From the heart of the jungle comes the savage cry of victory. This is Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle. From the black core of dark Africa, land of enchantment, mystery and violence, comes one of the most colorful figures of all time, transcribed from the immortal pen of Edgar Rice boroughs. Tarzan, the bronzed white son of the jungle. And now on the very words of Mr. Boroughs, the story of Tarzan and the Leipegor. Although both are on the dark continent, Tarzan's jungle and the city of Cape Town have little in common. No jagged peaks mark Cape Town's beautiful table mountain. Swimming with popular whizzenbird carries no threat of flesh-hungry crocodiles. And the shadowy elephant trails of the Congo are a far cry from the well-paid sidewalks of South Africa's oldest city. Yet a cruelty and violence were being borne at very moment in the modern hospital-like building just off Ribick Square, site of the old slave mart. In the white-tiled laboratory, a slim young woman in a crisp uniform was bending over a bubbling retort. But no native sorceress, sprinkling magical powders into a seeding cauldron and uttering strange incantations could have ever threatened Tarzan's life more seriously. 38, 39, 41, perfect. 41 times. 11 hours and 32 minutes. Temperature, 61 degrees, integrate. Pressure, density, volume. Oh, my God. And you've only come at us since 7 this morning. You started one, bro. I didn't know you had plain, all-ordinary reactions to things. Well, I have. I just didn't notice you came in. Why should you, Sabina? What are my charms compared to those of chromosomes or genes or whatever you got swimming around in that long-necked fishbowl years? This has been a very exciting day, Ralph. I've been working on this experiment for over six months.  I can understand your relation. But don't you ever think of parties and theaters and dresses and silly hats? No. I get my pleasure here, working with hybrids and mutations. Sabina, I can understand when someone works on making a combination of species to produce a nectarine or a special strain of cow that'll give more milk or a chicken that'll lay more eggs. But that doesn't interest you at all. Your life begins and ends with those test tubes. That's my business, isn't it? I'd like it to be mine. We've been over that before, Ralph. I think you're very nice, but I haven't got time for that sort of thing. Oh, I think I'd better get ready to go home. Well, you're not going home from here. What? I said you're not going home to pour over books and figure out a new way to improve on nature. Not tonight, Sabina. I'm taking you to dinner. We're going to the boxing matches at the Sportsmen's Club. Boxing matches? Fighting? Well, at least the men in the ring are ashamed of human feelings. And then we're going out afterward and dance.  After that, we can say goodbye. For good, maybe. But I'm going to say at least for once how you act when you're not hemmed in between a crucible and a Bunsen burner. Oh, despite her objections, Dr. Sabina Meadows found herself panning in a fashionable restaurant and then joining the thong that poured into the Sportsmen's Club. And at that very moment, hundreds of miles away, the men of the Oguaki tribe were pouring into the enormous Palaver House of their village. They had come not to witness a series of fights, but to plan one. The brilliant war clays smeared across their ebony faces gleamed in the torchlight. The plumes of their headdresses waved defiantly, and their foul teeth were exposed in savage grins of anticipation as they squatted in their places and watched the neopara prepare to give the signal for the commencement of the Marchore, the conclave of war. Men of Oguaki, aye, your teeth have summoned you to Marchore. Aye! Aye! When kudu the sun rise in heaven, we march to crawl of boy-baco people. Aye! Aye! Aye! We meet there as curry in battle, blow guns, not carries knives. Aye! Aye! And when us curry dead, we fall upon village of boy-baco, take women and children prisoner. Aye! Aye! And then, we destroy their crawl as they seek to destroy ours. Aye! Aye! And all the jungle come! Wait! How can come to Shorik? Why you stop Marchore, jungle lord?  They try to destroy our village. I have just come from within their boma. I was summoned there because they had heard of your conclave of war. They deny harming any of your people or destroying any of your property. It's lying. They make Narogi against us. Narogi? The magic that kills? Narogi of Muibaco, people destroy our homes. Who's battering rams or flaming arrows to demolish your hemmas? Nothing I could say would stop you from massacring them. But surely you're willing to delay your battle preparations long enough to explain to me how a curse pronounced many miles from here could have ruined your homes. In Muibaco village is great sorcerer. He have much strong medicine and he hate our people. In his Mutunda, he build small hemma of sticks and mud. He say words over it, then strike down with bark of hand. Here in village, house falls, women, children hurt. Many times he do this. Surely you cannot believe such fantasy. I know your homes are built much more solidly than those of most villages that you use as heavy timbers in their foundations as those that support this great Palava house. So surely mere words could not possibly cause them to set Palava house. It seems badly hurt. You see what sorcerer of Muibaco do to us? No enemy is within many miles of here. The building look as solid as the rocks of a jungle quarry. And there have often been many more people crowded into it than were there tonight. Yet it collapsed as though it were made of thin paper. It is strange. Those of the aboriginal natives would probably destroy their neighbors. The sportsmen of Cape Town watched one of the most brutal battles in boxing animals. Both men's faces were badly cut and bleeding. Science had been forgotten as both men swung wildly, hoping for a kill. And of all the fascinated crowd, the most enthralled by this marvelous spectacle were the unemotional Dr. Sabina Meadows. I didn't think. Sabina. Hit him again. Hit him again now. Sabina. I don't know what's come over you, right? The fight's over now, isn't it? Yeah, he won't get up from that one in a hurry.  Yes, I guess we'd better. I asked for the food, didn't I? Oh, I guess a lot of mild-mannered people are stirred up by seeing a fight. I never would have guessed you to be one of them, Sabina. You always seem so. So, uh... Cold? Unfeeling? I guess I've been that way ever since... someone I was very fond of was killed in the war. So, that explains why no one could ever get a smile out of you. You're one of those people I thought existed only in stories. Trying to lose themselves in work after someone they love is killed in battle. He wasn't killed in battle. He was tortured to death in a prison camp. Tonight, when I watched that fight, something came over me. As though every blow that was being struck was being directed against those who hurt him. I see. Well, things are still like that after all this time. It's just as well that I'm going away. Did you say you were going away from here? Maybe in the morning. I signed on it as a field worker in the Endicott expedition. We're heading north through the most dangerous part of the jungle. So, this might be goodbye for a long, long time. I want to go with you. What? Do you mean it, Sabina? Do you mean that you want to... As a scientist, I know Dr. Endicott. And if I saw him, he might be willing to add me to his staff, even at the last moment. Sure. He'd be glad to get a scientist at your reputation, doctor. And I'll try to remember that you're only another of my superiors in the party as we fight our way through the jungle. Dr. Sabina Meadows was a member of the party. A well-financed safari. It carried many native porters, astari, and trained jungle men. And with a large crew to cut through the tangle of undergrowth, Dr. Endicott elected to go do north through the wild regions of the many nations. Within a few weeks, they would pass the territory of the Ogwaki tribe. But at this moment, as the safari left the city, Sabina had heard neither of the Ogwaki people nor of Tarzan. Nor had he any thoughts of a white woman who would soon peril his life. That morning, he was busily engaged, attempting to determine the cause of last night's strange accident. After many hours of investigation, he emerged from under the wreckage of the Palaver House. Sunlight again. Tarzan burrowed like a small animal. But with more success than one, you'll find something as this. Who's nothing but piece wood. A fragment of the main supporting beam. Firm and salad on the outside, and nothing but crumbling dust within. Each timber of the Palaver building was no more than a hollow shell. He's powerful now, Ogwaki. Well, perhaps, but not the Neurogi of any other tribesmen. I suspect that the enemy lives on the very edge of your own crawl. Is no traitor among people of Ogwaki. It was heartless to have teased you. You have no traitors, great chief. Not unless you count the occupants of those large mounds outside the Boma. Those homes of ants?  And they have found, like their cousins, the termites of some civilized lands that finished lumber as a much easier diet than natural trees. What do we do? I don't know yet. They would be unimpressed with your blowguns, your knob curries, or your knives, judging by the size of those mounds, would take more ant-eating animals than we could capture in many moons to make any impression at all. And each new piece of wood you might put into bolster a rotten one would be just one more tempting tidbit with which to fatten the enemy. Do you run spears into mounds or hammer down? Well, we can try. But some of the mounds are 20 feet high. Their surface is like the hardest granite. And there are more mounds than there are able-bodied men in the entire village. It looks as though the people of Ogwaki may easily lose their village to an army of ants. And so the Ogwakis began the almost hopeless battle against the small marauders. And while Tarzan led the nays of the village in their ceaseless labor that went on week after week, the Endicott expedition pressed its way northward against equally unfavorable odds. The weather was unseasonably hot. Several quarters made off with a large quantity of provisions, and jungle animals claimed more than the customary number of lives among the beaters. Yet, surrounded by violence during every waking hour, Sabina Meadows seemed to thrive. It was almost as though she reveled in the daily evidence of nature's savagery. Are you weathering this all right, Sabina? I'm fine, Dr. Endicott. You needn't worry about us. I'd be glad to carry your pack. I can do my share, Ralph. I'm feeling perfect. Sorry I had to apportion loads to everyone, but the remaining bearers have their hands full-drained to cut through this part of the jungle. It says on the map that this is the territory of the Ogwaki tribe. A bloodthirsty lord if you can believe the guidebooks. That's right. No wandering off to watch a couple of jungle lions battling it out. I'm sorry about that, but it was fascinating. And dangerous. Well, anyway, things go well. We'll be in Beccurata by tomorrow at this time, and we can then... Beccurata? Ralph, isn't that where you said they held those sites? What slipped out? I didn't mean it. You certainly wouldn't want to witness those, Sabina. A couple of greased natives fighting it out with bare fists until one of them drops? That's not for you, my dear. No. No, of course not. The tide's since early morning. I've even seen a mind-out pounding. Smaller now. Much smaller. Butty, sporty hair. Sabina and Endicott from the narrow trail with a flick of a slimy body. The powerful reptile had wound itself around Ralph. Now its mighty coils constricted about its helpless victim. Suddenly a bronze sandwich leaked from the trees. This knife flashed in the air and then turned red as it found its mark. Releasing its grip, the rep of its attacker. But Tarzan moved like lightning. His muscles broke the vice-like grip. This knife rose and fell like some great steel piston to the ground, a motionless specter. Never has there been such a battle. Do you often fight jungle animals? I have had more than my share of fights. With lion and panther? Yes, often. And obviously you've never been defeated by any of them. Not until these past few weeks, no. A large colony of small ants that eat the inside of timbers has proven more than my match. Oh, white ants that build huge mounds? Yes, they practically ruined an entire village. Termus Nettolensis. One queen can lay as many as a million eggs. It would be difficult to defeat them without considerable scientific knowledge. You have such knowledge? Yes, she does, but we're on an important expedition and we haven't... I'm leaving the expedition, Dr. Endicuff. I'm staying here in the jungle and helping Tarzan defeat this small enemy. I should be happy to do anything you ask if you could accomplish that. When are you successful? Find yourself with test tubes and retorts. Really, Sabina? I didn't ask you to desert the expedition just because I did. Who you might have known I wouldn't leave you here alone. Hardly alone. There's Tarzan, several hundred natives and billions of ants. Good afternoon, Sabina. Ralph? You always move so silently, Tarzan. You didn't hear what we were talking about? No, but I hoped you were discussing a solution to our great problem. Yes, we were. And I think you'll be glad to know that I've managed with the help of the native you assigned me to isolate many of the queens. I want them taken many, many miles away to a desolate spot where the ants who follow their queen can do no damage. That will dispose of a great portion of them. And the rest? I have finally succeeded in producing a rapidly multiplying species, the gematophile, which when introduced into the remaining ant colonies will eradicate the rest of them. That sounds too good to be true. Could I ask what a gematophile is? Is it too technical to explain to us, Sabina? Not at all. A gematophile or a lover of termites is usually present among them, but in such numbers that they can prey on only a small percentage. But when artificially increased the numbers of this natural enemy becomes more powerful than that which has long withstood its attacks. That goes to prove, I suppose, that nothing is invincible. Well, there's a clever scientist around. That's true. Nothing. Or no one is beyond destruction. With the aid of science, a natural enemy can always be made stronger. More ferocious. More diabolically cunning. How about you, Sabina? And no price that you could ask would be too great. You said I could name my own reward. Of course. I want a laboratory and living quarters built in some remote spot. They're here, perhaps, so the people of Ogwaki can provide me with food and other requirements. My people happy to do. And I shall need several very strong cages. An excellent settlement of lions, panthers and gorillas. Were anyone else to make such a request, I would refuse, despite my promise for I do not believe in capturing animals. But I'm sure you'll require them for some great scientific experiment that will aid mankind. I would say it's to prove one of my scientific theories. It's mad, Sabina, and it's impossible. Maybe not. A lion and a royal Bengal tiger have already been successfully cross-bred. Well, yes, I've heard of a lion. Well, they're both members of the cat family. Which made the accomplishment of the mutation relatively simple. But were I to produce a mutation combining three species? Two receptive, one non-receptive. It would really be a feat. Actually, intend to go ahead with your fantastic scheme, don't you? A life agar. A fearlessness and bold courage of the lion. The stealth and cunning of the panther. The gargantuan size, strength and ferocity of a man-hating gorilla. And a year of your time. But at the end of that year, Tarzan has promised to return. And I shall be able to prove that no one is invincible before the onslaught of a natural enemy. Aided by science. Not even Tarzan. Mr. Sabina. Correction. Art created a life agar. Well, the natives think it's a monster. They've never seen it. Of course not. They won't come anywhere near this place, but they've heard it. And I've heard their talk when I go there at night. Their dialect is fairly simple when you study it. When I visited the chief yesterday, I learned that the talking drums speak of Tarzan's coming. Yes, he's due today. And the moment he gets here, I'm going to... Jambo, my friends. I've returned as I promised. Yes, you have kept your word. And I have kept mine. What kind of a horrible creature is that? Come closer, Tarzan. I want to show you what... Stay here, Tarzan. Sabina plans to... Sabina, leave that catch alone. If you let that beast out... But this is the end of my great experiment. In consciousness, the mighty beast turned its hand of fury on the two men. Tarzan leaped, Leland claws, fingering his arms, seemed like ours. But finally, Tarzan rested himself free and the knife found its mark between the ribs of the Lipidore's body. And as though the unique animal were a creature of someone's insane imagination, it seemed to die even before it struck the floor inches away from its creator, the first and the last of the Lipidore's. I warn you, Tarzan. Just as I've tried to keep her from this mad scheme ever since it was born. That brilliant but twisted mind will give birth to no further schemes. That was good, Enner. I hoped I could erase the bed. Life is a constant struggle between the two forces. And in the battle there are always casualties. You are one of the casualties this time, Ralph. Well, I guess I'll go back to Cape Town now. Perhaps the years will heal my injuries. And you? I shall return to my jungle. My wounds will heal quickly. And if I'm ever forced to battle a lion, a panther, and a gorilla again, I hope to meet them one at a time.


I'd like to welcome everyone to Ignite the Spark. My name is Shar Speck Pacniak, and I am the founder, CEO of Ignite the Spark, mentoring program that we created, it's almost seven years ago. Now we work with middle school and high school girls, really trying to help them journey through life. Life as a teenager, definitely a challenge. And what we're trying to do is help them with school, help them with career exploration, help them with family life. It's a pretty broad program. We work with the students after school during the school year and during the summer, we're working with the students during the day. So we really enjoy that. One of the exciting things, one of the projects that we do, we're actually in our second year of doing this, is thanks to master's gallery, we're able to sponsor a 5K, it's a run walk. And the whole goal of that event is to create awareness and hopefully decrease the bullying that happens.  And I mean, the list goes on and on, but I can't say that I've ever seen one that talks about bullying. And I don't think there's anybody in the world that can't mention something they know about bullying. My two guests today, Roy Perang is a runner, marathon guy. I'm pretty exciting to watch what he's done through the years. I'm also very excited about having with me. And I'm gonna do this again, Paula. Your last name is? Cudworth. Cudworth, okay. But I'm gonna let both of you introduce yourselves a little bit more as we begin to talk about this. Roy, tell the viewers a little bit more about your background and where you come from and what did you do just for lack of it? I'm Mr. Borgonite, born and raised here. Spent about three years in the United States Army and the rest of the time I've been in the United States. Was bullied as a youth. I suffered from obesity and I also suffered from bullying because of that. A name calling, you know, chubby, fatso, chubbs, whatever, there's a lot of names. And it hit me very hard in the heart. Over the years I became a runner, world champion, world record holder, American record holder, American champion. And I've reached out to others about bullying and about obesity. And it's not easy to talk about it because it's really ingrained in you. Obesity is not just overeating, there's more mental stuff involved with it. And I learned that by actually talking more about it. I've spoken at Marquette University to exercise physiology classes on obesity. And it really hits home when you see little children, teenagers talking about their parents ragging on about, you know, not being in shape or the overweight or whatever. And there's deep seated feelings that will last a lifetime. And I still get a little choked up when I think about my past. Once I started running, I lost weight, and I kept a photo in a cabinet. And the photo was taken just days before I got out of the Army. And when I got out of the Army, it was back to being obese again. It was almost 200 pounds. Holding a half a liter of German beer when my first mustache, a little kind of pencil thing like David Niven, if you know who that is. And that was my reminder that I didn't want to go back there. So exercise for me has been a savior. It may not be for everyone. I definitely changed the way I ate. My eating habits changed. And I think that was a bigger portion of it because I really didn't know how to eat. And part of obesity is binge eating. When you're emotionally upset about something, you're satisfied by dove bars and candy and sugar and things like that. Well, it's not good for you and you pack on weight and you don't realize it. And then one day you look in the mirror and you say, who's that and it's you. And when you pack on about 60 pounds, you notice it pretty easily when you look at a photograph. So I like to compare photographs of when I became a runner and prior and just say I'm never going back there and I know what to do and how to do it. And I just like to share, especially with teenagers, I know that's the growth is. Those are the hormones are kicking in when you're most emotional, everything hits home. You don't feel good about yourself for whatever reason. And eating is a good way of taking care of that. You're satisfied, you know.  So it's a reward. So we look at food the wrong way. Food is fuel. And when you become an athlete or a runner, you tend to look at that as fuel rather than something to be satisfied with.  I didn't go out and celebrate. And those days are gone. I used to celebrate, my best story is my wife used to buy a dove bars for me. So if I would do a 24 hour race, I'd come home and she'd have a pack of three dove bars. And I would eat one, eat one the next day and one the next day, so that was my reward. When I did a six day race and I came home and she had six, three packs. So I had 18 days of eating dove bars. By the time I hit the 12th one, I didn't want to eat another one and I had not eaten one since. So I looked at it, it was, I'm not really rewarding myself. This is really not good for me. So I changed my attitude and I say, I put food in there and that's not that's good. I was in good tasting, but what is good for me? And I think it's all about that attitude. So over the years I've had many accomplishments and I think it all stems from becoming athletic for a reason to overcome obesity. Now how many miles have you done over the time you keep? A couple years ago I reached 100,000 miles, lifetime miles, I probably run somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 miles a year now, less than what I used to do. I'm gonna be 70 in a couple months and I actually have less time. I'm retired and I do more now than I've ever done. I have less time to run and running is still satisfying to me, but I guess I don't put as much into it as what I used to when I was in my late 30s, early 40s and even 50s. I run a lot of races, usually 25 to 50 races a year. Anywhere from 5K and I usually do five to six marathons and maybe five to six ultra marathons per year as well. And I also kind of branched off and did some triathlons off and on too, just to break up the monotony of running, so. The monotony of running. But some people think it's monotonous, I don't. I enjoy running every step, so. I run when I say I'm not a workable, as you can see. Now Paula, you're with Masters Gallery. Tell me a little bit about why you ended up being the person that came here to represent them. Well, I work for Masters Gallery Foods and it is a wonderful company. I feel very blessed to be there. We were just small talking one day and Jeff Gentine and Sue mentioned this to me and I went, I will so talk about that. Bullying has been life changing to our family. I have a daughter that will be 21 in October and at about the seventh grade, she experienced bullying that carried all the way through high school. And she was never overweight. She was just plain and simple picked on by girls and boys. And unfortunately it turned into an eating disorder. And on November 9th, 2012, she was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. And she was 89 pounds and about four days away from dying. And so we immediately put her into children's hospital and got her weighed up, put her into treatment after that. Unfortunately, anorexia is eating disorder as well as bulimia that stays with you forever. I can't even begin to tell you what it did to our family. The bullying in itself was a very long road and the personal experiences that Lauren went through, we don't ever wanna see any kid go through. She is now a state champion power lifter. So from 89 pounds to a wonderful 155 pounds. She weighs more than you. She is beautifully healthy. Good. Not to say that she doesn't struggle with it yet because she does, she's got good days and she's got bad days. But she basically did this on her own. She fought her own battle. But the thing that I can't stress enough to families that are going through this is to communicate with your kids, be their support system. Because if you don't have the proper support system for your kids going through this, you can forget it. It's, you have to have it. There were days that I wanted to give up, because I just didn't know how to help her anymore. But she has to want it. Any other kid has to want it. It is a mental illness, unfortunately. But she has come through with flying colors. And I'm super, super proud of her. She does like to travel around to schools and talk to health classes and spread her words of wisdom as to what anti-bullying, or what bullying can do, pardon me, to a person and the lifelong battle that you can endure because of it. And she is very passionate about that. And she's doing really, really good now. But it's a tough road. I don't ever want to see any kid go through it. And there's just not enough help the way it is right now.  My full name is Charmaine. Well, when I went to high school, Charmaine toilet paper and the commercial with Mr. Whipple don't squeeze the Charmaine. I mean, I would, I'd go down the hallway and I'd hear that constantly, don't squeeze the Charmaine, don't, you know.    And it's like, no, it's not that easy.  Well, and in this day and age, with social media being what it is, it's easy to be the bully behind the screen. Yes. And it's easy to hit delete.  Right. But the social media bullying is absolutely out of hand. Yeah, I... It really, really is. And it's very, very unfortunate. And I would say almost daily with the students that we're working with, there is a story of some sort where somebody is experiencing some type of bullying.   You know, as interesting as I was doing some research this morning, and I forget the percent, but most of the bullying is happening in a school setting. And it's like, yeah, definitely. I think that's where a lot of it's happening.  And again, I think as families, as parents, as neighbors, we can't just look the other way. We've got to get involved. We've got to step up and say, whoa, stop. Each of us is beautiful in our own way. Absolutely. I agree with Paula. The social media is probably the worst of our image. It just exasperates everything. And kids are afraid to delete a friend. You know, if they're bullying them, they're not a friend. When I was a kid, my mom used to say, sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you. But words hurt me more than broken arms. I've had 32 broken bones, and I think words hurt me more than anything. It's only happened to my body physically. Emotionally is where you get all the damage and you get hung up forever on it. And now if somebody would say something to me, those words don't offend me anymore. I just be going one ear out the other because I look at who I am. I'm satisfied with who I am. I don't value other people's opinion of who I am because most of the time when someone says something to you, it's negative.   And it's like tongue in cheek, just let it go, you know? Right, and I think, again, the kids need to know that they're good, they're beautiful. However God loves them, they're awesome. Bullying seems to only be talked about one month out of the year, which is October, National Bullying Month. That is not enough. It has to be talked about every day. These kids need to know that they have a place to go that is safe. They need to have people that are there to help and support them. And if they don't get it at home, they have to be able to get it somewhere. Right. And there is not a lot out there. So what you are doing is phenomenal, you know? I can't say enough. I mean, I wish that this was around when my daughter was in school. Yeah, there's girls clubs and big brothers and sisters and things like that. And those are also great programs. So it's finding a mentor, finding somebody that can relate to your problem and help you deal with it. I think kids don't want to reach out and ask for help. They want to suffer through it. That's the wrong way. That's right. If you think you need help, go get it. And they get scared to talk about it because they're afraid it's gonna get leaked back to the wrong person and they're gonna get picked on more for it. So. Right, right. Well, the event that we're doing is in September. It's Saturday, September 22nd. 22nd, yes. We had mentally picture the calendar. It happens right on the riverfront. The people will start at Pier 17. They will go along Lake Michigan. If you go to North Point to the sign there and turn around and come back to Pier 17, that is 5K. It's like, how perfect is that?  We did it for the first time last year. It was really kind of cool because we had a grandmother in a wheelchair. She was, she had hurt herself. I don't think she was permanently in the wheelchair, but her granddaughter pushed her in the wheelchair and they did the 5K and it's like, how cool is that? And when we created the event, what we said is we needed to pay it forward, ripple it out and so what we're doing is the school that raises the most money which is basically through having people participate. The school that raises the most money based on their size so that it's fair, they will get $200 back. So they can then create any initiative or whatever they want to to fight bullying at their school because again, as you said, this is not just an October issue. It's an issue that goes on every single day. And people need to know that and to speak up and to get involved. And now I'm thinking, what was the website I was looking at this morning? The government has a website to fight bullying and I think it's anti-bullying or it's a dot gov website. And they've got put together this whole plan of what communities could do to fight bullying. I mean, how much more simpler can it get? Here's the, in the package, ready to go initiative for a community to try and fight bullying. And I'm thinking, hmm, I think they need to do that. I agree, there's not enough of it. There's not enough around that shows these kids that it's okay to go to a safe place, to talk about what happened because they are scared. And unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be enough accountability for when it does happen. I can tell you that I've seen it where they get a little tap on the wrist and then they can go home from school for two days. Most kids go, whoo-hoo. Yeah, for two days. For two days, two day vacation, I can go home and play video games and they come back to school and it starts all over again. There's just not, there was one group in when my daughter was in high school that was an anti-bullying group. I think as I told you earlier, a lot of the girls that were in that club were the cause of my daughter's problems. So, it wasn't any help at all and it just drove her further away, so. And that's unfortunate. There's too accepted as the norm to me is what's frustrating. And I think that's what's out there. It's like, oh, that's part of growing up. And it's like, but it shouldn't be part of growing up. I just, what I wanna tell the viewers is make sure that you reach out to people. If you see somebody that's picking on somebody else, get involved, say something. I'm not saying you need to break the kids apart and I don't think there's as much physical bullying as there is just words and words can hurt. And I think there's a way to, as a citizen, to say, hey, knock it off. That just is not right. I think a lot of it is pure pressure too, so if two people are bullying one, it's a lot easier for those two to do that to that one person. And before you know it, it becomes three or four or five and that person is just the brunt of their bullying. And why they get satisfaction from that, I don't know, but they're more likely to be, oh, we're closer friends because of this. They make poor decisions because of that. If you'd ask them one-on-one, why are you doing that? They couldn't give you a decent answer. I'm doing it because Mary said or Joe said. Well, he started it. Exactly. And I'm just going along with it. It's a game and it's really not a game. No, it's not. You're doing damage to a person and it just is not right. The other thing you and I talked about a little bit before is where do you go for that help? And that definitely is a challenge. Good friend of mine, she actually interned with me for a while. She's now the director of Mental Health America for Shebron County, Kate Bear. Maybe you know Kate. She definitely one of the driving things that they do every other year is they create this directory of resources for the community and they've got a directory for Shebron County and I think it even reaches out beyond that because I think like children's hospitals even in there. But you name the issue and you want to find the answer? It's probably in that directory. It's a great, great tool and they even have it online and they're constantly updating it. So, you know, whatever that issue is that you're thinking, I wish I knew how to get the answer to this. You know, my, and I can't say that dogs are necessarily in there, but people are and that to me is awesome. So, you know, whatever the issue is food banks and doctors and just you name it, it's in there. So, because again, you should have some place to reach out and that's the whole thing with mentoring and what we do, why do we mentor? We're mentoring because we want to have that extra person that's there, that's listening and that's supporting you. And I think that's something that is just so important. And sometimes the kids need, you know, I've always been both my husband and I have always been 100% supportive of our daughter and everything that she went through and being advocates for anti-bullying, but sometimes kids need an outside person other than their family that they can go to. You know, you could still, they can get as much support in the world from your family, but sometimes they just need that little extra non-related person that will give them a different perspective on the situation. So, you know, definitely, you know, viewers, if you're thinking, well, how do I find out more information about this 5K? It should be up on our website in the next, I would say week, the registration will be up there. The sooner you register, the less it costs to register. So, and there's different ways to get involved if you want to volunteer.  Maybe I'd like to be a mentor. Go to the Horizons website and look at how to get involved. Quick question for you, when is that gone and when are you out running again? Well, the doctor told me when he put the original splint and sling on that I wasn't to run, so a last Saturday I jobbed. I let him know I did a 5K in Green Bay and it was perfectly fine. The elbow bone itself is totally healed already. Now it's, I had totally triceps tendon off and now I'm just getting mobility back so this locks it, that's as far as it should move and gradually we just increase the range of mobility till it goes up to this one and then this comes off. Okay, excellent. So physical therapy, just moving things and this at least freed me up that I could drive so otherwise I probably wouldn't have been here today. Well, and I'm thinking, man at 70, I hope I'm as active as she is, okay? Yeah, the doctor told the physical therapist, we gotta watch this guy. She gave me a sheet of paper and said this is instructions and I said, oh, I don't have my glasses on but I see it says suggestions on there. Well, and hopefully you, maybe your daughter will come down and join us at our 5K that's coming up. But I'm excited, definitely. Think about igniting the spark, we talk about that. That's a way to get involved and to be a part of a young person's life and to help them as they're discovering who they are. But I look forward to seeing our viewers again next month. This is Shar Pachniak with Ignite the Spark. ["Shar Pachniak"]


Hey everyone, so I just came out of the Awaken Your Inner Coach approach when the workshop led by Ian McDermott, a very well-known coaching expert for many, many years. And I've heard a lot about Ian over the past couple of months and I was already very intrigued about his approach, but this is the first time I got to participate in a live Zoom workshop that he was doing. And I just came out of it like 30 minutes ago, it finished 30 minutes ago as a whole day session from afternoon to evening, six hours including the break. And since I still have that fresh perspective, fresh impression, I wanted to just put it on record and let you know what I think about the workshop, what I think about Ian's approach, how I feel after that whole experience. You know, whether I would recommend it to you and also at the very end of the video, I will also share some of the more lines in how this workshop affects my own journey, which this channel is more or less about. But let's start with the workshop. So let me start by saying it was really damn good. And it's not like I had a lot of workshops with coaching or a new or linguistic program. I've read a lot about it. I met coaches, spoke with them. These days I'm receiving coaching therapy pretty much weekly for the past couple of months now. So it's a familiar field. And I've been to various other workshops and this and that. So I do, I guess, what I want to say is I do have what to compare it with. And it's definitely beyond regular standards in my experience, really top notch.  But just being myself a professional instructor for a number of years, speaking with coaches and instructors of different fields, it's just so evident that Ian is really good. He knows what he's doing and he has that humility, which comes from that knowledge and experience and wisdom, which is beyond the regular wisdom. There's no, I will prove to you what I know or I will try to convince you. That's kind of like low tier game, but Ian is at that level where it's just so natural for him that whatever he's saying just comes out of him naturally. And you can see, he knows what he's talking about and whatever he's offering is pure refined gold. So I was really impressed. Another interesting aspect of the workshop was that there was quite a bit of back and forth, which was, in a way, was almost surprising to me, but in a very good way. There were 73 participants to begin with, including this couple of people from the staff and Ian himself, so around 70 people. And Ian was always open for questions. He encouraged questions, he encouraged self reflections, sharing, and we also went to groups, to kind of, I don't remember how that's breakout rooms. Yeah, that's probably the name, where we were presented a subject that we discussed. And initially, I've been to some workshops where that doesn't necessarily work.  But that did not happen this time. And I can't say whether that was because probably a lot of people who were participating either are coaches or interested in the approach. So pretty much every group that I had been a part of were good listeners and they offered some brilliant insights themselves. So that really felt like it deepened the experience.  It helps me come deeper and then we would reflect all together back with Ian and he would give some insights. So it really felt like a very productive and efficient kind of approach, which again, I was pleasantly surprised. The material itself, it was definitely something I was very interested in already from the get-go. So that may make me a bit biased in that way because I was just intrigued about it already. But I just personally, in general, I believe that the material that was presented is really valuable for anyone. The whole concept of the inner coach, the idea behind it, I wasn't beforehand nobody presented it to me like years ago. I didn't bump into someone specifically saying inner coach. But when I learned about the definition of it, so basically it's the intuition, the subconscious supporting you and giving you information. I realized that really is a close subject to me. But I know from personal experience that is such a huge game changer. There's so many insights and discoveries I've made through exploring whatever is in my subconscious. And part of my journey experience, I did neglect that aspect for a little bit lately and I'm getting back to it again. Again, I'm just at all how much it can give. But then you need tools, you need to understand, it's important to understand how it works. And Ian did such a great job of first of all presenting and explaining what the inner coach is, how that works, and also continuing to give specific tools in a very kind of non-intrusive way. Just kind of presenting the environment, presenting the landscape or it wasn't dry in an aspect of, okay, so the tool A is this, the tool B is this. But it was very organic, very natural, which was very pleasant to be a part of that conversation, to hear about it in that way. But it also felt like you're definitely taking something away, which you can use. It wasn't just a list of items that you listen to and the next day you forget. But it felt like things which you can actually employ and use and take away with you. So that's definitely a very positive experience. The most powerful moment for me most likely was also I wasn't hesitant about raising my virtual hand and chipping in my thoughts, especially when I see that other people at certain times may be hesitant or they're still thinking. I was like, well, I have an idea. I'm passionate about this. So I shared a number of times. And I didn't expect any sort of feedback from it. But there's one point where I shared something which is related very much to my journey. If you're following the journey, if you've seen some of the last few videos, you probably know what I'm talking about. And I shared about the dilemma, encouraged to talk about that type of subject, the dilemma of reading versus exploring. And because these days I'm super passionate about and I'm yearning again. I'm in that yearning state again where I want to know more. I want to learn more. I want to understand how things work and I want to kind of level myself up. And my initial instinct was to go to read more books. But then that's kind of neglecting the aspect which was presented for the workshop. And that is that there is the inner coach where you can discover amazing and profound things within yourself, which some of you will never find in books. It's much more personal. And while Ian himself was very, very clear to make the point that, okay, books are great. He made a great point. He wrote a number of books himself and he loves books. And in the background of him talking, there were a bunch of books. So there's nothing bad about books. But we started focusing on that personal journey, that personal exploration aspect. And it's still fresh. So I can't really put it on paper. But what I want to share is that whatever he shared, and we basically just seemed like a quick coaching situation between Ian and myself where everybody was watching and that doesn't bother me. But we were talking one-on-one and I would express how I feel, what I think. And he was like, you know, let's dig into this. And he shared a number of things. And it was like, damn, was that the right thing to tell me? And for me to hear, it was really profound. And it was basically just, in my words, the way I'd express it, that basically stating that the journey can be, okay, well, to put a step back, I told Ian that I'm very much in the pursuit of offering value to others. And that's, at the moment, I'm considering, you know, what's more valuable? Reading books and expanding my knowledge or exploring myself, what's that ratio? That was my act of contemplation. And he presented really beautifully the understanding or the insight that already by sharing my process, that's also giving, which is kind of what this channel is about. So that was really inspiring for me. That really touched me. And he was so spot on by giving the example of Frodo from the Lord of the Rings, which is basically kind of the hero's journey. And I'm a big fan of hero's journey. I love movies in general, so I could definitely relate with it. And he spoke about, you know, the fellowship of the rings, if you know the context, they're in the meeting and deciding who will bring the ring and arguing.  And that kind of creates the respect out of everyone and the belief and faith that, oh, actually, you know what, you know, yeah, he's the right person. And I think what Ian stressed is that Frodo at that moment, he says, I don't know how, but I have faith, you know, I will do this. And people trust his process. And then people decide to follow him and support him. And that's kind of the way of giving. So again, my vocabulary here is a bit rusty, because I'm still kind of digesting that information. But my point is he really put it beautifully, the essence of that the journey is worth sharing as well. And the sincerity, the modesty, the way you do it, and the honest and sincere exploration, may be as valuable as anything else. And that was just so spot on for me. So thank you for that. Ian, if you're watching, just in any case. But yeah, coming back to the workshop, I feel like I wanted to share this story as well, just to show you how impactful this workshop was to me. And I'm sure it was impactful to others as well. It was interactive. It offered a lot of wonderful knowledge. And also the brilliant technical thing I noticed myself personally, or I considered is, you know, when you just listen and listen and listen for six hours and more or less in a row, it may become difficult to keep your focus. But then every time I would feel like I'm having difficulty to keep my focus on, then Ian would say, okay, well, now let's make the break rooms. Or now let's give people some chance to chip in and share, ask questions. And that dynamic really made it more of a sense of flow to the whole workshop. So the six hours was, I think it's six hours. I'm pretty sure it is. So it was ideal. It was the ideal amount. By the end of it, I felt like, especially with that personal feedback I've got, I felt like, okay, I'm done. I'm good. You know, this was just enough. So yeah, I hope that my emotions and my review of this gives you a better sense of what you can expect from the workshop and give you a sense of how I feel after it. So maybe you have a glimpse of, okay. Maybe I want to feel like that too. And then go and try it out. From what I understand, if I understood this correctly, this is the first time this workshop, specific workshop, this format was done. Although Ian has written a book, The Inner Coach, which is out there from what I understand for years now. But if I understood, and I may be wrong, but if I understood correctly, this is the first time this workshop particularly was presented for Zoom. Also in regards to the COVID situation, many people are in lockdown, people have time with themselves. And this is kind of a brilliant way to inspire people to realize, oh, there's so much actually you can discover just by being on your own, by understanding how your subconscious communicates both intuitively through the level of the mind. And also it was really nice because the somatic aspect was touched as well, how our subconscious is expressed through the body and that gives us hints and how to read that information. So just so much good stuff, which I won't be able to put out all on record. But I hope again, I'm getting you a good impression of how it works. Just to be sure, nobody's paying me to say positive things about that. But I am now subscribed, I guess, or enlisted in the Master the Coach approach, which is an eighth month course by the same organization, the ITS, which I believe Ian is the leader of. And so I'm developing a personal relationship with ITS, but this is my very first touch and I'm already in love with it, really interested where everything else we continue to go. But just in case you're also interested in that whole aspect of the inner coach of understanding your intuition, of being able to understand or have a better relationship and communication with your subconscious, this is definitely a course you should check out. So I'll leave the links below, I highly recommend it. And the very last few words, yeah, for my regular subscribers, viewers, I think I actually kind of communicated everything I wanted to say to you directly through what I said that has been an impactful conversation with Ian and it made me reflect about the things which I am exploring together with you. This is the first meeting we had, this is the first contact we had, and I'm planning, I'm going to continue to learn from him and his whole instructor's group through that course and I will definitely share more whatever comes up.  This is the very first time I'm doing a review of a workshop on my channel and video. Let me know what you think, any feedback from me. Yeah, I enjoy the workshop a lot and it's nice to share with you how it went. So I'm going to be looking forward to hear now from you. So thank you for watching as always and I'll see you next time.