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In this episode of Inside The Rails, Phil and Simon navigate a complex episode with two guests, trainers Amy Murphy and Lemos De Souza, and the logistical hurdle of being in four locations in two countries. After chatting about their syndicates, shared ownership racedays and the Cheltenham Festival, our hosts are joined by Amy and Lemos who discuss their career transitions and trajectories, their new ventures in France and Newmarket, and their insights on the current state of the racing industry. The hosts also discuss some upcoming events and a new business venture for Simon. 00:00 Introduction and Podcast Challenges 03:32 Syndicate Updates and Upcoming Events 08:06 Cheltenham Festival Highlights 15:35 Interview with Amy Murphy and Lemos De Souza 32:47 Conclusion and Listener Engagement Useful links mentioned in this episode: www.solarioracing.com www.bgracingsyndicates.co.uk www.amymurphyracing.com Contact the hosts: Phil Boyle: phil@bgracingsyndicates.co.uk Simon Double: info@solarioracing.com Follow us on Twitter/X - @InsideTheRails Follow Solario Racing on Twitter/X - @officialsolario Follow BG Racing on Twitter/X - @bgrsyndicates Follow Amy Murphy on Twitter/X - @almracing Follow Lemos De Souza on Twitter/X - @lemosdesouza1
Simon Double and Phil Boyle return for another episode of Inside The Rails, discussing their syndicate runners and a winner for Simon. They dive into a detailed Cheltenham preview, sharing their ante-post selections and insights. Special guest Stephanie Wethered, Clerk Of The Course at Lingfield Park, joins to talk about her career so far and the challenges of her role. The episode also reflects on the tragic death of jockey Michael O'Sullivan and the increasing trend of trainers moving operations to France. 00:00 Introduction and Co-Host Catch-Up 03:09 Tribute to Jockey Michael O'Sullivan 04:33 BG Racing and Solario Racing Updates 06:22 Emerald Downs' Impressive Debut 09:03 Amy Murphy's French Training Venture 12:49 Cheltenham Festival Preview 18:00 Interview with Stephanie Wethered 28:41 Closing Remarks Useful links mentioned in this episode: www.solarioracing.com www.bgracingsyndicates.co.uk www.lingfieldpark.co.uk Video Mentioned In The Episode https://youtu.be/rEj5ld5XKM4 Contact the hosts: Phil Boyle: phil@bgracingsyndicates.co.uk Simon Double: info@solarioracing.com Follow us on Twitter/X - @InsideTheRails Follow Solario Racing on Twitter/X - @officialsolario Follow BG Racing on Twitter/X - @bgrsyndicates Follow Lingfield Park on Twitter/X - @LingfieldPark Follow Stephanie Wethered on Twitter/X - @StephWethered
Nick is joined by Lydia Hislop for today's news and views from the racing world. Guests today include Joseph O'Brien, with news on Banbridge, Solness and more, Timeform's Billy Nash on the DRF Novices, and Fitzdares' Orlando Meyrick on the market impact. Also today, the Tote's Corporate Affairs Director Susannah Gill defends the organisation's playing into its own placepot pools, while trainer Amy Murphy explains her move to France and NTF CEO Paul Johnson outlines the cooperation commitment between the RCA and the Thoroughbred Group.
Nick is joined by Lydia Hislop for today's news and views from the racing world. Guests today include Joseph O'Brien, with news on Banbridge, Solness and more, Timeform's Billy Nash on the DRF Novices, and Fitzdares' Orlando Meyrick on the market impact. Also today, the Tote's Corporate Affairs Director Susannah Gill defends the organisation's playing into its own placepot pools, while trainer Amy Murphy explains her move to France and NTF CEO Paul Johnson outlines the cooperation commitment between the RCA and the Thoroughbred Group.
I love when a Local Business Spotlight just ooozes passion, and this one is at the top of the list. Today, we talk with Amy Murphy, a reformed attorney who opened up Wyrd Bookstore a little more than a year ago! If you are looking for the Barnes & Noble or Amazon experience--look the other way because this is not only a wonderful little independent book store but a home for the community. It's a coffee shop. It's a gift shop. And the entire team is filled with that same passion as Amy. Today, we learned how she jumped from lawyering to bookselling, where the word "wyrd" came from, and how to pronounce it. Most importantly, we learned how one woman and a small team have become part of the fabric of our community, from events to book clubs and more! Have a listen! LINKS: Wyrd Bookstore (Website) Wyrd Bookstore (Facebook) Wyrd Bookstore (Instagram)
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try and get on your way to being your best self. Visit: www.betterhelp.com/skiesOn episode 352 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, we explore a handful of mysterious UFO encounters that had both temporary and lasting effects on animals. And while the cases themselves are both extraordinary and truly bizarre, some of them would leave animals either agitated, excited, scared, or unfortunately; dead.Episode written by Marcus Lowth: www.ufoinsight.comSpecial thanks to voiceover talents:Amy Murphy: www.everythingamy.caAndrew Sanford: www.somewhereinthering.comMiguel Romero: www.absurdbydesign.wordpress.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/somewhereskiesPayPal: Sprague51@hotmail.comWebsite: www.somewhereintheskies.comStore: http://tee.pub/lic/ULZAy7IY12UYouTube Channel: CLICK HEREOrder Ryan's new book: https://a.co/d/4KNQnM4Order Ryan's older book: https://amzn.to/3PmydYCTwitter: @SomewhereSkiesRead Ryan's Articles by CLICKING HEREOpening Theme Song, "Ephemeral Reign" by Per KiilstofteCopyright © 2024. Ryan Sprague. All rights reserved.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/somewhere-in-the-skies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tom in for Nick and joined initially by BHA Head of Communications Robin Mounsey to discuss the launch of British Racing's HorsePWR welfare campaign. Robin tells us of the importance of launching now and why the BHA has chosen to be so transparent and front foot on the subject. Rishi Persad joins to give his views and then gives thoughts on some recent examples of affordability checks which he feels have crossed the line in requesting personal data. He argues it's not too late to tackle gambling issues at the source of the problem as opposed to trying to stop someone placing a bet. We hear from trainer Amy Murphy about her friend and colleague Stefano Cherchi who tragically passed away yesterday and we are joined by Amy Lee who has set up the Graham Lee Racing Club to raise funds for her father's recovery in association with the Good Racing Company. In our Overbury People segment we here from former rider Dominic Elseworth who now runs a course giving those from disadvantaged backgrounds a way in to the sport and co-founder of the Riding A Dream Academy Naomi Lawson is along to tell us about the latest taster days they are running.
Tom in for Nick and joined initially by BHA Head of Communications Robin Mounsey to discuss the launch of British Racing's HorsePWR welfare campaign. Robin tells us of the importance of launching now and why the BHA has chosen to be so transparent and front foot on the subject. Rishi Persad joins to give his views and then gives thoughts on some recent examples of affordability checks which he feels have crossed the line in requesting personal data. He argues it's not too late to tackle gambling issues at the source of the problem as opposed to trying to stop someone placing a bet. We hear from trainer Amy Murphy about her friend and colleague Stefano Cherchi who tragically passed away yesterday and we are joined by Amy Lee who has set up the Graham Lee Racing Club to raise funds for her father's recovery in association with the Good Racing Company. In our Overbury People segment we here from former rider Dominic Elseworth who now runs a course giving those from disadvantaged backgrounds a way in to the sport and co-founder of the Riding A Dream Academy Naomi Lawson is along to tell us about the latest taster days they are running.
Nick is joined by Racing Post senior writer Lee Mottershead to discuss the latest goings on in the world of horseracing. They reflect on the weekend action in the company of rider Tom Cannon, whose victory on Edwardstone was one of the highlights of the big Saturday fixture at Newbury. Also on the show, trainer Amy Murphy talks about her impressive Exeter winner Carole's Place, while bemoaning the BHA's inability to get races published sufficiently in advance for race planning. Richard Hobson outlines plans for Fugitif and Lord du Mesnil, while HK jockey Vincent Ho updates us on his own and Golden Sixty's rehab as both look to return from injury. Plus, America's Best Racing's Isabella Leslie tells of her adventure to ride in the C1 Championship camel race in Dubai, and there's a taster from our latest USA Feature interviews with Jockey Club Chair Stuart Janney.
This week, we're publishing our interviews with two candidates for New Canaan's highest elected office. Today we hear from Democrat Amy Murphy Carroll. We interviewed her as well as Republican Dionna Carlson at New Canaan Library on the morning of October 13th.
Today, Charlotte Greenway is in for Nick and joined by Racing TV's Lydia Hislop to look back on the action from the weekend, starting with Ace Impact's sparkling display in yesterday's Arc. After three stakes winners over the weekend, including Group 1 Middle Park winner Vandeek, Ed Crisford is along to reflect on their performances and Harry Charlton discusses the news that he will be the sole license holder next season as his father Roger is stepping down.Finally, trainer Amy Murphy conveys her disappointment at how the late abandonment of yesterday's fixture at Ffos Las was dealt with.
Today, Charlotte Greenway is in for Nick and joined by Racing TV's Lydia Hislop to look back on the action from the weekend, starting with Ace Impact's sparkling display in yesterday's Arc. After three stakes winners over the weekend, including Group 1 Middle Park winner Vandeek, Ed Crisford is along to reflect on their performances and Harry Charlton discusses the news that he will be the sole license holder next season as his father Roger is stepping down. Finally, trainer Amy Murphy conveys her disappointment at how the late abandonment of yesterday's fixture at Ffos Las was dealt with.
Hi friend! Today we will continue our discussion from last week: What couples need to know about Wills and Estate Planning. Our special guest, Amy Murphy, will enlighten us and tell us more about Wills and Estate Planning as we conclude this series. What is Grant of Probate? When is the best time to make a will? Can I use an online kit for my will and estate planning? These and more will be answered. Alright, let's dive right into the conversation. Listen & get ready to take some notes:) About Amy Murphy: Amy K. Murphy, B.A., L.L.B., Barrister & Solicitor, has over 30 years in the practice of law, and is the owner of Murphy Law in Peace River, Alberta, Canada, with expertise in real estate transactions, wills & estate administration, corporate and business law. Website: https://murphy-law.net Phone: 780-624-2221 Fax: 780-624-2261 Email: info@murphy-law.ca ............................................................................................................. For questions/inquiries/coaching: Email: coach@happymarriedfamily.com The Happy Married Family Online Shop: https://happymarriedfamily.etsy.com/
Hi friend! In this episode, we discuss an important topic for couples. We know that some couples tend to avoid having this conversation but we are here to let you know the importance and why you need to have the conversation and more importantly, to sign these documents. What am I referring to? Wills & Estate Planning. This is Part 1 of a two-part interview with our Special Guest Amy Murphy and we are pleased to have her on the show. Amy K. Murphy, B.A., L.L.B., Barrister & Solicitor, has over 30 years in the practice of law, and is the owner of Murphy Law in Peace River, Alberta, Canada, with expertise in real estate transactions, wills & estate administration, corporate and business law. Website: https://murphy-law.net Phone: 780-624-2221 Fax: 780-624-2261 Email: info@murphy-law.ca ............................................................................................................. For questions/inquiries/coaching: Email: coach@happymarriedfamily.com The Happy Married Family Online Shop: https://happymarriedfamily.etsy.com/
Nick is joined by writer and broadcaster Lydia Hislop to discuss the latest news and developments from around the racing world. Under the microscope today are migration of top horses from the UK, chances to the handicapping system, Sean Quinlan's unseat at Sedgefield, the Dashel Drasher appeal, starts at Cheltenham and in-foal mares banned from racing in France. Among Nick's guests are Dubai participants Ralph Beckett and George Boughey, while Amy Murphy talks to Nick about saddling a first 2yo winner of the season at Saint Cloud, while Jayne McGivern announces the birth of Constitution Hill's little sister.
Nick is joined by writer and broadcaster Lydia Hislop to discuss the latest news and developments from around the racing world. Under the microscope today are migration of top horses from the UK, chances to the handicapping system, Sean Quinlan's unseat at Sedgefield, the Dashel Drasher appeal, starts at Cheltenham and in-foal mares banned from racing in France. Among Nick's guests are Dubai participants Ralph Beckett and George Boughey, while Amy Murphy talks to Nick about saddling a first 2yo winner of the season at Saint Cloud, while Jayne McGivern announces the birth of Constitution Hill's little sister.
Tom in for Nick and joined by RTE and RTV broadcaster Jane Mangan. We discuss the news that Ahoy Señor is set to run in the King George having originally been aiming for the Rowland Meyrick at Wetherby. Sam Twiston-Davies is lined up for some big rides at Kempton and discusses the prospect of winning his 2nd King George. He rides Hitman and possibly I Like To Move for father Nigel in the Christmas Hurdle. With the news of pushback from the PJA on the BHA's proposed new whip rules we ask what this means for the future and whether there could and should be changes made to the proposals. Gordon Elliott has given Tom the lowdown on his Christmas runners and Jane assesses their respective chances. Grade 1 winning chaser Kalashnikov is back after over 18 months off and his trainer Amy Murphy joins us to talk about his reappearance in the Rowland Meyrick. We have our monthly check in with the Godolphin Flying Start team as Annie O'Rourke tells us about her experience and it's Thursday so we've the latest for the Saudi Arabian racing circuit with Martin Kelly.
Tom in for Nick and joined by RTE and RTV broadcaster Jane Mangan. We discuss the news that Ahoy Señor is set to run in the King George having originally been aiming for the Rowland Meyrick at Wetherby. Sam Twiston-Davies is lined up for some big rides at Kempton and discusses the prospect of winning his 2nd King George. He rides Hitman and possibly I Like To Move for father Nigel in the Christmas Hurdle. With the news of pushback from the PJA on the BHA's proposed new whip rules we ask what this means for the future and whether there could and should be changes made to the proposals. Gordon Elliott has given Tom the lowdown on his Christmas runners and Jane assesses their respective chances. Grade 1 winning chaser Kalashnikov is back after over 18 months off and his trainer Amy Murphy joins us to talk about his reappearance in the Rowland Meyrick. We have our monthly check in with the Godolphin Flying Start team as Annie O'Rourke tells us about her experience and it's Thursday so we've the latest for the Saudi Arabian racing circuit with Martin Kelly.
In this episode, I had an in-depth interview to learn how Amy Murphy from www.everythingamy.ca was able to grow her business over the years. From network marketing, publishing a book, audiobook, and course, to acting and even paranormal investigating. During this episode, you'll be inspired and understand that life is a journey and there are many ups and downs. To learn more go to https://www.everythingamy.ca
This morning Tom is in for Nick and joined by Rishi Persad and the Racing Post's, David Jennings, to discuss the announcement that RMG & Racing TV are likely to retain the rights to Irish racing until 2029. Amy Murphy is hoping to send Manhattan Jungle to the Breeders Cup for the Juvenile Sprint however, explains that she is only first reserve at this stage but remains hopeful. Sticking with the US theme, Nick catch up with Tony Lacy who announces that a 2.5% stake will be sold in the World's best racehorse, Flightline, at their November Sale. Then looking ahead to the National Hunt action this weekend, Sam Thomas takes Tom through his likely runners as well as the horses he's most looking forward to this season. And finally, it is of course Wednesday so Jim McGrath has the latest from Hong Kong.
This morning Tom is in for Nick and joined by Rishi Persad and Racing Post's, David Jennings, to discuss the announcement that RMG & Racing TV are likely to retain the rights to Irish racing until 2029. Amy Murphy is hoping to send Manhattan Jungle to the Breeders Cup for the Juvenile Sprint however, she explains that she is only first reserve at this stage but remains hopeful. Sticking with the US theme, Nick catch up with Tony Lacy who announces that a 2.5% stake will be sold in the World's best racehorse, Flightline, at their November Sale. Then looking ahead to the National Hunt action this weekend, Sam Thomas takes Tom through his likely runners as well as the horses he's most looking forward to this season. And finally, it is of course Wednesday so Jim McGrath has the latest from Hong Kong.
The incidence of neurotrauma is relatively high in equestrian sports. Concussions continue to be a major concern and new helmet technologies are being developed to enhance rider safety. In this episode with talk with Amy Murphy, who developed a new method for testing helmet safety at the University of Ottawa. Listen in...Sport Horse Podcast Guests and Links Episode 15:Hosts: Nicole Lakin and Dr. Tim Worden of the Equine High-Performance Sports GroupPodcast Website: Sport Horse PodcastPresenting Sponsor: Equine High Performance Sports GroupGuest: Amy MurphyLink: Comparing Equestrian Helmets with and without Rotational Technology using anEquestrian Concussive Specific Helmet Test ProtocolSupport the show
The incidence of neurotrauma is relatively high in equestrian sports. Concussions continue to be a major concern and new helmet technologies are being developed to enhance rider safety. In this episode with talk with Amy Murphy, who developed a new method for testing helmet safety at the University of Ottawa. Listen in...Sport Horse Podcast Guests and Links Episode 15:Hosts: Nicole Lakin and Dr. Tim Worden of the Equine High-Performance Sports GroupPodcast Website: Sport Horse PodcastPresenting Sponsor: Equine High Performance Sports GroupGuest: Amy MurphyLink: Comparing Equestrian Helmets with and without Rotational Technology using anEquestrian Concussive Specific Helmet Test Protocol
In the second part of our discussion on school safety and de-escalation Amy Muphy, Brian Van Brunt and Scott Lee discuss the public health model for safety and de-escalation, teacher creativity, relationships and get sidetracked a little about films that feature teachers.
School safety and crisis intervention experts Amy Murphy and Brian Van Brunt discuss techniques for classroom crisis de-escalation with host Scott Lee. Amy and Brian recommend a research-based three-pronged approach to preventing or mitigating crisis situations in a classroom setting: clarifying norms for a safe climate, de-escalation, and teamwork.
Nick, in Dubai for the World Cup, is joined by Daily Mirror's Newsboy, David Yates, to canter through the latest news and events from around the racing world. Following on from Willie Mullins's ten victories at Cheltenham, they ask whether he could become the first jumps trainer since Vincent O' Brien over 60 years ago to take the title on both sides of the water. They also discuss the return of Benoit de la Sayette and consider the potential outcome of the Sir Mark Todd hearing today. In Dubai, Nick catches up with trainer William Haggas, who has a serious squad assembled for World Cup Night as well as three fancies for Saturday's Lincoln at Doncaster, while he also talks to Amy Murphy about her satellite stable in Chantilly and ex-trainer Charlie Mann about his humanitarian aid mission to Ukraine in the company of Oisin Murphy.
Nick, in Dubai for the World Cup, is joined by Daily Mirror's Newsboy, David Yates, to canter through the latest news and events from around the racing world. Following on from Willie Mullins's ten victories at Cheltenham, they ask whether he could become the first jumps trainer since Vincent O' Brien over 60 years ago to take the title on both sides of the water. They also discuss the return of Benoit de la Sayette and consider the potential outcome of the Sir Mark Todd hearing today. In Dubai, Nick catches up with trainer William Haggas, who has a serious squad assembled for World Cup Night as well as three fancies for Saturday's Lincoln at Doncaster, while he also talks to Amy Murphy about her satellite stable in Chantilly and ex-trainer Charlie Mann about his humanitarian aid mission to Ukraine in the company of Oisin Murphy.
Amy Murphy from SIMS IVF debunks the myths and misconceptions of fertility. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Erin, a junior at Windham High School in New Hampshire, began her mental health journey at age thirteen when she struggled with self-harm, suicidal thoughts and was exhausted by the feeling of watching herself live her life. Luckily, her homeroom teacher recognized that something wasn't right and, by intervening, got her to speak openly for the first time about her struggles, enter an inpatient care program and begin the journey to healing and better balancing her brain. Today, her goal in advocacy is to show people that you can be strong and still feel really big feelings. She and her cousin Amy Murphy won the people's choice award in the Magnify Voices Expressive Arts Contest for their video “Dear Younger Me,” which aims to show everyone that life is worth living and it does, in fact, get better.Contact Us: Email: amgits.reverse@gmail.comInstagram: @brushcreekthriversFacebook: From Survivor to Thriver
Simon and Phil discuss their highlights from the Grand National meeting and the early classic trials. Leading flat and jumps trainer, Amy Murphy is this month's guest and provides some interesting insights into the running of her Newmarket stable.
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Nick is joined by Lee Mottershead, senior writer on the Racing Post, to discuss the day's news and events from around the world of horseracing, overtaken overnight by claims made in a BBC Panorama documentary concerning the alleged disappearance of the daughter of Sheikh Mohammed, ruler of Dubai and the sport's most prominent and influential owner. In other news, Nick and Lee also discuss yesterday's Grand National weights launch as well as the weekend's racing. Amy Murphy, trainer of Denman Chase hopeful Kalashnikov, is among today's guests, as are Roger Teal and Thady Gosden, who join Nick in Riyadh ahead of the weekend's Saudi Cup, and JA McGrath with his weekly bulletin from Hong Kong. Meanwhile, Cheveley Park Stud MD Chris Richardson offers a touching appreciation of the stallion Pivotal, who retired from active duties yesterday at the age of 28.
Nick is joined by Lee Mottershead, senior writer on the Racing Post, to discuss the day's news and events from around the world of horseracing, overtaken overnight by claims made in a BBC Panorama documentary concerning the alleged disappearance of the daughter of Sheikh Mohammed, ruler of Dubai and the sport's most prominent and influential owner. In other news, Nick and Lee also discuss yesterday's Grand National weights launch as well as the weekend's racing. Amy Murphy, trainer of Denman Chase hopeful Kalashnikov, is among today's guests, as are Roger Teal and Thady Gosden, who join Nick in Riyadh ahead of the weekend's Saudi Cup, and JA McGrath with his weekly bulletin from Hong Kong. Meanwhile, Cheveley Park Stud MD Chris Richardson offers a touching appreciation of the stallion Pivotal, who retired from active duties yesterday at the age of 28.
Christian Haynes ’20 joins us again to speak with Ron Lawson ‘75 about the transformational power of both a Holy Cross education, and the Holy Cross alumni network. Interview originally recorded on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 20, 2020. --- Transcript Ron Lawson: Holy Cross instills in you that notion of perseverance and what I realized when I graduated here... that I already had the suit of armor necessary to succeed in life and that played itself out at Carnegie Mellon because when I graduated from Carnegie Mellon, I knew it was the Holy Cross experience that got me to that point. Maura Sweeney: Welcome to Mission-Driven, where we speak with alumni who are leveraging their Holy Cross education to make a meaningful difference in the world around them. I'm your host, Maura Sweeney from the class of 2007, director of alumni career development at Holy Cross. I'm delighted to welcome you to today's show. Maura Sweeney: In this episode, we hear from Ron Lawson from the great class of 1975. Ron attended Holy Cross in the early '70s, a time that has been celebrated in the book Fraternity by Diane Brady, which chronicles the lives of an influential cohort of African-American students at Holy Cross. After growing up on Long Island, Ron studied political science at Holy Cross. He still considers those years living on Healy Three among the best in his life. Christian Haynes from the class of 2020 speaks with Ron on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January 2020. They talk about how his career progressed from Wall Street to being unemployed and homeless, to today working as the COO for Care for the Homeless in New York City. Throughout these changes one thing has remained constant, his dedication to giving back to the Holy Cross community. They discuss Ron's motivations for helping create the ALANA Mentoring Program and the Bishop Healy Emergency Fund, in order to offer students of color the resources and support that he didn't have. A captivating and motivating speaker, Ron shares stories about the life experiences at Holy Cross that teach you how to persevere through hard times and succeed in life. Christian Haynes: Welcome everybody, my name is Christian Haynes, class of 2020, woo woo, that's this year. That's this year. I have here with me, the great Ron Lawson, class of '75. Ron you could introduce yourself, even though I just did. Ron Lawson: Yeah, I'm Ron Lawson. I would say I'm not great but I would say I'm from the great class of '75. Christian Haynes: I like '75, I don't know why. I always told my mum I wanted to be born that year. Ron Lawson: Oh really? Christian Haynes: I'm a more old-school guy. Young but got the old school. What was so great about '75? Ron Lawson: '75 had the unique distinction of being the last all-male class to enter Holy Cross. So my class was all-male when we entered as freshmen in '71. We all lived on the same dorm. The majority of African-Americans on campus, who were all male at the time, it's probably about 80 or 90 of us and most of us lived on Healy Three. So I love the fact that the class of '75 has that distinction as being the last all-male class before that transition took place. It was challenging, both on the part of the women... I don't know how they did it. I don't know how those early classes endured us because a lot of us weren't as considerate and kind as we realized we should have been in retrospect. Christian Haynes: Right. Now did you guys stay together all four years, in the same dorms? Ron Lawson: Yeah, I lived in Healy Three all four years. Christian Haynes: Really? Ron Lawson: Had a couple of different roommates but there was a core group of us that we used to call the fellas. About five or six of us and we all did everything together, everything from going to Kimball, to eating at Hogan, to going to parties at Welsey and Mount Holyoke and Smith and Simmons and Wheelock and Emmanuel. Christian Haynes: The list goes on. The list goes on. Ron Lawson: Yeah, on and on and on. Christian Haynes: That's interesting that you guys stayed in one dorm, all four years. What dorms weren't there that are here now. Ron Lawson: Figge... Christian Haynes: Yeah that's the newest one. Ron Lawson: ...wasn't here. There's a new dorm that just opened a few years ago, the apartments? Christian Haynes: Oh the Edge Apartments, no that's... Ron Lawson: Yeah, Figge and... Christian Haynes: Williams. Ron Lawson: Williams. Figge and Williams. Christian Haynes: Yeah, well I think Williams is... Ron Lawson: Williams is older than Figge and Figge... neither one of those were open. A little sidebar is, Williams was named after Edward Bennett Williams, who was a prominent attorney, a Holy Cross alumni, also the owner of the Baltimore Orioles and I think he may have owned the Washington Redskins also but he was a very prominent D.C. attorney and one of his mentees was Ted Wells who was in the class of '72, who was in school when I was here and Ted followed Edward Bennett Williams' model for success and Ted, in his own right, is a very prominent corporate attorney, got a joint degree from Harvard Law School and Business School. Christian Haynes: Wow. Yeah, earlier we talked about the connections Holy Cross provides to each student. I was told that freshman year... every year but freshman year I didn't believe it until I saw it... especially when I had my experience with you. I would love to get into that a little bit later but first, tell me about, how was it growing up in... correct me if I'm wrong, Winditch? Ron Lawson: Wyandanch. Christian Haynes: Wyandanch, Long Island. Ron Lawson: Wyandanch was a predominantly African-American community in Suffolk County on the South Shore of Long Island and it's where my parents had the foresight to move us, when I was infant, from the South Bronx because my father felt there was too much violence and he wanted a more safe and secure environment for us so he was able to buy a house. As I tell people, my father would constantly tell the story that he couldn't afford this house and it was $10,000 and he couldn't afford it because, even though he served in World War Two in the Philippines, because of Federal law. African-American veterans were not allowed to apply for a G.I. Bill, which provided low-interest loans to secure housing for veterans of World War Two. So he and my mother used to drive out from the Bronx and take these rides through the countryside on Long Island. He said, one day they drove by this house, which was a model home for where we moved in, he and my mother toured it. The real estate agent told him it was $10,000. He and my mother walked back to the car, he told my mother we can't afford it, she started crying and he sat in the car for five minutes trying to calm her and literally got out the car, walked back in the house and gave the real estate agent $10. Christian Haynes: Wow. Ron Lawson: That's how we secured our first home on Long Island and that's where I grew up. Christian Haynes: Wow. Ron Lawson: A very comfortable, lower middle-class environment. As I was telling some people earlier, I didn't realize that I was poor until I came to Holy Cross because all my needs had always been met. So it was a very interesting, holistic upbringing. I went to a really good public school, North Babylon High School. Some of the folks I graduated with... I went to Holy Cross, the other guys, one of my best friends went to Tufts, one guy went to Naval Academy, one guy went to Air Force Academy, so we were going to very good schools as a result of our North Babylon education. Christian Haynes: That's great. How was that culture shock and how... Ron Lawson: It wasn't for me, which I found interesting and unique. Coming to Holy Cross wasn't a culture shock for me. Coming to Holy Cross was by design, not by default. I had done well on the SATs so I was being recruited or getting letters of interest from a lot of schools including West Point, Indianapolis, Syracuse, Bucknell, College of William and Mary. I got a letter from Holy Cross but whereas all these other schools were sending me form letters, I got a personally typed letter that was signed by Gary Reed, who wound up being two years ahead of me, class of '73, wound up going to Harvard Law School and Gary obviously was part of the BSU committee at the time, that was trying to work to increase the number of African-Americans on campus. So when I got a personal letter from Holy Cross, I said well, I want to go see this place. Ron Lawson: Took the bus to Worcester with another friend of mine because he and I were both considering running track. When I got here and got on campus, I knew that was it. It was everything I had envisioned my college experience was to be. Ivy covered walls, small school sitting on a hill, didn't hurt that it was only 45, 50 minutes from Boston, then another 45, 50 minutes from Western Mass, so I knew I could get to Wellesley within an hour and I could get to Mount Holyoke within an hour, so that was very important to me. Ron Lawson: My high school was a very large high school, 2000 students, 90% white, 10% African-American. So when I got to Holy Cross and Holy Cross was 97% white with 3% African-American, it didn't phase me because that had been my whole upbringing. It was very interesting for guys like Ted and Tony Hill, class of '76 because Ted created a funnel effect for Holy Cross students coming from Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington and they followed him to Holy Cross so at one point in time, there were six or seven students from Calvin Coolidge here at Holy Cross. D.C. was totally different. D.C. was totally segregated. The schools were segregated unless you went to a private school, Calvin Coolidge, some of the other schools in the neighborhood were all African-American, so when they got to Holy Cross, they culture shock of having to deal with a majority environment was challenging to a lot of folks and some of the guys I knew dropped out because they couldn't handle it. Christian Haynes: Yeah, that's a good point, they may dropping out. I think as college students, that happens, it doesn't matter your background or anything like that but what made you stay? Now, you said there wasn't as much as a culture shock but I'm assuming that there had to be some kind of trials and tribulations along the way of... Ron Lawson: Oh, yeah, that's life. You're going to always incur trials and tribulations but I knew, at the time I was here, that I was experiencing the best time of my life. I knew I would have other good times ahead but I knew, while I was at Holy Cross, that I was experiencing four of the best years of my life and so I took it all in, I didn't leave anything on the table. I made sure I took advantage of as many opportunities as possible and it ran the gambit. It ran from going to parties in Boston to sitting, being a member of the political science club and having dinner with Archibald Cox, who was the special prosecutor for Richard M. Nixon, to one night having a campus-wide snowball fight with 26,000 people. Christian Haynes: Wow. Ron Lawson: All night long. Hunkering down behind Wheeler, crawling through the snow with a sack full of snowballs, waiting to get somebody upside the head. So no one could have had a better collegiate experience and you can talk to a lot of the folks that were with us, experienced this during the same time and a lot of them would feel the same way. Christian Haynes: Would you say there was a difference between the other African-American men on campus, since you guys had different backgrounds, did you notice certain differences through just the way you guys went about things? Ron Lawson: No, it was pretty much consistent throughout. Some of the same lingo that I used in North Babylon, that the guys from D.C. used, still played the same games growing up Ringolevio, hot peas and butter, all- Christian Haynes: I never heard of that... You from Brooklyn so... Ron Lawson: But a lot of the influences were exactly the same. Christian Haynes: Yeah, that's good. Ron Lawson: The commonality was such that, when our parents met, it was the same thing, they became friends. So no, I didn't see any difference between me and the other guys that I was going to school with. Christian Haynes: That's good. Now when you hear, you mentioned these names many times today in the short time that we've been together today but when you hear the names Stan Grayson, Eddie Jenkins, Clarence Thomas, those names, Ted Wells, what's the first thing that comes to your mind? Ron Lawson: It varies. First of all, the relationship endures and I take that for granted because it's just constant. Here's a perfect example, the Bishop Healy Committee had a farewell lunch in for Dean Millner yesterday, off-campus. Eddie came and we call ourselves the old heads because when we're around you guys there's a 40 year, 45 year gap so we know we're the old heads. So after I went to the bookstore, I was walking down here and I decided to go into the library, just to look to see how things have changed and as I'm leaving, I see a display case and in the display case is a picture of the Holy Cross football team of 1969 and so I look and I see Eddie Jenkins, take a picture and I send it, said that, on campus, in the library at the bookcase, just saw this picture, who's the young man in the second row, third from the left? So it's always those kinds of continuity of relationships and continuation of relationships. Two young men from my church will be entering Holy Cross in September and Stan and I couldn't be happier because we constantly engaged with making sure they were... applications were in, they were getting everything they needed, they were responding in an appropriate time. So now, I see this as an opportunity to have two more mentees on campus that I can help mentor over the next four years. Christian Haynes: That's great. I love this story but when you're mentioning Fraternity, it's like a slight bit but I know you take full pride into that, right? Ron Lawson: Yeah but as I said and as I told Maura and the other folks early on, I was at the tail-end of that experience, all right? Christian Haynes: Yeah. Ron Lawson: That started with these guys making one of the most bold decisions you could make as a person that young. They had decided that there were injustices on campus that affected black students disproportionately and they couldn't achieve the level of resolution that they wanted so they walked out. Went in the Hogan, had a press conference, tore up their ID cards and walked out. Among them was Art Martin, class of '70, who was the first president of the BSU and I can't even imagine the admiration the admiration these other guys must have had for him because he was a senior and he was already accepted into Georgetown Law School and Stan and Eddie and Clarence and Ted, they all told him, you don't have to go, you're already set, don't worry about it. He said, no, if one person is walking out, we're all walking out. Christian Haynes: RIght. Ron Lawson: So he was willing to sacrifice... they were willing to sacrifice their college education, he was willing to sacrifice an opportunity to matriculate Georgetown Law School. So I don't, in any way shape or form, compare with them or compare with that. Where I fall into play is, most of them except for Clarence and Art were all seniors my freshman year and we were all living on Healy Three and Eddie was a big-time football player, went on to win the Superbowl with the Miami Dolphins, Stan was getting ready to go to the University of Michigan Law School and Ted was getting ready to go to Harvard Business and Law School, four year joint degree. My claim to fame was, I showed up on Healy Three with a color TV and so that was my paragraph in the book and it was bittersweet because, I must admit, I liked the attention I got but then I realized the foolhardiness in that because Ted and Stan would kick me out my room every Sunday so they could watch Sunday football games in color and they'd make me go to the library. So... Christian Haynes: At least you got your work done. Ron Lawson: Well I tried to get my work done but I sat there for two or three hours saying, "man they kicked me out of my room, I can't even watch TV on my own TV", but I was a freshman, they were the upper-classmen so you do what you're told. Christian Haynes: Yeah, can't do nothing about it. Ron Lawson: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Christian Haynes: Yeah but I think there was a trickling effect that they had, especially with your class and the classes after that, I think you guys noticed what they did and wanted to pursue what they did, pursue that. Ron Lawson: Oh, definitely. Definitely. Christian Haynes: Pursue that legacy. Ron Lawson: They set the model that we all tried to become and follow suit. That was a blessing and a curse because over time, you would say to yourself, well, I'm not as successful as Ted, I'm not as successful as Stan, I'm just doing this. It took a while to say, I'm successful in my own right but what was always important was, will they be proud of me, will they be proud of my accomplishments. That was very, very important to me and the guys and the women that followed them. When they hear your name, will they speak about you with pride? Christian Haynes: Yeah. Seemed like there was a strong sense of brotherhood on the campus around that time. Ron Lawson: Oh, definitely. Christian Haynes: Yeah and for your class and the classes after, who were the people that you would go to whenever there was something on your mind or something you had to get off your chest or something happened, whether good or bad? Ron Lawson: It was pretty much Ted and Stan, for me. Even when Ted was in law school and business school, as consumed as he was, his Wife Nina, who was successful in her own right, was at Suffolk University and a lot of times, she would help counsel me because I was thinking of applying to law school. Even after school, when I'd had issues or just needed to bounce something off of someone, it would always be Ted or Stan that I would reach out to. Christian Haynes: Do you have any untold stories of Holy Cross, that you can think of? Ron Lawson: No, not... I have some I can't say publicly. Christian Haynes: Oh yeah, that's fine. Or your favorite story. Ron Lawson: Okay, my favorite story really... there's so many favorite stories. My most favorite story would have to be... I owe so much to Holy Cross. I always tell people like you and like Maura, who I think graduated in '07, that you all were going to be successful no matter what you did or no matter where you chose to go to school but you decided to go to Holy Cross so Holy Cross gets to take credit for your success. That's the reality. But going to Holy Cross... when I was here, my freshman year, my roommate was dating a young woman from New York, who was a few years younger than him, in high school and she and a bunch of her girlfriends came up for the weekend and we had one of the vacant suites in Healy Three and they all stayed there. I was dating one of her girlfriends. Then afterwards, my roommate and her broke up and over the years I would say, I wonder what ever happened to her, she was really cute and she had an odd last name, her last name was Clivert. Ron Lawson: So fast forward from the mid '70s to the early '90s, I'm now CFO for Mayor Dinkins in New York and one night I let the whole finance team go home early and I am processing campaign cheques to deposit in the bank the next day. So I see a cheque and it's got the name Nina Clivert on it. Well I know this has to be her so I start research... I try to find her, I get her number, I call, I leave a message. Couple of weeks later, we go out on a blind date. We go out on a couple of other days and to make a long story short, she's been my wife for the last 25 years. So it's because of Holy Cross I found my wife. Christian Haynes: Wow. You ever tell your roommate about that? Ron Lawson: Yeah, no harm, no foul. He broke up with her 1973, she and I got together in 1992. Christian Haynes: He does play a part in it. Ron Lawson: Yeah but- Christian Haynes: He wasn't invited to the wedding? Ron Lawson: Huh? No he wasn't invited to the wedding. He's all the way out in Seattle. Christian Haynes: That's funny. Now, what was next, after you graduated from Holy Cross? Ron Lawson: I didn't know. I didn't know. I was not at the top of my class, by any stretch of the imagination. I wasn't even in the middle of my class, by any stretch of the imagination. I was real close to the bottom of my class, with no stretching the imagination so I came home and I didn't have a lot of options. I didn't have the GPA to go to law school and so I worked for a year in a job that basically paid me a salary and it was something to do. At that time I decided I was going to apply to business school because two of the guys I graduated with, both went to Cornell and they were in the MBA program. So I applied to Cornell. I applied to a few other schools and I had done well on the GMATs so I got a letter from Carnegie Mellon saying that they had a pre-professional... they had a quantitative summer skills institute that I could enroll in for free and depending upon how I did in this summer skills institute, they would determine whether I could matriculate as a master's candidate and whether or not I would receive any sort of scholarship. Ron Lawson: It was scary because at Holy Cross, I was a political science major and one of the things Holy Cross teaches you is how to think, how to process, how to articulate and how to write. So I knew I could get in front of any audience and I could pontificate and I could speak the King's English and I could do well. I stayed as far away from quantitative courses as I possibly could because I was fearful of them. Well now I'm at CMU and I'm going to a quantitative summer skills institute so I'm confronted with my greatest fear. So the summer I was there, I had to take finite math, calculus, statistics, two computer programming courses, fundamental accounting, intermediate accounting, cost accounting and advanced accounting. I did well enough that I was actually tutoring calculus to undergraduate students by the end of the semester and I was offered a seat in the master's class and got a scholarship. So after one year of working after Holy Cross, I then went and got a master's in public management from Carnegie Mellon. Christian Haynes: You went from being at the bottom of the class to getting that offer of scholarship. Ron Lawson: Yeah and that's what I tell people. When anybody comes in my office... I prominently display all my degrees, my Holy Cross degree, my master's degree from Carnegie Mellon and then the first company that hired me after Carnegie Mellon sent me to a post-graduate program in accounting and finance at the Kellogg School, so I had that certificate on my wall also. I always tell people, it's not about me trying to show off or trying to display any arrogance. I am paying testimony to my parents, to my father who died at 57 and mother who died at 47, who I felt worked themselves into an early grave to make sure I could achieve that level of success, so that's in tribute to them. Ron Lawson: But yeah, that's how life is and what Holy Cross also taught me was, never give up. It was instilled in me, early on because there were a lot of challenges here where I could have... half my class, there were 34 black men in my class and half of them either flunked out or left and that 50% drop-out rate was pretty consistent through the early '70s to mid '70s. So I could have easily said, this is too hard, I'm not doing it, I'm going back to North Babylon and go to community college but Holy Cross instills in you that notion of perseverance. What I realized, when I graduated here, that I already had the suit of armor necessary to succeed in life and that played itself out at Carnegie Mellon because when I graduated from Carnegie Mellon, I knew it was the Holy Cross experience that got me to that point. Ron Lawson: Let me tell you a perfect example. Once again, I'm not at the top of my class, I'm struggling because I'm dealing with all these quantitative courses. We would be sitting in economics and economics class was 200/300 people in the auditorium. Now I'm not used to that. I'm used to 20 people in a class, in the basement of Fenwick or O'Kane because we used to have classrooms down there. I wasn't used to the type of economics because we were used to Samuelson, guns and butter. That was economics, I can understand that. I get to Carnegie Mellon and it's all math, it's all quantitative and it's all math. It's partial and differential equations. The professor is at the front on the video screen and he's doing computations and equations and formulas and he is trying to show us how to solve for lambda. I'm like, "what's lambda?", well nobody really knows but we're going to solve for it. Christian Haynes: Right. Ron Lawson: So I am befuddled, I am bemused, I am dismayed and I am flunking everything. Then one day, Holy Cross, being the institution that it is, teaches you perspective, teaches you how to observe. So I'm sitting in class and he puts an equation on the board and I see somebody raise their hand, "Professor Haynes, Professor Haynes", oh and he goes, so, this is how you solve for lambda, you take that purple bag and you have the black video screen and then you add it to the Holy Cross sign. "Professor Haynes, Professor Haynes", "yes Ron?", "so what you're saying, and this is intuitively speaking, is if I have a purple bag with a black sign and the Holy Cross sign, via the combination of those three elements, I will be able to solve for lambda", "that's right Ron", and I looked and I said, all he did was regurgitate what the professor said, he just said it a different way. From that day on, I was a B plus or an A student because all you had to do was regurgitate but I learned that because I learned that at Holy Cross, the perspective. Ron Lawson: Then I also realized my grades weren't good as the rest of the class so I needed to step up and figure out how I was going to gain an advantage. Well, I looked around and I remember when we were interviewed on campus, everybody put on their little suits and ties. I went out and got a $250 navy blue, Pierre Toussaint [intention: Pierre Cardin] double-breasted suit. Clean as the board of health. I would wear that to every job interview and at the end of my first semester, second year, when all the job offers were being made, I think I had seven job offers, which was more than anyone else in my class. Christian Haynes: Wow. Ron Lawson: So it was all those educational... it wasn't even educational experiences from Holy Cross, it was those life experiences from Holy Cross that helped me succeed. Christian Haynes: Right. Now, shortly after you got the scholarship for the master's program, you found out that your father had passed, right? Ron Lawson: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Christian Haynes: At this point, your mother had passed at the age of 17. Ron Lawson: Yes. Christian Haynes: Earlier you mentioned having the degrees in your office as a testimony to them, at that age, how do you get through that? I don't know if you have any siblings or anything like that but how were you able to get through that and how did your work or your work ethic reflect your parents? Ron Lawson: Well I just did. I can't even tell you how I got through it, I just did. I would love to say I had a tremendous support system but I was a moving target. I'm trying to pursue my career or move forward professionally, the way I know my parents would have wanted me to. When my father passed, I must admit, for a minute, I said, well I'm not... it was a three week break between the end of the summer skills institute at Carnegie Mellon and me entering the fall class and I wasn't going to go back. After my mother's death, my father remarried, my step-mother said, that's what he would have wanted you to do so you can't not go back. He only had $3,000 in life insurance, she gave me $300 and so off I was back to Carnegie Mellon. Ron Lawson: I was struggling academically and broke because I had no financial support. If we're having breakfast and you offered me a bowl of Kellogg's cornflakes now, I'd want to fight you because that's all I could afford to eat for two years. Coming from that experience, I realized well, if you can do this, you can do anything. What my parents instilled in me is no giving up, you don't quit. I saw it with my mother and her battle with breast cancer. I saw my father's angst after she passed and how he basically raised me as a single parent until I went off to Holy Cross. So those object lessons stuck with me and I just had the mindset that there was no challenge I couldn't overcome. Christian Haynes: So after Carnegie Mellon, you ended up in Wall Street or was there...? Ron Lawson: Yeah, spent 15 years in financial services with what is now Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touche, Chase, JPMorgan Chase, Salomon Brothers, I did that for 15 years until I got laid off. That was my great epiphany because... this is what... you may have heard the term, in the past, the go-go '80s, this is during a period of time where everyone's making a ton of money on Wall Street, everyone's living extravagantly, it's all about self, there's nothing about, how do you live your life to benefit others. It's like, how do I get mine? I was caught up, head over heels, in it. Wearing the fine clothing, the expensive clothing, going out to the expensive restaurants, going to the theater two or three times a week. Next thing I know, I have lost my job and in my arrogance I said, well this will only take me a couple or three weeks to get another job because I have a Holy Cross degree, I have a Carnegie Mellon degree and I have a post-graduate certificate from the Kellogg School and I have 15 years of work experience on Wall Street. Didn't happen. Ron Lawson: I realized that, in retrospect, that this was God's way of humbling me because it's very timely that we're having this conversation today on Martin Luther King Day because I was able to come out of losing my job, losing everything I own, being homeless, to in a six month period of time, being the CFO for the Mayor of New York because I had a close network of friends that were very influential and because I met my minister at the time, who was Reverend Doctor Paul Smith and he was a senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights. Paul is the person that introduced Martin Luther King to Andrew Young and Paul is a really good friend of Andrew Young and Paul was a key proponent, a key participant in the Civil Rights Movement, he was part of the group that got beaten crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Paul was the one that would call me over... because I lived about two or three miles from the church and I'd walk over because I couldn't afford to take the subway or a cab and we'd sit, we'd talk, we'd pray and he's constantly telling me, hard times don't last always. Tough times don't last, tough people do. Ron Lawson: So that's what got me out of that but once again, it was the Holy... one of the things Holy Cross also teaches you is, you are fortified to accomplish anything and as such, when somebody offers an opportunity to you that you might not necessarily be comfortable with or think you have the background for, you jump at it because you know you'll figure it out and that's what happened to me. My best friend at the time had run both of Harold Washington's mayoral campaigns and was in New York, he was the vice chair of an investment banking firm and Mayor Dinkins asked him to be the treasurer, campaign treasurer for his re-election campaign. Ken and I had dinner one night and Ken asked me if I would serve as the CFO because as Ken... and he was a real funny guy, as Ken put it, he said, "you know in New York state law, a political campaign treasurer can go to prison if there's misappropriations of funds of malfeasance", and he said, "so I need you to set up the financial infrastructure so you can watch my back because I am too pretty to go to prison". So that's how I got there. So I wound up managing an $11,000,000 political campaign, had about 15 staff members. Christian Haynes: So I think that definitely had an effect on what you do now and being the... Ron Lawson: That did, yeah. Christian Haynes: Yeah. Being the COO of Care for the Homeless, which I was a part of for one summer, as an intern. Not only that, I'm thinking about it right now, you taught me a lot but the biggest thing that I took away from you during that summer was the way you treated other homeless people. A lot of people, especially in New York City, homeless people get treated as if they're not a human being, nothing, just on the street but the way you would interact with them, and it's not just giving them money or giving them food, you would actually interact with them and I remember me, you and Nikai was coming from dinner one time and you told us just to go to the office and I just felt like you were going to a business meeting. You made it seem like you were going to a business meeting. Christian Haynes: Then I saw you going... I don't know the guy's name but it was in the corner of the same block that the office is on and you was talking to him, you was talking to him for a good minute and that right there just showed me the type of person you were and I guess it showed me a little bit what you learned yourself when you was homeless yourself for those six months and it was just like... and I'm glad. I'm really glad I had that opportunity and it just opened my eyes to a lot of things. I'm pretty sure that's one of the messages you try to tell people, in a way. Ron Lawson: Yeah. Holy Cross espouses and the model/mantra is, "men and women for others". So I don't want to have this journey and not be of service to others. It's not just selfishness in the sense of, well people helped me and I want to help other people, it's that it's what we're supposed to do. It's how, I think, an individual is supposed to live their life. The road to success is a journey, not a destination. In my view, you are never completely successful until you're put to rest and somebody is eulogizing you and says the world was a better place because you were here, because you lived in it. I take the work I do at Care for the Homeless differently in the sense that I am selfish because those 15 years on Wall Street, I always felt good about making a lot of money but I never felt good about what I was doing for someone else because I didn't care. So having to be humbled was God's way of telling me, you need to start focusing on other folks and not yourself. Ron Lawson: So I have the best experience in the world, I'm helping the folks who are least among us to get back on their feet, to find meaning in their own lives and because I go to work every day, I can honestly say, when I go home and I lay my head on the pillow at night, somebody somewhere is a little better off because I went to work today and I like the way that makes me feel. Christian Haynes: That's great. I remember you telling me that. You think if you didn't have that humbling experience, you would have went from business to non-profit, as you did? Ron Lawson: I don't know. I think I would have gotten to a point where I would have gotten tired of Wall Street and looked for other opportunities but I don't know when and where that would have come. So I think God just accelerated it for me. Christian Haynes: Has it always been instilled in you to give back or to want to give back? Ron Lawson: It has but not as prominent as it became once I started working for the mayor because that was a turning point for me because now I was working for the mayor of New York and no matter what your political persuasions... he was running against Rudy Giuliani and we literally saw it as good guy versus the bad guy, that's how we saw it. It was the very first time that I worked for a purpose and not just a paycheck. My wife will tell you, the night the mayor lost, we were engaged and we were living together at the time, we went to her house after the campaign because we were in the mayor's suite at the Sheraton and we couldn't stay any longer because we could tell he was losing so we went home and I started looking at the returns on the TV and after about three or four minutes I started crying and I couldn't stop crying. Then the TV went black. Never happened before that, never happened after that. So I think it was a sign where I just didn't have the emotional capacity to deal with him losing. So that's some of what I feel at Care for the Homeless, this is not just collecting a salary, there's a purpose behind the paycheck. It's a gratifying experience. Christian Haynes: Yeah. You've done a lot of great things, in my eyes, as an alumnus of the school. One of the things you helped do is created the ALANA Mentor Program. I've benefited form that. I've met a couple of alumnus who I still keep in touch with today, we're great... I actually just had a conversation with one of them. What made you want to create that? Ron Lawson: I want y'all to have what I never had, on a variety of levels. The ALANA Mentoring Program, that's why I was also key in starting the Bishop Healy Emergency Fund because a lot of times we don't have the resources that other folks on campus have and a lot of times the resources we need aren't huge. There's some kids that can't take the GMATs or can't take the LSATs or can't take the MCATs because they can't pay the application fee. Christian Haynes: Right. Ron Lawson: So the ALANA... the Bishop Healy Emergency Fund can do that. Can't get home for a winter break, come from the south and don't have a winter coat. The mentoring program, as I told you, who did I counsel with? Ted and Stan. Ted and Stan. The mentoring program, I thought, was an opportunity to connect more students of color on campus with alumni of color who were in the same fields that the students may have an interest in. I just thought it was a necessary addition to a student's collegiate experience here at Holy Cross. Christian Haynes: You know how it's set up? Ron Lawson: How it's set up? Christian Haynes: Yeah, how people are matched with the alumni. Ron Lawson: Well I know how I started it and... I called Amy Murphy in career development and she told me she thought it was a good idea and she said okay, here are some student's names that said they're interested and here's the list of alumni. I literally sat in my living room for two or three days, looking at alumni careers and their careers and then the students and what their interests were and started matching them. So now, I don't know how it's evolved, I know it has on some level. Christian Haynes: Yeah, similar it's just I thought it was interesting that the names aren't on the list, it's just the occupation and where they're located and the year that they graduated. So for us students it's like, we don't know who's who, we just know a little bit about them and you know the things that they've done on campus, whether that's sports or BSU or anything like that. So I thought that was pretty interesting. Ron Lawson: Yeah, it is. Christian Haynes: The Bishop Healy Fund too, a lot of people have benefited over that. I know somebody who just came home from an immersion trip and told me that it was a life changing trip and it was because of the Bishop Healy Fund so we want to thank you... I think I speak for everybody when we say, we want to thank you and those who have helped you create the Bishop Healy Fund and the ALANA Mentoring Program. Ron Lawson: So I appreciate the thanks but I'll tell you, like I was told by my friends that helped me out of that tough period of time, when you start moving forward in your career, make sure you reach back and make sure you do it for someone else. Christian Haynes: Yeah. Yeah I honestly think that was... the ALANA Mentoring Program, that was the thing that made me want to give back. I haven't graduated yet but I've told myself that, when I get to where I want to be, I want to give back. Ron Lawson: I would challenge you on that and say, don't wait until you get to where you want to be. Start now because you being out of school a year or two, you're going to be far more relatable to a sophomore or junior on campus than I am, 45 years out. So don't think you don't have anything to offer just because you haven't achieved what successes based upon what you define it to be. And, stay connected. I know you and Maura are going to say, oh here he goes again, because I know I'm preaching to the converted but I always like to state, that if you are a graduate of The College of the Holy Cross and you don't take advantage of the alumni network, you have discounted your degree by 25%. Christian Haynes: Yeah I definitely hear that and I will do as you say. Ron Lawson: How did you get your job last summer? Christian Haynes: Last summer or the summer before? Ron Lawson: Last summer. Christian Haynes: Last summer? Same story as the other one anyways. Ron Lawson: No, who'd you work for? Christian Haynes: Huh? Ron Lawson: Who'd you work for? Christian Haynes: Schone Malliet Ron Lawson: And what is he? Christian Haynes: He is an alumnus. Ron Lawson: From what class? '74. Christian Haynes: I thought '76? Ron Lawson: '74. Christian Haynes: Yeah. Ron Lawson: The point I'm making is, your last two summer jobs came because you reached out to the Holy Cross alumni. Christian Haynes: Right. Actually, everybody that I've spoke to to get those two jobs were alumnus or alumni. Ron Lawson: See? Christian Haynes: Interesting. But yeah, like I said before, I didn't know the strength of... the power of the purple. Ron Lawson: Yep. There's nothing like it. Christian Haynes: Yeah until when I needed to start connecting with people because I needed a job for the summer or anything like that. Yeah, what would you say is your mission statement, if you were to have one? If you don't have one, now's your time to create one. Ron Lawson: Personal mission statement? Christian Haynes: However you want to take it. Ron Lawson: To share as much as I can with as many people as I can. I take umbrage and I take it personally whenever I speak to a Holy Cross alumnus who tells me they didn't have the same experience I had. It bothers me when somebody walks away from this hill and says it wasn't four of the best years of their life. I know it can't be the case 100% of the time but I would hope it's the overriding case 98% of the time and those occurrences are few and far between. So I feel it's incumbent upon me to do everything I can to give back to the students who are on campus now so they can walk away saying it was four of the best years of their life. So whereas you have other alum who have interests to serve on the board or serve on the alumni association board, which I have done, I really get excited about connecting personally with students on campus, while they're on campus. Christian Haynes: How would you say the Holy Cross mission statement has effected your work? Ron Lawson: It makes it easy for me to say I come from an institution like this because this institution's motto is, "men and women for others", and that is what this school is known for and how the students live their lives on campus. So it's very interesting and another example of how deep the network runs is, Yankelly Villa, who you may know, was one of the presidential scholars last year. She posted on LinkedIn that she was coming to New York to get a master's degree at the new school and she needed a job, I saw it, she is now my operations assistant. Harry Thomas, class of '78, former ambassador to Bangladesh, Philippines, Zimbabwe, sits on the board of trustees, I asked him to serve on our board, he's on our board, he chairs our benefit committee and as a result of the people he knows, we now have a relationship with Ben Vereen, who's a two time Tony Award winner who is now going to headline a huge gala for us to celebrate our 35th anniversary in the fall. It is so bad that my boss, George Nashak who's a Columbia graduate, calls Care for the Homeless, Holy Cross South. Christian Haynes: In fairness, that's a good thing. Ron Lawson: Yeah, it's a very good thing for us. Christian Haynes: Yeah. All right so, we're going to do a little speed round. Ron Lawson: Okay. Christian Haynes: Just ask you questions and you can answer as fast you can. So if you was to change two things about Holy Cross, what would they be? Ron Lawson: Number of African-American students on campus. Christian Haynes: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Ron Lawson: And... figuring out how to keep it from snowing so much here during the winter. Christian Haynes: Impossible. Ron Lawson: Yeah. Christian Haynes: One year, it didn't snow as much. I didn't like it because you know we still have classes when it snows. Ron Lawson: That's another thing. You don't understand, y'all be shutting down and closing school when it snows, that is like an oxymoron to me. Holy Cross is closed because it's snowed. It didn't close the four years I was here. Christian Haynes: You'd be surprised how dangerous it gets. Ron Lawson: Oh, please. Christian Haynes: There's a lot of black ice... Ron Lawson: I must admit, when my father brought me up, he brought me up, dropped me off and then he came back later in the fall, towards the end of the fall for a football game and he saw the maintenance crew putting up the long, red, metal poles with the diamonds on top on the fire hydrants and he said, "what is that for", I said, "Dad, I don't know", and like six weeks later I called him, I said, "Daddy, you know why they put those things on the fire hydrants?", he said, "no", I said, "because the snow's so deep, they can't find them, that's the only way they can find them". So... I know the first one's far more realistic than the second. Christian Haynes: Yeah. Best place to eat in Worcester, back in the day? Ron Lawson: There was none. Christian Haynes: Really? Nothing? Ron Lawson: No. Christian Haynes: Not Miss Woo's? Ron Lawson: McDonald's. That's pretty much it. Christian Haynes: Wait, Miss Woo's is there. Miss Worcester's Diner. Ron Lawson: I didn't do that. I am not going to eat any place... under a place that is called Pigeon Bridge. Where Miss Woo is, that bridge, they used to call it Pigeon Bridge. Christian Haynes: Oh, did not know that. Ron Lawson: Yeah. Christian Haynes: Makes a lot of sense. Ron Lawson: There you go. Christian Haynes: All right, best place to eat in Worcester now? Ron Lawson: Oh, Sole Proprietor. Christian Haynes: Actually been there, it's pretty good. Ron Lawson: Yeah. Christian Haynes: Would you rather life as a student or life as an alum? Ron Lawson: Life as an alum. Christian Haynes: Ideal vacation spot? Ron Lawson: South Africa. Christian Haynes: Why? Ron Lawson: Because I haven't been. Christian Haynes: Okay. I was going to ask your favorite dorm but you said you spent all four years at Healy. Ron Lawson: Yeah. Christian Haynes: Favorite year? Ron Lawson: Every year. Christian Haynes: No, favorite year. What was that? Ron Lawson: Favorite year? Christian Haynes: Yeah. Ron Lawson: '75. Christian Haynes: Okay. If you were to win the lottery, what is the next thing you're doing? Ron Lawson: How much? Christian Haynes: I don't know, 100 mil. Ron Lawson: 100 mil? Christian Haynes: Yeah. Ron Lawson: Make sure my families and friends are secured. Christian Haynes: I'm one of those friends. Ron Lawson: I'd think about it. Sit down with the school to see what their needs are. Have a conversation with Father Boroughs and Tracy Barlok and make a sensible contribution to the college that's going to help move it forward and move the mission forward and set up a need-blind scholarship program for students coming to campus. Christian Haynes: Favorite song or best song that reflected your time at Holy Cross? Ron Lawson: Theme from Shaft. Christian Haynes: Theme from what? Ron Lawson: Theme from Shaft. Isaac Hayes. That's all that was playing when I got here. Christian Haynes: A book you've read that has changed your perspective on life. Ron Lawson: Fraternity. Christian Haynes: Okay. If given the money needed, what would be the first thing you'd invent? Ron Lawson: A quicker mode of transportation from my house to work in the morning. Christian Haynes: You're on a road trip, who's in the car and what are you guys listening to? Ron Lawson: Nina, my wife, is in the car and we're listening to Stevie Wonder's Inner Visions/Fulfillingness' First Finale and Songs in the Key of Life, in sequence. Christian Haynes: Well, that's all I got. Ron Lawson: All right. Christian Haynes: Always a pleasure. I appreciate you coming down here and taking the time to do this, it was very exciting for me. I hope you had a good time. Ron Lawson: I enjoyed myself and I appreciate you asking. Christian Haynes: Yeah, no doubt. Maura Sweeney: That's our show, I hope you enjoyed hearing about just one of the many ways that Holy Cross alumni have been inspired by the mission to be men and women for, and with, others. 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KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:I heard you on Shailene's podcast and you had such a great definition because I do have some entrepreneurs that are still like eh, network marketing. So when someone says why network marketing? What do you say about that? (04:12)You know, there's a lot of training out there that is made by the influencer, but not made in a way that understands that only influencers would actually benefit from it. (06:55)The reason that McDonald's worked so well is that the system was designed with the person with the lowest level of skills in mind. (13:17)Spam is assuming the position of your prospect without evidence. (17:58)Psycho-Cybernetics is basically a book of a whole bunch of stories of failures and how long they took so that you feel better, and you're like, maybe I'm not so bad. (26:53)LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• No Boss Talk: https://nobosstalk.com• Ray Higdon’s Website: https://higdongroup.com• The Top Summit:https://www.thetopsummit.com• The Camp Elevate Facebook Group: here• Beth’s Instagram: @bethholdengraves• Beth’s Website: https://www.bethholdengraves.com• Profit HER Way Course: https://www.bethholdengraves.com/profitWHEN DOES IT AIR…December 02, 2019EPISODE TRANSCRIPT...BethWelcome to 'You're Not the Boss of Me'. If you are determined to break glass ceilings and build it your way, this show is for you. I'm your host Beth Graves and I am obsessed with helping you to not just dream it, but make the plan, connect the dots and create what you crave. Are you ready? Let's get started.Hey there bosses, welcome back and today I get to interview Ray Higdon. I know most of you that are in our audience industry inside of network marketing, know him as a bestselling author, an in-demand speaker and a top social media influencer. I first was introduced to Ray when I caught him on a Facebook live, and you'll hear his consistency over his lives over time, and how he has built his coaching business inside of the network marketing industry. He has been on stages with Tony Robbins, Rachel Hollis, Les Brown, Brendon Burchard, Robert Kiyosaki, Bob Proctor, Gary Vaynerchuk, Grant Cardone, Magic Johnson and many more. I am excited to be sharing the stage at the same event with him at the Top Summit, which is coming in Naples in the first week of February. It is an event that you do not want to miss. So down below in the show notes you can grab tickets. They are $97 and you are going to hear from, you've already heard me interview Rob Sperry. We also have Frazier bricks on that stage and so many more speakers including Ray Higdon. So, enjoy today's episode. I'm excited because you are going to walk away with some very, very tangible ways that you can consistently show up and build your network marketing business. So, let's get this episode started with Ray Higdon. Before we get started and head on over to the episode, I would love to share with you when have our five-star ratings, and a review from my friend Bree loves fasting. So, thank you Bree for the love and for taking the time to write this review. We are going to reach out to you to send you a Boss hat because I happened to know who you are in social media and this is what Bree says about the podcast. She says, “Wow, I am so glad that I found this podcast at this point in my life. Timing is everything. If you haven't hit 40 still listen, your life is a reflection of your choices in programming. What do you want in life? This is a great resource to help you figure that way out. Thank you for your energy, Beth. I can't wait to see how your journey unfolds”. And thank you right back, Bree, because you are an amazing and extraordinary human. So, without further ado, let's get started with the episode with Ray Higdon.I'm so excited today because my vision was created along the way from silently stocking watching people had gone before me that had shown me that this was the industry where I could create a life that I wanted to live every single day, making money, residual income, staying in action, working online and offline. And I found Ray Higdon, who's here today. You guys heard the introduction earlier and I've a network marketing audience. Ray, they know you. You're a legend. So, here's the deal. Ray has always been a message to me about consistency of connection. All right. So, one of my favorite books that I share with my team all the time is your social media book, Your Freakishly Effective Social Media. I'm over in Rank Makers and because of you, one of the most effective things we've done, I've got a team of about, Oh 12,000 now, is we started celebrating activity, not celebrating the rank and the stage and the blobity blob. So, talk to me a little bit about what point… well first of all, I want to just ask you that question. I heard you on Shailene's podcast and you had such a great definition because I do have some entrepreneurs that are still like eh, network marketing. So, when someone says why network marketing, what do you say about that?RayYeah, I mean for me, our definition is it's the lowest risk, lowest overhead way for the average ordinary person to start a business. And I think, I can say that because you know, I have had multiple businesses. I've had a real estate investment company; I bought a franchise and advertising franchise. And so, I know, and I have a lot of different kind of business owner friends as well and so I know what their P and L look like. I know what kind of risks they have. I know what kind of risks I've had in the past in other businesses and what risks I currently have our overhead for our team, and you know, our advertising and everything. I mean we're hundreds of thousands of dollars every single month. You just don't have that kind of risk and costs that you have to be subjected to in network marketing like you do in other businesses.BethSo, when you think of network marketing, and my story is I started in the industry at the age of 47, never building online, with a couple hundred Facebook friends. And I had this idea of social sharing that was just, I have got to talk to every single person that I know I can solve their problem. And so, I didn't have any crazy strategy. I didn't have an algorithm. I just knew that if I told stories that people would relate to that, but I had to go offline. Behind the scenes. And many people will say, well how did you have fast growth? And it occurred to me as I was, I journaled about you this morning because I journal gratitude and what you've given me personally, someone offer free, offer free. I received flowers on my birthday because I'm in one of your communities. So, talk about like that is, that's a huge piece, but can you talk about the difference? So many people as we were getting on, we talked about the pitch being, never talk to your family and friends again. Why wouldn't I talk to my neighbor about a solution for her having to work every day and not pick her kids up at the bus stop if that's her choice. Like that to me, there's such a disconnect right now from Bellevue. Someone that says have conversations in the coffee shop with the old way that we used to have the meeting inside of the RV. You know, I was a part of one of those with my parents. So, talk to me about where you see the marriage of the connection, the conversations with your everyday friends to this big online brand that people are building around. Never prospect again.RayYou know, there's a lot of training out there that is made by the influencer but not made in a way that understands that only influencers would actually benefit from it. It's positioned as a way that like, so, okay, what's the pain of the marketplace, which is a smart business thought, right? What's the pain in the marketplace? Oh, they don't like to prospect or do work. Okay, well I'll just say you don't have to. And so like at the end of the day there has to be a fulfillment of that and there has to be a, you know, you can't just say this, you know, this is a lettuce chopping knife and it's actually a block of wood, right? It's just like, this doesn't work at all. And so, you know, the listening to the marketplace of what they don't like is a good idea. You have the option if you're a trainer to say, okay, let me try to help solve that idea by helping them, making them think differently about it, or let me just appease them into something that's still not going to work for them and they're just going to be frustrated still. And so, I think, I don't know if it's increased. I mean I feel like it's been, you know, I've seen this kind of messaging, you know, for the last 10 years to be honest. But I don't know if it's increased or not, but it's just a non-realization that I can, like I'm an influencer and I can do certain things that will work for me and however the person, because we create all of our training with team no influence on in mind. So, I think about the person who friends and family aren't supportive of. Maybe they burned them out through bad pitches or whatever, but people that don't have a huge following that aren't getting many views on their videos. So, I know that if I can teach something that helps them, influencers could adapt if they wanted to. And use it or they're an influencer, they can use whatever, whatever it is that they like to do because you can kind of bend the rules. Becoming an influencer does allow you to bend some rules, but the one rule I wish they wouldn't bend is recognizing where people are because there's a vast amount of ignorance around that of what I do works. So, let me teach what I do. But for the majority of people it won't work well.BethAnd I think that speaks to me because I felt innovative in many ways of how I was having connections. I knew in my age range when I started that I had a large group of people that had gone through the retirement that we're viewing their next second act, or maybe it's the last act into their 50s and then I had a group that thought that that master's degree, that PhD was going to have that pension and all of a sudden we needed another way. And so, I had to become an educator about residual income. I gave many of your videos to people to watch about explaining what network marketing is all about. In fact, I sent your Shaylene interview to a friend of mine that has, I mean 40,000 PhDs and is still making $32,000 a year. And I said, listen to why I believe so much in this industry. So had someone said, no, you have to just post transformation pictures that wouldn't have worked. So, it's innovation along with right, those connections and those conversations. One of my favorite things about you though is that it's just not like throw a bunch of copy and paste, share the link into the inbox and see what happens. There's this system that you use, a sequence that we've all followed if you're over in Rank Makers, so talk about when someone's like, okay, right, I'm in. I'm going to commit a daily agreement to myself. I'm having seven conversations a day. I know when I was trying to get to the top of the company, hit certain goals, I was willing to do the work of a hundred a day, a hundred. I was 101 because, but for every day the agreement has always been, if I have three conversations a day, I'm moving forward. So how would those conversations, we've got a lot of people that are like, I want to do what Ray did in his network marketing space. How does that flow of conversation look? So, it's just not send the video, send the link, send this and you know, just spray and pray.Ray Yeah. So, for those of us old enough to remember, you know we used to open our mail over the trashcan, right? Because you got too much junk mail and I'll be honest, I'm back to that point now because I don't know, we order a lot of crap online. So, I mean we get like 15 of these catalogs every day. I'm like, oh my God, how many times is, you know, hamburger and Schleimer are going to hit me with some, there's so many of them. Anyway. That's how people view their inbox now when there's a link in there and, and so when, when I observe my inbox, so if I open my inbox and I don't know you and there's a Link in there, part of me is relieved because I don't have to read it now. It's like my junk mail. I'm just like tossing. I'm like, Oh, cool. Like just toss, toss, toss. If there's no link there, I'm like, Aw man, I've got to read it. Okay. All right. What are they saying here? And so, like it's no longer like, Oh, you know, I got AOL, I got mail. All right. Not like a great feeling or something. It's like, okay, what do I got here? What's going on? And so, we specifically talk a lot about cold market people that you do not know because there's always going to be more of them than you do. And if I equip you to talk to cold market strangers, people that you don't know, then you can go into any marketplace. You can go into any country; you can teach anybody. If I always assume that you have a hot market of people that's willing to pick you up at 2:00 AM of restraint on the, you know, on the street, then that applies to some, but not all. There are some people that if you said, Hey, who would you call if you were stranded on the street at 2:00 AM? Like they don't know. Because they may not have those kinds of close relationships for whatever reason. And you know, we're not going to be a therapist and solve them in one day. We don't know why, but that's the truth. And the truth is there are people, the internet with marketing because it's very low barrier entry, very low risk, very low overhead that may not have the greatest social situations. And so, what about them? And so, like we cater our stuff to help that person. But by doing that, and this is actually covered in the E myth by Michael Gerber, he says, you know, the reason that McDonald's worked so well is that that system was designed with the person with the lowest level of skills in mind. You do not have to be MIT graduate to run the fryer to make, to even manage the store. Because that's all, that's all a system, a rating system. There are systems for every single thing in that operation. That's why it's so successful. That's why it's very rare to even find out McDonald's that has closed down. However, you see this all over the place in other kinds of businesses because it was designed for the Rockstar and in mind, it was designed for the influencer and which is certainly a major advantage, but a very small percentage of people. So, when you reach out to people on social media that you do not know, it is different than a cocktail party. And so, you, we have such treasures like how to win friends and influence people, you know, things from Dale Carnegie, things from, you know, there's all kinds of them, right? And they were crafted in a time and place where you were only meeting people face to face. If you're at a cocktail party and you say, Hey, what is it that you do? That's fairly normal, right? You're there. They're fairly normal. You message someone across the pond or across the state or across the street that you don't know. It was beautiful. It's a little weird like why aren't we, why are you messaging me? And so, what we have just been bold enough to tell the truth about is when you message someone you don't know, they're thinking three things. Do I know you? What do you want and why me? Those are the three things. So, if you follow, and what some trainers have done very leisurely is they've just taken what is taught and how to win friends and influence people and just say that you just got to build the poor babies. You know, just go build rapport. And for most people that is like go build a small block engine, go solve a Rubik's cube. You know, it's very difficult. Build rapport with people you don't know on social media can be very difficult for people and for most not influencers, but for most. And so, we suggest that you actually give them what they want, and you get to the point sooner. Now, that doesn't mean hit him with a link because that's too soon. All right, slow down. But what we would suggest is if you're leading with, and there's obviously a million products, but if you're leading with opportunity, it might look like this. How do I solve those three questions that they have as quickly as possible and see if there's an openness to move to the next step? And so, what that might look like is I might reach out to someone and say, Hey, I know we don't know each other straightforward, just saying it's on your mind.You're wondering, do I know this person? I've, I met them before. I know we don't know each other. I see that you're in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm looking to expand my business into Atlanta. Would you be open to taking a look at what we're doing to make extra money on social media? And if not, no big deal. Now if you send that message to a network marketer, regardless of their level of success, they're going to be like, dude, you're supposed to build, or pour spam in me, and ask yourself what exactly is spam and what exactly about that message offends them, right? What offends you there is that that would you, are you open to taking a look, and it's okay if you're not. Is that the offensive part or is it that we don't know each other that you were straight forward or is it that you're just in Atlanta?BethRight.RayAnd so there's nothing about that message to a, not a network marketer, that is offensive. And I've had from training this for quite a while. I've had one guy, he said, Oh, I've had people offended that weren't marketers. I'm like, okay, send me a screenshot. I'd love to see this. I want to see the everyday ordinary person that got this message and was mad. I'd love to see it. He couldn't produce it. And so, I've yet to actually see someone. Now if you sent it to a network marketer, they'll get all high up on their horse. Because here in network marketing, we support cannibalism. We like to eat. You like to make fun of, you know, I'm in a power position and this little network marketer is trying to prospect me and I'm big time. So let me, let me do a screenshot and make fun of him. And, and so it's, it's really strange to, do that sort of thing, to hate on someone who's trying. And again, if you use your brain not what you've been taught and you analyze that message, what is offensive about it? Again, is it that, are you open to taking a look? Or if you're not, it's okay. Like, which, which part of that? And so, spam. And I had to actually create this definition, you know, based on our observation of this phenomenon, when people hear this and they think, Ooh, that's too soon. I'd rather build rapport six months and then finally get to the point which nobody likes. Everyone hates that. And, and so spam is Assuming the Position of Your Prospect Without Evidence.BethOh, can you repeat that please?RaySo, spam is Assuming the Position of Your Prospect Without Evidence. So, if the guy walks up to the girl at the hotel bar and says, I got a room upstairs. Well, I'm not saying it'll never work, but you're kind of assuming some things it would be better if you said, Hey, are you here with anyone? Can I buy you a drink? And if not, it's okay. Right? Like that would be a more mathematically possible situation. And, so we're not assuming, we're not assuming anything. I'm saying, Hey, are you open to taking a look? And if not, no big deal. And so, it's just, and one is that duplicatable? Well, I mean, we've had entire teams completely transformed their organization by just saying, you know what? We're just going to do that. That seems a lot easier than a beautiful family you have on how long have you lived there? Right? Like all of those build rapport things that you would do offline, which makes sense. But online to a stranger kind of creates a weirdness. They're like, okay buddy, what is it that you want to get to the point. And so, a lot of people can duplicate that, they may not be able to duplicate building rapport. And it's something that is fast.BethIt's a lot faster to just ask the question and I'm not hell bent on getting it. Yes, I'm hell bent on asking them if they're open. Well, and when I look at, when I personally started building, it was a natural question of I didn't beat around the bush. As I met people, I would say, hey, I would love for you to take a look. I'm building in the Chicago area. I had to do that to my own sister, if not, no big deal. And I also then said, if it's not for you, who do you know? So one of the big pieces of that is, first of all, thank you, because I think I'm going on six years with my current company and a lot of, we do, we have a lot of comradery sidelines that have done both things of, Oh now we've made, you know, now we've hit, we've walked the stage, we've done the things, so let's do it differently than we actually built. And then we're like, wait a minute, that's not what we were doing when we were building. And Jennifer and I had this conversation and we started doing that exact plan and having a blitz on zoom, hop on, we're all into activity. And then having that opportunity if needed for the three-way validation, which is the video, which might be a chat, which might be inviting to a zoom. But whatever that piece is. So, another piece that you've said over and over, and when I feel like people have belief that that model works, their business model works, that people will make money. There's an energy behind the messaging. And that's why we bring in that third voice. If needed before we have belief, right? Or the video, or just the story of here's my friend was a blahbidy blahbidy blob. RayI'm a huge fan. I'm a huge fan of video because you can, I mean, you know, we have clients who have teams of 700,000 people and guess what? All 700,000 could use this same video at the same time. BethI agree. I love it. And if you don't have the video, you can make the video people like that's the key is having 40 people hear my story or hear the story of the company a day. What's your ideal length? What do you think people's attention span is for that video?RayYeah, you know, it's something that, a lot of people, a lot of people get tangled up on that. So, I mean I'll just say I've recruited hundreds. I recruited hundreds and hundreds of people because, you may have said in the intro, but I was the number one earner in a company. I'm not just a trainer that, you know, saying hey, I think this stuff works. And so, I recruited hundreds and hundreds of people believe it or not with a 60-minute video, which is probably longer than you want. But I've also recruited hundreds of people with a six-minute video. And those were two different companies because the company that I was the number one runner up, did end up merging into another company. So, it was a little bit different product. But what is more important than the length of a video or even the video, which sounds crazy, is your posture with the prospect. You know, the, the reason that I was able to recruit hundreds of people in the 60-minute video is because I was able to get hundreds of people to watch the video. And that takes posture. That takes, how are you communicating, how are you managing the energy and, and connecting, you know, to get them to move forward. And so, you know, is there an ideal length? I mean, if it can be under 20 minutes, I like that. But that wouldn't stop me if it wasn't.BethSo, when we talk posture and as a leader, I'm, I'm watching someone that I feel is not feeling it. The posture's not there. They're not getting the results. I'm sending those messages, Beth, I don't know what's going on. And I feel there's not posture. There are some days they just can't show up or they feel like they can't. What are some things that you're listening, and you're like, yeah, of course, Ray has posture. He was the number one income earner. Of course, Beth has posture. She's had success before that. We didn't have that to lean on. So, someone wanting to say, what's posture? How do I get it? Like you know that you feel it when you're around that person. When I see you at top summit, I know that I feel the energy around you in your videos. You've got posture. I mean, were you always this cool?RayYeah. So, when I mean, we define posture as the belief in what you have, regardless of external acceptance or approval. And so, I don't need someone to accept or approve or agree with what I'm doing, or my company or a product or my service for me to continue doing it. And I would say that's probably the number one killer of would be success stories is they come in and then they seek acceptance and grow that I do a good job that I did, I make the right choice guys. And so, they seek acceptance, approval agreement with the people around them, which they will not find as, it's weird to be an entrepreneur, period, let alone a network marketer. And so that's just, you know, complete lack of posture. So, what you’re talking about is in regard to like, you know, consistency is, some of that has to do with them being aware that not everyone has instant success. And this is another area where influencers mess this up badly. And you know, I remember I was at was at this event and this guy got up on stage and he said, I recruited the first 60 people I talked to and this is what I said. And so, everyone's like, Whoa, I just write this magic incantation. And here's the problem. If you recruited 60 of the first 60 people you talk to, it wasn't because of his skills, it’s because of his reputation and relationship with them. That just doesn't happen. And so, all these people are thinking, Oh, it's this script. So, they're going to go, and you know, say this script and get rejected and then think I'm just the idiot. I'm the problem. Because this script is tried and true. And so, making them aware of stories of people who didn't create success quickly. So, when I was, let's see, four years full time entrepreneur, that's when I hit foreclosure. That's when I got $1 million in debt. That's when I was dead broke, chased by collectors. That's when I went through a divorce, was sleeping on my buddy's couch. So that was four years full time, not part-time. That's where I landed. And so, I, when I started, when I got serious, I should say about my network marketing journey, I made hundreds of calls, maybe thousands, thousands of calls from a house that was in foreclosure. And that's where I was staying. And, and so people need to be aware of that. You know, one of our clients, Amy Murphy, 17 years in network marketing had only made $3,000 total. Now a million-dollar earner. See, people need to be aware of those stories. That's why as a leader and in Everett marketing, I hunt for those stories. I seek those stories. I know that it took Harrison for 27 years to get a main acting role, right? I know that, you know, Dyson went through a thousand different prototypes before he created the Dyson vacuum, right? And so, people need to be aware of that. So, they don't think they're weird. But what magnifies them thinking it's them is when it's only fast success stories that are shared. You know, like Joe it 10,000 is her smart way to go, Joe. You know, and they're like, Whoa. Right? So, it's more discouraging than encouraging. And so, they are sharing, and this is something I originally kind of understood the concept and a book I heard Dan Kennedy recommend, Psycho-Cybernetics. So, Psycho-Cybernetics is basically a book of a whole bunch of stories of failures and how long they took so that you feel better and you're like, maybe I'm not so bad. And you know, there's other stuff in it too. But that's true kind of the deal. And so how do we make more of our teammates aware that not everyone has instant success? Many people that they go through a lot of obstacles, but where they end up is still worth it.BethSo let me ask you this. Along your journey, obviously sleeping on the couch, $1 million in debt, you make the decision, I'm going to make these phone calls, I'm going to keep going, I'm going to persevere. So that mindset, that shift, that's a lot of personal development, a lot of work for you. So, talk about those pieces of your rituals, of your routines. Like you show up every day on Rank Makers. If the sun comes up, Ray Higdon is on Rank Makers. So that's such as, watching the consistency, the discipline, and even the listener, your reader. We’ve had every single guest that's been on, has been talking about how they want to learn. So, what are the rituals, the routines, even date night with your wife, so that you've created and designed this life, you made the decisions to grow your own business and to invest the time, the energy? What are, what's your ritual, your routine, your non negotiables for Ray Higdon every day?RayYeah. And you know, and it's varied over the years. Right now, my non-negotiables are an hour of play time with my daughter, 200 pushups a day, run every day, go to the gym every day, do my Rank Maker video every day. Those are my nonnegotiable daily things, things that, you know, we do, like you said, you know, we do have date nights, like, you know, as far as you know, weekly and in that, you know, that sort of thing. And there's additional things in there. But as far as this day isn't, you know, isn't complete till it's are not complete till. But this day has to consist of those would be the things, is those things have to be done. And so, you know, I've done a video a day, at least one video a day, every day since July 15, 2009. So, it's over 10 years of doing a video a day. And you know, so for me, like we launched, you know, Rank Makers two and a half years ago, it actually wasn't a big deal to commit to a video a day. I was already doing it. So it wasn't, it wasn't like, oh man, I didn't do it. Like, no, I like it. The only difference between what I used to do prior to Rank Makers and now, is it's just much more in the dirt with them. It's much more in the street, you know, because I get to see much more than just a random, you know, video on social media, and you may or may not see the comments. I'm just more entrenched and people are more plugged in. And we have more accountability and tracking in that, that kind of thing. The hour, I'll be honest, the hour with my daughter, I have to schedule, I have to do that. You know, my childhood wasn't fantastic. I literally never had someone playing with me, a parent figure or anything like that. So, it's something that I had to force myself to put my phone away and dedicate to dolls or ponies, or whatever the hell work we're dealing with and spend that time with her.BethWell, and what I'm hearing is intentional. And that's where that agreement, when you do that over in Rank Makers is it feels really good to have that daily agreement with myself that, okay, I'm agreeing this week. It's three conversations a day. It's, I'm going to give myself a break, but I'm agreeing I'm going to take that run. And when you put your head on the pillow at night, you're not like beating yourself up. Like, Oh, I suck. I didn't do it. What's wrong with me? You've done that.And so, I know that. I know all the different ways that I can get the, you know Ray Higdon in my head, whether it's the books, Rank Makers, some of your higher-level coaching groups for six and seven figure earners. We're going to put all of that in the show notes. I also know I'm going to be able to see you and speak at the Top Summit in Naples, Florida, but how can someone just starting out, all the way to the six and seven figure earners, that want some extra support? How can they work with you?RayYeah, I mean I think I'll just give two steps here because I don't want to give too many. But one, you can check out my Facebook page and just watch some of the videos. We, you know are pretty consistent with videos on there every week, unless I'm traveling, I do a free coaching pride day, which is a good glimpse into how I show up inside of our other programs. And so, you could check all that out, you know, for free, facebook.com/rayhigdonpage. If you like what you see there, then you may want to check out Rank Makers, which we, you know, sometimes we open like one or two times a month and that's at RankMakers.com I would check those out first before you look at further things because we don't resonate with them. But yeah, we do have programs. You know, we have where I coached six and seven figure earners. We're hosting two companies here in the next 30 days that are coming to my house, and I'm working with executives and leadership, and was just in Cancun. A company pulled me out there for a leadership retreat to train their top guys, and girls, I should say. And so, yeah, that's some of the options there.BethThank you. And on one closing thought, if you had to give one piece of advice for someone that right now is saying, okay, 2019 I didn't quite manage to hit that rank goal, that that income goal 2020, it's happening. They're putting it all over their vision board, they're writing it in their affirmation journal. What is your one piece of advice for them?RayOne piece of advice.BethI would say three. Great.RayYou said one. I would say create a daily routine that makes success inevitable. So, when I was growing my network marketing business, I went for 20 notes a day. I did self-development every day and I did a video every day. Those are the three things. That's it. Three things. And I know I've never in my career shared that with someone and they said, huh, that worked. That's shocking. Like they're all like, oh, that'll do it. And so that means that I had a daily routine that made success inevitable. Now I didn't know when. In fact, knowing this routine, I went to my girlfriend at the time, now my amazing wife, I told her that it would probably take me two years to get out of debt. And I didn't know that seven months later I'd be the number one earner in that company. And so, have a daily routine that you stick to because it's pointless to just have one, right? Have a daily routine that you stick to that makes success inevitable. If you look at what you do every day, no matter what, will that make success inevitable? And you know the answer, you know, if it's beat myself up for four hours, overthink things for three more hours, not prospect anyone and do a video every now and then, that does not make success inevitable. But I mean make it inevitable to where it is. It's got to happen. I mean, look what I'm doing. And so, you need to have that level of belief in your daily routine.BethAnd I think have a daily routine that makes success inevitable in all areas of your life. If you're talking fitness, if you're talking your relationship with your kids. I love that. All right. Thank you so much for being on with us and we're going to put in the show notes, how to go over to Ray Higdon's Facebook page, how to get connected with him and if you're listening to this, we are also putting below how to grab your tickets to Top Summit over in Naples, Florida, which is Naples, one of my favorite places. Not a bad drive for you to get there though. Right?RayAll right. Right.BethThanks so much for being on with us today.RayThanks for having me.BethOh my goodness. What an incredible episode. I have walked away with pages full of notes. I know you have as well, and you can get access to more training with Ray, and you got to take a look at some of these other speakers that are going to be at the Top Summit. There is something magical about showing up for events and being in person and being in the space with people like Hal Elrod from Miracle Morning. Danelle Delgado, Ray Higdon, as we heard today. We have Natasha Haslett coming, Natasha Robertson, Katie Harvest, Jessica Green. I am speaking, there are so many people that I'm leaving out, Frazier Brooks, Rob Sperry. And you are going to hear from people that have truly been in the trenches building their network marketing business, as well as entrepreneurs and authors. So, I am going to give you a special link to get your tickets go to the http://www.thetopsummit.com. I'm going to put that down in the show notes and I can't wait to see you at the Top Summit. Thanks so much for hanging out with me today at You're Not the Boss of Me. I'm hoping that you've found one thing that you will do today that will allow you to move forward to that big audacious goal. And I have a favor to ask of you, and that is leaving me a five-star review over in iTunes. Every single week I read your reviews. I love hearing what you have to say. And it allows me to bring you more, to get more people to interview that are doing the thing, breaking the glass ceilings, creating what they crave, and helping you with your game plan. So, leave me a five-star review, and when you do, I enter you to win the You're Not the Boss of Me swag. So, make sure you leave it and we'll reach out to you if you're the winner. Thanks so much for hanging with me today and we'll chat with you soon.
Amy Murphy works at The Gem Mine in Westwood New Jersey. She has experience in Reiki, Energy Healing, Reflexology. Now her main focus is helping people heal and educating them by using crystals and gemstones. She gave some examples of what difference stones can do for specific chakras and health issues. (0:01- 3:50) intro (03:51- 08:01) my story (08:02- 31:20) stones and crystals, and crystal healing (31:21-40:00) benefits (40:01-40:13) outro https://www.thegemminenj.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOM2qBjUon-UjKW5y4BdNRw for the youtube video of this interview.
Join host Amy Murphy as she speaks with entrepreneur Louise Hateley about the importance of investing in yourself in order to build a successful future. Amy is the CEO of Million Dollar Bathrobe. Visit milliondollarbathrobe.com for more details. If you'd like to learn more from Amy and Louise, you can join them on their Facebook Group, Wealth Abundance Mindset for Female Entrepreneurs. Intro Music Credit: Galaxy Station by Allerlei von Nicolai | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_bcboyEwTxpEyM-fuCjLkA Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
Do you want to live life abundantly? Tune in as Amy Murphy discusses the difference between Scarcity and Abundance Mindset and how a mindset shift can transform your life. Q&A to follow. Originally aired on August 20, 2019 as a live recording. Theme Song Music Credit: Galaxy Station by Allerlei von Nicolai | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_bcboyEwTxpEyM-fuCjLkA Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
Amy Murphy speaks about the Million Dollar Bathrobe and how it started with Tom Chenault on the Tom Chenault Show Intro Music Credit: Galaxy Station by Allerlei von Nicolai | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_bcboyEwTxpEyM-fuCjLkA Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
In this episode of Feel Like a Million, Amy Murphy sits down with Toni Vanschoyck to talk about what it means to connect with spirit, mind and body and how building these connections can make you feel like a million. Toni Vanshoyck Links: Website: www.tonivans.com Social Media: @thetonivans Book: Effing Simple on Amazon Amy Murphy (Host) Links: Website: www.milliondollarbathrobe.com Blog: www.feellikeamillion.ca Social Media: Instagram: @bathrobe_ceo Facebook: @milliondollarbathrobe Youtube, Pinterest, Blog, Podcast: Feel Like a Million Music Credit: Galaxy Station by Allerlei von Nicolai | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_bcboyEwTxpEyM-fuCjLkA Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US #feellikeamillion #connecttoalifeyoulove #connection #spiritmindbody #connect #grow #milliondollarbathrobe #liveyourlife #selfcare #feelgood #entrepreneur #mompreneur
Colonel Sherry Hemby has decades of experience in both nursing and the Air Force — in fact, she was recently promoted to Air Force Reserve Command Nurse. Hemby is also a 2015 graduate of the Master of Management in Health Care program at Vanderbilt Business. Amy Murphy sat down with Sherry to hear more about her career trajectory and what role the MMHC program has played in it. They also discuss Sherry's experience in the Air Force, treating victims of the 9/11 attacks, and her deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Matthew Brown speaks with Kelcey Morgan and Amy Murphy about issues surrounding women in the workplace, specifically as it pertains to diversity in technology companies. They discuss the challenges, opportunities and benefits of having a diverse workforce and how maintaining a strong culture of acceptance plays a major role in making this possible.
The Vanderbilt Business Executive MBA program offers two tracks, Executive Edge and Global Immersion. Students in the Global Immersion track spend their second year learning alongside an international cohort of approximately 60 working professionals from four prestigious business schools, including Vanderbilt Business. Global Immersion students participate in four international residencies that last for nine days each; the third one takes places at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City, Mexico. Amy Murphy sat down with Executive MBA student Jenna Watson after the Mexico residency to get her thoughts on how the Global Immersion track is progressing. They discuss learning from professors at different schools, working in cross-cultural teams, and sightseeing in Mexico City.
Nick Luck is joined by Lee Mottershead and Amy Murphy to discuss the week's racing Talking Points. Drones / Kempton Feed /Equine Flu /Brexit /Go North /G1 v’s Hcap /Handicapping Panel
Episode 13 of the Luck On Sunday 'Best bits' Podcast. Nick Luck is joined by The Racing Post’s Lee Mottershead, Trainers Venetia Williams & Amy Murphy, President & COO of the US Jockey Club Jim Gagliano, plus Winx Co-Owner Debbie Kepitis. During the show we reflect on the weekend’s top jumps action from Ascot & Haydock. We also spoke to Venetia on her fascinating career path, plus chatted to Jim & Debbie about Winx and where she stands in the Global pecking-order.
Coagent Podcast - This week I interview Amy Murphy Host: Angela Headlee *Licensed Realtor in The Commonwealth of Virginia The Steele Group Sotheby's International Realty 6726 Patterson Avenue Richmond, VA 23112 804.282.3136 (office) 218.838.1748 (cell) angela.headlee@thesteelegroupsir.com angelaheadlee.com Guest: Amy Murphy *Realtor in Arizona license #SA112917000 Russ Lyons Sotheby’s International Realty 7669 E Pinnacle Peak Road Scottsdale, AZ 85255 602.291.7653 (cell) 480.269.2830 (office) amymurphy.com russlyon.com Sotheby's International Realty and the Sotheby's International Realty logo are registered (or unregistered) service marks used with permission. Sotheby's International Realty Affiliates LLC fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Each Office Is Independently Owned and Operated. If your property is listed with a real estate broker, please disregard. It is not our intention to solicit the offerings of other real estate brokers. We are happy to work with them and cooperate fully. Licensed Realtors ®
Having your book nominated for or winning an award is a wonderful opportunity for any author. While you might have high hopes of increased book sales following the accolade, those sales may not come quite so easily. In today’s episode, author Amy Murphy talks about her experience having her books nominated for the 2016 Dragon Award and how it affected her book sales, but more importantly, the other opportunities that came from earning the award. Applying for many awards is similar to applying for a scholarship in high school. It’s something the author has to be proactive about. Awards aren’t just handed out. It will benefit you to find awards in your genre and submit applications for them. But what should you do once you are nominated? Well, you can’t sit back and wait for your book to fly off the shelves. As we talked about in the previous episode Amy was a guest on, having an email list is important for situations such as this, when you want to get out the word of your success and any calls to action you may need from the people on your email list. Another thing Amy did was she changed her book covers to reflect her nomination (but not until finding out if she was indeed a nominee or a winner). Having that award listed on the cover, as well as in the author’s bio and book descriptions, may catch a reader’s eye. Most of the awards for books won’t necessarily help authors make long-term growth, but they may be able to help with networking and growing your reach as an author with other authors. When Amy was nominated for her award, she was able to gain access to email and Facebook groups to help her network with other authors and their email lists. One more benefit of being nominated for an award is the credibility that comes with it, which can help an author who may be looking for get into traditional publishing or trying to hook a literary agent. Bio of the Author in the Case Study: Amy J. Murphy is a sci-fi author and a finalist for the 2016 Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel. She is also a Semi-Finalist in the Kindle Book Awards in the Science Fiction category. She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. While not attending sci-fi conventions, she lives in Vermont with her husband and two dogs. Resources Referred to in this Episode: Amy J. Murphy’s Amazon Author Page Contact Amy at AmyJMurphy.com Allies and Enemies Series by Amy J. Murphy The Book Marketing Show Start Your Author Email List ASAP For more information, visit the show notes at http://kindlepreneur.com/e32
The Anfield Wrap has partnered with Redsbet this year and in doing so has two free Aintree specials this week. This first one is about the festival as a whole and what it means to the racing community and the city of Liverpool. We are joined by Tom Lee with some tips and Amy Murphy. In the studio are Neil Atkinson with David Downie, Mike Kevin and Paul Cope. To join Redsbet click here - https://www.redsbet.com/en/home Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We all know marketing our book is important on social media, but are you using an email list to help your book sales? Many authors, including myself, say one of their biggest regrets is not starting an email list sooner. Our case study in this episode is Amy Murphy, an award-winning sci-fi novelist, who started off with basically no email list, but successfully grew her list and will share some tips she used to not only increase her book sales, but also get feedback and reviews. Her tips will help authors find success with their book sales, and who may not have time to cultivate and grow a list by themselves, as well. For more information, visit the show notes at http://kindlepreneur.com/e21
Om det forna imperiets svåra vägval efter Brexit. Hör röster från ett kungligt skepp, en nordirländsk åker och skotska gator om ett Storbritannien som riskerar att bli allt mindre. Den brittiska unionens bygge är för många ett glamoröst exempel på hur olika nationer under år hundrade lyckas stå enade under ett och samma styre. Men efter att Storbritannien röstade för att lämna den europeiska unionen har nya krav om en skotsk självständighet, och debatten om en irländsk union har lyfts upp till nya höjder. Kan Storbritannien bli Lill-Britannien? Vid den sicksackande gränsen mellan Nordirland och den irländska republiken åker Konflikts Nathalie Rothschild med bonden Robert Moore, som visar var en möjlig hård Brexit kan slå hårdast. Just gränsfrågan skapar känslor av ovisshet, till exempel hos Dermot O'Hara som aktivt jobbar för att behålla den osynlig, och för turistguiden Paul Doherty som vi träffar under en guidad tour i Bogside där blodig söndagen skedde. I Belfast träffar vi företagare David Hoey som tycker inte att Brexit kommer negativt påverka internationellhandel, medan 21-årige Amy Murphy på Hammer Youth Club bryr sig inte om allt det; hon är bara glad att som katolik kunna bo och trivas i det protestantiska området The Shankhill. Till Edinburgh åker Konflikts programledare Firas Jonblat för att hitta det brittiska i Skottland, och ber taxiföraren Mike om hjälp med att hitta det. Det blir skeppet Britannia som var under 44 år drottningen Elisabeths hem på vattnet. Där träffar han James McGregor som är stolt över att han liksom skeppet kommer från Glasgow, medan Eilidh McKenzie bakom kassan i souvenirbutik är stolt över att vara just brittisk. Londonbor Katen Patel är engelsman och tycker att det som är bra med Skottland får ofta en brittisk identitet som till exempel Harry Potter. I Edinburgh slottet träffar vi guiden Jan Horne som är stolt över sin skotska identitet. Hennes kollega Tim Coates som kommer från Nordirland säger att han är irländsk trotts att han har ett brittiskt pass. Så var finns det brittiska i Skottland? Professor emeritus David McCrone som har forskat i identitetsfrågan säger att det brittiska är ett smältande isberg, och kvar finns bara i England. En av de viktiga frågor under Brexit-kampanjen var internationell handel, och tanken är att med ett Storbritannien fritt från EU begränsande handelsregler så kommer landet att återuppliva gamla globala partnerskap, något som Chandrika Kaul, expert i brittiska imperiets historia på St. Andrews universitetet i Skottland avfärdar som en ren illusion när Konflikts producent Jesper Lindau ringer henne. I studio för att prata mer om ämnet sitter Magdalena Frennhoff-Larsen, statsvetare och specialist på Brexit på Westminister University, och Sveriges Radio korrespondent i Storbritannien, Staffan Sonning. Producent: Jesper Lindau jesper.lindau@sverigesradio.se Programledare: Firas Jonblat firas.jonblat@sverigesradio.se
Amy Murphy always knew she wanted to help others, but when she read a story about the homeless & hungry in Greensboro she knew she had to act. Amy considered fried chicken a comfort food & hatched a plan to help & comfort those in need with leftovers from a local restaurant. Now 3 years later, she serves her friends downtown weekly & they have affectionately nicknamed her the Chicken Lady.
Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen has the best breakfast in NC. Two Brewmasters honor their city with their new craft beer. Art & engineering come together in the field of Mechatronics. Godwin Manufacturing earned the town of Dunn the nickname Dump Truck Body Capital of the World. Plus Dancer Ayanna Webster may be young but she's already performed on the world stage.
"The Chicken Lady" makes it her mission to serve the homeless in Greensboro. Researchers at UNCW are studying the human face for medical insights. The NC Ski Industry rebounds from an unusually warm start to the winter season. Plus the Phonomenal Dumpling Truck serves Asian cuisine that earned it the title of America's Best Food Truck.
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