defense with our consumption habits and start playing offense. Get aggressive with deciding who and what you offer your attention.


    Identify content as Adversarial or Productive:


    Adversarial leaves you feeling defeated, or angry, or upset, or hateful, or more disconnected, or trying to sell you something. Attempting to elicit a negative emotional response.


    Productive has an action item or leaves you with a sense of hope + direction + purpose + support for your tool belt. If it’s selling you something, they aren’t using predatory tactics. Useful, valuable, informative, accurate, and makes you feel more connected with humanity &/or community.


    RESOURCE: https://www.theframelab.org/putin-failed-to-conquer-navalny-or/


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    1448 || why "facts" don't seem to matter anymore May 15, 2025
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    Most of {demoralization} is done by Americans to Americans, due to a lack of moral standards. Exposure to true information doesn't matter anymore. One who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, even if I take him by force... and show him a concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it - until the military boot crushes his balls, then he will understand - but not before that.


    The next stage is destabilization... economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. The next stage is crisis. And after crisis, with a violent change of power, structure, + economy, you have the so-called period of normalization. It may last indefinitely.


    This is what will happen in the United States if you allow all these schmucks to bring the country to crisis, to promise people all kinds of goodies and the paradise on Earth, to destabilize your economy, to eliminate the principle of free market competition, and to put a Big Brother government in Washington, D.C., with benevolent dictators... who will promise lots of things. Never mind whether the promises unfulfillable or not... He will create false illusions that the situation is under control. The situation is not under control. The United States is in the state of war.


    Whether I scare some people are not, I don’t give a hoot. If you are not scared by now, nothing can scare you. But you don’t have to be paranoid about it. You have to force your government to stop."



    THE SOURCES: Watch the interview: https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/

    Read about Bezmenov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov

    Research source: https://www.historians.org/sixteen-months/the-causes-of-our-national-demoralization/

    Research source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/russian-misinformation-seeks-to-confound-not-convince/


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    1447 || dissecting an interview with a KGB defector. May 14, 2025
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    "This is the greatest paradox in the history of mankind when the capitalist world supports and actively nourishes its own destructor." - Yuri Bezmenov



    THE SOURCES:


    Watch the interview: https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/


    Read about Bezmenov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov


    Research source: https://www.historians.org/sixteen-months/the-causes-of-our-national-demoralization/


    Research source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/russian-misinformation-seeks-to-confound-not-convince/


    Research source: https://www.beyondintractability.org/newsletter-245


    The Yuri Bezmenov interview transcript: https://math-physics-problems.fandom.com/wiki/Ideological_Subversion_Interview#A_Transcription_of_the_1984_Interview_Between_G._Edward_Griffin_and_Yuri_Bezmenov


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    avoiding happiness (a re-release) May 13, 2025
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    This is a re-release of an older episode because I found out my resource for the planned episode was bogus and I have to rewrite around a more reputable idea. I'll be back tomorrow to wrap up the disinformation series!


    - Julie



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    1446 || our biggest study about misinformation May 12, 2025
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    Interacting with misinformation only is nearly unavoidable at this point, but spreading it further can be reduced if we're conscious of how it works.


    THE SOURCE: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/

    THE COURSE: https://courses.sogicampaigns.org/disinformation/


    PAYWALL BYPASS: https://12ft.io/


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    1445 || disinformation vs. misinformation May 11, 2025
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    The difference is in the intention, but the intention may surprise you.


    SOURCES:

    https://commonslibrary.org/disinformation-in-the-digital-age/


    https://commonslibrary.org/disinformation-and-7-common-forms-of-information-disorder/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw5PK_BhBBEiwAL7GTPWE2DOUrW3xeY1ZONqvuHRGIJKJfrWaQrhZYLgA8cf3uJUxPmxjTyhoCC_8QAvD_BwE



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    1444 || art vs. entertainment May 10, 2025
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    The goal is to “consume consciously” more often than you’re letting shit "consume you, unconsciously”.


    James Baldwin puts it like this: “The industry is compelled, given the way it is built, to present to the American people a self-perpetuating fantasy of American life. Their concept of entertainment is difficult to distinguish from the use of narcotics. To watch the TV screen for any length of time is to learn some really frightening things about the American sense of reality. We are cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly. These images are designed not to trouble, but to reassure. They also weaken our ability to deal with the world as it is, ourselves as we are.”


    Josh Johnson: “Art can save your life but entertainment will never be your salvation. Entertainment by and large is escapism and no one has ever escaped their chains by forgetting they were shackled.”


    Watch Josh Johnson's special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgKsG6NZSIo


    Read James Baldwin's words: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23960/james-baldwin-cool-it/ (If there's a paywall, you can go to a paywall bypass site to avoid subscription fees!!!)


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