Why They Listen Podcast

Kylie Flinker-Jarrett is the Customer Experience & Digital Education Manager for DePuy Synthes ANZ at Johnson & Johnson. She is focused on delivering dynamic and engaging digital solutions which improve educational experiences for the orthopedic community. During COVID Kylie used the platform to provide educational and training content to doctors and nurses when the sales reps were unable to visit them. Kylie shares on WTL how the AIMCAST platform is keeping communication and education at the cutting edge.

Joe Agresta has been a global Senior Leader with a career spanning 39 years at Johnson & Johnson and Allied Signal. His experience spans across Global Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Program and Product Line Management.    In his 19 years at Johnson & Johnson, Joe has held Vice President leadership positions of increasing scope.  In both J&J and Allied Signal Joe has been a leader in the design and execution of Category Management and Supply Chain operating models. Most recently for Johnson and Johnson Joe served as the leader of critical Global Supply Chain sourcing processes and was a member of the Johnson and Johnson Product Supply Leadership Team. In addition,  he has been the Executive Sponsor of the Construction Capital and Facilities Services Category. Prior to creating the Global Procurement Excellence Team Joe served as Vice President and CPO for J&J's Pharmaceutical Sector Supply Chain Procurement Organization. In his post Corporate career Joe, as a thought leader in the industry, formed JNA Leadership Consulting providing consult on Talent Development, Risk Management, Leadership and Operating Model Design to corporate clients.   With teaching and coaching as his passion Joe joined the Rutgers Business School Faculty as Assistant Professor of Professional Practice Supply Chain. He brings his unique perspective form theoretical to the practical end-end Supply Chain. Joe continues his engagement with industry as the Supply Chain program leader for Industry Client relationships, projects and alumni engagement. He has recently been appointed Coadjutant for the M.S in Healthcare Analytics and Intelligence Program.    Joe continues to mentor veterans and military service associates  as member of the American Corporate Partners (ACP) industry group. He is part of a national team developing leadership education for persons with disabilities.    Joe is honored to teach, coach, advice and provide end to end thought leadership around the globe for the students at  Rutgers University!

Dan is a Marketing Director, Voice Over artist, proud Navy veteran, loving dog father and husband, grateful cancer survivor, and so much more! Raised in Hollywood, CA it was a small step into the business of media. Working in the industry since the days when cut and paste meant scissors and glue and recordings were on tape! He’s worked in television, radio, and magazines for companies like Clear Channel, SPIN, and Conde Nast, and for start-ups launching environmental and pop culture magazines. Proud to currently be serving as an Oxnard Ambassador supporting the Military, Education, and Community at large in his adopted home of Port Hueneme, CA. Past volunteer time includes Community Resource Development Council, US Sailing, and frequent speaking engagements at conferences for students and professionals in the media industry.  Dan talks about effective internal corporate communication and the new technologies like AIMeCAST that are making headways and bringing people closer together.

Steve O’Brien is a very fortunate man, and he knows it: an amazing wife, wonderful kids, and his other great passion, voice over. Not to mention an insightful business partner (his French Bulldog, Hugo). Steve spent has many years behind a microphone working in radio.  During that time, he began doing freelance voice work. Over time, Steve’s voice over business grew to point that he could no longer continue in radio. He said goodbye, with a full heart, to the industry that gave him his start as a storyteller. He’s never looked back. Taking direction well, giving you the read you want, and making your script come to life are all in a day’s work for Steve. In 2021, Steve launched the podcast The Voice Over Hustle. Steve’s guests include of business and industry pros, who give advice to both novice and seasoned voice actors alike.

Natalie Jones is a Clinical Nurse Educator.  Through her transformational leadership style, Jones is known for collaborating with inter-professional teams to develop learning organizations. One example is the implementation of the LOTUS Inter-professional ICU Bedside Rounding Tool, which resulted in positive patient outcomes of earlier extubations and decreased ICU length of stay. As a DNP candidate at Thomas Edison State University, Jones is invested in continuously updating policies and protocols to support evidence-based best practices in nursing and person-centered care.   In an adult medical intensive care unit, an inter-professional team shares a vision to support a patient and family-centered care model. In this study, a rounding tool was created to capture patient stories to address social determinants and work toward realistic and achievable goals at the point of care: the patient’s bedside. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, this model was challenged, as a no visitation policy was in place. A nurse champion was utilized to observe rounds and provide videoconferencing with patients and families to sustain the model. During the crisis, communication varied daily causing stress for the nursing staff. Natalie partnered with AIMeCast for this project to create a solution that improves communication and morale across the nursing community.

Hayley Luckadoo started her entrepreneurial journey as a wedding planner, before opening a second business as well. She’s now a serial entrepreneur in the digital marketing space, and hosts her passion project, the Females On Fire podcast. Since she started out in business when she was still in college, she’s had a different business journey than most, and loves sharing her best advice for fellow entrepreneurs. More than that, she loves inspiring other women to not only succeed in business, but go after their biggest, wildest dreams and enjoys creating motivational content through various personal development platforms. Hayley isn’t your typical speaker, and takes a more comfortable approach to connecting with her audience, always focusing on keeping the energy high and even getting them on their feet. Though she identifies more as an introvert in a one-on-one setting, Hayley speaks to her audience like she’s their best girlfriend, and loves any opportunity to have fun and connect with people.

Hamish Thrum is a Senior Director of MiSight APAC at CooperVision. He has always had a natural inclination towards digital technology including robotic surgery and tools to digitally interact with customers.     Prior to commencing with CooperVision, he spent 20 years in the medical device industry in sales and marketing. His focus was mainly in the surgical field with cardiovascular, neurology, plastic surgery and orthopaedics. Hamish was one of the early adopters and users of AIMeCAST and is a huge fan of how it helps better educate and train within an organization.      

Doryn Wallach is an award-winning fine jewelry designer and former interior designer, social worker, radio show host and lifestyle blogger.  Feeling lost in her 40s, she started reaching out to her network of friends — including experts in beauty, health, parenting, fashion, business and more — to help find her path. Her podcast “It’s Not a Crisis” was born when Doryn realized that her search for answers could help other women navigate their journeys as well. Listen in as Doryn shares what her amazing platform is all about and how it has become an incredible resource to its listeners and WHY THEY LISTEN.    

Walt Luizaga is the Head of US and Region Americas Procurement at DB Schenker.    He has over 19 years of business experience in the pharmaceutical, consumer products, energy, media & entertainment, and consulting industries. His strength is in procurement and strategic sourcing with a concentration in process improvement, change management and value generation (cost savings and avoidance) Diverse purchasing background includes global and low cost country sourcing experience managing both direct and indirect categories. Extensive operations experience in manufacturing and third party contract manufacturers' management.  At DB Schenker, Walt his helping to connect across the organization and to their clients utilizing podcasting.  Listen in and learn all about how this global logistics company is now delivering effective messaging as part of their business.  

JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist and Host of The Fit 2 Love Podcast Show. She is the Director of Invisible Fitness, an Amazon best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and author of Knack Absolute Abs: Routines for a Fit and Firm Core, and was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles by Elite Traveler Magazine.  A video expert for About.com and regular contributor for The Daily Love, JJ has been featured in many national magazines such as Shape, Fitness, Muscle and Fitness HERS, Elegant Bride, and Women’s Health as well as appeared on NBC, CBS, Fox 11 and KTLA. For her clients & followers, JJ designs customized coaching programs and unique, versatile approaches that harmonize the emotional, the mental and the spiritual.  For her listeners, she has created an impressive display of programming that has made her into one of the pre-eminent podcasters and a true guru at targeting the ideal audience. She shares her story, her passion and why they listen with Lou Diamond.

"The Digital Dive" is a conversational podcast hosted by YouTubers Jacklyn Dallas and Darsh Khithani where they discuss the latest tech news, Internet culture and the process behind creating an online business. Darsh and Jacklyn share with Lou how this program came to be and how they have created a new community through combining forces, audiences and their passion for technology. You can check out all of Darsh and Jacklyn's channels using the links below! The Digital Dive Pod: youtu.be/e_K4Odn4TCs Darsh's channel: YouTube.com/Darsh Jacklyn's channel: YouTube.com/NBTJacklyn    

Doug Sandler is an entrepreneur and podcast industry leader. His book, Nice Guys Finish First is a #1 ranked Amazon Best Seller. As a podcast host of The Nice Guys on Business, Doug has interviewed, Gary V, Arianna Huffington, John C. Maxwell and dozens of celebs. Doug is a nationally recognized speaker, writer, and founder of TurnKey Podcast Productions, providing podcast production, editing and launch services. His Nice Guys podcast, with over 1,000 episodes has been downloaded 3.5 million times, in more than 175 countries. Doug connects with Lou Diamond on WHY THEY LISTEN to discuss two unique programs he hosts with very niche audiences: SALES TRAINING FOR PODCASTERS &  FORD MUSTANG - THE EARLY YEARS PODCAST

Jim Haney is Director, Supply Chain Customer Solutions in Johnson & Johnson’s Medical Devices sector.  In this role, Jim and his team collaborate with large health systems to drive operational efficiencies.   Jim has been with Ethicon since 1999, holding a variety of positions in Marketing, Account Management, Supply Chain and Health Economics & Market Access. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Jim was a Corporate Accounts Director for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, responsible for contracting with managed care organizations to secure formulary status for Novartis’ branded pharmaceutical portfolio. Prior to Novartis, he worked as an Account Executive for Aetna, selling managed care plans to larger employers in a number of markets, to include Chicago and Pittsburgh. Jim is one of the many within Ethicon leading the charge in helping to bring insights into Ethicon's solutions and how they're bringing value to their customers. He's also utilizing the AIMeCAST platform to improve communication within his team and across the organization.  

Laurie Barkman is the founder and CEO of SmallDotBig, providing innovation and growth solutions for entrepreneurs and multi-generational businesses.  Laurie brings an entrepreneurial approach to mature companies struggling with change, and a structured approach to fast-growth companies experiencing growing pains. As an outside executive of a third generation, 120-year old company, she was part of a long-term management succession plan. Now she works with next generation entrepreneurs, privately-held companies, and family businesses to develop innovations that create enterprise value and transition plans to achieve their long-term goals. Laurie is the Creator and Host of the Succession Stories podcast​- innovation and transition insights for next generation entrepreneurs.  And she's an Instructor of Entrepreneurship at the Corporate Startup Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. *** "WHY THEY LISTEN" is powered by AIMeCAST - Produced by THRIVE LOUD Productions Hosted by Lou Diamond

Two-time NBA All-Star, Olympic Gold Medalist and Philanthropist Allan Houston is featured on "WHY THEY LISTEN".  Allan founded FISLL - a social impact brand providing leadership training, legacy development and consumer products. FISLL exists to engage, equip and inspire people to Live Better, Perform Better, and Lead Better. FISLL actuates 5 essential values of Faith, Integrity, Sacrifice, Leadership, & Legacy as language to promote healthy mind, body and spirit.  Listen in as Allan shares the focus of how The FISLL brand; FISLL's media channels and digital learning platform, publications, podcasts, virtual events and the FISLL mobile app; FISLL’s merchandising division are all engaging and empowering its users. Through the Allan Houston Legacy Foundation (AHLF) - a multi-dimensional organization created to work with any individual, program, business, or institution that serves the community.  AHLF manages The FISLL Project (TFP) which serves as its signature social impact arm. The FISLL Project focuses on Youth Voice and Leadership cultivation, combining the model of leadership teaching and restorative behavioral science with mentorship, character development, media content, events, and programming.  In this episode, you'll learn why everyone should listen to the Allan and the initiatives around the FISLL project.  

In this episode of WHY THEY LISTEN - we learn  visionary Leader, strategist, negotiator and deal-maker Corey Kupfer. A business owner from age 15, attorney Corey Kupfer has represented, trained and mentored thousands of companies and entrepreneurs to create leaps in their business growth. He now offers that same expertise through his company  DealQuest™ and as host of his podcast show of the same name.  Why do some companies grow by leaps and bounds while others only inch forward? Simple. They embrace deal-driven growth in addition to organic growth! The DealQuest podcast is where you learn how to strategize, prepare for, find, and complete deals to grow your company faster. Listen in as host Corey Kupfer shares an inside look at his amazing platform and how he's created a specific place where deal makers can openly share the secret to deals they have done (or failed to do) and the issues, opportunities, benefits, pitfalls and lessons learned. *** "WHY THEY LISTEN" is powered by AIMeCAST - Produced by THRIVE LOUD Productions Hosted by Lou Diamond  

Dr. Lyke is a clinical translational investigator with recognized expertise in malaria, tropical diseases, and parasite immunology. Dr. Lyke is board certified in adult Infectious Diseases and maintains an HIV clinic in addition to attending on the hospital wards as an Infectious Diseases Attending. She is the current Director of The Malaria Vaccine and Challenge Unit.  Currently, she conducts malaria and tropical diseases vaccine studies. Dr. Lyke has rebuilt the malaria challenge capabilities at UMB, which has led to novel vaccine work including the first-in-humans challenge trial of a whole-organism Pf sporozoite malaria vaccine and the first-in-humans aseptic malaria challenge. She has planned and led studies aimed at developing parenterally-administered malaria challenges and continues to advance the whole organism, Pf sporozoite malaria vaccine approach through Phase I, II and upcoming Phase III trials. She was the site Principal Investigator for the first Phase I domestic Ebola vaccine trials and is currently leading Ebola and Dengue vaccine trials and participating in the first Zika vaccine trial. Dr. Kirsten Lyke was recently featured in Rolling Stone magazine as one of the people we are counting on for a COVID-19 vaccine.

In this episode of WHY THEY LISTEN - we learn from Andrea Koppel, the founder and chief java junkie of Time4Coffee.org.  A company with a mission to help one million college students turn their degrees into careers they’ll love.   Since founding Time4Coffee in early 2018, years before the coronavirus made in person networking coffees next to impossible, Andrea has had hundreds of virtual networking coffees with people – in dozens of different careers.  These ‘caffeinated career conversations’ cover topics like: what different jobs are really like; how young people can break into these industries; how to bounce back from career fails and how people found their professional passions.  Today Time4Coffee has thousands of fans in 160 countries and all 50 states. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur and podcaster, Andrea zigged and zagged her way across three different careers.  She started out her professional life as a journalist where she spent 20 years, the last 14 of them as an on-air correspondent with CNN as a foreign correspondent in Asia and then covering American foreign and domestic policy.  She then pivoted into public relations and eventually into the nonprofit world, leading global affairs and policy for Mercy Corps, an international humanitarian and development organization.   Andrea has a B.A. in political science, Asian studies and Chinese from Middlebury College.   *** "WHY THEY LISTEN" is powered by AIMeCAST - Produced by THRIVE LOUD Productions Hosted by Lou Diamond  

In this episode of WHY THEY LISTEN - we learn from Jasper Daniel from the Global Strategic Marketing team at Ethicon, within Johnson & Johnson. Jasper along with many of his colleagues across Ethicon AND JnJ are utilizing podcasting INSIDE the organization to connect, educate and share learnings.   Hear how Jasper and his team partnered with AIMeCAST to come up with the ideal platform for a very specific and unique listening audience. *** "WHY THEY LISTEN" is powered by AIMeCAST - Produced by THRIVE LOUD Productions Hosted by Lou Diamond  

David B. Falk is an American sports agent who primarily works with basketball players in the National Basketball Association. Falk began his career representing professional tennis players for Donald Dell's ProServ and is best known for representing sports icon Michael Jordan for the entirety of Jordan's career. Besides Jordan, Falk has represented more than 100 other NBA players, and is generally considered to be the most influential player agent the NBA has seen. During the peak years of Falk's career in the 1990s, he was often considered the second-most powerful person in the NBA behind Commissioner David Stern, and in 2000 he had at least one client on all but two NBA teams. He was listed among the "100 Most Powerful People in Sports" for 12 straight years from 1990 to 2001 by The Sporting News, and was also named one of the Top 50 Marketers in the United States by Advertising Age in 1995. David connects with Lou Diamond on "WHY THEY LISTEN" and shares how through his hard work, amazing experiences and powerful connections has earned him the voice that gets his clients to listen.  

Have you ever thought about why you choose to listen to something?   Why do your ears perk up for certain sounds?  What peaks your interest?  What entices you to want to hear more?   Why are some sounds more soothing to listen to over others?   From birds chirping in the morning to crickets creaking through the night.   From loud honking horns to peaceful crashing ocean waves....    Our ears, like all of the five senses, are pretty particular and specific as to what pleases them and what doesn’t.   The sounds we hear stimulate us… and when we listen really carefully the connections they make inspire us.   For centuries this has been true of music….and the genres we listen to. Songs, instruments and lyrics connect uniquely with each and every one of us.   And most recently, over the last few years, the same can also be said for podcasting and audio programming.   Where the exponential growth is connecting with more and more people than ever before.   My name is Lou Diamond and I have had the incredible fortune to be involved in podcasting and audio content for several years now.  To date, I’ve hosted more than 4 podcast programs across a myriad of topics - business, leadership, marketing, sports & entertainment.  One of my shows, Thrive LOUD with Lou Diamond, has had over 500 episodes and counting and has connected to millions of listeners worldwide.     As a speaker and a business growth consultant, I’ve worked with many organizations in helping them better connect to their people, their customers and their prospects.  And Podcasting has been an important growth engine for my own business -- engaging me with many new clients, business alliances and partnerships.   Brought to you by AIMeCAST - the Next Generation of Internal and External Communications . We created this podcast  “WHY THEY LISTEN” to feature how companies, leaders and brands are using multimedia podcasting to better create their content, engage their audience and convey their message.   As your host, I will provide you a front row seat into discussions with thought leaders and innovative podcasters-- from large organizations to small business owners--that are using the medium to grow their own businesses, sell products and services, and profit from how they’re using their voice.   You’ll hear from a range of guests that have found unique ways to use multimedia podcasting as the basis for training, development, social interaction and culture and community building.   You’ll have a chance to learn from expert marketers, master communicators, creative educators and innovative entrepreneurs that create engaging content to excite audiences and draw in more and more listeners each day.   Our goal: is for you, the listener, to connect to those that have a great understanding of their specific content creation and help you learn the value of what they bring to their audience...and  WHY THEY LISTEN… *****   WHY THEY LISTEN is powered by AIMeCAST.  Each episode is hosted and produced by Lou Diamond and Thrive LOUD Productions.  Marketing for the WHY THEY LISTEN podcast is coordinated by Andrew Rimland.  The music for WHY THEY LISTEN was written, recorded and produced by Steve Rimland.  The podcast artwork was designed by Anna Nygren.     Episodes of WHY THEY LISTEN can be heard wherever you listen to your podcasts and tune in EACH week to connect to listen to new conversations with of innovative leaders and communicators.   THANK you for listening.