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Deadly Manners

The Paragon Collective

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Deadly Manners is a 10 episode, dark comedy murder-mystery series set in the winter of 1954. It follows the events during the night of the affluent Billings family annual dinner party with their distinguished, eccentric guests. However, all is not fun and games as shortly after the party starts, a snowstorm begins to rage outside, trapping all the partygoers inside their host’s mansion. When a murderer starts killing off those in attendance, the guests must figure out who is responsible, or ...
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You can still find freedom in an unfree world. In Practical Liberty we'll tear down the narratives and false beliefs that are restricting your freedoms and talk to interesting people who have, in their own way, found a path to get out of the machine
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Have you ever heard a song and thought,“Dang! How did they do that? I wish my copy was that catchy!”Well, Nathan and I have thought the same thing and in fact pondered the similarities between writing a song and writing copy.You see, we’re both songwriters. We stoutly assert that we are both amateurs at this.At one point, music was Nathan’s busines…
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A rare treat! A solo High Energy Health episode! Here, host Dr. Dawson Church leads listeners through a set of energy exercises. They are designed to cultivate a sense of community and allow you to feel your energetic connection with others on the same path. They also help you develop healthy boundaries, release tension in your body, and cultivate …
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Ever wonder why some copywriters consistently crush it while others struggle to get conversions? This episode dives deep into the Five Stages of Copywriter Awareness—a transformative framework that shows the path from instinctive, mediocre copy to breakthrough results. If you’ve ever felt like your copy was missing something, this episode will pinp…
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Once you’ve finished your copy, the anxiety begins.And it almost always boils down to the answer to this question:How good is this copy–really?When people ask me to critique their copy, they’re often amazed at how quickly I can get to the heart of things. Once I have an overall opinion, I’ll drill down to a lot of specifics.But I think it’s importa…
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Jonathan Hammond is a spiritual counselor and author of The Shaman’s Mind. He is a graduate of Harvard and a master teacher of Reki and Shamanism. He teaches classes in the Hawaiian healing art of Huna at Omega Institute and online. Here he and Dawson discuss: Jonathan's background Empathic attunement with indigenous mind The enchantment of human a…
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Today we’re going to do another episode of “Just because it’s a story, it’s not a hero’s journey story.”What I mean by that is, many people have been misleading copywriters and salespeople for a while now. Saying, if you’re going to tell a story, it’s got to be a hero’s journey story.As you may know, in my book The Persuasion Story Code, I show 25 …
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Dené Logan is a marriage and family therapist, spiritual teacher, and host of the podcast Cheaper Than Therapy, which gives a behind-the-scenes look at coaching sessions with clients and interviews with thought leaders in the field of mental health and wellness. Here Dené and Dawson discuss: Lifetime curiosity about our behavior patterns Often ther…
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It’s become so common we don’t even think about sometimes, but subscription products have really taken over our world in a way no one could ever have predicted.And along with them, new demands and new opportunities for copywriting.If you look at the past, you’ll see a lot of promotions were based on a single sale, with the copywriter or the busines…
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Sarah Close is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Oregon. She received her MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and operates from a Relational, Trauma-Informed approach. She is trained in EMDR and NARM. Sarah gently aims to shift the focus of mental health care from the struggles and ‘problems’ we all face, to the resiliency and w…
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If you would like your lead magnets to perform better and get you more qualified prospects and customers, wouldn’t it make sense to look at the most popular form of engagement in the world for some clues?I’m talking about video games. According to the sports and gaming platform Sportskeeda, last year gaming was a $396 billion industry. Movies, $284…
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Yosi Amram is a clinical psychologist, leadership coach, and author of Spiritually Intelligent Leadership. Previously he was founder and CEO of two companies that he has led through successful IPOs. Yosi has coached over 100 CEOs, many of whom have built companies with thousands of employees and revenues in the billions. With engineering degrees fr…
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Nate Klemp is a philosopher, mindfulness entrepreneur, and the author of several books including Start Here, The 80/80 Marriage, and Open: Living With an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World. Here Nate and Dawson discuss living with an open mind, and provide you with four provocative exercises you can use to live an open life as well as: The two mo…
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Four months ago, I was completely skeptical about AI and how it would ever fit into copywriting. I saw a post on LinkedIn by Brian Halpin, a copywriter working in Jason Parker’s agency. Brian talked about some unbelievable results, nearly one million in sales, that they had gotten with a VSL that was 80% written by AI.I’ve known Jason for more than…
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Rachel Kaplan, MA, MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist and author of the book Feel, Heal, and Let That Sh*t Go. Kaplan has studied yoga, meditation, and hands-on healing practices in India and Nepal, earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and trained in cutting-edge trauma modalities such…
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Andrew B. Newberg, M.D. is currently the Director of Research at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital in Philadelphia. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Nuclear Medicine. Dr. Newberg has been particularly involved in the study of mystical and religious experiences; a field referred to a…
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The term “cult” has become such a loaded word lately.People who aren’t members of certain groups call the groups a cult, and the members of those groups resent and deny it.Yet, are all cults bad?Maybe some are, maybe some aren’t.But on today’s show, Nathan Fraser is going to talk about a special kind of cult that, in his view, is not only GOOD — bu…
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Perry Garfinkel is a veteran journalist, editor, and author of the books Buddha or Bust and Becoming Gandhi. For that book, he spent 3 years retracing the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi while living his core values. He has written extensively for many publications including the New York Times, National Geographic, LA Times, and the Huffington Post. He…
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Ever wonder how to set yourself, your product, or your business apart?It’s a big puzzle these days.The best general advice I’ve heard is from recent podcast guest Scott Zetlan:“Different is better than better.”It almost sounds silly, but in the super-competitive marketplace, where products live in the real world, it’s not silly at all.It’s actually…
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Donna Eden and David Feinstein are pioneers in the field of Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology. For four decades, Donna has been teaching people how to work with the body’s energy systems to reclaim their health and natural vitality. She has taught more than 100,000 people worldwide, both laypeople and professionals. David is a clinical psycholo…
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Job one for a copywriter is getting and keeping attention. We always give that our best shot.But there are some situations where you need to do this more intensely, and you don’t want to come across like a screaming insane person yelling loudly just to get attention.So we need to come up with some unusual techniques, to increase the intensity witho…
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Today we’re going to talk about two words that can change your writing forever. Not just your copywriting, but especially your copywriting.One word is a first-grade word and the second word is a fourth-grade word, according to people who seem to know about those things.The words are “but” – with one ‘t’ – and “therefore.” Why are these words so imp…
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Tony Nader MD PhD is a medical doctor trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in neuroscience) and globally recognized expert in the science of consciousness and human development. His training includes internal medicine, psychiatry, and neurology. He’s the successor to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the head of the …
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Heather Sandison ND is a renowned naturopathic doctor specializing in neurocognitive medicine and the Founder of Solcere Health Clinic, San Diego’s premier brain optimization clinic. She has dedicated her career to researching and supporting those suffering with dementia. She hosts the annual online Reverse Alzheimer’s Summit where she shares cutti…
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OK, finally. You’ve got your copy written.At least your first draft.Now what?That’s what a subscriber to the podcast asked me on youtube a few weeks ago.The best I can do to answer that question is tell you how I look at copy, whether it’s my own, or a client’s.Today’s show is about a series of steps I go through to review copy with a mentoring cli…
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Jerry Colonna is a leading executive coach who uses the skills he learned as a venture capitalist to help entrepreneurs. He is a co-founder and CEO of Reboot, the executive coaching and leadership development company, host of the Reboot Podcast, and author of Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong. He draws on his wide variety of experiences…
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These days, things in copywriting are changing so fast it can make your head spin.Junior copywriters aren’t sure there’s a career path, because of AI.Experienced copywriters are finding clients have different and sometimes confusing demands that you never would have heard five years ago.Our special guest today, Scott Zetlan, has some answers for ju…
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One of the hardest things for copywriters and business owners to get right is running ads to cold traffic on Facebook and Instagram, and making those ads profitable.If you’ve tried this for yourself, I think you know what I mean.So does today’s guest, who has discovered some important techniques that work and has also discovered the mistakes to avo…
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Amrit Sandhu is an international speaker and life purpose coach. Episodes of his podcast, Inspired Evolution, have been heard or downloaded by over 2 million people. Amrit has gone from mental health challenges to a profound transformational journey. He shares his insights with others as he guides them in their own transformations. Here he and Daws…
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I would say our guest today Will Siebler takes a Zen approach to copywriting. On the home page of his website, he has a picture of a lonely but sturdy coffee cup on a table. On the coffee cup is the word “Begin.”But the shimmering peace is shattered by a few words overlayed on the picture:“I’m Will. I write words that make your clients say, ‘Shut u…
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Listen to this:“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.”That’s from author and sportswriter Jim Dent, and it perfectly captures how a lot of us feel in the summertime. Lazy and happy to be so.And that’s fine. But don’t mistake your state of mind for the state of bu…
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Amanda Huggins is the author of the book Anxiety to Empowerment. She is an anxiety and mindfulness coach, certified yoga and meditation instructor, and motivational speaker. She developed her own spiritual, scientific, and practical approach to deal with her own anxiety and now shares that with others. Here Amanda and Dawson dialog about: Amanda's …
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Richard Grossinger has been a change maker since his college years. After an academic career teaching anthropology, he founded North Atlantic Books and currently edits the Sacred Planet Books imprint for Inner Traditions. Among his books are Planet Medicine and Bottoming Out the Universe. He has studied many transformational traditions including ta…
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