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Raising Expectations with Pastor Joe Schofield, Dr. Paul Hall, Stefanie Thayer, Dr. Craig Thayer, Pastor Ron Greer
Digital Threats, Family Safety, and Faithful Preparedness in a Changing World
Guest, Frank Roberson with the Black Rhino Protection Agency
Friends,
Monday night we're thrilled to welcome back our dear friend and valued family member Frank Roberson. With expertise in protective services, counterintelligence, and threat analysis, Frank will share insights on safeguarding political leaders, like President Trump, and cultivating 'Situational Awareness' for everyday life.
By learning from Frank's expertise, you'll gain clarity on navigating life's challenges and understand the importance of preparedness in the face of adversity. Lives can depend on it, and with this knowledge, you'll be better equipped to protect and serve your loved ones.
Frank will offer practical wisdom to help you navigate life's complexities with confidence.
You won’t want to miss this powerful discussion.
Pastor Joe Opens Raising Expectations
In this episode of Raising Expectations, Pastor Joe Schofield welcomes listeners and introduces the show’s regular team, including Stefanie Thayer, Dr. Craig Thayer, Dr. Paul Hall, Ron Greer, and the wider Raising Expectations family. Pastor Joe reminds listeners that the program is rooted in Christian faith, encouragement, prayer, and practical wisdom for life in America today. He also highlights the show’s website, the hosts’ books, and the program’s ongoing desire to help people move forward with hope, clarity, and stronger faith.
Frank Roberson and Black Rhino Group
The guest for the episode is Frank Roberson, founder of the Black Rhino Group, a protection and security organization. Pastor Joe introduces Frank as someone who works in protective services, counterintelligence, and security preparedness for families, businesses, and public leaders. When Frank joins the show, he shares that Black Rhino is expanding and may be acquiring its first security company to build out a uniformed division. He also says the world of protection is changing quickly because technology is evolving so fast.
Smart Glasses, AI, and the New Surveillance Problem
A major focus of the conversation is emerging technology, especially Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and similar devices. Frank explains that glasses with hidden or subtle camera functions create new security risks because people can record video, capture documents, photograph credit cards, observe jewelry stores, or gather private information without others realizing it. The group discusses how this can affect malls, medical offices, corporate meetings, financial institutions, and everyday family privacy. Frank emphasizes that the same tools available to security professionals are also available to criminals.
Data Privacy, Cloud Storage, and Digital Exposure
The discussion expands into data privacy and the risks of cloud storage, facial recognition, AI-generated images, and social media data. Frank explains that uploaded videos, photos, and recordings may pass through systems controlled by third parties, contractors, or cloud providers, leaving people uncertain about who has access. He also discusses AI photo tools that can create realistic images of people using uploaded pictures, warning that someone could gather photos from social media and create fake profiles, poses, websites, or misleading content.
Scams, Phishing, and Protecting Personal Information
Frank gives several examples of modern scams, including fake invoices, fraudulent text messages, fake Apple or AT&T alerts, payday-loan threats, gift-card scams, fake legal-service calls, and voice imitation scams targeting grandparents. He explains that criminals may study billing patterns, imitate companies, slightly alter email addresses, and trick people into paying fake bills. His advice is to avoid clicking suspicious links, independently look up company contact information, call the company directly, and never volunteer personal details just because someone on the phone asks for verification.
Social Security Numbers, Travel Posts, and Everyday Risk
The hosts discuss how easily people give away identifying information. Frank explains that social security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and travel information can be combined to steal identities, commit fraud, or target homes. He warns against posting vacation photos while still away, because criminals can use public social media information to know that a house is empty. The group also discusses family code words as a practical tool when someone receives a frightening call that appears to be from a relative in danger.
Security, Churches, and the Problem of Visibility
The conversation turns to physical security, including churches, public events, and protective details. Frank says many churches are vulnerable because they are open, welcoming, and often not security-minded. He also criticizes overly visible security teams that draw attention to themselves with tactical gear, open firearms, or dramatic behavior. In his view, good protection often means blending into the environment, staying unnoticed, and positioning people wisely rather than making a show of force.
Protective Work and Practical Wisdom
Frank uses examples from jewelry escorts, public figures, high-net-worth families, restaurants, malls, and public events to explain how proper security works. He says protection is often about preparation, observation, and quiet placement, not ego or intimidation. Pastor Joe and the team connect Frank’s practical advice to a larger theme of preparedness: people should not live in fear, but they should be aware, wise, and ready. The episode closes with Dr. Paul Hall praying for Frank, his wife Chrissy, Black Rhino, and all those involved in protection work, asking for wisdom, safety, and God’s guidance.
Digital Threats, Family Safety, and Faithful Preparedness in a Changing World
Guest, Frank Roberson with the Black Rhino Protection Agency
Friends,
Monday night we're thrilled to welcome back our dear friend and valued family member Frank Roberson. With expertise in protective services, counterintelligence, and threat analysis, Frank will share insights on safeguarding political leaders, like President Trump, and cultivating 'Situational Awareness' for everyday life.
By learning from Frank's expertise, you'll gain clarity on navigating life's challenges and understand the importance of preparedness in the face of adversity. Lives can depend on it, and with this knowledge, you'll be better equipped to protect and serve your loved ones.
Frank will offer practical wisdom to help you navigate life's complexities with confidence.
You won’t want to miss this powerful discussion.
Pastor Joe Opens Raising Expectations
In this episode of Raising Expectations, Pastor Joe Schofield welcomes listeners and introduces the show’s regular team, including Stefanie Thayer, Dr. Craig Thayer, Dr. Paul Hall, Ron Greer, and the wider Raising Expectations family. Pastor Joe reminds listeners that the program is rooted in Christian faith, encouragement, prayer, and practical wisdom for life in America today. He also highlights the show’s website, the hosts’ books, and the program’s ongoing desire to help people move forward with hope, clarity, and stronger faith.
Frank Roberson and Black Rhino Group
The guest for the episode is Frank Roberson, founder of the Black Rhino Group, a protection and security organization. Pastor Joe introduces Frank as someone who works in protective services, counterintelligence, and security preparedness for families, businesses, and public leaders. When Frank joins the show, he shares that Black Rhino is expanding and may be acquiring its first security company to build out a uniformed division. He also says the world of protection is changing quickly because technology is evolving so fast.
Smart Glasses, AI, and the New Surveillance Problem
A major focus of the conversation is emerging technology, especially Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and similar devices. Frank explains that glasses with hidden or subtle camera functions create new security risks because people can record video, capture documents, photograph credit cards, observe jewelry stores, or gather private information without others realizing it. The group discusses how this can affect malls, medical offices, corporate meetings, financial institutions, and everyday family privacy. Frank emphasizes that the same tools available to security professionals are also available to criminals.
Data Privacy, Cloud Storage, and Digital Exposure
The discussion expands into data privacy and the risks of cloud storage, facial recognition, AI-generated images, and social media data. Frank explains that uploaded videos, photos, and recordings may pass through systems controlled by third parties, contractors, or cloud providers, leaving people uncertain about who has access. He also discusses AI photo tools that can create realistic images of people using uploaded pictures, warning that someone could gather photos from social media and create fake profiles, poses, websites, or misleading content.
Scams, Phishing, and Protecting Personal Information
Frank gives several examples of modern scams, including fake invoices, fraudulent text messages, fake Apple or AT&T alerts, payday-loan threats, gift-card scams, fake legal-service calls, and voice imitation scams targeting grandparents. He explains that criminals may study billing patterns, imitate companies, slightly alter email addresses, and trick people into paying fake bills. His advice is to avoid clicking suspicious links, independently look up company contact information, call the company directly, and never volunteer personal details just because someone on the phone asks for verification.
Social Security Numbers, Travel Posts, and Everyday Risk
The hosts discuss how easily people give away identifying information. Frank explains that social security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and travel information can be combined to steal identities, commit fraud, or target homes. He warns against posting vacation photos while still away, because criminals can use public social media information to know that a house is empty. The group also discusses family code words as a practical tool when someone receives a frightening call that appears to be from a relative in danger.
Security, Churches, and the Problem of Visibility
The conversation turns to physical security, including churches, public events, and protective details. Frank says many churches are vulnerable because they are open, welcoming, and often not security-minded. He also criticizes overly visible security teams that draw attention to themselves with tactical gear, open firearms, or dramatic behavior. In his view, good protection often means blending into the environment, staying unnoticed, and positioning people wisely rather than making a show of force.
Protective Work and Practical Wisdom
Frank uses examples from jewelry escorts, public figures, high-net-worth families, restaurants, malls, and public events to explain how proper security works. He says protection is often about preparation, observation, and quiet placement, not ego or intimidation. Pastor Joe and the team connect Frank’s practical advice to a larger theme of preparedness: people should not live in fear, but they should be aware, wise, and ready. The episode closes with Dr. Paul Hall praying for Frank, his wife Chrissy, Black Rhino, and all those involved in protection work, asking for wisdom, safety, and God’s guidance.
Sound Healing with David Gibson
Musical Intervals and The Music of Relationship:
David Gibson on Intervals, Harmony, and Dissonance
David Gibson Opens Sound Healing
In this episode of Sound Healing, host David Gibson opens with updates from the Sound Healing Center, Globe Institute, and upcoming programs, including open houses, summer intensives, online certificate training, recording classes, the Mount Shasta Sound Healing Retreat, and voice-analysis software training. He then introduces the central topic of the episode: musical intervals, or the relationship between two notes, as a model for understanding the relationship between every kind of thing in the universe.
Musical Intervals as States of Consciousness
David explains that musical intervals are not only musical structures, but also feelings or states of consciousness. He walks through several intervals, including unison, octaves, perfect fifths, perfect fourths, major thirds, major seconds, minor seconds, sixths, and sevenths. He describes unison and octaves as deeply harmonious, the perfect fifth as calming, sweet, healing, and movement-oriented, the perfect fourth as spacious and suspended, and more dissonant intervals as activating rather than inherently bad. His point is that each interval carries a specific emotional or energetic quality.
Ratios, Frequencies, and Sacred Geometry
David then connects musical intervals to mathematics. An octave is a two-to-one ratio, a perfect fifth is three-to-two, a perfect fourth is four-to-three, a major third is five-to-four, and a minor third is six-to-five. He explains that these ratios can also appear in sacred geometry, such as the relationship between the lengths of sides in a triangle. For David, this means intervals are not just sounds; they are measurable relationships that can appear in space, form, vibration, and proportion.
Timbre, Harmonics, and Sound Healing Instruments
David distinguishes between musical intervals created by two separate notes and the hidden intervals inside a single sound. When a person sings one note, or when an instrument such as a gong, harp, Tibetan bowl, or piano produces a sound, that single sound contains many frequencies and harmonic relationships. He explains that activating instruments such as gongs, bagpipes, saxophones, and clarinets may contain more dissonant internal relationships, while instruments such as harp, acoustic guitar, and wood drum can contain warmer, sweeter relationships. This helps explain why different instruments affect the body and emotions differently.
Intervals in Nature, Color, Geometry, and the Planets
The episode expands from music into nature and cosmology. David says atoms, molecules, elements, colors, geometries, planets, moons, and orbital relationships can all be understood through interval-like relationships. He gives examples such as hydrogen and oxygen forming water, colors that harmonize or clash, and planetary relationships connected to the ancient idea of the music of the spheres. He also discusses Jupiter’s moons and the Earth-Sun relationship as examples of cosmic ratios and vibrational relationships.
The Body as a Harmonic Structure
David applies the same idea to the human body, saying every cell, organ, and medical system has frequencies and relationships. He suggests that health may be understood as harmonious interval relationships among the parts of the body, while illness may involve disrupted or dissonant relationships. He speculates that if researchers could identify the musical-interval “template of perfection” among cells, organs, and body systems, sound could potentially be used to support healing across many conditions.
Emotions, Thoughts, Souls, and Relationships
David also applies musical intervals to inner life. He describes emotional conflicts, such as loving and hating someone at the same time, as dissonant relationships. Positive emotions such as gratitude, compassion, love, and joy are described as more coherent frequencies that can move together in harmonious ways. He extends this to thoughts, soul relationships, twin flames, soul groups, and romantic or personal chemistry, suggesting that people may experience each other as harmonious or dissonant based on deeper frequency relationships.
Musical Intervals Across Every Subject
Near the end, David explains that the Sound Education Association is building curriculum for children that brings frequency, musical flow, and interval relationships into subjects such as math, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, communication, social science, history, economics, environmental science, art, engineering, computer science, physical education, ethics, philosophy, and medicine. His larger vision is that every subject can be understood as a study of relationships, and every relationship can be experienced as a kind of musical interval.
Moving Toward Harmony While Honoring Dissonance
David closes by playing part of his song “Awakening,” which he says is built largely around the musical fifth. He encourages listeners to notice harmony and dissonance in their lives, but not to judge dissonance as bad. Just as water hitting rocks or waves crashing into shore can create beautiful turbulence, dissonance can activate movement and help break up stuck energy. The final message is to move toward harmony whenever possible while recognizing that all relationships, even challenging ones, can serve a purpose in the larger music of life.
Musical Intervals and The Music of Relationship:
David Gibson on Intervals, Harmony, and Dissonance
David Gibson Opens Sound Healing
In this episode of Sound Healing, host David Gibson opens with updates from the Sound Healing Center, Globe Institute, and upcoming programs, including open houses, summer intensives, online certificate training, recording classes, the Mount Shasta Sound Healing Retreat, and voice-analysis software training. He then introduces the central topic of the episode: musical intervals, or the relationship between two notes, as a model for understanding the relationship between every kind of thing in the universe.
Musical Intervals as States of Consciousness
David explains that musical intervals are not only musical structures, but also feelings or states of consciousness. He walks through several intervals, including unison, octaves, perfect fifths, perfect fourths, major thirds, major seconds, minor seconds, sixths, and sevenths. He describes unison and octaves as deeply harmonious, the perfect fifth as calming, sweet, healing, and movement-oriented, the perfect fourth as spacious and suspended, and more dissonant intervals as activating rather than inherently bad. His point is that each interval carries a specific emotional or energetic quality.
Ratios, Frequencies, and Sacred Geometry
David then connects musical intervals to mathematics. An octave is a two-to-one ratio, a perfect fifth is three-to-two, a perfect fourth is four-to-three, a major third is five-to-four, and a minor third is six-to-five. He explains that these ratios can also appear in sacred geometry, such as the relationship between the lengths of sides in a triangle. For David, this means intervals are not just sounds; they are measurable relationships that can appear in space, form, vibration, and proportion.
Timbre, Harmonics, and Sound Healing Instruments
David distinguishes between musical intervals created by two separate notes and the hidden intervals inside a single sound. When a person sings one note, or when an instrument such as a gong, harp, Tibetan bowl, or piano produces a sound, that single sound contains many frequencies and harmonic relationships. He explains that activating instruments such as gongs, bagpipes, saxophones, and clarinets may contain more dissonant internal relationships, while instruments such as harp, acoustic guitar, and wood drum can contain warmer, sweeter relationships. This helps explain why different instruments affect the body and emotions differently.
Intervals in Nature, Color, Geometry, and the Planets
The episode expands from music into nature and cosmology. David says atoms, molecules, elements, colors, geometries, planets, moons, and orbital relationships can all be understood through interval-like relationships. He gives examples such as hydrogen and oxygen forming water, colors that harmonize or clash, and planetary relationships connected to the ancient idea of the music of the spheres. He also discusses Jupiter’s moons and the Earth-Sun relationship as examples of cosmic ratios and vibrational relationships.
The Body as a Harmonic Structure
David applies the same idea to the human body, saying every cell, organ, and medical system has frequencies and relationships. He suggests that health may be understood as harmonious interval relationships among the parts of the body, while illness may involve disrupted or dissonant relationships. He speculates that if researchers could identify the musical-interval “template of perfection” among cells, organs, and body systems, sound could potentially be used to support healing across many conditions.
Emotions, Thoughts, Souls, and Relationships
David also applies musical intervals to inner life. He describes emotional conflicts, such as loving and hating someone at the same time, as dissonant relationships. Positive emotions such as gratitude, compassion, love, and joy are described as more coherent frequencies that can move together in harmonious ways. He extends this to thoughts, soul relationships, twin flames, soul groups, and romantic or personal chemistry, suggesting that people may experience each other as harmonious or dissonant based on deeper frequency relationships.
Musical Intervals Across Every Subject
Near the end, David explains that the Sound Education Association is building curriculum for children that brings frequency, musical flow, and interval relationships into subjects such as math, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, communication, social science, history, economics, environmental science, art, engineering, computer science, physical education, ethics, philosophy, and medicine. His larger vision is that every subject can be understood as a study of relationships, and every relationship can be experienced as a kind of musical interval.
Moving Toward Harmony While Honoring Dissonance
David closes by playing part of his song “Awakening,” which he says is built largely around the musical fifth. He encourages listeners to notice harmony and dissonance in their lives, but not to judge dissonance as bad. Just as water hitting rocks or waves crashing into shore can create beautiful turbulence, dissonance can activate movement and help break up stuck energy. The final message is to move toward harmony whenever possible while recognizing that all relationships, even challenging ones, can serve a purpose in the larger music of life.
