Podcast appearances and mentions of april williams

In this episode of the Making Ripples podcast, we're joined by April Williams, the passionate owner and operator of All About The Hound dog services in Masterton, New Zealand. With 13 years of experience, April is a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner and Certified Professional Groomer who is dedicated to providing stress-free grooming and training experiences. April's commitment to kind and gentle training is evident in her specialized "Little Groomies" Puppy Grooming Intro packages, designed to ease puppies into the grooming process. She shares her journey from working in academic publishing to establishing All About The Hounds, driven by her desire to connect and understand her own dog, Archie.  In this episode, we dive into: ✅ April's approach to creating positive and stress-free grooming experiences for dogs ✅ The importance of early and gentle introduction to grooming, and her ‘Little Groomies' program ✅ How a clicker training experience with her dog Archie, helped shape her training philosophy ✅ The challenges in the grooming industry, particularly around education and training Whether you're a pet professional or a pet guardian, April's dedication to improving animal welfare and her innovative approach to grooming and training will provide you with valuable insights into creating a better experience for the animals in your life. Links: https://www.allaboutthehound.co.nz/ https://www.facebook.com/allaboutthehound.co.nz april@allaboutthehound.co.nz  

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On today's episode of I AM HOME, our hosts Tyler and Becca are joined by April Williams, a real estate agent with Berkshire Hathaway to break down the latest real estate trends and why hiring a trusted agent is key to navigating the market. Learn how to make your home stand out, essential maintenance tips and strategies to maximize value - whether you're buying, selling, or just staying informed.

For episode 414, Brendan is sick, so Mike from Bunglawer co-hosts with Jon at A La Cart in Orlando's Milk District. We talk to April Williams of A La Cart about the food truck eatery and about the new location SODO. This week's topics include the death of Bob Snow, the recent Ramen Rumble and the fire that shut down The Waterfront Orlando. This week's episode was sponsored by Enzian Theater, Credo Conduit, and JustCallMoe.com. Tune in to Bungalower and The Bus on Real Radio 104.1 FM every Friday at 8 p.m. or catch the podcast to stay in touch with all of the latest headlines, new restaurants, and best-bet events to attend this week. Release date: 31 January 2025

Social pressures can impact our decision-making, and for many bariatric patients, years of not trusting hunger signals and intuition can make it difficult to listen to our bodies. Learning how to reconnect with and trust yourself after bariatric surgery is a key factor in a successful journey. In this video, BariNation Co-Founders, Jason Smith and April Williams, share their personal stories and experiences of how they moved from not trusting their bodies to building a deeper connection with their intuitive hunger signals. April and Jason open up about their bariatric surgery journeys and how they've learned to trust their body's cues, making it easier to follow their health goals. They also discuss the tools and mindset shifts that helped them find their confidence again and trust themselves on their weight loss journey. What you'll learn: How social pressures can affect our ability to trust our intuition Personal stories from Jason & April on their journeys to self-trust Practical tips for reconnecting with your hunger signals The tools that helped them trust themselves and find success post-surgery Join the BariNation community, where we support bariatric patients at every stage of their journey by connecting you with others and trusted experts in the field. Follow our hosts: April Williams: Instagram @actively_april | VSG in July 2019 Jason Smith: Instagram @tha_smithsonian | VSG in March 2020 & SADI revision in December 2023 About BariNation: Bari-Nation is a vibrant community that connects bariatric patients with support, guidance, and trusted experts to help them thrive at every stage of their journey. Whether you're new to weight loss surgery or years post-op, BariNation is here to help you navigate and succeed! #BariatricJourney #TrustYourIntuition #BariNation #VSG #SADI #BariatricSupport #BariatricSurgery #PostOpJourney #IntuitiveEating #BariatricCommunity   Visit us online: https://procarenow.com/ Check out our Event Hub for listings of Bari Connected LIVE Events and Support Groups! Our Event Hub: https://procarenow.com/pages/support-group-hub Handouts and Resources for our events: https://procarenow.com/pages/support-group-handouts CHECK OUT OUR FREE SAMPLES: https://procarenow.com/products/free-sample-one-per-customer Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for Bari Connected Replays! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh-56bPUphp4gQSM_3ZXKxQ  Become a friend on our Bari Connected FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552655106771 Join our Bari Connected Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/857060146125284   Want more ProCare Health Vitamins and Supplements? Follow us on these channels! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/procarenow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/procarenow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/procarenow    How to Find BariNation: BariNation website: https://barination.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BariNation YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BariNation Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bari.nation/ (Bari.Nation) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BariNation (BariNation)     BariNation is an Affiliate of ProCare Health. BariNation Affiliate Link: https://procarenow.com/?ref=taPBXLTKg7EFh  Save 10% off ProCare Health Products with Code: Barination   Brenda's “Mind, Body, Soul Transformative Practices” To learn more and register: https://tinyurl.com/BrendaHoehn   BariNation video about Revisions: https://youtu.be/O9CprD8mTjk

Welcome to the very first professionally produced episode of the BariNation Podcast! Your hosts, April Williams, Jason Smith, and Natalie Tierney, are thrilled to embark on this journey with you. In this episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Pesta, a renowned expert in bariatrics. Dr. Pesta starts the discussion by sharing the critical markers of obesity. He then delves into the various preliminary approaches to overcoming the disease of obesity, including bariatric surgery. He also highlights how different cultures are affected. The conversation continues with an in-depth look at post-surgery medical approaches, weight loss statistics, the safety of bariatric procedures, insurance considerations, and the importance of patient readiness for surgery. Finally, Dr. Pesta leaves us with an essential tip: don't give up. Take the first step and commit to weight loss for long-term good health. IN THIS EPISODE: [0:33] Hosts April Williams, Jason Smith, and Natalie Tierney are excited to welcome you to the first professionally produced BariNation Podcast.  [8:38] Dr. Pesta shares his background and profession. He provides the markers of obesity [15:17] Dr. Pesta explains the different options patients should explore going from a preliminary approach to bariatric surgery and how cultures are affected differently [22:50] Discussion of continuation of various medical approaches after surgery [28:59] Dr. Pesta discusses weight loss in percentages, the safety of bariatric surgery and insurance coverage  [33:47] Discussion of readiness of a patient to have surgery [37:36] One consideration is that once you start the weight loss medication, it is a lifelong decision [41:22] Explanation of the BariNation Community and why membership is beneficial KEY TAKEAWAYS: [10:05] Obesity is a disease. A doctor can diagnose a patient to determine whether they are obese by establishing the patient's BMI. [15:34] Research shows that improving a patient's BMI earlier helps them return to a normal body mass index under 25. [30:05] Data supports that bariatric surgery is even safer than having your gallbladder out because of all the workups done before weight loss surgery.  RESOURCES: BariNation - Website BariNation - Podcast BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Carl Pesta is a McLaren Macomb board-certified general surgeon who specializes in advanced laparoscopic surgical weight loss procedures. He is also a “Center of Excellence” bariatric surgeon. He earned his medical degree from the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Pesta completed his residency at McLaren Macomb and a bariatric surgery proctorship at Henry Ford Bi-County Hospital. He performs a wide variety of bariatric procedures, as well as revision and conversion procedures. Dr. Pesta is leading the comprehensive bariatric program  Dr. Carl Pestaat the McLaren Macomb. With 18 years experience as a surgeon, Dr. Pesta has performed more than 5,000 bariatric procedures. The bariatrics program at McLaren Macomb provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to caring for the healthcare needs of patients undergoing bariatric surgery. ABOUT: If the BariNation podcast helps power your bariatric journey, become a monthly podcast supporter and help us produce the show! Visit www.barinationpodcast.com and help us support people treating the disease of obesity with humor, humility, and honesty. About BariNation: BariNation is a bariatric educational organization on a mission to empower patients to access and utilize the tools, resources, and education needed to find and maintain personal wellness. We connect patients with the support they need, when and where they need it. BariNation produces an award-winning weekly podcast distributed on all major podcast and video platforms and hosts a support membership community that teams up with credentialed and licensed bariatric experts and clinicians. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/support

Is there a right time to have bariatric surgery?  We always hear this question from BariNation Members, our friends, and followers. Undergoing bariatric surgery requires months to prepare for your procedure and can require a few months of recovery. The process often involves our friends and family and significantly disrupts our daily lives. Many of us will take extended time off work to recoup, and arrangements must be made for the humans we care for. There is a lot that goes into planning and preparing for surgery.  But at the end of the day, we do think there is a right time to have surgery. And our answer might surprise you!  In this episode, BariNation hosts April Williams, Jason Smith, and Natalie Tierney have an honest conversation about the process they went through when deciding to have bariatric surgery. Each followed a different path, but their worries and concerns were the same. In the end, the decision to treat their disease of obesity through surgery has been one of the most pivotal moments of their lives, and they would make the same decision again.  If you have been thinking about having surgery or are committed to surgery but are worried about the timing of it all, this episode is for you! If you have questions, you would love to ask other bariatric patients, join the BariNation Support Community, and connect with fellow patients and experts in the pre-operative stages today! Visit https://barination.mn.co to learn more! If the BariNation podcast helps power your bariatric journey, become a monthly podcast supporter and help us produce the show! Visit www.barinationpodcast.com and help us support people treating the disease of obesity with humor, humility, and honesty.   About Your Hosts: April, Jason, and Natalie are all bariatric patients who were inspired to create the community and support they needed. BariNation empowers people to treat their disease of obesity in kind, compassionate, and caring ways through the community they founded. As they learn to live the pillars of bariatric success (movement, mindset, metabolic wellness), they share their experiences and “aha” moments with their friends and followers.  About BariNation: BariNation is a bariatric educational organization on a mission to empower patients to access and utilize the tools, resources, and education needed to find and maintain personal wellness. We connect patients with the support they need, when and where they need it. BariNation produces an award-winning weekly podcast distributed on all major podcast and video platforms and hosts a support membership community that teams up with credentialed and licensed bariatric experts and clinicians.  Follow BariNation on Instagram and TikTok, and visit us online at www.barination.com. You can also connect with each of the hosts personally on Instagram; follow April @actively_april, follow Jason @tha_smithsonian, and follow Natalie @breakingbari_ers.  You've got this and we've got you! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/support

Obesity is a lifelong and chronic disease that millions of Americans battle every day. Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment of the disease, but weight loss medication advancements are making them a viable treatment option. A recent Goldman Sachs study estimated that by 2030, 15  million Americans would be taking an anti-obesity medication to treat the disease and live at a weight that allows them to metabolize well. These medications are promising, but are they the “magic pill” many people hope for? Without focusing on all of the pillars of bariatric success, these medications, like bariatric surgery, will not be as effective or safe. BariNation co-host April Williams sat down with Jeannie Boyter, RD, CSOWM, for a conversation about the importance of nutrition while taking anti-obesity medications. Jeannie explains how these new obesity medications work from a nutritional standpoint, how Setpoint Theory can explain regain (weight recurrence) after surgery, and practice steps we can take to ensure our nutrition adequately fuels our bodies and cells for optimal health when our appetite and capacity have been reduced. Jeannie is leading a class in the BariNation Support Community on March 26th at 5 pm PST / 8 pm EST about GLP1 Nutrition. If you are taking one of these medications and are worried about hitting your nutritional goals, join BariNation and attend her class! This class will be a fantastic opportunity to learn from an obesity nutrition expert and ask your questions in real-time. Join us today to connect, learn, and grow with experts and bariatric peers.  If you are a member of the BariNation Support Community or a $5 a month Patreon supporter of this podcast, your Bonus Episode will dive deeper into understanding how connected our mindset is to your nutrition and helping us reach those goals, how to ensure we hit our nutritional goals if the medication makes us feel nauseous, and if the medication impacts how our digestive system breaks down food.  About our Guest: Jeannie Boyer is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Specialist in Obesity and Weight Management who has over two decades of clinical experience working with bariatric patients. In her one-on-one work with patients, she connects each personal obesity story with their goals to craft nutritional plans that meet their unique needs. Visit Jeannie online at www.bariatricsuccessrd.com to work with Jeannie! About Your Hosts: April, Jason, and Natalie are all bariatric patients who were inspired to create the community and support they needed. BariNation empowers people to treat their disease of obesity in kind, compassionate, and caring ways through the community they founded. As they learn to live the pillars of bariatric success (movement, mindset, metabolic wellness), they share their experiences and “aha” moments with their friends and followers.  About BariNation: BariNation is a bariatric educational organization on a mission to empower patients to access and utilize the tools, resources, and education needed to find and maintain personal wellness. We connect patients with the support they need, when and where they need it. BariNation produces an award-winning weekly podcast distributed on all major podcast and video platforms and hosts a support membership community that teams up with credentialed and licensed bariatric experts and clinicians.  Follow BariNation on Instagram and TikTok, and visit us online at www.barination.com. You can also connect with each of the hosts personally on Instagram; follow April @actively_april, follow Jason @tha_smithsonian, and follow Natalie @breakingbari_ers.  You've got this and we've got you! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/support

As this year comes to a close, BariNation co-hosts April Williams, Jason Smith, and Natalie Tierney sit down to reflect on this year, and predict what is to come in 2024.  This year was full of learning, growth, some turbulence, and best of all: community. The three co-hosts discuss how leaning on their support systems and their bariatric community have helped them navigate some intense moments this year. April and Natalie both made the taxing decisions to leave their jobs and continue to build the BariNation support community on a volunteer basis, while Jason pursued and had his revision in December.  We are elated to take on the next year that is to come, and we are grateful to have all of you, our listeners, viewers, podcast supporters and support community members along for the ride. Did you have an “aha” moment from this episode? Leave us a message and share your takeaways from this episode or any past episodes of the BariNation Podcast! Head to anchor.fm/barination/message and leave us a message that we can incorporate into future episodes!  Our Podcast supporters get to submit questions for future episodes, get access to bonus episodes with our amazing guests, and are invited to join us at our Community-only Struggle Bus Lives twice a month! Support the BariNation Podcast by becoming a $5 supporter today! Visit www.barinationpodcast.com to become a supporter!  You're not alone on this journey. Join the BariNation Support Community and connect with patients who are committed to decluttering along their bariatric journey And in January, you can join fellow members in our Decluttering Challenge! Visit us at https://barination.mn.co to learn more about our inclusive and welcoming support community!  About our Guest: Spring Courtright is a Marie Kondo-trained organizational expert who is passionate about helping people reclaim the calm in their lives through decluttering and organization. She is a compassionate expert who meets clients where they are and gently walks them through the decluttering process. Visit Spring online at https://www.tidywild.com/, subscribe to her newsletter, or work with her in a one-on-one capacity.  About Your Hosts: April Williams, Jason Smith, and Natalie Tierney are all bariatric patients who were inspired to create the community and support they needed. BariNation empowers people to treat their disease of obesity in kind, compassionate, and caring ways through the community they founded. As they learn to live the pillars of bariatric success (movement, mindset, metabolic wellness), they share their experiences and “aha” moments with their friends and followers.  About BariNation: BariNation is a bariatric educational organization on a mission to empower patients to access and utilize the tools, resources, and education needed to find and maintain personal wellness. We connect patients with the support they need, when and where they need it. BariNation produces an award-winning weekly podcast distributed on all major podcast and video platforms and hosts a support membership community that teams up with credentialed and licensed bariatric experts and clinicians.  Follow BariNation on Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest. You can also connect with us personally on Instagram; follow April @actively_april, follow Jason @tha_smithsonian, and follow Natalie @breakingbari_ers. You've got this and we've got you! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/support

Welcome to a transformative episode of The BariNation Podcast, a show dedicated to supporting individuals on their bariatric and weight loss journey. In this episode, we explore the pivotal topic of lifting the heavy burden of shame. We draw inspiration and insights from Dr. Eric Smith, the Director of the Kentucky Bariatric Institute and BariNation co-founders and hosts April Williams and Natalie Tierney. Dr. Brené Brown defines shame as “the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging—something we've experienced, done, or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection.” As patients, we have experienced this shame for years, if not decades, before our bariatric surgery. We often call this the “work of weight loss surgery,” and in this episode, Dr. Smith shares how has learned from the shame he has experienced in his own, personal life and helps his patients utilize those lessons.  Join us as we delve into the strategies employed by Dr. Eric Smith, April, and Natalie to lift the weight of shame. By fostering empathy and understanding, destigmatizing weight issues, promoting self-compassion, celebrating victories, sharing our shame and struggles with a trusted community, and redefining success, bariatric patients can navigate their transformative journey with resilience and pride. It is in a community like BariNation that you can begin to foster a sense of community and break the isolation that shame can breed. Subscribe to The BariNation Podcast for more insights and inspiration on your weight loss surgery journey. If you found this episode helpful, please leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others who might benefit from this information. You can help us produce this show by becoming a $5 monthly Patreon support! Visit www.barinationpodcast.com to become a supporter!  You're not alone on this journey. Join the BariNation Support Community and connect with people working through weight recurrence. We offer Regain support groups led by bariatric therapists and meetups where you can connect with other people just like you. Visit us at https://barination.mn.co to learn more about our inclusive and welcoming support community!  About our Guest: Dr. Eric Smith, DO is the Medical Director of the Kentucky Bariatric Institute and a Key Opinion Leader in Bariatric Medicine and Robotic Surgery. He is a National proctor, speaker, and teacher for Intuitive Surgical in the specialty of robotic bariatric surgery and is board-certified in bariatric and robotic surgery. He is a member of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons (ASMBS). He is an engaged, caring, and dedicated physician who has completed thousands of bariatric surgeries since 2006. About Your Hosts: April Williams, Jason Smith, and Natalie Tierney are all bariatric patients who were inspired to create the community and support they needed. BariNation empowers people to treat their disease of obesity in kind, compassionate, and caring ways through the community they founded. As they learn to live the pillars of bariatric success (movement, mindset, metabolic wellness), they share their experiences and “aha” moments with their friends and followers.  About BariNation: BariNation is a bariatric educational organization on a mission to empower patients to access and utilize the tools, resources, and education needed to find and maintain personal wellness. We connect patients with the support they need, when and where they need it. BariNation produces an award-winning weekly podcast distributed on all major podcast and video platforms and hosts a support membership community that teams up with credentialed and licensed bariatric experts and clinicians.  Follow BariNation on Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest. Connect with us personally on Instagram; April @actively_april, Jason @tha_smithsonian, and Natalie @breakingbari_ers. You've got this and we've got you! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/support

Welcome to this special episode of the podcast! We have an amazing Guest, 'April Williams, co-founder of BariNation', a patient-founded bariatric educational organization. We'll be taking a deep dive into April's personal journey and the story behind BariNation, the vital role it plays in supporting individuals through their bariatric endeavors. So, get ready for some insightful conversations. Here are the key points: 1.Know the history of the BariNation as a patient-founded bariatric educational organization.2.Learn about April's personal story, from her childhood and career in education to the decision to undergo bariatric surgery.3.How Barination' empowers individuals to take control of their health journey, fosters a supportive online community, and offers tailored guidance through a diverse menu of resources. Links and resources: 1.Visit Bariatric Nutrition Bootcamp Here2.Follow me on Instagram3.Join my FREE Facebook Community And also:1.Follow BariNation on Spotify2. Follow BariNation on Instagram3. Follow BariNation on Facebook Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss out on any of my podcasts coming up soon. And, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave me a rating and a review? Thanks!GENERAL ADVICE WARNING This podcast delivers general advice and is not intended to provide treatment in anyway. Please consult with your medical team for personalized advice.

In this thought-provoking episode, Bariatric Coach Mabel Joseph deep dives into the concept of judgment – what it is, why it's an intrinsic part of being human, and how it affects those on a bariatric journey. Judgment is a normal brain behavior, a mechanism through which we comprehend the world, determine safety, define right from wrong, and make efficient decisions to safeguard our well-being. It is a very normal human behavior. But when our loved ones judge our decision to undergo weight loss surgery and the life we lead after our procedure, our reactions to it can cause us harm.  In this episode, we will explore how judgment weaves its way into our lives during our bariatric journey and holidays, how it can influence our choices, behaviors, and actions, and the steps we can take to move through judgment in positive and profound ways. Join hosts April Williams, Jason Smith, and Natalie Tierney for this meaningful and timely discussion. Tune in to gain a profound understanding of judgment, its roots in human psychology, and how it plays a role in the lives of bariatric patients. Learn strategies to navigate judgment, build resilience, and move forward on your transformative journey toward better health and well-being. If you want to continue this conversation, join us in the BariNation Community! You can help build BariNation by becoming a podcast supporter for $5 a month or join our Support Community and access and attend over 80 live support groups, classes, and meetups a month, all from the comfort of your own home. Join us today by visiting www.barinationpodcast.com to learn more.  About our Guest: About Your Hosts: April Williams, Jason Smith, and Natalie Tierney are all bariatric patients on a mission to connect patients with the tools, resources, and education needed to find and maintain personal wellness. They created BariNation to empower people to treat their disease of obesity in kind, compassionate, and caring ways through the community they founded. As they learn to live the pillars of bariatric success (movement, mindset, metabolic wellness), they share their experiences and “aha” moments with their friends and followers.  About BariNation: BariNation is a bariatric educational organization on a mission to empower patients to access and utilize the tools, resources, and education needed to find and maintain personal wellness. BariNAtion understands that every patient's end goal is metabolic wellness. While each patient will take a different road to this destination, the stops along the journey will be similar. BariNation aims to connect patients with the support they need, when and where they need it. BariNation produces an award-winning weekly podcast that is distributed on all major podcast and video platforms, host a support membership community that teams up with credentialed and licensed bariatric experts and clinicians.  Follow BariNation on Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest. You can also connect with us on Instgram; follow April @actively_april, follow Jason @tha_smithsonian, ,follow Natalie @breakingbari_ers, and follow Mabel @beyondthesleeveacademy You've got this and we've got you! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/support

As if the bariatric journey is not emotional enough, we can exerpieince grief when anything in our life changes. The loss of a connection to what we knew or the past can trigger the waves of grief, even happy moments or momentous occasions can cause grief to be present in our lives. We want to better understand the waves of grief and leanr how we can grow through the grief, using it as a powerful tool for growth.  We sat down with Timisha Malone, a bariatric therapist who specalizes in grief and a patient herself. She has over a decade of experience walking people through grief and helping them harness the powerful momentfum grief can create in our life. And becuase she is also a bariatric patient, she is able to offer us specific and targeted suggestions for every step of our bariatric life. She helps us understand that moving through grief actually requires stillness, a willingness to find stillness, name our feelings, and connect with a peer community to help us navigate the emotional changes.  If you have been wondering “why am I feeling this way” and can't quite put your finger on what is causing your feelings or emotions, this episode is for you! We invite you to connect and grow with Timisha in the BariNation Support Communtiy, where she leds our bi-monthly Bariatric Grief Support Group. This group is designed to help fellow patients undertand grief, its many waves, and provide a safe place to practice the stillness needed to move though grief. Join Timisah and hundreds of fellow patients at www.barination.mn.co ____________________________________ If our podcast has helped you along your bariatric journey, help support it by becoming a subscriber! For $5 a month, you can help grow the BariNation podcast and ensure it continues to help the thousands and thousands of patients who rely on it. Your support helps us fuel this labor of love and ensures that it reaches patients when and where they need it the most. Become a supporter at www.barination.mn.co. Follow BariNation on Instagram @bari.nation for continued support aligned with your bariatric journey. Follow hosts April Williams @actively_april, follow Jason Smith @tha_smithsonian_, and follow Natalie Tierney @breakingbari_ers --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barination/support

In this episode, Jamaal Williams and Timothy Paul Jones talk about how to create a multi-ethnic Kingdom community in our churches like it will be in heaven. We talk through the unity and diversity in the identity of God, how our unity and diversity flows out of that identity, and how lament is important to establish ties between ethnic groups. We ground our conversation in the story of Jamaal, Timothy, and their church Sojourn Midtown in Louisville as an example of the work we can step into to see the body of Christ start to reflect the vision laid out in Revelation 7:9 where people from every tribe tongue and nation surround the throne of Jesus.Jamaal Williams (DEdMin) serves as lead pastor of Sojourn Church Midtown in Louisville, Kentucky, and as president of the Harbor Network. In addition, he regularly consults churches on leadership matters and issues related to building healthy multi-ethnic churches.Timothy Paul Jones (PhD) teaches apologetics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and serves as a preaching pastor at Sojourn Church Midtown. In addition, he has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books, including Finding God in a Galaxy Far, Far Away; Christian History Made Easy; and, with James Garlow and April Williams, the bestselling The Da Vinci Codebreaker. Jamaal and Timothy's book:In Church as it is in HeavenTimothy's Recommendations:The MandalorianAugustine's SermonsJamaal's Recommendations:The Spirit, Ethics, and Eternal Life by Jarvis WilliamsGod's Empowering Presence by Gordon FeeConnect with Joshua: jjohnson@allnations.usGo to www.shiftingculturepodcast.com to interact and donate. Every donation helps to produce more podcasts for you to enjoy.Follow on Facebook or Instagram at www.facebook.com/shiftingculturepodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/shiftingculturepodcast/Consider Giving to the podcast and to the ministry that my wife and I do around the world. Just click on the support the show link below.Support the show

Interested in further study of the Bible? Join us at Logos Bible Software. Are you interested in a rigorous and Reformed seminary education? Call Westminster Seminary California at 888-480-8474 or visit www.wscal.edu! Please help support the show on our Patreon Page!   WELCOME TO BOOK CLUB! Jamaal E. Williams (DEdMin) serves as lead pastor of Sojourn Church Midtown in Louisville, Kentucky, and as president of the Harbor Network. In addition, he regularly consults churches on leadership matters and issues related to building healthy multi-ethnic churches. Timothy Paul Jones (PhD) teaches apologetics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and serves as a preaching pastor at Sojourn Church Midtown. In addition, he has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books, including Finding God in a Galaxy Far, Far Away; Christian History Made Easy; and, with James Garlow and April Williams, the bestselling The Da Vinci Codebreaker. You can visit his website here. We want to thank IVP for their help in setting up this interview and providing us with the necessary materials for this interview   Purchase the book(s) here: In Church as It Is in Heaven   Have Feedback or Questions? Email us at: guiltgracepod@gmail.com Find us on Instagram: @guiltgracepod Follow us on Twitter: @guiltgracepod Find us on YouTube: Guilt Grace Gratitude Podcast Please rate and subscribe to the podcast on whatever platform you use! Looking for a Reformed Church? North American Presbyterian & Reformed Churches --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gggpodcast/support

Intermittent fasting has recently gained popularity as a dietary approach for promoting health and longevity. Let's explore the latest research on time-restricted eating and how it impacts gene expression throughout the body, leading to increased life spans.Reference:Diurnal transcriptome landscape of a multi-tissue response to time-restricted feeding in mammals” by Shaunak Deota, Terry Lin, Amandine Chaix, April Williams, Hiep Le, Hugo Calligaro, Ramesh Ramasamy, Ling Huang and Satchidananda Panda, 3 January 2023, Cell Metabolism. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2022.12.006VISIT OUR STOREStore: https://www.selfelements.comFOLLOW USwww.selfprinciple.orgwww. youtube.com/selfprinciplewww.youtube.com/plantbasedkidneyhealthwww.instagram.com/seanhashmimd

If you've ever wanted to sit across someone farther along in their mission and motherhood journey and have them speak into all of it... this episode is for you! Many women desire mentorship, but are not quite sure how to find a mentor?This was me for so long and in Feb. of 2020 God dropped April Williams into my lap. Well... it literally felt that way. April walked with me during a most pivotal time in my career and motherhood and shared her wisdom and encouragement along the way. What came as a surprise is April claims the relationship is mutual and even though she's been at this mission and motherhood thing for a while, I bring value into her life too! Now that's full circle mentorship! Everything you need to know about finding a mentor, preparing for a mentorship, and how to make the most of this special relationship in this episode! You can find April on LinkedIn, email her at april@salesamp.com, or catch her own podcast on all things marketing and sales. Resources in this episode: Power Moms by Joann S. LublinSalesAmp 

The BariDIARIES podcast is a weekly show where your host, CeCe, and guests share their most intimate insecurities, bariatric stories and battle with body positivity. Join us to as we navigate through life after weight loss surgery together.

Not all Notaries are the same! Find a smart notary like April Williams, at Signing Your Way Notary Services. Hear how she got started and her tips for starting your own business. Meet April and find out how she has made a NICE living for herself by becoming a Mobile & Online Notary - a 6 figure income! You can reach her:  https://www.signingyourway.com/ or email: info@signingyourway.com  Office: 281-866-6138 and Media: signing_your_wayIf you liked today's show - please let Laura know by either contacting her at laura@fisherpodcast.com or give her a great review.  Also, if you know of someone who would be an inspiring guests, let her know… even if it's you. Until then… "You better be Up to something!"SPONSORED BY: Business E Suites in Sugar Land, TX.  https://businessesuites.com/ Perfect place to grow your business. 281-862-3150

April Williams and her husband Dustin — the owners of À La Cart — are Central Florida natives, but their professional backgrounds are not in food and hospitality. The couple was working as teachers while living in Bend, Oregon. “Every time we would go out to eat, we almost always go to a food cart pod,” April Williams said. “My husband, I have very different eating styles and we can always both get exactly what we want (at a food cart pod) without fighting, our son can kind of run around in the open air. Usually, we can find a drink and (it's) just a very casual place to just come together and enjoy ourselves.” The couple made the decision to open their own food cart pod back in their hometown of Orlando, the first in the city. À La Cart opened up for business three years ago. The space features several food carts and even helped to launch several brick-and-mortar restaurants. On the latest episode of Florida Foodie, April Williams talks all about the process of selling their home on the West Coast to take a chance on starting À La Cart. She also talks about working in the Milk District and how the food cart pod weathered the pandemic. Please follow our Florida Foodie hosts on social media. You can find Candace Campos on Twitter and Facebook. Lisa Bell is also on Facebook and Twitter and you can check out her children's book, “Norman the Watchful Gnome.”

This is the first in our series of 'Diversity Talks'. Like us, many businesses are on a journey to become more diverse and inclusive. We hope by having these open and candid conversations we can learn from each other and help facilitate genuine change amongst the tech industry.This October, in Black History month, we kicked off the conversation on racial diversity in the workplace. Our panel shared practical advice and initiatives around how businesses can foster a more inclusive workplace culture for their racially diverse employees and how this in turn, directly effects attraction and retention.Topics discussed include:- Building a racially inclusive culture- Nurturing diversity from the bottom up- Diversity fatigue - relieving the burden- Establishing workplace allies- Sharing practical initiatives & ideasWe'd like to say a big thank you to our amazing panel:- April Williams, Founder of Can?Did!- Kankemwa Ishaku, Software Engineering Tech Lead at Adaptavist- Tio Brome, Principal Delivery Manager at Just Eat- Jessie Auguste, Software Engineer at Cybsafe and member of the Coding Black Females Senior Leadership Team+ One final panellist to be announced!

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I got to spend my lunch break with Dustin and April Williams, owners of À La Cart Orlando, A social dining experience featuring some of the best street food offerings in Orlando and a bar with 15 taps pouring a rotating lineup of beers, wines, and coffee. A fun space for foodies, beer lovers, and families of all shapes and sizes! A Food Truck Park you don't want to miss in Orlando. I spoke to Dustin and April about how they came up with the concept of a Food Truck Park and how they brought it from Oregon to Orlando, FL. We spoke about how they figured out what Food Trucks would be part of the park and the importance of social media. We also spoke about balancing life and business as a married couple. Not to mention doing something you are passionate about. Was a great conversation and I enjoyed having my lunch break with them. Lunch with Biggie is an Orlando podcast about small business and creatives sharing their stories and inspiring you to pursue your passion, with some sandwich talk on the side. Created, edited and produced by Biggie- owner of the sandwich themed clothing brand- Deli Fresh Threads. Feel Free to leave us a message/comment: https://anchor.fm/lunchwithbiggie/message A La Cart Orlando's Social: Website- https://www.alacartorlando.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/alacartorlando/ Biggie's Social: Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/delifreshthreads/ Podcast's Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/lunchwithbiggie/ Website- https://www.delifreshthreads.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lunchwithbiggie/message

I’m really excited for you to get to know our guest today, Dr. April Williams.  Dr. Williams is a principal in Houston Texas and she leads an all girl public school named Young Women’s College Preparatory Academy.  I was fascinated by this concept, so I ask her the why behind this vision and she will also share three priorities on her site that is helping her girls create a strong future.  

In this episode, we speak with April Williams, a women's health provider with a special interest in helping women manage their health through menopause and beyond. Learn what to expect when the menopause symptoms lesson, and how to get the resources you need from your health care provider during this next transition in your life. Learn more online at chihealth.com/womenshealth

Hormone replacement may not always be the best option for you during menopause. There are several options for you to help manage your symptoms during menopause that you can do. April Williams, a CHI Health Women's Health Provider with a special interest in helping women during menopause and beyond. Learn more online at chihealth.com/womenshealth

In this episode, we're joined once again with April Williams, a Women's Health Provider with a special interest in helping women manage their health during menopause and beyond. In this episode we discuss how menopause can cause irritability, anxiety, and depression, and some simple tips for women to maintain their mental health during this time in their lives. Learn more online at chihealth.com/womenshealth

In this episode, we'll speak with April Williams, a Women's Health Provider with a special interest in helping women manage their health through menopause and beyond. We'll talk about the differences between menopause and perimenopause and the symptoms of both. If you would like to learn more, visit us at chihealth.com/womenshealth

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James Kwon is Founder and CEO of Figmints Digital Creative Marketing, a 20-person, full-service, multi-seven-figure digital marketing agency that specializes in accelerating leads to sales. The company utilizes SalesAmp, which James describes as “business development representative as a service.” SalesAmp came under the Figmint's “umbrella” when James and April Williams, now Fitmints President, merged their two companies. (The way these two companies “came together” is described in a short video on Fitmints' website's About page.) Eight years ago, when James discovered that his first chosen career in culinary arts did not provide him with sufficient creative opportunities, he started Figmints with a focus on providing UI/UX (User Interface and User Experience) web services, which he did for number of well-known companies back when few people were doing it. In this interview, James discusses the sales process gap the often occurs because “sales and marketing typically don't like each other” – the marketing department wants the sales team to take leads earlier, while the sales team wants marketing to push leads further along before the “hand off.” In 2018, James was looking for a partner to better fulfill his vision for where he wanted his company to go. The synergy between Figmints HubSpot operations and North Star Marketing's SalesAmp, a marketing process focused on building pipelines for individual salespeople, created a marketing powerhouse that far exceeded the expectations of the two merged companys' leaders. Today, the now-expanded Figmints develops the right content for the exact right audience. As individuals respond (download information, attend webinars, engage with content, open email), the SalesAmp piece takes over with Figments' internal sales team reaching out to prospects on behalf of clients. Over time, Figmints delivers a thought leadership, content marketing, and funnel program that nurtures customers through the client-journey until they are comfortable enough to talk with the client's sales team.  Unlike most agencies where generated leads are handed off for follow-up to client sales/ boiler rooms (which may or may not get the message right), Figmints operates as an “educational ambassador,” running the inbound HubSpot process on behalf of its clients' salespeople. Most of the Figmints' clients have long, complex sales cycles. When the questions get too complicated, the client takes over. In his HubSpot Inbound 2020 presentation, “My Cheat Sheet: How to Growth Hack Five New Companies or Offerings This Year” at HubSpot Inbound 2020, James promoted the idea that entrepreneurs should consider starting multiple companies at a time. He lists a number of reasons that this practice makes sense and lays claim to launching close to nine sub-brands, of which four or five are still active. James is a big proponent of systems, optimization, and efficiency for everything from workflows to automated engagement to follow-up processes. He says he uses “several dozen pieces of software that combine together to make my workflow easier.” But, he admits, people are complicated. Early on, the agency experienced high employee turnover. “There is no way to love people efficiently,” he says. Today, employees stick around a lot longer because the agency invests in employee growth and meeting with them for frequent one-on-ones. He highly recommends utilizing Entrepreneurial Operating Systems (EOS), as described in Gino Wickman's book Traction. James is available on his agency's website at: Figmints.com, by email at: james@figmints.com, on Twitter at Twitter.com/figmints, and Facebook.  ROB: Welcome to the Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Kischuk, and I am joined today by James Kwon, Founder and CEO of Figmints Digital Creative Marketing based in Providence, Rhode Island. Welcome to the podcast, James. JAMES: Thanks so much for having me, Rob. ROB: Excellent to have you here. Why don't you start off by telling us about Figmints and what is the superpower of Figmints? Where do you excel? JAMES: I like that. Figmints is a 20-person, full service digital marketing firm. Started here about 8 years ago. My personal background – I guess I'll tell you a little bit of the story. I started in UI/UX and design. Actually, I have a degree in culinary, so that was where my creativity journey started. Got to find out that I couldn't be as creative in the kitchen as I'd like to be, and I wasn't that good at it, so I left to do design work. I could be more creative in front of a computer, so I started to do design and became what I call one of the first UI/UX designers because that category really didn't exist when I started. I was Employee #5 at CVS.com, helped them launch that award-winning site at the time. Worked at BEAM Interactive, got to work on some really high profile, awesome sites like Mini Cooper, Virgin Mobile, Deutsche Bank, the list goes on and on. Name drop, name drop. I started the agency because I really enjoyed working with small to medium size firms. Fell in love with marketing somewhere along the lines. I fell in love with business, fell in love with marketing, just this infinite pool. Today, we're really focused on accelerating leads to sales through a program we call SalesAmp. It's like a BDR as a service. What I've learned through the years – I don't like the term serial entrepreneur, but I guess it describes me because we have probably four or five different sub-brands that I've launched. Over the years, actually, it's like nine. But today we're still working on four or five of them. I've had a blast getting to trial things very quickly, test things very quickly, trying to measure the growth very quickly. And we do that for clients as well as ourselves. ROB: Right on. BDR, business development representative – a lot of times this is somebody who's banging the phones, banging emails, possibly even sourcing or scraping leads or has some process feeding into that. How does that thread go from a background in UX and UI to sales assistance? JAMES: Great question. What I love about design is coming up with creative solutions, and when I started the business 8 years ago, I realized that you get to really be infinitely creative in business itself. There are major levels you can pull within business operations, HR, people, but especially, of course, in sales and marketing that was the area that was closest to the world we were already living in, doing websites and branding and brand story. We merged about 2-½ years ago now with another agency. The CEO there is now our president, April Williams. She had developed a system that she called SalesAmp, and we really added a digital layer as they've folded into our agency. That process, we think, is really transformational. We have a lot of great clients. Philips Healthcare is a client of ours. That's probably our biggest. GE ABB is a client of ours. Lots of medium size clients as well. But the whole idea is sales and marketing typically don't like each other. Well, in a lot of businesses, they typically are frustrated at each other because marketing wants sales to take leads earlier, sales wants marketing to push leads further. There's this gap that happens in the middle, and we thought this was a tremendous need. So we actually developed a process to not only develop the thought leadership, the content marketing, the funnel, but also have an inside sales team that reaches out on behalf of the client to hand-hold that prospect all the way through till they feel comfortable having a conversation with the sales team. These larger organizations have felt tremendous benefit from having this service from us because it reduces that frustration. Salespeople are busy; they flat-out just don't want to do it. [laughs] So yeah, we've had a lot of fun putting this together. ROB: That's really interesting, and that makes your journey make sense. If we were doing conferences this year in 2020, you and I might have been speaking face to face at HubSpot's Inbound conference, where you were speaking. We've recorded there the past couple of years, and quite often we've talked to BDR/SDR as a service companies, but they're usually coming more from the perspective of building lists and then banging out calls for those lists. Do I understand that you're actually generating warmer leads and then also pulling those leads through to some point where you hand them off in the sales process? JAMES: Yeah. Not to give away too much of the special sauce, but for the value of this podcast, for the value of your listeners, I'll share with you what we've found to be more impactful is actually running the good old-fashioned HubSpot inbound process specifically for salespeople. We run that process on their behalf – because you're right, a lot of these outbound sales/boiler room type of “I'm going to call 1,000 people a day,” those tend to fail because they don't get the story right. The game is just numbers, “I'm going to call as many people as possible.” But the inbound process is all about connecting the right content, having as much helpful content as possible to that exact right audience. What we're doing is combining both of those worlds. We want to develop that content, do it on behalf of the sales team, and then as people engage, we're reaching out to those individuals. As people download, as people attend the webinars, as people start to engage with that content or even open an email, those are the people we reach out to. And then on the calls, we're actually leading them into more content, bringing them further through that journey. That I think is pretty different than a lot of companies out there that are just a roomful of salespeople reaching out. ROB: That definitely makes sense. Where do you get to the point where you hand that lead off? Are you sometimes able to bring them all the way through to closing sale, or is there typically a point where you're handing them off to an account executive, an AE or something like that? JAMES: Yeah, we're working on a program where we can bring the deal all the way to close. Of course, there's a lot of complexities. Most of the clients we work with have long sales cycles. They're very complex deals. You have to have some industry knowledge to be valuable there, to actually make the close or get people to sign on the dotted line. But what we do is become educational ambassadors. We know enough about the business to be able to guide that individual, and once it becomes complicated or once the questions become a little too complex for us, we'll immediately tee it up for that salesperson at the company. ROB: Got it. I want to pull on one thread you mentioned earlier. You mentioned a point of merging with another agency. Quite often, especially when you get to being more entrepreneurial, I think a combination of let's say ego and logistics and financial concerns can be an obstacle to getting together – JAMES: Just those little things. [laughs] Yeah. ROB: [laughs] Nobody has those problems. How did you come to this point where it just seemed to make sense to team up and pursue a whole that was more than some of its parts? JAMES: I'm going to throw a lot of that to April, who was the CEO of this previous agency and is now our president. There was a lot of humility from the start. We met each other actually at a faith-based Christian CEO roundtable group, and we've known each other for a few years. That story – we like to use the word supernatural. It feels like it was more about the things that were happening, and we were going along for the ride, really, and submitting a little bit to what we felt like was the best way to move forward. You can see that story, and I would highly recommend anybody to check out that full story, on our website, on our About page. I think there's a 4- or 5-minute video that explains the process there. But all the work that was done to start that humble process was really from April, and I was following along. ROB: We will look to get that video into the show notes. It's a great point that so often, some of these roundtables, some of these accountability type groups where you open up a little bit could be a place where you open up enough to figure out how you and someone else can work better together. Makes a ton of sense there. We mentioned Inbound, and at Inbound you gave a talk, and your talk was “My Cheat Sheet: How to Growth Hack Five New Companies or Offerings This Year.” Tell us about that talk and what some of the key takeaways and maybe even key questions were from that. JAMES: That talk came from our merger, I'd say was really the catalyst. It freed me up to dwell and live in – I think my gifting is ideating, looking towards the future, thinking about where we could create new products, new offerings. In the past, we really only ever had time to do half to one product or offering at a time, and we'd slowly test them. I realized that this probably means we're spending too much time trying to develop that offering before we launch it out. Obviously, as a speaker, I wanted the title to be as provocative as possible, so I made the argument that you shouldn't just start one offering or one new company; you should try to start five. It's kind of an arbitrary number. Three, five, ten – you should start as many as you can that warrants – that you think is a good idea. Go and test those MVPs (minimum viable products) out there. Very quickly into that segment, I talked about a few different reasons why you would want to do that. One, 80% of these ideas are going to fail, whether it's a new company or a new offering. So hey, if you start five, maybe one will succeed. It gives you this massive leap ahead. It gives you this opportunity to play in this blue ocean where your competitors may not be thinking smaller, running those MVPs, making sure that you're testing the biggest parts of the idea. It forces you not to spend too much time on it. And then of course, you get some thick skin. After failing many, many, many times, it becomes second nature, and you start to move forward much more quickly. ROB: This may tie together; you mentioned that your company had at one point up to nine offerings, and now there are five. Are there lessons and maybe an example of one of those that was an experiment and one that was put to rest? JAMES: Yeah, there's so many failures in there. [laughs] Happy to talk about it. Very early on, we built a platform for the wedding industry. Early on, when we introed video as a service, we were doing videos for weddings to make ends meet. We quickly knew that this needed to be not part of our brand, so we created a separate brand for that. The wedding industry is an entire universe. For any of your listeners who might be in the wedding industry, it is complex and unique and special, and there's a lot of people that you need to know and a lot of ways that you do business in it that are different than other industries – which I guess you could make the argument is true for every industry. But we quickly realized that we need a champion for this. We need a champion for any of these products that we create or sub-companies we create, and I couldn't be the best champion for it It did fail. We wound up twilighting the offering. There was actually a software component that was added onto it. But it was a lesson learned that the offering was a little too far away from what we do. Today, a lot of our products that we're testing are things that we can actually use ourselves or we can use for our own clients, which makes it a little bit more – the resources make sense to allocate for ourselves. ROB: How do you think about when it's too soon to put an idea to rest or maybe recognize after the fact that it was a little later than you should've turned it off? JAMES: I think it's always later. In hindsight, we should've stopped maybe at the beginning. [laughs] But I think you realize when you run out of money, certainly. I set some ground rules. “Hey, this can't take more than this much time” or “You can't spend more than this many dollars” or “We want to see this many customers come in and this type of feedback.” It's a good example of where everything was going the wrong direction. Our feedback was starting to get worse, it started to slip way behind in the priority, we couldn't devote as much time or dollars to it, and so we made the – I won't even call it a difficult decision. We made the very real decision that we needed to put an official stop to that project and move on. ROB: When you talk about feedback, some people are very numbers-driven and some people are very intuition-driven. Was that assessment of the feedback and the priority more of a gut feeling, or was that a measured consideration? JAMES: I'd love to sound smarter and say it was very measured. [laughs] At the time, that was one of our early ones, and it was a little bit more gut, which means we probably spent more money than we wanted to or needed to. But today we have much more strict measures of when things are going off the rails or when it feels like it's not getting the attention it deserves or we're getting feedback from our clients. I think you need both. You need to have some soft measures, asking people what they think, scale of 1 to 10. You start to create metrics around soft measures, which I'm a fan of. ROB: What's another offering that maybe is a little bit further along that was an experiment, but now looks a little bit more promising? And where did it come from? JAMES: At the end of my talk at Inbound, we created an offering that was born from this process. I give a little story about Tim Ferriss, which I'm sure you've heard of and maybe your listeners have heard of. Tim Ferriss is a prolific startup and entrepreneurial writer. He wrote The 4-Hour Workweek. There's a story about how he wrote the second book, The 4-Hour Body, and the way he arrived at the decision to write that book was really clever. Instead of surveying people or writing a chapter or anything like that, he designed a handful of book jackets and went to a bookstore – if you remember what bookstores were, they were these places people go to buy books. [laughs] This is probably illegal, so I don't recommend this necessarily. He took the books off the shelf and he swapped the jackets with his book jacket and he put it back on the shelf, and he stood back and actually tallied as people stopped, picked up the book, opened the book. He would give them scores – a point for stopping, 2 points for picking up the book, 10 points if you tried to buy the book. Then he arrived at the decision to write 4-Hour Body. And the subtitle of 4-Hour Body is “An uncommon guide to rapid fat loss, incredible sex, and becoming superhuman” – why would you not want to read that book, right? But that process, since we don't have bookstores anymore, or I don't recommend this same sort of process, we've developed a similar system using Facebook advertisements and other advertisements where we create what we call fake ads. They look like real ads, but they point you to a very generic landing page that captures information and lets you know that this is coming out later. This program, we like it a lot. We think many companies would benefit from it, and we've developed a separate offering just to do these validation tests. We call it BentoSpring. Bento like bite-size, spring like launch, so bite-size launch. The term “Bite-Size Launch” was taken, I think, so BentoSpring was our next best name. We're piloting that now. We're getting that off the ground. I think it's definitely still valid. But this is a great example of a product that we could use that we offer to our clients. It's relatively inexpensive, so when we offer it, we say, “Oh, we actually have an offering we call BentoSpring.” It could be its own separate company, but it doesn't need to be its own separate company. We have the offering out there, and if people want to engage with it, they can give us some money and do it. ROB: I can certainly see that sort of thing – from a distance, you can see the tea leaves. Even if you told somebody, “We have a scoring system like Tim Ferriss's. We give points for likes, we give points for comments, we give points for clicks, we give points for form fills” – the actual process of doing it could very easily be something that a client doesn't want to do. JAMES: Sure. They don't know how to do it. They don't know how to do it, they don't have an ad platform set up. Again, this is designed even if you wanted to start a brand new company and you have two or three in your ideation phase. “Gosh, these are all great companies,” or “These are all great things that I could be doing. Which one should we do?” Well, let's go test it. Let's go build out a bento test and test some ads out there. Let's see which ones are easier to set up, which ones can get the most impressions versus will see the most click-throughs. And then you have these prebuilt ads. Once you get that up and going, you can just re-run the ads and point them to real offerings. ROB: Exciting stuff there, James. JAMES: Thanks. ROB: We've talked a bit about your journey along the way. As you reflect on the 8 years since you took the leap and started the business, what are some things you've learned along the way that you might do differently if you were starting over? Maybe some broader lessons on running the show, more than maybe individual offerings. JAMES: One of the biggest lessons I've learned as an entrepreneur – and about myself, so this may not apply to everybody or all of your listeners – but for me, I'm a fan of optimization and efficiency. I love setting up systems. I think that's why I fell in love with marketing. I fell in love with HubSpot because we can create these systems, we can create workflows. You can automate a lot of that engagement and follow-up and process. I use sequences every day. I have probably several dozen pieces of software that combine together to make my workflow easier. But here's what I found out. There is no way to love people efficiently. You cannot do it. Loving people is designed to not be efficient, or relationships are designed to not be efficient. So early on, there was a lot of friction in the business because I would hire employees and they'd stay a year or two, and I'd get frustrated when people get that millennial itch. I had somebody say, “James, I've been here two years. I learned everything I could. I think I'm going to leave and travel the world.” And that guy did really well. But today, we've held our employees a lot longer. We're invested in our employees to see them grow, painstakingly taking time out of the day to set up one-on-ones with every individual, more one-on-ones with the people closest to me in the leadership circle. Those are the things that have been very painful lessons, but such powerful lessons growing the business to where we are now, about 20 employees, multi seven-figure. But that's something I think could be its own book of lessons, per se, for loving people, caring about people, just treasuring this opportunity that I have to make an impact on their lives. ROB: Really helpful. One-on-ones are such a key connector of that. You mentioned days. Are you doing those mostly weekly, or more often or less often? You said some people are a little lighter cadence if they're not as close to you in the organization? Maybe you do more of a touch base on occasion? JAMES: One-on-ones seem like such a simple answer. If I say it, some of your listeners might think, “Of course, I'm going to do one-on-ones.” But you wind up not doing it unless they're really regimented. I recommend highly that – first of all, we run on an operating system called EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating Systems), a book called Traction by Gino Wickman. Once you start to get into peer groups, you'll hear the EOS model over and over and over again. So I highly, highly recommend looking at EOS because it gives you a framework for meetings, a framework for how you do business, how you set it up, how to look at finances, how to look at hiring, core values, etc. It makes the argument that every business runs on an operating system – some on purpose and some not. The EOS model recommends doing one-on-ones at least every other week. I would say as the visionary or the leader of the company, with my integrator, who's April and my number two, she and I meet every week and we have a one-on-one cadence there. Then with the rest of the leadership team, I meet with them at least once a month. I do two or three one-on-ones a week, and the gaps are filled with the rest of the team. Other members of the team might have rotations with me once every 6 months, which I think is fine, but they're doing one-on-ones with their direct reports at least once every other week.  ROB: It's such a helpful tool. It's so good for empathy, for relationship, and coupled with process. When we do our one-on-ones, I have a cheat sheet. I take notes. I don't take the best notes on it, but even the simplest things of making sure you jot down the names of their family members and key milestones, those sorts of things – it's process, but it's process that, to your point, helps you love people well and maybe at a little bit better scale than just relying on your brain. JAMES: Totally. 15 minutes. Here's just a few of the questions we like to ask. One, we always start off with that personal touch: “Hey, how's your wife doing? How's your husband doing? How's your boyfriend/girlfriend? How are the things that we last talked about? I heard that you just bought a house. Congratulations. How's that going?” Then we dive quickly into “What's going well? What's not going well? What would you be doing differently if you were in my position? What information can I give you that you might be curious about in the company that you may not have regular visibility into?” This is a key one. I love when we both share, “What can I keep doing, start doing, and stop doing?” This is a really helpful framework. Keep doing is an opportunity to say “Hey, you're doing a great job. Love that you're doing X. Please keep doing that. I notice that you weren't doing Y. Can you start doing N? Also, I noticed this thing. Maybe you should stop doing that.” But the opportunity for the other person to say the same to me – what should I keep doing, start doing, stop doing? – opens it up. And honestly, if we'd had the opportunity to do that earlier on, I think we would've kept employees longer, they would've been happier, and I think we would've been able to see those frustrations or those pain points that there're bottling up internally and made decisions about those and tried to make some shifts around those sooner. It's pretty simple. I think employees just want to be heard. ROB: Absolutely. Much like killing a product offering, it's one of those things you will only realize that you started doing too late. We were talking a little bit before we started recording about taking your office virtual during COVID, so I'd imagine one-on-ones are an easy habit to keep going, but in terms of other habits and systems and things you had going in the name of the culture of the organization and connecting people, how has that changed and what are you doing differently now that you've embraced virtual? JAMES: What a great question. I wear this very proudly, so I'm going to take off the humble hat and say that I think we've been doing really well culturally as a remote agency. We've been practicing going remote once a month for the last 5 or 6 years just because we're very capable of it, and employees like going remote. We actually give all employees a day a week where they can go remote themselves. We were built to transition to remote fairly easily. We use Slack, and we have our virtual meeting rooms and things like that. But I'm very impressed by the way April and the team have risen to the challenge and stayed together culturally. We've always done a Monday morning huddle with the team, and that's continued, but we added a second meeting, a Wednesday morning check-in where we don't do any work talk. Or typically we don't do any work talk. We actually play a game together virtually. This has been really fun. We do online Pictionary, we've played Scattergories, Taboo, Bingo. We told scary stories. It's 30 minutes, 9:30 on Wednesday, and it's just a lot of fun. We make it the team's responsibility, so every team member, we rotate, they bring their game, and then they teach the game and we just play. That kind of culture has just kept us sane, I feel like, and it's kept this rhythm of “Oh, it's easy to keep this process going.” So that's been really helpful. And now, as the restrictions ease up a little bit, we're actually starting to do the opposite where we're trying to meet together more often and do things outside, have barbecues, bonfires, and have drinks together. We did a kayaking trip. Here in Rhode Island, we have the beautiful ocean. We're the Ocean State, so we have beautiful water activities we can do. So, keeping those things fresh has really helped our culture, and I feel like we've done a tremendous job at that. ROB: That's super solid. I think you are pulling towards what I'm seeing emerge also. “The new normal” is overused, but I think historically, many companies, including yours, and mine for that matter, have been default in the office. Not in the office is unique. We're probably moving more towards default remote and sometimes you're going to do something together. That's kind of what you're describing. There's a coworking space here that has an outdoor – they have like 50 picnic tables, and it feels nice to be near people without feeling uncomfortable being near people. I know that's kind of a weird, convoluted thing, but in our reality. I think you're really interestingly there. JAMES: Yeah, totally. There's just new things that we need to consider. Like since we're saving on office snacks, we just started to give our employees a stipend so that they can buy their own snacks or buy remote work setup that they can do. We're shifting some of the dollars that we did spend or we have been spending over to areas that make more sense. Those get-togethers or working together, sometimes we have a Zoom room open where we just aren't talking to each other; we just have it open and see each other's faces while we're working, which is really nice. Or getting together one on one to work together for half a day and just work next to each other. Not for any particular reason or particular meeting, but just to be in the same space, which is I think helpful for your psyche. ROB: Awesome. James, when people want to find you and they want to find Figmints, where should they go to find you? JAMES: Figmints.com. Fig like the fruit, mints like the candy. You can reach out to me, james@figmints.com, or on our website I think we have most handles @figmints, so Twitter.com/figmints, and Facebook. But email is pretty good, website is pretty good. We're not so big you can't get in touch with us. [laughs] ROB: Excellent. James, thank you so much. Maybe someday we'll go back to conferences and hear you speak live. Until then, thank you for joining us here virtually. JAMES: Yeah, Rob. Thank you so much for inviting me. I appreciate it. ROB: Be well. Thank you for listening. The Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast is presented by Converge. Converge helps digital marketing agencies and brands automate their reporting so they can be more profitable, accurate, and responsive. To learn more about how Converge can automate your marketing reporting, email info@convergehq.com, or visit us on the web at convergehq.com.

In this episode, we meet April Williams, the CEO and founder of "Bottled With Love", a handcrafted and all natural skin care collection. She talks about her experiences dealing with acne throughout her whole life and how natural products helped treat her skin. We also talk about the community the skin care world has built. April shares her love for Oprah Winfrey and defining success based on what's her truth and whether it aligns with her purpose and truth. She also talks about the beauty of running a small business and being able to customize her products to her customers' needs. Just keep going and DO NOT be afraid of failure! Check out: https://www.instagram.com/bottledwlove/ https://bottledwithlove.net/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/makingsenseofsuccess/support

In this episode, we meet April Williams, the CEO and founder of "Bottled With Love", a handcrafted and all natural skin care collection. She talks about her experiences dealing with acne throughout her whole life and how natural products helped treat her skin. We also talk about the community the skin care world has built. April shares her love for Oprah Winfrey and defining success based on what's her truth and whether it aligns with her purpose and truth. She also talks about the beauty of running a small business and being able to customize her products to her customers' needs. Just keep going and DO NOT be afraid of failure!Check out: https://www.instagram.com/bottledwlove/https://bottledwithlove.net/--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/makingsenseofsuccess/support

In this episode, we meet April Williams, the CEO and founder of "Bottled With Love", a handcrafted and all natural skin care collection. She talks about her experiences dealing with acne throughout her whole life and how natural products helped treat her skin. We also talk about the community the skin care world has built. April shares her love for Oprah Winfrey and defining success based on what's her truth and whether it aligns with her purpose and truth. She also talks about the beauty of running a small business and being able to customize her products to her customers' needs. Just keep going and DO NOT be afraid of failure!Check out: https://www.instagram.com/bottledwlove/https://bottledwithlove.net/--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/makingsenseofsuccess/support

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Stress in inevitable, how you manage it is up to you. Dorina Sackman Ebuwa and April Williams join Carol and her call in guests to discuss ways to manage the stress so many of us are feeling right now

Stress in inevitable, how you manage it is up to you. Dorina Sackman Ebuwa and April Williams join Carol and her call in guests to discuss ways to manage the stress so many of us are feeling right now

What a great 78th #JamSession with April Williams. Go check her out: facebook: https://www.facebook.com/april.williams.549 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/april-williams-55700854/ Phone: 214-380-4111 Email: Realtorwithgratitude@gmail.com In this #jamsession, we discussed:

L April Williams started her career as a professional dog groomer in 2006, opening her own salon in 2014. She regularly participates in continuing education and actively believes in growing relationships with other groomers. In late 2019, April began launching her second business, Higher Vibration Designs, a website and graphic design company. She plans to grow this business and reduce dog grooming to a hobby business over the next decade.

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Unleash Inspiration Feature with April Williams Creating a Life + Business We Love + Giving Back   With April Williams Boss Babe, Lover of Transformation + Self Care, Master's in Education, Associate Director of Integrated Graduate Student Services at Georgia State University and more!    ........Feature Spotlight   We talk all things on how we connected at Buckhead Business Association, inspiration, self care, depression, anxiety, compassion, creating what you love, April's passion for education, unleashing inspiration and much much more!       We will get into: 1) April's Story 2) How We Connected at Buckhead Business Association 3) Unleashing Inspiration 4) Creating Community 5) Self - Care 6) Creating What You Love 7) Getting Clear on Who You Are      Highlights:  You’ve heard some entrepreneurial stories when people are past the biggest challenges on the other side, but not the stories in the nitty gritty.  You're a side hustler, or founder in the early to middle stages, and want more guidance. You’ve perhaps wanted to take your side hustle to full time, but you are not exactly sure how to. You are ready to share your story, your experience, and your brand out there, so you hang on through the process.   You are still reading because… because deep down inside you know there has to be a better way to make momentum and to keep it in every area of your live.   What if…   What if you handled your mindset?   What if you knew you are not alone?   What if you tuned in with those in the journey?   What if you created smart with tips, tools, and tech?   What if you created what you loved?   What if you created a 6 Pack of Wealth?   What if you had a road map for your brand?   What if you built with the foundation to succeed?   What if you were clear on how to create stability?   What if you saw and grew the limitless possibilities?   What if you inspired with influence + creating community?   Imagine the return… Imagine the results…   It is possible to create it. How do I know?   Because I took ALL the education and experience from industries and brands served, and we did just that. I took over 20 years in >7 industries, creating communities, compensation plans, and now over 2 years immersing in influencer marketing, and we did just that.   How did we do it?   I figured it was time to share it to serve others.    For over 15 years, I struggled with health, wealth, and integrating all the businesses I had served (>7 industries + >15 brands generating up 11 figure results per year. I bounced from role to role searching because my passion and purpose was not fulfilled and I was riddled with fears. Once I created transformation and unleashed inspiration in how not only may I be the hero in the story, but more importantly serve others, my world and everything around it changed. Here is to you creating a life and business you love step by step.   Hear all about Ep 64: Feature with April Williams, Boss Babe, Higher Education + Student Experiences,  Master's in Education, Transformation Lover   ps. visit https://www.fitlifecreation.com/freebies     

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April Williams www.generationchurchri.org

On today's show, we are joined by student athletes Jesse McCombs and Matthew Turnage, from Arab High School. Also, Michael Simmons with FCA calls in to tell us what's going on in the organization. Also, we talk about perspective in the Clutch Moment. Also, we give away some bags of candy during our Freestyle. Marco's Pizza is enjoyed by all. Check out the show. And, be watching our Facebook Page on Tuesday from 12-2 for our FCA Sports Camp on-location show.

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On today's Podcast: Guntersville High School football player Colin Langford talks to us about sports and life, Gary Serrett joins us to talk about FCA, April Williams sits in with us, our Special Correspondent Ricky Phillips calls in, the guys talk about Worship for the Clutch Moment (complete with atheist church songs , we discover the Oracle of Bacon for our Freestyle call-in game & we eat Marco's Pizza & a great time is had by all! Check it out!

In The Know - 11/15/15

In this episode I talk with entrepreneur and event planner April Williams. She shares about her process while planning events and how it can be stressful but how she keeps it under control.