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Come join John as he meets SFX guru Eric Yoder, and gets a peek behind the curtain. As Eric lets John in on what inspired him to work in film, they discuss one of their favorite movies "Evil Dead", the state of horror films, and indie films as a whole... and so much more.John is an associate producer on these two upcoming horror films...you can be too. Or choose from other great perks and support these projectsTexas Chainsaw Massacre Fan Film "The Sawyer Massacre".The Sawyer Massacre - Horror TX Chainsaw Fan Film | Indiegogo"Z Dead End" Starring horror icons Kane Hodder (Jason Vorhees) and Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp).Z DEAD END Action Thriller | IndiegogoMerch store: https://teespring.com/stores/behind-the-fiends-2Discord: #fiend-friendsSlasher: btfiendsTikTok: btfiendsClapper: btfiendsYoutube: Behind The FiendsTwitter: @btfiendsIG: @btfiendspodcast_officialEmail: btfiends@gmail.comBuy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/behindthefiends

As Eric nears his Financial Independence number he asks Jason for help and advice on how to narrow the range of options of where to live. Choosing a place to call home once you've reached financial independence can be an overwhelming task, given just how large the problem space is. Jason shares how he and Lorri approached where to live in "retirement" before taking the plunge to move their family. Irrespective of your own retirement path, the process they used will apply universally to making decisions about relocating to a new area.  Check out the show notes and get a FREE copy of the "Where to Live" planning tool at https://twosidesoffi.com/where-to-live/

In today's episode, I am joined by Eric Keating. Eric is a go-to-market strategist and the vice president of marketing at Appcues. He has worked in the SaaS world his entire career, starting with a company called Sonicbids, and has spent more than 10 years in marketing.    Eric is an expert in the concept of product-led growth, what we have called the free trial or the freemium experience on this show. Today, we're going to dive deep into product-led growth and monetization.    What is Product-Led Growth?   “Product-Led Growth is defined as a go-to-market strategy that relies on using your product as the main vehicle to acquire, activate, and retain customers.” (Source: ProductLed)   Essentially, the name speaks for itself. In product-led growth, we provide a free self-service product for our visitors. In order to turn visitors into active customers, we have to hook them and provide clear value. Often this is done through free trials.    “Product-led growth is this concept that's really gained a lot of steam and awareness over the last one to two years,” Eric said. “It's the idea that your product is the primary driver of your user experience. Making your product available to try for free in a self-service capacity as often as possible is one of the most effective ways to go-to-market today. . . . Leading with a self-service free product experience is something that has been true at almost every single company I've worked at.”   Below, Eric has shared three ways to increase our product-led monetization growth.    Communicate with Our Customers   Communication is essential to monetize our self-service products.    “In this world in which you need to deliver more self-service, effective product experiences, there's this need to guide and communicate with users inside of your application,” Eric explained. “That's the type of product experience that, when you do this effectively, can really drive adoption of your product and create new monetization opportunities.”    In product-led growth marketing, we are offering a free service. But how do we continue to deliver value to our users, while also turning them into paying customers? The key is communication. We can't just launch a free trial and hope that will be enough to monetize. We need to guide our users through the experience by raising awareness of the features our product offers. From there we can explain the advanced features and benefits they can receive if they pay for premium access to our product.    Communication is essential in increasing awareness of the benefits and value of our products. Surveys, announcements, and newsletters are a few examples of how we can spread awareness and communicate with our customers. The goal is to keep them engaged, keep them using our product, and ultimately, adopt it fully.   One of Eric's biggest home runs was while working for Compete, Inc. Compete had thousands of free users every month, but they weren't converting as many customers as they would like. So, Eric started a project focused on analyzing how their customers were using the product, what features they were using, and what features and benefits they found most valuable.    After doing the research, they created an incentive for the users to upgrade to the premium plan based on what they discovered through the data. He was able to double his company's monthly revenue over one month because he understood his users' wants and needs, and then communicated the value they were offering effectively through his promotion.     Focus on the Initial Experience   In order to convert our potential customers into active customers, we need to make sure they have a good initial experience with us and our product.   “One of the most important parts of product-led growth is having a fantastic initial product experience,” Eric said. “I'm talking about the first minute your user starts using your product. The first day, two days, of their experience is so critical, not only to whether or not you're going to ultimately be able to convert them into a customer but also to their long-term retention.”   One of the biggest mistakes Eric sees companies make is flooding a new user with every little detail and feature about their product. When they give a customer a product tour, they think they have to show the new user everything. However, it often has the opposite effect of what they intended. Instead of feeling amazed at the product's features, the new user gets overwhelmed.    “[The new user is] starting to use your product because they have a specific goal or outcome in mind, and your job is to get them to that goal or outcome as quickly as possible, not show them every aspect of your product,” Eric explained. “It is a phased approach. Get them to that moment, and then start exposing them to more. It's this gradual process, and trying to do everything in the first minute can really mess with your activation rates and conversion rates.”   In order to get a new user on board, we really need to focus on solving their problem. A product tour should be about explaining to the customer how we can help them, not about how amazing our product is and why they need it.   Offer Level 10 Passions   How do you stand out? Puppies.    A few years ago, Eric attended an event with tens of thousands of attendees, and hundreds, if not thousands of vendors. As Eric and his team at Zaius planned what they were going to showcase at this event, they asked themselves, “What can we do to stand out?”   “We were still in the early stages,” Eric said. “The objective [was to] make sure that everybody attending this conference heard about Zaius, and that we were a familiar name from now on out.”   They asked themselves, “Well, what does everybody love?” And the answer came—puppies. They reached out to an animal shelter down the street from the event and asked if they could show off some of their dogs. If anyone wanted to take a dog home, they would cover the adoption fees.    “We had the [dogs] there for about an hour and there were crowds. There were lines to come up and see these dogs. Mission accomplished. We had a ton of interest, not only in the dogs but eventually in our product as well,” Eric said. “Ultimately, the objective was to increase our brand visibility, awareness, and recognition, and we did that.”   After three years with Zaius, Eric helped grow their customer count 100x and revenues 35x, raising more than $43 million in venture capital.    So, what's the point of this story? Think outside of the box and discover your customers' level 10 passions. When we do that, it will help to differentiate us and better connect with our potential customers.    One of the tectonic shifts that are happening today is for every hour and every dollar that our customers have to invest, they've got a thousand good things to choose from. There's so much distraction. We can't just be good enough. We have to identify their level 10 passions and connect with them through those (level 10 being a passion that is a driving factor in their life).    Identifying the level 10 passions of our target audience and building our whole business around those passions will make us stand out. When Eric brought in puppies to the event, he leveraged a huge level 10 passion for many of the attendees. There were thousands of vendors at this conference, but he became the priority when he added puppies to their brand.    In order to drive the growth of our products, we need to make sure we are identifying and connecting through our customers' level 10 passions.   Key Takeaways   Thank you so much Eric for sharing your stories and knowledge with us today. Here are some of my key takeaways from this episode:   Communication is key to monetize our self-service products. We need to guide our users through their product experience by raising awareness of the features and benefits our product offers.  To convert our potential customers into active customers, we need to provide a great initial experience. The first impression really matters. Our job is to show our customers that we can meet their needs as quickly as possible. We don't need to show them every aspect of our product. If we can help our customers achieve their level 10 passions, we will better differentiate ourselves and build stronger connections with customers.   Connect with Eric   If you enjoyed this interview and want to learn more about Eric, listen to part two of this episode or connect with him on LinkedIn or his website, Appcues.com.   Want to be a Better Digital Monetizer?   Did you like today's episode? Then please follow these channels to receive free digital monetization content:   Get a free Monetization Assessment of your business Subscribe to the free Monetization eMagazine. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation YouTube channel. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.  Follow Monetization Nation on Instagram and Twitter.   Share Your Story    Does your business use product-led growth? If so, how has it worked for your business?  Please join our private Monetization Nation Facebook group and share your insights with other digital monetizers.   Read  at: https://monetizationnation.com/blog/106-3-ways-to-drive-product-led-growth-and-monetization/ 

Join us for episode #225 as we chat about the 26-16 first-place Giants as they stay hot. Yes, they should be 6-0 on this road trip, but sh$# happens. Despite having the best record in all of baseball, the Giants have still been walked off 6 times on the road. That's HALF of their 12 road losses. As Eric put it, they aren't #ResilientSF, they are #ResilientAF. We chat about the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati series, and preview the BIG series against the Dodgers this weekend. (apologies for some audio level problems, they will be fixed for the next episode). You can join us live on Facebook every Monday around noon Pacific time. www.torturecast.com twitter.com/torturecast facebook.com/torturecast

In an encore performance, Eric Galko (previously featured on Ep. 26 of the show) breaks down his new exciting position as Director of Football Operations and Player Personnel with the East-West Shrine Game! Getting the shrine game was always a target of Eric's for more than just the football aspect, as a premiere all-star event for NFL scouts but primarily for its impact on the community and the Shriner's Hospital. As Eric details his job responsibilities, you can see that putting an all-star game together is much more than fielding a team of draft-eligible studs from across the country. Eric broke it down by simply stating he has 7 days or 168 hours to work with, so he's focused on three main things:  1. Players and teams will be able to meet in a very organized and professional manner (for interviews)  2. Players will be receiving first class treatment with meals, recovery technologies, etc.  3. Creating time and space for community events, specifically the Shriner's Hospital visit Moving onto the picking of players and building his boards, it's amazing to hear that Eric and his crew are already finishing up with the 2023 NFL Draft class. His focus, echoed throughout the show, has been and will continue to be eliminating bias in the process.  How do you do that? Be detailed, thorough and accurate with the background profiling of prospects, knowing who they are, where they're from and objectively assessing the athletic measurables. In talking through how he and his staff at Optimum Scouting are able to work so far ahead on underclassman, Eric repeated a mantra that earned the show its title and that is "know which question to ask next". You can have too much information as a scout and it's important to know when to put the book down. After you've fully evaluated the prospect, know what is your next question to answer and monitor that question or the development you're waiting to see.  From there, we touched on the fundamentals he teaches his scouts when evaluating players, what a "Demar Derozan-jumper" is in the scouting world, and how Eric stays up to speed on what is winning in the NFL today! It was a blast to record, as always with someone like Eric, and you can follow him on Twitter at @EricGalko! Thanks for tuning in, be sure to check out UpCloseInPersonnel.com for show notes/updates and have a blessed weekend!

Eric studied Bible, Music, and Communication at Hope College, Messianic Judaism at Denver Seminary, and received his Masters of Divinity from Western Theological Seminary. He has a passion to help people better understand and fall more deeply in love with the Text. This mission began as Eric realized that people stop reading their Bibles because they don't understand the context of what they are reading. As Eric studied the Bible in its context, the words on the pages came alive. For him, it is a tremendous privilege to teach and help others see the "pictures" in the Text. Eric and his wife Meredith live in Grand Rapids, Michigan with their two children, Meryn and Judah.ericschrotenboer.comtheacaciaproject.comthewanderingwisemen.comSocial:@ericschrotenboer@wanderingwisemen@freshwindstudios

Eric Siu is the CEO of ClickFlow and Single Grain and the author of a new book, "Leveling Up: How to Master the Game of Life." Eric has written an interesting book about applying the lessons he learned in becoming a top gamer, to his personal and professional development. As Eric writes in his book Even though most people think gaming is a waste of time, he found that it shaped his mindset and taught him how to think critically. We dive into why he believes it's important to think of yourself as a perpetual newbie in whatever you're doing. So you don't have preconceived biases or sense of entitlement, prevent you from taking the risks you need to take to reach your goals faster. And we dig into the various power ups, just like in games, that Eric believes can lift you to the next level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk with Eric Sievers from Bancorpsouth and Jordan Church from Piltz, Williams, LaRosa & Company about the latest details with the Paycheck Protection Program, also know as the PPP. There is a lot of great information in this episode for small businesses who have been affected by Covid 19. As Eric and Jordan explain, your business may still qualify for grant money. It's not to late to try to get some assistance.  Also big thanks to Southern Magnolia Smiles for the support! Want to be a part of the pelican gang? Check out our merch here.  Follow us on Social: Spotify Facebook YouTube Instagram Twitter  

Episode: 133 Eric Alvarez Join your hosts, David Pere and Alex Felice, with guest Eric Alvarez as they talk about prudence and frugality, what investing is about, how real estate is less liquid, and the right mindset and savings that gets a young soldier into real estate passive investing the right way. As Eric and the hosts exchange plans and experiences, we'll get to hear about what they think essentially equips a young go-getter to be ahead of his years and his goals. For them, relationships, network, and market are things that no one should let go of even if their eyes are on other several opportunities. In the military, Eric believes that the great opportunity of getting paid, no matter what, should also mean an opportunity for young service members like him to take risks and invest. Of course –with a balanced risk-tolerance. Let's catch more of what they have to say by tuning in to the episode. About Eric Alvarez: Eric Alvarez is a young active duty member and investor that is currently deployed in Japan. Outline of the episode: [02:59] Young and $150,000 in Net Worth [05:13] CDs: A lousy investment but super safe! [08:20] The hurdles of getting into real estate. [11:28] The gist of being an investor in real estate, or investor in general. [14:26] Convert your talent instead of buying it cash. [16:55] What real estate is in comparison to stocks. [19:42] The Lessons from The 2007 Crash. [21:18] How can a 21-year-old get ahead? [27:40] Getting the market's pulse. [31:05] "People are a really good investment." [37:01] The reason why %0 down is a thing… [39:45] What to focus on when there's more than one opportunity. [50:25] How can someone young take the lead in personal-finance? [53:43] "Stick to your guns, don't get sucked into someone else's shiny-object syndrome." Resources: Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/alexzander_187/?hl=en Zero to One - Real Estate Investing for Beginners: https://military-millionaire-academy.teachable.com/p/from-zero-to-one-real-estate-investing-101/   MONEY Master the Game - 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins: https://www.amazon.com/MONEY-Master-Game-Financial-Freedom/dp/1476757860 The BiggerPockets Bookstore: https://store.biggerpockets.com/ Follow From Military to Millionaire's journey on: Website:              https://www.frommilitarytomillionaire.com/ Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/groups/1735593999901619/ Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/frommilitarytomillionaire/ YouTube:             https://www.youtube.com/c/Frommilitarytomillionaire/ - Advice to an 18-20-year old: Find that balance, contribute to your TSP, and pay yourself first! - Recommended resource(s): Money, Master the Game by Tony Robbins. - Sponsor: Real Estate Investing 101 (course): https://www.frommilitarytomillionaire.com/teachable-rei - Real Estate Investing Course: https://www.frommilitarytomillionaire.com/teachable-rei Recommended books and tools: https://www.frommilitarytomillionaire.com/kit/ Become an investor: https://www.frommilitarytomillionaire.com/investor/ - SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/2Q3EvfE - Website: https://www.frommilitarytomillionaire.com/start-here/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frommilitarytomillionaire/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/militarymillionaire/ - My name is David Pere, I am an active duty Marine, and have realized that service members and the working class use the phrase "I don't get paid enough" entirely too often. The reality is that most often our financial situation is self-inflicted. After having success with real estate investing, I started From Military to Millionaire to teach personal finance and real estate investing to service members and the working class. As a result, I have helped many of my readers increase their savings gap, and increase their chances of achieving financial freedom! - Click here to SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/2Q3EvfE to the channel for more awesome videos! THIS SITE IS INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED. ALL OPINIONS EXPRESSED HEREIN ARE MY OWN. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS SITE ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHOR OR THE AUTHOR'S INVITED GUEST POSTERS, AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE US GOVERNMENT, THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, OR THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS.

5 Email Marketing Tips for Book Launches In episode #1658, we share five email marketing tips for book launches! As Eric nears the due date for his Leveling Up book, we thought we would share a handful of actionable ways you can promote your work before it publishes. Tune in to hear about emailing excerpts, creating ambassadors, using contests, and more! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: 5 Email Marketing Tips for Book Launches. [00:29] The power of bulk sales for books and tiered offers for customers. [01:25] Using pieces from a book as content to send to your email list. [01:59] Deadlines, countdowns, and contests as a launch date approaches. [02:29] Growing your list by connecting with peers and useful partners through cross-promotion. [02:57] Creating ambassadors and offering incentives for interested parties from your community. [04:08] That’s it for today! [04:12] To stay updated with events and learn more about our mastermind, go to the Marketing School site for more information or call us on 310-349-3785!   Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:   Leveling Up Clubhouse   Leave Some Feedback:     What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review.     Connect with Us:    Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout  Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu

5 Email Marketing Tips for Book Launches In episode #1658, we share five email marketing tips for book launches! As Eric nears the due date for his Leveling Up book, we thought we would share a handful of actionable ways you can promote your work before it publishes. Tune in to hear about emailing excerpts, creating ambassadors, using contests, and more! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today's topic: 5 Email Marketing Tips for Book Launches. [00:29] The power of bulk sales for books and tiered offers for customers. [01:25] Using pieces from a book as content to send to your email list. [01:59] Deadlines, countdowns, and contests as a launch date approaches. [02:29] Growing your list by connecting with peers and useful partners through cross-promotion. [02:57] Creating ambassadors and offering incentives for interested parties from your community. [04:08] That's it for today! [04:12] To stay updated with events and learn more about our mastermind, go to the Marketing School site for more information or call us on 310-349-3785!   Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:   Leveling Up Clubhouse   Leave Some Feedback:     What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review.     Connect with Us:    Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout  Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu

In this episode, we’re talking to Eric Johnson, the EVP of Engineering at GitLab. Eric oversees a distributed team of engineers at GitLab, which is one of the world’s biggest all-remote companies. And no, it’s not covid-remote -- the company is natively remote, with 1,200 people across 67 countries.GitLab is an open-source DevOps platform that makes software development faster and easier. It has over 100,000 customers serving millions of users. We’ll hear from Eric about the technical culture inside the company that makes the platform so valuable to developers at both enterprises and startups -- and how it’s operated remotely for nearly a decade.GitLab’s culture is based on radical transparency. Everything is meticulously documented, shared, and publicly edited. That’s a crucial piece of bringing everyone together in a remote environment. It can also be a challenge for technical executives and managers.So why create this kind of culture in the first place? As Eric explains, it helps remote teams make decisions very quickly, with confidence. It’s also a core piece of the platform itself -- setting it apart from other DevOps providers.

**Disclaimer - This episode we discuss domestic violence and graphically discuss the injuries resulting from this incident. Listener discretion is advised. ** If you are a victim of domestic violence or not in a safe place, please reach out for help. Domestic Violence Hotline 800-799-SAFE. As Eric says in this episode, you are worth it! We did a shorter episode as a hot take on the Chad Wheeler incident. For those not aware, Chad Wheeler was a former Seattle Seahawks player who was recently released from the team following charges of domestic violence against this girlfriend. It has been reported that he suffered from bipolar, was in a manic state, and off his medications.  We bring our mental health expert, PMHNP Eric, on the show to discuss the bipolar aspect of this incident.  We discussed the stats of violent incidents in those with bipolar and those without bipolar.  We also engage in a discussion of CTE and stress the importance of taking medicine if diagnosed with bipolar.  Sadly, we also examine the stigma that this incident could further create given the focus on his bipolar rather than the alleged crime.   

Whether you've been a real estate agent for 15 days or 15 years, every Realtor knows The Broke Agent. You may love his content and think it's hilarious, or you're offended by it and think it's hurting our reputation as real estate professionals. Either way, you may be right. But it doesn't matter because Eric Simon, aka The Broke Agent, has built a massive brand and media company in spite of your feelings or opinions. Eric tells the story of sitting in a dead open house and deciding to post some funny memes about the "less exciting" parts of being a Realtor, and how by consistently doing that for the last 5 years, he's grown an Instagram following of 250,000+ and is getting attention from Inman News and Tom Ferry, among others. As Eric explains, he did it all on HIS terms, regardless what kind of negative pushback he has received along the way. The Broke Agent is also a master content creator, and he explains which social media platforms he's focused on the most to grow his brand, and why. He gets specific about how Realtors can use TikTok and Instagram Reels to build their businesses, and shares some of his best tips and tricks for having success as a real estate content creator. This is an entertaining interview, but also super enlightening to see behind the curtain at the business and content machine that is The Broke Agent.Connect w/ The Broke Agent:InstagramWebsite --CLICK HERE to get our new "what to post on social media" app, the Massive Agent Daily.**********************Recommended Products or Services:Witly: the fully automated Facebook Ad management system for real estate agents and loan officers. Get a 14 day free trial HEREWise Agent: The real estate CRM I use - 14 Day Free Trial PLUS get my drip campaigns for freeShop my Amazon Store: podcasting equipment, my favorite books, cool stuff for Realtors, etcMassive Agent Society: Our "One Agent Per Market" Real Estate Lead Gen Coaching Program and online course - Claim Your Market NowBuzzsprout: Affordable, user-friendly podcast hosting for real estate agents - New users get a $20 Amazon Gift CardFollow us on Instagram*The Massive Agent Podcast is a production of the Industry Syndicate podcast network

In part 2 of our Feature, we sit back down with the Co-founder and CEO of Justuno, Eric Christiansen. In our last conversation, we covered Eric’s hero’s journey into creating Justuno.    In today’s episode, we’re talking about the keys to building and maintaining a successful brand. As Eric explains in the show, there are so many variables in starting a company that sometimes you forget about the “basics of the shopping experience.”    With small adjustments such as installing new ways to communicate to your customers, Justuno helps you become familiar with the marketing strategies that work best for you.    With Justuno, Eric and his team are here to ease your way around e-commerce marketing so you could continue building your dream brand. Tune in today as we talk about the value of Justuno.    In part 2, Erik discusses Engaging with your customers during their shopping experience; Shopping your own site; Using communication as a turning point; The advantage of having a DTC brand; The value of Justuno; Being thankful for the team; and much more.   Join Ramon Vela and Erik to discuss Justuno on The Story of a Brand.   For more on Justuno, visit: https://www.justuno.com/ramon/   *   OUR ENTIRE PODCAST IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY ATTN Agency.    ATTN Agency is a full-funnel growth and performance digital marketing agency with proven strategies to scale and optimize direct to consumer brands through tactical media buying, data-driven analysis, and unrivaled creative services.   If you are looking back on this year wondering what went wrong or what could have gone better, or if you're starting to put together your game plan for 2021, I have one piece of advice: you need to talk to ATTN Agency.   I’ve interviewed several of their clients, and I can say that they are the best in the business. ATTN represents some of the fastest-growing direct to consumer brands, delivering month over month results.   Go to https://www.attnagency.com/storyofabrand/ for a comprehensive, no-obligation, 14 point audit of your social, search, shopping, email, and SMS channels.   *   This episode is brought to you by TryNow.   Do your shoppers love your products once they've had a chance to try them? Is it hard for you to convey the quality of your product digitally?    Well, there is a secret strategy that many of the fastest-growing Shopify brands use to get their products in more shoppers' homes.   They use TryNow to automate a Try At Home program.    With TryNow, 1) shoppers can check out with a zero dollar cart, 2) get items shipped right to their home, and 3) only pay for what they keep.    DTC brands like Hammit, Myles Apparel, Solid + Striped, Tamara Mellon, Universal Standard, and Girlfriend Collective... use TryNow to increase conversion rates and average order values.    If you want to say to your shoppers, don't trust us, trust our products, then go to https://www.trynow.io/ to learn if a TryNow program is right for you.

It is becoming more and more popular to build businesses and platforms in public. As Eric explains in today's episode, there is really no downside to this way of doing things and the visibility factor is a big plus. This means that while you grow and improve your business, investors can find you more easily, and you can even get the public involved. Tune in to find out more. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:21] Before we jump into today’s interview, please rate, review, and subscribe to the Leveling Up Podcast! [00:25] Conversations that are happening on Twitter right now around business and numbers. [01:09] There is nothing to lose by building in public!   [01:51] Looking at the example of copy.ai and their founder Paul Yacoubian. [02:41] If you are growing publicly, you are more visible to investors.  [03:42] Eric's thoughts on maybe trying this model out himself! [04:20] The different kinds of projects this model can be applied to right now.   Resources From The Interview:     Leveling Up The Bachelor The Bachelorette   Paul Yacoubian Copy.ai ClickFlow Marketing School Pro Consulting School   Leave Some Feedback:     What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review here Subscribe to Leveling Up on iTunes Get the non-iTunes RSS Feed     Connect with Eric Siu:      Growth Everywhere Single Grain Eric Siu on Twitter    

As Eric prepares to release his new book, Leveling Up, he takes this opportunity to spill the beans on his inspiration and motivation for writing it! Eric talks about the time he has spent on its creation over the last five years, the publishing model he selected, and how he aims to tap into the discourse around habits, with his own take on improvement and and progress. Tune in to hear it all from the man himself!  TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:21] Before we jump into today’s interview, please rate, review, and subscribe to the Leveling Up Podcast! [00:25] When the book was started and the time it has taken to write it. [01:22] The reason that Eric decided to write and publish Leveling Up.  [02:35] Servicing the huge gaming community across the world! [03:23] The idea of the 'power-up', and relating it to the conversation around habits. [03:41] The main goal for the book: Refining the messaging and helping people.   Resources From The Interview:   World of Warcraft EverQuest Street Fighter Atomic Habits The Power of Habit Page Two The Coaching Habit   Leave Some Feedback:   What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review here Subscribe to Leveling Up on iTunes Get the non-iTunes RSS Feed   Connect with Eric Siu:    Growth Everywhere Single Grain Eric Siu on Twitter

Since 2006 or so, Eric Crowell has been coaching CEO’s and senior executives across Canada and the globe. As Eric highlighted, the first 9 months of 2020 has brought about more change and complexity than he has seen in the 10+ years that preceded this year. Eric does a wonderful job articulating some of the major trends he has seen with CEO’s and leaders as they manage through such complexity. Eric finished our chat with a heart felt story and words of wisdom from Suzanne West, who had a successful career in Calgary as an executive, entrepreneur and Board member. Sadly, she passed away from cancer in 2018 at the age of 52. §§§ To learn more about Eric and his work with CEO’s from across Canada and globally, click on the links below: Awesome Journey website | https://www.awesomejourney.ca/ Awesome Journey on LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/awesome-journey/ Eric Crowell on LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-crowell-ba212214/ Eric Crowell email | Eric@awesomejourney.ca --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/allen-wazny/message

We are very excited to welcome Sam from Rhystic Studies (@rhysticstudies) to the show to talk about a whole bunch of things. Gruul, art, fun, playstyles, Azorius music, and more. If you don’t know Sam’s YouTube channel, we HIGHLY recommend checking it out. As Eric said on the show this is some of the best Magic content out there. Where to find Sam:Twitter: @RhysticStudiesYouTube: Rhystic StudiesWeb: https://www.rhysticstudies.com/ Referenced information:Aaaargh: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/aaaargh-2006-01-30-0RobRead More

Eric Upton is one of my students with a success story that makes me smile. In this conversation, Eric talks about how we crossed paths, about where his career has gone since that time, and what he feels is in store for the future. A true example of how it's possible to reinvent your work, your life, and even your world. Spiritual Foundations “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:11-13 NIV) Eric describes the first major step of his journey like this, "Phoenix was not a place that we'd ever thought about going to, or moving to, or living in, but the more we prayed about it and looked into it, the more it became clear to us that [Phoenix] was where God was leading us..." This exemplifies the verses above and is a good reminder to try to recognize God's plan ("plans to prosper you and not to harm you"). And yes, sometimes it may not be obvious. Sometimes you'll need to put in the work ("Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.") Tip of the Week This week's tip is an addendum to last week's tip: Be intentional with Social Media. Social Media plays two roles in the life of an entrepreneur. At any given time it can be either: The driving force behind building your brand (creation) An endless waste of time (consumption) Now, I know that consumption can be part of a productive business strategy (e.g. reading what your audience or potential audience is saying about your business or industry. Gauging response to your latest campaign. Keeping an eye on your competition.); however, you know what I'm talking about when I say "endless waste of time" - The infinite scroll to see what catches your eye...not that finding out how your "friend" that you haven't seen since high school is coming along with the shed he's building isn't fun, but it's probably not going to advance your agenda. This is why you must be intentional with social media. I recommend you schedule separate times of day for consumption and creation. Decide when you will use social media as one of the most powerful (often free) tools in history and separate that from the time when you're just getting a thumb workout...clicking like on the latest Doug the Pug content. An Interview with Eric Upton Ever asked yourself something like, "Isn't it too late for me to start doing this thing since I've spent so many years doing that thing?" I'm sure your internal dialogue is more eloquent, but you get the idea. Even when transitioning into a career that you know will make you happier, you'll probably spend some time doing some soul searching (praying, talking to family and friends, etc.) before you make the move. And then, after all of that self-reflection, conversations with those closest to you, prayers and everything else you've done to affirm your decision...it's still scary. That's not a certainty for everyone, but for most of us, fear and anxiety are simply a normal part of this process. The key is how we respond to that fear. As Eric put it in our conversation, "Operate in spite of fear...move toward boldness even with the fear that's attached to it."

In 2007, Eric Victorino's band Strata toured with Sonny Moore, who later became Skrillex. Victorino could feel the musical tides shifting away from the rock band model and toward the kind of electronic music generated by DJs or virtual acts. Teaming up with Giovanni Giusti, whom he met online, Eric formed The Limousines and scored in 2010 with "Internet Killed The Video Star," a song portending this musical cybershift. As we've learned from the coronavirus lockdown, the convenience and endless possibility the virtual workspace affords can also lead to anxiety and depression, especially in the setting of an uneasy social and political climate. As Eric explains, he has to make music these days with his own mental health in mind. In the summer of 2020, Victorino re-fired Strata and released an aggressively melodic new tune called "Around The Bend," which he wrote under unusual circumstances with his bandmate Ryan Hernandez. In this episode, Eric talks about building a catharsis into that song, dissects "Internet Killed The Video Star," and explains what it's like going from band member to making music with someone you've never met. This interview took place as he was surrounded by California wildfires, knowing he might have to disconnect and take his family to safer pastures at any time. https://www.facebook.com/wearestrata/ https://www.instagram.com/wearestrata/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/thelimousines/ https://www.instagram.com/ericvictorino/?hl=en https://www.songfacts.com/ https://www.facebook.com/songfacts https://twitter.com/Songfacts http://pantheonpodcasts.com/ https://twitter.com/pantheonpods Hosted and Edited by Corey O’Flanagan https://twitter.com/ofe1818 https://www.instagram.com/coreyofe/

Eric Burg, President & CEO of Apple Rock, returns to the show to share how his business took a complete 180 degree turn when COVID-19 brought the event and tradeshow business to a screeching halt.  As Eric watched all of his exhibits being taken down during a tradeshow in Las Vegas on March 4th, he knew the world was changing before his eyes.  With a quick call to his CFO, the company took immediate action and pivoted into the PPE business.  Today they produce everything from isolation gowns, face shields and masks, and personal protection barriers to FDA Registered and EUA approved COVID-19 Rapid Tests.  If you look closely around Charlotte, you just might see our employees sporting their Roby Family of Companies gaiters thanks to Eric and his team!    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we talk with Jeremy Kloter, owner of Out Fast Property Management, about how the market is looking currently, how it will evolve over the next several months, and what the market will look like post COVID19. Eric thinks that after the evictions and foreclosures start hitting the market again, we will see a short flattening of the price curve, and then there will be a pricing bubble as the market heats up over the next 18 months. As Eric says, "You can't dump trillions of dollars into the economy and have it not affect real asset values."   We also discuss property prices, property management, fix-and-flips, and funds.   Key Discussion Points [01:01] Opening remarks by Eric Odum [02:19] About our guest: Jeremy Kloter [03:29] Tell us about your background and how you got into real estate [05:38] What are you seeing in the market, and how has it changed since COVID? [08:06] Are you seeing prices of properties getting bid up very quickly? [09:56] How do you see the market evolving the next several months and after COVID? [15:03] From the property management side, are tenants - paying rent? struggling to pay rent? or taking advantage and not paying? [18:16] Tell us about your "fix-and-flips" / "buy-and-hold" deals and how you're structured [22:03] Tell us about your fund and how you arrived at your process for raising capital [24:40] How can folks get in touch with you? [34:27] Closing comments by Eric

On this episode of ZigZag, host Manoush Zomorodi is joined by Eric Ries, who went from writing Silicon Valley's bible to building a stock market for social justice. Together, they examine why quarterly earnings reports cause anti-social behavior and how a new stock exchange in the US might present a systemic solution. As Eric says, this "will serve as inspiration to a new generation of civic entrepreneurs who will say: We don't have to take the institutions of our society as a given. We could try to build new and better ones." ZigZag, the business show about being human, is now a member of the TED family of podcasts. Listen or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

On July, 6th 2016, I drove to my guy's house to pick him up for a baseball game while he was in town visiting from Florida. When he let me into his house that afternoon, It took me all of two seconds to realize that we weren't going to a baseball game that night. Eric was sick. When we first started this podcast, there was one person at the top of my list to have on. So, on Episode TWENTY-NINE (HA!), I give to you, my surrogate little brother, Eric Conley. *Cue the Ultimate Warrior’s entrance music. (There’s a reason we waited this long, jerkoffs.) Anyway, growing up with two sisters, I was always good at finding surrogate brothers. But, it wasn’t until high school that I got stuck with a little punk kid wannabe baller named Eric as my “little brother”. Haha. In all seriousness, I met Eric when he was little as his sister and I were… ya’ know… close friends. I remember always saying, “Eric, go outside and hide and I’ll come out and seek ya” so I could get him out of the house and make out with his sis. Kid would fall for it every time. She wouldn’t, however. In fact, if anyone was playing hide-and-seek.. it was usually me seeking her in high school and into college… And lemme tell ya’, she hid pretty fucking well. Not “restraining-order-well”… but well enough to move a couple of towns away and into a different county. And on goes the story of that lengthy saga. ANYWAY. Back to Eric. He and I always stayed close. I tried my hardest to be a “role model” for him, and at times that responsibility felt pretty good. However, before I was able to commit to a life of sobriety, I was anything but a role model to him. “Hey Eric, don’t fuck around with pills.” Meanwhile I was telling him this with a bottle-and-a-half of whiskey in me and about 8 lines of coke. Nice fucking role model, eh? At least back then. You guys, this episode is the most powerful episode we have done yet. July 15th, 2020 (this past Wednesday) was the ten year anniversary of the death Eric’s mother, Diane. And since the birth of this little show, Eric and I had this week earmarked as his recording week, to honor his late mother. Spending as much time in her home as I did when I was a kid (she would always call me Eddie, as in Eddie Haskell), I had a firsthand view of how much she loved Eric. Eazy was her baby boy, no matter how much it would piss his sisters off. And Diane, well she was a warrior. Period. She battled multiple rounds of cancer and never gave up. No matter how f***ing sick she was. But it took a toll on Eazy. It did. And he couldn’t cope. Well, he “coped” I guess. Eric turned to drugs. We all handle things differently… we all grieve differently… and unfortunately… a lot of us self-medicate. As Eric puts it in this episode, he had “a pocket full of lent” and once last chance to get sober at the end of his ride. So tune in, and hear his story. I bet you’ll cry… I think you’ll laugh a little… and I know that you’ll wrap up with a renowned sense of hope and a big ole’ fucking smile. Eric – Thank you so much for coming on and sharing your incredible fucking journey, brother. And thank you for doing what you do in your line of work today. You are helping save lives and you sit right in the pit with people like us. Oh, we'll makeup that ball game soon too, my man! Promise! You can buy the fucking hot dogs. Love you, bro. Your mother is so fucking proud of you. I even loved you back when I was dunking on your ass and that John guy from Champs in your parents drive-way. Give me the rock! And, Let us pray. -Chris

Eric Skinner, owner of Premium Wholesale Cabinets in Phoenix, explained to Nancy the process of walking a new client through his showroom. He explains the different cabinet construction and hardware. He also shows the homeowner the many cabinet vignettes and explains the styles, wood species and stains of each cabinet manufacturer. As Eric was finishing our tour, we chatted about how he and his designers create a dream kitchen for their clients .

In a very special episode of Beats, Beards & Brews, Eric and Dan review the long-awaited (for some) Danzig Sings Elvis cover album. Is this art? Dan isn't convinced. Listen to the episode for our Danzig deep thoughts and the usual "insightful" commentary. Danzig cover songs previewed in this episode include: First In Line Always On My Mind Fever During this episode Eric drinks and reviews Citra Neon Hazy IPA by Barn Town Brewing out of West Des Moines (IA). Dan drinks and reviews Rock Them Bot and Sock Them Bot, two Hazy IPAs from Tin Whiskers Brewing Company out of St. Paul (MN). As Eric says at the conclusion of this episode: "Crank this one up and appreciate the moment and the strange times we're in."

Born's chief strategy officer Eric Gutoski has small-town, Midwestern roots, but his ambition is to help brands take their business to anywhere in the world they want to be.As Eric describes it, brands that want to survive and thrive need to think beyond their own borders. Eric shares his advice on how businesses should shape their global ecommerce strategy.

Is your agency wasting time and money on making mistakes? Are you trying to make sense of why your profit margins are so low? If so, it's time to take a hard look at how much money actually goes to covering the cost of internal errors.  Because for many agencies, this number is just too high. In today's episode, we'll cover: Is your agency losing money on these common errors? What are tiny mistakes actually costing your agency? 3 reasons why it might be time to embrace AI. Today, I sat down with Eric Vardon, CEO of Morphio. This is Eric's second time on the podcast, and this time he's talking about how artificial intelligence (AI) can reduce the number of costly mistakes your agency makes. Recently, Eric's agency conducted a survey to find out just how much agencies are, quite frankly, throwing away. Eric is here to discuss the results and talk about how Morphio can help. Is Your Agency Losing Money on These Common Errors? We've all been there — that bulk email with a glaring typo we notice moments after we hit send. Or, maybe you completely forgot to shut off a campaign and let it run for days (or weeks) longer than it should have. Mistakes happen. Unfortunately, as an agency, these mistakes can be costly. Eric and his team recently conducted a survey of a variety of agencies. The premise was simple — what type of mistakes has your agency made and how much have these mistakes cost you? Do any of these sound familiar? 60% of agencies said they make at least six digital marketing mistakes per week; One-third of these agencies say just one mistake can cost them between $1,000 and $5,000; 31% of agencies have inadvertently offended a client; and 30% of agencies have published a dead, broken, or incorrect link. What Are Tiny Mistakes Actually Costing Your Agency? Ask any agency owner, and they're sure to tell you, "these mistakes don't happen at our agency." But if they were to take a closer look, they'd probably be shocked to see just how much profit is lost on revising and fixing mistakes. These same agency owners are also likely trying to figure out why their margins are so low. As Eric points out, these mistakes don't just cost you money upfront. They can cost your reputation, major accounts, and even your business. As humans, we make mistakes. So the more you can automate and have an AI take care of certain issues, the less you have to worry about mistakes like these happening. 3 Reasons Why it Might Be Time to Embrace AI If you're still hesitant to use AI, it's time to be okay with being uncomfortable. AI is here, and it likely won't be going anywhere for a very long time. Machine learning has the capability to take data, crunch it, and make decisions faster. So what does this mean for your agency? Better client relationships. Typos, broken links, these mistakes can be costly. Instead, you can use AI to run a quality check for you. Increased employee morale. Why do mistakes happen at such a high frequency? Often,  employees are juggling too many things or moving too swiftly to catch errors. If you can get a machine to ease your team's load a little bit, they'll likely be thankful for the breathing room. It can save your business. You can only make so many mistakes before they completely destroy your agency. Do a careful audit of your expenses and analyze just how much you are spending in this area. Occasional mistakes are bound to happen. Humans are not infallible. But when these mistakes happen on a regular basis, your clients will lose faith in your capabilities. When you take the time to identify mistakes and implement tools to streamline your processes, you're more likely to find success. For a limited time, Morphio is offering Smart Agency podcast listeners a special deal to get you started. Sign up at Morphio.ai/Swenk and get 50 accounts for only $39 per month. That's a savings of over $500/month.

Many of us with clinical roles are waiting for the other shoe to drop. Today we hear from Dr. Darrell Owens, DNP, MSN, head of palliative care for the University of Washington's Northwest campus, a community hospital in Seattle. The UW Northwest hospital has born the brunt of the COVID epidemic in one of our nation's hardest hit areas. Darrell has stepped up the the plate in remarkable, aspirational ways. First, he is on call 24/7 to have goals of care conversations with elderly patients in the emergency department under investigation for COVID who do not have an established a code status. On the podcast Darrell walks us through the language he uses to speak with these patients about the poor outcomes of CPR and ventilation among older adults with COVID. We note on the podcast that the Center to Advance Palliative Care recently put together Toolkit for COVID including a thoughtful communication guide spearheaded by Tony Back and our friends at VitalTalk. Second, Darrell has established an inpatient palliative care service at his hospital for patients on exclusively comfort measures. Darrell and his team admit and are first call for these patients. This service off-loads the hospitalists so they can care for other patients. Darrell talks with us about the challenges of titrating medications for symptomatic patients when you're trying to minimize using protective equipment going in and out of the room, and the challenges of returning home from work to his family after treating patients with COVID all day. By closing let me repeat two things from the podcast. First, we too can and should step up to the plate. By engaging patients in goals of care discussion at the time of admission we are likely to help patients reach different decisions than they otherwise might have made had discussions occurred with rushed and less skilled clinicians (i.e. the usual code status discussion). Before we get to rationing, we can and should engage patients in the highest quality informed goals of care discussions. The results of these informed discussions are likely to decrease the need for scarce ICU beds and ventilators. That is why Darrell is specifically on call for these conversations. Simply put, we do it better. We have the best skill. Further, like Darrell, we too can create or expand inpatient palliative care services to provide the best possible care for these patients and free up hospitalists and others to meet the growing clinical needs due to the pandemic. Second, Eric and I have never been prouder of our fields. Every day we hear stories of geriatricians, palliative care clinicians, and bioethicists rising to the occasion to meet needs of this moment. As Eric notes, we will found out a great deal about ourselves and what we stand for these next few weeks and months. Thank you for all that you do. -@AlexSmithMD

Dr Carolyn Lam: Welcome to Circulation On the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. I'm Dr Carolyn Lam, Associate Editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. Dr Greg Hundley: I'm Dr Greg Hundley, also Associate Editor, the Director of the Pauley Heart Center at VCU Health in Richmond, Virginia. Dr Carolyn Lam: Say, Greg, you know the feature paper this week talks about the perennially hot topic now and that is transcatheter aortic valve replacement or TAVR or TAVI. It's actually data from the France TAVI Registry comparing balloon expandable versus self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve replacement. I'm sure you want to hear more about it, but first I'm going to tell you about another paper in the same issue, this time also comparing a balloon expandable versus a self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve implantation, but data from a nationwide analysis and from corresponding author Dr Fauchier from Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Trousseau. He and his colleagues basically did a head to head comparison of the two competing transcatheter aortic valve replacement technologies that have been published but have not really been followed for long-term clinical outcomes. This was comparing balloon expandable versus self-expanding technology. They collected information from more than 31,000 consecutive patients treated with Tavern in France between 2014 and 2018 and based this on the French administrative hospital discharge database. They did propensity score matching, which was used for the analysis of outcomes according to the Sapien 3 balloon expandable versus the Evolut R self-expanding TAVR technology and studied this as nationwide level in France. Dr Greg Hundley: Wow. Carolyn, 31,000 patients. That's a really large study. What did they find? Dr Carolyn Lam: They basically found that balloon expandable TAVR was associated with lower mortality rehospitalization heart failure and pacemaker implantation compared with the self-expanding TAVR. Now, that's of course a pretty big finding and this is discussed along with the feature paper that we're going to hear about in an editorial by Drs. Abdel-Wahab and Thiele from Heart Center Leipzig. I want to tell you about another paper before I let you tell you about yours, okay? Dr Greg Hundley: Sounds great, Carolyn. Dr Carolyn Lam: Greg, what is your clinical impression of Impella use in the United States among patients undergoing PCI? Do you think it's increasing or decreasing over time? As a reminder, Impella was approved for mechanical circulatory support in 2008, so from then, what do you think? Dr Greg Hundley: You know, Carolyn, I really think it's increasing, especially used more frequently rather than an intra-aortic balloon pump. How about you? What's going on in your area of the world? Dr Carolyn Lam: My impression too, but you know, you're lucky because we now have data looking at the trends in Impella use, but in the United States, and this comes from the corresponding author, Dr Amit Amin from Washington University School of Medicine and colleagues who describe clinical outcomes and costs across U.S. hospitals in PCI patients treated with mechanical circulatory support, which is either the Impella or the intra-aortic balloon pump. They found that among more than 48,300 real world patients undergoing PCI with mechanical circulatory support at 432 hospitals between 2004 and 2016 in the Premier Healthcare Database, Impella use was indeed found to be rapidly increasing with marked variability across hospitals and not only its use, but also in its associated adverse outcomes. When analyzed by time periods or at the level of the hospitals or at the level of the patients, Impella use was associated with higher rates of adverse events and higher hospital costs. Dr Greg Hundley: You know, I wasn't thinking about the higher rate of adverse events. You wonder sometimes, are we using a technology in a sicker group of patients? Did this study shine any light on that? Dr Carolyn Lam: Those are great, great thoughts. The authors concluded that the variability in Impella use, the variability in its associated outcomes, and the association of Impella use with higher adverse events and costs really, really underscore the need for better defining of the appropriate use of mechanical circulatory devices and that was what you indicated as well, Greg, and what we need there is adequately powered randomized clinical trials and prospective real world evidence, which we don't quite have yet. Until then, perhaps a more measured approach is needed in clinical practice that balances risks versus benefits in complex patients undergoing PCI who require mechanical circulatory support. Dr Greg Hundley: That's going to be really needed, I think in this era, especially with the results from this study. Well, Carolyn, I'm going to switch over to the world of basic science and the first study I'm going to talk about is from Dr Richard Lee from Harvard University and it's a very interesting study. Just as some background, current differentiation protocols to produce cardiomyocytes from human induced pluripotent stem cells are capable of generating highly pure cardiomyocyte populations, but these cardiomyocytes remain immature and they really more closely resemble the fetal state. As a result, they have a lower maximum contractile force, slower upstroke velocity, and immature mitochondrial function compared to adult cardiomyocytes. Also, they're prone to ventricular arrhythmias. During development, cardiomyocytes undergo a shift from a proliferative state in the fetus to a more mature but quiescent state after birth. The mechanistic target of Rapamycin mTOR signaling pathway plays a key role in nutrient sensing and growth, and Dr Lee and colleagues hypothesized that transient inhibition of the mTOR signaling pathway could lead cardiomyocytes to a quiescent state and enhance cardiomyocyte maturation. Dr Carolyn Lam: Wow Greg, I really love the way you explained that. That's so interesting. What did they find? Dr Greg Hundley: Among human induced pluripotent stem cell lines, transient treatment with Torin 1, an inhibitor of the mTOR pathway, shifted cells to a quiescent state and enhanced their cardiomyocyte maturity. Also, the investigative team suggests that further testing will be necessary to evaluate whether delivery of Torin 1 treated cardiomyocytes could reduce the risk of ventricular arrhythmias in newly differentiated myocytes derived from pluripotent stem cells. Really an important advance in this whole area of developing mature cardiomyocytes from our own pluripotent stem cells. Well, Carolyn, my second basic science paper comes from Dr Calum MacRae from Brigham And Women's Hospital, also at the Harvard Medical School. Carolyn, this study used both highly purified human pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes displaying physiological and molecular characteristics of atrial cells with human MYL4 mutations in a zebrafish MYL4 knockout model, which exhibited molecular, cellular, and physiologic abnormalities that parallel those in humans bearing the cognate mutations associated with definitive genetic causes of atrial fibrillation. Dr Carolyn Lam: Oh, that's really interesting. Is this new genetic predispositions that they discovered? Dr Greg Hundley: I think the answer's yes. They found there was evidence of increased retinoic acid signaling in both human pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes and zebrafish mutant models, as well as abnormal expression and localization of cytoskeletal proteins and loss of intracellular NAD and NADH, and thereby established a mechanistic link between the transcriptional, metabolic, and electrical pathways previously implicated in the atrial fibrillation substrate of MYL4. In the future, these data could lead to novel therapies for some patients with atrial fibrillation. Dr Carolyn Lam: Wow. That really is fascinating, Greg. Well, let me round up by telling you about some of the other things in the issue. There is a research letter by Dr Parish on the effects of Omega-3 fatty acid supplements on arrhythmias and here, these authors reported more comprehensively on atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias using additional data extracted from linked electronic health records in the ASCEND trial, remember, which was 1 gram of Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation daily in people with diabetes but without known atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Dr Greg Hundley: Oh wow. That's fantastic, Carolyn. I've got a couple other really interesting articles in the issue. First there's an In Depth review from Dr Yvan Devaux from Luxembourg Institute of Health, and he discusses regulatory RNAs in heart failure. In a perspective piece, Dr Alejandro Lucia from Universidad European de Madrid discusses the role of aerobic and resistance training as a therapy in addition to prescribed medications in patients with resistant hypertension. Really interesting. Then finally, Dr Ify Mordi from University of Dundee examines metformin use and clinical outcomes among patients with diabetes, with or without heart failure, kidney dysfunction observations from the SAVOR-TIMI 53 trial in which Dr Bergmark and colleagues found that metformin use was associated with a reduction in all-cause mortality and cardiovascular death, but not due to myocardial infarction or stroke, particularly in patients without a prior history of heart failure. What could the mechanism be, if not related to presumed atherosclerosis? Dr Mordi and colleagues proposed possibilities, and Dr Brian Bergmark from the TIMI study group and the cardiovascular division of Brigham and Women's hospital at Harvard Medical School and colleagues, they write a very nice response. It's really interesting listening to how could metformin reduce events but not related to atherosclerosis? How about onto our feature article? Dr Carolyn Lam: You bet. Dr Amit Khera: This is Amit Khera, digital strategies editor for Circulation from UT Southwestern Medical Center joined by my colleague, Dr Dharam Kumbhani who's also an associated editor at Circulation and we're pleased to have Dr Eric Van Belle, Professor Van Belle, from Lille University Hospital to discuss the featured article today, "Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Propensity Match Comparison From the France TAVI Registry." Welcome to you both. Dr Van Belle, I'm going to start with you and we always like to hear a little bit. Perhaps you can tell us some of the background, what led up to this investigation, what led to your group pursuing this manuscript? Dr Eric Van Belle: Nowadays, the TAVI procedure, the TAVR procedure, is becoming very prominent kind of way of treating patients without stenosis, and basically we have two different type of devices that are available to treat the patients. Once series is based on the balloon expandable concept and the other one on the self-expandable concept. These two type of devices are considered to be used primarily in every kind of patient. Theoretically, we can use any of these two devices, any kind of patient, if we follow the recommendation of the manufacturer and I'll just say that that'd been done. These two devices are being validated against surgery, so basically, we could potentially use any kind of them. In today, there is no direct and there was no direct comparison between the two different kinds of concept, although they are very different. Again, the device is different. The way we implant the device is different. The major question that we had behind was to say, okay, what is the outcome? If it's a mean patient get one of the devices or can we expect or should we expect a different outcome? That was the main question behind it. Dr Amit Khera: Okay, so essentially there's two valves, they're both being used fairly regularly and without any kind of direct comparisons. Tell us a little bit about the study design and what you found in this project. Dr Eric Van Belle: For methodology, we used what is called a French study registry, basically nationwide registry with almost all patients treated in France included, and we used it as a database of patients between 2013 and 2015 with an overall group of 12,000 patients treated with either of these two kinds of devices. This is one of the aspect of this registry. The other very important aspect of this registry, and that's the mortality data survival that was obtained in all the patients in 2008 through 2016, so we have a set of 12,000 patients. It was a cool kind of device with complete mortality data by April 2016 so basically, this is the main methodological aspect. On top of this, we did the best to do some matching on the older clinical variables and all the matching valuables that we had to create pairs of patients that could be matched to one to one. We had, at the end, a group of almost 4,000 patients. Dr Amit Khera: Okay and tell us a little bit about some of your main findings of this study. Dr Eric Van Belle: The two main findings were those differences between the two groups of patients, that is a patient treated with self-expandable devices at a higher risk of valvular regurgitation. This was mainly a confirmation because this finding was already reported previously in previous studies trying to compare the two devices, but what was more striking was the difference in mortality. It was a difference mostly in hospital mortality but also in mortality after two years. That was significant with an absolute difference in mortality around 3% by two years. Dr Amit Khera: Well, obviously important, as you mentioned that paravalvular leak had been seen before and this now a long-term mortality difference. Certainly an important finding and one of the main findings of your study. One of the concerns about comparative effectiveness research, essentially you're using observational data such as this is that there still could be residual confounding. There still may be patient characteristics or decisions made by interventionalists that aren't fully accounted for. How did you all really try to account for some of these components, this residual confounding to try to get the best answer that you could? Dr Eric Van Belle: That's going to be a major comment, and everything you can do, every best way to try to control for this, there is no better answer than to do a randomized study, and probably we'll discuss on this. Let's see, indeed, we try to do our best to minimize as much as we could, all these potential confounders, so we did it in a different way, indeed. The first way to do it was to adjust all the potential differences among group but what was very also interesting to remind is that, when you look at the 25 clinical and imaging variables and creating the aortic annulus diameter that was incorporated in the matching, that actually 21 of the 25 variables were already there. We were balanced between the two groups, existing that indeed most of the case, the operators, we are not so much directing or at least if there was selecting it was not captured but all of these valuables because again, out of 25, the correction needed to do the matching was only affecting 4 variables, mainly. Those variables were already pretty well-matched between the two populations. The other way we did it was to look at what is called falsification endpoint, that it is endpoints that are supposed to be unrelated to the devices to verify that indeed, we have not selected a population that will have issues that are not related to the device itself. We look at, let's say, mortality by infection, mortality by cancer, to verify that, indeed, this kind of event where it did well balanced between the two groups suggesting that the mortality effects that we observed was not related to this kind of unbalance related to something else that was not captured by analysis. Dr Amit Khera: Yeah, I think that was quite an important observation you mentioned. The first that these two groups are generally well-balanced to begin with, even before with all the matching parameters and then certainly the falsification endpoint helped to add validity to the findings. Dharam, I'm going to turn it over to you. Maybe you can show this from an associate editor's perspective. What are some of the observations you found interesting about this study and what are some of the considerations we had in some of the discussions about it? Dr Dharam Kumbhani: I'll just remind our listeners that this was also a late breaker at AHA last year in 2019, so this is really a very important finding. As Eric briefly pointed out, there haven't really been head to head comparisons between, the two dominant valves in the market even though TAVR has pretty much become the dominant strategy for treatment of aortic stenosis. At the end of the day, it's an observational analysis. We have to take the findings with that in mind. At a minimum, it's first a lot of debate and discussion about the need to have randomized trials and our belief that, perhaps, TAVR is a class effect may not always be true. I think that hypothesis would certainly need to be tested and that's what this paper really sparks as far as discussion going forward. Dr Amit Khera: Maybe I'll ask both of you. One of the challenges of any type of observational research is time period. First there was a hint towards even maybe a greater effect in the more recent time period than the distant time period. Also, there's always commonly changes in technology, especially interventional field where a study comes out and it's already obsolete because there's some new technology. There are some newer generations of valves that have come out. Do you think that it would affect these findings in any way? Maybe we'll start with you, Eric. Dr Eric Van Belle: That's always an issue. Again, because it's a very rapidly evolving field and if you want to have strong data, you need to have really long-term follow-up. You need to have mortality data. There is some kind of contradiction between both that the field is evolving very quickly but then to have solid data, you need to have some time. What we could say, indeed, as a study period was 2013 and 2015, but the device that we are using at that time were already really well matured and also the devices that were used at that time was usually the ones that were used for the comparison with the surgical techniques. Again, these devices are not so much obsolete since they were accepted and used again, when you need this one device study to compare with surgery. Of course these devices have still had some evolution and change, and it is for the good of the patient, but again, as mentioned there, I'm seeing what is very, very important is that this finding is, in my view, intriguing enough to say, okay, even if it's difficult to conduct this kind of randomized study, it has to be done now because we need to really know. Let's say 80% of the patients could indeed be treated with any of the two device in this large margin of patients. Do we have to choose one or the other one to start with? This has already been well answered in a larger randomized trial. Dr Amit Khera: Dharam, maybe I'll ask you, do you think this large randomized trial, are you optimistic that that would happen? Certainly it sounds like it's something that would be very helpful for the field. What are your thoughts on whether that's actually going to occur? Dr Dharam Kumbhani: I know that there are some head to head trials ongoing. I don't know if they will have the sample size to really drill down, as far as hard endpoints, mortality, for example. I think the field clearly needs it. The question is, who's going to sponsor a trial like that? There's probably not much incentive for industry to sponsor something like that. Really it would fall down to whether there's a way for government agencies to partner with industry or other ways to run this. I do agree with Eric that that's really very important and hopefully we'll see that in the field going forward. I did want to comment on the next iteration of devices as far as what we may see now. The mortality signal, I know we've talked about it. It's an observation study. It's hard to know if there's confounding, and even with all the sophisticated statistical analyses that the team did, there's always a possibility that somehow there was sicker patients that received self-expanding valves. The signal for paravalvular regurgitation is not just in this study. We've observed it in many other studies and for other self-expanding platforms as well. Both the SCOPE trial and the St. Jude trial last year, both came around the same time. They were self-expanding platforms and both of them showed a higher paravalvular regurgitation rate compared to the balloon expandable rate. That may be a real thing, and I don't know if that is an inherent design flaw in the self-expanding platform or if there are ways that that could be mitigated going forward. Again, I think the trials, for it to be meaningful, it would be obviously important to collect and have short term and imaging markers. Really, what the field needs is long-term evaluation of these two strategies. Dr Amit Khera: I want to take both Dharam Kumbhani and Dr Eric Van Belle l from Lille University Hospital. Thank you both for joining today. Dr Greg Hundley: This program is copyright, the American Heart Association 2020.  

As Eric and I take a short holiday break from interviewing entrepreneurs, we decided to bring you an episode from our brother podcasters in Dunwoody on the What's Up Dunwoody show.  The WUP Podcast is one that should be in your podcast playlist rotation.  I highly recommend it.  https://whatsupdunwoody.com/

It's a LARB Holiday Season tradition! Kate, Daya, and Eric review all that they read, watched, attended, and gossiped about to select their favorites from the past year. The result is a broad, eclectic array. Indeed, the first work chosen is by an author who died in 1996. Many more surprises ensue. A few of our picks are by authors or directors that we interviewed over the past year. Most, however, were not previously discussed on the show. No matter, every selection sparks a spirited discussion. As Eric warns in the introduction, "no one chose only one thing in any category." So, get out your notepads and prepare for an avalanche of excellence.

It's a LARB Holiday Season tradition! Kate, Daya, and Eric review all that they read, watched, attended, and gossiped about to select their favorites from the past year. The result is a broad, eclectic array. Indeed, the first work chosen is by an author who died in 1996. Many more surprises ensue. A few of our picks are by authors or directors that we interviewed over the past year. Most, however, were not previously discussed on the show. No matter, every selection sparks a spirited discussion. As Eric warns in the introduction, "no one chose only one thing in any category." So, get out your notepads and prepare for an avalanche of excellence. Check out all of our recommendations here.

MDF Podcast - Talking Mule Deer with Steve Belinda and Jodi Stemler S2 E30 - Eric Dinger with Powderhook and Outdoor Life Hunting Editor Andrew McKean This week on Talking Mule Deer, we are visiting with Eric Dinger and Andrew McKean about mentoring new hunters. We open by talking with Andrew about his journey as a conservation journalist – as well as his journey to live in “the middle of nowhere” in Glasgow, Montana. Then Eric tells us about Powderhook, the technology company he founded that is making it their mission to add 3 million new hunters in the next five years through mentoring. He jokingly refers to Powderhook as the hunting mentor “match.com” because it’s intended to help connect new hunters with experienced hunters to get more people in the field. This new social technology is tapping into what more people are using for acquiring information and helping to reduce the barriers that people who might be interested in hunting may be facing. Andrew, who is renowned as a tremendous storyteller, is helping Powderhook to communicate our outdoor heritage and build the mentor network willing to take someone new out in the field. We hear about the experiences he’s had mentoring his daughter to hunt, featured in an article in Outdoor Life, then mentoring a man in his community who never had the opportunity to hunt before, and this year mentoring three different hunters he had never met before. We wrap up by talking about how it’s a responsibility for those of us who love to hunt to share this love with people who might not otherwise have the opportunity to get outdoors. As Eric says, the start of mentorship is an invite – he calls on all of us to take that step and ask someone to go with us this hunting season.

If you are talking a comic book movie with a cult following, look no further than The Crow. Directed by Alex Proyas, and written by David J. Schow and John Shirley, The Crow is based on James O'Barr's comic book of the same name. Dedicated to both Brandon Lee and his fiancée, Eliza, the film stars Lee in his final performance. Comiczone's Gareth and Adam talk all things The Crow - the 1994 movie, the soundtrack, the sequels, and of course, the comics. On the night before Halloween and the eve if their wedding, rock musician Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his fiancée are brutally murdered. As Eric's restless soul is escorted to the netherworld, a merciful crow brings his spirit back to settle the unfinished business on earth. Eric Draven's reanimated body shall rise from its cold grave, as a supernatural avenging spectre, with permission to have his rightful retribution, exactly a year later, on Halloween Eve.

We are so stoked about our next episode we are going to be going over the next 5 as follows6.The power of #selfreliance.7. Image.8. Building and Developing Character and integrity.9. Self discipline10. The power of extraordinary performance and demand excellentresults from ourselves"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." Steve Jobs We have a producer!As Eric pointed out that we, while we were recording, are experiencing some personal growth within our 3 episode! And we are soooo stoked about it!

We are so stoked about our next episode we are going to be going over the next 5 as follows 6.The power of #selfreliance. 7. Image. 8. Building and Developing Character and integrity. 9. Self discipline 10. The power of extraordinary performance and demand excellentresults from ourselves "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." Steve Jobs We have a producer! As Eric pointed out that we, while we were recording, are experiencing some personal growth within our 3 episode! And we are soooo stoked about it! *Triii-Point Studios has reposted this with Permission from Personal Growth Podcast with Perza and Cole, © 2019 - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED **Statements and opinions made on the show do not necessarily reflect those of Triii-Point, it's members, or any associated collectives.

In this week's podcast we talk with Lew Cohen, MD, about his new book "A Dignified Ending: Taking Control Over How We Die." Eric and I approached reading this book with trepidation. We feared it would be a polemic defending physician aid in dying. It is not. Dr. Cohen does not hide his beliefs and opinions. He also does not shy away from the complexity of the issue - he interviews leading disability rights activists and challenges leaders of the aid in dying movement. His book is filled with stories of the people and family, doctors and activist who have defined this movement. As Eric says, he takes the controversy meter up to 11 with notions of approving aid in dying and euthanasia for progressive neurological conditions such as dementia (with thoughtful safeguards). We challenge Lew, somewhat forcefully at times. Personally, I disagree with many of his stances (as you will hear/read), but I can respect how thoughtfully he's gone about putting together his study of the issue. As Dr. Cohen notes, no issue seems to activate the strong emotion centers of our brain like aid in dying. In this time of extreme polarization, it's critical that we engage in thoughtful and respectful communication about aid in dying. - Alex Smith, MD

We Need To Keep That Spirit Alive: anarchist prisoner Eric King and partner speak ***Update: Eric King started a 5 day trial on August 26th, 2019, in Denver, CO on the charges of assaulting Lieutenant Wilcox at FCI Florence. Here's background on that here in Eric's own words. Court and legal fund support is being requested and updates are up on his support site, as of now the latest update is here.*** This week on The Final Straw, we feature two main guests, anarchist prisoner Eric King and a member of his defense committee who is also Eric's partner. This podcast is being released on the 3rd day of the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners from August 23-30th. The dates relate to the execution date of Italian-American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, August 23, 1927. More info on the week, including materials and ways to share your solidarity are up at Solidarity.International and you can donate to the International Anarchist Defense Fund at afund.antirep.net. While the majority of the show will be filled by anarchist political prisoner, Eric King, we'll be wrapping it in words from his partner, who also sits on his support committee. Eric was incarcerated in 2014 for an attempted night-time arson on the Kansas City office of Missouri U.S. Democratic Representative Emanuel Cleaver. Eric claimed this was in solidarity the community of Ferguson that was in revolt in response to the killing and desecration of young Mike Brown at the hands of the police, known as the Ferguson Uprising. Eric has been generally without phone access for 3 years. Eric, who just had his 33rd birthday, recently suffered a stroke. He's been at 9 facilities in the last year. He has visible anti-fascist tattoo's and because of this and his anarchism and outspoken perspectives, he has been pitted against antagonistic correctional officers and nazi gang members and force to fight for survival. Eric frequently loses his commissary funds when he is moved. He hasn't read a book in 6 months because he hasn't been allowed any. For the hour of our broadcast, Eric talks about his health, his political stance, dealing with nazi's on the inside, his views on the anti-fascist struggle on the outside, the loss of Tom Manning and supporting political prisoners, counter-recruiting nazi's and other topics. You can find his writings, art, and updates on his situation at SupportEricKing.org. The message that we are building off of can be found archived in video form here: https://archive.org/details/ericking08172019. The other main voice you'll hear is that of Eric's partner, who's a member of his support committee. What you'll hear in the radio broadcast is only a tiny, iceberg tip, of this person's words, what we could fit in an hour. If you'd like to hear more of what they have to say check out the podcast. We speak about changes in the Federal Bureau of Prisons system, specific things that BOP prisoners and their families and supporters have to deal with, the culture of shortcomings in how people engage family and loved ones of prisoners, increasing use of communication management units (also known as CMU's) and in particular Administrative US Penitentiary Thomson, in Thomson, IL, which is used as a holding facility where prisoners awaiting CMU status decisions basically sit meanwhile in CMU status while they wait. This marks a continued growing in the logic of incarceration in our civilization towards more isolation, new sweetheart prison building contracts, more contol, more beds to fill, more punishment of what might be mental health distress and trauma responses among prisoners. The guest speaks about the potential impact on ICE detainees who are speculated to be put in this facility. As Eric gets transferred from county facility to county facility of Federal overflow, his commissary doesn't move with him. So, his support committee is handling purchases of communication access, medical funds, moneys for buying vegan foods and supplements and other needs on his behalf. A new fundraiser has gone up and can be found at: . Please consider donating. Eric just got moved before this broadcast. As he moves around and things change, info on his case can be found at SupportEricKing.org. You can write him, for the time being, at: The books that Eric mentions being excited to read are: Solitary by Albert “Shaka Cinque” Woodfox of the Angola 3 Mad Bomber Melville by Leslie James Pickering   Announcements BlackJewel Miners Blockade Support Hi listeners, I'm Cypress, your newest host of the Final Straw. Next week, tune in to hear my very first interview. I'll be speaking with folks from the Blackjewel Miner's Blockade in Harlan County, Kentucky. Blackjewel is the 6th largest coal operator in the United States, and on July 1st of this year, it declared bankruptcy. On July 29th, five miners set out to blockade a Blackjewel train carrying one million dollars of coal in protest of being denied their last three weeks of wages and retirement funds. The blockade has since bloomed into an active camp site made up of miners, their families, and supporters. The camp is committed to blocking the train until Blackjewel pays the miners. To stay up to date with the camp, follow blackjewelminersblockade on Instagram, or @minerblockade on Twitter. Listen next week to hear from folks on the ground in Harlan County.   Delbert Africa The latest we've heard about one of the two remaining MOVE prisoners, Delbert Africa, who's up for parole in September is that his health is on the mend. MOVE organization supporters are requesting solidarity in pushing the PA parole board and the governor to release this aging prisoner, the oldest of the MOVE 9 prisoners, to help him integrate and heal in the outside world. 41 years is far too much. More info at onamove.org or on the various social media sites.   Russell “Maroon” Shoatz Former Black Panther and political prisoner Russell Shoatz, who goes by the name Maroon, has stage four colorectal cancer and his family and supporters are requesting funds be raised to help pay for his care. Maroons' earthday was August 23rd, 2019. You can find out are at russellmaroonshoatz, with a ‘z' dot wordpress dot com and searching for update 08 22 2019, of in our show notes. And you can donate to his care at by clicking the donate/ tab on his support site.   BAD News podast Here's a link to the latest episode of BADNews, the monthly, English-language podcast from the A-Radio Network of which we're also a member: https://hide.espiv.net/?https://www.a-radio-network.org/bad-news-angry-voices-from-around-the-world/episode-25-08-2019/ . ... . .. podcast pending

“It’s funny ‘cause it’s true!” said Tina Fey on 30 Rock. As in all things, Tina is 100% correct. In our 2nd episode of For the Love of Finding the Truth, Elle.com humor writer R. Eric Thomas and Jen explore humor as a truth-telling device and how we can use comedy to face some of the greatest ideological battles of our time. Eric has a daily column called “Eric Reads the News” where he breaks down the biggest headlines as only a satirist, brunch enthusiast, and Beyoncé Fan Club President can do (and be careful where you read anything Eric writes—he’ll likely inspire uncontrollable snorts, much like you’ll hear from Jen during the episode). Eric’s first stab at observational humor took place at church while he and his brother made hilarious notes about the people there (to which Eric was sure they’d go to hell for). This humor later turned into imaginative scenarios Eric would post on Facebook for his friends (i.e. when he saw a group photo of President Obama, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, Eric declared them “an all-male cast of Sex and the City”), which ultimately got the attention of Elle.com and launched his daily column. Eric’s journey is defined by confronting his own painful and hilarious truths as he’s overcome stereotypes, reckoned his Christianity with being gay, and discovered some surprisingly deep things about himself when he joined a gay softball league—all of which he talks about in his upcoming book Here For It. As Eric says: “The oppressors do not get to define the way I walk through the world and hold my head up. I get to define that.” As Eric would also say—honey, yes.

If you think you knew Host Eric Levine, think again. On this episode of Tip Not Included, Eric gets raw, emotional, and very personal as he shares his biggest business failure. Consider this. In 2003, he wrote a check for $21K to invest in an ice cream franchise. Seven retail stores, accolades up the wazoo, and millions of dollars later, Eric and his partners had to file for bankruptcy in 2007. As he relates, the experience left Eric feeling lower than what pittance was left in his bank account. But what goes down, must go up. The experience taught Eric some important life lessons which he shares with you on this latest episode. As Eric points out, failure should be looked at as a badge of honor because no great success was ever achieved without it. The "f bomb" (failure, that is), is just a step toward achieving your dreams, Eric believes.  Want to see someone's real character? Ask them about their own failures. You don't need to ask Eric though, because he openly shares them on Tip Not Included, AND in his book "Melted", which recounts how he lost millions in that ice cream business. In fact, the first 25 people that email Eric will get a signed copy of the book sent to them (include your name and mailing address in your email). Read it and learn from Eric's mistakes. Because at the end of the day, Eric is convinced, you shouldn't be afraid of failure. You should be afraid of mediocrity. Email Eric Levine at: eric@tipnotincluded.com  

As Eric drives across this big country we take a break from our usual format. This week Abby steps up and returns to help explore the first of many Final Fantasies!! Its part one of Final Fantasy for the NES!

Episode 165: As Eric sits in the recovery ward from his illness this week, we bring on a special guest, Brandy! We keep things short and sweet talking about the things we liked coming from Nintendo in the near future, We also saw lots of aliens as Summer Blockbuster season continues. Enjoy! Nintendo we love https://youtu.be/Zr9eAtwcYlo Review: Men(and women) In Black: International Find us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kenobiscorner/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kenobiscorner/ Twitter: @kenobiscorner https://twitter.com/kenobiscorner SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/kenobis-corner Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM9i2PJJvwyRc7XshD1F_3A iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kenobis-corner/id1100976667?mt=2

As Eric and I continue our Chattanooga Film Festival coverage, we have with us tonight very special guest (and friend of The Gargyle Podcast), Eric Pennycoff - writer and director of Sadistic Intentions! We met Eric at the world premiere of Sadistic Intentions at the Knoxville Horror Film Festival and quickly fell in love with his film! It was one of the standout films at KHFF and one of the films from CFF that we very strongly recommended people see!! Even though we have covered Sadistic Intentions on the podcast before (and will be covering again in an upcoming CFF review episode), we genuinely love the film...plus, we are always happy when Eric is able to join us to discuss a bit of horror! So, join us as we discuss Sadistic Intentions and the Chattanooga Film Festival with one of our favorite people, Eric Pennycoff!! If you enjoy this episode, be sure to check back soon for more cinematic discussions on The Gargyle Podcast as we continue our coverage of the 2019 Chattanooga Film Festival!! Our next episode will be the first part of a two-part episode covering Two Guys, a Girl, and a Baaaaaaad Situation films from CFF!! The Gargyle Podcast is sponsored by Central Cinema and the Knoxville Horror Film Festival!! Submissions for the Knoxville Horror Film Festival are now open! Submit your film at filmfreeway.com and be sure to follow KHFF on Facebook for more news and announcements! View Central Cinema's lineup, showtimes, and purchase tickets at centralcinema865.com. GargyleReviews.wixsite.com/thegargyle music by bensound.com

With his Lungs full of smoke Dr Grant is lead through the jungle. A Metal hatch is thrown open and the two climb inside. As Eric turns on a InGen Lantern he realises who his just saved. "Your Alan Grant!" www.jurassicminutes.wordpress.com socials: Jurassic Minutes

Do you QTIP? Have you practiced the 3 A's? Spencer and Eric, with support from many listeners, talk about some of the acronyms (such as HALT or FEAR) and alliterations (3 C's, 4 M's) that help us to remember the important principles of the program. As Eric says, “these are like pocket change — they're... The post Acronyms and Alliterations – Episode 284 appeared first on The Recovery Show.

As Eric notes in the introduction, this recent study in JAMA by Jeff Williamson and colleagues led to some very contradictory headlines. Some headlines proclaimed that lowering blood pressure prevents dementia, and others stated the opposite, that lowering blood pressure does not prevent dementia. So what exactly did the study show? Do these results apply to patients we commonly see in Geriatrics? What should we make of the fact that after the trial was stopped early the blood pressures in the lower blood pressure target group rose - does this mean you can't achieve intensive blood pressure lowering "in the real world"?

As Eric said on a number of occasions, gold would rise into Q4 of 2018. In fact, it continued its rise into February and promptly broke down. Eric's not see any further moves until the summer. Perhaps then we'll see the highly anticipated bull market resumption. He believes we're seeing the emergence of a bear stock market. Dollar is getting toppy but it could be a multi-year process. Many markets will trade within defined channels for quite a while before it's on to the next trend. 

As Eric said on a number of occasions, gold would rise into Q4 of 2018. In fact, it continued its rise into February and promptly broke down. Eric's not see any further moves until the summer. Perhaps then we'll see the highly anticipated bull market resumption. He believes we're seeing the emergence of a bear stock market. Dollar is getting toppy but it could be a multi-year process. Many markets will trade within defined channels for quite a while before it's on to the next trend. 

In this episode of Eldercare Illuminated, host Lenore Tracey speaks with attorney Eric Carlson about the problems that nursing home residents and their caregivers may face — and what to do about them. Nursing homes throughout the country are bound by federal laws that are designed to ensure a person-centered, homelike experience for their residents. As Eric points out, even “good” nursing homes may have practices and procedures that violate federal law. This podcast offers insights and practical assistance to help caregivers advocate effectively for their loved ones' rights as nursing home residents.About Our Guest:Eric Carlson is the Directing Attorney at Washington D.C.-based Justice in Aging. Formerly the National Senior Citizens Law Center, since 1972 Justice in Aging has worked for almost 50 years to address the health and economic security needs of older adults with limited resources.Eric has experience in many forms of long-term services and supports (LTSS), including home and community-based services, nursing facility care, and assisted living facilities. He led Justice in Aging’s extensive research (funded through The Commonwealth Fund) on Medicaid-funded assisted living and currently is leading a project to assist consumer advocacy on Medicaid managed LTSS in Florida and New Jersey. Eric also serves as President of the national Assisted Living Consumer Alliance and is author of the legal treatise Long-Term Care Advocacy (Matthew Bender and Co.).Download Justice in Aging's Guide: 25 Common Nursing Home Problems and How to Resolve Them (link - http://www.justiceinaging.org/guide-25-common-nursing-home-problems-and-how-to-resolve-them/)And Stories from the Field (link - http://www.justiceinaging.org.customers.tigertech.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Stories-from-the-Field.pdf) , a guide for nursing home residents and their loved ones to recognize and address issues that LGBTQ+ individuals may encounter.

In this episode of Eldercare Illuminated, host Lenore Tracey speaks with attorney Eric Carlson about the problems that nursing home residents and their caregivers may face — and what to do about them. Nursing homes throughout the country are bound by federal laws that are designed to ensure a person-centered, homelike experience for their residents. As Eric points out, even “good” nursing homes may have practices and procedures that violate federal law. This podcast offers insights and practical assistance to help caregivers advocate effectively for their loved ones' rights as nursing home residents.About Our Guest:Eric Carlson is the Directing Attorney at Washington D.C.-based Justice in Aging. Formerly the National Senior Citizens Law Center, since 1972 Justice in Aging has worked for almost 50 years to address the health and economic security needs of older adults with limited resources.Eric has experience in many forms of long-term services and supports (LTSS), including home and community-based services, nursing facility care, and assisted living facilities. He led Justice in Aging’s extensive research (funded through The Commonwealth Fund) on Medicaid-funded assisted living and currently is leading a project to assist consumer advocacy on Medicaid managed LTSS in Florida and New Jersey. Eric also serves as President of the national Assisted Living Consumer Alliance and is author of the legal treatise Long-Term Care Advocacy (Matthew Bender and Co.).Download Justice in Aging's Guide: 25 Common Nursing Home Problems and How to Resolve Them (link - http://www.justiceinaging.org/guide-25-common-nursing-home-problems-and-how-to-resolve-them/)And Stories from the Field (link - http://www.justiceinaging.org.customers.tigertech.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Stories-from-the-Field.pdf) , a guide for nursing home residents and their loved ones to recognize and address issues that LGBTQ+ individuals may encounter.

Continuing with our Kung Fu-bruary series (which was picked by you, the listeners!), tonight's movie is Enter the Dragon. While this movie is definitely more Westernized and almost feels more like a traditional James Bond film than it does a traditional kung fu film, it is undeniably a great action movie with one of the greatest martial artist of all time, Bruce Lee! So, join The Gargyle and The Chimerican as we discuss why we love Enter the Dragon as much as we do (spoiler alert: it might involve the fact that Bruce Lee smacks a cobra...)!! Since February is both Black History Month as well as Women in Horror Month, each episode in our Kung Fu-bruary series will start with segments honoring African Americans in cinema, as well as women in horror. For tonight's episode, we honor Blaxsploitation cinema for Black History Month. While problematic on the surface (in large part due to the use of racial stereotypes), Blaxsploitation cinema was an an outlet for many African American writers, directors, and actors/actresses to address themes of social injustice, as well as present African American characters as powerful individuals rather than just relegated to comic relief or overlooked side-characters. For Women in Horror Month, we honor all of the women who have been involved in the horror movies that we have seen in film festivals over the past few years (especially those who were able to attend the film fests as well). We list as many as we can remember, but we know that it is not an exhaustive list. We could have spent an entire month just talking about the women who have been involved in recent horror movies that we absolutely love! So, if we left you off of the list, we deeply apologize and we want you to know that most certainly have not left you out of our hearts!! Also, as we've done on the last few episodes, we continue to highlight the Chattanooga Film Festival - April 11-14. Tonight, we specifically address the programming that has been announced so far: Joe Bob Briggs, Everything is Terrible, Shock Waves Podcast, Junkfood Cinema Podcast, a screening of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and a presentation by author Mallory O'Meara. As Eric and I both posted as soon as the announcement was made last week - the programming is like it is being tailor made for us and we cannot even begin to explain how excited we are about the Chattanooga Film Festival this year (and this is before any of the movies, other than Creature from the Black Lagoon, have been announced)!! As a reminder, the CFF fundraiser to be able to provide classes and workshops for free during the festival is still going on! To donate, click on the following link: CFF Fundraiser GargyleReviews.wixsite.com/thegargyle music by Bensound.com

Learn from Eric Strafel, President/CEO of Aviall, a Boeing Company & Vice President of Supplier Management for Boeing Global Services. His immersive leadership uses tools such as the common whiteboard to unlock uncommon transformation. Eric’s radical leadership style engages an entire workforce and fosters a transparent and inclusive workplace. As Eric says, when you connect people to the bigger vision and let them determine strategy, sustained success follows.

Today’s episode on the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO network is the long-awaited inaugural episode of our NEW orchestral video game show, THE 1UPBEAT with Eric Silver. The show is designed to showcase the very best symphonic music from the video game world and on today’s episode, Eric presents some of the very best music written for video games in 2018. On the program today you will hear music from OCTOPATH TRAVELER by Yasunori Nishiki, GOD OF WAR by Bear Mccreary, NI NO KUNI 2: REVENANT KINGDOM by Joe Hisaishi, MONSTER HUNTER WORLD by Tadayoshi Makino, THE BANNER SAGA 3 by Austin Wintory, and DRAGON QUEST 11 by Koichi Sugiyama. —— ERIC SILVER BIO: Eric Silver was eight years old when he first discovered the joy of movie scores. Like many, John Williams's Star Wars scores inspired a passion and determination to learn music. He worked hard to learn the trumpet by first playing along to these scores, determined to master the memorable melodies by Williams and his contemporaries. As Eric got older, popular movie scores started to take a less prominent and melodic approach, and video games were incorporating more live orchestrations. The melodies of Final Fantasy IV and others mimicked those sweeping movie scores of a now-bygone era. His focus had shifted away from movies as orchestration became the new standard in games. Suddenly, the memorable melodies and emotional magic of game music became his motivation to share it with as many people as possible. Today, as an ex-future music educator, Eric has conducted and arranged for game music concerts and written some of his own music for video games. The tradition of sharing a passion for this music continues with the premiere of The 1UpBeat, which explores some of the best orchestral game music from thirty years ago to today. —— Cinematic Sound Radio Web: http://www.cinematicsound.net Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cinsoundradio Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cinematicsound Movie Scores and More Radio http://www.moviescoreradio.com Cinematic Sound Radio Fanfare and Theme by David Coscina https://soundcloud.com/user-970634922 Bumper voice artist: Tim Burden http://www.timburden.com

Being an ally can be lonely.  In this episode, Eric Brotman and Sheryl Brown both share their candid conversation of being the one of the only men or women in a business setting.  The finance industry, as with most industries, is not gender diverse, yet Eric and Sheryl have both leveraged their voices to make a positive impact on their industry.  Eric joined a women in finance organization as an early ally in the 1990’s, and has since achieved gender equality in his own financial advising business with 50/50 male and female partners.  While he admits to not having the secret recipe for gender equality, he attributes his firm’s success to hiring for the right skill sets.  As the leader, he makes sure that his team looks for strong listening skills, collaboration, and relationship-focused skill sets and hires and rewards those skills.  As a firm, they also focus on unseeing gender difference in the workplace, and park their own unconscious bias. As Eric’s ally, Sheryl Brown, leader of the Females in Finance community, also shares her story.  She is an accidental activist of gender neutralization.  Since being one of the only women in the room, she has made it her purpose to advocate for more women in the finance space.  She now provides resources to women for professional development to advance in finance. Learn more and Connect with Sheryl  bionicsocial.com  https://www.facebook.com/groups/FemalesAndFinance/. Learn more and connect with Eric http://www.brotmanfinancial.com/team/eric-brotman  Eric offers securities through Kestra Investment Services, LLC (Kestra IS), member FINRA/SIPC. Investment advisory services offered through Kestra Advisory Services, LLC (Kestra AS), an affiliate of Kestra IS. Kestra IS and Kestra AS are not affiliated with Brotman Financial Group or any entity referenced herein. Neither Kestra IS nor Kestra AS provide tax or legal advice. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and may not necessarily reflect those held by Kestra IS or Kestra AS. This is for general information only and is not intended to provide specific investment advice or recommendations for any individual. It is suggested that you consult your financial professional, attorney, or tax advisor with regard to your individual situation. Comments concerning the past performance are not intended to be forward looking and should not be viewed as an indication of future results.  

Co-founders of Let's Fix Construction, Eric D. Lussier and Cherise Lakeside, host the latest episode and start talking about the Summer construction season Summers as a contractor, as Eric's company is, is typically filled with project management and the physical construction of a building. However, this Summer of 2018 was filled with a heavy bidding climate for Eric, as well as many other contractors that he spoke with. Cherise, in contrast, who works in a design studio, found that 2018 has found that projects are not bidding when they would typically bid. Owners are looking for alternative methods to save money and get their projects built, including looking for alternative schedule to build. As a finish trade, Eric bemoans how the construction schedule typically squeezes the Division 9 contractors, especially the flooring guy, who are forced to work with other trades in the room in sub-par conditions such as non-weather tight rooms or with HVACs not running. The skilled labor workforce is discussed briefly as Eric spoke to a large Northeast General Contractor who is tackling not one, but two large projects in Burlington, Vermont. They presently don't envision having a labor problem themselves, but they do foresee that many of their specialty subcontractors will have issues staffing their work. The wages are out there, especially on prevailing wage projects. Turning the page on the Summer, Fall is quickly approaching. Typically in September, CSI's annual convention and affiliated tradeshow, CONSTRUCT is held. Eric and Cherise met at CONSTRUCT in Phoenix in 2012 and then went on to attend Nashville in 2013, Baltimore in 2014, St. Louis in 2015, Austin in 2016 and Providence in 2017. This year CONSTRUCT moves to October 3rd to the 5th in Long Beach, California and is coming up in just two short weeks. As Eric and Cherise outlined previously on the Let's Fix Construction blog, they find themselves quite busy in 2018: http://www.letsfixconstruction.com/blog/knowledge-innovation-collaboration-construct-2018 A new presentation debuts in 2018 for Eric and Cherise, titled 'Facing Danger: Public Speaking for Non-Public Speakers' and Eric wrote the concept for this session around Cherise's public speaking career, which launched at CONSTRUCT in Nashville five years ago. You can read more about the CONSTRUCT session here: https://explore.constructshow.com/Attendee/Schedule/SessionDetails/254418 The next presention hosted at CONSTRUCT will be the flagship presentation, 'Let's Fix Construction: An Interactive, Problem Solving Workshop'. CONSTRUCT in 2017 hosted an abbreviated version of this workshop, with about 150 attendees in 45 minutes. Being given twice the amount of time in 2018, many interesting conversations will be held about hot-button issues in the industry, and given the opportunity to talk to other disciplines outside of the contract, open conversations are typically held and enjoyed. In this year's Luncheon session is the 'Archispeak Interactive Luncheon: Real Talk About Challenges, Opportunities & Innovations Surrounding AEC Teams' hosted by Evan Troxel, Neal Pann, and Cormac Phalen. Cherise met Evan, Neal and Cormac through Twitter a handful of years ago and as a member of the CONSTRUCT Education Advisory Council, Cherise offered their name to speak at CONSTRUCT. You can check out their podcast at https://archispeakpodcast.com/ and more on the session at https://explore.constructshow.com/Attendee/Schedule/SessionDetails/254314 Cherise hosts the fourth annual Young Professionals Program on Wednesday, October 3rd, which was built for those 35 and under to provide the attendees with the training, networking, mentoring, and education that they need to boost their careers to the next level. The core session of YP Day is the two hour speed mentoring session where the attendees will meet one on one with leaders in the industry. Each party takes turns to learn more about their career paths, challenges they have overcome, and advice they have for each other. There is still time to attend YP Day at a discounted rate. Check out www.CONSTRUCTshow.com/YPday for more details on the schedule. The last CONSTRUCT 2018 session that Cherise is involved in is the 'POWER PANEL--Millennials as Successors: Misconceptions & Realities - Hear it from them!' Joined by Michael Riscica (aka Young Architect), Cam Featherstonhaugh, Kyhla Pollard and Tiffany Coppock on stage, Cherise is hoping to dispel some commonly held beliefs about their generation and what they want for the future of the industry. Read more about this panel at https://explore.constructshow.com/Attendee/Schedule/SessionDetails/254580 Thursday night, October 4th will be the second annual Partners and Pints event with our friends at Clark Dietrich. We hosted year one at Narragansett's production brewery in Pawtucket, RI and this year we will be taking over Gladstone's at the historic Pike's Pier. FREE to attend, Partners and Pints features food, drinks, games, and giveaways and another chance to hang out with friends new and old. There is still space and still time to register at www.PartnersandPints.com Speaking of still time to register, there is still space to attend CONSTRUCT. All new registrants can save 20% on the education package or receive a FREE Expo pass You can use the promo code SMFB06 or visiting here: https://www.compusystems.com/servlet/AttendeeRegLoginServlet?evt_uid=168&PromoCode=SMFB06

Yay! @happilyneverafter is back in full effect! For episode 19, we are bringing you Love at First Dance from the June Weddings series! Becca Tobin, from the late (and not as great) Glee seasons, plays rejection-fatigued dance instructor, Hope Maze and Niall Matter, of other Hallmark pursuits, is Eric Gunderson, an up and coming financial executive. Eric’s getting married to his super hot financial robot fiancé, Adriana, and this wedding is all business. Also, Eric can’t dance. How on earth is a high society wedding gonna fly without a professionally choreographed dance by the bride and groom? Enter Hope, her fabulous dance outfits and maybe the first four steps of the waltz. As Eric spends more time with Hope, he begins to reconnect with his artsy side which does not bode well for his business dealings, uh we mean undying love, for fiancé Adriana. Turns out falling in love with your dance instructor is easy when she’s the only one willing to hang out with you for several days in a row and is getting paid to do it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We were so lucky to have the opportunity to talk with Eric Crouch who we're so excited to meet this week at Teach Your Heart Out Las Vegas! As Eric said it was so fun to get to talk shop with one of the most dynamic educators we've met. During our conversation Eric talks about the pillars of his teaching-- collaborate, communicate, critically think. He uses these as the basis for most everything he does in the classroom and finds that they increase the student buy in. If you don't follow Eric on social media you should because not only is it funny and insightful, but much of what he puts out is made by students in his film editing club. Eric talks about "the vulnerability of video" and how he believes video is an asset that, "allow bulletin boards to come down and be replaced by windows." Eric strives with his students to give the choice and stake in the success of the classroom and it is something we can all benefit from learning more about. We hope you enjoy this episode of the podcast and thank you so much for tuning in! To follow connect with Eric: Instagram: @adventureswithmrc and https://www.youtube.com/user/manningexpress1 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/valueaddsvalue/support

Regardless of whether or not you have ever played a Mario game, the plucky little plumber is undeniably a cultural phenomenon, loved in all of his forms! Well...almost all of his forms. If you grew up loving the Super Mario games, you were probably sorely disappointed with the Super Mario Bros. movie due to its lack of similarity to the game you knew and loved. But, on the 25th anniversary of its release, Adam, Eric and I dissect this movie we love so much. As Eric so aptly paraphrases King Koopa - “You know what we love about this movie? It's awesome and it's awful at the same time!” So, grab your bob omb, activate the plumber alert, and meet us at the Boom Boom Club as we dive into Super Mario Bros., the movie!! If you enjoy this episode, let us know! Leave feedback, subscribe, follow on social media, and be sure to keep checking back for more analysis and discussion on The Gargyle Podcast - where geekery abounds! GargyleReviews.wixsite.com/thegargyle music by bensound.com

This episode is choc full of talking. And laughing. And thinking. And movie talking. And being 48 minutes long, this is our longest episode to date, I believe. So today I will be with you as you finish any and every chore you possibly have to do! Our guest this week is Eric Epperson, who is a good friend and co-worker of our friends of our hearts - Mike and Cindy Branton. Eric is in the movie making business, or in the social justice documentaries making business. His role at CIY has allowed him to make several incredible films that revolve around serious world wide issues, in glorious fashion. His films have taken him to Iraq, Ireland, India, and now - Arizona. In hopes to immerse himself in foster care life, he stayed at our crazy house for 2 days, and met with different people for his project. And so we asked him to join us on the podcast to share about his upcoming film that should be out next year. Eric brought up a great point that we started fostering, in response to several videos that were shown at our church. Hopefully this film about foster care will awaken something, even just conversation to start off with. As Eric puts it: "Films open our minds to what's possible." We talked about A LOT of stuff and there were some classic quotes! "Allegiant - the Kmart of the Skies." To learn more about CIY: Christ In Youth Get on Amazon Prime to watch 3 of CIY Aeffect's films: Aullido, Love Costs Everything, Unseen To download for free: Unseenfilm.org Mental Health and Suicide film Primary shirts and Secondary Shirts. They are important and make you look respectable in case of emergency, or the opposite.  CAMMIES. Not Camis. Chris mentioned that in the Marine Corps, they talked about getting your Cammies. But I was picturing them saying 'Get your spaghetti strapped tank tops/camis'. A fellow Marine texted and stood by his military brother and told me that Chris was right and I was wrong. Whatevs. If you have NO IDEA what Tornado we are talking about (I did not know about this tornado until I went to Joplin, 3 years ago), you can find out more here. The fact that Eric and his family (his wife hid in a basement with their 4 week old daughter!) survived that thing makes them some of the most incredible people in the world  Missouri vs Arizona Missouri Population: 6.1 million #of kids in foster care: 19,400 kids in care Arizona Population: 7.2 million # of kids in foster: 15,000 The (Good) Word of the Day " If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand. 5-8 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human!Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion. 9-11 Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth—even those long ago dead and buried—will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ, and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor of God the Father." Philippians 2:1-11 The Message (emphasis added) SO GOOD. Read it again my friends, and let it all soak in to your hearts and minds. Special thanks to Eric for joining us on the podcast today. We will be praying for your journey in making this film, and we hope that it makes people move to compassion and action.  We hope you enjoyed it, and that it made you think of different ways that you can get involved in the foster care crisis that spans the entire country, and world that we live in. Wherever you are, foster kids are there too. And they need your help. To connect with Eric: Eric's Work Bio Eric on Instagram Eric on Facebook  

Today’s guest is Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, a book that has sold over a million copies. He’s also the author of The Startup Way, a nuts-and-bolts, dollars and cents, how-to-do-the-math guide that shows how to make entrepreneurship a core discipline of your business. Takeaways from this Episode: No one gets things done in your organization the way “the process” says they get things done. The only way to find out how the company actually works is to run experiments and identify the real levers being pulled to create success (or a lack thereof) in your projects. If someone has been with you for a few years, it’s likely that what they do is very different from what their job description says they do. As they’ve discovered problems that need solving, they’ve stepped in. Are these people being rewarded for just how much they’re contributing? Are you? Also, as you analyze the jobs they’re actually doing, you will discover that this breach that they’ve walked into can signal opportunities for your organization to play where others aren’t, to take on market risk, and to disrupt. As you build out a business or career and are at the low end of the learning curve (where it looks like nothing is happening), when metrics that you would use if you were established (like revenue) are effectively zero, use innovation accounting. Find out what your “leap of faith” assumptions are and find ways to test what will happen if they are true and if they are false. As Eric says, “It's better to have bad news that's true rather than good news that we just made up.” Learning is an essential unit of progress. It’s important to put a price not only on success, but on information as well. What have you learned from success? What have you learned from failure? This information will be invaluable to you as you continue along your S-curve. Be willing to re-examine yourself, especially as you interact with those that come from a different perspective from you. What can an engineer learn from a marketing specialist? Think of one person in your life who is an “Other,” and instead of trying to make how you feel around them go away, take a moment to examine the situation. What is there to learn? This intellectual collision can cause real disruption—if you will allow it. Eric is no stranger to failure. When the dot-com bubble burst, Eric’s dorm-room startup company came crashing down, along with his dreams of instant success and wealth. While interviewing for jobs after graduation, Eric was surprised when one company seemed particularly excited to hear about his startup experiences. They wanted to know what he had learned, especially regarding strategy, leading Eric to do some soul searching about what he had learned. “I realized…I think the most important lessons I learned from that were just what startup chaos and failure looks and feels like.” Years later, when a startup he was working for began to flounder, Eric recognized some of the same warning signs of failure from his own business. Instead of joining in the panic around him, he decided to focus on what he could learn from the similarities and differences of the two experiences. Over time, this analysis led to the creation of an entrepreneurial management framework, and The Lean Startup was born. From innovation accounting to how startups can utilize the scientific method, Eric is a fascinating resource for entrepreneurs, or for any company that is looking to energize their next project. Show Notes - http://whitneyjohnson.com/eric-ries

In the previous episode, Eric Allyn shared the history of his family’s business, Welch Allyn. He told us how his generation banded together to change the governance model of the business, effectively removing control from the third generation and eliminating a family member CEO. When we left off, Eric was telling us about the sale of Welch Allyn to Hill-Rom in 2015.   In this episode, Eric shares his family’s process of creating ‘Allyn family 2.0, life after the sale.’ We talk about how his family is learning the ins and outs of wealth management and the evolving role of their family office. As Eric said, family members understood ophthalmoscopes and defibrillators. Now they’re learning a new language involving investments, insurance and trusts. They’re also facing the challenges of raising children with tremendous liquidity.   Eric shares some lessons learned from his Welch Allyn experience and also does a great job answering my bonus questions. Enjoy!   Topics discussed in this episode:   Recap of part 1 (:40) The business sold. Now what? (2:17) The evolution of the family office (4:00) The Allyn Family Foundation (7:23) Eric’s lessons learned (11:33) Being a good board member in a family business (16:45) Being a good family business owner (19:00) How to get in touch with Eric (21:43) Recommended resources (22:46) Bonus questions: What words of wisdom would you tell your 20-year-old self? (26:11) What are you doing to raise financially responsible kids? (28:56) What are you doing to keep health top of mind? (33:26) What does successful generations mean to you? (34:58) Wrap (37:20)   Guest Bio: Eric Allyn is former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Welch Allyn, Inc, a company owned by the Allyn Family for 100 years.  For four generations, Welch Allyn was a Medical Device manufacturer, employing some 2,800 people world-wide, and selling products into every hospital and physician office in the US.  Welch Allyn was acquired by Hill-Rom, a larger public company, in 2015.   Eric Allyn began his Welch Allyn career as an employee in 1982, working in a variety of positions within the company, from sales, to marketing, to business development and country management.  He left his role as employee in 2010 to join Welch Allyn’s Board of Directors, where he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, and also Chairman of the family’s Voting Trust, through 2015.   Notable & Quotable:   After the sale of the business I had to repurpose myself. —Eric Allyn #successfulgenerations   My identity went from being tattooed with a stethoscope to being tattooed with a big dollar sign. —Eric Allyn #successfulgenerations   After we changed our governance structure, being a good family business owner meant being a good steward, being responsible, understanding the product line, remaining informed, but also not influencing management decisions. —Eric Allyn #successfulgenerations   Since the sale, our family office has shifted from accounting, trust management, estate planning and taxes to focusing more on wealth management and investments. —Eric Allyn #successfulgenerations   It’s crass almost the thought of bringing family members together to talk about money. —Eric Allyn #successfulgenerations   We’re trying to define what Allyn family 2.0 look like. It took 100 years to develop a certain brand for our family and now we’re starting new.  —Eric Allyn #successfulgenerations   [Regarding resources] Understanding the service providers out there and where they are strong and where they are weak is really important. —Eric Allyn #successfulgenerations   I would tell my 20-year-old self to have more structure around family members entering the business; policies and an on-boarding process. —Eric Allyn #successfulgenerations   [Regarding raising financially responsible kids] One horrible word that you have to prevent: entitlement. —Eric Allyn #successfulgenerations   Resources mentioned in this episode: Welch Allyn John L. Ward, PH.D. Family Office Exchange J.P. Morgan Private Bank BlackRock Rockefeller Capital Management Regional family business centers

Imagine a room of smart, hopeful, slightly lost university students. Picture students who come from all different worlds.There are future doctors, mothers, world travelers, and entrepreneurs in the mix of students.   Despite the differences, most students are enrolled in college for the same reason. They want to change the trajectory of their lives. They want to develop, over the course of their education, some experience, some valuable skills, and become an expert in a certain area. And maybe, just maybe, they can find a job they actually like at the end of the road.   You could say, for a time, these students are “borrowing” credibility from their university. They are hoping that they can rely on a few small details about where they went to school, and some references to get a job or find a career path.   Employers haven’t always been able to Google job applicants. So, before Facebook, employers had, essentially a resume, to determine credibility. If a person graduated from a prestigious university, bingo! They got a job.   Since Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram everyone can have a presence and show the world their creations. People blog, use social media, write books, record, and create YouTube channels. Employers (and the rest of the world) are beginning to value what people have created more than where they went to school. About time, right?   In this episode, Eric Koester, founder and CEO of Creator Institute, and professor at Georgetown University shares some incredible insight on what it means to be a creator, an entrepreneur and how to use your creations, and an entrepreneur mindset to build a business.   Eric began teaching at Georgetown University as a hobby. He was teaching entrepreneur courses. He was enjoying the hobby so much, he took on five classes a year.   After a few years, Eric was reflecting on the impact he was having. From his research and data, things were looking pretty discouraging. He realized of all the students he was teaching, hardly any of them were using what he taught them to start a business during or after college.   With the grim results he was seeing, he decided he was going to quit teaching.   However, Georgetown talked him into teaching one last semester. The semester Eric thought would be his last, completely changed the way he taught and thought about entrepreneurs.   A few days before class, Eric changed the entire syllabus. He decided, instead of teaching people how to start a business, he was going to apply the same principles, but help his class write and publish a book! As Eric would say, “bonkers”!   On the first day of class, the students were shocked when they found out they’d be writing a book. Eric was sure students would start dropping his class, instead, the class doubled in size.   That semester was an experiment. An experiment that completely revolutionized the way Eric taught. It was also the catalyst that led him to launch his business, Creator Institute. What he ultimately discovered is the first step to being an entrepreneur is to become a creator!   It doesn’t matter what the creation is, for his students that semester it was a book, but it could be anything. A podcast, a blog, a YouTube channel, a product, music; the list goes on. The realization that creating was key, was seriously rocking Eric’s world and absolutely giving his students an incredible advantage when trying to land their perfect job.   Today, Eric has impacted the lives of many students who have, in fact, published books. The books they have written have opened doors that were never expected. He tells stories of bright, passionate students who literally change the trajectory of their entire life by writing a book.   The big message today is the world needs creators! It needs creators more than it needs entrepreneurs. Creators become entrepreneurs, not the other way around!     Key Takeaways: [:04] Eric Koester is introduced. [1:25] Eric gives a snapshot of what defined his “opportunist” career and talks about what led him to his current position as a professor at Georgetown University. [4:04] Eric is disillusioned by his teaching and wonders if he is impacting his students. [6:00] People want autonomy, but they don’t know exactly what that means or what they want. [7:17] Eric reluctantly decides to teach one more semester at Georgetown. After some deconstructing of the problem, he decides to revamp the entire coursework. [11:22] Eric relays what happens the first day of class; the reaction of his students on the first day of class, when he tells them they will be writing and publishing a book. [13:36] Eric’s class doubles in size. [14:30] Millennials believe having an entrepreneurial mindset is being an entrepreneur. [15:24] Entrepreneurs are often formed over time through experience. [16:24] Creating creators will result in more entrepreneurs. [20:50] People have to understand at a high level how to start a company and then they have to create credible evidence; then they can create a company. [21:40] Eric gives an example of how one of his student authors followed the pattern of creating something (a book in this case) and then starting a business. [24:11] There has been a shift in the way people determine credibility. The signaling theory is discussed. There is less emphasis on people’s associations and more emphasis on what they have done. [29:10] People who are thriving are people who are creating. [30:00] How to launch entrepreneurial careers. Eric shares examples of people who knew their passions, and found a way to turn their passion into a career. Find what you love. [40:20] Find Eric on Twitter @EricKoester and check out Creator.institute. [40:30] The creative process intimidates a lot of people. Eric runs a free one month course called Cred, and the goal is to define what can what can transform you. Everyone can do it! [42:44] Daily demonstrating your purpose opens doors. [44:08] Let’s create more creators. [44:27] Eric shares some good advice: if people feel like they have a vision, start reaching out. [46:08] Heather wants to take Eric’s class! [47:50] Thank you for listening. Follow us on Twitter @prtini, and use the hashtag #rewritetherules. Please like, share, and review if you like what you heard today.   Mentioned in this Episode: PRTini.com/about/ @prtini Creator.institute EricKoester.com @EricKoester ShaneMac.me @ShaneMac Soundcloud.com/adamsinger  

It’s a Christmas miracle! Jon and Eric are back to celebrate the holiday season with a record that is decidedly un-Christmasy. This episode, they talk about Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers’ album Strange Desire. As Eric (and probably others) put it, it’s Jack’s love letter to the John Hughes movies of the 1980’s. Synths, electronic drums, and […]

So what's the deal with intermittent fasting? As Eric always says, Fasting and Ketogenics go hand in hand. Fasting also happens to be the easiest and cheapest way to augment your keto results (you just don't eat, how easy is that?!). Check out this episode to learn why fasting is a foundation of a healthy lifestyle. More of Eric's self-experimentation and the surprising results! What happens when you deplete your glycogen? Our fatty acids bring all the boys to the yard... Fasting's medicinal roots. What is Diet Disease Syndrome? You CAN fast WITHOUT hunger! The 16/8 rule of intermittent fasting. Not all fasting is created equal. AND Eric's plea to all diabetics and pre-diabetics! You'll never be so excited to stop eating! Fast your way into a state of euphoria as you live life in ketosis.

So you’ve been hosting on Airbnb for a while now, and you’re loving it. Maybe you’re thinking about expanding your business to include an additional property, but you don’t have a ton of capital lying around. Is there any way to scale your Airbnb venture with a modest investment of, say, $10,000 or less? The answer is heck yes, and today’s guest shares how he is re-leasing rental properties via Airbnb, incorporating short-term rentals into his real estate business.With the help of a mentor, Eric Moeller started investing in real estate at the tender age of 18. Eric has a wealth of experience in house flipping, apartment buildings and real estate development, and he worked from the traditional landlord model until he sold his company in 2015. As Eric traveled the US that year – making use of Airbnb as a guest – he began to realize the investment potential of hosting. After looking at the numbers, he determined that he could double his ROI by pursuing short- rather than long-term rentals, and he developed a strategy for pitching a re-lease model to rental property landlords.In 2016, Eric moved to San Diego and originated the startup Homtel Tonight, an Airbnb management, leasing and investment company. He is a Superhost with listings in San Diego and Rosarito, Mexico, as well as the architect of the upcoming Airbnb Mastery Summit. Listen in as he discusses his process for selecting units for Airbnb, his approach to determining your niche avatar, and the unique amenities he offers guests. Learn the fundamentals of the re-leasing model as well as Eric’s approach to finding willing landlords. If you’re looking to grow your Airbnb business via rental properties, this interview is a must-listen!Topics CoveredEric’s advice around selecting units for Airbnb•Choose carefully based on demand, city support of Airbnb•Doesn’t have to be in backyard•Utilize tools like AirDNA and Rent Responsibly•If re-leasing, approach landlords with pitch•Analyze the numbers (with 70% occupancy, should generate 2X amount of rent)The characteristics Eric is looking for in a potential Airbnb property•2BR apartments, standalone single-family houses best in San Diego market•Location near attractions or airport•Most unique spaces, potential to create unique experienceEric’s approach to determining your target guest•Become guest yourself, note design and amenities•Research properties in area on Airbnb•Focus on niche to attract a single avatar (i.e.: beach life, business community)Eric’s recommendations around designing your Airbnb•Hire local interior designer•Buy artwork, etc. from local shops•Decorate around theme for better booking results•Budget $5,000—$7,000 for furniture, painting•Buy furniture second hand or shop at IKEAThe amenities Eric offers guests•All basics (e.g.: paper goods, towels, fully stocked kitchen)•Wi-Fi connection and Smart TVs•Guests can request additional kitchen implements•Beach properties include surf boards, skateboards and beach chairs•Luxury rentals offer car service from airport, link to his cars on Turo•Business properties offer custom workstationThe differences between re-leasing vs. buying property for Airbnb•More options to change physical structure if buying•Focus on staging and paint in re-leasing situation•Same systems, tools for property management•Update landlord monthly in re-lease (upcoming dates booked, checklist)How Eric obtains leads for willing landlords•Online marketing targets real estate investors•Craigslist (team calls every homeowner who fits model)•Networking with landlords, investors See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eric Bloom joins us to share what he knows about productivity and it's relationship to growth and profit. As Eric says, "No one cares about productivity.  Small business owners care about the time and money it provides.  Every minute saved is time we can be finding new customers, building new products or play games with our kids.  Every dollar saved provides additional profits, improved cash flow and/or frees up cash to invest in company growth." A former corporate executive, for the past seven years Eric has been the founder and president of Manager Mechanics LLC, a small business specializing in leadership, business skills and productivity training. He is also a keynote speaker, former nationally syndicated columnist, trainer and past President of National Speakers Association (NSA) New England.  Eric is also the author of various books, including “Productivity Driven Success: Hidden Secrets of Organizational Efficiency” and “Manager Mechanics: Tips and Advice for First-Time Managers.” Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth.

In this episode, Eric shares his amazing insights on how to find “That” moment – That Zen state when a true connection with the Force flows through you. Discover how to build your relationship with the Force so that it can work with you…  and through you. Enjoy.   In this show we cover:  How the quality of work will determine how far you go Learn to know when you are in that fluidic, zen state How spiritual masters have found that true zen state, and how you can get there too. The Force and how it amplifies thought and overlays consciousness.   For more on these topics: The Power of Surrender – Most people have it all wrong – surrendering. They think in order to surrender, you must become submissive, often to another person, and this is repeated over, and over, never quite believing you’ve accomplished anything because there’s always the guilt, shame, and begging for forgiveness. You relive your experiences and feel the need to surrender all over again. Did you know that surrender is finding peace within you? It is the struggle to find the missing piece to complete who you are.  Surrender is the strength to forgive yourself, unconditionally, by honestly acknowledging what you are forgiving yourself for. And once you have the key, the Universe will take it from there. It will change you in profound ways. Discussions with Eric: Surrender - How do you define the word surrender? What does that term mean to you? Does it conjure up feelings of failure - of giving up? As Eric explains, surrender, done properly, can be one of the most powerful techniques available to you. It's unfortunate that many people associate the term surrender with feelings of failure which prevents them from fully utilizing this powerful and unique skill. Through this class, you will gain a deeper understanding of surrender, and discover the ways in which you can fully utilize this misunderstood technique to dramatically accelerate your spiritual growth and evolution. Alisone - The universe is a pretty big place...unimaginably BIG! So, how can God be everywhere? Maybe you’ve heard people say this but could never really grasp this concept because it doesn’t make sense logically. Maybe you’ve wondered how God can be everywhere when you can’t see or hear Him.  It may be time to surrender that outdated image of an old man sitting on a cloud and replace it with a new, more universally realistic image.  Why use your physical 5 senses to experience a non-physical being? Deep Resonating Aums - Did you know that you can easily access a profound state of peace, bliss, and connectedness with the Universe?  It is a simple, direct method, often overlooked by many spiritual seekers.  Let me explain. There are a wide variety of methods that claim to help you experience an inner connection with the Universe.  Some work really well, and some don’t work at all.  Since it is energy, a frequency, in order to experience it we must change our vibration to match its frequency; just like tuning your radio or TV into the correct channel.  What you are about to discover is an ancient, sure-fire method for experiencing the vibration of the universal consciousness. This method is through chanting.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

ERIC WELCH has been delighting the birthday boys and girls of celebrity clients such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Larry King and Ben Affleck for the last 15 years. When it comes to throwing awesome children's birthday parties for LA's junior well-to-do, Eric's AMAZING KID COMPANY is in a class all by itself. (39:41)     EPISODE NOTES: There are all kinds of businesses in LA that cater to the rich and famous. And when it comes to the business of throwing awesome children’s birthday parties for the junior well-to-do, THE AMAZING KID COMPANY is in a class by itself. For the last 15 years, ERIC WELCH has been delighting the birthday boys and girls of celebrity clients such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Larry King and, more recently, Ben Affleck. As Eric reveals in THE PARTY GURU, it was difficult in the beginning for him to go to work in the homes of famous actors because, for a long time, he aspired to be a famous actor himself. (Eric had a recurring role as Corky’s bully, Brian Russo, on the ABC series “Life Goes On.”) “To be completely honest, it was a jealousy kind of thing. It was like, you know, here I am kid party entertainer guy going to the celebrity’s house.” But as Eric continued to mastermind more and more birthday parties he began to genuinely embrace his new craft. And, in doing so, he developed a philosophy that guides him and his staff of 21 to this day. Eric says the foundation of that philosophy is, quite simply, love: “It’s looking at a kid in the eyes and really having love for this fellow human being. When you come from the heart, it’s much easier to make their birthday party the best day of their life.” Occasionally, that means showing a little tough love. Some of the kids Eric works with are used to getting whatever they want. “We don’t necessarily give them everything they want. We may be the only people in their lives that tell them ‘no’. But we know how to say ‘no’ in a way that they’re not going to rebel. They’re not going to hate us. That’s because they know that when we say ‘no’ it’s coming from a place of love.” Eric may only see these privileged kids once a year, but he sees them year after year, so he wants his contact with them to make a positive difference in their lives. “Children like this have money and they’re always going to have money, so they’re always going to have some sort of influence. So if that’s the case, I want to have some influence on this person who’s going to have influence.” Because The Amazing Kid Company creates parties for children of all ages, Eric has developed an uncommon ability to communicate with young people. “There’s a key to every kid. It’s just a matter of finding it.” And that includes toddlers who don’t yet have the power of speech. “There are ways to communicate with them without words and you can see God. Or spirit. Or the universe. Whatever you want to call it, you can see where this little person came from. Not just birthday parties is it, Brent?” You got that right, Eric. BP   Many thanks to the composers of the music featured in this episode royalty free through Creative Commons licensing: 1. "Good Times" by Podington Bear - soundofpicture.com 2. "Revved Up" by Adam Selzer - incompetech.com 3. "Curiosity" by Lee Rosevere - leerosevere.bandcamp.com 4. "Kitten" by Podington Bear - soundofpicture.com 5. "Buddy Guy" by Poddington Bear - soundofpicture.com  

Recorded December 7, 2016 As Eric and Heidi's marriage tries to get back on track, Jaye spirals wildly out of control as the muses convince her that she must “Save Him From Her”, save him from the fact that someone is going to murder him. To deal with things, she visits the family's therapist. – … Continue reading

If there is one personality trait that is a “must have” for long term trading success, I think I’d choose: self awareness. If you are not being honest with yourself and admitting what needs to be admitted, you will spin your wheels in the mud and never improve. Chat room member, Eric, is a shining example of being self aware and using that personality trait to progress his path forward. I really enjoyed our talk with Eric as he was very passionate and energized about the markets; however, was also extremely aware of his situation too. Notes: Eric’s introduction to the market consisted of watching his father and some coworkers always checking their trading portfolios. He decided to open his own brokerage account in college with his student loans and that was how he first entered the market. He used basic fundamentals and general knowledge of what he thought would be a good stock to own to choose where he put his money. He decided to subscribe to a weekly newsletter that offered trade picks and after trading these for a while (with not much success) Eric decided to continue his search to find a system that worked for him. He struggled to find an education suite that worked for him. After college, he saved up another $3,000 to swing trade but he couldn’t put his finger on proper entry and exit criteria. After a long YouTube search for helpful info, Eric found ClayTrader and perceived him as an honest person who will shoot straight and tell it like it is. This is when he started to invest in himself via education. The beautiful thing that Eric realized is that once you have learned how to read charts and manage your risk, you are FREE to find trades on your own. You no longer need to seek a ‘guru’ for ‘hot picks.’ As Eric increased his education in terms of risk and options, Eric has found lots of success trading advanced option spreads. He can control his probability of profit and his max loss, all of which are crucial for long term success. A few members have also inspired him to stay mechanical in all his trades instead of style jumping. By no means is he saying that this is the be-all end-all and he always wins but when he is wrong, he is wrong small and it doesn’t take much to recover. Quotes: “When I was 15, my dad traded futures and used to tell me that trading in the stock market was dangerous.” “I noticed every time, what basis did I have for deciding when to buy and when to sell? There was just nothing.” “I didn’t want to go down the path of watching 1000s of videos and in the end I’m not a better trader. It was a waste of time.” “My whole life has been cycles of getting into and out of the market.” “Once you start learning you can come up with your own plays.” Links: Book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

A riveting novel of international suspense from acclaimed author and veteran diplomat Matthew Palmer. Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre that claimed the life of his friend and colleague, Eric Petrosian is back in Sarajevo at the American embassy, and the specter of war once again hangs over the Balkans. The Bosnian Serb leader, who had for a time been seeking a stable peace, has turned back to his nationalist roots and is threatening to pull Bosnia apart in a bloody struggle for control . . . and behind him is a shadowy mafia figure pulling the strings. As Eric is dragged deeper into the political maelstrom and uncovers a plot of blackmail and ruthless ambitions, Eric is faced with an impossible choice: use the information he’s uncovered to achieve atonement for the past or use it to shape the future.

As Eric and Dan unite once more for a two-man show, we learn that Sonic Adventure is a marvelous turd, get put in our place by an Australian, tell way too many immature penis jokes, point out more segues, and debate the future of Playstation VR. The post Factory Sealed – Ep. 91: Sonic Adventure and the Future of VR appeared first on Factory Sealed.

As Eric & Bryan continue to look back on previous topics they’ve wanted to resist, they welcome guest Ms. Conception (Jill Romanos) to the show. Click here to download the podcast file. The post Cuz, You Know…History appeared first on NERDONOMY.

It's the final episode of Counterweight which also means it's goodbye to Eric Brasure, co-host of Trekabout and the award-nominated (and defunct) The Next Stop Is... podcast. As Eric hangs up his videogame cape for good, we take this moment to reflect on why anyone should bother in the videogame space. You won't make money […]

Check out our first mini-episode! As Eric is still out to sea, Will Z. steps in again to help us out with co-hosting responsibilities. This episode, Tim the Fast and Furious Jesus is all about convenience, Will Z. causes a lot of echo, Kurt visits Hulk and Nightcrawler in the old folk's home, Kris props up a banned beverage, and everyone delves into time travel comics!

A Poem : A Christmas Day, by Paul Murdoch (Sam Wilding) Their hearts race on as darkness still entwines the Christmas dawn, The bed clothes fall and tiny yelps of joy announce the morn. No time to yawn, or stretch or groan; no time to check the clock, As stocking yarn is stretched and teased, we hear a plaintive knock. ‘Oh look what Santa left last night! ’ They cant believe their eyes, As we, still trying to focus, shrink back from wondrous cries. They bounce upon the covers and make it hard to see, The tawny, flashing digits, that say it’s ‘half past three? ’. ‘Get back to bed! For pity’s sake, we’ve only shut our eyes! ” But threats and accusations can’t stifle their surprise, So bleary-eyed we try to smile, ungracious in defeat, Our wooden hearts soon splinter neath tiny running feet. A small stampede upon the stairs, a rush to reach the tree, Where magic lights and small delights are laid for you and me. The tinsel trails and plastic rails adorn the festive sight, Of shredded paper mountains, this yuletide-spangled night. And soon it’s time to breakfast on chocolate covered signs, Of baby child, and mother mild, so far from hearts and minds. True meanings of the morning star, the crib, and manger too, Are lost beneath the glitter-dusted dreams of me and you. We smile at one another, unable to contain, The happiness revealed, unwrapped, exposed in Christ’s own name. The camera’s flash, a sudden dash, when one more trinket’s found, Amongst the piles of debris that stifle winter’s sound. The light is teased from rain clouds, that gave up all their snow, Now dreary-grey they falter, in dreams of long ago, When snowflakes danced upon the cheeks of every lowly child, When ‘shepherds watched their flocks by night’ still drifted down the aisle. Words crackle on the airwaves, we’re drawn from God’s own day, To fantasise and visualise; our senses led astray. The robin’s song, perennial dawn is smothered by our plight, Escaping hordes switch on and dowse the rays of God’s own light. Soon clicking of the keyboard keys is all that we can hear, As we prepare the tinfoil-tested tribute to the year. A token jaunt to chapel; a gesture in itself, A moment to reflect upon our decadence and wealth. Then soon it’s time for brandies and greeting long lost friends, Our family ties now realised, ‘Will this day never end? ’ ‘Mongst Xmas songs and regal throngs, we stuff ourselves with glee, Then in some karaoke-trance, we crumple to our knees. As Christmas night nostalgia still dances in our head, As Eric draws the curtains and Ernie makes the bed. We smile at one another and laze beside the fire, And thank the Lord for Christmas cheer, that resurrects desire. Appreciating all we have and all we’ll ever be, The message soon becomes so clear beneath the scented tree. We have each other, here and now, so let us always wish… That we may have another day, as blessed and sweet as this.

When he died from AIDS in 1993, Arthur Ashe was universally hailed as a man of principle, grace, and wisdom–a world-class athlete who had transcended his game. But a closer look at Ashe's life reveals a more complex picture. Certainly, Ashe was an admirable figure. When tennis tournament organizers barred the teenage phenom because of his race, Ashe maintained his dignity. Decades later, when he was teaching a university course on African Americans in sport, Ashe couldn't find a suitable textbook. So he researched and wrote one himself. At the same time, however, Ashe's views on civil rights initially were more in line with those of Booker T. Washington than those of other politically active athletes of the 1960s. He did not accept the equality of women in sports. And his position on competing in South Africa under apartheid went through a long evolution. On these issues and others, Arthur Ashe had plenty of critics-something that is often missed today. Surprisingly, despite his pioneering role in the history of tennis and his involvement in a range of pursuits off the court, Ashe has not been the subject of a scholarly biography. Eric Allen Hall's book, Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era (Johns Hopkins University, 2014) fills this gap. As Eric explains in the interview, Ashe was a unique athlete in that he left his personal papers to a research archive. His biography thus draws not only from press accounts of Ashe's life and the tennis star's own memoirs (he wrote four during his lifetime), but also from Ashe's notes and letters. The result is a portrait of Arthur Ashe that shows the fullness of his character-his broad interests, his impressive talents, and his missteps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

When he died from AIDS in 1993, Arthur Ashe was universally hailed as a man of principle, grace, and wisdom–a world-class athlete who had transcended his game. But a closer look at Ashe’s life reveals a more complex picture. Certainly, Ashe was an admirable figure. When tennis tournament organizers barred the teenage phenom because of his race, Ashe maintained his dignity. Decades later, when he was teaching a university course on African Americans in sport, Ashe couldn’t find a suitable textbook. So he researched and wrote one himself. At the same time, however, Ashe’s views on civil rights initially were more in line with those of Booker T. Washington than those of other politically active athletes of the 1960s. He did not accept the equality of women in sports. And his position on competing in South Africa under apartheid went through a long evolution. On these issues and others, Arthur Ashe had plenty of critics-something that is often missed today. Surprisingly, despite his pioneering role in the history of tennis and his involvement in a range of pursuits off the court, Ashe has not been the subject of a scholarly biography. Eric Allen Hall’s book, Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era (Johns Hopkins University, 2014) fills this gap. As Eric explains in the interview, Ashe was a unique athlete in that he left his personal papers to a research archive. His biography thus draws not only from press accounts of Ashe’s life and the tennis star’s own memoirs (he wrote four during his lifetime), but also from Ashe’s notes and letters. The result is a portrait of Arthur Ashe that shows the fullness of his character-his broad interests, his impressive talents, and his missteps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When he died from AIDS in 1993, Arthur Ashe was universally hailed as a man of principle, grace, and wisdom–a world-class athlete who had transcended his game. But a closer look at Ashe’s life reveals a more complex picture. Certainly, Ashe was an admirable figure. When tennis tournament organizers barred the teenage phenom because of his race, Ashe maintained his dignity. Decades later, when he was teaching a university course on African Americans in sport, Ashe couldn’t find a suitable textbook. So he researched and wrote one himself. At the same time, however, Ashe’s views on civil rights initially were more in line with those of Booker T. Washington than those of other politically active athletes of the 1960s. He did not accept the equality of women in sports. And his position on competing in South Africa under apartheid went through a long evolution. On these issues and others, Arthur Ashe had plenty of critics-something that is often missed today. Surprisingly, despite his pioneering role in the history of tennis and his involvement in a range of pursuits off the court, Ashe has not been the subject of a scholarly biography. Eric Allen Hall’s book, Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era (Johns Hopkins University, 2014) fills this gap. As Eric explains in the interview, Ashe was a unique athlete in that he left his personal papers to a research archive. His biography thus draws not only from press accounts of Ashe’s life and the tennis star’s own memoirs (he wrote four during his lifetime), but also from Ashe’s notes and letters. The result is a portrait of Arthur Ashe that shows the fullness of his character-his broad interests, his impressive talents, and his missteps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When he died from AIDS in 1993, Arthur Ashe was universally hailed as a man of principle, grace, and wisdom–a world-class athlete who had transcended his game. But a closer look at Ashe’s life reveals a more complex picture. Certainly, Ashe was an admirable figure. When tennis tournament organizers barred the teenage phenom because of his race, Ashe maintained his dignity. Decades later, when he was teaching a university course on African Americans in sport, Ashe couldn’t find a suitable textbook. So he researched and wrote one himself. At the same time, however, Ashe’s views on civil rights initially were more in line with those of Booker T. Washington than those of other politically active athletes of the 1960s. He did not accept the equality of women in sports. And his position on competing in South Africa under apartheid went through a long evolution. On these issues and others, Arthur Ashe had plenty of critics-something that is often missed today. Surprisingly, despite his pioneering role in the history of tennis and his involvement in a range of pursuits off the court, Ashe has not been the subject of a scholarly biography. Eric Allen Hall’s book, Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era (Johns Hopkins University, 2014) fills this gap. As Eric explains in the interview, Ashe was a unique athlete in that he left his personal papers to a research archive. His biography thus draws not only from press accounts of Ashe’s life and the tennis star’s own memoirs (he wrote four during his lifetime), but also from Ashe’s notes and letters. The result is a portrait of Arthur Ashe that shows the fullness of his character-his broad interests, his impressive talents, and his missteps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Eric flies back from vacation, Justin joins Erik to discuss the one way in which Episode VII brings an experience not felt since 1983. We also discuss a confirmed Lando appearance, Lucasfilm's new head of Production & Development, the new Star Wars Battlefront trailer, and the growing availability of The Clone Wars Season Six. Justin also chimes in on the spinoff rumors, and everything is Eric's fault in this week's ForceCast!

Tonight hosts Mary E., Diane Blanchette and Michael Urbano welcome in spring with special guest Eric Carter. Eric’s journey began immediately when he discovered he was intrigued by hair when he was just a kid growing up in Valparaiso, IN.  Age 17, Eric decided to grab his scissors, hair dryer, & imagination and enrolled at Don Roberts Beauty School in downtown Valparaiso.  Afterwards, he began working at a Salon known as the Blue Giraffe. As Eric’s talent & passion began to mold & sculpt his hunger for knowledge & curiosity led him to Phoenix, Arizona in 2003.  He crafted his color expertise and learned a lot from other top notch stylist.   He even had opportunites to connect with others in L.A.In 2006, his revelation was that the sky’s the limit and dashed across the states leading him to one of the fashion capitols of the world beside Milan.   Manhattan, New York City.  His strive led to amazing challenges and feats as he began developing clients in all the realms that the “Big Apple” had to offer.  He worked on models in film shoots, big day premiers, national Advertising Campaigns all across the spectrum tenfold. Over time, he decided to come back to the Midwest area and “Brand” himself.  His inquisitive personality realized he can have it all here or there.  Tonight’s interview with Eric will illustrate and showcase his “Artistry.”  

Russians have a reputation for xenophobia, that is, it’s said they don’t much like foreigners. According to Eric Lohr‘s new book, Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 2012), this reputation is at once deserved and undeserved. It’s true that at various moments in Russian history, foreigners have not been permitted to enter Russia, let alone become citizens (or, in an earlier period, “subjects”) of the state. But, intermittently, the Russian state actively recruited foreigners, and especially foreign experts and capital, to aid in economic development. In the period after the Great Reforms, for example, the Russian state actively encouraged foreign investment and immigration. Late Imperial Russia seemed to be on a kind of glide path to a modern notion of citizenship. As Eric explains, all that ended with the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 (with catastrophic economic results). Listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Russians have a reputation for xenophobia, that is, it’s said they don’t much like foreigners. According to Eric Lohr‘s new book, Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 2012), this reputation is at once deserved and undeserved. It’s true that at various moments in Russian history, foreigners have not been permitted to enter Russia, let alone become citizens (or, in an earlier period, “subjects”) of the state. But, intermittently, the Russian state actively recruited foreigners, and especially foreign experts and capital, to aid in economic development. In the period after the Great Reforms, for example, the Russian state actively encouraged foreign investment and immigration. Late Imperial Russia seemed to be on a kind of glide path to a modern notion of citizenship. As Eric explains, all that ended with the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 (with catastrophic economic results). Listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Russians have a reputation for xenophobia, that is, it’s said they don’t much like foreigners. According to Eric Lohr‘s new book, Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 2012), this reputation is at once deserved and undeserved. It’s true that at various moments in Russian history, foreigners have not been permitted to enter Russia, let alone become citizens (or, in an earlier period, “subjects”) of the state. But, intermittently, the Russian state actively recruited foreigners, and especially foreign experts and capital, to aid in economic development. In the period after the Great Reforms, for example, the Russian state actively encouraged foreign investment and immigration. Late Imperial Russia seemed to be on a kind of glide path to a modern notion of citizenship. As Eric explains, all that ended with the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 (with catastrophic economic results). Listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The instructor of my freshman physics course fit the stereotype of a physics professor: unkempt white hair, black glasses case in the breast pocket of his short-sleeved shirt, thick German accent, and a tendency to mumble to himself while mulling over formula on the chalkboard. I was not his most attentive student, and finished the term with a grade of C (for which I was ecstatically grateful). Judging from his book Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), I imagine that my physics experience would have been much more enjoyable if John Eric Goff had been my professor. Eric's enthusiasm for both science and sports is evident in the book, as he explains concepts and laws of physics by analyzing well-known athletic feats. In the interview, we talk about Doug Flutie's miraculous touchdown pass, Bob Beamon's record-breaking long jump, and David Beckham's bending free kicks. As Eric explains, his aim is not to turn the performances of athletes into purely mechanical processes. Instead, his analysis offers a new perspective and appreciation for what athletes can accomplish. And you'll also pick up some fascinating nuggets to share with your friends, such as why the players at the 2010 World Cup complained about the ball, and why using a baseball without laces would bring a drop in home runs. After listening to the interview, check out Eric's blog, where he gave his stage-by-stage predictions for the winning times in the this year's Tour de France–with impressive accuracy. And please link to the Facebook page of New Books in Sports, where you can tell us with you think of the interviews, get announcements of new podcasts, and find links to recent, thoughtful sports writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

The instructor of my freshman physics course fit the stereotype of a physics professor: unkempt white hair, black glasses case in the breast pocket of his short-sleeved shirt, thick German accent, and a tendency to mumble to himself while mulling over formula on the chalkboard. I was not his most attentive student, and finished the term with a grade of C (for which I was ecstatically grateful). Judging from his book Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), I imagine that my physics experience would have been much more enjoyable if John Eric Goff had been my professor. Eric’s enthusiasm for both science and sports is evident in the book, as he explains concepts and laws of physics by analyzing well-known athletic feats. In the interview, we talk about Doug Flutie’s miraculous touchdown pass, Bob Beamon’s record-breaking long jump, and David Beckham’s bending free kicks. As Eric explains, his aim is not to turn the performances of athletes into purely mechanical processes. Instead, his analysis offers a new perspective and appreciation for what athletes can accomplish. And you’ll also pick up some fascinating nuggets to share with your friends, such as why the players at the 2010 World Cup complained about the ball, and why using a baseball without laces would bring a drop in home runs. After listening to the interview, check out Eric’s blog, where he gave his stage-by-stage predictions for the winning times in the this year’s Tour de France–with impressive accuracy. And please link to the Facebook page of New Books in Sports, where you can tell us with you think of the interviews, get announcements of new podcasts, and find links to recent, thoughtful sports writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Renee and Eric share the journey they've walked over the past 4 years. It's been a road of addiction, renewal, recommitment, and love. As Eric and Renee have made the commitment to build daily in their marraige, they've learned the importance of starting together, building together, and finishing together.

This week, Renee and Eric share the journey they've walked over the past 4 years. It's been a road of addiction, renewal, recommitment, and love. As Eric and Renee have made the commitment to build daily in their marraige, they've learned the importance of starting together, building together, and finishing together.