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The College Football Experience (@TCEonSGPN) on the Sports Gambling Podcast Network continues its 134 college football team preview series with the Navy Midshipmen 2024 Season Preview. Pick Dundee aka (@TheColbyD) & CJ Sullivan (@CJSullivan_) preview the upcoming Navy Midshipmen offense, defense and special teams and go game by game keying in on the Navy Midshipmen football schedule heading into the season. Can Brian Newberry get the Navy Midshipmen back to a bowl game in 2024? How will the new wing t offense look under OC Drew Cronic?Will Blake Horvath take the next step in being a great QB? Will the run game flourish with Alex Tecza, Brandon Chatman and Eli Heidenreich? Is Nathan Kent one to watch at the wideout spot in Annapolis, Maryland this fall? Will Thomas Scully potentially get a decent amount of targets at the tight end position? With the Midshipmen returning 3 offensive lineman on the front will this be the best offensive line in some time?Will Ricky Brown get this Navy defensive to being one of the better in the AAC? Is Justin Reed a name to lookout for on the Midshipmen defensive line? Can Colin Ramos and Luke Pirris be the anchors on this Midshipmen defense? Will this be the best Navy secondary in sometime with the likes of Dashaun Peele, Andrew Duhart, Mbiti Williams and Rayuan Lane? What would a great second season be for Brian Newberry and the Midshipmen? We talk it all and more on this Navy Midshipmen edition of The College Football Experience. JOIN the SGPN community #DegensOnlyExclusive Merch, Contests and Bonus Episodes ONLY on Patreon - https://sg.pn/patreonDiscuss with fellow degens on Discord - https://sg.pn/discordDownload The Free SGPN App - https://sgpn.appCheck out the Sports Gambling Podcast on YouTube - https://sg.pn/YouTubeCheck out our website - http://sportsgamblingpodcast.comSUPPORT us by supporting our partnersCirca Sports - 16 MILLION in guaranteed prizes w/ Circa Survivor & Circa Millions - https://www.circasports.com/circa-sports-millionFootball Contest Proxy - Use promo code SGP to save $50 at - https://www.footballcontestproxy.com/Rithmm - Player Props and Picks - Free 7 day trial! http://sportsgamblingpodcast.com/rithmmUnderdog Fantasy code SGPN - Up to $250 in BONUS CASH - https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-sgpnGametime code SGPN - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code SGPN for $20 off your first purchase - https://gametime.co/ADVERTISE with SGPNInterested in advertising? Contact sales@sgpn.io Follow The College Experience & SGPN On Social MediaTwitter - https://twitter.com/TCEonSGPNInstagram - http://www.instagram.com/TCEonSGPNTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@TCEonSGPNYoutube - https://www.youtube.com/@TheCollegeExperienceFollow The Hosts On Social MediaColby Dant - http://www.twitter.com/thecolbydPatty C - https://twitter.com/PattyC831NC Nick - https://twitter.com/NC__NicK

The College Football Experience (@TCEonSGPN) on the Sports Gambling Podcast Network continues their 134 college football team preview series with the Army Black Knights 2024 Season Preview. Pick Dundee aka (@TheColbyD) & Patty C (@PattyC831) break down the entire 2024 Army Black Knights roster from the offense, defense and special teams and key in on every game on the Army Black Knights schedule. Will Jeff Monken and the Army Black Knights be a dark horse to win the AAC Championship? Will Jeff Monken and Cody Worley focus more on the heavy rushing option attack more this year than last season?Will the Army run game be dominate with Kanye Udoh, Tyrell Robinson and Miles Stewart? Will Casey Reynolds be their top wide receiving target in 2024? Should we keep an eye out on tight end David Crossan? Does returning 4 of 5 on the offensive line mean Army will be a legit contender in the AAC in 2024?What do we make of the Army Black Knights defense under Nate Woody? Should we be concerned that the Black Knights are only returning one on the defensive line? Is Kalib Fortner a name to lookout for at the linebacker spot? Is the biggest concern on the defensive the defensive backfield? What should Army Black Knight fans expect in year one of the AAC? Is Michie Stadium one of the best college football stadiums in America? We talk it all and more on this Army Black Knights edition of The College Football Experience. JOIN the SGPN community #DegensOnlyExclusive Merch, Contests and Bonus Episodes ONLY on Patreon - https://sg.pn/patreonDiscuss with fellow degens on Discord - https://sg.pn/discordDownload The Free SGPN App - https://sgpn.appCheck out the Sports Gambling Podcast on YouTube - https://sg.pn/YouTubeCheck out our website - http://sportsgamblingpodcast.comSUPPORT us by supporting our partnersCirca Sports - 16 MILLION in guaranteed prizes w/ Circa Survivor & Circa Millions - https://www.circasports.com/circa-sports-millionFootball Contest Proxy - Use promo code SGP to save $50 at - https://www.footballcontestproxy.com/Rithmm - Player Props and Picks - Free 7 day trial! http://sportsgamblingpodcast.com/rithmmUnderdog Fantasy code SGPN - Up to $250 in BONUS CASH - https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-sgpnGametime code SGPN - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code SGPN for $20 off your first purchase - https://gametime.co/ADVERTISE with SGPNInterested in advertising? Contact sales@sgpn.io Follow The College Experience & SGPN On Social MediaTwitter - https://twitter.com/TCEonSGPNInstagram - http://www.instagram.com/TCEonSGPNTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@TCEonSGPNYoutube - https://www.youtube.com/@TheCollegeExperienceFollow The Hosts On Social MediaColby Dant - http://www.twitter.com/thecolbydPatty C - https://twitter.com/PattyC831NC Nick - https://twitter.com/NC__NicK

Today we are joined by LT Evan Bergman with the United States Air Force. Evan is a Tactical Air Control Party Specialist, or TACP, at the 15th Air Support Operations Squadron in Savannah Georgia.  He spent most of his youth in Annapolis Maryland before attending the Virginia Military Institute where he majored in Psychology.  After graduating in 2021 Evan attended TOPT, the AF Special Warfare Officer selection course for the TACP career field.   In 2022 Evan began the arduous TACP pipeline where he helped lead his teams through nearly two years of intense physical and mental training. 

“Often, technology is considered an impetus, a barrier, something that you have to deal with, and it shouldn't be that way.” Technology has the power to advance the financial, operational and strategic goals of our associations. But often we view technology as something we have to use and not something that can propel our business – and our missions – forward.    In Episode 7, Duane Capuano (Success Roads Consulting) is joined by Michele Brien (Matchbox) to share how a strong digital strategy will improve your association in three specific ways. And, Thad Lurie (AGU) shows how the decisions to prioritize technology is advancing the American Geophysical Union's mission. Finally, Colleen McKenna (Intero Advisory) outlines an effective approach to our own personal digital strategy on the LinkedIn platform.   Association RevUP is a podcast presented by the Professionals for Association Revenue (PAR) and supported by partner VPC Inc. Join PAR at the RevUP Summit, November 20-21, 2024 in Annapolis Maryland!

We are replaying the two-part series with Dr. Bryce Appelbaum, where he gets into the misdiagnoses and missed opportunities of vision and explains why healthcare has it all wrong about the eyes. Today, in Part 2, we discuss how vision impacts sports performance. We talk about concussions, how Covid can affect our vision, motion sickness, and supplements for the eyes. Foods that promote the longevity of the eyes: Coldwater fish Green leafy vegetables containing lutein and xanthine (kale, collard greens, and spinach) Eggs Citrus fruits Carrots Broccoli Vitamins A, C, and E Antioxidants Coenzyme Q Dr. Bryce Appelbaum's Bio: Dr. Bryce Appelbaum is a pioneer in neuro-optometry passionate about unlocking life's potential through vision.  His expertise includes reorganizing the visual brain post-concussion to return to learn and return to life, remediating visual developmental delays interfering with reading and learning, and enhancing visual skills to elevate sports performance.  Dr. Appelbaum has been featured on the front page of USA Today, in the New York Times Magazine, Bethesda Magazine, and as the cover story of OT Advance.  Dr. Appelbaum has worked with hundreds of professional athletes, numerous professional and collegiate sports teams, and countless amateur athletes to transform raw talent into honed performance through vision.  He also helps teams consider who to draft or sign as free agents based on assessing a player's visual potential and identifying how far off they may be from operating at that ceiling.  He is the owner and managing doctor at Appelbaum Vision, PC, a private practice specializing in Vision Therapy and Rehabilitation with offices in Bethesda and Annapolis Maryland.  Dr. Appelbaum is a board-certified Fellow of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development and an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the Southern College of Optometry.  Dr. Appelbaum is on a mission to change the way the world views vision. He believes there is more to vision than just 20/20 eyesight and has developed programs to retrain the brain to revise the eyes. He is here with us today to discuss The Misdiagnoses and Missed Opportunities of Vision: why healthcare has it all wrong about the eyes?  In this episode: How vision impacts sports performance. (31:07) How can improved vision help people maximize their sports performance? (32:58) How to elevate your young child's sports performance by improving their vision. (34:56) What a concussion is. (36:45)  How concussions impact vision. (37:13) How long does it take to recover from a concussion? (39:05) What to do if you get a concussion. (42:26) How Covid has impacted our eyes. (44:10) Why it's preferable to buy higher quality blue-blocking glasses. (47:10) A procedure to help with motion sickness. (50:50) What vision therapy is. (53:50) Foods promoting longevity of the eyes. (54:15) Links and resources: www.visionhelp.com   www.AppelbaumVision.com  www.covd.org  www.infinitywalk.org  Guest Social Media Links: @DrBryceAppelbaum  @AppelbaumVision Use code: DRGRAY10 for 10% off Dr. Appelbaum's Screen Fit program Follow Your Longevity Blueprint on Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Get your copy of the Your Longevity Blueprint book and claim your bonuses here Find Dr. Stephanie Gray and Your Longevity Blueprint online   Follow Dr. Stephanie Gray on Facebook | Instagram | Youtube | Twitter | LinkedIn Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic Podcast production by Team Podcast 

We are bringing you a replay of the two-part series with Dr. Bryce Appelbaum, where he gets into the misdiagnoses and missed opportunities of vision and explains why healthcare has it all wrong about the eyes.  Today, in Part 1, we dive into vision therapy, and Dr. Applebaum explains why nearsightedness is increasing alarmingly quickly. We also get into how ADD, ADHD, and dyslexia relate to vision and the controversy around eye-patching, and Dr. Applebaum shares many helpful tips. How to avoid dry eyes: Take 1000mg of omega-three fatty acid twice daily Use single-use, preservative-free or homeopathic eye drops Dr. Bryce Appelbaum's Bio: Dr. Bryce Appelbaum is a pioneer in neuro-optometry passionate about unlocking life's potential through vision.  His expertise includes reorganizing the visual brain post-concussion to return to learn and return to life, remediating visual developmental delays interfering with reading and learning, and enhancing visual skills to elevate sports performance.  Dr. Appelbaum has been featured on the front page of USA Today, in the New York Times Magazine, Bethesda Magazine, and as the cover story of OT Advance.  Dr. Appelbaum has worked with hundreds of professional athletes, numerous professional and collegiate sports teams, and countless amateur athletes to transform raw talent into honed performance through vision.  He also helps teams consider who to draft or sign as free agents based on assessing a player's visual potential and identifying how far off they may be from operating at that ceiling.  He is the owner and managing doctor at Appelbaum Vision, PC, a private practice specializing in Vision Therapy and Rehabilitation with offices in Bethesda and Annapolis Maryland.  Dr. Appelbaum is a board-certified Fellow of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development and an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the Southern College of Optometry.  Dr. Appelbaum is on a mission to change the way the world views vision. He believes there is more to vision than just 20/20 eyesight and has developed programs to retrain the brain to revise the eyes. He is here with us today to discuss The Misdiagnoses and Missed Opportunities of Vision: why healthcare has it all wrong about the eyes?  In this episode: What vision therapy is. (3:15) Why nearsightedness is increasing at an alarming rate. (5:31) How people end up always needing glasses. (6:38) How far should you sit from a screen? (7:55) How hidden vision problems could relate to ADD and ADHD. (10:26) What convergence insufficiency is and how to test kids for it. (11:05) How eyesight differs from vision. (12:53) How hidden vision problems relate to dyslexia. (13:57) Why you should never use Visine eye drops. (18:31) How omega 3 fatty acids benefit dry eyes. (20:19) What causes amblyopia (lazy eye)? (27:00) Links and resources: www.visionhelp.com   www.AppelbaumVision.com  www.covd.org  www.infinitywalk.org  Guest Social Media Links: @DrBryceAppelbaum  @AppelbaumVision Use code: DRGRAY10 for 10% off Dr. Appelbaum's Screen Fit program Follow Your Longevity Blueprint on Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Get your copy of the Your Longevity Blueprint book and claim your bonuses here Find Dr. Stephanie Gray and Your Longevity Blueprint online   Follow Dr. Stephanie Gray on Facebook | Instagram | Youtube | Twitter | LinkedIn Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic Podcast production by Team Podcast 

Description: In this episode, I am speaking with Kurt Schmidt who is the author of the book The Little Book of Networking: How to Grow Your Career One Conversation at a Time. I like Kurt's book because it is an easy 1 to 2-hour read and it is very actionable. It is very worth your time to get this book if you are reluctant to get back into networking. Here is Kurt's bio: Kurt Schmidt is the president of Foundry, a pioneering software design agency that serves B2B industries. He is also the host of Schmidt List—a podcast with over two hundred episodes connecting him with prominent leadership minds for over five years. With twenty-plus years of leadership and business experience, Kurt has learned the best-kept secrets for career and business success. In "The Little Book of Networking", Kurt penned the networking handbook "The Little Book Of Networking" to empower individuals seeking professional growth. I will be publishing several episodes about networking in the next month. In a couple of weeks, I will be speaking with my good friend Steve Harper who is the author of the book The Ripple Effect: Maximizing the Power of Relationships for Life & Business. My perception and it is only my perception, is that many of you are uncomfortable getting back out there and meeting people in real life. We have gotten used to speaking with people over Zoom but it is so important to meet people one on one in person. I will be spending much of May back in the US and I am currently scheduling one on one time with a lot of people while in Austin. My wife and I will be traveling to Annapolis Maryland to visit with our son, his wife, and their new sheep doodle puppies. So, I am following my advice. This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Check out the Career Pivot Community, and be sure to pick up my latest book, Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life Third Edition. For the full show notes and resources mentioned in the episode click here.

In the third episode of the “Innovations in Surgery” series, Behind the Knife's surgery education fellow, Dan Scheese, sits down with Adam Sachs and Dr. Igor Belyansky to discuss the current state and future of surgical robotics. They discuss the start up of Vicarious Surgical and how they are working to improve the current state of surgical robotics with their innovative ideas.  Link for the Vicarious Surgical website which includes a short video demonstration of their single port design: https://www. vicarioussurgical.com/ Adam Sachs is the CEO and Co-founder of Vicarious surgical, a surgical robotics company founded in 2014. As an MIT trained roboticist, Adam has combined his passion for robots with this passion for helping patients and enhancing the work environment for surgeons through the development of proprietary surgical robotics.  Dr. Igor Belyanksy, an internationally-recognized expert in the field of abdominal wall reconstruction and complex laparoscopic and robotic hernia repair. Dr. Belyansky has earned his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, completed his residency at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, and completed a minimally invasive fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center. Dr. Belyanksy is currently the Medical Director of Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis Maryland. Please visit https://behindtheknife.org to access other high-yield surgical education podcasts, videos and more.   If you liked this episode, check out other Innovations in Surgery episodes here: https://behindtheknife.org/podcast-series/innovations-in-surgery/

Today on the podcast, we welcome Erik Fisher from The Hated. The Hated were a 4 piece emo band from Annapolis Maryland who were active from 1985-1990. They are considered an early emo band and around the same time as many we know like Rites of Spring, Gray Matter, and Moss Icon. Thankfully, Numero Group has their music streaming and available. Go search it out.Now to the interview. For those that have been in college or had a really great teacher in high school perhaps. This is for you. That one class that you felt so engaged with someone and the flow back and forth on ideas kept on a path that enlightened both the student and the teacher. I let this one stay more open than usual because the flow of this with Erik, who is a professor by profession, is glorious to listen back on. If you haven't had a class like this before, this is close to it. When the bell rings, you felt you could take on the world and a new appreciation for what you just learned. I learned so much talking to Erik about his perspective on emo, his band, and music and philosophy. My favorite part is when Erik talks about seeing Rites of Spring for the first time. Holy shit, fucking epic. I can't wait for you to listen.

I have Dr. Bryce Appelbaum joining me for a two-part series to get into the misdiagnoses and missed opportunities of vision and explain why healthcare has it all wrong about the eyes. Today we dive into vision therapy, why nearsightedness is increasing alarmingly quickly, and how ADD, ADHD, and dyslexia relate to vision. We also discuss the controversy surrounding eye-patching, and Dr. Applebaum shares many helpful tips along the way. The two main components of nearsightedness: Genetics Environment About Dr Applebaum: Dr. Bryce Appelbaum is a pioneer in neuro-optometry passionate about unlocking life's potential through vision.  His expertise includes reorganizing the visual brain post-concussion to return to learn and return to life, remediating visual developmental delays interfering with reading and learning, and enhancing visual skills to elevate sports performance.  Dr. Appelbaum has been featured on the front page of USA Today, in the New York Times Magazine, Bethesda Magazine, and as the cover story of OT Advance.  Dr. Appelbaum has worked with hundreds of professional athletes, numerous professional and collegiate sports teams, and countless amateur athletes to transform raw talent into honed performance through vision.  He also helps teams consider who to draft or sign as free agents based on assessing a player's visual potential and identifying how far off they may be from operating at that ceiling.  He is the owner and managing doctor at Appelbaum Vision, PC, a private practice specializing in Vision Therapy and Rehabilitation with offices in Bethesda and Annapolis Maryland.  Dr. Appelbaum is a board-certified Fellow of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development and an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the Southern College of Optometry.  Dr. Appelbaum is on a mission to change the way the world views vision. He believes there is more to vision than just 20/20 eyesight and has developed programs to retrain the brain to revise the eyes. He is here with us today to discuss The Misdiagnoses and Missed Opportunities of Vision: why healthcare has it all wrong about the eyes?  In this episode: What vision therapy is. (3:15) Why nearsightedness is increasing at an alarming rate. (5:31) How people end up always needing glasses. (6:38) How far should you sit from a screen? (7:55) How hidden vision problems could relate to ADD and ADHD. (10:26) What convergence insufficiency is and how to test kids for it. (11:05) How eyesight differs from vision. (12:53) How hidden vision problems relate to dyslexia. (13:57) Why you should never use Visine eye drops. (18:31) How omega 3 fatty acids benefit dry eyes. (20:19) What causes amblyopia (lazy eye)? (27:00) Links and resources: www.visionhelp.com   www.AppelbaumVision.com  www.covd.org  www.infinitywalk.org  Guest Social Media Links:: @DrBryceAppelbaum  @AppelbaumVision Follow Your Longevity Blueprint on Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Get your copy of the Your Longevity Blueprint book and claim your bonuses here Find Dr. Stephanie Gray and Your Longevity Blueprint online   Follow Dr. Stephanie Gray on Facebook | Instagram | Youtube | Twitter | LinkedIn Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic Podcast production by Team Podcast 

Our user conference, INTERSECT 2023, is less than a year away and we're headed back to Annapolis, a city rich in American history and boasting breathtaking views of the Chesapeake Bay, brick-lined streets, and stunning 18th century architecture.We continue to host this biennial event at locations we believe our attendees will love and next year's conference in Maryland's capital city is no exception. Guests can enjoy cruising the Chesapeake Bay, touring the U.S. Naval Academy, visiting the National Cryptologic Museum, dining al fresco under the stars, and much more. INTERSECT23, scheduled September 25-28, brings together RouteSmart clients, partners, and employees from all over the globe for four days of learning, collaborating, and entertainment. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Susan Siegfried, Vice President, Public Relations & Communications, Visit Annapolis & Anne Arundel County,  to learn more about America's Sailing Capital and opportunities for excursions for our conference attendees. Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss future episodes! 

Nick Hughes is joined by Michelle Kulp Book Launch Expert, from Annapolis Maryland. Michelle Kulp is a Book Launch Expert, Publishing Specialist, 20x #1 Bestselling Author, and USA Today Bestselling Author.  Since 2012, she has been teaching entrepreneurs, consultants, coaches, and thought leaders how to elevate their expertise, attract their ideal clients, and increase their income and opportunities — with a Bestselling Book! To date, Michelle has launched over 300 books for clients and has helped them hit numerous #1 Amazon bestseller lists as well as Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists. Michelle's Bestseller program is a one-stop shop for authors who don't have the knowledge, expertise, desire or skill-set to publish and market their own books. The episode starts with Nick and Michelle jumping into her journey into entrepreneurship… and what it takes to be a writer. Can anyone write a book a month? What is a book exactly? These questions are dissected by Michelle to illustrate how to you write and publish a book in one month. She details out her advice on how to start your writing career, how to create passive income with writing, how to break down your ideas and topics into chunks of content and how to do the best marketing processes - outside of Amazon. The end with Michelle's advice to writers and early stage entrepreneurs. This is a fun and informative conversation with an amazing author and entrepreneur, we hope it helps you today.https://bestsellingauthorprogram.com/

Today my special guest is Meade HS JV head coach Derrick mason, coach mason and I talked about him growing up in Annapolis Maryland, him playing HS football and College, How and why he got into coaching , Meade High school history. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/justin.parnell2 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd3dhI2uZ96/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustinParnell18?t=4BFjHYHBeKbL6AkzZX8drg&s=09

Description: This week's episode is a bit different. I recently returned from a 3 week trip from our home in Ajijic Mexico to Austin where I was a keynote speaker at a financial conference. I spoke to an audience that might have been as many as 700 people. There were 900 people registered for the conference. My wife and I then flew to Maryland so we could visit our son and daughter-in-law who we had not seen in 2 and a half years due to the pandemic. They had purchased their first home in Annapolis Maryland last year. We flew Southwest Airlines to BWI on a direct flight both ways right after the mask mandates for airports had been lifted. Both flights were full. If I do not need to get on an airplane ever again, I would be fine with that. We then returned to Austin to complete our mission. I had a periodontist visit to have my teeth cleaned. I have been going to the same periodontist for 25 years and I still come back a couple times of a year for a checkup and cleaning. I had a fascinating discussion with the hygienist that I want to share. We then drove to east Texas so my wife could visit with her mother. Her father passed away a couple of months ago and as you can imagine her mother is still grieving. We then headed back to the Texas/Mexico border on our drive home. I had so many interesting conversations along the way that I wanted to share my observations in this podcast episode. This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Check out the Career Pivot Community, and be sure to pick up my latest book, Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life Third Edition. For the full show notes click here.  

Josh McCallen is the CEO of Accountable Equity, the owner of the Renault Winery and a new property located on Kent Island, a few minutes from Annapolis Maryland. Josh and his team specialize in renovating resort properties and transforming them. His track record includes beach front resorts, hotels, and most recently, properties that cater to weddings and special events. To learn more visit accountableequity.com.

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Richard Wayshner comes to the TC Interview series from Annapolis Maryland where just two weeks ago he won the Broken Ladder Challenge! Run 1 mile on day 1, 2 miles on day 2, 3 miles on day 3 and repeat until the last runner stands. How far did he get? Just watch the interview to find out! Ellie and Richard also discuss how he came into the sport, the mental training and resilience it took to complete an ultra every day for over a week, his daily training and mindset in the pandemic and more! Richard's IG: @runrichrun83

On Tap this week, we feature Pam Eaton, FCSI, Leed AP from Annapolis Maryland. Pam has over 20 years of experience in foodservice consulting and design and an additional seven years of experience in hotel and restaurant food and beverage operations. As a project manager, she oversees all aspects of the foodservice facility design, from programming to schematic design and construction documents through construction assistance. She has worked throughout the United States and internationally on a wide variety of projects, including kitchens and serveries for corporate facilities, higher education campuses, K-12 schools, culinary schools, hotels, and hospitals. Pam has also worked with primary schools and hospitals to bring them from processed, packaged foods to scratch-cooked, locally sourced, healthy meals, emphasizing plant-based proteins and a waste reduction.Find out more about Pam at: https://ng-associates.com/index.php

In today's episode we speak with Joe D'Angelo who joins us from Annapolis Maryland. Joe is Senior Vice President of Broadcast Radio at Xperi - a company that is modernizing our FM dial in the form of HD Radio. You might be surprised at how many cars already use their tech and how HD Radio fits into the ecosystem. For years radio has been fighting off competition from satellite services but now they might be facing an even more serious threat from music streaming and podcasts. We sit down with Joe to understand the current state of radio and where it might be headed in the future. Joe walks us through how his company is driving adoption of new technologies like HD Radio and in-car internet to bring radio into the modern era. Learn more about Xperi at: xperi.com and connect with Joe on LinkedIn: @joseph-d-angelo-9ba34a1/ ... Beatseeker has been selected by Feedspot as one of the Top Music Technology Podcasts on the web: https://blog.feedspot.com/music_technology_podcasts/ Learn more: beatseeker.fm Insta: @beatseekerpod Twitter: @beatseekerpod Facebook: facebook.com/beatseekerpod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beatseeker Beatseeker is sponsored by the Boombox Music League: boomboxsoftware.com

To mark the start of spooky season, Mr. James hosts the Knifepoint Horror host, Soren Narnia.

Paris Henken is from Coronado California where she first learned how to sail 29ers. She was still in high-school when she got to try the 49erFX, the then new women's Olympic class sailboat. Her good family friend happened to be the high-performance director of US Olympic sailing and pushed her to give it a go with teammate Helena Scutt. The journey wasn't easy and had one especially uncomfortable speed bump in a foreign hospital, but eventually the pair made it to the Olympics with a little help from their coach Willie McBride. On this episode we talk to both Paris and her coach Willie about that journey and how they tackled some of the challenges along the way. If you have any questions visit our instagram @holdfastusa Dr. Tim Herzog's practice is called Reaching Ahead and is based in Annapolis Maryland. Here is the link to his website to learn more: Reaching Ahead

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Join the podkitchen Discord https://discord.gg/QHvJvDKV and support the podkitchen on patreon! patreon.com/braisedbits 00:00-00:30: Lance reads an ad for the comedy/food/2003 reference podcast Braised Bits 00:30-3:25 The chefs reflect on the evolution of the pod. Lance says the pod is stale bread but Jesse "Eager" Eigner is making croutons. The chefs announce the launch of their DISCORD channel, which is exciting stuff! 3:25-10:00 Jesse has a lot of beef with the pod-nemesis' sloppy jalopy lasagna, the first food post in the discord. Lance chats about his breakfast quesadilla. 10:00-11:55 The chefs aren't resting on their Andrew Lauria's as they fish for bits. 11:55-23:15 Highlights time! Jesse keeps yapping away about his bachelor party trip to Last Vegas. Lance is crabby in Annapolis Maryland and then enjoys Baba's Pierogies with some top braiserbacks. 23:15-58:25: Land ho! The chefs formulate arguments on their top 9 landforms. Is this the peak of the pod? 58:25- 1:03:50: Phil Jackson and Kate cher the singer their predictions. 1:03:50-1:14:40: Jesse's unmasks some frustration about mandates. Lance has a Chris Leak in his ceiling and it takes him a little while to SEC the problem. 1:14:40-Close: The chefs bring in Eric Gagne and close out another excellent eppy. Braise on!

For the first time ever on Hold Fast we are joined by a new co-host, Dr Tim Herzog, a sports psychologist and clinical psychiatrist to improve our focus on athlete mental health and psychological performance. Caroline Atwood takes us through her journey through three different Olympic class sailboats and three different teammates before the Nacra17 sailboat that would be her official bid for the Tokyo Olympics. Along the way we tackle issues of teamwork, anxiety, even PTSD with Dr. Tim Herzog. To learn more about Tim's practice, Reaching Ahead, based in Annapolis Maryland visit his website: https://reachingahead.com/

Concierge Auctions VP of Business Development Katie Lawless takes you to one the world's finest properties in Annapolis, MD with this special "World Tour" series of BLOCKtalk. In this episode, learn more about the auction process and digitally discover our latest auction offering, a fully-renovated Georgian Revival mansion set on 23 acres overlooking the Severn River and just minutes from downtown Annapolis.

Erik had a buddy on board with him named Willy. Willy wasn't in on the conversation but I stayed on the boat with them for 30-45 minutes after wrapping up our conversation. They poured me a delicious Scotch and continued the conversation. Eric told me more about his life as a chef. Willy, as it turned out was in the Belgian Navy for 36 years and we even an admiral! He also served as a Belgian diplomat to the US. We covered a handful of topics from Marquis de Lafayette, what I would call my philosophy of the road trip- but from Eriks view and his take on the state of things both in the US and globally. This road trip is a roller coaster of emotions every single day!!

Erik had a buddy on board with him named Willy. Willy wasn't in on the conversation but I stayed on the boat with them for 30-45 minutes after wrapping up our conversation. They poured me a delicious Scotch and continued the conversation. Eric told me more about his life as a chef. Willy, as it turned out was in the Belgian Navy for 36 years and we even an admiral! He also served as a Belgian diplomat to the US. We covered a handful of topics from Marquis de Lafayette, what I would call my philosophy of the road trip- but from Eriks view and his take on the state of things both in the US and globally. This road trip is a roller coaster of emotions every single day!!

Kimberly Barton, Broker & Owner of Kinetic Realty, brings us the update on the Annapolis market, as well as great information. Kimberly knows her city like no one else. Kimberly Phone: (443) 837-5645 Kimberly Email KIMBERLY@KBARTONREALTOR.COM Kimberly Barton on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kbartonrealtor Kimberly Barton on Facebook Business Page https://www.facebook.com/kineticrealtyinc Kimberly Barton on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/KBartonRealtor Kimberly Barton on the Web https://www.kineticrealtyinc.com/ Kimberly Barton on LinkedIn Tom Ferry - http://www.TomFerry.com Coach Bob McCranie - https://www.facebook.com/BrokerCoachBob

Kimberly Barton, Broker & Owner of Kinetic Realty, brings us the update on the Annapolis market, as well as great information. Kimberly knows her city like no one else. ______________ Kimberly Phone: 443-837-5645 Kimberly Email KIMBERLY@KBARTONREALTOR.COM Kimberly Barton on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kbartonrealtor Kimberly Barton on Facebook Business Page https://www.facebook.com/kineticrealtyinc Kimberly Barton on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/KBartonRealtor Kimberly Barton on the Web https://www.kineticrealtyinc.com/ Kimberly Barton on LinkedIn Tom Ferry - http://www.TomFerry.com Coach Bob McCranie - https://www.facebook.com/BrokerCoachBob

Kimberly Barton, Broker & Owner of Kinetic Realty, brings us the update on the Annapolis market, as well as great information on the luxury and distressed markets as well Kimberly Phone: 443-837-5645 Kimberly Email KIMBERLY@KBARTONREALTOR.COM Kimberly Barton on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kbartonrealtor Kimberly Barton on Facebook Business Page https://www.facebook.com/kineticrealtyinc Kimberly Barton on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/KBartonRealtor Kimberly Barton on the Web https://www.kineticrealtyinc.com/ Tom Ferry - http://www.TomFerry.com Coach Bob McCranie - https://www.facebook.com/BrokerCoachBob

Covid 'hate crimes' against Asian Americans continue to rise. New analysis found a 164% increase in reports of anti-Asian hate crimes in the first quarter of 2021 compared with the same period last year. In this episode, Angie and her parents head to Annapolis Maryland to join Governor Larry Hogan, his wife Yumi and daughter Jaymi Sterling for a candid conversation being Asian American in America. Like Angie’s mom Yumi Hogan is a first generation Korean American. The Hogan’s talk about about feeling the impact of the anti-Asian hate during the pandemic. Both families open up about personal and painful experiences. They discuss why this racism may be hard for others to see and how to engage in dialogue and activism to help a community that is really scared right now and hurting.    CONTENT WARNING: Graphic surveillance videos of attacks on Asian Americans.  SUPPORT AAPI COMMUNITIES: Stop AAPI Hate stopaapihate.org  Asian Americans Advancing Justice advancingjustice-aajc.org/ National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association www.naapimha.org Center for Asian Pacific American Women: apawomen.org More at ohmygoff.com WATCH OMGS: youtube.com/ohmygoff  OH MY GOFF FB COMMUNITY: facebook.com/ohmygoff FOLLOW INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/ohmygoffshow

A long bike ride for a cause, Eric Gomez and his team which is Team Suicide Prevention will be joining the Race Across America this coming June 19th. A 3,100 mile race which will start at Oceanside California and will end at Annapolis Maryland. Their mission is to spread hope and awareness about mental health, and to raise $100,000 for the organizations that they are supporting. Statistically 22 veterans choose to end their life a day and in 2017 more first responders choose to take their lives than in the line of duty. And doing what you love and you dream of as a cyclist to help prevent these things from happening will be the best price you can get. For more information come and visit their website www.teamsuicideprevention.com of call 800 273 8255. To schedule a FREE real estate specialists consultation please contact Darryl Baskin and Pamela Wright of Baskin Real Estate Specialists powered by eXp Realty. DARRYL BASKIN Baskin Real Estate Specialists, eXp Realty Email: darryl@darrylbaskin.com Tel: 918 258 2600 Tel: 918 740 0077 Thinking of Selling? Get your FREE Home Valuation complete with local comparables instantly. https://www.homeguidetulsa.com/sell.php Looking to Purchase? Search thousands of current listings directly from our local MLS. https://www.homeguidetulsa.com/index.php?advanced=1&display=&custombox=&types[]=1&beds=0&baths=0&min=0&max=100000000&rtype=map#rslac

Ken Greene (aka the Engineer of Finance) is a financial advisor and founder of Greene Finance & Insurance. Ken began his career as a professional engineer who subscribed to a lucrative investment portfolio that included aggressive joint ventures, real estate, and the stock market. However, shortly after the market crash in 2008, he pivoted to the insurance and financial industry - where he quickly realized he was one of the few people who cared about educating their clients rather than just selling to them. He recognized that the financial industry needed to be run with precision and integrity like the engineering community he had come from. Subsequently, he founded his own company, Greene Finance & Insurance, and has developed an approach to finance with an emphasis on growing your wealth and protecting it with traditional financial principles and investments off Wall Street. His desire to continue to educate and help people led to the creation of his podcast, ENGINEER OF FINANCE, where he talks about how to enjoy today and have a wealthier tomorrow. Ken Greene Vroom Veer Stories Grew up in Morristown New Jersey and did his summers in Annapolis Maryland; his Dad opened the the first "Computer Land" Franchise in Morristown; Ken got to play around with circuit boardsSummer's on Chesapeake Bay at his Grandma's house; sailing, water skiing, crabbing; at age 11 driving a 40 foot boat and helping rescue other boats stuck in the water At age 17 he was a college freshman in the Electrical Engineering program in Reno, NV; when he thinks back about his behavior is college feels it is "cringe-worthy"; learned to forgive himself past, and present While still in school he landed an internship at Mallory Ignition in Carson City, NV; got hired after the internship and had fun working on race carsEnd up working for SBC and then AT&T as an outside plant design manager for about 5 years; he got tired of the endless number of useless meetings; took a job as a civil engineer while going back to schoolFinished up his CE school in 2008 when all construction stopped; so did a pivot and started selling insurance; didn't realize how much people didn't really like insurance agentsSurprised by the insurance and finance industry; more about sales and profit and less about educating clients; now bring engineering rigor to his client's finances Connections Website

Andrea Padley Montini is a family lawyer from Annapolis Maryland. You can read more about her work here: http://www.krohnlawannapolis.com/bio-andrea-padley-montini She can be found on both Instagram as @apadleyus    On this episode we discuss:  The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen - https://poutpoutfish.com/books/   The Book with No Pictures by BJ Novak - https://thebookwithnopictures.com/   Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/309024/dragons-love-tacos-by-adam-rubin-illustrated-by-daniel-salmieri/

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Rick Honig Founder of South River Surf Shop cavnessHR website: https://www.cavnessHR.com Jason's email: jasoncavness@cavnessHR.com @cavnessHR   across social media   @jasoncavnessHR across social media   CavnessHR Crowdfunding Campaign   We are doing a reward based crowdfunding campaign for CavnessHR starting March 2. We're doing this crowdfunding campaign to continue the build out of CavnessHR. Our rewards will include CavnessHR T-shirts, social media outreach for you and your company, ebooks, webinars and more. You can go to the CavnessHR Indiegogo link at   https://cavnesshr.co/crowdfunding    to donate or for more information   We talk about the following   His time as a Marine.   His time in the CIA.   Change Management.   Why he enjoys solving problems   Rich's Bio   Rick Honig is a Marine, Author, Father, Entrepreneur, and Change Leader. He's originally from San Jose California, currently in Annapolis Maryland. He is currently the founder of South River Surf Shop, a custom upholstery and product development company. He also recently began to organize a second small business geared for the IT consulting/leadership and change management industry.   He is working on his second novel, a follow-up to his first which was published in 2019 “Searching for Orion's Belt” In his 20-year career, Rick has worked in Military, Intelligence, Management Consulting, and managed the large majority of IT and Cloud infrastructure programs for a pseudo government agency/big bank.   His personal motto is “The Red Pill Was Your Choice” He is a problem-solving addict, with a knack for reaching back into his past to mold solutions.   He has a bachelors in business logistics from American Military University as well as a graduate certification from Georgetown in Change Management.   Ricks's Social Media   Rick's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-honig-56257831/   Rick's Twitter: https://twitter.com/RickHHonigII   Company Website: https://southriversurfshop.com/   Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/southriversurfshop/   Company Twitter: https://twitter.com/SouthRiverSurf1     Rick's Advice Just be transparent man. Most of the things work out, keep delivering.       If you enjoy The Jason Cavness Experience, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard to get guests. Plus, I love checking them out. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jersey Flight WR Larry Beavers joined broadcaster Nick Kosko for the 1st Flight Interview of 2021. Beavers began his professional career in the NFL with the Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints. In the AFL he was a standout player on the New Orleans Voodoo and Cleveland Gladiators. In 2014 he recorded 1K receiving yards and 1K kick return yards. He was named 2nd Team All-Arena in 2014 & 2016. Beavers won an ArenaBowl championship with the Philadelphia Soul in 2017 and an AAL championship with the West Virginia Roughriders in 2019. He is from Annapolis Maryland and is actively involved in his community. Interview produced by SFBN.

Keron Tooles gives us sage wisdom. Native from Annapolis Maryland,  Keron talks of how he started his company Boxed Essentials. .  A philanthropist at heart, Keron gives back to his community with each purchase made.  In this interview we learn about his hardships,  things you should steer from when starting a business, and what motivates him to to fail forward and fail fast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jamalia-deminds/support

An American Army Infantry veteran describes recovering from wounds and the trauma of combat as a Rifleman in the Vietnam War with the Americal Division.   John Weber, son of an Illinois truck driver, rose to become a leader in one of America's most respected law firms.   He recently retired to Annapolis Maryland.

Rear Admiral Kevin Quinn is the quintessential Naval Officer, His leadership was honed at sea as he led at every opportunity and commanded at every level. Anyone considering a career at sea will learn valuable lessons of leadership from one of the Navy's best Surface Warfare Officers. Admiral Quinn bleeds Navy Blue and Gold. The son of a Naval Officer he was born "on the crest of a wave" at the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, and graduated from the Academy 21 years later. Learn from this master mariner and warrior.

Naval Academy graduate. Marine Corps Officer. Combat pilot. First female selcted to the elite BLUE ANGLES aviation demonstration team... AND all around bad ass. Major Katie Higgins Cook joins us on this episode of Can You Survive This Podcast.

Please consider supporting us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/activethepodcastPromo By: Not Your Normal Murder PodcastNo Notoriety Campaign: www.nonotoriety.comDon’t Name Them Campaign: www.dontnamethem.comCredits:Narrated By: JT HosackWritten By: Mari ColeCreated, Researched, & Edited by: Kat MorrisDisclaimer By: Lanie Hobbs from the True Crime Fan Club PodcastActive Shooter: The Podcast is proudly partnered with The Oracl3 Network. Think Deeper.

On part 1 of this 2 part episode, I play some of most recent additions to my vinyl collection from my trip to Maryland! I visited Spin Groove Records in Easton, Maryland, and Ka-Chunk Records in Annapolis Maryland, and found some pretty great records!! Make sure you stay tuned because Part 2 is dropping THIS SUNDAY, you're not gonna want to miss it! I'll be spinning and discussing about records that I've picked up from all over the US and the World! I've listed all the songs from today's show down below, PLUS I've created playlists for today's episode as well as all previous episodes on Spotify and Apple Music   Songs from Today's Episode Song: "Still Water (Love)" Artist: The Four Tops Album: Still Water Runs Deep Song: "Reflections" Artist: The Four Tops Album: Still Water Runs Deep Song: "The Worst Band In The World" Artist: 10cc Album: Sheet Music Song: "Either Way" Artist: Dave Grusin Album: Mountain Dance Song: The Counts Artist: "Too Bad" Album: Love Sign Song: "Mexican Radio" Artist: Wall of Voodoo Album: Call of the West Song: "In Love" Artist: Prince Album: For You Song: "Are You Experienced" Artist: Devo Album: Are You Experienced 12" Song: "Sinner" (Live) Artist: Judas Priest Album: Unleashed in the East: Live in Japan Song: "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again" Artist: Bob Dylan Album: Blonde on Blonde  

Give us about ten minutes a day and we will give you all the local news, local sports, local weather, and local events you can handle.   SPONSOR: Many thanks to Solar Energy Services for sponsoring this podcast. If you think solar is in your future, please give Rick Peters and his team a call at 410-923-6090.  Today...Annapolis police are investigating crimes that occurred over a violent weekend including a sexual assault, an armed robbery, and a shooting. The University of Maryland College Park is delaying in person classes for two weeks. College football seems to be disintegrating before our eyes. The USNA has postponed Parents' Weekend indefinitely. And there are some BIG changes to voting I this year's election.  And finally, just a reminder to shop tax free this week! And of course, George  from DMV Weather  is here with your local weather forecast! Please download their APP so you can keep on top of the local weather scene! The Eye On Annapolis Daily News Brief is produced every Monday through Friday and available wherever you get your podcasts and also on our  YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter feeds, and of course at Eye On Annapolis.  

This episode features Sammie Blea, a 2011 graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy. In this episode, you’ll hear all about how Sammie navigated the shock of moving from a tight-knit family in a rural mountain town in Colorado all the way across the country to the distant East Coast city of Annapolis Maryland; how she managed hearing the devastating news while at the Academy that her mom had cancer; and how she’s been able to reframe her many ups and downs into a form of personal resiliency instead of viewing her time at the Academy as one of pure survival. Enjoy the show!

Learning about British Rear Admiral George Cockburn and how he became the most feared/hated man in America. Best tactic was spreading Fear itself into people. Learn how he and his crew waged destruction along the Coastlines of Virginia & Maryland. Also focus learning about an American named John Stuart Skinner who would become the first to hold two key positions especially the second one which will play a vital role. Note: Vital Role per Second Position to be discussed in a later Podcast Session. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kirk-monroe/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kirk-monroe/support

You heard that right...did you know there’s this secret all white nudist colony in Annapolis, MD? We were blown too. Sarah discusses an upcoming guest who says she was treated poorly at the colony for being black. Mark Kate Olson’s big divorce, we’re super sad about the overdose and death of Melissa Ethridge’s son, and another day another Kardashian drama (insert eye roll here), why Khloe is going off on everyone on twitter. Show sponsored by: prperformancefitness.com, Rothy’s use code FRASE, and horizonfibroids.com Need advice? Email: sarah@heyfrase.com

In his YouTube channel, Malcolm talks about my home state of Maryland and help home buyers moving here make smart real estate decisions. You'll learn insider secrets about Maryland that only someone living in Maryland will know. I will answer all of your real estate questions so you know you are making the best decision possible when it comes to your home. I am a Maryland native, 11 year Air Force Vet, YouTuber and Real Estate Agent, and team leader of The Lawson Group of Keller Williams. Located in Annapolis Maryland, I help Maryland families buy, sell and invest in real estate. If you are thinking about buying or selling a home here in Maryland, let's talk! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKCXzw4V62g44ExQWXvaPNg https://thelawsongroupmd.com/  

In his YouTube channel, Malcolm talks about my home state of Maryland and help home buyers moving here make smart real estate decisions. You'll learn insider secrets about Maryland that only someone living in Maryland will know. I will answer all of your real estate questions so you know you are making the best decision possible when it comes to your home. I am a Maryland native, 11 year Air Force Vet, YouTuber and Real Estate Agent, and team leader of The Lawson Group of Keller Williams. Located in Annapolis Maryland, I help Maryland families buy, sell and invest in real estate. If you are thinking about buying or selling a home here in Maryland, let's talk! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKCXzw4V62g44ExQWXvaPNg https://thelawsongroupmd.com/  

This week's episode features Stefan Heuer who is yet another talented musician from Annapolis Maryland. He has a very modern yet soulful sound and his new song is featured at the end of this episode. We talked about all kind's of different subjects and overall our FaceTime chat went well. Whether you're friends of Stefan's or a fan I think you'll enjoy it. Thanks again Stefan for coming on.  www.stefanheuermusic.com FB: www.facebook.com/stefanheuermusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_PKg4b9sM

This episode we talk to Anna, an Aerospace Engineering major at The United States Naval Academy. Tune in to hear Anna's unfiltered opinion on The Naval Academy!

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In this week’s episode of the church planting podcast Clint Clifton talks with Kenneth Jones on the subject of why church planting is so hard, and why it was so hard for Kenneth. If you would like to learn more about Kenneth Jones you can follow the links below. If you would like to visit the Church Planting Podcast’s new website you can follow the link below.Kenneth’s FacebookChurch Planting Podcast’s Website Transcription ALBERT: This is the Church Planting Podcast. Thank you for tuning inALBERT: Every week we sit down with leaders who are shaping church planting efforts.ALBERT: Here’s your host Josh Turansky and Clint CliftonJOSH TURANSKY: Alright welcome back to the church planting podcast. My name is Josh Turansky. I’m joined here by Clint Clifton.CLINT CLIFTON: Howdy-ho! JOSH TURANSKY: And uh… CLINT CLIFTON: Should we talk about the thing everybody still talks about? The Jesus is King?JOSH TURANSKY: Oh yeah. Yeah. Let’s spend a little bit of time. Kanye. Yes. I was a sheltered home-schooled pastor’s kid. Never listened to Kanye until this album came out. But man, I have, it has been a personal source of encouragement.CLINT CLIFTON: The album JOSH TURANSKY: Yeah. And just the story. Like you know, there’s like the ups and downs of church planting and things that are hard. And it’s been surprising, like out of the blue, “Well at least I have Kanye saved”. And I’ve taken encouragement in that. And I’ve enjoyed the album. CLINT CLIFTON: A lot of people, a lot of a people are saying, you know, I don’t think it’s real. Well what would you say to those guys?JOSH TURANSKY: Well man, you do not see the rejection of Paul when he got saved. And it took Barnabas like to say like, “Hey! Here’s what’s going on.” And I understand, I mean you know? Culturally we’ve gotten burned before but, I just don’t think as Christians that the Christian disposition is one of cynicism.CLINT CLIFTON: Well I kind of think the bible speaks directly to this issue. And it says some preach the Gospel out of rivalry as you can see but, as long as Jesus is preached. JOSH TURANSKY: Totally. There you go. That nails it.CLINT CLIFTON: So, it’s really. It doesn’t matter. If I understand that verse right, it doesn’t matter if his born again or not. JOSH TURANSKY: Yeah. Yeah. Let me just add, one other thing that has been encouraging is just, his very dependent person. You know? So, it’s been encouraging to see the Theology coming through even just his first album. I mean he has some great…like the exchanged life is in there and just the idea of you know, Christ living you know, His life through us. For a new believer to be talking about that I think that’s awesome. What’s inspiring about artist as a whole is that they usually just do what’s normal. You know they break the rules and their just kind of outside the bounds. So not necessarily you know, Sunday service what he’s doing, but he’s just…I just appreciate the freedom of artist as a whole. And his kind of like the most recent one that I’ve watched in action.CLINT CLIFTON: Ok good. Well we did it, the obligatory talk about Jesus JOSH TURANSKY: Kanye. Yeah. There we go.So, what are we going to do in this episode?CLINT CLIFTON: Well we’re going to talk to Kenneth Jones or KJ as I call him. KJ is a church planter in Washington. And he’s just got the most interesting back story. I’m hesitant to say much about right now ‘cause I just want him to share it and tell it. But this all came out because a couple months ago we were together and he was leading a program with his church and I was helping. Anyway, there was this conversation that was happening. He said the phrase “Church planting’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” And I knew his back story and I said, I knew had been through somethings that I would assume are way harder than church planting and I asked him about that. And you’re going to hear what he has to say about it. So this is Kenneth Jones.JOSH TURANSKY: Let’s jump right in.CLINT CLIFTON: So, you want to lead your church to multiply. But in order to do that you have to raise up new potential leaders from inside your congregation. But how in the world are you supposed to do that with all the other plates you have spinning? Well, the North American Mission Board has created a tool to help you equip the saints for the work of the ministry. It’s called the multiplication pipeline. And it helps you identify and train missional leaders, potential church planters, and potential church planting team members from right there inside your own congregation. The pipeline starts with a simple assessment tool in a three-year online training system follows to equip missional leaders. Learn more about the multiplication pipeline by visiting their website namb.net/pipeline. That’s namb.net/pipeline.CLINT CLIFTON: Kenneth, you and I think have known each other I don’t know for about 5 years or somethingKENNETH JONES: I think that’s about right.CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah. And of all the church planters I know, you got an interesting back story. So I wanted to talk about you’re back story a little bit but can you just walk us through how you came to faith in Christ and what the circumstances of your life were when you came to faith in Christ? KENNETH JONES: Ah yeah. My upbringing is not at all in the church. Not at all religious. The funning thing, I had to say until I was 25, I really thought that Easter was just about bunnies and chocolates. I have no connection to the resurrection at all. Dad died when I was 8 years old and that left me with a pretty big hole in my heart and in my life led me to a life in high school and College in my mid 20s where I drank a ton. I did just about any drug you could think of. And, ended up in Georgia with a job as a sports caster at a television station in Maycomb Georgia. So, life seemed like it was going well. I graduated College somehow. I was actually doing the job the career what I wanted to do all my life. Got down there when I was 30 years old and life was going really well. And I guess I was about 8 months into my job decided to go out one night after work and drank until about 6 in the morning.CLINT CLIFTON: And at that point in your life you were considering your drinking habit like. Would you consider yourself an alcoholic? Or it was…KENNETH JONES: Yeah. I would. Maybe by definition not necessarily. But I would definitely say I had an alcohol dependency issue and a drug dependency issue. And drank silly until early in the morning. And for some reason decided I would try to go home. On the way home I passed out behind the wheel, and swerved into oncoming traffic. And hit another car head on. And the woman in that car died on the scene. I don’t remember anything about that. I just remember waking up in the hospital and hearing that somebody had died. So yeah, life changed really quickly in that moment. Was out on bond for 6 months and was sentenced to spend 7 years in prison was the sentence. Ultimately got out in 4 ½ but went to prison. I want to get back to your question, how did I come to faith? So, Jesus is a big topic of conversation in prison. And for the first couple of years…CLINT CLIFTON: What do you mean about that?KENNETH JONES: People just talked about Him a lot.CLINT CLIFTON: Inmates?KENNETH JONES: Inmates. In prison yeah. I’ll get a little bit more into that in a second. Yeah, He was just a big topic of conversation. I felt the people that were talking about Jesus were pretty crazy. Someone had shared the Gospel with me and I just said, “That’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.”CLINT CLIFTON: Another inmate.KENNETH JONES: Yeah, another inmate had shared that with me. And then just timing, oh I might keep it a little brief here. But you know, things just kind of kept happening while I was in prison that I couldn’t ignore. Had been wrongfully accused of something and was going to be sent to a wing of the prison that I didn’t want to be in. I’ll just put it that way. And the guy who I had my detail with, went to back for me and got me out of that situation. I was, one of my details was as a firefighter, so I actually just get trained in firefighter 1, firefighter 2, first responder. While I was there, ran into a guy who said he was a Christian but read a lot of stuff on Buddhism. And I started reading things on Buddhism. And that gave me a spirituality without responsibility. And one of their tenants is to let go of your control issues. And so, I’m in the process of trying to let go of my control issues and it dawns on me is the reason why I’ve been so standoffish to this Jesus guy is because to embrace Christianity would be to embrace that I don’t have control. CLINT CLIFTON: So, you’re saying that in a sense Buddhism pointed you to Jesus? KENNETH JONES: I’m saying that in a sense Buddhism pointed you to Jesus. God is great.CLINT CLIFTON: That’s cookie. KENNETH JONES: It’s cookie. But also, God can use whatever. Right? And so, see that kind of started the questions in my head. Again, a number of things kind of happened while I was in prison that began to weave questions in my head. I got transferred to a transitional center about three years into my time. And ran into a guy named Marquis Foster there. And again, he was a Christian. But he was younger than me. And he was wild so, we’ve had a lot of conversations. It was me trying to keep him out of trouble. Him basically talking to me about the credibility of scripture. And one day, we were walking to our detail and he just stopped in his tracks and he said “Man. You know it’s a real shame.” “What’s that?” He said, “You really have a heart that God could use if You just let Him.” And that sticks to me to this day. I was in my dorm room with 8 guys in there. And I was cleaning up getting ready for inspection. There was uhm…let me back track really quick, really quick. There was this moment of time months before that, when I came to that realization through Buddhism, this is why I’m not embracing Christianity. I said alright if it comes to me, I’ll investigate this Jesus. And so, months later I was in this transitional center and cleaning up ready for inspection. There’s a Bible sitting on the desk. And I said, “Hey! Who ever Bible this is, you got to put it in your locker. You can’t have it for inspection.” And nobody claimed the Bible. And one of the guys said, “Well, why don’t you read it?” And I remembered saying if it comes to me, I’ll investigate. And so, I said, “Ok. What should I do?” And one of the guys was like, “Well, today’s the first of the month. There’s 31 days this month. There’s 31 chapters in the book of Proverbs. Read the Proverbs.” So, here’s the gist, I’m getting discipled by a lot of prison inmates. Right? We spend a lot of time, I was joking, we spend a lot of time figuring out our best discipleship program and I got discipled by guys in prison. So I started reading Proverbs one a day and they would ask me, they’d have me read, and they’d ask me at the end of the night what’d I read and what I think. And eventually, literally they drugged me kicking and screaming to a Bible study that was happening at the center Tuesdays and Friday nights. And I was just…CLINT CLIFTON: And why were you so resistant? Just the idea of you didn’t be one of those guys? Religious dude? You didn’t want to be a Jesus thumper?KENNETH JONES: Yeah. I mean, well I mean, my whole life I made fun of it. My whole life I mocked and laughed and it was beginning to make sense. But to cross that bridge to, literally what I say was, “Hey I hear that music you guys singing there, and that’s crazy. And I don’t want to do that.” And there was just a hurdle of alright reading. I’m there. That’s cool. But to like to cross that bridge to go to a service, to listen to the music, to sing the music, was a little too weird. Yes, so I went into that bible study. And that was the first time that I’ve ever had somebody open the bible and teach me. CLINT CLIFTON: So that guy, Marquis you say his name was? KENNETH JONES: Marquis Foster. Yeah.CLINT CLIFTON: You have been in contact with him now?KENNETH JONES: No. I’ve tried to look for him in Facebook and I can’t find him. I’ve called the prison system and I can’t find him.CLINT CLIFTON: We have an incredibly large listening audience on this podcast. I mean millions and millions of people. So, I’m sure someone out there know Marquis. So just go ahead and let us know if you do.KENNETH JONES: That would be awesome. That would be awesome. Hey Marquis if you’re out there. CLINT CLIFTON: He’s probably out there listening right now. We’d love to connect with you Marquis.KENNETH JONES: Yeah.CLINT CLIFTON: Ok so, you are coming alive to Jesus in prison and picked this for you.KENNETH JONES: Yeah. So that was the spring of ’07 that the Lord found me. And just radically change my life forever. I mean obviously, and I know this may seem cliché, but obviously the concept of forgiveness is for someone who is sitting in a prison cell is a pretty big concept. But yeah, He radically changed my life. And that beautiful thing about it is that once I came to Jesus, I still had a year and a half left on my sentence. So, I got to spend a year and half with a bible and Jesus. And so, when I was about to get out, interestingly enough, the guys told me, “Hey when you get out make sure you find yourself a bible and believe in church.” And I was like, “Why would you need to tell me that?” And they were like “You’ll see.” And so, I have seen it. And I though I wanted to, I was like “Hey, I’m going to find myself a small church.” And the Lord in His humor and wisdom led me to North Point Community Church in Alpharetta Georgia which many people know probably one of the 5 largest churches. So, my hope in being in a small church was not granted. But it was a place for me to be. At that time, I was there for about 4 ½ years. And served in a various number of ministries there. And I remember the pastor there Andy preaching one time on Jonah. And he said, “You know, being in the belly of a large fish is probably the scariest, smelliest, darkest, place you could ever imagine being. But the scripture said God sent the fish for Jonah. And I remember thinking at that time that prison was my fish. And so, as you know the story of Jonah, right when Jonah gets out of his fish he says, “God whatever You want me to do I will do.” And I always say, “I don’t want to turn into Jonah 4. But God whatever you want me to do. And so yeah, in 2012 my time, my kind of part time position at North Point that internship had ended. And around the same time was when the Lord was calling me to plant a church in Washington DC through various conversations, from different calls. Yeah so, I packed my bags in January 2013. Had zero plan of what I was going to do. Was scared to death. And the Lord provided me with a job as a young adult youth pastor in Crofton Maryland. Started there in May 2013. Was just looking for our young adults to do something for young adults to serve. Literally I was just starting the ministry they didn’t have it there. And got connected to a guy, a pastor in Annapolis Maryland and had lunch with him. Was sharing this same story with him and he said, “You really need to talk to my friend Mark.” And I said, “Why is that?” He said, “Well I happen to be part of a church planting network. And Mark is our director I think you need to talk to him.” CLINT CLIFTON: And so that was you’re step in to the church planting world. Fast forward to your church planting story which is fascinating but just for the sake of time, you know are leading a church that you helped or found.KENNETH JONES: Yeah yeah. So, by God‘s grace, right that was 2014 and now yeah redeemers city church is a reality. And through network sites North American Mission World and Sent Network and so we started that church in September of 2014. And by God’s grace we’re still alive todayCLINT CLIFTON: Yeah. And you’re in the district which if you’re not familiar with Washington, it’s pretty small geographically. So, you’re inside the district. Tell us about your neighborhood.KENNETH JONES: Yeah. We are in North West; I mean North East DC in a neighborhood called Brook land. Pretty diverse neighborhood it‘s looks like most of DC, it’s kind of in the process of gentrifying. Yeah so pretty diverse neighborhood. And by God’s grace we look like our community. And so, we love celebrating our diversity. Yeah, the neighborhood is about 2 miles east of the Maryland border and just north of the capital.CLINT CLIFTON: And so, it’s a pretty residential area part of the city.KENNETH JONES: It doesn’t look like where we are right now. Yeah. That’s one of our focuses right now. It’s how do we reach families. Because it’s a very family-oriented location.CLINT CLIFTON: And you meet in a school.KENNETH JONES: Yeah. It’s been a blessing that God has given us a place in Brook land to meet at a pretty good price.CLINT CLIFTON: So, isn’t it like crazy cheap?KENNETH JONES: Oh, crazy cheap. I’m not, I’m not going to...could I say it?CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah. Sure.KENNETH JONES: We pay about $25.00 a week.CLINT CLIFTON: That’s about a $100 a month. That’s a pretty good dealKENNETH JONES: Yeah. What we really do is we cut them a check once a year for $2000.00 and that’s it.CLINT CLIFTON: That’s incredible. Really. Yeah. Well there’s a lot of very angry church planters listening right now. KENNETH JONES: That’s why I was like “Are you sure you want me to say it?”CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah. No. I want you to say it. You must be living right? You know? CLINT CLIFTON: Ok, so you know, but, the church planting journey hasn’t exactly been easy for you, you guys have been there and growth has been slow and difficulty. And probably I’m imagining your like most church planters the kind of expectations you have for what it would look like at year 5 or 6 are way different from what they’re actually are. So how you dealt with the difficulties in church planting? KENNETH JONES: Yeah. You’re absolutely right. It’s been, it’s been a roller coaster ride. It’s been a lot of up and down. It’s uhm…so, part of the story of kind of back story of me feeling called to church plant is, I was sitting at lunch with one guy. I’m answering your question trust me. I was sitting at lunch with a guy in Georgia and it was in that conversation that he was really calling me and go and plant a church in DC. And I was like, “Wait a minute. It sounds like you want me to move now and not in like four years which was what my plan was.” And he said, “Well, KJ yeah. Absolutely.” He said, “This will be the hardest thing you’ve ever done. But I’m looking in your eyes and I’m listening to your heart and I can tell that this is something that Jesus had put in your heart. And what I started thinking was, “Well, this guy doesn’t know I’ve been to prison. This surely isn’t going to be the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” But fast forward 5 years, he was right. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done. CLINT CLIFTON: So, you’re a guy who spent almost 5 years in prison. And you’ve been church planting for almost 5 years. And you’re saying now ‘Yeah. You’re right. The 4 ½ years I’ve done in prison were not as tough as the last 5 years.KENNETH JONES: Yeah. In a lot of ways.CLINT CLIFTON: That’s crazy.KENNETH JONES: Yeah.CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah. So, what are those ways? Let’s talk specifically about what it has been, what specifically has been so challenging about church planting? KENNETH JONES: Yeah, well like what you said, it’s been a lot of up and down. You know? The first couple of years were really really hard. I think in terms of church planting, like there’s just this constant, a constant grind. If we’re comparing it to prison there’s a more constant grind. Emotional, financial, spiritual, there’s a day in day out grind where as in prison really kind of your day is set for you. I think read somewhere sometime that like when you’re in prison, and this is not the little prison, when you’re in prison, you make about 50 decisions a day. And when your out of prison, you make upwards of over 500 decisions a day. And so there’s just this greater grind…CLINT CLIFTON: And then when your church planting you make about 5000 a day. KENNETH JONES: Yeah, yeah exactly. So, there’s that. Right? And I sometimes say, jokingly, like when I was in prison I knew when the time was going to end. And church planting I don’t know when the time is going to end. CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah. So, your sentence just keeps on going.KENNETH JONES: Yeah, your sentence just keeps on going. Like when I was in prison, I had 4 and a half years, here we’re already 5 years in and we’re still going. And I say that jokingly, but here’s the thing right here. Right? As I think about that right? Paul said, “Do not go weary in doing good.” And I think he says that because it can be wearying to do good. Like Paul the church planter himself. Often, he says, ‘Do not go weary in doing good.” And again, yeah, in prison, the time is finite unless your life sentence. But the work of church planting and growing churches and multiplying churches we do until Jesus comes back. And so, yeah. Do not go weary in doing good. Uhm, I think that in other ways, right? Church planting actually like, it highlights my own sin. What’s been difficult for me is really understanding that I’m not in control. I’ve realized what Jesus has taught me in my church planting journey is that, I’m not in control. And I struggle with that a lot. Like you said, the expectation of what’s going to happen versus what actually happens, teaches you a lot that you’re not in control. And, you know? I can beat my head against the wall and I can try to figure out all these different ways to do different things or to bring more people. But ultimately, if Jesus isn’t doing that then it’s not happening. And then the other thing is, one of the really crazy things that I experience from going being in prison to coming out of prison but I think just makes…helps me realize the difficulty of spiritual life in this world. Is that when I got out of prison, I recognized how loud this world is. Like I said, when I was in prison I came to Christ. I had about a year and a half left where I just had so much quiet. And it was just me, and Jesus, and his Words. And out here the world lulls you into this idea that the hecticness, the loudness, the fast-paced living is normal. And then we get into church planting and we’ve got meetings, we’ve got places we need to be, and all these different things that are going on when you need to get ready for Sunday. We need vision casting, we need the raise and support, we need all these different things. And I think that we can really really really miss out on the importance of being still and being quiet. And so, for all of those reasons, I need to get back to answering your question, for all of those reasons, in many ways, church planting has been harder than being in prison CLINT CLIFTON: Well I think that’s discouraging, I think? KENNETH JONES: That would be encouraging.CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah. So applying that to the two probably most likely groups of people who are listening to this today. Group 1 would be those guys who are intending to start a church. What do you want them to hear from what you just said? KENNETH JONES: Man, stay connected to Jesus. I think that in a lot of ways we can begin to believe that we are the primary reason for the rise and fall of our church. And what I recognized in just a couple of months ago as I was kind of processing through a lot of this with a friend of mine is, so on the bad, I mean their both bad, so on the negative side of it I guess is, if I’m thinking ‘cause our church was struggling to grow, if I’m thinking that reason the ultimate reason that we’re not growing is because of me, then Lord willing if we do go I’ll also think it’s because of me. And so, learning to, learning to walk in the causal understanding we have responsibilities as church planters. But understanding that ultimately Jesus is the one who builds this Church. So, we really need to stay connected to Him, and allow Him to take the reigns of the process. Allow Him to be our coach, to be our guide to remind us how he has shaped us. Because, especially for someone like me, it’s easy for me to look around at what’s happening in the church planting world, and try to be someone I’m not. CLINT CLIFTON: And the second most likely person who is listening is the guy who is in the same situation you’re in basically. They’ve been working, laboring, and they’re coming face to face with reality that church planting is really challenging. And so what do you say to that guy?KENNETH JONES: Yeah. I’m with you brother. It is challenging. But man, it’s worth it. You know I’ve had morning, Monday mornings where I’ll wake up and I sit on my couch and I wonder if there is anything else, I can do? Is there anything else I can do? And what typically happens is I’m like, “Well, I could plant another church.” And then I’m like “Well, why don’t I just really, just try where I’m already in?” And so, I would just say, like we said earlier in the other one, stay connected to Jesus. Do not grow weary in doing good. I think that it can be easy to, again it can be easy to look around and see other churches growing faster. Other churches just seemingly doing a whole lot better. And what I tend to remind myself in those moments, I’ll be honest, I struggle with comparison. But one of the things I remind myself in those moments that I remember Jesus walking with Peter in John 21. When he’s telling Peter all of the things that he’s going to go through. All the things that he’s going to suffer for Christ, and Peter turns and sees John, and he says “What about him?” and Jesus says, “What does it matter to you what I do with him? I’m talking to you.” And so, if you’re out there, a struggling church planter, like I know it’s hard not to compare. But yeah, John got to live ‘till his 90s and write Revelations. And Peter’s life was different. But both lives glorified God. CLINT CLIFTON: You know, one thing that I get to see now in the role that I’m in that I didn’t get to see when I was a church planter, that I wish every church planter could see is that, no matter how good it’s going in any particular church plant every church planter feels the same. Like, I can’t emphasize enough the feelings and the experiences and the emotions of church planting are the same for the seemingly successful church planter as they are for the seemingly very unsuccessful church planter. And uhm, it’s like a 31:00 vakinghim condition I guess. So, you know, it’s like a carryout in front of us. We’re never satisfied with what it is the Lord has sent out, or our expectations are never quite met. So anyway, so I think the listeners in the service if we didn’t at least let them know how the situation ended up with how the Lord used the wreck and prison in your life. Just wrap that story up for us in some way.KENNETH JONES: Yeah, yeah. So uhm, I think so, one of the things a couple of months ago, a conviction that I had is that the Lord said to me, “Lead the way I need you.” Right? And so, that has transformed the way that I’m leading my church and we are now getting involved in prison ministry. We are actually throwing an angel tree Christmas party event. In about a week in December 13th for kids who have parents who are incarcerated. Getting our church mobilized towards prison ministry. We’re getting involved with CSOSA which is a reentry organization in DC. Beginning to mentor guys who are coming out of the system. And our hope, our goal, our vision I believe the vision that God has given me just recently is that within the next 5 years we would have a three-bedroom unit in which we could have a transitional housing for people coming out of the prison system. As well as a non-profit job placement program and a non-profit counseling center. ‘Cause basically what I thought about in prayer is, what are the things that I needed coming out of prison? And it was housing, it was a job, and it was a community around me.CLINT CLIFTON: And that’s incredible. So, there’s somebody listening today who resonates to that, that they want to help in some way, how can they get in touch with you? What’s the best way to do that?KENNETH JONES: Yeah. I would say through our website – redeemerdc.org. You can email info@redeemerdc.org. That email will get to me. I would love to talk to you if you’re someone who says “Hey! I can provide that housing.” “I can rent a grant.” Or “I can do whatever. I just want to help fund that. I’d love to talk to you.” CLINT CLIFTON: That’s great man.KENNETH JONES: Yeah, that’s great.CLINT CLIFTON: Well I appreciate you KJ. Thank you so much for taking the time. I know it’s a little vulnerable sharing all that personal information about yourself but I have been benefited from your story and seeing God’s grace in your life so thank you. KENNETH JONES: Well thank you. CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah.CLINT CLIFTON: Hey Josh. We got to figure out how to get people to write reviews. How do we do it?JOSH TURANSKY: Yes. That means we need to motivate people to take action. You know that’s why podcast have such a hard time. ‘Cause we just don’t do stuff. CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah it is. And I don’t either…JOSH TURANSKY: They’re driving right now on the freeway. They can’t leave a review. CLINT CLIFTON: I listen to podcast all the time and I don’t think I’ve ever written a review. Yet I find myself in this position. Like, we really really need people to write reviews.JOSH TURANSKY: We do. And we just kind of, we have a new feed tool. We kind updated some stuff that might be hurting our algorithm a little bit in iTunes. So we really need reviews.CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah. We do and I don’t know what to do. Maybe we should just pray that God could convince other people. And cause them to go. Another thing they could do is go on our Facebook page and like it. And there’s actually reviews on our feed. You can put a review on our Facebook page. You know? And that’s a good place to go to. That’s all we have to say.JOSH TURANSKY: Good.ALBERT: Thank you for listening to the church planting podcast. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review of your favorite podcast today.JOSH TURANSKY: Today’s episode of the church planting podcast is sponsored by New City Network, The Church Planting Ministry of McClain Bible. A special thanks to today’s guest Kenneth Jones for taking time to join us. Josh Turansky produces todays show. Zukey Bastien was our show runner and her husband Nick was our editor. Thanks to Hudson Turansky and Marvin Moore who provided administrative and web support for the program and last but not least thanks to you for listening through to the end of the church planting podcast. Hey if you’d like to know more information about the show visit our brand-new website www.churchplantingpodcast.org. There you can see past episodes as well as notes as links for today’s show. Be sure to tune in next week as we sit down with Mayor Kevin Brown to discuss what pastors need to know about mayors.

  Host Zack Demopoulos recently attended a ComForCare national conference and had the opportunity to speak with quite a few owners and operators  of ComForCare home care agencies from all over this continent. He shares some great tips from these passionate providers that come from their experience of hiring many caregivers in these series.    In this episode he interviews Tom Bolonder, owner and operator of a ComForCare home care agency in Annapolis Maryland right on Chesapeake Bay.      This show is sponsored by ComForCare, a national home care provider that will help you live your best life possible.  https://comforcare.com/   In previous Episode 26 and Episode 27   Zack discussed hiring home care to help you care for a family loved one so that they can continue to live at home independently and safely.  Home Care is Day 17 of the 30 Day Preparation Plan to care for an aging adult.      Tom share:  what they do as a home care provider. The right agency has to be hiring the right caregivers.   Gives an example of a client and what his caregiver does for them.   Caregivers are usually referred by other caregivers.  A good agency will treat them well, invest in training,  have a mentor program Tom and his wife hire for heart, like the Chic Fil A model.   Talks about the importance of doing reference checks on that caregiver with clients they have cared for in the past.  How to hire for heart: Sit down and talk with them, you can tell when you sit down and talk with them, genuine care. Have they taken care of their own family?  Volunteered?    Tom shared questions you should be asking a home care agency in hiring a caregiver for their family loved one: What are the minimum hours?       Will it be the same caregiver for all shifts?   What kind of training do the caregivers go through?   How do you vet your caregivers?   What is the cost?   Can you get references?   Do they drive to appointments?  Do they cook?   How often will you report back to us?   Thank you for joining us for Episode 29.  Join us for the next episode where we continue our series on hiring a caregiver to help you care for a family loved one.     Thank you for listening to the Raising ‘Rents podcast. If you have any questions or feedback, please go to our website www.raisingrents.com and click on the “Contact” tab.  Let us know about any topics you want covered.  You can also find the show notes and references to anything we talked about.  Until we talk again, remember that our parents raised us, the least we can do is help raise them. Talk to you later.   References:   Tom and Sue BolanderComForCare Phone: (443) 906-6282 Fax: (443) 906-6284 Address: 846 Ritchie Hwy, Suite L-2 Severna Park, MD 21146   FACEBOOK PAGE   Sources used in this episode:   Intro/outro music: Arthaiz Other music:   bensound-acousticbreeze bensound credit e7Daughter Anastasia Demopoulos does the opening voice overWebsite created and managed by Philip Golden

On today’s show we’re coming to you live from Annapolis Maryland. Annapolis is the capital of the state of Maryland. It’s also the home of the US Naval Academy. This is where the US Navy trains its officers. It’s also home to the world’s largest in the water boat show. It’s an important town because it is a state capital. But it is a small town. Total population is only 39,000. It’s small because it is geographically constrained. On today’s show we’re going to do a small walking tour of Annapolis from a real estate perspective. This town is decidedly anti development. It’s a vey quaint seaside town with historic homes set on narrow streets with cobblestone sidewalks. Many of the narrow century old townhouses have a flag pole jutting out from the side of the house. You won’t have to go very far to be reminded which country you are in. Most of the streets are one way streets and many of them are dead end streets. They’re dead end streets because in Annapolis it’s common to run out of land and come across the Chesapeake Bay. The many inlets, rivers and coves make for a very intimate and extensive coastline. Many of the waterfront homes have a boat docked in front. The idyllic setting is one of the most picturesque coastal towns in all of North America. Real Estate is expensive here. Waterfront homes are priced usually between $2-3M. Development in Annapolis is difficult because any development that falls within what is called a critical area must be sent to the State of Maryland Critical Area Commission for the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays prior to receiving local zoning approval, or a building permit. Generally speaking any property within 1000 feet of a waterway falls into the critical area overlay. In this zone, a whole bunch of extra rules come into play. Most of these rules are designed to protect the sensitive waterways of the Chesapeake and coastal regions. For example, there are vegetation requirements. There are restrictions on waste transfer. You are unlikely to get a septic system approved on a property in the critical area overlay. This is not an easy town to be a real estate investor. We saw an old townhouse in very poor condition. It had a public notice posted in the front window. The owner of the home was seeking to make improvements including new siding, new windows, and a small addition in the rear yard. The entire process had been opened up to public review. That home, is directly across the street from the courthouse and has been in distressed condition waiting for the application process to complete. A review of commercial listings in Annapolis shows only a single 5 unit building for sale. The next closest listing is a commercial property for sale in neighbouring Parole which is one exit away on the freeway. Annapolis is a difficult place to get anything approved. Residents are decidedly anti-development. This is why you see very few new structures in the town at all. Older structures are governed by the Annapolis Historic Preservation Commission which has final say on any changes to properties within the historic district. For example, the Annapolis Waterfront hotel recently wanted to update the Awnings, fence and landscaping. This too had go in front of the Historic Preservation Commission for comments and approval. We’re not even talking about any permanent structures. We’re talking about awnings, fence and landscaping. As you think about undertaking projects, pay close attention to the rules in your municipality.

Peter Conti is the author of "Commercial Real Estate For Dummies" and lives with his family in Annapolis Maryland. Six years ago, he survived a devastating motorcycle injury. As part of his rehabilitation, he walked the entire Appalachian trail from Georgia to Maine. Listen to this fascinating conversation with Peter Conti.

Yuripzy Morgan stays on for another episode.  She is the host of the Yuripzy Morgan show on WBAL and trust and estates lawyer out of Annapolis Maryland.  She's comes onto the show to put the lawyers to the test.  Yuripzy received her undergraduate degree in Biology, attended law school, works full-time as a radio host and full time some more as a lawyer.  She's going to give us some insight into the daily running of a radio show and diving deep into immigration issues and the SCOTUS' recent term. Today they sample the Blackwater Distilling Whiskey finished in Sherry Barrels. On the agenda: Top Topic: if you have a voucher system for public money to spend on private education, can the government tell you which schools you can or cannot attend?  Baltimore Sun details a situation which will be a case of first impression when it winds its way up to the SCOTUS SCOTUS term update I can't Believe it's Not Baltimore: Erection longer than 4 days?  Sue the jail DNA story follow up - DNA testing Service exposed thousands of records with personal data to the public. CBP and their secret Facebook page?  Good, bad, or ugly? Lawyers on the Rocks features Jeremy Eldridge, Kurt Nachtman and Adam Crandell. This triumvirate of lawyers will give you their unsolicited opinion on everything legal and illegal, while enjoying a handcrafted cocktail. Lawyers on the Rocks is sponsored by the Law Office of Eldridge, Nachtman & Crandell, LLC and produced by Up Next Creative, LLC.

This week the lawyers are joined by Yuripzy Morgan, Host of the Yuripzy Morgan show on WBAL and trust and estates lawyer out of Annapolis Maryland.  She's comes onto the show to put the lawyers to the test.  Yuripzy received her undergraduate degree in Biology, attended law school, works full-time as a radio host and full time some more as a lawyer.  She's going to give us some insight into the daily running of a radio show and diving deep into immigration issues and the SCOTUS' recent term. Today they sample the classic Martini cocktail.  Baltimore's own H.L. Mencken called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The Martini consists of London Dry Gin and dry vermouth combined in a 2:1 ratio, strained into a chilled cocktail glass with a green olive (or lemon peel).  Martini can be made dry, dirty, or perfect depending on additional ingredients.  More info can be found here. On the agenda: All about Yuripzy.  How she got to the radio, what it's like being a full time lawyer and a full time radio host, and how you put a 2 hour show together EVERY DAY. Immigration update on Asylum: Trump changes the game, again. I can't believe it's not Baltimore: Farting in the wind gives up suspect's location. Lawyers on the Rocks features Jeremy Eldridge, Kurt Nachtman and Adam Crandell. This triumvirate of lawyers will give you their unsolicited opinion on everything legal and illegal, while enjoying a handcrafted cocktail. Lawyers on the Rocks is sponsored by the Law Office of Eldridge, Nachtman & Crandell, LLC and produced by Up Next Creative, LLC.

Why do marketers routinely ignore one big thing that can make or break their marketing strategy? This week on The Inbound Success Podcast, Dan Gingiss talks about why customer experience trumps marketing every time - and how you as a marketer can create viral customer experiences. Dan is an author, podcaster, keynote speaker, and noted customer experience expert who has headed up social media and customer experience for a slew of Fortune 500 companies. He has made it his business to curate examples of the best and worst customer experiences and distill the lessons learned into actionable strategies for companies looking to take their game to the next level. In this week's episode, Dan shares both why customer experience is so important as well as how marketers can develop a customer experience strategy, including actionable tips on things like writing marketing copy and getting more in touch with what your customers actually want and need. This week's episode of The Inbound Success Podcast is brought to you by our sponsor, IMPACT Live,  the most immersive and high energy learning experience for marketers and business leaders. IMPACT Live takes place August 6-7, 2019 in Hartford Connecticut and is headlined by Marcus Sheridan along with special guests including world-renowned Facebook marketing expert Mari Smith and Drift CEO and Co-Founder David Cancel. Inbound Success Podcast listeners can save 10% off the price of tickets with the code "SUCCESS".  Click here to learn more or purchase tickets for IMPACT Live Some highlights from my conversation with Dan include: If you don't have a great product or service, then really no amount of marketing is going to work in the long run. It might get people to buy your product to service, but then they're going to be dissatisfied with it, and they're going to return it, or they're going to tell their friends that it's terrible, or what have you. Today there's no longer such a thing as an offline experience. Any experience - good or bad - throughout any stage of the customer journey, has a strong likelihood of being shared online. 30% of consumers say after a negative experience, that they would post a negative review online, or on social media. But, almost 50% of consumers say the same thing about a positive experience. Being responsive on social media is so critical, especially to the people that are complaining because you have an opportunity to make things right. People who complain, complain because they care. The ones who don't care have already left for your competition. They've already switched providers, and they don't care whether you fix it or not. The best place to start when building a great customer experience is with language. So many companies are using language that frankly, most consumers either don't understand, or can't connect with. One way to do this is by writing marketing copy that is witty (this is not the same as being humorous, which may or may not resonate with your audience). If you struggle to be witty, the easiest way to start is to eliminate jargon and technical terminology from your copy, and then to read what you write back to yourself and ask yourself, "does this sound like something I would say in conversation?" The best way to identify opportunities to create shareable customer experiences is to actually be a customer of your own product. Resources from this episode: Save 10% off the price of tickets to IMPACT Live with promo code "SUCCESS" Visit Dan's website Read Dan's column on Forbes Connect with Dan on LinkedIn Follow Dan on Twitter Listen to the Experience This! podcast with Dan Gingiss and Joey Coleman Listen to the podcast to learn how to build a best-in-class customer experience strategy and hear specific examples of other companies that are already doing it. Transcript Kathleen Booth (Host): Welcome back to the Inbound Success Podcast. I'm Kathleen Booth, and I am your host. This week my guest is Dan Gingiss, who is the Chief Experience Officer at Winning Customer Experience. Welcome Dan. Dan: Well thank you Kathleen, a pleasure to be here with you. I'm excited about the conversation. Dan and Kathleen are all smiles while recording this episode Kathleen: I am too. You have such a fascinating background to me. About Dan Gingiss Kathleen: I'm going to just toot your horn for a second, and then I'm going to let you tell my listeners really who you are. But, when I thought about introducing you it was actually kind of a challenge because most people I just introduce with their name and their title, but you are like a customer experience expert, a keynote speaker, author, podcast host, your professional background is fascinating. You've been in senior marketing, end customer experience positions at places like McDonald's Humana, Discover. I mean, I feel like if I was to do a thorough introduction of you it might take 10 minutes. Instead of me rattling on for 10 minutes, can you just give my audience a little synopsis of kind of who you are, and what you're doing today, and also how you got there? Dan: Sure. Well, I should bring you along on the road with me, because that was a fine introduction. I'll take that anytime I get a- Kathleen: My fee is very reasonable. Dan: ... Well, I describe myself as a 20 year marketer. Marketing is at my heart, it's my background. But, some time along the way I really got passionate about customer experience, and part of it is that I realized the customer experience and marketing go hand in hand. I think that the catalyst was when I first got into social media. I had done, in my career, pretty much every offline marketing channel you can think of. I've done direct mail, and I've done newspapers and magazine ads, and package inserts, and all these things. Then, I had started going through all the digital channels. I'd done email, and website marketing, et cetera. When I finally got into social media I realized that, that was the first marketing channel where people can talk back and I thought that was fascinating. That just immediately struck me as, "Wow, this is going to be something different." If you go back to the early days of social media, you see a lot of companies treating it like another broadcast channel. "Hey, I have a great idea. Let's put our TV commercial on Facebook, people will love that." Right? Shockingly, people didn't love that very much, and so the companies that started figuring out that customers talking back was a good thing, that this was an opportunity to get closer with the customer, and to learn more about them, I think became better marketers in the process. Historically we've used voice of the customer, focus groups, and other listening devices to formulate our marketing, to figure out what it is that people want to hear. But, social put it all in front of us, in an easy, analyzable way because it's all in print. And really, I think, just presented such new opportunity to get close to the customer. That fascinated me, and I kind of made a pivot over to customer experience. It helped that the role I was in at the time at Discover, that I was in charge of the website and digital experience, so I was getting into the nitty gritty about how to create experiences that therefore became marketable. And, I started at the same time, with sort of a side hustle of blogging, and podcasting. I eventually wrote a book about social customer care. It was only recently, really 2019, when I decided that the side hustle was killing me because it was taking up so much time on top of a full-time job, but it was the thing that I really loved doing. I decided to finally go out on my own. The feedback I got on LinkedIn, most people said, "It's about time. Can't believe it took you this long." Now I am speaking, and consulting on marketing a customer experience, and I love it. What I'm telling people is, it's a lot more fun working for the Dan, than it was working for the man. Why More Marketers Don't Focus on Customer Experience Kathleen: That's a great line. I am going to quote that. I have so many questions for you, but I want to start with one in particular because this came up once before on this podcast, and it's something I think a lot about which is, to what degree do you think organizationally we undermine ourselves as businesses by setting the goals, or the KPI's, or the yard stick for success for marketing, and have it be so focused on that top of the funnel, that traffic generation, that lead generation? I mean, most of the marketers I see, at least on paper, are measured by the degree to which they can generate qualified leads for the company. There's no incentive system in place in 99% of the cases that I'm aware of, to do anything on the customer end. I feel like there's a structural problem that prevents us from tackling this topic, and I'm so curious to know what you think about that, and if you see that as well? Dan: Yeah, I definitely agree. It's almost like we're putting the cart before the horse, right? If you don't have a great product or service, then really no amount of marketing is going to work in the long run. It might get people to buy your product to service, but then they're going to be dissatisfied with it, and they're going to return it, or they're going to tell their friends that it's terrible, or what have you. You can put tons and tons of marketing dollars behind it, but you have to have that basic, you know, you have to fulfill the basic need of a product or service that people want and are going to enjoy. I think also, you have to have a customer experience that people also want and enjoy. That's the added piece that now today's customer, today's "I have a voice" customer, and today's powerful customer is demanding that they have a great experience as well. You can't just have one without the other. I did an interview with a great guy in my old podcast, this is now a couple of years ago. He runs a series of brewhouses called Scotty's Brewhouse. It's in Indiana, Florida, a couple other states. And, very successful business, his name's Scott Wise. I asked him ... or, he said to me unsolicited, he said, "When people ask me what business I'm in, I tell them I'm in the customer service business." I'm like, "Really? You're a restaurateur, that's an interesting answer." He said, "Dan, I could have the best food in the world at my restaurants, but if I have crappy service I have no customers. No one will come back. If I have good or great food, but amazing service, I'll have a full restaurant every night." He said, "You can't have one without the other, it doesn't work. If I had to choose either one, I would choose a great experience, because if I mess up on somebody's burger but I'm really nice about it and I take care of them, they're still going to come back, right? But, if I have servers that are rude, or slow or whatever, I'm going to lose customers." I think you're right, that we're so focused on that front end. You've read, probably the same stats that I have, about how much money we spend on customer acquisition versus on customer retention, right? Or even just customer engagement. I think that, that ... that, the smart companies are starting to figure out that some of that money should be shifted. Because after all, if we keep more customers then we don't have to be as stressed about bringing on more new ones. Kathleen: It's really interesting to hear you talk about the Scotty's Brewhouse example, I hope I got the name correct. Dan: Yep. Kathleen: Because, it in my head, the echo that I hear when I hear you tell that story is Marcus Sheridan, who I work with at IMPACT. He always says that, "It doesn't matter what company you are, we're all in the same business which is the business of trust." It really doesn't matter what your product is, or your service is. If your customer doesn't trust you, that's like table stakes. The company's with the most trust are the ones that are going to win, and it's almost like customer experience and trust go hand in hand because it's true. These are the universal things that, regardless of what kind of a business we have, what it is we're selling, our fundamental truths about the way people want to spend their money. They want to be able to trust you, they want to have a great experience, and oh by the way, those two things are never ever going to change. They're never going to go out of style, there's no digital trend that's going to make them obsolete. I love that. Dan: Exactly. I'm an unabashed Marcus Sheridan fan. I'm a fan boy. I love Marcus, I love everything he talks about, and he is one of the best speakers I've ever seen. But, you know, what you just said reminds me actually of a story I have not told to other people before. This is a first- Kathleen: Ooh, breaking news. Dan: ... If I could get a drum roll here, yeah. My dad ran a family business for over 20 years. He was in the formal wear business. Those in the United States may recognize Gingiss Formalwear. It's been around for ... it was around for a long time, it's been gone now for a couple of decades. He always used to tell me the same thing that, it doesn't matter what product you're selling. He said, "I never grew up dreaming of selling or renting tuxedos." Right? Kathleen: Yeah. Dan: Because, nobody does, right? But at the same time, if you think about how critical that service was at a point in people's lives, right? They're getting married, they're going to prom, they're having a moment that cannot be ruined. They're placing all their trust- Kathleen: Yeah. Dan: ... In the company to get everything right. Yeah, I would say absolutely, he was in a business of trust too. This is back in the 80's, in a completely undigital way. One of the things that I also love about what you said is, I believe today that there's no longer such a thing as an offline experience. Now, back in the 80's it was all offline. Today, it sometimes feels like we have offline and online. But, all you have to do is look at the video of a guy being dragged off an airplane to realize that any experience can come online now. When we talk about trust, it's about not just that online experience but also what's happening throughout the customer journey because when you anger, or disappoint, or miss the expectations of a customer, they just have to pull out their phone and take a picture of it, or take a video of it, and share it. Now, you're dealing with many other people who are disappointed. Kathleen: Yeah. Not only can those quote/unquote, "Offline," experiences go online but, the worse or the better they are, the more likely they are to go online. Dan: Absolutely. Kathleen: You don't hear about the "meh" experiences, you hear about the really terrible ones, and the really great ones. Yeah, I mean it's fascinating to me just, I mean you hear a lot about the really terrible ones. People are really incentivized to post when something doesn't go right. It should serve as a really good incentive to make that experience great, because that's your one chance to control that conversation that you mentioned earlier. Dan: For sure. I just want to say because I talk about this a lot when I'm on stage is that, people ... you're absolutely right that people are willing to share both the positive and the negative. One of the things that I try to teach companies is how to create more positive experiences so that you can tilt that sentiment. I came across a great statistic recently that I love from Sitel Group. This was out of their 2018 CEX Index. What they found was that 30% of consumers say after a negative experience, that they would post a negative review online, or on social media. But, almost 50% of consumers say the same thing about a positive experience. Kathleen: Hmm. Dan: Which, means that people are more willing to share positive experiences than negative ones. The problem is, as I'm sure you know as a consumer as well, we don't have very many positive ones. Kathleen: Yeah. Dan: We don't have enough that are so ... On our podcast we like to call them "remarkable experiences," literally worthy of remark. If you think back to the last time that you had an experience with a brand that was so great that you wanted to tell all your friends about it, it just doesn't happen very often. But, if you think back to the last time a brand disappointed you, you could probably come up with something that was more recent. What I love to think about is how as brands, can we create more and more positive experiences to get people talking since they want to talk about, we just have to give them something to talk about. A Real World Example of How Great Customer Experiences Can Make a Lasting Impression Kathleen: Oh, I could agree more. I feel like sometimes the negative and the positive come hand in hand. I think I mentioned to you when we first spoke, I had, when we were talking about great customer experiences. I had one, this was years ago now, but it will always stand out in my memory. Actually it's funny, I've had two from the same company. I'm going to give them a shoutout right now. Both are from UPS. The first was when I used to own an agency, we had a daily UPS pickup that was the lifeline of our business because in addition to marketing services, we sold branded products, swag. We had to ship things, and hit deadlines for clients. So, UPS coming every afternoon was essential, we counted on it. I remember we had a big shipment going out one day and they didn't come, and we called our UPS business rep and he was like, "Oh, it looks like there were some issue in your billing, and so we froze the account." We were like, "Well first of all, wouldn't you call when that happens and not just not show up?" I remember it was a Friday too, so we were like, "Oh my God, this has to get resolved now because we're going to lose two days over the weekend." Long story short, the business rep couldn't solve it. He didn't have enough juice. They were like, "Oh, we'll fix it but it will take 48 hours to reset in the system, and then the truck will start to come back." We were like, "Mm-mm (negative)." I remember I went on Twitter and I tweeted something about how grumpy I was about this, and I got a call ... or, I got a DM first from UPS corporate. They said, "DM us your phone number." I did that. Within 15 minutes I had the head of UPS's social media on the line and he was like, "I'm going to fix this for you now," and within an hour everything was fixed. It went from being a really horrible experience to being an amazing one, which I was happy to sing to the world about. Then funny enough a few years later, we sponsor Midshipmen, so I live near the Naval academy in Annapolis Maryland. We have Midshipmen who come to our house on the weekends and things, they become part of your family. Two of our Mids -- a guy and a girl that had been dating for ages, and we knew he was going to propose to her on this two day visit to Annapolis before they got deployed to Afghanistan -- they were in our house, and I was in on it, on the whole plan. He had it all mapped out, and the ring was like out for delivery, and wasn't coming in time. We had a great relationship with our UPS driver and so my husband called him on his cellphone and was like, "Here's what's happening." The ring was being delivered by somebody else, but our driver went out of his way to go find the other driver, get the ring, deliver it to our house so that he could propose in time before they had to deploy. Kathleen: I mean- Dan: That's amazing. Kathleen: ... Talk about just unbelievable stories, both from the same company funny enough. But, the first one really made me think like, just how often sometimes those incredible experiences can come out of what might have been a really terrible one. Why Negative Reviews and Complaints Are Actually a Good Thing Dan: I love that, and I mean I don't know if you were intentionally teeing me up here, but that's basically what my book is about, right? Is that- Kathleen: Yep. Dan: ... Being responsive on social media is so critical, especially to the people that are complaining because you have an opportunity to make things right. Click to tweet I always say that people who complain, complain because they care. The ones who don't care have already left for your competition. They've already switched providers, and they don't care whether you fix it or not. But, people who have a legitimate complaint, I'm not talking about trolls here who are swearing. Kathleen: Yeah, or like looking for a free gift certificate to a restaurant. Dan: Yeah. I mean, people that have a legitimate complaint want you to fix it, that's why they're letting you know. They care enough to let you know, and I think that certainly when we started off, companies were afraid of complaints, which I thought was a big mistake because complaints also give you great insight into what you're not doing right, into where you're missing customer expectations. You might think that some piece of your experience is working just swimmingly, but you’re not sure your customers think that and here they are giving you this free feedback. To me, that's incredibly valuable. Yeah, tons of stories of companies that have started off with an angry customer, and turned them into an advocate. I've had it happen at all three of the Fortune 300 companies I worked for, and it's always nice to see because it kind of proves the value of being there for your customer through thick and thin. Kathleen: Yeah, and I know I've read over the years a couple of different times that there was data to support this. You can probably even cite the stat, if I had to guess. But, I've read that like companies that have no bad reviews are, people don't perceive as being as trustworthy as companies that have some bad reviews. I think it had to do with Yelp or something, and that the relationship capital you build by having a problem and then solving it well, is so much greater than the relationship capital that you build by never having problems in the first place. Which, is counterintuitive, but- Dan: For sure. It's for sure. I was thrilled when I got my first three star review on my book on Amazon, because they had all been five until then. It's not believable, right? Kathleen: ... Yeah. Dan: There's no perfect product. The person that gave me a three star review gave me, I thought very valuable feedback about what he liked and didn't like about the book. I of course responded on Amazon, because I practice what I preach. Yeah, that to me, that adds so much credibility. Then also, I wasn't offended, right? I mean, if my book didn't land perfectly for him, I'm sorry about that but I also very much value the feedback of why it didn't. Because, then when I write my next book I'll be thinking about that, right? Kathleen: Yeah. Dan: I think that as companies are ... it's almost like you have to put the ego aside a little bit to be willing to hear what can be tough feedback. It's just like in the business world when we have our year end review with our boss, right? A year end review that says, "Hey Kathleen, you're the best, you're awesome, you're terrific, keep doing what you're doing. Here's a two percent raise," doesn't give you much, right? Because, you don't know, there's nothing for you to go, there's no action items. But, a review that says, "Here's three things you're doing really well Kathleen, and here's three things I want you to work on in the next year," is so much more valuable because how often do you get that feedback from somebody? Where somebody's willing to be honest with you and say, "You know Kathleen, if you could just work on these three things, I think your career could go so much higher." I mean to me, that kind of feedback is a gift, and it's in a gift in the corporate world as well because sometimes we can't see through our own rose colored glasses, right? We all think our own product, and service, and experience is fantastic, and it's very difficult to see otherwise especially because you get things like ... I remember when I first joined Discover, I had the option of getting an employee credit card. I intentionally did not choose that option, because I didn't want to be treated like an employee when I called customer service. I wanted to be treated like a regular customer. Because, I mean imagine when the CEO of Discover calls customer service -- they probably roll out the red carpet for him, right? He's not getting a legit experience, and I really wanted that, to see it from the customer's perspective which I thought was so much more valuable. Kathleen: Well, I couldn't agree with you more about your point about feedback. I always think you need to be suspicious of the people that never have anything constructive, or even negative to say. You don't want to, in life or in business, surround yourself only with a bunch of yes men. It's not healthy, and it's not real. I really appreciate you adding that to the discussion, because it is so important. Building a Customer Experience Strategy: Where To Begin Kathleen: We talked a little bit about the why, this is so critical. The audience listening to this podcast is usually marketers. Can you talk a little bit about from a marketing standpoint, if somebody hasn't really considered customer experience as part of their strategy, where do they start? How do you define that? Is that just managing the conversation on social, or is it more wholistic? What are the elements to taking a marketing approach to customer experience? Dan: Yeah, I mean I think that it's a couple of things. First of all, as consumers we often don't like being marketed to. Let's start there, and be honest with ourselves, right? Is that, when we're scrolling through our Facebook feed, we're not excited when an ad pops up. No matter really who it's from, occasionally maybe it's from a Starbucks, or a Coke-A-Cola, or some brand that we really, really love, we're okay with it. But, for the most part, it's interruptive. If you start, and this is where I'm going back to what I said about sort of putting your ego aside. When I ran Discover's website I used to remind my team, "Look, nobody wakes up in the morning wanting to go to a credit card rep website. Zero people do that, right? So we've got to make that experience as quick, and painless, and easy as possible." I think with marketing it's the same thing. You have to understand where you fit into the world of your customer. Now, how can you make your marketing an experience? Which, is one of the things that I really love. I would suggest the place to start is with language. I think that so many companies are using language that frankly, most consumers either don't understand, or can't connect with. There was a recent study done by a company called Visible Thread that looked at the top 50 banks in the US, and actually scored their marketing on a readability score. Kathleen: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Dan: They calibrate the readability score based on famous books. They looked at everything from Moby Dick, which is a very hard to read book, to Harry Potter, which is a pretty easy to read book. Then they ranked banks marketing on this same score. What they found is that what you want on this 100 point scale is, you want to hit at least 50 which is an eighth grade reading level, which is basically the average reading level of the American consumer. You want to hit a 50. The top 10 banks in the US hit something like a 51, and everybody else was far below that which means that they're speaking in a language that literally their customers don't understand and can't comprehend. I saw the same thing in the healthcare industry. There was a really interesting study that interviewed 2,500 Americans and said, "Do you know the definitions of the following four words, deductible, co-payment, co-insurance, and out of pocket?" Kathleen: I'm getting a headache just thinking about those words right now. Dan: I know you are, I know you are. Well, three quarters of Americans said they knew the definitions, but then the researchers said, "Okay, prove it and give us the definitions." I'll cut to the chase, only four percent of Americans could define all four of those words. Yet, every major healthcare company uses those words in the quote/unquote, "Explanation," of benefits. Which, I laugh at because it's neither explanatory nor beneficial. Kathleen: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Dan: But, so that's where I would start. I think there are lots of cool examples of what I like to call, I use the word "witty" as being where I think you want to aim. It's not about being humorous, because I may tell a joke that I think is funny and you may find offensive, so I'm very careful about humor. But, I think witty is a good place to be. Examples of Brands Nailing Customer Experience With Witty Copy Dan: Let me give you a couple examples with witty. There's a wonderful sign in Manhattan for a retailer, and people who have walked the streets of Manhattan have maybe seen this sign before. It says, in big bold letters, it says, "We are probably the lowest priced in the city." I love that, right? I don't even know what this company sells and I already love this company, right? Because, I know that their honest- Kathleen: Yeah. I was going to say, it's pretty honest. Dan: ... I know ... Yep, I know they're honest. I know they have a sense of humor, right? Already, so they're fun. You've told me so much about this business, and I don't even know what they sell. That's how powerful words can be in marketing. There's a sign I love to show that is at the bottom of a huge skyscraper in Chicago and it's got some arrows and it says, "Almost there ... Please use other entrance." I looked at this and I was like, "You know, that was two words. The almost there, that made this from a sign that was completely unremarkable, to one that made me smile." Because, somebody took the time to add those words, "Almost there," and it was now a fun sign instead of just a tactical sign. I think this can come, this can happen anywhere in marketing. There's a gas station near my house where the big sign outside with the price says, "Unleaded 2.99." Then, where they ... the place where they can put the letters up and write something it says, "Customer service, priceless." Again, think about the expectations that, that gas station has already set. This is going to be the friendly gas station, this is going to be the one that the person inside greets you with a smile, because they believe customer service is priceless. These are very simple, inexpensive, really free ways to change your marketing to create a different experience, and that's where I suggest people start. How To Craft Witty Marketing Copy Kathleen: And, any advice for the marketer who might be listening and thinking, "Ugh. I just don't, I'm not witty. I don't have the talent to think of these things." Are there any tricks, or things that people can do to start getting more in that mindset? Dan: Yeah. I mean, the first is just eliminating the words that are industry jargon, or acronyms, right? I wrote about that bank study because I had seen somebody post on LinkedIn, a bank ad which was an email. It was a subject line. The subject line had seven words in it, and three of the words were acronyms. It's like, I mean come on. That is not ... the post on LinkedIn was a guy quoting his daughter who had received the email and she said, "Is this even English?" That's where I would start, is I would look at the language that you have. Again, if you don't want to be witty, that's okay. But, you can look for industry jargon, you can look for big words and turn them into small words. I'm a prolific writer, I blog all the time. But, I was never real good at the verbal side of the SAT's, so I never thought of myself as having a really large vocabulary. But, as it turns out, I believe it makes my writings more readable because I'm just speaking in normal words. I'm not using big, scientific, or long words to make myself sound smart. I'm just, I'm writing like people talk. Therefore, it's easier to consume, and I think marketers can absolutely do that. I remember my high school teacher used to say, "Read your words out loud-" Kathleen: Yeah. Dan: ... "And, hear how they sound." You should do that with marketing, right? If you're reading your marketing out loud, you're going to catch things that don't sound right, and you can make them simpler that way. Kathleen: Amen. There have been a few times where I have filled in for the person who heads up our editorial content for our website, and I've had to review draft articles that people have submitted to us. Once or twice I have gotten articles that were nonsensical that literally I was like, "I need to send this back to this person and just tell them to read it out loud to themselves, because I have no idea what they're trying to say. It doesn't make any sense." They would know that if they just took a minute, and like read it, you know? Even if they didn't read it out loud. It's amazing, I think, how often we create content and we don't take the time to even review what it is we've created. I love those tips, and I think that's a great place to start. Eliminating the jargon, almost like writing as though you're talking to a friend, or a family member, what have you. Moving beyond messaging then, what would be kind of the next step for that marketer looking to really take a better approach to customer experience? Why Viral Experiences Are Your Best Marketing Dan: Well, so I'm going to sort of turn your question around, because I believe that you have to ... just as we said before that you have to have a great product or service to market, you have to create the experience first, and then it becomes your marketing, not the other way around. And so, I believe it's about how do you create a, as I said before, a positive experience that people want to share? Then, you have other people doing the marketing for you first of all, which is awesome, right? Because, we all strive for this word-of-mouth marketing, this elusive word-of-mouth marketing. It's not going to be found in a viral video. Any of us that have worked in corporate America have heard a C level executive ask us, "Well, why can't you just create a viral video?" Kathleen: Yeah. Dan: Because, that's not how it works. But, what you can do is create a viral experience. You could create an experience that people love so much they want to tell people about it. I think there's a couple things that you have to do in order to create such an experience. One of them is to be really intentional about it. It's to -- as you build the experience -- to think about all of the places that people may be willing to share. We talk about certain meals being Instagram worthy, for example. Well, I believe that the chefs are creating them that way intentionally, right? Kathleen: Yes. Dan: Because, they want people to share them. I'll give you an interesting example here. There's a company called Sip Smith, it's an alcohol company. It's mostly known for its gin. It's a London based gin, and it just recently came to the United States in the last, I don't know, year or two. Or, at least it came to Chicago in the last year. I was at a local Chicago festival and they were doing a tasting. Now, most of the time when you go and get a taste of a wine, or a beer, or an alcoholic beverage of some sort some person hands you a little plastic cup, and you take a sip, and you either like it or you don't. You throw out the cup, and you move on. Sip Smith didn't want to have that kind of experience, so they built an immersive experience where you walk up to this bar, there's a bartender behind it with bottles of Sip Smith Gin. The first thing is, he asks you what kind of tonic that you want. Now, I didn't know I actually had a choice of tonic, so here I'm already learning something, right? Well, there was Mediterranean tonic, and European tonic, and standard tonic, so I choose one of the tonics. He then points me over to a garnish bar. Kathleen: Hmm. Dan: Now, a gin and tonic usually has a lime in it, right? Pretty basic. Well, this garnish bar had about 18 different garnishes. Everything from lemons and lines, to dried strawberries, and peppercorns, and ginger, and rose petals, and all this stuff. You could create your drink, but they didn't stop there. By the way, I did the math in case anybody was wondering. There were over a billion combinations that you could make. Kathleen: That's awesome. Dan: They didn't stop there. The next thing they did is they sent you to a table where you could grab a little miniature card, and name your drink. Right then- Kathleen: That is so cool. Dan: ... They keep it on the card, and they gave you a little tiny clip that you could clip to your cub so that as you're walking around with your beverage, you're advertising the name of your drink to everybody. Of course, what do people do? They clip the name to their cup, they take a picture of it, and they share it on social media. This whole experience was intentional. It was meant to be immersive so that it was meant for you to try their product in a realistic setting, which is not drinking it out of a plastic cup straight, because most people drink gin that way. But, it was immersing you in the way that you, you exactly you, independent, unique you would drink it. Because, I might drink it with European tonic and a lime, and you might drink it with Indian tonic and a strawberry. But, we all can do it our own way. But, it also was intentionally shareable. It was done in a way where once I personalized it with a name of my drink, of course I wanted to take a picture of it and share it with people. That's, that to me is how ... Then, it makes marketing's job that much easier, right? Because, you have everybody else sharing, and talking about your brand. Then, really all marketing has to do is get in the conversation and say, "Hey, thanks for sharing. We love you too. You guys are great." It becomes, it makes marketing's job a whole lot easier. Kathleen: Well, for the record when it comes to gin and tonics, I am a Fever Tree Elderflower Tonic and lime kind of a girl. But, that's amazing. I inexplicably have a craving right now for gin and tonics and it's before noon. Dan: Sorry about that. Kathleen: But, that sounds incredible, it really does. It's not like a very expensive way to engage. If you're already going to be there, you're already going to be offering samples of your product. It's not a huge leap from a budget or an effort standpoint to do what you described. That's a great example. Dan: Yeah. I mean, I'd say the biggest example of all time of shareable word of mouth marketing to me was the share a Coke promotion, right? That had all of the names on the bottles. If you think about that, that was a reasonably sized operational undertaking. Kathleen: Yeah. Dan: But, what I thought was so interesting about it was that it continued to evolve over time. The first time they released the names on the bottles they got a lot of people loving it, and sharing it, and happy. But, then they got people with different names who were unhappy- Kathleen: Yeah. Dan: ... That there name wasn't on there. So, they went back and they created a whole bunch more, several thousand more names were added. Because, once they were doing it, it wasn't hard to add names to it. But, most recently, and I don't know how many people have noticed this. But, most recently they made another change. The names are no longer on the actual label of the product, they're on a sticker that you can peel off of the product and actually share it with the person. Kathleen: That's very cool. Dan: If you think about it, if I got a bottle of Diet Coke that had "Kathleen" on it, if I drank that bottle and then tried to hand it to you, you're not really excited to receive it, right? But, now I can just peel off the sticker and hand you your name, and I think they made it even more shareable. Kathleen: That is so cool, and I have never seen a Kathleen coke. If you find one and you're listening, send it to me. Dan: Challenge accepted. How To Create Viral Customer Experiences Kathleen: Yeah, exactly. That's great. The question in my head is then, if it's really about starting by creating the experience, as a marketer how do you suggest that somebody approach that? Because really, you're talking about getting your tentacles into theoretically, many different parts of the business, you know? You're talking about production, if it's a product, when you talked about Coke. It could be getting involved in sales. There's a lot of crossover there that I think can scare the average marketer. Any advice for how to approach that organizationally so that you get buy in, and you're able to go down that path? Dan: Yeah. What I would suggest is that you make sure that you're the customer of your own product, and service and, that you are an engaged customer so that you're experiencing the whole journey. A great example from Discover, we had a feature on the card that allowed you to turn the card on and off if you felt like you had lost the card in the sofa cushions. That was a feature that had been there for a long time, but it took our CMO to literally realize that, that feature existed and say, "Wow, this is really cool. We should be telling people about this." Then the marketers came in and did their thing, and named it, "Freeze It." It became a huge television campaign, and it became sort of one of the lead features of the card. Since then, most of Discover's competitors have copied that feature. But, all it took was somebody observing something that was already there about the experience that was remarkable, but that nobody was talking about. I think that's where I would start as a marketer is say, "Let me just be a customer here, and find the places that I really need, and the things that make us different and better. Then, let's figure out how to talk about those things. Often times those things already exist. I think in other places, you can as a marketer, also be willing to let other people be marketers. I don't mean tactical, sending out the emails marketers. What I mean is, you can let the lawyers be marketers, right? There's some great examples of legal disclosure that's actually fun to read, right? I mean, think about that for a minute. That's mind blowing. Legal disclosure that's fun to read. There's a company out of Malaysia called Iflix, it's like an Asian version of Netflix. In that typical disclosure that you see in emails where it says like, "If you're the unintended recipient, you must give us your first child, and delete the message," and whatever. Well, their disclosure starts off with the words, "Covering our butts." Now, if covering our butts doesn't get you to want to read that disclosure I don't know what does. I read it, and you know what? The whole disclosure is hilarious, and you can tell that a lawyer and a marketer, it's like on a joke. "A lawyer and a marketer walk into a bar." Kathleen: Yeah. Dan: It's like, the two of them sat down together and they said, "Okay, the lawyer said, 'This is what you must say.' Then the marketer said, 'Okay. I'm going to take what I must say, and I'm going to add to it, and make it fun, and make it engage-able.'" I think that's where marketers have to be more willing to sort of take the time to say either, "Here are the places that are already remarkable, let's talk about it." Or, "Here are the places that are completely unremarkable that we can make remarkable in a simple way." Kathleen: I love that example you just gave, and I wish I could remember the name of the company (And I did! It's called Squaremouth). But, sometime in the last few months I heard about a company, and I think it was a big company, that halfway through their disclosures, or their privacy statement, or one of those horrible documents that nobody reads. Halfway through it they added, "If you have read this far, you can win X." I want to say the first 10 people that responded got a free trip somewhere, because they just literally read that far into it, and found this random paragraph. It was like, "Congratulations." Dan: That's amazing. Kathleen: "Nobody reads this, but because you did we're sending you to Hawaii." Dan: Well, so that's a great story. I immediately ask the question, if we know nobody reads this, then why are we doing it? Kathleen: Yeah. Dan: You know? It's like- Kathleen: To cover our butt. Dan: I remember ... Yeah, to cover our butts. Yeah, but I remember a number of times in corporate America, the marketers often looked at the lawyers as sort of the other side of the table, right? The guys that were stopping us from doing what we really wanted to do. I always reminded my team that the lawyers were there to keep us out of jail, so we want them to do their jobs really well. But, it doesn't mean that we have to produce any content, and disclosures are content, right? I mean, disclosures are there because what's the legal reason they're there? It's to cover our butts, but it's also because we want to inform customers about certain limitations to our product, or in the pharmacy world, certain side effects or whatever it is. This is important information. When you think about it from that perspective and you put on your marketers hat you say, "Okay, so what if I actually want people to read the disclosures?" Holy cow, that's different, right? Kathleen: Yeah. Dan: Today what we do is we say, "Well, what's the smallest font size we can put the disclosures in so that hopefully people will read past them?" Kathleen: No one will notice them. Dan: Right? I say, don't do that. Ask yourself, what if the disclosures were in 30 point font? What would you say, and how could you say it in a way that actually gets the message across in a way that's beneficial to your customer? Kathleen's Two Questions Kathleen: Oh, so interesting. I feel like I could sit here and just pick your brain all day long. Unfortunately, we don't have all day. I have a couple questions for you that I want to make sure I ask before we wrap. The first is, this is the Inbound Success Podcast, a lot of the listeners here are interested in inbound marketing. I want to kind of bring inbound marketing together with customer experience, because that's really the whole point of this conversation. When you think about the world of brands, companies, marketers out there, who do you think right now is really nailing it when it comes to marrying the two, an inbound marketing approach that also delivers a phenomenal customer experience? Dan: Right now I am obsessed with a company that, in full disclosure, I am a customer of, called Imperfect Produce. It's a company based in San Francisco, and it was founded by a couple of guys who were noticing on their college campus that a ton of food in the cafeteria was going to waste. They created this company, what they found after investigating was that we actually have a pretty big food problem in the United States, which is that tons, and tons, and tons of food on farms, perfectly usable produce, gets thrown into the landfill. Mostly because it doesn't look pretty, it's nice enough for supermarkets. They started a company where they ship out boxes in a subscription service, of what they call ugly fruit. Often times, it's not ugly at all. It's just surplus, or it's a little bit big. Sometimes you get like a comically large cucumber, or you'll get really small pears, or something like that. But, they're not disgusting. In fact, they're wonderful inside. What I love about what they're doing is first of all, they're using the witty part. In their marketing there's a billboard in Chicago that says, "We'll help you get dates," and it's got pictures of actual, of the fruit, and with smiles on there, kind of animated smiles. They're very witty about that. In their social media they use food puns, and stuff like that. They're very brand on. When you get their box, you literally want to look at all sides of the box, including the bottom of the box which has a really fun message on it. Again, this costs nothing, right? They're already printing on the box, so just print everywhere and make it so that it's usable. But, the part they're doing on the experience that I think is awesome, is they are actually tracking for me, my individual contribution of how much produce I have saved from the landfill, how much water I have saved, and how many pounds of carbon dioxide that I've kept out of the atmosphere. I'm just going to brag for a moment. In the last year I've saved 385 pounds of diverted produce, over 15,000 gallons of water, and 1,300 pounds of carbon dioxide. I love that, because you're creating again, this immersive experience. You're marketing to me, right? Kathleen: Yeah. Dan: That's marketing. You're telling me, "Hey Dan, you're doing a great job. Pat on the back. By the way, stay with us and have those numbers go up." Right? I want to share that with people and say, "Holy cow, I've saved 385 pounds. That's so cool." I just think they've -- from beginning to end, from prospecting, to communicating with their existing customers -- I think they're doing such a great job of being on message, consistent. Obviously they provide a great product, and that's important. But, this continuous reminder of you're not just doing it because the food tastes good, you're doing it because you care about the societal impact as well. I think that is a perfect combo for me. Kathleen: I love that example, and I'll make sure to give them a big shout out in the show notes. If you want to check them out, head to the show notes and there will be a link in there. Separate question, the world of marketing is changing so quickly, social media is changing literally every day. I feel like it's a total fire hose if you're a marketer, to try and keep up. Personally, how do you stay on top of all of this? What are your go-to sources to make sure that you're up to date on everything that's going on? Dan: Well, I would say that partially due to the success of your organization and others like Marcus talking about it, I think there's so many sources today that it's almost impossible to keep up. I've actually moved towards using aggregator services like Apple News or Flipboard, because I find that so much easier than remembering to go to my 10 favorite websites every day to find news. I tend to search by keyword and topic, versus depending on any specific source every day. I don't know if that's disappointing to inbound marketers, it might be. But I think, again, it's a result of the fact that so many companies are so focused on inbound marketing now, and are doing a good job of it. We have more great content out there than ever before. But, to me what I'm finding is, I can find it in all sorts of places, so why limit myself to a single couple, one or two sources? Kathleen: That's so true. There is so much information out there, and I think you bring up a good point for marketers which is that, yes, you need to be creating really great, helpful content, and have it on your website. But, don't overlook the fact that not everybody's going to come to your website to find it, and look at these other channels. You mentioned Flipboard, I'm a big fan of Flipboard. Look at these other channels and see how you can get your content there too. My feeling has always been, as long as people are consuming your content, it really doesn't matter where they're doing it. Dan: Absolutely. How to Connect With Dan Kathleen: Love that. Well Dan, thank you. Again, so much good stuff. I love all the stories, and the concrete examples of companies doing it well. If somebody wants to dig deeper into this, what's the best way for them to learn more, maybe read some more of these stories, maybe get your book? Dan: Well, I write for Forbes regularly, and this is what I focus on. In fact, Forbes requires you to create a sentence, one sentence that describes exactly what you do on Forbes. My sentence is, "I write about how customer experience can be your best marketing." If you head over to Forbes and do a search for my name, you can see all of the, including some of the examples that I just shared with you. But, people can also find me on my own website which is DanGingiss.com. It's G-I-N-G-I-S-S. You can find information about my book there. I also host a podcast called Experience This, where we tell stories all the time about companies creating remarkable experiences. And, of course because I practice what I preach, if you get in touch with me on Twitter @DGingiss I will respond and get back with you. Kathleen: I love it. All those links will be in the show notes, so head over there if you want to check those out. Thank you again Dan, it's been so much fun. I've learned a lot today. You Know What To Do Next... Dan: Well, thank you Kathleen, it's been a lot of fun for me as well. Kathleen: If you're listening and you learned something new or liked what you heard, as always please consider giving the podcast a five star review on Apple Podcasts. If you know somebody whose doing kick ass inbound marketing work, tweet me @WorkMommyWork, because they could be my next guest. Thanks for listening.

Hamza Yusuf, President of Zaytuna College, converses with Eva Brann, the sagely long time educator and author of St. Johns College in Annapolis Maryland about philosophy, wisdom, and wit.

On this week's episode of The One Piece Podcast we go through Episode of Skypiea with Alex, Maddie, Jill, Bryan and Dennis. We also go through the Vivre Card book with Stephen Paul, official translator of One Piece in Weekly Shonen Jump. This week's episode image is brought to you by Maddie. Check out her Patreon. See alternate images by Maddie and titles for this week's episode on our Patreon page! 0:00:00 Introduction & News 0:02:33 Anime Recap: Episode of Skypiea 1:09:42 Pieces of Eight: Vivre Card! 2:03:47 Piece Together 2:32:29 To Be Continued and Trivia! You can subscribe on Patreon and get access to our 500+ episode archive, exclusive episodes with our special guests, SWAG and a lot more. Don't miss out, subscribe at patreon.com/onepiecepodcast to get the full One Piece Podcast experience! We'll see you next week for our Manga Recap of One Piece Chapter 917 and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode of The One Piece Podcast we go through Episode of Skypiea with Alex, Maddie, Jill, Bryan and Dennis. We also go through the Vivre Card book with Stephen Paul, official translator of One Piece in Weekly Shonen Jump. This week's episode image is brought to you by Maddie. Check out her Patreon. See alternate images by Maddie and titles for this week's episode on our Patreon page! 0:00:00 Introduction & News 0:02:33 Anime Recap: Episode of Skypiea 1:09:42 Pieces of Eight: Vivre Card! 2:03:47 Piece Together 2:32:29 To Be Continued and Trivia! You can subscribe on Patreon and get access to our 500+ episode archive, exclusive episodes with our special guests, SWAG and a lot more. Don't miss out, subscribe at patreon.com/onepiecepodcast to get the full One Piece Podcast experience! We'll see you next week for our Manga Recap of One Piece Chapter 917 and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-one-piece-podcast--5846933/support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode of The One Piece Podcast we go through Episode of Skypiea with Alex, Maddie, Jill, Bryan and Dennis. We also go through the Vivre Card book with Stephen Paul, official translator of One Piece in Weekly Shonen Jump. This week's episode image is brought to you by Maddie. Check out her Patreon. See alternate images by […] The post Episode 536, “Luffy Visits Relatives in Annapolis, Maryland” appeared first on The One Piece Podcast.

Episode #9 - When The Cat is Away, The Mice Will PlayIn this episode, Tyler takes over as host while Aaron is out of town. Liquid Ice Energy presents the first webcam stream and Aaron guests from Annapolis Maryland. The guys talk about weekly topics and share their opinions on the past week's events. HOST: Tyler LawlerVia Webcam and On-Air: AJ Appeal Studio Guest: Logan Morris

Thursday June 28th, Jarrod Ramos entered the Capital Gazette, a newspaper in Annapolis Maryland. Ramos opened fire and shot and killed four journalists and a sales assistant. What was Ramos's motivation and should his actions be treated as a result of the verbal attacks made on "fake news" media outlets?...All of this and more on BACKROOM POLITICS!

In part 2 recorded on Saturday 6/30 we caught you up on some news, including the Incident at the Capitol Gazette in Annapolis Maryland, and some Hardware, and Gear,...plus 2 listener emails. 

Phil Yacuboski of WBAL Baltimore, formerly of WBRE, talks about the shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland; with Frank Andrews

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On Thursdays Mark Levin Show, Five people were murdered and one is in custody at a deadly shooting today in Annapolis Maryland at a local newspaper office, the Capital Gazette. Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton blamed President Trump for the heightened political climate. There was no word from Bratton or Nicole Wallace from MSNBC when a Bernie Sanders supporter shot Rep Steve Scalise. Their hypocrisy is disgusting. Later, here’s why the left wants to pull the fire alarm: Because they cannot stop Trump’s Supreme Court nominee unless Republicans like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski help them. Senate Democrats will not support a constitutionalist nominee. They claim to stand for you, when in fact they try to confer as much power and authority as they possibly can on the Court. This is how they intend to make their gains, ultimately, in this country and they’ve been very successful. Democrats don’t believe in the Constitution, except to the extent they can advance their agenda. Finally, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in front of Congress today, responding to the actions of politically biased FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his alleged attempts to tank the Trump campaign and presidency and the DOJ's delay in presenting subpoenaed documents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Thursdays Mark Levin Show, Five people were murdered and one is in custody at a deadly shooting today in Annapolis Maryland at a local newspaper office, the Capital Gazette. Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton blamed President Trump for the heightened political climate. There was no word from Bratton or Nicole Wallace from MSNBC when a Bernie Sanders supporter shot Rep Steve Scalise. Their hypocrisy is disgusting. Later, here’s why the left wants to pull the fire alarm: Because they cannot stop Trump’s Supreme Court nominee unless Republicans like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski help them. Senate Democrats will not support a constitutionalist nominee. They claim to stand for you, when in fact they try to confer as much power and authority as they possibly can on the Court. This is how they intend to make their gains, ultimately, in this country and they’ve been very successful. Democrats don’t believe in the Constitution, except to the extent they can advance their agenda. Finally, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in front of Congress today, responding to the actions of politically biased FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his alleged attempts to tank the Trump campaign and presidency and the DOJ's delay in presenting subpoenaed documents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Travel Tuesdays episode, join us in Washington DC as we attend the beautiful cherry blossom festival, do some sightseeing and take a quick roadtrip to Annapolis, Maryland for steamed crabs dockside. [player] From this episode: RV Resort: Cherry Hill Park, College Park, MD Shop: Union Market, Washington DC Shop: Craft Kombucha, Washington DC The post RFWH76:Travel Tuesdays, Attending the Cherry Blossom Festival and Sightseeing in Washington DC and Enjoying Steamed Crabs on the Deck in Annapolis Maryland appeared first on Real Food Whole Health.

This week on the show e head down to Annapolis Maryland where we once again read some of the best Craigslist personal ads. Plus Cline talks about his annoying week and more! The post Craigslist Corral: Annapolis Maryland first appeared on The Hotshot Whiz Kids Podcast Network.

10,000 Dawns Bonus #4: The Day the Cats Spoke The Adventures of Mister Sprinkles the Cat gets its (much longer) sequel with this brand new story featuring Ashlyn Oswin and Mister Sprinkles. Ashlyn has ended up in Annapolis Maryland, and the cats are talking to her. Meanwhile, someone is kidnapping cats off the streets. Whats going on, and can Ashlyn and Mister Sprinkles save the day? story by James Wylder, art by Annie Zhu https://www.facebook.com/10000Dawns http://www.jameswylder.com/10000-dawns.html Learn more, subscribe, or contact us at www.southgatemediagroup.com.  You can write to us at southgatemediagroup@gmail.com and let us know what you think.  Be sure to rate us and review the episode.  It really helps other people find us.  Thanks! HOST: James Wylder EDITOR: James Wylder PRODUCER: Rob Southgate  

New Zealand Broadcaster Stu Frith and Victoria Gaither spent the afternoon at the Naval Academy and toured Annapolis, MD. Its a beautiful town on the water, with colonial building that date back to the 1850's including colonial pubs. Its a seaman's town and certainly worth a visit when in the Washington, DC area. Its about 35 minutes outside of DC without traffic. The State House is the oldest and only operating state house in America. There are plenty of shops, eateries and fantastic views.

Annapolis Maryland has been synonomous with the Naval Academy that calls it home.  But when you get a chance to travel there you will discover that Annapolis also offers so much more.  A historical town, Annapolis offers visitors a small town feel that will leave travelers feeling relaxed as they stroll the streets.  Annapolis also offers a wide variety of culinary options as well as a cultrual feast.  Erik Evans director of the first Sundays festival is our resident tour guide who is going to show us all around his hometown.

GSD Knowledge Round Episode # 5Todays Question comes from Stacee Munroe from Annapolis Maryland...Question: Do you recommend door hangers and what do you recommend to put on them?Do you have questions you want answered on the show? If so send an email to Joshua@GSDMode.com Category  

After losing his grandfather to diabetes and realizing the direction his lifestyle was taking him, Adam made some serious changes. How he turned his health around, discovered a new passion in life, and pays it forward to others.