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On this week's episode of the She Doesn't Settle podcast, I talk about expectations, what happens when we fail to meet them, and why we often pursue the wrong goals.   Have you ever set a goal or had high expectations for yourself that you never realized?  Chances are it didn't make you feel good, and you probably beat yourself up for it. The thing is when expectations differ from reality, we let it derail us completely.  Sometimes we even reach our goal and realize that we're no happier than we were when we started working towards it.  It turns out that many of us don't know how to set sustainable goals, and that's just what I want to talk about today.   In today's episode, I walk you through healthy ways to set goals and expectations and the value of resilience.  See, real growth takes place when plans go awry–when you're gasping for air while running that marathon or not getting the raise you think you deserve.  It's all about how you learn from these lessons and navigate their roadblocks.  So instead of expecting perfection in your life, welcome adaptability, redirection, and resilience with open arms.  Most importantly though, join me on today's She Doesn't Settle episode to hear about some of my great failures, a certain someone's Thanksgiving meltdown, and how you too can start pursuing the right goals.     The Finer Details of this Episode: When expectations differ from reality Pursuing the wrong goals Setting realistic and sustainable goals Adaptive expectations When plans go awry Learning resilience   Quotes: “We can have everything planned out and try to nail it. Sometimes everything falls apart, or other stuff is going on; things get derailed. It happens. So we can either shame ourselves, get mad at ourselves and fall apart, or we roll with it.” “If we have this idea of what is going to happen, and I'll walk through some examples, then we expect that thing to happen. And then what if it doesn't?  Expectations are what we think will happen, and reality is what actually happens. While we hope these two will be the same, they often are not.” “Having a set idea of what you want or need from a situation is another way that expectations play out.” “Your expectations may cause you to think that achieving certain goals will bring joy, satisfaction, and all of those things. Sometimes, these predictions are wrong, which means that we're pursuing the wrong goals.” “He kept saying, ‘I never want to do this again. I don't want to do this again next year.' Because at that moment, his experience was so bad.  But we can't let one derail experience– one expectation that was not met - keep us from continuing to move forward.” “I think it's important to note and acknowledge that sometimes our expectations, when we do meet them, don't actually give us the feelings that we thought we were going to get. And that's a harsh reality.” “Whether you succeed or fail, your overall expectation should simply be to learn as you go, to navigate those nasty barriers, and to pivot and move forward.”   Links: She Doesn't Settle Podcast She Doesn't Settle - The Experience: www.kellytravis.net/sds  Instagram: www.instagram.com/shedoesntsettle/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellythealth/ One-on-One Coaching & Group Sessions She Doesn't Settle Assessment

Misty Diaz is the Founder of Adaptive Beauties and she is sharing her personal story with Spina Bifida. Misty Diaz tells her story on being homeless, depressed and the time she tried to take her own life.  Misty then goes on to tell you how she got out of such a dark time in her life. Misty Diaz Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilmistydiaz/ Watch This Interview On YouTube: https://youtu.be/NxDAUh-xXDc The Top 25 Podcast Interview Questions:

Dr. Tomasz George, Chief Scientific Officer of Virax Biolabs, has developed a novel test process that assesses adaptive immune responses to viruses. This information can inform decisions by patients and doctors on how to most effectively produce an immune response and boost personal protection from the next virus outbreak. An app delivers data about how an individual might respond to a virus and sends notices of specific viruses in a geographic location, along with links to diet and lifestyle suggestions. Tomasz explains, "We also distribute and sell other viral testing products that look at viruses at different stages of infection and also your immunity at different stages. We intend to provide a subscription service in the next few months that actually allows you to test for these viruses on an ongoing basis, depending on which new viruses are at the moment. And this allows you to determine whether you would expect to cope with these viruses or not if you came in contact with them." "We have a number of different avenues for selling our tests. We sell direct to consumers because it's a very informative test for people in general population groups. We also are looking to sell to governments, healthcare organizations, and pharma groups who will use our tests in different ways for population health management and management of governmental strategies. And also, for healthcare groups to identify patients who are most at risk and for pharma groups who can help to optimize the population that they study for things like drugs and vaccines by identifying patients who might respond better or worse to specific viruses." @ViraxBiolabs #ViraxBiolabs #VRAX #ViraxCare #InfectiousDiseases #HealthTech #MedTech #BioTech #RealTimePCRDetection #RTPCR #PCRTest #AntibodyTest #BiomarkerTesting #COVID19 ViraxBiolabs.com Download the transcript here

Dr. Tomasz George, Chief Scientific Officer of Virax Biolabs, has developed a novel test process that assesses adaptive immune responses to viruses. This information can inform decisions by patients and doctors on how to most effectively produce an immune response and boost personal protection from the next virus outbreak. An app delivers data about how an individual might respond to a virus and sends notices of specific viruses in a geographic location, along with links to diet and lifestyle suggestions. Tomasz explains, "We also distribute and sell other viral testing products that look at viruses at different stages of infection and also your immunity at different stages. We intend to provide a subscription service in the next few months that actually allows you to test for these viruses on an ongoing basis, depending on which new viruses are at the moment. And this allows you to determine whether you would expect to cope with these viruses or not if you came in contact with them." "We have a number of different avenues for selling our tests. We sell direct to consumers because it's a very informative test for people in general population groups. We also are looking to sell to governments, healthcare organizations, and pharma groups who will use our tests in different ways for population health management and management of governmental strategies. And also, for healthcare groups to identify patients who are most at risk and for pharma groups who can help to optimize the population that they study for things like drugs and vaccines by identifying patients who might respond better or worse to specific viruses." @ViraxBiolabs #ViraxBiolabs #VRAX #ViraxCare #InfectiousDiseases #HealthTech #MedTech #BioTech #RealTimePCRDetection #RTPCR #PCRTest #AntibodyTest #BiomarkerTesting #COVID19 ViraxBiolabs.com Listen to the podcast here

Sometimes, Rodney and Aaron stop by other people's podcasts to nerd out on the hits we know and love: new ways of working, self-management, breaking down the binary between chaos and bureaucracy, the future of work—the list goes on and on. So today, we're actually bringing one of those awesome conversations right to your ears. Rodney recently joined Jonathan Westover on his show, Human Capital Innovations, for an epic chat about adaptive organizational design and a whole lot more. We hope you enjoy the exchange and we'll return with a fresh episode of Brave New Work next Monday. To tune into more episodes of Jonathan's show, Human Capital Innovations, head to https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Our book is available now at bravenewwork.com We want to hear from you. Send your thoughts and feedback to podcast@theready.com Looking for some help with your own transformation? Visit theready.com

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This episode is a continuation of a series on building adaptive capacity to improve global stress resilience. In this episode, I detail the type, duration, and intensity of exercise required to improve adaptive capacity.  I also discuss how to classify exercise intensity, what Zone 2 exercise is, and how combining weightlifting and aerobic exercise can dramatically lower your risk of all-cause mortality. Sign up for Erik's weekly newsletter - Adaptation Join the AIM7 Beta Community _____________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE BLUEPRINT PODCAST: The BluePrint Podcast is for busy professionals and Household CEOs who care deeply about their families, career, and health. Host Dr. Erik Korem distills cutting edge-science, leadership, and life skills into simple tactics optimized for your busy lifestyle and goals.   Dr. Korem interviews scientists, coaches, elite athletes, entrepreneurs, entertainers, and exceptional people to discuss science and practical skills you can implement in your life to become the most healthy, resilient, and impactful version of yourself.   On a mission to equip people to pursue audacious goals, thrive in uncertainty, and live a healthy and fulfilled life, Dr. Erik Korem is a High Performance pioneer. He introduced sports science and athlete tracking technologies to collegiate and professional (NFL) football over a decade ago and has worked with the National Football League, Power-5 NCAA programs, gold-medal Olympians, Nike, and the United States Department of Defense.   Erik is an expert in sleep and stress resilience. He is the Founder and CEO of AIM7, a health and fitness app that unlocks the power of wearables by providing you with daily personalized recommendations to enhance your mind, body, and recovery. SUPPORT & CONNECT   Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/erikkorem/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErikKorem LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-korem-phd-19991734/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/erikkorem Website - https://www.erikkorem.com/ Newsletter - https://erikkoremhpcoach.activehosted.com/f/  ______________________________________________________________ QUOTES   “The key is using stress and adapting to it and improving. That's what high performance is to me, the ability to adapt rapidly so you can achieve your potential. There are five key pillars to creating the conditions for adaptability: sleep, exercise, mental resilience, nutrition, and community/relationships.” - Dr. Erik Korem   "Stress is your brain and body preparing you to do something effortful." Dr. Alex Auerbach “I maybe have a different concept on leadership. To me, leading is a verb. If you're leading, you're a leader. If you're swimming, you're a swimmer, if you're driving, you're a driver. If you're leading, you're by definition, a leader. I define leading as being looked to in a particular moment to decide or perform an action based on your unique gifts and abilities. So by that definition, everybody is a leader. All rank and role really describe is how many people are hoping you get it right when it's your turn to wear the weight.” - Clint Bruce "Attention is the currency of performance." - Dr. Peter Haberl “That's what I've discovered in the lives of brilliant, prolific, healthy creatives, is that they have networks of people they leverage in the course of their work. That they learn from, that they were challenged by, that they gave great insight and purview into their own life and work, in such a way that they were able to receive feedback that helped them get better at what they do.” - Todd Henry "Restful and fulfilling sleep enables you to grow, adapt, and thrive. It creates the conditions for adaptation, so you can pursue audacious goals and thrive in uncertainty." - Dr. Erik Korem "Most exercise programs fail, not because the reps and sets are poorly designed, but because the program doesn't adjust for how much stress your body can adapt to that day! That's why Dr. Chris Morris' research and practical application of fluid periodization is the key for unlocking your performance potential." - Dr. Erik KoremSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In today's episode I chat with Jon Watkins a resilience and transformation coach and a former special forces soldier.  Jon shares insights into some challenges that he overcame in the military and the importance of mindset.  Goal setting is introduced, concepts such as self-leadership, natural resilience, adaptive resilience and psychological safety we also touch on and a lot more.  Enjoy tuning in! Key Learning Points: The selection process in the special forces produced likeminded mentally and physically robust individuals who shared collective goals and went on to create a fantastic environment to work in. Self-leadership was a huge part of the special forces. My comfort zone was pushed to its maximum. When considering goal setting, relating it back to your values is essential. Chunking down your goals is a skill that anyone can develop. Mental Toughness is built around that perseverance, never giving up element to it and being disciplined to live through your values. Resilience in general is about bouncing back. Natural resilience is the resilience that we're born with. Adaptive resilience is heavily influenced by our environment. Connect with Jon Watkins LinkedIn Website Connect with David Charlton Download THE FOCUSED ATHLETE CHECKLIST Join David @ The Sports Psychology Hub Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Other Useful Podcast Episodes Ep065: Dr Amy Izycky – Encouraging Mentally Healthy Cultures in Sport Ep066: Marilyn Okoro – Mental Health and Resilience: Lessons from an Olympic Medalist Ep114: Tim Bradshaw - Because I Can – How To Get Out Of Your Own Way Ep123: Richard Dorney - Supporting People: What Can You Learn About Resilience From The Military Ep140: Chris Cook - How to Improve Your Mental Strength: Secrets from an Olympian Other Useful Resources linked to Resilience Blog - 5 Ways to Create a Psychological Safe Sporting Environment Blog – 3 Tips to Deal with Bullying in Sport Blog - How to Find Your Why  Blog - Mental Health Guidance for Coaches When Supporting Athletes Blog - Resilient and Mentally Tough: 9 Things You Can Learn From Tiger Woods

Success in business — serving customers well, and achieving growth in revenues and assets with a return on capital greater than its cost over the long term — is tied to knowledge-building, whereby everyone in the company learns more and more about specialized and advantaged methods of generating value for customers. Customer value fueled by knowledge-building flows back to the company as cash flow as a result of customers' willingness to pay (which, itself, is a piece of knowledge to be discovered through testing and experimentation). The uncertainty of the future means that a lot of knowledge-building must be achieved through experimentation — testing ideas to find out if they work or not. The earliest stage of this testing is bound up in the concept of criticism. Bart Vanderhaegen, a philosopher, epistemologist, and business consultant, explains the role of criticism to Economics For Business. Knowledge Capsule There is broad agreement on the need for adaptiveness in business. It is becoming more and more accepted to view firms as operating within a complex adaptive system in which the interactions of millions of agents, and the resultant emergence of new outcomes and new system properties, require an acute sensibility regarding change — and speed of change — in the business environment and an ability to make adjustments in response or, if possible, in anticipation. This adjustment process often goes by the name of adaptiveness. What, exactly, is being adapted? Bart Vanderhaegen's analysis is that it is ideas that are being adapted and adjusted. He defines idea in this business context as a goal and a plan to achieve that goal — a desired end and the associated means. It is ideas that ultimately result in changing people's behavior, changing product and service offerings, and changing markets. If the idea is wrong, it will fail in achieving any desired change. To establish why or how an idea is wrong requires criticism. Criticism is an artifact of the science of knowledge. Critical rationalism views knowledge as useful information we use to solve problems we face. It can never be viewed as final — it's conjecture about possible solutions that we are continuously challenging and criticizing to expose any error that we can subsequently correct to improve upon the solution, and to get closer to economic reality. That's adaptation. Firms actively seek the criticism of the market. Once ideas have been activated as products and services, firms are comfortable with the criticism of the market. As Mises observed, the customer, by buying or not buying, returns a verdict on every business's offering. And business welcomes the criticism, in the form of sales report, or market share analysis, or market research. The market is full of feedback, and in the case of non-buying, the feedback is criticism and triggers improvements or an adaptation of the plan. In business, there tends to be less comfort with criticism in the pre-market stage, but it's a necessary tool for refining options and making decisions. In Bart's way of saying it, the word criticism, when used in business, has “kind of a weird smell around it”. There's a culture of what he calls justificationism. We are taught to project confidence bout business plans. Executives claim expertise in the domains for which they were hired. The boss is correct. This is all misplaced. What we should be confident about is capacity to solve problems, and not be scared of making mistakes, but rather to be eager to adapt our knowledge to observed reality when it changes. By utilizing criticism methodically, businesses can unleash its power. The proper use of criticism is to criticize ideas and not persons. We always want to celebrate the owner of an idea, and grant them autonomy to accept or reject criticism. Bart's three step method for business criticism is: Start with the presentation of the idea by the idea owner. There should be the opportunity for a full and reasoned presentation. Questions of clarification can be asked, but no criticism at this step.Then follows the offering of criticism. It should be high quality, constructive and specific as to what elements are in doubt and why, and what can be improved. General opposition such as “That will never be accepted here” (which could be said of any idea) is not acceptable.The criticism session is completed with a consent stage, in which the idea owner indicates which criticisms he or she finds relevant and will act on to improve the idea, whether in ends or means or both. Consent is in the discretion of the idea owner and should not be the result of any pressure by critics, whatever their rank or status. There is no “softness” in this: there is a shared and passionate commitment to improve. Successful adaptive businesses develop a positive culture of criticism. It's important to analyze and classify the prevailing firm culture. Some cultures will discourage or reject criticism as a method for improvement, especially those that are hierarchically organized and have a tradition of authoritarianism. The appropriate culture values truth and values adaptiveness, and celebrates the identification of error as a successful step towards improvement. Bart called this culture a “tradition of criticism”, which sounds contradictory since the word tradition is usually associated with preserving the status quo; but a tradition of criticism implies a kind of stability around the practice of criticizing. People become comfortable with it, and try to become better at it, and are proud to be part of the path to betterment through criticism. The Amazon 6-page memo system is a good example of the tradition of criticism. Idea owners are required to prepare a detailed memo describing the idea and the business case and this is submitted to a committee of reviewers in a dedicated meeting, escalating in rank towards the most senior management as the idea is vetted, improved, and increasingly strengthened. It's a tradition and a part of the Amazon culture. Such a culture is not initiated with an announcement or a campaign, but emerges organically as a universal tool for everyone in the firm to utilize. Additional Resources Pactify Management: PactifyManagement.com Bart on Twitter: @B_Vanderhaegen Bart's podcast: Fallible Management (Anchor.fm/FallibleManagement) Bart's email: bart.vanderhaegen@pactifysoftware.com

AugMentors is joined by Simon Severino, a TEDx Speaker, Author of Strategy Sprints, all while he helps business owners in SaaS and Services run their company efficiently which results in soaring sales. In this episode, he shared about his journey on being a Knowledge Worker and why he trusts the process. His experiences in mentoring and Sales allows him to give valuable points on other topics like: The importance of trusting the Process Mentors of my Mentors Heroes or Mentors? The Adaptive and Technical Side Want to connect with Simon and learn more? Find out more here! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonseverino/    The AugMentors podcast is hosted by two energetic entrepreneurs who leave the shallows of social media to take an invigorating dive into the waters of modern mentoring where guest industry-experts turn deep personal relationships into success. Our Website:  Homepage Subscribe with us on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/augmentors-us Youtube:  AugMentors Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/augmentorshq/ Twitter: augmentorshq

We enjoy spending time at the vise with a favorite beverage.  As tying season gears up, we are reaching into the vault to bring you some of our favorite fly tying interviews. First up is our interview with Matt Grajewski of Adaptive Fly!  This interview dropped in May 2021.  Give it listen! Here are the original show notes with all of the episode details.

Success in business — serving customers well, and achieving growth in revenues and assets with a return on capital greater than its cost over the long term — is tied to knowledge-building, whereby everyone in the company learns more and more about specialized and advantaged methods of generating value for customers. Customer value fueled by knowledge-building flows back to the company as cash flow as a result of customers' willingness to pay (which, itself, is a piece of knowledge to be discovered through testing and experimentation). The uncertainty of the future means that a lot of knowledge-building must be achieved through experimentation — testing ideas to find out if they work or not. The earliest stage of this testing is bound up in the concept of criticism. Bart Vanderhaegen, a philosopher, epistemologist, and business consultant, explains the role of criticism to Economics For Business. Knowledge Capsule There is broad agreement on the need for adaptiveness in business. It is becoming more and more accepted to view firms as operating within a complex adaptive system in which the interactions of millions of agents, and the resultant emergence of new outcomes and new system properties, require an acute sensibility regarding change — and speed of change — in the business environment and an ability to make adjustments in response or, if possible, in anticipation. This adjustment process often goes by the name of adaptiveness. What, exactly, is being adapted? Bart Vanderhaegen's analysis is that it is ideas that are being adapted and adjusted. He defines idea in this business context as a goal and a plan to achieve that goal — a desired end and the associated means. It is ideas that ultimately result in changing people's behavior, changing product and service offerings, and changing markets. If the idea is wrong, it will fail in achieving any desired change. To establish why or how an idea is wrong requires criticism. Criticism is an artifact of the science of knowledge. Critical rationalism views knowledge as useful information we use to solve problems we face. It can never be viewed as final — it's conjecture about possible solutions that we are continuously challenging and criticizing to expose any error that we can subsequently correct to improve upon the solution, and to get closer to economic reality. That's adaptation. Firms actively seek the criticism of the market. Once ideas have been activated as products and services, firms are comfortable with the criticism of the market. As Mises observed, the customer, by buying or not buying, returns a verdict on every business's offering. And business welcomes the criticism, in the form of sales report, or market share analysis, or market research. The market is full of feedback, and in the case of non-buying, the feedback is criticism and triggers improvements or an adaptation of the plan. In business, there tends to be less comfort with criticism in the pre-market stage, but it's a necessary tool for refining options and making decisions. In Bart's way of saying it, the word criticism, when used in business, has “kind of a weird smell around it”. There's a culture of what he calls justificationism. We are taught to project confidence bout business plans. Executives claim expertise in the domains for which they were hired. The boss is correct. This is all misplaced. What we should be confident about is capacity to solve problems, and not be scared of making mistakes, but rather to be eager to adapt our knowledge to observed reality when it changes. By utilizing criticism methodically, businesses can unleash its power. The proper use of criticism is to criticize ideas and not persons. We always want to celebrate the owner of an idea, and grant them autonomy to accept or reject criticism. Bart's three step method for business criticism is: Start with the presentation of the idea by the idea owner. There should be the opportunity for a full and reasoned presentation. Questions of clarification can be asked, but no criticism at this step.Then follows the offering of criticism. It should be high quality, constructive and specific as to what elements are in doubt and why, and what can be improved. General opposition such as “That will never be accepted here” (which could be said of any idea) is not acceptable.The criticism session is completed with a consent stage, in which the idea owner indicates which criticisms he or she finds relevant and will act on to improve the idea, whether in ends or means or both. Consent is in the discretion of the idea owner and should not be the result of any pressure by critics, whatever their rank or status. There is no “softness” in this: there is a shared and passionate commitment to improve. Successful adaptive businesses develop a positive culture of criticism. It's important to analyze and classify the prevailing firm culture. Some cultures will discourage or reject criticism as a method for improvement, especially those that are hierarchically organized and have a tradition of authoritarianism. The appropriate culture values truth and values adaptiveness, and celebrates the identification of error as a successful step towards improvement. Bart called this culture a “tradition of criticism”, which sounds contradictory since the word tradition is usually associated with preserving the status quo; but a tradition of criticism implies a kind of stability around the practice of criticizing. People become comfortable with it, and try to become better at it, and are proud to be part of the path to betterment through criticism. The Amazon 6-page memo system is a good example of the tradition of criticism. Idea owners are required to prepare a detailed memo describing the idea and the business case and this is submitted to a committee of reviewers in a dedicated meeting, escalating in rank towards the most senior management as the idea is vetted, improved, and increasingly strengthened. It's a tradition and a part of the Amazon culture. Such a culture is not initiated with an announcement or a campaign, but emerges organically as a universal tool for everyone in the firm to utilize. Additional Resources Pactify Management: PactifyManagement.com Bart on Twitter: @B_Vanderhaegen Bart's podcast: Fallible Management (Anchor.fm/FallibleManagement) Bart's email: bart.vanderhaegen@pactifysoftware.com

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All sane Fintechs will have a security system to try and keep out as many attacks and fraudulent would be clients. However the nature of the attacks and frauds is getting ever-more hardcore. As Martin says in the show back in the day to rob a bank you would have to take significant personal risk […]

Margaret Hoelzer is a 3x Olympic medalist, 6x World Champion, and former World Record holder. A proud graduate of Auburn University, she and training partner Kirsty Coventry went 1-2 in the 200 Back at the Beijing Olympics. After the Olympics, Margaret disclosed that she was sexually abused as a child. What she didn't expect was her disclosure turning into a career as an award-winning speaker and spokesperson for the National Children's Advocacy Center. Book her here: https://www.margarethoelzer.com/home 00:00 Bratter PA Immigration Law 00:05 Hello Margaret Hoelzer War Eagle 01:10 How'd you get into swimming? 04:00 Going to Nats at 13 06:40 Mary T Meagher 08:40 Going to Auburn 10:30 Freshman class 10:45 Kirsty Coventry 12:20 How to win a championship 15:45 Dryland circuit 18:45 Shadowed by Men's team? 22:00 Senior year runner up 24:20 Beine Nutrition 25:09 Adaptive swim lessons 25:50 Committing to a 3rd event 27:40 What made Auburn special? 30:05 What brought the best out in you? 32:00 Recognizing you won't like everything 34:00 Team to Individual success 36:15 Beijing Olympics 200 Back 38:10 Who was coaching who? 39:47 Swimtraxx 40:32 Sexual abuse prevention 46:15 Brett's brother was abused 48:00 Being a perfectionist 50:45 Margaret telling her parents 53:05 Didn't deserve being on the Olympic team 55:00 World Record for a month 56:58 Writing a book 58:30 From Africa to Alaska 59:45 "Survivor" 01:01:30 AnyQuestion 01:02:08 Destro Swim Towers Our Sponsors: BRATTER PA IMMIGRATION LAW: Exclusive immigration representation of athletes, entrepreneurs, artists, investors, and entertainers. SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today! BEINE WELLNESS BUILDING: Individualize your nutrition with genetic testing and personalized plans. Eat, supplement, and recover based on your genetics. SWIMTRAXX: Swimtraxx One is the smartest swim specific tracker. Track your time, heart rate, and stroke rate all from the same device. INTL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME: Help preserve swimming history by joining the 1 in 1000 Club! VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout! DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout! SWIMNERD: Big and small digital pace clocks, virtual scoreboards, and live results. Subscribe to the Swimnerd Newsletter. Subscribe & Listen: Apple Podcasts Google Spotify YouTube Produced by: SWIMNERD

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Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 4/4: COP27 begins in Egypt: 4/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change by Terry Anderson (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Be-Adept-Responses-Climate/dp/0817924558/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1618603521&refinements=p_27%3ATerry+Anderson&s=books&sr=1-1 How can markets help us adapt to the challenges of climate change? The editor Terry L. Anderson brings together this collection of essays featuring the work of nine leading policy analysts, who argue that market forces are just as important as government regulation in shaping climate policy—and should be at the heart of our response to helping societies adapt to climate change. Anderson notes in his introduction that most current climate policies such as the Paris Agreement require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing or mitigating greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy. The authors tackle a range of issues: the hidden costs of renewable energy sources, the political obstacles surrounding climate change policy, insurance and financial instruments for pricing risk of exposure to the effects of climate change, and more. Reliance on emerging renewable energies and a carbon tax are not enough to prevent the effects of global warming, they argue. We must encourage more private action and market incentives to adapt to a rapidly changing climate.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1/4: COP27 begins in Egypt: 1/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change by Terry Anderson (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Be-Adept-Responses-Climate/dp/0817924558/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1618603521&refinements=p_27%3ATerry+Anderson&s=books&sr=1-1 How can markets help us adapt to the challenges of climate change? The editor Terry L. Anderson brings together this collection of essays featuring the work of nine leading policy analysts, who argue that market forces are just as important as government regulation in shaping climate policy—and should be at the heart of our response to helping societies adapt to climate change. Anderson notes in his introduction that most current climate policies such as the Paris Agreement require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing or mitigating greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy. The authors tackle a range of issues: the hidden costs of renewable energy sources, the political obstacles surrounding climate change policy, insurance and financial instruments for pricing risk of exposure to the effects of climate change, and more. Reliance on emerging renewable energies and a carbon tax are not enough to prevent the effects of global warming, they argue. We must encourage more private action and market incentives to adapt to a rapidly changing climate.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 2/4: COP27 begins in Egypt: 2/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change by Terry Anderson (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Be-Adept-Responses-Climate/dp/0817924558/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1618603521&refinements=p_27%3ATerry+Anderson&s=books&sr=1-1 How can markets help us adapt to the challenges of climate change? The editor Terry L. Anderson brings together this collection of essays featuring the work of nine leading policy analysts, who argue that market forces are just as important as government regulation in shaping climate policy—and should be at the heart of our response to helping societies adapt to climate change. Anderson notes in his introduction that most current climate policies such as the Paris Agreement require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing or mitigating greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy. The authors tackle a range of issues: the hidden costs of renewable energy sources, the political obstacles surrounding climate change policy, insurance and financial instruments for pricing risk of exposure to the effects of climate change, and more. Reliance on emerging renewable energies and a carbon tax are not enough to prevent the effects of global warming, they argue. We must encourage more private action and market incentives to adapt to a rapidly changing climate.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 3/4: COP27 begins in Egypt: 3/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change by Terry Anderson (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Be-Adept-Responses-Climate/dp/0817924558/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1618603521&refinements=p_27%3ATerry+Anderson&s=books&sr=1-1 How can markets help us adapt to the challenges of climate change? The editor Terry L. Anderson brings together this collection of essays featuring the work of nine leading policy analysts, who argue that market forces are just as important as government regulation in shaping climate policy—and should be at the heart of our response to helping societies adapt to climate change. Anderson notes in his introduction that most current climate policies such as the Paris Agreement require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing or mitigating greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy. The authors tackle a range of issues: the hidden costs of renewable energy sources, the political obstacles surrounding climate change policy, insurance and financial instruments for pricing risk of exposure to the effects of climate change, and more. Reliance on emerging renewable energies and a carbon tax are not enough to prevent the effects of global warming, they argue. We must encourage more private action and market incentives to adapt to a rapidly changing climate.

For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad. Dimitri, Khalid, and Jay the Neuroscientist (@The_Hague_ICC) conclude their exploration of cybernetics with a discussion of: RD Laing's “anti-psychiatry”, Laing's decade at the Tavistock Institute, Dr. Jolly West and the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, Syd Barrett going insane on LSD despite (because of?) Laing's “guidance”, Laing and Leary, Laing vs. Stokely Carmichael, the Dimes Square Fascist Humiliation Ritual, Heinz von Foerster and Second Order Cybernetics, Foerster's Theosophist grandmother Marie Lang, the Doomsday Equation, Protestant gifted child/future Macy Conference chairman Warren Sturgis McCullough and Henry Sloane Coffin, Bertram Borden Boltwood, “The Minds of Men” documentary, Alex Gibney's stepfather Peter Sloane Coffin getting tapped into Skull and Bones by George H.W. Bush, “The Ultimate Think Tank: The Rise of the Santa Fe Institute Libertarian”, Robert Maxwell and PROMIS, Ghislaine's twin sisters Christine and Isabel Maxwell, Carl Djerassi and Alexander Djerassi, the “Friends” of Libya and Syria Conferences, Reddit power-moderator u/maxwellhill, Cormac McCarthy, Zorro Ranch, and Jeffrey Epstein bankrolling the co-optation of cybernetic thought to advance the sinister philanthrocapitalist agenda of the sicko ruling class.

Your weekly dose of information that keeps you up to date on the latest developments in the field of technology designed to assist people with disabilities and special needs. Special Guest: Dan Preston – Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering – Rice University Website: pi.rice.edu Stories: Learning with Annie Story: https://bit.ly/3fpGMom Smart Biteguard Story: https://bit.ly/3Fv3OVr —————————— […]

Ulises Cabrera, director de Microsoft Surface, nos habla sobre Surface Adaptive Kit, para facilitar el acceso a la tecnología a personas con distintas discapacidades. Hoy es el Día del Juguete Sexual y Karime Reyes, de Platanomelon, habla del tema.

In this episode we're talking about having a "Mindset of Constant Upgrades"! As a leader, business owner or aspiring business owner, it's important to know how to be adaptive and how to build on your adaptive intelligence. Our prime example is the year 2020. In 2020 the entire world was caught off-guard by a pandemic that caused people, companies, economies, and entire countries to adapt to the health climate, and do so very quickly. All adaptations take time, but when you have a constant mindset of adaptivity, then you have a shorter adjustment period. Do you struggle with change and how to handle change? Do you ever ask yourself, "How do I remain authentic to myself and stay up to date with the current trends?" Do you want to know how to better adjust to change quickly? This episode is going to give you some reasons as to why you should consistently build your adaptive intelligence and steps to take to help you build your adaptive intelligence. Listen to this episode to hear more. Key Talking Points of the Episode: [00:22] Get comfortable with being uncomfortable [04:09] The Pandemic [16:22] Ways to become adaptive to change ____________ Learn more about the Mindset to Momentum Mastermind by clicking here! Feel free to shoot me a DM on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/ravencnole/ with your takeaways from this episode. AS ALWAYS, THE BEST WIN FOR US IS WHEN YOU → LEAVE A REVIEW!⚡️

Breakthrough theory becomes effective practice when it is successful applied by real-life entrepreneurs. The E4B entrepreneurial method is actualized by Hermann and Elizabeth Morris in the very distinctive business model for their brand, The Nail Hub. Knowledge Capsule The true purpose of a B2B business is to help your customers succeed. While outside observers focus on transactions — how much does this business sell, what are its revenues? — entrepreneurial business owners and operators focus on customers and customer relationships. Revenues follow from relationships. This insight is critical, since it guides business model development. Business-to-business models are especially responsive to relationship strategies. When a customer feels that the relationship with a supplier makes their business performance better, they can become a customer for life. That's a recipe for strong and sustainable growth. First, observe the ecosystem in which you operate, and identify gap opportunities. Systems thinking is an important component of the entrepreneurial method. A firm is a component or a node in a network of interconnected services we can call an ecosystem. Hermann's and Elizabeth's ecosystem is the Nail Fashion industry. Nodes include salons and salon owners, the nail technicians (sometimes employees, sometimes independent contractors) who provide service to consumers in the salons, equipment manufacturers and suppliers, product manufacturers and suppliers (for nail gel, etc.), and product distributors. 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Many salon owners were enthusiastic about their industry but not well-trained or experienced in the basic economics of business. Many of the technicians were passionate about their trade, but not highly trained in the latest techniques and technologies and in product selection. There were aspects of marketing that were underdeveloped, such as audience segmentation. And there were inconsistencies between products in both quality and safety. In the mind of the entrepreneur, these gaps are opportunities. The entrepreneurial question is: how best to fit in and contribute to the ecosystem. The business model response is determined by individual entrepreneurial orientation. The beginning orientation was that of an operator. Given their knowledge of both the high potential of the industry and the gaps to be addressed / problems to solve, the Morrises' entry point was as an operator. They embarked upon the journey to design a differentiated salon experience with superior nail technique, better products, better trained technicians. They ran the salon with better business acumen (they both came from high-level corporate positions and were able to bring sophisticated operating and financial experience). They segmented with an unusual and especially comfortable in-salon appeal, and via location. They were successful. There was a lot of learning, which Hermann identifies as overcoming pain points. The next growth step comes from re-orientation to larger scale. How could the Morrises scale their salon business? They thought through multiple openings (e.g., open and operate 20 salons), acquisition (acquire 20 salons), and franchising (sell franchises to multiple independent owners). All of these alternatives would require new capability development: establishing standards and a repeatable business model, including a reliable financial model, designing a multi-unit system of supply chains, capital deployment, décor, training and location scouting, and a new kind of marketing to salon managers or franchisees. The Morrises were reorienting to thinking as proprietors of a new kind of multi-division business. It's a different orientation, seeing the same ecosystem from a different perspective. Meanwhile, Elizabeth had the idea for a podcast to share her expertise and knowledge and passion for the industry. It was free business advice, free guidance, free technical training, teaching different aspects of running a salon and technical aspects for nail technicians. Its purpose was a service to consumers (better salon experiences), to technicians (better craftsmanship) and owners (better business operations). The podcast was called The Nail Hub. It generated a great positive reputation in the ecosystem and a lot of positive feedback. The knowledge that The Nail Hub podcast shared was enthusiastically welcomed. The Nail Hub podcast feedback resulted in a further re-orientation. The Nail Hub podcast was helping salon owners and those technicians who were independent contractors renting positions in salons to improve the way they ran their businesses: better management, better understanding of customer needs and segmentation, better approaches to pricing, revenue and profits, better techniques, and better products. What if a podcast can become a business model? Hermann and Elizabeth developed an entirely new B2B services business model which could be summarized as “educate the industry on how to operate a business, and supply them with the highest quality products to fit their business”. Importantly, the education is free to consume. The Nail Hub YouTube channel is free to access, and offers over 140 videos on every aspect of business operations, finances, equipment, products, and techniques. The videos are expensive to produce. The model is that the investment in education will be repaid through loyal customers buying the products that The Nail Hub offers for purchase. The curation of products itself is a service. The Nail Hub has identified a distinctive set of criteria for product selection (health, safety, non-toxic ingredients, cruelty-free) and does the research and validation so that purchasers can be confident in their choices and tin he integrity of their promises to the end-consumer. The products are not the lowest price, they are the highest quality. Salon owners who have not fully absorbed The Nail Hub's education on consumer segmentation, pricing, and customer experience will not be a good fit within The Nail Hub's customer set. The Nail Hub business model has a high internal consistency and integrity. The Nail Hub has re-oriented to B2B service provider educating an entire industry to provide superior consumer experiences, better product quality and profitable operations — i.e., re-orienting from facing those challenges to helping others to face and overcome them. One of the cornerstones of the B2B services model is authentic subject matter expertise. The Nail Hub can help salon owners and nail technicians thrive through their independent action because Hermann and Elizabeth developed a deep subject matter expertise. They've been salon owners and faced all the developmental issues that owners face. They've trained nail technicians. They've evaluated salon equipment and they've committed their resources and time to researching high quality, innovative products that meet their highest standards. Hermann stresses that the arduous development of subject matter expertise is the necessary foundation for a trusted service business. Another is to choose customers carefully. The Nail Hub is making a substantial investment in their customers via their free training and education. The business model that they enable is specific: the highest standards, with the best trained operators, providing a reliably superior consumer experience. The pricing model is premium, which supports the use of the highest quality products and the provision of the highest quality salon environment. Race-to-the-bottom operators who pursue the lowest prices as a competitive edge are not a good fit in The Nail Hub ecosystem, and Hermann makes this a clear element of The Nail Hub's B2B communications. Choose your customers to match your positioning. The evaluation of the business model does not lie in conventional metrics. When the business model is to invest in the success of customers, the conventional metrics of revenue, margins and annual profits are not the primary measures of success (although, of course, they must be acknowledged). The evaluation of the model comes via the feedback loops. Is the educational service welcomed? Does it result in better operations on the part of salon owners? Do salon owners and independent technicians become customers for life? Do product manufacturers clamor for entry into The Nail Hub's curated product set? Are product trends — safe, non-toxic, healthy, etc. — moving in the desired direction? This is the entrepreneurial ethic: make customers more successful, make the world a better place. Additional Resources "Evolving The Nail Hub Business Model" E4B Graphic (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_194_PDF The Nail Hub YouTube Channel: YouTube.com/TheNailHub The Nail Hub Website: TheNailHub.com

Breakthrough theory becomes effective practice when it is successful applied by real-life entrepreneurs. The E4B entrepreneurial method is actualized by Hermann and Elizabeth Morris in the very distinctive business model for their brand, The Nail Hub. Knowledge Capsule The true purpose of a B2B business is to help your customers succeed. While outside observers focus on transactions — how much does this business sell, what are its revenues? — entrepreneurial business owners and operators focus on customers and customer relationships. Revenues follow from relationships. This insight is critical, since it guides business model development. Business-to-business models are especially responsive to relationship strategies. When a customer feels that the relationship with a supplier makes their business performance better, they can become a customer for life. That's a recipe for strong and sustainable growth. First, observe the ecosystem in which you operate, and identify gap opportunities. Systems thinking is an important component of the entrepreneurial method. A firm is a component or a node in a network of interconnected services we can call an ecosystem. Hermann's and Elizabeth's ecosystem is the Nail Fashion industry. Nodes include salons and salon owners, the nail technicians (sometimes employees, sometimes independent contractors) who provide service to consumers in the salons, equipment manufacturers and suppliers, product manufacturers and suppliers (for nail gel, etc.), and product distributors. 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They embarked upon the journey to design a differentiated salon experience with superior nail technique, better products, better trained technicians. They ran the salon with better business acumen (they both came from high-level corporate positions and were able to bring sophisticated operating and financial experience). They segmented with an unusual and especially comfortable in-salon appeal, and via location. They were successful. There was a lot of learning, which Hermann identifies as overcoming pain points. The next growth step comes from re-orientation to larger scale. How could the Morrises scale their salon business? They thought through multiple openings (e.g., open and operate 20 salons), acquisition (acquire 20 salons), and franchising (sell franchises to multiple independent owners). All of these alternatives would require new capability development: establishing standards and a repeatable business model, including a reliable financial model, designing a multi-unit system of supply chains, capital deployment, décor, training and location scouting, and a new kind of marketing to salon managers or franchisees. The Morrises were reorienting to thinking as proprietors of a new kind of multi-division business. It's a different orientation, seeing the same ecosystem from a different perspective. Meanwhile, Elizabeth had the idea for a podcast to share her expertise and knowledge and passion for the industry. It was free business advice, free guidance, free technical training, teaching different aspects of running a salon and technical aspects for nail technicians. Its purpose was a service to consumers (better salon experiences), to technicians (better craftsmanship) and owners (better business operations). The podcast was called The Nail Hub. It generated a great positive reputation in the ecosystem and a lot of positive feedback. The knowledge that The Nail Hub podcast shared was enthusiastically welcomed. The Nail Hub podcast feedback resulted in a further re-orientation. The Nail Hub podcast was helping salon owners and those technicians who were independent contractors renting positions in salons to improve the way they ran their businesses: better management, better understanding of customer needs and segmentation, better approaches to pricing, revenue and profits, better techniques, and better products. What if a podcast can become a business model? Hermann and Elizabeth developed an entirely new B2B services business model which could be summarized as “educate the industry on how to operate a business, and supply them with the highest quality products to fit their business”. Importantly, the education is free to consume. The Nail Hub YouTube channel is free to access, and offers over 140 videos on every aspect of business operations, finances, equipment, products, and techniques. The videos are expensive to produce. The model is that the investment in education will be repaid through loyal customers buying the products that The Nail Hub offers for purchase. The curation of products itself is a service. The Nail Hub has identified a distinctive set of criteria for product selection (health, safety, non-toxic ingredients, cruelty-free) and does the research and validation so that purchasers can be confident in their choices and tin he integrity of their promises to the end-consumer. The products are not the lowest price, they are the highest quality. Salon owners who have not fully absorbed The Nail Hub's education on consumer segmentation, pricing, and customer experience will not be a good fit within The Nail Hub's customer set. The Nail Hub business model has a high internal consistency and integrity. The Nail Hub has re-oriented to B2B service provider educating an entire industry to provide superior consumer experiences, better product quality and profitable operations — i.e., re-orienting from facing those challenges to helping others to face and overcome them. One of the cornerstones of the B2B services model is authentic subject matter expertise. The Nail Hub can help salon owners and nail technicians thrive through their independent action because Hermann and Elizabeth developed a deep subject matter expertise. They've been salon owners and faced all the developmental issues that owners face. They've trained nail technicians. They've evaluated salon equipment and they've committed their resources and time to researching high quality, innovative products that meet their highest standards. Hermann stresses that the arduous development of subject matter expertise is the necessary foundation for a trusted service business. Another is to choose customers carefully. The Nail Hub is making a substantial investment in their customers via their free training and education. The business model that they enable is specific: the highest standards, with the best trained operators, providing a reliably superior consumer experience. The pricing model is premium, which supports the use of the highest quality products and the provision of the highest quality salon environment. Race-to-the-bottom operators who pursue the lowest prices as a competitive edge are not a good fit in The Nail Hub ecosystem, and Hermann makes this a clear element of The Nail Hub's B2B communications. Choose your customers to match your positioning. The evaluation of the business model does not lie in conventional metrics. When the business model is to invest in the success of customers, the conventional metrics of revenue, margins and annual profits are not the primary measures of success (although, of course, they must be acknowledged). The evaluation of the model comes via the feedback loops. Is the educational service welcomed? Does it result in better operations on the part of salon owners? Do salon owners and independent technicians become customers for life? Do product manufacturers clamor for entry into The Nail Hub's curated product set? Are product trends — safe, non-toxic, healthy, etc. — moving in the desired direction? This is the entrepreneurial ethic: make customers more successful, make the world a better place. Additional Resources "Evolving The Nail Hub Business Model" E4B Graphic (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_194_PDF The Nail Hub YouTube Channel: YouTube.com/TheNailHub The Nail Hub Website: TheNailHub.com

Breakthrough theory becomes effective practice when it is successful applied by real-life entrepreneurs. The E4B entrepreneurial method is actualized by Hermann and Elizabeth Morris in the very distinctive business model for their brand, The Nail Hub. Knowledge Capsule The true purpose of a B2B business is to help your customers succeed. While outside observers focus on transactions — how much does this business sell, what are its revenues? — entrepreneurial business owners and operators focus on customers and customer relationships. Revenues follow from relationships. This insight is critical, since it guides business model development. Business-to-business models are especially responsive to relationship strategies. When a customer feels that the relationship with a supplier makes their business performance better, they can become a customer for life. That's a recipe for strong and sustainable growth. First, observe the ecosystem in which you operate, and identify gap opportunities. Systems thinking is an important component of the entrepreneurial method. A firm is a component or a node in a network of interconnected services we can call an ecosystem. Hermann's and Elizabeth's ecosystem is the Nail Fashion industry. Nodes include salons and salon owners, the nail technicians (sometimes employees, sometimes independent contractors) who provide service to consumers in the salons, equipment manufacturers and suppliers, product manufacturers and suppliers (for nail gel, etc.), and product distributors. 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Many salon owners were enthusiastic about their industry but not well-trained or experienced in the basic economics of business. Many of the technicians were passionate about their trade, but not highly trained in the latest techniques and technologies and in product selection. There were aspects of marketing that were underdeveloped, such as audience segmentation. And there were inconsistencies between products in both quality and safety. In the mind of the entrepreneur, these gaps are opportunities. The entrepreneurial question is: how best to fit in and contribute to the ecosystem. The business model response is determined by individual entrepreneurial orientation. The beginning orientation was that of an operator. Given their knowledge of both the high potential of the industry and the gaps to be addressed / problems to solve, the Morrises' entry point was as an operator. They embarked upon the journey to design a differentiated salon experience with superior nail technique, better products, better trained technicians. They ran the salon with better business acumen (they both came from high-level corporate positions and were able to bring sophisticated operating and financial experience). They segmented with an unusual and especially comfortable in-salon appeal, and via location. They were successful. There was a lot of learning, which Hermann identifies as overcoming pain points. The next growth step comes from re-orientation to larger scale. How could the Morrises scale their salon business? They thought through multiple openings (e.g., open and operate 20 salons), acquisition (acquire 20 salons), and franchising (sell franchises to multiple independent owners). All of these alternatives would require new capability development: establishing standards and a repeatable business model, including a reliable financial model, designing a multi-unit system of supply chains, capital deployment, décor, training and location scouting, and a new kind of marketing to salon managers or franchisees. The Morrises were reorienting to thinking as proprietors of a new kind of multi-division business. It's a different orientation, seeing the same ecosystem from a different perspective. Meanwhile, Elizabeth had the idea for a podcast to share her expertise and knowledge and passion for the industry. It was free business advice, free guidance, free technical training, teaching different aspects of running a salon and technical aspects for nail technicians. Its purpose was a service to consumers (better salon experiences), to technicians (better craftsmanship) and owners (better business operations). The podcast was called The Nail Hub. It generated a great positive reputation in the ecosystem and a lot of positive feedback. The knowledge that The Nail Hub podcast shared was enthusiastically welcomed. The Nail Hub podcast feedback resulted in a further re-orientation. The Nail Hub podcast was helping salon owners and those technicians who were independent contractors renting positions in salons to improve the way they ran their businesses: better management, better understanding of customer needs and segmentation, better approaches to pricing, revenue and profits, better techniques, and better products. What if a podcast can become a business model? Hermann and Elizabeth developed an entirely new B2B services business model which could be summarized as “educate the industry on how to operate a business, and supply them with the highest quality products to fit their business”. Importantly, the education is free to consume. The Nail Hub YouTube channel is free to access, and offers over 140 videos on every aspect of business operations, finances, equipment, products, and techniques. The videos are expensive to produce. The model is that the investment in education will be repaid through loyal customers buying the products that The Nail Hub offers for purchase. The curation of products itself is a service. The Nail Hub has identified a distinctive set of criteria for product selection (health, safety, non-toxic ingredients, cruelty-free) and does the research and validation so that purchasers can be confident in their choices and tin he integrity of their promises to the end-consumer. The products are not the lowest price, they are the highest quality. Salon owners who have not fully absorbed The Nail Hub's education on consumer segmentation, pricing, and customer experience will not be a good fit within The Nail Hub's customer set. The Nail Hub business model has a high internal consistency and integrity. The Nail Hub has re-oriented to B2B service provider educating an entire industry to provide superior consumer experiences, better product quality and profitable operations — i.e., re-orienting from facing those challenges to helping others to face and overcome them. One of the cornerstones of the B2B services model is authentic subject matter expertise. The Nail Hub can help salon owners and nail technicians thrive through their independent action because Hermann and Elizabeth developed a deep subject matter expertise. They've been salon owners and faced all the developmental issues that owners face. They've trained nail technicians. They've evaluated salon equipment and they've committed their resources and time to researching high quality, innovative products that meet their highest standards. Hermann stresses that the arduous development of subject matter expertise is the necessary foundation for a trusted service business. Another is to choose customers carefully. The Nail Hub is making a substantial investment in their customers via their free training and education. The business model that they enable is specific: the highest standards, with the best trained operators, providing a reliably superior consumer experience. The pricing model is premium, which supports the use of the highest quality products and the provision of the highest quality salon environment. Race-to-the-bottom operators who pursue the lowest prices as a competitive edge are not a good fit in The Nail Hub ecosystem, and Hermann makes this a clear element of The Nail Hub's B2B communications. Choose your customers to match your positioning. The evaluation of the business model does not lie in conventional metrics. When the business model is to invest in the success of customers, the conventional metrics of revenue, margins and annual profits are not the primary measures of success (although, of course, they must be acknowledged). The evaluation of the model comes via the feedback loops. Is the educational service welcomed? Does it result in better operations on the part of salon owners? Do salon owners and independent technicians become customers for life? Do product manufacturers clamor for entry into The Nail Hub's curated product set? Are product trends — safe, non-toxic, healthy, etc. — moving in the desired direction? This is the entrepreneurial ethic: make customers more successful, make the world a better place. Additional Resources "Evolving The Nail Hub Business Model" E4B Graphic (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_194_PDF The Nail Hub YouTube Channel: YouTube.com/TheNailHub The Nail Hub Website: TheNailHub.com

In this episode, Carmen Logue and Mary Ann Fusi join the podcast to talk about the latests features and customer stories around InterSystems IRIS Adaptive Analytics. We also discuss the concept of a smart data fabric and how these technologies help organizations build that architecture. To watch Carmen and Joe's presentation at the AtScale Semantic Layer Summit, see here: https://www.intersystems.com/resources/unlocking-the-power-of-your-data-using-a-data-fabric-architecture-with-a-universal-semantic-layer/ To learn more about early access programs for InterSystems cloud technologies, see here: https://gs2022.isccloud.io/#early-access For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

One-size-fits-all research approaches are no longer sufficient to effectively address content moderation, fulfill the content preferences of each user, and prevent harmful, false information from undermining democracy. Researchers like Michal Luria are beginning to understand how complex human behaviors should be taken into account in UX design and incorporated into the policymaking process.   Bio Dr. Michal Luria is a researcher at the Center for Democracy & Technology. Her work makes use of immersive and human-centered design research methods to envision and critique interactions with emerging technologies. In her work she translates research insights into thought-provoking interactions and necessary discussions of ethics and policy.   Website Google Scholar LinkedIn Instagram   Resources "This is transparency to me" Center for Democracy and Technology, https://cdt.org/insights/this-is-transparency-to-me-research-prototypes/ (last visited Oct 31, 2022)

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Daily life with ADHD for most is a challenge.. but compared to what or who? We have two choices for ourselves when we have ADHD, either you do nothing and blame others for your disability and ask for sympathy or you learn to use Adaptive techniques to make life better, easier! Learn ways to help make your life easier, more productive. Yes, it will not be easy to do this but in all honesty it is better for us than to do nothing! right? www.patreon.com/LivingWithADHDandCPTSD www.ko-fi.com/livingwithadhdandcptsd Twitter - @adhdandcptsd livingwithadhdandcptsd@gmail.com www.livingwithadhdandcptsd.ca --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/livingwithadhdandcptsd/message

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“(If) we want to be (at the Games) in 2024, it's gonna take this year to do that. And even though it may look like there's less (of) an opportunity, there's a more significant opportunity, and it's gonna have a larger level of impact on what we do moving forward simply by just showing up and signing up for the (2023) Open.” — Tom MiazgaAccessibility and Adaptive Sport Specialist Alec Zirkenbach, 2022 Men's Seated With Hip Function champion Tom Miazga, and Competition Director Adrian Bozman join host Chase Ingraham on the latest episode to discuss updates to the 2023 Adaptive CrossFit Games season as well as the growth of and goals for the adaptive division in 2024 and beyond.Some of the changes to the new adaptive season include a new scaled leaderboard for the CrossFit Open, the ability to verify eligibility for adaptive divisions prior to registering for the Open, and the removal of the Semifinal stage of competition.Zirkenbach explains how the collection of data over the 2022 season, including feedback from specific adaptive committees and the community, helped inform some of the decisions for the upcoming season.Miazga, an adaptive athlete and CrossFit Games commentator, provides his perspective on the new season structure and the representation of all adaptive divisions at the 2024 Games.“I can understand why people would be frustrated,” Miazga says about athletes in five adaptive divisions being crowned the fittest at the end of the 2023 Open.“I think this is necessary in order to get to where we want to be,” Miazga continues, “and the idea of (all adaptive divisions being at the Games) in 2024 is something I'm motivated by.”Bozman reviews adjustments to the season, which will be detailed in the official Rulebook, and also offers his insight on the season structure.“That was a hard decision to make,” Bozman says about eliminating Semifinals.“Nobody wants less, however, we expect that this is gonna be a really positive step if people have the patience to see it through and see what we can get going in 2024 with full visibility and full representation,” he says.The group also chats about Rinse ‘N' Repeat from the 2022 Games — an event that was identical across all divisions — the possible addition of adaptive divisions in the future, and how CrossFit can benefit athletes of all sports and people of all ability levels.Sponsored by O2.

In this conversation I talk with Cameron Ayala and Shannon Suffoletto about their work together after Cam's recent above-knee amputation.   We discuss Cam's childhood diagnosis on Lymphadema, his athletic drive, and the support he found through Shannon's bodymindcombine sessions. In 2001, Cam was diagnosed with primary lymphedema that has affected his right leg since he was 11-years old. Despite several bouts of infection and over 17 surgical procedures, Cam continues to fight through the daily challenges that this disease presents even with his recent above-knee-amputation. He was put in the public spotlight in 2019 as a contestant on ABC's The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise. Despite having his lymphedema testimony edited out from every episode, Cam decided to use this public notoriety to bring awareness to lymphedema and other lymphatic disorders. To see Cam play in the recent tournament, visit https://www.instagram.com/reel/CiMOejFALIh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The BodyMindCombine System is an intersection of twenty years worth of experience in athletics, mental health, dance/movement therapy, movement observation and higher education administration.  Shannon Suffoletto has over twenty years of mental health experience both broadly and with athletes. How injury,  family and/or life circumstances, team dynamics and many other factors effect athletes mental well-being must be incorporated holistically in order to achieve peak performance.  Strategies for maintaining emotional balance are key to the integrative mental performance approach.   As a trained ballet and modern dancer with a dance and psychology undergraduate degree and a Master's Degree in Dance/Movement Therapy Shannon understands the dedication, discipline, pressure and physical and mental fatigue athletes face.  She also understands passion and love of the sport.  She also recognizes the hard work and art created in each moment of practice and competition.  She knows how to help athletes manage stress off the court to perform optimally on the court. As a board certified dance/movement therapist and certified movement analyst, Shannon can observe movement, ask questions about experiences and create specifically designed interventions to enliven fundamental movement patterns.  These patterns serve to strengthen the body/mind connection, enhance the ability to stay in present moment and self-regulate.  The result: achieving the highest individual performance experience possible. For more information on Shannon's work, visit https://www.bodymindcombine.com/

A discussion with the team that has collaborated to bring the “Life in Our Minds” generative NFT project to life. The project extends the work artist collective Random International has done around flocking simulations through a collaboration with digital artist and art director Danil Krivoruchko. The project features NFTs which evolve dynamically based on a number of data points, including those taken from the owner's crypto wallet. The individual flocks then combine to create a giant “Mother Flock” whose starling-like swarming appearance will be viewable to a wider audience both online and in person. Joining me for the conversation is Random International Co-Founder Hannes Koch, artist Danil Krivoruchko, Snark.Art Co-Founder Andy Alekhin and Head of Pace Verso Ariel Hudes.https://og.art/collections/liom/https://www.random-international.com/https://myshli.com/https://www.pacegallery.com/pace-verso/

We had Brandon on the podcast discussing the benefits of NEAT previously, so if you haven't listened to that one, go back and give it a listen! Daily movement is such a good tool for fat loss and overall better health.So many women come to us after doing crazy restrictive diets, binging on food, and drinking alcohol. They often complain of poor sleep, menopause issues, and low metabolic function. I hear many women saying that they can't lose weight because of their metabolism, but it's amazing when we work with them how quickly things start improving. Brandon, Craig, and I chat about:➡️How your entire lifestyle facilitates your health➡️What metabolism actually is➡️Energy expenditure across the lifespan➡️Why scale weight doesn't necessarily measure fat loss➡️Metabolic adaption and how it works➡️What goes into total energy expenditure➡️The importance of protein and weight training➡️Creating healthy habits that work within your lifestyle➡️Critical thinking when it comes to your health➡️Getting to your fat loss goal vs sustaining it➡️Why fitness shouldn't be a comparative journey➡️The importance of accountability and supportLINKSJoin our 7-Day Eat More, Train Less, Get Results ChallengeLearn more about our 16-week Winatlife Accelerator Program: Book your callFollow:Kitty Blomfield @kittyblomfieldCraig McDonald @iamcraigmcdonaldBrandon DaCruz @brandondacruz_SHOW NOTES01:51 - Brief background of Brandon06:06 - How your lifestyle facilitates your health07:13 - The myths about metabolic damage09:34 - Things that influence your metabolism10:20 - The slow and fast metabolism13:20 - Energy expenditure across your lifespan15:00 - Why it's not your age that slows down your metabolism but your lifestyle and habits15:42 - Doing the basics and why it's important if you want a healthy metabolism16:13 - How psychology impacts physiology17:23 - Why scale weight doesn't necessarily measure fat loss20:08 - Metabolic adaptation and how it works23:04 - Adaptive thermogenesis24:39 - The importance of protein and weight training26:49 - What goes into total energy expenditure32:59 - Training capability36:22 - Ecological vs external validity37:52 - The advantages of investing in coaching44:00 - Tracking and why it's important 44:38 - Giving it enough time to see a transformation and avoiding shortcuts46:20 - Losing and gaining more weight later on from yo-yo dieting48:45 - Getting to your fat loss goal vs sustaining it51:46 - Having an abundance mindset52:12 - Creating a fundamental shift in the way you live55:21 - Not being able to see immediate results and why you need to be patient 58:54 - Change and progress in relative terms 01:03:44 - The importance of accountability and support01:10:20 - Self limiting beliefs and how to overcome them

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Today's guest is a special one as we welcome our good friend Victor Assaf on to the show. Victor is an adaptive athlete who has competed at the CrossFit Games. On this episode we are incredible grateful to Victor for sharing with us his story. Victors journey is one that began as a competitor and was then sidetracked for many years due to an accident that left him without the use of his right arm. Ultimately Victor would discover that this accident was in many ways a blessing that would save him and lead him back to the world of competition where he now has the gift of positively impacting the life of so many. Victor is an amazing and genuine human, and we hope that you love listening to him here as much as we loved speaking with him. Victor's IG: @victerie Victor's YT: https://youtube.com/channel/UCEdVEP4CqQ3BmjezN5kTMhw   ••••• This episode is sponsored by UCAN  UCAN is different. Its unique time-release profile allows for an extended energy supply that doesn't require a rescue mission  and keeps your blood sugar stable - the key to better performance and health. Power Monkey Podcast listeners can save 25% on UCAN by visiting ucan.co/powermonkey and using the code shared during the show.

When firms apply the principles of Austrian economics to business management, we call the result the Adaptive Entrepreneurial Method. It's adaptive in that it is a continuous learning process, and it's entrepreneurial in elevating customer value realization as the most important business purpose. Key Takeaways and Actionable Insights. 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Value in Austrian economics is customer value: contributing to customers' feelings of being better off as a result of the interaction with an entrepreneurial business or service provider. A useful way to think about value is in terms of alignment and order. A value exchange is a harmonious alignment between customer and entrepreneur, in which both parties benefit and both parties' interests are served. Order is represented by the customer's decision, a point of clarity in a world of multiple choices, overlapping preferences and broad-based uncertainty. Entrepreneurial businesses make value their purpose and identify it in alignment and harmony with customers. Everything else — cash flow, profits, growth — follows. Entrepreneurial orientation enables the right interpretation of data and information for customer value realization. Mark McGrath emphasizes the powerful role of entrepreneurial orientation in business success. Orientation is a mindset — a kind of internal operating system — that guides firms to translate information from customers, partners, competitors and the market into an effective, winning vision and mission. The essence of orientation is learning. Uncertainty is assumed, and orientation is the unique set of filters through which entrepreneurs and management teams process the quantitative and qualitative data that customers and markets present. Mises called it economic calculation: the entrepreneurial capacity for combining a constantly changing stream of information into a business decision. The decisions are always reviewable and revisable; a learning mindset makes entrepreneurs comfortable with frequent decision changes in response to changing information and feedback. Principles — such as the primacy of customer value — remain the same; it's actions that are adjusted. Businesses that don't learn can get locked into models that no longer reflect the realities of the marketplace, and lose their effectiveness. People, ideas, and things. Learning, adapting, and changing are difficult capabilities to master. Continuous change can feel disorienting absent the right mindset. How do companies achieve this mastery? Mark McGrath quotes Joh Boyd on the eternal verity of people, ideas, and things — always in that order. The first critical component are the people engaged in and operating the business. They must be good at change, comfortable with constant flux. They must accept VUCA — volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity — as the normal condition. At the same time, management must be conscious of how each new change or wave of change impacts people, and anticipates the effect it will have on them. In this change-accepting environment, unlimited new ideas can emerge via the creative process. They can be tested, and marketplace results become the yardstick. When new ideas look promising in terms of the results they potentially enable, then things can be changed: capital can be redeployed in new combinations, marketing campaigns can be revised. When people are pre-prepared, smooth transitions are achievable. Continuous Reorientation And Entrepreneurial Intent. While entrepreneurial orientation is the firm's operating system for processing information, it is not fixed. Adaptive firms are continuously reorienting, Active reorientation supports learning, recognizing that all perceptual models are only as good as the moment they were developed. They must be renewed to stay relevant. Challenging assumptions and reframing problems must be continuous in order for firms to thrive and use change to advantage. Effective orientation looks to the future rather than the present, emphasizing agility and avoiding clinging to outdated models. Reorientation precedes intent and reshapes it. Entrepreneurial intent can be equated to what systems thinkers call vision. A vision is shared and provides a North Star for everyone in the firm, but that doesn't preclude adjustment in continuous alignment with customers. The vision is to serve customers, and customers are also changing and adjusting. Thinking in terms of intent (rather than, say, implementing a rigid plan) permits greater flexibility in pursuit of the vision. Entrepreneurial judgment is decision and action. The theory of entrepreneurship emphasizes judgment — that mysterious-sounding capability of entrepreneurs to make economic calculations from a mix of data and intuition. That can sound like a kind of mulling over of options. But it's much more active than that. The entrepreneurial method emphasizes deciding and acting. Decisions are recognized as hypotheses; it's impossible to know exactly what to do, so action-oriented develop hypotheses about what actions could have the effect they desire. The hypotheses are carefully aligned with their intent in order to double-check the logic as far as possible. But the purpose is not to be “right” but to generate feedback information so that alignment can be better informed by reality. Action — the implementation of decisions — is an experiment, a test of the hypothesis. Action produces interaction (with customers, with retailers, with competitors, with the changing market environment) and thereby provides new information in the form of feedback, which might indicate the need to change actions next time. The number of hypotheses and tests can be narrowed; what's important is that they reflect as wide a range of perspectives as possible — from those at the front line interacting with customers, whether in person or at the call center or online, from engineers and operatives, from finance and HR, and from all relevant points of view. The more diverse the range of perspectives, the more likely it is that different angles of view will provide new insights and illuminate blind spots. Make sure that internal communications are organized so as to make it possible for all perspectives — including dissenting Cassandras - to be recognized and acknowledged. Candid self-assessment of people in business leadership roles is a good place to start the adaptive entrepreneurial journey. Some elements of the adaptive entrepreneurial model require the discarding of standard ways of managing. For example, many businesses spend considerable time and effort developing plans that lock in budgets and resource allocations, and don't make allowance for constant adjustment and change. It's useful to take inventory of these practices and question whether they can be abandoned or reformed in pursuit of agility. Additional Resources The "Adaptive Entrepreneurial Method" Graphic (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_192_PDF1 "Destruction and Creation" by John Boyd (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_192_PDF2 Mark J. McGrath on LinkedIn: Mises.org/E4B_192_LinkedIn "Orientation: Bridging The Gap In The Austrian Theory of Entrepreneurship" (AERC 2022) by Mark J. McGrath and Hunter Hastings (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_192_PDF3

When firms apply the principles of Austrian economics to business management, we call the result the Adaptive Entrepreneurial Method. It's adaptive in that it is a continuous learning process, and it's entrepreneurial in elevating customer value realization as the most important business purpose. Key Takeaways and Actionable Insights. 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Orientation is a mindset — a kind of internal operating system — that guides firms to translate information from customers, partners, competitors and the market into an effective, winning vision and mission. The essence of orientation is learning. Uncertainty is assumed, and orientation is the unique set of filters through which entrepreneurs and management teams process the quantitative and qualitative data that customers and markets present. Mises called it economic calculation: the entrepreneurial capacity for combining a constantly changing stream of information into a business decision. The decisions are always reviewable and revisable; a learning mindset makes entrepreneurs comfortable with frequent decision changes in response to changing information and feedback. Principles — such as the primacy of customer value — remain the same; it's actions that are adjusted. Businesses that don't learn can get locked into models that no longer reflect the realities of the marketplace, and lose their effectiveness. People, ideas, and things. Learning, adapting, and changing are difficult capabilities to master. Continuous change can feel disorienting absent the right mindset. How do companies achieve this mastery? Mark McGrath quotes Joh Boyd on the eternal verity of people, ideas, and things — always in that order. The first critical component are the people engaged in and operating the business. They must be good at change, comfortable with constant flux. They must accept VUCA — volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity — as the normal condition. At the same time, management must be conscious of how each new change or wave of change impacts people, and anticipates the effect it will have on them. In this change-accepting environment, unlimited new ideas can emerge via the creative process. They can be tested, and marketplace results become the yardstick. When new ideas look promising in terms of the results they potentially enable, then things can be changed: capital can be redeployed in new combinations, marketing campaigns can be revised. When people are pre-prepared, smooth transitions are achievable. Continuous Reorientation And Entrepreneurial Intent. While entrepreneurial orientation is the firm's operating system for processing information, it is not fixed. Adaptive firms are continuously reorienting, Active reorientation supports learning, recognizing that all perceptual models are only as good as the moment they were developed. They must be renewed to stay relevant. Challenging assumptions and reframing problems must be continuous in order for firms to thrive and use change to advantage. Effective orientation looks to the future rather than the present, emphasizing agility and avoiding clinging to outdated models. Reorientation precedes intent and reshapes it. Entrepreneurial intent can be equated to what systems thinkers call vision. A vision is shared and provides a North Star for everyone in the firm, but that doesn't preclude adjustment in continuous alignment with customers. The vision is to serve customers, and customers are also changing and adjusting. Thinking in terms of intent (rather than, say, implementing a rigid plan) permits greater flexibility in pursuit of the vision. Entrepreneurial judgment is decision and action. The theory of entrepreneurship emphasizes judgment — that mysterious-sounding capability of entrepreneurs to make economic calculations from a mix of data and intuition. That can sound like a kind of mulling over of options. But it's much more active than that. The entrepreneurial method emphasizes deciding and acting. Decisions are recognized as hypotheses; it's impossible to know exactly what to do, so action-oriented develop hypotheses about what actions could have the effect they desire. The hypotheses are carefully aligned with their intent in order to double-check the logic as far as possible. But the purpose is not to be “right” but to generate feedback information so that alignment can be better informed by reality. Action — the implementation of decisions — is an experiment, a test of the hypothesis. Action produces interaction (with customers, with retailers, with competitors, with the changing market environment) and thereby provides new information in the form of feedback, which might indicate the need to change actions next time. The number of hypotheses and tests can be narrowed; what's important is that they reflect as wide a range of perspectives as possible — from those at the front line interacting with customers, whether in person or at the call center or online, from engineers and operatives, from finance and HR, and from all relevant points of view. The more diverse the range of perspectives, the more likely it is that different angles of view will provide new insights and illuminate blind spots. Make sure that internal communications are organized so as to make it possible for all perspectives — including dissenting Cassandras - to be recognized and acknowledged. Candid self-assessment of people in business leadership roles is a good place to start the adaptive entrepreneurial journey. Some elements of the adaptive entrepreneurial model require the discarding of standard ways of managing. For example, many businesses spend considerable time and effort developing plans that lock in budgets and resource allocations, and don't make allowance for constant adjustment and change. It's useful to take inventory of these practices and question whether they can be abandoned or reformed in pursuit of agility. Additional Resources The "Adaptive Entrepreneurial Method" Graphic (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_192_PDF1 "Destruction and Creation" by John Boyd (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_192_PDF2 Mark J. McGrath on LinkedIn: Mises.org/E4B_192_LinkedIn "Orientation: Bridging The Gap In The Austrian Theory of Entrepreneurship" (AERC 2022) by Mark J. McGrath and Hunter Hastings (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_192_PDF3

In this week's episode, Merritt chats with model, fashion influencer, and reality TV breakout star, Venita Aspen! We discuss how she got into the fashion industry, her experience being on Bravo's Southern Charm, and her upcoming adaptive fashion marketplace, Fair Standard! You'll also discover her #1 must-have skincare product, her favorite restaurants in Charleston and New York, and so much more!. Follow Venita on Instagram @VenitaAspen and check out her fashion blog, VenitaAspen.com! At the top of the episode, Merritt recaps her week and shares a few new TV show, movie and audiobook recs! In the Beck & Call segment, she answers listener questions about how to best support podcasters and influencers you love to follow during the holiday season, what her style evolution into luxury fashion looked like, and shoes she would recommend for a trip to London in December! Call into the Beck & Call hotline at 214-620-0473 or email info@beckandcallpodcast.com to submit your questions. No topic is off limits and I love variety! THANK YOU TO THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR, ATHLETIC GREENS! Enjoy a free one year supply of immune supporting Vitamin D and five free travel packs with your first order of AG1 - all you have to do is visit AthleticGreens.com/beckandcall! MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Odelay, Roadrunner Ranch, Brunello Cucinelli x Neiman Marcus, The Teak Room, Catherine Called Birdie on Amazon Prime, The Watcher on Netflix, Let The Right One In on Showtime, Rings of Power on Amazon Prime, House of the Dragon on HBOMAX, Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover, The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, Avene Thermal Spring Water Spray, The Ordinary, Saint Theo's, Stuart Weitzman, Marc Fisher, Veja, Sam Edelman, Rag & Bone, Vince.

In this episode, we talk to Vicky Balfour about adaptive bikes. As well as being a regular Mountain Biking UK Magazine and BikeRadar workshop contributor, through her, and her family's love of cycling, Vicky has direct experience using adaptive bicycles and can be regularly found on cycling adventures with her daughter, who rides her own adaptive trike. In this podcast, Vicky helps guide us through the different options to consider when choosing an adaptive bicycle as well as the requirements and challenges that a rider's individual needs can pose, whether they're looking at making changes to an existing two-wheeled bike or buying a need-specific bike or trike. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sometimes, Rodney and Aaron stop by other people's podcasts to nerd out on the hits we know and love: new ways of working, self-management, breaking down the binary between chaos and bureaucracy, the future of work—the list goes on and on. So today, we're actually bringing one of those awesome conversations right to your ears. Rodney recently joined Jonathan Westover on his show, Human Capital Innovations, for an epic chat about adaptive organizational design and a whole lot more. We hope you enjoy the exchange and we'll return with a fresh episode of Brave New Work next Monday. To tune into more episodes of Jonathan's show, Human Capital Innovations, head to https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Our book is available now at bravenewwork.com We want to hear from you. Send your thoughts and feedback to podcast@theready.com Looking for some help with your own transformation? Visit theready.com

Coronographs will soon be in every major telescope. They can block the light from the star and reveal things around it, like exoplanets. There's so much amazing science behind them. Like, did you know coronographs can be adaptive? We dive into all that with Dr Lucie Leboulleux. Enjoy the interview!