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Infusion - Legacy : 25th Anniversary (Part 2) feat. Nick Warren & Jamie Stevens and Freedo Mosho, Maze 28, GMJ & Matter Remixes - Selador More eye-wateringly mesmeric reworks of ‘Legacy', you say? Ambassador, you spoil us. Yes, our celebration of this classic reaching the quarter century milestone continues with two further transcendent treats. Producers you know and love, who simply couldn't wait to get their hands on ‘Legacy' for a celebratory birthday reimagining. Secondly, we are delighted to bring you Selador's very own Fab Four, a dream team for the ages consisting of the combined international talents of Freedo Mosho (Argentina), Maze 28 (Albania), and Australia's own GMJ and Matter. Dream-like dark disco of the highest order, things get beyond ethereal on this gargantuan beauty, as the vox weaves in and out of a Moroder-esque bassline, serene synths and the original's unimpeachable twanging guitar. Team Selador – Legacy Leavers

Infusion - Legacy : 25th Anniversary (Part 2) feat. Nick Warren & Jamie Stevens and Freedo Mosho, Maze 28, GMJ & Matter Remixes - Selador More eye-wateringly mesmeric reworks of ‘Legacy', you say? Ambassador, you spoil us. Yes, our celebration of this classic reaching the quarter century milestone continues with two further transcendent treats. Producers you know and love, who simply couldn't wait to get their hands on ‘Legacy' for a celebratory birthday reimagining. Here's how Part Two lines up… First, we find original Infusion-eer and honorary Seladorian Jamie Stevens, who of course just had to be part of this project. How best to conjure up something suitably special? Let's invite living legend Nick Warren to collaborate (and make an overdue but oh so welcome Selador debut while we're at it). Yep, you read that right – Jamie Stevens and Nick Warren, together! Propulsive percussion ushers in a wonky bassline, majestically melodic riffing and that vocal for a positively prodigious workout. Team Selador – Legacy Leavers

Hour 2 opens with guest host Dan Buck and Kim St. Onge reviewing St. Louis regional weather forecasts, including late-week precipitation trends and upcoming seasonal fall temperatures. On the news roundup, the segment covers diplomatic commentary from U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker regarding the September 30, 2026 Flydubai Flight FZ1073 in-flight emergency, alongside Senate Judiciary Committee exchanges involving Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt and Special Counsel Jack Smith. The hosts provide media commentary on statements by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concerning American constitutional history. KMOX Sports Director Tom Ackerman joins the broadcast to analyze Chicago Bears 38-year-old backup quarterback Case Keenum's 27-7 Monday Night Football victory over the Philadelphia Eagles, comparing Keenum's career path to Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner. Ackerman previews MLB postseason wildcard series, the St. Louis Blues 2026–27 regular season opener, and St. Louis CITY SC's 19-game unbeaten streak. On In Other News (sponsored by Zerorez St. Louis), the hosts review stories including a 65-pound runaway tortoise in Monroe Township, New Jersey, TSA airport credential standing mandates, and venture investments led by Founders Fund into Halter, a $2 billion precision agriculture startup producing AI-powered GPS cow collars ("Cowgorithms"). The hour closes with updates on Katmai National Park's 2026 Fat Bear Week winner ("Bear 910") and Samsung smart appliance software glitches. LISTEN TO 97.1 FM TALK LIVE IN ST LOUIS OR STREAM WORLDWIDE AT 971TALK.COM Hashtags: #971FMTalk #StLouis #STLNews #DanBuck #EricSchmitt #TomAckerman #AgTech

The Trump/Xi summit produces two pandas and not much else, violence in Ethiopia could have massive regional consequences, and Manchester City is found guilty of nearly a decade of cheating.Tommy and Ben close the loop on Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington and how Trump walked away with only vague commitments. On Iran, Trump is reportedly planning to resume bombing after the midterms, and a workaround in the Strait of Hormuz is getting oil flowing again, but it may make Trump less likely to cut a deal. A potential plot at a UK base used by US bombers to strike Iran ends with five British men arrested. The guys do a deep dive into Ethiopia, where a peace deal from 2022 is unraveling and the risk of a conflict that could merge with the wars in Sudan and Somalia is very real. Manchester City is found guilty on 115 charges of breaking Premier League financial rules for nearly a decade — and the story highlights the complications of state-owned entities with unlimited money buying their way into sports. OpenAI pauses its latest model because it kept lying, and a previous model hacked an Australian healthcare website. And finally, we take a tour of Trump's ambassador corps: Charles Kushner ignoring France's foreign ministry, Kimberly Guilfoyle steering contracts to her boyfriend's clients in Greece, and the US ambassador to Belgium picking a fight over circumcision. At the end of the show, Tommy speaks to Sam Vigersky, an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, about the dangerous on-the-ground reality in Haiti and how the Trump administration is making it worse.Hate listening to ads? Become a Friends of the Pod subscriber for ad-free episodes of Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Lovett or Leave It, Runaway Country, Offline with Jon Favreau, and more—plus exclusive content, including bonus episodes of Pod Save America. Subscribe now at crooked.com/friends, on Apple Podcasts, or through the Pod Save America YouTube channel.To watch this episode with subtitles, click here and turn on closed captions (CC).You can request a transcript by emailing transcripts@crooked.com. Include the podcast name, episode title, and air date. Please allow 48 hours for delivery.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz has become one of the Trump administration's most visible spokespeople, publicly explaining and defending its policies on everything from Iran to Venezuela and Sudan. But how has Washington's global role changed as the White House pulls back from multilateral institutions? How does the administration make the case for an unpopular war in Iran? Waltz sits down with FP Live to talk through the White House's foreign-policy strategy.  Michael Waltz and Massad Boulous: Peace in Sudan Can Only Flower After a Weapons Embargo Abdalfatah Alburhan: How to Bring Peace to Sudan New York Times: David E. Sanger, Tyler Pager, Katie Rogers, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs: Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ambassadors of Light

Welcome to RetroLogic! I'm Dan Caporello here with Sam Wagers, Shannon Eno and John Cummins, Special Guest Ryan (Games With Coffee) Intros   But RetroLogic isn't just a podcast. It's a community of retro gamers! - We've got an active, friendly, and free discord. - Giveaways - Contests - AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins. - you can find everything at our website retrologic.games   Housekeeping   Retro Rewind : Metroid   FilmLogic: Cannibal! The Musical The Price Is Retro - 13:55 If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here's how we play. I'm going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for his own guess Dinosaur - Leonard - adds up original costs, retail value Ghost - Polterguest - always guesses 300 Dan's List Sam's list John's List Shannon's List Show Topic - 5   The Games of Star Wars: Classics   Super Star Wars Trilogy   X-Wing, TIE Fighter, etc.   Knights of the Old Republic   Episode 1 Racer   Dark Forces/Jedi Knight   Rogue Squadron (Rebel Strike, Rogue Leader,    Battlefront   Force Unleashed   Lego Star Wars   Galactic Battlegrounds   Lego Star Wars Recents and Revivals: Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga   Battlefront 2015   Star Wars Squadrons   Star Wars Zero Company   Star Wars Outlaws   How have star wars games specifically been affected by the closure of LucasArts following the Disney merger?   Honorary mentions with fun tidbits:   Star Wars Gungan Frontier: - All these gungans were canonically killed by poison gas during the clone wars. * (legends)   Capcom's Star Gladiator was originally pitched as a Star Wars Fighting game, but they could not procure the license   Personal Top 3 Star Wars games:   Sam: KOTOR, Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Zero Company Community Couch Your Wallet's Ambassador — 9/23/2026 12:22 PM I had a star wars plug and play console. I don't really remember much about it, but I believe it looked like Darth Vader... Third Strongest Mole — 9/23/2026 12:27 PM probably wasn't this since it doesn't even plug in but you just resurfaced a memory for me MaddieBeth [GI],  — 9/23/2026 12:29 PM LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga was one of my favorite games growing up. I have so many good memories playing through that game, and the humor in it is peak  [GI],  Your Wallet's Ambassador — 9/23/2026 1:46 PM Oh yes, I also remember playing this on my DS OctoRock_1982 — 9/23/2026 3:02 PM The first Star Wars game I ever played was Rebel Assault on CD-ROM in the early '90s. It was a mind-blowing experience at the time, with 3D rendered graphics, actual music from the films, and full motion video. The controls were extremely frustrating, but that didn't stop my friends and I from playing it over and over. The next big Star Wars game that blew my mind was Shadows of the Empire for N64. The game had impressively large levels for the time, and I liked the variety in having both vehicle combat, on-foot 3rd person shooting, and some challenging boss fights. Again, the controls could be frustrating, particularly the floaty jumping physics, but Dan and I played the crap out of this one. Last game I'll shout out is Jedi Outcast. I feel like this was the first game that really made the player feel like a badass Jedi with really powerful Force and lightsaber abilities. I actually ended up playing this one on the GameCube, which probably isn't the ideal way to experience it, but I really enjoyed it. Eric Plunk [nDAD],  — 9/23/2026 3:14 PM I remember being pretty hyped for Star Wars Episode I Racer for N64 and enjoyed a rental of it. The Podracing scenes may be my favorite of the entire prequel trilogy and had excellent sound design and early CG. Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Bluesky at @retrologicgames.bsky.social. You're also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my Blusky bio. You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games  

Sempre più giovani guardano al futuro previdenziale con preoccupazione. Secondo diverse ricerche, molti appartenenti alla Generazione Z sono convinti che non riceveranno mai una pensione adeguata, mentre in Italia solo una minoranza degli under 35 ha aderito alla previdenza complementare. Quanto sono fondati questi timori e come si può iniziare a costruire per tempo una maggiore sicurezza finanziaria? Ne parliamo con Valerio Marchetti, Ambassador di Fineco.

Since gaining independence in 1991, the five former Soviet Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have all experienced varying degrees of political and economic change. The United States has played an important role in sustaining this transition by supporting each nation's sovereignty and economic growth. Today, these Central Asian nations navigate an increasingly strategic position in geopolitics, with energy and critical mineral reserves placing them at the forefront of competition among China, Russia, and the United States. Global Minnesota hosted a conversation on the forces shaping U.S. policy toward the region with former Ambassador Dan Rosenblum. He served as Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia. His talk outlined the region's evolving political, economic, and diplomatic landscape. Here is Sovereignty and Stability in Central Asia with Ambassador Dan Rosenblum.

South Africa has issued a third formal demarche against US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell the Third in nine months over alleged undiplomatic conduct. Dirco says both sides remain committed to resolving outstanding issues. Washington however says it has no interest in further diplomatic maneuvering and the ball is in Pretoria's court to repair ties. Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says access to South Africa's critical minerals remains a key driver of the friction. Sophie Mokoena reports.

Senate Democrats signal they may be open to impeaching Pete Hegseth after the election if the House has the votes for it. Jon, Tommy, and Lovett discuss why that trial would be a great use of a new Democratic Senate majority, Trump saying that the American economy is "the best in the world" despite record-setting diesel prices and stunningly low consumer sentiment, and Mike Johnson's new claim that opposition to new data centers is "a Chinese psy-op." Plus, AI labs pause development of their most advanced models (over the president's objections), Ambassador to China David Perdue admits that Trump tried to sell weapons to Xi Jinping, the White House keeps running political ads with taxpayer money, and Fox News's Greg Gutfeld sounds off — on overweight sex workers.Hate listening to ads? Become a Friends of the Pod subscriber for ad-free episodes of Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Lovett or Leave It, Runaway Country, Offline with Jon Favreau, and more—plus exclusive content, including bonus episodes of Pod Save America. Subscribe now at crooked.com/friends, on Apple Podcasts, or through the Pod Save America YouTube channel.To watch this episode with subtitles, click here and turn on closed captions (CC).You can request a transcript by emailing transcripts@crooked.com. Include the podcast name, episode title, and air date. Please allow 48 hours for delivery.

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It's Tuesday, September 29th, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Kevin Swanson and Timothy Reed Chinese communists shut down churches while Jin ping in America While Chinese President Xi Jinping was visiting the United States, Communist police were still arresting pastors and shutting down churches in China. Pastors and church workers from Jiaquan Church in Beijing have been arrested in raids occurring over the last week.  This follows another mass arrest of more members of the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu in southwestern China. Send a polite, 4-sentence letter to the Chinese Ambassador to America, Xie Feng, urging him to tell the Communist party officials to stop arresting pastors and shutting down churches. Send it to the Chinese Embassy, 3505 International Place NW, Washington, DC 20008. Supreme Court continues to affirm parental rights Over the past year, parental rights advocates are winning cases at the U.S. Supreme Court. By law, the state of California was requiring school officials to conceal information concerning children's gender transitioning behavior from their parents.  Thankfully, the high court struct down the law earlier in the year.  In a separate ruling last June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down another Maryland law that prohibited parents from opting their kids out of homosexual/transgender indoctrination classes, reported CBS News. Writing the majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito argued on the basis of religious rights. He wrote, “A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses ‘a very real threat of undermining' the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to instill.” Ebola virus killed 4,000 people in Congo The World Health Organization reports 8,000 cases of Ebola in the latest outbreak in Congo, Africa — and now, almost 4,000 deaths. This is the worst outbreak of this deadly disease since 2013.  Mortgage rates at 7.5% The U.S. 30-year mortgage rate hit 7.5% yesterday, reports Mortgage News Daily.  That's the highest rate since December 2000.  Trump criticized United Nations President Donald Trump took to the stage at the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, heavily criticizing the organization, but also praising it in some aspects as well. Trump stated, “There is no human right to illegal immigration, but there is a right to remain a sovereign nation.” He added that the United States “totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control artificial intelligence.”  The president also said, “The United Nations has great, great potential” and he encouraged the U.S. Ambassador to the UN “to implement the most sweeping UN reforms in history.” Canadian doctors kill more people than American murderers do Canada now kills more people by "assisted suicide" than the United States does by homicide. United States Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah detailed this fact in a now viral post on X, stating, “State-administered death is now more common in Canada than gun homicide is in the U.S.  That didn't happen by accident.” He also said, “The intersection of assisted suicide and socialized medicine results in state-led horrors, treating the young, old, infirm, and distressed as disposable people. We must never allow this barbarity to spread in America.” Jeremiah 8:3 gives a stark warning. The Lord of hosts said, “Then death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them.” Gen Z more religious than older generations A new update from the Harris Report revealed that Gen Z is more religious than older generations. Per the report, “Gen Z is not abandoning faith, they are the generation most likely to identify as religious. Gen Z is not just identifying with faith, they are actively practicing it. For Gen Z, spirituality is one way to build agency in an uncertain future.” However, many in Gen Z continue to observe harmful religious practices, and dabble with the occult and manifestations.  Ephesians 6:12 says, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Planned Parenthood gave Joe Biden their baby killing award And finally, abortion giant Planned Parenthood handed out its 2026 Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award to former President Joe Biden, one of the biggest supporters of abortion in United States history, reported LifeNews. Biden recalled his historic murderous work. Referring to Sonny Sloan, the late president of Delaware's Planned Parenthood, Biden said this. BIDEN: “In the wake of the Dobbs decision, as president, I tried to do what I knew Sonny would have been on the phone telling me to do. We took action. We signed executive orders to protect access to reproductive health care, including emergency medical care.”  Since former President Biden is quite difficult to understand, this is what he said. “In the wake of the Dobbs decision, as president, I tried to do what I knew Sonny would have been on the phone telling me to do. We took action. We signed executive orders to protect access to reproductive health care, including emergency medical care.”  (Watch the soundbite at the 17:07-mark in this video of Biden's speech) Steven Ertelt of LifeNews explained, “The abortion business killed a record number of babies in abortions last year thanks to Biden's help with tax funding and pro-abortion executive orders.” Close And that's The Worldview on this Tuesday, September 29th, in the year of our Lord 2026. Subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com.  Plus, you can get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

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Hour 2 opens with Marc Cox and Kim St. Onge previewing diplomatic updates regarding Greenland agreements with Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands, alongside an upcoming interview with XXXY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey. On the St. Louis Morning Brief, the hosts cover 30-year-old Donovan Baucum Jr.'s guilty plea to second-degree murder in the 2024 Interstate 55 shooting death of 16-year-old CBC High School hockey player Colin Brown, St. Louis's bid for the 2031 Men's Rugby World Cup at The Dome at America's Center, and courtroom security incidents at the Carnahan Courthouse. Former Missouri State Senator John Lamping joins the show to analyze former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's September 28, 2026 announcement stepping down as co-deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Lamping evaluates state executive appointments under former Governor Mike Parson, the U.S. Supreme Court's September 25, 2026 redistricting order in People Not Politicians v. Onder, and the September 24, 2026 beatification Mass of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen at The Dome at America's Center. The hour closes on In Other News, sponsored by Zerorez St. Louis, honoring the life of actor Dennis Haskins following his passing at age 75. LISTEN TO 97.1 FM TALK LIVE IN ST LOUIS OR STREAM WORLDWIDE AT 971TALK.COM Hashtags: #971FMTalk #StLouis #STLNews #JohnLamping #AndrewBailey #DennisHaskins

Marc Cox and Kim St. Onge host Wiggins America host Ryan Wiggins. The segment evaluates comments from Canadian political leader Mark Carney regarding international trade agreements and defense sovereignty. Wiggins and the hosts discuss regional sovereignty movements, comparing proposed Alberta exit votes to local municipal secession initiatives. The interview covers strategic security considerations surrounding Greenland, reviewing former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands's analysis. The discussion concludes with an examination of CNN polling data presented by Harry Enten, analyzing turnout intentions among Democratic and MAGA Republican voters ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections. LISTEN TO 97.1 FM TALK LIVE IN ST LOUIS OR STREAM WORLDWIDE AT 971TALK.COM Hashtags:#971FMTalk #StLouis #STLNews #RyanWiggins #WigginsAmerica #Midterms2026

Hour 4 opens with former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands, Chair of Foreign Policy at the America First Policy Institute, analyzing international security agreements concerning Greenland. Sands evaluates Arctic defense cooperation, shipping lane access, critical mineral security, and diplomatic relations involving the People's Republic of China and Canada. The hour covers public expression standards in sports media, examining XXXY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey and University of Missouri football video board highlights featuring alumnus Sophie Cunningham. Marc Cox highlights community outreach efforts through Feed Our First Responders, recognizing University City Police Department Sergeant Justin Donaldson. Wiggins America host Ryan Wiggins joins the broadcast to evaluate political rhetoric from Canadian leader Mark Carney, regional sovereignty movements in Alberta, and CNN midterm election turnout polling. The broadcast concludes with iPhone call screening tips and local broadcast banter. LISTEN TO 97.1 FM TALK LIVE IN ST LOUIS OR STREAM WORLDWIDE AT 971TALK.COM Hashtags: #971FMTalk #StLouis #STLNews #CarlaSands #RyanWiggins #GreenlandPact

The Tuesday broadcast of The Marc Cox Morning Show hosted by Marc Cox and Kim St. Onge opens with coverage of former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey stepping down as co-deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, alongside public statements released by Michael Péguy Desronvil, the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. On the St. Louis Morning Brief, the hosts report on 30-year-old Donovan Baucum Jr.'s second-degree murder guilty plea in the 2024 Interstate 55 shooting death of 16-year-old CBC hockey player Colin Brown, St. Louis's bid competing against 26 cities to host matches for the 2031 Men's Rugby World Cup at The Dome at America's Center, and courtroom security incidents at the Carnahan Courthouse. Former Missouri State Senator John Lamping evaluates state executive appointments, political strategy following the U.S. Supreme Court's redistricting order in People Not Politicians v. Onder, and reflections on the beatification Mass of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Fox & Friends First anchor Todd Pyro examines international security detentions, cashless bail policies, and campus safety investigations. On 2A Tuesday, Armed American Radio host Mark Walters details shifts in federal firearms enforcement under ATF Director Robert Cekada, including significant reductions in Federal Firearms License (FFL) revocations, and legal challenges against California firearm legislation. Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands, Chair of Foreign Policy at the America First Policy Institute, provides geostrategic analysis on the U.S.-Greenland security agreement, Arctic defense infrastructure, and international trade relations regarding China and Canada. Wiggins America host Ryan Wiggins discusses political rhetoric from Canadian leader Mark Carney, regional sovereignty movements in Alberta, and CNN midterm election turnout polling. On Kim on a Whim (sponsored by Missouri Brush Control), the hosts analyze proposed Department of Education earnings accountability regulations for higher education loans, closing the show on In Other News (sponsored by Zerorez St. Louis) honoring actor Dennis Haskins following his passing at age 75. LISTEN TO 97.1 FM TALK LIVE IN ST LOUIS OR STREAM WORLDWIDE AT 971TALK.COM Hashtags: #971FMTalk #StLouis #STLNews #JohnLamping #AndrewBailey #CarlaSands

Sometimes becoming unstoppable begins with realizing you have more control over your life than you thought. Merrill Isherwood shares how her journey from professional ballet and a battle with bulimia to an abusive marriage, single parenthood, corporate struggles, and life coaching taught her the importance of self-ownership. She and Michael explore trauma recovery, toxic relationships, self-esteem, emotional support, and the courage to ask for help. Merrill also explains why coaching is not about giving people answers, but helping them discover their own strength and make conscious choices about the life they want to live. Highlights: 03:11 - Merrill shares how ballet shaped her early life and career. 11:00 - Pressure around weight led to bulimia and leaving professional ballet. 20:49 - Toxic relationships taught Merrill the importance of setting boundaries. 31:09 - A life coaching course changed how Merrill viewed control and personal responsibility. 43:28 - Trauma recovery became a focus of Merrill's coaching work. 59:16 - Undivided attention can help parents build stronger connections with their children. . About the Guest: I am still here, and I am most grateful for that privilege.  I have been fortunate to live out most young girls' dreams of being a professional ballet dancer and an air hostess / flight attendant. However, for many years was terribly unhappy and felt life was not worth living.... Abusive relationships were the order of the day, both at work and in my personal life, and I unfortunately developed a severe eating disorder which taunted me for 12 years. Atop that were several sexual assaults, exorcism, home robberies, burnout, financial scarcity, manipulation and more. I overcame being completely broken emotionally; physically, experienced grief from the loss of multiple loved ones and friends; was a single parent (for over 20 years with no support), lost most of our material possessions, and loads more. Often questioning, “Why me?”, I read one day what we should be asking ourselves is “Why not me?”  Why should I think, or assume I should be immune to difficulties in life?  This was when I realised the power of my mind.  I overcame the trauma of the above through mind control, determination, reflection, introspection, and willpower. That was a changing point in my life.  Perhaps I went through these experiences so I could help others. In 2019 I studied to become a certified life coach, intent on helping others. Subsequently, I created a course on healing oneself emotionally, using the principles of life coaching. I discovered once my emotions were better aligned, the physical 'tiredness', and lethargy, decreased, and for the first time, (in what felt like forever), I decided life might be worth living after all. My desire is to teach others to do the same. Realising how much valuable time I had wasted, hiding from the world, feeling pathetic, and unworthy, I set out to make a difference, spreading love and support. At the lowest of the low, God sent heavenly friends to support me through the dark days. My mission is to strengthen, and empower others by teaching them the tools, strategies, and skills they need to succeed, and to be able to live the life they choose. I encourage them not to waste their lives being unhappy, it really IS worth putting in the work, healing, and being able to actually LIVE a productive AND fulfilling life! Ways to connect with Merrill**:** Website 1:  Merrills Life Transformation Coaching:  https://merrills.co.za Website 2:  My Healing Program: https://myhealingprogram.com Instagram:     The Sista Hood:                    @thesistahoodsa Facebook:      Merrill Isherwood:                           https://www.facebook.com/merrill.isherwood Merrills Life Coaching:       https://www.facebook.com/Merrillsthesistahood/ The Sista Hood:                    https://www.facebook.com/Merrillsthesistahood/ LinkedIn:       Merrill Isherwood:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/merrill-isherwood-the-change-catalyst/ **My Healing Program: ** ? About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! 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On Tuesday, September 22, 2026, the Business Council of Westchester hosted its annual Rising Stars: 40 Under 40 Awards at Million Air at Westchester County Airport, honoring forty exceptional young professionals from across the region. Selected through a rigorous review process evaluating leadership, innovation, professional achievement, and community impact, this year's diverse class spans key sectors including healthcare, finance, law, real estate, technology, and nonprofit leadership. Beyond celebrating individual accomplishments, the signature event underscores the BCW's commitment to cultivating emerging talent and strengthening the network of next-generation leaders who are actively shaping Westchester's economic and civic future. Westchester Talk Radio host Bob Marrone spoke with Jenna Bergquist, Regional Ambassador for the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), representing the New Jersey and Westchester regions. Jenna explained her role in leading community outreach and building brand awareness for HSS's regional outpatient and surgical centers in White Plains, Paramus, and Mahwah. With a background in psychology and healthcare marketing, she discussed her passion for helping guide patients to top-tier orthopedic care, highlighting her daily routine of connecting with local physicians, schools, community organizations, and internal marketing teams. 

What does it take to open one of New York City's most in-demand restaurants and then make it better after the doors open?On this episode of Bar Hacks, host David Klemt sits down with Bar Hacks: ReFire co-host Bradley Knebel, general manager of Ambassador's Clubhouse NYC, to talk about the work behind opening and leading a restaurant with enormous expectations from day one.Bradley traces his path from sommelier to restaurant leadership and the opening experiences that made him fall in love with bringing concepts to life. He shares why no restaurant survives first contact with operating reality unchanged, how to protect a brand's non-negotiables while listening to guests, and why opening leaders need to check their egos at the door.The conversation gets into the realities behind Ambassadors Clubhouse: overwhelming reservation demand, a massive menu, two-floor service, highly technical culinary and beverage programs, and the prep systems required to make complexity look effortless.Bradley also breaks down how his team approached hiring roughly 100 people, why he hires the person before the skill set, and how that philosophy helped the restaurant reach six months with 100% voluntary retention among its service team.Along the way, David and Bradley discuss culture as an operating and financial issue, decision making under pressure, giving GMs clear authority, building consistency without chasing perfection, and Bradley's standard for excellence: get 1% better every day.Plus, Bradley shares the real family story behind the Ambassadors Clubhouse concept, including the man whose portrait connects the restaurant to the Punjabi mansion parties that inspired it.Notes⁠⁠Bradley Knebel IGAmbassadors Clubhouse NYC IGAmbassadors Clubhouse NYC websiteAmbassadors Clubhouse website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KRG Nightlife IG⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KRG Nightlife website

This week, we heard from Gyle and continued in our Ambassador Identity series!

This week we heard from Gyle!

This week, we heard from Gyle and learned about what it means to have an ambassador identity!

September 28, 2026 – 6am:Trump's taxpayer-funded political ad draws criticismJohnson warns against politicians ‘promising free things'U.S. Ambassador says Trump offered to sell arms to ChinaKarl Rove highlights Ken Paxtons's scandals in Texas Senate raceWSJ: Egypt warned Netanyahu on impending attack before 10/7AXIOS: Trump says he expects U.S.-Iran talks this week To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

September 28, 2026; 5pm: Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping was welcomed to the White House with pomp and celebration. This week, the U.S. Ambassador to China said that Donald Trump offered to sell ARMS to Xi. As Donald Trump cozies up to what the New York Times calls "the greatest military, economic and diplomatic rival of the United States," the White House is scrambling to do damage control, denying that the U.S. would ever offer arms sales to China. For more, follow us on Instagram @deadlinewh To listen to this show and other MS NOW podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. For more from Nicolle, follow and download her podcast, “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace,” wherever you get your podcasts.To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Chapel | September 28th, 2026 | Mike Foster | Pleasing the Lord with Your Music | Colossians 1:10

AP Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports President Trump is contadicting his own China ambassador, who said the president asked Xi Jinping if China wants to buy American weapons.

AP Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports on a top Trump envoy saying the president has made an unlikely offer to China.

Women's Health Week 2026 gets underway next week, with a packed programme of events taking place across Clare from September 28th to October 4th.     This year's theme is “Strong at Every Age – Strong Bones, Strong Hearts, Strong Minds”, with activities focusing on physical health, mental wellbeing, nutrition, exercise and healthy ageing.    Alan Morrissey was joined by Women's Health Week Ambassador Rosie Foley, Cathaoirleach of Clare County Council Cllr Joe Killeen, and Healthy Ireland Coordinator with Clare County Council Joan Tarmey to discuss the week and why prioritising women's health at every stage of life matters. Photo (c) Clare FM

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Kristen Welker asks U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz and Foreign Minister of Iran Abbas Araghchi if there's a path to peace in Iran. Rep. Ro Khanna shares his thoughts on AI and potential impeachment efforts if Democrats win a House majority. Bill Gates warns about the potential threats of AI. Ryan Nobles, Marc Short and Adrienne Elrod join the roundtable. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, Cory Connors reconnects with Lara Botta, Vice President of Bota Eco Packaging, joining from Italy. They discuss the intricacies of new sustainability regulations and the paperwork burden they place on consumers and companies alike, and how Lara's team works to make compliance as simple as possible. Lara shares how Bota Eco Packaging, founded by her grandmother in 1947, has stayed ahead of European recyclability standards for decades, and how the company's innovation practices since 2017 have positioned it as a trusted resource for finding new, more sustainable materials. They also cover Italy's economic and energy challenges, the shift from purpose-driven to regulation-driven sustainability, the difficulty of convincing procurement teams that sustainable materials can be cost-effective, and Lara's role as an ambassador at the upcoming Sustainable Packaging Summit in Utrecht, where she'll moderate a panel on the controversial "paperization" trend.Key Topics Discussed:Lara's grandmother founding Bota Eco Packaging in 1947 and selling paper packaging around Milan by tramwayThe company's evolution from corrugated cardboard into a sustainable packaging innovation leader since 2017Why Italy and Europe have led the way on recyclability and packaging regulationCurrent market conditions in Italy: energy prices, geopolitics, and slow growthThe shift from purpose-driven sustainability to regulation-driven complianceReframing "cost" conversations with procurement teams around total cost of ownershipBeing named an ambassador for the Sustainable Packaging Summit in UtrechtModerating a panel on "paperization" and why it's a trending but controversial topicConsumer decision-making, System 1 vs. System 2 thinking, and sustainable purchasing behaviorGenerational differences in sustainability expectationsAdvice for attendees heading to the Sustainable Packaging Summit in UtrechtChapters:00:00 Introduction and Welcome01:30 The Complexity of New Sustainability Regulations and Consumer Paperwork Fatigue03:15 Lara's Grandmother and the Founding of Bota Eco Packaging in 194706:00 From Corrugated Cardboard to Sustainable Innovation Since 201709:30 Why Italy and Europe Have Led on Recyclability and Regulation12:15 Current Market Conditions in Italy: Energy, Geopolitics, and Growth15:00 Regulation vs. Purpose: How the Push for Sustainability Has Shifted18:00 Total Cost of Ownership and Changing the Conversation with Procurement21:00 Becoming an Ambassador for the Sustainable Packaging Summit in Utrecht23:15 Moderating the "Paperization" Panel: A Trending but Controversial Topic26:00 Consumer Perception, Decision-Making, and System 1 vs. System 2 Thinking29:00 Generational Differences in Sustainability Expectations31:30 Advice for Attendees Heading to Utrecht33:00 Final Thoughts and How to ConnectResources Mentioned:Bota Eco PackagingSustainable Packaging Summit, Utrecht (10-12 November 2026)Packaging Europe (magazine referenced by Lara as a key industry resource)Contact:Listeners interested in connecting with Lara Botta can reach out via her website or LinkedIn.-Website- LinkedIn (company): Bota EcoPackagingSupport our Sponsors Learn more here:- 3M- Specright- FOREST-PKGhttps://anewearthproject.com/collections/new-earth-approvedConnect with CoryConnect with Cory on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-connors/I'm here to help you make your packaging more sustainable! Reach out today and I'll get back to you asap. This podcast is an independent production and the podcast production is an original work of the author. All rights of ownership and reproduction are retained—copyright 2022.

Recorded Sunday, September 13, 2026 at St. Paul's Ev. Lutheran Church in Bangor, Wisconsin. "Like" us on Facebook!!

Technology is both an opportunity and an obstacle. It just depends on how you use it. We've spent three weeks asking how our screens influence us, but today, we will ask how are we influencing others through our screens, specifically through social media? Paul tells one of his pastors, Titus, to encourage his church to be mindful of how they act for the sake of the gospel.Titus 2:10 NLT ...Then they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive in every way. If Jesus has your attention, and Jesus has your affection, your action for Jesus should make Jesus attractive. Christians should use social media differently than non-Christians. We're called to be different, and that not only includes what is on our screens, but what comes from our screens. Social media is going to amplify what's already in your heart—whether good or bad. So we need to be careful and consider how we use it. Ephesians 5:8-10 NLT For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true. Carefully determine what pleases the Lord.Carefully, not carelessly. Three questions we should ask ourselves before we post something on social media: 1. IS IT           ?John 14:6 NLT I am the way, the truth, and the life. The best lie detector isn't a fact-checker, but intimacy with Jesus, who is the Truth.Why would someone listen to you about your faith if you don't care about the truth in other areas of your life? Social media is not all real.Your feed tempts you to sacrifice what's real for what's rehearsed; what's factual for what's fake. Social media makes it easier to bear false witness against your neighbor.To "bear false witness" is to say something untrue about someone else.Proverbs 6:16;19 NLT There are six things the Lord hates—no, seven things he detests:... a false witness who pours out lies. Satan is called the "accuser of the brethren" so if you're sharing false information—whether intentional or not—you're helping the devil do his dirty work. Social media feeds confirmation bias.Confirmation bias is our tendency to want to hear whatever supports what we already believe.The more you want something to be true, the easier it is to believe it if it's a lie. So before you post or share, ask "Is this true, or do I just WANT it to be true?" Social media gives unequal opinions an equal platform.While people have equal value, opinions do not have equal validity.Some people have something to say, and some people just have to say something. Know the difference. 2. IS IT           ?John 13:35 NLT Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.People shouldn't have to meet you in person to discover that you're nicer than your Facebook account. Social media removes face-to-face empathy."Online disinhibition" is when we type things through a screen we would never say to someone seated across the table from us.  Remember there is an image-bearer on the other side of the screen. You don't have to agree with them, but if you don't treat them well, God may need to defend them against you. Social media often causes us to prioritize politics over people.John 6:15 NLT When Jesus saw that they were ready to force him to be their king, he slipped away into the hills by himself.Jesus isn't your political mascot; He is GOD.Have the opinion, but don't sacrifice a person you're called to love for an opinion you're allowed to have. Social Media makes it easy to get sucked into pointless arguments.Titus 3:9 NLT Do not get involved in foolish discussions about spiritual pedigrees[a] or in quarrels and fights about obedience to Jewish laws. These things are useless and a waste of time.Don't win the argument and lose your influence. The goal for the Christian isn't just to make a point. Our goal is to make a difference. 3. IS IT           ?James 3:13 NKJV Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. Social media is immediate communication.James 1:19 NLT You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.Wisdom often waits. Proverbs 29:20 NLT There is more hope for a fool than for someone who speaks without thinking.The algorithm wants your first reaction; Wisdom wants your best one. Social media makes venting too easy.Proverbs 29:11 NLT Fools vent their anger, but the wise quietly hold it back.Not every emotion needs an audience. Not everything you feel needs to become content for others to consume.Don't trade tomorrow's credibility for today's emotional release. Social media makes it easy to brag.Galatians 6:4 NLT Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won't need to compare yourself to anyone else. Christians are called to build bridges but bragging creates barriers. Some things belong in a conversation, not a comment section. Some things belong with a friend, not your followers. Some things need to be prayed about instead of posted about. So, what would Jesus post?He'd encourage people, He'd celebrate people, He'd build relationships, and He'd share the good news. EndingPete Hoekstra, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands.Here was the problem: Pete's words didn't represent only himself anymore, they reflected on the country that sent him. You're an ambassador, too. 2 Corinthians 5:20 NLT So we are Christ's ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. An ambassador doesn't only ask, "Do I have the right to say this?" An ambassador asks, "Does this accurately represent the one who sent me?"Ask is it true? Because you represent the Truth.Ask is it loving? Because you represent the God who is love.Ask is it wise? Because God is making His appeal to the world through you.Your name may be on the social media account, but His name is on you. Let's represent Him well. Are you representing Jesus accurately online?

Date: 9/27/26 Series: Alive in Christ Passage: Romans 5:9-11; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Speaker: Rev. Ben Tzeng

There's uncertainty if the looming mid-term elections will influence Trump's handling of Iran. The US President's rejected an Iranian proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz within seven days - saying Iran was losing badly. Tehran's Foreign Ministers says the only way to end the conflict is with a negotiated solution. Former US Ambassador in the Middle East, David Satterfield, says the economy will unquestionably hurt Trump at the mid-terms. "Is the mid-term, is that November date a trigger point, somehow, for some different strategy - either immediately before or after? It's very difficult to say." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New Beginnings: Ambassadors of Reconciliation | 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 | 092026 by Corey

Today, I'm talking to Dr. Alyssa Hamel. Alyssa is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, educator, researcher, and eating disorder specialist. She serves as Director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program at The University at Buffalo, State University of New York flagship institution and has been doing important work around eating disorder education, substance use education, stigma reduction, and clinician training. Alyssa previously served as the primary psychiatric provider for a comprehensive eating disorders program and now owns a private practice working with individuals with eating disorders and co-occurring conditions. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Academy for Eating Disorders Professionals & Recovery Special Interest Group and is an Ambassador for the Eating Disorders Coalition. Alyssa has particular interest in challenging the public's inaccurate and harmful perceptions about eating disorders. Her last research project focused on the paradoxical stigma of anorexia nervosa. In the podcast today, Alyssa is going to share her Three Perspectives and One Mission. How lived experience, clinical practice and education can transform eating disorder care. There's so much value in this episode.  I hope that you enjoy it. To get in touch with Dr. Alyssa: - https://nursing.buffalo.edu/hamel https://align33media.org/    

U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue has been in the room during the summit and state dinner between President Trump and President Xi this week. Amb. Perdue discusses the evolving relationship between the two leaders, bilateral trade, Iran, Taiwan, and the potential of U.S.-China collaboration on AI. Plus, Ark Invest CIO and CEO Cathie Wood shares her outlook, as shared in her latest investor letter. A Tesla, SpaceX, Coinbase, Kalshi, and Robinhood investor, Wood discusses her bets on the future of tech. Megan Cassella - 02:33Amb. David Perdue - 15:03Cathie Wood - 30:41 In this episode:Cathie Wood, @CathieDWoodMegan Cassella, @mmcassellaJoe Kernen, @JoeSquawkKelly Evans, @KellyCNBCCameron Costa, @CameronCostaNY Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

U.S. President Donald Trump made clear during candid talks at the White House with Chinese President Xi Jinping that Chinese help for Iran is unacceptable, U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue said on Friday."We made it very clear to them weeks ago that, you know, any help that they would give Iran, whether it be direct or indirect, whether it be intelligence or parts or military equipment, was totally unacceptable. President Trump made that very clear again yesterday. This is an ongoing drumbeat," Perdue said in an interview with CNBC.Actresses Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder and two Democratic politicians were among 30 people arrested on Thursday as they protested outside the U.N. headquarters in New York, before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech to the General Assembly.Darializa Avila Chevalier—who was endorsed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani when she won the Democratic primary for the 13th Congressional District in June—was also arrested, along with New York City Council member Chi Ossé.

Chapel | September 25th, 2026 | James Wooten | Pride's Billboard | Proverbs 12:10

Strong businesses do not become healthy by accident. They are built through trust, clear leadership, accountability, and a willingness to face problems together. Will Watrous joins me to explore what makes leadership teams work and why so many companies struggle even when good people are involved. Will shares how his own entrepreneurial journey led him from marketing into helping leadership teams use the Entrepreneurial Operating System, or EOS, to create greater vision, traction, and team health. We discuss vulnerability-based trust, productive conflict, accountability, business complexity, data-driven decisions, and why leaders must take responsibility for both what works and what does not. Will also explains why simplicity matters as companies grow, how weekly meetings can keep teams focused, and why leaders need quiet thinking time to gain clarity. You will find practical leadership lessons here for building stronger teams, making better decisions, and creating a healthier business. Highlights: 05:22 How helping one business owner launched Will's entrepreneurial journey. 11:42 Why strong leadership creates accountability. 15:29 How trust becomes the foundation of healthy teams. 26:20 Why productive conflict leads to better decisions. 40:44 How leaders can reduce complexity as a business grows. 54:04 Why clarity breaks help leaders think and lead better. . About the Guest: Will Watrous is a business owner, EOS Implementer, and advisor to growth-minded leaders in the Tulsa and Broken Arrow area. He works primarily with founders and leadership teams of companies with 10 to 250 employees who want more clarity, discipline, and traction in their organizations. His work centers on helping leaders simplify complexity, make better decisions, and consistently execute on what matters most. As a Certified EOS Implementer, Will guides leadership teams through the Entrepreneurial Operating System, focusing on vision, accountability, data, and healthy team dynamics. He is known for being practical, direct, and grounded in real-world business experience. Clients value his ability to ask hard questions, create focus, and turn strategy into clear priorities that actually get done. Beyond EOS, Will owns and advises multiple businesses, including a marketing company and commercial real estate investments. This firsthand ownership experience shapes how he works with clients. He understands cash flow, hiring decisions, sales challenges, and the pressure leaders face when growth creates complexity. His approach blends structured systems with sound judgment and financial awareness. Will is deeply interested in finance, long-term wealth building, and disciplined execution, both personally and professionally. He values tools, scorecards, and measurable outcomes, but believes strong businesses are ultimately built by healthy, aligned leaders. His Christian worldview influences how he thinks about stewardship, integrity, and responsibility. He lives in the Tulsa area with his wife Jenny and their two children, Eli and Ellie. Outside of work, Will enjoys fitness, hiking, travel, learning, and time with his family. He is driven by helping leaders build organizations that are not only successful, but sustainable and well-run for the long term. Ways to connect with Will**:** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willwatrous/ Website: https://implementer.eosworldwide.com/will-watrous/ About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset . Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes: Michael Hingson  00:04 What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't what's in front of you, but rather what you believe? Welcome to Unstoppable Mindset, where inclusion, diversity, and the unexpected meet. I'm your host, Michael Hingson, speaker, author, and advocate for inclusion and possibilities. This podcast explores how the beliefs we carry shape the way we live, lead, and connect with others. Each week, I talk with people who challenge assumptions, face adversity head-on, and show what's possible when we choose curiosity over fear. Together, we focus on mindset, resilience, and the small shifts that lead to meaningful change. Let's get started. Well, greetings, everyone, wherever you may be today, I am your host Mike Hingson, and you are listening and/or watching Unstoppable Mindset. Our guest today is Will Watrous, and Will has a I think a lot of interesting things to talk with us about regarding organizations, team building, teamwork, and other such things, and I'm not going to give it away because it's his job to really talk about that, which is a lot more fun. Although I will say that he and I share a like of a particular book on teamwork, which we'll talk about, I'm sure, as we go forward. But anyway, Will, I want to welcome you to Unstoppable Mindset. We're really glad you're here. Will Watrous  01:40 Thank you, Mike. What a pleasure to be on your podcast today. Michael Hingson  01:43 Well, well, I've been looking forward to it for a while, so we're we're glad we're doing it, and we'll we'll take about an hour, and then you can go off to dinner unless you've already had dinner. Speaker 1  01:53 Sounds like a plan. Michael Hingson  01:56 Yeah, Will is in Oklahoma, so I think he's having warmer temperatures today than we are. Anyway, so let's let's go ahead and move forward. Why don't you tell us kind of maybe a little bit about the early will growing up and all that? Speaker 1  02:10 Sure. So I grew up in a little coastal town, Mystic, Connecticut, which is on the shore, northeastern Connecticut. Michael Hingson  02:19 Did you ever have pizza there? I had to ask. Speaker 1  02:21 I did. I did have Mystic Pizza before it was made famous by Julia Roberts' right movie, and that was that was my hometown. Yeah. So the Mystic Drawbridge there, and the old Mystic Village, or the Mystic Seaport. It's a very touristy, but also a great place to grow up. Yeah, on the water, and yeah, the youngest of six kids, five boys, one girl, but don't feel sorry for her because she is probably could still beat me up. She's a strong, strong woman, and yes, pretty, pretty average in in many ways, childhood graduated from high school and went off to college here in Oklahoma. Spent about six years out here going to school, and then went back to the East Coast. This time to Washington D.C. area. I was working in a large nonprofit organization just outside the Beltway, and then wound up going to Boston. Taught at a school in Brookline, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. And then my wife decided she wanted to go to college out here in Oklahoma, so we moved back out here in around around 2010, and I started a business, and that started my entrepreneurial journey, which was very intensive. Let's say learned a lot, a lot of it the hard way, and really developed an affinity, appreciation for business, for entrepreneurship, for ultimately serving people, which is what most businesses should be designed to do. And through all of that, took some really powerful principles, insights, truths away, and now have the privilege of helping a lot of other business leadership teams run stronger, better, healthier companies. Michael Hingson  04:28 What got you to go to college in Oklahoma? Coming from Mystic, Speaker 1  04:33 well, being the youngest of six, two of my brothers had come to school out here, and so I was following in their footsteps. Michael Hingson  04:41 Where did you go to school? Speaker 1  04:43 So I went to Oral Oral Roberts University. Yep, and I went to a college called Raymo Bible Training College, which is a Christian two-year Christian school out here. Michael Hingson  04:56 And eventually, you came back. And why did your wife want to come? And go to college in Oklahoma, kind of same concepts. Speaker 1  05:03 Yeah, she wanted just so she wanted to go to the Rayma Bible Training College to get a foundation in her faith, and just you know early on in in life wanted to lay that framework, that groundwork, so that she she felt for the rest of her life, and she had met a lot of other graduates from that particular school, which is an amazing school, and they had all just shared how influential, how impactful the school was for them. And mind you, it's not just about head knowledge, you know, not just information. It's about ultimately knowing God better, and so which tends to serve you well in every every area of life. So she was hungry for that. So we decided to move out here. And I, the nature of my work at the time was such that I could work remotely, and so we moved here. And she went to school, graduated, and we stayed and raised a family. Michael Hingson  06:01 So, what what kind of business did you start when you started your business? You said in 2010. Speaker 1  06:09 Yes, in 2010, and so I had been serving in a marketing capacity, doing marketing management for the organization in the D.C. area, and learned a lot simply by doing. Don't have my my college education. My degree is in music performance, actually, so didn't serve me very well as far as marketing is concerned. So I learned a lot by doing, and when I moved out here, I knew someone who had an auto repair shop, and he, through a series of events, had to rename his rebrand his shop completely. the the the I went to his website, I think one day, and it said under construction, and I thought that's weird. I know he has he's been in business, he has a website, so I send him an email, and he emailed me back and said he just asked inquiring is everything going all right? He replied and said I need help right now because we're in the situation where I need to redo everything. So I at the time was not a technician when it came to marketing. I was more of just a manager strategist type. So for whatever reason, I decided that I could build him a website. I just wanted to help, so I didn't charge him anything, and literally went online, and this is many, many years ago. Before there was all of the resources available to us now, and I Googled how do you build a website, and I prayed, and I just went through this very excruciating process of coding and understanding how it all worked. Wound up building him a website, learned a lot along the way about search engine optimization, about digital advertising, and then other you know forms of online advertising. And his he's a great businessman. He does good work, and he has a good reputation. He knows lots of people. His business grew to the degree that he would have some other business owners come to him and say, "Man, what are you doing? Because you you guys are just crushing it. And he's a really gracious guy. He would tell these other business owners, "Well, I have this guy named Will, and sometimes I have to call Will and tell him to tone it down a little bit because I'm too busy. Well, these other business owners demanded my phone number from him because they wanted you know to grow their businesses. So I started getting phone calls from other business owners asking if I would do for them what I was doing for this man, and that started. So I never really woke up one day saying I'd love to start a marketing agency. I just was trying to help someone who needed Michael Hingson  09:00 it, Speaker 1  09:01 and it wound up turning into a business. So then I hired someone, and they started helping me. And then hired some more and grew it and grew it until about four years ago. I stepped away, and there's more to that story as well as as to how I was able to step away. I still own that company passively now. It's a it's a great multi-million-dollar, very profitable, growing company, very healthy company. But now my passion and focus is helping entrepreneurs create businesses that give them what they want from their business that are more aligned, more healthy, and stronger-not just for the business owner and the entrepreneur, but for the whole for the whole company, for everyone involved in that organization. Michael Hingson  09:48 So, you're more involved now in helping people start businesses, or are you still dealing with businesses that exist and you're helping to to kind of improve them? Speaker 1  10:00 Businesses that are already existing. So typically, my my the clients that I work with now are are two to 50 million in annual revenue, 10 to 250 employees. They're growth oriented. They're willing to be open and honest with one another and with themselves, and they're more afraid of the status quo than they are of change. They really are trying to get somewhere, but feel stuck, feel frustrated, feel like the things that have they've been trying to to do to make the business better just aren't gaining traction like they need. Michael Hingson  10:34 Well, how does that differ from what you were doing before? Speaker 1  10:37 Ah, well, so before the marketing agency was really focused on lead generation, increasing their revenue, their sales. Now, what I do is work with leadership teams. I use the EOS model, which is the entrepreneurial operating system, which is a very specific process and set of tools that I teach the leadership team of the organization, so typically that's the three to seven people at the top of the company making the important decisions, and I help them do three things. I call them vision, traction, and healthy. So vision means first getting the leaders 100% on the same page with where is this company going and how do we plan to get there. Traction from the standpoint of helping your leaders to become much more disciplined and accountable, and executing really well to achieve every part of your vision, and then healthy meaning helping the leaders to become a more healthy, functional, cohesive leadership team. Because the truth is that most leaders don't function well as a team, and what I found is, as goes the leaders, so go the rest of the organization. So what we do is we get to the point where everyone in the company is all crystal clear, fully aligned with the vision and plan. They're gaining consistent traction wherever you look in the company, people are executing on that vision together, and they're doing it as a group of people who are who enjoy the work that they do and and enjoy the people that they're around. Michael Hingson  12:13 Okay, what do you think is the problem that leaders and companies most often misdiagnosed in their organizations that create the problems that you have to come in and deal with. Speaker 1  12:30 I would say one of the most common is accountability. It's a it's it's a common hot button frustration of many business leaders, and the misdiagnosis, as you said, is that accountability is actually a byproduct. It is, it's a formula. Actually, the formula is this: L plus M equals A. So the L stands for leadership, plus M stands for management, equals A stands for accountability. So leader accountability is the output, and so rather than trying to make your people be accountable, which you can't really do. What you can do is be a great leader and be a great manager, and the result will be you'll create an environment where accountable people thrive. And so, within EOS, we teach five leadership abilities and five management abilities, or not really ability. They're more like practices, leadership practices, and and management practices. You just do those things well, and and the accountability that you so desire will show up in the organization. Michael Hingson  13:52 Yeah, I think a lot of people don't really understand what accountability is, and and that doesn't help the process, and yeah, you know exactly what I mean, and and that that tends to really make a lot of challenges for people because they they resent rather than recognizing that people who truly understand accountability are are trying to do something to help build the team, help the team work well, and and are looking out for the whole company, but just so many people don't understand that, do they? Speaker 1  14:27 No, and and part of the reason it's interesting. All these EOS tools work together, but another tool that we use a lot is the something we call the accountability chart. The accountability chart is a visual illustration of the structure of the organization, meaning who is responsible for what. So we've got the leadership team, but then every single person in the organization should have a box, a seat on the bus, and within. Box or in that seat, there's five major roles that they really need to own. What I like to say it this way: If the company could speak, why would it say this function exists? Why is this seat in the organization? And many companies have not clearly defined what success looks like for an employee. What are their five major accountabilities or roles within the organization? And so, how can you hold someone accountable to something that's not been clearly communicated from the get go? If they don't really understand what success looks like and what we need them to be doing and focusing and being great at, then it's it's really hard to to hold them accountable. Michael Hingson  15:46 Yeah, and they they just miss it. Well, going back to something I mentioned at the beginning, you and I are both great fans of the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Which which function or dysfunction do you? I can imagine what this might be, but which dysfunction do you most often encounter, and do we find most often with companies and people? Speaker 1  16:14 Yeah, I'll have to start at the bottom of the pyramid because it's right. It's it's it's a it's linear in a way, and and in that one builds upon the other. So the bottom tier of the pyramid is vulnerability based trust. So trust, and that, as Patrick describes it, is being completely open and honest with one another. If you sit down and have a conversation with a peer, you know that they're going to be completely frank. They'll tell you the truth and the whole truth. That, and not only that, you can trust them to have the right motives, the right purpose behind things. It's not political. They're not, you know, kind of positioning themselves and working the politics and dynamic dynamics of the organization. They're really trying to do what's right for everybody involved. So vulnerability-based trust is the first one, and that takes time. That's Patrick defines that as different from the kind of trust that is based on just knowing people in the sense that you can you know what to expect out of them if you're familiar with them. You work with them a lot, so you kind of you can trust that they're going to act a certain way. That's not what he's talking about. He's talking about this true, open, and honest approach, being candid with one another, and that comes through some specific exercises. Ultimately, times the more you know about people, about their personal lives, and the more time you spend with them is what ultimately builds trust. Michael Hingson  18:07 Yeah, and it's all about building a trusting relationship that allows for that level of honesty. Because when you truly have it, then you're you're dealing with an environment where when someone says something to you, you know they're not trying to be political. You know they're not trying to undermine you, but they're trying to give you information, and it goes back to accountability and holding maybe you accountable for the things that you said that you were going to do. But it's also about holding the whole company accountable by feeding back to and working with people to get jobs accomplished. Speaker 1  18:48 Yes, absolutely, that's right. And and for that to happen, everyone has to be on the same page. We all must be looking at the same picture of where we're planning to go and agreeing on how we plan to get there. Michael Hingson  18:59 Yeah, and in a sense, even though accountability is at the bottom of the pyramid, it starts hopefully at the top with senior management that sets the tone and starts to create the environment where everyone can learn to trust and work together in a much more positive way. Speaker 1  19:21 That's right. When we when I work with leadership teams, I half jokingly tell them in in our early sessions that they should look around at the company and admire the wonderful things that are happening, the clients and customers that are being served, the employees that are getting their job done. All all of those things are wonderful, and you helped create that wonderful. On the flip side, all of the frustrations, the pain, the things that are broken and not working, you created that too. So you have to take responsibility for all of it, the good and the bad. And so the leadership really does have to. Take responsibility for everything. Michael Hingson  20:03 Why is it that trust is so hard, and trusting relationships are so hard to build, even when when people probably have really wonderful intentions and want to do it? But why is it so hard? Speaker 1  20:16 Ooh, that's a great question. Michael Hingson  20:18 And and I'll and I'll tell you one of the reasons I ask, being a little prejudiced, working with guide dogs. I work with dogs, and I have learned over the years that while dogs may love unconditionally, they don't trust unconditionally. But dogs are more open to trust, and if you really work at building a trusting relationship with a dog, you set the rules. You set which is what they want, you set the ground rules, you set the tone, and if you do it, the relationship that develops is incredible. But that just seems to be something that's really hard for humans to do internally or between human and human. Speaker 1  20:55 You know, I think the answer is in something that you just said, and the word is intentional. Intentionality, I think that most people show up to work focusing on the work, focusing on doing things faster and more efficiently, and the how and the strategy. But they don't focus very much on the health of the team. And Pat Lynchioni talks about that as well. How that most organizations are focused on getting smarter, but not on getting healthier, and he argues that the healthier team will outperform the smarter team every single time. Michael Hingson  21:36 The other part about it is the whole concept of just being open to trust-we we in our in our human world just see so many examples of why not to trust. And I think too many people have just learned, well, we can't trust. We don't dare take the chance. We can't because everybody has their own agendas, and so how can we trust them? Because they're looking out for them. They're not looking out for me, and we teach children this. We teach each other this, and that's so unfortunate because it doesn't need to be that way. Speaker 1  22:11 Yeah, what are they? The wisest serpents, gentle as gentle as doves, is the is the saying. I, I'm not. You're right. There's a lot of people out there, unfortunately, that have ruined it. Let's say the few have ruined it for the many. I think, and the reality is that today you have to be. And now with AI, we don't need to go there. But with AI, you really have to really have to know what's going on because what seems real isn't. Michael Hingson  22:44 Yeah. Do you think that will improve over time? Speaker 1  22:49 What's that? Michael Hingson  22:50 That AI will get better over time, and a lot of things that aren't real today will become more real just because the whole process will improve. Speaker 1  23:04 Will AI improve? Yes, absolutely. Will its results and its helpfulness improve? Absolutely. Will people continue to use that for their own good? You know, for their for their own devices at the expense of other people. Yes, unfortunately. Michael Hingson  23:21 Unfortunately. Speaker 1  23:22 So, what does that make leave? Where does that leave us? I think we have to be all the more wiser to it. You can't. You can't stay ignorant and think that everything's going to be okay. Michael Hingson  23:35 Where do you think AI fits in corporations mostly, or should fit? Speaker 1  23:41 Well, it's it's an incredible tool. It is an incredible tool, and I think it's it's like it's like money. What do you what do you do with it? It's simply a tool. What are you going to do with it? Where does it fit? It depends on what kind of business model, but I see it impacting every business to some degree, we utilize it heavily. I think when I work with leadership teams, I do a lot of facilitation. So we'll we'll sit around this table here. I'm in my session room here, and we have lengthy, deep, meaningful, impactful discussions with one another, and sometimes I even encourage them to use AI to refine an idea or to collaborate over an idea. But I warn my teams that AI has no soul, and what I mean by that is, it's it's information, it's data and information, but the human being there's more to us than just information. It's like the data, the information part of us is like the tip of the iceberg, and but there's a whole mass below the waterline. I believe you have a soul and a spirit, and so the danger I warn teams of is making strategic decisions based on information that comes from AI without really discussing and using their their soul. Sometimes ideas can resonate with a person on a different level. That that AI and just information can't it can't go there. It's not able to go there. So I don't know if that makes sense. But I just warn them: AI has no soul. You need to pay attention to what's going on inside of you as you're discussing ideas and and weigh that into the decision. Michael Hingson  25:46 And I still go back to we're the ones that are and should be the creators, and so it's great to use AI to help a process, but we still need to be the ones to do the real work. Speaker 1  25:59 Yes, Michael Hingson  26:01 and I think too many times I hear about it with with schools and so on. Oh, students are just writing their papers using AI. Well, we need to work on encouraging that not to be the case. The AI can help provide information, as you pointed out, but that's what it is. It's an information source, and it's only one information source, and anyone who is truly looking for information knows full well you don't just rely on one source. Speaker 1  26:29 Right. Michael Hingson  26:30 Even if it's a human, you don't rely on one source. Speaker 1  26:33 That's right. That's right. But it but it is Michael Hingson  26:35 pretty crucial to to work through that. Well, Patrick Lencioni talks a lot about conflict, and he talks about teams that have healthy conflict, and then there are those who quietly just kind of avoid it. What distinguishes, or how do you deal with the two different kinds of teams? Because I know Patrick talks about the fact that conflict is a very useful thing and needs to be respected as part of the process, Speaker 1  27:04 right? So the second layer of the pyramid that he illustrates is healthy conflict or productive conflict, which can only happen if there is a foundation of trust, because without trust, people tend to hold their cards close to the vest. They're not willing to go out on a limb and say something that might be taken the wrong way, because for fear of retribution, or that it could be it could be used against them, or or what have you. And so conflict is may the best idea win. I have wonderful teams. They're healthy teams. They'll fight like cats and dogs over an idea, not over. It's not personal. They're simply fighting for the best idea to win, and so they'll go at it heated conversations because they have strong opinions. At the end of the day, though, what really matters is that everyone has been heard? The point of conflict is to get the options out on the table to see what's possible, to see what's available, and then from those options, pick the best. So, what healthy conflict does is it opens it up for people to share, be willing to get out there, share their opinion, go back and forth, and as I said, everyone gets heard. That's such a critical piece of healthy team is that you're hearing from everyone on the team. They're having that opportunity to share their perspective, and then when all is said and done, the what we call this person the integrator. This is the person who leads the leadership team. They have a decision to make. It's not a democracy. They have heard all of the all of the opinions, and and then they say, "Well, this is what we're going to do. And 99% of the time, reasonable people, even if they disagree with a decision, if they have been heard and know that their opinion is valued, they are willing to commit to a decision that's against what they believe should have happened. Michael Hingson  29:14 Well, so take that to the next level. Let's say that the decision is made, and in a month, it turns out it really wasn't the right decision. Then what? Speaker 1  29:25 Yeah, healthy teams can pivot, and they don't. Excuse me. There's no paralysis by analysis. They're they're able to be flexible and make a quick decision without regrets and move on. You know, in business, most of the decisions that we make are reversible. It's not like we're a brain surgeon and there's someone's on the operating table, and and one slip means drastic results, or it's not a court case, and the judge once they slam the hammer, nothing changes. That's the verdict. In business, most decisions are reversible. Sometimes I see teams or leaders who are hesitant to make a decision, and I encourage them make a decision, commit to it, and start taking steps. We can always iterate. We can make adjustments along the way, but if you don't act, if you don't take one step forward, then you can't steer a parked car, as they say. So, when when your question was if a month later it was a wrong decision, we agree as a team to pivot and move on. And a great healthy team, you know, they'll probably give one another a hard time and laugh about it and poke a bit, but but keep moving toward the goal. Michael Hingson  30:46 But it's all in fun and it's not intended in any way to be personal, Speaker 1  30:50 right? Michael Hingson  30:51 Which is really the key. None of this has to be personal. We're not doing it to one up anyone, and the good teams truly understand that. Speaker 1  31:02 That's right. Michael Hingson  31:04 Do you ever find environments where leaders unintentionally do things where accountability breaks down? Speaker 1  31:15 Yes. One thing that happens specifically with visionary or leaders or founders is something I call end run, which is when they don't follow chain of command. Basically, because of their position in the company, they feel freedom to go to anyone in the company and either make a decision or give them a directive, and the person that they're giving the directive to feels obligated to follow that because it's a senior leader. Michael Hingson  31:54 Yeah, Speaker 1  31:55 and so that really that really damages you know it's chain of command ultimately, but it damages the relationship, damages the health of the team, and the hard thing about it is that visionary leaders and founders are idea people. They are the creators. They're brilliant at coming up with seeing opportunities and coming up with ideas to solve problems and add value, so they have this natural bent to research. They're curious. They'll want to talk to people, employees in the organization, and that's all good. But they do need a healthy boundary and to understand who they should talk to about decisions or influencing employees in the organization. Michael Hingson  32:43 Yeah, I'm curious about something. How do the operations within a business differ from, say, what goes on in the military, where there's an absolute chain of command, and someone along the line, can issue an order to someone, and it's supposed to be obeyed, and so on. But how does military operations differ, or do they from business, or should they from business? Speaker 1  33:10 I yeah, that's a great. I I think there's some strong similarities, and some significant differences. You know, one question, and this was actually oddly enough. This was a military leader. I forgot who it was, but it was a general. He said something he asks his subordinates on a regular basis is, "Tell me something you know I don't want to hear. Tell me something you know I don't want to hear. And his goal there was to truly to create a relationship with his subordinates where they feel comfortable raising their hand, saying we've got an issue, here's a problem, and I think that traditionally in the military that would be resisted. I think the or my my perception anyway is that subordinates would rarely want to say something's wrong. Everything's always okay, you know. Following orders, everything's good. But I respect that that general's practice of of telling his subordinates that, and I I recommend my leaders do it as well because they need to know what's going on. Really, there's this I think a natural desire to impress or to make it look like I'm doing a good job and our department is okay, so they don't bring up real issues. And so the kind might go against your question, but the the common thread there is a willingness to talk about real issues, real problems, to bring them up, solve them together as a team. But first, be willing to identify. And oddly enough, it goes back to the trust piece: to being open and honest. You have to be willing to just call something out. The elephant in the room: several people know that there's something going on. Nobody wants. To say it, just say it. So that that's maybe one similarity. Michael Hingson  35:06 Well, I know that in reality, in the in the military, I at least I've heard this from my military friends. They they do emphasize teamwork and and teaming and so on. But at the same time, they have this reputation where there's an order and you you just obey the order because that's what the general or what someone above you says and it seems like there's a paradox there somewhere. Speaker 1  35:33 Yeah, I think in in business, what my observation has been that people do need to know the why. I think in the military that's not required, and maybe same in parenting. Sometimes it's you're on a need to know basis, and you just need to follow the order. Whereas in business, I think it's much more common practice for good leaders to give the context of why this directive matters, so that the people can connect the dots and have a clearer picture of the overall success of the mission, as it were, the goal of the organization. They can see how what they're doing is contributing to that over goal. Overall goal. Michael Hingson  36:20 Yeah, yeah. Well, and in the military, maybe the privates don't necessarily get the get to know the why, Speaker 1  36:31 right? Michael Hingson  36:31 But but the hope is that there are enough people above them who are involved in a process that there is enough of an understanding that that enough people know the why that that the process works, and I guess that's a. I've not ever been in the military, and I'm certainly not going to criticize, but it just seems to me that that the more people can communicate and interact with each other, the stronger the team will be, no matter whether it's business or military. Speaker 1  37:00 Yeah, I would hope. Michael Hingson  37:03 So you know, but so EOS generally represent talks about clarity and execution. Where do leaders typically in organizations lose traction after they set a clear vision? Where do where do things break down. Speaker 1  37:22 You know, I think one of the most powerful ideas within EOS is the weekly meeting. So there is something we call the Level 10 meeting, and the name Level 10 comes from when we started working with companies and 1000s and 1000s of companies. One of the questions we would, one of our first questions in meeting them would be: rate the quality of your meetings on a scale of one to 1010, being best. How effective are your internal team meetings? And on average, they were about a four. And so over time, we developed the level 10 meeting agenda, which is a very specific agenda for leadership teams on a weekly basis to conduct that covers makes those those meetings so effective and efficient. And we keep talking about Patrick Lencioni. He wrote another book called Death by Meetings, which is a great great book as well. But so within EOS, the level 10 meeting is a very clear agenda. It gets everyone on the same page. Data passes quickly and smoothly across the right channels to the right people. We solve problems together, and it's just a wonderful, wonderful way to keep the business moving forward. So your question was, what happens after they set a clear vision? Well, very often they lose traction because they're not on a weekly basis measuring their progress toward that goal and vision, and solving problems on a weekly basis that show up that get in the way because there will always be things that prevent us, that resist us from our goals. So, are we methodically? And this is a discipline. This is it's it's not you know glamorous. It doesn't always feel good. But if you can stick with that weekly cadence, then every single week you're you're measuring what matters, the KPIs? It's a score. You know, one of the items on the agenda is the weekly scorecard, five to 15 numbers give us an instant pulse on the business. Reviewing the data, solving problems, and marching forward. So that's where it gets lost, because also in that meeting, everyone is staying on the same page, and there's that accountability. You're looking across the table, say, asking about this initiative or this project. Is it on track? Yes or no? Are we confident we're going to get it completed on time? Do you need any help? Every single week, the leaders. Showing up to that meeting and asking those questions of one another, and they know, hey, on Tuesday at 2o'clock, I'm going to have to answer this question: Is this goal on track for the quarter? And so that introduces this accountability within the team, where the peer-it's peer-to-peer accountability. They're holding one another accountable for the goals of the organization, Michael Hingson  40:22 yeah, I talked with a person recently on one of our podcast episodes. She runs a a boutique PR organization, and it has been growing, but she's not letting it grow too fast. But it has continued to grow, and and I've asked her, and I asked her how how long do you expect or how much do you want the company to grow, and can it grow too large where it becomes unmanageable? And she acknowledged that that kind of thing can happen, and and it it kind of is an interesting concept because most entrepreneurs want their companies to be successful and grow, but when you get multi-million-dollar or larger companies and you're hiring 50, 100, 200, 500 employees, that kind of ranges raises a lot of different complications, and it gets really overly complex. At what point does all the complexity really become too dangerous to deal with? Speaker 1  41:27 So the complexity model is where you you can calculate how complex business gets by every person you add to the organization. My point is complexity is real, and as a leadership team or as a leader, you have to constantly fight the onslaught of complexity. You have to fight for keep it simple, less is more. Keep it simple, less is more. So, if you had two people in an organization, you've got two lines of communication, one going from one to the other and back. If you add a third person, so you increase the number of people by 50% Now there are six lines of communication, so 200% increase in complexity, and that's just communication. Not talking about systems, processes, culture, all of that other stuff. You add a fourth person, so you increase the number of people by 100% from the two. Now you have a A 500% increase, 12 lines of communication. Speaker 2  42:45 Yeah, Speaker 1  42:46 so you have to, as a leader, fight against complexity, and the way that you do that is by less is more, keep it simple. Within EOS, we set three to seven rocks. We call them every quarter. Those are just business priorities, not 27, three to seven. Because if everything is important, nothing is important. So you're always asking yourself as a leader, what's the simplest way to say this, communicate this? What's the simplest way to do this? Do we have the simplest possible structure for the organization. Occam's razor says that the simplest solution is invariably the best solution, or the best solution is invariably the simplest solution. So the the complexity thing is real. You have to stay aware of it, and and fight against it by keeping things simple as you go. Michael Hingson  43:42 Yeah, and and the reality is, it goes back to what you were talking about. Certainly, the weekly meetings and other methods that you use to make sure that everyone not only is encouraged to communicate, but they do communicate. And again, it all gets back to that bottom level of the pyramid, which is accountability, and as long as everyone understands and feels the concept of accountability, and that we're all working toward the same thing, you have a much better shot at making it successful and making it work. Speaker 1  44:15 Right, that's right. Within EOS, we have a two-page strategic plan, not 50 pages. It's not this giant document. It's two pages that allow everyone within the organization to see who we are, where we're going, how we plan to get there. It's simple. Michael Hingson  44:36 Yeah. So, for a while, you didn't own your own business, and then you you now own your own business. How is becoming your own entrepreneur and your own your own business owner, boss, or whatever you want to call it? How has that changed? Kind of the advice you give to other people, and and what do you think about being? A business owner, as opposed to working within another organization, Speaker 1  45:05 you know, I I think I I'm spoiled. No, I don't think I could ever be a good employee again. Yeah, I just have a deep appreciation for visionaries, for people who see what's possible and then rally a team around them to help make it become a reality. That's a special. That's a special quality, and the world needs lots of that quality. So I, I, I have gained just a greater appreciation for the entrepreneurial spirit, and I, I think that it's it's now it's not for everybody, and that's okay. But I, I just can connect now more deeply than I ever could with people who are taking that step of faith, being courageous, doing something that's risky and uncomfortable, and just figuring it out as they go. I think that's for me particularly that resonates. I can't now, and I get it. I I understand. There's the majority of people are comfortable with a oops are are comfortable with a salary, a steady amount of income, and the safety that that brings. But I just it doesn't compute for me. I can't do it. It's just not for me what life is about. Michael Hingson  46:26 Yeah, I know. Especially since 2008, I've not only owned my own company, but it's been mainly me and dealing with lining up speaking engagements and so on, and especially since we moved down here in in 26 2014, I'm I'm very used to being my own individual, and and I I hear exactly what you're saying. I can work in an environment where there are other people, and there's there's times that that's that's a good thing, but I know that especially during COVID, people complained a lot about being locked down and they really missed being with other people, and I always had a little bit of a problem with that because I don't I don't look at other people, so that's one thing, but I learned that I could still communicate with people, and so I I didn't fall into some of those traps. I just do find it interesting, but I understand what you're saying. You're used to to to being the person not only in charge, but you're interested in setting the vision, and there's a lot of merit to that. Speaker 1  47:40 Yeah, yeah, and and he it takes all of us. If he had all visionaries and no doers, no you know no executors, then we'd be in a mess. I'm terribly sorry. The it's later here in the evening, and the cleaners are are at the door. Let me just tell them to wait 10. Give me 10 minutes on the office here. I'll be back in just a moment. Okay. Michael Hingson  48:05 So, yeah, I I appreciate the the position, and I can live with it as as well, and I can I can cope. I can work either way, but I I do like kind of really being the person in charge of me, I think it it probably works better. Yeah, that's okay. Speaker 1  48:28 Yep, we're all wired differently. Michael Hingson  48:30 Yeah, we are. So, in in making decisions, data is is a very important thing, and and it's certainly something that we need to keep around. Why do so many people resist and business leaders resist using data in a kind of an honest way? What are they afraid of? Speaker 1  48:51 Well, I think that data is can make things black and white. I think that data can be very telling because we can share opinions and feelings and ideas, but you can't. The numbers are the numbers; they they are what they are, which is why we use this weekly scorecard in that level 10 meeting I was talking about. But Ronald Reagan said, "Trust but verify. So the idea here is that people don't respect what you expect; they respect what you inspect, and the data is an inspection of what actually happened, what's real, what's what's going on on the ground, and that that's uncomfortable. The numbers don't lie most of the time. Now they can be manipulated, and people can tell stories. But if you're set up in the scorecard the right way with the right. Measuring the right things, it gives you a good idea of what's really going on. So I think it's just a natural resistance, a fear of being falling short, a fear of punishment. Ultimately, you know, in some form or fashion, hardship, difficulty, uncomfortability, things like that. Michael Hingson  50:22 But I think the the other thing I show about data, though, is it is kind of hard factual information, as you say. But it doesn't necessarily always bring the human element into to to things that maybe ought to be considered as well. So that the data should only be part of the final decision-making process. Speaker 1  50:45 It's very true. Very true. If you're looking at the numbers, there's always a story behind the numbers. What's the story behind the numbers? And that has to be part of the equation. Michael Hingson  50:55 As a as a speaker, I get a lot of people who say, "Well, we'll consider you fill out this form, and will evaluate you along with everyone else. And the problem is, I've realized that a lot of these forms, you fill them out, and you get a bunch of words on a screen, but doesn't really tell the whole story. And that's unfortunate because I think that too many evaluators are missing out on really understanding speakers when that happens. Speaker 1  51:25 Yeah, I believe that's true. Yes, absolutely. Hearing someone in person can't compare to just words on a page. Michael Hingson  51:36 Well, so yeah, it's just one of those things that one has to deal with when a team experiences a setback. What is it that causes some people to recover quickly while others don't necessarily recover quickly? Speaker 1  51:54 Why don't some people recover more quickly? Michael Hingson  51:59 Or teams, yeah. Speaker 1  52:00 Or teams. I think I don't know that I can separate teams from people. Michael Hingson  52:08 Yeah. Okay. Speaker 1  52:09 You know, and I say that because it has to do with self awareness. It has to do with personal development. I think many of these qualities are inseparable from the performance of the team, because a team is ultimately a group of individuals, and so in that way you've got the team dynamic. But you're you're also going to rely heavily on the character and the qualities of the individuals on the team. And if some people just can't let go, if they can't just raise their eyes or turn their gaze from the past and look forward, then, then they're going to struggle. Now, there are tools. You know, who is it? An autopsy without blame. He called it in good to great. In good to great, he said. This is where. What was his name now? Jim. I forget his name. Who wrote Good to Great, Jim Collins? Michael Hingson  53:04 Collins. He said Speaker 1  53:05 he called it on autopsy without blame, which is a team or person's ability to look back at the past and just understand. Okay, what happened? This isn't this isn't to point fingers. We just need to know what actually went down, so that we can learn from it. Because I tell teams this all the time, the past is only good for one thing-learning from it. And once you learn from it, you got to let go and move on. So the and and it's funny, I say this again every every meeting that I have with them. Actually, we review our data and we look back, we understand what. And then I said at the end of that review, I say, "Okay, that's the past. Nothing else we can do about it. Anything else need to be said before we leave it completely in the past and move forward? And I give them that opportunity to process and to you know make observations, insights, confessions. But after that moment, we got to let it go, and I think that a team has to be committed to be willing to do that for them to be able to to move forward. Michael Hingson  54:09 Yeah. Well, a lot of what you do is I suspect helping leaders, especially shift their mindset in some way. What mindset shift really helps leaders move from reacting to problems to leading intentionally and developing the kinds of of operations that we're talking about here as being successful? Speaker 1  54:35 I think you know you said mindset shift, but this is what I would call a mindset best practice. It's something I call a clarity break. A clarity break is a time scheduled on your calendar. So this is hard landscape. This is a an appointment you make with yourself that you keep, and in a clarity break, you get away from all the noise. You turn all the notifications off. You. On do not disturb mode, and you get a legal pad and a pen, and you simply think it. You think about the biz, think about the business, think about the biggest challenge you're facing, and you just start writing. And it's amazing what kind of solutions, ideas, next actions come to us when we have that clarity of mind. When we have time to get gain perspective, to take a step out of the fray, all of the noise, and just simply think. There's fewer things more valuable than high quality, pure thought, just simple thinking time. So that that is a mindset best practice, I would say, and and I encourage leaders to do it at a minimum of once a week, 3060, 90 minutes. Get a legal pad. Now, there's another book out there called The The Road Less Stupid by Keith Cunningham. That's lessons from the the chairman of the board, and he that book is a book full of questions that leaders should be asking themselves about the business. You could use those as prompts, or just again get quiet and think about the business right now. And I promise you, you'll start writing, and the thoughts will just flow, and you'll write the whole time and come up with such clarity and such perspective that allows you to re reengage, reenter the business with confidence as to what needs to happen, what are our next steps, and that's so important because that confidence is a precious commodity for leaders. You have to protect your confidence, and the confidence comes from clarity, and the clarity comes from taking time away from the business to simply sit and think. Michael Hingson  56:46 One of the things that I think all too often we individually and collectively don't do is to just stop and think about life, think about things, do more internal introspection, and that's kind of what you're talking about. And the reality is, if we would do more of that, and if we would listen to our own mind, we would discover so many things that would help us along the way. My favorite example is Trivial Pursuit, where I ask people regularly when you're playing Trivial Pursuit, and somebody asks, and somebody reads a question from a card. Immediately, you think of an answer, but you went, "Oh, that came too quickly. That can't be it. And so you think again and come up with another answer. But that first answer invariably was the right answer. But that's not what we listen to. We're teaching ourselves not to be so introspective and to sit back or to sit down and think about whatever it is that we need to think about, and as you point out, writing things down. Speaker 1  57:50 Yes, so valuable and and hard to do, frankly, in our age of distraction. Our phone is so distracting, and so so many other options, so many other things that hit the dopamine, get the dopamine flowing, that challenge our our ability to, or our sitting down and making time to do simple thinking time. Michael Hingson  58:16 Yeah. Well, if a leadership team today wanted to have one practical step about how they would work together this quarter. What would you advise? How would you advise them to start? In addition to reaching out Speaker 1  58:34 to you, which I'm Michael Hingson  58:35 all in favor of, but that's another story. Speaker 1  58:38 You know, there is a tool out there that I would point them to. It's called the organizational checkup. It's free. It's online. It's put out by EOS. There's no obligation, no strings attached, or anything like that. But I think that tool. It's a set of 20 questions, and you rate each question on a scale of one to five, five being best. And that tool would really shine the light on where the most pain is being felt across the organization. When the leaders, first of all, just give an honest assessment of those 20 questions, they'll be able to put their finger right on the priority of what they need should should fix first. And I think that would just that exercise alone would get them all on the same page of what problem to tackle first, and I think that would be the very valuable for them. Michael Hingson  59:30 And what is that called again? Speaker 1  59:31 It's called the organizational checkup. If you were to Google EOS organizational checkup, there'll be a link there, and it's just 20 questions. Michael Hingson  59:40 Great. Well, if people want to reach out to you and learn from you, or interact with you, and maybe use your services and so on, how best can they do that? Speaker 1  59:52 Yeah, connect with me on LinkedIn is great. Also, if you just did a search for EOS Will Watrous, my name, it'll come up. I've got lots of content out there. The EOS website has my listing and contact information on there as well. Michael Hingson  1:00:06 And what are what's your LinkedIn name or handle? Will Speaker 1  1:00:10 Watchers. Yep, Wils. Michael Hingson  1:00:16 Okay. Well, I hope people will reach out. This clearly has been instructive in so many ways and lots of great ideas. So I want to thank you for being here and being a part of this. And I want to thank all of you who are paying attention to us today, wherever you're listening and/or watching. If you'd like to reach out to me, and I'd love to hear what you think, please email me at speaker@michaelhingson.com at speaker at m i c h a e l h i n g s o n.com wherever you are with us in the podcast please give us a five star rating but more important give us a review we love reviews and people who are interested in looking at podcasts love to see the reviews that others have thought about podcasts, and so hopefully you'll say nice things about us. But either way, please give us a review. If you know someone who ought to be a guest on our our podcast, Will, including you, please introduce us. We're always looking for people to come and tell their stories. and And with that, again, I want to thank you for being here, Will. This has been absolutely fun. It's been hours gone by without without any any time seeming like it passed. So thank you very much for being here. Speaker 1  1:01:29 Thank you, Mike. What a pleasure to speak with you, and looking forward to your podcast success. Michael Hingson  1:01:37 Thank you for being here with me on Unstoppable Mindset. I hope today's conversation left you with a fresh perspective, a new insight, or at least something worth thinking about. If you're ready to go deeper into the ideas that shape how we see ourselves and others, I have a free gift for you. Head over to michaelhingson.com and download my free ebook, Blinded by Fear. It explores the invisible beliefs that hold us back, and shows you how to reframe them so you can move forward with clarity and confidence. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast, leave a review, and share this show with someone who can use a reminder that growth starts with mindset. When people think differently, we all move forward together. Thanks again for listening. Keep learning, keep questioning, and keep choosing to live with an unstoppable mindset.

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