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Can you really live well abroad on just $650 a month? In this episode, we react to a Black woman's story of leaving the U.S. to teach in Oman, earning $44K a year while keeping her living expenses surprisingly low. From lifestyle adjustments to cultural surprises, we unpack what life looks like in the Middle East and whether the trade-offs are worth it.
Take 10 with Tim – May 16, 2025 – 9:30/8:30 am1.The next crop of kids have arrived – Your thoughts on projections for the rest of the season (AB, HR, SB)a.Jordan Lawlar (IF, AZ)b.Moises Ballesteros (C, CHC)c.Matthew Lugo (3B/OF, LAA)d.Dalton Rushing (C/OF, LAD)2.Let's grade the following Rookies hitters (A through F) and discuss whether they are a growth stock, need to back down, or not what we thought.1)Dylan Crews (Was, OF) – 148 AB, 5 HR, 11 SB, .189 BA, 44K/8BB2)Kristian Campbell (Bos, 2B) – 142 AB, 5 HR, 2 SB, .246 BA, 45K/20BB3)Jacob Wilson (ATH, SS) – 164 AB, 5 HR, 2 SB, .354 BA, 9K/7BB4)Trey Sweeney (Det, SS) - 139 AB, 5 HR, 2 SB, .266 BA, 34K/14BB5)Cam Smith (Hou, OF) – 98 AB, 3 HR, 1 SB, .214 BA, 34K/12BB6)Jasson Dominguez (NYY, OF) – 125 AB, 5 HR, 3 SB, .240 BA, 44K/16 BB7)Chandler Simpson (TB, OF) – 82 AB, 0 HR, 7 SB, .268 BA, 10K/4BB3.Let's grade the following pitchers (A through F) and discuss whether they are a growth stock, need to back down, or not what we thought.1)Will Warren (NYY) – 41.0 IP, 2 wins, 4.61 ERA, 50K/17BB2)Shane Smith (CHW) – 43.1 IP, 1 win, 2.08 ERA, 38K/15BB3)Jackson Jobe (Det) – 33.1 IP, 3 wins, 4.32 ERA, 27K/20BB4)Roki Sasaki (LAD) – 34.1 IP, 1 win, 4.72 ERA, 24K/22BB5)Chase Dollander (Col) – 34.0 IP, 2 wins, 6.88 ERA, 32K/16BB – he does have 2 out of the Rockies 7 wins (Grade on a curve?)4.After 35 years, Rob Manfred removed Pete Rose from the permanently ineligible list, allowing him to be considered for the Hall of Fame. a.How did you feel about this decision? We will have a discussion for a bit.b.Do you think he gets in?5.Aaron Nola – Yikes. He never threw very hard, but his four-seamer is off a mile per hour and it's getting destroyed (.611 SLG). Start, sit or drop?a.Here are some other pitchers that are struggling. Same question.i.Sandy Alcantara – 8.10 ERA, 1.637 WHIPii.Dustin May – 4.08 ERA, 1.24 WHIP. Not awful, but last four outings, he's been terrible, pitching to a 6.35 ERAiii.Luis Severino – 4.70 ERA, 1.32 WHIP6.Patrick Corbin looked like he was playing out the string after signing that great contract with Washington. He went unowned in most leagues. This year, he's been a different guy. Pitching for Texas, he's won three games and posting a 3.35 ERA. However, he's not striking out many (7 K/9) and his xERA is 4.52.a.You can't sell high (maybe you can), but what do you do here? Keep starting him every week? Pick and choose based on matchups? Something else?7.Are the Phillies starting to use Jordan Romano as part of a close committee? Do you trust him after how he's lookd this season?8.One more question that might come up tonight. We have plenty with what I've written.9.What one hitter are you targeting for this weekend's FAAB?10.What one pitcher are you targeting for this weekend's FAAB?
In this episode, we dive into the powerful story of how Alex Pardo transitioned from a corporate finance job to building a thriving real estate business. After a life-changing backpacking trip through Europe, Alex returned to the U.S. inspired by personal development books like Rich Dad Poor Dad and took a leap into real estate with no prior experience—just commitment and a direct mail campaign that led to his first $44K deal. Alex opens up about overcoming impostor syndrome, navigating pre-foreclosures at just 25 years old, and learning to trust himself as a problem-solver. From wholesaling hundreds of deals to paying off major IRS debt without shortcuts, his journey is packed with practical wisdom and mental breakthroughs. You'll hear how shifting his mindset helped him stay focused, even during market downturns. Eventually, Alex realized that chasing deals wasn't creating the freedom he wanted—so he pivoted. After experimenting with rentals, he discovered self-storage investing, which offered the cash flow and time freedom he'd been seeking all along. Tune in to learn how mindset, commitment, and strategic pivots can transform your real estate career! #RealEstateJourney #WholesalingHouses #FromCorporateToCashflow #RealEstateFreedom #MindsetMatters #REIStartUp #SelfStorageInvesting #FinancialFreedomNow #EscapeTheRatRace #EntrepreneurLife #RealEstateInvestor #RentalRealityCheck #PassiveIncomeGoals #NoTenantsNoToilets #InvestSmarter #BuildWealthDaily #RealEstateMotivation #SuccessMindset #FreedomThroughRealEstate #StartWithNothing #LevelUpYourLife #WealthThroughRealEstate #HustleToFreedom #DebtFreeJourney #GrowYourPortfolio #REIWisdom #RealEstateStrategy #CashflowMindset #REIGamePlan #ScalingSmart #FreedomFocused #YoungInvestorTips #REIInspiration #NoExcusesJustAction #RealEstateWins #FocusAndExecute #LearnInvestGrow #SmartMoneyMoves #RealTalkREI #DealMakerDiaries #LifeOnYourTerms
From $44K rentals to building luxury Class A developments, Justin Gooden shares his incredible journey to success in real estate investing!
What exactly is going on with Arizona Iced Tea and their .99 price? As we reach peak grilling season, what in the world has happened to grill sales? $44K of metal plaques honoring teachers chiseled out of sidewalk by scrap thieves...
¡Qué Palo… Es Noticia! 24/04/2024 El presidente del panel de jueces del Tribunal de Apelaciones que ve el caso de los candidatos descualificados de Victoria Ciudadana tira la raya: "un caso difícil" y hay que ver si hay standing a la luz de la Ley Electoral. La secretaria de Corrección es una de las que se aumentó el salario en $44K anuales en su puesto de carrera. Presidente de España se lo piensa si dimite o no, ante ataques "fake news" de la derecha y ultra derecha a través de un seudosindicato que se alega tiene viculos con los dirigentes de Vox a través de Santiago Abascal y el presidente del PP, Alberto Núñez Feijó. ¡Sintoniza y comparte! #periodismodeinvestigación #periodismoindependiente #anaescobar #pedrosanchez #felixfigueroacaban
¡Qué Palo… Es Noticia! 24/04/2024 El presidente del panel de jueces del Tribunal de Apelaciones que ve el caso de los candidatos descualificados de Victoria Ciudadana tira la raya: "un caso difícil" y hay que ver si hay standing a la luz de la Ley Electoral. La secretaria de Corrección es una de las que se aumentó el salario en $44K anuales en su puesto de carrera. Presidente de España se lo piensa si dimite o no, ante ataques "fake news" de la derecha y ultra derecha a través de un seudosindicato que se alega tiene viculos con los dirigentes de Vox a través de Santiago Abascal y el presidente del PP, Alberto Núñez Feijó. ¡Sintoniza y comparte! #periodismodeinvestigación #periodismoindependiente #anaescobar #pedrosanchez #felixfigueroacaban
That is one serious mullet #stevebelichick congrats on being named DC of @uw_football best of luck. I think #nicksaban will be great on @collegegameday & #nfldraft enjoy retirement coach. #sbviii agree with #charlesbarkley damn fool to spend 44K on a ticket to the game. #nbatradedeadline is here. @companyadjace @call_me_company_prez & @robparker1980 had a heated debate but we agree Grimes had to go and two scorers in Alec Burks and #bojanbogdanovic will help come #nbaplayoffs @joewillie62 thumbs up too. @yankeesrecaps thoughts? Want the @nyknicks to clobber @dallasmavs tonight. Kyrie blaming Eric Adams for not playing enough with Nets. All on you buddy. @nyrangers nice win with #jonathanquick in the net. Rangers three wins in a row. 4-1-1 last 6. Keep it going @nhlblackhawks on Friday. The @brewers signed @elgarysanchez one year seven million. Nice if you can get it. #vladamirguerrerojr arbitration record $19.9M. Almost forgot. Watched for first time the epic #projectpeacock 1981 #nbc special “The Steeler & The Pittsburgh kid” starring #meanjoegreen & #henrythomas would love to interview them. Mean Joe was damn good.All sports. One podcast. (even hockey) PODCAST LINK ON ITUNES: http://bit.ly/JDTSPODCAST
In which we catch up on the holiday break, the latest in RHOSLC and pop culture, and our plans for 2024! Skips: Selena Gomez Says She Has ‘One More Album' in Her: ‘I'm Tired' [People] KENDALL JENNER & BAD BUNNYREUNITE WEEKS AFTER SPLIT … NYE Trip With Friends [TMZ] ‘RHONY' star Erin Lichy and husband sued for $44K in unpaid rent, claim they didn't pay because of rat infestation [PageSix] Andy Cohen, Anderson Cooper down tequila shots after CNN's New Year's alcohol ban: ‘Does daddy get his juice?' [NYPost] Brandi Glanville blames facial disfigurement on stress from Caroline Manzo scandal [PageSix] Ghislaine Maxwell breaks silence via an attorney on impending Epstein list release: "It's all about men abusing women for a long period of time… and it's only one person in jail—a woman." [DailyBeast] Main Stories: Sophie Turner Declares 2023 'Year of the Girlies' After Joe Jonas Split [JustJared] Ariana Grande slams ‘assumptions' about her love life after Dalton Gomez, Ethan Slater drama [PageSix] Amanda Bynes Pauses New Podcast After One Episode, Reason Why Reveal [JustJared] Britney Spears taps Charli XCX, Julia Michaels to write for first album in nearly a decade [PageSix] Grimes addresses being called a Nazi as custody battle with Elon Musk rages on: ‘I want my children to be brave' [PageSix] Vanderpump Rules Alum Stassi Schroeder Discovers She's Related to Gypsy Rose Blanchard: 'I'm Unwell' [People]
“Performance Corolla” is an oxymoron up there with “jumbo shrimp”, but the GR Corolla is not part of the Marvel alternative multiverse. It's real, and loads of fun. Starting at just $36,995 with shipping from the specialized factory in Japan, the GR is a performance bargain. 300 horsepower, all-wheel drive, and structural improvements all help to make it the most potent Corolla to date. And the Gazoo Racing visuals get attention… not always welcome. Tom Voelk checks out a Circuit edition that MSRPs at around $44K.
Lara Logan- Feds Still Surveille Trump Supporters and List them as Suspected Domestic Terrorists, J6 Ghost Buses Filled with Feds, Many J6 Feds Dressed as Trump Supporters inside Capital Before Opening etc… https://rumble.com/v41bw5m-truth-in-media-lara-logan-releases-new-j6-video-rep.-clay-higgins-tells-all.html
In crypto news today Bitcoin pumps to $44K, Memecoins start to pump is Alt season near? Patrick McHenrry announces retirement so what happens to Gary Gensler subpoena? Congressman Tom Emmer exposes SEC Bill Hinman Ethereum hypocrisy.
On today's episode, we'll discuss a range of topics, from Bitcoin ordinals to Solana, and strategically assess short-term market outlook, especially with Bitcoin surpassing 44K and much more! Tune in live every weekday Monday through Thursday from 5PM to 5:45PM EST Easy's YouTube Easy's Twitter Buy our NFT Join our discord Check out our Twitter Give us your thoughts on the show by leaving a rating. -- DISCLAIMER: You should never treat any opinion expressed by the hosts of this content as a recommendation to make a particular investment, or to follow a particular strategy. The thoughts and commentary on this show are an expression of the hosts' opinions and are for entertainment and informational purposes only. This show is never financial advice.
In this riveting episode, Matt Cook sits down with Summer Willis, a trailblazing golf influencer with an engineering background. With a following of over 130K on Instagram and 44K on TikTok, Summer has become a beacon for golf enthusiasts worldwide.
Kathleen opens the show drinking a Bud Light Crisp Apple Seltzer. She reviews her 4th of July week in Missouri, and her weekend in Atlantic City playing The Borgata, eating a sub from White House Subs, and a giant boat ride along the Boardwalk on the Atlantic with her friends. QUEEN NEWS: Kathleen reports that Queen Taylor Swift's Eras Tour has announced new dates in Australia Asia and Europe, and Queen Dolly's Irish fans set a world record when 1,000 dressed as the singer gathered in Listowel Ireland for a fundraiser. “GOOD BAD FOOD”: In her quest for delicious not-so-nutritious food, Kathleen samples Ruffles Honey Habanero chips, and Imo's Sweet n Spicy Wing Sauce. UPDATES: Kathleen gives updates that ground has broken on a new Ocala FL Buc-ee's which will be the world's largest, Anheuser-Busch denies claims that it fired 2 marketing execs responsible for the Dylan Mulvaney campaign and have launched a new “Backyard Grunts” campaign with Travis Kelce, “HOLY SHIT THEY FOUND IT”: Kathleen is amazed to read about the discovery of a giant pizza fresco on a wall in Pompeii, and a man finds a 1930s Duesenberg car worth $1M in an abandoned garage.FRONT PAGE PUB NEWS: Kathleen shares articles about a man who died after trying to drink all 21 cocktails on a menu in Jamaica, a new triangular-headed gecko species discovered in Vietnam, the world's biggest cruise ship, the Icon of the Seas, has completed construction in Finland, a Baton Rouge lawyer bought $44K worth of Rally Jello Shots on the final day of the College World Series, another air-breathing predatory snakehead fish is discovered in Missouri, Oregon is ending its 72-year ban on pumping your own gas, and gay Furries initiate a hacking spree in 5 states. NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS: Kathleen reports that Overstock.com is rebranding to Bed Bath & Beyond (online), and United Airlines unveils the real reason behind their recent US flight cancelations. WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK: Kathleen recommends watching her new stand-up Special “Hunting Bigfoot” on Prime Video.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
SAM ZIRAH DANAE VOYANTE, RUBY NIKARA CHAUFFEUR, BASTOS “MYTHO” DYLAN THIRY, ROMANE ANTHONY JEREMSTAR#ACTUALITE #TELEREALITE #TVSHOWSi tu veux faire partie de la team ✨ STAR ✨ n'oublie pas de t'abonner à cette chaine et de liker la vidéo !PENSEZ AUX RAPPEL ABO;LIKE✨ Mon compte TVR : www.instagram.com/rudykoeppeltvr - SOMMAIRE - Sommaire : 00:00- Mise au Point -MAP - SAM/JAZZ, 44K, ASTRO'ACTU, ABSENCE INSTAGRAM SEUL, MARWALOUD : 01:21- Story de La semaine -SDLS - MAISSANE SERPENT : 03:34SDLS - OCEANE TREND TIKTOK : 04:36SDLS - PAPILLON : 05:38SDLS - JEREMSTAR VICTOIRE AQABABE : 06:56- Top Actus -TOPACTU - NIKOLA ET SORAYA : 08:48TOPACTU - TRANSPHOBIE KANSAS : 12:47TOPACTU - KELLY HELARD SE CONFIE : 14:45TOPACTU - RETOUR DES TOTALLY SPIES : 19:32TOPACTU - FLOP LOVE ISLAND : 20:58TOPACTU - JESSICA THIVENIN INQUIETANTE : 23:49TOPACTU - SARAH FRAISOU DIVORCE : 28:07- Le coeur de l'Actu - RUBY NIKARA SCANDALE UBER : 32:35ED SHEERAN PLAGIAT : 43:29JAZZ POINT GROSSESSE : 46:32GIUSEPPA ACCOUCHEMENT CRITIQUES : 54:35DYLAN THIRY MYM COMMUNIQUE : 01:04:06SNAPCHAT MY A.I. : 01:09:17MAGALI BERDAH FISC ET SALAIRE : 01:14:41LAURA LEMPIKA EN COUPLE ? : 01:25:12- Gros dossiers - ANTHONY ET ROMANE CLASH : 01:31:35MAEVA GHENNAM - RUPTURE, CARLA, CHIRURGIE : 01:47:093 CANDIDATS FONT DE LA SORCELLERIE : 01:57:24- MET GALA AWARDS -MET GALA AWARDS : 02:06:02- Découverte de la semaine -DDLS - EMMA GRAZIANO : 02:12:16CONCLUSION : 02:14:07 Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
Ron Carson is an icon in the independent advisor space. He's the CEO and founder of the $20B Carson Group, a platform that serves over 44K families through their advisory network, including 135 partner firms and 35 Carson Wealth locations. In this episode, Ron and I discuss:Ron's backstory: The heartbreaking moment that veered him from his predetermined path as a small town Nebraska farmer to the world of financeHis adventures in entrepreneurship, sometimes a bit illegal (but we're not judging)How his mom's death and overworking took a toll on his mental healthThe rewards of switching from a fear-based mentality to an abundance mentalityHis drive to make an impact, solve world hunger, improve mental wellness, and help others find their freedom3 important things to consider as you scale: Taking care of your client, taking care of your community, and profitabilityAttracting a target market whose values and passions align with yours: from helping farmers invest to taking on Carson Group clients who make a charitable impactMore About Ron CarsonRon is actively involved in charitable giving and his personal mission is to “do the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people.” He has:Co-founded the Dreamweaver Foundation with his wife, Jeanie, a non-profit organization dedicated to fulfilling end-of-life dreams for seniors with terminal illnessLed the charges at Carson Group to provide 600,000+ meals to children in Kenya through work with No Hungry ChildrenFounded the American Charitable Foundation, a foundation established for a more efficient disposition of charitable assetsServed as President of the Child Saving InstituteEstablished a global partnership with charity: water and Global CoalitionHis journey of finding freedom in his own personal life has ignited a profound mission to help others find their freedom.Resources mentioned in this episode:Book: The Infinite Game by Simon SinekBook: Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill - - - Thank you to our Billion Dollar Backstory podcast sponsor: Ultimus Fund Solutions. You want to launch an interval fund (but don't know where to start). Ultimus has your back. Their in-depth guide answers your real questions.
Congressman Barry Loudermilk joins us to discuss his battle against the Marxist Dems' J6 Committee, their attacks on him and the likelihood there could be as many as 1,200 more Americans arrested in the DOJ's reign of terror. The J6 Committee and the DOJ didn't hesitate to attack Congressman Loudermilk. He was questioned by the Marxist Dems about what they termed a reconnaissance tour on Jan. 5th of 2021. The Georgia Republican was hosting a tour of friends and others and none of them he says were present on Jan. 6th. Congressman Benny Thompson said Loudermilk was never formally accused and Loudermilk refused to respond to their questions. And in a twist of fate, all of the records of the Jan. 6th Committee are now under the control of House Republicans and Loudermilk is the head of the Administration Committee's Oversight Investigation of J6. Loudermilk is also in control of 44K hours of video from that day. And he says everything including the records Dems tried to keep secret will be available to the public. When not fighting Marxists Dems in D.C.. he's standing up for constituents in Georgia. He recently joined the owners of the World's largest gun store in Smyrna, Georgia when 16 ATF agents from all over the country showed up to intimidate the owners. Loudermilk says we must make government accountable to our citizens. GUEST: REP. BARRY LOUDERMILK, GEORGIASee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Joining me for Episode 9 to discuss strategic selling is Sarah Downs, Co-Founder and CRO of Doqaru, who works with growth-minded businesses across the Energy & Tech sectors by enabling the B2B Sales Function to drive more predictable sales performance. As a former Trauma Nurse, Sarah is no stranger to a challenge and is passionate about helping people. Nursing taught her the value of a proper diagnostic process and the importance of not acting on symptoms alone. Sarah now uses her transferable skills from nursing in her business, Doqaru Ltd, and focusses on truly understanding the client's needs by using data, industry knowledge and strategic insights to support their growth. Sarah is also a Chair of IoD and Non-Exec director, the Host of the ‘Sales Insights with Sarah' podcast and one of the founding members of The Sales Club on Clubhouse which now has over 44K members. In this episode, we hear Sarah's views on strategic sales: how can companies become better at selling complex solutions over a long - and often tortured - buying process? How to handle multiple decision makers? How to help your clients present a business case to their board? And what kind of salesperson do you need to be to sell consistently well in complex deals? We also hear Sarah's views on how to assess the competencies of salespeople in a much more reliable way than 'We like them'. We close our conversation, as always, with a discussion of the challenges (and benefits) of being a woman in sales and in business along with a few recommended books from Sarah's reading history as sources of inspiration. If you'd like to get in touch with Sarah direct, you can find her on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahdowns-doqaru/ - or via the Doqaru Head Office: https://doqaru.com/. This is the final episode of Series 3: Women in Sales. We'll be back soon with a new series and some improvements to our format. See you again soon! Thanks for listening! If you like what you hear on The True Sales Podcast, please give us a review or a rating on your preferred platform and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss new episodes. For video episodes, visit our YouTube Channel podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@thetruesalescompany/podcastsIf you'd like to get in touch with us, either to find out about how we can help with your sales or to recommend our next guest, please contact us via email to hello@truesales.co, call +44 (0)20 3859 2000 or visit our website: www.truesales.co.
The Coral Restoration Foundation recently did a webinar on their accomplishments in 2022. It was a record year for them where they out planted about 44K corals, plus so much more. Divers in North Jersey are in search of Old Bergen - an 1812 cannon stolen in 1980. They were diving in the Hackensack River. They think they heard metallic noise when probing. They will need to head back later to attempt to find Old Bergen. NASA is projecting an alarming rise in sea level in the next thirty years. This rise impacts all US coastal areas. The study is based on 30 years of satellite observations. On December 14, A Dram of Diving hosted a live facebook event on the Power of Podcasting. I participated in the panel and you can watch the event on the Dram of Diving Youtube Channel. The 2023 Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) Board of Directors election is now open for voting. I have been fortunate to have been nominated for a position on the board representing the Retailer segment. Voting continues through January 2023. Scuba Shack Radio Episode One premiered on March 17, 2019. I launched the podcast to add my voice. Listen to my reflection on four years and 100 episodes of Scuba Shack Radio.
1) Title 42 Ends Wednesday. Mainstream Media finally reporting on the CRISIS. 1A) El Paso in crisis. City declares state of emergency 1B) Biden has tried to end Trump's Remain in Mexico Policy but a federal judge has said NO. 1C) Denver mayor declares state of emergency when only 650 illegals arrive. 2) Bankman - Fried agrees to waive extradition. Still in Bahamian jail. 2A) Prosecutors looking at political donations 3) Sen. Manchin dodges question on if he will leave Democratic party and be an Independent. while trying to move a Natural gas pipeline forward that was stalled in the senate. Democrats voted 40-10 against him. 3A) Coal use is at a record high globally 4) Trump backs McCarthy and says 5 Conservatives should stand down. 4A) Trump's NFT is ridiculed by Republicans but sells out at $99 for 44K units. 5) Twitter story unfolds as FBI was in constant contact with Twitter officials. 5A) Musk loses Twitter poll to remain CEO 5B) Conservatives previously banned return to Twitter 6) Goldman Sachs to lay off 4K employees 7) New England loses on one of the dumbest plays in NFL history. Beyond stupid 7A) Mike McCarthy blows game and Dallas loses on interception to Jacksonville. I'll explain the poor coaching. 7B) Washington is a victim of 1 questionable call and 1 terrible officiating calls at the end of the game on a non pass interference call. How is this missed? 7C) Colts blow 33-0 lead in worst collapse in NFL history 8) Mark Levin calls for special prosecutor to investigate the Biden Family and Joe Biden specifically. 9) ,Illinois ends cash bail. Judges now decide. 10) Congratulations to Argentina for winning World Cup!
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Have you thought about attending Converting Corporates but you're just not sure whether it would benefit you? Perhaps you're wondering what it's really all about - and whether your specialism is a good fit for attending? Or maybe you've heard people raving about it but you just don't know how it could support your business and growing your B2B sales… That's exactly why I've recorded this episode - so that you can understand more about our final ever Converting Corporates event - and whether or not it makes sense for you to attend! ** TICKETS FOR CONVERTING CORPORATES ARE RUNNING OUT! ** Grab yours here: https://selltocorporates.com/converting-corporates-2022/ In this episode, I'm sharing; The key dates for Converting Corporates (20/21st September 2022) and our location. (00:15) What people have been asking; who Converting Corporates is really for and how can it help their B2B sales process? (01:11) Why it's important to have a small event in September and add more 121 time. (01:36) Why most events are targeted at specific revenue levels - and why Converting Corporates isn't. (02:36) The real purpose of Converting Corporates for entrepreneurs looking to sell / improve their B2B sales process. (03:09) Core actionable workshops that we're hosting at Converting Corporates this year and how they'll benefit your B2B sales process. (04:07) Why you must attend if you didn't work in a sales role during the last recession. (04:37) The current recession timelines as given by the Bank of England and how your business can still thrive during recession. (05:20) How one of our participants used the Corporate Cash Injection campaign that I'm teaching at Converting Corporates to land a £44K deal. (06:14) Announcing our bonus B2B foundations workshop so that you can create sales and onboarding processes that support your business growth. (06:59) What you'll actually walk away with from the Converting Corporates event. (08:04) Who is the right personality type to attend Converting Corporates this September? (09:21) The importance of a safe learning environment for practising your B2B sales skills. (10:15) Unknown / little known industries or specialisms that have done really well from attending previous Converting Corporates events. (12:30) How Health and Wellness professionals have benefited from attending Converting Corporates events. (12:46) How Converting Corporates has helped Health and Wellness professionals to raise their rates and sign longer term pieces of work with corporate clients. (14:41) Referring back to our Case Study episode with Kate Davies, Independent Fertility Nurse Consultant. (15:31) The specific sessions at Converting Corporates that will benefit Health and Wellness professionals who want to sell to corporate clients. (17:39) How Converting Corporates can support Mental Health practitioners to grow their B2B sales process and revenue. (18:31) Why mental health doesn't fall under general health and wellness offers. (18:51) How Covid-19 impacted Mental Health practitioners and their sales. (20:04) Why awareness sessions caused more harm than good in companies during the pandemic. (20:51) Why it's going to be integral to build a commercial business case for mental health support in the workplace. (21:50) How one of our previous Converting Corporates attendees used the event to skyrocket her B2B sales as a Mental Health practitioner. (23:18) Specific Converting Corporates sessions to benefit the B2B sales process of Mental Health practitioners. (24:41) How Project and Change Management professionals benefit from Converting Corporates. (25:21) How redundancies will impact Project and Change Management suppliers. (25:51) Specific Converting Corporates sessions to benefit Project and Change Management professionals. 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1) Harriett Hagerman defeats Liz Cheney 64-32% in Wyoming Republican Primary 2) Sen. Lisa Murkowski (43%) and Kelly Tshibaka (40%) advance in Alaska Senate contest 3) Sarah Palin among 3 top candidates vying for House seat in Alaska 4) Merrick Garland approval rating at 36% after Raid 4A) Sen. Grassley wants answers on Clinton "kid gloves" treatment after Trump raid 4B) Independent voters are not buying an Impartial Justice Department 5) Border Crisis - 199K entered illegally in July. 44K more Got Away. 2000 pounds of fentanyl seized which could make 469M doses. 13K pounds of meth seized. 5A) Operation Lone Star leads to 18K criminal arrests including 15K felons 5B) NYC is housing illegal immigrants in upscale hotels after receiving busloads from Texas 6) United Kingdom sees highest Inflation in 40 years at 10.1% while mortgage demand in the U.S., hits a 22 year low 7) China conserves electricity by shutting down factories as a heat wave slows the economy to 0.4% growth for quarter ending 6-30. Zero Covid also a contributing factor. 8) Representative Val Demings leads Senator Marco Rubio by 4 in Florida? Internal polling does not reflect this but the race will be very tight.
1. The Russia/Ukraine war is still dominating the news and the stock market action. In all of the years that I have been trading I have never seen nor remember a country getting canceled. Sure, the social media companies canceled many conservative voices, but this time around we have corporate giants canceling a nation. Even in Nazi germany there were companies that were doing business with Germany at the time. This is not anything like that and Russia is being canceled. Oh, I do believe the U.S. is still buying oil & gas from Russia though. 2. Oil traded over $110.00 a barrel this morning and there is really no sign of a pullback as long as this war keeps escalating. Earlier today, OPEC announced a slight increase and that will not move the needle in the price. At this time, only a resolution will relieve the oil spike. 3. Fed Chairman Jay Powell will start his 2-day testimony on Capitol Hill today. In his prepared remarks he said there will be a rate hike in March. Some people are expecting a 50 basis point hike, but I think he will raise it by just 25 basis points. 4. Gold is pulling back a little, but it has had a huge move as the fear trade is alive and well right now. 5. Bitcoin is also on the move trading back above 44K. There is a lot of daily chart resistance around 46,000.
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National Novel Writing and Podcast Posting Month 2021 Welcome friend to Create Art Podcast where I help you tame your inner critic and create more than we consume. I am Timothy Kimo Brien your thankful head instigator with over 20 years in arts and education. How I accomplish this is by providing you with commentary, interviews, discussions, and projects that will inspire you to create art. This month I will be podcasting daily and writing a novel in 30 days. I am participating in NaPodPoMo and NaNoWriMo again this year as I did last year and you can hear those episodes here. You will be able to listen and read along to what I wrote for the day. I like to practice what I preach when it comes to art so I am challenging myself to write and having you come along for the ride. It is my hope this inspires you to accomplish your goals with your art and if you would like to share what you are doing email me at timothy@createartpodcast.com History of NaNoWriMo and NaPodPoMo NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with 50,000 words of a brand new novel. They enter the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay-at-home parents. They leave novelists. NaPodPoMo: NaPodPoMo* is a month-long event along the same vein as National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo. The difference? Well, instead of writing a 50,000-word novel, you podcast every day for 30 days from November 1st-30th. Use any platform you desire. From full production studio to iPhone app and just about anything in between. The goal is to use the challenge of podcasting daily as a form of podcasting boot camp. Writing My Final Thoughts Thank you for tuning into this special episode of Create Art Podcast. Today I wanted to talk about what I learned about myself and my process throughout this past month and these two challenges. Why would you be interested in what I learned, well maybe some of the nuggets I got can help you out in your practice, or maybe just maybe this will inspire you to complete a challenge that you have never tried or succeeded at in the past. You may need this gentle nudge or as I like to call myself the Chief Instigator to get you moving on your artistic journey. If you did attempt or complete either of the challenges last month, namely National Novel Writing Month or National Podcast Post Month please let me know about your journey. I'd be interested in hearing about as I know it would inspire me on my journey. If you did another challenge let me know about that as well. I First off, I want to thank those of you who either listened to or read what I wrote last month. My initial plan was to create a totally new novel. I had an idea banging around in my head for about a year on what the new novel would be, but I didn't have a clear picture on where I wanted to start it and where I wanted to go. At the last minute I remembered that in 2020 when I did the NaNoWriMo and NaPodPoMo I had started up a novel and gotten over 50K words done on that project, but I hadn't finished it. I pivoted and since I had put so much work into the first novel, I wanted to complete the process and since I didn't have strong feelings on the new novel yet, I didn't want to approach the challenge halfhearted. I had more emotion tied into the novel and I felt I could complete it. The first novel is called Shared Diary and the second novel doesn't have a name. My first lesson in this project was to be able to pivot at the last minute and be open to pivoting. When I start a project I wat to be emotionally attached to it, the reason being is that I want to have enough in my gas tank to be able to push through the tough times that life provides. It's similar to picking out a major in college, yes you want to be able to make a living from what you study and eventually will be making a career out of, but you also want to enjoy what you are doing. I chose theater as my major, now you could argue that I am not using my degree, but I feel that I am every day. The things I learned in school are applicable to real world experiences, my acting classes helped when I was showing transitioning soldiers how to interview, my movement classes showed me how to breath to provide relaxation which I teach employees in my current job. So, you are right, I am not using my degree in theater pedagogy in the traditional sense, but I am using bits and pieces of it that fit the need at the time. If I would have chosen a major in HR, which is what my day job is, I would have never gotten these skills that have pushed my career to where it is today. Being able to pivot and prioritize your work will help when life decides to give you challenges. Plus, if you work on something you are excited about, more than likely you will either finish it or in my case brin git closer to completion. Another lesson learned was time management. With the NaNoWriMo challenge they provide an app that you can record your progress and look at what you have left to do. It also has you put in when you started writing and when you ended as well as where you wrote. In my situation it was at home on a laptop. When I look back at when I started writing and when I ended, I found that when I was alert and feeling good, I was able to write more on those days in a quicker time versus when I was not feeling my best or when I was tired. So, I am learning to come to the work in a good mindset that is relaxed and open in order for me to do my best work, if I am not in that mindset, I know the work still needs to get done, but it may take longer. Since I work a day job and I have kids and a wife that I want to make sure get the attention they need, I let them know that November is going to be tough but I would ensure that the next month I would be spending more time with them. My wife is very supportive of my creative projects and aspirations so she was able to accommodate, my kids don't quite understand it, but they will when they get older and follow their creative practice. Each day I gave myself an hour or two to write, sometimes I had to take some time from work to get my writing done, sometimes I wrote in the evenings while my wife watched tv so I could be near her especially on a tough day with the kids. There were about three days I didn't write and that is because life just got really busy as it does and also, I do struggle with energy levels due to my MS diagnosis. These are not excuses as to why this year I got to 44K words and not 50K, these are things that happen and it was not a failure to not technically complete the challenges, I got farther along in my goal to finish the novel. Next year I definitely would stick to more stringent times, maybe wake up early and write while everyone else slept. Proper time management and including the unknowns that life will throw you should be in that plan. Another lesson learned is to look back at your work and admire it. You put your heart and soul into it, on occasion you need to step back and look at what you have accomplished even though it is not complete. Ten years ago, if you said Tim you are going to write a 100K word novel I would have said you were nuts. For the longest time I told myself that I don't have enough material to fill a novel, I was a poet and a short story writer, however, as the piece sits right now, I am at 94K words. Now when I go back and edit it, I am sure there will be things taken out, but then there will probably be things put into it that balance that out. Don't say never, because if I would have believed that I could never write a 100K word novel I would not have tried to do it, my initial goal was simply 50K words and it has just about doubled that goal and when it is done, who knows how long it will be. When we take time and review what we have put on the canvas, the notebook, the piano or whatever your form is, we should allow ourselves time to appreciate it, take it in and remind ourselves that before we started the work, this was only a thought that we helped bring into the world. The world needs these ideas, yes, I did say needs these ideas. Look at any library, any school and what do you see, thousands of ideas being brought forth every day. Plus, when you realize what you have done, it does wonders for your mental health. We all have that inner critic and we need that critic to help guide us and direct us, but when that inner critic stops us from creating, that's when we need to tame it and make it do the work, we need it to do. When we look at the work in progress or the finished work, we can use that progress to tame that critic when it tries to stop us. The last thing I learned is to prepare to put down the pen or paintbrush so that you can start new projects. Right now, I am running 3 podcasts, one of them has been idle for a year. So, there are other things I would like to do, other ideas bubbling up in my head and I need to find time to get them out into the world. I am planning on finishing the novel, probably in a month or two. I know I am close to the end and I don't want it to end quickly because then it looks like I am giving up on the novel. I am not putting a word limit on it right now, it's not needed. But I will put a time limit on it because I want to have time to work on other things and give them the attention they need. I know some painters say a painting is never done, I don't feel the same way. There comes a time when you need to put it out into the world and share it with others and it may be difficult to know when that time is, experiment. You can always take it back into your shop and refine it and get it in a more completed place. Theater has staged readings, musicians have open mics to try things out, poets have open mics to do the same thing. Find ways to get the work out of the shop and into the world. You may have to brin git back and tinker with it, you may sell the piece and find out that it is perfect the way it is with imperfections. Now what did I get out of this experience, well I accomplished a few things. First a sense of accomplishment. For many people that is the main reason that they do things because they believed at one point, they couldn't do it. I would have never in the past attempted something like this, I have close o 100K words on a novel and it's still not done yet. As a poet and a short story writer, I am really stretching my writing muscle to keep this story going. My largest work in the past was a thesis for my Master's degree which was about 50 plus pages talking about a production that I put on and why I made the choices that I did make. Just having the knowledge that I can do it makes me happy and content even if no one reads the story. Which leads me to the second thing I got out of this which was having people follow my podcast during this project. I was consistently getting about 15-20 downloads and people looking at my site and listening to the show. So, the story is out there in the world and people now know about it. I also know that some people were waiting until I finished the project before they downloaded the show and I am seeing people download the past episodes to catch up and see or hear what I am doing. This has the potential of increasing the audience numbers. On my other podcast Find A Podcast About I recently talked with the hosts of Writers Drinking Coffee who are novelists. Having the experience, I was able to extend my network and talk intelligently about writing. This gave me a new perspective and appreciation for the craft. It gave me a bit of expertise when I talk with you about writing your story. Well, I appreciate you listening to this episode and coming on the journey with me. If you got something out of the podcast I'd like to ask you to share it with a friend who may be struggling with their inner critic. Reach out to me for questions and show ideas timothy@createartpodcast.com There is not much left to this year, I have a KDOI Rebroadcast coming up soon and a year-end wrap up both via live stream and an episode. I am planning for 2022 so if there is something you would like me to talk about or you want to be on the show reach out. Now go out there and tame the inner critic and create more than you consume. Go make art for someone you love, yourself. See ya next time. Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Mighty Networks: Create Art Podcast
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If you love this episode, share It with a friend and leave a 5 star review! If you would like to join Chester's Gratitude Community, we Invite you to join 44K subscribers to "The Gratitude Journal" published monthly.Our sponsor for this episode Is Methods Of - Learn the Methods of leadership from some of the best CEOs, executive coaches, thought leaders and business thinkers on the planet.If you use COMEBACK2021 at checkout for a 50% discount!In this episode, Chester speaks to Craig Lemasters who talks about what leaders need to do to get unstuck. Craig Lemasters is an author, entrepreneur, investor, and board member with more than two decades of success in executive leadership positions, now dedicated to helping senior leaders get unstuck on the major growth challenges to their businesses.As a leader, you will directly impact the future of your organization. Of course, the role is challenging, but shouldn't it also be incredibly rewarding? Instead, most leaders find the experience lonely and sometimes even hopeless feeling.Craig wants to help. His mission is to empower leaders to take action by introducing them to a new secret weapon: the wisdom of others!Thank you for your time listening to this podcast. We hope the time you spend with us helps you be more kind, more grateful, and be of service.Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent more than two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams. Their work is supported by research with more than a million working adults across the globe. They are authors of multiple award-winning Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, and Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies. They have been called “fascinating” by Fortune and “creative and refreshing” by The New York Times. Gostick & Elton have appeared on NBC's Today Show, CBS 60 Minutes, and are often quoted in Fast Company, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. Gostick & Elton are members of Marshall Goldsmith's 100 Coaches pay-it-forward project and in 2020, both were ranked in the top 10 Global Gurus in Leadership and Organizational Culture. LifeGuides is a peer-to-peer community that helps people navigate through their day-to-day stressors by providing a place of empathy, listening, wisdom and support with a Guide who has walked in your shoes, experiencing the same challenge or life experience as you.
If you love this episode, share It with a friend and leave a 5 star review! If you would like to join Chester's Gratitude Community, we Invite you to join 44K subscribers to "The Gratitude Journal" published monthly.Today, Chester Interview's Garry Ridge, Chairman of the Board and chief executive officer of the WD-40 Company headquartered in San Diego, California.When Garry Ridge became CEO of WD-40 Company in 1997, his mandate was to transform a popular, successful US brand into a globally beloved, go-to spray to remove “squeaks” around the world. Today, his customer success stories include a driver in India who used WD-40 to remove a python from the undercarriage of his bus. 99% of his employees, or “tribe members,” report they're proud to tell people they work for WD-40 Company. The secret to his success? He created and sustains a global culture in which tribe members feel happy, safe and supported to learn and try new things.“One of the greatest joys people get out of life is learning things and then putting that new knowledge into practice,” he says. “The learning environment, as we have developed it at the WD-40 Company, creates a feeling of safety because it takes out the element of fear.”At WD-40 Company, tribe members don't make mistakes. They have “learning moments,” which Garry defines as experiences – both negative and positive – that they can then safely report back to their colleagues.WD-40 Company employees consider themselves a “tribe” – a concept inspired by Garry's Australian background and interest in Aboriginal culture. He also draws influence from great thinkers like Marshall Goldsmith, Ken Blanchard, Simon Sinek, and the Dalai Lama.“I was particularly struck by [the Dalai Lama's] line, ‘The purpose of life is to make people happy. If you can't make them happy, at least don't hurt them',” Garry says.He also admires Aristotle's maxim, “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”“As leaders, our job is to make sure we create an environment where tribe members wake up each day looking forward to going to work, feel safe while they are there, [and] return home at the end of the day fulfilled by the work they do, feeling like they've learned something new and contributed to something bigger than themselves,” he says.In March 2003 Garry was awarded Director of the Year for Enhancement of Economic Value by the Corporate Directors forum. In April 2004 Garry received the Arthur E Hughes Career Achievement Award from the University of San Diego. In 2009, he co-authored a book with Ken Blanchard titled Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy called Don't Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A.Find out more about Garry Ridge LifeGuides is a peer-to-peer community that helps people navigate through their day-to-day stressors by providing a place of empathy, listening, wisdom and support with a Guide who has walked in your shoes, experiencing the same challenge or life experience as you.
My guest today is Phillip Hunter. Phillip is a strategy and innovation consultant focused on conversational systems. He has a long trajectory working on such systems; among other roles, he was head of user experience for Amazon Alexa Skills. In this conversation, we focus on conversation itself, and how to design systems that converse. Listen to the show Download episode 49 Show notes Phillip Hunter on LinkedIn Phillip Hunter on Twitter Conversational Collaborative AI Services (Phillip's consultancy) Brenda Laurel Don Norman Google Assistant Amazon Alexa HomePod Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCullough Wizard-of-Oz testing Adobe XD Voiceflow Botmock Google Dialogflow CX Alexa Skills Kit How We Talk: The Inner Workings of Conversation by N.J. Enfield Some show notes may include Amazon affiliate links. I get a small commissions for purchases made through these links. Read the transcript Jorge: Phillip, welcome to the show. Phillip: Oh, thank you. So great to be here. So great to be with you. Jorge: I'm excited to have you. For folks who might not know you, can you please tell us about yourself? About Phillip Phillip: Sure. So, I've been doing many sorts of design activities and jobs and things over the course of about 25 years. I actually started my career as a developer, but quickly learned the difference between building computer programs as a hobby versus work. I enjoy one of them! So, I ended up getting into design interestingly, just because I complained so much about the applications that we were building at the company I was with, and how they just didn't make sense to me. And all of a sudden, someone hands me a book from Brenda Laurel and says, you need to read this. And that literally changed my life. I got to meet her one day and tell her that. But that was about the same time the company I was with, which was building interactive voice response started as those touchtone systems that everybody hates for your bank or airlines insurance companies. We started adopting speech recognition as part of the platform. And to me, that opened up so many new possibilities. I learned some really interesting things from the get-go about how designing for that was so different from the things I had been used to before. Now, this was around when Don Norman coined the term “user experience design,” and so it wasn't well-known. But while everyone was also getting used to designing for the web and designing then later for mobile, I was in that, but I was also getting used to designing for conversation: what does it mean to exchange things by voice that's different from how we think about information being presented on screens. So, to speed things up a little bit, I've done that sort of work in startups and then in big companies like Microsoft and Amazon. I was around for the early days of Cortana, before it was public. And I've worked on Alexa as part of their developer third-party focused team. But along the way, I've always also been fascinated by large systems. So I worked at Amazon Web Services for a while where, at the time I started, there were about 35 different offerings that they had, and now it's somewhere around 150. It's just amazing growth over the past 10 years for them. And this idea of how these — all of these — services would come together in different permutations based on who was using it and what they were using it for just really fascinated me as, you know, beyond the Lego-block metaphor into each of these things are by themselves an advanced technology, and then, how do you use all these things to run a business or create a product or serve customers or all the things that we normally do in business, nut now we're doing them with these really amazing technologies. And so, conversation itself is also a system. And so, it was interesting to me to get into the systems thinking from a pure technology standpoint. I've read other things about human systems and economies and healthcare and physiology and things like that. But I'm in tech and I soon began seeing in a different way some of the systemic elements of conversation. And so, for me, the past four, five years has really been amazing in terms of my own personal growth around what it means to interact with machines, including by voice and text, as well as just starting to see the power of systems in our lives. And you know, with technologies like Google Assistant and Alexa, now infrastructure — technology infrastructure — along with our mobile phones, along with our laptops and ways we interact with the worldwide web, all of these things are now very much in our homes every day for many of us. So, they've started to cross some interesting boundaries, that make everything that I've talked about way more interesting and way more pervasive. So, today I'm consulting in that, I've got some product ideas that I'm working on as well to explore where things go now that machine learning is really a big component, and artificial intelligence, whatever phrase you want to put on it, is now a real factor in the mix. 10 years ago, it was still sort of, you know, science fiction more than a daily practice. But now we have… well, for a number of reasons, we have these things, and we have to say, “okay, what's the impact here? What does this mean for our lives too?” So, That's the kind of thing I'm working on and, it's really exciting. Conversation as a system Jorge: You said, “conversation is a system.” What do you mean by that? Phillip: So, most of us who speak, no matter what age, we started learning how to speak and interpret speech very early on. Certainly, before we started reading, some of us start reading, two to three years later after we learned how to interact by voice. And by then, interestingly, we are ready experts at conversation, which raises the question of what are we experts at? Well, so it turns out through the study of things like conversational analysis or through practices like that and linguistics and psycholinguistics… it turns out that language is not just a bunch of sounds that we make spontaneously. In our minds and between each other, we are actually doing some really intricate dancing and processing of emotions, information, contextual settings, history, all of these things that you know are part of our daily lives, and to process those effectively with each other and, some would say for ourselves even, we have developed this system of how conversation works. And the way I think about it in my current work — and this is not a re-statement of anything that I've read necessarily — but there are essentially three levels of where a system is operative. One is types of conversations we have. So, you and I are having a sort of conversation, call it an interview, or a structured discussion, things like that. There are casual, “how are you doing?” You mentioned teaching earlier, lecture as a type of conversation, usually followed by questions and answers. And so, there are types of conversations and at the opposite end of that, there are the linguistic structures that help us understand: this is a noun, this is a verb, this is a modifier. Most of us probably hated studying those sorts of things in school, but we learned them, and we understand the basics there. And we know how to use them. We're experts in them, even if we don't necessarily like to study how it works. In the middle, there's something we don't typically think about, which is how conversations have a structure on an individual level. And so… I'll just use, what you and I did. We joined this Zoom call and we started exchanging words that we both probably could have predicted we were going to exchange: ‘how are you, how is life? What are you doing these days?' All of these things are, some would call it chit chat, some would call it small talk, some people would call it, social niceties but it's also giving us time to understand where each other is currently in our lives. Like I can… you know, especially if you're meeting a friend, let's say you can see, is this person in the usual mood? You know, are they presenting to me how they usually come across? Is something different? Why is it different? How is it different? So maybe think about a loved one. You come home from – back in the day when we came home from work – you come home from work and you see a concerned look on your partner's face and right away you start to pick up something is going on. But maybe you start with a greeting, “hey, how are you?” But at some point, you're going to probably say something like, “what's going on? Is there something…” So, there's these elements of conversation where we connect, we survey, we assess, then we get into things like, a section called negotiation. What are we going to talk about? How do we know what each other means? Do we need to clarify something? So, for us, for you and I today, you know, at some point you said, “hey, here's how this is going to work.” Which is a statement again that I expected but it doesn't mean I know the answer. So, you gave me an outline of how we would use our time today, and now we're doing it, right? Now you're asking me questions, I'm giving you thoughts and answers, and at some point, we'll move — and you said it yourself — we'll move to close out the interview. And almost all conversations have a closure. One of the things I like to point out to people is how often do you…. again, when we would run into someone in the hall at work and we'd say, “hey! Oh, I've been meaning to talk to you about this.” And now you raised a topic, maybe you talk about a few specific items and you say, “okay, great. You know what? Let's catch up on that next week.” “Sure. I'll put some time on your calendar.” “Oh! Hey, by the way, how did that thing go?” And so, you have this other… you have this transition. You're talking about another subject. Then you both start to feel like, okay, we spend enough time doing this. And what do you do? You returned to the first topic and you say, “it'll be great to talk to you next week when we meet about such and such.” And you're like, “sure, looking forward to it.” And that's your signal that it's over. So, all of these are well-documented, and for people who study this, fairly well-understood components of conversations. They're not the types of conversations because they occur across many different types of conversations. They're not the linguistic elements of what sounds and what are the individual meanings of those sounds and how they work together. It's somewhere in the middle around how does a conversation work and these systems are actually incredibly important, for reasons that I can go into in a minute, but that's what I mean about conversation: conversation is a system or more accurately, as is the case with many systems, a collection of systems that's at work. And part of our skill at being able to converse well is a tacit understanding that there are those systems and that we can and should use them to be effective in our day-to-day lives with other people. Protocols Jorge: The word that came to my mind when you were describing this middle between those two extremes is the word “protocol.” It's like, well, we're establishing a protocol, right? Phillip: Yes! Jorge: And the image that came to my mind, I think that you and I are both of the vintage where we remember these modems where you would connect to the phone line and you would hear this awful screeching noise as the modems were trying to figure out if they were compatible. Phillip: Right, right, right. Yes! It's a connection in negotiation which is for nearly every conversation we have, a crucial step, even when it's someone who we talk to on a frequent basis. Now, it will adapt based on who you are talking to. And certainly, for meeting someone new for the first time, it's a very different feel to it; it has a very different feel to it than if it's somebody you talk to multiple times a day. But yeah, it's really important. And I'm really glad you said the word protocol too, because we can breach it. And it causes something else to happen. It may not be a problem. But it almost always is a signal that you have to adapt. The direction you thought it was going to go is not how it's going to go, and you need to figure out what is happening. And that's again, where negotiation becomes a key part of the conversational ability that we have. Jorge: When you breach the subject of conversation in the context of user experience design, I think of two things. One, I think of the “assistant in a cylinder” that you've touched on earlier, right? We have a HomePod here at home, so, we have the Apple variant of that. And I also think of chatbots, which are not oral, but they're text based. Phillip: Yes! Jorge: And I'm getting the sense from hearing you that the type of protocol that you're talking about is mostly the verbal one, the one when we speak to each other. Phillip: Right. Channels Jorge: Do we have different protocols for chatting via text versus talking? Phillip: We do, we do. And I'll mention several books as we go along. And the first one I mention is Because Internet, the author is Gretchen McCulloch and she has studied the evolution of language on the internet, going back to the sixties and seventies, when some of the first chat systems, text-chat systems, were being created and all the way up through modern texting and messaging platforms. So, the difference between how we converse verbally and how we converse via text is a long-standing thing…. And so, like even if you go back to like, when we wrote letters and things like that, conversational protocols were different then, but written was still very clearly different from verbal. So, there are some different protocols and some of them are different because the establishment of context is clearer from the get-go. Meaning that, if I go to someone's website and then I look for this chatbot thing, and I open it. Well, I've already sort of taken a step into a context, right? I've visited a website. I know it's a company. I don't want to do any of the other stuff. I'm making this implicit statement of, “I don't want that stuff,” by choosing this other thing explicitly. But with many chatbots, you still see a greeting, “hi, this is Jojo-bot. I'm here to help you with your questions about X, Y, Z company.” So, the idea is there's still some semblance of this because it's about acknowledgement, a statement of presence; here I am. You can even say things to me. And then the added protocol differences. We have no emotional context, right? And now emojis are a valid expression of emotion and conversational meaning, but we can't appreciate them with the nuance and the subtlety that we can by viewing another human's face and hearing their tone of voice. So, as we all know, when you go to text, like… first of all, when we go from visibility to invisibility. So, if you and I weren't looking at each other during this podcast, we would be having a channel, a signal, that is no longer available to us, right? And then in texts, it's the same thing. But now we also don't have some of the audio signals that we can get from somebody's voice. So, we replace some of these by emojis in some cases, but we also tend to read a lot into certain ways of phrasing. One of the fascinating things that's going on right now in the world of text messaging is periods or full stops, indicate to teenagers — or maybe even into the 20- and maybe 30-year-olds — they indicate a different emotional tone than the lack of periods or full stops. And, you know this becomes just… for me, somebody like me, extremely fascinating to think about that the incredible subtlety that that brings. Part of the problem is like… I mean, one of my kids said this to me. I typed a period in a text message and the question was, “are you upset?” I was like, “No! I just typed a period!” He was like, “oh, well, periods usually mean that somebody is upset.” Like, oh! Okay. Not upset! Also, ignorant! So please, excuse me! So, it's not so much that we… well, yeah, I think you said it: we had different protocols. And we do adjust our protocols based on the channel and what signals are available to us, because at some point, there may be some information we need that might've come in through… as a signal through a different channel of visual tone of voice, and now we're just a text, so we might need to be more explicit. This becomes a problem because — and we all know this, those of us who've been working in tech for a long time — we've known how we can misread emails, right? You see an email and you think, “Oh man, there is something wrong here.” And you go talk to the person and they're like, “no, everything's great.” “Well, your email just made it sound like…” and we use those phrases “made it sound like.” There was no sound involved in this. So, we have some understanding intuitively that the different channels mean different things for us, and if we are missing some, then we have to adapt. But we aren't necessarily good at that. We don't necessarily think — and this is one of the downfalls of conversational technology right now — we think that it's the words alone that matter the most. And I won't quote the stats about like how much of meaning comes across in other channels but suffice it to say that when we have sort of full bandwidth conversations, we are actively using all of the channels available to us. But it doesn't mean that we understand that we're using them or that we are necessarily capable of adapting well to the channel loss or the signal loss. So long-winded answer, sorry about that! But yeah, it's quite different. Jorge: One of the things that I'm hearing there is that there are at least two dimensions that you can use to think about a channel. One dimension has to do with the bandwidth that is available to communicate these nuances that we're talking about. And what I'm getting from what you're saying there is that text — something like a chatbot — is a fairly low bandwidth channel, right? Phillip: Yes. Jorge: Like, we lose a lot of nuance. And another dimension has to do with context, with the amount of context that you have when engaging in that channel. And I'm saying this because, the way I envisioned it when you were talking about it, was that the mere fact that the chatbot is popping up in this website already sets boundaries for what you're expected to deal with, right? Like you don't come to it expecting that it will play your favorite song. Phillip: Right. That's right. Jorge: It's going to be a conversation related to that thing, right? Phillip: Right. And nor do we — for those of us who've used or worked in customer service over the telephone — sometimes where we have these little conversations about, “Oh, where are you? How's the weather, how are you?” So, we incorporate some of these things. You don't see that as much in text-only chatbots. And the other thing, that's a challenge there is the fact that we communicate at very different rates of speed verbally than we do typing and reading. We're much faster verbally. And the other thing is we are much more tolerant verbally of rambling and sort of things that would show up as incoherence if it were typed out. We repeat words, we pause in funny places, we gather our thoughts in the middle of a sentence and take a turn on a dime. And we keep up with that, verbally. Like we're really, really, really good at it! We don't understand how good we are, but we are really good at it. And translating that into text sometimes is just a trainwreck, even if we're doing almost the exact same behaviors. Jorge: Yeah, I can relate to that, having to go through the transcripts for this show and make them legible. It's like, “Wow! There's a lot of repetition happening here.” Phillip: Yeah! And I can almost guarantee you that I'm going to be a tough one for you, even though I do this for a living. Sorry about that! Jorge: No, it's fascinating. And it's inherent in the… I suspect that it's inherent in the channel, right? Like you're, it's almost like you're down sampling to a different channel. Phillip: Yeah! That's an excellent way to think about it. Exactly. And to get techie for a second, when I first dealt with speech recognition, over the telephone… the telephone because of economics is a tremendously downsampled version of audio. You can ask anybody who works in music or who's an audiophile. It's just the telephone bandwidth is terrible when it comes to the higher and lower frequencies. So, it's just a squished down to this middle. And yeah, it's very similar to that. And so, in speech recognition technology, we just lost all of the signal that was available for processing. If you recorded something into a microphone, we had that nice 44K bandwidth, it's so much richer than something that comes out of the telephone. And so, yeah. It's very similar, just that signal compression, the signal loss. And our brains are, again, just really, really expert at doing things with it that we don't understand that it's doing. And so, because we don't understand it, we don't necessarily notice the loss of it, but part of our brain does. And it's like, “but I don't know what to do now because I'm so used to that being there.” Designing for conversation Jorge: We've been talking about protocols and we've been talking about the signal and there's all these different aspects to this, and it also sounds like the channels are quite different. I'm wondering how one goes about designing for conversation. How do you prototype this stuff? How do you model it? Phillip: Yeah! Right, right. Well, this is great. To start this, I'll touch on something, that I think you asked, and I'm not sure I addressed earlier. But when we think about these systems, conversational systems, whether it's the cylindrical devices that we have, or whatever shape they are, how those are different from what we have available to us in human-to-human conversation. Well, a lot of it is that we focused on sort of the nugget of action. So, that's why a lot of these systems, what are they used mostly for? For playing music, getting weather, news, maybe opening an audiobook or listening to a podcast, or turning on lights. You know, all these sorts of things. To do that, the command sequence is all fairly straightforward, right? It's, “whatever-the-name-is, turn on this light” or “play this station or artists” or “start reading my book”. And then whatever audiobook it was last reading will open up. And so, what we're not designing currently, and what is not designed into any of these systems is really anything about that middle structure of conversation. We have different types of conversation. You can play a game. You can do this command kind of interaction. You know, there are ways to simulate interviews and things like that. And certainly, there's this undergirding of linguistic information, right? You have to know what the words are and what roles they usually play in a conversation. This is an interesting experiment: If you take the words in a sentence that makes sense in the normal order, standard order, and then you mix them around, it's interesting to see what these assistants understand and don't. I'll tell you that most of them don't pay a lot of attention to the order of words, but the order does also matter somewhat. But what they don't have is this like clear establishment of contexts and negotiation ability, where you can clarify or correct. The interactions really just sort of jump right to what we consider the meat of a conversation. And then we don't really… closure isn't really part of this either. You can see a little bit more of it in customer service type applications where someone dials a phone number and there's a greeting like, “hi, you've reached such as such, what can I do for you?' There's a… like you said, a minute ago, chatbots have a limited range of things that are expected or understood. Mental model mismatch is a thing, but for the sake of this, we'll just keep it narrow. So, there's just a little bit of this sort of… we're giving some lip service to the greeting — pun intended. We're giving some negotiation, you know, of what's available and what's desired. And then it moves very quickly into action. And then at the end of the action, it might… the closure might be, “is there anything else I could do for you? If not, you know, have a great day.” But with our virtual assistants, that shows up very rarely. It is there in some cases, but it's very rare. So, I say all that to say, one of the first big steps in designing is — like with all other design — is really understanding what's the context, what's the goal, who's participating, what knowledge might they have? What knowledge do we expect them not to have? What do they want? Why do they want it? All of these sorts of questions that are fundamental to any sort of true design activity that we're doing, are still important. The thing now though, is instead of saying, “Okay, well that means we're going to have certain kinds of boxes or certain content on our screen,” we're saying, “How do we translate all of that into words that we can exchange fairly easily?” And right now, I've got to say, we're mostly doing a really terrible job of it. But your question was about prototyping. So, first of all, fundamentally we can prototype very simply. I'm a big, big fan of doing basically the equivalent of conversational sketching, which looks like a screenplay. And it doesn't matter if you write this out by hand — and there's some benefits to that — or for speed, you can write it out. You could type it up. But it basically looks like a back and forth of a screenplay and then you go try it with someone — ideally several someones. Someone who might know the technology and help give you some pointers from that angle, but also people who don't care or don't know about the technology. What you're looking for is how quickly can you come to that establishment of sort of clarity of context and purpose and meaning, so that you can proceed into the conversation. That's what those upfront sections are about. The early prototyping is just simulating this conversation with another human. You can expand that into running that in a way, we call “Wizard of Oz” testing, which is where I'm pretending to be the system, and people are going to interact with me, but they don't know it's me and they can't see me. So, whether it's picking up a telephone that's connected to a different phone in the next room and, you know, pretending to talk to the phone or whether it's, you know, pretending to talk to the cylinder and I can pipe something back into the room… the idea is now you're simulating more of the end context, which is a person and a machine or a device. And there's a couple of different ways we can do that. We used to do that in some ways involving Keynote and PowerPoint and recordings and things like that. But today, there are also some tools that we can use that are prototyping tools for voice. Adobe XD has some of that built-in or tools like Voiceflow and Botmock, that are available to do some of this as well. And they… they're a little bit more system centric in the idea of that they're representing capabilities of the end of the system where you might deploy this. So, they have some built-in constraints. And then like all tools, they have, philosophies and other things built into the tool that when you're an experienced designer, you have to learn how to see, or how to work around, those things. So, around those limitations, the tool designer doesn't necessarily understand all the situations you're going to use the tool for. But those tools are available and some of them can be ported directly to one of these devices, in a private setting, so you can test them yourself. You can interact with them. They use text-to-speech technology to give the audio although you can do human recordings with some of them as well. And really that's sort of the… that's where prototyping ends. There are other tools out there. Google has Dialogue Flow and there's the Alexa skills kit tools, which I helped create. All of those are much more system-centric because you're starting to access the assets of those technologies and platforms. But they also have some level of simulation. They have beta modes where you can release it to a certain number of people to interact with it and get feedback on it, so you can make some changes before it goes live. And then they also have some amount of automated testing available too, where you can start to see holes in the application because you didn't specify some sort of action or maybe you didn't take care of a certain condition that might arise, but, you know, that's getting further into the end stage of development, away from prototyping. Closing Jorge: Well, this is all so fascinating. It feels like there's material here for us to go on, but unfortunately, we need to wrap things up. Phillip: Right, right! Sure! Jorge: Where can folks follow up with you, Phillip? Phillip: Well, my consultancy is called Conversational Collaborative AI Services. Clearly, I am focused on some of the underlying artificial intelligence machine learning things, and that's at ccaiservices.com and I am Phillip with two L's, at ccaiservices.com. And I'm also on Twitter as designoutloud, no hyphens or anything, just all one word, and I'm always happy to connect and discuss things on LinkedIn. So pretty easy to find there. I think I was lucky enough to get Phillip Hunter as my LinkedIn URL so you can find me there, and I love to talk about this stuff! Also, my, site has… I've got a fair amount of content out there about these topics, where I go much deeper on… okay, once you understand these principles, how do you really start to apply them and how do you, have an iterative and thoughtful design approach to writing for voice and text interaction. So yeah, so any of those ways be great. Jorge: Well, this is fantastic. Thank you so much for this conversation about conversation! Phillip: Well, it's my pleasure. And obviously I have a lot to say! And yes, we could go on for quite a while. In fact, I might even forget you're there and just keep talking while you're, while you're sleeping or, you know, petting your cat or whatever I saw…. Jorge: Maybe we need to do a part two. Phillip: Well, maybe so! Let's see what kind of response we get, but I'd be happy to, and you know, it is a fascinating thing to think about and analyze. And if anyone wants to dive in, I have some great resources. There's a book called How We Talk by N.J. Enfield, that is also just really, really fascinating. And I'm currently reading another book, that so far, it's very promising, but I'd want to finish it before I recommend it. But I guess the other thing is, I want to say here to people is, don't just study the tools and the technology. You need to study people and conversation to really be good at this, if you want to get into it. It's way more sophisticated than anything we have done for standard web and mobile design. As important, and as difficult as that work is, conversation has some really special and deep challenges. So, don't limit yourself to just understanding the technology and how to apply it. Jorge: That seems like a great admonition and a good place to end it. Thank you so much! Phillip: Oh, you're very welcome.
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Pedro Góes, InEvent: Revamping the Events Industry in Latam & the US, Ep 112 Although originally from Salvador, Brazil Pedro Góes went to university in São Carlos where he met his future co-founders Vinicius Neris and Mauricio Giordano. There, Pedro was inspired by other Brazilian entrepreneurs that were providing solutions to problems that were hindering the region’s development. Together, they founded InEvent, a SaaS startup that offers a platform to help enterprise event organizers boost revenue and provide attendees with a personalized experience. The platform’s events can range from 20 people to larger corporate events involving 44K people. I sat down with Pedro to talk about what it was like growing up in Salvador and then starting a business during his college years in São Carlos. We also discuss his experience bootstrapping his company the first four years, his experience at YCombinator, and ultimately his decision to move the business to the US. Also, in light of COVID-19, we talk about how InEvent has adjusted to the new circumstances. Early lessons as a serial entrepreneur Before starting InEvent, Pedro tried out several business ideas including creating an app for drinking water and a service for celebrities to send personalized messages to their fanbases. Although, these ideas didn’t find as much success as InEvent did, they were still valuable learning opportunities for Pedro. He explains that as much as having a good product is vital for a business to succeed, so is having contacts in the right channels. Check out this episode of Crossing Borders to find out what else Pedro learned during his early years as an entrepreneur. Starting a business in São Carlos Pedro and his partners started developing InEvent while in university in São Carlos where the startup ecosystem was only just kicking off. Looking back, considering the availability of resources such as workspaces, free Internet access, and a network of the brightest minds with incredible energy and enthusiasm, Pedro explains that universities are great places to start a business. Listen to this episode of Crossing Borders to learn more about Pedro’s experience running a company while studying at university. Bootstrapping InEvent During the first few years running InEvent, Pedro and his partners bootstrapped the business while seeking investment opportunities in Brazil. Aware of their company’s growth potential, they were cautious about choosing an investor until they found the right valuation with the right people to support them. It was when they received a message from a client in Silicon Valley that they opened their eyes to the opportunity of going global. Learn more about Pedro’s decision to move to the US to create a global company in this episode of Crossing Borders. Since the onset of the pandemic, the events industry has had to re-engineer itself to survive. InEvent has been quick to respond to the changing scenery and is helping enterprises with the digital migration of their in-person events. Pedro Góes is transforming the realm of possibilities for event organizers and attendees with his SaaS startup at a global scale. Outline of this episode: [1:47] - About InEvent [3:27] - Growing up in Salvador, Brazil [3:58] - Becoming an entrepreneur [5:28] - Lessons learned from previous businesses [7:11] - Why InEvent? [8:32] - Reaction of friends & family [9:26] - São Carlos’ ecosystem [11:33] - InEvent’s inflection point [13:50] - Setting up the business [15:05] - Deciding to bootstrap [16:46] - Fundraising in the US [19:36] - Advice to other Latam SaaS companies [22:17] - Pre and post-COVID-19 [24:12] - Managing a team remotely [25:40] - Advice to younger self [26:58] - Books, blogs, & podcast recommendations [28:08] - What’s next for InEvent? Resources mentioned: Pedro Góes InEvent Vinicius Neris Mauricio Giordano Books: Ozires Silva, Good to Great, Comcast History
Estos días puede que pases más tiempo con tus hijos, tus sobrinos, tus primos pequeños...Si tienen 14-15 años, estarán a punto de empezar 4º de la ESO, y en 10 meses tendrán que decidir si quieren hacer bachillerato o meterse en un FP de grado medio.Si tienen 16-17 años, van a empezar 2º de bachillerato, y en 10 meses tendrán que decidir si quieren estudiar en la universidad o hacer un FP de grado superior. En realidad no van a decidir Sólo se meten en un grado medio "los que no valen para estudiar".El 100% de los que estudian bachillerato lo hacen por inercia.Con 16 años no voy a trabajar, tendré que seguir estudiando.Ya que tienes el bachillerato, harás una carrera, ¿no?. Datos Curso escolar 2019-2020Sistema Universitario Español 2018-2019 NivelNº alumnos%FP medio350.82015%FP superior413.93518%TOTAL FP764.75533%Grado universitario1.291.14455%Máster205.0499%Doctorado79.3863%TOTAL Universidad1.575.57967%TOTAL General2.340.334100%Datos oficiales del cursos 2018-2019 La campana de Gaus Para que un país funcione tiene que haber:Muy poca gente sin formación, Una gran mayoría con formación profesional,De nuevo, una minoría con formación universitaria.No es casualidad que en Alemania la economía siempre va mejor que el resto de países de la UE.Tienen mucha formación profesional.Y falta de titulados universitarios. Tendencia En los últimos 5 años y teniendo en cuenta los cambios en la pirámide de la población:En FP medio han caído un 1% (0% en absolutos).Los matriculados en FP superior han aumentado un 5% (17% en absolutos).Los matriculados en Universidad han aumentado un 1%. (-1 en absolutos). En nuestro sector Matrículas en 1º curso 2018:718 FP medio (Rama Edificación y Obra Civil).Albañil, pintor, ferrallista, etc3.924 FP superior (Rama Edificación y Obra Civil).Delineantes y ayudantes de obra.43.121 Universidad (Rama Arquitectura e Ingeniería).90-8-2. Es culpa nuestra Alemania invierte un 3% menos per cápita en formación que España.Si son buenos estudiantes de pequeños, "está claro" que tienen que estudiar una carrera.La FP son "estudios de segunda".Si te va mal la carrera entonces en cuando haces un ciclo.Padres que no pudieron ir a la universidad y "quieren lo mejor" para sus hijos.Padres que fueron a la universidad y sus hijos "no pueden ser menos". Ventajas de la FP En España tenemos una gran oferta de formación profesional.Yo he pasado por dos carreras y un FP Superior.El profesorado de FP no tiene nada que envidiar a los universitarios.En medios técnicos (hablando siempre de la pública), la FP está mejor dotada en muchas ocasiones.Es mucho más personalizada.12-30 alumnos por clase, en lugar de 70-100.Si quieres ir a la universidad, la nota de FP superior sirve para entrar, y además te convalidan como medio curso y eliges estudios de la misma rama.Si vales para la universidad pero no te sientes preparado, la FP es el mejor entrenamiento. Tiempo 2 años, de los cuales 3-6 meses son practicas en empresa.Con 20 años estás listo para trabajar. Con 30 (si esa edad en la que empiezas a mirar de reojo el tema hipotecas y niños) tendrás 10 años de experiencia "de lo tuyo".Con una carrera llegarás a los 30 con 4-5 años de experiencia, de los cuales la mitad serán "prácticas". Coste Quitando la compra de material, la FP es gratis. No hay tasas.En mi caso pagué 12€ por curso, en concepto de seguro para cuando visitáramos obras.Si estudias cocina, pues te tendrás que comprar los cuchillos.Las cuantías de las becas son las mismas que para los universitarios. Inserción laboral y sueldo Estudio de la Cámara de comercio de Barcelona e InfojobsEn la FP se empieza cobrando 23K y sube a 31K con 5 años de experiencia.En la universidad se empieza con 28K y se sube a 44K con 5 años de experiencia.Pero de las 10 titulaciones más demandadas y mejor pagadas de cada grupo:63.000 ofertas en FP.41.000 ofertas en universidad.Con una carrera se gana más a la larga, si consigues trabajo de lo tuyo.Pero la FP tiene más oferta y menor demanda.Un arquitecto que trabaje de arquitecto, ganará más que un delineante que trabaje de delineante.El problema es que el arquitecto acabe trabajando de delineante.O que se cambie de profesión y se dedique a diseñar páginas webs.Así no salen las cuentas.Tenemos un 38% de personas sobrecualificadas, la tasa más alta de la UE, donde la media es del 23%. Resumen Si en estos días, cuando estés con tus hijos/sobrinos/primos de entre 14 y 17 años, y salga el tema de ¿qué quieres estudiar?, o ¿qué quieres ser de mayor?No se trata sólo de estudiar lo que te gusta, también tiene que ser algo con lo que se gane dinero y en lo que tengas habilidades para destacar.No sabes a que te quieres dedicar: Técnica IkigaiHaz una lista con todo lo que te gusta, 15 o 20 cosas, no tienen que estar claramente relacionados con el trabajo.De esa lista, tacha las cosas en las que no tienes habilidades.De lo que te queda, tacha aquellas con las que sea muy difícil ganar dinero.No debería quedar más de 2 o 3. Si te quedaran muchas todavía, tacha las que no aportan nada a un mundo mejor.La universidad es sólo una opción más, ni mejor ni peor que la FP. Elige estudiar una carrera si:Tienes verdadera vocación por esa rama.Tienes intención y capacidad de ser de los mejores de la clase.Si eliges arquitectura, no vas a estar estudiando hasta los 26-27 años, para luego ganar 1600-1800€. Lo haces porque eres capaz de estar entre los 100 mejores arquitectos de tu provincia.Eres consciente de que estás en una "carrera" a contra reloj por llegar a los 30 y pocos con un sueldo que te permita empezar tu proyecto de vida personal.Si no tienes claro que te interese "esa carrera a contra reloj hasta los 30". La FP es una opción igual de digna.Es mucho más "práctica" que la universidad.No tienes que ser "el mejor" para ganar un buen sueldo.No habrás perdido años estudiando para acabar en el mismo puesto. ¿Quieres escuchar otro episodio? Los tienes todos en la sección de Podcast de esta web. AVISO: Este post es sólo un apoyo al audio del podcast. 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Danielle Verghese, an internal medicine resident, recently helped to organize demonstrations supporting #WhiteCoatsForBlackLives in Philadelphia. Her original tweet from their first event has had over 44K views as of this post, and was "liked" by 2.5K people. But more importantly, Danielle tells us the story of why she felt the need to get involved, how the initial event came to be, and what the experience has been like so far.The full video version of this interview (via Zoom) is also available for viewing on YouTube (click here).Related Link: https://whitecoats4blacklives.org/Danielle on Twitter: @DanielleVMD_____________________________________DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE!www.marthopodcast.comgeorge@marthomacommunitypodcast.com
Taboo Talk featuring Lady Charmaine Day www.ladycharmaineday.com Guest star: Zak Sandler. About Zak: Zak Sandler is a mental health advocate with a musical twist. He has played piano on Broadway for WICKED, MEAN GIRLS, MOTOWN, and THE COLOR PURPLE. Zak frequently speaks about his bipolar, having appeared on “This Is Actually Happening” (podcast with 44K+ plays), and “Moments of Clarity” (radio show with 1M+ listeners). He won the 2018 Young Leader Award from the New York State chapter of NAMI, and is a featured speaker with This Is My Brave and the JED Foundation. Zak’s musical, INSIDE MY HEAD, about a young man learning to work with his bipolar, premiered at NY Theatre Barn and was a semi-finalist at the O’Neill Theater’s National Music Theater Conference. It will be touring the US in 2020. He is also creating and hosting a docu-series / podcast, “Insanely Talented,” that explores the link between mental conditions and creativity among celebrity and up-and-coming artists. Zak no longer uses the phrases "mental illness" or "bipolar disorder", because he feels they imply there's something wrong with him. He prefers the terms “mental conditions” and simply, “bipolar”. Our words have the power to end the stigma! Zak is a Yale, B.A., Music, 2008 alumni. For more information on Zak visit his website: www.zaksandler.com
Cyntoni Miller (popularly known as Admin Cyn) is the founder of Black On The Job, a black-owned career development network aimed at fostering a wide range of global professional skills in the black community. Founded in June, 2018, the group has transcended career, geographical and academic limits that have pulled our people behind for so long and successfully contributed to the career growth of over 44K members and approximately $1.2M in increased salaries. Website: https://blackonthejob.as.me
Up to 25% of the world’s carbon emissions can be offset through natural climate solutions, and the #1 channel, both domestically and internationally, is reforestation. Planting trees is obviously a huge market opportunity. But the question is, how do we pay for it? Mike Smith and John Cleland are the managing partners of RenewWest, an environmental services company committed to replanting forests in areas burned by wildfire in the American West and financializing the practice through carbon offset markets. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Mike and John join Ross and Christophe to share the team’s three-phase process and explain why reforestation projects are typically disfavored in traditional carbon markets. Mike and John describe the top challenges forests face, including climate change, disease and fire, and introduce us to the concept of assisted migration risk. Listen in to understand why a Timber Investment Management Organization, or TIMO, Fund is a better way to raise capital for reforestation than private equity and learn how RenewWest is navigating the intersection where ecology and finance meet! Key Takeaways [1:36] Mike’s path to reversing climate change Witness fire on 44K acres in Idaho as kid, bare soil persists RenewWest tackles connection between climate + forestry [3:39] John’s path to reversing climate change Career in Chicago as commodities trader, launch brokerage Shift to impact investing (opportunity in carbon markets) [9:29] What Mike & John do at RenewWest Find areas burned by wildfire Work to develop as carbon offset projects [12:11] The RenewWest three-phase process Discovery—meet with landowner, create LOI Pre-development (includes carbon analysis) Raise capital and plant [16:12] Why reforestation projects are disfavored in carbon markets Factor of additionality No offset until sequestration happens [25:10] Venture capital vs. TIMO funding Reforestation doesn’t fit VC timeline, return expectations Long-term play of fund attracts institutional investors [29:18] The top three challenges forests face Climate change, disease and fire All problems defined by water [36:40] The obstacles reforestation is up against Carbon markets not seen as investible opportunity Requires long-term investment in green infrastructure Political divisiveness around carbon pricing [47:44] The concept of assisted migration risk Climate change faster than natural systems adapt Same trees won’t survive (move north or uphill) [50:57] What John & Mike would like to fix about carbon markets High transactional costs Easier to fund reforestation vs. project development Connect with Ross & Christophe Nori Nori on Facebook Nori on Twitter Nori on Medium Nori on YouTube Nori on GitHub Nori Newsletter Email hello@nori.com Nori White Paper Subscribe on iTunes Carbon Removal Newsroom Resources RenewWest Email msmith@renewwest.com Nori Lightning Sale Techstars Impact Finance Center Phil Taylor on RCC EP091 Climate Action Reserve California Water Action Collaborative California Environmental Quality Act Cleantech Open Greta Thunberg & George Monbiot Video Blue Forest Conservation California Compliance Offset Program 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment Benji Backer on RCC EP074 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Hello everyone, welcome to episode 191 of the LitRPG podcast. For the full show notes visit us at: https://litrpgpodcast.com/litrpg-podcast-191 I’m Ramon Mejia. I’m here to bring you the latest LitRPG news, reviews, and author interviews. I have 5 new reviews just for you. New Releases and Reviews: LOST in Space [A LitRPG Space Opera Adventure] (14:47) On the fence most of the story, end ruined it Score: 6 out of 10 https://amzn.to/32Mz3oj Abduction Chronicles GENESIS: Book 1 (23:00) Great military stuff, ok RPG stuff Score: 7.4 out of 10 https://amzn.to/30bcSLN Towers of Heaven: A LitRPG Adventure (Book 2) (34:05) So fun Score: 7.7 out of 10 https://amzn.to/2O6PSpM Rise of the Necromancer: A LitRPG Series (36:00) Too many POVs, not enough necromancer Score: 5 out of 10 https://amzn.to/34OHzVP Blasphemy Online Volume 1: Dragon Hack (40:21) Dark real world, interesting twists Score: 7.5 out of 10 https://amzn.to/2O9Ag5c (Play Music 2) LitRPG News I wanted to announce that several LitRPG authors will be attending the Fantasy Book Fest APRIL 17-19, 2020 in Anaheim, CA. The schedule of authors and events is still being formed but it already includes writer and reader panels, including a LitRPG panel. LitRPG Authors attending include: James A. Hunter, Apollos Thorne, Domino Finn, and R.A. Mejia http://fantasybookfest.com/ Amazon killed the preorder for Ruins of Majesta Vol. 2.1. The Author has resubmitted the novel and the book is now live but you likely lost that pre-order so remember to buy it. Also, to help promote the book, Taj is holding a contest and giving away 5 free copies of book 2. Just post what you liked about book 1 in the comments of the podcast or wherever it’s shared and you’ve entered. Michael Scott Earle has launched the kickstarter to fund the next novel he is publishing. It only took hours to reach the initial $15K goal to produce an ebook, audiobook, and signed physical copies of the whole series. As is, it has over $44K in support for the project, showing that MSE does not need Amazon to make money. The project has become one of the 'most backed' fiction projects on the platform. Although the $1,000 pledge has been snagged, there is still the $5,500 one that will get you a weekend to hangout with MSE. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelscottearle/tamer-king-of-dinosaurs-book-6-ebook-print-and-audio/ Out Now! God of Gnomes (God Core #1) - A Dungeon Core LitRPG https://amzn.to/32CRNGD Ruins Of Majesta: Vol. 2.1 - Creatures and Cupcakes https://amzn.to/2lLRgCB Resurrection of Adventure (Book 1): Dirty Rotten Magic: The Return of the Master's Quests: Resurrection of the Masters a LitRPG Series https://amzn.to/2mJLLEJ Gladiators of Warsong: A Hundred Halls LitRPG and GameLit Novel (Gamemakers Online Book 2) https://amzn.to/2mJRCd1 Tales of Dungeons https://amzn.to/2lPARgl *9 dungeon core stories, some LitRPG, others not, but is does include a story from our very own LitRPG Audiobook Podcast host, Ray Johnson.* New LitRPG Audiobooks A Second Chance: Invasion Series, Book 1 https://amzn.to/2mMD78w Starter: A Monster-Battling LitRPG (Djinn Tamer - Bronze League, Book 1) https://amzn.to/2nkTGst Home, Siege Home: A LitRPG/GameLit Novel The Good Guys Series, Book 6 https://amzn.to/2lMfNHH Dungeon World 3 A Dungeon Core Experience https://amzn.to/2lCH6nX Peaks of Power: Beginnings https://amzn.to/2nhFLTL Rexus: Side Quest The Completionist Chronicles, Book 3 https://amzn.to/2ncqnIe Endless Fantasy Online: The Phoenix Kingdom https://amzn.to/2niWG8C That’s it everyone! You can follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/litrpgpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LitRPGPodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3-eBvpm-g7IkjfVktObGAA Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geekbytespodcast Our Webpage: www.litrpgpodcast.com Other LitRPG facebook pages https://www.facebook.com/groups/LitRPG.books https://www.facebook.com/groups/LitRPGsociety/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheFantasyNation/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/541733016223492/ If you enjoy the podcast and want to support us you can also find all the other ways to support the podcast at www.litrpgpodcast.com/support Thanks for hanging out with me today. Until we can hangout again, remember to go read some LitRPG! (Music 4) Music Credits "Blip Stream" "Mighty Like Us" "Big Shift" "Vivacity" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
So you might have a great big idea and you’re confident that it’s the right answer to a problem or an assignment . . . but how many times do those ideas get blocked by a key decision maker? The idea might be a brand name, the next big campaign idea or a stunning logo. But before it ever gets off the ground and out to the public, how do you help the decision maker to understand it? Or in our case, we’re talking about the client. In this episode, our guest, designer Scott Biersack and I share a handful of our coaching tips on how to prepare for clients when it’s time to make a big decision. Scott talks about the experience of pitching concepts to other agencies, plus brands like Target, Netflix and others. Think of it this way: You have a realtor to help navigate a complicated home buying process. You’ve got a lawyer to advise you throughout a lawsuit. A doctor helps you choose your treatment options. Everyone needs a reliable coach when it comes to making a big decision. Listen and hear how to be a great coach and a better decision maker. ––––––––––––––––– About the Guest: Scott Biersack is an independent artist and designer based in Arizona with projects seen all around the globe. He partners with both clients and agencies on projects ranging from logotype design, illustration, custom lettering, branding large-scale graphics and more. “I have obsessions with smoothies, biking and recycling,” says Scott via his website. “In that order.” Discover more about Scott’s superpowers via his website, http://youbringfire.com. And join his Instagram fan club (44K and growing) at @youbringfire.
Sue Hall speaks with Vera Packard, Executive Director and Karen Ambrogi, Communications Mgr at Lazarex Cancer Foundation helping patients participate in clinical trials. https://lazarex.org/ Their fundraiser IMPACT 5.44K is Saturday April 27 2019. Learn more here!
Ron starts this episode talking about the “parts problem” of OEM, aftermarket, and white box parts : takes a call on a 15 Toyota Sienna that blew an engine at 44K miles – Toyota is not honoring the power train warranty because of a Walmart oil change : takes a call on an 02 Ford Ranger with an engine shake, and now has a remanufactured transmission that thumps between 2nd and 3rd gear : interviews Jim Bates, Technical Trainer at Johnson Controls, about replacing a battery : takes a call on what happens when you unplug the Mass Air Flow sensor : takes a call asking about electric motorcycles. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
This week we G.R.O.W. with Brett Brett is a 17 year old that runs a basketball Instagram account called @basketballstudios How he grew his first account to 6K followers but then got hacked Bouncing back from where it took him 2 years to get to 6K and with @basketballstudios to 44K in 2 years What his future plans are with school and life! If you wanna get in touch with them, the best place is on Instagram @basketballstudios or @bsbrett Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @Getchogrindup and check out our website www.getchogrindup.com! Always remember... We are all Young & D.U.M.B. and never forget... GETCHOGRINDUP! HIT THAT LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE BUTTON!!!! Thank you everyone!
What if I told you there is a straightforward, five-step process that will have you earning over $100K a year with real estate? The average agent makes a mere $44K each year, simply because they are not implementing each of these five crucial elements on a consistent basis. I have invited Kurz Team frontrunners Ramon Lopez and Dustin Fealy to join me in walking through the five steps to earning six figures in real estate, beginning with exposure. Ramon and Dustin share how they set themselves apart through social media and networking, and we discuss the value of designing an integrated marketing campaign. Then we talk lead generation, explaining the advantage of warm leads over cold ones sent our way by Zillow or Facebook. Next, we cover relationship-building, sharing techniques for building rapport on the phone, answering questions with questions to understand client needs, and conveying energy and sincerity to land an appointment. I address the many different forms of ‘closing a deal,' from getting an email address to earning an appointment to selling a home. Listen in to understand the value of client referrals and get inspired to commit to consistency—and easily earn $100K per year in the real estate business! Topics Covered Why the average real estate agent makes $44K per year The secret sauce for making more than $100K per year • Exposure • Lead generation • Relationships • Closing • Referral repeat What it means to design an integrated marketing campaign How to set yourself apart via social media, digital marketing How to leverage events to expand your sphere of influence The advantage of warm leads over Facebook and Zillow How to build rapport on the phone and land an appointment Answering questions with questions to understand client needs The many different forms of ‘closing a deal' Why a client referral demonstrates the sincerest form of trust Why you MUST commit to consistency to earn $100K per year Connect with Ramon & Dustin Dustin Fealy Group on Facebook Dustin Fealy at Kurz Real Estate Ramon Lopez at Kurz Real Estate Broker Crashers Miami on YouTube Connect with David David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurzdavid/ David on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidakurz David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidAdamKurz David on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecJUBu316jIlXuTueXcd_w David on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidadamkurz/?hl=en Books by David: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=David+Adam+Kurz&search-alias=books&field-author=David+Adam+Kurz&sort=relevancerank Resources Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin: https://www.amazon.com/Purple-Cow-New-Transform-Remarkable/dp/1591843170
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Samir Smajic, one of the founders of GetAccept. GetAccept recently moved to San Francisco from Sweden because they are part of YC—a solution where you design, send, track, and market your proposals to get more deals digitally signed. Samir has a bunch of experience in project management, consulting, CRM, IT, computer software, business and more. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Never Split the Difference What CEO do you follow? – N/A Favorite online tool? —Trello Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – “Doing whatever I felt good to do” Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:55 – Nathan introduces Samir to the show 02:25 – Samir chooses skiing over snowboarding 02:35 – GetAccept helps sales reps close more deals by focusing on their sales document workflow 02:58 – GetAccept is a subscription-based SaaS business 03:07 – Average pay per user is $40/month or $200 per business/month 03:42 – GetAccept currently has 1,100 paying customers and 4,400 free customers 04:15 – Average MRR is $44K 04:20 – GetAccept was launched in December of 2015 04:47 – GetAccept already had revenue their first month 05:31 – Samir shares why GetAccept has a high conversation rate from free to paying customers 06:00 – GetAccept calls their customers to give them product information and ask them questions 06:50 – GetAccept helps their customers send their first contract 07:17 – Fully weighted CAC 07:35 – Total headcount expenses 08:28 – GetAccept has 200 new customers monthly 08:47 – GetAccept has paid marketing 09:09 – Spending is around $4000 for paid ads 09:20 – GetAccept’s biggest competitors explained 11:00 - Gross customer churn 12:00 – LTV 12:25 – GetAccept is currently based in San Francisco 12:49 – GetAccept had raised capital and is still open 14:20 – Samir’s focus is the growth of the company 14:34 – GetAccept has 4 co-founders 14:42 – If DocuSign offered to buy your business, would you accept? 15:30 – Connect with Samir on LinkedIn 17:10 – The Famous Five 3 Key Points: Focus on what YOU can do for your customers – assist them in ANY way possible. Doing the work you love and enjoy is more important than the bottom dollar. Let your competitors motivate you to improve what YOU are doing. Resources Mentioned: Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Drip – Nathan uses Drip’s email automation platform and visual campaign builder to build his sales funnel Toptal – Nathan found his development team using Toptal for his new business Send Later. He was able to keep 100% equity and didn’t have to hire a co-founder due to the quality of Toptal Host Gator – The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible. Audible – Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books. The Top Inbox – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens and follow-up with email sequences LinkedIn – Samir’s LinkedIn account Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives
David is an educator, investor and YouTuber. His YouTube Chanel has over 44K subscribers, and he teaches finances and investing with a focus on stocks and options trading. David and Jacob discuss investing in stocks, crypto currency, precious metals, and more. Enjoy!Follow David davidmoadel@gmail.comWebsiteYouTubeTwitterFacebookInstagramStockTwitsFollow Jacob:WebsiteLinkedInTwitter: @jacob_m_harmonFollow Kalob:LinkedInFollow SuccessQuest:WebsiteBlogFacebook PageCommunity (Facebook Group)LinkedInTwitter: @MySuccessQuestInstagram @MySuccessQuestSupport SuccessQuestWe work incredibly hard to create our podcast, newsletter, Facebook group and more. ALL of these resources are 100% FREE and we wouldn't have it any other way. We believe that success should be accessible to everyone!Support our showListen & SubscribeApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsOvercastSpotifyWe’d love to hear from you!Have some feedback about the show? Feel free to reach out to us at podcast@MySuccessQuest.com. You can also rate us in Apple Podcasts or your favorite app to help more people discover the show!
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