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Prime Time PropsNFL Week 3 Picks - Bet Him If His Limbs Are Intact!Jeff Edelstein, Justin Carlucci, Justin Bales, and Keith Eyster break down the NFL Week 3 slate with a game-by-game discussion. The Props.com crew highlights their favorite player props and outcomes!Subscribe to the Props YouTube Channel!Join our Discord!#NFL #SportsBetting #NFLPicks #bettingtips #week2bets #nflpicks #football #playerprops #fantasyfootball
2025-09-191h 06
Prime Time PropsFact or Fiction: What should you believe in NFL Week 2?Join Jeff Edelstein, Justin Carlucci, and Justin Bales on this week's Prime Time Props show!The Props.com crew breaks down all of the Week 2 action, discussing the entire Sunday NFL main slate, featuring player props, picks, and analysis! Like our show and subscribe to the Props YouTube channel! Subscribe to the Props YouTube Channel!Join our Discord!#NFL #SportsBetting #NFLPicks #bettingtips #week2bets #nflpicks #football #playerprops #fantasyfootball
2025-09-121h 13
Prime Time PropsNFL OPENING WEEKEND: Week 1 NFL Player Props, Rookies, & Betting PicksProps.com's Justin Carlucci, Jeff Edelstein, and Keith Eyster analyze all of the 2025 NFL Sunday Week 1 action.The trio discusses plenty of league-wide drama, best bets, and situations to keep an eye on as the new year kicks off with a wild main slate of games.Subscribe to the Props YouTube Channel!Join our Discord!Check back each Friday for full weekly coverage of the 2025 NFL season! As always, visit Props for 100% FREE sports betting content and picks!#NFL #SportsBetting #DFS #ExpertPicks #FreePicks
2025-09-061h 18
The Conscious ClassroomLetting Go & Creating Safe Spaces: Rituals for the Conscious ClassroomSend us a textFor teachers feeling overwhelmed by global challenges and classroom responsibilities, this episode offers a lifeline of wisdom. Amy Edelstein delves into the transformative power of letting go—not as abandonment of responsibility, but as a profound acceptance that creates space for growth.Just as great trees stand witness through storms and seasons, we can bear witness, standing still, mindfully being with emotions without trying to fix them. We can practice being present with our own anxiety, grief, or despair. Inner work is essential. When we metabolize our emotions, we become capable of...
2025-08-1020 min
CPA Exam Success10. Five Signs You’re Truly Ready to Study for the CPA Exam🎧 Episode 10 – Five Signs You’re Truly Ready to Study for the CPA ExamCPA Exam Success Podcast with Dawn Edelstein CPAEpisode Summary:If studying for the CPA Exam feels like pushing a boulder uphill—you're not alone. And you're not broken. More often than not, the frustration and lack of progress aren’t about intelligence, effort, or even your study plan.In this episode, Dawn unpacks five clear signs that you’re truly ready to study—not just on paper, but in real life. W...
2025-07-2927 minThe Conscious ClassroomMindful Interconnectedness: Seeing Beyond Personal StressSend us a textIn this episode, Amy Edelstein explains why she included the lessons on systems thinking in the Inner Strength Teen Mindfulness Program. Teaching students how to understand their experiences within larger systems, helps them manage stress by seeing interconnections across time and society rather than taking challenges personally.You'll learn why:• Teaching teens to think in context allows them to see how their current stressors connect to broader historical developments• Systems thinking serves as powerful self-care by revealing our interdependence and reducing feelings of isolation• Underst...
2025-06-3024 minThe Conscious ClassroomTrue North: The Key to Navigating Change in EducationSend us a textIn this episode Amy Edelstein explores what it can meet to root in our True North, our deepest values, when we lean into how education needs to transform.The questions surrounding education's future form an intricate web: How do we pause and reflect while simultaneously responding to the immediate needs of our students? Who funds it and why? What outcomes do we desire? How do we serve students with vastly different backgrounds and trajectories? When confronting complexity, Amy looks at how returning to a "true north" of universal hu...
2025-04-2627 minThe Conscious ClassroomBrave New Learning: Sal Khan, AI Tutors, & the Future of Mindfulness EducationSend us a textThe educational landscape is undergoing a profound transformation through artificial intelligence, and mindfulness education stands at this exciting frontier. In this thought-provoking exploration, Amy Edelstein reviews Sal Khan's new book "Brave New Words" and unpacks the potential and challenge of AI tutors to support students' inner development, while maintaining crucial human connections.Amy examines Khan's great success with Khan Academy and the AI Khanmigo, looking specifically at how AI tutors can personalize learning experiences, making first-class education and tools more accessible. AI tutors can deliver mindfulness content in students' n...
2025-03-1734 minThe Conscious ClassroomReturning to AnalogSend us a textIn this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein questions the use of the popular idiom "returning to analog." While agreeing with the sentiment that we reconnect with the preciousness of our humanity as technology continues to advance rapidly, she questions placing that sentiment within in technical context. Amy discusses the balance between digital experiences and the visceral richness of our awareness and connections and looks at some of the questions surrounding Ed-Tech and the integration of AI into the classroom. Key themes include:• Exploring the concept of returning to anal...
2025-02-0425 minThe Conscious ClassroomInspiration, Illumination & Sacred Intention: A New Year's Day ContemplationSend us a textThis episode of The Conscious Classroom with Amy Edelstein invites us to explore the power of setting meaningful intentions and to learn how to let go of will-based resolutions as the most effective means to create lasting transformation. By uncovering our deepest values and nurturing inspiration from within, we can align our actions with what truly matters to us and engage in positive change, both personally and collectively.Amy will delve into:• Identifying the value of intentions rather than resolutions• Reflecting on our deeper cares as we set o...
2025-01-0541 minThe Conscious ClassroomBeing with What Is During the HolidaysSend us a textHolidays are awe-filled and also can bring about feelings of sadness, grief and loneliness for ourselves and our students. Join Amy Edelstein in this episode of The Conscious Classroom Podcast as we explore how to let go into the present moment and find the posture that allows us to be with what is with grace, strength, and presence. The holiday season can be a challenging time, filled with mixed emotions and societal expectations. As educators, we have the unique opportunity to guide our students through these complexities with grace and awareness. T...
2024-12-1128 minThe Conscious ClassroomDedication, Transformation & the ArtsSend us a textExperience the essence of creativity and dedication with Amy Edelstein as we journey with her to CoSM, the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in the Catskills. This episode celebrates Alex and Alison Gray, the visionary artists who have devoted decades to the transformative power of art. For their entire adult life, they have been expressing their own adventures in consciousness through their unique for of art, becoming leaders and pillars of the psychedelic art movement. They exemplify how art can be a conduit for personal and collective growth, and their center stands as one...
2024-11-2631 minThe Conscious ClassroomCreating Positive Spaces with a Grateful MindsetSend us a textCreating Positive Spaces with a Grateful MindsetIt's so simple, could it really change our outlook, experience and classrooms? In this episode of the Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein looks at ways that gratitude can transform our experience and deepen our understanding of presence, interconnectedness, and awe. You will see how we can shift our perspectives, working with everyday events like traffic irritation, and cultivate a very different mindset. It's not lightweight, it can have a real impact and reveal profound truths about the nature of our world. Dis...
2024-10-3122 minThe Conscious ClassroomContentment in Times of StressSend us a textDiscover the secret to finding profound contentment even in the most stressful times. What if you could cultivate a deeper sense of fulfillment through mindful awareness and systems thinking? On today's Conscious Classroom podcast, Amy Edelstein guides you through transformative insights that will help you create spaces for rejuvenation. You'll learn how to harness the power of meditation to develop an inner sense of wholeness and simplicity, empowering you to maintain a backdrop of contentment no matter the challenges you face.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode pl...
2024-08-2630 minThe Conscious ClassroomPlato Knew It All Along - Teachers, Transmission & Trustworthy ImpactSend us a textCan shifting the focus for teachers from content to connection be the key to lifting adolescent loneliness? Journey with Amy Edelstein on this episode of the Conscious Classroom podcast as she unpacks the role of teachers as moral exemplars, following the principles laid out by Plato. You'll explore how transmission occurs and why teachers impact not just academic success, but also ethics, values, and personal connection that can make a real difference in students' lives.Amy shares a personal story of how her fifth-grade teacher from Linden E...
2024-06-041h 04The Conscious ClassroomEducation Design that Works: Blending Visionary Ideas with Classroom RealitiesSend us a textIn this episode we pack two levels of insight that are mostly at odds with one another when it comes to improving educational design. We examine the dual landscape of educational innovation, where grand visions and data analysis for systemic change clash with the hands-on challenges of classroom application. Working with systems thinking, the fact that we are all innovating around the same core issue, Amy Edelstein illuminates what can become synergy between high-level design and practical program execution. For true reform to be meaningful and pragmatic, we must work with the tools t...
2024-05-0729 minThe Conscious ClassroomJim Crow's Pink Slip - Dismantling the Education GapSend us a textJim Crow's Pink Slip - Dismantling the Education Gap with Amy EdelsteinIn this episode of The conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein helps illuminate the little-known history and ongoing influence of resistance to de-segregation within America's education system - and how mindfulness, being conscious and aware of our biases, is an important part of our work to redress inequity. Leslie Fenwick's seminal work, Jim Crow's Pink Slip, serves as a guide and compass, unveiling the long shadow left by the dismissal or demotion of a significant number of black principals and educators a...
2024-04-1832 min
Accountants EXPOSEDWin the War for Talent: the Monetary & Non-Monetary WaysAt this year's Accounting Business Expo in Melbourne, I presented on the ever important topic of talent but with a focus on non-monetary benefits as a retention tool (well, because they’re kind of free and accountants keep asking me, Michael - how can I compete with the big firms that have way more resources to throw around):
Below is a short snippet talking about some of the non-monetary benefits you can incorporate into your firm.
As a recruitment professional and an accountant myself I wanted to present everyone with facts that would aid the rem...
2024-04-0330 minThe Conscious ClassroomAwareness & Innovation: The Wings of Tomorrow's EducationSend us a textUnlock the synergy between mindfulness and innovation as Amy Edelstein explores the relationship between these two orientations in this episode of the Conscious Classroom. Imagine a learning environment where the air is alive with creativity, and students and teachers alike are inspired to view the world through a lens of fresh possibilities. This discussion unearths the possibilities that contemplative practice can reveal, and shows how marrying innovation and inner exploration is working. In Inner Strength Education's pilot project with 10 student interns explore the XPRIZE Connect innovation curriculum and Inner Strength Education's tools of o...
2024-03-2730 minThe Conscious ClassroomMindful Joy: The Secret Sauce in Educational LeadershipSend us a textIn this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein unpacks the importance of teacher happiness and how to use mindful awareness and perspectives to improve teacher wellbeing and sense of possibility prior to making practical changes, which undoubtedly also need to occur. Amy explores the impact of educators who tap into their passion, setting the classroom tone and invigorating their students with a love for learning. In this insightful episode, she dissects how a teacher's zest for their craft can revolutionize the traditional learning space, fostering innovation and a thriving environment f...
2024-03-0325 minThe Conscious ClassroomA Human Relationship to AISend us a textDiscover how the relationship we forge with AI in our classrooms can go beyond mere functionality to touch the very core of our humanity. Join me, Amy Edelstein, as we unveil the transformative potential of AI when approached with the same reverence we approach the great mysteries and subtleties of sentience and life. It's an invitation to infuse our relationship to educational technologies with wonder, respect, and a co-creative spirit that not only advances our learning tools but also shapes the hearts and minds of learners. By instilling these values, we contribute to...
2024-02-0524 minThe Conscious ClassroomScaling Compassion? AI possibilities & Real Life ExamplesSend us a textIn this episode, Amy Edelstein reflects on a recent trip to India, which raised intriguing and inspiring possibilities as she visiting with the founders of the Happiness Curriculum, that reaches 1.7 million students each day. She also explores AI potential and urgency to train AI on compassion and wisdom and scale that use for the benefit of all. She also shares the value of reflection, retreat, and time to let our minds open up to new ways of seeing as essential to keep our relationship to life and those we teach awake and alive.
2024-01-2131 minAccountants EXPOSEDRobotic Process Automation and Digital Transformation: What the Future of Accounting looks like! (Most Viewed Recap)
In this day and age of technology, what does the future hold for the accounting industry? John Waterworth - the managing director of Valenta Australia sits down with us to help us understand more about what robotics for Accounting Firms especially during a time of critical staff shortage.
Join us as you won’t want to miss this episode where John tells all about the backbone of robotic process automation (RPA), and how you can implement in your practice to save costs, find efficiencies and improve client service! We discussed topics such as:
Getting into robot...
2023-11-291h 01The Conscious ClassroomThe Power of Fostering Friendships in the ClassroomSend us a textThere's a hidden superpower in a regular teen activity that will provide support for teachers as well as students. This inclination, when activated, encouraged, and guided can create a safety net for students, build webbing so classrooms feel warm and encouraging, catch students who are falling behind, and bring out the sensitivity and protectiveness of some of the most unruly students. What is it? Friendships. Yes, simple friendships. In this episode, Amy Edelstein talks about how to structure the friendships and the positive benefits that come when students begin to support each other's...
2023-11-0537 minThe Conscious ClassroomPeace, Reason & Care in the Face of WarSend us a textIn this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein shares from the heart about the impact of the eruption of war between Israel and Gaza, and that pain that is bringing to so many in the region and beyond. How do we provide steadiness and guidance within our classrooms? How do we rise authentically and demonstrate care that goes beyond divisions? Included is a long guided meditation (not to be practiced while driving), starting with open awareness to access the goodness of the human heart, and moving into insight practice, from that space...
2023-10-1724 minAccountants EXPOSEDSonia Gibson - When Is The Right Time To Start Your Own Accounting Firm & How To Go About It? (Most Viewed Recap)A recap of one of our most viewed episode so far:
What a way to start 2023 with our first guest of the year - Sonia Gibson. She is a visionary accounting professional and the Founder of Accounting Heart - which is proudly an all female firm. We get a sneak peek of her accounting journey, her business acumen and her passion for finances and helping smaller businesses achieve their financial goals.
Listen in and to learn more about Sonia and some of the struggles she faced following her path as an accountant and how...
2023-09-301h 30The Conscious ClassroomThe Future of Education - New Teacher Training GroundsSend us a textIn this episode, The Future of Education, Amy Edelstein explores a visionary approach to teacher training. If we are to truly inspire teachers and students to engage with their own learning in an innovative and even prophetic way, the training grounds that prepare teachers to teach must exemplify that new world and its higher values. Far too many people are concerned about how AI and Augmented Virtual Reality might subvert learning and far too few are imagining the frontiers that can be created in a virtual reality training ground, where the context is...
2023-09-0430 min
Realtors from the GarageSpecial Guest Henry EdelsteinWelcome back to another exciting episode of our podcast! Today, we have the distinct honor of hosting a true luminary in the world of marketing, networking, and client relations – none other than the remarkable Henry Edelstein. With an impressive tenure of 15 years as an agent with our esteemed Team, Henry's journey has been nothing short of inspiring.
Henry's polished demeanor and boundless energy infuse a fresh perspective into everything he undertakes, making him an invaluable asset and a leader for The Team.
Henry takes us on his journey that led to the inception of our ne...
2023-08-0933 minThe Conscious ClassroomAI - Potential or Peril or Both?Send us a textIn this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein shares insights about the potential and peril of new AI tools and considerations explored in the recent C20 meetings on Technology, Security and Transformation. As a panelist for the convening on Technology & Education, Edelstein was able to share views on the importance of teachers and teaching, and how to meet this brave new world with caution and optimism.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to...
2023-05-2131 minThe Conscious ClassroomEmpathy or Compassion? Discovering an Orientation that Brings Energy & JoySend us a textIn this episode, Amy Edelstein looks at the difference between empathy and compassion, exploring the elements of compassion that allow it to become a source of our own joy and upliftment. She also illuminates how detachment, universality, and self-care enable us to orient ourselves around compassion and fuel our own resilience and upliftment. Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to reach more educators and share the importance of creating more conscious classrooms.T...
2023-05-0228 minAccountants EXPOSEDRob Nixon - Growing your firm to $1m profit per Partner while working less than 500 hours (Most Viewed Recap)A recap of our most viewed episode so far!
On this episode, we talk about all the things accountants could be doing better and where they're going wrong. Mistakes that are costing them huge potential increases in revenue, profits and lifestyle.
Now, Rob Nixon is not an accountant. Yet he has forged a niche to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on how accounting firms can achieve peak performance and his clients on average see profit increases of 98.4% from revenue increases of only 20.8% while working fewer hours with simple tweaks in w...
2023-04-3046 minThe Conscious ClassroomUncommon Leadership: The Path for the History Makers of Tomorrow - Villanova Women's History Speaker of the MonthSend us a textIn honor of Women’s History Month, Amy Edelstein was invited by Villanova University's School of Business to unpack what it takes to pursue our own calling, break limits, and strive to for excellence in our work, our personal growth, and our contribution to the world. These days, we are pressured to achieve in so many spheres, from the obligation, as leaders, to the bottom line to our own desire for a positive and holistic value set that takes into account our planet, our community, and our own interior life. As women...
2023-04-0254 minAccountants EXPOSEDAttracting and Retaining Talent - ABE Melbourne 2023Aside from meeting and listening to some of the most amazing speakers, I also had the pleasure to present my own speech at the Accounting Business Expo in Melbourne this year.
Some of the topics that I discussed included:
1) What are the commonalities between those that have too many accountants knocking on their door and those that hear crickets!
2) Why do some firms seem to have Remarkable Retention and others have Atrocious Attrition?
3) What changes can you make in your firm to improve your recruiting a...
2023-03-3028 minAccountants EXPOSEDBrett Kelly - Part 1 - How to get motivated and stay motivated in Business, Life And Family (Most Viewed Recap)
A recap of one of our most viewed episode so far. No matter how many times you listen to these episodes, you will surely learn something new every time- don't forget to watch part 2!
Brett Kelly is the Partner of one of the largest accounting firms in Australia , they are BRW Top 25 largest accounting firms in Australia with over 40 Directors and over 200 staff. Brett Kelly has more than twenty years commercial and professional accountancy experience. He specialises in assisting individuals and families who own private businesses.
Brett founded Kelly+Partners Chartered Accountants in 2006 and over the past 14...
2023-02-2838 minAccountants EXPOSEDSonia Gibson - When Is The Right Time To Start Your Own Accounting Firm & How To Go About It?What a way to start 2023 with our first guest of the year - Sonia Gibson. She is a visionary accounting professional and the Founder of Accounting Heart - which is proudly an all female firm. We get a sneak peek of her accounting journey, her business acumen and her passion for finances and helping smaller businesses achieve their financial goals.
Listen in and to learn more about Sonia and some of the struggles she faced following her path as an accountant and how her commitment to the industry and her clients has helped her build a solid...
2023-01-301h 30Accountants EXPOSEDWhy you can't find good staff and what to do about it - Michael Edelstein at the 2022 ABEAside from having the chance to interview some of the most amazing speakers during the 2-day conference, I also had the opportunity to speak at the Accounting Business Expo.
Here is a little snippet of my session, titled: 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒇𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕.
Some of the topics I touched on include:
1) What are the commonalities between those that have too many accountants knocking on their door and those that hear crickets!
2) Why do some firms seem to have Remarkable Retention and others have Atrocious Attrition?
3) What changes can you make in your firm to improve your recruiting and retention strategies?
4) Future of the accounting industry when...
2022-11-2827 min
Realtors from the GarageSpecial Guest- Tom EdelsteinToday's Episode welcomes Tom Edelstein to the garage. Tom has worked in Real Estate for 49 years and today we got a chance to discuss his beginnings and his bright future in Real Estate. It was a fun chance for Joe and I to stretch our legs on interviewing and also a unique chance to catch the perspective of a man we both respect and admire.
Links
www.teamedelstein.com
Email
scott@teamedelstein.com
Joe@teamedelstein.com
2022-10-1235 minRealtors from the GarageMarket Update- Two Realtors give their take on the Temperature of today's Market!In today's Garage conversation Joe and Scott discuss what they are seeing in the market place today. Your feedback and questions are welcome at Joe@teamedelstein.com or Scott@teamedelstein.com. Next Weeks special guest Tom Edelstein.
2022-10-0534 minThe Conscious ClassroomVirtual Reality Education- It's Coming, Are We Ready?Send us a textVirtual Reality Education is not a future prospect. Higher Education spaces like Morehouse College have already taught full semesters using VR. This Metaverse is rapidly expanding into K-12. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein asks who is thinking about the potentials of this space to train us to be truly mindfully compassionate, awakened humans? And what are the downsides to a world where young people become increasingly more mediated in their relationships and their learning? This episode provides a view into the future that's already happening and asks some important...
2022-10-0229 min
Accountants EXPOSEDRobotic Process Automation and Digital Transformation: What the Future of Accounting looks like!In this day and age of technology, what does the future hold for the accounting industry? John Waterworth - the managing director of Valenta Australia sits down with us to help us understand more about what robotics for Accounting Firms especially during a time of critical staff shortage.
Join us as you won’t want to miss this episode where John tells all about the backbone of robotic process automation (RPA), and how you can implement in your practice to save costs, find efficiencies and improve client service! We discussed topics such as:
Getting into robotics in...
2022-07-191h 01
Rabbi E in 3Feeling VERY ALIVE in Israel...Land of the Living!Rabbi Edelstein (Rabbi E), of MEOR DC here, and join me as I share my excitement at being in the amazing Land of Israel, after three uninterupted Covid-ravaged years outside! Come visit, whoever you are,--whatever your religion, beliefs or politics. You will be inspired, awakened, excited, stuffed (with amazing food), challenged....and exhausted! I LOVE IT! BARUCH HASHEM!
2022-07-0813 minThe Conscious ClassroomA Freedom Worth Striving For - Independence DaySend us a textA Freedom Worth Striving For - Reflections in Independence on the American Holiday 4th of JulyWhat makes freedom exalted? What can our students aspire to when the "freedom" they have been taught to cherish is either - in the case of politics and social orders - profoundly inequitable and even harmful or - as in the case of personal freedoms - exacerbates a sense of existential anxiety with its proliferation of choices and optionality and its dearth of guidance and directives that ennoble. In this short reflection, Amy Edelstein explores...
2022-07-0416 minThe Conscious ClassroomMeditation on Love in the Face of ViolenceSend us a textThese recent weeks have seen the scourge of senseless gun violence tearing through a school, a supermarket, and neighborhoods across America. In this episode, Amy Edelstein reaches deep into the power of meditation to imprint in us the undeniable experience of interconnectedness and love, a love that inspires us to want to dispel ignorance rather than fight (even for a cause) in ways that only create more division and separation. This entire episode is both a guided meditation and a deep reflection. Support the showIf you enjoyed this e...
2022-05-2727 min